Dem batting order for '08...heh, heh!

Check out the new straw poll going on over at the DemocraticUnderground...snicker, snicker.

Poll result (170 votes)

Clark 34%
Edwards 17%
Gore 16%
Kucinich 11%
Obama 11%
Kerry 7%
Clinton 3%
Vilsack 1%
Dodd 1%
Biden 1%

The sampling was not scientific and rather small but the results are noteworthy nonetheless. First and most obvious is that Hillary is getting 3% from the vital liberal base she desperately needs in order to win. Polls like this will force her to move way to the left in order to shore up the wacky lib base. Second, how can a nutjob like Dennis "the menace" Kucinich get 11% of any poll? That says a lot about the nutty left base. Third, seriously, are the Dems thinking of recycling Gore and Kerry? Gore says he's not running and Lurch is an idiot. So two guys who have no hope of winning get 4 times Hillary's percentage? Fourth, Wesley Clark is popular right now only because he's a former General trying to appeal to the base by bashing his former boss, GWB. When it comes down to brass tacks, the left base will abandon him. Fifth, that leaves the Breck girl to top the poll as the only viable candidate to get more than 1%. I really don't see his appeal, even to dumb liberals. He's an effiminate, tort lawyer who fleeced dumb juries into giving him a multi-million dollar fortune by sueing perfectly competent OB/GYN's out of work. His record is about as thin as Obama's. I mean what has he done besides not deliver the South for Kerry?

As weak as the Republican ticket will undoubtedly be, the Democrats have their own problems to solve.

Circumventing the Constitution

Of all the ways Democrats attempt to get around the Constitution every day, this is probably the most transparently craven...

BISMARCK, N.D. -- A movement to essentially junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to the winner of the nationwide popular vote is making some headway in states large and small -- including, somewhat improbably, North Dakota.

The National Popular Vote movement is aimed at preventing a repeat of 2000, when Democrat Al Gore lost despite getting more votes than George W. Bush.

Backers are asking states to change their laws to award their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote nationally.

The founding fathers estabilished the electoral college for two reasons, to give small states more of a say in the presidency, and to maintain electoral balance between the individual states and the voters. Electing the U.S. president by simple popular vote would allow somebody like Hillary to become president by courting the wacky California/West Coast libs and the black vote in New York and only a few other states, while ignoring the vast majority of the rest of the country. The electoral college forces national candidates to have broad appeal across the country.

Of course Democrats want to have mob rule elect presidents. That way their candidates can ignore red-state America altogether. To typical subversive liberals, the Constitution is something to be gotten around in order to foist their dreadful world view on America.

Many miles away....

Looks like The Police may be getting close to a reunion tour to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Apparently, Andy Sommers and Stewart Copeland were spotted at a low-key birthday party for Sting's wife Trudy Styler. Also, Sting was spotted at the preview of a indie film on which Sommers and Copeland did the sound track. All this togetherness has fueled the reunion rumors.

As a huge Police fan, I would be stoked to see these guys play together again.

"But Ed", you whine, "Sting is a Hollywood, enviro-lib who is anti-military and very critical of George Bush. How can you be a fan?"

If a band makes music that I like, I can segregate their idiotic politics from their music. Additionally, artists like Bono, Dave Matthews, and Sting at least have somewhat intelligent, well thought out, objections to certain policies...I can respect that without agreeing. The Dixie Chicks and Barbara Streisand, on the other hand, are vapid, airheaded, bimbos who mindlessly regurgitate liberal dogma. They aren't taken seriously by anybody because they aren't serious. All they have to offer is personal attacks founded in raw hatred of GWB rather than legitimate(albeit wrong), long-held positions on issues. There's a difference.

Et tu, DiscoveryChannel? Et tu?

So my kid and I are watching the Discovery Channel Sunday night. There was this cool show on about the 6 most dramatic ways the Earth could come to an end. They had great special effects, science, and data to show how it would really happen.

The first three were natural disasters...1.Earth gets simultaneously ripped apart and crushed in the gravity of a black hole 2. A killer asteroid collides with Earth and destroys all life leaving only roaches to rule 3. The magma lake that is known to exist below Yellowstone erupts, and spews enough sulfer ash into the upper atmosphere to plunge Earth into essentially permanent winter.

Now for the man-made disasters: 1. Global thermo-nuclear war breaks out when Iran, the Norks, or some other rogue state launches a weapon 2. I cannot to save my own life remember what #2 was because I was so astonished and disappointed by #3. Of course by now you have probably guessed that the most dire, immediate, man-made threat to the existence to human life on Earth is Man-Made Global Warming.

I can't remember who hosted the show but she breathlessly interviewed Al Gore and a steady stream of "scientists" who were saying that global warming deniers were just as vile and soulless as holocaust deniers. According to Al, when the Greenland Ice Shelf finally melts, the global ocean levels will have risen 20 feet. He actually predicted, and with a straight face too, that within the next 20 years or so, 80% of the Florida penninsula would be covered with water leaving millions of refugees.

This whole otherwise interesting show was a setup to compare man-made global warming with the absolute worst things that could happen to Earth...worse than nuclear war, worse than a black hole even. And of course, the evil, uncaring, capitalist pigs in the U.S. made our country the primary culprit contributing to the Earth's demise. China and India, the two fastest developing countries, both of which have zero pollution controls on their industries, were never mentioned. This was an attack piece on the U.S. plain and simple.

See the Discovery Channel should stick to actual science and avoid taking political sides because they just lost a viewer.

Off with their heads!

This is gruesome and grotesque, but I can find ironic humor in the accidental beheading of men responsible for gruesome and grotesque torture of their fellow Iraqis...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 15 — Iraq’s turbulent effort to reckon with the violence of its past took another macabre turn on Monday when the execution of Saddam Hussein’s half brother ended with the hangman’s noose decapitating him after he dropped through the gallows trapdoor.

The Iraqis actually have tables dating back centuries which calculate the correct length of rope, given the weight of the condemned and the height of the gallows, that will properly snap the neck without decapitating the person...theoretical tables that is. Maybe somebody poured some rocks in his pocket just before the trap door opened.

There really isn't a point to this post, I just thought it made an absolutely hilarious visual.

Wonder when that video will hit YouTube?

You reap what you sow

Lot's of guys are posting on this subject lately so I thought I'd put in my two cents worth...

Liberals love to congratulate themselves on their compassion regarding their fellow citizens who are homeless. To them, "compassion" is seeing to it that the government generously gives the homeless stuff...other peoples' stuff, never their own stuff. They always claim that spending on social problems yeilds solutions to social problems. Based on that, one might assume that the states in which liberals mindlessly wallow in their own self-congratulatory, socialist utopia of giving would also be the states where homelessness is at a minimum...one would be wrong.

It turns out the 5 most liberal states(New Mexico, California, Washington, Vermont, New York) regarding taxation, voting record, individual and economic liberty, indigent care, etc, are custodians of 31% of the homeless in America. That's right, the more liberals you have, the more bums there are sleeping and urinating in the streets. "But how could this be?", You ask.

Look, why do you think bums and panhandlers are called "bums" and "panhandlers"? It's because their primary purpose each day is to get people to give them free stuff. So predictably, they will go wherever they think they can score the best stuff.

Arrogant, superior liberals think of themselves as supremely compassionate and nice. In addition they feel guilty about their success as white people, so they feel they have to do something to help the smelly, unpleasant bum sleeping in the doorway of the local Starbucks. Having the government hand out fantastic goody bags of cash and entitlements to anybody who asks for them not only aleviates liberals' white guilt, it also absolves them of having to actually do anything themselves. Simple support of government action is equal to compassion in the minds of do-gooder liberals.

Why, it's almost as if the economic principle of [subsidizing behavior(in this case indigency) gets you more of that behavior], stands true. Who knew?

Depraved Democrats

Just when I thought it was impossible for craven Democrats to plumb the depths of political depravity any deeper, Sen. Barbara Boxer(D) California, digs a little more putrid sludge out of the hole...

[Sec. Condoleezza Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush's tactical change in Iraq, and quickly encountered Boxer.
"Who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price," Boxer said. "My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young."
Then, to Rice: "You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family."

To dismiss Sec. Rice's opinion about an administration policy because she has no kids is in stupefyingly poor taste and wholy without class. Condi should have ripped Babs a new one with a question such as,

"Senator Boxer, based on that logic, can one safely assume that you will have absolutely nothing to say in the future about civil rights in this country because you are a privilidged white girl who knows nothing of the plight of blacks in America?"

I can easily think of a half dozen ways Condi could have totally humiliated Boxer, and exposed her as the mean-spirited craven liberal she is. Why don't conservatives ever fight back? It's infuriating to watch them get abused and say nothing. We know the media will hate us no matter what, so why not get our licks in?

The Stella Awards

I got this e-mail yesterday(and probably so did everybody online in America) so I thought I would post it as an example of what's wrong with our legal system. These examples show it much better than I can describe it...

Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards."


The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States .

Here are this year's winners:

5th Place (tie):
Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas , was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms Robertson's son .


5th Place (tie):
19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps .


5th Place (tie):
Terrence Dickson of Bristol , Pennsylvania , was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish.
The jury agreed, to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place !


4th Place :
Jerry Williams of Little Rock , Arkansas , was awarded $14,500. and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The a ward w as less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Will iams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.


3rd Place :
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania , $113,500. after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.


2ndPlace:
Kara Walton of Claymont , Delaware , successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms Walton was trying t o snea k through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge . She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.


1st Place :
This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma . Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the d river's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000. plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manual s on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.

As you know, I'm probably the last person who would hold any country in Europe up as a shining examle of the right way to do anything. That being said, we should adopt the U.K.'s loser-pays system and reform our tort laws. The limeys got that one right...too bad they'll be under Islamic Sharia law before long.

Left out

It seems James Brown left money in his will to provide for five of his children but not the sixth, seen here.




Did he at least leave enough to provide for a haircut?

Democrat deception...same old, same old.

Since Democrats cannot get elected by telling the truth about the Socialist agenda they intend to foist on the American people, they say whatever their pollsters tell them focus-groups well with voters. Since the Jack Abramoff scandal focus-grouped strongly with voters, "transparancy and honesty in government" was the platform that tricked ignorant Americans into voting Democrat in the mid-term elections. But as usual, as soon as Democrats had seized power, they wasted no time abandoning their election promises and pushed ahead foisting their Socialist treachery on the American people.

Seems the disastrous and uncontstitutional Fair Minimum Wage Act, passed hurredly this week and intended to lift all poor Americans(including all American territories) out of poverty, exempted American Samoa...I wonder why?

Turns out 75% of the Samoan workforce work as meat processors for StarKist, whose headquarters is guess where? San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi's district. A minimum wage increase would cost StarKist huge amounts of money in added labor costs. I calculate the chances of this being a coincidence roughly the same as the chances of Paris Hilton winning an Academy Award.

The point here is not that congressional representatives sometimes write legislation which unfairly benefits a big donor back home in their district...that happens all the time. The point is that Nancy Pelosi would have you believe that she, and the Democrats, care deeply for the plight of the less advantaged, and want to make the lives of all poor people just a little bit more comfortable by giving them more of their employers' money. As it turns out, she's in favor of poor people making more money, but only those poor people who don't work for one of her wealthiest constituents.

She doesn't give a rip about them! SanFranNan calculated that ignorant, government-schooled Americans don't even know that Samoa is an American territory and subject to our minimum wage laws. Nor would we care about the wages of some half-dressed natives on a remote south pacific island. Plus, she would endear herself to a potential huge donor by exempting them from the minimum wage hike.

The calculated treachery of Democrats knows no bounds. Look for at least two more years of the same thing. If congressional Republicans ever want to retake the majority, they had better hold her very publically accountable for shenanigans like this.