Why in the world would the liberal whackos choose a dork like Al Franken to be their big, new spokesperson? I hated him as a kid, watching him on SNL in the 70s. I've been pondering this enigma for some time, and here's my answer: They aren't funny. They're so self-important and take their issues so seriously that they have to resort to using a pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-celebrity "comedian", a synchophantic, political-pundit-wannabe like him to present their face to the public. The Ri...

Here we are again at the "Most Wonderful Time of the Year".......the endless, goofy holiday-themed commercials full of false good cheer, the endless lines at the mall or dept. stores, and the endless repetition of the same old songs, over and over and over...only in different voices and (with luck) arrangements. Ho Ho Ho. MERRRY CHRISTMAAAAS!! The endless Christmas specials, so many repeated year after year. The endless parties, where people meet and greet, again with the false cheer, eat ...

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"AP--3rd-Graders Arrested for Their Drawings Two boys ages 9 and 10 in Ocala, Fla., have been arrested and charged with a second-degree felony for making primitive pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings on scrap paper that depicted a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, reports The Associated Press. Police took the children, who are special education students, out of school in handcuffs. The official charge: Making a written threat to kill or harm another person. The two hav...

Defrocked Priest Sentenced for Raping Boy By DENISE LAVOIE BOSTON (AP) - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a central figure in the Boston Archdiocese clergy sex abuse scandal, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 to 15 years in prison for raping a boy repeatedly in the 1980s, sometimes in a church confessional. ``It is difficult to imagine a more egregious misuse of trust and authority,'' Judge Stephen Neel said in imposing the term. But he turned aside a prosecutor's request for a life senten...

I keep seeing images of devastation and desperation in New Orleans, and keep wondering to myself where the help is. Why do we keep seeing images of dead and dying residents holed up in shelters and on the streets, with no water, food, or rescuers in sight? What's wrong? I watch the news, but I just don't get it; am I missing something? Why, if help is not forthcoming, do they sit in the same places day after day, waiting for buses and relief that never comes? After all, if buses can trucks ...

I wish I had a link for this, but I couldn't find one. As some of you know, I clean offices for a living. When I clean one in particular, I often find, in the trash, appropriately enough, a copy of "The Week", that great liberal rag of a publication. Sometimes I take it and use it for bathroom reading, and sometimes for more practical purposes, just in case the stall is out of paper (as I'm pretty efficient, however, this rarely happens). In the June 3rd issue there was an article on how...

I'm sure someone on here has already posted on this, but I've been away for a few days. The Supreme Court's decision on medicinal marijuana is just asinine. Why shouldn't people be able to use it if they need it to get through chemo or for some other ailment? After all, they'll give Percosets, Demerol, Oxycontin and morphine to anybody who has any kind of chronic and/or severe pain. They're all a hundred times more addictive than pot. What's the difference? Such a stupid argument.

Next Monday is Memorial Day, the first, official day of the Summer Holiday Season, and we’ll have fun. Boy, will we. We’ll celebrate with get-togethers, like outdoor barbecues and picnics. Maybe we’ll attend a baseball game, or play softball, volleyball, or perhaps have a round of golf. We’ll eat, drink and make merry and we’ll bring in the summer with a bang. More important than all that, however, much more, it is good to remember that it is also a solemn occasion, and why it is that we ...

What upsets you the most about the Schiavo case? 1. That's she's being let die, at all? 2. That she's being starved to death? 3. That the Right is turning this into a right-to-life issue and using it as political leverage? 4. That the Left would just let her go without any reservations at all? I think that about sums up the majority of what I've been seeing on the threads. If I get any posts here, I'll try to keep track and let you know, if you're curious.

Like all of you out there, I’ve noticed a huge jump in gas prices over the last months and weeks and especially the last couple of days. Gas here has gone from between $1.89-$1.97 per gallon for regular unleaded three days ago, which was bad enough, to between $2.15 and $2.20 today. We all know that this is ridiculous; is there really any need for gas prices to be this high? No. We have more than enough of our own oil, which we could be using for ourselves and telling the Arabs to go piss u...

See link for picture of "suspect". Manhunt on for Georgia courthouse killer Rape suspect allegedly kills judge, court reporter, deputy in Atlanta John Bazemore / AP The Associated Press Updated: 3:32 p.m. ET March 11, 2005ATLANTA - A judge presiding over a rape trial was shot to death Friday along with two other people at the Fulton County Courthouse, authorities said. A fourth person was critically wounded and the suspect, the defendant at the trial, remained at large hours later...

So I'm sitting there Saturday evening, watching the news, when I'm just about knocked out of my chair by the image of Jimmy Carter smiling his usual creepy smile as dozens of sailors run up the gangplank to board their new vessel, the USS Jimmy Carter . It seems that the navy, for some odd reason, has decided to christen the last of the Seawolf class attack subs after one of our worst presidents. Can someone please tell me who was bribed, and how much did it take, to allow for this to oc...

I've said before that I would feel safer with Iran holding a few nukes rather than N. Korea, who I, too, feel is more likely to use them in anger. What I would worry about, though, would be Iran's tendency to support terrorism; I think it more than likely that they just might slip a bomb or two to some whacko group with the right amount of cash, or even on credit, if they promised to use it against Isreal (or even the US). After all....though Iran probably (or maybe) wouldn't use nukes on Is...

Defrocked Priest Sentenced for Raping Boy By DENISE LAVOIE BOSTON (AP) - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a central figure in the Boston Archdiocese clergy sex abuse scandal, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 to 15 years in prison for raping a boy repeatedly in the 1980s, sometimes in a church confessional. ``It is difficult to imagine a more egregious misuse of trust and authority,'' Judge Stephen Neel said in imposing the term. But he turned aside a prosecutor's request for a life senten...