I love animals - they're delicious

But when used for entertainment, beasts can and will kill

Animals give me life. I like to eat them, ride them, pet them, wear them, grow them, watch them, and know in my pure aboriginal predator heart and soul that the health and condition of the animals in our lives are direct indicators of our own quality of life. The wildlife on the sacred Nugent hunting grounds, like all across North America, is thriving, naturally wild and spectacular. Our three Labrador retrievers and stupid old cat are clearly the happiest pets on earth. I love animals, and they love me. Perfect.

And yes, Eloise, that is an American buffalo between my legs. Isn't he adorable? See the snot flying and enraged fire in the eyes? And the bison ain't bad looking, either.

Having made my spectacular rock 'n' roll stage entrance astride a wildly spirited one-ton South Dakota beast for a few hundred protein-infested concerts, no one knows better than I the dynamic of celebrating wild beasts in dramatic and outrageously entertaining ways. I agree with Jack Hannah and other professional critter handlers that wildlife education provided by zoos, circuses, commercial aquariums and various animal spectacles is appreciated best when it occurs on stage with crazed guitar players. I bet my audiences would concur.

With but a cursory review of my annual hunting, fishing and trapping calendar, the evidence is irrefutable that few men have spent more time with wild animals in their natural habitat that this old Motown rocker. The spirit of the mighty beasts fortify my belly and my soul.

My relationship with wild animals is as pure as it gets. I am a hunter, and surely there is no wiser use of renewable wildlife resources than killing them and grilling them. That's why there are more deer, turkey, black bears, cougars and other big game critters in America today than in recorded history. We manage them according to genuine, value-based utility. Go figure.

The only difference between me, and say, Steve Irwin, brain-dead hippie grizzly bear neighbors, religious voodoo rattlesnake witch doctors, homosexual Las Vegas lion huggers, and the Orca handlers at Sea World is that I am smarter and more respectful to the wonderful wildness of such creatures. I don't taunt, probe, prod or bother my wild animals in any way for your entertainment. And though I do hop aboard for a thrilling ride, I am not so stupid as to forget that my buffalo is, and always will be, a wild buffalo. You know, the kind that would just as soon trample you into a bloody puddle of snot and hair than look at you.

Admitting this truism is why I carried a 10mm handgun in my belt during those stage rides, just in case the beast decided to go buffalo on me. A quick 200-grain armor-piercing slug through the back of his head would have made the difference between a momentary increase in entertainment value and a few dozen or more trampled rock fans. I knew this, and I was prepared. I am such a radical pragmatist.

Remember the circus lion tamers of yore, a chair in one hand, a pistol in the other? Prudent and respectful during a time before dangerous animals somehow became cute. The Bambi curse is to defile the wildness of beasts. They are killer whales, not show whales. And don't tell me that grabbing alligators by the tail promotes conservation. Wise use? I think not. Shame on you.

If you want to manage elephants, lions, leopards, camels, stallions, bears or other such phenomenal wild animals, the very least you can do is to show a little respect for the wildness that attracts you to them by being prepared to neutralize the deadliness of that wildness when it erupts. Not if it erupts, when it erupts.

Not a year goes by without some sensational tragedy ruining human and animal lives by careless, disrespectful misuse of these majestic creatures. Either do it right or just put them on display, hands-off, so nobody gets hurt. It is about time that we cut out the selfish make-believe fun of animal abuse for our own desires, and show some respect. Either that, or we have one of two choices for the killer whales in captivity out there right now - Muktuk or sushi for the masses. Take your pick.

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Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock 'n' roll, sporting and political activist icon. His best-selling books, Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto and God, Guns and Rock 'N' Roll (Regnery Publishing) are available at the Tednugent.com Store.

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Source: The Washington Times

Never forget these warriors' gift to us

We know that without the sacrifices that underlie Memorial Day, there would be no Independence Day, no freedoms, no America. The entire world would be a much darker place - one of tyranny, slavery and oppression.

Memorial Day is our day to give thanks and remember those heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that freedom's flame burns brightly. They are the very tip of freedom's lance. All good people owe them dearly.From Bunker Hill to the walls of the Alamo, to the farm fields at Gettysburg, to the beaches at Normandy, to the Afghanistan mountains and every other piece of hallowed ground where Americans have fought and died, Old Glory still proudly dances in the wind of freedom.

American warriors ensured that not only would we continue to be free but that America would continue to be a beacon of freedom for all the world.

Our enemies can knock down our buildings. But mortar, brick and steel do not America make.

What makes America is the irrepressible spirit and undying love of freedom.

It is the American warrior who is willing to fight and die to protect the God-given rights of all people.

On this Memorial Day I encourage each of you to spend a few moments and quietly offer a prayer of thanks to those who paid for your freedom with their lives.

The next time you have the chance, take your children and walk reverently through a military cemetery. Stop at each white cross. Read the names on the tombstones.

These are the names of freedom.

It is our duty as parents and citizens to ensure that our children and grandchildren know that freedom is not free, that it is paid for with the blood and lives of warriors.

To quote President Reagan: "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so that we may always be free."

Memorial Day is the most important American holiday. May God eternally bless the American warrior.

Source: Waco Tribune

Us vs. pirates

The best of the best saved the kidnapped captain, killed three bad guys and captured a fourth.

Those of us who cherish justice and good over evil salute the heroes of the American special ops and a commander in chief who gave the green light to do the right thing. God bless the warriors

But if common sense and logic were observed, this life-threatening damage control would not be necessary.

Ah, the adventurous captain's dream sailing the vast oceans of the world.

I've got this big, hypothetical old scow, sailing from port to port, loaded up with goods to deliver to buyers. I've been doing it for time immemorial. Captain Nuge, reporting for duty. The last Boy Scout lives.

A hypothetical voyage

My ship is sturdy and well maintained.

My crew is the best - tough, rugged, jacks of all trades.

As for me, as captain of my hypothetical ship, it is my duty to study conditions in all the geographical zones, and keep in constant touch with my government agencies so that I can avoid dangerous conditions, whether they be weather or otherwise.

For example, self defense being the most basic of human instincts, no individual, much less a ship cruising international waters in these uncertain times, would ever accept the irresponsible condition of unarmed helplessness.

So, as captain, I take steps to adequately protect myself, my crew, my cargo.

As other countries insanely emboldened pirates by paying their ransoms, we've all known it would just be a matter of time before these punk gangs would attack a ship sailing under the American flag.

We know that. Bring it.

Each man under my command has his own M16 and 2,000 rounds of ammo. Every third sailor is also equipped with a standard M37 grenade launcher attached to his M16 with a gross of grenades. And these boys are all American Sgt. York sniper marksmen, I assure you. We are not all Navy SEALs, but we try.

We have diligently trained to keep a 10-man rotating 24-hour red alert watch detail. Any vessel approaching within 1,000 yards will trigger an "all hands on deck" alarm and the firing of one 20-round burst. Then if it does not turn back, our ship will literally blow it out of the water.

Just as God gave us the individual right to bear arms to protect one's self, so my ship is protected. A flag flies under our American flag with a coiled yellow snake and the words, "Don't tread on me." Not only is it a cool phrase, we actually mean it.

I cannot fathom the soulless mind-set of choosing unarmed helplessness. It goes against the very pulse of mankind.

This is my life, this is my ship, this cargo is in my care. Helplessness invites and promotes evil to do as evil does. On my ship of life, just the opposite message resonates:

Keep your little terrorist dinghy at home, boys, or I will turn you into shark food. Bon voyage.

Source: Waco Tribune

Be defiant; fight for 10th Amendment

You may have noticed I am a big fan of rugged individualism, self-reliance, individual freedoms, liberty, self-determination and defiance — heavy on the defiance.

These uniquely American characteristics course through our veins and pulse in our genes, gifts from our amazing, defiant forefathers.

They sailed across an unknown ocean, to an unknown land, to establish a country free of kings and tyrants.

In securing our freedom, they wrote a constitution that limited the power of the federal government.

They knew even back then that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Of the Bill of Rights, the 10th Amendment says this: Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved for the states, respectively, or to the people.

Now, I am no lawyer or windbag lawmaker. But I find those words easy to understand.

You need not be a constitutional scholar to know the 10th Amendment was written to limit the abusive growth of power by the federal government.

As Thomas Jefferson stated, “The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the federal government.”

The current gang of political punks, scoundrels and crooks in Washington, D.C., is not worthy to stand in Jefferson’s shadow.

In an attempt to weaken the roles and responsibilities of the states, Fedzilla has worked tirelessly over the years to destroy the 10th Amendment. Fed interlopers have argued that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution is more important and relevant than the 10th Amendment.

We have stood by as Fedzilla has grown exponentially and has become a repressive force in every facet of our lives.

But there is hope for the rights of states to determine their own destinies.

Texas, under the leadership of the good Gov. Rick Perry, is joining 16 other states that have already made their defiant, sovereign statement of autonomy, appropriately.

They have now evoked the 10th Amendment to put the brakes on Emperor Obama’s mob-like fiscal mandates, attempting to force states to accept the so-called stimulus money and thereby become slaves to Fedzilla control.

With unprecedented gluttony, Emperor Obama is bankrupting the future of our children and grandchildren.

Perry is doing the right thing. For of all the states, Texas must never allow itself to become a slave to Washington, D.C.

Instead, we Texans must chart our own economic destiny and recovery by refusing the stimulus money, freezing state spending, cutting state taxes across the board and offering tax incentives to existing and new businesses. Additionally, I urge the governor to immediately call a conference of Texas business leaders and request they develop a Texas economic road map for recovery. Let Texas lead the way.

Tell Emperor Obama not to mess with Texas. Don’t tread on me.

In the spirit of the brave defenders who gave birth to Texas by giving their lives at the Alamo, I say “Remember the 10th Amendment.”

Source: Waco Tribune

Here's how to solve the economic crisis

In a crisis, hysterical people will squaller, “Do something.” Throwing a cinder block to a drowning person qualifies as “something” — the wrong something.

Alarmingly, our government is now tossing out cinder blocks to solve the financial crisis.

The result: America, already drowning in unsustainable mountains of debt, is proceeding to pile on more of the same.

The pork-stimulus bill that President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have cooked up will fail miserably at creating new jobs and reversing our economic kamikaze swan dive.

It is weighed down by irresponsible, ineffective, wasteful spending, which for Washington, D.C., spells S-T-A-T-U-S Q-U-O.

It is not just Obama who wants to feed the grossly obese Fedzilla. Former President George W. Bush fed Fedzilla mountains of our tax dollars, too. According to the Wall Street Journal, during Bush’s tenure America witnessed the largest expansion of Fedzilla spending since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society boondoggle.

Now Obama offers a menu of spending items that is the most irresponsible in history:

* Billions for Fedzilla’s railroad, Amtrak.

Shamtrack, I call it, is the little railroad that couldn’t make a profit.

It should be derailed.

* Millions more wasted on the global-warming scam of the century.

Here’s how we can save this cash: We agree the Earth warms and cools. We admit this is a naturally occurring cycle and there is nothing we can do about it. We admit Al Gore is a fraud and a global-warming Ponzi schemer. We take back both his Nobel Prize and documentary Oscar.

* Billions more wasted feeding Medicaid. Give me one week with some smart, savvy business people and we will come up with a private-sector, cost-effective, efficient health care program that does not include Fedzilla and its gluttonous, unaccountable tax-dollar bonfire.

* Billions to feed Fedzilla’s Department of Lack of Education.

We can save this cash by parents checking their children’s homework and unplugging computers and video games.

According to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, only about 12 cents of every dollar in the pork-stimulus bill will create new jobs.

The way out of this mess is permanent tax cuts across the board. Find a tax and slash it at least in half. This will ignite the fuel of private industry and create new jobs to yank us out of the economic abyss in months, not years.

Along with tax cuts, Fedzilla’s spending should be slashed by 25 percent.

Imagine how the stock market would instantly respond to that bold, new approach.

Instead, the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress have thrown a concrete block to drowning Americans and called it a life preserver.

Source: Waco Tribune

A tip of my hat

It all began innocently enough for a Yankee Motor City guitar player beckoning the spirit of the great, fire-breathing musical beasts of sweaty stages around the world.

I’d be in my best goin’-to-church primal-scream loincloth, sometimes just jeans and a raggedy old camouflaged sleeveless shirt.

Then one hell-raising night many years ago someone tossed a tattered old cowboy hat up onto the stage.

Truth be told, the rest is history. I believe I caught it mid-beat in midflight, yanked it tight onto my head, and danced a one-man, buckin’ bronco greasy two-step like no one ever before.

It turned out that the beat-up old sombrero came in handy. It kept my flying, sweat-drenched locks out of my eyes. And somehow that cowboy hat ended up going on tour with me from then on.

More cowboy hats started showing up. I began wearing them on and off the stage. Not only did they look cool, they had practical applications in my adventurous outdoors lifestyle.

There is, after all, a fun-loving, rough-and-tumble cowboy somewhere deep down inside all of us. By the time I moved to Texas, I fit right in.

Then I discovered that the ultimate American cowboy hat epicenter, and probably the ultimate cowboy hat guru, was right here in my new hometown of Waco. It seems that country-and-western music personalities and, of course, real honest-to-God, cow-punching hombres from around the country, consider Lenny Lawson their go-to hat master.

Some people were born to build bridges. Some were born to design spacecraft. Clearly Lenny was born to design and crease cowboy hats.

Central Texas retains that timeless spirit of the Wild West in many ways. The hands-on ranching lifestyle is alive and well in these parts.

Lenny has the hat end of things well under control. If you were ever inclined to find that perfect-shaped cowboy hat, this guy can get ’er done to perfection.

In his little Standard Hat Works shop at 1826 Circle Road in Waco, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, are row after row, rack after rack of cowboy hats of every color and description — straw, felt, cloth, canvas, work hats, fun hats, dress hats.

You don’t have to wait for the rodeo to come to town to don a cowboy hat. In fact, you don’t even have to own a horse.

Lenny can shape them to look cool or to just keep the sun off your face and neck.

I cannot imagine trying to deal with the ubiquitous Texas sunshine without my cowboy hat shielding my eyeballs.

I say if you’re going to be a full-on Texan, there’s nothing that says it more than a perfectly shaped cowboy hat.

Say it loud and proud. Time to Texas-up.

Source: Waco Tribune

Gitmo for Your Freedom Dollar

Amazingly, President Bush said he wanted to close it. Now President Obama has signed an executive order to close it.

And I disagree with both of them. I say we keep Guantanamo Bay open.

I have been to Gitmo to visit with the US Marines running what I believe to be an essential institution for the pivotal security of a free world. The Marines I spoke with told me that they would never turn their backs on any of the dangerous terrorpunks held at Gitmo.

Job number one of the president is to keep the US safe. Make no mistake, Gitmo is home to some of the world's most violent subhuman rabid dog punks on the planet whose clear and stated life’s goal is to destroy America and all those who don’t follow Islam. These religious psychos, barbarians, killers and terrorists need to be kept in cages far away from America. Gitmo serves that purpose and serves it well.

I believed President Bush when he said Gitmo houses human debris who, if released, would do whatever they can to bring harm, death and destruction to America. These
vermin would cut your head off in a heartbeat if given the opportunity. Know this.

And what Bush said has been proven time and again.  Too many of the more than 500 enemy combatants brought to Gitmo have already been released and more than 60 of them have gone back to the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan to kill Americans. About eighteen of them have been recaptured or killed. Thank you very much ACLU.

The only ones who remain are either proven vicious terrorist scum – the worst of the worst – or people who we can’t send back to where they were caught or to their homeland because no one will take them.  Fine.  Leave ‘em at Gitmo forever.

Some of the remaining vermin including the subhuman debris who planned the September 11th attacks and who want to die so that they can become martyrs. Only a fool would dare think about compromising the lockdown on these animals.

President Obama and Eric Holder, Obama's choice for Attorney General, are against the military commissions trying the remaining terrorpunks at Gitmo. Holder wants to kill those commissions and replace them with a process that provides the terrorpunks with more due process, probably in civilian courtts. Obama supports that belief and has suspended these commissions for 120 days, so far.

That’s ironic considering that while Holder was the number two guy at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration that he supported and lobbied in 1999 for the commutation of the sentences for 16 members of the FALN and another terrorist organization who had been convicted of bank robbery, possession of explosives and other crimes. This was done to help secure the Puerto Rican vote for Mrs. Clinton's senate campaign. With this kind of logic, do not be surprised if Holder lobbies for parole for Charlie Manson if his mindless followers promise to vote Democratic.

The Wall Street Journal reported on January 16 that CIA Director Hayden stated that making the CIA adhere to the Army Field Manual's interrogation techniques would limit the agency to a number of interrogation practices that al-Queda and the rest of the sumpunks know about and train their people to resist. Director Hayden further stated that half of critical intelligence gained on al Qaeda in 2006 came from fewer than 100 terrormaggots the CIA was holding. If waterboarding these vermin will help keep Americans safe, I’m all for it.  And I’d bet you are, too.

In an interview with CNN's Larry King before he left office, President Bush stated there are very evil people in the world who want to bring harm to America. Let us hope President Obama was watching and took careful notes.

Let us hope President Obama listens to professional CIA officers instead of intelligence lightweight CIA Director Panetta. Let us hope President Obama gets a full briefing on the killers at Gitmo and determines that Gitmo is the best place for them. Let us hope President Obama continues with the lawful wiretapping program launched by President Bush to identify potential terrorpunks. Let us hope President Obama cares more about our security than some terrorpunk's so-called rights.

We should never give the Gitmo terror scumpunks what they want, not even death. We should also not cave into international and domestic hippy pressure to close Gitmo. We should only make decisions that are in the best interest of America. 

I say we leave Guantanamo Bay open for business and put up a big sign at the entrance: Welcome to Gitmo: justice here is served cold.

Source: HumanEvents.com

Why gun sales are surging

I read more than one report of the surge of civilian firepower sales when it appeared that Obama would be elected.

Reason: Freedom lovers do not trust Obama.

His choice of Eric Holder to be attorney general bolsters that distrust.

Like Obama, Holder is a gun-control zealot -typical of the loony, anti-freedom wing of the Democratic Party.

Do not believe the president's thinly veiled statements about supporting an individual's right to own guns. Rather, review these men's previous, career-long, freedom-restricting, gun-grabbing statements.

Holder consistently has supported gun bans and raising the age at which someone can purchase a weapon. He's supported registration and licensing, waiting periods, and his all-time favorite and the felon's dream: gun-free zones.

Losing in court

Last year Holder signed an amicus brief in support of the Washington, D.C., ban on all handguns and the use of a gun for self-defense in D.C. homes.

He stated that the Second Amendment wasn't meant for individuals but was only intended for government militias.

The Supreme Court found otherwise. It repealed DC's anti-freedom, pro-crime gun-control law. The Supreme Court voted for freedom. The good guys won.

Mysteriously, when Holder worked for President Bill Clinton and was in charge of the instant background check system, the system was routinely broken and off-line. Miraculously, when the Bush administration took over in 2001 the system rarely broke down. I smell a Fedzilla ratfink.

Truth is, what Holder really supports is more law-abiding citizens being victimized by recidivistic, violent punks on parole.

While he is personally protected by heavily armed law-enforcement officers, he does not believe you and I have a right to protect ourselves and our loved ones with a gun. He's a hypocrite.

Our founding fathers supported an individual's right to own guns. Unlike Obama and Holder, those vanguards of freedom understood that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness can not be achieved without being able to protect yourself and your loved ones from human scum who would deny you your fundamental God-given rights.

What our new president and his attorney general obviously want is control. Studying other gun-grabbing regimes of the past, they know the first thing that needs to be done to turn us from citizens to subjects is to disarm us.

My advice to American freedom lovers: Buy more guns and ammo, and join the National Rifle Association.

Kill This Porkosaurus

I’m a hunter, and proud of it. Most of my best hours are spent in the field, sometimes chasing dangerous game. I’m on the track of one, a bigger more dangerous critter than I’ve ever hunted before: the Obama-Pelosi Porkosaurus.

The Porkosaurus is plenty dangerous by itself. It subsidizes unemployment by increasing unemployment benefits. And, as the man said, when you subsidize something you get more of it. It doesn’t spend anything -- not one thin dime -- on the one thing that economists say is guaranteed to stimulate the economy, defense spending. And its whole purpose is to feed Fedzilla and make it grow even bigger, swallowing our economy whole.

In a crisis, hysterical, wrongheaded, ignorant people will squall and holler to "do something." Reasonable people with a modicum of intellect know that throwing a cinder block to a drowning person qualifies as "something", but surely it is the wrong something.

Amazingly, some of these same reasonable people continue to look to Fedzilla to solve the financial crisis that this bloated beast created. Result: America is drowning in
unsustainable mountains of debt and deficits and threatening to do more of the same. President Obama and his Democratic cronies on Capital Hill want to pile on more debt and more deficits that will further destroy the US economy.

President Obama and Nancy Pelosi's trillion-dollar Porkosaurus bill will fail miserably at creating new jobs and reversing our economic kamikaze swan dive. The bill is weighed down by irresponsible, ineffective, wasteful spending which is the status quo in Washington DC.

It is not just President Obama who wants to feed the grossly obese Fedzilla. President Bush fed Fedzilla mountains of our tax dollars, too. According to the Wall Street Journal, during his tenure America witnessed the largest expansion of Fedzilla spending since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society boondoggle. Many of the Republican House and Senate members voted in support of expanding Fedzilla. They deserve to get tossed out of power.

But now President Obama is in charge of feeding Fedzilla and he has wasted no time in advocating a trillion-dollar pork dinner for The Beast. The menu of spending items is the most irresponsible pile of pork in the history of our country.

In a January 28 op-ed the Wall Street Journal did an outstanding job of identifying the waste in Pork-stimulus. The following are a couple of shameful examples.

There is one billion for Fedzilla's railroad, Amtrak. Shamtrack, as I call it, has not been profitable for decades, and probably never will be. The Shamtrack Xpress to financial hell should be derailed.

$400 million more of our tax dollars are scheduled to be wasted on the global-warming scam of the century. Here's how we save this cash: We agree the earth warms and cools. We admit that warming and cooling is a naturally occurring cycle that has to do with the sun and that there is nothing we can do about it. We admit Al Gore is a fraud and a global warming Ponzi-schemer. Then we take back Al's Grammy and documentary award.

$81 billion will be wasted on feeding Medicaid. Give me one week with some smart, savvy business people and we will come up with a private-sector, cost effective, efficient health care program that does not include Fedzilla and its gluttonous unaccountable tax dollar bonfire.

$66 billion is scheduled to be fed to Fedzilla's Department of Lack of Education. We can save this cash by parents just checking their child's homework and cutting the cords to computer and video games.

$83 billion more will be spent on providing earned income credit for people who do not pay taxes. I am all for earned income. No one gets a dime unless you earn it.

$54 billion is scheduled to be overtly wasted on Fedzilla programs that Fedzilla's very own Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accounting Office has labeled as "ineffective" and can not pass a financial audit. There is no accountability. None.

According to the Wall Street Journal, only about twelve cents of every dollar in the trillion-dollar Pork-stimulus will jump start the economy and create new jobs. I trust the WSJ much more than I do President Obama or Nancy Pelosi.

As I outlined in my book, TED WHITE & BLUE-The Nugent Manifesto, the way out of this economic mess is permanent tax cuts across the board. Find a tax and slash it at least in half. This will ignite the fuel of private industry and will instantly create new jobs and yank us out of the economic abyss in months, not years.

Along with tax cuts, Fedzilla spending should be slashed by 25 percent. Imagine how the stock market would instantly respond to that bold, new approach.

It is now up the Senate to do what is right for America and kill the Porkosaurus. I beg of them not to throw a concrete block to drowning Americans and call it a life preserver.

Source: Human Events

Louie Gohmert voice of sanity in face of insane government spending

He's a new hero of mine, the kind of independent Texan who makes the Nugent family proud to be residents of the last best place in the last best place.

Unlike Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to toss the second installment of the $350 billion taxpayer dollar bailout at Wall Street and hope that this massive wad of cash sticks and does something positive for the economy, Gohmert, a Tyler Republican, instead wants to give Americans a two-month tax holiday. He also advocates that taxpayers should pay no federal income taxes for 2008.

That's right, a two-month, $350 billion tax holiday and no income taxes for 2008.

This would be massive wads of your money staying in your pockets where it belongs, surely doing more for the sagging economy than using it to bail out Wall Street or the automotive industry.

I suggest a monument to Gohmert on the Capitol Mall for these great ideas.

Of course, Fedzilla enablers such as Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reject Gohmert's proposal because they believe government knows how to better spend your money than you do.

Gohmert understands that reducing the size of government is the key to an American economic revival. Federal income taxes, FICA, state income taxes, death taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, permit taxes, license taxes, registration taxes, hidden taxes, etc., are what is killing the American economy.

When the government takes half of what we earn, it is not surprising that Americans are not saving anything.

Tax cuts are always the answer to jump-starting the economy. It appears even President-elect Obama is beginning to see that simple economic truism.

Taxpayers are partially to blame for the financial mess created by Fedzilla. We have sat idly by and drank the bureaucratic Kool-Aid and slowly surrendered our financial independence to big-government bureaucrats.

We should have been snarling watchdogs of the bureaucrats with our tax dollars stuffed in their bloated wallets.

If Obama is the new political messiah to millions of Americans who do not know how the economy works or why tax cuts are always good for the economy, then Congressman Gohmert is a new superhero to millions of Americans. They want to return tax dollars to the people who earned them.

Thomas Jefferson said it best; "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Ya think?

What America needs now more that ever is more elected officials like Gohmert. He understands that individuals and businesses are the engines that drive our economy, not a bloated, ineffective, lethargic, wasteful Fedzilla that destroys everything it touches.

More government bailouts and spending are not the answer. They are the problem.

Nugent for Drug Czar

One of the most dangerous places on earth is our own 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Our southern border is a drug war zone, and we are losing the fight. Know it.

So dangerous is our border that Arizona Governor Napolitano has declared a state of emergency along the Arizona/Mexico border due to drug trafficking, shootouts and an increasing illegal immigration invasion.

Our Justice Department stated in April that Mexican drug cartels are the "largest threat to both citizens and law enforcement agencies in this country and now have gang members in nearly 200 U.S. cities." This in the big, bad, brave United States of America! How can this be? DOJ admits it, so now what?

There isn't a city in America that has not been scorched by drug-related violence.

In 2008, the Mexican drug cartels killed more than 4,000 people. Almost 500 Mexican police officers and soldiers have been murdered since January 2007. It is a nonstop orgy of vicious, violent crimes against law-abiding Americans living along that border and increasing acts of violence against our Border Patrol agents. This is unbelievable and totally unacceptable.

The drug cartels are extremely well financed and armed. They are as evil an adversary as the voodoo terrorist Taliban our soldiers face in Afghanistan.

President Obama has stated he will go after the cartels and increase efforts to combat gang-related crime. Good. But he had better be prepared to wage war with them with more than just soaring rhetoric.

I am aware there are prominent conservatives who make strong arguments in favor of legalizing drugs. Their argument is that legalizing drugs will take the crime out of drugs. Not only do I not believe that, but I have never been in favor of pouring gas on a blazing fire in hopes of extinguishing it, which is what I believe will happen if ever we are foolish enough to legalize drug use in America.

We have all the laws we need to fight drugs. What America needs is the will-power and a renewed warrior spirit to crush evil and evil doers.

We need a Drug Czar who will commit to the American people to stopping at least 50% of the illegal drugs flowing into the country within the first year of the Obama Administration. That's the kind of leadership America wants and deserves from its government.

Call me, President Obama. Hippies, dope heads, corrupt politicos and various other human debris hate me, which makes me the perfect man for the job.

As Drug Czar, I would charge our mayors and police departments to commit to fighting the drug gangs their top priority. Our inner cities will remain war zones until we commit to taking the trash out.

America needs to better arm our Border Patrol agents and we need more of them. The governors of the border states should call out the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol in securing the border. As Drug Czar, I would challenge them to do this today.

I would work with the Mexican government and other Central American nations to root out and arrest and/or kill the drug kingpins and their underlings. Working with the Columbian government a few years back, U.S. Special Forces filled Pablo Escobar full of bullet holes. Until assuming room temperature, Escobar was one of the world's richest
cocaine smugglers and controlled 80% of all the cocaine shipped into America.

I am not naïve enough to believe we can ever fully eradicate drugs. However, as America's Drug Czar, I would put a big hurt on the drug kingpins and consumers like they have never seen. Every American who smokes dope, manufactures, buys or sells meth or uses any illegal drugs is aiding and abetting the enemies of America. Case closed. This spiritual inbreeding and cannibalism must be identified, admitted to and stopped immediately. America can, and must do this. Good over evil. Next.

Source: Human Events

Detroit auto industry should solve own problems, not raid our money

My 2009 resolution revolution

Toward upgrading ourselves, they're personal, national

With a salty, melancholy tear dripping from my overworked, bloodshot eyeballs, I bade a farewell to a most wonderful 2008.

Yes, 2008 - meaning Young Ted had been raising maximum hell and having the time of his life an amazing 60 years from its start.

Sixty. It's truly outrageous - the Defiant One carrying on with no signs of slowing down.

I had the most intense, enjoyable, pure animal rocking concert tour of my life. I enjoyed the kind of target-rich, protein-tsunami hunting season of which dreams are made. I had another New York Times best seller - Ted, White, and Blue.

My "Spirit of the Wild" was the No. 1-rated TV show on the Outdoor Channel again. I was inducted into the American Bowhunters Hall Of Fame alongside my many "mystical flight of the arrow" BloodBrother heroes.

Health, family, friends, happiness and dreams aglow with no end in sight. How possible? No mystery here. It's all so very simple. I work hard and give it all I've got each and every day. No excuses, no whining, no compromise, no cutting corners. I ask not what my country must do for me, but rather what I must do for my country.

For this new year, I think I will stick with my proven modus operandi of excellence - only bigger and better.

Upgrade: It's good for you. Pursuant, I will:

• Work harder and smarter, maximize and prioritize to all new heights.
• Eat even smarter, though my basic diet is exceptional.
• Exercise a little more.
• Give even more of my time to quality charities.
• Increase my "we the people" activism to turn up the heat on politicians and bureaucrats across the land, demanding logic and accountability from corrupt government goons.
• Continue to give away many National Rifle Association memberships to the deserving.
• Teach and recruit more people into the world of shooting sports and our glorious outdoor hunting, fishing and trapping conservation lifestyle.
• Give away many guns and much ammo to loving family and friends.
• Buy another machine gun and pallets of ammo for myself, and shoot till I can't stand it anymore.
• Plant more trees.
• Encourage everyone to be more conservative and conscientious in their consumption to reduce the gluttonous waste exhibited by so many Americans.
• Raise as much hell as I can to expose the dangerous, counterproductive lies of the global-warming fraud.
• Eat more wild game.
• Hug and kiss Mrs. Nugent more, if that's possible - and bring her flowers more often.
• Shop locally and patronize more neighborhood small businesses.
• Intensify efforts to get friends to quit smoking and eating dangerously.
• Jam louder and more ferociously on my guitars as a musical prayer to create the ultimate soundtrack for the U.S. military heroes to finally wrap up this war on terror, which they are ready, willing and able to do if only the spineless, dysfunctional bureaucrats would just unleash them to do so.

I hereby resolve that overall, my gifted life in 2009 will be more intense and gratifying than ever before.

Israel's Path To Peace

There comes a point when violence is clearly the only answer. Peace most often throughout history is achieved through the application of relentless and superior firepower. Now is such a time for Israel.

Israel must defeat utterly the rabid, voodoo vermin known as Hamas. After launching more than three thousand rockets and mortars into Israel within the last year, Israel has every right and obligation to destroy Hamas. No nation can be expected to tolerate such a bombardment.

Cease-fires and negotiations never last with terrorist scumpunks because evil, hateful terrorists do not want to live in peace: they worship violence and don’t see their opponents -- be it us or the Israelis -- as human beings. Hamas, Hizballah and other soulless people such as Iran's Ahmadinijad apply vicious religious voodoo logic by believing killing non-Muslims, especially Jews, pleases Allah. Never forget these voodoo killers have vowed the complete destruction of Israel.

The world should know that Hamas started this latest round of violence by launching missiles into Israel. A December 29 article in the New York Times reported that Hamas has fired over 10,000 rockets and mortars into Israel since 2001. Failing to destroy Hamas today will only embolden these cockroaches to launch even more rockets and mortars at Israel tomorrow.

Let us be honest: mankind will be much better off when Israel destroys Hamas' strongholds in Gaza and captures or kills all of the Hamas militants and those who support them. Like all cockroaches, the only good terrorist is a dead one.

Total warfare is the answer if Israel is committed to protecting its people and breaking the back of the Hamas terrorists and the network that supports them. Not the kind of Donald Rumsfeld "Shock & Awe-shucks" selective warfare, but rather the General Sherman "scorched earth" military policies that broke the back of the Confederacy during our Civil War.

Israel shouldn't stop its offensive until the Hamas terrorists are dead and those who support terrorism accept the fact that they’ve been defeated. Wipe them out. That would send a powerful message to other terrorist scumpunks, voodoo regimes, despots and tyrants; "Don't tread on me."

By intentionally sacrificing much of Gaza and as many of their voodoo stooges as possible, Hamas is hoping to unite the Arab world against Israel and start another all-out war. Not surprisingly, terrorist leaders from Iran and Hizballah support Hamas. Punks of a terrorist feather flock together and should be shot down like the toxic crows that they are.

As I write this, Israel has so far turned a deaf ear to international pressure from the white-flag-waving French to suspend their air assault on Hamas. Good. Listening to the French is rarely a good idea. And they’ve done just what they should by sending ground forces in to root out the Hamas networks, seize or destroy their arsenal of missiles and defeat them decisively.

One of the biggest problems Israel and America face is the fact that Hamas and other terrorist groups find safe havens among the terrorist nations. Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas, isn’t sticking his scrawny neck out in Gaza. He lives in comfort and safety in Damascus, Syria. Which means Israel can’t win in Gaza without going into Syria and taking out the terrorist networks there. Hamas isn’t alone in Syria: the biggest and most dangerous terrorist organization -- the Iranian-backed Hizballah -- is there, too.

In truth, Israel can’t win in Gaza: but it can win in Syria and Iran.

Peace remains the ultimate objective in the Middle East, but rabid dogs such as the militants who compose Hamas, Hezbollah and dangerous regimes such as Iran can not, must not be tolerated by civilized nations and and true peace-loving people. These voodoo-inspired terrorists must have no seat at the peace table because they do not respect peace.

Peace can sometimes only be achieved through superior firepower. The civilized world must completely support Israel in their efforts to exterminate Hamas and end its operations for good and all. What say you, Mr. President-elect? Whose side are you on?

Source: Human Events

Bailout Has Lemon Scent

Want to bail out the auto industry? First consider these two rules for living:

* Never reward negative behavior unless you want more of it.

* Never throw good money after bad.

That should settle the debate. Taxpayers shouldn't bail out the automobile industry or any other industry.

There is constitutional authority for the decades of poor management decisions, forecasting and labor deals that have put GM, the nation's largest automobile maker, perilously close to going belly-up.

The $700 billion bailout Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is to be used only for bailing out financial institutions, not automobile companies skating on thin financial ice.

If he is a good and honest steward of taxpayer dollars, Treasury Secretary Paulson will deny the Big Three's request to be included in TARP.

Congress created a $25 billion loan program through the Department of Energy to help the Big Three. This loan program should be utilized by the Big Three instead of wanting to be included in TARP.

GM, Ford and Chrysler are sinking ships. With cash reserves dwindling, their only viable option is to try and stay afloat in these turbulent economic seas through bankruptcy.

It isn't a question of if GM will file for bankruptcy protection but, rather when. Bankruptcy will provide GM the necessary protection and some time to possibly turn a dying automotive dinosaur into a smaller, lithe, profitable company that is sized for its shrunken market share. "Possibly" being the operative word.

For their protection

Filing Chapter 11 protection protects GM from itself. Bankruptcy could free GM from costly labor contracts, provide them the opportunity to restructure hugely expensive pension programs and renegotiate health benefits. Other unprofitable assets could also be amputated.

Should GM emerge from the bankruptcy operating table with a heartbeat, odds are GM is never going to be the global automotive giant it once was. The automotive world is much more competitive than, say, 40 years ago when GM, Chrysler and Ford ruled the automotive world from my beloved Motor City.

While the UAW may believe GM, Ford and Chrysler are in business to provide automotive workers a salary and other costly benefits, the reality is that car companies are in business to make a profit.

The UAW's costly benefit demands over the years coupled with weak automotive management who historically caved into the UAW's demands put the automotive bolts to the shareholders and the Big Three on the path to possible extinction.

Contrary to Michael Moore's disingenuous and anti-free-market automotive movie Roger and Me , profit must drive all business decisions. Even a goofy guitar player knows that a business that fails to focus on profits and does not constantly look to the future ultimately is going out of business.

Those of us who have lived and worked in and around the Motor City have watched it slowly rust into oblivion over the past 25 years.

The decline of the Motor City should be used as a case study in every business school in America on how not to sink an industry and destroy a city in the process with denial-driven feelgood, liberal suicide policies.

Bailing out GM with billions of taxpayer dollars is the wrong approach. GM is not too big to fail. What GM may be is too unprofitable to stay in business.

Source: Waco Tribune

Happy Nuge Year

With a salty, melancholy tear dripping from my overworked, bloodshot eyeballs, I bid a heartfelt farewell and emotional adios to a most wonderful 2008. 2008 mind you! Young Ted still raising maximum hell and having the time of his life all these amazing sixty years later. Sixty! God love that unstoppable, effervescent American Dream.

Truly outrageous if you dare to really think about it. Me, the Defiant One, carrying on with no signs of slowing down. This year, I had the most intense, enjoyable, pure animal rocking concert tour of my life. And on top of that was a target rich, protein-tsunami hunting season that dreams are made of. Another New York Times best seller.

Our “Spirit of the Wild” is the number one-rated TV show on Outdoor Channel again. Being inducted into the prestigious American Bowhunters Hall Of Fame right alongside my many “mystical flight of the arrow” BloodBrother heroes. Health, family, friends, happiness and dreams aglow with no end in sight. Wild as wild can get!

No mystery here. It is all so very simple, it's stupid. I work hard and give it all I got each and every day. No excuses, no whining, no compromise, no cutting corners. I ask not what my country must do for me, but rather what I must do for my country. Call me weird. The best or nothing, period. I think I will stick with my proven modus operandi of excellence for a throttling 2009. Only bigger and better.

That's right, I shall turn up the heat in 09. Upgrade; it is good for you. Work harder and smarter, maximize and prioritize everything to new heights. Though my basic diet is exceptional, I will eat smarter and exercise a little more. I am going to give even more of my time to quality charities. It is my New Year's revolution Resolution to increase my "we the people" activism to turn up the heat on politicians and bureaucrats across the land, demanding logic and accountability from corrupt government goons.

In 2009, my cockroach spotlight will burn like never before and my size 12 workboots will dance upon the scrambling vermin in a mash-stomp ballet of liberty and justice for all.

Now that’s an upgrade.

I will continue to give away many NRA memberships as gifts to the deserving. I will teach and recruit more new folks into the wonderful world of the American shooting sports and our glorious outdoor hunting, fishing and trapping conservation lifestyle. I will give away many guns and much ammo as gifts to loving family and friends. I will buy another machinegun and pallets of ammo for myself and shoot till I can't stand it anymore. I will wallow in hot brass.

I will plant more trees and encourage everyone I know to be more conservative and conscientious of their consumerism in order to reduce the gluttonous waste of so many Americans. I will raise as much hell as I can to expose the dangerous, counterproductive lies of the global warming fraud. I will eat more wild game.

I will hug and kiss Mrs. Nugent more, if that’s possible. I will bring her more flowers more often.

I will shop locally and patronize more neighborhood small businesses.

My efforts to get my friends to quit smoking and eating dangerously will intensify, because I love them.

I am going to jam louder and more ferociously on my guitars as a musical prayer to create the ultimate soundtrack for the US Military heroes to finally wrap up this war on terror, which they are ready, willing and able to do if only the spineless dysfunctional bureaucrats would just unleash them to do so.

I do hereby resolve that overall, my gifted life in 2009 will be more intense and gratifying than ever before. I remain in charge and shall make it happen. Anything less would be foolish.

Happy New Year America. Live it up. Go Wild. God bless America.

Source: Human Events

Merry Christmas from Uncle Ted

Merry Christmas to all! The Nugents are doing fine, thank you. Enough about us.

This time of year always brings up the question from many youngsters to their parents asking if there really is a Santa Claus. The following is a little something I write for my grandchildren, but I hope it will help you explain to other kids, big and small, that Santa Claus is very real.

Santa Claus is an alive spirit -- something you can't necessarily see or touch -- but rather a loving, selfless, giving spirit that rests within the hearts and souls of good people everywhere.

You can see Santa Claus if you pay attention and look closely. Look inside a U.S. Marines Corps Toys for Tots truck, and you will find piles of new toys on their way to kids who might not otherwise receive anything for Christmas. Santa Claus put them there. U.S. Marines will deliver them.

Look at the grocery cart near the exit door at the grocery store that has a sign on it requesting a donation of food to the less fortunate. The cart will be full this time of year. The store will need to put our more carts as Christmas draws near. Santa Claus filled those carts with food.

Listen for the Salvation Army bell ringers who stand in front of stores ringing their bells. Watch people drop their hard earned money into Salvation Army buckets and go about their business. What you are seeing is Santa Claus in action.

Local newspapers, television and radio stations have programs to collect donations to help the less fortunate in your community. If so, watch the tally grow and grow to thousands and thousands of dollars. Santa Claus donated that money.

You will hear reports throughout the Christmas season on radio or read in newspapers about acts of kindness by strangers to help a neighbor in need. That stranger’s name is Santa Claus.

There are thousands and thousands of nameless people who donate money throughout the year to help defeat cancer and other health problems. They also have a name: Santa Claus.

Tons of gifts and millions of Christmas cards are being sent by anonymous Americans to our courageous U.S. Military heroes overseas. Santa Claus sent those gifts and cards to our brave men and women in uniform.

Companies all across America donate money and products to homeless shelters and other charities to help the less fortunate. Santa Claus is alive and well in those companies.

There are of millions of people who have the spirit of Santa Claus deep in their hearts, as they know that the true meaning of Christmas is about giving, not receiving. As we are preparing to celebrate Jesus' birthday, remember that He commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves. With that simple request, the spirit of Santa Claus was born.

The Nugent family, like so many American families, don't necessarily wait for Christmas to give, but we do kick it up a notch or ten at this spiritual time of year. Burning inside us all is the drive to do good and give. The Christmas spirit is alive and well. Santa Clause is coming to town. Merry Christmas America, to one and all.

Source: Human Events

Santa Takes Many Forms

Traitor Tamm

I’ve got a big problem with newspapers who put American lives at risk by publishing our nation’s secrets. But that’s nothing compared to what I think should be done to the people -- trusted people within our government -- who leak our secrets.

If I can borrow a little from by blood brother Willie Nelson, we should send ‘em all to their Maker and he’ll settle ‘em down.

Government employees entrusted with our national secrets are morally, ethically, logically and legally required to keep them secret. Those employees who intentionally leak national secrets should -- no, must -- be charged with a crime and prosecuted with the seriousness of the offense. It is a federal felony to knowingly compromise national secrets.

Those who leak or sell government secrets are traitors, pure and simple. What I’ve never been able to understand is why the Justice Department can’t get the best FBI people to find these guys and prosecute them. None of the leakers -- that’s right, not one of ‘em -- has been prosecuted in the last eight years despite some of the hugest leaks ever.

Now we know the name of one of the leakers.

Thomas "the Traitor" Tamm, a former Department of Justice lawyer, tipped off the New York Times about a secret government operation conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor and track potential terrorist maggots through their e-mail, phone calls and financial transactions. Traitor Tamm did this because, in his own words, "something didn't smell right" about it.

I am a huge fan of whistleblowers wherever they may blow, but in the war on terror, national security is Job One for anyone with a soul.

What does smell right is that Traitor Tamm is a federal felon who deserves to be charged by the Department of Justice for compromising national secrets, and he’s still walking the streets.

Instead of vigorously reporting through his chain of command and appropriate federal government whistleblower chain of what he thought was potentially an illegal operation, Traitor Tamm instead disclosed the sensitive terrorist program to the New York Times, an entity whose allegiance is already suspect.

In some recent interviews with Newsweek, Traitor Tamm stated "I thought this was something the other branches of the government and the public ought to know about so they could decide: Do they want this massive spying program to be taking place?"

Traitor Tamm had worked in a secret unit that oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage punks. Working with this secret unit is where Traitor Tamm discovered the highly sensitive NSA operation of tracking terrorists and potential terrorists in America through eavesdropping on international phone calls and e-mails.

It was not that Traitor Tamm was just concerned that the secret operation may be illegal that he illegally leaked the operation to the New York Times. I also read that Traitor Tamm was angry at the Bush Justice Department for aggressively pursuing death penalty cases and for interrogation techniques that some believe constitute torture. Ideological differences aside, it is never justification to leak classified information about government operations.

Traitor Tamm is really no different than any other spy such as Aldrich Ames who compromised national secrets for cash and got a number of our spies killed. Traitor Tamm leaked classified information because he did not like the odor of the program. Regardless of rational, Traitor Tamm is as guilty as Aldrich Ames.

The United States can not possibly hope to defeat those monsters who want to kill us if we have government employees with access to classified information who run to the press every time they come across classified information or programs that they may not agree with. Their moral, ethical and possibly legal objections to classified programs is never reason to leak it to the press. For that very reason, people who compromise classified information -- for whatever reason -- should be vigorously prosecuted. Failing to prosecute them will send the wrong message to others with access to our most sensitive information.

I encourage whistle blowers at all levels. God only knows we need more of them to expose the wasteful, toxic underbelly of Fedzilla. However, leaking classified information is something altogether different. Compromising classified information can get Americans killed and aid and abet our enemies. That is the worst sort of crime, and those who commit it should be sent away for life.

We can debate whether or not the NSA's program was legal or not. What is not debatable is that Traitor Tamm leaked classified information and that is a felony.

Let us all hope and pray that Traitor Tamm's compromising of the NSA's secret program does not put America more at risk of a terrorist attack. And let’s hope that someone in the Justice Department gets off his behind and puts this guy in jail where he belongs.

Gun-Free Zone a Crime Unto Itself

Bankruptcy Now or Later?

There are two key things to remember when considering bailing out the automobile industry.

First, never reward destructive behavior unless you want more of it. Second, never throw good money after bad.

Taxpayers should not be held accountable to bailout the automobile industry or any other industry for that matter. There is constitutional authority for the decades of poor management decisions, forecasting and labor deals that have put GM, the U.S.'s largest automobile maker, perilously close to going belly up.

That constitutional authority is the basic freedom everyone in America has: to succeed or fail on your own, and accept the consequences or the benefits.

The $700 billion bailout Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was to be used only for bailing out financial institutions, not automobile companies skating on thin financial ice. If he is a good and honest steward of taxpayer dollars, Treasury Secretary Paulson will deny the
Big Three's request to be included in TARP.

Congress created a $25 billion loan program through the Department of Energy to help the Big Three. This loan program should be utilized by the Big Three instead of wanting to be included in TARP.

GM, Ford and Chrysler are sinking ships. With cash reserves dwindling, their only viable option is to try and stay afloat in these turbulent economic seas is bankruptcy.

Truth be told, it is not a question of if GM will file for bankruptcy protection, but rather when. Bankruptcy will provide GM the necessary protection and some time to possibly turn a dying automotive dinosaur into a smaller, lithe, profitable company that is sized for its shrunken market share. "Possibly" being the operative word.

Filing Chapter 11 protection protects GM from itself. Bankruptcy could free GM from costly labor contracts, provide them the opportunity to restructure hugely expensive pension programs, and renegotiate health benefits. Other unprofitable assets could also be amputated. Bankruptcy puts all options on the operating table to try and stop the massive bleeding of cash.

Should GM emerge from the bankruptcy operating table with a heart beat, odds are GM is never going to be the global automotive giant it once was. The automotive world is much more competitive than, say, forty years ago when GM, Chrysler and Ford ruled the automotive world from my beloved Motor City.

While the UAW may believe GM, Ford and Chrysler are in business to provide automotive workers a salary and other costly benefits, the reality is that car companies are in business to make a profit. Period. Write that down.

The UAW's costly benefit demands over the years coupled with weak automotive management who historically caved into the UAW's demands put the automotive bolts, so to speak, to the shareholders and, to a certain degree, has put the Big Three on the path to possible extinction.

Contrary to Michael Moore's disingenuous and anti-free market automotive movie (Roger and Me), profit must drive all business decisions. Even a goofy guitar player knows that a business that fails to focus on profits and does not constantly look to the future to open up new markets, develop new products and upgrade services for a changing world, cutting costs, etc., is a business that is ultimately going out of business.

Those of us who have lived and worked in and around the Motor City have watched it slowly rust into oblivion over the last twenty-five years. The decline of the Motor City should be used as a case study in every business school in America on how not to sink an industry and destroy a city in the process with denial driven feelgood liberal suicide policies.

Bailing out GM with billions of taxpayer dollars is the wrong approach. GM is not too big to fail. What GM may be is too unprofitable to stay in business.

Less Government Is More Better

If the conservative movement is looking for a new standard bearer, a new champion, I have a suggestion: Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).

Congressman Gohmert is a new hero of mine. He is my kind of independent Texan and why the Nugent family are now proud residents of the last best place in the last best place.

Unlike Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to toss the second installment of the $350 billion taxpayer dollar bailout at Wall Street and hope that this massive wad of cash sticks and does something positive for the economy, Congressman Gohmert instead wants to give Americans a two-month tax holiday for this upcoming January and February. This real American also advocates that taxpayers should pay no federal income taxes for 2008. This guy gives me hope.

I suggest we build a monument to Congressman Gohmert on the Capital Mall for just proposing these great ideas.

That's right, a two month, $350 billion tax holiday and no income taxes for January and February 2009. This would be massive wads of your money staying in your pockets where it belongs, surely doing more for the sagging economy than using it to bailout Wall Street or the automotive industry.

Of course Fedzilla bureaucrats such as Speaker Pelosi, Sen. Reid and others will fight Congressman Gohmert's proposal because they believe Fedzilla knows how to better spend your money than you do. This arrogant attitude by Fedzilla-addicted zombies is always the problem, never the solution.

Fedzilla rarely gets anything right. Need proof? Quick, name three specific things Fedzilla has spent your money on that you believe was a wise use of your tax dollars.

Congressman Gohmert understands that reducing the size of Fedzilla is the key to an American economic revival. Federal income taxes, FICA, state income taxes, death taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, permit taxes, license taxes, registration taxes, hidden taxes, etc etc etc are what is truly killing the American economy. When Fedzilla takes half of what we earn, it is not surprising that Americans are not saving anything.

Tax cuts are always the answer to jump-starting the economy. It appears even President-elect Obama is beginning to see that simple economic truism.

Taxpayers are partially to blame for the financial mess created by Fedzilla. We have sat idly by and drank the bureaucratic Kool-Aid brewed by Fedzilla and slowly surrendered our financial independence to big government bureaucrats. Shame on us. We should have been snarling watchdogs of the bureaucrats with our tax dollars stuffed in their bloated wallets instead of soulless, disconnected, apathetic accomplice lapdogs.

If President-elect Obama is the new political messiah to millions of Americans who do not know how the economy works or why tax cuts are always good for the economy, then Congressman Gohmert is a new superhero to millions of Americans who want to put Fedzilla on a diet and return the tax dollars to the people who earned them.

Thomas Jefferson said it best; "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Ya think?

Congressman Gohmert's refreshing tax proposals is a breath of financial fresh air. I would like to hear more from Congressman Gohmert on how he would tackle our trillions of debt, privatizing and fixing Social Security and Medicare, and the rest of our foolish economic house of cards.

What America needs now more that ever is more elected officials like Congressman Gohmert who understand that individuals and businesses are the engine that drives our economy, not a bloated, ineffective, lethargic, wasteful Fedzilla who destroys everything it touches.

More government bailouts and spending is not the answer. It is the problem.

Go to www.TaxHolidayPlan.com to sign a petition supporting Gohmert's plan.

Combination of outdoors, beautiful woman intoxicating

That last light of the day, when the beautiful ball of golden fire beneath the western horizon burns that magic shine on the world, is some of God's ultimate eye candy.

But viewed from a tall treestand in game country, it may very well be one of the most gorgeous moments in life.

Now, add to this inspiring setting, that same special light glimmering upon the flowing blond locks of a svelte young woman next to me. I am here to tell you that I am not sure I can control myself.

But viewed from a tall treestand in game country, it may very well be one of the most gorgeous moments in life.

Now, add to this inspiring setting, that same special light glimmering upon the flowing blond locks of a svelte young woman next to me. I am here to tell you that I am not sure I can control myself.

The final stimulating ingredient putting the whole deal over the top would be a bow and arrow in her hands. To this, I simply must look to the heavens and pray. Truly, I am not worthy.

This is how I know conclusively that God must love me madly, for I get to repeat this dream numerous times each fall and winter as the humble guide, servant/vidcam dude for the world's sexiest bowhunter: Mrs. Backstrap, my gorgeous wife, the queen of the forest, Shemane.

I'm lucky I can hold the camera steady and find the record button without falling out of the tree. Trouper that I am, I take a deep breath, review my responsibilities for our "Spirit of the Wild" TV show on Outdoor Channel, and do my best capturing it on video for the world to see. World, you owe me.

Fair game

Shemane has become one of the most professional, dedicated, deadly bowhunters I know.

She puts her heart and soul into learning all there is about wildlife, conservation and, ultimately, about the healthiest lifestyle and diet available to mankind.

As a hands-on environmentalist, she knows that killing deer is the perfect thing to do, and she is really good at it.

Having never touched a bow or gun in her life prior to our meeting back in 1988, she was nonetheless a gung-ho athlete and one smart cookie. She'd won medals and awards in swimming and ATV racing.

Though raised as a city kid, her love of the outdoors, boating, skiing, hiking and off-roading proved nearly as strong as her love for shopping and fashion.

It turned out that she was on a collision course with the last of the Mohicans, a strange character, some say a dangerous man from another time and place, the WhackMaster, the MotorCity MadMan, Uncle Ted, Rev. Theodocious Atrocious, LoudMan, Captain Backstrap.

Exercising his kindest manners, he would sweep her off her feet — some say she simply felt sorry for me — and lead her down the glorious path to spiritual redemption via the mystical flight of the arrow.

Say hallelujah. 

Maybe Mrs. N wouldn't characterize the whole ordeal exactly like that. But once the initial shock wore off she indeed plunged full tilt into the world of bow hunting.

Baptized on a youth recurve bow, at a short-range 15 feet from a large Olympic-type bale target, she grasped killer archery form in a mere few minutes.

She now brings home the bacon nearly every time she hunts. She mentors kids and other women into the soul-cleansing outdoor lifestyle, and I am in love with her more now than ever.

She is doing God's work with the bow and arrow, and I thank Him every day for bringing my best hunting buddy into my life.

Kids Need Pets; Pets Need Kids

Young Ted was about to pass out from out-of-control hysterical laughter. Duke, the dog of my childhood — big, strong, lovable, a black Labrador/retriever Weimaraner mix — was pulling me wildly in my Red Flyer wagon across the vacant field, bouncing dangerously over every bump and rock.

Fortunately, no damage was done during this adventurous outing of a boy and his dog.

It's one of so many memories still alive and making me smile more than 50 years later.

I look back at the many dogs in my life and know that my experiences with them have brought me much happiness.

Additionally, as a child I learned critical lessons about responsibilities properly caring for animals.

The same has applied to my kids. The fun factor with pets is extremely entertaining, but it is the list of required duties and chores — fresh water, good food and a warm, secure, dry shelter that really brings home critical lessons — that makes pet ownership a character-building experience.

Seeing someone's dog chained up day after day, week after week under a dead tree with no shade in rutted dirt, I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so uncaring and heartless.

Not a day goes by that we in my family fail to run and play with our dogs, giving them ample opportunity to stretch their legs and just be dogs.

Brushing and grooming them is a pleasant activity and actually keeps their coat and skin healthy. Everybody takes turns and the dogs love it.

Since all are gung ho hunting dogs, it is vital for them to remain in tip-top shape to be prepared for the rigors of our long hunting seasons.

Daily practice sessions of commands and retrieving sequences teach them obedience. This interaction assures also they'll be unlikely to get in trouble, lost or, worse, get into life-threatening situations with traffic or other dogs.

And again, the dogs get such a kick out of it all, as do we.

Caring for our dogs

A good quality vitamin routine is a solid idea too, especially if you have working dogs that are required to be physically active.

The same goes for flea and tick treatments, especially in Texas where bugs seem to come in clouds and waves.

A good quality flea powder along with cedar or pine chips and shavings will make the dog comfortable, stay a little cooler in the heat, and discourage ticks and creepy crawlers from hitching a ride.

Roomy kennels are always best with a concrete slab on a minimal angle for good water drainage. Adequate shade is imperative under the baking Texas sunshine year round, but an insulated dog house with good wind cutting design will be necessary when those winter temperatures begin to dip.

All this basic care is essential, but it is the time spent with our beloved pets that really brings it all home for us.

A genuine bonding takes place between pets and young owners who really put their hearts and souls into responsible pet ownership.

A youngster who is guided and taught this basic love becomes a better person. Kids and pets: a match made in heaven.

Source: Waco Tribune 

Thanksgiving Every Day

The terrible economy has taken its toll on a number of hard working Americans and their families. It is incumbent upon each of us to do what we can to assist our fellow citizens in getting back in the American Dream free market race.

My recommendation is that each of us identify an individual or family who is down on their luck and do whatever we can to pull them out of the economic ditch they have temporarily slid into.

With the Holiday Season upon us, Americans will be deluged with requests from any number of charities and agencies to help the poor. Mind you, I fully subscribe to Christ's admonition to help the poor, and like everybody I know, we will give and give and give. It is simply the American Way.

What I do not subscribe to, however, is helping those poor people who refuse to help themselves and who constantly look for a hand out instead of a hand up.

America has a chronic class of self-inflicted poor people. By and large, they are poor because they have made poor life choices. In too many cases, poor parents pass on their poor values and choices to their children. Poverty then becomes generational, a way of life. Trying to break the cycle of chronic poverty when Fedzilla does whatever it can to sustain it is analogous to trying to melt an iceberg with a match.

Through an out of control orgy of so-called government assistance programs over the past 50 years designed to eliminate poverty, the exact opposite has occurred. In all of its bureaucratic, bloated bufoonery, Fedzilla has exacerbated the problem of poverty instead of eliminating it. The very Fedzilla programs designed to help the disadvantaged instead stripped them of their work ethic, pride, family structures and wrecked their communities. Quite simply, Fedzilla destroyed their work ethic by rewarding irresponsibility and thereby encouraged the chronic class of poverty. Nice going.

Crime, drug use, high school drop out rates, single parent families, known destructive lifestyles, etc, is a plague that has enveloped our cities. I can not think of a social or cultural rot that can not be attributed to Fedzilla meddling.

No amount of charitable giving is going to reverse this decay. In fact, if we are truly interested in helping the chronically poor, we should immediately stop all local, state and federal funds and programs designed to help the poor. We should immediately reverse course and get Fedzilla out of their lives and communities.

Once Fedzilla is kicked out of their lives, family, churches, civic organizations and neighbors should offer a hand to help them out of the poverty hole. Fedzilla has only offered the chronic poor a shovel and encouraged them to dig their hole deeper.

I refuse to throw my hard earned money into the chronic poor abyss and "hope" it will "change" the condition of the chronic poor. I know better. I would get more from my money by setting twenty dollar bills on fire and having a marshmallow roast.

Instead, during the Holiday Season, the Nugent family will do whatever we can to help a family or two who is temporarily down on their luck but who wants to help themselves, their community and our country. We implore you to do the same. That is the American barn-raising spirit that built this country.

Happy Thanksgiving, America. May God bestow a special Thanksgiving blessing on America's military warriors and their families.

Source: HumanEvents.com 

How Not To Help The Poor

By Ted Nugent, Texas Wildman

The terrible economy has taken its toll on a number of hard-working Americans and their families. It is incumbent upon each of us to do what we can to assist our fellow citizens in getting back in the American Dream free-market race.

My recommendation is that each of us identify a family down on its luck and do whatever we can to pull that family out of the economic ditch into which it's temporarily slid.

With the holiday season upon us, Americans will be deluged with requests from any number of charities and agencies to help the poor. Mind you, I fully subscribe to Christ's admonition to help the poor, and like everybody I know, we will give and give and give. It is simply the American Way.

What I do not subscribe to is helping those who refuse to help themselves and who constantly look for a hand-out instead of a hand up.

America has a chronic class of self-inflicted poor people — poor because of poor life choices.

Generational poverty

In too many cases, parents pass on these poor values and choices to their children. Poverty then becomes generational, a way of life.  Trying to break the cycle of chronic poverty when Fedzilla does whatever it can to sustain it is analogous to trying to melt an iceberg with a match.

An out-of-control orgy of so-called government assistance programs over the past 50 years has been touted as a means of eliminating poverty. The exact opposite has occurred.

In all of its bureaucratic, bloated buffoonery, Fedzilla has exacerbated the problem instead of eliminating it.

The very programs designed to help the disadvantaged instead have stripped them of their work ethic, pride and family structures, and wrecked their communities.

Fedzilla rewarded irresponsibility and encouraged the chronic class of poverty. Nice going.

Crime, drug use, high school dropout rates, single-parent families, destructive lifestyles — all add up to a plague enveloping our cities.

Cultural, social rot

I cannot think of a social or cultural rot that cannot be attributed to Fedzilla's meddling.

No amount of charitable giving is going to reverse this decay.  In fact, if we are truly interested in helping the chronically poor, we should immediately stop all local, state and federal funds and programs designed to help the poor.

Once this happens, churches, civic organizations and neighbors should offer a hand to help them out of the poverty hole.
...Focus on families who want hand up, not hand-out

I refuse to throw my hard-earned money into the chronic poor abyss and "hope" it will "change" the condition of the chronic poor.

I know better.

Instead, during the holiday season, my family will do whatever we can to help a family or two temporarily down on its luck. But they must show they can and will help themselves, their community and our country.

We implore you to do the same. That is the barn-raising spirit that built this country.

Happy Thanksgiving, America. May God bestow a special Thanksgiving blessing on America's military warriors and their families.

Source: Waco Tribune
 

Obama-King of Fools

It is a defining indicator that the embarrassing, self inflicted dumbing down of America is all but complete when people vote against their own self-interest.

I'll say it: it is obvious that many Americans are not very smart. Quite dumb, actually. To listen to the Sirius radio interview with Obama voters from Harlem mindlessly cheering on Obama as the interviewer attributes McCain's policies to the Democrats is pathetic and an inescapable indicator of the blind leading the blind. Not Godbless or goddam America! God help America.

Trying to explain how our economy works and why lowering taxes is always better for them and their country, than imposing higher taxes is an economic bridge too far for many of the Obama sheep. Unfortunately there is no "See Spot & the Economy Run" book for the hooked on phonics crowd. Many of these numbskulls can't balance a check book or spell "e-c-o-n-o-m-i-c-s" but they sure know who will give them stuff. The lie is impossible.

Expecting these idiots to have analyzed the tax positions of Obama and McCain and arrive at a decision that truly benefits them and America is wishful thinking. The reason is that they know zilch about how the economy operates and worse, don't care. Bama will take care of us. Four very scary things-a sow grizzly with cubs at closerange, a coiled rattlesnake in striking distance, me in a rental car in the left lane, and dunces with credit cards.

And indeed they are dunces, products of a tax burning, failed public education system. That is,
if they even bothered to complete high school. They don't read newspapers or books, and even if they did, I got twenty bucks that says they couldn't comprehend what they read. They are morons in the first degree. And clearly, they vote.

If and when President Obama attempts to impose his wrong-headed, punitive tax structure,
their stupidity is going to come back to thump them upside their vacuous heads with a very painful crowbar of reality. The economy works in strange and wondrous ways and has a unique way of severely punishing fools. Rare justice is a beautiful thing.

These dunderheads have no clue how the economic mess was largely caused by Democrats, including Obama. But Obama, recognizing how gullible, naïve and dumb many of his supporters are, drummed it into them that the economic mess was caused by President Bush and the Republicans and that he is going to give 95% of Americans a tax cut when 40% of Americans
don't even pay any federal taxes. Investing deception capital in the stupidity of his supporters was a very wise move on Obama's part. That is if you don't really care about anything except getting elected.

McCain had no marketable answer to Obama's charge because McCain knew that attempting to explain the economy to dumb people is impossible in 30 second commercials.

Fantasy driven clowns like the idea of believing they are getting something for nothing. What they receive, however, is always scraps from the economic table. They are too dumb to recognize this and thus condemn themselves to a pathetic life clinging to the lowest rungs of the economic ladder. Their stupidity sentences them to a life of poverty and despair.

The President Obama tax plan punishes the producers – the people who employ the majority of Americans. In Joe the Plumber terms, economic crap will quickly flow down hill and punish the employees. I mean former employees. The result of spreading the wealth around is spreading
unemployment around.

Conversely, the McCain economic plan was based on tax cuts, which spur the economy forward, create jobs, and raise the standard of living for everyone. Pretty simple stuff, unless you are a stooge, comfortable in your ignorance who is easily manipulated and believes someone owes you something, such as healthcare and a job.

Do yourself and America a favor. Stay in or go back to school. It's the economy, stupid.

Rino Season Is Now Open

Happy Birthday, Marines

From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, all across America and in Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever America is being defended, the world’s most exclusive gun club is the celebrating its 233 birthday today.

Born in a roughneck Philadelphia bar in 1775 on a dare to surpass standard warrior excellence, the United States Marines Corps has distinguished itself over its history as the finest military force the world has ever seen. Do not point the US Marines Corps at anything you do not wish conquer. They are the pointy end of America’s spear.

The Devil Dogs are always the first to the fight. Looking at their battle flags fluttering in the breeze reminds of their bravery and warrior ethos. Battle streamers honoring their bravery in battles such as Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Chosin Reservoir remind us of just a few of the famous battles they have fought and won.

Having spent time with Devil Dogs in Iraq and Afghanistan while on a USO Tour, it was abundantly clear that these men and women are the most determined, courteous and
courageous people I have ever had the privilege of sharing time with. To the person, they all expressed their gratitude for being on the frontlines of the war on terror with their fellow Marines. It truly humbled me to see that level of camaraderie and Blood Brotherhood dedication.

They not only fight for America, but for each other. This is the definition of 'espirit de corps".

I have visited with wounded Marines in hospitals. Regardless of the severity of their wounds, pain and suffering, they all expressed to me their utmost desire to return to the battlefield with their buddies to see the war won. This is the kind of sacrifice that leaves a lump in man’s throat. As I listened to them I couldn’t help but be so very thankful that America produces these young men and women of such character and determination.

When we get older, it’s natural to think about whether we’ve actually done something worthwhile. This is not the case for the leatherneck men and women of the mighty US Marine Corps. President Reagan said it best: “Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”

I suspect if the Marines know one thing, it is that freedom is not free. There is a toll to be exacted and it is their blood, sweat, sacrifice and lives. As I type these vary words, there are leathernecks pushing ahead and killing Al Qaeda and Taliban voodoo monsters.

These leathernecks come from a long lineage of warriors who don’t know the meaning of quit. My hero, Colonel Lewis “Chesty” Puller summed it best when he said during the Korean War, “We're surrounded? Good, now we can kill the bastards in any direction."

Clearly, there is no finer friend, no worse enemy than the Marines. This was exemplified by Marine General James Mattis when he told Iraqi leaders, "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you "mess" with me, I'll kill you all." My kind of man.

The US Marines are warriors. They are the few and the proud. Americans are the many and the blessed. So long as the Marines are with us the flame of freedom and liberty will burn brightly.

May God bless the United States Marines Corps. Happy 233rd birthday, Devil Dogs. Semper Fi. Godspeed my Blood Brothers. Carry on.

Source: Human Events

The Few, The Proud With Necks Of Leather, Laying It All On The Line

From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the world's largest gun club is celebrating its 233rd birthday this year.

Born in a roughneck Philadelphia bar in 1775 on a dare to surpass standard warrior excellence, the United States Marine Corps has distinguished itself over its history as the finest military force the world has ever witnessed.

Do not point the Marines at anything you do not wish to conquer. They are the pointy end of our military's lance.

The Devil Dogs are the first to the fight. Looking at their battle flags fluttering in the breeze reminds of their bravery and warrior ethos.

Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleiu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Chosin Reservoir - the stirring names mark the famous battles they have won.

I spent time with Devil Dogs in Iraq and Afghanistan while on a USO Tour. These men and women are the most determined, courteous and courageous people with whom I have ever had the privilege of sharing time.

Camaraderie

To the person, all expressed gratitude for being on the frontlines of the war on terror. It truly humbled me to see that level of camaraderie and BloodBrotherhood dedication.

They not only fight for America, but fight for each other - they put the Corps in "espirit de corps."

I have visited wounded Marines in hospitals. Regardless of the severity of their wounds, all expressed their utmost desire to return to the battlefield with their buddies to see the war won.

This is the kind of sacrifice that leaves a lump in a man's throat. Listening to them, I couldn't help but be so very thankful that America produces men and women of such character.

Some people spend a lifetime looking for meaning. This is not the case for the leatherneck men and women of the mighty U.S. Marines.

President Reagan said it best, "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."

I suspect if the Marines know one thing, it is that freedom is not free. There is a toll to be exacted and it is blood, sweat, sacrifice and lives.

Relentless

As I type these very words, leathernecks are pushing ahead and killing al-Qaida and Taliban voodoo monsters. These Marines come from a long lineage of warriors who don't know the meaning of quit.

My hero, Col. Lewis "Chesty" Puller, summed it up best when he said during the Korean War, "We're surrounded? Good, now we can kill the bastards in any direction."

Clearly, there is no finer friend, no worse enemy than the Marines. This was exemplified by Marine Gen. James Mattis when he told Iraqi leaders, "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you 'mess' with me, I'll kill you all." My kind of man.

The U.S. Marines are warriors. They are the few and the proud. Americans are the many and the blessed. So long as the Marines are with us the flame of freedom and liberty will burn brightly.

May God bless the United States Marines Corps. Happy 233 birthday, Devil Dogs. Semper Fi. Godspeed my BloodBrothers. Carryon.

Today's the Day

OK. This is it. The big day has arrived. Do or die. The moment of truth, the big Kahuna, where “we the people” of the one and only experiment in self-government in the history of humankind get to step up to the plate and give it our best shot as individual participants in this grand "American Dream" of independence and autonomy. Election Day has arrived, my fellow Americans, and it is now that we shall see just what we are made of. Pull the lever, take your shot. There is no take two.

I am as frustrated and disenfranchised as the next guy, terribly let down by both the Republicans and Democrats. Both parties are painfully guilty of corruption, deceit, irrational behavior and more often than not, the abandonment of what my neighbors and I still cling to as common sense. The current economic disaster America is struggling with is simply the proverbial tip of a cultural iceberg train wreck brought about by politicians negotiating on behalf of their own best interests instead of the citizens they are sworn to serve. The same goes for the education debacle, welfare outrage, the embarrassing, criminal unaccountable Fedzilla spending orgy, a court system off the rails, and a wasteland of entitlement programs guaranteed to break the bank. Literally. The Federal government is like social security; it is anti-social and insecure. Thanks for nothing.

Understandably, the people are wailing for change. But the way I see it, change as a concept can be very elusive, and, as always, change can be for the good or for much worse. Over many years, as Republicans acted more and more like liberal Democrats, that is, out of control doped-up hippies with a credit card and no boundaries, an unprecedented amount of our hard-earned tax dollars went unaccounted for propping up fantasy driven entitlement programs that furthered the suicidal so-called Great Society of LBJ. The Great Society turned out to be not so great. Like the FDR’s so-called New Deal, we the people once again got a raw deal, and we’re still paying for it. Through the nose and other not so comfortable orifices.

Positive, beneficial change would be for us to unite in order to stop the economical and social hemorrhaging. Unfortunately, the Democrats, led by their presidential candidate Barack Obama, has a different change in mind. According to every one of his speeches and political voting record as an Illinois senator, Obama actually wants to accelerate the irresponsible spending and reduce accountability to the people even more. According to the Obama supporters, the best way to bail out the sinking boat is to blow more holes in the bottom. That will let the water out, right? Wrong. But if it makes you feel good, by all means, blast away. Bon voyage, baby.

John McCain is no knight in shining armor, that’s for sure. It is true that the good Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has proven to be a bureaucrat-stomping, status quo-destroying political warrior in her short career, and everybody I know is genuinely moved by her defiance of the old guard politicos. She surely brings a much needed and greatly appreciated toughness to McCain’s candidacy, but she isn’t running for President.

The Nugent family has researched till we are red in the face. We have weighed all the information and evidence we can get our hands on, and we have decided that in the best interest of America, we are voting for John McCain.

We believe in our hearts and souls that he means what he says and that he is ready to make tougher decisions for the overall improvement of the conditions we face in these trying times. We believe equally strongly that Obama will only make things worse in his scramble to make people feel good instead of actually doing good. If his ideas sound too good to be true, it’s because they are.

America needs to make tough sacrifices right now. Obama’s socialist agenda plays into the hands of those who expect things to be made easy for them without the extra effort. It is not time to blow holes in the bottom of the boat. It’s time for all of us to bail like hell, together.

Source: Human Events

America Needs Real Change, Not Obama's Fantasy Drivel

As Election Day arrives, I am frustrated and feeling as disenfranchised as the next guy, terribly let down by both the Republicans and Democrats.

Both parties are painfully guilty of corruption, deceit, irrational behavior and, more often than not, the abandonment of what my neighbors and I still cling to as common sense.

The current economic disaster is the proverbial tip of a cultural iceberg, a train wreck brought on by politicians negotiating on behalf of their own best interests instead of the citizens they are sworn to serve.

The same goes for the education debacle, the welfare outrage, the embarrassing, criminally unaccountable Fedzilla spending orgy.

The same goes for a court system off the rails, and a wasteland of entitlement programs guaranteed to break the bank.

The federal government is like Social Security: anti-social and insecure. Thanks for nothing.

Understandably, the people are wailing for change. But change as a concept can be very elusive. And it goes without saying that change can be for the good or for much worse.

Over many years, Republicans acted more and more like liberal Democrats - that is, out-of-control, doped-up hippies with a credit card and no boundaries.

They, both parties, spent unprecedented amounts of our hard-earned tax dollars propping up fantasy-driven entitlement programs that furthered the suicidal so-called Great Society of Lyndon Johnson.

The Great Society turned out to be not so great.

Like Roosevelt's so-called New Deal, we the people once again got a raw deal. We're still paying for it.

Beneficial change would be for Americans to unite to stop the economic and social hemorrhaging. Unfortunately, the Democrats, led by Barack Obama, have a different change in mind.

With every one of his speeches, as with every vote as a lawmaker in Illinois and Washington, he seeks to accelerate irresponsible spending, while reducing accountability to the people even more.

No more holes

Obama supporters think the best way to bail out the sinking boat is to blow more holes in the bottom. That will let the water out, right? Wrong. But if it makes you feel good, by all means, blast away. Bon voyage.

John McCain is no knight in shining armor, for sure. That said, in her short career, the good governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has proven to be a bureaucrat-stomping, status quo-destroying political warrior. Everybody I know is genuinely moved by her defiance of the old-guard politicos.

The Nugent family has researched until red in the face. We've weighed all the information and evidence we can get our hands on. In the best interests of America, we are voting for McCain and, of course, Palin.

He is ready to make tougher decisions for the overall improvement of the conditions we face in these trying times.

Obama will only make things worse in his scramble to make people feel good instead of actually doing good. If his ideas sound too good to be true, it's because they are.

It is not time to blow holes in the bottom of the boat. It's time for all of us to bail like hell, together.
 
Source: Waco Tribune Herald

Time to Close the Deal

With Election Day now in sight, John McCain and Sarah Palin need to turn up the heat. Frustrated conservatives are waiting for some spirit and energy.

This race is far from over. In fact, these final three weeks are the most critical of the campaign.

What the McCain/Palin ticket needs to do is to genuinely address and capitalize on the tremendous level of disgust, distrust and dissatisfaction of the American people towards our government.

As I wrote in my new book “Ted, White and Blue,” a May 20, 2008 Rasmussen poll found that 62% of the American public support fewer government services and lower taxes. That’s because ordinary Americans believe what President Reagan believed: government is the problem, not the answer. Remind Americans of this, Senator McCain. The last debate next Wednesday night may be your last chance to connect because they need to see you as a bigger presence, a better choice right up, elbow-to-elbow with Obama.

Rank and file Americans know that more government meddling ultimately equals more problems. It always has and always will because government is not the social or cultural engine that drives America -- capitalism is. Remind us of this. Convince us that you believe it.

Remind the American public that America didn’t become great because of its government, but rather because of its people. America needs less government, not more. Say this, Senator McCain and Governor Palin, and say it often. Give us some authority. It would be presidential.

Focus on the economy. Tell the American people that the genesis of the financial quagmire we are in is a direct result of government meddling in the housing market which has led to this disastrous credit crunch. As a result, ordinary Americans who play by the rules are being hurt badly. Tell us this, Senator McCain. Tell us the federal government has no business in the home loan industry and that you will take our economy away from the Treasury Department bureaucrats and give it back to the bankers, stockbrokers and company leaders that have made our economy thrive since Alexander Hamilton served at Treasury.

Show us that you share our anger, show some passion. Tell the American public that you will do everything in your power to expose the lobbyists and elected officials who caused the problem, how they caused it and why they caused it. Tell us that you will launch an ethics and criminal investigation on the very people who caused this financial meltdown. Americans want accountability. Give it to us. That would be some welcome change.

We trust freedom, not government: we want our economy back. Yes, let’s punish the crooks and fix the blind government watchdogs. But then, for the sake of our childrens’ future, let’s give free market capitalism back to the capitalists.

Tell us how you believe in the power of the free market. Tell Americans that capitalism and the free market is the most powerful force on the planet, but that expansive government, more spending and higher taxes smothers entrepreneurship. Tell the American public that America cannot achieve success through more taxes and more government spending.

We need a leader that at least knows as much as we do. Borrow a page from Speaker of the House Gingrich and list ten things that your administration is going to accomplish. Turn that into a television commercial and run it over and over in the battleground states. Make a big speech on it in a contested state such as Ohio.

Be specific in the next debate, and tell the American people exactly how you are going to create jobs while cutting government spending. Tell the American public that you plan to cut government spending by 6.5 percent each of the first four years you are president for a real savings of 25 percent. Tell the American public the savings will be returned to us! Tell the American people the era of big government is over.

As you did in the recent debate, focus on nuclear energy. Our car companies are in the process of researching electrical cars. More nuclear power equals much, much more electricity, which equals cheaper energy. Remind them over and over again that nuclear energy is cheap, efficient, safe and clean. While our nuclear power plants are being built, “drill, baby, drill!”

Unleash Palin Power in the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania. Socialists hate her with a passion. That means she’s good -- real good.

In these tumultuous and uncertain times, Americans are looking for a leader with not only a proven past but also one who has a solid vision for the future that does not include more government programs, more spending and more waste.

What say you, Senator McCain?

Source: Human Events

Caring For Pets Helps Set One On Right Path

Back in the roaring Fifties, as a very young whippersnapper of an American Dreamer, I had Duke, a big old black Labrador mix.

Duke, my first dog, taught me the joys of pet ownership, real life cause and effect, the precious value of life and the critical responsibilities of caring properly for an animal.

We did everything together. Mom and Dad showed me how animals can't possibly have "rights." That is a uniquely human dynamic. But thoughtful, conscientious humans clearly have the duty to provide kind, humane treatment and conditions for their animals.

Aside from feeding Duke and seeing that he got plenty of daily exercise, it was my job to make sure his doghouse area and the yard were free of, shall we say, dog debris.

I was proud to be the super dooper pooper scooper. That meant my best friend would have a nice, tidy yard.

Caring for Duke was my primary chore growing up.

I raised my own children with this same sense of duty.

To this very day, I cannot imagine life without pets. They represent a huge quality-of-life component in the Nugent household.

I'm sure its the same for the millions of American families that own dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, burros, goats, llamas, alpacas, rats, mice, guinea pigs, snakes, skunks, weasels, ferrets and more.

One caveat: Making pets out of wild animals is asking for trouble, and I highly recommend against it.

As only dogs can smile

Right now, at my feet are three very happy, loving Labrador retrievers, tongues hanging out, panting, but smiling as only dogs can smile.

As I write this, the hounds and I just returned from our daily exploratory run at our China Spring ranch. We cherish our time in the wild together, letting it all hang out.

To see their sheer, exhilarating animal instincts come alive as they run and leap about, probing every bush and brush pile, flopping down up to their nostrils in the river, is to see nature at its finest. It's animal poetry in motion.

We make sure their kennels are spic and span and all their health considerations are monitored and serviced to the max.

Even though we are in Texas, we know the winter temperatures can get bitter. We add ample insulation to their sturdy dog houses each fall.

Daily brushings and tick dustings help keep them well-groomed and healthy.

The magical fall hunting season is beyond description at our house. These natural hunters about come out of their skin in anticipation of a mouthful of mallard and quail. Me, too.

To see them work their hearts out hunting for birds is truly one of life's greatest, most natural sights.

The mere hint of grabbing a shotgun causes them to do sumersaults of glee, knowing why God created them this way.

Go shopping for a nice pet. Teach the children how to provide for the animals. Watch them celebrate a perfect relationship.

The proper lessons of pet ownership will put kids on a True North path in life. They'll be more aware of cause and effect in a way that will benefit every decision-making juncture they experience.

c/o Waco Tribune-Herald

Anyone Who Wants to Abandon Accountablilty Must Have A Deathwish

When he had the opportunity to name the Fedzillacrats of both political parties responsible for the financial meltdown, he didn't do it. This isn't the man I voted for in 2000 or even 2004. He needs a testosterone injection.

Americans deserve to know by name the political scoundrels responsible for this financial quagmire, especially if President Bush wants us to embrace a near trillion dollar bail out.

We deserve to know exactly how this happened and have a right to know by name anyone that should be held accountable. President Bush didn't tell us that he supported any investigations to determine which Fedzillacrat is responsible for this mess and how it occurred. His speech was classic political hot air, and I for one am truly let down by the depth of abject soullessness in our disconnected government.

When he had the bully pulpit to provide us the information we have a right to know and he has an obligation to provide, he failed us.

President Bush is as responsible for this mess as any Fedzillacrat. While the president can truthfully claim that members of his administration warned members of congress of the pending economic meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, I don't recall President Bush mentioning the potential economic peril in one of his State of The Union addresses or any other presidential news conferences.

If President Bush thought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other financial institutions were on financial thin ice, he should have used his presidential bully pulpit and warned us on any number of occasions. He had numerous chances to tell us and he failed to do so. As we have learned, bad news doesn't get better with age.

President Bush didn't tell us that Fedzillacrats such as Democratic Senators Dodd and Schumer and others were paid stacks of campaign donations by lobbyists of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep them, our representatives and our employees, from holding these quasi government institutions accountable.

These Fedzillacrats actually got Congress to pass a law that required lending institutions to make home loans to unqualified recipients. President Bush didn't tell us that either.

President Bush didn't tell us that stacks of tainted lobbyist money and shyster Fedzillacrats has more to do with this financial crisis than the irresponsible and quite possibly crooked CEOs and other business officers of the financial firms. Baby Face Nelson is monitoring Al Capone for us. Great.

While he did say a few words about our outdated laws and regulations and said he was a free market supporter, he didn't say he believed that less Fedzilla meddling in the market was better for the long-term for our economy. He didn't say that Fedzilla has no business in the home loan industry, and it doesn't. That's what a free market champion would have said.

He didn't say he supported a wholesale ban on lobbyists for any financial institutions receiving our tax dollars to keep these troubled firms afloat. He should have. At a minimum, we deserve that.

He didn't say that all senior officers of the firms receiving bail out money would be fired and put under criminal investigation.

He didn't tell us that he was going to unleash the largest investigation in the history of the Justice Department to smoke out all the bandits that had anything to do with this. We deserve to see them put on trial and if found guilty, hauled off to jail. If our legal system can take the property of dope dealers, then we ought to be able to seize the financial assets of these bandits.

Americans have a right to know and should want to know which of our elected officials had anything to do with this mess and how much cash they received from lobbyists for turning a blind eye.

Washington DC stinks and is in worse condition than the financial industry. Fedzilla is a major source of all of our economic, social and cultural maladies. It stinks of cronyism, back handed political deals and corruption.

The Fedzillacrats deserve our scorn, contempt and anger. If any of them had an ounce of integrity they would resign and beg for forgiveness. Do your patriotic duty and vote them all out. They deserve it.

I want to know which Fedzillacrat is responsible and I want a solemn promise that these individuals will be held accountable. When I get that from the president, I will consider his bail out plan.

Tranquilizer dart needed for Fedzilla

Some things I wish I heard from president

President Bush let Americans down when he addressed the nation regarding our embarrassing financial mess. When he had the opportunity to name the Fedzillacrats of both political parties responsible for the financial meltdown, he didn't do it.

The man has no spine.

Americans deserve to know by name the political scoundrels responsible for this financial quagmire, especially if President Bush wants us to embrace a near trillion-dollar bailout.

We deserve to know exactly how this happened and have a right to know by name anyone who should be held accountable. President Bush didn't tell us that he supported any investigations to determine which Fedzillacrat is responsible for this mess and how it occurred.

His speech was classic political hot air. I am truly let down by the depth of abject soullessness in our disconnected government.

When he had the bully pulpit Wednesday night to provide us the information we have a right to know and he has an obligation to provide, Bush failed us. The president is as responsible for this mess as any Fedzillacrat.

If Bush thought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other financial institutions were on financial thin ice, he should have used his presidential bully pulpit and warned us on any number of occasions.

He had countless chances to tell us. He failed to do so. As we have learned, bad news doesn't get better with age.

Bush didn't tell us that Fedzillacrats such as Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd and Charles Schumer and others were paid stacks of cash by lobbyists of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep our representatives from holding these quasi- government institutions accountable.

These Fedzillacrats actually made it government policy for lending institutions to make home loans to unqualified recipients. President Bush didn't tell us that, either.

Shysters in charge

Tainted lobbyist money and shyster Fedzillacrats have more to do with this financial crisis than the irresponsible and quite possibly crooked CEOs and other business officers of the financial firms. Baby Face Nelson is monitoring Al Capone for us. Great.

While Bush did say a few words about our outdated laws and regulations and said he was a free market supporter, he didn't say he believed that less Fedzilla meddling in the market was better for the long-term for our economy.

Fedzilla has no business in the home loan industry. That's what a free market champion would have said.

Bush didn't say that all senior officers of the firms receiving bailout money would be fired and put under criminal investigation.

He didn't tell us that he was going to unleash the largest investigation in the history of the Justice Department to smoke out all the bandits who had anything to do with this.

Put them on trial and, if found guilty, haul them off to jail. If our legal system can take the property of dope dealers, then we ought to be able to seize the financial assets of these bandits.

Americans have a right to know and should want to know which of our elected officials had anything to do with this mess and how much cash they received from lobbyists for turning a blind eye.

Fedzilla is a major source of all of our economic, social and cultural maladies.

The Fedzillacrats deserve our scorn, contempt and anger. If any of them had an ounce of integrity they would resign and beg for forgiveness. Do your patriotic duty and vote them all out. They deserve it.

I want a solemn promise that those individuals responsible for this mess will be held accountable. When I get that from the president, I will consider his bailout plan.

Kill 'Em & Grill 'Em

There is a powerful, natural force in the fall air, and I, for one, cannot turn my back on it. I know the origin of "conservatism" and the pragmatic, rugged individualism logic that drives it and us.

As a conservationist, I believe in the wise use of our precious life-giving resources and
clearly understand man's critical responsibility to the stewardship of our wild ground and our wildlife.

I learned a long time ago that if I wanted to enjoy a fire at Christmas time, that I had to plant trees in the spring. Not to boast, but the Arbor Day Foundation even gave me, your humble Motor City Madman, a conservation award, and I'm just a guitar player. I wonder how many trees Sting or Dave Mathews planted last year.

I hunt, kill animals, start fires, and barbecue my families' daily sacred protein health food. I bait hooks, catch fish and then cook them in garlic and butter. That’s absolute perfection, just as God intended. Only a disconnected liberal cultist of denial could find fault with my perfect conservation lifestyle that is based on the sound science of biodiversity, sustain yield and responsible, renewable resources hands-on utility. Venison is the rocket fuel of the gods, and I celebrate it daily. It sure makes for some unstoppable fiery and sexy guitar noise.

President Nixon recognized the vital conservation role of hunters, fishermen and trappers when he established National Hunting and Fishing Day in 1972. This Saturday marks the 36th anniversary of National Hunting &Fishing Day, and it is party time at the Nugent camp.

Many Americans don't know that President Nixon even established a National Hunting &Fishing Day or that this Saturday marks its 36th anniversary.

Many people don’t know that outdoorsmen provide roughly 75% of all funds for state departments of natural resources for overall environmental management. Quality air, soil and water come from healthy wildlife habitat, and that has always been our mission statement.

Many don’t know that funds generated through hunting, fishing and trapping licenses, stamps and various other self-imposed fees are also used to protect non-game species, provide areas for bird watchers, and build trails for hikers. You're welcome.

Too many people don’t know that there are more turkey, elk, whitetail deer, geese, black bears and cougars in North America than at any time in our nation’s history. America’s wildlife management system is envied around the world for its overwhelming successes. Hunters, fishers and trappers demanded this, and we rejoice in our success.

You probably don’t know that hunting, fishing and trapping generates more than 30 billion dollars annually to the U.S. economy, 2.5 billion in annual federal tax revenues, 4.2 billion in state tax revenues each year and provides well over 593,000 jobs for Americans. Wildlife has to be counted in the asset column where it belongs, if you have a soul.

You probably don’t know that tens of millions of American families spend hundreds of
millions of hours in the great outdoors or that hunting is one of the safest recreational pursuits in America, with far fewer injuries or deaths per capita than skiing, football, cycling, swimming or boating.

You probably don’t know who Pope &Young were, never heard of Fred Bear, and don’t know what the acronyms DU, RMEF, NWTF, FNAWS, NSSF or SCI stands for, even though their conservation accomplishments are Herculean and deserve our respect.

You probably didn't know that hunters provide over 250 million meals each year to
the less fortunate by providing a portion of our game to homeless shelters through our non-bureaucratic, non-tax wasting, therefore very efficient Hunters for the Hungry programs. Our pleasure.

You probably never thought about the fact that not one teenage punk gangster has a hunting or fishing license in his pocket. Not one.

Some of you might not know that the 2nd Amendment has zero to do with hunting. The 2nd Amendment was not written by our Founding Fathers so I could go duck hunting. Only a fool would think so.

You don’t know these wonderful things because the outdoor community has not reached beyond the choir to educate anyone about the amazing success story of America’s conservation efforts, activities and programs. Damn shame. I do what I can.

The fault, of course, for such widespread ignorance lies at the feet of rank-and-file hunters and fishermen, our outdoor organizations, and the industries that support and benefit from our conservation lifestyle. With a hunting hating liberal media, it is nearly impossible to find a truthful article on hunting anywhere. Even so, for the most part, our hunting industry couldn't promote a blanket to a naked man in a blizzard. Sadly, Bubba lives, but I'm doing everything I can to beat him back into his cave where he belongs.

In this turbo-electrified, computerized, instant gratification world in which our children are immersed, the thrilling disciplines of hunting and fishing teaches patience, responsibility, humility, persistence and real cause and effect. There is no argument that these are the character traits that mold immature young people into mature, productive, conscientious adults. Look at me.

There are no politics in a deer blind. An omnisciently alert whitetail buck does not care if you are Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.

It is good, however, to know that Gov. Palin is a real outdoors woman. She doesn't sling a shotgun over her shoulder once a year to mug for the camera in hopes of attracting votes from hunters and fishermen. She actually hunts caribou and fishes. This tuned in naturalist knows pure organic chow when she sees it. She’s the real deal.

This Saturday is National Hunting &Fishing Day. It is the day that signifies yet another glorious hunting season is upon us. It is perfect, and I am in, gung-ho, heart, mind, body, tooth, fang and claw, spirit and soul. Place your grilled venison orders here with me here. Happy hunting season 2008.

c/o HumanEvents.com 

Hunters' payback to nature

It's the power of nature, the power to heal man and itself.

During this explosive phenomenon, the natural fall season of harvest, we in the Nugent family are moved deep in our souls to celebrate Thanksgiving every step of the way.

Hallelujah and pass the sacred backstraps, baby.

'Tis the hunting season, and I am in with all I've got. Next Saturday I'll celebrate it with many on National Hunting and Fishing Day, declared 36 years ago by Richard Nixon.

Like trapping, hunting and fishing are integral to America culture, teamed as they are with our essential conservation responsibility.

Once necessary to survive, hunting and fishing now are two very popular forms of recreation, while keeping millions of American families connected to the land and its precious creatures.

Today roughly 20 million hunters and more than 50 million fishermen enjoy the outdoors and generate roughly $70 billion in revenue each year.

Perfection

Like all my friends, we Nugents hunt simply because we are hunters. It is perfect.

Thanks to hunters' dollars generated through licensing fees, habitat

stamp fees and direct involvement, America's wildlife and overall

conservation programs have never been more vibrant, healthy and strong. Our wildlife management system is envied around the world by all real conservationists.

The dollars hunters provide for state wildlife coffers provide

roughly 75 percent of all funds for state wildlife agencies. Considering that we hunters constitute only 12 percent of the population, we carry the vast majority of the financial

burden to ensure that America's wildlife, and its air, soil and water-cleansing habitat, is healthy and thriving.

How about a big, hearty and genuine thank you, America?

In addition to preserving and replenishing game animals, hunters' dollars provide habitat and research benefiting non-game species.

Wildlife photographers, artists, hikers, campers, bike riders, bird watchers and all outdoor enthusiasts ride on the financial coat tails of American hunters and fishermen.

The result? More turkey, geese, elk, black bear, cougars and whitetail deer than at any time in our nation's history. This phenomenal success story, intentionally ignored by the dominant media, is because hunters and fishermen care deeply and remain spiritually connected to our resource stewardship duties.

Down to a science

The sustain-yield science that we demand keeps wildlife and wild ground in the asset column.

American hunting and fishing families spend hundreds of millions of accident-free hours in the great outdoors. Hunting is one of the safest recreational activities in the world. And of course wild game meat is the healthiest food in the world.

Did I mention "perfect"?

Whitetail deer are everywhere. In fact, in most parts of the country, there are way too many of them. While many state wildlife departments have begun to correct this problem by increasing opportunities and by providing hunters more tags to kill does, we must do more.

Hunting seasons should be expanded. Other common-sense hunting opportunities must be implemented immediately based solely on science, never allowing selfish emotion to turn an asset into a liability as they have done with cougars in California and bears in New Jersey.

Can you believe that in 11 states and some Canadian provinces, Sunday hunting is illegal? These laws must be fought.

America's outdoorsmen and private landowners have created the most successful wildlife management system the world has ever known.

Happy hunting season, America. Good hunting and good luck. Celebrate the mighty Spirit of the Wild.

Liberalism is America's curse

Feel-good mentality has brought nothing but grief to us

The 1960s marked the rise of hedonism - the "if it feels good, do it" generation.

A cursory review of what came afterward tells a haunting story.

Teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, school dropout rates, drug use, divorce, youth crime and other social maladies escalated.

We poisoned our culture and society when we began caring more about ourselves than the collective good of society at large. Values, mores and standards-the very things that make a just and civil society-were carelessly tossed aside in favor of reckless abandon.

There are consequences for actions, something liberals and the hippies carelessly ignored at America's peril.

No surprise, guys

Now we read about kids shooting up schools and malls. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

My suspicions are that this will get worse. More kids will die. One of the rock-solid, irrefutable reasons for my suspicion is that schools and shopping centers and the worst crime-infested cities are gun-free zones - another empty-headed liberal idea that has guaranteed more victims.

In those early days before gun bans went into effect, you could walk into a hardware store and buy any kind of gun and ammo you wanted.

Kids brought all kinds of guns and knives to school for after-school hunting, competition and casual recreational purposes. No problem.

School and shopping center shootings were unheard of.

The poisonous seeds of "feel good" denial took root in the Sixties, along with Dr. Spock's "hands-off" new age parenting.

The far left has given gave birth to every social and cultural malady plaguing America today.

Culpability for kids killing kids rests with liberals and their feel-good, dopey, brain-dead policies.

Now liberals want to "help" us some more with nationalized health care and a host of other idiotic and dangerous programs.

Health-care express

Nationalized health care will create unhealthy citizens. If you want unhealthy Americans, jump on the Obama health-care express. Then watch it jump the tracks like every other liberal train before it.

Like a bad apple, our culture is rotting from within from the exposure and adoption of these poisonous policies.

Liberals will claim they care about people, but you should judge them by what they have already done to American culture. More government control always makes a mess of things.

If one government program doesn't fix the problem, then surely three or four will.

It is time to shout from the mountaintop, "Don't tread on me!"

Obama pulls out his smoke and mirrors for "change," when in fact he wants more of the very meddling government that has ruined everything it has gotten its greedy, unaccountable hands on.

It is time to tell the liberals to take a hike. I for one have learned a lesson. I pray to God most of America has and we put an end to this demolition derby and wrest America from the hands of fantasy mongers who will tell you anything to make you feel good, then charge you up the ying yang to fix their mistakes.

Communal Safety Nets For All

In overt defiance of the U.S. Constitution, Mao Tse Fedzilla has pledged 200 billion of our tax dollars to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest and hopelessly bankrupt mortgage-finance companies in America.

These companies failed in part due to "flawed business models," according to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Ya think? They also failed because Fedzilla is bloated, ineffective and far too corrupt to have provided the necessary fiscal and management oversight.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government sponsored enterprises (GSE) but are owned by private shareholders. That's a screwy business model on its face, but what it essentially means is that when a GSE is about to go belly up, taxpayer dollars are there to bail them out.

Many people, going back from the Clinton Administration up through the Bush Administration, urged our do-nothing Congress to do something to provide oversight of these companies, but in typical fashion, Fedzilla sat on its hands with impunity.

Members of Congress were being bought off by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to look the other way and do nothing. According to an article on CNN.com by Allan Chernoff, these shyster companies paid 174 million dollars to lobbyists to keep our elected officials from doing anything to provide regulatory oversight. Quite simply, our elected officials were bought off. And the U.S. taxpayer gets screwed again. As recently departed Jerry Reed sang, "she got the gold mine, and I got the shaft."

Democrats like Charles Schumer and Chris Dodd led the charge to stonewall any efforts to provide oversight of these companies. Dodd is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and now wants more information about how this happened. What hyperbole, what political posturing, what a fraud, what a perfect, soulless politician. When he had the opportunity to act in the interest of the American people, he didn't. Case closed.

Now the solution is to prop these companies up with our tax dollars, and, magically, all the dirty money lobbying will be stopped. Yeah, and I'm going vegetarian and playing banjo in a country band.

The two guys who ran these companies have been fired, while reportedly walking away with mill