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Our economy is in the toilet, agreed?  We have non-compliance with our laws and apathy for those poor immigrants (legal and illegal) who just want to bilk our system yet retain their cultures intact.  Well, why the hell not?  I have a solution for a win-win proposition that will cure all our current woes…….land annexation.  It is very simple when you think about it.

First, we send a shrimp boat down to Cuba heading for Gitmo….the long way around.  Since we have won the war in Iraq, we now have a plethora of military personnel that need something to do.  When Cuban forces open fire on our shrimp boat (which will have some insignificant U.S. diplomat aboard), we can declare war on Cuba.  We’ll use the prisoners at Gitmo for “bombing missions” at military installations on the island.  Of course they will do this for us or face having to eat a pound of raw bacon (tape worms are a backup plan).  Now we have a strategic island to park nukes on (nothing new, right?)

Next we send another insignificant diplomat into Mexico to flirt with, say, the President’s wife or some cartel’s squeeze.  Once that fight ensues, we invade them.  Now we have all the medical marijuana that California needs and they can get their sorry ass out of debt without us having to do a bailout.  The money we confiscate from the cartels will pay off politicians here to vote the “conservative way” and reduce those losing expenditures we are feeling.  Of course, all Ex-panics look alike so we can just continue conquering all the way down to the (and including) Panama Canal.  Now that we got the Jimma project back in our ownership we can levy heavy tolls on the Chinese ships that are making their way to the left coast Wal-Marts.  In no time at all, we will break even with the China debt and go into the black.

Next we take all the illegals and park them down in their respective (or possibly) new countries and fit them with explosive ankle bracelets.  Around each respective country will be one of those invisible fences that zaps you when you get too close only this will have harsher repercussions.  That will keep the little suckers where they belong.  And we can take all the Sharia compliant people and park them down there also (plenty of desert) where they can practice their way of life without having to change ours.

Now we can call the place the United States of South America or maybe The United States of America Part Deux but I think giving it a military rank would be more appropriate:  The United States of America-Second Class.  We can make Joe Arpaio supreme ruler and dictator of this little nation.  Their main resources will be agriculture (wheat for bread) and pigs (for boloney of course) to feed the masses.  Well, maybe not the Sharia-ites but change or perish I always say.

No, I didn’t forget about Cuba.  Those missiles?  Just go ahead and slam America one more time.  I dare you.

Did you miss me???? 

This post at TC morphed into a tableau for Zappa references which got me to thinking: “Hey, I can do that.” Maybe I can’t do much else, but I can definitely do that. So without further ado:

Here is Montana – with more to follow below the fold. Some dandy guitar work here …

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My take so far: what a colossal waste of money most of the super bowl commercials are. Anhauser Busch especially should be ashamed of their marketing department.

The game is ok. I thought the colts would win by a mile but that’s not happening.

First game: Jets-Bengals is turning out to be a great game, with the Bengals coming within 7 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter. I’m sort of pulling for the Jets because they seem like a more interesting team and definitely have an interesting coach in Rex Ryan, Buddy’s son.

Linda is rooting for the Bengals because she wants to see a trend of teams that lost last weekend winning the rematch. I guess if the Eagles see the Bengals win, they will say to themselves, “see, it can be done!” I don’t know, I just find the Jets more interesting but I suppose I can also buy into a victory throwing some doubt into the Philadelphia collective mindset.

Obviously this game is the undercard. The question all of America is asking is: Will the Cowboys continue to choke in the big games? It’s a valid question. The Eagles, for all their faults, are seasoned, the quarterback especially so. It will be interesting to watch for early signs of Cowboys jitters, see if Romo can play this one big game like he’s played the last 6 or 8.

UPDATE: Close to halftime, the Cowboys obviously still have a major monkey to get off their backs. Six penalties for roughly 1000 yards so far. But they are ahead.

UPDATE II: Halftime, the Cowboys are way ahead. This could be a big win not just for this season but for the entire future of this collection of players, who up until now have been laboring under a curse – cannot compete in a big game. If they win tonight, they may not win the Super Bowl, but the demons will have been exorcized, for now and ever after.

UPDATE III: Thirteen minutes left, Dallas ahead by 20. Dallas winning this game will be world-changing for this organization. No guarantees for future wins, but also no longer under the curse of cannot win the big one.

We may not be able to beat Minnesota, but at least we will be on equal ground. DALLAS CAN WIN IN THE CLUTCH. That is the message. It will make it a lot easier to watch them play.

Twas the night before New Year and all through the house,
I was playing grab-ass with Honey; after all, she is my spouse.
The champaign was chilling outside in the night air
Waiting for toasting, which would be the fare.

The kids are all grown and out on their own,
Leaving Honey and me to relax quite alone.
I asked, “What should we have-it is almost dinner”
The reply I did receive, “Something lite.  I want to be thinner”.

When under the deck there arose such a clatter,
Tis the possum, I thought, but what could be the matter?
I ran to the slider with Killer in tow
Though I might be seen, Rat-Dog profiled low.

The blue moon was up and the evening air cold,
Yet Killer was alert and running ever so bold.
She flew down the stairs and onto the ground
Towards an object that moved without making a sound.

My eyes started to focus on what was in sight,
“Tis an alien” I murmured with a bit of a fright.
Then as the image became incredibly clear
I realized my good fortune was ever so near.

It was a sea monster of enormous proportions.
I was in ecstacy-making all manner of contortions!
I yelled up to Mama “Our meal has been solved
For I’ll boil this thing up and it will evolve

Into a feast of a meal with trimmings and such.
I fear that it just may be a bit too much!”
I headed for the kitchen with dinner in hand,
Making sure his claw wore a large rubber band.

Tis a delight I will cook which I do once a year
To eat and then chill-just filled with good cheer.
So now I must prepare and without further ado
I say Happy Birthday to me and Happy New Year to you!

There are lots of people asking for money this time of year; as a matter of fact I believe there are lots of people asking for money all through the year, but this is the time of year we don’t necessarily give them the back of our hand … right off the bat, anyway.

Today I come to you with a message of concern for certain members of this worldwide community of ours who often are not the first ones we think of when we think of giving: your devoted, oft-taken for granted, bloggers. I don’t send money to a lot of bloggers, to be sure. If I tried to send a dollar to each of the 65 million of them here in the U.S. it would put a dent in the old Budzinski savings account big time. But that’s not a hurdle we need to address because of the 65 million probably no more than 23 merit compensation, and the two I have sent money to – The Other McCain and Ace of Spades – are worth far more than I could afford to contribute to.

Stacy McCain is Hunter S. Thompson with better political sensibilities and a slightly healthier lifestyle. Ace of Spades is the smartest and funniest guy you’ve ever met in your life. You should read their blogs several times a day, and you should send them money. Thus endeth the sermon portion of this blog post.

(If you want to contribute to either of them, on Stacy McCain’s site click on his “hit the tip jar” link which appears in approximately every other sentence, and on Ace’s site use the PayPal button in the left sidebar.)

The reason I send money to these two is I know they both are pretty much full time, committed, with no “day job” per se, and they provide, for me, an extremely valuable service (more on this later). Another one in this boat who does extraordinary work is Blog Fu, who I’ve never actually sent money to but did award him with some ammo after he won a contest here so we’ll count that as support. He also has a tip jar link in the right sidebar.

You probably know of others who for whatever reason you believe devote enough of themselves to the blog to deserve some cash as reward or just a token of recognition for jobs well done. Like I said besides these three there are probably 20 others worth paying and chances are they are some of the ones you read – so be a sport and show some love for all that uncompensated work.

This is not to diminish any other causes worthy of support at this time. Our family gives a lot to non-profits of all kinds and churches and such, the more typical charities you think of when giving to those in need, and we give exponentially more to those than I have given to any bloggers. So I strongly urge you to not walk past the Salvation Army ringer, to put some cans of food in the basket, give some toys for tots, surprise a charity or three with a $75 check or more. Just for the hell of it take the money you would have used on ammo or bon bons or another AK-47 for your collection in December and January and instead give it to a good charity or someone you know who is seriously in need. (We happen to have a reader here who is seriously in need but he/she has not relented on their anonymity and is perhaps not comfortable with handouts so I have been unable to send a contribution; if I find out more I may post about it). It is Christmas! Help relieve someone’s suffering and make this time of year happy for them.

But when I talk of supporting a blogger I am not at all talking about charity. What I am talking about is like paying the guy who towed your car back to Virginia after you broke down on the Beltway in some godforsaken part of Maryland in the middle of the night. That guy did you a big favor, saving you a lot of time and trouble, and by paying him you merely transmit the portion of your earnings to which he is entitled by virtue of him doing what you did not wish to do yourself.

I’ve been reading and writing and commenting on blogs for a really long time, dating to years before this blog was a gleam in anyone’s eye. Been through the argumentative phase, the substitute for yelling at the TV. Been through the recreational phase, which supplants video games and comic books. Now the major use I have is for blogs that save me time by aggregating and prioritizing information. If I trust the blogger’s judgment, I can reliably hit their blog when I’ve been away from the news and quickly find out what has happened that is significant. Since in my current phase I have almost zero time to meander the news sites I rely heavily on blogs to stay abreast of current events.

The Other McCain and Ace save me huge amounts of time, allowing me to focus on my job and earn money, so the least I can do is once in a while transmit some small portion of that money to them – because by flying without a financial net in order to do a seriously good job blogging, they do me an invaluable service when I hit their sites several times a day for all the new information they provide.

Other aggregating blogs that are of great use to me, and should also be on your must-visit list several times a day, are Hot Air and Instapundit. Although I’ve met both Michelle Malkin (and some of her bloggers at Hot Air), and Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, I don’t know what either of their financial situations is but I sense that they are not exactly dire. They are both outstanding Web sites and probably deserving of much more money than they get – if there were any justice in the world we would just take all the money going into NBC News and redirect it to Hot Air and Instapundit. But they are both very ad-driven and saying “support those sites for Christmas” would be like saying, “Get in the Christmas spirit and buy a Toyota!” Not exactly what I am referring to with this post.

And while we are digressing interminably, I will also share that my other multiple-visits-per-day Web sites are three more aggregators. (In fact, my typical Web behavior throughout the day is to visit about six or eight blogs and these three additional sites several times, occasionally clicking through to other sites they link. That’s about all I ever do on the Web, when I’m not watching AK-47 videos. I find it a very efficient way to stay informed.)

News aggregators can be evaluated, or categorized, by the measures of timeliness and prioritization: to what extent they tell you every single thing that is happening just as it’s happening, and to what extent what is happening that’s important.

Drudge Report is king of prioritization. Whatever is the biggest news of the day, it will be highlighted on Drudge, along with a plethora of other interesting and significant stories, so you have to visit there all the time just to check – although some big things may have happened that don’t show up there because it’s only a couple guys combing the news so their bandwidth is finite.

Free Republic is at the other end of the spectrum – unparalleled timeliness with almost zero prioritization. There is a community of hundreds of people all over the world constantly submitting news links, so if a bus runs off the highway in Peoria you will know about it right after it happens. By the same token, if during a press conference Tiger Woods’ head splits open and from the husk of his body emerges an alien being named Zastchur from the Planet Intercourse who announces that the Earth will be destroyed in 24 hours, that news story might be buried under 30 posts about crashed hard drives and Barack Obama’s financial dealings and such, so you have to scroll a lot.

Sort of a middle ground is Lucianne.com which combines the hundreds or thousands of contributors of Free Republic with a decent prioritizing mechanism at the top of the first page. They have someone tasked with watching all the incoming news, so if there has been a major news story or a really great column it is likely to appear at the top of Lucianne.com before you see it anywhere else.

With those three Web sites you can stay pretty darned well-informed in a very short amount of time. They also each have times they ask for money, and ways that you can send them money if you find them valuable, which I think would be a good thing to do and also helps bring this extensive rambling digression back in line with the original concept of the blog post.

So to tie this all back together: Let me say once again, it is Christmas so for the love of God, man, support a blogger. They save you time and, if they are not saving you time, then shame on you because they should be saving you time. You have a life to live. They are out analyzing and interpreting the world. Take a small portion of the money you are making while you are not having to analyze and interpret the world and send it to them as a token of appreciation for their doing so while you are at work. It is only fair and you are getting the better part of this bargain, I assure you.

And please don’t for a minute think this post is self-serving because this blog is and apparently always will be a mechanism for transmitting money AWAY from me rather than toward me. I learned rather early in life there are people in the world who have money streaming in to them, and people who have money streaming out from them, and I was in the latter group. That is my lot and I accept it. Those various ads you have seen in our sidebars over the years? I put them there for free because I like them and in fact I created almost all of them myself without consulting the subjects. They’ve all been causes I just believe in. This blog is a sidelight for all of us who post here, and consequently this is not among the 23 of 65 million I think you should consider giving money to.

Merry Christmas, everyone. If you are lucky enough to still be employed despite all the Democrats have tried to do, please break out your credit card and be generous during this holiday season!

Henry Louis Gates is a professor of African American Studies.  Gates has many publications.  Gates teaches at Harvard.  Gates is obviously intelligent, but intelligence does not inoculate one from racism.  Racism is just another expression of the evil in mankind’s heart.   Intelligence is not a cure for evil.  Harvard has had racists on its faculty in the past.  So Gates is just another permutation.   It is wonderful to see that beneath the skin we really all are the same.

Below is page three of the arrest report, filed by Officer Carlo Figueroa.  The arresting Officer Sgt James Crowley was the man accused of racism.  Note that the arrestee, Prof. Henry Louis Gates acted like an ass, as racist will do when confronted by those they hate.

It appears from the report that Prof. Gates was in no mood to cooperate.  It appears that Prof. Gates was yelling at a peace officer.  This is typically referred to as ‘Asinine’ .  It appears the Sgt. Crowley was asking for the ‘gentleman’s information‘ — oh the humanity!

Since both Officers Crowley and Figueroa did not back off after Gates yelled ‘you don’t know who you are messing with’ — they are obviously are racist bumpkins.   How else could they not know who Henry Louis Gates is?  Why, he is a friend of Obama and the great zimzo.  Gates insisted that a cop doing his job is a racist for asking someone to show information.  A cop asking someone for proof that they are who they claim to be, and, that the house they just broke into is in fact theirs is not a sign of racism.  Screaming ‘THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO BLACKMEN IN AMERICA’ repeatedly for the sole reason of intimidating the white cop is a sign of racism.

Given the behavior described in the report it is clear that Gates was over the top.  He could not handle being questioned by a white cop, Sgt Crowley.  Or is it that Gates hates all cops.  This is a different form of bigotry, but maybe not so bad as racism, maybe we could put this incident in the best possible light.  That would be the charitable thing to do.

Since Obama, and the rest of the Democrat party is ready to think the worst possible, we as a nation should then use the same yardstick on the supporters of the Democrat party.  This police report leads one to the inescapable conclusion that is an infantile, self important jerk, who hates the police.  He couches his hatred in racist victimological jargon.  His reported refusal to cooperate, and his yelling of racist remarks fit the charge of disturbing the peace to a tee.

The saddest part of all this three ring circus in Cambridge is that the three ring circus on the Potomac got involved.  The President of the United States tarred an entire police force because his pal was insulted.  The insult of being questioned by a white cop unhinged Henry Louis Gates.  His friend Barak Hussein Obama came to his defense and called the cops stupid, ‘The police acted stupidly.’  Reminds me more of a pair of third graders than a Harvard Professor and the man we elected to lead us from the Oval Office.

I was getting political insanity overload so I went on vacation for a week to the beach with 2 crabby women.  Little did I know that all the kids go to this beach after getting out of school so I had marauding gangs of drunken nitwits to contend with.  Highlight of the trip was a big, thick flounder.  One.  Which is the same number of KKK meetings I was able to attend.  Seems that hard times have hit the Klan also and we just can’t get together as often as we used to.

Upon return I was obliged to fulfill a major remodeling “Honey-Do” where all else is put on hold.  That means no computer, no friend (yes, that is singular), no TV and no fun.  I was able to have my Chardonnay but I gravitated more towards the Toasted Almonds.  I wasn’t even able to ride my motorcycle (pussies wear Spandex.  Cmac would look good whereas I would look like an Oscar Meyer product) and the only other bike I ride is stationary in my skivvies.

Then I had much extra curricular work to do with some all-nighters involved while trying to strenghten up the house for some weekend company.  Company that I hadn’t yet met but evidentally had been informed as to my way of thinking and morals whereas this homosexual was in my face about the whole time she was here…trying to get my goat about her lifestyle and how O’Bummer was a good president.  I never flinched or said anything because I was ashamed.  You see, I didn’t have time for ANYTHING else except the honey-do and therefore had not cleaned my guns for awhile.  I believe in one shot-one kill and I feared a jam or misfire in this case.  Believe you me, I will NEVER get caught with my pants down again!  In-laws are a dime a dozen.

So I decided to have one good day and took mama to the movies to watch the new Harry Potter when whose ugly DNC Chairman’s face comes on the screen to espouse crap and taint my popcorn.

On top of all this is the worry that my retirement has been pushed back because I won’t be able to afford it at this time.  And I blame this on the liberals and I am pissed.  No more Mister Nice-Guy.  The gloves are off and I am going to start speaking my mind.  All you O’Bummer liberal voting traitors are going to start paying your dues.  There is hell to pay and every day from now on is a bad hair day for ACT.  I have waited long enough for this insurrection and it is time to be thinking coup.  I want my life and money back.

Just announced on Fox News.

It is at this juncture that me and all my fellow close-to-50 year old colleagues are nervously adjusting our collars.

Question: Of all the recent celebrity deaths – Carradine, McMahon, Fawcett, Jackson, and now Mays – who are you going to miss the most? My money says the vast majority of Americans would say Mays.

That’s the report, anyway.

It is a shame, much of the past 15 years has been a shame. He became a sad figure – and I mean that in the sense you sort of felt sorry for him, with such a wealth of talent and dearth of normalness.

For those who subscribe to the “troika” theory of celebrity deaths, this makes: Farah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson as a set.

I guess at first glance I could see how the latest Charlie the Clown episode might seem like something significant, but in order to make that claim you have to assume ABC network news is significant.

This, I would submit, is a false assumption. ABC News reporting objectively on El Dipshitio? That cow has left the barn. ABC’s evening news is a joke, and Charlie broadcasting from the Blue Room or wherever is but a munchkin hop compared to the mad shark-jumping Peter Jennings era.

Yes, CNN was “shockingly absent” from coverage of the post-election protests in Iran, surpassed by Twitter and other social media Web sources.

Note to the Iranians: It is not really such a big deal, because CNN is also shockingly absent from American television screens.

The only news source that matters anymore actually has been covering the situation in Iran quite adequately.

Note to world: If you want to stay current on events, make sure your carriers bring you Fox News. The other outlets are irrelevant.

Is this a sign of a pulse?  BTW where have I heard that tune before?

That’s what I said.  When BHO goes on the ‘09 Spring European Tour and lets the world know what a fool he is and how bad the U.S. is, well…….it just isn’t his fault.  WE knew this from the beginning and Barak is just being his foolish self.  I mean really; is anyone shocked about his daily retorts, gaffs, no-class style and his John Wayne swagger (my humble apologies to the Duke and his kin)?  Those with intelligence knew what we would get if he were elected.  No, it wasn’t his fault.

It was the fault of the Obama-mites that set this scurge upon the planet.  Yes, those brainless wonders whose IQ’s are stamped in every pair of shoes made (American or European-doesn’t matter).  Do you think anyone in their right mind nominated McCain for the GOP candidate?  Do you think anyone really believed that BHO could deliver the change that he was talking about without destroying the American economy and way of life?  Do you really think that Americans wanted nothing more than to see My Belle Michele’s armpits at every event conceivable?  No, it was the brainless, witless Obama-mites that did this to the world.  And do they have an excuse?  The answer is YES!!!!!!!  One word-HULU!

Check this out!  You will see that it came from the aquisition of a Chinese company.  It started at the same time as BHO’s prodding to run for president.  It is owned by news organizations.  And as the advertisement says, “we’re aliens.  And we are turning your gray matter into goo so that we can eat it up”.  We have seen that those that voted Obama are brainless (corpses, mental deficients or just brain-dead) and sucked up all that alien crap till their brain-matter was goo.  After all, like the website says “In Swahili, Hulu means, among other things, both “cease” and “desist.”  It also gives other cute meanings in other languages; none of it good.  They were not in a correct state of mind when they voted and, since there is no recovery, don’t know the problem that they have caused.

Next time you want to blame Barak for something just pause and think back before he was elected.  If you remember that that was the way he was then, well, it isn’t his fault.  It is the Obama-mites and HULU!