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The picture to the left is for geography whiz and public school teacher Peggy West.

This is one heck of a field sobriety test, rats! so close and yet so far.

Something else that is sobering is the loss of Turkey as an ally.  Still, if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, friction between that nation and Iran could prove useful.  If the two nations came to blows, Turkey is a NATO member, and we would be duty bound to help.  Darn the luck, we might have to help put a Saddam Hussein type keister-kicking on Ahamanutjob.

The Chinese reaction to such a scenario could prove interesting; however, China is having to deal with domestic unrest over maintaining its slave labor force.  Think about labor conditions there during the next Walmart shopping excursion.

It seems odd that we need to reaffirm that the Fourteenth Amendment applied the Fifth Amendment to the various states.  The Loony Left's Elena Kagan believes that it does so only if it is convenient to the cause of totalitarian mommy staters.  The Second Amendment is alive and well.

What happens if a worse case scenario becomes reality and we learn that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the result of a down hole failure deep underground?  Take time to read this article.  It is not just frightening; it is horrifying.

The fallout over the Rolling Stone article on General McChrystal is widening.  Defense Secretary Gates is said to have preferred keeping him, but now it is too late.  The chief of the Pakistani army believes that McChrystal's replacement Petraeus is more of a politician than a military strategist.  After all, McChrystal was the boots on the ground guy for Petraeus in Iraq.  Now, Pakistan seems to be moving unilaterally to solve problems in the region.

In this article, the author draws some comparisons between Abraham Lincoln and Brick-a-Brack O-buma.  While it is true that both sacked a general in time of war, there are other similarities.  Lincoln stole property from the people of the Confederacy; O-buma has stolen the auto, banking, and health care industries.  Lincoln created a totalitarian state by suspending habeas corpus; the One seeks to subvert the rule of law by appointing people to the Supreme Court who believe that the Constitution is only the nation's Supreme Law when it is politically expedient.

However, Lincoln was a terrorist-by-proxy who used General William T. Sherman to wage war on a civilian population comprised mainly of women, children, and elderly people.  Perhaps the O-bomunist's form of terror will be to finalize his totalitarian regime with the thirty plus unelected and non-vetted czars.  Maybe historians will be as kind to the O-bumessiah as they have been to Lincoln.

May your gods be with you.

Benefits of Adding a Fifty-first State

The electorate in Arizona seems to have wearied of the official misuse of their tax dollars.  Rewarding with public revenues someone who stumbles across their border two days from childbirth in order to deliver in a homeless shelter seems not to represent the American way.

Anchor babies--they are the children born here to illegal aliens--provide the legal pretext for importing their mother's entire extended family to settle in comfortably on the taxpayers' dime.  They enjoy the benefits of TANF, Social Security Supplemental Income and disability payments, WIC checks, food stamps, cost free health care, subsidized or free housing and utilities, and educational benefits that include free lunches.

As though the US did not already have more than enough lifetime welfare recipients, they are pouring unchecked across our borders.  Golly gee, who oh who, could possibly benefit from this permanent welfare constituency?  Surely, it could not be Barack, throws-like-a-girl O-buma!

Has anyone else noticed that hearing the O-bumites' denials that they are continuing to expand their theft-welfare empire is mindful of Thomas Beecham's simile?  The grating sound is like that of "two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof."

While on the topic of importing welfare recipients, the Congressional Theftocrats are using the same sort of procedural flimflammery used to create socialized medicine to add to their numbers two senators, 6-8 house members, a pile of electoral votes, and a couple of million voters.  Not only should Puerto Rico be denied statehood, we should unilaterally re-establish their independence as a sovereign nation.

This study from the University of Massachusetts indicates that the source of 33.8% of Puerto Ricans' per capita income is federal tax dollars.  This amount in relation to the 50 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico is 158% of the average amount, ranking fourth overall.

With a national median income of about $17,000, or about 60% lower than that of the US and lower than any of the 50 states, there seems to be little benefit to statehood other than more unskilled labor.  Since only two-thirds of the island's population are high school graduates, compared to the US rate of over 80%, we would be getting the short end of the stick.  On the whole, it seems more harmful than helpful to acquire additional people whose job skills make them best suited for work as Walmart greeters or salting fries at McDonald's.

Some people are just lucky; read about this immaculate deception.

May your gods be with you.