Friday Musical Interlude - The Zombie Apocalypse is Karen

I haven't done a Friday Musical Interlude in a long time, but I thought this one was apropos. The SurfPunters' Zombie Apocalypse themed album isn't about zombies, it's really social commentary about Karens and society being full of zombies incapable of critical thinking.  All wrapped up in a surf-pop package.

She is safe from zombies

Zombies eat brains don't they?  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has nothing to offer them.

Occupy zombies moved to global warming cause

The Occupy Wall Street movement has morphed into a suspiciously timely anti-global -warming movement right before the U.N.'s latest climate conference and startlingly close to the midterm elections. 

   

The timing is nothing short of suspect  not only because of the U.N. or the elections where liberals are.desperate to get some sort of issue to stick with liberal voters enough to get them to the ballot box this November but also because it just so happens that belief in the global warming cause is flagging and the summer was kinda cold. 

   

The effort to re-establish the validity of the global warming cause conjoined with the effort to turn out the liberal base for the midterms dovetails quite well.  Too well to be a coincidence.

   

If I were one of the useful idiots out there marching against Wall Street I would be more than a little curious as to whom it might be behind the scenes organizing the march.

The Walken Dead

I'm travelling yet again today but at least it's a same day turnaround.  In the meantime, here's some zombie humor for your Thanksgiving Weekend.

NOTE: Some language.

The U6 President and His Zombie Armada

Next week the July unemployment rate will be released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There is likely to be a very significant seasonal adjustment - enough of one that there might even be a modest improvement in the U3 unemployment rate - the commonly reported rate.  Expect the administration to trot out the "right direction" meme and claim things are still picking up.  Expect too, a compliant ultra-liberal press to carry the president's water once again, on that argument.  Expect the message to go out to the president's zombie armada, that everything is great, and expect the zombie armada to eat it up.  But this president is not the employment president, he's the U6 president, and U6 is downright bad.

Armalite versus Zombie

The real reason for the Second Amendment?  It's actually pretty simple.

This:

defeats this.

The founders knew this, and they perhaps also knew that zombies were inevitable in America.  All you had to do to get a zombie horde was to pass them some free health care.  Of course zombies don't need health care being undead already.

Then again, there's plenty of people alive today getting things from government that they don't need.  But they get it because it's free.

There's a mandate now (for now) to buy health insurance.  There should be a mandate to buy Armalites.  Now that would be interesting!  

By way of non sequitur, today is April Fool's Day. But I digress. 

The real reason for this post is that I wanted to use the word Armalite.  It's a cool-sounding word, and a hip reference.  But it's not as cool the Adam 12 reference posted on The Last Tradition.

Romney Zombies on the loose

I just finished a fantastic steak dinner at Toronto's Harbour 60, and decided there was no better time to start thinking about zombie metaphors and how zombies can be related to the current political situation in America.  Of course - doesn't the thought process follow? Steaks, zombies eating brains.  Well, it made sense to me at least.  Now, I've talked about zombie democrats before. Collectivism is suited perfectly to zombie metaphors and Democrats have shifted pretty far into that territory.  But that's sort of stale now.  There's some zombification happening in the GOP primaries as well.

28 Days Later: A political story

It's not a movie this time?

Back in 2002 a British zombie movie came out.  The premise is that a virus quickly sweeps across Britain, and a few pockets of resistance arise in the form of uninfected human.  The virus results from research wherein  chimps are infected with a virus that promotes a permanent stage of psychotic rage.

Conservatism will outlive the Fairness Doctrine

Take heart conservatives, as unfair as the impending draconian imposition of the Fairness Doctrine may be, it won't last. Not as long as conservatism will last. The ideology is out of the bag, it cannot be stifled forever. Unfortunately the same could be said for Marxism. Someday it will rear it's ugly head in a big way again. Maybe in 100 years or 1000. But despite it's stupendously dismal failure in the Soviet Union, Marxism is unfortunately, not dead. And American conservatism is far, far from dead. Despite being knocked on it's heels by a Democrat 1-2 punch in 2006 and 2008, conservatism is vibrant and will be ready in 2010 to take back some ground from the liberals. The new Chi-coms (no, not Chinese communists, the Chicago communists).

Let's look at the Fairness Doctrine with a little bit of level-headedness. Something it's authors would never do. The idea that a specific medium like talk radio, dominated by conservatives, would be required under the threat of fines, to provide equal time to liberals is in itself unfair. Why? It only applies to the media that the Democrats don't totally own. Specifically talk radio and potentially the Internet. It's the liberal version of Nazi book burnings, and I bet they won't even bat an eye at that, since they believe they are doing humanity's work (I'd say God's work but, well, you know.)

But here's the thing even if they manage to railroad this absurd legislative idea through the House, the Senate and across Obama's desk with a Republican filibuster either non-existent or a mere speed bump along the way, IT WON'T STOP CONSERVATIVES. Why not? Because we're mean, angry SOBs who are zombies of the destruction of freedom. Not really, but it sounds scary.

Seriously though, conservatives should hearken back to our own principles and remember one thing. The Free Market. More specifically, borrowing from the economic treatises of Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations), The Invisible Hand (of zombie death). Boy, I hope some liberals somewhere are reading this and taking the zombie thing seriously.

This is how I see this playing out;

1) The Fairness Doctrine gets passed, in all it's rancid glory.

2) Radio stations, knowing that Air America was a failure (possibly set up to do so, in order to encourage this exact action down the road), decide rather than adding liberals to radio, it's cheaper to throw the conservative shows off the air.

3) The opportunity to take over the Internet media dies at the same time, since it's been included in the legislation as along with some obscure pork barrel project for Hawaii involving a T-shirt factory, gummy bears and $27 Billion in bailout TARP money.

4) The liberals throw a party, snort coke and cheat on their spouses, then lie about it.

5) This is where it gets interesting. The Invisible Hand takes over. People like Rush Limbaugh see that their capacity to educate, entertain, and generate income have been entirely smote by the legislation. They try to find another way to maintain their audience and continue to be heard.

6) The only place they can go is either (a) some medium that has not been invented yet - not possible, or (b) the Mainstream Media because it is not covered in the legislation. Wouldn't that be an interesting turn of events?

7) Conservatives manage to find their way onto television and into print, providing actual competition to liberal domination of the MSM, and bringing an unwanted sense of accuracy to those who'd rather just be pushing their own warped, liberal agenda. And the reason this will happen is because the Invisible Hand yet again - the numbers will bear out the profit-rationale of letting conservatives have an outlet for our ideas. And it doesn't matter if the head of broadcasting for CBS doesn't want conservative views to get air time, Westinghouse can see the dollar signs. Rush has 20 million listeners? Sign him up, he can do even better on TV (with the right production resources behind him every step of the way). Ann Coulter controversial? Great! Michelle Malkin shut out of Twitter now? Get her a prime time show! If the business case makes sense, the ideology floats away.

8) It almost makes sense for conservatives that the travesty of the Fairness Doctrine should happen during the recession. The dollar signs will be all that more appealing to bottom-line-conscious executives.

9) Then the living dead will turn up and try to eat the brains of liberals, only to die of starvation.

Remember, every threat is an opportunity in disguise. Or, a zombie.