Conservatoid Number One

2008-02-25T16:29:00.000-08:00

Oscar who?

Once again all the "news people" are reporting on the "Oscars" as if it was some kind of hard news event rather than the same old cast of Hollywood characters congratulating themselves and prancing around like they were royalty. What a disgusting display of mutual admiration by a bunch of overpaid, under-educated will-o-the-wisps.

It used to be that only preteen girls swooned over movie stars. Now, it seems that the whole country has lost any semblance of sanity. Airhead actors are treated as if they held all the answers for the problems of the world in their manicured little hands. Their views on world events, foreign policy and the upcoming election are not only sought out, but actually listened to as if these clowns had discovered some great fountain of knowledge into which they dip their tootsies on a regular basis.

Speaking of politics, have you noticed how the "media" have abandoned "poor Hillary" to jump on the "Obama Bandwagon?" The media has, now, written Hillary off after telling us for the past six years that she "deserved to be president", and that her left-wing policies held all the answers to fix a broken world. What happened? Did Mrs. Clinton suddenly contract leporsy? Did she spit on Martin Luther King's grave? Did the media find out she is, GASP, a lesbian?

As for Obama if there was ever a less experienced or more ill prepared presidential candidate than Obama I cannot name him. So far Obama has said absolutely nothing of any substance or worth. His feel good campaign offers no feasible solutions to America's problems. To make matters worse his wife goes on national television and states that she is, "proud of her country for the first time in her life." Give me a break. And don't get me started on that RHINO John McCain.

Fasten your seatbelts, boys. Its going to be a bumpy ride!

2008-01-06T19:25:00.000-08:00

Look for new posts this month. I have been taking a vacation from my writing, storing up new ideas and material. Thanks for your patience and interest.

2007-10-28T16:07:00.000-07:00

I ride the "Tail of the Dragon."
This is me on my 1982 Honda CB900C riding the "Tail of the Dragon" at Deal's Gap, NC. 318 curves in 11 miles. It is an exciting ride!

Guess which one is me. Hint: am the good looking one. No, I am not the cute blond girl.

Ride the Dragon see http://www.dealsgap.com/ for info.

2007-10-04T15:06:00.001-07:00

I heard this from a young lady I was having lunch with the other day.

I met a young friend of mine at a local resturant this past week. She is a nice girl, but she is a Hillary lover and she believes anything she hears on the Entertainment Channel. When the waiter came around she ordered salad and I ordered the fried chicken plate. She was horrified at my choice of food and the following words came out of her mouth. Scout's honor. "Are you going to eat that?" she asked.

"No, I thought to myself, "I am going to dress it up in a tux and take it to the opera." I said, "Yes, I plan to."

"You know," said she, "that chickens have the same right to live the full extent of their lives as we do. Furthermore, that chicken most likely had a family." I thought I was having trouble hearing her. I stared at her intently.

"Huh ?" I said.

"Yes, chickens, cows, goats, fish, all animals have a right to life, liberty and happiness," she continued. I think its in the Bill of Rights or something, anyway when Hillary gets elected president we are going to put a stop to all this cannibalism. People should eat vegetables, milk, fruit and eggs and things like that. That way no animal is hurt."

"Don't vegetables have feelings?" I innocently asked. "And what about those poor chickens who lose their little babies so that we can have scrambled eggs in the morning? Don't they suffer separation anxiety? I am sure that they have already named those eggs before they are taken away."

She pondered that for a moment while staring at her salad, and then said, " Well, I don't know if vegetables have feelings or not. But, I am sure that the chickens miss their babies. I suppose I will have to quit having eggs for breakfast." She looked morosely at the table top. "I like eggs, too, " she said.

"What about milk? Maybe the cows don't like having their udders squeezed so that you can have milk on your cereal," I said as I took a big bite out of my chicken leg. "And orange juice, maybe the oranges object to having their pulp squeezed out."

"Well, I don't know," she replied, " I'll have to check with PETA about that."

I looked at her using my most serious expression and said, "You know what PETA stands for, don't you?"

"Well, yes, its People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals, or something like that," she answered.

"No," I replied, "Its People Eating Tasty Animals. P E T A."

"It is not! Is it? Really? No its not ... is it?"

With a satisfied sigh I took another big bite of my fried chicken. I could almost hear it scream.

2007-09-06T11:45:00.000-07:00

If you haven't heard Paul Shanklin's version of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" on Rush Limbaugh's show you really need to hear it.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have been very busy with some family issues. I will return soon with more insightful comments and razor sharp wit. Until then...hang in there and support your local conservatives.

2007-08-09T08:57:00.000-07:00

The Global Warming Blues

This is a song about an imaginary threat
That’s got the liberal party all upset.
They think the Earth is getting too hot, you see.
They say the fault lies with the acts of men
Who have polluted the sea, the air and land
Just for the sake of the deadly sin of greed.

There’s this ex-VP named Mr. Al Gore
Who presents himself as knowing the score
About the way we’re destroying the planet, he believes.
Now, I don't know what Al Gore's done,
He just might be the Prodigal Son, but
I don't think his degree's in Climatology.

Well, man made Global Warming might a fact
But, we can’t reliably trace the temperatures back
More than a couple of generations, or maybe three.
And, these people who are spreading this global fear
Telling us that the end of the world is quite near
Should just crawl back in their air-conditioned limousines.

If the truth of the matter is ever told
The Earth goes through periods of hot and cold
Sometimes the icebergs melt and sometimes they freeze.
Global Warming’s just an unfounded fear
The science of the matter still ain’t clear.
Plus, I heard we are only up about one degree.

Yep, in the Summer it always gets real hot
and, the Winter months are comparitively not.
It's Mother Nature who gets to choose how it’s gonna be.
There’s a whole lot of things wrong in this day and time
From legislative corruption to rampant crime
to the woeful lack of gasoline refineries.

So, for all you worried environmentalists out there,
I’m telling you its not the time for dispair,
let’s just calm ourselves down and get a good night's sleep.
The earth is serveral billion years old
And, she will be around for serveal billion more
This ain't the end of the world, you just wait and see.

Copyright Bmann Music, 8/9/2007

2007-07-12T09:57:00.000-07:00

Blind Apple Strudel

I recently purchased an old accoustic archtop guitar that was owned by the famous Delta Bluesman, Blind Apple Strudel. Strudel, born Wilson Shartrell Strudel, was well known around the South. He played in juke joints and bars from Texas to Georgia and everywhere in between. Strudel was born to unwed sharecroppers, Willie Strudel and Monippe Calhoun in Egypt, Georgia in around 1902. Strudel also performed under the aliases Blind Lemon Meringue, Blind Rum Tonic, and James Johansonervickski.

Strudel was born blind, deaf and mute. He picked up the guitar at an early age and taught himself to play by senses of touch, taste and smell. By the age of six Strudel was making a little money playing gin joints around his home town. In 1910 Strudel hooked up with the "Traveling Skunk Band" and began to play all around the lower South. While on a gig in Huntsville, Alabama Strudel met and fell in love with Shi-Thead Membrain, a male stripper and jazz singer who billed him/herself as "Delores El Cajonies". Strudel and Cajonies started touring together billed as "Strudel and Cajonies." In 1923 the pair cut a record for Down and Out Records titled "The Cajonies Blues". It went straight to the top of the blues charts and stayed there for eighteen weeks. After that Strudel and Cajonies made record after record. They all sold well and Strudel and Cajonies became quite well off for the times.

Strudel and Cajonies continued to tour and play venues across the South until Cajonies death in 1933. While in a bar in Waco, Texas Cajonies died in a violent toilet paper accident. He/She was buried in an unmarked grave in Waco, Texas. After Cajonies tragic death Blind Apple Strudel was never quite the same. He continued to tour, but stopped recording. Strudel began to depend upon alcohol and drugs to get him through the day. He became addicted to Tylenol and Afrin Nasal Spray and was never able to kick the habit.

As his fortunes declined through the 1940's and 1950's Strudel became more and more reclusive. He toured only sporatically in the late fifties and began drifting around the South hopping freight trains and bumming rides from truckers in exchange for "special services". For a while in the early 1960's Strudel worked as a fudge packer for Asinine Industries in Nashville. He left that job after only a few months because of "artistic differences".

Strudel was found dead in a motel room in Cairo, Georgia in 1963. The only possessions that he had with him at the time were the above mentioned guitar, a picture of El Cajonies, seventeen empty bottles of nasal spray, a few empty bottles of Tylenol, an empty quart bottle of Schlitz Malt Liquor and thirteen cents.

The guitar changed hands from time to time and finally ended up in an auction in Augusta, Georgia in 2007 where I purchased it along with documentation and several pictures of Strudel and Cajonies. The guitar is a bit banged up. Due to Strudel's condition he often walked into objects and fell off stages. Inside the guitar is an inscription that reads, "Happy birthday to my blind, deaf and mute lover, all my love, huggs and kisses, Shi-Thead."

I plan to make a gift of this guitar to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon, Georgia for their Blind Apple Strudel display.

2007-07-06T14:57:00.000-07:00

Ten Things That Your Federal Government Has Done to Ruin Your Life Over the past 60 Years.

Over the past sixty years your federal government has been controlled most of the time by Democrats or liberals posing as conservatives. Only during the Regan administration was conservatism allowed to flourish. Those Regan years were some of the most prosperous and successful years our country has enjoyed. Other than those eight wonderful years liberals have pushed through some of the most wasteful, shameless and despicable programs ever to hamper the American citizen. Beginning with the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration right up to the present Bush administration liberal politicians have been on a power trip unequaled in the history of man. Here are just ten things for which you can thank your liberal politicians.

1. The Social Security Program. A disaster from any view point. Money is confiscated from your paycheck by the federal government, supposedly to supplement your retirement income. It is then either approprated by the feds to cover Liberal give-away programs or invested by the feds so poorly that the program can't pay for itself. Your money would be better spent buying Haitian commemorative coins as a retirement investment.

2. The Payroll Deduction tax plan. The idea behind this program is that you are so stupid that you will not notice that the feds are stealing one-fourth to one-third of your income in taxes each year. The Feds get your tax money up front. You have to beg them to return a little of it through your yearly tax forms. Of course many people who vote for Democrats don't pay any taxes anyway, so who cares. You can thank Payroll Deduction for the IRS.

3. Government "Make Work Programs." This began under FDR's New Deal. Programs like the CCC took workers idled by the Great Depression and put them to work making ugly pieces of art, carving up the Great Smokey Mountains and building God-Awful pieces of Federal architecture. When the Great Depression ended did the make work projects end, too? Not on your life. They are still around sucking up your money like a Hoover on a dust pile. Look at the NEA (National Endowment of the Arts) as just one example. Has any really good art come from this program? Not so you would notice. We get only pornography and ridiculous art projects, (such as the guy who draped Central Part in NYC with colored sheets), for our money.

4. Wars we have no intention of winning, ie: The Korean Conflict, The Vietnam Conflict, the War Against Terrorism. These conflicts, all fought for good causes, were so miss handled by liberal leaders in congress that none, I repeat none of them has been brought to a successful conclusion. We still have troops in Korea after fifty plus years. The Viet-Cong lost every battle they fought against us but won the war with the help of Jane Fonda, Ted Kennedy and other leftists. The War Against Terrorism is going in the same direction as Korea and Vietnam. We are mired in a war in a country that cannot or will not stand up for itself while our so called allies abandon us left and right. Now Congress seems destined to order a military pull-out before the job is done. What a bunch of cowardly, semi-human putzes!

5. Miranda Rights If you don't warn criminals that what they say can be used against them then the criminals get a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. The Miranda ruling has done more harm to law enforcement in this country than almost any other piece of legislation. Liberal judges use Miranda as an excuse to toss perfectly good criminal cases out of court due to minor technicalities. Criminals walk free to prey on American citizens while our police are made to look like ineffective clowns.

6. The Nanny State: Thank Lyndon Johnson and the "Great Society" for the idea that the "State" should see to our every need from cradle to grave. Johnson's Great Society has created two generations of people who live off the kindness of strangers. With the Great Society we got such ideas as income redistribution, where the "Haves" must share with the "Have Nots" even if the "Have Nots" refuse to work or do anything to support themselves. Furthermore, the Great Society is firmly in operation as evidenced by the most expensive health care bill in history recently pushed through Congress by Liberal politicians. Most citizens did not want this health care plan and would not have voted for it had they been given the chance. One of the candidates for president , Hillary Clinton, promises to expand this boondoggle even more should she be elected in 2008. What happens when the country runs out of money? What then, Hillary?

7. Public Education: As a part of President Kennedy's race to the moon and President Johnson's Great Society the Federal Government began to stick its rather lengthy and ugly nose further and further into the institution of public education. The feds lured gullible and greedy educators into selling their collective souls for the prospect of federal tax dollars. But, those dollars came with more strings than a "Punch and Judy" show. As fast as one silly federal education program was forced upon local educators and it proved to be a waste of money, then liberal educators came up with another equally bad and usually more expensive program. Federal reading programs failed to teach children to read. Pre-school and kindergarten programs took children as young as four years old away from their homes and began indoctrinating them in the religion of political correctness and anti-Americanism. Stupid self-esteem programs taught children that nothing they did was their fault, and that they could not fail because failure might damage their little egos. Inclusion programs forced mentally and physically handicapped children to try and compete with non-handicapped students in the regular classroom setting. Inclusion did not raise the standards of the handicapped, but it did lower the standards for the non-handicapped. Forced busing for racial balance fostered hatred and distrust among the races while busing children far beyond their neighborhoods to attend schools where they immediately achieved minority status.

After 30 plus years in the education business I can not think of one federally funded education program that lived up to the promises that were made by its creators, not one. This includes the latest programs written by Senator Ted Kennedy during the present Bush administration.

8. The United Nations: Had our leaders tried they could not have come up with a more anti-American, and useless organization than the UN. Since the Second World War the US has provided housing for and supported this corrupt organization. The UN has become the preferred meeting ground for the World's dictators and Third World potentates. Scandals like the oil for food program have run rampant. Billions of dollars annually are wasted on corrupt programs that do nothing for the people they were suppose to help but do a lot for the corrupt politicians that run them. UN leaders like Kofi Annon have shown a decidedly biased attitude toward Socialist and Communist states at the detriment of the Western Nations that provide much of the monetary support the UN wastes.

9. Government Handout Programs: Free money for all, unless you are a hard working, tax paying citizen trying to earn an honest living. There are so many federal give away programs that a list of them all would take reams of paper to print out. Each of these programs caters to a special interest group that pays lobbyists huge sums of money with which they can bribe legislators to insure that their group gets the federal tax dollars they think they have coming. Programs such as the Federal Farm Subsidies Program hand out billions of our tax dollars to farmers to encourage them not to plant crops or raise cattle. Anyone can apply for these dollars. All you need is some idle land and a good lawyer. The more you don't produce, the more you earn. It all makes so much sense to the liberal mind.

Other federal programs give away great sums to fund research on such diverse topics as the mating habits of fish and why people get testy when they have to wait in a long line. Research is very lucrative work if you can get it.

10. Laws, Laws and More Laws! You may not realize it, but every aspect of your life is regulated by legislation. From your birth to your death each minute of each day you run the risk of breaking some Federal law. In fact, it is impossible to leave your house without running afoul of some federal law or another. Legislators love to enact laws. It is their life. What else are our elected officials good for? Each term of congress produces law on top of law to be added to the laws we already have on the books. Rarely, if ever, are laws retracted. Even asinine laws that were known to be asinine when they were proposed will stand on the books forever. There are dozens of books written about the silly laws we are expected to obey, and still more laws are made. If a legislator sees something going on that displeases him he will immediately propose a new law to bring the despicable act to an end, whether anyone else finds the act offensive or not does not matter. Usually the law will pass because other legislators have their own list of laws they want to enact, and they will need this legislator's vote to get them passed. Tit for tat, so to speak. Will the feds ever get enough laws? I doubt it as long as we allow our elected officials the free reign to do as they please that they now seem to take for granted. Meanwhile we citizens must run the federal law maze every time we try to accomplish anything useful.

Well, that is only ten wonderful things that our Federal Government has given us over the years. I am sure that you can think of dozens of equally odious acts. Remember them the next time you go to vote for that good ole boy legislator or president.

2007-06-22T10:58:00.000-07:00

Employee Free Choice Act

I no longer trust our federal government or our congress to do what is in our best interest. I believe that our elected representative form of government is being taken over by special interest groups, big dollar donators and extreme liberal ideology. Our congresspersons no longer vote their consciences. They cast their votes based solely on who donated the most money and who can bring in the most votes. There is no longer any pretence that our representatives are representing us.

A good example of this is the Employee Free Choice Act now awaiting US Senate approval. This extremely bad piece of legislation would take away from workers one of the tenets on which this country was founded; ie: the right to cast a secret ballot. Under this legislation, which has every chance of passing by the way, union representatives and employers would have the opportunity to demand to see the ballots cast by workers in any union organization vote. This opens the union organization process up to possible vote fraud and intimidation from the union and from the employer. How is this a good idea? What thinking congressperson would vote for such a bill? Well, any congressperson who finds him/herself in the pocket of big unions would vote for this atrocity. This bill has come before congress before, but only now, under Democrat control of both houses does it have a chance to pass.

I say if this legislation is so good lets do away with the secret ballot all together. Then when you go to the poles to vote for your representative or senator or president we could see how you voted and then give you a hard time for voting the way that you did.

Things like this are why I no longer trust our federal government or our congress. I guess I am just too informed to be a good citizen.

2007-06-01T11:59:00.000-07:00

Mr. President George W. Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C.

June 1, 2007

Dear Mr. President, George W. Bush,

Thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to read this letter. I know that you must have more important things to do. Please give my regards to Mrs. First Lady Laura Bush. I think that of the living presidents that we have you are the best. As of today the living presidents are Mr. President Jerry Ford, Mr. President Jimmy Carter, Mr. President George H.W. Bush (your father), Mr. President Bill Clinton and you. Here is why you are the best.

Mr. President Ford, while a nice guy and a great golfer, really didn’t do much during his term in office except pardon Mr. President Richard Nixon. Mr. President Ford’s lack of accomplishments would be considered by most to be a good thing. After all Mr. President Eisenhower did very little as president and he got to serve two terms. Mr. President Ford did nothing to blacken the name of the White House while in office, nor did he get us involved in any wars worthy of mention. Still, I consider you to be a better president than Mr. President Ford.

Mr. President Carter, while a native of the Great State of Georgia, a good thing, was, in my opinion, the worse (worst?) president we have ever had, a bad thing. He was even worse than Mr. President Ulysses S Grant, a notorious Yankee. Mr. President Carter let the Iranians take our diplomats hostage for some 400 days while he pussyfooted around lusting in his heart, avoiding UFOs and fighting off killer rabbits. When Mr. President Carter did get serious about the matter of the hostages all he did was mount a weak and futile rescue effort that failed miserably, got some brave Americans killed and made us look comically inept to the rest of the world. Mr. President Carter started the “Misery Index.” He should have been impeached for that one alone. Thankfully, he served only one term. He was followed by the greatest, in my opinion, dead president we have, Mr. President Ronald Regan. I think you are a much better president than Mr. President Carter.

Then came your father, Mr. President George H.W. Bush. He is a good man and he was a fine president, but he failed to take the Gulf War far enough. He let Saddam slip through his fingers and ended the war too soon. That left you to clean up the mess, since Mr. President Bill Clinton was too busy with other affairs to pay much attention to Iraq. I think you are a better president than your father, no offense to him is intended.

That brings us to Mr. President Bill Clinton. What can I say about a man who frittered away his presidency chasing women and getting impeached? Now, considering he is married to Mrs. Senator (DNY) Hillary Clinton I can certainly understand his need to look elsewhere for female companionship. However, Mr. President Bill Clinton should be ashamed of himself for sullying the office of President of the US of A, but I don’t think he is. He will forever be a booger in the nose of American history. You are a much better president than Mr. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary were.

Mr. President George W. Bush, if you want to be a great president, and not just a good one, here are three things that you can do between now and the time you leave office.

1. Seal the border between Mexico and the US of A. Build a fence, build a wall, mine the desert, or whatever, but do something, soon. We don’t need any stinkin' guest workers. We have all the home grown shiftless and lazy workers we can use, now.

2. Expel all illegal aliens whether they came from Mexico or Mars. Round them up. Put them on buses and send them home (better use boats if they came from overseas). Legal aliens can stay. Illegal aliens must go home and deal with their own rotten governments. As far as Texas and California belonging to Mexico, well we stole those lands fair and square! So, the Mexicans need to get over it.
3. Throw the United Nations out of this country. Give them ninety days to pack their bags, pay their parking fines, empty the building and go somewhere else, maybe Venezuela. We have hosted this good for nothing, communist, dictator-loving, anti-American, Godless organization long enough. Toss the bums.

Mr. President Bush, if you do these three things you will be hailed the greatest president ever, living or dead. Mark my words.

Sincerely,
Rupert Escargot

2007-04-24T15:30:00.000-07:00

Great examples of irony …

Here are some examples of ironic happenings in the environmental world.

1. Washington State. An environmental activist who had chained herself to a tree that was scheduled to be cut down and replaced was killed when the disease weakened tree blew over in a windstorm and crushed her to death.

2. The Pacific Ocean. A Greenpeace ship was repeatedly rammed by a large whale as the GP ship stalked two Japanese whalers. The rudder of the Greenpeace ship was so damaged by the whale that the GP ship had to be towed to port by one of the whaling ships she was stalking.

3. Montana. A bear lover who called himself the "Bear Whisperer" claimed he could talk to wild bears. He was conversing with a 500 lb wild black bear when the animal attacked and severely mauled him. Evidently it was something the "Bear Whisperer" said.

4. Virginia. A bull attacked four bird watchers who ignored three warning signs, climbed over two barbed wire fences and trespassed on a farmer’s pasture. One bird watcher was butted to the ground and stomped by the thousand pound bull while the others ran for their lives. The injured bird watcher was taken to the hospital where he was treated and later released.

5. Oregon. A boatload of whale watchers was capsized by a small whale. Evidently, the whale watchers were harassing the young whale by chasing it with their boat. The whale was uninjured. The whale watchers were rescued by the Coast Guard.

6. New York City. An angry squirrel attacked a group of protesters in Central Park biting and scratching one protester. The squirrel ran into a group of five chanting enviro-protesters and chased the protesters away from a large tree under which they were sitting. It is thought the squirrel was irritated by the protester’s singing.

7. London. Four people were injured when an abandoned building near the Thames River collapsed on them. The building was scheduled for demolition due to its dilapidated condition. The injured people were protesting the building’s destruction because, they said, the building served as shelter for homeless people.

8. Brazil. Antonia Varga, a university student from Rio, climed into to a tree in the Brazilian Rain Forest to protest the local indian farmers slash and burn method of clearing land for agriculture. The farmers burned Miss Varga along with the tree. She suffered second and third degree burns to her legs and arms.

9. The Arctic. While measuring a floe of pack ice, a University of North Dakota professor noticed a baby polar bear that the professor thought was stranded on an ice floe. The professor tried to rescue the little bear but the bear jumped into the water and swam to shore. Meanwhile, the ice floe on which the professor stood broke away from the main body of ice and floated away with the professor still attached. He was rescued the next morning approximately thirty-five miles away. At last report the baby bear had rejoined its mother and was doing fine.

10. The Netherlands. Borgern Vascklsk was seriously injured when the stork he was trying to remove from a factory chimney decided that it did not want to be removed and turned on Mr. Vascklsk. Mr. Vascklsk fell approximately 35 feet to the factory roof. He suffered numerous broken bones, cuts and bruises. The stork eventually flew away.

The above are gleened from various sources, print, radio, television, and others.

2007-04-18T19:18:00.000-07:00

God bless and comfort the families of the slain students at Virginia Tech. May such an evil act never happen in this country again.

2007-04-13T11:22:00.000-07:00

Nappy Headed Hos

Well children, since Don Imus got fired for calling a girl's sports team "nappy headed hos" I guess it's left up to me to continue his legacy. I am not sure just what a "nappy headed ho" is, but it sounds bad. So, here is my list of Nappy Headed Hos in no particular order. Feel free to adopt or add to this list. Direct all Law Suits to my Law firm, Dooey, Cheatem, and Howe.

Hillary (You owe me!) Clinton
Bill (Anybody got a cigar?) Clinton
James (Pigface) Carvill
Nancy (Mrs America) Pelosi
George Bush (For being such a dickhead and not kicking the crap out of those "Insurgents" and then not turning the Marines loose on the Democrats.)
Democrats
Republicans
Libertarians
Communists
Socialists
Barbara ( I is a Libbel.) Streisand
Susan Sarandon
Rev. Al Sharpton
Rev. Jessie Jackson
Katie Corac, Just because...
The entire cast of "The View"
CNN (The Communist News Network)
MSNBC
CBS News
ABC News
NBC News
PBS (all of it)
Entertainment Tonight
Tom Cruise, his wives and his children
Any Baldwin Brother, but especially Alec
Rosie (Fat Lesbo) O'Donnell
Donald Trump
Danny Devito
All of the Hollywood Elite (Or those that think they are elite)
Paris Hilton
Brittany (someone buy her some panties, for Heaven's sake!) Spears
The IOC (International Olympics Committee)
Synchronized Swimmers
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee
Al (Is it hot, or is it just me?) Gore
John (I am a Vietnam Vet, by God!) Kerry
John (Cut and Run) Murtha
Anna Nicole Smith's "Baby Daddy"
Any reporter who ever reported on the Anna Nicole Smith story
Any whiny liberal "Rock Star" like Bono or John Mellencamp
Any one who ever has worried about "Global Warming"
Anyone on the radio or TV that begs for money for any cause
Al Franken(stein) and Air America (Recently Defunct)
The US Department of (Non) "Education"
Iranians
Iraqis
Saudies
French
Germans
Spanish
Italians
Pakistanis
The United Nations and all of its affiliates
The US House of Representatives
The US Senate
The IRS
Anyone over 80 who whines and carries on about how bad life has been to them
Drunks
Drug Addicts
Food Addicts
The eternally depressed
The eternally upbeat
Anyone who has children but does not discipline them
Show-offs
Those too dumb to know it
Anyone who is called a "Nappy Headed Ho" and says they are scared for life by it
Et cetera...

2007-03-12T08:34:00.000-07:00

A Treatise on the Soul of Al Gore

Gore (gore) clotted blood and puss that is shed from a festering wound.

Disgusting untruths emerge from his mouth. He spews forth illogic as if it were pearls of golden wisdom presented to him by the gods themselves. I cannot abide him. He lambastes his friends and foes alike with words tinted with hate and destruction. Flowers wither and die in his sight. Though his countenance is pleasing his heart is foul and rotted. The feted odor of his words lingers long after his passing. Grass does not grow in the places where he has walked. The sun is dimmed and the stars hide their faces from him. How can a just God allow such an evil presence to spend one more minute on His beautiful green earth? Heaven help those who listen to his rantings.

Further from the truth one cannot get unless one communes with the Devil himself. Should we be required to sit among his followers in a darkened hall and soak in the barren waste that he vomits from his mouth? A professor of ignorance, he loves the sound of his own voice above that of all others. He has no desire to hear or even to admit the existence of anyone of a differing mindset than his own. How can one so dense and destructive be allowed to walk among men? Has not the Earth opened up and devoured others of his ilk in times past? What awaits him at the hour of his death? Does he expect to be greeted by his ancestors with their arms open to him? Does he think that God in all His wisdom desires to have near His Holy presence a soul as foul as this? The very saints themselves would draw back and cover their precious eyes in shame at his sight. The glory of the Throne would diminish in his presence.

One with such a black and diseased heart offers no hope to those around him. He offers only despair and destruction. Those who cling to his tattered robe will be carried forever on the rolls of the unwashed. The Book will be closed to them and eternity will be a sad and desolate time for them all.

2007-03-09T13:44:00.000-08:00

I want to apologize for Slavery.

Well, the REVEREND Al Sharpton found out that Strom Thurmond’s Great-great-great-great-great Uncle once owned some slaves. And this relative of Thurmond’s was named Sharpton! So, now we, white folks, are suppose to apologize to the world for slavery. I have done some research and my relatives have been in this country since the late 1600’s. As far as I know no one in my family ever owned a single slave. But, just to be fair about it I want to apologize for the treatment of slaves in this country. Although I am not quite sure just to whom I am apologizing, since there is no one now alive who was a slave in the 1800's. At least I don't think so.

March 9, 2007

Dear Reverends Jackson, Sharpton, and the Folks at the NAACP.

Hello. I want to take this opportunity to personally apologize to all Black and Brown people for Slavery, and for the fact that one or more of their ancestors might have once been held in slavery without their permission. My family did not own any slaves as far as I know. I understand that this is no excuse. Since I am a white Southern male, I must be guilty of something. I don’t know everything about my ancestors, and we do have some shady characters lurking in our family tree . My great-grandfather, on my father’s side once owned a large farm in Virginia. I understand that he worked this farm using sharecroppers for labor. Come to think of it sharecroppers were just like slaves except they were not treated quite as well and I think these sharecroppers were white people as the mountains of western Virginia never had very many Black people residing there to start with. He made moonshine liquor, too, I understand.

Any way, I digress. I am truely, deeply sorry, and I am personally mortified that there were slaves held in this country up until about 1865. While I had no personal hand in this tragedy at the time, rest assured that had I been around then, and had I known about slavery, I would have urged in the strongest of language that an immediate stop be put to this practice. Please accept my sincere apology and my assurance that I will never, ever own any slaves, black, white, oriental or mixed race. Slavery is wrong. Again, I am sorry.

Respectfully,
A Decendent of Former Non-Slave Owners

P.S.
By the way, my ancestors on my mother’s side came from Lancashire, England. They were Lancasters, but not the rich kind of Lancasters. These were serfs of the Earl of Lancaster. In the Middle Ages these folks worked on the Earl’s estate and they took his title as their surname. Example: Bill from Lancashire became Bill Lancaster. For their work my ancestors received no money. They were allowed to build a small hut on the Earl’s land. They could till a very small piece of land for food, and they could pick up any limbs that blew down from the Earl’s trees to use as firewood. In turn for this bounty, my ancestors were allowed to work the Earl’s fields from sun to sun, every day but Sunday. They served in his personal army, and they gave their lives for him. When my ancestors died, they were buried in unmarked graves on the Earl’s land, and their belongings reverted to the Earl of Lancaster’s estate. Also, the Earl got to name their children at birth. Because of this, my ancestor Lancasters left England and came to America for a better life. They were indentured servants, here. They had to work for free for seven years to pay off their passage across the Atlantic.

It was worse on my father's side. They were Irish.

I am waiting for my apology for the treatment of my ancestors to arrive from the Queen of England. It should be here any day, now. You know how slow the overseas post can be.

A. D. O. F.N.S.O

2007-02-16T20:10:00.000-08:00

There is danger in generalizations...

I met three Moslem guys from Kuwait, today, and I liked them. They are polite, friendly, well spoken, and clean cut young men. These young men are members of the Kuwaiti military stationed in Florida. They came up from FL to purchase a car that I had listed on eBay. As far as I could tell these young men are a lot like me when I was in my twenties. They love cars and girls in that order. The little Datsun 280zx that I had for sale was just what they were looking for. It is sporty and the young ladies seem to like it. The guys seemed happy with their purchase and thanked me over and over. They didn't even quibble over the price. Now, I feel a little bad about the negative things I have said about Moslems. I guess I need to be more specific and talk ugly only about Radical Moslems.

This proves something I have known for a long time, but I have not practiced as much as I should. That is one cannot hold any group of people to a generalization. Generalizations are dangerous. For instance, all lawyers are not low lives and all Democrats are not America hating Liberals. Well maybe that's a bad analogy, but you get the idea.

I guess the bottom line here is, maybe just maybe, all persons of the Islamic faith aren't out to convert us, enslave us or kill us. I suppose, like any other religion or any large organization for that matter, there are good members and bad members. I think I met some of the good ones. God/Allah bless them. I hope they enjoy the little car.

2007-02-16T12:30:00.000-08:00

Welfare Programs and Taxes Doom Our Country

Any economist worth the name will tell you that a democracy is doomed once the majority of the people figure out that they can live off the hard work and earnings of the minority. The democracy is doomed because the majority who live off the wealth of the minority will vote only for those things which will increase social programs and make the minority pay for them. This works the same for a republic like ours.

This is exactly what is happening to our country right now. Government spending has never been higher, even if you subtract out the billions spent on the war, it is still very high. I blame the Republicans for that. The Democrat majority in the House and Senate are looking to re-instate the taxes that were cut by President Bush. They want to use that money to spend on new social and entitlement programs that will, in turn, buy them votes and keep them in power. This is, also, the reason that the Democrats are so Hell bent on pulling out of the War Against Terrorism (W.A.T.). They hope to spend that money on more social programs which equal more votes for them. The fact that the country suffers from high taxation and will certainly suffer more terrorist attacks on our soil if we abandon the W.A.T seems to make no difference to them.

It has been proven time and time again that reducing taxes increases the tax base and brings more money into the government coffers. It seems like the Democrats would realize this and support any idea that enriches the population while also enriching the government. But, this is not what they are after. The Dems don't want a richer populace. A richer populace equals less people who are dependent upon the government for their livelihood. This equates to less people who need to vote for the party of government handouts, the Dems. The Democrats are very afraid of this possibility. Less votes for welfare programs like socialised health care means fewer Democrats in public office. To the Dems this would be a disaster.

You watch. The Democratic controlled Congress will do everything that is humanly possible in the next two years to 1. increase the tax load on the middle and upper classes, and 2. create more massive social programs that will sentence another generation of poor to believing that the only way they can survive is by depending on government handouts. Mark my words!

2007-02-08T07:14:00.000-08:00

Remembering Mr. Rusty (1982 -2007)

We lost our friend Mr. Rusty, today. Mr. Rusty was a male orange tabby cat who moved in with us twenty-five years ago. Mr. Rusty had developed stomach cancer in his later years. He was a very reserved and gentlemanly cat who handled his illness with dignity. His cancer had advanced to the point that it had robbed him of his strength and his ability to eat solid food. Mr. Rusty had wasted away to nothing, and toward the end he was miserable. He and we knew the time had come for him to go to his rest. Still, it was a hard thing to do.

I found Mr. Rusty some twenty-five years ago living in a drainage ditch in front of our house. He had moved into the pipe that runs under our driveway after some despicable person had dropped him off in our yard. They probably knew that my wife, Kay, and I were "cat persons." Mr. Rusty was about eight weeks old at the time. He was a very brave little cat. When I called to him he came out of the pipe, walked right up to me and introduced himself. We got along fine after that. For awhile he lived under our boat shed in a box I made for him. After a few weeks he moved onto our porch and finally into the house where he stayed the rest of his life. Our other cat at the time, Miss Button, who passed on a few years ago, at first could not stand the little orange intruder, but she, too came to accept Mr. Rusty and finally to love him. They were inseparable companions until Miss Button's death.

Mr. Rusty got his name from two sources. First, was his rusty/orange color and second I took the name Rusty from a NASCAR hero at the time, Rusty Wallace. Throughout his life Mr. Rusty was a good friend. He would greet me at the door when I came home from work. He talked to me, and we came to understand each other's language. He wasn't the brightest cat in the world, but he made up for his lack of education by being loyal and loving.

Mr. Rusty died a very peaceful death, today. When Dr. Ruehle gave him the shot that ended his life, Mr. Rusty did not argue or struggle. As Kay held him, he just closed his eyes and was gone. I hope that he is with Miss Button now. I hope that they are happy. Maybe when our turn comes they will meet us at the gates to heaven along with our other friends: Flat-Ears, Gray, Blackie, all cats, and Major and Mr. Spade, dogs, and Sweet Pea my childhood pet Guinea Pig. I hope so. Kay and I will miss you, Mr. Rusty. So will Mr. Jack.

2007-02-06T12:41:00.000-08:00

America, The Land of the Ugly Wheels

When I was young, we tried to do things to our cars that improved the looks, handling and power. A good set of Craiger mags, a Holley four barrel carb, rolled and pleated seats, things like that. You could make a '56 Chevy look very sharp with just a few dollars worth of accessories. Now, kids paint their cars colors never found in nature, or any where else for that matter, slap Conestoga wagon wheels on their cars and they think they are ready, even though the car's headliner is so ragged its hanging down so low that it drapes over the driver's head like a tent .

My first car was a black '53 Chevy 210 coupe. She was way sharp. I had chrome reverse rims with 8.75 x 15 Goodyear Tiger Paws, the tires with the narrow red walls, front and rear, Thunderbird bucket seats, a Foxcraft floor shifter and a Thunderbird center console sporting a giant Sun tach. She was powered a 327 ci Chevy engine bored out by my Daddy and me to 348 ci putting out about 350 HP with a Cheetah four barrel and electric fuel pump. She had dual Thrush mufflers with cut-outs, torsion bars and Chevy truck coil springs in the front end. This car looked good and would rip up the pavement on a summer Saturday night outside Kent's Drive-in. The guys were envious and the girls loved the car.

I remember a fellow in a hopped up '56 Ford challenged me to race him from Thomson to Dearing, about 10 miles one night. The winner would get ten dollars. That was a considerable sum in the early 1960's. His Ford was powered by a 292 V8 with an automatic transmission. It was painted flat black with flames just behind the wheel wells. His car looked bad and sounded badder. I won't mention his name since he still lives around here and has held a grudge ever since.

We took off with the wave of a handkerchief held by a pretty little thing named Cindie (that's how she spelled it). The Ford managed to keep up with me through first and second gears, but when I shifted into third at about 4500 RPM and the rear tires barked, the Ford started backing up. At the bridge about three miles out of town I was running well past what the speedometer would show. I had a good ten car lengths on the Ford. By Cap McGahee's store I could just see his headlights. At the Dearing city limits I stopped and had time to get out and open my hood to let the engine cool before he pulled up. I had beat the Ford by about two minutes in ten miles. Not bad for then or now. I got the ten bucks and bragging rights for the next week. Ah, the good old days were surely good enough!

Well, times sure have changed. Now rice burners are the hot cars and America has become the "Land of the Ugly Wheels." Today's kids think that putting 29 inch wheels and rubber band tires on a '79 Oldsmobile Cutlass makes this born butt-ugly car look any better? I have seen cars around my town that must have been pulled directly from a junkyard and put on the road. They puff out a trails of blue oil smoke, and sport thousands of dollars worth of enormous chrome wheels and spinners. The wheels are worth ten times what the cars cost. It is hard for me to believe that someone actually sat down and designed an accessory automobile wheel that will not fit under the fenders of any car made. Plus the wheels make the cars they are installed on look very much like old fashioned circus wagons.

I blame it on the educational system. Kids nowdays are not taught any economics. These kids have no taste or sense of proportion. It seems fine to a modern kid to spend three-thousand dollars on ugly wheels for a three-hundred dollar car. Today, it's all bigger is better. Now, I hear that stores are actually RENTING these ugly wheels and tires so that cash strapped mentally deficient people can put ugly wheels on their cars. Isn't that comparable to renting your underwear? This is indicative of the present decline and fall of American society. It has to be.

2007-02-02T12:45:00.000-08:00

WHY AM I SKEPTICAL ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING? (1)

A 21-page report from something called the "Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change" has been released today...in Paris, no less...and as expected, it's predictions are dire. According to the report: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level." Yeah right...we've heard all this before.But the biggest bombshell here is this one: no matter what we do, global warming will not be reversed. It will go on for centuries, according to this report. The sea levels will continue to rise as polar ice caps melt. So I guess if Al Gore wins his Nobel Peace Prize, we'll still experience global warming. So much for riding to work everyday in your hybrid car...it's not doing a thing. The situation is futile, according to this report.But really, it makes sense that the global warming crowd would come to this conclusion. After all, global warming is a religion. The anti-capitalist enviro-nazis don't ever want the problem to be solved. After all, if global warming were to be solved tomorrow, what would they blame the United States for? They'd have to find some other reason.

Sorry .. I'm still a skeptic. In no particular order here are just a few of the reasons why I'm not buying this man-made global warming scare:

1. The United Nations is anti-American and anti-Capitalist. In short .. I don't trust them. Not a bit. The UN would eagerly engage in any enterprise that would weaken capitalist economies around the world.

2. Because after the fall of the Soviet Union and worldwide Communism many in the anti-capitalist movement moved to the environmental movement to continue pursuing their anti-free enterprise goals. Many of the loudest proponents of man-made global warming today are confirmed anti-capitalists.

3. Because the sun is warmer .. and all of these scientists don't seem to be willing to credit a warmer sun with any of the blame for global warming.

4. The polar ice caps on Mars are melting. How did our CO2 emissions get all the way to Mars?

5. It was warmer in the 1930s across the globe than it is right now.

6. It wasn't all that long ago that these very same scientists were warning us about "global cooling" and another approaching ice age?

7. How much has the earth warmed up in the last 100 years? One degree. Now that's frightening.

8. Because that famous "hockey stick" graph that purports to show a sudden warming of the earth in the last few decades is a fraud. It ignored previous warming periods ... left them off the graph altogether.

9. The infamous Kyoto accords exempt some of the world's biggest CO2 polluters, including China and India.

10. The Kyoto accords can easily be seen as nothing less than an attempt to hamstring the world's dominant capitalist economies.

11. Because many of these scientists who are sounding the global warming scare depend on grant money for their livelihood, and they know the grant money dries up when they stop preaching the global warming sermon.

12. Because global warming "activists" and scientists seek to punish those who have different viewpoints. If you are sure of your science you have no need to shout down or seek to punish those who disagree.

13. What happened to the Medieval Warm Period? In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a chart showing climatic change over a period of 1000 years. This graph showed a Medieval warming period in which global temperatures were higher than they are today. In 2001 the IPCC issued another 1000 year graph in which the Medieval warming period was missing. Why?

14. Why has one scientist promoting the cause of man-made global warming been quoted as saying "we have to get rid of the medieval warming period?"

15. Why is the ice cap on the Antarctic getting thicker if the earth is getting warmer?

16. In the United State, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that.

17. There are about 160,000 glaciers around the world. Most have never been visited or measured by man. The great majority of these glaciers are growing, not melting.

18. Side-looking radar interferometry shows that the ise mass in the West Antarctic is growing at a rate of over 26 gigatons a year. This reverses a melting trend that had persisted for the previous 6,000 years.

19. Rising sea levels? The sea levels have been rising since the last ice age ended. That was 12,000 years ago. Estimates are that in that time the sea level has risen by over 300 feet. The rise in our sea levels has been going on long before man started creating anything but natural CO2 emissions.

20. Like Antarctica, the interior of Greenland is gaining ice mass.

21. Over the past 3,000 years there have been five different extended periods when the earth was measurably warmer than it is today.

22.During the last 20 years -- a period of the highest carbon dioxide levels -- global temperatures have actually decreased. That's right ... decreased.

23. Why did a reporter from National Public Radio refuse to interview David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma studying global warming, after his testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unless Deming would state that global warming was being caused by man?

24. Why are global warming proponents insisting that the matter is settled and that no further scientific research is needed? Why are they afraid of additional information?

25. On July 24, 1974 Time Magazine published an article entitled "Another Ice Age?" Here's the first paragraph:

"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

(1) From Neal Boortz's web site http://boortz.com Neal's News: February 2, 2007 by Neal Boortz

2007-01-31T16:22:00.000-08:00

Too Much Non-News!!

America is overwhelmed, drowning in non-news. There are news programs, news magazines, news websites, news analysis, news, news, news. The problem is that most of what is reported is not news. It is blatant propaganda, publicity and/or fluff. For instance, just tonight, January 31, 2007, We were treated to an in depth analysis of Sen. Joe Biden calling Sen. Osama Obama "clean". There was great debate among "news" analyists about whether "clean" was a "racial slur." On the same broadcast we heard about some group of "select" scientists who are putting out an "earth shaking" report on global warming. The "scientists" say that "Global Warming" could last one-thousand years, and, of course, it's all our fault. We heard a breathless reporter tell us about Tyra Banks, a model or something I think, crying because some mean people called her "fat." We heard that Jennifer Anniston denies having had a nose and boob job. We heard all about Miss America getting out of rehab, and we heard for the umpteenth time about Roise O'Donnel and Donald Trump's "feud."

None of this was the least bit important or interesting to me. None of it affected my life at all. All of it was tripe of the stupidest and most elementary kind. We are inundated daily with such non-news hogwash as the above while the real news goes under reported or unreported. For instance, it seems that lovable Democrat leader Senator Harry Reid was recently involved in a land deal scandal that netted him a tidy profit at the expense of those who voted for him. (1)

Have you heard a word about this on network news? I bet you haven't. And, you probably will not because this a real news story. It is important for us to know that an elected representative in Washington is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. While Sen. Reid enjoys his illicit gains from a frauduluent land deal we will hear very little or nothing about this scandal. In the meantime we can rest assured that we will know all about some ditsy Hollywood starlet's illegitimate baby and her "babydaddy".

(1) The Associated Press reported that (Sen.) Reid gained a windfall from that sale of land in 2004 even though he had not personally owned the property for the previous three years. Reid also did not divulge the 2001 transfer of the land to a company he co-owned with a friend, a transaction that would normally call for a mention in Senate financial disclosure documents, the AP said.
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 12, 2006; Page A03

2007-01-30T08:31:00.000-08:00

Why in God's name should we listen to anything that Hollywood types like Susan Sarandon, Jane Fonda, Danny Glover etc. have to say about the War Against Terrorism or anything else for that matter? Sure, they have the same right to speak their mind as any other American has. The difference is that they, for some reason unknown to me, can command a much larger audience than the average Joe American. They are able to spout their vile anti-American prattle unchallenged over the national airways. And, most disturbing of all, people listen to them.

Last week in Washington, DC the usual crowd of suspects showed up for a big anti-Bush/War rally. Even Hanoi Jane Fonda came out of retirement for the event. It all boiled down to the following equation; War = Bad Capitulation = Good, America = Bad Every Other Country = Good, President Bush = Bad Radical Islam = Good.

Now, just what qualifications do these "Stars", and I use the term lightly, have to dictate our country's foreign policy? I don't know? I'm asking you? Have any of them graduated from a prestigious foreign policy institute? Have any of them graduated from college? High School? A day care center? What have they done other than make some pretty good movies and congratulate themselves at various awards banquets? Does making a movie about brain surgery make one a surgeon? Does making a movie about nuclear energy make one an expert on nuclear physics? Etc, etc. I think not.

These pathetic people are left-overs from the flower children age of the sixties and seventies. The world is a different place, now. Radical Muslims want to KILL US and take over our country. They want to FORCE us to become Muslims. If we refuse, they want us to pay them tribute or KILL US. This includes killing Hollywood numb skulls as well as the rest of us. How are Jane Fonda and Susan Sarandon going to look wearing blankets with veils over their faces? Well, in the case of these two maybe it will be an improvement.

But, I digress, the point is that the Hollywood Left have no viable ideas to offer us on how to protect this country other than for us to run away and hide our heads in the sand. They offer no solutions now, just like they offered no solution during the Vietnam War. People like these are after publicity and power. They don't care about the military. They have no love for this country. They are so self-possessed that they actually think that whatever they say should be listened to, by us, with rapt attention, agreed to, and then carved upon a mountain for all to see. Yet, what they say is never well thought out or very worthy of consideration. They spout worn out platitudes and sixty second sound bites. They are not smarter than are we, just better heard.

Just for the record, I will NEVER forget what Jane Fonda did to us during the Vietnam War. I forgive her because I am a Christian and she is stupid, but I don't forget. Jane Fonda is a traitor to this country and should be in prison.

2007-01-19T20:40:00.000-08:00

Jesus and the Y Chromosome
By Bob Manning

I am not of this world. John 8:23KJV

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth. John 1:14 KJV

I teach children’s Sunday School at my church from time to time. One question that I occasionally get is, "What did Jesus Christ look like? Did he look like us? Was He a man?" My answer is that the sad truth is no one now alive knows exactly what Jesus looked like. The world’s museums house many thousands of depictions of Jesus Christ made over the two-thousand odd years since His death. Some artists depict Jesus as a tall, handsome, blue-eyed blonde with decidedly Nordic features. Others have shown Him to be more Middle Eastern in appearance. Still others paint Jesus as vaguely Indian, Oriental or Negroid in his looks. It seems that each ethnic group has a tendency to cast Jesus’ appearance in their own shadow.

Jesus most likely resembled those around Him. Nowhere in the written Biblical accounts does it say that Jesus had any abnormalities that would have set him apart from other Jews of his time. To them He must have appeared "normal" or his abnormalities would have been mentioned in the Bible. He was a human male who fit well into his time and place. Was He handsome or plain looking we will never know. I believe that Jesus Christ was fully human, just like you and me, but he was fully the deity as well. What would have set Jesus apart from those around Him would have been His Godly character, His compassion for others, His unique teaching ability and His aura of love.

The first man is of the earth, earthly: the second man is the
Lord from Heaven. 1 Cor. 15:47 KJV

II.

Then God said let us make man in our image… Genesis 1:26 NIV

Before I make the argument that Jesus was fully human as well as fully God, I feel that a brief discussion of the basics of humanity is necessary. We must talk a bit about chromosomes, DNA, eggs and sperm, and how they relate to mankind in general and Jesus in particular.

All living things are made up of cells that are in turn made up of Chromosomes. Chromosomes are composed of molecules of DNA and protein.1 We all learned in our high school Biology classes that DNA molecules are located in the nucleus of every cell. DNA contains all the information needed to create a living thing, be it an amoeba or a human. The female egg cells contain only an X chromosome. The male sperm cells contain either an X or a Y chromosome. When the male sperm cell unites with the female egg cell the sperm cell deposits its chromosome package into the female egg, thus completing the process of fertilization. If the male sperm cell is an X cell it deposits an X chromosome. The fertilized egg will then contain two X chromosomes, one donated by the mother, the other donated by the father. The resulting offspring will be an XX egg, or female. If the fertilizing sperm cell is a Y cell it deposits a Y chromosome. The resulting fertilized egg will be an XY or male egg.

Each person’s DNA is a combination of the DNA donated by his mother and the DNA donated by his father during egg fertilization. To be human a fertilized egg must have 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46 chromosomes and one pair of XX or XY gender chromosomes, or 48 chromosomes in all.

It would appear that the Y chromosome is the more dominate of the pair. Since God must have donated the gender chromosome that created Jesus, one would expect that God would donate the dominant chromosome, or the Y chromosome.

It is the male sperm cell, the X or Y cell that determines the sex of an offspring. Do I mean to say that God is a male diety? Without sticking my neck out too far I will say that I suspect that God can appear in any form that He wishes, but in the case of Jesus’s conception it would stand to reason that God was a male at that time and place. All I can say for sure is that Jesus received His Y chromosome from a male donor, and as we will learn below, evidently that donor wasn’t Mary’s husband, Joseph. How the male donor delivered that Y chromosome is another topic for speculation.

III.

The Lord formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:7 NIV

Human DNA determines everything about a human being from hair color and eye color to gender and physical characteristics. Jesus received his unique DNA from both his mother, Mary (X chromosome) and his father, God (Y chromosome). Genesis 1:26 tells us that God created man in his image. This could mean that God created man to resemble Him physically, mentally or both. If Genesis 1:26 means that God created man to resemble Him physically, that could be stated simply as God created man to have one head, two arms, two legs, and a torso. If Genesis 1:26 means God created man to resemble Him mentally, then it could mean that God gave man the ability to think and reason. If "in our image" means both physical and mental resemblance then we have in man a creation that physically resembles the creator, and has the ability to think and reason. This information would have been carefully coded by the Creator into man’s chromosomes and the DNA contained therein.

The Bible states that Jesus was created by God to be born of woman and be fully human.

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son,
made of a woman, made under the law. Gal. 4:4 KJV

To deny Jesus’s humanity is to deny the basic tenants of Christianity. Christians believe that Jesus was both God and human, thus fulfilling the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The most telling example of Jesus’ humanity in the Bible can be found in the book of Luke. It is Jesus’ last prayer in the Garden of Gesthemane said just moments before he is arrested. He prays:

"Father if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will
but yours be done. Luke 22:42 KJV

Here Jesus does what any human in this situation might do. He prays for deliverance from his fate. Jesus knows what tortures await him. He is afraid. He cries to his father for help. Jesus does not want to lose his life. These are very human emotions. Another example of the humanity of Jesus is the shortest verse in the Bible. Upon viewing his friend, Lazarus, in the tomb, the Apostle John says:

"Jesus wept." John 11:35 KJV

What more human emotion is there? Jesus cried for his friend who had passed away. He mourned the death of a friend, even though Jesus must have known that He had the ability to raise Lazarus from the dead. Even during the crucifixion Jesus felt pain, humiliation, despair, fear, and sadness. These are all human feelings and reactions. He felt the nails pierce his hands and feet. He experienced shortness of breath from hanging on the cross with his arms outstretched. He expired in a most human way, his heart gave out. Human blood coursed through His veins as evidenced by the water and blood that flowed from His body when His side was pierced by a Centurion’s spear. In every aspect His death shows His humanity. He died from the wounds He received during the scourging and crucifixion. Jesus had to be fully human in order that He might die and fulfill the ancient prophecy. This was God’s plan.

"(The) Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself. He
shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering."
Daniel 9:26,27 KJV

The Bible further states that Jesus was born a male child. All depictions and descriptions of Jesus Christ show him to be male in gender. Nowhere in the Bible, or in history for that matter, does anyone indicate that Jesus was anything other than a human male. Luke plainly says in regards to Mary’s delivery:

And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. Luke 2:7 NIV

That Jesus was a man is without a doubt. His cells would have contained the usual 46 chromosomes plus one pair of gender chromosomes. In Jesus’ case the gender chromosomes he possessed must have been the XY pair that is necessary for the creation of a male baby. Of course some might argue that since Jesus was the "Son of God" and God incarnate on Earth his cells could have contained no DNA. Jesus cells could have been made up of lime Jello, if that was God’s wish. However, God’s wish seems to have been for Jesus to be fully human. Thus, his cells were just like yours or mine. They contained DNA and the XY chromosome pair that made him male. So, how did Jesus receive the DNA necessary for His human condition?

Jesus would have received one X chromosome from his mother Mary. But, Mary could not have donated the Y chromosome necessary for Jesus to be a male child. Jesus’ earthly father, Joseph, could not have donated the necessary Y chromosome either because the Bible emphatically states in Matthew 1:18 that Joseph did not have sexual relations with Mary before Jesus’ birth.

His mother, Mary, was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before
they came together she was found to be with child through the Holy
Spirit. Matthew1:18 NIV

Just where did this Y chromosome come from? The Bible states in Mark 1:10 that Jesus was the "Son of God."

As Jesus was coming up out of the water , he saw heaven being torn open
and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove. And a voice came from Heaven:
"You are my son whom I love; with you I am well pleased."
Mark 1: 10-11 NIV

It is reported in Luke that Mary was impregnated by the "Spirit of the Lord."

The angel answered, "The Holy spirit will come upon you and the power of the
most high will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called
the "Son of God." Luke 1:35 KJV

Conservative Christians generally believe in the inerrancy of the Bible. They accept the statements in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke that Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived. That is, Jesus’ conception did not involve male sperm. This would imply that God either created a living embryo with a unique human DNA in one of Mary’s fallopian tubes, or God created special DNA which fertilized an ovum produced by Mary’s body. Thus, Jesus would have had DNA that was either fifty percent or one-hundred percent created uniquely by God. 2
So, Jesus had to have received the Y chromosome from his father, God. As a part of that Y chromosome package came unique DNA created by God carrying the chemical instructions for forming the male baby Jesus.

The Bible states that Jesus was not only human in form and nature, but that he developed over the years as a normal child would.

And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom,
and the grace of God was upon him. Luke 2:40 NIV

Jesus probably resembled his mother Mary in some ways since he, also, inherited her DNA. He, most likely, would not have closely resembled his earthly father since he received no DNA from Joseph. Jesus would have resembled his siblings only so much as they all, Jesus included, looked like their mother.

Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary?
and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon, and Judas?
and his sisters are they not all with us?
Matt. 13:55-56 KJV

As Christians we believe that Jesus was both fully human and fully God. When asked by the High Priest, Caiaphas, if he was the "Son of God called the Christ" Jesus replied:

"Thou hast said: nevertherless I say unto you, heareafter shall ye see
the "son of man"sitting on the right-hand of power and coming in the
clouds of Heaven." Matthew 26:64 KJV

Jesus’ human characteristics came from a combination of his mother’s DNA and his father’s DNA. His heavenly characteristics came only from his heavenly father. I suspect that Jesus may have born a close resemblance to his heavenly father, God. It seems quite probable that Jesus inherited his appearance from the unique DNA donated by his heavenly father, God. Through that DNA Jesus would have inherited some of God’s physical characteristics, just like I inherited some physical characteristics from my father. So, is God human looking? I would say, "Yes, when He chooses to be."

IV.

And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
John 12:45 KJV

So, what did Jesus look like? I theorize that He resembled his earthly mother, and he resembled his heavenly Father. His appearance was determined by the genome coded in His chromosomes that were donated by both His parents. Jesus would have resembled His Father both physically and spiritually. After all, Jesus was his Father’s son.

I and my father are one. John 10:30 KJV

It is very unfortunate that cameras were not invented during the time of Jesus. Had they been, and had a picture of Jesus survived the ensuing centuries we could have gotten a glimpse of the face of the Creator. Perhaps upon seeing the baby Jesus the angels said to each other, "He looks just like his Father." To look on the face of Jesus would have been to truly look on the face of God.

He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne.
Zech: 6:13KJV

The preceding is a theory based upon some universal Biblical and scientific knowledge mixed with a little of my own conjecture. It is not my intention here to insult anyone’s religious beliefs However, that having been said I believe that God gave each of us a brain and along with that brain He gave us curiosity. It is curiosity that forces us to try to understand the unknowable, and forces us try to make sense of the past, present and the future.

Footnotes

Chromosomes and Gender, About.Biology,. Web Page.

Robinson, B.A. Web Page,

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Chromosomes and Gender, About.Biology, web page, About, Inc., A part of The New York
Times Company, 2007.

Holy Bible, The King James Version; Cambridge University Press, Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London,

Holy Bible, New International Version, Cornerstone Bible Publishers, Nashville, TN, 1999.

Nave, Orville J., Naves Topical Bible, The Southwestern Company, Nashville, TN, 1962.

Robinson B.A. Web Page, Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Dec. 26, 2007

2007-01-08T10:01:00.000-08:00

URGENT REQUEST FOR ACTION!!!

Now is the time for all Conservatives, Republicans and Libertarians to stand up and make your views known to your elected representatives. The Democratic majorities in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate think that they have received a mandate from the people to do as they please for the next two years. Their plans include "fixing Social Security" by raising taxes and ignoring the inherent problems with Social Security, giving what amounts to amnesty to illegal aliens, and forfeiting the War Against Terrorism. You must write, call or email your US Senators and Congresspersons, NOW, and urge them to vote against any plans submitted by the Democratic majority that would further weaken this country.

Liberal Democrats are dangerous to our nation, and weak kneed Republicans seem willing to go along with them. Unless YOU make your wishes known your politicians will do as they please. CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSPERSON NOW!!

2007-01-05T19:57:00.000-08:00

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Speaker
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20002

January, 4, 2007

Dear Speaker Pelosi,

Politicians say that they want to hear the thoughts of the "common man." Well, I’m about as common as they come. I am a 59 year old white married male, retired, and living on a fixed income. Here are my fears concerning the next two years of Democratic domination of the US Congress.

I fear that (1) regardless of what the Democrats say partisan politics will continue to hamper government reform in many areas including Social Security reform and tax reform, both of which I support. (2) Ethics among politicians on the national level will continue to decline under the Democrats as it has under the Republicans, ie: Rep William Jefferson (D. LA) who, as yet, has not even been censured for his gross misbehaviors. (3) Democrats will push for a system of socialized medicine that will wreck the national health care system in America and will bring to a stop any future medical research. (4) Our tax money will, as usual, be squandered on useless and unwanted social programs that only serve to keep poor people dependent on government handouts that do not offer the poor a chance to better themselves through their own initiatives. (5) Our children will continue to be taught in public schools that "Global Warming" and "the Theory of Evolution" are established facts and not the unproven theories that they are. (6) We will default on the "War Against Terrorism" thus opening our country up to future attacks. (7) Presidential appointments will be stymied at every turn regardless of the qualifications of the candidates. (8) The "America is wrong, America is bad" crowd, led by such misguided people as Cindy Sheehan, will gain strength through mass media coverage, exploitation by certain politicians, and the mindless rantings of Hollywood demigods like Martin Sheen and Barbara Streisand. (9) Our country will continue to be given away to illegal Mexican aliens at an alarming pace. Democrats will push through laws and measures written to by-pass our immigration statutes and give legitimacy to these lawbreakers. Nothing will be done to protect our borders because Democrats believe these people to be their next big voter base. (10) The "Europeanism" of America will continue under Democratic control of Congress. More and more our country will yield to the concept of "World Law over our Constitutional Law."

Well, those are my fears. I hope that you will prove me wrong, Ms. Pelosi, but somehow, I doubt that you will.

Respectfully,

2007-01-02T09:50:00.000-08:00

Here are my political predictions for 2007.

1. The Democrats will raise our taxes to support unneeded social programs.
2. President Bush, who I have supported in the past, will continue to pussyfoot around trying to appease the Democrats and will accomplish nothing this year.
3. Nancy Pelosi will not last as the House Majority Leader. She is just too weird even for Demos.
4. The war in Iraq will go on just as it has with nothing much done by the US to win it.
5. There will be a major terrorist attack on American soil this year.
6. The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign will suffer some major setbacks.
7. A high profile Democratic leader will be caught in a very embarrassing situation and will have to resign his/her office.
8. A high profile Republican leader will be caught in a very embarrassing situation and will have to resign his/her office.
9. Socialized Medicine will come closer to being a reality. The Fair Tax will not.
10. Social Security laws will not change. Social Security will continue to be the worst investment you can make with your money.

There you have it. Check back in 2008 and see if I am not right. Happy New Year!

2006-12-19T11:16:00.000-08:00

A Review of the book, AWESOME BILL FROM DAWSONVILLE, MY LIFE IN NASCAR, by Bill Elliott and Chris Millard, as submitted to Amazon.com.

I have been a NASCAR fan since before it was NASCAR. I can remember going with my Daddy to races at Daytona, FL when they were held on a course that was part beach and part paved road. I loved racing then and I love it now. The primeval growl of the engines, the excitement of head to head finishes and the spectacle of it all still thrills me as much today as it did when I was seven years old.

During all that time I never pulled for one particular driver over the others, that is until Bill Elliott and his brothers Dan and Ernie came on the scene in the late 1970’s. Their outfit was so rag-tag at first that you just could not help but root for them. It became a habit for me and for a lot of other people. Then along about 1984 the Elliotts begin to win races! At first just one here and there and later lots of them. They won the first Winston Million in 1985 along with eleven super speedway races and eleven poles. Three years later the Elliotts won the 1988 Winston Cup Championship, beating a very determined Rusty Wallace by just a few points.

During a career that has spanned over twenty-five years the Elliotts have set closed course speed records at Talladega, won the "Most Popular Driver" NASCAR award a record number of times, won forty-four NASCAR races and over seventy-three million dollars in purses. The Elliotts became the best known family in any sport in America. Bill Elliott was the first NASCAR driver to ever appear on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. All this was accomplished while working their magic from a tiny operation just outside of Dawsonville, GA. Racing against the likes of Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Sr., Bobby Allison and most of the biggest names in NASCAR, the shy red-headed country boy, William Clyde Elliott, became the superstar athlete "Awesome Bill form Dawsonville."

The National Association of Stock Car Racing, NASCAR, owes much of its current popularity to the Elliott Family. As the Elliotts grew in the hearts of their fans so did NASCAR grow from a regional, little appreciated, sport into the worldwide multi-billion dollar industry it is today. In his book, Awesome Bill From Dawsonville, My Life in NASCAR, co-written by Bill Elliott and Chris Millard, Mr. Elliott details the hardships and glories that a professional racecar driver can experience. While this book is about racing, it is even more about the relationships between the three Elliott brothers, Ernie, the oldest, Dan, the middle brother, Bill the youngest brother and their father, George, and the bonds of family and determination that held their operation together.

As literature, Awesome Bill From Dawsonville, My life in NASCAR, ain’t Shakespeare, but, it works very well as the story of three brothers who make good and of their father who instilled in them the virtues of hard work, honesty and drive. This is not exactly a "rags to riches" story, but it serves as a reminder to all of us that you get out of life in exact proportion to that which you put into it. The Elliotts never dreamed that they would one day be at the pinnacle of their sport, but through hard work, some good beaks and family loyalty they made it. They will go down in sports history as one of the finest families in NASCAR. Their red and gold number nine Thunderbird is forever etched in automobile racing history.

2006-12-12T11:16:00.000-08:00

The Truth as I know it.

Well, the truth is that I don't know very much, and the older I get the less I do know. However, that having been said here are twenty-five things of which I am sure.

1. O.J. did it.
2. Jon Benet's parents didn't.
3. There is such a thing as a free lunch, it's called a government entitlement.
4. Power corrupts.
5. Communisn doesn't work.
6. Socialism doesn't work.
7. Pure Democracy doesn't work either.
8. Until we reduce our dependence on foreign oil we will remain entangled in Middle Eastern affairs.
9. Al Gore lost the election fair and square.
10. There are no true atheists.
11. There is very little difference between the National Democrat Party and the National Republican Party.
12. Most politicians spend all their time in trying to insure reelection and not in representing their constituents.
13. The governments of Louisanna and New Orleans caused the Katrina disaster. (Not the hurricane, the disaster afterwards.)
14. The U.S. can ill afford to be the World's police force.
15. Koffi Annan was the most corrupt, least effective, and most anti-American leader that the UN has ever had. Good riddance to him.
16. Astronauts did land on the Moon in 1969 regardless of what you've heard to the contrary.
17. 9/11 was planned and caused by radical Islamists and not by some vast government conspiracy.
18. Our auto industry could build very high gas mileage cars if our government would stay out of the way.
19. When someone says they are from the government and they are here to help, one thing is usually true. Things will get very much worse.
20. Evolution is not a fact it is a theory. The fossil record does not support the theory. Check it out for yourself.
21. 99.99% of the people who are in jail in this country are guilty of the crime for which they have been sentenced.
22. Children, even yours, will lie if it suits their purposes. So will adults.
23. God made all creation including you. How and when He did it is His business.
24. When you read the Christian Bible you feel better.
25. Jesus Christ lived, died in agony on the cross for our sins, was burried, and rose from the grave three days later.

I've got a hundred more things I could add to this list but that's enough. Have a safe and Merry Christmas.

2006-12-04T08:37:00.000-08:00

Below is an open letter to Senator Jay Rockefeller, D. WV. regarding his recent demand that the Exxon Mobile Corporation "cease and desist" from spending their money for advertisements that dispel the theory of global warming.

Dear Senator Rockefeller,

In reference to your recently reported demand that the Exxon Mobile Corporation cease and desist from using their money to attempt to dispel the global warming theory, and that they instead spend this money promoting the theory of global warming might I remind you of a few important things.

First, eventhough it sticks in the Democratic craw Exxon Mobile, like you and me, has the right to spend their money any legal way that their board of directors and the stock holders of the corporation see fit. This is called "Freedom of Speech" and it is guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution. That is not a theory. It is a fact.

Second, just because the Democratic Party is preparing to take the reins of power in the U.S. Congress and Senate, that does not give you the right to make demands of anyone. You can express your opinion, just as I am doing here, but that is all. Being an U.S. Senator you are a public servant and as such you represent those who elected you. You can just as easily be unelected by those same voters. We, the citizens of the U.S. do not need you or the Congress of the United States to protect us against big business. If we do not approve of Exxon Mobile's stand on the issue of global warming we can take action against them by voting with our wallets.

Third, global warming is an unproven theory and not a fact as it is reported that you stated in your letter to Exxon Mobile. I cannot find one shread of viable evidence, including Senator Gore's recent movie, to support the theory that anything man has done, or could do, could cause global warming. This is just another excuse to widen the preceived power of the government.

Might I suggest that you should spend your time working on the more important issues facing us, such as the Hispanic invasion from across our southern border and in finding ways to keep this country from becoming the next Islamic state.

Respectfully submitted,

Conservatoid Number One

Where do people like Senator Rockefeller get the idea that they can dictate to a person or a corporation how legally earned funds can be spent? Senator Rockefeller is a man who has lived his entire life on a trust fund provided by the Rockefeller family. His lifestyle is funded by money earned from "big oil." Like Senator Ted Kennedy, Mr. Rockefeller has no ideas of his own, but spouts the ultra-liberal Democrat Party line. These people fancy themselves to be great liberal thinkers who help the poor and down trodden. In fact they are elitists who wish to dictate to the rest of us how we should live, while they spend their time vacationing in France and riding around in chauffeur driven limos. God preserve us from the good intentions of such people!

2006-11-22T20:25:00.000-08:00

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT!

If you hear a knock on your door late at night, DO NOT ANSWER. It could be GLOBAL WARMING! Yes, with the help of the Democrats' Global Warming is at it again, terrorizing Liberals and enviro-whackos everywhere. GW, as it likes to be called, has reportedly wreaked havoc on the ice covered Arctic and Antarctic and is now moving toward America.

"Within three months GW will be melting orange Slushies in your town," say "scientists." "Temperatures could reach the upper eighties by July and into the nineties by August." Famous friend of GW, almost president Al, Is it hot or is it just me? Gore predicts that air conditioner use will double or even triple by June. "GW is real, and it's here to stay, in a few months," says the ex-VP, "Lock your doors and bar your windows."

Interviewed in its posh lake house in San Paulo, Brazil Global Warming had this to say. "I plan to take over the whole world, or at least the Northern Hemisphere. Temperatures will rise dramatically. In Georgia people will perspire. Hairy men will be seen wearing muscle shirts. Weight impared women will spill out of their yellow or pink stretch pants and halter tops while wandering around Wal~Mart Stores. I will show no mercy. With the Democrats taking over Congress in January, a wave of hot air will pour out of Washington, DC the likes of which you haven't seen since weathermen got the green screen. Why, the humidity emanating from Ted Kennedy alone will be enough to warm Boston for several years! This will be a big help for me," GW said with a sneer on its sweat dappled lips.

So, lock up your ice cream sandwiches, GW is on its sweaty way.

2006-11-10T10:05:00.000-08:00

My Democrat Plan for America

The recent election which placed the Democrats in power means that the Demos have to come up with some kind of plan for running the country. Since they have, as of this writing, not been able to devise a coherent plan of action I have taken it upon myself to do it for them. Here is my Democrat Plan for America.

1. We must cut and run from Iraq. We must make sure the exit is a messy affair and, most important, we must blame it all on the Republicans and the Bush Administration. It is imperative that this action be completed immediately so that our Al Qaeda allies can proceed with our mutual goal of destroying America.

2. We must throw the nation's boarders open so that more potential Democrat voters can enter this country illegally. Amnesty for illegal aliens is vital. Amnesty will increase our power base and further our goal of weakening America. Amnesty will bring the US more in line with the liberal thinking of our European friends.

3.We must create an expensive, useless, Eurpoean type Health Care Plan that, we, Democrats, will control to care for our new consitiuents. This plan should shift its substantial costs to the middle class. It is important that this Health Care Plan be mandatory for all.

4. We must immediately begin the impeachment of President Bush. Though the American people don’t want this, and we have no hope of success, the process must be drawn out over the next two years so that we will not have to deal with any real problems.

5. We must install John Murtha or some other radical left-wing nut in a position of extreme importance, such as House Majority Whip, so that his radical rantings can be heard and enjoyed by all. Also, we must do something about Cindy Sheehan now that she has become irrelevant.

6. We must make gay marriage legal in all states and the District of Columbia plus Puerto Rico and all outlying possessions. It is very important that our homosexual friends be able to legally consummate their unions, however it is that they do that. We must try to include interspecies marriage and marriage between humans and inanimate objects for our supporters in San Francisco.

7. We must work to outlaw Christianity as soon as possible. Unlike Islam, Christianity is a dangerous, violent religion that preaches hate and prejudice. We must strive to make Kennedy Worship the new national religion.

8. We must raise taxes as high as possible to pay for all the social programs we plan to pass. We must improve the tax code by adding one thousand new amendments, thus increasing the, already, indecipherable mess into an unholy, God awful total disaster.

9. We must shift money from the military budget into our social programs where we can better control those funds. After all, once we cut and run from Iraq we won't need the military any more. We will leave the military enough money to purchase new socks for the troops, who we love and support.

10. We must work to ban talk radio. People like Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz are so negative. We must make the beloved Al Franken the spokesperson for our country. After all, his AIR AMERICA program was such a big success.

In conclusion, we must try to screw up the country so badly that people will be sick of us, Democrats, by 2008, and thus re-elect the Republicans to majorities in the House and Senate as well as the Presidency. Then they can clean up the mess we have made, and we can go back to whining and complaining without having to offer any actual useful solutions to any problems that might arise.

Well, that's quite a lot of work to do in just two years. Democrats, get busy!

2006-10-05T08:06:00.000-07:00

Midterm elections are coming up and the media have their panties in a wad trying to figure out if the Democrats are going to gain seats in the House and throw out the Republicans. I say, with all honesty, what difference does it make? All politicians these days seem to have more in common than they have differences. They all want to get elected, to stay in power forever, and to spend our tax money on pork barrel projects that will keep them in office. So, why bother to exchange bad Republican Congresspersons for an equally bad bunch of Democrat Congresspersons. Let's just throw them all out and start over with a new batch of perverts, crooks and sycophants.

Yep, let's just get rid of the whole rotten, nasty herd. We can do it by electing our representatives based upon their qualifications, proven track record, and election platforms not based on to which of the identical twin parties they belong. Our representative democracy has moved so far away from the original intent of the founders that there is no comparison between then and now. We pay our representatives too much money; we delegate too much power to them, we continue to elect deviates, like Ted Kennedy, regardless of what they do or how they act. Then we get all hot and bothered when our elected officials behave like the spoiled brats they are.

Our country stagnates in a morass of political indecision and political correctness while our borders are over run. Radical special interest groups that dictate to our elected representatives how they should vote now control the U.S. Congress and which of the groups' pet projects legislators should support. We quake in our collective boots each time some Islamic ass utters a threat against us and then wring our hands like old women wondering what we should do. We reward our enemies and have no real friends. We, the most powerful country that has ever existed, cannot or will not exert our considerable power to rid the world of power crazed lunatics and insane religious zealots. We worry about the "rights" of murderers and child molesters while innocent people are preyed upon by marauding thugs. Our police are hamstrung by asinine laws and regulations that hamper the capture and containment of criminals.

It has been said that the rich run the nation. Obviously that ain't so. If the rich did run the nation then maybe the business of the country would be run less like a seventh grade economics project. We give our elected officials trillions of dollars in tax money each year and then turn them loose to waste it any way they choose. What do we get for all this cash? We get bridges in Alaska that go nowhere, a corroding interstate highway system, Keystone Cops for airport security, Congresspersons who can't keep their hands out of little boys and little girls pants, and a woefully inadequate border security system. All this while the politicians sit in Washington paralyzed with fear that they might do something "wrong" and tick off the electorate.

The once hallowed halls of Congress are becoming more and more like an insane asylum that is being run by the inmates. While our country rots from the inside out Congresspersons and Senators twiddle their thumbs and debate whether Islamic terrorists are "Prisoners of War" and must they be treated according to the Geneva Convention. All while ex-Klu-Klux-Klaner, Sen. Robert Byrd, builds another high dollar memorial to himself in West Virginia.

How can we, as citizens correct these serious problems? Let me offer a modest proposal. One, we must institute term limits on members of the House and Senate. Term limits should be four terms for House members and two terms for senators. Present legislators would be allowed to finish the term they are in and that is it. Congresspersons would be required to sit out two terms of office before they would be eligible for reelection. Senators would not be eligible for reelection after their term(s) have ended or they were voted out of office. This would prevent legislators from establishing longevity and creating little fiefdoms for themselves.

Two, Congress should be limited to meeting for no more than three months a year. Only the president could call congress back into session and then only during times of war or national disaster. Then congress could only be in session until the immediate emergency ended or for an additional two months. This would prevent legislators from creating "make work" legislation and would greatly cut down the number of pieces of frivolous legislation.

Three, We would return to the original plan that the founders had for U.S. Senators. Senators were supposed to be the representatives for the state before the federal government. Originally the governor of each state appointed Senators. This policy should be reinstituted. The governors of the states should have the right to appoint and recall U.S. Senators as they please.

Four, salaries and benefits should be drastically cut for national legislators. Being a Congressional Representative or Senator should not be a fulltime job or a lifetime career. Legislators should be required to hold down tax paying jobs in their home states. Representation should be what it was intended to be a part-time public service. There would be no retirement benefits for either Congresspersons or Senators. Never again should we have a "Strom Thurmond" serving as a senator longer than the average person's lifetime.

Five, all national legislators should be required to give up office upon achievement of their 68th birthday regardless if their term had not expired at that time.

I suppose what I am saying is that it is time for real citizens to save our country from its elected leadership. Until we start demanding action and countability from the people we elect to public office we can expect to get more of the same. It makes no difference to which political party they belong.

2006-09-06T09:14:00.000-07:00

Cindy Sheehan is going to live in a tree house on the property bought for her near George Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas. How appropriate that a Loonie Bird like Sheehan should choose to live in a tree. This woman appears to be one cartridge short of a full load. The leftist media eats stuff like this up. One day, after her worth as a "useful idiot" is used up, Ms Sheehan will mostly be remembered as just another nut who was exploited by and then discarded by the Left. As Buddy Holly so eloquently put it, "Rave on!" Cindy.

2006-08-23T06:55:00.001-07:00

The following is a transcript of a call to the terrorist group Al Qaeda that was intercepted through US intelligence wiretaps.

(Phone rings) Hello, Praise Allah!
You have reached the Al Qaeda Terrorist Network. All of our operators are busy now. Your call is important to us, so please hold for the next available operator or press NINE now to choose another option. Death to Israel and America!

(Click – Buzz) If you wish to receive information about joining Al Qaeda in its Holy fight against the Zionist State of Israel and Imperalist America, please press ONE now.

If you wish to volunteer your child to be a suicide bomber for the cause, press TWO now.

If you would like to receive a copy of our informative pamphlet "Al Qaeda, Allah and You" please press THREE now.

If you wish to schedule a tour of Al Qaeda International Headquarters, press FOUR now.

If you are with the New York Times and you wish to pass on sensitive information to an Al Qaeda operative, press FIVE now and one will be with you shortly.

("Muskrat Love" begins playing in the background)

2006-08-17T09:57:00.000-07:00

My Top Ten Worst Vehicles I Have Owned, So Far...

10. 1987 Saab 900S - A fast little car but mega expensive to have worked on, which it needed regularly.

9. 1974 Chevy Vega- 72 MPH up hill or down, 18 MPG, leaked like Noah's Flood when it rained. The Vega burned oil and smoked, but the coating of burnt oil helped control the rust.

8. 1971 Super Beetle - Had air-conditioning. Slowed down 10 MPH when the compressor kicked in. It was slow, uncomfortable, and not very good on gas.

7. 1987 Mazda RX-7 - The rotory engine got better mileage the faster you drove it. So I drove it wide open all the time, which made it burn oil. It Leaked in the rain, and would spin out at the first drop of rain on the pavement.

6. 1971 Ford F-100 Pickup. Had the 360 V8. The right-rear spark plug was impossible to change. I had to remove the fender liner to get to it. Big time gas guzzler.

5. 1975 Chevrolet C-10 Pickup. Rode like a saddle sore camel. 8 MPG on the road. Wore out tires at 10,000 miles. The dealership's explaination was, "That's just the way they are."

4. 1971 Suzuki Motorcycle - 125 cc, 2 cycle engine smoked like the Orient Express. 35 MPH top speed. Had to kick start like a zillion times before it would run.

3. 1977 Chrysler Cordoba - Big, ugly, gas guzzler, leaked oil, parts fell off in the road awful car.

2. 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 - bought it when I got out of the Army in 1971. It was under powered with the 289 V8. The Galaxie was big, ugly and it ran hot every time I drove it. I finally traded it for a 1970 VW Bug. The Bug was one of the best cars I have owned.

And the ABSOLUTE worst vehicle I have owned, so far, was...

1. 1975 AMC Pacer X - I bought this car new in 1975 because of the gas crisis, big mistake. I would roast like a pig on a spit on a hot day with the air-conditioner set on zero because of all the glass in the car. The Pacer was powered by a reject Cheverolet in-line six cylinder engine with a one barrell carburetor. Top speed was around 75 MPH. It took about three city blocks to achieve that speed. The doors were so heavy you had to slam them to get them to shut. Then when you opened the doors the next time the door panels would fall off in the driveway. The rear hatch lid weighed about 200 pounds and the lift cylinders wore out in about a week. I finally gave up and used a broom stick to prop up the hatch. Sometimes while I was driving the Pacer it would just quit running. I would get out, open the hood and shake some wires, and it might start up and run. Some days this would happen two or three times. The dealership couldn't or wouldn't fix the problem. This car looked and drove like it was designed by first graders on acid. It was an ugly abortion of a car!

2006-08-16T09:39:00.000-07:00

Cynthia McKenney, the Georgia US Representative who lost her bid for re-election, basically because she is a racist lunatic, is blaming her loss on electronic voting machines. She wants to get rid of them. McKenney, who is black, says electronic voting machines are unfair to minorities. I wonder, If Georgia still used paper ballots and Ms. McKenney still lost her bid for re-election would she want to do away with pencils? Just asking.

As for electronic voting machines being unfair to minorities, her opponent was a black man. Maybe electronic voting machines are only unfair to minority women, or minority lunatics like McKenney.

2006-08-15T20:16:00.000-07:00

So, the UN has finally brokered a "cease fire" plan between the Isralies and the murderers who call themselves the Hezbollah. The UN has tried really hard to create a plan that will allow Hezbollah to regroup and rearm while keeping those mean old Isralies at bay. Those folks at the UN really love a terrorist organization, don't they? Hopefully this cease fire will go the way of all UN brokered deals and fall flat on its face. Then the Isralies can get back to killing Moslem terrorists.

By the way, I hear that the British are going to, GASP!, start profiling for terrorists at their airports, etc. Now get this, the British are going to quit searching through ninety-year old ladies suitcases and start scanning for young Arab looking men to search! How on earth can they do this? Don't they know that these young Arabs will get their feelings hurt? If the British don't know just how un-politically correct profiling is I am sure that the American Democratic Party will be glad to tell them. That begs the question, just when are we in America going to wake up and start profiling for Arab terrorists and quit making every Tom, Dick and Harriett take off his/her shoes in our airports? Aside: Has any shoe bomber ever been successful in lighting his/her shoes and blowing anything up? Just asking.

Cudoes to the British. They finally get it. MOST TERRORIST ACTS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY YOUNG MOSLEM ARAB MEN, not five year old kids or blue haired old ladies. We profile all the time. If you are in a Catholic Church and you see a guy in a black robe you assume he is a some kind of priest. If you are in in prison and you see a guy dressed in stripes with a chain around his leg, you assume he is a prisoner. Likewise, if you are in Washington DC and you see a politician, you assume that he is a lying crook. Yeah, profiling works.

2006-08-11T12:26:00.000-07:00

President Bush has finally called the radical Islamic murderers by their true name, Islamic Fascists. Now, that it has been said out in the open in plain and simple, easy to understand language by a major world leader maybe, just maybe, we can begin to treat these cowardly dogs as the enemies to freedom and democracy that they are. Islamic fascists are not people who respect the rights of others to live their lives as they wish. These people live in a Dark Ages world ruled by ugliness and fear. The only deities that these hooligans worship are the gods of distruction, murder, and hate. That the world would be a better place without radical Islam goes without saying. These gangsters have hijacked the Moslem religion and are using it as a vehicle to carry out their evil in the world.

It is debatable why the Moslem world will not rise up and destroy these vermin in their midst who debase the Moslem religion. What is not debatable is the fact that radical Islam is destroying one of the the world's three great religions. Radical Islam will not defeat the Christian and Jewish Western World. It is not going to happen! Evil will always lose in the end. The Islamists are living in a world of false hopes and pipe dreams if they think that free people will just sit by and allow them to run amok. It will not be long before the great silent rational majority in the world rises up and grabs this venomous snake by the neck cuts off its head. When the radical Islamist Facists go down they will bring the Moslem world with them. The future is bleak for radical islam and those countries which support terrorism. Presently, they are too blinded by the promises of their false prophets to see it.

Just as the Nazis before them, Islam is doomed to fail in its plan to rule the world. The hand writing is already on the wall, but the Imams and Mullas can't read the message because it is written in Hebrew and English.

2006-08-07T14:29:00.000-07:00

To my great surprise in my mail, today, along with the usual bills and sale flyers I had a letter from Ex-Vice President Al Gore, who would have been our fourty-third president but for the fact that he lost the election. Now, this was quite a shock to me because I am neither a Democrat nor a member of any odd ball left-wing organizations. So, why on Earth would Al Gore, who would have been our fourty-third president but for the fact that he lost the election, be writing to me? Shaking in anticipation I tore open the envelope.

Well, it turns out that Mr. Gore, who would have been our fourty-third president but for the fact that he lost the election, was not contacting me for my thoughts on global warming, the problems in the Middle East, the internet, or any other earth shaking events. I would have been glad to express my opinions on any topic about which he chose to quiz me, but no! Mr. Gore, who would have been our fourty-third president but for the fact that he lost the election, wanted me to donate between twenty-five and five hundred dollars to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) so that more Democrats could be elected to public office. Had Mr. Gore known me better he would have surmised that the last thing I want to do is elect more Democrats to public office.

So, I took the donation card and wrote the following note to Mr. Gore, who would have been our fourty-third president but for the fact that he lost the election, on it. I quote:

Dear Al,
In reference to your nice personal note requesting that I donate my hard earned dollars to the DNC, after a lot of thought, I respectfully decline your kind offer. Your recent movie, An Inconvenient Truth, has convinced me that global warming (GW) will soon end all life on Earth. So, I can see no useful purpose in donating my money to the DNC. After all, if all life ceases to exist why would we need to elect Democrats, or any one else to public office? Wouldn’t that just be a waste of time? And, since GW is going to wipe out life on Earth, what good will my money be to the DNC? Who would be left to spend it? These are questions that need to be answered, quickly.

So, in conclusion, Al, you can chalk up my lack of a substantial donation to the DNC directly to the effects of global warming.

Respectfully,
Bob

I then carefully placed the card in the conveniently provided pre-stamped return envelope. I did not place my own first class stamp on it, as Al suggested, even though he assured me that by sacrificing my own thirty-nine cent stamp the DNC would be able use the thirty-nine cents it saved on postage to elect another Democrat. Well, it seems to me that at thirty-nine cents each Democrats sure come cheap! I thought it took about $90,000 wrapped in tin foil and hidden in a freezer , or at the very least the affections of a young intern, to buy one.

Mr. Gore, who would have been our fourty-third president but for the fact that he lost the election, should have saved the original thirty-nine cents that he spent mailing the donation request to me in the first place. Then maybe two Democrats could be elected .

2006-07-28T11:00:00.000-07:00

How to Tell if You are in Danger of Becoming a Looney Liberal

Take this simple test to determine if you are in danger of falling for the Liberal propaganda and becoming a member of the Looney Left. Choose only one answer A, B or C for each test question. At the end of the test I will tell you how to determine your score and danger level.

The Liberal Danger Test

1. If I had one-hundred dollars I would:
A. blow it on Brittany Spears CDs.
B. Donate it to my favorite charity.
C. Donate it to the United Nations Fund to Save the Albanian Hairless Rat.

2. The greatest US President to ever serve was:
A. Benjamin Franklin.
B. Ronald Regan.
C. Bill/Hillary Clinton.

3. I lay awake at night worrying about:
A. who will win on Celebrity Knitting.
B. the threat of militant Islamic aggression.
C. What if they drill for oil in Alaska? Those poor moose will suffer.

4. My favorite footwear is:
A. What’s footwear?
B. my tennies.
C. my Birkinstock Sandals.

5. The kind of car I drive is a:
A. big ole Hummvee.
B. nice four door sedan.
C. bicycle. Cars pollute the environment.

6. The candidate I always vote for is the:
A. vote?
B. one I think has the best ideas.
C. Democrat.

7. I think the US Government:
A. is full of Commies.
B. wastes too much money.
C. should raise taxes to help the disenfranchised.

8. My thought on immigration is:
A. close the borders! We have too many deadbeats here, now.
B. we need a sane and fair series of immigration laws.
C. oh, those poor people. Let’s give them amnesty right away!

9. I get my news and information from:
A. the bartender at the Rub-It-Inn lounge.
B. Fox News.
C. Barbara Streisand’s web site.

10. My heros are people like:
A. Hulk Hogan, the Undertaker, and Darth Vader.
B. the brave men and women in the military who protect our country.
C. Hillary Clinton, Koffe Annon, Ted Kennedy and Al Gore

To score your danger level give yourself 5 points for each "A" answer, 10 points for each "B" answer, and 15 points for each "C" answer. Then add up your score and locate your danger level on the chart below.

50 – 95 = Very Little Danger
100 – 115 = Moderate Danger
120 – 145 = Great Danger
150 Points = LOOK OUT CINDY SHEEHAN HERE I COME

2006-07-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

The Real "Puff the Magic Dragon"
A True Story

It’s just before dawn, we can hardly see
As we ride a big Huey in to our LZ.
"The zone is cold," says our 2nd LT.
"Intell says it’s as quiet as can be."
"It rained last night. It emptied the sky,
But the Intel says the zone is dry."
Before we ever touch the ground.
We hear the pings of small arms rounds.
Then out the door and into the grass,
Up to our knees in a soggy mess.
It appears the intell was slightly amiss
I can’t see how we’ll get out of this.
The field is muddy , wet and cold.
We’re ten young men, ten scared souls.
----
With a rotor blast of dirty wet spray
The chopper leaves us alone and afraid.
I turn around just in time to see
That the first hit is the new LT.
He folds over gasping for air.
In a flash "Doc" is there.
The LT is young, about twenty-three.
Just a couple of years older’n me.
"Doc" and me each grab an arm
And try to drag him away from harm.
A look from the medic and it’s plain to see
This company’s gonna need a new LT.
We cover his face with his steel pot.
And thank the Lord we ain’t been shot.
----
Tracer rounds and ricochets flying
No time to ponder the prospect of dying.
In the brush we hear Charlie all around.
Like a fox hears the sniffing of the hounds.
Muzzles flash, it’s the Fourth of July!
Except these fireworks can make you die.
I duck my head and hold on to my gun
I head for the woods at a dead run.
The Sarge is on the air to our HQ
Asking those geniuses what to do.
They tell us we should secure the zone.
With a curse Sarge hangs up the phone.
"Boy’s," he says with a spray of spit,
"It looks like we are in a heap of shit!"
----
The radio crackles and a voice is heard,
"Ya’ll need some help from this old bird?"
Then, from the south about treetop low
An ugly old plane flying deadly slow
She waddles in like a fat old bird,
From every lip, "Puff" is heard.
I turn my eyes straight up to heaven
‘Cause from the gun ports of that AC-47
White-hot lead sizzles and sings.
A curtain of death the "Dragon" brings.
You can never forget the rattling sound,
Like a heavy chain drug over rocky ground,
As the three mini-guns belch and spit,
At eighteen-thousand rounds a minute.

----
Like a vision that rose right out of Hell
A flying Dragon that’s come to kill.
Her breath will rip and torture the gound
Delivering death and destruction all around.
The old girl shakes to her aluminum bones.
While those big engines moan and drone.
She places ninety-thousand rounds.
In one-hundred yards of muddy ground.
In the overgrown field and in the brush,
The trees and grass turn to ragged mush.
Then pulling straight up after the pass,
Her props whip up the shattered grass.
----
When she’s through there’s nothing worth seeing.
At least nothing that resembles a human being,
Just clumps of meat and bloody rags.
It’s enough to make the strongest man gag.
She’s done what she was designed to do,
She has killed a lot to save a few.
Amid the radio static a voice comes through
"Just tell HQ "Spooky 2" passed through.
No need for thanks. It’s what we do.
Glad we could be of service to you.."
She wiggles her wings and flys away,
I know she saved my life, that day.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" was the nickname used by the Air Force during the Vietnam War for the Douglas AC-47 Gunship. She carried three mini gattling guns, each capable of firing 6,000 rounds per minute, or 100 rounds per second. It was said that a "Dragon" could place one round in every square inch of an area as wide as a football field on a single pass. The call sign for the AC-47 Gunship was "Spooky". No one can estimate the American lives she saved or the enemy lives she took during the Vietnam war.

2006-07-27T09:08:00.001-07:00

Top Ten Reasons Not to Vote Democratic in the Upcoming Elections

10. A Democratic Congress combined with a Democrat President will most assuredly cut and run from the War Against Islamic Aggression.

9. Democrats will raise taxes to pay for social programs that only serve to create more Democrats.

8. The United Nations. This massively corrupt, Anti-America bureaucracy is the creation a Democrat President, FDR. In it's 61 years in existance it has not stopped one war or freed one nation from tyranny. Democrats love the UN. It is their highest ideal representing the Socialist world they would like to see. Now, the UN is demanding the right to tax the citizens of member nations, read: the United States, so that the UN will not have to depend upon countries, read: the United States, paying their dues to carry out its failed programs. Many Democrats are in favor of this idea.

7. Democrats will find a way to legalize the thirty million illegal aliens already in this country and will provide ways for more to enter. Why, because Democratic social programs will encourage these criminals to vote Democratic once they are legalized thus keeping the Democratic voting base strong.

6. Democrats believe in and want to create a Socialist government for America.

5. The sad state of the American public school system is a direct result of federal interference under Democratic leadership.

4. Abortion. Democrats whine over lost lives in the War Against Islamic Aggression yet they are perfectly willing to destroy unborn lives by the thousands because, "It should be a woman’s right to choose."

3. The Democratic high religion is Government, not Christianity, Judaism, or any other established religion.

2. Socialized health care. Democrats love this idea. Free health care for all! Just look at Canada and England to see how well this idea works.

And the Number one Reason NOT to vote Democratic…

1. Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Robert Byrd, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Russ Finegold, Dianne Finestein, Daniel Inouye, Harry Reid, Barbara Streisand, George Soros, Ed Asner, MoveOn.org., Air America, Green Peace, PETA, Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, The Great States of Massachusetts and California, and any number of other loons, nut cases, whackos and idiots.

2006-07-24T10:34:00.000-07:00

How come you never hear of an Islamo Fascist leader blowing themselves up for the cause? It is always the young and the stupid that are chosen to drive the bomb-laden cars or to wrap themselves in sticks of dynamite. I guess that proves one of two things. One, the Islamic leaders are smart enough to get morons to do the dirty work for them, or two, the Islamic leaders do not have the resolve of their convictions. Either way it is not the hate spewing mullahs who wind up in a million pieces in some fruit market. I guess that it also proves Arab children are not very bright.

Example:

Mullah – "Ok, who wants to put on these gasoline undershorts and go ride an Israli bus?"

Arab Children –" Me, Me!!"
Mullah – " Allah chooses… uhm … Ahab!"
Ahab to other children – " Nah, Nah, Nah! Losers!" Sticks out tongue.
Other Arab Children – "Ahab is a Allah’s pet!"

Islam is some religion. The only way to assure yourself of going to heaven is to die in a holy war. Otherwise, you just have to take your chances that Allah will let you in, based upon your good works, I guess. So, what would those good works be, you ask? Well, talking some poor, uneducated, smuck into strapping on a TNT girdle would be a good start. After all, Mohammed said, when asked how to get to heaven, "Go kill yourself and some others in the name of Allah," or something to that effect.

Example:

Moslem at Gates to Heaven – "Hi, can I get in?"
Allah to Moslem – "What good works have you done?
Moslem – "Well, I lived a good life, was kind to my neighbors, had many children, read the
Koran every day, and never hurt anyone."
Allah – "Enjoy Hell. Next."
Next Moslem – "Hi, can I get in? I flew a fully loaded passenger jet into a building and killed
Thousands of people."
Allah- "Welcome to Heaven! Here’s your virgins. Have fun!"

As a card carrying Baptist I have been assured by a very high authority, namely Jesus Christ, that all I have to do to attain eternal bliss is to, "Love God with all my heart, mind and soul, love my neighbor as myself, and accept Jesus Christ as my savior." You will notice that nowhere there does it say, "blow yourself up." You will, also, notice that nowhere does it say I will be given seventy virgins upon my acceptance into Paradise. Since I am almost sixty years old, I don’t know what I would do with seventy virgins, or even seven virgins, one maybe I could handle if she weren’t too athletic.

So, while dumb Arab children incinerate themselves because some radical religious nutcase tells them to, I will continue to read my Bible and pray that the Islamic world is someday able to join the sixteenth century.

2006-06-29T12:28:00.000-07:00

Entertainer to Run for President

IEN News, Hollywood:
Noted sponsor of Liberal causes and self-proclaimed “singer” Barbara Striesand, a Democrat, announced in a press conference today that she is nosing her way into the 2008 US presidential race. A written statement was passed out by the star’s husband, the former actor James Brolin Striesand (Marcus Welby MD). The statement said, quote, “I has decided to run for precident of the Untied States of America and to the Republik for widgett stands. I am bacing my candyacy on a platforme of I hate every thing Jeorge Bushes has done, and I hate Republikans!” end quote.

Miss Striesand, long known for her biting and insightful political commentary and her King Soloman-like intelligence, then took questions from the assembled press. After answering numerous queries about her sleek outfit by ultra-hip designer Wang-Chung, she was asked whom she would choose to be her running mate in the upcoming election. The famed producer and title star of the Jimmy Durante Story said quote, “I has given a lot of thought to who my running mate might be, but I has not made that decision, yet. It will definately be a minority, though. Maybe, a new arrived wetback or a black or something like that, ” end quote. Striesand continued on to express her strong support for retroactive abortion, an open border between the United States and California, voting rights for trees, half-way houses for the criminally insane, and quote, "all kinds of rights and stuff for everybody," end quote.

The nasally enhanced entertainer recently held a charity event the “Concert to Entertain the Poor” in Los Angles. The fifteen hundred dollar apiece tickets were quickly snapped up by the Hollywood elite and high-ranking Democratic Party officials. No poor people were in attendance.

(The above is parody, not to be confused with real news which is parody as well.)

2006-06-22T16:18:00.000-07:00

OH GOD, THE EARTH IS AT ITS WARMEST TEMPERATURES IN 2000 YEARS. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! And it's all our fault.

At least that is what ABC News and the leftists who support them would like you to believe. ABC is planning a big, "How Global Warming Has Affected Me" whinefest. They want you to write in and tell them how your life has been shattered by GLOBAL WARMING! Lets see... hum...well there's... no that's not Global Warming thats Erectile Disfunction. Say, did Global Warming cause Angelina Jolie to be such an ass? If so that has very negatively affected me. Anyway, what happened to the new iceage that the media were predicting was just around the corner?

The truth is that in the past 100 years the Earth has warmed up less than one degree, average temperature. I hardly think that we are all going to keel over with heat prostration due to a less that one degree increase in average temperature. Yes, it still gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter, thank you, God.

Liberals say the Antarctic icecap is melting. Not so. It is getting thicker. look it up for yourself.

Liberals say the oceans will rise and wipe our coastal cities off the map. Not so. Question: does your glass run over as your ice cubes melt in your rum and coke? Answer: no. Well, same for the oceans. Even if the icecaps do melt. The volume of water in the oceans will not increase. The laws of Physics don't change just because a bunch of psudoscientists want them to.

Liberals say the hole in the ozone is deep frying us to a crispy golden brown, (unless you happen to be brown, then you are getting darker, no offense intended). They have been predicting that kind of doom for over twenty years. Nothing's happened yet.

Liberals say Global Warming is all America's fault. Not so, infact there are less hydrocarbons in the atmosphere over America now than there were 100 years ago due to the reduction in the use of coal as a major power source. Automobile emissions are much cleaner now than they they ever have been. Who are the real poluters? China, India, Russia all produce many times more polutants percapita than the US does.

So, I say let's email ABC News and tell them our GW horror stories, or just email them and tell them what ambulance chasing putzes they are for continuing to push a liberal psudoscience myth. Here is the address:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2094224

2006-06-02T09:07:00.000-07:00

Have we become a nation of imbeciles incapable of making our own decisions in life? Are we so weak of character that we must depend upon others to protect us from ouselves? According to John Stossel (ABC's 20/20) politicians and lawyers would have you believe that to be fact. Obviously, we are too dense to realize that we shouldn't use an electric hair dryer while we are asleep. So, businesses must spend thousands of dollars, thanks to assinine legislation, to afix lables to their products warning us not to use hair dryers in bed and not to eat fishing lures. Yes, fishing lures carry just such a warning lable thanks to a California (where else?) class action suit.

Government regulation brought on by thousand of class action lawsuits cost this country billions of dollars in needless expenses that drive up consumer costs. For example: Non-lawyers who try to help people fill out legal forms such as wills and non-contested divorces can be arrested and jailed for their efforts. One bookkeeper who worked as a document assistant to indigents and poor people had his bookkeeping business ruined by the legal system. He became an indigent himself. What was his crime? He dared to charge only $90 to do the same thing that lawyers were charging $250 to do. Lawyers have succeeded, with the help of friendly judges and generous donations to political groups, in pushing through government legislation that virtually gaurantees them a monopoly in the business of legal aid.

John Stossel's latest book MYTHS, LIES AND DOWNRIGHT STUPIDITY (Hyperion, NY 2006) gives example after example of government incompetence, interference, and meddling in our lives. Once a liberal consumer reporter Mr. Stossel's years of reporting have convinced him that less government is better and that we have way too many lawyers with too much time on their hands. I suggest you buy this book and read it ...twice.

Submitted to Amazon.com 2/6/06 as a book review.

2006-05-08T07:06:00.000-07:00

I sit here today, a senior citizen, wondering just where my generation went wrong. We had so much promise, those of us born just after the end of WWII. The whole world was our oyster and all we had to do was reach down and pick it up. The world loved us. Our parents worked hard so that we could succeed, and all they wanted in return was for our generation to be better, have more, and accomplish more than their generation. And we did. Some of us. However, somewhere along the way a good many of my generation went wrong.

I think it all began during the 1960's when so many of my generation decided that freedom was not worth fighting for, that drugs were ok, and to trust no-one over thirty. Many of my brothers and sisters spent their time protesting the draft, the Vietnam war and trashing college campuses. Anti-Americanism began to poke up its ugly head at liberal institutions like UCLA Berkley and other universities and colleges. These bastions of higher learning welcomed the hate spewing radical element with open arms. The Kennedy mystique grew with the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the election of Ted Kennedy to the Senate. The Chappaquiddic incident proved once and for all that money and influence could get you out of any trouble. Senator Kennedy proved that a lie, if told enough, becomes the truth. Bill Clinton showed us how true this was.

Those of us who were drafted into the service of our country and actually went to serve felt like outcasts. We were booed and spit upon by people our own age. It seemed no longer honorable to believe in and support your country. The military uniform became an emblem of all that some felt was wrong with our society. Public opinion, fueled by the likes of Walter Cronkite, demanded that we pull out of Southeast Asia and abandon our promises there. We left in disgrace flying away into the night while thousands of our allies died. Then we elected John Kerry, a liberal anti-American to the US Senate and almost to the presidency.

It was our generation that supported President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society". This was a clear attempt to socialize this nation. The idea was that all people should be equal. Equal to what? Equal to the lowest common denominator is how it turned out. We began the disasterous welfare program, a noble idea on paper, that has succeeded in ruining several generations of minorities, and for which we will be paying the costs forever more. Our generation elected radicals to our legislative bodies, ie John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, et all. We enacted ruinous laws. We hired loons to run our instutions of higher learning. They preached hate to us and to our children. We turned over the education of our children to them. They produced a generation of students that can't read well enough to fill out a job application, but they have excellent self-esteem, whatever that is. We thought that we knew everything and that there was nothing else left to learn. We ignored our parents. We ignored history. We listened with rapt attention to the likes of Huey Newton, Timothy Leery, Robert and Ted Kennedy, Phil Donahue and any other crackpot who promised us the moon and delivered a ball of smelly green cheese instead.

In fact we knew nothing! What we have gotten in return for all our efforts is a generation of children that despise their country, hate us, their parents and grandparents, demand everything immediately and give nothing back. We created a minority underclass that expects to be clothed, fed and given spending money for producing absolutely nothing other than unruly offspring who terrorize their neighborhoods, deal in illegal substances, and flaunt the law. We abhore the free enterprise system that built this country. Our borders are overrun by illegal aliens who flaunt our laws and demand the rights of citizenship.

Yes, my generation is guilty of beginning the destruction of the morals and values that drove the United States to become the greatest, richest country on earth. To those of you who must clean up this mess I offer my deepest appologies. I am sorry that we listened to those who, in other times, would have been ostracised or run out of town. I am sorry that we tried to cure all social ills by throwing money at them rather than finding the root of the problem and curing the rot that grew there. I am sorry that we produced a generation of children that can't commit to a relationship long enough to raise their children. I am sorry that we elected the politicians that have left you with reems of assine laws and a trillion dollar national debt. Most of all I am sorry that we did not take the time to teach you those things that our parent taught us, ie: love of country, love of God, that hard work equals success, and to plan ahead.

I hope the upcoming generations can clean up the messes we have made, but somehow I doubt they can.

2006-04-17T20:15:00.000-07:00

The current U.S. tax code is some 66,000, yes, sixty-six-thousand, pages long. No one in this country fully understands it. very few have even read it. That includes those who are elected to represent us in Washington, D.C. This year the U.S. government will collect better than a trillion, that's 1,000,000,000,000, dollars in tax revenue. That is a number that boggles the mind.

Most people do not have any idea how much actual tax they pay each year. Most are just happy if they get a refund. By the way, a refund is just your money that the government has kept and used for a year without paying you one dime in interest. Imagine how much you could have earned on that money had you invested it in the stock market, or even put it in an interest bearing account or a CD. The tax burden on the average wage earner is now approaching fifty percent of income. That includes all local, state, federal and the hidden taxes that you pay. Don't believe me? Look it up for yourself.

It is time for a taxpayer revolt in this country. The time has come for us to tell our representatives that we expect them to work toward reforming the tax codes. If they don't do this, then it is time that they, all of them, are voted out of office. Every two years we have the chance to vote people into office who will work for us, not work for themselves, their political party, or a bunch of lobbyists.

Former Representative John Lender (GA) has written a book with talk show host Neal Boortz. It is called the Fair Tax Plan. I urge you to borrow or buy this book and read it. Then pass it on to someone else. This plan makes more sense than anything coming out of D.C. You can go to www.fairtaxplan.org, for more infromation. Please do this for yourself and for this country.

2006-04-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

Some Interesting Bible Facts Gleaned from Here and There*

Lot was the father of his own grandchildren. (Genesis 19:30 – 38)
Nowhere in the Bible does it report that Jesus was ever sick.
It cannot be proved by reading the Bible that Jesus ever smiled.
There are seven suicides reported in the Bible. Can you name all of them?
The word prejudice is not found in the Bible.
It is prophesied in the Bible that the Lord would shave with a razor. (Isaiah 7:20)
Except for fifty-five verses all of the material found in Mark is also found in Matthew.
The Bible does not mention the potato plant.
The Bible forbids tattooing. (Leviticus 19:28)
Psalm 118:8 is the middle verse in the King James Version of the Bible.
The word sermon is not found in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Book of Esther does not contain the name of God. (KJV)
The Bible explains how to make butter. (Proverbs 30:33)
The Bible demands that Christians kiss one another. (Romans 16:16)
Jesus did not preach Christianity nor was He a Christian.
Jesus admitted that He was the Messiah only once, and that was during a private conversation. (John 4:26)
God hates seven things. Can you name them? (Proverbs 6:16 –19)
The Bible prescribes death as the penalty for kidnapping. (Exodus 21:16)
Cowards were exempt from military service in the ancient Jewish army. (Deuteronomy 20: 1, 2, 8)
The cat is the only domesticated animal not mentioned in the Bible.
At one time Jesus was very unpopular in his hometown. (Luke 4:16-29)
One-hundred and eighty-one different women are mentioned by name in the Bible.
In early Bible times two sisters became mothers of their half-brothers. (Genesis 19:30-38)
The New Testament has been translated into over 329 languages.
There are 49 different kinds of food mentioned in the Bible.
There is a recipe in the Bible for making friends. (Proverbs 18:24)

*Many are from: McKenzie, E.C., Salted Peanuts, Baker Book House, 1972, 120 p.

2006-04-05T16:36:00.000-07:00

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907

2006-03-01T14:59:00.000-08:00

Here are some personal observations after almost 60 years of living.

Some people should not be allowed to drive automobiles or to raise children.

I have never seen a woman, or man for that matter, who looked more attractive after getting a tattoo.

The early bird may get the worm, but the early worm gets eaten. Go figure.

Alcoholism and drug addiction are not illnesses. They are choices. Bad choices.

Public schools are not better now than they were 30 or even 100 years ago. They just cost more to run.

Anytime government gets involved in a project that project will cost 10 times more than it should and it will ultimately fail.

Computers have not made our lives appreciably easier. They have made our lives more complex.

You cannot get a healthy meal at a fast food restaurant.

Any building project will cost 2 – 3 times more than the amount of money budgeted for it.

Once the citizens of a democracy find out that they can vote money from the public coffers for themselves that democracy is doomed.

Automobile manufactures could build a car that will get 50 – 60 MPG right now but US government regulation stiffels its manufacture.

People who ride motorcycles without helmets are not the sharpest pencils in the drawer.

Most government regulation does more harm than it does good.

We need term limitations for all elected officials, including US Senators and Representatives.

A dog loves you always. A cat loves you occasionally.

A woman who marries a man hoping to change him is in for a big disappointment.

I don’t like French cooking.

Anyone can play a musical instrument. Only a musically talented person can play one well.

Just because a particular genre of music is popular doesn’t mean it is any good. Same goes for
movies.

Some people live way too long. Some people don’t live nearly long enough.

The sixties was the decade of ugly clothing.

Rainy days help us to appreciate sunny days.

People who have pets are usually nice people, and they generally live longer than those who don’t have pets.

Ronald Reagan was a great President. Jimmy Carter was an awful President. The rest fall somewhere in between.

God will always answer our prayers, but not always with the answer we want.

Not one person who is alive in the US today was a victim of the African slave trade. No, not even Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton as much as they would like to be.

I know the theories, but I have no idea how the following things work:
Airplanes
Television/Radio
Computers
Electricity
Atomic Power
The Human Brain
The US Government

2006-02-20T08:13:00.000-08:00

Why Daddy is a Republican.

Daddy is a Republican because Republicans don't cater to the fringe elements of society like the Democrats do. Mommy is a Democrat. She likes the ACLU, Green Peace, Students for a Democratic Society, The Rev. Jessie Jackson, and all manner of nuts. Mommy, you see, is a loon.

A Republican does not believe that anyone, including a mommy, has the right to kill a child, even an unborn one. Democrats, believe that it is ok to dispose of a baby whenever mommy feels it clutters up her womb.

Daddy is a Republican because Republicans believe in working hard and earning their way through life on their own merits. Democrats believe that we should take money from those who work hard and just give it to those who don't work at all. Democrats like Mommy believe in a form of Communism called "Income Reallocation." Isn't that a silly notion?

Republicans will keep you safe by taking the "War Against Terrorism" to the homeland of the terrorists rather than waiting until the terrorists invade our homeland. Democrats, believe in placating the evil terrorists by trying to "talk","love" or "buy" them out of their evil ways. What morons Democrats are.

Republicans, like Daddies, believe that America is a fine country in which to raise children because America offers her young the chance to succeed using their intelligence and their desire to get ahead in life. Democrats, like Mommies, believe that the only way to get ahead in life is to depend upon the Federal Government to smooth the way for us. Democrats produced the "New Deal", the "Great Society", "Social Security", the "Withholding Tax", "AFDC", "Food Stamps", "Medicare", "Hillary Health Care", a "downsized" military, and any number of other assinine and disasterous programs. Mommies are idiots.

Daddy is a Republican. He believes that Ronald Reagan was one of the best presidents this country ever had. Mommy is a Democrat. She believes that Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were great presidents and that Mr. Reagan, Mr George Bush, and Mr. George W. Bush are evil. She, also, believes that Hillary would be a great president. Mommy is a nut case!

Yes, Darling, Daddy is a Republican. He loves God, you, and this country. Mommy is a Democrat. She loves herself.

2006-02-02T13:09:00.000-08:00

Let's talk about Cindy Sheehan. I don't like her, even a little bit. Furthermore, I no longer feel the least bit sorry for her. I don't know her personally. All I can judge her on is her actions as reported in the media. It appears to me that Ms. Sheehan is using the death of her son as a springboard to national prominence. She long ago lost any semblance of respectability in my eyes. Her fight to end the war in Iraq is wrong minded and assinine in its simplicity. She would have us lay down our weapons and march away, leaving the Iraqis to their fate, much as we did in Vietnam. Has Ms. Sheehan ever once called for the Moslem terrorists to lay down their weapons and walk away? Of course not, to her the terrorists are freedom fighters giving their lives to rescue their country. Little does she know or care that most of the terrorists that we are now fighting in Iraq are not Iraqis, but Syrians, Iranis, Saudi Arabians, etc.

Sheehan beggs us to admit that her son died for nothing. If we follwed the Sheehan plan for World Peace, she would be right. But, to Cindy Sheehan and the radical Left's horror her son died honorably in the service of his country, doing what he joined the army to do. There is no draft in this country. We heard not a word from Ms. Sheehan about the war in Iraq or about her son, until his death. While I regret Ms. Sheehan's loss, I totally deplore the manner in which she has trivialized the deaths of all persons in this war.

Now, this darling of the Leftist media says she would like to run for the U.S. Senate representing California. I say, "Go for it, Cindy!" You are just what this country needs, another logic impared member of the Senate. As if Ted Kennedy and John Kerry aren't enough. Cindy, you would fit right in with them. (The Three Stooges, if you will.) If Californians are brainless enough to elect Ms. Sheehan to the U.S. Senate, or any other public office, then their state deserves to fall into the Pacific Ocean.

God has a special place in Hell reserved for people like Ms. Sheehan. I am sure that she will enjoy the company of Benedict Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and other notable nut cases who knew they were right and everyone else was wrong. She hasn't personally assassinated anyone to my knowledge, but her continued diatribe gives aid and comfort to the enemy and thus, contributes to the death of every American son or daughter who is murdered by Moslem extremists anywhere on this planet. No, it is not Ms. Sheehan who deserves our pitty, rather it is her poor son we should pitty. After all, he had this screeching banshee for a mother during his too short life.

2006-01-23T08:09:00.000-08:00

Ok, I am officially sick of hearing about so called celebrities and their designer children. If I read or hear the words "baby bump" again I just might snap and cancel my subscription to People Magazine. Of all the folks on earth who should not be reproducing the Hollywood "elite" top the list. These people cannot even brush their teeth on their own, much less raise a child to be a productive citizen. Just look at the list of celebrity children that have turned out to be brain dead slugs or drug wasted low lifes. Let's see, there is Chastity Bono, all of Marlon Brando's children, the Estovez/Sheen boys (that includes Dad Martin), Jane Fonda. Need I go on?

How can any child brought up in the immoral, self-centered, anti-religious atmosphere of Tensil Town ever amount to anything? A case in point would be Jessica Simpson. This poor girl should not be allowed out in public by herself. Her ex-husband must have laughed himself to sleep every night reliving the exploits of this simpleton. And then there is Paris Hilton. They say that a mind is a terrible thing to waste, but I say you cannot waste what you never had! Can you imagine what the offspring of these two airheads would amount to? Well..., not much just like their mothers.

All these people are good for is spending money and running from one awards show to the next. That's another thing. Hollywood celebs love to congratulate each other. How many awards are traded around LA each year? If you can sneeze and close your eyes at the same time, and you live anywhere near LA, you get a banquet and a big award. Adopt three or four children and turn them over to a nanny to raise, and you get a lot of media exposure and a big award. If the children come from some poor third world country you can count on getting all that and another big award from the U.N. And, the movies they make. Don't get me started! No wonder Hollywood revenues are dropping like the Hindenberg.

Here is my modest proposal to Hollywood. 1. Quit congratulating yourselves. You aren't that good. 2. Make some decent movies that people actually want to see, rather than movies about homosexual cowboys and brain dead teenagers. 3. Quit telling the rest of us how to live when you don't know the first thing about real life yourselves. 4. Quit spreading your opinions about politics around like so much fertilizer. Vote as you wish, but SHUT UP about it! 5. Quit having or adopting children until you realize that raising a child is a lifetime committment that requires both a mother and a father WHO HAVE GOOD SENSE to do the job right.

Celebrities. What a waste.

2006-01-04T16:03:00.001-08:00

I just wrote this song for all you country music fans out there. Sing it to any tune you want.

I’ll Just Get Drunk and Cry

I get drunk ever’ Saturday night and let me tell you why,
My Baby packed her bags and she left me high and dry.
She took off with my best old friend and some other guy,
And that’s why ever’ Saturday night I just get drunk and cry.

Yeah, I just get drunk and cry and play the jukebox loud.
I wish that I could die all alone here in this crowd.
Life just ain’t worth livin’ since my baby she’s been gone.
Now, I’m standin’ by the jukebox an’ cryin’ all alone.

I get drunk every Saturday night, my friends say it ain’t right,
That I stand beside the jukebox cryin’ in public sight,
And pour my heart out in teardrops on the sawdust floor,
And end up either sprawled out drunk or staggerin’ through the door.

Yeah, I just get drunk and cry and play the jukebox loud.
I wish that I could die all alone here in this crowd.
Life just ain’t worth livin’ since my baby she’s been gone.
Now, I’m standin’ by the jukebox an’ cryin’ all alone.

Maybe some day I’ll recover and find another girl,
But you gotta crack a lot of oysters to get a single pearl.
Until then I’ll stay here drinkin’ just to get a high,
I guess ever’ Saturday night I’ll just get drunk and cry.

Yeah, I’ll just get drunk and cry and I’ll play the jukebox loud.
Wishin’ that I could die all alone here in this crowd.
Life just ain’t worth livin’ since my baby she’s been gone.
So, I’ll be standin’ here by the jukebox a cryin’ all alone.

copyright 2006 Bmann Music bmann@classicsouth.net

2005-12-06T12:50:00.000-08:00

I recently found myself in a somewhat formal meeting with men and women of differing racial groups. In conversation I made the off hand remark that a person I saw was dressed as if they planned to attend a Rap concert. One of the group members, who is black, informed me that my comment was offensive to those of African origin. I was stunned on so many levels by this reaction to what I considered to be a slightly humorous comment. Now, I will be the first to admit that I am no slave to fashion, myself. I should be the last person on Earth to hand out fashion police tickets to anyone.

Personally, I have nothing against Rappers or their mode of dress. The more I thought about this PC offense I committed the more perplexed I became. How was my innocent comment offensive to black people, only? I don't understand. Why would this person think that I meant to offend just Afro-ethnic people? I was not aware that all rappers are black. What about Emenem? I believe that he is a Caucasian. Would this comment not have offended him? Would it offend anyone if I had said that the person in question was dressed like a coal miner, or a Country and Western signer, or a Supreme Court Justice?

Are we, now, so sensitive and delicate that the least little comment can put us in a state of mental anguish? Does the old adage no longer hold true that “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me?” Evidently there are many of us who fear words much more than we fear suicide bombers or killer bees. These people must go through life dodging certain words and phrases like lizards dodging rain drops. What power others have over these poor fragile beings. Say the wrong thing and they wither like orchids in a drought.

It seems to me that political correctness has grown to the point that it threatens to devalue and decolorize our language. Any phrase or turn of a word, not can but will, be taken by someone to be a serious breach etiquette. People go out of their way to find fault in the speech of others. We must be careful to analyze our each and every utterance and to edit out any phrase or word that might offend some member of some group somewhere. This tends to put heavy restraints on our conversations. If we have to constantly be concerned about our comments being taken by others as offensive, then we eventually will just quit communicating. A world without lively and meaningful communication is a dead world.

Language is a living thing. Words and meanings constantly change through use. Who is to say, other than me, that in the instance mentioned above I was not congratulating the person in question on his fine sense of style? I meant no harm or disrespect in what I said. It just came out, like the occasional bit of profanity. Am I sorry I said it? No, not really.

This is truly a silly but interesting time in which we live.

2005-12-06T07:38:00.000-08:00

Today, our country faces real dangers on just about every front. With so many wolves at the door, the question arises just what is our biggest threat? Is it Islamic terrorists? Is it the prospect of terminally high petroleum prices? Is it pollution, or illegal aliens overrunning our borders, or the French, or what? Well, it’s none of those things. The real threat to America these days is rampant Liberalism. It threatens to undermine our system of government, drown us in useless and destructive legislation, tax us into poverty, destroy what is left of our public school system, and wreck our economy.

Never in our history has one misguided group of people done so much damage to the American way of life. Liberalism is a plague that infects every facet of our existence. It is helped along by a willing media, brain dead celebrities and self-serving politicians. In the mind of the liberal, "That which is good for America is bad. That which is bad for America is good." Liberalism seeks to undermine our social, religious, moral and patriotic values and replace them with a mish-mash of social programs, indecipherable legislation, and government by judicial review.

This reminds me of the story of the woman who finds an injured rattlesnake on the road. She picks the snake up and takes it to her house where she nurses it back to health. The snake, upon reviving, immediately bites the kind woman. Just before the woman dies she asks the snake, "After all I did for you, why did you bite me.” The snake replies before slithering off, "I am a rattlesnake, it's my nature." Liberalism, like the snake, will turn upon the very thing that nourishes it. The freedoms that our country allows to her citizens are the very things that Liberals hate and work so hard to erase, yet these very freedoms allow liberalism to exist in the first place. There aren't many liberals in Communist China, you know.

Need proof? Well, let’s look at today's news. Ramsey Clark, a rabid liberal and former Attorney General of the US under Lyndon Johnson, has become the spokesperson for Sadam Hussain. Now think about this for a moment. A former high ranking government official has chosen to represent a mass murderer, a despot and an avowed enemy of our country. Mr. Clark's aims are to disrupt the Hussain trial as often as possible, cause a mistrail and thus to get Sadam off scott free. He does this, not from any sense that Sadam deserves a fair trial, but simply to embarrass America.

Have you heard even one Democratic US Representative or Democratic US Senator condemn Ramsey Clark for this blatant disrespect to our nation? No, and you won't hear any Democrats speak against Mr. Clark, either. Why, because he is furthering the Liberal agenda. He is undermining the present administration. If he manages to have Sadam Hussain set free Mr. Clark will become a hero to the Liberal left. Remember, "That which is bad for America is good. That which is good for America is bad."

As was once said about the rich, "Liberals are not like you and me." Ultra-liberals have no clear cut values. They cherish not the country that nourishes and protects them. Their heroes are corrupt politicians like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Al Gore. They inhale the gibberish uttered by Liberal icons like Cindy Sheehan, Barbara Streisand, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen and Al Frankin and exhale it in media sound bites. Liberals are patriotically and morally bankrupt, and they want to make us just like them.

What is the biggest danger America faces today? It is the Liberal Democrat, and he hates you.