The Section 8 Bengals

Let me just start this post by saying, if you are one of those guys who camps out at your local sports bar to watch the draft for three + hours, you are a loser.

The only thing more worthless than the watching the draft, following high school recruiting.

But let's start again with the annual proclamation that the Bengals will always be losers up until the day the Brown family is killed in an airline crash or poisoned during Easter dinner.

Once again the Bengals did next to nothing in the free agent period. They lost four players to free agency. While a Bengal apologist will explain that none of the players were a big loss, the fact remains they signed exactly ONE player, Antwan Odom, during the period.

Who are they planning on replacing Madeiu Williams with? Me.

But you idiot Bengal fans will come back with the old "Gordon, we'll get our needs met in the draft".

HELLOOOOOO, Every team will address their needs in the draft. And every other NFL team actually uses team resources (aka scouts) to make sure they get the right players.

Let's do the math again class.

Every team gets 7 picks in a draft. The average life of a player in the NFL is 5 years. That means approximately 35 players (at best) will be players drafted by the team. The remaining 17 players will be up of free agent signings.

Below is a list of the players the Bengals drafted in 2004. Of eleven picks, three remain on the team.

Chris Perry
Keiwan Ratliff
Madieu Williams
Caleb Miller
Landon Johnson
Matthias Askew
Robert Geathers
Stacy Andrews
Maurice Mann
Greg Brooks
Casey Bramlet

So you loser Bengal fans can go to your local sports bar and oh an ah on this guy's 40 time and his bench press and think the Bengals are going to be better than there were last year.

Mean while I'll be laughing my ass off knowing that every other team in the NFL will be better after the draft and the Bengals will roll in a 6-10 record for 2008.

I made fun of the CMHA for wanting Section 8 housing on the riverfront. The fact is the city spent over a billion dollars to house two section 8 tenants down there.

More reason not to support welfare on any level.

Christians making a difference

For those atheistic types who believe that church goers are holier than thous who do nothing to change the world; listen to this message from Gary Haugen, President of the International Justice Mission.

Our church has funded a good deal of the work of this entity, in the hopes of ridding the world of child sex slavery, slavery camps, and other forms of economic oppression.

The message is powerful in that he speaks of how people who have endured years or decades of oppression can somehow see God in the world.

It's been a while since one my churches messages brought me to tears; this one is like watching Brian's Song.

Maybe someone can point me out to the publication where a group of atheist made a difference like this one.

Gotta watch those choir students

Two students attending Eagan and Apple Valley high schools were expelled last week after buying souvenir swords during a spring break choir trip in the United Kingdom.

A chaperone found the duct-taped boxes that held the swords after the students left the store. The swords were confiscated on the trip and never made it to Minnesota. The students flew home several days early, and the district disciplined the students when they returned.

"The severity of the punishment didn't fit the crime here," said Brad Briggs, 45, an Eagan resident and father of one of the expelled teens. "There was no intent of violence."

Oh, that's what you think. Of course, every student in the choir fits the profile of some angry, gun, I mean sword, clinging hick looking to slice off the heads of all those students on the spring trip. They might even believe in God......

It wasn't that long ago when I went to school and I remember those vicious sword wielding, choir students roaming the halls looking to slice innocent students in half.

In all seriousness, how can young people grow up to be self respecting, stable adults when their adult role models act like babies. My guess, the people involved in the expulsion were probably "progressives".

I just hope the rest of the students got some grief counseling from the threat.

More "progressive" thought

So now you've got two narcissists running for the democratic nomination; bogging it down to a stalemate. What do you do?

Considering that neither Obamania nor The Billary will step aside for each other, I'm sure both would be more than willing to step aside for Al "The Goricle".

Therefore, if the Democrats want to have their best chance to win an election in November that six months ago it looked like they couldn't lose, they may have only one option at this point: they can turn to Al Gore.

In truth, Gore would be a stronger candidate in November than the two front-runners. He knows what it's like to run in a tough presidential campaign, which, as we're finding out with Obama, is a huge advantage. He is, after all, a Nobel Prize winner; he has the advantage of now running from outside Washington even though he's as experienced as John McCain; and he might be able to pick off a Southern state or two. He's already won once - with an asterisk. And he could put the electoral focus back on the economy and the Republican record of the past eight years - which it will rarely be as long as Clinton or Obama is the nominee.

Hey Jimma Carter is a Nobel winner as well, and he's actually won an election, maybe the party can bring him back.

Give peace a chance

Have you ever noticed that liberal protesters are pretty brave... when up against a girl in a wheel chair.

A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents has told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.

They had been in the audience to hear the Bushes talk about their children's book, "Read All About It."

"He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, 'What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,' " said John Lovetro. "He was unperturbed. I said, 'Get out of here! You're being a moron!' "

The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen - a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004.

More friends of Obamania

More buddies of Obamania

Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo, Ohio-based Islamic charity, Kindhearts, which was closed by the US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all its assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising efforts for his newest cause - Barack Obama for President.

El-Hady has his own dedicated page on Barack Obama's official website, chronicling his fundraising on behalf of the Democratic Party presidential candidate (his Obama profile established on February 19, 2008 - two years to the day after Kindhearts was raided by the feds). Not only that, but he has none other than Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, listed as one of his friends (one of her 224 listed friends).

But his leadership of Kindhearts is not the only thing that has brought him scrutiny by federal law enforcement officials. Last summer, El-Hady was questioned by the FBI concerning his knowledge of possible conspirators in a UK-based terror plot.

Thank God for sex offender registration

It's a good thing that we have sex offender registration laws otherwise these guys might go out and rape again.

What? You mean they do anyway?

A 27-year-old registered sex offender was arrested late Wednesday in the rape of a 14-year-old girl in Butler County.

Sheriff’s officials said James Vincent-Reece Hansard is accused of assaulting the girl the night before while both were visiting a residence at the Towne and Country Mobile Home Park in St. Clair Township.

The state sex offender registry shows that Hansard was convicted in Warren County of three counts of gross sexual imposition in 2005.

But he was registered... How could this happen?

It happened because the douche bag should have been in prison in the first place. Instead the criminal justice system forced this guy back onto the community to deal with.

More Obamania hypocrisy

Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, his campaign finance reports show.

Obama has taken at least $263,000 from oil company executives, family members and employees since entering the presidential race last year, including $46,000 last month. At least $140,000 has come in chunks of between $1,000 and $2,300, the maximum permitted under federal law.

More.....

Arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

The city of Cincinnati is taking a page from the city of Detroit.

If the smell gets too bad, don't remove the dog crap in your room, just use more cologne.

Cincinnati City Council voted 6-2 Wednesday for a plan to build streetcar lines linking downtown, Over-the-Rhine and Uptown (the area around the University of Cincinnati), putting council on record as wanting to build the system.

But the vote left two question marks attached.

While the city has identified sources to pay for more than two-thirds of the initial line in the system, the plan calls for another $31 million from corporations and other private sources – money that has not yet been solicited.

Without the private money, the system can’t be built.

General thoughts

First, if there was a need for transportation from downtown to OTR and uptown, Metro would be servicing it already.

Second, there isn't a second. City resources are scarce. An investment on this boondoggle rivals fountain square west, the Freedom Center and Fifth & Race.

Fire, police and roads... the only things city government should be funding... Unless of course you are a "progressive" city, then you fund everything but....

Would you associate with these people?

John Kass with a column on William Ayers and his bride Bernadine Dohrn.

"And what they [Weather Underground] did was set bombs and in some instances people died," said Clinton, sweetly playing the white terrorist card. "I know Sen. Obama is a good man and I respect him greatly, but I think this is an issue that certainly the Republicans will be raising."'
And why shouldn't they?

As president, Hillary's husband commuted the prison sentences of two other Weather Underground members and of Puerto Rican terrorists, so her scolding was quite unconvincing.

Obama insists such gotcha politics is beneath our dignity. But no association is above question for a candidate, whether Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Illinois political fixer Tony Rezko, or Ayers and Dohrn.

Clinton and Republican John McCain have suffered scrutiny. The only one treated as an infant in swaddling clothes by the national media—until quite recently—is Sen. Change.

So let's wait until Labor Day, when Broadway Baby may become a catchphrase. Here's why: According to a 1982 New York Times report, Broadway Baby was implicated in an investigation of a series of violent armed robberies in New York—netting more than $2 million over a two-year span—committed by former Black Panthers and Weather Underground members in the early '80s.

Their aim? Global revolution, naturally. They needed cash, but the rich white parents weren't in a giving mood. So their privileged offspring grabbed guns, pointed them at the faces of the working man and, sometimes, they pulled the trigger.

At Broadway Baby, customers often paid by check and used driver's licenses for identification. On Dec. 28, 1979, information from two customer files was used to apply for two driver's licenses at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. The fraudulent licenses were used to rent getaway cars for the gang.

Investigators tracked the identities on two licenses for the getaway cars. The names belonged to women who had shopped at Broadway Baby in December 1979. But they weren't robbers.

And who was the manager of Broadway Baby during that period of the customer ID theft?

Dohrn, the future wife of Ayers, identified by investigators as taking customer information from one, and possibly both, of the women shoppers. Dohrn was never charged in that case.

Dohrn and Ayers had been running for some 11 years, fleeing federal charges that they instigated riots in Chicago in 1969.

They finally came in out of the cold in 1980, but the New York gang continued its spree, ending in the bloody 1981 robbery in Rockland County that left a Brinks security guard and two police officers dead.

The federal charges from the riots were finally dropped because the FBI used illegal wiretaps. But the local charge of aggravated assault stuck to Dohrn. She pleaded guilty to two counts, receiving a $1,500 fine and no jail time

In 1982, Dohrn was brought before a federal grand jury investigating radical conspiracies linked to the New York robberies. She refused to cooperate or to provide a signature sought by FBI handwriting analysts. Dohrn was held in contempt of the grand jury and imprisoned for seven months.

A few years later, Ayers got his job as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. And Dohrn was employed at the Children and Family Justice Center affiliated with Northwestern University's School of Law.

I've always been fascinated as to how the radical underground stop running and get jobs in academia. Is there a Terrorist Patronage Office for Rich White People? And how did a convicted Dohrn get hired to teach at a law school?

I wonder when I can go to one of their dinner parties? These are the people I need to party with.

The thing that makes me most sick of these derelicts is their total lack of remorse for the lives they ended or the damage they created.

If this guy came into my office, he would be asked to leave...... just after I kicked him in the balls. I wouldn't be on any damn board that would have these douche bags on it. After all, what kind of self respecting organization would have these dildo's on it in the first place.

Well, if you are an organization like the Woods Fund, I guess you would. Which begs the question, why would Obama decide to sit on a board (1999-2002) that would have a couple of unrepentant terrorist piles of shit like Ayers and Dohrn on it?

I thought judgment was his best attribute?

Congratulations democrats

I want to extend my dearest congratulations to my fellow democrats for giving me plenty of material to write about this summer.

Because of your efforts, you now have a FUBAR (F--- Up Beyond All Recognition) situation. With the almost insurmountable lead held by Obama, Pennsylvania should have been a rallying point for him to finally put that stake in the heart of The Billary.

Instead, despite the overwhelming fund raising numbers, this guy cannot seal the deal against a fabulously flawed candidate. How could he possibly finish off someone like McCain? Someone with 10 times the experience of The Billary, much broader appeal and with none of the baggage.

When the city of Cincinnati mayor was selected out of the top city council vote getter, I argued that this was a horrible system since it allowed the chief rival to stay on council and sabotage anything the mayor proposed. The same is true with the democratic primary system. With a delegate allocation based on the pro rata vote count, you can't effectively kill off a rival, nor can someone realistically catch up.

The result? Conservatives like myself laughing our asses off while you guys try and get your crap together. Can you say 1968 all over again?

Nice job and congratulations.

By the way, don't think that no one is noticing how you've run your primary system. People can pretty much know how you'd run the country from that; FUBAR.

He'll not sell

Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of the NY Times, has said on no certain terms will he sell the paper off.

In keeping with our progressive standards we intend to keep this paper and ruin it like progressives have done to our nation's cities for decades.

Within a period of a decade, we will have taken the paper of record for the entire United States down to the level of your local alternative city newspaper, thus truly connecting with our liberal, I mean, progressive roots.

We will never allow this paper to be run by conservative corporations who will operate this paper to actually do things like, objectively report facts on national issues, hire competent news staffers unlike Jayson Blair, and finally, make money.

That's all I have to say until I complete my sex act on Obama.

Thank you.

Before the GOP gets too cocky

Over at NRO a comparison between Obamania and McCain's numbers...

Number of views of Obama YouTube videos: 37 million.

Number of views of McCain videos: 3 million.

Obama funds raised from under $200 donations: $76 million.

McCain funds raised from under $200 donations: $7.4 million.

Brownstein guesses that Obama has perhaps 10 times as many volunteers as McCain.

As of March, the two Democratic candidates had together raised about $430 million.

A Typical White Chick on Typical White Guys

Nora Ephron at the Huffington Post on us typical white guys.

Here's another thing I don't like about this primary: now that there are only two Democratic candidates, it's suddenly horribly absolutely crystal-clear that this is an election about gender and race. This may have always been true, but weeks ago it wasn't so obvious -- once upon a time there were eight candidates, and although six of them withered away, their presence in the campaign managed to obscure things. Even around the time of Ohio, when there were primarily three candidates, the outlines were murky, because Edwards was still in there, picking up votes from all sectors.

But now there are two and we're facing Pennsylvania and whom are we kidding? This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don't mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can't even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder -- after all this, they turn out (surprise!) to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn't believe any of those articles.)

To put it bluntly, the next president will be elected by them: the outcome of Tuesday's primary will depend on whether they go for Hillary or Obama, and the outcome of the general election will depend on whether enough of them vote for McCain. A lot of them will: white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them. And McCain is a compelling candidate, particularly because of the Torture Thing. As for the Democratic hope that McCain's temper will be a problem, don't bet on it. A lot of white men have terrible tempers, and what's more, they think it's normal.

Some thoughts for Nora

1) The reason you have problems dating white guys probably says more about you than us. Nora, sweetie, you want to know why you can't rely on a white guy while you're dating? Probably because they'll tell you anything you want to hear just to get rid of you. My guess is most guys would lie to you just to get you out of their car. In the future, when they say they're going to call, don't wait by the phone.

By the way, just because that one guy couldn't have sex with you unless you wore a ball gag is no reason to believe that we all like torture.

In my mind, this is the same attitude displayed by NOW and abortion. Most men can't stand to be around these women long enough to actually get one pregnant. Abortion would seem like a moot point to me.

2) Like most things run by the democratic party, it's run a pack of amateurs. Of course white guys need to step in and bail it out, like they have to do over and over again. If you ran this primary like the republicans, The Billary would be your nominee and you could move on to the general. But nooooooooooooooooo. we have to make sure everyone's feelings are taken care of and that everyone gets a ribbon or a trophy when they go home so everyone can be a winner. Out of curiosity, does everyone get a juice box at the convention? You want to be treated like an adult? Act like one.

3) Once again, your party is totally defined by identity. If you can identify yourself as a victim you're welcome in. Unfortunately, there just aren't enough victim groups in this country to actually win an election. I mean, you can't actually have more victims than victimizers can you? So guess what? The DNC had to open it's tent up to include just enough white guys to win an election. And now they're pissed that these guys are calling the shots? Hello?

4) You think white guys have a temper? Have you read your own piece? I'm still wiping the anger and bitterness off my shirt. Nora, honey, are you working through your anger issues with a therapist? Just because that typical nice, cute, employed, white guy dumped your ass for some babe that wasn't a dip shit, is no reason to take it out on the rest of us.

5) You gotta love the irony. The democrats worked so hard to make one of their aggrieved voter bases president of the United States and now they have this mess. Of course, now, if you vote for Obamania, you hate women, if you vote for The Billary, you hate blacks. So why not vote for McCain so you can be accused of hating them both? You're going to get bitched at anyway, might as well get what you want.... Sounds like my marriage to my ex wife.

I'm not a McCain fan, but this is the type of kid like temper tantrum that has me absolutely refusing to even consider a democrat for elected office. The thought of one of these people sitting behind a desk surrounded with their sippy boxes and sixth place soccer trophies just doesn't instill a lot a confidence that they are actually adults.

More on starving the poor for global warming

Once again, another liberal rag on the unintended consequence of the fight on global warming...

The willingness to try, fail and try again is the essence of scientific progress. The same sometimes holds true for public policy. It is in this spirit that today, Earth Day, we call upon Congress to revisit recently enacted federal mandates requiring the diversion of foodstuffs for production of biofuels. These "food-to-fuel" mandates were meant to move America toward energy independence and mitigate global climate change. But the evidence irrefutably demonstrates that this policy is not delivering on either goal. In fact, it is causing environmental harm and contributing to a growing global food crisis.

Food-to-fuel mandates were created for the right reasons. The hope of using American-grown crops to fuel our cars seemed like a win-win-win scenario: Our farmers would enjoy the benefit of crop-price stability. Our national security would be enhanced by having a new domestic energy source. Our environment would be protected by a cleaner fuel. But the likelihood of these outcomes was never seriously tested, and new evidence has shown that the justifications for these mandates were inaccurate.

And once again, history proves "progressives" to be wrong. At least they're consistent, they are a perfect 100% wrong.

Reminder

Just a reminder for those folks in Pennsylvania...

Here is a brief list of the endorsements each candidate has received.

Obamania
Hugo Chavez
Raul Castro
Ahmed Yousef (head of Hamas)
Daniel Ortega
Fans of Che Guevarra

Clinton
Heidi Fleiss
Larry Flynt
Jenna Jameson
Ron Jeremy

So if you are a communist dictator, your candidate is definitely Obamania. If you are addicted to porn, use hookers or Marc Dann, your candidate is definitely Clinton.

This is a public service announcement from taxmanblog.

I'm Gordon and I approved of this message.....

Happy Earth Day

A testimonial from a former member of Greenpeace....

The breaking point was a Greenpeace decision to support a world-wide ban on chlorine. Science shows that adding chlorine to drinking water was the biggest advance in the history of public health, virtually eradicating water-borne diseases such as cholera. And the majority of our pharmaceuticals are based on chlorine chemistry. Simply put, chlorine is essential for our health.

My former colleagues ignored science and supported the ban, forcing my departure. Despite science concluding no known health risks – and ample benefits – from chlorine in drinking water, Greenpeace and other environmental groups have opposed its use for more than 20 years.

Opposition to the use of chemicals such as chlorine is part of a broader hostility to the use of industrial chemicals. Rachel Carson's 1962 book, "Silent Spring," had a significant impact on many pioneers of the green movement. The book raised concerns, many rooted in science, about the risks and negative environmental impact associated with the overuse of chemicals. But the initial healthy skepticism hardened into a mindset that treats virtually all industrial use of chemicals with suspicion.

Sadly, Greenpeace has evolved into an organization of extremism and politically motivated agendas. Its antichlorination campaign failed, only to be followed by a campaign against polyvinyl chloride.

He forgot to add DDT which hasn't done anything but eliminate malaria from parts of the world....

Why associations matter

If you want to know why associations matter when electing a US president, you need only go to Canada to read the most salient of points.

In one's associations, as in other aspects of life, mistakes are made. But a hallmark of a leader is the willingness to make them right. For this, Obama has shown little talent or enthusiasm.

Obama has defended Wright by insisting that he merely represents the convention of "Black Liberation Theology," as though this were just some quaint offshoot of traditional Christianity. One need not pore over the tenets of Black Liberation Theology or its founder, James Hal Cone -- although a Google search of either would provide a world of clarity to the undecided voter -- to recognize that a would-be President who cannot utterly disassociate himself from such racist, anti-American rubbish lacks sufficient character and affinity for his country's ideals to be its leader.

The bumper-sticker slogan "dissent is patriotic" has for decades been employed to legitimize any insult to America, no matter how hateful or moronic. But Americans understand that their president's instinct ought to be to defend the nation against unfair invective, not embrace those who purvey it -- or, in the case of Ayers, seek to blow it up altogether.

That about sums it up.

Ways to avoid being tased.

A college student is in critical condition after being tazed outside of an Oxford bar last night.

If you are worried the man doing you wrong and tazing you, here are some helpful tips.

First, don't get into bar fights.

Second, if you feel the need to get into a bar fight, don't screw with the bouncers. They call them bouncers not because they bounce basketballs, but patrons.

Third, if you're not going to pay attention to the bouncers, at least do what the cops tell you to do; they have things like tazers, clubs, and guns, to ensure you do the things they want you to do.

Just last week, I was picking up a pizza when a cop showed up to take of a fight in the bar next door.

This cop was by himself; this cop had a hard enough time dealing with two douche bags in the fight, what he didn't need were some big mouthed bystanders jumping into the fray, which is what happened and what I suspect happened with this punk.

Over my drinking career, I've been a part of/or witness to at least 10 bar fights. Somehow I managed to always get away without being tazed, clubbed or shot. Why? because I did what the cop(s) told me to do when he requested.

So follow my simple steps and you can be all the drunken asshole you want to be and you won't have one knot on your head from a beating.

Making a Blue State look like Chernobyl

It looks like Michigan state government is doing all they can to make the state look like Chernobyl after the nuke plan melted down.

Compared with what his company paid under Michigan's hated Single Business Tax, Bronner's will pay about 500% more now under the new Michigan Business Tax, a supposed improvement over the SBT that took effect Jan. 1.

The increase includes a surcharge approved late last year so the state wouldn't go broke. The shock to businesses looking at their new tax liability could reopen the political debate over the state's business tax system and, even more broadly, Michigan's budget and fiscal policies as a whole.

"We've always been more than willing to pay our fair share of taxes here," Bronner said. "But it seems like a disproportionate amount has hit industries like us."

James Jenkins, a Southfield accountant, said last week that he's facing an even stiffer bump in his business taxes, from $1,000 a year under the SBT to $14,000 a year under the MBT.

"I've got clients that can move" out of Michigan, Jenkins said. "I suspect that some of them absolutely will if this becomes too penal."

Too much of a burden?

The increases stem in part from a shift in part of the tax burden from manufacturing firms to the state's growing service sector.

As part of Michigan's bitter, drawn-out debate last year on replacing the Single Business Tax, lawmakers in Lansing created the Michigan Business Tax to spread the tax burden more evenly. Manufacturers got some relief, while service firms were expected to pay more.

This spring, tens of thousands of firms are calculating their MBT bills to make estimated tax payments as required by law. "People are getting the first dose of the shock wave," Jenkins said.

State Rep. John Proos, R-St. Joseph, said Michigan could lose firms to other states, including nearby Indiana. The Hoosier state has begun to target Michigan firms with a marketing campaign to entice them to a less-taxing environment.

"This is at a time when Michigan's economy is struggling," Proos said. "Why would we simply take the arrows out of our quiver and give them to the State of Indiana to fire back at us?"

A couple of notes

First, note that Ohio doesn't appear to be a viable option for Michiganders as a relocation option.

Second, if you are a "progressive" ask yourself this question. Are businesses more or less likely to set up in Michigan as a result of this tax?

The clue phone is ringing for Ohio, will the state pols like Marc Dann pull his pants up long enough to answer it?

Those Bitter Chicagoans Part Dos

A follow up from yesterday's post on Chicago violence

― A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago. At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning. Two others were stabbed in a home invasion. This comes after at least 20 people were shot, four of them killed, from Friday night through early Saturday.

Funny I guess I never considered Chicago a small town filled with packs of hicks clinging to their guns. But it must be... how else to explain all that violence.

Those bitter Chicagoans

The weekend has gotten off to an especially violent start, with no fewer than 19 people shot on the streets of Chicago, four of them fatally, from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning.

I never knew that Chicago was a small town filled with all those gun clinging hicks.

Hat Tip to Mark.

Another awesome Ohio ranking

Ohio shows up large on another ranking....

That's the good news. The report, scheduled to be released Wednesday by investment researcher Morningstar Inc., also found that the worst plans, such as broker-sold offerings from Nebraska and Ohio, still feature high costs or funds with lackluster performance.

Even our 529 plans suck

Friday Funny

Sorry I forgot the Friday Funny... A must watch for Marc Dann's office.

Defending elitism

A column defending Obamania's "intellectualism".

......Yes, Obama's richer than most ordinary people, but in that pantheon, he's the guy most likely to know how much a can of tuna costs.

Actually Meghan, it's not the cost of a can tuna, it's the price of arugula at Whole Foods.

For the record, my spell checker can't even identify the word arugula. How's that for snobism.

Just call him frat president

The Enquirer with a comprehensive, albeit two weeks late, article on the Marc Dann scandal.

During his 2007 inauguration, Dann pledged, "My staff and I will adopt and adhere to the highest possible ethical standards."

Then came text messages like this from one woman to another: "Girl...im in a weird situation...iem w marc dan....drunnnnk."

The text message, others like it, and a string of allegations of sexual advances, threats and graphic talk by Anthony Gutierrez, Dann's general services chief, to two office employees have been part of the case that put Dann in a political bind. One of Gutierrez's accusers filed a criminal complaint against him Friday.

Another is that e-mails written by at least one of the women suggest that someone in the office of Dann, an advocate for open government, sought to keep the complaints hush-hush.

Dann's office also rejected a number of records requests about the case, a reversal of his position when he was a hard-charging Democratic state senator exposing corruption in the state's Republican power structure.

I need to party with these guys.

If this guy does anymore women, he'll be a democratic candidate for president.

Baracky

Obama vetting

Nothing is more hilarious than the whine of liberal media and blogger types for the treatment Obama is getting to date.

Eleanor Clift at Newsweek crying about The Billary knocking around Obamania.

Unless Hillary can surprise us once again, repeating the triumph she had in Ohio when Pennsylvanians go to the polls, Rove is likely to have Obama to kick around. The Philadelphia debate didn't do anything to help either candidate, and quite possibly hurt them both, but we are slowly evolving toward a result that seems increasingly inevitable: Obama as a Democratic nominee whose vulnerabilities boost chances of a Republican victory in the fall.

You know Eleanor, if you and your brethren actually did your job instead of performing sexual acts on your candidates, you wouldn't be in this position.

Flash back to the Kerry campaign. The MSM was struck by the traction the Swift Boat guys got on Kerry. Why? John O'Neill had been only calling out Kerry for the past 30 years or so. Didn't anyone catch the Cavett interviews or Kerry's assertion that US troop acted in a manner "reminiscent of Ghengis Khan".

The reason it had traction was because most of it was true and Kerry was trying to run a campaign counter to his former treasonous activity.

Obamania's no different. This guy has been hanging out for years with various anti American people, one of which he married. Now he's going to run as some kind of uniter.... Puuhhleeeeze.

The Billary is actually doing the DNC a service. Now that the mud is coming out, they won't have to wait until the convention their choice, they can do it today.

He should have been a senator

Jerry Rose, sentenced today for running a modern day Ponzi scheme, got the max, 20 years.

Jerry should have run the social security program he could have received a government pension out of the deal.

More Obamanomics

From the WSJ

Time and again, the rookie Senator has said he would not raise taxes on middle-class earners, whom he describes as people with annual income lower than between $200,000 and $250,000. On Wednesday night, he repeated the vow. "I not only have pledged not to raise their taxes," said the Senator, "I've been the first candidate in this race to specifically say I would cut their taxes."

But Mr. Obama has also said he's open to raising – indeed, nearly doubling to 28% – the current top capital gains tax rate of 15%, which would in fact be a tax hike on some 100 million Americans who own stock, including millions of people who fit Mr. Obama's definition of middle class.

Mr. Gibson dared to point out this inconsistency, which regularly goes unmentioned in Mr. Obama's fawning press coverage. But Mr. Gibson also probed a little deeper, asking the candidate why he wants to increase the capital gains tax when history shows that a higher rate brings in less revenue.

"Bill Clinton in 1997 signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20%," said Mr. Gibson. "And George Bush has taken it down to 15%. And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28%, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?"

Mr. Obama answered by citing rich hedge fund managers. Raising the capital gains tax is necessary, he said, "to make sure . . . that our tax system is fair and that we are able to finance health care for Americans who currently don't have it and that we're able to invest in our infrastructure and invest in our schools. And you can't do that for free."

Obamanomics

The American Thinker with a incredible comment by Obamania's regarding the capital gains tax

Charlie Gibson reminded Obama of a March 27^th statement he made to Maria Bartiromo on CNBC's Closing Bell that he'd return the rate to the 28 percent it was under Bill Clinton. Said Gibson: [emphasis added throughout]

"It's now 15 percent. That's almost a doubling if you went to 28 percent. But actually Bill Clinton in 1997 signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent .... And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.

"And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected? "

And Obama's remarkable response:

"Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness. We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year -- $29 billion for 50 individuals. And part of what has happened is that those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair."

Wow. Democrats have typically ignored or outright denied the supply-side benefits of lower taxes -- particularly capital gains.

But with that statement, Obama betrayed first his intellectual dishonesty, then his economic idiocy. The candidate is well aware that his hypothetical hedge fund manager pays a much higher rate on wages than does his supposed secretary. And that they both pay the same rate on capital gains - yes Senator, millions of Americans of varying income, including secretaries, own stock.

My take on Obamanomics is he doesn't care... He doesn't care if the reduced capital gains rates generates more economic activity or that it results in more tax revenues for the Treasury. His only concern is that it's "fair".

So as long as everybody is poor I guess that's fair. Sound like marxism to you?

Exactly, who is served by making rich people poor? How are poor people served?

Time goes green

So Time Magazine is going green.

What are some the efforts Time is undertaking.

We're following our own advice. Time Inc. is the industry leader in sustainable development, and we are the first U.S. publisher to measure the carbon footprint of our entire supply-and-disposal chain, from logging operations to landfill. We have increased the percentage of our paper that comes from sustainably managed forests, from 25% to 69%. We have asked our paper companies to reduce CO2 emissions at least 20% by the year 2012. And we're co-sponsoring a campaign called Remix to promote the recycling of our magazines. These efforts have been led by Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore and engineered by David Refkin, our director of sustainable development. We are also pleased to work with CNN's award-winning Planet in Peril series and Anderson Cooper 360° in our reporting on the environment.

You know, if Time wanted to truly go green, they'd get rid of those annoying subscription cards that fall out of the magazine every time you pick one up. That's an entire Brazilian rain forest there.

What's wrong with being poor?

Let's say you'd love to live in a nice condo on a river but you can't afford the $500,000 plus asking price that it will cost to buy a place down there.

Well, if you live in Cincinnati, you can start with quitting your job, getting knocked up and you could qualify for public housing unit right on the river front.

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory angrily swatted down demands for public housing at The Banks on Wednesday, saying it was ill-timed and counterproductive to affordable housing efforts in the region.

"How dare they? How dare CMHA," Mallory said testily, the day after the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority voted to insist that the $1 billion riverfront development set aside a portion of the project for subsidized housing.

At least this time, the Mayor "swatted it down.

I've got a clue to the "progressives" out there. Being poor should suck! There's a reason people rise out of poverty.... it's because it sucks and they'll do what they have to so they don't have to be poor anymore.

But let's face it... if you can set up a nice place along the river with a scenic view why would you not want to stay poor? After all,if you actually become non-poor, you'll have to move out.

Once again, this is one of the after effects of "progressive" governance. It's why people with common sense would rather cling to their guns and get the hell out of the city where this type of lunacy is practiced.

Coming up next for the poor in Cincinnati; filet mignon, hybrid cars, and Cristal.

The feds created gangsta rap.

Alicia Keys on genocide in the black community.

According to an interview in the magazine’s May issue, the 27-year-old singer says: “‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. ‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.” She also is quoted as saying that she wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck “to symbolize strength, power and killing ’em dead.”

Alicia, the public may be outraged by your statement but I got your back girl.

Each and every large city in this country maintains an Office of Black Genocide; it's called City Hall and it's run by democrats. Look at the genocide in each and every city in the US and what is the common denominator, democratic governance.

I mean for cryin' out loud, look at all the gun clinging, bitter hicks around the country. How is it that they've been able to keep the genocide from occurring in their small towns? With all those guns and all that bitterness? They vote for republicans.

Seem like a good cause and effect to me.

Ramirez

Lefties for global warming

Another lefty publication, The Guardian, pointing out the idiocy of policies to confront global warming will do nothing but starve the poor.

Farewell the age of reason, welcome the idiocracy. Only George Orwell could have invented - and named - the government's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) that came into operation yesterday. It is the latest in a long line of measures intended to ease the conscience of the rich while keeping the poor miserable, in this case spectacularly so.

The consequences of the RTFO have been much trumpeted on these pages. It says enough that one car tank of bio petrol needs as much grain as it takes to feed an African for a year, or that a reported one-third of American grain production is now subsidised for conversion into biofuel. Jeremy Paxman pleaded the cause of this latest green wheeze on Monday's Newsnight, while the United Nations food expert, Jean Ziegler, screamed for it to stop: "Children are dying ... It is a crime."

The transport secretary, Ruth Kelly, said this week: "The government has consistently stressed that biofuels are only worth supporting if they deliver genuine environmental benefits." Yet she must know that, at present, the opposite is the case. Kelly pleaded that rescinding her policy might impede investment and "weaken our influence over the direction of EU policy". She did not mention biofuels' threat to rainforests, food self-sufficiency and global warming generally, through needing costly fertiliser and road transport. Nor did she mention the role in her decision of such lobbies as the British Association for Biofuels and Oils, and the National Farmers' Union.

Once again, the "progressives" are keeping their streak of being wrong on the side of history a perfect 100%.

But you don't need to be a bitter, gun and god clinging, hillbilly to know that.... you just need some common sense; something "progressives" appear to lack.

The Billary slides

New poll numbers are out and apparently The Billary continues it's slide south.

That's not newsworthy. What's newsworthy is that 41% of the public finds The Billary trustworthy.

Are you kidding me? Are we a nation of retards? Call me a skeptic but I think a perjury charge precludes a characterization as "trustworthy".

Keep in mind this is after the whole "Snipers in Bosnia" production.

Exactly, what does The Billary need to do for these 41% to be "non trustworthy"?

Global Warming Challenge Update

The score of the global warming challenge through 4/14

Warm 111
Cold 112

Reminder

It's April 14th and I'm ready for a pack of smokes and a cold beer.

If you want to join me, show up at Willie's in Kenwood tomorrow from about 6:00 - 8:00.

If you are a small town, angry, hick, don't cling to your guns and religion. Come to Willie's and cling to a cold beer on me. When you get home, you can go back to clinging to your guns.

If you are on welfare or don't pay taxes, don't show up. I already paid for your beer and smokes a long time ago.

Politicians lie?

Right up there with the rhetorical questions of our day

1) Is the Pope Catholic?

2) Does a bear dump in the woods?

3) Is water wet?

4) Do politicians lie?

Apparently, Ohio's deal with the tobacco companies to use their tobacco settlement on an anti smoking campaign is not happening as originally intended.

Ten years ago, Ohio won the tobacco lottery.

It was among 46 states to join a lawsuit accusing tobacco producers of using unfair advertising to get smokers addicted to nicotine. Smelling bankruptcy, 11 tobacco companies and industry trade groups agreed to a settlement, promising the states $260 billion in payments spread out over 25 years.

Bob Taft, as the newly elected governor, convinced the state legislature to budget nearly half of Ohio's $10 billion share of the settlement for school construction projects - the state was entangled in a major lawsuit over school funding at the time - and the other half for anti-smoking programs sponsored by the new Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation.

But years of successive raids on the tobacco foundation - mostly to balance the state budget - have depleted its original $330 million endowment.

Now the fund - meant to last a lifetime and with a record of slashing smoking rates - will be snuffed out within two years, its caretakers say.

Brought to you by the same liars that brought you, "the lottery will fix our public school funding" and "this tax increase will only be temporary".

OOP's...... What's that sound? That's the sound of another resident crossing the Brent Spence bridge for a red state. Before the toll of course.

Obamania's upset

Apparently, Obamania is upset that The Billary is twisting his comments from last week and using them to her advantage.

Funny, I don't see where he compares it to his twisting of McCain's "100 years in Iraq" comments.

Who will she vote for? #15

Meet Jennifer Wheeler. What gives Ms. Wheeler her 15 minutes of fame?

A bridesmaid on her way to her sister’s wedding got sidetracked Sunday to the Clermont County jail after she was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs while her two young children were in the backseat, jail officials said.

Jennifer Wheeler, 28, is held this morning at the jail without bond until she appears at 10 a.m. before Clermont County Municipal Court Judge Gregory Chapman, court records show.

Come November, does Ms. Wheeler push the button for the candidate who stands against bitterness so she won't have to cling for her guns and religion, in Obamannia?

Does she push the button against politics as usual and vote for Ralph Nader?

Or does she settle for John McCain?

Why?

Let's starve people so we can save the planet

A liberal rag sister to the NY Times, The Boston Globe, has an editorial on the effects of ethanol.

Excerpt

CORN should be used for food, not motor fuel, and yet the United States is committed to a policy that encourages farmers to turn an increasing amount of their crop into ethanol. This may save the nation a bit of the cost of imported oil, but it increases global-warming gases and contributes to higher food prices.

Candidates for president need to tell Americans the truth about ethanol, but they are falling over themselves in pursuit of the farm belt vote. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want more ethanol factories built than even President Bush envisaged when he called for 15 percent of US gasoline consumption to be replaced by alternative fuels by 2017. John McCain, who correctly called the ethanol push a boondoggle in 2000, now says that it is "a very important way to achieve energy independence."

Ethanol consumes almost a quarter of US corn production. The energy self-sufficiency that all the candidates seek should not come at the expense of the environment or the food supply.

How does Al Gore look at himself in the mirror knowing that based on this phony global warming mythology, innocent people may starve because they can't purchase grain?

Probably the same way he curls up into his bed nestled in the middle of his 10,000 square foot home.

Quit taxing my beer

Obamania. Do you really want to know why us "typical white guys" are angry and why we cling to our guns.....

Joe Six-pack will have to pay a lot more to get his buzz on if Assemblyman Jim Beall has his way.

The San Jose Democrat on Thursday proposed raising the beer tax by $1.80 per six-pack, or 30 cents per can or bottle. The current tax is 2 cents per can. That's an increase of about 1,500 percent.

Once again, proof positive that democrats couldn't care less about the little guy. Keep your hands off my damn beer.

Yeah, we "typical white people" want this

You can't find a republican with a search warrant in Detroit, so we already know how well the city is run.... horribly.

I wonder why Obamania is struggling in suburban areas outside of cities like Detroit.

Just watch the video and you'll figure it out.

Tavern Tax

Gordon, you should open a place like this...

The sounds of the Rolling Stones pour from the speakers while beer glasses are filled and a jovial game of darts takes place 10 feet away.

It's just another night at the office for Carmine Sodora, certified public accountant.

Sodora founded Tavern Tax in 2005. For 10 weeks leading up to the April 15 deadline to submit U.S. income tax returns, he brings his tax-filing services to bars on weekday nights and weekend afternoons.

Another "typical" black politician

Quote from Obamania's speech Monday night.

"You go into some of 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," Obama, an Illinois senator, said.

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

Never mind that people in these small towns had guns and religion for well over the past two hundred years. By the way Obama; these small towns you have such "antipathy" towards are nicer, cleaner, safer than the arm pit in south Chicago you represented before becoming the Messiah.

It's clear that most of the prejudicial and racial remarks in this campaign have come out of the Obamania camp? Now we'll get his sanctimonious apology where he'll put it back on all us "typical white people".

Can't you just feel the love......

Backing up your speech

Apparently, Fred Phelps and his group of derelicts are considering coming to Cincinnati to protest at the funeral of Matt Maupin.

If you're not aware of who Fred Phelps is, the photo to the side should give you an idea.

There are lots of groups that get to say totally outrageous & provocative things behind the protection of the First Amendment. You know, that First Amendment that Matt Maupin lost his life defending.

Yet, I just wonder how ballsy Fred and his crew would be if they actually had to take responsibility for their freedom?

Meaning... Would Fred and his group of ding dongs and derelicts be so vocal if they knew an ass kicking would be rolling their way when they came into Cincinnati? Would they be willing to die for their beliefs as Matt Maupin did. My guess is they'd be the first people with attorney's looking for a law suit shouting "First Amendment! First Amendment! First Amendment!"

Thanks to men like Matt Maupin, they get the luxury of protection.... instead of an ass kicking.

Who's on first

Another reminder

If you can't tell, I'm ready for April 15th to be here soon.

I just signed my 600th tax return. The carpel tunnel is starting to kick in.

Anyway, I was at Willie's last night and they tell me that Tuesday's are family night. Some kind of kids eat cheap thing.

In addition, they'll have a magician on hand to entertain the darlings. Plus I'll have a couple of prizes for some questions I'll pose to the adults.

The good news.... since it's family night, they'll probably not allow me to take my underwear off and wear them on my head.

That bad news.... wait was that last thing good or bad.

By the way, if this magician is any good, he'll make my tax liability disappear.

Regardless, show up and have a good time and a few free belts on me. If you're lucky, you might even meet up with some honey like Christine (below).

Who will she vote for? #14

Meet Christine Ruther. Why is Christine in the news?

A 19-year-old Green Township mother is in the Hamilton County jail after Cincinnati police charged her with taking her newborn child along while she broke into a candy store.

Christine Ruther and three others are accused of breaking into Peter Minges & Son candy store, 138 W. Court St., downtown, shortly before 1 a.m. and swiping about $500 in candy, police said.

The group was arrested a few blocks away at Fourth and Race streets when police caught up with them by following a trail of candy and candy wrappers.

By now you regulars readers know the question.

This fall will Christine vote for the man who will build a bridge between the US and Iran simply by having a conversation, Barack Obama?

Will she vote for the man who will bring the government back to the people, Ralph Nader?

Or John McCain?

Why?

By the way, have you ever wonder about the ding dong that actually thought it was a good idea to mate with this honey?

In college, when we'd all be out drinking, a buddy used to proclaim "go ugly, go early".... With Christine here, you wouldn't have to pay for your first round.

Finally.... a good "progressive" law

I've been critical of the stupidity shown by "progressives" when they legislate. Now, I think I have to take that back.

New York has decided to ban gangs.

Whew. We've all been waiting for our elected officials to be both effective and progressive.

Over at Freakonomics.

Excerpt

A few days ago, New York’s State Senate passed a bill making it illegal to recruit someone into a street gang.

In the never-ending fight by city officials and legislators to combat gangs, this is one of the latest efforts to outmaneuver gang members. Other similar initiatives have included: city ordinances that limit two or more gang members from hanging out in public space; school codes that ban the use of hats, clothing, and colors that signify gang membership; and public housing authorities that evict leaseholders who allow gang members (or any other so-called “criminal”) to live inside the housing unit.

Wow! we no longer have to worry about gangs again. Our elected officials actually doing something effective.

Ooooppps. I forgot to read the next paragraph.....

These laws rarely lead to reductions in gang membership, gang violence, or gang crime. In fact, police officers I know find these ordinances and statutes a waste of time. Cops would much rather “control and contain” gang activity. Most officers who work in inner cities understand that you cannot eliminate gang activity entirely — arrest two gang members and you will find a dozen others waiting in line to take their places. Police know that gang members have great knowledge about local crimes, so they rely on a trade off: keep gangs isolated to particular areas, don’t let their criminal activities spill over into other spaces, and use high-ranking gang members for information.

Oh...... Nevermind.

What's that saying.... straightening out the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Obama's sub prime mortgage

After reviewing Obama's tax returns, I started asking the question. When did Obama buy the house that's been the subject of the Rezko controvery.

The answer? June 2005.

Yet, if you look at the Obamas' 2004 tax return you'll see that their income for that year was $207,000. The home in question cost the Obama's 1.5 million.

So let me make sure I have this right. Around January, the Obama's work with a real estate agent and tell him/her they're looking for a cozy 4 bedroom in the 1.0 - 1.5 million dollar price range and the agent pre qualifies them with these income numbers? Then they're able to find this home make a offer and close by June.

By the way, where did they get a down payment for a home of this size? Their tax returns show no interest or dividend income for the year so they had no savings.

What mortgage company in their right mind would loan someone that kind of dough on that income?

Most real estate agents will tell you that you really can't afford a home that exceeds 3 times your annual income; Obama's was well over seven times. What gives?

Given that Obama was elected to the senate in 2004 and received his book deal in 2005, a banker could use that income as evidence of future ability to pay. Even Michelle's additional income could be included. But a year ahead of time? I know when I qualified for my last mortgage they wanted three years of tax returns to show that my income was stable. I think a broker would laugh at me if I brought returns like these in for a 1.5 million dollar house.

Obama has been using this quote lately in his stump speech

The top mortgage lenders spend $185 million lobbying Congress, and we wonder why Washington looked the other way when they were tricking families into buying homes they couldn't afford.

Were the Obama's some of these people? Or did Rezko grease some skids to get them their mortgage? Why is no one in the main stream media asking these questions?

See my update here.

My sentiments exactly

By Abigail Esman of World Defense Review.....

Excerpt

Okay, I'll say it: Barack Obama makes me nervous.

I've tried to keep from writing anything here on presidential politics, but at this point, as more and more information comes out about Senator Obama's links to various people and organizations that are arguably a danger to American security, I think it's time to ask some questions – and it's time the Senator provide some answers. This isn't about "Is Barack Obama a secret Muslim?"; he's not, and even if he were, who cares? But Muslim or not, he surrounds himself with sworn enemies of the state, from William Ayers, the former Weather Underground member, to Jeremiah Wright, to others who have collaborated with Saddam Hussein (no, this is not conspiracy theory. Read on). Why does he choose such people? And how does that jibe with his wife's lack of pride in the USA? More important – what does it tell us about his judgment – that "judgment" he touts as his greatest quality, the reason he should be given the office of the presidency – and entrusted not just with America's safety and security, but with its integrity and standing in the world?

Individually, these questions may not mean very much. Together, I think they point to patterns voters will need to think about very carefully before they cast their ballots, either now or in November:

I believe I've beat her to the punch

Democrats hating on the military

Neil Boortz with an excellent point on the Jay Rockefeller dust up.

Excerpt

There's a reason why the vast majority of people serving in our military vote Republican. These people understand who is on their side and who is not. They understand that Democrats hold them in near-contempt. They understand that Democrats would much rather spend money on vote-buying programs than on beefing up our military.

I'm guessing it must be racism.

Excerpt

When Aaron Jones walks Gozer, his Rottweiler-hound mix, people cross the street to avoid them. Mothers scoop up their children. A lost motorist once rolled up the windows and drove off after spotting the dog. One woman screamed.

"He's the nicest dog I know," said Jones, 33, of Oakland, Calif. "It's hard to understand all the fear."

Gozer isn't aggressive and doesn't look mean or bark, Jones insists _ people are afraid of the dog purely because it's big and black. As a puppy, Gozer was passed over for at least a month before Jones took him home.

According to animal shelter officials, big, black dogs like Gozer have more trouble finding a happy home than do other dogs. Some shelters even have a name for it: "Big black dog syndrome."

Nobody tracks the problem nationally, and local shelters often keep only limited data on the sizes, breeds and colors of the dogs that are adopted or put down, according to the Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

"But anecdotally," said Stephen Musso, executive vice president of the ASPCA, "that's what we hear from shelter after shelter: Big, black dogs just don't get adopted."

I wonder how Obama's grandmother felt about those dogs.

More....

Another snappy tune

Another great tune from the CPA/singer. How did this guy miss American Idol?

What do I get for that money?

I just cut a check to the IRS for my extension which will be mailed out promptly on 4/15.

As I cut the check, it dawned on me, this payment represents more money than I spend on housing, clothing, and food COMBINED last year.

Now what does ole Gordon get for this money he pays the feds.

Roads - Nope, I pay for those every time I buy a gallon of gasoline.
Schools - Nope, local and state taxes I pay.
Enforcement of our borders - Nope, to my knowledge we still don't receive these services.

If you can think of one thing good ole Gordon gets from the paying the feds more money than he spends on housing, clothing and food COMBINED, please let me know; maybe I'll stop screaming when I cut these checks.

But he sure wouldn't talk to his reverend

Iran hates the US but Obamania offers

Obama calls for talks with Iran over Iraq

Would he be more persuasive with Moamoud than Wright?

more........

I guess the Reverend was OK

From James Taranto

Excerpt

A Barack Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention was "ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children 'monkeys,' " reports the Chicago Sun-Times. (We didn't realize this was against the law, but the Chicago Tribune explains that the charge was disorderly conduct.) Here is what happened, according to the Sun-Times:

[Linda] Ramirez-Sliwinski "came outside and told the children to quit playing in the tree like monkeys. The tree was not on Ramirez-Sliwinski's property," Carpentersville Police Commander Michael Kilbourne said.

Ramirez-Sliwinski admitted she used the word "monkeys," but said she did not intend racism. She said she was only trying to protect them from falling out of the tree.

"Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski said she saw the kids playing in the tree and didn't want them falling out of the tree and getting hurt. She said she calls her own grandchildren 'monkeys,' " Kilbourne said. The mother of one of the children did not see it that way, noting she and Ramirez-Sliwinski have clashed before.

"She felt it was racist because of the fact the children were African-American," Kilbourne said.

Told of the incident Monday by the Sun-Times, Obama's campaign called Ramirez-Sliwinski and persuaded her to step aside as a delegate because the campaign felt her remarks were "divisive and unacceptable."

She should have been his pastor; then she would have gotten a pass. I wonder if he would have let his grandmother be a delegate.

Bet you didn't know?

I just got back from my 30 minute wait at the post office (and you want these guys to run health care?) so I got to read everything on the walls over there.

Did you know that next week is National Crime Victims' Rights Week?

There seems to be a certain irony that April 15th falls during this time.

The Singing CPA

I'm always complaining about the lack of love our culture hoists upon it's accountants.

That may be changing soon....

Meet Steve Zelin, the singing CPA, maybe he'll find a way to get us some respect.

Here's one of his catchy tunes.

After listening to some of these, I think I know why we get no love.

Is he a Marxist?

PrestoPundit with an astute critique of Obamania's flirtation with marxism.

Excerpt

There's a big mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's Dreams For My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. What was Barack Obama doing seeking out Marxist professors in college? Why did Obama choose a Communist Party USA member as his socio- political counselor in high school? Why was he spending his time studying neocolonialism and the writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of "the Communist Manifesto of neocolonialsm", in college? Why did he take time out from his studies at Columbia to attend socialist conferences at Cooper Union?

And there is more mystery in the book. Why does Obama consider working in a consulting house for international business like being "a spy behind enemy lines?" Why does he repeatedly find it so hard to explain his political views to others? Why was he driven to become a left-aligned political organizer? It's a question Obama again and again can't seem to answer to the satisfaction of the interlocutors in his own memoir.

If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's Dreams For My Father, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father. Obama tells us, "All of my life, I carried a single image of my father, one that I .. tried to take as my own." (p. 220) And what was that image? It was "the father of my dreams, the man in my mother's stories, full of high-blown ideals .." (p. 278) What is more, Obama tells us that, "It was into my father's image .. that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself." And also that, "I did feel that there was something to prove .. to my father" in his efforts at political organizing. (p. 230)

At the site, there's a reprint of an article written by Obamania's father. It's an interesting read and it follows right in line with a narrative that this guy has surrounded himself all his life with anti American marxist.

Something that has always bothered me about Obamania is something my pastor taught in a service.

"If you can't change the people around you then change the people around you"

Meaning, there are some people who will always try to bring you down to the lowest common denominator of life. For instance, want to be a good spouse, hang out with people who exhibit good marital habits; not New York governors.

But the converse is also true. We have an obligation to uplift others, but there will be a time when you have to ask as Jesus did "do you want to be healed". When you reach that place you may need to drop people from your life to avoid having them suck you into their drama.

Obama has consistently hung with people with very anti American sentiments. That's no sin in and of itself. But what does it say about Obama when

1) His leadership hasn't been able to convert these people to a "pro-American hope and change vision of America"; the one he selling to the electorate today.

2) When he realizes that he can't change these people yet still keeps them within his inner circle.

In the words of Marvin Lewis " I see better than I hear ", when someone continues to have all these anti-American marxist types in his life without public rebuke I see an anti American marxist.

Reminder

Put it down on your calendar.

Next Tuesday, April 15th. Gordon and his posse will be at Willie's in Kenwood (NE Cincinnati celebrating the end of tax season ( For the record, I finished my 600th return yesterday and I'm getting tired ). Jump over if you want a beer purchased through sweat and tears.

Just so you know, I will be signing autographs. However, now that I'm a married man, I will not be signing the following women's body parts; elbows, ear lobes, palms of hands, ankles and calves. I think all other parts are game.

See you there.

TJ Rodgers

TJ Rodgers making the free market case for green.

Some insightful video here....

Money quote

The [real] higher good is serving our customers....That kind of service is a higher service than the way our government looks at it, which is, ‘You elect me, I take over, I go to the big house, I get the driver and the big airplane, and then I tell you what's good and if you don't like it then I force it on you.’

If you have to say it......

From the "If you have to say it, it's probably not true department".

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Barack Obama wants to make something clear: He loves America.

After a series of incidents that prompted questions about his patriotism, the Democratic presidential candidate is peppering speeches with explicit statements on his love of country.

"I love this country not because it's perfect but because we've always been able to move it closer to perfection," he told an audience in North Dakota.

Just out of curiosity, why would he find a need to tell us he loved his country? Why would anyone question whether he love his country?

Unless.... maybe he doesn't.

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