The conclusion is obvious.

The pretzel-like contortions performed by Obama in his desperation are astounding.  Now, the man who only "evolved" into support of gay marriage a couple of months ago plans to have that support as a centerpiece of his re-election platform.

Survey says...

Count me in group two, with this caveat: While I'm not enthusiastic about Romney (living by my creed, "Never fall in love with a politician ... they'll break your heart every time") in no way do I think he's evil. In my view Barack Obama IS, in the sense that his goals for this nation will destroy its very foundation. I firmly believe he hates everything America stands for.

Obama & Romney ... Jewish voters & Israel. Wes Pruden's perspective ...

     "Mitt Romney’s dramatic declaration in Jerusalem that preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon is America’s 'highest national security priority' and military force should not be excluded, and that he regards Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel, puts in stark relief the difference between what the two candidates think about America’s only real ally in the Middle East.

     "Mr. Romney is willing, even eager, to give heartfelt, emphatic, unadulterated, full-throated support for the Jewish state in its hour of greatest peril since the founding. Mr. Obama can’t do that because he doesn’t 'feel the love.' He sprang from a culture of radicalism where Israel was regarded as illegitimate, if not evil. He gives the clear impression that he doesn’t like Jews very much." -- (full article in the Washington Times)

Janet Napolitano, the dunce in charge of Homeland Security, casually admits that "terrorists cross the border (from Mexico) from time to time."  She couldn't have been more dismissive if she'd added, "BFD."

     " The state deficit is at $16 billion. Stockton went bankrupt; Fresno is rumored to be next. Unemployment stays over 10% and in the Central Valley is more like 15%. Seven out of the last eleven new Californians went on Medicaid, which is about broke. A third of the nation’s welfare recipients are in California. In many areas, 40% of Central Valley high school students do not graduate — and do not work, if the latest crisis in finding $10 an hour agricultural workers is any indication. And so on." -- (Full article at PJ Media)

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     "CNN represents the passive-aggressive Left. MSNBC is unrestrained id, but CNN can never fully surrender to its liberal impulses. It tries to maintain a fig leaf of neutrality. But CNN can’t get through the day without betraying what it really thinks, often in underhanded ways. Thus, when CNN did a story on Chick-fil-A today, what did it focus on? The merits of the controversy? The fact that more than one Democratic government official has threatened to violate the company’s constitutional rights, because its CEO is opposed to gay marriage? No. In a dog whistle to its liberal audience, CNN focused on the fact that Todd and Sarah Palin, along with thousands of other Americans, tweeted photos of themselves eating at Chick-fil-A:

     "CNN introduced its segment with Pink’s “Stupid Girls,' a song which is obviously inappropriate for a cable news bumper, and evidently was intended as a comment on Palin’s support for Chick-fil-A."

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Any liberals indulging in wishful thinking about "the death of the Tea Party" need to take a look at the (inevitable) next U.S. Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz. With Tea Party backing, he beat the Lt. Governor in the Republican primary to replace the retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Beat him by fourteen points.
     Smart, articulate ... and a threat to the RINOs.

What our mad media call "gaffes" and murderous Muslims call "racism," Rich Lowry of National Review correctly identifies as plain common sense fact ...

     "In Jerusalem, Romney’s offense was noting at a fundraiser the starkly different economic performances of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Israel has a per capita GDP of $31,000, the West Bank and Gaza just $1,500. 'As I come here and I look out over this city and consider the accomplishments of the people of this nation,' Romney said, 'I recognize the power of at least culture and a few other things.'"

Does culture matter in determining human progress? Of course it does. People obsessed with hatred and a deep longing to return to the tenth century are manifestly ill-equipped for more productive pursuits.

     A clear example was provided when Israel turned over more land to the pseudo-Palestinians; land that had been made productive. For example, greenhouses produced much food. What was the first thing the Palestinians did? Destroy everything that had been handed to them on a silver platter!

Sodomy, in its various manifestations, is forbidden under Islam. Well, except in certain cases, as a Muslim cleric makes clear ...
      "Sodomy is forbidden, and not permitted, but jihad takes priority because it makes Islam dominant. And if the dominance of Islam cannot be achieved except through sodomy, then it is permitted."

Survey says ...

     Obama's approval rating is below the 50% danger point in 36 states. (Gallup)

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Let us hope it's nothing more than paranoia, but rumors are circulating of dark plots to either cancel the election or improve Obama's chances with a staged -- and dramatic --last-minute pre-election event. And I do mean dramatic.

     I'm a skeptic when it comes to conspiracy theories because they usually involve too many people. As timeless wisdom has it, when more than one person knows something, it's no longer a secret.

     Buuuut ... such things are possible.

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     "Karl Rove and the Republicans are looking forward to a breakfast the day after the election. They are going to assemble 17 angry old white men for breakfast, some of them will slobber in their food, some will have scrambled eggs, some will have oatmeal, their teeth are gone. But these 17 angry old white men will say, ‘Hey, we just bought America.'" -- Senator Harry Reid, slimy, ugly old bastard from Nevada (since he's obviously into insults).

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Separation of church and state? Burt Prelutsky's observation ...

     "Mrs. Obama recently used a church pulpit to announce that there’s no better place for Americans to discuss politics and social issues than churches. As I have often observed, the only time that liberals aren’t prattling on about separation of church and state is at election time when black ministers rake in greenbacks renting out their pulpits to be used as props by left-wing politicians…and their wives."

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     The brassiere is widely believed to have been invented only a hundred or so years ago by a fellow named -- I am not making this up -- Otto Titzling.

     Now, however, four 600-year-old bras have been found in an old castle in Austria.

     (Look out -- here it comes) They are believed to have been worn by ... Sacher tarts.
  

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August 3 --

Reader Greg offers an Obama Scenario:
        Our Olympic Gold Medalists visit White House and Obama tells them, "You didn't win that. It was the person who built the bridges and roads, etc., etc., etc."
     

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A reminder of your stupid, incompetent government at work ...

     On November 5, 2009, at Ft. Hood, Texas, a murderous, maniacal Muslim named Major Nidal Hasan murdered 13 Americans and wounded 29 others.        

     He has yet to stand trial.

What happens when voters elect idiots to run their city: case in point, bankrupt Stockton, California. Bloomberg biznews reports ...

     "Stockton, Police Chief Tom Morris was supposed to bring stability to law enforcement when he was appointed to the job four years ago.

     "He lasted eight months and left the now-bankrupt city at age 52 with an annual pension that pays more than $204,000 -- the third of four chiefs who stayed in the position for less than three years and retired with an average of 92 percent of their final salaries."

A story that is growing more and more familiar. Liberal politicians give goodies to government employee unions who repay them with contributions and other support ... and ultimately the taxpayers are stuck with a tab they can't pay.

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Since Obama & Co. are only "asking" well-off folk to "contribute" more in taxes, and many rich limousine liberals support him, let's demand a list of names of such folk who have voluntarily (as implied by Obama) sent more money to the IRS. Hey, ill-disguised socialists, if you're gonna talk the talk, walk the walk! "Contribute!"

From Huntsville, Alabama ...    
     Chance Bothe was busy texting while driving. His text message: "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident."
     He didn't die. He survived with a broken neck, fractured skull, crushed face and brain injuries when he drove off a bridge and crashed into a ravine.

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Various city governments are reporting that so many municipal employees are watching the Olympics on the internet that their computer networks are overloaded to the point that other employees are having difficulty connecting to their favorite porn sites.

August 4 --

The Democrats are trying -- again, just as the Gore bunch tried in 2000 -- to make it more difficult for military personnel to vote.
Let's cut to the chase: We know why. It's simply because, as was the case with Gore, they know that most military folk detest Obama.

     Democrat crooks gather millions of campaign dollars for Obama. Then they put together an enviro-nut fantasy company called Solyndra ... get millions more taxpayer dollars in the form of loan guarantees from the administration ... as any fool could have predicted, the company goes bankrupt ... and the taxpayers are screwed while the promoters skate.

     And more: An e-mail has now surfaced in which a Solyndra executive refers to Obama's grants as "The Washington Bank."

     Further: Rahm "Tiny Dancer" Emanuel, now Mayor of murder-capital Chicago, was involved in pushing the Solyndra scam when he was Obama's Chief-of-Staff.

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Watch 'em run! All those Democrat Senators, Representatives and lower officials running as fast and far away from Obama as possible ... many not even attending the convention.

     Reportedly overheard from one such: "This crazy SOB is gonna get us KILLED in November!"

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     "President Obama's comment—'You didn't build that'—is the political gift that keeps on giving.

     "They are now the most famous words he has said in his presidency. And oh, how he wishes they weren't.

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Media Research Center just counted the stories, their tone and the time spent on each by ABC, CBS and NBC. Their Romney coverage was 86% negative.

     **Editorial comment** -- Having worked around and with such "reporters" all of my adult life, I state the following unequivocally: Their numbers include an overwhelming majority that are, journalistically speaking, a bunch of lying whores. Of all three sexes.

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Is it true that Harry Reid, Master of the Unsubstantiated Rumor about Mitt Romney's taxes, regularly has carnal knowledge of a chicken?

     Footnote: LBJ, facing a close race early in his career, ordered an underling to spread a rumor that his opponent fornicated with pigs.

     The flunky, shocked, said, "That can't be true!"

     LBJ, true to type, said, "Of course it isn't -- but let's make the bastard deny it!"

Okay, Harry, you creepy slimeball ... DENY IT!

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Pulling out all the stops ...

     Obama has now nominated an Asian-American lesbian to a federal judgeship. That's a "three-fer" -- female, minority and gay.

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Washington Times: Reuters reported that President Obama “signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government.” This latest leak of classified information was attributed to “U.S. sources familiar with the matter.”

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I hate Olympic events decided by subjective judging instead of a tangible score. Diving, gymnastics and boxing are among the worst, as well as figure-skating in the Winter Games.

     There's so much blatantly crooked judging in boxing, it should be abandoned. Except for putting some of the bent judges and referees into the ring, sans headgear, to have some sense beaten into them. A fantasy: "Judge #2, meet Mike Tyson."

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Memo to any/all Olympic winners: "You didn't do that! Somebody else built the roads that took you to practice, somebody else built the plane that flew you to London, etc., etc." (signed) Emperor Barack Hussein Obama.

     "It’s not every day that left-leaning academics admit that they would discriminate against a minority.

     "But that was what they did in a peer-reviewed study of political diversity in the field of social psychology, which will be published in the September edition of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

     "More than a third of the respondents said they would discriminate against the conservative candidate. One respondent wrote in that if department members 'could figure out who was a conservative, they would be sure not to hire them.'” -- Washington Times --

And you can bet that's only the tip of the iceberg of bias among "liberal" academics.We'd know more, but some were doubtless busy having sex with their students.

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A chap in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has had cars driven into his house six times.

     Big deal. When I was a child, we lived on old U.S. 67. Not far away, near the booming metropolis of Biggers, Ark., the highway made a 90-degree turn. With no banking. A house on the outside of that corner was regularly smashed. Usually on Saturday night. May have had something to do with a lively tavern a couple of miles away at Current River beach.

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From Huntsville, Alabama, word that college student Chance Booth texted, " “I need to quit texting because I could die in a car accident.’’

     He didn't die. He survived with a broken neck, smashed face and assorted other broken bones and body damage when he drove off a bridge into a ravine -- while texting.


For the first -- and possibly last -- time in this column, a recipe.
A preface: I say again, without fear of rational contradiction, that New Orleans ... or N'awlins ... is the best eating town in America.
     The working folks' staple diet there begins with red beans and rice. I had it for lunch yesterday, concocted from Emeril Lagasse's classic formulation available under the international selection at foodnetwork.com. (Just type in "red beans and rice").
     Susan added some special African pepper and the New Orleans specialty, powdered gumbo file' (fee-lay) ... the kind Hank Williams sang about in "Jambalaya".
     My review, succinctly: It's so good, it'll make you slap your grandma!


Mad Mike observes that, while in the heat of passion couples often help each other get UNdressed, rarely do they help each other get dressed AFTER making love.
(To which Jim responds, "People take their clothes off to make love?!")

     "What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF (International Monetary Fund), China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.'"

And that, of course, is just what we want and need. To sink, unresisting, into the mire.

Mark Steyn also reduces the endless parade of lies from Obama to essential facts ...    
     President Obama in February 2009:  "Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office.
     Deficit in January 2009: $800 billion.
     Deficit promised by Obama for January 2013: $400 billion.
    Actual deficit right now: $1.26 trillion.
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     Sounds like a nation resigned to failure and decay, doesn't it? Thanks, Mr. Hope & Change. And from your Marxist masters, you've earned a heartfelt, "Well done!"
 

A further elaboration on Harry Reid's scurrilous charge against Mitt Romney based (he says) on an unsubstantiated rumor that Romney has paid no taxes. This kind of underhanded behavior by Reid does have precedent, as explained in a National Journal article ...
    The late "gonzo" journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, added to American political lore when making a point about unscrupulous politicicians in his campaign chronicle, Fear and Loathing.  On the Campaign Trail, '72.  As a young man running for office in Texas, Thompson wrote, Lyndon Johnson needed to slow down a foe's momentum.  And so LBJ ordered an aide to spread the rumor that their opponent was "enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.'  The aide blanched, and objected.  No one would believe a claim like that!  'I know,' Johnson was said to have replied, 'but let's make the sonofabitch deny it.'"

By the way, has Harry Reid stopped beating his wife?  I thnk he should be forced to prove it.


Tax tip: If you'd rather not pay enormous taxes on big income, you can do what Romney did. Give millions to charity. At least when you take that course, you make your own decision about how your money should be spent instead of leaving that decision to a bunch of lying political hacks in Washington.

     "It’s possible that many of you are unaware of the fact that over 40 Catholic institutions have filed lawsuits in opposition to ObamaCare. If you missed the news, it’s because the three major TV networks have chosen to ignore what will be a major constitutional court battle, hoping that by circling their wagons they can maintain the charade that it is women’s rights and not religious freedom that is at risk.

     "During the week that the lawsuits were filed, the combined coverage by ABC, CBS and NBC, amounted to less than 20 seconds of air time.

     "The administration has tried to frame the question so that it appears that the Catholic Church is crusading against a woman’s right to birth control and abortion.

     "But the truth is, Obama, whose only god is the one he sees reflected in his bathroom mirror, is attacking the First Amendment. If he can get away with forcing the Church to go against its own basic tenets, it would mean he could do just about anything."

So Kofi Annan quit as UN envoy assigned to try to make sense -- and peace -- of the eternal middle-east mess. He admits failure.
     Did Kofi Annan ever succeed at anything other than high-living on the UN budget, primarily subsidized by American taxpayers?


Ryan Lochte is a stupid punk. The young man who was believed to be on the brink of replacing Michael Phelps as the next big swimming star (not by a long shot!) not only urinates in the pool used by all the swimmers, but actually boasts about it. Besides the execrable taste he exhibits, he should be ejected from the present and future Olympics on grounds of the health threat the juvenile jerk presents.

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There remain questions regarding the motive behind the killings at the Wisconsin Sikh temple. We do know that there have been other attacks on Sikhs motivated by the wildly mistaken belief that Sikhs are Muslim.
     Not so. Their religion in no way even resembles Islam and is, in fact, diametrically opposed in significant ways.  But as ill-educated as many Americans are, there are obviously among us people so ignorant that they are willing to shed innocent blood. This is no way to suggest that attacks on innocent Muslims would be tolerable.

The shocked reaction among many liberals, especially gay liberals, at the outpouring of support for Chick-fil-A is a reminder of a fact and facet of human nature.
     They were surprised because, in their own circle of friends, their views are common and widely shared. Therefore, they may find it hard to believe that most people don't hold the same views, despite the evidence that in one statewide election after another, when put to the voters, gay marriage has lost.
     Liberal commentators contend the trend is toward support of  their position, but so far that is simply wishful thinking.
     For most Americans, gay marriage is far, far down their priority list. Some are actively opposed. Others are tired of hearing what people want to do with their body parts and think it an offensive childish obsession to loudly proclaim their preferences.
     There are still others who, like me, share the view of the British lady who long ago said, "I don't care what people do, so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

Gas prices are again above $4 a gallon in some areas. How many American voters are so double-dumb they don't remember that gasoline was less than half today's prices when the Big Zero was foolishly elected? We'll find out in three months.

From the (liberal) Washington Post ...          "David Plouffe, a senior White House adviser who was President Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, accepted a $100,000 speaking fee in 2010 from an affiliate of a company doing business with Iran’s government.

Words from an optimist. Veteran Washington insider Douglas MacKinnon in Investors Business Daily ...
     "The social experiment that was Barack Obama's election and presidency is over. Way over.
An unsubstantiated rumor has it that Senator Harry Reid steals candy from small children, especially minority, handicapped and orphaned children. Has he yet denied it? Can he prove he doesn't? Also ... have rumors of his cannibalism been explored?
     (Offered in the same spirit as his accusations against Mitt Romney.)


Stupidest suggestion of last week (Non-Government category):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's idea of including American football in the Olympics. Playing against whom? Those burly Burmese? Shifty sumos from Japan? Fleet-footed Filipinos? Tenacious Thais?
     Roger ... shut up.


The eternal idiocy of the global-warming fanatics ...
     Even as they've renewed their babble about "global warming" because of the Midwest drought and heat wave, they studiously ignore the fact that parts of Europe are soaked in floods.
     These tunnel-vision dopes have never understood a fundamental fact: While WEATHER is short-term and local -- and in the big picture, one season IS short-term and one nation IS local -- climate is global and VERY long-term.

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Mitt Romney needs to be reminded of the timeless wisdom of H. L. Mencken: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public."
     If he thinks focusing solely on the economy is a winning formula, he is overestimating the public's interest in the macro economy, i.e., the overall -- and long-range -- big picture.
     After all, while those who follow economic news in detail understand how awful it is, the fact remains that more people DO have jobs than don't. And those so fortunate are much more likely to be satisfied with the status quo.
     That's why Romney's one-trick-pony campaign, virtually ignoring other important issues, could be a recipe for political suicide.


I hear regularly from folk enthused by Cong. Allen West's brand of in-your-face conservatism. I share that admiration. However, given Mitt Romney's inherent cautiousness, my estimate of West's chances of being chosen as a running mate is about 0%. Romney's boldest choice, given his cautious inclination, would be Rubio. But one of the other well-publicized prospects with a low-risk profile is more likely.

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... then we have Bernard Goldberg's gossip on the scumbag POS from Nevada ...
      "After all, here is a career politician who lives in the Ritz Carlton in Washington and has millions hidden in illegal offshore accounts - money he accrued from pimping prostitutes back home in Nevada.
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August 8 --

Romney confused SIKHS, the victims of the Wisconsin massacre, with SHEIKS, a title from the Arab/Muslim world. Sikhs are neither.
     Dumb, but not as dumb as many Obama flubs, such as referring to the U.S. Marine CORPSE. While campaigning in 57 states.


Chris Christie for VP? No.

Cong. Paul Ryan's prospects improved because (A) he's popular in his home state of Wisconsin, which (B) became a more likely swing-state when the Republican governor beat back the Democrat/union thugs attempt to remove him from office.
     Ryan's also one smart dude who actually understands the budget minutiae that most of the stupid cattle on the Hill pass uncomprehendingly.


One reason why Obama wants everyone to go to college: Four more years in school is four more years when they won't show up in the unemployment numbers.

Democrats -- friends to women? Chew on this stat uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon ...
     The Democratic National Committee, the guiding body of the party, paid their 119 female employees $3,342 on average in the month of July, compared to $3,843 for its 113 male employees. Got that, ladies?


Huma Abedin is a key aide to Hillary Clinton, our (purported) Secretary of State. She is also the wife of disgraced former Congressman Anthony ("See my") Weiner. It is a fact that her family has long-time and deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose open vow is to destroy the United States.
     So why is it unreasonable to ask for a serious examination of her loyalties? That isn't "McCarthyism"; it's common sense.
     One good reason to do it: The idea is opposed by one of the biggest dupes/dopes in the Senate, RINO John McCain.

By the way, Senator Joe McCarthy, good friend of the Kennedys, was dead right about Alger Hiss, a founder of the UN, being a communist spy. Old liberals have never forgiven ol' Joe for that revelation about one of their idols.


Speaking of Hillary, for whom some Democrats still pine as a presidential candidate ...
     What did this woman ever actually DO? She was a partner in a shady Arkansas law firm when Bill was governor ... made a lot of money in a scam cattle-futures deal ... and rode her husband's coattails into the White House even as he repeatedly embarrassed her by playing bouncy-bounce with a parade of bimbos.
     As Secretary of State, her defining moments include that silly "re-set" moment with Russia and calling Syria's dictator Assad a "reformer" -- just last year.
     The woman is a bad joke. And as recent TV coverage of her trip to Africa has shown, a bad dancer.



Commentator Ron Hart (Jewish World Review) gets to the hidden bottom-line of Obama's "you didn't build that" remark ...
     "The implication is that anyone with money, except the government, does not deserve it. This rare glimpse into the real Obama should unnerve everyone, whether you pay taxes or not. He is saying that government can confiscate what you have, because you did not earn it anyway."


A study, based on 2010 and 2011 census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants. -- Washington Times

Further ... the Marxist in the White House has been advertising in Mexico, inviting more freeloaders to come (illegally) into the United States and get free food-stamps!

Now: tell us again about the unalloyed blessings of immigration.


Even the New York Times admits it: Raise taxes on the successful ... they simply leave the country ... and actual revenue to the government declines. That process is well underway in France, which stupidly elected a socialist president. People with money are either getting out, or planning to do so.

Leftist nuts in the Congressional Black Caucus are complaining that Congressman Allen West, the only Republican in the group, "insulted" them by bringing them sandwiches from Chick-fil-A. They convey the impression that this had something to do with the gay marriage flap of last week -- as if all blacks support gay marriage.
     In fact, the nice gesture by West took place six months ago, long before the controversy.
     The chief complainer: Cong. Alcee Hastings of Florida, who has the distinction of being the only crooked judge impeached for taking bribes and removed from the federal bench -- and still got elected to Congress. Says a lot about the voters in his district: "He's a crook? Took bribes? Our kinda guy!"
     That's democracy in action, folks!
    

     I've been in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and a number of other spooky places, but Buenos Aires is the most sinister city I've ever entered. I'd never set foot there again. Robbery, muggings, beatings and even killings of visitors are common. It is a very, very sick society.


Can it be divine intervention? When Bill Clinton speaks to the Democratic National Convention next month, he'll be on TV opposite the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants season opener.
     Or maybe Obama wanted it that way. He hates the Clintons, but has to cuddle-up for his own political survival.

Katherine forwards a sign that should be posted in many, many places...   
     "GUNS ARE WELCOME ON PREMISES. Please keep all weapons holstered unless need arises. In such case judicious marksmanship is appreciated."

August 9 --


You couldn't possibly have a clearer indication of the contempt with which Obama & Co. view the average voter than the preposterous package of lies put together by a former Obama flunky now running the Political Action Committee that -- with the clear collusion of the White House -- assembled the scurrilous commercial featuring the lying steel worker whose wife died of cancer years after the the company that had employed him went bankrupt -- and while she still had her own medical coverage.
      Why do they engage is such blatant lies? Because they know that the kind of cretins who are prospects to vote for a fraud like Obama will swallow it whole. After all, they did four years ago!

     That observation also springs from a few years of "man on the street" interviews of the sort Jay Leno uses on his show. The number of ignorant idiots running around loose is just ... staggering. The wonder is that the nation has survived this long.

I still wonder what Romney thought he was doing when he made that "I like to fire people" remark. Yes, I know he was referring to our bloated government payroll, but the rankest amateur running for mayor of East Overshoe, Montana, should have realized that those words would be taken out of context (that word again) for use by opponents. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

No surprise here. Remember when those "Occupy" scum were vandalizing property and using the streets -- and even citizens' doorways -- for toilets? Judicial Watch has found government agency e-mails within the Obama administration telling law enforcement authorities to go easy on them.

He's exercising the same destructive policy on illegal aliens. Not only illegal, but criminal aliens.

Reminds me ...
     I once had a listener-caller who was so ill-educated by the ignorance factories we call schools that he thought the word "alien" only applied to creatures from other planets. Too much science fiction ... not enough real education. 

The sheer gall is unbelievable. Obama ... complaining that his wife "doesn't get paid" to be First Lady. How about the millions of taxpayer dollars spent on her endless vacations?

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A golden oldie line Romney might try addressing to Obama: "If you'll stop lying about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you."

Actually, telling the truth about Obama and his entire bogus background may be the only way to beat him. If Mitt's too much a gentleman to do it, by November he might find himself seated next to John McCain on the losers' bench.
     So far, Romney's doing the political equivalent of bringing a knife to a gunfight. 

Greg Crosby reports (in Jewish World Review) on the kind of "thinking" that has put California in such a deep financial hole ...
    "Back in 2004 gullible voters passed Proposition 63, an additional tax on anyone making more than a million dollars.  Ultimately the state collected $7.4 billion which was to be used specifically for the treatment of mental illness. 
    Where's the money going? 
    "Lunchtime yoga classes for San Francisco city workers. 
    "$1 million in horseback-therapy sessions for Kings County.
    "A 12-week 'mood management' course in Riverside."
Etc., etc.
    The voting majority of California voters are obviously brain-dead, leeches -- or both.  They deserve what they get.  The minority with common sense don't deserve it ... but they get it, anyway.

Argus Hamilton --
    "Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said U.S. food will be poisoned if Mitt Romney is elected and she called the GOP the party of E-coli.  The metaphor marked a shift in party strategy.  Pushing grandmother off the cliff wasn't working anymore so they had to
go with diarrhea."

PAUL RYAN - COMMON SENSE VS. CHARISMA ...
OBAMA MAKES HIS REAL GOAL CLEAR ...
WHAT CONSERVATISM REALLY MEANS

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OLYMPICS OVER, NO MORE HOLDING BREATH ...
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE BY THE NUMBERS

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Evasions, demagoguery and outright lies being the hallmark of the Obama administration, the same obscure Illinois Senator who was saying during his short stay in that august body that Medicare reform was essential ... is now trying to scare hell out of older people with monstrous fables about how the reforms proposed by Paul Ryan will kill them.
     Of course, he carefully avoids the fact that nothing would change for people over 55, giving the nation ample time to graduate to a more fiscally responsible alternative formula that would guarantee the survival of Medicare, now on-track to catastrophe.
     As Thomas Sowell so aptly pointed out, why would any rational person who believes that America can't afford doctors, medication and hospitals at present believe that the nation afford could afford doctors, medication, hospitals AND a giant government bureaucracy to run it?

     "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed."  -- Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged," 1957.  (Thanks for the reminder, Peter)

     "That news concerns Huma's alleged ties to Abdullah Omar Nasseef, a 'financier' of terrorism with whom Huma was associated when she was part of his organization, the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), until taking her position with Sec. of State Clinton."

The same Hillary who, only last year, called Syria's murderous dictator Assad a "reformer."

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     It's very simple. Democrats are the party of crooks, still insisting that limiting voting to those legally entitled is "suppressing the vote."

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People are asking, and should ask, why are even federal agencies like the Social Security Administration and the National Weather Service stocking up on lethal ammunition like millions of hollow-point bullets and stashing them at locations all around the country?

     This has a sinister ring to it, and it is NOT paranoia to ask just what possible use is being planned by a devious Obama administration. White House reporters should be demanding answers -- often and loudly.

California Status Report, courtesy Victor Davis Hanson ...
    "California's combined income and sales taxes are among the nation's highest, but the state's deficit is still about $16 billion.  It's estimated that more than 2,000 upper-income Californians are leaving per week to flee high taxes and costly regulations, yet California wants to raise taxes even higher, its business climate already ranks near the bottom of most surveys.  Its teachers are among the highest paid on average in the nation, but its public school students consistently test near the bottom of the nation in both math and science.
    "The state's public employees enjoy some of the nation's most generous pensions and benefits, but California's retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion.  The state's gas taxes -- at over 49 cents per gallon -- are among the highest in the nation, but its once unmatched freeways, like 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares unchanged since the early 1960s.
    "In the Never-Never Land of Apple, Facebook, Google, Hollywood and the wine country, millions live in an idyllic paradise.  Coastal Californians can afford to worry about the state's trivia -- as their legislators seek to outlaw foie gras, shut down irrigation projects to save the 3-inch delta smelt, and allow children to have legally recognized multiple parents.
    "But in the less-feel-good interior, crippling regulations curb timber, gas and oil, and farm production.  For the most part, the rules are mandated by coastal uptopians who have little idea where the gas for their imported cars comes from, or how the redwood is cut for their decks, or who grows the ingredients for their Mediterranean lunches of arugula, olive oil and pasta."



Ex-New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, a very rich man, was a big contributor to Obama's campaign. Also an advisor to Obama.
     Corzine ran a big investment company called MF Global.
     The company went under, losing over a billion dollars of customers' money; it just ... "disappeared!" 
     Now Obama's Justice Department, run by Eric Holder, who is himself being sued by Congress, has decided the MF Global
debacle/fraud is "nobody's fault" and won't be prosecuting Mr. Corzine or any of his underlings.
     Draw your own conclusions.


Obama faces a very difficult choice. "Do I go ahead with the nutjob VP Biden, or do I dump him for a woman I hate and risk the inevitable conclusion by most voters that I've given in to fear and panic about the election?"


Reality check: Anyone who thinks the civilized world and militant Islam can peacefully co-exist is crazy.
     Serious decisions regarding the ongoing problem with the biggest gang of mass murderers currently inhabiting the planet should be made with that fact in mind.

Professor (economics) Walter Williams, who is black, is not confident that Barack Obama, ever-supportive of the teachers' unions, has any plan to actually improve the education of disadvantaged black youngsters. The root problem goes right back to the home ...
    "Numerous studies show that children raised in stable two-parent households do far better educationally and otherwise than those raised in single-parent households.  Historically, black families have been relatively stable.  From 1880 to 1960, the proportion of black children raised in two-parent families held steady at 70 percent, in 1925 Harlem, it was 85 percent.  Today only 33 percent of black children benefit from two-parent families.  In 1940, black illegitimacy was 19 percent, today it's 72 percent.
    "Too many young blacks have become virtually useless in an increasingly high-tech economy.  The only bright outlook is the trickle of more and more black parents realizing this and taking their children out of public schools." -- Townhall.com

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      "In 1981, Ronald Reagan inherited an unemployment rate of 7.5 percent and on a steep uptick. The inflation rate was 13.5 percent. And the rate for a new home mortgage was 13.7 percent. The purchasing power of those on fixed incomes had fallen by 30 percent under Carter, throwing millions of seniors and others below the poverty line. There were gasoline shortages and long, long lines at filling stations." -- National Review Online

Reagan fixed it. Obama has simply worsened matters.



Words to live by ...


Did you know ...
     ... that Major Nidal Hasan, the mass-murdering Muslim of Ft. Hood, not only has yet to be tried but continues to receive his full salary as a U. S. Army officer while challenging the order to shave as one of his foot-dragging delays?
     He objects to the order on the grounds that if he is executed, being beardless would doom him to hell. Muslim nutcase that he is, he expects that killing Americans will bring him the reward of heaven, doubtless complete with the much-anticipated 72 virgins. Although a couple may have fooled around a bit.
     Since this creep still breathes, it is time to repeat the mantra: "We live ... in a land ... run by morons."


Now that Egypt is not-so-slowly sliding into an Islamist dictatorship, any oh-so-sensitive liberals want to tell us again what a wonderful thing last year's "Arab spring" was?





Obama "saved" the auto industry? Here's reality from Louis Woodhill, reporting for Forbes Magazine, a serious business publication ...
     "President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors.  That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again.  The company is once again losing market share, and it seems unable to develop products that are truly competitive in the U.S. market.
      "Right now, the federal government owns 500,000,000 shares of GM, or about 26% of the company.  It would need to get about $53.00/share for these to break even on the bailout, but the stock closed at only $20.21/share on Tuesday."

 
Author Helen Gurley Brown ("Sex and The Single Girl") died this week. I once spent an hour or so in her company. It was a memorable experience only because she presented the most bizarre countenance I've ever encountered. The woman had had so much cosmetic surgery her mouth barely moved when she spoke and a smile was totally beyond possibility.


Argus Hamilton --
    "Chelsea Clinton told Vogue magazine she's decided to embrace her inheritance and family legacy.  Just what that means is open to speculation.  Her parents thought that it meant she is running for office and her husband thought she was already cheating on him."


Scott suggests ...
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     Even though he lies constantly, plain-language speaking is Obama's advantage in the campaign. It may be bull-bleep, but ordinary folk know -- or think they know -- what he's talking about.

     We might currently wonder, for example, just how much he benefited from using his position to help his lobbyist son swing a deal very beneficial to a Chinese company invested in a Nevada project that depends largely on U.S. government cooperation and largesse. He has also prospered greatly from land deals that would be unavailable to most investors.

By the way, the greatest song ever written about corrupt politicians was "Little Tin Box" in the musical "Fiorello" about the long-ago Mayor LaGuardia of New York. You know the one -- they named an airport for him.

Regarding all that ammo the federal government keeps buying and stashing at ostensibly civilian agencies such as Social Security offices all over the nation, reader Marty offers these words to live by ...
     "I read long ago that paranoia was simply a heightened state of awareness."

August 19 --



Consider this to be the universal reminder about all elections. Every further inch of control over any aspect of your life that is granted to, or taken by, the government will be virtually impossible to regain. In terms of power over your life, what government takes, government keeps. And will -- count on it -- eventually misuse that power to your detriment. It is as inevitable as sunrise.

So Iraq has been slyly and secretly assisting Iran in evading sanctions and allowing Iran to ferry war supplies to the Syrian dictatorship thru Iraqi airspace. Is anyone really surprised? Just another example of an idiotic American government winning the war, then losing the "peace."
     Any American who lost a family member or friend in Iraq has every reason to ask, "For WHAT?" As is also the case in the ongoing debacle in Afghanistan.
     American politicians have long lost sight of the only rational purpose for a war, which is to force an enemy nation into unconditional surrender and modify -- totally -- the behavior that led to war in the first place. If our "leaders" aren't willing to do that job thoroughly and completely, they are collaborating in the killing of our soldiers for no worthwhile purpose.
    Every incoming president just take a public vow: "If we're not in it to win it, I will not commit to any war."


The Obama administration is tap-dancing around the questions as to why civilian agencies such as Social Security and the Weather Service are stockpiling so much deadly ammunition around the nation, including lethal hollow-point bullets actually forbidden for even wartime use by the Geneva Convention.
     One lame excuse given is that they're needed for training. Training? You need hollow-point bullets for target practice?!
     They're jiving us and creating the unavoidable impression that there's some more sinister motivation.


Wonder what Abraham Lincoln, Republican, would think of Crazy Joe Biden's threat to a black audience that Republicans would "put y'all back in chains!"?

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OBAMA CROWDS SHRINKING ...
ABOUT THAT GOVERNMENT AMMO

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The National Rifle Association, which usually takes a skeptical view of the federal government's actions regarding firearms, has released a statement essentially saying there is no reason for concern regarding the recent massive purchases of ammunition by various government agencies. The story is that the deliveries will be made over a period of years and the ammo requirements for training, etc., are legitimate.
     Failure of the government to explain the purchases, however, has only fed a well-founded paranoia about just what Obama and Co. are up to.


"President Obama led the mission that brought Osama bin Laden to justice." -- Delusional Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen, introducing the 'bam at a New Hampshire rally of the Democrat sheeple yesterday.
     Yap, Jeanne-baby, 'ol 'Bam was right there, packin' heat and leading the charge!

Jonah Goldberg observes the unveiling of the mythical Barack Obama ...
     "It's becoming increasingly clear that President Obama is not burdened with too heavy a commitment to honesty.
     This is hardly a shock about any politician, but revelations of dishonesty hurt some more than others. Announce that Bill Clinton has been speaking falsely, and it hits the ears with as much force as the news that birds fly, fish swim and dogs lick their own nether regions.
     "But Obama was supposed to be different. He was a 'lightworker,' an ocean tamer and cynicism slayer. In short, he was supposed to be too good to be true -- and it turns out he was.
     "That's one obvious conclusion to be drawn from the all-too-delayed vetting of the president's biography, most notably in David Maraniss' aptly titled book, 'Barack Obama: The Story.'
     "In 'Dreams from My Father,' Obama tells readers that he struggled with racism and racial alienation all his life. He wasn't a starter on his high school basketball team because he played 'black' while his coach coached 'white.' He confabulated a black friend in high school who, like himself, was shunned for racial reasons. He wrote of a 'big fight'" with a white ex-girlfriend who, after seeing a racially charged play, 'started talking about why black people were so angry all the time.'
     "As Maraniss methodically shows, these and other tales of racial woe were false. His coach didn't start him because he wasn't good enough to start. His friend in high school was half-Japanese, not black, and neither of them were racially ostracized. The girlfriend, Genevieve Cook, never saw the play and never said anything of the sort. And so on."  (Complete article at Townhall.com)

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Milking the Idiot Akin story may be about all Obama has going for him at the moment, with new polls suddenly showing both Wisconsin and Michigan tilting toward Romney.
     Michigan! -- Even after Obama buying the United Autoworkers Union with his "bailout of the auto industry" using taxpayer dollars. Maybe they've noticed the new GM jobs are in China and Italy's Fiat owning Chrysler.


A third-party candidate would be a long-shot for the Republicans to wrest the Missouri Senate seat from Claire McCaskill, but not impossible. It worked for Joe Lieberman in Connecticut when the crazies in the Democratic party there dumped him for a leftist nutjob.


Perfect examples of overgrown government gone mad: First, the woman threatened with legal action for giving food to hungry children in her neighborhood ... now another woman  being similarly threatened for giving water to thirsty people "without a license." Madness, madness!

Yet it is as predictable as sunrise that a majority of American Jews will vote for Obama in November.

Before selecting pop music for use at campaign events, in commercials, etc., the Republican party needs to consult with someone knowledgeable about music and the people who create it.
     It's happened again. This time a group called Silversun Pickups told the Romney campaign to stop using their song "Panic Switch." It's a minor embarrassment to have liberal composers get a cease-and-desist order aainst a candidate, but it's a recurring problem for tone-deaf Republican campaign operatives.
     Tom Petty told the George W. Bush campaign to stop using his song, "I Won't Back Down" (they did stop). This year, he also stopped Michelle Bachmann's use of his "American Girl." McCain, Dole and Sarah Palin had similar problems with unauthorized use of material that some campaign operatives selected.
    The worst example was a Republican campaign -- I believe it was Reagan, maybe Bush Sr. -- that briefly used the rousing "The Best of Times" by Jerry Herman ... not realizing that it came from the musical "La Cage Aux Folles" (later made into the movie "The Birdcage") and was virtually the gay national anthem.
     All such embarrassments could be avoided with a phone call or two. And a reminder that most people in "the arts" are Democrats.

In Finland, a teenager threw his old cell-phone 333 feet to win that competitive event at a summer festival. (Finland is, after all, the home of Nokia, a pioneer brand of cell-phone.)

      The winner told reporters he trained for the event “mostly by drinking.”

    Rosie O'Donnell
    Buys the best heart care there is.
     NOT Obamacare !

CONVENTIONS -- WHO NEEDS 'EM? ...
OBAMA MIGHT WELCOME A WORSE RECESSION ...
REPUBLICANS' AKIN, BREAKIN' HEARTS

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"BLESS HIS HEART" -- FURTHER ELABORATION ...
LIFE UNDER COMMUNISM -- A LESSON FOR LIBERALS

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DEMS TO ARCHBISHOP: "STAY AWAY" ...
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     Hmmmm... With minimal digging, the Weekly Standard found that, according to Obama’s financial disclosure forms, the president has money in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund Holdings. This financial investment has spread the president’s money across the globe.
     The Vanguard fund is invested in foreign companies such as ACE Limited (based in Zurich Switzerland), Covidien Health Care (Dublin, Ireland), Ingersoll-Rand (Dublin, Ireland), Nabors Industries (Hamilton, Bermuda), Noble Corporation (Baar, Switzerland), XL Group (Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Bermuda), and TE Connectivity (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
     Naughty, naughty!

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     "Fathom the hypocrisy  of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but  not everyone must prove they are a citizen." Now add this, "Many of those who  refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance  paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens."

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     Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has
spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and other basic needs when times turn bad.
     The 14th Amendment to the Constitution prescribes "equal protection of the laws" to all Americans. But what does that mean, if the President of the United States can arbitrarily grant waivers, so that A, B and C have to obey the laws but X, Y and Z do not -- as with both ObamaCare and the immigration laws?
     People who lament gridlock in Washington, and express the pious hope that Democrats and Republicans would put aside their partisan conflicts, and cooperate to help the economy recover, implicitly assume that what the economy needs is more meddling by politicians, which is what brought on economic disaster in the first place.
     One of the arguments for Medicare is that the elderly don't want to be a burden to their children. Apparently it is all right to be a burden to other people's children, who are paying taxes.
     Those who talk as if more people going to college is automatically a Good Thing seldom show much interest in what actually goes on at college -- including far less time spent by students studying than in the past, and a proliferation of courses promoting a sense of grievance, entitlement or advanced navel-gazing and breast-beating.
     One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with "hate speech" laws. It is
supposed to be terrible, for example, to call an illegal alien an "illegal alien" or to call an Islamic terrorist an "Islamic terrorist."
When the media refer to "undocumented" workers or to violence committed by "militants," who is kidding whom -- and why?
     For more than two centuries, the U.S. military never had a public celebration of anybody's sex life -- until the recent "gay pride" event under the Obama administration. Here, as elsewhere, the gay political agenda is not equality but privilege.
     If we wake up some morning and find some American cities in radioactive ruins, courtesy of a nuclear Iran, nobody is going to care whether the president who lets this happen is the first black president or the last WASP president. But, in the meantime, many people will keep on voting for symbolism, as if an election is a popularity contest, like choosing a college's Homecoming Queen or Parade Marshal.
     There seems to be something "liberating" about ignorance -- especially when you don't even know enough to realize how little you know. Thus an administration loaded with people who have never run any business is gung-ho to tell businesses what to do, as well as gung-ho to tell the medical profession what to do, lenders whom to lend to, and the military how to fight wars.

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My former producer, John B., caught this screw-up from the left-wing amateurs at MSNBC ...
     "Astronaut Neil Young, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82 ."
     Neil YOUNG? Ever hear of Neil ARMSTRONG, dopes?

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A life in radio ...
     The naked truth about a practical joke.
     It happened in Miami when I was Program Director/Operations Manager of a major radio station, WGBS. I was single at the time, my non-working hours my own.
     I had a News Director who'd been a longtime TV anchor and bore a startling resemblance to Ted Baxter, the anchorman on the old Mary Tyler Moore TV show; a resemblance in both appearance and personality. His office wall was lined with celebrity photos autographed to him. The handwriting on each was remarkably similar -- similar to his own.
     Ken was well into his fifties, married to a young woman in her mid-twenties -- also vital to the story.
     One afternoon I get a call from the manager of a totally legitimate nudist resort about an hour outside Miami. They were hosting the Miss Nude America Pageant the following weekend and asked me to be a judge, while remaining clothed, myself.
     Being civic-minded, I agreed. The following Saturday I arrived, joined a half-dozen other  judges, both men and women, and participated in selecting a winner. We judges were the only clothed people on the property. We gave serious attention to the thirty or so contestants and made our selection.
     Ken heard about this event and, having a full quota of male hormones, seethed with envy: "How come I never get that kind of offer?" 
     A few weeks later, the same manager of the same resort called and expressed is gratitude to me for having joined the judging panel, then asked if I'd like to return the following weekend to do the same at the MR. Nude America Pageant. I respectfully declined on grounds that I'd made the trip once already.
     Then, inspiration struck. I went down the hall to Ken's office and asked, "You still want to judge a nude beauty pageant?"
     He was delighted and quickly accepted. A bit later, having considered the prospect, he came to my office and said, resignedly, "My wife will never let me go to something like that."
     "No problem," I replied. "It's a totally legitimate place, and they wouldn't mind if you bring her."
     Settled. He'll do it, accompanied by his wife.
     Incidental fact. He often used a part-time employee named Arnold to fill in when his regular newscasters were on vacation. Arnold was about 5'8" and a good 300 pounds.
     Ken and wife arrive at the nudist resort ... are admitted ... and the first person they see upon entry is .. Arnold. Nude.
     Arnold greets them delightedly, asking, "What're you doing here, Ken?"
     Ken responds, eyes cast aside, "Why, uh ... I'm here to judge the beauty pageant."
     "Great," enthuses Arnold. "I'M A CONTESTANT!"

At about midnight, I get a call at home. Since all employees were told that if they needed to to reach me in the evening, they should first call my trusty secretary, Nancy, and she would decide whether to relay their message to me.
     Nancy did call, alarm in her voice. "Ken called and he's going to kill you tomorrow morning."
     Tomorrow came and Ken had calmed down. But there was only a growl in response when I stuck my head into his office and asked, "Got any pictures from the pageant?"

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THE "I" WORD AND THE ELECTION ...
OBAMACARE IS FOR THE GULLIBLE ...
TO SEE OUR FUTURE UNDER OBAMA, LOOK SOUTHWARD

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REALITY CHECK: WHO'S PAYING THE TAXES? ...
OBAMA OBSTRUCTIONISM & GAS PRICES ...
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Is it premature, even unnecessary, to review national priorities? Two things are vital: national security and a healthy population.      Everything else, in varying degrees, is optional. Much of it wasteful pork-barrel spending.

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ORATORY SANS TELEPROMPTER ...
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MEDIA HURRICANE HYPE POLITICAL ...
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OBAMACARE & DEPARTING DOCTORS ...
YOUR OFFICIAL DEM CONVENTION PROGRAM

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