Veterans latest group to be profiled by US government

As a military veteran who:
Is white
Owns guns
Goes to church
Hates politician of every stripe
Is opposed to ILLEGAL immigration
Is opposed to abortion

In short, a guy who marked by nearly every key identifier set fourth the now infamous Department of Homeland Security “watch list memo”, I’m happy to know that DHS will not be allowed to waterboard me when the eventual DHS knock the door comes. It's comforting to know that I can only be asked questions in a moderate tone for 8 hours a day and get three squares and a cot in a comfortably regulated room.

I’m also delighted to know that some slick lawyer will be able to get me off Scott-free due to government profiling in my case. That is one argument that has mysteriously disappeared from the argument against the DHS’s boneheaded memo.

When some guy at the FBI or CIA suggested that it might be a good idea to take a closer look at Muslim men buying one way tickets whith cash, CAIR, ACLU and every other nutroots organizations was up in arms about racial profiling. The person suggesting the common sense approach was demoted two pay grades, forced to undergo more sensitivity training and reassigned to an obscure border crossing in Montana.

Why Montana? Well as we learned from the jackass DHS secretary herself, that’s were terrorist go to enter the country. And since it’s not a crime, again to according the dolt who heads up DHS, to enter the country ILLEGALLY, we really need to be on our toes. Gee and all this time I though ILLEGAL meant something was ILLEGAL. Damn public schools.

Now that it’s white Christian men with military records – that’s military mind you, criminal records – being pursued by a brain-dead witch in the Dear Leader’s administration, racial profiling, which was a legal argument used like a gun against the government when the Bush administration wanted to look at actual terrorists, has completely disappeared. The authors of the memo are praised by the MSM as wise men, who should be promoted and given more responsibility. Why, do you suppose, that has happened?

Well, when that knock on the door comes late one night, I plan to call the ACLU and have them raise the profiling defense on my behalf. I’m sure they will be happy to rush to my aid. I’m sure the MSM will hammer the Dear Leader and the excrement sandwich he hired to run DHS until I’m freed and declared a national hero for bringing to light the heinous practices of profiling originating out of DHS.

BS doesn’t begin to describe this situstion.

R.I.P. Norman B. Johnston

Mrs. Lex’s dad passed away last Sunday the funeral is today at 10 AM. I have been asked to share my first meeting with Norman B. Johnston with the mourners. Norm majored in physics at Indiana Univ. He went on to head up the engineering department for International Harvester. He was very precise about everything did; he questioned everything even the most obvious assumptions and saw wonder in the little things that most of us take for granted. While brief, I think this post captures the character of the man.

Diana asked that I take a moment to share with you my initial meeting with her dad.

We were traveling up from Florida to be at Norm’s lake cottage for Christmas.

Along the way we stopped at a couple of shops.

Well, I thought, I’d better get Norm a Christmas present.

No matter how many times Diana told me not to, or it’s really not necessary, I insisted.

I told her, “Look, I have five dollars and I am willing to spend every penny of it to make a good impression on the father of the woman I love.”

Diana was frustrated and said, “Fine, knock yourself out.”

I looked around and finally decided that I’d get Norm what I thought was, a very nice Christmas ornament.

Well we arrived at the cottage decorated and lit up like the prettiest Christmas card you’ve ever seen.

We went inside - and then I saw it, standing in the corner, glowing as if it had been touched by the hand of God, Norman’s Christmas tree.

Those of you who have seen or heard about Norm’s Christmas ornament collection and his meticulous attention to detail when assembling his Christmas trees will know what mean when I say, “Instantly, I knew. I’d made a mistake.”

At this very minute somewhere, in a dark corner of our basement, buried inside one of our 15-20 tubs of Christmas stuff is that very Christmas ornament that I had bought to impress Diana’s Dad.

As we were getting ready to leave at the end of our visit, Norm’s Christmas ornament still packed away in the corner of my suite case, I noticed that the windshield of my truck could use a little cleaning.

So, I asked Norm for rag.

What ensued was, at the time, one of the strangest conversations I’d ever had.

“Well, what do you want it for?”

“Huh”

“What do you want the rag for?”

“Oh, just to clean the windshield.”

“Inside or out?”

“Huh?”

“Are you cleaning the inside or outside of the windshield?”

“Huh? That can’t possibly make a difference.”

“Well it does. I have rags for the inside and the outside.”

“Huh?”

“I have different rag for cleaning the inside and the out side of windshields.”

“Seriously?”

We walked into the barn and sure enough there they were. Two boxes clearly marked “windshield inside” and “windshield outside.”

I was and ever since have been amazed with Norman’s organization.

When we meet Norm again, you can be assured, God’s tool room will be squared away.

Those of us who were around him before the Alzheimer’s started play tricks with his mind, probably saw him taking copious notes in one of these. (Hold up Cook’s note book)

He made lists of questions he wanted ask, things he wanted to buy, people he met, just about everything.

So now that he’s OK again. He’ll probably want one these.

This is a Christmas present from long ago. (Hold up pen.)

It’s a space pen. I gave it to Norm. He gave it back to me. Now, I’m giving it back to him with this note book so he can write down the things he might what to talk about with us when next we meet. (Place pen and note book into the coffin) If I get it back after this, you’ll read about it in the Journal Gazette or better yet the Inquirer.

Now I offer this simple prayer that I recited as boy but have only grown to understand with age:

Lord, Jesus Christ, save us sinners from the fires of hell. By Your grace invite all souls to the glory of Heaven; especially those of us who most need Your mercy. Amen.

R.I.P. Norm.

Is this really happening?

Let’s add these things up. What if the Bush administration:

Appointed a tax cheat as Sec Treas
Made fun Down’s Syndrome
Bowed to a misogynistic Islamo-Terror-Fascist supporting king
Gave a visiting dignitary an iPod with the greatest hits Earl Scruggs and Lester Flats
Gave a near blind visiting head of state Betta tapes of John Wayne’s movies
Ordered Americans to eat less then ordered in 100s of pounds of Kobe beef for himself
Had the head of the DHS claim that entering the country illegally is not illegal
Profiled any race or class of people who were not white, male and Christian
Claimed that the whole 9-11 thing was really the Canadians’ fault
Tried to take over the banking system
Forced an executive of a major newspaper to step down
Griped about the compensation paid to community organizers
Toured the world kissing the @ss of every tyrannical buffoonish character he met
Blamed the world’s troubles since 1776 on America
Thought he was the ONLY answer to everyone of those problems

If anyone or more of these things happened on Bush’s watch the MSM and their Demo-Dope congressional colleagues would be having an apoplectic fit. Yet our Dear Leader has in some shape or form done and engaged or has hired people who have done or engaged in all of these. But the stuttering know-nothing dope of a Dear Leader gets a pass at every turn.

At some point, the American people are going to realize that slavish devotion to a cult figure is not healthy. Then, when we’re riding the gulag’s box cars for 18 hour shift in the Dear Leader’s salt mines, we’ll be asking were was the MSM? Then we’ll hear Jake Tapper from the back of the box car, “Hey I asked tough questions. Remember the time I asked him why the exquisitely beautiful tie he wearing wasn’t quite as exquisitely beautiful as the one he had on yesterday?”

Three years and nine months to go.

Time to put Miss CA and old Bush officals on trial

Miss CA has a bigger bully pulpit than the Dear Leader I guess.

Let me see, the Dear Leader opposes gay marriage. So being anti-gay marriage must be the official stand of EVERYONE in the united country behind him…right? Well, not so fast my friend. Gays in CA descended on Pastor Rick Warren’s church to try to intimidate him and his congregation into accepting gay marriage without a single, “The Dear Leader ain’t so dear for thinking gay marriage is queer” sign among them. Why?

Now the dear sweet Miss CA is being lampooned and attacked all over the MSM and even some lesser outlets (if there could be such a thing) for opposing gay marriage while answering a “gottcha” question by some @ssbag named Perez Hilton. The last name gives you a clue here. Hilton took to his blog (Ha, a blogger, what a looser…no wait…never mind) and Larry what’s the question King to deride the beauty pageant runner-up. But in all of Hilton’s unhinged attacks on a 21 year old beauty who has less than 0% responsibility for US policy on the subject, he never mentions the dear Dear Leader or takes him to task for holding essentially the same position on gay marriage as Miss CA. Why? I guess Miss CA is a more important figure.

Let the purges begin

In banana republics and communist countries, when one Dear Leader dies and after the next Dear Leader takes over the first order of business is for the new Dear Leader to blame the old Dear Leader for everything wrong in the country and even the world. That’s called phase one. Phase two is to drag in all of the people who were around during the old Dear Leader’s term and prosecute them for doing their job. The outcome of these “trials” are about as unpredictable as a Harlem Globetrotter’s game.

The US has already embarked on banana republic and communist economic plans and now the Dear Leader has signaled that he is willing to take banana republic and communist political actions as well. Everything the old Dear Leader did it seems must be characterized as criminal to clear the decks for the new Dear Leader.

So the new Dear Leader has indicated that he willing for the old Dear Leader’s minions to be open to prosecution for doing their jobs. Were it not for the financial ruin facing the people the Dear Leader and his Demo-Dope morons are targeting, this would be a good thing. At trial or at least a fair trial, the real story, the whole story would have to be told. That story would, no doubt, make the old Dear Leader look good and the people being prosecuted to look like heroes.

So don’t count on fair trial. If it can’t be “fixed” there will be no trial at all. There will be a bi-partisan committee made up of Demo-Dope attack dogs and Republi-Rat milquetoasts who will release a report to great MSM fan fair condemning everything the old Dear Leader and his men did. That’s how it play out if we’re lucky. If the republic slides further into the abyss, the show trials could end up with the old Dear Leader and his men being strung up by piano wire.

If you have a brain, you're probably a racist

The newest line of attack among Demo-Dopes and their MSM lemmings is that if you were involved in or supported the Tea Parties in any manner, you’re a racist. Labeling someone a racist is Demo-Dope Kryptonite to any conservative Superman. Nobody but a real racist wants to be labeled a racist. So that label is to be avoided at all cost to include shutting one’s self up. The Demo-Dope challengers and the Republican candidate all fell for this BS during the presidential campaign. Whenever anyone swerved near the truth during the campaign, the Dear Leader had his speech police label them racists. Next thing you knew the “offender”, who did something as innocent as pointing out that a life-time of community organizing may not be the best skill set for being President of the United States, was forced to deny being a RAAAAACIST - which is akin to trying to answer the, "have you stopped beating your wife" question.

Let’s get this out in the open. I don’t like the Dear leader. I think he is a self-serving, conniving, arrogant, know-nothing, do-nothing and until recently be-nothing high functioning moron who finds it easier to trash his own country to the world for his own gain than express the – uh – HOPE that America has always represented to the world. That does not make me a racist.

To prove it, I think Harry the war is lost Reid is a self-serving, conniving, arrogant, know-nothing, do-nothing and actual be-nothing high functioning moron more interested in advancing Demo-Dope control in the Senate than what is best for his country. I think Nanny Pelosi is a self-serving, conniving, arrogant, know-nothing, do-nothing and actual be-nothing high functioning moron more interested in advancing Demo-Dope control in the House than what is best for her country.

So we have three individuals who have several common threads, but none of the threads involves race, sex or religion. The threads all involve liberal Demo-Dope philosophy and a near treasonous disregard for their own country. Don’t fall for the self-silencing speech control these bastards want.

Best Tea Party Sign: Never mind my mortgage – subsidize my ammo

Demo-Dope logic; torture bad, killing good

On the act of spying, Sun Tzu said this, “Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.” Pretty dang smart huh. I wish I had thought of that. Well how does the enemy get “foreknowledge”? Spies, that’s how.

Now spying is a dangerous and expensive business. Most times when spies are caught they are tortured and killed – except here were we house them in a state of the art prison where conditions are much better than for the average American criminal; we give them three squares a day and then let them go because someone violated their civil rights somewhere along the way. Getting information cost a lot of money. Sun Tzu said, “…to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.”

Well, wouldn’t you just know that the Dear Leader and his Larry, Curly and Moe administration are actively destroying enemy spy networks by making them unnecessary. Why should the enemy engage in such risky and costly behavior as spying when the Dear Leader will just tell them what they want to know for the cost of a subscription to the NY Times?

Make no mistake, when the Dear Leader released CIA memos on how the US goes about extracting information from the humane garbage they find on battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, he gave great aid and comfort to our enemies. It’s like being handed the other team’s short yardage playbook or being given the questions for a test ahead of time. If some CIA guy sold the information to Islamo-Terror-Fascists, he would have been handsomely rewarded. If caught in the act of such treachery, they’d be tried and locked up. But the Dear Leader in his infinite wisdom decides, sure why not tell the enemy everything? It’s time we start reaching out to these people to demonstrate our strength…or something.

Now get this and tell why this isn’t fodder every late night comedy show. Torture such as making a guy stand naked, waking him up in the middle of the night, threatening to put a bug on him and other pranks school boys have been pulling since time began is bad. It’s so bad, we’ve actually been torturing ourselves for the last 6 years since the photos of Abu Ghraib first surfaced.

Then a Navy SEAL team shoots three teenaged Somali vermin dead and that’s OK. The EXACT same brain-dead Demo-Dopes wringing their hands over sleep deprivation at G'itmo are dancing in the streets over three simultaneous head shots off the horn of Africa. Don’t get me wrong. I’m quite happy the Somali thing worked out so well, but how can that action and the Demo-Dope reaction to it make an iota of sense given Demo-Dope demagoguery on G’itmo over the last 6 years? Sleep deprivation bad. Shot through the head good. It’s a Bizarro world.

Brings me back to an old Marine Corps motto, “Kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out.”

Get while the getting is good

In a dissent of a 1949 case declaring a law that held certain speech - which “breeched the peace” - to be unconstitutional, some obscure Supreme Court Justice, named Robert Jackson first used the phrase, “the constitution is not a suicide pact.” While that might have been the first use of the exact phrase, the sentiment has been a round a long time. Jefferson used a Clintonian parsing of the same sentiment to find justification for the Louisiana Purchase. Lincoln had the same attitude when he suspended habeas corpus during the civil war.

Now Governors, including Texas’s Rick Perry, are using Justice Jackson’s phrase to justify their state’s potential exit from the union. On the surface you might think, well we’ve been down this road before and cost us over 600,000 Americans. But it is not as nutty as it seems in today’s climate.

We know the Dear Leader likes to “spread the wealth around.” Now we have a number of states, CA and MI for example, that are OK with taxing business to the point that it leaves and takes the tax base with it; which causes the state to stupidly raise taxes again; which drives individuals out the states; which causes the genius politicians in the those states to raise taxes again…this time on the last three people working in the private sectors their states.

Add to that scenario, these two states shamelessly pander to all manner of nutty ideas from gay marriage – no matter how many times the voters in the state reject the idea or by what margin; the UAW which thinks it’s no problem that its labor costs on average $35 an hour more in Detroit than the same American non-UAW labor costs Toyota and Honda in plants in the south; the teacher’s unions ruining American competitiveness for the last 30 years.

These same states pile state and federal entitlement on top of entitlement - not only for American citizens of the state but also for any ILLEGAL ALIENS from anywhere in the world who happen to wander into the state, while DHS is watching American war veterans for sedition. These havens for ILLEGAL ALIENS guarantee free health care, free primary and secondary education, free housing loans etc. etc. And now the Dear Leader thinks it’s a good time to make these ILLEGALS legal so they can become good Demo-Dope voters.

Meanwhile, TX has a relatively good economy but is expected to fund the Looney Tunes policies in the failed states. Seems like a good case to get out. Now I wouldn’t object if CA and MI left. I’d say good riddance. So I’d have to be OK with great states like Texas leaving. Besides, Texas would give us sort of a last line of sanity, a place to move to when our own states go down the socialist road. So I’m all for Texas getting out while the getting is good before the Deal Leader turns his economic pistol on them. I may go down and buy some land so my spot in paradise is secured.

Immigration or ILLEGAL immigration

Uh oh, Lex is guiltier than he thought of being a right-wing extremist. Turns out if you oppose abortion – even the hideous partial birth variety – you might be a right-wing extremist. If you’re against what the DHS report simply calls “immigration” why you might be a right-wing extremist. Hmmmm, immigration or ILLEGAL immigration?

One silly little word changes everything. I go to my bank and take money from my account, it’s called a withdrawal. If go to the bank with a gun and take other people’s money, it’s an ILLEGAL withdrawal. If I walk into my house or am invited into yours, I enter. If I smash down my neighbor’s door unannounced, it’s ILLEGAL entry. If I’m a foreign citizen, wait in line, fill out the required paper work and enter the US legally, I am an immigrant. If I jump the line and enter the US without regard for the US immigration law, I’m an ILLEGAL immigrant.

But hey what would a right-wing extremist know about these things that the brilliant people who gave successful Islamo-Terror-Fascists attacks the respectable moniker of “man-made disasters.” My only question is when Muhammad set off a bomb under the DHS Secretary’s considerably fat and stupid @ss, will DHS nut jobs give the disaster a name and category and will men in raincoats rush to scene to report.

ANCHOR: “We have our man-made disaster reporter, Hunter McMatters, on the scene where DHS Secretary Napolitano has just had her considerable @ss blown off. Hunter what can you tell us?”

HUNTER: “Well Lucy, we know that DHS has declared this category 1 MMD or man-made disaster. And because this is the fifth MMD this year, this incident has is being called MMD Edward.”

ANCHOR: “Only a one, huh?”

HUNTER: “Well Lucy as we all know the DHS Secretary has considerable @ss. Experts tell us she still has enough left to last us through MMD Wally.”

ANCHOR: “Well that’s encouraging for us and has to be a bit frustrating for the man-made disasterists.”

HUNTER: “Lucy, I think we should be careful not to group peace loving man-made disasterists in with the radical disasterist, that’s counter productive.”

ANCHOR: “Indeed. What we really need to watch out for those crazy right-wing American extremists.”

DHS Secretary Napolitano is proving to be a larger bag of excrement than her boss or even the tax cheat counting our tax payments.

Homeland Security protecting us from ourselves; or The only thing we have to fear, is combat veterans

Who’da thought that Dale Dribble, the paranoid government conspiracy nut on King of Hill, had it right? Now if you’re a white male and “crazy enough” to own a gun, go to church or even honorably serve your country in a war zone, Homeland Security thinks you are a threat to the government. As a guy who fits all of the current government’s criteria as a "rightwing extremist,” I’m concerned.

All I need is a Ron Paul bumper sticker and a Don’t Tread on Me flag out in front of the house and I think the Dear Leader’s secret police will be required to haul me in for questioning. Add to that "mountain of evidence" of potential evil this web site and I think Eric Holder will be dashing to the Oval Office to implore the Dear Leader to hold off on closing G’itmo. “Sir, we better not close it down yet. There are real threats out there, the AMERICANS!

This really is scary stuff. The government is calling war veterans right-wing extremists. So Homeland Security calls our returning heroes right-wing extremists while referring to the Islamo-Terror-Fascists they were fighting as…what? Human induced calamities, man-made disasters or something else so stupid only the Ivy League dopes in the US Government could come up with it?

How can this be happening? I’ll tell you. We have an idiot for a Dear Leader. The idiot has to surround himself with people who are dumber than he so that he can appear to be smart. So now, we have Oh so Slow Joe as Veep, an idiot who can’t follow Turbo Tax prompts running Treasury and the entire cast of the Keystone Cops to populate the rest his administration - just so the Dear Leader can be the smartest guy in the room.

This truly is frightening. It is a outright effort to marginalize, criminalize and demonize anyone who might voice a discouraging word about the Dear Leader. I’m going to get couple a hundred Ron Paul bumper stickers and plaster all over the cars in the faculty parking lot at Yale and all of the cars parked at NBC, ABC, CBS and the NY Times. That’ll slow Homeland Security down a bit while they investigate a few hundred of their own.

"The Honeymooners" economic plan

Boy am I ever feeling PATRIOTIC! I finished my taxes and e-filed last night. Of course, I owed the government money. That’s why I’m feeling so danged patriotic today. You might recall amoeba brained Slow Joe Biden telling us paying taxes was patriotic. Well for most of us. Of course if you’re the Treasury Secretary these rules do not apply, which would make you a treasonous bastard by comparison I suppose – right Joe?

Well paying taxes is the cost of a civil society. But at what point does the government’s take become too burdensome? And if the government is taking too much, why are we trillions and trillions in debt? And if the government is taking all of this money and still running a debt in addition to its confiscatory taxes why is it necessary for the government simply create an additional trillion WORTHLESS dollars?

Are you getting that? Let’s review:
High taxes.
Debt piled on debt.
Worthless money being printed around the clock.

This economic policy is beginning to sound as if it were concocted by Ralph Cramden and Ed Norton so they could get the money to buy new bowling shirts for Raccoon Lodge bowling team.

“I tell you Norton, this is the best idea I’ve ever had. By the time Alice and Trixie find out we’ve bankrupted the nation, we’ll have the new bowling shirts, won the South Side Inner City league championship and I’ll have been elected President of Bensonhurst Chapter of the Raccoon Lodge for pulling this whole thing off.”

“Yeah, I tell you Ralphie, or should I say 'Mr. President', you really out done yourself this time. Imagine bankrupting the entire country just so’s we can have new bowling shirts and so’s you can be president of the lodge. I don’t know how you do it Ralphie.”

Of course not a single one of Ralph's plans ever work and neither will this smoke and mirrors BS. Oh and by the way Turbo Tax Tim Geithner, I did my taxes using Turbo Tax. I just followed the prompts and got through the three day ordeal pretty much unscathed.

Kudos and Boodos for the rescue

Kudos to:

The US Navy. As the Marines used to say, they may be Navy, but they are our Navy and they are the best damn Navy in the word.

The Navy SEALs. This operation gives some idea why saying, “Just make more special ops guys” is like saying "Cincinnati will be Super Bowl Champs this year." It’s easy to say, nearly impossible to do. Read the first part of Marcus Lattrel’s “Lone Survivor” to get an idea of how “special” Special Forces guys really are. In this case, four SEAL snipers remained in hide places for nearly 48 hours. Imagine trying to stay in one spot for two days without moving. Itchy feet? Too bad you cannot scratch them. Cramp in your leg? Work it out SEAL. Food, sleep? Maybe a little here and there. Then, after 48 hours of sleep and food deprived misery, the moment of truth arrives, you must be alert and at your best. You get just one chance. If you miss, fire too soon or too late, a man might die because of your mistake. These guys are awesome.

The Dear Leader. He took time out of his busy schedule of wrecking the Republic, put down his arugula salad and gave the OK for an operation conducted mainly by the gun and bible clinging people he is used to deriding.

Capt Phillips. By all accounts, what a guy. The Sydney Carton of the MERSK Alabama. “It’s a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done.” If I’m flying, I want Sully (Or big Bro) as the pilot. If I’m on ship, I’ll take Phillips as my skipper any day

Boodos to:

Mersk and other shippers who refuse to hire three Blackwater type guards on ships worth hundreds of millions and cargos worth more than ships. Two or three armed people aboard these ships who know what they are doing could kill this type of vermin hundreds of yards out avoiding the whole situation. If port authorities have problems with armed ships coming into port, helo the “shooters” on after leaving port and off before docking.

Shippers, insurers and countries who have paid the ransoms in the past and perpetuated this scourge. So pirates get paid millions by shippers, insurers and countries for attacking unarmed ships and they will stop because…why?

Stupid Demo-Dope tricks

A bunch of public school products and affirmative action hires from the Congressional Back Caucus traveled to Cuba to pay a visit to its Dear Leader - Fidel Castro. The report back from the delegates is encouraging. The delegates gushed that Fidel is alert and inquisitive, and he wants to know more about Martin Luther King. Apparently Fidel is a big fan of MLK. The three blind and brainless mice from the delegation never thought to ask Castro how MLK’s civil disobedience might have been handled in Havana in the early 60s. Fortunately, most of us know that MLK would have been sent away for “re-education” and never herd from again in Castro’s Cuba. But the congressional dopes - as if there's another kind - fell for Castro’s ruse proving that for these colossal fools, as long as everyone is living like a Cuban peasant, there’s no need for civil rights.

Lying, plagiarizing, king of the dolts, and Vice President of the United States, Slow Joe Biden said he told George Bush off during “hours” of private conversations. Bush White House officials said these conversations never took place. Karl Rove accurately called Slow Joe a lying blowhard. Slow Joe, not one to admit he’s dumber than nearly everyone drawing a breath, countered with, “Oh yeah, well it didn’t happen in the White House. It happened after church under that cone of silence thingy. So there Karl!” “Hours” of conversation under the cone of silence, out of ear shot from anyone, after church Slow Joe? Yeah riiiiiiiiiiight, that makes sense. Sit down Joe and have some ice cream. The men in the white coats will be along shortly. Scary to know the Dear Leader is the SMART one.

When is a bow not a bow? When it’s from the waist nearly to the feet in front of the oil manipulating, terror supporting, misogynist, Wahhabi nutball Saudi king; it’s performed by our own Dear Leader and it’s clear as the red nose on a clown’s face in photos. Then it’s not a bow. It’s merely the Dear Leader (get this because it’s important) leaning over - NOT BOWING DAMN IT - to shake the king’s hand, because the Dear Leader is soooooooooo much taller. Well first the Dear Leader would have to be the size of Andre the Giant and the king the size of Mini-me for that explanation to be plausible to anyone but the ignoramuses from the Congressional Black Caucus who visited Castro. The Dear Leader was either bowing or getting ready to pull a Barney Frank on the king, which is it? Hey White House, it was a BOW. It was a mistake. Admit it and move on. The denial confirms the fact that you are willing to lie about everything large and small.

The Dear Leader tells Turkey that America is not a Christian or Jewish nation just as Turkey is not a Muslim nation. OK the US is not a Christian nation or at least stopped acting like one in Jan 2009. But the Dear Leader is much dumber than most of give him credit for if he thinks – and apparently he does – that Turkey is not a Muslim nation. Turkey is a Muslim nation under precarious secular rule. Hey dopey, the Turkish national flag has a crescent and star, which are the universal signs Islam. Let’s try to replace the stars on our flag with white crosses and see what happens. When Danish cartoonists poked fun at Muhammad, Turkish practitioners of the “religion of peace” took to the streets, burned churches and murdered a Catholic nun. But if a bow is not bow for the buffoons currently occupying the White House why not say, “Turkey isn’t a Muslim nation”? Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

But enough with idiots. Have a blessed Easter.

CNN punk Sanchez blames FOX instead of shooters

What’s a Lib to do? Gun violence is up. So are gun sales. But support for gun control…uh excuse me…sensible gun laws is at an all-time low. That’s enough to make Barney Frank start charging for parking at his male prostitution operation. It was enough for CNN idiot Ricardo, Ricky, Rick Sanchez to blame the whole mess on Fox News and conservative talkers.

Somehow I don’t think the ex-con black militant Lovelle Mixon, who shot the cops in Oakland, fits Ricky’s idea of a far right wing FOX fan. More of a CNN/MSNBC fan I’d wager.

The lunatic behind the Binghamton massacre, some complete scumbag know as Jiverly Wong, could barely speak English. So how likely is it that he was tuning in nightly to Gretta to catch up on the days events Ricardo? As Mino, wouldn't Wong, like Mixon, fit the CNN profile? After all, only Christian, white, male, right wing nuts tune into FOX - right Ricardo?

Robert Kenneth Stewart, the dirt bag that killed those people in the NC nursing home, was off his meds when he showed up there to kill his estranged wife. Now he claims doesn’t remember doing the crime. Can’t remember harming people? Sounds like a CNN - drunken driver named Sanchez who ran down and killed a man while intoxicated - fan to me Ricky.

Nazi sympathizer Richard Poplawski shot and killed three police officers in Pittsburg because, among other things, he thought the Dear Leader might keep his word and come after Poplawski’s guns. First, I’m tired of Nazis being called “right wing”. No, they are left wing because Nazis like Fascists, Socialist and Communists all want and advocate for what the left wants – government control. So they are all more in line with the Dear Leader’s way of thinking than they are with mine.

But, Ricky never manages to swerve into the truth. The people responsible for the crimes noted above are the people who committed them.

How this all ends:
Libs call for and enact ever more ineffective gun laws instead of enforcing the ones already on the books. Then, when we are saddled with 1,000s of ineffectual, unenforceable and un-enforced laws, Libs throw up their hands and say, “We have tried every reasonable gun law imaginable but none have worked. The only thing left is to ban the manufacture the ‘most dangerous’ guns and collect up those already out there. It’s for the children.” You watch.

Libs support the troops by mocking them

Penn State University has a human relations training video circulating that takes a shot at veterans. I e-mailed PSU student affairs office at np3@psu.edu the following:

I caught this gem on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhLq9NPLv0M

Was the dope who shot those people at VT a "veteran" or just a scumbag college student? Hey I know, that guy could be the “troubled Asian student.” Was the guy who assaulted students on the UNC campus with an SUV a veteran? No he was an Islamo-terror-fascist. Why not a troubled Islamic radical? We all know that the last thing PSU, the media, TV and Hollywood would want to do is anger a Muslim. That could cause real problems – like your administration building going up in smoke or a suicide bomber blowing himself up in the student union. Better to limit your stereotypical assaults to veterans. At least, they won’t kill you.

And if PSU is so into stereotypes, why not a stereotypical black man? Put a watermelon and a bucket of KFC on the Dean's desk? And the woman needs to be the stereotypical feminist –ugly, 300 pounds overweight, wearing a flower print muumuu, dirty stringy hair, sipping on 52 ounce Speedymart Coke and screeching at the dean that she should have had his job.

And by the way, you forgot to have the “troubled veteran” wearing a huge cross around his neck. But hey, you probably didn’t know were to find one. And while it suites your purpose for this little vignette for a white male to portray the “troubled veteran”, isn’t it going to put the lie to your later efforts to portray every veteran “victim” as an underprivileged minority or woman?

But hey, I’m sure PSU supports the troops – right?

The world didn't get the memo

Uh oh, apparently the rest of the world didn’t get the note that America’s Dear Leader is to be adored and admired.

Just as our Dumbo eared dope was in Europe calling for a Nuke free world and ambrosia for everyone, the original Dear Leader, North Korea’s Kim Jung Il, goes and shoots a missile into space. OK, actually it got about as high as Lex jr.’s Mento rocket at the last family gathering. But Kim’s actions were against UN resolutions and promises he made at six party talks in order to get more food for party and army leaders and oil to keep his palaces lit.

Son-of-a-Bitch! Why did the original Dear Leader have to pick this week to act true to his natural form? Well, apparently Kim shot the missile off because he’s a bit peeved that America’s free press is even more slavish to its Dear Leader than North Korea’s state run press is to its Dear Leader.

Damn him – the original Dear Leader not the poseur Dear Leader – for injecting a bit of reality into the poseur Dear Leader’s week long Miss America speech. “I want an end to nuclear weapons and world peace and for all of the children to be loved and for no more violence and an end to hunger and for the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl.” What a clueless idiot. And to prove it, immediately after the North Korean launch, the Dear Dope’s Defense Sec comes out and tells the world that we’re reducing funding for our missile defense shield. That makes pefect sense to this guy and - no doubt - will show North Korea who is boss.

And what do we get for the Doofuss-in-Chief’s constant apologies for America being successful and his berating of his own country? Nothing. Mr. former dope smoking dope gets nothing for bashing his country in general and his immediate predecessor in particular. Remember during the campaign he read or memorized those lines about improving America’s image over seas in order to get more cooperation?

Well if trashing your own country improves your international standing, we must be loved word-wide. Where’s the evidence? More NATO troops to Afghanistan? The Euro answer to that request, “Uh, look man, we love you. Really we do. But if you think that there are even 500 real men who aren’t Muslim, Americans or Brits left in NATO you’re out of touch. We don’t do combat. We rely on America for that so that we can fund our ever expanding and now collapsing socialistic societies.”

Well at least he managed to get a strong condemnation from the UN for North Korea’s recalcitrance. As stupid as that sentence sounds, no he wasn’t able to get even that. But Lex, the world loves us now that the Dear Leader is destroying the country. No it doesn’t. Unlike the simpleton running our country the world is populated with shrewd leaders looking out for their country’s own good at best and unstable, dangerous vermin conniving to destroy us at worse. We’re stuck with a socialist Pollyanna flying a glad machine around the world telling everyone that he’s not George Bush. What the hell kind of foreign policy is that?

The Marines had a pretty good saying when dealing with reluctant partners, “When you have them by the balls, their hearts and mind will follow.”

What's the difference?

What’s the difference between the two pieces of “art” above?

The one on the right required some artistic talent. The one on the left required the – uh, can I say this? – imagination of a pissed-off 13 year old vandal after drinking a six pack of beer. Fill a jar with what the body makes of most beer, drop in a crucifix, and shoot away with your cell phone camera. Brilliant! Now that’s art.

The one on the right didn’t cost the American or any other taxpayer a dime. The photo on the left cost the American taxpayer $15,000 of NEA grant money. Hey, in today’s climate, we got a bargain, and by today’s standards it was money well spent.

The one on the right got the religion of perpetual rage once again stomping their feet in anger and as usual when enraged Muslims stomp their feet, some Christian’s head is usually under their heel. The picture that required some artistic talent also required the artist who drew it to go into hiding while the observers of the “religion of peace” burned churches, rioted and murdered innocent people who had not one thing to do with the picture or its publication. The one the left got Senator Jesse Helms and the Catholic League so outraged they sent a strong letter to National Endowment for the “Arts” condemning the waste of taxpayer money to support an offensive piece junk.

The one on the right was banned in a many publications and censored in a number of countries. The artist was condemned and shunned and as noted had his life threatened. The one on the left was hailed as an artistic masterpiece and won awards in Europe. The artist was all but knighted for his courage and vision.

The one on the right has the Danish PM traveling to Turkey this week to grovel for forgiveness from the religion of perpetual outrage. The one on the left demands that its critics apologize for being offended - 1st Amendment, freedom of speech and all of that don’t you know.

But you know, I’d rather see a picture of a crucifix submerged in some dope’s urine than the Dear Leader standing at the graduation podium at Notre Dame. At least Father Jenkins, the President of Notre Dame, didn’t ask Serrano to piss on a crucifix – well, at least I don’t think he did - maybe.

But hey, maybe the Dear Leader will take the opportunity of his graduation speech to apologize to Catholics for the US Government funding art that is offensive to them. Hahahahahahahha, you’re killing me.

Too many stories

There’s a funny line in the movie “Amadeus.” Mozart delivers a piece of music to his benefactor. Later Mozart asks the benefactor how he liked the music. The benefactor says he didn’t like it at all. When Mozart asks why, the benefactor idiotically says, “Too many notes. Yes, that's it. Too many notes”

I know how the guy felt. There are too many stories.

When thinking about the Dear Leader’s administration and the Demo-Dope Party, the phrases, “too many tax cheats,” “too many brain-dead Libs” and “too many weasels” come to mind.

The Dear Leader’s budget: Pick one. Too many dollars. Too many failed programs. Too many fraudulent recipients of other people’s money.

The Red River is rising due to too many snow flakes. The Dear Leader attributes too many snow flakes too...you guessed it...global warming. Sadly, that makes sense to Libs.

Tax Cheat Geithner’s call for more regulatory power: Too many failed unprofitable government enterprises now; the post office; Freddie; Fannie; Amtrak; etc. Rush Limbaugh asked a very good question yesterday, “Name one thing, that doesn’t involve the military, that you’d hire the government to do for you.” Can’t think of a thing. And it’s not because government does everything poorly, but you know it’ll cost 100 times what it’s worth by the time they are done. Which, I guess, does mean government does everything poorly.

Sec. State Clinton picks up where her ceatin’ old man left off with too many apologies to the world for America. Can’t wait ‘til Thunder Woman sits down with the Iranians and apologizes for slowing down their nuclear bomb…sorry…power plant. According to the madam, it’s America’s drug habit causing Mexico’s drug lord problem. Yeah, well that and selling drugs is the easiest way for anyone not connected to the Mexican government to make a living in that corrupt state. And it is our fault for not enforcing our immigration laws for the last 30 years. It’s our fault for not protecting our border by building a triple barrier fence, mined between each layer, electrified, then a 14’ deep ditch filled with toxic waste and then 15 foot wall with razors built in. So yeah, we’ll take the hit for that one.

Too many broken campaign promises. $1,000 middle class tax cut – gone. It was all smoke and mirrors anyway. Any amount of money you got or as the Dear Leader likes to say was “spread around” to you from others more creative and/or harder working than yourself would disappear in gas and other taxes.

Oh yeah, bring the troops home from Iraq within 16 months. Too many lies. First, not in 16 months. Second, for 50,000 plus troops not at all. Third, for the ones who do get out, unless they call Afghanistan “home”, they ain’t commin’ home. Reminds me of that trendy bumper sticker so many Libs loved to sport, “Support the troops. Bring them home.” I guess they’ll have a new one now, “Support the troops. Send them to Afghanistan.”

So yeah there’ too many scandals, too much double speak, too much Orwellian BS – Fat Jack the @ss Murtha gets an award for – get this – supporting Marines and Sailors. Huh? So if I call the Dear Leader a cold blooded murderer, I get some kind of award for support?

I gotta go on vacation. Yes I can feel the despair from both loyal readers - having to go without your daily Lex for a whole week – how will you cope? And please keep the vacation quiet. The Lex family gets the largest portion of their yearly income from military retirement pay – which is technically a government bailout I suppose. So if some Lib Madam Defarge gets wind of this trip, Lex’s name will be knitted into the Lib hate quilt along with AIG execs. Then I’ll have to face a slobbering Barny Frank leading an angry mob in my driveway Sunday when I get back from my vacation.

Lex on deficits

I just blew $4,000 bucks on my new Beowulf .50 cal. Now I have a deficit in my savings account and with Mrs. Lex concerning my judgment. Whatever that deficit, I will cut it in half next year when I blow just $2,000 bucks on a Colt model Le 6920 AR 15. So if I can just bite the bullet this year, I will be in good stead with the family regarding my deficit problem next year because I will have cut it in half.

Makes no sense does it. Not to people with brains. But alas, the one thing in shorter supply in Washington DC than a balanced budget is someone with a brain.

So now I’ve been running deficits for a few years – but I have a handsome armory. I’m deep in debt, but I’m the envy of all my beer drinking buds back on the swale. Uh Oh, I can’t pay the mortgage or even put food on the table. No problem I’ll go to the bank for a bailout.

Mr. Banker says, “Not so fast my friend. You already owe us more money than it appears you can pay back. I don’t think we’ll lend you any more money.” So I go down into the basement and set up a counterfeiting operation. I just print my own worthless money.

So, there’s America, the shining city on the hill and envy of the world. Then along comes a compassionate conservative who runs up $500 BILLION a year in deficits. Then along comes the Dear Leader who wants to triple that deficit, proving once and for all that Republi-Rats cannot not out spend Demo-Dopes. Uh OH, Uncle Sam needs to borrow some money.

The bank – China in this case - says, “Whoa there big guy. We don’t think you can back your existing debt let alone another 9 TRILLION in superfluous BS.” No problem, the government just hires another shift over at the government printing office and prints another TRILLION dollars of worthless money. Now I go to jail for printing worthless money, but the government's worthless money operation has the benefit of being legal.

Stand up; raise your hands above your head and shout HALLELUJAH! if you think you can get yourself out of an intractable debt problem - that you got yourself into by barrowing money you couldn’t pay back - by barrowing even more money that you cannot pay back.

Congratulations to those standing and shouting with hands raised! You’re qualified to be a member of congress! Now, the only thing worse than borrowing the money is to just print up a bunch of even more worthless money.

Last: Congress feigned outrage at the execs at AIG who got bonuses even though it was they who got AIG into this mess in the first place. Well, congress has gotten us into THIS mess. Until the budget is balanced, I think everyone in government - less the military and law enforcement – ought to be working for a dollar a year. Try that and watch the rats desert the sinking ship.

Ft. Wayne's own Pravda on the Maumee shamlessly toes the line for Dear Leader

Some left wing dope, no wait, that’s redundant. Some dope named Gary Copeland used the Dear Leader’s Ft. Wayne propaganda arm aka the Journal Gazette to spew hatred on a woman named Donna Volmerding. Volmerding’s crime? Well this woman had the temerity to question the Dear Leader’s judgment in putting a tax cheat in charge of the IRS. Gary the dope spent three paragraphs telling his lemming, think alike, walk in lock-step, Dear Leader zombies who populate the JG’s editorial board how stupid Volmerding was for thinking tax cheat Geithner was the “head” of the IRS. JG editorial dopes, being sort of the king of dopes - at least in Ft. Wayne, published dope Copeland’s letter. Lex, sent the JG this love note:

The core of any editorial page ought to be - NO ad hominem attacks. Yet this morning Gary Copeland devotes three paragraphs limited nearly exclusively to lampooning Donna Volmerding. The ONE time Copland strays into substance he gets it WRONG.

From the US Department of Treasury web site:

“Collecting taxes in a fair and consistent manner is a core mission of the Treasury Department. Treasury's priorities in tax administration are enforcing the nation's tax laws fairly and efficiently while balancing taxpayer service and education to promote voluntary compliance and reduce taxpayer burden.”

Uh, who is it who collects taxes in the US, Gary? Oh yeah, the IRS. And since collecting taxes “is a core mission of the Treasury”, Gary, can we suppose that the IRS works for the Department of Treasury, Gary? Why yes we can, Gary. The IRS is an agency within the Department of Treasury.

Now, Gary, this may boil down to the parsing of words you Libs love to engage in. You recall don’t you, Gary? Does this whole thing boil down to what the meaning of “is” is? Or what the meaning of “head” is?

Gary, tax cheat Geithner is Secretary of the Treasury. The IRS reports to the Secretary. Would that make the Secretary the head of the IRS or just the head of an organizational chart that includes the IRS?

Gary, please explain it to us. You know, something like, “The head of an organization is not really the head of the agencies under him but rather a, uh what's the word…?”

I know the JG will not print THIS letter. But you owe Ms. Volmerding an apology.

Happy Note:
Bishop D'Arcy (as a result of my letter one below I'm sure ;) condemned Notre Dame (or as the Griffin calls it Neutered Dame) for its choice of the Dear Leader as commencement speaker.

What the....!?

An open letter to the Ft. Wayne - South Bend Bishop on the Dear Leader's selection as Notre Dame's commencement speaker:

Fort Wayne Chancery
1103 S. Calhoun Street
P.O. Box 390
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46801

March 24, 2009

Dear Bishop D’Arcy:

I see that the world’s most pre-eminent advocate for abortion and expansion of stem cell research has been invited to give the commencement address at Notre Dame. Did you and the university “leadership” miss this man’s recent actions to advance those hideous activities?

How are we to take seriously the church’s teachings on these matters? The church says it opposes these things then turns about and presents the bully pulpit of one of its most prestigious and well known universities to a person who advances them.

I’m sure this all makes perfect sense to the finely honed and open minds that populate your Chancery and the university board room, but to a great many of us who populate the pews of your churches it appears hypocritical and dangerous.

When is the church going to adopt the same approach on Sunday mornings? Father John will deliver a 20 minute sermon on the church’s teachings on giving to help the poor. Then Father John can introduce some Gordon Gekko type to spend 20 minutes telling us what a bunch of saps we are to be giving our hard earned money to the church. Frankly, the choice of Notre Dame’s commencement speaker makes it look as if we are saps.

Have you considered how the media will portray this commencement address? It will be portrayed as the church caving into the new government’s position on these issues. And why not? It appears that you are. It will be portrayed as mainstream Catholics being more in step with the new government’s position than with the Holy Father’s. And why not? No matter how many of us gather to protest the speech outside, the lemming media will loop endlessly the cheering and adoring crowd inside.

Sadly, I doubt that this decision can be reversed. You should oppose it in the strongest manner possible. Who will speak for us? Someone on the dais on graduation day should step to the mic, look the commencement speaker in the eye and condemn him in the strongest and most unambiguous way possible for his views on abortion and support for Mengele-like bioresearch. Who will speak for us? Sadly, I have little hope that anyone will.

Yours in Catholicism (for now),


Doug Schumick
Ft. Wayne, IN

Surprise! I'm not surprised.

OK, OK, OK, I get it! I should be mad as hell about some fat cats getting fatter via government bailout money. That makes sense. A failed business takes money from the government making Joe the taxpayer a share holder in a failed enterprise he has no desire being involved with. By the way Tim, Charlie, Tom et. al. you cannot be mad. You cheated and didn’t pay your taxes. So you cannot possibly be mad about where “your” taxes went.

Then said failed company takes said taxpayer money and pays $146,000 in bonuses to the exact same dopes who caused the company to fail in the first place. That has to make you madder than a midget trying to work a yoyo. It doesn’t.

This whole mess was entirely predictable. I read as much of the bailout and stimulus bills as anyone in congress – which is exactly 0 pages. As we used to say at the U.S. Army Staff College, the reading is only a problem if you do it.

So, none of the dopes we hired to run the country had the brains, time or curiosity to read the two bills consisting of 800 plus pages each of rules and regulations that are leading us to ruin. Wonderful.

If I knew these things were evil, chock full of pork, waste, fraud and unintended consequences, why shouldn’t the geniuses who do this for a living have been able to figure it out? I’m not surprised. So, I’m not mad. Apparently the weasels on Capitol Hill feigning outrage over the circumstance that they put into place have a much better opinion of themselves than the 12% approval rating the rest of us give them.

Two bills combined consisting of over 1,600 pages to give away money to people who shouldn’t be getting it in the first place. So lemme see, the US constitution has, until January this year, served as a road map for running the richest, most talented and powerful country in the history of the world for over two hundred years. Depending on how you set the margins and what size font you use, the original of that document runs between 11 and 12 pages.

So 11 or 12 pages to run an entire country for 200 years.

1,600 pages to hand out taxpayer money that will ruin the country.

You knew they were going to screw it up.

I knew they were going to screw it up.

Even they – well especially they – knew they were going to screw it up.

Now everyone, but Lex, is upset that they screwed it up.

And remember this. We’re going to give $900 million to Hamas terrorist. They’ll use the money to lob rockets into Israel. Congress will be shocked! Then we’ll give 100s of millions in military aide to Israel to fight the terrorists using our money to terrorize Israel. Congress ought to be able to get that bit idiocy done in less than 500 pages. But still, no one will read the bill.

No, I’m not mad. I don’t get mad when the sun rises in the east or the cat 5 hurricane I’ve been watching zero in on my city for five days finally hits and washes away the levies or when dopes act like dopes.

Hey all let's make fun of retards

America’s Dear Leader and Clown in Chief appeared on Leno last night. Wow, I already feel better about my portfolio tanking. And what a riot! After heaping praise on tax cheat Tim “You’re dong a heck of job Timmy” Geithner, the Dear Leader compared his bowling skills to, get this, kids in the Special Olympics. Hil-F%$King-larious!!! And this guy’s wasting his time being our Dear Leader when he could be making millions doing stand up.

I worked a Special Olympics once. I didn’t really want to at the time. I was afraid I’d say or do something stupid- or as the Dear Leader thinks funny. But it was a great experience. In world full of doped up multi-million dollar chest thumping athletes, it was nice to be around kids who were just happy to compete, cheered each other along and had fun. None of the parents got into fights and I, like every other volunteer, was thanked until I was embarrassed.

So the Dear Leader and Clown in Chief meets Morie the manager back stage after the show:

DL: Well Morie, uh, how do you uh, think it went?

MM: You killed ‘em kid. Next time we gotta get you a big rainbow wig and some clown shoes.

DL: Next time? Well uh, maybe, I uh ought to get back to my uh day job. You know, the uh Washington gig.

MM: Kid why in the hell would you want to get tied down doing something you know nuttin’ about? You’re comic natural.

DL: Uh, you really think so Morie?

MM: AB-SO-LUTE-LY!! Are you kiddin’? That joke about Tim Geithner doing a – how did you put it? – Oh yeah “outstanding job” even I couldn’t stop laughing.

Secret Sevice Agent: Mr. Dear Leader you have a call from Moscow.

DL: Hold on man. Tell him I’ll get back to him and get me my NCAA Brackets.

MM: Then there was that riff on retarded kids. My belly is still aching. Who doesn’t appreciate a good joke at the expense of retards? That ought to shut that Sarah Palin gal up. Next time let’s work in something about Alzheimer’s patients, 9-11 victims and war dead. It’ll kill.

Secret Service Agent: Sir, Kim Jung Il has launched missiles at Japan!

DL: Yeah, Yeah, get me the Oklahoma score so I can keep my bracket up to date.

The word DOPE just scratches the surface in describing this buffoon.

It only gets worse

If you liked the bailout, stimulus and the latest pork laden 410 billion dollar budget bill, you’ll love these tidbits:

Nanny Pelosi thinks it’s “very patriotic” for illegal aliens to gather to listen to her ramble on and pander to them, but she thinks it’s un-American for immigration officials to enforce the laws SHE PASSED! Coming from anyone else, this would sound incredibly stupid. Coming from Nanny, it goes down as one of her more lucid moments.

While windbags in Washington get all wound around the axel about the $145 million AIG paid out as bonuses to the very people who flew the company into the ground and now refuse to kill themselves, Fannie and Freddie (the proximate cause of all this turmoil) plan to pay out millions to just four execs. And, none of the gasbags grilling “Heck of a job Liddy” yesterday have shown the slightest interest in recouping the 90 Million Franklin Raines ripped off from Fannie.

What happens when your organization is charged with voter fraud in more than a dozen states? A Justice Department probe? Nah. FBI raids on your offices? Nah. Public outrage? No, hell no. Investigative reporters pouring over every transaction and background investigations on the people serving on your Board? Media investigate - Puleeeez. Well, if it was a conservative group caught in fraud all of the above and much more. But, if you are ACORN, you get asked to provide canvassers for the 2010 census. Hey, what could wrong? Why worry about an organization that registered Mickey Mouse to vote…10,000 times…in every precinct in America? Hey the census is just the instrument that determines where the members of the House of Representatives will come from. It is just the means by which government welfare outlays are determined. No problem. I'm sure ACORN will count every one of Nanny Pelosi's "very patriotic Americans" 10 or 12 times each.

The very busy Dear Leader took time out from his comedy tour (he does his routine on Leno tonight) to make “his” March madness predictions. Turns out “his” predictions look eerily similar to computer picks made by Joel Sokol, a Georgia Tech professor. Sokol’s statistical model correctly selected the Final Four, championship game and winner of last year's tournament. This is very Bidenesque. The Dear Leader ripping off a computer nerd without so much as a hat tip. And why is the Dear Leader of the United States interested in this stuff? Seems to me he ought to keep his yap shut and support all 64 teams. Last and this is tricky. Isn’t it just a bit of racist stereotyping for ESPN to be portraying the first black Dear Leader as a basketball maven? This reminds of the time Michael Scott recruits Stanley - the only black guy in “The Office” – to be on his basketball team. No matter how many times Stanley tells Michael he can’t play and doesn’t give a wit about the game, Michael insists that Stanley must be able to play because he’s black. So the Dear Leader rips off some computer guy off and looks like a genius. I’m sure Slow Joe came up with this idea. I'm rooting the #16 against UNC.

If you had to kill yourself after displaying poor judgment, Washington D.C. would be a ghost town

The only thing funnier than AIG duping the dopes in congress are the dopes’ reaction to being duped. Think Yosemite Sam’s reaction to being blown up by his own dynamite when Sam goes after Bugs Bunny. As he walks away all burnt, tattered and singed Sam mutters, “Dad blame rabbit.”

The brilliant minds in congress that set this whole thing up are now going to invest in an ACME AIG bonus recovery kit. The kit includes everything from unconstitutional taxes on the bonus money to urging AIG employees to kill themselves, which ironically would make it nigh on impossible to recover the money congress is after. I fired this off to Senator Idiot…uh…Grassley:

Senator Charlie, Chuck, Chas Grassley (I for Idiot) IA, called upon AIG employees who approved or took bonuses to commit hari kari. Good thinking Chuck. Hey looser, if we’re going to encourage people to kill themselves for bad judgment, let’s start with the criminal class that populates much of congress and Washington D.C.:

First, how about everyone in Washington who voted for or signed the TARP and/or the stimulus bill(s) without reading it/them kill themselves? I cannot think of a single measure that would benefit America more.

And let’s not outsource the method to the Japanese. Let’s do it the old fashion American way. Go get a large caliber handgun so that you could not possibly miss what passes for brains in D.C., put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. You Chuck, no doubt, will have to pull the trigger several times to hit the target. Please, don’t give up. Just keep pulling the trigger and reload if you must.

How about the Freddie and Fannie managers and their congressional lackeys? Shouldn’t they kill themselves? If AIG execs need to be dead, certainly Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, Barney the pimp Frank and Chris really you have no idea how shameless I am Dodd should be required hrow themselves from the top of the Capitol Building?

And then there’s the REAL criminals in Washington shouldn’t they, at minimum, be required “to do the right thing”?

Ted Kennedy should have killed himself years ago on principle, but the there was that Mary Jo Kopechne thing.

Shouldn’t Bill Clinton have killed himself for being a perjurer?

Shouldn’t the Shrillda Beast be dead by now as well for aiding and abetting a perjurer?

Shouldn’t Slow Joe Biden have assumed room temperature after lifting lines from another man’s speech?

Shouldn’t Barney the whore house operator Frank be dead by now?

Alcee Hastings is an impeached FL judge serving in the house. Why should he be allowed to continue to deplete the oxygen supply?

Billy cold cash Jefferson has been indicted in a FBI sting, yet remains up right and voting on laws that govern the rest of us.

Then there is Demo-Dope Jimmy my wife’s a punching bag Moran whose wife once charged him with abuse. He has assaulted other members of Congress on the floor of the House (well good for him on that one) and is himself a former stockbroker whose judgment in trades is so bad he is broke from poor investments. He also assaulted a minor in some fracas. Jimmy claimed the minority Ute was trying to rob him.

Then there are the tax cheats that populate the Washington Class-less crowd Geithner, Daschel etc. Certainly they all need to be dead – right Chuck?

These are REAL criminals Charlie. Why shouldn’t they have to kill themselves?

In 2000 Capital Hill Blue was reporting this about congress:

* 29 members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse.
* 7 have been arrested for fraud.
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
* 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses.
* 3 have been arrested for assault.
* 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for acredit card.
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
* 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
* And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.

WOW! Am I ever proud of MY congress now.

TARP money wasted? Who'd have guessed?

EXTRA EXTRA, read all about it. Government goofs up TARP rules blames AIG for not following rules that don’t exist! Male prostitute whore house owner Frank outraged. Dear Leader blames Bush; says Demo-Dope appointed CEO Liddy who approved payments is doing a heck of a job. EXTRA EXTRA, read all about it.

If it weren’t so pathetic, or maybe because it is, this would be/is hilarious. Who said that there would be all kinds of waste, fraud and abuse associated with the massive bailout bill that nobody had read? Who said the haste and reckless manner in which the bill was passed would have all sorts of unintended consequences? Who said that there was not one shred of evidence that the US government would be able to efficiently and effectively oversee the kind of cash outlay contained in the bill? Who argued to make the money available but to trickle it out as needed over time? Yes dear readers, it was Lex.

Mark me down as one of only a handful of people in the US who are NOT outraged, surprised, upset or even mildly shocked that the government screwed this up. It was like watching a three year old with five scoops of ice cream piled one a top another on a cone walking into a room full of hungry dogs. You know the ice cream is going to end up on the floor being devoured by the dogs while the three year old cries and screams. You just don’t know which dog is going to knock the cone out of the little girl’s hand.

In their haste to do something…anything…right or wrong, congress forgot to write in any rules about how the government TARP money (wait that’s idiocy – government has no money) your money would be spent. Now the exact same dopes who foisted the bailout on us are outraged that some of the money is being used to pay bonuses to other dopes who wrecked AIG.

First, I feel more outrage every time a member of congress draws a pay check. Talk about money for nothing. Barney free parking at my whore house Frank wrecks the American economy costing us TRILLIONS and yet the lisping tub of lard is outraged over a couple of hundred million. Yeah, makes sense.

Next, hey it’s all about stimulus - right? Well those bonuses are bound to stimulate the economy somewhere. I’d as soon have some fat cat Wall St. dude throwing the money around in clubs in NY as some fat cat union boss funneling the money back into Demo-Dope campaign coffers after hijacking some “shovel ready” stimulus project for 8 times the actual cost.

As fraud goes, this ain’t much. It’s completely above board. It’s completely legal. If this is the kind of crap that is happening in plain sight, what kind of crap are the union thugs pulling in back rooms while in collusion with the Demo-Dopes?

This is not Bush’s fault. It is the wholly owned responsibility of the Dear Leader and his dope buddies in congress. This whole thing went down on their watch and was approved by the Dear Leader’s handpicked CEO of AIG. In his own Katrina moment of irony, the Dear Leader heaped praise on Liddy for doing a heck of a job while complaining about the bonuses Liddy approved. Huh? Reminds me of the, “You're doing heck of a job Brownie” comment Bush has been relentlessly lampooned over after Katrina.

Tripping down the road toward fascism

Dwight Eisenhower warned of something called the great Military-Industrial complex. I guess the concept of “the military” and industrial tyrants conspiring to rule the world or at least keep enough low-grade wars going to advance the interests of each is a spooky enough thing to lay awake worrying about. It’s the thing movies are made of. Think, Ironman, Spiderman and other movies like them, where the military gets sucked into producing some “ultimate weapon” only to have a slimy captain of industry or maniacal general use it for his own gain.

The trouble with the whole Military-Industrial complex conspiracy theory is that it falls apart under the weight of a true democratic and capitalistic society with competing political and business ideas. The Republicans could not hold the Military-Industrial complex together during what started out to be a wildly popular war. Demo-rats undermined the president, the troops and their generals at every step. The equipment that we went to war with, that made certain industries rich, is not the same equipment we are using 6 years later. The industrial complex has been infiltrated by new guys with better ideas for everything from body armor to armored cars.

On the military end, Rumsfeld and Franks, the architects of the greatest military advance of all time, gave way to Gates and Petraeus who produced a winning strategy for post invasion operational victory, in spite of cretin Demo-rats like Reid, Murtha, Durbin et al. So the Military-Industrial complex conspiracy theory fell apart on all fronts.

What’s really dangerous is a one party government; led by a figure that the media is afraid to question (not because they’ll be criticized for disagreeing with his policy but will simply be rejected as racists) and that government buying majority holdings in banks, manufactures, education and unions. That begins to look an awful lot like where we are headed. And that is fascism, my friends.

Kids! What are you going to do with a washed up politician’s kid these days?

Take six minutes and watch this then watch this. It’s hilarious. Well at least to me.


But wait there's more
And let’s take this opportunity to add to our list of Demo-Dope hypocrisies. The Dear Leader attached a signing statement to the 410 billion dollar earmark bill. A signing statement from the President usually means he disagrees with something in the bill and outlines what he will do about the disagreeable portions.

No big deal right. Well the Dear Leader railed against President Bush for using signing statement inferring that they were an end run around congress and unconstitutional.

Well if that’s what the Dear Leader thought back during the campaign, why is he now using an unconstitutional method – at least in his own cramped mind – to make his own end run around congress? “Well this is different,” whined the Pillsbury Dough Boy in a suite and Dear Leader mouth piece Bobby Gibbs.

Different how? Well this is us. That was them, I guess.


I'm John McCain's daughter so I must know something

Meghan McCain proves that the seed doesn’t fall from the tree. Her, “Let’s all be centrists and get along,” shtick has already worn thin. According to Meghan, the Republican Party should just knock a quarter of the spending off of all the Demo-Dope tax cheating waste and be happy. Try picking up a copy of A Choice not an Echo Meghan.

The debate is over - science will put $ over truth

Consider that the Dear Leader said, “[it’s] about letting scientists ... do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion. ... It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we would make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology” when lifting the GOVERNMENT ban on embryonic stem cell research. Hmmm, maybe the best way to keep the politics out of science is to keep politicians and government money out of science.

But juxtapose the Dear leader’s position on stem cell research with AlGore’s position on global warming (19 degrees in Ft. Wayne, IN last night by the way). AlGore steadfastly refuses to debate scientist who dare disagree with him. Now think about that. A washed up political hack of no particular talent is deemed a more credible source on the subject of global warming than a MIT scientist.

And how does the pompous windbag AlGore win the global warming debate? He simply declares that “the debate is over.” I’m going to try that strategy with the Mrs. about the new .50 cal Beowulf rifle - cost $4,400 - I’ve had my eye on. “Look honey the debate is over. We’re getting the rifle.” The wife thinks about it for a second and rplies, "Oh the debate is over? I didn't know that. Let me go get the check book." Something tells me that's not how the real conversation is going to go.

So forget about the slippery slope of the government engineering a clone army of Sgt. Rock type soldiers. Never mind some Montgomery Burns type using the government’s research to bring off-spring into the world for the sole purpose of having a reservoir of matching spare body parts handy. Let’s just ask ourselves why the government can ignore science in the case of global warming but demand useless government funded research in the case of stem cell research?

It’s simple – ideology. Stem cell research is a cheapening of human life. How far behind can infanticide for undesirable kids and euthanasia for the sick be? Global warming is the government’s trump card to control more of lives – what we drive, eat, wear, how warm and cool we keep our homes nearly everything.

I predict that the government’s involvement in this will have the exact opposite of its intended effect. Instead of science seeking truth, science research will be seeking results that comport with funding. Can you imagine a scientist coming out with research that a botox injection into a woman’s head will reduce the woman’s IQ 10 points for every injection while Nanny Pelosi is Speaker. What are the chances that there will be ground breaking research that chubby lisping homosexuals are on average are 99.9% less likely to admit their own culpability in a housing meltdown scandal than the rest of us while Barney need a male prostitute? Frank is around?

Science will no longer be chasing the truth. It will be chasing government dollars.

Ho hum, more Demo-Dope hypocrisy

The fact that Demo-Dope hypocrisy is so common place that is no longer makes the news cycle and no one can be surprised by it no matter how blatant, is a bad thing. As a result, Demo-Dopes are an arrogant bunch and completely without shame.

Exhibit one: Here tax cheat Charlie Rangel tells a tax payer asking Rangel about his tax cheating ways to “mind your own damn business.” Arrogant? That statement is arrogant beyond belief. It is our business Charlie. You write the tax code. But you are either too stupid or too dishonest to follow it (you chose which). That bit of Washington insider corruption is John Q. Public’s business Charlie. Shameless? Sure it is. How would you react if caught in this predicament? Most of us would be apologetic. “Oh jeez, I really fouled up. Please forgive me and allow me to make payment in full. As a result of my mistakes I promise to look closely at our tax laws and try to simplify the code.” But these shameless arrogant bastards tell us to shut up and mind our own business. It’s like your wife walking in and catching you trying on her thong underwear and bras. Instead of saying, “Oh my, I guess I’d better get myself some counseling,” you scream at her, “get the hell out of here and mind your own damn business.” I think it is her legitimate business to know that her husband is a cross dresser – at best.

Exhibit two: Grandma Pelosi and the rest of the Demo-Dope leadership lambasted auto execs for flying private aircraft to Washington for their Congressional testimony. Never mind that time is the most precious commodity of people with great responsibility. Ask any mom with two or three kids running around the house. But now news has leaked out that Nanny Pelosi has been using the U.S. Air Force as her own Jet Blue.

See if these tidbits from Judicial Watch strike you as shameless arrogance:

In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, "Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?...[T]here's no need to block every weekend 'just in case'..." The email also notes that Pelosi's office had, "a history of canceling many of their past requests."
One DOD official complained about the "hidden costs" associated with the speaker's last minute changes and cancellations. "We have...folks prepping the jets and crews driving in (not a short drive for some), cooking meals and preflighting the jets etc."

The documents include a discussion of House Ethics rules and Defense Department policies as they apply to the speaker's requests for staff, spouses and extended family to accompany her on military aircraft. In May 2008, for example, Pelosi requested that her husband join her on a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) into Iraq. The DOD explained to Pelosi that the agency has a written policy prohibiting spouses from joining CODEL's into combat zones.

Documents obtained from the U.S. Army include correspondence from Speaker Pelosi's office requesting an Army escort and three military planes to transport Pelosi and other members of Congress to Cleveland, Ohio, for the funeral services of the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Pelosi noted in her letter of August 22, 2008, that such a request, labeled "Operation Tribute" was an "exception to standard policy."

The documents also detail correspondence from intermediaries for Speaker Pelosi issuing demands for certain aircraft and expressing outrage when requested military planes were not available. "It is my understanding there are no G5s available for the House during the Memorial Day recess. This is totally unacceptable...The speaker will want to know where the planes are..." wrote Kay King, Director of the House Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. In a separate email, when told a certain type of aircraft would not be available, King writes, "This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset [s]peaker."

During another email exchange DOD staff advised Kay King that one Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met because of "crew rest requirements" and offered to help secure commercial travel. Kay King responded: "We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [sic] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses. If we can find another way to assist with military assets, we would like to do that."


Exhibit last: After campaigning on and promising an end to earmark spending, the Dear Leader is about to sign a spending bill laden with earmarks. The Demo-Dope strategy is to blame all of the pork on…drum roll here…George Bush. Shameless arrogant hypocrisy? Sure it is. But who’s going to notice?

Military service diminishes one's freedom according to Educators Publishing Service

We had another controversy here last night over Lex jr.’s studies. He comes home with his vocabulary book. Among the 15 words he is supposed to know is the word “diminish.” The book has the following question:

Which of the following would diminish one’s freedom?
a. Being held captive
b. Having one’s driver’s license taken away
c. Joining the Navy
d. Being released from prison

Mom and dad tell Lex jr. a and b are correct. Jr. informs us that the teacher said that there were three correct answers for that question. Huh? “d” is obviously out, so that leaves “c”. That can’t be. Oh yeah, jr. says that the teacher said there were three correct answers for question 2. So, fired this off to jr.’s teacher last night:

Dear Mrs. N____:

Wow, after serving 20 + years in the Department of the Navy, I never knew that my freedom had been diminished. To learn that fun fact, I had to read Question 2 in section 9C of Danny’s Wordly Wise book.

So let me see, during 20 years, I traveled around the world in both directions; I visited and served in 15-20 countries; I lived over seas in three different countries; I crossed our own country back and forth, up and down 6-8 times; I visited dozens of states; I attended countless professional schools and earned a masters degree all courtesy of the Marine Corps.

And I’m just now learning that my freedom was being diminished all along. Oh, woe is me. Dang, what was everyone else doing while the Department of the Navy had me shackled? Ya’all must have really been tearing it up. I guess any job requiring honor, courage and commitment these days would be looked upon by Educators Publishing Service as diminishing one’s freedom. We just called it duty.

Come to think of it, the only time I ever thought that my freedom was in danger of being diminished was when Al Gore tried to have my military absentee ballot thrown out in FL during the 2000 Presidential Election. But somehow I don't think that incident is what EPS had in mind when claiming "joining the Navy" diminishes one's freedom.

Sorry for all of the sarc. I just wanted to make the point. Seriously, if that question includes “joining the Navy” it is WRONG. Does the teacher’s guide include “c” as a correct answer? If so it should be thrown out, St V’s administration notified and the publisher contacted for a correction.

Thanks

Two weasels parse "a nation of cowards"

Uh oh, it turns out the attorney general who called us all cowards is not the Eric Holder that the Dear leader knew when he nominated the pamper weasel. The Dear leader has rebuked, sort of, Holder’s “cowards” remark saying, “If I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language.”

First, what the hell, “If I had been advising my attorney general,” If it ain’t the Dear Leader, exactly who is advising Holder? Rev Wight? Billy the bomb thrower Ayres? The Dear Leader’s mean “ain’t no way proud of the USA” wife? Who?

Next, what language would the Dear Leader have used? How would the give and take on “a nation of cowards” have played out?

EH: How does nation of cowards sound?

DL: Uh ehh, no. Uhh that’s not it. Umm err, how about craven hillbillies?

EH: No. You’ll just remind people of the bitter clingers, clinging to Bibles and guns.

DL: Uhh, ahh, yes you’re right. Don’t need that again. Eh, how about inbred trailer trash?

EH: No, I think the white racism problem is more wide-spread than the trailer parks.

DL: Uh , emm, yes your right , of course. How about something that sounds, uhh, more grand and, umm, reinforces my new regal position? How about something like, uhee, the realm is littered with gutless pusillanimous whites too weak and spineless to face their racism and pay the reparations due all us folks of color, something like that?

EH: BRILLIANT! I think you’ve nailed it!

Really though, where’s the middle ground on “a nation of cowards?”

Are you broke? Just use last year's money.

Karl Rove wrote this in his NY Times OpEd piece this morning:


“[The Dear Leader’s] justification [for passing the pork laden 410 billion dollar budget proposal] comes to us from the White House's budget director, Peter Orszag, who recently called the omnibus spending bill ‘last year's business.’"


These are supposedly the world’s smartest people. Well then, how can they be so dumb?

Picture a very successful man at Christmas. In lieu of presents, the man promises the family he’s going to take them on a very expensive once-in-a-lifetime vacation in the summer. Then in Feb. the man is laid off. By summer his 401K has tanked. He’s behind two months on the mortgage and the outlook is very bleak.

Still he continues with his plans to load the family up for the expensive vacation. When the wife says, “Hey, we’d better reconsider this. We’re broke.” The man replies, “Don’t worry honey, remember this is last year’s business. It won’t affect things this year.”

But hey, again, these are the smartest people in the world. What the hell do us shlubs who rely on common sense know? Using that exact same logic I’m going to plan to buy a yacht this year. Then when Jan 1, 2010 rolls around and I’m just as broke then as I am now, I’ll tell the bank, boat builder and the wife, “Hey that was last’s year’s business. Give me my boat!”

If GM, CITI and other troubled companies used this accounting method the CEO’s would be jailed, but for some reason it makes sense to Demo-Dopes in congress.

What happened to the maintenance money over the last 40 years?

Wheph thank gawd! The stimulus money is finally beginning to flow and all is right with America again. There was some big deal about a bridge in MO that was going to be the first repaired with stimulus money.

Hey look, I’m as happy as the next guy that the bridge is going to be fixed before some family of four plummets to their deaths. But, here are a couple of rather obvious questions that I haven’t heard axed:

How did the bridge fall into disrepair in the first place?
Who is responsible for failing to perform the annual maintenance on the bridge for last 40 years?

Everyone who pumps a gallon of gas pays a small percentage of the price per gallon into the Federal Transportation Fund. That money is supposed to be used to maintain federal highways and bridges. States and counties also charge a few cents per gallon of gas to maintain their roads and bridges. That is why about 45 cents of every gallon gas goes to some tax. So why is the infrastructure falling apart?

Because it’s easier to get votes spending the highway money on new projects named after a local politician than slap a coat of paint on the underside of a bridge that no one sees and is impossible to name after yourself. When was the time you saw a sign on a bridge, “The Robert C. Byrd primer gray undercoat project?” That’s probably a bad example given the Klansman’s propensity to paint or chisel his name on every object that doesn’t move in WV.

The point is that the money to repair and maintain these structures should already be in the budget and should have been since they were completed. So now the very people who allowed the structures to fall into disrepair in the first place are going to be the ones collecting more money to do the job they didn’t do when they were supposed to do it.

Heh, what could go wrong with that?


ALERT!! ALERT!! Laugh out loud funny!! Iowahawk is BACK!

If you don’t do anything else today, read this in your best Thurston Howell III voice from Gilligan’s Island. You know the rich guy in the ascot, “Lovey dear, I feel a draft. Throw some more money on the fire.” Or, even better in the voice of Stewie from Family Guy.

Clearly unconstitutional

The local propaganda are of the Dema-Dope party (aka The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette) published this glittering jewel of stupidity on Monday:

Few Americans would say that what the nation really needs is a larger Congress – except for residents of Washington, D.C.

Efforts to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress have popped up over the years. But now both houses of Congress have voted to give D.C. a seat in the House of Representatives.
To keep an odd number – and, for political purposes, to add a Republican to balance out the certainty of a Democrat representing the district – Utah would get a fourth U.S. representative. The House would grow from 435 to 437.

But a Senate move to tie the extra seats with a heavy-handed amendment to strike down local Washington laws governing gun restrictions weighs down the bill mightily. And some members of Congress insist the U.S. Constitution allows only states to be represented.

So the debate will likely concern guns and legalities, not whether the nation wants two more lawmakers.


In my continuing effort to bring the light of truth into the darkness of the JG editorial boardroom, Lex fired this off yesterday:

Re: Representation or guns for D.C. in Monday’s JG

Does anyone on the JG editorial staff see the irony in referring to an amendment to protect the easily understandable language contained in the Second Amendment as “heavy-handed” while minimizing the un or extra-Constitutional nature of the actual bill?

I suppose Congress could use the “To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over [the] District [of Columbia]” clause of Section 2 Article I, as a fig leaf for this action. But, how do they get around that pesky language about representatives being chosen by the “people of the several States?” Oh yeah, and what about the apportionment of representatives being according to the census? How does the bill get around that? How is it constitutional for the Congress to simply offer up another Representative to Utah as a quid pro quo for a D.C. representative?

There is a mechanism for changing the Constitution. All that needs to be done is for 66 Senators and 38 states to agree to amend the “heavy-handed” language of the Second Amendment and representation for the District. But, following the law is always way too hard for Liberals. It’s better and faster if they just make it up as they go along in Congress or in some courtroom.

Oh, and to answer the initial question, no. When you have a bunch like-minded people sitting around a table nodding knowing approval to one another, no one has the brains or courage to say, “Whoa, wait a minute. Do you know how stupid that sounds?”

Are the "rich" laughing at us

Did I miss something or did the Dear Leader say that he was going to “pay” for the programs contained in his nearly 4 TRILLION dollar budget by taxing the rich – those making $250,000 or more. That’s what he said - right?

Well then why is congress considering a ten cent a gallon gas tax hike? How is the pump at my local Super Speedway supposed to know that I’m not rich when I go to fill up MY tank?

Maybe the IRS is going to issue each of us non-rich one of those super market scanner cards that the pump can read to identify us as non-rich and remove the tax. Maybe when the dialog box on the pump asks “Receipt?” we’re supposed to push “yes,” gather our monthly receipts and mail them to Washington like one of those mail-in rebate things at the Best Buy. Maybe we just take the receipts over to the Twin Eagle housing development, where all the rich folks live, knock on a door and demand direct payment from the people living in those big houses.

One thing I do know is that if the Dear Leader wants the tax burden to fall on the “rich,” he’d better figure out a way to reimburse us non-rich for this gas tax if it passes.

Then there’s the problem – actually it’s the same problem – with the nearly 700 BILLION dollar carbon tax contained in the Dear Leader’s budget. Hey, even us non-rich use energy. How are we going to get reimbursed for the $300 to $3,000 dollars a year each household will be paying for higher energy, higher food, higher everything as a result of that tax?

It would seem to this casual observer that the Dear Leader of hope-n-change is bamboozling us non-rich. I don’t think there will be a mail-in rebate coupon at the pump or with costs associated with this onerous carbon tax. It would seem to me that us non-rich are going to get screwed (i.e. taxed) right along with the real rich. And you just know those damned rich people are laughing their butts off at us non-rich for voting for the Dear Leader. How can that bit of schadenfreude be fair in this era of hope-n-change?

Oh speaking of schadenfreude, did you see where the global warming crowd was protesting during a March snow storm yesterday?

Iraq is now a mission for community organizers

The Dear leader has issued an edict to have all “combat troops” out of Iraq by August 31 2010. The 50,000 or so – count on it being closer to 60,000 – still in Iraq after August 31 are going to be what – non-combat troops I suppose?

This is idiocy of the highest order even for someone as idiotic as the Dear Leader. Here are some thoughts on this whole thing:

First, he’s 29 months later than he advocated while on the campaign. His position early on was to have the troops out by March 2008.

Second he should admit he was wrong about the surge and thank George Bush.

Third, is he really going to leave 50,000, essentially Peace Corp, support troops in Iraq without the protection of combat capable forces? No, I don’t think even he can be that stupid. Not to put too fine a point on it but he’s a liar when he says “all combat troops” will be out of Iraq by Aug 31 2009.

So how many combat troops will it take to ensure the safety of 50,000 “support troops?” Let’s say it’ll take two “brigades” of trigger pullers. They will not be called brigades because to call them what they are would expose the Dear Leader’s lie. Let’s put the mission on its head and call the “combat troops” who are supporting the non-combat troops “non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops.” Got that?

So, let’s say it’ll take roughly the equivalent of two brigades (but let’s be clear these are not brigades) of non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops. Let’s be optimistic and say that each non-brigade of non-combat support troops who will engage in combat to support the support troops will consist of about 3,000 non-combat soldiers who will engage in combat (actual number will be closer to 5,000).

So we’ve now got 6,000 of the 50,000 doing “non-combat” combat things. Historically, there is about a 10 to 1 ration between combat support and combat soldiers. Gee, that’ll put our troop force number in Iraq after Aug 31 at about 66,000.

Boy Wonder: “Holy faulty numbers Batman, who will be left to do the support mission?”

Batman: “Which support mission Robin? The non-combat support troops who will engage in combat to support the support troops’ mission? Or the actual non-combat support troops doing the actual support mission? And you look absolutely stunning in those tights!”

Boy Wonder: “Holy twist and turn Batman, this thing turns back on itself more often than an M.C. Escher print.”

Batman: “Indeed Robin, indeed. Now, let’s get back to the Batcave and practice our wrestling moves.”

To be sure, the Iraqi theater is what the military calls a “mature logistics theater.” As such the 10 to 1 tail may be much longer than required. Let be "hopeful" and say it’s 5 to 1. That’s 36,000 of a 50,000 man force at least partly given to non-combat support troops who will engage in combat operations to support the support troops. That leaves a meager 14,000 actual non-combat support troops to build roads, bridges and schools, restore power, repair the oil infrastructure and build political stability in a country the size of California.

We may need to send in a brigade or two of community organizers before it’s all over.