LEE RODGERSMITT'S MOMENTUM, SANTORUM SINKING ...
TRAYVON A TOOL FOR THE GUN-GRABBERS ...
"UNPRECEDENTED" FOOLISHNESS FROM OBAMA
TRAYVON A TOOL FOR THE GUN-GRABBERS ...
"UNPRECEDENTED" FOOLISHNESS FROM OBAMA
A clean sweep for Romney in all three of yesterday's primaries. Rick, give it up; you're embarrassing yourself.
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The gun-grabbing demagogues of the left are using the Trayvon Martin case to try -- yet again -- to undermine firearm ownership rights. To cut thru the fog of deceit, let's be clear: The Florida law simply says that “a person is justified in the use of deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.”
Ask yourself if it really makes sense to deprive people of that legal right. Notice that the highest-ranking liberals who want to do so -- Obama, Clinton, et al -- are people who go everywhere protected by bodyguards who DO have guns.
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The Wall Street Journal has an editorial response to Obama's remarks about an overturn of his socialized medicine legislation as being "unprecedented" ...
"The Supreme Court has invalidated part or all of countless laws on grounds that they violated the Constitution. All of those laws were passed by a 'democratically elected' legislature of some kind.
"Mr. Obama's remarks suggest he is joining others on the left in warning the Justices that they will pay a political price if they dare to overturn even part of the law. As he runs for re-election, Mr. Obama's inner community organizer seems to be winning out over the law professor."
(Footnote: he was never a professor, only a lecturer.)
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Thomas Sowell adds his voice (Townhall.com) to the chorus of rational people who are contemptuous of Obama and his statement about "unprecedented" action by the Supreme Court if they overturn his socialized medical plan. In fact, the court has been overturning unconstitutional laws passed by Congress for over 200 years ...
"On this and on many other issues, you would have to know what the facts are to know that he is lying. He is obviously counting on the fact that, in this era of dumbed-down education, many people have no clue as to what the facts are.
"He is also counting on something else -- namely, that the pro-Obama media will not expose his lies."
"It would be hard to become nostalgic about Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign in disgrace. But at least you could tell when he was lying. Obama's lies are just as big but not as visible, and the media that exposed Nixon is covering for Obama."
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My astute friend Richard (not Nixon) offers this ...
"With all of Obama's critical remarks about what the Supreme Court may say and the repercussions to them if they decide one way or the other on the ObamaCare legislation I think something needs to be said. I would like to see someone raise this point. How can we expect perfection from legislators content to vote on a very important issue before having read that law? Screecher Pelosi is on record as saying 'we can read it AFTER we vote on it.'
"I'd like to see a new Congressional majority issue articles of impeachment against Obama. if he ignores the Supreme Court. I'd take Joe Biden in a second over Obama. I don't think Joe could start a drunken brawl inside a brewery if he tried. That ineptness could work to our advantage."
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Re Obama's now-continual claims that he has expanded oil production: Again, he's a liar. The evidence to the contrary is abundant.
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Just how much more of this ... male bovine excrement ... about "alternative energy" are Americans supposed to tolerate from the fool in the White House? Another of his idiotic pet projects has just bitten the dust. An outfit called Solar Trust for America, based in California, got $2.1 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the Department of Energy. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, serious competitor for "Dumbest Cabinet Member" called it "the largest amount ever offered to a solar project." Now it's bankrupt. Another stupid Obama scheme down the drain, taking taxpayer dollars with it.
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Know any suckers who still believe "wind energy" is the answer? Show them the report from the Reno Gazette-Journal revealing that one turbine that cost the city $21,000 to install saved the city $4 on its energy bill. Overall, $416,000 worth of turbines have netted the city $2,800 in energy savings.
And this kind of nonsense is the Obama answer to the need for "alternative" sources.
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Just for the record, here's what the Big Screwup in the White House has done to our relations with major (and nearby) oil source, Canada. By killing the pipeline project, he's not only caused our neighbor to the north to sell much of its oil to China, henceforth the price we pay for Canada's oil will be higher. The "good neighbor" discount we've gotten in the past ... gone, thanks to Obama.
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Wes Pruden of the Washington Times has an explanation of what Russia's Vladimir Putin expects from Obama's
"flexibility" ...
"The concession Vladimir Putin really wants – the concession that President Obama thinks must wait until after the November election – is the dismantling of the (U.S.) nuclear missile shield."
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Chas. Gasparino of Fox Business Network explains why businesspeople are disillusioned with Obama ...
"This president, with his years in academia and community organizing, has a thin (resume) when it comes to the economy, and the people who advise him on economic matters aren’t much better.
"As one top business executive who deals with Obama’s economic team put it recently: 'As far as the people who work for the president, dealing with his economic team is like dealing with college students. Their level of naivete is off the charts.'"
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Today's recommended reading ... The American Thinker website ... "Musings of a College Instructor" ... by Eileen Toplansky ... from which comes this student submission on "Green Power" in California. Good luck trying to decipher it ...
"Why don't I agree with their reason well yes they are in debit and therefore there is a need in saving money but there is other ways. For insists in this solar panel really saving money or it just bring down the coast of utilities bills? Well in the reading "In order to start this solar panel system we need land and not just feet but acres according to California's law that was now mandated 78,490 acres was needed" Now think about it is it free? What was on the land before? Will this really save us from the economical crisis or will it just cause a economical downfall?
"[The author] asserts that the places where the solar panel generators were being put on not just in empty space but are being put on "farms, parks and etc". So indeed it is not only bringing our bills lower but bringing up a cost for these generators. Why should we destroy agriculture and farms were most of our veggies and fruits grow just because the state mandates. Isn't it still bringing the economy to spend money because of the acres being bought?"
Your taxpayer dollars at work in America's "higher education" system ...
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Media note ...
Sarah Palin on "Today" beat Katie Couric on "Good Morning, America" by more than a half-million viewers.
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Distressing news from Florida, where a hooker offered to have sex with an undercover detective in exchange for two McDonald's cheeseburgers. Sad.
Now, if it'd been Wendy's ...
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Booth R. Myers, PhD, physicist, has worked out a plan for Sandra Fluke, the 30-year-old Georgetown U. student who's concerned about not getting free birth control ...
"Ms. Fluke's expense account for birth control (aka sexual entertainment) was claimed to be $3000 for three years at law school. Let's presume that as an educated woman she wants to be doubly safe and uses both birth control pills to prevent pregnancy and condoms to prevent STD (sexually transmitted disease). Using the Wal-Mart cost for birth control pills of $9 per month, her birth control pills will cost her $324 for her entire law school career. This leaves only $2676 for her condoms.
"I went to Amazon.com, and found quality condoms available for 33 cents each in packages of 60 condoms each. Since she has $2676 for her 33 cent condoms, she will be buying 8109 condoms during her law school "career"and would have sex 7 times a day. This number presumes that she has sex ten times a day on Sundays when she has more free time.
"Having worked through these numbers, I have some suggestions for Ms. Fluke to help her work through her crisis:
1. Find dates who are gentlemanly enough to either provide their own condoms, or at least split the cost with her.
2. Spend more time studying. Even seven "quickies" a day will seriously cut into quality study time.
3. Seek funding from the EPA from one of their Wetlands Protection programs."
Just trying to help out a starving student. By the way, the average starting salary of new Georgetown Law School graduates is $160,000 a year, FYI."
-- (Thanks, Dan) --
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Baseball season is upon us. Love the game, but the old 154-game season was plenty long enough. Wake me in September when it gets interesting.
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A final footnote to the NCAA men's final ...
As a sports fan, I've many times heard the national anthem mangled by alleged "singers". NASCAR is the worst offender. But never have I heard such a wretched performance as was inflicted upon the audience Monday night.
Before the Baylor blowout of Notre Dame in the women's finale in Denver last night they had a much better performance by the Air Force Academy chorus.
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The crime report ...
Cattle rustling in the Old West ain't what it used to be.
New Mexico cops busted three guys who had grabbed a 220-pound calf off a ranch and stuffed it into the back seat of a Honda Civic.
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When I included Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Wales, in yesterday's list of towns with funny names, Len the haiku-man immortalized it thusly according to the rules of the art form: first line five syllables, second line seven, then five again ...
Llanfairpwllgwyn
gyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllan
tysiliogogogoch, Wales.
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“When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.” -- quoted by Cindy Adams, NY Post.
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Jimmy Kimmel --
"The Mega Millions jackpot added up to a record $656 million. Three people correctly picked all six numbers. Now the plan is to throw them into a pit of some kind and have them fight to the death.
The winning tickets were sold in Illinois, Kansas, and Maryland. All we know is their first names are Khloe, Kourtney, and Kim."
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Dr. Bud reminds us ... what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive ...
"DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER DEATH?" THE BOSS ASKED ONE OF HIS EMPLOYEES.
"YES, SIR," THE NEW EMPLOYEE REPLIED.
"WELL, THEN, THAT MAKES EVERYTHING JUST FINE," THE BOSS WENT ON. "AFTER YOU LEFT EARLY YESTERDAY TO GO TO YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL, SHE STOPPED IN TO SEE YOU."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."