Sarah Palin Stepping Aside! It's A Martial Arts Move!

One of the most common forms of defense in the world of fighting, from street fighting to boxing to the most exotic martial arts, is the side step.

It is used when a bigger and more aggressive opponent is in a full headlong charge right at you. Rather than standing in front of such opponent and getting flattened, the skilled fighter will sidestep and let the opponent's size, weight and inertia carry him off balance, and often to the ground.

With all the partisan bitchiness,and I mean bitchiness, I heard from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's opponents and detractors Friday afternoon after she announced that she is stepping down as Alaska's governor this month, it was clear that Palin has THEM off balance! They have been in a full, out-of-control headlong charge, and now they are off balance. Which is exactly the point of the sidestep.

When your opponent goes blowing by you at full speed, and suddenly discovers that his target is no longer in front of him, there is time to decide what to do next and how to do it. It is classic in its simplicity and effectiveness.

Sarah Palin has bought herself some time. She has removed herself, and especially her family, from the direct onslaught of the Socialist Democratic Party which fears her like no other Conservative in America. She, and especially her family, now will be out of the direct line of fire of the Socialist Democrats' propaganda arm, the Mainstream Media, or as Rush Limbaugh now refers to it, the State Run Media.

So many people were blustering about what this all means. So many of her detractors were ready to write her off, and laugh heartily as they did it. Apparently they didn't listen to the last line of her speech.

Quoting the WWII and Korean War General Douglas MacArthur, Palin said, "We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction."

Does that sound like someone who is walking away from it all? Are you kidding? Didn't you listen? Aren't you parsing her entire speech right now? It's all over the Internet! How much do you need?

Take a look at some of her other quotes. She referred to the non-stop nonsensical, but extraordinarily expensive ethics complaints that have been lodged against her - unsuccessfully - in droves. Rather than continue draining the public treasury to defend herself against these vexatious attacks she has stepped aside, thus depriving her opponents of another target.

Or in her words: "Only dead fish go with the flow."

I guess I understand why the media, including the Alaskan media hates her so much. She calls them out. Palin noted that Alaska is the "crossroads of the world ... the gatekeeper of the continent."

After listing numerous accomplishments of her administration, and victories in the US Supreme Court, Palin added, "You don't hear much of the good stuff in the press anymore though, do ya?"

So naturally one of the first people to comment on her announcement was a reporter from a widely read Anchorage newspaper who immediately began trashing her. Her speech was "Rambling," he said.

The monkey-see, monkey-do political hacks and other media imitators picked up that line immediately. Look for it on all the evening and morning news shows. "Rambling" they'll say, because they are programmed and have no minds of their own.

My money is on Sarah. The media across America is going down the drain, and I bet she has work long after most smarmy Socialist Democrat reporters are long gone.

Buckling under pressure? Not likely.

Side stepping an out of control opponent? Highly likely.

The next thing to do after your out of control opponent goes screaming by you is to hit him hard as hell right in a vital spot. If I was a smarmy reporter for a minuscule Alaskan news outlet, or for that matter, even Vanity Fair, I'd be the one who was ducking and covering.

Sarah Palin has thrown off the chains and she can now call the shots herself. I think that is really good for America, and very bad for smarmy leftist Socialist Democrats and their stooges in the State Run Media.

Will The REAL Republicans Please Stand Up? Where is Michael Steele When We Need Him? Socialist Democrats Are Ruining the Country!

So the anti-socialists in Congress are now hopelessly outnumbered, since the Minnesota Supreme Court has agreed that seating a clown - failed comedian Al Franken - in the Senate is not only appropriate, it is the voters' will.

I guess in a way there is a perverted logic to all of this. Franken was never funny, couldn't keep a TV or radio job for long, and since all of his jokes and diatribes were left wing, ultra-socialist inspired - and thus not the least bit humorous - he now needs to go on welfare to pay his bills, instead of getting a job.

What better gig than a six-year stint in the Senate where he can't be fired and the voters pay his salary, health care - far better than anything the average voter is getting - retirement, office expenses, staff expenses, travel expenses, family expenses, entourage expenses, lobbyist expenses, campaign expenses, expense expenses and miscellaneous expenses?

Meanwhile the House of Representatives passed the so-called Cap and Trade bill that limits the amount of carbon dioxide that American industries can emit annually, after eight alleged Republicans switched sides and voted with the socialists. I received this composite over the Internet the other day and it fits very nicely right here, don't you think?


Remember these faces the next time they come up for election. They may campaign as Republicans and non-socialists, but now we know better don't we? Don't forget, please.

The cap is intended to reduce so-called Greenhouse Gas emissions that were a big worry during the eight year campaign to oust George Bush from the White House through use of the now debunked Global Warming ruse.

Even though global temperatures are falling like a rock and even though the whole Global Warming scam has been denounced by thousands of non-political reputable scientists worldwide, as opposed to the politically oriented hacks posing as scientists who supported it, the socialist Obama administration and its lackeys in Congress still want Cap and Trade passed. That is even though the two largest polluting countries in the world, India and China, will have nothing to do with it because they know it is a joke.

Don't get me wrong. I firmly believe we have far better, non-polluting forms of energy available to us, and pollution is a very dirty word to me.

But the Socialist Obama administration and his lackeys in Congress are bent on dismantling the capitalist system that has served the United States for 233 years, and replacing it with a failed system that is being cast aside in every country where the individual still has a mind and the ability to use it. But the Socialist Democratic Party couldn't do it even with 60 members of the Senate and a huge majority in the House unless they get a bunch of turncoats to side with them. But that doesn't seem to be a problem now does it?

Which is why I want to know what happened to GOP National Chairman Michael Steele? Oh, I heard him on Fox News the other day taking on Obama and his minions, but that isn't what we need right now.

We need Michael Steele to be jumping ugly - my phrase not his - all over any alleged Republican Representative or Senator who crosses to the other side. Mr. Steele has plenty of ammo to use, namely campaign funds.

The Republican Party in Connecticut where I live has a long history of screwing over people who aren't part of the inner circle of party hacks. Promising help to aspiring candidates who then get left swinging in the breeze when they find out that only some candidates, who get prior approval from D.C., really get any help, is a big joke and a favorite pastime of the Connecticut GOP's inner circle. No kidding, I've seen this time and time again.

So why isn't the national chairman using that power by standing up and calling these people out? Why isn't he letting them know that he can have a big impact on their next election, even at the state level where he can see that a primary opponent gets full support of the national apparatus?

I have been pulling for this guy since before he was even considered a prime contender for the national party's highest office. So let's see what he can do when the chips are down.

I got a request from national for some more money a week or so ago. They even sent me a nicely embossed ID card. But I think I'll wait a bit longer to see how this plays out. If Michael Steele is just going to be another insider with no real regard for the rank and file, he doesn't need my money. He can get it from just about any lobbyist inside the beltway, or at least the Washington Post.

Last year, before the elections, I was asked by many of my college students exactly why I am a Republican instead of a Socialist Democrat. I told them that the core values of the Republican Party, smaller government, lower taxes, less intrusion into our daily lives, less needless regulation, less bureaucracy, more individual freedoms and more individual responsibility, are more to my way of thinking than the values of the Socialist Democrats who now are in power.

I further explained that the Socialist Democrats believe in much bigger government, much higher taxes, much more intrusion into our daily lives, far more needless regulations, far more bureaucracy, fewer individual freedoms and far less individual responsibility. It came as somewhat of a surprise that once my students understood the difference between Republicans and Socialist Democrats they said they tended more toward the GOP than the Socialist Democratic Party.

But if we are going to attract new members to our party and take our country back, we have to have a leader who is willing to engage, and cast out turncoats. So what say Mr. Steele? Can we expect to see you taking a more dramatic approach to turncoats in the near future?

I don't want him to feel he is being pressured over this, but let's face it, the fate of our party and thus the country, is on his shoulders.

Finally! A Civil Dialogue Between World Leaders! Ahmadinejad vs. Obamanation

Hallelujah. A campaign promise has actually been fulfilled. (yawn.)

Barack Obama caused quite a stir on the campaign trail last year when he said he would sit down and talk with antagonistic world leaders, including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, long known on these pages as Green Bean Almandine. Many Americans disagreed and said there would be nothing to gain from the leader of the free world sitting down as equals with a pipsqueak like Green Bean, or the North Korean nutjob, or the Venezuelan master of bombast.

Yet candidate Obama persevered and made it absolutely clear that he believed a "meaningful dialogue" with even the least likely leaders was better than the Bush Administration policy of treating them like petulant pisants.

This past week, after the farce of the recent Iranian elections, after the outbreak of huge, boisterous demonstrations that were quelled with murder, beatings and torture, Obama got his chance.

It went something like this:

Obama Day 1: Iran is none of our business.

Green Bean Day 1: Damn Straight.

Obama Day 2: You hurt my feelings. We should hold meaningful discussions on your motivations.

Green Bean Day 2: Shut your pile hole.

Obama Day 3: Meaningful silence.

Green Bean Day 3: That's what I'm talking about. Leader of the free world? Yeah, lead this baby!

Obama Day 4: What did you say?

Green Bean Day 4: You heard me.

Obama Day 5: Move our ships out of the Persian Gulf and institute the No Contact Protocol!

Green Bean Day 5: Chicken!

Obama Day 6: What?

Green Bean Day 6: You heard me!

Obama Day 7: Did not!

Green Bean Day 7: Did too!

Obama Day 8: Did Not!

Green Bean Day 8: Did too!

Listening to Fox News Sunday today, I was intrigued by a discussion on the discussion between the two equals, especially the discussion on between Fox News Senior Analyst Brit Hume, and national commentator Juan Williams.

Hume said that Obama "seemed not to recognize" that Green Bean has a brutal regime, and that those who participated in the post-election dissent are now being labelled criminals by the extremist Islamic clerics who run Iran. Knocks the hell out of Obama's street cred doesn't it?

Williams, who can be counted on to apologize for Obama no matter how tenuous his position, responded that anything is better than what George Bush did! I see.

Is anyone else wondering how long the Obama administration apologists are going to continue to blame George Bush for everything? The Big O has been in office for going on six months now and the Iranian elections did not occur on the Bush watch.

So let's all stand up and be big boys from here on out and take responsibility for our own actions, shall we? Oh, right, socialists don't fix problems, they fix the blame, as long as it is not fixed on them.

Anyway, I must have missed the last few exchanges between Obama and Green Bean because Hume said that Obama, after being out of step all week long, toughened his position at the end of the week. Maybe I zoned out from the tediousness of it all, but I don't recall hearing anything that would make me jump up and yell YES!

For that matter, I didn't hear anything that would even cause me to arch an eyebrow.

If this is what is going to pass as meaningful dialogue between world leaders for the next 3.5 years, we can expect to be hit on numerous fronts, by every two-bit punk who has delusions of world domination. The reason that the United States is a world leader is because myriad generations of immigrants, who came to America to escape repression, understood that you have to fight fire with fire.

We apparently are now fighting fire by blowing on it. I don't know about you, but I don't think that approach will work, and I plan on preparing for the repercussions.

Connecticut Bloggers Put Their Stamp on "Troopathon!' Jim Vicevich, WTIC 1080, Movers and Shakers!

When it was all said and done, just over $600,000 was raised in Move America Forward's second annual Troopathon. That amount is sufficient to send tens of thousands of packages to American troops serving overseas.

One-sixth of the total came from one donation - Rush Limbaugh - who truly puts his money where his mouth is.

Right behind Limbaugh's incredibly generous donation was a contribution of more than $53,370 raised by the Blogger competition. The winner of the competition was a 12-member coalition of nationally known blogs called The Hot Air Steamers captained by Ed Morrisey of the Hot Air blog, which raised $24,704.36.

Right behind them, was the Greyhawks, a 5-member team of Connecticut bloggers, captained by yours truly, which raised $17,146.06! The Greyhawks included Jim Bancroft's Rescue Attempt; Judy Aron's Consent of the Governed; James Brislin's Carpet City Chronicle; Jim Vicevich's Radio Vice Online; and my Winter's Soldier Story. Not bad for five kids from Connecticut who came together on very short notice to work together in a common cause.

This might have been a competition, but what we really were competing for was an opportunity to help our troops overseas. As I pointed out in a previous column, the way the media is not covering events in Iraq and Afghanistan you would think all our troops had come home long ago.

We have won in Iraq, a point that some national commentators on the Troopathon were afraid to address head on. However, I am one of those people, who having fought far more times in my life than I would have preferred, knows when a fight has been won. I don't need an official proclamation from someone in an office armchair back in the states to tell me what should be obvious to any casual observer.

We have achieved victory in Iraq even if some are afraid to say so, and even if the media refuses to acknowledge this phenomenal achievement by our troops. But many troops are still there and it will be some time yet before the bulk of them are reassigned.

And unfortunately, we must now go back and reapply a military solution to Afghanistan. Can you remember just a year or so ago when so many know-it-all national commentators were saying there was no military solution in Iraq?

Yes there was. It is called security.

Security is necessary to allow room for growth and development on social and governmental issues. We thought we had it in Afghanistan, and we probably did, but we turned administration of the Afghanistan front over to an international coalition for maintenance.

Now we have 7,000 more Marines and tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen going back to reestablish order there. Pretty much tells you about the value of a One World Order doesn't it?

Although I was the team captain for the Greyhawks, we really have to thank conservative talk radio show host Jim Vicevich, who broadcasts on WTIC-1080 AM weekday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon, for being the prime fund-raiser for our team. When I asked Jim to join the competition he came out full bore, and gave overwhelming energy and passion to the effort.

Jim was even interviewing retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North Wednesday about North's new book, and before it was over they were talking about the Troopathon! Great interview techniques there.

On Thursday Jim interviewed Move America Forward staffer Deborah Lee, the mother of the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, and it was a heartfelt, emotional interview that put a very human face on the concept of sending "care" packages to our troops.

For our efforts Move America Forward has offered that all the Greyhawk bloggers will receive: Recognition on Troopathon.org and MoveAmericaForward.org websites; Blogs will be featured in Move America Forward post-Troopathon blogging and e-mails; Blogs will be featured in an insert in all of the packages that are shipped to the troops; Visual acknowledgment in closing credits.

I am sure my team members are appreciative of having their efforts acknowledged on the national scene. But remember, this wasn't about us, this was about the troops.

Even when they aren't being shot at, they are living in often brutal conditions, thousands of miles away from home and family. I can tell you from personal experience in Vietnam that getting a package from home that shows you are not forgotten is a major event in the lives of those who are fighting for us.

So thank you to all my teammates, thank you especially to Jim Vicevich and WTIC 1080 AM for giving us so much exposure, and most of all thank you to every one who took the time to contribute to such a worthwhile cause.

Support the Troops at Troopathon; Lloyd Marcus Releases We The People - Tea Party Anyone?

I met Lloyd Marcus when we shared the speaker's stand at the Gathering of Eagles in Washington, D.C., in March 2007. Well, it was a speaker's stand for me, but a singer's stand for Marcus.

He is a gentleman, a great singer and a proud conservative American. He has just released a video in honor of the thousands of Americans who attended Tea Parties this spring to protest our government run amok. Hopefully, it will become the official Tea Party anthem as the government plans to spend more money it (we) doesn't have.




Please take a few minutes to listen.



Also,please remember the Move America Forward Troopathon slated for this Thursday. You can read all about it at www.Troopathon.com.

Our troops, those who have been victorious in Iraq, and those who are facing stiff challenges from Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, are no longer the focus of media attention. But just because the media's agenda doesn't include support for our warriors, that does not mean they are safe and out of harm's way.

Please click on the banner at the top of this page and send a care package to our troops. They will be grateful, and you will continue to live in a free country.

Iranians Dying in Tehran; They Need Firearms, Three Bullets Each, and Guerrilla Warfare Training

"It's a fine line to walk. We don't want to appear to be meddling."

That Caspar Milquetoast refrain was uttered and re-uttered by the Obama Administration this weekend as Iranian's who are desperate for freedom and willing to put their lives on the line for it, are dying in the streets in Tehran.

While protest leaders are defying authority and begging President Barack Obama to actually support their cause rather than to simply acknowledge it, he first remained silent and then gave such a bland response that I can't even tell you what it means. "Govern through consent, not coercion," was our Chosen One's primary message to Iranian authorities.

What? Explain that will you Mr. President.

Meanwhile the Iranian secret police and plainclothes "militia" known as the Basij (sounds like Ba Siege) are shooting, stabbing, beating, and torturing Iranians. (Real torture, not candy-assed water boarding or making people 'uncomfortable'.)

They are flying over in helicopters and dousing demonstrators with caustic fluids, killing people right on the streets in broad daylight, and dragging others off, presumably to torture chambers from which it is unlikely that that they will ever emerge.

What the hell is wrong with America? We, who are supposedly the beacon of hope and freedom throughout the world are too timid to say who we are and why we have principles and beliefs? This is our government? These people are our spokesmen?

Not mine they aren't!

The Supreme Leader in Iran, whose name is never supposed to be spoken, demanded that everyone shut up and go home after people began protesting last week's bogus election. It was bogus from day one, in that the Supreme Leader (doesn't that remind you of Boris and Natasha's Fearless Leader in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon?) decided who would be on the ballot.

Guess who wouldn't be? That's right. Anyone who would upset the status quo. (The whole scenario is eerily like the elections in the US last year.)

Nonetheless, after the government was blatant in deciding who would win, the people rose up and took to the streets. Whereupon Supreme Leader issued the shut up and go home - or else - directive. In response, young Iranians are chanting "Death" in his name! In a police state that takes guts!

The death toll is in the dozens, the injuries in the hundreds and Tehran is now experiencing its own Tiananmen Square where Chinese Communists, who have been very supportive of the Iranian police state, shot and killed similar pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989.

Back then despite the Chinese government shutting down outside news sources, reports claimed that 2,500 people were dead and 7,000 - 10,000 people were wounded when the Chinese tanks rolled in to shut the protests down. The violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protest caused widespread international condemnation of the communist Chinese government.

Big Deal. What the hell is international condemnation? In what way has the Chinese government suffered from INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION? It hasn't. China owns more of the United States today than just about anyone else, and every country in the world kisses its ass.

Unfortunately, without a major shift in tactics the protesters in Iran will suffer the same fate as their Chinese brethren, for the same reason - the government has the guns, the people do not.

Repressive governments hate an armed populace. In Iran the populace has long been disarmed and those who are courageously taking to the streets are paying for it. They are throwing rocks, which makes for good television, but won't produce lasting results.

If this is revolution there are several direct actions that must be taken. First, the fighters must deploy as a guerrilla army, not as roving, disjointed bands of dissatisfied youth. They must unite, with a common goal and purpose.

They must win and maintain the support of the general population. They must arm themselves if they are going to have any chance whatsoever of defeating the secret police and basij.

Reports over the weekend said 250,000 demonstrators had gathered at one point in Tehran, but that the authorities had fielded a half-million secret police and militia members, or roughly two for each protester.

If the pro-democracy forces want to gain parity on the battlefield, then they each must have be armed, and they each need at least three bullets - two of which they must use against the government forces. Each must shoot two secret police or militia members and each must be prepared to die to accomplish this.

I am not advocating the death of municipal or local police forces who may well sympathize with the demonstrators. But I am saying that if this movement has any chance of going beyond street protests to an organized resistance capable of overthrowing a repressive regime, it must be armed, it must wage war, and its initial objective should be the elimination of the secret police and militias.

Why three bullets? Because many will be killed, many more will be wounded and among that number many will be captured, either while fighting or dragged out of their homes in the dark of night. It will happen. Count on it. When it does, those who hold out hope for survival will be tortured to a degree and with a methodology that goes far, far beyond what has been seen thus far on the streets.

The captured will tell all they know; they will reveal names, tactics, locations, everything. This is not a slap at their character, this is simply acknowledgement of the effectiveness of the tactics that will be used against them. The level of pain they will experience is beyond the ability of most people to even comprehend and in the end, when they are of no more value, they will die.

Under such circumstances, it is far better to keep one bullet for yourself.

Nonetheless, if the Iranian demonstrators can organize into an effective guerrilla army, their next job will be to gain the support of the Iranian armed forces. It is reasonable to expect that there are disaffected members of the military. The armed forces are a composite of the country, and most of the real whackos are already in the secret police and the basij.

No grassroots, groundswell, guerrilla movement can dominate without weapons, support of the populace, and the eventual support - or deterioration - of the conventional forces.

But first, the people on the streets need firearms. They need to organize and become effective.

Most of all they need to understand one basic fact about America's government. It no more represents the American people than the Supreme Leader represents the average Iranian.

The American government will sit on the fence, because it is peopled by wishy-washy, egotistical, self-absorbed invertebrates who will not declare their intentions until they know for a fact that they won't be on the losing side. The American government is useless.

But the American people are with the demonstrators. Count on support from America's populace, but don't count on the government. All you have to do is look at what the US Congress did to the South Vietnamese through the Case-Church Resolution in 1973. Millions died as a result.

Tap into support from the people, and keep a wary eye on the American government. If the protesters take these actions there is hope for success. But if the demonstrators stay scattered and chaotic, they will go the way of the protesters in China two decades ago and the Iranian government will do what the Chinese communists did.

Thousands disappeared, their supporters and sympathizers went with them, the ruling party was purged, and in the end, nothing changed. Change will take hard thinking and hard fighting.

It will be difficult, seemingly impossible at times, but it is within reach, if those who chant for change and chant for democracy, are willing to take the risks to obtain it.

Eric Cartman Says Barbara Boxer is a $^&*!

Did you see where California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer gave a tongue-lashing to - uh, I mean, verbally criticized - Army Corps of Engineers Brigadier General Michael Walsh during a Congressional hearing last week because he referred to her as "Ma'am" instead of "Senator."

"You know, do me a favor," Boxer carped during testimony on the Louisiana coastal restoration. "Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am?'"

"Yes, ma'am," Walsh interjected.

Then she whined that she had worked hard to acquire the title "Senator" and she wanted him to use that term.

(Here, Babs Boxer emphasizes to US troops that she will NOT be referred to as Ma'am!)

"I worked so hard to get that title, so I'd appreciate it," she said.

"Yes, senator," he responded.

With the way the fatheads in Congress have been acting, that's like saying you worked hard to become a career criminal and don't want people simply referring to you as as thief. I can't think of a title that carries less impact and has less status these days than "Senator" especially if it is US Senator.

On the other hand, General Walsh, like every other person in the American armed forces has been trained for decades to use "Ma'am" when speaking with a superior who is also a female. It is a term of the highest and utmost respect.

Brig. Gen. Walsh's Army command and staff assignments, include: project management officer for Engineer Branch, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE); Environmental Task Force Leader, Fort Stewart, Ga.; Executive Officer, 92nd Engineer Battalion, Fort Stewart, Ga., and Saudi Arabia; and Project Engineer and Assistant Area Engineer, Baltimore District.

He graduated from Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and earned a master's degree in Construction Management from the University of Florida. His military education includes the Engineer Officers Basic and Advanced Courses, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College.

So when the general was answering Babs Boxer, who now heads the list of Stupidest, Least Relevant, Least Informed Members of the US Senate, he was already showing her far more respect than a mindless twerp of her status ever deserved. That assessment takes on even more significance when we consider how hard he has actually worked to achieve the rank of Brigadier General.

Babs "worked hard" for her title? By doing what - winning a couple of popularity contests? Agreeing to give up more of America to fewer people who are in a position to fund her campaigns than anyone else in her state? Wow! What an accomplishment.

A commentator on my favorite military website yesterday said the real reason Babs is so testy is because she has spent so many years on her knees to keep her exalted position - praying, I presume - that her knee pads have worn out and she's all scraped and bruised.

Hey, that's as good an explanation as any, I guess.

Lot's of other commentators are calling her a b#*^! In fact, so many people are saying that, I couldn't help but be reminded of my favorite cartoon character of the modern era, Eric Cartman from South Park, and his ditty on his friend Kyle's mom. In case you have forgotten or - "shudder" - haven't seen it, I have copied the lyrics below.

I have inserted "Barbara Boxer" where the original said "Kyle's Mom." And I blanked out the "B" word, to give you, my gentle readers, the opportunity to insert a word of your choice in that space.

I don't want you to think I am using the "B" word to describe Babs. I am not. I am just using the lyrics to Kyle's Mom as a template to give you an opportunity to be creative with the English language.

Here goes:

Well, Barbara Boxer's a $^& *!,
she's a big fat $^&*!,
she's the biggest $^&*! in the whole wide world,
she's a stupid $^&*!,
if there ever was a $^&*!,
she's a $^&*! to all the boys and girls.

Monday she's a $^&*!,
on Tuesday she's a $^&*!,
on Wednesday to Saturday, she's a $^&*!,
then on Sunday, just to be different,
she's a super, king, kameha-meha $^&*!!

Have you ever met my friend Barbara Boxer,
she's the biggest $^&*! in the whole wide world,
she's a mean old $^&*!,
and she has stupid hair, she's a $^&*!,
$^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!

$^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!,
$^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!, $^&*!,
she's a stupid $^&*!,
Barbara Boxer's a $^&*! and she's
such a dirty $^&*!!

Barbara Boxer, is a $^&*!-cha!

Are you having trouble setting music to the lyrics? Here, I'll help. This came from You Tube and all you have to do is insert Barbara Boxer and use your favorite adjective in the place of $^&*! Please remember this is from South Park and thus the language is a bit rough in spots. OK, its really rough all the way through. You have been warned.

And once gain, I am not just inserting Barbara Boxer for Kyle's Mom while the rest stays the same. Let me repeat. I am not. I am simply giving the American People an opportunity to express themselves in our native language.



If it was me I'd just refer to the California Democrat as belonging to, no, actually an icon for, the lowest known grouping of near-humanity: the low-browed, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, bottom-feeding, knee-walking, snot-slinging Neanderthals.

Think about that for a minute Senator Babs. Now, wouldn't you prefer being referred to as Ma'am? Did you notice that I tend to get a bit testy when politicians insult and attempt to demean members of the US military?

"Troopathon" June 25 - Time To Show You Mean What You Say

Last year at this time I had the privilege of participating in the first of what has become an annual Internet "Troopathon" the purpose of which is to generate support for our troops who are fighting for our freedom while Congress dithers.

A year ago we were still dealing with Congressional Democrats who were calling our troops cold-blooded murderers and refusing to acknowledge that the offensive in Iraq called The Surge was paying huge dividends and our forces were on the verge of victory.

A year later, our guys have won so the media and the Congressional lemmings who bad mouthed them last year are ignoring them this year. So it is time to do another Internet "Troopathon."

The star-studded cast will be hosted by Melanie Morgan and Andrew Breitbart, with appearances by Michelle Malkin, Jon Voight, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Dick Cheney, George H. W. Bush, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Kelsey Grammer and many others. Oh yeah, me too. I'll update the when and what time portions as we get closer to the date.

The troopathon website is www.troopathon.com. Pretty easy to remember.

If you would please participate you can help send care packages to our troops overseas by going here:http://www.thecampaignstore.com/store/default.asp?parentid=448&rname=bcom100hts
This will enable you to select an appropriate package of goods to send overseas to armed forces personnel who I can guarantee will appreciate the thought. And, your donation is TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

Take all the politics out of this, take away the media that won't say a single good thing about our troops, and consider for a moment how those troops feel, thousands of miles from home, in danger much of the time, doing a job that their critics neither understand nor appreciate - and usually don't have the guts to do themselves.

Any form of positive notice that they are not alone, and not forgotten, goes a long, long way and it doesn't take much of an effort on our part to help out. And it is TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

We have won in Iraq. Let me repeat that. We have WON IN IRAQ!!!

We now are at the onset of troop reductions in that country and a redeployment to Afghanistan. Again, I don't want to hear politics, I just want to support our military and I am asking everyone who reads this blog to help out too.

Remember, all you have to do is go to this site http://www.thecampaignstore.com/store/default.asp?parentid=448&rname=bcom100hts
and place an order.

Now that we have won in Iraq, let's go for broke and work for victory in Afghanistan too! And let's support the troops while we're at it. Remember, Troopathon, June 25.

Letterman: Irrelevant, Old Bald Purveyor of Porn? Or Jesus Christ? Or Justa Creep?

By now you've probably heard of how David Letterman, the guy who works the graveyard shift pushing porn on CBS television, made a lascivious remark about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter.

To recap, Letterman remarked during his nightly rant that the young woman, who was attending a New York Yankees game with her mom, got pregnant during the 7th inning by a Yankees baseball player.

Hah, Hah, Hah. Boy that is a knee slapper!

Stop, stop please I can't stand any more. My sides hurt from laughing so much. Oh, man, that Letterman is just too much!

Actually, I haven't watched Letterman in at least two decades now, because I have what I believe to be a somewhat sophisticated sense of humor and I haven't laughed at what he considers comedy since the 5th grade. I also have an aversion to laughing at others instead of funny situations.

Letterman ceased to be relevant years ago, and the last I saw of him he was doing his best to convince the tourists and groupies who come to his show that he still represents all the best of Manhattan Island.

Maybe he does, but that doesn't say much about Manhattan does it? I thought the street-walking prostitutes and seedy porn shops were pushed out of Times Square back in Rudy Giuliani's administration. Apparently they have seeped back in and infiltrated the entertainment "houses" as well.

Apparently this so called "joke" was supposed to be told to a group of hairy knuckled Neanderthals in the men's room while commercials were playing, but instead, reading from a teleprompter because he has no mind or abilities of his own, Letterman told it to his vast and ever increasing audience of ignoramuses and dolts.

Mrs. Palin, to her credit, immediately slammed Letterman for being lewd, crude and stupid and demanded an apology for her daughter and all young women, based on her belief that people should not be making light of statutory rape. Letterman responded that he wasn't talking about Mrs. Palin's 14-year-old daughter, he was talking about her 18-year-old daughter - who wasn't at the game.

Oh, I get it now. That makes it all better! Right? Let's demoralize and marginalize older teen girls rather than younger teen girls because they should have at least a year or two of innocence before they find out on their own that the world is full of scum like Letterman.

(FYI to my readers: Outraged non-fans are planning a protest organized by New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb, attorney Gwendolyn Lindsay-Jackson, and radio talk show host John Ziegler. The Fire David Letterman rally will take place on Tuesday, June 16 at the Ed Sullivan Theater at 4:30 p.m., an hour before the taping of Letterman's show.)

But let's not stop with the jerk who hosts this late-night porn fest. How about his audience of lemmings and myopes who laughed along with him?

Based on the soundtrack of the host's ever so scintillating diatribe, his filthy commentary evoked peels of laughter in the studio. It seems his fans laugh because they don't have the intelligence or the strength of character to at least NOT laugh, much less to stand up and walk out on an imbecile who would hold up young girls - or females of any age - as objects of sexual ridicule and derision.

To some of these fawning, mindless enablers, virtually anything Letterman says or does is fine with them. This is especially true if he is savaging a political figure he doesn't like, such as John McCain who snubbed him during last year's campaign or Mrs. Palin, who is one of his favorite targets. To his most rabid fans, Letterman is a latter-day Jesus Christ, but instead of preaching love and human harmony, he preaches hatred and divisiveness.

In truth, Letterman is far more symbolic of a hate-filled rapper who glorifies drugs, violence and abuse of the female gender than of anything that would leave a positive imprint on humanity. He should be renamed Justa Creep and his show should be put into digital syndication and run at 2:30 a.m. Monday's in rural Siberia. Unfortunately, it is obvious that CBS agrees with him, based on a lack of follow through from the network that employs him.

Oddly enough, it is apparent that he still would retain some of his current viewers even if CBS took my suggestion. To rephrase a favorite line of mine, based on the group-think mentality that would encourage people to support an idiot like Letterman making jokes of this nature, his entire studio audience probably couldn't raise a double-digit IQ if they stood on each other's shoulders.

But I do see some marketing possibilities here. After all, some commentators were saying that Letterman made this perverted comment so he could get some publicity because he is afraid that with Conan O'Brien taking over from Jay Leno, who is moving to a prime time gig, Letterman's ratings will fall to the younger O'Brien.

Well, what the heck, let's go with the flow. Let's get some Letterman T-shirts out there to sell to the pervs waiting to get in to see which minority group will be the object of his next off-color "jokes."

We could start with a silhouette of a male holding his crotch with the slogan "Letterman's Lechers" underneath; or unisex upper body silhouettes with a question mark inside the head where the eyes, nose and mouth would normally appear, over the slogan "Dave's Dimwits," or "Dave's Dupes," or "Dave's Dolts," or "Dave's Dipsticks."

As you can see the possibilities are endless.

Among all the outrage generated by Letterman's intemperate remarks, there were some who said Mrs. Palin shouldn't have responded at all, instead letting others speak for her. Among these was one of my favorite commentators, Charles Krauthammer, who said that her responses only served to meet Letterman's ends - that being increased publicity for his fading star.

I disagree on that point. At a seminar I once attended on strategies for political campaigning an instructor noted that you can rent the biggest billboard at the busiest intersection in your district, but if people think your candidate is a fool, the billboard will simply remind them of this fact every day. The real challenge the instructor said, is to convince voters that your candidate is not a fool.

I believe Letterman is way beyond that point. I think he stooped to such a despicable level because he is crass, crude, bitter, getting older looking every day, and has been working far too long to hide his baldness. He has ceased to be relevant and must stoop to cheap publicity stunts at the expense of the weak and vulnerable to convince himself and his fan base that he still matters.

On this issue, Mrs. Palin was correct in engaging Letterman. Every time she speaks, or Barbara Walters speaks, or Elizabeth Hasselbeck speaks, it just reminds us that the man is a fool, and for him, there is no hope for rehabilitation.