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CREATIVE OLYMPIC IDEAS ...
TEA'd UP AND CRUZ-IN' INTO THE SENATE ... MITT MAKES MUSLIM MADNESS MANIFEST 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
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... 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. - - - - -
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." - - - - -
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."- - - - -
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).
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." - - - - -
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.
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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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