From Big Dog's Site

Oh dear, someone is way off the reservation and has made the spot on observation that being independent isn't the same as being an Independent......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61kZ2Oyljs&eurl=http://www.onebigdog.net/zos-new-post-i-pledge/comment-page-1/

Woe Unto Us

WE ARE IN 'BIG TROUBLE' AND IT JUST ISN'T ALL POLITICAL!!

We are in trouble... The population of this country is 300 million. 160 million are retired. That leaves 140 million to do the work. There are 85 million in school. Which leaves 55 million to do the work. Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government. Leaving 15 million to do the work. 2.8 million are in the armed forces preoccupied with killing Osama Bin-Laden. Which leaves 12.2 million to do the work. Take from that total the 10.8 million people who work for state and city Governments. And that leaves 1.4 million to d o the work. At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals. Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just two people to do the work. You and me. And there you are, Sitting on your ass, At your computer, reading jokes. Nice...Real nice.

My thanks to my old shipmate and crop dusting pilot extraordinaire, Pat, and his lovely wife Joe.

Change You Can Believe In

I like this guy!

Subject: SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well.........

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!

Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay.

The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows.

The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we got him. Cost us $78.

The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals.

I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand.

He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the Prison.

Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of the vote.
Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural, that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border He's kind of a 'Git-R Dun' kind of Sheriff.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (In Arizona ) who created the ' Tent City Jail':
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but 'G' movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then He Started Chain Gangs For Women So He Wouldn't Get
Sued For Discrimination.

He took away cable TV Until he found out there was A Federal Court Order that Required Cable TV For Jails So He Hooked Up The Cable TV Again Only Let In The Disney Channel And The Weather Channel.

When asked why the weather channel He Replied, So They Will Know How Hot It's Gonna Be While They Are Working
ON My Chain Gangs.

He Cut Off Coffee Since It Has Zero Nutritional Value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, 'This Isn't The Ritz/Carlton......If You Don't Like It, Don't Come Back.'


More On The Arizona Sheriff:

With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), the Associated Press Reports:
About 2,000 Inmates Living In A Barbed-Wire-Surrounded Tent Encampment At The Maricopa County Jail Have Been Given Permission To Strip Down To Their Government-Issued
Pink Boxer Shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached
138 Degrees Inside The Week Before.

Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink Towels As Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down To Their PINK SOCKS.

'It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace,' Said James Zanzot, An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1 year. 'It's Inhumane.'

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: 'It's 120 Degrees In Iraq And Our Soldiers Are Living In Tents Too, And They Have To Wear Full Battle Gear,
But They Didn't Commit Any Crimes,So Shut Your Mouths!'

Way To Go, Sheriff!

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

Liberty

There is no doubt, Walter E. Williams should be Sec of Treasury, or maybe POTUS.

From today's Patriot Post:

LIBERTY

"President Obama can be forgiven for celebrating the hypocrisy of Abraham Lincoln because the victors of wars write their history and glorify the winners. The recognition that slavery is a despicable institution does not require hero worship of a president who made the largest contribution to the unraveling of our Constitution. After all when it is settled by brute force that states cannot secede, as they thought they had the right to in 1787, then the federal government can ride roughshod over states and their people's right -- in a word make meaningless the Ninth and Tenth Amendments." --George Mason University economics professor Walter E. Williams

Bears Repeating

From my friend Poison Pero, though I read the original on the WSJ.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Jay C wrote:

Let's not celebrate more ordinary speeches
By: Juan Williams
Original & Complete Article @ Wall Street Journal

I hope you will take a few minutes to read this entire article, it is superb and as honest an assessment as you will find in the media.

"If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else -- fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism -- then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. To treat the first black president as if he is a fragile flower is certain to hobble him. It is also to waste a tremendous opportunity for improving race relations by doing away with stereotypes and seeing the potential in all Americans."

"Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise."

"...to allow criticism of Mr. Obama only behind closed doors does no honor to the dreams and prayers of generations past: that race be put aside, and all people be judged honestly, openly, and on the basis of their performance. President Obama deserves no less."

Same Old Hope & Change

Ohh, oh! Jon Shhhhhtewart and the Comedy Central crowd have detected something.

Could it be The One is just another plagerist?

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/21/daily-show-obamas-inaugural-address-not-so-changey/

Also, click on the link there to see how enamored we are to be with B-HO's refined "Black English".

I am going to insulin shots before this term ends.

Cheers.

In Case You Missed It

Not So Fast Red Rider

Is BHO claiming a mandate, or saying the whole country is behind him? The only people who are behind are the ones who would be out carrying banners and denouncing this country as a racist hate mongering, international pariah if we had been inaugurating J. Sidney McCain today.

Dig this:

http://www.elections.state.ok.us/08gen_co.pdf

and this:

By these statistics, if we abolish the Electoral College, the Republicans would win the election. After the people start realizing that they have been duped by the Democratic Party, it will destroy their party. The United States doesn't need the Democratic Party anymore, but the true "Republic" Party that rebuilds American and doesn't purposely divide a nation. According to the stats listed below, if the election had been based on popular votes, then John McCain won the presidency!


Interesting Statistics:

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out facts of 2008 Presidential election:

Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds:
"In aggregate, the map of t he territory Republican won by Republicans was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare.

Professor Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Guns And Ammo

Subjugation is a big piece of salami to swallow, but it ain't so bad if you eat it piece by piece.

I got this in an e-mail from my uncle:

It's the ammo, not the guns...
I've said for a long time that they wouldn't go for your guns, they'd go for your ammo... guns have a Constitutional protection. Ammo does not. A list of states where this legislation is pending is in the final paragraph. Not in CO yet, they'll go where the pansies are first.

Heads up to all of you who swore to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign AND domestic. Let your
state Legislatures know that we do not want this bill passed, and petition them to vote no on this bill. We should keep after them until
the bill is closed by bombarding them with e-mails, phone calls, and letters.

Get to all your politicians to get to work and NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!! The 2008 Legislative session has begun, and the Ammunition
Accountability Act is being introduced across the country. Below is a list of states where legislation has already been introduced:

Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.

More information can be found at:

http://www.usavsus.info/US-AmmoRegistr.htm

The Big Bang

Any discussion of evolution is incomplete without a link to the origin of all things, The Big Bang. Yet, when I discuss evolution with agnostics and atheists they avoid the link, dismissing it as irrelevant, an ignorant non-sequiter, and instead try to steer the conversation back to debates over the meaning of "theory" as in "Theory" of Evolution, and the processes behind the scientific method.

Never mind, that the scientific method has yet to replicate the creation of a single living entity, not even one as simple as an amoeba, nor shown a way for a creature, say the whale, to have evolved from a sea organism, to a land organism (which is what they claim), back to a sea organism in any scientific way. They just say it happened, there's a fossil somewhere that proves that whales and hippos are related to the same common ancestor.

Well, ok, even if true, how did it all start? The fact there was once nothing, and then boom, the Big Bang and this whole marvelous universe with order and science behind if sprang into being is unexplainable by science, method or otherwise.

Here's a nice little essay on the subject, from Town Hall. As usual, the professional writers are much better at saying it than I.

http://townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2009/01/14/big_bang_evidence_for_god?page=2

The Best President Ever?

I'm beginning to like B-HO as President. He is starting off by waffling on everything, from his defense appointments to his tax cut/increase (whatever his position is today). And his stand on the current dustup in the Middle East is just classic of an inept leader.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0109/ghitis_obama_israel.php3

Now, some who like the leadership of the thug Chavez think B-HO's going to bring the paradise that is Venezuela to the US. They seem to think raw sewage running through the streets of towns and villages is just swell. And we know they want to shut down voices critical of The One, his supplicants, and his retainers.

But lo, they will be disappointed, B-HO will do nothing, just like Slick Willy, and that will be great for America.

Fight On (to borrow the USC slogan) Loyal Opposition!

Red Meat For Liberals

From Poison Pero:

#6: Paul Ash (Superintendent Estabrook Elementary School [Massachusetts])

“We are not required to inform parents in advance of teaching units that include same gender parents or required to release students when such topics are discussed.”

“A group of administrators, teachers, and community members formed the ‘Windows and Mirrors’ subcommittee to develop a comprehensive, inclusive K-5 Diversity curriculum…[which will include a focus on] gay and lesbian parents.”

**OUTSTANDING!!! Kindergartners are going to be forced into GLBTTBNPR instruction....It doesn’t get much better than that..

Oh, and parents have no say about their children being part of the program, because it is not their right to complain or take their children out of these portions of class…..FANTASTIC!!

I know some of you voted for Democrats in November, because you are ‘sick of the war,’ ‘jealous of the rich,’ ‘tired of Bush,’ yada, yada, yada……Just remember, voting for Democrats also means agreeing to turn your children over to the whims of the state. A fact which more and more means turning your children over to degenerates.

It’s your choice, though.**

Eloquence

The old Liberty Card recommends Liberals visit http://www.onebigdog.net/ as a way to get your mind right.

I know, I know, the other blogs, Like Radar Site, Do The Right Thing, Stop The ACLU, and all the others I read are good for you too, but you already read them or you would be here.

Just don't argue with the Big Dog, he's always right.

Gobal Warming On The March

Oh where is Algore now? I need to have him explain the science behind this latest manifestation of global warming.

Seems the whole Northern Hemisphere is frozen solid.

Fools on the March

Imagine, Barbara, a troll who calls herself raoul, is going to post things about me on her pathetic little blogs. She invited me to read the blog on Norm Hooban's blog.

Why would I read about me over there? I already know all about me, and visiting Barbara's blog would give her a 100% increase in readership.

Ho ho......