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Playing With The Design

As you may have noticed, I've been tweaking the design a bit.  I may keep it or try something else.  When I get back home and access to my home computer, I intend to redo the banner as well.

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I Will Not Go Gentle Into Their Good Night

They Call It "Earth Hour".  Tonight, at 8 PM, your local time, the eco-freaks want you to turn off all your lights and and as many electrical appliances as possible.  The want cities to turn off street lamps and they want office buildings to go dark.  The idea is to save energy.

I know that we waste too much and I certainly don't advocate wasting energy.  It costs money and unlike Al Gore, I can't afford to waste it like he does.

I'm in a hotel in Belleville, Ontario.  Much of the city plans to participate, but I won't.  I will most likely be in my room either watching TV or at the computer.  I usually have on only one light if I'm at the computer.  If I'm watching TV, I usually turn the lights off.  If' I'm watching the tube, that usually means I'm in bed.

It almost seems to me that this is some kind of scheme to get us used to the electricity being off certain hours of the day. If I was one that believed in conspiracies, I'd say this is one designed to get us acclimated.  I have a bit of a stubborn streak in me.  I come by it honestly as it's a fine old Worker family trait.  Even Mrs. VW  (Mama Stephanie) will attest to it.  So given my stubborn street creds, I'm likely to tell these folks to go suck a mercury laced compact fluorescent light bulb just because I think they are going a bit too far and I will not go gentle into their good night.

We've come a long way since candles and fire pits.  I don't intend to go back when there is no need.

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Heads Would Roll

Concerning Hillary's statement about landing in Bosnia while under sniper fire.    

Can you imagine how many heads would roll if they landed a military aircraft during hostile fire with the First Lady and daughter on board? For her to even suggest that would indicate her perception of the Air Force is nothing but a bunch of reckless bumbling idiots.

She Isn't A Man

If you are a news junkie and/or a blog reader, you most likely come across the story about the man who is pregnant.  It some woman who has had her breasts removed and has been taking hormone therapy but never completed the surgery.  In other words, he still is a she where it counts.

From the UK Telegraph:

A man who used to be a woman is five months pregnant, according to an article he has written for an American magazine that features a picture of him at 22 weeks, with facial hair and a man's flat chest above his swollen stomach.

And

According to the piece, Mr Beatie went through a sex change but decided to have only chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy, stopping short of making any changes to the reproductive organs he was born with.

Mr Beatie is legally male and lives with his wife, Nancy, in Bend, Oregon. The couple, who have been together 10 years, wanted to have children.

I don't care what the law says he is, this is not a man.  I don't care if he had completed the surgical process, she is not a man and frankly, I don't care what she looks like externally, she will never be a man.

I don't know what happens in a brain that makes people think they are something they are not.  I can only imagine what would drive someone toward surgical mutilation to prove to themselves and the world that they should have been born with different plumbing.  I do know that no matter how you slice and dice someone, you cannot change the chromosomes.

Ms. Beatie is not a man who is pregnant.  She is a woman who looks like a man - PERIOD!  Unfortunately, it's that little girl in that WOMAN'S womb that will have to suffer for all of this.  It did say that she stopped the hormone treatments before she got pregnant, but I wonder how much a residual effect it will have.

The bottom line is that she isn't a man and a man is not pregnant.

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You Thought Jeff Forworthy Was Kidding

Man Installing Satellite TV Shoots, Kills Wife

SEDALIA, Mo. -- Officials are trying to determine whether to file charges against a man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite television system in their home.Patsy D. Long, 34, of Deep Water, was pronounced dead early Saturday evening after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliber handgun.Patsy Long was standing outside the residence while her husband was installing a satellite television system.

According to sheriff's department spokesman Maj. Robert Hills, Ronald Long fired a shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means. Investigators said Ronald Long believed his family was inside the house.He told authorities that he fired a second shot, then called out his wife's name and the names of their two children. When he got no reply, he ran outside and found his wounded wife.

Why Detroit Is A Cesspool

Detroit used to be America's 4th largest city.  It's no longer even in the top ten and it's not moving up the ladder anytime soon.  Woodward Avenue looks more like a third world country (until you get to 8 Mile) and two blocks from the Comerica Park baseball stadium is a place you wouldn't want to be in during daylight, let alone after dark.

Coleman Young, the notoriously corrupt and long time mayor, essentially made the city unlivable for the middle class and they left in droves.  They called it "white flight", but just about anyone of any color who could afford to move out did do as fast as they could.  The one mayor, Dennis Archer, who tried to induce some common sense into the city was not re-elected.  Enter Kwame Kilpatrick, Democrat rising star and newly minted mayor.  His mother is a US Congresswoman.  He was dubbed the "Hip Hop Mayor"  and the hope was that he could revitalize this city that is sinking in a perpetual quagmire of corruption and vice.

I don't know if Mister Kilpatrick was corrupt before he became mayor (I'm thinking he probably was), but he certainly is now.  He's turned the Manoogian Mansion (the official mayoral residence) into party central and he spends public money on trips, vehicles and entourage in grand style.  He's got a protection detail that would rival the President.  He was reelected under some suspicious circumstances, but we all know big city Democrat Machine politics.  He hasn't done one damned thing for Detroit other than to stink up the cesspool it's become even more.

Controversy has surrounded Kilpatrick since his 2001 election. Embraced by many Detroit residents for his boldness and confidence, Kilpatrick, then 31, embodied the new black politician and wore a diamond stud earring that helped earn him the unofficial title as the "Hip-Hop Mayor." His mother is Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich.

During his first four years, he caused a furor over his use of his city-issued credit card for expensive travel, the city's lease of a luxury Lincoln Navigator for his wife and unsubstantiated allegations of a wild party involving his security team and strippers at the mayor's mansion.

Now he's facing at least 15 years in Jackson because his lies in court, lies germane to the case, were exposed.

Michigan Governor Granholm has the power to remove this POS from office.  She won't because they are both Democrats, but beyond that, she is white and he is black so he'd scream "racism" from the rooftops and we all know it.
Even his own city council has voted to recommend he resign.

People like Kilpatrick think they are above the law and the sad part of it is, many times they are.

Let's hope this time the law finally sinks his boat of corruption.

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Even Church Isn't Safe

It used to be that a church held some kind of respect in the community.  Not with the radical left.  These self-righteous bastards respect nothing. 

CHICAGO —  Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed auditorium.

Three men and three women startled the crowd during Cardinal Francis George's homily, yelling "Even the Pope calls for peace" as they were removed from the Mass by security guards and ushers.

They don't give a rat's ass what the Pope says.  They have their agenda and that is all they are concerned about.

One Mass attendee, Mike Wainscott of Chicago, yelled at the anti-war protesters.

"Are you happy with yourselves?" he said. "There were kids in there. You scared little kids with your selfish act. Are you happy now?"

That's my point.  They DON'T care!  They knew children would be there.  They know who attends church services.  They don't care who they hurt or traumatize.  It's all about them.  They are selfish, self-righteous bastards.

They need to be arrested for trespassing and disturbing the peace.  They also need a good ass kicking.

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The Pope Baptizes A Muslim

From Breitbart:

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.

An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book "Long Live Israel."

This is almost sure to upset some jihadis and radical types.  Death threats will be issued and may even be carried out.  In fairness, so far, no one has issued that threat yet.

There is no overarching Muslim law on conversion. But under a widespread interpretation of Islamic legal doctrine, converting from Islam is apostasy and punishable by death—though killings are rare.

Egypt's highest Islamic cleric, the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, wrote last year against the killing of apostates, saying there is no worldly retribution for Muslims who abandon their religion and that punishment would come in the afterlife.

And that should be the way to look at it.  Unfortunately, there are some radical goons who will think, say and even try to do otherwise.  You cannot convince me that if a prominent Christian converted to Islam, that that someone from the Southern Baptist Headquarters would be issuing death threats, but we will not be surprised if some fundamentalist Muslim cleric issues a Fatwa similar to the one issued upon the life of Salman Rushdie.

Some liberals try to say that there is no difference between fundamentalist Christianity and radical Islam.  They can say those kinds of things because if they were the least bit honest, they would have to admit that if that were true, they would be in fear for their own lives.  They know they aren't, but they try and tell you that there is no difference knowing full well they are safe in doing so.

Good luck and may God watch over you Mr. Allam.  There is bound to be someone looking to make a name for himself by taking you out

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Taxing The Poor

If you pay much attention to politics, you will hear the Democrats haul out one of their favorite platforms:  taxing the rich and helping "working families".  It the same old populist pablum they've been spewing for eons.  Sticking it to the rich guy is a major theme in Democrat demagoguery. 

The truth is quite different.  Sure, they want the rich to pay more in income taxes, but they want you to not get a break either.  In fact, they look for ways to tax the hell out of the poor through taxes called "sin taxes".  They like sin taxes because they can raise a lot of money and it's on things that they say they really don't want us to do like smoking or drinking.  They don't really mean that because they need us to buy tobacco and alcohol so that the tax revenues keep flowing. 

The new sin is driving.  A democrat in Congress thinks you drive too much.  He thinks you need to cut back and if you don't, he is going to slap a fifty cents per gallon federal tax on every gallon of gas.

A Michigan congressman wants to put a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to cut back on Americans' consumption.

Polls show that a majority of Americans support policies that would reduce greenhouse gases. But when it comes to paying for it, it's a different story.

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., wants to help cut consumption with a gas tax but some don't agree with the idea, according to a new poll by the National Center for Public Policy Research.

A gas tax only hurts the poor and those so-called working families.  They are the ones that will have to find the extra money to fill their tank so they can go to work or look for a job, go to the supermarket and take their kids to the doctor or school, etc.  It's me and people like me, blue collar guys with a mortgage and a family. 

There will also be other fall out.  Dingbat Dingell represents an area that is south and west of Detroit to include Ann Arbor and all the way down to the Ohio border.  There are a lot of GM, Ford and Chrysler employees in his district.  These are folks that make the cars and trucks and their parts to keep them running.  Dingell's tax  will pout a lot of his constituents out of a job.

Oil, whether we like it or not, is the life blood of our economy.  There is literally nothing you touch, taste, see, hear or smell that is not in some way directly or indirectly linked to oil.  Plastics, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals,  are just a few things that are derived directly from petroleum.   Your food, clothes, books, paper, and anything else you have is there because a truck hauled it to the store and you drove it home. Everything is more expensive now because of the price of oil.  Just wait until Dingell gets done and watch what is tax on gasoline does for prices.

Think about what gas prices are already doing for the economy. This ran the same day (Yesterday) as Dingell's proposal from MSNBC:

The slow and seemingly inexorable rise in gas prices over the past two years has reached a fever pitch in recent months. That's taking its toll on many Americans, especially when coupled with weakness in the housing market and increasing costs for things like groceries. Faced with paying more at the pump, some say they are cutting back on restaurant outings, shutting off cable or Internet access, paring clothing budgets and even scrimping on necessities such as food.

Since people aren't going out as much, the restaurants cut back, stores cut back, and no one buys cars.  And an extra 50 cents a gallon helps this how?  Sure, I know, you liberals think we use too much.  The problem is, when we don't, the economy goes down the tubes and you complain because you are out of work.  Economy 101, liberals:  Peeople sell things, people buy things.  When people can't afford to buy things, those who sell can't buy which means those who make things like cars and airplanes don't sell them to the sellers which means they don't have a job to buy things.

And you know that the rich people will not cut back.  Why should they?  Do you think Dingell will cut back?  Do you think he drives a Prius or one of those little deathtraps otherwise called a smart car?

Nope, this is a tax on the poor.  If you elect democrats this fall, you will be voting to to tax the poor and turn working families into jobless families.

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The Dalai Obama?

Every morning here at my hotel, I get a copy of the Toronto Globe and Mail at my door.  Most of the time, it ends up in the recycle basket over by the TV.  This morning, on the top fold on the front page were large color pictures of the Dalai Lama and Barack Obama side by side underneath the headline, "TOUGH WORDS, TRYING TIMES" with large print quotes underneath. They have it on their web page but it is isn't on the main page so I took a picture of my copy.

It would seem that our Canadian friends are trying to put the Dalai Lama and Obama on the same pedestal. 

Of Course, the Canadians are salivating at the thought of an Obama Presidency.

I do have a suggestion.  If The Dalai Lama quits and Obama loses to Hillary, maybe Obama could apply for the Dalai Lama job!

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