Nothing like a hefty dose of political suicide – from Charlie Sykes at 620 WTMJ:

Last week, we heard that State Rep. Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh) had been busted in a prostitution sting.

State Rep. Gordon Hintz was issued a municipal citation in Appleton earlier this month for violating a city sexual misconduct ordinance.

Appleton police said the citation was issued Feb. 10 in conjunction with an ongoing investigation of Heavenly Touch Massage Parlor, 342 W. Wisconsin Ave., in Appleton. Police searched the business and a nearby residence in the 1300 block of North Division Street Jan. 28, after investigators had staked out the properties for several days after receiving a tip.

Last Friday…. after the Assembly voted to engross the Budget Repair Bill, Hintz turned to a female colleague, Rep. Michelle Litjens and said: “You are F***king dead!”

New tone, indeed. Will he be held accountable?…

Hintz, of course, wants us all to remember that his dalliance with women of easy virtue should not distract us from the real issues of the day – you know, making sure that corrupt unions remain juiced in with bought politicians (such as Hintz).

The Ruling Class at work, my friends…

Our last veteran of World War One has passed away:

Frank Buckles, America’s last surviving World War I veteran, has died at age 110. Born on a Missouri farm, he lied about his age to enlist in the Army at 16 and went on to drive ambulances in France. A civilian during World War II, he was captured by the Japanese while working in Manila and imprisoned for more than three years. Later in life, he entered the national spotlight as a living legend and advocate for the dedication of a national World War I memorial.

The burdens of that war were fairly light upon the United States. We lost about 116,000 dead in that war – certainly a large number, but it pales in comparison to the 900,000 British deaths, the 1,400,000 French dead or the 2,000,000 German dead. And all those dead totals were from populations much smaller than ours (about 4% of all French died in World War One, about 0.1% of all Americans). In large measure, a civilization committed suicide during that terrible four years.

It still astounds the mind to think about the way they went to war – they really did go off singing to the fight. They thought it would be short and glorious. They believed in a concept called “progress” which, basing itself upon a misunderstanding of Darwin’s theories, asserted that things always improve…and thus that if there was to be a war, it was a noble action which would certainly lead to a better future. Thus the “war to end all wars”. Thus, also, the rather insane determination of all combatants to fight with every available means, fair and foul, until absolute victory was won – even though, as Churchill pointed out, victory was to be bought so dear as to be indistinguishable from defeat. Here is what they did:

Germany having let Hell loose kept well in the van of terror; but she was followed step by step by the desperate and ultimately avenging nations she had assailed. Every outrage against humanity and international law was repaid by reprisals often on a greater scale and longer duration. No truce or parley mitigated the strife of armies. The wounded died between the lines; the dead mouldered into the soil. Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate, or killed as they swam. Every effort was made to starve whole nations in to submission without regard to age or sex. Cities and monuments were smashed by artillery. Bombs from the air were cast down indiscriminately. Poison gas in many forms stifled or seared the soldiers. Liquid fire was projected upon their bodies. Men fell from the air in flames, or were smothered, often slowly, in the dark recesses of the sea. The fighting strength of armies was limited only the the manhood of their countries. Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves; and these were of doubtful utility. Winston Churchill, The World Crisis

Of course, Churchill was a bit wrong there – but not on purpose. What he thought of as being a Christian civilization was, in large measure, already being displaced by post-Christian civilization. And thus there was no room in that war for a truce, or for considerations about non-combatants. The madness of that war proved a mere curtain-raiser for the absolute wicked insanity of Lenin, Stalin and Hitler. Whenever I read about the war, I feel like weeping – just in transcribing that passage I choked up. As we mark the passing of the last of our veterans of that war, we should also pause to think about all of those who died – so many of whom now lie in nameless graves, the very nations they fought to defend no longer existing.

And when men die in war, even if they fight for the other side, charity should move us to try and make a better world in their honor. The people of that war are almost all dead, now. Perhaps a few more veterans still linger on, though it is to be doubted – those who were very young children at the time also live with us, but in a very few years everyone who lived during that time will be gone. And we should remember them all, and what they did and pledge ourselves to making a better world. A world in which, even if there is to be war, there will at least never be a war again where we tear at each other and seek mutual extermination. A world of justice and mercy, even if not a world of peace.

Best exemplified by Tim Pawlenty:

He understands – it is a Ruling Class we fight, and all parts of it are inter-connected; you can’t just fight part of it. The whole thing has to go – the ideals of our Declaration must be realized, the Constitution must be enforced.

From Rasmussen:

…A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 33% of Likely U.S. Voters would rather have Congress avoid a government shutdown by authorizing spending at the same levels as last year. Fifty-eight percent (58%) says it’s better to have a partial shutdown until Democrats and Republicans can agree on what spending to cut…

Naturally, there is a partisan split – with 58% of Democrats horrified at the thought of any sort of government shut down, while Republicans and Independents are delighted with the prospect, 80% and 59%, respectively. As I’ve been saying, the people are on the side of budget cuts – deep and real cuts which are necessary to rescue us from fiscal disaster. The Democrats are on the wrong side – and thus there is no reason to compromise with them in the slightest.

Fight, fight and fight some more – keep pressing them back. We can win this, if we just show a bit of courage.

UPDATE: Another poll shows that more people would blame Democrats for a shut-down than GOPers. Once again – we’ve got them boxed in. We are forcing them to defend the indefensible…and all the time 2012 comes closer.

A bit of a post-script to the Kennedy myth:

…The documents include a December 28, 1961, State Department memo describing a tour of several Latin American countries taken by then-Assistant District Attorney of Suffolk County Kennedy. This document as it was originally made public was almost completely redacted. After an initial challenge by Judicial Watch, a version with fewer redactions was released. Judicial Watch continued to argue that the blackouts were baseless and, after six more months, the FBI relented. Among the statements previously withheld but now made available to Judicial Watch:

* “While Kennedy was in Santiago he made arrangements to ‘rent’ a brothel for an entire night. Kennedy allegedly invited one of the Embassy chauffeurs to participate in the night’s activities.”…

Shows two things – there are still plenty of people willing to go a long way to protect the Kennedy family. It also shows how utterly debased and nauseating the whole thing is. This it the liberal hero – the liberal Lion of the Senate; the fighter for the working man…

Ted Kennedy, of course, is not the first man to visit a brothel. Nor is he the first politician found to be less than moral. But it is high time we knocked the Kennedy family off the pedestal – they never deserved to be there. At best, John Kennedy was a mediocre President; being killed was what made him in to a liberal icon…and his younger brother Ted milked that for an entire career. A career in which he did nothing but advance the cause of a corrupt Ruling Class while also poisoning our political discourse with hateful attacks.

The best lesson we can draw from this is that no politician is to be entirely trusted – and any politician who gives evidence of serial lapses of judgment must be put out to pasture. What is most astounding is that Ted Kennedy was a Senator when he died – nearly a half century after the events now related from 1961, and 40 years after he drove a car off a bridge, resulting in a woman being killed. Its not like the Kennedys lived in a closet…but people protected them and burnished their image. Some, no doubt, out of fear (the Kennedys have a reputation for getting revenge), but others out of a misguided loyalty to a flawed vision.

No surprise – from the AP:

…Larson did say his hotel room Monday was paid for by the State Senate Democratic Campaign. He said the group might pay for more nights depending on how long he stays.

Others have donated food, he said, but he declined to name them.

“Let’s just say the senators have friends over here who’ve been more than generous in sharing with us,” Larson said…

Democrats just don’t know how to do it on their own – they always need Other Peoples Money in order to get by. What needs to be looked in to is whether or not shelling out for an elected official on vacation is legal under Wisconsin campaign finance laws. Some how, I doubt that it is.

The real answer to this is the growing recall effort – if we can get even one Democrat to face the electoral music on this then there will be enough Senators in Wisconsin to conduct business, even if the rest of the cowards stay in Illinois…though you can bet that if one them goes, the rest will come back for fear of losing their taxpayer-funded feed bag.

Read over at Instapundit that the 27th of February is being marked at the 2nd anniversary of the TEA Party – but I have my first TEA Party entry from February 20th, 2009:

Seems the spirit of rebellion is spreading:

Hundreds of people turned out on a cold and windy Saturday morning for an anti-tax protest outside U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore’s office in Overland Park.

The rally, which was promoted by Americans for Prosperity’s Kansas chapter and other groups, was directed at Moore for his vote for the $787 billion stimulus package.

Just imagine how angry people will be when the actual Obama plan makes a mess of everything…this flame of liberty could end up becoming a wildfire of freedom spreading across the country in 2010 and 2012.

The odd thing is that with Obama being the semi-socialist we all feared he would be, he’s actually setting up a situation where we really will get change we can believe in…it just won’t be from him.

And what did our liberals have to say about it way back when?

Hundreds showed up? Funny how you don’t think it is that important when thousands show up to listen to our president. Heck, we get hundreds showing up for a new Wallmart opening here in Wyoming.

The glory days of Obama seem a very long time ago now, don’t they? The TEA Party changed all that – and its going to keep on fighting for America.

From the Washington Post:

Police and security officials displayed a massive show of force here and in other Chinese cities Sunday, trying to snuff out any hint of protests modeled on the uprisings in the Middle East. In Shanghai, several hundred people trying to gather were dispersed with a water truck…

As China’s government is really no more than a criminal conspiracy – think of them as a Mafia which has got control of a nuclear-armed nation – they are being very swift in cracking down on the ripples of dissent flowing in from the rest of the global revolution. The grievances of the Chinese people revolve around economic matters, for the most part, but those are swiftly turning political…the reason why, after all, there is economic stress in China is because of the corrupt political system.

I know we’ve all been told by just about every bankster and bureaucrat out there that China is experiencing massive economic growth, but that is just so much utter BS. What has happened in China is that China’s gangster rulers have given out licenses to steel on the part of some Chinese (and some non-Chinese, too…especially western banks which are willing to sink a lot of money in to China). This has allow an appearance of growth which masks the continued, grinding poverty of most Chinese…and the Chinese are getting rather angry about it (you would, too, if your ancestral farm was seized in order to make a golf course for rich people to play on).

We’ll see how well the thugs who run China manage this. My bet is that they will maintain control until the Chinese economy completely collapses (it is inevitable – they are nothing but a mountain of fake money and bad debt). But, I could be wrong – and, indeed, I hope I am.

Is to remember that with our economy teetering on the brink of disaster, inflation eating up the food of the poor and revolution spreading around the world, you have to be one complete loser if you really care about which over paid prima dona gets a little, gold statue…

And I mean that seriously – who cares? Next year they’ll have another crop just like this year, and it will all mostly be garbage massively hyped by movie industry executives who’s only real goal in life is to separate people from their pay…so they can lavish it on people who could be replaced by CGI and, of course, themselves.