Everynow and then

you read a new word or phrase that immediately grabs you. No more of this "illegal alien" stuff that so disturbs those who would give our country away. Instead, William Katz from his blog:
Urgent Agenda gives us this wonderful new description:

Excuse me, I mean intercultural sojourners.

Such they will remain for me in future discussions.

So you don't like either....

McCain or Romney? What's a person to do?

Well, I recommend that you consider this. A primary is about selecting who you think can beat the person who you really dislike.

For me that's BHO and Billary. BHO would be a huge disaster, Billary would be a smaller disaster. Their policies will have us in a deep recession within a year, and being attacked while giving away what's good in western civilization.

I liked Rudy and Fred. They're gone. Huckabee is still around, although I don't know why. The two contenders are Romney and McCain.

I like Romney's background as a family man and the fact that he understands business. But I think he is too soft on immigration, and as a business man he has a natural tendency to compromise and cut losses in the belief that you can always have a second chance. That's wrong in this situation.

Compromising with the current crop of ME “leaders” is stupid, and in war you don’t always have a second chance.

And though it doesn’t bother me, my wife says he is too “pretty.” Now let me digress. Calling him “too pretty” has nothing to do with sex. It is a southern mountain and hill country expression meaning he doesn’t come off as “real.” That trait could hurt him in the GE very badly.

I like McCain because of his military experience. I served 10 years in Naval Aviation and this gives me a huge bias and admiration for what he did, and what he endured. I also like the fact that he isn’t afraid to go against the grain from time to time, and the fact that he says he was wrong on immigration and will secure the border. Will he? All I can do is wait and see.

I also believe that he will be strong on national defense and can run strongly against the peaceniks and the looney Left’s candidates on this issue. I also believe that he won’t accept dumb strategies that aren’t working and knows how to fire military leaders. I suspect the latter trait comes from Vietnam where 99.999999% of the lower ranks knew the strategy was BS and know that we have 58,000 dead because the “leaders,” if you can call them that, were too stupid to fight an all out war we could have easily won.

I don’t like McCain-Feingold, and regret his association with it. I didn’t like his association with “The Gang of 14” but am now glad we didn’t change the filibuster rules. And I am concerned over his tax polices, but here again he says he has changed.

Finally, I think he can beat either Billary or Hussein. And that folks is what this election is about because neither of them will fight the war that we are in.

Excuse me. I have to go vote for John McCain.

Golden Oldies

Here is a web site that you may enjoy.

Patchy's Lost In The..

You know, looking at the play lists and thinking.... Can anyone tell me an instrumental that was a hit in the past 20 years???

Does that say anything about the "me generation?"

It is not that I think National Health Care

will be better. I don’t. But I also don’t think it will be worse. And I also think it is necessary. And I totally agree with Powerline’s comment regarding forcing people to purchase medical insurance.

This is especially true of single young people, above all single men. They rarely become seriously ill, and they know that if they are unlucky enough to be in an accident or contract a serious illness, they will be treated anyway.

If you don’t need insurance, or that is if you don’t think you need insurance, then why should you purchase it? And if you know you will be treated anyway… well a new set of spinners would look nice.

And isn’t that the base argument? People who think they don’t need it, don’t want it. And people who have it through their employer, or earn enough to be able buy it, don’t want the system changed because they believe they will have their taxes increased to pay for those who expect to be treated anyway.

So what we have now is a system in which;

1. The poor and those outside the system get free treatment.

2. Those who earn enough can purchase their own.

3. Those with certain jobs can purchase it through their employer at a discount.

4. Those 65 and older have Medicare.

So we need to pass National Health Care. The question is, how can we pay for it.

And the answer is…. a national sales tax. Simple, easy to administer and inclusive. With one stroke you bring in this pesky young’uns, as well as the Medicaid crowd that not only includes the non-employed poor, but includes the employed poor, as well as illegal aliens, dope dealers and others now living in the “gray market space.”

The Religion of Peace

demonstrates again why we should view all claims about "peace" coming from its members with a great deal of suspicion.

Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying.

Link to source article

That is just so seventh century as to be almost unbelieveable.

Unfortunately it is not. At least this 16 year wasn't stoned to death. Hanging, you know, is just so more humane. (sarcasm alert.)

Zand-Bonazzi: Well, sadly this young woman was hung in public charged with adultery. The man with whom she had allegedly had sexual relations with was also arrested but he only received 75 lashes apparently and then freed!

However, in spite of the fact that her entire family pleaded, was condemned to death. Her parents had even specifically produced her birth certificate proving that she was 16 (proving that she's not an adult) and the ruling clergy of the town of NEKA (the town where she was hung) forged papers and insisted that in fact she was 22and that that was enough reason to hang her.

Link to source article.

Yep. Just the people we want to have nuclear weapons and long range rockets.

I never pay a lot of attention

to the Super Bowl. Most of the games have been over hyped and after I hear the same sports cliché a dozen times my eyes glaze over and my attention goes elsewhere.

Sports as “life” bores me. The Super Bowl is a game. Nothing more, nothing less. Games are supposed to entertain. Many Super Bowls have not. Last night’s did. It was played with few penalties, unlimited commercial breaks and it went down to the wire.

There were a few underlying stories that were of interest. The one that I found interesting was that of little brother playing as well as big brother. You have to know that nothing made Eli happier than saying to his Mom.

"Here Mom, put my MVP trophy on the mantle along side the other one.”

Why reporters shouldn't do numbers..

By Jeannine Aversa
Associated Press
Saturday, February 2, 2008

WASHINGTON -- U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession.

Uh, look Jeannie. You are in the word business. A recession is defined as:

An extended decline in general business activity, typically two consecutive quarters of falling real gross national product.

Now I know you likely didn't have any courses in college that connect with business, but that quote came from Dictionary Reference.com. not the WSJ. Then we have:

The unemployment rate actually dipped slightly to 4.9 percent, from 5 percent in December, as people left the labor force.

Now. Can anyone explain to me how we are in a recession and have lost jobs when the unemoployment rate dropped?? Repeat after me. The unemployment rate would go up if we had had a net loss of jobs.

I mean I will give you that the subprime mess is causing concern. And I will give you that energy prices are hurting us. But although wounded, we aren't dead.

And isn't the real story the dumb and dumber response to energy prices?? Shouldn't the main stream media be demanding that the Demos pass a sense of Congress resolution condeming the lack of drilling for oil in this country? The oil "bidness" has just announced record profits. Ok. Fine. Now oil guys and gals, get your behinds in gear and let's see some holes in the ground.

Oh. You won't because the wacky environmentalists and the looney Left, aka knowns as The Base We Must Make Happy is more concerned about bears than letting Aunt Jane afford to keep her house warm? They'll sue you? Well, you do have a point.

Oh. Now I understand.