Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Since the failed terrorist attach on Christmas day, travelers have been bracing themselves for the virtual anal probe that is coming to airport security in the form of full body scanners. On Fox News tonight, Ann Coulter, whose body scan image would likely fetch a fair amount on Ebay and one for which I would join in the bidding, joined ranks with the ACLU in decrying another ineffective government intrusion in the form of safety.

I've long complained about the inane and outright ludicrous security procedures in place at our nation's airports. We sheeple continue to flock to and through security turnstiles on our way to meetings and reunions because we've little alternative when faced with needing to be across our great continent in a short period of time. As TSA officials ogle our nearly nude images, saying they've got us by the short hair is appropriate when discussing our alternatives for transportation.

Instead of focusing on more likely terrorist subjects through profiling, all of us will have our "secrets" laid bare before the almighty agents of national security.

I only wish our leaders in our government's legislative body would be as forthcoming in their transparency. Despite several campaign promises of openness in debate, the health care bill will be finalized in secret, behind doors so thick that no scanner can penetrate.

CSPAN, the network The ONE promised to let host this debate has pledged to provide any resources needed to fully and unbiasedly cover this debate over nearly a quarter of our national expenditures. This pledge has fallen on the deaf, or more likely uncaring, ears cradling the heads of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Not only will the debate be held in secret, these bastions of open debate are looking to suspend long held congressional traditions to protect their fellow party members from having to openly support this travesty.

So as you empty your pockets, take off your shoes and belts and jackets and socks and under-wire bras in order to sit in a too small seat and pay $7 for a beer, you can take solace in the fact your representatives in Washington will be secure, behind closed doors, making deals and hiding pork in thousands of pages of drivel designed to wrench control over the health of our nation.

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Fly me to the loon.

This post has me humming "Leaving on a Jet Plane". In reality, I'd rather she was just leaving. The woman who sits two heart beats away from the Presidency of the United States seems to have developed an air of superiority akin to those of Rock Stars and their "no green M&M" riders in the Green Room contracts regarding her taste in and demands for travel. Perhaps she is feeling cocky because, after all, the economic crisis isn't that bad after all.

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, is stockpiling a Jumbo Jet of carbon to someday offset in her cross country and cross-Atlantic jaunts in large military aircraft. Judicial Watch has FOIAed emails detailing the air headed one's requests (read: demands) for aircraft and services from the DoD for her air travel between Washington, DC and her home district in California.

Our first hint that Pelosi's demands would soon make J-Lo's oddities on her concert riders seem as inane as the Jonas Brothers was way back in 2007 when she insisted the plane at her disposal be slightly larger than the 12-seater provided the previous speaker, Dennis Hastert, after 9-11 to aid in security. Nancy would require a 42-seat Air Force carrier to ferry her, her staff and probably lots of shoes from work in Washington to the City by the Bay.

ABC News is giving the high flying Speaker a pass but, if you read through the list of email exchanges, you'll see that, at least in terms of expected privileges, power corrupts.

I don't really have a problem with the person third in line to head our country having use of a military or private aircraft. After all, seeing someone of this prominence screaming and yelling because their plane left on time would be too tasty a fodder to pass up. I have many other problems with the person third in line to head our country; her being an ultra left liberal loon being foremost among them and I do think using large jets so that every relative, staffer and campaign contributor can ride along is excessive. Use of a private charter is less than military aircraft and, with the huge deficits in our country, maybe those in Congress could chip in a few frequent liar (sic) miles and get Nancy a ticket.

I say have some fun and read through Judicial Watch's collection of emails and then read commentary here, here and here.

La la la la, I am not listening la la la (Fingers in my ears)

From an early age we are conditioned, Pavlovian like, to dread bad news. It starts in grade school when you hear your name and "come to the Principal's office" in the same sentence. Your pulse quickens and sweat stains grow to a point that the girl you like in the front row is sure to notice because you know the experience down the hall will not be good. In college the ringing phone which heralds the call from the Free Clinic with your test results sounds more like the metronome of a dirge than a pleasant ring a ding ding. The normally sweet sound of your boss' secretary's voice on the intercom asking you to come to his office for an unannounced meeting is as grating as Helen Thomas trying to sound sexy. And how far off the chart does your EKG go when your better half announces, "We need to talk".

Face it, sometimes no news is good news. I had a discussion earlier this evening with a liberal co-worker in which he stated those of us on the right just don't listen. I figure he just doesn't get it. None of us like to hear conflicting viewpoints. Like birds of a feather we tend to hang out on telephone lines crowing about with like minded bird brains rather than flap our gums with the flockers down the wire who have opposing opinions. But, just like Lindsey Lohan needs to hear the truth about her weight, drug abuse, alcoholism, partying, lack of talent, smoking, poor choice in women and poor choice in men, sometimes those in the media spotlight and public office need to hear it too. If only they would be open enough to listen.

I stated months ago that GM, Chrysler and Ford needed to live or die on their own merit. Even other conservative bloggers didn't want to admit this. Finally, with two of the three returning to Washington with empty porridge bowls like Oliver Twist facing the evil monk asking, "Please, sir, we want billions more", there are calls to let them eat cake. I doubt Congress will listen and there bowls will overflow until the next time.

The grossly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, commonly called Card Check, has been called outdated, bad for business and a mistake. The weirdly named blue dog democrats are questioning the wisdom of pushing this legislation amongst their own party. The hounds bark is reaching deaf ears as the bill against the right to work is working its way toward passage.

Hillary Clinton has been told that leaving North Korea with nuclear capabilities is akin to leaving your campfire burning and going to bed with a full bladder instead of properly dousing the final embers with water saving efficiency. Pyongyang is hot with radioactive desire to develop a bomb of its own and the former first lady needs to be adamant in her stance against the proposed missile test Lil' Kim Jong just announced. Think she will listen? Me neither.

Most in the main stream media have been telling those in the popular stream media not to worry about the return of the Fairness Doctrine. Recent chirping in the supposed unheard left of center media belie the veracity of the aforementioned advice of those who won't be affected. For years, free market free thinkers have been telling those who call for fairness that government regulation is not the answer. Megyn Kelly on Fox did everything but slap little heard Bill Press upside the head. If you want visual proof of someone who refuses to listen and just doesn't get it, watch this:



Governor Bobby Jindal is going to tell the federal government he and the state of Louisiana don't want their money and that they can stick it someplace else. If you read the Spendulus Law closely you will see the feds will not listen and will try to force the state to accept their generosity under penalty of law.

The hardest of hearing in this potentially long line of deaf and dead between the ears audiences is none other than Nancy Pelosi. After waxing ignorantly about the opinions of the Catholic Church on abortion a few months ago, she was taken to the proverbial Wood confessional to be set straight by none other than the man in charge. Emerging with Eggs Benedict XVI on her face after a 15 minute face to face with Il Pappa, our deer in the headlights, third in line to be leader of the free world seems to be seeking absolution in isolation. Her brief comments to the press make it seem like she and His Holiness attended radically different services as she made no mention of the disservice to the unborn that the Pope called her on. I've long wondered how self-proclaimed adamant Catholics can easily put aside their duty to the innocent and pull the lever for candidates who will push a pro-choice agenda. The fact Obama won the Catholic vote has my head pounding so hard I can't hear much myself. This dichotomy between spiritual and electoral rationals has to be addressed. Nancy will not listen. She owes too much to the Choice crowd to let a little thing like her religion get in the way of her political career and fund raising.

Finally, we were told of the importance of passing the Spendulus Bill to save our economy from the brink of collapse. Today, The ONE announced another $75 Billion to save home owners. Tomorrow, who knows? Monday the House will begin to deliberate on spending hundreds of Billions of dollars more just to get us through to the end of the fiscal year. Spendulus II, the sequel, will not be far behind. With all the thick skulls and auditorially challenged folks in Washington, perhaps it is time for us to start listening a bit closer to what is being said by our elected officials.

I urge you to listen. Our freedoms are at stake. Before it is too late remember,in almost every decent war movie, when the beloved Corporal is fatally wounded by sniper fire, he utters the same line, "I never heard it coming".

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So many stories, so little time

The hardest part about writing a, almost, daily blog is picking a topic. There is not a dearth of them. There are far too many to limit myself to just one story. Usually, I try to find a way to link several seemingly disparate headlines in to one cohesive, seamless dissertation on the stories that are quickening the pulse of the nation. OK, I just make crap up. Today I am fighting the flu and don't have the spare synapses to make the reach and link the headlines so I will take a quick look at those at the top of my surfing list:

Nancy "we have to vote now cause my plane is leaving" Pelosi is in Rome and the Vatican has confirmed she will be having an audience with the Pope. I hope His Holiness takes the opportunity to slap her upside the head for claiming to be a Catholic while misquoting Church doctrine to support her pro-choice agenda. I don't think a personally guided tour of the Torquemada wing of the museum is out of the question.

The takeover of our Health Care system that is in the Spendulus Package is the beginning of the end for the greatest healthcare system on the planet. I don't know where Canadians are going to go? Congress, in their effort to put in to place Tom Daschl's plan refused to look at how the same type of programs are not working across the big Pond.

As if you need any examples of how it isn't your money, take a look at Kansas! They are out of money so who is first on the chopping block to be cut out? Yeah, the taxpayer. Of course, New York is out of money too but that doesn't stop them from getting increases. Elected officials, they just aren't like you and me; they are special. It could be worse, in Australia even their crap is taxed!

The stimulus package, the one with no Pork in it, will be signed tomorrow in a campaign stop in Denver. I hope they have ham sandwiches. Thankfully, talk radio has been all over this and announcing to everyone what is in this crap sandwich. It might be soon that these voices are silenced. Democrats are all over liberal stations complaining about the lack of alternative voices in the media. Yeah, I know.

Finally, Happy President's day. Here is how AOL is acknowledging it:

The synergistic job saving ability of the stimulus package

No wonder Barack and Michelle had to get out of the White House for a while yesterday. Two whole weeks of hard work and we Americans still don't get it. The approval ratings for the spendalooza stimulus package is now hovering around 30%. This is down from 50% just a few short weeks ago. Perhaps if they add a few more hiking trails, disc golf courses and condom programs to the bill more people will be for it. Just keep the money from those religious nuts! They better do something, The ONE has said if it doesn't get passed soon...well...umm...he might be a one term president!

According to our deer in the headlights Speaker of the House, every month that passes before the package is passed will see 500,000,000 Americans lose their jobs! Considering the total population of our country is around 300,000,000 that is some serious consequence! Her figures must include the millions of illegal aliens and their several jobs each.



The defeatist in me says, "Why even bother?" Global Warming is going to have us all starving to death soon no matter what we do. Chu on this if you don't believe me.

Look, up in the sky, it's a birdbrained, a plain stupid and Superbad stimulus

All superheroes need a catch phrase. Superman has “up, up and away”. Bruce Banner’s Hulk says, “You won’t like me when I am angry”. “We are the future” was uttered only once by X-Men’s Magneto but it fit so well. And who can forget Conan invoking his God on frequent occasion saying, “By Crom” before severing a limb or a head.
The Thing said “It’s clobberin’ time”. But what catch phrase will be associated with The ONE. At present, our nation’s newest superhero, Barack “The ONE” Obama, seems taken with Buzz Lightyear’s “To infinity and beyond”; at least when he is talking about government spending.


In his mild mannered community organizer alter ego days he spoke often about change. This change message continued through is super ego days as a state and national senator. Now that he is free of the mask of the political candidate, The ONE is beginning to act like the ultra ego, trying not to chain smoke savior that many feel was elected.

Coming faster than a speeding bullet the unstoppable stimulus package is growing to a height that even superman would need several bounds to clear. On Tuesday, November 18th, it was reported The ONE wanted $300 Billion dollars as a stimulus package. This figure was, at the time, twice the size of most of the proposals floated by those of his own party in Congress. One week later, that figure Hulked up to $500 Billion. It was $600 Billion on December 11th. One day later it hit ONE TRILLION dollars!

My spidey sense is tingling and it isn’t in that good Kirsten Dunst in a rain soaked shirt kind of way. It is a “where’s a real hero when you need one” feeling. Smallville may be Superman’s hometown but it is nowhere near where the size of our government is going to be should The ONE get his way and, from the looks of it, his minions are poised to truly be his boy and girl wonders.

We can only hope the Republicans in the Senate and House have a supply of Kryptonite laced moves to derail the coming train of spending.

Until then, we will have to be our own superheroes. If you want to come up with a catch phrase of your own, go here for help. If you do, send me your phrase so I know what to yell when you fly by.

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It's all about the Big O

It is 3:37 am in chilly Denver, Colorado and I have been tossing and turning all night long. I just can’t quit wondering, “What’s eating Oprah?” I mean, we know what she’s been eating; everything! Its just the Queen of all the media for people who don’t watch real media seems a bit upset lately and I can’t understand why. Her boy Barack “Illinois has a governor?” Obama won and she will be in Washington hosting her show for his inauguration. I am sure BHO will see fit she gets a ticket for any ball she’d like to attend and it’s not like she can’t afford to have her gown for the evening let out a bit.

Things seem to have settled down at her Taj Mahal of a school in Johannesburg. The adage “no news is good news” is virtually guaranteed when nobody at the place has access to email or cell phones. No news also means the head mistress there was never charged with doing anything other than being strict and disappointing Oprah.

And she seems to be scraping by in these tough financial times. She’ll be coming in to her OWN in a few years and, if a half-black man can be elected President, who knows what Oprah will accomplish now that she has been unleashed!

So why does the Queen need to whine about Sarah “I am back within spitting view of Russia” Palin going on other shows to give interviews? It isn’t like she didn’t have the chance to interview her back when she was thin Oprah. You know, back when it would have mattered like when she interviewed Barack Obama. Back when she didn’t want to use her show as a political forum. So now, fat Oprah is lamenting that La Governess Bonita went elsewhere to talk about herself. I guess it is Oprah’s turn to get schooled that there are consequences to your actions.

Of course Ms Winfrey’s mind probably began to be troubled back in January when she endorsed The ONE. The comments section of her website lit up more brightly than the National Christmas tree after Nancy "deer in the headlights" Pelosi finally figured out how to turn the switch with comments berating her for abandoning Hillary in her time of need. My guess is these malcontents were just frustrated meat eaters seeking to extract a pound of flesh when they could.



I accidently picked up Mrs. Bald Man’s copy of O magazine in the bathroom a few months ago. I figured since I was going to be there for a while I might as well see what all the fuss was about. A half hour later I emerged dreaming of Tom Cruise, teary eyed with a new cookie recipe that I had to bake immediately. I realize now I just needed the food to comfort my unease with my body issues. I wish I'd had a shoulder to cry on.

My posts, like our initial invasion in Iraq, don’t usually come with an exit strategy. I’m not sure why I even care that Oprah is now fat and upset she can’t talk to the governor of a state that isn’t even on the route past fly over country. I guess it just irks me to see yet another narcissistic television star put herself out there and not expect a backlash. It is no Secret the Queen’s latest binge was supposedly brought on by being diagnosed with thyroid problems. Like me and my resolution to my body issue psychosis, brought on by reading O to start with, she turned to food. In the coming months we’ll all be subject to her brave battle back to thinness through personal trainers, personal chefs and couch jumping with Tom Cruise.

I do wish her a healthy recovery from fat. If only fat Elvis has been so brave we might still have the King around. But I think the Big O's constant battle with the Big O of being Overweight is detrimental to the many people who truly struggle to maintain healthy weight. Regular folk who will be forced to watch the coronation of The ONE at home on the couch with a bag of Cheesy Poofs and the cat on their lap and not being chauffeured around from ball to ball chatting about global warming. I just hope this isn’t the start of the Oprah’s School Girl diet craze.

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