Further proof of how bad a shape Alabama is in

Alabama came up SNAKE EYES in the NFL Draft for the first time since 1970. If that isn't proof how far 'Bama has fallen, I don't know what would be.

TUSCALOOSA Without saying a word, the NFL collectively passed clear judgment this weekend on Alabama's 2008 draft class.

The Crimson Tide was not included among the 252 selections in this year's NFL draft. It was the first time Alabama has been shut out since 1970, the year the American Football League officially joined the NFL.

"We're just really confused," offensive lineman Justin Britt said. "I mean, this doesn't make any sense."

Read the rest of Gentry Estes' story here.

Confused? What is there to be confused about, Justin? The simple point is thanks to probation, poor recruiting and poor talent evaluation by former coach Mike Shula, the talent pool is pretty damned shallow up in T-town these days. It's a very embarrassing day to be an Alabama fan, but with a real coach manning the sidelines who can recruit like it's nobody's business, it's only a matter of time.

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

"Carrier" documentary a must-see

Mel Gibson's production company has a new documentary out about life on an aircraft carrier. I'd urge all of you to check it out. Read more about it here.

It's amazing what these 18, 19, 20-year old kids do on the flight deck, a land of heat, noise and the constant danger of drowning, being ran over, snapped in half by an arrestor cable, sucked into an intake, burned, asphyxiated, you name it.

Also, I like the warts and all view of the Navy. No sugar-coated "Accelerate Your Life" slick commercials here. They showed this really stupid enlisted female getting busted for having alcohol aboard ship, a BIG no-no. They also showed how the chain of command doesn't always work, especially when it comes to getting ahead and getting out of being the lowest form of life on the enlisted food chain.

The part about the callsigns was hilarious. No Mavericks here. Just ask Dodo how he got his! Great stuff.

The camera work is magnificent and you really get to see a carrier for what it is: a living, breathing warfighting organism rendered in steel, nonskid, composites and flesh. Awesome stuff.

Check it out. It comes on PBS, which is something I haven't watched since Ken Burns' Civil War documentary. To find out when it comes on in your area, go here.

Wonder if they have the BALLS to do it

I guess our politicians have nothing else better to do. Never mind the fact Social Security is about to be bankrupt. Never mind that we have terrorists aiming to pop off nukes in Washington. Never mind the fact that we aren't drilling everywhere for oil when pump gas is about to $5 a gallon.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — They're proudly displayed by any self-respecting bull, but dangling big metal ones on the back end of a truck could be banned in Florida.

Metal replicas of bull testicles have become trendy bumper ornaments in some parts of the Sunshine State, but state Sen. Carey Baker is campaigning to ban the orbs.

Baker acknowledged that Florida lawmakers have more pressing issues, including huge revenue shortfalls, but said the state needs to draw a line on what's obscene before more objectionable adornments appear.

State Sen. Steve Geller argued against Baker's bill.

"I find it shocking that we should be telling people that have the metallic bull testicles ... you're now going to have points on your license for this," said Geller.

Geller was in the minority. Baker's bill to fine drivers $60 for displaying the ornaments passed the Senate. It's now up to the House, but there's only a slim chance that members of that chamber would pass the measure before the session ends this coming Friday.

If it were to be passed, Gov. Charlie Crist has not indicated whether he would sign it, although he has not been too critical of this and other not-so-pressing issues.

"It's good to have some things that maybe aren't quite as serious. Got to have a little levity," the governor said.

A similar bill in Virginia, aimed at rubber trailer hitch replicas of human genitalia, died in committee this year.

Read the rest here. Personally, I think they're disgusting, but should they be banned? Nah. If you want to look like a white trash, redneck nimrod with questionable breeding, be my guest. That's one right that should be inalienable in this country - the ability to be as big an idiot as you want to be. It's one exercised by the majority of our population.

El-Hady vanishes from Barak's official website

Notice something funny? The entry about Hatem El-Hady is missing from Barak's website. Imagine that!

The more and more this guy is unmasked, the easier it will be for John McCain to get in the White House. He's seriously flawed and probably too old, but at least he'll fight the War on Terror.

I hope.

And you thought Jeremiah Wright was bad

Jeremiah Wright, the infamous bigoted preacher who hates America, was merely bad for Obama. This is worse.

Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo, Ohio-based Islamic charity, Kindhearts, which was closed by the US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all its assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising efforts for his newest cause - Barack Obama for President.

El-Hady has his own dedicated page on Barack Obama's official website, chronicling his fundraising on behalf of the Democratic Party presidential candidate (his Obama profile established on February 19, 2008 - two years to the day after Kindhearts was raided by the feds). Not only that, but he has none other than Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, listed as one of his friends (one of her 224 listed friends).

Read the rest here.

Whereas Wright was just a blowhard nutjob, El-Hady was actively raising money for the enemies of our nation.

The Department of Justice had a very different version of events. According to the DOJ, Kindhearts assumed the role of lead terrorist fundraising in the US after the government had closed other such Islamic "charities":

"KindHearts is the progeny of Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief Foundation, which attempted to mask their support for terrorism behind the façade of charitable giving," said Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

I judge people by the company they keep. And Obama's company isn't the best.

Bill Maher, what an asshole!

Bill Maher has never been a favorite of mine. He claims to be a conservative, yet, he's to the left of Trotsky. He's never been a big fan of Christianity. Nor this country. Or the military. Or much of anything for that matter.

Now he's gone a bit too far. A week ago, he dared compare Catholicism with the polygamist cult out in Texas. Also, for kicks, he called the Holy Father, Pope Benedict, a Nazi. Read it here.

Now he has apologized. Or what passes for an apology in Bill's sick, twisted world.

Here's his "apology." Not much of one, is it?
Bill, it just comes off as mean-spirited and petty. Grow up.

A rare victory for rationality

London has this awful "congestion charge," which is:

The London congestion charge is a fee for some motorists travelling within those parts of London designated as the Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ). The main objectives of this charge are to reduce congestion, and to raise funds for investment in London's transport system.

In other words, another tax under the guise of helping save the precious environment.

New York City's evil mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to do the same in NYC. No dice, thank God.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to charge drivers extra tolls to enter Manhattan's most congested neighborhoods earned him invitations to speak at such gatherings as the U.N. climate conference and raised his profile as he considered a presidential run.

But the plan died Monday when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in Albany announced his chamber wouldn't take up the proposal because of strong opposition within the conference dominated by New York City Democrats.

In a speech Tuesday at Georgetown University in Washington, the mayor shrugged off the defeat and said courage is needed in political leaders to take decisive action on the environment.

"It takes courage to ask people to change—even if it won't really cost them much. It is sad but it is true. Political leaders today are afraid of their constituents," he said in a speech at an environmental conference at Georgetown.

Read the rest here.

Like all bastard politicians, Bloomberg trots out this little nugget:

In lobbying for his plan, Bloomberg displayed a short fuse with anyone who didn't support the idea, painting opponents as "stupid" people who didn't care about the environment, progress and the health of asthma- afflicted children.

It's for the "children," damn you. And you're stupid if you don't believe that global warming, ahem, "climate change," is destroying the planet and putting us all in imminent danger.

Typical liberal. Bloomberg, you're a bastard. It's amazing that such stupid people like him and Ted Turner can become so rich and be so idiotic.

Two unrelated, yet idiotic episodes

For those who don't live in Mobile, we got hit last weekend with a deluge of up to eight inches of rain in a few hours. But the destruction wasn't limited to Mother Nature.

Some local yahoos camping in the woods decided it'd be hilarious if they stopped up a manhole, causing a major sewage leak.

"It looked like people had been camping out there. They had set up targets for guns and things," Steeves said. "Our manhole looked like it had been shot a few times. They took the top off and stuffed wood and timber down there. It eventually stopped it up."

Read the rest here.

Or how about these girls in Mulberry, a place I used to bash in columns when I lived in Sebring, as being a land of phosphates and stupidity?

A battered and bruised Victoria Lindsay will not be returning to public school following an incident in which six other girls have been accused of videotaping a beating of the 16-year-old Mulberry High cheerleader.

While a week has passed since the pummeling, Lindsay is still recovering from a concussion and has not fully regained her hearing and vision on her left side.

But as swelling subsides, doctors hope those will return, her parents said Monday.

"When I saw my daughter in the emergency room, I didn't recognize my own daughter," said Patrick Lindsay, Victoria's father.

Almost immediately, he handed her a pen and paper to write down the names of who was responsible and how it all happened to give to police.

"She was in fear for her life,'' he said. "She thought she was going to die."

Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said Monday the argument between the teens erupted from "trash talking" on MySpace and through text messaging.

The Sheriff's Office declined to elaborate on what specifically was said, citing its ongoing investigation.

But Judd said the video was created for use on YouTube and MySpace, which has become a growing trend among teens.

"This is animalistic behavior," he said while showing a clip of the recorded video at a press conference Monday. "That is pack mentality."

"It's incumbent upon YouTube and MySpace to make drastic changes," Judd said. "If we desensitize kids to this kind of beating today, what's next?"

They beat the tar out of this poor girl just to put it on the internet. Read all about from the Lakeland Ledger here. I hate to sound ancient, but what the hell is with kids today? I know when I was a teenager, classmates could be downright nasty, but this takes it to another level.

I like what the poor girl's dad had to say about teenagers and Myspace. Right on point!

"As far as I am concerned, MySpace is the anti-Christ for children," he said. "I hope this comes to a final resolution. I am not going to stop here."

Even though this is coming from someone who uses their MySpace quite a bit. Like cars, brains, guns, etc., MySpace can be used for good or for ill.

God, I wish people weren't so stupid. And we wonder why we're about to elect a socialist Jimmy Carter repeat as our president.

We're all...cannibals?

Ted Turner is taking the Mike Tyson view of global warming.

We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable. We're too many people; that's why we have global warming. Too many people are using too much stuff.

CNN founder, former Braves' owner and atheist Ted Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS's Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday. Read the rest here.

This is utterly ridiculous, but it exposes the left's true evil agenda. Euthanasia, environmentalism, anti-capitalism, it's all in this idiotic statement.

Ted, did you notice that this winter was one of the COLDEST on record?

In honor of Ted, here's one of my favorite songs from the late 80s, early 90s, "She Drives Me Crazy" from the Fine Young Cannibals: