Cowboy Honeymoon

A cowboy and his wife had just got married and found a nice hotel for their wedding night. The man approached the front desk and asked for a room.


He said, 'We're on our honeymoon and we need a nice room with a good strong bed. The clerk winked, 'You want the 'Bridal'?'

The cowboy reflected on this for a moment and then replied,

Nope, I reckon not. I'll just hold onto her ears until she gets used to it.'

Such love

Michele Bachmann has bowed out of the presidential race. No suprise after her showing in Iowa. The American Pravda headlines are filled with it, and oh the love.
Michele Bachmann ends campaign  - Finally
Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry compete for the Tim Tebow vote
Bachmann says goodbye; Mitt Romney will miss her
The titles are intended to appeal to the lowest of the low, democrats. These writers are skunks. Bachmann gave it a good run. She had plenty of good ideas, but the press chose instead to use their typical gottcha BS in nearly every report they did about her. These communist scum intend to shape the republican campaign and net the least conservative candidate possible, then hack him to pieces before the general election.
America needs a press that is independent, not hyper politically motivated. Scum like these reporters deserve to be at the bottom of the pay scale at HuffPo.

Its Santorum by a neck

A few folks are going "Who?" but in Iowa, the flavor of the week is Rick Santorum by fewer then fifty votes. Romney has the money. He has the organization, he has been there before. Those three things propelled him to an easy number two finish. He has not got what it takes though to win people over, at least not yet.
Ron Pauls Third place finish is some what of a surprise. In the past his supporters gamed so many on line polls that no one was taking him seriously now, at least not in the media. His message resonates though. He believes in small government, loose federal controls, and opposed much of what created our present mess.
I would hope at this point that a few of the bottom finishers rethink their strategy and bow out of the race. In doing so, they need to consider who they will throw their support behind, and right now those choices appear to be Romney, Paul and Santorum. Its lets make a deal time tonight. Tomorrow will be a new political landscape as the party heads for New Hampshire and South Carolina. I expect Romney to win in New England, and Gingrich to poll well in the south. After that, it will become a real race as voters will have a clear and settled picture of what is at stake in 2012.
Mitt is looking like Hillary in 2008. He has a base, but he does not seem to be able to win supporters away from other candidates. Whether that changes in the coming weeks remains to be seen. The candidates need to remember the Surber rule and stick to what they can do to right the mess ObamAA+, Nancy P Lousy, and Reid have created since 2006 when they got control of congress. This is a horse race, not a cage match on WWF. run like a champion, don't act like a chump. We need good leadership in 2012 to get real conservatives back into Washington. If we don't, America is finished.

Friendly fire MY ASS

I'll start here by noting that I have no respect for the ATF. They are a rogue organization set up for the purpose of doing an end run on court rulings regarding the Constitution. They are one group that should be eliminated from the federal spectrum of law enforcement, especially in light of their misconduct at Ruby Ridge and Waco. In both cases the FBI had to clean up their mess, and they were bad ones no matter how you want to look at them.
This aint about the ATF though, just one of their agents who died a hero. John Capano was at his local pharmacy at the wrong time, a robbery was in progress. He was there to get meds for his ailing father. Cops are cops 24/7, its a state of mind they need since criminals don't work set hours either. John stepped in to stop the robber and got killed for his efforts.
It would be sad if a criminal killed a good samaritan no matter if he was a cop or not. Its sadder still when that good samaritan is killed by another good samaritan, in this case a retired cop. It seems the ruckus alerted others in the area to what was going on, and they went to help. That the suspect was killed as well is no comfort to any one.
John was an explosives expert, one of the duties the ATF performs that I respect and believe is needed. It should be a function of the FBI or Marshall's is my opinion, but until that happens, we need them for times when crazies like Ted Kazinski get a hankering to be destructive. Or my favorite group to bash, the religion of I'll blow you to pieces. They have a love for explosives, and New York is too often a target for them.
Part of the problem is New York's restrictive gun laws. Cops see a gun and no badge, and they assume it must be a bad guy. john is the third off duty cop killed there this year. if more people were armed, the cops would be less swift to shoot some one displaying a gun. Likewise, criminals would be hesitant to strike becasue they might be taking on an armed and angry granny. As for that retired cop, he has a lot to live with now. It won't be easy for him.  My sympathy to him and the family of John Capano.

Iowa votes today.

With all the stuff floating around regarding the various candidates, especially Ron Paul, today is the day we find out if his support is real, or a straw man like it was in 2008.
I grew up in Minnesota, and was always told IOWA was an acronym for Idiots Out Wandering Around. For years I though it was just an interstate joke until I was driving through Iowa one day and saw a state truck parked along side the highway. Dang if it didn't have idiot written on the side. Of course, they misspelled it, they had IDOT. Figures.
So it will be interesting. I expect the top three will be Romney, Perry, Santorum, Paul may very well put on a good showing. I'm not a strong Paul fan. he has some good ideas, and I believe he would make a great head of either Treasury, or the Fed. If he gets the nomination, I would pull the lever for him. My hope though is that either Santorum or Perry take the lead.
Romney is the most electable, not because he has good ideas, but because he has a strong machine to run the election. he is still a RINO, and to the left of McInsane. he can work with democrats, the question is can he work with republicans? McInsane can't.

snow expected

Snow in the forecast? The TV weather gal said she was expecting 8 inches tonight, I thought to myself "fat chance with a face like that!"

People would rather die then get groped by TSA

That's not what American Pravda put in their headline, but its the bottom line. monetary problems continue for the airlines. Few people are flying, yet air travel is cheaper, faster, and safer then driving. Those are cold hard facts. Today though, many people choose to drive rather then tolerate the thugs at the air ports.
We, the greatest nation on earth are in rapid decline. People are trading an appearance of safety and security for freedom. The TSA needs to be scrapped. We still need airport security, but lets be smart about it.
1.Profile! Most people bu their ticket weeks or months in advance. Thats ample time to do a screening so the security people know who to watch and who is not likely to be a risk.
2. Carry on planes. People with CCWpermits have undergone thorough screening by their state law enforcement. Let them carry on planes. They should declare to the airline in advance that they are a CCW holder, and the air line, not any government body should decide whether or not to approve them.
3. Police on planes. Lots of cops fly every day. They should be able to carry no matter what. Right now, the only ones allowed to carry on planes are Air Marshall's and Government couriers. Most of them stick out like a sore thumb, or worse. Its kinda hard to get an Air Marshall on board with out everyone knowing exactly who they are. They are required to dress well, and they have to get their weapon through security, so everyone knows who they are if they are paying attention.
4. Arm the pilots. Create a back stop behind the cockpit so passengers will be at minimal risk if the pilot needs to open fire.
5. Let the air lines manage their own security assessment. Its their plane, they are the ones who will lose a fine aircraft if it is blown out of the sky.
Yes, air travel is safe, if you don't mind having some one maul your privates. Lets make it really safe and stop the gropers.