Category Archives: Zero Flak

Topics that don’t get the silly treatment because they’re too serious and deserve otherwise.

Steve Jobs Has Passed Away

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No jokes now, folks.

Steve Jobs passed away yesterday.  He was the business genius from Apple that created the iSeries (iPad, iPhone) devices, among other things, that have changed the electronics landscape.  Suffices to say that he will be a remembered as an entrepreneurial legend and well he should.

Cold Fury sums up the contribution of Steve Jobs to the world at large and why.  He is a testament to the beauty of capitalism, that recently-maligned system of ecomonics that takes advantage of human nature to create prosperity.  None of what Jobs created could likely have been done in a collectivist world envisioned by Obama or the Occupy Wall Street crowd.  No one creates brilliance like Jobs did for a collective, least of all those screaming that there should be a collective.

Special Counsel Requested in Fast and Furious Case

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No jokes now, folks.  It’s zero flak time.

Operation Fast and Furious has hit the fan.  Republicans in the House are calling for a Special Prosecutor to determine if Holder committed perjury when he testified to the House Judiciary Committee over Fast and Furious.  Given that they’re screaming at CBS reporters for covering the story at all, this may really strike a nerve now.

It’s good to see the Republicans do this, and hopefully they’ll follow through.

Yes, follow through.  Obama’s in real hot water over this.  People died because of this mind-numbingly stupid operation and the scandal is enough to sink him should it gain traction.  He desperately wants this to go away, and he doesn’t have anything resembling Clinton’s anti-scandal team to make it happen.  His reaction will be to hope the media covers for him and stonewall, which may or may not happen given all the trouble he’s caused for the Democrats in general.  He’s getting to the point he’s about to destroy large chunks of liberalism.  It wouldn’t surprise me if Holder winds up throwing Obama under the bus.

This is going to be a nasty one.

News link credit:  Sister Toldjah

Thoughts On the Bond Downgrade

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No jokes now, folks.  It’s zero flak time.

S & P has downgraded US Treasuries to AA+ status for those of you still unaware.  If you are in despair about it, don’t be.  After three years of Obama and the Democrat spending binge, this was to be expected.  This day has been inevitable as the party of big government believers wasn’t getting much resistance from the party of craven squishes to stopping the spending that has caused this.

If you’ve seen the reaction of Obama and the left, here’s the short explanation.  S & P hammered a nail in the coffin of big government.  Despite what will certainly be nasty liberal spin and vitriol, the spending binge just hit home for the normal people in a very real way.  It’s one more in the long list of Obama’s failures, and by extension, the Democrats’ failures and liberalism’s failures.  To top it off, Barack Antoinette is still doing things like having a great 50th birthday party at America’s expense, a fact that won’t be lost on the suffering come 2012.

What to do from here?  First we remake the Republicans into a real opposition party.  Once we have a real opposition, and there are glimmers of hope already that creating one is underway, we reverse America’s decline by defeating the liberalism that caused it.  From there we rebuild and stay vigilant to keep the left from returning to significance.

It’s a long term plan but one that will work in the end now that the unsustainability of the nanny state is becoming impossible to hide.  This obvious though unpleasant downgrade is just one more bit of darkness before the dawn.  This can be undone, just not by business as usual.

News link credit:  Hot Air