APOLOGIZE TO HU?  WHY?

Yesterday China's president Hu Jintao was heckled by someone who managed to sneak into the press gallery covering a White House event.  This is simply not allowed in China.  In fact, when the video of Hu's remarks at the White House were shown in China the part involving the heckler was blacked out.  We now learn that after the incident President Bush apologized to Hu.  Apologized?  For what?  Did Bush apologize because someone managed to slip by White House security?  If so ... probably appropriate.  On the other hand, if Bush apologized because someone actually heckled the Chinese president, not good.  This was a good chance for a lesson, not an apology.  How about "Glorioski, President Hu, I apologize that we didn't prevent that woman from slipping into our press gallery.  But, you know, things are somewhat different here in the United States than they might be elsewhere.  Here the leaders are directly responsible to the people, and the people have the freedom to express their thoughts, good thoughts or bad thoughts, to their leaders without fear of retribution or censorship.  You ought to try it sometime."

THE BOOMING ECONOMY

By any measure, the economy of the United States of America is booming. Unfortunately, if you watch television news or read the newspaper (remember those?,) everyone thinks we've fallen on hard times. That's too bad.  All that government schooling sure comes in handy for the liberal elites running the press when they want to push the big lie.

Right now, unemployment is at 4.7%.  By any measure, that's very low...approaching full employment.  In fact, in 1996 when Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the media bragged about the unemployment at the time of around 6%.  Why brag?  Because they wanted the public to think things were oh-so-swell so they would keep Clinton in office. So you get the idea...when there's a Democrat in the Oval Office, low unemployment is low, but if it's a Republican, all unemployment is high.  And so the media template goes.

The economy right now is on fire.....in fact, it's been growing year after year.  But don't tell the dumb masses.  They'll tell you that the economy is in the toilet.  Why?  It's those darned gas prices!  Never mind that gas prices have been high for several years running in the summer months, and ignore the fact that, adjusted for inflation, they've been higher in the past.

Another example:  When Bush ran for office he promised to increase jobs in the U.S.  For years after his election the press ran with examples on how Bush was failing to live up to his promise.  Then .. the promised jobs started to materialize, the press suddenly couldn't find its tongue.  No surprise.

So what's really behind the lack of good news about our great economy?  Make no mistake, it is the slanted propaganda churned out daily by the mainstream media and the Democrats.  Such is their desire to remove Republicans from office that they will do anything to create the impression that the economy is terrible, and that includes fail to tell you the truth about our current economic boom. 

But just look around you.....and you'll see otherwise.

That is, unless your head is in the sand.  Like most people on the left.

GAS SHORTAGES?

Now we're getting news stories of spot gas shortages in various places on the east coast.  Rest assured that these spot shortages will be blamed on Bush.  Why, everything is Bush's fault, right?  These shortages are happening as part of a plot to make Bush's oil buddies richer, right?  You would be surprised -- or maybe you wouldn't be -- how many Americans will believe just this.  Why?  Bluntly speaking, because they're ignorant, uninformed and easily led.

The truth?  Blame the enviro-whackos, not the president.  Right now we have refineries that have shut down so that they can reformulate their refining blends.  Why?  Because precious environmental activists have demanded somewhere around 55 special blends for various areas of the country to answer specific environmental concerns.  So ... if your station runs short, you might what to thank your local tree-hugging, global warming alarmist.

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THE MINUTEMEN WANT A FENCE

The immigration "debate" continues....and with every passing day, the American people get more and more fed up with the invasion of illegal aliens from Mexico.  One proposal being kicked around is to build the equivalent of The Great Wall of Mexico.  That's right...a huge wall stretching some 1,951 miles...from San Diego to Brownsville.  That should just about do it.  Make it a double-fence.  Let really hungry dogs patrol the space between.  It's an invasion ... it needs to be stopped.    

At any rate, the desire for some sort of border wall is falling on deaf ears in Washington.  It's not politically correct.....people think it's mean.  But building a wall to prevent an invasion is natural right of any citizen or government.  Mexicans are talking about the "reconquista."  That's the dream of many Mexicans to retake the American Southwest ... as their own.  If you aren't sufficiently agitated by this invasion, perhaps you would like to log on to http://www.aztlan.net.  There you will find a story about a University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor who is predicting a new, sovereign Hispanic nation in the Southwest.  He calls it the "Republica del Norte"  That would translate into the Republic of the North.  This professor in an American university says that this is inevitable.  Do you like the sound of that? 

Anyway, enter the Minutemen.  This is the group of citizen militia that have been patrolling the border with Mexico on their own time.  They're tired of the endless stampede from Mexico.  So now they've issued an ultimatum to President Bush.  Build a fence or we'll do it for you.

In fact, it may happen.  Already, landowners along the border are stepping forward to donate the land to put up the wall and contractors have stepped forward to donate equipment to build it.  This could work...and maybe we can finally put a lid on illegal immigration.

Maybe.

THE POODLE'S WHEELS ARE TURNING

Hard to believe it's been almost 2 years since the Poodle's stinging defeat at the polls in November 2004.  After he lost, John Kerry disappeared for awhile.  People asked....would he run again?  The record of party nominees who lose the general election, then run again isn't very good.

But times have changed....and anything can happen, right?  After all, Nixon lost the national election, then came back and won it all.  So Kerry is determined. In fact, he says he is "thinking hard" about running in 2008.  He says he'll decide by the end of the year.

Of course, he knows he has no chance of winning the nomination.  He's damaged goods.  Plus, by the end of the year, Hillary Clinton will be sitting on a multi-million dollar war chest that will blow all the other suitors out of the water.

But hey, a poodle can dream, can't he?  Maybe he can be Hillary's pet.  No ... wait.  She's not nearly rich enough.

SCOTT CROSSFIELD

This is the first man to fly twice the speed of sound. He had been the first person to climb into some of our fastest and most dangerous military airplanes and fly them.  He was one of the aviation heroes featured in the book The Right Stuff.  Scott Crossfield is dead.  Dead at the age of 84. His body was found in the wreckage of his Cessna yesterday afternoon in the North Georgia mountains.  The image of his airplane disappeared from Atlanta Center radar scopes at just about the same time a huge thunderstorm with large hailstones was traversing the area.  So, to my fellow pilots, the weather doesn't care how great a pilot you are.  No amount of experience can prepare you to fly a light general aviation airplane into the middle of a nympho-cumulus cloud.  Please be careful.  Every penny you spend on weather avoidance avionics and software in your cockpit is a penny spent on saving your life.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Clearly the Redneck Martha Stewart has been all over this place. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

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A little ditty about Eminent Domain to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down. Funny!

From the Ludwig von Mises Institute.  Where would General Motors be without the United Automobile Workers Union? Answer:  In much better shape than they are now.

And now the most important thing you'll read all day:  Former secretary of state during the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright, can leg press 400 pounds.  This breaking news brought to you by the New York Times Magazine.

So where is Osama Bin Laden these days and what is he up to?  One journalist says he's very much alive and splits his time between Afghanistan and Pakistan.  His hobbies include jihad, recording creepy videotapes and modeling turbans for his wives.  Okay, I made that last part up.

The two big firefighter's unions in New York came out yesterday and endorsed The Hildabeast.  But as this news story points out, not a single member of the rank and file bothered to attend.

A new poll forecasts bad news for the GOP this fall....53% of Americans polled say they do not want most current members of Congress re-elected.  Translation: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (shudder.)

Charles Krauthammer has an interesting point.  In the 1960's, the left hated generals. In fact, they hated the entire military.  But now that a Republican is in the Oval Office and Donald Rumsfeld is the defense secretary, generals are sainted individuals that deserve our undivided attention!

What is China's secret to its economic prosperity?  For all our talk about free trade, Pat Buchanan points something out.  He says China is a protectionist country with a rigged currency.

There's a new documentary out about Al Gore's crusade against global warming.  But Jonah Goldberg has a new name for Al Gore: scaremonger.

Oliver North reports this morning from Hanoi, Vietnam, where he's visiting a museum about the Vietnam War.  He says there are parallels between the generals calling for Rumsfeld's head and the appeasers who caused us to lose in Vietnam.

So what can George W. Bush do to get his poll numbers up?  John McIntyre over at Real Clear Politics has an interesting idea.  He says Bush should pick a fight with the Democrats.  Outstanding!

So gas is approaching record levels....ever wonder what is rolled into the price of a gallon of gas?  This graphic breaks it down pretty well...and almost 20% is taxes. 

Atlanta area man threatens another driver by calling number she had on her car. He didn't figure on caller id. Whoops.

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