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In the Manner of my Father -- a Little Plain Speaking

Dad didn't mince words, so neither shall I:
 
There was nothing morally wrong in sending a highly-skilled team to kill Osama bin Liner.  We are at war with an enemy who makes no pretense of respecting the Geneva or Hague Conventions.  Those conventions only regulate conduct between warring forces who have signed them.  OBL could well have been wearing a suicide bomb-belt.  Better to shoot down a hundred of his ilk than risk possible harm to even one of our wonderful SEAL team, or any one of our innocents, for OBL forfeited his right to life by his actions, while they have not.
 
During World War II, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the man who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor that forced America fully into the war in December of 1941, was taken out by an operation that some might call an assassination today, but which I see as having been both brilliant and morally quite acceptable.  Dubbed Operation Vengeance, the operation called for nothing less than the mid-air interception of the Mitsubishi Betty bomber that the Admiral was traveling on during an inspection tour of Japanese forces by long-range P-38 Lightning fighter planes.  In an operation perhaps unique in military history, the intercepting fighters did find and shoot down the Betty, killing all aboard, including Yamamoto.  Considered a military genius by many, the Japanese war efforts suffered a major blow when Yamamoto's plane crashed into the jungle.  The admiral was a prize military target.  The operation was a brilliant success -- free of any moral taint.  He was a commander of forces hostile to and attacking the United States.  So was OBL.  This is life in wartime. 
 
There is, let us never forget, as Richard Nixon reminded us in his brilliant book No More Vietnams, a great moral difference between firing first and firing back.
 
 
 
A relative once asked me how someone can be both pro death penalty and anti-abortion.  I think he may have been a bit embarrassed when I pointed out that "that baby has never harmed anyone."  Now my questioner is an intelligent man, but had missed this simple argument.  We must always be not only glancing with our minds, we must be studying!
 
 
 
Many of us by now have heard about the NLRB's suit against Boeing for daring to try to open a new plant in Right-to-Work South Carolina, instead of in mandatory union membership state Washington.  What is less commented on is that the NLRB didn't file its suit until Boeing had already finished building its new $750 million plant in SC. 
 
Similarly, the nest-of-fanatics EPA didn't deny the Shell Oil Company the permit it needs to drill off-shore (well off shore) in Alaskan waters until the enviro-hated company had spent over $4 BILLION dollars on the project.  Only then did they invent a transparently spurious reason to deny the permit.
 
When you're looking for words to describe the BO administration, don't forget "malicious".
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In Honor of My Father's Day

Many years ago a pro-abortion push-poller called my parents' house, and Dad answered the phone.  Having consented to be polled, Dad found himself badgered for 10 minutes by a pollster determined to get him to say something that could be construed as pro-"choice".  This the pollster failed to do, as any of Dad's kids could have predicted to her, since trying to push our father off of his principles was like trying to push a mountain into the sea.  Finally the woman got sarcastic with my Dad and snapped "Well, if it was your daughter in that position you'd feel differently."
 
With perfect cool courtesy Dad replied "It was my daughter in that position.  My grandson is playing in my living room as I'm talking to you."
 
Happy Father's Day.  Rest in peace, Dad.  We love you and miss you, but thanks for leaving us so many memories and having been such an exemplar. 
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Anthony's Wiener and Other Short Subjects

A friend has asked for my opinion on Wienergate.  I don't want to add too much to the flood of coverage already out there, but there are one or two points I think aren't getting enough attention:

This certainly still is Bill Clinton's Democratic Party, isn't it?

It couldn't happen to a "nicer guy".  For those who may have forgotten, Anthony Wiener was the pompous little twerp who marched down to the White House in 2001 to demand an apology from new President George W. Bush for the reports that the outgoing Animal House administration of Billy Jeff Clinton had done considerable damage to the White House on their way out, including such juvenile antics as prying the Ws from the computer keyboards.  Initial counter-rumor had claimed that the vandalism hadn't happened, and Little Anthony seized the opportunity for a nobody of a congressman (namely him) to grab a little national TV coverage.  In a bit of a forewarning of his reaction to the current scandal, the Wiener made no apology when an investigation confirmed the original rumor that in fact considerable damage had been done by the Sore-Loserman Democrat staffers.  Six-figure damage.

Anybody besides me old enough to remember Watergate?  The press and the Democrats (then as now largely redundant) never tired of telling us "Nixon must resign.  He lied to the American people."  Anthony Wiener started this public airing of his sordid actions by telling a series of lies to the American people, yet none of the moral enforcers on the left insist that he must resign because of the lie.  Presumably they believe that left morality doesn't require honesty.  Then why should we accept any testimony they give under oath?
 
At first Nazi Pelosi was conspicuously silent on the question of whether Anthony the Wiener should resign his seat.  I think someone in the Democrat leadership finally realized that Wiener is easily replaced, as his congressional district would no doubt elect someone just as radically left as he if he were forced out (which appears to be the only way to get rid of him).
 
Actually, if Wiener refuses to leave Congress, maybe Pelosi could contact Lorena Bobbitt.  I believe she has experience at this sort of thing.  Out the window you go, Anthony!
 
 
 
One of the things I love about Ann Coulter releasing a new book is that we get to see her on TV, handing liberals their (often empty) heads in debate.  Commonly, one of the weapons used by liberals when debating our Ann is historical falsification.  George Stephanopolous gave us a sterling example of this leftist mainstay when he interviewed Ann on the subject of her new book, "Demonic".  The assertion by boy George that the Klan turned Republican quickly after it was founded is blatantly false.  I do not believe that it is mainly Republican even today.
 
 
 
The New York State United Teachers are a union of greedy incompetent-protectors.  Property taxes in New York state are near to being the highest in the nation.  New York State schools spend nearly 50% more per pupil than the national average, and yet student achievement in these schools is stagnant and mediocre (a word most graduates of these schools can't even define).  The new governor, Prince Andrew Cuomo, has agreed to a Swiss cheese property tax cap which might AT BEST slow the growth of the already elephantine school budgets.  The new guv didn't actually say "It's the least I can do", but if he had he would have been almost perfectly accurate. 
 
What did the NYSUT do?  They started running ads (paid for with mandatory union dues, perhaps?) slamming the proposal, using the usual plaintive whines about under-funded schools and slashed budgets, although the reverse is true.  They seem to think that the school system exists to provide them jobs and make them rich in exchange for shoddy work. Meanwhile businesses flee the state, high-school graduates can't get jobs without remedial education, school systems can't fire the most incompetent teachers, and the state's economy swirls down the toilet.

Suggested bumper sticker -- "If Your Child Can't Read His Diploma, Thank a Teacher's Union".
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Scott Pelley for Katie Couric, and CBS's Tone-Deafness

Just because people in the "mainstream media" believe themselves to be highly perceptive doesn't mean they are.  (One of my favorite P. J. O'Rourke quotes is "There's no getting through to the highly perceptive", referring to the media's total inability to see Violetta Chamorra's landslide victory over pinko dictator Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua in 1990.)  CBS's decision to replace the ratings-disastrous Katie Couric in the anchor chair (in her case, the word "anchor" is particularly appropriate) with Scott Pelley shows this self-infatuated blindness particularly well.  The invaluable Media Research Center reviewed their archives on Scott Pelley's pronounced left-liberal bias, and produced a damning amount of evidence (much of which I remembered myself).  I am not a media watchdog, nor am I obsessed with the topic of media bias, so if I remembered Pelley's previous misdeeds, many others must have, too.  So we all knew what we were getting with this switch.

Those of us who remembered that CBS still has a evening news broadcast, anyway...

It is easy, and I believe valid, to conclude that CBS has no idea why Couric, the Poisoned Apple of television news, was a ratings disaster in the anchor chair.  It was not her sex that we objected to (after all, many of us love Megyn Kelly).  It was the conspicuous, mendacious leftist slant to the stories she covered, and he covered.  (Actually, the stories they don't cover are just as damaging and just as suspect, but I must return to this in a future post.) 

Pelley will fail just as Couric failed, and for the same reason.  The people are finally catching on that a statement isn't true just because a news anchor made it.  In fact, that may be the first clue that a lie is being propounded.
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Will Tea Partiers Cause the Loss of an Ally in NY-26 Special?

The Tea Partiers of western New York need to avoid a disastrous error today, or their reputation for good sense will be damaged badly.  Some of the TPs were not happy that the county chairs of the area got together to choose Jane Corwin as the candidate for the seat vacated by Republican Chris Lee, who became in a way the first man ever to blow himself out of his seat by taking his shirt off.  They proclaimed themselves resentful of the fact that there was no convention.  "Let the people rule", or some such, they trumpeted.Some of them were so irritated that they said that they might even consider supporting leftist perpetual candidate Jack Davis, who is willing to call his line on the ballot the Tea Party, despite the fact that he is a political clone of psycho lefty Louise Slaughter (the unborn). 
 
About which a few points must be made:
 
New York state law does not allow for a primary election in the event of a special election to fill a vacancy.  One good reason the Republicans didn't schedule a primary was that they couldn't.
 
Jane Corwin, the candidate who emerged from the proverbial "smoke-filled" room as the nominee, agrees with the Tea Party on virtually everything.  She is a conservative, and the fact that she was selected by party heads doesn't change that fact.  (See her campaign Website at http://janecorwin.com/.)  She is especially sound on financial matters, and with the US economy's front wheels already on the edge of the cliff we had better elect some people who understand economics, both macro- and micro-.
 
Wise up, Republicans and Tea Partiers of NY-26.  I was misrepresented for years in Congress by Loonie Louise.  I've been much better represented since I moved into NY-26.  I've already got Grand Inquisitor Charles Schumer and the totally unprincipled Kirsten Gillibrand as my senators.  Must we be represented by Slaughter clone Kathy Hochul, too?
 
(By the way, if you want to see what kind of obnoxious jerks fill out the ranks of the left these days, check out the juvenile attempt at a parody of Jane Corwin's campaign site at janecorwin.org.  It's unwittingly revelatory of the juvenility of the modern leftist "mind".  It's no surprise that the gutless wonders who put this garbage in public view won't do the same with their names.)
 
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NY-26 and the New Media Bias

Anyone who thinks that Fox News and Andrew Breitbart have slain mainstream media bias has a lot to learn, and in upstate New York's 26th House district, they have less than 24 hours to learn it.  Of course, the preceding is an overstatement, but it is not an overstatement to state that the major media has responded to the challenge of Fox News and watchdog organizations like the Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media by finding more subtle ways to help their side.  Now their seemingly slickest trick is to bottle up news that they don't want their audience to know.  I have seen them use this trick occasionally over the years, but it seems to have become one of the media's first resorts these days. 

We have an excellent example of the "new" technique happening in the highly-publicized race for the vacant NY-26 House race. 

Jack Davis, crotchety old perpetual candidate and hard-left protectionist liberal (yes, it's possible), bought his way onto the ballot after the Democrat leaders refused to select four-time loser Davis to run for the vacant seat.  The perpetual candidate, a man so dim that he thinks that American companies "off-shoring" jobs began the recession that we remain mired in, took advantage of a peculiar New York law that allows the successful petition-submitter to name the line they've attained, named his line the "Tea Party".  (Gee, I thought that brand was past its "sell-by" date.)  Now, Davis is radical left, favors using tax dollars to fund abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy, and is about as representative of Tea Party principles as Louise Slaughter.  Nonetheless, the not-very-attentive voters in this Republican-majority district, or too many of them, anyway, fell for the sour-faced trickster's new scam. 

Unsurprisingly, the true Tea Partiers of the state and the country were not pleased with this development, and the Tea Party Express came to upstate New York to set the record straight on Mad Jack's true record and beliefs.  They told the people in a press conference that the Tea Party has only one candidate in the race, and that is true-blue conservative Republican nominee Jane Corwin.  They tried to, anyway.

The local media refused to cover it.  The local Gannett paper, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle didn't cover it.  The major television network affiliates (WROC, WHEC, and WHAM) wouldn't cover it, either.  The only reason I found out about it was because local conservative radio host Bill Nojay mentioned it (and its cover-up) on his show. 

You see, the media likes the fact that bogus Tea Partier Davis is drawing confused voters away from Republican Corwin.  This confusion aids the (official) Democrat candidate, Erie County Clerk and hard-leftist Kathy Hochul.  Therefore, rather than promoting truth and helping the voters to make an informed choice (the MSM's deadliest fear), they will willingly help sow confusion and prevent the truth from being known.

There are words for this.  "Journalism" is not one of them.
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Don't Blow It, Upstate Republicans in NY-26!

I'm in danger of losing representation in Congress.  Repugnant, 78-year old phony Tea Party candidate Jack Davis (who has run for the NY-26 seat in Congress at least four times as a Democrat) may siphon off enough votes from genuine conservative Republican Jane Corwin to enable far-left Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul (I think I spelled that right) to slip into the currently vacant NY-26 congressional seat.  Hochul, who is being supported by all of the most radical Democrats in NY and elsewhere, is making slanderous claims about Corwin wishing to destroy Medicare.  It's the old "Mediscare" Dem tactic, and as false now as ever.  This morning I heard a truly vicious anti-Corwin ad produced by the bitterly partisan and truth-averse CWA, rerunning this old slander.  For me, the mere fact that the CWA opposes Jane Corwin is a good reason to support her.
 
Watch this space.  I'll be back tonight with more updates on this imminent (as in tomorrow) election.
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Support the Companies that Supported Scott Walker!

Recently I was reading a column by Michelle Malkin, when I read the following:
 
 
 
On May 1, left-wing vigilantes will target companies across the country that have committed a mortal sin: sending donations to GOP governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Rest assured, such intolerable acts of political free speech will not go unpunished by tolerant Big Labor activists. They’re calling for both a national boycott of Walker’s corporate donors and a coordinated sticker-vandalism campaign on GOP-tainted products.

 
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is bracing for the anti-Walker witch hunt. Anonymous operatives have circulated sabotage stickers on the Internet and around Wisconsin that single out Angel Soft tissue paper (“Wiping Your [Expletive] on Wisconsin Workers”), Johnsonville Sausage (“These Brats Bust Unions”), and Coors (“Labor Rights Flow Away Like a Mountain Stream”). Earlier this week, a “Stick It to Walker” website boasted photos of vandalized Angel Soft tissue packages at a Super Foodtown grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y.
 
 
 
My course was clear.  I went to my local grocery stores and bought a pack of Johnsonville sausages, a pack of 12 jumbo rolls of Angel Soft toilet paper, and a nice, big bottle of Coors Light.  (Sometimes political virtue produces unexpected rewards.  I was proofed for the first time in 17 years.)  Tonight I shall contact the above-mentioned companies to let them know that I support them with my good wishes and my dollars.
 
I humbly request that you go out and do the same.
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Short Subjects

Does anyone besides me think that one of the reasons Osama bin Laden was killed rather than captured was to keep Eric Holder and his Jihadi Bar Associates in the Department of Just Us from protecting him?
 
 
 
This congressional campaign coming up in 2012 is going to be, I predict, the dirtiest on record.  I am confident not only because of the moral collapse of the Democratic Party, which respects nothing but power and will use any means to obtain it, fair or foul, but because the detestable Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has been named chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  Ms. W-S is remembered by me for, among other reasons, being the most remorseless liar of all of the Democrats who brought us the Black Sunday passage of the infamous Obamacare Health Deform Act.  Her statements on national TV were breathtaking in their absolute audacity and near-perfect mendacity. 
 
Veteran Washington watchers were not wholly surprised.  W-S is one of the the Democratic House delegation's crapola cavalry, women who have no qualms about telling lies so outrageous that even Steny Hoyer refuses to utter them.  Nazi Pelosi is their leader, of course, but other infamous officers include Louise Slaughter (the Unborn) and cover-up queen Zoe Lofgren.  (I'll resist the temptation to include Barney Frank in their ranks.)
 
This is going to get ugly even by Washington standards.
 
 
 
Ann Coulter, in an otherwise fine celebration of OBL's overdue trip to the hereafter to the sound of our laughter, made one small error.  She said that OBL's film crew was now in the unemployment line.  I wouldn't worry about them.  I'm sure that if Al-Jazeera doesn't hire them, there will be room for them at MSNBC.
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Bin Laden's Death in the Wry View Mirror

The Hermit Crab is very pleased to learn of Osama Bin Liner's death at the hands of our wonderful military.  God bless them all.  However, this is Bumbling Barry's administration, so you knew that they would do something stupid at such a glorious moment, and here it came...
 
From the government announcement of the disposal of his carcass at sea "His body was handled in the Islamic tradition."
 
Good grief.  Couldn't we drop the PCBS just once?  I would have deep-sixed his filthy remains where they belong -- in a septic tank.  Better still, fed it to ravenous swine. 
 
 
 
I also read at this great website that the FBI, in response to Osama Bin Wasted's overdue demise, has released an update to their fabled Ten Most Wanted list.  Rumor has it that BO wanted Congressman Paul Ryan put at the top of the list, but the FBI refused his request.
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Tea Partiers, Stay Away from Jack Davis!

There is a special election being held in upstate New York to replace former Republican congressman and apparent aspiring porn star Chris Lee, who lost his shirt and his seat recently.  Dumb, Chris, dumb!  You know only Democrats get away with moral turpitude!  Obnoxious businessman Jack Davis is taking another run at the seat, and the local Tea Party groups have actually talked with him and are considering supporting him.  I am appalled.
 
This is a man who makes the late George Steinbrenner look like Dale Carnegie, is on his past record a dirty campaigner, and who ran for the seat as a Democrat at least once that I can remember.  I don't care if he can self-finance.  A rich jerk is still a jerk, and we have too many of that breed in the Congress already.
 
Besides, in one of his first campaign ads, he said that off-shoring of jobs had caused this latest and lingering recession.  Nobody that stupid should be elected to any office.
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Planned Parenthood's "Balanced" Women's Services

Planned Infanticide, known to some as Planned Parenthood, came out with some figures recently.  As you know, PI's spokespeople often tell us that they are not all about abortion -- they provide neo-natal care and adoption referrals as well.  Well, according to their own reports, they gave (rough figures ahead, but close enough for comparison purposes) approximately 1,000 adoption referrals last year.  They provided about 2,000 women with neo-natal care.
 
They performed over 320,000 abortions.
 
Saying that Planned Parenthood provides health care for women is almost like saying that that the Nazi's Jewish Resettlement office provided the Jews of Europe with housing and moving assistance.
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Deciphering Obama

I saw a headline at CNSNews.com which read

Obama on Non-Criminal Illegal Aliens: We Don’t Want to Deport Them; 'We Want Them To Succeed’ . 
 
For those still unused to BO and the Democrats use of language, let me translate:
 
Obama on Illegal Aliens:  'We Want Them to Vote'.
 
You see, if an illegal alien is willing to vote for the party who let them stay undisturbed in the country, the only law that the Democrats demand that they obey is the law of gravity.
 
 
 
 
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A Stunning Political Discovery

While I was listening to an America's Morning Show podcast (making me officially a pod person) telling of another dreadful act that our NNM (neophyte narcissist Marxist) President was inflicting on our poor (read:  bankrupt) country, I suddenly realized the devilishly cunning campaign strategy BO is using to get another term in the White House.  He intends to make our country such a economic, social, and spiritual catastrophe that no-one will want to take the job in 2013.
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The Crab's First Book (Title)

The Crab is considering writing a book.  Everyone else seems to be, so why not?  I'm pondering what the title should be.  So far it's between "Optimism is a Mental Disorder" and "Observations on the Left -- Thirty Five Years of Amateur Proctology".
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