For my day job, this is our busiest time of the year, Which happens to coincide with my other career, Scouting. busiest time of the year. So in the throes of getting the oldest ready and outfitted for summer camp, work, and chairing my usual summertime event, the blogging has had to take a back seat. Not that there nothing to post about, man it has gotten crazy. But my camp starts in a little less than a week, which will take a huge load off of me. And since I’ll have my broadband with me, and little to do in the evenings, I hope to get caught up with everyone here real soon.

Cheers…

“I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down … I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists”

Harvey Korman died yesterday at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA (complications from rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm)

Don’t try to pass this off with the lame argument of ‘guilt by association’. This man sits on Obama’s advisory committee, and is listed by Obama as one of his spiritual mentors. Just more hate and blame whitey from another poverty pimp.

I’ve been too busy to blog much these days. but I just could not let this stand. In a response to George W. Bush’s latest remarks to Israel’s Knesset, B. Hussein Obama whined to voters today in S. Dakota. Here’s what Bush said yesterday.

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

Somehow Obama’s sensitive persona, and basically girl’ish sensibilities, took these words as a personal attack against him and the other hand wringing, pillow biting and bed wetting Democrats. So by your estimation, the speech didn’t have anything to do with the fact that Bush said this from inside the ‘belly of the beast’, where they are fighting TERRORISM every single day, 24 hours a day. He made these remarks to the Israeli Knesset who have negotiated and made concessions with the terrorist in the past to no effect, just more rockets and suicide bombers.

Personally, I thought it was nice to hear the President being Presidential for a change.

So Barack, “If the shoe fits, sweety, then stick it in your ass!”

Nope, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. I have, however, bitten off more than I can chew with a volunteer project that I have taken on. So posting maybe really light until the last week in June.

But my real quick observation of the day is, go Hillary… the longer she stays in the race, the worse Obama looks. IMHO, I still think she can pull that rabbit out of the hat.

I’m reminded of the time Catherine (a friends daugther) was little. She told me that she wanted to be President one day.

Both of her parents, liberal democrats, were standing there with us when I asked Catherine, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?’

Catherine replied, ‘I would give houses to all the homeless people.’

‘Wow! What a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in the back yard and I will pay you $5 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 dollars to use for a new house.’

Catherine (who was about 4) thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me seething, and Catherine replied, ‘Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can pay him the $5 dollars?’

Welcome to the Republican Party, Catherine!

Yes, the Rontards are still at it.

As I went to my Senatorial Convention this spring, I had an eerie feeling when I noticed all of the Rontard bumper stickers that were there in attendance, and how the turn out was in no way a reflection of the actual number of votes cast for Ron Paul in the county. I have to give it to them, they are organized. So, for the past several months now, I have been monitoring some of the communication that is coming out of the Ron Paul camp looking for this very thing (more)

I thought I would just take the time to tackle this subject, after having dumped the umpteenth ‘man unit extender’ trackback SPAM out of the Askimet SPAM folder.

I have my fair share of email accounts; two for business, several for the various blogs and websites I run, a scouting centric address, and of course my personal email addy. Now I only use my addresses at sites that claim to have privacy policies, and don’t share your email information with anyone else. Bull turds! Now I can understand my scouting email address getting filled with spam, because that address is published on our District website, and I’m OK with that, it’s just a throw away address anyway. But my personal address and business address are a different matter. And no matter how much you try and guard it, eventually you will wind up on someone’s SPAM list.

But if I were to use the correspondence in my inbox to gauge the current moral climate of the U.S., it would clearly show how much we as Americans have an obsession for the, oh, how to put this delicately… well I’ll just come out and say it, the penis. There are all kinds of pills, mechanical devices, elixirs, or any manor of herbs that can do everything from enhancing stamina and girth, to even adding length. Twenty years ago, people with this particular affliction would just buy themselves a Vette. Which reminds me of one of my favorite lines from Shrek, “Do you think he’s over compensating for something?“.

Roughly $20 billion (that’s with a B folks) per year is spent worldwide on treatments like Viagra, antidepressants, medically unnecessary cosmetic and sexual enhancement surgeries, and mechanical devices. I attribute this mainly to the “if it feels good, do it” crowd. Yes, those baby boomer that came of age during the sixties. But. being in the throes of middle-age myself, I too have hair appearing in places it shouldn’t, and disappearing from places where it should be. But don’t be looking to write that new Vette contract for me yet! The plumbing works just fine. I’m by no means a ‘prude‘, but just once, I’d like to open up my email without having to endure the endless barrage of email offers of “how to please your woman“.

Of course when it comes to these sexual enhancement treatments, here’s a little blurb I found about them on an FDA Website:

These products are promoted and sold on web sites as dietary supplements for treating erectile dysfunction (ED) and enhancing sexual performance, but they are in fact illegal drugs that contain potentially harmful undeclared ingredients. FDA has not approved these products, and there is no guarantee of their safety and effectiveness, or of the purity of their ingredients.

FDA advises consumers who have used any of these products to discontinue use and to consult their health care provider. The agency further encourages anyone experiencing impotence to seek guidance from a health care provider before purchasing a product to treat this medical condition.

Looks like mom was right after all, you can go blind…

Today, April 15th, marks the deadline when all Americans must file their income taxes. While many of us are aggravated and displeased when we see exactly how much of our hard-earned money goes to the federal government - if one of my Democratic opponents is elected in November, you can be certain your tax rate will increase across the board.

When we elect our next president in November, we will make a clear statement about the direction we want to take our economy and our tax system. As I have said before, this election will present Americans with a clear choice between my vision for our country and that of my Democratic opponents.

I believe today, as I have always believed, in small government, fiscal discipline and low taxes. I believe that tax cuts work best when accompanied by lower spending. And I make the promise to you that if elected president, I plan to make the present tax cuts permanent, lower corporate rates from 35% to 25% and end the Alternative Minimum Tax, which will affect millions of middle class families.

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There is a lot at stake in this election. If either of my Democratic opponents, Senators Clinton or Obama is elected, they have made it perfectly clear they plan to raise your taxes.

Senators Clinton and Obama have called for higher income taxes, higher social security taxes, higher investment taxes and higher corporate taxes. They have both already laid out plans to pass record-setting tax increases.