Is America Really Divided?

A recent article in the Washington Post talks a little about the divide in political leanings in our country today. It's not a friendly little bump, but a bit spike running right up your backside.

Crappy News, Culture, and Why You Should Care

I'm through watching the 'news'. I'm done. They air nothing that is of any importance to me other than the occasional weather report, which, by the way, doesn't really need to take up 20 minutes of a half hour news cast every night.

I used to talk about the liberal bias in the media, which still exists on the networks, but not so much 24-hour news which is just cluttered with garbage. To be honest, I miss the days of liberal bias. I really do. You can't be biased about the latest tug of war over Anna Nichole's intestines. Stuff like Brittany's baldness, Ann Coulter called John Edwards a f-bomb, Anna Nichole's wormy body, Anna Nichole's wormier boy friends, and more videos of kids sticking their wangs in light sockets just doesn't constitute entertainment or even low brow entertainment for me anymore, much less be something I considered 'news'. I yearn for Dan Rather.

This, all coming from the guy who religiously watches Pro Wrestling more than two nights a week, should say something.

The political correctness in our culture is just utterly out of control. We've had a Jew, a black guy and female all 'convicted' of being homophobes or racists or whatever and two of them are in rehab...or something. It's really not news. I'll be taking bets on who gets to wear the white hood of hilarity next. Today, apparently every one's a target. By the way, am I the only one who finds irony in the fact that the gay community, whose behavior was deemed as a psychological disorder in the 1970s, are now making the same diagnosis of those who don't subscribe to their liberal fundamentalist (see Homophobe) views?

I'm completely tired and done with Anna Nichole Smith. I loved the Playboy issues and what not, but I'm just tired of it all. I'm tired of Greta Van Sustern and Nancy Grace popping up out of her rectum with exclusive pictures of exactly what flavor of Slim Fast she ate before she went belly up in her hotel room. I don't care about the fight over a kid whose entire life at this point, is guaranteed to out do even her mother's, in it's level of train-wreck-ness. I don't care about the kid, nor did I ever care about the sewer that was Anna Nichole's entire life. Her life should be a lesson to the insanely stupid and nothing more, not another excuse for Wolfie Blitzer to hop on into the 'Situation Room'.

Evidently the genius that thought up the whole idea for 24-hour news never considered the fact that 24 hours is just a lot of freaking time to fill up. Stuff that really would never be considered news is now, well, news.

The Print Media is really trying to make sure they're not outdone in their level of non-newsworthy stuff. I mean really trying. Just look at our beloved Springfield Republican Newspaper which today ran a story on Ibuprofen being the best pain killer for kids. If that story doesn't win the earth is flat award, "Cries and Whispers" the most 'un-funny' and non-newsworthy part of the paper, would in a heartbeat. This morning, I learned what Police Commissioner Flynn's favorite comic strip is and that some kid from Westfield State played palm tree no. 624 once on an episode of 'Lost'. Really, the only reason for it's existence is so that the elites in downtown can continue to pretend to be celebrities.

And to think, people honestly wonder why we're so hated in the world. We're not hated because of who we did or didn't colonize five million years ago. We're not hated because we like oil. We're not hated because we like baseball and think soccer is for wussies. We're hated because our country has become a complete and total moral sewer of stupidity where anything is worth talking about, from someone shaving their head, or flashing their genitals in public, to mourning for a situation in where the mother of a child ate a few hundred pills a day and slept with so many men, we don't know who the father is.

Arab terrorists don't hate us for our freedom. They hate us for how we abuse it and make a mockery out of it only to turn around and claim the moral high ground. That's what makes the stories of Michael Richards, Ann Coulter and the black guy from that hospital show thing, so preposterous. The very people who act as loudly inappropriate as they wish are attempting to accuse others of, well, acting as inappropriately as they wish.

Yes, we are in a culture war of sorts, but that may be a little mellow dramatic. That would mean functionally retarded people are moving organized and in unison against the tide of normalcy. People that wear helmets and flash their Pee-Pee's usually aren't capable of such acts, so I try not to give them too much credit. We have some absolutely insane human beings in this country who are getting all the attention and their ridiculous behavior, while probably not inspiring our kids to grab guns and shoot each other in the cha-cha, is inspiring other people to really hate us in other countries and want to shoot us in the cha-cha. Maybe if we were a little less obsessed with our cha-chas, and a little more concerned with how we conduct ourselves as adults, we wouldn't have half the arab world looking to slay the infidel.

I was watching the Grammys a few weeks ago and of course the Dixie Chicks swept the awards because they're totally the best at hating George Bush. In Lead Singer Natalie Mains' acceptance speech she said 'I bet a lot of people are changing the channel'. She then continued to snidely toss her gold record player in everyone's face talking about how courageous she was and how she stood up to us all. Then it sort of dawned on me that the only one who's talking about people talking about Natalie Mains is Natalie Mains, which brings me to the point of this entire rant.

Idiots love attention any way they can get it. To insure you'll keep watching, they'll say more stupid things or remind you of all the stupid things they said before. Unfortunately today, the more retarded you act, the more likely you are to be on TV. The problem is, when we keep letting functionally retarded and emotionally stunted human beings speak for normal folks, it gives you a bad name and it gives me a bad name. It gives our country and our culture a bad name. It's not good for us as people nor as a country. So do yourself a favor and turn these idiots off when they come on TV. The life span of a news story is dictated by the ratings they receive. Hit 'em where it hurts.

Do what I do. Watch pro wrestling.

Sen. Scott Brown Fundraiser. Howie Car To Be In Attendance

Seeing as we've got four State Senators, we should be getting behind every single one of them to make sure they STAY State Senators. If you're anywhere near this on Sunday, please make every effort to attend! Thanks to Paul Santaniello for sending in the following:

FUNDRAISING EVENT FOR
STATE SENATOR
SCOTT BROWN

AT THE
FRANKLIN CHINESE BUFFET

348 E. Central Street, Rt. 140, Franklin, MA
(ACROSS FROM FRANKLIN TOWN HALL & McDONALD'S)
WITH

SPECIAL GUEST
AWARD WINNING COLUMNIST (The Boston Herald), TALK SHOW HOST (WRKO), & BEST SELLING AUTHOR, (THE BROTHERS BULGER)
HOWIE CARR
THE PRICE OF THE EVENT INCLUDES AN ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET & A SIGNED COPY OF HOWIE'S BOOK: THE BROTHERS BULGER

Date: Sunday, March 4, 2007
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM

Cost: $50.00 per person, $90.00 per couple cash bar
Soda and good conversation also included in price
RSVP requested, but not required ? for food and book count
Howie will be there from 5:30-6:30 PM, so come and ask him about his many jobs

Make checks payable to the Scott Brown Election Committee
P.O. Box 566, Wrentham, MA 02093

No corporate checks accepted, maximum contribution is $500.00 per person per calendar year

Awesomely Awesome Videos of the Week

A little dated, but good for a chuckle.



Hillary sings our National Anthem (sounds as good as me and my buddies giving the 'chop' while drunk on the way back from the bars)



John Bradshaw Layfield, Fox News Financial Analyst, outspoken Republican and former WWE Champion, in action clotheslining people and protecting us from Illegal immigrants. Awesomely bad in the most awesome way possible

And Then There Was One

Hillary Clinton doesn't want you to know who's giving to her campaign.Something about being a Clinton and not wanting people to know stuff..

While campaigns are required to report the names of individuals who contribute the maximum $2,300, they don't have to provide the really important information: Who are the well-connected fund-raisers who so happen to be helping them bring in big bundles of cash? That's why we here at the Fed and many other voters have been asking that our Presidential candidates should release voluntarily the identities of those deep pocked people and within reason, let us know how much money they raised for them. In the past few days, two candidates, Democrat John Edwards and Republican Rudolph W. Giulliani, agreed to provide such disclosure. They join Democrat Barack Obama and Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney, who had already made that promise.

No-So-Lost in Translation

So I'm going to begin some fun-time Sunday Activites for all you fed heads out there. The Springfield Republican is one of the most unabashadly liberal publications not only among newspapers in the United States, but probably all media as well. In an attempt to bring some conservative balance to all of this, I'm going to be beginning this little weekly piece discussing the many fun headlines you may hope to read when you pick up a copy of your not-so-beloved Sunday "Republican". The following are today's headlines and what they really mean.

Front Page

Romney Lives Down Heritage (He's a Mormon. That's creepy. What's more creepy is that he's a Republican. By the way it didn't stop there as it's second headline in the REGION section of the paper stated that his family tree 'haunts' him. )

Page A2

Celebrating Teddy's 75th (Teddy, by virtue of having the same birthday as George Washington, is George Washington re-incarnate. Difference between the two is Washington kills limeys and cherry treets, not women.

Virginia Sorry for Slavery (Uh, I'd hope they would be by now, gotta keep the race-baiters happy with this kind of non-news I suppose)

Page A3

Bomb Kills 39 In Iraq Mosque (By the way the subtext read: Many people in the neightborhood work for the Iraqi Military of Police. 'Many People' was in bold. Anyways, we're still dying by the billions in Iraq and if we'd only just realize it and leave everything would be better!)

Iraq toll escapes most Americans (Americans are too dumb and not catching on the the obvious that Iraq is a total failure and leave)

Violence may delay handover (Just to remind us that the body count will continue to soar and we'll be in Iraq forever. Also, Terrorists rule.)

Page A4

Iran Proposes talk, not war (Iran aren't really that bad. Bush is, but Iran, nope)

Ex-Diplomat urges US pullout of Iraq (Just another person who 'gets it'. People that think we should be here are idiots and anyone who knows what they're talking about should want us to leave)

Kurds OK oil-revenue sharing (See, we told you it was all a war for oil!)

Cheney's Voice carries from far-off Asia ( bah, we can pretend for one story)

Abbas fails to get sanctions lifted (btw, there is a nice-sized picture of Abbas and Jaques Chirac shaking hands here while there's a really mean looking picture of Vice President Dick Cheney above. Regardless, the Republican is excited to tell you all about how France and Palestine are taking steps to create a wonderful new world.)

Page A7

Gaza strife breaks 2-week lull; 5 dead (if those damn jews weren't so mean..)

Switches on tracks examined (Richard Branson, ahem, I mean SIR Richard Branson, liberal celebrity, bites lip and saves the world when British trains come derailed. If people could only be as enlightened as our celebrities)

Page A8

College Sorority sends sisters packing (This happens every day. This is not news)

Page A9

Gay Rights bills heading for a vote (Quick! Call your congressmen and start screaming about hate crimes! C'mon, what're you waiting for!?!?!?)

Page A10

Italian Premier gets another shot (He's a liberal by the way. Everyone LOVES this guy. You should, too)

Page A11

Bush links tax code to health insurance (The President kids, is officially page 11 news)

Univision fined $24 million (que?)

Page 13
Governors warn of cuts in child health (Bush wants YOUR kids dead. Your governors are even telling you)

Page A16

Lawmakers In N.Y. push moratorium on n-word (More stories for race-baiters)


I'll try and track this every Sunday until the Republican decides to maintain a little bit more balance in their 'news' coverage. Until then, do the world a favor and stop dropping dollars on the Springfield Republican. It's really not worth it.

This week in Western Mass...

Alright Fed-Heads, Here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is! Or my money were your mouth is! Or forget the money and just stop running your mouths and show up to something! Special thanks to Michael Franco for sending this stuff along!

If YOU have any events of conservative or Republican Nature you would like to have advertised to the millions and millions of Fed Heads who read the Massachusetts Federalist, PLEASE send them along at massfederalist@gmail.com.

Now get off your backside and make something of your life, folks!

The Dartmouth Chapter of Concerned Women for America, Saturday, March 3,
11:00 a.m. at Dartmouth Bible Church. For more information, please contact
Hope Hallett by e-mail at DartCapital@comcast.net.

Join us with Howie Carr, Author, Boston Herald columnist & WRKO talk
show host, sponsored by State Senator Scott Brown, Sunday, March 4,
5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Franklin Chinese Buffet, 348 E. Central St., Rt. 140,
Franklin. For more information, contact Scott at brownforsenate@yahoo.com.

From MassResistance: Co-sponsors needed for the new Parents' Rights
Bill, S2063. So far, there are 17 legislators signed on. It will protect
children and parents, but it's already starting to get attacked by the
extreme left opposition. Take action at link;
http://www.massresistance.org/take_action.html, or call 1-781-890-6001 for
more information.

The Western Mass Republicans will host the Calvin Coolidge Dinner,
Thursday, March 22, 5:00 p.m. at the Log Cabin Banquet Facility, Rt. 141,
Holyoke-Easthampton. For more information, contact Mary Jenewin-Caplin at
1-413-785-5958.

Am I Stupid For Even Wondering?

I really am dissapointed in myself that I even bother to wonder why the Republican Party has proven itself totally incompetent in recent weeks should look nor further than a story that was (astonishingly) buried in the back page of the Springfield Republican's Local section today.

The Story was entitled "6 Patrick Staffers earn $100,000" or more. The story is the latest in a series of news stories that show how incredibly incompetent and inept our sitting Governor is, and how his spending habbits are completely and utterly out of control. Here's a run down of the fun:

--Chief of Staff to the Governor's Education advisor makes $90,000
--Deputy Chief of Staff Brendan Ryan earns $95,000
--David Simas is another Deputy Chief of Staff (I guess you can't have too many of those) and he's making $100,000 as well.
--Deputy chief legal counsel Michael Pineault makes $100,000

Everyone's on the dole big time in the Governor's office. If you were to add all this up (there's TONS more), we'd be getting into the million and a half range in terms of salary per year. Between the curtains, pod casts, Cadillacs and other things, it's pretty obvious this governor needs to have some folks at least attempt to keep him in check.

............or not so much.

"I Really can't criticize him on that" said Senate Minority Leader Richard Tisei, who is a Republican. "The Governor is the CEO of a $26 billion entity, and he needs top quality people in positions like chief of staff and legal counsel. If this were a similar sized company in the private sector, these salaries would be considered low," He concluded.

That's a bunch of crap. Plain and simple. The difference between a company and the government is that I forcibly have to pay my money into the government. It's all about the power of coercian. When people get into public administration they usually go into it knowing they're not going to get the kind of compensation you can get in the private sector. We've stuffed the fat cats' pockets for so long in this state, it's now becoming and accepted thing and even Republicans are condoning it. Everyone's in it to make a buck apparently.

We've got tons of people running around talking about getting up and making something out of the Republican Party in this state, but it's impossible to do without, you know, showing people that we're different from the Democrats. Man is truly not a creature of circumstance.

Helmets For Our State Legislators

If you didn't think things could be any more outrageous on Beacon Hill these days, you were wrong. Dead wrong. Just read this Story for proof.

This past week, Senator Steven Panagiatakos (guess which Party) has now filed legislation that would require kids to wear helmets while they go sledding. It's official: we've crossed the line of stupidity to outright insanity. Truth be told, the only people who should be wearing helmets are the folks on Beacon Hill that would support this kind of crap legislation.

First, it was fluffernutter sandwiches. Now it's helmets for sledding. I can't wait to see full body armor and gas masks for kids who want to play tag. I'd call the legislation "Pimp My Kid".

I stay up at night sometimes thinking about how our society became this incredibly far gone. I'd be clamoring for the baby-boomers to kick the bucket as soon as possible if it were not for my own generation being equally as idiotic. Rome is burning, folks.

D'Nesh D'Souza to Speak at Smith College TONIGHT

Event Info
Name: Dinesh D'Souza at Smith College
Host: Smith Republicans
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2007
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Smith College Neilson Library Browsing Room
City: Northampton, MA

Contact Info
Email:
republican@smith.edu

Join the Smith College Republicans as they host Dinesh D'Souza to speak on his
newest work, "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for
9/11."

Dinesh D'Souza has been named one of the "top young public-policy makers in the
country" by Investors Business Daily and the New York Times has named him one of
the most influential conservatives minds of our time. He is also one of the
nation's leading authorities on international issues.

Mr. D’Souza is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University. Before joining the Hoover Institution, Mr. D'Souza was the
John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In 1987-88 he served
as senior policy analyst at the Reagan White House. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa
from Dartmouth College in 1983.



I will be posting many of these events as I recieve word of them. PLEASE, if you are a RTC member in any community, particularly Western Mass, DO NOT hesitate to send me meeting times and locations as well as event info!


I'm posting this event in particular because this guy is truly a 'can't miss' speaker. I have long read his material and it's must for any forward-thinking Conservative. Take it from me, you do NOT want to miss this!!

What Makes Barak Obama Qualified to be President? Part III

Thank you so much to 96.9 FM Talk Radio and Michael Graham for Making My Day. I'll parrot some of his points and toss in a few of my own, allowing and inspiring me to complete my mini-series on Barak Obama's unqualifications for the White House.

POP QUIZ!

Who said which of the following statements have been made by both Barak Obama and Deval Patrick in the last 90 days Can you identify which one said what?


A) "We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans."

B) "You know what else has to change? Our politics."

C) "Grassroots governing, like grassroots campaigning, is about listening to people."

D) "I've learned that meaningful change always begins at the grassroots."

E) "There are people just like me who are hungry for a reason to hope."

F) "People are hungry for a different kind of politics."

G) "I have great faith and hope about the future - because I believe in you."

H) "Changing our politics can only come from you."

I) "The change I’m talking about is up to you. "

J) "Take a chance on hope."

K) "We must draw a line in the sand between the politics of cynicism and the politics of hope."

L) "Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"


Does it even matter at this point? It looks like the Democrats just want us to vote for eloquent, unqualified black men. For all I know, there could be tons of reasons to really go out and support Barak Obama's campaign for the Presidency, but no one from his camp are telling anyone. They did mention however, that he is, you know... black.

I'm already tired of the new wave of supposedly eloquent African American Democrats who are constantly talking about being above the fray, yet have no mark on their record that would suggest otherwise. Instead they mask their charade using words like 'hope' and 'change', all the while using their race as an excuse for avoiding the specifics. In the end, Democrats want us to vote for someone because of their race, which is just as ridiculous as voting against someone for the same reasons. This is a new, dangerous trend that puts race and style above substance and experience. Ironically, both Patrick and Obama completely lack the experience to pursue the offices they decided to seek. Patrick tricked the crowd, and it's very likely Obama could do the same.

Throughout the 2006 campaign, Patrick was high on substance and low of policy stances. It's taken until now to find out how he sees the world, and sadly, it's too late to avoid the train wreck. Let's hope voters find out what Obama thinks about things BEFORE we head to the polls.

Ever Walk in On Your Parents Having Sex?

This is the one thing that just makes me shake my head at Massachusetts Politics in general.

There is perhaps no other legislative body in the country that is more disgraceful then the Massachusetts General Court. No one is as unqualified to be a Governor as Deval Patrick. If this doesn't prove it, I don't know what does.

To be blunt, I could care less about where Governor Patrick's ideological stances are at this point. I never thought I'd say that, but really, it's true. I just want to see this guy get through one day giving off the aura that he might have the slightest clue of, I don't know, WHAT TO DO.

We've had all sorts of fluffer-nutter Pod Casts, Civil Rights speeches, and other acts that give us 'fuzzy feelings'. Deval's not wearing the old tie to the office as much anymore and is going for the more casual, cool look. He opened up the Governor's private elevator so everyone can use it. He took those ugly velvet ropes around the corner office down, too. Don't you feel more 'engaged'!?What's next? A soft serve ice cream maker in the main rotunda of the state house that gives away 'free' cones to anyone who wants it? Is this Sesame Street?

In his first month in office, Patrick has almost burnt his office down accidentally (which he laughed about on his 'Pod Cast'), dismissed the man whom he had just appointed to the head of the Economic Affairs cabinet position and replaced him with, well, himself. He played long-face about the recently discovered budget deficit before re-instating nearly $383 million dollars worth of cuts to the budget and now apparently is considering completely crushing the budget by raising the salaries of members of the state legislature all so he can get a free ride for the next four years. Seeing as everyone else seems to be getting a nice wad of dough except for, of course, those of us whose shoulders it will fall on to pay for all these goodies.

If that weren't fun enough,, has announced he will not be keeping his pledge to cut property taxes, abandoned any state role in apprehending illegal immigrants and announced his opposition to voters participating in the state constitution's initiative and petition process.

Then right up there with The Senator Barrios "Kill Peanut Butter and Fluff Sandwiches" legislation, Deval Patrick is trying to get more in touch with us by speaking to use through our iPods. After all, If that's not government in action, I don't know what is. Patrick said he was eager for the opportunity, touting it as a wonderful opportunity for more 'dialogue', which in the end, kind of confuses me. For a 'dialogue' to occur, two people need to be talking to each other, right? So if Governor Patrick is interested in hearing from me or is considering playing people's concerns back and responding to them, there isn't much 'dialogue' going on, just more Patrick sweet talk.

Politically, one must wonder where Patrick's head has gone. Ideological differences aside, I admired his political know how and his ability to pain an image of himself and successfully market it to the masses. He ran a brilliant campaign for governor, although now, the truth may be coming out that it wasn't about changing anything, it was about marketing a gimmick. Never once was it about substance, it was all style. Senator Steven Bounoconti of West Springfield, the DEMOCRAT legislator of the year once upon a time, called Patrick "Naive". Dan Bosely, Patrick's original Economic Affairs appointment, couldn't take it on saw the writing on the wall before so much as the first week of his administration was done. Now, Patrick's willing to bump up the salaries of the pigs in the legislature in exchange for passing more of his goof-ball legislation and doing it blatently right out in the open for everyone to see. Listening and watching the actions of the Democrats in the state house, you can't help but question whether Patrick possesses even the core competencies that are required to do the basics of the job.

Now I'm not naive to the process. I know how it works. The Legislature gets goodies if they give goodies back to Deval, Quid Pro Quo. But the problem I have with deals like the one Patrick is floating around with the Massachusetts Legislature is alot like the one we have about our Parents and having sex. Sure you know your parents do it, afterall, if they didn't, you wouldn't be here reading this. But it's a totally different thing to see it actually happening right in front of you. I know the legislature and the Patrick Administration are trying to stuff their own pockets as well as their buddies' pockets. I just wish they'd at least try to do it behind closed doors.

It's less politically inclined folks like Patrick that make me squirm these days. At least when most politicians make these kinds of sleezy deals, they try to keep them hidden. Then I can justify my outrage and come on and rant about it around here. But when you've got bafoons like Governor Patrick running around the Corner Office, I can't help but think the fun has been taken out of it all.