The Baughers

I don’t know if I’d try this or not, but it sure does look cool.  From our friends over at the Liquor Log – Scorpion Whiskey.

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Yeah, you’re thinking, so what?  Buildings collapse all the time – no biggie.

Check this one out.  I can’t imagine how this building could fall over without crumbling to the ground like they usually do.   This crazy thing even appears to have glass left in the windows.

Visit the article on Gizmodo for more pictures and info.

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What a surprise.  Liberals who hate this country so much they refuse to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.  Watch for the end of the clip where they even stop one of their own who tried to do the right thing.

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Meghan McCain spouts a bunch of words in paragraph form – read it if you can – but misses the main point of this whole Sanford thing.

Yes, Sanford is a super-douchebag for cheating on his wife and family.  Some things real men just don’t do, and that’s pretty much at the top of the list.

No, his affair is NOT a private-only matter.  Politicians are elected partially on character, because we place a certain amount of trust in these people to do their jobs.  Most of us won’t trust a politician in public matters if they have been proven to be untrustworthy in private ones.

It is not up to us to forgive Sanford.  That task lies with God and the people he has hurt.

The big issue here, and why Sanford should be removed from office, is that he disappeared from his job for several days.  Noone knew where he went.  He’s the leader of his state, and he was missing for a week.  Most of us can’t miss one DAY of work without calling in and reporting sick.  He’s obviously not to interested in doing his job, and the state officials should have little trouble removing him from office for lack of performing his duties as Governor.

Yes, Meghan, we conservatives are looking for new leadership to turn the Republican party back to the right and away from the mushy center.  We’re removing people like Sanford from the list because we don’t need crappy, lazy cantidates any more than we need cheating douchebags.  Both make the rest of us look bad.

Btw, Meghan, don’t worry, you aren’t on the list either.

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Yet another use for God’s favorite food. Too bad the flour in the batter and gravy put this one outside my list of approved bacon-based delicacies.

An another note, in the local Walmart a few days ago, I was pushing my cart through the meat section, only to notice 2 college-age girls out buying groceries. They stopped at the bacon section, and the nearest was actually bouncing up and down on her toes, saying, “I want bacon, I want bacon”. I almost shed happy tears as I had my own little moment of silence for a country where college girls in tight t-shirts can bounce up and down cheering for bacon. You won’t see that in Iran.

God bless America! This country IS truly the best place to be.

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It’s official.  I’ve been avoiding this conclusion like the plague, but I can do so no longer.  Chinese buffet food is not good for my diet.

I’ve been back on the wagon – so to speak – for a couple weeks now.  I do really well throughout the week, but the weekend always brings with it a lot of napping, sitting around, and a weight increase.  It’s no coincidence that the weekend usually brings a visit to a Chinese buffet in the area.

Some will tell you to just avoid the food that has sugar in it or breading on it.  Well, I don’t know if that’s possible.  Pretty much everything that’s remotely healthy-looking, like broccoli chicken, is smothered in some sugary sauce.  Spicy meatballs – simmered in sweet sauce.

I suppose if I knew the recipes for everything I could probably pick out 3 or 4 dishes that would be safe to eat, and the rest of the time I’d be eating salad.  If I’m going to be eating salad, I can do that at home WAY cheaper than at a restaurant.  Not only that, but I suspect that the restaurants are using non-fat or low-fat ranch dressing as their normal ranch offering, since that’s what so many people ask for.  The low-fat or non-fat stuff has so much sugar packed into it to make up for the lack of taste from the fat that was removed that it alone can destroy a low-carb diet.

So, I’m pretty sure it’s no more Chinese for me, or at least reduced to a rare occasion.  If we want to go out to eat, maybe we’ll hit a Ponderosa or Golden Corral where the low-carb choices are a little more obvious.

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I wouldn’t have believed it if it weren’t on CNN: Obama is “seriously considering” not extending invitiations to Iranian diplomats into our July 4 celebrations at our embassies overseas.  Wow.  What can I say?  BHO’s really sticking it to them now!  Here I was, complaining about lack of action on our fearless leader’s part, and all along it turns out he was thinking about changing his mind about officials from a corrupt government to our celebrations.

Man, those guys are sure gonna be pissed when they find out they aren’t getting free hot dogs.  Maybe that’ll convince them to have real elections and stop murdering the people who disagree with them.

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I haven’t posted much lately, kinda had writer’s block.  There’s been a lot going on in the news, but a big part of it is just ongoing articles about things that have already been discussed.  I find myself reading Malkin and McCain and Coulter and thinking, what more can I say that hasn’t already been said 100 times already?

But, once in awhile I think of something that seems like a new idea to me, and that I can talk about.  Usually I start putting it together in my head while I’m getting ready for work in the morning, and hopefully I have time before I have to leave to type it up.

Today I thought about bullying.  Bullying is one of those topics that comes up at least once a year, since the schools are on a yearly cycle.  What is it?  It’s basically when one kid or group of kids intimidates another kid or group of kids.  The bullying side manages to get away with it because of size, number of kids, pure meanness, whatever.

As we know, the school systems are jam-packed full of touchy-feely liberals.  More and more of them came from the generations where we were told not to spank, but to use time-outs instead.  Combine a building full of liberals with a bunch of parents who have taken away the teacher’s right to discipline kids in the classroom, and you have the chaos that is in the publiv schools today.

Now introduce some bullies into the system, and what happens?  The liberals in charge try to fix the bullying problem, usually with these steps, although maybe in different order:   Have meetings to talk about the problem.  Hire consultants to analyse the problem.  Spend money on programs to boost the morale of the bullies in the hope that they will then stop being bullies.  Increase the counseling/psych staff so the kids being bullied have someone to talk to.  Sit the bullies down and have someone talk to them about how they feel and how they make others feel.

So, how many of you think any of those things will have an affect on the problem?  If you said yes, you’re a liberal and a dope.  No bully has ever been cured by social programs, or by being talked to, blah blah blah.

No, bullies understand and respect one thing, and that’s pain.  Whether it’s physical pain, humiliation, hunger – doesn’t matter.  They bully others because at some level they feel pain and they want to pass it on to someone else so they can feel better about themselves.  It’s sad, but it’s true.

You stop a bully by making them feel more pain than they did before they bullied.  They need to associate the two things.  “If I do A, then B happens to me.  I don’t like B- B sucks- so I’d better stop doing A.”  Eventually even the dumbest bully will figure out this equation.

Now, compare this to what’s going on in Iran.  You basically have one group of people in power.  They are using their numbers and power to suppress another group – suppress in this case meaning murder, rob, maim, whatever you can imagine.  They’ve got the upper hand.  What are the liberals doing to fix this?  They’re standing around wringing their hands and talking.  Probably having focus groups talking about how we can appeal to the bully to stop killing and make peace with everyone.

Guess what – it’s not going to work.  The bully in Iran isn’t going to stop until there’s noone left to push around or until someone stands up to them and kicks the crap out of them – makes them feel some pain themselves.  Here we have a country hell-bent on destroying all their enemies and building up their nuclear capabilities at the same time, and we’re paralyzed with indecision.  Our joke of a President is too busy naming czars and running our country into the ground to trouble himself to even give a word of encouragement to the rebellion in Iran.

Here’s a suggestion to our leaders:  get off your ass and DO something worthwhile.  Reach over into Iran, poke your finger into Khamenei’s and Ahmadinejad’s chests, and tell them to cut the crap.  If they want to stay in charge of their country, they better start playing nice.  If they don’t stop, give the good guys time to leave town and then start the bombing runs.

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Down in Tennessee, a Republican staffer managed to send along an email with this image attached:

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As you can see, the super-clever person who came up with this replaced the Obama picture with a set of eyes in a black background.  This is hardly an original theme for a racist joke – heard it and it’s many variations before, unfortunately.

The staffer was one Sherri Goforth, legislative aid for Rep. Sen. Diane Black of Tennessee.

Everyone has apologized for the email and joke, as usual.  Obviously she’d like to keep her job, and it sounds like noone is planning to fire her, although a significant number of people think she should be.

I’m a Conservative in Illinois.  What do I think?  Fire her.  Fire her for being dumb.   Track that email back through Black’s office and fire whoever sent it to Goforth.  Make an example of them.  The last thing we need in the Republican party are people doing dumb things like this that the Democrats can use to try and tar us all with the same brush.  We can’t turn back the clock on this one, but at least we can take the high road and say, “The GOP is NOT racist, and we want nothing to do with racists.”

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I added a new link to the Blogroll today, to Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian.   Cynthia appears to have made it her primary mission to bring down David Letterman by getting him fired for his anti-Palin hate-jokes.

Myself, I could care less about Letterman.  Fewer and fewer people bother to tune into broadcast television, and Letterman’s impact is nothing like the old days of Carson, when Johnny could tell a joke one night and everyone would have repeated it 5 times by lunch the next day.

However, I support Cynthia fully in her crusade for the sole reason that Conservatives need a win.  We need a win, dammit, even if it’s just over a has-been like Letterman.  That’s why the Tea Parties were so important – we managed to put some fear and doubt into the other side, and it showed.  They flinched.

We need some wins, small as they might be, to keep us moving in the right direction.  Let’s make this next win over Letterman be a big step forward.

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