Y'all know I'm conservative, right?

One of my GFs said to me earlier this week that I would get more readership if I weren't so outspoken about being conservative.  And you know what?  I don't doubt that.  But I gotta be me.  The way I figure it, if I put my views and attitudes on my blog and on FB the way I would in real life, then the reactions of others will tell me something about them.  So far, I've gotten a lot more FB friends than I ever expected to get; especially since I'm writing as a superhero character.  That tells me something, I think.

Even though my readership is small, I do have readers, and I gain new FB friends at a rate of at least 1 or 2 a week.  Not bad for someone writing as a superhero, eh?  There has to be a reason for that - I must be connecting with you all in some way, shape, or form; and especially when you take into consideration that a lot of my readers are liberals - and they know I'm conservative!

Why would a liberal want to friend someone that they know is conservative?  Well, part of the reason could be because I am also a comics nerd, and comics nerdery runs the gamut of political ideology.  Another reason, I think, is because they consider me something of an oddity: a conservative with a brain.  I say this, because I've been told this by people I know in real life.  :-)

How conservative am I?  Well, I favor the death penalty, for one.  I also have voted GOP for every election that I've been able to vote in (except the very first time, when I voted Democrat because I felt I had to.  I was young and felt that that was what I was supposed to do.  After that, I decided that I will vote the way I want to vote, and not in the way that someone expects me to vote- which is the way it's supposed to be, anyway.). 

I am also a free market capitalist, and am a believer in "Drill, baby, drill" in order to create jobs here and to increase our oil production here to reduce our dependance on foreign oil.  By the way, I also want these oil companies to take every measure possible to minimize the impact that their machines have on the environment, and to also arrange that they will remove their machines once they're done so that the surrounding environment can get back to the state it was in when they came.

I am also pro-life.  I think the unborn is human from the moment of conception, and deserves our protection just like anyone else would get our protection from others who would seek to do harm.  I am also totally down with defunding Planned Parenthood, because they are not a government agency, but an establishment in the private sector, and as a free market capitalist (as well as being a pro-lifer), I believe they should sink or swim on their own efforts instead of being propped up by the government teat.  If PP's supporters want to keep it financially viable, then let them open up their wallets to help.  Or ask Warren Buffett, since he feels he's not paying enough taxes.  Or, if PP is really that concerned that women get the reproductive service that they offer, then let them provide those services for free.

Oh, and the clincher.  I am a total advocate of the Tea Party.  If that doesn't convince you of the extent of my conservatism, then I don't know what else will!  LOL  I could go on, but I think now you get the idea of how conservative I am.  :-D 

Another reason I am outspoken about my conservatism is because I am concerned about my liberal friends only getting one side of the picture when it comes to conservatives and what they are like.  For example, what do you think of Sarah Palin?  If your sources for Palin and her personality are the likes of Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Rachel Maddow, and Joe McGinniss, then your impression of her is that she is a dim-witted, egotistical, power-hungry bitch.  I hope now that I've listed those names, you can see how your attitudes towards Palin are likely slanted by them.  Just imagine if you got all your info on Michelle Obama from Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.  Based only on their input, do you think that you would have a fair assessment of the woman?  So why should you limit your assessment of Palin on those who hate her?  From an intellectual standpoint, is that the right and fair thing to do?

Anyway, for my liberal friends, according to your sources, now that I admitted to being a conservative, why aren't I the sort of racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic sort that you've heard about?  Maybe I am an exception?  Maybe, but I assure you, I am not.  If the only kinds of conservatives that you've met so far are of that racist, sexist, bigoted and homophobic stereotype, then you seriously need to broaden your social circles, because conservatives run the gamut of society.  Some of us even love comic books!  :-D

So I am outspoken on my conservatism here and on FB so as to challenge your views of conservatives and conservatism.  And if you are truly intellectually honest and open-minded, not only would you be open to having your views of conservatives and conservatism questioned and challenged, you would even welcome it as yet another opportunity to further your knowledge and wisdom overall - and you also certainly wouldn't want to be known to be harboring any prejudices, especially based on misinformation from biased sources.  Yeah, I know you guys pretty well.  :-)

So there ya have it.  Come what may, I am conservative, and outspoken about it!  Hear me roar!

RRRRROOO (coughcough) AAARRRRR!!!

My take on federal funding of Planned Parenthood

It's time now for me to give my take on whether federal funds should go to Planned Parenthood.  For those who know me, they probably assumed that I am against it, seeing as how I'm pro-life.  And they would be right!  What they don't quite know is how I can be opposed to something they consider so paramount to a woman's rights; especially a woman's right to choose (which always means "choose abortion" and not giving birth). 

Well, it's simple, as I'm about to explain.  This fight over the federal budget is over what gets cut and what doesn't.   Cutting federal funding to PP is a no-brainer, and after I explain why, you should be on board with me on this regardless of where you stand on the abortion issue.   So here's my take:

PP is not a federal agency nor a department of the federal goverment; it's a for-profit entity.   That is, they're in business to make money.  Lots of it.  Were my liberal friends not so lock-step with legalized abortion, they'd see how PP is exactly one of those evil blood-sucking profit mill corporations that they hate so much.  This fight should be a no-brainer to them, but so far my efforts have proven futile in trying to show that to them. 

There is another reason to oppose giving federal funds to PP:  One of the arguments to fund PP is that they provide women's services not related to abortion.  BUT, isn't that what Obamacare is going to do?  For my liberal friends I ask this question:  Isn't giving funds to PP for services that one of their cherished government clinics could provide demonstrate a lack of faith of what Obamacare can do for those women?  You believe in Obama and his health care initiative, don't you? Well, if you support precious public funds to go to PP instead of Obamacare, then I have to question your faith in Obamacare.

Consideration also must be given to this question:  Theoretically, PP - because it is a private institution - can turn anyone away.  Has any news media checked on them to see if PP turns away any women in poverty?  Has any news media checked their books to see how they spend our tax money?  Theoretically, since PP is taking federal funds, then they have to open their books for our inspection, just to make sure they are on the up-and-up.  And recall that transparency was one of Obama's promises; so I say it's time to shine the light on PP and what they do with our funds.  I challenge any of the news media to look into how PP uses our money.  If you have that much faith in PP, then this should not be a problem for you.  

If, however, they investigate PP and discover that they are misusing our funds, then it's all the more reason to see that our funds are taken away from them and put into Obamacare so that the women in poverty (that are alleged to be the reason for keeping the federal funding of PP) will receive the medical aid that they need. 

So, my liberal friends, if you are truly honest with yourself, you'll have to admit that I'm right about all this.  So why are you just sitting there?  Call your local news media and have them look into PP's books!  There are women in poverty out there whose very lives could depend on your efforts to find out the truth!

This has been a FMFLLFs update.

Are liberals close to "getting it"? Not even close!

This Salon article gives the merest of glimmers of hope that at least a few liberals are close to grasping how arrogant and elitist they are. The article's author, Michael Lind, at least seems to have an idea of how bad they are right now, but he's not there yet, and that's evidenced by this paragraph from the article:

"It makes liberals look like snobs.
Since the '60s, conservatives have managed to recruit populist voters by claiming that the intellectual elites look down their noses at them. By theatrically sneering at less-educated politicians and media loudmouths, progressive pundits seem to prove that the left consists only of snobbish members of the college-educated professional class making fun of the errors of people who did not attend prestigious schools."

So close, and yet still not there! Here's the disconnect: Liberals look like snobs precisely because...

...they ARE snobs!

Only until liberals know and understand that they **are** wholeheartedly and complete snobs and elitists will they be on the road to overcoming their blindness and get back to understanding the problems of the "little people" that they claim to be the champions of.

I often use this example of their disconnect: Liberals are often the champions of public schools and public transportation, and yet they wouldn't be caught dead sending their kids to those schools, nor would they use public transportation. Thus, since they are unaware of the current state of public schools and public transportation, they are not "invested" in seeing them improved, because they are isolated from the problems of those who must send their kids to public schools. They likewise are isolated from the problems of public transportation; preferring instead to purchase the latest in electrical cars that are well out of the price range of most of those "little people".

Liberals then, are basically intellectual alcoholics; that is, they are drunk on their own perceived level of intelligence. And like regular alcoholics, they won't be able to fix the problem until they admit that there is a problem, and that problem is that they are elitist snobs. Liberals cling to their diplomas in the very same way that alcoholics cling to their bottles - that is, it's a crutch from facing reality. Until liberals can set their diplomas down and see the world as it truly is and see how lacking they truly are in helping to champion the causes of the "little people", then they will continue to be distant and aloof from the problems of the rest of us. Hopefully they can awaken to their blindness before an Egypt-type uprising deposes them. Unfortunately, I see little hope of that at this time.

So close, Michael! So close! Hopefully you'll get it next time! :-D

Since this post is made out of love for my liberal friends, I'm going to classify it as a FMFLLFs post (For My Fact-Loving Liberal Friends), because the fact is that they are snobs. Luv ya! Mwah!

FMFLLFs: Environmentally unfriendly CFL bulbs!

Today is a double-duty post; that is, I am doing both a BSC-PSA (Busty Superhero Chick Public Service Announcement) and a FMFLLFs (For My Fact-Loving Liberal Friends), because not only am I trying to help my dear, sweet liberal friends with some nice, juicy facts that they eat up like a cop eats up donuts, but the following information will also benefit the rest of you; which is why I am making this a BSC-PSA. In truth, what follows is not so much new news, but a reminder of something that you might have forgotten. And that would be regarding the so-called "environmentally friendly" Compact Fluorescent Lamps - also known as CFL bulbs.

CFLs are meant to replace the regular incandescent light bulbs (I'll just call them ILBs), because in theory, they are supposed to last much longer and with less energy, and so as the theory goes, you use fewer bulbs. However, CFLs have a dirty little secret that should be mentioned a LOT more than it is now: These bulbs contain mercury. Yes, the same mercury that is hazardous to your health. While some articles try to state that what mercury is contained in CFLs is much lower than what is contained in your average mercury thermometer, it is still enough that a broken one is a big health hazard.

If you've read the linked article, you see that the doctor had no clue as how to treat someone with mercury poisoning. My suggestion to you, dear friends, is to check your local ERs and other emergency personnel to see what their policies are regarding mercury poisoning, and if they don't have a policy, then ask them why the hell not, since so many CFLs are in the market. And also consider that this problem will only get worse once the Feds ban ILBs in the next couple of years and we'll have to switch out to the health-hazard-yet-somehow-environmentally-friendly CFLs. While most sites try to assure that there will be little environmental problems so long as the CFLs are disposed of properly, don't fool yourself into thinking that that the vast majority of Americans aren't going to dispose of them just like they do ILBs - by throwing them away in the regular trash, where they'll get crushed and break anywhere along the way from the house's trash can to the landfill.

Being creatures of habit accustomed to throwing away dead light bulbs as we have been doing for decades, it may take years to break us out of the habit of disposing CFLs in the trash just like we do ILBs. In the process of being indoctrinated into using CFLs "for our own good", there will be literally hundreds of thousands - if not millions - of CFLs in our landfills. Okay, let's play the numbers game, which my liberal friends so much love to do.

According to the articles linked above, the average CFL bulb has about 4 milligrams of mercury. I did a quick search to see how many light bulbs are sold in the United States in a given year. Once source stated that there were 2 billion of all types of light bulbs sold in 2005, so we'll use that. So once we are required to switch over to the CFLs, imagine that 2 billion CFLs will eventually make their way into our landfills. Before I continue, I know that my liberal friends will say that there will be fewer light bulbs in landfills because they last longer, BUT, until such time that the majority of us learn to dispose of CFLs "in the proper way", I can betcha that many CFLs will make their way to the landfill and sit there for years before our "great leaders" are forced to recognize that millions of CFLs sitting in our landfills leaking mercury is not good for the environment - not to mention to our health!

So friends, I say why wait until that fateful and terrible day in which a future leader has to publicly acknowledge the problem and endeavor to fix it? Why not proactively prevent the problem in the first place by preventing these health hazards from getting to our landfills in the first place? Damn, I'm trying to protect the environment here from mercury poisoning - my liberal friends should be all gung-ho on my side with this! If that's not enough, then consider that some evil corporation will be looting a nasty profit from our misery because he will have successfully bought off politicians to push these things in the market despite their obvious flaw.

So the sale of CFLs has all the sorts of stuff that should make my liberal friends gleefully froth at the mouth in anger over (by the way, "gleefully frothing in anger" is a unique liberal trait, which means that they aren't ecstatically happy unless they are pissed over some real or imagined "outrage" to inspire them into action - for which most of them means ranting in blogs and tweets): There is a flawed product that is a danger to the public but whose flaw is being passed over because some rich, greedy bigshot has bought off politicians so that they look the other way while they rake in the blood money while we are poisoned. A recipe for action, my friends!

Now that I have provided some nice, juicy facts for you, my dear liberal friends, why delay any longer in getting these monsters off the market and getting that ICB ban overturned? You DO love the environment, don't you? And you don't want some greedy CEO to swim in tons of cash while thousands of us deal with the effects of mercury poisoning, do you? Call your leaders today and demand action!

This has been both a BSC-PSA and a FMFLLFs announcement!

New feature for this year: FMFLLFs!

Last week, one of my commentators asked for my New Year's resolutions. I'm still working on those, but one is to help out my fact-loving liberal friends to see the errors of their ways by way of my blog and Facebook. But first, do understand a few things:

One, I have liberal friends. I really do! Some of them have been my GFs for years. They are my friends even though they know I am a right-wing conservative nut-job who loves Sarah Palin. Why are they my friends? It's not like I'm trying to keep them - they just hang around me even when I state views that they are against. But hell, I stick with them too, even if they mouth liberal statements that I disagree with. I guess you might say that my relationship with them is... complicated. My guess, though, is that they must be attracted to the residual aura of my Marxist upbringing. I bet they wished their parents were as Marxist as mine.

And two: I love liberals. I really do! Why otherwise would I have them as friends? And why would I accept as "friends" those on Facebook whom I don't know but are obviously liberal? Anyway, I love liberals so much that I am going to give them something that they themselves love: Facts! I love them so much that I care what happens to them, and I care how they treat themselves. With that, I am going to give them what they love the most, so starting today and recurring on a semi-regular basis will be something that I'll call: For My Fact-Loving Liberal Friends, or FMFLLFs for short. Okay, let's get started! I'm so excited! Whoohoo!! Here you go, my fact-loving liberal friends!

HHS is paying Google with Taxpayer Money to Alter 'Obamacare' Search Results.

Holy Guacamole! Here we have a government department paying THE search engine of the Internet with OUR tax money to alter search results to pop up Obamacare for all kinds of searches related to Obamacare (well, except for searches related to 'Obamacare' and 'repeal'. There's no pleasing some people!). What do you make of this, my fact-loving liberal friends? Are you going to tolerate this obvious abuse of our hard-earned funds? Would you have tolerated the Bush administration using tax money to alter search results of "weapons of mass destruction" to pop up the Bush administration's official government line on the existence of WMDs?

I hope you are as outraged and offended as I am, my liberal friends, because I know you love facts. I knew you would be, because I care about you and I want to you be exposed to these kinds of facts that you won't get from your usual sources of such information. Didn't I tell you before to utilize a diversity of news sources to find those facts that you so love? And diversity is good! I know! My Marxist parents told me!

Anyway, now that I have told you this fact about your HHS department, I hope that you will utilize whatever forms of public expression that you use to get out this info so that we can all contact Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to stop using our tax money to shill for her boss!

Ahh, I feel good! Doing the right thing warms one's soul...

More to come, my liberal friends!