What she has in store for us

Alright, hopefully most of you read Neal Boortz's web site every day. He's a good liberterian and has a lot of good information on his page. I stole these famous, telling quotes from there today and wondered how many of you could guess which world leader uttered them. Give it a try and see if you can peg the person who spoke them...

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground."

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."

So who do you think made those statements? Karl Marx? Vladimir Lenin? Fidel Castro? Che Guevera? Mao Tse Dung?

Each of these men made nearly identical statements in support of socialism/marxism/communism, but none of them made these exact statements. Hillary Rodham Clinton made every single one of them since 6/29/04 and 4 of them in '07. If, after reading the pure, anti-capitalist, socialist evil in those statements, you still think the U.S. would NOT tend perilously close to ruin if she's elected queen, they you are an idiot!

Bias in the MSM

You all hear me whining daily about the subtle, and not so subtle, liberal bias in the main-stream media. You rarely witness members of the MSM openly showing their bias. This weekend we did. Here's the account...

As CNN's Howard Kurtz accurately pointed out on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," few media outlets seemed at all interested in giving much attention to the great news out of Iraq last week regarding September's sharp decline in casualties.

To Kurtz's obvious frustration, his guests - Robin Wright of the Washington Post and Barbara Starr of CNN - both supported the press burying this extremely positive announcement.

After introducing the subject, Kurtz asked, "Robin Wright, should that decline in Iraq casualties have gotten more media attention?"

This was Wright's amazing answer, "Not necessarily. The fact is we're at the beginning of a trend -- and it's not even sure that it is a trend yet. There is also an enormous dispute over how to count the numbers. There are different kinds of deaths in Iraq.

There are combat deaths. There are sectarian deaths. And there are the deaths of criminal -- from criminal acts. There are also a lot of numbers that the U.S. frankly is not counting. For example, in southern Iraq, there is Shiite upon Shiite violence, which is not sectarian in the Shiite versus Sunni. And the U.S. also doesn't have much of a capability in the south.

So the numbers themselves are tricky."

You can't report the numbers because they're tricky, huh? Well I don't remember the numbers being tricky when the news was bad from Iraq. Oh, that's because good news from Iraq doesn't fit nicely into the America-losing-the-war template that the MSM stridently longs for.

If the news is bad for America they defend their reporting of it with, "Well, the numbers are what they are. Numbers are facts. They are unequivocal. We just report the numbers. There's no arguing with the numbers. Bush must answer for these numbers."

But if the numbers are good for America, they are dismissed with derision because they don't support what CNN wants, which is for America to lose in Iraq. Americans dead in Iraq justify their hatred of George Bush. So they say, "Well, the numbers are tricky. You can't trust the numbers. We don't know how they're counted. It's far too early to give any credence at all to these numbers."

You see how that works? The media have a vested interest in America losing in Iraq and nothing pleases them more than a high American body count, because it puts pressure on Bush. What's good for America is bad for the media, and what's bad for America is good for the media. It's no coincidence that 95% of the biased main-stream media is democrat.

Bill's leftovers serve as advisors to Hill

WASHINGTON — Sandy Berger, the former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton who was convicted for stealing and destroying top secret documents, is now advising Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, FOX News confirms.

The Clinton's apparently learned nothing from Bill's eight years presiding over the most corrupt administration in the history of the country. The disgraced national security advisor to Bill, Sandy "the burglar" Berger is now advising Hillary's campaign. I guess when your popularity arises, as Hillary's does, as the result of a cult of personality, you can get away with pretty much anything. The media will certainly not hold Hillary accontable for hiring a man guilty of destroying one-of-a-kind national security documents as he tried to save Bill Clinton from being blamed, as he should have, for allowing 9/11 to happen. The berglar should be in Leavenworth right now busting rocks instead of enjoying the spotlight as the left's media darling. Anybody who throws themselves on their sword to protect the Clintons is promptly rewarded with star status by the fawning left-wing media in this country. Hillary can do almost anything and the media would look the other way they want so badly for her to be crowned queen of America. If she is, the republicans will have nobody to blame but themselves.

For true conservatism to make a comeback the republican party will have to hit rock bottom, and a Hillary presidency pretty much defines rock bottom for this country.

Funny, ironic story of the week

You all know I am the last person in the world to laugh at the misfortune of others.....heh, heh. With that being the case, this week's dumb-human-killed-by-angry-animal story comes from my home state of Georgia. Of course it involves a hunter getting killed by his prey, which makes it all the more entertainingly ironic...

BALL GROUND, Ga. — A man has been found dead at his home in Ball Ground after apparently being attacked by a deer.

The body of 66-year-old John Henry Frix was found around 8 p.m. yesterday inside the deer's pen on his property. Cherokee County Sheriff's Sergeant Jay Baker says he had been gored several times in the upper body by a deer's antlers.

The deer was one of several Frix kept on his property. His relatives told sheriff's deputies the deer had recently been acting very aggressive, probably due to rut -- the period when deer mate.

Authorities say it appears Frix tried to fend off the deer, which was the size of a small elk.

A family member later shot and killed the deer.

No charges have been filed and the incident has been turned over to the Department of Natural Resources for further investigation.

No charges have been filed? Against whom would charges be filed? The deer?

I don't have a problem with hunting. In fact, as a second amendment advocate, I support it, but I have to admit when these good ol' boys become the hunted instead of the hunters, it makes my day.

dumbest kid alive

Alright, there are a couple of ways to post video clips now and I just figured out how to do it from YouTube. This isn't going to turn into a clip blog but when I come across funny one, I'll post it. I know I shouldn't laugh at this but dadgum it's funny. Check it out.

It's Friday!

It's Friday and you know what that means...I'll probably post a story or two over the weekend depending on the interestingness of the news so check back from time to time. Until then consider this an open thread and discuss anything you like. Here's a topic to get things started...

Marion Jones' admission that she took steroids which helped her win 6 Olympic medals, 4 of them gold, was the big story today. Given the stakes of losing and the $$ potential of big-time sports success, is it possible that virtually all athletes who're at the top of their respective games have at least dabbled in steroid use?

I think that at least 50% of athletes who dominate their sport, and 75% of ones who want to, have at one time or another taken something they at least thought was a cheating substance. I think that many pro athletes intended to cheat. Whether it actually helped them or not is another debate topic.

For instance, would steroids help Tiger Woods? Answer: No, too much skill unassociated with muscle development and strength necessary in golf for it to do any good.

Discuss amongst yourselves...

If you read nothing else this year...

OK people, next Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of the first publishing of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Most self-appointed intellectualls around today dismiss it as farcical and melodramatic. I say to them, blow it out your ear! Never has it been more applicable than today as the cancerous scourge of political correctness, socialism, and multiculturalism engulf our national leadership. If you have not read it, I urge you to pick up a copy at your local library. If you want a tease first, go here and read this short synopsis and brief analysis over at RealClearPolitics.com.

Lead hysteria

Alright, I've just about had it with this stupid lead-level hysteria. Soccer moms and pointy-headed bureaucrats across the country are in a state of panic over the remote possibility that "heavens, there might be something dangerous in the world"...

DALLAS (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America said Thursday that a painted, plastic badge commonly worn by some of its youngest scouts is being voluntarily recalled after a test revealed high levels of lead in the paint.

As many as 1.6 million of the badges, which are made in China, may be affected by the recall.

"We're doing everything we can," Boy Scouts spokesman Gregg Shields said.

The plastic totem badge is given to Cub Scouts, who are usually between the ages of 7 and 8. The badge has a yellow and blue border, includes a picture of a bear and wolf and reads "Progress Toward Ranks."

No illnesses have been reported, Shields said.

Seriously, is there really a problem with cub-scout badge-licking? Tailpipes of cars have harmful chemicals on them too, should we recall tailpipes because a stupid scout might decide to lick it? The problem here is not about the lead that may or may not be dangerous. It's about the unreasonable expectation of many weak-minded Americans that the world must be made totally safe for them and their stupid children or else somebody will be paying in court. Thanks to successful socialist indoctrination by democrats, we have come to expect our government to protect us from literally every single one of life's pit-falls. We buy a house that we can't afford...the government will bail us out. We lose our job....the government will give us some of somebody elses money. Our stupid child licks his scout badge and we'll sue for millions and live happily ever after.

That's the mentality of far too many Americans. The government had better remove every single risk associated with living on Earth or somebody's getting sued.

I'm sick of it!

Is Obama being unpatriotic?

So I'm sure you've heard about the Barak Hussein Obama lapel-pin hurly-burly. Like everybody else after 9/11, he wore a flag lapel pin. But recently he took it off purposefully to make a point...

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he doesn't wear an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for "true patriotism" since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Asked about it Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped wearing the pin shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas to citizens.


I don't think a person has to wear a pin on his coat to prove his patriotism, but a candidate for president who removes it for a specific reason probably should explain himself to the people. Especially given the fact that many democrats support our enemies over America.

What do you think? Is it a valid question? Should Obama be quizzed about the pin or is it just much ado about nothing?

Crows, the new missing link!!!

Uh oh, the evolutionists are going to be partying all night over this news...

WASHINGTON - Mounting tiny video cameras to the tail feathers of crows, researchers discovered that the birds use a variety of tools to seek food, and even make their own tools, plucking, smoothing and bending twigs and grass stems.

"We observed a new mode of tool use that was not known before. We saw them use tools on the ground, using a little grass stem to poke and fish into nests," researcher Christian Rutz of England's University of Oxford said in a telephone interview.

New Caledonian crows had been known to use sticks to probe rotting trees for grubs, but they were never seen to use tools on the ground before.

A crow that does tricks isn't proof that people came from birds billions of years ago. I'm sorry, I don't care how many crude tools a crow designs and uses to catch food, it's still just a stupid crow and it belongs on my plate marinated in Dales, with a side of fava peas and a nice Chianti, should I decide to kill it and eat it.