What Would We Do Without NASA?

First, it's primary mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world (which I'm beginning to think is a misunderstanding of the definition of the word 'world'), now it's testing soccer balls. Well, at least it has to do with aerodynamics.

The ObamaCare Blues

NASA Has Lost It's Way

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Better relations with Muslims and space exploration have no relationship. Who the hell made this guy Chief of NASA?

Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

Oh. Well, there you go. No further explanation needed.

Entitlement Culture

Progressivism's appeal to our baser instincts by Erik Rush

A key dynamic I addressed in my book "Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal - America's Racial Obsession," was the process by which progressives incrementally initiated black Americans into the entitlement culture, dependency and dysfunction. This is most poignantly illustrated by the plight of poor, inner-city blacks. During the civil-rights-movement era, black Americans were somewhat vulnerable to these machinations, but the process still took nearly 50 years.

Now, these millions are coming to the realization that black Americans were merely a small-scale experiment conducted by the radical Left – and a very successful one. With the ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency, the word was given that it was time to enlarge that experiment, or, rather, to apply the now-proven theory to the general populace on a larger scale than ever before.

I'll have a half pound of hot dog rolls, please.

EU to ban selling eggs by dozen

Under the draft legislation, to come into force as early as next year, the sale of groceries using the simple measurement of numbers will be replaced by an EU-wide system based on weight.

It would mean an end to packaging descriptions such as eggs by the dozen, four-packs of apples, six bread rolls or boxes of 12 fish fingers.

This is what the world has been waiting for! Finally, I can buy a pound of eggs! Thank you oppressive government!

Stop Making Excuses!!!

Napolitano: 'You're Never Going to Totally Seal That Border'

Shut up and do your job. Stop looking for excuses why it won't work - just do it.

2nd Amendment Vindicated

Gun rights case: Supreme Court rules on second amendment

"It is clear that the Framers . . . counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty," Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote.

The court's decision means that the enigmatically worded Second Amendment -- "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" -- identifies an individual right to gun ownership, like the freedom of speech, that cannot be unduly restricted by Congress, state laws or city ordinances.

But the enemies of freedom never sleep.

There Is No Rush.

Day 68: Why isn't the A-Whale in the Gulf yet?

The A-Whale bills itself as the largest open-water oil skimmer in the world, and it's at least very impressive. Originally an oil and ore tanker, the ship's owners recently refitted the ship to do exactly the kind of work that the US so desperately needs in the Gulf of Mexico, and to do it on a vastly larger scale than current operations can handle. According to the ship's project manager, the entire American effort in 66 days has skimmed off 600,000 barrels of oil. The ship’s owners claim that A-Whale can skim 500,000 barrels a day.

So where is the A-Whale now? In the Gulf? Not yet. It's on its way there after being tied to a dock in Norfolk, Virginia, and won't be allowed to join the cleanup effort until the Coast Guard and the EPA figure out whether it meets their standards.

The government is not interested in cleaning up or stopping the oil spill, it's too valuable to them as it is.

They've Only Just Begun

Obama's promise to bankrupt coal industry to cost 1,000 jobs in upper Midwest

Democrats like Obama keep talking about eeeeeevil corporations that export jobs overseas to save costs rather than keep them in the US. Well, Obama and his Congress just sent 1,000 jobs overseas — jobs Americans lost, and jobs that either Russian or Chinese workers will get instead. And instead of bankrupting this new coal plant, they just made it dirtier. Good job!

Mr. Never Met a Tax He Didn't Love

Obama calls for bank tax as next step in reform

President Barack Obama, fresh from a win on a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations, on Saturday urged Congress to take up his proposal for a $90 billion, 10-year tax on banks as the next step in reform.

Because whoever dies raising the most taxes wins? You've heard the saying, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

The Struggle

If you don't learn something from this program you already know too much: Power vs. Freedom by Ronald Dart

This IS an Outrage

So basically, huge tracts of Arizona are off limits to Americans. Gee, I wonder what would happen if I tried to walk illegally across the border of Canada?

Whaling

Japan puts anti-whaling boss on Interpol list

I am anti-whaling. No one should be killing whales. I want Japan and anyone else who hunts whales to stop it. They are magnificent creatures and we have no need to kill them, it's just not necessary.

That being said, I hate these anti-whaling groups. What they are doing is wrong and there is no excuse for it. I won't watch the Discovery channel anti-whaling show either, it puts me in the uncomfortable position of rooting for the whalers.

Black Founding Fathers

Glenn Beck Show- June 25, 2010

How NOT to Throw a Grenade

Good for a Laugh

It's actually pretty funny.

Government Pigs

The Helpless Titan --Doctor Zero

The current federal government of the United States is the largest, best-funded organization in human history. Our public debt has grown to over $13 trillion. We pay hundreds of billions per year just to service this debt. The federal government has over two million civilian employees. The Postal Service, all by itself, employs more people than any American company except Wal-Mart. Our government has shed almost every vestige of Constitutional restraint over the last few decades, exercising powers that would have shocked the Founding Fathers.

And yet, this federal titan is currently face-down in the oil-soaked waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its flabby arms twitching feebly. It has become too bloated to stand up. It can only lie there and scream threats at private citizens and corporations, until vast sums of money are shoveled into its maw, to sustain it for a few more years.

Even now, as oil begins fouling the coasts of our Gulf states, the federal government is entirely focused on shielding itself from blame, and taking advantage of the crisis to absorb more money.

Big man, pig man, ha ha, charade you are
You well heeled big wheel, ha ha, charade you are
And when your hand is on your heart
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost a joker
With your head down in the pig bin
Saying "keep on digging"
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find?
When you're down in the pig mine
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.



Government is the ultimate pig.

Sounds Vaguely Familiar

The Bramble and the Olive Trees

But the history as recorded in the book of Judges shows the sorry result of a people who had freedom without character, for time and time again their freedom led to license, which led to moral laxity, which led to social disorder. Eventually the nation found itself in bondage to its enemies, or calling for a strong man to restore order. Freedom has its costs, and they seemed unwilling or unable to pay the price.

How Life Works and How It Doesn't

Mad and Madder

To have a prosperous society its members must work, and they must work hard. It is through hard work that good things come.

And what every government invariably does is to make life difficult for those who are willing to do real work. Governments prey on and rip off the productive. This is the primary focus of all governments, which is why in countries that have big governments little real work can be done. People did hardly any productive work in the former Soviet Union. Cubans do little work in Cuba nowadays. Hence their poverty.

Bill Clinton constantly urges young people to go into public service. This is the euphemism for working for government. Bill Clinton thus advises America's young to become parasites and leeches and nuisances. This is bad advice. Here is better advice: Go and get a real job in the private sector. Do something useful and productive. If you want to see where Bill Clinton's advice leads, go to Greece.

Meet Ruby

She is a Flame Eastern Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis), born May 23, 2010.

The Inevitable Result of Ignorance and Thuggery in Government

The hero of the left: Hugo Chavez Spearheads Raids as Food Prices Skyrocket

Mountains of rotting food found at a government warehouse, soaring prices and soldiers raiding wholesalers accused of hoarding: Food supply is the latest battle in President Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution.

And the downward spiral continues.

A Tiger? In Canada?

Thieves steal trailer with Bengal tiger, 2 camels

The camels are harmless but the tiger could be dangerous, they noted.

What's Worse Than Red Tape

Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard

Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor's wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.

But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges.

That's OK, it's not like it's an emergency or anything. Take your time. Don't forget to make sure everyone is certified to use the extinguishers and put their life vest on in under a minute. Maybe you should make sure they can swim a few laps in a pool first to be on the safe side. Can't take any chances in the new Amerika.

Enriching Themselves on the Destruction of Others

Barack Obama and the slumming of America

America has become a cash cow for the Obama faction and their fellow traveling elitists. Like the exploitative landlords, they are milking it for all its worth, with no regard for the future or the conditions in which its people will have to live. They give short shrift to the basic maintenance, of our borders, our waterways and our security from the terrorist and criminal thugs seeking to destroy us. They choose instead to amass power for themselves and distribute billions in pursuit of their agenda of totalitarian control. In these Obama years, we witness the slumming of America.

Day of Reckoning

Good speech, no teleprompters, comes from the heart.

Bungler-in-Chief

Thomas Sowell: Oil and Snake Oil

Even our domestic policies can affect foreign leaders, as Ronald Reagan's breaking of the air traffic controllers' strike impressed the Russians with what kind of man they were going to have to deal with, as former Soviet officials said publicly many years later.

By the same token, domestic bungling by Barack Obama sends a dangerous signal to countries hostile to us, in addition to the signal sent by his displays of amateurism on the world stage.

Here's the Quote of Day

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

--Martin Luther King

Thanks Alan Caruba: Shut Up, Barack!

Not Can't

"We need action. It's shameful that we, as the most powerful nation on Earth, … can’t even secure our own border and protect our own families."

Won't. And it's criminal.

Scary True

Dennis Prager: When Good People Do Bad Things

Most evil is not committed as a result of unbridled lust or greed. And the sadistic monster who revels in inflicting excruciating pain on other people is relatively rare.

Good intentions cause most of the world's great evils.

Obama Sings!

His favorite song. Sounds the same as his speeches.

Time to Resign

Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.): Congressman assaults student

Quote of the Day

The truth is that until 1920, Britain's gun laws were so relaxed they made Texas look effeminate, but we had virtually no gun crime. That only really began to increase here after we abolished hanging. But that truth doesn’t fit the Leftist dogma which has everyone, including the Tories, the media and the police, in its grip, so the facts will be ignored.

--Peter Hitchens

Top Dog

A list of top dog breeds by city.

Not really a lot of difference.

I'm Not 63...

But I'm tired.

No, really, I am kinda tired.

Revenge of the Fallen

Stuffed Buffalo Head Traps Man In Recliner

When deputies arrived at the home, they discovered the man trapped in his recliner chair. He had apparently fallen asleep and woken up when the head of a water buffalo, hanging on a wall, fell on his lap.

That is all.

Glenn is On to Them

Hell is about to be unleashed on America and the world, don't know exactly when or in what manner it will happen, but it's coming. Far too many people have no clue. You can pick Glenn apart and find he's wrong on one thing or the other, but you're not doing yourself any favors. He's got the framework and he's filling in the puzzle pieces.



If you don't believe re-education camps or mass killings could happen in America, you don't know history. Communism/socialism (or whatever they choose to call it this week) always comes down to that. Always.

And when the Obama administration uses the term terrorist, they don't mean the same thing that you and I do. There are no Islamic terrorists in their vocabulary. When they say terrorist, they mean domestic, conservative, capitalist, tea party types - anti-socialists. You can take that to the bank.

Watch the show in it's entirety here.

Dial-a-Husband

Woman Calls 911 To Get A Husband

Maybe if she gives five fulfilling glasses of breast milk to an acquaintance...

And They Want to Rule the World

Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding

Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics have said. They are at odds, however, over precisely how the milk should be conveyed.

That is so completely absurd. Drinking breast milk makes you relatives? Be careful, if you read the whole article your head might explode.

This Guy Really Likes Birds

Man Gets 4 Months in Prison for Smuggling Songbirds in Pants

Red Spotted Garter

Thamnophis sirtalis concinnus



My newest baby.

What Moral Compass?

Dennis Prager: If Israel Is Not Evil, the World Is in Big Trouble

If Israel is the decent party in its war with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas -- and nearly all the world's countries, nearly all the world's media and the United Nations are morally wrong -- what hope is there for humanity? If the world's moral compass is that broken, are we not sailing into a dark age?

Has anybody seen the moral compass?

Can you imagine if Israel actually did what Frank J. has suggested?

"Is America Losing It's Mind?"

Yes.

Pres. Obama is George Castanza

Every instinct he has is wrong.

The first few minutes of that video fit Obama so well it is scary to think of it.

Let's Just Say He's Got a Unique Drumming Style

We Need to Clone This Guy

THIS is what change looks like.

We Are the World, We Are the Sheeple

Christie: Students Trapped By "Selfish, Greedy" & "Disgraceful" Teacher Unions

Christie speaks in Washington DC, calling Newark schools 'absolutely disgraceful'

Yes!

On Killing Apostates

I had to link this blog post from Atlas Shrugs because I don't know of anyone who covers this topic better: The New York Times Liberal Fascism Opposes Freedom Bus Ads, Shows Itself to be in Favor of Killing Apostates

Scroll down to the long list of women brutally murdered by their families for daring to "dishonor" them.

Israel is Guilty Until Proven Guilty

Remember those Magic Eye posters, the ones where you had to stare and lose focus on the obvious picture and a 3D image would appear. It takes a lot of work to see the image, most of the time you just give up.

Finding the truth in the news is a lot like that. What is presented to you en masse is a deception. There are elements of the truth, sure, but the big picture you come away with is entirely false. It's a lot of work to glean the truth and, unbelievably, most people don't seem to care much unless it effects them directly. And still many would rather go with the deception. It's easier? More fun? Maybe they just don't have an inner compass to point them in the right direction. I don't know. Why do some people lie when the truth would suit them better? I guess they are so comfortable in their lies that they can no longer recognize the truth. Whatever. I prefer reality.

The Israel situation. I don't think it takes all that much to figure out what's up here. I guess if you're already wrapped up in the deceptions of the world it might be tougher, you probably think you already know. I don't think the "news" is ever more deceptive than when it is reporting on Israel. There is a template that is followed every time - Israel bad, terrorists...what terrorists? Tea Partiers are terrorists. Are they in Israel?

Glenn Beck breaks it down for all to see, if not believe:



You can watch an 8 minute video that gets to the heart of the matter at Atlas Shrugs - please do. Or the entire hour of The Glenn Beck Show here.

And in this video Prime Minister Netanyahu explains the whys and wherefores of blocking the flotilla:

Intellectual Corruption/Academic Fraud

This is a chilling video. David asks a female member of the University of California San Diego's Muslim Students Association whether she agrees with the leader of Hizbollah, who said he hopes all the Jews will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to "hunt them down."

"FOR IT or AGAINST IT?" She looks him straight in the eyes, "FOR IT."




This one is an excerpt from a speech David gave at Duke University.



You can watch the whole speech here. It's well worth the time to watch, or at least hear. It is criminal what is going on in America's universities. This is a great speech because it illustrates the utter contempt and hatred that is taught to these kids. A chilling video in its own right.

"Ideas have consequences."

"I hope America is listening out there."

Hole in One Intersection

Read about it here: The Gates of Hell Just Opened In Guatemala

If You Want Peace, Prepare for War

Never Give Up Your Weapons

History demonstrates that destruction awaits those who attempt to placate their enemies by surrendering their weapons.

Again and again.

Musical Interlude

Haman's Delusion

The example of Haman reveals one of the basic weaknesses of the flesh, of human evil. This is why Christians have nothing to fear from the presence of evil in the world. Jesus told us that when the world seems to be crashing down all around us, when human hearts are failing for fear, then "stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" (see Luke 21:28). This is why we can be assured that no form of totalitarianism will ever conquer the earth. Nazism has already failed. Atheistic communism is doomed to fail. Islamic terrorism is like-wise doomed. The seeds of self-destruction are built into every form of evil that seeks to dominate the world.

Murderous, self-centered pride comes from our human nature, the Haman nature within us. And pride produces delusion. Pride blinds us to the truth about ourselves and the world around us. When human beings are blinded by pride, they easily stumble into folly. When you and I give way to pride, we allow Haman to rule our lives. We become willfully stupid. We make decisions to our own detriment. And then, when we incur the consequences of our own prideful, foolish decisions, we try to cast the blame on others, on God, on anything or anyone but ourselves.

Ray C. Stedman, For Such a Time as This: Queen Esther's Secrets for Strategic Living

Read the book of Esther for background.

The Duh Factor

Study finds increased gov't spending results in unemployment

Instead of providing a stimulating effect to the economy, government spending creates pressures on private industry to reduce staff and investment. The study's authors count themselves as among the shocked

Beautifully illustrated to us by the Obama administration. It's like a 10-year-old stole the keys to the economy and won't give them back.

Mark Steyn has new column related to this very subject: We’re too broke to be this stupid

How did the Western world reach this point? Well, as my correspondent put it, we assumed that we were rich enough that we could afford to be stupid. In any advanced society, there will be a certain number of dysfunctional citizens either unable or unwilling to do what is necessary to support themselves and their dependents. What to do about such people? Ignore the problem? Attempt to fix it? The former nags at the liberal guilt complex, while the latter is way too much like hard work: the modern progressive has no urge to emulate those Victorian social reformers who tramped the streets of English provincial cities looking for fallen women to rescue. All he wants to do is ensure that the fallen women don’t fall anywhere near him.

So the easiest "solution" to the problem is to throw public money at it.

Science!

A conspiracy of physics

Al Gore's group, Repower America, claims we can replace all our dirty energy with clean, carbon-free renewables. Gore says we can do it within 10 years.

"It's simply not possible," says Robert Bryce on my Fox Business Network show tomorrow night. "Nine out of 10 units of power that we consume are produced by hydrocarbons – coal, oil and natural gas. Any transition away from those sources is going to be a decades-long, maybe even a century-long process. ... The world consumes 200 million barrels of oil equivalent in hydrocarbons per day. We would have to find the energy equivalent of 23 Saudi Arabias."

The greens don't care that it won't work because that is not what they are trying to achieve. They don't care about energy, they care about power - their power over YOU.

Break Out of Sheepledom

America's sheeple: Driven by emotion

This commentary speaks to the mentality of those who do not understand either the necessity of self-defense or the roles that prudent preparation and self-defense technology should play in the lives of free citizens. It is fundamentally an attitude ascribed to what some call "sheeple" – subjects rather than citizens, the Great Undecided Middle who comprise a plurality of Americans (and a majority of citizens and subjects abroad). To the sheeple, armed citizens are the enemy, not criminals or societal predators. To sheeple, the very notion that danger could exist within society, or that it is only reasonably responsible to be prepared for that danger, is paranoia. Armed citizens are not and cannot be responsible men and women exercising their constitutionally protected rights to self-defense; they are, in the minds of sheeple, vigilantes. Notions of self-reliance and self-preservation are lost on sheeple; they believe that either you will never need to preserve yourself, or that if you experience an emergency you will (and you must) call on the recognized authorities to come and save you.

To sheeple, what they feel supersedes reality. Sheeple's emotions, their wishful thinking, has been substituted for an objective recognition of what truly is. Sheeple will speak loudly and proudly about how they've never felt the need to be armed, or never felt the need to prepare or train for self-defense, or perhaps how they've never felt "unsafe" even in dangerous areas. What's more, they'll project their wishful thinking onto others, concluding that armed citizens (those wacky conservatives and libertarians especially) are "fearful." You see, sheeple are what firearms guru Jeff Cooper characterized as non-copers. They resent and fear copers, those who are more capable and better prepared than the sheeple. Considering someone else's superior preparation makes the sheeple confront the conflict between what they wish to believe and what truly is – producing the uncomfortable sensation that is cognitive dissonance.

The fact that law enforcement and emergency personnel can rarely be where you need them exactly when you need them is lost on sheeple. Recordings of calls to 911 centers, in which victims scream for help as they are assaulted and murdered by societal predators, make no impression on sheeple. The very idea that you are responsible for yourself and your family – not your government or anyone else – is anathema to the utopian fantasy world in which sheeple live.

It's not easy waking up to reality, but it's so worth it.

The Wiz

It seems like there is someone behind the curtain running the show and Obama just goes on stage and reads from a script. He's a complete screw up when off the teleprompter.

...the president said he didn’t know whether Liz Birnbaum had resigned or been fired.

"Now, with respect to Ms. Birnbaum, I found out about her resignation today," Obama said. "So I don't know the circumstances in which this occurred."

That explanation flummoxed reporters in the room, who seemed surprised to learn that the president wouldn’t know exactly what had happened to one of the key figures in an ongoing federal emergency – the one he was holding a news conference on at that very moment.

Glenn Beck

I agree with this assessment of Glenn Beck. He is our warning before the fall.

Beck's show is so good that I'm convinced if a person doesn't watch it on a regular basis, it's almost impossible for him to understand the true causes of the moral and economic collapse of the United States – or even that it is collapsing – because no one else on TV covers most of the stories he dissects in impeccable detail. His modus operandi has been to expose the bad guys through their own words by playing audio and video of them shooting off their mouths and by quoting their writings.

For quite some time now, I have believed that Beck has become so good at exposing the truth, so well-respected and so powerful that the Forces of Darkness in the White House and Congress view him as a major threat to their aspirations to eliminate the Constitution, the rule of law and individual sovereignty in the United States. (In fact, they now refer to him as "the Beck problem.")

But, as I have written in the past, the Obamafia is in a no-win situation with Beck. If its leaders ignore him, he will continue to disrobe Chairman Obama and his malevolent progressive pals through their own spoken and written words.

On the other hand, as they have already discovered, the more they try to discredit Beck, the more attention they draw to him – and the more people will learn about the details of how they plan to fundamentally transform America. Worse, their childish mudslinging is no match for Beck's 60 minutes of hard-core truth five days a week (not to mention his three-hour daily radio show).

So Beck keeps raising the ante, and there is no question in my mind that the oligarchy in Washington sees him as a major obstacle between where they are today and their ultimate goal: a firmly entrenched, all-powerful federal government that controls every aspect of people's lives.

Listening to Beck this past year has convinced me that he senses he has been chosen by a Higher Power to lead the charge against the evildoers in government. If so, it's not the first time God has surprised the world with his choice of a messenger.

The fact of the warning means it is not too late to change.

Demons Who Are Going to Organize Society for Us

China May Shield North Korea

The best possible thing that could happen to the people of North Korea is the collapse of the current regime. The world, if it had any shame, would get together and remove that government from the face of the Earth and reunite north and south under the South Korean government. But the world is too busy trying to discredit and destroy free enterprise and redistribute the world into a global North Korea. North Korea is the darkest country on Earth, they want the world to be that dark.

Now there's a metaphor for you. The light of freedom will never be extinguished, but it will get darker before the light breaks upon us again.

This Is So Cute

Quote of the Day

"My question is, if America is so racist and discriminatory against Hispanics, if we're so terrible on human rights issues, then why do they all want to come here?"

Rush Limbaugh

Incongruous

Why do Americans, especially white Christians, have to bend over backwards not to offend anyone - not one single person! - but Muslims can build a mosque on Ground Zero, the site of the worst Islamist (yeah, they own it) terrorist attack ever perpetrated on American soil?

The insensitivity factor alone is off the scale! It is wrong on so many levels. This is not the time for tolerance.

Now, here's a little Pat Condell:

Democrat's Trillions

Congress reminds me of Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions. Remember? Pryor had to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days to inherit $300 million.

It's like they just can't spend enough! Despite Soaring National Debt, Congress Goes on Spending Spree

Taken together, the Democratic-led U.S. Congress is trying to find a way to pass about $300 billion more in unfunded spending before Memorial Day -- a spending spree that rivals anything drunken sailors have been accused of.

They are obsessed! These people need to be stopped.

A Garter Snake

I got this male eastern garter snake for James.

I Like Chickens

And this is a nice video.

In Obama's World

You can go to the amusement park everyday.

The fun never ends.

America's New Culture War

Free enterprise vs. government control

It is not at all clear which side will prevail. The forces of big government are entrenched and enjoy the full arsenal of the administration's money and influence. Our leaders in Washington, aided by the unprecedented economic crisis of recent years and the panic it induced, have seized the moment to introduce breathtaking expansions of state power in huge swaths of the economy, from the health-care takeover to the financial regulatory bill that the Senate approved Thursday. If these forces continue to prevail, America will cease to be a free enterprise nation.

I highly recommend everyone read this article. Know what's going on.

Seriously People, Get the Message

It doesn't work is being screamed at us from all corners of the world.

Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and it will continue to do so despite the best efforts of the die-hard true believers in the Obama administration and the rest of the world. The most recent example of this failure: Euro-Socialism is presently bankrupting the countries that embraced it in Europe. This will result not only in more social and economic upheaval, but also the ultimate demise of the ill-conceived European Union.

The original and current proponents of socialism fail to take into account one very basic but immutable factor: the fundamental nature of the human race.

Oh, it's never worked before, in fact it's probably killed more people in a shorter period of time than any other system, but it will work if we just make it bigger and more powerful. Now I get it.

How can you expect anything good to come from people who's playbook - Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky - is dedicated to "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."

Lucifer did not win his own kingdom, he had already been given charge of it (Earth). His rebellion was to gain more and it failed miserably. He is a liar and a murderer. He will soon lose the kingdom he now has and he knows it.

Speaking of Pathetic Responses

South Korea said on Monday it would resume loudspeaker broadcasts at the border that had been suspended for six years, as part of its punishment toward the North for the sinking of one of its navy ships.

Doesn't Fit the Agenda

America's Pathetic Response to the Gulf Catastrophe

America is capable of greatness...

Leadership is virtually non-existent.

Gov. Bobby Jindal is stepping up but he's not getting federal cooperation.

I should say taking care of this problem does not fit their agenda but letting it get worse fits the anti-capitalism agenda of the Obama administration. Obama is forgetting that he is ultimately responsible for the dismal response and we all know it. The Democrats are in charge and they are letting the oil invade our shores just as they are letting illegal immigrants invade our borders.

And they are already talking about quadrupling the tax on oil.

Lucky Stars

Hoot!

One very cool owl that was at Repticon in Orlando May 22. What a gorgeous bird.

Speaking of Dim Bulbs

Here's Mark Steyn on Obama's lazy tribute to Daniel Pearl

I think Mark let him off easy.

Doesn't Sound Very Wise to Me

Dalai Lama: I’m totally a Marxist

I know he's an officially recognized international Wise Man or whatever, but his reasoning sounds like a conservative parody of the left: Sure, free markets make people better off, but communism has better intentions. Does the behavior of the Chinese and Soviets in his own backyard suggest nothing to him about Marxist ethics in theory versus in practice? Or should we not be surprised that a religious man has a religious faith in the idea that Marxism can be moral in practice if we just "get it right"?

Just another dim bulb.

Coming to America

Not just their Big Fat Greek Funeral by Mark Steyn

Unlovely as they are, the Greek rioters are the logical end point of the advanced social democratic state: not an oppressed underclass, but a pampered overclass, rioting in defence of its privileges and insisting on more subsidy, more benefits, more featherbedding, more government.

I'm Not a Morning Person

It takes me a little bit to wake up. I wish I could wake up with as much excitement for the day as this guy!

Electrifying!

Recommended Reading

Deception by Ronald L. Dart

Or listening.

There's a virus going around.

Response to President Calderon

Right on!

Iran Shows Obama How It's Done

Iran says can destroy Israel in week

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, said Wednesday that if Israel attacked Iran it would be destroyed within a week.

Face it, no matter what we do or don't do, there are going to be a lot of people out there that will never like America. If they are not going to like us, hopefully we behave in such a way that they at least respect us. For those that will never like us or respect us, they need to fear us. They need to know that if they mess with us they will pay a price.

That may not be the way you want the world to be but that is the reality. Obama gets 3 strikes on this. He wants everyone to like us but it is stunningly clear that that will not happen. In fact, it is apparent that even less people respect America anymore. Anti-Americanism is on the rise worldwide. And sadly, those that don't like us or respect us also do not fear us. They are laughing at us.

Read Charles Krauthammer's new column called The Fruits of Weakness.

This is not just an America in decline. This is an America in retreat -- accepting, ratifying and declaring its decline, and inviting rising powers to fill the vacuum.

Nor is this retreat by inadvertence. This is retreat by design and, indeed, on principle. It's the perfect fulfillment of Obama's adopted Third World narrative of American misdeeds, disrespect and domination from which he has come to redeem us and the world.

Of Rats and Men

While claiming a separation of church and state - which does not exist in the U.S. Constitution, it is a communist idea - they claim that government confiscation of your funds - also know as taxation - and redistributing it to others is somehow biblical. Social justice. It is not.

All such giving in the Bible - including the tithe - is 100% voluntary. There was no IRS in ancient Israel. It is between you and God, it's a personal thing. If God wanted to force you to be generous He would have given you instinct. Humans have free will, and we are meant to exercise free will in a free society for our spiritual growth. Don't ever choose to put yourself under the unfettered control of a government, king, or dictator. Not even to save the Earth.

As for separation of church and state, the U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 states:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The U.S. government is supposed to be religiously neutral, not rabidly anti-Christian. The U.S. government can't control religion and neither can it put up a wall to keep Christians out of the public discourse. And the U.S. government cannot become the religion and in a Socialist/Marxist/Communist state, the government IS the religion. In Islam, the religion is the government. Neither are compatible with the U.S. Constitution.

Killing Us Softly With Their Words

Scientists accuse Obama over oil spill

Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill's true scope.

The oil spill is not exactly hurting the Obama administrations agenda. If it hurts America, they are for it. Of course, they won't say that but actions speak louder than words.

They say they want alternative energy but there is no viable alternative to oil and what they want to do is make oil prohibitively expensive, which will kill the economy.

They are also against drilling in America, thus keeping us dependent on foreign oil, which is supplied by countries "unfriendly" to the American way of life and putting us in a position subservient to those who would like to see America's power diminished in a big way. They have a strangle-hold on our economy.

They say they are creating jobs but the jobs market is getting worse and everything they do further destroys job growth, thus killing the economy.

They are for redistributing wealth and lead you to believe that means from America's rich to America's poor, but what they don't tell you is they want to redistribute America's wealth through them - filling their pockets - to the rest of the world. Our poor are wealthy by the world's standards. This, too, will kill our economy.

Watch what they do, not what they say.

Rats in the Whitehouse!

Who knew?

Rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote

Who said God doesn't have a sense of humor?

"Moreover, rodents of all kinds are pretty common in Washington."

Yes.

Let Sleeping Bears Lie

Researcher mauled by 'sleeping' bear

"It bit pretty hard,"

I bet it did.

Some People Are Lucky Like That

Close Call

Is It Still an Explosive Device...

if it's not capable of detonating?

Explosive Device Found in Saint Cloud

Officers told WFTV Tuesday evening that the object is an explosive device that was not capable of detonating. Investigators said there is an unknown liquid in the explosive device that needs to be tested.

Just asking.

Gun Control?

How Many More Like Jo?

And where does Obama get the money to pay your welfare check?

"I don't know, his stash"

They're Digging to China

The U.S. State Dept brought up the new Arizona law as an example of U.S. human rights abuse - wait for it - to China.

Posner said in addition to talks on freedom of religion and expression, labor rights and rule of law, officials also discussed Chinese complaints about problems with U.S. human rights, which have included crime, poverty, homelessness and racial discrimination.

He said U.S. officials did not whitewash the American record and in fact raised on its own a new immigration law in Arizona that requires police to ask about a person's immigration status if there is suspicion the person is in the country illegally.

The United States was represented by officials from the State Department, White House, the departments of Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Labor, the trade representative's office and the Internal Revenue Service.

So, per the new world order, China is the arbiter of human rights, and Iran is the arbiter of woman's rights.

Meanwhile, Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security and Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States, have not even read the new Arizona law. Watch Eric Holder here, Janet Napolitano here.

Power Line Blog has nice write-up on it.

Woody Allen Speaks

Hey, I know, let's make Obama a dictator for a few years.

"it would be good…if he could be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly."

Idiot.

Motion Induced Blindness

Check out this cool Optical Illusion

There Has to Be a Better Way

7-year-old girl killed in Detroit police raid

Aiyana Jones was shot and killed by police executing a search warrant as part of a homicide investigation,

Just today I was watching an episode of Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force, first time I'd seen it. It was interesting, they were after a fugitive from New Jersey who fled to Puerto Rico. They flew down, got with a task force in Puerto Rico and used local informants to smoke the guy out. Turns out he was staying in a house in Cuamo, so they got ready and waited for the informant to call and verify he was there.

The call came at night, and it was deep in the country. It was dark. They start surrounding the house with all the flashlights and camera lights - how they didn't wake anyone up is beyond me - and they start pounding on the door - "Open up, it's the police!" They are yelling in Spanish and English. A guy comes to the door, they're all pointing rifles and pistols at the guy, lights in his face. Oops, wrong house.

Ok, regroup. What happened? There are two other houses in the area that meet the description they were given. Let's roll! They surround the next house, same lights, same procedure. They show them standing next to windows with the flashlights on - and, of course the camera lights. You are aware, aren't you that a lot if not most houses in Puerto Rico don't have glass windows? The windows are large, venetian blind-like contraptions. So, anyway, no one, apparently, notices all the activity around the house. They start banging on the door and windows, "Open up, open up, it's the police!" Again, Spanish and English. Some people come to the door, guns and lights pointing at them. "Be careful, there are kids," one of the cops yells. Oopsie! Wrong house again. Sorry, sorry everyone.

They do this whole thing all over again at the third house and arrest the guy they were looking for. Success! Everybody go home, shows over.

What's wrong with this picture? Look, I'm all for getting the bad guys. They don't do nearly enough getting bad guys for my taste and they sure as hell don't do enough of keeping them off the streets when they do get them, but I think they need to rethink the way they execute these search warrants. You can't just go down the street trying all the houses until you hit the jack pot. And you can't shoot an innocent 7-year-old girl. It's not acceptable. How would you feel, what would you think, if they did that to you in the middle of the night? How long will it be until you are able to sleep through the night again? What if they shot your dog or your child? Sorry, not acceptable. Is it too much to ask to at least KNOW the fugitive is in the house, to KNOW you have the right house.

There has to be a better way.

Glenn Beck Speaks at NRA Convention

They took the video off Vimeo. You can still watch it at The Right Scoop.

Don't miss this, it's an inspiring speech.

Mexican or American

A very good post by Alan Caruba: Thinking About Mexicans

George Whitefield

Full show

So Why Don’t Democrats Read Bills?

Reading is Hard by Frank J.

Maybe we should write all our bills in Spanish. Then we can hire illegal aliens to read them since apparently that’s yet another one of those jobs Americans won’t do.

Ho Hum

The dots some don't want to connect by Mark Steyn

You may not be interested in Islam but Islam is interested in you. Islam smells weakness at the heart of the West. The post-World War II order is dying: The European Union's decision to toss a trillion dollars to prop up a Greek economic model that guarantees terminal insolvency is merely the latest manifestation of the chronic combination of fiscal profligacy and demographic decline in the West at twilight. Islam is already the biggest supplier of new Europeans and new Canadians, and the fastest-growing demographic in the Western world.

The Real Governator

The Deadliest Ideology in History

A Hidden History of Evil

In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis’ ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz. It is not nearly as well understood that Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.

See also Why doesn't anyone care about the Soviet document archive?