I've heard of an "EYE FOR AN EYE" and .....

..... a "TOOTH FOR A TOOTH".... but this is the first time I've ever heard of a "Tooth for an Eye"!

Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye
Wed Feb 27
An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.
Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.
"I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life," McNichol told RTE state radio.
After doctors in Ireland said there was nothing more they could do, McNichol heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) being performed by Dr Christopher Liu at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton in England.
The technique, pioneered in Italy in the 1960s, involves creating a support for an artificial cornea from the patient's own tooth and the surrounding bone.
The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.
McNichol's right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth.
The first operation lasted ten hours and the second five hours.
"It is pretty heavy going," McNichol said. "There was a 65 percent chance of me getting any sight.
"Now I have enough sight for me to get around and I can watch television. I have come out from complete darkness to be able to do simple things," McNichol said.

Guess the old man will be keepin' an eye on his son 'eh? Oooops, sorry - I couldn't resist!

I don't know about y'all, but I get plumb tired of folks...

..... tellin' me how much better off we were when Bubba was President before Bush gave all those evil rich folks the big tax breaks... Next time you hear some mush headed liberal or inane MSM parrot repeat that mantra --- lay these numbers on 'em. I have included the source to ensure you don't think I cooked the books.....

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.

www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999-------------- Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K - tax $8,400--- Single making 30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $14,000-- Single making 50K - tax $12,500

Single making 75K - tax $23,250-- Single making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 60K - tax $16,800-- Married making 60K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K - tax $21,000-- Married making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 125K - tax $38,750-- Married making 125K - tax $31,250

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. .
I don't know what your definition of 'middle class' is, but I reckon that the married couple making $60K would be right about there, look at that chart again and see what President Bush's plan did for them...... A Tip o' the hat to an Ole' Air Force bud, "Tiger", who is now an investment counselor of some renown and shared these numbers with this ole' Texan....

Do you reckon these Giraffes were....

....... the origin of the word "necking"?

The story behind the story.....

..... by now y'all have heard that England's young Prince Harry (Cornet Wales, H.) has been in the heat of battle in Afghanistan for the last three months. The news, broken by Matt Drudge, has now caused the Brit's Minister of Defense to recall him. Not just for Prince Harry's sake, but for the safety of his mates.... since he would become a 'bullet magnet'.

There is a lot to read about this adventure and I'm sure we'll get the best and the worst of it, but I think these three short paragraphs excerpted from a long article in today's London Telegraph tells it 'like it is'!

[......] "And Prince Harry has been very expensively additionally trained as a joint forward air controller. It is he who, in contact with the Taliban, directs the fire of the RAF and Royal Navy's aircraft and the Apache attack helicopters of the Army Air Corps, and, on occasions, allied air support. It is the most precise of skills, and only painstakingly acquired. The rifleman can take cover, but the air controller's eye must still be on the enemy. Cornet Wales is at the sharp end, and a great deal rests on him.

Indeed, he has been at the sharp end for two and a half months, qualifying already, therefore, for the Afghanistan operational medal. Day by day he will have been patrolling, on foot and in armoured vehicles, with men who share his cap badge and others whom he is supporting. That he has been able to do so without the story leaking out says a great deal about comradeship in the Army, and, too, the respect in which the Prince is quite evidently held by his fellow soldiers. The temptations to spill the beans will have been intense.

"Every man thinks meanly of himself for never having been to sea nor having been a soldier," wrote Dr Johnson. And it is also true that every soldier thinks meanly of himself until he has heard the sound of the guns. Prince Harry's great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, famously welcomed the German bomb that fell on Buckingham Palace during the Blitz, declaring that "now she could look the East End in the eye".

Well, now Cornet Wales can look every soldier in the eye. Indeed, he can look the whole country in the eye. And his gritty determination to do his bit ought to have recruits clamouring at every barracks gate."

I reckon we'll all hear lame comments about his service from some pencil pushers.... but I also reckon we ain't gonna hear or read one bad word about this young Royal from anybody who has worn a uniform for their (or our) country! As my Brit brother-in-law would say; "Good on ya 'arry!!"

Now here is a story.........

..... that will warm the cockles of your All American Hearts!!! From ABC News (much to their chagrin I'm sure):

Lucky Soldier Wins $1 Million
Though He Hit the Jackpot, Sergeant Plans to Return to Iraq for a 3rd Tour
Feb. 28, 2008 —
After completing two tours in Iraq, Sgt. Wayne Leyde won $1 million from a scratch-and-win lotto ticket on Tuesday.
Now that he's won, Leyde, a 26-year-old member of the Washington National Guard, says he's still going to volunteer to go back to Iraq for a third tour and won't spend any of the money in the meantime.
Leyde was driving near his home in Mead, Washington when he stopped at a store on the side of the road and bought a ticket.
"I decided to walk into a local Zip Trip. I got a Coke and beef jerky and walked up to the counter and thought I'd pick up a few scratch tickets and try my luck. I was on my way out when the lady said, 'Do you have a lucky scratch coin?'
"I said 'no, you gave me a dime and nickel back.'"
"She said 'no, try this,'" handing Leyde a penny. "On my way home I started scratching tickets. They were losers. I'm thinking, boy, that lady didn't know what she was talking about."
Leyde couldn't believe it when he scratched a winning ticket, but he still plans to return to Iraq.
"It was a commitment I made about three months ago. I'm going to stick to it," Leyde said about his decision.
The sergeant says rents have gone sky high where he and his parents live in the Mount Spokane area of Washington and that, for now, he's not going to spend any of the money.
"For right now, I'm going to hold off [spending] and let reality sink back to earth. This is a true blessing. I'm going to turn it around and see if I can bless other people with this," Leyde said.

I tell you what Buckaroos! I hear about young fella's goin' back for third tours, one going back with only one leg for this third tour... and then I read about young Americans like this youngster ---- and the stink of all the candy ass- wussy -- anti-Americans in Hollywood and the New York Times just kinda washes off'n my back!

Speak'n of backs', who'd you rather have watchin' your back in times of troubles, Sean Pennless, Ben Afflected or this young Army Sergeant?

You make us proud Sergeant Leyde --- !!!!!

Here's a young lady that should be recruited....

..... and groomed by any number of law enforcement agencies. From the NY Post;

February 28, 2008 -- How's this for smart detective work?

Yudelka Polanco, 16, used an Internet networking site and some old-fashioned quick thinking to nail a violent teen thug who made the serious mistake of snatching her cellphone on the streets of Brooklyn last month.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly should pay attention to this girl.

She was helped, to be sure, by a perp who clearly had little clue as to the electronic footprints he was leaving behind - and who seriously underestimated his victim's cyber-smarts.

Almost immediately upon receiving her replacement phone, Polanco found her attacker's e-mail address in messages sent from her number. From there, she used the address to find his MySpace profile - which she then accessed by having a friend start an online friendship with him.

And then she took the profile - with its trove of incriminating information - to the police.

Pretty cool, huh?

As it turns out, the cops were also able to use the information to connect her assailant, 16-year-old Victor Hernandez, to a local gang - and place him in a mob that attacked two Williamsburg brothers last month.

He was arraigned yesterday on charges ranging from menacing to grand larceny.

The NYPD, you'll recall, was one of the first forces to prove that paying attention to petty crime policing can pay big dividends.

This time, the policing came from a world-wise teen with little more than a cellphone and a sense of justice.

Like we said: Commissioner Kelly, take note.

She could have a future on the force.

I reckon that this young lady hasn't bought the Democrat's premise that we are all supposed to be victims and accept that title and the fate that goes with it! Well done young Lady!!!

I think Ole' Pecoz has got a low tech solution....

..... to this high tech problem. From Reuters:

LOSS OF WIND CAUSES TEXAS ELECTRICAL POWER GRID EMERGENCY

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A drop in wind generation late on Tuesday, coupled with colder weather, triggered an electric emergency that caused the Texas grid operator to cut service to some large customers, the grid agency said on Wednesday.

Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said a decline in wind energy production in west Texas occurred at the same time evening electric demand was building as colder temperatures moved into the state.

Seems to me, that if we could just get one or both of the upcoming political party conventions to move to Houston, we would have enough wind in Texas to turn those slow turning wind turbines in high speed fans. That, coupled with the fact that it is primarily hot air being expended, would end the cool weather as well! What do you think?

NY Times dragging the bottom.......

......for anti-McCain propaganda now that their 'sordid affair' scandal dropped like a lead balloon. How 'bout you first read part of their lastest raggedy ass story, and then I'll comment. From the NY Times;

McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out

By CARL HULSE

WASHINGTON — The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare their children aspire to grow up and become president? In the case of Senator John McCain of Arizona, the issue is becoming more than a matter of parental daydreaming.

Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.

Almost since those words were written in 1787 with scant explanation, their precise meaning has been the stuff of confusion, law school review articles, whisper campaigns and civics class debates over whether only those delivered on American soil can be truly natural born. To date, no American to take the presidential oath has had an official birthplace outside the 50 states.

“There are powerful arguments that Senator McCain or anyone else in this position is constitutionally qualified, but there is certainly no precedent,” said Sarah H. Duggin, an associate professor of law at Catholic University who has studied the issue extensively. “It is not a slam-dunk situation.”

Mr. McCain was born on a military installation in the Canal Zone, where his mother and father, a Navy officer, were stationed. His campaign advisers say they are comfortable that Mr. McCain meets the requirement and note that the question was researched for his first presidential bid in 1999 and reviewed again this time around.

But given mounting interest, the campaign recently asked Theodore B. Olson, a former solicitor general now advising Mr. McCain, to prepare a detailed legal analysis. “I don’t have much doubt about it,” said Mr. Olson, who added, though, that he still needed to finish his research.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and one of Mr. McCain’s closest allies, said it would be incomprehensible to him if the son of a military member born in a military station could not run for president.

“He was posted there on orders from the United States government,” Mr. Graham said of Mr. McCain’s father. “If that becomes a problem, we need to tell every military family that your kid can’t be president if they take an overseas assignment.”

As a retired U.S. Air Force vet with 14 years in the Far East, Europe and the Mediterranean, I would be plumb bent out of shape if the three of my four sons that were born overseas were considered second class citizens and deemed ineligible to serve as President of this great country! Registered at birth through the local American Embassys, granted instant citizenship and American Passports ..... !

This appears to be just one more stir of the 'honey bucket' by those draft dodging, pencil necked geek liberals at this former newspaper..... current in-house rag for the Democratic National Party!! A pox on their house and all that abide in it!!

What Ole' Pecoz finds truly ironic in this whole basket of B.S., is that every time this rag goes after McCain, his star seems to rise in the Republican Party. Many unhappy party conservatives came to his support after that last feces laden article..... now a whole passel of Veterans are gonna line up in support as well!

The greatest danger to this ole' country that a liberal President.....

can do is stack the Supreme Court with Justices like Thurgood Marshall, and Brennan. Not to mention his appointments to the many, many Federal Court benches around the country. If Obama were to win the office this November, what kind of folks would he appoint? He has already answered that and it's plumb scary! From Volockh.com:

Orin Kerr, February 26, 2008 at 2:11pm] Trackbacks Who Would Barack Obama Nominate to the Supreme Court?: When asked back in a November primary debate to say what kind of Justice he would want to nominate to the Supreme Court, Barack Obama responded:

I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and . . . when you look at what makes a great Supreme Court justice, it's not just the particular issue and how they rule, but it's their conception of the Court. And part of the role of the Court is that it is going to protect people who may be vulnerable in the political process, the outsider, the minority, those who are vulnerable, those who don't have a lot of clout.
. . . [S]ometimes we're only looking at academics or people who've been in the [lower] court. If we can find people who have life experience and they understand what it means to be on the outside, what it means to have the system not work for them, that's the kind of person I want on the Supreme Court.

Does anyone know of additional statements Obama has made in response to the same question (or similar ones) before or since? Obama made some statements about these issues when he announced his decisions to vote against the confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, but I don't know how much else is out there. UPDATE: Here's another statement Obama made:

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges.

UPDATE: Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon suggests that Obama would want to find a confirmable candidate who would vote like a Brennan or a Thurgood Marshall:

On Obama's staff, [the] absence [of a Thurgood Marshall-type Justice] is also keenly felt. How to fix that? "We'd want a nominee who would do what John Roberts did," one staff member said. "You go through the process and say 'Hey, I'll look at each case as it comes.' You have a moderate temperament. You're affable and everybody likes you. And then you get up there, and after a year and a half, you vote on the opposite side from John Roberts in every single case where that's warranted and it matters."

If that don't scare you into a case of the back yard trots, I don't know what would! I'm gonna be pullin' a whole lot of chains twixt now and November with "Come to Jesus" messages to try and sway you folks hangin' on principles ----DO NOT SIT ON YOUR HANDS IN NOVEMBER!
It's too damned important! If Conservatives can't win back the Senate and hand out the hall passes to these liberal appointees, then by God, they better be in the White House doin' the pickin'!

I know not many of you watched the Oscars Sunday night...

.... 'cause you got a life! But some of you might have heard about the instantly infamous 'orange lapel ribbons' that these self-centered miscreants were wearing. Thought you might appreciate this well written summary of this latest cesspool floater. Here's a follow up from Instantpundits.blog;

Shocker... ACLU Behind Orange Gitmo Lapel Ribbons At Oscars

The Oscars tanked this year to their worst ever ratings.
Some blamed it on a strike that was going on with the writers.
Some blamed it on the rainy weather.
Could it be that this bunch of self-centered useful idiots are so filled with contempt for their country that regular Americans don't want to support them or their work?

MORE PROOF: The Orange Gitmo Lapel Ribbons

Libertas reported on this latest Hollywood fad.

Documentarians Eva Orner (L) and Alex Gibney hold their Oscars for best documentary feature "Taxi to the Dark Side" at the 80th annual Academy Awards, the Oscars, in Hollywood February 24, 2008. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

It looks like the ACLU was behind the orange Gitmo ribbons at the Oscars this year.
The Washington Post reported on Hollywood's latest stunt:

These represent the orange jumpsuits worn by Guantanamo prisoners, and call for the closing of the prison, and the cessation of a range of controversial U.S. behaviors. But how did do-gooders get this cause to accessorize the glitterati?

Enter Allison Walker, the entertainment industry liaison for the ACLU (whodathunk!?), which sponsors the Close Guantanamo campaign and distributes the ribbons. Walker is a former talent agent who once worked at William Morris. She left the biz after a spiritually cleansing sabbatical studying orangutans in Borneo, at which point she realized she wanted to use her industry connections to do good.

Having worked in the entertainment industry herself, Walker understands the unique plight of the celeb. "They get asked to do so many things for so many causes," she explained yesterday. The ACLU may have asked regular people "to wear T-shirts with the Close Guantanamo symbol." But ask Helen Mirren to wear a T-shirt? Horrors! No, the celebs must be handled as delicately as a Nothing Bundt Cake (also in the swag bag this year!). "I like to ask things that are simple and specific," says Walker. "The ribbon campaign is a very trusted sign in the artistic community."

So. Walker and her colleague Jenny Egan took out a full-page plea in Variety, which read, in part: "Whether you are walking the picket line, the red carpet or standing on the supermarket line, wear an orange ribbon."

This is just more reason to continue to boycott the trash from Hollywood.

Toooo much money..... toooo much celebrity....... toooo much booze and dope..... toooo few brains! Why do Americans boycott companies that they think are doing wrong or are wrong for the country but still buy movie tickets, celeb 'zines, and cable movie channels? Jest wondrin'?

That so called "Debate" in Cincinnati last night....

...... may not be the end of the primary season, but Ole' Pecozbill can sure hear that fat lady warming up behind the curtain. If a certain Democrat candidate of the female persuasion were to issue an IPO about now --- I reckon we'd have a new 'Penny' stock listed on the American Stock Exchange.............

Billionair Sam Zell -- 'Calls 'em like he sees 'em"...

......in an interview on the state of the economy. The self made billionaire is the son of immigrant parents and is one of the fifty wealthiest American billionaires. Sixty-five years young and can't wait to get to the office each day! From CNBC.Com;

Zell Sees Start of Housing Recovery in the Spring

The US economy will avoid recession as the housing market begins to recover this spring, according to billionaire investor Sam Zell.
Speaking on "Squawk Box" this morning, Zell attributed much of the current economic troubles to fear-mongering and politicking by Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

"Obviously what we have going on is an attempt to create a self-fulfilling prophecy," said Zell, chairman of Equity Investments Group and owner of the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other companies. "We have two Democratic candidates who are vying with each other to describe the economic situation worse.

"The reality is that if you live on Wall Street and you're in the credit markets the world couldn't be worse. If you're a farmer and you're getting $25 for your wheat, you're having a great time. If you're a CEO and you've got a balance sheet that's bullet-proof, you're in a great position. This whole thing is way out of control, way out of hand."

Zell said that although he doesn't try to pick bottoms in markets he believes housing has hit its nadir and will turn around this spring as inventory clears out.

Ain't it amazin' how those folks who love free enterprise, work hard all their lives, accumulate wealth and create jobs -- are so optimistic and upbeat - compared to those society-sucking politico's whose role in life is to turn us into assorted victim groups, so we depend on them.....!

I received this story in an e-mail from an old Air Force pal....

.... and Googled it before I shared it here. A great story!! Hitting the target is the first item on the agenda! Second may be caliber…

Yes, Justice Sometimes Happens

Retired Green Beret shoots intruder, gets court martial Jan. 19, 2008 - Retired Army Green Beret Smokey Taylor got his court martial this weekend and came away feeling good about it. Taylor, at age 80 the oldest member of Chapter XXXIII of the Special Forces Association, was on trial by his peers under the charge of "failing to use a weapon of sufficient caliber" in the shooting of an intruder at his home in Knoxville, TN, in December.

The entire affair, of course, was very much tongue-in-cheek. Taylor had been awakened in the early morning hours of Dec. 17, 2007, when an intruder broke into his home. He investigated the noises with one of his many weapons in hand. When the intruder threatened him with a knife, Taylor warned him, then brought his .22 caliber pistol to bear and shot him right between the eyes. "That boy had the hardest head I've ever seen," Taylor said after his trial. "The bullet bounced right off."

The impact knocked the would-be thief down momentarily. He crawled out of the room then got up and ran out the door and down the street. Knoxville police apprehended him a few blocks away and he now awaits trial in the Knox County jail. The charges against Taylor were considered to be serious. He is a retired Special Forces Weapons Sergeant with extensive combat experience during the wars in Korea and Vietnam. "Charges were brought against him under the premise that he should have saved the county and taxpayers the expense of a trial," said Chapter XXXIII President Bill Long of Asheville. "He could have used a .45 or .38. The .22 just wasn't big enough to get the job done."

Taylor's defense attorney, another retired Weapons Sergeant, disagreed. He said Taylor had done the right thing in choosing to arm himself with a .22. "If he'd used a .45 or something like that, the round would have gone right through the perp, the wall, the neighbor's wall and possibly injured some innocent child asleep in its bed," he said. "I believe the evidence shows that Smokey Taylor exercised excellent judgment in his choice of weapons. He did nothing wrong, and clearly remains to this day an excellent weapons man."

Counsel for the defense then floated a theory as to why the bullet bounced off the perp's forehead. "He was victimized by old ammunition," he said, "just as he was in Korea and again in Vietnam, when his units were issued ammo left over from World War II."

Taylor said nothing in his own defense, choosing instead to allow his peers to debate the matter.

After the trial he said the ammunition was indeed old and added the new information that the perp had soiled his pants as he crawled out of the house. "I would have had an even worse mess to clean up if it had gone through his forehead," Taylor said. "It was good for both of us that it didn't."

Following testimony from both sides, Taylor was acquitted of the charges and was given a round of applause. Meanwhile, back in Knox County, the word is out: Don't go messing with Smokey Taylor. He just bought a whole bunch of fresh ammo.

I reckon Ole' Smokey would make one hell of a fine neighbor on my block or on yours. Hoooah!!!!

The "Gray Lady" really pooped in her mess kit!!

.... that's a cleaned up version of an old military expression describing somebody that really goofed, Pilgrims! And the New York times did this week......

(you may need to click on it to read the words.....)

Now here is what Ms Clinton really doesn't need right now...

.... seems one of Bubba's ole' playmates, no - not the one with the carpet burns on her knees, is getting ready to sell a part of 'living history. From Vegas Confidential:

FLOWERS PUTTING CLINTON PHONE CONVERSATIONS UP FOR BID

Gennifer Flowers sings the song, "Why Haven't I Heard From You" while making telephone gestures with her hand back in 1998 at an infomercial awards dinner sponsored by the Electronic Retailing Association in Las Vegas. (Associated Press file)

Gennifer Flowers is putting the tapes of her recorded conversations with Bill Clinton during their 12-year affair on the auction block, Vegas Confidential learned Monday.
Flowers, who came forward during Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign with details of the relationship, said she decided to part with the tapes after renewed interest surfaced. She was offered $5 million by a Japanese collector in the 1990s, she said.
Asked about the timing of her announcement coming out as Hillary Clinton continues to slide in her presidential bid, “I don’t need to hurt Hillary. She is doing a fine job of that herself, along with her idiot husband. Karma is an interesting thing. If these two don’t get elected, and they are a team, it will be karma coming back to visit them. It's about time."
When President Clinton denied the relationship during his presidential campaign, Flowers called a press conference played what she said were secretly recorded phone conversations.
"These are the tapes I brought forth as proof," she said.
Flowers, who lives in Las Vegas, sued Hillary Rodham Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, James Carville and other, accusing them of orchestrating a campaign to discredit her. Carville and Stephanopolous claimed Flowers doctored the tapes.
Flowers, 58, said she has kept the tapes "very safe all these years and I just recently received more interest and I said 'why not?'
"I certainly would enjoy the money for my future security. I don’t have any guarantee what might be coming," she said.
Flowers is also exploring a new book with "explosive story additions to the Clinton affair," her publicist Bruce Merrin said in a release. The book "ill contain a special item which must remain a protected secret until the book is published."
— NORM CLARKE, Vegas Confidential

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" or badly used!!! Kinda, gotta wonder if Ms Flowers read the tea leaves and decided that once Ms Clinton gets her butt kicked and falls off the front page - the value of these tapes might drop precipitously!

Doesn't it seem like we ain't heard much from Al Gorebot lately???

.... maybe he's snowed in to his global warming extortion headquarters and spa! Or just keep'n his head down until the Spring thaw. Here is an interesting column from the National Post:

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Lorne Gunter, National Post February 25, 2008
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."
China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.
In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
The ice is back.
Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.
But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.
And it's not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.
According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.
"We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It's not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.
But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming.
Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."
He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.
The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.
It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.

I don't reckon there are a lot of 'Yeller Dog Democrats'...

.... that come to hear what Ole' Pecoz has to say. But I came across an absolutely outstanding, well written, thoroughly researched article by 'GrassrootsMom' on the Daily Kos blog, that I thought I really ought to share it with y'all just in case some conservative "Blue Dog Democrat" peeks in here every now and then.

The article is tooo long to cut and paste in here so I'll just link you to it. It's a long, hard read but she did all her research and discovered to her own great surprise that Obama had a much more productive year in 2007 than Ms Clinton had. And yet Ms Clinton is runnin' as the more effective and experienced legislator. Liberals to the core of course--- the pair of 'em!

I'd suggest it as good readin' for you Red Staters as well, one of these two may be our next President --- and like the old sayin' goes; "Know thy enemy!"

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/20/201332/807/36/458633

Shucks! Whoda' thought I'd ever be linkin' to the Daily Kos -- forgive me Daddy!

You go girl!!!!!!!!!!!!

There seems to be a whole passel of Democrats that are trying to figure out how to tell Shrillary that it's over! I hope she don't pay 'em no never mind! I think she and Obama should stay in and fight it out to the last vote at the convention. If you ever get a chance to share this thought with her --- please do! You Go Gal!!!

On the other hand, there is this popular opinion.....

Clarence Thomas.... the "Silent Justice"...

.... it seems that everywhere Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas goes, he is asked the same question; "Why don't you ask questions like all the other Justices during presentations to the court?" His answer is usually cryptic but every now and then, the question seems to irk him. When he does answer --- he explains in a frank and open fashion that even the dumbest questioner can understand ---- from a column by Mark Sherman, on the uber-liberal Huffington Post:

"He also has said he will ask a pertinent question if his colleagues don't but sees no need to engage in the back-and-forth just to hear his own voice. Lately, he has focused on the latter reason.
"If I think a question will help me decide a case, then I'll ask that question," he told C-SPAN's Brian Lamb in October. "Otherwise, it's not worth asking because it detracts from my job." He talked in that same interview about descriptions of him as the silent justice. "I can't really say that it's unfair to say that I'm silent in that context. I would like to, though, be referred to as the 'listening justice,' you know," Thomas said. "I still believe that, if somebody else is talking, somebody should be listening."
The following month, however, at an event sponsored by Hillsdale College in Michigan, Thomas was more combative when asked about oral arguments.
Suppose surgeons started discussing the merits of removing a gallbladder while in the operating room, Thomas said, as quoted by U.S. News & World Report. "You really didn't go in there to have a debate about gallbladder surgery," he said. Similarly, "we are there to decide cases, not to engage in seminar discussions." "

I hope folks' are takin' note of the media's fawning praise bestowed on Barack Hussain Obama during this Presidential race -- and thinkin' back on how this fair minded Conservative Black was treated (and still is) during his confirmation hearings.
He and Obama were both born poor and of a broken marriage - their early lives were similar. They both grew and excelled.
The only difference is that Justice Thomas left his liberal roots and evolved into a very conservative American! That's the sin for which the main stream media and political left have no forgiveness! More shame on them! And us, for not callin' 'em on it!

Apparently little Johnnie (the Breck Gal) Edwards...

.... has now found solace in the arms of MoveOn.org. Consoled a few years ago by John (he served in Vietnam) Kerry (see pic), he now finds hisself with a lot of money, a big house, and no resume or legacy exept as a one term failed Senator.
Thus, he is tying hisself to all manner of outfits.... From Politico. Com:

February 25, 2008 Read More: Iraq

Edwards joins anti-war coalition

"John Edwards—former North Carolina senator, two-time presidential candidate and darling of the left—started a new chapter of his political narrative today.

He and his wife Elizabeth Edwards are joining an multi-million dollar anti-Iraq war campaign dubbed “Iraq/Recession.” The couple will join a coalition that includes MoveOn.org, the Service Employees International Union and the Center for American Progress.

Edwards’ endorsement is being intensely sought by both remaining Democratic presidential candidates, which could bring presidential level attention to the issue. “The Iraq/Recession Campaign will highlight the majority of Americans who want to see leadership on investing in critical priorities at home and establishing real security throughout the world,” reads the announcement."

I reckon if this new gig don't work out, Johnnie could get a job joining in the morning gossip on "The View". Seems like he'd fit right in between Whoopie Goldberg and Joy Behar on the far, far left end of the table! Just a job suggestion.... 'Course he has better hair than any of them -- how would he look in dreadlocks do ya' reckon?
Any of you pilgrims dumb enough to think he is putting any of his own money in this new venture? I reckon he's found a new credit card to travel on -- with LPM (little people's money)!

This ain't quite as much fun as bein' there but...

..... it sure makes a fun read!! Dillards is a semi-upscale chain of department stores across the Texas and the South.... Ladies with 'Big" hair shop there!

The Dillard's Shopping Trip
(This story has to be true, you simply can't make this stuff up!)

Clutching their Dillard's shopping bags, Ellen and Kay woefully gazed down at a dead cat in the mall parking lot.

Obviously a recent hit---no flies, no smell. What business could that poor kitty have had here?' murmured Ellen.

'Come on, Ellen, let's just go...'

But Ellen had already grabbed her shopping bag and was explaining, 'I'll just put my things in your bag, and then I'll take the tissue.' She dumped her purchases into Kay's bag and then used the tissue paper to cradle and lower the former feline into her own Dillard's bag and cover it.

They continued the short trek to the car in silence, stashing their goods in the trunk. But it occurred to both of them that if they left Ellen's burial bag in the trunk, warmed by the TEXAS sunshine while they ate, Kay's Lumina would soon lose that new-car smell. They decided to leave the bag on top of the trunk, and they headed over to Luby's Cafeteria.

After they cleared the serving line and sat down at a window table, they had a view of Kay's Chevy with the Dillard's bag still on the trunk. BUT not for long! As they ate, they noticed a black-haired woman in a red gingham shirt stroll by their car, look quickly this way and that, and then hook the Dillard's bag without
breaking stride. She quickly walked out of their line of vision. Kay and Ellen shot each other a wide-eyed look of amazement.

It all happened so fast that neither of them could think how to respond. 'Can you imagine?' finally sputtered Ellen.

'The nerve of that woman!' Kay sympathized with Ellen, but inwardly a laugh was building as she thought about the grand surprise awaiting the red-gingham thief. Just when she thought she'd have to giggle into her napkin, she noticed Ellen's eyes freeze in the direction of the serving line. Following her gaze, Kay recognized with a shock the black-haired woman with THE Dillard's bag, hanging from her arm, brazenly pushing her tray toward the cashier. Helplessly they watched the scene unfold: After clearing the register, the woman settled at a table across from theirs, put the bag on an empty chair and began to eat. After a few bites of baked whitefish and green beans, she casually lifted the bag into her lap to survey her treasure.

Looking from side to side, but not far enough to notice her rapt audience three tables over, she pulled out the tissue paper and peered into the bag. Her eyes widened, and she began to make a sort of gasping noise. The noise grew. The bag slid from her lap as she sank to the floor, wheezing and clutching her upper chest.

The beverage cart attendant quickly recognized a customer in trouble and sent the busboy to call 911, while she administered the Heimlich maneuver. A crowd quickly gathered that did not include Ellen and Kay, who remained riveted to their chairs for seven whole minutes until the ambulance arrived.

In a matter of minutes the curly-haired woman emerged from the crowd, still gasping, strapped securely on a gurney. Two well-trained EMS volunteers steered her to the waiting ambulance, while a third scooped up her belongings.

The last they saw of the distressed cat-burglar, she disappeared behind the ambulance doors, ........................ the Dillard's bag perched on her stomach!!
Sometimes, God does take care of those who do bad things (AND once in awhile.. He allows us to witness it!

Those who live by the sword......

..... shall be hung on their own petard! How's that for mixing metaphors?
John McCain, he of the McCain-Finegold Bill, which did more to restrict free speech (in the name of election reform) in this country since any restrictions imposed during WWII, has boxed hisself into a campaign finance corner. Here is a brief AOL news summary of his situation:

Obama Hold Source of McCain's Money Woes
By Mark Impomeni

Feb 25th 2008

"Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign finds itself in something of a catch-22. Last summer, when the campaign was not going well and McCain was thought to be finished as a candidate, he agreed to accept Federal matching funds. That was a sign that the Senator could not raise money and might soon drop out of the race. But now that his fortunes have turned, and his campaign coffers have filled, McCain wants to forego Federal funds and the spending limits that go along with them. But the Federal Election Commission, and Democrats, is balking at the campaign's plans.

FEC Chairman David Mason has laid out a set of conditions that the McCain campaign must meet in order to qualify for a withdrawal from the Federal financing system. The trouble for McCain is that the conditions are impossible to meet because the FEC itself cannot meet. The commission is short of members and cannot achieve a quorum in order to take action on any campaign's requests. Four of the six seats on the commission are the subjects of holds in the Senate. A Senator may block action in the Senate on a bill or a nomination by placing a hold on it until his concerns about the action are addressed. Republicans placed three of the holds in retaliation for a Democratic hold on Hans von Spakovsky over allegations that the nominee was insensitive to minority voting rights. The Democratic Senator who placed the hold that is now holding up McCain's financing is none other than McCain's potential general election opponent, Sen. Barack Obama."

So now, the Republican candidate has painted himself into a corner that can only be cleared by his opponent.... Hmmmm. Unfortunate as it may be, does Ole' Pecoz see some kind of political justice in this course of events? You be the judge!

This is too small to be a Bumper Sticker ....

... at least for my eyes.... but it still get's the nod as "Bumper Sticker of the Week"...click on it for easier readin', but then hit that return arrow to come back, ya hear?

In my continuing search for truth and justice in the world......

....... I want to advise you about this story you may see circulating!

http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/

Ku Klux Klan Endorses Obama

February 7th, 2008

by James R. Crowe

KENTUCKY - USA - Imperial Wizard, Ronald Edwards has stated that, "anything is better than Hillary Clinton."

White Christian Supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States of America.

Speaking from his Kentucky office in Dawson Springs, the Imperial Wizard exclaimed that anything or anyone is better than having that "crazy ass b**ch" as President.

This is the first time in Klan history that any member of the KKK has ever publicly supported an African American candidate for the presidency.

KKK lodges all over America have been gathering and holding rallies supporting the black presidential candidate.

Ole' Pecoz just wants to make sure y'all recognise that this is one of them urban legend/hoax things. If you look way up there in the left hand corner you'll see where it was published by the "Dailysquib", a satirical blog out of the United Kingdom.... that's England folks -- and they don't even know what the IRA is up to, much less the KKK. But it sure do look authentic, don't it.....

A Man in Full!!!...............

.... Nah, I ain't talkin' about Thomas Wolfe's hero in the book by that name.... I'm talkin' about the General Motors Vice President,, Bob Lutz. He stood up on his hind legs a week or so ago and said that "global warming is a crock of sh*t'! Naturally, all the main stream media, tree huggin' bloggers, green organizations, and indignant environmental snobs came swinging down from their chalet's in the mountain ski ranges and started beatin' on his head. Unlike most modern weak-kneed business exec, he didn't fold and offer a mea culpa. And much to General Motors credit, they didn't fire or suspend him to 'get his head right'! Here's part of how Reuters reported it;

GM exec stands by calling global warming a "crock"

Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:08pm EST

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks

he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s---," saying his views had no bearing on GM's commitment to build environmentally friendly vehicles.

Lutz, GM's outspoken product development chief, has been under fire from Internet bloggers since last month when he was quoted as making the remark to reporters in Texas.

In a posting on his GM blog on Thursday, Lutz said those "spewing virtual vitriol" at him for minimizing the threat of climate change were "missing the big picture."

"What they should be doing in earnest is forming opinions, not about me but about GM and what this company is doing that is ... hugely beneficial to the causes they so enthusiastically claim to support," he said in a posting titled, "Talk About a Crock."

[....]

A 40-year auto industry veteran who joined GM earlier in the decade with a mandate to shake up its vehicle line-up, Lutz is no stranger to controversy.

As part of a campaign against higher fuel economy standards, Lutz wrote in a 2006 blog posting that forcing automakers to sell smaller cars would be "like trying to address the obesity problem in this country by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell smaller, tighter sizes." [....]

Good on him and a pat on the back to the GM CEO for standing by their words. (for the full article - go to: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22372976.htm

There was great quote in this months American Legion Magazine....

.... I thought it extremely appropriate and share it with you this mornin'! Eleanor Rooselvelt comments on our country being at war......

Dear Lord,
Lest I continue my complacent way, help me to remember that somewhere, somehow, out there a man died for me today.
As long as there be war, I must then ask and answer, am I worth dying for?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Kinda wish this was printed on the top of the front page banner of the New York Times every day instead of that insipid "All the news that's fit to print". Come to think of it, I reckon that should be changed to: "All the news, as we see it, and choose to print!"

Ole' Pecoz is strayin' far, far off the beaten path.......

..... with this article! But I reckon it's of enough value to be repeated wherever, even in this ole boy's space! If someone in your house suffers from recurring urinary infections, read on. From Reuters:

Urinary tract infections may come from pets

Fri Feb 22, 2008 , By David Douglas

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Picking up an E. coli bug from your pet might lead to a urinary tract infection, according to Minneapolis-based researchers.

"Sharing of E. coli strains among humans and pets within a household, including strains that can cause urinary tract infections, is extremely common," Dr. James R. Johnson told Reuters Health.

Harboring the same strain of the bug implies that it is passed from one person or animal to another.

Johnson and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota investigated the extent to which E. coli strains were shared between humans and pets in 63 households. They identified 152 people, 48 dogs, 26 cats, and 2 other animals that had stool samples that tested positive for E. coli. Five of the humans had an acute urinary tract infection.

In the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the researchers report that the same strain of E. coli was shared by several of the inhabitants within a household in 68 percent of the domiciles. That included three of the five households in which one person had a urinary tract infection.

Given the high rate of E. coli strain sharing, Johnson concluded: "If future research shows that this process increases the risk of urinary tract infection for household members, this could lead to new options for preventing such infections."

SOURCE: Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 15, 2008.

There, I shared it and feel better---!

I know it ain't Sunday, and that's "Bumper Sticker of the Week" day...

.... but this ain't exactly a bumper sticker -- and it's too good to sit on. It's a home town pic from an ole' Air Force Bud from Batesville, Mississippi...

Shazammmmm!

Somethin's been nibblin' at my butt for the last few days....

.... and I just figured out what it is. Now that the excitement of Presidents Day is over --- I guess that means y'all have your new mattresses put together -- or new car deal done --- did ya' notice that you didn't see any sale ads for ML Kings Birthday Federal Holiday?
Now I know that both days are only a true holiday if you happen to work for the Feds or local government, or perhaps a bank or a school -- for all the everybody else working in sales, and trade's, it was a work day like any other. But it do give pause for thought, why clutter up a day dedicated to the 43 men who have led this country to greatness with mattress sales, and yet keep King's day so pristine?

Hell, I remember when we had separate days for Presidents Washington and Lincoln -- the two gentlemen universally recognized as our greatest Presidents. Now they not only don't have a Holiday in their own name --- we don't respect the one they share with all the others.

I'm gonna give this some ponderin' and get back to you when I find out why this happens. I'd welcome a (polite and intelligent, please) comment of your opinion in the meantime...

"Those who are not willing to learn from history......

...... are doomed to repeat it'! We've all heard those words. Before Ole' Pecoz comments, run your eyballs over this article from the World Tribune:

U.S. tab for translation services in Iraq could hit $4.6 billion

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has turned to private contractors to supply translators and analysts for Arabic and other languages in Iraq as well as other regional states. The military has launched a five-year project meant to embed thousands of Iraqi translators into U.S. ground force units in Iraq. The prime beneficiary of the project has been Global Linguist Solutions, based in Falls Church, Va. GLS, a joint venture of DynCorp International and McNeil Technologies, which has won a contract with a maximum value of $4.6 billion through 2013.

The contract, awarded by U.S. Intelligence and Security Command, called for the recruitment of up to 7,000 translators from Iraq and the United States. Under the program, GLS would employ up to 6,000 locally-hired translators and up to 1,000 U. S. citizens with security clearances who are native speakers of languages spoken in Iraq. DynCorp has billions of dollars worth of security contracts with the State Department, particularly in bolstering the protection of U.S. embassy personnel. McNeil recruits and deploys linguists, including in Iraq.

This was the third time GLS has won such an army contract. The last contract to GLS was awarded in December 2007 amid a protest by a rival firm. On Feb. 15, 2008, GLS won the award for a third time. "Under the contract, GLS will provide foreign-language interpretation and translation services to the U.S. Army and other U.S. government agencies supporting OIF, including embedded Iraqi translators who operate with U.S. forces," GLS said. (World Tribune.com)

Some of you older pilgrims might remember a lil' ole' book called "The Ugly American", written by a guy named William Lederer and somebody back in the late '50's. The point of the book was the ineptitude of our embassies and staff overseas because they not only were incompetent, they were English language only and had to depend on local folks to do their interpreting and translations for them. They assumed that those locals were working in the best interest of the USA and the Embassies! Not!

Now here we are fifty years later, and the US Gov'mint is gonna spend Billion$ hiring Islamic translaters, citizens of Middle East countries, who's very religion calls for the death of us 'infidels', and put them to work for us in sensitive positons! Adding insult to injury, they are even gonna 'sub-contract' out the hiring............! I am finally at a loss for words!

It's as plain as "black and white'...........

..... if Chelsea can't schmoooooz the boy Superdelegates, maybe Bubba can grab the 'little old lady" vote!

Looks like Chelsea will have to find a new line of work.....

... or maybe go back to her regular day job as one of those evil 'hedge fund managers' her momma bad mouthed!

Superdelegate schmoozed by Chelsea backs Obama!

Superdelegate Jason Rae heard from Bill and Chelsea Clinton, but picked Obama.

(CNN) – A few weeks ago, 21-year-old Wisconsin superdelegate Jason Rae was taken out to breakfast by Chelsea Clinton in the runup to that state’s Democratic primary.

Two days after the vote, the college junior – who will be the youngest superdelegate at this year’s Democratic National Convention — is undecided no longer: he’s backing Barack Obama.

“The Democratic Party is fortunate to have two very talented individuals running for President this election,” said Rae in a statement released by the Obama campaign Thursday. “It is a difficult choice for anyone, but in the end, the choice for me has become clear. I am proudly supporting Senator Barack Obama.”

Remember how Shrillary went ballistic a couple of weeks ago when an MSNBC newscaster allowed as "Hillary was pimpin Chelsea out in some weird kinda way"? Apparently, she ain't irresistible !

Here's a small travel tip for some of my travelin' buddies...

Hey there Pilgrims,

Have you ever sat on a plane or train, next to an irritating seat-mate who keeps talking to you and snooping at everything you read? Next time, just follow these simple instructions and get ready to enjoy your well-deserved privacy.

1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.

2. Now open it.

3. Start it up.

4. Make sure the person annoying you can see the screen.

5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky then take a very deep breath

6. Now open this link... http://tinyurl.com/34fzpf

I'll bet he is frozen in wide-eyed silence by now --- or reachin' for that stewardess call button! Be advised, bodily function aromas may start emanating from his seat......

Two points to be made about a news item in the London Daily Mail...

..... about the state of the world. I reckon I'll let you read the item before I comment.

Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand on letterbox

A homeowner who had unwanted junk mail shoved through his door is now being sued by the woman delivering it after she hurt her hand on his letterbox.

Furious Paul O'Brien was staggered when he received a solicitor's letter demanding that he pay damages to cake decorator Joy Goodman for injuries she received when she pestered him with post.

The 44-year-old said: "When I received a solicitor's letter, I thought someone was having a laugh.

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Joy Goodman claims that she hurt her hand while delivering unwanted junk mail and is now suing homeowner Paul O'Brien

"I actually told them they had sent it early - April Fool's Day is still six weeks away.

"I just cannot believe someone who came on to my property uninvited, to put junk mail through my door that I didn't want, can now sue me because they hurt themselves."

Mrs Goodman is seeking damages for personal injury and loss of earnings, claiming the top of her right index finger was severed, meaning she can no longer do her intricate job.

But Mr O'Brien has vowed to fight the bizarre claim.

The dad-of-two was out when Mrs Goodman apparently hurt herself on his door on January 24.

She returned two days later, and finding him out, spoke to a neighbour and left contact details for him to get in touch with her.

But the next communication he received from the aggrieved woman was a letter from her solicitors informing him their client was claiming damages.

It read: "We understand that the circumstances of the accident are that our client was delivering a leaflet to your house when your letterbox snapped back on to her right index finger.

"As a result of this, our client suffered from personal injury and loss."

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Comment #1: I have always thought it unfair that although I own my mailbox, the Feds won't let anybody else use it ----- maybe it ain't such a bad thing!
Comment #2: In one of the comments regarding the article that were sent into the paper, one said: "We are getting just as bad as America, where everybody wants to be compensated!" I ask you, do we have a great reputation in this ole' world or what?

Hellary should realize she is in deep doo-doo....

..... when her opponent gets applause just for blowin' his nose. My momma used to pat me on the head when I blew my nose instead of wiping it, but I never got an ovation for the act. From the Tribune's Washington Swamp (blog):

Even blowing his nose, Obama gets applause

by John McCormick

DALLAS – It's probably safe to say that you have arrived as a politician when your audience applauds when you blow your nose.

Yes, just a day before a debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama has a head cold.

And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to take a quick break. "Gotta blow my nose here for a second," Obama said.

Out came a Kleenex (or perhaps it was a hankie), and he wiped his nose.

The near-capacity audience at the Reunion Arena, which his campaign said totaled 17,000, broke out in a slightly awkward applause.

Despite the cold, Obama's voice seems as strong as ever. He has a light schedule today and some time to rest up before his debate Thursday evening with Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.

Ain't no tellin' what the crowd of true believers would do if he shared any of his other bodily functions. Kinda like goin' back to the days of that paragon of good manners and etiquette, LBJ!!

Lord knows folks, I ain't no Saint,........

...and in my youth when I thought I was bullet proof and gonna live forever, I was known to have tipped a few and then gotten behind the wheel when I shouldn't have! But good God, what kind of law enforcement and judicial system allows this to happen? From the Cincinatti Enquirer;

Man gets 8 years for 19 DUIs

Judge lectures driver; suspends license forever

BY JANICE MORSE

"HAMILTON - A Hamilton man's 19th drunken driving conviction earned him eight years in prison and a lecture about his 30-year record, which ranks him among Ohio's six worst drunken drivers.

"You knew a long time ago that you had a problem with drinking and driving and you've never chosen to do anything," Judge Noah Powers told Stephen W. Wolf in Butler County Common Pleas Court during sentencing Tuesday.

Wolf faced up to 10 years in prison as a result of a hit-and-run crash in Fairfield Township last summer.

He's among four Ohio drivers with 19 drunken-driving convictions; two others are tied for the state record of 20 convictions.

Powers also imposed a lifetime driving suspension. But Wolf has disregarded suspensions since at least 1984.

Now 51, Wolf was first convicted of drunken driving in 1978, just before his 22nd birthday. Ohio law then allowed little jail time for repeat drunken drivers. Laws have toughened since.

Butler County Prosecutor Robin Piper said Wolf's eight-year prison term is proof: "This guy is the example that shows everyone that drinking too much and getting in a car can land you in prison for eight years. That ought to be long enough to sober you up."

Piper said he understands alcoholism is a disease. But, he said: "No disease makes you get in a car and drive. If you want to get plastered, stay home and get plastered on the front porch instead of climbing into a car and risking the lives of innocent people. Stay at home with your 12-pack."

Enquirer readers e-mailed to express outrage about Wolf's driving record and about his lawyer, Robert Qucsai, urging leniency.

Lindy Ranz, of Harrison, wrote: "Would Mr. Qucsai let any of his family members ride in a car driven by Wolf? I certainly would not. We are all lucky that this 'drunk' did not kill anyone."

"Lock him up FOREVER," wrote Jimmy Combs of Newport. "Nobody deserves 19 chances to kill someone while driving drunk."

Qucsai called his client "a broken man" who suffers from multiple sclerosis, leukemia and alcohol abuse - and needs help.

Wolf apologized for his actions.

But Powers noted that Wolf at first denied driving during the Fairfield Township incident.

"When I look at everything you've done in the past, your record doesn't warrant any further consideration," Powers said."

NINETEEN DUI CONVICTIONS!!! Most of which occured when his license was suspended for prior DUI convictions? And he doesn't even hold the record in Ohio --- two others have 20 convictions! Ohio sounds like a hellofa good state not to drive in, thru or near!

I heard the other day that the U.S. Air Force is lookin'...

..... for $170 Billion extra tax dollars to modernize their old fleet of fighters and bombers. I am reminded of the story.....

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C.

..............................The Russians used a pencil...!.

Duhh!

Just in case you wondered what the real reason....

....for the House of Representatives to go on vacation without acting on the FISA Bill, endangering the country, Robert Novak laid it out pretty clearly this week in his column:

"A closed-door caucus of House Democrats last Wednesday took a risky political course. By four to one, they instructed Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call President Bush's bluff on extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to continue eavesdropping on suspected foreign terrorists. Rather than passing the bill with a minority of the House's Democratic majority, Pelosi obeyed her caucus and left town for a 12-day recess without renewing the government's eroding intelligence capability.

Pelosi could have exercised leadership prerogatives and called up the FISA bill to pass with unanimous Republican support. Instead, she refused to bring to the floor the bill approved overwhelmingly by the Senate. House Democratic opposition included left-wing members typified by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, but they are but a small faction.

The true cause for blocking the bill was the Senate-passed retroactive immunity from lawsuits for private telecommunications firms asked to eavesdrop by the government. The nation's torts bar, vigorously pursuing such suits, has spent months lobbying hard against immunity. The recess by House Democrats amounts to a judgment that losing the generous support of trial lawyers, the Democratic Party's most important financial base, is more dangerous than losing the anti-terrorist issue to Republicans.

Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the phone companies for giving personal information to intelligence agencies without a warrant. Adm. Mike McConnell, the nonpartisan director of national intelligence, says delay in congressional action deters cooperation in detecting terrorism.

Big money is involved. Amanda Carpenter, a Townhall.com columnist, has prepared a spreadsheet showing that 66 trial lawyers representing plaintiffs in the telecommunications suits have contributed $1.5 million to Democratic senators and causes. Of the 29 Democratic senators who voted against the FISA bill last Tuesday, 24 took money from the trial lawyers (as did two absent senators, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama).

Eric A. Isaacson of San Diego, one of the telecommunications plaintiff's lawyers, contributed to the recent unsuccessful presidential campaign of Sen. Chris Dodd, who led the Senate fight against the bill containing immunity. " [.........]

Well now Pilgrims --- just in case we develop CRS and forget who these elected reprentatives really work for - they come along every now and then, poke a stick in our eye and say "Ha!" These congress folks are ALL UP FOR RELECTION THIS November --- don't just blame it on mine(all though he get's his share of the blame!) -- how did your Rep vote on this FISA bill? Will you hold 'em responsible?

Do you reckon this is why the US Pubic's approval rating of the Congress skyrocketed from 14% to 17%? How many folks in you line of work get to keep their jobs with a 83% disapproval rating from their employers??? Jest wondrin'.....!

Maybe Teddy has finally found his way into the Whitehouse....!

There is a way for Shrillary to whup Obama....

..... but first, a few words about the Wisconsin exit polls last night.

According to Real Clear Politics, Obama beat Hellary in the following categories:
Whites
Blacks
College Grads
Non-College Grads
Men
Women
Church Goers
Non-Church goers

She edged him among:
Folks over 65

There's the answer folks!! The Clintonistas just need to get the voting age changed before the Texas/Ohio primaries on March 4th. Raise the minimum age to vote to -- 65 years old.
If they can't do that - I reckon I can hear the Fat Lady warming up off stage....

Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/index.html#WIDEM

Hot Damn --- it's hard to keep a straight face .....

... first Shrillary raises hell 'cause of the "Pimpin' Chelsea" comment ... and the next thing you know on ABC News:

Real 'Work'? Clinton Swipes at Chelsea's Profession

February 19, 2008

ABC News' Jennifer Parker and Eloise Harper Report: Sen. Hillary Clinton took a swipe at her daughter's profession today at an economic roundtable discussion at a restaurant in Parma, Ohio, suggesting wealthy investment bankers and hedge fund managers on Wall Street aren't doing real 'work.'

The former first lady's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, works for New York-based hedge fund Avenue Capital Group. She previously worked in New York for McKinsey & Company, her first job after graduating with her master's degree from Oxford University.

"We also have to reward work more," Clinton told a small group of Ohio residents today. "and by that, I mean, I have people in New York working on Wall Street as investment managers, as hedge fund executives. Under the tax code, they can pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes on $50 million dollars, than a teacher, or a nurse, or a truck driver in Parma pays on $50,000. That's very discouraging to people."

You just feel like, 'wait a minute. I'm working as hard as I can.' All those people you see in your law office. They're working as hard as they can and they feel like they're just getting further and further behind," Clinton said.

It's not the first time Clinton has taken a swipe against her daughter's profession. Campaigning in Wisconsin yesterday, Clinton railed against hedge funds as Chelsea sat off to the side.

Partners, I reckon Shrillary don't care who she bashes -- Bubba or Chelsea or her best friend as long as it suits her purposes - -! This is one mean broad.....! Plumb scary.... Lotta dead bodies along this trail.. but a daughter?

SUPREMES tell the ACLU to stick it in their ear!!!

Without comment, the Supreme Court refused to listen to an appeal regarding the Bush Administration's 'listening in' program against terrorism. Here is what the BBC had to say:

Top US court rejects spying case

The US Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to a domestic anti-terrorism eavesdropping programme.

President George W Bush authorised the monitoring, without a court order, of international phone calls and e-mails of US citizens after the 9/11 attacks.

The American Civil Liberties Union argued that Mr Bush did not have the constitutional authority to order the programme, which ended last year.

The Supreme Court gave no explanation for its ruling.

Legality questioned

The domestic spying programme was denounced by Democrats and rights activists when it was disclosed in 2005.

A group of civil liberties activists, journalists, academics and lawyers challenged the spying programme in the courts, arguing it violated a 1978 rule prohibiting surveillance of American citizens on US soil without a warrant.

In July last year, an appeals court struck down a lower court's ruling that found the programme to be unconstitutional.

The appeals court, based in Cincinnati, dismissed the case because the plaintiffs had failed to show that their communications had been monitored.

But the Cincinnati judges did not rule on the legality or otherwise of the programme.

The president rejected claims that he broke the law by ordering surveillance without first securing warrants. He argued the eavesdropping programme was necessary and was targeted against al-Qaeda.

The Bush administration has so far refused to release documents about the programme that might reveal who was under surveillance.

And folks say that who serves on the Supreme Court ain't important! Ha!!
Keep this in mind when you go in that votin' booth next November!

Out of the mouths of babes.....

...... comes the truth ---- in plain English!!!

Michelle Obama is offerin' us all one chance to do somethin' right...

...and make her proud for the first time in her rich, privileged, suburban life! From Red State.com:

Michelle Obama thinks you're worthless and stupid, thinks voting for her husband will be the only worthwhile thing you ever do.

But hey -- like, vote for Change and the Future and Stuff!
By Jeff Emanuel
"For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I Am Really Proud of My Country," said Michelle Obama, rich lawyer and wife of Barack Hussein (same last name), yesterday.
Excuse me? A female, African-American, Princeton-and-Harvard-educated attorney, who has achieved a great deal in her life, who lived through the Civil Rights revolution (and was the daughter of a Chicago city worker who really experienced those events), and who is married to an African-American man who is a U.S. Senator, has never been proud of her country before?
Putting that aside for a moment, what is it that we've suddenly done to -- finally -- make her proud now? Allow her husband to enter a primary that he hasn't even won yet?
Let me get this straight: a couple of ultra-successful, Ivy League-educated, wealthy, elitist liberals who have never been proud of their country want all of us little people to vote for them to be our PRESIDENT and FIRST LADY?
They want to represent a people, and govern a country, that has never, once, ever in their adult lives made them proud?
Wow.
This utter lack of pride in their country or its people is ESPECIALLY damning in light of the amazing and praiseworthy work that President Bush has done for Africa during his terms as President -- especially given the fact that Obama still has family there (which seems a bit strange, given that he is so wealthy and, apparently, holy and powerful -- why is his grandmother still living in a hut in a desolate village on the Dark Continent when her son is this successful in America?).
Anyway, just shut up and vote for Barack so that his wife can finally appreciate something you stupid people in this country she is so forcibly made to endure living in have done.
Got it?

Well said Jeff, but wasn't this also the speech in which she said that if elected President, he would save the "soul" of the country! Is this scary stuff or what ---- hope it's just rhetoric! For more Redstate stuff -- click on the link to their site over their on the right of this page.

Y'all remember when the "Shamnesty Bill",,,

.... was workin' it's way through Congress last year. When all those folks inside the beltway assured us that it wasn't Amnesty --- just a real good start for controlling immigration? Cinch up your saddle Buckaroos, turn up your sound and listen to Lou Dobbs summarize it. I ain't even gonna comment after you've watched it. Your britches will already be burnin'!!! Click on this link and then hit that return arrow up there to return and tell us whatcha think....

Canyoubelivethis.wmv

Looks like the biddin' war has started.....

.... first Shrillary made the trek to suck up to the Breck Gal, and now Obama has made the pilgrimage. I reckon it's the first time since he was told he was gonna lose his Senate seat that anybody has paid any nevermind to Edwards, so he's really playin' the role! From the Belfast Telegraph:

Obama meets Edwards

[Published: Monday 18, February 2008 - 09:07]

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has met with his one time challenger John Edwards.

Edwards has yet to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic nomination.

A spokesman for Obama would not comment on the possibility of an endorsement for Mr. Obama who is in a very close race with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for the White House.

Since Mr Edwards quit the Democratic race, Mr Obama has often praised him in public.

Now just in case any of you Pilgrims are still naive enough to think that Ex-Senator John Edwards is just tryin' to figure out which of these two candidates would be best for the country, you better put down that funny stuff you are smokin' and be wonderin' who is gonna offer the best deal to the man with money and no legacy.
Right now all he has been is a successful trial attorney that got rich 'channeling' his dead son to juries, a one term senator. and a failed vice president nominee. Now he can add failed seeker of his parties nomination for president to his resume!
Ole' Pecoz reckon's he'd like to add some kind a cabinet secretary office or ambassador title to his name, you know, some office he don't have to get elected to have. Lord knows... hell, even Johnny knows, neither candidate is gonna offer him Veep status on their ticket!

The arrogance of legislators knows no bounds...

.... when it comes to handing out plaudits to one of their own! Seems like New Jersey State Representative Robert Roe drew pay in that job for more than twenty years. (Note - they call it public service --- but what they mean is he drew a paycheck for twenty years like any other working stiff) In recognition for doing his job, they decided to rename Route 23 in his honor. Governor Corzine couldn't sign the bill fast enough!

Ooops, seems like back in 1993, the Honorable Robert Roe imbibed enough kickapoo joy juice to raise his blood alcohol level to 0.17, almost double the legal limit, and then ran head-on into a mini-van injuring all three passengers and almost killing a 15 year-old girl. Amazingly, this never came up while the legislature debated the new law. Do you reckon that none of the sitting legislators was in office 15 short years ago? Guess Googling ain't allowed in New Jersey either!

Apparently the family and their friends raised such a stink about this highway renaming business, that Mr Roe sent a letter to the Gov asking for the law to be rescinded. Corzine, career politico that he is, wet his finger, held it up and felt the wave of hostility over the renaming law and has agreed to 'get-er-done'. Rescinded that is! When, of course, is the next question! Or will they try to outwait the hostility?

If you'd like to read the sanctimonious self-serving mea culpa's - go to: http://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/2008/approved/20080214.html

I am told that this won a contest......

..... as the best short joke in Scotland!

A bloke walks into a Glasgow library and says to the prim librarian, "Excuse me Miss, dey ye hiv ony books on suicide?"

To which she stops doing her tasks, looks at him over the top of her glasses and says, "Fook off, ye'll no bring it back!"

Dunno if it's true about winning a contest ---- but then I don't care either! I love it!

Now here's a feller that's got his hat on straight...

and that gray stuff under it in line as well. Take a minute and think about what this buckaroo is sayin': From Real Clear Politics:

Forty Years of the Tet Offensive

By David Warren

Breaking the negotiated annual truce, for surprise, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars launched the Tet Offensive, in the night of 30/31 January 1968, named for the Vietnamese lunar new year. This campaign continued in various forms through September of that year, ending in total military defeat, for the aggressors. And a brilliant propaganda victory, for the same.

Thinking back on the Vietnam War this last week. And while I was doing so, a young leftist friend wrote to me, on an entirely unrelated topic, taunting with a remark about 2008 being, "The last year of the American Empire" -- as if it started and ended with George W. Bush. He does not seem interested in the question: By whose Empire will that vacuum be filled?

My friend does not even think of himself as a leftist, only as a person with an "open mind." We agree on that, but define "open" differently, for to my mind, a skull without a brain inside is completely open. The more brain, or more precisely, the more brain used, the more resistance it can offer to the importation of nonsense.

Forty years have now gone by, which one might figuratively characterize as the forty years of the Tet Offensive, against Western Civ. The West has done fairly well in the field: we have still not lost a purely military encounter with any of the enemies of the West. Going back farther, the French didn't even lose their battles in Algeria. Rather, Charles de Gaulle decided they were not worth fighting.

The Tet Offensive was a desperate ploy by the Communist enemy in Vietnam. Tens of thousands of his troops were flung simultaneously at more than 100 South Vietnamese towns, and into the heart of Saigon. The Communists announced a general uprising, but that did not occur. The tide was actually turned within a few days by the U.S. and South Vietnamese armies. As they re-took town after town, they discovered massacres the Communists had committed while in possession. The enemy's real object had been to decapitate a whole society.

My friend, Uwe Siemon-Netto, a German Lutheran pastor and also life-long journalist, was there as a reporter. Entering Hué as the smoke was clearing: "I made my way to university apartments to obtain news about friends of mine, German professors at the medical school. I learned that their names had been on lists containing some 1,800 Hué residents singled out for liquidation.

"Six weeks later the bodies of doctors Alois Altekoester, Raimund Discher, Horst-Guenther Krainick, and Krainick's wife, Elisabeth, were found in shallow graves they had been made to dig for themselves.

"Then, enormous mass graves of women and children were found. Most had been clubbed to death, some buried alive; you could tell from the beautifully manicured hands of women who had tried to claw out of their burial place.

"As we stood at one such site, Washington Post correspondent Peter Braestrup asked an American TV cameraman, 'Why don't you film this?' He answered, 'I am not here to spread anti-communist propaganda'."

The Tet Offensive ended not only in a huge allied victory in the field -- some 45,000 of the Communist soldiers had been killed, and their infrastructure destroyed. It was victory after an event that showed sceptical South Vietnamese, and should have shown the world, the nature of the enemy our allies were fighting.

Walter Cronkite, the famous news anchor of CBS, led the American media reaction. After a very brief visit to Saigon, in which he got himself filmed wearing flak jackets, he returned to the United States, declaring before his huge prime time audience:

"It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honourable people who have lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."

The media turned a tremendous victory into a tremendous defeat. Yet seven more years would pass until an America, which had by then abandoned Vietnam, and a Congress, which had cut off military supplies to the South Vietnamese, watched the helicopters removing America's last faithful servants from a roof in Saigon's old embassy compound. The South Vietnamese Army had surrendered, to another Tet Offensive, as it ran out of ammunition.

We have seen this "Vietnam syndrome" writ large, through the intervening years. We see it today in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Romans, too, had a facility for winning ground battles.

© Ottawa Citizen

Page Printed from: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/02/forty_years_of_the_tet_offensi.html

Well said David! (color accents mine)

We all knew it was comin', we just didn't know.....

..... how soon the Clintonistas would start the movement to steal back the Florida and Michigan delagate votes they had agreed were of no account! The battle is already on the forefront, with that great Statesman Harold Ickes pullin' the plow for Ms Shrillary!

WASHINGTON (AP) - "Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign who voted for Democratic Party rules that stripped Michigan and Florida of their delegates, now is arguing against the very penalty he helped pass.

In a conference call Saturday, the longtime Democratic Party member contended the DNC should reconsider its tough sanctions on the two states, which held early contests in violation of party rules. He said millions of voters in Michigan and Florida would be otherwise disenfranchised - before acknowledging moments later that he had favored the sanctions."

Two thoughts come to my ole' head; is anybody surprised? And how perfect that this sleezeball two-bit politician carries the name "ickes" with him all his life! Icky seems to fit somehow. Of course you gotta remember who slips the money in his pocket.

"Clinton, speaking to reporters yesterday, said she would be willing to fight at the convention to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan. She won both states, and has instructed her supporters to vote to seat both state delegations even though the Democratic National Committee stripped them of delegates as punishment for scheduling primaries before Feb. 5.

"I'm prepared to go the distance, that's what I've always been committed to doing, that's what I will do," Clinton told reporters after a rally at the Brat Stop restaurant in this blue-collar southern Wisconsin city."

Gonna be a long but fun summer I hope!!! Stay tuned.....

Bumper Sticker of the Week!

Don't reckon this calls for any comment!!!

Every now and then, I come across an article or essay....

that is so well written that I feel the need to run the whole thing unedited and without comment! Many thanks to an ole Air Force Bud for bringing this column from the "Aspen News" to my attention:

In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008


There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.

Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.

There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.

The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.

He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.

His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.

He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.

Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”

He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.

He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.

Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.

He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.

There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.

He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.

Don't look here, I told you I wouldn't even comment!! (although I'll admit I added the pic of sweet Shrillary!)

Wonder what Chelsea just learned????

MONICA WHO? IS GONNA COMING BACK TO WORK FOR DADDY????

Y'all know that stirling Congressman John Conyers...

.... and his bullying, bigoted ways. Now you get to meet his wife - who apparently shares many of his attributes!!! From the Detroit News:

Report says Monica Conyers made threat
Mayor's aide files police complaint, but council member's chief of staff says she was the one wronged.
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News

DETROIT -- An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting.
But a spokesman for Conyers says she was the real victim in the hubbub.
According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers "threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun" and made "several aggressive movements" toward Milton "in a threatening manner."
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Milton also reported to police that Conyers said she would "have my brothers (mess) you up."
David Clark, chair of Detroit's General Retirement System, backed up Milton's account.
"She ran at him," Clark told The Detroit News. "She told him she would get a gun if she had to and that she has four brothers and they would whup his a-- if she asked them."
In his police report, Milton said members of Conyers' staff, and others at the meeting, had to restrain her. But Sam Riddle, Conyers' chief of staff, said Milton was the one who had to be restrained. Riddle, who said he witnessed the squabble, said Milton started it by telling Conyers to shut up -- and used an expletive.
Late Thursday, Conyers filed a police report of her own, accusing Milton of being the perpetrator.
Milton declined to be interviewed, and Riddle said Conyers didn't want to talk about the confrontation.
Riddle said he is recommending that Conyers, as the wife of a congressman, seek protection from the U.S. Marshals Service.
"We don't know who we can trust in the city of Detroit," Riddle said.

Ain't no tellin' what traits run through a family is there?

Only a true Beaureacrat could dream this up....

.... this Brit Twit proposes that cigarette smokers should be required to apply for an annual 'Smokers License" for £10 ($20)! From BBC News:

'£10 licence to smoke' proposed'

Smokers could be forced to pay £10 for a permit to buy tobacco if a government health advisory body gets its way.
No one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit, under the idea proposed by Health England.
Its chairman, Professor Julian Le Grand, told BBC Radio 5 Live the scheme would make a big difference to the number of people giving up smoking.
But smokers' rights group Forest described the idea as "outrageous", given how much tax smokers already pay.
Professor Le Grand, a former adviser to ex-PM Tony Blair, said cash raised by the proposed scheme would go to the NHS.
He said it was the inconvenience of getting a permit - as much as the cost - that would deter people from persisting with the smoking habit.
"You've got to get a form, a complex form - the government's good at complex forms; you have got to get a photograph.
"It's a little bit of a problem to actually do it, so you have got to make a conscious decision every year to opt in to being a smoker."
'Extra bureaucracy'
He added: "70% of smokers actually want to stop smoking.
"So if you just make it that little bit more difficult for them to actually re-start or even to start in the first place, yes I think it will make a big difference."
But Forest said it would be "an extra form of taxation, while tobacco taxation is already at record levels".
Forest spokesman Simon Clark said that when the cost of administration, extra bureaucracy and enforcement are taken into account, "the mind boggles".
He added that the people most affected by the proposals would be "the elderly and people on low incomes".
Mr Clark added: "The senior government advisor putting this idea forward is not only adding to the red tape and bureaucracy we already have in this country.
"He is openly bragging that he wants to make the form as complex as possible to fill in."
A department of health spokeswoman did not rule out such a scheme as part of the next wave of tobacco regulation.
She said: "We will be consulting later this year on the next steps on tobacco control.
"Ministers are seeking input from a whole range of stakeholders."

I got some serious input I could provide to this pompous, putty brained, pot headed Brit --- but he probably couldn't find the location for placing this proposal with both hands.........

Hot Damn, Ole' Pecoz has found the answer....

....to what all us conservative Republicans are gonna do this November when we go into the voting booth! Our problem is solved for only $19.95---


















Don't thank me for finding it .... I'm just your humble servant!!!!!!

Well, I reckon President Bush and Veep Cheney can rest easy now ....

.... the City Council of the fine city of Boulder CO., has decided not to impeach them!! From the Boulder News:

Impeachment fizzle: Boulder lacks votes to take on Bush

By Ryan Morgan
Friday, February 15, 2008

A move to draft a Boulder City Council resolution supporting the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney likely won't get enough support to get off the ground Tuesday.

A canvass of the City Council shows there aren't likely to be the five votes required to draft, debate and eventually hold a vote on the measure as activists have requested.

City Councilman Macon Cowles last week told his colleagues that he plans to ask for a vote Tuesday on whether to move forward with an impeachment resolution. For the past several weeks, supporters of such a move have been speaking at City Council meetings and handing out "Impeach" pins.

Cowles said the activists deserve to know whether the council will act on their resolution. But Cowles said he won't support it, although he agrees with the sentiments it expresses.

"It's a straight-up impeachment resolution, much like Congress can and probably should have begun investigating several years ago," he said. "I am not interested in engaging in purely symbolic acts. ... We obviously lack the power to act on any of the constitutional violations of the current administration."

The activists said they had support from four of the nine members of the City Council to carry the resolution forward, but at least two of the four -- Cowles and Susan Osborne -- expressed reservations Thursday.

And other members have expressed outright opposition.

"This is not something I want us to spend time on," Mayor Shaun McGrath said. [.....]

Whee Doggies - that was a close 'un! Now the President can get on with his duties and quit worrying about these folks. I thought the best comment made by a citizen on the Boulder News Blog was; "Oh heck, now they can get back to screwing up our city instead of fretting over something totally beyond their responsibilities!"

For the full story, go to: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/feb/15/impeachment-fizzle/

Just in case you din't know there were rules.....

.....and that's the way it is!! So there!

Wouldn't it be a kick in the butt.....

....if the voters in this country repeated the mistake the Cubans made 50 years ago and elected an unknown, speech making phenom, without really knowing him!

From World Net Daily:

Che flag sends 'disturbing' message about ObamaCandidate attracts 'people who think mass murderers are romantic revolutionaries'
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Fox News' image of Texas Obama volunteers with Che Guevara flag
The Fox TV affiliate in Houston has captured images of a volunteer in a campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama working in front of a flag featuring the image of Che Guevara, the South American revolutionary who became Fidel Castro's executioner after the communist takeover in Cuba.
And while the Obama campaign has issued a statement placing a modest distance between the campaign and its "volunteers," the issue of such an image on display in an office operating on behalf of a man hoping to be commander in chief of the world's last remaining superpower is raising alarms.
Even Obama supporters have been forced into corners because of the issue, with one likening the Texas state Republican Party to Guevara, to whom have been attributed hundreds of executions of anti-Castro leaders.
Under the heading "Barack Guevara," Investor's Business Daily raised some of the more pointed questions, to which the campaign responded only with a statement: "The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign."

"How is it a front-runner for the highest office in the land can reject an American flag on his lapel but permit the display of a huge Cuban flag at one of his offices, emblazoned with a mass murderer's mug?" the publication asked.
"Barack Obama, displaying the same 'anything goes' standard of patriotism he showed when he ostentatiously refused to wear a U.S. flag in his lapel, now shows he's got a whole different idea about patriotism," the publication continued.
"Rather than repudiate the image, Obama would only call it 'inappropriate,' apparently without insisting it be taken down. That contrasts with his dismissal of his Senate colleagues who wear lapel flags as 'hypocrites.' Some hypocrites," IBD said.
"The display of the Castroite flag with Che's picture on it sends a particularly disturbing message about his campaign. Apparently, Obama tends to attract the kind of people who think of mass murderers like Che and Fidel as romantic revolutionaries. Those same people see Obama as a man with a messianic message.
"These are the voters he'll be indebted to should he win higher office," the publication warned.
But even worse, such a situation "coincides uncomfortably" with the candidate's demands for a "no-strings-attached" relationship between the United States and communist Cuba.
"Obama's naïve idealism is based on a false understanding of history. Cuba is a nation that aimed Soviet missiles at us in 1962 and is likely to do the same if and when Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez gets advanced weapons from Russia or Iran," IBD said.

I ain't even gonna comment - but for the rest of the story, go to:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56293

"Deepthroat" said "Follow the money!".......

.... during the Watergate hearings of the Nixon years. I'm sure he'd find this interesting in 2008!

From the Boston Globe:

Superdelegates get campaign cash

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor February 14, 2008
Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.
"While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today.About half the 800 superdelegates -- elected officials, party leaders, and others -- have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.
Obama's political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling $228,000.
Clinton's political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.

Kinda makes you doubt the wisdom of sending that hard earned campaign contribution to your candidate of choice don't it? Seein' as they just pass it around to their cronies as they see fit --- when they ain't eatin' at the Ritz with it. I reckon I'll have more to say about campaign contributions later -----.

Just when you have hopes that college kids......

..... are getting better and more sophisticated in their life's choices, I read today that at Stanford University-- home of the Vietnam War protests - the Rumsfeld Fellowship protests - the Bush Visit protests; they are protesting again this week! Their new noble cause?

When their daddies and mommas flew them home for the Christmas Holidays, the dastardly University administration directed that all of the showers in the dorms be re-fitted with Eco-friendly shower heads. Instead of mega-gallons of water per minute, an environmentally friendly modest flow now falls on their punk hairdo's and dreadlocks.

Oh the insult of it all --- "Let the little people suffer to protect the environment - not us annoited students of Stanford!!!"
Lord luv a duck!!

I have no idea if 'Penis Envy' is involved....

......in these lame hearings that Henry Waxman is conducting. I mean with all of the things going wrong in this big old world, and the problems that need solving in this big old country - there has to be some reason why Waxman would tie up an important Congressional Committee for this witch hunt! I thought that use of steroids and enhancement drugs were banned by Major League Baseball, not the House of Representatives... Then I got to wondering if some kind of envy was motivatin' Henry --- I mean shucks, if you looked like Waxman, was as short as Waxman, wouldn't you like to tear down some big, good look'n super rich baseball player by God! With all them 24-7 TV cameras look'n on as well. Heck, he might have had some baseball player chase him home from grade school when Henry was a Hall Monitor and dropped a dime on the kid --- I don't know....! Just kinda wonderin' the why's of it all........

Ya' gott forgive Texas Democrats if they seem....

....plumb giddy over the upcoming March 4th primary! The Texas primary comes so late in the primary season that the nominee is always determined before Texans get to cast a ballot for their choice.
With a rich prize of 228 delegates (compared to the handful of Iowa, New Hampshire) Texans have long been ignored. Not this year.
It's do or die for Shrillary -- she either wins both Texas and Ohio on the 4th day of March, or she will continue to have to pay to have her clothes washed, and meals prepared. Won't be back in "public housing", as she likes to call governor's mansions and the Whitehouse.
Already campaigning across Texas in hopes of getting a head start on Obama - she gettin' ready to hunker down in the Alamo and stave off him and his hoards of new loyal fans...
You reckon she forgot, or never knew, how the battle of the Alamo turned out?
Wheee doggies, it's gonna be fun in the Lone Star State for the next couple of weeks. We usually don't even get a political visit or political ad until the November election..... much less personal attention that those little Yankee states get.

I think I hear the "Fat Lady" singing....

....and it ain't Ms Shrillary! From Yahoo news;

Clinton ex-campaign manager backs Obama
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WriterWed Feb 13, 5:21 PM ET
The man who served as national manager of former President Clinton's 1992 campaign endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday. David Wilhelm, who led the campaign and later became chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Obama had the unique ability to encourage cooperation as a 65-percent president after the divisive years of a 51-percent majority.
He was referring to the notion that Obama could govern the country with the support of a large coalition, as opposed to more polarized support for President Bush.
Wilhelm is a superdelegate who was previously uncommitted in the race. His endorsement helps Obama in the race for delegates, in which he pulled ahead after Tuesday's sweeps of primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Clinton remains considerably ahead in superdelegates, which are party officials, elected officials and others who can vote however they choose at the nominating convention.
If the race for pledged delegates based on outcomes in caucuses and primaries across the country remains tight, superdelegates could decide the nomination.
Obama leads the delegate race with 1,224 to 1,198 to Clinton, according to the latest count by The Associated Press.
Persuading superdelegates to back Obama will be a crucial role for Wilhelm in the Obama campaign, he said.
"The only reason this race appears to be closer than it actually is is the number of superdelegates that bought into Senator Clinton's inevitability early — too early, it seems," Wilhelm said.
The Clinton campaign predicted Wednesday it would be in a virtual tie with Obama in delegates after March 4 primaries in Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island, separated by no more than 25 delegates.
Wilhelm said the Democrats could never win a contest about experience over Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, but could win — with Obama — an election that was framed around change.

Reckon that Bubba's Ole' boy goes for Candidate "B" as well!!!

Ain't this the truth...........

Deborah Johns holds a photo of her son Sgt. William Johns of the Marines, who will be serving his fourth tour in Iraq, at a rally supporting troops outside of Berkeley City Hall in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. The Berkeley City Council drew a deluge of disapproval nationwide in January when it voted to advise the Marines that their downtown recruitment office was not welcome and that they would be considered "uninvited and unwelcome intruders" if they chose to stay. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Do you reckon that it was just a coincidence....

... that Shrillary chose this particular outfit and color for one of her final campaign speech appearances? The color is actually called "Thatcher Blue".... but you don't reckon that Ms Clinton was trying to send some subliminal message to the audience do you?.... Nah, she is much to 'laid back' and casual to even think about that! She just happened to buy and wear that color cause she liked the way it looked on the rack in Target! Yeah, that's the answer!

Was it just a "Depends" minute.......??

or do you reckon Chris Matthews is in love??? From Newsbusters:

Matthews: Obama Speech Caused 'Thrill Going Up My Leg'

By Brad Wilmouth | February 13, 2008 - 03:37 ET

During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama's speaking skills as the MSNBC anchor admitted that Obama's speech created a "thrill" in his leg: "It's part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often." Minutes later, Brian Williams poked fun at Matthews' confession: "Let's talk about that feeling Chris gets up his leg when Obama talks ... That seems to be the headline of this half hour."

For the full transcript - go to: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/02/13/matthews-obama-speech-caused-thrill-going-my-leg

Apparently, you can take the leader out of the KGB....

..... but you can't take the KGB out of the leader. From Sky News:

Georgian Feared Enemy Murder Plot

Updated:13:31, Wednesday February 13, 2008

The sudden death of an exiled Georgian billionaire is being investigated by a major crime investigation team after police described it as suspicious, leading to speculation it may have been another 'Alexander Litvinenko' style murder.

Badri Patarkatsishvili

Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, was found dead at his country mansion Downside Manor outside Leatherhead, Surrey, at about 11pm last night.

His family said he suffered a heart attack, but Surrey Police have launched an investigation to confirm the exact cause of death.

Mr Patarkatsishvili - Georgia's richest man, with an estimated £6bn fortune - spoke recently of his fears for his life after an alleged plot to murder him in London was uncovered.

One reported assassination plan bore chilling similarities to the killing of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

The outspoken critic of the Putin regime was killed by radiation poisoning in London. Moscow has refused to extradite the prime suspect, ex-KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi.

A Surrey Police spokeswoman said of Mr Patarkatsishvili's death: "As with all unexplained deaths, it is being treated as suspicious.

It would appear that being an 'enemy of the state' , or at least of Mad Vlad, ain't good for your health. I thought I would include a picture of Putin in one of his many KGB diguises during his earlier career......

This was of course, when John Wayne was help to defend Democracy and continue the eternal search for truth and justice in the world...... (you need to click on it and then hit the return arrow)

What an historical night this was.......

............ the mighty UNO, all American Beagle, wins Best of Show at Westminster! First time ever in the history of the event for a Beagle to win. McCain and Obama sweep best of show in Potomac primaries, first ever for both of them too!
But I reckon I'll give the edge to Ole Uno, he's got more charisma than both them other fellers put together!
By the way that Shrillary gal snuck away to beautiful downtown El Paso Texas, and ain't sayin' nothin'............... not even a polite nod of acknowledgment that Obama whupped her fair and square in all three primaries tonight!
Guess there is some truth to that ole sayin' "Every Dog has his day!!!"

A picture is worth ................

Poor ole David Shuster of MSNBC got 'suspended'....

after her Shrillaryness raised hell when he suggested that Ms Clinton was "pimping Chelsea out in some weird way". She now suggests that mere suspension 'might not be enough'!

On the other hand, yesterday morning, all of a sudden..... out of the blue..... strictly by accident..... entirely coincidently, a young 21 year old Wisconsin student who just happens to be a Dem 'super-delegate' finds hisself at breakfast with sweet innocent Chelsea --- who (of course) ain't being 'used' by her Momma!!! From "Fishbowl DC";

"... not many 21-year-olds start their Monday with a personal breakfast with Chelsea Clinton, as [Jason] Rae did this morning at the student union at the nearby University of Milwaukee.
Rae got the one-on-one treatment from the former — and possibly future — first daughter because he is a Democratic National Committee member from Wisconsin and thus a "super delegate," one of the 796 free agents who can back any candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination. "

Appears to Ole' Pecoz that perhaps Ms Shrillary owes Mr Shuster an apology..... along with the rest of us, for insultin' our intelligence!

Before you rush out to buy your special lady Valentines chocolates....

take a minute to read this CBS report:

Buyer Beware: Valentine's Candy May Be From 2007
5 Of 6 Bags Purchased In NYC By CBS Inedible; Worms Found Inside 'Big Kiss'
ReportingKirstin Cole NEW YORK (CBS)

― Chocolate is one of the most popular Valentine's Day gifts, with more than $1 billion of it purchased just for that one romantic day alone. That chocolate may not be as sweet as you think however -- some stores seem to be recycling last year's sweets! You can't even go grocery shopping these days without seeing shelves stacked with heart-shaped boxes, sugar cookies covered in red sprinkles, or giant kiss after kiss of chocolate sweets for your sweetheart. Yet many of the desserts made especially for Valentine's Day might not look as nice on the inside as they do on the outside.

There's a possibility that chocolate may be from old stock."It's something that should be glorious. It should have a luster to it. It should crack slightly when you bite it," said Brian Buckley of Manhattan's Institute of Culinary Education. CBS 2 HD did its own investigation, purchasing six bags of Valentine's Day treats at stores around New York City. Of those six bags, five were inedible. From the finest of truffles to candy bought in bulk, most of these products were expired and showed signs of improper storage, like melting and reshaping. Some of the chocolates had white dots or streaks, called a "bloom," which means the chocolate is stale. "I would not eat that and I would not advise anybody to.

It's just disgusting," Buckley said after seeing the results. And though you won't get food poisoning, the rotten chocolate just may upset your stomach and certainly a romantic evening. "It's not saying 'I love you,' it's saying, 'Oops!'" Buckley said. Buckley was shocked that store shelves could be stacked with so much bad chocolate just days before the sweetest of holidays.

And CBS 2 HD's investigation grew even more appalling. A luscious looking giant Hershey kiss we purchased had some secret admirers inside: an infestation of worms. CBS 2 HD went back to the store where it was purchased, Nut City on 2nd Avenue, to show the manager, who said they aren't responsible because the candy is purchased from another company. The store, however, did agree to take the rest off the shelves. Chocolate makers advise to check for expiration dates. Chocolate has about a year's shelf life. Still, many stores don't enforce expiration dates, so it's up to you. If the chocolate is sub-standard, take it back and demand a refund.

I reckon I don't even want to think about how old those Holloween candy corn kernels are!!!

Some times you can't win for losin'........

....not only did Obama whup up on Shrillary over the weekend in five primaries... but he whupped up on Bubba at the Grammy Awards as well. From the Washington Times:

Another victory

Sen. Barack Obama topped a Clinton in another contest yesterday — the Grammys.

The presidential candidate beat former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter to win best spoken-word album for his audio version of his book "The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream," the Associated Press reports.

Mr. Clinton was nominated for his book "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World" and Mr. Carter for "Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bringing Peace to a Changing World." Also nominated were Maya Angelou and Alan Alda.

BTW, is Ole' Pecoz the only one to notice that these nominees are exclusively representative of the most liberal voices in America? They didn't even go through the charade of nominatin' even one moderate or conservative public figure!! Ain't that something! You reckon they were afraid that someone other than a flamin' liberal might win?

Rushing in where angels fear to tread.....

... this British Minister feller is speakin' the kind of truths that would get him tarred, feathered, and run out of town by CAIR and the ACLU in this country! From the London Times:

Minister warns of ‘inbred’ Muslims
Dipesh Gadher, Christopher Morgan and Jonathan Oliver
A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.
Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the “elephant in the room”. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”
The minister, whose views were supported by medical experts this weekend, said: “The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children].”
Woolas emphasised the practice did not extend to all Muslim communities but was confined mainly to families originating from rural Pakistan. However, up to half of all marriages within these communities are estimated to involve first cousins.
Medical research suggests that while British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for one in three British children born with genetic illnesses.
The minister’s comments come as Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, rejected calls to resign over claims that Islamic law should be introduced in Britain. “I’m not contemplating resignation,” he told friends.
Williams insists his remarks were misinterpreted and that he was not advocating a parallel sharia jurisdiction for Muslims, but Lord Carey, his predecessor, warned acceptance of Muslim laws in Britain would be "disastrous".

Looks to me like this Muslim thing just keeps growing and growing. And nobody is thinking through all the problems and planning for them! I reckon they all ought to sit through the movie "Deliverance" once or twice. Good Luck Grandkids!!!

Ahhh... for the good old days...........

.....when politics was sport and the game was fun!

Senator Gary Hart said to the press. "Catch me if you can!", and they did... faster than you can say "Monkey Business'. Here is that famous photo of him and his main squeeze for the weekend back in 1987-- Donna Rice! No tears in this picture!

Nowadays, I reckon he'd probably go to the top of the polls if found in this position!

And she wants us to let her run the country??

... when she can't even run a primary campaign against a mis-named, no experienced rookie??? Not a good weekend for her Shrillness.... let's see now, she lost primaries in Nebraska, Washington, Louisiana, Virgin Islands and Maine? Not exactly a geographic cluster of like populations, is it? Here's how she looked Saturday night up in Maine --- hankie time again.

So her next move, fire her Latina campaign chairmanette (three weeks before primaries in Hispanic rich states like Texas) and hire her long time loyalist Maggie Williams. You remember Maggie of course, she was the Clintonista aide who was accused of purloining papers out of Vincent Foster's office in the Whitehouse right after he committed 'suicide'. Maggie ain't never run a campaign before, but she's by-God loyal and shucks, I don't know, there is just something about her... that Shrillary probably thinks might help in the predominately Black Maryland, DC and Virginia primaries being conducted this week. Hmmmm.....

Now Ole' Pecoz ain't witnessin' for her Illinois junior competitor, but at least he don't bring that "Same Old - Same Old" aura with him when he walks into a room. Besides, if her Shrillaryness is gonna get a whuppin', I just as soon it be by her feller Democrats, instead of that 'vast right wing conspiracy' she has always claimed was out to snap her headband!

I wonder if she'll create a 'vast left wing conspiracy' led by Michael Moore and George Soros to blame if she loses --- 'cause you know she ain't gonna accept responsibility her own self..... That would besmirch the Clinton name!

Internet 'Bumper Sticker of the Week' time again Buckaroos!!!

.... And with Mitt Romney bowing out this week and leaving us with John McCain-Finegold-Kennedy-Lieberman as the only Republican candidate still standing - this one wins hands down! No ties this week!

Any of you folks remember when the Olympics was Apolitical???

....well you ain't in Kansas any more pilgrims. The Chinese can't even get the pollution levels low enough in Beijing to allow the marathon to be run there -- but they can sure can erase any unkind remarks before they are even mouthed.. This, from todays London Daily Mail:

Britain kow tows to China as athletes are forced to sign no criticism contracts

By ROB DRAPER and DANIEL KING - 10th February 2008

Gagged: Marathon runner Paula Radcliffe is likely to be one of those affected by the banBritish Olympic chiefs are to force athletes to sign a contract promising not to speak out about China's appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.
The move – which raises the spectre of the order given to the England football team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 – immediately provoked a storm of protest.
The controversial clause has been inserted into athletes' contracts for the first time and forbids them from making any political comment about countries staging the Olympic Games.
It is contained in a 32-page document that will be presented to all those who reach the qualifying standard and are chosen for the team.
From the moment they sign up, the competitors – likely to include the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips and world record holder Paula Radcliffe – will be effectively gagged from commenting on China's politics, human rights abuses or illegal occupation of Tibet.
Prince Charles has already let it be known that he will not be going to China, even if he is invited by Games organisers.

..... I reckon you could say 'The games have already begun and the games haven't even started yet!'

If I was to nominate..........

......... the dumbest illegal alien and his fake I.D. (drivers license) I reckon this lad would win the prize. 'Course you got to wonder about the I.Q. of the feller that produces and sells the I.D. as well. Ought to be a sign posted: 'NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LOVE YOUR GAL, ONLY ONE FACE PER DRIVER'S LICENSE!'

What's worse than being a President with.....

.....an approval rating down to just over 30%? What's worse... is being a member of Congress where your home town constituents rate you at only a little over 20%!! I reckon if two out of three folks across this entire nation were unhappy with my work -- as apparently they are with 'Easy' George, I wouldn't be too damn proud of myself. But if I were a Senator representing only one state or a Representative from only one congressional district, I'd hide my head in shame if I was told that four out of every five constituents didn't like the way I was performing!
The sad fact is, come election day, folks forget all this and go into those booths lookin' for a familiar name and just pull the damned lever! I don't care what folks say, there ought to be a "VSAT" every October where voter wannabe's had to pass a test to show they know what they are doing. I can forgive true believers that vote for the 'other guy', but I got no warm feelin's for those who just vote in uncaring ignorance.....
Hmmm, maybe we're into something here --- maybe we ought to make all the wannabe candidates for public office go on that program of Jeff Foxworthy's, and let us all see if they are "Smarter than a Fifth Grader!"... Bet that would open some eyes!!!

Usually Pilgrims, when I come across a long column....

....that I want to share, I'll print the first couple of paragraphs and then link you to the source article. But yesterdays column by Michelle Malkin in the Post is so EXACTLY ON POINT that I have decided to share the whole column with you---

GROW UP, RIGHTIES-- by: Michelle Malkin, Feb 8, 2008 'QUO vadis," conservatives? It's the ancient, apocryphal question the apostle Peter asked Jesus while fleeing persecution in Rome. Where are you going? Where do we go from here? The contest for the GOP presidential nomination is over. The conservative movement is not. Sen. John McCain's campaign resurrection and Super Tuesday victory leave a diverse group on the right - from the libertarian Club for Growth to First Amendment defenders to immigration enforcement proponents - dispirited. But the failure to nominate a true Republican unifier does not spell ideological defeat. On Wednesday, wielding his olive branch like a schoolmarm's ruler, Sen. McCain told conservatives to "calm down." My advice is exactly the opposite: Get fired up. Some on the right advise their readers and listeners to vote Democrat or sit home. My advice is exactly the opposite: Get off the couch and walk the walk for conservative candidates and officeholders who need all the help they can get defending free markets, free minds and secure borders - no matter who takes the White House in November. Dissatisfied with the flawed crop of GOP candidates who lacked the energy, organizational skills and ideological strength to carry the conservative banner and ignite your passions? Then pay attention to the next generation of Republican state legislators who do vote consistently to lower your taxes, uphold the sanctity of life, defend marriage and cut government spending. Support their re-election bids. Reward them for standing with you, instead of their Democrat opponents and the liberal media. Look at Barack Obama. Four years ago, he was in the Illinois Legislature. Now he's on the cusp of the presidency. If you can't stomach John McCain, channel your support and energies to Republicans who do represent your values and who have treated the conservative base as allies instead of enemies. A new generation of combat veterans is running for office, people who haven't made a career of trashing the GOP base. Check out staunch economic, social and national security conservative congressional candidates like Iraq/Afghanistan veteran Eric Egland in California's 4th district. Check out the Vets for Freedom (vetsforfreedom.org) group for their endorsements. Opposed to the amnesty bill? Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Cornyn of Texas all fought the McCain-Kennedy-Bush open-borders disaster. All of those senators are up for re-election this year. Send them some money. Then send a few more bucks to the enforcement proponents on the House side, as well. Don't sit and wait for the border fence to get built. It won't be finished under the Bush administration or a McCain administration or an Obama or Clinton administration. What you can do is pressure mayors and police chiefs and city councils to rescind dangerous sanctuary policies. What you can do is alert county sheriffs that you want them to work with the feds to end illegal alien catch-and-release policies in your neighborhood. What you can do is stop patronizing businesses that you know are knowingly employing illegal immigrants using fake IDs and stolen Social Security numbers. Other vital issues on the ballot this fall need conservative backing. Conservative stalwart Ward Connerly [pictured] is leading a "Super Tuesday for Equal Rights" drive in November to end racial preferences in five states. He has not only battled the race demagogues on the left and the affirmative action apologists in the media, but also spineless GOP establishment leaders who would rather pander to the "diversity" lobby than fight for true equality under the law. Connerly spearheaded resounding victories in California, Washington and Michigan. The new campaign is targeting Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Support his organization, the American Civil Rights Institute (acri.org). Twenty-six years ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Reagan rallied conservatives: "We must ask ourselves tonight how we can forge and wield a popular majority from one end of this country to the other, a majority united on basic, positive goals with a platform broad enough and deep enough to endure long into the future, far beyond the lifespan of any single issue or personality." Get involved. Don't calm down. Get fired up.

For more from Michelle Malkin -- clink on her link over on the right side of the page. If Ole' Pecoz was to write about this week's events, I couldn't say much more than; "What she said!"

Speaking of judges legislating from the bench....

.... we were speaking about that weren't we? Here is the perfect latest example of such a ruling. The Nebraska Supremes ruled that executing a convicted killer in the electric chair is 'cruel and unusual'! The fella kidnapped his girl friend's 3 year old boy, did whatever to him, then killed him and stored body parts in the fridge and fed other parts to his dog... Now he wants to end his stay on death row and .... well, here - read it for yourself:

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - A year ago, Carey Dean Moore wrote a short letter to the Nebraska Supreme Court from his cell on death row. "Appellant wishes to be executed," it said.

On Friday, the court said electrocution is unconstitutional, a stunning response to Dean, nine others on death row and those who question whether the electric chair constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

"Condemned prisoners must not be tortured to death, regardless of their crimes," Judge William Connolly wrote in the 6-1 opinion for the court.

The decision erased Nebraska's distinction as the only state with electrocution as its sole means of execution. State courts are left with the ability to sentence people to death but no way to carry out the penalty.

The high court made the ruling in the case of Raymond Mata Jr., convicted for the 1999 kidnapping and killing of 3-year-old Adam Gomez of Scottsbluff, the son of his former girlfriend. Parts of the boy's body were found at Mata's home in a freezer and dog bowl. Bone fragments also were recovered from the stomach of Mata's dog.

The court said in its opinion that evidence shows that electrocution inflicts "intense pain and agonizing suffering" and that it "has proven itself to be a dinosaur more befitting the laboratory of Baron Frankenstein" than a state prison.

Don't that beat all. For the past hundred years - it wasn't cruel and unusual , but this week it is. Now Ole' Pecoz ain't one of the 'eye for an eye' folks, elsewise I'd suggest choppin' this dude up and putting his body in the pit with that Georgia quarterbacks puppies -- but I tell you what, I'd sure be for bringing back public hangings or firing squads --- this lethal injection thing is a farce! Hell, did you know they swab the arm with alcohol before they inject the poison? Like the evil doer is gonna get infected or somethin'? Lord have Mercy - where are we going in this country....

Some times the simple answers .....

..... ain't the right ones...!

Shrillary stiffs New Hampshire landlord ----

---- much like she hopes to stiff the country I reckon!

"PORTSMOUTH — Rochester physician Terry Bennett said he rented a city building to people who worked for Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign — and skipped town without paying the bill.

Making matters worse, Bennett said, the 3,000-square-foot building at 236 Union St. was left trashed. Campaign signs were left lying all over the place, he said."

The Realtor and the owner have sent over 20 e-mails asking for the rent and haven't even had the courtesy of a "screw you" answer!

I sure hope the voters ain't dumb enough to let her trash the country and the White House again!

Hot Damn, wait'll Al Gorebot hears about this report..

... he's gonna be so hot, he'll warm the planet all by his own self.....! From IBD today:

The Sun Also Sets

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.

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Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.

To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.

And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.

Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.

Imagine what would happen to Gorebot and his fellow Ponzi scheme cronies, if folks decided not to submit to the carbon footprint extortion that feathers the Tennessee Mansion nest! For the rest of the essay, go to:
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175

Shrillary gags Bubba --- pimps Chelsea .....!

..... do y'all remember how for years, the Clintonista's screamed at the media if they even mentioned Chelsea's name, much less discussed her, her interests, her looks, her romances, her politics? Well, guess what -- Hillary is backed up in the corner now by Obama so what happens -- she puts little Chelsea out on the street!!! From the Daily News (Kenneth Bazinet):

Chelsea Clinton taking an expanded role in Hillary's campaign

WASHINGTON - Chelsea Clinton, who hit the trail in Nebraska Thursday, is taking an expanded role in her mom's campaign.

She spent about an hour answering questions at the student union at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, then stopped by a downtown coffee shop.

She's also recently started calling superdelegates to pitch her mom, and even called three of the four hosts of "The View" before Super Tuesday to ask for their vote.

The 27-year-old, who works for a Manhattan hedge fund, has traveled to a dozen states so far, mostly targeting young voters on college campuses.

"Why do I think you should support her, or what do I think you can see

in her record? As to why you should trust her - because she does what she says she will do," Chelsea said in Nebraska Thursday

A Clinton spokesman said Chelsea Clinton will be campaigning through March 4.

Does this mean the gloves are off -t hat Chelsea is now fair g ame? I'm not sure but I got an e-mail this morning showing Chelsea talking to US Soldier, the story line being that she asked him if he was ever afraid, and his reply was: "Yes Ma'am, I scared to death of Osama, Obama and your Momma!

Well Shucks..... the last Conservative Candidate just suspended his campaign..

for the nomination of the Republican Party for President. What's a feller to do.

Mitt Romney just made the announcement at CPAC meeting in D.C..(see picture) Tancredo is gone, Hunter never really was, Paul is a joke (public and private), and Huckleberry is Elmer Gantry in a pin stripe suit. Us folks here in Texas ain't even gotten to vote in a primary yet and the race is over.

At first blush, I reckon I'll just go to the polls on March 4th and vote for Mitt Romney! And encourage my family and friends to do the same.

I'll worry about the November election in November! ....or maybe October!

Every time I read an article like this.....

.... I really wonder about the intelligence or real agenda of womens rights organization in the U.S. who oppose the war on terrorism. Do you really reckon they would like this Islamic extremist way of life to take over in this country? From the London Times:

Religious police in Saudi Arabia arrest mother for sitting with a man

A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh.
Yara, who does not want her last name published for fear of retribution, was bruised and crying when she was freed from a day in prison after she was strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions by the Kingdom's “Mutaween” police.
Her story offers a rare first-hand glimpse of the discrimination faced by women living in Saudi Arabia. In her first interview with the foreign press, Yara told The Times that she would remain in Saudi Arabia to challenge its harsh enforcement of conservative Islam rather than return to America.
“If I want to make a difference I have to stick around. If I leave they win. I can't just surrender to the terrorist acts of these people,” said Yara, who moved to Jeddah eight years ago with her husband, a prominent businessman.
Her ordeal began with a routine visit to the new Riyadh offices of her finance company, where she is a managing partner.
The electricity temporarily cut out, so Yara and her colleagues — who are all men — went to a nearby Starbucks to use its wireless internet.
She sat in a curtained booth with her business partner in the café's “family” area, the only seats where men and women are allowed to mix.
For Yara, it was a matter of convenience. But in Saudi Arabia, public contact between unrelated men and women is strictly prohibited.
“Some men came up to us with very long beards and white dresses. They asked ‘Why are you here together?'. I explained about the power being out in our office. They got very angry and told me what I was doing was a great sin,” recalled Yara, who wears an abaya and headscarf, like most Saudi women.
The men were from Saudi Arabia's Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a police force of several thousand men charged with enforcing dress codes, sex segregation and the observance of prayers.
Yara, whose parents are Jordanian and grew up in Salt Lake City, once believed that life in Saudi Arabia was becoming more liberal. But on Monday the religious police took her mobile phone, pushed her into a cab and drove her to Malaz prison in Riyadh. She was interrogated, strip-searched and forced to sign and fingerprint a series of confessions pleading guilty to her “crime”.
“They took me into a filthy bathroom, full of water and dirt. They made me take off my clothes and squat and they threw my clothes in this slush and made me put them back on,” she said. Eventually she was taken before a judge.

Keep in mind, this wasn't in Iraq or the mountains of Afghanistan, this is in a modern civilized Saudi Arabian city...our allies. I am reminded of the American army Colonel, who happened to be female, who was not allowed drive a vehicle over there and retired rather than wear a burkha every time she left the army post..

What can our American feminazi's be thinking?????

I don't know who originally wrote this but.....

there is sure a whole lot of truth in here! I reckon I'd share it with you this morning!

A different kind of drug problem......

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a met amphetamine lab had been found in an old farm house in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, ”Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?”I replied: ”But I did have a drug problem when I wuz a kid growing up on the farm.” I had a drug problem when I was young: I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church forweddings and funerals. I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.
I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher. Or if I didn’t put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me. I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profane four letter word. I was drug out to pull weeds in mom’s garden and flower beds and cocklebursout of dad’s fields.
I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline or chop some fire wood. And if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the wood shed.
Those drugs are still in my veins; and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, and think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin, and if today’s children had this kind of drug problem, America might be a better place today.

I threw in a picture of an old fashioned 'woodshed' just for effect!

John McCain-Finegold-Kennedy-Lieberman goes before CPAC this week......

......and if they believe him -- we are all in deep doo-doo! Or as they say in Texas folks, --serious CaCa !
If he leads off with a phoney baloney Ronald Reagan video ---- listen for the Booooos! They won't be hard to hear, I'ma thinkin!
(There has to be a few conservatives left out there somewhere!)

Well Duh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.... CIA admits to 'waterboarding' three terrorist suspects after 9/11! Well Duh! From AOL News:

CIA Admits Waterboarding 3 Suspects
By LARA JAKES JORDAN,
AP
Posted: 2008-02-06 11:57:41
Filed Under: Law News, Politics News
WASHINGTON (Feb. 5) - Senate Democrats
demanded a criminal investigation
into waterboarding by government interrogators
Tuesday after the Bush administration
acknowledged for the first time that
the tactic was used on three terror suspects.
In congressional testimony Tuesday, CIA
Director Michael Hayden became the first
administration official to publicly acknowledge
the agency used waterboarding on detainees
following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks. Waterboarding involves strapping
a person down and pouring water over
his cloth-covered face to create the sensation
of drowning.
“We used it against these three detainees
because of the circumstances at the time,”
Hayden told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“There was the belief that additional
catastrophic attacks against the homeland
were inevitable. And we had limited
knowledge about al-Qaida and its workings.
Those two realities have changed.”
Hayden said Khalid Sheik Mohammed,
Abu Zubayda and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
were waterboarded in 2002 and 2003.
Hayden banned the technique in 2006, but
National Intelligence Director Mike Mc-
Connell told senators during the same
hearing Tuesday that waterboarding remains
in the CIA arsenal - so long as it as
the specific consent of the president and legal
approval of the attorney general.
That prompted Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to
call on the Justice Department to open a
criminal inquiry into whether past use of
waterboarding violated any law. The Pentagon
has banned its employees from using
waterboarding to extract information from
detainees, and FBI Director Robert Mueller
said his investigators do not use coercive
tactics in interviewing terror suspects.
Durbin, already frustrated with Attorney
General Michael Mukasey’s refusal last
week to define waterboarding a form of torture
as critics have, said he would block the
nomination of the Justice Department’s
No. 2 official if the criminal inquiry isn’t
opened.
It was a particularly sharp threat by
Durbin, who represents Illinois - the same
state that U.S. District Judge Mark Filip of
Chicago, the deputy attorney general nominee,
calls home.
“In light of the Justice Department’s continued
non-responsiveness to Congress on
the issue of torture, including your disappointing
testimony on waterboarding last
week, I have reluctantly concluded that
placing a hold on Judge Filip’s nomination
is my only recourse for eliciting timely and
complete responses to important questions
on torture,” Durbin wrote in a letter to
Mukasey on Tuesday.
He added: “A Justice Department investigation
should explore whether waterboarding
was authorized and whether those who
authorized it violated the law.”
Justice Department spokesman Brian
Roehrkasse declined to comment except to
say that the department “is reviewing the
letter carefully.”
The delay in confirming Filip could leave
the Justice Department in leadership limbo
following a year of internal upheaval and
scandal, Mukasey, sworn in as attorney
general in November, has made rebuilding
the department a top priority for the final 11
months of the Bush administration.
2008-02-06 09:13:22

I sure hope some of you pilgrims have asked yourselves, if these senators (they don't deserve a capital S) are so certain that waterboarding should be illegal, why don't they get off their collective dead asses, stand on their hind feet and pass a law making it illegal? They are the legislators -- they write the laws -- President Bush wouldn't veto it.... so why not pass a law --? 'Cause they know damn well even being the majority party, they haven't got the votes to pass the bill!

So instead they pose, scratch their butts and whine; "Everybody knows it should be illegal." Sounds like some spoiled brats to Ole Pecoz.

If you get a chance, why'nt you e-mail your Senator and ask the question and let me know what he/she says?

The British keep their sense of political humor....

...this from the London Times today;

"Anything you can give - I can give bigger!"...

"I can give everything bigger than you!" Paraphrasing that old song kind of sets the tone in Washington these days. President Bush and the House want to provide $159 Billion of our tax dollars in a 'stimulus' package to offset a recession we don't even know is real ... or here!

Now Senate 'leader' (with a small 'l') Dingy Harry Reid is flummoxed because the President and the House refuse to let him and his cronies tack on a mere $45, 000,000,000 of your tax dollars more for their pet projects.... From Townhall:

Reid Plans to Stall Budget Process Until Bush Leaves Office

By Amanda CarpenterTuesday, February 5, 2008
While most national media is focused on today’s Super Tuesday action, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is raging against the Bush administration back in Washington.
“The Bush Administration is Orwellian. Orwellian,” Reid ranted Tuesday morning on the Senate floor.
“The American people know how disingenuous [this administration] has been,” he said. “What has taken place here in the Senate floor today [is] keeping with this – the Bush Situation…. Mr. President, what we have heard today here on the Senate floor is as Orwellian as anything could be. … So, Mr. President, the Orwellian Bush Administration has now slopped over into the Senate, and now the Republican Leader is now becoming Orwellian himself.”
Reid’s anger was focused on the GOP opposition to the add-ons Democrats put on a $159 billion economic stimulus package designed to stave off a recession. The Senate plan is estimated to cost $204 billion and includes extra unemployment benefits, energy subsidies and mortgage assistance. [.....]

If you'll take a minute and re-read Reid's rants, I reckon you gonna have the same wonderment that I have... have a few bricks fallen out of his attic? When one thinks of the soaring rhetoric of the Senate in the past two hundred years, liberal or conservative - this flailing about makes even our Texas Presidents, both Bush and LBJ sound like world class orators! Even scarier..... a majority of the Dem senators elected him to this high office!

Today being Super Tuesday and all ...

.... I reckon a few pilgrims could use a refresher course before they go vote -- so they'll know which primary to vote in -- Republican or Democrat. Here's is a little checklist to help y'all find out which Party's primary you ought to attend:

22 WAYS TO BE A GOOD DEMOCRAT

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by documented cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make "The Passion of the Christ" for financial gain only.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G. Bell.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

16 You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person.

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States .

21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.

22. You have to believe that it's okay to give Federal workers the day off on Christmas Day but it's not okay to say "Merry Christmas."

Okay, you know which Primary to vote in now? Go get 'em!

Deja Vu agin'! Y'all remember when Bubba Clinton used to bite his lower lip...

... and display a little tremble when he felt it might help his purpose. His lowered head, lip biting, teary eyed display in front of the camera at Ron Brown's funeral that disappeared and became a chuckle at an inside joke when the camera's were turned off..! Here we go again --- From the NY Post;

"FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!

By GEOFF EARLE February 5, 2008

- There she goes again.

It was another two-hanky day on the campaign trail yesterday, as Hillary Rodham Clinton

teared up at an event targeting female voters on the eve of the Super Tuesday elections.

After she got a warm introduction from an old friend, Clinton's eyes welled up and glistened under TV camera lights. She paused and gathered her composure.

She didn't choke up - as she did at a similar event on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, a moment that Clinton now says may have helped her snag a critical victory last month by making her appear human and vulnerable.

But there were enough similarities between the two teary instances that skeptics wondered whether the whole thing was contrived.

"Whenever [Barack] Obama picks up steam, she seems to open up the waterworks," said one Democratic operative."

Next thing you know, she's gonna start waggin' her finger at us and tell her that Bubba didn't have sex with that woman -- Monica Lewinsky!! This country is certainly ready for a Lady President --- perhaps overdue -- but hopefully that's what the first Madame President will be.... A LADY! We can wait for that candidate....!

Some say Shrillary doesn't have a vision......

.... oh yes she does!! She has a dream all right!!

Well, today is a big day for many of you....

.... us Texans don't get to cast our primary votes until March 5th. Ole' Pecoz sure hopes you vote "Right" and don't end the Republican nominee race today by crowning 'Shamnesty McCain-Finegold-Kennedy (never can remember what the last part of his hyphenated name is) as the onliest one the Republicans can come up with! Wheee Doggies!