2001: Islamist extremists slaughter nearly 3,000 Americans.

2012: Islamist extremists attack the American embassy in Egypt and the American consulate in Libya.

Ah, the "Arab Spring." It's a good thing--right?

. . . and so, have no right to an opinion on the matter (right, Democrats?) but it seems to me that this ad here is absolutely devestating to the "war-on-women" "narrative" being pushed by . . . well . . . you know.

This is why the Democratic Party of the United States needs to be destroyed, and the ground it stands on sown with salt.

The only person I can be said to belong to is my wife.

The government belongs to me--and to all of us. This is very, very different from saying that we "belong" to the government.

The concept that the government was subordinate to the people was a revolutionary concept--in fact, back in the day, they called the intellectual revolution surrounding that thought "The Enlightenment." This was in opposition to the older view, the view reflected in the concept of the "divine right of kings" and the like.

That older, less Enlightened age is the one that the Democratic Party of the United States wants to take us back to. For our own good, of course.

UPDATE: Just like "you didn't build that" and "what Republicans are saying is harmful to Israel" this has now become yet another of those (many) things that the Democrats never said, despite what your lying ears may tell you by actually listening to their plain words.

In this context, the difficulty the Democrats have in reading the Constitution becomes more understandable.

So, why did MSNBC refuse to show a single speech at Tuesday night's Republican National Convention that was given by a person who was a "minority?"

Could it possibly be that "the narrative" is more important to MSNBC than the truth is?

And if true, then what conclusion should a reasonable person reach about that network's commitment to equal rights, let alone simple honesty?

Who are the racists in America today, really? The ones who are trying to build the country, create jobs for their neighbors, and generally just get on with their lives, or the ones who continually hear "dog whistles" that nobody with sense can hear?

Unilever sees 'return to poverty' in Europe from the UK's Telegraph newspaper:

"Poverty is returning to Europe," Jan Zijderveld, the head of Unilever's European business told the Financial Times Deutschland in an interview.

"If a consumer in Spain only spends €17 when they go shopping, then I'm not going to be able to sell them washing powder for half of their budget."

The inevitable result of the welfare-state form of democracy as practiced in Europe, and as advocated by the Democratic Party of the United States, is poverty for the masses and outrageous wealth (harvested from those masses) for the elites.

Inevitable.

(And yeah, plenty of Republicans of the Establishment variety want to hop on the elite-harvester gravy train, too. This is precisely what the Tea Party types want to stop and reverse.)

Remember that the next time a reporter from the Media-Democrat Complex sneers at the Tea Party.

Neil Armstrong has died. He has made the final giant leap.

Democrats have to impersonate "Republican" women with Democrat activists in a hate-ad against Republicans. Isn't it weird how often Democrats have to impersonate Republicans? It's almost like you can't believe anything Democrats say about Republicans, isn't it?

All nine of the street victims of the New York shooting incident were shot by the police, not the "perp." Someone needs to remind them that "gun control" properly refers to where you're aiming.

I voted for Steelman.

How many people might have been saved had there been one law-abiding, concealed-carry gun owner who had actually been allowed to carry his (or her) weapon into that the movie audience in Aurora, Colorado when the maniac began his rampage?

But instead, the movie theater was a "gun-free zone."

Guns kill. Yes. But so do "gun-free zones."

Make up your own mind what he was thinking:

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

Another glimpse into what Barack Hussein Obama really believes. He believes in collectivism. Barack Obama is a Marxist. If that offends you, you might want to return to living in this world, where the sky is blue. And this world is the one where Barack Obama is, and always has been, a Marxist.

Go ahead and vote for him if you really want to, but do so in the full knowledge of exactly what you are voting for, and by doing so, understand that you are demonstrating what you yourself believe. Vote for Obama, and be a Marxist.

Or don't, and don't.

That's your choice this year. What's it going to be?

See, this is the kind of thing I'd really, really rather blog about than political crap.

It really pisses me off that the people who try to make every damn thing in the world a political matter (i.e. under the purview of government) cheerfully go about their busybody business, f**king up the world for the rest of us who just want to get on with things.

With that mini-rant, I present . . . Tonto the Rockatoo:

Link via Ace of Spades HQ

The cutest thing about the video is at the end, where Tonto gets tuckered out.