There may be no more enlightening and easy a time to be a conservative, especially a libertarian conservative, in modern times than today. Why? Simple:

1+2=3

"Surely you jest," you say, "1+2 has always equaled 3." Indeed it has, but can you think of a time in modern history when so many people believe 1+2=0?

Think about the growth of government, at all levels. The economy has dramatically hit the individual, yet government has grown, especially the federal government. Government has grown without regard for the ability of the government to pay for its growth. The current administration comprised of executive and legislative branches led by politicians with a (D) have passed budgets with trillion dollar shortfalls and submit that this will be the status quo for the next decade. Not one single pro government has shown a viable path to avoiding fiscal disaster, even when considering evil VAT taxes and higher personal taxes. None.

Here is a question. I come to you at the beginning of the month and ask for money.

The 1st: Give me a dollar. ($1)
2nd: I want a dollar more than you gave me yesterday. ($2)
3rd: You gave me $2 yesterday, give me another. ($3)
4th: You gave me $3, plus $2. ($5)
5th: 5+3=8. I want eight today. ($8)
6th: You can handle the $8, and I want $5 on top. ($13)
You can handle these numbers, can't you.
Day 14: Where's my $1,597?
Day 31: You owe me $3,524,578, for the day.

Growth in spending always accelerates unless it is pounded with a tight fist. When a government plans on borrowing a trillion plus dollars every year, on top of the borrowing it has previously done, one day, who knows which day, there will be no money to borrow. The US dollar will become a third world currency, rightly so.

It makes for interesting conversations with (D)s these days--there is no need to besmirch all liberals, because it is (D)emocrats--when you ask them where this is headed? Some are dumb enough to believe 1+2=0, but most just say, "Who cares what 1 plus 2 equals?" The most fun comes when you ask them how they can really care about their fellow citizen when they are turning them into a slave for the government and how, in good conscience, contribute to the bankrupting of a nation, which will lead to a diminution of services for all of those they proclaim to care about. Inevitably, you have to tell them, "Actually, if you look at the logical conclusion, it would appear your support of all of this could be considered evil, since you know where it leads. And, by they way, do you think it is right to put all of this on future generations, or is that part of the evil act?"

Who could have guessed 1+2=3 would add up?

As always, being conservative just means you have the ability, the intelligence to understand the consequences of your actions.

A simple question is why do you listen to a man and ignore his actions. Listen to a speech by Barack Obama, or George Bush for that matter, and you are offering yourself up for manipulation. To understand a man's desire and purpose, you need only look at his actions. So why listen to what he says?

It is unfortunate that we offer ourselves up for manipulation because we find that more palpable than acknowledging the truth that is laid out before us.

It is important that historically relevant information not be made available to the masses, or they might think and realize that government is not God, and it not the answer:

Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 argues that famines in the Third World are not caused by actual food shortages but institutional failure. The great famine of Bangladesh in 1974 occurred in a year of greater food availability per head than in any other year between 1971 and 1976. Instead it was the Bangladesh Government that owned 40% of the industry and regulated with price controls and high taxes administered by a huge, corrupt, foreign-aid dependent bureaucracy that caused the famine. The problems were caused by that country's flawed domestic policies, not too many people. The same can be said of Africa today. It is like putting on golden handcuffs when you turn your own freedom and power over to a neglectful, soul-less, unaccountable entity called government. [Read]

It is going to take some time before the government has this much control, but give them time. And as for the corruption, well, you know...

The article is a "must read":

Government corruption and callousness has turned many natural resource "rich" countries into poor countries. Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and the Congo are examples of natural resource rich countries whose corrupt, anticapitalistic policies have consigned most of their citizens to lives of grinding poverty. Chile, who used to be in those ranks, has moved on. Chile's war on corruption, investment in its people and downsizing of its government has made all the difference. If every country adopted the Chilean model, poverty as we know it would be eliminated by the end of this century.

Detroit was once a wonderful city. It will slowly return to barren earth:

At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times has learnt, amid growing concern over the ability of the country’s Government to accept almost 100 more former inmates from the detention centre. [Read]

Are you surprised?

If you are surprised, you are an idiot. If you are not surprised and you support the closing of Gitmo or the conducting of this war as a criminal prosecution, you need to know that you were given a brain to think and if you think this kind of thing is a good idea, you are not thinking hard enough. As matter of fact, the blood they draw is on your hands and cannot be washed.

Let's make 2010 the year freedom is reborn.

Do not think because our attention is elsewhere, their attention is elsewhere. Our attention elsewhere is an opportunity for "them":

Unlimited access to bailout funds through 2012 was "necessary for preserving the continued strength and stability of the mortgage market," the Treasury said. Fannie and Freddie purchase or guarantee most U.S. home mortgages and have run up huge losses stemming from the worst wave of defaults since the 1930s.

"The timing of this executive order giving Fannie and Freddie a blank check is no coincidence," said Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee. He said the Christmas Eve announcement was designed "to prevent the general public from taking note." [Read]

We are fiscally challenged and this government decides the best way to handle problems is to give blank checks to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government sponsored enterprises (GSE) hemorrhaging money like there are no consequences, which, for them, there are not.

BTW: The "leaders" of these financial abominations are going to be paid millions...our money, ultimately.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This is what happens when you invest your hope in a politician:

What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside. [Read it, we dare you]

The only thing you should be demanding from the government is freedom, and that you will have to fight them for.

“The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the Earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. Such hysteria (over global warming) simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth.” - Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology [Read]

Just one of the list 100 reasons why climate change is natural.

From our perspective, you have to be a bit of a 'tard not to understand climate change is natural, but every day we accept more completely how stupid sooooooo many people are, especially the "best" educated. "Hope" has beaten us harshly into the hopeless reality of man's ignorance prancing as hubris.

Long before Al Gore became ManBearPig (we should all shout ManBearPig when seeing the "man"), there were people trying to point out the absurdity of the man-made global warming religion:



This video is from 1990. But none of this needs to even be discussed, because ManBearPig says the science is solved.

Remember, moronic followers, ManBearPig is saying question nothing, especially authority.

When did liberals become such sycophantic followers? When they tasted power.

If you can five minutes, watch where our fearless leaders are taking us:

Howard Davidowitz: "We Are On A Death March!" "We Are Japan!"


By the way, this makes sense when you see how few people that have any real world experience are in the Obama administration:

When one considers that public sector employment has ranged since the 1950s at between 15 percent and 19 percent of the population, the makeup of the current cabinet—over 90 percent of its prior experience was in the public sector—is remarkable. [Graph]

As it becomes more clear even to those who refused to consider the possibility that man is not the driving force behind nature, a visit to a prescient episode of South Park is in order. Yes, it is time to revisit ManBearPig...we're serial.

For further discussion of the topic of the day, Climategate, may we suggest the "Junk Science" analysis:

...we're going to apply our guide to identifying whether a given field is a legitimate field of scientific study or if it the field in question qualifies as being "junk science" or a "pseudoscience" to the information that was revealed in the public exposure of the Climatic Research Unit's (CRU) previously shielded e-mails and data. We're going to go line by line through our guide to see if the conduct and practices of the scientists involved in the scandal qualifies as science, pseudoscience, or if no such determination can be made with the available evidence. [Read]

It is best when evaluating anyone to ignore what they say and watch what the do, and here is a simple example from our President:

The man who said this:

President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession. [Read]

gives us:

President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. [Read]

And his policy proposals to date are budget busters on top of this.

Please understand, idiots do not change their minds. The followers of the man-made global warming tomfoolery will not allow the fact that the liars have been caught change their point of view or even encourage them to consider their view.

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. [Read]

What can be don, is to ask questions of those tomfools who are waiting to be pointed toward another shiny object, especially when you will be around them over the holidays.

Holiday question to the true believers: Understanding your acceptance of man-made global warming, do you feel duped at all now that it has been shown the "scientists" behind the scare have been lying to you?

Follow up question: Does it matter that man-made global warming does not exist as the factor you have been so desperate to believe?

BTW: Official Manual has this one right...if only the true believers believed enough to take care of themselves properly.