just blame Bush

In light of the fact that liberal Democrats think that George Bush controls everything evil in the modern world including the weather and oil prices, how would they explain this news?

Oil prices fell further on Friday to hover at about $55 a barrel, bringing the week's decline to nearly 10%.
The slide came after oil prices saw their most dramatic drop in two years a day earlier.

You don't mean that George Bush allowed world crude oil prices to fall, causing his cronies in the oil industry to lose all that money? We've been told by liberals that Bush, and not the world crude oil markets, controls world gas prices and is solely responsible for the record profits enjoyed by American big oil companies. How then would liberals explain the dramatic drop in prices? Surely if Bush controlled the prices, he would have lowered them before the election, not after.

Typical Democrats...when times are bad, they blame Bush. When times are better, they pretend that they're not and blame Bush.

America is overrun while Bush fiddles

Why aren't we attacking Mexico after something like this?

A U.S. Border Patrol entry Identification Team site was overrun Wednesday night along Arizona's border with Mexico.

According to the Border Patrol, an unknown number of gunmen attacked the site in the state's West Desert Region around 11 p.m. The site is manned by National Guardsmen. Those guardsmen were forced to retreat.

The Border Patrol will not say whether shots were fired. However, no Guardsmen were injured in the incident.

The Border Patrol says the incident occurred somewhere along the 120 mile section of the border between Nogales and Lukeville. The area is known as a drug corridor. Last year, 124-thousand pounds of illegal drugs were confiscated in this area.

The Border patrol says the attackers quickly retreated back into Mexico.

How humiliating...American troops forced to retreat from invaders. America-hating Democrats love this news.

The government of Mexico refuses to intervene while the drug runners, who operate as an independent country of their own, attack American border troops. Tell me why we shouldn't retaliate against the drug runners with extreme prejudice. Who cares if they're civilians? We should deploy tanks, snipers with .50cal rifles, and armed drones to patrol the entire southern border with shoot-to-kill orders, and shut the door to the illegal invasion once and for all...then let's talk about a guest worker program.

They are attacking American citizens! And Bush looks the other way.

Bush and the impotent Republicans squandered 6 years of legislative control and did nothing about the Mexican invasion...they deserved to lose control. I swear...I am this close to giving up entirely on Republicans. I don't know how I could be more disappointed in them.

Oprah's school for girls...in Africa

A lot of conservatives are criticizing Oprah for this...

Billionaire talk show host Oprah Winfrey opened her new school for poor girls this week in South Africa. Winfrey hopes the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy will empower the young students to be the country's leaders of tomorrow.

People are asking, "Why doesn't she build a girl's school here in America where we have poor people too?" I don't have a problem with her building a school in Africa. Nobody can argue that there is much need in Africa for girls to be afforded opportunities to improve their lives, and America's poor are among the most priviledged poor in the world. Our poor live better than most middle class families in other countries. There are opportunities here in America for anybody who is motivated enough to reach out and grab them. But the biggest reason for Oprah to have built a girl's school in South Africa is because it's her money and she can spend it where she wants. We conservatives don't like for liberals to guilt us into spending our money on kooky environmental things, or programs to give aid to the undeserving, or some other liberal pet programs, and we shouldn't tell Oprah where she should spend her money. She's an ingorant, kooky liberal but she has the right to spend her money in any way she wishes.

A deal is a deal

If you're one of the three people who're currently watching the CBS Evening Fluff featuring perky news-reader Katie Couric every night, you'll probably be familiar with the story she ran last night. She incredulously wondered why the CEO of TheHomeDepot, Bob Nardelli, was fired, but with a golden parachute worth 210million dollars. She cited the contradiction between the golden parachute package and his lack of results as CEO.

Hey Katie, take a look in the mirror sister. CBS News viewership has dropped below what it was with the hapless Bob Sheiffer who you replaced. Nobody watches your show, yet you command a 15 million per year salary? How does that make sense? According to you, the results you produce in your job should be directly reflected in your compensation, whether it's good or bad. Based on your production in terms of ratings, you should be making like 100K a year.

I guess legally negotiated employment contracts are appropriate only for liberal, news readers and not for eeevil, capitalist CEO's.

Dumb, out of touch with reality kids

Generally, I'm not one to ridicule kids, but this has to be the dumbest kid on earth...

HOUSTON Jan 4, 2007 (AP)— Police and family members said a 10-year-old boy who died by hanging himself from a bunk bed was apparently mimicking the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Sergio Pelico was found dead Sunday in his apartment bedroom in the Houston-area city of Webster, said Webster police Lt. Tom Claunch. Pelico's mother told police he had previously watched a news report on Saddam's death.

Why would he want to mimic a hanging? Apparently there are kids all over the world hanging themselves while mimicking Saddam's execution. Are there kids so out of touch with reality and consequences that they think killing themselves is not for real?

Seriously, the implications of this story shocked me. It seems that kids these days are so insulated by their doting parents from risk, reality, and possible consequences of stupid behavior, that the possibility of injury or death as a result of their activities never occurs to them.

Stupid is as stupid does

Just in case you were in doubt about the intelligence of residents of New Orleans, listen to this: Displaced Katrina refugees are trickling back to the Big Easy to rebuild their lost homes. The brilliant mayor Ray Nagin, ignoring advice from Army corp engineers, thinks it's a good idea to let them build anywhere they like. In places where it's practical, returning residents are being told to raise their new homes to above the level of flood waters during Katrina, kind of the way they do it at the beach. There are places in New Orleans which flooded by 20 feet or more. It's would be pure idiocy to rebuild a house in these areas...engineers rightly say these areas should be abandoned entirely. But determined Katrina refugees, not exactly known for acting with wisdom, insist on rebuilding their homes exactly as they existed prior to the hurricane.

Guess who's paying for all this construction? Remember these are helpless, not-smart-enough-to-save-themselves-from-a-cat5-hurricane, Katrina parasites...they aren't exactly America's best and brightest. Every American taxpayer is paying these morons to rebuild their homes in exactly the same place as before. Billions in taxpayer dollars are "flooding" into the Big Easy and they are making the same mistakes as before.

Tell me why a single cent of money seized from taxpayers should go to rebuild a city in a cereal bowl below sea-level? How abysmally stupid can a group of people be to re-expose themselves and their families to the threat of flooding again? It's not a matter of if, but of when another hurricane will flood New Orleans.

And we all know what will happen. Ray Nagin will cry and complain that not enough was done by white America to care for the poor, miserable have-nots in his chocolate city. The same people will be once again on their roofs waiting for somebody else to risk their life to save their miserable ones. If stupid people want to spend their own money to build in a known flood plain, fine, but my pay check shouldn't be seized to pay for it.

Why?

Predictably, the main-stream media are all a-dither about the apparent taunting of Saddam Hussein immediately prior to his well-deserved hanging death. According to the perpetually outraged liberal media, George Bush, who had nothing to do with Saddam's death sentence or his execution, should condemn the taunts.

Why? Why should George Bush have anything to say about Saddam's execution at all? He had nothing to do with it. It would be akin to asking Britney Spears to comment the genocide in Darfur. Why?

Why aren't the whining media liberals upset about the thousands of rapes, murders, gassings, tortures, and executions that occurred during Saddam's 30 year reign? They don't care about that. They just want the American President to make some meaningless gesture to make them feeeeel better.

No wonder the media love the United Nations...it's an organization obsessed with symbolism, gestures, and feelings rather than results and substance.

Enough already!

How many times since President Ford's death has his poor wife Betty had to publically grieve his passing? It seemed every time I changed the channel from a football game this weekend, Ford's coffin was lying in State somewhere and Betty and the family were once again asked to come in and mourn so the people could see it. First at Rancho Mirage, then at Ann Arbor, then in the capitol rotunda, then today in the Senate chamber, and finally back to Ann Arbor where he'll be buried at last.

After one such public grief viewing we saw Betty whisper something to the young man helping her around. She probably said, "I need a drink".

Vice vs Virtue in the market place

If you're looking to make a lot of money with your investments this year, apparently it would be wise to invest in companies which deal in alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and porn. There are a couple of mutual funds which have only companies dealing in these vices. The ViceFund is one of those funds and it returned 23% last year.

By contrast, the Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund, which excludes companies that violate Catholic doctrine, is up only 13 per cent.

Sometimes good guys do finish last.

How 'Bout Them Dawgs?

I know it's just a game but those Dogs looked pretty good in the comeback against Va.Tech. Mike Bobo should have gotten the player-of-the-game award, or at least the game ball from Richt for calling the plays. Bobo called the Auburn and Ga. Tech games too.

On another note, looks like the Tide might be getting Saban today. That's perfect(sarcasm)...just in time for them to get back on Georgia's schedule. I would like to have seen Shula stay for another 4 years while they're on Georgia's schedule.