adale's blog

Liberal Mayors are shaking in their boots. They have gotten away with stupid gun laws for a long time. Did they really think that making gun ownership illegal was going to stop gun violence? The cities with strictest gun laws have the highest rate of shootings. Every time they tightened their laws, the rate rose even more.

The politicians aren't doing anything about gas prices. In fact, I think they're enjoying it. Every time you fill up your gas tank, they get 15% of whatever you pay. And, then they say that it's the fault of the evil oil companies. The problem with that is that the evil oil companies have to find the oil, get the oil, refine the oil and deliver it. For all that work, they make 4%.

I haven't had anything to say for quite a while. With the primaries in full swing, I need to get something off my chest. All the candidates, from both parties, are putting themselves up as the agents of change. The media-anointed candidates, Hillary, Barack and McCain use the word "change" the most. Isn't it ironic how sitting politicians, collecting the people's money while out campaigning, are saying that they want to change the way Washington works. They are the reason Washington works the way it does.

It seems that all the Democratic Presidential Candidates are proud of not appearing on Fox News. I don’t understand it. Fox News has the well earned slogan of “Fair and Balanced”. They go out of their way to be fair to all guests…especially Democrats. Their approach to news coverage reminds me of the old movies that depicted life as a newspaper reporter, “Just the facts please”.

I must begin by saying that I have never been much of a sports fan. I do enjoy watching a good football game or auto race, but that’s about all. It seems to me like the majority of the participants, in any sport, have such a narrow view of the rest of the world that the exchange of "duhs" in sports talk shows will keep me from ever being sucked in. But that’s not my rant today. I’m concerned about the way the sports mentality has screwed up our kids.

Come on. Nobody can get by with only one square of toilet paper, even with her skinny ass. Al Gore has done it again. Years after inventing the internet, he has invented mass stupidity. Did Sheryl get her idea from Al? Or, does she really think that the extra soap and hot water you would have to use consumes no energy?

Do you ever take herbal suppliments, vitamins or bottled water? If you do, the FDA wants you to get permission first. They have launched a plan to impose new regulations by declaring them as part of healthcare. The FDA quietly put put a document on its web site in December. It's titled "Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration." This document is open to public comment until April 30, 2007.

As I sit here in the Midwest with piles of snow and coldest temperatures in years, it’s hard to see global warming as a threat to our survival. However, the United Nations have found 50 scientists who say it’s absolutely happening. They went all around the world in search of the truth and came back with only 50 experts. Global warming is not a fact, but liberals and socialists around the globe say it is and that we caused it. They say it’s because of too much carbon dioxide.

As I was watching the news today, I just had to laugh. The talking heads really think that the words Liberal, conservative, left, right and middle have a specific meaning when used in their reporting. They are, of course, referring to the press releases distributed by the candidates. They must be checking some revisionist dictionary because I can’t seem to find any real language to help me follow along.