$1.2 Trillion Dollars In Ten Years: Chuck’s Suggestions

I’m with Chuck Woolery. Except regarding the albino squirrels. Their taxpayer funded sanctuary gets cut.

BZ

P.S.
This is up pending the Internet Doomsday virus predicted to activate Monday. But my computers aren’t infected. I confirmed by simply clicking here and here. And no, those links don’t download other viruses. [Heavy sigh.]

On the other hand, the earth could stop rotating on its axis, just as it did on January 1st of 2000, at 12:01 am.

What has Mr Obama Done?


A few examples, noted for Leftists and Conservatives alike:

– Signed the NDAA into law — assassinating US citizens w/o trial is now legal
– Personally oversaw a Secret Kill List
– Waged war on Libya without congressional approval
– Started a covert, drone war in Yemen
– Escalated the proxy war in Somalia
– Escalated the CIA drone war in Pakistan
– Will maintain a presence in Iraq even after “ending” war
– Sharply escalated the war in Afghanistan
– Secretly deployed US special forces to 75 countries
– Sold $30 billion of weapons to the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia
– Signed an agreement for 7 military bases in Colombia
– Opened a military base in Chile
– Defended body scans and pat-downs at airports
– Signed the Patriot Act extension into law
– Continued Bush’s rendition program

  • U.S. beefs up Persian Gulf forces (read).
  • Obama Ignored CIA Report Against Afghan Escalation (read).
  • Under Obama, the export of American arms to countries around the world — even those actively repressing their own citizens — is booming. The United States is the world’s top provider of major conventional weapons(read). Imagine that: FAST & FURIOUS.
  • C.I.A. said to aid in steering arms to Syrian Opposition (read).
  • Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN reporter (read).
  • Obama asserts presidential powers he once spoke critically of (read).
  • Obama administration rejects FOIA requests from NYT, ACLU for “targeted killing” papers (read).
  • Ex-CIA Official Slams Obama’s ‘Indiscriminate’ Use of Drones (read).
  • What’s behind Obama’s new military base in Chile? (read).
  • Jeremy Scahill Says Obama Strikes In Yemen Constitute ‘Murder’ (read).
  • “As shown through his stepped-up drone campaign, Barack Obama has become George W. Bush on steroids.” (read).
  • Obama order set off wave of cyberattacks against Iran (read).
  • Obama Personally Oversees ‘Secret Kill List‘: NYT (read). Obama and Drone Warfare: Will Americans Speak Out? (read).
  • Obama OKs Proliferation of US “Hunter-Killer” Drone Technology – Administration plans to arm Italy’s fleet of Reaper drones (read).
  • Top Obama Officials, Secretive Process Create ‘Assassination List’ – President Obama’s counter-terrorism chief has “seized the lead” in secretly determining who will die by US drone (read).
  • Obama’s ‘Poverty-Relieving’ Plan for Africa a Profit Boon for Giant Agribusiness (read).
  • Obama has opened three new military bases in Honduras (read).
  • Ex-CIA Interrogator: Obama’s War on Terror Is Less Ethical Than Bush’s. “We don’t capture anybody any more… [Obama’s] default option… has been to … take no prisoners…How could it be more ethical to kill people rather than capture them?” (read).
  • Jeremy Scahill: US Has Become ‘Nation of Assassins’ (read).
  • The Drone-Happy President: Obama Escalates in Yemen – Again. Obama allows the CIA and the military to fire even when the identity of those who could be killed is not known (read).
  • The Obama administration has already launched six times as many drone strikes as the Bush administration in Pakistan alone, killing hundreds of innocent people and devastating families (read).
  • Strip-Searches: Obama Wants You to Bend Over (Or Squat) and Spread ‘Em (read).
  • Air Force ramps up drone war. New documents reveal plans to more than quadruple Reaper missions by 2016 (read).
  • Obama Signs “Fraud-Friendly” JOBS Act into Law. Economist: Bill will bring fraud, destroy jobs (read).
  • Why Obama’s JOBS Act Couldn’t Suck Worse (read).
  • U.S. draws up plans for nuclear drones (read).
  • Our government is watching us more. Clearly. New guidelines permit the federal counter-terrorism investigators to collect, search and store data about Americans who are not suspected of terrorism, or anything at all — like YOU and ME (read).
  • U.S. joins effort to equip and pay ‘rebels’ in Syria (read).
  • Drone strikes in Yemen soar as U.S. stokes ‘secret war’ – America has dramatically stepped up its “secret war” in Yemen with the U.S. ordering dozens of drone attacks on al-Qaida hotspots, which have also killed scores of civilians (read).
  • Bush’s “Total Information Awareness” data mining program revived by the Obama administration (read).
  • Obama signs Executive Order allowing for control over all US resources (read). Related: “Obama’s Creepy Executive Order: Permanent War Economy” (read).
  • Obama signs anti-protest trespass bill into law (read).
  • Obama administration moves to aid Syrian opposition (read).
  • Obama’s Attorney General says U.S. can assassinate American citizens abroad (without being charged with anything or given a trial) (read).
  • Obama sees single-candidate election in Yemen as ‘model’ for Middle East (read).
  • U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners in Pakistan; Obama indirectly admits that U.S. strikes have killed civilians by claiming the drone campaign a “targeted, focused effort” that “has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties”. . . . (read).
  • We’re #47! After Occupy Journalist Arrests, US Plummets in Global Press Freedom Rankings (read).

And this just in:

  • 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free (read).
  • Has Obama taken Bush’s ‘preemption’ strategy to another level? (read).
  • Obama sending 5 US military officers to South Sudan (read).
  • The White House has declared the government of South Sudan eligible to receive weapons and defense assistance from the U.S. The announcement came amid an outbreak of violence between two South Sudanese tribes that may have left thousands dead and some 50,000 people needing aid (read).
  • White House rejects calls for oversight on drone killings (read).
  • TSA spreading its wings beyond airports (read).
  • National Defense Authorization Act – By signing the ‘anti-terror’ bill the president could end up being worse than his Republican predecessor on civil liberties (read).
  • The Zenith of Civil Libertarian Anger at President Obama (read).
  • Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war (read).
  • Obama Promises to Label GMOs (read).
  • Obama: U.S. to expand military in Australia (read); 2,500 US Marines to be stationed in Australia (read).
  • Obama Administration Delays Keystone Pipeline Decision to After Election (read).
  • Palestine Wins UNESCO Membership… And Obama Withdraws (read).
  • Obama’s new war in Uganda (read).
  • Obama’s proposal would gut Freedom of Information Act (read).
  • As troops pull out of Iraq, Obama plans more combat forces elsewhere in the Middle East (read).
  • The U.S. will maintain a presence in Iraq even after “ending” of war (read).
  • New Obama Foreclosure Plan Helps Banks At Taxpayers’ Expense (read).
  • US Troop Deaths in Afghan War Under Obama Now Twice That Under Bush (read).
  • Obama sends 100 US combat troops to Uganda to help fight ‘rebels’ (read).
  • Obama vows to seek ‘toughest’ Iran sanctions to punish Iranian officials whom he accused of complicity in an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States (read).
  • Obama Waives Penalties on Countries That Employ Child Soldiers – Again! (read).
  • U.S. drones attack in southern Somalia (read).
  • US Resumes Arms Sales to Bahrain. Less than three months after including Bahrain on a list of human rights offenders requiring the United Nations’ attention, the Obama administration seems to have changed its mind (read).

My trolls usually predominate upon emotions. They conveniently exclude facts.

Guess what, ladies and gentlemen? Check out the above FACTS.

I have provided every link possible.

Leftists? Knock yourselves out. See how Mr Obama has VIOLATED your very foundational precepts. I anticipate hundreds of comments from Leftists and Demorats and so-called Progressives. Maybe even Flo.

Or: truly, not even a peep.

BZ

BZ: one door closes; another one OPENS

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Sooner or later, it had to come.

I’ve been on Blogger since my first post on June 19th of 2004.

But Blogger, as you likely realize, is owned and run by Google.  You know, the same monster that recently decided to eliminate the newest Romney promo video on YouTube — that’s right, also owned by Google.

I figure it’s just a matter of time before Google decides to eliminate me because, after all, I’ve had an eight-year blogging romp for free.  And I’m one blogpost short of tapping a major Conservative vein that Google doesn’t like.

On one front I have to hand it to Blogger: this adventure — and boy was it an adventure — didn’t cost me a damned thing except blood, sweat, tears and massive amounts of time.  For a free venue I’d say I’ve gotten my money’s worth but, of course, there is no such thing as the proverbial Free Lunch.  Sooner or later a price has to be paid.  And the upcoming price those linked to Blogger will have to soon face: censorship.

And I refuse to go there.  I will pay for my own “sovereignty,” so to speak.  Because you really do, in the end, get what you pay for.

Now: I am involved in a consortium with TexasFred, American & Proud, and Texas Shady.  We all kick in buckage for our server time, domain names and techno upkeep.  And we OWN our domain names now.

Frankly, it just allows me to sleep a bit better at night knowing that no one can take this blog down for some arbitrary or capricious reason.  I would ask, though, for a time, that you hold a bit of tolerance in your heart for me whilst I learn and transition from Blogger to WordPress.  I may make some — ahem — clumsy mistakes that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred.  For me it’s a learning curve; steep but possible.  I must apologize in advance for future ham-handed efforts to come until I get this WordPress “thing” down.

That said and written, I would ask three questions:

1. What do you think of the new site?
2. Why do you visit BZ and what do you expect to find?
3. How can I make it better?

In closing, I say: Goodbye to Blogger, and to the old Bloviating Zeppelin site.  Some have suggested I simply take it down and move on.  But like one of my children, I can’t do that.  It will be up as long as Blogger allows.  I cut my political and techno teeth on that blog.

BZ is dead.  Long live BZ!

Except: one door is closing and another door is simply opening a bit further.

Excelsior!

BZ

P.S.
Unlimited techno thanks to Bushwack at American & Proud for his unswerving reliability, insight and hard work on this creation and transition!  Absolutely couldn’t have done it without him.

 

Reflections on ObamaKare:

“You can’t tell how good the day was until the night has come.”
– Old Axiom

The final arguments are not yet in.

Voices on both the Left and Right are crowing about the Roberts SCOTUS decision in re ObamaKare.

To listen to it, both sides would portray themselves as having won. I submit: no one has “won.” Because there is no such thing as a “win” to pull out of ObamaKare.

There is only this:

A LETTER TO MY NIECES and NEPHEW:

I know you voted for Obama.

He was your first federal vote.

You voted for him because you were taught in your Public Education venues that base Caucasoids were and are inherently despicable and responsible for the bulk of what’s wrong with history.

In our own nation — and around the globe.

You were taught to be GOWPs: Guilty Overeducated White People. You were raised in Paradise (Coronado, Fornicalia) and doted upon by dutiful parents. You went to Fornicalia universities as well.

But now, you are the racial miNORity instead of the maJORity in not only Fornicalia but soon to be so around the nation. And you think me racist by dint of my merest mentioning of race.

With this in mind, I submit: you have voted for your own terrible future conditions and early demise.

You may be like your GOWP Caucasoid kind already.

Your kind won’t have children. And if they discover a pregnancy they’ll likely abort. Because they can or because it’s inconvenient. If they actually bring a child to term it will be by mistake or by a one-time singular choice. After many weeks of anguish. Bottom line? I suspect you or your peers won’t have kids.

And what is your devotion to your parents? Will you take them into your personal homes when they require intensive care? They will require intensive care. They will have health problems. They will have mobility problems. Just like my father did. And your grandfather.

My guess: they’re on their own. My two brothers. His wife. Because you will have your own lives and they won’t wish to intrude.

Which means that, like your parents, you’ll be literally “on your own” when you get older and riddled with disease and infirmities. You won’t have kids to help and, if you do, they’ll be even more distracted and uninvolved than you were.

You’ll only have your wonderful Government to assist. The Government and future you assured by voting for Mr Obama. Your healthcare, resultingly, will be conducted with all the kindness, loyalty, care, efficiency and professionalism of your local DMV. And administered by bureaucrats, not doctors. Cost and age will be the only considered factors. The older you get, the less valuable you become.

So here’s YOUR future under Mr Obama:

  • Death Panels
  • Excessive taxes
  • Health care rationing
  • Lack of doctors
  • Lack of nurses

Which will equate to this:

Your final days won’t be covered by your children. You didn’t have any.

You were born alone and you have the mandate that you will die alone.

You will find your final days shoved — if you still have a semblance of life about you — into a small room with another ten individuals.

And further, because you are Caucasoid, you will find your Caretakers speaking anything but English. And ignoring your needs because you are. Because when you think it’s not about race — there are others who think differently. Open your eyes. Start looking around. In Fornicalia you’d best have an excellent grasp of Spanish, Tagalog or Jamaican Patois. Start learning now.

THIS is what you have guaranteed under ObakaKare.

About ten or twenty years in the future. But, because you are ignorant and short-sighted, Mr Obama has ALREADY taken advantage of you. Because if ObamaKare holds and, moreover, if he acquires a second term. . .

And if you don’t think this is your future — ?

Then I might actually — for a second or two — feel sorry for you.

Bottom line: “There is no fixing stupid.”

Good luck with that Obama vote. Good luck with Mr Obama’s dystopia.

You’d best learn Spanish and quickly. If you move east, adhere to Islam.

This isn’t a Brave New World. It’s a quivering, apologistic, simpering, cowardly New World.

You weren’t born alone. Both your parents were there.

But be prepared to die alone.

And with no one who cares about you around you. Your loving parents will have long since passed away.

BZ