You Tube report, we decide.

Conspiracy theories are a lot of fun. From the second shooter in Dallas to reports that The ONE was born in Kenya and is not a United States citizen and therefore is ineligible to be the First African American President of the United States, they run the spectrum of political views. Most such theories are crap but they serve a purpose. For while sometimes a New Mexican weather balloon is just a weather balloon, there are occasions when what is reported as truth is nowhere near reality. Conspiracy theorists keep us on our toes and help remind us to question everything.

In these days when the main stream media has surrendered its mantle of investigative journalism to become the town crier for the current administration, we all need to seek alternative sources for conflicting and often truthful reporting. With reports indicating that a large percentage of young adults are getting their national news from John Stewart and Stephen Colbert it is no surprise Press Secretary Gibbs feels the need to try his hand at stand up on a regular basis. He must be pretty good at it. He has seasoned journalists rolling in the aisles to a point where they are incapable of asking a probing question regarding the unprecedented rate at which the government is putting its grimy fingers in to every aspect of our lives. That guy from Harold and Kumar must be doing a bang up job behind the scenes slipping Gibbs little throw off lines.

I’ve long been concerned over the rumored revival of the so called fairness doctrine; also known as the Hush Rush bill. This piece of unconstitutional legislation would demand equal time for both sides of an issue on talk radio shows. Forget the fact the most Sunday news shows tend to be stacked three and four to one, Liberal versus Conservative. In the case of This Week with little George that ratio is only fair considering the resident right thinker there is the sage George Will. I think they might want to get a few more minds on the left to even the playing field.

About this time some of you will be shouting, “what about Fox News”. Ok, I will give you that one. To paraphrase the aforementioned Mr. Will, Fox News seems to be singled out because it is like a discordant chord in an otherwise harmonious symphony. When every other news outlet speaks in terms so sycophantic that their teleprompters have the seal of the White House on them, Fox sticks out like a straight guy at one of Sanjaya’s house parties. With odds like that, you’d think the fairness doctrine would ease some of the conservative laryngitis by providing a cough drop of balance. Unfortunately, the control of this fairness will not lie in the opinions of a free market but in the biased prism of a government official. This won’t be good.

Where hope springs eternal, evidence that no matter what our government decides, the will of the people will win out. Case in point: Iran. News reporters were asked to leave the country when protests started in the wake of the recent election of the Players club jacket guy who hates Jews. As the Maxwell Smart cone of silence of the leaders in Iran descended on its citizenry and television station and newspapers closed, every day people began to Twitter and Facebook and YouTube their way to publicizing an country wide uprising. Evidence of violence by the government against the protestors shows a ruling party willing to do anything to remain in power. This repression would have gone on in seclusion were it not for Al Gore’s greatest achievement of the internet.

I don’t know enough to comment on how well or how poorly our President is handling the situation as the United States relates to the happenings in Iran. I do know enough to comment that, those of you who wish to remain free need to take every opportunity to make yourselves heard and do our best to lift our own cone of silence being lowered, not yet by government fiat but, by a willing media who might do better to do their research on Facebook.

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We can't all just get along. Why?

I have two of the nicest dogs around. Both of them have lived their lives in the presence of cats and the fabled irreconcilable differences between the canines and the felines is anything but a fine line in the sand.

In recent months there has been a parade of foster kittens and their moms marching through our house. There is more in species fighting amongst the cats than inter-species conflicts involving the wet nosed crotch sniffers. That is not to say that there aren't flare ups.

As the kittens get more bold they begin to expand their roaming into areas often occupied by a sleeping, and much larger, dog. To say that the 50-60 pound barker could dispatch of a still wobbly pound and a half meower faster than 9 six-week long lives could pass before their eyes probably goes without saying. Yet interestingly, the two dogs have different levels of aggravation with the little future fur ball hurlers.

One dog, immediately upon seeing a kitten approach whatever area of floor he has most recently claimed as his sleeping quarters, growls in the low guttural way that states further trespass will be met with retribution that is swift, painful and complete. It isn't long until he is given a wide berth during all exploratory ventures.

The other dog tends to be more forgiving. He tries to get along a bit more. Of course, the very nature of a kitten is to experiment how to kill anything it encounters and it isn't long until the dog's tail or ear becomes a sacrifice to learning the way of the hunt.

What, you are probably asking, does any of this have to do with issues relevant enough to be placed into a soon to be highly read, award winning and often quoted blog such as No Mato Mi Pavo? Allow me to bring this post full circle with a close so perfectly fitting Jessica Simpson could only hope to have a tailor so skilled.

The different approaches of the dogs, and the reactions they receive, reflect well the approaches to the war on terror and the Axis Of Evil by former President George W Bush and the current and already deemed best ever President Barak Obama; two men breeds apart in this effort. The first ever African American President Obama went on Arab television to show he is open to talk. In the campaign it was stated Obama would meet with "no pre-existing conditions" with the nut in charge of Iran. During his inaugural address, The ONE said he was willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran if the Islamic republic is ready to "unclench its fist".

George W. Bush was less conciliatory.

Iran, of course, is the kitten in this cast of four legged characters. These pussies are hell bent on killing the non-believer and Achmawhackjob, their leader, has openly expressed his desire to hasten the return of the 12th Iman. While the United States was growling and it was clear we had a bite to back up our bark, Iran kept its claws retracked, for the most part.

The recent extension of a paw of discussion by our understanding leader was scratched at so fast as to make our collective tails spin. Animals understand there is a heirarchy in the world and that the strong does, in fact, hold dominion over the weak. If our Alpha dog continues to capitulate the superior power of our country to a country led by a man hell bent on our destruction the "dog house" of our current economic situation will be the least of our problems requiring burying in the backyard.