Angie Harmon: I'm Not Racist Because I Disagree With Obama

"Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist.

"Here's my problem with this, I'm just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist," Harmon told Tarts at Thursday’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. "But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he's doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay..."

Good on ya, Angie. Way to stick to your guns, kiddo.

But remember this the next time some dimwitted liberal asshole calls you a racist for disagreeing with the likes of the brain dead wizard of Ahhhhhhs:

He's half Irish. Ireland itself could just as easily take umbrage, but that's the funny thing about modern day white people.

Who gives a rats ass what the simple fuck looks like, all we care about is if he can do the job.

Hillary Clinton leaves flowers for Our Lady of Guadalupe, asks ‘Who painted it?’

"God"

"Mexico City, Mexico, Mar 27, 2009 / 04:59 pm (CNA).- During her recent visit to Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unexpected stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and left a bouquet of white flowers “on behalf of the American people,” after asking who painted the famous image.

The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531. The image has numerous unexplainable phenomena, such as the appearance on Mary’s eyes of those present in the room when the tilma was opened and the image’s lack of decay.

Mrs. Clinton was received on Thursday at 8:15 a.m. by the rector of the Basilica, Msgr. Diego Monroy.

Msgr. Monroy took Mrs. Clinton to the famous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which had been previously lowered from its usual altar for the occasion.

After observing it for a while, Mrs. Clinton asked “who painted it?” to which Msgr. Monroy responded “God!”

Clinton then told Msgr. Monroy that she had previously visited the old Basilica in 1979, when the new one was still under construction.

After placing a bouquet of white flowers by the image, Mrs. Clinton went to the quemador –the open air area at the Basilica where the faithful light candles- and lit a green candle.

Leaving the basilica half an hour later, Mrs. Clinton told some of the Mexicans gathered outside to greet her, “you have a marvelous virgin!”

I. Am. Speechless.

Well, almost.

Why ANY religious group would allow this baby killing bitch to enter a house of God boggles the mind.

Gates All But Gives Norks Our Blessing

U.S. Not Prepared to Respond to North Korea Missile Launch

"The United States can do nothing to stop North Korea from breaking international law in the next 10 days by firing a missile that is unlikely to be shot down by the U.S. or its allies, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.

Appearing on "FOX News Sunday," Gates said North Korea "probably will" fire the missile, prompting host Chris Wallace to ask: "And there's nothing we can do about it?"

"No," Gates answered, adding, "I would say we're not prepared to do anything about it."

Now, I know that Obama and his people are society's detritus, so I do not expect all that much from those retarded folks because that's how I was raised. Slow and simple people can't help the fact that they are slow and simple so they should be given something of a break, but society in general has never quite figured out how to handle politicians who are all of the above and a bag of chips.

Add the fact that the Obo administration is breaking records for sheer stupidity...see the above post concerning Howl-A-Minute-Hillary for example...and even a liberal might understand the true quagmire the country finds itself mired in.

May You Live In Interesting Times

But Sweet Christ On A Crutch...Not THIS Interesting

GM CEO resigns at Obama's behest

"The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said.

On Monday, President Barack Obama is to unveil his plans for the auto industry, including a response to a request for additional funds by GM and Chrysler. The plan is based on recommendations from the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, headed by the Treasury Department.

The White House confirmed Wagoner was leaving at the government's behest after The Associated Press reported his immediate departure, without giving a reason.

General Motors issued a vague statement Sunday night that did not officially confirm Wagoner's departure.

"We are anticipating an announcement soon from the Administration regarding the restructuring of the U.S. auto industry. We continue to work closely with members of the Task Force and it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the content of any announcement," the company said.

The surprise announcement about the classically iconic American corporation is perhaps the most vivid sign yet of the tectonic change in the relationship between business and government in this era of subsidies and bailouts.

Wagoner has been CEO for 8 years and at GM for more than 30. It is not yet clear who would replace him, or what role the administration would play in that process."

First he brought Wall Street to its knees...

Now it's GM.

Our government is well on its way to becoming far more powerful than the Constitution allows. That's the bad news. The good news is that if we try really, really hard, we can make things right again by replacing this stooge and his band of merry commies in less than 4 years time because only an idiot would vote him and his cronies back in.

Beg pardon? There's more than enough idiots to do just that?

Good point.

Only means that its up to us to try even harder.

Custom Knifework...by Jay Fisher

Click on the headline link to see more of this genius at work...

...and on the pic itself to get up close and personal.

Google Earth...Fort Fits

And how cool is this. I'd try again in the daytime, but that'd spoil the party by showing far too many of the surrounding boobytraps, deadfalls, pits, and razor wire.

More Cop Cover-up Capers

Police officer charged with DUI

"A Chattanooga police officer has been relieved of duty pending an internal affairs investigation after he was arrested for driving under the influence.

Three-year veteran Josh Turner was off duty when he crashed his 2004 Mercedes into a pole at 700 Georgia Ave. about 1:45 a.m. today, said police spokeswoman Lt. Kim Noorbergen. The pole fell and struck the windshield of a 2008 Honda Element sport utility vehicle traveling south on Georgia Avenue, she said.

No injuries were reported, Lt. Noorbergen said.

Officer Turner was arrested at the scene, she said.

The police department cannot release any more details because of the internal affairs investigation, she said."

You know, there really SHOULD be a way for us to force the hired help to open up the books. It isn't as if we're asking for half a cup of warm fat and the head of Alfredo Garcia here. Just treat them the same way they treat the ones in charge...we the people.

You've really got to go back to the days when Kings and Queens (no, not Barney Frank) were so above the law as to be a law unto themselves, or, pick any communist or facist regime of modern times, to find people believing that they are more important and therefore more deserving of special treatment.

Now Hold On Thar, Baba Boy...

Police officer charged with stalking

ELIOT, Maine — "A six-year veteran of the Eliot Police Department was arrested on a charge of domestic violence stalking Friday afternoon, 12 days after he was put on administrative leave in connection with the incident.

Matthew Raymond, 27, of Sanford, was arrested at his home by Maine State Police on the charge, a Class D misdemeanor, following an investigation into an incident on Saturday, March 14.

Eliot Police Chief Theodor Short said he was “made aware of this situation on Saturday night and after interviewing the victim, a woman that Raymond once dated, he was relieved from duty when he came to work Sunday evening (March 15).”

Short declined to give any further information about the incident."

Holy shit.

There ARE special rules for cops.

Their bosses all say the same thing. We can't comment, we can't give out the information, we can't offer a response at this point in time.

Betcha if it were you or I they'd be drooling over the chance to take the credit for relieving society of a bad person. We'd be just another notch on the pole to higher rank.

While their fellow parasites get protection worthy of the Pope.

Detectivette Caps Cops

"A Denver police officer was arrested this week in Custer, S.D., after authorities said she fired a gun in the direction of three local law-enforcement officials when they came to check on her.

Detective Sharon Avendano, a spokeswoman for the Denver Police Department, said she could not comment on the details of the arrest of Officer Kachina McAlexander, 31..."

Okay, stop the music, stop the music...

Hold on a sec while I check to see where "cops get special privileges just because they're cops and nobody needs to know the details" is located amidst the plethora of laws-for-special-people...

Hmmm

Can't seem to find it.

Don't think they're just fucking with us, do you?

Legislator Gets Feelings Hurt...Film At Eleven...

"Being an elected official isn't all public policy, chicken dinners and retirement credits.

You frequently are required to mingle with the electorate, a dynamic much changed by the rise of the digital age, which makes it convenient to condemn tyranny while simultaneously surfing the Web.

Take, for instance, this reasoned argument — edited for a family newspaper but with typos intact — that beamed its way to Albany County lawmakers this week in response to Local Law A, a proposal requiring gun shops to register the ammunition they sell.

From: cosmiccorvus@j-fan.com

Subject: Thank you!!

Thank you so much for attacking the Second Amendment, our dignity and whats left of our liberties with Local Law "A." Please don't stop. America will one day become so nautious (sic) of your tyranny that She will finally vomit you out, you idiot fascists. Today's pig is tomorrows bacon and the people will eventually fry your nazi (expletive deleted). I'm spreadin' the word about people like you to the four corners of the wind. Go (expletive deleted) yourselves.

most disrespectfully,

An American who has sworn to protect and defend the United States Constitution.

According to Legislator Christopher Higgins, who represents the city and wasn't even a sponsor of the proposal, that's among the tamer of his recent correspondents, most of whom — perhaps one in 10 — don't even live in Albany County.

"I'm greatly disturbed by the vitriol and nastiness that opponents of this legislation feel the need to use," Higgins said, "rather than engaging in a civil, intellectual debate on the merits of the local law."

You'd rather we stormed the building and tossed you and the likes of you out the same way we did King George's guys?

Back when traitorous scum were still called traitorous scum to their faces then hung by the neck until dead, most folks knew damned well that trifling with God-given rights resulted in lotsa mayhem and then some, so consider yourself lucky, Mr. Legislator, that you live in a time and place where harsh language will do in most instances.

Secretary of State Hillary...my husband disgraced the Presidency but I get to see the world on YOUR dime so who cares... calls for assault weapon ban

"Secretary of State Clinton (sic) called for a new assault weapon ban in the U.S. on Thursday in hopes of cutting off arms flowing to Mexican drug gangs - and was immediately blasted by the gun lobby."

Business as usual...

A democrat sees a problem, any old problem will do, and blames the United States.

But this isn't any old democrat. This here's the elderly queen bee of bullshit herself, the dishonorable Hillary Rodham (she never DID get around to legally changing her name to Clinton, you know).

And how's about that Yellowstream Media?

"Blasted by the gun lobby", is their way of saying "ridiculed by the vast majority of Americans without their heads up their ass, because to liberals, anyone believing in the Constitution is part of a special interest group that needs lotsa lobbyists.

Giggles Says His Administration Will Send Lotsa Mo Feds To The Border

"President Obama’s administration announced Tuesday that it planned to send hundreds more federal agents to the Southwest to battle the increasing levels of guns, money and drugs trafficked across the border.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined Lieberman in suggesting that perhaps more resources were needed to fight the growing levels of violence and drug trafficking. He also expressed his concern that other areas of law enforcement would suffer as they lost personnel to the Southwest’s increased manpower."

Okay, enough.

Here's what the government should do, and pronto.

Ask the Mexicans for the serial numbers on alla them full-auto assault rifles being smuggled in from the US. Along with the lot numbers on those boxes of grenades and rocket launchers.

Beg pardon?

You say we've already asked them, several times, and they've replied that there will be NO such list of numbers forthcoming?

Gee willickers. I know that American and Chinese and Russian and South American gun manufacturers sell lotsa full rock and roll armaments to the Mexican police and military, and you don't think that the beaners are afraid we'll trace the serial numbers and exonerate OUR gun shops while placing the onus on the head honchos themselves, do you?

Screw it. We're calling you out, fella's and gals.

Check the serial numbers...Or...

Stop bitching and lying and dealing with us as if we're retards or something. Like President snigger himself says, this ain't the special olympics you're fucking with.

Orlando Police Chieftess Has Gun Stolen From Personal Vehicle...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- "Orlando's police chief said she's ready to be reprimanded after her department handgun, handcuffs and drivers license were all stolen.

The incident took place nearly one month ago.The gun was in her unmarked SUV, outside her million dollar home in a gated Dr Phillips community.

Chief Val Demings said she isn't sure how her gun was stolen. She left the gun in a duffle bag and made sure she locked the doors. But Demings said she realizes she made the wrong decision and she's the subject of an internal affairs investigation.

When Val Demings became the Orlando police chief in 2007, she vowed to take illegal guns off the street, but she has become a victim of a crime. Her 9mm gun was stolen out her Chevy Tahoe.

The SUV was parked in the driveway of her $1.3 million home. Neighbors said something needs to be done."I think she ought to talk to the sheriff about that," said Dale Hardin, neighbor.

Since January there have been 37 burglaries in the area. Even though there was no sign of forced entry, Demings insists she locker her car.

"I was expecting some guests who had small children so I made the decision to leave my weapon in a duffle bag in my vehicle," said Demings."

No, that isn't a typo. The Chiefette "decided" to leave her firearm where it could easily...obviously...be stolen because she feared that, what? The gun would sense the presence of children and go berserk? Was she in possession of an evil-twin gun that despised kids? The gun had a prior history of killing the innocent at the drop of a hat? Or maybe the gun spoke to her in her sleep and said that if it were to sense youngsters it couldn't be held responsible for its actions?

NOTHING excuses this unmitigated moron but what is patently reprehensible is her lame ass lying excuse.

She was too friggin lazy to bring the gun in the house and when pressed, blamed the gun.

Can't make this shit up.

That Was Florida...Here's How The-Land-Of-Mary's Handles Things...

"A man walking home from work in southwest Baltimore County fought off two robbers – stabbing and killing one with the attacker’s own knife, police said.

The attack happened at about 10 p.m. Sunday on Annapolis Road near the I-895 overpass in the police department’s Wilkens Precinct.

The victim, who has not been identified, struggled with the robbers and was able to stab one of the assailants with the attacker's own knife, police said. One of the robbers drove the injured man to St. Agnes Hospital where he died a short time later, according to police. He has been identified as Calvin Stewart, 19, of Severn.

“The victim was defending himself,” said Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill. “In the middle of the struggle, all of a sudden, the attackers just started running.”

The county has had seven homicides this year. It’s unclear whether police will add this killing to their homicide tally, because it appears to be in self-defense, Hill said. The Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office will ultimately decide what charges will result from the incident."

You read it correctly, grasshopper.

Things are unclear until the magnificent attorney's office issues its edict.

Might be touch and go. Sure he was fighting for his life, but dammitall the mugee went and killed the mugger. Could have at least tried talking to him first.

Concealed Carry Customer Cancels Cretins Waste Of Oxygen

"One man was killed and another seriously wounded in a shootout inside a Miami Burger King on Tuesday, officials said.

Police said a man wearing a ski mask walked into the store at Biscayne Boulevard and 54th Street and demanded money from a clerk.

A customer, who has a concealed weapons permit, pulled a gun, said Officer Jeff Giordano, a Miami police spokesman.

The customer and robber exchanged fire.

The robber was shot dead at the scene.

The customer, who had several gunshot wounds, was taken to Ryder Trauma Center in serious but stable condition, said Lt. Ignatius Carroll, a Miami Fire Rescue spokesman."

Absolutely not a lick of real reporting so it's impossible to sort through the plethora of variables to determine why Mr. Bad Guy was capable of returning fire before expiring like any good scumbag should.

But...

Still enough facts to strongly suggest that all men of good will should be "allowed" to carry full-auto M-14's so as to drop such vermin more quickly.

Fairy Calls Scalia "Homophobe"

Rep. Frank Calls Justice Scalia a 'Homophobe'

"Masscahusetts (sic) Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in an interview released Monday on a gay online news site, and said he hoped a challenge to a federal law widely disliked in the gay community will not be heard before the high court until new justices are seated on the bench.

Frank, who is gay, made the remark in responding to a question about legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act. The 1996 law says the federal government and states have no obligation to recognize same-sex marriages even if other states allow them.

"At some point, [the Defense of Marriage Act] is going to have to go to the United States Supreme Court," the congressman, a Democrat, said. "I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has got too many votes on this current court."

Yep. Disagree with someone and right away you're some sort of "phobe". Sorta like not liking sushi and being referred to as a fishaphobe.

And heaven forbid you think homosexuality is disgusting and depraved and filthy, can't have that now because personal opinions are only allowed when they're politically correct.

But since there's few things more repugnant than a flabbergasted old queer, here's hoping Scalia tones it down some.

What Kind OF Hero Are YOU?

You Scored as James Bond, Agent 007 James Bond is MI6's best agent, a suave, sophisticated super spy with charm, cunning, and a license's to kill. He doesn't care about rules or regulations and somewhat amoral. He does care about saving humanity though, as well as the beautiful women who fill his world. Bond has expensive tastes, a wide knowledge of many subjects, and his usually armed with a clever gadget and an appropriate one-liner. James Bond, Agent 007 92% William Wallace 83% Maximus 79% Batman, the Dark Knight 79% Lara Croft 79% Captain Jack Sparrow 75% Indiana Jones 71% El Zorro 67% The Terminator 58% Neo, the "One" 58% The Amazing Spider-Man 25% Thanks to Cowboy Blob And yeah, the formatting really sucks for Booger.

Family Of Teen Suicide Say They Want A Law

"Jessica Logan's nude cell-phone photo - meant for her boyfriend's eyes only - was sent to hundreds of teenagers last year in at least seven Greater Cincinnati high schools.

The 18-year-old Sycamore High School senior was then bombarded with taunts: slut, porn queen, whore.

On July 3, Jessie hanged herself in her bedroom.

She was Albert and Cynthia Logan's only child."

My only baby that I will never be able to touch again," Cynthia Logan said through tears. "I will never have grandchildren. I will never be able to hand down my heirlooms. I'm just devastated by these parents that allow their children to do and say anything they want."

Well now we're down to the nitty gritty, aren't we, Mrs. Logan? It's all about you. What you are going through, isn't it?

I honestly don't care if I burn in hell for this so sorry, ma'am, if you'd have raised her well she'd be alive today. When one thinks of all of the true hardships humankind suffered through in order to form and maintain the civilization we take for granted...SOME of us take for granted... this young woman's problems were the essence of minutiae in comparison, and guess whose fault this is?

Hers of course, at 18 she was an adult, and yours of course for rearing so fragile a human being.

My heartfelt sympathies for your loss. What we do not need are more laws to take the place of parenting.

Thanks to The War on Guns for the link.

Feinstein: Don't Spoil Our Desert With Solar Panels

WASHINGTON --" California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies seeking to develop renewable energy.

Nineteen companies have submitted applications to build solar or wind facilities on a parcel of 500,000 desert acres, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday such development would violate the spirit of what conservationists had intended when they donated much of the land to the public.

Feinstein said Friday she intends to push legislation that would turn the land into a national monument, which would allow for existing uses to continue while preventing future development."

So just like the Kennedy crime family that fought windmills in Hyannisport, another liberal entity doesn't want what should be the holy grail of dumbitude anywhere around their parts either.

Gotta love them loons. They take do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do, to a whole 'nother level.

The aesthetics of a desert.

Okay.

Don't be surprised if they offer windmills on the moon as an alternative. With a really, really long extension cord of course.

Hit THIS

PS: This IS a scientific poll and your selection may very well change life on the planet as we know it.

EX-COP SAYS HE KILLED GIRLFRIEND BY ACCIDENT

"A crazed ex-NYPD drug cop charged with killing his girlfriend flew into a jealous rage the day of the murder, but claimed he was trying to shoot himself not her, authorities said today.

Jerry Bowens, 42, admitted to fighting with 28-year-old Catherine Donofrio about where she'd spent the previous night when he followed her into her best friend's bathroom on March 8 and pulled out his gun, according his statement to police.

"I threatened to kill myself and pulled out my gun and cocked the hammer," Bowens said, according to papers filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court. "When I lifted up the gun, it accidentally went off, striking Catherine in the head."

The NY Post has either pulled or flat out lost the original story so there's nothing but my memory to report to you that the piece had identified the handgun in question as a 9mm GLOCK.

Try cocking the hammer on YOURS and let me know how that works out for ya.

QUICK! RUN AWAY!

Police E-mail Warns Of Rise In Crime

ATLANTA -- "Thousands of Atlanta residents have received an email warning from a police major about rising, violent crime in Zone 5, which includes neighborhoods in downtown and midtown.

Major Khirus Williams sent out the alert after a string of robberies and carjackings Monday night.

Here is some of what he wrote:

"Please, let us all keep our exterior lights on to illuminate the area. This makes the area unpopular for criminals!

"Also, please have your family, friends, and neighbors to blow their horn when arriving. This allows us to watch for them until they arrive, inside, safely. Open the window dressings and hi-light them with a flash-light. Thus, the criminal element would be aware that someone is watching!

"Furthermore, we have to minimize just visiting in the drive way, or sidewalks, at nights. I know that this is unfair, but the criminals are becoming more brazen and this is their method of attack.. Patrols throughout the City are not as common as they were in the past, as a result of furloughs.

"In closing, we have to do things differently than we did in the past, until there is a change. Please, let us minimize the opportunity for us to become victims and assist others as they return home. "

Mjr. Williams say 2 to 5 men wearing hoodies that cover their faces are armed with guns and approaching people even when they're in groups and in lighted areas."

REWIND

Now imagine yours truly in the same position:

"Thousands of Atlanta residents have received an email warning from a police major about rising, violent crime in Zone 5, which includes neighborhoods in downtown and midtown.

Major Fits sent out the alert after a string of robberies and carjackings Monday night.

"Get and remain armed and vigilant, people. See some mope messing with your property, then shoot the sucker in the face, but dammitall be sure to call us to remove the body before it starts stinking up the neighborhood. That is all and as you were."

Thankfully, Nobody Poked Their Eye Out

Shots from BB gun put Crest school in lockdown

EAST COUNTY: "Students at Crest Elementary School were locked down in classrooms yesterday until sheriff's deputies arrested a teenager who had fired a BB gun at the school, authorities said.

No one was injured. Two school windows were damaged by BBs, Sgt. Joseph Sprecco said.

Deputies from Santee, Lakeside and Alpine headed to the campus on Suncrest Boulevard about 2:45 p.m. when someone was reported to be shooting at the school. Officials locked down the campus and a sheriff's helicopter joined the search for the shooter, Sprecco said.

The helicopter crew gave a description of the shooter over a public address system, which was heard by a librarian at Crest Public Library next to the school. The librarian called the Sheriff's Department about 3:15 p.m. and said a boy of that description was sitting in the back of the library.

Deputies arrested a 14-year-old boy and found a BB gun in a planter near the library front door, Sprecco said. The teen was booked into Juvenile Hall on suspicion of possessing a weapon on school grounds and misdemeanor vandalism."

Good thing, too. As we all know, BB-guns are gateway weapons that lead to bigger and meaner and more powerful arms.

Tell ya one thing, though; kid is lucky they didn't SWAT his ass but good. Nowadays it doesn't take all that much to create a frenzied state of abject hysteria among members of the constabulary. Damned things could break the skin and lead to one nasty ass infection if not NIPPED IN THE BUD.

George Will Can Be As Clueless As The Average Libtard, And That Pisses Me Off

"CAUGHT UP IN OUR NEIGHBOR'S CHAOS"

"X-CALIBER, a gun store in a nondescript neighborhood in this city's northern section, has become embroiled in Mexico's turmoil.

The chaos there is the result of the Mexican government's decision to wage war against rampant drug cartels that are fighting mostly against each other but also against the portions of Mexican law enforcement they haven't corrupted. Operating in that nation's north, they are serving this nation's appetite for illegal narcotics and illegal immigrants.

The gun shop's proprietor is on trial here, accused of selling at least 650 weapons, including AK-47 rifles, in small lots to "straw buyers" persons who illegally pass the weapons on to the cartels, thereby fueling the violence that killed more than 6,000 Mexicans last year. That was more than 2,000 above the 2007 toll and fewer than will die if the rate of killing so far this year continues. Fortunately, most of the fatalities are members of the warring cartels.

...There are more than 6,600 licensed American gun dealers on the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. They should obey the law, even though most of the victims of the cartels' violence deserve to be."

Okay, time to stop the bullshit here and now.

The AK variants being purchased in the US are semi-auto and we all know how pricey they've become as of late.

So the big ass Mexican cartel fella's are going to spend $600-$700 on a neutered AK when they can get the real deal from ANY of the former Soviet bloc countries for about a hundred bucks DELIVERED, or a Chinaman knockoff for half that price and they'll throw in some free ammo to sweeten the pot. Same with machine guns and grenades and mortars and fer chrissake military-level satellite GPS time from the same Russkies and Chinks.

State of the art EVERYTHING, no holds barred, access to you-name-it, and they're sending folks to shop at X-Caliber?

Sure.

From what I've been led to believe, Mexican civilians are clamoring for handguns and rifles in order to protect themselves from their corrupt police and military and drug dealers...pretty much the same bunch of guys, right...and those poor schlubs MUST buy the semi-auto versions of whatever because they simply do not have the same connections the druggies have.

Just today, the judge in the X-Caliber case dismissed the jury and told everyone to go on home because the prosecution didn't have a leg to stand on, so I'm awaiting Mr. Will's "sorry about that", which I'm certain will be forthcoming.

Sure.

And another thing, George; the Mexican cartels don't have a $15 billion business, but since they've taken over virtually ALL aspects of the trade are raking in $150-$200 billion smackeroonies per year.

Nothing like not letting the facts get in the way of a good story, huh George?

A Thousand And One Kudos...

...To the guy or gal (yeah right like there are girls here) who can identify the movie from whence the still was purloined.

WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER

Yes, Straightarrow wins the coveted Fits Kudos Unto Eternity award for identifying old Jimmy C as he stood tall and calmly shot the shit out of Eli Wallach's band of evil men in...

One of the greatest westerns of all time:

The Magnificent Seven.

A Picture's Worth A Thousand "Ummmms"

Head on over to SondraK's for more.

And just one question....

Did the curtains come with teleprompter ready instructions?

Yes...It's The E*Trade Baby Again

Dodd Calls A Spade A Spade

Obo's People Asked For Bonus Amendments

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- "Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said the Obama administration asked him to insert a provision in last month’s $787 billion economic- stimulus legislation that had the effect of authorizing American International Group Inc.’s bonuses.

Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, said yesterday he agreed to modify restrictions on executive pay at companies receiving taxpayer assistance to exempt bonuses already agreed upon in contracts. He said he did so without realizing the change would benefit AIG, whose recent $165 million payment to employees has sparked a public furor.

Dodd said he had wanted to limit executive compensation at companies that got money from the government’s financial-rescue fund. AIG has received $173 billion in bailout money. His provision was changed as the stimulus legislation was negotiated between the House and Senate.

“I did not want to make any changes to my original Senate-passed amendment” to the stimulus bill, “but I did so at the request of administration officials, who gave us no indication that this was in any way related to AIG,” Dodd said in a statement released last night. “Let me be clear -- I was completely unaware of these AIG bonuses until I learned of them last week.” He didn’t name the administration officials who made the request"

Blah blah and blah. Democrats fucking things up isn't news, but the following got to me...

"An administration official said last night that representatives of President Barack Obama didn’t insist on the change, though they did contend that the language in Dodd’s amendment could be legally challenged because it would apply retroactively to bonus agreements."

Representatives of President Obama. When was the last time you heard of a President having "representatives"? He has cabinet members, advisors, friendly rubber-stamp members of Congress, but not this nutcase. Unnamed representatives. Part of the anonymous gang that couldn't govern straight, or, as we've said time and again, just the way politics as usual goes on in filthy disgusting places like Chicago.

THIS Slimebag Can't Even Wait For The Payoffs Like Any Good Political Crook Should

Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that functional illiteracy is no barrier when the media loves you

"As he empathized with recession-weary Americans, President Obama arranged in the days just before he took office to secure a $500,000 advance for a children's book project, a disclosure report shows.

The terms of the book deal were disclosed in a Senate financial disclosure report filed Tuesday.

Analysts say there don't appear to be any rules that would bar such transactions after a president takes office, but it's unclear whether an incoming or sitting president has ever signed a book deal upon entering the White House.

"I don't recall any sitting president entering into a book deal," said campaign finance lawyer Jan Baran, former general counsel to the Republican National Committee. "They all have historically done that after they leave office.

"I recall the only ones who did sign book deals while living there were first ladies, and my recollection is they gave it to charity."

Mr. Obama approved the $500,000 advance on Jan. 15. The advance is against royalties under a deal with Crown Publishing, a division of Random House. The project calls for an abridged version of his book "Dreams From My Father" for middle-school-aged children, according to the disclosure."

That's right. No sitting President EVER cashed in with a book deal, but this is no ordinary sitting President, now is it?

That's how things are done in Chitown, and lets face it...

Like it or not...we're ALL residents of Chicago now.

John Lott On Violent Crime...

"The International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) indicates that for the violent crime categories of sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault, the U.S. looks remarkably safe. This is even truer for the more serious categories of sexual assault and robbery. Prison is costly, but one could only imagine how much higher American crimes rates would be without it.

While murders make up only a fraction of violent crimes, they are by far the most costly type of crime. The ICVS doesn’t compare murder rates. The U.S. white murder rate is comparable to many countries in Europe, and is just a fraction of Russia’s, one country that Loury compares the US to.

The difference is driven blacks. Murders in the United States are overwhelmingly a minority problem. But the bottom line is that for murder deterrence matters. Even for the death penalty the vast majority of published refereed academic work finds that the death penalty deters crime (Lott, 2007, pp. 136-7)."

Summary: The United States is one helluva peaceful country. Blacks commit most of the violent crimes...against other blacks, mind you...and yet the cowardly liberals, such as Eric Holder, don't seem to mind at all that more blacks are in prison than school, and that their criminal activities hurt other blacks in staggering proportions.

No, they simply point to the AMOUNT of blacks incarcerated and this is supposed to mean that the legal system favors sending them up the river more so than non-blacks.

Doesn't matter that the black family is shattered beyond repair. Doesn't matter that the victims...this means harmed and dead people to those tuning in from Rio Linda...the innocent victims are ALSO black, and instead of facing these true tragedies head on and tackling the problem all they bitch about are statistics skewed to resemble racism.

The TRUE racism is in the hearts and minds and deeds of the Obama's of the country. They take the money and run, then blame whitey because he sends violent offenders to prison instead of leaving them alone to eat their own. Barack and Eric and their ilk long ago joined with the true racists, their fellow liberals, to sell out their own kind and boy oh boy what a sales job it has been.

Wizard Of "Ah's" Stutters Way Through Yet Another Teleprompter Malfunction...

"Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar.

It was. He was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.

Mr Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: "That's your speech."

A laughing Mr Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party."

Yep. Takes a real Irishman and not just an Irish-American like our clown prince of teleprompting to tell when it ISN'T HIS DAMNED SPEECH.

Mr. Cowen knew when it was Obo's turn, but of course our Obo hadn't a clue when he began reading Mr. Cowen's words.

I'm telling ya, gang, this guy is dumber than paint, and since I've never seen him and She-Hulk-Shelly speaking together it wouldn't be a surprise to learn that they take turns sharing one or two lonely brain cells.

Between 'em. All told.

Um, er, ahhhhh, um, right?

Poll On Assault Weapons Ban

The Sun Sentinel is running a poll on whether or not THE ONE's plan of perhaps reinstituting the "assault-weapon" ban is a good idea.

We Patriots are far ahead but it wouldn't hurt you to vote. Here.

UPDATE

President Obama is contemplating reinstituting the ban on the sale of assault weapons. What do you think of this plan?

I'm for the ban: Who needs an assault weapon anyway?! (47317 responses)

14.8%

I'm against the ban: It's our Second Amendment right to own a gun (272111 responses)

85.2%

I'm undecided on this issue (56 responses)

0.0%

• 319484 total responses

Liberal Babes In The News.....

In the top pic, California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger is seen introducing US First Lady Michelle Obama during a health & fitness fundraising ceremony in Burbank, and below, Japanese Robotics Inc. shows off its first lifelike, walking, talking robot they have dubbed the "Monica".

"She most crosry resember Birr Crinton office bro job girfend but with rittle Asian twist," Doctor Togo HariKari told a packed house audience at the Tokyo Dome where various manufacturers vied for the title of "Most Appropriate Laughing At The USA Design", barely edging out a Hussein Obama android that did a Step 'N Fetchit two step while frequently hesitating in order to glance at a teleprompter.

Skankles Blows It Bigtime

Zionist Organization of America is “concerned and deeply disappointed” regarding the views expressed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

"In an interview on a Palestinian Authority (PA) TV teen show, Clinton “accepted the false premise of her teenage interviewer that Palestinians live under Israeli occupation without freedom and liberty, thereby helping to legitimize a false basis of Palestinian incitement to hate Israel,” according to a statement from the ZOA, which was founded in 1897 and has more than 30,000 members in the U.S.

Clinton was asked, “What would you do if your daughter was unfortunate enough to have been born under occupation, born deprived of freedom and liberty?”

The ZOA said: “Secretary Clinton legitimized the question’s false premise and actually helped incite hatred against Israel by not refuting it and ignoring the fact that 98 percent of Palestinians actually live under the PA or Hamas, not Israeli control.

“Instead, Clinton responded, ‘Well, I would do what so many parents here in the West Bank and in Gaza do. I would love her … I would get the best education I could for her … I would never give up on the dream of a Palestinian state.’

“That an alarming number of Palestinian parents have encouraged their children to become suicide bombers was somehow lost from Secretary Clinton’s response.”

The ZOA statement noted that as a senator, Clinton was “strongly vocal about the need to put an end to the culture of Palestinian incitement to hatred and murder in the PA-controlled TV and radio, mosques, schools and youth camps.”

The ZOA cited a statement Hillary made in October 2003: “How can you think about building a better future, no matter what your political views, if you indoctrinate your children to a culture of death?”

And Clinton said in February 2007: “We must stop the propaganda to which Palestinian children are being exposed . . . I have been speaking out against the incitement of hate and violence in Palestinian textbooks for years.”

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “We are concerned and deeply disappointed that Secretary Clinton has uttered not a word about the issue of incitement to hatred and murder she herself once emphasized was a priority, and indeed the key to bringing about an Arab-Israeli peace.

“In this PA TV interview, Secretary Clinton had a real opportunity to confront the vital issue of incitement to hatred against Israel with a huge Palestinian audience. This could have been an excellent and rare opportunity to place the issue she once claimed was paramount on the international agenda by speaking directly to the next generation of Palestinians.

“Instead, not only did Secretary Clinton fail to confront the issue, but she actually became an accessory in the PA’s relentless promotion of hate propaganda against Israel.”

When the witch needed the Jewish vote she was all lovey-dovey, but once atop Obo's platform of hate thy ally she spits in the face of common decency, and with impunity. Hells bells, she's a Clinton and we shouldn't expect any better. And here's what separates a strong-willed person of intelligence, what people mistakenly believe Hillary to be, and a liberal democrat:

She isn't tough, she's mean. Hasn't a clue as to the line between compassion versus weakness, or the difference between strength and violence. Secretary's of State are always going to have a difference of opinion with the boss, but since Skankles HAS no code, no honor, no sense of right or wrong, she parrots her Irish-American boss and will be the perfect bearer of his tidings.

The job needs a pit bull. What we've got is an retarded ankle biting poodle.

Waters Defends Ties to Bank

WASHINGTON--"Rep. Maxine Waters defended her relationship with a Boston-based bank in which she and her husband have held financial stakes, saying in a written statement that she didn't do anything improper in advocating on its behalf.

Ms. Waters (D., Calif.) said her efforts were intended to aid minority-owned banks overall, not just OneUnited Bank, an institution that received $12 million in federal bailout money.

Reports this week in The Wall Street Journal and New York Times detailed Ms. Waters's efforts to help OneUnited in recent years, in particular last fall, when she sought help from Treasury officials after the bank's capital dried up and it was in danger of failing.

"I have been an outspoken advocate for minority communities and businesses in California and nationally for decades," she said. "These articles only revealed one thing: I am indeed an advocate for minority banks."

Ms. Waters's statement said she asked former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to meet with the National Bankers Association, a group of African-American bankers whose president is the senior counsel of OneUnited.

Treasury officials have said the substance of the September meeting focused on the bankers' request for help for OneUnited, which they refused.

Later that month, Congress passed federal bailout legislation that included a provision crafted specifically to aid OneUnited. The bank likely wouldn't otherwise have qualified for bailout funds because it was too weak."

Sound familiar? It should. These are the same shenanigans that caused the mortgage/credit fiasco. Good money being thrown after bad because gee whiz, minorities shouldn't be EXPECTED to follow the same rules as everyone else. They're obviously different, so say the liberals, and need be treated quite differently.

Maxine herself has been named one of the most corrupt members of Congress but such an allegation must be done with a whisper because....

Yep, you got it.

She's different.

Retail sales drop not as bad as "feared"

"Sales at the nation's retailers fell slightly less than expected in February, suggesting that the economic deceleration may at least be slowing, according to a government report on Thursday.

The Commerce Department said retail sales declined 0.1 percent from January, better than the 0.5 percent drop that economists had expected, but nonetheless returning to negative territory after a surprise 1.8 percent gain in January.

Not including automobiles, which dragged down the overall number, sales ticked up 0.7 percent after a 1.6 percent gain in January."

So how very many times must we announce that people are still buying at a respectable clip, and a great deal of the doom & gloom scenario's were not much more than a cheating, lying, neighborhood thuganizer preaching the sky is falling in order to tax then spend the country into liberal oblivion...

January was a surprise, February was a surprise, and March will also be a surprise, you can count on it.

Just imagine if there was someone sitting in the Oval Office who had a clue as to what he was doing. The country is healthy and strong enough to weather even the likes of "young" Hussein and his flabby pecs.

Cop Who Shot Driver Could Get Reduced Charges

NEW YORK (AP) - "Prosecutors want a judge to consider lower charges if necessary in deciding a verdict for an off-duty New York City police officer on trial for killing an unarmed drunken driver.

Rafael Lora testified Wednesday that he shot Fermin Arzu in self-defense. Afterward, prosecutors asked the judge at the non-jury trial — if he finds they didn't prove first-degree manslaughter — to consider second-degree manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide as an alternative.

Fermin Arzu crashed his minivan into a parked car outside the officer's Bronx home in April 2007. The officer says he fired when Arzu trapped him with the minivan door and dragged him.

The judge is expected to announce his verdict next month."

Uh huh. It isn't the defense asking the judge to go easy on the guy, but the prosecution. I'm sure we'd all be afforded the same mercy if we raced outside to see who was making such a racket in the neighborhood and then shot the place up, killing one, and injuring many trash cans and windows and lampposts.

Witnesses testified that the only time the officer was "trapped" was after he shot the driver to death and the minivan went careening down the sidewalk, but what's a few distorted facts among the uber privileged gestapo and their enablers.

Obo On Winning The War On Drugs...

"We're fighting with one hand tied behind our back because our effort to lower demand is grossly underfunded," Obama said. "The average person who's seeking serious substance abuse treatment in a big city like Dallas or Chicago typically has a three-, four- or six-month waiting list to get enrolled."

Seriously. He believes that the key to winning the war on drugs is in building and funding more abuse treatment centers throughout the country.

You know, the places they send "repentant" addicts instead of jail. The places that have like a 2% cure rate. Referring to drug abuse as a disease or sickness means you need lots and lots more hospitals and doctors and nurses and federal funding. Under the guise of "curing" the dopers a whole bunch of new taxes can be levied so as to create yet another huge slush fund from which to borrow in order to build cool new monuments to Ted Kennedy. And lets not forget old Nancy P who isn't getting any younger herself and will soon need her very own palace of memories.

Shelley And Skankles Kiss (Spit, Ptooey) And Make Up

"First Ladies and frenemies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton acted like best buddies Wednesday at a high-profile State Department ceremony.

"Let me thank Secretary Clinton - I love saying that," Obama gushed.

Of course she does. Her husband, Barack, crushed any hopes the current Secretary of State had for being hailed as President Clinton during their bruising Democratic primary last fall.

It wasn't that long ago that party insiders were telling the political world that Michelle Obama and Clinton simply couldn't abide one another.

Both sides openly accused the other of arrogantly parading about as the "inevitable" White House winner during the campaign.

But the recent unpleasantness dissolved in a hearty round of hugs and air kisses Wednesday, as Clinton praised Obama's "grace and her wisdom," and Obama called Clinton "such a committed person, friend, supporter to me."

Skankles wore her famous undertaker pants suit ensemble, and She-Hulk-Shelly dazzled the crowd with her Zorro The Gay Blade impersonation, so aren't you glad we have these pit-bull lefty wives to chortle over during such difficult times. Put either, let alone both, on, say, the Titanic, and the Atlantic would've spit back the boat.

Yellow Peril Tests Obo And Guess Who Blinked

by Peter Brookes

"JUST two weeks after the Obama Pentagon crowed that the recent US-China military-to-military talks were practically the best ever, Beijing's navy confronted a US ship operating in international waters in the South China Sea.

Talk about a cold, hard slap of reality.

Beijing claims Impeccable was violating its sovereignty by conducting operations within China's 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as identified under the United Nations' 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty. Thing is, the treaty doesn't give Beijing any right to veto activities outside their 12-mile territorial waters - and Impeccable was more than 60 miles beyond China's national waters.

The treaty gives them a right to object to certain economic activities in their EEZ, such as drilling for oil/gas or fishing - but that right clearly doesn't extend to noneconomic activities, including military operations, in international waters.

Another alarming element of the incident was the tepid US response. The Obama administration did nothing more than lodge a protest with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing and call their defense attaché here on the carpet. What's next - a really mean letter?

Nope: After meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said they'd agreed "that we must work hard in the future to avoid such incidents and to avoid this particular incident having consequences that are unforeseen." That'll show 'em!"

What it showed them is the irrefutable fact that A.) Liberals are cowardly beings, who when confronted fold like a cheap suit, and 2.) Operation Obo means ALWAYS having to say you're sorry, ESPECIALLY to your philosophical enemies.

Wait. Commie chinese versus commie liberals. Hell, there's no real philosophical difference there at all so sorry about that.

Ann Coulter On The Tax Deductability Of Hope & Change

"Are you sitting down? Obama plans to pay for his $3.6 trillion-dollar spending bill by raising taxes on "the rich." I know, I know ... I was pretty shocked, too.

The bad news is, by hiking taxes in a recession, Obama will turn a disaster into a catastrophe. But there's good news, too. The "rich" include most of Obama's biggest supporters!

While liberals love being praised for their looks, their style, their brilliance and their courage, the one quality they don't want talked about is their money. To the contrary, Democrats are constantly boasting about how poor they are -- as if that's a virtue in a capitalist society with no class barriers.

No matter how much money they have, liberals will be damned if they're giving up the poor's mantle of angry self-righteousness. This is especially true if their wealth came by inheritance, marriage or the taxpayer, the preferred sources of income for Liberalus Americanus.

Democrats' claims of poverty merely serve to show how out of touch elected Democrats are with actual incomes in America.

At the Democratic National Convention, for example, there were heartfelt tributes to the daunting self-sacrifice of both Barack and Michelle Obama for passing up lucrative jobs to work in "public service" -- which apparently is now defined, such as in Michelle Obama's case, as "working as a 'diversity coordinator' at a big city hospital for $300,000 a year."

Seriously, even with a company car, full medical benefits and six weeks' paid vacation thrown in, how do people live on that?

Meanwhile, the average salary for a lawyer with 20 years or more experience in the U.S. is a little more than $100,000. If Michelle Obama doesn't lay off all this "giving back" stuff pretty soon, she's going to find herself in Warren Buffett's tax bracket."

Between ambulance chasers dogging their heels at every turn, and liberals demanding that "diversity specialists" be hired and recompensed at ridiculous pay scales, of course the medical profession is passing along the cost to us.

Perhaps Obo should look to his own house for ways to lower health care costs, no?

But c'mon now, universal healthcare is just another way to keep the peons beholding and peon'ic. Tort reform and purging the system of politically correct jobs having nothing to do with modern medicine would allow hungry doctors and nurses to run relatively cutrate operations (no pun intended), and force the competition to follow suit or begin losing business.

Because, after all, health care is above everything else a business. Competition ALWAYS favors the consumer and eliminating it like Obo-Care would do is the absolute WORST way to make seeing a sawbones something one not need sell their firstborn in order to afford.

And ya know what?

Ugly Shelly's* salary and liberal Scroogeitude when it comes to charity were quite well known BEFORE the election. Lots of folks seemed not to care.

*Don't even think of using this to write your own sitcom about a homely gal making it big by being matched to an up and coming neighborhood crook who lures homeless drunks to polling sites with six-packs of beer and cartons of smokes. FOX says that as long as I make the characters Swedish they'll not only greenlight Ugly Shelly but begin pre-production on a spinoff featuring the male character's brother who needs a teleprompter even to make love with his wife.

Only A Matter Of Time

Now Obo has his massacre...

SAMSON, Ala. (AP) - "Authorities say at 10 people have been shot and killed in two south Alabama towns, including the gunman.

The Alabama Department of Safety says at least four shootings by a single gunman left at least nine people dead before he killed himself.

The department says in a statement that the shootings began late Tuesday afternoon in Samson. The shooter killed five people in one home and one each in two other homes."

And to paraphrase his own thugs..."never let a catastrophe go to waste".

Look for Attorney General Holder to call for the re institution of every sunsetted firearms act the country has ever had. No one ever said the country was free of nutcases. Its just a shame the victims were for whatever reason incapable of returning fire.

UPDATE. Wednesday, 3/11

Seems the murderer used a Bushmaster and an SKS, NOT what Charlie-Boy Gibson was reporting yesterday on ABC News, an AK-47.

Charlie Boy was also quoting the police chief as saying the murderer was "just spraying bullets everywhere". I guess that to a broken down old cop anything resembling rapid fire must seem like a machinegun from hell, and check this out too:

The chief first said that the only thing hitting HIM was broken glass from the squad car window, and that his vest deflected the shards. I heard it. On the radio. Now, multiple media sources are saying that his vest stopped a bullet. This is an important distinction because we all know how relatively flimsy law enforcement body armor is, and it'd be a good thing if the frickin' Yellowstream jizzbags could get something correct for a change.

MORE UPDATING

"Geneva Police Chief Frank Lindsey was wounded by McLendon, who trapped him and his partner in their police car as he fired round after round from his automatic weapon.

Lindsey told FOX News that they encountered McLendon at a Wal-Mart in Geneva.

"He had a lot more fire power than we did," Lindsey said Wednesday. "All we had were our pistols. He fired 15, 16 rounds from an automatic weapon. ... We faced him head-on. He just looked at us right straight."

Lindsey said McLendon disabled their vehicle but then stopped shooting at them, walked away and turned the gun on himself."

See what I mean.

One guy with a semi-auto rifle holds policemen, in their car, at bay. And these are the same professionals who are believed (and treated as such) to be far more proficient with firearms than you or I.

Does it even seem that they got off any shots? Did they cower behind the wheel? Frozen at the mere sight of A MAN WITH A GUN...

Boggles.

Obo Meets Gordon Brown...

Prime Minister Brown gifts Obama with "a pen holder made from a Royal Navy vessel that once fought to end the Atlantic slave trade and a first edition of the eight-volume biography of Winston Churchill begun by Winston's son Randolph and completed by Sir Martin Gilbert."

And what did the leader of the free world bestow in return to our greatest ally?

"Obama paid him back with a stack of Hollywood movies on DVD."

No Rose Garden press conference. No formal dinner. A working meeting, some cool flicks to watch in case the Brits hadn't heard of this new thing called DVD players yet, and don't let the door hit you in the ass.

Remember the leftwing credo: Bow to your enemies, disrespect your allies. Obama has paid more attention to moslem cult leaders than to our staunchest of friends so I guess it is business as usual at the new Oval Office.

NRA News: Outrage Of The Month

"This...outrage comes to us from North Dakota, where we find a General Educational Development (GED) practice test showing blatant anti-gun bias.

The GED tests, sometimes referred to as a "General Equivalency Diploma" or "General Education(al) Diploma," are used to certify that an individual who passes the test has high school-level skills. The tests were originally created to help veterans after World War II. The tests were never intended to be a vehicle for advancing a political agenda. But one North Dakota practice test is attempting to do so.

On page three of the test, under the heading "Government Comprehension" there is a political cartoon featuring a caricature of Uncle Sam with a shovel in his hand and a fat man wearing a shirt that says, "GUN LOBBY." The two are standing in a cemetery in front of an open grave. Dirt is falling from Uncle Sam's shovel. The grave's headstone reads, "Another Victim Of A Senseless Shooting Spree." The figure representing the gun lobby, with his hand on Uncle Sam's back, is stating, " No One Ever Said Preserving The American Way Of Life Would Be Easy…"

Question number 21—the related question—asks the following:

21. Which of the following assumptions does the cartoonist make?

The "senseless shooting spree"

1. Could easily have been prevented
2. Is part of the American way of life
3. Is the fault of the gun lobby
4. Is the fault of the U.S. government
5. Represents a fundamental civil right

While the "correct" answer may be perplexing, none of the "answers" are accurate and all are offensive (especially number 3). The implications are clear; the cartoon suggests that guns are bad, having guns inevitably leads to "senseless shooting sprees," such heinous violence is part and parcel of the American way of life, the government can only "bury the dead," and the gun lobby flippantly and dismissively concludes that a shooting spree is a reasonable price to pay for our violent American way of life. This sort of propaganda has no place in a GED test. Rather, this sounds more like biased indoctrination: "to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., esp. to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view."

That sounds about right."

Seriously now; they're actually poking fun of us as part of a GED exam.

Mind boggling or what?

That means things have gotten far worse than we've imagined, hell, there's no more backroom secret meetings of the Brady Cult, well maybe there are, PROBABLY there are, but they've become so emboldened as to bring their lunacy into the light of day.

Think about this. We're an answer to a stereotypical, hideous joke on a GED test.

Time To Play: "What's Wrong With This Headline"

Ill. police: Pastor killed, others shot at church

MARYVILLE, Ill. — "A gunman walked down the aisle of a church during a Sunday service and killed the pastor, then stabbed himself and two others as parishioners wrestled him to the ground, authorities said.

The man walked into the sprawling brick First Baptist Church in Maryville shortly after 8 a.m. and briefly spoke with Pastor Fred Winters before pulling out a .45-caliber handgun and shooting Winters once, said Illinois State Trooper Master Trooper Ralph Timmins.

The gun jammed before the man could fire again, Timmins said. The attacker then pulled out a knife and injured himself before churchgoers subdued him. Two parishioners involved in the struggle also suffered knife wounds, Timmins said."

So then. He shot the Pastor, then inflicted knife wounds on at least two others before being subdued.

But the headline says he shot the Pastor, and "others" so what's up with that? Where are these "others"? Could it be that the Yellowstream Media just couldn't let go a chance to spread evil lies, are they just THAT dumb, or a little bit of both?

Hold on a sec; maybe he had one of them there knife guns. Yeah, that's the ticket. Makes a lot of sense, too, since all one need do is check virtually any firearm board to know that a handgun is just too puny to kill a full grown man so betcha the miscreant shot then stabbed the Pastor too.

"Professor" Called The Police...

Last week the blog-buzz was about CCSU "professor" Paula Anderson having called the campus gestapo over a speech given by student John Wahlberg on a “relevant issue in the media”.

Mr. Wahlberg...gasp...spoke about concealed handgun carry on campus and how he was in favor of it. Which of course was a no-no, possibly (aside from, say, offering that Rush Limbaugh is a nice person) the WORST no-no possible considering that the institution in question is a liberal bastion of misery and Miz Anderson herself is an incompetent nazi witch.

Checking out the school's website led me to this picture of Frau Anderson, and it doesn't surprise me that there is no verifiable likeness of this gun-hating socialist scardycat. As a humorous aside, this is how one of the students rated Miz Anderson's class:

"Public Speaking was very fun! I am an athlete and none of my presentations were boaring. If you want an easy A... take this class!"

'Nuff said?