The Foreign Ministry communicated Iran’s “protest and displeasure” over statements by U.S. government officials about the outcome of last week’s presidential vote, Iran’s news agency said. Meanwhile, North Korea may launch a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday. What do both of these stories have in common? Sit back, relax, relax, enjoy, and let the Beefboy do, what the Beefboy does best, and that’s break it right on down for you!

President Bush removed the “State Sponsor of Terrorism” label from North Korea, which allowed the Munchkin King, Kim Jong-il, to acquire frozen assets and fund this latest round of underground nuclear tests and long range missile tests. President Obama offered an olive branch to Iran, and has issued extremely weak statements about Iran’s little bogus election, and his attempt to stay out of the process have been met with “protest and displeasure” by their Supreme Leader.

Let’s turn back the clock a bit and look at two other Presidents and how a display of strength had positive results. In October of 1962 President Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba to prevent missiles from being delivered. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, America’s alert level went to Defcon 2, for the only time in history, but Russia backed down due to Kennedy’s resolve and thanks to him we don’t have Russian missiles sitting off our coast. On June 12, 1987, against the warnings of his advisors, President Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall and said, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Russia tore down that wall in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later.

The lesson that Kennedy and Reagan taught us, and Presidents Bush and Obama failed to heed, is that strength demands respect, and conversely weakness invites disrespect. Given the nature of the opponents that we face, and the turmoil in the world, we need to remember the words and actions of our Presidents who stood their ground and didn’t play nice with dictators.
We are increasingly confronted with regimes that understand nothing but power. When we show them kindness, it is interpreted as weakness. North Korea and Iran only understand the consequences of facing true strength. In a contest of strength, NATO is an 800 pound gorilla, while Iran and North Korea is a banana.

I understand the sentiment behind offering what President Obama calls “an unclenched fist” to our enemies, but some people only see the light when you break their nose. It’s time for President Obama to man-up and lay down the law. Terrorists, and countries like Iran and North Korea, need to be reminded who is running the show around here.

Dig it!

Originally Published: March 11, 2009

President Obama has been in office for 50 days now. Today he signed the omnibus spending bill into law, thereby spending another 400 billion dollars of your money. More importantly, he signed a bill that had 9000 pieces of pork. Even more importantly, Mr. Obama ran vociferously on the foundation of change and cleaning up earmark spending. It was a refrain that he repeated over and over again.

So today, knowing that he was about to sign the omnibus bill and become an outright liar… knowing that his hollow words of cleaning up Washington, of ending pork-barrel spending, of not hiring lobbyists for the cabinet, of… CHANGE… President Obama tried to tell us that this bill was just last year’s news and that Congress had more important things to do… and that not all pork was bad… but we’d get real serious about this NEXT TIME.

Really? Seriously, President Obama? Is this Change We Can Believe In… EVENTUALLY? I don’t remember “eventually” being in that phrase. Sounds like a big broken promise to the Beefboy.

Beefanatics, if you’re keeping count, our new president has spent one billion dollars of your money every hour he’s been in office so far. In normal times that would be outrageous. In the economic environment we are currently in, it’s dangerous… maybe deadly. What’s worse, it’s mostly been spent on bullshit and blowjobs for groups who voted him into office.

I was just as ready for Hope and Change as everyone else in this country, but if you haven’t figured it out yet, President Obama is not any different from any other politician we’ve been saddled with lately… except that some people still believe every word that comes out of his mouth.

After today, I do not.

Originally Published: March 9, 2009

I think it’s time to consider the possibility that our leaders want the stock market to crash. Every time it looks like there is going to be some recovery, Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, George Bush or Barrack Obama gets in front of a camera and starts talking down the economy, reinforcing how much we need more taxes, passing mammoth spending bills and telling you how evil capitalism is. 

I own my own public business and things were going fine until the Democratic led Congress and President George Bush passed the TARP bill in October and started telling us how tragic the economy was. Our phones stopped ringing THE NEXT DAY and it’s been downhill ever since.

All I can say is, if you came to the Beefboy and asked me for a recipe for tanking the economy, I’d do EXACTLY WHAT OUR LEADERS ARE DOING NOW. For six months, our leaders have made a series of decisions that are the polar opposite of what we know is effective in getting an economy to fire up again.

And by the way, enough of blaming Bush for the stock market. Either you are a leader or a whiner… and the Beefboy is hearing a lot of fucking whining from the White House. The stock market doesn’t bet on the past… they bet on the future and the market is down 20% since Obama got into office. Wall Street doesn’t vote with platitudes, it votes with cold hard cash, and right now, the vote is thumbs down!

Our leaders are either stark raving idiots, or they are doing this on purpose to advance their own pet projects and take power away from you. 

Pick one.

Dig it!

Originally Published: February 9th, 2009

In today’s Wall Street Journal a full page ad from the CATO Institute notes President Obama’s message, “There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy,” and counters with, “With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.” 

The ad has a throng of economists from the nation’s universities who believe that government staying out of the economy is the best and only way to stimulate the economy. They believe that tax cuts, reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production, plus tightening the fat belt of government will solve our problems.

The Beefboy couldn’t agree more. I wish I could have added my name to that page. This “stimulus” bill is perhaps the biggest waste of taxpayer money in human history and a crime against our children. The engineers of this bill should be impeached or jailed for treason.

The ad also mentions that government spending didn’t get us out of the Great Depression, or Japan out of their “Lost Decade” in the nineties, and that we should learn from what history taught us. Unfortunately, the populace can name more American Idols than American Founding Fathers.

Obama is betting everything on this bill and he’s only been in office two weeks! I expected better from him. At the very least he’d better get the social engineering and payoffs to political friends out of the bill, because Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid sure as fuck are not going take responsibility for this bill if everything goes tits up!

Originally Published: February 5th, 2009

Good news for people with tax problems! Apparently under the Obama Administration, if you get caught not paying taxes, and you say you’re really sorry, then not only do you not get penalized in any way whatsoever, you also get a cabinet position! It’s worked so far for Geithner as the new Treasury Secretary and would have worked for Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services Secretary (Obama initially supported him before he pulled out along with Nancy Killefer, who had her own TAX PROBLEMS and withdrew as Chief Performance Officer). 

I’m sure you and I will get the exact same deal! Right? I’m glad I live in a country where power and money don’t get you any special treatment. God bless America!

Originally Posted January 20, 2009

I think just about everyone in the world watched the inaugural speech by President Obama today. I think it was a solid speech, delivered with a lot of power, but I don’t think he gave us one of those, “ask not what your country can do for you” or “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these walls” moments. He’s certainly capable of that, but I think he’s keeping his powder dry for the State of the Union.

The greatest achievement today is the United States proving to the world what a peaceful transfer of power looks like. Obama was sworn in with Bush and several other former Presidents present. There were no bombs, or threats, or bullshit. There were no tanks, or riots, or deaths. We did it in a way that only civilized countries, with great people and great tradition do it. We fired off some cannons to bring the new guy in, shook hands, gave a speech and then retired to a bunch of parties for the rest of the evening.

Simple. Peaceful.

I want you to imagine for a moment that you are the guy who vowed to protect the United States today. You go dance with your wife and head back to your new house (and it’s a big empty house). You’re tired from a long campaign and shaking hands and delivering speeches. You go to sleep and wake up the next day, grab some coffee and someone in your staff hands you the President’s Daily Brief that tells you just how fucked up the world is today.

Even with all the power you now have and all the goodwill you want to bring to the planet… that has to be the loneliest job on the Earth. I wish President Obama all the luck and wisdom possible… he’s going to need it.

I’ll tell you one thing. If you looked out at that crowd today and saw the throngs of people who stood for hours in 19 degree weather to glimpse the first black President deliver words of hope to a frightened nation… a frightened planet, then you’ll understand why I’m proud to be an American today.