Too damn cold this AM. Yech. And it's after tax-day.
JMR

Bonus: A Federal Judge speaks about the "non-racist" drug war.

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

Tropical heat wave here in MN.  52. 

Remember the election in 2006?  Thought you might like to read the following:

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 have seen: 
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 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! 

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him. 

Can't wait to get RINO McCain in there - that'll be a big help:)

/sarc stuck on

And now, today's  Shrub Report®:

The Pope came to America yesterday.

Uh-oh. All you Leftarded elitist snobs better put on your flag pins.

The pu**ification of America's children continues.

How often do you get to pepper-spray your boss?

Special-interest group wants to shut this restaurant down. Could this one be next?

It was just another ordinary weekend in the City of Brotherly Love. Whoops, I guess that nickname might be offensive these days.

Proving that rock music really sucked in the 1980's, Mr. Roboto rose to the #3 album on the charts 25 years ago today.

Here is an update on the Pedophilia of Islam. The "best" part: the family of the child has to compensate the baby-raper $250. Amazing. No wonder Douchemonger is so upset with people knowing about this: his own divorce might now be looming on the horizon… Speaking of the compassion of the Religion of Peace…

Dozens, maybe hundreds of "mentally-stable" Ronulans "rally" in DC. Meanwhile, Ron Paul shows his true colors once again, casting a brave "no vote" on naming a Texas post office "Military Veterans Post Office", even though he just voted 20 minutes earlier on another bill. Paul definitely has his elbow on the pulse of America. (cue expected rambling Paulbot reponse...)

Man, we're all getting old. Ian Mackaye turns 46 today.

And finally, how miserable of a sports city do you live in? Cleveland only #8? Philly #9? Try harder!

In Albuquerque, we have a few warm days, followed by a few cold days - typical for Spring, although the cools are cooler. I haven't even thought about blowing up my Aquaman pool yet.

I am not saying I believe or disbelieve global warming, but your kind of biasing your example. Your right it is currenty cold this morning, but your expected to reach over 70 degrees later on today aren't you? :-) I believe tomorrow is going to be 76

ps

Will there be chat tonight?

Two days ago we had snow here in NC where I live. Woke up this morning to a hard freeze, and the wife lost plants she just put in the ground over the weekend.  

"Abstain from McCain"

yesterday 82 today 30 snow tonight.

<gaia/love>SAVVVE The Whales N' Earth; conserve N' recycle !

IranianUranium<sleep>New/Infrastructure/repair?/ROFLMAO

"In fact, this will be the latest in the year we'll be able to go into our pool since we moved into this home in 1999."

Since this was posted by "NB Staff" are we to assume that you all live together in a commune setting?

Michael Yon has a new book, Moment of Truth in Iraq.  I just got an e-mail from his people this A.M. that gives some of the details.  Here is a brief excerpt from the Amazon page for the book:

From the Publisher
I HAVE NEVER BEEN PROUDER TO PUBLISH A BOOK

Michael Yon changed my mind about the war in Iraq, by making me understand it for the first time.

From the very beginning I was against the war. I thought it would be a disaster, another Vietnam. And until I had the privilege of working on this book with Michael I was always for immediate pull-out: why should one more American die for a doomed effort?

Michael--who is as close to totally non-political as anyone I know--showed me two things. First, because I judged by Vietnam, the war of my youth, I had radically underestimated what American soldiers could do. I knew they could blow away any regular opponent on any battlefield. But wage a counterinsurgency against an enemy with broad support in the population? Win the "hearts and minds," to use the Vietnam era phrase that now can be used only ironically? That was asking too much, I thought.

I was 100 percent wrong. Today's American soldiers excel at counterinsurgency, because they excel at the most important thing: winning over the people by inspiring them with their own courage and compassion, discipline and determination. Reading this book is like watching the movie Apocalypse Now, but in an alternate universe in which the opposite always happens. Every time our soldiers get into an incredibly tense situation with some Iraqis who might be friends or might be enemies or murderers, some situation in which what's needed is amazing calm and courage to keep things from blowing up and ending in a blood bath, our guys pull it off!

Here is the text of the e-mail I got (I don't think Mr. Yon would mind):

 Greetings,

I'm in Florida, but on the way to Washington DC.  It's great to touch American soil again.  I miss this place a lot--especially when bullets are flying by my head in the war. Where we are winning.

"Moment of Truth in Iraq" is selling very well.  I am very surprised; lot's of folks apparently really do want to know the truth about Iraq. My publisher just called my attorney with a quote from the movie "Jaws."  The publisher said, "I think we're gonna need a bigger boat."

"Moment of Truth" has actually made it to #8 on Amazon.com before it even hit bookstores.  Additionally, I signed the title pages (which were inserted after they were printed) for 5,200 books in Mosul, and all those books are almost sold out.  (I'll sign a couple more thousand in DC, if folks keep ordering them.)

Your help is amazing.  Folks who are taking the printable flier to stores are making a real difference. Barnes & Noble will stock it very soon largely thanks to your efforts. Now we have to go after Borders
and Books-a-Million and especially libraries and military exchanges.

A few more folks buying from Amazon might push is to #1.  And then the message surely will start to get out.

V/r,

Michael
Florida

I found out about this from his website (listed below, as always) and have already ordered a signed copy.  Looking forward to getting started on it.

BTW, we had a hard freeze here two nights ago.  Not abnormal, but certainly not extra warm, early, either.  Time to put out some 'maters!  Try to beat July 4th.

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

michaelyon-online.com

Funny that only drug abusers know the name, use and effect of all drugs. The drug dictionary is 3 inches thick and would take years to read and memorize. Evidently druggies have a lot of time on their hands, in prison.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

We had the grandkids in the pool this weekend and it has been down to 36 two mornings in a row, call AlGore.

The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program...........Ronald Reagan

Below normal temps here ...above normal snow pack in mtns...winter-like storm this weekend...skiing thru May.

Night all ...

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill