You were right, Pedro, sometimes your wildest dreams will come true!

All this week, Herman Cain has been filling in for many of what I consider mediocre talk show hosts (Hannity and Boortz to name two).  He is going to form an exploratory committee involving a possible run for the 2012 presidency.  I and many others have badgered him for a few years now trying to get him to run against obama.  Some polysci professor claims that he stands a slim to none chance of a win if he runs.  I disagree (with most polysci professors' predictions.  Mine were all sure Bill White would grab the governorship easily) he will make a good and popular candidate for the GOP.  Now if we can only keep Palin out of the picture...and I still stand by that.  What has she done in recent history but regurgitate some talking points and have a reality tv show?

It's time for someone who knows something about business, someone who has served with the Federal Reserve, and someone who views our country in a positive light (not a disparaging obama light).  Good luck Mr. Cain!!!

No good deed goes unpunished in the modern world

The United States could give away every scrap of food, every article of clothing, and every cent and it wouldn't be enough for our enemies.  Worse than that, they want to take it out on the people in need of aid.  We continue our slow crawl toward submission to radical Islam in this country due to our acceptance of groups like CAIR and the ACLU (apparently their definition of tolerance is anything that isn't mainstream).  Meanwhile, in places like Pakistan where everyday living is a potential crisis, we can't give any aid without criticism from radicals who should readily accept free help because it is just that...FREE!!!  You lose nothing.  Unfortunately, this scares the little guy on the block because this proves that maybe the United States of America isn't the big, bad, evil country that they've been preaching against for the past seventy or so years. 

Sure, we have our flaws, but Operation Ajax in the early 50's assured that the free world had a steady petroleum supply for quite awhile (just preempting the typical arguments I get from the wikipedia scholars).  This is just one example of the argumentative individual who wants to appear wordly and scholarly.  Still to this day, we can't take a proverbial piss without criticism from some self-appointed critic of our foreign policies be they foreign or domestic.  Such is the case in the recent (August) aid to victims of flooding in Pakistan.

Here is the background:

On August 10, 2010, President Asif Zardari returned to Pakistan from his state visits to France and the UK and a stopover meeting with Bashar Al-Assad, the ruler of Syria.  The Pakistani president was roundly criticized in the UK and Pakistan for proceeding with the state visits as the country's worst floods in 80 years were unfolding.

By the time President Zardari returned, more than 1,500 people were killed by three weeks of monsoon-triggered floods. Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, estimated a day before Zardari's return that 13.8 million Pakistanis were affected, a figure now revised to 20 million.  While the international community and the Islamic nations were yet to respond, the U.S. had rushed rescue helicopters, more than half a million halal  The U.S. was leading the way in relief efforts, having pledged $35 million in aid, which was soon raised to $70 million and then to $150 million. meals, and water for the flood-affected people. 

--Excerpt from Middle East Media Research Institute article on the subject, author Tufail Ahmad

It didn't take long for our critics to let their people know the extent of our 'evil' aid:

Taliban Spokesman: Despite the Aid, "Our Jihad Against the U.S. will Continue"

Senator Saleh Shah: Floods Are "Allah's Wrath" for Not Protesting Against the U.S. Drone Attacks

Jamaat-e-Islami Emir: "To Accept Aid from the U.S. and India is Tantamount to Eating Poison"

Hizbut Tahrir Pakistan: Allowing U.S. Marines Inside Pakistan for Relief Work is Haram (Forbidden in Islam)

Provincial Minister: "Terrorists are Joining the Flood Victims; They are Posing as Flood Affectees And are Regrouping in the Flood-Hit Areas"

-- all from MEMRI.org

Now,  I'll be the first to admit I'm not a big fan of the Marines (that's personal Army bias and real-world experience with many of the goons), but Haram?  If Pakistan were such a sacred place, wouldn't people be flocking to it in droves?   Telling people NOT to accept help otherwise they will go to hell is evil.  Threatening people for needing aid is evil.

It's time once again for U.S. leaders to renew their vows taken under oath to protect this nation from enemies both foreign and domestic.  This mentality is not only seen in the pan-Islamic world, but in our own country.  Here this sort of thing is protected by words like racism and hate to those who dislike the message and the ideology trying to metastasize itself in strategic positions throughout this country.  All the DOJ can do is reaffirm their commitment to reassuring Muslims in this country that they will not be discriminated against.  It isn't Muslims in this country that are being discriminated against, it's people who don't want Sharia law in their state.  It's the elderly, the infirm, and women with big boobs who are singled out for body searches so that our government doesn't appear biased.  It's people who are being called bigots by radical Islamists and their liberal tool mouthpieces for not wanting a mosque at ground zero. Of course, the sensible person already knows all of this.  It's the one's that aren't sensible that I worry about.

We've got our tree in the front room with all of our wonderful decorations.  Presents for all of or friends are under the tree, and Mom is coming this year.  Looks to be a wonderful Christmas this year.  I hope that everyone else is having a wonderful Christmas season and that you remember the meaning behind the occasion:  It's not the season of giving and receiving, but rather a celebration of the birth of our savior who is responsible for any goodwill that this nation has toward people who would slap us in the face even when bearing gifts. 




    

The shit that is going on this week

Now the house passes an immigration bill.  Hopefully the government understands that the majority of the citizens here don't support this.

Finals are this week.

It's cold.

To top it all off, Aretha Franklin is ill.

Lord, help us out here. 

And...the crazy keeps getting crazier.

"Ya know I try to  arguments with Mr. Right is Right about lifting the toilet seat when he uses it and  simply peeing in the sink. ... but compared to the crap I have been taking from BullShitBull that has been nothing.
As for my “Bullying” people in the  blogisphere, that is the LIE of the centry, I try my darnest to mind my own business. And for the few times that I do get around on the blogs I never bully anyone. Do I speak my mind?  Oh, you bet I do." --from the Blog Right is Right

What???  What the hell is a centry, darnest, or even the blogisphere?   All that aside...you try to argument what???  Are you saying you are an advocate of peeing in the sink?  I try to eliminate waste other places than where I brush my teeth.  And you definitely do NOT try to mind your own business.  Your cries of "I'm no Bluepitbull!!" say you have a hard time MINDING your business.

You started this, dude.  Any way that I can tweak you after your lies and misrepresentations that hurt you the way you tried to hurt Pam, LCR and I, I will do.  If you are so, so passionate about your political views, write a book.  I'm sure it will only be one page.  Your over-simplistic views of politics and your bullying of people you don't agree with indicate to me that you aren't a conservative, but rather a plant.  You are irrelevant to the blogging world and only serve to dumb down analysis of politics.  It's like someone resurrected Wally George and gave him half a brain.  Hey....wait a minute....perhaps that can be your plug for the Right is Right blog:

"Like Wally George with half the IQ"

You just can't take the crazy out of some people

I see that the Right is Right blog is back, again.  Same picture stolen from an actresses website.  Same foul mouth, and same odd way of talking.  Still calling me a lover of liberal bloggers, which it knows is a lie.  I will work with liberals, or anyone for a common cause:  Ridding the blogosphere of people who know they wouldn't talk to your face the way they do on a blog or a message board.

Right is Right has tried to bully Pamela at The Oracular Opinion, and Left Coast Rebel on more than one occasion.  Rebel took the high road, Pam took the middle ground, and I will keep to the base.  I like getting right down there in the trenches because at heart, this person is a lowly coward who lies and steals.

Right is Right has already been shown to be one of a group of blogs written by a person or group of crazies who steal people's pictures for their profile, including dead soldiers, policemen, and others.  Not only that, this blogger or bloggers also steal people's comments from message boards and other websites.

I mean, hell, I may not have perfect sentence structure everytime, but I like to think I get my message across without having to cut and paste other peoples' stuff.

Right is Right and all of your other blogs, scurry back under the dirty refrigerator where you crawled out from under and hide.