Come to the USA!

Finally ...

Obama bows to someone worthy.

From Rush Limbaugh

Tracing Our Decent in Depravity

But I think all of this can be traced back to God being shunned, to God being removed from people's lives, to there being no God or false gods or what have you.

He's right.

Moral values? "Ah, that could be explained away. Yeah, you can explain moral values. That's just the opiate of the masses. That's just a bunch of irrelevant people trying to tell themselves they're good people. Morality? Morality, that's for the great unwashed. We intellectuals, we members of the ruling class, we understand (haughty laughing) what a joke morality is," and yet the people that are heralded as the Wizards of Smart -- the unifiers, the people who are gonna save the country and save us -- are in the process of destroying it. Some people do think that it's being done purposefully, and it's a hard thing to tell 'em it's not 'cause the evidence is incontrovertible. The worst thing that you can be in society today is judgmental. That's why people like us are so hated, folks. The worst thing you can be is judgmental and right.

Exactly, You are the worst person in the world if you say it's not OK to do anything you want, that there are laws governing behavior just as there are laws governing the universe. You break the laws bad things begin happening. Laws governing human behavior are not usually as obvious as gravity but they have a cumulative effect. Unfortunately, people rarely admit that the problems they find themselves drowning in can usually be traced back to their past choices.

Quote of the Day

"You do not try to rebuild what God is in the process of tearing down."

--Ronald L. Dart

Sovereign Citizens

Another Stolen House Raided; 5 More Sovereign Citizens Sought

The suspects call themselves sovereign citizens. They are anti-government extremists who refuse to answer to state or local authority. The members often refuse to pay taxes or register their vehicles, authorities said. Some told Fleischer that their homes are considered sovereign land.

So lets give them a sovereign cell in a sovereign prison.

Please, Please, Please Let Us Go Back To 100% Gas

Major Newspapers Urge end to Ethanol Subsidy by Alan Caruba

Jimmy Carter's belief that ethanol could replace or reduce dependence on foreign oil imports and reduce greenhouse gas emissions was totally bogus. Nothing about converting corn to fuel makes any sense at all.

If Jimmy Carter believes it, it can't be good.

That's Believable

Extraterrestrials travel light years across the universe in space craft we could only dream of in order to throw rocks at this guys house because they don't like him.

The Stream of Blood

How Smart Are We? by Thomas Sowell

One of the ideas that has proved to be almost impervious to evidence is the idea that wise and far-sighted people need to take control and plan economic and social policies so that there will be a rational and just order, rather than chaos resulting from things being allowed to take their own course. It sounds so logical and plausible that demanding hard evidence would seem almost like nit-picking.

In one form or another, this idea goes back at least as far as the French Revolution in the 18th century. As J.A. Schumpeter later wrote of that era, "general well-being ought to have been the consequence," but "instead we find misery, shame and, at the end of it all, a stream of blood."

Automobiles

We're told cars are dangerous. It's safer to drive through South Central Los Angeles than to walk there. We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

--PJ O'Rourke

Shamelessly stolen from The Morning Companion

It's All About Being Informed

Great interview with Herman Cain, listen all the way through. This is the kind of thinking we need running this country.

"We need to stand up and we don't have to be victims,"

Woman 2, thugs 0 after home invasion

One gun isn't enough.

That was what Linda Smith (a pseudonym) was thinking after two thugs broke into her Oklahoma apartment. One was holding a weapon (she initially thought it was a knife but it turned out to be a screwdriver) at her throat, and the other was pacing back and forth while holding her purse and demanding her money and valuables. She screamed, and was told if she screamed again, she'd be dead.

She was doing as police recommend in robberies – comply with a robber's demands. But her Lady Smith & Wesson .38 special, which she carries by permit, was hidden in her purse – and the purse was being held by one of the attackers.

Then the situation, suddenly, got much, much worse: One of the robbers demanded that she take off her clothes.

When Politicians Don't Lie...

But the Good Men Must Stand...

"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."

—Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

But Does He Have a Birth Certificate?

Is this man Obama's worst nightmare?

I like Herman Cain, if there is a better presidential candidate for 2012 I don't know who it is.

Did You Know?

I hadn't heard this, don't remember anyone mentioning it on the news.

White House Denies Flood Assistance

The White House gave no reason for denying the disaster aid request.

A Fool and Our Money

The President Haters

Obama is different -- in part because of the way he was so relentlessly hyped during his ascension to office, and the way he played along with it, toying with the public's expectations and transparently enjoying his status as demigod. But he is no longer the godling of legend, the Illinois messiah here to lead us to a left-wing Eden. He is merely a community organizer in over his head. The blowback triggered by disappointments of such depth can be ferocious. FDR was never foolish enough to make promises on this level (listen to his 1933 inaugural speech), and it served him well over three full terms. Obama was, and now he must pay the piper.

Good One

California vs. Arizona

One Small Step … One Giant Leap …

July 20, 1969

Gun Control

Gun control is using 2 hands

This battle between government power and an armed citizenry was recognized as far back as 600 B.C. when Aesop said, "Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy must not be surprised if it is turned against themselves." If the government somehow managed to banish all guns tomorrow, how long do you think before we'd be laboring under tyranny?

The surge in gun sales when Obama came into office was not the result of a sudden and passionate love of hunting; it was because people instinctively recognized that our government is becoming a larger threat to our personal liberties. Gun ownership is a tool to keep that threat in check.

Quite simply, the Second Amendment has become a power struggle between the government and the people. The government wants more power over the people. The people want more power over the government. No surprise there.

But we have to look back in history (no matter how irrelevant that may seem to Progressives) and judge what the original overall intent was of the Founding Fathers. Was their original intent to create a massive and tyrannical government? Or was their original intent to create a constrained government that would guard people's God-given rights? C'mon, 'fess up. You know which one is true.

So, since Progressives cannot simply eliminate gun ownership overnight, they've taken a far more insidious and cowardly course, which is a refusal to educate the nation's children about their heritage. The founding documents are seldom if ever studied in public schools and, if they are, they're invariably given the obligatory liberal interpretation.

X-Ray Vision and Federal Benefits Come Standard

TSA advertising on pizza boxes?

If I can't drive there, I'm not going.