House of Cards

So I've just started watching House of Cards and aside from how good the show is, I'm amazed by something.

They're Democrats.

Lying, whoring, coke snorting Democrats.

I don't know Kevin Spacey's politics but his business sense is keen. Liberals will watch the show because the main characters are fight for liberal causes. So there's no need to take gratuitous swipes at the half of the country who voted for Romney.

Of course, there's still time for some evil Republicans to make an appearance.

Walking Dead Season Finale - Spoiler Alert

So aside from the fact that Rick's last line at the end was pretty damn cheesy, the episode was great. I think everyone knew Terminus was something bad but the question is how bad now.

I'm thinking cannibals.

Your thoughts?

Remember when global warming was supposed to create worse storm seasons?

But only it didn't?

Now wait for the high priests of the Church of Warming to declare new omens after casting the bones, err, consulting the climate models. After all, when warming is blamed for snow in winter, there can be no disproving the True Faith!

Walking its own path

The Walking Dead is not following the storyline of the comic.

I didn't know that but I like it. That's the kind of thing that makes me, a fan of the show and avid reader, want to read the graphic novels.

I think this kind of synergy is great for authors. In creating an alternate universe, the show is entertaining for the reader and avoids becoming boring. The same holds true for the viewers who picks up the graphic novels.

And let's be honest. It has to be a blast for the author.

This is an interesting age for content creators. Cheap publishing and video distribution allows content creators to get their works out in as many ways as they can think of, in as many paths as they can think of.

Coming soon: director's cuts of books.

Two states are allowed to ask voters for ID when voting.

That this is news should be troubling. We ask for ID to cash checks, get on airplanes or use credit cards.

Is voting any less important than these activities? Is the accurate outcome of an election any less important than credit card fraud?

The people who want us to believe that are either liars or fools.

In no way should they hold power.

Frozen logic

A radio host has called the Disney movie Frozen homosexual propaganda.This is the sort of thing that makes conservative Christians look stupid.

First of all, the movie doesn't show anything untoward between the main characters, sisters.

More importantly, the movie is actually pro family. SPOILER ALERT!

In having one of the sisters getting ready to marry after only a day - shades of Britney Spears - and showing the disaster that follows when she splits her family over the issue, the movie actually underscores the importance with which marriage should be treated. Like The Incredibles,the message can actually be slyly subversive and conservative.

Hahahaha; or, Dianne Feinsten is a giant hypocrite

Diane Feinsten (D), Senator from California, has been a defender of the CIA's massive surveillance of American citizens. She has cited the need to protect us from threats, ignoring the fact the program has not been shown to have done that and ignoring the fact that when we new the Tsarnaev brothers were a threat, they slid under the radar.

But when the CIA spies on her? Oh, the high dudgeon comes out.

We live in a dangerous age, when obedience to the law is for little people but its protections belong to our rulers.

Public service

I don't usually have much nice to say about the GOP leadership because they tend to be happy playing defense against liberals, so long as it means they get a place at the trough.

But this time, Mitch McConnell showed actual leadership and courage, killing the Obama nomination of Debo Adegbile by inspiring seven Democrats to break ranks.  Adegbile assisted in the defense of Mumia Abu Jamal, a notorious cop killer.

Imagine if Bush had nominated an attorney who defended James Earl Ray.

People like to respond with the pious notion that everyone deserves a defense and an attorney shouldn't be held to endorse the view of his clients. Thus, we shouldn't have taken any notice when Obama appointed individuals who defended terrorists, even planting one as high as the number three in charge of the Justice Department. 

Except it's a load of crap. A lawyer decides whose case he takes. I run my own office and have a strict "no evil client" policy.

People might be entitled to a defense but they are not entitled to an individual attorney.

That attorney made a choice. And Adegbile chose to defend a cop killer, injecting race into the situation.

The Senate wisely chose to reject him.

Lucky thing China has gun control

Because then people only go crazy with knives and kill people.

Out of the shadows

So the Democrats that want 11 million new voters and the business's interests that want cheap labor tell us that the millions of illegals just want to step out of the shadows and live normal lives.

Their love of America is so vast and deeply felt that they cheer for Mexico vs the US in the Gold Cup. They carry Mexican flags when demanding rights from our government. 

And now they have turned our schools into places where administrators deem wearing an American flag t-shirt as so dangerous it must be banned. 

Ignore for a moment the absurdity of the notion that the courts deem children in school to have the right to free contraceptives and detailed courses in sex ed but can't express their love of our nation. Ignore for a moment that school administrators are tacitly admitting they've lost functional control of their schools and must surrender to the threat of violence. 

Just think. If our political elites have their way this is our next generation of voters. But hey, at least the Chamber of Commerce types won't have to mow their lawns and pay teenagers minimum wage to wash dishes.

Bienvenidos a Mexico del Norte

Because those golf balls won't hit themselves

Russia invades Crimea. Obama skips national security team meeting.

Hopefully he was reading Command Authority. We need Jack Ryan, not Jimmy Carter, in the White House right now.