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Juan Valdez is made of Astroturf!

So basically, there’s this “center-left” Coffee Party now because nothing really captures the spirit of democracy and liberty like … coffee.

Coffee?

Tea was important to the colonists. Remember, they weren’t Americans, they were British back then. And the Brits loved their tea.

Not only that, but drinking water wasn’t exactly safe in the colonists time. So what did they do? Boil the water. How do you make boiled water taste delightful?

With a half-caf mocha latte, of course!

Uhh. Or with Tea. The colonists loved their tea because it was part of their culture and it made their water palatable. So when the tax was raised, the representation non-existent, and the colonists fed up, they took action.

In a magnificent act of disobedience, they disguised themselves as Native Americans (ie: injuns), and threw the stuff into the harbor.

So what do lefties do when they want to come out and say, “We love freedom too, you know!?”

They associate their “grassroots” movement with … this guy:

Some dude with a jackass is the image you’re conjuring up with your “movement”. Wow. Really thought this one through, didn’t you?

The Coffee Party makes no sense. It’s just an effort to gain attention, cry out, “We can do that TOO!” like some juvenile playground contest. Community organizers everywhere have realized that they’ve been outdone by a genuine movement, so overnight they create a nice-looking website and two seemingly professionally-produced videos ranting about … uhhh … the fact that they’re not the tea party. And they want to stop obstructionism! Because, you know … there’s been so much of that with the 60 vote majority and all. And … uhhh … they’re not the tea party! They’re, nicer.

You know who they remind me of? These guys. And I fully expect them to join those fakers on the dirtpile of Astroturf FAIL in short order.

David Uncategorized

Dude!

Dude.

That right there is some government healthcare pwnage, dawg! Check out the look on Obama’s face as facts fly into his ears from across the room.

I LIKE this guy!

David Political Garbage

Exactly.

“If we’re unable to resolve differences over health care, we will need to move ahead on decisions,” he said, alluding to using reconciliation, a controversial maneuver that prevents a GOP filibuster by requiring only 51 votes to pass legislation.

Obama added that if voters are unhappy with results, then “that’s what elections are for.”

Of course the big problem here is that it’s a scorched earth policy. Sure, voters can be unhappy, but it’ll be too late to change the results. I’m becoming more convinced daily that our current President wouldn’t care if he got booted out of office the day after .gov healthcare passed … as long as it passed.

It’s turned into the only issue that matters for him. It’s been made such a priority that stepping back is failure. Anything else he passes will be compared to it, and if it never passes – regardless of anything else he accomplishes as President, he’ll be a failure because his entire reputation and a whole year of his time in office was devoted and dedicated to socialized medicine.

I don’t know about you folks, but I can’t WAIT until November …

David Political Garbage

Sailorcurt has an awesome post up about the VPC. Here’s a snip of what really stands out for me:

The information described in the following pages is based on a compilation derived from multiple searches using a variety of terms (“assault weapons” and “assault rifles,” for example) of reports published in U.S. news media and included in the commercial database Nexis between March 1, 2005 and February 28, 2007.

Okay. The media. Many of whom are likely unable to differentiate which one is correct – 22 millimeter or 22 cal.

So the media goes on a PSH frenzy using the terms “assault weapon” to describe whatever weapon happens to be found during a crime. The VPC searches for the term, finds it, and says, “ZOMG! Assault weapon ‘incidents’ are on the rise!” At which point the media, in bed with the VPC anyway, says, “VPC says ASSAULT WEAPON incidents on the rise!” To which the VPC says, “ASSAULT WEAPON incidents on the rise!”

Lather.

Rinse.

Repeat.

It would be funny. But it’s not.

David Scumbags

Here I am, week 7 of a horrible battle with sciatica.

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing sciatica, I can tell you first-hand that it is pain unlike any other you have ever experienced in your life. Imagine someone repeatedly stabbing the back of your leg right behind your knee with a BBQ fork.

Every day.

All day.

Even when you’re trying to sleep.

I was actually winning this battle a week ago. Feeling good, getting some exercise in. Yes, there was still pain, but it wasn’t unmanageable. I was icing my back once or twice a day, not taking any ibuprofen anymore, and generally able to be up and around. Then … something happened. I don’t know what. It wasn’t a moment you could point to like, “I tried to lift a big heavy box.”

Last Saturday evening it just … hit. Hard. When your sciatic nerve is getting mashed up somewhere at the base of your spine and inside of your hips, it’s hard to sit down. But I could still walk – albeit slowly – with minimal pain. Lie flat? Feels okay.

So Monday AM I head to the chiropractor for an “adjustment” which basically means, “I’m going to contort your body into unnatural positions until it cracks or you scream.”

By Monday afternoon the pain was 10X worse. Since then (today is Thursday), I’ve been able to do nothing but lie on the floor. Generally on my stomach but just to shake things up once in awhile I’ll flip over and feel some pain.

I eat while laying on the floor. I sleep while laying on the floor. I work as much as I can while laying on the floor. There is no other position. I’m unable to sit, put on socks, or walk from one end of my house to the other without collapsing from the pain. Thank goodness for a great woman, my wife has been patient and taking very good care of me, but that’s unfortunately small consolation when something so simple as taking a crap becomes an epic test of your pain tolerance (see “unable to sit down” above).

Hell will freeze, pigs will fly, and Bush will be re-elected in 2012 with every electoral vote that exists before I make another trip to the chiropractor.

Instead, this has all the markings of a do-it-yourself recovery. I ordered an inversion table from Amazon and I’m hoping that a great deal of time with that medieval torture device (see “the rack” for a similarly functioning home-therapy appliance) combined with continued rest and ice will get me on the road to recovery quickly. Or at least have me able to put on my own pants within the next two weeks.

It had better.

David Me

ONLY here at Fighting For Liberty can you get a sneak peek at Dr. Rajendra Pachauri’s novel, “Return to AlGora“. The BBC calls it “frankly smutty”. Crank up those air conditioners, because the good climate Doc is going to get you hot …

After twelve brutal hours of shredding every last page of useless research data, Sanjay collapsed in his office chair. The weight of the world seemed momentarily lifted from his shoulders and he nearly slipped into unconsciousness when she appeared in the broad opening of the doorway.

And what a broad opening she was. Her statuesque silhouette darkened the doorway and Sanjay snapped to attention with a curious gaze. He first noticed her heaving breasts, smooth and pure as dual mounds of fresh, powdery snow – a sure sign they were fake, just the way he preferred. Her hips curved like charted temperature data and her eyes settled on him with an icy stare.

“Are you … Sanjay,” she asked, her sultry voice melting him like a polar ice cap. If this woman was global warming, Sanjay would gladly burn.

“I am,” he replied, “Miss?”

“Just call me Kyoto,” she replied as she moved toward him, sitting on his desk. The sun-kissed skin of her legs shimmering by the pale light of a CFL bulb.

Sanjay felt his temperature rising. He knew the mere presence of this woman in his office would set him on an unsustainable path.

She continued, “A little bird told me that if I needed to get my hands on some data that you’d be just the … ” she paused, looking down at his desk and stroking her finger along her knee, “Mann?”

Sanjay stood up and walked around his desk, his body mere inches from Kyoto, “That depends,” he said, “on whether you like it cold or … hot?”

Kyoto smiled, pressing her voluptuous bosom against his chest and replying with a sultry whisper, “Oh … I like it hot. Very hot.”

Sanjay could take the teasing no longer. Surely this woman was global warming incarnate. If he were a polar bear, he’d have vaporized by now. He was still willing to play the game, however, “You must know then that I have ways of making it as hot as you can stand it.”

Kyoto turned, pressing her hips against his and her lips to his ear as she whispered, “My, my Doctor. Is that a hockey stick in your pants or are you just happy to see me?”

Sanjay closed his eyes, “It would appear that the temperature isn’t the only thing rising,” he smiled, “I’d like to show you a … nature trick.”

Kyoto’s hand stroked the side of his face as she lay on his desk, pulling him with her, “Take me,” she told him breathlessly, “Take me and … hide your decline!”

Well, I don’t know about you folks but I’ll sure be rushing over to Amazon to pick up my copy!

David ZOMG WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!11!one!

When I’m not laid up with the worst bout of sciatica known to human-kind, I’m a pretty active guy. I like workouts, heading to karate and doing the whole grappling/jiu-jitsu/sparring thing.

I’m also fortunately very driven by music. Always have been, from my first guitar and aspirations of being Eddie Van Halen, to getting reprimanded in high school for continually playing Smoke on the Water on my cello (and yeah, it sounds as awesome as you imagine), to piano, bass, drumming, etc. Music affects my mood.

So when I’m heading to karate class, I generally have some form of loud and aggressive music playing. It pumps me up. Makes me want to physically wreck someone. Oh … right. That’s a good thing! Not a bad thing.

Anyway.

Hsoi linked up a video from a band called Overkill.

Overkill have been around since the early ’80s. So these guys aren’t exactly young. That being said, I’ve NEVER seen old people kick this much ass:

I’ve never been a real THRASH guy, but damn if that song right there hasn’t been stuck in my head since I first heard it. Yay, aggression! Plus, these guys are from Jersey, my home state, so I’ve got to support them! After all, they’re old Dads with kids, past the druggie partying days and just doing what they love to do. And doing it better than pretty much anyone in the same genre.

You go, old Overkill guys. I’m a fan.

David Musicality

Figure that out all by yourself, didja John?

Your GOP! Figuring out today what you tea-bagging domestic terrorist hillbillies knew months ago!

David Political Garbage

You’re full of crap.

Bill Bennet didn’t like Glenn Beck drawing similarities between alcoholism and the Republican Party. Glenn’s excellent quote at CPAC:

“Hello, my name is the Republican party, and I have a problem!” “I’m addicted to spending and big government.”

Exactly. Bennet goes on to marginalize his argument with one massively craptastic observation:

“Even John McCain has said again and again that “the Republican party lost its way.” These leaders …“

Yeah. No thanks. For as long as people like McCain are seen as “leaders” of the Republican party, the GOP has a problem. What does someone like McCain know about the Republican party “losing it’s way” anyway?

Bennet, you’re wrong. Beck hit the nail on the head.

David Political Garbage

Hot Air has been all over CPAC with videos, interviews, commentary, etc. etc. etc.

Ron Paul (Ron Paul? Srsly?) won the straw poll with something like 30+ percent of the vote.

While I appreciate the man’s libertarian streak, I distinctly remember him playing the “blame America” game during debates in order to somehow explain terrorism as a result of our foreign policy.

My answer to that is that Ron Paul can stick his EVOL where the sun don’t shine. I’d never vote for him.

You know who else I’m sick of? Newt. Coulter. Romney. Huckabee.

Who do I want to see more of? Breitbart (the man was on fire at CPAC), Rubio, Beck, Pence.

As long as people like Newt are considered a voice for the GOP, it’s a doomed party. People like Newt, Graham, McCain, Huckabee and Romney need to be exposed for what they are – Republican spenders who like the result of big government but find their constituents reaction to their taste for state power unpalatable. Fact of the matter is, 25 years ago, they’d be liberal Democrats.

David Political Garbage