The bus tour rocks!

Honestly, I'm loving every minute of Sarah Palin's bus tour and the hyperventilating it is causing on both sides of the political spectrum!

Karl Rove -- who by the way abandoned George Bush during his second term in office, leaving him to be slaughtered by the liberal press for making gutsy calls like supporting Gen. Petraeus and such, is on FOX whining that Sarah isn't playing by the rules and isn't/can't run a campaign without doing it the same way it's always been done . . . blah, blah, blah.

George Will is soiling his panties talking about how Sarah can't be trusted with nukes or command, even though the trusted Washington veteran who vetted McCain's VP choices said she knocked the vetting questionaire "out of the park" and came off as totally competent as much or more so than any of the other VP candidates.

The liberal press is whining that Sarah won't pre-advertise her itinerary so they can properly stalk her and sabotage her fan greets with Media Matters plants and other George Soros stooges.

One press manager said she was putting the press "at risk" by forcing them to chase her down the highway in their buses!? Is that rich or what? Here's an idea -- quit chasing her, dumbasses!

The liberal media has spent 4 years trashing this woman and her family for the unpardonable sin of running for Vice President on a Republican ticket. She's been hounded, demagoged, lied about, slandered, stalked, just about every non-physical assault that can be dreamed up has been launched at this incredible woman, and she just keeps going and smiling and making the left look like fools.

I don't care if she runs for President or not. I'm lovin' every minute of her punking these arrogant clowns . . . on both sides of the aisle.

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And in the bikini fail department for this week, I bring you Aubrey Oday.

Now I don't actually mind Aubrey myself. I actually find her kind of attractive, at least I did before she got so oddly out of shape.

But here's my thing -- if you're going to wear a bathing suit that doesn't have any elastic in it to hold it up, don't hike up your top and suck in your fat belly that's holding the suit up, 'cause you end up with what's going on in the picture on the left below.

Now I'm not sure, but that might be a record for how low a suit can droop without something illegal showing. I'm assuming that the only reason those bottoms aren't around her ankles is because her legs are together.

Couldn't she feel what was going on there? Maybe she didn't care. I don't know. But that's a biscuit away from TMI right there.

The pic on the right is from Aubrey's Playboy shoot a couple of years ago to show that I'm not crazy when I said I found her attractive.

Happy Memorial Day

While you're grilling and enjoying the holiday, take a moment and remember the men and women who gave their lives so that you can have the peace and safety to live yours now.

My father served in the Navy during WWII. They falsified his birth certificate to get him in the service underaged. Though he came home from the war in one piece physically, the mental scars from the horrors of that war stayed fresh until the end of his days.

My son is currently on his second tour in Iraq. The first was with the Marines during the Iraq War. He is now in the Army -- 1st Cav, and is in northern Iraq with the 2-7 as advisers. If you're old enough to remember Vietnam firsthand, that term ought to send shivers down your spine.

I could not be prouder of him and his fellow soldiers and pray every night that they all come home safely to their loved ones.

Friday night palate cleanser

As I wait for my Lightning to crush the Bruins and ride once more into the Stanley Cup Finals, here's a little light fare to tickle the old brain cells.

Apparently Lindsay Lohan made a little quickie art film . . . no, not that kind pervy . . . but some supposed psychological insight thingy for some artist named Richard Phillips. Phillips says the work is an homage/inspired by piece to the work of Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard.

Whatever. What gets me is the hash this guys slings as he talks about Linds' awe-inspiring performance in the 2 minute long mini-movie:

“Lindsay has an incredible emotional and physical presence on screen that holds an existential vulnerability, while harnessing the power of the transcendental – the moment in transition.” “She is able to connect with us past all of our memory and projection, expressing our own inner eminence."

Dude! I could do half a bottle of Absinthe and not rock it like this guy! That's some of the best psycho-babble I've ever heard.

F*ckin' phenomenal! And Lindsay's sitting there going "Yeah, what he said!"

It never ends . . .

In the last year, there have been several tragic shootings involving police officers and more recently, a security guard, in the city of St. Petersburg.

The mayor and police chief were speaking of their anguish over these events and feelings of frustration in their ability to prevent the tragedies. Allowing as how this is a common response to such shocking events, I'm inclined to give them a pass on the foolish notion that everything bad can be prevented.

But as usual, they have decided to make a knee-jerk reaction. The mayor spoke of the need to do something, at least symbolic, to show they were concerned over these events. The symbolic action he chose is to re-enact the expired ban on assault weapons in the city of St. Petersburg.

The ban focuses on the AR-15 and AK-47, both semi-automatic rifles of military design that are constantly and wrongly portrayed as more dangerous than a normal firearm, due primarily to their aggressive appearance, use in movies, and ability to accept large capacity magazines.

Bear in mind -- in none of the tragic shootings mentioned by the mayor and chief were these weapons used. In fact, in each case a handgun was used, and that handgun was illegally obtained by the criminal who used it.

So get your head around this situation -- several tragic shootings occur, and the solution of the mayor and chief of police is to ban weapons that were not used in the crimes! As is always the case with these things, the only people affected are law abiding citizens! Criminals by definition to not obey the law, so why do this?!

Defenders of the Second Amendment are always demagoged by the liberal press over their struggles to retain their constitutional rights. We are called hysterics. But here is what is happening and it is exactly what we are always complaining about! And let's trot out the slippery slope argument -- once we start banning these weapons, ones that aren't even involved in crimes, what comes next? And where does it stop?

And while all this is going on, King Obama is in talks to put forward gun control via executive fiat. And I'm not joking about the "King" bit. This president is ruling by executive order -- bypassing the pesky Congress and that troublesome Constitution, to do what he wants without constraint.

How's that kinetic military operation going? We are at war without Congress' approval. The President has created, via the czars, an entire shadow government that operates without any Congressional oversight or citizen input via the voting process. One would think that even the most ardent, cool aide drinking, blindly adherent democratic fanboy would be having second thoughts about the unconstrained power structure growing in the nation's capital.

As always, it's up to us bitter clingers to fight for a government that adheres to the principles of the Constitution.

The press calls us racist haters. I say I'm a loyal American. What are you?

Perhaps he should open his eyes and close his mouth

In his Washington Post op-ed Bill McKibben blames pretty much everything in the world on the false science of climate change.

Continuously snarking about how people should "keep their eyes closed" about his so-called facts, he tries to state that the tragic tornados in Joplin and Tuscloosa are caused by global warming. Never mind that the facts show that strong tornados, f3 - f5, have actually declined in number since the 1950s.

He talks about Arctic melting, but, here we go again, the IPCC data on that was based on an article in some hiking magazine, and anecdotal comments by the author. Not actual measurements.

Some beetle in the Amazon? Climate change! A newsman standing along side the Mississippi river as it floods, like it does every year? Climate change!! Low crop harvests overseas? Climate change!!! Never mind that corn yields here have risen steadily since 1980. Like ole Bill says -- keep your eyes closed! Don't let facts get in the way of his flannel shirt hysteria.

Funny thing about his article, it seems like his entire point was to bitch about a new oil pipeline and new coal mining in Wyoming. Not sure what that has to do with climate change, but again, don't let facts get in the way of his socialist/green agenda.

Everything bad that happens is because of climate change according to idiots like Bill McKibben. I notice that he's listed as a distinguished scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Funny. Distinguished isn't the word I would use to describe this knucklehead. But I'm just another racist/teabagging/potential domestic terrorist/conservative/denier. What do I know?

And on a lighter note . . .

I see where Lindsay Lohan is doing a photo shoot somewhere. And she's also frolicking around in the surf. In a bandeau bikini top.

And what do you know:

Oops. Golly, that was so unexpected. What bad luck that photographer just happened to be there with his super-telephoto lens to get that hi-res shot of Lindsay's exposed boob.

You know, that seems so . . . familiar, you know? Staged pictures, accidental exposure . . . where have I seen that before?

Oh yeah:

What a freaky world we live in. Who would have thought that two fame whore actresses would both have bikini malfunctions like that?

Just no explanation for it, I guess.

Everyone does NOT have a RIGHT to compete

In the St. Pete Times sports section the other day, local sports tool Tom Jones (yeah, I know. . . nice pen name, dude) . . . (wait, why are you looking at my profile? get back here. . .) was giving his two cents worth on various topics.

He brought up a recent ESPN Outside the Lines feature on Casey Martin. Martin, as you may recall, was the affable young man who wanted to play on the PGA tour, but because of a circulatory problem in his legs, needed a cart to traverse the 18 hole courses.

Martin sued the PGA to let him get in and golfing legends Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus testified on the PGA's behalf, that Martin shouldn't be given an exemption to compete.

Jones calls Arnie and Jack "putz's" and says they are forever "bad guys" in his book for wanting everyone to adhere to the rules of the game.

Here's my thing -- this is an epic fail for Jones!

Golf has rules like every other sport, play by the rules or the game means nothing. I don't care how nice a guy Casey is, if he can't fulfill the requirements of his sport of choice, he doesn't get to play it professionally.

I wasn't born seven feet tall. Should I sue the NBA to change to rules to allow me to play? I played a lot of baseball as a kid. When I finally realized I needed glasses and got them, I could finally see those fastballs whizzing by my head. Took the steam out of my stride. Should I sue the MLB to get pitchers to throw underhanded to me so I can play for my favorite team?

Stupid examples, you say? Okay, how about this . . .

I have a "friend" who has been a competitive shooter off and on since he was a young teen. When he got older, he put a little more effort into it and found he had a talent for the sport. Shooting only on Sundays, three or four a month, my friend became much better than others who practiced for hours on end each week. My friend became state champion four times. He got to try out, twice, for the US Olympic team.

Working sixty plus hours a week, married with a young child, my friend competed against and beat professional shooters who were sponsored by the military and the US Shooting team. He dreamed of one day, making the US team as an older, unsponsored shooter and competing on the world's largest stage -- the Olympics.

But my friend's job is very demanding. And he began getting injured. He began having surgeries. He now has permanent nerve damage in both arms from repetitive stress. He has tendonitis in both elbows and bursitis in both shoulders. He has a titanium plate in his spine from ruptured discs. His orthopeadic doctor asked him if he played professional football, because the only time he saw calcification of the shoulder tendons like my friend has, was from lineman getting their pads rammed down repeatedly upon their shoulders.

My friend can no longer compete competitively. He uses felt tip pens because ball points are too difficult to use. He keeps channel lock pliers in the kitchen to open jars. His dream of the Olympics is just a painful memory now.

According to Mr. Jones' logic, my friend should sue the USOC and IOC to have them change their rules to allow him to use artificial devices to help him shoot. My friend is a nice guy. He really wanted this, it was a huge goal he hoped to achieve. I would be willing to put money on the fact that my friend, as a shooter, was better than Casey Martin is as a golfer.

So sue, right?

Wrong.

It's hard cheese to swallow, but there it is. Everyone cannot compete just because they want to or feel it is owed to them.

This country was founded on the principle that everyone has the right to try. My friend and Casey both got to try at their respective sports, but neither was able to make the grade. Fate is a cruel, heartless b*tch who takes you to the door of your dreams before pulling the lever and dropping you into a pit of despair and anguish. It sucks, but that's how it is.

But the current rage of "everyone's a winner" "everyone gets a trophy" feel good, don't hurt anyone's feelings style of parenting and raising children is creating a country of whiny babies who don't know how to handle rejection.

Is it any wonder we see more and more instances of children lashing out at parents or teachers who deny them what they want? What they think they deserve? A boy wants to go past first base with his girl. She tells him no. He explodes and does something horrid. Why? He wanted it and she said no, how dare she deny him, no one else in his life ever has.

We have generations of young people who think everything should be handed to them -- I don't want to compete for a job, they say, just give me money and someplace to live. Make my decisions for me, because I don't know how to make tough choices, they say. What if I make the wrong one? What if I fail? I don't know how, no one's ever let me.

Is it any wonder we're in the mess we're in today in the world?