They keep popping out of the woodwork. 

Most of us have relatives we wish were related to other people. Unless we're Hispanic, few of us can claim or want to claim as familial relations people who break the law by sneaking into our country and then add insult to national injury by driving drunk. 

Our president, Barack Hussein Obama, seems to have any number of such relatives, only two of whom have been caught. So far.  

The latest is Obama's dear Kenyan uncle, Onyango Obama, who joins Obama's dear Aunt Zeituni Onyango as a felon. Uncle Onyango added drunk driving … Read the rest

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Whether the following videos featuring 49 year old Jim Carrey lusting in his heart and genitals for 22 year old Emma Stone and 50 year old Kathy Griffin fantasizing about sex with 17 year old Justin Bieber are pathetic jokes or not, they’re still creepy as well as singularly humorless.  

The consensus seems to be that both Carrey and Griffin are serious in their respective overtures to Stone and Bieber primarily because, although both Carrey and Griffin are both supposed to be comics, neither is capable of acting this well. 

   The affable, twice-married grandfather Jim Carrey has had a number … Read the rest

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The humorist Will Rogers is famous for saying, among other things, ”I never met a man I didn’t like.” 

I feel certain Rogers was speaking generally and wasn’t excluding the fair sex when he said that, just as sure as I am that he had never met certain Iranian Muslims, ESPN producers, and Goshen College President John Brenneman, all of whom are eminently dislikable for various reasons and all of whom are certifiable fruitcakes, dependent, of course, on one’s definition of a “fruitcake.”     

   I’m not attempting here to further demean almost universally-despised, Christmas fruitcakes.  I’m referring  to loonies, people who … Read the rest

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   Tim Hardin’s lyrics, “If I were a carpenter/ And you were a lady/ Would you marry me anyway?/ Would you have my baby?” could hardly be applied to 80 year old Warren Buffett today although his three grown kids might wish he were a carpenter. 

Unlike most carpenters, Buffett has, he says, cut off his progeny from his billions when he eventually shuffles off this mortal coil.  Susan, Howard, and Peter Buffett can just shuffle for themselves, he says, when Warren bites the bullet and moves on up to the great corporation in the sky.

He might just as well … Read the rest

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It may be difficult for them to admit, but sometimes people end up in the wrong job, the wrong place, and on the wrong side of issues. 

“Wrong,” of course, is a subjective term but sometimes it’s so obvious that people are misplaced that it’s impossible not to say they should be engaged in a different profession, office, position, or even located in a different country. 

   The conglomeration of odd folks at the “American” Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, is a prime case in point.

Recently, once again true to form, the ACLU demonstrated that they are anything but Americans … Read the rest

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   Criminality like poverty will always be with us.  It doesn’t take an unemployed NASA scientist to realize that, as long as the human species reproduces unsavory malcontents, greedy thieves, and amoral sociopaths, some people will assault, rob, maim, and murder other people. 

Crime and criminals exist in every socio-economic strata with those in the “upper classes” most often engaging in major thievery and embezzlement–like the master of the Ponzi scam, Bernie Madoff–although the rich and famous aren’t exempt from murderous escapades–like rock impresario Phil Spector. 

Other classes are more likely to indulge in a wider variety of criminality, what some … Read the rest

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   The Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial just can’t catch a break. 

Twenty-five years in the making, the $120 million, 30 foot statue set on 4 acres near the northwest corner of the Tidal Basin may have its official, opening day ceremonies spoiled by Hurricane Irene but if that were the only element to tarnish the festivities it would be a blessing to King’s memory and his admirers. 

The fact the representation of King, eleven feet taller than the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, was incongruously placed on the National Mall as the only monument not memorializing an American … Read the rest

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I admit that I don’t personally know many PETA people.  One old acquaintance admitted PETA membership but couldn’t explain why she is a member.  My barberette conceded PETAN sympathies and used Havaheart traps for a rodent issue until she realized she was simply spreading disease by re-locating what the Pied Piper of Hamlin did.  

   As noted in Part One, (http://bit.ly/ng9aR2), the mission statement of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals omits all reference to that animal designed to be the ruler of the animal pack, the animal intended by God to be at the top of the … Read the rest

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   You may say Khadafy or Kadaffie and I may say Qadafi or Gadaffie but “Daffy” is definitely not an acceptable or applicable nickname for Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, in Arabic مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي‎ Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī, the Libyan despot,  butcher of Libyans, mad dog of the Mideast, murderer of untold numbers of defenseless Americans and Europeans. 

Mu, as I will refer to him since I refuse to pay him any respect by repetitively typing  Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī is or was anything but daffy.  Treacherous, vile, and peculiar yes, but daffy, no; he is or was as wily as a snake, as calculating as Barack … Read the rest

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   In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his justly-famous “I Have a Dream Speech” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he spoke the inspirational words, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” 

Widely described as a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement, almost half a century later, America’s first (semi-) black president has re-defined that moment and has made a mockery of King’s speech and those words … Read the rest

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