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September 30, 2011

Killing Awlaki – was it legal?

Filed under: FYI,Random Thoughts — Tags: , , , , , , — AWG @ 4:52 pm

Anwar al-Aulaqi needed a good killing that is a fact, but was the process constitutional?

Anwar al-Aulaqi, U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda, killed in Yemen

Anwar al-Aulaqi, a radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric and one of the most influential al-Qaeda leaders wanted by the United States, was killed Friday in a CIA drone strike in northern Yemen, U.S. and Yemeni authorities said, eliminating a prominent terrorist recruiter who inspired attacks on U.S. soil.

Now hear me out… the guy needed to go, no doubt about that. However, he was still a citizen of the US, he hadn’t renounced it and it can’t be revoked without due process and he was still afforded constitutional rights like it or not – now in my opinion if you commit terrorist acts against the United States you forfeit your constitutional rights, but that’s not the law. If you commit a treasonous act you are still receive due process of a trail by jury at which time a verdict is rendered.

So the patriotic part of me says ‘yeah he is dead’ but the Constitutional Libertarian part of me say hold on a damn minute that’s a violation of the constitution and due process and is a violation of the law. Ron Paul and Gary Johnson seem to agree…

Ron Paul, Gary Johnson Among Those Not Keen on U.S. Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki

Anwar al-Awlaki is dead; and on the occasion of the deliberate targeting and killing of an American citizen by the American government, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is less than excited about the precedent that may have been set.

“The protections under the Constitution for those accused of crimes do not just apply to people we like — they apply to everyone, including a terrorist like al-Awlaki. It is a question of due process for American citizens.

The rest of Johnson’s response here.

Texas Congressman and fellow GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul made lots more headlines when he dubbed the killing of terrorist friend and inciter Awlaki (and another American citizen) an assassination. In contrast with the other potential presidents besides Johnson, Paul thought this didn’t bode well for America, saying:

“No one knows if [Awlaki] killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the ‘underwear bomber.’ But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys. I think it’s sad.”

Paul pointed out how domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh got a trial, appeals, and an execution, and said that’s what should have been done with Awlaki.

So it’s not DID Awlaki need killing, it’s a question of was it legal to do it in the manner in which it was done… if we as a nation toss out the rule of law to appease a objective then you have to ask where does it stop? What other laws can the government break to appease an objective? This time it’s killing the terrorist Awlaki next time it maybe your constitutional rights of free speech. Just because someone breaks the law doesn’t give you or the government the right to break the law to deliver justice. If Obama thinks you can just do what you need to do when ever you need to do where would it stop?

We have a constitution, it is a the law of the land and if you circumvent the law of the land to achieve a goal is that not criminal too?

Think about it.

September 29, 2011

Pass this bill or…

Filed under: Random Thoughts — Tags: , , , — AWG @ 7:42 pm

(Insert any liberal cause or bill here) …

… old people will die.
… children will go hungry.
… veteran will not get medical care.
… people will loss their homes.
… the earth will boil.
… the seas will flood the land.
… teachers will loose their jobs.
… so will firemen, police, emergency medical.
… people won’t be able to get their medicine.
… kids will not be fed at school.
… the sky will fall.
… old folks will eat cat food.
… it will rain frogs.
… roads will crumble.
… bridges will fall.
… schools will collapse.
… zombies will roam the land.
… chaos will fill the streets.
… unemployment will be out of control.
… electric bills will skyrocket.
… mothers will eat their young.
… dogs and cats will sleep together.
… hamsters and mice dancing by the pure moon light.
… aaaaggggghhhhhhhh!

So we must pass the bill so we can read it and fine out what’s in it.

It least that’s how the liberals see it. And that’s just a few and only a couple are made up… it doesn’t matter what the bill is or how bad it is the liberals will try to convince you that thing will be far, far worse without their well meaning bills and regulations…. well you see what it’s gotten us and frankly I’d rather have raining frogs.

September 27, 2011

Shut up and give more…

Filed under: Random Thoughts — Tags: , , , , — AWG @ 7:56 pm

Former Googler Asks Obama: Please Raise My Taxes!

Former early Google employee Doug Edwards had a message for President Obama today: Raise my taxes, please.

Edwards, who was employee #59 at Google and is now not working, asked the question in Mountain View, Calif. at the Town Hall event today Obama held with LinkedIn to discuss job creation.

“My question is would you please raise my taxes?” Edwards said from the audience during the question and answer period. “I would like very much for our country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants, infrastructure, job training–programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am. It kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of tax cuts that have been benefiting so much of us for so long.”

First of all I’d bet all this guys money he was a Obama plant… and he he is so damn guilty about the amount of  taxes he doesn’t pay then pay more, you don’t have to wait for the government to come get it. Go to pay.gov and give them every dime you have asshole… I’m not a millionaire but I like having them out there to spend money on my goods and services.

I’ll believe these libtard ass-clowns the day one say I sold everything and took every dime and I gave it to the government and that day will never come.

I’m sick of this phoney guilt coming from the left about how little they pay in taxes… give me a damn break what idiot whats to pay more in taxes? I’ve never bought it and I’m not buying it now.

September 26, 2011

The coming Idiocracy

Filed under: FYI,Random Thoughts — Tags: , , , , , — AWG @ 10:16 am

A August jobs report stated that ZERO jobs were created, one has to wonder how some people have a job at all…

Case in point – I do not eat a lot of fast food – not because it is not healthy for you, but because I can’t deal with the ignorant mostly youthful idiots working behind the counter and gawd help you if you try to give them correct change after they enter the dollar amount. One of my questions is not how these people got jobs, but how the hell did they graduate High School or even walk upright?

This story could be told a 10,000 times a day all over the country… say you order something that is $5.71 and you hand them a $10.00 – they punch it in and the register say your change is $4.29 – but you say ‘Hold on, I have $0.75 cents’ and you hand it to them… these poorly educated children are lost, clueless and have no idea what your change should be. I swear I’ve had them call managers over, get their phone out to use the calculator or just flat out refuse to try and figure it out. I stood at the counter saying my change is $5.04!! Often they don’t believe me because to them it is impossible to do math in your head with out the reassuring embrace of an electronic mathematician babysitter.

These are the morons we are going to leave the country too and while we have a massive debt to address how on earth are these idiots going to deal with it when they can’t make freaking change from a $10?

We never want to admit our country is in decline, every generation has thought the upcoming generation was somewhat stupid, but I’ve ask folks a generation or two ahead of me if my thoughts of the younger generation were unfounded, exaggerated or on target and most have said – nope the kids today are some of the dumbest children I’ve ever seen. Don’t get me wrong there are a few shinning lights out there but the vast majority of them at dim bulbs in a sea of dim bulbs with no hope of ever shining brightly.

And it’s not just fast food joints they are everywhere… a few weeks ago I was on the hurt of Jerry-rigging part to fix an old 8mm movie projector – I’m converting my childhood films to digital per my fathers request. Now you can’t easily buy parts for a 8mm projector anymore and on the rare occasions you do find them they are sky high. Case in point I needed new drive wheels for the sprockets – I found some online $21 a pieces… I looked at them and said ‘Oh hell no I can make those.’ As they were nothing more than a rubber wheel about a half inch in diameter.

So I go to the store explain my quest and the kid says we don’t carry parts for a 8mm projector ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen one’ he said… so I say ‘I know I’m going to make them’ – ‘You can do that?’ He replied in amazement. So there I am looking around – I check rubber sink bushings and seals, o-rings and then I see rubber vacuum line – it’s about the same diameter and the hole appears to be the right size for the spindle. So I ask for a foot of it – well the idiot kid cuts off about 9 inches and I say “That’s not a foot, not even close but since I only need about an inch of it – I’ll let it slide as it was only $0.29 a foot”

Well I take my $0.29 cent 9 inch foot of tube to the check out and go home… ta-da it works like a charm. But now the friction on the wheel is more than the worn out 50 year old belts can handle – so back to the store – same kid, some dim bulb, same clueless conversation, but this time I’m looking for O-rings to replace the belts after all that’s all they are but instead of dealing with this brain trust I find a guy about my age and tell him what I’m doing – he instantly knew what I was doing and instantly knew what parts I could use to modify them that I was replacing thus saving me the time of looking all over the store for them and explaining every step to boy wonder.

He and I engage in idle chit-chat about the lack of ability for many younger kids to think out of the box, their lacking ability in math and science and how if something doesn’t change we are doomed as a nation. Suddenly he called the empty egg over and asked him… who did you vote for? He said Obama and the older guy asked him if he thought he was doing a good job and the kid said he didn’t know I am like you don’t know? Are you going to vote for him next time? He said probably… at which time I and the other guy begin explaining to him just how badly Obama has screwed things up. he just stood there glazed over and I think a little drool came out of his mouth breather pie hole.

This is the thing this young kids today in large numbers are mind numbed robots that think “yes we can” is meaningful and pay no attention to the world beyond their finger tips. They are clueless hopey-changey lemmings incapable of independent thought, unable to preform basic math, unable to see the forest from the trees and probability qualify as low functioning.

Now I’m not saying every kid out there is a total moron, just most of them – I biasly think my kid is above average and their grades, advanced class courses and worldly views would rightfully reflect that, but it’s not just kids there are a lot of dim-bulb adults out there too. And if you are on Facebook and you saw the “Facebook is going to start charging” post a few dozen times then you know there are people that appear smart on the surface… but you scratch just a little and you find them to be clueless lemmings too – and we wonder how Obama won? What ever happened to critical thinking? It’s gone, a thing of the past…

These are the people that made Billy Mays a millionaire pitching late night garbage you just had to have.

September 24, 2011

Movie of the Week #88 – Rembrandt

Filed under: Movie of the Week — Tags: , — AWG @ 9:52 am

Rembrandt

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks cleaning up my shop/studio that had turned in a catch-all stacked with canvases, tools and box to the point you could barely walk through it and I was hating it so I cleaned and decluttered and filled bags of junk and tossed – so in an effort to get back in the artistic mood that has eluded me for a few years now I’ve been watching artsy movies and shows to get some inspiration as some artificial form of a muse. I’ve yet to put pen to paper or brush to canvas again but that needs to change… so this week it’s Rembrandt a classic and a good movie…

This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he’s unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

 

September 23, 2011

The Debate and my quick take on it…

Well I watched the debate last night and here are a few of my thoughts, First I’m not endorsing anyone and no one is lighting my fire as of right now so I’ll list some of what I found wrong with each one…

Rick Perry – I have a serious problem with his position on immigration – I get it he has a butt load of illegals in Texas, but I don’t think giving them in state tuition is how you deal with it. Other things I generally like about him but his immigration policy will take him down more so than he Executive Order on the HPV immunization. I’m not all that sure he is going to stand up to the light of day – I liked him at first but he has some issues. I don’t have a problem with him being a former Democrat, hell I use to be a Democrat for years… nearly always voted Republican just took me a long time to change parties.

Mitt Romney – Aside from his albatross of RomneyCare… Mitt just seems too slick, too smooth he avoided the “Is Obama a Socialist?” question and for a guy that says he is not a life long politician that was a 100% political dodge on that question, I want questions answered and don’t give me the political run around. Most of the candidate pulled this political dodge trick at some point in during the debate so he is not the only one. I’m just not sure Romney is a conservative at hart.

Michelle Backmann – Bachmann has made to many incorrect statements in the course of this campaign for me to take her seriously, fact check, fact check, fact check Michelle it’s not that hard. She just doesn’t do it and pops off with out checking the facts. She didn’t get a lot of face time last night and she side nothing that got my attention… face it she is just boring and it’s hard to listen to her, kind of like Gary Johnson. I wouldn’t want to go camping with either one.

Gary Johnson – Besides stealing a joke from the Rush Limbaugh (actually I’d heard it else where before) he is as dry as mummy farts and between him and Ron Paul they are making Libertarians look like kooks. He repeatedly said he’d put a balanced budget into effect his first year in office by cutting spending 43%! I’d love to see that happen but good luck getting that past a spend happy congress.

Ron Paul – On domestic and financial issues Paul is generally on target, but on international affairs he is all over the board and I just think he would be a foreign policy disaster. American still has to big of a role on the international stage to withdraw into isolationism just like that – it would through the world into chaos. Paul has a lot of very loyal Paulie that are as obsessed with him as the Palinistas are for her.

Herman Cain – his 9-9-9 plan sounds interesting but I’d have to see the numbers on it before I signed onto it and running a pizza chain is a bit different from running a country and I’m not sure the $9.99 gimmick will work. I think is in the same place as Paul on foreign policy just doesn’t know enough… I’d stack my foreign policy knowledge against his any day. I like Cain he has some good idea.

Jon Huntsman – Anyone the liberals keep talking about as a good choice or the person Obama should be afraid of I get a red flag and like Johnson he is so low in the polls I pay little attention to him… really can you trust a guy that worked for Obama as Ambassador to China? I do like some of his ideas on healthcare but that’s about it.

Rick Santorum – I am sorry I’ve never liked Santorum, if you support him then tell me why – because I tune him out. I couldn’t tell you one thing he said last night. He just annoys me.

Newt Gingrich – What can you say about Newt that hasn’t been said? His presidential ship sailed long ago. Newt is smart, he is quick on his mental feet and he has a vast wealth of knowledge – but Newt is a old school establishment republican that will say what ever he thinks you want to hear. He knows how to fire up the folks but can he be trusted? I don’t know, I’d have to ask his ex-wife.

A lot of folks are still talking about Christi and Palin… well shit or get off the pot. I don’t think Christi is going to run and Palin is playing this maybe I will, maybe I wont game and folk that aren’t Palinistas are growing tired of it.. Sarah you are either in or your out make up your damn mind… in or out?

So there you have it… no one right now is setting my world on fire. I will tell you this, I will vote and it will not be for Obama.

 

Netflix… Quikster… Jokesters… whatever…

Filed under: Business,FYI,Movies,Random Thoughts — Tags: , , , , , — AWG @ 3:39 pm

So I got an e-mail from the Netflix CEO the other day as did about 25 million 24 million other people stating they screwed up and their genius cure is to spin off the DVD division into a new company and not re-think their price increase. Now Netflix has lost over a million subscribers with this fiasco, if you jack prices 60% people are going to protest and vote with their wallets, which resulted in their stock that was once at over $300 a share in July and opened at about $128 this morning – if that’s not a message what is? What I’m trying to do is figure out how this great idea of theirs is an improvement in the face of their admission that they messed up? Trust me after read a few of the 10,000+ post on Netflix Facebook page this isn’t making things any better for them and I’m guessing they will loss more customers over it.

I think spinning off one part of the company is Netflix effort to combat the brand damage they created.

So what did they do? Well if you have DVD’s and streaming you’ll have to go to two websites, have two queues, manage two accounts, pay two bills and this  is too much… I dumped the DVD portion of my account and the streaming my soon follow as Netflix is going to loose the STARZ service in 2012 which has a huge library of movies. Another thought is… what is Netflix going to do if the Post Office goes belly up or reduces service to 2 or 3 days a week? It will be even less of a deal then than it is now.

Some other company is going to jump at this opportunity to take a lot of Netflix disgruntled members and Netflix a once great company and great deal will be following instead of leading. You just can’t jack up prices in a bad economy and not face revolt… something the idiot Democrats and Obama might want to make note of with his latest joke of a jobs plan.

Yes I have more Hitler parodies… they’re funny OK!

But what does Hitler think about the price increase?

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What does Hitler think about the two new companies, Netflix and Quikster?

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Great news: Not only will Netflix be more expensive, it’ll be twice as hard to use
Comic: Why Netflix is splitting itself in two
Flashback AWGBlog: Did the government buy Netflix?
Sorry, Netflix! @Qwikster Twitter Account Owned by ‘Pot-Smoking Elmo’

September 22, 2011

Elizabeth Warren and liberal logic…

Elizabeth Warren was an Obama adviser; currently a Harvard Law Professor and she is now running against Scott Brown in Massachusetts for the US Senate… listen to this women and see all that is wrong with liberals and liberalism (the real crazy stuff starts about the minute mark).

Have your duct tape ready…

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Hey Elizabeth, were did the money come from to build those roads, those schools and hire those cops and firefighters? Who made the equipment to build the road, the uniforms and the desk and books for the schools? Tell me Elizabeth without those factories where would the money to pay for and the equipment to build it come from? Without factories, without workers, without the capital they earn and the capital the government takes from them in taxes the government wouldn’t have a damn dime. The government may print money but it doesn’t make money nor give it value – people like Warren and Obama believe all money is the government and only they can decide how much you get to keep. Clearly she has never read nor understands the constitution or the basics of economics .

Now here is a question I have the I haven’t heard asked… if business needs government then why does government offer business tax breaks to locate within their taxation area? The liberals want business and government to be enemies and in reality it should be a symbiotic relationship – business needs infrastructure to thrive and government needs a tax base to in order to pay to build that infrastructure… if a government becomes burdensome and hostile to business then that business will close up and move elsewhere leaving many of their citizens out of work and reducing their tax base.

Obama’s economic policies are evidence of that.

This women was a presidential adviser, she is a law professor at Harvard and we wonder why this country is in the shape it’s in? My Gawd she is an idiot an absolute 100% certifiable idiot.

Liberalism or should I say socialism and business it just doesn’t mix.

Bridge over the River Propaganda…

As a lot of you folk know I live in the great state of Kentucky… the 6th poorest state in the nation – yeah for us! Obama has been running about touting his AMERICAN JOBS BILL – that’s not a bill because the Democrat haven’t introduced it and Louie Gohmert took the name of the bill for his own… anyway Obama is going to be in a Kentucky/Ohio today to blah, blah, blah another propaganda speech about jobs and infrastructure at the Brent Spence Bridge that Obama claims needs to be replaced right now… well it doesn’t.

Let’s check some facts… the Brent Spence Bridge is between KY and OH – but it’s not about to fall down, it’s not crumbling, it’s not in disrepair or in need of replacement, in fact it’s fine! The only problem with the bridge is the traffic volume because it is in fact a major trucking route that carries more traffic per day than it was originally designed to carry 40 years ago and Obama runs around acting as if it’s going to fall in the river at any moment – when the actual plan is to add another bridge to relieve some of the traffic volume – meaning the bridge doesn’t qualify of the jobs plan because it’s not in immediate need of repair or replacement which according to Obama his second stimulus American Jobs bill is designed to do… just like the first trillion dollar one was.

It’s nothing but a propaganda bridge.

But don’t take my word for it – others agree -

Oops, Obama touts his jobs plan today at an Ohio bridge that won’t qualify

The president’s jobs bill is designed for “immediate” highway spending.

And the new $2.3 billion Cincy bridge is not scheduled to even start construction for probably four years, long after Republicans have scheduled the Obama presidency for completion.

And without delays, it wouldn’t be finished until 2022, when no one will be counting Obama’s rounds of golf.

Politicians hate these kinds of messy distractions when they pick a place to make a symbolic statement. But Brent Spence was so tempting linking, as it does, the home states of GOP House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Surely Obama is not just playing politics and making campaign stops at Boehner and McConnell’s home states on the taxpayers dime (BTW that’s a violation of Federal law). After all if it’s not a campaign stop then why is he making the speech in Ohio and not Kentucky where the bridge is 99% located? See the Ohio River is in Kentucky because we were a state when the surrounding  states became states placing the northern boarder of the river as of 1792 in Kentucky… ergo the river and the bridge are in Kentucky but Ohio has more electoral vote and  Obama’s chances of winning Kentucky are zero. (He lost it in 2008 when he was popular)

So nothing new here folks, Obama is out lying and ginning up division while trying to save his job.

Obama Jobs Bill Might Not Help Touted Bridge
Republicans Criticize Obama Trip to Ohio Bridge Years From Being ‘Shovel-Ready’

September 21, 2011

What’s your caption?

Filed under: Random Thoughts — Tags: , , — AWG @ 3:29 pm


Photographer: Everyone that would like to see Mr. Obama reelected, please raise your hand…

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