Natural Disaster = political photo-op

As Gustav, now a category 3 hurricane, bears down on the ill-conceived city of New Orleans, and will probably make landfall as a cat-4 on Monday, national politicians of both parties are jockeying for the best photo-op. Why?

Clearly, Governor Bobby Jindal, Secretary Michael Chertoff, and even Mayor Ray Nagin seem to have the situation well in hand. Evacuations are going smoothly, the National Guard is present in large numbers to protect property from looting and enforce dusk-to-dawn curfews, and relief organizations are poised to leap into action the moment the danger has passed.

Given that, why does the Obamessiah and his faithful lapdog Joe Biden feel the need to be down there causing disruption? Why also do George Bush and Cheney feel the need to be down there causing further problems? That The One and Biden are going certainly explains why McCain will show up somewhere there are cameras but, what can they possibly think they are accomplishing other than posing with relief workers, National Guardsmen, or other VIP's for a photo-op to show America how concerned and personally involved they are.

National politicians don't need to be personally on site and involved with weather relief work. Things will go more smoothly if they stay out of the way and don't distract people from their tasks. Ever since Katrina I guess, no national politician will risk the political costs of not showing up to a natural disaster regardless of the uselessness of being there. Natural disasters happen. That doesn't mean the rest of the country should suspend life in solidarity with those affected. And it doesn't mean politicians should interrupt relief efforts to pose for campaign pictures.

Everybody's jazzed about Palin

Over at RightWingNews John Hawkins has a list(cross posted from GinaCobb) detailing 25 reasons to love Sarah Palin for VP.

Here's #25 to whet your appetite:

By her very existence she puts the lie to numerous liberal mantras, such as the notion that women cannot advance without affirmative action; Republicans are sexist; John McCain is out of touch; anyone who loves Alaska's beauty can't support drilling in ANWR; mothers of troops in harms' way want to cut and run from Iraq; and women need government programs to manage marriage, children and work simultaneously.

See, there are all these positives that will absolutely confound liberals' attempts to smear her or otherwise paint her as somehow undesirable as VP. Her 2 years of executive experience is 2 years more than the Obamessiah or Biden has. What's that you say? Experience in Alaska doesn't count for much as it only has 3 electoral votes? Guess how many electoral votes Biden's state of Delaware has......3. And playing obstruction politics on the Foreign Relations Committee doesn't exactly count for Biden as experience either.

TRR Poll Question

Well, if McCain didn't accomplish anything else by picking Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, as his running mate, he got the Obamessiah off the front pages for a change, and that's quite an accomplishment since the sycophantic, liberal media are totally and completely in the tank for him. That brings us to the weekend TRR poll question. Jump in with your opinion and leave a comment about S.P. in the comments thread if you like....

What do you think of McCain's pick for VP, Sarah Palin?
	Not enough executive experience, it hurts the ticket
	It's a blatant and insulting pander to women
	She's terrific! An excellent pick by J.Mac
	Who cares if she's experienced? I dig those hottie librarian glasses
Free polls from Pollhost.com

McCain strikes Yukon gold!!!

By selecting Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate, John McCain has in one brilliant move, yanked the minority rug out from under the Obamessiah, trumped Obama on the female front, made the Obama campaign look like the insider campaign, and energized his otherwise run-of-the-mill campaign.

A few of my thoughts on Sarah Palin:

-Nothing ages a person like the presidency, which means John McCain will be like 103 after 4 years in office. That makes Sarah Palin the odds-on republican to run for the office.

-Hillary must be thinking that she can't buy votes in prison with a hand full of pardons. First the young, black upstart steals what has always been her birthright....the dem nomination. Then Sarah Palin comes along and becomes the nations most prominent female politician, displacing Hillary perilously close to irrelevant status. Hillary had assumed that if J.Mac wins this election and serves one term, it's her turn alone in 4 years to become president....but now she'll have to run against a prettier, younger, and far less corrupt female. Drats, drats, and double drats!!!

-The Obamessiah's handlers must be in a blind panic about how to attack Palin without coming across as bullies. I almost feel sorry for poor Joe Biden for having to debate her once....almost.

-The worst thing the dems can say about Sarah Palin is that she's a hunter and a lifelong NRA member.

-She's already come under attack by the hypocritical MSM for agreeing to tackle the VP job while being the mother of 5. Remember, these are the same people who have told women for 40 years to go out into the workforce, abandon their families for their careers, and reject the traditional notions of the patriarchal society in which men work and women care for families.

-Her credentials for president are stronger already than the Obamessiah himself. She has executive experience.

-When you do a side-by-side between Palin and Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, Hillary has so much baggage and skeletons by comparison it's ridiculous. And Michelle just comes across as a militant, angry black woman with a huge racial chip on her shoulder. Sarah Palin comes across as a reasonable, rational mother and wife without a lot of issues or axes to grind.

-Many in the MSM seem to already be more excited about Sarah Palin than the Obamessiah.

-I predict women by the tens of thousands, including many feminists, will abandon Obama to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Only Geraldine Ferraro has come this far in American politics.

Bottom line.....I'm jazzed about this election where I wasn't so much yesterday.

It's Ann Coulter Thursday!

This week Ann reminds us of Joe Biden's plagiarism in speeches he gives regularly...something that if he were republican, the smug media would be clucking about incessantly, but because he's the VP to the Chosen One, he gets all the protection the MSM can give him. You can go over to HumanEvents and read the embarrassing details.

I Told You.....

As it now stands the Democratic Party leadership is blasting Elizabeth Edwards for her silence pertaining to the Breck Girl's extra-curricular romping. If you didn't know I was right previously, slide on over to FoxNews for a view of their take. Trouble in Demo-land. !!!

Too close to home

Gangland massacres, killings for hire, huge sums of cash, methamphetamines, cocaine, and marijuana, weapons, victims tortured with electricity to send a message, Columbian neckties, etc......

What's that you say? Has the Italian Mob found it's way to southern states? Why no, it hasn't. THESE ARE ILLEGAL MEXICAN ALIENS!!!! Right here in my town, 5 illegal aliens were tortured and then massacred by other illegal aliens, police think to make a statement to others not to cross the drug pushers.

"But Ed", you whine, "these kinds of crimes happen all the time among American drug gangs. This isn't an illegal alien problem, it's a drug culture problem."

Wrong you are, ignorant reader. But for the shocking dereliction by what passes for our leaders in Washington, on enforcing the immigration laws, none of these illegal-alien drug gangs would be operating here. Sure, there might be a different gang in their place but, you don't know that. The only fact is this: this gang is here now, selling illicit drugs, and murdering each other and who knows who else? If Bush-43, Clinton, Bush-41, Reagan, Carter, all the way back, had even pretended to care about this immigration problem, the Mexican drug gangs wouldn't feel the freedom to operate here today. And based on the article I read, disappointingly, the deputies who found and arrested the murders didn't shoot them on the spot. Now my tax dollars will go to provide for their defense and an interpreter because they don't speak a lick of English.

No, because our cops are wasting time chasing illegal alien crime, the domestic criminals have less to worry about too. If there were no illegal alien drug gangs, the cops could concentrate on arresting our own criminal gangs. Your argument is as stupid as Geraldo's argument about drunk driving crimes committed by illegal aliens not being an immigration problem but an alcohol abuse problem.

The ad the Messiah doesn't want you to see

Over on Moonbattery Van Helsing has a link to this ad produced by AmericanIssuesProject that links with convincing finality the ascendancy of Barack Obama to American terrorist and FOB(friend of Barack) William Ayers...



You may remember Bill Ayers as one of the leaders of the Weathermen, a.k.a. Weather Underground, a socialist, domestic terrorist group who in the early 70's declared war on the US and instigated riots in Chicago, bombed federal buildings and police precincts, and killed policemen. Ever since, Bill Ayers has bragged about his crimes, exclaiming that he didn't do enough bombing. It was in Bill Ayers suburban Chicago home that BHO made the transition from harmless community organizer to radical liberal politician. Predictably, the Obama campaign goons are trying mightily to suppress this ad, as it sort of makes Obama look pretty bad. They are threatening successfully, any TV network that airs it and trying to use the courts to stop it's dissemination. Even FoxNews has bowed to the will of the Messiah and won't run it. Well, that ban would last about as long at TRR, as a Hostess Twinkie at Rosie O'Donnel's house. We'll keep it up as long as the link remains active.

Prease speak Engrish

I saw something like this coming a couple of years ago.....

Golfweek magazine reported on its Web site Monday that speaking English will be a requirement starting in 2009, with players who have been LPGA members for two years facing suspension if they can’t pass an oral evaluation of English skills.

The tour held a mandatory meeting with South Koreans last Wednesday at the Safeway Classic to inform them of the new policy.

“Hopefully, what we’re talking about is something that will not happen,” deputy commissioner Libba Galloway told Golfweek. “If it does, we wouldn’t just say, ’Come back next year.’ What we would do is work with them on where they fell short, provide them the resources they need, the tutoring ... and when we feel like they need to be evaluated again, we would evaluate.”

There are 121 international players from 26 countries on the LPGA Tour, including 45 players from South Korea.

The ACLU or somebody will protest about this but, the LPGA is a private organization who can make it's own rules. When you have sponsors who, in return for funding events and purses, want access to the athletes for commercials and other endorsements, it's only natural that they would be expected to be able to communicate in English, thier love of Diet Coke, Titleist golf balls, or Massengil Douches.

Critics of the policy will say that it's about American-centrism and that it is a thinly veiled effort to get foreigners out of the sport so more popular and commercially appealing Americans can win. But that's not it. I honestly don't think anybody cares who wins each week on the LPGA as long as they are capable of fulfilling their contractual responsibilities to support the sponsors, and that means doing commercials if asked, make personal appearances, and communicating with potential consumers of sponsor goods.

Asinine!!!

We fully expect liberals to punish ambition, achievement, and success while rewarding timidity, laziness, and failure. That's what they do. But how do you punish, with a clean conscious, a child for being too good at a sport?

A Connecticut youth baseball team with a phenomenal 9-year-old pitcher has been disqualified because its team is too good.

The team, Will Power Fitness, has an 8-0 record thanks in large part to pitcher Jericho Scott, the New Haven Register reports. His pitching is so fast and accurate, the Liga Juvenil De Baseball De New Haven asked the team's coach, Wilfred Vidro, to replace him so he wouldn't frighten other players.

“The spirit of the league was community, family, well-being, nurturing," Peter Noble, the league's attorney, told the Register. "It’s an extended family and it’s been disrupted.”

That's right, get rid of accomplishment and performance lest the crummy kids feel inadequate and experience low self-esteem. Just like in the class room where we've banned honors for academic achievement so the dumb kids don't feel so dumb.

In my son's baseball league, we had a kid who at nine, could throw at least as fast as this kid, and nobody wanted to ban him from playing. All the other players just dedicated themselves to becoming better hitters and the whole league improved. But personal accomplishment and improvement aren't what political correctness and liberalism are about. Liberalism is about squashing the achievers and forcing conformation to the lowest common denominator. Nobody will be allowed to be better than the worst of us.

Everybody equal in worthlessness and mediocrity. That's liberals' vision of America. That's democrats' vision of America. And that's Barack Hussein Obama's vision of America.

WHY ??

Why does being the wife of a presidential candidate give one any authority to speak at a political convention? As I watched Michelle Obama last night I couldn't get this thought out of my head. She has nothing to offer other than her obvious hatred of the America we now reside in. She has a chip on her shoulder that may never be removed. Where is her political savy, what is her platform, why is she talking to me and millions of registered voters? She has no credible reason to take the stage and to regale us with her intelligence (or lack there of? ). I just don't understand. I think back to past conventions and don't remember speeches from Pat Nixon, Rosalyn Carter, or Walter Mondales wife, not to mention Geraldine Ferraro's husband. I can understand the Bill Clinton can and will speak. He is a former president- enough said. But the rest - stop it. I can't wait for Nancy Pelosi!!

Liberal kooks reach critical mass in Denver

Alright, I know I said I wasn't going to blog on the democrats' praise-a-thon of the Obamessiah because you can watch TV with a barf-bag in your lap as easily as I can but, that doesn't mean I can't poke fun of all the kook protesters who regularly show up for these things.

Over at ConservativeGrapevine, John has a link to Doubleplusundead where you can find all the early images like this one from the Denver protests.

If you are a democrat who's voting for Obama, these verminous, degenerate, soap-averse hippies are your peers. They may be protesting the democrats to get attention, but they'll end up voting for their personal lord and savior, the Obamessiah just the same....just like you will. How embarrassing it must be for you to know that you're sharing a political foxhole with smelly riff-raff who'd rather get high and whine about the unfairness of life than get a frickin' haircut and a job.

Sign, sign, every where a sign.....

I can sort of see why this sign upsets people but still, it's pretty funny.....

LONDON - Pensioners’ groups called for the road sign depicting old people to be scrapped because it is insulting.

Maybe a better sign would be an old guy shaking his fist at kids on his lawn.

This reminds me of the joke my wife and her best friend always make when they see this sign:
They ask, "Does this mean there are a lot of retarded children who live on this street?"

That never fails to crack me up.

Good immigration news......for a change

Probably for a variety of reasons, and I'm sure to reader David's delight, the bleak immigration picture is starting to turn around......

DALLAS — Illegal immigrants are returning home to Mexico in numbers not seen for decades — and the Mexican government may have to deal with a crush on its social services and lower wages once the immigrants arrive.

"Those numbers have increased percentage-wise tremendously," said Enrique Hubbard, the Mexican consul general in Dallas. "In fact, it's almost 100 percent more this year than it was the previous two years."

The illegal immigrant population in the U.S. has dropped 11 percent since August of last year, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Its research shows 1.3 million illegal immigrants have returned to their home countries.

"There's no question there's a variety of suggestions that people are in fact returning," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "Remittances, which is the money immigrants send home to Mexico, have gone down dramatically over the past year. Again, probably part the economy, but also part enforcement, leading to fewer people being here."

Mexican President Felipe Calderon plans to help returning nationals by providing food, medical care and temporary shelter if needed. But reports are already out in Mexico that the large number of illegal immigrants returning home could drive down wages and put pressure on social services — the same concerns many Americans have with illegals living and working in the U.S.

Unemployable vagrants, hostile gang-bangers, drains on social services, hundreds of thousands unassimilated and uneducated, depressed wages......welcome to America Felipe! I'd like to think it would force Mexico to reform their government and get rid of the stifling, rampant corruption but, when everybody in power including the police are totally corrupt, how do you instigate reform? The short answer is you don't. When our economy rebounds and we stop paying attention, like we always do, Mexico's poor will flood back across the unguarded border like they always have, with Calderon's assistance. And we'll ignore it like we always have, until it's too late to do anything about.

According to my title, this was supposed to be a good-news post but, I'm far too cynical to believe that it'll end up the way we'd like it to.

Monday edition of Friday Funny

That Jamaican, Usain Bolt, is an amazing athlete but, he's a tad arrogant.....



It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.

My son showed me this video and I told him I would probably start using Bolt's double-finger-point as my hand sign from now on. It's kind of cool, don't you think?

..and then you squeeze... like this

Senator Barak Obama went way out on the limb in picking his running mate this past weekend. He is so far out in fact, that he can still read the braille instructions in the bark of the tree trunk. Joe Biden, what a choice. (GAG). Now we all know that Obama has a foreign policy issue, so he picks a guy that also has virtually zero experience. Yes, Sen. Biden did and does chair the Foreign Relations Committee, but the closest he has come to truly dealing with foreign issues is when he orders Mexican or Chinese for lunch.

This man ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination himself in 1988. He also started out this campaign season with a veiled attempt for the top spot, but pulled out after the Iowa caucus. I believe that was the one of the first primaries.Do you wonder how much money he put in his pocket for that exhausting and grueling campaign?

Maybe I am missing the boat, but the man craving for a new direction and change, reeled in an "insider" of many years. Biden is in his 6th term as Senator from Delaware, that is going on 30 years in Washington, or there abouts, boy that just cries out for change doesn't it. Biden knows so little about change that he probably will need to send an aide to read the dictionary and give him a recap.

Go back and watch the famed senator as he chaired the senate hearings during the Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. We all remember how well Judge Thomas was treated by the Democrats. Imagine how even handed Mr. Biden will be with the Iraqis, etc. History tells us how badly the government treated the American Indians during land expansion, do we need a repeat of that? Biden, the sponsor of dividing Iran into 3rds by religion idea, what a great politician. It doesn't matter where you live, you will move into a new area because of heritage and religious choice. How can we not assume that all Mormons will then be forced to move to Utah, Southern Baptists to the south and those intellectually superior folks and same sex mariagers can have the rest of the country. No more worries but guess what folks...... Change it is a Comin!!

A democrat steps out of line

Even some democrats are sickened and disgusted by the MSM's doe-eyed worship of the Obamessiah....

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer — but instead, he opened up a can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage

"Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing," said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was embarrassing."

“MSNBC was the official network of the Obama campaign," Rendell said, who called their coverage "absolutely embarrassing."

Chris Matthews, Rendell said, "loses his impartiality when he talks about the Clintons.”

At that point, PBS's Judy Woodruff, who was moderating the moderators event, said: "Why don’t we let Governor Rendell sit down."

Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on MSNBC.

Of course Brokaw defended the network(after a drink of course), he's one of the worst offenders historically. It must be pretty bad when one of the finalists for the VP slot hammers what would otherwise have been breathless, fawning coverage of himself had he been chosen.

This is the best story about a headless chicken you'll read all weekend...

Strange but true. A farmer from Fruita, Colo., thought he was just putting dinner on the table when he picked up an axe and beheaded one of his chickens. What happened next became the stuff of legend: The headless rooster bobbed and weaved back to the henhouse and lived for 18 more months.

The animal, later dubbed Mike and celebrated with a festival, Web sites and various magazine articles, survived because the blade missed his jugular vein and a clot prevented him from bleeding to death. The axe blow landed high enough that most of the chicken's brain stem and one ear remained intact. Mike was fed and watered by inserting an eyedropper directly into his gullet. Sadly, he later choked to death in a motel room.

Look, if you've read one headless-chicken story, you've pretty much read them all. What makes this one unique and hilarious, is that Mike survived for 18 months, only to choke to death in a motel room...as if he was an aging, drug-addled rock star. Which begs the question, what was a headless chicken doing in a motel room? Perhaps renting the "fitness" video that reader Dave admitted in the comments thread of the Biden post, that he enjoys. 

Not that kind of blessing

What can you say about this except, "What an idiot!"?

Bangladesh police say a crocodile killed and ate a 25-year-old after he waded into a pond next to a shrine in an attempt to receive the animal’s blessing.

The crocodile said a blessing alright, he probably gave thanks for the tasty morsel of man he was about to dine on.

Enough already!

OK, it's only been 7 hours since the announcement but, I'm officially sick of Joe Biden already. FOX news is running non-stop, helicopter coverage of his stupid motorcade going to the airport. You'd think OJ was in the car or something. I've never seen anything like this. We expect continuous, fawning coverage from the sycophantic MSM because they want Obama/Biden to win but, it's absolutely idiotic that even FOX is covering his ride to the airport like he was a visiting head of state or some crap. I'm disgusted with it all!

Biden it is!

This morning at around 3AM, the Obamessiah campaign sent out the long awaited text message(I'm still waiting for mine) announcing six-term Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running-mate for change. If, as Obama likes to say, Washington is broken, then it's guys like Joe Biden who broke it. It'll have to be explained at some point how Biden represents change. His real reason for picking Biden is his foreign policy experience chairing the Senate foreign relations committee. Obama's foreign policy experience is no deeper than Joe Biden's hair plugs. Remember that it was Biden who proposed the stupid, yet wildly popular with Senate democrats, Balkanization of Iraq. Balkanization is the fracturing of a country based on religious or ethnic divisions as in Yugoslavia. Our troops are still there today keeping the peace and are likely to remain indefinitely. Is that what Biden had in mind when he proposed Balkanizing Iraq into Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd fractions?

Biden is also one of McCain's best friends and remarked on a news show a few months back that he'd be honored to run WITH McCain. My wife wondered if, since Obama has such thin skin, maybe he picked Biden partially because he thinks McCain will respect that friendship, and might pull some punches leading up to November. Whatever the reasons for picking him, the mantra of the Obamessiah has been "change". How exactly a senator who cast his 10,000th vote in '99 fit into the whole "change" thing is a mystery to me but, I'm sure The Messiah has a smug, nuanced explanation he can read off the teleprompter.

You will conform!

Last month's crime statistics for Clayton, California:

Burglary: 20
Larceny or Theft: 130
Car Theft: 9
Arson: 4
Illegally operated produce stands: 1

CLAYTON, CA (KGO) -- Two young East Bay girls are trying to find out if you really can fight city hall. The youngsters are battling to get their produce stand back after the city of Clayton shut them down.

The mayor himself is getting involved in this issue; he says the produce stand, operated by two young sisters, had to be shut down because of public safety and a zoning ordinance, and wonders what Katie and Sabrina might do with that produce stand if the zoning laws weren't enforced.

"They may start out with a little card-table and selling a couple of things, but then who is to say what else they have. Is all the produce made there, do they make it themselves? Are they going to have eggs and chickens for sale next," said Manning.

Oh the horror! Eggs and chickens!

Rather than encouraging these girls to experience the thrill of entrepreneurship, hard work, and earning, the pointy-headed mayor is giving them a lesson in government heavy-handedness, arbitrary regulation, and stifling of motivation. How dare they attempt to use the power of capitalism and the free market to earn some ice-cream money? I'll bet if they were donating all their earnings to the mayor's favorite charity, he'd be the first in line for a photo-op with them but, heaven forbid they profit from their efforts, especially without being taxed on it. That'll set a dangerous precedent.

Until they replace their "Fresh Home-Grown Produce" sign with a "Fresh Home-Made Methamphetamine and Crack" sign, don't the cops and the mayor have more pressing problems to solve?

Babies = free money

When's the last time you heard of a Social Services office denying benefits to a single mother of 4?

Watertown(NY) police say an arrest is pending after a woman threatened to blow up Jefferson County’s Department of Social Services building on Arsenal Street.
Police say a young mother of three children, who is pregnant with her fourth child, made the threat after being told she didn’t qualify for the assistance she was seeking.

She's not a mother, she's a broodmare. The article doesn't say why she was denied services but I'm glad she was. If you stop rewarding bad behavior, she'll likely stop behaving badly.

I have long held the belief that if you are an underachieving degenerate and you are receiving free money from taxpayers who are smarter, and make better choices than you, you should be obligated to immediately name the father(s) of your brood so that DSS can force them to pay up. In addition, you must stay off drugs, hold a job or be enrolled in job training classes, but most of all, keep your knees together as long as you have your hand out.

To be fair, if you are an underachieving degenerate male with your hand out, and it is found out that you sired a rug-rat, then your McDonald's wages should be garnished. If you have no wages, then what few possessions you have(the ones you didn't steal) should be seized and sold at auction. If you have no possessions, then you are a criminal for failure to support your family and you should go to jail.

The liberal's conundrum

Liberals have two equal but opposite, irrational emotions: one is their hatred of Wal-Mart, because the workers refuse to unionize, and the other is their wild-eyed love of recycling. Ain't it funny when the two collide with a dumb, confused liberal right in the middle?

Walt Neidlinger spent years trying to keep a Wal-Mart-anchored shopping complex from being built near his Wind Gap home.

The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued, so when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Neidlinger was ecstatic. He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, ''What could be worse than Wal-Mart?''

Over the past year, Neidlinger says, he's gotten an answer: RPM Recycling -- the metal-shredding plant on the same land -- causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street, and frequent explosions that shake his walls.

Everybody's got to do their part and sacrifice for the environment, right Walt? Old Walt's property value is probably half of what it would have been if he'd not fought Wal-Mart. There's probably a karmic price for me to pay for taking such pleasure in Walt's pain and frustration but, I just can't help it.

It's Ann Coulter Thursday!

This week Ann blasts Barack Obama for his thin resume', his weak attempts lately to dodge the abortion issue, and his apparent lack of knowledge of the Constitution despite the media's giddy portrayal of him as a Constitutional lawyer. Sarcastic and entertaining as always. Go here and read her article.

They're Grrrrreat!

Busy-body liberals just can't keep their intrusive tentacles out of other peoples' business.....

Olympic legend Michael Phelps will appear on boxes of the Kellogg's brand sugar cereal, drawing sharp criticism from health experts worried about the message he'll be sending to children across America.

The childhood obesity epidemic everybody's so upset about isn't because of the food that's available, it's because of the food choices PARENTS make for their kids. Show me a child who ever, ever bought a box of Frosted Flakes with his own money. If you've got a fat, unhealthy kid, it's your own fault, and your fault alone. Michael Phelps earned the right to sponsor any legal product he chooses without meddling do-gooders lecturing him about it. Instead of worrying that your blubbery, lazy child will suddenly want to eat Frosted Flakes because of Phelps's influence, why not kick him off the couch and into the pool instead? Maybe he'll be inspired to swim rather than be inspired to eat Frosted Flakes, and you won't have to worry about what he eats.

Your tax dollars at work

While you've been struggling with real-world problems and troubles, your elected officials, led miserably by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, have been twittering away valuable time and tax dollars on feel-good resolutions....

WASHINGTON -- The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball."

Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and women will have accomplished a rare feat. In two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session -- 294 so far -- than this one. That's not to say they've been idle. On the flip side, no Congress in the same 20 years has been so prolific when it comes to proposing resolutions -- more than 1,900, according to a tally by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense.

With the mostly symbolic measures, Congress has saluted such milestones as the Idaho Potato Commission's 70th anniversary and recognized soil as an "essential natural resource." As legislation on gasoline prices, tax fixes and predatory lending languish, Congress has designated May 5-9 as National Substitute Teacher Recognition Week, and set July 28 as the Day of the American Cowboy.

I don't know about you but, a do-nothing Congress is a Congress that hasn't taken more of my paycheck or restricted any more of my freedoms. I like when Congress does nothing. It's just too bad that it costs so much of my money for them to do it. 

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

I'm shocked, shocked to find that the Bigfoot cadaver is a hoax![sarcasm mine]

Are you kidding me? That's like exclaiming that you're shocked, shocked to find socialists at the democrat convention....that you're shocked, shocked to find bongs in a head shop, or that you're shocked, shocked to find men in Hollywood who have slept with Paris.

Is there anybody willing to admit that they ever, ever believed in Bigfoot? Who believed these two idiots in the first place? How can they be charged with a hoax when whatever media showed up for their press conference proved they're too stupid too be let outdoors unmedicated, much less reporters....but then again, nobody is too stupid to be a member of the MSM. If Barack Obama can bamboozle half of America into buying his schtick, then I guess the stupidity isn't limited to the press.

Bigfoot! I swear!

Virtual cookie to the first person to name(without Googling it) the reference in the title of this post.

International flavors

I just wanted to take a minute to welcome our friends from across the pond to TRR. I see we have guys from Latvia, Croatia, Germany, UK, Switzerland, and Norway just in the last few hours.("Guys" is a gender-neutral term that applies to gals too) I know the regulars here would love to hear your perspective on current world affairs or whatever we're talking about, so feel free to jump in the fray and offer your two cents worth.

Thanks for stopping by, The Management

Roseanne Barr is a vapid, washed up pig!

Relentless overeater and C-list troll Roseanne Barr clawed mightily from the depths of obscurity and forgottenness to offer opinion on her blog about Brad and Angelina resisting Hollywood's sycophantic worship of the Obamamessiah.....

jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin').
Also miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn't decided who to endorse....huh? Aren't you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party's worldwide economic assault on africa over the last few decades since reagan?.....Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps....it might be good for your asian and african children's self esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)

What a cretinous tool Roseanne Barr is! To their credit, Brad and Angelina do put their considerable wealth where their mouths are. And you don't generally hear them yammering about issues about which they don't have a clue, the way most vermin in Hollyweird do. The most interesting thing about these two is that they are devoted Ayn Rand fans and there's a rumor going around the web about Angelina playing the role of Dagny Taggert and Brad the role of Hank Rearden in the movie Atlas Shrugged. I only hope they play it straight and don't dilute the objectivist message of the book.

As for Roseanne, she should utilize the rudimentary ganglion she calls a brain to locate the cave she slithered out of and return to the dark recesses of careerless despair and self-loathing she came from.

Programming note: It has come to my attention that the postings signed by "Fawn", have a software signature at the bottom which identifies me/Ed as the poster, leading to some confusion. Fawn is a pseudonym of a person to whom I have granted posting priviledges using my login. This person cannot post on certain topics using his/her real name for professional reasons. You know how humorless these pointy-headed IT types can be. One innocent click on Girls of the Big Ten Conference and the next thing you know, you've got a file in HR with your name on it..........or so I'm told.

Hope that clears it up, the management

Movie Review

Normally you'd think a movie with such comic talents as Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey would be hilarious.....well, you'd be wrong. I wasted $14 on tickets and another $17 on concessions for this bomb, Tropic Thunder. The plot barely made sense at times, several loose ends never got tied off, the gratuitous swearing, which would have embarassed Courtney Love, became annoying after like 5 minutes, but never subsided, appearances by Tom Cruise, Nick Nolte, and Matthew McConaughey were mildly entertaining but still failed to pull this turd out of the crapper. Seriously, I don't know why the media is raving about it. Probably for the same reasons I hated it...you see the media think inanity and vulgarity is art and they present it to you that way so you'll at least waste your money one time, even if you don't recommend it to you friends.

My recommendation? Spend your $31 on Chinese take-out, a bottle of wine, and some massage oil and enjoy a night at home with your spouse. Maybe, and I mean maybe, spend $4 on pay-per-view in six months. But whatever you do, avoid Tropic Thunder the way Paris Hilton avoids self control, morals, and class.

Traitors or opportunists?

Growing up, the Olympics were always about the Americans against the world in good-natured sporting events. It was the same, I'm sure, for people in other countries....Argentina against the world, Kenya against the world. You could openly be patriotic and nationalistic and pull for your athletes and not feel guilty about pulling against their athletes. However, watching the Olympics this year, I was struck by the number of ex-patriots who participate in the games. These are either Americans who compete under another country's flag, for money, against the US, or they are foreign nationals who live and train in the US but, then compete for their "home" country. Here's just a short list from this year....

-David Blatt, who played basketball at Princeton, is the Russian head coach.
-J.R. Holden (Bucknell) is the Russian point guard
-Mebrahtom Keflezighi of Eritrea and Khalid Khannouchi of Morocco, now running for the United States.
-Chris Kaman play for Germany.(Chris was born and raised in Pittsburgh
-Becky Hammon, born and raised in South Dakota, accepted money to play in Russia's professional women's basketball league just so she would qualify for their Olympic team. They'll give her $250,000 to win Gold.
-Shawn Redhage of Lincoln, Neb., will play for the Australian men's basketball team.
-Demond Greene of Fort Hood, Texas, plays basketball for Germany,
-In 2004, ex-Mets manager Davey Johnson coached the Netherlands in the Olympics but, this year he'll be coaching the United States.

If an athlete moves to another country to live and work permanently, and becomes a citizen, then I have no problem with them competing for their adopted country in the Olympics. I do have a problem with Americans who have no intention of living, training, working, or becoming citizens of other countries, competing under their flag just so they can make it to the Olympics. Not to the same degree, but I also have a problem with foreign nationals who come to the US to take advantage of scholarships and other opportunities in order to live, train, and go to school, but then with barely a thank-you, go compete in the Olympics for the God-forsaken, third-world hell-hole they call home against the US. If this was a war, those Americans would be traitors, or at the very least, mercenaries. I know it's just sports, but Olympic competition is about serious patriotism and to fight for who ever offers you the most in return is craven opportunism at it's worst. I'll be pulling against any Americans who fight against the US under another flag.

Are these athletes traitors or just mercenary opportunists?

Kobe puts NBC tool in his place

In case you missed it, NBC tool Chris Collinsworth interviewed Kobe Bryant in Beijing about what it means to wear the Red, White, and Blue and represent his country. Kobe, to his credit, gave a terrific answer. Predictably, Collinsworth revealed how uncool he thinks it is to be patriotic.....

Collinsworth: Where does the patriotism come from inside of you? Historically, what is it?

Kobe: Well, you know it’s just our country, it’s… we believe is the greatest country in the world. It has given us so many great opportunities, and it’s just a sense of pride that you have; that you say ‘You know what? Our country is the best!’

Collinsworth: Is that a ‘cool’ thing to say, in this day and age? That you love your country, and that you’re fighting for the red, white and blue? It seems sort of like a day gone by.

Kobe: No, it’s a cool thing for me to say. I feel great about it, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I mean, this is a tremendous honor.

Collinsworth just got owned. I mean Chris may have been playing devil's advocate a little but, still, Kobe slammed the door on him pretty good. Instead of acting like rich pampered superstars, the men's basketball team has shown in Beijing a remarkable and unexpected level of humility and class. When Kobe, Lebron, and the others showed up to watch Michael Phelps win his 8th gold medal, that was really cool of them.

Hat tip to Msunderestimated.

Economists... Who Needs Them?

Posted by Kevin

As we all know, gas prices at the current moment suck.  They are high, and no one enjoys paying $60, $80, and sometimes up to $100 dollars at the pump.  Therefore gas prices have become a huge issue in this year's presidential election.  On NPR, Obama discussed his solution to the rising gas prices.  His windfall profit tax on oil companies was his brilliant idea. 

He proposed an emergency rebate check to consumers to offset the rise in the price of gas.   His basic proposal is to take money from the oil companies, their profits, and redistribute it back to the consumers to buy more gas.  Most economists disagree with this sort of proposal saying it will only hurt the oil companies.  When asked about that, Obama responded with this remark:

"Classic economic theory says you don't meddle in the markets. Look, I mean, most economists buy into that approach. Exxon Mobil made $12 billion last quarter. They made $11 billion before that, and $11 billion before that, and not all of this is going into research and development — and families need some relief."

Is he actually suggesting that most economists are wrong?

So because these companies are so successful at selling gas, and because gas is in such high demand, its the government's duty to take away their money, and relieve the market?  I don't quite see how a company that has a modest 10% profit margin deserves to have money taken away from them.  Why is this windfall profit tax only being applied to oil companies?  Credit card companies have a profit margin as high as 40%.  Why isn't Obama looking into taking money away from credit card companies to help Americans in debt?  This whole plan doesn't even seem logical, and I for one am not buying into it. 

The whole article can be seen at NPR.org

A Separate Pieces

Posted by Fawn

This will never last. We've seen this sort of thing dozens of times before. A hastily constructed peace plan designed to allow politicians to look good (and they do, look at the photograph above) while the root causes of the situation are ignored.

From the Associated Press:

“Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday signed the plan for a cease-fire in Georgia that his Georgian counterpart reluctantly agreed to a day earlier, setting the stage for a Russian troop withdrawal after more than a week of warfare.

The cease-fire plan calls for Russian forces to withdraw to the positions they held before the fighting broke out in Georgia's Russian-backed separatist province of South Ossetia. That appears to mean that hundreds of Russian soldiers who had been in South Ossetia previously as peacekeepers will be allowed to return.

The plan also grants Russian forces limited rights to patrol Georgia proper...”

The root cause of this conflict lies in ethnic and cultural differences with a dollop of Russian (and U.S.) cold waresque, geo-political grandstanding on top. All the reams of paper, hand shakes, false smiles and rhetoric will not solve this problem. For some predictions as to how this will play out take a look at the Albania, Kosovo, Serbian, et. al. Melt down, the Arab-Israeli disaster, Belgium, and soon, the fractioning of the United States along the anglo-Hispanic fault line. No, it may not happen tomorrow or even in our lifetimes but the problem is not solved, the tension remains, and it will reemerge.

In order for this situation to be solved, the Abkhazians and Ossetians either need their own autonomous, independent countries or they need to become Russians or Georgians with an e pluribus unum mindset. Anything short of this will provide the global community a lifetime of re-runs while Abkhazia and Ossetia remain separate pieces.

The Ugly American

Posted by Fawn

Bush sends Condi to Georgia today. What can we reasonably expect as an outcome? Nothing. Recently Condi said, "This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it," Rice said just hours before leaving for France. "Things have changed." and President Bush said, "My call, of course, is for the territorial integrity of Georgia to be respected and for the cease-fire agreement to be honored."

Can our leaders get any more elusive, any more mealy-mouth, any less supportive? Their apathy is palpable...and disingenuous, dishonest, and for the Georgians, disastrous. The Georgians lost two large chunks of their country...forever!

Here's the Russian translation of Bush and Condi's sentiments – and I paraphrase as my Russian is, well, rusty:

We are unwilling and incapable of intervening at this time. We are virtually leaderless, pre-occupied with our national beauty contest – the Presidential election, and are too busy absorbing our current events from the photographs in People magazine, and awaiting the next season of American Idol to be bothered with supporting or defending a fledgling democracy we helped set-up and have been encouraging for almost 15 years. Please, please don't put us in a tight spot, we are almost out of creative rhetoric and olive branch desk ornament gifts.

The Georgian translation is a little different. For those of you that don't know the Georgian language is unique in the world and not Russian. In fact there is only about a 20% overlap between the two. They don't even use the same alphabet. The Georgian translation:

Ah, sorry. What color blankets do you prefer?

Now Click your heels Together Three Times...

Elizabeth Edwards is living in OZ, or some other dream state. I want to sympathise with her, but she continues to not let me. Here goes:

John reveals affair to her. She discovers that he cancer has spread into her bones and is incurable. Her decision, by her own admission, is to throw him out or to work to repair a 30 year marriage. Sounds like a simple choice to me. She should want her kids to learn that when you make a promise (a vow) you keep it. Chunk the cheating scum and send him packing. She decides to keep quite about it, thereby acknowledging her condoning of his philandering behavior, and then she is seen publicly campaigning for him in his failed presidential bid. Grotesque is all I can say.

Now she is revealing through her brother that she is focusing on the kids. Why wasn't she doing that before now. She gives a glimpse of her life when she stated to her brother that she can't talk to him on the phone, "Jack is reading now". He states for her, that Jack (who is home schooled) reads to her for 1 hour daily. Again, seemingly noble, but it could be just a ruse to keep this affair under wraps and out of public scrutiny. Again grotesque.

It is apparent that neither of Mr. Breck's women like the other. (Boy thats an understatement). Lizzie had Riell dismissed and reportedly is now trying to stop the $10-15K paycheck that Edwards attorney sends to the aforementioned Ms. Hunter monthly. That ought to start some fireworks. Can you spell paternity Mr. Edwards. As for her part, Hunter agonizes that Liz is a pure torture to Lil John, and that they would be together if it were not for the cancer returning.

What a pathetic relationship triangle. Can't make up stuff this good. By the way, regardless of his wifes impending demise and his ex-girlfriends loathing of him, he's still available for the VP job!

In a nutshell....

Over at LeanBodyFitness, I found this picture. And we wonder why there's an obesity problem in this country. It's not McDonald's fault. It's not because you're poor. It's because you're lazy.

It's Ann Coulter Thursday!

Quick on the draw as always, Ann dissects The Breck Girl's pathetic attempt at damage control over his trist with Reille Hunter, drawing parallels with Ted Kennedy's efforts to mitigate the damage from his responsibility in Mary Jo Kopechne's death. She points out that if Edwards isn't the baby-daddy, then what's he paying Reille $15K per month for? Likewise, if Ted Kennedy had no culpability in Mary Jo's death, then who was paying the Kopechne's lawyer to fight an autopsy?

You can go here and read her article.

The Scientologist's Afterlife

Singer, voice of South Park's Chef, and devout Scientologist Isaac Hayes passed away a few days ago prompting my inquisitive wife to wonder, "What happens to Scientologists when they die? Or, what do they believe happens to them when they die?" Well according to an article over in Slate, this.....[emphasis mine]

His soul will be "born again into the flesh of another body," as the Scientology Press Office's FAQ puts it. The actual details of how that rebirth occurs are not fully understood by church outsiders, but some core beliefs of Scientology are that every human being is really an immortal spiritual being known as a thetan and that the "meat bodies" we inhabit are merely vessels we shed upon death. (Members of the elite church cadre known as Sea Org, for example, sign contracts that pledge a billion years of service throughout successive lives.)
When a body dies, its thetan forgets the details of the former life, though painful and traumatic images known as engrams remain rooted in its unconscious. In order to move up the path of spiritual progression—known as the Bridge to Total Freedom—one must eradicate these psychic scars, which cause a person to act fearfully and irrationally. Once a Scientologist has purged them through the counseling process known as auditing, he or she is said to be "clear."

Well that explains Tom Cruise's career plunge....as well as Katie Holmes' dad's desperate attempt to kidnap and deprogram her. Reincarnation, a space-alien overlord named Xenu, and meat bodies. Man, that's some funky religion!

Men are pigs. You knew that when you married him.

I usually don't find these stories interesting enough to comment on but, this one I found particularly funny....

A Kentucky college student has hired a lawyer after she was escorted out of a mall by security on Sunday because her dress was deemed too short, MyFOXBoston reports.

According to MyFOXBoston, the guard informed her that several female patrons had complained that she was disrupting their shopping experience because their husbands were “checking her out.”

Isn't this more of a stupid husband problem than a vulgar dress problem? This is the same curious phenomenon as wives blaming the girlfriend when their husband cheats. If your thoughtless, inconsiderate husband doesn't have the self control to be subtle about publically leering at hot chicks, perhaps you should consider leaving him at home to watch the game.....which is what he wanted to do before you guilted him into escorting you to the mall to hold your purse.

For mature audiences only

If you've ever watched Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, this won't bother you. However, if you have a soft stomach or you are easily offended, you may not want to watch the video clip below. Two intrepid Olympic reporters stop in a Chinese restaurant that serves only animal penises on the menu. I warn you in advance, you hear the word "penis" maybe 20 times, as well as memorable declarations such as, "I guess I like penis. It's very tasty"(insert sophomoric goober joke here). Curiously, they elect not to eat dog penis, which the waitress highly recommends as a prized delicacy. If you can keep from giggling like an adolescent school boy, go ahead and watch....



OK, I don't care if I ever hear the word "penis" on TRR again. I swear, those Asians will eat anything.

I found this clip over at BelchSpeak via Hotair.

TRR Poll Question

I don't know about you but, watching the American swimmers compete is riveting TV. When the 4X100 free-style team came from behind on the final 20meters to beat the mouthy Frenchies, my family leapt off our couch as one to celebrate. Michael Phelps, part of that team, stands to blow past all other gold-medal winners in Olympic history by like 5 by the end of this Olympiad. If he does that, is it a fair assessment to call him the greatest ever? The TRR poll asks just that.....

Is Michael Phelps the greatest athlete ever, or just the greatest swimmer ever?
	The greatest athlete ever
	The greatest swimmer ever
	Boy, I like watching that ladies beach volley-ball!
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Shame on China!

This is just awful...

BEIJING - A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched "Ode to the Motherland," an official said.

In the latest example of the lengths Beijing took for a perfect start to the Summer Games, a member of China's Politburo asked for the last-minute change to match one girl's face with another's voice, the ceremony's chief music director said in an interview with Beijing Radio.

"The audience will understand that it's in the national interest," Chen Qigang said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night.

The national interest? It's in the national interest of a country of 1.3Billion people that a 7 year old girl be told she's not cute enough to represent her country? I was shocked they had any girls left unaborted to use as performers.

Flying blows!

Every time I fly, I'm reminded of why I never fly. These ridiculous security check points are totally out of control! You practically have to strip to make it through. Shoes, belts, watches, keys, everything. All because one incompetent terrorist tried to light his shoe on fire like 5 years ago....give me a break!

We were processing through Albuquerque yesterday so I was stripping for the security ordeal. Albuquerque's in the desert so I used foot powder in my shoes.....bad idea. When I removed my shoes some "white powder" from my socks got on the rug. I thought the stupid lady behind me was going to come unglued(evidently she thought I was carrying anthrax in my shoes). I made eye contact with her and gave her my best you-stupid-moron look while I tried to convince her not to scream bloody murder.

Meanwhile the vigilant TSA folks had spied a suspicious, wheelchair-bound, 80 year old lady and were forcing her to stand in the plexiglass room where everybody in the airport could watch while they humiliated her with various searches. At the same time, a swarthy, middle-eastern male, age 19-26 waltzed through security suffering barely a glance from the distracted TSA authorities. If somebody can explain the logic behind this, I'd love to hear it....and don't give me any racial-profiling BS.

And if I didn't know any better, I'd swear American has shoved their seats a little closer together than the last time I flew. To describe our full flight home as a can of sardines would be gross understatement. The jerks in front kept their seats fully reclined against our knees the entire flight while the jerks behind us kept opening and closing their seat trays for what ever reasons, only God knows.

Finally, are there really enough people allergic to peanuts that they now have to serve miniscule packages of exactly 4 crappy pretzels, on the off-chance that one of the allergic people might be on the plane? I mean seriously, if you're that delicate, TAKE THE FRICKIN' BUS! Airplane peanuts were the last little pleasure of domestic air travel. Now there's nothing to look forward to, unless you count the delicious terminal cuisine. I mean where else can you find a $9 tuna salad half sandwich?

Flying.....I hate it!

Monday edition of Ann Coulter Thursday

Last week Ann pointed out the obvious by remarking about the curious deep-sixing of the "lesbian love affair" between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter(as John Hawkins over at RWN hilariously observed) story. If it had been a relatively unknown Christian or republican who cheated on his wife, the MSM would have pre-empted the Olympics, war coverage, and Big Brother XXII to devote full-time coverage to the "story". But because Edwards is an effiminate liberal and a possible running mate or AG in an Obama administration, they ignored it. For yet another infuriating illustration of how the MSM shapes the ways in which, or even if, you are presented the news, go to HumanEvents and read her column.

Golf clap for Reid

Well, I'm back at long last. I want to thank Reid for carrying my water all week. Really nice job Reid!!! Well done my friend! Everybody golf clap now.

We're still unpacking, doing laundry, and trying to catch up with two teenagers. What is it about teenagers when you want to have a conversation, they act like they're being interrogated by Stormtroopers? Anyway, New Mexico was fun but we're glad to be home and back to the daily grind. I'll have lots to discuss this week so keep checking in.

Liar.. Liar.. Pants On Fire...

Well all those rumors that Ed has been spreading about "The Breck Girl" being gay are officially squashed. He will admit tonight that he did have an extra-marital affair with Ms. Hunter. The sad part about this is that he takes his lying bride down with him. Apparently a few months ago he revealed the whole affair thing to his family. Since then, Lizzie has been staunchly at her husbands side defending him against these "horrible and demeaning accusations". Only horrible and demeaning if they ain't true there Liz-meister. Remember Liz, as you have physically struggled dealing with your cancer, Johnny has been out playing the field. I guess he was just testing the waters to see if a full scale campaign was warranted after you were the EX- Mrs. Breck Girl.

He is a complete douchebag. His wife, however, could be worse. I hope she can prove to the world that Lil J is worth forgiving. That he actually has a redeeming social quality that I have somehow overlooked and that the marriage is worth salvaging. If not, then she is simply a money grubbing $$$re.

I feel repulsed that Democratic party will soon parade J. Ed, his wife, and girly around at the National Convention. I'm sure they will spin this as a new way to look at the definition of marriage. Since they now have convinced the Left Coast that "Same-Sex" is okay, why can't this be next. John-Boy hasn't been a poster child for anything in quite a while. Please pick him as the running mate. That would be such a forgiving and far-sighted gesture that it would insure defeat in the fall.

Sh-Boom Sh-Boom... Life could be a dream , sweetheart..(if I didn't get caught).