Five Hundred Words

A great response to that creepy “I Pledge” video of our celebrety idiotarians slobbering over Obamessiah.

President Obama’s executive order calling for the closing of Gitmo has given elements of our political class opportunity to let the world know how much they dislike violence, particularly torture. I say good for them. Violence is bad. So is torture.

In fact I think all sorts of things are terrible. Incarceration is horrible. Handcuffs are horrible. Getting shot is horrible. Nevertheless, under certain circumstances, these horrible things are less horrible than the alternative.

Searching a car is normally unacceptable unless you have probable cause and a warrant. Blowing up a building is normally unacceptable, unless it is reasonably believed to be full of enemy combatants. Shooting a man is normally unacceptable, unless that man is pointing a gun at you.

Following this logic then, there would be a set of circumstances where digging into a human being with a number two pencil might be acceptable if you reasonably believed there was a ticking atom bomb and the dude knew where it was hidden. Continue Reading

At least every eight years, and sometimes after only four, our nation will see one man peacefully hand over the responsibility for being President to another.  While we are not the only nation on earth to do so, we are certainly the most consistent.

Dispite my lack of faith in the incoming Current Occupant (to twit Garrison Kellior) it is a beautiful thing to see the most powerful man in the world pretty much just pack up his sh*t, hand the keys over to the next guy, and motor off into the sunset.

President Bush, unlike some former presidents, will not be … Continue Reading

President Bush will return to Texas next week after handing the keys to the White House over to Barack Obama.  I have been supportive of George Bush for the last eight years, but I am not sorry to see him go. 

Conservative philosophy is in shambles, not because there is a problem with it, but because it’s “brand” has been unjustly tarnished by Bush and the Congressional Republican’s utter incompetence.  For eight years, Democrat Lite has set us on a course for failure, and labeled Conservative.  All pain, no gain.

I’ll spot President Bush his Supreme Court justice appointments, and preventing further … Continue Reading

I have a beat up hat.  Khaki in color, it has the emblem of the American Red Cross, a logo as recognizable as anything in the world, save for Coca-Cola.  Composed of fairly sturdy cotton with a nice stiff brim, it features a Velcro closure.  This last is vast improvement over those wretched plastic doo-dads with the holes and the knobs you snap together.  With my giant melon, I always have to mate the last knob on the last hole. I think it makes my head look like someone is trying dress up a pumpkin to look like a trucker.

My … Continue Reading

We were promised the Age of Aquarius when Obamessiah took office. The man hasn’t even been sworn in and the usual suspects are already trashing him in effigy.

For the record, this offends me. I think Obama is going to be a dreadful president because he is not a grown-up, and he is surrounded by non-grown-ups. Nevertheless, he is my President, and that’s my president they are walking on and trashing. It ought to piss us all off.

Monday begins my second week working out. Today I weighed myself, and learned that the modest dieting and moderate to heavy exercise has netted me a .012% loss of my total mass. I am quite pleased, though I am realistic about staying on this trajectory. I am packing my lunch, bringing along many small items that I eat every hour or two. I read somewhere that it takes about 100 calories to fire up the digestion engine. Eat three 800 calorie meals, and you expend 300 calories digesting 2400 calories for a net of 2100 … Continue Reading

I find the idea that the Federal Election Commission will make public your campaign donations repellent. If I want the world to know who I support politically, I will put up a yard sign, affix a bumper sticker or wear a button. It ought to be well known that I am a Christian by my kind deeds and good conduct. The fact that I am a Republican, or support Candidate A over Candidate B or a particular ballot initiative ought to be a private matter unless I choose to make it public.

But Tim, you object, do you … Continue Reading

I am weary of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I am weary primarily it reveals the moral retardation of Western society. As a term of art, moral retardation has been rolling around in my skull for a few years. I use it to describe someone who is unable to tell the difference between Guantanamo Bay and Auschwitz. The morally retarded look at George Bush and Adolf Hitler and see little difference. The morally retarded look at the death penalty for convicted murderers as a grave evil that must be stopped, but the death of a third trimester baby … Continue Reading