Fairly convincing Supreme Court forecast that should serve as reason enough for emoprogs to get over their Obama beefs and oppose all things Romney.
Radical Moderatism
In the heat of debate with several friends and family members in real life, I’ve been called a moderate. In fact, I think extremism of any flavor is sour, remain a patriotic American, and I think I have a somewhat unique perspective from my time amidst the Communist Party bureaucracy give me a unique understanding of the dangers of far leftism.
With that said, the current version of American conservatism sucks ass and the Republican Party is ironically becoming more similar to the Communist Party of China. A classic Republican, Reagan was from California and carried the state both terms. Since Clinton left office, America has found a buttload more poor people. Cutting taxes on rich people already made it worse, and more ain’t going to fix it.
The debt is a scare tactic. We have have excellent credit despite the House Tea Party GOP’s best efforts. If you believe in America, INVEST IN AMERICA. Pay some taxes, rich people. The poor people are part of the country that enabled your success, so you do owe them something.
The so-called “Tea Party Patriots” say the American people are a bad investment. Like everything else, the best answers to the Friedman-Keynes or old school Cold War “communism” vs “capitalism” debates are somewhere in the middle.
Some Highly Compelling Photographs
A monk prays for a man who died suddenly waiting for a train in China.
Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.
Girl Who Works at Syrian Embassy in Beijing
Yesterday, I met a Chinese girl who speaks/writes English, Chinese, and Arabic and works in the Syrian Embassy in Beijing (on a side note, I did impress upon her that her skill set would be in quite high demand with the U.S. State Department).
Her story was this, though:
One day she chatted online briefly with a male Syrian co-worker.
The next day, everyone in her office, including her boss, was under the impression that they slept together.
Apparently, due to the repressed nature of Muslim male-female interaction, the tiniest of things will explode and morph into wicked gossip in lightning fast time.
Sounds like the congregation of a Mormon or Christian Fundamentalist church to me.
In Egypt, she says, there’s a shop that sells the shortest allowable female shorts (still below the knee), and young boys tend to crowd around it, staring at any female brave enough to show so much skin.
Sometimes I think my mission in China is to personally highlight all the laws that need to be made.
—American freely carrying an open beer on the street in China
My conveniently subway-adjacent central 2nd Ring Road neighborhood in Beijing as I walked home from work today. I quite like this area.
3rd World Communist Hellhole Emergency Room
This happened a couple of years ago. True story.
I was hand-washing dishes, scrubbing out the inside of one of these free glasses McDonalds hands out on special occasions (not even sure if they do it there too), so I should be suing them (but that is a ridiculous notion in China). I stupidly scrubbed furiously, and with my amazing strength, I crushed the glass in my hand, and the hand doing the scrubbing was cut deep and severely.
After my feeble yelp, my girlfriend rushed to the scene and witnessed the blood gushing. I quickly wrapped it, continuously applying considerable pressure, but the bleeding kept coming. She urged me to go to the hospital for quite a while, but I kept refusing. It stopped the bleeding for a few minutes, but when I bumped the hand, it started gushing again so then I agreed to go. Hopped into a taxi, and Peking University (the best university in the country) Hospital is a 10rmb ($1.40) taxi ride away, and it’s almost midnight. (It’s not the best hospital in the country, though. That would be this military hospital where regular people just don’t get admitted.)
The emergency room seemed to be under construction, as so many places do in China, and several, mostly older people were sitting around in semi-agony, but not as if they needed immediate care. Just old and sick. You know. I signed in with a receptionist and was able to see a doctor within 10 minutes. He stitched it up (poured alcohol, some other stuff on it, thick needle, no anesthetic), and we went back to wait in line at a cashier booth.
I do have insurance through my employer, but of course I didn’t bother to bring the card. I had some cash, and the bill came to…. less than 250rmb = $40 US.
I went back to have them remove the stitches a few weeks later and the bill was less than 40 rmb (like a fiver?).
Also, a medication I have used since childhood is prescription only in USA, $40 each with no insurance. In both Mexico and China, it’s over the counter, exact same American brand, for about $4.
Just sayin’
You’re finally doing it right. (Admittedly two retweets from big-following Occupier @Asher_Wolf got the ball rolling.)
Comedy Has a Liberal Bias
I was asked why I didn’t have a post about how much I hate liberal hashtags. It’s because liberals don’t have their act together when it comes to these hashtag games. Conservatives really have it down. The hashtags are still painfully unfunny but they spread like wildfire.
- Liberal Hashtag Games Are Also Ruining Twitter
Conservatives always bitch that Comedy Central is all progressive. Virtually every comedian is liberal/progressive.
Michelle Malkin:
Twitter conservatives are doing the comedy that Comedy Central won’t do. They’re feeling the heat of real competition and rather than out-funny their competitors, the only thing they can do is whine… And the progressive tools at Comedy Central who fashion themselves the arbiters of cool and the kings of comedy can’t stand that their monopoly is dead. LOL!!
Obviously, quantity does not prove humor. Most people in the world are painfully unfunny, so it makes sense that painfully unfunny hashtags encourage participation from more people. Purely due to their numbers and organization, conservatives on Twitter can much more easily get hashtags to trend, which allows them to claim victory, regardless of the lack of humor in the tweets. #ObamaYachtNames? It’s a nonsensical retaliation for the moderately lame #RomneyYachtNames.
Why are all comedians progressive? Comedy Central is all progressive, and nary a conservative comedian can be found on the planet. I really don’t want to think this is because conservatives are stupid, ignorant and/or uneducated, so let’s assume they can possibly be smart.
The closest thing to a conservative comedian is Jay Leno, who is staunchly moderate, desperate to appeal to both sides equally, and he’s painfully unfunny. Ann Coulter could be considered a conservative comedienne, but if that’s really the case, she’s actually a further deep cover Stephen Colbert. Glenn Beck and Rush both claim to be comedians. “Feminazi”? Not super funny, sorry. Dennis Miller, moderate and a has-been. Jeff Foxworthy! And he made/makes fun of rednecks because he is one.
The really funny people on Twitter are all progressive, but they don’t obsess about politics like conservatives do. They obsess about being funny. Nine out of ten tweets will be funny, but not political. Funny people care more about making people laugh than destroying Barack Obama.
Why is it virtually impossible for conservatives to be funny?
(a) they take themselves too seriously
(b) they don’t bother to empathize with the other side and understand where they’re truly coming from
My supporting evidence is the funniest show on TV today: Portlandia. It’s all mocking liberals and progressives. And yet, it’s clearly made by progressives. It mocks the “bubble” in which many progressives get stuck, but the makers of the show are clearly intimate-enough with the lifestyle to nail the jokes. They make fun of themselves. 
It IS POSSIBLE for conservatives to make funny jokes, they’ve just become extremists, unable to even understand the “monsters” on the other side. I pray for the day conservatives make a show in the vein of Portlandia. But that would require them to step out of the bubble and learn how to laugh at themselves.
Progressives should be tricking them. Get the hashtag going, allow them to hijack it, then laugh at them. It’s a trolling technique called “baiting”. Further left (Occupy/Anonymous) folks are much more internet savvy than mainstream progressives, but they refuse to work in solidarity with the Democrats, so it makes this so much harder. In order for this to work, a bunch of people must work together, and they must carefully choose the hashtag with the intention of baiting rabid, obsessive conservatives into posting on it.
Hashtags that would be funny to bait conservatives into hijacking:
#TepidRomneyEndorsements
#ObamaConspiracyTheories
#FoxNewsHeadlines
#GaysDestroyAmerica
#RomneyPrepSchoolPranks
You get the idea. Some progressives get it trending, conservatives hijack it, and THEN the comedy really begins. How are they going to change these to fit their agenda, which is to destroy Barack Obama at all costs? I guarantee Michelle Malkin and her beloved Twitchy will declare victory.
Major Breitbart Revelation: NKOTB Greatest Thing Since Beatles
True patriots, champions of truth, and rape defenders, the Breitbart posse, has unearthed a major revelation about America’s once-loved, but long-since forgotten bands, The New Kids on the Block.
While it may be imposible to verify or even quantify the enthusiasm of New Kids on the Block fans in 1991 versus the enthusiasm of Beatlemania in the 1960s, it remains to be seen whether surviving Breitbots (since the untimely death of Dear Leader Andrew this year) will achieve the mainstream attention for which they so desperately lust.
From hell, Andrew Breitbart, who while living, bravely acknowledged the mountains of evidence supporting that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, was reported to have given his proteges the middle finger after they further marginalized his life’s work to the level of supercrazies like Orly Taitz due to the site’s desperation for anyone to pay attention to it since an obvious decline triggered by Breitbart’s death and a subsequent series of dud scoops. Breitbart did however remark that “the kids in 1991 were pretty crazy about New Kids on the Block.”
“If birthers were proved correct, Barack Obama would immediately be removed from office, making Joe Biden the 45th President of the United States and Hillary Clinton a shoe-in for 46th, since the presumptive Republican candidate is universally disliked by everyone, and Hillary lacks the familiar attack points that the Right loves,” remarked NKOTB founder Maurice Starr after a 2012 performance.
Andrew Breitbart died March 1 of this year after a heart attack while protesting Michelle Obama’s obesity-fighting efforts by consuming as much half-pound burgers, kegs of beer, and Slurpees as he could pour down his excessively wide throat.
(Source: breitbart.com)
