Desperately Seeking Anti-Political Correctness Vaccine for Country Gone Rabid

What would it be like if there were a rabies vaccine for political correctness that could snuff out the insane chronic denial that’s gone on in the U.S. for the past 60 years or more?
It seem of late, almost every day I am bombarded with more insanity, crazy stories like the Christian pastor in Iran who may very well be executed this week or next for not denouncing his Christian faith while our “Campaigner and Chief” Barack Obama and his crony cabinet and private sector buddies stand by mute.

Mainstream media, where are you? This is your chance to vindicate yourself from the lame, biased storytelling that’s been going on for decades. Yes, that’s you ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post and Huffington Post.

If media don’t start reporting the facts and leaders don’t start leading with American Exceptionalism top of mind, we’ll never find a cure for today’s political and cultural malady.

What today’s mainstream won’t report on, Glenn Beck will. His inherent ability to share the truth with listeners and viewers is what makes him invaluable in 2011 when truth and transparency are at an all-time low and divisiveness and chaos are at an all-time high.

For those frightened by Beck’s genuine character on-air, my warning: be more scared of leaders who read from carefully crafted scripts off teleprompter with little to no trace of blood, sweat or tears invested.

For those seeking the truth despite mainstream media’s compulsive state of reporting bias, a story that got little play aside from ABC.com last year resurfaced for me via a close and highly intelligent yet pragmatic friend who works for the U.S. State Department. While he will never be featured as a Cool Conservative due to the classified nature of his job, for his undying loyalty through emails and thought-provoking conservation, I name him an honorary and eternal EUG Cool Conservative in anonymity.

While many continue to stew in their own political ideology juices about the 2012 election, acts of treason within our borders much like that of Cuban spy Kendall Myers and his wife Gwendolyn Myers, who was spared and given a shorter sentence due to health issues, go on right under our noses without remorse. Even more egregious, these insidious treasonous acts, which carry with them unimaginable national security implications, go under-reported and glossed over saturating Americans with a false sense of security.

In my State Department friend’s very own words, I leave you with simple yet powerful thoughts to ponder until my next post: “…I assure you there are more commies like him where I work. Perhaps an asshole, but McCarthy wasn't completely wrong.”

California Dreaming Influences This Week’s Cool Conservative Pick

I am not sure other bloggers get writer’s block, but boy, I sure had a bout of the “nothing’s firing my writing synapses” this past week. Maybe it’s because I am getting to take my first real vacation of the year. Soon to be lounging and riding at the incredibly beautiful and understated Alisal Guest Ranch located in the slightly quirky town of Solvang California. 

Seriously folks, Alisal is one of the coolest and most restful places I know. The once working ranch turned guest ranch is nestled in the gorgeous and sprawling Santa Ynez Valley right near Reagan’s ranch. What could be more cool and conservative?!

I suppose my longing for next week and some downtime as the GOP election cycle picks up in Utah with redistricting announcements just around the corner have forced me to think West, Horses (my most favorite animal), Hollywood and Conservative all at once. For this reason, I have decided to focus my brainwaves on Robert Duvall, one of my all-time favorite actors.

I liked him Godfather but loved him in Lonesome Dove. Not sure if it was the cool, sometimes cold air of confidence he portrayed through the mini-series as Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae. It could have been his ability to use so few words but get the job done, or maybe it was his acts of kindness toward the women he loved, protected and cared for from Lorie to Clara. It’s hard to say. I think, however, my knowledge of Duvall’s equestrian expertise and knowing he generally did most of his own riding in movies throughout his career helped seal the deal.

But, what made the entire Cool Conservative choice so sweet was finding out that Robert Duvall is a life-long Conservative. While some say Duvall holds a more Libertarian view of the world, it’s no matter to me. I’ll take Libertarian / Conservative over morally bankrupt Liberal Progressive any day of the week. With this last pot shot, I officially name Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931), the American actor and director, EUG’s Cool Conservative of the week.

Obama: A Rigid Ideologue Out of Step with America

After listening to Hannity on Friday, I rekindled a tidbit of warmth for a man who I had essentially written off as a GOP presidential nominee, New Gingrich. I suppose some would ask why?
Gingrich’s insight about Obama being a rigid Ideologue and how this fact stymies the president’s ability to learn, listen or change hit the mark for me. Newt gets it. Obama has tried so hard to label himself a pragmatist, but only to disguise a deep and disturbing ideology he knows a majority of Americans could never digest.

As it turns out, and a shame for those who hung their hats on the idea Obama was going to be the “hope and change” savior, the 44th president is not only completely out of synch with what Americans desire for this great county (as a majority of mainstream polls are showing) but continues to remain in a denial bubble lashing out and using his liberal progressive allies, union thugs and mainstream media army to deflect factual criticism.

Needing more source information to satisfactorily connect the dots in comparing ideology versus pragmatism, I stumbled upon an interesting story by Jonah Goldberg as I poured over Real Clear Politics.com. In “Obama Appears Blinded by His Own Ideological Biases,” Goldberg dissects the idea of pragmatism and the ideologue. In step with philosopher Bertrand Russell, Goldberg concludes there's nothing within pragmatism to delineate the proper and just limits of pragmatism. Therefore, we must look outside pragmatism for those limits: we must ultimately call on ideology — values, customs, traditions and principles.

But here’s the sticky part. Obama’s values, customs, traditions and principles are so blatantly anti-American, he has no choice but to lean on pragmatism. Obama doesn’t believe in American Exceptionalism. If he did, he would stop the global apology tour. Obama doesn’t appear to believe free-market Capitalism fosters economic prosperity and freedom. If he did, Soylndra management wouldn’t today be taking the fifth. And it’s not that he doesn’t get it, it’s that he refuses to learn.

Obama’s rejection of the U.S. Constitution and belief in Americans has culminated in his decline, further supporting the theory that Obama is an out of touch ideologue.

For political pundits like Rick Perry who went “deer in the headlight” during the recent Fox / Google debate exclaiming to viewers that “Obama must just not get it” and act like the president is somehow naive, shame on you! Of course Obama gets it. While he is an incredibly misguided ideologue, he is also a smart man who has spent years influenced by radical socialists.

The sooner Americans wake up and smell the coffee, the sooner an 2012 opponent will materialize who can rally the hearts and souls of this country. Only then can we defeat Obama's anti-American agenda and resuscitate this country.

EUG Takes Note of An Interesting Conservative Women’s Movement

I missed my Monday Cool Conservative deadline by two days. Weekend travels to the East, reunion with old college friends, and catching up at home and at the desk. I realize for most dedicated bloggers, missing the regularly scheduled post is a sin and for this I do sincerely apologize.
I will have to take the “humans aren’t perfect” pass this week.

However, what the two-day reprieve from blogging bought me was some additional Internet trolling time. I definitely lined up a few more websites for future Cool Conservative review. And, and of course, I couldn’t pass up re-watching some of those funny as hell YouTube videos like “I am Fucking Matt Damon” by Comedian Sarah Silverman and the more relevant “Kathy Brock’s Booger” (Disclosure: Brock is the evening news anchor for ABC affiliate in Chicago, and soon-to-be-wife of my dear college friend’s ex), which I watched with horror and glee with my five dearest and goofy college friends over the weekend.

Truly gives new meaning to the famous idiom “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” coined by pop artist Andy Warhol.



The two YouTube videos named (only one vid posted due to ugly language / suggestive behavior in Matt Damon video) are clearly demonstrative of just how wonderful, scary and crazily creative the Internet can be. Of course, I only include the Brock booger video in this post because it has just a smidgen of personal relevance. Oh yeah, the Matt Damon guy just doesn't do all that much for me despite the fact we're both from Boston.

Oh my friends and I laughed, we laughed real hard.

My intense YouTube hunt and findings, while seemingly inane at first view, did however unveil a video jewel worth showcasing. While I get that many Conservatives "In the Know" will likely conclude I have been living under a rock, I am willing to shrug off the glib jabs, admit my Conservative ignorance and move on to study this interesting, conservative women's political movement further — TheKitchenCabinet.us. How about you?



Not sure exactly where the Kitchen Cabinet lies on social issues but sometimes neither do I to be perfectly honest. Positions both social and economic are an evolving ideological process for me. In meantime, I am free to name TheKitchenCabinet.us this week’s Cool Conservative “thing” of the week and will most definitely be trolling this site and movement deeper in the days to come.

Is it just me…or does this Obama observation also make you snicker?!

In Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind’s "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and The Education of A President,” due out next week, Obama observes that he and fellow Democrats Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter "all have sort of the disease of being policy wonks.

At first I giggled, and then I kind of winced. While the statement about “all being policy wonks” is likely true, there is an ironic and kind of creepy similarity that permeates all of the Democrats aforementioned: they all pooped out a heap of bad policy that has subsequently put the country in a more precarious economic and security position today than ever before.

So here I am, trolling the Internet for blog story ideas, filtering my way toward focus, and I notice yesterday’s AP story about Suskind’s new book that offers an insider's account of the White House's response to the financial crisis, which goes on to openly state U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama to reconstruct several major banks.

Don’t get me wrong, I am no fan of Geithner but this theme of overriding the president’s decision making process was a story I could not resist looking into further especially given this week’s rebuke of Obama and the current GOP leadership’s cherry picking of Stimulus #4: the American Jobs Act.

It wasn’t only Geithner who said “hell no” to Obama back in the early days (three short years ago). Apparently, many of the President’s other senior advisors also trumped his final decision along the way.

Larry Summers, the former White House economic adviser, is also quoted in Suskind’s tell-all as lamenting that he and others felt "home alone" and that mistakes made under Obama would not have happened under President Clinton, for whom Summers also served.

Okay, Obama has been an economic policy blunder who has surpassed even Clinton’s policy blunder count.  However, we must also remember that Clinton presided as president during a relatively quiet and uneventful time that was supercharged by the Internet boom pre bubble burst. He wasn’t under the same presidential duress as Obama. While many believe Clinton’s IQ rivals that of President Obama’s, Mr. Bill was in my opinion no national security policy poster child either based on empirical evidence.

Remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 1995 attempted crashing of plane on White House, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya / Tanzania and 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen? Yeah, all went down under Clinton.

So, while many still continue to point fingers at Cheney and Bush cajoling them with “war criminal” or even better “baby torturers,” let’s take a more factually objective look at the domestic and overseas human suffering that occurred under the Clinton and has already occurred under the Obama administrations?! Didn’t the national headline read, “America reaches highest rate of poverty on record,” just this past week?

Yeah, there’s a disease going around Washington D.C. all right but I am not so sure it is as much “Policy Wonkitis” as it is a bad case of Beltway Power Gout and a touch of Private-Public Cronyism — Solyndra anyone.

Monday's Late Night Cool Conservative Opine

Libertarian versus GOP

While I don’t as a rule look to Libertarians for the EUG Cool Conservative column, there are a few definitely worth noting for their wisdom.

Of course, here comes the EUG disclaimer: it’s a bit difficult for me to embrace the Libertarian purist such as John Stossel, Ron Paul and others because at the end of day I don’t see eye-to-eye on some pretty high-level issues, illegal immigration and border control being two of them.
However, on many issues we do agree. With this said, it’s impossible and wrong to ignore this political demographic.

So, I have decided to think outside the “glass” (yes, pun was intended) and name John Stossel as this week’s EUG Cool Conservative / Libertarian (I am just not feeling it for Ron Paul and tonight’s debate didn’t help matters). John might not fully appreciate the honor right now, but hopefully he has a sense of humor and grace to accept the honor with a grain of salt.

I heard a lot about the undoing of burdensome and loop-hole ridden regulation during tonight’s Tea Party Debate. Seriously, Michele was on fire attacking Perry for HPV vaccine executive order and left no stone unturned. And, I was also pleasantly surprised to watch Romney light up with expression and smile as he talked about Perry, creating jobs in Texas and poker. I was happy he didn’t come off as the “weird” Mormon candidate the Obama folks are trying so very hard to portray through their transparent attempt to assassinate his character. He might not be the perfect candidate, but he certainly is a better choice for leader than Obama.

All of the GOP presidential candidates did a decent job of answering the questions tonight. I only wish it had been John Stossel moderating and asking some of the questions and not Wolf.

Certainly Wolf tried his hardest on behalf of CNN (just like the last debate) to pit Romney against Perry, or everyone against Perry for that matter. Sorry, Wolf, it’s getting old.

Had Stossel been moderator, I imagine he might have repurposed and directed his recent blog post, Regulation and the Unseen, at one or all of GOP (and one Libertarian) debaters. Certainly his opine on the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill would have been poignant tonight: an epistle of approximately 2,300 pages that is so complex that Stossel charges it can’t possibly make life better for consumers. And then goes on to add,

“…Yet politicians constantly create more rules. They think they know how to manage our lives better than we do. They are ignorant and arrogant…”

Imagined or not, my guess is he would have rocked the debate floor had he moderated. For this reason, John Stossel (the Libertarian) is EUG’s Cool Conservative aka Libertarian of the week.

Less Is More Post the Day After the American Jobs Act Blubber Fest

Just two words: For real?!

Author's Note: On Friday morning September 9, 2011 I woke up mentally exhausted. Knowing I had little time and brain cells left after listening to Obama’s “Pass it, pass it now” jobs speech to the entire Congressional ensemble, I felt a picture and two poignant words were worth more than a thousand words. So goes today’s abridged post. I just keep scratching my little old head whenever I drive by the rare car and see this 2012 sticker on the bumper. A word to the GOP wise and Elite GOP in Washington, keep the essence of the Tea Party movement high on mind and don’t take Obama’s stimulus bait (aka government-controlled socialism), or we will all be very sorry in 2012.

EUG’s Cool Conservative Labor Day Special

Despite Beltway Rebuke Rush Continues to “Tell It Like It Is”

First and foremost for those still working, retired, supporting their families or proactively trying to find a job: Happy Labor Day!

Despite the dismal U.S. job market and 9.1% unemployment rate, there are many out there who continue to sing the praises of U.S. free-market innovation, ingenuity and exceptionalism while courageously warning Americans to remain vigilant in their fight against government-centric, corporate cronyism.

However, this week, one person in particular comes to mind, and it may be because he so eloquently pushed back on the recent, over-the-top story by The New York Times’ Daniel S. Hamermesh about the empirical albeit questionable idea of discrimination against ugly people and the progressive left’s dire need for new legislation to apparently combat the beauties from the beasts.

This unflappable conservative is none other than Rush Limbaugh. In fact, just last Friday during his open-mic radio show, Rush disparaged the idea of discrimination legislation for the less attractive. While a seemingly silly topic based on face value, the topic struck a chord with me. It was Rush’s secondary line of questioning about who would ultimately decide ugly eligibility that sent me for a loop. (Hint: she was finally proud of America for the very first time when her husband was elected president.)

So much for the generational saying: beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
What I believe Rush was trying to tell listeners is that because beauty is completely subjective on many levels among varying societal demographics it would be farcical to consider passing protection legislation.

Needless to say, while the suffocating fact that government intrusion still appears to reign along the Potomac, Rush continues to “Tell It Like It Is” without falter. For this reason, Rush Limbaugh — already deemed by many as America’s Number #1 Conservative — took this week’s Cool Conservative honor.

For those not able to find work or find your pot of gold, and feel it’s directly connected to the pizza face quotient, I hear tax deductions for plastic surgery are just around the corner! (A joke…I think?!).

America Sings the Blues…Go Gibson Go!

Wow, yet another news laden week! Two major private sector business stories became breaking news and both on the same day to boot. Not good news for Obama or his upcoming jobs speech to Congress.

First let’s discuss the iconic Gibson guitar company. OMG came to mind when I listened intently yesterday to the interview between Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz and Glenn Beck. The guitar executive’s explanation of how U.S. federal agents bluntly informed company officers that they’d be better off shipping their manufacturing labor overseas produced in me an eerie feeling of doomsday foreshadowing. And then it got better. The Feds went one step further and told the Gibson CEO (in writing nonetheless) that the Company’s “problem” could go away if Gibson shipped its manufacturing to Madagascar. Holy government collusion Batman!

But then you have to wonder…is this really so out of the ordinary?

Considering how embroiled the Federal government has become in private sector business, it’s really more of a surprise that stories similar to this don’t rise to the surface more often.

Okay, I could launch right into blaming today’s media and its inherent denial of how destructive Obama’s policies are—but that’s another post altogether.

Then there’s the story of Obama’s environmental energy darling Solyndra.Just 12 months ago the President told us Solyndra was going to be the next best thing. What a big fat bummer; this solar company sweetheart has been forced to file for bankruptcy leaving 1,100 people out of work and taxpayers obligated for $535 million in federal loans. That’s right, we — as in you and me — paid them to fail. How’s that for stimulus?

The comments under The Washington Post Solyndra story are replete with passion. Ranging from statements like “Renewable haters! Now's your chance to cackle and dance around the cinders decrying "libs" whatever those may be,” to “Buying votes, stopping pollution, throwing around our taxes and federal stimulus money so he looks and sounds good to liberals is not only a waste of money it is killing real jobs and real companies. These ‘green’ jobs need to stand on their own as viable economic companies not subsidized tax-payer boondoggles. Wake up America, vote all these Democrats, Marxist liberals (and Republican Rhinos too) out of power. We cannot afford another 4 years!!”

Making an already dreary situation even worse, ‘this unbelievable stretch of bad economic luck’ (according to some of my more liberal friends) comes less than one week before Obama’s infamous jobs plan, where he’s scheduled to talk (yet again) to America and the joint branches of Congress.

Big question: does EUG have the stomach to watch the Obama jobs plan press conference next week? It’s been some time since I watched the Prez speak at Americans so I just might dial in. I hear he might focus his jobs plan speech on rebuilding schools.

It’s an ironic topic coming from the former IL Senator who ignored the elementary school children in Cook County who asked for a normal-length school day (days shortened but Cook County public school teacher salaries apparently not so shoddy). Looks like the unions won that battle, big surprise.

I suppose if I am not thoroughly and mentally exhausted after the GOP debate on Wednesday night I will watch. Can’t wait for Obama’s justification for today’s breaking news: no jobs added in August, unemployment still at 9.1%. (Hint: it’s all Bush’s fault).