Who are you? Who – Who? That’s the question that millions of people watching the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show were probably asking.
The Who, better known as Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend (the two other original members offed themselves with drugs before Columbus came to America) would have been far better suited to star in a halftime commercial for the AARP rather than performing as the halftime musical guests.
Now I’m not a teenager myself, but the Who was already past their prime when I was in high school. Since then, they have come and gone depending on when they needed an infusion of cash into their bank accounts. They have literally disappeared for decades, only to reunite every time Halley’s Comet appears in the sky. Roger Daltry sounded like a rooster trying to crow with a bad case of laryngitis, (which is the norm for him for the last couple of decades) and Pete Townsend looked like a whacked-out geezer who should be sitting on a park bench feeding the pigeons.
Just as some athletes, many musical acts don’t seem to know when to give it up. Last night’s performance should really be the Who’s last. Don’t get me wrong, there are still many performers in the same age bracket as the Who, who are still very viable and still very talented – some even get better with age. The great Charlie Daniels is 73 years old, and he’s better in every way than he was 20 – 25 years ago. The other problem with the Who is that because of their constant on again – off again retirements, they haven’t built a fan base that crosses generational lines. Most of their hard-core fans from the sixties and seventies have probably died from drug overdoses, or are too embarrassed now to admit that they were once fans.
I don’t know the research that was done by the NFL and the producers of the Super Bowl that led them to book the Who, but I bet that some heads will be rolling once the stupidity of the choice comes into full scope. You can also bet that next year the NFL will overcompensate for their mistake and probably book someone like Miley Cyrus.
As for Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend, they should just chill out and enjoy their wealth, and find something else to do that doesn’t cause any further embarrassment to their children and grandchildren.
On Thursday, I made my Super Bowl XLIV prediction and almost got it right on the button. I predicted a 37 t0 17 game. The only problem is that I got it completely wrong as to which team would come out on top. Obviously, the Saints won by a score of 31 – 17.
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints on their first Super Bowl victory. They flat outplayed the Colts, especially in the second half. They conclusively proved that they were the better team, and their victory was well deserved.
How many times have we heard about Barack Obama’s legendary intelligence? Even Republicans and conservative pundits seem to throw Obama a bone by saying that he’s “very intelligent” – “extremely smart.” I always saw it as a way for his opponents to try and say something positive about a man whose ideology and hate for America is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.
Remember this Radio appearance by “renown” (in other words liberal) presidential historian Michael Beschloss on the Imus Show shortly after Obama was elected?
This Beschloss buffoon shared the following observation with Don Imus with absolutely no criteria to base his dumb-ass assumptions on.
Beschloss: Yeah. Even aside from the fact of electing the first African American President and whatever one’s partisan views this is a guy whose IQ is off the charts — I mean you cannot say that he is anything but a very serious and capable leader and — you know — You and I have talked about this for years….
Imus: Well. What is his IQ?
Beschloss: Our system doesn’t allow those people to become President, those people meaning people that smart and that capable….
Imus: What is his IQ?
Beschloss: Pardon?
Imus: What is his IQ?
Beschloss: Uh…..I would say it’s probably – he’s probably the smartest guy ever to become President.
Yeah, we all know he must be extraordinarily intelligent because after all, he received diplomas from Columbia and Harvard.
This morning at the annual Washington DC Prayer Breakfast Obama referred to a Navy Corpsman as a Corpse-man. It wasn’t just a casual slip of the tongue because he said it twice.
Watch this if you can bear the embarrassment:
Let’s get something straight once and for all! Barack Obama is not particularly smart, he’s not particularly intelligent, and he’s definitely not a great speaker! He’s just your typical programmed left-wing ideologue. He’s so deep into it that he actually believes that he’s the smartest man in the history of the world. Growing up, he drank so much Kool Aid given to him by his Marxist mentors and college professors that he doesn’t even remember how to act or think like a real person.
The media has perpetrated this hoax about his intelligence because most of them come from the same background as he does. They attended Universities and Colleges and willingly swallowed the same progressive indoctrination as Obama did – hook, line & sinker. In his first year as president, Obama has made more gaffes than the idiot, George Bush, did in eight years. At least George Bush made fun of himself and his unusual way of putting words together. On the other hand, Obama takes himself so seriously that he actually believes all the media hype about himself. He refuses to, or is incapable of, admitting to himself that he was given an express pass to the White House because he’s a clean, articulate, light-skinned black man who doesn’t have a Negro dialect – when he doesn’t want to.
Intelligent? – No way!
Programmed Radical Marxist Ideologue? – Absolutely!
Note: If you’re offended by my characterization of Obama as a clean, articulate, light-skinned black man who doesn’t have a Negro dialect – except when he wants to. Please write or call Vice-President Joe Biden’s office, and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office.
I know that the New Orleans Saints are the sentimental “feel good” favorites of the media and most football fans who aren’t Indianapolis Colts fans.
Unfortunately for the Saints, they still have to play the game this coming Sunday in South Florida. The Saints played a sloppy and undisciplined game two weeks ago against the Minnesota Vikings. Lucky for the Saints, the Vikings played a sloppier game turning the ball over four times. The last turnover probably cost the Vikings a trip to the Super Bowl when Bret Favre basically handed the Saints the game with his idiotic throw that turned into an easy interception just as the Vikings were approaching comfortable field goal range with less than a minute left in regulation.
The Saints then won the toss and scored (field goal) in their first possession of overtime.
My prediction for this Sunday’s Super Bowl is that the Colts will roll over the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV (That’s 44 for all of the Obama zombies out there). The Colts are a much more disciplined team than the Saints, and Peyton Manning has been here before; he won’t develop brain-lock under pressure and hand the Saints the game like Bret Favre did.
I can’t help but comment on the whole New Orleans/Katrina focus that the media will be exploiting. We’ll hear the usual gobbledygook about how much a Saints victory will mean to the people of New Orleans and the victims of Katrina in particular.
To that I say – give me a break!
Will a Saints victory rebuild any homes that were destroyed?
Will a Saints victory put any money into the pockets of the Katrina victims?
Will a Saints victory finally fix the issues with the levees?
This is just another feel-good story that the media is pushing. It has nothing to do with the real world and the people who went through Katrina.
If the Saints win, the people of New Orleans might feel a little better for a day or two, but they then have to start dealing with reality again. Only the media can attach such meaning to a mere sports event. After all, they are the ones who live in a self-induced bubble out of touch with the real world that most of the rest of us live in.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS 37 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS 17
For those of you who read my post yesterday entitled The Upcoming Immigration Battle, and thought that I was off base, over the top, xenophobic, racist, or just plain wrong, you may want to reconsider your positions. To those of you who agree with my views on runaway immigration, this will only further buttress our case for extreme concern.
Last night I visited one of my favorite websites, Worldnetdaily, and found that their lead article written by Aaron Klein dealt with exactly the same concerns that I have in regards to massive immigration from underdeveloped or Third World countries. The article is basically an open admission from one of Obama’s advisors and a high ranking union official that they want to use immigration as a way to impose their frightening Progressive/Marxist agenda on the United States.
Read the article here.
Here’s a video of SEIU’s international vice-president, Eliseo Medina, saying exactly what I said in my post, which is that they (Obama, Democrats, Progressives, Marxists, Socialists, etc.) are counting on the hope that illegal immigrants can receive amnesty, and then help to create a “progressive governing coalition for the long term.”
There you have it straight from the horses, or should I say Jackass’s mouth!
Let’s see, when I make the same claim that Mr. Medina made, I’m just a racist right-winger. When he makes it, he’s doing what?
What he’s doing is just telling the cold hard truth about their plans for “comprehensive immigration reform” – also known as amnesty.
Like I said many times before; if amnesty for illegal aliens (law-breaking invaders) is passed, and the floodgates are opened to allow more poor immigrants from around the world, America as we know it will be gone for good.
Yesterday on the great Mark Levine Radio Show on 77-WABC in New York, I heard Mark list and discuss 10 steps that could be used to destroy American society. Don’t worry; he wasn’t giving the Left any new ideas. In fact, he made clear his belief that the Obama administration along with the Democrat dominated congress is purposely following each and every destructive step. I couldn’t agree with him more!
Here’s Mark’s list:
- Rewrite the Constitution and break down its firewalls through Judicial and Bureaucratic fiat.
- Concentrate all meaningful power in the Federal Government.
- Suppress and Repress the Individual by attacking his Unalienable Rights through laws and constant torment.
- Eliminate Private Property through Confiscatory Taxation and Regulation and wage constant war against Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurs.
- Control Institutions of Education at all levels and turn them into Indoctrination Centers for the State.
- Change the Citizenry by opening National Borders to virtually all comers and changing the qualifications for Citizenship to include mostly poor, uneducated illegal aliens.
- Destroy the Private Financial Institutions that have funded the Greatest Production and Accumulation of Wealth for the Most People the World has ever known.
- Destroy Capitalism and replace it with Redistributive Policies by destroying the currency and replacing it with a new currency or Revaluing the old currency.
- Eliminate American Sovereignty through arrangements and agreements with Foreign Countries and International Bureaucracies.
- Use American Foreign Policy not to improve American Economic and National Security, but to advance the Notion of One Government Globalism.
All 10 items on the list are a nightmare for any free society. For the moment, I want to focus on what I believe to be the most destructive and the hardest to reverse once fully implemented.
I’m referring to #6. Change the Citizenry by opening National Borders to virtually all comers and changing the qualifications for Citizenship to include mostly poor, uneducated illegal aliens.
I believe that anyone with half a brain and no personal or political agenda can see the permanent destruction that will result from massive illegal and…..yes, legal immigration of predominantly ignorant and poor people into our country.
The ignorant and poor have long been the favorite pawns of dictators, despots, and Marxists. That’s exactly why the modern day Democrats and statists like Obama favor open borders and massive immigration from underdeveloped or third world nations. It’s very easy to play the class-envy card with people who live on mere dollars per week in their native countries. People who are ignorant (many times through no fault of their own) don’t understand free-market economics. They don’t understand how wealth is created. They often seem to believe that the streets of America are paved with gold. They don’t understand the blood, sweat, and ideas that have made us as prosperous as we are. Many of these people look at a person who makes 40 thousand dollars a year like the rest of us look at millionaires.
Many good but misguided people have come to believe that allowing massive immigration from the third world is a moral issue. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase “people just looking for a better life” when the issue of immigration comes up. I don’t buy the legitimacy of the phrase, and quite frankly, it makes me sick! Where in the US Constitution does it say that we have to lower our standard of living in order for someone else to have a better life? Where is it written that we have to give up chunks of our freedom in order for someone else to have a better life? Where is it written that we have to give more and more of our hard earned money to subsidize people who want a better life? Where is it written that we have to water down, or outright surrender our culture to accommodate immigrants who just want a better life?
Another key fact that almost all proponents of massive immigration miss is the plain and simple fact that like most things, immigration has changed over the years. For the most part, immigrants who flocked to this country throughout the 19th and 20th century came here to seek opportunity without any guarantees or assistance from the government. They came here to become Americans, not to remake America into the country from which they came. They went to work almost immediately after entering the country. Their sponsors had to make sure that they had work and a place to live. They went to school to learn English. They weren’t catered to with signs in their native languages. They took a lot of guff in the beginning, but they didn’t complain. They realized that it was part of the price for the freedom and opportunity they sought. Eventually they proved themselves to be hard-working people who wanted first and foremost to be Americans. It didn’t take long before they were accepted with open arms and treated as fellow citizens – fellow Americans. How do I know all of this? Because I’m speaking about people from my own family who went through it – that’s how!
Many, if not most of today’s immigrants (often through no fault of their own) don’t share the same attitude as the earlier immigrants. Largely because of the politicians in Washington DC, many come here with certain expectations if not outright demands. Many expect to be subsidized by the current citizens. Many expect government programs to help them get by. Many expect bi-lingual education and bi-lingual government services. Again, I don’t really blame the immigrants. I blame the corrupt politicians who want to use these people as pawns to advance their agendas and power. We need to reestablish the message to potential immigrants that America is the place to go if you want to work hard and achieve success, not the place to go for cradle to grave hand-outs. The progressive left in particular looks at today’s immigrants as people they can easily control in their quest to transform America into a Marxist nation. It’s undeniable that desperately poor people are much more likely to accept and tolerate Marxism, Leninism, Statism, and even Totalitarianism.
With our economy in shambles, with multi trillion dollar debts and deficits as far as the eye can see, and with real-world unemployment at 17 or 18 percent, we can hardly afford to import poverty from all over the world. Our federal entitlement programs are all at the breaking point. We simply can’t afford more people jumping on the wagon. What we need are more people to help pull the wagon! We need to run our immigration system like a small business, or even a fortune 500 corporation. Immigrants should explain what they can do for us, rather what we can do for them. Regardless of skin color, native language, or country of origin, we need immigrants who will be assets to our economy and a plus for our nation. We need stricter guidelines for immigration. We need immigrants who better understand our history and free-market system (while we still have one). We don’t need hyphenated Americans. We need immigrants who while holding on to their cultures, want to be Americans first. We need immigrants who crave personal and financial freedom over a supposedly benevolent centralized government.
Have no doubt that Obama and the Democrats will soon try to ram some sort of radical “immigration reform” down our throats. I believe that this will make the healthcare reform fiasco seem like a schoolyard spat between first graders. They well know that by importing poverty and desperation, and by legalizing all of the “undocumented” aliens that are already here, they can build a permanent progressive political base that can never be defeated again at the ballot box. This will get very, very ugly. They will brand anyone who opposes their “immigration reform” as Bigots, Racists, Haters, White Supremacists and Klansmen. They will hope that people who have a low tolerance for being at the receiving end of vicious name calling will fall silent. They will try to appeal to people who for some reason or another suffer from a misguided sense of guilt. Others, they will try to outright destroy. Many gutless Republicans will easily become intimidated and are likely to fold under the pressure. Once again, it will be up to us – the American people to defeat this.
All of the 10 steps that Mark Levine talked about are scary to anyone who wants to preserve our great country for future generations. However, once there is a super population of poor and ignorant immigrants from around the world residing within our borders, we will once and for all witness the irreversible destruction of our beloved country.
I figured why waste time and write 400 words about Obama’s State of the Union speech when I can easily describe it in 25 short words.
Here they are:
Accusative
Angry
Arrogant
Authoritative
Condescending
Contemptuous
Contradictory
Cynical
Deceitful
Defensive
Disingenuous
Dubious
Duplicitous
Egotistical
Evasive
Fraudulent
Hostile
Hypocritical
Illogical
Inconsistent
Insincere
Narcissistic
Patronizing
Predictable
Shifty
In other words the speech was just one BIG, GIGANTIC, GARGANTUAN, COLOSSAL, LIE!
Then again – what’s new?
During tomorrow’s State of the Union address (also known as Obama covering his ass address) Obama will try to paint himself as a “fiscal conservative.” One way that he’ll try to pull off this chicanery is by proposing a 3 year freeze on federal discretionary spending. Does anyone with half a brain in their cranium believe that he would be putting forth this phony proposal had Scott Brown not won the Massachusetts special election a week ago today?
This cynical ploy will only fool those who want to be fooled (the media) and those who are too dumb to understand partisan “cover your ass” politics (ignorant Obama sycophants).
This proposed spending freeze is simply laughable. It’s just slight of hand trickery designed to make people feel better about the out of control spending coming from Washington.
Let’s take a look at how this proposed freeze actually looks through the prism of reality.
Let’s say that you’re a family of four who spent $3000 on eating out in the year 2008 despite family finances that were shaky at best. The $3000 is already at least twice what you can realistically afford. Then the next year (2009) you lose your mind and triple your eating-out spending to $9000 even though you’re in debt up to your eyeballs and are barely able to make your mortgage payment.
When you finally realize that you can’t afford this outrageous spending anymore, and that it’s helping to bankrupt your family, you put your foot down and declare that for the next three years starting in 2011 you’ll freeze your eating-out spending at $9000 per year. Problem solved – right?
These proposed spending freezes that Obama will unveil tomorrow account for programs that add up to only 18% of the budget. Not to mention that the original baseline before Obama’s massive spending increases was already inflated due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The wars that Obama promised to end when he became president.
Only in Washington DC could this “freeze” be seen as belt-tightening. Only a corrupt media would accept this farce at face value (which they certainly will). Only a politician who has total disrespect for the intelligence of the American people would have the chutzpah to propose this as a being fiscally responsible.
Unfortunately, many Americans have earned that disrespect.
