Ridiculous images from Isaac

There may be more ridiculous-looking images on television these days, but one of the most ridiculous must be the sight of reporters at storm scenes trying to say anything intelligent or intelligible while they are being blown around by wind and rain. 

  This morning, in less than four minutes on NBC alone, no fewer than four wind and rain-battered correspondents in succession reporting from various parts of the Gulf Coast. Poor Lester Holt looked as if he were about to be blown off the face of the earth.

 http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/48824294#48823778

Doesn’t anyone have sense enough to come in out of the rain?

And they want to run the country

The people who run the party that wants to run the country are the ones who scheduled the GOP convention on Tampa at the height of the hurricane season. Duh!

The loon from Lubbock TX

     First there's "Judge,"  Tom Head, the Lubbock County, Texas commissioner preparing us for Civil War if President Obama is re-elected:

     “He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., and what is going to happen when that happens? I'm thinking the worst: Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we're not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we're talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy. Now what's going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He's going to send in U.N. troops. I don't want 'em in Lubbock County. OK? So I'm going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say, 'You're not coming in here.' And the sheriff, I've already asked him, I said, 'You gonna back me?' He said, 'Yeah, I'll back you.' "
     Then there's Gilbert Flores, the one Democrat on the Lubbock County commission, which, strangely, is called the Lubbock County Commissioner's Court. Delightfully he said of Head: "He's a six-pack short of a full case of beer, if you know what I mean."

     Yes, Gilbert, we know what you mean. He's a head case.

Washington's Idiots

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

Mark Twain 

White House Dogs

     Ever wonder why practically every president of the United States has felt compelled to have a dog in the house?  The answer may lie in a piece of advice from Harry Truman, the plain-spoken Missourian, who once declared:
     "You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
     (Oddly enough, Truman was given dogs occasionally while he was president, but he sent them away pretty quickly)

Romney and Israel

Set aside the utter stupidity and inaccuracy of Mitt Romney’s observation in the midst of his kowtow to Israel and it’s right-wing American  Jewish and Christian supporters that Israel’s economy is better off than the Palestinian economy because of a superior Israeli culture.

Think about this:  Romney said that Israel boasts a  per capita GDP of  $21,000. Actually, Israel’s per capita GDP is closer to $30,000 or about ten times the per capita GDP in the Palestinian controlled areas, thanks largely to the Israeli stranglehold on the Palestinians. Israel’s per capita GDP is 26^th worldwide.  (Japan and South Korea rank 24^th and 25^th respectively)

So here’s the question: Why is Israel the largest recipient of U.S. aid at more than $3 billion year –representing  one of the biggest earmarks in the budget and more than any other nation in the world gets when it is one of the world’s wealthiest nations and thus one of the least needy.   Supporters of this huge expense paid by the U.S. taxpayer would say it’s for defense of the only democracy in the region.  To which one might say, “Phooey!”  Israel has the largest military force in the Middle East. It has the most sophisticated weapons systems in the region. It has 200 nuclear war heads, all easily deliverable.  It also spends vast amounts of money freed up by U.S. assistance to act in ways that are directly in defiance of U. S. policy, such as the development of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, subsidies for residents of the settlements and infrastructure that enables Israelis  to travel easily between settlements in the West Bank and the Golan Heights  to Israeli cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Palestinians cannot travel on those roads, or even to enter Jerusalem which is as holy to them as it is to Jews.