LEE RODGERS
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August 6 --

IGNORANCE AND KILLING ...
PROJECTING ONE'S OWN VIEWS ...
THE OBAMA CURSE & GASOLINE PRICES

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.

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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."

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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.

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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.
     "A subsidiary of MTN Group, a South Africa-based telecommunications company, paid Plouffe for two speeches he made in Nigeria in December 2010."

A skeptic might wonder just what Obama's campaign manager could possibly say that was worth a hundred grand. Surely this company that also does business with the government of Syria couldn't have been trying to buy White House influence -- could they?

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Jonah Goldberg to The Daily Caller ...
     “The cult of youth politics in this country, generally speaking from the left, is that young people simply because they are eager and they are passionate they must also be right. That is not a civilized understanding of politics. Barbarians are enthusiastic and excited.”

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I just took a very simple political quiz created by Pew Research, the polling firm. Thirteen questions, all easily answered by anyone with the most superficial knowledge of issues and history. I was surprised that only 8% of us answered all thirteen correctly. (Sample questions: Which party, Republican or Democrat, generally believes in smaller government? Which believes in higher taxes?)
     More surprising -- and depressing -- was the summary of results from all persons taking the test and learning that 35% were unable to answer even HALF correctly.
     Yet many of the people interested enough to even take the test doubtless vote. In light of that assumption, it's no wonder this country is in one HELL of a mess. And no wonder, to repeat my mantra of longstanding, "We live ... in a land ... run by morons." We live in a land where a large percentage of the voting population is made up of morons.

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The quote about Americans by the great man of the 20th century, Winston Churchill ...
     "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else."

Our election choices repeatedly illustrate the point.

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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.
     "As one who was born in the heart of Boston and worked the political world of Washington for 20 years, I know quite a few Democrats. Some are family, and many are close friends. Most voted for Obama in 2008. None at this point is inclined to vote for him in 2012.
     "Why? Because they view him as an abject failure across the board and have decided to put the welfare of their families and themselves before the empty rhetoric of the Obama campaign before it's too late.
     "Because of my time in Washington and past positions there, I also know and am friends with quite a few journalists. I speak with many on a regular basis, and it's safe to say that the majority of them lean left politically.
     "That said, in off-the-record conversations with my left-leaning journalistic friends, not one believes Obama is going to win re-election. Not one. While most believe Mitt Romney to be a weak candidate, they are still convinced that he will comfortably defeat Obama on Nov. 6."

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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.)

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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.

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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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Professor Walter E. Williams discusses the mania for racial "proportionality" ...    
      "Jews are not even 1 percent of the world's population and only 3 percent of the U.S. population, but they are 20 percent of the world's Nobel Prize winners and 39 percent of U.S. Nobel laureates. That's a gross statistical disparity, but are the Nobel committees discriminating against the rest of us? Jews won 27 percent of Nobel Prizes won by Germans.
      "Nearly 80 percent of the players in the National Basketball Association in 2011 were black, and 17 percent were white, but if that disparity is disconcerting, Asians were only 1 percent. Compounding the racial disparity, the highest-paid NBA players are black. That gross disparity works the other way in the National Hockey League, in which less than 3 percent of the players are black. Blacks are 66 percent of NFL and AFL professional football players, but among the 34 percent of other players, there's not a single Japanese player.        
     "There are some other disparities that might bother the diversity people. Asians routinely get the highest scores on the math portion of the SAT, whereas blacks get the lowest. Men are about 50 percent of the population, and so are women, but there's the gross injustice that men are struck by lightning six times as often as women."

The entire article is at Townhall.com. For those unacquainted with his work ... Prof. Williams is black.

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The Olympic Games remind me of a minor annoyance.
     In these days of struggling real estate markets, I fully support the nation's real estate brokers and agents. I do wish, however, they would stop lying in their advertising about one nice luxury.
    Either out of ignorance or intent to mislead, they toss around the term "Olympic-size swimming pool" and apply it to anything larger than a puddle.
     There are specific requirements meet the qualifications for an Olympic-size pool, and you won't find them met in many backyards.
     The exact dimensions are 50 meters (about 164 feet) long, 25 meters wide, at least two meters deep.
     Thank you. Now ... tell us more about those granite counter-tops, stainless steel appliances and the home theater.

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Reader Curtis forwards this timeless wisdom ...
     "Socialism is the cow of many; well-milked and badly fed." -- Spanish proverb

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Jim Eason forwards a dictionary of medical terms as interpreted by rednecks (not to be disparaging; they're folk who work outside in the sun) and explains why they suffer less stress. For example ...
    Artery                 The study of paintings
    Bacteria              Back door to a cafeteria
    Barium                What doctors do with dead patients
    Cauterize            Made eye contact with her
    Coma                  A punctuation mark
    Dilate                  To live a long time    
    Fibula                  A small lie
    Impotent              Distingushed, well known
    Node                    I knew it
    Rectum                Nearly killed him
    Seizure                 Roman emperor
    Terminal illness    Sick at the airport

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The Sky-guy recalls a Henny Youngman classic ...
     I told the doctor "I broke my leg in two places."
     He told me, "quit going to those places..."
Lee Rodgers"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."
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