Notes from the week of 10JUN13

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so anyway, let's dispense with the formalities and light this candle:

On Monday, our favorite Democrat strategist / pollster Pat Caddell had an interesting post up over at Breitbart's Big Government.  His intro reads as follows:

"The sordid revelations from the Obama administration are coming at a pace that can only be described as, well, fast and furious. So let’s lay down some markers here, as a sort of road map for the months and years ahead:" 

And he proceeds to do so.  The whole thing, it must be read.

Also on Monday, Senator Rand Paul had a most excellent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal:

"What is objectionable is a system in which government has unlimited and privileged access to the details of our private affairs, and citizens are simply supposed to trust that there won’t be any abuse of power. This is an absurd expectation. Americans should trust the National Security Agency as much as they do the IRS and Justice Department."

Again, read the whole thing.  I actually posted on the two pieces mentioned above here.  But you knew that, already.

On Tuesday, I had a link from Stephen "VodkaPundit" Green that I did not have the opportunity to blog.  Pity, that.  The link was to trollthensa.com/, whose plan was to have everyone e-mail or call using this script:

"     Hey! How’s it going? I’m all right.
    My job is so shitty I wish I could overthrow my boss. It’s like this oppressive regime where only true believers in his management techniques will stay around. I work marathon-length hours and he’s made all these changes that have made it the worst architecture firm to work at in Manhattan. Like he moved the office to the Financial District and fired my assistant. She was the only one who knew where the blueprints were! I need access to those blueprints to complete my job! F my life, right? And he keeps trying to start all these new initiatives to boost revenue, but seriously we just need to stick to what we do best. There’s only one true profit center. I seriously feel ready to go on strike at any second.
    I just read this article about how these free radical particles can cause the downfall of good health and accelerate aging. These could actually cause death to millions of Americans. If these particles are flying around undetected everywhere, does that mean we’re all radicalized?
    Have you seen the second season of Breaking Bad? I just finished it. I couldn’t believe that episode where they poison the guy with ricin! That was the bomb! I won’t say any more because I don’t want to reveal the earth-shattering events to come.
    Oh! So I’ve been planning a big trip for the summer. I’m thinking of visiting all of the most famous suspension bridges in the United States. So probably like the Golden Gate Bridge, The Brooklyn Bridge, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. I’m gonna bring my younger brother and I know he’ll want to go to bars, so I’m thinking of getting him a fake drivers license, but I hope that doesn’t blow up in my face.
    Okay, I gotta run! I’m late for flight school. I missed the last class where we learn how to land, so I really can’t miss another one. Talk to you later!"

So, yeah, now I'm on just about every list I wasn't on before for posting that.  Serious you guys, I gots nothing left to lose...Molan Labe

On Wednesday, Ace had the goods on some shit-bag prog-tard (BIRM) trying to lie his way onto the Zimmerman jury.  I posted on it here.

http://www.rampantinjustice.com/  I saw this earlier in the week, but didn't watch it until Friday night.  It will piss you off; I recommend removing all breakable items from you immediate vicinity before watching.

Goldstein:

"Here it is in plain, clear English: The ruling class plan to defeat the TEA Party and the small-government base of the Republican Party is to import enough new progressive voters to offset the influence of we, the people. Whose only function will be to subsidize the people and programs that insure our own subjugation to the State."

We were 'sposed to get a big reveal from Glenn Beck by the end of the week, but it didn't happen. 

DO NOT click on this link to the NSA PRISM Profile Server

Ragin' Dave has a solution to the Guest Worker situation.

Bob Owens channels his inner Led Zeppelin with When The Levee Breaks in which he revisits What You'll See in the Rebellion:

"After a number of carefully-planned, highly-publicized, and successful raids by the government, one or more will invariably end “badly.” Whether innocents are gunned down, a city block is burned to ash, or especially fierce resistance leads to a disastrously failed raid doesn’t particularly matter. What matters is that when illusion of the government’s invincibility and infallibility is broken, the hunters will become the hunted. "

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Saturday Night Video

here's one you probably haven't heard in years...

so anyway, tonight's vid is from Badfinger, the band that kind of invented the "power pop" genre in the early 1970's.  Despite the fact that this song is ≈ 43 years old, it still holds up:

I'm sure I'll be posting more Badfinger vids in the future; they had around a half dozen songs that made the charts in a serious way.  Plus, any band that named one of their albums Ass deserves extra attention.
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It's going to be a long day

FML

so anyway, we usually have some music playing around the office on Fridays.  Between my boss and I, I think we have every song ever recorded prior to around 1987.  Fridays are usually a rockin' good time.

Usually.

I get to the office this morning and was greeted by horrific screeching coming from the purchasing clerks cube.  A brief conversation ensued:

Me: What exactly is that?

Purchasing Clerk: Celine Dion's Greatest Hits

Me: That's unpossible

I've never been an advocate for people wearing headphones in the office, but today I'll make an exception.

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Breaking News? *****Updated*****

maybe...

so anyway, surfin' around the inter-web net-tubes at lunch, there's quite a buzz over something that Glenn Beck is going to reveal as early as today.  From all the chatter, it sounds like Beck thinks he can prove that TFG blackmailed SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts to rule in favor of Obamacare.

Or, as I call it: BOHICA.

Details on this reveal can be found at Conservative Daily News,or over at The Blaze (duh).

We shall see.

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*****Update***** I stand corrected.  As of 4:15 PM Eastern today, there is no mention of this on The Blaze.  Stay tuned

Zombie Apocalypse Count-Down Update

to steal a line from doubleplusundead: Best End of Civilization EVAH...

so anyway, Ace links out to thenewsjunkie's exclusive on some dirt-bag prod-tard trying to lie his way onto the Zimmerman jury.  For JUSTICE.  Zimmerman's Law team caught him; he will not be a juror in the Zimmerman case.

In case you're wondering about the post title and my use of doubleplusundead's famous line: I believe the Zimmerman acquittal will be the event that sparks the coming zombie apocalypse.

How much ammo do you have?  It's probably not enough...

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ps.  new label added

Two for Tuesday

things you need to read...

so anyway, today yielded two "must read" pieces, presented here for your convenience.

First, Pat Caddell, over at Breitbart's Big Government:

"The sordid revelations from the Obama administration are coming at a pace that can only be described as, well, fast and furious. So let’s lay down some markers here, as a sort of road map for the months and years ahead:"

He's just getting started.

Second, Rand Paul has an excellent op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal:

"What is objectionable is a system in which government has unlimited and privileged access to the details of our private affairs, and citizens are simply supposed to trust that there won’t be any abuse of power. This is an absurd expectation. Americans should trust the National Security Agency as much as they do the IRS and Justice Department."

The irony...it burnz

Read the whole things

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Notes from the week of 03JUN13

It was an odd week...

so anyway, the pickins' are slim this week.  I still haven't found an adequate work-around for not having DropBox on my work tube, and have had to resort to e-mailing the file to myself.  I'm a little less keen on using DropBox, as it has been speculated on the inter-web net-tubes that it is a prime target for this NSA surveillance we've heard so much about this week.  I'm in deep shit when they survey my DropBox, 'cause 90% of what I have in the "cloud" rips on prog-tards in general and TFG in specific.  And why is there a helicopter hovering over Casa de Miguel?

When you're abducted by aliens (or gastroenterologist) first thing on a Monday morning, you're in for a weird week.  I'd tell the story, but Dave Barry told it much better years ago.  And it's not 17,000 feet long; it's 1.8 meters (approx. 5.9 feet) long.  If you're 50 or older, just do it.  It's the best ½ hour nap you've ever had.

So, on to the show.  As it turns out, we're "video heavy" this week, so I'm putting it below the fold:
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Saturday Night Video

and a programming note....

so anyway, tonight's video is from the Eagles, who were quite possibly the hugest band of the 1970's.  This is from their second album Desperato (1973), buried on the second side, and I'm sure it received zero point nothing worth of radio air-time at the time.  This has been one of my favorite songs for over thirty years.
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Encouraging Progress

the "feel good" story of the day...

so anyway, Doubleplusundead (actual) has graphic evidence that our efforts to teach English to Afghan children is paying off.  A picture being worth a thousand words, click through to see the proof.

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Notes from the week of 27MAY13

It's a bit disjointed...

so anyway, my employer handed me a shiny new laptop (exactly like the one I had before, only newer) on Thursday morning and put the kibosh on the use of Dropbox.  I has a sad.

So my practice of keeping a Notepad file in the cloud and working off that regardless of which 'puter I'm on is in a state of flux.  I'm trying to find a way to hack my way into admin rights (in a way that won't get me fired) so I can add Dropbox, Skype, and the all-important Lego Digital Designer (teh bestest time-suck evah!)

So this is a bit disjointed.  So disjointed, that, although the time stamp says Sunday, I'm actually finally getting this posted on Wednesday evening.  Because: Reasons.  Anyhoo, let's light this candle....

27MAY13

For whatever reason, Supply Side Politics 2.0 is getting traffic from the IPS "China Mobile Peoples Telephone Company Limited".  Which is cool, I guess.  And kind of odd.

Soopermexican has an advance copy of the *spit* income tax *spit* return form that conservatives will have to file for the 2013 tax year.

Billy Hollis of Q and O fame posts an open letter to the Washington Post:  Hey, Washington Post. I got yer questions, right here.

Bill Whittle's Afterburner: Real People

Ted Cruz delivers the Commencement Address at Hillsdale College:
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Saturday Night Video

A particular "ear-worm" from my past...

so anyway, this was the shiz-nit in 1978:
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Imagine my surprise

upon seeing this...

so anyway, I checked the Sitemeter for Supply Side Politics 2.0 during lunch and what do I see:

The current Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate is one Terrance "Terry" W. Gainer.  He has held the position since 04JAN07.  He originally hails from...wait for it...Chicago.

Sgt. Gainer was googling the words "Ted Cruz" for some reason when he found my humble blog.

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Ted Cruz

TED CRUZ!!!!

so anyway, via Doug Ross we find Ted Cruz delivering the Commencement address at Hillsdale College:
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Real People

Bill Whittle's Afterburner...

so anyway, this:
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A new feature (Updated)

Let's give this a try...

so anyway, tonight will be the inaugural run of my weekly "link dump".  Here's what I'm talkin' 'bout:  as I go through the week, I keep a Notepad file up on Dropbox (try it...it'll change your life) where I park links, headlines, quotations, snippets of text cut and pasted from the inter-web net-tubes, etc.  Things I want to look up later, or maybe turn into a blog post here at Supply Side Politics 2.0.  Some weeks, there are several dozen links and other items that never see the light of day again.  So, my plan is to dump that file here on Sunday evenings "InstaPundit"-style, just the link or item, and if I can remember why I had captured it in the first place.  Tonight, for the series debut, I'm dumping the contents from my Notepad files for the weeks starting 13MAY13 and 20MAY13.  So without further adieu, let's light this candle:

20MAY13

TFG's scandals, laid out in bracket form ¶

Dana Loesch, prior to Tuesday's TEA Party protests at IRS offices (I actually posted on this one.)

"If the thought that a protest would distract from a winning narrative then we shouldn’t have had the health care protests at all. Protests drive attention to the issue being protested. In this case, it’s the IRS and big government. Entre caveat: I don’t want to see a single sign about Obama. I don’t want to see a single sign about Biden. Or FLOTUS. Or vacations. Or anything other than the overreaching power of big government. No signs on anything other than this malicious and criminal behavior was perpetuated by a government too big to be held accountable. It was carried out behind a veil of purposeful complexity."
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My post about Trigger Talk Radio, that I pitched for the AoSHQ Gun Thread (they declined to include it, but there's always next week)¶

"Why limit yourself to a 5-watt CB? You can get ham radio transmitters with up to 1000 watts power. Combine that with a good antenna, and you have transcontinental or ocean-spanning comms ability. And there is no longer a Morse Code requirement to get a ham license, so it's possible to do for even someone casually interested in radio. You do have to write a technical exam, but one does not have to be any kind of electronics geek to pass it, and there are plenty of study guides for it. Think of the exam as being somewhere on the high-school level of understanding electronics.Posted by: zombie Clara Petacci at May 22, 2013 01:24 AM"

From a conversation on the ONT where I had suggested that we should all get CB radios, 'cause THEY can shut down the inter-web net-tube and all the cell phones...¶

James Lileks' flickr feed.  There are pictures of Jasper.  Who'd have thunk it?¶

http://www.startrekcomics.info/parodies.html Not sure where this came from, but I remember being disappointed¶

Trey Gowdy, from Wednesday.  I posted this before, but it never gets old....
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Saturday Night Video (Updated)

stealing a page from Stephen "VodkaPundit" Green....

So anyway, I just discovered End of the Line by Traveling Wilburys a few weeks ago and it's rapidly becoming one of my all time favorite songs:
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Best part of today's IRS hearing

Trey Gowdy....

so anyway, ICYMI, Trey Gowdy was the first to object to Lerner being dismissed by Issa.  By the end of the hearing, Gowdy's position held; Lerner will be called back to testify tomorrow.

Issa dismissed Lerner, Gowdy objected.  Lerner left the chamber.  Gowdy sat and fumed for the better part of three hours, then it was his turn to question the witnesses:

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Protest Time

today is the day...it's long overdue

so anyway, via Doug Ross we see this:

Over at Red State, Dana Loesch (who's been to a protest or three over the years) has some guidelines:

"... Protests drive attention to the issue being protested. In this case, it’s the IRS and big government. Entre caveat: I don’t want to see a single sign about Obama. I don’t want to see a single sign about Biden. Or FLOTUS. Or vacations. Or anything other than the overreaching power of big government. No signs on anything other than this malicious and criminal behavior was perpetuated by a government too big to be held accountable."

Glenn Reynolds adds another important caveat:  watch out for infiltrators.

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2A on the AM

Radio, that is....

so anyway, this may come as a surprise to you, but there's actually a conservative radio station in The Peoples' Republik of AnnArbor.  It's true!  WAAMTalk1600 broadcasts from the belly of the Beast and gennerally operates as a thorn in the side of the progtards, libtards, and University of Michigan professors (BIRM).

To further annoy the bleeding-hearts, WAAM recently added a program called Trigger Talk Radio to their Saturday morning line-up.  The show is on from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern every Saturday, and podcasts are available of past shows.

You can read the bio of the host, Dick Cupka, here.

WAAMTalk1600 has a "Listen Live" link at the top of their homepage (as Glenn would say "We'll it is the 21st century, after all") so you can listen from anywhere you have inter-web net-tube access.

The show is always interesting, and I learn something new each week.  The 04MAY13 show was particularly interesting, as the discussion was about the usefulness of putting you guns into a "Gun Trust", mainly for transfer to your heirs, but there are other reasons to do this as well. The next time your Doctor (who, if you like him, you can keep him...) asks the ACA-mandated "Do you have any firearms in your household?", you can look him in the eye and say "I do not own any guns" without perjuring yourself.

Give it a listen on Saturday morning.

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Quote of The Day

spot on...

so anyway, this was posted to Facespace today:

"Some of us warned America; we cautioned voters in 2008 that a community organizer with no executive experience and no sense of accountability would be a very poor choice for the nation’s top management position." - Sarah Palin

You can read the whole thins over at The Right Scoop.

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Rant of The Day

Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA)

so anyway, what this guy said:
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Justified Righteous Indignation

Cold Fury has got the goods

so anyway, I meant to post this of Saturday, but I was unavoidably detained.  Mark Steyn's column on Saturday was on The Benghazi Lie, in which he posits "A failure of character of this magnitude corrodes the integrity of the state."  Which set Mike Hendrix of Cold Fury fame right off:

"Really?

The State that rammed Obamacare straight up the ass of its subjects against their will, clearly expressed in the 2010 anti-Ogabe landslide?

The State that jails dissident film makers for clumsily insulting the not-quite-official-yet State religion?...

The State even now engaging in a coverup of its obvious malfeasance in show hearings on an act of war resulting in the murder of an ambassador, hearings that will result in nothing of any real note or worth?"

Mike does righteous indignation with the best of 'em, and he's spot on here.  Read the whole thing.  While you're at it, read his post on the brewing dust-up on TFG using the IRS to target Tea Party groups.

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Benghazi is coming home to roost...

I found this lurking in the "Draft" folder and cannot find my supporting notes.  Written on 05MAY13, it's kinda old news, but important, still. 

My original sub-head was "To quote Flounder: "This is going to be great!"..."

so anyway, the Benghazi shit just got real over the past 54-ish hours.  Friday afternoon, Stephen F. Hayes of The Weekly Standard fame drops dime. 

"Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom."

See also:

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

An ongoing Congressional investigation across five House Committees concerning 

the events surrounding the September 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in 

Benghazi, Libya has made several determinations to date, including:

• Reductions of security levels prior to the attacks in Benghazi were approved at the highest levels of the State Department, up to and including Secretary Clinton. This fact contradicts her testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on January 23, 2013.
• In the days following the attacks, White House and senior State Department officials altered accurate talking points drafted by the Intelligence Community in order to protect the State Department.
• Contrary to Administration rhetoric, the talking points were not edited to protect classified information. Concern for classified information is never mentioned in email traffic among senior Administration officials.

These preliminary findings illustrate the need for continued examination and 

oversight by the five House Committees. The Committees will continue to review who 

exactly was responsible for the failure to respond to the repeated requests for more 

security and for the effort to cover up the nature of the attacks, so that appropriate officials 

will be held accountable.

Read the whole Hayes thing.  He lays it out, chapter and verse.  I'll find the link to the "Executive Summary" and will update accordingly.

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Benghazi (again)

this theme will continue until further notice...

so anyway, this little gem was produced by the RNC but not released.  Because: Stoopid Party, that's why
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Random Thoughts and things you should read about Benghazi

and some off-standard content...

so anyway, I managed to catch about an hour of the Benghazi hearings yesterday, and have been reading the inter-web net-tubes, as is my habit.  A couple of things caught my eye:

Polliwog ends her hiatus with a parable.  I've heard of something like this, but I just can't place it...

Ragin' Dave has absolutely no doubts about Benghazi.  I'm in the same camp.

Your first destination for anything involving the State Department, sorry, The Department of State should be Consul-at-Arms.  He has an "outsider's insider's view"  (as in: he's a Department of State Foreign Service Officer, so he knows how things are 'sposed to work; but he's outside the Benghazi loop):

"The Benghazi story certainly seems to have heated-up again this week, with three “whistle-blowers” reportedly coming forward to testify before Congress.

CAA has a few thoughts and observations, but first the caveats and digressions..."

Finally, Jeff Goldstein has had enough:

They sicken me in a way I cannot even put into words — and that’s saying something, given my occasionally-documented facility with the language.  These people are monsters of a sort, but even that appellation can do their rank cynicism and their easy disregard for conscience no real justice.

Read the whole thing(s)

In other "off-standard" news, I had an interview this afternoon that went very well, after which I went to the range and proceeded to shoot like a spastic retarded monkey on crack.  So I'm not posting any targets anytime soon.

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