Mary had a little pig,
She kept it fat and plastered;
And when the price of pork went up,
She shot the little bastard.
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Mary had a little lamb.
Her father shot it dead.
Now it goes to school with her,
Between two chunks of bread.
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Jack and Jill went up the hill
To have a little fun.
Stupid Jill forgot the pill
And now they have a son.
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Simple Simon met a pie man going to the fair.
Said Simple Simon to the pie man,
'What have you got there?'
Said the pie man unto Simon,
'Pies, you dumb ass'
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the kings' horses,
And all the kings' men.
Had scrambled eggs,
For breakfast again.
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Hey diddle, diddle, the cat took a piddle,
All over the bedside clock.
The little dog laughed to see such fun.
Then died of electric shock.
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Georgie Porgy pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
And when the boys came out to play,
He kissed them too 'cause he was gay.
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There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very good.
But when she was bad........
She got a fur coat, jewels, a waterfront condo, and a sports
car.

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The issue of border security is one of the most important issues facing us today, with an estimated 20 MILLION illegal aliens already here and thousands more crossing our border every day, it is imperative that we do everything that we possibly can to halt this influx as soon as possible if we are to continue existing as a sovereign nation. With this in mind, the President proposed building a fence on our Southern border to try to help accomplish this goal, and after over two years of factional wrangling, the Congress finally provided enough funding to start building it.

Now a group of fourteen Democrats, pressured by some activist groups as the Sierra Club and the Defenders of Wildlife, that seem to be more concerned over displacing a few animals than in protecting our borders from potential terrorists and the unchecked flow of illegal immigrants; are using those concerns in order to continue their political fight against the President in stopping the fence.

That this fight is led by the CHAIRMAN of the Congressional Homeland Security Committee, Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), makes it all the more obvious that this is a partisan attack on the Administration, not just a new found streak of political environmentalist fervor.
Remember Mr. Thompson, you were elected to protect your human constituents from all enemies, foreign and domestic; not to ensure totally perfect habitat for some obscure flora and fauna. You should resign from your Chairmanship if you can not keep that as your primary mission goal.

The point at issue is whether or not environmental waivers issued by the DHS are constitutional or not. The DHS was granted the power to issue these waivers by Congress in order to expedite the construction of the fence.

As noted in a press conference made by DHS in announcing these waivers the DHS spokesman noted that:

A substantial portion of the project areas addressed by these waivers have already undergone environmental reviews. In those areas where environmental reviews have not yet occurred, the department will conduct a review before any major construction begins. The department remains deeply committed to environmental responsibility, and will continue to work closely with the Department of Interior and other federal and state resources management agencies to ensure impacts to the environment, wildlife, and cultural and historic artifacts are analyzed and minimized.

But that isn't good enough for the "perfect or nothing" environmentalists or their "put party before security" cronies in the Congress.

Here are the fourteen that put the fate of the Hog-snouted Mole and the Dengue Fever carrying Southern Desert Rat before YOUR security concerns:

Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Homeland Security Committee Chairman

John Conyers (D-MI), Judiciary Committee Chairman
John Dingell (D-MI), Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman
Bob Filner (D-CA), Veterans Affairs Chairman
George Miller (D-CA), Education and Labor Committee Chairman
James Oberstar (D-MN), Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman
Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), Intelligence Committee Chairman
Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Rules Committee Chairwoman

Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY)
Susan Davis (D-CA)
Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ)
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)

Remember these people in November, and let them know how you feel about their partisan maneuverings affecting our border security.

Here is our "security" as it is:

Here is our security as has been proposed:

YOU decide which is better at protecting you and your family, and act accordingly.

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Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan

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Finally, someone has finally made a sensible, common sense, non-religious argument against abortion. I'm not surprised it was Rachel Lucas, she has always been one of the most common sense people I've ever had the pleasure to read.

I have always been of the "abortion is murder" school, but have found that trying to impose MY views on others actions is just as repugnant to me, as it goes against my other, equally strongly held view, that we must be allowed to make most decisions for ourselves and not have them imposed by without.

Rachel has laid down the gauntlet, it behooves us all to take up the challenge and work with the opposition to achieve what we both say we want, fewer abortions. She lays out the answer to a difficult situation as clearly as it can be...

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1 So you're back! I though we'd converted you to the ways of evil and you were on an anti-whaling ship off the coast of New Zealand by this point.

Posted by: Karlo at April 08, 2008 11:13 AM (o6Nj+)

2 You'll never get that lucky Karlo Mmmm Whale, it's whats for dinner!

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas Edison

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An oldie, but a goodie:

One day, at a bus stop there was a girl who was wearing a skintight miniskirt. When the bus arrived and it was her turn to get on, she realized that her skirt was so tight she couldn't get her foot high enough to reach to step.

Thinking it would give her enough slack to raise her leg, she reached back and unzipped her skirt a little. She still could not reach the step. Embarrassed, she reached back once again to unzip it a little more. Still, she couldn't reach the step.

So, with her skirt zipper halfway down, she reached back and unzipped her skirt all the way. Thinking that she could get on the step now, she lifted up her leg only to realize that she still couldn't reach the step.

So, seeing how embarrassed the girl was, the man standing behind her put his hands around her waist and lifted her up on to the first step of the bus. The girl turned around furiously and said, "How dare you touch my body that way, I don't even know you!"

Shocked, the man says, "Well, ma'am, after you reached around and unzipped my fly three times, I kinda figured that we were friends."

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It was fun being a baby boomer...until now. Some of the artists of the
60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accomodate baby boomers..They
include:

Herman's Hermits---Mrs Brown, you've got a lovely walker

Ringo Starr---I get by with a little help from Depends.

The Bee Gees---How can you mend a broken hip

Bobby Darin---Splish, Splash I was having a flash

Roberta Flack---The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face

Johnny Nash---I Can't see Clearly Now

Paul Simon---Fifty Ways To Lose Your Liver

The Commodores-- -One, Twice, Three Times To The Bathroom

Marvin Gaye---Heard It Through The Grape Nuts

Procol Harem---A Whiter Shade Of Hair

Leo Sayer--- You Make Me Feel Like Napping

The Temptations- --Papa's Got A Kidney Stone

Abba---Denture Queen

Tony Orlando & Dawn---Knock Three Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me
Fall.

Helen Reddy--- I am Woman, Hear Me Snore

Leslie Gore---It's My Procedure, And I'll Cry If I Want To

Willie Nelson--On The Commode Again

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"I don't know..but I do know that I can't believe that any deity would be so cruel as to allow Satan to turn someone's kids into dim-a-crits just to prove a point...but I wouldn't put it past public education.." -- GUYK

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We have lost another of the greats. Actor,veteran (Ssgt-AAF), civil rights activist, 2nd Amendment defender. Mr. Heston spoke out for civil rights before it was cool;he staunchly held up the American ideal of self reliance and self sufficiency, and coined the phrase "from my cold dead hands" when facing the threat of the GFW's abrogating the 2nd Amendment.

His choice of epitath is from Shakespears Tempest when Prospero ends the play with:

Be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

His two most famous roles...

And just for fun... (maybe prophetic about his future fight with the GFW's as President of the NRA?)

I have a speech that Mr. Heston delivered at Harvard University Law School that personifies his politics, and, I believe, his greatness as a human being. It's a bit long so I put under the fold. Please, do yourself a favor, and read it. Read it, and try to see if you can follow the example he made. more...

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We need to show more sympathy for these people.

* They travel miles in the heat.
* They risk their lives crossing a border.
* They don't get paid enough wages.
* They do jobs that others won't do or are afraid to do.
* They live in crowded conditions among a people who speak a different
language.
* They rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day every
day.

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I'm not talking about illegal Mexicans; I'm talking about our troops!

Doesn't it seem strange that many Democrats and Republicans are willing
to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but don't support
our troops and are now threatening to defund them?

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Via the Dissident Frogman, we get a view from the Eurabian Provence of Fwance on the state of the current election process....wish I had Photo-Shop skills...

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"Self-control is what makes a good shot. Self-control is also what makes a good man. The two ideas are not necessarily coincident, but there is a connection."
Col. Jeff Cooper, Author of Art Of The Rifle

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. --Ronald Reagan

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

(square these two quotes with: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." AND " We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." -- Hillary Clinton)

And in light of the Bosnia 96' "misspoken" claim of sniper fire and the revelation of her 30+ year old examples of malfeasance and dishonesty, I think this quote shows Her Cankledness's true hubris:

"The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not." -- Hillary Clinton

Indeed, we are tired of your involvement in Whitewater, Travelgate, the FBI Files scandal, Cattle Futures scandal...atcetera,etcetera,etcetera.
Mrs Clinton,if you had the slightest shred of decency you would retire from public life and try to redeem yourself by actually helping society in a truly useful capacity ....might I suggest street sweeping?

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Hillary Clinton is a LIAR. She has always been a LIAR and she will always be a LIAR. That does sound like slander, but the truth is always the best defense against that charge, and one only needs to have paid only desultory attention to the antics in the White House during the Clinton Administration to know the truth of the allegations against her.

Further, Hillary was a LIAR even before joining up with Mr. "I-did-NOT-have-sex-with-that-woman" Clinton.

Just a taste:

Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.

But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical behavior was established long ago – long before the Bosnia lie, and indeed, even before cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater – for the woman who is still asking us to make her president of the United States.

One might argue that to be successful in politics it is an asset to be a proficient liar, or at least be comfortable with "flexible truth", but note that modifier "proficient"; Hillary is anything but proficient, she has been found out every time there has been any scrutiny of any of her less than straight dealings. It's only with a team of capable political machine of spin-masters and with a colluding MSM that she's escaped being pilloried in the past for her confabulations, because if she went down, the Progressives darling Bill went down with her.

It's a different ballgame now however, and as a certain Black (racist) Minister had observed in a different context, her "chickens have come home to roost".

While it really may be necessary to be flexible with the truth to be a successful politician in this day and age, it's still a necessity to be capable enough to not be caught out in blatant lies every time your actions are examined to remain successful as a politician, we still want the appearance of a "straight shooter" even as we acknowledge the fallibility of our elected leaders with regards to the truth.

H/T to GuyK

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"ItÂ’s getting nasty. Hillary and Barack really going at it. TheyÂ’re insulting each other, trading barbs, attacking each otherÂ’s credibility. In fact, the only break they take from attacking each other is when they promise the American people, if elected, they can unite the country." -- Jay Leno

"About this business of Hillary coming under intense sniping, I have some sympathy. The Clintons got away with this sort of thing for so long that you can’t blame them for wondering how they missed the memo advising that henceforth the old rules no longer apply.”—Mark Steyn

"I am not criticizing Democrats for being partisan; I’m suggesting they are cynically insincere or grossly self-deceived when they pretend to aspire to bipartisanship. They don’t seek compromise; they want the unopposed implementation of their unadulterated liberal agenda.”—DavidLimbaugh

“I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word ‘fair’ in connection with income tax policies.”—William F. Buckley Jr.

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When the Republicans were in charge of Congress, it seemed they didn't do
much. Democrats took over in 2006 based on "change," a mantra echoed in
their current Presidential campaign slogans. But, perhaps we underestimated
those Republicans -- see below.

What a difference a new congress made.........

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon
3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we've seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) the cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate
(stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Want more of their "change"???

H/T to my favorite Texan, Myra

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“Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been accused in recent days of padding her foreign policy rèsumè while First Lady, admitted today that she may have exaggerated about an encounter she said she had with al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998. In an appearance on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday, Sen. Clinton told host Tim Russert, ‘I wrestled bin Laden in his cave in 1998 and had him pinned to the ground before the bastard got away.’ But a review of Sen. Clinton’s official White House schedule from that period revealed that the then-First Lady was nowhere in the vicinity of Mr. bin Laden on that day, but was instead greeting a group of honor roll students at Disney World in Orlando. ‘I may have misspoke about what went on that particular day,’ Sen. Clinton said today. ‘But it was a very busy time for me, what with having that knife-fight with Kim Jong-Il and all.’ Reporters peppered Sen. Clinton’s new press spokesman with questions about another purported exploit of hers, in which the senator claimed that she and a ragtag team of blue-collar drillers deflected an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.” —Andy Borowitz

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“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” —Booker T. Washington

Hmmm...can YOU say Jackson,Sharpton,Wright,Farrakahn, and Obama? I know you can.

"...you cannot build up years of dependence on government and dare call that hope.” —Ronald Reagan

Just what is Obama promising? His catchphrase is "Change and Hope". Yet he never really says WHAT changes he intends and leaves it implicit that HE is the hope.

“Freedom is not a natural state—otherwise more people would be free. Tyranny, oppression, dictatorship and the denial of human rights are the norm for much of the planet. Mankind’s lower nature dictates that far too many seek to reduce others to servitude in order to elevate themselves. President Bush has repeatedly said that freedom is a God-given right that resides in the heart of every human. Maybe, but sometimes one must fight to extract it from the hardened hearts of others who want it exclusively for themselves. Looking at the faces of those who have fallen and driving by Arlington National Cemetery, I am reminded of the cost of freedom. Those who died allow me to travel freely. Those who sacrificed everything invested in freedom for my family and yours so that we can all live our lives where we choose to live them and worship where, and however, we please. These are freedoms most of the world can only dream about.” —Cal Thomas

Pretty complete statement, nothing to add, except my personal observation that most on the "Progressive" side of the aisle, in their rush to be non-judgmentally PC and all-inclusive, don't seem to really comprehend just how lucky we as a nation are in our level of personal freedom, and that it's a very rare thing in the world as a whole.

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This week we celebrate a special birthday!

Monica Lewinsky turned 34.

Can you believe it?

It seems like only yesterday she was crawling

around the White House on her hands and knees,

and putting everything in her mouth.

They grow up so fast, don't they ? ??? !!

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