"Look ! It's Governor Corzine...!"

First words out of my mouth when I saw this slimy SOB crossing my line at the 'ol fishin' hole:



Jim at the Parkway Rest Stop has made clear - with good humor - his personal disdain for gators. Me, I hate almost all reptiles. Peer at them, and they size you up with only one "thought" in their prehistoric minds: Can I eat you? And if they feel as if they can, they make their move...

The fellow above is the New Jersey's infamous Northern Water Snake, and it seems like he may be getting close to the four-foot limit the species usually reaches...

So eventually, little Corzine decides to head for shore, and curls up pondside right at my feet, and rests his head on a stray leaf. I was in no mood for reptilian company, so I pounded on the ground hard, knowing that snakes are more sensitive to vibration than noise.

So what does the SOB do? He recoils a few inches, sure, but instead of fleeing, he arches up an additional six inches out of the water, hoods his head, and hisses at me.

Right out of the fieldbook:

The water snake can exhibit a mean disposition and can inflict a painful, nonvenomous bite if handled.

So eventually we reached a detante, and little Jon slithered away, no doubt looking for the stray sunfish. Meanwhile, I ran smack into Senator Robert Menendez!

Who'd have thunk it?

Memorial Day 2008

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance
that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron

For love of country they accepted death... ~James A. Garfield

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.~Minot J. Savage

All here.

Enjoy the day, and pay tribute in your heart...

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. ~Aaron Kilbourn

Can you judge a man by the books he reads?

And can you tell us what that man will do if he rises to power?

Barack Obama, caught on the tarmac with his latest reading material...let's summarize:

....here we have the current frontrunner (barely) to be the 44th president of the United States (the son of a Kenyan man and an American woman, named Barack Obama), reading the top-selling current events book of the season (by an immigrant from Mumbai named Fareed Zakaria) called The Post-American World.....

Don't say we didn't warn ya. Click the link for the photo of our future facist overlord....

Media Calls for Obama !

The media will not let a silly things such as "voting "get in the way of pushing their self-appointed messiah to his throne in Washington:

Obama to take big step in Democratic race

Barack Obama will take a major step toward the Democratic presidential nomination when Oregon and Kentucky vote on Tuesday, but rival Hillary Clinton still hopes to spoil the party.

After Tuesday's results, Obama will be able to claim a majority of pledged delegates won in the lengthy state-by-state fight with Clinton.

It is a landmark he hopes will signal the beginning of the end of their grueling race to contest November's presidential election against Republican John McCain.

A majority? Kinda meaningless, when there is a fixed total (2210) of delegates that must be earned, and that Obama cannot achieve, in this contest for the Democratic nomination.

With H-Clinton on his heels (although also "mathematically challenged), and Obama's "popular vote" lead now solely amounting to his margin of victory in Cook County, Illinois, isn't it presumptous to say that winning the state of Oregon on the same day he will get demolished in Kentucky is a "big step" for Obama?

Looks like the media is going to report this election the same way they've reported the war in Iraq, with Hillary/McCain being cast as the American soldier; with a narrative demanding that they must - MUST - lose to allow the storyline to continue as liberal dogma dictates....

"Plus ca change...

...plus c'est la meme chose"....

Who made the following statement regarding Muslims?

....God has cast us into the midst of this people....who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us… ....No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have… We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, and absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear.”

No, not Ariel Sharon, you hate-monger!

Give up? It was famed Jewish philospsher and scholar Moses Maimonides; and he said it around 1180AD.

Not much has changed in 800 years; excepting the fact that Mr. Maimonides would today likely be vilified by the media - and elected Democrats - for engaging in "hate speech", which is what the Left likes to call inconvenient truths these days....

Gates of Vienna (from whom I grabbed the above quote), points out how our own dhimmi government tries to change history to suit the Muslim nation:

The U.S. State Department has proclaimed that “during the Islamic period in Spain, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in peace and mutual respect, creating a diverse society in which vibrant exchanges of ideas took place.”

Incidentally, it is too bad that the study of dead white (or dead Jewish/Spanish) philosophers has been banned; for Moses Maimonides has a lot to say about a number of contemporary issues.

For instance, how about that whole assisted suicide thing?

One who is in a dying condition is regarded as a living person in all respects.

Don't tell Doc Kervorkian...and hey, you know how the Democrats have an easy answer for every problem that confronts us (and it is usually "Just let the government handle it")? Well, Moses sayeth:

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. This is not the case.

Finally, some wisdom from the great philosospher that would greatly benefit any one politician who dared to practice it:

When I have a difficult subject before me — when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools — I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude

Alas, that courage is as rare now as it was back in Mr. M's day....

Barack Obama: A Coward, Without Even the Courage of his Convictions

Let's do a three-step, shall we? From Obama's own website, his (gag) "plan to secure America and restore our standing":

When I am this party's nominee, my opponent will not be able to say that I voted for the war in Iraq; or that I gave George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran; or that I supported Bush-Cheney policies of not talking to leaders that we don't like.

More, now in meglomanical third-person:

Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions

Now, from President Bush's speech in Israel today:

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Obama takes offense, and goes nuts, seemingly forgetting - or scurriously backing away from - his own mission statement on said website:

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said in the statement. "George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."

Points to ponder (and I honestly don't know where to begin):

- one should read the rest of Obama's diplomatic and foreign policy objectives on his website. The thought of someone with a college sophomore's grasp of world affairs becoming the President is absolutely terrifying.

-who do we need to restore our standing with? The Israeli people, who welcomed Bush as a hero? The French, who elected the conservative Sarkozy? The Germans, who tossed out the anti-American Schroeder? The British, who just handed the left its biggest loss in over a decade? Seems like the rest of the world is trying to make up with us. I wonder what peoples Mr. Obama is referring to, when he invokes our "low standing"?

- Bush is right. Is that what is inflaming the Left so today? Next accusation: Bush is "swift-boating" Obama!

-Amazing how Obama could take the words of the President making a historic speech in Israel and somehow turn it into a personal affront. Sorry, little Barack, it is not all about you. You were likely the furthest thing from Bush's mind today, and all of your bitchy whining and moaning doesn't change that; it just makes you look...immature. Hmmm...will McCain's age actually become a advantage in November?

Finally, a thought about liberalism as it is practiced today, since I believe it relates. It seems as if modern liberalism has become all about making oneself feel good (because it is always about you, right, Barack?) with no mind paid to the consequences of the actions taken to achieve that precious self-esteem. To wit:

-Jimmy Carter goes to Gaza, Hamas attacks and kills Israelis the next day. Actually, in the ten days or so since his vistis, Hamas has drastically increased his attacks. Cause and affect?

-Nancy Pelosi goes to Damascus, assures the lowly "President" Assad that liberal Democrats will take a new direction, a path of discussion. She feels good about it, no doubt. But how do the residents of Lebanon feel now that Assad's Hezbollah allies have overtaken the freely-elected government? Coincidence, that Syria makes its moves as our election grows near? Coincidence, that Iran spurns all talks while the liberal Obama lurks in the wings?

-Food prices in America jump drastically as ethanol subsidies - a "true path" on the way to a "Green America" - induces farmers to sell their crops for fuel instead of food. The liberals feel great - hey, ethanol burns clean! - but that side effect of food shortages for the first time in nearly a century in America? Hey, don't swift-boat the Left, you, you ....denier!

It is a type of immaturity - or maybe insanity - to say that the ironclad laws of cause and effect do not apply to you, because you meant well.

Or maybe some of these liberal folks do not mean so well after all. The left's hatred towards Israel, displayed mightily as we celebrate her 60th anniversary, brings yet another point to ponder. This one comes from The Belmont Club:

Yet nothing great or wonderful is safe forever, and that darkness, that love for savagery, that admiration for the brutal, that was believed to have died beneath the ground in 1945 is on the march again.

It is crawling out of books, lofty towers, places of culture in precisely the manner Camus warned us against. He said that the evil may be beaten, but it is rarely beaten forever; "that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city."

But we may not speak of it. And therefore it begins.

Like Sauron's ring, our evil is almost impossible to destroy; it simply hibernates for a season, then returns in a new form - with cheerleaders; remember the left's enthusiasm for Stalin? - and a weary world cannot summom the strength - or the courage - to fight it until the bootprints are upon us...

Nice roundup at Right Truth...

Well, yeah...

"When Pigs Fly" Alert !

I actually agree with something Hillary Clinton said; and in The Times, natch:

“Elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantages the vast majority of Americans.”

She's referring to the braying over her support for the repeal of the gas tax; with the loudest Donkey in opposition being one Barack Obama.

She's one the right side of this one but for the wrong reasons (political opportunism as opposed to sound tax-cutting fiscal policy).

Doesn't matter, really. Interesting thought, though - does the Hillster realize how often she is the very voice of that "elite opinion" that she so thoroughly derides?

I am sure some will soon remind her...

Filth From Across The Pond

To think that we as a nation were spawned from this decaying, decrepit husk:

Last Thursday Johann Hari, the leading political columnist for the British daily The Independent, received the (previously) highly prestigious Orwell Prize for political writing. The 29-year-old Hari “celebrated” by writing a vicious attack on Israel.

In his column in The Independent this week, he writes: “Whenever I try to mouth these words [of reassurance for Israel], a remembered smell fills my nostrils. It is the smell of shit.”

(In 2007, Hari was also named “Newspaper Journalist of the Year” by Amnesty International. He has also written for The New York Times and Le Monde.)

More on this prestigous prizewinner at Honest Reporting UK, which thoroughly catalogs Hari's knowing use of vicious, hateful lies in order to pursue his dream of a destroyed Israel.

But it seems as if Hari is an equal opportunity hate monger:

...there are so many good reasons to hate Joseph Ratzinger...

But back to our estwhile parental units, the Brits. Should they tolerate this type of speech?
Absolutely.

Should it get printed in its major newspapers?
Well, this little spat speaks to what the British really want to read, doesn't it? Or at the very least, what their elites feel is important for them to read. Hence the "decay" I refer to up top...

Should the author of such a barely disguised anti-Semetic rampage get a top literary award from an alleged panel of judges?

Ah, there we are. This type of speech is not just tolerated, not just printed in the top dailies, but rewarded. And what does that say about the soul of our European forefathers?

Decayed. Decrepit. Empty.

And they are following the path of so many similar societies - societies that either no longer exist (Nazi Germany) or are helplessly retrograde (the Muslim Middle East). The path of "blame the Jews" - first, last, and always.

Good luck with that. It's worked so well in the past.

Can we disown you now?

Not convinced? From The Orwell Prize website - besides our loving friend Mr. Hari, who else has one an Orwell this year? No suprise to find out is is another "blame the Jews first" tome:

Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (Profile books), describes - through a series of six walks over 26 years - the destruction of the Palestinian landscape, and how it mirrors the destruction of Palestinian identity and culture.

Finally - who where these esteemed judges, whom through must what have been an exhaustive search, found these highly qualified honorees? Well, here's an interesting coincidence:

Albert Scardino – Annual Judge: Albert Scardino is a former executive editor for the home and foreign departments of The Guardian, and a former adviser to the Democratic Party in the United States.

No suprise, that. Sounds like one of Obama's guys, actually.

Where does this all lead? Here.

Barack Obama: An Empty Shell?

Nah.

How can a racist far-left radical who surrounds himself with anti-Semites be an empty shell? Still, that seems to be part of thought behind this bit of analysis, which I enjoyed tremendously:

For someone who has devoted his adult life to public service (as he describes himself), he has had almost no impact on his world. The grants that he doled out on behalf of the Annenberg fund would still have been issued to the same people. The bills that he signed on to in the Illinois state Senate would have passed, or failed to pass, had he never been elected.

The people in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago where he worked as a community organizer remain today as they were in my own South Side youth, relatively poorer and living less well than their neighbors (although much of the South Side outside Woodlawn has been transformed by private investment).

The United States Senate would have enacted or failed to enact the same laws had Senator Obama never been born. The South Side and the public education system of Chicago, the state of Illinois, the condition of the United States all testify to the nullity of Senator Obama’s life thus far.

Senator Obama’s personal charm has made many people listen to him, admire him, even love him - but he can’t produce anyone outside his family, except the stockholders of his book publishers, whose life has been transformed, or even slightly touched, by his presence or absence.

He is a one-man refutation of the premise of Capra’s movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Obama is a man who has done nothing with his life whatsoever - it does not even have the nobility of the mundane - yet feels entitled to the highest post in the land (and I thought Hillary had a sense of entitlement, but boy-oh-boy can them Dems outdo each other in this catagory!)

Many Democrats seem to view him as they do a mirror, simply reflecting back whatever qualities they see in themselves, or wish to see in him. He absorbs it, then reflects it, and simply flashes his beautific smile; enough to make the faithful swoon.

But will the national electorate do the same? The DVD of History contains many chapters starring despots -coming to power with nothing more than a slogan and a riveting style of oration - and none of these tales have a happy ending. We've been immune to the Song of the Shyster for over 200 years ; yet has it come around to our time to hoist a man with a disasterous plan onto our shoulders, to deposit him in the White House to cure all the ills we are told ails us?

Watching history unfold isn't cool. It's freakin' terrifying.

Semper Fake...

This is like Dukakis in the tank:

Does Mr. Obama believe this will give him stronger national security credentials?

Dude, give it up.....

Can't wait to see the resolution the U.N. passes...

....after they get hold of this (quite accurate) character assessment of Jimmy Carter made by Israel's ambassador to that august body:

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner [do I detect reproachment from the AP?], "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters...

The ambassador called last weekend's encounter "a very sad episode in American history."

There will be a lot more chapters of our history written like the one above should another "refreshing" candidate of change smile and slick-talk his way into the White House...

Time for England to Man Up

Sweet Jeebus, if you fear to tread where the French boldly go (and we ain't talkin' chicks with hairy armpits here), than you've got a serious problem with the size of ya cobblers, you know?

On April 11, French commandos went in with guns blazing and captured a gang of pirates who days earlier had hijacked a luxury cruise ship, the Ponant, and held the crew for ransom. This was the French solution to a crime wave that has threatened international shipping off Somalia; those of us who have been on the business end of a pirate’s gun can only applaud their action.

The British government on the other hand, to the incredulity of many in the maritime industry, has taken a curiously pathetic approach to piracy. While the French were flying six of the captured pirates to Paris to face trial, the British Foreign Office issued a directive to the once vaunted Royal Navy not to detain any pirates, because doing so could violate their human rights.

Wait, it gets stupider:

Somali regional rulers Thursday demanded compensation for civilian deaths they say occurred during a French military operation against suspected pirates last week.

They said three herdsmen were killed during the operation that followed the release for ransom of a 30-strong luxury yacht crew and insisted four of the suspects captured by French troops weren't pirates...

The French, under Sarkozy (and due credit to the French people who elected him by a wide margin; the same people who wisely spit on on the EU "Constitution" in a referendum) are getting tough. Maybe that's what happens when you've had enough of Muslim thugs burning your cities and hijacking your ships.

How much further does England have to go to reach this point? It now has blatant Muslim-enforced "no-go zones" where the nation' s traditonal colors cannot be displayed, its Church leaders have called for the institution of Sharia Law, and their once-fearsome Navy quails before pirates no stonger than the ones defeated by the U.S. Marines at "the shores of Tripoli" back in 1805.

Pathetic, and dangerous. British influence (as well as their "cobbles") will shrink with their continued unwillingness to project their power abroad; can they even hold fast against the rising radical Islamist tide in their own nation, or will they be the first to fall, in a reversal of WW II ?

Of course, this was all presaged in an episode of the Simpsons back in 2003, when Eric Idle observes Bart's fall from schoolyard grace with the following comment:

'Bart’s glory has gone the way of England’s masculinity.'”

Indeed it has....

Jimmah's Best Friends Go Jew-Killing !

Jimmy talks peace with Hamas, while they wage war. On whose behalf is he surrendering Western Civilization, anyway?

Via Gateway Pundit:

Hamas claims responsibility for a suicide blast at the Kerem Shalom crossing point. At least one car laden with explosives was detonated at the key crossing point, wounding 13 Israeli soldiers in an attack the militants say may be the trigger for broader campaign to force open the borders of the Gaza Strip.

A point at Volokh's place:

There have been several attacks recently by "militants" on the crossing used to send fuel and food into Gaza. They are playing a "heads we win, tails you lose game." Keep the crossings open, and we'll kill Israelis. Close them, and the wrath of the "international community" will come down on Israel for a "humanitarian disaster" in Gaza.

Seem like something Carter himself may have suggested, no?

Sigh...happy Passover, I guess....

Jimmy Carter's Mideast Trip a Smashing Success...

...for Hamas, which touts Carter's kowtowing as further proof of their legitimacy:

Hamas official Mushir Masri, in a fiery speech Friday to thousands of Hamas supporters in Gaza, said the meetings with Carter were proof that Hamas was not a terrorist group, but a national liberation movement.

"It confirms the failure of the U.S. and European policies of ignoring Hamas," he told the crowd. "It confirms that all the countries that assume Hamas is a terrorist group should reconsider."

Jimmah employs the same techniques he used in 1979, and gets the same results. Only now the ex-coward-in-chief is gaming the rules, and trying to pretend that these are positive results. It's probably the only way he can ease the cognitive dissonance that rages in his head -convinced he is a peacemaker because he once staged a photo-op handshake (and eventually got a prize for it), yet simultaneously realizing that much of conflict that rages in the Middle East today is a direct result of his tragic policies there as President.

So what could Jimmy do to reconcile his aching head? Why, turn his vice into a virtue, and collect what accolades he may, I suppose. Sad.

And yet...future Messiah/President Barack Obama cannot wait to go down the same foreign policy path as Brother Jimmy. Already endorsed by Hamas, expect BHO to ditch his empty election-year promise to the Jews, and practice some Carteresque fellatio on the murderous icons of the American Left.

It's gonna get ugly.

Sorry, that sucking sound you hear is my lifeforce being drained away by my job...more frequent posting to resume by the weekend (I hope!)

Obama: The Rich are Virtuous, The Middle Class are Idiots !

OK, the last word on Bitter Barack's bashing of Middle America comes from James Taranto at Opinion Journal, who catches the disconnnect between what Obama thinks of well-off liberals who vote their values, and middle to lower class conservatives who do the same:

The well-heeled San Francisco Democrats Obama addressed on Friday stand to pay much higher taxes if he is elected. Many of them no doubt back Obama because they like his liberal positions on subjects like guns, abortion and same-sex marriage. If you think Obama criticized their priorities, we've got some change you can believe in.

In Barack Obama's America, rich people who vote on cultural issues rather than economic self-interest are principled and self-sacrificing. People of more modest means who do so are credulous and bitter.

What a revolting man. A candidate for President of the United States? He's seems unqualified to even be a Senator...

"Snobama": Arrogant/Elitist/Racist

Small town Pennsylvania boy turned big-city columnist Michael Goodwin unloads on Barack Obama in today's Daily News:

Having grown up in one of those small Pennsylvania towns Sen. Barack Obama sneers at, I know what really makes people there "bitter." It's slick-talking politicians who look down on their beliefs and values.
Small-town people get doubly "bitter" when those pols have the gall to ask for their votes while demeaning their lives. See, even hicks don't like being played for suckers.....

Through his warped vision, if you own a gun, oppose gay marriage or want our nation's borders sealed, you're just bitter over your lousy job. Amazingly, he even sees the embrace of God as a reaction to the bad economy.

Such a dark view of heartland hearts is not very Christian and suggests Snob-ama really did hear the rants of his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

His last sentence touches upon the racist aspect I mentioned the other day; one the media is afraid to touch. You don't have to be as smart as Barack Obama to put this puzzle together:

-Obama spends 20 years of Sundays listening to the rants of an anti-Semetic, anti-white, anti-American preacher, one whose message he feels so relaxed with that he labels said preacher as his "spiritual mentor" and feed his sour spirtual milk to his two young daughters,
-dismisses his grandmother - who sacrificed her life's dreams in order to raise him - as nothing more than a "typical white woman",
-derides the residents of small-town Pennsylvania and the American Midwest - a predominately white area - as racists, as bitter folk whom "cling" to irrational ideas such as God and the Second Amendment because they have not yet basked in the enlightenment that is his Messianic self.

Democrat Barack Obama as the ultimate "postracial" candidate? No, Obama as a more pure racist candidate than anything that the "evil" GOP has ever dug up from the dregs.

To bad the smartest man in the room cannot even recognize what is staring back at him from the mirror...

Obama: Done

Can Obama win the general election with a voter base containing exclusively blacks, college kids, and rich white upper-class liberals? 'Cause after this remark - made at a San Francisco fund raiser - that's about all that's left of his constituency:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Wow. Guess the idea of a person holding moral values, that, you know - they may actually believe in - is so alien to the mindset of Barack Obama that he needs to invent a whole psychodrama to explain it away.

Apparently, if these folks (who have been unemployed for 25 years?) had jobs - you know, the ones that Barack Hussein Messiah Obama will create with a beneficial wave of his hand once elected - they wouldn't need all that silly "God" stuff, they'd allow the Second Amendment to be eradicated, finally throw the borders open wide, and be through with all that "bitterness"!

I don't know what's more appalling - his own underlying hostiltity to those who do not share his far-left ideology, his elitist slap at small town America, or the underlying racist tone of this comment.

After all, what kind of people are always pictured living in these "small towns in Pennsylvania and...in the Midwest"? Not exactly urban enclaves, are they? From the mind of Jeremiah Wright to the mouth of Barack Obama...

The media honeymoon is well over,as the AP has a pretty stiff leade:

Obama says some voters are angry, bitter

In the midst of an assault from his rivals, a defensive Barack Obama said Friday that many working-class Americans are angry and bitter over economic inequalities and have lost faith in Washington — and, as a result, vote on the basis of other issues such as gun protections or gay marriage

The Illinois senator's analysis of what motivates working-class voters came after chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton accused him of looking down on such voters....

The article has another Obamian explanation for why the rubes - ah, sorry, unemployed white Midwesterners - vote the way they do:

"People don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody is going to help them," Obama told a crowd at a Terre Haute, Ind., high school Friday evening. "So people end up voting on issues like guns and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage...

Obama simply cannot believe anyone could hold a different value system than he himself does; cannot grasp that someone may look at the same set of facts and come to a different conclusion, and act on it. So he invents bitterness - the way a 9/11 conspiracy theorist invents "preplaced explosive charges" - to explain the inexplicable.

Incidentally, would a man who obviously does not understand the meaning or preciousness of a moral principle ever send men to fight or die for one ? Yeah, no wonder al-Qaeda sees Obama and waits, drooling with anticipation of the fun they'll have...

How any thinking voter (except the small three-grouping I mentioned on top) could vote for this man, thinking that he may somehow represent them, is beyond me.

Not that I am worried, really.

Obama: Done.

UPDATE: Funny:

Obama To Rural Pennsylvanians: Vote For Me, You Corncob-Smokin', Banjo-Strokin' Chicken-Chokin' Cousin-Pokin' Inbred Hillbilly Racist Morons

Thar' They Blow (again...) !!

It's "hurricane prediction" season again, and the climatic doomsayers are coming out of their closets and spouting their visions of our wet n' wild doom:

A noted hurricane researcher predicted Wednesday that rising water temperatures in the Atlantic will bring a "well above average" storm season this year, including four major storms.

The updated forecast by William Gray's team at Colorado State University calls for 15 named storms in the Atlantic in 2008 and says there's a better than average chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the United States,

An average of 5.9 hurricanes form in the Atlantic each year....

Let's hit the wayback machine and visit the dire days of 2006:

May 29, 2006 - Al Gore's new movie on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," opens with scenes from Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans. The former vice president says unequivocally that because of global warming, it is all but certain that future hurricanes will be more violent and destructive than those in the past.

With the official start of hurricane season days away, meteorologists are unanimous that the 2006 tropical storm season, which runs from June 1 through November, is likely to be a doozy...

And the results of season of '06? The envelope, please!

9: The number of named storms this year
17: The number of named storms predicted May 31 by a team at Colorado State University led by Professor William Gray

Hey! Now where did I hear that name before? Oh, yeah....

Gray's 2007 predictions were as follows:

Named storms (17)
Hurricanes (9)
Major hurricanes (5)

Did Gray improve in 2007? Hmmm....:

...2007 [wil]l rank as a historically inactive TC year for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole. During the past 30 years, only 1977, 1981, and 1983 have had less activity to date...

And how does this media-darling meteorologist defend his wildly off-the-mark prognostications?

"We don't worry about it," he said. "We've moved ahead."

To the next batch of bad science, no doubt.

Eventually, the truth comes out:

Gray's team says precise predictions are impossible, and the warnings raise awareness of hurricanes.

"Raise awareness"? By scare tactics and exaggerated threats? Seems like by constantly crying "Wolf!", these rogue weathermen are actually raising the possibility that a true warning will be ignored...

Call me naive, but I miss the good old days when science actually relied on, you know, what were they called again?

Oh yeah - facts !