Monday Musings and Ramblings

Musings from the road, as I am rambling on vacation this week, expecting to spend a couple of days enjoying a sunny beach and the gentle winds from the Gulf.

If you think price controls and windfall taxes are the answer to rising gasoline prices, you need to study history. Remember, Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

It is not what you wear, it is how you take it off.

A great article about the fools who are chanting about impeaching Bush.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

A comic yet serious list of drivers’ top pet peeves

99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.

“Morale is slipping in Iraq.” Fighters are “disorganized and lack a comprehensive strategy.” There is a “clear lack of a plan to capture an area” controlled by the enemy. These things sound familiar? Is this a leftie newspaper report on the US troops in Iraq? Nope. These are words from an internal report assessing the dire straits facing the terrorists, captured by US troops. What’s that? You never heard about the capture of this report from two months ago? Well, read on.

There is a fine line between genius and insanity.

What would happen if someone were to characterize Barack Obama as a “spearchucker”? The roar of indignation would be immense. Cries of racism would resound as protests sprung up across the nation calling for the immediate dismissal of anyone who dared utter that slur. Now, what if it were a leftie using the racial slur to describe Colin Powell? Do you think the media would even notice? Or would the only result be a mild discussion on whether or not the usage was appropriate that winds up excusing the racism?

The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon, but the real pains in the butt are permanent.

You hear it constantly from the lefties – Fox News is right wing. Now here comes a major leftie defending the organization.

Monday Funny

Johnny was not a very good speller. One day at school, the teacher wrote the word “new” on the blackboard. “Now”, she asked Johnny, “what would we have if we placed a “k” in front of that word?” Johnny thought about it long and hard before the answer finally came to him. He smiled and said, “canoe!”