AMERICAN MEDIA TODAY...IS EVEN CLARK KENT STARTING TO GET JADED?

For the vast majority of the Mainstream Propaganda Ministry Media, business goes on as usual. You know, ignore thousands of people involved in hundreds of Tea Party protests against the “stimulus” bills in cities all across the nation so that you can do a heart-warming report on the 97-year-old man who finally got his GED. Fail to report a few dozen more corrupt wanna-be Obama administration flunkies bailing out due to all the illegal, immoral and crooked dealings in their past bubbling to the surface to make time for a three-part special called “Iran-Contra…the Bitter Legacy Lives On”. Throw a hissy fit about Sarah Palin’s “ethics violations” for wearing an Artic Cat jacket at a public event in Alaska but still never even admit to there being any questions about Obama’s birth place.

This age-old tradition of the Ministry of Truth would seem, at last, to be starting to crumble around the edges. Network TV ratings are sinking ever lower while, all across the nation, liberal rags masquerading as “news”papers are dropping like flies.

“We don’t understand it,” said a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Daily Betrayer. “Those ignorant gun-toting Bible-thumping hillbillies out there in Fly Over Country should be buying more of our papers than ever. How else are we ever going to enlighten those witless inbred savages to the glories of socialism, abortion, atheism, and gun control?”

Not to worry! Senator Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, has proposed a bill to allow newspapers to operated as tax-exempt non-profit organizations. Like churches. So the sheeple can continue to worship at the alter of liberal propaganda, I guess.

According to Cardin, "As local papers are closing, we're losing a valuable tradition in America -- critically important to our communities, critically important to our democracy." From his pit in Hell, the ghost of Joe Stalin added, “Nationalize the media! Great idea, Comrade!” but Joseph Goebbels, in the pit next door, protested, “Nein! You are stealing from der Fuhrer's playbook!”

As all this transpires, a tiny handful of intrepid muckrakers are starting to figure out the Obama Regime just might not be all sweetness and light. At recent press conferences, we’re starting to see a pattern. The old-school “journalists” who might actually ask a serious question now and then are being ignored and snubbed so that the Big 0 can field staged softball questions…even softer than the ones the Mainstream tossed him during the campaign…from deep, incisive publications like People Magazine and Redbook. “Lord Barack, is it true that you love puppies and children?”

Thankfully, a few of the troops are thinking about breaking ranks as the small handful of media hacks whose brains still function actually become somewhat inquisitive about things. Of course, these are things you won’t hit the CBS Evening News with Commie Couric anytime soon, but they’re a start.

Not that the European Union is anything we’d want to emulate, but even they are finding fault with the Obama Regime and its antics, so much so that AP even reported it briefly. At a summit meeting in Strasbourg, France, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said of Obama’s plan, "…all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the road to hell."


The Canadians have a few words to say, too. Americans Largely Silent as Their Nation is Systematically Destroyed: "Incompetent Evil in Charge
The same people responsible for the many disasters now surrounding every American household, were elected in 2006 and 2008 to fix what they broke. Instead of reversing course and placing their faith in the principles of freedom, they are installing more of the same failed entitlement policies that created the problem and they are doing so at a fever pace."

No! Say it ain't so! CNN?!?!? "Even though he was almost a member of the new Obama administration, New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg Sunday slammed President Obama’s approach to handling the country’s fiscal outlook. 'The practical implications of this is bankruptcy for the United States,” Gregg said of the Obama’s administration’s recently released budget blueprint. “There’s no other way around it.'"

Oh my God! Can it really be true? Friendly fire from the “Bush is Hitler Chimp” New York Times?!?!? Paul Krugman: “The zombie ideas have won. The Obama administration is now completely wedded to the idea that there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the financial system — that what we’re facing is the equivalent of a run on an essentially sound bank.”

Even that overstuffed creature Maureen Dowd is starting to sound like Ronald Reagan: "It’s a time in America’s history where we need less smooth jazz and more martial brass.”

The NY Daily News is even starting to figure out that our entire Federal government is crooked as a dog’s hind leg. "Everybody makes mistakes, and I made a beaut the other day. I was wrong to call members of Congress blow-hards and buffoons and declare them worse than useless.I was too kind.I should have said our representatives are gangsters in pinstripes and pearls. They are petty tyrants and the more power they grab, the more at risk we are. Homeland Security should flash Code Red any time this Congress is in session."

Over at Newsmax, former Mafia Kingpin Michael Franzese agrees with the gangster analogy. He is comparing Obama and his Congressional minions' nationalization plan, quite accurately, to the operating methods of the Mob:

"Twenty years ago, I would have applauded the government’s move to control the AIG bigwigs. When I was doing business for the Colombo Crime Family, I would often "bail out" a failing company. When the boss had nowhere to go, when no legit lender would lend him a dime, or when his suppliers were threatening to throw him into bankruptcy, he came to me. Mob guys looked for business opportunities like this every day. Great way for us to own a business.

Once the owner took my money, or used my name, I owned him. He wasn’t about to get a pay hike when he owed me money. He wasn’t buying a new car or taking any paid vacations either. I didn’t care how hard he worked. And if he didn’t toe the line, I would throw him out and take the company over."

Sound familiar?

We still have a long way to go, but a few people are finally starting to shine the light around and the cockroaches are scattering in every direction. Without talk radio, the Internet, and other alternate news sources, though, I have no doubt we would all still be sitting quietly in the dark listening to the soothing voices telling us, "All is well. I am the Great & Powerful Oz. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

Gun Nut Roundup March '09

"We Shall Overcome"-- Second Amendment March Is On!

Many "civil rights" movements have marched on Washington D.C., from the WWI vets, to Martin Luther King Jr., to the so-called Million Mom March. In 2010, it will be gun owners turn.

In April 2010 (this blogger hopes for April 19th) gun owners from all over the country will descend upon D.C. and gather in the National Mall. (No, that ain't a big-ass shopping mall, it's the grassy area where all the monuments are!) For those who can't go to D.C. (due to scheduling conflicts or active brain cells), smaller satellite marches will be held in state capitals in the rest of fly-over country. Who knows, the national media might even briefly mention the whole thing.

Check out the march's official website at: http://www.secondamendmentmarch.com/

Bloomberg Bites A Big One

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case known as City of New York v. Beretta and a similar case out of D.C. The cases sought to hold gun manufacturers responsible for the use of their products by criminals. NY v. Beretta was originally filed by "America's Mayor," the lisping RINO Rudolph Giuliani in 2000. Later the case was struck down by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals under the 2005 "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act."

The new "mayah," anti-gun extremist, Vladimir Putin wannabe, super-RINO Michael Bloomberg pressed ahead with the case anyway, pissing away countless taxpayer dollars on his anti-Second Amendment jihad. By refusing to hear the appeal, the Supreme Court has shut down Bloomberg's plans (this time) and allowed the "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" to stand.

In Liberal Academia, Free Speech Earns A Visit To Police Station

After delivering a class presentation, a Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) student found himself "standing tall in front of the man" at the local cop shop. Student John Wahlberg, a member of the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) was summoned to the police station after communications professor Paula Anderson reported he and two other students to her superiors after they had completed their assigned task of discussing an issue relevant to the media.

When Wahlberg (who lives off campus) arrived at the station, the police asked him the location of the guns registered in his name. (Reason # Four-bajillion and seven to oppose gun registration.) When he explained that he kept them in a safe at home, the police sent him on his way.

It just shows how much the supposedly "open-minded" and "tolerant" higher education system really appreciates any point-of-view outside of liberal orthodoxy. As Katie Kasprzak, SCCC director of public relations puts it: "The thing that has got me kind of concerned is that the opponents of concealed carry on campus will say that the campus is a place for the exchange of ideas. (But) when students are asked to make a presentation on a controversial issue, they are turned in."

FEAR & LOATHING OF THE MILITIA

STANDING ARMY GOOD
CITIZEN MILITIA BAD

Not so very long ago, right here in River City, we had a tidbit on the state of MO (pronounced Missour-ee in Iowa and Missour-uh south of the state line) warning LEO's to watch out for the swarms of mean, evil, horrible, nasty militia types who, according to their bulletin, apparently consist largely of those who support Third Party candidates such as Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin.

That reminded me that the neighboring State of Iowa, increasingly infested by big city bed-wetting liberal weenies who have way too much pull in the state legislature, passed some kind of anti-militia law awhile back. The slightest whiff of independent thought immediately sends said libs into a panicky pants-peeing-oh-my-gaia-big-government-save-us mode.

I found the 2001 law as:

29A.31 Unlawful organizations:.
It shall be unlawful for any body of persons, other than the National Guard and the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military organization within the limits of this state without the written permission of the governor, which the governor may at any time revoke, but this provision shall not prevent civic, social, or benevolent organizations from wearing uniforms and swords not in conflict with the other provisions of this chapter.

On the other hand, the Iowa State Constitution says:

ARTICLE VI. MILITIA. Composition--training. SECTION 1. The militia of this state shall be composed of all able-bodied male citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, except such as are or may hereafter be exempt by the laws of the United States, or of this state, and shall be armed, equipped, and trained, as the general assembly may provide by law.

Judging by the 2001 law, it would seem an amendment to the State Constitution might be in order. The last sentence should read, in part, "shall be unarmed, unequipped, and untrained, as the general assembly may deny by law."

Yeah, I know they can sneak that one past, since the new law does say the governor can give permission to someone to train together. Of course, it would be a cold day in hell before an Iowa governor would allow any such thing. The wussies in Des Moines are scared of the Boy Scouts.

Another favorite lib argument is that the National Guard is actually the militia these days. Au contrere. First off, the Guard is not composed of, "all able-bodied male citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years."

In addition, the Iowa State Constitution also specifies of the militia:
Section 3. All commissioned officers of the militia, (staff officers excepted,) shall be elected by the persons liable to perform military duty, and shall be commissioned by the governor.

The National Guard has its officers commissioned by, and in the same manner as, the Active Duty Army. I'm not so sure that this is actually an improvement over the Civil War-era election of officers, as mentioned in the Constitution. For instance, in our modern military system, a horny, vomiting-out-the-dorm-room-window 21-year-old frat boy with a degree in Impressionist Art is somehow qualified to be the next Robert E. Lee while a grizzled NCO with 15 years of leadership experience around the globe and a chestful of combat decorations is completely unqualified and, the way the system works, cannot be commissioned, even on the battlefield.

For a greater understanding of the United States Army's officer commissioning system and how it functions (dysfunctions?), please read Anton Meyer's Once an Eagle or Colonel David Hackworth's About Face. It will make everything perfectly clear.

But I digress. And, as is usually the case when I digress, I don't care. Anyway, back to the fear and loathing of the scary boogieman militia thing. Any government that is so fearful of a citizen militia must really have a helluva guilty conscience about something they're doing.

Airwolf Kicks Commie Butt!

I was out at my father-in-laws place the other night. He had just set up his new federally-mandated digital TV converter box (you read about that in the Constitution, right?), which meant that he now has about 20 channels compared to his usual five. We flipped around the channels and ended up on a rerun of the 1980’s series “Airwolf.” I thought this was unusual since I’d had a satellite dish for 5 years and have never seen “Airwolf” reruns on.

If you have never seen “Airwolf” (which means you’re probably flamingly gay), it is the heart-warming story about a man and his heavily-armed, futuristic attack helicopter. Jan-Michael Vincent plays the lead character of Stringfellow Hawke, a test pilot who steals the highly advanced prototype Airwolf attack chopper from the government. He says he will return it as soon as the government rescues his brother who is a still being held as a POW in Vietnam.

As long as he’s got the chopper anyway, he uses it for do-gooder weekly adventures with his friend and co-pilot Dominic Santini (portrayed by the venerable actor Ernest Borgnine). Trying to increase viewership, the network urged producers to add a female character, which they did in the second season. I don’t recall her name, but older brother Bawb referred to her disdainfully as “Sandy Duncan.”

The people didn’t really matter though, as the real star of the show was the Airwolf helicopter itself. It was built from the fuselage of a civilian Bell 222 helicopter. Airwolf possessed jet thrusters that could propel it to supersonic speeds and a bewildering array of electronic gadgets, which allowed the aircraft to do whatever the writers required of it that week.

It was armed to the teeth with every type of weapon system that the writers could find without the aid of the internet, including AIM-9 Sidewinder, AGM-114 Hellfire and AGM-45 Shrike missiles, even Paveway bombs and the M712 Copperhead guided munition which is normally fired from a 155mm howitzer. In its wing sponsons, Airwolf also had two 40mm cannons and two 25mm chain guns. (That is, it did until defense contractor McDonnell-Douglas reminded “Airwolf” producers that “chain gun” was a registered trademark. After that they were just 25mm cannons.)

Although the show seems delightfully cheesy now, when I was a ten to twelve-year-old boy it seemed wicked awesome. I even had an Airwolf poster on my wall, with Jan-Michael Vincent menacingly gripping a Micro-Uzi and the chopper parked in the background (which might mean I’m flamingly gay).

In the episode that I watched recently, the heroes (who also run a civilian charter service) flew a group of archaeological students and their professor into some Latin American commie-hellhole which had topography eerily reminiscent of southern California. After they dropped them off, sure enough, the students were captured by bad guys, necessitating Jan-Michael and Borgnine go and get Airwolf to kick a little commie butt. The army of the commie-hellhole carried an odd assortment of Kalishnikovs and dressed-up Mini-14s, as well as at least one bazooka.

During the valiant heliborne rescue, as Airwolf tried to pull a sling load of hostages out of the enemy compound, it took a bazooka round directly to the rotor hub. This led to mechanical difficulties so grave that Ernest Borgnine (who was flying Airwolf at that moment) had to grimace severely and say “C’mon baby!” several times as he throttled her skyward. Luckily a blacksmith in a nearby village was able to fashion a replacement rotor part for them. And he probably didn’t charge them 14 billion dollars for it. (So suck on that, McDonnell-Douglas!)

Not willing to let Airwolf, or the civilian transport plane that the hostages had been loaded onto, leave their airspace alive, the commie-hellhole quickly scrambled its MiGs to intercept them. (A MiG was a Soviet-designed fighter jet, for those of you who didn’t grow up during the cold war [also making you gay, by the way].) The MiGs fired on but were unable to destroy the civie transport plane, whereas Airwolf was able to tangle with and down all four MiGs.

No wonder we won the Cold War!

Thank goodness we did, too. We were able to defeat the forces of big government collectivism and retain our free republic where people don’t have to worry about government surveillance and torture… um… I mean… We held onto our nation of rugged individualism, where hard work and responsibility are rewarded while slothfulness and gluttony are allowed to… er… uh... We made a capitalist utopia where the “invisible hand” of free-market forces, such as consumer choice, naturally channel resources away from unproductive areas and toward the most efficient… um… Oh, crap!

Airwolf, you’re needed in Washington D.C. immediately! Bring your Copperheads. C’mon baby!