Obama Makes Wrong Choice, Blames Others

Obama camp cites Pentagon in scrapping troop visit

"Obama would have faced criticism if the trip had taken place."

Is that the kind of leader he is? He decides what to do on the basis of whether or not he would be criticized? A strong leader does the right thing regardless of criticism. And he would not have been criticized if he visited the troops privately, sincerely and without fanfare, except perhaps by some of his own military hating supporters.

The right thing to do is the right thing to do and he chose wrong - again.

Breaking All The Rules

Man Joking Around Shoots Self In Head

Authorities say the 20-year-old decided the .25-caliber handgun wasn't working and pointed it to his head as a lark. The gun fired and lodged a bullet in his skull.

Rule #1: Don't point a gun to your head, even if the gun is not loaded.
Rule #2: If you disregard rule #1, don't pull the trigger.
Rule #3: If you disregard rule #2, do it outside.

So, Which Is It?

Report: Lindsay Lohan Hit By Bike In NYC

Actress Lindsay Lohan was hospitalized Saturday morning after a motorcycle nearly hit her near a club on 32nd Street, according to the New York Post.

So, did it hit her or not? Was she hospitalized for a "near miss?" Maybe she was nearly hospitalized.

One World

Andrea Shea King has some very interesting observations about the Obama speech in Berlin.

Did you watch him? This makes my hair stand on end. The Obamessiah a one-world-er. Someone who sees himself as a "citizen of the world", not just of "Goddamn America". He wants to rearrange the walls. Rearrange the world. Rearrange America.

I know there is a spirit in the world that sees mankind as being able to bring about their own salvation. A spirit that wants to bring us all together in order to save us from ourselves. "The more we get together, the happier we'll be." I see it working, it's not a new thing.

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other (Genesis 11:7).

The impressive thing to me is that man is still haunted today by the lack of unity. He feels the need for it. He feels that if we can only get together, then, with our technological abilities, if we can just cooperate, we can do anything. Is that not the dream that hangs over humanity? If we can merge -- this is the day of the merger, corporations are merging, nations are merging, companies are merging, churches are merging -- if we can just become one great community again, then, with our technological excellence we can master the earth. The dream still endures, but God still scatters. God yet continues the confusion of tongues.--Ray Stedman

I see it again gaining momentum, but I don't know what the end of this push will be. Is this the beginning of the last manifestation of this spirit or just another spike in activity?

I know one thing, I want no part in it.

For it is written, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve." (Matthew 4:10)

Destroy America First

Wouldn't it be great if there was a device that would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and slow or stop global warming? Isn't that the point of reducing carbon emissions, to slow or stop global warming?

Apparently not. Envirnmentalists oppose new CO2 scrubber idea

"Every problem, as they see it, is one way to restrict people's lifestyles, and if you come up with a technological fix that can solve a problem but doesn't require sacrifice and lets us go about our business the way we were before, they're not happy about it, even if it solves the problem."

Disgraceful

Obama scraps visit to wounded troops

Obama made his decision out of respect for the servicemen and women,

Obama has never shown respect for our servicemen and women, why start now? He has not shown support for them before, is not showing support for them now and won't even give them the credit they deserve for the great job they are doing in Iraq - even with their hands tied behind their backs by the political correctness police.

I'm sick of writing about this guy already, he shouldn't even be a contender. It's shocking that half of Americans actually want this guy to be the President. Shocking.

One more point: another reason given for cancelling was:

a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.

Then, in his speech in Berlin he says:

"Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen ..."

He can give a speech as a citizen but he can't visit wounded troops as a citizen?

Walking in Darkness

Mike Gallagher:

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

Secret of Longevity

You don't say

Change You Can Count On

Obama Gives Final Burial to 'Undivided Jerusalem' Statement

Barack Obama, the Democratic party's nominee for U.S. President, retracted the statement he made at the AIPAC Convention in June, about the need for Jerusalem to remain Israel's undivided capital. Obama had already qualified the statement the day after he made it, but in a new CNN interview he effectively retracted it, blaming "poor phrasing" and careless syntax.

Then:

"Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided," --Barack Obama

Now, not so much:

"You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given."

"The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the '67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent." --Barack Obama


I guess this is what he means by change, it's what he does.

In the Shadow of an Empty suit

Obama Faking It

Poor John McCain. He's so last-century. Still living in a world in which deeds matter, policies matter, what you would actually do with the power entrusted to you matters.

Christian Persecution

Here's an interesting post from Vox Popoli: Atheists in denial

Atheists have been murdering Christians almost non-stop around the world for the last 91 years and they have done so with predictable regularity in the majority of countries where they have obtained political dominance. It is all too typical that American atheists are far more concerned about Christian crimes committed against non-atheists in Europe more than 500 years ago than they are about the crimes being committed by avowed atheists against Asian Christians today.

But the persecutions will fail in the end, as they always do, and as Western Christianity continues to decline amidst its sloth, wealth, and apostasy, Eastern Christianity will rise, energized by the bloody test of its faith in the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

The Marxism of Obama,

From his own speech. Read it at Political Pistachio.

The Far Side of Insanity

Television commercials cause global warming

Yes, they are measuring carbon emissions from TV commercials now. What could possibly be next?

Shameful

From Power Line:

"Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon."

But Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Obama just made that up so he could count the committee's action as one of "my deeds."

And from Ed Morrissey:

Once again, Obama wants to claim credit for efforts on which he served no role. Either that, or Obama is such a dilettante that he has no idea on which committees he actually belongs. It could even be both. Neither gives any confidence that Obama has any grasp at all of his own job, let alone the one for which he’s campaigning. Maybe he needed a lot more than three years to get acclimated to national politics.

The Next, ah, hm, King, no, ahh, mmm, Savior, mmm,

What's my line? Fail!

"Let me be absolutely clear," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said today at a press conference in Amman, Jordan. "Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change."

"You know, it's always a bad practice to say 'always' or 'never.'" — Obama, speaking in Amman today.

Ththththat's all folks!

Peas in a Pod?

"Palestinian artist Walid Ayyoub poses with a drawing of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in his studio"

Che Guevara and Yasser Arafat also make an appearance in that photo. It almost seems as though Che Guevara is Obama's running mate, I've seen his picture connected with the Obama campaign so many times.

Thought You'd Like To Know

Why Democrats don't want to lower gas prices

In an interview with Bloomberg TV's "Money and Politics" last night, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., explained Democrats don't want to increase supplies of oil and gasoline because they want to wean Americans off of petroleum products.

Emphasis mine.

Isn't It Ironic?

On their way to vote on an aviation safety bill, a flight carrying seven members of Congress from Houston to Washington was forced to make an emergency landing after it lost cabin pressure Tuesday afternoon.

A man threatening to jump from a fifth-story ledge, decides not to jump - then falls.

Just Watch

HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN)

Say What!

Question:

"If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge:"

Answer?

"No, because keep in mind that question, you wouldn't ... but keep in mind that kind of hypothetical is very difficult to know hindsight is 20-20 ... later ... but I think that what I'm absolutely convinced of is that at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with."

Yeah, and President Bush is the idiot. Right. Where are all the jokes about Obama? This isn't the first time he's done this.

Change You Don't Want

Are Facts Obsolete?

In an election campaign in which not only young liberals, but also some people who are neither young nor liberals, seem absolutely mesmerized by the skilled rhetoric of Barack Obama, facts have receded even further into the background than usual.

As the hypnotic mantra of "change" is repeated endlessly, few people even raise the question of whether what few specifics we hear represent any real change, much less a change for the better.

Raising taxes, increasing government spending and demonizing business? That is straight out of the New Deal of the 1930s.

Thoughts on Obamas Speech to Hispanics

This post inspired by this video of Barack Obama giving a speech to Hispanics. I took the quotes from this transcript, though. Not an exact match, but close.

It's about making sure that we have a government that knows that a problem facing any American is a problem facing all Americans.

As all Americans are free to choose how they live there lives, they are also accountable for the consequences of those choices. That is freedom. No American should be obligated, save by their Creator, to try to fix the problems of those who consistently choose wrong. Set the example, show them the right path, but if they continue to choose wrong, that is their choice. Government co-dependency and enabler programs do not help except to prolong or worsen the problem. It is not the governments right to take our money and give it to people who refuse to help themselves.

It's about making sure our government knows that when there's a Hispanic girl stuck in a crumbling school who graduates without learning to read or doesn't graduate at all, that isn't just a Hispanic-American problem, that's an American problem.

That is an American problem, and it's not a problem only for Hispanics. Our government screwels schools are not doing the job. Somewhere along the way - about the time they started embracing socialist ideas - reading, writing and arithmetic became passe and government schools became socialist indoctrination centers. Now we're more concerned with how our students feel. We don't want anyone to feel inadequate so the teaching is dumbed-down so everyone passes - there are no failures. Everyone feels good about themselves. Well, until they graduate, anyway. Solution? Well, let's start with vouchers, but we need a complete overhaul or government out of the teaching business.

When Hispanics lose their jobs faster than almost anybody else, or work jobs that pay less, and come with fewer benefits than almost anybody else, that isn't a Hispanic-American problem, that's an American problem.

Hmm. Are we talking about Hispanics or about illegal immigrants? Hispanics in general seem to be doing pretty good in my neighborhood, even if they don't speak much English. If they speak English fluently, the skies the limit. You start running into problems at the good choices/bad choices line, but that is the same for everyone.

It sounds to me like he is talking about illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants work jobs for less pay and have fewer benefits, yes, of course. That's the life you choose when you enter a country illegally. Even so, they are doing much better than they would be if they stayed in their country of origin. That's why they are here, it wouldn't be worth it otherwise.

Is that an American problem? Well, by not enforcing our laws we have let it become one. The problem needs to be solved in the countries from which they come, the failure is there. It is not an easy problem to solve as the culture of corruption is deeply embedded in, for instance, Mexico. Letting the people continually spill over into America illegally is enabling the problem. Bringing that culture to America and allowing it to overcome our own is not going to help them or us.

When 12 million people live in hiding in this country and hundreds of thousands of people cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented workers instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; and a nursing mother is torn away from her baby by an immigration raid, that is a problem that all of us - black, white, and brown - must solve as one nation.

That is a failure of the country of origin first, and a failure of our country to enforce it's laws. You can't stop it all but it has been allowed to get way out of hand. Companies hiring illegal immigrants? Only if it doesn't cost them more than they get out of it. Fine them or jail them if necessary, and enforce it. That will stop it. If there are no jobs the hundreds of thousands crossing becomes a trickle.

There are those who say we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do. Well, those jobs don't pay much of anything and if you want to make the illegals legal and give them benefits, decent pay and overtime, they will be pricing themselves right out of a job. Or the companies will have to raise the price of what they are selling. Or perhaps both.

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Leopard vs. Crocodile

Everybody's Fault But Mine

Mugabe threatens to seize foreign firms over sanctions

The southern African state is struggling with an economic crisis many blame on Mugabe's policies, which has left it with an inflation rate of over 2.2 million percent and chronic shortages of food and other basic needs.

2.2 million percent inflation! I knew it was bad but that number surprises.

Mugabe's government blames the crisis on sabotage by enemies angry over his seizures of white-owned farms for blacks, and has followed up that policy with another controversial law seeking to transfer majority ownership of foreign-owned firms to locals.

You can't build an empire on hate. Eventually, a sane man will have come and to take him out.

Cult of Personality

Generally, personality cults are most common in regimes with totalitarian systems of government, that seek to radically alter or transform society according to revolutionary new ideas. Often, a single leader becomes associated with this revolutionary transformation, and he becomes treated as a benevolent "guide" for the nation, without whom the transformation to a better future cannot occur.

You are seeing a personality cult develop in pretty much full swing before your eyes, if you are not blinded by it. That paragraph describes Obama to a T.

Another Crane Collapse

What's going on with cranes lately?

Crane Collapse Kills 4 at Houston Chemical Plant

There has been a spate of crane collapses nationwide in recent months. In New York City, two crane accidents since March have killed nine people — more than the total number of deaths from incidents involving cranes over the past decade. There have also been crane accidents in Miami and Las Vegas.

We even had a crane accident in Orlando. A tree trimming crew lost control of a rented crane and it fell onto a house, destroying it. The crew fled the scene, but eventually returned.

Guantanamo Torture Tape

Outrageous!



No wonder they want that place closed, they're too nice to them.

Stop Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood

Take a few minutes and listen to this. Planned Parenthood would much prefer you didn't know.



Michele Bachmann: Planned Parenthood is the Wal-Mart of abortion

"Lenscrafters of family planning"

Planned Parenthood: Slay your unborn child with us. :-)

iPhone 3G - Will it Blend?

Yes, it will!

Want Higher Gas Prices?

The Latest "Global Warming Causes _____"

Global warming to spark rise in kidney stone cases, study says

Not to mention body odor.

Professing to be Wise, They were made Fools

Our leadership in a nutshell. And it's not going to get any better. That light you see at the end of the tunnel is a train.

North Korea’s Stacked Deck

In fact, the Kim Jong-il regime is getting exactly what it wants and using American hunger for diplomatic success to split us from our most important regional allies in the process. If this were high-stakes poker, the North Koreans would be biting their lips to hide their smiles at the cards in their hands.

Where is the wisdom? Oh, yeah, God took it with Him when we kicked Him out of our country, the country that we built our ownselves (not) from nothing to the greatest, richest, freest country in the world. I don't care if you're talking about North Korea, Iraq, the economy, energy, crime, anything - it doesn't matter. There is no wisdom. There is no more "Can Do America." You can't do anything for fear of being sued. Or labeled. Don't defend yourself, either. Let the criminals take everything. And if the police accidentally catch the criminal, the courts will let them go.

It's frustrating. I hate to see this country go down the tubes and there is no sign anywhere that it may turn around. None. There are some voices of dissent, but they are just a distraction and ignored by "the wise." Just heard this quote the other day, don't know who said it:

"If you don't change direction, you're going to arrive at where your going."

Simple, but true. Choose the direction wisely.

Sold Down the River

How atheism is being sold to America

Ironically, many of the same human weaknesses and pressures that induce people to accept their religion unthinkingly also lead atheists to embrace evolution's belief system just as mindlessly. Within the current science establishment there are overwhelming academic and professional pressures to embrace evolution – and persecution if one does not. No room for honest inquiry or, Heaven forbid, a good-faith challenge to current orthodoxy.

National Introspection

When the Bible becomes reviled

Are we too blind as a nation to see that as we have increasingly discounted and ignored God's word our society has correspondingly disintegrated?

Obstructionists

It's the Oil, Stupid

Energy is freedom. Energy is prosperity. Every Democrat on the fall ballot is part of the anti-energy party which is wrecking havoc on the economy and every family’s budget. A vote for any Democrat is a vote for shortages, rising gas prices, rising unemployment, and falling production. A vote for any democrat is a vote for failing airlines and collapsing financial institutions and for the shuttering of car plants and large manufacturing.

A growing, vibrant economy needs energy. The Democrats are anti-energy.

It is that simple.

What's He Thinking?

Hmm. You need to read this: "All 57 States"?

It's short and to the point and provides a little insight into Barack Obama. Nice catch.

Beware Clean Skies

Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming

GOODBYE air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past three decades - but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred.

The sky is always falling and only the government can save us. And they need more of your money.

Insanity Sweeping Across the Globe, Hits Germany Hard

I'm thinking this has to be a joke but as far as I can tell, it is real.

Germany plans to give vote to babies

The bill, which has won the cross-party backing of some heavyweight German politicians, would wipe away decades of "exclusion" and "discrimination" against minors, according to its supporters.

Still, this has got to be a joke or just something Germany's version of Dennis Kucinich dreamed up. It can't have a chance of passing.

If the bill gets adopted, babies will have the same powers to voice their opinion on government handling of macro-economic performance in a global downturn enjoyed by their parents.

Toddlers will be able to take a stand on issues such as whether German armed forces should be deployed abroad.

Should I take solace in the fact that it won't pass - this time?

Been A Long Time Since I Heard This

It's not spelled right: Poison Flour

Climate Change Delusion

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion".

But not the last.

"A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."

(So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.)

"The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies."

But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What's scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this "climate change delusion", too.

Here's Something You Should Never Do

Ever. Volcano surfing: Lava waves in Hawaii

And Here's Something You Don't See Everyday

Unless you own it. Ferrari Limo

Is It Real?

Why do I keep seeing reports that question the birth certificate of Barack Obama?

Isn't there a Department of Birth Certificate Checking of Presidential Candidates or some such thing to verify each candidates eligibility to become president? There should be, I mean, they shouldn't just take their word for it.

When I go to renew my drivers license in a few days I have to bring my birth certificate, even though I already have a drivers license. Do you think they will renew my license if I can't find my birth certificate? Let me think ... government agency ... NO!

So why wouldn't a presidential candidate need to do the same?

Nice Shootin', Tex!

For lack of a mousetrap

The bullet went through the woman's right kneecap, then hit keys hanging on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer, officials said. The bullet glanced off the keys and tore a hole in the man's pants.

The bullet grazed the man's groin before stopping in his coin pocket, where it was recovered for evidence,

Question

Can you be fired for this?

Just Trying to Help

Abortionist: I cancel human souls before they become babies

He continued that those who do the "cancelling" actually "are doing God's work."

Not God, but the god named Moloch.

Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen

Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'

The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

These people have lost their minds. Is there no one who will stand up to this crap and tell the truth to idiots the mentally challenged -no, idiots? How far do they have to go before the rebellion starts?

Who hires these people anyway? What happens if you just say no more? Do they put you in a straight jacket? Take your children away?

This is what you get when the nation forgets God.

We're Not Gonna Take It

Islamists' Catch-22

Let’s be clear: The Islamists are trying to establish a kind of Catch-22: If you point out that they seek to impose a barbaric, repressive and seditious Shariah Law, you are insulting their faith and engaging in unwarranted, racist and bigoted fear-mongering. On the other hand, pursuant to Shariah, you must submit to that theo-political-legal program. If you don’t, you can legitimately be killed. It is not an irrational fear to find that prospect unappealing. And it is not racist or bigoted to decry and oppose Islamist efforts to bring it about

These kids are heroes. They shouldn't get detention, they should get medals, and those responsible for trying to force this on them should be fired - immediately.

Hey, That's Not How It Goes!

Or does it?

Why a Black Artist Replaced the National Anthem

Final note: If you do not now fear for America's future, please go on the Internet and watch the Denver city officials respectfully watch a woman substitute her own song for that of the National Anthem. Watch how not a single official stopped her, or even demanded that the National Anthem be sung afterward. And listen to the applause. Then you will fear for our country's future.

This is the Road They're On

These are their heroes: Carl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong.

This is what they want to CHANGE.

I don't know what's wrong with that video, it has shifted off-screen, but at least you can hear it. You can watch it here.

Bravery

Berlin hails ex-policeman who decapitated Hitler waxwork

The decapitation of Adolf Hitler by a left-wing activist drew widespread applause from German critics and politicians yesterday who felt that his wax dummy should never have been put on display in Berlin.

One commentator hailed it as "a successful assassination attempt – sadly 75 years overdue".

Yeah, he's already dead. Talk about meaningless gestures. Meanwhile the Hitler wannabees around the world are free to threaten, torture (real torture), maim, starve, assassinate, and murder people at will. Their heads must stay, though. Killing them would be EVIL.

Where's the Beef?

Mechanic Claims Car Gets 110 Miles Per Gallon

The designer says, this car is no slacker either. It goes well over 100-miles per hour.

Doug says "it's 400 horse and has 500 foot pounds of torque off the line, zero to 60 in three seconds."

Pure B.S. If you're not going to show how it works, at least prove that it gets 110 mpg. Have it independently verified.

This is the Big One!

I'm comin' to join ya, honey! --He's no Redd Foxx.


How Not To Fake A Heart Attack

What Are You Looking For?

Viewzi - a new search engine.

How do you use it?

It looks pretty cool, if not a little confusing, but try it a few times and you get used to it. I'll have to try it out a few more times before I pass judgement.

Not in Good Hands

"It's in the hands of the international community now."

Good luck with that.

Zimbabwe election: The stolen ballots

Metaphor for a Nation

Ground Zero of National Paralysis

"For years, every public official yelled and screamed that no private developer should or could build on ‘sacred ground’ — that the Port Authority could do it more quickly and cheaply. Well, look how that turned out,"

Another UFO!

Control: "South Wales Police, what's your emergency?"

Caller: "It's not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there's a bright stationary object."

Control: "Right."

Caller: "If you've got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It's been there at least half an hour and it's still there."

Control: "It's been there for half an hour. Right. Is it actually on the mountain or in the sky?"

Caller: "It's in the air."

Control: "I will send someone up there now to check it out."

Caller: "OK."

After the police patrol car arrives, the script reveals the exchange between the control room and the police officer sent to the scene.

Control: "Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?"

Officer: "Yes, it's the moon. Over."

Happy Independence Day!

Enjoy!

Can't Remove the Nail Hole

Hat Tip to GUYK

Urban Camouflage?

A couple telephoned police in the middle of the night after finding a man in their basement covered head to toe in barbecue sauce.

Some How, Some Way ...

It's all your fault. How dare you live and breathe.

Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast

Bozo the Clown

Dead at 83

Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.

More Fuel For The Fire

So to speak.

Residents Angered by Group's Distribution of Korans

Some Houston residents are upset after Korans were left on the doorsteps of hundreds of homes in their neighborhood as part of a campaign to educate people about Islam.

Inexcusable

Pizza Heaven

World's best Pizza making website.

As far as I can tell. Now, that's my kind of pizza!

Another Fine Mess

McCain: Pump this!

The irony is the only people McCain can count on to vote for him are the very Republicans he despises – at least those of us who can get drunk enough on Election Day to pull the lever for him. In fact, we should organize parties around the country where Republicans can get drunk so they can vote for McCain. We can pass out clothespins with his name as a reminder and slogan-festooned vomit bags. The East Coast parties can post the number of drinks necessary for the task to help the West Coast parties. For more information, go to getdrunkandvote4mccain.com.

Funny.

Got Crabs?

This guy's got one!

Second Amendment

Why do we 'keep and bear arms'?

Dictators throughout history sought to disarm their citizenries in order to impose power:

Vladimir Lenin said, "One man with a gun can control 100 without one."

Mao Zedong said, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Josef Stalin said: "We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"

Adolf Hitler said: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."

And besides that we need protection from UFO's. :-)

Another UFO

UFOs spotted by Navy engineer above the M5 motorway.

He said the unidentified flying object flew for up to three minutes above junction 21 of the M5, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

And he's the only one who saw it?

Who Knew ...

There were so many ways to tie your shoes?

Bierstick Winner of the Day, So Far

Woman crashes into store then tries to buy beer

The car plowed about halfway through the store but nobody was injured. Rice got out of the car, walked over to the cooler and pulled out a six-pack of Budweiser beer,

Bierstick

That's Gotta Hurt

Man struck in the head by lightning and lives.

He lay unconscious for about an hour before awakening to the buzz of mosquitoes in his ears and cold rain slapping his body.

His teeth hurt. He couldn't move. It wasn't until he smelled his own burned flesh and hair that it hit him: He had been struck by lightning.

Dennis Prager Explains

Why I Support John McCain

My bottom line is this: The gulf between John McCain and conservatives is miniscule compared to the gulf between John McCain and Barack Obama. This is true regarding virtually every issue of significance to America. The America that a President Barack Obama would shape, with the help of a Democratic Congress and a liberal Supreme Court, would be very dissimilar from the America shaped by a President John McCain.

I'm just about there with him. I don't want to be.

Marxists, Socialists and Communists for Obama

Obama site urges: 'Revolution' against U.S. 'oppressive' regime

Yes, it is on the Obama website.

Although you can't control who supports you, you can control who does so on your own website.

Close Encounters

What's with all the UFO sightings lately?

And how come nobody ever gets any pictures of them?

"We ran outside but at first we couldn't see anything -- it was really dark and we could hear the sound.

"The sound was horrible. It sounded like something was going past.

"We thought it was a jet. I saw what I thought at first was the evening star, the first star you usually see at night.

"But then we saw three red lights in the distance, and the sound kept getting louder.

"The ground felt like it was shaking, so we ran inside and shut the doors.

"My nephew and niece were looking out through curtains. The thing came closer, circled around the basketball courts and then came so close above our house.

"The kids at the basketball courts ran -- two girls stood there looking towards the sky.

"They tried to see what it was but all they could see was this bright red light in the pitch black."

Ms Dixon said the UFO hovered above the homes for what seemed like a couple of hours.

She said at one stage the phone rang, but went dead when she tried to answer it.

"Then the light in the house became so bright, it was like we were sitting in a football stadium," she said.

"After a while, after the things all disappeared... I think it was about 11pm by then.

"We went outside and were just sitting around drinking tea and talking about it all. The kids were put to bed.

It goes on to say they were scared but come on, they went outside and were sitting around drinking tea after something like that? And nobody got any pictures? Nobody?

After that you don't just put the kids to bed and brew some tea. Something is strange in Australia.

Laugh a Little

Forgotten Knowledge

Forgotten, courtesy of the 'me' generation.

It takes a dad to raise a man

Florida Rule #2

Don't let your pets swim in lakes, ponds or canals. It's not safe.

There are monsters in the water down here and if they don't want to be seen, you won't see them.

Cool Mushroom

Saw this mushroom in my yard today, there's two of them. I've never seen anything like it.

Future Darwin Award Winners Apply Here

You have 24 ounces of beer on hand and only 2 seconds to drink it. What to do?

Bierstick to the rescue!

I have never understood the appeal of drinking - ever. I have a little wine or a beer now and then but once I've had it I never have a desire for more. A Pina Colada tastes good as long as there is no alcohol in it. Eggnog is good as long as there is no alcohol in it. For me, alcohol ruins the taste of every drink I've ever had. "Try this, you can't even taste the alcohol." Yes, I can.

As for drinking to get drunk? I deal with drunks all the time. I deal with drunks checking into the hotel. I've dealt with fellow employees coming in not coming in after drinking the night before. Employees who you couldn't give their paychecks to until the workday was over or they would leave immediately. Either way, you wouldn't see them the next day, possibly 2 days. I've dealt with alcoholics who couldn't stop, people who would start on the road to recovery, who were doing so good and then throw it all away. One old guy I knew ended up living in a little tent behind a tourist information center waiting for his social security check to buy bus fare to Arizona (his home) so he could live and die alone in the desert, him and a picture of his ole dog. No thank you.

I am a stranger in a strange land.

Camouflage

How To Hide An Airplane Factory

Mark Levin on the Supreme Court Rape Decision

Mark goes off on Wednesday’s earlier Supreme Court decision that would not allow the death penalty for child rapists. Mark explains the way the Supreme Court is supposed to work, and this isn’t it. Five Justices have now taken over the role of the state legislature in deciding manners.

Yes they Have!

You can't fuel all of the people all of the time

Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!

Government Screwels

Don’t use students as political pawns

I don't know who is the more dangerous threat to the future of our country: international terrorists or these professional educators. In 1983, the National Commission on Education said, "If a hostile foreign government had imposed this system of education on the people of the United States, we would rightly consider that an act of War."

Enough is enough! I am sick and tired of the public school system holding my child's education hostage. Teachers, administrators, the school board, and the politicians spend all their time pointing fingers at each other - and nothing is getting done!

Now I Understand

Thanks for the clarification.

Too Good To Be True?

A car that runs on water!



All right, lets all buy one. Oops, can't.

But let's say we could, and did, then what? How much water will we be using? Where are we going to get it? We have water shortages all over the globe. You probably have watering restrictions on your lawn. It sounds good but in actual practice it may cause us even more problems, like ethanol causing food prices to skyrocket.

The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools

Johnny Can't Read, or Do Math - From Crayons to Condoms

The classroom in American public schools has become a place for children to confront all varieties of adult behaviors and depressing situations. Rather than acquire basic knowledge of history, literature, math, and science, more and more classroom time is being spent discussing feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Instead of a place of learning, those that run our public schools seem to think that the fundamental task of education is therapy.

Read the rest at Political Pistachio

I couldn't agree more.

Would You Rather ...

Allow American oil companies to drill (and profit from) American oil fields, keeping that money in America, benefiting Americans - and we all will benefit, that money doesn't go into some black hole called big oil, it's used to start new projects, buy equipment, travel, food, taxes, you name it, it will flow through the economy like oil through the pipeline.

OR

Continue sending our money overseas, benefiting people who don't like us very much and financing not only such luxuries as a skyscraper with revolving floors and elevators for the car so you can park near your condo in Dubai - and many other such projects - but also financing the very terrorists who are trying to destroy Western civilization.

Now, I have no problem with people wanting to build such things and enjoying the benefits of their riches but I would rather my money stayed here in the United States, improving our economy. Not to mention that Americans are far more generous with their wealth than any other country in the world. If America is doing well, everyone else does better, too. What happens in Dubai, stays in Dubai. (Sorry Vegas) I'm only picking on Dubai because they have been in the news so much lately with all kinds of huge projects.

Another thing. There is a lot of instability in the world today - that is what is driving oil prices through the roof - and the time is going to come when America will need to be able to supply it's own oil needs and do it right away in order to avert economic disaster. There will be a war, and most likely nuclear, that will cut off the oil supply. Take it to the bank, it's going to happen. It is suicide to not be able to provide for our own needs at that time. It's not going to be enough just having it in the ground, we need to have the infrastructure in place and working. The sooner we start the better.

I'm not saying we should forget about alternative energy, no, no, no. We need to continue to invent and refine new technology, but we can't do that without oil. Even the new hydrogen powered Honda could not be built without oil. And, oh, by the way, "most hydrogen fuel is derived from natural gas in a process that releases plenty of carbon dioxide." But I digress. You can't make an electric car without oil. If we cut off our oil supply or allow the price to continue to rise, we will be making it more difficult and expensive to invent the new technologies we need. There is no technology ready to replace oil at this time - none, and only nuclear power comes close for electrical generation. But, of course, we don't want to build nuclear power plants.

We need to face reality as it is, not as we wish it were.

Florida Rule #1

No swimming in lakes, ponds or canals after dark. Just don't.

Edwards admits he and his friends were drinking before he decided to jump in the 25-foot-deep canal in Nubbin Slough in Okeechobee County.

Cool Science

Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the bizarre properties of glass, which behaves at times like both a solid and a liquid.

Amazing Photos

Of wildfires and fire fighters from National Geographic: Under Fire

Mychal Massie Says ...

Being black isn't a skill set

If Republicans of color jumped ship and supported opposing party candidates because said candidates displayed Jeffersonian or Reaganesque abilities, so be it. But to do so because Obama is a mulatto-Kenyan-American-Muslim-self-identified-Christian and then attempt to veil same in a fabric of "he will help black folks" displays the poorest of judgment. That said, the best descriptive of Obama's presidential ability is ambsace.

Beware the Wonder Drug

Scientists find childbirth wonder drug that can 'cure' shyness

What’s more, it is a very safe product that does not have any side effects and is not addictive.'

I've heard that before.

The potential uses of oxytocin offer commercial possibilities well beyond individual patients too. Restaurants, for instance, could spray a thin mist over customers to put them at ease.

Oh yeah, drug the customers so they buy more. What a great idea!

Passing On

George Carlin meets the invisible man in the sky.

I was shocked to see this headline, he was 71. He was incredibly funny, although he got a little less so as he got older, or maybe as I got older.

True Colors

Andrea Shea King notices the resemblance of Obama campaign posters to communist propaganda posters. And she's not the only one. Read her post: Is it just me?

I stole the slogan on the above poster from IMAO. Yeah, I couldn't think of anything better than that one. If you can, make your own here.

Pump It Up!

Dade man charged in buttocks 'pumping party' sting

Miami-Dade's medical police busted a ''pumping party'' Thursday, where a man with no medical license had set up shop in a hotel room, offering to pump an unknown substance into women's backsides for ''buttocks enhancement.''

They're all voting for Obama.

Europe fears Obama on Iran

If Obama is to Europe’s left on Iran, what does that say about his foreign policy?

Musical Interlude

Sorry Barack

That dog don't hunt.

Obama says Republicans will use race to stoke fear

"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"

He said he was also set for Republicans to say "he's got a feisty wife," in trying to attack his wife Michelle.

I don't know a single person who cares about your race - you're as much white as black, anyway - and there is nothing wrong with a strong wife. You don't want to discuss the true reason we won't vote for you, it's your - and her - political ideals. You are as far left as they come and you have surrounded yourself with a cast of characters as shady as they come. Your color doesn't even enter into it. We wouldn't vote for John Edwards or John Kerry or Al Gore. And you are inexperienced, too.

Audacity

Check out the picture on this page.

That's an Ohio state judge who says "the state's method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain."

But look at the picture behind him - he's in his own office - I don't believe Che Guevara even once took a moment to think about the pain he caused all the people he executed, which included at least one child.

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! (El Paredón)" --Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Way to go judge! This is a guy who should be dismissed from the bench. You are welcome to hold political views like that, but not while holding a position in our government. Especially not as a judge, as you so obviously lack judgment.