Speaking Of Carrie Underwood

Stacy and I get a good laugh out of 'How I Met Your Mother' most of the time. Guess I'll have to tune in this Monday.

Nuts To The iPad

This is the laptop I want.



Obviously its a concept right now but when my blogging bucks start to roll in, I'll be first in line.

Someday soon, that check will delivered in the mail.

Yep, any day now.

I Guess This Is What Passes For Modern Country Music

Or so I'm told. My wife informs me that it's not a new song either. Who knew?



Anyway, this is more along my style of country music.

Full Metal Jacket Friday Round Of Questions

AKA: A long overdue round up. There will be a quiz on this but -- like government schools are fond of telling students -- there are no right and wrong answers.

A fellow Barbarian in Arms was interviewed by Team Sarah Radio. Now if you listen to about the ten minute mark, would it be fair to say that economics and energy are more tied together than most people think?

Did the Dallas Tea Party make their case for MSNBC being "The Whitest Network On TV"?



If Charlie Crist switches parties, will John McCain still campaign for him?

If ACORN is restructuring, would that mean that the employees that were fired due to the undercover stings will be rehired?

Was the vote for the 'Jobs Bill' (Stimulus Part II) by Sen. Scott Brown expected from him?

When this kind of Blog War breaks out, is there such a thing as a loser?

Seeing the abuse Joe Biden endures, should Sarah Palin write a note asking that people leave him alone?

Should I be helping Lance surge toward one million hits for his site when I'm not even close to a hundred thousand here?

Will Monique Stuart start blogging again?

Is Jana correct in saying that Curling is way more exciting than Ice Dancing? This was a trick question. Of course it is.

I can go back and forth with this all day long but is the absence of McDonald's on Cuba really a good or bad thing?

Beta Maletastic, yes, but is Hot Air also getting too 'Gay'?

Can you really beat this deal on subscribing to The American Spectator?

Is Valerie Jarrett a condescending bitch? Another trick question.

Will Batman be able to escape being dropped into a vat of acid? Find out next time I do a round up. Same Bat-Blog, Bat-Time is whenever I get around to it.

An Interesting Proposal

The state of Utah seems to want to relieve the burden of governing from Washington DC.

We'd like to relieve some of their burden.

We don't believe that 535 members of Congress and the president can educate our children, provide health care, pave our roads and protect our environment as well as the nation's 8,000 state legislators and tens of thousands of local officials.

So please, let us help. Let's select a few programs - say, education, transportation and Medicaid - that are managed mostly by Utah's government, but with significant federal dollars and a plethora of onerous federal interventions and regulations.

Let Utah take over these programs entirely. But let us keep our portion of federal taxes Utah residents pay for these programs. The amount would not be difficult to determine. Rather than send this money through the federal bureaucracy, we would retain it and would take full responsibility for education, transportation and Medicaid - minus all federal oversight and regulation.

It's a nice thought but it will never happen. For starters, it's about control*. And the federal government will never yield back what it wrestled away to start with.

Second, it's doesn't go far enough. Instead of the state of Utah, why not leave the money in the pockets of the citizens of Utah?

I will give them credit for the push back against central planning. Even if it is mostly symbolic. More states need to follow their lead.

*By stating this claim, I'm going to put it on the line and try to do something about governmental controls over the population sometime soon.

Hat tip to Becky.

Why Is It That Liberals Know All The Good Obscure Slang?

With Donnie Douche* calling Marco Rubio a 'Coconut'?

If you are in need of some knowledge like I was about the term, Michelle Malkin has the rundown.

Quick primer for those of you unfamiliar with the “coconut” insult:

If you are a conservative with Latino/Pacific Islander/Filipino heritage, you’re a coconut (brown on the outside, white on the inside).

If you are a conservative with Asian heritage, you’re a Twinkie or banana (yellow on the outside, white on the inside).

And if you are a conservative who happens to be black, you are an Oreo (black on the outside, white on the inside).

Okay, who is getting hungry?

I need to add one more. I spent a few years doing work out on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations a decade or so ago. Apple is another term. Red on the outside, white on the inside.

Back to the guy with the German sounding name who denigrated minorities.

Maybe Donnie Douche is endorsing Charlie Crist because they go to the same tanning salon? Who knows?

One thing, Donnie Douche with his gelled and sculpted coiffure does look kind of creepy. He looks straight out of central casting to be the kind of dad who will encourage his daughter – when she’s a teenager -- to invite her friends over for a sleepover.  Then take pictures of them while they are bouncing on a trampoline.

Or the kind of guy who will get his girlfriend pregnant then dump her. Oh, wait. That he did do.

*Yes, I know his name really is Donnie Deutsch and that calling him Douche is akin to grabbing at fruit so low hanging, it may as well be on the ground. But after stooping a married woman as well as dumping his pregnant girlfriend, he's earned it. Easily.

Via Not One Red Cent.

Quote For The Week: "That's Gotta Sting" Edition.

Indeed, Senator McCain is already attacking J.D. by name in advertisements because he knows he is the type of exciting, principled conservative that excites people like you and me. And he knows that after years of running over Republican principles his entire career no election year conversion to our way of thinking will save his campaign from voters that want conservatives to be a part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

I just wish Senator McCain had run as hard against Barack Obama as he is against a conservative like J.D. That could have prevented the harmful, liberal agenda we are all now suffering through.

You have been a great supporter of mine. Now I am hoping you will become a great supporter of J.D.’s. I have known him for many years. I trust him.

And I know he is exactly what we need in Washington, D.C. right now.

Frank Schaeffer Is Mad As Hell And He's Not Going To Take It Anymore!

Or as he calls it, 'Monday'. Long on rhetoric, short -- Oh, so painfully short -- on facts.

I've noticed that the meme of the week has been that the Republican's have been stonewalling Obama's policies. Frank Schaeffer -- noted Kool-Aid drinker -- it the latest to add his tome to the theme. Mostly by ignoring history and making it up as he goes. The short version is: Obama good, everyone else racist.

Okay, to start with, for the better part of the year, Republicans in Congress couldn't stonewall a cat in a cardboard box. Republicans were outnumbered by at least thirty seats in the House and barely held onto forty seats in the Senate. With the election of Scott Brown, the Republicans can now threaten to filibuster in the Senate. It's not much but it's something.

Obama has trouble leading the north and south poles in magnets together much less members of his own party. Again, the better part of the year and he wasn't able to get health care passed. And he had promised it by August of 2009. In a Congress dominated with his own political party.

Evangelicals ganging up on Obama has nothing to do with the energy drawn from the Obama/Hitler posters being circulated by the likes of people who also portray Obama with a bone in his nose! So when the evangelicals draw parallels to the Nazis that's just a coincidence too!

It's called reaping what was sown.

And the "fact" that Fox News calls Obama a Socialist, Racist and even a Communist, has nothing to do with race! It's perfectly normal for a news channel to work 24/7 to denigrate a president!

Again, reaping what was sown. Keith Oblermann having a non-stop parade of calling Bush a Fascist on his show was, what's the word, unprecedented.

I could stop there. But when Mike skewered 'The Phantom Menace' stop at one video? No, he went 70 minutes deconstructing the suckitude that George Lucas wrought upon a generation.

And the fact that the white former VP Dick Cheney -- for the first time in American history -- has as a former VP accused the head of state of not wanting to keep America safe is also of course, nothing to do with disrespect to a black man!

Wrong again. Al Gore made plenty of hay criticizing George Bush. "He lied to us; he preyed on our fears!" anyone?

Anyway, Frank get's to the heart of the problem. America, deep down, is still racist.

And the fact that much of the country is turning against the president -- and will thus stalemate the government and face potential ruin -- has nothing to do with the fact that in the hard cold light of day many white Americans -- no matter what they say -- just can't accept in their gut that they not only have a black man for president but that he's manifestly smarter, kinder and more patient than they are. [Bold mine]
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Trouble is Obama's trying to lead anything but a good country. Too much of America is racist to the core.

Got that? America is a bunch of racist jerks who won't let the smart colored guy lead. And he drags in someone who is a private citizen to help cast blame on. Sarah Palin.

Nothing to do with the fact that Obama is a hard core ideologue hell bent on signing off on any socialistic legislation he can. Or that the fact that Obama is continuing down the same foreign policy path as George W. Bush. Or that he's bound and determined to pass government takeover of the health care system at any cost. Or that government spending under him would put the spending under George W. Bush to shame. Or even claiming that the Stimulus would stop unemployment from reaching 8% it's now in the double digits.

Can't be any of the man's policies that have failed throughout history. Of course it's race.