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KERRY: ANOTHER LEFTIST MOVES UP …
ARMED DEFENSE IN SCHOOLS? MEDIA CRINGE …
FISCAL CLIFF-NOTES

Re the Kerry nomination to Secretary of State:
    It's an amazing evolution. Historically, incompetent or otherwise questionable political allies of presidents were given appointive positions; ambassadorships to Luxembourg or Mali, perhaps. Somewhere they could cause little harm. Now they're handed the post of Secretary of State. A better illustration of the Peter Principle – people being promoted to their level of incompetence – could hardly be found.

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Perhaps the new Secretary of State should give some consideration to this:
    1.- China has provided materials and expertise for Iran's nuclear program, while …
    2.- Demanding that the U.S. government disarm its citizens.
    Hold no such expectations for the Hero of Vietnam, leftist demonstrator, the man who was “for the Iraq war until I was against it” and good friend of Assad, the Syrian dictator.

    One thing consistent about Kerry: America's avowed enemies adore him, going back to his playing footsie with the Viet Cong while we were at war with them and accusing fellow GIs in Vietnam of atrocities.

    And the sick joke that IS the Obama administration continues ...


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If you think things are bad now, just wait until Obama gets to pick a fifth liberal for the Supreme Court. America will become unrecognizable.
     Word to the wise: Keep your passport updated. You can't board a plane out of the country without it.

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Reader David foresees parts of the forthcoming confirmation hearings on John Kerry's nomination to be Secretary of State …  
   
When asked if he was familiar with Al Qaeda, Mr. Kerry responded... "You bet!  He hosts the all night jazz show on NPR.  Never miss it."   

   
Regarding an earlier observation of the French Escargot, the senator reaffirmed ..."Well, until they come out with an SUV, I'm probably stickin' with the Escalade."    
   
When quizzed on how America should be dealing with climate change, candidate Kerry advised..."Personally, I'd go with tank tops and huaraches.  But that's just me."
                  
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Time to revive the joke popular during Kerry's abortive run for The Big Job …
    Horse walks into bar. Bartender says, “Why the long face?”

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Is public common sense actually overriding the political posturing and media madness in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre?
    The Gallup poll asked people what was the best among several choices to deal with the threat. The winner: An armed police presence. “Armed” being the key word.

    Meantime, the internet is circulating a number of photos show the solution adopted by Israel, a nation under constant terrorist threat but whose schools are rarely targeted by Muslims who are otherwise not reluctant to kill children. The Israeli answer is simple:             Teachers with guns and the ability to use them.


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"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." – National Rifle Ass'n. CEO Wayne LaPierre
     For all the media criticism of his remarks, that remains an indisputable fact.

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Mark Steyn looks past the media/politico hysteria to a vital truth …
    “The media's stampede for meaning in massacre this past week overlooks the obvious: that the central meaning of these acts is that they are without meaning.”
… and from history …
    “(King) Herod and the Pennsylvania Indians murdered children in pursuit of crude political goals; the infanticidal maniac of Sandy Hook was merely conscripting grade-school extras for a hollow act of public suicide. Like most mass shootings, his was an exercise in hyper-narcissism.”

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Argus Hamilton --
     "L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck announced that his officers will begin making daily patrols at schools in L.A. It's a combustible mix. The L.A. cops are all fit and in uniforms and when the schoolteachers fall for them, their jilted student lovers could become violent."

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One can only speculate on when Obama organizes the Big Media “journalists” into a government agency called something like “The Ministry of Truth,” an appropriate name for a bureaucracy dedicated to lying on behalf of the administration. Virtually every dictatorship has such a department.

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Small wonder government payrollers don't worry about the wretched economy …
    According to Bureau of Economic Analysis data analyzed by the Cato Institute, federal civilian employees in 2011 averaged $128,226 in total compensation ($84,671 in wages and $43,555 in benefits).


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Burt Prelutsky views the “fiscal cliff” – in the rear-view mirror …
    “All the talk about going over the financial cliff strikes me as sheer balderdash. Obama and the Democrats, with their outrageous spending and their refusal to even pass a budget, took us over the edge a long time ago. Just because we haven’t quite reached the rocks below doesn’t mean we’re not going to go splat in the near future.
    “We’re exactly in the same position that Wile E. Coyote is in every time he runs off the cliff’s edge and for a second or two seems to have vanquished gravity as he hovers in mid-air. But no matter how quickly he kicks his feet, the ground is his destiny.”

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“Standard and Poor's won't degrade U.S. credit ... but they did name Confederate bonds their Pick of the Week.” – Argus Hamilton

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Another liberal example of, “Do as I say, not as I do” …
    "The New York Times reports 'Charlie Rose and his production company have agreed to pay as much as $250,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a former unpaid intern who claimed minimum-wage violations.'" – Media Research Center

Wondering out-loud …

    Does Charlie keep those bags under his eyes to avoid airline luggage charges?


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Jonah Goldberg's observations on the Democrat obsession with race – as a campaign tool …
    “When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow?
    “I was in the room when, during the Democratic convention, civil rights hero John Lewis suggested that Republicans wanted to "go back" to the days when black men like him could be beaten in the street by the enforcers of Jim Crow. I thought it an outrageous and disgusting bit of demagoguery. The audience of Democratic delegates cheered in a riot of self-congratulation.
    “It's bizarre. I spend most of my time talking or listening to fellow conservatives, and I never hear anybody talk about wanting anything of the sort. But to listen to liberals, that's all we care about.”

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A three-time member of the U.S. Olympic team, Suzy Favor Hamilton, admits a second career of selling her … ahem … favors … for $600 per hour. This puts her on the same moral level as many of the members of the International Olympic Committee, who've been alleged to be whores for decades.

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Reader Robert contributes this parable …
    The Governor of  California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.
    1.  The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
    2.
    He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating  it.          
    3.  He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.     
    4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.         
    5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of  dangerous animals.    
    6. The  Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area.     
    7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.         
     8. The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the  attack. The State spends  $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with  additional special training  re: the nature of coyotes.     

     9. PETA protests the coyote's  relocation and files a $5 million suit against the State.


TEXAS :
The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.  A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
    1.  The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging.  The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
    2.  The Buzzards eat the dead coyote.
 And that is why California is broke and Texas is not.


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Dismaying news from India, where a man has been living in a tree since learning his wife had been unfaithful.
He says he won't come down until she apologizes.

The wife won't even visit his tree, evidently preferring to get her wood elsewhere.


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Craig Ferguson --
     "Actress Anne Hathaway was photographed stepping out of a car last week with no underpants on.  That's still not as embarrassing as the time she hosted the Oscars.  You know the economy is bad when the most successful celebrities can't afford underwear."

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