Treason?

I've not heard anyone mention this, but if Faisal Shahzad, the terrorist who set the car bomb in Times Square, is a U.S. citizen, shouldn't he have treason added to the list of charges against him?

And what about the news media who claim poor Shahzad was really a good person, but circumstances may have caused him to commit this atrocity. He lost his job, his home was lost to foreclosure, and he just didn't fit in. Well, maybe he could have made his house payments and kept his job if he hadn't been spending all that money going back and forth to Pakistan numerous times!

He got what he deserved.

Steve Consalvi thinks he's a cool dude. He's the idiot who ran onto the field at a Phillies baseball game and led the officials there on a merry chase before one of them tased him.

Now everyone is upset because a teenager was tased. But his parents aren't -- his mother apologized for his actions and said what he had done was stupid. There are still some good parents out there!

At any rate, the police department is reviewing whether its officers shoubd be on the field at all. In this day of suicide bombers and other assorted fruitcakes, of course there should be security on the field! How did they know this was just a stupid teenager? He could have had a grenade in his pocket, or plastic explosives strapped around his waist. And if he had, and security had done nothing, don't you think there would have been an uproar about that? It's not like they shot him, but I bet Steve got enough juice that he'll think twice before he pulls a stunt like that again.

"Arrest causes review." The Dallas Morning News; May 5, 2010; p. 8C.

More Media Bias

If you saw the headline: "Slim majority backs Arizona law," what would your impression be? Mine would be that maybe 51% thought something needed to be done about illegal immigration. But here's the real story underneath that headline.

Of those polled 51% thought the Arizona law was about right. But another 9% thought it didn't go far enough. That gives a solid 60% who think something should be done about all these illegals. 36% of those polled thought the law went too far. 60% to 36% -- if that were a presidential election, they'd call it a landslide.

"Slim majority backs Arizona law." The Dallas Morning News; May 4, 2010; p. 7A.

Veronica and Betty are disgusted.

My favorite comic book when I was a kid was Archie. I never could figure out why Archie was so much more attracted to Veronica than he was to cute, perky Betty. Anyway, the innocents in Riverdale are no longer innocent. PC has taken over, and a gay character now inhabits this little Everytown, USA. How sad that we must now protect our children from what was once a wholesome look at teenagers and their angst-filled lives.

Leonard Pitts sees this all as a good thing. He says, "We are at least done contesting the very right of gay men and lesbians to simply 'be.'" He touts the "progress" we've made -- it is, he says, "a series of incremental changes whose full importance we see only in hindsight." And that's what I've been saying everytime we make one more concession to those who practice abomination.

And he says now that there's a homosexual in Riverdale, we should say, "Welcome to the 21st Century. We've been waiting for you." I think we should rather say, "Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah."

"A gay teen in Archie's world?" The Dallas Morning News; May 3, 2010; p. 15a.

Double Standards in the Medical Profession

The American Board of Anesthesiology has issued a mandate. Any of its members who participate in the execution of a person legally judged guilty and sentenced to death will have their certifications revoked. Yet they haven't issued a similar mandate for those who participate in legally assisted suicides. And they haven't issued a similar mandate for those who participate in legal abortions. We can only conclude that the board places higher value on the lives of murderers than it does on the lives of the innocent. Its double standard is showing.

"Doctors in executions targeted." The Dallas Morning News; May 2, 2010; p. 8A.

We have met the enemy . . .

Obama gave a commencement speech at the University of Ann Arbor. He said, "When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us."

Made me think of the old Pogo cartoon -- "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Our government has become menacing -- "You will buy health insurance or suffer the consequences."

Our government has become threatening -- " You will reduce your carbon footprint, or we'll tax you out of business."

Our government has become a foreign entity -- our founding fathers wouldn't recognize it.

And we don't have a democracy -- despite the majority of Americans being opposed to the health care bill, it passed through backroom shenanigans and outright bribes. And that's just one example.

Yes, if we do, indeed, have a democracy, then old Pogo was right.

"Obama calls political vitriol dangerous." The Dallas Morning News; May 2, 2010; p. 4A.

Put it on! Put it on!

Some people really have no life. A bunch of women in Farmington, Maine, had a topless protest because men are allowed to go without shirts. Now get this -- the law in Maine allows the women to go topless, too, but they say they want it to be socially acceptable.

From the photo included with the news article, I think their protest probably did much more to convince the people of the great state of Maine to rethink their permissive law than it did to make topless women accepted in polite society. Thank goodness the photo caught them from the backside, because if it had caught them from the front, I imagine we all would have been covering our eyes and shouting, "Put it on! Put it on!" The good news is Farmington merchants sold record amounts of Alpo that day.

"Maine women go topless for protest." The Dallas Morning News; May 1, 2010; p. 7A.