SOME FRIDAY RANDOM THOUGHTS

• When was the last time you heard any newscaster or read any columnist remind the people of this country that we are not a democracy and that we are not a country of majority rule? And God forbid any of these opinion influencers should ever remind us that there is no Constitutional right to vote in a presidential election.
  
• Tornadoes are the new hurricanes. Twenty tornadoes in the South last night. Needless to say, this is not a normal January for these folks. Look for the global warming cultists to start blaming the unusual weather on global warming. Let's encourage them to do so. They blamed global warming for hurricanes, and now we've had two essentially hurricane-free years. Maybe they can make the tornadoes go away as well.
  
• An interesting little fight going on in Georgia. Should an employer have the right to tell an employee that they cannot have a firearm in their car when the car is parked on the employer's property? The right of self-defense vs. property rights. We'll talk about it to day.
  
• Throughout the entire Clinton presidency Hillary's husband waved a succession of his girlfriends in front of her face. Did she ever cry in public? Not that I can remember. But let someone ask her how a campaign is affecting her and here come the tears. Don't you ladies realize how phony she is?
  
• Dennis Kucinich is asking for a recount in New Hampshire. Here is a guy who can't get the correct percentage of the amount of income taxes paid by the top 1% of income earners to within 50% --- and he thinks they didn't count the votes right in New Hampshire?

VOTER ID LAW

Looks like the bedwetters have gotten themselves into quite an ironic pickle. The Supreme Court is deciding on a case of voter ID requirements in Indiana. By now you know the liberal arguments ... it disenfranchises the poor, the minorities, the elderly, blah blah blah.

Well it looks like someone didn't do their homework. Faye Buis-Ewing is 72 years old. She has become a "poster child" for the disenfranchised voter that will be protected under a voting system with no ID requirements. But now we've discovered one minor problem. Not only is Faye registered to vote, but she is registered in two different states. She claims two states as her primary residence. She received a homestead exemption on her property taxes ... in two different states. In other words, the leftist poster girl for their fight against voter identification laws is a criminal. What a shame.

Faye could not only vote, but she could technically vote more than the average citizen registered in only one state! She explains that she and her husband "winter in Florida and summer in Indiana." Isn't that sweet? She says that she has never voted in Florida, but she has a Florida driver's license. And when she went to vote in Indiana in November 2006 with her Florida driver's license, they, logically, did not accept it. Doesn't seem like rocket science to me! But hey, this is the average voter we are speaking of.

Now the League of Women Voters (I'm sure they are my biggest fans) say this experience is exactly the reason the law should be changed. No, ladies .... That is exactly the reason why the law should be upheld! I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that Faye is voting for Hillary Clinton. Maybe twice.

Remember this. It's the Democrats who are opposed to Voter ID laws, and it is the MoveOn Democrats who have benefited more often than not from illegal voters casting ballots. Even a government school graduate can figure out why they don't want voters to have to prove who they are. Hell, even I can figure that out.

PAYIN' THE BILLS

Now this report should help you lose your breakfast. Apparently paying the phone bill is a concept too difficult for some government bureaucrats to handle. Sadly, this means your tax dollars flushed down the toilet ... and, of course, lapses in intelligence data.

Telephone companies have now cut off FBI wiretaps that are used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because some government employee forgot to pay the phone bill on time. The Justice Department blames the lost connection on the FBI's less than stellar oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In fact, one employee was able to steal $25,000 from the budget set aside for these investigations. No, we're not kidding.

There are more than 990 bills to be paid for telecommunications surveillance. More than half of those bills were not paid on time. Unpaid costs for one company totaled $66,000. The FBI finally admitted it uses an "antiquated" system to track money. Gee, ya think? Should we find some college sophomore to go up there to FBI headquarters to teach them the ins and outs of paying your bills online?

IMUS GOES GOLFING

Reverend Al Sharpton never seems to be without a cause. This week's protest is demanding that Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman be fired. Sharpton wants Kelly fired because she made an "offensive" remark during the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

I've known about this for a few days ... just sitting around wondering when some race pimp was going to hear about the incident and start spinning around on his eyebrows. Turns out the race pimp was none other than Al Sharpton.

Here's how the exchange went on ESPN a few days ago:

Nick Faldo: (While discussing strategies for younger golf players looking to overtake Woods) "To take Tiger on, maybe they should just gang up for a while."

Kelly Tilghman: (Laughing) "Lynch him in a back alley."

Now was this a stupid thing for her to say? Absolutely. Did she literally mean lynch him? No. But she has been suspended for two weeks. That's not good enough for Al, though. He wants her fired. He says, "The comment was not just racially insensitive but an affront to the entire Black community." You see, to Al Sharpton and his followers, everything is about race. What does Tiger have to say about it? His agent says that Tiger and Kelly are friends and he considers that matter "case closed." If Tiger is over it, why can't Al drop it? I'll tell you why, because Al the Liar is getting just a wee bit weary of seeing Barack Obama get all the press. To really be an effective race pimp with any longevity at all you have to continually stir the racial pot.

Oh and by the way, Al's people even got Kelly's gender wrong in his press release. It says, "He will picket the Golf Channel for employing him." Oops. I assume they meant "her." But hey, who cares about specifics, right?

RUSSIAN EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION

Russia's Ministry of Education has created a series of updated, pro-Putin textbooks for all of its little government subjects ... I mean students. Here are a few lessons from the new Russian history textbook:

1. The abolition of directly elected regional governors was a good thing because Russians cannot govern themselves.

2. The re-privatization of Yukos means Russia no longer has oligarchs.

3. Georgia gave up its independence in 2004 with its presidential elections and is now illegitimate.

4. Stalin was an "effective manager," taking Russia from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a few years. His repressions were necessary to mobilize for war and industrialize Russia so quickly. Same goes for Brezhnev. Krushchev, Yeltsin and Gorbachev on the other hand were bad because they were weak.

Doesn't that make you feel better about government education in our country? It shouldn't. It should scare you. It's the same concept, folks.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

If you think you need a beach to go surfing...you'd be wrong. Yee haw! More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

You demanded it, here it is: the top 10 thoughts for 2008. May contain some R-rated thoughts. If you're easily offended, don't read it, okay?

Bush's trip to the Middle East isn't getting all that much press coverage. So here it is ...

One year after the troop surge began in Iraq, Nancy Pelosi is declaring it an utter failure. OK, that does it. I want to know where she buys her weed.

There's no doubt that John McCain has served his country honorably ... but his energy policies are nothing more than energy-rationing schemes. And we all know how much I love the idea of government rationing.

This column by Arab-American writer Nonie Darwish is really worth a read. It's called "I Was Raised for Jihad" and offers some great personal insight into the peaceful, loving, serene religion of Islam.

One man could drastically change the outcome of the primary in South Carolina. And that is third ranking Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn of SC. He has yet to endorse a candidate, but when he does it will be big ... particularly for black voters.

Madeline Albright has decided that the Bush presidency has been one of the worst in history. Well, at least he wasn't the ugliest president in history. (Now that's cold.)

India has unveiled a car that costs just $2,500. Naturally the environmentalists are whining because more people will be able to afford cars. The car, by the way, gets 50 miles to the gallon.

The British have decided to start building new nuclear power plants. Of course, the environmentalists are upset again. What don't these people get upset about? I've been working on an idea for a power plant that runs on energy from cremated polar bears and baby seals.

It took a court to figure this one out ... a man in New Jersey got his license suspended because he forged his citizenship documents. In other words: he was an illegal alien. The other problem: the man is a resident of Maryland. Confused? You betcha.

A Katrina victim is asking for the government to compensate for his/her suffering. How much do they want? That would be $4 quadrillion. Only a woman could come up with a figure that absurd.

Until this case is resolved, businesses in San Francisco will be required to continue paying fees to a government healthcare program if the business itself does not offer healthcare to its workers.

Any outrage here? Internet service providers are thinking of filtering your internet usage for copyrighted content at the network level.

So there's this mayor in Oregon that has a MySpace page with a picture of her in her underwear. Now the residents of the town are demanding that she resign. Wait ... I'll go look at the picture and let you know how I feel about this important issue. In Atlanta we don't want to see our mayor in underwear.

I'm glad to see the British government is just as productive as our own ... yesterday the British ruled out the possibility of allowing elephants to be kept as pets.

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