Dumb Quote of the Day

On Edward Snowden:

“He has taken information that does not belong to him – it belongs to the people of the United States – he has jeopardized our national security…. Clearly the bad guys have already changed their ways” – Mike Rogers R-MI

Is Edward Snowden not a person? Is he not “of the United States?” How does this information not belong to him if it “belongs to the people of the United States?”

And how exactly did it belong to all of us if we didn’t even know about it until Snowden told us?

Does Mike Rogers actually listen to his own bullshit? Does he believe it?

Obama will attack Syria to draw attention away from scandals

A few weeks ago I had speculated Obama might bomb Syria to distract from his other scandals. Well maybe the people who currently control the US state didn’t think Obama’s IRS, Benghazi, and AP/Fox phone tapping were bad enough to warrant another war.  But now that Eric Snowden has revealed to the world that the United States government collects all of our phone records, all bets are off.  It appears the Nobel Peace Prize winner may very well attack another Muslim country and hand it over to “al-Qaeda.”

So thousands more need to die, the last secular country in the Middle East needs to be radicalized, and the Christian community that has been there for thousands of years must be killed or exiled, all so Obama doesn’t have to watch CNN cover Snowden’s NSA story anymore.  Don’t worry though.  Obama believes in “good government” and will eliminate misspent tax dollars in every agency and department across the Federal Government.  Apparently using the money the scandal plagued IRS stole from us to kill Syrians who support their government does not represent “misspent tax dollars.”

E. J. Dionne: Propagandist for the State

Check out this quote from a Dionne article:

We had something close to a small-government libertarian utopia in the late 19th century, and we decided it didn’t work. We realized that many would never be able to save enough for retirement and, later, that most of them would be unable to afford health insurance in old age. Smaller government meant that too many people were poor and that monopolies were formed too easily. And when the Depression engulfed us, government was helpless, largely handcuffed by this antigovernment ideology until Franklin Roosevelt came along.

Tom Woods Does a great job destroying this argument, and I would urge everyone to read it. However, without even getting into specifics, it’s easy to see how stupid this paragraph is:

“We had something close to a small-government libertarian utopia in the late 19th century.” Libertarians do not claim a free society would be a Utopia. That’s for socialist central planners.

“we decided it didn’t work.” Yes “we” all got together back in the 19th century before we were born and decided this.

“Many would never be able to save enough for retirement” Yeah everybody in the 19th century was worried about “retirement.”

“Most of them would be unable to afford health insurance in old age.” Who the hell ever said this back in our “Libertarian” days? How much did health insurance cost back then E.J.?

“Smaller government meant that too many people were poor” Yes that’s why there were so many poor people in the US in 1950 before the “War on Poverty” compared to the “Big Government” Soviet Union.

“Monopolies were formed too easily” That’s why prices fell during the 2nd half of the 19th century.

“The depression engulfed us” It just came along…no need to ask why.

“government was helpless, largely handcuffed by this antigovernment ideology until Franklin Roosevelt came along.” Yes, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover were all “antigovernment.”