THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS

By Neal Boortz
In downtown Chicago they have a festival they call the German Christkindlemarket. It's a Christmas festival. One of the private-sector sponsors of the festival is New Line Cinema. New Line has a movie coming out soon called "The Nativity Story." It seems that New Line is going to have some televisions in their booth at the festival and on those televisions they will be showing previews of "The Nativity Story."
Well .. .this doesn't sit well with some Chicago city officials. The spokesditz for the Mayor's* Office of Special Events, Cindy Gatzilois, says that the city doesn't want to appear to endorse one religion over another. Then we hear from Jim Law, the executive director of the special events office with this gem: "Our guidance was that this very prominently placed advertisement would not only be insensitive to the many people of different faiths who come to enjoy the market for its food and unique gifts ...... "
I am way, way past giving a flying fornication about whether or not "people of different faiths" are offended by a symbol of the Christian religion. It's not the city government promoting the movie, it's a private sector filmmaker. If someone of a different faith is offended then they can damn well turn their heads and not watch the movie trailer being shown in the New Line booth. Or, better yet, they can just keep their sorry asses at home and leave the festival to people who can enjoy it for what it is and not wander around looking for something that offends them.
It's Christmas. Get it? Over 85% of the people in this country celebrate this holiday as a celebration of the Birth of Christ. Of the 15% of those who don't less than one tenth of one percent care one way or the other what you celebrate and how you celebrate it. People like Gatzilois and Law suffer from an affliction known as "governmentitis." It's a mental disease that causes government employees who have no marketable private sector job skills to develop an over-inflated opinion of their own importance in the grand scheme of things.
*The Mayor of Chicago, by the way, is a jerk.
THE ATLANTA DRUG RAID STORY GETS MORE INTERESTING
By now you know the story of the drug raid in Atlanta where an elderly woman was killed by the police. Thus far the police story is that a police informant purchased drugs at the woman's home earlier in the day. The police obtained a no-knock search warrant and returned to the home at 7:00 that evening. As they were breaking the door down to enter the residence, 88-year-old Kathryn Johnson, the owner of the home, opened fire with her pistol. She hit all three police officers, one of them three times. The police returned fire and Johnson was killed. The issue isn't whether or not the police should have returned fire. Of course they should have. They didn't know who was doing the shooting. They believed they were entering a house where drugs were being sold. On the other hand, Kathryn Johnson did the right thing also. Scared to death living in that high-crime neighborhood. She had heard of a recent rape of an elderly woman nearby. She was simply defending herself when she was killed.
Now we have an interesting twist. The informant is now saying that the police told him to lie, they told him to say that he had purchased drugs from the home. It's would be easy to believe that the informant is now lying to cover his rear end. The problem is that the police have been caught in a few prevarications themselves. The first word was the police officers made the drug buy in the home. Now we learn it was a police informant. Then we were told that police found narcotics in the home. Later we're told they only found a small amount of marijuana .. not considered narcotics.
As I've been saying from the beginning, the real cause of this tragedy is our insane war on drugs in this country. Study after study has shown that he most cost-effective way to reduce drug use in the U.S. is through treatment, not through criminalization and law enforcement. Americans just have this need to punish those who get involved in drugs. Stupid? Sure they're stupid. Weak? Yeah, they're weak. Stupidity and weakness aren't crimes. We could save billions of dollars a year in law enforcement and incarceration costs if we would wise up and stop this absurd war on drugs. Identify the users and offer them treatment. Crime rate goes down. Money is saved, and we get reduced usage and dependence on drugs. (Stupid & weak? Hmmm ... wonder if there is a treatment for being a liberal democrat? HB)
IRAQ OFFICIALLY HOPELESS NOWAt least that's what outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan would like you to think. Oh, and good riddance, by the way. There has never been a more anti-American, anti-Israel head of the United Nations. At any rate, Kofi has announced that civil war is imminent in Iraq. Gee ... thanks Kofi! Nothing like stabbing the United States in the back on the way out of office. Way to go... your masters running Al-Qaeda just put the check in the mail. Don't spend it all in one place. So just what is the reason for Kofi's despondency over Iraq? When asked if Iraq is in a civil war, he says "Given the developments on the ground, unless something is done drastically and urgently to arrest the deteriorating situation, we could be there. In fact, we are almost there." Nice vote of confidence. So what would Kofi do differently? Take more kickbacks.The answer is nothing. Like the Democratic Party, Kofi Annan has no solution for Iraq. The United Nations had no solution for Iraq for 12 years either. They have nothing ... no ideas, no suggestions for ways they might help do things better. All he wants to do is sit on the sidelines and criticize. No solution is being offered ... nothing. But guys like Kofi Annan have their reasons for not helping out. You see, if the U.N. helps us win in Iraq, that will give legitimacy to the invasion and occupation. We can't have that. Make America look good? Why ... the United Nations could never be a part of that. NEWS ON THE SIX IMAMSWe've been treated for days now to the story of the 6 Imams in Minneapolis. No, this isn't the beginning of some sort of joke .... the six Imams tried to get on a U.S. Airways flight last week and were marched off the plane in handcuffs after passengers became suspicious. CAIR was outraged .... they said the Imams were guilty of nothing more than flying while Muslim. The Imams have held a press conference at the airport claiming religious persecution. The lawsuits are flying. But now it's coming out exactly why these peace-loving worshipers of Allah were arrested. Turns out they were praying loudly and shouting "Allah" as passengers boarded the plane. Gee ... I can't think of a more peaceful thing to do. What were the authorities thinking? Terrorists never shout Allah's name! Once on the plane, the Imams changed from their assigned seats ... to a similar seating pattern of that of the 9/11 hijackers. That is, near the exits and entrances on the plane. Hmm ... that's just a wee bit suspicious, isn't it? So it's no surprise that these people were arrested. The real question here isn't were they discriminated against ... but what were they really up to? According to their behavior, we should be investigating them for terrorism, because they sure fit the profile. BAD NEWS FOR THE POODLEJohn Kerry just can't catch a break these days. After being blown out badly in his quest to become the next president of the United States just two years ago, The Poodle has decided he might just run for the nomination in 2008. There's only one problem with that ... he's not faring too well in recent polls. Polls gauge interest and interest determines how donors spread their money around. No money, no campaign. That's just how it works. A poll was done gauging the likeability of the top 20 American political figures. Where did The Poodle rate? Dead last. Number 20. Way behind George W. Bush. Behind even Al Gore. Ouch... sKerry's political career is now dead on arrival. So what is John Kerry going to do now?The answer is nothing. He'll finish out his term in the Senate and then join the same route into political oblivion blazed by other Democrats who've lost presidential elections. For an example, see Michael Dukakis. Oh ..and you may be wondering ...who was #1 in the likeability poll?#1 was Rudy Giuliani. Followed by Barack Obama. Perhaps this is an indication of things to come. That would be some race!
By the way ... in case I didn't really convey my true feelings here ... Kerry is a pompous jackass.
Where's the love?
REDNECK SCRAP BOOK
When a redneck finds himself in trouble with the law, he probably would want a lawyer he feels comfortable with. I think he might find one here. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTSThis is most interesting...Iran says it will help Iraq with its security. Now keep in mind this is the same Iraq that was only freed from dictatorship because of the United States ... the supposed Great Satan in the eyes of Iran. This newfound cooperation from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is most likely depressing America-hater Kofi Annan.A new study finds that women talk three times as much as men. Insert your own joke here. The study also finds that the act of talking prompts a rush a brain chemicals in women that is similar to that of a heroin addict. We report, you decide. NBC News says Iraq is a civil war. So let me get this straight: what one particular news organization thinks is now news.
The American Legion is none too pleased with Charlie Rangel. They want the New York Democrat to apologize for suggesting that soldiers only fight in Iraq because there are no other options for employment. They might not want to hold their breath. It's worth pointing out when a Democrat actually says something worthwhile. Delaware Democrat Joe Biden, who favors tightening up our border with Mexico, says the biggest culprit in illegal immigration is Mexico itself. It is, after all, a third-world country. Those conservatives that stayed home on November 7th are going to soon regret it. Democrats have no intention of clamping down on pork barrel spending projects....or so-called earmarks. Why? Because they use them to buy votes, same as the Republicans before them. Surprised? You shouldn't be. Politicians will be politicians. George Will takes a look inside his crystal ball at just how Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to be running the House. For pointers, he goes back in time to the last few Democratic speakers and how they treated the minority. It wasn't pretty. Interesting column today from Thomas Sowell. He looks at a new book that examines whether there really is much difference between a liberal and a conservative. By the way, do you know conservatives donate more to charity than do liberals?David Limbaugh says the re-energizing of the conservative Republican base is likely to come from presidential candidates who want to be more like Ronald Reagan. For example, he points to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

D.C.'s gun lessons
The Washington TIMES

Nov. 18, 2006

The incoming Democratic powers-that-be in the congressional leadership and on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees are a who's who of the gun-control movement: Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Patrick Leahy, John Conyers, Dick Durbin, Joseph Biden, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and Herb Kohl, to name a few.

If and when gun control roars back to life in 2007-08 -- we expect that it will -- the data unearthed this week in these lawmakers' own backyards by reporter Matthew Cella should loom large.

The District of Columbia's gun-murder numbers show yet again that stringent gun-control laws have little or no utility in curbing the violence, even as they strip citizens of their Second Amendment rights. And, indeed, the trend nationwide since 1991 has been a drop in crime at the same time gun-control laws were loosened. Since 1977, the nation's capital has kept some of the country's strictest gun laws on the books. And yet, as Mr. Cella showed Friday in The Washington Times, over the period 2001-05, about 80 percent of murders in the District were perpetrated with guns -- a ratio slightly higher than in New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Atlanta.

Overall homicide levels in the District are troublingly high and have not been helped by gun control. Which is no wonder: Violent criminals can wield guns confident that they will not get caught, and confident that law-abiding people will not have guns themselves.

D.C.'s gun lessons

Rush Limbaugh Explains Why

Republicans Lost on Election Day

Republicans lost control of the House, and perhaps the Senate, because they abandoned their conservative principles and in the end stood for nothing, Rush Limbaugh said in his Wednesday broadcast.

America's top talker said that until Republicans begin asking themselves what's wrong with themselves they are never going to fix their problems. When things go wrong, Rush said, "you must look inward and ask first, 'What did we do wrong? What could we have done better? What mistakes did we make?'"

Commenting that although Republicans lost, "Conservatism did not lose, Republicanism lost last night. Republicanism, being a political party first, rather than an ideological movement, is what lost last night." The Democrats, he said "beat something last nightwith nothing. They advanced no agenda other than their usual anti-war position. They had no contract - they really never did get specific. Their message was one of 'vote for us; the other guys have been in power too long.'"

Rush further admonished, "There was no dominating conservative message that came from the [Republican] top and filtered down throughout in this campaign." He added that if there was conservatism in the campaign, it was on the Democratic side: "There were conservative Democrats running for office in the House of Representatives and in a couple of Senate races won by Democrats yesterday." He cited James Webb as an example.

He also said it was conservatism that won fairly big when it was tried yesterday, but it was Democrats who ran as conservatives and not their GOP rivals. He added that the Democratic leadership had gone out and recruited conservative candidates because theyknew liberals could not win running against Republicans in red states.
Rush quoted Thomas Sowell as explaining that the latest example of election fraud is actually what the Democrats did - they nominated a bunch of moderate and conservative candidates for the express purpose of electing a far-left Democratic leadership.

"The Democrats could not have won the House, being liberals," Rush said. "Liberalism didn't win anything yesterday; Republicanism lost. Conservatism was nowhere to be found except on the Democratic side."

The root of the problem, Rush said, is that "our side hungers for ideological leadership and we're not getting it from the top. Conservatism was nowhere to be found in this campaign from the top. The Democrats beat something with nothing. They didn't have to take a stand on anything other than their usual anti-war positions. They had no clear agenda and they didn't dare offer one. Liberalism will still lose every time it's offered."

Republicans, Rush said, allowed themselves to be defined. "Without elected conservative leadership from the top Republicans in the House and Senate republicans are free to freelance and say the hell with party unity." That leads, Rush said, to the emergence of RINOs - Republicans in name only.

Republicans in Congress, Rush explained, were held captive by the party's leadership in the White House. They were put into a position of having to endorse policies with which as conservatives they disagreed. "The Democratic Party," Rush went on to say, "is the party of entitlements; but the Republicans come up with this Medicare prescription drug plan that the polls said that the public didn't want and was not interested in. That is not conservatism. Conservatives do not grow the government and offer entitlements as a means of buying votes. But that's what the Republicans in Congress had to support in order to stay in line with the Party from the top.

"It is silly to blame the media; it is silly to blame the Democrats; it is silly to go out and tryto find all these excuses," Rush said. "We have proved that we can beat them ... we have proved that we can withstand whatever we get from the drive-by media. Conservatism does that - conservatism properly applied, proudly, eagerly, with vigor and honesty will triumph over that nine times out of 10 in this current political and social environment. It just wasn't utilized in this campaign."

Rush also blamed the failure to embrace conservatism on Republican's fear of being criticized from those in the so-called establishment. Republicans, he charged, go out of their way to avoid being criticized, fearing they will be characterized as extremists and kooks.

As a result conservatism gets watered down, and the GOP loses the support of the nation's conservative majority Rush stated.

"Anything can beat nothing, Rush concluded, "and it happened yesterday."

Some Good Fun -- From the Right

HISTORIC VICTORY FOR DIEBOLD!

By Ann Coulter

Nov. 8, 2006

History was made this week! For the first time in four election cycles, Democrats are not attacking the Diebold Corp. the day after the election, accusing it of rigging its voting machines. I guess Diebold has finally been vindicated.

So the left won the House and also Nicaragua. They've had a good week. At least they don't have their finger on the atom bomb yet.

Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by pretending to be against all three. More Coulter

The Election--from the Right

Only a Minor Earthquake

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, Nov. 10, 2006

How serious is the "thumpin'" the Republicans took on Tuesday? Losing one house is significant but hardly historic. Losing both houses, however, is defeat of a different order of magnitude, the equivalent in a parliamentary system of a vote of no confidence.

On Tuesday Democrats took control of the House and the Senate. As of this writing, they won 29 House seats (with a handful still in the balance), slightly below the post-1930 average for the six-year itch in a two-term presidency. They took the Senate by the thinnest of margins -- a one-vote majority, delivered to them by a margin of 8,942 votes in Virginia and 2,847 in Montana.

Because both houses have gone Democratic, the election is correctly seen as an expression of no confidence in the central issue of the campaign: Iraq. It was not so much the war itself as the perceived administration policy of "stay the course," which implied endless intervention with no victory in sight. The president got the message. Hence the summary resignation of the designated fall guy, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. More