I'm not sure personal judgement has anything to do with news reporting

Wait. so Fox News chief white house reporter Ed Henry got busted by his wife for having an affair with a Vegas stripper and Roger Ailes says it brings into question his judgement as a journalist? What does one have to do with the other?

He reports the political news, he doesn't make the political news. What kind of judgement does a reporter apply when telling us what happened in DC that day, I mean if he's being straight and not slanting the news?

If marital fidelity is the standard for keeping your job, then half the people in Washington should be fired today.....and probably the other half in six months. 

Obama discounts hard work, tells black students "You're just lucky"

This weekend at Howard University's commencement, President Obama doubled down on his infamous "you didn't build that" remarks of 2012. He told the graduates to "be confident in your blackness" whatever that means, and to "stand up for those African Americans who haven’t been so lucky — because, yes, you’ve worked hard, but you’ve also been lucky."

Yeah, lucky enough to have an establishment who values your skin color far more than your work ethic. 

As a liberal, Obama believes that any accomplishment or accumulation of wealth is based on winning life's lottery, chance, good fortune. Liberals never give credit to hard work, good life choices, and nose-to-the-grindstone determination. 

That's where the idiotic phrase "those less fortunate among us" and "giving back" came from, the delusional notion that nobody is responsible for their own life's outcome. That the fickle hand of fate chooses winners and losers and therefor the winners owe what they have to the losers.....out of fairness or some fantasy that society gave you something that it didn't give everybody else, so you owe it to society to return it. It's almost always simply giving, not giving back. 

By conscious decision, I never call people "less fortunate" or use the phrase "give back", precisely because I don't want to add to the myth that hard work, sound decision making, and long-term goals didn't have everything to do with why I didn't become a drug-dealing bum. 

Transgendered bathroom choice doesn't have to be a problem

If the media are to be believed, the nation is over-run with trannies, cross-dressers, and people in the process of gender reassignment, and all manner of accommodation must be made to make them comfortable.

I don't have any issues with people doing whatever makes them happy, but I seriously doubt the numbers are that high, but even if they are, the silly NC law mandating that you use the bathroom corresponding to your gender at birth, is simply idiotic, given the fact that these harmless people do exist and the bathroom problem is very easy to address.

For those businesses who want to address it, have one public bathroom in your store designated with this sign.

Bingo, problem solved.

SIDEBAR: If you're a man and your thing is dressing as a woman, shave your legs, break out the mascara brush, and go for it, but please learn to walk properly in heels. Nothing's worse than seeing a woman(or man) clomping around in heels with knees bent like a T-rex, looking like a 5 year old trying on her mother's shoes.

Mercury's transit only happens 16 times a century

Don't forget to watch the transit of Mercury on any one of the web-based live space channels. It's already started and will last about 7 hours.

Go here to see it: https://tools.cosmos.esa.int/cesar/

Public Service Announcement: unless you are really spectacularly stupid, you should know not to look directly at the sun with binoculars or a telescope. Obviously Mercury is tiny and you cannot see it against the brightness of the sun, so unless you have special goggles that allow direct-sun viewing, the only way to watch it is on the web where they do have special cameras for sun viewing. 

Have a seat Mitt

Mitt Romney's camp(who knew Mitt Romney still had a camp?) announced that he won't be attending the GOP convention in Cleveland.

How is this news? Mitt Romney was irrelevant the day he won the nomination and has only gotten more irrelevant with every passing news cycle. He keeps making announcements and appearances as if anybody's listening.

Have a seat Mitt, nobody cares what you think or do, nobody has for a long time.....except maybe the guy who counts tithe money at whatever church you go to.

Here Romney indicates how many active Twitter followers he still has, not including the tithe guy at church.....

The doom of the GOP is a blessing

So everybody on the right side of the beltway is fainting with the vapors because Trump is now the titular head of the party, at least until November. They're wailing and gnashing their teeth at how Trump will destroy the good name of the GOP, how he'll ruin the GOP brand for a generation, the sky is falling, etc, etc, etc. 

I say GOOD! 

And what GOP brand is worth salvaging? And who but GOP beltway insiders wants to keep the pathetic GOP status quo? It's the big-government party of Bush, Boehner, McConnell, Ryan, and Rove. These guys aren't interested in limiting government, only in redirecting our massive tax burden to the programs and agencies with which they reward their friends rather than to the democrats' programs and agencies. That and keeping their names on the A-list cocktail circuit where they all laugh at what suckers the American voters are to believe that voting in elections means anything substantive to our lives. It does not. We're merely voting for a hood ornament. Everything else basically stays the same regardless of who pretends to be in charge. 

I hope that from the ashes of the GOP immolation rises a Libertarian-leaning party that I can be excited to be a part of. 

Everybody draw Muhammad

You remember the "Draw Muhammad" contest in Garland, TX where a couple of crazed, blood-thirsty Muslims tried to kill everybody at the gathering, only to be shot dead by an alert cop?

Well, this is the winner of the contest. It went on sale on eBay a couple of days ago but the auction is gone now, I guess somebody bought it.

The dialogue therein sums up precisely why everybody should draw Muhammad, because we are told we can't.

Naturally, technology stays far ahead of the law

A California federal judge has ordered the GIRLFRIEND of an FBI Armenian-gang suspect to surrender her phone and use her thumb-print to unlock it for them. She is not, repeat NOT, a suspect in his purported criminal activities, nor is she under any investigations by the FBI. 

Apparently the FBI went to the judge in secret, without the girlfriend or her lawyer present, and convinced the judge that they needed her phone to look for criminal activity of his. Clearly to me, this is a blatant violation of her 4th right to unreasonable search and seizure(or as most call it our "guaranteed right to privacy" and certainly her 5th right to not to be compelled to incriminate herself. 

In what kind of Orwellian imperial state are we now living where in secret, a federal judge and FBI, with all the firepower and force that implies, can violate not one but two of a citizen's rights as guaranteed by the Constitution, simply in the name of fishing for evidence, when that citizen is not a suspect in any crime? 

Unless she is named as a suspect and the feds can show the judge, with her lawyers present, that they have reasonable cause to suspect her of a crime, they don't have the right to compel her to in effect, make a statement against herself that she doesn't want to make. 

I'm guessing these types of cases will work their way to the Supreme Court in the next session hopefully and this nonsense will be settled. 

Iran does not fear Obama, nor should they

So the Iranians, flush with anti-US nationalism after capturing and humiliating 10 or so US sailors for a day, a few months ago, are threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz to all US petroleum shipping if we or our allies(Israel) "threaten the Islamic Republic". (About 1/3 of all commercial petroleum flows through the Strait)

Make whatever argument you like regarding US meddling in the region, their affairs are none of our business, we brought terrorism on ourselves, whatever, but such a move would likely do serious damage to our economy, at least in the short term. I think the US would be within its rights to defend our petroleum shipments out of the region and Iran would be wise to get out of the way. 

Not sure Obama has the stones or desire to go toe-to-toe with Iran in their back yard, but if he cares about his legacy, he should consider what the historians will write about most, his aggressive defense of legal American assets in international shipping lanes, or his submissive obeisance to blood-thirsty mullahs who chant "death to America" every time there's a camera around.

Missouri feels the effects of PC adherence

I'm embarrassed to have the University of Missouri in the SEC now. The moronic students there apparently have nothing better to do than be perpetually offended by virtually everything.

At the campus food court there is a sushi bar called "Sunshine Sushi" with the logo above. Now see if you can follow this tortured logic.......some deranged student decided that the logo offended him because it vaguely reminded him of the Japanese rising sun flag and because of that, reminded him symbolically of the Nazi’s Hakenkreuz (swastika) and that reminded him of the aggression of those two nations during WWII. And having been reminded of history, he wants the logo changed.

Have you ever heard of anything so stupid?

You may remember that it was at Missouri that the BLM protests included a journalism professor who on camera, advocated for violence against a student journalist covering the protest.

As a result of all this PC insanity, the Missou president sent out a letter to the faculty this week announcing a $32Million budget shortfall because matriculation has fallen by 1500 students each semester since last years BLM protest.

Hahahaha, morons!