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Go Ahead, Drone Me

I have a desire to be the first American citizen hit with a drone strike while I walk my dog, Sasha, and the reason I will spend my dying days painting a target on my aging white butt is to exercise First Amendment rights until the day I’m gone and CHALLENGE this administration to kill me.  You would not preclude domestic strikes on U.S. citizens in a netherworld interpretation of our Constitution, Komrad Holder, so I’m saying to you, “Bring it on, Tin Horn, and tell your boss I asked for it.”

Man, oh, Manischewitz.

Right when I have a column written about our government violating the Constitution to not only spy on us and learn that it harbors no reservation about killing civilians, Hugo Chavez dies, a God-hating, mankind-baiting, sub-human, aberrantly hostile, twisted Castro disciple, manipulative freak, and Satan-seed, and American journalists are intent upon talking about his contributions.  The suckling pigs in the media must tell their parents they play a piano in a brothel instead of confessing to what they do for a living, because the former makes the latter more palatable.

When I was a kid, the country adored President and Mrs. Kennedy.  By contrast, today’s First Family tells children to expect something for nothing, glorifies bling, and makes joining a traveling circus seem like a career choice, thus contributing to generational malaise as opposed to pulling it out of the mud by setting expectations and providing a good example.  Amy Carter was born right when Ritalin hit the market, but I have no idea what new drug will be needed to give the Obama children a dose of reality.

H.L. Mencken once opined, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of which are imaginary”, and followed up with another poignant observation:  “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

Pretty sharp guy, that Mencken fellow.  Pretty morally bankrupt people, those Obamas.

The presumptiveness of code-word lefties as “progressive” is 100% slicksteresque, for it presumes the high ground unwarranted as it might be, and less than subtly suggests that everyone who is not “progressive” is, what?  Regressive?  Backward?  Archaic? Mean?  Nasty?  In constant search to try and pollute the air, water, deprive the sick, elderly, and infirm?   In a vapid, feel-good world, pragmatism is out the window, and warm cuddly ideas are what sell to an increasingly ignorant and ambivalent society.  “Blow in our ear and we’ll follow you anywhere, just don’t make us work.”  More accurate labels for the party might be the Pollyanna’s, Dreamers, Impracticals, Impertinents, Unfixables, or that old reliable that predictably failed:  the United States Socialist Republic.

FAMSU160The reluctance to move full speed ahead on the pipeline is the quintessential example of His Wussiness:  an inability to make practical decisions and putting himself first.  As much as it makes me want to vomit, the cards he holds in his hand would still allow him to slither into history with a much higher level of respect than he now has, yet, he cannot hit the bid.  He suffers from paralysis from analysis and has surrounded himself with “yes-men” (let’s not forget how heavily weighted his top advisory staffers are bereft of female representation—–that’s progressive, isn’t it?)  He can’t handle pressure, cannot actively or qualitatively analyze or differentiate that from which is practical or political, and retreats to the golf course or another Air Force One excursion in hope that going somewhere will be construed as doing something substantive.  He is the quintessential coward, bully on the playground and strutter, replete with plaid bell-bottom pants and platform shoes.  One punch in the nose and he folds like a WalMart tent in a light drizzle, so he runs from conflict and leaves constituents  to wonder as opposed to facing the fire and proving his sack is empty.

On another note, David Copperfield is known for making an elephant and a 747 disappear, yet he has NOTHING on Mr. Obama.  Soetero made 60 witnesses from the Benghazi slaughter vanish completely.   He’ll continue to denigrate himself and Office but, there’s always Las Vegas waiting for an act when he’s done.  That’s right, Hussein.  Vegas, Baby!

I do not want to provide a solution that might allow him to leave office with dignity, but my love for the country outweighs my disdain for a radical simpleton.  Abolish the Departments of Energy, Education, and the EPA and with those dissolutions thousands of regulatory handcuffs go out the window, for if you think China follows the rules you live in la-la-land.  Unshackle coal, build the Keystone Pipeline, postpone for four years or permanently put in abeyance the exorbitant taxes otherwise known as Obamacare, and simply step aside and let commerce do its thing.

Unfortunately, his handlers and those from whom he received hypnotic indoctrination will not allow it.  I still can’t determine if he is as simple as a ball point pen, if he carries a vendetta toward the U.S. success built on free enterprise and commerce, or if his brain melted from such intense propaganda he is incapable or unable to comprehend what he’s doing.  Punxsutawney Phil is easier to predict and actually a more fascinating creature.

No column would be complete without commenting about the ongoing senility of Jimmy Carter, who took time away from pounding nails (ever hear of a nail gun, you incessant hillbilly?) paid homage to Hugo Chavez upon his death.   Jimma and his wicked wife Rosalynn are still angry the country never grasped his wisdom, when in fact we’re still carrying burdens from his insanity, as in the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and the man who gave aliens access to the money contributed to Social Security by hard working Americans, which has exacerbated its imminent insolvency.

You’re a Georgia Peach, Jimma, with an IQ 14 points below that of a birch tree.  Instead of offering any more “insight” about a murdering, thieving, merciless, self-serving dictator, why don’t you go to Rotuma and set sail in a row boat for the U.S. with Sean Penn at the helm, for we need his inane ideas just about as much as we need yours.

Sean Penn, “the scholarly , erudite, yet un-read”, who’s never had an original thought or possesses the ability to discern wrong from straight up, but will glam onto the press or vice versa if his drug-addled brain can tape together a thought.  If we’re for free enterprise he calls it corrupt.  If he sees corruption, he calls it freedom.  If he beats the crap out of another woman in his life he calls it self-defense, and if the woman dares go public to complain she suffers from hysteria.  Too bad he grew up a Hollywood punk instead of being in a real neighborhood, because there was a time when garbage like him got tossed to the curb without police assistance.
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About Dan Bubalo

Daniel J. Bubalo was hired by the venerable firm of Kidder Peabody in 1978, before becoming a shareholder and partner with Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1984. He ultimately bought his own brokerage firm and steered it successfully through the market crash of 1987 before starting a venture capital and advisory company in the early 1990's. He has been a broker, manager, owner, trader, financier, and advisor on mergers and acquisitions, and throughout his career has opined regularly about the intractable nature of government and its inextricable hold and influence on financial markets. A securities violation landed him in federal prison from 1999 to 2003 which served to only sharpen his observations, watching in dismay at the dissolution of the Glass-Steagall Act, the 2001 dot.com bubble burst without so much as an investigation or arrest, and has since lectured between 2005 and 2011 at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University on government intervention and ethics, as well as being presciently critical about Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. Dan can be contacted at dan@mychal-massie.com

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54 Responses to Go Ahead, Drone Me

  1. Joseph W. Egan March 12, 2013 at 2:27 pm #

    Ramblings of a mental patient.

    • I n Bubalo March 12, 2013 at 11:45 am #

      Excuse me? ?

  2. Annie Hamer March 11, 2013 at 8:01 pm #

    The biggest compliment I can think to pay you on this superb piece is this: You couldn’t have written it better if you had written it yourself.

    • I n Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 8:12 pm #

      Annie?

      Your comment couldn’t make me happier if I was twins.

  3. r. woods March 11, 2013 at 6:37 pm #

    Dan,
    Sir you have made my day! Excellant rant thank you.

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 7:28 pm #

      My pleasure, Sir.

      (I might have gotten a little carried away—————-Sasha is outside lookin for drones)

      • r. woods March 11, 2013 at 8:44 pm #

        Sasha needs to keep a sharp eye on the sky! Carried away you not ever!

        • Mychal Massie March 12, 2013 at 8:38 pm #

          r. woods: hahaha…no not our Dan…lol…

  4. Wakinyan March 11, 2013 at 5:26 pm #

    Dan …. I believe this is the best I have read from you to date. Simply Outstanding as are many of the posted comments by your astute readers. The American journalists’ treatment of one of the western hemisphere’s greatest leaders, right up there with J. Carter and F. Castro, is further incontrovertible evidence that they have become nothing more than a gaggle of treasonous, blathering morons not worth the time to listen to or read. They definitely do not deserve the privilege of living in this country. Your quote from H.L. Mencken was precisely what the self-styled “progressives” are engaging in as we speak. Trouble is, much of our population has become so stoned, poorly educated and greedy for government freebies they will not recognize this massive fraud for what it is and will keep cheering it on until they too are destroyed.
    While drones may be difficult to counter because they are small and can fly quietly at altitudes where they cannot be seen by the naked eye, the individuals that give the orders and those that control the drones in flight would be much more vulnerable if or when the shooting starts.

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:14 pm #

      So true, “Wak”

      My business partner and my wife just echoed those feelings yesterday:

      Who is in charge of the drones, and who are they really?

      Balanced? Sane? Regimented? ?

      And who is in charge of them?

  5. Gary Thomsen March 11, 2013 at 5:26 pm #

    I was just talking to a cousin who just came back from a tour of our Capitol and D.C. in general, at least the safe areas. He explained why Obama cancelled the very expensive White House tours to save us taxpayers money, $74,000 a week to be precise. My cuz was told the when there are tours going on, there are 65 security personnel present in case of terrorist attacks. When I think of all the disappointed school kids who have had to cancel their White House tour plans, I have a suggestion. Cut the secret service personnel down to 30 and limit the number in each tour group to 30. Trained secret service agents with automatic weapons and rocket launchers should really be able to handle 30 sixth graders if they get rowdy don’t you think? Also, someone in should remind our fearful leader that WE own the White House and are just allowing him to live there rent free for four more years.

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:10 pm #

      NEWS BULLETIN:

      YES, GARY!

      They work for us for crying out loud!

      It’s time they get reminded to cut the pomp and circumstance. The only reason pensions were created for these fools was because Harry Truman was licking his own stamps.

      Now they all retire millionaires.

  6. Kwatz March 11, 2013 at 4:18 pm #

    Menken and Manischewitz in one column? I bow three times in your general direction. The future of this once great nation is yet unwritten. The biggest problem we have is that for the last four and the next four years we have entrusted the writing of the script to an narcissistic marxist ideologue bent on the destruction and remodeling of our society. How can a man with virtually no private sector experience, being advised by a cadre of bobble-headed yes-men with similar backgrounds, write a script that is anything but detrimental to our way of life? I am a proud, card-carrying capitalist. While free enterprise can be a feral in nature, it is the failures that make the system efficient. If a business is allowed to fail, no more money will be invested in this un-sound venture. Other ventures benefit and the proprietors of the failed business have learned a lesson not taught in B-school. Enter academics, non-profiteers and life-long government employees. Heaven help us from non-capitalists bent on making capitalism “better.” It is like having an actress re-write the rules of golf. The trouble with narcissists is they will never admit they are wrong nor seek help so we end up with, Dodd-Frank, Too Big to Fail, Government Motors, Fannie and Freddie…you get the picture. Institutionalized mediocrity run by people who’s only claim to success was childhood participation trophies. BREAKING NEWS: One of the prime backers of Obamanomics, Paul Krugman, Keynesian in chief, has filed for personal bankrupcy. Claiming debts of $7.35 million and assets of $33,000. He has credit card debt of $621,000. One month ran up his AMEX $84,000. What a perfect allegory for Obama.

    As though that meddling wasn’t enough, bring on the social reforms. From gun-control to domestic surveillance, these asses can’t help themselves from trying to remake every facet of our society to reflect their utopiian ideal. Again, the reform is being championed by people so far removed from reality they should recuse themselves. Gun control advocates who don’t know the difference between an “assault weapon” and a semi-automatic gun. Idiots who think rape can be eliminated by teaching boys not to rape. People who think it is a good idea for the DHS to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammo. People who think that it is OK to fly drones domestically and to “take out” people deemed dangerous solely because Obama says it is ok. Like you, I would challenge the progressive pussies to take a shot at me but, with their contempt for civil rights, they might just honor my request. The problem is that, even if they did attack, the media has been has been so in the tank for Obama, the story would be inserted amid the bestiality section of the personals. Somehow someway we have to hold our republic together until we can give our system a progressive enema. At least, we must hold the house in 2014 if not take the senate. Then, building on our gains, take over the presidency and add to our majorities in 2016. Then, finally we may be able to rid our system of the dual cancers of Obamacare and Dodd-Frank as well as take a scalpel to the massive bureaucratic boondoggle Obama has wrought on us. I can hope, can’t I?

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:05 pm #

      Kwabber………….when’s the last time you were called that?

      You set me back with this one, my man, and you gave me info on Krugman which I must have slept through.

      God Bless you.

      Danny

      • Kwatz March 11, 2013 at 6:09 pm #

        Only you Novak, Breeno, Mileus, and your brother call me that and it has been years. thanks for giving me a good memory.

        that Krugman news is just too perfect. I think you are going to have to look in the transgender personals ads to find mention of this tidbit.

  7. Cora Olive March 11, 2013 at 7:55 pm #

    The ninth paragraph should answer …all of the above.

  8. Vee Dooling March 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm #

    OMG Dan, you are spot on! Damn!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:00 pm #

      Thanks, Vee.

      I’ll try to top it next week.

  9. Gail March 11, 2013 at 1:53 pm #

    Considering this is the first thing I have read this morning it is going to take an awful lot to top it! You are, by far, one of the finest, most explosive, verbally competent columnists of our day. Already my blood is pounding and it only took one column. Thank you, Dan, for telling it like it is and putting it into words you don’t want to stop reading. Thank the skies that our POTUS is too incomptent to understand the adjectives you string together. Otherwise, he may honor your request and those of us that look forward to your writings would be lost!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 5:59 pm #

      Many thanks, Gail.

      For once I’m lost for words, but dearly appreciate your comments.

      (please tune in next week——I have no idea yet what I’ll say, but it will have an edge)

  10. Marilyn March 11, 2013 at 1:27 pm #

    Hear! Hear! Great article, Dan.
    As we all know, Obama does not accept attack on his misguided rhetoric-mandates very well and he will appease Rand Paul’s filibuster just to get the Senator from “Podunk” (Obama’s own words: anyone not from Chicago is considered from Podunk) off his back…for a while. Obama is licking his chops to renege on his “word.”

    Chavez died of cancer- millions of people die from cancer and the treatments that pump poison into patient’s systems. There is not a cure for cancer and the end is inevitable. Big Pharma and FDA sees to it that there will not be a cure for cancer because their bottom line will be in the rIIOIed. We will hear all kinds of stories why Chavez passed away but it is a fact that the poisons (chemotherapy and radiation) do destroy the good body cells/organs and this eventually kills each cancer patient. Chavez signed over his leadership when he knew he wasn’t going to live. Now, we have another knucklehead to deal with.

    We have had nothing but doom and gloom since 2009 and The People are finally coming to their senses about what has been programmed for America. Obama can no longer fool us with fear mongering, intimidation and demoralization. Impeachment and Civil War is in the offing so let us be prepared.

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 3:22 pm #

      It’s a mess, Marilyn, but it’s fixable.

      We’d have become Venezuela years before if we weren’t so resourceful.

  11. Kristen Friddle Hamilton March 11, 2013 at 5:10 pm #

    Brilliant as always, Dan!!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:40 pm #

      Thks, K.

      Glad you are with Mike and me.

  12. Tara Dunn March 11, 2013 at 4:53 pm #

    That was truly scathing and articulate. I loved it!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:39 pm #

      My pleaure, Tara.

      Tune in next week, too, OK?

  13. kay March 11, 2013 at 11:53 am #

    ooooops – sorry I entered the wrong post.
    The DRONE thing is beyond the mind…… and we have NO recourse.
    How can we possibly fight against it?

  14. JoAnn Dolberg March 11, 2013 at 11:45 am #

    I sure do LOVE this one! Drone me, drone me, like you think you own me, I do not give a rat’s a__ __ if you think you can clone me to be you, I won’t be, so drone me…….

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:38 pm #

      Thanks for the laugh.

      You should write limericks !

  15. kay March 11, 2013 at 11:33 am #

    There is so much going on about guns & the methods being used to make sure we are unarmed. This is the bottom of the barrel…. but then – what else do we expect from this admin. The Military are trained with weapons – are they going to declare all the returning service people incompetent?? It’s sickening – as is the path we are being led down. Is there one brain left in Washington?

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 3:27 pm #

      If there is a mind left, I’m looking for it.

      So far?

      Not so good, but there are a couple trying at least.

  16. Rod March 11, 2013 at 11:13 am #

    Touche Mr. Bubalo, touche.

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 11:43 am #

      10-4, and thank you.

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 3:23 pm #

      Thank you, Sir.

  17. SunnyVee March 11, 2013 at 10:53 am #

    Dear Dan,
    What a waste of genius, were a drone to go right up your butt! We need you! On the other hand, who would cry if a misdirected drone happened to hit the White House, or Congress on one of the rare days it was actually in session?

    “Drugs” was one of your key words, and Obama’s drug-addled brain is partly to blame for what we are having to endure, thanks to him. Drugs, and no original thought of his own, and his need for “handlers” who use him as his puppet as they advance their socialist agenda.

    I know it had to be the strongest act of will possible for Obama to not go to Chavez’ funeral. It had to hurt beyond belief for him to see all the socialists gathered, giving Chavez a much too fond farewell. And he could only watch from afar…..

    Hopefully Castro will pass on next. And I continue to pray for a drone to lose its path and hit the White House, Air Force One, Martha’s Vineyard, or the golf course. And soon!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 11:46 am #

      I had a bet with a good buddy that it was a 50/50 shot he went to the funeral.

      I’d have “driven” to New Zealand if he had.

  18. Carpenter March 11, 2013 at 10:44 am #

    F—, obama and his commie, muslum adminisrtation. Yea bring it on.

  19. Pamela Arnold March 11, 2013 at 10:39 am #

    Adjective: A modifier of a noun to denote a quality of a “thing”. To specify a “thing” as distinct from something else. And did you ever nail it this morning. All those you mentioned would fit under this category. They are all “things”. Putrid, vile “things”. Undeserving “things” to be walking on this planet, especially in America. This is a serious subject, but your definitions of these “things” has me still laughing. Dan, your a prolific composer, and your articles are testimony of such. And I think the opposite of progressive, to this regime, would be “terrorist”. Because anyone that does not believe the way they think, speak, or act, does have a target on their backside. And how anyone can honestly believe, just because the freak Holder, and lying fraud Sotero, said, with a straight face, and forked tongue, that they would not drone American citizens on American soil, just to allow the psycho Brennan to be confirmed as the new CIA director, definately is rowing about with no oars, and no water. We all know better. The only thing transparent with this government is in knowing that whatever they tell the public is: they will do just the opposite. So, there will be many of us that may steal some of your glory, as we too, are “marked”. And on my last note, Chavez, how hot is it down there you piece of trash “thing”???

  20. Kristen KatieMonster Snow-White March 11, 2013 at 2:29 pm #

    Dan writes and I feel like I'm watching a trailer for an awesome flic in my minds' eye! Not to MENTION his grasp of Adjectives! I take notes, seriously!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:35 pm #

      Well, Kristen, they are the gift that keeps on giving, and I have nothing but to point out their idiocy.

      Thanks for reading.

  21. Jim Holmes March 11, 2013 at 10:20 am #

    C’ mon Dan, why don’t you tell us how you really feel? Excellent read, my man … thanks for a good pick-me-up to this day

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 11:43 am #

      Jim, it’s the moment that hits me, and I just go.

      While what you read is now five days old, I’m just getting warmed up for next week.

      Hope you tune in again,

      D

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 6:32 pm #

      Thanks, Jim.

      Such feedback never hurts my feelings.

  22. pblee March 11, 2013 at 9:17 am #

    Wow, Dan.
    I needed this to blow me out the door to work this morning. Well done. BTW, should you have the undeserved honor of being the first American done in by a drone in the back yard, it will be (as Mr. Menken described the the marriage of the King and Mrs. Simpson),”the greatest story since the Resurrection.” You aren’t filming some sort of home made You-Tube diatribe against His Royal Backside, are you…

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 9:56 am #

      Nah, PB.

      That would be too sophisticated for me. I think I was on film twice,

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 9:59 am #

      I got cut off, PB.

      Don’t think I’m made for film, and don’t think I’m about to try.

      (plus, they censor you………………………..)

  23. Charles Mashburn March 11, 2013 at 1:02 pm #

    You gotta love Dan Bubalo! He nails this one with a semi-automatic nail gun! Pulls the trigger and never lets up! BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 9:54 am #

      Thank you very much, Charles.

      I file my column on Fridays, so when they appear I’m already “mad” about something else for the upcoming week.

      So glad to have you as a reader———————and I have no idea what I’ll write about next week, but my guess is the administration will help me figure it out.

  24. Star March 11, 2013 at 8:12 am #

    Man, oh, Manischewitz!!!

    You said it Dano! I laughed out loud when I first started reading… your words kept bouncing off that page right into my logical brain and my – oh be still my heart!

    Wow! This has got to be one of your best yet. Oh, you got them all – all of them… their
    big bad drones are nothing compared to the BIG, BAD, WHOLESOME, WONDERFUL
    spirit you have – and have instilled in me (or us).

    Oh what a mouth on you! Mark Twain is sitting up in his grave – and high-fiving you right now.

    Sometimes the triteness of “those” people is so heavy… it’s a horrible mental burden. And yet, you’ve blown their poisonous pomposity up, up and away… To the moon, Alice! (Or futher – much further)

    Hope… With your words – Wow.

    Thanks for the BIG lift!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 8:41 am #

      You’re too kind, Star, but…………………………I’ll take it.

      Holy Macaroni!!!

      We all come from somewhere, and I have the Twains, Menckens, and Jenkins, who have inspired me to keep on keeping on, as well as so many more.

  25. Lynda Hickman March 11, 2013 at 8:07 am #

    WOW! What a great Monday morning eye-opener. No wasted words there for sure. And regarding the drones, here in our little podunk town, most everyone would not hesitate to shoot one of the darn things down….an intriguing artifact to hang on the barn wall!
    Most wonder why it took so long for the cancer to kill Chavez. He had been breathing our air and taking up space for way to long. And such is the truth about kingO. . . . .

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 8:36 am #

      I call Chavez and his ilk “oxygen thieves”, Lynda, and I’m glad he’s done stealing mine.

  26. jim March 11, 2013 at 7:59 am #

    This great article is a early morning “pick-me-up” surprise. They just keep getting better.
    You described hussein’s puppeteers better than anyone ever could. Mr. j. carter was,still is and always will be a senile goof ball.He alone set us back to the “bronze age”with his massive money throwing policys.What’s more after trillions of tax dollars—nothing is better–especially poverty. As for his low I.Q.being lower than a birch tree–,his sap ran out about the time he reached puberity,and sean penn is the real “goober” Great insight,so fluid and dead on accurate.However,watch over your shoulder,drones don’t make to much noise until it’s to late !!!

    • Dan Bubalo March 11, 2013 at 8:33 am #

      Mr. Jiim,

      All I need is you as my back-up, and the drones don’t stand a chance,

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