Elizabeth Edwards dies.......RIP

CHAPEL HILL (WTVD) -- Elizabeth Edwards has passed away after a long battle with cancer. The 61-year-old wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards died at home Tuesday afternoon with her family around her.

The news came after the Edwards family announced Monday that cancer had spread to her liver and doctors were recommending against further treatment.

I'd like to think that John Edwards begged her for forgiveness before she passed away. She deserved at least that much. Those kids are still young......tough time to lose your mom.

Meghan McCain is a moron

Remember when Barbara Bush commented in an interview that “Sarah Palin should stay in Alaska.”? Sarah Palin responded on the Laura Ingraham radio show saying “of course they think that, the Bush’s are blue bloods.” Apparently Meghan was confused by the term "blue bloods" so she looked it up.....

Via Weaselzippers -- "I actually had to Google what the meaning of “blue bloods” was, although I could surmise that it was some kind of knock against education and coming from a family of some success. Yes, in essence that is what this statement meant."

That she even had to Google the term "blue bloods" demonstrates her limited general knowledge. And then to still conclude that it had anything to do with education shows that she can't research properly the meaning of a simple, common phrase. Who above the age of 16 doesn't know it's a pejorative term used by the proletariat for aristocrats or nobles? Sarah Palin went to an average school, came from an average family with an average income level, while the McCains and Bushes are fabulously wealthy, attended only the best Ivy League schools, and think of themselves as American nobility....most well-known political families do. This is why the Bushes and McCains don't like Sarah Palin.....she's a commoner. How Meghan missed that obvious point defies all logic and reason.

With Meghan's mad research skills, I can only conclude that Columbia must grade on the curve.

The coolest Tea Party activist

I found this article over at Riverfronttimes which highlights the recent discovery in Tifton, Georgia, where I lived for a year in 1969, at a Tea Party rally, an attendee named Maureen "Moe" Tucker, drummer for the iconic 60's rock band Velvet Underground.

Apparently she moved to Tifton with her family and is just as concerned about the direction of the country as we all are. The article is an interview the Riverfront Times did with her recently. Give it a read and see how a former 60's hippie views the current state of affairs of America.

O'Reilly and The View have a deal

I don't know why O'Reilly continues to go on The View where he knows the three liberal harpies will act ridiculously unreasonable to show off for their idiot studio audience. Here's the latest edition.....



I think there's an understanding between these two shows...a symbiosis if you will. Bill O' gets to huff and puff on The Factor later on Fox about his appearance and his audience will be properly scandalized at the absurdity of these stupid women. His ratings are usually huge when he's gone head-to-head with Whoopi and Joy.

In return, the gals on The View get to skewer, for the enjoyment of their audience, one of the most loathed man by retarded lefties, Bill O'Reilly. Both shows end up with ratings boons and no body gets hurt.

It's all just theater to me because neither party will convince the other to concede any, ANY point. So what's the purpose if it's not simple ratings?

The best of Chris Christie

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is setting the conservative side of America on fire with excitement while infuriating the left, much to my delight. Here are some of his best sound bites. [Skip ahead to the 2:00 mark]



This guy has a big future in American politics. He's plain spoken....no high-brow, lofty, political rhetoric. He makes perfect sense and doesn't take BS from people. If he accomplishes what he intends to accomplish in New Jersey, he may have a shot at higher political office if he wants it. There are a lot of conservatives who'd vote for him today for President....including maybe me.

Congratulations...El Rushbo!

Looks like El Rushbo is tying the knot again. Good for him....

It's wedding bells for Rush Limbaugh – for the fourth time.

The conservative firebrand, 59, exchanged vows with Kathryn Rogers – a blond bombshell half his age – in a lavish Hawaiian-themed wedding bash headlined by none-other-than Sir Elton John Saturday in Florida.

It's an odd pairing considering El Rushbo's history of anti-gay commentary on his conservative radio show and the openly gay "Tiny Dancer" singer's longtime commitment to gay rights.

Of course you would expect the media to miss entirely how it came to be that Elton John played at Rush's wedding.....sheer greed. Or as I like to call it...capitalism.

First, Lauren Johnston of the NYDailyNews claims that Rush is anti-gay. To my knowledge, and I've been a listener for about 20 years, Rush has never said anything against being gay specifically. He rails regularly against the liberal, political positions and victim mentality of many gays, both of which are fair game but, it's never about being gay.

The other point is that Elton John, despite what he would claim, is above all else, a capitalist. Rush wanted Elton John, evidently a fav of Kathryn's, to perform at the reception more than he wanted the $million it cost to make it happen. And Elton wanted the $million payday more than he cared about Rush's political opinions toward the gay agenda.

See, the magic of unfettered capitalism brought two diametrically opposed personalities together for mutual benefit. How cool would it be if the whole world worked like that?

There is an irony alert here though: Rush likes to talk about the sanctity of marriage and all that, yet he's getting married for the fourth time. I always say, nobody has made a bigger mockery of marriage than us straight people. How could gays do any worse? Just sayin'.

Hat tip to Hotair.

RIP....Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper passed away yesterday from prostate cancer. He epitomized the 60's leading into the 70's, the drug culture, free spirit, all of it, and regardless of whether you think that's good or bad, the guy was a talented, iconic actor. My favorite films of his were of course Easy Rider, which he directed and starred in, and Apocalypse Now. Here's a short clip from that movie.....



Hopper wrung more out of every scene than any actor I know. Hollywood's a little shallower for having lost Dennis Hopper.

This chick has some mad skills

Balance a stack of books on your head, solve Rubics Cube, and recite the value of Pi to like 50 digits.

I can't do even one of those things and she did all three simultaneously.....cool!

Chuck Norris turns 70

Over at Asylum they've got a list of 100 Chuck Norris facts in honor of his 70th birthday. Here are a few of my favorites....

*Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
*We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Chuck Norris.
*Chuck Norris invented black. In fact he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Tom Cruise invented pink.

If you have a good Chuck Norris fact, leave it as always in the comments thread.

The Village Idiot

What is he smoking? Have you heard Charlie's diatribe on 9/11? A government plot to start a war with Iraq; put up and managed by the Bush administration; Osama bin Laden works for the U.S. government and to top it off: Charlie is mad at his president for purporting this lie. He is scheduling a meeting (or at least trying to) to discuss this with Obama.

Charlie needs to stick to comedy, or at attracting great looking women to hang out with. Every time he opens his mouth, he turns people away. He is a buffoon. Charlie: Its tough to get people to take you seriously when you act like an "ultra-maroon"! Find something else to worry about, leave politics to actors that aren't complete imbeciles!!

In response to anon's request for a link, here is the website of a west-coast radio show dedicated to conspiracy theories that explains Sheens' idiotic truther beliefs. It's called Prisonplanet. Check your IQ at the door, you won't be needing it.

John Stossel finally finds a network home

This is great news for FOX and me.....

The one-hour FOX Business program, entitled Stossel, will debut during the fourth quarter of 2009 on FBN's primetime line-up, featuring in-depth reports and discussions surrounding libertarian issues in the United States and abroad. Each week Stossel will be joined by experts to explore consumer-focused topics such as free-market economies, civil liberties, the business of health care, social security, and free trade.

I have no idea how John Stossel lasted as long at ABC as he did. As a libertarian, he opposes almost everything those liberals stand for. I tend to fall more toward libertarian ideals than the other political ideologies and I watch Fox News so, this will be a perfect fit for me.

Bob Novak.....RIP

I was saddened by this news today....

WASHINGTON - Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer that was diagnosed in July 2008. He was 78.

The very first political show that grabbed my attention as a teen was CNN's Crossfire, with Bob Novak debating from the right and Michael Kinsley debating from the left. It was from watching Novak skewer Kinsley every night on issue after issue that I realized that I was a conservative and not a liberal. Even when that little drop of spittle formed on Bob's lip when he argued with guests, I admired his positions and dedication to them. He was a formidable conservative thinker and columnist and I credit him as much as anybody with introducing me to politics. I'll miss reading his columns and listening to him embarrass liberals as a frequent TV pundit.

RIP, dude!

Now for greatest actress of our time....

Originally Posted by Reid

NOTICE: I've had a request in the comments thread for this post, that we discuss the best actresses, so I've moved the post back to the top of the page. Have at it, as always, in the comments thread.

While enduring a rain delay in baseball this weekend, the conversation/discussion started about the greatest actor of our time. Comments immediately went to Jack Nicholson and Sean Connery, but soon moved to many others. I am putting this topic out for the RR audience. By the way Ed, I apologize for taking us from the serious to the sublime.To stir it up, I am taking John Travolta! Kind of a big leap but here I go...

50 feature films for his career to date. He keeps reinventing himself and remains a matinee icon. Many varied and different roles selected and all have been done well. I will digress. The film career started with Carrie, as he played the antagonist love interest of Carrie. He moved on to Grease. Bad movie, although we all saw it, he did an okay job with a bad script. The breakout role was Tony Manero in Sat. Night Fever. It put most everybody in a white dance suit learning stupid moves. He was a "cool"gang member. The always forgettable Urban Cowboy was next. (how many times did he say "Sissy" in the show?).

J.T. did manage to pull off country however. A few forgotten films (although Jamie Lee Curtis looked good in Perfect) and then resurrection time in Pulp Fiction. Great character and great hair. What a slug he portrayed and played it to the hilt!! Another villainous role in Broken Arrow, followed by 2 good roles for J.T. - Phenomenon and Michael. He was super as the angel!! His career the started going south and he picked it back up with a stellar performance as a southern redneck in The Generals Daughter. Good Cop Bad Cop in one!! He followed that with an intriguing role in Basic. He finishes a great run with Hairspray. His role of Edna Turnblat was hysterical. He obviously enjoyed it and it showed. Being female and fat was a huge challenge. I imagine the costume took a long time to get into daily. I understand that his new flick "Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a role similar to his role in Pulp. We will see. He married well. Kelly Preston was a beautiful young woman. He also sandwiched in a career on Welcome Back Kotter. He remains the only viable alum from the show. The balance have all had mediocre to no careers.

From the 1970's til 2010 he has been on or near the top of the profession. A solid resume with many outstanding performances.

Is he the best, maybe - maybe not. You decide. Give me a comment or vote for some one else. Lets see what you think.

RIP.....Grasshopper

Kung Fu was one of my favorite shows growing up.

Carradine, 72, was in Bangkok to the shoot movie "Stretch" and had been staying at the Park Nai Lert Hotel since June 2.

The actor was absent from a dinner with the film crew on June 3. The crew attempted to get a hold of him but were not successful. They assumed he was resting.

A hotel maid found Carrradine on Thursday morning in the closet of his suite. A police investigation reports the actor was hanging by a rope. Police said he was dead for at least 12 hours and found no signs of foul play.

That's a bummer.

One possible future for America

With the unprecedented changes in our government and to our country thanks to Obama's monopolization of two, and soon all three, branches of government, as well as the aid and comfort of a deplorable and complicit lapdog media, Constitutional patriots cannot help but wonder when and how it will all end. Because one thing's for certain, this fascistic control of the private sector by one man cannot persist. It will fail at some point. The only question is how will it fail and what might the recovery look like, that is, assuming we haven't been occupied by the Russians, Chinese or Canada....heh, heh.

Regular reader Angie over at WhatFloatsMyBoat, has a chilling take on where the country might be headed and how things might play out when Obama's house of cards finally comes crashing down. You should check it out. I don't know if the descent of America will happen this fast but, if we continue under total control by liberals it will certainly happen at some point.

It's depressing to think about where we may be heading, yet heartening to think about the country on the other side. It's not exactly a MadMax scenario but apocalyptic in it's own way.

Ask not for whom The One is contemptuous, for he is comtemptuous of you.

I think I'll order those Survival Seeds and buy a couple more guns after all.

Rather than play defense, take the fight to liberals

Over at Pajamas Media, John Hawkins, publisher of our favorites Conservative Grapevine and RightWingNews, has an excellent article in which he suggests that conservatives should be using the same tactics to attack liberals(short of lying like liberals do) as they use to attack us. He's right on the money. And even if we don't have the deplorable main-stream media on our side to do a lot of our dirty work like they do, the message that we will no longer let liberals define us or the rules of the fight, will get across eventually.

No makeover for me

I'm all for being who you are and not changing just to please somebody else's notion of how you should look but, come on! At least try....even a little.















UPDATE: Not so fast it would seem, with the "no-makeover" insistence.

Professor Hawk hospitalized

For those of you who didn't know, I'm sort of a science geek, that's why this is a bummer....

CAMBRIDGE, England, April 20 (UPI) -- British physicist Stephen Hawking, who has been "very ill," was hospitalized Monday, a Cambridge University statement said.

A spokesman said Hawking, 67, a wheelchair-bound professor best-known as the author of "A Brief History of Time," was undergoing tests at the school's Addenbrooke's Hospital, the British tabloid The Daily Mail reported.

Not since Einstein has the world of astrophysics had such an iconic figure as Professor Hawk.

Bonus: A virtual cookie to the first reader to name the origin of the moniker, "Professor Hawk".

Colin Powell's pearls of wisdom

In one statement, Colin Powell managed to slam the two currently, most influential conservatives in America, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.....

First on Rush, the guy who expresses conservative ideas better than darn near anybody....

"Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh?" Powell asked. "Is this really the kind of party that we want to be when these kinds of spokespersons seem to appeal to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts?"

Then when asked about Sarah Palin, he snooted thusly......

Gov. Palin, to some extent, pushed the party more to the right, and I think she had something of a polarizing effect when she talked about how small town values are good. Well, most of us don't live in small towns. And I was raised in the South Bronx, and there's nothing wrong with my value system from the South Bronx.

What an obtuse moron! She didn't say that only people in small towns have good values. She was just describing any good values as being small-town values. Powell knew that.

I can't decide if he's sucking up to the media by criticizing conservatives in order to get some position in the Obama administration or if he's just a useful-idiot tool of the Left. Colin Powell cannot claim to be conservative and then vote for The One, the most liberal politician in America. He got caught up in the race thing just like everybody else.

I found this over on The Huffington Post.

Reader comments

Frequent TRR commenter and my personal critic, Capt. America made a reference to Adam Smith in a recent thread about economics, conservatism, and Atlas Shrugged. He is correct in noting that everybody references Ayn Rand when talking about individualism as it applies to the market place but, forgets that it was Adam Smith, the father of modern market economics, who first fleshed out the notion that people acting in their own self-interests, within a framework of social and moral obligations, lead to economic prosperity and well-being for all. No doubt, Ayn Rand was heavily influenced by Smith's treatise on economics entitled An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, or The Wealth of Nations for short. In this work Smith uses the invisible hand metaphore to describe how an individual acting greedily in his own self-interests will, coincidentally and without intention, benefit the whole of society by increasing it's wealth as he increases his own. Here's the money quote from ...Nations that explains that idea...

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

If you didn't know any better, you would have sworn you had read that in an Atlas Shrugged passage.

In other words, the Idaho potato farmer isn't interested in the slightest in providing my family with delicious potatoes to eat with our steaks. He's interested only in making as much money as possible selling potatoes. Through a long chain of transactions, he and I agree that he wants my money more than his potatoes and I want his potatoes more than I want to keep my money. His singular devotion to the pursuit of profit provides me with potatoes...so both our lives are enriched because of what some people call his greed.

If more people understood what Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, and Capt. America understand, our society would be better off.