Guns don’t kill people

People kill people…..

The first thing I was taught was never point a gun at someone unless you intended to shoot that person. The second thing was that all guns are ALWAYS loaded, even if you just checked it. I was also taught that guns and alcohol don’t mix. So this guy had three strikes right out of the gate. What a senseless tragedy for him and his family.

That’s what I have taught my own children. Hell, I don’t even let them point toy weapons at one another.

And you thought your commute was bad

People are actually having to wear adult diapers because the trains are so crowded that they cannot get to the toilets.

Wow.

Yet another lemming moment

So we end up with a straight party line vote to send the Alito nomination to the full Senate. The Democrats are setting up a straight party line vote in the upper chamber. At least one Republican has tried to warn them what is coming in the future if they persist in this strategy.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., warned that Republicans would remember a party-line Alito
vote in future Supreme Court nominations, considering several Republicans voted
for Justices
Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who were nominated by
President Clinton.
“It is simply unrealistic to think that one party
would put itself at a disadvantage by eschewing political considerations while
the other party almost unanimously applies such considerations,” Kyl said. “So I
say to my Democratic friends: Think carefully about what is being done today.
Its impact will be felt well beyond this particular nominee.”

This is a crisis for the Democrats. I honestly don’t think they can see what they are about to do to themselves here. If they succeed in getting a Democrat into the White House but fail to take a majority in the Senate, there will be a complete inability to get ANY judge confirmed. Do they understand?

Nope, they continue with the lemming strategy.

Ok, at least he’s honest

A self-admitted limousine liberal and willfully wrongheaded, but honest.

I (obviously) think he is full of it, but he at least doesn’t parrot that particularly galling statement about “I support the troops but don’t support the war”. Too many of the hard left use that rhetorical construct as a smokescreen for their real agenda.

There are some people who hold fast to anti-war beliefs and deserve respect. The Quakers for example think all war is wrong and never waver from that belief.

There are others who’s antiwar stance is rooted in anti-Americanism

Ok, this is getting serious

There were several reports in the Blogosphere about the Mexican Army actually crossing the border recently. Many of those seemed to trace back to a rightwing news service, so I did not repeat them.

This is different, though. It appears that there have been an ongoing series of incursions with the Mexican Army providing armed escort for drug shipments.

Last I heard, that constitutes an act of war.

The ongoing corruption in the UN

This report is very disturbing. It shows that the US ambassador to the UN is on the right track by demanding changes in that organization.

One thing that is telling and disturbing:

“We’re doing all the right things to ensure that the global taxpayer’s money
will be protected going forward, and that we are ferreting out corruption and
fraud where it existed and exists,” he said.

Global taxpayer? These folks think they have a right to tax. That is a deep rooted cultural problem with them. They believe themselves to be the world government. Yeesh.

Um, this raises a few questions

So these folks find something washed up on a beach. They don’t know what it is, but take it home anyway. Which turns out to have been a really smart move since it was a chunk of ambergris worth more than a quarter-million dollars.

But, one has to ask: WHY would you take an unidentified substance off a beach? Especially since it’s actually whale vomit.

More importantly, Who the hell figured out that this stuff could be used in perfumes? The mind boggles……

Inspector Clouseau is on the case

Ok, so it took exactly HOW long to figure out this skeleton they found was over 500 years old? More than two years. Stunning police work, there guys.

Ah, the French.

And there are people in this country who want us to be more like them……