Here we go again.... 'Tis the season...

For denigrating 'Christmas" in our 'winter holiday'! Apparently a small German Village near city hall in Philadelphia sets up each year. It is comprised of small wooden booths that sell Christmas goods and Christmas Trees.

Alas, this year, at the demand of the manager, the silver welcoming sign just reads 'Village', not "Christmas Village". He's had complaints he said.

An ongoing vote (I'll link you) allows folks to vote on this change..... Right now the vote is 5634 (94%) in favor of Christmas Village, 397 (6%) against that name. I reckon they win, but this leaves me with a bigger question than just the name......

If folks are offended by the word, name or thought of Christmas, what in perflunking tarnation would they be hanging around there for anyway? It serves one specific purpose - to provide Christmassy stuff to Chritmassy people in the Christmassy spirit -- for crying out loud!!

How dumb is this world getting?

Click here for Wednesday's update - apparently they are getting the message!

The Insanity continues!!

How was your holiday travel??

Apparently for some it was somewhere on the line between terror and total mortification. Did you know that panty liners and/or tampons are now a cause for total TSA gropings?

I'm gonna link you to a well written article and an even better written e-mail by a female, ex-vet, Thanksgiving traveler who was totally mistreated.

Article and pictures credits here.

Like the author says - "When will this insanity end?"

Robin of Berkeley finally 'get's it!', Bless her heart!

My First Thankful Thanksgiving
By Robin of Berkeley

Thanksgiving was never a favorite holiday of mine. Now that I think about it, I never cared for any of them: 4th of July, Christmas, or Columbus Day (which, by the way, Berkeley long ago renamed "Indigenous People's Day").

If I'm being completely honest here, my main activities during the holidays were ranting and raving. For instance: Why should we celebrate Thanksgiving when the holiday marks the slaughter of Native Americans? Why do these cashiers keep cheerfully extolling me to "have a Merry Christmas!"? And if I hear one more [censored] Christmas song, I will lose my frigging mind.

I too feel blessed, even as I must face the unavoidable sorrows of this transient human life. My health problems flare up; I'm worried but still feel blessed. I live in an insane area and lack community -- and yet, through it all, my gratitude never wavers.

This is because I know what it's like to live with and without God. I know what it's like to search aimlessly for something I lack, not even knowing what it is, and to blindly embrace political leaders because they promise to fill the void. And I know the bliss of finding what I was looking for all along.

Because I live a before-and-after existence, every day feels brand new. Now when I start losing something precious -- which I am doing right now, as a close friend is broadsided by a deadly disease -- I know that something endures even after everything else is gone.

As my cup runneth over this Thanksgiving, my mind drifts to the many guides and mentors I've had along the way. I'm eternally grateful to American Thinker's mensch of an editor, Thomas Lifson, who embraced my writing from that first article two years ago, "Letter of Amends."

By doing so, Thomas opened a window for me into the conservative community -- "My Peeps" -- that I would not have discovered on my own. He gave me the chance to find my way to those readers who, quite frankly, changed my life. I can even recall the exact moment when the spark of the Divine was planted in my consciousness.

I was reading a comment by a reader who wrote the oddest and yet most intriguing thing. He/she wrote, "God is revealing Himself to you." I had no idea what the person was talking about; I had never heard language like this before. And yet because my eyes moistened, I knew that a door to something big and transformative had been opened.

But mostly, as I celebrate my First Thankful Thanksgiving, I feel so blessed that God gave me the opportunity to get my head on straight, even though I am on the cusp of my twilight years. For reasons I will never understand, He gently plucked me up and deposited me with this faithful flock. And given the dark times we live in, He did this just in the nick of time.

But then, three years ago, the bottom fell out of my life. Slowly but surely, it dawned on me that everything I had held as sacrosanct was a lie. I woke up -- and now I behold the world with fresh eyes. Consequently, I am celebrating my First Thankful Thanksgiving. Of course, I was just one of the progressive pack, parroting the party line. Being a Leftist means honing in on every possible injustice. Never-ending gripes and grievances are the glue that keeps progressives cemented together.

Instead of laser-focusing on every unfairness, I am now moved by life's bounty. I finally see my great fortune in being born in this country, in this moment in time. Although I used to lambaste the United States and everything it stood for, I realize that I was like a spoiled child -- ungrateful, mean-spirited.

I was under the delusion that living in another country, any other country, would be better than in the world's oppressor, the U.S. of A. And now that I've actually gotten a clue, I thank my lucky stars that I was not born a woman in Iran, Ethiopia, China -- actually anywhere aside from the United States.

I realize all of this now, but also much, much more. Because not only is this my first Thanksgiving as a patriotic American, but it's my first as a true believer. With my spiritual evolution, my life has come full circle.

So this Thanksgiving, I feel not only grateful, but blessed. I read something evocative in the illuminating book Back to Virtue. The author writes that before a person believes in God, he feels either happy or unhappy. The person will cling to fleeting pleasures, no matter how harmful they may be.

When a person wakes up to the Divine, he's still sometimes happy and other times unhappy. But through all the trials and tribulations of this human realm, he continually feels blessed.

... with the animals dying around us
our lost feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us like the earth
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
we are saying thank you and waving
dark though it is.
(From Listen, by W. S. Merwin)

A frequent American Thinker contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and a licensed psychotherapist in Berkeley. You can contact Robin through her website: www.robinofberkeley.com. She would like to wish her readers a very happy Thanksgiving!

Gloria Allred's Mother?

Y'all know Gloria, the California ambulance chaser that specializes in sexual discrimination lawsuits....... and said the other day on the Sean Hannity show, that she enjoyed the TSA pat-down because it's the first time anybody touched her private parts 'in a long time'.

Like Mother - like Daughter?


Thanks and a Tip O' the Stetson to Billy, an ole' Air Force bud

File this under -- "It can too, get worse!!"

Apparently a bunch of tree huggers in beautiful downtown Alphen aan den Rijn, in the Netherlands have discovered that Wi-Fi radiation is harmful to trees. It gets under their skin, er, bark, er something..

They reached this conclusion after carefully watching twenty trees for three months!! Now then, if somebody will just send them big bucks to continue their studies - they won't have to go out and get real jobs. I mean to tell you Pardners, if some greenies from internationally famous Wageningen U is speaking, everybody stops and listens!!

For those of you who are worried about those twenty ash trees, click here for the rest of the story!

I wonder if Al Gore has a secret Dutch love child that he's never told us about???

Oh Oh! Looks like late nite comics are done giving BO a pass......

Leno: Happy Birthday to Joe Biden. President Obama got him a gag gift. No, not a funny gift. A real gag.

Conan: President Obama scheduled to grant a turkey the traditional pardon on Wednesday. But a spokesman for the turkey now says it doesn’t need a pardon. It needs a job.

Fallon: What is going on these days? George W. Bush writes a 500-page memoir and Obama publishes a kids coloring book.

Leno: Tough decision for President Obama this week: Pardon the turkey or Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel.

Fallon: Today, President Obama is going down to Kokomo, Ind. That makes sense. No one knows better how to get there fast and then take it slow.

Fallon: Experts announce a new plan to slash the federal debt by $6 trillion. All we have to do is switch from regular light bulbs to not having a federal government.

Leno: House Democrats just elected Nancy Pelosi as their minority leader for the new Congress. Why mess with success, right?

Conan: Congressional Democrats push for $12 billion in additional unemployment benefits. They say they can’t turn their backs on those who until two weeks ago were House Democrats.

Leno: Michelle Obama announces her plan to install 6,000 salad bars at schools across the nation. They expect as many as three students to use them.

Fallon: President Obama over in Portugal last week pointed out to his hosts that his dog, Bo, is a Portuguese Water Dog. Yeah, that’s a good way to make friends: ‘Hey, you know who’s just like you people? My DOG.’

Leno: A rough week for President Obama. He’s gotta pardon a turkey, deal with a lame duck Congress, eat crow and China flipped him the bird over currency.

Letterman: In these times you know you’re having a bad day when your body scan at the airport gets the guards laughing.

Fallon: New plan out to cover $6 trillion of the nation’s debt. First, look at all the spending for the past five years. Then, ask China for $6 trillion more.

For more of HotAir, click here.

Do y'all remember this question and answer just two months ago...

at one of Obamanation's structured 'town meetings'? He was hit with a little honest concern and wasn't prepared for it............

Well, bless her heart -- despite being stimulated by Hisself, just two months later she has just been laid off from her job as Chief Financial Officer for AmVets. Two kids in school, one about to go to college, a mortgage -- and slam bam -- welcome to our world!

Don't get me wrong - I'm not knocking her or her brave question -- I am knocking an administration that claims to be pulling this country out of a ditch at the same time it's driving it over a flaming deficit cliff as deep as the grand canyon!!

Go here for more of the story.

Didn't take long for a Country & Western singer to honor the TSA agency...

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Thanks a tip O' the Stetson to old Air Force Bud, Dave up in Laurel MD.

He did it first!!!!

I note that once again, the Sage of Omaha, multi-billionaire Warren Buffett, has taken to the airways to rerun his same old, same old sage advice, In an interview with ABC's Chris Amanpour he repeated his mantra once again.... Rich Americans aren't pay enough taxes and should be paying more!

So much to say -- so little space!!!

I'm not gonna belabor the question, but will ask out loud the same question I pose every time he makes this statement: How many millions or billions of dollars did you add to your income tax return check this year that wasn't required? If the gob'mint is so damned efficient, why are you working to give all your money to charities instead of turning it over to the US Treasury?

I think I know the answer to both questions --- and so do you! As do you good readers as well!

For more, click here.

After watching all the horror stories occuring in airports across the country....

... an old standard by Barbwa Striesland came to mind. So if you'll hum along to her top ten hit, "People", you may find some truth in this parody!

Barbwa’s Old Refrain Updated…..

Sheeple,
Sheeple are just people
Are the least citizens of the world
Were grown-ups just like other grown-ups
And then started giving up their pride
Hide all their fears inside
Acting more Sheeple than people
Trav’lers
Are truly put-on Sheeple
They are the most exposed people in the world
With one agent
One Transport Service Agent
Reaching deeply in their groin
Once they were private now they are not
No more modesty as first
But first a people who became a Sheeple
Are the least citizens of the world

With one agent
One Transport Service Agent
Reaching deeply in their groin
Once they were private now they are not
No more modesty as first
But first a people who became a Sheeple
Are the least citizens of the world


Pecozbill - 2010
With apologies to none and credit to fewer….

I see the Transportation Security Agency has redesigned their logo... truth in logos..... I guess

'Keep your hands off my junk!"

$4,6 Billion sounds like chump change........

...the way the Feds have been spending money by the trillion$ of dollars these last two years...... but a that figure still has a lot of zeros after it: $4.600,000,000 to be exact.

This is the amount of 'Other Peoples Money" (read TAXPAYERS) that the Senate has just approved to settle class action lawsuits brought by ambulance chasers on behalf of black farmers allegedly discriminated against by the USDA..... hmm, don't I recall a recent employee of that department who was just fired and whose husband is gonna get a big chuck of that alleged money. Up to $250,000 per black farmer in the class (plus debt relief of course).

$3,400,000,000 more American tax dollars will be given to some native American indian decendents of folks who were 'cheated out of land royalties dating to 1887. They also claim tat royalties for grazing rights and minieral extraction was mismanaged. That works out to about $11,000 per Indian in this class suit.

Oooops, the news story doesn't say how much the lawyers are gonna take off the top of all these tax dollars for their expenses and efforts... Maybe they took the cases pro bono...... nah I don't think so.

With this precedent - it would seem like a hundred million American Citizens ought to be able to form a class and sue the gob'mint for misappropriating and mismanaging the Social Security deposits since the '30s. And how about those millions of auto drivers that have been paying federal taxes on every gallon that was 'earmarked' for highway construction and maintenance>

Well, shucks, if we won, I guess we would be re-living Pogo's concept - "We have met the enemy - and he is us!"

Who'd pay for our win? Aye - there's the rub...........

Now, Pilgrims, let me leave you with this scary thought --- for years now, certain single interest money grubbing groups have been pushing for 'reparation damages' (read billions of our tax dollars) for the evil of slavery 200 years ago. With these law suits settled up above, can't you just see the salivating lips of those greedy folks purporting to represent the 20,000,000 Americans who are at least 1/16th part the decedent of a slave.

As Elmer Fudd used to say, "Be afwaid, be vewy afwaid!"

I promised myself I was gonna stay off Obamantion fer a while......

But this Richard Oliver Cartoon depicting how BO would stand out in any of several 'profiling systems was just too good to pass up!

Forward to the past......

Dear Readers,

I am probably the last guy on the Internet to re-discover GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly) thru it's E-Zine on the Internet. The GQ Magazine of my youth being of course, a glossy men's style magazine that used to lay around Japanese tailor shops and the occasional coffee table.. Kind of a men's Cosmos..... er something.

Over the years, I would espy an article or a quote -- purporting that GQ had evolved into more than pictures of suits that: A. I could never afford, and, B. That I could never wear like their male models do. Suffering the same kind of self-hate that I suppose women suffer when picking up Vogue or Vague or whatever..

However I recently tip toed thru some links to a couple of GQ articles and viola!, it has grown in content, structure - and broads.

It takes about 3 nano-seconds to determine it's political bent. But like most conservatives, I have learned to live with that in our 'lamestream media'.

I can usually thumb thru the E-zines of Newsweek, Time, etc in mere minutes, but checking into GQ I find, can absorb me for a period of time.....

I'd link you to it here - but if you can't find "GQ.com", you probably wouldn't enjoy it anyway!

Pecozbill

p.s. or BTW, their clothes are still priced way above my pay grade.....

Jerry Holbert's cartoon nails Homeland Security's Education Requirements

Hmmm, about that XXVI Amendment......

The XXVI (26th) Amendment to the Constitution granting the right to vote to any American citizen 18 years or older, was ratified in 1971.

If you recall, this was in the heat of the Vietnam War, the poster years for all that was wrong with the Selective Service System -- Draft!

The cry across the land became: If they are old enough to be drafted and sent into battle, and if they are old enough to be able to drink legally --- then surely they are old enough and experienced enough to vote intelligently and responsibly.

Y'all remember those arguments back and forth?

Well now, it's 2010, there is no Draft, nobody is being sent involuntarily to war. The legal drinking age has been raised to 21 years of age in all fifty States.....

Using the same arguments that brought about the 26th Amendment, couldn't it be reasonably argued that it should be repealed and the minimum voting age ought to be returned to 21???


Under the heading 'What goes around', I note that since 2007, there has been an argument made for lowering the drinking age to 18! Why? Because if 'you are old enough to vote and go to war --etc... Arghhh!

With all of this TSA screening bullshite going on....

I thought maybe y'all would like to see how Israel, a small country surrounded by a billion Muslims that loudly shout that they want to destroy them, has managed to survive without a plane bombing or high jack........ First a short video:

Guess what? They "PROFILE" - they target for inspection, those passengers who present the greatest risk! Not Aunt Maude, or little three year old Suzie..... how original is that thinking?

I'll bet that if you are a nervous looking Arab nervous fellow, flying from Tehran, using cash, buying a one way ticket, they'll want to look inside your turban or up your burkha. What do you think?

Iowahawk does parody!!

Comply With Me*

(With deepest apologies to Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen & Frank Sinatra)

Comply with me, before you fly away
Remove those shoes and take a cruise
Through my peekaboo X-ray
Comply with me, I'm your friendly TSA

Comply with me, you domestic coach class bums
If you opt out I'll just give a shout
To my icy-handed chums
Comply with me, bend over here it comes

Once I get all up there where your hair is ticklish
I'll just fish
Got my wish
Once I get all up there you'll be squirming like an eel
You may squeal
At the feel
When we're together

Proctology is such a lovely trade
I'll show you love with my rubber glove
Try not to be afraid
I'd be a perfect gentleman, if you had just obeyed
Comply with me, I'm GS8 pay grade

Janet Napolitano says to spread 'em wide
Have you tried Astro-glide?
Janet Napolitano knows your clothes are off
Head aloft
Turn it and cough
When we're together

Don't crack wise or I'll ruin your whole day
Please don't frown when I pat you down
It alerts the CIA
It's perfectly legal practice except at Gitmo Bay
Comply with me, comply comply
Comply with me, obey, obey, obey!

Check out the security risks on that one! Yeah!

*Iowahawk reminds you: song parodies are the lowest form of humor

If you haven't taken the opportunity to read the conservative wit and wisdom of Iowahawk, you really ought to check in on him every now and then.....

I took a couple of days off, Gang....

....with the mid-term elections over, Obamation busy trying to screw up other nations around the world for a change --- I figgered it was safe! I think I'll let my political bent take a rest for a couple more days..... and try to think of some lighter topics. Here is a clever but true list I came across on Silverbacks (adults only) site. I'm sure they won't mind if I share......

I've highlighted a couple of my favorites!

Truths For Mature Humans

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How in the world are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? 6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

9. Bad decisions make good stories.

10. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

11. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

12. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.

13. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

14. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

15. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

16. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?

17. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

18. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

19. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

20. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds,eyes closed, first time, every time!

21. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.

The Real Rambo ! A Veteran's Day offering....

Rest In Peace, Colonel - and Thank you for your service!!!!

The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month

Veterans Day


She sat slumped over the kitchen table
The crumpled letter in her hand
It was written by her husband, serving
In a far off foreign land
He wrote of battles fought and won
The bravery of his men
How yesterday they had shot and cooked
Some scrawny desert hen
His dreams and hopes of returning soon
And plans to settle down
After twenty-six years of army moves
Like gypsies, town-to-town

She looked up and across the table
At the major standing there
All dressed up in his army greens
Refusing to take a chair
She heard the words he shared with her
Those her mind would not accept
If she let those words get through as truth
She would have broken down and wept
No, she had his letter here in her hand
He promised to be home soon
After twenty years of deployed delays
They would have their honeymoon

The ugly irony of it hit her then
And her face turned ashen gray
For today was November Eleventh
America’s “Veteran’s Day”

Nov 2006

(Pecozbill)

I never heard of a 'Demplosion' before.....

But here's what the one looked like last Tuesday, and it only takes 10 Seconds to demonstrate!

Thanks and a Tip O' the Stetson to my pal Al of MD.... (Sorry about the ad overlap.. can't be helped in this format)

Just in case you missed it...........

Yesterday, Tuesday = at 2:15 PM, White House posted schedule:

The Vice President meets with Earl Devaney, Chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board

The reason you might have missed it: the next two words are 'Closed Press'

Oh, and just in case you might have missed the meeting between Joltin' Joe (VEEP) and incoming House Oversight Committee Chair, Darrell Issa - about 'transparency'..... Bite Me postponed it.

Do you reckon the White House isn't too concerned about 'transparency'.... Nah! Not after last weeks elections .......couldn't be..... could it?

Todays 'Oxymoron': "Jihad Justice"

"In a town hall with students at St. Xavier College in Mumbai, India, on Sunday, Obama responded to a question about his views of jihad by saying that the term has a lot of meanings within Islam, but the overwhelming majority of the more than 1 billion Muslims in the world see their religion as one that reaffirms "peace and justice and fairness and tolerance."

Hold that thought Pilgrims, and now read today's London Telegraph Headline story;

Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan 'for blasphemy'

A Christian woman has been sentenced to hang after being convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed.

Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routing harassment and discrimination.

Color me confused, Pardners. but some how I just can't get my arms around what the POTUS (or his TOTUS) said on Monday about the"peace and justice and fairness and tolerance." - with what the Telegraph reports on Tuesday as to the actions of the Pakistan courts.

Please take this item with a grain of salt......

Nanny Gob'mint Mayor of New York City strikes again -- I'll get to the point later...

No soup for you! Mike targets salt sellers

By SALLY GOLDENBERG November 9, 2010

Mayor Bloomberg's latest health campaign -- cutting salt intake -- has targeted soup as one of the big sodium offenders to be taken down with new city ads.

The ads, which will be plastered on subways for the next two months, feature a half-opened can of soup with a geyser of salt spewing from the top and forming a heap around the can.

Trying to put fear into the hearts of salt-aholics, the ads will warn that excessive sodium "can lead to heart attack and stroke" and list average amounts of salt in various foods, such as salad dressing and frozen pizza.

An admitted fan of dumping salt on his own food, Bloomberg said the biggest culprits behind high-salt diets are the food processors that include copious amounts of sodium in canned soup and other prepared foods.

The posters irked soup giant Campbell's, which said they are "not an accurate representation of the company's soup portfolio," spokeswoman Juli Mandel Sloves said.

"Campbell is an acknowledged leader in sodium reduction. We have been reducing sodium across our portfolio for decades," Sloves added.

The campaign costs $370,000 -- $130,000 of which comes from city taxpayers. The rest is covered by the federal government, a city Department of Health spokeswoman said.

Not only does Nanny Bloomberg want you to to "to do what he says, not what he does", but he adds insult to injury by spending your hard earned tax dollars to make his point.

Not his -- not his fellow tree huggers --- but yours!

And the worst insult of all is in that last sentence - $130,000 of New Yorkers tax money for the campaign --- but $240,000 more of fed's money --- guess what - the Fed's don't have any money Pilgrims --- that's your tax money as well. The federal government has no money to cover a local or national campaign --- that's OUR money!

Whee Doggies..... it's a crying shame!

Not just another pretty picture......

This missile launch, off the coast of California just West of Los Angeles.. occurred last evening about 5 PM CST.

The bad news is that neither Homeland Security, nor the Pentagon have a clue as to who launched it! I'm sure it will come out eventually, but if this don't scare the bejesus out of you, I don't know what will.

They take nude pictures of your Aunt Sara in the airports, and 'cop a feel' of your eight your old niece to make sure she's not carrying a weapon of mass destruction -- but they are clueless when a missile is launched just 35 miles of our shore!!!

About time, somebody with brains started running this lash-up. here is a link to the longer story.

They may identify it in a day or a week, but in my retired military mind, anything over 15 seconds ------- IS TOO DAMNED LATE!!!!!!

For the Grand Old Party, the news just keeps getting better....

First they roll over the House elections like a herd of Elephants (not RINO's thank you very much), then they weaken the Dim's majority position in the Senate! And that was just Tuesday!

Then on Friday, Botox Nancy announces that she is going to fight for the Minority Leader's job! Oh Joy! Two more years of the Poster Gal for political enmity in front of the CSPAN and media cameras. That will sure keep the public's attention focused and unfailing!

Now on Monday this week, Alec Baldwin, the Father of the Year, Dim poster boy for parenting and civil intercourse, announces that he will run for a Long Island Congressional seat next term if a Republican is holding it......

"America’s favorite fictional mogul could be looking to move his office from 30 Rock to Capitol Hill, MSNBC reported today.

The network is quoting sources close to actor Alec Baldwin as saying the actor intends to challenge Randy Altschuler of New York for Congress in two years if the Republican candidate ends up winning the House seat currently occupied by Rep. Tim Bishop, D-N.Y. The Altschuler-Bishop race is one of a handful still deemed too close to call; the most recent count shows Bishop, a four-term incumbent, trailing by less than 400 votes.

Baldwin is no stranger to politics. He has been both criticized and acclaimed for his outspoken support of the Democratic Party (he donated $2,000 to Bishop’s campaign this year), and in an interview with CNN last year, revealed his interest in running for public office.

“The desire is there; that’s one component,” he said. “The other component is opportunity.”

Pity the poor citizens of Long Island who will be subjected to thousands of voice commercials of this lout screaming epithets at his daughter's telephone!

Can it get any better than this? Maybe so.... stay tuned folks, the Fat Lady might have a second chorus in 2012!!!

New York Post Editorial deserves full re-print!

Normally, I just excerpt from good reports and then link you to them, but I think in this instance the NY Post will forgive me if, in an effort to preserve it's message, I reprint their current editorial:

Judgment of jackals

November 7, 2010

The United States got a grilling last week at the UN Human Rights Council, where its unmatched accomplishments went on trial before a jury of killers, er, peers.

You see, in the upside-down world of the UN, countries like China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are recognized as de fenders of human rights -- holding coveted seats on the council.

President Bush refused to join this farce, but the Obama gang naturally jumped right on board.

So on Friday our nation faced its Periodic Universal Review, where UN officials, enemy states and left-wing activists offer a public indictment of America.

Among the violations they've outlined:

* Covert CIA operations.

* Cops with Tasers.

* America's federalist system.

* The decades-long economic embargo of Cuba.

* Gun-control laws, as in the lack thereof.

* The continuing imprisonment of confessed cop-killer Mumia abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook).

* And, of course, that hardy perennial, the infamous detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

In particular, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela joined together to bash Washington for its alleged abuses -- an amusing case of inmates in charge of the asylum.

Not so funny is the fact that the Obama administration is taking their indictments quite seriously.

One top State Department official responded: "While we are proud of our achievements, we are not satisfied with the status quo."

What?

Free Mumia? Close Gitmo?

Strip the cops of non-lethal weapons?

Is that what the department is saying?

To be sure, loose words come easy to O & Co. Remember when an administration official apologized to China for Arizona's "troubling" immigration law?

But there is nothing to be gained from civil discourse with the likes of Tehran, Beijing and Caracas.

It's past time to quit the UN Human Rights Council.

(Click here for NY Post link)

Frankly, I'd take that last line and rewrite it -- it's time to look around the poker table and decide if we want to stay in this loser's game. As is often pointed out to us evil Yanks, we represent only 6% of the worlds population. Yet we fund a full 22% of the UN's operating budget...... not to mention playing world host to these world class bullies and brothers-in-laws of bullies.

How about a 12 month eviction notice - let them move their headquarters to Switzerland, or outer Mongolia. Originally created to prevent world war III, they have proven inept at best and totally corrupt and rapacious at worst..

In the words they like to shout in New York City, "THROW THE BUMS OUT!"

Ft Hood,... remembered by all but the POTUS!

This last week marked the 1st Anniversary of the murder and mayhem perpetrated at a Ft Hood transient building last year. I am going to link you to a very well written and poignant article in the Dallas Morning News regarding the ceremony conducted there...........

BUT before I do, I'd like to remind you that of all the declarations, formal and informal, that automatically spew out of the White House each week --- this weeks included Veterans Day Declarations and Military Family Month announcements for example...

Not one word, verbal or in writing has been expressed by His Obamanation regarding this insane incident.... perpetrated by an admitted SOA (SOLDIER OF ALLAH) disguised in the uniform of a US Army Major.....

Why is that do you reckon??

Instead, BO and his TOTUS have traveled to India to lend moral support and help them remember their victims of the terrorist attack on 26/11 --- although he hasn't convinced the Indians of his sincerity either.

Why is that do you reckon???

Click here to read the Dallas News Article.

Coming soon -- to a health provider near you

Athens Greece: Belt-Tightening Greeks:

In October, Greece's largest health insurance provider announced, in a letter to a diabetes foundation, that it would no longer pay for the special footwear that diabetics need for reducing pain but suggested it would pay instead for amputation, which is less expensive.

The decision, which the foundation said is not supported by the international scientific literature, was published in the prominent Athens newspaper To Vima (The Tribune) and reported by the U.S. news site DailyCaller.com. [Daily Caller, 10-11-10]

Ramirez heard her all the way from her election day hide-away in Rangoon!!!!

Coming soon, to a country near you -- USA!

This is beyond political correctness..... it's national insanity!

Friday five men in Yorkshire England, were convicted of sexually attacking and abusing a number of girls over a period of several months, some as young as 12 years old.........

The headline in today's London Daily Mail reads:

"Sexual predators': Gang of Asian men weep as they are jailed for total of 32 years for abusing white girls as young as 12

That, Pilgrims, is the exact headline. Now then reading the article one would expect to find names like Wong Lee, Song Kim, even Pol Pot..... but no...... here are the names of these child predators...

Mohsin Khan age 21
Razwan Razaq age 30
Umar Razaq age 24
Safran Ramzan age 21
Adil Hussain age 20

What's that you say, those don't sound like Asian names? You'd be right..... way down in the story it is mentioned that they are all British-born Pakistanis.

Now go back and read that headline again --- Asian my ass!! I guess Asians aren't a protected class like the Islamists and Arabs are in Europe........ and coming to a country near you!!!

Click here to see their smiling 'Asian' faces and the rest of the article!!!

You must comprimise!!!

That's the hollow call coming from the hills to the left, the liberal rags and blogs, that's the advice from Obamanation to the GOP! Two years ago, all this ole' boy heard was, "We won, you lost - get over it!!". "There's a new sheriff in town!" "Go to the back of the bus!"

Now, the people have spoken!! Look at that map to the right, with the exception of the failed (or failing) states in blue, the country has turned RED!! And this is just the House of Representatives. Add in the GOP Senators and see the red spread!

Marching orders were received - stop the spending - stop the federalism growth - stop interfering with our health care and our daily lives. Correct the economy, get out of private enterprise's way and let businesses create jobs..

Any yet the Libs still don't 'get it'! I sure hope the Republicans that were elected, and the Republicans that they are joining inside the Beltway -- do 'get it'!!

The elections are over for two years......

.... the smoke has cleared. The decimation among Dems in both houses becomes apparent. And then the chorus of cries from the walking dead and wounded start to echo over the landscape.... 'Where was Rahm?" "Where was Emanuel?"

After being prodded by Obamanation and his hatchet man, Rahm Emanuel for two years -- to engineer a steam engine that would crash through any public outcry, any mere citizenry shouts of 'NO'......... The polls opened, millions of voters went into the voting booths -- voiced their opinion..... and threw the rascals out.

But Rahm.... he was a thousand miles away - seeking his new fortune in the Windy City! Abandoning all those unfortunate wretches that carried his water in the Congress.

Let 'em get jobs, he extolled. I'm going to find my new one before the true size of this debacle is appreciated......... and certainly before the "One" gets tossed out on his keister to join them in two short years. We all know that the job of Mayor of Chicago is a life time appointment!!

If you'd like to read a little less poetic summary of Emanuel's disappearance and how the Dems feel, Click here.

Echoing across the fruited plains???????

Iowans dismiss three justices

Three Iowa Supreme Court justices lost their seats Tuesday in a historic upset fueled by their 2009 decision that allowed same-sex couples to marry.

Vote totals from 96 percent of Iowa's 1,774 precincts showed Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Justices David Baker and Michael Streit with less than the simple majority needed to stay on the bench.

Their removal marked the first time an Iowa Supreme Court justice has not been retained since 1962, when the merit selection and retention system for judges was adopted.

The decision is expected to echo to courts throughout the country, as conservative activists had hoped.

"It appears we're headed for a resounding victory tonight and a historic moment in the state of Iowa," said Bob Vander Plaats, the Sioux City businessman who led a campaign to remove the justices because of the 2009 gay marriage ruling. "The people of Iowa stood up in record numbers and sent a message ... that it is 'We the people,' not 'We the courts.' "

For full article, click here

Y'all are probably as tired of talking politics as I am....

.... so I am not going to repeat what a zillion other blogs are saying today --

I have spent the morning looking hither and yon for the story behind the stories... A few of my random thoughts: Did anybody notice that BO's Senate seat, which he held all those (both) years, went to a (gasp) Republican. California and New York --(sea to shining sea?) now have gone completely 'Blue'.Governor, Legislative bodies, and both Senators. I have mixed emotions about that circumstance - because I although I feel their good citizens deserve what they sew, I 'spect a few of us Red states are gonna be gaining even more transplants of people, jobs, traffic and population woes as many now will vote with their feet. I note that the evil racist Tea Partying Republicans just added several Hispanic, Indian, Black, Asian and other ethnic minorities to their rising stars list. And finally (for now), why are these results described as the votes of 'angry Americans' and the 2008 results described as the votes of good Americans concerned about their country and looking for hope and change......? just wondrin' out loud..... Oh and final finally, it took some digging, but I noted that Pete Stark, that arrogant Dem from California's 13th district who told a constituent at a town hall meeting that he wouldn't pee down his leg 'cause he wouldn't waste his urine (national TV) was reelected by a 3 to 1 margin. Says a lot about those folks............

Hopefully, we who laugh last...........laugh best!!!!

(Thanks and a Tip O' the Stetson to my AF bud, Al - up in Illinois)

"I can see Alaska from my PC Chair - and I like the view!"

Like many others, I have been watching the political antics up in Alaska, as EX Senator Murkowski (daughter of EX Senator Murkowski) fights to keep her seat in the US Senate!

Her own party turned her away in the primaries, she was then spurned by the Libertarians, and finally was forced to run as a 'Write in". Falling in the polls, she found a friendly judge that ruled that any voter who asked how to spell her name would be give a 'printed list of write in candidates". Is this voting booth electioneering..........or what?

So an Anchorage radio talk show host who felt that this was totally illegal -- encouraged folks to run, not walk, and sign up as a write in candidate. Murkowski responded the way all such political bullies do, she sicced her Washington ambulance chasers on the radio station and got Dan Fagan, the talk show host, summarily pulled off the air. Not fired mind you, just pulled off the air until after the 'free election'!

There is no good news in this story -- it's a sad reflection on American politics -- but I'd be lying if I didn't say that I am plumb tickled to announce that today when a voter in the election booth asks for a list of the write-in candidates, he/she will be hand an EIGHT PAGE DOCUMENT with more than 100 names will be handed to them for their cheat sheet!

Sometimes things do work out --- I only hope those great proud Alaskans turn their votes into the wooden stake necessary to end this walking dead candidate.

May she join all the other dead RINO's in the bone pile at the feet of Wussy the Moderate!!!