Lawsuit against Obama

There is another lawsuit against President Obama.
This one has already gone to the Supreme Court and is scheduled to be considered on the 15th of February.

Defense Cuts, Pork Spending, War, and the Constitution

As Congress once again struggles with the exact same problems that created the "fiscal cliff", due to their simply kicking the can down the road, rather than actually doing something to solve the problem, the defense budget faces about $500,000,000,000 (500 billion) in spending cuts, and $4,000,000,000 (4 billion) in Stimulus cash has been spent on foreign "green" energy firms by the Federal government, all while we prepare to increase our involvement in Mali.

The DOD often wastes money, but unlike much of the rest of the government's spending, defense spending is actually provided for in the Constitution. Our multi-trillion dollar deficit, mostly a result of out of control spending on things not provided for in the Constitution - including not one, but two useless "stimulus packages". Our debt is too high, but cutting spending on one of the very few items that Congress is supposed to spend money on isn't going to fix the problem - even if the recipient of the money could use a bit of fiscal restraint itself.

Gun Control for Idiots

The gun control debate rages on. However, the only people who actually know what they're talking about are the pro-gun crowd. Everyone else, from the ******* politicians, to the fools in the media, to the common citizen has absolutely no clue. The common citizen generally has the excuse that he/she doesn't need to know about the ins and outs of guns in their daily life. The politicians and media however, are either reporting upon guns, or making laws about guns. Perhaps if they actually knew a bit about guns, they might be able to do something besides annoy and disarm law abiding gun owners while enabling criminals who could care less about another law for them to break.

Update on the Mali Situation

From CBS:
France tripling Mali troop numbers in key week

France is deploying more troops to Mali in order to combat the terrorists there, who are using standard terrorist tactics, including using the population as human shields. The French military has the capability to win in Mali, but the real question is whether or not France has the political will to win. We shall see.

This Ain't Chess

In chess, if you checkmate the king, you win the game. In real life, if you checkmate the king, the opposing side just gets a new one. Al Qaeda has taken over a substantial portion of Mali. This is what happens when you focus upon killing one man, rather than destroying his terrorist group. Currently, all of the troops in country are French, but the Canadians and the US military are also going to be getting in on the action, although the Canadian involvement is planned to be entirely noncombat. We'll see how this all turns out, but I expect that another front will open up in the War on Terror, a war that is far from won, and which cannot be won by killing the terrorist leader du jour.

From Fox News:

Al Qaeda carves out own country in Mali, prepares to defend it

US military preparing to support French forces in Mali

The UN: About as useful as...

t*ts on a boar hog.
Another example of the UN's remarkable incompetence from Fox News. As if I needed another reason to hold them in contempt. And yet we continue to throw good money after bad supporting them.

Check it out:

UN’s $5.7B anti-poverty agency doesn’t do much to reduce poverty, according to its own assessment

Crime and Punishment

From Fox News:

European courts spare accused pedophile, hacker from American justice

The headline forgot to mention something contained in the article, that something being that this human turd has already been convicted and served time for crimes committed in the UK. That's not the only piece of stupid in the article, but to be fair, the rest of the stupid isn't the fault of Fox News. The real stupid comes the UK courts deeming Minnesota law - which would put the turd in civil confinement for life if convicted of crimes committed there - "draconian" and "barbaric". If they want draconian, they should look to Vlad Tepes of Wallachia, or the Ottoman Turks of the same period (or perhaps to the origin of the word). If they want barbaric, they should look to Attila the Hun. There is no barbarism in making certain that a man convicted of raping a 14 year old girl molesting two boys is taken off the streets so that he can do no more harm. And although he hasn't been convicted yet, given his flight to the UK after first being charged, and his subsequent behavior there, he'll probably be convicted.

To Gun Control Fetishists

To all Gun Control Fetishists: You talk about "sporting purpose" and "you don't need that to hunt". You're right. I don't need an automatic firearm to hunt, and it doesn't serve a "sporting purpose". I need a fully automatic firearm to defend myself against criminals who manage to get their hands on fully automatic firearms despite laws to the contrary. I need a fully automatic firearm (in addition to MANPADs and anti-tank weapons) to defend myself if my government steps over the line into totalitarianism. I need a fully automatic firearm because there is a small, but finite possibility that I may need to defend myself from someone wielding a similar firearm. So shut up about the whole "you don't need that" sh*t. Because I do need it.

Political Dynasties

From CBS:

George P. Bush gets ready to run for office in Texas. I think that the Bush family should get out of politics for a few generations. His family is making politics its business - including George P. Bush, three generations of the Bush family have gone into politics now, and given the track records of his uncle (Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind) and his grandfather (of "No New Taxes" fame)  we probably shouldn't expect the new Bush to be a real conservative - of any stripe. Elected office should be a term of service, not a career, especially not one that multiple generations of a single family engage in. No matter the family name - Adams, Kennedy, Bush, Clinton - turning politics into the family career has never been a good thing for anyone but the family in question. And sometimes not even then.

Corruption in Washington

From Fox News:

Fiscal crisis package loaded up with special-interest tax breaks

This is corruption, plain and simple. Corruption that complicates the tax code so much that no average citizen can understand it (no politician can either, and they're supposed to know). Get rid of the tax code as it currently exists and replace it with something that makes sense, and that doesn't require that one specialize in the tax code in order to understand it. Perhaps the FairTax or a flat income tax. Either one would be fine, so long as the tax code uses fewer words than go into a Novella (not long enough to be a novel, not short enough to be a short story, between 17,500 and 40,000 words, according to Wikipedia). As it stands, the current tax code takes up more than twice as many words as the longest novel yet written (an estimated 1.2 million words in 7 volumes and 4,211 pages, again according to Wikipedia) at roughly 3.8 million words. I shouldn't have to go to college to understand the tax system.