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Has the U.S. Law enforcement machinery gone intentionally retarded, or is it just playing politics?

Posted in Hotties, Politics with tags , , , on 8 February 2012 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

I hope to GOD that these folks clean house of their idiot political appointees the day after the next inauguration.   They have to know what complete moronic jackasses they’ve become by accusing essentially everyone in America, that does not think the Government is the swellest gee golly most most efficient and effecting thing a going, is some form a ticking time bomb of violence.  I speak for experience as one who will openly admit to having been a moronic jackass on occasion but never on my job.

FBI being dumb asses political stooges.   (Reuters) – Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.

These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.

The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.

Routine encounters with police can turn violent “at the drop of a hat,” said Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director in the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

“We thought it was important to increase the visibility of the threat with state and local law enforcement,” he said.

Now that I think about it………… when I had to work with the Feebs in the field they we’re standard politically centric then too.  I think they lost a step or two when Scully and Mulder decided to move to the private sector.  Such a shame and waste of a good Feedie team.

Had to add a gratuitous Gillian Anderson pic below cause I always thought she was kinda hot and I’m soooo not above doing that.  Just don’t tell Linda Carter OK?  See’s still The POTR’s #1 babe.

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Fool me (not me actually, but you) once…………….

Posted in Politics with tags , , on 21 January 2012 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

I was thinking about my Democratic friends today.  Yes, I do have a few.  I was thinking about how the Republicans get to watch this endless self flagellation of our candidates.  Yet after the primary is done we’re supposed to patch up the battered and bloody candidate and run him/her nationally.  Idiotic, but it is at least a chance for us to make a choice on more that one candidate.  You my Democratic friends do not this year.  The DNC has decided for you that you don’t get to vote for a candidate.  Your presidential candidate has been pre-selected for you by the Party and not by a single voter.  Oh well, the RNC screws over it’s folks like that too, but I’m not pushing 3rd party votes yet.  I am pushing the fact that this November IS your first chance to vote.  I hope by now that you’ve reconsidered voting for the Master of Duplicity again.

“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.” – Barack Obama 2004 Democratic National Convention

So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. - Barack Obama, Apr 2008 Bitter Pennsylvanians Speech

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Just a reminder that there ARE consequences to being a despicable human being sometimes

Posted in Politics with tags , , , on 12 January 2012 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

Movement on the “Manning the Betrayer”  front.  Today the U.S. Army has recommended that PFC Bradley Manning should face a general court martial based on his a pre-trial hearing results.   I’m sure that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could care less.  If found guilty the second crime will be if he doesn’t get the max:

Manual for Court Martial, 2002, Chapter 4, Paragraph 28

Article 104—Aiding the enemy

“Any person who—

(1) aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or

(2) without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly; shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.”

I say we sell raffle tickets to anyone who served in Iraq or Afghanistan.  One dollar each for the chance to be randomly drawn to be on this turn-coats firing squad.  The DoD could make MILLIONS!  I’ll buy the first twenty bucks worth……

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What do I have to say about the new year?

Posted in End of the World Thoughts, Guns, Politics, Zombie on 2 January 2012 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

After the 12 months of suck that was “2011″ I just have to say, FRAK IT AND BRING IT ON 2012.

We are gonna have it all, you Freaks, and you know what we can take it.  We are the steel that will bend but not break.  We will stand the line and hold back the hordes of Chaos at our gate.

We will stride across the world with beers and black rifles in hand laughing in the face of absurdity.

Stock up for the ends of times cause we got:

1.  Election mayhem

2.  New North Korean government changes (with nukes)

3.  Iranian mass psychosis of the Lost Imam who-fell-down-a-well-or-something (with nukes)

4.  Mayan Apocalypse countdown

5.  Dissolution of the EU

6.  Iraq’s civil war

7.  Syrian civil war

8.  Unemployment / social malaise / and fiscal insecurities translating into urban violace

9.  Rising fuel prices and continued American refusal to develop our own natural resources till it’s jut too damn late.

10.  The Zombies are coming……………. So be prepared or be eaten.

 

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Guess what, Hewlett Packard thinks the Obama Administration is full of s#it. Yup, even the loyal “blue” businesses that funded his campaign.

Posted in Politics with tags , , , , on 23 December 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

This made it to my desk this week.  Check out the corporate quote they are using for their flyer.  You know your policies suck when businesses are running ads telling you just that as part of their marketing campaign to consumers.  A campaign of “We are a Blue Company, but the Administration is wrong and the Tea Party is Right”.  It boggles my mind how clueless or President and his advisers are.

I have a feeling that when the President’s campaign bundlers call on HP for more money, for four more years of Hoping to Get Some Change Some-damn-where,  their gonna get a pretty straight forward “Frak off!”.   Rightfully so.

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So what does a wartime President do when his game plan is to ignore it till it goes away?

Posted in Politics with tags , , , , , on 27 November 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

Funny thing.  When a country is at war that’s usually a pretty up front sort of thing for a nations leader.   Let’s not kid ourselves here, besides the obligatory ”Support out men and women serving overseas.” comments on some holiday or another,  nobody really claims that the President is focused on the war effort.  Even the Iraq exodus was forced on him by the Iraqi’s refusal to agree to a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA).  His claim that this fills  a campaign promise is a crock as he had the state department fighting tooth and nail to get a SOFA in place for 50,000 troops in 2012.  When that fell through all the sudden it was his plan after all.  What a load.  Now his problem is that he has to make a decision in Afghanistan.   Yup he does, not the Generals or some politically favored Czar.  It’s political, affects the war and won’t go away till he weighs in.  Ohhh no he actually has to make a decision that is unambiguous and on the record.   Problem:  he pushed a plan of bombing Insurgents in Pakistan, Pakistan don’t like that,  America screw up (allegedly) and killed 24 Pakistani boarder guards, Pakistan don’t like that, Pakistan has demanded the closure of the U.S. base on their soil and has closed our land resupply route into Afghanistan.  This is big strategic political war effort time.  The sort of thing that a leader has to commit to if the war is to be won.  I’m not proposing any solution.  I’ll just be watching to see if out elected leader steps up and earns his spurs, or stalls and hopes the problem just goes away.  Unfortunately the “stall and hope the problem just goes away” seems to be the President’s reaction of choice when faced with difficult decisions.

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What the hell is the 99% really, and who decided to lump my ass into their silly equation?

Posted in Politics with tags , , on 14 November 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

I do love a good protest no matter the cause.  As I’ve said in the past, they make me smile and they remind me what a great country America really is.  I would begrudge no group the opportunity to put on display their 1st Amendment Rights  in a peaceful and law abiding way.  But this Occupy INSERT NAME HERE deal has The Pissed Off Tree Rat lost deep in contemplation.  It’s the whole 99 percent thing that apparently I’m lumped into.   While in itself that concept is inherently wrong, as I would be the obvious choice for Despotic Ruler of any new form of society,  I just can’t come to grips with the whole point.  But I digress so lets get back to it.

According to the occasionally accurate Wikipedia the 99% are defined as:

“We are the 99%“, refers to thedifference in wealth and income growth in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population.

     OK…………  So it’s  purely money thing then.  I’ll ignore the entire randomness of the rest of the socialist drivel you hear in OWS interviews  and focus on the apparent intent of the 99% as screwed over victims of the evil banking industry that has destroyed or lives.  Here’s a good summation of my issue with this:

As it turns out, the bottom 99 percent of the United States doesn’t make the top 1 percent of household incomes worldwide — but it comes surprisingly close. Branko Milanovic, lead economist for the World Bank research group, sent me this comparative analysis based on household income or consumption surveys worldwide, adjusted for purchasing power differences. Those at the 34th percentile of income in the United States are at the 90th percentile globally, and those at the 50th percentile in the United States are at the 93rd percentile globally. Even the very poorest Americans — those at the 2nd percentile of income in the United States — are at the 62nd percentile globally.

     So in reality while the “OWS 99%” are grousing on about the statistically questionable “1%” are actually in fact themselves  ”The Evil Greedy Global Criminal Top 39%” who are consuming their fat assed lazy way through the planet on the backs of the rest of the 61%.  It’s all a matter of perspective of where you sit folks.    The Gods honest truth is that we haven’t been criminally abused by the banks and are better off than most of the rest of the world in general.

Sure it sucks when you can’t pay your mortgage or credit card. But guess what?  That’s not the banks fault, it’s yours and mine.   The banks do not force money into your hand at a 14% interest rate unless you ask then too. If the banks get caught doing something “illegal” there are already laws.  Hell, we’re not exactly a country that skimps on banking regulations folks.   It sucks when you can’t get a job.   But that’s another post and I’m still trying to find out who decided to lump my ass into their silly 99% equation?  I’d like to be excluded from that random grouping as I represent my own damn self and not some member of The Evil Greedy Global Criminal 39% that spends his/her days sleeping in a tent in the middle of a traffic circle.

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A Sunday nonsensical

Posted in General, Politics with tags , on 6 November 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

Each for his land, in a fair fight,
Encountered strove, and died,
And the kindly earth that knows no spite
Covers them side by side.

Rudyard Kipling – The American Rebellion

“WTF is that about?!” you say.   I do so love the random.  That and I enjoy Kipling.  So deal.

-The POTR

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Bottom line, when you cut the crap, is that the Democrats are actively trying to enable voter fraud.

Posted in Politics with tags , , , , , , , on 4 November 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

The Pissed Off Tree Rat is pissed.  Yup, even more than usual.

You need a photo ID to:

Drive.

Buy beer.

Buy Smokes.

Buy nasal decongestant at WalMart.

Check into a hotel.

Rent a DVD at Blockbuster.

Get on a plane.

Buy a car.

See an R-Rated movie.

And so on, and so forth……………

So when states legislate an ID requirement to vote what’s our Command and Chief have to say?

TPM.  “I will say that my big priority is making sure that as many people are participating in our democracy as possible,” Obama said. “Some of these moves in some of the other states that we’ve seen try to make it tougher to vote, restricting ballot access, making it hard on seniors, making it hard on young people.

“I think that’s a big mistake, and I have made sure that our Justice Department is taking a look at what’s being done across the country to ensure that people aren’t being denied access to the franchise,” Obama said.

     Buying beer, or smokes, or cold meds needs to be controlled tighter than casting a vote in President Obama’s opinion. The only reason to fight voter ID laws is an overt desire to support voter fraud.  Being asked for ID when buying a 12 pack, when you’re over 40, is just inconvenient and stupid but I do it anyway.  Arguing that a state has no right to ask for my ID to vote is just fraking insane!  Any DOJ employees with a grain of decency , or common sense,  should be throwing up right about now.

I don’t know what pisses me off more, the idea that you don’t need to produce a photo ID to vote or that the President tries to argue that weak assed disenfranchisement bullshit as the excuse to facilitate plain old DNC turn-out-the-vote fraud.

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A legislative branch that doesn’t, or just can’t, legislate and an executive branch without any executive know how or ability to learn.

Posted in Politics with tags , , , , , , on 3 November 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

****UPDATED****

The current/ongoing Legislative failure:

In three weeks the 12-member Super Committee get to emerge from their secret sessions to force their edict of the 12 upon all of Congress and the United States of America.  Members of Congress will not be allowed to amend or modify in any way the conclusions of this super-powered committee.  This insane procedure mandates only a single yes or no vote by Congress as a whole.   This is an all or nothing, take it or leave it, devil be damned etc deal.  And since the only other option to the Committees recommendations are automatic arbitrary cuts  with no impact analysis, the cowards of Congress have no skin in the game.  This bullshit deal was devised to give every damn one of them plausibility deniability.  This is a bipartisan failure and willing participation in the extortion of their constituents.

This week’s Executive failure:

WASHINGTON –  Government-controlled mortgage giant Freddie Mac has requested $6 billion in additional aid after posting a wider loss in the third quarter.

Freddie Mac said Thursday that it lost $4.4 billion, or $1.86 per share, in the July-September quarter. That compares with a loss of $4.1 billion, or $1.25 a share, in the same quarter of 2010.

And how do the punish the failure of U.S. Representative Barney Frank’s pets to properly manage our $BILLIONS$ ?

Politico. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates the mortgage giants that are now under government receivership, has approved $12.79 million in bonus pay for the performance of 10 executives at Fannie and Freddie last year despite both companies posting losses in all four quarters.

What did the President have to say about that in 2009 when he selling the largest taxpayer funded political cronyism kickback in history to America?

And in order to restore trust, we’ve got to make certain that taxpayer funds are not subsidizing excessive compensation packages on Wall Street.

We all need to take responsibility. And this includes executives at major financial firms who turned to the American people, hat in hand, when they were in trouble, even as they paid themselves their customary lavish bonuses. As I said last week, that’s the height of irresponsibility. That’s shameful. And that’s exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis: a culture of narrow self-interest and short-term gain at the expense of everything else.

And what the President have to say about that in 2011 when it’s his own political benifactors? 

Not a fraking thing.  Nada, zip, zilch.  To call this disgusting is an understatement.  To reelect any incumbent in 2012 is a folly and a continuing sentence of financial slavery forced upon our children.

**UPDATE**

White House aides say President Obama took a lead on cleaning up excessive compensation on Wall Street with the Dodd-Frank bill, but those provisions do not apply to Fannie and Freddie.

“The White House was not involved, and nor should it be,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday.

How do you like it when the Commander and Chief tells America to”Frak Off and mind you own business.”?  I for one don’t like it one damn bit.  Where are the OWS Freaks on this one?  They sure as hell should be protesting outside the White House if they stood for what they say they do.  I personally think they’re full of shit with no credibility what so ever.


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