John Bogert writes, in the Daily Breeze from the Left Coast, on how offended women are at having to be searched as part of airport security. They are (*gasp!*) subjected to being touched, and - HORRORS! - inconvenienced - in the name of normal searches. This leaves them”hurt” and “angry” and “feeling violated.”

I trust you are hearing the same violins I am hearing right now.

Of course, we all know that women are congenitally incapable of violence, or of carrying weapons or explosives, so there is no excuse for this except for sicck and perverted men wanting to touch them; this despite the fact that they, but not men, can demand a screener of their own sex to search them, or they, but not men, can demand that such strip searches be done privately.

Of course, “Men don’t seem to understand how offensive it is to be touched when you don’t want to be touched.”

Pardon me whilst I upchuck. Yet another example where whiney women want one set of stricter rules for men, and another set, full of exceptions, for women. Another double standard. Ho hum. Same old, same old.

I have an idea - why don’t we just go ahead and have special “Woman Flights.” The cockpits will be locked to prevent terrorists coming in there, but all the crew and passengers will be women, and they will all have the “fluff screening.”

Howzzat sound?

Well, it looks like the director of the New Hamshire Commission for men is up for a judgeship, and the feminasties are looking to apply some political payback.

It’s an uphill battle. Especially for those of you in NH, it’s time to throw your support behind this man.

We have heard rumblings today of an effective AIDS vaccine, one which can reverse the progress of the disease even in an infected person.

Wonder why it is grabbing no headlines?

Perchance, could it be the the left is gloomy that one of their fave things to bitch about is going away? And that the first step of the “cure” was found on the Republican watch?

Here’s one for the record books.

A Canadian woman was in a relationship with one of a set of twins, and apparently - um - enjoyed the both of them at least for a time. She wound up pregnant, and had a kid. Meantime, the second twin moved on, and got married.

So when the relationship with the first twin broke down, she responded by denying visitation, claiming that said twin cannot “prove” he is the father; even though this twin can show that he has acted as the child’s father.

Of course, this just goes to show that women NEVER, EVER use their children or the court system to exact revenge on a former lover when things didn’t work out.

And they hypocrisy of the legal system, who is always eager to stick a man with a bill on demand, is of course making it torturous for a man who wants to be a father to exercise his rights.

Well, good job, lady. When your kid is in school someday, and is inevitably teased with the taunt “Your mom is a slut, you don’t even know who your daddy is!” all he’ll be able to do is hang his head in shame and say, “Yeah, you’re right.”

But you go, GIRL! You got your REVENGE.

It’s as predictable as thunder after the lightning - the president sneezes, and there is a “Democratic Response.” The President gives a Thanksgiving address, and we have a “democratic response.” This year, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is the chosen Talking Head.

“Unfortunately, the blessing of abundant food is not shared by all Americans,” Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said. “A recent report from our Department of Agriculture documented an increase in hunger in America, particularly among our children.”

So his solution? We need to “share” more.

Now, Gov. Tom is not going to count, I imagine, getting up at the crack of doom to spend several hours prepping and packing food for homeless and shut-ins. This is fraught with problems. It’s voluntary, so it can’t be tracked. (How convenient for him) Also, I imagine that the “God Bless You” given to the recipients of the food is an intolerable display of Christianity.

Yeah. Let’s just ignore that. It really doesn’t fit the secularist lie that the Church can’t be counted on to help people.

No. What this means is that if you are a working stiff, even if you barely have enough for your own, that you must have more of your money taken and redistributed to those deemed “needy” and “less fortunate,” ergo, those people in demographics whose vote they are trying to buy.

That is, after it goes through Washington and their piece of the action is taken out of it.

Let’s not lie to ourselves as to what this “compassion” game is all about. It’s not about real compassion. It’s about putting the best shade of lipstick they can find on the pig of a shakedown..

Day at the Hair Salon: $50.00
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New Shoes: $65.00
A Picture of you with toilet paper hanging out of your ass on the Gonzman’s Blog:
PRICELESS!!!

If the Indianapolis Colts had Lion for Thanksgiving dinner, does that mean that instead of eating Turkey for dinner they ate Pu…?

On second thought, nevermind.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor–and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:

‘Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the Beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

‘And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplication to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

‘Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, AD 1789.’

George Washington
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I hope the dipshit principal out in California who just can’t stand to hear the word “God” mentioned will not be a hypocrite and works through Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Jim Manion gets hate mail from the schmucks at MTV.

Jeez, what’s a guy gotta do?

I’ve heard for the last time some leftist whack-job pissing and moaning about how “George Bush is Making a Cabinet full of people who think just like him!”

Well, la-de-dah. Do tell. And I’m sure that William Jefferson Blythe Clinton had that wonderful balance of conservatives in his cabinet who argued with him and bucked him every inch of the way, eh? Donna Shalala, Madeline Allbright, Jackboot Janet Reno. Jeez, and they are all now writing for the National Review.

Give me a break. You know, Vae Victus. Woe to the conquered. See, that’s what happens when you win the election, my friends. You get to apoint people who are board with your plan and vision, so that when you give a directive, you have people you can trust to carry it out. What do you suggest he do? Appoint Chuck Schumer seretary of HEW? So Charles can ballocks up everything and Bush can be blamed for al his plans being tits up on arrival?

Well, I bet that would be good for your side in the next election. n Which, I guess, is the point, eh?

On a BBS recently I referred to the Arab, Islamofacist, Terrorist Insurgents in Iraq as “Towel-Heads.” And, quite rightly, I was taken to task for this thoughtless and inaccurate stereotype.

Mea Culpa.

On examining one of these, I found the fabric to more closely resemble that of a sheet, rather than that of a towel. “Towel-Head,” therefore, is a grossly out of character description for them.

In the future, I will be more careful to refer to them as “Sheet-Heads.”

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Heh.

So Dan Ratherbiased has finally decided to take down his shingle at the Anchordesk over at CBS?

*yawn*

Unfortunately, I think the MSBLM (Main Stream Biased Liberal Media) is a day late and a dollar short when it comes to rectifying the problems they have. Let’s try it real slow: Nobody trusts you because you can’t seem to hide your bias. Well, okay, the left trusts you, but let’s face it - so long as the left wing sheeple are getting their marching orders, they are happy to be led. Critical and independent thinking ain’t the strong suit of the left.

What with the Memo issue for Dan rather - not to mention Mark Halperin’s (ABC) memo instructing his staff to go easy on Kerry, credibility is shot to all hell on the old flagships. Let’s not even mention Walter Cronkite joining the Tin-Foil hat club here.

The genie is out of the bottle. If any credibility can be recovered, it’s going to be a long and hard road, requiring a real long-term show of commitment to honest reporting. And I don’t really believe that the MSBLM is up to it - or even wants it, deep down.

I have a pet peeve.

Have ya noticed it since Halloween? The ever present - ahem - “Winter Holiday” decorations that are all over the place. Santas, reindeer, snow…it’s enough to make me puke.

Let’s be straight here. I’m no Scrooge. I love Christmas…

AT BLOODY CHRISTMASTIME, DAMNIT!!! NOT HALLOW-BLOODY-WEEN!!!!!

Just thought I’d share. Just got back from a mall trip. Have some class people. Wait till after Thanksgiving, ‘kay? Everyone knows that Christmas is coming. They will shop for it without the constant reminders that it is only four months away.

I’m having a little trouble with something.

Now, imagine this – 15 or so rednecks, armed to the teeth, approach a member of a minority group, call him racial slurs, and take shots at him. Then, while they are locked and loaded, they wait for him to arm himself, and stand there while he guns six of them down.

Yes, Chai Vang, the guy who murdered 6 people while deer hunting, is playing the race card. A guy who has a record of threatening people with a gun.

Unbelievable. You know, were I locked and loaded, and someone were to be prepping their rifle to fire on me, I would sure as hell be firing first. And as a deer hunter, from forty yards I wouldn’t be missing.

This doesn’t pass the sniff test. But you can believe some bleeding heart will rush to blame whitey for this.

Well, gentle readers, for the next couple of days posting here will be sporadic. I am taking a couple of days for Thanksgiving with the extended family, and access to my accounts will be via dial-up, and have to be negotiated. I’ll have my laptop with me, but….

Go enjoy Thanksgiving, people. Any day you aren’t six feet under is a good damn day. Find good food, put something in your glass worth drinking, and confound your enemies by having a smile on your face.

Of all the solicitators for charity, I find the bell-ringers of the Salvation Army to be the least offensive. They stand out of the way, ringing bells, and usually have a good word for you when you drop something in.

I’ve also seen the work the Salavtion Army does.

Well, French-Owned Target stores have decided that the Salvation army is out at their stores.

Hmmm.

I sugest Target change it’s colors to Blue. And I suggest those in the Red States make sure that they are only profitable in the blue states. Since the “caring” liberal states dominate the bottom 25 in terms of charitable giving, it looks like the Salvation Army wouldn’t lose out too much there.

I’m going to be politically incorrect.

It’s going to be very fashionable this morning to bash “spoiled millionaires” and jump all over perennial NBA bad-noy Ron Artest. Well, let me insert first that anyone who does so has their head up their ass.

While the brawl following the Pacers/Pistons game last night was a terrible thing, those fans who got the whoop-ass thrown down on them had it coming to them.

Just because someone is an athlete millionaire does not give anyone the right to abuse them; they are millionaires because people pay them to be. They pay the ticket prices, buy the gear, and all those things which put money into those athelete’s pockets. The atheletes deliver what they promise - hard play, for your consumption and entertainment.

Don’t feel you are getting your money’s worth? Don’t spend it.

I watched Ron Artest give a flagrant foul to Ben Wallace last night, a foul which should have been called, and a technical foul applied too. And that should have been the end of it. And it would have been Artest’s fault.

But - Ben Wallace escalated it, unnecessarily by punching Artest in the face. It then became Wallace’s fault. No “commeasurate blame.” Screw that crap. Wallace. Alone. Artest was angry, and still let himself be led away, and even laid down.

Until some twit flung a full container of water at Artest with enough force to make it explode. Now, unless you are willing to let me take a full container of water and hurl it at your face, just shut your pie hole. I’ve been a bouncer in my life, and I saw one night someone take a 10 ounce beer in a plastic cup on quarter beer night and throw it at someone resulting in a broken tooth and a broken nose. That isn’t a “nothing.” That’s assault. A 24 ounce cup is a pound and a half - plus the weight of the plastic. Hell, a bullet is a couple of ounces and it kills - spike a pound and a half onto somepne’s face from up in the stands -what can I say? And the shitheel who threw it deserved to have his ass kicked, and anyone stupid enough to assault a professional athelete deserves to have it kicked badly.

Try that bullshit on me, and see what happens to you. I guarantee you’ll carry your teeth home in a bag. Or invite me to try it on you. Same result.

The fault here is with the Detroit fans. The gladiators didn’t fight enough to suit them. So they egged them on, and wound up with it backfiring on them. And they richly deserved to have the gladiators come up and make them a part of that game.

Hard to believe, but in a major editorial today, the Indianapolis Star writes:

Our position is: Ratcheting up child support enforcement may alleviate a social problem but won’t come near to solving it.

The appalling statistics on child support arrearages by non-custodial parents raise a call to action on behalf of neglected families and the taxpaying public. But how much more action can be taken is questionable.

Enforcement efforts now under way in Indiana to collect back child support cost $57 million a year, even as 50,000 families receive welfare for lack of those payments. The Marion County prosecutor’s office alone, The Star’s Tim Evans reports, carries 68,000 open support cases compared to 45,000 criminal cases, and staffs statewide are stretched thin.

Other states retrieve more by spending more. Indiana, with $8 collected for each dollar of enforcement, is one of the most efficient pursuers in the nation; but Gov.-elect Mitch Daniels has pledged to do better than his predecessors. Among his suggestions is using private collectors whose fees would be paid by the targets, and making non-custodial parents post court bonds.

These measures and others already in effect, such as liens on property, garnishment of wages and posting alleged deadbeats’ names on Web sites, make sense if the money’s there. But a federal study has confirmed what casual observation tells us: Most non-custodial parents cannot afford to pay what they owe. They are unemployed, underemployed, on welfare, in jail. After a certain point, spending more money to force them to comply with the law is a violation of another law, that of diminishing returns.

Collection must remain a priority. But it cannot undo what a poor job market, lack of education and the breakdown of the traditional two-parent family have done. Ultimately, the issue of child support is one that must be settled out of court.

Wow. Think some people may be getting it? Now tell that to the Nazi Party that runs the CS division in Marion County.

What’s next? The radical notion that the actual presence of the father in a child’s life might be at least as important as a check for Mommy?

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - Five teenagers were arrested in the hurling of a frozen turkey that smashed through a motorist’s windshield, critically injuring her.Police said Ryan Cushing, 18, threw the turkey from a car he and the other teens were riding in Saturday. It smashed through the car window of a 44-year-old woman who was driving in the other direction. She was in critical condition at Stony Brook University Hospital.

Cushing was arrested on charges of first-degree assault, reckless endangerment, forgery, criminal mischief and criminal possession of stolen property. He and the other teens allegedly stole a credit card to buy the turkey at a supermarket. The other four teens were charged with criminal possession of stolen property.

Ronkonkoma is in the approximate geographic center of New York’s Long Island, about 50 miles east of New York City.

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I have this image of WKRP in Cinncinnati, with Les Nessman hollering “Oh the Humanity!” in the background, and the hapless station manager saying “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

God Allmighty. Talk about “Dumb as a box of rocks.”