Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Monday, June 02, 2008 2:15:28 PM
My wife tells me that one of the reasons to have your own blog is to vent when venting is necessary. I suppose she's right. What follows may offend, but I hope it's taken for what it's meant to be -- sour humor, for the most part.
A riddle for you: What do Al Gore and Stephen King have in common?
The answer is that they have both made themselves fabulously wealthy peddling scary fiction. (The difference between them is that King admits he's authoring fiction.)
Several conservative columnists have written lately about what a gaffe machine Barack Obama is. It is becoming clear that the Senator from Illinois is not as bright as his media cultists have told us he is. They all note the "57 state" blooper and the "I see dead heroes" blooper, but none of them seem to have picked up on the "malaise" speech blooper, in which he said that Americans, being just 3% of the world's population, cannot continue to use 25% of the world's energy (which is not in itself a finite amount anyway). Let's see...
The American population recently passed the 300 million mark. The world's population is now estimated at 6.66 billion souls. 300 million divided by 6.66 billion and converted to a percentage is not 3% -- it is 4.5%. I hope I'm not the only person who caught this, or we're in even bigger trouble than I thought.
Before we leave the subject of Sen. Obama, I wish to advise anyone who wonders why people like myself are so distressed by his friendship with Billy Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn should go to the library and borrow the book "Destructive Generation", by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. This should answer their questions, although checking FrontPageMagazine for the latest on this evil duo would be wise, also. If your library does not have the book in their collection, burn it down. (Not really -- I'm venting, remember?) They should hav it -- it's a very important book, if you value the truth of the 60's g-g-generation.
I heard from my wife that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-ementia) had brain surgery today. It's a good thing I am no longer the grouchy atheist Hermit Crab I used to be. That fellow would have said that this is the first evidence we've had in years that Tipsy Teddy has a brain. He'd have said that it must have been microsurgery. He'd have said that it's too much to ask to expect him to wish for a complete recovery for that evil sot -- that the legacy of Sen. Ted is one dead passenger (Mary Jo Kopechne), millions of dead Southeast Asians (after Teddy helped persuade the Congress to turn our backs on our brave allies fighting for freedom and their very lives), and tens of millions of dead babies (victims of abortion, and receivers of no help from the Senate's premier "liberal").
That old grouchy crab would have had a point on the latter.
This Christian Crab wishes not for the death of Sen. Kennedy, but the reverse. However, I also wish for his earliest retirement from the Senate. Senator Kennedy, you have wrought enough damage already. Let us at last have done with you.