Perfect

And the same goes for all their BS bleating about environmental and poverty issues. Make that in spades for the phony pandering to "human rights" and political correctness.

OMMAG

Lessons from the Land of Lenin

Pravda on US Gun Ownership

These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bare arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.

 My favorite quote from the Pravda article:

Of course being savages, murderers and liars does not mean being stupid and the Reds learned from their Civil War experience. One of the first things they did was to disarm the population. From that point, mass repression, mass arrests, mass deportations, mass murder, mass starvation were all a safe game for the powers that were. The worst they had to fear was a pitchfork in the guts or a knife in the back or the occasional hunting rifle. Not much for soldiers.

OMMAG

On the Home Front

Fighting back against media shitheads......

Naming Names ...

Like Dwight R. Worley ... so called "calumnist" for the Lower Hudson Valley Journal. Who thought it would be fun and games to ride the anti-gun campaign by compiling and publishing a list of ALL legal registered gun owners in the Greater NYC area.

Ironically .... "Journal News reporter Dwight R. Worley owns a Smith & Wesson 686 .357 Magnum and has had a residence permit in New York City for that weapon since February 2011"

His personal information DID NOT appear in the article he created.

Not to worry though ... so long as angrywhitedude.com is on the job.

Cheers!

OMMAG

Competence and Character

Norman Schwarzkopf ... "To be a 21st-century leader, you must have two things: competence and character."

Malthusian Delight

Those special people who believe that their precious selves have a divine mandate to rid the world of pretty much anyone who disagrees with them. Enviro-terrorists ....

Earth First Published HIT List

What they really are ... Believers in the doctrine of Thomas Malthus .... seeking the destruction of society through mass murder ... all for the purpose of creating a world where only their chosen few exist. Indoctrinated and cultivated in the toxic soup of half baked Marxist ideology, ingrained self loathing and religious conviction of zealots born to "set the world right", the self proclaimed "environmental warriors" perverse world view is simply hatred of mankind ... misanthropy hiding behind the fantasy of a noble cause.

Birds of a feather...

The sick psychopathic core of fanatics is only ever thinly disguised. So... just remember that the next time you are tempted to lend support to the likes of Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, the Humane Society of the US, the Suzuki Foundation or any of their ilk.

Their motivation is a deep hatred of mankind, and all of the ecological "caring" simply a convenient ruse to entice the gullible, the stupid and their psychotic brethren to their cause.

OMMAG

Christmas In My Canada

It is cold outside ... We have feasted and celebrated with family and friends ... We have made a prayer and given thanks.

We forgive our enemies in the spirit of the Holiday.

That is All

God bless the deserving and God forgive the rest.

 

Best Observation on Laws and Regulation

Sultan Knish - Perfect Prison

Laws apply to law abiding people, who are a self-selecting group. They don't apply to people who shoot up schools, fast food joints or pension funds. The people who are the most controlled are also the people in the least need of being controlled. The people who are least controlled are in the most need of being controlled. This is an old paradox of government that governments never deal with.

Less government is good for all of us ..... even the perceived "victims" of society.... and all that meddling by governments and busy bodies does is force an inversion where those who are willing and able to be honest and  productive members of our society are turned into actual victims.

Of course this also happens to be the aim of commies.

OMMAG

Bureaucratic Mission Creep

Land locked prairie farmland, ditches, farm bridges and culverts. Fisheries and Oceans?

Under the most absurd and just plain false justifications, rural residents, agricultural operators and their municipal governments, are forced to involve the federal government agency ... the mandate of which is supposed to be restricted to commercial fisheries and coastal regions.

DFO Habitat ... Operational Statements

Something that is most insidious and invariably detrimental to the public good is the all too predictable over reaching of government agencies.

Typically under liberal governments the regulation of just about every aspect of life and human activity is given the green light. Often, directly encouraged by politicians eager to show how concerned they are for the welfare of various groups or species or the environment. Sadly, in the case of politicians, it is 99.99 percent of the time they are ignorant of most facts concerning the topic at hand and motivated more by the instinct for political survival in world so heavily influenced by even less informed and attention seeking populist media and agenda driven activists.

Consequences are not something that any of these types are actually concerned with. They being always convinced that whatever their intentions and regardless of whether honest or simply self serving, the outcomes must be something good or at worst something that can be ignored.

In this sort of perverted thinking ... If it appears to be a good idea then it MUST be ... the political types can almost always avoid being held accountable for the actual consequences of their meddling. It's just a fact of life.

In the case of bureaucrats and their insulated little world it is much more ominous and much more of a threat to the wellbeing of the public and the ability of us all to go about our own lives managing our own affairs as we see fit.

Bureaucrats and bureaucracies, once given a mandate to go about measuring, regulating and in general meddling in any area are almost NEVER told when to stop. And the politicians who sent them on their way to do what they will,  are NEVER interested in knowing how things actually turned out. At least until some of the public begin making trouble for them.

All this is all too often just the accepted state of affairs and too bad for the public who suffer from the incompetence and self serving motivation of the "powers that be".

And so it is that ministries such as the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada are found to be expanding their own sphere of regulatory influence in some very strange areas.



OMMAG

Too Bloody Right

Sometimes you should just leave them to their fate

Kuwait’s parliament approved a law imposing the death penalty on any Muslim who insults God, his prophets, messengers, Prophet Mohammad’s wives or the Koran, in any form of expression, if they don’t repent...............................

I always thought that the "Liberation" of Kuwait was a bad strategic move. Likewise the "liberation" of Iraq....

Better to invade and occupy.

OMMAG

Potus and SecState Still Laughing it Off

Benghazi ... flunkies at State take the fall.

As if anyone expected some other result?

The CREEPs in the Whitehouse...... belong in jail.

Psychopathy .....

A study in narcisism.



OMMAG

Maple Caper Resolved

LOOKs  like the QPP and RCMP along with CBSA and the US customs folks uncovered the smuggling operation ... the "let's get rid of this mess" part of the scheme.
No word yet on WHO the perps are and of course the media boobs are still using the term "alleged crime".

There is however, a take away from the theft of bout 2.7 million kilos of maple syrup, worth up to $18 million.

Quebec maple sugar barons are a lot like OPEC.

1- The Maple Producers of Quebec  keep a "strategic" stockpile of 20 million kilograms (44 million pounds) of sugar syrup. Worth  $120 million

2- This makes the stated value approximately 6 bucks per kilo. Last time I bought real syrup at a retail store, the price was about 10 times that.




3- Quebec produces up to 80% of the world supply of maple sugar syrup.


NOTE: Some farmers in SW Ontario sell direct for about $6 to $10 a liter.


I'm going to make some pancakes .... cheers!

OMMAG

Wayback Machine

Well only to the 70s .... but too few people ever got to appreciate the talent of Randy California.

OMMAG

Even NOW!

Mainstream Media Hacks like John Iveson can't and won't do basic math.

As far as figuring out that ONE plane costs ONE figure PER YEAR to own and maintain... and that adding up 30 years of ONE figure gives a bigger number than 20 years... and that the Cost of that plane for each year ... has NEVER changed. 

Yes! 16.3 million bucks a year is a LOT of money. BUT ... you are not going to get a better bang for your buck ... ANYWHERE.  Bang for the Buck is what it IS all about.

Buying F-35s ....

Who cares what commies like the NDP's Mulcair say about government spending? And who in their right mind gives any credence to the bald faced lies they tell?

Memo to the MSM .... Grow UP ... Grow a PAIR ... Get a BRAIN.

OMMAG

Christmas Shopping

At this time of year we should think of useful and delighting gifts for our friends.

At The People's Cube  you may find just the sort of thing you need.....

Posters. post cards, Tee shirts and other good stuff await the discriminating gifter...........

Open Letter to MSM ...

Personally ... I had no intention of commenting on this fiasco at all ... but then came across this rather succinct summation of the whole deal:

On The Occasion Of The British Nurse's "Death By DJ"

You sons of bitches in media - from the local to the mainstream - snickered along with glee as you retailed the Australian DJ hoax call to a world-wide audience.
Without your intervention and amplification, the incident would have died on the local airwaves. It was not "their" hoax call, it was yours as well. Own it.
Now, if you would, take the sober, sanctimonious noises you've been making and shove 'em where the sun don't shine.
That is all. 

On the simple matter of radio shows doing prank calls .... It occurred to me that this is the last refuge of ratings seeking losers as they scrape the bottom of the barrel. Even in Winnipeg this fad passed decades ago ( probably hastened into extinction by the number of F@ck Offs and stone cold hang ups in response to the knobs efforts to mess with people ).

Plainly the fact that this went into the global market had a lot to do with social media .... but it also had a lot to do with the mainstream media clowns and their eagerness to cash in on the low life stunt.

Once it became an embarrassment .... they tried to turn it around and play it as if they owned the moral high ground in some way.

The MSM ....Assholes ....... all of you.

OMMAG

Suckers

Never mind the fact that it is not possible to make an electric vehicle that can compete on true cost of owning and operating with a gas powered vehicle. Never mind the billions of government subsidies (tax dollars) squandered on efforts to coerce manufacturers to produce EVs. Never mind the wasted tax dollars poured into failed battery production schemes.

Anyone who actually knows anything about looking after a motor vehicle also knows that the single weakest part of the machine is the damned battery. And the colder the climate you live in the lower the reliability of the damned battery.  Making anyone who lives above the 49th parallel ... that buys an EV ... a double plus all day sucker.

From Greenie Watch:

Electric Cars: The Environmentally Friendly Way of Losing Money Since 2009
A Congressional Budget Office report released in the fall tells Obama what the rest of us have known for some time: Your bet on electric cars wasn’t an investment, but a gamble; a dumb gamble.
And now you’ve just come up snake eyes.
“Despite the federal government pumping $7.5 billion into the electric vehicle industry in the United States through 2019,” writes the CSMonitor.com, “overall national gasoline consumption is unlikely to be significantly affected, according to a report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).”
The CBO says that even if Obama increased the amount of the subsidy, it would make little difference to the gasoline usage or emissions output because automakers would still be required to hit fuel efficiency targets. Instead, the CBO says that either a tax on gasoline or carbon is the only way to increase the attractiveness of electric cars to consumers.
Duh.  That’s because electric cars don’t save gas, they don’t save money and they don’t save the “planet.”   They are only a vanity-plumping, amenity purchase for the metro-testicled.

Wayback Machine

The first movie soundtrack LP that came into our house ... the first time I ever heard such a high level of artistic concept and production quality.
Although just about every musical piece is near perfect ... some stand out more than others.
" ....Easy action! You got a rocket in your pocket ......"


Cool

Yes They are NUTS

Update ... on the Animal Rights Activist Front...

Torrance County Sheriff Heath White said that, in the recent case, [Debra] Swenerton was caught in the act — tossing the dogs one by one from the driver’s side window of her vehicle — by deputies who had been alerted by the puppies’ owner.

To make matters worse, authorities suspect that this isn’t an isolated incident – that Swenerton has been dognapping for years, and may be tied to nearly 60 reports of missing dogs:

Edgewood animal control officer Mike Ring said the arrest of 59-year-old Debbie Swenerton ‘really cracked the case’ of some 60 dogs that have gone missing over the past few years. Ring believes that Swenerton stole the dogs and then gave them to shelters, saying that they were strays she had rescued. He added that there is a possibility that Swenerton belongs to a larger group of animal activists that are concerned over the treatment of pets.

Furthermore, according to Torrance County Undersherriff Martin Rivera, Swenerton repeatedly called in cases of dog abuse on owners who were taking perfectly fine care of their pets...

Hat Tips to  Small Dead Animals

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Occupy A Special Place in Hell

From ...... Never Yet Melted ...

.... the Modern Leftist is committed always and everywhere to favour those who fail over those who succeed. It is a five-year-old’s view of reality, if five-year-olds were susceptible to paranoia and capable of advancing complicated conspiracy theories.

Of course ... I have made these same points many times over the last seven years of blogging as OMMAG.

Although this specific topic of why a progressive's mind is fundamentally deranged has not been the focus of the roughly 2500 OMMAG posts... it remains at the epicenter of most.

It really must be like living hell to be stuck in the realm of leftist envy and avarice.

OMMAG

The Wayback Machine

1966 ... Walk Away Renee
Michael Brown and Tony Sansone (The Left Banke) sung by Steve Martin Caro
Recorded on the Smash label

So ... a 16 year old pens and records what I think is one of the best pop songs ever...

There was something magical happening in the 60s........