tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47039629505440897582024-03-05T00:18:05.092-05:00Three Ball DeadFor this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11)Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-89038629401067495332010-04-21T21:00:00.003-04:002010-04-21T21:40:58.529-04:00Sleeping Beauty Awakes....sort of.Rumors of my demise are greatly <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">exaggerated;</span> I simply ran out of steam. My brother and sister <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">bloggers</span> are prolific in ways I can only dream about. Impressively, the authors listed to the right here are johnny on the spot. They are super sonic when it comes to reporting on our rulers and their Marxist's <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">shenanigans</span>. I marvel at the stamina of my blogging buddies who continue to keep up their spirits in the face on impending bread lines. It takes some <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">moxy</span>...and considerable skill.<br /><br />While I don't declare myself back from the abyss, I do feel a certain gnawing feeling that I owe the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bamster</span> a verbal whack or two. I just need a <a href="http://www.toontracker.com/ramjet/ramjet.htm">proton <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">energy</span> pill </a>or a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=4&oq=popeye&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS363US363&q=popeye+the+sailor+man">can of spinach </a>to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">jump start</span> me back into the mix. Let the games begin...again.Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-79009270307217631722009-12-21T17:49:00.009-05:002009-12-21T22:01:47.715-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWGSmCnhHF7ULy4d9mBk36yqxg3aM4rtQGbxDUI7K5HtaHCn0BSpTw4L-P6p-BGu57cXBSju3MjMt4AgxcBLKwdsVdzIQ10jmkCYnnxQFfb50EWqROgIpG95BmK6lGmtuRd1oV6AUp1aE/s1600-h/santa.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417835750276422466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 260px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWGSmCnhHF7ULy4d9mBk36yqxg3aM4rtQGbxDUI7K5HtaHCn0BSpTw4L-P6p-BGu57cXBSju3MjMt4AgxcBLKwdsVdzIQ10jmkCYnnxQFfb50EWqROgIpG95BmK6lGmtuRd1oV6AUp1aE/s400/santa.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>From the outer realms of junk email I found this piece of flotsam. I make no claim to authorship. I have no idea who wrote it, but I like it. I'm sure you've all seen a variation of it at one time or another. The only thing I changed was <em>Democrat Friends </em>to <em>Liberal Friends </em>and <em>Republican Friends </em>to <em>Conservative Friends</em> . The scary thing here is that as parody, a piece like this is losing it's steam. The psycho babble following <em>to</em> <em>my</em> <em>Liberal Friends </em>is not far from reality for many <em>progressives</em> living in these <em>United States of the Perpetually Offended</em>. But the very fact that we now have living amongst us these guilt ridden bird brains, splashing around in a bath of blind moral relevence, well, we have to laugh at them. Even though it is painfully obvious that we are giggling all the way down the road to hell. You know, that same road paved with liberal good intentions. A blessed <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=227">Kwanzza</a>, or whatever, to you and yourn.<br /><br /><em></em><br /><br /><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><br /><br /><div><em></em></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7cavveidHuzqn9QPVsbnYD5sO701DCWILhFjVg6VkGTXrpqGDjCW_FWJg-3YrVS90pPE6D8AKR9pZoS8cL0mL0XDrRgcuSnJVWGN6n2bTi55eTDWcmB_M7uRZwSg2b3jiGIqR25R5-Z_v/s1600-h/santaarobics.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417837203661487986" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7cavveidHuzqn9QPVsbnYD5sO701DCWILhFjVg6VkGTXrpqGDjCW_FWJg-3YrVS90pPE6D8AKR9pZoS8cL0mL0XDrRgcuSnJVWGN6n2bTi55eTDWcmB_M7uRZwSg2b3jiGIqR25R5-Z_v/s320/santaarobics.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><em>To my Liberal Friends:<br /></em><br />Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best<br />wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible,<br />low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter<br />solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of<br />the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your<br />choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or<br />traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or<br />secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful,<br />personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the<br />onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without<br />due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose<br />contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply<br />that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the<br />only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made<br />without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability,<br />religious faith or sexual preference of the wish.<br /><br /><em>To My Conservative Friends:</em><br /><br />Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! </div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-15428153243029791872009-11-10T09:35:00.007-05:002009-11-11T10:56:12.743-05:00From the nothing to see here move along department:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83ilAjUKll7IGbVLq5g1ChQ9y8NeAVUGUtjY57CRBr3GZKDY7bW6T972HQdd8LAROx9qaAQfDJ5gP8jP6s9B7aGK39JTgRdGbt5RO36cCBTjrhz5nDuRzJaXiz32R_EyK1VhaVfI7g6nt/s1600-h/rage+boy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402511324056060562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 140px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83ilAjUKll7IGbVLq5g1ChQ9y8NeAVUGUtjY57CRBr3GZKDY7bW6T972HQdd8LAROx9qaAQfDJ5gP8jP6s9B7aGK39JTgRdGbt5RO36cCBTjrhz5nDuRzJaXiz32R_EyK1VhaVfI7g6nt/s200/rage+boy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>So the Army says that <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/major-muslims-calling-card-soa-soldier-of-allah.html">"religion"</a> had nothing to do with last week's attack at Ft. Hood. Of course, that's what they said about the <a href="http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2623/30/">DC sniper </a>back in 2002. (But he's getting the hot shot tonight for his <em>random </em>deeds.) The message was the same then as it is now: Nothing to see here, just move along.</div><br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div>I suppose all that screaming "<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/06/2009-11-06_susptected_gunman_in_fort_hood_shooting_maj_nidal_malik_hasan_shouted_allah_akba.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">allahu</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">akbar</span></a>!" while murdering his <em>fellow</em> soldiers was just an excited utterance...It doesn't mean anything...nothing to see here, just move along.</div><br /><div>Come on people, it is <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTI1Yjc2MjBmMWUzY2I1Y2ZlZWQ5NGZiNmNlNTk4ZDE=">NOT terrorism</a>; in fact, don't you dare call what this guy did terrorism. So what if the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">perp</span> is a <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/09/muslim-soldier-nidal-hasan-to-fellow-military-doctors-we-love-death-more-then-sic-you-love-life/">ranting Muslim</a>....nothing to see here, just move along.</div><br /><div>So what if the FBI <em>knew</em> this cat was chatting up a radical <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8351740.stm"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Islamist</span> weird beard</a> and attended a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115465">Mosque known for it's Jihad Johnnies </a>. (HT: <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/major-muslims-calling-card-soa-soldier-of-allah.html">Atlas Shrugs</a>). Hell, he was just looking for advice on where to get the best prayer rugs...nothing to see here, just move along.</div><br /><div>But there is something to see here and we're not going to just move along. We all know that the PC police are working overtime to white wash this event. How disappointed the left wing media must be that the Ft Hood killer wasn't a <em>white guy. </em>Back in 02, the media profile for the DC sniper was that of an angry white male...and they had him driving around in a white van. <em>Wrong!</em> The killers were actually black men, one named Muhammad, tooling around in a Ford, shooting people from the trunk. Oops, just a slight <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">discrepancy</span> there. </div><br /><div>Like it or not folks, our freedom is under assault and our very institutions - from law enforcement to the media - if not leading the charge - are supporting it through their PC stupidity. It is a sad period we live in and, more importantly, a dangerous one. There is a hell of a lot to see here and you <em>just move along</em> at your own peril.</div><div></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-28819218106955240522009-10-23T20:44:00.008-04:002009-10-23T21:56:26.284-04:00It would truly be funny if...<div><div><div><div><br /> </div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395961014425815234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 306px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XrYN-spABK1NoMpJnF_fScas7WSOTdy2f6lr6xrLD0ScgiV5TirXJTcFqEaYevMs4tqWYukmgH6uqSUNtve4Ko5sIXsb3sCNsJVqT5oUUCZxyjVFaB0s4WaOxIlD4Ic0RknfeHx4SvSw/s400/bammyblamingbush.jpg" border="0" /> </div><div>And what would the world be without some parody at the expense of the Bamster:<br /><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395961176465948994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 138px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSt_0XtabImFgh91A01As4Lrhq8MHiVLhY7qeDD2GCoZgXrCPV-nJ3f691-Zvbl7K2PRT4JNo9C15ZosY5EUa1ced4aUbUdHjya1KVgaIYr6tPaioIFdRi-7RvvWwtry7IqIwMFEJ5eKI/s400/bamwow.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>But thank Heavens for Barry's diplomatic skills...I get a warm and fuzzy feeling just thinking about his awesome ability to negotiate:<br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395961592580548290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc71xsj3jV-x2Xh8kFkiar16XJSp1oMuKEnIc3C61pOGwun2Zip2L5rjJDZOKdB6RLGchrdVOSdzT8TvcbRyF_iQ3nRGq52Yzxy8qThQTZfG-cj_81iCpUNSpenFsysU6vi7_XRYNFeDUc/s400/bammytalking.jpg" border="0" /><br />Actually, I'd really be worried if he didn't have a good, strong woman standing behind him...or in front of him, or on top of him, or wherever the hell she stands. One thing for certain, ain't no French bimbo coming betwixt her and her stud muffin:<br /></div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395961937088601730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 399px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 261px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2b_2833HrGvaaaqoNpELgCJWk4e5AOrf8Pc8maaJKdegB0uzlfkbSTM2Z6sRKMglH5IzB-rljW823XuZLEzaQ9oigH27MtFxOyvWN4sD_NAjXZjmpH4FxD_KQuBSutT9BM9JXSb2YYOUr/s400/michelle5.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>But as funny as comrade Barry is, the cold hard fact comes down to this:<br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395962167078114082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 129px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 135px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitafxlqfG_n51wP8RHB_IQqcu6l1RIrMWnRwtbgrXElJoarE-g-UeBIxbhyphenhyphenZ2mzQ29mSg8tUbMeofJwAs5R5UEqWmlmDp7Jt-U2zf04wihrMxAe1KKUB-tp3J0fXKouTF1Jzni_qt9G7mT/s400/socialism.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div></div><br /><p> </p><p>Sometimes you just have to laugh...before you bend over, stick your head between your legs, and kiss you arse goodbye. </p>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-40602666641342286332009-10-08T20:52:00.007-04:002009-10-09T14:52:55.066-04:00In today's vernacular.....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiHlTjvpC_dcVp-fSr6osa-yls9PJvS4rVtXKachuSuRiZLHj-9MpzPrxDVV7TYmqUOqI9DQ9CanrHJVKbhH3h2yUqIPYVUS5tCiK8sQp-RKjocaa4T6t1qjvSg9JKzGnKewvfd6g_6rhB/s1600-h/russian-women.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390413937814200242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 241px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiHlTjvpC_dcVp-fSr6osa-yls9PJvS4rVtXKachuSuRiZLHj-9MpzPrxDVV7TYmqUOqI9DQ9CanrHJVKbhH3h2yUqIPYVUS5tCiK8sQp-RKjocaa4T6t1qjvSg9JKzGnKewvfd6g_6rhB/s320/russian-women.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Chinese men need the "hook up". <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,562341,00.html">This Fox News article </a>details the one child policy of Commie China and it's predictable result: Too many men...and not enough women. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>Mark <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Steyn</span></em> commented on the glut of Chinese men in his blockbuster expose' <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=thP_UKhPbP0C&dq=america+alone+the+end+of+the+world+as+we+know+it&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=ipfOSvyFPNXT8Aau_uHyAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false">America Alone </a>(page 30):</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>Unless China's planning to become the first gay superpower since Sparta, what's going to happen to these young men? As a general rule, large numbers of excitable lads who can't get any action are useful for manning the nuttier outposts of the jihad but not for much else. So, given Russia's own imbalance - between sickly men of low life expectancy and long-lived robust women - it's not hard to see some mutual advantage in a bilateral mass hook up for Slav women and Chinese men, even if the boys are a bit callow and the chicks somewhat long in the tooth. </em></div><br /><div></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Heh</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">heh</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">heh</span>.</div><br /><div></div><div>And just what causes Russian men to die early? - for the non Muslim Russian man life expectancy is 58.9: Aids, hepatitis, tuberculosis and alcoholism is taking care of business. However, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Ruuskie</span> women tend to live into their 70's. Too many candlesticks and not enough candlestick holders to loosely reference Mark Twain.</div><br /><div></div><div>Ain't socialistic countries grand? The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Chicom's</span> one child policy has resulted in parents aborting <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">their</span> female babies in pursuit of sons - hence the lack of lasses; and the trampling of individualism and it's accompanying drag on the human spirit in Lenin Land has so depressed Russian males that they're drinking and drugging themselves to death.</div><br /><div></div><div>Given the Marxists crowd running things in America today, it's not too hard to conceive of a similar future for us: Coming soon - a population control czar, a food and drink czar, a house size czar, etc. And the hell of it is that <a href="http://www.democrats.org/page/content/joindnc?source=OM_LB_google_dnc-search_party&gclid=CP3Pq8zvrp0CFQKdnAodo1SOiA">half the population </a>can't wait for it to happen.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-46563032205447038542009-09-13T12:09:00.013-04:002009-10-02T13:10:17.268-04:00Race Card Alert! He's a grits eater.....<a href="http://www.joewilson.house.gov/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388049023860519570" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 208px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpG6y16I2zXZ75NcJA1QoWV3sMwe-Grvu9-LK4jA2Npu34CyWFOI4IHPwQv6SVnUgAits6s2Ha5rWXBiJFQNtCG46cwqwxtTnKHLdB56P7Mghh0Bb9WWdHTJZScN4Ci45lLNHOqaViZNCs/s320/Joe.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div>Of course, it old news now, but my thoughts at the time went something like this:</div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://jezebel.com/5368033/security-experts-pelosis-right-about-political-violence-threat">He's gotta be a card carrying member of the Klan.</a>...<em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">righhhhhht</span></span></span>?</em></div><br /><br /><div>How dare Joe Wilson desecrate the hallowed decorum of Congress? Just who does he think he is?</div><br /><div>I'll tell you who he is. He's a South Carolinian. A natural born <a href="http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/marion.htm">pain in the posterior.</a> </div><br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mNBgrA49tCU1HGb7D-O1v3K_kubfCzaQiGh_Xa7JrS1ZkOAK6QK_lnnIafaXPrInv8iUZJDyOzEY5Vpqps8Ml3rDR9ZZkSWxOT6CjUFx6Q6ia9GbNTMT1_0y79Kv6b9i1kmXD0Ii2UAF/s1600-h/race_card.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388042795413015026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 143px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mNBgrA49tCU1HGb7D-O1v3K_kubfCzaQiGh_Xa7JrS1ZkOAK6QK_lnnIafaXPrInv8iUZJDyOzEY5Vpqps8Ml3rDR9ZZkSWxOT6CjUFx6Q6ia9GbNTMT1_0y79Kv6b9i1kmXD0Ii2UAF/s320/race_card.gif" border="0" /></a>As for <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/science_proves_maureen_dowd_is.html">Maureen <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Dowd</span></span>, Carter and the other <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">sycophants</span></span></a>: Leave it to intellectually vacant gas bags like them to resort to the race excuse. Elitist Liberals such as Maureen tend to fast forward to that position when confronted with explaining their ideology. And it's a seductive path to follow. Liberals can't for the life of them defend the notion that higher taxes and regulations work to progress mankind; hence, when asked to explain, they get flustered and whip out their trusty, dog eared race card. It's the perfect cover when you have no <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">rational</span> argument to make.</div><br /><br /><div><br /><br /></div><br /><div>You question how allowing an unaccountable entity like the US government could possible run health care when you can't find one example of where said type health care efficiently works anywhere else on earth....You must be a racist.</div><br /><div>It's almost funny if you think about it. It's a parody of Jeff <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Foxworthy's</span></span></span> <em><a href="http://www.fortogden.com/foredneck.html">you might be a red neck </a></em>routine. <em>You might be a racist if...</em></div><br /><div>You wonder why, especially after 9-11-01, our southern border is left virtually unguarded, and that tens of millions of people are allowed to wander in, promised amnesty and allowed to rabble rouse unrelentingly about their "rightful" ownership of the land. Meanwhile, those who immigrate legally, stand in line to take the oath and actually <em>desire </em>to become Americans are swept aside and marginalized.</div><br /><div>You think affirmative action, while crafted with <em>good intention, </em>has become a millstone around the necks of black people; or if you think that the <em>thug </em>culture so associated with black (and white) youth and mainstreamed by the media is really stupid.</div><br /><div>You mistrust a government that seeks to control every aspect of life or you question the motives of a president who campaigned as a moderate, but who has more socialist, anti capitalist pals than <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Brezhnev</span>. Tea <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Partiers</span></span></span> get special notice for <em>their</em> blatant <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">racism</span>.</div><br /><div>Truth be told,<em> </em>you might be mind numbed moron if you read Maureen <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Dowd</span></span></span>. </div><br /><div>Hi Ho.</div><br /><br /><div></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-50131968750245388792009-09-09T17:37:00.003-04:002009-09-09T18:05:13.490-04:00A shovel ready job for TeddySo the liberal "lion " of the senate has assumed room temperature. Pardon me while I do a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">back flip</span> or two. All of the liberal news pundits are lauding his merits ad <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">nausem</span> until I'm more than a bit <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">nauseous</span> myself. The ugly truth is that no one has done more to harm the people of America than this spoiled, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">narcissistic</span> bag of pickled pig guts. His policies have led to the dumbing down of our children, the weakening of our military and our border, all of the tax increases as far as the last thirty years, and the gradual but steady chipping away of our rights as citizens. And lest we forget <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Chappaquiddick</span> and the cowardly drowning death of Mary Jo <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kapechne</span>. He was also involved in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">assault</span> on a waitress along with the equally morally bankrupt Cris <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dodd</span>. Not to mention his aiding and abetting of his nephew in a sexual <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">assault</span> on a guest in his West Palm Beach mansion. For these and many other sins I think he may be getting one of those "shovel ready" jobs the "last Kennedy brother ( Barrack Obama) was talking about. However this job will be stoking the hellfire in the pit. Satan probably should stand back when Teddy gets to close to the fire.t.durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16007306825456566044noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-51446233949082086612009-08-19T18:19:00.009-04:002009-08-19T18:38:52.035-04:00Going, going...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCBxm9OOEkE91WYD0ZJPhIDgw7R9uPtavMs68UM7ulpSuEJCMBePpGAr8NeZhIBk2OvCo74wJ9ldrfs_p5oJeSDlSmq1sT-G5o34e85xomPqEtb2pJOjr3P5Fku3nGXgG1qvL4JhA4Dvt/s1600-h/rooster.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 222px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371804825640610338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCBxm9OOEkE91WYD0ZJPhIDgw7R9uPtavMs68UM7ulpSuEJCMBePpGAr8NeZhIBk2OvCo74wJ9ldrfs_p5oJeSDlSmq1sT-G5o34e85xomPqEtb2pJOjr3P5Fku3nGXgG1qvL4JhA4Dvt/s320/rooster.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">I never tire of watching it. I've watched it probably twenty times...or more. Even Glenn Campbell's awful performance fails to detract me when it comes to </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">True Grit</span></a><span style="color:#cc0000;">. With T.G. I've become something like Mel Gibson's character in </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/"><span style="color:#000099;">Conspiracy Theory </span></a><span style="color:#cc0000;">who is compelled to purchase copies of </span><a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/catcher/"><span style="color:#000099;">Catcher In The Rye</span></a><span style="color:#cc0000;">: When <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">TCM</span> or <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">AMC</span> show True Grit, I have to watch...even if it's in the middle of the night...like last night. Though fighting to stay awake, at two a.m. I found myself chuckling at the fantastic exchange between Mattie and Col. G. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Stonehill</span> after Mattie had out haggled and brow beaten <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Stonehill</span>.<br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">Mattie: </span><span style="color:#cc0000;"><em>Do you know a Marshal Rooster <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Cogburn</span>?<br /></em>Col. G. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Stonehill</span>: </span><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">Most people around here have heard of Rooster <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Cogburn</span> and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he's a relative of yours.<br /></span></em></div><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">There are too many great lines to recount. John Wayne was born to play Rooster <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Cogburn</span>. Hell, he played him in one variation or another in nearly every movie he made. But Rooster is special. He operates out on the fringe. He's a rogue cop that gets results. He's out taking care of things we'd rather not entertain. It was his "grit" that attracted Mattie to him for the task of finding Tom Chaney.<br /><br /></span><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">Judge Parker he's an old carpetbagger, but he knows his rats! We had a good court going on here 'til them pettifogging lawyers moved in!<br /></span></em></div><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">And it's the "grit" that keeps me up in the middle of the night watching; because I know that that kind of "grit" is fading away in America. The Rooster <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Cogburns</span> of the world have become marginalized in the great </span><a href="http://hubpages.com/tag/metrosexual/hot"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error" style="color:#3333ff;">metrosexual</span></a><span style="color:#cc0000;"> revolution. It's not much of a revelation to say that the American man </span><a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/457/americas-attack-on-males-why-are-boys-struggling-in-school/"><span style="color:#3333ff;">ain't the man he used to be</span></a><span style="color:#cc0000;">. And, even worse, he's been usurped by a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">kindler</span>, gentler man; a man glued to gadgetry and the promise of a gravy train from womb to tomb. But there's a nagging thought in every yankee's mind: He knows he's a soft man, nestled in his air conditioned world, and he looks at himself and wonders if he could survive if either hell or high water came his way. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">So, at the end of True Grit, as Rooster <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Cogburn</span>, reins in teeth jumps Mattie's four rail fence, I calm myself with the thought that, come what may, I would eschew the modern man, that I would stare into the face of impending disaster, and with the help of God <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">All Mighty</span>, say, </span><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">"fill your hands, you son of a bitch!<br /></span></em></div><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">But for fewer and fewer of us, it is only a fantasy.</span></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-59716101374381993612009-08-17T16:03:00.002-04:002009-08-17T16:19:01.692-04:00Another Cluster*%#@ brought to you by Barry Obama:For those of you who believe in the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">benevolence</span> of our dear leader(s), get a load of this <em>bend over and grab your ankles</em> waste of taxpayer money brought to you by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Obamanation</span>. A <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">tid</span> bit from the article:<br /><br /><em>Here's how it works: If you're eligible, the government will pay to weatherstrip your doors, insulate your walls and ceilings, fix your windows and, in some cases, buy you a new refrigerator and heating system -- all for free. You just have to sign up with a <strong>local community-action group</strong> </em>(bold - mine...ACORN anyone?)<em>, which will send over workers to do the repairs.<br />It's proving a rip-off -- the government is spending a fortune for each household that benefits. <strong>A quarter of the money is squandered on a vast bureaucracy of regulatory field staff, administrators and training </strong></em>(imagine that?)<em><strong>.</strong> Also inflating the costs are prevailing-wage mandates and provisions that encourage states to spend the most money on the fewest homes. With $400 million, New York state intends to repair 45,000 units, or nearly $9,000 a home. </em><br /><em></em><br />Of course, lefties everywhere will opine that this Titanic waste of taxpayer's money - is a good thing because Bush lied and people died, Bush wiretapped people (Of course <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Bammy</span> is still doing it, but it's OK now), Katrina, etc, etc!<br /><br />Idiots!<br /><br />Read the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">whole</span> nauseating thing <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08172009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_gang_that_cant_insulate_straight_184898.htm?&page=1">here</a>.<br /><em></em><br /><em></em>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-55563493504238157152009-08-10T14:48:00.005-04:002009-08-13T14:08:46.784-04:00Boy, it sure is bright out here...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnPcjv7Yar-b1eqL_0CZVQe4YbkEWn2z0-B5x4XrC-HU7yUoK4pHt8x0J8A_W9tdBjlrRjhockl8mgPcMiErEQUZDo5tmQrg6seroGWjk5tvswF_UmL8bYlM8nl3cxdpK0mjyLeGik1Uk/s1600-h/Cason.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369507383965979490" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnPcjv7Yar-b1eqL_0CZVQe4YbkEWn2z0-B5x4XrC-HU7yUoK4pHt8x0J8A_W9tdBjlrRjhockl8mgPcMiErEQUZDo5tmQrg6seroGWjk5tvswF_UmL8bYlM8nl3cxdpK0mjyLeGik1Uk/s320/Cason.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I haven't blogged for a while now. It seems I experienced a raging case of information overload. One day I just shut off the tube, the computer, the phone and the lights and crawled into the broom closet. There I assumed the fetal position and stayed that way for 2 weeks, taking only <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">intravenous</span> feedings. Looking back, Id say the tipping point was the whole Gates affair. When highly regarded (and paid) black men, men of great fortune I might add, morph into ghetto banging, head wagging <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">victim mongers</span>, its time to go comatose. So, there in my closet, which strangely resembles my house in shape, size and comfort, I gave up on the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">blitzkrieg</span> of elitists talking heads groveling before the king...that is, until I stopped drooling and was able to feed myself. Which, in reality, took about two hours. </div><br /><div></div><div>Actually, I took advantage of a few much needed business opportunities and, just to spice up life a bit, added two daughters, one son in law, a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">granddaughter</span>, three cats and a dog to the mix in the Three Ball Dead household. So, I've been doing the family thing: meals (the S.I.L. can cook!), picking up, dropping off, going to church with the whole family....wow. Mr's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">TBD</span> and I had been an island of two for some time; hence, going from library <em>quiet</em> to Grand Central Station <em>loud</em> has taken some adjusting to...to say the least. But it's a glorious time to be alive; and so it could be said that <em>living life </em>took me away from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">blogosphere</span>. As an aside, while I <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">convalesced</span>, I think I downloaded the entire Beatles catalogue to my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">IPOD</span> (or is that uploaded?). I played <em>the lads </em>at high <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">decibels</span> too: It was a <em>yeah, yeah, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">yeahfest</span></em> all throughout the house for days...and all at the expense of (or more aptly for the benefit of) my high school aged daughter and her shaggy boy friend. Lord knows they need some music education...know what I'm saying dog?</div><br /><div>But one can't hide from the world forever; and as Barry continues his relentless push to cloth us in those drab Soviet pajamas while waiting for our hip replacements, and to force us into those <em>Not So Smart Cars</em>, I had to suck it up and get back in the game. There's corrupt, hypocritical, sniveling, elitists, limp <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">wristed</span> (think Barry's All Star Game first pitch), Marxist bureaucrats to rant and rave about. There's freedom to defend, legs to break and minds to change. With some of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Obmatrons</span> I've met, the leg breaking option has far more appeal. Their minds are too far gone for them to be of any use...they may as well limp in pain as they line up to bow before the One. Hi Ho.</div><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LLhoNBNpuOQ&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LLhoNBNpuOQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-16308487258278541422009-07-31T10:27:00.002-04:002009-07-31T10:56:51.484-04:00Big ears and bigger mouthSo the dumbo in chief is having a beer in the rose garden with his <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">racist</span> friend and the man his <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">racist</span> friend accused of a being a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">racist</span>. Blacks always say that they cannot be <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">racist</span> because whites have the power. While that is a dodge lets assume their viewpoint. Who is more powerful than the president of the U.S. ? He took up the side of his friend supposedly without knowing the facts and called the friend's arresting officer , performing the duty he was <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">intrusted</span> with doing, acting "stupidly". While I have no doubt that Obama is a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">racist</span> and that his professor friend is one also, I do not believe that the officer in question is a candidate for this label. He was sent on this call by his "black " superior because of his being a instructor in racial <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">sensitivity</span>. Upon arriving at scene and attempting to do his job in a cordial manner he was subjected to a lowbrow <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">assault</span> by a highbrow professor. And after great forbearance arrested the professor for causing a disturbance. The professor was warned repeatedly before the arrest. I, myself, would have <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">tased</span> his dumb ass. However I am not <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">deceived</span> by the president's reaction. This was not about his friend's arrest. Obama was attempting to use the race card to elevate his sagging poll numbers. It backfired in a big way. Hence the beer in the rose garden. Drink up Dumbo.t.durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16007306825456566044noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-22870216512695065542009-07-21T14:40:00.002-04:002009-07-21T14:48:41.279-04:00Nobody nukes Obamanation like VDH!Victor Davis Hanson should be mandatory reading for the minded numbed masses of Obama voters who still cling to the idiotic notion that any of this Bolshevik crap is going to work.<br /><br />From his excellent work:<br /><em><strong></strong></em><br /><em><strong></strong></em><br /><em><strong>Americans are waking up to the fact that their president says, promises, and does things that simply do not make sense, at odds with what they know of human physics — with the predictable nature of the way humans have conducted themselves for centuries: Borrowing is debt, not “stimulus”; serial apologies soon sound insincere or become counterproductive; blaming someone else becomes tiresome; scapegoating leads nowhere; taking responsibility for failure is as necessary as being praised for success; people can be fooled only so many times by sonorous, ego-laced rhetoric.</strong></em><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br />Read the whole thing <a href="http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson071209B.html">here.</a>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-23234594695215098942009-07-06T20:13:00.001-04:002009-07-07T22:52:48.026-04:00Philanderers, serial killers and bad drivers oh my!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ9uzNVQK7Y-GSxSIZrgxftRv7_vHLHOIDhsrPc_cxN9F__0qRSQAIkfZKIbKXNdVbgkzJVhIUpXoyjfyv4_86pHPJ-_4-LJebePzmc2tOCUdAx4fT3AXfvMmhUv96ZloTD9N2bG__7Y1p/s1600-h/oz.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355504824405577858" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 247px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ9uzNVQK7Y-GSxSIZrgxftRv7_vHLHOIDhsrPc_cxN9F__0qRSQAIkfZKIbKXNdVbgkzJVhIUpXoyjfyv4_86pHPJ-_4-LJebePzmc2tOCUdAx4fT3AXfvMmhUv96ZloTD9N2bG__7Y1p/s320/oz.jpg" border="0" /></a> It doesn't come as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">trippingly</span></span></span> off the tongue as <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/">lions, tigers and bears</a>, </em>but it does describe the current situation in the Palmetto state. Hell, Oz couldn't be much stranger than our little state. And yes, I included "bad drivers" in my unholy <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">paean</span> to Dorothy and the crew; mostly to fill out the bill, and partly because, if you've had the pleasure to visit our beautiful little corner of the world by auto, you probably noticed the precipitous decline in driving IQ the moment you crossed the border. There's granny in the passing lane doing 50, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">frickin</span></span></span>' Richard Petty passing her on the right, <a href="http://www.imeem.com/atoll/music/1ZTC8tVF/robert-earl-keen-swervin-in-my-lane/">shooting the finger </a>and questioning her lineage. But I digress. <div><br /><div></div><div>What more can be said of our love struck governor? You know, he of the sophomoric email composed along the Argentinian trail. Mark Sanford may not be Edward the VIII and Maria <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Chapur</span></span></span> may (or may not be) be foxier than <a href="http://www.divasthesite.com/Political_Divas/Stories/Bio_Wallis_Simpson.htm">Wallis Simpson</a> , but Three Ball Dead believes that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Markie</span></span></span> boy is likely to spread on a little <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Clearasil</span> and bolt for South America: giving up the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">governorship</span></span></span>, the run for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">prez</span></span></span> and his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">beleaguered</span> wife's tool money. Nobody ever accused us <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Carolinians</span></span></span> of great judgemental abilities. See the beginning of the Civil War.</div><br /><div>And finally, a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530166,00.html">serial killer stalks the fine people of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Gaffney</span></span></span> </a>(which down here could be a guy named <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Bubba</span></span></span></em> with a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Glock</span></span></span>, going through a messy divorce that ends with the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">beleaguered</span> wife - see above -getting custody of the F150). So far he's randomly killed 5 seemingly unrelated people in this town of 10,000. As we go to press, word has it that Gaston County NC police (twenty miles north of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Gaffney</span></span></span>) killed a man this morning during a burglary attempt. The man <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">apparently</span> matches the description of the killer...and so does his vehicle. Too bad a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Gaffneyian</span></span></span> with good aim didn't get the opportunity to clip this hump. </div><br /><div>Many thanks to my compatriots for commenting while I vacated this past week. Meanwhile, I return completely unrested and, in fact, on the very verge of exhaustion. Here's to my Vera Wang <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">mattress</span></span> and the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">friendly</span></span> confines of home sweet home. </div></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-31436803024188296712009-06-29T21:29:00.003-04:002009-06-29T21:54:06.955-04:00Jim Demint on HannityHe just said that we need to do more in standing up for freedom. One of the suggestions was to WRITE A BLOG! Damn right Jim!<br /><br />Maybe we were touting the wrong South Carolinian all along.Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-80371914109008935342009-06-24T16:05:00.001-04:002009-06-25T16:11:18.637-04:00A little wickie wackie woo in South America<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNi5eSE8yXMtfXe4JtMEIsF7R9EnveHf70VcK4nKXtQpOCx5fav3QuSNQbFeCJmtcBbpb5SDA9YoYRaxbNDfkCLSBRjD_D2YTxV4c9obJJwOE6jtIrVPjkDF-zH6fQ1pEEGqw37bcT-VXn/s1600-h/Sanford.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350994089353065954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 210px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNi5eSE8yXMtfXe4JtMEIsF7R9EnveHf70VcK4nKXtQpOCx5fav3QuSNQbFeCJmtcBbpb5SDA9YoYRaxbNDfkCLSBRjD_D2YTxV4c9obJJwOE6jtIrVPjkDF-zH6fQ1pEEGqw37bcT-VXn/s320/Sanford.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><em>So I chose freedom</em><br /><em>Running around, trying everything new</em><br /><em>But nothing impressed me at all</em><br /><em>I never expected it to</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Don't cry for me Argentina</em><br /><em>The truth is I never left you</em><br /><em>All through my wild days</em><br /><em>My mad existence</em><br /><em>I kept my promise</em><br /><em>Don't keep your distance</em><br /><br />Hiking the Appalachian Trail huh Mark?<br /><br />Mark Sanford's <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/24/report-south-carolina-governor-traveled-argentina-appalachian-trail/">admission that he is having an <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">affair</span> </a>with an Argentinian dolly pretty much puts the brakes on his alleged <a href="http://draftsanford2012.com/">presidential aspirations</a>. Well, as a South Carolinian, I wasn't all that convinced of his political ability in the first place...and his business acumen even less. I agreed with his stance on not taking the so called stimulus money (no state should have) - it will almost certainly mandate federal government programs that SC taxpayers will forever be on the hook for; long after the government faucet stops flowing. And he seemed like a sincere guy, but I just never got the warm and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">fuzzies</span> for his leadership style.<br /><br />His Eva Peron stunt is just one more nail. His true down fall came with his inability to <em>sell </em>South Carolina's friendly business climate to potential investors. No large job creators came to SC during his administration, and several that <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">considered</span> the state bypassed it for better terms <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">elsewhere</span>. Governor Sanford instead chose to spend his two terms <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144063/posts">provoking</a> the the <em>good old boy </em>infested State Legislature - the real seat of power in SC - at the expense of the traditional rainmaking duties of the SC governor. And when he did get involved in business it often had unpleasant results. Interjecting himself into a <a href="http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Rosen_Clifford_65203508.aspx">project going on in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Greenville</span></span></a>, he nearly wrecked the whole deal and did ultimately cost the city an automotive wind tunnel that would have nicely complimented the area's growing reputation in automotive research. The wind tunnel idea went to Charlotte instead. <a href="http://www.tuff.org/clemson.aspx">The Clemson University Automotive Research Center </a>(built in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">conjunction</span> with BMW) did eventually come to fruition, but no thanks to Mark Sanford.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6t124WCJq5RThN0FhEog83R-3LBmJmSYlEQo1u1UEQwM9scO3o7CtQWoUwOUztpjM50fgMB7KPOwXAWbxJ2WhtzPERCQf7cAsWUwKPyyzizQkRAxMhxL2r4fljW4UlmJRfvxPxGfQpvBE/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351047791462234338" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6t124WCJq5RThN0FhEog83R-3LBmJmSYlEQo1u1UEQwM9scO3o7CtQWoUwOUztpjM50fgMB7KPOwXAWbxJ2WhtzPERCQf7cAsWUwKPyyzizQkRAxMhxL2r4fljW4UlmJRfvxPxGfQpvBE/s320/untitled.bmp" border="0" /></a>I suppose we can view his dalliance and the likely fallout as political natural selection. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1fyaT8MWK4">Only the strong survive</a> crooned Jerry Butler during the hey day of Motown: Governor Mark Sanford isn't looking all that strong...and it remains to be seen if his political career or his marriage will survive.Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-83460130270943341012009-06-10T15:39:00.004-04:002009-06-12T10:24:07.232-04:00Tales of a Home Grown Jihadi...<a href="http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/category/islamic-rage-boy/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345777449072934034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 166px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuuj-22bCPyrgPhQvgiHvJJG_MIl_vpn_0smoQNLWKW9seB7pynL29g0jmA-aBP43IZvvIfp8gd-8VGDxhF7kwMeANugBGHetpmSzMYzDqRmc_iMa5MjLaf5TDiyPJGqR0732BjpZIOahh/s200/rage+boy.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I first got myself locked up for shoplifting when I was thirteen years old . Then as the years went by I added grand larceny, burglary, simple assault, and then later, arson. But that arson charge was crap! I just <em>happened</em> to be in the apartment when it got set on fire, and as fate would have it, I just<em> happened</em> to know the cat that set it on fire. I'd barely got out the door when they pinched me. They figured it had to be me when they took a look at my priors; so, they convicted me of something I didn't even do. I reckon it all evened out though. I did a <em>lot</em> of other things that I never got caught for. I suppose I had it coming. So I did a stint in the joint...and that's where I learned about the jihad.<br /><br />I'd been locked up for about three weeks when I met Calvin Jones, aka, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Akmed</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Madullah</span></span></span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Akmed</span></span></span> kind of took me under wing, seeing that I'm biracial and that all the skin heads stayed on my ass <span style="color:#cc0000;">so</span> much. Before I got locked up I'd never had any problems with the white boys. In fact, some of my biggest scores as a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">thief</span> came with a guy named <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Bubba</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Holliday</span></span></span> from a place called <a href="http://genealogypossumkingdom.blogspot.com/">Possum Kingdom</a>, South Carolina. But in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">hoose</span></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">gow</span></span> it was different. They didn't take to my Afro-Asian appearance as well as they did on the outside, so I ended up hanging with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Akmed</span></span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Mohmmad</span></span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Tariq</span></span></span> and the boys just to keep my ass out of a sling. And it worked.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Akmed</span></span></span> presented me with my first Koran 4 months to the day that I started my 10 year sentence. Before long I was getting instructed <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">daily</span></span> on infidel hating and Christian bashing. Well, needless to say I was not prepared for the Prophet's teaching, so I just gave lip service in order to keep <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Akmed</span></span></span> happy and to preserve my protection from the crazy white men. But before long, the boys started requiring that I chime in when the berating of the Great Satan began. Again, I faked my way through for the aforementioned reasons. I got pretty good at screeching out <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Allahu</span></span></span> Akbar! I warmed up to the role eventually and started rolling out what I considered to be some damn fine anti American tirades. "Death to the dogs of decadence and impurity! May the breath of Allah forever devour their lands and slaughter their women and children"! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Akmed</span></span> beamed with pride when he heard my screeds. I noticed that the boys really got worked up when you threw in some "kill their women and children" stuff; so, when it was my turn to rant, I incorporated a fair amount of that kind of thing into my <span style="color:#990000;">performance</span>. It was about that time that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Akmed</span></span></span> told me that he had a mission for me on the outside. 3 and 1/2 years had sped by and I was up for parole.<br /><br />It seems the boys had gotten hooked up with some <em>real</em> Muslims on the outside and they had promised them that a recruit from within would carry out a mission in Washington DC once he got sprung. Well, it wasn't going to be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Akmed</span></span></span>, Mohammad, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Tariq</span></span></span> or any of the other boys in the Muslim brotherhood, because all of them were in for life without parole. That pretty much left me as the mission boy. I must say that when <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Akmed</span></span></span> gave me the details about the mission, I immediately began having reservations. The plan, if that is what you can call this turkey, was for me to put on a dynamite <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">ladened</span></span></span> vest, waltz into a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">shopping</span> mall, and blow myself to smithereens. It dawned on me then that just maybe these guys were taking this whole <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">jihad</span> thing a little too far. I mean, I tried to sympathize with their inner demons, but in reality I never really caught on with the whole scene. As I said, I went along just to survive the joint, but truth be known, all that death to America chatter didn't make a lot of sense to me. Hell, I was born in the Florida panhandle, I like beer, movies, cigarettes and blonds. And I never told the boys, but more than once I talked to Jesus when the chips were down. <em>His</em> salvation plan sounded a whole lot better to me than blowing myself up in Macy's.<br /><br />The real trick was to shake the guy who picked me up the day I was released. I thought about tipping off the cops, but I put the kibosh on that idea. I figured, the recidivism rate being what it is, I'd <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">likely</span> get caught doing something stupid, sent back to the<span style="color:#cc0000;"> clink</span>, and right into the arms of the jailhouse <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">jihadis</span></span></span> that I ratted out on the way out the door. So, I decided to keep mum and give my escort the slip once I was free. And that's what I did, but it wasn't easy getting away from my handler, a guy name Sahib. He checked us into a Red Roof Inn where he showed me the vest and drilled me on what to do once I got to the mall. He told me that he would be nearby and that he, or someone, would kill me if I attempted to chicken out. So, after the evening prayer, and some particularly rancid Chinese food, Sahib went to the toilet...and I bolted with his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Glock, a box of condoms </span></span></span>and a quart of whiskey he had stashed in his backpack. I dyed my hair blond (Like I said I like blonds), shaved my beard and headed for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">South</span> America. I've been on the lamb now for three months.<br /><br />I have to say, one lonely night back in the joint with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Akmed</span></span></span>, I really started thinking about those 72 virgins I'd cash in on once I did my thing in the mall, and it began to sound pretty good. But I snapped out of it. With my luck I'd get to heaven and find out that it wasn't 72 virgins, but 72 <em>Virginians, </em>and instead of lolling around with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">curvaceous</span> Islamic beauties, I'd spend eternity getting my ass whipped by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Tyler...<br /><br />So I came to my senses...and God bless America! I hope to come back some day if the heat dies down. </div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-55160778261876610432009-06-03T12:51:00.000-04:002009-06-06T11:00:03.419-04:00Have you paid your Jizya today?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdgxUcpgq6l-3fmPigzvV8jGLhuYwNOM6dsnZ15cOLlHhAfCJHZwAb8DfVo3151fQS4znDmmza1y45knUb4UgFkeXL8kcTgx0ndPrp0gT91_RkkLSvzhzia5mxfpJV4yZAstYQeqS0qHmI/s1600-h/wtc2_crash2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343577124699236546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 122px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdgxUcpgq6l-3fmPigzvV8jGLhuYwNOM6dsnZ15cOLlHhAfCJHZwAb8DfVo3151fQS4znDmmza1y45knUb4UgFkeXL8kcTgx0ndPrp0gT91_RkkLSvzhzia5mxfpJV4yZAstYQeqS0qHmI/s200/wtc2_crash2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Jizya</span></a> is a tax levied on non Muslims living in an Islamic state. That's right, you infidels who haven't gotten it together with the local Sharia authority, and who are still worshipping that Jesus fellow (or somebody or something other than Islam), will pay a tax to the ruling imams. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Jizya</span> represents your acceptance of second class citizenship under Islam. Oh, but of course, that couldn't happen here, that's just some fairy tale constructed by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">neocon</span> warmongers in which to enrich Dick Cheney. Oh yeah, checked out Europe lately? How about Britain? They're building a 70,000 seat Mosque near the 2012 <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Olympic</span> site...and <a href="http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/mosque2.html">look who is coughing up the pounds </a>to get it done.<br /><br />T<a href="http://dotsub.com/view/84f5c72d-b0ba-408c-ace3-8cc40995e011">his bloke</a> reveals a UK that is swirling around the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">multiculti</span> hole...and is possibly only one generational flush away from disappearing from sight forever. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">jizya</span> is not a far fetched idea for a secular leaning, non breeding society which ignorantly throws open the borders to a culture that doesn't share <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">their</span> <em>western </em>traditions. You know, traditions like English common law, religious freedom and all the other mundane annoyances which mark free men and women.<br /><br />To our deluded bothers and sisters here in America: While you blindly play the part of <em>Chicken Little </em>in Al Gore's <a href="http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthefilm/">hysterical <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">enviro</span> tragedy</a>, our president, you know, the guy with the MUSLIM name, is printing money, taxing <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">achievement</span>, confiscating private industry and stealing your economic freedoms right out from under your noses. He's got you worried about environmental disaster, all the while he's clearing the way for a cultural collapse that will mean <em>your</em> end. And he's doing it with <em>your</em> blessings. Your chortling over <em>spreading the wealth </em>and <em>making the</em> <em>rich guy pay </em>will ring awfully empty when your boss pink slips you. It will suck huge when the nanny government you yourself ignorantly chose <em><a href="http://conservativexpress.blogspot.com/2009/05/gop-weekly-address-cap-and-trade-energy.html">cap and trades</a> </em>your company out of existence.</div><br /><div></div><div>And worse still, the void left by the death of the country in which you disdainfully gave over to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Obama style moral relativism</span> may very well be filled by the same barbarians that are intimidating the Mother Land as we speak. The same barbarians that Barack Hussein Obama intends to release from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Gitmo</span>. The same barbarians that Barry just <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjNkOTI5MDIyMTRiZWNkMjFlN2JkOWU1OGU4NDVjYWU=">morally equivocated</a> to American patriots. The same barbarians that fly planes into buildings, implode themselves in Iraqi police stations, who murder US <a href="http://patdollard.com/2009/06/muslim-convert-is-arrested-for-recruiting-center-terror-attack/">Army recruiters</a> and who <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000163.php">shoot at people pumping gasoline</a>. Where are the moderate voices of Islam, passionately calling for their brethren to stop the barbarity? Exactly...crickets.</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>Unless we start teaching and preaching and defending freedom, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Jizya</span> will be the least of our problems.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-13850689686034699182009-05-21T11:14:00.008-04:002009-05-21T15:05:03.941-04:00I just had a Charles Schulz moment...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI0I9-GKBF-kMqwEUmB1fNCIamyMLqpEFHs5Q93BfTll-JmAyTIcnet8zOglKRCpfofi-nknPriqT-d6OpAqKiQ26CzST3sWdta8z9RSUzRDq3n6UV4fHYFaOiN0vCY5t5d90x2V98erMP/s1600-h/charlie-brown-shirt2_v17331821_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338354119853638290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 114px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI0I9-GKBF-kMqwEUmB1fNCIamyMLqpEFHs5Q93BfTll-JmAyTIcnet8zOglKRCpfofi-nknPriqT-d6OpAqKiQ26CzST3sWdta8z9RSUzRDq3n6UV4fHYFaOiN0vCY5t5d90x2V98erMP/s200/charlie-brown-shirt2_v17331821_.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I took the opportunity this morning to listen to our dear leader's latest <em>whine fest</em> on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Gitmo</span>. Amongst the <em>brilliant</em> things the <a href="http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">TOTUS</span> </a>had to say was that (I'm paraphrasing), our "values" are what keep us safe and that holding the head choppers in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Gitmo</span> "compromises national security". </div><br /><br /><div>Neither of those declarations make one bit of sense. First, "our values" are precisely why radical Islam has a bulls eye on America to begin with. Our values, or what used to be <em>our values</em>, of individual freedom, religious freedom, economic freedom, etc, etc, are a direct contradiction to the ass backward, Western civilization killing tenants of Islam. Come on Mr. President, have you crawled so far down the multicultural hole that you see no differences between the culture of death and human misery and that of life and human liberty? </div><br /><div>As for national security: how in blue blazes does detaining the mass murderers of an evil cult cause us to be "less safe"? I mean, seriously Barry, you must have toked up a ton of that Maui <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Wowee</span> during your formative years. By your standards, we would be "safer" if Charles Manson was still roaming the streets. It is the same <em>no deterrent</em> argument that those opposed to capital punishment love to make; but it defies reason. An extra crispy <a href="http://aler.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/5/2/344">mass murderer </a><em>ain't</em> causing any problems; and neither is a deranged Mohammedan facing east from his cell at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Gitmo</span>. And we've already seen the <a href="http://janeqrepublican.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/timed-release-truth-dod-allowed-to-reveal-terrorist-recidivism-rate/">recidivism rate </a>of "detainees" returned to their clans. Furthermore, this particular brand of Islam, you know, the brand that wants to kill free people, would still be plotting destruction whether <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Gitmo</span> was in business or not. It seems that according to Barry, it simply has to be our fault that they hate us and want to kill us. </div><br /><div>As his speech meandered along, I realized that President Obama, despite the accolades attributed to his speaking abilities, has all the engaging qualities of <a href="http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/play/port_lofi.cfm/sound_iid.293515">Charlie Brown's school teacher:</a> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">wah</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">wah</span>; and not nearly the intellectual depth.</div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-65589400550939582732009-05-12T14:09:00.005-04:002009-05-12T15:29:38.449-04:00The Backdrop of Reality...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP5uMI0viJHgF8U8n71f2YrOGVR4dwN0YA3ljnwTwlf6wZq8aELxUel6fG1V97WC6iIAjYVyiURT18bBGEUHoniyaTeb7eTLmR5k31NW4F0RpZC9oR0052BjwmMT_0IGKfxaB3SZc2wYhs/s1600-h/salvador-dali-three-sphinxes-of-bikini.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335000006441327666" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 154px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP5uMI0viJHgF8U8n71f2YrOGVR4dwN0YA3ljnwTwlf6wZq8aELxUel6fG1V97WC6iIAjYVyiURT18bBGEUHoniyaTeb7eTLmR5k31NW4F0RpZC9oR0052BjwmMT_0IGKfxaB3SZc2wYhs/s200/salvador-dali-three-sphinxes-of-bikini.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;">If you think borrowing and printing trillions of dollars is a really dumb idea, especially after the last <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Prez</span> tanked the economy by borrowing (from China) and spending too much (education, illegal immigration, Medicare Prescription Program, Fannie, Freddie, etc) , you're right. If you view closing <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Gitmo</span> (instead of making it bigger) a sign of weakness before the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-Alone-End-World-Know/dp/0895260786">sworn enemies </a>of Western Civilization, you're right again. If you think increasing US outlays to the United Nations to <a href="http://ipsterraviva.net/UN/currentNew.aspx?new=5951">54 billion </a>by 2010 is madness, again, you are correct. If you think imposing <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122445812003548473.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">massive</span> taxes </a>on Americans based on a quasi religious environmentalism is beyond stupid, you may not deserve a medal for astuteness, but you are right again. If you think genuflecting, apologizing and promising to disarm America is a strategy devised by <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">imbeciles</span>, you may not be MENSA material, but you are at the very least awake.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Obamanation</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Obamanism</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Obamanomics</span>...it's all right out of a science fiction novel. The <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Obama_doublespeak">double speak</a>, the assault on individualism - are we not living in a <a href="http://www.online-literature.com/aldous_huxley/">Brave New World</a>? We have arrived in the post American period and it is in a word, <em>surreal. </em></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;">And speaking of<em> Surrealism, </em>this week we celebrated <a href="http://www.virtualdali.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Salvadore</span> Dali's</a> birthday. Dali of course is famous for being a charter member of <em>surrealists </em>painters who's paintings exhibited the <em>"greater reality" of man's subconscious over his reason. </em>Which, is an apt description of the mind numbing policies listed above. Reason be damned! Every half wit in the world knows that compounding runaway government (Bush) with quadruple the effort (Obama) is unworkable, but, like the Dali paintings, we convince ourselves that it's a beautiful thing, and that it all makes perfect sense if you simply suspend rational thought. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;">But eventually, to quote Barry <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Obama's</span> <em>fave-o-rite </em>pastor, the chickens will come home to roost; and reason will again...must rule the day. We ultimately run out of money...<em>other people's money</em> to be more exact, and the slavish relativism of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">utopian</span> dreams become too scary (and expensive) to comprehend, let alone employ. Like Dali's <a href="http://www.virtualdali.com/31PersistenceOfMemory.html"><em>The <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Persistence</span> of Memory</em></a><em>, </em>we're fascinated by the melting watches, but we know that reality is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">rigid</span> and unrelenting, not given to our flights of <em>political</em> fancy. <em>Hope and change</em> has a nice ring to it, but if you must rob the free man of his life and his livelihood to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">achieve</span> it...what good have you done? The background of <em>Memory</em> is stark and not surrealistic at all when juxtaposed to the melting watches. Today, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Obamism</span> is the melting <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">phantasm</span> in American politics and culture; while working, creative, risk taking, Americans are the rock solid backdrop of reality. Even Dali eventually gave up the rambling <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">subconsciousness</span> of Surrealism and was soon expelled from the movement. I think it's a stretch to expect Obama to shed his surreal <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Alinski</span> indoctrination for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">limited</span> government and rugged individualism; but, freedom loving Americans standing <em><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">persistently</span></em> in the background will be there to reintroduce the world to reality once the weak engine of socialism sputters and fails. And it <em>will </em>fail.</span></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-87696661506991992272009-05-03T18:25:00.014-04:002009-05-06T11:29:59.166-04:00Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXx7KcPWV4DMePihaYPHFMgDRYhcKjh87lSamVetzwDTr8kvvQBHxJYRVnKMg0eeka2VvFMo5fR5qrXvKVHhD3EkQjhf3STz_5cmvyeuP84bsVNnyNMLTzK1PKDoKE5ez9S4ZKBWU_gYcQ/s1600-h/joefrazier.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332351864961740466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 162px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXx7KcPWV4DMePihaYPHFMgDRYhcKjh87lSamVetzwDTr8kvvQBHxJYRVnKMg0eeka2VvFMo5fR5qrXvKVHhD3EkQjhf3STz_5cmvyeuP84bsVNnyNMLTzK1PKDoKE5ez9S4ZKBWU_gYcQ/s200/joefrazier.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">It took a lot of years,</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"> But at last I finally see.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">As a thirteen year old boy I became caught up in the hype of the 1971 boxing match <em></em>between <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Mohammed</span></span> Ali and South Carolinian <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ3aUmSBSbY">Joe Frazier</a>. The March 8 title fight in Madison Square Garden, billed as <a href="http://www.boxing-memorabilia.com/biofrazier1.htm">The Fight of the Century</a>, was compelling in that both fighters came in undefeated and it marked the return of Clay, now Ali, to the ring. The public backlash to the Vietnam War was fever pitch...and the war weary nation was in a forgiving mood concerning Cassius Clay's <span><a href="http://www.aavw.org/protest/ali_alivus_abstract08.html">conscientious objection</a> </span></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">(which landed him in jail); likewise, Clay's conversion to Islam raised even fewer eyebrows despite the growing Islamic extremism in the Middle East. So, oblivious to the political and religious implications, I threw in with the media favorite Ali. It took me years to realize my mistake. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Eighteen years later amidst my great re-awakening...I began to reevaluate many aspects of my belief system. First, I crawled out of the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">existentialist</span> hole in which I had <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">descended</span> and accepted the Grace of God and the gift of his Son. Among the more trivial consequences of my revival was the realization that the John Lennon Song <em><a href="http://www.lyrics007.com/John%20Lennon%20Lyrics/Imagine%20Lyrics.html">Imagine</a>, </em>reeking of moral <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">relevence</span>, really sucked..., and that <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Mohammed</span></span> Ali was a traitor and a coward. Thus, it was a pleasant surprise when I saw <a href="http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson050109.html">t</a></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><a href="http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson050109.html">his article </a>by the always insightful <a href="http://www.victorhanson.com/">Victor Hanson</a>. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">It seems that all sports journalists subscribe to the same slobbering love for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Mohammed</span></span> Ali...and it grates on me <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">every time</span> I hear or read the fawning stories. I thought I'd vomit the night he lit the torch at the <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/MUHAMMED-ALI--1996-ATLANTA-OLYMPIC-TORCH-LIGHTING_W0QQitemZ260402703063QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090501?IMSfp=TL090501124009r30080#ebayphotohosting">Atlanta Olympics</a>. Now, I view Ali, his boxing skill notwithstanding, as an undeserving huckster who hid his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">cowardices</span> behind a savage religion. It's about time somebody said so. And it's about time somebody said something good about smoking Joe Frazier. He may not <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">have</span> been as good in the ring as Ali, but he was twice the man. The following is from Hanson's article.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">III. There was something to admire about Joe Frazier. I have another confession to make, given that I just saw an ad for a new documentary on the Ali-Frazier fights, a film I will try to see soon. Here it is — I never admired <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Mohammed</span></span> Ali. Not that much at all. He was a brilliant boxer, but his megalomania ushered a number of deleterious trends into all sports — the ego-driven gestures (which were to be later manifested in everything from spiking the ball to trash talking the opponent) were all <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">repellent</span>.</span></span><br /><span style="color:#ffff00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">A mind unclouded by liberalism is a beautiful thing.</span></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-11011550511868670172009-05-01T18:11:00.003-04:002009-05-01T18:49:22.562-04:00Another generated event?So now we have the swine flu. This appears just in time for the vote on the health-care bill. Excuse me if I sound a little incredulous."Nothing happens in politics that is not planned". That is a quote from FDR."Never let a good crisis go to waste". That one is from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Rham</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Emannuel</span>. Has anyone noticed that this "flu" appeared after Obama had his visit to Mexico? This "crisis" is amazingly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">fortuitous</span> for president <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Soros</span> ...er...Obama. If this bill passes , another huge slice of the American economy will be nationalized. With the green movement attacking the oil and power companies using "cap and trade" as their weapon, eventually all major industries will be nationalized. This has been the life goal of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Soros</span> as he himself has stated. However none of this could have happened without the help of Mike <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Huckabee</span>. If memory serves it was <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Huckabee</span> who hung around in the republican primary when he had no chance of winning. This was done to draw votes away from Romney. Romney would have won the primary if not for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Huckabee</span> siphoning off enough votes to get <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">McCain</span> the nomination. We may never know if Romney could have beaten the "chosen one", but he had a much better chance than "liberal lite" <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">McCain</span>. If Romney had become president the generated economic event would not have gone the way it has. The banking leaders with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Polson</span> as their spokesman bullied Bush and Obama into these horrendous bailouts.That was easy. Neither Bush, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">McCain</span> or Obama knows anything about the economy and they have said so. Romney knows money and economics and would have seen right through their power grab. There is no "pandemic". Yet. It is merely another power grab.t.durhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16007306825456566044noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-32438971058642526912009-04-30T16:32:00.007-04:002009-05-01T13:26:50.561-04:00The Obama Flu?...President Obama, in typical <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">humanitarian</span> style, proposes a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/30/billion-request-flu-fighting-money/">billion and a half dollars </a>to fight the present pandemic of Swine flu - and he's not stopping there. He's taking on future flu bugs as they come along. "The One" must be in his glory as he envisions himself and Michelle donning a mask and giving flu shots to his compatriots back in the Wards of Chicago. I'll be surprised if anyone from ACORN gets the flu.<br /><br /><p>Clinton cronies always lamented after 9-11 that Billy Jeff didn't get his chance at greatness like W did in the aftermath of the attack; but our man Obama is getting the spotlight big time.<br /></p><ul><li>He's battling the ravaged economy by <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">quadrupling</span> the Bush budgets.</li><br /><li>He's apologizing like crazy to anybody who will listen so as to get America back her name.</li><br /><li>He's letting the poor boys go free that got picked up by Special Forces and wrongfully charged with terrorism. </li><br /><li>And he's disarming the nukes as fast as he can. </li></ul><p>Dammit, what more can he do?</p><p>He can take on the flu and pour a cool 1.5 bill into the ass kicking effort, that's what he can do. A man for all seasons. He's always a step ahead...as if he almost knew of the pandemic ahead of time. A man for the times. He can change the world!</p><p>And it's getting creepier by the day. The tools that released this video weren't kidding were they?</p><p><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBk32JsV9l8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBk32JsV9l8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-74143927775972211442009-04-30T13:10:00.006-04:002009-04-30T13:21:23.083-04:00Barry's Prompter has a blog!In case you haven't heard, the TOTUS has his own blog. Read it <a href="http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/">here</a>. Hat tip <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html">El Rushbo</a>.<br /><br /><em>"Reflections from the hard drive of the machine that enables the voice of the Leader of the Free World"</em><br /><br />It was just a matter of time.Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-36540033070581599032009-04-29T14:44:00.008-04:002009-04-29T19:53:38.140-04:00Spector and Specter: April showers bring...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkLPTBjuiQY7jtzXwu1Yqq7uEK7R1fb2ZjErMJ_iTpcX0KgTqpgEOA9bOBE9ok4C9WHzPv7Q7T98qQAKbkeYhNVx87LOtmgXV9Q3d2URw8hO7ziOCy9Ein_e96G_-oGoPCoin_TSlIMY6/s1600-h/phil-spector-frizz.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330185478847092466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 154px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkLPTBjuiQY7jtzXwu1Yqq7uEK7R1fb2ZjErMJ_iTpcX0KgTqpgEOA9bOBE9ok4C9WHzPv7Q7T98qQAKbkeYhNVx87LOtmgXV9Q3d2URw8hO7ziOCy9Ein_e96G_-oGoPCoin_TSlIMY6/s200/phil-spector-frizz.jpg" border="0" /></a> It's been an interesting month for a couple of guys with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">homophonic</span></span> names. First, on April 14, Phil <em>Spector</em> of <a href="http://www.superseventies.com/spbeatles.html">Let It Be </a>fame landed in the the <em>big house</em> for shooting and killing actress <a href="http://www.lanaclarkson.com/">Lana <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Clarkson</span></span></a>. A commentary on the whole creepy tale is <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-strick22apr18,0,2829938.story?coll=la-home-commentary">here</a>. RIP Lana. And <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">sayonara</span></span> Phil. And Phil, once you get to prison, look into that new invention they call <em>shampoo.</em> <div><br /><div>Then yesterday, Arlen <em>Specter</em>, the senior Senator from <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Pennsylvania</span>, declared himself a Democrat, thus completing his transformation into a completely useless human being. In any event, his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">McCainish</span></span> "reach across the isle" routine had him agreeing with big <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">government</span> liberals more often than not, so his changing teams was no big surprise. It's not as if Perez Hilton suddenly found his testicles. A closer look into his decision reveals that he was likely on the way to losing his Republican primary bid for reelection. Hence, he probably liked his chances better as a Democrat. Welcome home Arlen. I'm sure Barry is preparing the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=49&chapter=15&verse=30&version=31&context=verse">fatted calf </a>as we speak.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Politicians in general, and Democrats in particular have nothing but disdain for the voters. Check out the following quotes by Lincoln <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Chaffee</span></span> as reported by from the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Hufffington</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Puffington</span></span> Post's Sam Stein:</div><br /><div><span style="color:#3366ff;"><em>Indeed, when I spoke with former Senate moderate Lincoln <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Chafee</span></span> about Specter's tough political spot roughly a month ago (when the prospect of a primary challenge had only begun to materialize) he lamented the litmus test that GOP officials are forced to take.<br />"It's enormous pressure, especially with the threats of primary," said the former Rhode Island Republican. "It is a no win. You are trying to help move the country forward and you have this small universe of a Republican primary in Pennsylvania, you are in for a scrap in it."</em></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">If I am hearing Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Chaffee</span></span> correctly, "the small universe of a Republican primary", aka VOTERS, are getting in the way of the massive government regulation and spending that people such as Specter and his new cronies on the liberal left are pushing. How dare the voters not go along with government control of everything! Don't they realize that Washington knows better? How dare someone question Mr. Specter by opposing him in the primaries (and by all accounts running well ahead of him). Liberals like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Chaffee</span></span> see voter consternation as a "litmus test". The people be damned. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Obama's</span></span> will<em> must</em> be done. </span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Specter obviously views the voter as an impediment to Washington's plan to tax, regulate and restrict Americans on every front. Here's hoping that <a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2009/04/great_pat_toomey_interview.php">Pat <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Toomey</span></span> </a>cleans Specter's clock in the 2010 election, thus ridding <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Pennsylvania and the nation</span> of a fool.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Phil <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Spector</span> is in jail...now Pennsylvanians need to add Arlen Specter to the unemployment roll.</span></div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div></div></div>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703962950544089758.post-3311679682032025952009-04-20T20:22:00.000-04:002009-04-20T20:23:29.662-04:00Local Media Mathematically Challenged!Are we surprised?<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">WSPA's</span> website <em>conservatively</em> reported the <a href="http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/opposing_rallies_held_in_downtown_greenville_over_stimulus_money/16706/">crowd size</a> as "more than a thousand", which is technically true, but looking at the photos in the <a href="http://threeballdead.blogspot.com/2009/04/greenville-right-wing-extremists-rally.html">post below</a> it is clear that a hell of a lot more than 1000 people attended. There was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">easily</span> a thousand people standing on the parking garage and sitting on the steps leading to it. Why fudge the numbers so negatively? The <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">genius</span> that posted this report probably has his wife/girlfriend convinced of other <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">mathematical</span> improbabilities too. And they all would make lousy carpenters.<br /><br />In the same report, Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Mathematician</span> failed to mention the size of the crowd at the "Save Our Schools rally" which was jointly held by a <a href="http://1073jamz.com/index.html">hip hop radio station</a> and the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Greenville</span> County Democratic Party. Notice also the tight shots of that rally. A wider angle would have shown maybe a 100 people tops. And every TV <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">station</span> that filed a report used the same guy for their interview comments. He must have been the only one speaking something other than <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5cN6neql8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">ebonics</span></a> in the whole crowd. Good grief!<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.greenvilledemocrats.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Greenville</span> Democratic Party</a> reported on their website that "several hundred" people attended the "SOS" rally. Well, drop the "hundred" and you <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">might</span> be getting close to the truth; for, in fact, <em>several</em> people did show up. Somebody send these morons a hundred bucks and tell them that Sanford decided to pony up after all. Judging by their accounting abilities, they'll think they've hit the jackpot...and the schools will be saved by the windfall!!! Also, as of Sunday evening, co-sponsor of the event WJMZ had yet to post any news about their Friday night venture. We can't wait to get <em>their</em> head count.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wyff4.com/news/19207924/detail.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">WYFF</span></a> was somewhat more accurate in their reporting, giving the SOS rally "more than a hundred" and the Tea Party upwards of 10,000 attendees.<br /><br /><em><span style="color:#000099;">Until Friday night, the largest tea party protest in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Greenville</span> had drawn about 2,000 people. Police said Friday night's crowd was five times as big, making it the biggest ever in South Carolina. </span></em><br /><p><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Whether there were 1000, 2000 or ten thousand people in attendance at the Tea Party, one thing is for certain, when the crowd chanted USA, USA, USA, the "hundreds" on the other side of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Bilo</span> Center damn well heard it. </span></p></span><em><br /></em>Thomas Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16715804034327241877noreply@blogger.com8