Earth Hour!

Saturday at 8:30 p.m. local time is Earth Hour! All the pin-headed true believers who worship Gore-bull warming are going to turn off their lights for an hour and shiver in the dark like a bunch of cave-dwelling retards. How ironic that we're supposed to get record amounts of "global warming"--the fluffy white kind--tomorrow.

In honor of Earth Hour, I'm going to celebrate too! I'm going to turn on all the lights in the house, all the televisions, all the computers, and anything else I can find. I'll drive around for an hour in my F150 getting 15 mpg or less. The thermostat in the house will be set on 75 degrees (I'm from Texas and I like it hot).

Counting down the days until this hits the theaters:

The Leopard's Spots Never Change

The Obama administration has already started showing its true colors with regard to firearms. Attorney General Holder states that he wants to reinstitute the Clinton "assault weapons" ban, citing increased violence in Mexico as one reason. There are so many things wrong with his reasoning that it's hard to know where to begin. First, the banned "assault weapons" are not assault weapons, they are SEMI-automatic weapons, incapable of automatic fire--they shoot one bullet for each pull of the trigger, and no more. They are no different from hunting rifles. Second, true assault weapons have been banned since the 1930s. They are very difficult to acquire and almost never used to commit crimes in the U.S. Any Mexican drug dealer carrying what Holder calls an "assault weapon" would be laughably outgunned. Third, Americans own over one million more of these semiautomatic weapons now than when Clinton first instituted the ban, yet our violent crime rate is significantly LOWER. This proposed ban has nothing to do with reducing crime, and everything to do with increasing our Socialist administration's power--tactics straight from Saul Alinsky.

My latest letter to Senator McCaskill

Sen. McCaskill:

You twittered: " Don't know when we're going to vote. Will the no votes delay vote just because they can? Speed is important. They know that."

The only reason speed is important is because you Democrats are trying to shove a crap sandwich of a bill down the American peoples' throats without giving anyone time to look at and oppose the bill. Even the Congressional Budget Office has said that doing NOTHING will have a more positive effect than this monstrosity of a bill. Why can't you and the new Axis of Evil (Pelosi, Obama, and Reid) just come out and tell the truth: "We need to pass this bill because we have to pay all the special interest groups that put us into power?" "We have to make sure ACORN and other community organizations have the funds they need to get a head start on their voter fraud activities for the 2010 and 2012 elections." Or how about, "We need to get this legislation passed quickly, so we can get on to the rest of our liberal agenda--reimplementing the 'assault weapon' ban that didn't ban any assault weapons; granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens so we'll have more Democrat voters; implementing the 'Fairness Doctrine' to cement our current unfair advantage over the conservative media; and passing the 'Employee Free Choice Act' so we can take away employees' freedom of choice as a sop to our union puppet-masters." Democrats have sure mastered the art of Orwellian doublespeak!

Grow a spine and represent your constituents!

No, He Can't

I ran across an essay worth reading this morning:
No, He Can't.

On a different note, the elementary school in Raytown that some of my children attend made everyone watch the Obama Deification ceremony on January 20. I don't recall the oldest one being forced to watch the Bush inauguration ceremony in January, 2005. Why were they forced to watch one, but not the other? I'm sure the answer would be, "But it's a historic moment!" To which my response would be, "Why is it any more historic than any other inauguration?" The expected reply: "But Obama's our first black President!" Ah, I get it now--racism! Hmmm...this is supposed to be the post-racial society now, but we're constantly bombarded with "Obama's the first black this, first black that, blah blah blah." Using the word "black" immediately makes the statement racist.

Our schools are trying to force the "green" crap down our childrens' throats, too. Don't get me wrong, I believe recycling, conserving energy, and all that are beneficial, especially because they cost less in the long run, but don't try to tie it in with Al Gore's global climate crisis nonsense. Last fall, one of my kids came home worried that the polar bears were all going to die because their ice floes were melting and would soon be gone. I noted a few weeks ago that the ice caps are back to their 1979 levels. Does anyone remember the impending Ice Age scares of the 1970s? I remember reading articles about ways to warm the planet, such as by spreading soot on the ice caps. Then the MMGW hysteria hit a few years ago, and the planet is now getting too hot! Except that it isn't, so they eco-terror-mongers have been forced to change the name of their fear tactic from "Global Warming" to "Climate Crisis." Personally, I'm hoping for a little more global warming. Kansas City is too darned cold in the winter for this Southeast Texas country boy. I have dreams of lemon and grapefruit orchards along the Missouri River between here and St. Louis.

Public schools have turned some classes into little more than left-wing radical indoctrination courses. This is not surprising, given how many left-wing nut jobs from the '60s and '70s are now on the faculties of our universities and in positions that develop curricula. The great Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote a timely article on deprogramming our children.

Kansas City Star Falls Farther

I read the Kansas City Falling Star daily just in case my blood pressure drops too low. I can always count on the paper to print something from its editors, columnists, syndicated sources, or readers that will make me angry enough to eat nails and excrete barbed wire. Today is no different.

First, we have a dimwit from Shawnee named Bill Emerson who thinks Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) should have voted in favor of the porcus maximus $819 billion dollar stimulus package because job seekers were lined up around the block for a job fair on Monday. The fact that the spendulus package would have done nothing to help those people didn't seem to impinge on his minuscule consciousness. Too bad Rep. Jenkins can't pay a visit to my Representative, Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) and one of my Senators, Claire McCaskill (D-MO), with a spike, a sledgehammer, and a funnel so she can knock a hole in their heads and pour in some good sense. Those two are so busy kissing Obama Christ's exalted ass that they can't be bothered to pay attention to their constituents.

Let's look at some of the ways the flaming liberals want to spend our tax dollars:

1. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. Obviously, jobless people need to spend their wasted days listening to bad foreign music and looking at the pornography that passes for liberal "art."
2. $380 million for a rainy-day fund for the WIC program. How does this stimulate the economy?
3. $300 million for a grant to combat violence against women. Yippee. I'd bet that 10 times or more money is spent combating violence against women than the other way around, yet numerous studies show that women initiate violence against men just as often, women are more likely to use objects as weapons, and women are more likely to inflict harm on men when they are vulnerable, such as when they are sleeping. Not to mention the little tidbit that most child abusers and child killers are women.
4. $15 billion to expand the Pell Grant system. Pell Grants are good for education, but what stimulating effect does that have on the economy? Do colleges need to hire more professors? Don't tell me there are still more America-hating, '60s Marxist radical, Democrat-voting criminals who haven't yet received professorships at our universities!
5. $5.2 billion for community-development block grants and "neighborhood stabilization activities." This is a reward for those organizations such as ACORN that helped Barry Barack Hussein Dunham Soetoro Obama get elected through any means necessary, including fraud and voter intimidation, nothing more.
6. $6 billion for university building projects. This one might actually give a boost to the construction trades. What are the odds, though, that all the projects will be for the same Marxist drivel-spewing hate factories that supported our Dear Leader, and none for the few conservative institutions?
7. $650 million for digital TV coupons and $90 million to educate people who might not have heard that their old TVs weren't going to work anymore. Give me just $5 million of that and I'll personally knock on every door in rural Appalachia to tell them. I'll have to learn to play the guitar first, so I can accompany those banjo-playing kids.
8. $145 billion for tax rebate checks for people who don't pay any taxes, plus $83 billion for more Earned Income Credit--yet another tax handout to people who don't pay taxes.
9. $7 billion for federal building renovation projects and new computers, made in the PRC, Taiwan, or Korea, in all likelyhood.
10. $600 million to convert the fleet of cars owned by the Federal government to hybrids. It's a lot more cost-effective to drive the old ones until their wheels fall off, but that doesn't put any money into the UAW's pockets.
11. $450 million for NASA, of which $200 million must be spent generating bogus research that supports the pre-determined bogus "climate change" nonsense, plus an additional $650 million for NOAA, again with a bunch of money that must be used for "climate modeling" research to produce results that agree with the global warming nutjobs' opinions.
12. $1 billion for the Census, I guess so they can give people jobs counting other people.
13. $89 billion for Medicaid extensions--supposedly temporary, but no doubt turning permanent.
14. $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits, despite solid evidence that shows that increasing unemployment benefits increases unemployment, simply because people wait until their benefits are about to run out before they start seriously looking for work.
15. $87 billion for a new Coast Guard icebreaking ship. Why? I thought the ice caps were a goner. The Goracle says so!
16. $4.5 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, which already has $3.2 billion that it doesn't know what to do with!
17. $7.6 billion for rural community advancement programs. I'm not sure what's being "advanced" by these billions of dollars, but it probably doesn't involve creating jobs. Places like Tarkington Prairie, TX and Freeman, MO are not exactly the job-creation hubs of the universe.
18. $35.9 billion for various energy and energy-conservation projects, some of which include yet more money to be spent on falsifying climate-change research, buying hybrid cars for state and local governments, and a whole bunch of other "green" crap that has had billions thrown at it in the past and still doesn't work as well as good old oil and natural gas.
19. Then we have the biggest loser of them all, the $79 billion State Fiscal Stabilization Fund. This is where the federal government takes money away from the smart people in those states that have budgeted wisely and gives it to the morons in states like California that have spent themselves into giant cash-swallowing holes by doing things like giving free health care to illegal immigrants. (Which our Dear Leader also wants the rest of us to do as indicated by his signing of the SCHIP bill--yet another crap sandwich he has fed us.)

Second (finally!), we have pinhead Don Witmer from Kansas City who takes offense with Rush Limbaugh's comment that he hopes Obama fails. Let's see, Obama wants to turn the United States into a Marxist one-party welfare state with the help of his fraud-abetting minions, weaken our military and our borders, destroy our ability to be self-reliant, take away the freedoms our forefathers specifically granted to us as individuals in Article 2 of the Bill of Rights, curtail freedom of speech on the radio, and eliminate the right to a secret ballot in the workplace. I HOPE HE FAILS IN ALL OF THOSE THINGS! Obama's failure would be the BEST thing that could happen to our country right now.

There is a bit of light and joy in the morning paper today, though. The Falling Star's parent company, McClatchy Co., is losing money hand over fist and the Falling Star is going to have its fourth round of job cuts since June. Maybe if they'd print more of my letters to the editor their readership would go up dramatically, since I'm obviously the greatest voice of reason in this metropolitan area. I'd hate to see them go out of business completely because our dogs need a place to dump when they're in the house.

YID With LID: The Real Story of the Global Warming Hoax

YID With LID: The Real Story of the Global Warming Hoax

I Want Some TARP, too

I've made a few bad financial decisions and I'm still paying for some of them. When do I get my share of the TARP money?



Semi-rhetorical question: Isn't "Barack" the sound a chicken makes just before its head comes off?

Anyone up for some Bible study?


Mark 13:14 (ASV) "But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not (let him that readeth understand), then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains."

Day 9 of the Marxist Occupation

The country is now in the hands of a Marxist radical President and a bunch of left-wing loonies who think personal responsibility and self-reliance are passé, and that we should follow, lemming-like, into the Socialist paradise where the government takes care of all needs.

I'm a Raytown resident, but I didn't vote for Barry Obama. The election results just go to show that Kansas City, MO, and the nearby surrounding areas are full of lazy people who are expecting Obama Christ to fulfill their dreams of free handouts.

He has started his regime in true dictatorial fashion, handing out more Executive Orders in one week than most Presidents sign in a year. Closing Gitmo, banning so-called "torture" of terrorists, and appearing on Al-Arabiya are all sops for the Muslim handlers of this Manchurian Candidate, those who donated millions in illegal contributions to his campaign.

President Obama has appointed one of the most crooked politicians ever as his Secretary of State, a tax cheat as his Secretary of the Treasury, and his Attorney General nominee, Eric Holder, thinks criminals and terroristic murderers should be pardoned, yet he invents as many reasons as possible to imprison law-abiding gun owners.

The only people who fear armed, law-abiding citizens are criminals and evil policitians. Which may explain why so many residents of this area voted for a candidate whose record shows he favors gun control measures--Obama supporters don't like their potential victims to be armed.