Written By: Bradley A. Blakeman

Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

Now, the Obama administration has moved quietly to cede control of the Web from the United States to foreign powers.

Some background: The Internet came into being because of the genius work of Americans Dr.Robert E. Kahn and Dr. Vinton G. Cerf. These men, while working for the Department of Defense in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the early 1970s, conceived, designed, and implemented the idea of "open-architecture networking."

This breakthrough in connectivity and networking was the birth of the Internet.

These two gentlemen had the vision and the brainpower to create a worldwide computer Internet communications network that forever changed the world and how we communicate in it.

They discovered that providing a person with a unique identifier (TCP/IP) that was able to be recognized and interact through a network of servers would allow users to communicate with others.

The servers would use a series of giant receivers to recognize the identifier and connect networks to networks, passing on information from computer to computer in a seamless real-time exchange of information. This new process of communication became know as the "information super highway," aka, the Internet.

Now for the bad news: In an effort to show the world how inclusive, sharing, cooperative, and international America can be, the Obama administration set off on a plan to surrender control and key management of the Internet by the U.S. Department of Commerce and its agents.

The key to the control America has over the Internet is through the management of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the giant servers that service the Internet.

Domain names are managed through an entity named IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The IANA, which operates on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.

In short, without an IP Address or other essential Internet protocols, a person or entity would not have access to the Internet.

For years, the international community has been pressuring the United States to surrender its control and management of the Internet. They want an international body such as the United Nations or even the International Telecommunications Union, (an entity that coordinates international telephone communications), to manage all aspects of the Internet in behalf of all nations.

The argument advanced for those seeking international control of the Internet is that the Internet has become such a powerful, pervasive, and a dependent form of international communications, that it would be dangerous and inequitable for any one nation to control and manage it.

Just this past spring, within months of Obama's taking office, his administration, through the Department of Commerce, agreed to relinquish some control over IANA and their governance. The Obama administration has agreed to give greater representation to foreign companies and countries on IANA.

This amounts to one small step for internationalism and one giant leap for surrendering America's control over an invention we have every right and responsibility to control and manage.

It is in America's economic and national security interests not to relinquish any control. We are responsible for the control, operation, and functionality of one of the modern world's greatest inventions and most powerful communications network.

What better country to protect the Internet than the United States?

We invented it, and we paid for the research and implementation that made it possible. We are the freest, most tolerant nation on earth, we believe in the fundamental right of free speech, and we practice a free market of commerce and ideas.

America has always been against censorship and has shared its invention with the world without fee or unreasonable or arbitrary restriction. The user fee to operate on the Internet is not one paid to the U.S. government; a consumer pays it to private Internet companies, who provide access to the Internet through servers for their subscribers.

Look no further than China's recent move against Google to censor the Internet, and you can envision what can happen when other nations less free than the United States seek to control the Internet beyond even their own borders.

America needs to wake up. If we lose control over the management of the Internet, we have given away one of our nation's greatest assets with nothing in return to show for it.

The Obama administration's actions will set in motion a slow and complete takeover of the Internet by the United Nations or some other equally U.S.-hostile and unfriendly international body. And once it is gone, it will be gone forever.

The surrender of the Internet will spell disaster for our nation, financially, as well as for safety, security and our standing as a great power that values freedom and the free exchange of ideas and information.

As far as I am concerned, America is still the last best hope for a more peaceful and prosperous world and our president should not be looking for ways to weaken us. Rather, his job is to work to strengthen us and protect our nation's greatest asset our people's creativity and ingenuity.

Bradley A. Blakeman, who was a deputy assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001-20004, teaches Public Policy & Politics & International Affairs at Georgetown University.

Guest Commentary
Source: ALG Daily Grind [02/08/10]

N.C. Schools: "Those Who Erase History…"
By William A. Wilson

It is one thing to forget, ignore or misinterpret our nation's history, but a group of uber-liberal educrats in North Carolina is taking the radical revisionism of America one step further. These politically-correct, taxpayer-funded "thought police" are actually trying to erase American history from our children's textbooks.

What do they want to replace it with? Radical environmental propaganda from left-wing extremists who view American liberties as obstacles to overcome, not safeguards to be defended.

In perhaps the most glaring example to date of our government's descent into socialist madness, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is attempting to remove all American history prior to 1877 from its textbooks, replacing it with a "global studies" curriculum.

Rather than learning about George Washington crossing the Delaware or Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves (while studying from documents like the Declaration of Independence or the Emancipation Proclamation), high school students in North Carolina would instead be indoctrinated with more multicultural rhetoric and the fuzzy science of climate change (while studying form the Koran and the "Copenhagen Accord").

This sort of raw indoctrination is worse than misguided – it's treasonous.

If this new anti-American curriculum is adopted, American children would no longer learn about the principles on which this nation was established – and the blood that was shed in defense of those principles – they would instead be spoon-fed Obama administration talking points on how intolerant, imperialist America owes a huge financial debt to the rest of the world, one that we can start repaying immediately by helping developing nations "combat global warming."

"What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach (history) where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day," the chief academic officer for North Carolina's school system told FOX News.

What rubbish. These government censors are trying to rewrite history, pure and simple.

By removing the entire first century of American history from our children's textbooks, these radicals are doing more than just putting a "liberal spin" on things – they are trying to fundamentally alter the world view of future generations of U.S. citizens. They are trying to rip out American democracy by its roots and replace it with what Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer has dubbed the "New Socialism," the exploitation of climate-based fear-mongering as a means to facilitate a massive wealth transfer from American taxpayers to third-world governments, many of which are hostile to the United States.

Joseph Goebbels would no doubt be proud of such a curriculum – and the objective behind it.

Unable to convince the "America of today" to blindly follow Obama's socialist vision, these "Green Nazis" are endeavoring to create an "America of tomorrow" that is more receptive to their agenda – even as the scientific case for climate change continues to crumble all around them.

This attempted indoctrination must not stand. Not only must this so-called curriculum be rejected, but the educrats pushing it must be dismissed and never allowed near our children again.

An abiding respect and appreciation for America's bedrock freedoms and founding wisdom are the only things currently keeping these socialist hordes from overrunning this county – which is no doubt why they are now being targeted.

America was founded on a set of fundamental principles – a core collection of "self-evident" truths that forms the basis of who we are as a people. We cannot allow those truths to be erased – or those principles to be discarded – for anything, least of all the latest liberal zeitgeist.

Bill Wilson is the president of Americans for Limited Government.

Guest Commentary
Source: Hambo’s E-Mail Inbox

ANATOMY OF A FAILED PRESIDENCY!

The following is an interesting article and I wonder how long Dr. Geoffrey P. Hunt can remain at NIH once the powers that be get wind of this article.

Dr. Hunt is a social and cultural anthropologist. He has had nearly 30 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research in the field of youth studies, and drug and alcohol research. Currently Dr. Hunt is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and the Principal Investigator on three National Institutes on Health projects. He is also a writer for American Thinker.

Another Failed Presidency
An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.

Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.

But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?

No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper.

Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.

In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.

Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.

Guest Commentary
Source: Hambo’s E-Mail Inbox [01/28/10]

[Uncle Jimbo at Black 5 knows this warrior and verifies the legitimacy of his prose. Case closed.]

Letter To President Obama
By Harold Estes

Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

I can't figure out what country you are the president of.

You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: "We're no longer a Christian nation" "America is arrogant" -- (Your wife even announced to the world, "America is mean- spirited." Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said, "America hasn't lived up to her ideals."

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.

You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.

And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes

Consequences
Source: Hambo’s Hammer [01/18/10]

We’ve all heard the mantra that says we must be responsible for our own actions. This axiom means weighing our options, making our decision, then playing that hand until objective reality gives us our report card. How? Life grades us by rewarding, or punishing, us with the consequences for our own actions. Those consequences are a vital part of the ongoing learning process that’s a thrill-inducing feature of life.

This repetitive cycle of actions and consequences is a great character builder. It’s also a spiffy way to expand your vocabulary, when you start learning - and deploying - all those highly expressive, cathartic, four-letter words. Like it or not, you’re not in full blown character building mode, until you start swearing. That’s a sure sign that you’ve just added a whole new level to your character.

As painful as consequences can be, they are a necessary part of life. That’s why it majorly pisses me off, when the Nanny State interferes by softening the blow of adverse consequences, or bringing you down if the consequences are beneficial, enriching.

* I don’t need some Fat Nazi weenie getting between me and what I choose to eat. I don’t need their help on transfats, calorie counts or fat content. I know what’s good and what isn’t. I’ll pick my own foods and let life’s report card - those consequences - tell me how I did.

* I don’t need some Smoke Nazi scumbag hounding me about those cancer sticks. The consequences of smoking are no secret, so they need to get the hell off my back and let me make my own life choices. As a non-smoker - MY CHOICE, not THEIRS - I’m tempted to start smoking, just to piss off the bastards.

* I don’t need some job-for-life Elected Tormentors telling me that lying about my net worth to purchase a house in a market that reeks of ‘bubble about to burst’ is a crappy idea. If I’m that stupid, I deserve to lose my shirt, and my house. Their assistance is not wanted or needed.

* I don’t need some Nanny State Nitwit to tell me that yammering on a cell phone, or texting, while driving is an accident waiting to happen. If I do either, or both, sooner or later I’m going to cause an accident, then the justice system, and my insurance company, will add several levels to my character with some very adverse consequences.

* I know what I’m willing to watch and can determine if a given program is acceptable for any tykes who might be in the room. I’ll handle those decisions, and any adverse, ‘they said a bad word’, consequences. I don’t need the Nanny State’s help with my boob tube and boom box choices.

Where consequences are concerned, nobody eludes them like the same Elected Tormentors who keep intruding on the consequences, adverse or beneficial, of your life. They steal your rightful property, squander it on the most insane crap, then act shocked when they run up an ocean of red ink. Normally, life would mete out harsh punishment. Normally, but not when you’re an Elected Tormentor. They blame it all on the ‘the rich’, rampaging Tea Party Patriots, Dick ‘Darth’ Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, or George W. Bush, steal even more money, then do it all over again.

A lot of times, consequences suck. I get that, but they’re my consequences and I’ll deal with them, myself, without the Nanny State’s help. Unhappily, too many Americans like letting the Nanny State soften life’s blows. That’s why this nation conceived in liberty is rapidly losing its competitive edge.

It’s time to get back to basics. It's time to kick the Nanny State out of our lives. It's time to grow the stones to face life’s ups and downs without some Elected Tormentor rat bastard sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong. Butt out, Elected Tormentor Sparky. That goes double for you, Prompter Punk.

Parting shot: While I’m bloviating about consequences, I’d be remiss, if I didn’t invoke Neal Boortz, at least once. Neal is fond of reminding us that ‘elections have consequences’. He’s right, and that’s especially true in the Bay State where chad punchers will select a replacement for Teddy ‘The Swimmer’ in the United States Senate.

Pollsters have been working overtime devising new loaded questions to elicit their pre-determined responses. As usual, the results vary dramatically, from a ‘dead heat’ to a ‘stunning upset by Elephant Clan challenger Scott Brown’. Polling is an egregiously inexact, unreliable, endeavor, at best, which explains why I don’t trust them, so I'm not buying any of this self-serving 'spin'.

All the usual Libertard suspects seem to be bracing themselves for an upset victory, but I’m not buying that, either. If Demoncrat candidate Martha Coakley reaps the consequences that she sowed with a pathetic campaign, Libertards like Chris ‘The Tingler’ Matthews will say ‘See, I told you so’. If, on the other hand, this Coakley wench wins - and she should in a predominantly Demoncrat state - the Libertards will proclaim that Prompter Punk, singlehandedly, snatched victory from the yawning jaws of defeat.

Is a Demoncrat win a knockout punch for pissed off rational, American adults? Hardly. The fact that Scott Brown scared Prompter Punk out of the Red Shed means that We the People are on the right track and far from ‘irrelevant’.

Is a Scott Brown victory a game changer? I doubt it, but it does make things a tad harder for the Demoncrats running roughshod over our liberty.

Update: When Scott Brown won, he kept ‘game changer’ in play. Does this make it a new ball game inside the D.C. Beltway? It’s still too soon to tell.

Guest Commentary I
Source: PIGster Swine Flew

The five cornerstones of the socialist apocalypse

1. Ignorance. Not only their own arrogant ignorance but a vigorous campaign to keep you ignorant. They deliberately ignore history that does not match their own myopic world view. It does not matter to them that every place that has moved more socialist invariably ends up worse off. If unable to ignore it they show their arrogance by saying it won’t happen this time because they’re smarter. If truly cornered they will resort to changing the subject, infantile name calling, and non-existent “facts” that “everyone” knows are true. They refuse to recognize the U.S. Constitution and if not denigrating it they refer to it as a living document that can be changed by whim. The recent secret meetings on health care “reform” show they know the only way to pass this turkey is to keep you ignorant. They teach your children all of the worst of our history and none of the best. They hide the real climate data. Need I go on?

2. Apathy. They need your apathy. They need you to believe you can’t do anything. They need you to sit on your butt while they steal the country. They need you to think ACORN is not a problem. They need you to not vote, thinking that all politicians are just as bad. They need you to watch “reality” TV instead of paying attention to what is going on. Most of all they need you to keep your mouth shut.

3. Fear. It is important for them to keep you afraid. A good crisis is invaluable to them and if one does not appear they invent one. If they can get you to believe there is a crisis you won’t read the small print. The health care crisis. The homeless crisis. Global warming crisis. The aids crisis. Etc. Etc. Etc. As soon as you get over one, they come up with another. They prevent good people from running by making them afraid all of the petty things they did will be exposed. They shut people up with the fear of ridicule.

4. Greed. They promise something for nothing. They prey on the poor by telling them the rich are rich because they took that money from the poor. They promise the government will support them. They created class envy and feed it every chance they get. They need you to stand out there with your hand out expecting someone else, not you, is going to fix the problem. They come up with imaginary rights to home ownership, health care, and the idea that you deserve something more than a chance. When the wheels fall off, as they always do, it’s always someone else’s fault. There are never consequences for bad judgment unless you are rich, white, conservative, or against them in any way.

5. Arrogance. Blind, absolute, monumental arrogance. They are smarter than you. They know what is best for you. They speak better than you. They care more than you. They truly think that they deserve to be elected. Hillary was crowned the smartest woman in the world. Obama’s moronic apology tour was called confident leadership and diplomacy. By the way, as a side note, the best definition I have found for diplomacy is saying nice doggy while reaching for a club. Nancy stood up in front of us and said the house health care debate was the most open in history. If elected they think they are your leaders, not your employees. They really believe they can get everyone to play nice. If you complain it is because you are too stupid to understand, a liar, cheat, right wing extremist, and/or domestic terrorist. If nothing else works they change the definition of words and blame the republicans.

It is up to you. Don’t be ignorant, don’t let you school system teach lies, and don’t keep your mouth shut when you are being told lies. Find some someone who is willing to put up with the election process and make sure he or she understands the Constitution. Don’t be a single issue voter. If the only thing you care about is abortion or guns then two things happen. One is that the candidate will either lie to you to get your vote or spend several minutes wasting your time saying nothing. Two is all the other things that you don’t care about will bite you after the election. A good, conservative, candidate that will listen can be swayed.

Do get off you butt, do present your point of view, even in the face of ridicule, get the facts and have them ready. Don’t ask the government for anything you can fix yourself. Every time you are moved to say “there aught to be a law” stop, there probably already is. Write your paper, write your congressman, and write your friends. Listen to all points of view, base your point of view on hard facts. Give a helping hand where you can. Go to a TEA party.

Guest Commentary II
Source: Hambo’s E-Mail Inbox

[Official disclaimer: I won’t swear that Dr. Tanay wrote this, but I doubt that it matters. It’s well written and says what needs to be said, needs to be read, and needs to be understood.]

This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.

A GERMAN'S VIEW ON ISLAM
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.

Emanuel Tanay, M.D.

Guest Commentary
Source: Hambo’s E-Mail Inbox

[Disclaimer: I won’t swear that this item contains any legitimate Lee Iacocca quotes, and I’m not sure it really matters. Whoever wrote it is saying what needs to be said and this rant is, therefore, PIG-worthy.]

Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He's now 82 years old and has a new book, 'Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

Lee Iacocca Says:

Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder! We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course...'

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America , not the Titanic'. I'll give you a sound bite: 'Throw all the bums out!'

You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore...

The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs... While we're fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom-poms' instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the 'America' my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?

I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have. The Biggest 'C' is Crisis! (Iacocca elaborates on nine C's of leadership, with crisis being the first.)

Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.

On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A hell of a mess, so here's where we stand.

Were immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.

Obama is running the biggest deficit in the history of the country.

We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.

Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble due to poor leadership in school districts.

Our borders are like sieves.

The middle class is being squeezed every which way.

These are times that cry out for leadership.

But when you look around, you've got to ask: 'Where have all the leaders gone?' Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?

We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.

Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.

Everyone is hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when 'The Big Three' referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.

I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on NBC news or CNN news will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?

Had Enough? Hey, Im not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope - I believe in America . In my lifetime, I've had the privilege of living through some of Americas greatest moments. I've also experienced some of our worst crises: The 'Great Depression,' 'World War II,' the 'Korean War,' the 'Kennedy Assassination,' the 'Vietnam War,' the 1970's oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11.

If I've learned one thing, it's this: 'You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play.

Only a few people in the US know you elected an illegal alien to be President! A Muslim at that! And he jumped right in destroying the US from the inside. Osama bin Laden is smiling from ear to ear because he is winning the war on terror and you helped by voting this man in as President!

That's the challenge I'm raising in this book.. It's a "Call to Action" for people who, like me, believe in America '. It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So lets shake off the crap and go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had enough.'

Make your own contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care about. Its our country, folks, and it's our future. Our future is at stake!!

If you don't think your involvement is necessary you are wrong! Obama does not have America's best interest in mind, only observe what he has done so far. Enough is Enough!

Remembering Liberty
Source: Hambo’s Scribbler Archives

According to the same, inside the D.C. Beltway, Elephant Clan asshats who condemned us to this unrelenting neo-Marxist hell, the era of small, unintrusive government is over. They should know, because they’re the ones who helped drive a stake through its heart with one intrusive, big government stinker after another.

Is a smaller, liberty-enhancing, properly-constitutional government yesterday’s news? Is it dead, buried, and rotting away in an unmarked grave? Has the political spectrum shifted so far to the left that it will never find its way back? Would a 21st century Goldwater or Reagan be labeled an extremist and hounded from the public arena? The RINOs and Libertards want you to think so.

Has the Nanny State’s social engineering produced a critical mass of caterwauling, "what have you done for me lately" Statists? Perhaps. There do seem to be a lot more parasites eager for their turn to play victim and get slopped at the public trough.

Does that reality mean this sovereign individual is ready to give up the fight? Hardly. Before we start shoveling dirt on the Gipper’s shining city on the hill, let’s take a walk down memory lane with some of my favorite passages from two of Reagan’s most memorable speeches:

1st Inaugural
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work--work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.

It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. It is time for us to realize that we're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope.

Farewell Address
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: "We the people." "We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past eight years.

Moving on to Barry Goldwater, I’ll pummel the canard that his ‘time has passed’ with a few of my favorite Goldwater quotes.

“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed'' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents "interests,'' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.”

Here are two exceptional passages from his 1964 acceptance speech:

"Rather than useful jobs in our country, people have been offered bureaucratic "make work," rather than moral leadership, they have been given bread and circuses, spectacles, and, yes, they have even been given scandals. Tonight there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices, aimlessness among our youth, anxiety among our elders and there is a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives. Where examples of morality should be set, the opposite is seen. Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity."

"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."

I respectfully submit that time hasn’t rendered Barry Goldwater’s philosophy obsolete. Time didn’t invalidate his ideas. The only problem I have with Barry Goldwater is that he landed in the Oval Office Derby 44 years before we really needed him.

These ideas don’t come with a "use by" date. They are timeless. Instead of surrendering without a fight, America’s remaining sovereign individuals need to redouble our efforts to take this ideas out of the dust bin, polish them up, then re-introduce them into the ongoing political discussion. We won’t settle for someone who pretends to wear Reagan’s mantle. We need to demand someone who promotes the vision of minimized government and maximized government as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

Guest Commentary
Source: Hambo’s E-mail Inbox [12/19/09]

[This rant is strictly take it or leave it. Conspiracy theory alert. This is NOT a DRILL.]

This analysis by an Australian legal group, expresses a conspiracy theory that deserves some thought on our part.

Yes, read carefully and think about this.

Who are the people behind President Barack Obama?.....or can this man be such a magician to con everyone into believing that he is who he says he is? Can a man with really no background at all, other than being a Community Organizer make the decisions that have come out of the White House this past year? I don't think so! Read what a group of attorneys in Australia have to say about this "unknown"!

The No Bull Newsletter is written by a group of attorneys in Australia . You may learn more about them by googling the name "No Bull Newsletter." This article does give you a great deal to think about!

The NoBull Newsletter

Who's Really Running the Show?

I have been having a nagging intuition lately that something is not quite right about Barack Obama. I am not suggesting there is something wrong with the man, per se. Nor am I talking about the crazy, even dangerous, policies coming out of the White House. No, lately, I have been wondering if Barack Obama is, in fact, the person who is actually functioning as President of the United States.

I mean, there's no doubt that he fills the position of POTUS but is he really the one in command? The man actually seems lost at times. He seems to be reacting to ideas about which he does not really have a clue. He has left the writing of this health care bill to Nancy Pelosi's House of Representatives and she, in turn, has farmed the writing out to several fairly radical community action groups. When questioned about health care, he seems not to know or understand the details and even with his silver-tongue seems unable to demonstrate any leadership on the issue.

With respect to Afghanistan and the rest of our foreign policy, he seems equally lost. Especially when it comes to dealing with other world leaders. He makes beautiful speeches but seems to be unable to cut deals which benefit our nation. He seems to be acting as a pawn of much more clever world leaders.

The more I watch the man, the more I see a person who appears to be the "face" of some other entity or group. He seems like a "front man". And it is becoming clear that his strings are being pulled by someone else. He does not appear to be the man in command of the ship of state. At least, he is not in the driver's seat.

You might recall that people said about Bush that he was a front man for the neo-cons and that it was really Dick Cheney that was running the show. It turns out that Dick Cheney was not as influential in Bush's second term as many thought but, perhaps it is true that the neo-cons, whoever they may be, were pulling some of Bush's strings.

On the other hand, with Obama, it does not appear that there is anyone who is visible to we the people or the media who is pulling the strings. If they are there, they are not in elected positions as Cheney was. They are better hidden than that.

We know that he has been and remains surrounded by life-long radicals, professed communists and anti-capitalists, some of whom he has even appointed as czars in his administration. Thirty six czars, to date. But is it Obama who is picking the czars or is it the czars who are running the show and propping up Obama as their front man?

I know all this may sound crazy but, really, when you look at the man without the idolatry and media worship, does he really look like he knows what he is doing? Does he seem to have a direction? Firm convictions? Something he deeply believes in? The more he talks now, the more his words seems empty of content. Platitudes about America and the American people which, when he says them, simply do not ring true. They are words being mouthed but not believed by him.

Okay, so maybe he is really clever, is firmly moving the ship to the left while mouthing the words of a centrist but I don't think so. What I used to think was that he was a really slick conman who was making us watch his left hand while he was manipulating us with his right. But, now I don't think that so much. I think the man is more plastic than real. Now I begin to see him as the "Great and Powerful Oz": a fearsome presence who is being manipulated by men behind the curtain. And while Obama does not have strong convictions, the men behind the curtain do. And they are moving this country down a dangerous path. All the while, we are being distracted by Obama and what he says and does.

Okay, maybe I am simply a mildly paranoid conspiracy theorist. Why, you might ask, have Obama up there? Why not have one of the actual people behind the curtain run for President. Well, being a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I can come up with an answer to that question. Those other people behind the curtain have backgrounds that are so radical that they would never have made it past the first few days of a campaign. Additionally, they are life-long community organizers and they know what kind of face can be effective if you wish to radically change the nation. First, you need a black man to gain the support of the vast black minority. Second, you need a pale skinned black man so as not to be too much of a threat to white Americans. For the same reasons, you need a mixed race man who allies himself with the poor and down-trodden. And you need someone who speaks well enough to co-opt the language of the right and appear to be a uniter, not a divider. Someone who sees, or at least can articulate, both sides of an issue. This is the kind of man you would pick to be your front man so that while you move things drastically and dramatically left, the vast majority of Americans will not believe that was the intention of the moderate appearing front man.

Yes, Obama was a community organizer. Yes, he could be clever enough to have all this be his idea. But he really wasn't a community organizer for that long. And when he was, he didn't do anything truly radical. It was more a time during which he was being trained than a time when he was driven by a personal sense of commitment to anything in particular. There are people who are now in his government who have been community organizers and radical left wing activists for 20-30 years. These people have deeply ingrained commitments to changing the system and have been actively trying to do so for all that time. Obama is not one of them.

In my view, Obama has been trained and used as a puppet by others for a long time. His successes seem to have come too easily, as if they have been orchestrated. His life appears to have been pre-planned. I mean, Harvard Law Review without publishing a single paper of note. That is unusual. A community organizer for a short time, a State legislator for a few years, a freshman US Senator, a convention key-note speaker, and then POTUS. How does that happen? A person with zero governmental administrative experience is running the entire government of the United States.

How do 1100 page documents get developed and put out in such short order? Who is writing all these proposals? Does it not seem that something is just not quite right here? Forget about the specifics of the policies for the moment. Have you seen this level of activity in the first few months of any other administration in your lifetime? Does Obama seem like the kind of person that could manage this level of activity in so short a time? Too much does not make sense here.

So, slowly but surely, I am becoming convinced that it is not Barack Obama who is running the show. The White House has been captured by a group of people who are using Barack Obama as their front man. He is nothing but an articulate but empty suit. We have to start looking behind the curtains to find out who is really controlling the "great and powerful Obama".

Something to think about....

Guest Commentary
Source: Hambo’s E-mail Inbox

[Old Frank launched another PIG-worthy gem, this week.]

More Awful, Horrid, Stupid, B.S. from the Goracle and the Main Fault Again Missed by the MSM

Dear Friends:

Day before yesterday, the Goracle was pontificating before the world’s worthies at Copenhagen and erroneously claimed that a prominent scientist had forecast a 75% probability that the Arctic ice polar cap would be completely gone by 2014. The scientist immediately refuted Gore’s remarks, denying any such precise prescience on his part. The mainstream media caught that and reported it; but, what they missed from Gore’s truly idiotic remarks was the stupidity of his follow-on sentence: “…There are more than a billion people on the planet who get more than half of their drinking water – many of them all of their drinking water from the seasonal melting of snow melt and glacier ice...”

Has this boob – or the any of the MSM ever looked at an atlas? What connection would there be between a melting polar ice cap and the drinking water of “more than a billion people…”? In the first place, the arctic is scarcely populated. There aren’t any farms up there and only a few hardy Innuits, Siberian natives, Eskimos, Amerindians and Laplanders across the Arctic Circle survive by chasing down seals, whales, and an occasional caribou. No billions there, or even millions either. Arctic ice, if it fails to form or melts, remains as salt water – which no one can or does drink.

Now, all can agree that glacial and annual snow melt is an important source for large numbers of people around the world – but those folks are NOT at the north pole. And, “warming” has little to do with glacial retreat or lack of snowpack. (For those who followed my earlier paper on the nonsense of the retreating snow cap on Kilimanjaro and adiabatic lapse rates, please forgive the repetition here.) As our atmosphere thins as altitude increases, it loses its ability to hold heat, and gets drier. It does this at a long established scientifically proved given rate called the adiabatic lapse rate. So any mountain range with peaks at 12000 feet or higher will be snow capped all year long– if any moisture falls or has fallen during the year. If the climate is in a drier cycle (hardly a new, or unique phenomenon -- recall the Biblical record of Joseph who read Pharaoh’s dream of the seven fat cows and the seven lean cows) there is less moisture to fall as rain or snow – and thus less snow to melt at the lower altitudes of the mountain ranges. As most Californians realize, the extended drought there has had an impact on snow pack in the Cascades and is the cause of the resultant drawdown of the reservoirs that serve California’s major cities. Warming has nothing to do with it. California has always been warm.

So Algore conflates Arctic melting cycles with drinking water in California and the MSM completely misses the foolishness of his statement! With the willing assistance of the media, the Algores of this world are frightening our children with their horrific distortions and falsified “science.” The high priests of warming insist that 2,000 scientists agree with them that the planet is in peril because of mankind’s impact on climate – regardless of what their own e-mails and databases reveal to the contrary. Meanwhile there are 30,000 plus physical scientists in the U.S. alone, who DISAGREE with them. The “science” is hardly “settled” and the majority of participants at Copenhagen are politicians with no sense of physics, or science of any kind, and who are salivating at the prospect of greater control over our lives and ever higher taxes with which to enforce such controls, under the false guise of anthropogenic “climate change.”

Al Gore is a charlatan – a particularly dangerous one because he believes his own b.s.

Share this if you wish.

Old Frank

A Sovereign Individual Bitch-Slaps The AARP
Source: PIG’s E-mail Inbox [12/10/09]

[We’re told that this letter to a Mr. Rand, Executive Director of the AARP is, Snopes certified as ‘real’, but I’m not sure that it really matters. What does matter is the fact that the writer(s) of this gem NAILED IT.]

Dear Mr. Rand,

Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed membership in AARP by the requested date. I know it is not what you were looking for, but this is the most honest response I can give you. Our gap in coverage is merely a microscopic symptom of the real problem, a deepening lack of faith.

While we have proudly maintained our membership for several years and have long admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer endorse it's abdication of our values. Your letter specifically stated that we can count on AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours. Your offer of being kept up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents neither an impartial view nor the one we have come to embrace. We do believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything presented to them, one is probably not necessary. But, when the opinions and long term goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce is imminent. This is the philosophy which spawned our 200 years of government.

Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior demographic. We also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we could not possibly hope to achieve on our own. AARP gave us a sense of belonging which we no longer enjoy. The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama administration and empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of interest there!

We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the guiding forces that we expected to map out our senior years and leave your ranks with a great sense of regret. We mitigate that disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership. There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities.

This Presidential Administration scares the living daylights out of us. Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and bloodstained heritage. But even more importantly for our children and grandchildren. Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic. I have never in my life endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find myself listening to them. I don't have to agree with them to appreciate the fear which birthed their existence. Their borderline insanity presents little more than a balance to the voice of the Socialist Mindset in power. Perhaps I became American by a great stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the responsibilities it requires.

Your website generously offers us the opportunity to receive all communication in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING??? Someone has broken into our 'house', invaded our home without our invitation or consent. The President has insisted we keep the perpetrator in comfort and learn the perp language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome to them.

I DON'T choose to welcome them.
I DON'T choose to support them.
I DON'T choose to educate them.
I DON'T choose to medicate them, pay for their food or clothing.

American home invaders get arrested.

Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on American soil that Americans do not get?

Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and others only have to break & enter to be welcomed?

We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there. He meets more people than a politician on caffeine overdose. Of all the many good folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE supporter of the current administration. One of us is out of touch with mainstream America . Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have more faith in it than one which is power driven.

We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will encourage them to do the same. With several hundred in my address book, I have every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a credible statement to you.

I am disappointed as hell.
I am scared as hell.
I am MAD as hell, and I'm NOT gonna take it anymore!

Walt & Cyndy

Hambo Rant of the Week
Source: Hambo’s Hammer [12/06/09]

Questions

Here, in no particular order, are some burning, pagan scribbler questions.

Item 1
Messiah Barry and his merry band of Marxists are headed across the pond again, to pick up his Piece of Crap prize, then spread his special brand of joy at the Copenhagen Climate Confab. I have no problem with Barry getting out of Dodge, since it’s the most civilized thing he can do. I do, however, wonder why we the people keep letting him back in the country, after he leaves.

Item 2
By all reports, we the people are paying a very high price to protect Capitol Hill from a terrorist attack. Why are we so worried about some rampaging Jihadikaze attacking the Capitol from the outside, when there are 535 asshats already inside the building who TERRORIZE us on a DAILY basis?

Item 3
Iran is pissing and moaning about ‘religious tolerance’, because Swiss voters imposed a constitutional ban on building new minarets inside their country. When a ‘behead all infidels and nuke the Jews’ outpost of 7th century supernaturalism starts spouting drivel about religious tolerance, why isn’t everyone laughing like a mental patient and nominating Mahmoud al-Gilligan for a comedian of the year award?

Item 4
For the next week, all the Globally Warmed moonbats will be trading reality-insulated whoppers in Copenhagen. Instead of news vans, cameras, and microphones, why aren’t we deploying an army of straightjacket wielding mental health professionals to round them up, then cart them off to the proverbial ‘controlled environment’?

Item 5
I keep reading about major Sanctuary City of Angels water mains rupturing. The so-called experts can’t explain it, but I might be able to give them a kick in the right direction. Has anyone bothered to compute the destructive power of the gravity well generated by Kim Kardashian’s colossal caboose?

Item 6
How warped is Capitol Hill, when a fringe dwelling funster like Ron Paul is the sanest one of the bunch?

Item 7
Wouldn’t it be much, much, cheaper for the Crash Test Dummy to hire high priced call girls to haul his ashes when he feels the need?

Item 8
Wouldn’t it be much simpler, for all concerned, if one of Tiger’s posse simple issued a list - a very SHORT list - of waitresses whom the Crash Test Dummy didn’t bone?

Item 9
Given America's dangerous libertard tilt, is it really safe for Oprah to relocate her fat ass to the LEFT COAST?

Item 10
Now that the Colonistas have transformed the once 'Golden' State into a third world cess pool, is there some heretofore undisclosed, compelling, reason we shouldn't give Mexifornia back to Mexico?

Guest Commentary
Source: Our E-Mail Inbox

I don’t know who wrote this, nor do I care. Whoever it is NAILED it.

George Bush Was an Idiot... or Was He?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had miss-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in just a few months – so you'll have three years plus to come up with an answer.

George W. Bush certainly had his faults and his share of bad decisions, but nothing in the order of what Obama creating.

 

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