LEE RODGERSVEEP PROSPECTS LIMITED ...
EPA'S FIXATION ON CRUCIFIXION ...
ISRAELI JEWS VS. U.S. JEWS ON OBAMA
EPA'S FIXATION ON CRUCIFIXION ...
ISRAELI JEWS VS. U.S. JEWS ON OBAMA
Footnote to the NFL draft ...
It's official. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has now been embraced by more black guys than any of the Kardashian sisters.
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Only rarely can it be said that a vice-presidential choice determines the outcome of an election. Now that the Republican nomination is virtually settled, more attention will be given to the choice of a Romney running-mate.
In an ideal world, the selection would be dictated by the answer to one question: "Who is best qualified to assume the presidency?"
However, in the real world, the question is, "Who would likely bring vital votes in a close race?"
That likely narrows the field abruptly to Senators Rob Portman of Ohio and Marco Rubio of Florida. Both states are essential to Republican success.
So far as is known, Romney holds no ill will toward either man. Even if he did, political expediency would likely outweigh any other considerations. It might be recalled that John Kennedy despised Lyndon Johnson, but he needed the Texas votes that LBJ would -- and did -- bring to the election. Those votes, along with the expected votes from Mayor Daley's Chicago graveyards, were sufficient to elect Kennedy, a Senator with no record of accomplishment in that role.
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Scott Rasmussen, the pollster, addresses the public's view of immigration and how it differs from that of most politicians ...
"Voters don't believe the federal government has any interest in securing the border. In fact, most believe the policies of the federal government are designed to encourage illegal immigration. This offends voters who want to respect the rule of law. If immigration laws -- or any laws -- are routinely ignored, then the government loses credibility."
"If the laws are enforced, 61 percent of voters favor a welcoming policy that lets anybody come to America except national security threats, criminals and those who would live off the U.S. welfare system. All who would like to work hard and pursue the American Dream are welcome."
"The bottom line is that voters remember what many in Washington often forget: America is a nation of immigrants -- and of laws. The American people want both traditions to be honored."
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" "The Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really easy to manage for the next few years." -- Al Armendariz, EPA official.
"(This) confirms what many of us already knew about the Obama Administration: they imagine themselves to be the rulers of conquered territories populated by restless barbarians who must be subjugated at any cost, complete with indiscriminate and severe exemplary punishments." -- Oleg Atbashian in The American Thinker.
He also points out Mr. Armendariz's ignorance of history. Turkey didn't exist at the time the Romans conquered Asia Minor. At the time, it was inhabited mostly by Greeks. Romans could only conquer a Turkish village if they were to take a time machine ten centuries into the future
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Jay Leno --
"Have you been watching this John Edwards trial? I don't know what kind of president John Edwards would have been, but I'm pretty sure he would have gotten along really well with the Secret Service."
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As the trial of John Edwards continues, it is a reminder of just how gullible and stupid millions of Americans can be. My own reaction the first time I ever heard of this sleazeball was, "Can anyone possibly be taken in by this phony, pretentious fop ... an ambulance-chasing shyster who tells hillbilly jurors that he is actually the voice of dead babies?" -- which he did in one of the insurance-ripoff trials that paid for his Nawth Cahlina mansion.
Millions did, of course; brain-dead Democrats who actually wanted him as their presidential candidate, and DID settle for him as the pompous John Kerry's running-mate.
The whole sorry mess reminds one of the verity of H. L. Mencken's observation that "nobody ever went broke UNDER-estimating the American public."
Which was underlined yet again by the election of our current Manchurian Candidate president.
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Something else to make you proud to be a taxpayer ...
Obama has just sent $192 million of your money to the Palestinian Authority.
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A new Smith Research poll sponsored by the Jerusalem Post shows that although perceptions of Obama in Israel have improved in the last year, most Israelis don’t consider him much of a friend. The survey showed that 36 percent of Israelis believe Obama is neutral in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians with 24 percent seeing him as pro-Palestinian and an equal number perceiving him as pro-Israel while 16 percent expressed no opinion. These numbers make one wonder what it is that the three quarters of Israelis who don’t see him as being in favor of their country know that the majority of American Jews who think he is pro-Israel haven’t figured out. -- (Source: Commentary)
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Hottest video circulating on the internet: "If I wanted America to fail." Here's the link ...
http://freemarketamerica.org
Watch it -- then forward it to a few hundred friends. They'll recognize their country being undermined by an anti-American president.
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"When I go and stand up in front of the podium, in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is not true," said Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney ... lying.
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From an interview with "Did Muhammad Exist?" author Robert Spencer, conducted by Barry Rubin of PJ Media ...
RUBIN: How have the policies of Western governments actually pushed Muslim immigrants and their children into the arms of the radicals?
SPENCER; I don’t believe this to be true. Muslim immigrants and their children do not hold to a sect or version of Islam that is significantly different from that which is preached elsewhere in the world. If they are informed and devoted to their religion, they generally view the actions of Western governments from the same perspective as do Muslims elsewhere. This perspective manifests itself in lists of grievances and expressions of anger, but Western governments are foolish in the extreme when they think they can redress these grievances and then all will be well; in fact, this grievance-mongering is intended to lay the groundwork for defensive jihad, which in Islamic law is incumbent upon all Muslims to undertake when a Muslim land is under attack. If one grievance is redressed, another one will take its place, because the point is not the grievances at all, but the jihad.
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The London Daily Mail has more background on the Muslim proposal that Egypt permit a husband to have sex with his dead wife ...
"The subject of a husband having sex with his dead wife arose in May 2011 when Moroccan cleric Zamzami Abdul Bari said marriage remains valid even after death.
"He also said that women have the right to have sex with her dead husband."
The latter, of course, would call for further information on just which body parts are subject to rigor mortis.
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Mr. Eason has been watching our elected representatives in action on C-Span and has come to some depressing conclusions ...
"The speakers are repetitive, boring, and are frequently WRONG, and provably wrong. The same lines are delivered by several speakers, and just the opposite is delivered by the other side of the aisle. My head still aches.
"It's a congress of dunces....I fear we are doomed."
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Reader Chuck reminds us of the timeless wisdom of H. L. Mencken ...
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
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More evidence that success as a player doesn't necessarily translate into success as a sports executive: Michael Jordan's Charlotte Bobcats have set an NBA record for futility with 23 straight losses.
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Congratulations to Heidi Hankins. The British lady is a new member of Mensa with her 159 IQ -- just one point below Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Ms. Hankins is four years old.
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Mark Steyn (Investors.com) declaims on the subject of polygamy and other nonsensical facets of the presidential campaign ...
"Most polygamy in the developed world is nothing to do with Mormons: It's widely practiced by western Muslims, whose plural marriages are recognized de facto by French and Ontario welfare departments and de jure by Britain's pensions department.
But "edgy" "transgressive" leftie comics on sad, pandering standup shows will reserve their polygamy jokes for Mormons until the last stern-faced elder in Utah keels over at the age of 112. In the United Kingdom, 57% of Pakistani Britons are married to their first cousins, with attendant increases in their children's congenital birth defects. But the comics save their inbreeding jokes for stump-toothed West Virginians enjoying a jigger of moonshine and a bunk-up with their sisters.
"Likewise, the epidemic of black-on-black murder vs. the once-in-a-blue-moon Trayvon Martin: to the liberal mindset, certain dogs won't hunt.
"'Mitt Romney isn't cool,' declared Brian Montopoli of CBS News this week in a story headlined "Can Mitt Romney Make Boring Sexy?" For economically beleaguered Americans, the more pertinent question is: "Can Barack Obama Make Cool Affordable"? It's not just that Obama ate the dog, but that he's screwing the pooch."
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Conan O'Brien --
"Burger King announced that all their chickens and pigs will all be raised cage free. In response, chickens and pigs said, 'That's cool. Now let's talk about the part where we get turned into sandwiches.'"
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From Caroline, a North Carolina reader ...
A tough looking group of motorcyclists was riding across a bridge when they saw a young woman about to jump off a bridge, so they stopped.
The leader, a big burly man, gets off his bike and says, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to commit suicide," she says.
While he didn't want to appear insensitive, he didn't want to miss an opportunity either, so he asked, "Before you jump, why don't you give me a kiss?"
So she does... And it was a long, deep, lingering kiss.
After she's finished, the biker says, "Wow! That was the best kiss I've ever had! That's a real talent you are wasting. You could be famous. Why in the world would you want to commit suicide?"
She says, "My parents don't like me dressing up like a girl........".
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."