Some political common sense for the libs

The libs got the Congress back not by running on their own positions, but by being the anti-pubs. As such, their pre-election positions meant nothing. Get out of Iraq now? A factually stupid position from which they are already backing away. They will find, as new majority parties always do, that it is way easier to be in second place and criticize. They built up their start under the mantra of the “first 100 hours.” All sorts of wonderful things were supposed to happen. I heard more about it before than during and after. That tells you something. The libs are what they always were – all form and no substance. The pubs are much more patient; they just need to cull the herd of the intellectually vacuous that seems to get in front of a mic with annoying frequency. Fortunately, the mics are firmly planted in front of the libs for now; they will quickly learn to resent the exposure.

The queen bull dyke, Hillary Clinton, exercised the obvious and all the liberal press is astonished. She said that Sen. Obama is basically a flash in the pan and that his star will fade. She had to say something because he kicked her ass in an Iowa poll. By the way, she is also right. Why does no one recall the trip to Africa that Obama took and the leaders of the several countries called him an idiot? They were openly insulted by his lack of background. The guy’s got a broad smile and a populist (read: empty) message. Of course he will fade. He doesn’t want the presidency anyway. He knows that he’s too thin politically. He wants the VP slot. That, however, shows how thin he is. George the Elder got Reagan’s VP slot because he had substance. Just recall how Cheney bitch slapped Edwards in 2000 to understand the cost of a lack of depth.

Edwards in 2008? The Cheshire cat: nothing but a smile. The entire harlot product-liability trial industry will be paraded in front of the country. He can’t survive on the top of a ticket, and will be labeled a recurring loser on the bottom half.

Kerry? Puh-please. Interloping whiner with a drunkard wife. Did I mention that he lies?

Hillary will never survive the repeated votes of the primaries. Her only chance is if somehow the DNC front loads their primaries to pick a candidate quickly – and save the bull from repeated exposure. I just read that California may move from June to February; go figure.

Biden has spent too much time being patently opportunistic. He’s as worn as a flophouse bathroom towel. His best day – if he ever sees it – will be no more than high teens in any primary. His biggest problem is going to be money. He won’t have any.

Sen. Dodd is going to run. Wait until his bar tabs get published. He’ll go nowhere but the corner stool.

Gore? The boy should quit believing his own press clippings.

Vilsack from Iowa and Richardson from New Mexico both have a chance. Both were governors. Both guys seem friendly, not that angry rusted razor look that Pelosi and Hillary have. Remember that we dislike legislators in presidential elections. Here’s the data going back to 1904:

Past presidential elections:
(E) - Executive; (L) - Legislative; (O) - Other; (I) Incumbent
(I have indicated the most recently held position)

2004 - George the Younger (I) beat Kerry (L)
2000 - George the Younger (E) beat Gore (E) and Nadar (O)
1996 - Clinton (I) beat Dole (L) and Perot (O)
1992 - Clinton (E) beat George the Elder (I) and Perot (O)
1988 - George the Elder (E) beat Dukakis (E)
1984 - Reagan (I) beat Mondale (E)
1980 - Reagan (E) beat Carter (I) and Anderson (O)
1976 - Carter (E) beat Ford (I) and McCarthy (L)
1972 - Nixon (I) beat McGovern (L) and Schmitz (L)
1968 - Nixon (E) beat Humphrey (L) and Wallace (E)
1964 - Johnson (I) beat Goldwater (L)
1960 - Kennedy (L) beat Nixon (E)
1956 - Eisenhower (I) beat Stevenson (E)
1952 - Eisenhower (O) beat Stevenson (E)
1948 - Truman (I – FDR term) Dewey (E), Thurmond (L), Wallace (E), and Thomas (O)
1944 - Roosevelt (I) beats Dewey (E) and Thomas (O)
1940 - Roosevelt (I) beats Wilkie (O) and Thomas (O)
1936 - Roosevelt (I) beats Landon (E) and Thomas (O)
1932 - Roosevelt (E) beats Hoover (I) and Thomas (O)
1928 - Hoover (O) beats Smith (E) and Thomas (O)
1924 - Coolidge (E) beats Davis (L) and LaFollette (L)
1920 - Harding (L) beats Cox (E) and Debs (L)
1916 - Wilson (I) beats Hughes (E) and Benson (O)
1912 - Wilson (E) beats Roosevelt (E), Taft (I), and Debs (L)
1908 - Taft (O) beats Bryan (L) and Debs (L)
1904 - Roosevelt (I - McKinley term) beats Parker (O) and Debs (L)

Incumbents are 12 and 5. All 5 of the losses have been to executives. No incumbent has lost to a legislator in the past 100 years.

Executives are 4 and 2 against legislators (Kennedy and Harding).

Just sit back and let the libs pull their lemming impersonations. They will lose Congress in short order and have a less than chance at the White House than they will admit. The pubs had better hope that McCain and Huckabee play well – because that is their ticket for the 2008 presidential election.

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I like to play basketball with my son. I say things like, “you can’t shot from the outside,” and “you can’t take me straight up.”

Then about ten years ago I got arthritis. I had to sit on the side and try to motivate him from a distance. It wasn’t the same. We went to the court less and started to drift apart.

Then a friend told me about crack. I light up a rock about an hour before our game and another one on the walk to the court. I get lose as a muthaf---a goose! I be playing ball! I gots game, mofo! Get outta my way! Coming through you, little man with green head and large hands and and …

I couldn’t make the $1,000,000 bail. My lawyer said an insanity plea ain’t gonna cut it because I “voluntarily ingested the controlled substance” or some shit like that. Twenty years to LIFE! Can you believe it! All because I wanted to play b-ball with my boy.

“Land of the free,” my ass.

Stuff

So, Donald Fagenson is a musician from Michigan. He’s apparently quite good on both sides of the studio glass. His stage name is Don Was. I don’t understand that. It’s two-thirds of a sentence. A noun and verb, but no object. Don was what? It just pisses me off; not sure why. If you need a verb, why a transitive verb? Why not something like ran or yelled? Don Yelled. Not bad. No object needed.

“Hi, my name’s Bill. Pleased to meet you.”
“Hi. Don, Don Was.”
“OK, I’ll bite. Don was what?”
“That’s the question.”
Then, Don, your potential new friend Bill walks away.

Were you high when you picked your stage name?

Speaking of things peculiar, how about underwear you can wear for several weeks without changing them? Seems nanotechnology can bind stink-repellant chemicals to nanoparticles. Soldiers have worn them for weeks at a clip in Iraq; conclusion: still hygienic. I don’t know about you people, but I honestly thought that nanotechnology would bring things like teeny tiny hearing aids and medical diagnostic equipment that could go where no MDE could go before. Maybe even some new flipper in a dick so old guys wouldn’t piss their pants all the time. But stink-proof undies?

Speaking of things in pants, this is a well-reasoned article that discusses taking the same-sex marriage vote to the people of Massachusetts. It is remarkable to survey the unhinged screaming of libs that do not want the citizens to vote on this issue. I originally put a full colon at the end of the last sentence, meaning to provide a list. I found, however, the one quote that sums it all up: “Neither can we in good conscience pretend that the bigotry toward homosexuals, as old as the Bible …”

So the writer of the quoted text, Eileen McNamara of the Boston Globe (her entire column is here), is telling us that the Holy Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality is mere bigotry.

Guess I shouldn’t be shocked by her position. It took about five minutes to learn that Eileen has a female hard-on for Christianity: here she is screeching about churches not having to divulge their finances. Ei seems to have this opinion that churches have been treated differently only since the 1954. Yeah, cute, she only mentions exemption from reporting – but she does it in a way to suggest that any difference in treatment began at that time. Here’s some history for you, Ei, seems Massachusetts started as an American state debating a tax just to fund religion.

Will you do me a favor? Think of me as you burn for eternity. B-bye!

I was absently thinking about a populated place I used to live that had small aircraft routinely flying below a thousand feet. It seemed to me then and resonates still that a 40mm Bofars anti-aircraft cannon would liven up the afternoon. But where to find one? Well, as luck would have it, not one but two Bofars for just $9,000 each. I can close my eyes and picture it: bbbzzz … bbbZZZ … BBBZZZ … kaBOOM! … nnnrrrrr … poof! There is a cost to pissing me off over an extended period.

If you’ve got some down time in between surface-to-air attacks on non-military aircraft, this site is chock full of mazes to print.

Next week marks five years since my dad died. Life has pretty much sucked since he died, but that is just because I enjoyed the largesse and fight change. I am just now packing up that stage of my life, which accounts for the ten to fifteen years before he imploded and the five since. I have reduced my missed opportunity to wishing he were still alive to play in a poker tournament. He was a great card player. In fact, the last time I saw him was at a card game at his house. The recent popularity of Texas Hold ‘em would have been fun to him. Oh well; time to move on.

I planned to write more but lost focus. Bye.