I am the lone voice of reason in a world gone mad with nanny state socialism, enviro-wingnuts and political correctness. Also news and views on the world of SEC football can be found here as well.
William F. Buckley, the original conservative, is dead at 82. I remember reading his columns in my local newspaper and how much his eloquence affected me at a very early age. He will be missed.
If you want to read some of this great man's body of work, an index on National Review is here.
Guess we can't call it global warming anymore. Love how the Global Warming crowd calls it "climate change."
Recently, Congress banned, yes banned, the great incandescent light bulb because it uses more energy than the squiggly CFL bulbs that all the greenies are putting in their houses. Who the hell are these bastards to tell me what kind of lightbulb I have to use! Where does it say in the U.S. Constitution that they can ban lightbulbs and force me to buy a more expensive and dangerous alternative? What happened to choice? According to American liberals, that only applies to that nonviable tissue mass that they don't even like to call a child, not lightbulbs.
Of course, Congress doesn't tell you that these bulbs cost $3 vs. 50 cents apiece for the conventional bulbs. And the CFL (compact flourescents) have dangerous levels of mercury and can not just be thrown in the waste basket.
In addition to raising auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent, an energy bill passed by Congress yesterday bans the incandescent light bulb by 2014.
President Bush signed the 822-page measure into law today after it was sent up Pennsylvania Avenue in a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle. The House passed the bill by a 314-100 vote after approval by the Senate last week.
The EPA says breakage of the energy-saving, mercury-containing CFLs can cause health hazards, especially for children and pregnant women, suggesting use of the bulbs over carpeted areas should be avoided. If bulbs break over carpeted areas, the cleanup may require cutting out pieces of the carpet to avoid toxic exposures.
Read the rest here. It's unbelievable what tyranny is foisted on us under the guise of good intentions. But I'd imagine these companies that make these uber-expensive lightbulbs lobbied very heavily to get this passed. It's like getting rid of Toyota and Chevy and making everyone buy Mercedes Benz.
I don't have a problem with people going green. But why should I have to be forced into doing so and at a cost I'm not willing to pay? As if things are not expensive enough already. I noticed that this green revolution has a serious cost. At the grocery store managed by my aunt in a very chic part of our area, they had some recycled and "Earth-friendly" products on a display and the prices were OUTRAGEOUS. It's genius, really. Quadruple the price, put a green label on it and away you go to assuage the guilt of some rich person who drives an SUV and has a big house.
Where did this huge enviro-nazi movement come from? It has really blindsided me.
I don't remember this sort of concern, except from the usual suspect nuts at the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, back in the 90's. Why did this become all the rage? This isn't the 60's, folks. The Cuyahoga River isn't catching on fire. Tailpipe emissions from cars now are nearly zero from the 50's and 60's. Even coal plants are burning cleaner.
But yet these folks want to raise gas prices even more with more taxes. They have now forced you to use $3 light bulbs that are dim and if they break, can pose a much bigger environmental hazard than any extra energy used by the conventional incandescent. They support the Kyoto Treaty, even though its provisions would allow the Third World to get away scot-free and have our economy get ruined over something that is not happening at all.
When does it all end? When do we stand up to these enviro-socialists, America-haters and busy-bodies and say enough, already?
Tennessee isn't the only SEC team making more news in the crime roundup. So is Alabama and Nick Saban (hopefully) has had enough.
I've always been a strong proponent, as the NCAA has, of players being able to do and live and have the same student experience as everyone else. But if we continue to have problems, then there may be some places that we're going to ask our players not to go. If we need to have more severe consequences in the future to change the behavior, we will do that.
-Nick Saban
Jeremy Elder was booted off the team, while linebacker Prince Hall was indefinitely suspended for that catch-all "violation of team rules" (translation: he probably failed a drug test or multiple drug tests for WEED) and won't be back for spring ball or postseason workouts.
No, football isn't better....on weed.
The key factor that explains a lot of these arrests is simple: the law of unintended consequences. The NCAA banned purely athletic dorms in 1991 and it's easy to see that arrests have skyrocketed since. I can understand the logic of mixing athletes among the student body, like Pete Carroll says here:
It’s such a stifling setting, it’s not the real college experience. They deserve the opportunity and the value of learning how to live in mixed groups.
The only problem is that when they're scattered all over, it's very difficult to watch all of them at once. And yes, they're kids and by God I know I did a lot of stupid things when I was that age. But I think this rule has had some unintended consequences.
Our friend, resident NCAA rat and rock-solid disciplinarian Phil "Great Pumpkin" Fulmer is facing more than a little heat off his slap-on-the-wrist discipline and double standards in enforcing the rules. Star on Tennessee? Slap on the pee-pee, don't do it again. Backup? You're booted off the team. Good night and good luck.
John Adams of the Knoxville News takes him to task:
I reached the same conclusion Sunday night for a different reason. It’s not just about the won-loss record. It’s about the arrest record.
More significantly, it’s about how Fulmer has responded to the arrests of his players.
In the last six weeks, eight UT players have either been arrested or disciplined for breaking team rules. The most recent crime involved punter Britton Colquitt, who allegedly hit a parked car while driving under the influence. To make matters worse, police also say he left the scene of the accident.
Fulmer’s response was swift and soft. He suspended Colquitt for the first five games of the 2008 season.
Read the rest here. The part about Colquitt, one of those "Kickin' Colquitts" that commentators love to talk about every time the Hunter's Orange hits the field in those hideous popsicle unis, is just classic Phil.
Keep in mind this wasn’t Colquitt’s first brush with the law. Or second. Or third.
How could Fulmer not dismiss Colquitt from the team after what could be fifth alcohol-related offense?
Answer: Colquitt is a starter.
Not even Lionel Richie would go past three, as in you're once, twice, three times a lady:
But FIVE! Dude ran into a parked car, snookered! Well, this is not an isolated incident. For the months of January and February. There must be something in the water up in the Smokies.
Vols' legal woes in 2008
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11 - Knoxville police cited freshmen wide receivers Gerald Jones and Ahmad Paige for possession of marijuana following a traffic stop near campus while the two hosted a recruit from Oklahoma on his official visit. Freshman offensive lineman William Brimfield who was with Paige and Jones at the time was not charged by police, but was disciplined by Fulmer nonetheless.
21 - UT police arrested freshman tailback Daryl Vereen for public intoxication and underage consumption after responding to a call of a fight in progress outside Gibbs Hall, an on-campus residence hall located across the street from the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center.
26 - Knoxville police arrested junior All-SEC lineman Anthony Parker for disorderly conduct at an off-campus apartment complex.
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2 - walk-on defensive back Vince Faison was arrested for DUI after UT police found the 27-year-old former professional baseball player passed out behind the wheel of his truck in the parking lot of an on-campus fast-food restaurant with the engine running and his foot on the brake pedal with the vehicle in gear.
13 - Fulmer dismissed sophomores Dorian Davis and Antonio Wardlow for an undisclosed violation of team rules. Both players had been arrested within the last 18 months.
17 - Knoxville police arrested Colquitt for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident, after the punter struck a parked car near the Old City, causing more than $400 in damages.
Well, the Great Pumpkin isn't going to take the blistering criticism lying down. He responded, with, get this, A COLUMN. Something tells me it was ghost-written by a member of the sports information staff, but it's still hilarious and can be found here.
Our internal discipline is based on one factor alone: the course that is most likely to help that individual young man make amends and get his life straight. I've undoubtedly made some mistakes, but I try to do what I think is in the best interest for each young man.
What internal discipline? You've got guys getting arrested left and right. Apparently, they're not afraid of the wrath of Fulmer or of 6 a.m. team runs through the unpaved cow paths of Knoxville. The comments below both columns show why the Vols are probably never going to get rid of Fulmer, as most of the fans have thrown their support behind their beleaguered coach. No matter how many of his players get arrested. Oh, how about this gem from Phil?
Mr. Adams has never sat next to me in a prospect's living room, looking his mother or grandmother in the eyes and promising to treat the young man like he was my own child - giving him tough love when necessary and an opportunity to straighten up when that's in order. It is a promise I take seriously and will never abandon to please any columnist.
Tough love? Just know this, Tennessee parents: if your child is a starter, he'll get second chances, third chances, fourth chances, fifth chances (the case of Colquitt comes to mind) and as John Mayer says, "chances in the double-digits." If he's a benchwarmer, he's GONE. It's a complete double standard. I'm not saying that Phil is the only coach who exercises a double standard (even Saban could be accused of that at times), but he is the most obvious and egregious offender.
And these past two months where Vol football players filled up the arrest docket are not an isolated storm of troubles. The worst was the case of former defensive tackle Tony McDaniel, who nearly killed a Tennessee student over, get this, A PICKUP BASKETBALL GAME. You can still see the video here.
UT coach Phillip Fulmer suspended McDaniel for the first two games and said the second-team defensive tackle will also be forced to complete community service, attend anger management counseling and abide by a curfew for the fall semester.
Doctors inserted a metal plate to repair Goodrich’s cheekbone, one of four bones fractured on the right side of his face. Two eye socket bones and a sinus cavity were also broken.
Goodrich said that doctors told him that if the punch had landed four inches higher, closer to his temple, he could have suffered brain damage, been blinded, or even killed.
McDaniel nearly killed a man and was SUSPENDED FOR TWO GAMES! TWO GAMES! That's what Phil thought he deserved, I guess. Well, McDaniel was sued and had to settle out of court for what likely is a tidy sum.
And yet most of the comments you read below both columns are pro-Fulmer? In case you haven't checked, since UcheaT'snational title, they are no longer the big dog in the SEC or even in their own division for that matter. They haven't won an SEC title and even their domination of Alabama is coming to an end. I think their off-the-field issues are the main reason Tennessee is on the wane.
I'm glad that even LSU fans can come to their senses and see that their very program is in serious trouble if Ryan "Nuthin' But Trouble" Perrilloux remains on the team. This is from Dandy Don, the LSU guru:
Tuesday was a huge day for email and most of the messages I received were concerning the Ryan Perrilloux situation. I would say that a good 90 percent of the emails are in favor of Les Miles dismissing Perrilloux from the team and wishing him the best of luck. Many of my readers believe that now would be the best time to remove him from the team instead of during the football season.
Stewart Mandel agrees. Les Miles, cut your losses. Kick this knucklehead off the team, pronto. He isn't worth the headaches that he causes. Cripes, Coach Bryant suspended Joe "Willy" Namath before the national championship game. And Ryan, you aren't even close to Joe Willy. Not by a long shot.
After an 8-0 start to his junior season Namath was suspended for drinking and was forced to miss the Sugar Bowl. Joe had no other choice then to sit out quietly and wait for next season. The truth was that Namath only took a sip of beer that night but media reports claimed that Namath was belligerent and trying to direct traffic while drunk. Not knowing who to believe, Bryant was forced to suspend Namath for the season.
Bryant also kicked free spirit Kenny Stabler off the team as well. Guess we all know how those two turned out. And did I mention Bryant won a few more national championships after booting both?
News from the off-season in college football is never good. Never. Guess what the folks in Baton Rouge and T-town got bombed with yesterday.
Ryan Perrilloux, the seemingly always-in-trouble LSU quarterback, was suspended again. Already, the usual LSU homers are rallying to his defense. He was suspended for trying to sneak into a casino with a fake i.d. at age 20. This shows the level of stupidity that Perrilloux stoops to because he was one of the biggest recruiting coups ever for the Purple and Gold, yet he thinks that he can sneak into a casino in a state where 90 percent of folks couldn't even name their congressman, but could identify him in a second because he was Louisiana Mr. Football in high school and perhaps the highest-profile recruit in that program's illustrious history? DUH!
And this guy has just scads of God-given talent. What a waste.
Also, backup defensive lineman Jeremy Elder was arrested for armed robbery! He's now the seventh player arrested since Saban took over. Granted, all of those arrested were Shula recruits. Shows you how well Mike recruited and did background checks, doesn't it?
I just can't believe the stupidity of these guys. You get a free education, something that you'd have to pay student loans back for the rest of your natural life if you didn't have a 40-time under 4.7 seconds and you have the fame (and perks like all of those hot SEC women) of being a football player in the nation's best conference, with plenty of exposure that will likely land you in the NFL if you shine brightly enough (and keep your nose clean).
Yet, we always hear about stupid things like this happening. Elder could go to prison for a looooooooong time. I'm just glad for his sake that his victims weren't a believer in the Second Amendment like me. He would have gotten a taste of the Mozambique drill from me if that would have been me.
Current F-15s and F-16s are on average more than 20 years old and have reached a point where spending more money on extensive repairs is a poor investment, Selva said. Originally designed to last 4,000 flying hours, both have been extended beyond 8,000.
-ASSOCIATED PRESS
I remember reading about the F-15 and F-16 when I was in GRADE SCHOOL, which for me was a century ago. The F-15 first flew in July of 1972!
Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force
The F-16, the F-15's running mate and our main mudmover (ground attack aircraft for those not aware of aviation slang) is nearly as old, first flying back in 1974. I wasn't even born yet and many who fly these airframes weren't even born yet when they first flew.
Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force
Now, both planes have been heavily upgraded over the years to account for advances in avonics (aviation electronics for those unaware of aviation jargon) and weaponry, but they're quite a bit long in the tooth. Production of the fighter version of the Eagles ended in the 1980's and while the Viper (pilot nickname for the F-16, better than its sucky given name of Fighting Falcon) is still in production, the Air Force hasn't bought any new ones in some time. Another thing that has really hurt the fleet is all the work they've logged. These fighters patrolled the skies, hit ground targets and dodged surface to air missiles and AAA (antiaircraft fire) over Kosovo, the former Yugoslavia (where several were shot down, most famously Scott O'Grady's bird), Iraq and other trouble spots and that was even before we got in a shooting war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And folks, war ain't easy on birds. These planes are designed to yank and bank at nine times the force of gravity, which I don't have to tell you is rough on even aircraft as well-built as these.
A lot of peaceniks would say, "So?" They'd tell you that buying replacements for these planes is a waste of money that could be better spent on schools or whatever pet project these do-gooder socialist numbskulls would rather use your money towards. There are those in the Bush administration that say that the replacement for the F-15, the F-22, is too expensive and not necessary in an Iraq-type counterinsurgency action. It hasn't even been used over there and they cost a lot of moolah per copy. $120 million or so, give or take for every one over the 180 already bought and paid for (about 100 of them are in service now).
I'd agree on that point. The F-22 is hideously expensive, but it is the ne plus ultra of modern fighter development. It is a revolutionary weapon system, not evolutionary.
It's not merely an improved Eagle. It's a quantum leap over the Eagle. Just ask one of our aggressor (pilots who fly as "adversaries" in mock dogfights using enemy tactics to test our regular pilots) guys about what it's like to go up against the Raptor when they're flying the F-15, previously the world's greatest fighter. And note this, these men are very well-trained and are some of the best pilots on the globe. They have thousands of hours in fighters and many are combat veterans. They flew against the Raptor in a Red Flag (big exercise in Nellis that is probably some of the most realistic aerial war games on the planet) and this is what happened:
I can't see the [expletive deleted] thing. It won't let me put a weapons system on it, even when I can see it visually through the canopy. [Flying against the F-22] annoys the hell out of me.
RAAF Squadron Leader Stephen Chappell, exchange F-15 pilot in the 65th Aggressor Squadron.
The key to the F-22 is this: it's a combination of a lot of things. It can supercruise, meaning that it can go supersonic without afterburners. In case you don't know this, all fighters are basically subsonic (slower than Mach 1) unless they use their afterburners, which suck up precious fuel like Britney does lines of cocaine, which is rather prodigious. This means the F-22 can decide to press an engagement (attack) or decline (retreat) at its leisure. In nautical terms, it means the F-22 has a perpetual weather gage. The F-22 is also more maneuverable than any other fighter. Don't think so? Check this out:
The F-22 is also as stealthy as the F-117, meaning the enemy can't detect it at all. The F-22 radar is the most advanced in the world and is undetectable by enemy radar warning receivers (airborne fuzz busters, basically, that let you know someone is painting you with their radar, always a prelude to an attack).
Also, the F-22's sensors are fused into one common display, freeing a pilot from having to check multiple displays for multiple sensors. And add to the mix an advanced datalink that allows a flight of Raptors to have a common picture of the aerial battlefield and select individual targets for destruction without conflicts (two Raptors lobbing missiles at the same target while allowing another to go unmolested).
So even if you get into to knife-fighting (visual range) with a Raptor, he's going to shoot your ass down because he can outmaneuver you all day long.
Now why do we need this plane? Here's one answer:
Here's one: the Chinese J-10, the most modern fighter the Chinese have. This aircraft is as good as our F-16's and maybe is even better. You liberals would say, well, they're just making it fair. Actually, there is no fairness in war and besides, since all of our armed forces are not aimed at a little island called Taiwan and are scattered throughout the globe, we will always be outnumbered. I don't have to tell you that will NOT be a fair fight, especially when your enemy wields a plane as good as yours and in superior numbers.
Here's video of the J-10:
Then there's this bird that the Chinese and Hugo Chavez's regime of socialist thugs fly, the Su-30:
Highly maneuverable, easily more so than anything we have save the Raptor and the upcoming F-35 Lightning. And Hugo, who hates America with a virulent passion, has these. Think I'm kidding? Check these out: This is what Hugo thinks of you:
The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads.
And Hugo is big buddies with the mullahs in Iran. Big buddies.
Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire. This (task) must be assumed with strength by the majority of the peoples of the world.
Hugo Chavez
And yet the Air Force can only afford 181 Raptors, barely enough to cover all our areas of concern when you consider at least 30-40 will be under modification or repair, another 30 will be permanently based in CONUS (continental U.S.) for training, leaving about 100 or so to cover the world's trouble spots. This is not good, considering that the F-35 is several years from service and the F-15's are falling apart. The entire fleet of Eagles was grounded after one, with relatively few hours on it, disintegrated in mid-air a few months during an exercise. The pilot survived.
It's like to trying to drive a car for 20 years. My old car, a well-made Nissan Maxima, had 180,000 miles on it and still ran well. But it was struggling mightily. Things were breaking down on it from simple age nearly every month. Even the best made stuff (F-16s and F-15s) breaks down and we can ill afford to have our air defenses weakened at this time when the enemies of freedom are howling at the gates.
We have enjoyed air superiority over every winning battlefield and we can not allow that to fall by the wayside just because we'd rather have the government give us free health care and other benefits courtesy of income redistribution. If the Imperial Federal Government is going to rob me blind at the rate of 30 percent, I'd much rather it go to Raptor and Lightning purchases than Obamination's silly, bankrupting the the treasury health care boondoogle. It's kind of hard to enjoy free viagra when terrorists and scum like Chavez, the Iranian mad mullahs, the Chicom egg-sucking dogs and that snake-in-the-grass Putin own the skies.
The ride of the future thanks to Hildabeast and Barak Obamination's calls for a 55 mpg AVERAGE by 2030
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In my daily perusal of the web, I came across two quotes that really hit home with our present situation.
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.
– Norman Thomas, American socialist
By the mid-1930's, thanks to the New Deal, all that self-reliance had changed, prompting Mencken to declare: 'There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them.' Despite the billions spent on an individual, 'he can be lifted transiently but always slips back again.' Thus, the New Deal had been 'the most stupendous digenetic enterprise ever undertaken by man.... We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time. The effects of that doctrine are bound to be disastrous soon or late.'
When someone asked, "And what, Mr. Mencken, would you do about the unemployed?" He looked up with a bland expression. "We could start by taking away their vote," he said, deadpan. Mencken was not surprised when the majority disagreed. "There can be nothing even remotely approaching a rational solution of the fundamental national problems until we face them in a realistic spirit," he later reflected, and that was impossible so long as educated Americans remained responsive "to the Roosevelt buncombe.
"The Bad Boy of Baltimore" a biography of H.L. Mencken by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. Page 409. Gleaned that from good ole boortz.
Now think about what our two Democratic candidates for President propose: Hillary (from her official site): The Same Choice of Health Plan Options that Members of Congress Receive:Americans can keep their existing coverage or access the same menu of quality private insurance options that their Members of Congress receive through a new Health Choices Menu, established without any new bureaucracy as part of the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP). In addition to the broad array of private options that Americans can choose from,they will be offered the choice of a public plan option similar to Medicare.
Most dumbasses will choose the government plan, folks. And you think the budget is bad at 3.1 TRILLION dollars. Imagine it when this evil Nurse Ratchet takes over. Even though she claims that:
Return to fiscal responsibility. After six and a half year of President Bush's fiscal irresponsibility, Hillary wants America to regain control of its destiny. She will move back toward a balanced budget and surpluses. Hillary believes that we should develop a set of budget rules similar to those we had in the 90s which required us to fund new expenditures with new revenues or cuts in other areas.
How can you return to "fiscal responsibility" when you're giving away other people's money left and right like a drunken sailor in Bangkok? This does not compute. Of course, all of this largesse will be paid for by the evil rich and those nasty corporations via tax increases! As Karl Marx said, from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Wonderful!
How about Obama? Same thing. Just different wording: Comprehensive benefits. The benefit package will be similar to that offered through Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), the plan members of Congress have. The plan will cover all essential medical services, including preventive, maternity and mental health care.
Of course, paid for by those evil rich. Of course. More tax increases are ahead.
Let us see: nationalized health care (one-seventh of our economy for those keeping score), the taking of the profits of the "evil rich" folks and "big oil," and tax credits (new Democrat codeword for income redistribution) for the "working class." And to top it all off, we'll all be driving around in Trabant-like shitbox deathtraps thanks to Hillary's 55 mpg mandate by 2030. Workers of the world unite!
Now how did we come to this, that two of our candidates for president are unabashed Euro-socialist weasels? Joseph Farah hits the nail on the head right here:
How we could even be debating ideas like this in the 21st century, after all of the climactic failures of socialism around the world, is amazing to me. But we're not really debating them. It seems we're not even capable as a people of debating them, reasoning over them, using our brains to consider them.
Americans may simply be too far gone spiritually, morally and intellectually to reject the temptations of socialism.
Socialism is antithetical to human nature, yet it has great appeal to the human mind.
I think the real reason we're at this point is that the stupid folks have outbred the intelligent ones. No rational person, considering that the dustbin of history is laden with the cautionary tales of the evils of socialism, could even propose that we convert the greatest nation on Earth into another socialist slime pit of equal misery except for the elite (just as it was in the old Soviet Union.)
But look at what we watch: E! ESPN and other tripe. We breathless fawn over the disgusting, drug-addled antics and simple whorishness of Brittany Spears and Paris and Lindsay Lohan. We're not reading any more. The magazines in the Wal-Mart are all devoted to celebrity gossip. People that couldn't tell you the name of their congressman (mine is Jo Bonner) or that it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves know everything that George Clooney pontificates or that the Greenland glaciers are melting away, soon to flood our coast cities into oblivion like the Day After Next Week, or whatever that stupid climate change propaganda film was named. They think the Daily Show is a great news source. Mike Judge's movie Idiocracy explained why our country is slouching toward the horrors of socialism perfectly:
Our socialist friend Barak Obama has a great idea: transfer billions of your tax dollars to "relieve" global poverty.
According to this, the amount of your tax dollars heading to third world shitholes would total 0.7 of our gross domestic product, or $845 BILLION over the next 13 years. Most of this, as you well know, will end up in the hands of dictators and other corrupt entities. It will also give the United Nations, a corrupt and decrepit anti-U.S. organization, power over this money. We'll likely have to raise taxes to fund all of this forced charity. Talk about taxation without representation! If you'd like to read about what a corrupt body the U.N. is, go here and here.
Never mind the fact that the Imperial Federal Government can't even pay its own bills. Never mind that the impending retirement of the baby boomers is going to break the bank. Most of today's budget is going to benefits for seasoned citizens in the form of mediscare, medicaid, social insecurity (a pyramid scheme) and Bush's damned idiotic prescription drug abomination. Not defense, as our liberal, do-gooder, bedwetting friends who think whales are more important than national defense would have you believe. Not infrastructure. Guess that old people vote is more important that the country goes tits up with no money, right, politicos? Elect us today and we'll bankrupt the nation so you can get some free viagra?
We'll just borrow more money from Communist China, right? Right.....
The arrogance of these socialist do-gooders, doing wonderful deeds with other people's money just makes me ill.
Something just makes my blood boil when I hear GW talk about the religion of peace, Islam. Trust me George, if you would have done something at Yale besides mooch off Daddy's money and snort a few lines, you'd know that Islam means "submission" in Arabic, which implies a threat of violence (by that wonderful, loving deity named Allah). You'd also know that Sharia law is anything but peaceful and advocates stoning (not that kind of stoning, hippies) for adultery. Guess there's no need for a prenup in the land of Islam!
We're talking about a religion that was spread by the sword or in American prisons, not by converting the faithless.
Anyhow, guess what our friendly "Palestininian" friends have for their children to watch on TV? Not Sponge Bob, mind you, but a rabbit that seeks martyrdom. Fun!
According to Jihad Bugs, he will "eat the Jews." Wonderful! And they show this to KIDS!
This was after they had a thinly disguised version of Mickey Mouse seen here. Of course, he advocated Muslim domination of the world. Yeah!
And here:
More from Jihad Mouse, who died at the hands of Israeli interrogators:
Do you really think a "Palestinian" state will live in peace, side by side with Israel? Not with this kind of indoctrination of their youth like this. As an aside, I use quote marks around the term Palestine because there has NEVER been a Palestinian nation, people until the founding of Israel or language. They, who are no different than all the other Arabs in the Middle East and do not need or deserve a state of their own. I always found it amazing that the Arabs own most of the land of the Middle East, yet they are always asking for Israel to trade more of its tiny territory for "peace."
This isn't about a nation called "Palestine." It's about the destruction of Israel and they're brainwashing their children to that fact. Sick, sick, sick people.
Check out the decor in an Obama campaign office: Che Guevera flags! Never mind the fact this guy was a communist butcher was responsible for the execution of thousands and the enslavement of an entire nation under the yolk of communism. He's just the "hero" of the Motorcycle Diaries, right libs? Right...
The term pinko-lib has left my vocabulary. They're just full-on commie bastards from now on.
This morning, I read that some more liberals seek to get rid of the Electoral College. Dated they call it. It's not fair that the popular vote doesn't determine the election. On the surface, to those with no clue on how our system works (that would be most of you who attended public school, something our lefty friends have been working on for a while)it sounds fair. Bush didn't even win the popular vote. How can he be President?
But I really shouldn't have to tell you why our liberal friends seek this. It's simple really. When the Electoral College goes away, New York and California and Illinois will elect presidents. Any state under 10 million will be shut out. Candidates will only campaign in the big three or four and ignore the voters (and issues) of the rest of the country. All of the aforementioned states tend Democratic. With this in place, the giant, liberal urban centers will elect more liberals, which means that they'll impose the same kind of big city socialism (high taxes and increased regulation) that many in New York and California flee.
There's a reason why the system is designed the way it is. According to my best friend, big cities tend liberal because millions of people live packed upon each other. In the South, Midwest ('cept Chi-town and the other big cities) and West, spaces are open, people are more self-sufficient, independent and distrust an activist government. They have different concerns than those in the urban centers. But their concerns, which to most liberals are meaningless anyhow because they're from "flyover country," will never be addressed in this new Washington.
It will be Democrats and liberal Republicans now until the end of time. It will be tyranny on a scale you can't imagine. Confiscatory taxes, gun control and insanely labyrinthine regulations will turn our nation into a socialist workers' paradise filled with crime and misery. But the Owl Gores, the John Edwards, the Kennedys and other liberal folks will not be touched by the horror because it will never reach their gated communities.
In that case, it'll either be time to start a new revolution to restore constitutional rule or.... move to Australia.
Private Hudson (Bill Paxton) from Aliens sums up my thoughts on this issue neatly:
In a way, I almost feel bad for this guy. Kevin Hart, the man who recruited himself. I guess.
What a minute, no, I don't.
He told perhaps the biggest whopper ever and got a press conference at his school announcing his school choice. It went down between Cal and Oregon, or so he said. He talked about how he and Coach Tedford were talking.
The big problem was, Tedford had never heard of the kid. There was no scholarship offer at all from either Cal or his other "choice," Oregon. The packed gym was all part of a lie. The two hats on the table. All a fabrication.
Can you believe the school fell for it? Where was his coach in all this? As a former prep guy in the newspaper biz, I can tell you that a high school coach is very, very involved in the recruiting process. That's why these big-time college coaches get in good with their high school counterparts. It's not something devious, mind you, but it allows college coaches to get the straight skinny on a guy. Is he a problem in school? Does he loaf in practice? Is he a clubhouse cancer? Being in good with the high school coach can save a collegiate coach a lot of grief down the road. Besides, to a lot of these players, their coach is a major father figure and his influence plays at least some role in where they decide to go to school.
So where was Kevin Hart's coach? He had to call bullshit on this press conference, didn't he? Instead, he allowed a farce to take place, courtesy of a kid who just wanted the adulation of recruiting hype.
Now, in the interest of honesty, I was very excited by Alabama's haul on the recruiting trail. Nick Saban (Satan if you're from Baton Rouge) earned his $4 million a year and then some. I jumped for joy and immediately texted my best friend after Julio Jones committed to the Tide. Is this kind of constant interest in recruiting, albeit innocent, fueling this machine that made this Hart kid feel he had to lie to kick it, as Chris Rock said? I think Mitch Albom's got a point.
The hype surrounding recruiting is as much responsible for this kid pulling this fabrication over the eyes of the school, the administration and his coach. I know he wanted attention and I don't blame him. That's why anyone tells little white lies. It becomes addictive. But I'm just amazed that his coach, parents or the school administration see the red flags raised by someone who took no official visits!
This whole screwy affair demands some videos. Huh, huh, huh, yeah, you're A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
