ARE WE SOON TO HAVE A
"POLICE STATE"?

Bob Unruh, writing in the WorldNetDaily today reports that President Obama has signed an Executive Order pushing states to adopt laws that limit their use of National Guard units (which which is a power assigned by the U.S. Constitution to the Governor of each state) except under limited conditions and pushing for a "Council of Governors" to advise on the "synchronization and integration of state and federal military activities in the U.S." In other words, a national police force answerable only to his holiness, the grand poobah himself, Barack Hussein Obama! This questionable order has come just weeks after a similar order extending INTERPOL's privileges in this nation was slipped in under the radar.

I don't like conspiracy theories one little bit, but I have to say that all the hoohaw about the National Health Care scheme may well have been a coverup or distraction to keep us from noticing more nefarious plans that are afoot to bypass the Constitution and screw each and every citizen of this nation - and not in a good way! This might explain why he is so unconcerned about his falling approval ratings and the prospect of only being a one term President. He may not expect that he will have to run for re-election but rather he expects to become this nation's dictator!

It occurs to me that President Obama is providing us with ample grounds for impeachment. Surrendering the national sovereignty that he has sworn to preserve, protect and defend certainly seems to qualify as a "high crime and misdemeanor" in my books!

ANOTHER PINHEAD IS HEARD FROM!

Former Obama economic advisor, Clinton Secretary of Labor, and Berkely Prof. Robert Reich claimed yesterday in his column at Salon.com that Fox News played a role in the conservative resurgence of 1994. There is really only one thing wrong with that locution . . . Fox News didn't EXIST in 1994! What kind of fact checking do they perform at Salon.com? Do they do ANY?

I'M TAKING BETS!

How long until Rahm Emanuel is the next friend of Obama's to find himself summarily thrown under a bus? I give him 6 weeks.

WORTHWHILE READ!

Laura Lee over at Wide Awake Cafe has an excellent post that is well worth your time and energy. I highly recommend you pop on over there and read it!

ABSOLUTELY TONE-DEAF!

In a speech this past Friday, the President vowed to continue to push for "health care reform" - in other words, he is insistent on saddling this nation with a program that its citizens neither want nor need. There are, give or take, 300 million people in the United States. Of that total, it is estimated that 45 million are not covered by any kind of health insurance. Of THAT 45 million, it is estimated that 10-12 million are uninvited residents of our country - that is to say, illegal aliens! The balance are young people who CHOOSE to forego health care, deciding instead that the $300 per month cost of same is better spent on housing, car payments, partying, and so forth. As to this group, why should you and I be held to be responsible for the irresponsible? I think that's a valid question and one that has never ever been answered or even asked often. As to the illegal aliens, they do just fine, finding whatever health care they need on our dime at emergency rooms nationwide, where they cannot be refused care by federal mandate!

So where's the emergency on that. Just because I SAY something is an emergency, does that make it an emergency? I don't think so.

Apparently the lesson of New Jersey, New York, Virginia and Massachusetts has yet to be learned! What a bunch of idiots.

Q. The president's progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?

COMPLACENCY AND COUNTING CHICKENS

Given the excellent results in the Massachusetts Senate race and the disinclination of a lot of Democratic office holders to run for reelection, Republicans probably are rubbing their hands together and saying "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!" to themselves regarding their November 2010 prospects!

I wouldn't get myself all worked up if I were in a position to be planning any Autumn 2010 campaigns. Variables abound.

First, we need to find really, really good candidates to challenge the incumbent Democrats. And in some venues, that won't be enough. Indeed, the electorate is mighty riled up but I get the sense that they're peeved at both Republicans and Democrats. They're upset with the Republicans because they honestly do not understand how the legislative process works or even (thanks to our fine(?) teachers) how the three branches of government work! For example, blaming George W. Bush for the size of the deficit when Barack Obama took office is an easy reaction. However, from 2006 onward, the Democrats were in charge of both the House and the Senate and they passed these huge, expensive pieces of legislation. Yes indeed, George W. Bush signed them, but it was the Dems who wrote them into law.

Second, anyone who is angry at President Obama for the lack of transparency being displayed by his cronies over at the House and Senate (and heaven knows both Harry Reid and Botox Pelosi deserve full measures of calumny heaped upon their heads), yes indeed he did promise that CSpan would be present through all deliberations and, if they had the President's best interests at heart, the Cadaver and the Crone would have made sure CSpan was, in fact, present and broadcasting - but since the Legislative Branch is separate and co-equal to the Executive (which Mr. Obama, who claims to be a constitutional lawyer should have known), the President cannot dictate what they will or will not decide to do in that regard. So here's another reason to rid ourselves of those two suppurating pustules on the butt of the American body politic!

Finally, in order to "kick the bums out" we need to not indulge in "business as usual" ourselves. For example, much as I like Sarah Palin, her decision to campaign for John McCain's re-election in Arizona strikes me as the actions of a business-as-usual, toadying politician and it disappoints me greatly. The ill-tempered and irascible McCain should be able to rise and fall on his own merits or lack thereof. Mrs. Palin should be spending her political capital where it will effect a sea change in the composition of the Legislative branch in order to restrain some of Barack Obama's worst ideas and to begin to move our country back into its normal, moderate tending conservative state of being. Certainly Senator McCain's campaign staff deserves no consideration or assistance from the popular Mrs. Palin, a woman they have already treated shabbily at best. In other words, screw 'em!

We should be picking the seats that are most vulnerable, finding viable candidates with spine and convictions and running good, well-financed campaigns to fill those vacant seats.

Finally, we should not behave like Democrat-lite and spend an inordinate amount of time whining or being duplicitous or nasty. Walk around with a quiet, secretive little smile on our faces and we'll drive the other side nuts while they wonder what we're up to. Remember, Democrats love dirty tricks and thus believe that we will be similarly indulging. We must be vigilant enough to make that difficult to achieve but drive them nuts when we don't do it ourselves. Moral high ground, kids! Always a nice place to be.

It is wise to remember that George Soros is out there somewhere in the shadows, waiting impatiently to further his planned destruction of America as we have always known it. He makes me ashamed to be of Hungarian ancestry. Don't let the sociopath win!

UPDATE: Terrifying thought: There is a MR. Pelosi, you know!

MORONIC TWITS!

Why do idiots like Sean Penn and John Edwards show up in Port Au Prince, thus tying up the airport's only viable runway with their teensy little contributions and/or concerns? Both of these pinheads are legends in their own minds and are hindering rather than helping. Don't the people of Haiti have enough problems already?

Why not let the ADULTS handle this and stay the hell out of the way? I will grant you, they are hungry for a photo-op to try to re-establish their practically vanished relavance but come on - can't they be persuaded or interdicted from getting underfoot? And who invited Anderson Cooper to come down there with his drama queen delivery and his feverish need to make the problems of the Haitian earthquake all about himself? Sheesh!

DOW IS DOWN

Our President, who has never run a business, never met a payroll, never risked his own financial future on building a business that would employ others fancies himself the guru of things financial in this nation. Accordingly, he declared last week that he was "going after" banks for what he sees as their malfeasance, misfeasance and just general bad acting (as in attempting to make a profit). And immediately, the DOW dropped some 500 points!

Way to go you ignorant bozo! Please do the world a favor and quit making ignorant pronouncements that come right out of the Alinsky playbook you follow. Or quit permitting your "massah" George Soros to whisper in your ear! His only aim is to destroy the American economy in every respect. However, Mr. Obama, you don't work for HIM, you work for US. It would be lovely to revoke Soros' citizenship and kick his miserable ass out of our country. Or better yet, lock him up for sedition and treason. Whatever!

U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS -
The Final Chapter

Saturday night a bunch of wee girls (average height 5'0", average weight 95 pounds soaking wet) took to a cold and slippery surface on narrow little blades, and in those circumstances anything can happen. And it did!

Sasha Cohen's comeback was derailed in no uncertain terms when she plopped her teensy little butt down onto the ice at the end of a jump she's probably landed 1,000 times or more, and despite that, her program was exquisite and magical and an excellent reminder of why she is still and always will be the most magnificent female skater this country has produced, with the possible exception of the luminescent Michelle Kwan (in whose shadow Sasha has always skated).

Rachel Flatt, who is a very athletic and hearty skater (no anorexic is she) who has been consistent and dependable and altogether a joy to watch for three years finally won her first U.S. Championship (I suspect the first of many - although with her intellectual gifts, she may choose to retire after the Olympics and Worlds and pursue an advanced college degree). The effervescent Mirai Nagasu took a break from working the cash register in her family's Japanese restaurant to remind us of why we fell in love with her at the 2008 U.S. Championships (which she won - to the surprise of everyone including herself). Thanks to a 5" growth spurt (from 4'11" in height to 5'4" in height), she placed a disappointing 5th in last year's competition and the joy and bubbling fun was gone from her skating. This year, she very wisely opined that she didn't expect to win, that she was at the competition to garner experience and that this wasn't her year. You could have fooled me and everyone else in the arena! What a fun, humorous, joyous program this young woman skated and what a truly wonderful young woman to have on our Olympic team! Congratulations.

Emily Hughes skated and everyone knows how little I think of her so 'nuff said. Suffice it to say - I'm glad we won't be seeing her again!

The ice dancing was won by Charlie Davis and Meryl White. They were brilliant and high energy in their programs although I am somewhat disturbed by the peculiar movements Meryl makes with her tongue and mouth before commencing their program and even during it! What is that tick, dear? It's annoying as hell. As always, Belbin and Agosto were first rate and the fact that they placed second means that we will be represented by two world class teams as well as up and comers Bates and Samuelson, our the third team!

All in all, it was a good competition and there was far less blundering around than one normally experiences. Everyone seems to be on top of their game, with the prospect of making the U.S. Olympic team out there. Good luck all of you. You deserve your selection to the Team and will make us proud! There were a couple of people there who perhaps showed up for the wrong reasons, including a neverending sense of entitlement (Hughes) but in the main, it was a great group of competitive skaters who had worked very very hard for 4 years to be good enough to make the Vancouver Olympics. We'll be rooting for all of you.

UPDATE: Mark Kerrigan, the brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan has been charged with assaulting their 70-year-old father, who died over the weekend after a disturbance at the family's Massachusetts home. I have to say, I've never been a fan of Nancy Kerrigan, but doesn't it seem that it rains on her parade far more frequently than it does on most?

U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS -
The Sasha Edition

Female skaters all around the world must be saying to themselves this morning, "Oh shit, she's back!" and with some new tricks up her sleeve. What Sasha Cohen now has that she has always lacked before is grit and determination. Last night in Spokane, she displayed an abundance of that quality in placing 2nd after the Short Program at the U.S. Figure Skating championships. It also marked the return of the most artistic skater on Planet Earth, perhaps the only female skater good enough to rival the transcendant YuNa Kim.

Sasha Cohen possesses a million dollar talent and the very best layback spin I've ever seen. Her grace and flexibility are without equal. And I'm sure, now that I've said all that, that Aunt Dora Rosenfeld is up there is heaven somewhere laughing at me because she always believed in Sasha Cohen when I criticized her! You were right, Aunt Dora. What can I say except, you were right!

Welcome back Sasha. You've been missed! And Aunt Dora - you are really missed!

GEORGE CLOONEY - YOU ARE AN IDIOT!

I know, I know, he's funny and charming and really really good looking and after all, his aunt was the beloved singer Rosemary Clooney!

Beyond all of that the man is a libertine, left-wing asshat and glory grabber. He tries to come across all serious and out to do good, when in fact, what he's really after is to do good to his own career. Self-promotion is his favorite game.

How much (besides time) is his big benefit for Haiti actually costing him? And will he, as he did not do with the 9/11 funds he raised, take responsibility for making sure the monies are spent as the givers intended? I seriously doubt that he understands, given his limited intelligence, even today what Bill O'Reilly was driving at when he dubbed him a pinhead. George Clooney raises huge amounts of money for charity based on his presence at the telethon and his charm and reputation. That makes it imperative that he assures us that the monies we give couldn't be better spent elsewhere.

Or is this a way for George Clooney and all the big time people who will be supporting his telethon to make themselves feel good about their actions, all the while giving little money and just a little bit of time? I notice that Sandra Bullock donated $1 million without a lot of fanfare. Even the beleagured Tiger Woods is giving a great deal of money through his foundation.

I'm just asking and you should ask questions as well. Don't allow yourself to be charmed into giving money to the Clooney Telethon when perhaps a gift to the Red Cross or other charity would be spending your money more wisely.

THE LULL DIDN'T LAST LONG!

The MSNBC crowd was momentarily stunned into silence by last night's election results. Even the tingle in little Chrissie Matthews leg temporarily abated! But they're back at their venomous commentary again today, with some pinheaded troll who works for Chrissie Matthews named Schuster to blather on about how stupid the conservative voters are. After all, we didn't attend the elite schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Penn. Of course, neither did Schuster (University of Michigan - it figures). As an alum of The Ohio State University, School of Journalism, I know that I cherish my time there, the people I met, the professors who taught me and the knowledge I gained. But then Mr. Schuster apparently doesn't believe that anyone with intelligence would attend a school that wasn't one of the "elites". Or University of Michigan which can boast of only a really good law school and a 2nd rate football team!

All of which might explain why he was so roundly criticized (and suspended) for the stupid, stupid comment he made about Chelsea Clinton. Yeah - he's THAT guy! He used to work for CNN, now he works for NBC - talk about a drop in status!

Mr. Schuster, you're a clear and shining example of the so-called "elite" media - brain dead, completely lacking in good judgment and altogether obnoxious. And yes, Mr. Schuster, I AM smarter than you are! I write better than you do and I think better than you do. So shut the hell up you unbelievably moronic troll!

CONGRATULATIONS TO SCOTT BROWN

"If it isn't close, they cannot cheat!" was rattling around in my brain all day yesterday. Apparently the Massachusetts Dems didn't get enough dead people to the polls yesterday or (more likely) the Massachusetts Independents and Republicans were fired up enough to make the margin of victory so huge that the cheating couldn't overcome it. Scott Brown has won the seat formerly occupied by the late Edward Moore Kennedy who must be doing twirlies in his grave over the loss!

Congratulations to people like Sissy Willis and her husband Tuck who put their full enthusiasm and effort into the campaign for the estimable Scott Brown and thus insured his victory.

Gas up the truck, Scott!

U.S. FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS - Part One

This past weekend, the pairs competed for spots on the U.S. Olympic Team, as did the men. The pairs final delivered an emotional punch that was unparalleled, and the men's final delivered technique, heart and perfection.

Denny and Barrett (if you don't know who they are - you will eventually) won the Pairs Championship in only their second year competing together. They represent a Florida figure skating club and train there. Methinks obscurity is serving them well. They were in first heading into the final and the general happenstance in those circumstances is that inexperienced teams either panic or have too much adrenalin and therefore perform poorly. Didn't happen to this team. Not even close. They were magnificent these two youngsters, skating with heart, skill AND joy! I hope they never lose that joy. It is heart-warming to watch. My best guess is that they will be really lucky to place in the top ten at the Olympics (although one never knows) and at the World Championships. But they are the future, and it is an exciting one.

Coming in second to them were Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig. They are excellent skaters with a magnificent future, but I don't see them finishing beyond the top ten. The perennial favorites John Baldwin Jr. and Rena Inoue went out with style and grace, skating an exceptional long program and even performing their ground-breaking throw-triple-axel (a jump nobody else is doing even today) at their advanced age (for skaters). He's 36, she's 33. Not bad for old geezers!

Now to the men: Jeremy Abbott defended his Men's Championship with a brilliant, near-perfect (minor minor glitches, if any) performance that included a quad, and seamless choreography. Evan Lysacek, current World Champion and current Grand Prix Champion probably lost the U.S. Championship due to his courage in attempting a quad at the outset of his program, which was brilliantly skated otherwise. Johnny Weir skated competently and in the short program, to use his own words, he "rocked the tassel" pretty aggressively. I just wish he wasn't so "affected" in his skating. Just put the moves out there, John. Your jumps and your spins are first rate. They don't require all the feathers, tassels and sequins to embellish them.

So there's half our team. The ice dancers and ladies will skate at the end of the week and through the weekend. The return of Sasha Cohen (she of the million dollar talent and the 25 cent heart) is much heralded and should take some of the pressure off out other ladies. But let's get real folks - YuNa Kim of South Korea is a force of nature with a brilliant coach and a first-rate work ethic, not to mention the heart of a lion. She'll be hard to beat at the Olympics!

PINHEADED TWERPS

So the UN's vehicles are driving around Port-Au-Prince, apparently just sightseeing but not passing out food or water to desperate people. And I didn't see this on Fox News. I saw it on CNN where they appeared to be sincerely puzzled by the UN's non-action! The French apparently haven't done squat diddly to assist in the relief efforts.

They both, however, find the time, energy and effrontery to criticize the U.S. for not doing enough!

Tell you what, you useless "gits" - why don't you use your oxygen to be helpful rather than criticize someone who is trying to do the job with which you should be helping. Wasn't Haiti French at one time?

Damn - it would serve them right if the U.N. were sent to Paris and off our soil. They deserve each other!

A REALLY GOOD REASON FOR MASSACHUSETTS CITIZENS TO VOTE FOR SCOTT BROWN

Does the name "Amirault" have any meaning for you? If it does, or even if it doesn't, anyone who reads Dorothy Rabinowitz's excellent recap of the case which details Martha Coakley's despicable behavior vis-a-vis the Amirault family cannot vote for Martha Coakley. The bogus prosecution and conviction which is still weighing down what remains of a once proud and successful family who had actually EARNED their success with hard work and dedication to their child care business - reading this breakdown of the shameful case will leave potential Massachusetts voters running screaming from the prospect of voting for such a dreadful creature as this case has proven Martha Coakley to be!

Read the article and make up your own mind. If given the opportunity, I would spend a lifetime voting AGAINST Martha Coakley!

RARE PRAISE FOR OUR PRESIDENT!

Rare, because it's coming from me. President Obama has moved swiftly and decisively in dealing with the devastation in Haiti. He has mobilized the military to provide medical assistance together with desperately needed food and water. And, he has made 2 brilliant appointments to coordinate the aid coming from this nation and so desperately needed by the Haitian people. President Obama has appointed George W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton to run the relief effort and I don't believe there was a better choice available. Both of them are compassionate men and both have experience in managing such an explosively difficult situation.

The people of Haiti are people who had very little to begin with, and now the earthquake and its aftermath (I've lived through aftershocks which are frequently far more unsettling than the initial quake, so trust me on this) have deprived them of what little they had.

In the meantime, with so many dead and the infrastructure so thoroughly destroyed, the danger of disease is also rampant. In addition to the link I have provided below, here is a link to the American Red Cross which is already on the ground and helping in the area. You don't have to give a lot - even $5 will help when joined with the contributions of others.

UPDATE: This will break your heart. It is a first hand report by someone living in Haiti who tried very hard to rescue some people on the day of the quake and the days thereafter. It will wrench out your heart and perhaps - just perhaps - pry loose a couple of quarters from your pocketbook!

HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE ASSISTANCE

It doesn't really matter whether you are a Republican, a Libertarian, or a Democrat - or a completely unaligned person politically, the people of Haiti don't really give a rat's eardrum! They are in dire straits at the moment and, as usual, "despicable" Americans are the ones rushing to the rescue of those less fortunate.

I went through a lot of earthquakes during the 20 years I lived in California and I can tell you that in the days and weeks to come, the aftershocks are going to cause enormous additional damage to both the infrastructure that has survived and the psyches of the people who live there. Any help we can give will be most welcome!

I highly recommend this organization because only a trifling amount of the donations they receive is used for anything other than serious charity. And they are already set up to funnel food and other kinds of help to Haiti - which is a bonus. I've made a donation today and encourage others to do so. No matter how crummy our economy is at the moment, these people have it far worse than we do! Far worse! God is watching us to see how we respond to these, the least of our human family. But don't do it for that reason. Do it because it's the proper thing to do!

You can also donate through Catholic Relief Services if that appeals to you. Even if you can only give a dollar or two, those all add up for people who have less than nothing!

NANCY PELOSI AND HARRY REID ARE BOTH DESPICABLE CRETINS!

Apparently shutting out nearly half the members of the House and Senate is Mrs. Pelosi's idea of "transparency" and "bipartisanship"! And Harry Reid is her butt boy on this one!

Democrats intend to employ an obscure tactic, informally known as "ping-pong," to shut Republicans out of the final negotiations and speed the bills toward completion. In "ping-pong" the legislation is bounced back and forth between the House and the Senate, controlled by just the Democratic leadership in each chamber and the White House, until a final agreement can be reached.

Go ahead. You two are going to be paying a heavy karmic price for your vicious and unprincipled behavior!

CSPAN CALLS OUT THE "BULLSHITTER IN CHIEF" ON A CAMPAIGN PROMISE

What Captain Moonbeam promised was complete transparency. Which isn't what we've received, thanks to the Botox Queen and Senator Cadaver!

CSpan is reminding our President that he promised that their cameras would be present and operational for all congressional debates and/or negotiations. Now, of course, he had no right to make that promise since he is not our RULER but rather an employee of the American people, just as our Senators and the members of the House of Representatives are employees of the American people in a SEPARATE BRANCH of the government that Czero doesn't control. On the other hand, all of them belong to the Democratic Party and you would think that they'd try to accommodate his wishes a little bit. Guess not, eh?

Our president bills himself as a "constitutional lawyer" - he's apparently a piss poor one!

UPDATE:

This howler from the Queen of all Botox! Talk about delusional.

"There has never been a more open process for any piece of legislation," Pelosi said at a press conference [about the health care reform bill].
But she also hinted that holding informal negotiations--likely without TV cameras--might be the most practical way to push the legislation through.
"We will do what is necessary to pass the bill," she said.

GIMME A BREAK!

I have always found the plaintive cry of "It's not fair!" to be both juvenile and naive. Now, we're hearing it from a nation that finds us discriminatory because we prefer not to have people from their nation board an airplane overseas and ignite themselves in order to make WAR on the United States of America - a sovereign nation with every right and obligation to protect its own borders and citizens.

ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria, home of the failed US plane bomber, Monday branded new security measures for passengers flying to the United States unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against its 150 million people.

The US government announced that travellers from 14 countries, including Nigeria, are to be subjected to extra checks including body pat-downs after a young Nigerian was accused of trying to blow up a US jet on Christmas Day.

But Nigeria's Information Minister Dora Akunyili said that Africa's most populous nation did not have a history of terrorism and such a move could not be justified.

"It is unfair to include Nigeria on the US list for tighter screening because Nigerians do not have terrorist tendencies," Akunyili told journalists.

I believe it was one of their nationals who attempted to incinerate his own BVDs on approach to Detroit's airport on the most solemn and sacred day of the Christian year! But hey, we should just let them batter us at will in order to remain "fair". My response to that is profane and unprintable!

START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT!

My parents always told me that I should start the New Year as I intended to continue - so I am honoring their instructions with this! And it is a worthwhile way to begin the year and today!

THE ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE
OF THE LIBERAL ELITES!

These moronic twits cannot possibly inhabit the same reality enjoyed by thee and me! They just cannot. They look at some demented Jihadist whose only goal in life is killing us because we are free, Christian or American and definitely not THEM and they actually feel sorry for the sons of bitches! Why? Because they started life so disadvantaged.

So what about the latest nutbar who wanted to incinerate an entire planeload of people over a city that already has big problems - Detroit, Michigan! He's a son of wealthy parents and was raised with all the finer things in life, well educated and generally pretty doggone privileged. He isn't some backwoods rube who believes what he believes because of cultural or physical deprivation. He's just freaking NUTS with hatred of our way of life! There's no reasoning with these people, there's no negotiation, there's no "coming together" with them. Their only aim in life is our destruction. Period. And by the way, just so we're clear, Osama Bin Laden, the biggest asshat of them all, is also a son of wealth and privilege!

The reason these people want to kill us is that they are CRAZY and they belong to a so-called religion of peace which is actually all about murder - of us! So let's quit being fatuous idiots and call them what they are - murdering lunatics who can only be stopped by killing them. We start showing these pieces of shit that we mean business and they'll back off right quick. Because at their most basic level, they are cowards - one and all. That's why they make war on the defenseless!

Wake up people. Start PROFILING these bastards and keep them off our planes! And out of our nation. Do we honestly want people living here who rape 2-1/2 year old little girls because her father wouldn't convert to Islam? Canada is giving these people asylum! Read about it here.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU IGNORANT BITCH!!

I had low expectations from Janet Napolitano when she opined that people like me, the backbone of America, were the real terror danger! She fears that we'll get on to her and her minions and run their happy asses down to Gitmo in perpetuity!

Well Ms. Napolitano, those free Americans who have consistently clung to their guns, their religion and their belief in the American dream are just about at tipping point and your assertion that "the system worked" on Christmas Day is just one more nail in your administration's coffin!

In the first place, the American TSA would not permit the kind of body scan in Amsterdam that would have kept that Muslim (not Nigerian, MUSLIM, you demented crone) off the Northwest flight headed to Detroit! Secondly, searching women like me - age 67, short spikey hair, round gormless Midwestern face - patriotic American citizen, native-born and practicing Catholic - is a waste of time and resources. Get those guys who are loudly speaking Arabic and testing us to see if we have the balls to keep them off our airplanes! PROFILE WENCH, PROFILE!

And just as an aside - the planners of this new threat were recently released from Guatanamo! Good reason to confound the liberal asshats and keep the place open, don't you think? Are you CAPABLE of thinking?

You're stupid, you're ignorant and you're clearly an anti-American tool! Buh-bye! Your Lord and Master, Herr Czero, will be flinging you under the bus any day now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

There are people out there in the world who seek to reconcile the differences between their theological beliefs and our own by way of murder (of us) and that's not going to change any time soon. Treating these incursions as police matters, instead of the acts of war that they truly are isn't going to do us any good either!

There have been several recent "testings" of airport security and, predictably, most of those threats were met with spineless wimpiness by our corporate and public officials who made quite a point of appeasing these Islamofascist murderous thugs! It was then left to ordinary passengers (on Christmas Day of all days) to show the savage cretins that we don't just genuflect to any radical religious nutbar but rather, prevent them from doing whatever nasty business they are planning to do to us.

The assumption of the Islamist loon crowd is that we are too weak, too cowardly to stand up for ourselves and our nation. That would be a very stupid assumption with which to continue to live what's left of your worthless lives!

I have said before, I have absolute faith in MOST of the American people. I have faith in my own courage; I have faith in the courage of others. We will defend our nation. We will, in fact, fulfill the pledge and vow our public officials took and are now ignoring. We will, in fact, preserve, protect and defend the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic!

Can I ask a question? Who decided that profiling is WRONG? I don't happen to believe that!

OH NO, SHE DIDN'T SAY THAT!

Janet Napolitano, Dept. of Homeland Security's resident idiot, was actually quoted as saying that "The system worked!" in the case of the would-be bomber of the Northwest flight into Detroit.

Bullshit you ignorant crone! What worked is an alert citizen stopping that loon from murdering a planeload of people! What else can we do? Our so-called leadership is busy searching little old grey haired ladies rather than Islamists who are part of a religion that wishes us and our nation ill!

What part of "They want to KILL US!" do you morons not understand? Dear merciful heavens! God has to protect us. The government that has sworn to "preserve, protect and defend" certainly isn't making any effort to do so.

THEY JUST AREN'T WORTH THE ANGST!

Our beloved liberal idiot legislators and "leaders" are stone idiots who have insisted, with their heads firmly implanted in the sand (or up their asses) that because we're joining hands and singing "Kumbaya" that we are safe from any kind of threat from Islamofascist murderers! Well, on Christmas Day a plane bound for Detroit sure found out the contrary thanks to one nutbar who got past the no-doubt slack scrutiny of the powers that be (under a slack and idiotic president whose staff didn't even tell him until three hours after the fact that this infamy was taking place - imagine if his name had been Bush instead of Obama - what wailing and gnashing of teeth we'd have heard) and onto an airplane bound into this country! He was on BRITAIN's terror watch list, but not ours! How does that happen?

I don't intend to fly any time soon and, if I did, I would object to being scrutinized closely by the TSA instead of some Islamic type. Yes, I DO believe in profiling - my question is WHY DON'T YOU?

REP. ALAN GRAYSON IS A HORSE'S DERRIERE!

Or full of whatever emanates from one, at least! This ridiculous creature feels perfectly free in labeling a young woman he has never met as a "K Street whore" but is offended when a Florida woman starts a website that opines he is crazy! Whatever happened to freedom of speech, Congressman Grayson? Are you THAT thin-skinned? Are you a bully who can dish it out but cannot take it? Ahhhh - now we're zeroing in on reality with you, you droopy-drawered piss poor excuse for a human being!

You want a woman who is exercising her right of free speech to be jailed for criticizing you. What horse feathers! You are completely fair game Congressman. You are one of 535 members of the House of Representatives who have done precious little good and a whole load of BAD during this current legislative session. You should have your heinie spanked good and proper for your offensive and amateurish behavior during your time in office. I'd be happy to do it were it not that I suspect you'd enjoy it!

SO THE SLUTS IN THE SENATE ARE
STILL HARD AT IT!

They haven't really passed a definitive health care bill as yet and are trying to have the Senate's version pass on Christmas Eve because funding the murder of the unborn is just such a Christmasy thing to do! And do not think for one minute that, however much those lying sacks of excrement swear to the contrary, abortion isn't on the table, along with the souls of those Senator willing to establish a price for their whoredom in full view of the voting public. Do I sound like my Christmas spirit is somehow deficient? It is - and it's because those brainless, spineless creatures in the Senate and the House are selling America and Americans down the river and not out of conviction (although a great many of them ought to be convicted - starting with Charlie Rangel), but just out of greed and avarice. So to Senators Landrieu, Nelson, Dodd and Lieberman - screw you! You have committed what is, in my opinion, treason and ought to be impeached! Then tried, convicted and jailed. Then tarred and feathered and ridden out of town - in January cold - on a rail!

FROM THE "WHO GIVES A SHIT" LIST IN MY HEAD!

This son-of-a-bitch killed 14 good Americans! I only wish that the policeman who stopped his rampage had had better aim!

Attorney John P. Galligan said police stopped a phone conversation between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and one of his brothers Friday because it was not in English. Galligan told the San Antonio Express-News on Monday that police at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio refused to let Hasan pray in Arabic from the Quran with his brother.

The attorney says he thinks that's illegal and violation of religious rights.

Aw, shut the hell up Galligan! How do you KNOW they were praying? Because your scumbag client told you so? How credulous can one man be? Your client is lucky to be alive, unlike the 14 hapless and PATRIOTIC Americans he murdered in cold blood. Don't expect sympathy for him from anyone who cares about this country. He was born here and used taxpayer [my] money to get a first-class education, one that I could not afford, and then he repays our generosity in this way. And don't try that "diminished capacity" crap either - he's a terrorist, plain and simple! He should burn in hell for all eternity but that isn't my sentence to impose, it's God's! The one who said, quite clearly, "Thou shalt not kill" and meant it!

DID THEY SELL THEIR SOULS TOO?

The shameful and absolutely unabashed selling of their votes to pass an abysmal so-called health care package that provides neither health nor care to its consumers, the American public is a new low and perhaps the tipping point in our great national debate of left v. right. I actually had some respect for Nelson, Lieberman et al. before they put their integrity and their votes up for bids, quite shamelessly and publicly!

Meanwhile, according to at least one Dem, anyone who opposes anything the Dems choose to do, be it constitutional or not is - well read it yourself!

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation. During a floor speech, he excoriated Senate GOP members for up holding the pending health care bill and accused their supporters of being birthers and fanatics in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. He started off by citing an editorial from the Manchester Journal Inquirer, which used insults like "lunatic fringe."

Senator Whitehouse - you are, in my opinion, a complete horse's ass and should be thrashed by any one of your colleagues for insulting the representatives of 40% of your nation's population!

Apparently the Dems aren't interested in being returned to office in 2010! They are so completely ready, willing and anxious to insult the population of this country that yes, DOES question their patriotism!

UPDATE: I always knew what they were - we've just settled upon their PRICE! About Chris Dodd and Landrieu I'm not surprised. But I honestly thought that Lieberman and Nelson had one or two principles!

WHAT PART OF INTERNATIONAL TREATY DO THEY NOT UNDERSTAND?

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday delayed the return of a 9-year-old boy to his U.S. father only hours after the man arrived from New Jersey in hopes of taking the boy home for Christmas.

David Goldman's son, Sean, was kidnapped five years ago by his then-wife and taken to Brazil where she then divorced Mr. Goldman and subsequently married another man. She died giving birth to her second child, a daughter! Mr. Goldman was, even then, attempting to get his son back. Since then, her widower, a man with no blood relationship or claim to Sean Goldman, has been blocking David Goldman's wholly legal access to his son with the aid of the Brazilian court system.

Brazil is a signatory to an international treaty which specifically states that in the cases of parental abduction, the child is to be returned to the custodial parent immediately and in the past five years, Brazil has done everything in its power to keep a father and son separated - not even permitting Mr. Goldman to SEE his son except on a limited basis.

To his credit, President Obama has been putting pressure on Brazil to give Sean Goldman back to his father, along with the U.S. Congress and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have all urged the child's return, and a U.S. congressman traveled to Rio on Thursday to continue lobbying for Sean's return.

Brazil - quit crapping around and behaving like a third-world thugocracy. Allow Sean Goldman to return to the United States with his father David Goldman. Enough with permitting Sean's Brazilian grandparents and his mother's former husband to treat the biological father of Sean Goldman as though he has no rights to his own son. That's bullshit, any way you slice it and all of you should be ashamed of yourselves!

UPDATE: Brazilian grandparents ordered to turn the child over to his father!

Both the U.S. and Brazilian governments have said the matter clearly fell under the Hague Convention, which seeks to ensure that custody decisions are made by the courts in the country where a child originally lived — in this case, the United States.

Silvana Bianchi, Sean's maternal grandmother, wrote an open letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva just hours before the Tuesday ruling, in which she said cultural differences and international pressure were driving the case.

"Our moral foundation values the mother's role. In the absence of the mother, the raising should be done by the grandmother," she wrote. "That's how it's done in Brazil, from north to south, regardless of race, religion or social class. It's natural that foreigners, with a different foundation, would not understand these authentically Brazilian feelings." (Does the old biddy understand International Law? and is she suggesting that her family's money and influence is more weighty than a father's right to raise his own son?)

Meanwhile, Goldman has said his parents and other relatives have been waiting for years to be reunited with Sean.

Silva has said he would not intervene in the case, that it was purely a matter for Brazil's legal system.

(Actually, it’s a matter for international law and U.S. law, whether the Brazilians like it or not! Authentically Brazilian feelings are apparently to disregard and disrespect a child’s legal parent!)

UPDATE #2: Sean Goldman is now in the United States with his father. This is a good thing. It will take a while for the wounds inflicted by the selfishness of Sean's mother and the unbelievably insensitive behavior of his stepfather and his grandparents to be healed. Meanwhile, negotiations are underway to arrange for the Brazilian grandparents to visit Sean.

It is commendable that David Goldman does not intend to do to them what was done to him! I applaud him for his decency and concern that his son continue to know his maternal grandparents through the years. But David - make sure they never get their hot little hands on Sean's passport and make sure that their visits are always supervised!

UPDATE #3: In a statement dripping with effrontery and arrogance, the Brazilian grandparents of 9 year old Sean Goldman have now announced that they are going to continue the fight to remove Sean Goldman from his father's care and custody and return him to the custody of his grandparents in Brazil - the same grandparents who wouldn't even permit David Goldman to see his own son during their entire five-year separation. What kind of evil people are these? Please do not tell me they are loving grandparents. The father of this child is the truly loving one - he is willing to allow Sean to spend time with his grandparents - granted under supervision and in his own home here in the U.S. But here is the statement from the attorney for the grandparents:

SAO PAULO – The Brazilian family of a 9-year-old boy returned by court order to his U.S. father said Tuesday it will fight to regain custody.

Lawyers for the relatives of Sean Goldman said they will push forward with a request from his Brazilian grandmother to allow the boy to make his own wishes known in court.

Nine-year old boys are not permitted to express their wishes! And the longer it takes for the grandparents to get this kid into court, the less effective will be the brainwashing they have inflicted on him. This is not love, this is child abuse!

MARCO RUBIO IS TIED WITH CHARLIE CRIST IN FLORIDA!

For those of us who do not consider Charlie Crist to be the ideal candidate for any office, this is great news. Everything I know or have read about Marco Rubio leads me to believe that this fine, Cuban-American gentleman is exactly what the Senate and the people of Florida need. And now to the great shock of all - even the pollster - Rasmussen is showing that Rubio and Crist are in a dead heat! THAT is stunning.

In the first place, it has long been my opinion that our Americans of Cuban ancestry are the most vibrant and energetic contributors to the health of our conservative culture. In the second place, Charlie Crist is one of those RINO types who don't really represent the Republican Party to which he putatively belongs. I also feel that he is a sycophant and a dissembler of the first water!

Granted, I live in Virginia so it isn't really my call, but come on - the future of American legislative politics IS at the top of this post! And it doesn't look half bad, does it?

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Y'ALL!

And God bless us, everyone of us! Especially God bless the leftwing loons who are doing all they can possibly do to destroy this beautiful country. They need all the blessings they can get.

God bless Barack and Michelle Obama. Two of the most ill-prepared and incompetent humans ever to occupy the White House, surpassing only James Earl Carter, Jr. in lack of intelligence and class! I believe that the occupant of the Oval Office is a man with deeply seated feelings of displacement and disconnection from normal humans, and an absurdly elevated idea of his own importance and capabilities. Here's the memo, Mr. President. You are just an ordinary human, like the rest of us. You are also NOT our ruler, but rather our SERVANT and EMPLOYEE. I pray that his naive arrogance and her bitter disdain for our nation are both ameliorated by the love of God throughout this blessed season and throughout the coming year 2010. May the Holy Spirit visit their hearts and bring them peace and joy.

God bless Michelle Duggar and her husband Jim Bob or whateverinhell he's called, the randy s.o.b. who has kept her pregnant almost nonstop throughout their marriage. She just gave birth to her 19th child, a little girl who was months premature! What part of "keep your dick holstered you hound" does this man not understand? Yes, God wants us to be fruitful and multiply. But there's fruitful and then there is ridiculous. The Duggars are now in the realm of ridiculous, not to mention life-threatening danger to Michelle. Who, by the way, I find myself disliking - the long hair to her waist and the little girl, breathy voice. I always get the feeling with these endlessly pious Christian women that there is something rotten lurking under the surface. Call me a cynic; you'd be correct.

God bless Tiger Woods and his wife Elin. May their lives return to some semblance of order sometime soon, if only for the sake of those two beautiful little children of theirs. Tiger, my advice to JimBob Duggar applies to you as well. You took vows. Be prepared to keep them. Humble yourself before the woman you have offended so grievously. You may yet salvage your dignity and reputation, if not your marriage.

Left-wing loons of the chattering classes (Garofolo, Olbermann, Joy Behar, Chrissie Matthews) - just shut the hell up already! None of you knows what you're talking about and you display your ignorance so proudly! Does any of you have the ability to self-evaluate and realize that you are embarrassing yourselves? Boneheaded, mean-spirited dopey haters all of you!

I survived numerous health challenges during 2009 and am heading into 2010 with joy in my heart and hopes for the future. I wish the same joy and hope to all of you and will suspend blogging until 2010!

From me and from Sam the Wonder Cat (who has taken to sleeping at the end of the couch, on his back, with all 4 paws sticking straight up - what a beloved dweeb), all love and prayers for the coming Holidays and New Year.

OUR FAVORITE WINDBAG BLOVIATES!

And no, I'm not referring to Bill O'Reilly, although heaven knows he qualifies. Does he even listen to people when they're speaking or is he so enthralled with his own self-perceived brilliance that he's busy formulating his next interruption or snide remark?

However, the windbag to whom I refer is one "Plugs" Biden, vice president of the United States, who has pronounced that:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If the U.S. Congress fails to agree on a healthcare bill soon, the opportunity for a sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 trillion system will be lost for a generation, Vice President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday.

Biden was speaking just hours before Democratic lawmakers were to meet at the White House with President Barack Obama, who is pressing them to reach agreement and pass a bill on his signature domestic policy issue.

Obama has invested much of his political capital in trying to get the Democratic-controlled Congress to pass a healthcare bill by the end of the year. The bill has been passed by the House of Representatives, but Democrats have struggled to win the 60 votes they need in the Senate.

From your mouth to God's ear, Vice President "Rosary Joe" Biden. The healthcare reforms being considered in both the house and the Senate are egregiously flawed and don't deserve to see the light of day - or the acquiesence of our erstwhile President!

And just as an afterthought, God is truly great and good, Vice President Biden. It's the only explanation for how one with your limited intellectual abilities was able to rise to such a lofty office!

UPDATE: Over at Contentions, Jennifer Rubin has an excellent take on the matter!

I AM SICK TO DEATH OF HEARING ABOUT TIGER WOODS' PECADILLOS!

I am likewise tired of the speculation about what his wife, Elin, plans to do about his philandering. She has two small children to think about and by the way National Enquirer, you aren't making her job any easier!

Whether or not the family or just Elin and the two children retire to the house in Sweden for six months, I don't CARE! Whether Elin decides to continue in the marriage, I don't CARE! Whether or not Tiger has been taking performance enhancing drugs, I don't CARE! I want one day to pass without hearing about this athlete's self-indulgent, self-involved behavior and I DON'T want to hear about the 14 skanks who are trying for their 15-minutes of fame by claiming to have slept with him. You knew the man was married so what's your beef. You behaved in a slutty manner and now you want to make money from it? There's a name for women who make money from sexual behavior! Don't be so freaking proud of yourselves, bimbos!

I am not interested in the slightest about whether or not Tiger Woods is a cheapskate, non-tipping piece of excrement! I don't CARE! Golf is a game, people, not the mover and shaker of the world. It's a GAME!

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A WORLD FREE OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TIGER WOODS!

CLIMATE OF HATRED? REALLY?

I guess nobody should be surprised that the Italian general population and their news media are reacting with shock and dismay to the attack by a mentally disturbed man on their prime minister Berlusconi as he was signing autographs in a cathedral over the weekend. In a cathedral? Really? How deeply inappropriate!

ROME (Reuters) – Italians asked on Monday if an ugly assault on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was prompted by a "climate of hatred" splitting their nation and commentators said a wave of sympathy looked set to boost his political fortunes.

Berlusconi was hospitalized on Sunday with broken teeth, a fractured nose and a scarred face after a man with a history of mental problems hurled a statuette of Milan's cathedral at him as he signed autographs after a political rally.

A medical bulletin said on Monday there were no big worries about Berlusconi's condition but that he would stay in hospital at least until Tuesday because he was complaining sharp pains in the head and face and had lost about a liter of blood.

Sr. Berlusconi claims to be a devout Catholic despite multiple marriages and very public liaisons and now he is attacked signing autographs in a cathedral. Excuse me if I opine that the so-called climate of hatred is directed more toward his utterly inappropriate behavior and far less toward an atmosphere of political hatred.

The man is a pig. A public pig. He has directed completely inappropriate and vicious language and attitudes toward Pope Benedict and behaved in a manner that is in flagrant violation of both Church and Italian law. Sympathy for this cretin? I think not. But then, these are Italians! So what can one expect? A beautiful country filled with beautiful people, food and wine, and not exactly overly endowed with backbones.

REALLY? HE'S GOING TO VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION AGAIN - Isn't that an impeachable offense?!

Our president, Captain Moonbeam, is actually planning to accept the Noble Peace Prize - an award to which he is hardly entitled and an award, the acceptance of which is specifically interdicted by our Constitution. But hey, why deal in trivialities like the Constitution when you're the savior of the free world? Right? Yeah, well, not so much.

Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, the emolument clause, clearly stipulates: "And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."

An opinion of the U.S. attorney general advised, in 1902, that "a simple remembrance," even "if merely a photograph, falls under the inclusion of 'any present of any kind whatever.' " President Clinton's Office of Legal Counsel, in 1993, reaffirmed the 1902 opinion, and explained that the text of the clause does not limit "its application solely to foreign governments acting as sovereigns." This opinion went on to say that the emolument clause applies even when the foreign government acts through instrumentalities. Thus the Nobel Prize is an emolument, and a foreign one to boot.

Second, the president has indicated that he will give the prize money to charity, but that does not solve his legal problem. Giving that $1.4 million to a charity could give him a deduction that would reduce his income taxes by $500,000 -- not a nominal amount. Moreover, the money is not his to give away. It belongs to the United States: A federal statute provides that if the president accepts a "tangible or intangible present" for more than a minimal value from any foreign government, the gift "shall become the property of the United States."

So he's accepting an award from a foreign government (i) to which he is not entitled, (ii) the acceptance of which is clearly unconstitutional and (iii) monies which he is accepting and then donating to charity - monies that are not his to give away since they belong to the U.S. Treasury!

Didn't our president advertise himself as a "constitutional lawyer" during the campaign. Surely he knows he is committing clearly impeachable offenses here. Or does he even care?

BATSHIT CRAZY - PART TROIS!

Ahmadinejad - the utterly demented, babbling idiot who is the president of Iran, made the following comments recently (see post below):

“We have documented proof that they believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world,” Ahmadinejad said during a speech on Monday, according to Al Arabiya."

First, you moronic piece of camel excrement, let's see your documented proof. Secondly, what he calls "injustice" is actually the result of poor governance, complete lack of work ethic and a desire to have handed to you all that others have produced with their hard work and dedication.

I'm truly surprised that when we see this poor excuse for a human speaking, his eyes aren't spinning counterclockwise. He's just that crazy! And possibly with nuclear weapons at his disposal. Now THAT is truly batshit crazy!

BATSHIT CRAZY - PART DEUX

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims the United States is attempting to thwart the return of mankind's savior, according to reports from Al Arabiya, a television news station based in Dubai.

Ahmadinejad reportedly claims he has documented evidence that the U.S. is blocking the return of Mahdi, the Imam believed by Muslims to be the savior.

“We have documented proof that they believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world,” Ahmadinejad said during a speech on Monday, according to Al Arabiya.

"They have devised all these plans to prevent the coming of the Hidden Imam because they know that the Iranian nation is the one that will prepare the grounds for his coming and will be the supporters of his rule," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.

Mind you there have been reports over the past few years that Ahmadinejad believes himself to be the Hidden Imam so he isn't even making any sense. Either he's already here (in a manner of speaking) or he isn't. Just more proof that this man is a psychotic, loopy-dee-loop nutbar! With his finger on a possible nuclear trigger! If you aren't scared, you should be.

THE OLYMPICS HAPPEN IN FEBRUARY 2010 IN VANCOUVER!

So here's the deal. I made my first predictions several months ago and, at the time, thought I was waltzing way out on a very shaky limb. Now I think I've pretty much figured it out!
Figure Skating:
Women's Singles: Yu Na Kim, South Korea (also in the mix, Rachael Flatt and Alissa Czizny of the U.S.)
Men's Singles: Yvgeni Plushenko, Russia (Nobunari Oda of Japan and Evan Lysacek of the U.S. also on the podium)
Ice Dancing: United States (either Belbin and Agosto or White and Davis), Canada (Moir and Virtue) or Russia. This is way too close to call!
Pairs: Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao of China - in a sprint away from the others, with Pang and Tong of China and Szalkowy and Savchenko of Germany also figuring in the mix.

Hold me to these predictions kids. Barring injuries, I very much believe that these are about as accurate as any handicapping coming out of Vegas!

GRAND PRIX FINAL - JAPAN

True to my predictions, Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao won the pairs final at the Grand Prix competition in Japan over the weekend. They are platinum in a field of lead! They command the ice with joy and passion in a way that no other contemporaneous skaters are able to do! In short, they are mind-boggling and remarkable in every way. Total champions of the heart and the technique which is impeccable. Even the current world champions from Germany were pale by comparison and they are magnificent skaters themselves! I'm not all that impressed with the other Chinese pairs teams as they strike me as still being somewhat sloppy in their presentation - but Shen and Zhao are brilliant by anyone's measure.

In the ladies free, Yu Na Kim halted her brief and totally expectable slide from perfection at 2 performances and won the final handily. All she did with those 2 losses is prove she is human! Evan Lysacek skated extremely well to win the Men's title while Charlie White and Meryl Davis gave the United States an unprecedented win in Ice Dancing. Johnny Weir skated well in the men's final. I will withhold my rants until after I'm done with Mr. Lysacek.

Okay, Evan, what's with the freaking five o'clock shadow and the greasy hair? I realize you need to show that you're using your upper body in the step sequences, but is the endless arm waving and flapping really necessary? You look ridiculous. That asinine snake on your costume isn't well taken either.

Now on to Mr. Weir. He is frail - both emotionally and intellectually. Having barely managed to win third place in the final, he was predicting that he will beat Mr. Lysacek (who won the competition) at the U.S. Nationals - in other words he expects (or says he does) to defeat the reigning World Champion and the reigning Grand Prix champion in just 8 weeks' time. Mr. Weir, it's called Mens skating - you are a boy and an immature one at that. You are so busy taking yourself oh-so seriously and paying assiduous attention to your sequins and feathers and other fripperies that you cannot even begin to realize that Evan Lysacek is a MAN and a powerful one at that on the ice. Don't kid yourself. You aren't up to defeating either Evan Lysacek or Yvgeni Plushenko in a direct competition which is what the Olympics will be. So quit running your mouth. You've finally managed to skate two relatively clean programs for the first time in 18 months and now you think you're ready to defeat the world? Talk about hubris! And get a haircut instead of going out on the ice with that scrambled and untidy mop on top of your head!

I must give a kudo to the ice dancers and the other women skaters who had clean skate laces and roots that matched their ends this time! It's about time that they started showing respect for themselves as world class athletes and for their sport and the occasion!

THE WHITE HOUSE PARTY
CRASHER SCANDAL CONTINUES TO RAGE!

The matter of the Salahis insinuating themselves onto the White House grounds for the State Dinner being given by President and Mrs. Obama for the Prime Minister of India continues to exercise Congress - as it should. I don't like our current White House occupant but I for damned sure don't want anything untoward to happen to him either! Nor do I want his wife and daughters to be endangered in any way by the bad behavior or carelessness of others. Despite the Salahis breezy assertion that they've already talked to the Secret Service, the brass balls required to tell the U.S. Congress to go take a hike is exactly the same kind of brass balls needed to crash a White House State Dinner.

The latest fusillade of childish rhetoric has been (naturally) participated in by Robert Gibbs, the unbearably smug little twerp who is serving as White House Press Secretary and April Ryan of American Urban Radio, in which Gibbs essentially compared Ryan to a petulant child. Ryan said that Desiree Rogers had overstepped the traditional role of her title at the event to become the "belle of the ball," thus "overshadowing the first lady." Frustrated by Ryan's tabloid-y line of questioning, Gibbs instructed her to "calm down" and to take a deep breath," adding "I do this with my son and that's what happens." The smarmy and offensively condescending Gibbs is displaying none of the tact and patience exhibited by predecessors - although it must be said that the White House Press Corps is an unruly bunch, seldom amenable to being kept "on message" much as the White House would like them to do so.

It is my belief that the Obama White House, like the Clinton White House, is staffed with childish and immature people who see only their own self-aggrandizement and have no thought for their responsibilities to the president, his family and the nation that pays their salaries! It is my further belief that Robert Gibbs is a horse's patoot! In spades!

QUESTION OF THE DAY

In view of the Flight 297 situation several weeks ago, would you be willing to board an airplane that was also being boarded by a bunch of men who look like they've hit the white sale at Macy's?

Personally I would rather WALK than get on the same plane with these bozos - even one bozo - and I don't walk all that well.

What's your opinion?

GRAND PRIX FINAL - PAIRS

There are pairs skaters - and then there is Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao! This married couple has come back after being off the competitive circuit for nearly 3 years and they haven't missed a beat. They are the gold standard when it comes to pairs skating and in the short program at the Grand Prix Final in Japan - they set a new record for a pairs short program! They were so incredibly good and skated with such evident joy that I was moved to tears!

If you get a chance to watch any figure skating over the next few days - try to get a glimpse of these two luminous and brilliant skaters from China. I am betting on them to win Gold in Vancouver!

THOUGHT FOR A THURSDAY

Thanks to our out-of-control lunatics in Congress, led by Madame Pelosi and Harry "The Cadaver" Reid and encouraged and abetted by Captain Czero the current occupant of the White House - our one nation, under God is in serious trouble.

So what do we do?

First, we must inundate our elected representatives (who think they are the bosses of us) with letters reminding them that 33% of the Senate and ALL of the House is up for re-election in 2010 and that they will not receive our votes should they pass into law that egregiously flawed health care reform bill currently under consideration, or should they romp further down the road to socialism - a philosophy on which this country was not founded. We need to take back OUR government and carefully think out the transformative measures required to return us to our proper philosophical pathway, completely respecting of the U.S. Constitution which the current powers that be are treating as a set of suggestions rather than settled governing law.

Second, we need to resist in every way we can, the federal incursions onto our liberty. Don't let those bozos abrogate our rights under the 1st or 2nd Amendments. Give only the most basic of information to those intrusive census takers or - better yet - just don't ever be "at home" when they come around. Continue the Tea Parties up to and including 7/4/2010. Don't stop reminding these dimwitted ignoramuses (?) that WE the people don't like what they're doing one little bit. Contribute money to the candidate seeking to defeat Harry Reid. Send money to San Fran Nan's opponent. Continue to believe, as I do, that nobody is absolutely ENTRENCHED.

There is hope, there is a remedy - if only we believe in ourselves, our nation and our fellow citizens.

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH (WHICH ELECTRIFIED THE CADETS AT WEST POINT)!

I was under the impression that our president was an electrifying speaker. So why did his address to the nation vis-a-vis Afghanistan succeed primarily in putting the cadet corps into a coma?

I watched part of the speech and it had the same effect on me. But then again, I'm 67 years old and afflicted with sleep apnea!

What I got from his speech is that (a) it's all President Bush's fault, (b) he's only going to give General McChrystal (President Obama's handpicked general) 75% of what he requested in terms of additional troops, (c) it's all President Bush's fault, and (d) we have a definite withdrawal date (in much the same way that we had a definite close-down date for Gitmo).

My assessment of last night's speech? Blah-blah-blah! Nothing new here; more along!

WE ALL KNOW WHAT CRAWLS OUT OF THE WOODWORK!

Maggots and slime and all manner of nasty pests can be found in the woodwork - particularly in the case of the Tiger Woods saga. Suddenly this intensely private man is having his personal business bruited all about the Internet and people who should know better are speculating on what happened over Thanksgiving weekend, even though the Florida State Police have already closed the case.

Here's the deal - I absolutely do not believe in unfaithfulness within a marriage. I think you take vows and that's that! You live up to those vows. Period. However, it is not my place to tell Tiger Woods how to live his life and I sure as hell don't need to have any respect for those cretinous bimbos who are suddenly stepping forward claiming to have had a "relationship" (Gadzooks I am starting to hate that word!) with the finest golfer of his generation. Maybe all they did was say "hello" to him at a business function or maybe they did do the horizontal mambo with Mr. Woods. I don't know and frankly, I don't CARE!

Sit down, go away and shut the hell up you self-promoting clowns! It should purely be a matter between Mr. Woods and his WIFE. Nobody else. Let them work out their marital situation as best they can for the sake of their two little children.

DOES LITTLE CHRISSIE MATTHEWS EVER
THINK BEFORE HE SPEAKS?

My guess is "no", given the nonsense that pours out of his ignorant piehole! The latest (And could MSNBC sink any lower?) from the mouth of Matthews, when he referred to West Point as an "enemy camp" and wondered why the COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the U.S. military would go to such a place to make a speech.

Have the tingles up this tool's legs finally rendered him incapable of coherent thought? The fact that he is free to spout such foolishness is the result of the vigilance of our military who protect not only those of us who value and love our country but also idiots like Matthews who possess the IQ of a kumquat!

When, oh when, dear Lord will we be delivered from this moronic twit and his deeply stupid commentary? My sister's pit bull Zeus makes more sense! And is a great deal more likable.

PARTY CRASHERS, TIGER WOODS AND ALL THAT JAZZ!

So apparently a pair of socialite wannabes managed to either crash the State Dinner last Tuesday (a rude act at the very least, possibly an actionable national security breach at the other end of the scale) or show up without an invitation in hand or anywhere in evidence. Trust me, if they had an invite, they'd have shown it by now. The President is - reportedly - absolutely furious and he has every right to be. It's seldom that I agree with President Obama but on this score he is absolutely correct to be angry. Michelle Obama is also absolutely within her right to be steaming angry as well. Her family's security and safety were at risk when a combination of stupid mistakes by various people allowed these fame whores to crash a State Dinner in honor of the president of India! Michaele and Tareq Salahi reportedly wished to be included in Bravo's "Real Housewives of D.C." program and were using this as their entree. Dear merciful heavens, have we now completely blurred the line between reality TV and reality? Whatever their motivation, their "crashing" of the State Dinner was rude, unconscionable and downright dangerous!

Tiger Woods crashed his Escalade just outside his home in Florida. I think he's being somewhat foolish in not talking to the authorities about what happened. I also think it is none of anyone's business what happened if no crime was involved. It was an accident. He was injured. That's the end of it. Let's not use this accident as an opportunity to smear one of the truly great athletes AND gentlemen of this decade with unfounded and scurrilous rumors. It's just not right.

We are too much up in other people's business these days. We need to step back, take a deep breath and mind our own more thoroughly instead of being sanctimonious inquisitors of people we don't even know. I don't give a rat's eardrum if Brad and Angelina have differing political views. I don't CARE if Jennifer Anniston is getting laid. I don't have the slightest desire to hear about what Jon and Kate Gosselin (a pair of despicable creatures both) are up to except that I hope someone is looking out for the welfare of those 8 chidlren. I don't really care one way or the other if the President is having sex with his own wife. It isn't any of MY BUSINESS. The only reason that Bill Clinton's liaison with a slightly overweight yenta the same age as his daughter was that he freaking LIED ABOUT IT TO A FEDERAL GRAND JURY. That's a whole different thing. Tiger Woods doesn't owe me an explanation, even if he was having a domestic with his wife! As long as he's okay and nobody else got injured - the hell with it.

We're a nation of people who whisper in corners - and it's demeaning to us all as a culture. Five days off work gave me time to really think about it.

(And the fact that my eyesight was unaffected by the April 2009 stroke I suffered was the best news I could have gotten from my lengthy visit to the eye doctor yesterday - seriously, 3 HOURS?)