How is the presidency like an NFL Super Bowl contender?

Every team in the NFL starts the season undefeated. Most of the fan bases in the NFL start the season believing that their team will make the playoffs and once in the playoffs who knows, maybe the Super Bowl and once in the Super Bowl who knows, maybe Super Bowl champs.

Well team Obama is ready to take the field and the team’s base is all decked out in BHO hats, shirts, sunglasses, shorts, under shorts, BHO socks, shoes, watches, braces, BHO coolers, cups, cozies, pennants, BHO seat cushions, rings, body piercing and instead of the usual body paint BHO fans have actually gone out and had themselves tattooed.

Before the first snap of the season, slavish media whores are proclaiming team Obama the greatest team ever, unbeatable, and question why the season should even be played out – just crown them and move on. The media does this in spite of pre-season missteps with a lying cheat at Treasury and a Chicago thug as Chief of Staff.

Well that’s how the NFL season starts. Every team is undefeated. But after week one almost always, 50% are one game back in their perspective divisions. By mid-season about half of the team’s playoff hopes are dead or on life support.

So if you’re a Bengals fan, you start off with high hopes, but by game four of the season you’re looking forward to the tailgate party more than the game.

What the MSM’s adoration of Obama has done is to set expectation so high that there is no where to go but down. Take the inaugural as a microcosm. Obama’s speech was pedestrian at best. The “poem” – if anyone with a brain can call it that - was absolute crap. The benediction was a bit of racist BS of worthy Rev. Wright tidied up with “give me three Amen’s” at the end. Apparently for a preacher, saying Amen at the end of a racist prayer is akin to an enlisted man saying, “with all due respect sir” before saying something disrespectful.

But where is the diehard fan who has invested everything in his team to go? Nowhere. You make excuses. When the team loses, it was the refs fault. When the candidate delivers a dud of speech at his inauguration, count on the MSM to tell you how great it was. When the team fumbles, you holler to bench the running back. When a "poem" is presented that makes no sense to anyone, you count on the MSM to tell us only those truly in touch with the American spirit would understand the poem. When the offence can’t move the ball, you call for a new offensive coordinator. When the preacher dabbles in racism at the benediction, you hear Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee and Al Sharpton shout, DAMN RIGHT!

Oh yeah, and how about that oath? Having been on both sides of many oath readings, let me tell you it doesn’t matter who screws up, you just keep going. If the reader screws up, the receiver has two choices, say the right words or simply repeat what was presented. The worst choice is to stop, back up, talk over one another, stumble and stammer. Also, the presenter is always right. Why? Because the receiver is supposed to “repeat after me.”

Last, best line of the day: The incomparable Mark Steyn had the best line of the day when commenting on Obama’s “wafer thin resume.” Steyn said words to the effect: “Community organizer? I don’t even know what that is. I’ve never lived in a community that needed an organizer. I’m not sure I’d even want to live in a community that needed an organizer. I suppose if your community needs an organizer, that means you live in a failed community.”

Mission Accomplished Mr. President

There’s something important going on today. I cannot remember what. Hmmm, what was it?

Anyway, it’s now been 2,688 days since 9-11 and we haven’t had another major attack on America. America owes President Bush and Vice President Cheney a hearty "Thank You!" Sadly the MSM and Democrats will see to it that they do not get it until long after the president and vice president and the current group of brain-dead MSM and Dem hacks have long been laid to rest.

But hey for now, it’s still a free country. So let me say, “Finally, Mission Accomplished President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Well done. Thank you.”

Oh yeah, now I remember I'm going out to lunch at noon today.

Support the dear leader

The local fish wrap ran this piece of enlightened "can’t we all just get along" crap. Lex sets them straight below.

Here’s a news flash to Brent Smith, the MSM, and the RNC, American politics isn’t T-ball. You do NOT have to root for both Sides.

Smith’s or the JG’s demand, as proclaimed in the headliner of today’s letter section, that “We must support” Obama is 180 degrees out of phase. Not only is there no requirement to support a president – any president no matter how historic – there’s an absolute obligation of the press the people and the opposition party to expose the weaknesses of presidential policy, offer different policies and when necessary oppose and block bad policies.

If you do not believe me, ask Harry Reid, the MSM nearly 100% of Democrats who claimed the surge a failure and the war lost while American fighting men were risking their lives in the field.

I do not support President Obama because:

I do not support abortion on demand for 15 year olds without parental notification or infanticide or the use of tax payer dollars for Mengele like research on stem cells.

I do not support having three or four unwashed union thugs watching how I vote on whether or not my shop should unionize.

I do not support treating Islamo-terror-fascists like petty criminals.

I do not support turning tail and running from a war nearly won.

I do not support having a tax cheat and liar running the US Treasury.

I do not support open borders, higher taxes or assaults on the second amendment and marriage.

The big danger with President Obama is not his policies. This country has been having policy disputes since 1776. The danger is that, because of the historic nature of President Obama’s election, we are all now expected to get in line like good communists and support our dear leader.

Paraphrasing WFB, I for one am willing to stand athwart history and yell “Stop!”

Friday round up

Global Warming

In the worst case of global warming yet in Ft. Wayne, schools are closed today because it’s -10 with a wind chill of -30. The Boy Scout Klondike Derby has been cancelled due to cold weather as well. I know that AlGore has to be in the area somewhere promoting his idiocy. Everywhere that poor dope goes the temperature plunges.

Sarah Palin

Apparently P-E Obama “forgot” to invite Sarah Palin to the inaugural ball honoring John McCain. Hmm. Who was working the guest list Tim Geithner? People are looking at this as some kind of snub to Sarah. No. The only people who will be on the short end of the stick are the people who go to that event. Who’d want to be around McCain AND Obama at the same time? One at a time please.

An everyday miracle

Yeah that one. I’ll pay a bit more attention the next time I hear the words, “In the unlikely event of a water landing…”

Second Geithner reference

Nina Easton claims that because Geithner is the only one that can steer us through this current financial crisis, being a tax cheat and liar may not be enough to keep him from being confirmed. Wonderful. Hey Lex we know he’s a tax cheat, but how’s he a liar? Well I’m glad you asked that question, any educated person – even a one from the public schools – who says he “forgot he had to pay taxes” is a liar.

But still the brilliant class in Washington D.C. who got us into this mess claim Geithner is a must to get us out. That makes as much sense as Calvin Coolidge saying he has to have Al Capone at justice to stop bootlegging. The good news is that another tax cheat and liar – Charlie Rangel – will be writing the tax code. No doubt some sort of retro active rule will come out of Rangel’s committee allowing for highly placed people to “forget” to pay their taxes from time to time.

Bush farewell

I like Bush. I liked his farewell. I pity the Bush haters who will have to actually look for some cause and effect when things go wrong in their lives now instead of reflexively blaming Bush. Obama and the MSM will have no such obligation. They will spend the next 4 years taking credit for Bush policies in Iraq and Afghanistan and blaming him for everything that goes wrong.

I got the sense that this line from the farewell address could have applied to President Bush himself, “this great Nation will never tire … never falter … and never fail.”

Barry bypasses Bush

Meanwhile, P-E Obama was providing a new definition for low rent punk. Right as the President was scheduled to speak to the nation, Barry it’s all about me now Obama was headed out for dinner. Who goes out to eat after 7 p.m. on a weeknight? Barry and other Euro@sswipes that’s who.

Rick Baxter Smails Sanchez Good night and a good tomorrow

If you want to hear a bigger pompous preening jackass than Keith Olbermann go here. The new definition of a complete douche bag now is - Rick Sanchez. Whoa tough guy Rick talking about experiencing Fidel Castro from the safety of his CNN studio. Wow what a tough guy. The new American Alpha male in the styling of Bill Mahr, Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann.

Sanchez is like two Ted Knight characters in one. First a perfect fit for Ted Baxter the pompous dope news anchor who would read his stage directions like – “take off glasses look concerned” – into the news story, from the Mary Tyler Moore show. The problem with all these news readers is that they seem to think that they are at least as important as the story they reading. They aren’t. Nearly anyone who can read a teleprompter can do what Rick Baxter Sanchez does.

They read the news. Yet Sanchez somehow thinks that his sissy @ss job entitles him to be thrown in with the Ernie Pyle’s of the world who actually go out into the war zone exposing themselves to danger and in many cases losing their lives. Hey Rick, get a clue. If you looked like Sam aka Joe the plumber, you wouldn’t be reading the news on CNN. Given your boorish manner, you’d be working a cash register at a local dollar store.

But there’s an even better Ted Knight character that Sanchez reminds me of Judge Smails from Caddy Shack. Smails like Baxter and Sanchez is a pompous loser that few people can stand to be around. Given CNN’s ratings maybe they should call the show the Baxter, Samils, Sanchez show. Then Sanchez could do a Frank Caliendo thing where he reads the news – his job description – in the styling of Baxter – "take off glasses look concerned," or Samils – "shut up Joe, you’ll get nothing" or himself, "this is Rick Pancho Sanchez someone totally qualified to read the news into a camera. And that’s why I’m better than you."

In the words of the late great Rodney Dangerfield aka Al Cervick: Hey Rick, CNN has become a third rate network. What, when you watch CNN, I bet you get a free bowl of soup. Huh but hey Rick, it looks good on you.

What's that smell?

Is it just me – being a right wing nut – or is anyone else getting a whiff of scandal in the Obama administration even before it is an administration?

There’s the whole Rahm Emanuel connection with Blago trying to sell the senate seat Obama bought. So Obama does an internal review and – now this is really shocking – Obama found that nobody in the Obama camp did anything untoward. Phew! That’s a relief.

And who could argue with the thoroughness of an internal review? If I ever get pulled over by a police officer some night for driving erratically, I’m going to say, “Thaaas OK orificer. I’ll do miiiii own internal sobrer-ity tesht. Nope, er should I shay yup, everythigsh jist fine.” Then seeing a street lamp and thinking it’s the sun, “Injoy yer morming offisher.” That scenario is likely to go over as well as a pork roast at a bar mitzvah. Yet some how, it works for the MSM and P-E Obama.

Then there’s Sec State designate Shrillda Beast. Apparently on no fewer than 6 separate occasions her NY constituents’ interests aligned perfectly with the interests of overseas donors to the Clinton Foundation. That’s all purely coincidental, like hitting all 20 numbers in a Keno game…six times in a row. Besides, what’s good for the Clinton Foundation has to be good for NY and America – right? Like Clinton OKing Loral Corp. to sell the ChiComs guided missile technology after Loral “donated” to the Clinton campaign. That’s working out well for us so far.

Yesterday we found out that Obama’s Tres. Sec. nominee, some cat named Tim(othy) Geithner failed to pay nearly $35,000 in federal taxes from 2001 to 2004 and has “a history of mistakes and late-filing.” Most of us cheered when we heard someone screwed the IRS and got away with it until we found out that as Tres. Sec. Geithner would oversee the IRS. Hmmm. Not so funny now.

Geithner’s excuse was that it was an oversight. You know like we all do every year, “Honey did we pay our income taxes this year? I can’t remember.” If there’s one week of my life I remember every single stinking year, it’s the week the study is off limits to everyone because there are fifty separate piles of paper neatly – or not so neatly – placed on every available surface including the floor.

I’m sure when someone gets to hell the devil hands him a Michigan University pennant with one hand and a tax form with the accompanying three inch stack of paperwork he’ll need to get started with the other. Of course there will be several forms and pieces of paper needed to finish the filing that he won’t have and will never be able to obtain.

So no, I’m not buying the Steve Martin, “I forgot so, eeeexcuuuuse mmeeeeee” line of BS. You don't forget filing your taxes any more than you forget being stuck in the eye with a sharp pencil. Then there’s the fall back position of well these things are complicated. He was filing as a self-employed worker and this really is complicated stuff. Sorry, we’ve been arguing for flatter fairer simpler taxes since Reagan, but Dems who use the tax code to pass out favors to their buds always block any such moves.

Hey Geithner, hire a tax accountant! Or do like the rest of us shlubs, give up a week of your life and file your own damn taxes.

It’s simple. Geithner is a tax cheat. He’d still be a tax cheat if he wasn’t offered the position as Tres. Sec. which ironically makes him responsible for catching tax cheats. So I guess on the one hand you have to say, “Well, at least he’s qualified.”

NOTE: No, hell no, I don't watch The View. I found the link posted below on the Hot Air web site and lost 8 min of my life I'll never get back watching it. That was the ONLY basis for that post.

Coulter,bailout and Bauer

Ann quadruples IQ of View crew

Ann Coulter was on The View yesterday. If you want a legitimate case to sue ABC for torture, watch all eight-and-a-half minutes here. It’s sad – really, really sad. There are five vacuous dolts spewing predictable pap and then there’s Ann. Simply by showing up she quadrupled the total IQ represented on stage. Had the obnoxious food blister known as Rosie O’Donnell still been on the show, the total IQ represented on stage would have increased ten fold.

I have only two questions for the sophisticates that appear daily on this thing. If you all are so smart, why does it take of five of you to take on Ann? And if you were even ¼ as smart as you think you are, why wouldn’t you let her answer your inane questions without shouting her down?

Why bailouts are bad

If bailout and stimuli are so good, why aren’t they part of the annual budget? Shouldn’t congress have a line in the budget that goes something like: Unemployment is projected at (blank)% this year and it looks as if the buggy whip, drive-in movie and three prong pitchfork industries are STILL faltering; that means we’ll need 300 billion in bailout and stimulus this fiscal year.

They don’t do that because it’s bad policy. Businesses are supposed to fail. Printing money to prop them up is inflationary. That is particularly true when that money is worthless – as in nothing backing it up – no gold, no silver, no production of worthwhile goods and soon not even the Chinese buying the debt. That makes the dollar…oh what's the word?...oh yeah worthless. When that happens we all will have to own an SUV and double axel trailer just haul the money necessary to pick up bread and milk at the Kroger.

Not to worry. 20 Jan is just around the corner. The MSM will be reporting that consumer confidence rose 730% after inauguration.

Jack’s back

Jack Bauer that is. The new season of 24 is starting out great. Jack’s being grilled by some pompous (g)assbags on capitol Hill before being spirited away to save the world once again. No doubt the show will end with Jack appearing before the same (g)assbags explaining why he forced some poor terrorist watch back-to-back episodes of The View without his lawyer present.

This scenario is perfect as P-E Obama contemplates closing G’itmo. I’ll bet he doesn’t for a while.

Uh oh, it's going to take more than just hope-n-change

Bloomberg is reporting that P-E Obama indicated that reviving the U.S. economy will require scaling back on his campaign promises as well as some personal sacrifice from all Americans. Personal sacrifice? Like what? It better not be me giving up my $1,000 bribe …uh…er…stimulus check. Millions of people had their votes bought…uh…were persuaded by Mr. Obama’s $1,000 stimulus check. P-E Obama better pay up.

Oh but that was then and this now. Like the post a couple under, P-E Obama and the Dems seem to be backtracking on everything. During the campaign it was all hope-n-change. Now it’s all deficits and sacrifice. Apparently on “This Week” yesterday P-E Obama said, “I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped.” And that’s usually what happens when you use “hope” as a method - you get nothing but disappointment. I hope I win the lottery. But my hope is so great that I won’t even buy a ticket. I’m hoping the government will buy the ticket for me. And it better be a winner.

Then we got this bit of to each according to his needs from each according to his abilities bit hope from Obama, “Everybody’s going to have to give.”

Damn! What’s next? I suppose the Israelis and Hamas are still going to hate each other after 20 Jan. No here’s what’s next. The Washington Times is reporting P-E Obama’s climate czar is a…drum roll please…socialist!

The Times says:

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available.

Who knew that the socialist candidate was going to surround himself with socialist appointments? Sadly, not enough people knew to carry the day in Nov. Only about 46% of the voters knew. About 52% are hoping for their $1,000 government check.

Well you know the old saying, if you can’t achieve world peace just by showing up and hoping, you might as well raise some carbon taxes, spread the wealth around calling it a stimulus and ask everyone to make sacrifices.

Now that’s hope-n-change I can believe in.

I hope Obama is a colossal failure

Is anyone else getting sick of hearing conservatives saying, “Well, I hope our new president succeeds?” I have no interest in dumping on P-E Obama the way the loony left dumped on President Bush from day one of his administration but as far as wishing him success, hell no. I hope he is a complete and utter failure.

In any effort to expand the culture of death through abortion, infanticide and “mercy” killing, I hope Obama is stopped cold in his tracks.

In any effort to turn the Second Amendment into some sort of hunter’s rights amendment I hope “the people” rise up and say not so fast. The Second Amendment has as much to with hunting as the first has to do with separation of church and state – nothing.

In any effort to march this country further down the road of socialism through “universal healthcare”, universal mortgage payment, universal college tuition, or universal anything, I hope he fails so badly that the Dems lose control of both houses and half his cabinet resigns.

If he thinks squandering a hard won victory in Iraq to make loony leftist happy is good policy, I hope he fails miserably.

If he thinks the government printing a trillion dollars and using that money to pick winners and losers is a good plan, I hope the plan gets bogged down in committee for years.

If, as he said yesterday, he thinks the government is only entity that can save America in this “financial crisis,” I hope he fails so badly he goes down in history as worse than Jimmy Carter in domestic policy. I’d point to congress, AMTRAC, Freddie and Fanny, the US Post Office, the Border Patrol, the IRS, the State Dep, Dep of Education, Social Security, and a hundred other failed government policies, departments and institutions and ask why – outside the military – he thinks government involvement in anything will helped.

If he thinks gays serving in the military is a great idea and worth upsetting the delicate balance of military readiness and esprit, I hope top military men resign in droves.

If he thinks the “fairness doctrine” makes sense, I hope the White House gets flooded with so many letters and e-mails that hiring a staff to handle them all will constitute the biggest government hiring program since Army enlistments at the start of WWII.

So, on these and other issues too many to note, I wish him NO success whatever. I hope he fails miserably and is run out of D.C. in 2012 in landslide of common sense and appreciation of the constitution and free markets.

Yes, I hope he fails colossally. So colossally in fact that he and his kind are run out of government for the next 1,000 years. But of course I hope he governs with the sense of Reagan, which would make this post, like so many others, irrelevant.

About, FACE!

In several posts below, Lex notes how a lib’s natural state is to be PO’d about something. Well many Libs are beginning to have buyer’s remorse with P-E Obama. And why not? Obama and the Dems have done more about faces since the election than a platoon of new Marine recruits learning to march at Paris Island.

First the obvious. Senator hope-n-change promised…well hope-n-change during the campaign. So now he’s been elected and what do we get? We get Clinton retreads – including the beast herself – and Bush holdovers in all of the key cabinet and administration positions. That’s change we can believe in? I don’t think so. That’s slapping a fresh coat of paint on the old jalopy on cinder blocks in the front yard and then putting yourself in for the neighborhood beautification award.

No wonder Libs are in a constant state of POedness.

Then there’s G’itmo. Close it! Immediately! That was the campaign cry. Now it’s, well not so fast. We really don’t want to being the trash in that dump site into the US general prison population. And we sure don’t want every creepy trial lawyer (a set of the whole by the way) in the country trying to make a name for himself getting the creeps (G’itmo detainees not the trial lawyers) off scott free. We need to find some third party willing to take the human debris being stored there. Hmm, isn’t that rendition?

How about END THE WAR NOW!!!! Well like, “let’s get the Christmas decorations up today,” it’s easier to say than do. First this issue is like countermarching the platoon by squads. First squad to the rear march: Harry Reid, the war is lost – ooops. Second squad to the rear march: General Betrayus – oops. Third squad to the rear march: then Senator Obama’s assessment that 20, 30 or even 50 thousand new troops won’t make a difference in Iraq - double ooops.

So we’ve got the platoon marching to the rear in staggered formation during the campaign. Now, it’s first squad to the rear march: P-E Obama says the surge worked better than anyone (meaning himself) thought. Second squad to the rear march: Scrawny Harry says Gen Petraeus will go down in the history books as an American hero. Third Squad to the rear march: P-E Obama says that troop reduction will be in accordance with the situation on the ground and the best military advice – hmmm wasn’t that was McCain’s campaign position. Well now you have the platoon marching in the same direction as it was when the exercise started and in the exact same location. Weird huh.

Two days ago, Harry the war is lost Reid and his chief @ss kisser, R.C. Turdbin were saying Roland Burris would not be seated in the US Senate. Yesterday under pressure from this website and its three regular readers, the two carnival clowns reversed position and tried to make it sound as if they’d never said what they said.

Of course the MSM is providing cover for all of the Dem countermarching with an explanation that things were much more fouled up than P-E Obama and his crack staff of crack ups ever knew. So no wonder Libs are crying like a Buckeye fan after the Fiesta Bowl. But they don’t blame Dems for the Dem’s own countermarching. Like a heroin addict, they need their fix, and they reflexively blame Bush. Hey old dope habits are hard to break. I can just see a 98 year old Lib on his death bed after being run over by a drunk driver operating a snow plow, “Damned Bush! If we only had universal health care I could have lived a full life.”

All you need to know today is...

Warning: My two pointer fingers are flying across the keyboard this morning. You’re going to have to read fast to keep up.

Israeli Vs. Hamas

What is all of this MSM BS talk of proportionality? OK Catholic “just war doctrine” does go into proportionality in the sense that weaponry should be proportional (OK no nukes) and friendly combatants must be held at some risk. In other words I can’t use War of the Worlds weapons guided from the comfort of my living room to destroy my caveman adversary. That isn’t happening in Israel.

What the MSM’s real complaint is that Hamas is run and supported by a bunch of incompetent boobs. Hamas launches 100 missiles into Israel and manages to kill 3 people – a baby, its mother and a little girl skipping rope in the front yard. Israel drops one bomb and kills 35 Hamas scumbags. Then, it’s as if to make it fair, the MSM seems to want more Israelis to be killed. Israel does the world a favor by forcing over 500 Hamas terrorists to assume room temperature while losing less than 10 of its own and to be proportional, the world wants more Israelis killed.

Think of it as your first chess game with an adult. No one was standing in the corner saying, “Hey Mr. your disproportional and systematic destruction of that kid’s chess pieces isn’t fair. You need to put your queen at risk to even things up here.” The Israeli Hamas conflict is essentially the same – it’s played on the same ground using the same force. The Israelis are just much much better at it.

Hey here’s a news flash for the MSM, war ain’t T-ball. Not every kid gets a trophy. The games don’t all end in a tie. Besides why should anyone worry about this? On 20 Jan, after the Obama inauguration, the two sides will be so filled with hope-n-change that they will lay down their weapons hug it out and live in perpetual peace.

Burris Vs Reid

As if we needed any more proof that Scrawny Harry the crooked land baron Reid is a worthless bag of excrement, the Scrawny one refused to seat Roland Burris to his rightful senate seat yesterday. This is another bit of evidence that a Libs natural state is to be PO’d about something. I care as much about this as I do about the NY senate seat. Short of a special election, it ain’t going to be a conservative or even a Republican. So why do we have to go down this road of looking like a third word country? The only thing missing was a brawl on the floor between Burris supporters and Scrawny’s supporters.

Franken Vs. Fair elections

Oh and speaking of third world politics, how about the MN recount? I think Lex called this one the day MN started the recount. Words to the effect that, “They will count votes for as long as it takes for Franken to get one vote ahead. Then they will stop and declare that the people have spoken.” This recount has more irregularities than a Big Lots store. We need Jimmy Carter and the UN to monitor MN elections.

Panetta Vs. the CIA

Who knows? Sure Panetta doesn’t’ know the first thing about Intell ops, but why should that matter when we’re engaged in a life and death struggle for survival with Islamo-Terror-Fascists? Sure Panetta was so obtuse that as President Clinton’s Chief of Staff he was unaware of the president’s dalliances with an intern – talk about an intelligence failure. Why should any of that matter? The CIA will be unnecessary after 20 Jan when world embraces hope-n-change and the citizens of the world all join hands to reject the world’s arbitrary borders, begin to spread the wealth around and fight global warming.

Gupta Vs. Surgery

This really is a “who gives a sh!+?” This guy doesn’t really do any surgery. It might as well be this guy, Dr. Phil, Dr. House or any one of the Dr.s from General Hospital. When the “Surgeon” General becomes responsible for actually performing surgery on the president and his cabinet, I’ll start to give a crap. The only thing that puzzles me a bit about this is wouldn’t Gupta be better as FBI Director?

OK you are completely caught up on the proper views of the world for today, go forth and spread these insights among the population that Conservatism may rise from the ashes.

Lex fired off this to the Daily Fishwrap after yesterday's Sutter letter:

I am delighted to know that nothing will change at the JG in 2009. Every left wing loon claim no matter how demonstrably false that claim is will escape the editor’s pen as long as it advances the left wing loon agenda.

Case in point is the web version of Richard Sutter’s letter. That letter, among other idiocies, claims that the Vice President Cheney revealed the identity of Valerie Plame. That statement is wrong, false, inaccurate, bogus and made up.

In case you missed it, Uncle Fester look-a-like and Colin Powell acolyte Richard Armitage revealed Valerie Plame’s identity to Robert Novak. Not only did he reveal Ms. Plame’s identity, he then cravenly remained silent while months of taxpayer money went toward an investigation that ruined good people.

I can accept that someone educated in the public school system and getting all of his news via the Daily KOs might have missed that. But editors at NEWS papers are supposed to be better informed and – dare I say it – interested in the truth.

If I owned or edited a newspaper I’d have simple rule #1: We will not print anywhere in this paper information we know to be false without identifying in an editor’s note or in the context of the story the false information.

On a different not, I find it rather comical that for all of the talk of change, for Libs, nothing ever does. Sutter’s letter demonstrates that we need to buckle up for four more years of Libs blaming and bashing President Bush for everything from the stain on their new carpet to the dent they got in their car door at the mall. If/when P-E Obama fails - it'll be all George Bush's fault.

Libs are the Dudley Dursleys of American politics

Aaaah 2009. Life is good. The Jolly Prowler must have gotten a government bailout, because even in this terrible economy he snuck into our house on Christmas Eve and left all kinds of good stuff. We had great fun and fellowship with family and friends before and after the New Year. All the halls at the Lex house were decked and have since been de-decked packed away ready to reappear in about 11 months. 2009 is shaping up to be a great year. We have plans for a marathon, skydiving, NASCAR, a wood project or two, a cruise and other travel for 2009. All in all, 2009 is looking pretty good.

Too bad Libs can’t say the same. Libs now control the White House, the house and after today will be one seat short of the magical 60 seat majority in the senate. They control the major newspapers, TV networks, courts and higher (mis)education. You’d think they’d be dancing in the streets. You’d be wrong. They remain a miserable lot.

Check out this sampling from the Ft. Wayne Daily Fishwrap.

Wow. I guess Sutter penned his screed before he knew that the Colts would be unable to a gain a single yard on two tries during the their Saturday night playoff game, or he’d have accused Cheney of destroying the Colt’s running game as well.

In the age of P-E Obama, an inspiring, young, energetic president who smokes (cigarettes) and is a mino to boot, Sutter and most Libs remind of me Dudley Dursley. Dudley is the spoiled, pampered, fat, whining, obnoxious little brat cousin of Harry Potter. One birthday Dudley gets 34 presents but whines that he got 35 the year before. When his father explains that some of the presents this year are bigger than last, Dudley continues to whine until mom breaks in says they’ll go out to get two more presents after they finish their birthday cake.

It’s great to know that no matter what, Libs are going to be miserable. If they lose they are miserable. If they clobber Republicans as they did in the last two cycles they will wake up the morning after the election as miserable as they were the night before.

Sutter’s letter also hints that for all of the talk of change, for Libs, nothing ever does. Buckle up for four more years of Libs blaming and bashing President Bush for everything from the stain on their new carpet to the dent they got in their car door at the mall. If/when P-E Obama fails - it'll be all George Bush's fault.

Hey if can't be funny at least be vulgar

OK it's the first post of 2009! Let’s tackle something really substantive. The Israeli war? Naaa. The Blago appointment? Naaa. P-E Obama’s first 100 day agenda? Naaa. What then? We have to know.

Well it turns out that CNN has finally come across a “hard news woman.” Kathy Griffin joined Anderson Cooper for the Times Square ball drop on New Year’s. Yes that Kathy Griffin. The one who mocked Jesus when accepting some low rent award from her low rent peers who ever increasingly get together to give one another awards. It’s sort of like the euchre club getting together every other month and issuing a pot to high scorer and last loner of the night. A husband and wife contribute $4 to the pots so the most you stand to win is $28. That’s enough to allow you to throw an extra $5 on the church plate, and pick up a dozen doughnuts and a cup coffee on the way home from church Sunday morning. But the winner always celebrates as if they’ve just won the lottery.

Well this Griffin chick wins some minor award, most hilarious of the 50 least funny people in America or something of that nature. So she take her 15 second acceptance speech to mock Jesus, “A lot of people get up here and thank Jesus for these awards. Well, Jesus didn’t have anything to with it. This award is my new god,” or words to that effect. Hey she’s right. Jesus probably didn’t inspire any of her stuff or it’d be funny.

So CNN snaps the unfunny Griffin up to do comedy on New Year’s Eve. Surprise! They find out she’s not funny. Not only is she not funny she makes up for the lack of laughs by being vulgar. Which passes as a comedy routine these days I guess.

Griffin tells some heckler in the crowd that she’s doesn’t come into his house and knock the…ah…er…mmmm Richard out of his mouth. So you have a twofer here. You get vulgarity plus a bit of gay bashing. But Griffin being a P-E Obama supporter the gay aspects of this are sure to go away and we’ll be left with just the vulgarity which will be explained away by with a, “only up tight conservatives didn’t think it was funny. Worse they want to silence me by taking away my first amendment rights.”

Way to take the high road CNN. This move is sure to get you back on top of the cable news ratings.

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.