BZHAnne's Blog

Here I am, a rock-solid Republican. Voted for democrats only twice in my life: once for a college friend's father and once for Anne Richards.

I'm a Bush supporter. I stand....er stood four-square behind him. But I gotta warn him, you don't want me behind ya anymore Georgie Boy. I'm not normally a violent person, but this issue could change me in a heartbeat.

And what issue is that, you ask?

Let me put it this way. If the f*****g Feds, under GW's aegis, decide to kill off our mustangs and burros, there's gonna be a range war like you never heard of. I'm gonna be out there in Big Sky country with rifles, bullets and whatever else it takes and the first fed frakie who shows up to knock off a mustang is gonna need a coffin for himself!!!!

GW, GW, say it ain't so! You're supposed to be a Texan, fer Pete's sake! HOW COULD YOU COUNTENANCE THIS DESECRATION!!!?

Unwrap the American flag old chum. Wrap youself in the black flag of death with the orange stripes of hypocrisy!!

SHAME ON YOU!!!

1. The Supreme Court has overturned the punitive damages awarded against Exxon for the Exxon-Valdez incident. Dropping them from 2 and 1/2 BILLION dollars to 500 million dollars. Half a billion is bad, but five times that is unconscionable. And you and I both know who the H E double hockeysticks is gonna be paying that judgement!!! As if gasoline prices weren't high enough. THANK YOU Supreme Court justices. I hereby take back 15% of the nasty things I ever said of you.

2. The Dallas City Council is proposing a new pet limitation ordinance - 1, count 'em, ONE pet per household. Note to those anti-companion s.o.b.s. Last time I looked even the ASPCA said that the majority of pet owners are responsible citizens about their precious babies. AND, last time I looked this WAS a democracy. You know what that is, don't you? It's a form of government whereby the MAJORITY rules. You do NOT punish the majority for the infringements by the minority! Kick your brains into gear, twits! The way you've written that ordinance means that if a person has two GUPPIES, fer heaven's sake, they'd be in non-compliance with your silly law and liable to fines, penalties, maybe even jail time. Find another way to deal with the poor babies that no one wants. How? Hmmmm...you ever hear of a little invention called - the computer? And its lovely data-bases? Why not set up a secured data base that every vet in the area can access. Whenever said vet performs a spay or neuter, he/she can enter the salient data into that data-base for perusal by any animal control officer. Ditto for annual vaccinations. Anyone harboring pets without entries in said database then must prove that their baby is indeed protected against rabies, etc. as well as being unable to procreate, unless a show or breeding animal. Let the owners of same pay a small fee for that privilege. And if you really give a rat's bare patootie, set up a fund that assists the less fiscally fortunate to get their animals neutralized and protected. GIVE, NOT SELL, certificates that show that the precious companion is duly legalized by the city. And then set up a place where people can take their pets to be permanently marked (tattoo or micro-chipped) for a nominal fee (NOT an arm and a leg!). Much better than making outlaws of more than half the city's pet-owning population, doncha think?

HEY! Jerkasauruses! Those who are pet people WILL remember this come next election!! Oh, not me, personally. I left the city of Dallas 20 years ago. I do not live there. I do not work there. I do not shop there. I buy not one thin dime' s worth of anything from any merchant there. And if this idiocy becomes the law of the city, I never will! How many of you people are little tinpot dictator wannabes with god complexes? Never mind. I don't expect an answer to that question.

Hmmmmph!!

I heard a Viewer voice the following question: How come the Feds say it's unconstitutional and illegal for landlords to ascertain the legality of their tenants but its obligatory for employers to do the same?

HEY! FEDS! Wake up and smell your hypocrisy! Oh you idiot judges!

If an employer can be penalized with a stiff fine and even jail time for NOT ascertaining the residency/citizenship status of an employee, then why is a landlord to be equally fined and/or sent to stir for requiring the EXACT SAME THING from a potential tenant?

It's been well and truly said that lawyers and judges must take courses in the art of straining at gnats and swallowing camels before they can be admitted to the practice of the law. I always thought that was a bit of an exaggeration. Brother! Was I ever wrong!

Do at least try to get your acts together....for the novelty of it if nothing else.

Either it is legally REQUIRED to hire and house ONLY legal residents of these United States OR it is against the law to do either. Take your pick, one or the other, but enough of this BS about trying to have it both ways. You merely confirm the public's already low opinion of your intelligence, your decency, your willingness to do the job for which we overpay you. Give it up, judges. We're on to you. You're just as in the dark as the rest of us. And since you are NOT the ones who make the laws, why not join with us and get our elected representatives off their fat cat butts and make them pass some legislation that will clarify this thorny issue for us all, citizens, legal and illegal immigrants included?

1. As you know there are laws regarding fire safety all over the place. One of them concerns sprinkler systems. If you got a commerical building, a retail building, a factory, a laboratory, even a hotel or a motel, a restaurant or a bar, you GOTTA have a sprinkler system. If it's a government building, if it's a library, a hospital, free clinic even, it's GOTTA have a sprinkler system. You cannot build any of the above places unless you install a sprinkler system during the building process. What I wanna know is why the heck is there no law that makes it illegal to build any kind of residence without same. Apartments, condominiums, townhouses, duplexes, single-family, mansions even. Are the various city councils (YES, Dallas, I'm talking about YOU) asleep at the switch? And how about giving the owners of existing living spaces a property tax relief to retrofit their residential buildings? HUH? Why not? Only reason I can see why not is that it would cut into your bottom line a bit. But hold on there, pardners. What about the cost to the city of emergency personnel and equipment? What about medical care for the burned or injured, including emergency personnel? You don't think that's expensive? Get off the stick, councilpersons. PASS THOSE LAWS!

2. For the military: Any of you guys old enough or well read enough to remember D-Day? The charge up the sands of Omaha and Utah beaches? Any of you remember the flail tanks? How about you outfit some of today's tanks with flails and send 'em out ahead of a convoy in Iraq? Let those heavy chains explode the IED's instead of hummers full of GI Joes and Janes.

1) Chinese Earthquake

While I am at total odds with the government of the People's Republic of China, I am certainly NOT at those odds with the vast majority of the people of China. My heart and now a substantial portion of my funds goes out to all those in Sichuan province who have suffered this terrible blow. May God bless them, hold them close and see them through these terrible times. I am heartened beyond measure that, unlike certain governmental awfulicials to their south, that said government of China is not so averse to accepting help for their citizens in such dire straits. I give a gold star to the people's leadership for their decency and their humility in admitting that they could use help and in accepting same from wherever it is forthcoming. I hereby take back 10% of the nasty things I have thought, written and said about you Commies.

2) Myanmar

I understand that there are now confirmed reports that cholera has made its lethal appearance in the Irrawaddy Delta area. I say it here, loud, proud and unashamed! May you be D****D, you military B******S! May you die alone, in agony, unloved, unmourned and unburied! May you rot BEFORE you die! May maggots dine on your still quivering flesh! There are no words in any tongue that can adequately express your foulness, your barbarity, your inhumane attitude! I pledge you this, military dictators, oppressors and MURDERERS of a kind and wonderful people. I WILL NOT LET THIS DIE! I will remind and keep reminding the leaders of this world that you are NOT to be trusted, you are NOT to be dealt with, you are NOT to be acceptable at the tables of the civilized peoples of earth! I curse you all!!!!

3) The internet hoax that killed a 13 year old girl.

A grand jury has indicted the supposedly adult female responsible for this act of horrid cruelty. GOOD! Personally, if it were up to me, I would deprive her of ALL the perks that one normally allows a responsible adult citizen of this nation. Since she seems determined not only to behave as a bratty kid, but to deny behaving like one (which is bratty in and of itself. as an adult takes responsibility for the consequences of his/her actions), then take away her driver's license, take away her voting privileges, take away her right to own property in her own name, take away her right to purchase adult products, goods and services, take away her right to be treated as an adult. Treat her as the spoiled, rotten brat she is. Send her to boot camp!

4) School's almost out

And we all know what this means. Teenagers on the road at all hours. No longer will we have six to eight hours five days a week to drive in some degree of safety. The licensed but still immature members of our society will out there in full force, people. Texting, checking makeup and hair, repairing same, talking to passengers, ignoring everything else in their self-centered concerns. TAKE CARE, my fellow adult drivers! The teenagers are about to be loosed!

5) Fuel prices

Three weeks ago I found a gas station being operated by (LEGAL) Asian immigrants that was selling regular for $3.21 9/10 per gallon when all around were charging $3.29 9/10. I blessed them both with prayer and with my custom. This morning I saw their sign. It read $3.71 9/10! While all around showed signs of $3.69 9/10. Hmmm...guess they caught on to our way of doing things at last. "Charge all the traffic will bear for as long as you can get away with it." Congratulations. You are now fully-fledged American businesspeople!

6) Diet

For years we have been told repeatedly that fats are BAD, BAD BAD. Then we were told that some fats weren't quite so BAD, BAD, BAD. Now we get the glorious news, no fat is ALL BAD. Whattaya know, dietary science has caught up with our great grandparents' uninformed, unofficial pronouncements. Viz and to whit:  fat is GOOD for you. Just not so very  much of it. Ain't modren science great?!

7) CBS has dumped "Moonlight". Despite a large and growing fan base, despite the popularity (and outright hunkiness-index) of the hero, despite the glowing praise from all corners, critics, media, etc. CBS has dumped "Moonlight". HEY! CBS! The last time a network was THAT stupid you know what happened? NBC dumped "Star Trek". They spent the next 15 years at the bottom of the broadcast ratings. And that was BEFORE folks had the choice of cable networks. Enjoy your stay in the basement. THIS fan will do all in HER power to make it both lengthy and dismal!

8) On a positive note (always leave your audience, however small, in a positive frame of mind). I am now the proud, albeit slightly harassed, Mommy of three abandoned kittens, age 2 weeks. Their Mother, a sometime guest for dinner, has each night for the last 3 brought me one of her litter. I guess her trust is hard earned. Still, I am grateful for it. And they ARE adorable. Also feisty for such young ones. Their little pink mouths eagerly suck the formula. Their tiny (and sharp) claws clutch fiercely at my hand while they greedily drain their bottle. Their purrs, minute, almost silent, still are strong enough to shake their miniscule frames. For a cat person, which I certainly am the quintessential example of, this is little short of heaven on earth! Thank you, St. Francis!

9) May your lives be blessed with just enough negative to make you fully cognizant of and joyful for all the positives with which I hope you are equally blessed.

 

I wonder how long it's gonna take for those idiot military dictators to wake up and realize that ruling with an iron fist over a country composed mostly of diseased corpses is NOT a particularly sound choice.

For the sake of their citizenry I hope they wake up before there's no citizenry left.

May God be with the people of Myanmar.

Well, well, well, whattaya know? The Chinese Communists just trotted the Olympic torch up an even bigger mountain than Olympus. They slogged their way to the top of Mt. Everest and tooted loudly upon their PR horns, "SEE what WE did!"

My response: Big, fat, hairy deal.

Is there anyone else out there who realizes just how big this insult is to the people of the USA? In essence, what Beijing is saying with this stunt is:

Lookee here! Aren't we just swell dandy fine and terrific?

And in an aside: This'll make those capitalist dogs forget all about our pet poisonings, our lead painted children's toys, our turning Tibet into a gigantic prison camp, our adulteration of chemical compounds that are meant to save life and turning them into poisons that TAKE life. The stupid clunches will think we are super neat because we brought a fake torch up a mountainside.

Guess what, Beijing? AIN'T GONNA WORK. We're on to you here in the States and no matter what our short-sighted business leaders and elected officials think, we DO NOT TRUST YOU, we DO NOT LIKE YOU.

And this American will NOT put a penny in your pocket!

Join me, my dears, won't you?

1. DFW Courting China

HEY! Leffert and the rest of you twits! Whattaya mean making more trade deals with the Commies?! Forgotten already have you? These are the same people who poisoned our pets with toxic chemicals, who suffused our little children's toys with lead paint, who dumped enough tainted heparin into our hospitals to kill nearly a hundred of your fellow citizens and render hundreds more deathly ill. And you want to increase trade with them?!  I, for one, will remember this next election, I can promise you. As well, I'm gonna find out which of you business honchos are so utterly uncaring about your customers so I can avoid your products like the plague they'll probably presently be containing!

2. Jeremiah Wright vs. Barack Obama

Nice to see that Obama has finally gotten the word that whatever "Rev." Wright is preaching, it sure as shootin' AIN'T Christianity! Hatemongering is NOT Jesus' way. As for that piece of utter stupidity about HIV/AIDS, I guess that shows that the "Rev." failed whatever science classes he took. Otherwise he'd know that it used to be a chimp virus that mutated and made the jump to a related species. Unfortunately, the related species happened to be us.

3. Fuel prices, food prices and bio-fuels

To the "experts". Dummies! There's not enough arable land on this planet to grow enough FOOD for 6 1/2 BILLION people. And you idiots want to drag millions of hectares into growing car and truck fuel? And then you stand around muttering, "How'd that happen?" when gas  prices go through the roof,  grain prices are swiftly following suit and folks are now beginning to starve in record numbers. Gimme a break, goofballs!

4. Health care in America

 

Another means of triage. The opinion seems to be that if they were productive types they could GET health insurance. If they cannot, then let 'em croak. Cuts down the welfare rolls, doncha know. Lovely. Hummmph!

5. GI Benefits

Time was you put your life on the line for this nation and it gave you a real shot at an education in return, provided you survived that is. Nowadays, however, that appears to be something else the gov't is welshing on. Seems the G.I. bill doesn't cover even half the cost of each semester's learning even in state universities. Forget the private ones altogether. And you morons wonder why the military is having trouble filling its ranks? Cheese Whiz, guys. How dumb can you get before the medicos declare you all brain dead?!

6. Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton et al.

Uh, news media types....I dunno quite how to tell y'all this, but.... ENOUGH ALREADY! We got some BIG problems out here in Realityland. Focusing so much airtime on the problems of a bunch of skinny, angst-ridden youngster types is NOT helping anyone, least of all those poor kids!

7. The Pope's Visit

Conducted with decorum, on all sides, I was agreeably surprised that his detractors didn't make more of a stink. Thank you. That was Christian of you. And I'd begun to wonder if Mammon was your true god. My apologies.

8. The Olympic Torch in N. Korea.

Are the Fearless Leader's people gonna compete? How nice. And wasn't it nice of us to send so much food over there so they could get fed enough to BE competitive? Kim, old fart, you may say, in a polite tone, "Thank you" to the good people of the USofA for all that yummy stuff. And turn off the nuke program, buddy, or the next shipment might just blow up in your fat, little face!

9. Iran

OOOOOOOO! You zealots are about to get in sooooo much trouble. How long can YOU breathe strontium 90? Go get 'em, Nimitz!

10. And to our friends of the Hispanic persuasion: Feliz Cinco de Mayo!!!! And play the dance music loud, kids. I LOVE that stuff! Save a few corn tortillas for this old WASC (white-Anglo-Saxon CATHOLIC) broad, won't ya? Gracias!

 

A) China vs. Tibet

I wonder why the communist Chinese are surprised that their Tibetan prisoners are incensed and showing it through violence. What did the idiots expect? They marched into a nation so peaceful that they didn't even have tribal feuds and turned it into one large concentration camp. They oppressed, repressed, and suppressed the people. They derided and fobade their religion. They kept the people in fear of their lives for 50 years. They raised a whole generation of conquered people without their peaceful faith. And they wonder why these people are reverting to the age-old human answer to despair.....RAGE? Idiot Commies!! You have no face left to lose.

B) Democrat vs. Democrat

A new poll claims that if Hillary doesn't get the nod from the party at the convention that 28% of her followers will vote for Sen. McCain in Nov. And that if Barack doesn't get that nod, then 19% of HIS followers will do likewise. NOT because they like Sen. McCain. NOT because they agree with his political and philosophical views. NOT because they'd really like to see him at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the next 4 years. NO! They'll do it because they hate, loathe, despise and abominate the OTHER Democratic candidate so much that they'd rather put a Republican back in the Oval Office. I say, if that many democrats are that dissatisfied with their candidates, then perhaps it's time that the party mucky-mucks came back down from their ivory towers and did some research on just where they have failed their constituents. I'll start 'em off:

1. Denying 2 whole states worth of voters their franchise was NOT the smartest move you could make.

2. Threatening other states with like penalties unless they knuckle under and bow to your dictates is also not brilliant.

3. Remembering every teensy-tiny transgression of every Republican candidate while aggressively covering or trying to cover up real doozies committed by Democrats doesn't work anymore, fellas. Give it up.

C) Global Warming. You folks remember the movie, "The Day After Tomorrow"? The one that starts with a trio of scientists on an Antarctic ice shelf taking cores from the ice? And the ice shelf they're on cracks, Hollywood style so no one will miss the implication, right down the middle of their camp and half the shelf heads merrily out to sea? THAT movie?

Once again life imitates art. A chunk of the Wilson ice shelf in western Antarctica has bid a fond adieu to the shores of the continent and decided to take a vacation from being a barrier to ice moving off the continent and go south for the winter, or summer, or whatever they're having down there. Point is, that this chunk is 6 TIMES the size of Manhattan Island! And with Greenland losing its icy shoreline at the rate of several YARDS per year, not inches people, not feet, YARDS, METERS for you non-Americans. Hmmmmm, in the movie this was followed by the desalinization of the Northern Atlantic, which in turn destabilized the Ph balance of the water which then messed up the North American Current. That's the one that keeps North America AND North Europe from looking like North Pole. Wonder how long it's gonna take THIS part to happen. Have we passed the point of no return? Something to have nightmares about, yes?

D) On a happier note. Bought the DVD of "The Last Legion". Bought it because it starred Colin Firth. Saw him in "Pride and Prejudice" as Darby and fell in lust, so I'm getting his movies. Anyway, if you haven't seen this film and you're an Arthurian legend buff like me, GO GET IT!!!! Your collection will NOT be complete without it, trust me. 'Nough said. Anything more would be a spolier.

Hope y'all had a Happy Easter, a Good Seder, and/or whatever else you celebrated this past week.

 

 

 

You Would Never Have Guessed

Captain Kangaroo passed away on January 23, 2004 as age 76, which is odd, because he always looked to be 76. (DOB: 6/27/27) His death reminded me of the following story.

Some people have been a bit offended that the actor, Lee Marvin, is buried in a grave alongside 3- and 4-star generals at Arlington National Cemetery .  His marker gives his name, rank (PVT) and service (USMC).  Nothing else.  Here's a guy who was only a famous movie star who served his time, why the heck does he rate burial with these guys?  Well, following is the amazing answer:



In a time when many Hollywood stars served their country in the armed  forces often in rear echelon posts where they were carefully protected, only to  be trotted out to perform for the cameras in war bond  promotions, Lee Marvin was a genuine hero.  He won the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima.  There is only one higher Naval award...  the  Medal Of Honor!



If that is a surprising comment on the true character of the man, he credits his sergeant with an even greater show of bravery. 

Dialog from "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson":  His guest was Lee Marvin. Johnny said, "Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima ...and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded." 

 

 

"Yeah, yeah... I got shot square in the bottom and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi.  Bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys gettin' shot hauling you down.  But, Johnny, at Iwo , I served under the bravest man I ever knew... We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison.  That dumb guy actually stood up on  Red   Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. Bullets flying by, with mortar rounds landing everywhere and he stood there as the main target of gunfire so that he could get his men to safety.  He did this on more than one occasion because his men's safety was more important than his own life.

That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends.  When they brought me off Suribachi, we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, "Where'd they get you Lee?"  "Well Bob... if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!"

 

Johnny, I'm not lying, Sergeant  Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew.  
The Sergeant's name is Bob Keeshan.  You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo."

 

 

On another note, there was this wimpy little man (who recently passed away) on PBS, gentle and quiet.  Mr. Rogers is another of those you would least suspect of being anything but what he now portrays to our youth.  But Mr. Rogers was a U.S. Navy Seal, combat-proven in Vietnam with over twenty-five confirmed kills to his name.  He wore a long-sleeved sweater on TV, to cover the many tattoos on his forearm and biceps.  He was a master in small arms and hand-to-hand combat, able to disarm or kill in a heartbeat.

 

 

 

After the war Mr. Rogers became an ordained Presbyterian minister and therefore a pacifist.  Vowing to never harm another human and also dedicating the rest of his life to trying to help lead children on the right path in life. He hid away the tattoos and his past life and won our hearts with his quiet wit and charm.

 

America's real heroes don't flaunt what they did; they quietly go about their day-to-day lives, doing what they do best.  They earned our respect and the freedoms that we all enjoy.
Look around and see if you can find one of those heroes in your midst.
Often, they are the ones you'd least suspect, but would most like to have on your side if anything ever happened.

Take the time to thank anyone that has fought for our freedom. With encouragement they could be the next Captain Kangaroo or Mr. Rogers.

 

Send this on, will you please? Nothing will happen to you if you don't, but you will be telling others what a HERO is made of. 

 

1. The Olympics have been hijacked once too often to make a political point and it's obvious that the Communist government of China is using them for that purpose as well.

2. The Communists' continued repression and oppression of the Tibetan people.

3. The People's Republic of China's blatant disregard of quality control in manufacturing and industry.

4. Their cavalier dismissal of any concerns about the plight of their ethnic minorities.

5. Their systematic harrassment of ALL religious expressions within their borders.

6. Their continued support of the murderous, megalomaniacal monster in control of North Korea.

7. And personally speaking: I'm sick to death of those lousy, atheistic, illegitimate offspring of pigs and dogs being all the younger generation knows about one of the world's most ancient and cultured civilizations. For their destruction of ALL that beauty, wisdom and peace, I condemn them. I abhor them. I castigate them. I would, if I could, cast them into hell's hottest fires!

So don't expect to see yours truly at the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

 

I went to see 10,000 BC yesterday. I had looked forward to it for a number of reasons, all of them named Steven Strait, (my hunk-of-the-month pick).

If you are totally ignorant of the following: paleontology, paleobotany, archaeology, ancient history, ethnology, climatology and indeed every science which deals with knowledge of the past, it's a crackin' good adventure film.

If, however, you have more than a passing familiarity with any of the above I must warn you, your willing suspension of disbelief is gonna get clobbered BIG TIME!

How, you ask?

A) Wooly mammoths, a far north ice age mammal, pulling tonnes of stone up a compressed dirt ramp for a pyramid in Egypt. You know Egypt, the DESERT! The HOT desert?

B) A sabre-tooth cat in either northern Egypt of the southernmost part of the Levant. Since they were extinct some several thousand years prior to anyone building much of anything, much less pyramids, well.....

C) A bamboo forest, again either in northern Egypt or the southeastern part of the Levant. Bamboo is indigenous to ASIA, some 8,000 miles away.

D) Being able to trek from icy mountain wastes on foot to the desert of Egypt and the banks of the Nile in a month.

E) A bad guy who's very possibly the "last Atlantean" leading a bunch of factotums who bear a startling resemblance to native Central American tribes.

F) And the big kicker: a pair of Gastornis stomping through that bamboo forest gnoshing on any human they can catch. What's a Gastornis? It's a 15 foot tall flightless bird, carnivorous, and extinct for 20 million years prior to 10,000BC.

So, what you got is a bunch of ice-age mammoth hunters (the good guys), Atlantean slave raiders and pyramid builders (the bad guys) who use mammoths as draft animals and live in northern Egypt which is next door to a bamboo forest riddled with sabre-tooth cats and terror birds.

But hey, if you're 10 and your idea of science has been gleaned from the Sunday supplements and Marvel Comics, then you just might really like this film. It's got lots of action, mayhem, and some nifty stampeding mammoth scenes. And for the pre-adolescent female, it's got a sweet love story, complete with happy ending. Ain't that nice!?

Sorry Steven, I'll just keep popping "Sky High" and "The Covenant" into my DVD player. They're both better pics than this mishmash of creatures, places, timeframes and overall silliness. *deep sigh of regret* And to think that Roland Emmerich COULD have had a real contender, especially in the special effects arena, if only he'd have used a bit of his budget for a science advisor, or at least a student to Google the necessary and very accessible knowledge concerning our past. Ah, well......maybe next time.

 

I herewith pledge that from now on, I will NEVER refer to the membership, the supporters or the leaders of any terrorist group as Muslims, Mohammedans, worshippers of Allah, or Islamic. Not nohow, not noway. Why?

Because it is a lie. Those who are part of or who support by funds or recruits Al-Queda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and their ilk are NOT MUSLIMS!!!!!! They are Wahabists, a death cult! Akin to the Thuggees of the 19th century who killed in the name of their goddess Kali. They were NOT HINDUS! And these scumbags are no more Muslim than Adolph Hitler was a practising Jew.

When the driving force of your belief system boils down to "do everything my way or I will kill you horribly", that is NOT Islam, the salient verses and suras of the Q'uran notwithstanding. Our own Old Testament is rife with that kind of primitive misunderstanding of God. So are their Holy writings.

God, by whatever name you call Him and by whatever facets of His infinite Being you can grasp, is always a God of LIFE. And these Wahabists are a people obsessed with death, theirs, yours, mine, everyone's. They are NOT worshippers of God by any name.

They are more like a conglomerate of David Koresh and Jim Jones. Little tinpot dictator wannabes with delusions of godhood.

Not the sort of people you'd want to know socially. Or to introduce your family to. Or to share a neighborhood with. Not even if the "neighborhood" is taken as the planet in its entirety. Can't we send them somewhere they cannot force their brand of tyranny upon us all? Hmmmm...I got a notion. Let's try this. Have Governor Perry declare open season on all Wahabists. Sell Texans (and for these purposes anyone who wants can be considered a Texan for the duration) hunting licenses (the State Parks and Wildlife people will love that!), and let us go take care of the infestation!

YEEHAH! Remember the Alamo....er, I mean 9/11!

Lemme see if I got this straight.

Democrats went to the polls in record numbers here in Texas and more of them wanted Hillary Clinton than wanted Barack Obama. But somehow or other the actual NUMBER of votes going to each is decided at caucauses after the polls close and according to those Barack gets more votes than Hillary. HUH!?

Maybe it's my poor benighted Republican straightforwardness, but I always thought it was supposed to be one person, one vote PERIOD! Silly unsophisticated moi.

Apparently the Democratic Party has figured a way to obviate the will of the people in favor of its own personal choice. Verrrry interestink!

And of course, then there's the party honcho who declared that because a few Democratic higher-ups squabbled publicly that every Democratic voter in two states (Michigan and Florida, I believe) are to be punished by being disenfranchised. Hmmmmm. You know, I'm old enough to remember another time and place that very much the same thing happened with regularity. It was called the Soviet Union and every time the people went to the polls and voted for someone the Party didn't particularly like, they simply negated the vote and told the people "tough cookies". Looks like at least one of our political parties was there taking notes.

Guess what? We just lost the last 700 years!

Over in Saudi Arabia they're gonna kill a poor, illiterate female for the crime of...are you ready for this? WITCHCRAFT.

C'mon, people. I knew those "people" were backward, but I mean really!

I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna go get me a nice, shiny new car...one that uses bio-fuels. Let's see how  those high and mighty, sadistic, superstitious twits manage WITHOUT our oil money!

Now, I bow to no woman in my contempt for Alpha jerkasaurus males, but these toads, these illegitimate offspring of porcines and canines, they really take the cake. I bet there's not 18 working brain cells in the male population of that whole country!

Dear candidates for the Presidency, please take note. One of you is gonna sit behind the world's most famous desk in less than a year. I suggest you ALL get started thinking about a new policy in re the stupid Saudis. Especially you, Senator Clinton! We'd better get over the need for their oil before you take office. They will most definitely NOT be giving YOU any respect, not when their only use for females is as broodmares!

How 'bout we give Osama a break and go break a few Saudi judges' heads instead?

And that idiot Anglican archbishop actually thinks Shariya law has something positive to offer a civilized culture?! Hmmmm, maybe the Brits can send him over to Riyadh so he can watch the execution.