BOORISH, IGNORANT BEHAVIOR

Was it a funeral?  Or was it a political rally?  Sadly, both.  No .. I didn't watch it. It's hard to watch television when you're under general anesthesia.  But I did manage to listen to some sound clips and watch a bit of video [view Lowery and presidents] yesterday evening.  It looks like there were some old leftist warhorses at the Coretta Scott King funeral yesterday who were determined to use the occasion to get in some shots against President Bush.  In today's politics, that wasn't surprising.  You do remember the Paul Wellstone funeral in Minnesota, don't you? The 2002 memorial service  turned into a full-fledged campaign rally for Walter Mondale who was running against Republican Norm Colman for Wellstone's seat.  Republicans at this memorial service, Trent Lott, for instance, were booed by the crowd.  Some pundits believe that this memorial-service-turned-political-rally had much to do with the Democrats miserable performance in the 2002 mid-term elections.  

This repugnant behavior was to be expected out of Joseph Lowery.  He chose the occasion of the funeral of the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. to announce that we found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Never mind that Lowery is wrong.  He's often wrong.  For Lowery, the race baiting and liberal dogma always comes before fact and logic.  He didn't measure up as President of King's SCLC, and he didn't measure up to the task of being a gentleman and honoring Coretta Scott King yesterday.  

Then there was Jimmy Carter.  Some people refer to Carter as "America's best ex-president."  Well, if you want to consider his empowerment of people like Kim Jong Ill and Hugo Chavez as good for America, then you may have a point.  If measuring the worth of a former president consists of measuring his affection for the world's dictators, then Carter is indeed one of the best.  Carter used the occasion of this funeral to take a jab at bush over the NSA wiretaps.  Carter has declared them to be illegal.  Now he's a judge and a legal scholar.  Carter brought up the fact that the FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King.  He didn't mention that this happened under Democratic administrations.  He also failed to mention that it was under a Democratic institution that tapes of those wiretaps, tapes purportedly showing instances of MLK's infidelities, were surreptitiously sent to his wife.  

President Bush knew that this would happen when he went to the funeral.  He knew that Democrats and liberals would use an overwhelmingly friendly audience to take their shots.  He showed great dignity in sitting there and taking it all in stride.  Bush stood tall, Lowery and Carter stooped low.

This, then, seems to be the new standard for funerals and memorial services for liberal icons.   The TV cameras will be there.  Millions will be watching, and emotions will be raw.  What a great time to get in some political digs!  Both Joseph Lowery and Jimmy Carter should be ashamed.  Sadly, they don't have the class to understand that.

EUROPEANS CAVING

Perhaps you've missed them, but in the last 24 hours or so I've seen several interviews of people on the streets in Denmark and other European countries.  More and more these Europeans ... dare I say Euro-weenies? ... are showing sympathy for the mad Muslims rioting and demonstrating over these silly cartoons.  Every time a European says "They're right, we shouldn't have published those cartoons," it's a victory for the jihadists.  As the Islamo-fascists see Europeans cower at their threats they grow more and more emboldened.  This, though, is the European way.  

Perhaps, though, there will be a more positive fallout from these demonstrations and threats against Europeans.  Maybe more and more people will come to understand that all of these assertions that Islam is a religion of love and peace are patently false.   Islam is displaying its true colors.  The entire world is seeing the signs .. the signs on the streets calling for death and decapitations.  "Death to those who insult Islam."  "Cut off the hands of those who depict the Prophet."  "Decapitate those who disrespect Mohammed."  Some of the signs caution Europe to remember 9/11.  Threats, pure and simple.  Practitioners of a religion of love and peace do not demand death for imagined insults.  

Now we have that moonbat running Iran calling for some sort of a competition for cartoonists about the Jewish Holocaust.  So much for respect for other people's religion.  

Europe is coming to understand the perils of leftist multiculturalism.  All culture are not equal.  Western culture is clearly superior to that of the "peaceful" religion of Islam.  A culture of tolerance for diverse religions beliefs is superior to one of religious hatred.   The European welfare states had to drop immigration barriers in order to import enough workers to tax in order to pay the bills.  In establishing these grandiose social welfare states did these European nations sew the seeds for their own destruction?

WIRETAPS --- SPYING ON AMERICANS.  OH MY!

If you've been listening you know that I, like many others, have some problems with our government's wiretap program.  Simply put, if those wiretaps involve an American citizen I would like for our government to get to a judge as soon as practicable and legitimize them.  Having said that, I want to reiterate my complaints about the way the leftist media is characterizing these wiretaps.  In newspaper after newspaper you will see the wiretaps referred to as "spying on Americans."  The fact is that the spying is being done on known terrorist suspects overseas.  If those known terrorist suspects happen to make a phone call to someone in this country, including an American citizen, the eavesdropping continues.

Think about this people?  There are American citizens who would do our country harm.  There are American citizens who have aligned themselves with terrorist elements.  Remember Johnny Taliban?  John Walker Lindh?  How about Osama bin Lopez?  Do the names Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols mean anything to you?  Are you telling me that if either of these goons received a call from a Taliban official our intelligence officials should just say "Oops, they've made a call to an American.  We have to disconnect."  

HYPOCRITE HILLARY

Hillary Clinton has decided to kiss a little labor union booty and get in on the war against Wal-Mart, America's biggest private employer.  Hillary, of course, thinks that it is the role of government, to decide just how a private company needs to spend its payroll budget.  The government should determine what percentage of the payroll budget goes into actual pay, what percentage into pensions, and, of course, what percentage goes into health care.  Hillary, being the champion of socialized medicine that she is, believes that the last person to be responsible for an individual's health care is ..... the individual.  Now Hillary is very concerned about the health care benefits Wal-Mart bestows on its employees.  Here's your interesting but probably forgotten little fact.  For several years Hillary was on the board of directors of Wal-Mart.  She stepped down when her "husband" stepped up to the White House.  Not once during that time ... not once ... did Hillary enter an objection into the record over the amount Wal-Mart was spending on health benefits ... and the figure was quite a bit lower than it is right now.  This is all about politics and kissing union ass.

OK EVACUEES ... YOU TIME IS UP.  TIME TO STAND UP ON YOUR OWN

Uh oh.  Expect some mighty big whining from the left today.  The deadline .. yet another deadline ... has come for some of the Katrina parasites.  Check out time in about 1,500 hotel rooms in the Atlanta area was 11:00 yesterday.  It's been five months.  Time to end the freeloading.  So ... guess what happened.  In a few instances the evacuees actually came up with some money to extend their stay?  Wow!  The government stops covering the tab with taxpayer money, and suddenly these people come up with their own!  'Sup wid dat?  Some of the hotel managers are reporting that the rooms evacuated by these poor, poor victims of Katrina are in pretty rough shape.  Furniture was destroyed. There were cigarette burn marks in the carpeting.  Many of these hotels are saying that any money they made from FEMA housing these deadbeats will have to be spent cleaning up and fixing the rooms.  Carpeting will have to be replaced in many of them.  Other hotel operators said that the Katrina evacuees caused problems with other, paying guests.  One property usually got about 3 or 4 complaints a month.  With the Katrina evacuees in place these hotels reported that non-Katrina guests lodged over 50 complaints a month.

I've caught no small amount of hell over the past few months slamming many of these evacuees.  One leftist website took great pride in relaying my assertions that many of these people were like ticks who were just looking for a dry spot on the dog.  Looks like I had things about right.  Many of these evacuees brought to their hotels the very same culture they brought to the welfare housing projects of New Orleans .. one of complete and absolute dependency.  A good number of them, perhaps most of those still left in these hotel rooms, will spend the remainder of their days living a life of dependency, a life of plunder.  

The sibling warfare in the Skelton household continues...

GLOBAL WARMING HEATING UP

It has been announced that this January was the warmest on record.  Last month came in with an average temperature of almost 40 degrees...some 8.5 degrees above average.  You know what this means....the howls of global warming are set to begin.  The Earth is heating up and we're all going to die!

But what you won't hear from our leftist environmentalist friends...is that temperature records don't go back that far.  We could have had many warm Januarys throughout history, but we'll never know.  Most records only go back a hundred years or so.  Some more, some less.  So based on limited data, they are concluding that the Earth is warming at an alarming rate.

Also going unexplained is the fact that February is headed back to normal.  In a lot of places, temperatures have gone back to their normal winter highs and lows.  But that doesn't matter to the left...the only important thing is that evil capitalism is destroying the environment.

Tony Blair came out yesterday and said the world only has 7 years to get emissions under control, or it could be too late.  Too late for what?  It sure seems like they make this stuff up as they go along.

By the way ... you should know that there are now a few scientists out there who are predicting a coming mini-ice age.  Me?  I'll take the warming.

WHAT PASSES FOR NEWS THESE DAYS

With everything that's going on, what is one of the number 1 news stories right now?  How pop slut Britney Spears drove around L.A. in her car recently with her baby son in her lap.  The press is going nuts about this...how could she?  Child protective services is investigating...and has reportedly already paid Britney and her husband Cletus a visit at their trailer.

The most important question is this: who cares?  We are a nation at war....the president just submitted an almost $3 trillion budget, radical Islamic fundamentalists are rioting in the streets over an editorial cartoon...and all anyone seems to care about is Britney's driving habits with her son.

The mainstream media really is a complete waste of time.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

I guess this is one way to warm up your car. Or set it on fire. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's a victory for those who believe in the concept of private property.  A Pennsylvania court says that the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority should not have taken a woman's home to hand to a church to build a private school.  There's a lesson for our own Supreme Court.

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