November comes to a close

Guaranteed not to be in any of the mainstream big newspapers was this little tidbit about five deaths from the use of mifepristone, also known as RU-486. Why, that pill was supposed to be safe, people aren't harmed by early chemical abortions, are they? Well, yeah, they are, this has been known for many years. It's just that that inconvenient little truth didn't match the bill of goods we were being sold on this little way to have an abortion. You can find a story about it in the Washington Times but don't bother looking anywhere else for it.
The big news outlets also wanted to paint a gloomy picture of sales following Thanksgiving, never mind that the actual numbers were strong. If you can make the economy appear to be bad, you can then blame Bush for it. If the numbers are actually good, all you have to do is cherry-pick some stat to make it appear not so. So when sales at the mall aren't up as much as hoped for, use that instead of the big increase in sales for stores like Best Buy and Target.
Well, how can you defeat evil Republicans if you report news thats actually good?

Light blogging week

With the holiday weekend, I haven't had much time to post. I won't even start about shopping on Friday morning 5:30 AM. Lets just say it's insane!

Giants Change Slowly, But They Do Change

It may be the home of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, but it's a sad day in Doraville, along with many other towns that will be losing GM plants. With the announcement in the last day of huge layoffs at GM, the writing is on the wall for the dominant American auto manufacturer, and a way of life my grandparents and parents knew, but we and our children will not. We created a nation where ordinary workers could know a life better than any working-class man ever had, but the invisible hand would not be denied in the long run, because the cost of labor would eventually increase to the point that the company would eventually be unable to compete. While GM workers are still very productive, the workforce was increasingly burdened with the "legacy costs" of providing health care to retirees promised years ago. So much so that $1500.00 of every car GM sells goes just to this cost. When I was a child half the new cars sold in the US were GM cars, but now it less than a quarter. Displaced union workers have excoriated corporations that took advantage of cheap labor overseas, as if they themselves had a divine right to those jobs. They don't, nobody does. The corporation exists only to make a profit for its owners, period. End of story. If a worker gets a full career there, great. If not, just move on. For many years, this same cycle has gone on, and one by one, the dinosaurs have fallen. So now we are finally reaching the biggest of dinosaurs. The writing is on the wall.

Bucks win, Bengals lose

Ohio State can go 1-10, but if they beat Michigan it's a good year. This year they went better than that, but the come from behind win on Saturday was one they'll be talking about for years.
The Bengals gave the Colts all they wanted, but 37 isn't enough to beat Peyton and the boys. Baltimore did Cincy a favor by knocking off Pittsburg, so they stay in front of the AFC North. Denver, San Diego, and Seattle all showed they are teams to be reckoned with.

Tired of the MSM crap about Iraq

If you are, like me, tired of the same old garbage being repeated about our military day in and day out, you gotta get out of the MSM! Check out this. Now these guys should inspire you, putting some real perspective to the daily body count on CBS, which is only reported in a way to hurt the prosecution of the war.

Bengals - Colts Let it Snow!

We've seen how well Indy does in the snow at Foxboro. We just might have some snow for Peyton and the boys this week. Big Sunday national audience game at PBS (that's Paul Brown Stadium for the uninitiated) with the top CBS crew doing the game. You can go to the game in person if you've got 400-600 bucks for a scalper, just make sure you don't buy a counterfeit ticket.

I'm done with 'em.

No more time, no more MONEY! NO more to my worthless friends that I helped to elect. Eleven years after the House became Republican majority, five years into the Bush presidency, even the Senate is (supposedly) Republican. And it is the Republicans blocking permanent tax cuts. It is the Republicans blocking ANWR drilling. It is the Republicans spending money like there is no tomorrow. Republicrats and Democans in Washington, they are set. They do not have to worry about social security because they don't pay into it and they get basically full pay when they retire, compliments of you and I the taxpayer. There is no difference to me, I'm the one getting screwed regardless.
This country is in serious trouble. Look at the trouble in Europe. Forty years from now, that will be us.
The Constitution Party or the Libertarians will be happy to take my political contributions. No more for Lugar, no more for the RNC, definately no more for any RINOs.
David Frum had it right. Dead Right..

Happy Birthday Marine Corps

Happy birthday to the Marine Corps, and salutations to all veterans on this Veterans Day. We owe them a debt that can't be repaid, but luckily most vets would never ask.

Eh-Oh-Way-to-go-Ohio

Congrats to Ohio voters who weren't fooled by the MoveOn.org backed "reforms" masquerading as amendments to the state constitution. They were nothing more than attempts to help Democrats win elections in Ohio. It was a great strategy for the lefties: put forth ballot initiatives in an off-year election cycle; bring in big bucks from George Soros to fund a big media blitz; make sure the nineteen pages of changes were confusing enough so that only a Philadelphia lawyer could fully understand them; try to sneak through changes in absentee ballot procedures so that close elections could be stolen fraudulently; clamp down on corporate campaign contributions while leaving union contributions unfettered; and take away the constitutional authority of the Ohio Secretary of State, who has overseen previous elections.
But Ohio was not fooled by the out-of-state liberal interest groups. In a loud voice , they said "Mind Your Own Business!"
Chrissie Hynde would be proud. Or maybe not.

7-2 Feels Great in Bengal-land

It was 1988 the last time the Bengals had this record. Of course, they made it to Super Bowl XXIII only to lose to the 49ers on a Montana to Taylor touchdown with 31 seconds left. If there is to be a trip back to Detroit where the Ken Anderson led Bengals first played in a super bowl in 1982, the current version of Bengals will have to answer to the Colts, who they play next after the bye week. This year the AFC runs through I-74.

Paris is Burning; Is Rome next?

Nine nights of rioting, the police and fire fighters can't get near the hotspots. Toledo? No, it's gangs of Muslim thugs rampaging thru the slums of Paris. I guess because they aren't getting enough welfare. There is a good article about it here. I wonder, it's already spreading in France. Is Rome next? Seriously, Europe has a BIG problem with millions of unassimilated Muslims. Signs of the culture clash have been evident for awhile now. See this.
What are the elistist socialist governments going to do about this? I'll be watching.

Inexcusable

When we talk about the great sacrifices our men and women in uniform are making to prosecute this war, it goes without saying that these people deserve our support and our thanks. But, if liberal political agendas can be furthered by twisting the words of our soldiers, well that's OK because we are the NY TImes.
Well, it's NOT OK.
It's not OK to marginalize the intelligence of our fighters just because they don't have Ivy League pedigrees.
It's not OK to make up soldier's complaints to advance the notion you would have us have us see.
It's not OK to cherry pick video images of a real combat op to make it look like our soldiers are a gang of bloodthirsty killers.
And it's really not OK change the meaning of honorable soldier's words, supporting all they do, and make it appear that there is but a shallow complaint. Take the words of a real American hero and make it sound like whining from beyond the grave.
It's NOT OK. It IS inexcusable.

Check this out

No wonder the Boston Globe had heartburn with this guy.

As predicted

Bush has nominated the anti-Miers, Sam Alito. The fight is taking shape quickly, along the usual lines. He has twice been unanimously confirmed by the Senate, but that has stopped the moonbats from calling him "Scalito" and accusing him of extremism. We knew this was coming.