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I Just Spent $328,000...

And all I got was this lousy photo!

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400Gs To Study Sex In Argentina Gay Bars

From Fox News:

The National Institutes of Health are paying researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk -- and just what can be done about it.

I know that $400,000 is nothing.  It's  only .00001 percent of of $3,400,000,000,000,   If you make 50 Grand a year, that's about a nickel (provided my math is not really horrible).  It;'s not the amount, it's the principle.  Even wasting that "nickel" is too much!  There are way too many nickels being handed out by this Congress.

Let me attempt to save 400,000 dollars.  When people drink alcohol, they lose their inhibitions.  They aren't thinking clearly and good sense gets all clouded in an alcohol fog.  If you've ever been drunk, then you know.  When people lose their inhibitions and don't think clearly, they engage in risky behaviors.  In a straight bar, you get things like STDs (including AIDS) and pregnancies.  In gay bars, you get STDs including AIDS.  It's been going on that way since somebody stumbled upon fermentation.  It happens here, in Argentina, England, France, Russia, Japan or anywhere else booze is legal and readily available.

You want a solution, close the bars and stop selling, making and importing alcohol.  Except that really doesn't work.  There is a history lesson we can look back on.   So short of complete prohibition, people will continue to drink, engage in risky behavior, get diseases and/ or pregnant, then wake up with serious hangovers.  They may not even remember what happened the night before. 

There, I just saved the government 400,000 bucks. 

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Islam Day

In Hawaii, they decided they needed an "Islam Day" to celebrate "the rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions" of Islam.  There is no doubt that Islam has contributed much to those things.  A huge example would be algebra, which was first developed by a Muslim by the name of Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi back in the ninth century.

Other religions have contributed much to the world as well.  So why don't they have a Christianity Day or a Judaism Day?  How about Buddhism Day.  I'm willing to bet there are a lot more Buddhists in Hawaii the Muslims.

I suppose one argument that might be made is that we have Christmas, but it's not quite the same.  Christmas isn't about celebrating the contributions of Christianity to the world.  It's also become so secularized that Christmas is almost devoid of much that is Christian outside of a church service. 

I'm generally a live and let live kind of guy.  I believe in liberty and part of that is freedom to believe in whatever deity, philosophy, creed or system that you want.  So long as you aren't trying to hurt people or practicing other illegal activities, more power to you.  You are also free to be an atheist or a doubter.  It's an American thing that even some Americans have trouble dealing with some times.  This appears to be one of those times.

There should not be any day set aside for Islam.  Not because of what happened on September 11th, 2001(although that should be a factor), but because there should be no day set aside for any faith. 

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Tapping Harry Reid's Phone

Today was not a particularly good day for Specter as he woke up to find out just how trustworthy his new Democratic Masters really are.  I have sources deeply entrenched in the halls of Congress and so I was able to get a transcript of Harry Reid's answering machine from today. 

Enjoy.
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[10:00 AM]

[Phone Ringing] 

[Recording]  “You have reached the office of Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader. Please listen carefully to the following options as they have recently changed:  Press "one" if you are a lobbyist with a lot of money.  Press "two" if you are a major donor.  Press "three" if you are a Democratic Senator.  Press "four" if you are the President.  Press "five" if you are the Speaker of the House.  Press "six" if you are a Nevada Resident.  Press "seven" if you are a Congressman or some other lower life form.  Press "eight" if you were once a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.”

[Sound of “eight” being pushed on a touch tone phone]

“Thank you for calling, Please select from the following choices.  Press "one" to leave a message.  Press "pound" to return to the previous menu.”

[Sound of “one” being pushed]

[Specter]  “Harry, this is Arlen, Listen, I gotta tell ya, I’m a little disappointed in that vote last night stripping me of my seniority, and especially after you promised me I could keep it.  What’s up with that unanimous vote?  Don’t you have any control over my new colleagues?  Give me a call so we can clear this up.  Ciao”

[Click]

[11:05 AM]

[Phone Ringing] 

[Recording]  “You have reached the office of Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader. Please listen carefully to the following options as they have recently changed:  Press "one" if you are a lobbyist with a lot of money.  Press "two" if you are a major donor.  Press "three" if you are a Democratic Senator.  Press "four" if you are the President.  Press "five" if you are the Speaker of the House.  Press "six" if you are a Nevada Resident.  Press "seven" if you are a Congressman or some other lower life form.  Press "eight" if you were once a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.”

[Sound of “eight” being pushed on a touch tone phone]

“Thank you for calling, Please select from the following choices.  Press "one" to leave a message.  Press "pound" to return to the previous menu.”

[Sound of “one” being pushed]

[Specter]  “Harry, it’s Arlen again. Listen, this is important.  I know you’re busy with destroying America as we know it.  It’s a tough job and trust me, you can have it, I’m not looking to take it away.  It would be nice, however, if you’d call me back to talk about this seniority thing.  I’m really kind of upset about this after you promised.  After all, that’s why I said I left the GOP, because they didn’t respect me any more.”

“So give me a call A-SAP.  Bye!”

[Click]

[2:16 PM]

[Phone Ringing]

[Recording]  “You have reached the office of Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader. Please listen carefully to the following options as they have recently changed:  Press "one" if you are a lobbyist with a lot of money.  Press "two" if you are a major donor.  Press "three" if you are a Democratic Senator.  Press "four" if you are the President.  Press "five" if you are the Speaker of the House.  Press "six" if you are a Nevada Resident.  Press "seven" if you are a Congressman or some other lower life form.  Press "eight" if you were once a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.”

[Sound of “eight” being pushed on a touch tone phone]

“Thank you for calling, Please select from the following choices.  Press "one" to leave a message.  Press "pound" to return to the previous menu.”

[Sound of “one” being pushed]

[Specter]  Alright Harry, this is important.  I need this seniority thing reinstated to get re-elected.  If you want to keep this 60 seat majority thing, you need me.  Please call me immediately!” 

[Click]

[3:27 PM]

[Phone Ringing]

[Recording]  “You have reached the office of Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader. Please listen carefully to the following options as they have recently changed:  Press "one" if you are a lobbyist with a lot of money.  Press "two" if you are a major donor.  Press "three" if you are a Democratic Senator.  Press "four" if you are the President.  Press "five" if you are the Speaker of the House.  Press "six" if you are a Nevada Resident.  Press "seven" if you are a Congressman or some other lower life form.  Press "eight" if you were once a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania.”

[Sound of “eight” being pushed on a touch tone phone]

“Thank you for calling, Please select from the following choices.  Press "one" to leave a message.  Press "pound" to return to the previous menu.”

[Sound of “one” being pushed]

[Specter]  “Alright Reid!  Enough is enough.  You promised me my seniority and now you won’t even return my calls.  What’s up with this sh**?  I’m hearing on the news that I can “negotiate” my seniority if I’m re-elected?  What do you mean negotiate?  Hell, what do you mean by “if”?  We need to talk now dammit, and I won’t take “NO” for an answer!   Call me back, NOW!

[SLAM!]

[4:09 PM]

[Phone Ringing]

[Recording]  “You have reached the office of Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader. Please listen to the following options as they have recently changed:  Press "one" if you are the new junior Senator from Pennsylvania or press "two" for the main menu.”

[Sound of “one” being pushed]

[Recording]  “The number you have reached is no longer in service.  Please hang up now and don’t call back until after 2010!”  [Click] 

[Dial Tone………………………]
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Wonder if he has a bad case of buyer's remorse yet?

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Do Not Move Left!

How often do you see left wingers advise the GOP to "move left".  Schwarzenegger said it, Specter said it and just about every moonbat in the blogosphere has said it.  We have to get rid of the religious people, we have to get rid of the neocons, we have to get rid of Limbaugh, Hannity and every other Conservative talker.  We have to quit worrying about gay marriage, taxes, traditional values, free markets and capitalism.  We need to stop trying to end abortions and keep our guns.  If we do all that, our party will come back from the dead.  If we divest ourselves of everything that makes us different from the Democrats, we will be able to come back as a viable party.

Hogwash.  Why are we buying in to this none sense?  A lot of politically stupid people try to say that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties anyway.  More hogwash!  I can personally attest to the fact that people have been saying that for decades.  It's never been true.  yes, there are some politicians who call themselves Republican, but they may as well be Democrats. 

Reagan was a conservative and he won at a time when the Democrats were screaming the same old song that the GOP needed to move to the middle.

Why don't we start demanding that the Democrats start moving to the middle? Bipartisanship in Democrat lingo is when the Republicans agree with them.  If they don't we are being divisive and the "Party of No".

America will respond to a true conservative.  Despite what the left would have you believe, most Americans are fairly conservative.  If you took a poll and asked if they supported socialism, you'd find that they really don't.  We are not socialists and most of us do not want to become like the very continent most of our ancestors ran from in the hope of a better life.  It wasn't socialism the came for, it was liberty and opportunity.  The left wing extremists in charge of the country are an anathema to those two concepts.

Do not be bullied!  Stand your ground!

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Up Next: Hyperinflation

For awhile now, I've been writing about our impending financial melt down.  There are now more and more people starting to sound the alarm, but I fear it may be too little too late.  Granted, it's not a sure thing, but if I was a betting man, I'd bet a couple hundred trillion Zimbabwe bucks on it.  There is time to reverse policy, tighten the money supply and live within our means, but the Democrats are in charge and they are dead set on spending as much as they want with no thought to the harm it will cause.

This from an Op-Ed in the San Fransisco Examiner:

Santayana’s maxim — those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it — has grown threadbare from heavy use. But it unavoidably comes to mind this week, as President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill blithely put the final touches on the chief executive’s proposed 2010 federal budget.

With an unprecedented deficit that’s approaching $2 trillion, this budget proposal is a surefire prescription for hyperinflation. So every senator and representative who votes for this monster $3.6 trillion budget will be endorsing a spending spree that could very well turn America into the next Weimar Republic. For those too young to remember, that was the period in Germany in the years between the two world wars when people needed wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread.

That's if you can find a loaf of bread on the shelves. 

The presses at the mint are working overtime.  The money supply is at it's largest ever and expanding.  Unless the fed pulls the brake and stops printing, the only result will be hyperinflation. 

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but this just has to make you wonder what is going on.  Are the Democrats really that stupid?  Maybe they just don't care.  Maybe they want a collapse and the resultant chaos.  After all, that's right out of the Socialist's playbook.

Bailing out the bankers maybe just a ploy.  It looks like they are feigning to save something they intend to actually destroy when all is said and done.

I wish I could be more upbeat, but I do not see this economic train wreck ending well.

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