Health care bill “Dead on arrival” per Lindsey Graham

Do you really want to trust the defeat of Pelosi/ObamaCare to Sen. Lindsey Graham?  We have on our side some committed warriors. And some RINOs who would compromise with the Devil if he offered enough perks. 

 On the other side, we have people such as Pelosi, so stupid that she has to be reminded to breathe, but so committed that she rammed this through the House on a Saturday night.  Democrat representatives break out in hives on a Saturday night if they aren’t doing something illegal with somebody other than their spouse, and Pelosi had them all voting. And she got enough of them to vote to pass her godawful bill.  I’d put the Democrap motivation level at about 90%.  They truly believe that if they pass this bill they can control Congress and the White House for the next fifty years. They are fighting for all the perks and control and power that will come along if they are correct. 

True committed believers against asshats such as Lindsey Graham and John McCain? No contest.  “Dead on arrival”? Don’t believe it. Stick hot pokers up your Senators’ arses. Call and write and email early and often. Otherwise, we will look back on this day, and have to explain to our children and grand children why we did not fight this battle with our every breath.

I won an appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia based upon the “Beltway Snipers”

This will give away my anonymity to astute readers, but several months or a couple of years after the “Beltway Snipers” were caught, I tried a case in Henrico County that peripherally involved them.  Basically, my client had been involved in a car wreck that caused him to endure serious and permanent head aches.  The defense hired a psychiatrist to testify that my client was not injured.  When their expert was interviewing my client, my client made the mistake of telling him that he enjoyed guns, and owned a .223 assault rifle, similar to the one used by the “Beltway Snipers.”   

Well, the defense tried to introduce that fact into evidence, in an attempt to make my client look like a gun nut.  That fact was really irrelevant to any issue in the case.  I duly objected and requested that the judge not allow it to be introduced into evidence, on the grounds that it was irrelevant, and that any slight relevance was outweighed by the prejudicial effect, especially since the “Beltway Snipers” had only recently been caught.  The judge overruled my motion, and allowed the evidence of my client owning the gun to come into evidence. 

After we obtained a crappy verdict, I appealed to the Supreme Court and they set the verdict aside.  Their decision was only about the second time in history that the Court set aside a decision like that because of “abuse of discretion” by the trial judge (I’m sure that is a slight exaggeration–but it does not occur very often, certainly not often enough).  The end of the story is that we re-tried the case and got an even worse verdict.  Ahhh, the joys of being a lawyer.   I worked my ass off for 5 years and got not one red cent from that case!

Beltway Sniper John Muhamad to fry on Tuesday

The Times Dispatch has a good retrospective.  I still remember the hair standing up on the back of my neck as I filled up my car just off I-95.  While carefully looking in all directions, wondering where the shooter might be hiding.  One shooting in Ashland occurred  less than 10 miles from where I was living back then.  A report went out to be on the look out for a white work van with Maryland plates.  I immediately saw one at the local Wendy’s.  Then I noticed that about every 5th vehicle on the road that day was a white work van.  The cops made a huge bust a couple of miles from my office, thinking that it was the sniper.  It was only some “undocumented potential immigrant” who was promptly deported.  Children’s sporting events were cancelled, people lived in fear, and innocent citizens were killed and maimed.  I’m glad that son of a bitch is going to fry.  In my opinion he  has lasted too long since the killings.  I’d love for somebody to explain to me why he shouldn’t.

Ponderosa in Ashland, VA 10/19/02

p.s. DARN! He’s not “gonna fry”, he is to be lethally injected.  Too bad his victims didn’t get to live an extra seven years and get to choose the method of their killing.

 

On getting old

I can’t speak for others, but as for me, life is not as enjoyable as when I was younger.  Christmas morning used to be a time of wonderment; now it is just another day. I used to love hunting rabbits, pheasants, ducks and geese, and especially deer.  Now I can take it or leave it–the only fun is telling stories the night before over a beer, and spending time with my son who still enjoys it.  I used to live and die to fish, now I fish once or twice a year, if that. Too much hassle.

I used to love to travel, anywhere, any time. I still remember the day that I just took off in the morning as a 17 year old, and traveled over half the roads in Michigan (it seemed) and still got back in time to play soccer that evening (back then we only played soccer to get in shape for upcoming two a days in football).  On a lark, with no preparation and only $40 in my pocket, I began hitch hiking out west (summer of 1977), destination unknown. I made it all the way to the pacific ocean and back, with 20 cents left in my pocket (but that is another story).  Now? Hassle, and a chance to get constipated and a stiff neck.

Some of the best times of my life were spent golfing with buddies. Now, I wake up sore for the next week and it ain’t worth it.  Sports of any kind, but especially football, basketball, softball and tennis, I just loved, but now they just don’t appeal to me any more.  The main outlet for my fierce competitive drive is poker with the boys. Don’t get old!

To the Press’ mantra that maybe the Fort Hood MOSLEM shooter had PTSD

A hero who had his arm blown off from an IED in Iraq responds: you can’t “catch” PTSD from dealing with other soldiers who have been in combat.  Great read!

Obama shout out to “Congressional Medal of Honor” winner was a blooper

From Newsbusters, the man was not a medal of honor winner. He was a “Medal of Freedom” winner.  The Medal of Freedom is our nation’s highest medal for civilians, and certainly nothing to scoff at, but the Pres was dead wrong.  Minor detail, you say? Obama awarded the man the medal himself just 3 months earlier.  I’d like to give a shout out to our lame duck, smartest President evah!  Don’t go off teleprompter, son!  You ain’t smart enough.

Democratic consultant warned not to appear on Fox News

Finally some news worth reading at the LATimes! 

IF I believed that “my side” of an issue or a debate was correct, I’d do everything in my power to get my side out to the other side. If the White House really was only interested in getting the truth out, they’d fall all over themselves to get on big bad old Fox News to set their listeners straight.  But the White House isn’t interested in getting the truth out, they are only interested in isolating Fox News. And in teaching the other media outlets a lesson as to what happens if they don’t toe the line and spew only approved White House propaganda. 

Hear those crickets chirping? It is the only sound that you will hear from the other news outlets. No protest, no outrage, no whisper of dissent at the White House. 

[Pat] Caddell [former pollster to Jimmy Carter, and Fox News contributor] added: “I have heard that they’ve done that to others in not-too-subtle ways. I find it appalling. When the White House gets in the business of suppressing dissent and comment, particularly from its own party, it hurts itself.”

NY-23 elected a liar

Congressman Owens ran as a centrist. Now he will govern as a full-blooded Pelosi liberal.  The deck was stacked against us, with two liberals running, so that whomever won the liberal position would prevail. At the last second, the voters were given a conservative alternative in Hoffman. He almost won. But enough voters were hoodwinked by Owens’ lies that he squeaked by. 

You. IGNORANT. Bastards. Who didn’t see this coming? For all you NY-23 morons who voted for Owens or Scozzafava, please click here and send me your personal information, including name, address, phone number, bank account, and the name, number and expiration date of all of your credit cards immediately, and I will give you a lying bastard liberal as your representative in the U.S. Congress for the next year. 

Is this the time for armed rebellion?

Sepeaker Pelosi’s bill requires all U.S. citizens to purchase health insurance, and those who willfully refuse are subject to fines and imprisonment up to five years in a penitentiary.

Come and take them

Mandatory “sex lessons” for all 15 year olds in the U.K.

Per the TimesOnline.  I’m thinking that something is lost in the translation. From reading the article it appears that what we call sex education they call sex lessons.

But what really caught my eye was that 79% polled believed that there should be allowed to opt out of the class. But the new law does not permit any student to opt out, no matter what their parents’ objections might be, and any who do not attend will be punished as truants. 

What the hell is going on in the U.K.? I thought it was a democracy.  When 79% oppose a new law, I thought that meant that the law would not pass, and if it does, that whoever was responsible would be thrown out the next election.  This is even worse than what the Dems are doing here with Cap and Trade and ObamaCare, where they only are opposed by approximately 55% of the voters.   Somebody needs to be shot. No, wait, you panzy Brits gave up the right to own firearms decades ago.