Where Are My Keys?

All sports should be this cool to a kid..

 

Well done, Sir..

 

You've almost reached your goal, Lefties..

All you need is 50% of the households, plus one more.  At that point, you'll never have someone vote against reducing benefits, changing the requirements to get on aid, putting in limits on how long you can be on aid, etc. 

Right now, we are at 49.1%.  If Obama gets re-elected, that percentage will surely go up.  If Romney wins, look for it to drop a bit.

This Country does hang in the balance.

Don't misunderstand me here.  I'm not making the claim that the day after Obama retakes the White HOuse, the Country implodes.  Not even close to suggesting that.  The steps are already in place, all that remains is for his designs to play out.  We've seen a few extra dollars leave our paycheck every two weeks since the Obamacare mandates went into effect.  The Government is collecting monies, with no dollars being paid out.  That continues for a few years, and then reality sets in.

A program that costs significantly more than was projected, lower revenues than expected coming in, and employers being more than willing to no longer cover their employees.

The example of Greece has ben staring us in the face, and the US population largely chooses to ignore it.  As long as there is a new iPhone coming, a bigger TV, and a new Transformers movie in the works, we're happy.

At some point, folks will begin to notice what is happening around them.  Detroit turning off the lights.  California issuing IOUs earlier and earlier each year.  Something that can't go on forever, won't.

The sad thing is that the folks on the Left that think we are moving towards Utopia won't realize what they've voted for all these years until it's too late.

Riles was in Minnesota last week?

You think you know a guy, and then something like this happens:

Last week, Ramsey, Minn. police say, Alan Petrusson tied himself to a tree, put a blindfold on, exposed his genitals and waited for anonymous sex near a public park, according to CBS Minnesota.

"It's the weirdest thing I've heard of out there," Ramsey Police Chief James Way told The Huffington Post. "We have had reports of sexual activity out there though."

When doesn't misogyny matter?

When it is directed at Conservative women, of course!

The reaction is largely heartening. But I don't see it having a long-term effect, wherein we all rally around Cupp to improve the level of discourse. That's because incidents like this happen with such frequency and casualness that it's clear people think there won't be any pushback if they attack a conservative woman. Back in 2008, when some idiot hecklers shouted “Iron My Shirt” to Hillary Clinton, we talked about sexism for three days. But, like Weigel pointed out, no one at the AFL-CIO even thought twice about not only GETTING a piñata with Nikki Haley’s face on it or hitting said piñata, but similarly had no problem recording the event and UPLOADING IT TO YOUTUBE. If you do something sexist against a liberal, expect a firestorm. If you do something sexist (or pseudo-violent) against a conservative, well, they had it coming.

Musical Stylings..

 

 

 

 

If Bain Capital is so bad..

Why is Obama keeping contributions from them?

Though the Obama campaign has repeatedly attacked Mitt Romney for his career at Bain Capital, President Obama still accepted $7,500 in campaign contributions from three Bain executives. His campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt told The Politicker the president has no intention of giving the money back.

Remind me why anyone takes what Barack Obama says seriously?

Spot on..

Perfect impression by Jay Pharoah:

 

If you aren't familiar with Smith, here's the real guy (skip ahead to around the 2:00 mark):

 

 

Super cool video from Geno..

 

This isn't going to turn out very good..

Democrat-controlled Detroit is going to stop maintaining streetlights in "distressed neighborhoods", because it has no money:

Detroit’s plan goes further: It would leave sparsely populated swaths unlit in a community of 713,000 that covers more area than Boston, Buffalo and San Francisco combined. Vacant property and parks account for 37 square miles (96 square kilometers), according to city planners.

“You have to identify those neighborhoods where you want to concentrate your population,” said Chris Brown, Detroit’s chief operating officer. “We’re not going to light distressed areas like we light other areas.”

Detroit’s dwindling income and property-tax revenue have required residents to endure unreliable buses and strained police services throughout the city. Because streetlights are basic to urban life, deciding what areas to illuminate will reshape the city, said Kirk Cheyfitz, co-founder of a project called Detroit143 -- named for the 139 square miles of land, plus water -- that publicizes neighborhood issues.

So you have lived in your current house for 20 years, while the neighborhood crumbles around you?  Too bad.  Try and sell that house (why would someone buy in an area like that today?), and move to another part of the City, leaving behind memories and your home; or you can stay and take your chances after the sun goes down.

I lived in Detroit from 1994-1998.  I had employees that I would drive home late at night, and many of the streets/neighborhoods had no streetlights (blamed on a bad winter storm that knocked them out, that the City hadn't gotten around to fixing yet).  It was pretty erie driving down some of those streets.  Toss in the fact that many of those very streets had several abandoned house on the block (my employees pointed out which were empty, and which were crack houses), and it makes for a pretty scary way to live.

We are reminded how much we depend on the streetlights every time the power goes out at night during a rain or snowstorm.  Imagine that being your reality every evening.

Think about how your house stands out in the night, when there are no streetlights there to chase away the shadows.  It's not just the streetlights, it's also the sidewalks.  I have to imagine the sewers are affected as well.

As I read the piece, I had the mental image of Escape from New York stuck in my head.  Dark streets, empty buildings, lots of places for bad people to do their thing.  Not a pretty sight.

A single, broken streetlight on the northeast side brings fear to Cynthia Perry, 55. It hasn’t worked for six years, Perry said in an interview on the darkened sidewalk where she walks from her garage to her house entrance.

“I’m afraid coming in at night,” she said. “I’m not going to seclude myself in the house and never go anywhere.”

In southwest Detroit, businesses on West Vernor Highway, a main commercial thoroughfare, have sought $4 million in private grants to fix the situation themselves. The state would pay $2.5 million, said Kathy Wendler, president of the Southwest Detroit Business Association.

Jamahl Makled, 40, said he’s owned businesses in southwest Detroit for about two decades, most recently cell-phone stores. He said they’ve have been burglarized more than a dozen times.

“In the dark, criminals are comfortable,” Makled said. “It’s not good for the economy and the safety of the residents.”

Even if you were able to convince/force people to move from the sparse neighborhoods to the more populated ones, what happens to the area left behind?  No electricity, no services, no police and fire.  It becomes the Wild West, and lawless.  Detroit should begin bulldozing the abandoned houses, then the livable ones in those areas.  Sell whatever materials they can from the demolition, and cut their losses.

Turn the affected areas back into fields-leave nothing behind that would provide "safe" haven for those that inhabit those spaces today.  Maybe plant some trees, encourage Nature to take the area over.

I do know that if you leave structures standing, with little to no Police patrols what will happen.  Meth production on a massive scale.  It will become the area where people "disappear".  Nothing good will come out of a "ghost city" within Detroit.

I did enjoy my time in the Motor City.  The area is rich with history, culture, and really neat stuff.  Sadly the "pockets of bad" are getting bigger and bigger, and will continue to do so.

Take some action, Detroit.