A Disconcerting Confluence of Events

It's been a week since the jackboot of Demokrat totalitarianism finally forced itself completely through the front door of our erstwhile Constitutional abode, and while we wrestle for the latch chain Obama's dementors seek to fog our minds with lurid tales of racist Tea Partier malevolence.

A Troubling Inconsistency

Never mind the fact that whether it's Black Panthers seeking to intimidate white voters, or Harry Reid's brownshirts acting up in Searchlight just this last weekend, decades of documentation show violence and thuggery to be almost exclusively attributes of the left, and while leftist duplicity is no surprise to most right thinking individuals, what's really worrying to me is today's news that there have been several raids of Christian militia groups across the mid-west this weekend by FBI, ATF, The Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Coincidence? Maybe so, but why is Homeland security and the Joint Terrorism Task Force involved when there are some 35 Islamist training camps operating with impunity inside our borders, and have been for years? Security researcher Ryan Mauro was asked in a Front Page Magazine interview last year

"FP: Why doesn’t the government shut down these compounds?
Mauro: There are a few reasons. The first is that Jamaat ul-Fuqra is not designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department, and the second is that the law enforcement authorities do not have the tools they need to search these compounds yet. Right now, members involved in terrorist and criminal activity are being treated as if they are isolated incidents; rogue followers of an otherwise innocent cult."

Jamaat ul-Fuqra is not designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, but Hutaree is? Moreover, the tools to search such compounds seemed to be abundantly in evidence this weekend.

Here's more on those Islamist Camps.



Update 3/31/10: American Thinkers analysis of the Capitol steps race mummery

Gnarlyblog Birther Free Zone

I don't know if Obama was born a US Citizen or not, and while it seems to me that Birthers are far more credible than the Truthers to which they are often compared, the mere fact that a comparison can be made should be enough to dissuade smart Obama critics from going there; that is a tar-baby the haters should have all to themselves.

Frankly if I were Obama I wouldn't release my (original) birth certificate either, just so I could keep in good supply a (seemingly) unhinged coterie of hyperventilating antagonists at which to aim my supplicant media.

Not that I think Obama's that smart, but just sayin'.

The irony is that this President brings with him a cornucopia of genuine Chicago machine baggage, unsavory perhaps criminal connections, a past steeped in leftist radicalism, and a naked predilection to act on that agenda, all of which needs to be attacked.

With that in mind a Birther hill is not the one I choose to die (or lose credibility) on, and thus I declare Gnarlyblog a Birther free zone.

Typical Just Typical

Came across this video yesterday on Breitbart wherein a foam flecked Lawrence O'Donnell is hectoring Republican US Rep. John Culberson of Texas over his bonifides as a 'Jeffersonian'. Whatever context the discussion was in is not apparent as almost the entire video consists of O'Donnell badgering Culberson on whether or not he would have voted for Medicare or Social Security, and Culberson trying (and failing) to squirm out from under the question. Too bad.

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Normally there is nothing to be learned from these showbiz style interviews, but I find myself in this instance being more alienated by the Republicans equivocation than by O'Donnell's antics, and therein lies the lesson. Most of us conservative folk are fed up, nay disgusted with Republicans laying claim to a mantle of conservatism (or 'Jeffersonianism') yet embrace all manner of socialized foolishness if they glean some sort of political advantage from it. If Republicans haven't yet learned principle from these last elections (as apparently they haven't) their party is toast.

The correct answer Mr. Culberson should have been an unequivocal no, you would not have voted for Social Security or Medicare or any manner of Federal overreach. You would have gotten more respect and backing from your constituency in Texas than the handful of self-interested old codgers you may have alienated.

Take that from someone who's on the brink of codgerdom himself.

Horse d'œuvre's In Miami?

When I first heard this story of horses in Miami being slaughtered for their meat, I was a bit baffled. I'd heard reported that horse meat was going for north of $40 a pound. Why the sudden price jump for a commodity I'd always understood as being a cheap alternative to beef?


Having never sought out horse meat as a comestible I was in the dark regarding the legality of the consumption of horse flesh, but I had assumed it was entirely legal. That's why both Mrs. Gnarly and I simultaneously sat up in bed and proclaimed 'aha!' this morning when we heard it reported on Fox News that sales of horse meat had been illegal since '07. Everyone knows (or rather everyone should know) that once a desirable commodity is made illegal it instantly gains value and creates a criminal enterprise. Furthermore, if the commodity in question is already endangered or in short supply the skyrocketing price will exacerbate the problem inevitably leading towards exhaustion or extinction. John Stossel did a pretty good feature exploring the phenomenon a few months ago called 'How To Save Endangered Tigers: Kill Them?'

Upon doing a little net research of my own, it turns out that the Fox News report was wrong, and sale, trade, and consumption of horse meat is technically legal in Florida (laws differ state by state with horse meat indeed being illegal in many). I say technically legal because any horse flesh consumed by humans must be USDA inspected. The last three abattoirs in the country which slaughtered horses were closed in '07, ergo no USDA inspection, so it can be said that trade in horse meat for human consumption is de facto illegal in this country.

So why despite the unintended consequences of good intentions are we seeing this black market in horse meat only now? Apparently our national obsession with importing people with exotic tastes and bizarre cultural prerogatives who refuse to assimilate, reinforcing their predilections not to do so, and then concentrating them in glorious cultural salad bowls like Miami creates certain markets which would otherwise never have materialized in our erstwhile homogeneous culture.

There are in this case but two solutions to the plight of horse owners in South Florida and perhaps soon the nation. Either free up markets, or clamp down on our borders and insist the 'wretched refuse' assimilates. Preferably both.

The Mother Of All Bad Analogies

Here's what happens when the chosen one strays from his teleprompter:

In the courts they would call this an admission against interest

Grandma, What Sharp Teeth You Have!

Fools Rush In

Last week When I first read of the bold folk who were turning themselves in as an act of defiance to the Obama regime's appeal for informants I was a little queasy.

Six months ago I would have discounted the solicitation as perhaps the bumbling of an overeager young staffer, or something like that.

Tonight on a whim I decided to check Whitehouse.govs website fully expecting amidst the storm of criticism (from the right) that the page would have been taken down in embarrassment.

Guess what:

It's still up!

Now I'm really queasy.