Double Birds

On September 30th, 2011, an American, accused of an awful crime, was executed without trial. To put this in perspective, Nazi war criminals received a trial .   American terrorist Timothy McVeigh , who killed 168 people, received a trial.   Jared Loughner, who publicly shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and shot several other people to death, is awaiting trial . Murderers, even murderers who murder in public, get a trial. Why?  Why don't we just execute murderers on the spot? Because executing someone without evidence, merely on the word of authority, or by accusation, is dangerous.  And very stupid. Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was put on a kill list a year ago.  His father filed a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union to get him off the list.  The suit was dismissed on a technicality . Awlaki had been posting inflammatory and anti-American videos on youtube.  The videos urged violence against the United States.  But this s...

I voted for Obama in 2008.  I'll vote for Ron Paul in 2012. There was a time, in 2007, when I thought: Even if Obama doesn't win the election, I'd still be willing to give my time and money to whatever he decides to do next. I was convinced that he was our man.  I knew he was going to change the world.  I knew I wanted to change it with him. Then he became president.  The wars continued.  Guantanamo remained open.  The Patriot Act was renewed and not vetoed.  New wars started. I thought: Didn't we vote Bush out? Then I realized:  Even before Obama disillusioned me with his broken promises, his new wars, his abandonment of the Constitution, he had made me a Libertarian. You see, in 2007, when I decided that I would be willing to support him financially, and by volunteering my time—even if he didn't get elected—that's called freedom, or a free market. A year or two after I voted for him, I no longer wanted to support him.  I did not want to giv...

Obama says us bombing Libya isn't a war because : 1.  There are no "ground troops." and 2.  No "exchanges of fire with hostile forces." Using this logic, it's not a fight if you: 1. Are in the air. and 2. Do not get hurt. So if you're Super Man, you can punch anyone you want, and it's not a fight. Imma kick your a**, son. This is also not a fight: Next time you want to punch someone, jump first.  I think Obama just created the Superman Doctrine. Go ahead. (edited by Double Birds)

This cartoon illustrates how Obama has continued and magnified Bush's policies: A recent This American Life episode introduced me to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist . Every politician should take before going into office.  I don't think failing the test should bar them from office, but voters have the right to be informed on whether their representatives are psycho. Here's a sampling: Factor 1: Personality "Aggressive narcissism" Glibness/ superficial charm Grandiose  sense of self-worth Pathological lying Lack of  remorse  or  guilt Callous/lack of  empathy Failure to accept responsibility for own actions Factor 2: Case history "Socially deviant lifestyle". Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom Parasitic lifestyle Poor behavioral control  Lack of realistic long-term goals Sound familiar? Do we want these people to have the power to start wars?  Tax us?  Surveil us?  To turn their desires into our law? For those of you...

Obama, and and a half-dozen presidents before him, have told Israel what to do.  Michelle Bachman said the U.S. would be cursed if we "reject" Israel. Ron Paul's common-sense looks weird in contrast with the madness that surrounds him.

Rand Paul pulled a 7 hour filibuster to try to prevent to Senate from renewing the Patriot Act . Rand has received a lot of bad press for some of the crazy-sounding things he's said, but this act alone should establish him as a hero in the minds of all freedom-loving Americans (in contrast to those Americans who are more like "meh" about freedom). Harry Reid is pulling every dirty trick out of the book to get this thing passed, and the majority of Congressmen and Senators are falling over themselves to get into the kiss-the-president's-butt-by-giving-him-unrestrained-power line. What, me worry? Apparently no one in the Senate even wants to talk about it. Harry Reid once gave a talk at BYU (my Alma Mater) and some crazy student yelled "Don't listen to him, he's a Gadianton robber. "  I still think that kid was crazy, but maybe he was also right.

Which party is the war party? Both. Jon Stewart began his Thursday show with some good-humored war-mongering against Pakistan .  In the very next segment Stewart and John Hodgman pretended to come up with a conspiracy theory to keep the "terror bubble" going , so that our war economy wouldn't suffer. It's surreal.  They make up comical ways to keep people scared, but our government really does this.  Politicians create bogeymen like " threat level orange " to keep us all terrified enough to keep paying our war taxes and to keep submitting repressive laws. Republicans swallowed mouthfuls of bullsh** from George W. about yellow cake and Al Qaeda in Iraq .  But Democrats swallow just as eagerly the unbelievable handfuls of crap from their mascot Obama. Bill Maher, for example, said (in a Rolling Stone interview) that he disagrees with Bush's wars of Afghanistan and Iraq, but he loves Obama's Libyan war . A reasonable man. (Edited by Double Birds) T...

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."   — 4th Amendment of the Constitution The court of supreme jerks ruled that cops can knock down your door "if they smell burning marijuana, knock loudly, announce themselves and hear what they think is the sound of evidence being destroyed." The court made this ruling after cops chased down a drug dealer and broke into the wrong apartment  (from the  nytimes ). "You have the right to remain silent and suck my balls." -Samuel A. Alito Jr. (Edited by Double Birds) A monopoly in anything creates an inferior product at a higher cost, while a free market accomplishes the opposite.  For example, a competitive market in computers ...

Behold the mind-blowing Barack Hussein Walker Bush. George III ? Most of us have given Obama the benefit of the doubt.  The guy inherited two wars, and Guantanamo .  But he started another war, and Guantanamo remains open.  The hope of his campaign turned out to be nothing but hype. Hope Croaks If you want to end the endless wars of aggression, vote for the only anti-war candidate— Ron Paul . From Zazzle .

I voted for Obama thinking he wouldn't get us into another war . You thought wrong, sucker. Some think the Libyan war will be short and sweet, so it's not really a war.  Others say that congress didn't declare it (they haven't declared war since 1942) so it doesn't count. I say, if we're bombing, shooting, or killing people in another country, it better be war, otherwise it's just murder. Libya's version of cash for clunkers. This "little" war is very dirty.  We're poisoning Libya with birth-defect-causing depleted uranium .  And we've apparently sided with " 1,000 or so " rebels in a country of 6 million. But it's worth it, you say, to get rid of an awful tyrant. This awful tyrant was on the United States' payroll just before we started bombing (maybe that's why Harry Reed thought it was ok to take that money back).  Like Saddam , Mubarak , and others   he was a tyrant, but he was our tyrant. Here's...