For you golf nuts

Hat tip to WR.

Who's in your wallet??

A good'un from Mile L.

Will the last government employee please turn out the lights??

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - As a government shutdown loomed, residents of Alabama's most populous county lined up Friday to renew their car registrations and settle their tax bills.

By Monday, at least a quarter of the county's 3,600 employees will be on unpaid leave and many county offices will be closed or cutting back hours.

The county, with 640,000 residents, has been on the brink of filing the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy for the past year due to a sewer bond fiasco that remains unresolved. Then things got worse: A judge ruled the county's occupational tax is illegal and courts refused to let the county spend the revenue from it while officials appeal.

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I wonder why they just didn't cut wages 20% across the board and keep everythung going. Seeing as how all these employees, I am sure, are absolutely needed.

Whenever the Fed is shut down Congress closes the Washington Monument... Anything to cause discomfort and problems for the taxpayer.

Birthers, Bread and Butter Pickles and global warming

Bits and pieces

August 1st. At 7:00am it was 66 degrees... Tell me about man made global warming....

"Bread and Butter" pickles done yesterday. But my tomatoes won't ripen, even though the vines are loaded with the late crop. And this is the mid south. And the high forecasted through next Friday is 88 degrees. So it's off to the farmer's market for tomatoes to can... The okra is producing, but at a reduced rate. In the mean time the butternut squash, a colder weather crop, is doing well.. but man does not live by squash alone........

And I am happy to announce that the pigs have not returned. (Yes, WR. I mean PIGS as in animals with snouts, four legs and curly tails!)

In Congress the Blue Dogs have rolled over on their back" and Nancy P has scratched their bellies.... All of you people who voted for them because they were more conservative than Bush should be as proud as a bartender who sells booze to a drunk... and then the drunk kills someone on his drive home..

Maybe they should form a club... Democrat Official Enablers.... DOE for short.



Looks like the "birthers" have finally got some reaction from the Left so you know the point is being made.

This time, the body politic has lost its head. Really. There can be no other explanation for the group outrage directed at anyone who dares to wonder why it is that Barack Hussein Obama refuses to release his long-form, original birth certificate from whatever Hawaiian vault it is in to settle the "natural born" controversy once and for all. And there can be no other explanation for why it is that no one in the media has ever seen fit to ask him why he hasn't done so. If he has nothing to hide, why hide it? Of course, if he does have something to hide, he may have put over a giant fraud on the American people.

There seem to be two basic motives. One, from the Left, is pure protection. The strategy here is to tar anyone with questions as "Birthers"--fruitcakes and weirdos, dontcha know. The Right, rather than disputing the Left's characterization of the skeptics, rather than acknowledging there is something fishy about a man with nothing to hide hiding so very much, accepts the Left's characterization without question. Not surprisingly, the Right then deems the issue a political liability -- all on the Left's terms.

Link to Diana West

The Repubs are stupid in many respects... They remind me that Sweet Dreams Are Made of This.

I knew the Prez election was over when McCain started telling us we couldn't call Hussein, Hussein. It took me a while but I finally figured out that his military experience was Vietnam... a war in which the enemy told us what we couldn't do.

You never win those battles.

Of course the one thing I can not understand is this. All Obamie has to do is produce his birth certificate from the vault... the original long form... and he has made a bunch of Righties look stupid. I don't believe he could pass up a chance like that if he could do it.

6:00PM on August 1 and the temperature is 76 degrees. Tell me about that man made global warming...

Gene Pool Improvement

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three American tourists are believed to be in Iranian custody after they may have strayed across the border from Iraq during a mountain hike, Kurdish officials said Friday.

Four Americans -- two of them students in Syria -- traveled from Syria to Turkey and then into Kurdistan in northern Iraq, arriving at Irbil on Tuesday, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for the security manager of Sulaimaniya, where they arrived Thursday after driving from Irbil.

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First of all please tell me why I should worry about any American student who is dumb enough to attend a school in Syria.

Secondly tell me why I should worry about any American who is dumb enough to go to Iraq as tourist much less go near the Iraq-Iran border.

Tell Iran, very loudly and sincerely that it can keep them. But, we will take them back if Iran insists and asks nicely.

Obama to release more terrorists

Here's a story about how Obamie is having his Justice Department let judges and lawyers release prisoners from GITMO.

District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle Thursday morning granted Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, a writ of habeas corpus that could result in his being freed on August 21

Justice Department officials 22 more days to determine whether or not they can try Jawad in a criminal court in the U.S.

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The Justice Department says it has "newly available evidence" of Jawad's "involvement with the grenade attack on two U.S. servicemen." But the Justice Department isn't asking for more time to investigate the new evidence. And on Wednesday night Justice Department officials submitted a proposed writ of habeas corpus for Judge Huvelle to sign.

"We have informed the judge in this case that we will not contest the writ of habeas corpus and that we are not detaining Jawad in order to conduct a criminal investigation of his actions," Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said in a statement last night.

If you will read the link and then follow some more links you will discover that the basic defense is that Jawad was a juvenile, only 12 although that can't be proven, was an orphan because his Mother's new husband threw him out of the house and then was taken advantage of by al-Qaeda types, drugged, trained and while he was present when the crime was committed, he had nothing to do with it and after someone gave him a grenade he was running away screaming "bomb" to alert the populace as he dashed to throw it in a river.

I am having difficulty not writing that he also escorted old ladies across the street, collected for UNICEF and was in the "I want to teach the world to sing" Afghanistan choir group.

And I would guess that some of this is probably true. I have no particular problem believing everything he said right up to the time of the attack. My version has him throwing the grenade and then running away screaming "bomb" to keep anyone from trying to capture him.

So the real question is, should he be tried as an adult?

And why is a court releasing him?

Because the Afghan's captured him and he says, they beat him.

And that is probably true. Afghanistan is, at best, a Fourth World country where people suspected, in his case probably seen, of throwing grenades are given a chance to confess and if not, thoroughly beaten, etc. Nasty, brutish world? Yes, it is.

And while the Left won't condemn hanging gays and stoning women they will rush to the defense of someone involved in attempting to murder Americans and their helpers.

And the facts are that Jawad doesn't claim that he wasn't there, that he wasn't trained.. All he does is provide excuses right out of the "I was raised in an inner city slum" handbook.

So what we are seeing here is an extension of the Left's reluctance to pass judgement on bad behavior and defend the culture of the US.

And dear chums, a culture that will not defend itself will be replaced by another culture. One that is not better, but stronger.

Thanks dear Lefties.

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