The estimable Michelle Malkin reports that the facist tyrants of the military junta in Myanmar are playing a horrific game with foreign aid:  they want cash, not supplies.

Like the junky panhandler, giving them cash will only continue their obnoxious and immoral behavior is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.

If we are not going to send supplies, then I suggest we give them Tomahawks.  As in cruise missiles, targeted on their homes and offices.  Or fifty caliber sniper rounds from a Barrett rifle.

It's time to stop playing nice, and start playing hardball.  They are committing a horrific crime against humanity.  And they should be held accountable for such.

And now.

Ace of Spades HQ has a great post up about how stupid Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi really is.  It seems all that time spent at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore was a complete and utter waste.

It seems that Lil' Nancy is SO UNWILLING to give credit to the members of the uniformed services of the US Military -- let alone their Commander-in-Chief -- that she believes that Iran deserves the credit for the turnaround in Iraq.

From the May 28th edition of the Financial Times, we learned that the Department of Homeland Security has finally gone completely batty:

The west needs a more comprehensive strategy to counter al-Qaeda propaganda and the US should stop using the term “war on terror”, according to a top intelligence official.

Charles Allen, the senior intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, says the phrase is counter-productive because it creates “animus” in Islamic countries.

“[It] has nothing to do with political correctness,” Mr Allen said in an interview. “It is interpreted in the Muslim world as a war on Islam and we don’t need this.”...

Does Barack "Gaffeman" Obama actually employ a speechwriter for his campaign?  One must wonder, after his latest gaffe.  Speaking to a group of Democrat dignitaries in New Mexico, he began:

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

It's a cute sentiment.  The only problem is that on Memorial Day we remember and salute our honored dead, keeping the promise that they shall not have died in vain.

Foreign Policy magazine has a list of the worst places in the world to be a terrorist.  Missing from the list -- despite the protestations of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama -- is Guantanamo Bay.

Sort of makes you wonder.

If you think gas prices are too high, then you better not drink Starbuck's Coffee or any Anheuser Bush Beer.

Starbucks Venti:  $23/gallon.

Budweiser:  $11/gallon.

Just something to think about when you are downing your favorite liquid.

That might be my mantra soon.  I really like Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin. She's a no-nonsense, kick-ass/take names, anti-corruption, anti-earmarking Governor.

And her pledge to challenge the Government's listing of the Polar Bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act is right on.

The simple fact is that there has not been a larger polar bear population in the Arctic in over 100 years.  The simple fact is that by listing the polar bear as "threatened" under the ESA gives the the government the ability to hold nearly ANY contributor to the threat of so-called "climate change" accountable.  The simple fact is that it is an overreaction by an Administration grasping for a legacy beyond a hard, tough, controversial war.

Bravo to Sarah Palin! 

Apparently, our SUVs, air conditioners, and power plants aren't just a problem here on Earth.  Our brothers and sisters on Jupiter are now contributing to that planet's own "climate change crisis", as two more "Red Spots" have formed on the surface of Jupiter-- because of global warming.

Thank God for incompetency.  Our incompetent Congress -- and I mean the entire bicameral body, regardless of party affiliation -- can't even pass a law and present it to the President according to the simple and clear edicts of the United States Consitution.

Remember that massive Farm Bill that was a complete and total charlie fox of bad farm economics which I blogged about here?  Well, it turns out that the bill the President vetoed the other day -- the bill Congress presented to him for signature -- was NOT the same bill that was voted on in session.

That means that Congress has to resubmit the correct bill, and vote on it again, and resubmit it to the president.

Way to go, guys!  This is the very reason I do not trust government to solve problems.  They cannot even perform their basic duties properly.

Robert Alt has more on the consitutional implications here.

Maybe not.  Apparently there has been a growing movement of scientists questioning whether the "dinosaurs" and "early plant life" could have created the volume of petroleum currently available. 

This article from 2004 is instructive... and the debate goes on.

Now that I am back in the "commuting class", and I have to drive through a big swath of Baltimore City on a daily basis, I am going to start a new feature here called "Stupid Pedestrian Spots"

This week:  Lexington Market @ Paca Street.

The Calvert Street Commie Times has a great article today on Wells Fargo firing back at the City of Baltimore over the lawsuit that accuses Wells Fargo of illegal loans and foreclosures, thereby denying the city "millions" in revenue.

Wells Fargo fires back,  however, that only 313 foreclosures have occurred during the period.  They also highlight the 19,000 tax lien sales by the city that have the same effect as foreclosure.

Should be a fun battle to watch.

Are you familiar with the Peter Principle, the certain people rise to their own level of incompetence?  Well, in Maryland we have the Porcari Principle, where certain politicians rise to an even higher level of incompetence.

It is named after Maryland Secretary of Transportation John D. Porcari, whose fundamental incompetence has been on full display these many months since O'Guvnah kissed the Blarney Stone and suckered the state into electing him Governor.

For a man with an Ivy League education, Barack Hussein Obama is the dumbest, most non-serious candidates for the President of the United States in my lifetime.  No, I take that back.  He is the dumbest, most non-serious candidate for President of the United States. (And let's keep in mind, that includes Pat Paulsen).

Let's examine the evidence.

A professor at Jordanian University thinks that suicide bombers should be armed with small nuclear bombs.

Jordanian University lecturer Ibrahim Alloush recommended on Al-Jazeera television this week that suicide bombers be equipped with small nuclear bombs.

I wonder if these are the types of people that Barack Obama insists on negotiating with directly?

Over at Mahmoud Albero's cyberterrorism headquarters, he is all excited because the Powellville Volunteer Fire Departmet allowed him to pariticipate in a live fire training exercise.  There is just one problem:  they may have violated NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Standard 1403: Standard on Live Fire Training Evolutions.

TomCat points this out on his blog "A Class Act".

Social conservatives all over the land are schvitzing over the fact that California's notoriously liberal Supreme Court has just ruled that gay marriage must be made in legal in one of the nation's largest state.

I suppose that as a social conservative, I should join in the renting of my clothes and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.  But I can't.  Because while I despise the ruling, I do so for far different reasons.

There has been a lot of foot stomping in Conservative America about John McCain's endorsement of cap-and-trade as a so-called market-based solution to restricting so-called "greenhouse gas" emissions.  But no one has really asked "Why does he back this method"?

The number two most hated company in my pantheon of "Most Hated Companies" is FedEx.  In the eleven years that I have lived in the house, NOT ONCE has FedEx ever managed to deliver a package, parcel, or letter (regardless of service level) on time or correctly.  In fact, I no longer purchase from companies that only ship through this shitbag company.  Unfortunately, I don't always have a choice when I am expecting something really important -- like the final payout of vacation from my previous job.

Of course, the ACLU and the liberal lawyers are leading the way.

Just ask the victims of former Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Salih Al Ajmi.

Remember how O'Guvnah promised us in his 2006 campaign how the O'Guvnah era in Maryland Politics would usher in a brand new Public Service Commission... one not "so connected" with power utilities that they regulated?  How rate increases would be rolled back?  How electricity would be made affordable again?

Of course, the rest of Maryland now knows what Conservatives were saying all along:  O'Guvnah's gift of gab from kissing the Blarney stone was producing rhetoric his capabilities couldn't match.  (In other words, he was lying his ass off.)

And PEPCO has just given us proof.

There Heritage Foundation has a new chart up on the ridiculous stupidity that surrounds farm politics in America today.  It's stupid, because our nation's farm politics have nothing to do with saving family farms, but with providing corporate rent-seekers (like, ahem, David Letterman) with gobs of taxpayer money to subsidize incredibly profitable operations.

If you think "Big Oil" is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.  "Big Ag" is worse.

Did you know that there are more employees in the US Department of Agriculture than there are farms in the United States of America?  How can that possibly make sense?

And the Heritage Foundation chart doesn't even take into count massive tarriffs on items like imported sugar, which act as entirely other subsidy on an incredibly non-competitive industry.  The tarriff on imported sugar is made even worse when you consider that, because of that tarriff, food companies switched to High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) over two decades ago to cut costs.  Yet another distortion on the demand curve for corn that increases the price of food worldwide.

The People's Republic of China -- that nation that holds a seat on the UN Security Council despite having killed over 40 million captives citizens during the cultural revolution -- needs to step up and do the right thing in Myanmar.  The military junta in Myanmar, every bit as cruel and repressive as Communist China under Mao, is causing a natural catastrophe to become a man-made human catastrophe because of their incredible capacity for evil, and China needs to step up now to stop or pay an extreme penalty.

I forgot to post this on Thursday:  Thursday, May 8, 2008 was the 60th Anniversary of the founding of Israel.  Of course, we didn't see much about this in our anti-Semitic drive-by-media, whose love and admiration for the camel-frakking terrorists like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, et al. is well established.

Israel is a remarkable country of remarkable people.  The only liberal democracy in the Middle East, she is a staunch ally of the United States and a friend and defender of freedom for all her people -- including her Arab citizens.  In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that her Arab citizens enjoy greater freedom and liberty under and Israeli government than they would under ANY Arab regime.

Mona Charen has a good rejoinder to the lies -- spread by complete ass-clowns like the shameful Jimmah Carter -- about Israel.

On Friday, May 2, 2008, Eddie Hale -- robust supporter of O'Guvnah and would be land-baron of Baltimore -- spoke up at the annual 1st Mariner Stockholder's Meeting and prognosticated that the stock had reached its lowest point, and was poised for a rebound.

The stock had closed at $4.13 on Thursday, May 1st. 

The stock closed at $3.80, down 33 cents, on Friday, May 9, 2008.

Eddie certainly is no Jim Kramer, that's for sure.  If you are taking advise from him on your 401(k), I have three words for you:  Don't do it.

Bank of America, one of the largest retail banking operations in the United States of America, loves America, but seems to have a serious dislike for Americans.  Founded by Italian immigrants in San Francisco in the 1800s when "American" banks wouldn't service them, Bank of America was one of those true Horatio Alger stories.  But a recent patent filing by Bank of America has a lot of people scratching their heads.

I have to be honest:  Barack Obama giving credit to Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos for Hillary Clinton's win in Indiana is incredibly funny.  Whether it is true or not -- and it might very well be -- it is rip-roaringly, rolling-on-the-floor-and-laughing-my-ass-off funny.

Because it is a perfect example of the chickens coming home to roost.

AmericasBank Corp -- which runs Towson Community Bank and Annapolis Community Bank -- has ousted its President and CEO, Mark Anders, due to poor performance according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

Hard to believe that a small bank company would have the gumption to "do the right thing".

I am no huge fan of the Baltimore Sun-- AKA the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter -- but I do like Greg Kane.  He is one of the best columnists of any Tribune paper.

And today's column is right on:  give me concealed carry, or give me police protection 24-7.

Not as poetic as "give me liberty or give me death", but the point is still valid.

Frederick County's new policy of inqiuring on the immigration status of people they arrest is drawing fire from CASA of Maryland, including some seriously trumped up figures of costs.  The truth is always the first casualty in the immigration fight.

Public schools have more problems than just funding, or hiring qualified teachers, or feeding malnourished children.

They have 13 year olds attempting to rape staff members.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised, given the number of attacks against school officials this year -- 120-- and the number of charges filed -- 7.  There is no real discipline for these little shitbirds or their worthless, feckless, parents. 

Personally, I hope this little 13-year pile of walking turd gets charged as an adult.  Let him spend a little time in Hagerstown or ECI -- say, 8 years -- and find out how tough he isn't.

He needs to learn the lesson:  if you want to act like a man, you've to to take it like a man.

I have pondered long and hard the campaign strategy of Senator Barack Obama.  I have decided that it has come down to four steps:

1. Open mouth.
2. Insert foot.
3. Complain when your opponents point out that your foot is in your mouth.
4. Repeat.

Case in point:  his Meet the Depressed appearance this past Sunday.