Unseat Scrawny Harry 2010

Ya gotta love Blago. His appointment of this Burris fella to fill P-E Obama’s senate seat reminds of the poster of a tiny mouse, pictured from behind, giving a giant bird of prey the finger just a split second before the bird’s talons are about to snatch the mouse up.

Brilliant! And what is the scrawny one to do? I’m sure Scrawny Harry was working a land deal for Blago in exchange for one of his lay about kids to get the seat. So the Scrawny one says he won’t seat Burris. Hmmm, can you say Supreme Court? It seems to me, the only way Burris won’t be seated is if he removes himself. That is entirely possible. P-E Obama offers Burris “something” in exchange for embarrassing Blago and Burris bails out. But what’s to say Blago won’t just appoint someone else? Like himself for instance.

And where does Scrawny Harry get off saying “he” won’t seat the appointment. Where does it say in the constitution that the majority leader has a say in who a state appoints to fill a vacant senate seat? My hope is that Scrawny the war is lost Reid fights the Burris nomination all the way to the Supreme Court and loses. That’d be instructive on several levels what a jerk the pompous crooked land baron really is. It could help to expose the little bastard to more NV voters and help unseat him in 2010. You go Blago. Give 'em hell Burris.

It’s already shaping up to be a great New Year. Reid and P-E Obama and most of the reflexive Bush bashers are about to learn that it’s easier to shout what the coach should have run on third down as the fourth down punt leaves the punter’s foot than to actually call the play.

Lex’s Man of the year is: George W. Bush.

NBC’s chief nit wit Keith Olbermann is still signing of with, “Good night and good news the blah blah blah day since George Bush declared ‘mission accomplished’ in Iraq.” Well first it was a bone headed move by the White House to place such a sign above the president – even if, as the White House as always claimed, the “mission accomplished’ only applied to aircraft carrier’s mission. Hmmmm why not just a “well done” sign then? As the White House has no doubt learned, war is a tricky thing.

It has now been 2,667 days since 9/11. There have been no major attacks during that time. I wonder if NBC and the rest of the LameStreamMedia will give Bush/Cheney any credit for keeping us safe when on 20 Jan 2009 – the 2,688th day since 9/11 – they peacefully hand the executive power of the U.S. over to Obama/Biden?

Sorry I just can’t see Doofus McGoofus and his side-kick tingly leg Mathews or any of the other left leaning media lemmings giving our current president his due in this regard. That’s too bad. He deserves it.

In Iraq when he was being blasted from the left, right and center, he held his ground and saw that through to what is now – listen Olberdoof – nearly mission accomplished. It remains to be seen if P-E Obama will squander the hard won advances in Iraq. I don’t think he will.

President Bush held Dems up to ridicule for not renewing the Patriot Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Dems swore they’d never give Bush what wanted - then did. After months of demagoguery and ranting like a…well like a Democrat… even Obama supported the bills.

Bush’s little noticed or written about African policies have saved millions of lives, but that wasn’t enough for Hollywood crowd who embraced Darfur as their cause de jure. Besides, the MSM so hates President Bush they cannot muster a kind word even for a policy that saved millions on a continent where the high browed travel to adopt children. After all, they couldn’t possibly have any of those dirty, white, American, Christian, children from Appalachia running around the mansion. It’s much better PR to travel around the world and snatch up a black African child from some strange land than to travel around the corner to Catholic Services to adopt a poor American child.

On the domestic side President Bush has given us one disappointment after another. Open borders, protectionist steel tariffs and now an endless list of entities that the federal government is willing to bailout.

But for keeping us safe for the last 2,667 days; for freeing 50 million people in the Middle East; for setting the conditions that will give the region two new representative governments to point to as examples; for saving millions of lives in Africa; for never once turning as mean spirited and petty as those who oppose the very idea of him breathing, George W. Bush is Lex’s Man of the Year.

Lex's man of the year taking form

First, what have we learned from Blago?

Simple. If you offer a politician a $1,000 to support your position on an issue, it’s bribe. If a politician offers you a $1,000 to vote for him, like P-E Obama did, that’s good politics. What’s the difference? Why aren’t they both bribes?

Had I been McCain’s advisor, I’d have told him to pull a Price is Right strategy on Obama. Promise $1,001 per vote. It would have one uped Obama and demonstrated that the policy was a craven campaign tactic designed to buy votes. But hey it worked. Now Blago is headed to jail and Obama headed to the White House for doing essentially the same thing.

Person of the year candidates

Chuckles Schumer – or as Rush calls him Chuck you Schumer – for starting the current financial meltdown. Way back in June, Chuckles the clown thought it’d be a good idea to let the world know that IndyMac Bank was low on deposits. Chuckles let leak a letter to the FDIC that said the bank was in trouble. Well when a US senator – even one as dopey as Chuck you - says a bank is in trouble, people tend to listen. The predictable result was a run on deposits. 1.3 billion in assets were removed from the bank in a little over a week. The bank failed. Way to go Chuckles. In an imponderable, while Chuckles the clown was dropping dimes on IndyMac creating a panic that was the ruin of that institution, he was propping up a couple of truly troubled institutions Freddie Mac and Fannie May. Chuck you kept telling everyone that Fred and Fan were just fine – no problem here – just move along. Then when Fred and Fan melted down like the Wicked Witch of the West, Chuckles the clown pulled a bit of jujitsu that would have Jackie Chan doing a double take. He blames the whole thing on President Bush who was the one calling for more regulations on Fred and Fan in the first place.

How about scrawny Harry the war is lost Reid? Harry helped Rush Limbaugh raise over $4.2 million dollars for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. Dopey little Harry decided it was his job as senate majority leader to ruin a particular private American citizen. Too bad dopey Harry tried to ruin Rush Limbaugh. Dopey Harry sent a letter signed by 40 other Dumacrat senators to Rush’s boss at clear channel radio demanding Rush be fired for calling an anti-war protestor who claimed to be an Army veteran, a phony soldier. Well it turns out the guy wasn’t a phony – he served all of 44 days in the Army before being discharged as a Cat 4 loser. So Rush gets the letter and auctions it off on e-Bay. The letter fetches $2.1 million which Rush matches. Well done Harry $4.2 for the MCLEF. What if simple Harry decided he was just going to ruin a run of the mill average Joe?

How about the people of western PA? They voted overwhelmingly to return to the House of Representatives a blubbering old overstuffed bag of human waste aka Jack the @sshole Murtha. Yes young Jack the @ss won the congressional geography bee when he correctly noted that Okinawa being mere 5,000 sea miles from Iraq would be the perfect place to redeploy a quick reaction force after he urged us to turn tail and run away from Iraq. Then this Hindenburg sized (g)@ssbag declared Marines conducting combat operations in Haditha, Iraq were murders before any hearing or investigation had been conducted. But still the union thug led, public school educated, Obama zombies dutifully filed one by one to the voting booth and pulled the lever in favor of sending this despicable tub of carnival outhouse waste back to congress. Way to go.

We’ll continue this discussion on Man of the year tomorrow. Hint, it won’t be any of these three pieces of detritus.

Christmas post

Ft. Wayne is under ice- apparently another sure sign of global warming. The power just came on so this’ll be quick. I hope I don’t get cut off in mid sentence.

Auto Bailout

Bush is announcing an auto bailout at 9. President Bush is touting this as a structured bankruptcy. Given the government’s propensity to bailout everyone and everything, this may be as good as it gets.

One idea set forth by Mitt was that the big three declare bankruptcy restructuring as necessary to make them profitable and the government guarantee existing and new car warrantees. This would provide stability and assurance for those in the new car market to buy American. It would ensure that they would not be left holding the bag like those of us who bought now worthless Linen and Things gift certificates to put into the wife’s Christmas stocking.

Angels of tolerance

The angles of tolerance AKA the militant gays, want tolerance for everyone but Rick Warren and the majority of Americans who oppose gay marriage. Pastor Warren has been labeled everything but a white Christian male by gays making the radio and TV rounds. Missing from the discussion are a similar assaults on blacks, Hispanics and P-E Obama all of whom opposed CA’s prop 8. For some odd reason, gay outrage is directed only at Pastor Warren.

Now is that really the kind of tolerance the gays want to foster? There are all sorts of reasons to oppose gay marriage. Religion is only one. Non-religious people might oppose it because marriage between one man and one woman has been proven to be best way to organize humans for last 5,000 years.

On that level, it’s like society saying, “Hey look, it’s none of our business what three consenting adults and a dog do in the privacy of their own bedroom and if they all love each other, why can’t they be a married?” Or, “Tell me again why I can’t marry my sister?” It’s not hate. It’s how you want to organize yourselves. And dare I say it, biological common sense. Yeah, I know, I'm a damn hate monger.

Christmas Cruellas

Unlike angry gays, I will not let what others think about my persuasions pee me off too much. Merry Christmas is everywhere in Ft. Wayne. As Mr. T might say, “I pity the fool who can’t just enjoy the season, the lights, the music and hell the story is a good one – even if you don’t believe it.”

A child bride, heavy with child, forced to travel great distances by an onerous king, for the purpose of raising taxes, no room at the inn, the child being born in a manger, a new star bright enough to be seen day and night, shepherds and three kings following the star arriving at the manger, the ruler of the land wanting the new born child killed, angels singing, drummers drumming, pipers piping etc. etc. It is a story so much better than anything Hollywood could ever come with. Why not enjoy it?

It's Christmas break for Lex

I’m off next week. I’m going to enjoy the season. The family is off to a water park in OH. I think it's one of those indoor ones. Besides I need to do some Christmas shopping. The family is getting a bit tired of receiving a new 8 X 10 glossy photo of me every year. This year I’m going all out. I’m having a dozen or so 11” statues of myself made up. I can’t wait to see their faces Christmas Morning! See you Mon the 29th with my man of the year.

Merry Christmas to all and to all…

More snow indicates...you guessed it... more warming

There is more proof that the world will come to an end at the hands of global warming within, according to AlGore, the next seven years nine months and a day. How do I know the exact date? On January 27, 2006, AlGore claimed we only had ten years left to save the planet. On that day Rush Limbaugh started a doomsday countdown clock. I referenced that clock to determine we only have seven years nine months and a day left.

So what new warming proof have we uncovered? Snow. That’s right boys and girls, the fact that it’s snowing in Huston, New Orleans and Las Vegas is proof positive to the global warming loons that we’re in a worse global warming crisis than first thought.

Geez YGBSM. What’s next some idiot saying we need to abandon free market principles in order to save capitalism? Oh wait, someone did say that. Never mind. What’s next, a professional football coach telling his players the road to the Super Bowl requires a losing season?

It doesn’t make any sense to me. But that’s what the NY Times and all the global warming Nazis would have us believe. Everything getting colder is a sure sign that global warming is destroying the planet. How does that work? Supposedly we’ve set conditions here on Earth that will have us all assuming a very warm room temperature by 2016. It seems to me that temperatures will have to continue to rise to make AlGore’s apocalyptic vision come true. So how can we have the coolest year in eight years?

Oh, I get it. It’s sort of like when you cook a pan of soup. You put the soup in the pan. You turn on the stove top. Place the pot on the correct burner. The soup begins to warm. Then in the middle of the process there are a few minutes when the soup actually begins to cool – even while sitting on a hot burner. This phenomenon is known as the “some people will believe anything” theory. Scientists have been studying this for years and haven’t been able to figure it out. I once had the burner up so high the soup actually froze before it boiled over.

Back in the mid and late 70’s, all the smartest people in the room were talking about an impending new ice age. Can you imagine little AlGore raising his hand and saying, “Excuse me professor! This global cooling is only a trend that indicates that the planet will be destroyed by global warming in the year 2016.” Idiocy!

The sun causes climate change here on Earth. If we all die from global warming it’ll be because the sun gets hotter. But then we can always look forward to that period during a heating cycle when things actually get cooler.

Why not Caroline?

While the nation focuses its attention on the IL senate seat for sale, the filling of the Shrilldabeast's NY senate seat was going pretty much unnoticed. Unnoticed that is until Caroline Kennedy expressed an interest in filling the seat. Then the feathers began to fly.

First lemme make this clear, I don’t care who fills the seat. The Gov of NY is a liberal and isn’t going to appoint anyone that I’d likely be sharing a cigar in my SUV while agreeing that the second amendment actually means what it says. So in the long – or for that matter short – run who cares?

I guess Dems do. Hillary supporters, like the candidate they supported, have long memories and don’t bury the hatchet easily – unless it’s deep into the back of the skull of their opponents. Well Caroline came out early for P-E Obama and the Shrillilites can’t bring themselves to forgive and forget.

Of course they do not say, “Caroline cannot fill the Shrilldabeast’s seat because she didn’t support the beast.” That would be too straight forward and make the kind of sense we could all get our arms around. Instead they say, “She’s not qualified.” Huh? Qualified? What qualification? The constitution only requires that a senator be 30 years old, a citizen of the US for 9 years and an inhabitant of the state from which he was chosen.

Caroline is fully qualified. When the senate is populated by such dim wits as Chuck Schumer, R. C. Durbin, Chris Dodd, Pat Leahy – well I’d go on but it’d include about 75 names but you get the point – you really cannot argue about “qualifications.” Unless you mean she’s not qualified because she really IS QUALIFIED and the majority of senators are not therefore she’s not qualified because she really is. Read it again. It makes perfect sense

As near as I can tell the only qualification that the majority of senators have is being partisan brain-dead manipulators. That being the case, I would hope that Caroline, or whoever fills the seat, is wholly unqualified by senatorial standards. That would improve the place by 1%.

Look I don’t like the idea of another Kennedy, Bush or Clinton in any branch of government. But of that set Caroline may be the best we can do. And what do we know of Caroline? Not much. Think about that. A Kennedy we don’t know much about. Seems we know way too much about most of the Kennedy’s. Not knowing much about Caroline probably means she’s not a drunk. She’s not a drug addict. She doesn’t whore around. She doesn’t think she can fly an airplane and doesn’t think her last name entitles her to much of anything – ah other than a vacant NY senate seat.

Lex's 5 step bailout plan

After ducking shoes over the weekend, President Bush gets back to his truly important presidential duties this week. Deciding who to bomb? No that’s child’s play. President Bush must decide who to bailout next. Of course, we all knew it would come to this.

Bailouts beget bailouts. Even kids know that. If you can’t draw a single customer selling lemonade for nickel a cup, you’ll have the neighborhood lined up around the block if you give it away. Businessmen know that sales are just another form of the giveaway. People who wouldn’t walk by a Neimen Markus (aka Needless Markup), are suddenly drawn in by a three letter word S-A-L-E. Just a bit of Joe Biden humor there.

So President Bush will soon decide on the nature of the auto bailout. P-E Obama is talking about appointing an auto Tsar. Paul Volker’s name has been dropped to serve as the auto Tsar. I’m sure he’s nice guy, but what the hell does he know about building cars? Seems to me we’re always making the same mistakes. When something positively needs to be done, the US government goes out and appoints a "Tsar" who doesn't know the first thing about what it is he's Tsaring to run it. Besides did the Tsar thing really work out all that well for the Russian people? Instead of a Tsar, maybe we ought to be appointing competent managers.

Here’s what needs to be done if the taxpayer is going to bailout automakers:

Step one: Appoint a competent manger. Maybe Mitt Romney ought to oversee the US auto bailout. At least he has some experience in MI and with automakers. If not Mitt how about Jack Welsh? Welsh got things done at GE. What we don’t need is a business as usual Washington insider.

Step two: Restrict compensation for auto and UNION execs to two-and-half-times the highest hourly wage of employees. Hey, if we’re headed down the socialist road, might as well go all the way. We hear a lot about the auto execs “compensation packages.” We need to make sure the union chiefs are restricted as well.

Step three: No more “jobs banks.” If 15,000 union workers are going to be paid to sit on their butts, the pay will come from union funds. Let’s see how long the rank and file will put up with that arrangement.

Step four: Any US taxpayer who buys a big three auto in 09 gets a $2,000 tax break. Yeah, it’s a bit protectionist. But there is no reason the taxpayers who are paying the bill ought not benefit from the bailout as well.

Step five: Ensure a reliable, reasonably priced and abundant source of fuel to power the cars. An uncertain energy policy is hurting car makers by making buyers skeptical about buying. Let’s face facts here, a long haul car capable of seating a family of four or five isn’t going to run on wind, solar or even batteries in what’s left of Lex’s lifetime. Let’s make sure there is fuel to put into these beautiful cars we're going to be building to make them go. If we don’t do that, we might as well waste the bailout money on a nationwide light rail system.

Shoe throwing girlyboy new hero for MSM

Our MSM, who cannot find anything heroic about Amercan efforts on the battlefield of Iraq, have a new hero. The MSM's heart is all a flutter about some Ba’ath excrement for brains throwing a shoe at President Bush over the weekend. Instead of using the incident to expose what it represents – some clueless twit acting like a moron – OUR MSM is yucking it up at President Bush’s expense.

I’d like to get an interview with the brave Iraqi reporter who took his opportunity at 15 minutes of fame – not to ask our president a probing question to advance the understanding of what has happened in Iraq – but to throw a shoe. First off I’d congratulate him for being such a brave man. That took a lot of guts to heave a shoe at the President of the United States – like a girl by the way. Man you are the man! Now exactly how many shoes did you heave at Saddam Hussein? Come on Mr. Big Shot, Mr. Brave and wonderful, how many?

The fact that Mr. Girlyboy is still among us, thieving oxygen, is about all we need to know. He never threw a shoe or uttered a single word of public protest against the man who murdered thousands upon thousands of Iraqi people. Not a word of doubt for the man who funded suicide bombers in Israel. Not a single whoa there big guy let’s rethink this whole Ba’ath dictator thing and public policy to use the Sunni minority to suppress the Shia majority.

Coward doesn’t begin to describe this guy or those who chortle at his antics and hold him up as some kind iconic hero. When that worthless dope threw his shoe at President Bush, he was throwing it at every American. He was disrespecting those – living and dead - who gave him the freedom to throw that shoe in the first place. He proved himself to be nothing more than a bit of human crud fouling the machinery of civility.

Those who cheer him aren’t much better.

$15 billion bailout is like paying $150,000 for an '87 Le Baron

Imagine, if you can, your son - who is a UAW worker but hasn’t worked in 5 years instead he sits at the “job bank” from 6 am until 2 pm doing nothing and makes $100,000 a year. That’s $20,000 more a year than you make. – pulls his wrecked Corvette into your driveway one afternoon.

Jr. proceeds to demand $15,000 from you to get his car fixed. “WHAT!” you yell. Jr. says, “Yeah, pay up. It’ll be cheaper for you in the long run because if you don’t pay to get my car fixed, I’ll miss work and get fired – sure as a UAW member it’ll take several years but sooner or later they’ll fire me if I stop showing up. Then I’ll be broke and have to move back in with you and mom.”

“Well how much are you going to kick in,” you demand. Jr. explains that things are a little tight for him right now and he just cannot make any concessions at this time.

You point out that $15,000 doesn’t look as if it’ll cover half the damage. Jr. agrees. He demands the $15,000 now explaining he’ll be back for more when he needs it.

“Well what are you going to do with the money,” you demand. Jr. talks about new spinner wheels and a “bitchen” new stereo. You protest that he may want to get the car running right before investing in such unnecessary stuff.

“Look pops you know you’re going to give me the money. You paid for little Sis's house when she couldn't make the payments - a house much better than the one you live in I might add. Mom will make you. Besides if you don’t, your whole world will come crashing down around you. Believe me. I'll make it happen. So just pay up.”

“That’s extortion!” you yell.

“Yeah, it is,” Jr. calmly agrees.

How is the auto bailout any different? The UAW will not make any wage concessions while threatening an end to the world as we know it if Joe taxpayer doesn’t pay for the union’s broken car. Automakers want the money to keep things going for another quarter – then what? Terminator economics that’s what. They’ll be back.

Without fundamental changes in the way the big three and the UAW do business the 15 billion will go right down the crapper. It’s like buying expensive new spinner wheels and a bitchen new stereo for an 87 Le Baron that doesn’t run.

Coaches, crooks, warming and bailouts

Coaches and crooks

OK follow me on this one – Illinois is to politics what Miami University is to college football coaches. Miami is/was know as the cradle of coaches including Earl Blaik, Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Bill Arnsparger, George Little, Weeb Ewbank, Sid Gillman, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, John Pont, Carmen Cozza, Bill Mallory, Jim Tressel, Joe Novak, Ron Zook, Dick Crum, Paul Dietzel, William Narduzzi, Randy Walker, John Harbaugh, Gary Moeller, Larry Smith, Dick Tomey, Sean Payton and Terry Hoeppner.

So that would make Illinois in general and Chicago in particular the cradle dirt bag politicians – Levi Boone, Daley(s), Rezko, Jackson(s), Ayres, Wright, Gov’s Otto Kerner, George Ryan, Dan Walker, William Stratton all are or have done time in the big house and now Rod Blagojevich.

Warming?

In another sure sign of global warming, it snowed in Huston yesterday.

Bailout

The geniuses that gave us AmTrak, the US Postal Service and the IRS are about to go into the car business. This will ensure that cars of the future will have all the style of a shoebox, not enough power to pull the hat off your head but will be considered green until confronted with the problem of re-charging and disposing of the batteries at which point the government dolts will find out that they have created an environmental mess. Every car dealership in the country will be staffed by a thousand disgruntled union employees and you’ll still be ignored at length before being treated like crap.

Automaker's bailout to provide UAW money for nothing

The auto bailout is about throw 15 billion good dollars after trillions of bad. First the American auto industry is not in as bad a situation as the UAW and certain mid-western pols would have you believe. Detroit is a mess. GM is a mess. Ford is a mess. Chrysler is a mess. But the American auto industry in the south – Hyundai Toyota Honda - is thriving.

Why is that? Well they don’t have to deal with the UAW for one. They don’t open and maintain scores of unprofitable dealerships, for another. And in one of the more insane programs in any industry, let alone one begging 15 billion dollars of taxpayer money, they don’t have to deal with paying thousands of employees millions of dollars for doing nothing.

It’s true. In something called a Jobs Bank - a two-decade-old UAW program - nearly 15,000 auto workers continue to get paid after their companies stop needing them. To earn wages and benefits that often top $100,000 a year, the workers must perform some company-approved activity. Many volunteer or go back to school. The rest clock time in a place called the rubber room. In Flint, MI the rubber room is a windowless old storage shed. It is filled with long tables and has space for about 400 employees. The “employees” (A person who WORKS for another in return for financial or other compensation) must arrive at 6 a.m. each day and stay until 2:30 p.m., with 45 minutes off for lunch. A supervisor roams the aisles, signing people out when they want to use the bathroom.

Yes, your hard earned Yankee tax dollars will be providing automakers money to fund their rubber rooms where millions of dollars will be paid out to UAW members who are no longer needed to place the “horse collar” grill assembly onto the Ford Edsel, stuff horse hair into the rumble seat upholstery of the Model T, or assemble the vacuum tube car radios replaced 30 years ago by solid state assembly.

This is idiocy of the highest order, which is exactly why it will sail through a Democrat congress.

Too big means just that - too big

Well never thought it’d come to this. I thought that when the government tried to take over American industry, American industry would be the first to fight the government tooth and nail. I thought the government would have to come in the dark of night with National Guard troops and a court order from the 9th circuit to seize factories. Sort of in the manner that the loony Maxine Waters indicated when the oil execs were testifying on Capitol Hill when she let slip that "maybe it’s time to nationalize the oil companies.”

Boy was I wrong. Instead of fighting, American carmakers are groveling hat in hand for the government to take over about 20% of their operations. Instead of locking the gates, fouling machinery and forming human barricades to impede government encroachment on their business, the car guys are handing the keys to the plant over to Barney Frank.

If you think that that is a stretch, think again. There is no way that Lib fools like Pelosi, Frank, Reid – wait, why name them Lib & fools comprise a set of the whole – are going to keep their fingers out of that pie. They will be dictating color, model names, hose clamp design and tire tread patterns within six months after any of the big three take even a nickel.

When I asked the Griffin about the current economic hard times, he asked what hard times? It’s a great time for small business because they are able to react more quickly to the changing circumstances than the big guys. Think OODA loop here. Orient-Observe-Decide-Act - small business can do that at the speed of light compared to the big guys. Boy does that shoot a howitzer size hole in the notion “too big to fail.” It’s more like – too big certain to fail. The “too” in "too big" in this case is like being too fat, too slow, too stupid etc.

So what happens when some old auto exces get together after the government take over of the big three and they decide to build a three model line of good looking, inexpensive and well built cars to rival the line of overpriced, under powered heaps of crap that the government is turning out? Barney Frank will regulate them out of business that’s what.

FULL DISCLOSURE:

If you read the comment from the Griffin on yesterday’s post, you now know that the infamous exploding candle episode happened to him. Had I known he’d wear the incident as badge of honor, I’d have credited him with it yesterday. If you have 20 minutes, get the full story. Picture one of those new flat top stoves – the ones where you can’t, or at least men can’t, see the burners and a candle on top of the stove. It’s one of those fragrance candles that smells like blueberry muffins or pumpkin pie that women buy so they don’t have to cook blueberry muffins or pumpkin pies.

The best part goes like this:

So I go over to the stove to check my soup. I take a spoon full and taste it. It’s stone cold. That’s when I notice the burner behind my pot of soup glowing bright red. A nanosecond after that I notice the candle sitting on top of the red hot burner boiling like a pot of over cooked pasta.

The rest of the story goes on to detail the candle’s explosion, the ensuing fire, the heroic effort to put the fire out, the clean up and the wife’s reaction.

Enjoy the season by ignoring the Christmas Cruellas

Well it’s that time of the season again. Everything is a bit brighter. Everyone seems a bit happier, a bit quicker to lend a helping hand. Well almost everyone.

It’s the time of year for Christmas lights, bell ringers, caroling, Santa, and sadly it’s also time for the Cruella DeVilles of the Christmas season to surface. It seems every year before the first helping of Thanksgiving Turkey is gone, a sorry group of people ooze up to play all sorts of silly games. In an effort to make the rest of us as miserable as they are, the Christmas Cruellas make all manner of outrageous statements about Christmas and demand the rest of go along because after all it’s free speech.

When one city put a Nativity scene in the courthouse Christmas Cruellas came along and demanded to place a sign next to it reading: "There are no gods, no devils, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and supersition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds." How nice.

Another group of Christmas Cruellas calling itself the American Humanist Association claims to be an American educational organization. They are sponsoring bus signs that read: “Why believe in god? Just be good for goodness sake.” This group of nit-wits claims that signs aren’t meant to offend anyone. OK then why not just say, “Be good for goodness sake” and leave it at that? Why even bring up God with a lower case “g” if you do not intend to offend anyone? The song that made the tag line “be good for goodness sake” has nothing to do with religion in the first place so why introduce it here? The entire point of these dopey ads is to offend, and anyone who says it isn’t is a lying dolt.

And elected officials and judges just let it go on. Elected pansies are ever mindful to never offend anyone no matter how desperately they need to be offended. These “officials” seem not to care one wit how much better off we’d all be if said officials grew a set and told the Christmas Cruellas to go away and come back when they got a life.

And no, these groups of curmudgeons aren’t Christmas Cruellas simply because they do not believe in God. They are Christmas Cruellas because they cannot bring themselves to simply join in the joy of the season – celebrating the solstice, snow, a day off or whatever cause floats their boat – instead they undertake activities to ruin the season for everybody. And I guess that is where they find their joy, screwing everybody around them.

We all know the type – smug, impossibly thin, overeducated, black unitard, Birkenstock wearing, Pries driving, tofu eating, visualize world peace dopes. Or their exact opposite counter parts, uneducated, ugly, overweight, greasy hair, trailer dwelling white trash whose only hope of ever being noticed for anything other than the number of dogs living in the trailer is to be a public nuisance.

My plan for dealing with these dopes is to ignore them in the most hopelessly polite manner possible. We all had someone who did this to us, an aunt, uncle, teacher, supervisor or, in my case, wife. You come running in all indignant about some crisis. Like, “Hey! Did you know that the candle you left on the stove top exploded and nearly burnt the damn house down while I was my cooking soup?” And the reply comes while she’s walking across the kitchen without breaking stride, “Oh that’s nice dear.” And you’re left standing there wondering what just happened?

So when/if I wish someone a merry Christmas this year and I get a reply, “I don’t believe in Christmas.” Or any response other than thank you and same to you, I intend to reply with a, “Oh, how nice. Good for you.” And walk off whistling “Joy to the World” hopefully while the person is in mid-sentence trying to explain this or that about why Christmas isn't for them.

Auto bailout will destroy the planet

Auto bailout? Hell no! Here’s why.

First, it was 16 degrees in Ft. Wayne this morning a good 10-15 degrees below normal. Dec is already well on the way to breaking record lows – as did Sep – Oct – Nov – for the last 10-12 years.

So what does that have to do with bailouts for the big three? Gee, I’m glad you asked. With temperatures plunging ever lower, we’re going to need all of the CO2 we can get to warm things up. That means all the large gas guzzling CO2 belching SUVs Detroit can pump out in the near term – until we shift into another warming pattern in the next 15-20 years. If Detroit takes the money, Washington, already a thorn in the automakers side, will be the nanny to the industry. Like everything Washington touches, the American automobile industry will be much worse off in very short order.

If you doubt this consider these two humorous asides,
Quote of the day from a fund manager: "This is worse than a divorce... I've lost half of my net worth and I still have my wife.."

The bailout, a different perspective:
Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze?

The next point is that gas is falling through the floor. An American commitment to develop its own resources will hasten and deepen the fall. This is perfect storm to warm things back up here on the mothership – Earth. Detroit needs to produce the kind of cars it excelled at and we need the CO2 to warm things back up. Now we get the good news that gas prices are going to cooperate as well.

A bailout will ruin everything the auto industry, the economy but most of all the bailout will cause a worldwide cooling trend certain to destroy the planet.

Save the world! No bailout!

Maybe Obama is right

Evidence is mounting that the militants or gunmen or perpetrators or socially disenfranchised or any one of the 15 or so other euphemisms that the MSM uses to describe the murdering Islamo-Terror-Fascists bastards who carried out the Mumbai massacre were…drum roll please…trained Pakistanis. This is shocking. Who knew? Oh yeah, Lex did and said as much a couple of posts under.

Since 9/11 I’ve appreciated the pressure on the Pakistani government. They are walking a tightrope to aide the war on terror while at the same time maintain civil order. The Pakis have played their hand wonderfully – doing just enough to garner billions in US aide but not enough to flush out bin Laden and other hard core al Qaeda/Taliban loons from their sanctuaries in the “ungovernable portions of Pakistan.”

Here’s a shocker and there must be a cool breeze blowing through hell right now, maybe P-E Obama is right. During Democrat debates, Obama took heat for saying that given actionable intell, he'd strike targets inside Pakistan without Paki permission. Maybe the time has come for the US to step in and do the things that the Pakis can’t or won’t in the “ungovernable portions” of that country.

Oh! That was just too much. I need to take a powder and lie down. I'm sure, like everything else, he'll flip flop on that position as well.

Wimpy economics explained

Since the bailout is humming along so swimmingly, markets stabilized, manufacturing up, housing stars up foreclosures down, automobile sales through the roof, and all of it accomplished by the government simply throwing a couple of trillion dollars it doesn’t have around, Nan Pelosi believes it’s time to move the economy into over-drive by borrowing another 500 billion dollars to fund another stimulus package. Really, what have we gotten from the first two trillion in bailout money? An economy in recession, markets with daily triple digit mood swings, one market sector after the next standing in line for a handout and what - nothing but trouble, that’s what

This is idiocy of the highest level. There is not one thing being produced or service being performed to provide taxable revenue upon which these expenditures can be PAID FOR. Nothing.

It will be paid for by the U.S. government borrowing more money – mostly from the Chinese. When lenders wake up and realize that the dollar is next to worthless, the same thing that happened to the housing market will happen to the dollar and the U.S. government. They’ll be worthless. OK the government is already worthless, but the dollar is next. Because when lenders stop lending the only thing left is to run the printing press 24/7/365 to churn out more and more fiat dollars. Then we’ll all need SUVs or pickups to get the money we’ll need to buy a loaf of bread to the grocery.

This is what Lex will term J. Wellington Wimpy economics. Wimpy, as the oldsters will recall, is the rotund fella from the Popeye cartoons who wonders in and out of scenes and says, “I’d gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today.” So Wimpy is getting his hamburger today. When Tuesday comes and Wimpy can’t pay, he’ll throw out another couple of his famous lines, “I’d like to have you over for a duck dinner. You bring the ducks.”

But it’ll be Mr. & Mrs. Taxpayer who will end up getting their gooses cooked here. And if you don’t believe me – you should but – here’s another view of the situation from Fred. Enjoy the finely honed sarcasm.

Mumbai massacre carried out by crazed Mormon missionaries

Hey what’s the most under played aspect of the Mumbai massacre? All of the attackers seem to have been Mormons who flipped out under the pressure of a mission in a far away and strange land. I'll bet nobody believes that's true. Well, nobody but maybe Mike Huckabee. I’ll bet the attackers weren’t Mormon, Catholic, Jew, Hindi or Buddhist. At the risk of sounding a bit politically incorrect, I’ll bet big Sis’s entire Neal Diamond collection that the attackers were to a person Muslims.

But you have read on and on and listen very closely to get even a hit of the religious affiliation of the attackers from the MSM. They are referred to as militants, attackers, gunmen, possibly Pakistani, or one of 15-20 other lame-brained descriptions. Never are they referred to as murdering terrorist bastards. Given what we know about the set of the whole of murdering terrorist bastards in the world today, we can assume with about 99.99% accuracy that they are Ismalo-terror-fascists murdering bastards.

Well I’ll go out on a limb and say that the Mumbai massacre was carried out by ITF from Pakistan. I can make the assumption that the murderers were ITF by the extra torture meted out to Jews during the attack. I can assume that that they are Pakistani because India and Pakistan have been going at it since I can remember. I don’t need proof. Common sense, that rarest of commodity in the diplomatic process, tells me it’s true with about a 99.99% certainty.

And here’s another link to think about. Apparently the ITF murdering bastards in Mumbai came into the country via the sea. They used a pirated Indian vessel to get close and then came ashore using rubber boats. Now who is it doing all of that pirating in the region? Oh yeah, Muslim Somali pirates.

Well thank God P-E Obama and Sec State select Clinton are on this thing. No doubt after 20 Jan all of these things will cease as the word joins hands and sings Kumbaya in the true spirit of Hope-n-Change.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a trampled WalMart employee

In a sure sign that our economy is teetering on verge of total collapse and in keeping with the true spirit of Christmas, anxious WalMart shoppers, eager to spend what’s left of their money, trampled to death the store employee responsible to unlock the door at the start of black Friday. All of these shoppers must have been tourists or illegal immigrants, because I could have sworn the MSM said all Americans were broke. Where did all of these “shoppers” come from?

This is disturbing on so many levels. First, news reports say it was a “crowd” that broke down the doors. It wasn’t a crowd. A crowd assembles to watch a high school football game. This was a mob akin to those who turn cars over after the game – win or lose. Next, as noted below what kind of people get up at 3:30 a.m.; stand in line for hours; trample a store employee to death; continue to shop while the poor guy lay dying on the floor - all to save $50- $100? Last, what kind of store demands that its employees get up at 3:30 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving to get to the store to open at 4 a.m. or earlier to tend to the first group of knuckleheads?

I haven’t seen anyone so wracked with guilt as to come forward and admit to stepping on the man – even while claiming that they were simply being pushed along by the mob. I haven’t heard of anyone returning their ill gotten goods to WalMart as penance for being part of such a grotesque seen. I have heard WalMart express sadness for the death of an employee but nothing regarding the insane store policies that led to it.

Oh no, hell no, I’m not one of those, “Hey it’s society’s fault” nit wits. No. It’s the fault of the first 100 or so lunatics who pushed their way into that store and in the process of “being first in” to save $100 on an X-Box, trampled a man to death. A store ought to be able to open and close its doors to customers as it sees fit. They ought to be able to offer its customers deep discounts on the most popular items to get people into the store. A store ought to be able to do those things without hiring on a battalion of security guards as mob control. So it’s the mob’s fault not the store’s. The only question I have for WalMart is, why is it so important to have a mob standing in front of your stores at 3:30 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving?

No it’s not WalMart’s fault, but the only entity like to be made to pay for the man’s death will be the WalMart chain.

I wonder how many parents will proudly be telling their kids this Christmas, “You enjoy that X-Box son. Daddy had to trample a man to death to get it. That’s how much I love you.”

Payback for a Diamond of a concert

It’s Fri 28 Nov, the day after Thanksgiving, which means two things. I didn’t get up at 3:30 a.m. to stand in line for two-and-a-half hours to buy the latest thing-um-a-which only to find out that the store only had three in stock and those were gone ten seconds after opening and the insanely low price advertised in the paper was only to get me to walk through the door to buy something else.

Oh yeah, and it’s big Sis’s birthday. They held a big parade for her yesterday in N.Y. City with a bunch of big balloons. No doubt Birmingham will be rocking tonight. The city will be forced into paying hundreds of thousands of dollars of overtime to police to control the crowds following her to and fro from one Birmingham hot spot to the next.

Actually, It is a sad story. She is probably being forced into working overtime today by her heavy handed boss - the nefarious Mr. Scrooge McBidner. It seems Sis made a rather bad investment with some of Mr. Scrooge McBidner’s money. She drove 10 hours (well 8 ½ for Mz. Leadfoot) - each way – from Birmingham to Columbus, OH with #1 son and grandson to see – get this – Neal Diamond in concert.

So she puts tons of wear and tear on Mr. McBidner’s fine automobile paying in excess of $3 a gallon for gas to see this “concert,” and the tickets weren't cheap either. Well, Mr. Diamond comes out singing “Cracklen’ Rose.” Yeah it’s Neal all right. There's no doubt about it. But why does he sound like Muppet star Oscar the Grouch? Apparently, at some point during the show Mr. Diamond’s voice did improved to the point where he only sounded as bad as Fozy Bear before closing the show - talk about something to be thankful for - with “Coming to America” in the styling of Rosanne Barr.

Mr. Diamond, always the gentleman, refunded the show price – minus handling fees for the tickets, travel expenses, therapy fees for hard-core Diamond fans still trying to explain this thing away and two-and-a-half-hours of people’s lives that they will never be able to get back.

The boss was not happy with dumping good money that could have gone toward a new set headers for the Vette on a bad Neal Diamond concert – or for that matter, hell let’s admit it, a good Neal Diamond concert. So now sadly, on her birthday, Sis has to pay the piper. Drive by late tonight and see if you can catch her through the window balancing the books by the light of a single candle while the scratchy Neal Diamond album (Alas, poor Sis’s i-Pod had to be auctioned on E-bay to off-set some of the “concert” expenses) skips over and over “sweeeet Car-o-line” in the background.

Happy birthday.

Dog killers treated better by Olby than turkey harvest by-standers

Yesterday Lex wondered how MSNBC’s chief nit wit, Keith Olbermann, would react to Corporal Twentykills dispatching 20 Taliban knuckleheads after Olby went postal on SarahCuda for being in the vicinity of a turkey harvesting operation.

Today Michael Vick is back in the news, and it’s nothing good. Vick pled out, at the state level this time, for his cruelty to dogs. In his plea, Vick admitted to killing dogs by hanging, drowning and beating. A bit more disturbing is Vick’s admission that he’d regularly throw house pets into the cage with fighting dogs to enjoy watching happy-go-lucky little Fido get mauled. That’s sick. I cannot bear the thought of my neighbor’s dog Luke being tossed into a cage with an angry pit bull.

So I wondered what the sanctimonious little pest Olbermann had to say about Vick. That’s when I ran across this. I read this twice and can’t quite figure out if Olby is apologizing for, defending, condemning or justifying Vick’s bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. I think he’s coming down on Vick’s side. The tell is that Olby's at least a little on Vick's side is that he start’s out with the “those who hate Vick” BS. Yeah Keith, it’s all the Vick haters’ fault for Vick’s own poor judgment and psychotic behavior.

For the record, I don’t hate Vick. But I don’t think he ought to ever take another snap in the NFL. What franchise could survive the PR nightmare of hiring a sadistic bastard like Vick? I see Vick’s future in pro wrestling, bill collection or host of some MSNBC nightly rant-a-thon. But wait, why demean pro wrestlers and bill collectors?

Tomorrow’s a big day for big appetites. For some perspective, here’s Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation:

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their Joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness"

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th. day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for His kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the greatest degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which He hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executive and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations(especially such as to have shown kindness to us) and to bless them with good government ,peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Some things never change - thank God

Corporal Twentykills

I had a copy of the picture above in my cubical at the Pentagon. Of all the great Marine Corps pictures and art floating around, something about this one spoke to me. First off is the cigarette, the three day beard, the dirty face and clothes, how politically incorrect in this day and age – how utterly perfect a contrast for the class “A” Pentagon crowd. Then the Marine’s eyes, if that’s not concentration and determination those things do not exist. The Marine’s eyes are fixed in distance while his hands nonchalantly perform a task they must have performed thousands of times before – so often the eyes no longer need to guide them in the task. Then the entire weathered face makes me wonder where this Marine has been and what has he seen to etch those lines so deep. There is something coldly competent about this Marine. Something tells me if came down to survival of the fittest, he’d be warm and well fed.

I remembered this picture after reading this - - 20 shots - twenty kills. Wow! Just wow.

Can you imagine the pucker factor of a 30 against 250 firefight – on their home ground?

No doubt Corporal Twentykills is cut from the same cloth as the Marine in the picture.

Now just to laugh your butt off – look at this.

How do think Olbermann would react to Corporal Twentykills or the man in the photo above? If he gets that worked up over a couple of Thanksgiving turkeys being…uh…processed, how do you think he would he react to Corporal Twentykills shooting 20 Taliban losers through the melon?

I await his Special Comment on Corporal Twentykills. We know one thing for certain, whatever Olby might have to say about the corporal, it’s unlikely he’d say it to the Marine’s face.

It's not important but P-E Obama thinks it is so let Lex fix it

Finally, some change we can believe in. While America remains engaged in two wars (really it’s one – the same one - the war on terror – aka radical Islam), while the economy continues to melt down, while Russia re-emerges as a threat and conducts naval exercise in our backyard, P-E Obama has chosen throw his less than considerable weight around on THE crucial issue of the day – how best to settle college football’s national champ.

First, who really cares? College football has morphed from a college campus Saturday afternoon distraction played by student athletes to a multi-million dollar college enterprise played by, for the most part, – hell I’ll say it - professional athletes more interested in football than graduating. College coaches and administrators are more interested in the athlete gaining a 100 yards on Saturday than graduating in Jun.

Used to be the coach would prowl the campus looking for men to join the team. Now the college coach prowls the entire country looking to PAY men to join the team. Hell were it not for Michigan football coaches scabbing Ohio men to travel north to play, Michigan and Michigan State probably wouldn’t be able to field a team. Now the games between Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State basically boil down to Ohio men who prefer red over blue or green.

For the record, I’m old fashion and saw nothing wrong with the mythical national champ determined by the sports writers’ and coaches’ polls at the end of the season. I don’t understand how people get wrapped around the axel on this issue. As noted above there are more serious things to get wrapped around the axle about. Besides, no matter what system you adopt, you are likely not to solve the problem completely.

Since this seems to be a matter of Earth shattering importance, I thought Lex should grab the bull by the horns and settle the argument. Here's what needs to be done:

All schools start their seasons on the Saturday immediately following Labor Day.

All schools end their regular season (this includes conference championship games) on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving with two exceptions first, Texas – Texas A&M will continue to play on Thanksgiving – not Fri but Thanksgiving Day. Second the Army – Navy which will be the only college football game played at noon on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

The 1st Saturday in Dec. begins a three game playoff between the top 8 teams in the country as determined by an average of the UPI AP and BCS polls.

The two remaining teams meet in New Year’s bowl game with National Champ decided before midnight 1 Jan.

2 Jan the whining begins about how this team or that team got screwed - as it will no matter what system is devised. That’s why the mythical national champ as defined by the writers’ and coaches’ polls is fine with me. At least everyone will know it’s a mythical champ rather than pasting some paper thin veneer of legitimacy over some other equally mythical champion.

Turkeys perform hatchet job on Palin

Sarah Palin shows up at a Turkey Farm and the Lamestram Media discovers – for the first time apparently – that turkeys are birds that have to be slaughtered before you can eat them on Thanksgiving. Or does Shuster eat his bird while it’s alive?

What the hell did nancyboys like MSNBC’s David Shuster expect to see at a turkey farm – an egg operation?

When I first saw this yesterday, I thought – as I often do when reading anything MSM – YGBSM! They cannot seriously believe that this is a story. Ahhh, but it’s SarahCuda. So it is a story. And if enough of the MSM join in and call it hideous Obama supports will join in en mass and drone, “It’s hideous.” Remember the mental midgets we’re dealing with here.

I’m beginning to think that these dopes have never seen those famous food chain pictures in science class. Mrs. Lex is an Animal Science major and has actually slaughtered cows, pigs, chickens etc. and butchered them. I visited the slaughterhouse as a member of the FFA. It is a fact of life if you like steak, the feel of leather and the smell of bacon, Elsie and Porky have to give it up.

These stories tell us more about the nitwits like Shuster doing them than they do about Palin – who appears to understand this whole circle of life thing. But why would you expect a woman that shoots and butchers Moose and Caribou and harvests tons of seafood every year in a commercial fishing operation to go squishy – like Shuster – over a couple of Turkeys?

Last point, if you’ve ever sat out in the woods in the cold and rain hunting a turkey and come up empty day after day, you know that those damned birds got exactly what they deserved.

NASA is out of the right stuff

Uh oh, the planet formerly thought to have a fever now has a…wait for it…wait for it…CHILL. Does that mean that the planet has the flu – you know hot then cold hot then cold?

But a CHILL, holy cow that would put us back in the 70s, a time when Time Magazine and gullible high school teachers were telling a much younger Lex to get out the parka and snow pants because we were on the verge of another ice age. As of today, the polar ice is again accumulating faster than normal, record lows are being reported all over the northern hemisphere and damn it snow is already falling in record amounts.

So what’s a global warming lunatic to do? First, deny everything. Next, admit nothing. Last, make up data to support your claim. In a sophomoric attempt at the latter, NASA was caught fudging data to depict October 2008 as the hottest on record. But the only thing NASA ended up proving is that if you use September temperatures and call them October’s it is pretty easy for a real scientist to figure it out.

That’s right Mr. and Mrs. America your tax dollars are hard at work for NASA to prove global warming – no matter what the science says to the contrary. When the warming data for October didn’t fit the NASA warming model, global warming’s Gobbles some dope named Dr. James Hansen who heads up something called NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies just threw in some of September’s numbers until he got the results for October that proved his theory.

The trouble for Dr. Hansen is that there are whole bunches of scientists out there, and some of them are actually interested in science. So when the NASA data was scrutinized by – get this – a couple of Canadians, they discovered that NASA had run September’s temperatures for the Russian plains in October’s data.

Canadians!? YGBSM! How the hell do the Canadians catch NASA cheating? I don’t know what to be more embarrassed about, NASA cheating or NASA getting caught at it by the Canadians. They don’t even have a space program. The Canadian idea of a “space shot” is a seven liquor bar drink topped off with some 151 rum, set on fire and tossed back on cold Montréal night.

NASA! These are the guys who faked moon shots for crying out loud. That myth has held up since the last “moon landing” in 1972. Now they try to fudge some temperature data and get caught in less than month by – no, HELL NO not the KGB – the Canadians.

I grew up in the day when school was delayed so kids could stay home and watch NASA’s rocket launches. Then there were school assemblies to watch the rocket launches. Then they played the audio of the launches over the school intercom. I read the “The Right Stuff” with awe, watched Apollo 13 with pride and marveled at the space shuttle.

Now NASA - the people who has had the country in the palm of their hand for the last 40 years – gets caught fudging global warming data -- by the GD Canadians. But we should have seen this coming. Ever since NASA was infiltrated by Lib loons who though it was time to do away with the toxic glue that held the heat tiles on the underbelly of the space shuttle a bit too tightly in place for a bit less sticky but environmentally friendly glue – which ended in the spectacular explosion of one shuttle – we should have known this coming.

Yet it continues, just this week NASA lost a $100,000 tool bag during a space walk. When I wander into the woods with my $5 mag pen light, I tie it to my belt with a bit of twine. I don’t know what I’d do with $100,000 worth of tools – probably throw ‘em on log; lay down for nap; wake up and walk off without them.

Urine tests are definitely in order at NASA.
GBBM

Urine tests for NFL QBs

Makes sense therefore it’ll never happen

I got this from one of those “pass this along to ten friends if you agree” e-mails:

Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem.

What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their ass, doing drugs, while I work. . . . Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check?

I’d take it a bit further and require anyone working for government to take a urine test – especially the elected ones!

And anyone showing up to their congressional hearing to beg money from the US taxpayer via PRIVATE JET certainly ought to be subject to a urine test. Who is doing PR for these idiots Robin Leach?

As a result of my self imposed news black out (is that racist?) I missed this

Apparently hall of fame in waiting quarterback Donavan McNabb didn’t know that pro-football games could end in a tie. After a 13-13 tie with the 1-8-1 Cincinnati Bengals, McNabb announced his ignorance to the world. I didn’t know there was another team in the NFL so pee poor to be capable of a tie with the one win Bengals either – but that’s not what McNabb said. He said he didn’t know that a game – any game – in the NFL could end in a tie.

So there are 32 NFL football teams. So, of 300 million people in the US, currently there are only 32 with the mental acumen and physical talent to be designated a NFL starting quarterback. Each team keeps at least two backups which brings the number of NFL quality quarterbacks to (oh God please let this answer from a public school grad be right) 96.

Now of all of the NFL quarterbacks, McNabb is considered by many to be among the elite – let’s say top 5-10. So to put this in perspective, McNabb has reached the pinnacle of his profession – the NFL – and is himself an elite player among the most elite players. He is a field general – often pointed to as one of the top 5 field generals - in the NFL, but he doesn’t know the rules of the game that earn him 10s of millions of dollars every year.

Stunning.

That’s’ like a salesman not knowing his commission. That’s like Barry Bonds not knowing that after hitting a home run he still has to touch every base. That’s like elementary kids not knowing that there will be a spelling test on Friday. That's like Lex not knowing where the beer is in his own house.

McNabb definitely should be considered for a urine test.

Mitt agrees with Lex & asking questions

Forget the bailout

If you didn’t believe yesterday’s post about a bailout for the big three automakers being a bad idea – and seriously why would you – read this piece by Mitt Romney. If you don’t have time, let me recap:

Bailing out the big three, without fundamental change, will only lead to their slow and certain demise.

Romney makes the same points as below only a lot better, more artfully, provides more facts to back up his arguments, provides commonsense solutions, has the benefit of growing up in household headed by an auto executive and doesn’t rely on name calling - but other than that, the two pieces are essentially identical.

Worse than we thought

But the bailout is not what has me jazzed this morning. If you want to get that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach that you had when Ohio was called for P-E Obama on 4 Nov watch this.

At first I thought, YGBSM! Can there truly be people this damn dumb? Then I realized that not only are there people that damn dumb, but that they comprise a majority of the voting population. That’s when I jumped on the Internet and began looking for 300 more rolls of concertina wire to throw on top of the 12 foot electrified chain link fence around my compound.

If you don’t believe the video, try your own experiment. Sidle up to an Obama supporter and play along, “Yeah, I voted for Obama but it was tough. While I was in the voting booth, aside from running for president and writing two books about himself, I had a hard time coming up with any substantial accomplishments. What did you come up with?” Then listen for the sound of chirping crickets in between the ummms and uhs.

Do it quickly. About six months into his presidency, the number of people willing to admit they voted for him will begin to shrink. By mid-term of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, you’d have thought that Gerald Ford must have won in landslide because you could not find anyone willing to admit that they voted for Carter.

Now the Obama hope-n-change machine is trying to Joe the plumber the guy asking the questions. Joe the plumber asked a legitimate question that Obama answered honestly and what happens to Joe? He gets slimed in the media investigated by state officials and otherwise run through the mud. The same thing is happening to John Zoby now for the unforgivable crime of asking the questions.

Are we establishing a pattern here? It’s not the people answering the questions or even the answers themselves being scrutinized, it’s the people asking the questions. How scary is that?

And the next bailout goes to...

Cheer up:

This should clear it up for those of you who don’t understand why Lex likes Karl Rove. Rove dropped this bomb on V-P-E Biden in an upcoming NY Times Magazine article:

NYTM: Do you like Joe Biden?

ROVE: I think he’s an odd combination of longevity and long-windedness that passes for wisdom in Washington.

Bailouts beget bailouts

Nobody likes to hear, “I told you so.” So I won’t say it but I did mention that bailouts beget bailouts. So when the long-serving long-winded class that populates Washington D.C. thought it was a good idea to put up $700 BILLION of tax payer’s dollars to bailout certain banks and other favored financial institutions, who knew others would soon be standing in line for handout? Everyone with a brain knew, that’s who - which ironically excludes the long-serving long-winded class that set up the whole scheme.

So now the “Big 3 auto makers” are standing in the bailout line with their hats in hand. The idea is to offer up $25 BILLION in loans to the Big three. Without fundamental changes in how the companies build and sell cars, the auto bailout is like throwing a glass of water into an Olympic size swimming pool. It’ll make no difference. The new argument is, it’s not a bailout. It’s a loan. It’s a loan that’ll never be paid back. It’s like giving your 11 year old an “advance” on his allowance to be worked off in chores. It never happens.

Besides, it’s not an auto bailout. It’s a UAW bailout. Unless the automakers seriously rework their contracts with UAW, throwing $25 BILLION at the big three will only require another $25 BILLION in six months. But it’s not just the UAW.

Management, in unsound moves to avoid strikes, caved into unreasonable union demands. Management also over expanded dealerships, sacrificed quality control for expediency and was slow to adapt to changing tastes in autos.

Oh yeah, and the long-serving long-winded buffoons on Capitol Hill also contributed to the collapse of the big three. CAFE standards are arbitrary idiocy that stifles creativity and creates artificial barriers for fair competition with other auto makers around the world. Only the long-serving long-winded Washington doofusses could so successfully cripple an American industry then hold hearings on why that industry is failing.

But yeah, it’s mostly the UAW’s fault. One thing we know for certain is that you cannot continue to do the exact same thing and expect a different result. Something has to change.

Change? We don't need no stinkin' change!

This was a change election. That’s why new, new guy P-E Obama picked old, old guy Joe Biden as his running mate. Arriving in the US Senate in Jan 1973, Biden has only been there slightly longer than the grass and a few of the trees around the building. The only things new about Biden are his phony tan, failed hair plugs, botoxed forehead and capped teeth.

Also in keeping with the change mantra, Obama has selected Clinton era re-tread Rham Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff, while V-P-E Biden picked AlGore’s old Chief of Staff to run things over at the V-P’s office. Whoa, slow down with all of the change, I don’t think the country can take much more.

But Obama is forging on. In order to really shake things up Obama is considering other Clinton people to assume their old chairs in the new, new administration. Erick Holder at Justice, Larry Summers at Treasury and the old battle ax her self Shrillda Beast at State.

Yes we as a people are so blessed that Obama is shaking this thing to its roots in Washington D.C. What’s that old Who song that has the line, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss?” Why do I get the feeling that we just got fooled again?

But there will be some real change. Mostly though, change will come in the form of Obama changing his campaign promises. Closing G’itmo looks to be a bit more of a sticky issue in reality than it was just talking about it on the campaign trail. Obama’s Air Force “expert” is now arguing against shutting down missile defense programs. Iraq and the US appear ready to agree upon a situational timetable that would have US troops out by 2011. But now that more people are dying on the Southside of Chicago every month than in Iraq – who really cares?

Other problematic issues for Obama include the Freedom of Choice Act which he promised would be the first thing he tackled as President. It won’t be the first and may not happen at all. Universal healthcare, as we learned from the Clintons, is a minefield of an issue that could lead to another Dem mid-term disaster if not scaled back. Beside where’s the money going to come from? Making nice with America’s enemies will have to be put on hold, especially if Shrillda moves into state.

Oh and that $1,000 tax cut for 95% of us that became the center of Obama’s campaign after Iraq took a turn for the worse for Obama - which means it took a turn for the good for the USA -probably will not happen. If it does, it’ll be off-set by $2,000 worth of tax hikes on everything from arugula to natural gas.

Lex predicts that Obama’s first term will be marked by a decline in American influence around the world and individual liberty at home; an increase in taxes and government spending; and a couple of foreign policy disasters but little else of substance. The press will hail every move and declare him a hero.

Why no gay protests at the Church of What's Happin' Now

The lavender loons in California have their shorts in a knot – or do they always wear them that way?- over prop 8. The prop, which overruled the state Supreme Court, banned gay marriage constitutionally. Now Bruce and Harlan are taking to the street to stomp their feet and show Californians how angry they are. They rallied in LA – where else – immediately after the election results before showing up at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church last Sunday to protest the congregation there.

What’s wrong with that picture? To be sure Christians lobbied strongly for the prop to ban gay marriage. But it wasn’t just white Christians. It seems black and Hispanic Christians are even more homophobic than white Christians.

But there were no gay protesters over at Rev. Moore’s predominately black Baptist Church of What’s Happin’ Now. Why? They’d have gotten their asses kicked, that’s why. Then the news would have had these ugly pics of two minority groups going at each other. We’d see that blacks do not see gay marriage as a civil rights issue. Civil rights is shtick - the light if you will - that gays would like us to see gay marriage under. Black preachers are saying, “Not so fast Larry.”

Also, gays have yet to say a word condemning P-E Obama - who opposed gay marriage during presidential campaign. But hey, maybe the gays saw Obama’s legs crossed behind the podium or caught the little wink when he was making that point. Besides, we all know that politicians lie. The higher the office the more often they lie. So who knows what Obama’s real position is?

Given the Bible passages about man leaving his mother and father to be joined with his wife; go forth and multiply and the fire and brimstone reserved for sodomites, I can understand Christian opposition to gay marriage. But there is a more basic reason to oppose gay marriage that is not in and of itself religious.

Governments make laws dictating how we chose to organize as a society. For the last 5,000 years, history shows marriage between one man and one woman to be the best way to organize humans. When governments go messing around with that, you’re going to have all sorts of unintended consequences.

Just two consequences off the top of my head are tax code implication and workplace compensation. The government and companies will either go broke paying out benefits to any two people who say they are “married” or simply discontinue benefits all together. I vote for the latter. It’s always about the money. In this day and age of shocking demographic changes, we should offer tax breaks to married couples birthing babies and that’s about it – in my opinion. That would pretty much leave Bruce and Harlan out of the picture.

Someone needs to say loud and clear to the courts to keep their grubby little fingers out of this issue or we’ll end up with another Roe v Wade debacle. Let the people and elected officials work through this. Roe v Wade remains a divisive issue today because 9 unelected dopes in robes (wrongly) forced their opinion on the people. Let’s not make the same mistake with gay marriage.

America moves toward 3rd world status

There are some oddball things going on here in the USA that make us look like a third world country.

With 100% of the precincts reporting, Norm Coleman led unfunny man Al Franken by more than 700 votes. Since the 100% report, Colman’s lead has shrunk to 204 votes. So would that make the news headline, “With 101% of the vote counted Colman clings to narrow lead?” Democrats claim that this is all normal.

Most disturbing are several hundred ballots for Franken from one county. No it’s not odd that Franken’s total might change here and there, but the vote numbers reported only affected the Senate race – as if the voters went to the polls, ignored the presidential race and everything else that might be on the ballot and only cast a vote for Franken. Democrats claim that this is all normal.

Then there’s the report of 32 absentee ballots being turned in two days after the election. Where were the ballots? They were in a in a poll worker’s trunk. Democrats claim that this is all normal.

Every adjustment has mysteriously and against all odds of probability moved Franken closer to stealing...uh…er…winning the election. That’s sort of like trying to pitch 100 cards into a hat and having every one of them land short and to left. It just doesn’t happen that way. There are statistical errors in probability. And while errors certainly occur, if they are truly just random errors they would tend to cancel each other out – particularly in a 50-50 election. But Democrats say, “Move along nothing to see here. This is all normal.”

This thing will end when Franken gets a one vote lead. When that happens, the Democrats will shout, “It’s over. The people have spoken. Now let’s all unite and move on.”

I don’t know, maybe we could get Robert Mugabee, Hugo Chaves and Raul Castro to come in and monitor our elections. Of course they would think that all these shenanigans are normal as well.

An open letter to Lex's congressman

Dear Congressman Souder:

Congratulations on your recent victory here in Indiana’s 3rd district. I didn’t vote for you, but I’m happy that you won. I e-mailed you during that ridiculous 700 BILLION dollar bailout fiasco that if you voted for it, I wouldn’t vote for you in Nov. I guess we both did what we thought we had to do.

During your campaign you ran an ad justifying your vote by stating in effect that you couldn’t sit by and do nothing while Hoosiers lost their life savings. Well I’ve learned that the first and sometimes best course of action in a crisis is to do exactly that - nothing. When my son gets a headache, I don’t schedule brain surgery just to assure myself that “I’m doing something.”

Besides, few conservatives were advocating a do nothing approach during the financial crisis. We wanted to follow conservative free market principles, cut corporate taxes, suspend capital gains taxes and end Sarbanes/Oxley accounting rules. I know Republicans had no chance of passing this agenda. Had John McCain and other Republicans stood for these conservative principles instead of going along with the 700 BILLION dollar bailout, I think our fortunes on Nov. 4th would have been far better.

Republicans could have laid this 700 BILLION dollar monstrosity right at the feet of BIG GOVERNMENT Democrats. Republicans in general and John McCain in particular would have had the added advantage of distancing themselves from President Bush.

Now we’re as culpable as Democrats for this mess. And how is the bailout going?
- Two trillion dollars going to banks with no accountability or transparency.
- Millions going to AIG to throw lavish parties for the big wigs.
- Auto companies standing in line for their share of the handout.
- Banks using the money to buy banks - but no loans - and to offer generous severance packages to underperforming executive.
- Elevating the unelected Treasury Secretary to THE most powerful position in government.
- Bailouts beget bailouts.

The next time a bailout comes up, please consider doing nothing. If something must be done, start by offering conservative alternatives. When congress proposes the next stimulus package, advocate suspending the income tax for four months. People will be dancing in the streets. Democrats will have to explain why it's better for the government to take the money so that the government can then re-issue the money in the form of a governmnet check.

Try it. Really, how much worse could Republicans do?

Good Luck,

The 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month

When I drive down the road and see one of those terribly clever “If you can read this, thank a teacher” bumper stickers, I think to myself no if you can read that or any other trite political bumper sticker thank a soldier, sailor, airman and Marine.

And today would be the perfect day to that. Nov 11th is Veterans Day. Check this out. Here is what Gen. Macarthur had to say about the American fighting man to the Corps of cadets at West Point on May 21, 1962:

...And what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? Are they reliable? Are they brave? Are they capable of victory?

Their story is known to all of you. It is the story of the American man at arms. My estimate of him was formed on the battlefields many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then, as I regard him now, as one of the world's noblest figures; not only as one of the finest military characters, but also as one of the most stainless.

His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me, or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast.

But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements.

In twenty campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people.

From one end of the world to the other, he has drained deep the chalice of courage. As I listened to those songs of the glee club, in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs on many a weary march, from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle deep through mire of shell-pocked roads; to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God.

I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory. Always for them: Duty, Honor, Country. Always their blood, and sweat, and tears, as they saw the way and the light.

And twenty years after, on the other side of the globe, against the filth of dirty foxholes, the stench of ghostly trenches, the slime of dripping dugouts, those boiling suns of the relentless heat, those torrential rains of devastating storms, the loneliness and utter desolation of jungle trails, the bitterness of long separation of those they loved and cherished, the deadly pestilence of tropic disease, the horror of stricken areas of war.

Their resolute and determined defense, their swift and sure attack, their indomitable purpose, their complete and decisive victory - always victory, always through the bloody haze of their last reverberating shot, the vision of gaunt, ghastly men, reverently following your password of Duty, Honor, Country.

The code which those words perpetuate embraces the highest moral laws and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promulgated for the uplift of mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong. The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when he created man in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the Divine help which alone can sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country, is the noblest development of mankind…

And for P-E Obama Macarthur would offer this advice on Iraq:

…Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country…

Finally, a day worth celebrating

Yes Mr. and Mrs. America a day has finally arrived where we can all join hands and rejoice, come together in perfect union to celebrate! Why? P-E Obama? Naaah, Presidents come and go. World peace? Naaah, never happen. Bengal’s won the Super Bowl? Naaah, there’s a better chance of world peace. Well then what? It’s Nov 10, 2008 the 233rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps!! Happy Birthday Marines!

Surprise a Marine today by wishing a hearty Happy Birthday! Watch the smile and hear the OOOORAH! If you have a couple of hours ask about their boot camp drill sergeant or favorite Marine story.

What follows is Gen. LeJeune’s Birthday message which was first published in 1921 and is republished every year followed by the 2008 birthday message from Gen. Conway our current Commandant.

MARINE CORPS ORDERS No. 47 (Series 1921) HEADQUARTERS U.S. MARINE CORPSWashington, November 1, 1921 759.

The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the 10th of November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921, it will be read upon receipt.

(1) On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name "Marine". In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.

(2) The record of our corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous military organizations in the world's history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation's foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

(3) In every battle and skirmish since the birth of our corps, Marines have acquitted themselves with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term "Marine" has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.

(4) This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the corps. With it we have also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our Nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of the Sea" since the founding of the Corps.

JOHN A. LEJEUNE, Major General Commandant75705--21


A BIRTHDAY MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS

During the summer of 1982, in the wake of a presidential directive, Marines went ashore at Beirut, Lebanon. Fifteen months later, on 23 October 1983, extremists struck the first major blow against American forces - starting this long war on terrorism. On that Sunday morning, a suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden truck into the headquarters of Battalion Landing Team 1/8, destroying the building and killing 241 Marines and corpsmen.

Extremists have attacked our Nation, at home and abroad, numerous times since that fateful day in Beirut. Their aim has always been the same - to kill as many innocent Americans as possible. The attacks of 11 September 2001 changed our Nation forever, and our president has resolved that this Nation will not stand idle while murderous terrorists plan their next strike. Marines will continue to take the fight to the enemy - hitting them on their own turf, crushing them when they show themselves, and finding them where they hide.

Only a few Americans choose the dangerous, but necessary, work of fighting our Nation's enemies. When our chapter of history is written, it will be a saga of a selfless generation of Marines who were willing to stand up and fight for our Nation; to defend those who could not defend themselves; to thrive on the hardship and sacrifice expected of an elite warrior class; to march to the sound of the guns; and to ably shoulder the legacy of those Marines who have gone before.

On our 233rd birthday, first remember those who have served and those "angels" who have fallen - our reputation was built on their sacrifices. Remember our families; they are the unsung heroes whose support and dedication allow us to answer our Nation's call. Finally, to all Marines and Sailors, know that I am proud of you and what you do. Your successes on the battlefield have only added to our illustrious history. Lieutenant General Victor H. "Brute" Krulak said it best when he wrote, "... the United States does not need a Marine Corps ... the United States wants a Marine Corps." Your actions, in Iraq and Afghanistan and across the globe, are at the core of why America loves her Marines.

Happy Birthday, Marines!

Semper Fidelis,James T. ConwayGeneral, U.S. Marine Corps

Friday pickings

The O'Reilly/Cameron Factor

Well, well, well I come to find out that the Palin smears were broken by Fox News’ Carl Cameron on the O’Reilly Factor. Yeah, that O’Reilly. The one shouts “SMEAR MERCHANT!!!!” at anyone - anonymous or not – who uses the word “loofa” during the same week that they might utter the words Billbo, O’Reilly or The factor.

So I fired off the following to Billbo @ oreilly@foxnews.com :

Hey Bill,
An anonymous source, Olbermann I think, says that you and Carl Cameron are having sex together using loofas. Better get this information out there before the Enquirer picks up on it. One question, who plays the man in your relationship with Carl?

Sorry for sharing that one with you. You’ll probably need several hot showers now and intense therapy to erase that mental image from your mind.

Education?

Now if you really want to get pissed off watching your hard earned Yankee tax dollars at work watch this.

Listen to this idiot “teacher” again. She supposedly has a college degree, yet sounds like the dumbest person in the room. Is there any doubt in your mind that she has been an affirmative action fill all her life? This woman should be down at the Jiffy Wash drying cars.

We must support P-E Obama

That’s the new meme from the MSM. I don’t think so Tim. I’ll give him all the support Libs gave GWB. And GWB wasn’t even a conservative. P-E Obama IS the most liberal member of the senate. So when he tries to:
Promote any type of abortion on demand
Grab our guns
Bankrupt coal companies
Cause energy cost to skyrocket
Lose a war
Raise taxes
Spread the wealth around
I ain’t supportin’ him! And if we have any “Maverick” Reps who decide to get on board with P-E Obama’s plans, I ain’t supportin’ them either.

Re-building Conservatism

Doesn’t need re-building. It wasn’t defeated on Nov 4th. Old style go along get along wimp Republicanism was defeated on Nov 4th. The Rep Party is in a shambles. We need to dump all of the Bob Dole, GHWB, GWB and McCain big government bailout, split the baby, Dem lite types from the party.

Party Chair: Newt Gingrich; he’s the best idea man in Politics and one of the smartest. He can articulate ideas in sound bites. If not Newt, then Michael Steel. Steel is to the point and can shred Dems with an affable smile and good joke.

Cartoons, Palin and sports analogies

An odd political cartoon in this morning’s Daily Punctilio (AKA the Journal Gazette) inspired the response below. The cartoon is not up on either the DP or Mr. Heller’s web site, but I think you’ll get the point:

Even though political cartoons are most often meant to evoke serious thought, sometimes they are laugh out loud funny. Joe Heller’s cartoon in this a.m.’s JG was the later. No doubt MLK would approve of Obama’s rise to become President Elect of the United States.

Heller should have stopped at MLK’s thumb’s up from the heavenly clouds. But for some odd reason Heller found it necessary to add the words “Absentee Vote.” That’s when I guffawed with such gusto that coffee shot from my nose.

Given the unbelievably corrupt, illegal and despicable activity of ACORN during this election, does Heller or anyone at the GJ have any doubt that MLK wasn’t registered multiple times in multiple states and that he didn’t vote absentee several times before trying to vote in person at two or three precincts?

Or was THAT Heller’s point? Given his body of work, I doubt it, but that take on it works for me and probably a lot of other people. Keep up the good work Joe. When enough people get up upset about corruption in our election system things will change.

It’s all Palin’s fault

First if it hadn’t been for Palin, McCain’s campaign would never have gotten off the ground. Now there are scurrilous stories being circulated from the McCain camp about how Palin torpedoed McCain. BS!!

There is going to be one huge free for all for control of the Republican Party. The unnamed losers and cowards who are circulating stories about Palin are probably from the Romney camp or the Huckabee camp or some other camp. They have to take Palin down to give “their guy” a shot. That’s all this is about.

Anytime I hear or read “unnamed sources, blah blah blah,” I tune out. Unnamed sources tell me that unnamed sources are full of crap, cowards and weaklings.

P-E Obama’s path paved by black athletes

In an effort to escape political BS, I tuned into Sports Center last night where a couple of jocks were discussing how sports and the rise of the black athletes paved the way for P-E Obama. I wanted to throw up.

If there is a sports analogy for this election, it would be how George Steinbrenner and other big market owners try to buy championships. While it takes most sports franchises several seasons to buy up enough talent to make a run at the championship in any given sport, Obama was able to dump a BILLION dollars into one election cycle and walk away with the prize.

That sports analogy never came up. Hmmmm I wonder why?