I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw that the LA Times is whacking people…merging departments and reducing content (which sucked anyway)…while the Godfather gets a raise of 400 Million large and an 8 year contract extension so he can KEEP tormenting the losers in the Rush-dubbed drive-by media.

Man I love this job…where else can you go to be right, do so for free, and watch the liars and the losers line up behind you in the unemployment line looking for someone to feel as sorry for them as they feel for themselves?

What an awesome world…

hey…don’t Unions vote FOR Democrats? Weird love affair, that…

This just in: GM, Ford, Toyota Plunge as Buyers Reject Big Trucks.

General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the biggest auto retailers in the U.S., said June sales plunged as fuel prices above $4 a gallon drove consumers away from gas-guzzling trucks.

GM sales fell 19 percent, Ford was down 28 percent and Toyota dropped 21 percent. Honda Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG, which rely on cars for the bulk of their sales, each rose about 1 percent.

Weird, I thought Democrats owed their pandering loyalty to ALL Union-based industry. Now, pay close attention to what Obama said a month ago about the effects of high gas prices: “Americans [will] start changing the kinds of cars they drive if gasoline prices continue to climb.” What he DIDN’T say was that “Hope and Change” really means Union members must HOPE for lifetime Unemployment Insurance after Obama’s destruction of the economy CHANGEs their employment status to “plant closed.” Again, from Bloomberg:

The vehicles that people want are in short supply because the industry has turned on a dime in terms of demand and supply can’t quite handle that,” Alan Baum, director of automotive forecasting for Planning Edge in Birmingham, Michigan, said in a Bloomberg Radio interview. You’ll continue to see a decline for the next several months.”

For the second straight month, Ford’s F-Series large pickup, perennially the best-selling vehicle in the U.S., was outsold by four cars: Toyota’s Corolla and Camry and Honda’s Civic and Accord. Nissan Motor Co. reported an 18 percent total decline.

Propping up foreign competition while driving American jobs into the ground…hmmm…you know, coal and oil may be making us sick…but this “do nothing Democrat Congress” is killing us. As the Saudi King has suggested: Get Used To It.

Please tell me you haven’t forgotten the ‘04 election when we were told to decide who was better suited for the Presidency; a “rape, torture, and burn” John Kerry or a “missed a few days of service in the Reserves” George Bush. That somehow, with all the horrible things John Kerry says he saw or did himself, ol’ Johnny boy should be President because he came home from ‘Nam to tell the world we were doing bad things in the war.

Now, we have a kid with no experience in the Military at ALL (no experience in much of any “real life” stuff for that matter) who we’re to believe is better suited for the Presidency in war time than the old guy who flew planes in battle and was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the line of duty. Apparently the “having it both ways” mentality knows no bounds with our friends on the Left. Obama will apparently be a better Prez because he, like John Kerry, talks a good game about how “war is bad” and America is bad and Soldiers do bad things in wartime. hunh…whodathunk?

Pejman’s article and the associated links and comments speak for themselves… but I think it’s worth mentioning here that the Democrats defended Bubba’s lack of Military service as an advantage - a “no preconceived notions” kinda guy. Of course, he came into office and all but destroyed the Military AND the Intelligence communities, but hey - the Democrats don’t place Defense and Security very high on their list of things to spend money on anyway. Obama’s lack of service to his country will result in driving the Defense and Security machines into the ground as well. No surprise here.

What’s pathetic about the whole McCain service record flap is that the Democrats even needed to go here in the first place. I feel sorry for them in a way, contorting themselves as they do to make themselves look good by denigrating others. McCain’s time in prison now being equated to a reduced ability to be Commander in Chief is really offensive…but I suppose the kids on Barry’s team are screaming “you started it” when we asked where the flag lapel pin was or why the Messiah in Chief doesn’t place his hand on his heart during the Star Spangled Banner.

Can we call it even and talk, instead, about which candidate is better qualified to NOT RUN THIS COUNTRY INTO THE FREAKING GROUND now?

Please?

well…i just found the stupidist man on the planet: Seymour Hersh/supersleuth journalist!

he told wolf blitzer yesterday that the US is amping their spying on iran and said this about President Bush: “They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program”…

well…first of all, spying on another country must include the element of secrecy…if it’s in the best interest of our country and for the sake of the lives of our covert operations guys and gals, it must be kept under wraps…otherwise, a lot of children will lose fathers or mothers…i don’t think he cares, do you?

second, i actually think that any NORMAL THINKING HUMAN BEING on this planet would want to stop iran from having weapons that reached more than 5 feet from it’s launch site…

third, am i missing something or is this guy void of any rational thought? iran wants to destroy us and israel COMPLETELY off of the face of the earth…so, in order for us to keep that from happening, we must (and i know this sucks for some bleeding heart liberals to digest) spy on them!

i must say that i thank God this idiot wasn’t around the day before D-Day…i have a feeling our political landscape would be a little different and loudmouth journalists like him would be in a concentration camp in siberia chewing his fingernails for protein and wondering where the heck his civil liberties went!!

[image courtesy Red Planet Cartoons]

[S]oaring fuel prices are inflicting pain throughout the U.S. Nine in 10 expecting the ballooning costs to squeeze them financially over the next half-year, an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Monday says.

Nearly half think that hardship will be serious. To cope, most are driving less, easing off the air conditioning and heating at home and cutting corners elsewhere. Half are curtailing vacation plans; nearly as many are considering buying cars that burn less gas.

As the price has spiraled upward so, too, has the public’s ire.

Reid and Pelosi don’t care. Whatever liberties and freedoms to move about the country we might otherwise enjoy, were we able to actually afford to GET there, are slowly being taken away from us by the inaction of our elected officials. BOTH Houses of the “do nothing” Congress blew off any energy legislation to help us get through the summer…THEY are on vacation now, and we can’t afford to join them. Instead, we look out our windows at cars we can’t refuel and worry about how we’re going to get back and forth to work so we can keep supporting these losers through ever-increasing taxes.

Nearly 70% of us are travelling less or not at all, in large part because the national average price for a gallon of gasoline climbed to $4.086, and “Gas prices have risen 2.9% in the last month and are almost 38% higher than where they were a year ago.” Waddya think jumpin’ genius Joe Klein over at Time says we ought to be doing?

George W. Bush’s failure to call for sacrifice — and fuel conservation would have been a great one — after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been one of the great failures of his presidency. The next President will not have the luxury of that sort of indolence, and, happily, both Barack Obama and John McCain have been talking about conservation as a means to get our energy situation under control. So why not start now? I’d like to see both candidates call for an immediate 5deg.F thermostat adjustment, just to get the conservation ball rolling — and because it would be a “personal virtue” for each candidate to ask it of us. And I’d like to wish you all a nice, warmer summer.

Yeah Joe-that’s the ticket-turn off the AC and open the windows…THAT’LL put gas in our tanks man… You know, Klein may like it hot, but far too many of the rest of us aren’t very interested in sitting inside with the AC turned off, staring at cars with empty gas tanks.

So, what have our Political Heroes been focusing on while we all suffer lifestyle deaths by a thousand cuts?

There’s the little flap over those 68 million un-drilled acres that even the Obamessiah has fallen for…and, of course there’s the pitchfork-totin’ lynch mob chasing their tails over eeevil oil speculators. All this followed closely by the drill v. don’t drill soap opera…and the ever-popular “NO more refineries, NO more nukes” tomfoolery.

The real plague that reaches across all classes ages and races is Democrat politicians. They control the country, and by choosing to go on vacation instead of addressing the critical needs of their constituents they clearly show us just how much they care about our suffering…

You can’t make stuff like this up people…

The DSCC, among the many other Liberal self-important elitists out there, has their undies all in a bundle because they don’t “get” Cowboy humor. Being high and mighty elitists precludes any genuine understanding of the “country” culture, or a decent appreciation for a fine Stetson, or even a shiny pair of bonny-new Tony LLama’s for that matter….just ask Obama where that God and Guns remark got him. NOR do they have any ability to comprehend why anyone would poke a little fun at himself; taking one’s self too seriously ALL the time is a founding principle for being a Democrat you see…

So, what does the pretty little city boy Democrat Media Consultant named Dean Rindy have to say about the Cornyn “flap” that isn’t?

“This is a disaster for John Cornyn, because it just makes him look silly,” said Democratic media consultant Dean Rindy. “They don’t stop to realize Cornyn’s not the Marlboro man. He’s a plump, pasty politician in cowboy drag.”
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“There’s nothing worse than looking foolish. Better to look crooked than to look silly. People want a strong US Senator. Not a fake cowboy,” Rindy said.

Rindy wouldn’t know a real Cowboy if he took a spit of dip to the forehead from one…and it’s no real surprise to hear a Democrat suggest looking crooked is a good thing either…but really now-can the little kiddies on the left lighten up a little?

Look, Cornyn goes to the Republican Convention in Houston to pump palms and talk to the crowd about the elections this year and what’s at stake for us should the lunatics on the left have their way in the voting booths. His introduction at the podium was set up by a video called “Big John” put together by a California media team. It was a little goofy to be sure, but a piece in the Star-Telegram went so far as to call it “corn pone” [without even fully appreciating how GOOD corn pone can be…ever had it with maple syrup? mmm-mmm…that’s fine eatin’] but I digress - Cornyn sees it for what it is:

“I think it’s hilarious,” he said with a laugh during a conference call with reporters Thursday.

“This was a good-natured introduction we did at the Houston convention a couple of weeks ago.”

You lefties need to lighten up.

Making every effort to turn something fun into an election loss, the DSCC is hell-bent on making this Cornyn’s Dukakis moment (looking goofy in a tank) but it’s not going to stick. See, Cornyn IS a good ole boy from the great state of Texas. We DO wear boots and Stetsons down here, and we DO find ways to laugh at ourselves; taking ourselves too seriously rarely gets us anywhere but kicked, bit, and all beat up out here. You want a Dukakis moment? Check this picture of Obama wearing a Cowboy hat and tell me what’s silly and what ain’t…