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What part of this surprises any of you? We have a tax cheat writing our tax laws. That's right ... Charlie Rangel is a tax evader. A tax cheat. And yet the Democrats successfully killed a resolution that would have removed him as Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee. Remember, only Republicans can be corrupt. Democrats? Theirs is a culture of caring ... right? For those of you who are government educated - all tax bill originate in the House. Charlie Rangel is the chairman of the committee in charge of drafting tax legislation. While writing the tax laws that govern you this clown has done a good job of avoiding the law for his personal finances. Here are just some examples: 1) Failure to report over $1 million in outside income and $3 million in business transactions as required by the House, 2) Failure to disclose at least $650,000 in assets he had previously failed to list on his House financial disclosure forms, 3) Failure to disclose to the IRS or on his financial disclosure forms $75,000 in rental income for a beach villa in the Dominican Republic, 4) Violation of state laws by claiming three primary residences and breaking New York City regulations by maintaining four rent-controlled apartments, 5) Violation of House rules by using congressional letterhead to solicit donations for an education center bearing his name at City College of New York, and 6) Delinquency in paying his property taxes on two New Jersey parcels and failure to report the sale of a $1.3 million brownstone. This is a man who clearly believes that he's part of some special class - perhaps a class of one - that to which the laws of this country simply do not apply. All that, and all the arrogance you would ever need. We also have brain-dead members of Congress who came to his defense. Maxine Waters says that "many members" of Congress suffer from the same issues as Charlie Rangel. What affliction is that? The inability to follow the law? We get punished for that sh!t!!! Why not Rangel? The Republicans want to remove the guy as chairman, but the Democrats vote against it. Now THAT is transparency. THAT is change you can believe in! By the way, if you want to know what good Charlie Rangel is doing in Congress, just check out the $3 million earmark he snuck into a bill for a city college, which has an academic department created by and named after Charlie Rangel!

I just had a strange confrontation with an Indian convenient store keep. Here is the conversation: RO: Good evening. Indian: Yes. It is fine, sir. RO: Do you think we'll see more rain this weekend? Indian: I am happy with my location. RO: Errr... No. I asked if YOU think we'll see more rain this weekend. Indian: Sir. I answered your question. RO: Huh? Indian: Please to be paying for your merchandise and leave my store. RO: Fine. (mumbling) I can get a nudie mag and a six pack anywhere. Indian: $12.14 sir. RO: Highway robbery! Indian: Thank you. See you soon. RO: Don't hold your breath. Indian: Sir? RO: It's an expression. Indian: Are you suggesting that I kill myself? RO (after a short pause and looking at his beady little eyes.): Are you off your meds or something, man? Indian: No! You are off your meds, sir! RO: WTF is your problem? Indian: WTF is your problem, sir? RO: I'm not playing games with you on a Wednesday night. Indian: I do not want to play games with you, sir. RO (confused): Fukkit. See you tomorrow, Najeeb. Indian: Thank you, Neal. Najeeb speaks English with a heavy Indian accent. He is also around thirty or so and will probably be my emergency heart transplant surgeon in my latter days. He and I know each other by name, he and I have spoken on several different occasions, however I don't think he understands my English.

Where al-Qaida weakens, the Taliban strengthens. ADDENDUM: We should all listen to General McChrystal, because he is one of few "straight shooters" left out there.

Let's get real here.... It seems as though we've heard this line from Barack Obama before. Oh wait, we have! During the campaign (Has PrezBo ever stopped his campaign?)! For months we heard Barack Obama pin the hopes of our economic recovery on healthcare reform. Now the news has hit - our unemployment rate has reached 9.8% -- now is as good a time as ever to remember Rahm's advice: Never let a good crisis go to waste. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8S5y550fjA&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Weekly Address: Health Reform Urgent for the Economy[/ame] During his radio address over the weekend, Obama said that his healthcare plans would help to solve our unemployment problems because it would make small business startups more affordable. In Obama's world, forcing people to buy health insurance would allow aspiring entrepreneurs to feel at ease while switching jobs, starting their business and hiring workers. Obama said "reforming our health insurance system will be a critical step in rebuilding our economy so that our entrepreneurs can pursue the American dream again and our small businesses can grow and expand and create new jobs again." By the way .. this was virtually the same speech Obama gave last July. He's getting a bit repetitive. What Obama fails to mention is that his healthcare plans include tax increases on the very same small businesses and entrepreneurs he is relying on to kick start this economy again. Not to mention the fact that plans for mandatory healthcare coverage could significantly impact small businesses and their abilities to grow. There's a clause in the Senate's plan that puts insurance mandates on any business that employs 50 people. So ... if this goes into effect, and you happen to be employing 54 people when it does ... how many people get fired? I put the number at five. And if you're a small business that employs 49 people when ObamaCare goes into effect, how many people do you hire? I put that number at zero. The National Federation of Independent Business says, "Forcing employers to offer health insurance, plain and simple, will cost America jobs and revenue, and inhibit small businesses from growing. It's a bad idea any time, but is particularly destructive in the current economic environment."

Happy belated birthday, Chi. Too bad you didn't get the Olympics. That would have been a great birthday gift!

I would have to say very few people out there actually "get me". And even fewer take the time to get to know me. A sad state of affairs, because I am not as obnoxious as I pretend to be. And I would have to say that is commonplace this day in age. Gone are the lazy Sundays in the recliner, gone are the days of face to face conversation, gone are the days of storytelling, gone are the days of visiting neighbors! They have all been replaced by email, text messages, blogs, the Internet, among others.

I woke at four in the morning to the sound of thunder and heavy rain. My yard is officially a lake.

OK, so Chicago lost its Olympic bid. Big stinking surprise, right? There they were, Barack, Michelle and Oprah, traveling all the way to Copenhagen (on the taxpayer's dollar) to schmooze on behalf of the windy city, and Rio gets the Olympics. Maybe Oprah should have bought every member of the IOC a nice shiny new car. It really was rather sad to see that rock band up there in front of a few thousand Chicagoans trying to figure out what to play after the announcement was made. Any suggestions? How does that tune go.....? Chicago! Chicago! We got our butts kicked. Yeah... yeah... yeah (Lyrics by Bono) Oh well, here's my problem. This got really absurd real quick last Friday afternoon. Across the web and the radio dial this whole Chicago/Olympics debacle suddenly became the sole and exclusive fault of just one man ... Barack Obama. He was the reason .. and the only reason .. that Chicago lost out. Are you kidding me? Let's consider some other possible reasons. First ... I went through the names of the members of the International Olympic Committee. Now this is probably not accurate because some of these gender-bending international names are hard to figure out; but I put it at about 89 men and about 17 women, give or take one or two of each, and maybe a few questionable types in there as well. Now ... have you been to Chicago? Have you seen the women there? Fine. They're OK, by Chicago Standards. And no ... Catherine Zeta Jones does NOT live in Chicago. Now ... have you been to Rio? Nuff said, right? Do the math; 89 men, 17 women voting on whether to hang out for the next seven years in Chicago or Rio. Now just how difficult is that? Another comparison: Navy Pier to Rio's beaches. Then there's the possibility that the president actually did make a difference when he went rushing off to Copenhagen; a negative difference. Not, however, because it was President Obama, but because it was the President of the United States. Look; many foreign countries are a bit weary of what they view as America throwing its weight around. Naturally, if they're attacked or buried under an avalanche or tsunami they would just LOVE to see some weighty American money thrown around ... but unless there's danger at the doorstep they want us to stay in the background for a change. Now I may see this as a dangerous policy, but I don't count. Perhaps the IOC saw a presidential visit as some sort of a mandate. Here's the American President over here telling us what to do again. Let's show him we can't be pushed around. Sure, some other heads of state made the pitch as well, but these buffoons couldn't get a Home Depot to move in, let alone an Olympics. Then there's the Chicago reputation itself. Let's face it, Chicago is not known as the city of lights. I happen to love the place, but overseas Chicago is gangsters. It's Al Capone. It's the St. Valentine's Day massacre and Elliot Ness. Also .. even though I love visiting Chicago, once that jerk Daily plowed under Meigs I've wanted his butt in my briefcase. This isn't it, but it's good enough. Too bad Chicago had to suffer with him. The point here is that a lot of conservatives are keeping themselves busy looking for a way to blame everything that is negative in their lives or every bad thing that happens to anyone who lives in or is associated with our country on Barack Obama. I think Obama is a dangerous man. Anyone who believes that America's greatness comes from government is dangerous to freedom. We have a community organizer who's primary political flirtation during his college years was with Marxism. I truly believe that this could be the man who ultimately destroys the dreams of our founding fathers. Obama is dangerous and must be watched. Those who value freedom and independence would be well advised to chose their fights with Obama and the Social-Democrat Party well. If an alarm is sounded every time he scowls or steps on a crack then America's uneducated dumb masses will completely stop paying attention. A lot of political capital has been wasted ranting about something that really, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't make all that much of a difference; that being whether or not Chicago gets the Olympics. When a true threat comes along, how do we get the attention of a weary public? Let's forget this Olympics thing. It's over. The only real losers here are the corrupt Chicago political class that undoubtedly would have cashed in on this big time, and the unions that most certainly would have controlled every square foot of Olympic-related construction. We could have a problem though. Isn't there a huge Jesus statue looking down on Rio? I guess the ACLU is going to have to get busy getting that thing removed before our athletes will be allowed to carry an American Flag during the opening ceremony.

A rather obscure author known as Padrissimo. Don't tell me you can suck-start a motorboat.

Whether the State has written legislation against zoosexual acts or not, the offender can still be persecuted under animal cruelty charges. Bestiality in Alaska is a misdemeanor. (As of 2009 legislation) Bestality in Georgia is a felony. Bestality is officially illegal in only 29 states. What I take from this, more people would rather rape a donkey or a dog than another human being.

If an eight year old girl wants to wrestle his grandpa, isn't that acknowledgement of consent?

I guess we'll have to endure a week or two of bellyaching, moaning, and groaning from Oprah.

The above article by William Weston pretty much explains my views on polygamy. As for interspecies unions, an animal can not give consent and how can we be so sure that the animal understands the concept?

What do you mean by that statement?

A while back, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the state cannot discriminate against gay and lesbian couples in the recognition of marriages. The Massachusetts legislature had 180 days to come up with a way to give homosexual couples the same rights that heterosexual couples enjoy under Massachusetts law. So here we have a very controversial judicial action. My first and really my only concern here is whether or not the action taken by the Massachusetts Supreme Court could lead somehow to a threat to my life, liberty or property, either through force or fraud. Try as hard as I might, I couldn't dream up the scenario where this would happen. Just which one of my rights is violated if, through the operation of law, the estate of a deceased gay man can pass to his gay partner? What do I lose if a lesbian can file a joint federal income tax return with her lesbian partner in marriage? Nothing .. that's what ... nothing. Not a damn thing. So can someone tell me on just what basis I'm supposed to rant and rave against the idea of the law recognizing a committed relationship between two people who truly love each other but who happen to be of the same sex? Just what have I lost here? What am I going to lose if every state in the union steps forward and legalizes, as they say, "gay marriage"? Every single right that I have under the law today I will have under the law after gays and lesbians get their state issued marriage licenses. Some of you are going to tell me that this is an affront to your religious beliefs. I respect that, but those are religious beliefs and have no role in the operation of government. Your religious beliefs are between you, your God, your family and your church. They are not to be guidelines for the operation of your government. Our government was founded on a principle of equal treatment under the law. Your religion may not be comfortable with that concept. Fine. Live your own life in strict accordance with your religious principles if you wish, but don't try to use the police power of government to compel others to live by them as well. Some of the people who will object loudly to this decision will go to the corner store today to purchase their copy of People magazine and then wander off to their homes in time to catch Entertainment Tonight on the tube. They will "ooh" and "ahhhh" over the latest news and gossip about their favorite celebrities. These are the same celebrities who engage in a series of four-month marriages. They're also the same celebrities who get pregnant and then wonder out loud in anxiously awaited interviews about whether or not they'll get married to the father at some time in the future. Maybe so, maybe not. The Hollywood crowd has made a mockery of the idea of marriage and of raising children in mother-father households. If you want to focus your righteous rage somewhere ... try Hollywood! In the meantime... unless you can tell me how gay marriage is going to effect your rights under the law, it's my position that you have nothing to gripe about.

Bo Pelini is a damn fine coach.

With the Braves out of contention, I can put my full support into St. Louis. Damn right. Smokin' Smoltz can tell you how freakin' unfriendly that park is to visiting ball clubs.

Ugh.... that loss to LSU hurt. Freaking penalties, on both sides of the ball, are killing Georgia. This was a defensive tug of war, but the Georgia D spent too much time on the field.

I find it pathetically ironic that those who berate a person of a different nationality, and thus speak a different language, are the same people who regularly butcher their own native tongue.

How can you get chest hair in your mouth from a motorboat?

If I were to stay my rebukes in consideration of TJ's fragile ego, I would have developed the most painful of sh!t cramps. Sometimes it's not the sh!t you hold inside you, but the sh!t you pass when you're just tired of being in fukken discomort.

I can hear the gnashing of teeth. Tell you what. I promise to get really upset about gay marriage when some of you can convince me that it is going to have some real affect on my life, my relationships and my freedoms; or if you can convince me that gay marriage demeans the institution of marriage any more than do those Hollywood couplings we're reading about on a daily basis. Until then ... it's a non-issue.

I guess corruption isn't an Olympic event.

Jesus H. Chirst! Don't cry or anything, Barry! You are breaking my pea picking heart!

I was proud to be the Navy's "mall cops"!