Quote of the day

From reader Bernie...

The only positive thing about the 'Cash for Clunkers' program is

that it took thousands of Obama bumper stickers off the road

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Marty Peretz, racist

I didn't know Marty Peretz was a racist until I read this piece on the TNR site critical of our first black president.....

The secretary of defense, Robert Gates, revealed two hush-hush secrets on television this morning.

1. that Iran intended to develop nuclear weapons. No shit!

2. that the matter of closing Guantanamo was "more complicated than we thought." Surprise, surprise.

The first of these revelations is especially significant. What does it say about the president's adventures in sympatico diplomacy? This is hard to say: but I believe it's an utter failure.

I think it's time that we out all these columnists for being the racists they are.

Thank you Costco

Gordon and the Lovely Mrs. Gekko (my no drama mama) went out Saturday to look for patio furniture thinking there might be some nice out of season sales/close outs.

I guess we were about six months too late for a seasonal close out sale.

None the less, Costco did remind me that we only have 94 days until Christmas with their seasonal area loaded with Christmas gear; complete with decorated Christmas trees.

Thanks Costco. I almost forgot.

Hey NY Times

The NY Times did a nice job of collectively dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back for naming an unnamed editor to monitor blogs for potential "news" stories so they don't get scooped again. (By the way, it's a sad state when the public editor has to post a correction on his story.)

So here's a hand off to the Times for what should be a whack out of the park; the Obamaunists naming a "Safe School" Czar who had intimate knowledge of statutory rape and failed to report it.

Mr. Jennings brings all the sleaze of Mr. Foley. Sex and the underaged? Check. An older man? Check. Potential misbehavior by a government official? Check.

And the Jennings case brings a lot more: A "safe schools czar" who failed to report a statutory rape? An education leader who encouraged a 15-year-old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse? A federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime?

And it is not just sex, there's a political angle, too. Since taking office, the Obama administration has been hammered by repeated breakdowns in its vetting process. Appointees who don't pay taxes. An appointee who signed on to accusations that the previous administration was complicit in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. And now an appointee who thinks sex between an adult and a 15-year-old is no big deal.

All those facts aside, from the media's perspective, the stories aren't even remotely similar. Mr. Jennings hasn't been hit with 1,400 stories or 140 or even 14. With the exception of Fox News, which discovered new audio-taped evidence in the case, Mr. Jennings' story has been ignored.

Maybe the Times thinks this guy is a Polanski relative........

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Quote of the day

From John Nolte on the Roman Polanski arrest...........

Pleading guilty to unlawful sex with an underage girl — the drugging, raping and sodomizing of a 13 year-old — isn’t stopping Hollywood from ginning up an indignation campaign over the possibility of fugitive director Roman Polanski being held accountable for his crimes. Yes, these are the values of those who control the most powerful propaganda device ever created. Which begs a question: If his unspeakable deed doesn’t meet the standard, what exactly would Roman Polanski have to do in order to become a pariah in this town … I mean, besides vote for Sarah Palin?

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Richard Cohen, racist

Wow, I didn't know Richard Cohen was a racist until I read this column criticizing our first black president.......

Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief.

Take last week's G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. There, the candidate-in-full commandeered the television networks and the leaders of Britain and France to give the Iranians a dramatic warning. Yet another of their secret nuclear facilities had been revealed and Obama, as anyone could see, was determined to do something about it -- just don't ask what.

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Obama lost credibility with his deadline-that-never-was and now he threatens to lose some more with his posturing toward Iran. He has gotten into a demeaning dialogue with Ahmadinejad, an accomplished liar. (The next day, the Iranian used a news conference to counter Obama and, days later, Iran tested some intermediate-range missiles.) Obama is our version of a Supreme Leader, not given to making idle threats, setting idle deadlines, reversing course on momentous issues, creating a TV crisis where none existed or, unbelievably, pitching Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. Obama's the president. Time he understood that.

We need more cowbell!!!!!!!!!!

Who did they vote for? #4109

Meet various gang member beating a student to death.

This past November, do you think the candidate of choice for these thugs was John McCain or Barack Obama?


See the video here.......

Feminists give Polanski a pass

When I read of Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland, my reaction was similar to my reaction to the latest Paula Abdul drama.

What I find most curious is the reaction of various feminists who, once again, are willing to give a leach a pass.

For instance, here's Anne Applebaum.......

Of all nations, why was it Switzerland -- the country that traditionally guarded the secret bank accounts of international criminals and corrupt dictators -- that finally decided to arrest Roman Polanski? There must be some deeper story here, because by any reckoning the decision was bizarre -- though not nearly as bizarre as the fact that a U.S. judge wants to keep pursuing this case after so many decades.

Here's piece by Kate Harding reminding people of the crime Polanski committed..............

Roman Polanski raped a child. Let's just start right there, because that's the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in "exile" (which in this case means owning multiple homes in Europe, continuing to work as a director, marrying and fathering two children, even winning an Oscar, but never -- poor baby -- being able to return to the U.S.). Let's keep in mind that Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne, then raped her, before we start discussing whether the victim looked older than her 13 years, or that she now says she'd rather not see him prosecuted because she can't stand the media attention. Before we discuss how awesome his movies are or what the now-deceased judge did wrong at his trial, let's take a moment to recall that according to the victim's grand jury testimony, Roman Polanski instructed her to get into a jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go, began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop; performed cunnilingus on her as she said no and asked him to stop; put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop; asked if he could penetrate her anally, to which she replied, "No," then went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.

Can we do that? Can we take a moment to think about all that, and about the fact that Polanski pled guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, before we start talking about what a victim he is? Because that would be great, and not nearly enough people seem to be doing it.

The French press, for instance (at least according to the British press) is describing Polanski "as the victim of a money-grabbing American mother and a publicity-hungry Californian judge." Joan Z. Shore at the Huffington Post, who once met Polanski and "was utterly charmed by [his] sobriety and intelligence," also seems to believe that a child with an unpleasant stage mother could not possibly have been raped: "The 13-year old model 'seduced' by Polanski had been thrust onto him by her mother, who wanted her in the movies." Oh, well, then! If her mom put her into that situation, that makes it much better! Shore continues: "The girl was just a few weeks short of her 14th birthday, which was the age of consent in California. (It's probably 13 by now!) Polanski was demonized by the press, convicted, and managed to flee, fearing a heavy sentence."

Wow, OK, let's break that down. First, as blogger Jeff Fecke says, "Fun fact: the age of consent in 1977 in California was 16. It's now 18. But of course, the age of consent isn't like horseshoes or global thermonuclear war; close doesn't count. Even if the age of consent had been 14, the girl wasn't 14." Also, even if the girl had been old enough to consent, she testified that she did not consent. There's that. Though of course everyone makes a bigger deal of her age than her testimony that she did not consent, because if she'd been 18 and kept saying no while he kissed her, licked her, screwed her and sodomized her, this would almost certainly be a whole different story -- most likely one about her past sexual experiences and drug and alcohol use, about her desire to be famous, about what she was wearing, about how easy it would be for Roman Polanski to get consensual sex, so hey, why would he need to rape anyone? It would quite possibly be a story about a wealthy and famous director who pled not guilty to sexual assault, was acquitted on "she wanted it" grounds, and continued to live and work happily in the U.S. Which is to say that 30 years on, it would not be a story at all. So it's much safer to focus on the victim's age removing any legal question of consent than to get tied up in that thorny "he said, she said" stuff about her begging Polanski to stop and being terrified of him.

I guess it's OK to rape someone as long as you are a crusader of all things liberal.

Read the rest on the Polanski apologists.....

As an aside, reader Jeremy sent me an email asking the question; Who would Polanski have voted for this past November?

But they love us now II

Remember the good old days when we had returnable pop bottles and the world hated us because George Bush was president?

Someone needs to tell Great Britain...........

The juxtaposition on our front page this morning is striking. We carry a photograph of Acting Sgt Michael Lockett - who was killed in Helmand on Monday - receiving the Military Cross from the Queen in June, 2008. He was the 217th British soldier to die in the Afghan conflict. Alongside the picture, we read that the Prime Minister was forced to dash through the kitchens of the UN in New York to secure a few minutes “face time” with President Obama after five requests for a sit-down meeting were rejected by the White House.

What are we to make of this? This country has proved, through the bravery of men like Acting Sgt Lockett, America’s staunchest ally in Afghanistan. In return, the American President treats the British Prime Minister with casual contempt. The President’s graceless behaviour is unforgivable. As most members of the Cabinet would confirm, it’s not a barrel of laughs having to sit down for a chat with Gordon Brown. But that’s not the point. Mr Obama owes this country a great deal for its unflinching commitment to the American-led war in Afghanistan but seems incapable of acknowledging the fact. You might have thought that after the shambles of Mr Brown’s first visit to the Obama White House - when there was no joint press conference and the President’s “gift” to the Prime Minister was a boxed DVD set - lessons would have been learned. Apparently not. Admittedly, part of the problem was Downing Street’s over-anxiety to secure a face-to-face meeting for domestic political purposes but the White House should still have been more obliging. Mr Obama’s churlishness is fresh evidence that the US/UK special relationship is a one-way street.

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I've got a fever for more cowbell

Interest in socialized medicine hits a new low...........

Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down two points from a week ago and the lowest level of support yet measured.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% are opposed to the plan.

I think the problem with the health care debate is that we need the president to be out front on this and talk about the issue. He's been too passive the past couple of weeks. In fact, has he even been seen on TV at all?

I think we need more cowbell.

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Deep Thoughts

Deep Thoughts by Gordon Gekko.....

Out of curiosity, I have to wonder if the ACORN workers who were fired, were fired because they didn't give the pimp and hooker voter registration cards.....

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But they love us now

Remember the good old days when you had to walk ten miles up hill to school (up hill and in the snow) and when the world would love us again once we rid ourselves of George Bush.

Apparently, someone forgot to send India the memo.........

He may not relish the comparison but it is now becoming increasingly obvious that Mr Barack Obama is the most hostile American President for India since Richard Nixon. In the eight months he has been in office, Mr Obama has snubbed India more than once. He has sent repeated signals that New Delhi is not integral to his Asian security architecture. Partly as a result of his country’s economic crisis, he has bent over backwards to accommodate China. His open advocacy of protectionism has been most visibly targeted at outsourcing of technology jobs to India. He headlined anti-trade legislation by saying it would punish those who created jobs in Bangalore rather than Buffalo, a special mention that was extraordinarily impolitic and did not go unnoticed in India. In contrast, the tariff war against Chinese tyres has not been posited in such stark bilateral terms. This past week, the Obama team reversed a decade of American nuclear pragmatism and went back to an outdated non-proliferation agenda that should have died, really, in the 1990s. Once more, India has been asked to give up its nuclear weapons and sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a second-tier power. Most alarmingly, Mr Obama has swung wildly on Afghanistan-Pakistan (AfPak). At various points his diplomats and Generals have said different things. Yet, in all this the overarching political message has been missing.

There has been a remarkable absence of clarity on Mr Obama’s strategic goals. In the early months, it was easy to pretend he was making up his mind. Now, it would seem he has no mind. His confusion on AfPak and constant shifting of tactical milestones would suggest he has little understanding of the nature of the challenge there and, behind those engaging phrases, is thoroughly confused. If the Obama Administration’s most recent thoughts on AfPak are taken as final, the American President is looking to cut and run. He would want to begin bringing troops home by early 2012, in time for his re-election. This would mean delegating Afghanistan to the Pakistani Army, and asking it to control the Taliban. It would also activate a lethal Saudi-Pakistani-Taliban alliance. This formidable combination of wealth, geography, religious appeal, unending foot-soldiers and nuclear weapons would create a monster power straddling south and west Asia. To some degree, it could be offset by a strong India and a stable Iran, which would flank AfPak. However, Mr Obama is determined that Teheran must not pursue its Bomb and India should be pressured to sign the NPT. Strangely, he has not considered asking Pakistan to give up its nukes in return for billions of dollars of “sustained and expanded commitment”.

But hey, when your PM comes over he'll be sure to gift you those classic DVD's he gave Gordon Brown.

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Bearcats in Top Ten

Congratulations to Brian Kelly and the UC Bearcats for the Top Ten ranking in this week's AP poll.

The University of Cincinnati football program reached another milestone Sunday when it was ranked in the Associated Press Top 10 for the first time in the school’s history.

The Bearcats (4-0) are No.10 in the AP media poll this week, No.11 in the USA Today coaches’ poll.

“We’re excited about being a Top 10 team,” UC coach Brian Kelly said, “but again I think I’ve been pretty consistent in my feeling that it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.

“We’ve gotten off to a good start and we’ve gained some national recognition for our program, but we’ve got a long way to go.”

A lot of football to be played but I can't help but think of a BCS game between the Buckeyes and Bearcats.

By the way, if you didn't already know, Marvin Lewis went to give a pep talk to the Fresno State team Saturday. What an a-hole.

Life in "Progress" City

From the Queen City of Cincinnati, who hasn't had a conservative run the city since John Glenn orbited the earth......

Cincinnati voters may assume that city policy is crafted by the mayor and the nine members of City Council they elect.

Unfortunately, they're only a little more than half-right. During 2009, Cincinnati in effect has had a five -member council on decisions that really matter.

• Tough calls await city - after election

The council majority, controlled by Mayor Mark Mallory, makes the key calls among themselves, often in a round-robin of private meetings that circumvent at least the spirit of laws intended to keep government decision-making open and public.

They cut off debate, twist council's own rules, hold items off the agenda then rush them to a vote without discussion. And if anyone steps out of line, the Democratic party and unions are there to bring down the hammer, as they did recently by un-endorsing Councilmember Jeff Berding.

The Favored Five includes Democrats Laketa Cole, David Crowley, Cecil Thomas and Greg Harris, along with nominal Charterite Roxanne Qualls.

The Forlorn Four - a multi-party mix of Republicans Leslie Ghiz and Chris Monzel, Charterite Chris Bortz and recently excommunicated Democrat Berding - can't get so much as a sniff at having a proposal considered or a discussion held.

"There's a fundamental difference between the two sides," Ghiz says, "and I don't know if it can be married up again."

Council's outward appearance as an efficient, smoothly running body under Mallory's watch contrasts favorably with the chaotic councils of past decades.

But the reality behind the scenes points more to dysfunctional control-freakery.

The Aug. 6 hearing on proposed police layoffs in which majority council members' questions - and reactions - were scripted in advance has come to symbolize this council.

"Everything is tightly scripted, designed to stop dissent," Berding says. "They use the rules to avoid discussion and controversies. It's almost pathological. But government is supposed to be about having disagreements, working through controversies openly and finding answers openly."

The current scheme is hardly representative democracy at its best. And it's up to city voters to correct that in this fall's election, which starts Tuesday when Ohio's early-voting season opens. With term-limited Crowley leaving council, there's an opportunity for the dynamics on council to improve.

Only the city of Detroit's government makes this look somehow functional.

Read the whole piece......

But we need more cowbell

One of The One's media mistresses, Howard Fineman, on The One's exposure........

If ubiquity were the measure of a presidency, Barack Obama would already be grinning at us from Mount Rushmore. But of course it is not. Despite his many words and television appearances, our elegant and eloquent president remains more an emblem of change than an agent of it. He's a man with an endless, worthy to-do list—health care, climate change, bank reform, global capital regulation, AfPak, the Middle East, you name it—but, as yet, no boxes checked "done." This is a problem that style will not fix. Unless Obama learns to rely less on charm, rhetoric, and good intentions and more on picking his spots and winning in political combat, he's not going to be reelected, let alone enshrined in South Dakota.

The president's problem isn't that he is too visible; it's the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words "I" and "my." (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story.

There is only so much political mileage that can still be had by his reminding the world that he is not George W. Bush. It was the winning theme of the 2008 campaign, but that race ended nearly a year ago. The ex-president is now more ex than ever, yet the current president, who vowed to look forward, is still reaching back to Bush as bogeyman.

He did it again in that U.N. speech. The delegates wanted to know what the president was going to do about Israel and the Palestinian territories. He answered by telling them what his predecessor had failed to do. This was effective for his first month or two. Now it is starting to sound more like an excuse than an explanation.

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Obviously, Fineman is a racist for daring to criticize The Messiah.

We need more Cowbell

You want these guys to run health care?

For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has publicly admitted that politics has trumped science. The agency acknowledged yesterday that it approved a device to help with knee-replacement surgeries—a device the agency’s own scientists said often failed—only after it received pressure from a cohort of Democratic congressmen from New Jersey, where the device’s manufacturer is located.

The $3000 device was known as the Menaflex, a “collagen scaffold” that supported a damaged meniscus in the knee. It failed its initial reviews but received approval in December of last year anyway, during the waning days of the Bush Administration. In a new report, FDA cited pressure from senators Robert Menendez and Frank R. Lautenberg and representatives Frank Pallone Jr. and Steven R. Rothman as a decisive factor in gaining approval: “The Director of FDA’s Office of Legislation described the pressure from the [Capitol] Hill as the most extreme he had seen and the agency’s acquiescence to the Company’s demands for access to the Commissioner and other officials in the Commissioner’s office as unprecedented in his experience.”

In addition, the former head of the FDA, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, intervened to have the device approved.

According to The New York Times, the company that manufactured Menaflex, ReGen Biologics Inc., had recently made campaign contributions to all four Congressmen. The Times added that thirty patients in the United States have received the Menaflex and 3000 in Europe. U.S. News & World Report noted that, despite acknowledging that the approval process was compromised, FDA has no plans at the moment to remove the device from the market.

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Who did they vote for? #71

Meet VFW member and derelict flag burner.

After you watch this video ask yourself the question. This past November, who did the parties vote for?

Old Barackee Beer

A funny from reader Doug

Where are the young people?

Apparently, the writer of this article is surprised that young people came out to vote for The One aren't all that active now.....

Young Americans showed their collective power when they helped vote President Obama into office. Inspired by his message of "change," they knocked on doors, spread flyers, voted for him by a 2-1 margin, and partied like rock-the-vote stars when he won.

Since the election, though, that fervor has died down — noticeably. And while young people remain the president's most loyal supporters in opinion polls, a lot of people are wondering why that age group isn't doing more to build upon their newfound reputation as political influencers.

"It's one thing to get excited about a presidential candidate. It's another thing to become a responsible citizen," says Jennifer Donahue, political director for the New Hampshire Institute Of Politics. She and other political analysts thinks they have yet to prove themselves.

Professors and students themselves also are noticing the quiet on college campuses, which were hotbeds for "Obamamania" during the campaign.

"They're supportive, but in a bystander kind of way," says Laura Katz Olson, a political science professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

It's not because they're young, it's because they're liberal. See "progressive" like to talk about hope and change and compassion but when the rubber meets the road, you'll find them........ nowhere.

For them, it's all about assigning their "compassion" to someone else to take care of. It's why you'll see conservatives give more blood, money and time to things that matter for their fellow man. Liberals offer their vote. Getting their hands dirty is not their forte.

Who did they vote for? #61332

Meet bank robber and bank customer.

Last November, which candidate received these guys votes?

By the way, look for the bank robber to be robbing something near you soon.

Catch up

Reader Jeremy sent along these links


The Hygiene White House

Michael Moore

We could have used those clunkers for these folks

States with the highest unemployment rates? Think Blue

Who did they vote for? #44

Meet G-20 protesters. Much like Tea Party rallies, police had to drop tear gas and mace to get rid of the nuisance.



Last November, did these people vote for the Maverick or the Messiah?

Kids sing Obama song Part II

Another productive use of school time.

WE NEED MORE COWBELL!!!!!

Don't take my word for it

The voice of right wing, hillbilly, gun toting, conservative Americans, The Advocate, says it all with their cover.......

Netanyahu Asks U.N. 'Have You No Shame' for Giving Ahmadinejad Forum

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) admits Obama admin deal with PHarma includes millions for politics

A coincidence?

The ten states with the worst business climates in the US had one thing in common.

Any guesses?

How about they all voted for Obama.

A while back I challenged a liberal friend of mine to this question; if liberal policies are so great why is Detroit such an armpit? After all, they haven't seen a republican in that city since a Ford Brother drove through to move to Florida.

Paraphrasing his response "Well Detroit is full of underclass dolts".

Is that right? So what we need to do is follow the election results from people who don't seem to have a very good track record for lifestyle judgment calls.

So what is it Mr. "Progressive"? Are your policies what turns vibrant cities into slums or is the collective judgment of derelicts and douche bags who put you into power?

Chicken or Egg.

Branch Gorvidians..... Fail

The leading publication of the Branch Gorvidian global warming cult, The NY Times, is now admitting that it might not be getting warmer after all.........

In an article that might well have deserved publication in the Onion, the New York Times introduced a heretical notion to its readership today. Despite the fact that any skepticism about global warming and the responsibility of humanity for this rise in temperatures is now considered proof of insanity, the Times reported that it appears more than likely that “global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.”

This must come as quite a shock to an American public that has been relentlessly propagandized on this issue and convinced that the end of civilization as we know it is just around the corner. But facts are stubborn things, and for all the hoopla about “saving the planet,” now even the Times is prepared to admit that far from heating up at the exponential rates Al Gore has discussed to near universal applause, it appears that the story is a bit more complicated than he may have let on. Indeed, according to researchers from the British climate-change office and published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, temperatures have hardly budged since 1998 and may well continue to dip in the coming decade.

Read the rest.........

For the record, my morning news broadcast this morning noted that this was the 14th coolest summer on record.

How is it possible that the more warming we get the cooler the thermometer say it actually is?

Life in "Progress" City

From the Queen City of Cincinnati, who hasn't had a conservative run the city since France built the Maginot Line.......

A 41-year-old man with a history of criminal convictions, including one for rape, was arrested and charged Wednesday with four rock-throwing attacks on female motorists since August, injuring two women.

Rodney Maxwell of Avondale is held at the Hamilton County jail in lieu of $250,000 bond. He faces four counts of felonious assault with a deadly weapon.

He threw large rocks through car windows on Aug. 18, Aug. 20 and twice on Sept. 14, court records show.

All but one of the attacks occurred while the women were sitting at a red light in the 600 block of William Howard Taft Road, according to Cincinnati police. One of the Sept. 14 incidents occurred nearby, in the 2500 block of Highland Avenue.

But wait! It gets better for this guy; keep in mind he's all of 41 years old.

Maxwell is scheduled to appear today in Hamilton County Municipal Court. When he does, he also will face a judge on an unrelated charge of sexual imposition.

He is accused of following a woman into an elevator on May 26, standing directly behind her and grabbing her buttocks, court records show. He also allegedly exposed himself.

Maxwell has a prior rape conviction, according to court records, as well convictions for kidnapping, public indecency and aggravated menacing.

Maxwell was convicted of exposing himself to a staff member at the Volunteers of America halfway house in Over-the-Rhine in June 2007, court records show. He also was convicted of telling another staff member he was going to rape and kill someone.

Earlier this year, in July, he was convicted of a second public indecency charge after he approached stopped vehicles on a public street and exposed himself, according to court records.

Maxwell was convicted of a Oct. 2004 assault charge in which he punched a Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy at the county jail. He has been in and out of state prisons and the Hamilton County jail several times over the past 20 years, according to court records.

If you are one of these "progressive" types answer this for me. What the hell is this guy doing on the streets?

Mind you this guy isn't out in "Redville" where this clown would have been behind bars for the bulk of his adult life. No. This guy is totally a product of the "progressive" mind set which lets convicted derelicts back on the streets to offend innocent citizens again.

One of the women was so terrified she had to have her boyfriend drive her to work the next three days.

But she need not worry about any of that if she lives in "Redville", where you can drive to work in peace.

What's so "progressive" about recidivism?

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I'm back

We drove back from Florida yesterday and I set a Cincinnati family speed record of 11:45 minutes and that includes the fact that our house is north of the other family member places.

None the less I'd like to thank the following people for the record (read it as a NASCAR driver would say; with the little extra twang).

I'd like to thank the Don Garlit's museum we passed in Ocala for the speed inspiration
The Acura RDX for their smooth ride.
Valentine Research for the excellent radar detector.
The federal government on not spending a nickel on any shovel ready projects over 800 miles of I-75.
I'd like to thank the silver Porsche, the Red PT Cruiser and the silver Jetta for the nice convoy through the south of Georgia. It would have made a Tour de France team envious.

No thanks to the city of Chattanooga for their traffic jam.

I promised back in the summer that I was giving up the blog. But, like a crack whore, it only takes a little bit of news to get me revved up again. I went on a news and sports black out while I was away (what's up with the Bengals over achieving any way), promising the lovely Mrs. Gekko I would only watch the news when others were watching. Lo and behold, the four times I caught a glimpse of a news channel there was The One doing another speech.

This guy is giving a whole new meaning to the word overexposure.

But hey. We Need More Cowbell

PJTV Salutes Mr. Tax-Law-Writing-Tax-Evader

Why people fear Obama indoctrination

I get back from sunny Florida to see this on Drudge.

And you wonder why we conservatives don't want Obama in our schools?

By the way, here are the lyrics.........


Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand [?]
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be clear today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said Red, Yellow, Black or White
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
Yes
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama

Segue to -

Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all [do? doth??] say "hooray!"
Hooray Mr. President! You're number one!
The first Black American to lead this great na-TION!
Hooray, Mr. President something-something-some
A-something-something-something-some economy is number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you!
And the same for all Americans [in?] the great Red White and Blue!
So something Mr. President we all just something-some,
So here's a hearty hip-hooray a-something-something-some!
Hip, hip hooray! (3x)

Greetings from Florida

The Lovely Mrs. Gekko (my no drama mama) is out running errands so this might be my only post while we're on vacation.

Humidity sucks and Florida has plenty. As Midas informed me; Florida............ God's waiting room.

I'll be back Thursday rested and ready to bear.

C'mon give me more cowbell

In believing what's missing in the health care debate is more Obama to sell it, the administration has announced that in additon to doing five news shows this Sunday (funny how he's not doing Fox given that the people most likely to oppose his plan will be watching that one), he will be out to the Green Bay Chedder Festival, the Preble County Pork Festival, The Millersport Sweet Corn Festival, the Bucyrus Brat festival, cameos on Everyone Hates Chris, The Gilmore Girls, and Supernatural (where he'll play a Messiah like health care character).

In addition, he hopes to invite Taylor Swift and Kanye West over for another beer summit (Taylor will have to have a root beer).

The White House will also send pictures of Obama and a personal email out to every one of those fishy email addresses they collected last month.

They will also send autographed photos of Air Force One flying over New York out to every taxpayer with a cadillac health care plan.

The administration beleives that by all his appearances he will reach every single American; except for all those who oppose his plan or are sick of seeing him.

In an unrelated story, the White House believes any criticism of Obama for being a narcissist is unfair and probably racist.

A funny

From reader Bernie.

Rated R for salty language

Four more years of Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter

The Obamunists have decided that maybe the best way to manage the country is to take the worst aspects of every previous administration and combine them into one cohesive, big ole FUBAR (F'd Up Beyond All Recognition).

Bush - Renewing the patriot act, humongous budget deficits

Clinton - Health Care, Ethic issues for appointments, Cap and tax environmental policies.

Reagan - Humongous budget deficits

Carter - Coddling central American dictators, Abandoning our European Allies, Appeasing our enemies, and protectionist economic policies.

But other than that, he should be a great president.

Trivia question

Gordon and the lovely Mrs. Gekko (my no drama mama) will be heading to Florida for some R&R the next week so my posting may be limited. Like a lot of people, I have a personal goal to visit all 50 states before I die.

Now I've been to Florida before so I don't get top knock one out on this trip. But I am wondering.... Have I been to more states than ACORN has whorehouse field offices?

Comments are welcome.

More ACORN

A teaser exposing the San Diego office..........



Via Powerline who has a great article exposing the NY Times hypocrisy reporting the story.

Thank you for nothing

I know the media has a non legal policy of not naming rape victims in the course of their stories. But maybe they could consider not printing the names of the accused after charges have been dropped because the witness lied..........

The men arrested on the rape charges were Hofstra student Bedward, 21, Felipe, 19, and Jesus , 19, all of the Bronx; and Taveras.

All had been charged with five counts of first-degree rape.

Outside the jail just before 11 Wednesday night, Felipe said he wants to move on.

"I don't even have any hard feelings," he said. "I am happy to be alive. To be a caged animal when you are not guilty is the worst."

But he added, "I'm 19. I have my whole life in front of me, and suddenly it was all over. I was facing 5 to 25 years in jail."

As for what he's going to do next, Taveras was concerned about his job. "I'm going to try to get my job back. HR called me and left a message, but I never got it because I was locked up."

FYI (I edited out the accused full names)

No where in the article did the person leveling the false accusations get her name printed.

The good news is anytime someone wants to know something about these guys a google search will always bear this accusation. That probably works well for them with potential employers and dates.

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Fetal Photos

I haven't posted on the Jim Pouillon murder because I knew so many other blogs would have bigger and better comments on it.

Personally, the abortion debate bores me. I'm a ardent defender of life but rarely does anything new come up in the debate. The sides are so polarized, discussion seems like a waste of time.

However, Pouillon's death did have me rethinking the abortion issue in this regard.

Let me preface my point with some back up on other issues.

I believe in public viewing of executions. Not because I have a morbid fascination with death, but I believe if the masses can watch it, it can't be cruel and unusual. If they can't, they'll ban it. By keeping executions hidden from the public, it sanitizes the process. It's easy for someone like me to say "fry the bastard" but if I actually watch someone be electrocuted, I believe I could change my mind in a heartbeat.

The same holds true on the torture issue. If people can watch what goes on during interrogations, it can't be torture. I've watched several videos of waterboarding. None of them left me a vision in my mind I can't get rid of; hence, not torture.

Now, how do I relate this to abortion? Apparently, people have been upset with Pouillon because of the graphic nature of pictures he posted on his property. What could be so graphic about pictures of tissue and protoplasm?

In fact, I remember our high school biology lab having a baby pig in a jar filled with phemaldehyde as well as other pickled animals. We had two dissection projects in our class; a rat and a frog. We even got to name said animals (our group won a prize for Rat Scratch Fever). In addition, we got to see cancerous lungs versus a healthy lung.

Here's an idea! Why don't we put the remains of fetuses in various stages of development and have the kiddies in AP biology perform dissections on these remains? I mean c'mon, we've already concluded that these aren't even humans so why let all that mess go to waste? Kids will be amazed to cut open remains to see little hearts, lungs and stomachs.

Even better, take the remains and put them in jars with phemaldehyde. Kids could get a great biology education by seeing the development of a fetus at 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6 months.

How does that make your stomach feel?

Now, keep that vision in your mind and answer the question......... is that fetus or a life?

Can't make your argument; call them a racist

Have you ever had a political discussion/argument with a liberal and after you've cornered them into either a) admitting they're wrong or b) admitting you're right, then you get a rule changer or a total non-sequitor and suddenly you're discussing something entirely different?

Hence the case for the racist bomb. It's apparently out in democratic talking points since Mo Do, Jimma Carter, Chuck Todd, the House rebuke of Joe Wilson are all avoiding debate by dropping the "you're a racist charge".

On Real Clear Politic's site, almost half of the articles are on the racism charge.

The fact is liberals can't defend their governance. I mean c'mon, how do you defend Detroit? The Washington DC public schools? California? And now we're seeing the implosion of the global warming debate, health care, ACORN et al.

The fact is there were plenty of criticisms of The Billary's health care debacle. I guess the fact that BJ was our first black president was latent, but hidden, racism.

The fact that the country elected a black president off of the heals of a president who was criticized incessantly only hurts Obama. It makes him look week; as though he needs affirmative action aid from his minions.

Besides as Kanye might say if he yanked the microphone from me "It's just not fresh man".

CZARS

How to light a grill in 30 seconds

Here's a video of Midas grilling Goetta

A history of the Bengals sucking

How to tell if you are a racist

A handy flow chart to tell if your criticism of The One is racially motivated.

From Missourah

Quote of the day

Picked up over at I hate the media.......

“The real reason we can’t have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal,’ ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,’ and ‘Thou Shall Not Lie’ in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.”
- Anonymous

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What single payer health care looks like

Probably a lot like single payer public education.................

Instead of President Obama addressing school students across the nation, he might have accomplished more by focusing his attention on the educational rot in schools in the nation's capital. The American Legislative Exchange Council recently came out with their 15th edition of "Report Card on American Education: A State-by-State Analysis." Academic achievement in no state is much to write home about but in Washington, D.C., by any measure, it approaches criminal fraud. Let's look at the numbers.

Only 14 percent of Washington's fourth-graders score at or above proficiency in the reading and math portions of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. Their national rank of 51 makes them the nation's worst. Eighth-graders are even further behind with only 12 percent scoring at or above proficiency in reading and 8 percent in math and again the worst performance in the nation. One shouldn't be surprised by Washington student performance on college admissions tests. They have an average composite SAT score of 925 and ACT score of 19.1, compared to the national average respectively of 1017 and 21.1. In terms of national ranking, their SAT and ACT rankings are identical to their fourth- and eighth-grade rankings -- dead last.

Washington's political and education establishment might excuse these outcomes by arguing that because most students are black, the schools are underfunded and overcrowded. Let's look at such a claim. During the 2006-07 academic year, expenditures per pupil averaged $13,848 compared to a national average of $9,389. That made Washington's per pupil expenditures the third highest in the nation coming in behind New Jersey ($14,998) and New York ($14,747). Washington's teacher-student ratio is 13.9 compared with the national average of 15.3 students per teacher, ranking 18th in the nation. What about teacher salaries? Washington's teachers are the highest paid in the nation, having an average annual salary of $61,195 compared with the nation's average $46,593. Despite the academic performance of Washington's students, they have a graduation rate of 61 percent compared to the national average of 70 percent. That suggests the issuance of fraudulent high school diplomas.

Currently, Washington, D.C. has an Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows qualified low-income families to claim up to $7,500 per student toward a private education of their choice. Obama's Democratic Congress, acting on the behalf of the education establishment, has killed the program and there's the possibility that the 1,700 students currently enrolled will have to return to D.C. public schools.

The staunchest opponents of school choice are hypocrites. They want, demand and can afford school choice for themselves but for others not so affluent school choice it is a different matter. President and Mrs. Barack Obama enrolled their two daughters in Washington's most prestigious Sidwell Friends School, forking over $28,000 a year for each girl. Whilst senator from Illinois, the Obama's enrolled their girls in the University of Chicago's Laboratory School, a private school in Chicago charging almost $20,000 for each girl. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 37 percent of the members of the House of Representatives and 45 percent of senators in the 110th Congress sent their children to private schools. Public school teachers enroll their own children in nonpublic schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cases four and five times greater. In Cincinnati, about 41 percent of public school teachers send their children to nonpublic schools. In Chicago it is 38 percent, Los Angeles 24 percent, New York 32 percent, and Philadelphia 44 percent. The behavior of public school teachers is quite suggestive. It's like my offering to take you to a restaurant and you find out that neither the chef nor the waiters eat there. That suggests they have some inside information from which you might benefit.

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Four more years of Bush

It's hard to believe that Bush was voted out of office last November, but somehow is able to collect data information on US citizens.........

The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.

Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet users and, in fact, should feel obliged to disclose that it is collecting such information.

"The White House has not been adequately transparent, particularly on how it makes use of new social media techniques, such as this example," he said.

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charlie acorn

What if this were Sarah Palin

What if Sarah Palin had a grasp of current news issues like Charlie Gibson does...

Gibson: HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. Uh. Uh. But my goodness, if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it this morning.

Roma: This is the American way!

Gibson: Or maybe this is just one you leave to the cables.

Roma: Well, I think this is a huge issue because there’s so much funding that goes into this organization…

Gibson: I know we’ve done some stories about ACORN before, but this one I don’t know about...

Roma: Jake Tapper did some blogging on it. I know he’s blogged at least once on this scandal.

Gibson: You guys are uh really up on the website.

Gibson, as NB's John Stephenson and P.J. Gladnick noted in September of last year, as a result of his interview with GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, twisted her words, with the help of selective editing, to portray her as some kind of out of touch, excessively religious, militaristic rube.

With the above interview, no editing is required. Who's out of touch now, Charlie?

HT Tom @ Newsbusters

ACORN San Bernadino Child Prostitution Investigation Part I

The hits keep coming

More cowbell

We need more cowbell........

It’s going to be awfully hard to avoid President Obama on television this Sunday.

The president is going to appear on five Sunday talk shows – five – to press his case for health care, White House officials disclosed. That is a presidential record.

Mr. Obama is going to appear on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC. And Meet the Press on NBC. And Face the Nation on CBS. In between, he is going to sit down for interviews on CNN and Univision. (Fox News didn’t make the cut).

Newsmakers in the past have managed to pull of the unlikely feat of hitting the big three Sunday interview shows on CBS, NBC and ABC. But this is a presidential first.

If there’s one thing this White House doesn’t seem worried about, it is that Americans will get tired of seeing President Obama. His talk-show marathon will come after the speech on Wall Street today and a rally in Maryland later this week.

Because it's clear that American don't know where the president stands on anything.

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Cohen on Rangel

Richard Cohen on Charlie Rangel..........

There is something wrong with Charlie Rangel. Either he did not notice that he was worth about twice as much as he said he was -- which is downright worrisome in a congressional leader -- or he thinks that he's above the law, which is downright worrisome in a congressional leader. I was with Rangel on election night last year and heard him speak eloquently about what it meant for a black person to become president of the United States -- my God, who would have thought this day would ever come? -- and he moved me to tears. So I don't think age has muddled his brain. He is sharper on a bad day than most people on a good one.

But he suffers from the degenerative disease called Congressional Sclerosis. Its symptom is the belief that the rules, especially the petty ones, no longer apply to you. This happens over time. It comes with seniority and a sense of victimization that combine to produce the onset of entitlement for goodies to which, in the course of things, you are not entitled. All this is abetted by the righteous belief that everyone else is making money and taking private planes and dipping their tootsies in the balmy Caribbean on a given February Friday -- and so why can't you? You have the power and the staff -- just look at all those people! -- and flunkies who will hold the elevator for you, pick you up at Reagan National Airport and on the other end at La Guardia -- and you ought to have some commensurate luxuries. This is only right.

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Obama and friends

Washington DC.... the home of many pimps and whores.

I don't see any bias

I read this article yesterday and thought about posting on it but then just decided to pass because it was so obvious. After reading more articles about the media bias I thought I would come back to it.

Now, read this passage and tell me how one word makes this a total democratic talking point......

Add to that the absence of Obama from the top of the ticket, which could reduce turnout among blacks, liberals and young people, and the likelihood of a highly motivated GOP base confused by the president's proposed health care plan and angry at what they consider reckless spending and high debt.

Seriously? If these clowns really want to pass themselves off as "objective" journalists, who's really "confused"?

Stop the presses!

In a shocker only to cave dwellers, a new poll indicates that the public believe news media provide inaccurate news.....

The survey found that 63 percent of the respondents thought the information they get from the media was often off base. In Pew Research's previous survey, in 2007, 53 percent of the people expressed that doubt about accuracy.

The findings indicate U.S. newspapers and broadcasters could be alienating the audiences they are struggling to keep as they try to survive financial turmoil. Pew Research didn't attempt to gauge how shrinking newspapers, reduced staffs and other cutbacks at news organizations are affecting people's perceptions, although the reductions probably haven't helped, said Michael Dimock, an associate director for the center.

The financial problems mainly stem from a steep decline in the ad sales that generate most of the media's revenue. Newspapers' print editions have been losing readers to the Internet, and broadcasters' audiences are fragmenting in an age of cable TV and satellite radio.

Newspaper ad sales plunged by 29 percent, or nearly $5.5 billion, during the first half of this year, according to the Newspaper Association of America. TV ad revenue on broadcast stations dropped by 12 percent, or nearly $3 billion, during the same period, according to the Television Bureau of Advertising. Radio advertising fell by 23 percent, or $2.3 billion, according to the Radio Advertising Bureau.

The budget squeeze "means facts don't get checked as carefully as they should," according to Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times.

Actually Bill, I think that statement is incorrect on it's face. I believe your fact checking is just as good as it's always been; which is horrible. It's just that now, there's a medium above traditional news organizations able to do stuff like, 'um, google searches, to call you out.

Over at Big Hollywood, they discuss the meaning of this trend

In recent days and weeks three major news stories have broke here online, at Fox News or the Washington Times; everywhere but the mainstream media. Worse still, as the stories unfolded, the media willfully ignored them until, much to their embarrassment, they were forced to give grudging coverage only after official action — in the form of a resignation (Van Jones), reassignment (the NEA) or dismissal (ACORN) — occurred that could no longer be ignored.

Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to play catch up. Today they play “hide the ball.” For as long as I’ve been politically aware the media’s been biased, but willfully ignoring a major national news story at great cost to their credibility and relevance is a new low. So what changed?

Ironically enough, scrutiny and accountability is the cause of much of the media’s increasingly disgraceful behavior.

Once trailblazer media watchdogs like talk radio, The Media Research Center and Bernard Goldberg were joined with the awesome power of the Internet and Fox News, the media’s sins of omission and commission could no longer be hidden from the general public, or denied. This gave the Fourth Estate two options. They could either: A) Clean up their act and do their jobs honorably … or B) Surrender their fig leafs of objectivity and run amok as the ideologues they really are.

Doing their jobs honorably would mean a setback for the Leftist cause, and so they chose B.

The good news is that this appears to be a suicide run.

Read the rest.........

Guess the group

One of these photos are from the inauguration and one is from last weekend's tea party rally.

Which one is which?


Read about it at Gateway Pundit

Obamacare

From Doug Ross

ACORN NYC Child Prostitution Investigation Part II

Pimps and hookers and bears, Oh My!

More from ACORN............

The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.

Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.

"Honesty is not going to get you the house," a loan counselor at the offices told two activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute.

"You can't say what you do for a living."

Remind me again. Who's responsible for unqualified people getting home mortgages?

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What's the meaning of "is"?

You've got to be kidding me. We went through eight years of of the Clintonistas redefining just about every word in the english language and now we have Lanny Davis back redefining what the word "lie" means.....

Let's face it, whether you are conservative, moderate or liberal, Democrat or Republican, if you are rational and fair, you should agree: Congressman Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, was rude, obnoxious and offensive when he shouted out at President Obama during Wednesday night's speech before a joint session of Congress, "You lie."

He was also wrong.

Even if President Obama's claim was not true that his health care programs excluded illegal aliens, that does not make it a "lie." Lying requires intentional deception - not accidental or careless falsehoods. "To lie is to state something that one knows to be false," according to Wikipedia. Lying is a "false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive, an intentional falsehood," according to Dictionary.com.

It's a sad defense when someone offers up the defense that he didn't "intentionally" deceive.

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Smoot Hawley reborn

You would think that an administration with the technological abilities of the Obamunists, they would at least have the sense to look up Great Depression protectionist policies before implementing one.........

A full-blown trade row erupted between the US and China after Beijing accused Washington of “rampant protectionism” for imposing heavy duties on imported Chinese tyres and threatened action against imports of US poultry and vehicles.

Trade relations between two of the world’s biggest economies deteriorated after Barack Obama, US president, signed an order late on Friday to impose a new duty of 35 per cent on Chinese tyre imports on top of an existing 4 per cent tariff.

But look, right there on Wiki is an entry on Smoot Hawley.........

Once again, what do these ivy leaguers learn in their liberal study curriculum because it isn't economics?

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Bengals game wrap up

If you ever wanted to read a more poetic piece about the play of the Bengals read this......

When I was in the eighth grade, I went to a school dance with Kelly Rovner. People told me I was out of my league, yet I built up enough courage to ask her to the dance. Our evening was going well. I executed the gameplan to perfection....a nice pre-dance meal at Pizza Hut, carefully using all of my pre-rehearsed lines, I was even holding my own on the dance the floor. As the night reached it's conclusion, I reveled in actually pulling off what many had thought impossible: a succesful date with one of the 10-15 best looking 13 year-olds in the school. I also considered my move. Me being 13 and not well versed in the art of making advances on girls (a trend that would continue deep into adulthood), I selected "grab her butt" among the various playcalls in my final-song-of-the-night gameplan. As "One More Try" by Timmy T blared across the gym, I grabbed my handful and waited for her response. After a brief delay, it came: a full-on, toe-first, direct-contact kick to my balls that sent shockwaves throughout my entire body, and amounts of pain that if I think hard enough, I can still feel.

I felt exactly the same way as I watched Brandon Stokely tiptoe the sideline today at PBS.

Of course I can't gloat a whole lot. Being a Bears fan I was looking forward to watching them play with a real quarterback for the first time since leather helmets disappeared. I didn't realize that Jay Cutler was hurt and they replaced him with Rick Mirer, Jim Miller, Bob Avellini, Vince Evans, Steve Fuller, Doug Flutie, Peter Tom Willis, Cade McNown, etc.

Read Mo's blog here

9-12 DC Tea Party

NFL starts - Bengals still suck

Nothing says that fall is here than choosing between yard work and watching an NFL football game.

Of course, when you live in Cincinnati, you don't really get to watch NFL football; you get to watch a pile of dung the Brown family calls NFL football.

So thanks to the 65,000 plus assortment of mental midgets, ding dongs, derelicts and other losers who sold out the game today. Because of you, I had no choice today but to mow the lawn and clean out the garage.

9/12 Taxpayer Tea Party March on Washington, DC

The DC Tea Party Protest

Thanks to all those people who showed up in DC today to represent all of us hard working taxpayers who couldn't be there today.

While that's supposed to be the job of congress, it was nice to have someone there representing for a day.