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Idle thought while watching the Olympics ...
     Since they're forever dreaming up contrived new sports to include in the games ("rhythmic gymnastics," "synchronized diving"), why not "gymnastics for people weighing more than 120 kilograms -- 265 pounds?"
     Imagine the visual appeal of the vault ... men on the pommel horse ... women on the balance beam and uneven parallel bars ...
     ... and why not include larger folk in the diving events? Picture the "cannonball" possibilities ...

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More Olympic news ...
     Tunisia's basketball coach slapped one of his players just before they played the U.S. team.
      Has Bobby Knight been conducting coaching clinics in North Africa?

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Win an Olympic medal, pay the IRS. No kidding! The Weekly Standard summarizes the silliness ...
     "Americans who win bronze will pay a $2 tax on the medal itself. But the bronze comes with a modest prize—$10,000 as an honorarium for devoting your entire life to being the third best athlete on the planet in your chosen discipline. And the IRS will take $3,500 of that, thank you very much.
     "There are also prizes that accompany each medal: $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze. Silver medalists will owe $5,385. You win a gold? Timothy Geithner will be standing there with his hand out for $8,986.
     "So as of this writing, swimmer Missy Franklin—who's a high school student—is already on the hook for almost $14,000. By the time she's done in the pool, her tab could be much higher. (That is, unless she has to decline the prize money to placate the NCAA—the only organization in America whose nuttiness rivals the IRS.)"

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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.

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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!

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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."

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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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John Sununu nailed it in response to Juan Williams' observation that Romney's had "a bad couple of days on his European trip."
    "Yeah, he had a rough week. Obama gets endorsed by Hugo Chavez and Mitt Romney gets endorsed by Lech Walesa."

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Think maybe Chicago Mayor Rahm "Tiny Dancer" Emanuel ought to be more concerned about his city's horrendous murder rate than Chick-fil-A violating his perception of "Chicago values?"

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Is Shepard Smith of Fox News auditioning for a job at MSNBC?
If not, why the gratuitous shot at the big turnout yesterday by customers supporting Chick-fil-A, referring to it as a "National Day of Intolerance?"
     Wonder if he and Anderson Cooper of CNN have something to tell us.

This genre of reporting appears to be part of an ongoing trend at Fox News. Between O'Reilly's egomaniacal bombast and the growing inane silliness of their morning show (I expect a segment featuring flatulence accompanied by yodeling any day) the channel is increasingly unwatchable.

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Headline from THE SMOKING GUN ...
     "Kansas Couple Arrested For Walmart Sex"

Well, after all, it's a good place to get 30% off (which you can interpret in various ways).

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A loony lefty's view of an Obama defeat ...
     "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 Patriot Post offers this reminder from a founder of this nation ...
     "To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson

For the semi-literate products of what passes for the U.S. educational system, it would best be explained to them thusly: "To take the earnings of someone who's worked and give them to a freeloader is wrong."

That, of course, is the core philosophy of the Democratic Party:
"You work, we steal it from you."

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A true news story ... plus today's most esoteric humor ...
     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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Argus Hamilton --
       "The White House expressed concern about the frim economic forecast .  Last night a man jumped the White House fence, but after a brief chase the secret Service was able to talk Barack Obama into coming back and finishing his term."
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