Now Its Beginning to Make Sense

Did you see those three goofballs from Massachusetts on the morning news shows (and I think EVERY news show on the air) last week who supposedly found buried treasure?

Story was, they were doing some yard work in their friend's backyard and came upon some buried containers, which contained all sorts of rare US currency. After plastering their faces all over the media, these guys were recently arrested. Turns out they STOLE the currency!

Now, lets see...I successfully commit a crime, so whats the first thing I decide to do???
I know! I'll brag about it!! Even better, lets go on TV!!

Products of the public school system of Massachusetts??
At least now I can partially understand how Kennedy and Kerry keep getting re-elected.

Happy Anniversary

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the Left-sided Gas Bags 'Happy Anniversary'. Its been one year since the events at Abu Ghraib.

To commemorate this date, the alcohol-preserved Gas Bag, Ted Kennedy, saw fit to issue an incoherent diatribe today. When his Senate career is over (which I hope is soon), Teddy can get a job as a spokesman for Osama bin Laden.

In the spirit of reconciliation, I am calling on my friends and fellow members of the VastRightWingConspiracy, to send an Anniversary gift to your favorite Leftie.

Suggestions for appropriate gifts include:
dog collar and leash (preferably the spiked ones)
black hood (silk)
jumper cables
digital camera (so they can record their personal atrocities)

Please note: if you are sending a gift to Ted Kennedy, please select from the following:
life jacket or other flotation device
map of Martha's Vineyard, so he doesn't make another wrong turn
gift certificate for creative writing lessons, so he can come up with a better story

(If you're too young to know what I'm talking about, here's a Google for Mary Jo Kopechne)

Internet Etiquette

Are you one of those people mysteriously compelled by uncontrollable external forces to forward every email story that turns up in your Inbox??

I've got bad news...most of them are fake! (And there is no Santa, but that's a previous post).

For the sanity of your few thinking friends, who actually know how to use the internet, please check you story before sending it. This can be done at a variety of web sites.
Probably the best known is snopes.com . You can also use Urban Legends and Folklore, Hoaxbusters, Truth or Fiction or any others you can find.

If someone insists upon sending you bogus stories, reply with this link: Internet Soapbox
Better yet, click Reply to All, because invariably, people who forward these things leave the headers from the previous 37 forwards.

Around the Dial

Just got done playing with that "Next Blog" button on the top right.

Two things struck me.

1) I was kind of surprised to see that about 40 - 50% of the blogs I came across were foreign.

2) Spent some time reading the American ones...America is doomed.

We are being sucked into a cerebral void.

A Religion of Peace, huh?

So now those peaceful Islamist barbarians have shot down a civilian helicopter.
Here's the video.

See the charred bodies...see the assassination of an innocent civilian.

Next time someone expresses sympathy for the IslamoAnimals, punch them square in the back of the head.
Then show them this.

CAUTION: it is unsettleing, to say the least.

YAHWEH Akbar!!

Wanted: A Few Real Men

As usual, Vox Day is succinct and on target.

After almost every column or blogpost I've written about the various idiosyncracies of women, some woman writes to complain that I never criticize men. Of course, there's not exactly a shortage of male-bashing in the mainstream media today, to say nothing of chick rags like Cosmopolitan, Ms., Self and other variants on the Me, Myself and I theme so popular with women.

And while there is something about the modern American man that is absolutely worthy of criticism, I don't think it's exactly what these feminists had in mind. For you see, the main problem with men today is that they are not men, but frightened little boys – afraid of their bosses, their wives, their girlfriends and their government. They are afraid of their employees, their children and their children's teachers.

What men lack today is a defining point seperating boyhood from manhood. The mere accumulation of years is not enough, for as the saying goes, a woman is, but a man must become. It is interesting to see the difference between one's friends who enter the Marine Corps and those who enter college – four years later, there is seldom a question that the Marine is indeed a man, but far more often than not, the college graduate is simply a post-adolescent version of what he was before.

This also helps to explain a phenomenon I have observed spreading through society: the "Perpetual Adolescent". Today we see retired adults (chronologically, at least) driving their Harley Davidsons, costumed like one of Hell's Angels. We see people (male and female) in their 50's, 60's and 70's, hanging out in bars, drinking like college fools. On one of the morning news shows today, they had a segment on seniors participating in "extreme" sports.

Fathers, I challenge you to make at least two defining points in your son's life. I would suggest the first at his 13th birthday. This is the age when he begins the transition to adulthood. The second, when he leaves home to go out on his own. (This can be after high school, upon college graduation, etc.)
It doesn't have to be anything extravagent; just something meaningful to him.
(For example, I bought my son his first rifle for his 13th birthday...a Ruger .243, complete with a 4-12X scope. Now, he shoots 1/4" groups at 100 yards. The second event has yet to occur.)


The time comes when everyone needs to grow up. How many times have children been told "act your age"? We have a generation of adults who have never made that decision.

Lock and Load!

Florida is about to become safer and a whole lot more polite.

People in Florida will be allowed to kill in self-defense on the street without trying to flee under a new law passed by state politicians on Tuesday.
The Florida House of Representatives, citing the need to allow people to "stand their ground," voted 94-20 to codify and expand court rulings that already allow people to use deadly force to protect themselves in their homes without first trying to escape.
The new bill goes further by allowing citizens to use deadly force in a public place if they have a reasonable belief they are in danger of death or great bodily harm.

Makes sense to me. One of the things that makes America unique is our right to private property. We should be entitled to defend that property, unencumbered by some ridiculous notion that you need to try to flee first. Like its a good idea to turn my back on some guy who is contemplating doing me harm.

Of course, there was the typical left-wing weenie-head, Chicken Little panic involking the Wild West and the OK Corral symbolism, none of which is statistically proven ANYWHERE gun laws are relaxed.

Just watch the crime stats drop!