LEE RODGERSPOLL-CATS, PERUSE THIS ...
SPEAK NO ILL OF THE DEAR LEADER ...
ROMNEY AS AN "EXTREME RIGHT WINGER?"
SPEAK NO ILL OF THE DEAR LEADER ...
ROMNEY AS AN "EXTREME RIGHT WINGER?"
As we've noted before in this space, the most important of the many polls that'll be coming out over the next six months are those that ask the simple question, "Is or is not the country going in the right direction; on the right track?" A predominantly negative response is one of the more reliable signs that an incumbent is in serious trouble. And the negative response these days is overwhelming.
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The Marine Corps said it has decided to discharge a sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook. The Corps said Sgt. Gary Stein will be given an other-than-honorable discharge after serving nearly 10 years in the Marine Corps. The discharge will mean he loses all benefits.
Students of history may be uncomfortable recalling that Adolf Hitler required an oath of loyalty to him, personally, by all German Wehrmacht officers and soldiers, as well as civil servants, during his rise to power. Loyalty to the constitution was not enough -- the leader was the priority.
I am not comparing Obama to Hitler, just making reference to a factual historical footnote. And yes, I do take note of the U.S. chain-of-command, even with an anti-military know-nothing unfortunately at the top of that chain.
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No Surprise Department ...
An Obama appointee to the depraved EPA admits that he told the staff of that misbegotten agency that his goal was to "crucify" oil companies.
Just in case you wonder why it costs so much to fill your tank.
Anyone who complains about gasolines prices but voted for Obama is stupid beyond redemption, because they are getting exactly what they supported at the polling place. They had clear warning and chose to ignore it in favor of childish fantasies. You know ... like "Yes We Can" and "We are the ones we have waited for."
Merely remembering that millions were taken in by such sophomoric nonsense should make a sane person cringe.
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Big Government, the important website founded by the late Andrew Breitbart, lays out the latest piece of stupidity by Obama ...
"Alaska contains a wealth of oil both on land, in ANWR, and off shore in its outer continental shelf. But President Obama and the Democrat party are staunchly opposed to allowing us to avail ourselves of it.
"As a result, the price we’re paying per-gallon for gasoline is steadily climbing, and other countries are choosing to go where we won’t for oil. Thus ... oil up near the Arctic will be going to Russia. And the company Russia has hired to do the extraction is none other than Exxon Mobil.
"The largest oil company in America is going to be drilling in waters around the Arctic where they expect to find 85 billion barrels in recoverable oil ... (which) will be sent to Russia. By the way, 85 billion barrels of oil would last for 85,000 days. 85,000 days equals well over 200 years. Yet here we are, listening to Obama telling us the future is one of wind farms, electric cars, and a companies like Solyndra."
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If, as political insider rumor has it, Bill Clinton is counseling Obama that his best hope is to try to paint quintessential moderate Mitt Romney as an extreme right-winger, a cynic might consider the possibility that ol' Billy Jeff is covertly trying to evict the incumbent president, the better to make Hillary a viable candidate in 2016 if Romney fails to bring the country out of the doldrums.
It's the least the Hillbilly Whorehopper could do to repay his wife for years of tolerating his consorting with sluts.
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The TSA airport goon-squad has done it again. Our domestic Gestapo mistreated a seven-year-old mentally handicapped girl with cerebral palsy at JFK Airport in New York. Her father, a pediatrician, videotaped the "security search" which caused the family to miss their flight to Florida.
If Mitt Romney wants to quickly improve is standing with the traveling public, he should make a brief statement that, under a Romney presidency, such idiocy by government flunkies will be not only halted, but punishment meted out.
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The LA Times has more on your friendly airport Gestapo at work ...
"Four current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine, methamphetamine or marijuana passed through X-ray machines at Los Angeles International Airport, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
"The TSA screeners, who were arrested Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, allegedly received up to $2,400 in cash bribes in exchange for allowing large drug shipments to pass through checkpoints in what the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles called a 'significant breakdown' of security."
... and ...
On the TSA agents' body search of a sobbing four-year-old who committed the offense of giving her grandmother a hug at JFK airport ...
"TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child," the agency said.
With bosses like this, no wonder this wretched agency is populated by a bunch of bullying goons. It should be put out of business and everyone associated with it fired -- yesterday.
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Jay Leno --
"It now appears that as many as a dozen members of the Secret Service were involved in that Colombian prostitution scandal. Now six of the agents have been reassigned. The other six are now party planners for the GSA."
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Point to ponder. Would you allow a demonstrably incompetent nincompoop like Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to balance your checkbook?
And to think: Timmy Geithner, the tax-dodging joke who is Obama's Secretary of the Treasury, was once head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the biggest entity in the cartel that controls our money.
With dung-brained morons like these heading the two institutions most responsible for our financial lives, it's no wonder the economy is in the toilet and the dollar becomes worth less with every passing day.
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Charles Hurt of the Washington Times looks for a silver lining in our economic nightmare...
"Well, that’s one way to stem the tide of illegal aliens streaming across the border from Mexico.
"Jack up unemployment rates to near double digits, dunk America into a double-dip recession and put us so deeply into hock with the Chinese communists that it will take generations for us to recover.
"After long enough, living and working and trying to eke out bare survival in America becomes even worse than trying to get by in Mexico."
"A new study from the highly esteemed Pew Hispanic Center says the millions of Mexicans who risked their lives crossing the desert to get here to the promised land for a better life have given up on the U.S."
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Being a simple country lad at heart, I must ask if someone will please explain to me how it is a president who's wrecked the economy, driven us hopelessly into debt, undermined our defense structure, betrayed our friends and knelt before our enemies can possibly be regarded as "cool" or "likeable."
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Reader Jerrold contemplates an updated concept of infinity ...
"If an infinite number of monkeys typed on an infinite number of typewriters (computers) they would produce the Obama birth certificate."
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Wonder if NBC's Jimmy Fallon has chapped lips after spending an evening with them glued to Obama's buttocks?
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A highlight from the trial of former Senator and Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards ...
"'He said that she was ‘a crazy slut,’ and it was a ‘one-in-three chance’ that it was his child,' testified former aide Andrew Young, who had to break the news to Edwards because Hunter couldn’t get in touch with him." -- NY Post.
And to think: there were actually Democrats who wanted this slimy ambulance-chaser to be president.
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Sad news from the business world ...
An electric-car company in China called BYD reports a 90% drop in quarterly profits. Warren Buffett is heavily invested in BYD.
Let us weep together.
BTW ... paid your long-overdue tax bill yet, Warren?
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Tilting at windmills, Don Quixote-style, once again ...
It is never "AN historic" this-or-that, it's "A historic."
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In Scotland there is a town named Dull. Dull has asked for a sister-city relationship with a town in Oregon. Its name is ... Boring.
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It's a growing concern. Alcohol poisoning among teenagers drinking hand-sanitizer to get high. What ever happened to the fine old tradition of giving a street-bum wino a can of beer in exchange for buying a six-pack for teens seeking booze illegally?
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Jimmy Kimmel --
"For the record, I'm very much against global warming. But I'm also very much against doing anything about it."
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A tale of domestic bliss from Mike ...
A woman asks her husband at breakfast time, "Would you like some bacon and eggs, a slice of toast, and maybe some grapefruit juice and coffee?"
He declines. "Thanks for asking, but I'm not hungry right now. It's this Viagra," he says. "It's really taken the edge off my appetite."
At lunchtime, she asked him if he would like something. "How about a bowl of soup, homemade muffins or a cheese sandwich?"
He declines. "The Viagra," he says, "really trashes my desire for food."
Come dinnertime, she asks if he wants anything to eat. "Would you like a juicy rib eye steak and some scrumptious apple pie? Or maybe a rotisserie chicken or tasty stir fry?"
He declines again. "No," he says, "it's got to be the Viagra. I'm still not hungry."
"Well," she says, "Would you mind letting me up? I'm starving."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."