Let It Burn

by Crazy Ivan on March 5, 2010

Mt. San Miguel on fire.  San Diego wildfire as seen looking south from my backyard in Santee.

Has anyone seen my fiddle?

I spend a lot of time on the internet. Being a cubicle slave for 40 hours a week at an undisclosed location affords me a lot of time to read other blogs and even their comments sections. At this one blog in particular a right-wing republican blogger was railing against the reconciliation process being employed by house and senate democrats to pass the health care boondoggle by bypassing the filibuster in the senate. Inevitably one of the commentors calling himself Proud_Liberal was pointing out the republicans in the past used the same tactic to pass tax cut legislation. This of course descended into the typical partisan bickering and name calling that is characteristic of what passes for political discourse in this day and age. The liberal called the conservative a racist. The conservative called the liberal a fascist. This went on and on with the liberal foaming at the mouth about Bush’s push to war in Iraq and Afghanistan followed by the conservative defending a revolutionary standpoint using the health care reform bill as the proverbial final straw. The whole thing was idiotic.

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A Modest Proposal

by Crazy Ivan on March 4, 2010

Income tax
I don’t like this game anymore.
Creative Commons License photo credit: alancleaver_2000

I’m never one to assert that an overly simplistic and idealistic course of action will solve all the world’s woes and create a utopia. As a matter of fact, the oversimplification of the problem/solution relationship is oftentimes the primary reason libertarianism is regarded with a great deal of skepticism in the realm of mainstream politics. That being said, I believe I may have come up with a two-part solution that may help steer this nation back towards it’s founding principles and away from the progressive socialist course it has taken in recent decades.

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Translating Politics

February 22, 2010

Have you ever watched an elected official or someone seeking public office make a speech and realized that he or she is not speaking the same language that you or I would typically use? Everything he or she might say appears to be laced with highly euphemistic vocabulary that seems to have been cooked up [...]

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Pat Robertson’s Greatest Hits

January 15, 2010

American President Abraham Lincoln was once quoted as saying “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Televangelist Pat Robertson has made a long and shockingly successful career out of removing all doubt almost every time he opens his mouth. In the aftermath of the huge [...]

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Hooray for Our Side

January 13, 2010

Recently it has come to the attention of those who follow politics that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said some things about President Obama that could be construed as racist. During the presidential campaign Reid was quoted as saying that Mr. Obama is “light skinned” with no “negro dialect.” The blogspere on the right of [...]

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Yes, we’re fucking serious, you ignorant fucking….

November 13, 2009

(Deep breath.)

photo credit: Renegade98
The quality of our representatives says a lot about what’s going on.  Just compare approval ratings to incumbency, then wait for your fucking head to explode.  It boggles the mind how we as a country consistently put our most corrupt and inept forward.  I say “we” because we are all responsible.  [...]

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Political Correctness Gone Wild

November 9, 2009

This last Thursday there was an incident which occurred at the U.S. Army base of Fort Hood in Texas. A lone gunman went on a rampage killing 13 and wounding 42. The gunman was an Army psychologist named Maj.Nidal Malik Hasan. During the shooting the Major was heard by witnesses as shouting “Allah Ackhbar” which [...]

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The Mind of a Marxist

October 15, 2009

Yesterday I was reading the politics section of Craigslist in my home town to pass the time and there seemed to be a lot of “America: Love it or Leave it” kind of posts. To stir the pot a little I added my own post which I copied from this site to the discussion. Now [...]

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The War For History

September 11, 2009

In case anyone has forgotten today marks the eighth year anniversary of the attacks that occurred on September 11th, 2001. For many of us this marks a day of remembrance, reflection, and grief. However, for the tinfoil hat brigade today is recruitment day. This is the day all the crazies come out of the woodwork [...]

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The Stimulus is Working…Just Kidding

September 10, 2009

For those who are following the latest in financial news, it has been widely reported that the President’s 800 billion dollar stimulus bill which was passed earlier this year is working. After all the stock market is up and businesses are showing profits. It seems on the surface things are looking up. However, there is [...]

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