Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Sunday, December 12, 2010 3:45:38 PM
Am I the only one who finds himself praying for the long life and good health of Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom every time you read anything spoken or written by her hereditary successor on the throne, Prince Charles? (Thank you, founders of our nation, for not making us a monarchy!) The thinking citizens of Britain must be nervous at the prospect of King Charles the Whatever. They can see what damage a jug-eared reason-impaired would-be king is doing over here in America.
The American liberal's approach to crime and punishment can be easily seen by juxtaposing two recent controversies -- the trial of terrorists in civilian courts and the treatment of all airline passengers at our airports by the TSA (Troglodytes Savaging Americans). In the former, we see liberals insisting that blood-stained terrorists be treated as citizens, with all of the rights (legitimate and court-invented) that defendents get, including the presumption of innocence. Meanwhile, thousands of air travelers daily are subjected to the semi-skilled maulings they receive for simply trying to board a civilian airliner. That means everyone, including nuns, three-year-old children, and diabled veterans with artificial limbs. This is the modern American liberal's ideal -- the guilty are treated as the innocent, and the innocent are held to be guilty.
Quick riddle for you: What is the difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and Barack Obama?
Gorbachev destroyed his government by mistake.
Reading this pre-election
article about New York's favorite dumb blonde, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, recently re-elected to the Senate for another mini-term (she has to run again in 2012), one wonders if any state Republican other than New York's could have failed to defeat her. Our Republican leaders pulled a Mondale, disinterring a political corpse named Joe DioGuardi to run against her. Dioguardi, a moderate former congressman now 70 years old, ran on his Italian immigrant background and his being a CPA and got shellacked.
Meanwhile, Ann Marie Buerkle ran for Congress by running against her opponent Dan Maffei's abysmal voting record in Congress, and managed to eak out a victory, despite the traditional vvote-stealing and law-suiting.
Anybody besides me see a lesson here for the NY GOP?