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Iran’s President Amadin-a-whackjob came off looking pretty good.  The US in general, and Columbia U and its President in particular, look like bastards.  Columbia U invited Amadinijab into its house — he was their guest.  And then, once he was inside their house, the head of the household proceeded to lambaste his invited guest.  I find myself in agreement with voices which are today coming from within Iran — it was despicable.

CU’s president could have said something like, “You are about to hear from a controversial figure, who’s presence here is itself quite a controversy.  We support nothing that he has said to-date.  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the president of Iran.”  And, with that, the CU president should have taken his seat and let The Whack-Job begin his self-humiliation that he proceeded to engage in.

Instead, the sound bytes now making the rounds show how uncivilized and petty are these United States — after we all criticized Chavez for coming here last year and insinuating that our president is The Devil incarnate.  And, our President Bush was not an invited guest in the House of Chavez.

OK…I’m speaking of the Federal One. Texas Governor Perry today asked for President Bush to declare four Texas counties — including Galveston County, in which I reside — federal disaster areas in the aftermath of last week’s puny little hurricane Humberto.  Huh?  Have we no rainy-day funds here in Galveston County and Texas to repair government facilities and public infrastructure?  I carry insurance on my house…am I paying for nothing?  Am I now being asked to once again pay for those who had made the decision that they didn’t need insurance (or didn’t get enough)?

My reaction was the same with the recent flooding in the upper midwest.  However, your reaction to my reaction would’ve been different if I had voiced my opinion then.  You would’ve then simply called me a greedy whiner who didn’t care about anyone else.  With my voicing this opinion now…I am asking to pay a price for actually following my own convictions by not asking for “my fair share” of federal dollars when it’s my turn at the tit.

Is there anyone left who can say, “I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L  R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y”?  How about, “L-O-C-A-L  A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y”?  How about, “Cut out all the cash from going to the Feds and let’s keep it here so that we can take care of ourselves?”

Isn’t it time for all you good Republicans — who spew out beautiful words about the need for separation of powers and local control and responsibility to do some surgery on the Federal Tit?  To actually start doing something about it?  That’s why Ron Paul’s supporters are so committed to him – thru thick and thin.  He actually introduces legislation and votes in accordance with his words on the campaign trail and during Special Orders in The House.  I’m not necessarily agreeing with all he has to say — although I agree with much of it.  I am saying that it is so refreshing to see a politician who consistently does what he says.

After you read this story about a college coed going into Boston’s Logan Airport wearing a sweatshirt with a real, live, with-flashing-lights circuit board attached to it, and carrying what was actually PlayDough in her hands, but which could easily have been mistaken for C-4 or other plastic explosives — and see if you don’t ask yourself if this is a stupid, narcissistic bitch who is lucky to still be alive because security had the wherewithal to ask questions first and shoot later…or what? She claims that it was art. I don’t normally call people vile names on this site, but I think she earned it. (It’s not a sexist comment. Had she been a guy, my reaction would’ve been the same except that I would’ve called him a bastard, since, at least connotatively, a guy can’t be a bitch and a lady can’t be a bastard.)

So, what have we collectively learned from last April’s shooting at Virginia Tech?  Well, for one thing…when a gunman is on campus — as happened at DSU this day, all of the inmates — I mean legally-adult students, are to be locked in their cells — I mean dorms — wherein they can behave like the good little sheeple they have been raised to be.

Be it known to all: any riff-raff that chooses to come around to try to F with me…will, if lethal force is warranted in my self-defense, see the business end of my fully-loaded SIG P226 DAK 9mm — which I know quite well both how and when to shoot it, thank you.

A sheeple I am not.  How about you?  Any questions?

I pay the bills on my web site and I make the decisions about what gets posted to it — including whether or not I will post your comments.  If you don’t like it — go pay for your own web site…and then you will get to be the boss.  So it was with the appearance by John Kerry and the peace-breaching “Don’t taze me Bro.!” ’student’ the other day at the University of Florida.  Let me state for the record that I am no fan of the views espoused by Senator Kerry.

The organizers of the event — those who put up the dollars — are the ones who got to make the rules about how it would be conducted.  It was they who decided who in the audience would get to have a turn at a microphone to voice their opinion — and how long they would have in which to do it.  I was not there, but by all accounts I have gathered, the ’student’ refused to play by the established rules.  I assume that he entered the meeting voluntarily…and could reasonably be expected to have understood the rules of conduct to be in effect.

It does not matter that the event took place within a government facility — something owned in-common by us (in this case, The People of the State of Florida).  Assuming that the event’s organizers followed the pre-established rules in reserving the use of the conference facilities for themselves and made use of it according to said rules — it, for all intents and purposes, became a PRIVATE facility for the duration of the event.  Their rules for what would be allowed to transpire within reigned supreme except as subject to any contravening rules of the University.  This jerk had no RIGHT to speak.  They offered him the PRIVILEGE to speak to Mr. Kerry — whom, I assume, was not appearing in an official capacity as the US Senator from Massachusetts – and the jerk showed his narcissistic contempt for everyone else at that event and for the rare PRIVILEGE he had been given.  Yes, as much as we disagree, I would still consider it a PRIVILEGE to get to speak to Mr. Kerry at a private function.  I may at any time choose to exercise my RIGHT to speak to Sen. Kerry by getting myself placed on the docket to a meeting of my concern in which he would be acting in his official capacity as US Senator.

And now, we have bunches of morons — including the University’s president — who are saying that this poor chump’s First Amendment free speech rights were violated.  The Kerry event was a PRIVATE matter.  When you come into my house…I tell you how to think, speak, and act.  And if you don’t like it — you are quite free to get the hell out of my house.  And if you leave in a fashion that impacts either me or the rest of my house guests — I will call upon our government to help me evict you so that order may be restored within my house so that me and my guests may resume communing as we see fit.  You are free to stand on the public street in front of my house and proclaim your bad feelings towards me to all who pass by — as long as you stay just below that point at which you disturb me and my neighbors from conducting our lives.  If you refuse to maintain your speech to reasonable levels, we — my neighbors and I — will call upon our government — OUR includes YOU — to come and remove you from our vicinity.

We, however, may not restrict you from getting on the docket at any meeting of our government to voice your opinion to us about an issue of the day.  You do, however, need to do so in an orderly fashion so that our business may be conducted with reasonable speed.

Any questions on OUR First Amendment rights — and duties?  Notice that I said OUR — not MINE or YOURS…

We who have been doing due diligence with our money will not silently stand to have the Big Uncle (who’s name, in case you’ve forgotten, is Sam) take our money to bail out those fools among us who have been foolish with their money.  What were they thinking?  Duh!!!

Some of us, like yours truly, have already paid our dues in the housing market and don’t want to be compelled by the strong arm of government to pay a fool’s dues.  We both signed on the dotted line to our mortgage notes without a gun pointed at our heads.  In my case, I eschewed all the easy-money bogus financing schemes and bought my house in 1994 on a conventional 30-year note.  In July of 2001, I lost my job.  Having a big, fat savings account, I decided to take the rest of the summer off.  On September 10th, 2001, I decided that it was time to get back to work.  Two days later…there were no jobs to be found.  Timing is everything.  I completely drained my savings — including my retirement, over the next four years that it took me to get a decent-paying job.  Having preached for years against government-mandated unemployment insurance, I stood my ground and did not run down to get in line — not at the start, middle, or end of my unemployment.  It was not easy living, but I managed to keep both my house and car.  In the meantime, I was unable to pay for mounting, necessary repairs.  Once I got a decent-paying job and out of all the accumulated debt — having paid back every last G-d dime I had put on multiple credit cards after my savings ran out — the repair bill for the house was several thousand dollars more than if I had been able to do them when the problems first began.

I even wrote President Bush in 2004, when he was to appear here in Houston, that I would volunteer my services as a “poster boy” for his calling on Americans to show personal responsibility.  My call was not returned — his actions since demonstrate his words to have been nothing but BS.

So, having already paid my dues…I now call upon each of you to pay your own dues.  For all you who refused to live within your means…too bad — go eat macaroni and cheese for breakfast and supper (you’ll just have to skip lunch).  For all you lenders who’s greed outweighed normal common sense — and you are now getting all your collateral handed back to you on a sh-t platter…too bad — I’m sure that Kraft will gladly sell you macaroni and cheese, too.

Yes indeedie, we good, God-fearing Republicans are not going to let political expediency get in the way of acting righteously, now are we? Are we going to turn our collective back on Louisiana Congressman David Vitter’s confession of calling on call girls because he has said “I’m sorry” and because Gov. Blanco will appoint a nasty ol’ Democrat to replace him if he is ousted from Congress?  Senator Larry Craig says that he didn’t do anything wrong in the Minneapolis Mens’ Room, but only pled guilty for the sake of expediency…and we all seem to agree that he has to go.  Could it be because Idaho’s governor will appoint another good, God-fearing Republican to replace him?  Could it be…SATAN?

But seriously, folks, yours truly has a record of doing what’s right and not what’s without pain.  In 1998, I turned down an extra $3400/year because I had agreed to a five percent increase in salary.  When I went to sign the paper, I noticed the little several-percent boo-boo the HR person had made and pointed it out to her.  She at first refused to believe me, but I told her that my word was my bond and I would give her one more chance before I signed the paper.  She decided to redo the math.  And, rather than thank me for my display of rarely-seen-anymore honesty, she simply told me how glad she was that I caught her error — that she would’ve had to explain to her boss.

So…as I said, Vitter’s gotta go…too.  Or — to be consistent — Craig gets to stay…too.  It to me matters not which, for I am holier than neither thee nor thou.

So, Osama The Putz is back on TV letting we Americans know that if we would only be so kind as to convert to Islam, that the Iraq War would be a thing of the past.  While he might be right, because he might no longer consider us to be infidels worthy of destruction, my reply to him is to look very closely at my hand and see all my fingers tucked in — except for my prominently-raised middle finger.  To write as a commoner might speak…they ain’t gonna have no virgins where you’re going, Osama.  Any questions?