Serr8d's Cutting Edge

"Can you promise that I will come back?"

2011-12-21T23:17:00.000-06:00

Kim "The Beast" Jong-Un Next Up in North Korea

2011-12-19T10:33:00.000-06:00

Just over a year ago I posted on Kim "The Beast" Jong-un. Now, we'll get to see if he 'lives up' to that moniker. From that earlier post, a background primer on this, the third-generation succession path in NonkLand. Seems Kim Jong-Il (Baron Harkonnen) appointed Kim Jong-Un (Glossu “The Beast” Rabban), and there's no sign of any Feyd-Rautha coming for to save the day.

Hopefully, this world's only Communist Monarchy, this Korean Mobile Triumvirate of Successive Evils, will end soon enough, and with little loss of human life in NonkLand or her surroundings.

Yeah. And I believe in Santa Claus, too.

'I'm the fourth best president in American history': Barack Obama on 60 Minutes

2011-12-18T10:48:00.000-06:00

No, Mr. Bozo, you are not even approaching the stature of Ronald Reagan or even that of either of the George Bush(s). Your narcissism, however, is greater than that of ANY modern U.S. President's; and rivals that of some of the worst of foreign dictators, including but not limited to Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi.

h/t Darleen Click

Obama Releases Known Murdering Terrorist Ali Musa Daqduq

2011-12-18T09:18:00.000-06:00

Yes, this is shameful. Our President is without honor...

The Daqduq Disgrace
Obama releases a terrorist rather than send him to Gitmo.

One of the most widely photographed acts of President Obama's first year in office was his symbolic pre-dawn salute to the caskets of U.S. soldiers returning to Dover Air Force Base. In the case of a terrorist named Ali Musa Daqduq, who was released yesterday from U.S. custody in Iraq, the President is letting down those fallen soldiers and their families.

Daqduq is a Lebanese national and top Hezbollah operative who in January 2007 masterminded the ambush, kidnapping and murder of five American soldiers in the Iraqi city of Karbala. Arrested by U.S. forces in Basra two months later, Daqduq is said to have initially pretended to be deaf and mute. But he eventually talked, giving U.S. interrogators an extensive picture of the ways in which Iran was arming and training Iraq's insurgents.

Now Daqduq is in Iraqi custody—released, according to the Administration, because it could not lawfully do otherwise. "We have sought and received assurances [from the Iraqi government] that he will be tried for his crimes," said Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

Mr. Vietor surely knows the likelier outcome is that Daqduq will be released or acquitted so that he can rejoin his comrades in Beirut or Tehran. The Iraqi government has already released some 50 other prisoners responsible for attacks on U.S. forces.

The Administration contends that its hands were tied by the U.S.-Iraq status-of-forces agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration, which required Iraq's consent—not forthcoming—to remove any prisoners from the country. But it's hard to see why that stipulation would apply to Daqduq, who is not an Iraqi citizen.

It's almost 2012, thankfully.

Presidential Pout Job

2011-12-18T00:18:00.000-06:00

Aww, didn't you get your surtax on the EEEEVIL! rich? And that pipeline..a damned shame you're gonna have to expose yourself as against Union jobs and for the environmental whack-jobs who've camped out in front of your house for the last several weeks?

Can't have everything you want, Barry. Sorry.

Occupy Wall Street EPIC FAIL! OWS Kids, Missing Zuccotti Park, Arrested for Attempting to Occupy a Church.

2011-12-17T20:41:00.001-06:00

These miserable little Marxists just can't seem to learn, can they?

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Saturday after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site.

Protesters used a wooden ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while others cheered them on. A man wearing a Santa suit stood on the ladder among others, as they ignored red “Private Property” signs.

As officers made arrests, protesters shouted obscenities and hollered: “Make them catch you!” The group was inside the lot for a short time before being led out by police in single file through a space in the fence. About 50 people were arrested, police said.
About a thousand people gathered across the street at a city-owned park.

Protesters have been looking for a new place to set up camp since they were ousted from Zuccotti Park and are considering Duarte Square, which is owned by Trinity Wall Street Episcopal church.

Now, they've begun a march on the Rector's home; via Twitter, there are reportedly 'paddy wagons and netting' lining up to catch the loose 'tards.

Hey, OWS! "SUCCESS" comes before "WORK" ONLY in a DICTIONARY!

Freakin' morons. See what happens when LeftLibProggs have kids ?

UPDATE: Video.

Christopher Hitchens...

2011-12-16T07:51:00.000-06:00

...woke up dead this morning. Not unexpectedly; that outcome is guaranteed to all of us.

As a celebrated atheist who spent much of his life bashing God and godbotherers, he's now knowing the final answer: either he has an immortal soul that was collected and returned to it's Maker (or, perhaps rejected and sent somewhere, maybe to be reborn as a goat-fucking Iranian) or he spent his life as just another planet-bound animal with a short lifespan and a mildly-swollen brain case; in which case he's returned to the nothing from whence he came, quickly to be forgotten.

Either way, sayanora. Wouldn't want to be like you were, really.

Hey, just look at what George Bush has done this time!

2011-12-15T07:23:00.000-06:00

George Bush has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.

Human rights groups accused the president of deserting his principles and disregarding the long-established principle that the military is not used in domestic policing. The legislation has also been strongly criticised by libertarians on the right angered at the stripping of individual rights for the duration of "a war that appears to have no end".

The law, contained in the defence authorisation bill that funds the US military, effectively extends the battlefield in the "war on terror" to the US and applies the established principle that combatants in any war are subject to military detention.

That dirty S.O.B. just won't go away, will he ?

Sarah Palin, to the REAL 1%'ers: "Congress, it's time to stop lining your pockets"

2011-12-13T08:00:00.000-06:00

A newly-penned essay by the one who got away, in today's USA Toady [no sic there]...

Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer's book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'. (Full disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a foreign policy adviser.)

From sweetheart land deals to initial public offering (IPO) stock gifts to insider trading with non-public government information, the methods of unethical wealth accumulation for our permanent political class are endless. The reaction from the Beltway establishment to the revelations concerning insider trading among members of Congress was predictable. First they denied it, then they dismissed the problem as much ado about nothing. Some said there was no need for new laws or action because the Securities and Exchange Commission could prosecute members of Congress under existing laws against insider trading.

But under current law, there is no way the SEC will ever go after a powerful congressman or senator. The SEC never has, even though insider trading prohibitions have existed since the 1930s. Here's why: Congress sets the SEC's budget, and senators approve the head of the SEC. Congress uses its power of the purse strings to threaten federal agencies that get in their way.

For example, in 2006 the FBI got a search warrant from a federal judge to comb former congressman William Jefferson office. The FBI already had evidence that Jefferson was taking bribes. Congress was furious that the FBI would dare search a fellow member's office. Members claimed the search was unconstitutional. They even threatened to cut the Justice Department's budget in retaliation. All this despite the fact that 86% of Americans supported the FBI raid. ...

Our permanent political class relies on an apathetic and uninformed public to get away with this stuff. But if there is one issue that unites Americans across the political spectrum, it's absolute disgust with the corruption of our elected leaders. Congress and the White House need to earn the American people's trust again. We the people are not going to give up until we get the sudden and relentless reform we deserve or, as the book says, "we throw them all out" in 2012.

It'd be nice to 'throw them all out', and start with a fresh lot of eventual crooks. But, I'm thinking there's no good way to be rid ourselves of our corrupt political class.

Throw Them All Out: Amazon

Few, if any, are worth keeping.

Al Sharpton ...Speaks

2011-12-12T08:39:00.000-06:00

I swear, this IS REALLY AL SHARPTON~! No, REALLY!

SCOTUS vs. ObamaCare: Proof that Kagan must recuse herself.

2011-12-10T11:20:00.000-06:00

Posted on CNS News...

Internal DOJ Email: Kagan Was Brought Into Loop on Mark Levin’s Obamacare Complaint
CNSNews.com) - Internal Justice Department email communications made just days before the House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act show that then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan was brought into the loop as DOJ began preparing to respond to an anticipated legal complaint that Mark Levin and the Landmark Legal Foundation were planning to file against the act if the House used a procedural rule to “deem” the bill passed even if members never directly voted on it.

In another internal DOJ email communication that same week, Kagan alerted the chief of DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel to the constitutional argument that a former U.S. Appeals Court judge was making against the use of this rule.
Then, during Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation process four months later, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked her in writing if she had “ever been asked about your opinion” or “offered any view or comments” on the “the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any proposed health care legislation, including but not limited to Pub. L. No. 111-148 [PPACA], or the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to potential litigation resulting from such legislation?"

Kagan answered both questions: “No.”

An ObamaCare cheerleader who is also a liar.

See what happens to the Supreme Court when we elect a dirty socialist? We get these dirty rats what come along for the ride, too.

Occupiers are Marxists. Don't doubt that for a minute.

2011-12-10T08:54:00.004-06:00

Here you go. Livestream from Occupy San Diego. Watch past the first several minutes; the sound improves at about 6:25 and you'll get the jist of it.

occupysandiegolivefeed on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

Can't blame if you don't watch the whole thing. It's embarrassing that there are purported 'Americans' (besides Noam Chomsky) who embrace this dirty socialist ideology.

We are at ideological war with an increasingly out-of-the-closet far-Left who are now openly embracing the tenets of Marx and Engels, and pushing for the transformation of this Republic to a Democratic Socialist state.

Occupy = Marxism

Even Barack Obama came 'out of the closet' this week, at Osawatomie, Kansas; that speech should be studied by all, because Obama finally came out for Socialism, admitting that's been his ideology all along.

Just as we knew he was, all along. We had him nailed. Democrats could care less; most of them are now of the far-Left variety.

Those who aren't, let's see your push-back.

More on Barack Obama's Osawatomie Campaign Speech

2011-12-08T21:25:00.001-06:00

...because it is worth studying; a perfect window by which one can read this man's intentions.

From the WSJ...

Most press accounts of Barack Obama's speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, Tuesday described it as delivered by the "president of the United States." And indeed the person delivering it analogized himself to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton. In fact, the Osawatomie speech was not given by the President of the United States. It was given by the leader of the Democratic Party. ...

The Osawatomie speech sounded like what you'd expect to hear in Caracas or Buenos Aires. As in: "The free market has never been a license to take whatever you can from whomever you can." (Applause.) And: "Their philosophy is simple. We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules."

Some will say hearing crude Chavista populism in the Obama speech is an overreaction. That once it's understood the Kansas speech was the work of the party leader, not the president of the United States, it becomes easier to think about it without overreacting to its intense and vivid rhetoric: "Millions of working families in this country . . . are now forced to take their children to food banks for a decent meal." ...

We have in a president's place a figurehead, not a leader. This man-child is not leading America from the perspective of the Executive branch (the Executive has only a third-share of our political power); he's attempting to direct us as would a monarch. He actually believes he's single-handedly running this nation.

Not so much, Barack Hussein Obama. You've a third-share, and a short-term nearing the end. Four years and done, if we are lucky; if we are serious about keeping this Republic intact, not giving in to what's easily seen as neo-Marxism. Our country isn't set up to run on such weak sauce.

If we can't beat this ideology, we can only dig in and oppose every facet of Obama's 'leadership'. Because he is leading only those who are already gone too far-Left to be called Americans anymore, and doesn't care about the rest of us.

Obama's Osawatomie Speech: Presenting the KING of the OWWIES!

2011-12-07T08:12:00.000-06:00

Class warfare, presented on the public dime. Seems Barack Obama is reaching out to the Occupy Wall Street crowd, doesn't it? Who can deny that Barack Obama is anything but a class-warfare-indulging, community-organizing neo-Marxist looking to attract the soft, weak, compliant, expectant, fat, dumb and happy Americans who want things handed to them, and are willing to give up their freedoms to get on some form of Government dole?

This speech is an example of what we can expect from Barack Hussein Obama right up until November 2012, when hopefully he'll be kicked to the curb by real Americans. But know this: he's going to do whatever he can to attract the weak 'Americans' who expect to have things given to them. Buying votes, that's all Barack Obama and Democrats can do; he certainly can't run on his miserable record, can he?

Click to enlarge.

Full text; wordled.

This man, and his Party, disgusts me.

Misuse of a Cutting Edge 6: Stupidish Shiite Muslims Celebrate Ashura

2011-12-06T22:12:00.000-06:00

A young Indian Shiite Muslim cries as an elder makes a cut on his forehead with a knife during a procession to mark Ashura in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, observed around the world in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed. (AP Photo)

Christians do this too...

Right?

Occupy Wall Street now wants to co-opt Christian and other religions

2011-12-06T20:50:00.000-06:00

Now, the Occupy Wall Street crowd is attempting to seize Church property to 'occupy' (read: turn into the same stinking, dirty, drug-infested commune-like encampments that've been dislodged from Zuccotti Park and from other city's centers). Their appeal is to claim 'Jesus would OCCUPY'. Really? I think not.

Sorry, Owwies, but the Left has never been friendly to religions or to Christ. You, the Occupy Wall Street movement, represent the ideology of Marx and Lenin in sheep drag. Did you know that Lenin's pet term for his own crowd of Dirty Socialists was 'bolsheviki'? That means in Russian 'majority'; like the Owwie's '99%'. And it too was a lie.

Lenin's (and later, Stalin's) 'majority' '99%' bolsheviki killed millions in an effort to make Communism work. Guess what? It didn't, it won't, it can't, so stop trying to make it work. Especially in America.

I don't think Christ ever said to Rome (to Government) that it should feed the poor. He did command His people to feed the poor. But Government redistribution is not a Christian formulation.

You lazy neo-Marxists Owwies should be more concerned with cutting back Federal Government growth and regulations so's our American! free market system can rebound; then, if you've prepared yourselves correctly (spent your education dollars on learning things employers want to pay you to do, maybe some nice technical training and applied math skills instead of worthless your sophomoric 'humanities' and 'social justice' degrees) you can become worthwhile members of society, instead of being simpleton dregs begging for reparations and handouts in tent communes.

Your societal worth is little, and that's your fault, not ours.

"An Open Message to Police and Military"

2011-12-06T08:34:00.000-06:00

The police, the military and other government force-workers need to realize that the ideological chasm between Left and Right is such that making a 'choice' between the two is necessary. You'll have to choose between supporting our Constitution, or following orders from superiors that fly in the face of your oaths. Sometimes the Rule of Law can be twisted to become the Rule of Evil. You'll have to know where's that line, and hold to high principles.

The 'Occupy' movement is far-Left, and is desirous of Communism; that's against all the principles that gave us this Republic. Owwies just don't realize what it is they are trying to unleash; if our economic system fails, we will not rebound from that collapse. There will be incomprehensible violence in our streets.

Look at Egypt, Owwies: now, they are accepting the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood; another Islamic state will likely replace the previous autocrat Mubarak. 'Arab Spring' gives way to another evil empire. As will happen right here, if the Owwies get their way.

Ouch. How's our Federal Government get away with what the TSA does to people, in the name of 'national security' ?

PUT the D*CK DOWN~!

2011-12-05T07:09:00.000-06:00

Darleen posted a video just last Friday (see it there), featuring a woman who has 15 kids by 3 different 'baby daddies'. In that video she's crying, begging and pleading that 'someone needs to PAY for these kids!' (you and me, the American taxpayer, is what she has in mind).

A final comment on the dying thread by BuddyPC links an apt reply to this woman; from 1996, Chris Rock is in da HOUSE!

(The comments on that thread are hilarious!)

Adam Carolla eviscerates Occupy Wall Street participants.

2011-12-03T16:15:00.000-06:00

Adam Carolla picks up on the non-political but factual observations that Occupy Wall Street is envious, resentful, doped up, hateful, and pissed off. Their envy is boiling over, leading to their 15 minutes of infamy (including nearly 5000 arrests, several deaths from drug overdoses, rapes and molestations, and, worse than all of that, their embrace of old Marxist ideology). Adam points out that these children of kids are remarkably spoiled and expectant; I'll add that they are ideologically far-Left, approaching Communistic.

This video-rant brought a much-needed smile to my stone face. Observe that there is a 'Content Warning' (AKA 'trigger alert') for strong language that'll make your poor old mother blush. Or should, if you were raised halfway decently.

h/t Conservative Commune (yeah, I know, 'Commune' has those subliminal hippie connotations...but all the good blog names are already taken~!

It's 'Take a Bite Out of Something' Friday.

2011-12-02T21:32:00.000-06:00

Why? because it's been a long, arduous week.

Heh.

Timothy Egan on Gun Control

2011-12-02T05:38:00.000-06:00

The problem with your stance, Mr. Egan, is reflected in the very title of your article; your use of your far-Left qualifier 'Gun Nuts'. You hate us.

Reading your piece carefully, it seems to me to drip with barely concealed hostility to the notion of gun ownership. We of the NRA know that the Democratic Party is hostile to the public ownership of firearms. Gun Control is as fundamental a Democratic Party Plank as Abortion and Atheism. Democrats are fundamentally enemies of the 2nd Amendment. Look to where they've long-term roots, in overpopulated cities and states: NYC, Chicago, LA, Washington DC; all of these places are hostile to our rights to gun ownership. It's a well-known Democratic (and United Nations) political plank.

Mr. Obama's potential to damage the 2nd Amendment is as vast as any far-Left Democrat's; and recall his promise to 'fundamentally CHANGE this country'. We simply cannot afford him any trust.

As a member of the Left wing, you can point to many issues that you wish Mr. Obama had pushed farther Left; gun control being one of them. If we see Mr. Obama re-elected in 2012, unfettered with worries of re-election, then we will definitely see his far-Left anti-gun (and other far-Left) agendas in full bloom. We, the defenders of things Constitutional, cannot but continue to challenge him and other far-Left Democrats.

Oh, and please, never mention 'hunting' in the same article as 'gun rights'. The 2nd Amendment has absolutely *nothing* to do with hunting.

A group of Occupy Wall Street affiliated losers protest Rush Limbaugh's NYC Town Hall Theater appearance

2011-11-30T19:21:00.001-06:00

If their mommas had known what utter failures these Owwies would turn out to be, they might've freed them from the teat earlier and spent more time educating them with morals and values and inculcating some self-sufficiency.

Instead we see a group of life's losers, still looking for that lost teat, with nothing better to do with their time than spout LeftLibProgg rhetoric on a cold city street.

Have I mentioned lately that Occupy Wall Street = Marxism ? There's no ideological difference between your ordinary Owwie and a card-carrying Marxist. None whatsoever.

h/t Daily Rushbo

Occupy LA and Occupy Philadelphia doused.

2011-11-30T08:44:00.000-06:00

Los Angeles finally cleaned up their Occupy park, where it was said that HazMat crews had to remove 'bio hazards' (AKA human shit). Over 200 OccuTards were arrested, including some who occupied trees. Likewise, Philadelphia.

In LA, Tear Gas was Available, but Not Used
Twitpic

Los Angeles Tree Occutard Cherry-Picked and Arrested

That arrest record will look good on these punk's resumes, eh? But wait, these sorts don't want to work. They just want to be provided for, to be given thing taken away from the collective, mostly the Evil Rich.

Oh, remember the Occupy UC Davis protest, and the pepper spraying heard 'round the world? Seems there's a video that's emerged that gives context to that spraying.

The First Amendment does not protect one from the Rule of Law. These kids were told to move; they didn't. Crowd control was applied, then they were removed.

No problem AFAIC.

William: You do NOT own 'I Own the World' !

2011-11-28T07:33:00.000-06:00

Damn, but now you're embarrassing MTSU once again!

Buddy, you needs get your medications adjusted. Or find a doc who'll give you the good stuff.

See, all this time you've spent crapping around annoying your betters on blogs, you could've composed the next huge guitar concerto solo that would've wowed! the world! Instead, you've annoyed Big Fur Hat, you've been pwned at IOTW, and for what reason?

You can't stay up all night trying to make others believe the way you believe. You don't have enough necessary mental capacity to change any thinking minds. You play well to your paella arugula hangers-on, but that's it.

So pick up a guitar pick and do what you do best: pick with the damned thing. Your cat will appreciate it, if no one else will!

Look at this.

2011-11-27T22:09:00.000-06:00

From RS McCain, a new video coming out next week in Iowa imploring Sarah Palin to reconsider and enter the 2012 nomination race...

Brings a slight half-smile to my otherwise stone face.

RUN SARAH RUN SAVE CHRISTMAS~!