Democrats a Treasure Trove Of Material

Bad news for Democrats:  They seem to be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  28% of Hillary’s supporters will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee, while 19% of Obama supporters will vote for McCain over Hillary.  22% of Democrats think each candidate should drop out of the race now.

 

With the Democrat stalemate, there continues to be talk of “Father” Al Gore being the nominee.

 

Check out who would win the Democrat primary if it was going on in other countries.

 

Barack Obama so far has been able to avoid being called a liberal.  Now even Hillary is calling him a liberal as though she thinks that is a bad thing.  The New York Times even wonders whether a liberal can unite Americans.

 

Barack Obama wants to be plenty generous with your money, but he donated less than 1% of his earnings between 2000-2004.  Typical liberal.

 

The candidates have raised a combined $1 billion for their campaigns this year.  I thought the economy sucked?

 

George McGovern says it is hard to elect a female President.  What does he know about getting elected President?

 

Polls show that most Americans are against the idea of the federal government bailing out banks and irresponsible borrowers.

 

The United States was ranked as only the 22^nd most stable and prosperous nation in the world.  Wait until you hear why we ranked so low.

 

Global warming hysterics are worried about an ice shelf that might break off of Antarctica.  Ice is thicker on the rest of the continent, but they’re worried about this small piece?

 

The Defense Department accidentally sent Taiwan nuclear missile fuses instead of helicopter batteries.  And you liberals want the government running health care?

 

A New York City Rabbi was attacked by a group of men yelling “Allahu Akhbar.”  Any guess as to the religion of the attackers?

 

The Welfare state runs rampant in Great Britain, as evidenced by the family in which nobody has worked in three generations.  You think that doesn’t happen here?  How about the fact that 10% of people in Ohio are on food stamps?

 

A government high school cancelled a veterans’ event because the Principal feared it might be “too political.”  It was the anti-war protesters making it political, not the veterans.

 

The NAACP is against a bill banning kids at government schools from wearing saggy pants.

 

Macon formed a task force to fight gangs, even though the Deputy Chief of Police says there is no gang problem.  Has he been in the Macon Mall lately?

 

Here’s a shocker:  Social Security and Medicare both need to be fixed.

 

Now irresponsible mothers can find out who their babydaddy is with a kit they buy at Rite Aid.

 

Hopefully that babydaddy won’t be 93 years old, like the two guys in Florida accused of trying to pick up a hooker.

Global Warming Ended 10 Years Ago

Yesterday a former Muslim was baptized by the Pope to celebrate Easter.  He now says that his life is in danger because apostasy is a crime punishable by death for Muslims.

 

Geert Wilders, who produced a film telling the truth about the violent nature of Islam, had his website suspended before he could post the film online.

 

I’ve said it before, now here’s more proof:  A scientist interviewed on the Australian ABC says that global warming ended in 1998.  Bad news for the global warming kooks who worship at the altar of Father Al.

 

Ann Arbor, Michigan has had the snowiest winter on record.  It must be global warming.

 

The Clinton team has come up with another way to make Hillary the nominee (even though it is impossible for her to win based on pledged delegates):  Consider the electoral votes of the states that each candidate has won.

 

There are new questions about Barack’s promise of a “new majority” stemming from him being the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

 

A Republican lawyer endorsed Barack.

 

The United States is helping Egypt build a border fence to keep Palestinians from the Gaza Strip out of Egypt.  Why the hell aren’t we spending that money here to stop illegal Mexicans from getting into the United States?

 

Most Americans think that they should have more say in the decisions of government.  I don’t trust most Americans.

 

Legislators in California call pregnant women temporary disability status so they can get the handicapped parking spots.  Gynecologists want women to be active, but nobody knows better than the government.

 

The Massachusetts Board of Education wants to get rid of the label “underperforming” for their government schools that are, well, underperforming.  They say that it isn’t nice enough.

 

More from government schools:  banning sweets on school campuses has created a black market for candy.  See what happens when government criminalizes anything?

 

The new “in” liberal crisis is that of lifespan inequality.  Nothing but class warfare, but what do you expect from liberals?

 

A bit of good economic news:  home sales rose in February.

 

The Make-A-Wish Foundation made one 5-year-old boy’s dream of becoming a soldier come true.

 

A German woman who went to the hospital for a leg operation was instead (literally) ripped a new one.  Don’t you love the idea of socialized medicine here?

 

Don Imus’ use of the term “nappy-headed hos” was determined to be the most politically incorrect phrase of 2007.

Islamic Idiocy In Full Display

Hillary Clinton says that the United States cannot win the Iraq war.  I hate to break it to you, but she’s right.

 

Vice President Cheney was in Iraq yesterday speaking to the troops.  He says that the Middle East needs freedom.  If they have freedom, it will only be for half of their population.

 

Muslims in Britain are complaining about immigrants from Eastern Europe.  Wait until you hear their complaints.

 

Muslim nations are threatening to sue anybody who defames Islam.

 

The President of Indonesia wants an “Islamic Renaissance” to pull that religion out of the 12^th Century.

 

A peek into the radical Muslim mind:  Hamas is developing a “death-seeking” culture.

 

Wal-Mart has updated one of its stores to be more accommodating for Muslims.  Can women shop there without a male relative with them?

 

Islam really is a treasure trove of material, isn’t it?  How about this story from Saudi Arabia of an 11-year-old boy marrying his 10-year-old cousin?  What do you expect from a culture that only has camel beauty pageants to look forward to?

 

Some nations are considering boycotting the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.  Nobody has the stones to boycott the whole games.

 

A government school teacher gave a student who asked to use the rest room an option between waiting until class was over and using her lunchbox.  He chose the teacher’s lunchbox.

 

Florida Democrats will not have a re-vote.

 

Voters say that the superdelegates should not decide the Democrat nominee.  If they do, then the election should be a cakewalk for John McCain.

 

Barack Obama gave a major race speech yesterday.  Here is the text—if I get a chance I’ll pour through all of it to find the juicy tidbits.

 

A bridge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is falling apart, dropping concrete onto people below.  What is the government’s solution?  Install a net to catch the pieces.  They say that there is not enough money to fix the bridge.  I bet there is plenty of money to give to irresponsible “mothers” who don’t know who their babydaddies are.

 

A poll taken in Ohio by left-wing interest groups claims that the evangelical vote is shifting towards the Democrats.  You guys can have them.

 

Star Parker wrote a column blaming government for the housing “crisis.”  Too bad no Democrats will read this—they’ll keep living their socialist fantasy.

 

Mitt Romney’s socialized medicine scheme has resulted in at least one big healthcare provider taking a loss last year.

 

Liberals have predicted that the conservative movement is over.  As long as the conservative movement is tied to the Republican Party and the evangelical right, they’re absolutely correct.

Gas Prices, Muslims, and Global Warming--Oh My!

Muslim prisoners in Great Britain are upset because they were offered ham sandwiches as a meal option during Ramadan.  I say they’re lucky they get a choice at all.  They’re prisoners—which means they broke the law—treat them as such.

 

A Muslim in Israel was praised by his family for shooting his sister in an attempted “honor killing.”  Fortunately (not for him or his family), the woman survived.

 

Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO) introduced a budget amendment to implement every change that Barack Obama has promised in his campaign—a whopping $1.4 trillion measure.

 

Speaking of Barack, he criticized John McCain on taxes, saying that he was right when he voted against the Bush tax cuts but is wrong now that he wants to extend them.

 

Obama also challenged Hillary Clinton to release her earmark requests, as he did.

 

Democrats are floating a compromise that will seat the Florida and Michigan delegates without benefitting either candidate too much.  It doesn’t matter what they do, because the superdelegates (who are starting to break towards Obama) will still decide the nominee.

 

President Bush said that 2008 will be a great year for Republicans, saying that McCain will be elected President and Republicans will retake the House.  I don’t know what he’s smoking, but I want some!

 

Pictures of Eliot Spitzer’s hooker “Kristen” have been released.  Not bad (especially for a prostitute); no wonder Penthouse wants to do a photo shoot with her.

 

Bad news for you global warming crusaders:  this was the coldest winter since 2001 for the United States and the world (yes, I know it is summer in half of the world).

 

Tamarac, Florida had an election Wednesday on an annexation proposal.  Nobody showed up to vote.

 

Poor people in Boca Raton rioted on Wednesday after the government housing authority ran out of applications for people to get housing welfare.

 

Dr. Walter E. Williams has an excellent column this week about the same thing of my own Cluster column—ethanol.

 

The feet of Geckos are being used as inspiration for a new generation of bandages.

 

Here are 50 weird science tidbits and oddities, via the Talkmaster.

Cluster Column

Why Gas Prices Are So High

 

Or, Why Environmentalists and Cartel Arabs Are Costing You Money

 

By Jeff Scott

 

Most of you have probably noticed that gas prices are up, again, in a time of year when usually they stay low.  This means that, once Memorial Day and the summer driving season arrive, we could be looking at paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline (in some places in California, they are already paying over $5).  This, of course, will lead to much complaining, something which I usually disdain.  In this case, however, there is legitimate reason to complain, and it is not the wonderfully obscene oil company profits.

 

When I fill up my tank, my curse two groups of people:  environmentalists and the Arab governments controlling oil production in the OPEC nations.  Oil is not traded on a free market; most of the top oil producing nations in the world (especially those in the Middle East) are members of the OPEC cartel that decides (based primarily on greed) how much oil should be produced in those countries.  Their incentive is always to line their own pockets, because there is no competition to this cartel.  A true free market would provide competition to OPEC producers, but the semi-monopoly that is OPEC prevents anybody from competing.  If another producer were to increase production, OPEC would respond by cutting production, just to re-raise the price of a barrel of oil.  In fact, even last week, the cartel considered (led by Algeria and Iran) cutting production, even as oil prices rose above the $100 per barrel mark.

 

Compare the cuts of OPEC, in which they manipulate the world oil market for profit, to the “evil” oil companies that the left hate so much.  Oil companies try to produce and refine more oil, because more output means more sales.  The more they produce, the more they sell.  They wish they could produce more oil and refine more gasoline because they make their money from sales.  They are not to blame for the high gasoline prices.  Unfortunately, it is not just OPEC either.

 

The United States has oil reserves that an oil company could very easily drill, cutting oil prices and, once refineries were built to refine the crude oil into gasoline, gas prices could fall to less than $2 per gallon and stay there.  However, there is a very strong interest group that seems to have a death-lock control over politicians on both sides of the aisle:  environmentalists.  Thanks to these tree huggers, we are facing the very real possibility of $5 per gallon gasoline this summer.

 

The United States has oil reserves in Alaska, under the Four Corners states, in the Gulf of Mexico, and off the coast of Florida and California.  Unfortunately, due to environmentalists and their stranglehold on politicians, none of those oil reserves can be tapped.  The Chinese Communist government is able to drill for oil closer to American shores than Western oil companies.  Why?  Because they are drilling off the coast of Cuba.  American companies, thanks to environmentalists, are unable to drill for oil that is very easily attained.

 

Of course, the environmentalists like to tell us that they are saving us from ourselves by trying to stop “global warming.”  Unfortunately for them, they are on the wrong side of science.  They ignore the fact that there has been no increase in the Earth’s temperature in the last decade; they ignore that most of the 10 warmest years on record happened before the big industrial boom (they happened during the 1930s, when the globe was in a depression); they ignore that big fiery ball in the sky that dictates the Earth’s climate a hell of a lot more than any “greenhouse gases” ever could; they ignore that the sun is entering a cool cycle, and that the earth is actually closer to entering another mini-ice age than to burning up (of course, they’ll try to blame that on global warming too; such is the liberal environmentalist logic).  They are also on the wrong side of history; a bit of research into the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age prove that.

 

Thanks to this “global warming” scam, the environmentalists instead want us to rely on the unreliable solar and wind power, and the self-defeating ethanol.  Have you noticed lately that you are paying more for groceries?  That is the result of the recent obsession with ethanol.  The government subsidizes ethanol to the tune of 51 cents per gallon, and the resulting increase in demand for corn has a trickle-down effect on the rest of the economy.  Poor Mexicans cannot afford tortillas, because their prices have tripled, and meat and milk prices are up because the price of corn for livestock feed is up.  Isn’t it obvious by now that liberalism and environmentalism only spread misery?

 

Of course, that is what we should be accustomed to from liberals.  They want to make us all equal in our misery.  They hate free markets; global warming is just their latest excuse to establish socialism in America.  They blame the “greedy” oil companies when gas prices go up, when in reality they should be blaming the anti-market forces of the OPEC cartel and themselves.  When will ignorant Americans wake up and realize that liberalism and big government are not the solutions; they are the causes of the problems that plague this once-great nation.

Abbreviated Show Today

Due to a doctor's appointment, we will only be on the air for the first hour today.  We will be talking about this Eliot Spitzer situation, yesterday's Mississippi primary, and the Geraldine Ferraro mess.  There will be a full show on Friday.  Sorry, no links.

Back from Spring Break!

Gas prices have hit a new high, and it looks like they are heading up even more.  Why?  When in doubt, blame leftists.  It starts with the 2007 Energy Bill, which has the potential to prohibit oil imports from Canadian oil sands.

 

Gas prices are just the start, however; grocery prices are also rising sharply.

 

Fundy leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention are now officially on the global warming bandwagon.  There is also a study out that says that carbon emissions must approach zero soon, or warming could become catastrophic.  Remember, it’s all about controlling your life.

 

Republicans got another bad sign for this year’s election on Saturday.  Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s seat was won by a Democrat.

 

Clinton’s team is now talking about a joint Clinton-Obama ticket.  I’ve been saying this since Obama became a real competitor; we just have to figure out who will be on the top of that ticket.  Barring something amazing, it will be decided by the superdelegates, who are staying out so far.

 

Dick Morris is saying that it is over for Hillary, but her campaign has a three-prong strategy to win.  None of the three prongs involve theft (yet), but they do want to seat the Florida and Michigan delegates.

 

Al Sharpton is threatening to sue the DNC if they seat the Florida delegates.

 

This should say something about Barack Obama’s background:  he is supported by Marxist terrorists FARC in Colombia.

 

On the Republican side, former Goldwater speechwriter Brent Bozell says that McCain’s strategy of taking conservatives for granted in November is a big mistake.  Ron Paul says he cannot support McCain.

 

President Bush vetoed a bill banning waterboarding and other forms of interrogation—Democrats and John McCain call them “torture”—from being used by the CIA.

 

The Vatican came out with another list of seven deadly sins.  They said that the old ones were too “individualistic.”

 

A lawmaker in Kentucky wants to make anonymous internet postings illegal.

 

A vasectomy clinic in Oregon is telling men to get a vasectomy when they have an excuse to stay home and watch the NCAA tournament.

RIP WFB

William F. Buckley, a hero and icon of the conservative movement, passed away yesterday.  Buckley was instrumental in turning the conservative movement from the ideas held by a minority of Americans squashed into submission by FDR and the New Deal into a "silent majority" that later gave us the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions.  For years, his rebel conservative journal, National Review, was the lone conservative voice in media.  Buckley ran National Review, for many years at a sizeable financial loss, to be the voice of conservatism.  He was truly a hero, an icon, and an inspiration for conservatives across the country.  He shall be deeply missed.

Obama Wins Again

According to a Hillary supporter, Democrat delegates from red states are just “second-class delegates.”  Can’t you feel the love, Democrats?  This comes as Hillary is trying to turn some of Obama’s pledged delegates so she can take the nomination at the convention.  It turns out that those “pledged” delegates are actually not pledged to anybody.

 

The AP’s Ron Fournier says that the Democrat nomination is Obama’s to lose.

 

Here is the Rasmussen analysis that shows that the Democrats have the White House won, no matter who their candidate is.  Thanks to Dr. Greg Domin for the tip here.

 

Accuracy in Media has done a little bit of research into Barack Obama, and they found that his childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was an activist in the Communist Party USA.

 

Government schools in Oregon have been cutting secret deals with teachers who abuse their students, in which they do not reveal the teachers’ misconduct to potential future employers, allowing them to get in more classrooms with more students.

 

Immediately after picking up the endorsement of former President George H.W. Bush, John McCain gave his own “read my lips” pledge to not raise taxes.  Republicans, you’ve heard this before, and it’s already given you one President Clinton.

 

Dutch politician Geert Wilders is working on a short film about Islam.  After studying the religion (he calls it an ideology), he says that he doesn’t hate Muslims, just Islam.  If only there were more people in the West who get it like this guy.

 

Speaking of the peaceful, loving religion of Islam, an Iranian father has stoned his daughter to death for allegedly having a relationship with a man.  Also, two weeks ago two sisters were stoned to death for allegedly committing adultery.  Don’t you love how Islam honors its women?

 

Another story from Islam:  a 70-year-old Iranian man has been sentenced to 4 months in prison and 30 lashes for walking his dog.  Because dogs are considered impure in Islam, he was charged with “disturbing the public order.”

 

Global warming asininity is coming to Georgia:  Atlanta has become one of two dozen cities so far to join the “Earth Hour” initiative.

 

Tip to the Talkmaster for this one:  ExxonMobil (the oil company of “obscene” profits) paid almost $30 billion in federal income taxes last year, as much as the bottom 50% of earners combined.

 

This has been an issue ever since Reichert took office in December, but today we are finally going to get into a discussion on the city of Macon annexing land (and taxpayers).

 

Tonight there will be a lunar eclipse.  There is some interesting history behind some of these things.

 

A church is telling its members to have sex every night for the next month.

Happy President's Day!

A California Assemblyman (of course a Democrat) has introduced a bill requiring that all government high school science curriculums include teaching “climate change.”  I’m sure they will be taught valuable skills of logical deduction, such as blaming a cold snap on global warming, as they have in India.  Of course, they will have to skip over teaching students astronomy, because that might lead them to believe that global warming is caused by the sun!

 

Bill Clinton had a fight with an Obama supporter while campaigning for his wife.  The guy was rude, but it still shows that the Clintons are incapable of taking criticism.

 

Also on the Democrat side, some of the early vote totals from New York showed Obama getting no votes in almost 80 precincts, while a recount is showing him considerably closer to Clinton than originally believed.

 

Hillary aide Harold Ickes now wants the delegates from Michigan and Florida to be seated at the convention.  I wonder why?  Perhaps because she is getting more bad news, in the form of black superdelegates leaving her to support Obama.  She has other supporters who are not pleased with her strategy of depending on superdelegates to carry the victory for her.

 

British health authorities are considering forcing people to get a license in order to buy tobacco products.

 

The cost of entitlements for senior citizens is up 24% since 2000.

 

By a 45-39 margin, Americans say that socialized medicine would be better than the current health care system.  About a third of Americans, however, don’t even know what socialized medicine is.

 

Big shock here:  Mitt Romney has endorsed John McCain.

 

Remember those FEMA trailers that the pieces of human waste exposed by Hurricane Katrina are living in?  They have formaldehyde in them.  Good incentive for them to become self-reliant for once in their lives.

 

The state of Virginia set up a fund where residents can voluntarily give more of their hard-earned money to the government.  How has that worked out?  It brings in less than $2,000 per year.

 

Today is President’s Day, so of course we get one of these idiotic polls about who Americans think was the greatest President.  Most of the Americans polled I’m sure could not mention a specific achievement of any of the Presidents they said were great.

 

Doug Giles weighs in on last week’s shooting on the campus of Northern Illinois University, saying (rightly) that college campuses need to get over this “gun free zone” nonsense.

No Voice Means No Show

Unfortunately, I have no voice today.  Therefore, I can’t do the show.  Hopefully I will have my voice back on Friday.

 

For all of you class warfare types, watch this video and tell me how bad the middle class really has it.  Then go read this article about how badly we need the rich.  Of course, the FairTax would help everybody even more…

 

The Saudi religious police have banned red roses.  These people really need to loosen up.

 

The British Olympic Association has lifted the gag order on its athletes in the Beijing Olympics.  I still say that the Western world should boycott them.

 

The Pentagon has charged six Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in connection with the 9/11 attacks.  Unfortunately, they get to hear the intelligence against them in court.

 

The Mexican President came to Harvard (he took off his sombrero) and complained about the “anti-immigrant perception” in the United States.

 

With Arizona and Oklahoma now enforcing immigration law, many Mexicans are leaving the states and heading for Texas.  Who’da thunk it?

 

Meanwhile, President Bush has a plan to send Mexico $1.4 billion to, in part, help them secure their southern border.  Not only that, but now they are skipping the background check requirement to obtain legal residency.  Does anybody in Washington have a clue?

 

The Hispanic population in America will triple by 2050.

 

On the campaign trail, after Obama won everything yesterday, the Clinton team has set up a firewall on March 4, when Ohio and Texas will be contested.  Of course, she has to learn the ridiculously complicated rules in Texas first…

 

Dolly Parton had to postpone a tour for her latest album because of her breasts.

Obama Sweeps Clinton

President Bush called John McCain a “true conservative” in an interview on Fox News Sunday yesterday.  I still want to know what Bush knows about conservatism, since he’s been such a liberal in the last 7 years.

 

Despite dropping out of the race, Mitt Romney won the CPAC straw poll for the second straight year.  Also notable is that over 1 of every 10 participants said that they would not vote if either McCain or Huckabee is the nominee.

 

Huckabee played up the country bumpkin image, while making the rest of us Southerners look backwards when he admitted on Meet the Press to eating fried squirrel in college.

 

NBC News’ David Shuster is in hot water with the Clinton folks for saying that Chelsea was being “pimped out” for her mother’s campaign.  This is from the same woman who invented “bimbo eruptions.”  In response to Shuster’s comments, Hillary is threatening to skip future appearances on MSNBC.  Remember, criticizing liberals is not allowed, which is why they want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine so badly.

 

Bad news from the Hillary camp:  After Barack Obama won everything this weekend (including a Grammy), Hillary’s campaign manager is out.  Major changes in campaign staff is always a bad sign, even when you are still the establishment candidate.  She desperately needs a win in Virginia, because she’s going to lose Maryland and DC on Tuesday.

 

A former Nobel Prize winner says that Barack Obama will be assassinated if he is elected President.  Maybe he could be protected by his cult followers?

 

British athletes will not be allowed to criticize the Chinese government during the Olympics this summer.  I still say they should be boycotted like the 1980 Games.

 

A British environment minister blames a large proportion of birth defects among Pakistani immigrants on inbreeding due to arranged marriages with first cousins.

 

Politicians in Kuwait want to ban Valentine’s Day, saying that the day spreads “immorality” in society.

 

A Pakistani teachers’ union wants to make sure that college and school syllabi will not include contributions from non-Muslims.

 

A 12-year-old boy who was trained to be a suicide bomber is now in a British government school.

 

British police say that 17,000 women are the victims of honor crimes every year.

 

Canadians are already giving extra welfare benefits to Muslim men with multiple wives.