The Road to Serfdom
This is a book I am reading. The focus of the book is an economics approach to socialism. That is the book states that any political shift towards a larger central government will inevitably lead to less individual freedom and tyranny. The book is a tough read but very well thought through.

Oprah, where is Sarah Palin?  Why wouldn’t your women viewers be interested in the first woman nominated for GOP VP?  I hope your viewers boycott your socialist platform.  Oprah enjoyed the fruits of capitalism to become a billionaire, but now she favors Barack Obama, a man that would roll back the free market and give power to Washington to decide what’s best.  Let the free market rule, Oprah.  It was good enough for you, why not for me?

Boycott US Weekly.  Again, a platform for socialism.

There is only one group of people I exempt from this boycott: socialists.

CNN and MSNBC are reporting this morning that Hezzekiah Albuton never received his casserole dish back from Governor Palin.  This startling news came from our own Albert T. Buxley who flew to Juneau to investigate the sordid past of Governor Palin.  When asked to reveal the worst thing he knew about Sarah, Hezzekiah responded, “Worst thing?… Geez, I guess, ummm, I don’t think she ever returned that dish for the casserole I sent her.  It was non-sticking.”  Sarah will not be as lucky as Hezzekiah’s pilfered cookware, for this story will certainly stick.

It’s worth noting that a spokesperson for Governor Palin responded to our request for an interview with a, “Are you serious?  You’re not even real journalists are you?”

-Al Butternut, MSNBC/CNN Report

P.S. I love you Barack, signed A.B.

When asked yesterday how he responds to Right Wing criticism that as Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has more Executive experience then him, Senator Obama responded, “Well, you see, errrr…, from what I understand, my tush is smaller and my legs are, well, from the hip, they are longer.”  Senator Joe Biden, Barack’s running mate quickly stepped in to save the floundering Obama,”It’s true, his legs are longer and his tush is smaller.”  Later in the same interview, Joe Biden was asked how he responds to criticism that he should not have called Sarah Palin, “good looking”.  Sparks flew in the interview when Barack lept from his chair and shouted, “You said what?!”.  Sources close to Barack Obama say he is quick to defend his tush and long legs from predatory women who would steal his running mate’s eye.

Editors Note: I have included both conservative and democratic responses in this blog.  Special thanks to Arnold T Buxmire, guest blogger.

Liberal Response - Arnold T Buxmire

“John McCain’s Blunder”

That’s your big move, Senator McCain, a woman?  She’s young, she has no experience with foreign policy and she is one pacemaker-assisted heartbeat away from the presidency.  But yes, she is a woman.  How long did it take your genius team of online graduates from the Karl Rove School for the Ruthless to come up with that?  I can see them now in their smoke filled room pushing photos of Romney, Pawlenty, and Mussolini across the table.   “Wait!”, says the new guy, “Obama has pissed off the Clinton voters.  What if we pick a woman…?  We could bring them to our side.”   The truth is, this election has more to do with race and sex than a beer-fueled NASCAR singles mingler at the local trailer park.  (Wanna see my 1:15 scale Tony Stewart tatoo?)  But back to the beltway for a minute.  If you Republicans really wanted to make a splash with Democrats, you would have selected an ugly woman.  Sorry, John, so close, yet so far away.

Conservative view -

Well done, John McCain.  Just when the Dems thought it was safe to go back to Starbucks and open their laptops you plunge a 5′10″ bombshell wedge right through the middle of them.  What next?  Are you going to reveal that she sings Cher cover songs at the local Moose Meat Club in Juneau?  But I am sure Barack is regrouping right now inside the Temple at Olympus.  Go ahead, Barack, reach back into that vast experience of community organizing.  What to do?  What to do???? you ask yourselves.  Unfortunately, your only answer then won’t work now.  Jeremiah Wright cant (and probably wouldnt) help you now.  And William Ayers is a coward who hides behind stoned college kids.  He doesnt have the influence to push you over the top.  Sorry, Barack, to quote Mr. Lebowski, “The bums lost.  Your revoultion is over.  I suggest you go and do what your parents did.  Get a job!”  By the way, I wonder how Barack’s grandparents (you know, the typical white people) feel about having their grandson be the first (sorta) black man be nominated president?  I would guess they fell pretty embarassed for the world to see what a wormy, freak little Barry Hussein has turned out to be.  Why can’t you be more like your brother, Barack, you know, George?  The brother you left in Kenya to live off a dollar a month and fend for his life?  Or would helping your brother be to go against the spirit of your dad?  you know, the guy who left little care packages of joy littered across two continents.  How many more Barry Hussein’s are hiding in remote villages of the world?  Too bad daddy didnt love Barack.

Today in a surprise ruling the administrator of GoScrappyGo.com/Blog ruled that the Fariness Doctrine applies to this blog.  As such, goscrappygo.com has invited Arnold T. Buxmire, an ardent liberal to blog and counter punch the right wing view point of this site.  We welcome Arnold T. to the blog and expect that he will provide the necessary “Yang” to goscrappygo’s “Ying” or vice-versa.

With no further adieu, we have included Mr. Buxmire’s first blog herein:

Greetings fine readers of GoScrappyGo.com.  I am honored to write for this website and look forward to interacting with you, the readers.  As you may or may not already know, I was invited to represent the Democratic view point to balance the Republican position on this site.  For my first blog, I find it appropriate to comment on the current DNC in Denver.  This year I was fortunate enough to make it to Denver to be a part of the festivities.  As such, I feel uniquely qualified to provide you with the “man on the street” viewpoint.  First, let me clear the air on the Clinton-Obama “rift”.  Hillary has her supporters and Obama has his.  Of course her supporters are disappointed she lost, they wouldn’t be true supporters if they felt any other way.  But to think they will not vote for Obama in Nov is ridiculous.  John McCain might be a maverick, but he is no William J, if you know what I mean.  I met one lady from Wisconsin who had followed Hillary since Iowa in a tent trailer all the way to Vermont.  When I asked her why she came to Denver, she simply answered, “To support my party, no matter who the nominee is.”  I couldn’t have said it better myself.  The fact is, McCain represents 8 more years of failed policy in Iraq, our economy, and on the major social issues of the day.  We simply cannot afford to continue down the same road. Point taken?

Now, onto another topic… I like to do my homework, so I was watching Hannity Colmes last night and I saw that beast Sean Hannity harrassing Gov Dukakis to provide specific achievements of Barack that qualified him to be president.  Now I am sorry, but that is just a cheap trick.  It’s cheap because Barack isnt running on his record.  He’s running on his newness and judgement.  He is fresh, not part of the establishment.  True, he is inexperienced in many government matters, but that doesnt mean he is dumb.  Barack was right on the war, right on Energy, and right on the economy before McCain flip-flopped to those same positions.  So my answer to Sean’s question would be, “His specific accomplishment is he has avoided being a Washington Insider and has instead proven that he can balance home life, church life, and a political life successfully.”

Well, that’s all I have for now.  I look forward to many more posts on GoScrappyGo.com.

So a little while back I wrote a riveting piece on why I am voting for Obama.  I changed my mind.  I am not voting for None of the Above (if that is an option on the Presidential ticket and I am not sure it is).  I will not vote for Obama nor for McCain.  The republican party lost its soul when it nominated McCain.  Mike Huckabee split the conservative vote allowing McCain to default his way into the nomination.  This is exactly what John Edwards did for barrack on the left.  And that’s fine.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  Where would we be today if Ralph Nader did not hang around in 2000 (by the way, i voted for ralph then).

So my blog post about my Obama vote attracted the attention of my friend KG.  KG dismantled my argument with the use of the BlogList, a format which brings order to chaotic arguments.  In his blog, Keith cites some near term differences over the next 4 years that the different candidates bring and their long term effects, such as Supreme Court nominations and the War on Terror.  Hindsight is 20/20 I guess, because if you’ve been paying attention this last week, McCain floated the idea of a Pro-Choice VEEP.  Now some have said he only did this to make Romney more palpable to the Republicans who feel Obama is a Christian because Rev Wright said so, but Romney is not.  I tend to agree with this theory, that is to say, McCain never intended to get a ProChoice veep but merely used it to ease the right into the Romney water.  Having said that, it still makes a point.  The only reason this ProChoice Veep rumor was even an effective gammit is because it is believeable that McCain would do it.  Now what does that say about McCain’s future supreme court nominations.  Like a dog to his vomit, what deals will McCain make with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed with a supreme court seat on the trade block?

So with no further adieu, I introduce you to a book by Joseph Farah, entitled None of the Above. I only found this yesterday hearing the author on the radio.  He sounds like me.  We get a lib either way in 08.  We might as well make it clear to the swing voters in 2012 that it was leftist policies that failed, not 12 years of (pseudo)Republicans.

Balls in your court, Keith 

Spoiler warning, you have been warned..

So I finished the LIfe of Pi.  The book takes a twist on par with the 6th sense.  It turns out that all those animals with whom Pi spent his days at sea are representative of people or people’s personality.  I liked it.  It made me think.  But it also left me confused.  Pi concocts an elaborate story of animals on a boat to explain the savagery of man vs man in extreme circumstances.  When his questioners reject his account of events citing physical impossibilities, such as orangutangs floating on a bunch of bananas for miles, Pi delivers the truth of his mother’s murder at the hands of a crazed survivor and his justified killing of his mom’s murderer.  After revealing the horrific facts, Pi asks his questioners which story they prefer.  They report the former story.  I was so confused I ended up at Wikipedia to decipher the ending.  If you have read this far, I don’t recommend you read the book as I have just robbed you of it’s ending.

NBC, where did you put the 30 pieces of silver?

Never forget Tiananmen Square and the martyrs for freedom.  I’d like to see a vignette on this guy.  Do you think we’ll see it?  Can any athlete’s story be more compelling than his?  Congratulations to NBC and all the sponsors of the Olympics.  And no, we should not have gone to Munich in 1936, despite Jesse Owens performance.  For what do the olympics stand?  Or for what, did they stand?  Athens is dead.

There is nothing I love more than someone disparaging all politicians.  The rhetoric of the prolitariate.  Care to live in the 1950’s Soviet Union or in modern day China?  Last I checked, politicians who don’t represent their districts go home.  You got a problem with that, go form a more perfect union, or here’s a tip, vote!

Regarding these Republicans who are holding a college style sit-in over their vacation, I say right on.  And who cares if they just want to get re-elected, that’s the idea.  Represent us well, you keep your job (see paragraph 1).  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396322,00.html