Tennessee Corruption

Hobbs is all over a story breaking in Tennesee about legislative corruption. So far, 5 legislators have been arrested… and all but one, unsuprisingly, is a Democrat, and the remaining one is labeled by locals as a RINO.

Keep watching the link above. I’m sure Bill’s gonna be all over this.

Ace of Spades HQ has an interesting thread going on the subject of a book being pushed to teens.

Read all the links off Ace’s post to get the idea of what’s what… paricularly Michelle’s comments.

RITE TURN ONLY has a source for used submarines you might be interested in, or not.

Apparently, even the Canadians think they’re too old to even set them up as a museum. Which given the deteriorated state of their fleet, oughta tell you we’re dealing, sadly, with scrap, and naught more.

Ann Coulter:

“But as regular viewers of PBS know, in fact, we invaded Iraq for oil.
Yes, precisely. That’s why U.S. forces seized Iraq’s oil fields right after Baghdad fell, confiscated their vast oil reserves, and now we can buy all the gasoline we want here at home for just pennies a gallon any time we want. Sorry, we what? Folks, my switchboard is completely lit up and this isn’t even a radio show. ”

Great stuff.
RTWT

FOXNews has the details.

Going to be hard for the Democrats to claim ANYONE is ‘extreme” after screaming for four years Owen is extreme, and then posting her, anyway.

You Big Mouth, You! has up some pics, and some links describing the President’s visit here yesterday.

Sheesh, Chuck, you shoulda told me you were just across the street.
I’d have bought lunch.

World Of Longmire does a pretty fair job of cracking me up today. You know those cheap romance novels. Harold Robbins on airplane glue.

Check these re-touchups out… they’re a hoot.

Families are leaving SanFran in droves. Gee… After years of anti-Family, anti- capitalism, pro-socialism pro-homosexual moves by the government there, this is a really big shock, huh? AP has the details.

Interesting notes from Joe at Winds of Change. Joe cites German blogger Ulrich Speck:

Whoever has read Götz Aly’s new book – Hitlers Volksstaat. Raub, Rassekrieg und nationaler Sozialismus [Hitler’s “Volk”-State: Plunder, Racial War and National Socialism] – can no longer claim that National Socialism was a “right-wing” project. Aly cites Eichmann: “My political sympathies were on the Left, with the ‘socialist’ being at least as important as the ‘nationalist’.”

Actually, they can still make the claim. Since when has the left been driven by the truth, driven by the facts?

Still, a point well made.

Interesting notes from Joe at Winds of Change. Joe cites German blogger Ulrich Speck:

Whoever has read Götz Aly’s new book – Hitlers Volksstaat. Raub, Rassekrieg und nationaler Sozialismus [Hitler’s “Volk”-State: Plunder, Racial War and National Socialism] – can no longer claim that National Socialism was a “right-wing” project. Aly cites Eichmann: “My political sympathies were on the Left, with the ‘socialist’ being at least as important as the ‘nationalist’.”

Actually, they can still make the claim. Since when has the left been driven by the truth, driven by the facts?

Still, a point well made.

Interesting notes from Joe at Winds of Change. Joe cites German blogger Ulrich Speck:

Whoever has read Götz Aly’s new book – Hitlers Volksstaat. Raub, Rassekrieg und nationaler Sozialismus [Hitler’s “Volk”-State: Plunder, Racial War and National Socialism] – can no longer claim that National Socialism was a “right-wing” project. Aly cites Eichmann: “My political sympathies were on the Left, with the ‘socialist’ being at least as important as the ‘nationalist’.”

Actually, they can still make the claim. Since when has the left been driven by the truth, driven by the facts?

Still, a point well made.

Political Correctness Watch reports:

Darnell Colquitt thought the TV reporters didn’t belong in the Tillicum ‘hood and told them so. People tote heat around here, he warned. He started to pedal away on a bicycle, then stopped, turned, and told the reporters what would happen if they were still there when he came back. “You’re dead where you stand,” he said.

That, and a hail of racial slurs, earned him a trip to jail Thursday, along with a rare charge from Pierce County prosecutors: a black-on-white hate crime.

You’ll never see this on the national news… despite the fact they’ve got tape of the event on file at KIRO, which was apparently enough to jail the idiot.

You will recall I raised the question about who dropped that “Flushed Koran” story on NewsWeak.

WorldNetDaily thinks it was a Ticked Off CIA paper pusher.

Boortz today has an update on that Cessna Pilot who wandered into protected airspace in DC causing that evacuation.

We learn today that the Homeland Security people were about 15 seconds away from shooting this pilot down.  Fifteen seconds from death.  All his fault, right?

Well … for those of you who weren’t listening to the Boortz Information Overload hour yesterday … we heard something rather interesting from Jamie Dupree.  Those two frequencies that the Blackhawk crewmembers gave to the Cessna pilot?  There was nobody monitoring those frequencies.  Nobody to hear the Cessna call … nobody to respond.

If this one’s true… (and it should be noted that the source has been reliable in the past)… then some heads need to roll… publicly.

Granted, this pilot’s a screwup from the word “go”… and pulling his ticket was more than justified… but its starting to sound like there’s some other problems to be addressed here, too.

Think about this; A civilian plane was almost shot down, and several federal buildings were evac’d because nobody was even on the radio channels that the pilot was instrcted to go to… Including, interestingly, the interceptor planes who would be charged with the task of shooting down the pilot in 10 or 15 seconds.

More as I find… but I gotta tell ya… this one stinks.

My wife (amazingly enough) sends this along:

The Guys’ Rules

At last…. a guy has taken the time to write this all down. Finally, the guys’side of the story. (I must admit, it’s pretty
good.)

We always hear “the rules”from the female side.

Now here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules!
Please note… these are all numbered “1” ON PURPOSE!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports. It’s like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That’s what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

1. If you won’t dress like the Victoria’s Secret girls, don’t expect us to act like soap opera guys.

1. If you think you’re fat, you probably are. Don’t ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials. 

1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing,” we will act like nothing’s wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don’t want an answer to, expect an answer you don’t want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine…Really.

1. Don’t ask us what we’re thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or monster trucks.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round is a shape.

1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight; but did you know men really don’t mind that? It’s like camping.