Barry O’bama (the Irish candidate) is now giving a radio commercial here in Florida. Barry is almost comical in his adherence to strict, ultra-left theories.

He fully swallows whole the leftist’s theory on global warming. He buys entirely the notion that there can be no good done anywhere without government being responsible for it. He preaches income re-distribution as a matter of obvious fairness and inevitable fact. He demands we pacify ourselves first (I guess as an example to the world) in order to achieve world peace.

He claims the government can provide jobs. He says the government can force equality on an unequal world. And he foolishly believes that he can be the architect of this nirvana. His hubris is astounding.

But what Barry is preaching today on the radio is the theory that women earn 77% of what men make because they are discriminated against…”like my grandmother” was.

Message: Republicans are misogynists. They want to keep women in their “place.”

He is also claiming that McCain opposes stem cell research with a heart wrenching mother of a daughter who is a brittle diabetic.

Message: Republicans are anti-science Bible thumpers who believe in Creationism and are against research.

Let’s unpack the first lie.

Women may indeed make only 77% of what men make, but more women choose lower paying social service type jobs. More women work part time-because of a desire to raise their children. More men do more dangerous jobs that naturally pay more.

Let’s see how many women would apply for a job that entails being airlifted on top of a high tension line to effect repairs on a million volt generator.

Oh, I forgot. Hillary applied for just such work when she was fresh out of Wellesley, but was turned down by male chauvinist pigs!

The second big lie regurgitates the last big lie from the previous election cycle. Republicans (actually conservatives-not necessarily the same thing) are NOT against stem cell research. We are against cloning human embryos. We are against unrestricted abortion. And we kind of frown on the idea of creating a life, and then destroy it, in order to save another life. That choice (as Barry might say, “Is above my pay grade.”

It never was fair to say that we were against stem cell research. It is fair to say that we are against “embryonic-stem cell” research.

It is a fact that embryonic stem cells never have been effective in research.

It is a fact that many advances have happened with “cord blood” and adult stem cells.

So why the insistence by the left on using embryo’s for research? One word and one word only. Abortion. That one word is the most holy of sacraments to liberals. That small life can never be thought of as human. Their entire philosophy revolves around that premise.

When a philosophy bases its entire being on two very flawed premises; then what does that tell us about that philosophy and its adherents?

I can only come up with one word to describe it: mindless.

It’s official. It is now illegal to be a conservative in America.

My belief of what a conservative is?

1) A belief in popular soviernty.

2) As much self reliance as possible.

3) As much personal freedom as practical.

4) And the freedom to be allowed to excel or fail as I go about living my life as I see fit.

Should you dare call for a return of power to the citizens from the ever growing government, you will shortly be served with a subpoena. Power tends to promote more power. No one gives it up willingly.

Should you exercise your right of freedom of association, like with, say a conservative political action committee, your tax returns, your emails and even you phone calls may be exposed. Their ends justify their means.

Should you choose not to vote for a black man who advocates socialism, you will be labeled a racist, not a capitalist. (Although both words are pejorative, lately.)

Should you vote against Hillary, you are called a sexist; but if you vote for a conservative woman, Palin, you are called a Nazi?

Should you speak out for the rule of law taking precedence over the wave of illegal immigrants pouring over the southern border, you are called xenophobic.  

Should you write a letter imploring your representative to allow for our nation to fully utilize its national recourses in order to stabilize our energy prices, you are called anti-environment. Or (God forbid) anti-green.

In some communities, it is illegal to display the American flag

In most schools, the pledge of allegiance is not recited.

The radio talk show that you may enjoy listening to, may soon be effectively outlawed by our government.

The home that you live in may be taken from you in order to elevate the local tax base.

We are scolded by a presidential nominee that if we choose to be independent or Republican; his partisans have every right to “get in our faces.”

The system that built the most prosperous nation in history is now being socialized; directly traced to our government’s corruption; and no one seems to care.

We now have laws that restrict the amount of money you can donate to your political party. Or what amounts to: the incumbent protection act.

Election fraud is becoming more and more obvious; and no one reports about it.

We have a small percentage of a major religion who feels perfectly justified in murdering innocents-to make a political point-and our media simply makes excuses for them.

The Democrats, who were elected on a promise to “clean-up” Washington, are implicated in dozens of corruption schemes, and no one investigates.

The first Republican woman in history has been nominated. Rather than celebrate this event, our press has launched a full scale investigation-not unlike the election of 2000-into every bit of this woman’s life. From her private e-mails to her tax returns, to her political associations and even to her family’s private concerns, no stone is unturned. They seek to destroy her. And no one cares.

And even more laughable; there is nothing remotely comparable for those who run for office on the political left.

I’m sick of the whole mess. I’m sick of being criminalized for my politics.

Next it will be illegal to worship as I choose. That is coming. It seems almost everything else that challenges government is headed in that direction.

To butcher a quote from someone a lot wiser than me…”Tyranny gains a foothold, when good men do nothing to stop it.”

Or

We deserve the government we allow to rule us.

That must change or the world will miss the noble experiment that is America.

I see no one taking our place.

There is the north and west and central sections which tend to be more rural and therefore more conservative. People here tend to be fishers and hunters and church-goers, all unwelcome in today’s Democratic Party.  Agriculture here is an important part of the economy and farmers (out of necessity) tend to be a more independent and self-reliant breed.

And then you have the populous south and east sections. Transplanted north- eastern liberals, in the last century, have transformed orange groves and swampland into something akin to what has happened to Vermont. That is: by overwhelming numbers, the conservative, independent, religious base has been drowned in a wave of do-Gooding, nanny-state, guilt-ridden pseudo-intellectuals.

There has even been talk of succession by the more radical elements on the left. I mean, just use Vermont as an example. Their Senator is a communist sympathizer and the crotchety old Yankee rural base was always conservative. It still is, but New York and Massachusetts “flatlanders” drove them out of power a few decades ago. Hell, I can almost remember when “jumping” Jim Jeffords was a conservative Republican.

Anyway the battle has started. Obama has a new ad using the tried and true liberal tactic with regards to Roe vs. Wade. McCain, the ad claims, will support its reversal and therefore deny abortion to desperate women. Then, of course, these women will seek “back-alley” abortions and die.

Even though this argument is simply nonsense, it has been used effectively.

The President does not have the power to overturn any law. The courts made an ill-advised and absurd decision with Roe. This is even acknowledged by its supporters. Repealing it would NOT stop abortions. All it would do is give the power back to the states to determine what type of abortions would be permitted. There has to be SOME restriction. As the law stands now, some states come close to permitting infanticide. As medical advances occur, the survival rate for premature births has been extended.

I even have read stories of second trimester fetuses surviving with the miracles of modern science. Just for a moment, picture two babies, one just happened to be born 3 months too soon and the other expelled from the womb by induced abortion. Doctors fight with millions of dollars of equipment and years and years of expertise and can quite often save the child. On the other hand, I guess the aborted child can be left to squirm, gasp for breath, and die on a cold table. Perhaps someone can tell me the difference in value between the wanted child and the aborted one. I don’t see it, because it’s not there. Our entire legal system is based on the notion of equality and inalienable rights. What right is more inalienable than life? What right can exist without first the reverence for all life? If you support Obama-I know your answer.

So Obama is now playing the abortion card. He has already played the race card, with limited success, since he already has 90% of the black vote. That’s like McCain speaking to the VFW…what does it gain him?

Obama is having trouble with the war issue, since (horror of horrors) our troops seemed to have quelled the violence in Iraq. Obama is having trouble explaining how to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars needed for universal everything that he so is enamored with. Obama is having trouble with the white vote, the male vote, the religious vote, the rural vote, the military vote, the gun owners, the libertarians, the conservatives, the energy users, the truck drivers (due to his complete capitulation to the no-growth environmentalists). He is having trouble with the Hispanics, who are overwhelmingly Catholic. He should be having trouble with the Jewish vote, due to his embrace of the Muslim world and his predictable double-speak about Iran. You remember Iran, don’t you? That would be the country who daily vows the destruction of Israel. I somehow always thought the UN would frown upon such threats. They do, I suppose, just not for the Jews.

To sum it all up, I’m not sure he can be elected with a base that consists of Hollywood elitists, Journalistic left wingers, academic and environmental radicals, unrestricted abortion proponents and the 10 to 12 % who identify themselves as black. (And the guy is only ½ black, anyway)

I think he will hold this 40% that he already has. It would be next to impossible to lose the kool-aid lovers anyway. But that’s about it. He certainly does not help his cause by rehashing the abortion debate. But an ideologue is always an ideologue. He can’t help being one and will eventually expose all of his radical beliefs. For that, he will lose the other 60%. That would be called a landslide, and a well deserved one at that.

It has been written about and spoken about many times before, but it sometimes bears repeating. We still basically have a two party system, despite our occasional third party flirtations, and one of the two simply does not have a sense of humor. I avoid people and political parties who do not ever laugh-at themselves- particularly those who try to impose their grimness upon me.

I think it was yesterday when the “Daily Kos” continued its attacks on Mrs. Palin by proudly pointing out that she did not auction the governor’s private jet on E-Bay, as she claimed in a punch line in her acceptance speech the other day. Earth to Progressives….it was a joke. It was sarcasm. It poked fun at the liberals in power who believe that they are somehow entitled to whatever perks they can squeeze out of the constituency. So here come the liberals, all proud of themselves at this earth shaking discovery, once again making complete fools of themselves.

Lack of a sense of humor is not exclusive to liberals, but it does appear that the conservatives shy away from blowhards. We normally do not nominate sour, dour, serious only candidates who are full of themselves. Romney may have lost out because he came across as a little defensive and stiff.

McCain may have won the nomination simply because his campaign started with desperation, Hail Mary pass. He played fast and loose and sprinkled almost every interview with self-deprecation, a joke or two, and a playful jab or two at his opposition. It worked because conservatives do not take government as a means to fix every ill that befalls us. For us, government is nothing more than a necessary evil. So we keep it in its proper perspective by ridiculing it as much as possible.

To progressives, this is sacrilegious. Government and its various offshoots, is virtually a religion to them.

To further back up my point, just watch Obama for a week, without even looking at McCain. Obama treats every question as a serious, almost life threatening incident. He is ultra sensitive to criticism. He mumbles and stutters when given a difficult question, as though he thinks the world hangs on his every nuance. McCain and most on the conservative side are just as likely to give a sarcastic or funny remark when faced with a tough question, than a nuanced one that twists the language into knots, as Obama often does.

From “The Nation” magazine…

Just an observation… Isn’t this guy a little thin skinned? What would he do if someone really insulted him? Cry? Wet his pants? File a lawsuit? Call the NY Times editorial board?

Speaking of the Republican convention speakers, a clearly riled Obama said, "They haven't talked about the fact that I was a civil rights lawyer; they haven't talked about the fact that I taught constitutional law; they haven't talked about my work in the state legislature, in the United States Senate. They're talking about the three years of work that I did right out of college as if... I'm making the leap from two or three years out of college into the presidency."

Ok. Obama says he was a “civil rights lawyer”. He says he taught constitutional law. He “worked” in the Illinois legislature and now works the U.S. senate. And he complains about how his critics make the “leap” from his community organizer days to his campaign for President.

Maybe we are making the leap because that’s about all the guy has in his resume. Perhaps if Obama could hang his hat on any accomplishment it would help. He doesn’t do so because there is nothing there. Maybe if he could point out a few of his successes; perhaps someone he helped could testify how Obama helped him get a job or how his organization actually created employment. He claims he helped laid off steel workers. Why have none backed him up in this claim? Where are all these people he aided with his selfless, non-partisan, community aid programs?

These rhetorical questions are self-evident. The man is a fraud. Nothing more and nothing less.  

Just tell us what, exactly what you have accomplished! No one gives a damn what you wanted to do.

Obama acknowledged that his campaign had focused attention on his experience as a community organizer. But he said, "I would argue that doing work in the community to try and create jobs, to bring people together, to rejuvenate communities that have fallen on hard times, to set up job-training programs in areas that have been hard hit when the steel plants closed, that that's relevant only in understanding where I'm coming from, who I believe in, who I'm fighting for and why I'm in this race.

If this guy is claiming that he will do for America what he has done for Chicago, then for God’s sake give us some examples of what he actually did! You just can’t claim something with absolutely no corroboration. Well, I guess you can if you have Hollywood, the media, academia, the government burocracy, and most of the progressive world behind you. Leftist ideology means never having to say you’re sorry.

"And the question I have for them is? Why would that kind of work be ridiculous? Who are they fighting for? Who are they advocating for?

And the question I have for you, Barack is…if you are not just fighting for yourself, then let’s hear from those you claim you fought for. All I hear in the background is the sound of chirping crickets.

"Maybe that's the problem," Obama concluded. "Maybe that's part of why they are out of touch and don't get it because they haven't spent much time working for those kind of folks."

Let’s see. He says he is in touch, not the Republicans. Isn’t it Obama and his friends who routinely snicker at rural America? Isn’t it Obama who equates pregnancy with punishment or some kind of disease? Isn’t it Obama and the left who laugh at NASCAR and hunting and the south and Bibles and religion?

Who are “…those kind of folks”, by the way? Black folks? Sounds like a not so veiled accusation that we conservatives are simply racists. That charge is really getting old but seems to work, since blacks still vote progressive 90% of the time.

His religion is his ideology. And his arguments for his power grab border on the ridiculous. I guess he must have slept through the logic lessons in law school because the man never comes close to presenting any kind of case for himself.

Except, of course his parroting…the as yet, indefinable buzzwords of hope, change, and reform. Sadly, for half of us-that may be enough. God help us.

I’m sorry, but I honestly can not tell the difference between a news piece, a news analysis or even your standard op/ed..Papers and television commentators today seem to shift between these so often that the boundaries are all but indistinguishable.

This claims to be a news analysis piece…

Easiest Task for Palin May Have Been Speech

By Adam Nagourney of the New York Times

“…after three days in seclusion with some of the country’s most skilled political counselors to write, hone and practice her speech.”

I am not exactly sure how Nagourney knows the process used by Mrs. Palin to write her speech, since it was done in seclusion. The implication is, by the words chosen here, it was in large measure scripted and (horrors) rehearsed. I mean, everyone knows how stupid conservatives are. They are not capable of writing their own speeches. They are unable to form a cogent message without the aid of “skilled political counselors”. They require seclusion (a la Dick Cheney) since they are by nature, secretive. Everything conservatives do necessarily involves stealth and deception and dishonesty (like ol tricky Dick Nixon).

Liberals have this fantasized notion of what the right believes and how the right operates. This is because it is the left who actually practices this type of politics.

 And Ms. Palin ignited a loud round of approving boos as she denounced the news media and “Washington elite” that she suggested had ganged up against her since Mr. McCain announced Friday that she would be the Republican vice-presidential nominee.

First off, Adam baby, it is not Ms. Palin! It is Mrs. Palin. She is a married woman. That is how married women have been identified for as long as our language has been written. Have you ever referred to Hillary as Ms. Clinton? No? Why the inconsistency?

And she did not “suggest” that the media had ganged up on her since Friday; she stated that as fact; probably because it is a fact. With your own front page jammed with innuendos, half-truths, and outright lies since Mrs. Palin’s introduction, can you explain where she has mischaracterized your paper’s intentions?

Oh and why the scare quotes over the words: Washington elite? Are you somehow attempting to claim there is no such thing?

Facts are stubborn things, there Adam… try checking a few the next time you write a “news analysis”.

From here, Ms. Palin moves into a national campaign where she will have to appeal to audiences that are not necessarily primed to adore her.

Really? How is it that this man actually draws a paycheck? Is stating the obvious part of the man’s job description? Are Obama and “Plugs” Biden inoculated from non-adoring crowds? They do avoid the hell out of them, but here, again the inference is that Gov. Palin is perhaps incapable of dealing with criticism.

Nonsense.

 She will have to navigate far less controlled campaign settings that will test not only her political skills but also her knowledge of foreign and domestic policy.

No. You’re kidding. Gee, I thought she could just read speeches off teleprompters, avoid the Fox News Network, avoid community forums, avoid as many face to face debates as possible, write a couple of memoirs, stake out the “victim card” as one of our oppressed minorities, and skirt as many concrete answers to reporters questions as a slippery politician can. Ooops, that would be an apt decription of Barack's m.o. Mrs. Palin and her senior partner, McCain, do not do that.  Once again, liberals project upon others that which they refuse to see in themselves.

“Now the question for her and for McCain and for everybody who is inside the hall is how to clarify their message to the American people.” John Dansforth-former GOP Senator

No, there is no need to “clarify” any message. You would have to have been living under a rock for 50 years not to know the conservative message. Conservatives do not need to hide who they are in order to get elected; they need to tell us that they are conservative. Unlike the liberals, who seem to morph in to whatever the hell they need to, when they need to, conservatives ask for less. Fewer taxes lead to less government, which lead to less interference in our day-today lives, which leads to more personal control. That is precisely the legacy our founders left us and it worth fighting for. Perhaps it is time conservatives stopped being so conservative and begin defending the assaults of the left.

But what is that message?

If you are that stupid, there Ms. Nagourney, I give up.

Her speech left no doubt that she would take on the traditional role of a ticket’s No. 2, attacking the top of the other ticket, which she did repeatedly and with gusto.

It isn’t like Barack is perfect. Is it? Is he? Why should he be so protected? Oh, that’s right. I forgot. He is a liberal, just like you there Adam.

“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities,” Ms. Palin said

Seems about right to me.

The remark capped three days in which Republicans have sought to say it is Mr. Obama, and not this first-term governor from a small-population state, who does not have the experience to be president.

Obama doesn’t. And wasn’t Clinton a Governor from a small population state, as well. How about McGovern? How about “Plugs” Biden? Is Delaware a metropolis? Is North Dakota teeming with people? And isn’t Obama a first termer himself?

Why is it ok for one side and a detriment to the other, there Adam?

It is also unclear if the sharp and often mocking tone of her attacks — combined with her general avoidance of such key issues as the economy — might turn off swing voters across the country.

If memory serves, there was scant mention of the economy at the Democrat convention, as well. Unless you cons cider proposing scores of new programs and jacking up taxes by billions and laying the entire blame for every ill on Bush, some kind of economic plan.

Oh, and as far as the “mocking” tone you complain about…there is much to mock and sarcasm is an effective and humorous tool. Unfortunately for many on the left, a sense of humor and a little bit of self-deprecation is required to pull off such a tactic. That is usually missing from the zealots who live on the left; including you, Adam.

The problem for Ms. Palin is that that story has been tripped up by disclosures about her professional and personal life, enough so that at least until Wednesday, she had become a bigger figure at this convention than Mr. McCain.

No. The problem for her is not that her story has been “tripped up”. The problem for the liberal media is that these stories are so absurd. They have nothing to do with Mrs. Palin and whether or not she can handle her responsibilities. She is not the one who is “tripped up.” You are.

In her speech, she tried to address that by belittling what she disparaged as the Washington elite and the news media — a sure-fire applause line at these kinds of events — and invoking her own experience as a reformer. Yet she made no effort to say what she might do as a vice president, no small question when her lack of a national or international portfolio suggests she would not slide easily into the kind of full partner role enjoyed by Mr. Cheney and Al Gore.

Can we review exactly what Gore’s duties were in the Clinton administrations? Besides raising illegal campaign funds and inventing the internet, what was Al’s job?

And what’s the matter Adam? Can’t you address the issue of liberal bias without just dismissing it? Is there no truth to her words?

“But we don’t live in that kind of world anymore,” Mr. Hart said. And, he said, that is a particularly relevant question given Mr. McCain’s age — 72 — and health problems. “I’m sure John thinks he can live forever or at least for eight years,” Mr. Hart said.

Yep, Gary Hart, a disgraced (or should be) former Democratic Senator…that would be who I would turn to critique a Republican convention.

Health problems? 72 is now too old? He thinks he can live forever?

Has Nagourney or anyone at The Times ever said Bader-Ginsberg was too old? How about 89 year old Justice Stevens? How about the virtually comatose Senators Byrd or Lautenberg? Or why hasn’t the editorial board called for the soon-to-die Kennedy to step down or the indisposed (by a stroke) senior Senator from S.D.?

And why is it that McCain must serve 8 years? Maybe he wants only 4? The second term only turns into 3 years of being a lame-duck anyway.

The one role she is going to play — and one that Mr. Cheney played — is helping to motivate the right wing of her party. The uproarious applause that capped her speech left little doubt that she had already moved easily into the job — a big lift for Mr. McCain, who has always had difficulty persuading social conservatives to trust him.

McCain has shown distain for conservatives in many instances. Therefore we show distain for him. Not his personal story or his integrity or even many of his policies, but mainly for his pandering to our political adversaries. Maybe he has learned not to trust the left as much since his campaign began. But we’d like to see it firsthand, before we bury our hatchet. Nominating Palin does help.

“...the job isn’t worth a warm pitcher of spit…”

Originally attributed to a V.P. in one of the (too) many FDR administrations, but here it can apply to this ridiculous, boilerplate, and contemptuous “news analysis” by Adam Nagourney of The New York Times.

This article is not worth a warm pitcher of spit either, but the pitcher is now a bedpan and the word: spit -in the original quote- had a different second letter.

Yeah, bright, competent and conservative western women always cause a problem for snarky, snotty, arrogant eastern elitists. I suggest Dowd tone down her sarcasm. Her smarminess is not attractive.

"Palin Reignites Culture Wars"

Yeah, the millions who have the nerve to disagree with the progressives are to blame for the culture wars. If only we conservatives would just give in to whatever the hell the left wants to do-we would all be at peace. It seems their world view is the only acceptable view. If you are religious, if you demand reasonable cultural standards or if you stand in the way of one party rule-you are to blame. Amazing.

"A Stark Contrast with Obama on Abortion"

God, let us hope so. Palin would actually support measures that would save the life of an aborted, yet alive fetus.  Understanding how anyone can support infanticide is beyond my pay grade.

"McCain Picked an Extremist"

How an honest commentator labels mainstream American values as extreme is another question beyond my understanding. Maybe, just maybe it is the reporter’s values that are extreme. Obama is now middle-of-the –road? Wow.

"Dan Quayle With an Up-Do"

So Mrs. Palin is stupid. She probably even puts an ”oe” at the end of her vegetable spellings. I know this hit piece was written by a woman (or gay man) since it is overtly condescending and bitchy. But, I suppose, if you write an article and you are such a person-your slip does show, even if you try to hide it.

"Republicans are Irrelevant"

Jack Cafferty is irrelevant. MSNBC is irrelevant. CNN is irrelevant. Main stream media is fast becoming irrelevant. The man has it backwards.

"What the GOP is Really Up To"

Everything that hurts the arguments of the left is an evil plot. It never is a logical, rational, reasonable alternative viewpoint. It’s like a child who loses a game of marbles blaming the sun or the wind for his defeat. Some folks are never wrong.

"Palin Raises Questions About McCain’s Judgment"

“Plugs” Biden, Reverend Wright, Tony Rezco, William Ayers, Michelle Robinson, being wrong on “the surge” any almost every other issue of the day, raises no questions about Obama’s judgment?

"McCain Puts Politics Above Country"

A Democrat would never put politics above country? They put everything above country because they don't like this country as it exists. The entire Democratic campaign is about how to change this country!  What’s the text shorthand for laughing my rear end off? LMAO?

"DNC Sets High Bar for RNC to Reach"

 This guy has got to be kidding.That bar would be a “limbo dance” nightmare for me since I could never get my belly under that twelve inch broom. How is it possible to call what the Dems do a “high” bar? I guess if you are already on the floor, a foot seems high.

"Why McCain Still has a Chance to Win"

Imagine that. Obama may lose. We actually may be given a chance to actually determine our President. A columnist has just granted us all that privilege. How big of him.

"GOP Appears Ready to Move Beyond Bush"

No…we are going to stay with Bush. We always nominate people who can’t constitutionally run for office. This jerk even uses the qualifier “appears” in his opinion piece as though it is somehow even debatable.

"Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in Process"

And that would be bad, why and how? Just being late would say what? Desperation? Incompetence? Lack of vetting, lack of judgment? Senility?

Bottom line for the whole media hyperventilation: Sarah Palin scares the bejezzes out of them because she is a woman, she is conservative, she is pro-life, she is pro-drill, she loves America, children and is sure of herself. She is everything they are not. So… she is dangerous to them and they must find a means to destroy her. I (and many others) think the progressives have overplayed their hand. They are holding a pair of Aces and are betting like it’s a full house. It’s the norm for arrogant people and there seems to be an abundance of such on the left.

This article has nothing to do with politics. Somehow today, I feel like taking a political day off and want to discuss what, for many,  is a more powerful national force.

That force is called “fantasy football.”

It has been known to split the bonds of family. Completely spit up lifelong friends (if only for a season or two.) And I’m sure if I completely researched it, it may have even led to a divorce, assault and battery or even a homicide or two.

I’ve been involved in a few leagues over the past three or four years. They all start out as cordial, back slapping, high fiving mostly guy groups who may just substitute this form of competition from a childhood playground type that they no longer can physically do. Arthritis, bursitis, knee and back aches and even heart concerns leave a lot of us unable to perform as we once did. I’m convinced fantasy sports are just a substitute.

As friendly as they all begin, almost inevitably, hard feelings seem to sprout up along the way. As though losing a fictitious computer game to a rival by an artificial scoring system somehow diminishes one’s manhood.

Some leagues actually encourage “smack-talk”. That’s akin to stabbing your victim and then pounding your chest while standing over him. “Dissing” your opponent is also encouraged. That’s like what we used to call “ranking” on someone. You know, phrases like, “you suck”, “your mama is fat” “I da best” and on and on. For more examples, just tune in to MTV for an hour or so…you’ll get the idea and an earful of hate.

With all that being said, here is my tale of woe as I entered the world, for the first time, of fantasy commissioner this year.

I wanted to do a friends and family only private league. That would, almost necessarily, eliminate those who start out the season and then just quit playing. These lunatics are far more common in free public leagues, but can be found elsewhere. They are easily recognized by them playing in week 10 a quarterback who was jailed in week 4 on a marijuana charge. It kind of takes all the fun out of beating the guy; to say nothing of the ridicule you might suffer if the team beats your guys!

So I set it up with a private password and send out about a dozen invitations.

My son is first to sign up, then his girl and future brother-in-law. With me, that makes four-we need 12. Then a friend chimes in….we got five now.

Understand there is not an unlimited amount of time here to get to the magic number. I think about three weeks, is all. After that, the league is dissolved and we get to start over.

So, I then email #1 son who is in the Navy and has never played fantasy before.

He answers back in a few days and says “cool” because he has just joined a league on base. He also can not for the life of himself figure out how to log in and sign up. So, after going over a few things with him on the phone-while the grandkids were running and screaming in the background-I sort of gave up on the explanation part. I invented an identity and signed him up through my site.

I still have no confirmation from him if he even knows how to log on to the league’s web site, but his name is on the list.

Then I attempt to sign his wife up (she would be the bigger sports fan of the two). Now she has just moved to the Carolina hills and has almost no access to the internet (yet), so she says to go ahead and sign her up with another bogus account and phony address (since she really has no permanent one yet), so I do and she is also in.

We are now up to a shaky seven.

#2 son tells me his boss and his boss’s son wants to join. He said the same thing two weeks ago. Thusfar they have not done so.

I do hazily remember that I had nine fully vetted and duly signed up with 48 hours to go before the deadline. I panicked and took the league public-hoping to avoid the indignity of dissolution.

Big mistake.

I furiously sent out emails or phone calls to everyone I could contact and told them to change leagues ASAP. The three missing teams needed to be recognized would have to come from the public.

Of course, my plan did not go the way I had hoped. Before a few of the entrenched nine could switch their allegiance to the new league, five perfect strangers signed up. Now I had my twelve, but I had at least a couple of people upset as well.

I reasoned to myself, if everyone just took the two minutes out of their busy schedule a week or so ago and did what they said they wanted to do; my forcing the issue and unwittingly excluding a few players would not have happened.

The season hasn’t even started and my friends and my family may not be talking smack to me, but I sure sense they are thinking smack.

Me? Commissioner? Ever? Again? As a New Yorker might say: “fuggitaboutit!”

This is rich. This is really good. I can’t stop smirking. I love it when a phoney is exposed. I love it more when a lot of them are exposed. There are no innocents in this mess, anywhere.

We have a dishonest campaign chairman for a lying former first lady who was married to a convicted perjurer claiming a disingenuous snake oil salesman; charlatan trial lawyer sabotaged her campaign by not being forthcoming about a number of sneaky sexual trysts with an equally sneaky and secretive woman.

And all the while, the abundantly biased and dishonest media tries to conceal the whole thing.

What did these people say about ol tricky Dick? It wasn’t the crime; it was the cover-up?

Yikes. The movie rights for this might start at seven figures!

Let me attempt to unpack this.

John-Boy Edwards was already involved with a campaign worker before announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, somewhere around the time his devastated wife was tugging on his shirtsleeve to tell him her cancer was in remission. Of course, upon hearing this encouraging news, he immediately jumped in bed with his surrogate and probably impregnated her. No safe sex for him…he’s invincible, don’t ya know.

After such encounters, John –Boy loved to speak of the two America’s. He always “stood up” for victims. Hell, it’s probably even on his business cards. "I will stand up for victims". The man made7 or 8 figures speaking for those who can’t speak. Some, even from the womb or the grave. God, the man was clairvoyant! It seems, in reflection however, he couldn’t even stand up for the “love of his life.”  Quite simply how can anything he says be taken seriously again?

So what is the bottom line here?

Hillary did lose by a whisker because she was out flanked by a Chicago-machine community activist lawyer and a conventional, but highly successful slip and fall trial lawyer.

Her Rose law firm background that involved Wall-Mart, cattle futures, and Castle Grande real estate ventures (and a brief stint as a paper pusher in the Nixon impeachment) did not prepare her for the likes of Obama and Edwards.

She was out lied, again. Bill’s been doing it for years. Although a strong case can be made for her own dishonesty; she constantly gets beat at her own game.  And that, my friends, is really saying something!

And we here about how this is one of the world’s smartest woman?

Mexico's government condemned Texas' execution of Jose Medellin despite a world court order to review the case, expressing concern for the rights of other Mexicans detained in the United States.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said it sent a note of protest to the U.S. State Department about the case, which drew international attention because of allegations that Medellin wasn't allowed to consult the Mexican consulate for legal help following his arrest.

Texas executed the Mexican-born Medellin, 33, late Tuesday for the 1993 slayings of two teenage Houston girls after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a reprieve in a split vote.

I honestly can not remember a time when I have been as disgusted with the liberal “international community” as I am now.

I have one and only one thought to impart on the Mexican government (as corrupt as it is) how about keeping your economic refugees to yourself.

We seldom read a story that details the laughable Mexican legal system. We only see the world targeting us.

If he committed this crime in Iran, what do you suppose his sentence would be?

How about Cuba? China? Russia? Indonesia? Most of Africa and Asia? The Muslim world? A beheadding would be the most merciful punishment.  Why do we never see stories detailing  these nation's alleged judicial abuses?

No need to answer that. We are vilified because we are free. We are free to enforce heinous crimes with appropriate penalties. That is nothing to be ashamed of.

If I were to steal across the border into Mexico and commit such atrocities on Mexican soil to Mexican citizens; there is no doubt in my mind, I would not be long for this world. There would be no trial.

Who the hell are these corrupt, phony, pompous Mexicans to tell us how we should enforce our laws? Perhaps they should tend to their own housekeeping before they accuse us of a messy house.

I say: to hell with Mexico. I’m sick to death with tyrants pointing fingers at us. And why do we care what they all think? Do they consult us on their laws?

I'm not sure who, exactly wrote this, but if  half true ( and it appears to be at least that) it is devastating for Obama. Kind of reminds me of the Hertz commercials.

I'd just like to share it...

 

 

 
 
Obama's "Not Exactly's":

 

 

  1.) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe 
enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth,  as 
Selma was in 1965. (Google'Obama Selma' for his full March 4, 
2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.) 

 2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a 
privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the 
Kenyan Government. 
 

 3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he 
was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya 
has ever had. 
 
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT 
EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in 
attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. 
It is the 
first widespread violence in decades. The current government is 
pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish 
Muslim Sharia law. 
Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga's follower. You 
interrupted 
your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. 
Check  out the following link for verification of that....and for more. Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and 
tried to get Sharia muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost  the 
elections, his followers have burned Christians' homes and then 
burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church 
where they sought shelter. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process 
here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No 
one wants  to know the truth. 
 
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT 
EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her 
own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her 
to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man. 
 
6.) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is 
Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 
'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is >>> Obama. 
Barack Hussein Obama is! not half black. If elected, he 
would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black 
President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his >>> mother's 
side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his 
father's side. 
While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya, his father's 
family 
was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% 
African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate 
even states 
he's Arab, not African Negro). From....and for more....go to..... 

http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-Americ 

 
 
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it 
daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept 
that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so 
you could 
run for office. 4-3-08 Article "Obama was! 'quite religious in 
islam'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559 
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559> 

 8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - NOT EXA CTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic 
Studies for making faces (check your own book). 
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a 
year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call 
to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark  that 
seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters  heart 
attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the 
prettiest  sounds on Earth at sunset." This is just one example of what Pamela 
is talking about when she says "Obama's narrative is being altered, 
enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts." 

9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one 
teacher says you could speak the language. 
 
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign 
Experience - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, 
and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to 
study the Koran and watch cartoons. 
 
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except 
for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you 
have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO 
experience with our closest allies. 

12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT 
EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, 
no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - >>> your 
classmates said you were just fine. 

 

 13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT 
EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your 
book. It doesn't, and never did, exist. 

14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - 
NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your 
book. It doesn't, and never did, exist. 
 
15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT 
EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would 
not have enough experience by then, and you are all about 
having experience 
first. 
 
16.) Voting "Present" is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT 
EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others 
have 130 NO VOTES. 

17.) Oops, I Misvoted - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by 
church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote. 

18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a 
senior lecturer ON LEAVE. 

19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were 
a senior lecturer ON LEAVE. 
 
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT 
EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create 
it. 

21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it 
took just 14 days from start to finish. 

 22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill 
! was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of >>> all 
regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from 
which David Axelrod came. 

 

 

 23.) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of 
March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to >>> be 
released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within. 
 
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT 
EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied 
Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but 
yourself, in your  books. 

 

25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, 
your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which 
lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill. 

26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, 
even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your 
part. 

27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, 
they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their 
creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for 
higher office. 
 
28.) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA - 
NOT EXACTLY, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of 
the conversation your campaign had with them. 

This amazing statement was written by Bob Herbert in today’s N.Y. Times.

I’m not sure if it is possible to be any more wrong than Herbert is on this detail. Granted, he is almost never correct in his assertions anyway, but man, this is a whopper! I guess if you are going to lie, go ahead and make a big lie.

It has been asserted by liberals and conservatives and moderates alike that race is now and always was the central theme in Obama’s campaign. No one really knows the guy and no liberal even attempts to explain the man’s ever-changing positions. He will be the first black President. That is enough for them.

When it suits him, he uses his color as a weapon of mass distortion. It succeeds brilliantly among the ever guilt-ridden far left, academic fringe of his party.

These people can never be truly happy, since they (incredibly) feel unworthy of whatever they have accomplished. I guess they feel because they have something that somehow, they are depriving another person of it. Or, everything must add up to zero. My success has to be hurting someone.

 Guilt and false sympathy rule their pitiful existence. Their votes can be bought with simply a mention of skin color and a reminder of our racist history. Race is Obama’s trump card when all else fails. It is truly his default position on everything. Never mind that he is half white and half African. For political purposes the man claims he has suffered the struggle along with Jesse Jackson and M.L. King, when there is absolutely no validity to the arguement. But, it works.

When Geraldine Ferraro let the cat out of the bag during the primaries; a feigned uproar met her logical statement by the Democrat masses that were it not for Obama’s color, he would not be thought of as a viable candidate. She had a valid logical point, but when was the last time liberals embraced validity and logic?

Answer: never, when feelings and emotions and fairness are its competition.