Bernie's Tune

What's a social gathering without a Socialist?

That must be the thinking of CommieTommie Harkin as he's invited his friend Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont (pictured with Harkin), to his anal, err annual steak fry.

Our favorite political TV reporter, Dave Price, was first with the story and even described Sanders as Independent/Socialist.

The Liter would have put it as Socialist/Independent, or more accurately just plain SOCIALIST and the scientific community is united in that fact.

At least Price is more truthful than CommieTommie, who's message to supporters made no mention.

Sanders government web site has an article that calls him an impassioned socialist known for his untamed white hair.

Elsewhere it is written that Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist, and has praised European social democracy. He is the first person elected to the U.S. Senate to identify as a socialist.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

Which grew out of an interview of the Iron Lady in 1976.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. --Margaret Thatcher

Information

A major error by the Iowa Dummycrat Party occurred in the Union of Socialist Story County.

Officials with the Story County Auditor’s Office say as many as 4,000 Democratic and no party voters in Story County got glossy fliers in the mail from the Iowa Democratic Party telling them the wrong polling location to vote at on Election Day.

Just one of the many reasons I refer to them as Dummycrats.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Keep up the good work!

Don't Ya Jes' Love It

Out of the Union of Socialist Story County comes this article and picture...

ISU Earth Day marked by march

Earth Day 2009...spurred a group of about 25 students, faculty and staff to pick up their protest signs and march to ISU’s power plant.

The group, chanting, carrying banners and flanked by a dog and a cardboard Lorax from the environmental-themed children’s story by Dr. Seuss, was organized by members of ActivUS...

Note in the picture that a sign states, "I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for they have no tongues."

Where the hell do these geniuses think their cardboard & paper signs come from?

The Lorax warned against mindless progress, well mindless fits with this group and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Soft on Crime

No surprise that the Ragister, led by William Petroski's writings over the last couple of years, and Dummycrats are soft on crime.

Lawmakers: Are sentences too harsh?

They're making it appear Iowa is being too harsh because in 10 years, 1996-2006, the prison population increased by 2,482 inmates.

They go on to predict that in another 10 years it could increase by a whopping 2,722.

In an average year 248 scumbags go to prison, and that will increase to 272 scumbags.

Sing it Sammy..."Don't do the crime if you can't do the time...Yeah, DON'T DO IT!"

The article spotlights two convicts, male and female.

The female convict is 48 and was paroled after serving the least amount of time, 4 years and 8 months, for dealing meth and other drugs.

It isn't until later in the article that you find out the lady(?) was involved in drugs since high school AND she had already received PROBATION for having marijuana, meth and amphetamine's in her residence.

She admitted she had been dealing for two years prior to being caught.

Already coddled by the system and not smart enough to be scared straight this woman said her prison stay made her a better person, but her time was excessive and she should have been sprung two years early.

It's time for the world's tiniest violin to play Joe Cocker's, CRY ME A RIVER!

What a concept, why don't we let the criminals decide their punishment?

There wouldn't be any because there are no guilty people in prison, ask 'em!

The man previewed is 40 and still behind bars. He has served 8 years of a 50 year sentence for manufacturing meth.

The man's mother admits going to prison saved her son's life.

So the article really contradicts itself.

Johnie Hammond serves on the Iowa Board of Corrections, and once was an elected Dummycrat representative from the Union of Socialist Story County.

She believes..."Mandatory sentencing is doing an awful lot to increase the population of our prisons unnecessarily..."

It can't be those morons who actually do the crime, wouldn't want them to take responsibility for their CRIMINAL ACTIONS!

Dummycrat Mike Gronstal, Majority Leader of the Iowa Senate, wants to take a fresh look at our criminal sentencing laws.

Republicans have toughened the state's criminal in the recent past.

Gronstal doesn't believe those changes have been effective, saying..."While it sounds good, in certain cases it, in fact, provides less public safety because you are spending your time and energy locking up somebody who is less of a threat to the public than somebody else might be."

Show me facts and figures to support that, don't just spout the party line COMRADE!

Dummycrats control the Governorship and the Legislature, look for a diluting of law and further coddling of criminals.

Cracked Actor

One time Obama administration minion, Actor Kal Penn made his way to the Union of Socialist Story County for a meeting of the mindless at the Dummycrat campaign office.

This spring, Penn had partaken in Team Obama's Greater Together Student Summit in the People's Republic.

Penn told the press, or in this case the Ames Tribune, he rarely receives push-back from fans or from studios for his outspoken political beliefs. He attributes that to his style.

It has nothing to do with his style and everything to do with Tinseltown teeming with liberal lamebrains and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Google Liberals blacklisted in Hollywod and there are two entries.

Google Conservatives blacklisted in Hollywood and you'll get 328,000 hits.

Higher Education?

From the Union of Socialist Story County and the campus of Iowa State University, the Ragister prints a letter by Leslie R. Bloom and Warren J. Blumenfeld defending Bill Ayers.

In their letter these two protest "distortions and insinuations" of slander against "a man who has never been convicted of a crime".

Hell, neither was Jack The Ripper, but that's little comfort to the eleven women who were murdered and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Ayers himself admits his own guilt with statement like...

"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."

And in the posted picture of him stomping the American Flag, Ayers recalls his adventurous violence...

"Guilty as sin, free as a bird, it's a great country."

Ayers was a founder of a leftist, domestic terrorist group known as the Weathermen that declared war against the government.

The myth is that nobody was ever hurt in their bombings (which included the Pentagon, U.S. Capitol and other government buildings), but three of the group were killed when a bomb they were building, to detonate at an officer's dance at Fort Dix, blew up on them.

Harvey Klehr, the Andrew W. Mellon professor of politics and history at Emory University in Atlanta, said in 2003, "The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don't know what sort of defense that is."

Also, a San Francisco police sergeant was killed and another officer was severely wounded by a bomb believed to be from the Weathermen.

Ayers certainly sounds like the man of "integrity and kindness" the ASSistant Professor and ASSociate Professor profess him to be.

At their blog, (Sedition), they liken Ayers to a respectable citizen and believe the mention of his past is a baseless tactic grounded in fear.

I fear those educated by these idiots.

Union of Socialist Story County

As I was driving to the in-laws for Easter dinner, I got behind an Infiniti with a "Fallon for Governor" and "Impeach Bush" bumper stickers. The thoughts that ran through my mind included 1) Change registration to vote for Fallon in Democrat June primary, it would be too funny if he won the nomination and had to face Jim Nussle. 2) An Infiniti? at least they're going the speed limit. 3) Impeach Bush? On what Constitutional grounds? It irritated me because I am a huge admirer of the President. I had the privelege to meet then Governor Bush when I served as his escort during the D.M. Ragister's candidates debate in 2000. I found him then to be one of the most personable and charming people I've ever met. Today, I find him to be a man of principle with a backbone of steel. A true leader, second only to Ronald Reagan. Polls be damned, history will be kind to this man

Bank Of Bad Habits

Like most politicians, President Obama has trouble telling the whole truth.

Obama says the Buffett Rule is not a reelection campaign "gimmick".

No, it's just a gimmick period and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Obama's gimmick is supposed to raise about $47 billion over 10 years from 22,000 wealthy households, yet he doesn't seemed as concerned about the alternative minimum tax that will take about $1 trillion over a decade from millions of taxpayers, many of whom earn less than $200,000 a year.

That's Obama's fairness.

President Obama also continued his one sided bromance with President Reagan --

“I’m not the first president to call for this idea that everybody’s got to do their fair share”. Some years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country, pushing for the same concept. That wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior was Ronald Reagan. He thought that in America, the wealthiest should pay their fair share.”

The Washington Times supplies the rest of the story that Obama left out

When Reagan saw inequities caused by the tax code, he sought to limit them, not make them worse. If a boss paid a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, the Gipper's answer was not to raise the boss’s taxes but to lower the secretary’s. “Lower, flatter tax rates will give Americans more confidence in the future,” Reagan said in the same speech Mr. Obama quoted. Funny how he missed that passage.

Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner has more --

“It'll mean if you work overtime or get a raise or a promotion or if you have a small business and are able to turn a profit, more of that extra income will end up where it belongs -- in your wallets, not in Uncle Sam's pockets.”

Now who's a wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior?

Thought I Knew

Here's a headline that will drive the birthers crazy and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Socialist presidential candidate not deterred by ineligibility

For the record, the story isn't about Obama, but the headline is deceiving.

Viva La Vida

I'm breaking out the classic Viva La Reagan Revolucion Tee for today's Iowa Straw Poll.

The shirt never fails to deliver on positive comments, or compliments.

This is better, for me, than the Iowa State Fair and one of the few times that Story County is less Socialist.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

A day without illegals, is like...

M&M's in the jowls of a bulldog, "It's gonna be a good day tater". My apologies to Ron White. It has its plusses per Representative Tom Tancredo, (R) Colorado. For an article in National Review Online, Tancredo states...

Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.

OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.

Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.

In Durango, Colorado, and the Four Corners area, the methamphetamine epidemic would slow for one day, as the 90 percent of that drug now being brought in from Mexico was held in Albuquerque and Farmington a few hours longer. According to the sheriff of La Plata County, Colorado, meth is now being brought in by ordinary illegal aliens as well as professional drug dealers.

Colorado taxpayers would save almost $3,000,000 in one day if illegals do not access any public services, because illegal aliens cost the state over $1 billion annually according to the best estimates.

Colorado’s jails and prisons would have 10-percent fewer inmates, and Denver and many other towns would not need to build so many new jails to accommodate the overcrowding.

Our highway patrol and county sheriffs would have about far fewer DUI arrests and there would be a dramatic decline in rollovers of vanloads of illegal aliens on I-70 and other highways...

Sounds like statistics Representative Steve King, (R) Iowa, was skewered for by the Ragister last Thursday. According to King, if there were no "illegal invaders...there would be no one to smuggle across our border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States. . . . The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. . . . Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded. . . . Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime." King called the May 1st boycott, "Nothing Gringo Day" and "Bite The Hand That Feeds You Day." Actually the May Day celebration in Mexico was called, "A Day Without Gringos." There boycotts against U.S. goods and companies were endorsed by government officials. Mexico's restive union movement, which traditionally holds rallies on May 1, dedicated this year's march to the legalization of undocumented workers in the United States and President Vicente Fox called for a migration accord that would legalize the millions of undocumented Mexican workers living in the United States. Undocumented? I don't think so! These people purchase fake licenses and social security cards. Which is illegal, I do believe! The Associated Press ran a couple of interesting quotes, "We are the backbone of what America is, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter, said Melanie Lugo, who joined a rally in Denver. HUH? Let me say that again backwards....HUH? Then there's this gem, "I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal," said Benita Olmedo, a nanny who came here illegally in 1986 from Mexico...Seems to me illegal actions would make one a criminal. The A.P. also noted, "In Chicago, illegal immigrants from Ireland and Poland marched alongside Hispanics". I don't care where they're from if they're ILLEGAL! My Italian grandfather migrated to this country and became a legal citizen, even learning the English language! I did find it interesting that WHO TV13 had a news story stating that Victoria Cleaners could not offer their usual same day service because of workers who took part in the boycott. The taped piece showed workers of Southeast Asian heritage toiling away pressing clothes. The owner stated they were offered the day off too, but chose to work. Isn't that ironic! I'm going to take a silly, wild ass guess and say they're LEGAL immigrants! CNN's Lou Dobbs weighed in with this....It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration and boycott. It is the worldwide day of commemorative demonstrations by various socialist, communist, and even anarchic organizations. Dobbs noted, "that ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) has become an active promoter of the national boycott." Even those among the left admit that ANSWER is a Marxist organization. Dobbs also took on meat-packing companies like Cargill and Tyson who closed many of their plants."The meat packers are confirming what we know," says University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici, "and that is that this large group of illegal aliens in the United States is lowering the wage rate of semiskilled workers, people who are high school dropouts or high school graduates with minimal training."In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services...Looks like I need to get back to buying my beef from my friend T.J. He has a small family owned business butcher his cattle. I feel good having done my part to derail the boycott by spending my money, but I'm only one Gringo!