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Occupy INSERT NAME HERE

Posted in Politics with tags , on 21 October 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

Occupy INSERT NAME HERE has no idea what it is.   When the weather gets cold they will all go home.  They will have accomplished zip.  Oh well, God bless em and I hope they appreciate how wonderful this country is that allows them to Occupy INSERT NAME HERE with the only risk being a possible fine/ticket or inconvenient catch and release by the police on crowd control violation.    I smile and wave every time I see protesters no matter what they are about or even if I hate their cause except for the Westboro Baptist Church (that’s a personal singular animosity).  Why?  Cause they’re not being shot at by the government or blown to pieces by an opposition party.  I’ve witness both of those things and lived half of my life in countries where things like that are barely notworthy.  Having that in my mind I genually do smile and wish them well.  I love the protests because I know it’s why our country is the greatest in the world.  I just hope a man or woman appreciates that when they pick up their signs and head off to “Occupy INSERT NAME HERE”.  They are truly living in the greatest country in the world even if they don’t realize it now.

Do I know what I’m about?  Yup.  Thought it was obvious:   Politics, guns, beer, the Detroit Lions and preparations for the coming Zombie Invasion.

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The POTR has never been accused of being politically correct

Posted in Politics with tags on 19 September 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

P.C. is for cowards, fakes and fence sitters.

Always have been and always will be a Christian Friend of Israel.  Too bad our ‘current’ government is not.

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And your DNC campaign contributions go to……

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

And your DNC campaign contributions go to…… well…… AttackWatch.com  H/T to them as I love the URL!  http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/join-attack-wire-today

“Join the Attack” that’s toning down the rhetoric of course.  Paid for with your political contributions so Lefty Wingnuts can report Righty Wingnut websites to the Administration.  Remember Freaks, when reporting on The Pissed off Tree Rat I prefer “Right wing gun-toting beer sodden Zombie Hunter” over “Wingnut”.  Orwellian thoughts aside this has to be one of the dumbest campaign expenditures I’ve ever seen.  Well at least in the top 20.  Does anyone really care enough to feel the need to report that I don’t believe President Obama is a friend to Israel?  It appears these folks want to know.  Hell, I’m even sending them a URL trackback to make the reporting easier.   Cause I’m a nice guy and all.

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Sneak Peak at next week………..

Posted in Beer, Football, Politics with tags , , , , , , , , , on 2 September 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

Random rant threads I’ve yet to decided on using next week:

1.  Just because the DHS thinks I AM the profile of a threat (because so many middle aged white gun owning war veterans are rampaging through the streets/taking hostages/blowing up buildings ect…) doesn’t mean that I’m not cuddly and fun.  It means they have become the biggest fraking morons on the plant.  It actually scares me to think what this PC horseshit may be doing to any legitimate security efforts.

2.  The RNC gave an unneeded moral high-ground victory to President Obama by not volunteering to move the Republican primary debate back a night.  He is the President of the United Sates after all.  Even though I don’t support the man himself I do still respect the office of the President of the United States.  The night picked by the WH was a B.S. play, but the RNC could have turned it around and came out looking like the “better man” on the issue.   Point to the Prez.

3.  I’m so fraking giddy about the new NFL season I  have to concentrate not to pee on myself.

4.  The Congressional Black Caucus needed to tell it’s folks that their repeated racists comments accusing any group of non-DNC white folks as racist is well……….. racist.  They look like race baiting oppertunists with zero grasp on any form of Congressional issue.  Can I start a “Vote out the CBC before they make the rest of us even dumber for hearing them speak.” PAC? names a bit long, but I’ll work on it.

5.  I do sooooo love my beer, but it’s got to many damn calories.  With the help of some good friends I’ve begun a training regiment of various Scotches and Irish Whiskey.  Not really a rant.  More of a general bitch that good beer has to many calories   and Whiskey/Scotch is just to damn expensive.

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What the hell is up with this clown?!

Posted in Politics with tags , , , , on 11 August 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat


POTUS Statement today (CNN):

In an energetic speech to workers at a Holland, Michigan, hybrid car battery plant helped by government stimulus funds, Obama said the U.S. economy and American workers are capable of being the best in the world, but were being held back by political stalemate in Congress.

“There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics,” Obama declared to applause.

POTR Rebuttal (placed under the fold to protect the innocent Facebook followers from a blue outburst):

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Someone PLEASE tell my why liberals buy into this?

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

Dear Liberal friends,  aren’t you the least bit insulted by this?

From The Hill: The president, in a video conference with supporters Wednesday night from Chicago, encouraged his backers to focus on broad themes when it comes to his policies on taxes and war, instead of the specifics of individual policies.

“I think the key is not to get too bogged down in detail,” the president said last night.

Not to get “bogged down in detail”?  Just follow the President out of blind allegiance to his vision no matter what he actually does.  Is that what he expects folks to do?  Platitudes and catchy slogans are for campaigns ,not for the actual administration of an organization let alone the whole country.  By this point in the current administration you’d THINK that somebody has some details on something.  You can’t vote “present” any more when you are in charge.  Nope.  Not allowed.  You must get into the details.  That’s what a President is elected to do.  I just don’t get it.  I want my elected officials to give me details.  They get to be purveyors of vision on the campaign trail, but when they get to sit in the big boy chairs it’s time to get to it and figure out how to execute their plan. 

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The Sarah Palin conspiracy has finally been revealed

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

The Sarah Palin conspiracy has been revealed to me at last.  I, like most political junkies, have been watching the Palin Campaign(?) Tour(?) Show(?) and wondering just what the hell she’s doing.  Well last night as the pink elephants paraded through my room the revelation hit me and yes, you wonderful Freaks all, it is in fact a conspiracy.   Well maybe “conspiracy” may be a bit much, but it is in fact a “something”.  My vision will be revealed to you but first, Webster’s defines “conspiracy” as:

Definition of CONSPIRACY

1: the act of conspiring together

2a : an agreement among conspirators b : a group of conspirators

So with that in mind I’ll stick with The Great Palin Conspiracy of 2012.  So you ready for it?  Really?  Because once I tell you you’re a part of it and that can’t be undone?  OK, I sense your head nodding.  Quick, turn out your lights and hunch suspiciously over your keyboard.  Look around…………. Glance over your shoulder……….  All clear?  Good.  Get this:  she has no intention in running for President. 

“WHAT?!  That’s not a conspiracy you moron!  You got me all worked up for nothing.  Now my damn light’s out and my spouse thinks I’m cruising porn in here!” you scream. 

But wait there is more my friends.  It’s even more diabolical.  Enough so that Chris Matthews will be cursing the tingle in his leg that he didn’t break news of it’s conspiracy-plot-ish-ness first. 

“S@IT POTR!  Will you get the frak on with it already?”  you mumble between sips of your malt beverage.

Just think about what Sarah Palin does exceptionally well:

1.  Pull in political pundits to talk about her on every Sunday morning show.

2. Raise money.

3.  Make the media seek her out like tabloid paparazzi dogs in heat no matter where in the country she is.

 ”So what vision did the inebriation pachyderms reveal to you POTR?” you now ask with a curious tilt to you head.

Ahhhh……… just this.  She doesn’t want to be President.  Not right now.  She wants to become a metaphorical 155mm Political Katyusha Rocket aimed right at Capital Hill.  She wants to push some real change in the best way she can.  She is seeking a nomination, but not for President.  She’s seeking the nomination for Chairman of the Tea Party National Committee.  The vision is of her becoming the Chair of the first viable 3rd Party Political movement in decades that she will wrangle into existence by uniting the loosely affiliated current Tea Party groups firmly under one umbrella and charter.  The threat of a Third Party with a real block of votes in congress is more threatening to the RNC/DNC stranglehold over our Government that any of their fears of a single Executive Office party election loss.  A viable Third Party would destroy the status quo and the partisan locks on power and policy.  I think Sarah Palin dreams of just such a thing.  To be honest, so do me and my new big eared peanut munching friends.

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Hope and Change finally defined

Posted in Politics with tags , , , on 31 May 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

Bottom line, change sucks…..
Two and one-half years ago the liberals prevailed with their message of Hope and Change.

 

Here’s the “change”

 

January 2009

May 2011

% chg

Source

Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.

$1.83

$3.44

84%

1

Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)

$43..48

$99..02

127.7%

2

Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)

$38..74

$91..38

135.9%

2

Gold: London (per troy oz.)

$853.25

$1,369.50

60.5%

2

Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL

$3.56

$6.33

78.1%

2

Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL

$9.66

$13..75

42.3%

2

Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob

$13..37

$35..39

164.7%

2

Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall

7.6%

9.4%

23.7%

3

Unemployment rate, blacks

12.6%

15.8%

25.4%

3

Number of unemployed

11,616,000

14,485,000

24.7%

3

Number of fed. Employees

2,779,000

2,840,000

2.2%

3

Real median household income

$50,112

$49,777

-0.7%

4

Number of food stamp recipients

31,983,716

43,200,878

35.1%

5

Number of unemployment benefit recipients

7,526,598

9,193,838

22.2%

6

Number of long-term unemployed

2,600,000

6,400,000

146.2%

3

Poverty rate, individuals

13.2%

14.3%

8.3%

4

People in poverty in U.S.

39,800,000

43,600,000

9.5%

4

U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings

5

9

n/a

10

Present Situation Index

29.9

23.5

-21.4%

11

Failed banks

140

164

17.1%

12

U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate

89.76

82.03

-8.6%

2

U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions

1,575.1

1,865.7

18.4%

13

U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions

8,310.9

8,852.3

6.5%

13

National debt, in trillions

$10..627

$14..052

32.2%

14

In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our nation’s entire history.

Sources:(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury

 

H/T to Chicago Ram Man

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Remote dispatch from the field of the Z-War preparations #3

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

***REMOTE Z.E.R.O. DISPATCH***
***BE PREPARED OR BE EATEN***
Still on the front.  Delayed for 12 hours in my movement to the desert Southwest for some more extended ops.  Damn weather has caused havoc on some good folks in the Midwest and my flights.  My prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones.  Unlike most of these other jack asses in the airport, I will wait patiently through my delays and not take my frustrations out on the airline employees.  I am mature enough to know it’s not their fault.  I save all my bottled fury for the living dead.

As I cruise the net sitting on my ass in the airport I just have to leave you with the following screen shot that caught my eye.  Who knew he was Irish too?   It’s a funny world sometimes.

-THE POTR OUT

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Should The Pissed Off Tree Rat enter the 2012 election race?

Posted in Politics with tags , , , , , on 11 May 2011 by The Pissed Off Tree Rat

I have to ask myself that question.  As the RNC race pool begins to churn (DNC candidate already locked in of course) you see the “no chance in hell candidates” begin to declare themselves avaliable for the Political Draft pool of the RNC.  I never have figured out why some folks would invest so much time and money in running a losing race on a hourse with no legs.

Today’s list of canidates to throw your political contribution money behind if you lack a burn pit in your back yard to waste it in:

Newt Gingrich – Turning 68 this June and carries more baggage than a JFK curbside porter.  Newt is old school insider politics.  I for one, lump him in with the generational Congressional problem children that the average American has been begging to cull from that stricken herd on the Hill in D.C.  No chance he’ll get backing from the Tea Party or swing voters.  Time for him to renew his broadcast political pundit contract.  Sorry Newt, new blood wins the next nomination.  No matter how you retool your image your out now.  Again.  Please reread the memo.  Now stay out.

Donald Trump – A cartoonish character with some business savy, but barely enough credibility as a true conservitive to legally even be called one in the state of Texas.  Only chance he has of winning the nomination is if he comes up with “proof” that he personally shot Osama in the head while on duty as a Navy Seal Reservist.  Maybe you can turn your run into a new reality show.  I hear NBC is begging for an new Friday night line-up filler in the 10PM slot.

Michele Bachmann – Smart and attractive (enough to kill her chances with the hyporical media alone) is really really really conservitive.  So much show she makes The POTR look like a tree worshiping liberal pinko.  Don’t get me wrong now, I like where she’s going on alot of issues but I don’t think the voters are willing to turn the Executive ship that hard and that fast.  Final anchor on her campagn chances:  She’s from Minnesota and I fraking hate the damn Vikings!

What’s that flushing sound I hear?  Oh it’s their campaign contributers writing checks….

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