Thinning the herd

So now I read that thousands of people who refused to evacuate the Texas coastline after being repeatedly warned to do so in the face of hurricane Ike, are now begging to be rescued. Unfortunately that is what the Texas National Guard and other agencies will now attempt to do.
I say let 'em die, drown, rot or whatever. We can do without an extra 10,000 or 20,000 stupid people on the planet.

Smoke and mirrors

I am getting really tired of hearing about how well the "Surge" strategy in Iraq is working. Let me give you an analogy to better understand why it only appears to be working. The North side of Kalamazoo is generally considered something of a rough area with a higher crime rate than most, but I guarantee you if Kalamazoo were to post a police officer on every street corner there, crime would virtually disappear. Of course, just like you can't keep a cop on every street corner here, you cant keep Iraq flooded with soldiers. They have to leave sometime and when they do the whole thing goes right back to Hell in a hand basket. Now John McCain and the Republicans are suggesting we should look at our involvement in Iraq the same way as Germany, Japan, or Korea where we have had soldiers stationed for years. The subtle difference of course is that soldiers aren't being slaughtered at the rate of one or two a day in those countries. By the way, remember how Cheney sold this to us as a six month war back in 2003?

Numbers don't lie

Exxon has blamed every body from the Arabs to Wall Street speculators for high gas prices but they just posted an all time world record profit for one quarter with $11.68 billion. I think that tells me all I need to know.

Our candidates, blind and stupid.

There is a very old saying that has never been more true than now.
'Those who refuse to learn from the past, are condemned to repeat it'.
Both McCain and Obama are talking now about expanding the war in Afghanistan in order to win it. How quickly everyone forgets that the Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1978, got their butts kicked for ten years, then got the hell out. And remember, the Russians were pretty vicious bastards back then. They didn't fight wars by rules like we do. We are not supposed to be winning wars in Afghanistan. We are supposed to hunt and kill Osama Bin Laden and get out. If we hadn't wasted all our time and resources in Iraq, we would have had it done by now.

Nothing to see here

I was watching Sen. Chris Dodd this morning on some news show saying that the two giant financial institutions, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are financially sound even though the federal government is stepping in and guaranteeing investors money in those institutions. Reminds me of a cop standing in front of a burning fireworks factory telling the gathering crowd to 'please disperse, nothing to see here'.

A liberal bites the dust

Finally got to meet Larry Provancher who has had a reputation for a long time as a left wing liberal nut case and he did not disappoint me. He was in our shop and engaged in a conversation about immigration when I butted in with an opinion about illegal immigrants. He immediately identified me as some kind of right wing neo-con and claimed I was against all immigrants. Not true says I. I am on record as saying if you have a skill to offer and wish to enter this country legally, come on in, we can use all the help we can get. Of course Provancher took up the predictable liberal defense of illegals saying they are here doing the work Americans wont do for wages no Americans will accept. I then informed him that should the 15 million illegal immigrants be allowed to stay here legally, the first thing that will happen is the labor unions will organize them all. Do you think the unions will organize them at $5 an hour? As with most hardcore liberals he didn't have an answer for that and realizing he was losing the debate began raising his voice and talking non-stop which appears to me to be the only defense mechanism left wingers have when they're losing. He then announced that he would never be coming back to our shop. This is something else I find peculiar to hardcore liberals. When they lose they get mad and make it personal. I have many liberal friends with who I can debate, agree to disagree, and go on being friends and talk about other things. Hardcore liberals are just plain childish when they lose.

Hillary wants a shot

As ambitious and ruthless as Hillary Clinton seems, I would imagine that she wants that V.P. spot for no other reason than she doubts President Barack Hussein Obama will survive his first term in office.