WSB Sales Weasel David Danzig, Chipper Jones and the Talkmaster at the Tim Hudson Birdies 'n Baseball golf tournament that benefitted Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. 

Well ... the deranged Gargoyle kept his promise. North Korea has been warning for weeks of its intentions to test fire a missile. And they did just that. And no one in the international community -- most assuredly not Barack Obama -- did anything to stop him.

Aren't you glad you aren't walking around in Obama's slippers right now?

The missile has a range of 4,100 miles. North Korea claims that it launched a communications satellite used to transmit data and .. I love this .. patriotic songs. Horsesqueeze. Every other nation in the world knows that this missile was a flub and crashed into the Pacific .. but this maniac insists that Korea now has a satellite circling the earth playing the Oompa Loompa song. Did you really think that Kim Jong Ill was going to admit that this missile is really designed to carry a nuclear warhead? Yeah, I didn't think so.

So what we have here is a clear violation of a UN resolution. Ooooooh, I know. That carries a lot of weight nowadays. But this resolution, which was adopted back in 2006, says that North Korea should refrain from any further nuclear tests or launching another ballistic missile.

Step #2 here would be our response. Just the other day, I weighed the consequences of our response to a North Korean missile launch. Option number one was shooting the thing down, but then risk that being considered an act of war. Or option number two was to do nothing. This is the option that Barack Obama has chosen. And what will be the ultimate consequence of this action? I believe it makes the world a more dangerous place for America. The Gargoyle tested Obama, and Obama didn't meet the challenge. You can react and defend - you can appease - or you can just talk. It would seem to me that Obama's response is to appease and to talk. He wants the U.N. to do something. It is our security that is being threatened here, and Obama turns to the U.N. Some say that Bush outsourced jobs. Is Obama now outsourcing our national security?

Question: Both before and after the missile launch, can you point to one thing that Obama has done that could possibly cause anyone, let alone Kim, to believe that he will step forward unilaterally to defend this country when the threat gets severe enough?

Speaking of responses. Newt Gingrich had his say on what he would have done to handle this situation had he been in the White House. He would have disabled the darn thing before North Korea had the chance to launch it. Clearly, Newt is not living in a fantasy world, built on a fantasy foreign policy based on a world without nuclear weapons. (That would be Barack Obama's world.) Newt recognizes the issues at stake and the pieces of the puzzle that are moving into action: North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Russia.

Barack Obama's response? Call for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security. Obama actually thinks that we can achieve a world without nuclear weapons. Please tell me this man is not that naïve. This can never be. Instead of living with this completely unrealistic pipe dream, we need to create a world where rogue nations and Islamic terrorist groups know that to seek one of these weapons is to guarantee their own destruction.

Here's how Newt would have handled things: "There are three or four techniques that could have been used, from unconventional forces to standoff capabilities, to say: 'We're not going to tolerate a North Korean missile launch, period.' I mean, the world's either got to decide that North Korea is utterly dangerous ... I'd recommend, look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes every ... equation about how risky these weapons are."

Here's the bottom line. Somewhere on this globe some nation or some organization is going to be more powerful than all of the others. Who is going to carry the big stick? Right now the choices seem to be between the United States, Russia, China or the United Nations. Go ahead ... chose one. One of these four entities will be the world's most powerful ... who do you want it to be? Today both Russia and China are making excuses for North Korea's actions. Neither seems willing to do much about it. We know the United Nations isn't going to act. We have to wait for Israel to attack Hamas for the U.N. to get into gear. That leaves - at least among the world's truly powerful nations - the United States. What are we doing? We're asking the U.N. to do something, we're talking about talking, and we're promoting some fantasy about a world free of nuclear weapons.

Last week, Slobbering Barney (a man who has never worked in the private sector during his entire life) passed a bill through the House called the Pay for Performance Act that would allow the government to set compensation restrictions on all employees of all banks receiving bailout funds. Here comes the law of unintended consequences. Now we have the Obama administration is apparently trying to figure out ways to get around these restrictions. Why? Because some banks out there are trying to pay back their bailout funds while others are sending the signal that they don't want to get into the bailout process at all. Obama wants to control the banks. In order to control the banks he needs this bailout connection. Essentially it's a "you take my money and I own you" deal. Barney's wealth-envy based restrictions are a problem here.

So .. what do you do as president if there's a law in the way of your agenda? Simple. You figure out a way around the law. What do you think we're operating here? A system based on the rule of law? Get serious. So here's the plan. Sources indicate that Obama can get around the rules by not providing direct aid to financial companies. What you do here is set up some special entity that will act as a middleman. The government pays the middleman, and the middleman then sends the money off to the financial institution. Since the financial institution isn't getting bailout money "from the government" the Barney restrictions don't apply.

Is this legal? Heck, that doesn't really seem to be an issue any more. What does legality have to do with it? Where is the Constitutional authority for the government to seize these banks in the first place? Questions of legal and illegal have come to only apply to the private sector. As Mark Levin says in his book, we're now in what you might term a soft tyranny. The Constitution is only in the way. For the time being questions of legality don't apply.

You may remember that Barack Obama met with bank CEOs before heading to Europe. And more details are emerging from what exactly was said in the meeting. But according to two sources cited on Politico, here is a direct quote from the president:

"My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."

Well ... let's see. The Obama administration and the Democrat Party demonizes the private financial sector in this country, and then Obama claims to be their ultimate protector. What a guy!

Have you heard about the little brouhaha in New York? Apparently someone is New York City has changed the name of their restaurants to include Barack Obama's name. Big deal. This has happened all over the world with barber shops and teleprompter manufacturing companies.

But this one has become a big deal because the restaurants serve fried chicken. The new names -- Obama Fried Chicken and Obama Fried Chicken & Pizza - are being targeted by local protestors because they are said to be racist.

That's right! Naming you chicken shack "Obama Fried Chicken" means that you believe in the inherent genetic inferiority of the black race.

A City Councilman by the name of Charles Barron (trust me, this guy is a certified barking moonbat.) weighed in on the subject saying, "People from the community were calling me and saying they were outraged by this racist connection to Barack Obama and fried chicken ... If you think that free speech gives you the right to insult and degrade us and stereotype us, then you've got a battle on your hands."

Charles Barron is a far greater insult to the black race than a fried chicken joint can ever be.

Did you pack your daughter off to a Spring Break beach vacation? Just so you know, this is what she's up to.

You're welcome.

Name: Marlene Cooksey

City: Tucson

Subject: food stamps

How do you sleep at night? I thought I had heard every right-wing selfish utterance on talk radio, but you, sir, have taken the prize. A separate line for food stamp recipients, seriously? People feeding their children via food stamps gets on your nerves? Seriously? I had to use food stamps when my twins were young or they would have gone hungry. And, let me tell you that I am forever grateful to live in a country where the less fortunate are given a helping hand.

My two daughters are now productive members of this society; one a successful attorney (Pell grants and student loans)and the other a para-legal with two beautiful children - no thanks to you and your kind.

So, sleep well at night, sir, and don't give one minute's thought to those who are less fortunate than you. And, oh yes, there should be separate lines in the supermarket - one for heartless, ignorant morons and the other lines for us good Americans.

Yup ... more of that "less fortunate" nonsense. If you work hard, don't have kids until you can afford to raise them, go the extra mile ... and end up a success, you were just "fortunate." It's all about luck. If, on the other hand, you have kids you can't afford and have to use the government as an instrument of plunder in order to feed them .. it's all because you were "less fortunate," or, to use the translation, just "unlucky."

I wonder why Marlene Cooksey never mention's the twins father?

The Wall Street Journal says that North Korea will ultimately benefit from their missile launch .. condemnations now, concessions later.

Barack Obama wants to legitimize the United Nations Human Rights Council. Read this and see if you think this is a good idea.

Despite reservations from Russia (and obviously Iran), Obama has decided to continue with the missile defense shield to be built in the Czech Republic and Poland. Score one for Obama.

Teacher's unions are more important to Democrats than the kids are. Democrats are sitting on evidence of voucher system successes.

Here's an excellent Wall Street Journal column about Obama's goal to nationalize the banking industry. And Barney Frank's little Pay for Performance Act is just one of many steps in making that a reality.

Is anybody else in this country even slightly concerned about the fact that government is the only sector that is growing and hiring new workers? This is exactly what Barack Obama and the Democrats want - more government.

If I were senior management in any company considering taxpayer assistance, I'd be considering early retirement. Because Tim Geithner has made it pretty clear that he is prepared to oust senior management and boards of directors of any bank that requires "exceptional" assistance.

Which states lead the way when it comes to the tax burden on its citizens? Remember that we aren't just talking income taxes.

Here's a side of the financial crisis that you will rarely read about .. the story of the computer programmer who created the software to bundled home mortgages into bonds, eventually leading to the collapse in subprime loans.

Barack Obama says that he supports Turkey's bid to become a member of the European Union. I'm sure there are a lot of Europeans that would disagree. Me? I don't really care one way or the other.

The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe unless labor unions agree to concessions. Unions strike again.

The Obama administration is going to "protect Antarctica's fragile environment" by imposing mandatory limits on tourism to the region. Wait? We own Antarctica?

After calling Barack Obama an ignoramus, Hugo Chavez now says that he wants to reset relations with America.

Why does legalizing marijuana make sense?

I guess there really isn't a point to have red-light cameras in place if the government can't make enough money off of them.

The anti-gun crowds are going to have their hands full with this story about the man who killed three police officers because he was afraid Obama was going to ban guns. Clearly, the guy was a complete nutcase..

A woman who was text messaging on her phone while driving and ended up killing someone was sentenced to six years in prison. Why only six? And how long do you think she will really serve? Six years? I doubt it.