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April 06, 2010

You Picked a Fine Time to Lead Us

Here's a funny (to me anyway) parody song on B.H. Obama.

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The Big Smear

In keeping with the editorial below it, here's a little "humorous" look at the activities of the DNC and MSM.

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Guest Post

Race is one of the most politically charged issues facing our nation today. Here is an excellent warning issued by one of the best minds extant in our country. Note which political party constantly uses the race card and ask yourself if this party really does has the best interests of our Nation to heart.

Race and Politics
By Thomas Sowell
April 6, 2010

Few combinations are more poisonous than race and politics. That combination has torn whole nations apart and led to the slaughters of millions in countries around the world.

You might think we would have learned a lesson from that and stay away from injecting race into political issues. Yet playing the race card has become an increasingly common response to growing public anger at the policies of the Obama administration and the way those policies have been imposed.

When the triumphant Democrats made their widely televised walk up Capitol Hill after passing the health care bill, led by a smirking and strutting Nancy Pelosi, holding her over-sized gavel, some of the crowd of citizens expressed their anger. According to some Democrats, these expressions of anger included racial slurs directed at black members of Congress.

This is a serious charge-- and one deserving of some serious evidence. But, despite all the media recording devices on the scene, not to mention recording devices among the crowd gathered there, nobody can come up with a single recorded sound to back up that incendiary charge. Worse yet, some people have claimed that even doubting the charge suggests that you are a racist.

Among the people who are likely to be most disappointed with the Obama administration are those who thought it would usher in a post-racial society. That they wished for such a society is a credit to their values. But that they actually expected a move in that direction suggests that they ignored both Barack Obama's history and the heavy vested interest that too many people have in race hustling.

This is just one of many areas in which this country is likely to pay a very high price for the fact that too many voters paid attention to Obama's rhetoric while ignoring his actual track record.

However soothing the Obama rhetoric, and however lofty his statements about being a uniter rather than a divider-- both racially and in terms of bipartisanship-- everything in his past fairly shouts the opposite, but only to those who follow facts.

Has he been allied with uniters or dividers in the past? Do Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and Father Pfleger sound like uniters?

What has his administration done-- as distinguished from what the president has said-- since taking office?

It has dropped the prosecution of black thugs caught on camera stationed outside a polling place intimidating voters.

Obama has promoted to the Supreme Court a circuit judge who dismissed a discrimination lawsuit by white firefighters, whose case the Supreme Court later accepted and ruled in their favor.

He preceded this appointment by talking about needing people on the court with "empathy." That is a pretty word but the ugly reality is that it is just another euphemism for bias. For generations, white Southern judges had all kinds of empathy for other white Southerners, which is to say, bias against blacks.

The question is whether you want equal treatment or you want payback. Cycles of revenge and counter-revenge have been at the heart of racial and ethnic strife throughout history, in countries around the world. It is a history written in blood. It is history we don't need to repeat in the United States of America.

Political demagoguery and political favoritism have turned groups violently against each other, even in countries where they have lived peacefully side by side for generations. Ceylon was one of those countries in the first half of the 20th century, before the politics of group favoritism so polarized the country-- now called Sri Lanka-- that it produced a decades-long civil war with mass slaughters and unspeakable atrocities.

The world has been shocked by the mass slaughters of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda but, half a century ago, there had been no such systematic slaughters there. Political demagoguery whipped up ethnic polarization, among people who had co-existed, who spoke the same language and had even intermarried.

We know-- or should know-- what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A "race card" is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

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Indian in the Coffeeshop

An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun
In one hand, pulling a male buffalo with the other.
He says to the waiter:

"Want coffee."

The waiter says, "Sure, Chief. Coming right up."

He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee.
The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp,
Turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun,
Causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhere
And then just walks out.

The next morning the Indian returns.
He has his shotgun in one hand, pulling
Another male buffalo with the other.
He walks up to the counter and says to
The waiter.

"Want coffee."

The waiter says "Whoa, Tonto!
We're still cleaning up your mess from yesterday.
What was all that about, anyway?"

The Indian smiles and proudly says...

"Training for position in United States Congress:
Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull,
Leave mess for others to clean up,
Disappear for rest of day."

It's funny because it's so true...

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The Fence Test

Catfish sent me this test today and it seems to be pretty accurate to me...

If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!

If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended".

So which side of the fence are YOU on?

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April 05, 2010

Red Neck Skeet

We hear all the time about people coming up with new ways to combine two sports into one to make things more interesting..

With that in mind, look for this new sport the next time you go to the driving range !

I couldn't tell if he hit anything, but it sure looked like a good time.

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PSA

Want strong bones? Drink some beer!

The Ancients knew that drinking beer contributed to good health, and it seems that modern science is just relearning some of what they knew.

I dedicate this post to LC Mope, who must have some of the strongest bones around!

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The Truth About Bottled Water

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I have never understood why people could be so idiotic as to pay for something they already have, and are already paying for...

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CDC Alert!

Very important information has just been
made public that I think is something you should all be aware of:
Gonorrhea Lectim. The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease.

The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim.
It's pronounced "Gonna re-elect 'im." The disease is contracted
through dangerous and high-risk behavior involving putting
your cranium up your rectum. Many victims contracted it in 2008, but now most
people, after having been infected for the past 1-2 years, are starting to
realize how destructive this sickness is.

It's sad because it is so easily cured with a new procedure just coming on the market called Vo-tem-out! You take the first dose/step in 2010 and the second dosage in 2012, and simply don't engage in such behavior again, otherwise it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

Several states are already on top of this like Virginia , New Jersey , and now Massachusetts , with many more seeing the writing on the wall. Please pass this important message on to all those bright folk you really care about.

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The Bathtub Test

During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether
or not an older person should be put in an old age home?"

"Well," he said, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a
teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the bathtub."

"Oh, I understand," I said. "A normal person would use the bucket
because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup."

"No" he said. "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed
near the window?"

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April 01, 2010

Quotes of the Day

"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 favors." --George Washington

~~~O~~

"The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity� I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.�
� �[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.�--John Adams

~~~O~~

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

" -- John Adams

~~~O~~

� God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel� �Benjamin Franklin Constitutional Convention of 1787

~~~O~~

�It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.� Patrick Henry [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]

~~~O~~

�God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.�--Thomas Jefferson (so much for a Deist not being religious!!)

~~~O~~

� We�ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.�

�We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We�ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity�to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.�--James Madison [1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia]

~~~O~~

"Although guided by our excellent Constitution in the discharge of official duties, and actuated, through the whole course of my public life, solely by a wish to promote the best interests of our country; yet, without the beneficial interposition of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, we could not have reached the distinguished situation which we have attained with such unprecedented rapidity. To HIM, therefore, should we bow with gratitude and reverence, and endeavor to merit a continuance of HIS special favors". --George Washington[1797 letter to John Adams]

~~~O~~

I can go on and on, but those that believe that we are not a Christian Nation founded by religious men won't care to be corrected in any case.

They still believe that "Separation of Church and State" is ensconced in the Constitution, though I've never had a believer of that "truth" show me exactly where that edict is in the Constitution. ( and no the 1st Amendment doesn't excise god from government;it says we all have freedom to worship as we personally wish; it is freedom OF God, not freedom FROM God.)

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Finally !

Finally, there is a Muslim willing to publicly denounce terrorism and extremist Islamic ideology. A woman in Saudi Arabia, no less!

Hissa Hilal made it to the final round of a poetry competition show with a blistering fifteen stanza poem on the evil of extremist fatwas by Muslim clerics. The show, called 'The Millions Poet" is the Saudi version of 'The X Factor' here in the U.S..

The final contestant wins a prize of $100,000,000.

I applaud Mrs Halil for her bravery in making such a public stand.

GO HISSA!!

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March 30, 2010

Insanity Revealed

Kayinmaine over at White Noise Insanity is positively gushing over the many accomplishments that her Messiah has achieved in the past week. Her byline is "Politicians�don�t piss down our backs and then tell us it�s raining!" I think Kay doesn't seem to know the difference between rain and piss...

I left a comment to the post, but knowing her proclivity to delete anything that might bring an opposing view, I'm posting my response here.

"Made health care reform the law of the land!"

Yeah, he put government in control over 1/6 of our economy; forcing citizens to buy a product from private companies, while forcing said companies to take unsustainable business risks,and forcing other companies to take huge losses to comply with the law; setting prices for services for all doctors to follow regardless of specialty (ever hear of the term"free market economy"?); assuming direct control over all student loans (and just what do student loans have to do with HC?)and the hits just keep rolling...really something to be proud of..

"Got Russia to sign a nuclear arms treaty with the United States to slash nuclear arsenals by a third!"

No, he negotiated a new treaty with Russia over nuclear weapons...like almost every other President has done since JFK, nothing is SIGNED, it still has to be ratified; and I fear that, because of the heavy-handed way that HC was passed, there is no way that this treaty will ever go anywhere anytime soon. And Russia still refuses to water down their support of Iran's nuclear aspirations, so tell me again, WHAT did he really accomplish?

"Played hardball with Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel!"

Again, NO he didn't; he publicly humiliated our staunchest ally in the Middle East. Tell me what he gained by doing so, and I'll be more than willing to rethink my opinion.

"Surprised our soldiers in Afghanistan with a visit!"

Yes, so? When President Bush surprised the troops in Iraq, you castigated him as being a coward for not conducting it in an "official" manner. Moreover his message to the troops was twofold:

1. Thanking them for a job well done to the best of their ability.

Kudos to him for that!

2. Telling them that the job was far from over and that further sacrifices would be required of them to get the job done.

Again, kudos to him for admitting reality; but doesn't that interfere with the Progressive meme that we shouldn't be engaged in this war at all? What happened to "no blood for oil" and "stop American imperialism"?

Seems to this observer that Kay sets the bar for adulation at an all time low.

UPDATE. Kay responded:

kayinmaine says:
March 30, 2010 at 6:32 PM

Awww, I see Bert M. misses George Bush�s fascism. Too bad!!! We�ve got a President now who can concentrate on more than one thing unlike George Bush! George Bush hated our troops and only considered them a pawn in his right wing oil cartel game. He wanted more nukes on the planet and loved the Israeli government (hence him starting two wars to protect her while telling Americans our soldiers were protecting our freedoms & rights, which was a bunch of bullshit!). If George could have gotten away with it, he would have had anal sex with Benjamin Netanyahu to show his appreciation for the support of his oil transaction in Iraq! George once told the media that future presidents would have to handle his mess in Iraq and Afghanistan and when the Generals on the ground over there asked for more troops in 2008 for Afghanistan, he did nothing. It was President Obama who added in the 30,000 the Generals wanted in Afghanistan WITH THE IDEA THE TROOPS WILL HAVE A WITHDRAWAL DATE. George Bush�s withdrawal date? NONE! ZIPPO! ZILCHO! As long as Georgie�s kids don�t have to serve the country, he could give a shit if yours does.
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I responded, but it seems as though I've been blocked...

Here is my reply:

I think I wasn't clear in my comment. Perhaps I should have said: "Moreover Obama's message to the troops was twofold:" to make it clearer.

I am no great fan of President Bush,his only saving grace to me is/was he was better than the alternative at the time.
I was greatly concerned when he came up with the Patriot Act as an un-American response to a grave situation. (incidentally, your Messiah just renewed that act when it was due to "sunset"--with the exception of not continuing some of the safeguards against infringing liberties that was in the original, guess Bush isn't the only Fascist!)

Fascism? You might look up the definition again, KAY. The HC bill does demonstrate it if you want an example of what it looks like in action.

Just WHERE IS ALL THE OIL ?!? Iraq isn't even in the top five countries exporting oil to the U.S. If all your accusations were true, we should be swimming in oil by now.

When President Bush sent 20,000 troops in the "surge" of 2007, he was castigated by a certain group as a "warmonger = Hitler". The Party YOU espouse claimed that it failed before the boots even hit the ground... I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that you maintain a double standard. Adding troops to an AoO and setting a deadline for their return (telling your enemy that you will fight so long and no longer )doesn't seem like good military doctrine to me, but then again I only served as a soldier, not a politician/tactician.

I currently have three relatives engaged in theater,one of them recovering from an injury due to an IED, so the war is very personal to me. Whether or not we should have engaged in conflict is a debate that can be argued, but once we are engaged, the ONLY goal should be to win that conflict decisively as quickly as possible and then bring our troops home.

President Bush started the war to protect Israel?!? Care to show any evidence?
Israel is our staunchest ally in the Middle East. It has been in a war of survival ever since it's inception. It has shown itself willing to make great sacrifices in the goal of achieving a peace with it's neighbors, with little results from the other side. Why are you so anti-Semitic?

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Gun pOrn

Nicki has written an excellent post about the vaporous statements of the Brady Bunch et al and how the facts don't bear them out. I agree with her 100%.

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You Know Your in California IF

California 's Turn...
So as not to be outdone by all the redneck, hillbilly, and Texan jokes, somebody had to come up with this:

You know you're from California if:

1. Your co-worker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.

2. You make over $300,000 and still can't afford a house.

3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.

4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Flower.

5. You can't remember . . is pot illegal?

6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.

7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.

8. You can't remember . . is pot illegal?

9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.

10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.

11. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney really IS George Clooney.

12. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.

13. You can't remember . . is pot illegal?

14. It's barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news station: "STORM WATCH.."

15. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cells or pagers.

16. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.

17. HEY!!!! Is pot illegal????

18... Both you AND your dog have therapists, psychics, personal trainers and cosmetic surgeons.

19.. The Terminator is your governor.

20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they want to give you one.

H/T to Rurik

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Quote of the Day

"If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last." --Alexander Hamilton

Too bad Obama and the majority of Congress never seem to have heard this quote..

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March 29, 2010

The Bill is Coming Due

And so it begins....

The average wage earner will have between $100 and $200 deducted from his monthly salary to bolster up Social Security.

THANKS, you fiddy2ers!

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March 27, 2010

Apology To My Seagoing Bretheren

In the past I have made references to Obama ans Congress "spending like drunken sailors". It seems that some retired Swabbies have taken offense to this reverence, and I have to admit that they make a valid point:

All Hands hear this!
From: Retired U.S Navy Personnel

To: The American Public

We in retirement take exception to everyone saying that Bernanke, Obama, Reid and Pelosi are spending like drunken sailors.

Not True.

When we were drunken sailors, we quit when we ran out of money.

I extend my heartfelt apology for equating the two stereotypes together.

H/T to GuyK

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March 26, 2010

MSNBC Poll

How safe do you feel knowing there are people around legally carrying concealed guns?

That was the question posed in an MSNBC opinion poll the other day. The three choice of responses were "very safe", "In danger", and "Not sure".

MSNBC's liberal slant I'm sure they were surprised by the overwhelming response in the positive toward Concealed Carry Permits

The results so far:

80.7%
Very safe: If a crime is committed or a threat of violence made, they�ve got the means to respond.
(61,477 votes)

16.1%
In danger: These people could be trigger-happy yahoos or stumblebums whose weapon might go off by accident.
(12,247 votes)

.3%
Not sure: How would we know? Wouldn�t it depend on the state laws involved and circumstances?
(2,481 votes)

In looking through the comments section of the poll, it seems to me that most of the arguments made by the "In Danger" segment of the respondents boils down to " I am afraid of the possibility of having to defend myself from a violent crime, and I'm even MORE afraid of those people that ARE willing to do so".

Your thoughts?

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March 25, 2010

The Lonely Princess

Once upon a time there lived a king. The king had a beautiful daughter, the PRINCESS.

But there was a problem. Everything the princess touched would melt.

No matter what; metal, wood, stone, anything she touched would melt.

Because of this, men were afraid of her. Nobody would dare marry her.

The king despaired. What could he do to help his daughter?

He consulted his wizards and magicians. One wizard told the king, "If your daughter touches one thing that does not melt in her hands, she will be cured."

The king was overjoyed and came up with a plan.

The next day, he held a competition. Any man that could bring his daughter an object that would not melt would marry her and inherit the king's wealth.

THREE YOUNG PRINCES TOOK UP THE CHALLENGE.

The first brought a sword of the finest steel.

But alas, when the princess touched it, it melted.

The prince went away sadly.

The second prince brought diamonds.

He thought diamonds are the hardest substance in the world and would not melt.
But alas, once the princess touched them, they melted.

He too was sent away disappointed.

The third prince approached.
He told the princess, "Put your hand in my pocket and feel what is in there."

The princess did as she was told, though she turned red.

She felt something hard. She held it in her hand.

And it did not melt!!!

The king was overjoyed. Everybody in the kingdom was overjoyed.
And the third prince married the princess and they both lived happily ever after.

Question: What was in the prince's pants?
(Scroll down for the answer)

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