No S--t, Dick Tracy!

Mugabe wins re-election in Zimbabwe. Did anybody doubt it, with his thugs running around the country maiming and killing people who voted against him? Those who had the guts, that is. Funny. This is the way most dictators win their sham "elections," but apparently, Mugabe doesn't care who knows it. I've always wondered how Saddam won his last "election" by 100%! I guess this is how, only he did a better job of keeping it a secret. The second-to-last "election," he only won by 90%. I guess he murdered that 10% who didn't vote for him before the next "election." I wonder who these "tin-pot dictators" think they're fooling. It's interesting that reporters were called to the "Presidential Palace" even before the results were announced, and he was "inaugurated" within seconds of the "election" being called "official." What a "dog-and-pony-show " THAT was! (Yahoo News)

Iran "Threatens" U. S.

What Idiots these Iranian politicians are! To think that threatening America would "intimidate" us. If we really wanted to, we could make a "steaming pile of manure" out of their entire country in a few hours. Or we could take it over in a week (They are WORKING ON a "nuclear deterrent" but have none they could use now). Israel IS a "nuclear power and if they wanted, could put one right on top of the Iranian government center. So if I were the Iran government, I'd shut up about what they're "going to do" to the U. S. and Israel and "lay low" until what they've already said is forgotten, as such things are in politics. Iranian politicians mouths are bigger than their ability to respond. Like most Islamic terrorists (and Iran IS an "Islamic terrorist state"), they "flap their gums" a lot, hoping they can intimidate countries that could "wipe them off the face of the Earth" into deciding not to. Or maybe like most Islamic terrorists, they want to be martyrs. Well, we can certainly accommodate them, there. (Pat Gray)

"Oops! Never Mind!"

Remember the big "tomato recall? They thought a certain kind of tomato was responsible for an outbreak of salmonella, and subsequently ruined many tomato growers and sellers. Then they said, "Never mind." It might not be tomatoes after all. This practice of attempting to lay blame for such things before all the facts are in isn't right. They say they have to "keep ahead of it" so people don't die. Sounds good. But that doesn't keep the people who are now out of business because of mistaken early estimates of blame. So should they wait before attempting to lay blame while people die? No. People should be told. But they should be told with a proviso that what they "suspect" might not really be the cause. (Statesman)

"Ahnold's" Blowing Smoke

But how can he avoid it, with 100 fires going in his state, and smoke covering it? Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, said today that "politicians who suggest that lifting a ban on offshore oil drilling would ease rising fuel prices in the US were "blowing smoke." Actually, "Ahnold" is blowing smoke. He has "bought" AlGore's global warming swindle hook, line and sinker, and I'm betting that will "sink" "Ahnold" in the long run. He ran as a "conservative" and we warned you he was NOT a conservative, and look at how he has governed. I'm glad he beat Grey Davis,(who really needed beating) but now we need a REAL conservative in California. Like most states run by liberals, California has some of the highest taxes and silliest laws and "regulations" going. And "Ahnold" goes right along with it. I suspect California liberals knew what he was, which is why they allowed him to run, and win. It's too bad California doesn't have another Reagan to take over and make things better for them, even if they don't realize it. (Rush Limbaugh)

Washington, DC Gun Ban

You can now own a gun in Washington, DC, but you'd better keep it at home because the Supreme Court decision didn't change that, or any of the other "reasonable regulation" of guns in this nation; only a BAN on gun ownership. The decision said, " No government has the right to mandate that. "Undoubtedly, some think the Second Amendment is outmoded in our society, where our standing army is the pride of our nation, where well trained police forces provide personal security and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable. But what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct. [It cannot. -RT] We affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals. It is so ordered." American citizens can now OWN a gun for self-protection. "It is so ordered." Frankly, with some of the "reasonable restrictions" I've seen, such as the "gun lock" that allows the illegally armed criminal to kill you while you're trying to get your gun lock open are killing people, as are most of the other "reasonable restrictions" on gun ownership. The fact is, "gun laws" are killing people, right and left, and need to be changed. This decision is nothing but a "good start." (Rush Limbaugh)

Spending YOUR Money

In Miami, Florida, they're spending $347 million on a new stadium, WITHOUT input from the people from whom they "extracted" the money. They're also "loaning" the stadium people another $35 million (does anybody ever expect to see any of that money back?). They're doing the same in cities across the nation without major fanfare. I don't go to baseball games; or football games; or soccer games; or any other events that take place in stadiums. Yet Denver, where I live, has spent their own millions on THREE new stadiums, just since I've lived here. They've also torn down several at the same time. Nobody ever asked ME for permission. What the hell gives the local government the right to SUBSIDIZE one kind of private business (such as a football team) and not another (such as MY business)? I guess politicians just think the money they spend is theirs to spend the way they want to spend it. (Common Sense)

Rush's "Pearls of Wisdom"

Rush says, "McCain's going to try to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and won't raise taxes other than for global warming stuff. We'll work on that." Rush thinks he can "work with" McCain's "buying" the global warming swindle. I say that if McCain isn't smart enough to recognize this swindle for what it is, he has no business being in the White House. Unfortunately, he's all we have this time around. (Just common sense)

"Excess Profits?" Gimme A Break!

The liberals, who CREATED the fuel price problem by their insane environmental policies, now want to tax the oil companies even more to "solve" the problem THEY caused. How stupid is that? The price of gas and oil already contains taxes that amount to THREE TIMES what the oil companies make per gallon, and that's not even including the 'hidden taxes" they pay before the gas and oil even gets to us--and that they pass on to us. The fact is, the people making the MOST MONEY on oil and gas are the government! When are the people going to get this through their thick skulls and tell the liberals in our government to GO TO HELL! How much more are we going to allow those liberals to manipulate us before we get rid of them? I recommend throwing every liberal politician now in office OUT of office. Even if we manage to elect more liberals (which is not only possible, but probable) that will send a message to those neophyte liberals that we aren't going to stand for their crap any more. "It seems hard to believe today, but world oil prices briefly drifted below $11 a barrel in 1998. Not surprisingly, few lawmakers in Congress took that opportunity to denounce 'unconscionably excessive' price declines. You never hear about such things because there's nothing to gripe about. (The New York Times), fer Gawdsake!

Who MADE The "Oil Crisis?"

We haven't built a single oil refinery in more than THIRTY YEARS because of irresponsible and stupid environmental policies, foisted upon us by just as irresponsible and stupid politicians who have made laws and regulations that have made it so complicated and expensive to do to that no one has bothered. At the same time, they have (the same people) prevented us from drilling anywhere the United States "runs things." Meanwhile, the DEMAND for oil, not just in this country, but elsewhere that oil and gas was NOT a "big item," such as communist China, has grown so fast, we couldn't keep up with it if we COULD drill and refine oil in this country. If you wanted to destroy the American economy, you couldn't do a better job of it than they are doing. And now they're demanding an "excess profits tax"--again! They do that every time oil and gas prices go up. To "Solve" a problem THEY created! MiGawd! How stupid do they think the American people are? They don't REDUCE taxes on oil when prices (rarely) go down. (Ann Coulter)

"Communize" Lunch?

Senator Feinstein wants to "privatize" the Senate-operated restaurants almost no senators use because the food and service is so (predictably) bad, being run by the government. "Feinstein has opponents. Another Democrat, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, says it’s hypocritical for his colleagues to condemn privatization of workers generally, but then 'privatize the workers here in the Senate and leave them out on their own.' So, what should we do, Senator? Communize the whole economy so no responsible adult is ever 'out on his own'? Menendez is right about the contradiction, but not about how to resolve it. Amtrak? The post office? Both should be out on their own. Along with Senate food service." Senators regularly go over to the House lunchroom because it IS "privately-run," and run well. It's an excellent example of the difference in what happens when the government OR private enterprise runs the same kind of thing. They criticize putting people "out on their own." Looks like being "out on their own" is best for them. (Common Sense)

Treating Legal Gun Dealers Like Criminals

Or like tax-evaders. When the IRS comes after you, there are several layers of "tax courts" you must go through (at your expense) before you can appeal your case to a REAL court. By this time, you are broke (if you weren't broke when you started, after the IRS took all your money). Now the BATFE is on a "jihad" against legal gun dealers, where when they "come after you," you must similarly "plead your case" before at least one "BATFE Court," where you predictably almost always lose before you can get before a REAL court. Not only that, since the term "manufacturing a gun" is not DEFINED anywhere, they can define it any way they want. They can take something you're doing legally and make it ILLEGAL, simply my DEFINING it so. Talk about totalitarian! (Freep)

They're Getting Frightened!

School "officials are getting very frightened by the fact that home schooled children are routinely outperforming public school children in every way possible. So now they're trying to force home schooling parents to get "teaching credentials" and "follow the same rules" as public school teachers do." Which means teaching what they're TOLD to teach, which, of course, means "conditioning" their children to believe that collectivism is better than individualism and that socialism is the best way to govern (which, of course, is why public school students learn nothing). In Germany, there's a prosecutor who took a home-school parent to court and obtained a conviction and a $1,500 fine. But he wasn't satisfied. He brought them back to court and demanded they be JAILED. That tells me they're "scared to death" that home-schooled children are successfully bypassing the public school "conditioning factories" and they just can't have that. (Los Angeles Times)

Blame "Big Oil" For YOUR Mistakes

Then "take it over." That seems to be the scam now working in Congress. It is "regulations" and laws fomented by this and earlier congresses that CAUSED the "oil crunch" that led to the increasing gasoline prices, yet some congressmen want to "take over" the oil companies so they can run them to suit themselves and screw it up even more. THEY mandated no drilling offshore, and made drilling ANYWHERE nearly impossible. At the same time, THEY made restrictions so tight that we haven't been able to build a new oil refinery in more than THIRTY YEARS. That GUARANTEED that the oil production in this country would go WAY down. Now that it has, they blame "big oil" and want to "take them over." What could be stupider than that? Put the management in the hands of the very people who screwed everything up in the first place? Sheesh! How stupid ARE we? They also want to TAKE the supposed "excess profits" the oil companies have been making (forgetting entirely that the GOVERNMENT made even MORE without investment of time OR money ($30 million taxes vs. $28 million oil company profits, dwarfed by other businesses). What FOOLS do they take us for? What FOOLS are they? What they want is a new "power grab," it's as simple as that. (The Washington Examiner)

"We Can't Drill Our Way Out of This"

That's what liberals say while pleading with Arab potentates to "help us by drilling their way out of this." How ignorant do they think we are? Do they think we don't know about this? Or that we don't understand what they're doing? How ignorant are THEY? Don't they know how we GET oil in the first place? We DRILL for it, if they let us. But they don't LET us. They make laws and regulations that make drilling AND refining almost impossible, then blame the VICTIM, the oil companies, and want to "take them over" and/or tax what profits they DO make, ignoring the fact that the government made more than THEY did, without any investment of their own. A "global warming swindler," Dr. Johnson (the very man who STARTED the "global warming swindle, before AlGore, even!) now wants to put oil executives IN JAIL for "lying" about global warming, for telling us the TRUTH about their swindle. Where the hell does he get the gonads to do this? I thought AlGore had "big ones" to call those who disagreed with his swindle "global warming deniers." But this really "takes the cake." I agree with one of the commenters on this web site: "We ought to put "left-wing weather scientists on trial for "high crimes against humanity and nature." (Freep)

It's Not News!

Top news executives, when asked why they ignore such successes as "a 90% reduction in roadside bombs in Iraq," they say "no violence is NOT NEWS! I've said before that liberals are not rational, but this proves it. Do they really think we buy this nonsense? No rational person would, so that's why they expect us to do so. They're not rational. They ignore ALL our advances in Iraq because they told us "the war was lost" a long time ago, and they can't stand it when the facts prove them wrong. What idiots they are! (Rush Limbaugh)

Supreme Court "Stripping Away" Your Rights

Because in short order -- in just seven or eight days -- the Supreme Court of the United States and its liberal judges have turned American law upside down. And let's look back further to the past to see just how they've also done this. They have stripped voters of free speech rights, limiting production and participation in political debate. The Supreme Court of the United States has stripped homeowners of rights to their own property should politicians decide to seize it for developers. The Supreme Court of the United States has stripped homeowners of rights to their own property in more ways than just Kelo, by the way. The Supreme Court of the United States has stripped parents of the right to discipline their own kids. The Supreme Court of the United States is in the process of defining the very definition of marriage. They have ruled against legal immigration. They've ruled illegal immigrants must be accorded the same protection as citizens, and American taxpayers must support them financially. They have pushed God from the public square. They have used junk science to place the interests of animals above the prosperity of people -- and the Supreme Court of the United States has stripped the most sacred protection, the right to life, from infants in the womb. Whatever power that liberals cannot achieve at the ballot box they seize through the courts. This is the change that Barack Obama and his fellow liberals have been waiting for. And the America they are creating and want to create is not the America we know, nor is it an America that most of you will even want to know. (Rush Limbaugh)

Obama Will Disarm This Country!

And hope the rest of the world follows suit. Do you know how much of a chance there is of that? THIS is supposed to be a "new idea?" The Democrats have been trying to disarm this country for many years. When Obama gets through, we'll be "easy pickins'" for anybody who wants to take us down, including the Islamic terrorists. What's more, if this is what he wants to do to the COUNTRY, what will he do to our constitutional right to be armed? And he plans to use his "first hundred days" to push through a national health plan. I guess he thinks a new president can just do anything he wants during that period, regardless of the law. Which further illustrates his ignorance of the law, and for a presidential candidate, this is something that cannot be allowed. Everything he wants to do has a socialist base, and if he gets elected, we will move a lot faster toward a complete socialist government --if we survive long enough for it to happen. (Do you think he'll disarm the cops and his "federal agents?") Don't believe it? Listen to it from his own mouth. (Rush Limbaugh)

Couldn't They Find A Willing Man?

This is not a slur on "womanhood." It IS a slur on the Islamic terrorists' VIEW of womanhood. They look upon women as slaves to their every whim, sexually and otherwise--which has caused them to be very fearful that these women, who are conditioned to do ANYTHING a man tells them to do, will "go with another man" if that man sees her legs or any other part of her body and wants it, so they try and cover their women up completely unless she's at home. But when they need another ignorant Muslim to kill herself to make a point, and are afraid to do it themselves, they con a woman into it, as they did in this case. It's very demeaning to those who think of woman as "low on the totem pole" to allow her to kill herself to promote the idiocy that is Islamic terrorism. But if you're afraid to do it yourself, why not? (Yahoo News)

Seattle Mayor Violates the Law

Seattle Mayor Greg Nichols thinks he can just make an "executive order": to ban people with "concealed carry" permits and those openly carrying in accordance with the law from bringing their guns into city property. That this is a patent violation of the law is obvious to anybody with any intelligence at all. Apparently the good mayor is not one of those. But I'm sure the Supreme Court will "straighten him out" shortly, with the help of the CCRKBA. (CCRKBA)

"Gun-Free Zone" Failures

I could write a book of several hundred pages, just LISTING the "failures" of "gun-free zones," but the CCRKBA (Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms) is doing it for me. You might as well put up a sign saying, "Come on in and kill us. We don't have guns for self-defense here" if you set up a "gun-free zone." You're setting up a "killing zone." I can't see why otherwise intelligent people don't see that. But they don't, so people die. (Dr. Michael S. Brown)