HUCKABEE LEADS?

The latest Rasmussen polls in Iowa show that Mike Huckabee is now the front-runner in Iowa with 28% of the vote. He is followed by Mitt Romney with 25% support. Looks like I'm going with the crowd on this one. Put me in an Iowa caucus and it would be Huckabee for me ... and that's not just because of the FairTax.

Huckabee's best line of the night? It was in response to some prepuce who asked Huckabee what Jesus would do about capital punishment. His response: "Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office."

Right about that, Mike.

FILM CRITIQUING THE KORAN

A Dutch lawmaker has decided to make a film highlighting the "fascist" passages in the Koran. Oh boy .. it's gonna be on now. We'll see how that works out for him.

Other ministers are concerned but they say they have no authority to prevent the lawmaker from screening his film ... does that mean that they were considering banning him from doing so? Geert Wilders, the lawmaker/director, says that parts of the Koran are used as inspiration "by bad people to do bad things." Gee! No kidding? I'll alert the media.

Many are comparing his movie to the film "Submission" about an abused Muslim woman. Unfortunately for Wilders, the director of "Submission" was shot and his throat was slit by a Muslim extremist in Amsterdam. And you may remember the woman who wrote the screenplay, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ... she is being protected in the U.S. because there is a death-threat issued for her as well.

This lawmaker must really want to get the message out.

AND THEN THERE'S THE TEDDY BEAR TEACHER

You've heard about her, the British teacher in Sudan. She allowed the class to name a teddy bear owned by one of the students Mohammed. Now the very same Muslims who will tell you at a drop of a turban how wonderful, serene and peaceful their religion is are calling for this teacher to be executed.

When are we going to wake up to the true nature of this threat? Radical Muslims are threatening to kill a teacher over the naming of a teddy bear; radical Muslims are calling for the death of all "non-believers" and the destruction of America. Muslims, radical and others, are rioting – again—in the suburbs of Paris. Muslim family members will kill a female Radical Muslims cut off heads, stone rape victims, shoot school teachers, prevent young girls from escaping burning buildings, and shoot school children in the back ... while at the University of Florida we have a vice president for student affairs emailing all students telling them that Muslims are offended by a movie poster that says "Radical Islam Wants You Dead."

And we're supposed to give a damn?

SAN FRANCISCO ID CARDS

Earlier this month, San Francisco supervisor Tom Ammiano introduced a measure that would provide municipal ID cards to illegal aliens, transgender people, senior citizens that can no longer drive, and other residents who can't obtain driver's licenses. All you need in order to be eligible is a passport, foreign driver's license or other photo ID, as well as a recent utility bill. The program will go into effect in August 2008.

The ID cards will be proof of identity for anything government related, including police stops. And yet officials want to make sure that everyone knows that these are not driver's licenses. Any agency, nonprofit, or business that receives city funding will be required to accept the cards, except for hiring.

By the way ... the transgender population has thongs .. or whatever they wear down there ... in a big-time wad because "the notion of gender will be marginalized in the process."

Okaaaay ... moving on, the real reason for the cards is pretty predictable: to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows. Can't these people get a new metaphor by now?

So now let's get to the fun part ... the cost. The County Clerk estimates that the IDs will cost taxpayers $2.86 million in the first three years. Supervisor Ammiano wants you to believe that it will only cost $500,000 in the first year, but he forgot to take into account the simple concept of a staff that will be necessary to man the program. The cards will cost $15 for adults and $5 for children, but taxpayers will no doubt be footing the brunt of the costs.

'TOO INDIAN' TO WORK

An Indian-born British man worked for the Talk Talk Direct telecommunications company. He accepted a transfer to New Delhi to work in the company's call center when he was fired because his accent "wasn't English enough."

Actually, I have no problem with this. As long as it is a private business, they can set whatever standards it wants for it employees. Unfortunately the English government does not agree, awarding the man $10,000 compensation for "hurt feelings" and expenses. He claims he suffered both direct and indirect discrimination.

Maybe he'll become an air traffic controller.

GRANDMA THE LITTERBUG

Betty Davis lives in Great Britain. She's 88-years-old. One day she went out to sweep the street clean in front of her house. Guess who knocks on her door with their handy PC badge? A city council worker. The government bureaucrat knocked on Betty's door to deliver the message: you could be fined and taken to court for doing what you just did! Apparently she broke the litter laws.

As you might expect, there is now a genuine neighborhood going on. The council chiefs have since apologized and assured the residents that they will no longer be fined for sweeping leaves off their own property and into the road.

BAH HUMBUG

Twenty-nine students from the Ysgol San Sior school in North Wales were singing Christmas carols at a local shopping center. The students, between six and 11 years old, were singing to raise money for their school.

That was until a security guard decided that they were singing too loudly. After one hour of singing, a security guard came over said tenants had complained about the loud singing. He said that if they didn't stop he would have to call the police.

So he did ... the Police Community Support Officer arrived. The students packed up and went home. The manager of the shopping center admits it was a mistake and security staff should not have intervened. The students will be back to perform their carols next week ... and no they will not be required to sing quietly.

ANOTHER SMALL VICTORY

The city of Denver has decided to pull its diversity training video. For details check yesterday's Nuze!

BRINKS HOME SECURITY

Just saw another one of their ads on TV. Now this is another one of those little things that just get stuck under my skin.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

"I'm dreaming...of a white trash Christmas..." More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

The Heritage Foundation tackles the "myth" of free healthcare. The trouble is that the people who will read this are generally the people who don't need to read this.

The year 2007 is set to be the 6th warmest year on record, after scientists originally predicted that it would be the warmest year on record ... much to the dismay of OwlGore. Somewhere today some American is going to wake up to the fact that global warming is a scam.

According to a Harvard study, 60 percent of Americans do not trust mainstream media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaigns. Only 60 percent?

Three people have been arrested in Slovakia for trying to sell more than 2 pounds of radioactive material.

Hugo Chavez has now cut off contact with the Columbian government ... what a blessing for Columbia. I'm just waiting for Hugo the Horrible to take that one fateful step too far.

Belgium's third largest city, Ghent, had now banned all of its employees from wearing Muslim headscarves or any other religious or political symbols. Let's see how long it takes for some Muslim to call for some Ghent official's death.

The NAACP in Bangor, Maine has canceled its annual Kwanzaa celebration after a 75-year-old man threatened to shoot chapter members. Why not just lock up the old fart?

I love the city of San Francisco, but it sure has some weird priorities. Now the city wants a late-night pizza ban. Keep doing what you're doing, San Francisco ... it seems to be working for you.

CNN duped by the Clinton campaign ... again. They don't call CNN the Clinton News Network for nuthin, you know.

The entire nation of Scotland gets the "dumb-ass of the day award." The government spent six months and $250,000 to develop its new, award-winning slogan: Welcome to Scotland.

Just across the North Georgia border in Tennessee they are proceeding with plans to build a 14 acre, 6,000 person water park. Sounds like a place I would like to go. Will they have an adults-only day?

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Our tax dollars must protect the white-tailed prairie dog, the Preble's meadow jumping mouse and the Canada lynx ... wait, Canadian?

You decide: constant power outages or saving the precious parakeets? I'm surprised that there are any parakeets left after we dropped so many of them on the jungles of southeast Asia.

Scientists say that merely standing up may be just as important as exercise. I try to do that at least once a day.

A company is selling "safe sex passports" for all you online daters out there. Card holders are tested for HIV, genital herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.

Hey, go jump off a cliff...but make sure you're wearing your flying suit. Seriously, how cool is this?

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