Super Tuesday #2
Santorum has won Tennessee now, is leading in North Dakota and in Ohio (although Ohio has a lot of votes to count yet).
Santorum is the best Republican to take on Obama in the fall. The race against Obama is going to be decided in the Midwest rust belt states, Santorum is a genuine Midwesterner and that means an awful lot in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and so on. It’s a populist region and Santorum best exemplifies that spirit. All the Republicans will win the south, lose the northeast and northwest, and split in the Southwest. Santorum understands it and has crafted the right message.
Super Tuesday Update
So far it’s Romney in Massachusetts, Vermont, and Virginia … no surprises there. Gingrich in Georgia and Santorum in Oklahoma and leading in Tennessee and Ohio. Again, no surprises. And Ron Paul … uh … no wins. And once again, no surprises.
Rush Limbaugh vs Sandra Fluke
I wish I could say that I find it amazing that the media, Democrats, moderate Republicans, and the like would support Sandra Fluke after her description by Rush Limbaugh as a “slut”, but I don’t. It just shows the standard insanity of the left and the standard lack of courage on the center right.
But before jumping to any conclusions, let’s think about it … just what is a ‘slut’?
For most people, the word ‘slut’ is used to describe someone (usually a woman) of loose morals who has excessive intimate relations, and is typically young and unmarried. Personally, I see the word as gender neutral and have referred to many men as sluts myself. But I digress.
Instead, let’s look at the numbers. Let us say the price of the birth control pill is $50 per month. Multiply that time 3 years of law school (36 month for the liberals among us) and you get $1,800 or $600 per year. OK, it may require a little budgeting for a college student, but not all that much. But Ms. Fluke states that it costs $3,000 over those 3 years for birth control. So that leaves us $400 dollars per year in the sex protection budget. Hmm … I will assume that the remainder goes into the condom budget. Admittedly, it’s been a while since I’ve bought condoms (happily married), but I don’t think that $.50 per condom is too far out of the ballpark. So $400 dollars per year equals 800 condoms and 800 condoms divided by 365 days is approximately 2.2 condoms per day.
If I remember from my college days that most college students are not monogamous during their entire stay, that men do occasionally provide their own condoms, which would increase the frequency of use, and that I cannot think of anyone I ever knew who used that many condoms in a year, well, it just might be that Mr. Limbaugh made a good point (as he often does).
The real bottom lines are these …
First, it is not my responsibility to cover your birth control.
Second, Ms. Fluke really should take a long look in the mirror. With 1000 condoms used per year, her parents must be so proud.
Duty of the AG
Eric Holder, by his own admission, is not fit to serve as the US Attorney General. In the linked video below, he claims that a desire to prosecute a New Black Panther member caught on video intimidating voters by wielding a police baton a great disservice to his people. His reasoning is that voter intimidation in the South during the 1960′s was of a greater significance to history than modern voter intimidation.
Watch Eric Holder’s Comments Here.
There’s a problem with Holder’s assertions. As the US Attorney General, it’s his sworn duty to prosecute cases based on the law, not judge the law’s relative importance in history. He is required to do this on behalf of all Americans equally, not just a select few he considers to be his people.
I do not know if his people are determined by race, ethnicity, ideology or some other factor. It makes no difference, because, despite his assurances to the contrary, he is clearly making determinations about which cases to prosecute based on his identity as a member of this select group.
Holder’s statements indicate that he is not capable of fulfilling the duties his position requires. He should resign immediately. If he doesn’t, the President should fire him.
The New Face of the GOP?
Strong faces with strong character behind them. The Republican Party could do a lot worse than choosing Herman Cain or Allen West as a Presidential Candidate in 2012. Certainly, they did far worse in 2008.
After hearing them speak, I’ll find it much easier to support either of these men than I did John McCain. I’d be overjoyed, actually. With McCain, I had to tamp down my disgust long enough to vote for him. That’s the closest I could get to “supporting” him.
In fact, if Obama hadn’t been so obviously Marxist, I almost certainly would have voted for him. Not because he would have been a better president – I think Obama’s done a worse job than McCain would have been capable of. Just to prevent McCain from being responsible for further damaging the country and spreading his disgrace to conservatives in general.
Hopefully, the GOP will choose Herman Cain, Allen West, or another strongly principled candidate like them in 2012. (Chris Christie comes to mind.) We’re going to need someone like that, if we’re going to pull the country back from the precipice.
Images
What can we really learn from an image? Sometimes, a lot. More often, our eyes can deceive us. The mugshot of the psychotic and evil murderer, Jared Loughner may tell us something about him. When I first saw it, the smirking, lumpy, hairless face reminded me of something… It took me a while to remember. It was a Woody Harrelson movie from the ’90s. Natural Born Killers.
Does this mean that Oliver Stone and Woody Harrelson caused or inspired Loughner’s actions? Are they responsible? Do they have blood on their hands?
No. That’s ridiculous.
But I’d bet good money that Loughner has seen the movie. I’d go so far as to say he was a fan of it. And I’d even suggest that the reason he shaved his head and eyebrows before going on his murder spree was to look like Harrelson did in this movie. He was putting on a costume so that, in his mind, he would be a Natural Born Killer, too.
Or it could just be a coincidence.
We all have a desire to make sense out of the senseless. But, sometimes, there isn’t any sensible answer. Sometimes people are just plain crazy.
After Effects
Now that we know an image, devoid of context, can cause a murderous rampage, it should come an no surprise that Target Stores have removed their Find a Store online store locator. Really, take a look at these, but… please, please, refrain from going on a killing spree after you see them.
Okay… calm down. Tamp the anger down… Good? Here’s the next one…
Urrggh! More target symbols this time… Primal.Urge. To. Kill. Growing… No. NO. NO! Okay. Okay. Is everyone under control now?
Prepare yourself for the last image.
It’s shocking.
You have been warned.
So – I won’t be held responsible for any action you take after seeing it.
If you don’t think you can handle it, don’t look below this line.
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Okay, brave souls.
Here goes…
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Exploitation of Tragedy
All these groups out there that are exploiting the murder of six people at the hands of a schizophrenic gunman should be ashamed of themselves. I say “should,” because I know they will continue to push their agendas, regardless of the facts, and – in so doing – prove that they have no shame.
So – go right ahead – blame the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, The DailyKOS, Jon Stewart, and whoever else you please. Use this opportunity to ban guns or censor Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Why not blame Rock Music, Videogames, and Global Warming, too?
Just know that a lot of us are really sick of it… We just want to mourn the loss of six innocent people — without listening to all of your B.S.
We don’t need you to tell us who is responsible. We already know. 22 year old, Jared Loughner. He’s a drug abusing, psychotic, and, almost certainly, schizophrenic a–hole. He was tackled by some brave people – private citizens – while he was trying to reload his pistol. And they held him down until the police arrived. Tonight, Jared Loughner sits in a jail cell, awaiting judgment.
If you don’t know or don’t care that, ultimately, Jared Loughner is the only one to blame, then I am ashamed of you. Even though you’re not honest enough to be ashamed of yourself.
The All-Seeing Eye
CNet and CBS are reporting this:
Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
STANFORD, Calif. – President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
It’s “the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government” to centralize efforts toward creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.
That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies.
What possible use could this be? Other than to track everything and anything that we do on the internet? And build a searchable database to identify subversive speech and activities?
The article does mention the “benefit” of remembering or consolidating passwords. Don’t believe it. There are plenty of private programs – including IE and Firefox – out there that will do that for you, if you want it.
This is just another attempt to squelch free speech through intimidation- Don’t let them get away with it.
Trust the Government. The Government is Your Friend.
Ted Nugent and Guns
It’s hard to argue against Ted’s logic here. Other than to add – It’s the responsibility of law abiding gun owners to secure their guns and ammunition, so that children don’t play with them. I say, “Right on!”
Steele
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