Musings and Ramblings

Someone recently came up with a win/win/win solution to three problems. First, dig a moat the length of the US-Mexican border. Second, take the dirt and use it to raise the levees in New Orleans. Last, take the alligators from Florida and put them in the moat. Sounds reasonable to me.

There are two seasons in Florida – Tourist and Construction. The state animal is the barrier horse. The state mineral is asphalt. The state motto is, “Single lane next 100 miles, be prepared to stop.”

Did you know that those big mean bad oil companies have paid three times more in taxes than they have made in their “windfall” profits over the last 28 years? How would you like to pay three dollars in taxes for every dollar you take home from your paycheck? If you still doubt that the government bears more blame than oil companies in this, read this. Of course, the environmentalists still bear the most blame.

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Some good news for those who hate all the pork in runaway government spending. Let’s see if it holds up.

Eagles may soar but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines

How sad is it that the most anti-American newspapers are located in America?

Parents of teenagers now know why some animals eat their young.

If you think illegal immigrants are great people and we are all just racists for not giving our country over to them lock, stock and barrel, then you need to read this account of parents who pay people to stuff their children into gas tanks in order to smuggle them across the border. Also read the account of the child who wants to see his father who abandoned his family 9 years ago to break US law by entering the country illegally.

You shouldn't compare yourself to others - they are more screwed up than you think.

News blackout alert – have you heard anything about the stunning revelations that Scooter Libby’s defense lawyer says he has found at least five people who will testify under oath that Joe Wilson told them that his wife worked for the CIA before Novak’s column was printed. Incredibly, Wilson is now “suggesting instead that it no longer mattered who first outed his wife.”

Monday Funny

This is an actual picture I took a couple of years ago. It’s located in Southern Alabama, where people really do take care of their hunting dogs.