The only confused people here are the left...

In what is becoming something of a national-interest legal issue, the Supreme Court overturned a controversial ruling against white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut who were denied promotions they earned through test scores in a test which was then thrown out because no minorities who took the test passed.

In this amusing AP article on Yahoo! much is made by the losing side, the Labor law attorneys, about how this has created a minefield for employers who are legitimately seeking to remain fair to minority employees. After all... what possible guidelines could they have for basing promotions on now?

If I were distaff president of the united states hussein my response might be....

"....Ahhh, we can no longer afford to continue to grade people on the same old tired standards that have for too long ruled this land of yours. We must act, and we must do so right away, to ensure that everyone is treated equally, and with respect. So in accordance with the powers I have appropriated I am abolishing this unfair and slanted right-wing test and I call upon the members of Congress to toady up a new version, one that will be approved by my new Czar of Fairplay Susan Sarandon, a set of standards for equally distributing the powers of this position. Additionally, due to the alarming situation here in the fire-suppression industry, I have taken control of all fire-fighting services and have capped the pay of all fire chiefs. Now do not make any mistakes that I intend to be in the business of putting out fires... I have never put out a fire in my life and I don't want to start now... but I can no longer stand by, nor should any of us, idly, while these horrible irresponsibilities go unchallenged.".

Or you could just test the candidates to determine their abilities.

But that's just me being silly.

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Suddenly American troops aren't such a bad thing....

Just when you think NOBODY likes us overseas it becomes clear that they really will miss us. At least that's what I'm getting from THIS AFP piece found on Yahoo! news.

Just as we are about to pull our troops away from the civilian centers and allow autonomous Iraqi troops to police their own properties, we find out that wait a second... umm... they don't want us to leave.

The same Iraqis who we have been told hate our guts.... the ones president hussein has said are being systematically tortured into horrible submission by us, are concerned about the vacuum of power left behind in the northern region of Iraq, historically a Kurd-dominated province.

The Kurds, for their part, have good reason to hate Americans. George Bush Sr. gave them every reason to believe that post-Gulf War he would provide material support for a coup attempt against Saddaam. That support never showed, and hundreds of Kurds were slaughtered as they wondered where their American friends had gone to.

Flash forward to present day, and the Kurds are boxed in between their own country and the increasingly hostile Turkish government. Smell the fear? I'd be making any kind of power-grab I could there too.

So the people of northern Iraq don't want the Americans to leave. We provided peace, stability, an opportunity to rebuild under protective eyes.

What cads we are. How inhuman could we be?

We want to bring our men and women home safely and we pray for the day they need not be placed in harm's way, and that day is getting further and further away from us as each new movement by our beloved overlord becomes known. I am grateful that we could secure the nation and protect the Iraqis.

In truth, the lives lost in Iraq from US military is dwarfed by the murders and bombings and Al Qaeda tortures committed by other countries and by the Iraqis themselves. With great effort and very rare slip-ups, our soldiers have conducted themselves with great honor and held no malice toward the Iraqi citizens.

I'm proud to support our troops and more proud to challenge and harass the authority of the interloper sitting on the throne of the White House. For the same reasons.

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A fond farewell to Farrah Fawcett....

Since I had the good taste to use the tragic and unexpected death of 80s icon Michael Jackson for a cheap political point, I felt I should take a moment to discuss the true tragic news of the day.

Farrah Fawcett has passed away. She has a long and painful bout with rectal cancer and her story, while presented in a recent made-for-cable movie, has really not been highlighted.

Let me tell you why she is worthy of the time to write about. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, the mega-mutant Rock Star, will be feted for weeks to come and his passing will have humbly reminded Obama that we need a better and more comprehensive health care plan. Much will be made of his legacy and his wonderousness.... but still he'll feel a vague sadness for Michael Jackson.... oh wait...

But Farrah likely will not be given great accolades. She will have a few small testimonials, and soon, very soon life will go on and she will be kind of remembered.

But she deserves far better from us than that. Farrah had two choices when she made the somewhat questionable decision to leave Charlie's Angels at the height of her popularity: Continue with the cheesecake and fluff or go for the serious stuff.

Well okay, we know she didn't film her own version of "The Razor's Edge", so she went into features and made some tepid movies. Honestly, I recall seeing "Sunburn" but apart from her in an orange jumpsuit and I think Charles Grodin wandering around, I don't really recall much more than that. She went on to a few other films, including the dizzily idiotic, yet still compelling "Saturn Three" with Kirk Douglas as her boyfriend, and Harvey Keitel's toy robot as her stalker.

These films proved to her that she would never be taken seriously as an actress.

THAT's when she became worthy of our praise.

No more bra-less roles, no more giggly, jiggly parts in silly frothy films... she made a conscious choice to go the harder, less travelled route and made films like "The Burning Bed" and "Extremities" for which she practiced on Broadway for a very long time.

She WORKED very hard and soon she destroyed the poster image and re-invented herself as a fully formed person. She took a conservative value to EARN what she gained through hard work, perseverance and determination, and it paid off.

There were times, particularly in the last ten years or so, where she came across as ditsy or weird, slathering her nude body with paint and rolling around on canvas for her kids... or going a little nutty on a late-night talk show to the point where nobody knew what she was saying or doing...

She has not always been the paragon of virtue. But she earned respect for being capable of doing the one thing she will always be remembered to do... which was to act.

Some people will tell you that acting is just playing and it's easy. That's not true. Anyone who has tried understands it's a real discipline, and it requires much more than just good looks, it requires a skill-set that most people simply do not possess. A skill-set you do not get in school.

While the rest of the world grinds their teeth over Michael Jackson, I will raise a can of energy drink to Ms. Fawcett, remember all the fun times and the scary times, and thank her for being Farrah.

There was no other like her and it seems this world will not see her like again.

I'm Dr. Calamity and I approve this message.

Important news about the King of Pop's death.....

So as to not upset all the crying children, the mourning women who never got to make love to him, the men who wanted to be him, and Gods from pagan religions like Christianity who envied him, etc....

The truth about the recent news about the Death of the King of Pop is....

They were talking about Michael Jackson.

Not Barack Obama.

You can all relax now....

It's okay...

Obama's just fine.

He was no where near there anyhow...

Really....

It was Michael Jackson.

Feel better now?

Good....

I'm Dr. Calamity and I approve this message.

Climate change you can believe in....

president hussein has been hard at work feverishly trying to press through one of his many efforts to f**k America up, the Climate Change bill.

You remember the plan... that's right... the sensible one... the one where America eliminates every inexpensive and functioning power source we rely on in favor of mystical voodoo from God only knows where.

This is the equivalent of a Doctor finding out his patient has a high cholesterol count so he treats the patient by draining his blood and replacing it with a mixture of milk and honey. Sure the intentions are good, but the existing infrastructure just isn't gonna pump milk and honey.

In this Yahoo!AP report, Republican claims that this bill will destroy jobs are countered with the sage wisdom of both hussein and dragon lady pelosi... to wit...

Republicans: crippling taxes for vital fuels will strangle American workers' budgets, raise prices on the resources themselves, and force the industries working in those fields to pay out punitive fees for just being in business.

hussein: No it won't.

Okay, I'm sold. With logic like that I can't help but be convinced that president hussein has our best interests at heart.

And let's not forget the sage and well-laid-out plan dragon lady has for us: "It'll create millions of new jobs."

Does she get paid based upon specificity?

Now let's take a look at American exceptionalism. When this was still a nation of thinkers and not dunces, we would work together to overcome legitimate obstacles and we would work long and hard and become incredibly innovative when we were faced with very real, very legitimate problems to solve.

The Japanese have decimated our naval forces in the Pacific in World War II? One aircraft carrier, a host of brave submarines and destroyers, and the guts of the finest fighting forces in the world would turn the tide and kick Nip hinder until the US Industrial complex could knock out more aircraft carriers, and the trained men to run them.

But you see, therein lies the problem. We are NOT facing a real challenge. There is not a real timetable, and the threat of Global Warming (now called climate change to account for the myriad masses of data piling up to support the intelligent viewpoint that the planet ISN'T F**king warming up....) are just smoke screens to get us frightened into action or inaction. We are NOT banding together to overcome these odds because the only thing odd about them is the credibility with which these people seem to believe they have.

This bill will harm yet another crucial sector of the American Marketplace, and one in which so many other elements operate with.

I sure hope those retarded baboons that voted for president hussein are happy. In a few short months he's tearing down what real Americans took years to build. But that's unfortunately the truth. Yes, hussein appears to be accomplishing a great deal. It's so much easier to destroy than to create.

Retards! Flat-out ignorant baboons! I'm losing any hope of reconciling with these slack-jawed touchy-feely types who thought this guy was a good choice.

Okay, McCain wasn't much of a choice, but just now Andy Dick would almost seem like a better choice, and he's somebody for whom I pray painful explosive diarrhea kills him.

Voted for president hussein? You're a retard.

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The 2010 Census....

There's been a mild resurgence in the "should we fill out the 2010 Census form" debate. The belief is that the Census form will be much more detailed and will ask for far more personal information from U.S. Citizens than has ever been asked.... questions many feel are overly intrusive.

So, even though I had already weighed in on this some months ago by declaring that one should really only answer those questions one believes are valid.... I wanted to see if a sample questionnaire in inf act exists to review. I did not find one, however I did find THIS information.

As you can see, the form is very trimmed down, the info is very basic, and it appears there would be nothing that would be untoward here.

My first reaction was "Well... okay... we just got all worked up over nothing...."

And then my second reaction kicked in.....

What is so different from this very simple form that not only was ACORN called in to participate, but they have been going to every single address in the country specifically to GPS-paint every front door of every dwelling?

Why would anyone WANT ACORN to collect this very basic information? Why would the people from the bureau that usually handle this not be up to the task of getting a properly shortened and simplified form filled out?

Why ACORN?

Of course, a thinking person might already have an answer for this pertinent question.

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Finding the sublime in those little Obama moments...

I'm going to be up front and honest about this.... this is really minor league stuff here. I'm including it just because these two things are kind of indicative of president hussein in ways too ludicrous to explain otherwise.

First, I was watching "American Dad" on Fox this evening (that's right, I went there....) and there was one of those interminable Obama infomercial things where he tells us things. Tonight's was at least holiday-themed. His message.... "be a good father. It doesn't take much, all you have to do is go to the park or to the zoo".

So I waved goodbye to my family, got up and went to the zoo.

Told my wife and son I'd be back in a few hours.

As a sad post-script to this, my son, also thankfully not a liberal, cornered me and said "You never listen to anything this guy tells you to do!". I replied... "Hey, My President just gave me an order!!!!".

Well, it seemed pretty funny at the time....

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So the next thing is looking at the latest news bits on Sci-Fi Wire... the Sci-Fi channel's website.

Apparently Michael Bay, creator of the world's noisiest films, fell in love with the magnificence of the man and fired Jon Voight from his presidency for Transformers 2 in favor of another fictional president, Barack Obama.

It seems Bay inserted news footage of the Obamanator into the film with reports that he was worried about Robot Insurance for the elderly, or some such crap.

Why? Well, when the two met each other by accident and Bay tripped over himself reciting his resume he became so excited that he had been recognized that he just HAD to put the man in his movie.

My wife was physically unable to sit through all fourteen and a half hours of the confusing and directionless first film largely due to the combination of flashing lights and screeching high-pitched noises. She literally became ill.

Now it's my turn.

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And we'd have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids....

Hello, everybody.... back from Grand Jury duty and ready to get back into the fight.

And speaking of fights, our beloved and most holy master president hussein has peeled away another layer of the veneer that hides the real face behind the throne. I refer of course to the current situation in Iran. Read this story on CNN.com.

A little back-story... for roughly 50 years the Iranians have had a troubled relationship with us. We did a few bad things... and in fact we do kind of owe them a bit for it, except that they have become so belligerent and insular that it's hard to develop relations with them to "mend the fence". But you know what... we're all adults here... we should be able to swallow a little pride on both sides and start working together.

Yet the Iranians' anger has become so great in the past thirty years that they have become the largest supporter of terrorism in the mid-east, and they CONTINUALLY interfere with other countries developments. Don't believe me? Just ask any Iraqi you might happen to meet.

Or you could ask any one of scores of hundreds of American soldiers who met their ends not at the hands of the Iraqi's they were fighting, and now working side by side with, but from the cowardly faceless assault of IUDs with armor-piercing molten copper designed to take away any protection at all from their deadly blasts.

What I'm basically saying is, Iran isn't exactly sitting in the moral high ground either.

So now that a general election has (predictably) been seen to be rigged in favor of the incumbent, the Iranian population, notably the younger people, are (not very typically...) enraged and rioting in the street. And this with the knowledge that they could be attacked by their own military.

Now ordinarily a sitting U.S. President would issue a condemnation of Iran for cracking down on its own people for exercising their right to demonstrate against an unfair election process.

But these are extraordinary times, and they call for the extraordinary talents of Mr. Apologist for the United States Barack Hussein Obama. A man so special and impressive that only he could classify the events in Iran as "... a vigorous debate".

He is oh so worried that his america not be seen to be interfering with Iran because, y'know, they're kind of touchy about that sort of thing.

Let me clue the commander-in-chief in on a little secret.... IT'S NOT F**KING INTERFERING WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY WHEN YOU OPENLY OPPOSE THEIR RATHER PUBLICLY VIOLENT CRACK-DOWN OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE!

Cripes.... doesn't he understand that?

Actually, yes.... he does.

What bothers president hussein here is that the people have chosen to complain about their own government.

And as we all know, that never sits well with this president.

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My Duty to My Government...

I owe you all an apology. I kind of dropped off the face of the interweb for a couple of weeks for two reasons. First, I am serving on Grand Jury in New York State which is about the most interesting and important job a citizen can do for his society short of joining the armed forces.

Naturally, I can not discuss any of it, which is a matter of law. But I can tell you that once you have done this you have learned a great number of things you may not have known before. I am, for a change, one of "The People" in "The People Vs. ....". I'm not actually referring to any case here, but rather the phrase itself.

Second, I was getting a bit unsure for a little while about what all this was for. Was it right, my ranting online about things I can not change? Was this a constructive process?

And I've come to the conclusion that yes, this IS important.

And I owe the Grand Jury service for helping me to reach my decision.

You see, in Grand Jury you are one of 23 jurors. You are NOT there to determine guilty or innocent, you are there to determine is the case worth making against the defendant in the first place. You find out quickly that the number 23 was NOT come upon randomly. It is sufficient people that it prevents an accidental grouping of like-minded people. It prevents any one person from having too much of a say.

So in many ways, I have been one of many, many bloggers out there sitting in de facto Grand Jury duty against the defendant, one Barack Obama. We can not determine his guilt or innocents, we can just review the evidence and submit it to you, the readers, and you have to make up your own mind.

And the frustration that many of us feel and write about, that is also a necessary part of the process. It is our "rat in a cage" feeling that we are only one voice, while the defendant in this case, the afore-mentioned Barack Obama, appears to have a very powerful and in-control attorney who threatens to stop the case against him. That would be the Democratic party and their strangle-hold of the U.S. Government, and the mainstream media, which is just breathlessly in love with Obama.

And I can tell you from experience, a defendant with a bit of acumen at this sort of thing can easily win over a jury even if his story has swiss-cheese level holes in it. Do NOT underestimate the power and control that a winning and sympathetic personality can have. It can make people think things that are just plain not substantiated by the facts.

And no one has done so with such flair and style and capricious damage to the country as Obama. I still find myself aghast at the idea that such hatred against our country was ever willingly installed by the people.

But then that's one of the things you learn in Grand Jury. Some people will not, can not be swayed by the facts when they have a good emotional feeling. Facts are the province of the rich balding white man. Facts represent "The Man". Facts are something that liberal-minded people think are tools to confuse them and harm them, and distract them from their feelings.

Facts.

Feelings.

Which would you rather were the governing decision-making process?

But in this country, in this time, in this political climate, it is considered poor form to use facts in your arguments. It is considered divisive and makes people suspicious of you.

Some days I almost regret that my hairline has remained intact.

I wish I could be more specific than I am, but I don't wish to find myself on the wrong side of the Grand Jury process.

I'm Dr. Calamity and I approve this message.