Climate Czar. Technology Czar. Energy Czar. Car Czar. President-elect Barack Obama is already promoting the “czarification” of our government. Apparently, Obama wanted Al Gore to be the Climate Czar, but Gore turned it down. Also, while the Federal Reserve continues to create money out of thin air and Obama is creating czars out of thin air I have a suggestion. Why not create a Liberty Czar and put Ron Paul in the position? I’m not quite sure what his duties would be, but the name sounds cool for someone like Ron Paul. It’s not like any of Obama’s other czars will have any real authority, or will they?
also tsar or tzar (zär, tsär) A male monarch or emperor, especially one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.
A person having great power; an autocrat: “the square-jawed, ruddy complacency of Jack Farrell, the czar of the Fifteenth Street police station” (Ernest Hemingway).
Informal An appointed official having special powers to regulate or supervise an activity: a racetrack czar; an energy czar.
Let us all cross our fingers and hope that Obama’s definition is number 3 and not number 1 or 2. It seems to me a person aiming to distance himself from the past 8 years of George W. Bush’s “autocratic” style of leadership would eliminate this word from his vocabulary. Instead Obama seems to be embracing the concept, even promoting it as an essential part of his coming administration.
This article is a semi-spoof alteration of an AP article I found titled “US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria.” NONE of the facts have been changed though, just a few changes to make the article a bit more entertaining. My goal is to confuse you at least once into separating the “AP Mass Media News” from my fiction, which you can easily do by clicking on the source links. Just trying out a new satire style! Hope you find it interesting and the news informative; feel free to tell me what you think in the comments field below. by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution Originally published October 29, 2008 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article5322.html
ABU KAMAL, SYRIA – Imperial American military helicopters launched yet another preemptive attack into yet another sovereign nation. They managed to kill eight (8) people in a lethal strike on Sunday. The Syrian government said all eight (8) dead were civilian, including four (4) children.
A government spokesman in Damascus was quoted as thinking “we would have returned fire if we had even a 1% chance of winning against this military juggernaut without having our country laid waste, most likely with the eager help of Israeli’s nuclear-armed, trigger-happy theocratic air force.” A Russian government official was laughing too hard at the irony of the attack to be quoted, most likely in regards to the American allegations on a recent failed invasion of South Ossetia by the US-backed Georgia.
A U.S. military official said the raid by Special Forces targeted the foreign fighter network that travels through Syria into Iraq. The Americans have been unable to shut the network down in the area since Syria is a sovereign nation and attacking it without provocation or declaration of war with just cause is a violation of both the US Constitution and international law.
VIDEO Below. Last night on Saturday Night Live’s NBC special Will Ferrell came back as George Bush and Tina Fey joined him as Sarah Palin. This is probably the best SNL skit of the season thus far.
Will Ferrell reprises his impression of George Bush, which was one of the most famous in SNL history. In the bit, Bush endorses McCain-Palin with some of the best humor and satire I’ve seen in awhile on SNL… probably since Ferrell was one of the Saturday Night Live regulars. Watch the video below.
Humor, especially satire, is always the best escape from the futility of watching the markets tank and the country move further away from the principles of liberty.
On the lighter side of things, Fox News is reporting that Bob Barr is a finalist in the Mustache Institute’s “Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year” contest, alongside 15 others including Keith Hernandez, Jason Giambi, and Cleveland Brown (from The Family Guy). The winner is expected to be announced on October 25th. Vote Now!
Yesterday I suggested the Barr campaign utilize the footage of Bob Barr in the Borat movie in a commercial. I suppose I wasn’t completely joking because I put together a semi-rough cut of what I was talking about. Check it out below.
The Barr campaign has produced its first television commercial. It is a decent introduction to the general principles of Bob Barr. Perhaps in a future commercial the Barr campaign can utilize his “interview” with Borat in some type of commercial, although it may be too offensive to some. They can use Borat as a metaphor for the status quo government we have today of saying one thing and doing another.
Ok, I’m kidding, but only partially. Perhaps, I’ll attempt to make the Barr-Borat commercial myself. In the meantime watch the actual campaign commercial below.
Let’s start with the deadly soda, because we definitely all need to work together to proactively hunt down dangerous felons like this. Let me paint the picture. It’s an easy one. We’ve all had parents, at least two, anyway. And some of us have even cared for them when they got sick. And most of us have had a soda or two in our lives. So this should be pretty easy to picture. Natalie Walters, a lady who routinely takes her father to the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center for treatment, also decided to callously take advantage of her right to travel, and regularly visited the cafeteria. Her routine was to refill her mug with Diet Coke for anywhere from $1 to $1.50, depending on the cashier at the time and his or her ability to accurately type in the right codes and digits on a keyboard. Well, imagine her surprise on Aug. 20, when Walters filled her mug with Diet Coke, [and] the clerk charged $3.80.
“I told her that cannot be right and asked to talk to the manager,” Walters said.
The manager told Walters the price is correct.
Walters decided she didn’t want to pay that much and offered to return the soda, she said. But the manager told her there was no way to accept the returned soda and Walters had to pay. Walters refused, and she said she was angry by this point, and she poured the soda onto the counter.
The manager banned Walters from the cafeteria.
But, wait, there’s more! A LOT more! Officials realized their debt to the safety of the community, and felt morally compelled to go through every piece of cafeteria and hospital videotape, tracking her insurgent movements, tracing her back to her ill father; going through his medical records; and justifiably upsetting him by interrupting him at his own dental appointment to let him know that Big Brother requested his daughter’s presence.
Bill O’Reilly managed to somewhat improve the quality of his programming last night.Instead of focusing his efforts on vilifying Chevy Chase for not “believing in” the Great Sarah Palin, he instead decided to address the hypocrisy of the leaders in Washington, who always show up at the Bottom of the 9th Inning during a legitimate crisis, as opposed to proactively informing the public when red flags start to appear.
While I do agree with his statements that our leaders should bite the bullet and make the tough call of delivering bad news (as opposed to McCain, blowing smoke our way the other day, claiming that our current economy has a strong foundation) and also that “both parties are to blame” for this current economic and bailout crisis, I do, however, find it quite humorous that he asserts “there was no Paul Revere in public office to alert us”.Bill, perhaps there was no Paul Revere, but there was and is a Ron Paul in office to alert us.He has been warning the country for almost 2 decades of an impending crisis, such as the one we are currently facing.
The headlines of today are the former “alarmist” predictions of “that kook, fringe candidate, Ron Paul”.It’s unfortunate that O’Reilly, most of the Fox News Network, and the Mainstream Media, in general, have spent many years ignoring the warnings of an honest and economically literate public official.O’Reilly cries out for a leader with the spine to be a leader, yet, at the same time, O’Reilly does his best to ignore a Ron Paul and sweep him under the rug.Fortunately, shrewd journalists such as Glenn Beck and Neil Cavuto regularly march the Ron Pauls and the Peter Schiffs of the world onto their shows in an attempt to inform the public of the very financial corruption thriving in D.C., as well as the dangers of government intervention.
Although many of us have enjoyed laughing at “Bushisms” and even some of Dan Quayle’s infamous quotes, let’s not overlook how entertaining (and utterly frightening) McCain’s recent “doublespeak” has been. If he weren’t running to be leader of our country, it would be downright hilarious. Instead, I hope many find it absolutely eye-opening:
Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and Jesse Ventura (among others) get a chance to deliver a supposedly funny line in this Bill Maher segment from his show last night. Most of the lines were just not funny, but Paul’s line and Barr’s line brought out the laughs. Enjoy it below.
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ABU KAMAL, SYRIA – Imperial American military helicopters launched yet another preemptive attack into yet another sovereign nation. They managed to kill eight (8) people in a lethal strike on Sunday. The Syrian government said all eight (8) dead were civilian, including four (4) children.
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