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My friend Evan Sayet gives a very interesting and entertaining explanation of liberals and how they see the world.

Evan Sayet is a Hollywood conservative, writer, former creative consultant for Politically Incorrect, and gave this address at The Heritage Foundation, Monday, March 5, 2007.

There are a lot of asteroids out there that, if they collided with earth, could wipe out humanity — and maybe even Congress, too.

Apophis, for example, is expected to give the earth a brush-pitch in almost 30 years.

But worry not, because the a “United Nations Action Team” will meet in February to vote to construct an urgent memo to all member states calling for an immediate meeting to discuss forming a committee to organize a debate on the asteroid collision threat.

In the end, I’m guessing the “solution” will involve launching Jimmy Carter into space to intercept Apophis and undertake immediate conciliation. Keep your fingers crossed!

As I wrote yesterday, while many people find their situation as dire as the banks or car companies, they are being made to wait because they aren't a priority to Capitol Hill. They didn't give politicians money.

As Congress mulls over a bailout for U.S. automakers, some may be thinking about more than jobs and the economy. The auto industry spent nearly $50 million lobbying Congress in the first nine months of this year. And people tied to the auto industry gave another $15 million in campaign contributions, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports.

Take Sen. Carl Levin, who received $438,304 from the automotive industry. And in the House, Rep. Joe Knollenberg received $879,327. Rep. John Dingell got nearly a million from the industry. All have enjoyed generous support from the auto industry over their careers, with GM and Ford as their two top contributors. All support a bailout.

Remember this when politicians tell how they care and feel our pain. BTW - The upside for our elected officials…?

Should these carmakers get our money, politicians will get theirs on the back end. A good deal for them, a raw deal for us.

I've been an off-and-on hockey fan since the early seventies. I've seen many an on-ice donnybrook or two. We want to see the enforcers fight. But when it comes to a National Hockey League player hitting a girl, albeit just with words, this got a little more than two minutes for roughing.

Sean Avery finally ran out of ways to cross the line. So he invented a new one. And in one stunningly inappropriate sentence yesterday a career built on indiscretion may finally face the sort of justice he's eluded for so long.

By now you've heard or seen the clip in which the Dallas Stars wart announces to a wall of reporters he wants to make a statement…

"I'm really happy to be back in Calgary, I love Canada. I just wanted to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about. But, enjoy the game tonight."

Whoops.

I'm kind of torn on this one.

While this kind of smut talk isn't good PR for any organization, especially one part of a sport consistently smarting for it's condoned violence, there is also a free speech element being blown off.

What Avery said of Elisha Cuthbert is the epitome of tastelessness, should you be potentially banned from employment because of "sloppy seconds"?

There are Hollywood celebrities, CEO's, politicians and activists who've said and done a whole lot worse and are STILL WORKING. Remember what was said about Sarah Palin.

Tough call.

Public safety notice: As pro 2nd Amendment as you might be, try not to keep your firearm too close to the bed during sex:

A Tri-State woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex.

Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstand when the pistol went off, hitting his estranged wife Carolyn in the upper chest.

A Tri-State woman? Now that’s fat. It isn’t difficult to understand why she’s estranged though, is it?

Click here to listen to a portion of the 9-1-1 call. “We were having sex and it went off.”

No comment.

During a campaign interview on CNN, Barack Obama's-then national security adviser Susan Rice stated that President Bush blew opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and she wouldn't mind seeing him killed. It turns out Obama's choice of UN Ambassador blew opportunities as well.

Terrorism experts blame Rice for having played a key role in blocking efforts to neutralize Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. According to Mansoor Ijaz, a former trouble shooter for Clinton, the FBI had their efforts to capture bin Laden "overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan."

In a Washington Post Op-Ed published in 2002, Mansoor Ijaz and Tim Carney, U.S. Ambassador to Sudan blamed Susan Rice for being a major obstacle to accepting offers of help from Sudan and to share their intelligence on bin Laden's terror network.

Sound familiar?

It makes one wonder why someone as supposedly intelligent as Barack Obama would select this woman for national security advise during a presidential campaign, let alone later in his administration?

Rice was also influential in the Clinton Administration's remaining uninvolved in the Rwandan genocide that took place in that nation in 1994.

The Atlantic (September 2001) published an article by Samantha Power titled: "Bystanders to Genocide," and outlined Rice's role in the do-nothing policy of the Clinton Administration. At one point during debate on what the Administration should do, Rice said: "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Those present were stunned by her comment. Lt. Colonel Tony Marley remembers the statement: "We could believe that people would wonder that, but not that they would actually voice it." Rice claimed that if she did make this statement it was inappropriate.

And this loose cannon is going to be our UN Ambassador…?

According to This Is Reality,

"In reality, there is no such thing as clean coal. Join Reality. We're going to challenge the clean coal myth and make sure misleading articles, false statements and other hype don't go unanswered."

But what if (in reality) there's no such thing as global warming…?

This is absolutely unconscionable:

A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave the president-elect more than 70 per cent of the vote on Election Day has declared the second Monday in November Barack Obama Day.

The Perry County Commission voted four to one to observe the holiday. County offices will close and its roughly 40 workers will get a paid holiday.
[...]
Commissioner Brett Harrison said Wednesday he voted against the resolution because of the holiday costs to the county, which has a $2.2 million (£1.5 million) annual payroll and is one of the poorest in the state. He said closing the courthouse would also idle some state employees.

This is an outrage! A fiscally responsible government employee? One who’s unaware that the best way to teach people the value of hard work is by paying people not to work? And a Democrat no less? How’d he get in there?

Guess which one of the five County Commissioners won’t be re-elected?

This commercial always irritates me.

Note to ETrade: not all people are geography-challenged morons like the person depicted in the commercial. Not all people are ignorantly proud of being geography-challenged. Whomever wrote and approved this commercial must be multi-challenged as well to think so many would have something in common with that character.

Then again…?

Family members of the fatally trampled Wal-Mart worker are suing the corporation for not protecting their employees from potential harm from their own customers. Is a lawsuit preferable?

The family of a worker trampled to death in a "Black Friday" crush of bargain hunters at a Long Island Wal-Mart store filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming store ads offering deep discounts "created an atmosphere of competition and anxiety" that led to "crowd craze."

The lawsuit claims that besides failing to provide adequate security for a pre-dawn crowd estimated at 2,000, Wal-Mart "engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and mayhem and was otherwise careless, reckless and negligent."

In monitoring the coverage of this tragic event, there has been yet another aspect ignored by the PC-handcuffed mainstream media….

I know I'm going to be accused by the black blogs of being a "self-hating Negro" for saying this but the pictures speak for themselves.

The basis of this lawsuit is that Wal-Mart didn't properly prepare for the bumrush they should have anticipated.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said it was apparent to him that the Wal-Mart store about 20 miles east of Manhattan lacked adequate security to handle the crowds. He said police representatives met with retailers throughout the county two weeks before Thanksgiving and made it clear that security and crowd control for the sales was the merchants' responsibility.

There are Wal-Marts all over the country. There were Wal-Marts that offered the same discounts and had the same crowd issues. Out of all of those Wal-Marts nationally, how many had the doors pushed off the hinges by their customers, trampling employees and customers alike?

This was obviously an unfortunate anomaly.

BUT if Wal-Mart turned their parking lot into a police state that Thursday night/Friday morning, just what do you think people like Jesse Jackson would be saying? The majority of the people in the pictures rushing the Wal-Mart doors were black. A pre-assumption they would behave unruly would have been seized on by civil rights ambulance chasers as racism.

If you think that's off the mark, watch what happens the next time there is a similar sale opportunity in the future. Wal-Mart may opt to increase security nationally, but watch what happens should that happen in certain neighborhoods, and listen to who does the most bitching.

If Wal-Mart has the choice of paying a grieving family or a Jesse Jackson money/adverse publicity shakedown, just what direction do you think a Wal-Mart would take?

I don't recall this being one of those things you can publicly say about a woman. Hardly complimentary.

Check out Ed Rendell at the podium on the left.

Gov. Rendell, a serial offender of the verbal blunder, today downplayed controversial remarks he made about how Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano would be perfect as the next Homeland Security chief because she has "no family" and "no life."

Now, witness the politician-at-work…

Almost instantly, Rendell's remarks made national news and sparked debate about whether they would ever had been made about a man - whether married or single.

CNN Commentator Campbell Brown said she believed Rendell's comments smacked of sexism and "perpetuate stereotypes that put (women) in boxes."

I'm sure Sarah Palin works long hours. Would Campbell Brown come to her defense?

Asked to explain the comments today, Rendell said: "What I meant is that Janet is a person who works 24-7, just like I do. She has no life, neither do I."

Self deprecating humor is a good way out.

But it again has me stumped that the Party of tolerance, inclusion, and political correctness still has graduates of the Larry Summers School of Sensitivity issuing the faux pas with selective outrage.

That's even more of a double standard than the initial sexism charge.

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If you’re going to be in Washington, DC to tour the U.S. Capitol, and there’s chance you could meet Harry Reid, I suggest picking some up.

Wash with a bar so you don’t expose the Nevada Senator to proletariat B.O. — then wash with two bars after you meet him:

Show tunes. Like this isn't a stereotype…

All-Star Hollywood Cast Makes Video Mocking Gay Marriage Opponents

Playbill News: Conceived and written by Hairspray Tony winner Marc Shaiman, the three-minute video was directed and staged by Adam Shankman, who helmed the "Hairspray" movie musical. The video also boasts an array of theatre and stage stars: The "California Gays and The People That Love Them" are played by Jordan Ballard, Margaret Cho, Barrett Foa, J.B. Ghuman, John Hill, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Rashad Naylor and Nicole Parker.

Quite the statement.

Another day, another bailout request for our tax money. But as Congress rushed to bail out Wall Street and is considering bailing out American carmakers, why isn't Congress in a rush to help out the American people who's paying for all this?

The former Big Three are back in D.C. to scare up $25 billion more on top of the $25 billion they've already received from Uncle Sam. If they don't get the money, they warn, cities will die; national security will be jeopardized; millions will lose their jobs; tens of millions will watch their 401-Ks vanish—and their CEOs will lose their corporate jets and have to travel first class.

Despite the pundit insinuations and insults, not everyone who lost a job is lazy and not everyone who lost (or is losing) a home an ignoramus who got in over their heads.

Here's my problem with this situation….

The American people have seen our tax dollars thrown at banks and mortgage companies like play money. In fact, those financial institutions were given cash with no strings attached as to how our money would be spent.

Now, let's say the government helped us out.

If we took that money, and instead of making ourselves solvent as promised, we went on a very expensive vacation, just what do you think the government would do to us? We know how the government treats us peons who don't collectively send generous campaign contributions their way. Can you say penalties and fines and possible imprisonment?

Would the government give us a bailout if they knew that it would only help us out for a few months and we'd be back for more? Okay, they already do that for many, but work with me here.

The point I'm making is that many Americans are sweating the holidays and after, not knowing where they'll be, as they are out of work because of the economy and also losing their homes. Our elected legislators are dragging their feet coming up with ways to help taxpayers become solvent, but are on a hell's pace to help out institutions that waste money they're given with impunity.

Neil Cavuto and the like say We the People can wait.

So help out the next round of banks that just can't make it on their own. Pay off the unions and help out those benefit-heavy auto companies who make those big cars.

Some of us may be living in them.

I'm waiting for all those who oppose torture to rise up in opposition to the immoral interrogation of the baby-faced Mumbai terrorist. Anybody hear anything yet…?

Indian police interrogators are preparing to administer a "truth serum" on the sole Islamic militant captured during last week's terror attacks on Mumbai to settle once and for all the question of where he is from.

Police interrogators in Mumbai told The Times that they are poised to settle the matter of Azam Amir Kasab's nationality through the use of "narcoanalysis" – a controversial technique, banned in most democracies, where the subject is injected with a truth serum.

I would like to hear the argument the anti-torture types will use to justify the non-use of truth serum, which they will argue is tantamount to torture, because it's making a terrorist (who with his group killed dozens and injured hundreds) give up information against his or her will.

The upcoming Ron Howard film “Frost/Nixon” has caused a little resurgence in interest in the Nixon presidency, which is merely a byproduct of Hollywood liberals seeking any way possible to link George W. Bush to Nixon.

Below is some Nixon audio I hadn’t heard before, complete with Henry Kissinger advising about Vietnam, “vee zood ztop bompink zee beezezzuz oot of zem vissin fotey ate ahvvas” — which roughly translated is, “We should stop bombing the bejesus out of them within 48 hours.” Nixon agreed, and decided to only bomb the regular jesus out of them.

Also included is Nixon’s sympathy call to Joe Biden. No, not for the hair plugs.

Interesting stuff if you’re into presidential history, specifically the president who inspired all future presidents to stop recording their conversations:

Would someone name me one… JUST ONE Muslim nation where their tradition was shelved to benefit another? Has this EVER happened anywhere?

A primary school has cancelled its Christmas nativity in favour of Muslim festival of Eid celebrations because it would be too much for the children to do both.

Greenwood Junior School sent out a letter to parents saying the three-day festival of Eid al-Adha, which takes place between December 8 and 11, meant that Muslim children would be off school. That meant planning for the traditional nativity play were shelved because the school felt it would be too difficult to run both celebrations side by side.

The move has left parents furious.

Ya think? When do you supposed the Christian parents might start making demands before the customary rioting?

The things young people feel free to put in print nowadays. It must be something about "change".

Now for the announcements: The Negro national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has been replaced by “Movin’ on Up” until further notice!

Also, all white people are to report to the cotton fields at 7 a.m. for orientation. (And if you’re lucky, I’ll bring the small whip.) Now don’t work too hard, because we have choir practice in the afternoon. Those spirituals won’t sing themselves!

Just saying.

The fact these statements were published says it all.

h/t Scott

So much for the "center" lurch. Barack Obama rings the red meat chow bell for the left.

An 18-year veteran of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), who advocated for federal legislation to give the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States a path to citizenship, has been tapped for President-elect Barack Obama’s White House staff.

Cecilia Muñoz, who currently serves as senior vice president for the office of research, advocacy and legislation at the NCLR, will serve as director for intergovernmental affairs in the Obama administration.

Check out this video from December '07 featuring Eliseo Medina of SEIU, Ana Avendano of the AFL-CIO, and Cecilia Muñoz of the National Council of La Raza discussing strategies for achieving comprehensive, "progressive" immigration reform….

Obama just earned a whole lot of brownie points with the Tan Klan on this one.

Check out the button Phil Spector (either that or it’s character actor Wallace Shawn in a bad toupee) wore into court for his retrial on a murder charge:

Add jail to the things Obama might magically spare us.

Spector clearly hopes that prison sentences are “spread around” along with the wealth. That way, instead of Phil spending the rest of his life in prison, every American can spend just a few minutes in the slammer to make it more fair.

Actually, I think Phil’s setting a trend here. If Spector is convicted, he can accuse the jury of racism, and the jury knows it. What a brilliant strategy! Call it “the ‘hope’ defense” — and if it works for Spector, it’ll catch on.

At least now we know who’s been engineering Obama’s killer sound.

Minnesota Public Radio has some scans of rejected ballots in the Coleman/Franken race that officials are looking at and trying to decide who gets the vote.

Some of the voters are obviously, uh, “mentally challenged” if you will. Based on that fact alone I’d automatically give the vote to Franken, but I suppose that’s why I’m not picked to help decide these things.

Who gets the vote on questionable ballots? You be the judge.

Here are my two favorites:

Sheer genius.

Barack Obama has successfully merged Chicago with Clinton-era politics. With that, we now have the Three D's rearing their ugly heads again. For those of you who were in elementary school when Bill Clinton was president, the three D's stood for "deny, delay, destroy".

In this case, with regards to the whole Barack Obama birth certificate stall, the "destroy" part is in regards to the U.S. Constitution, and it takes time (deny and delay) to do this.

With that, meet Sarah P. Herlihy….

The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the “stupidest provision” in the Constitution, “undecidedly un-American,” “blatantly discriminatory,” and the “Consti-tution’s worst provision.” Since Arnold Schwarzenegger’s victory in the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003, commentators and policy-makers have once again started to discuss whether Article II of the United States Constitution should be amended to render naturalized citizens eligi-ble for the presidency. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution defines the eligibility requirements for an individual to become president. Article II provides:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Of-fice who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Although these sixty-two words are far from extraordinary, the natural born citizen provision is controversial because it prevents over 12.8 million Americans from being eligible for the presidency.

Is Ms. Herlihy really concerned about Arnold Schwarzenegger, or could it be someone else…?

And the mainstream media is where on this?

According to AIPNews.com, Sarah P. Herlihy is employed by Kirkland & Ellis LLP of where else… Chicago.

Upon looking at the firm, and the partners, I found that Bruce I. Ettelson, P.C., is Member of finance committees of U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Richard Durbin.

In addition, Jack S. Levin, P.C., another partner who, in December 2002 was presented the ”Illinois Venture Capital Association’s lifetime achievement award for service to the private equity/venture capital community” presented by Sen. Barack Obama.

So it sure looks like Obama’s people have looked into the matter of “Natural born” as far back as early 2006.

So, the bottom line: there IS something to this whole birth certificate fiasco. Barack Obama has lawyers working behind the scenes to create a backlash against those who believe only a natural born citizen should be able to send our sons and daughters to war.

When the shit finally does hit the fan, as I've said before, people won't be angry with Barack Obama for knowingly placing the nation in the murky waters we will be in by perpetrating the Milli Vanilli of all frauds. No, the Obamanation will be angry that an obviously racist law is the only thing preventing Mr. Hope & Change from achieving his true destiny.

There are millions of people in this country today who are not eligible to be President of the United States, and have resigned themselves to that fact. Some of these people have found other ways (both good and bad) to add to the public dialogue, but they understand that the rules DO apply to them. Barack Obama (hubris redefined) and those pulling his strings believe that no rule applies to them, and if that is truly the case and they wish to tear the Constitution into pieces, keeping the ones the like, then they are more dangerous than George W. Bush was ever accused of.

This is now quite more than a simple refusal to produce a document, and if this man gets away with this and lawyers (with the help of the millions of duped) succeed in trashing the Constitution, it could one day open the door for more abomination.

Can you say President Soros?

h/t Jim R

My Dad once said, "Everything you do involves someone else."

Josyann Abisaab, the doctor who helped treat Giants star Plaxico Burress' self-inflicted gunshot wound was mysteriously summoned to the hospital in the middle of the night - and has been suspended for failing to alert police and signing off on medical papers identifying him by a phony name, sources said yesterday.

Burress' antics have probably ended his $300,000 per game tenure with the New York football team, gotten at least one other player in legal trouble, and now a doctor who played loose with the truth covering for a very selfish professional athlete.

No longer priceless.

BTW- The Majority Leader's "remark" about tourists was edited out of the official Senate Democrats video version.

She is the first woman Speaker of the House. She may be the last for awhile…

Ms. Pelosi likes to thunder against "the failures of eight years of the Bush economic policies." The stock market has collapsed, she hisses, "because of a Republican philosophy of greed, deregulation, and tax cuts." But almost the entire decline in the economy has come since she picked up the Speaker's gavel. The stock market has decisively voted thumbs-down on the Pelosi paradigm, with the Dow falling from 12,157 in November 2006 to 8,600 today.

Your Wednesday morning bitch-slap.

Luckily, hate only goes so far.

A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the south Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused Cheney and the other defendants of responsibility for prisoner abuse. The judge's order ended two weeks of sometimes-bizarre court proceedings.

Guerra is leaving office at the end of the month after being soundly defeated in the March primary election.

"I suggest on behalf of the law that you not present any cases to the grand jury involving these defendants," Administrative Judge Manuel Banales said in court while ruling that eight indictments against Cheney, Gonzales and others were invalid.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Oops. It did.

What did Sharon Stone say about karma?

What happened to the victims of Esteban Nunez and his posse is very sad, but disregard for the law apparently runs deep in the Nunez household.

This is the same Fabian Nunez who has authored bills to give illegal aliens driver's licenses in California. The same Fabian Nunez who stands behind minimum wage hikes in California. The same Fabian Nunez who Hillary said she would rely on quite heavily. The same Fabian Nunez whom you can read a lot more about who has racist views, Mexico ties and links to Aztlan reconquistas over at Lonewacko.

California is a mess because of people like Fabian Nunez.

Comeuppance can be merciless.

Great, yet disturbing visuals on this one.

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.

The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.

Here's where things get ugly.

The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it.

After about 20 minutes my deer showed up — 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me.

I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation.

I took a step towards it…it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education.

The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED.

The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer–no chance.

That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined.

The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash on my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.

I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere.

At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand…kind of like a squeeze chute.

I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head–almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.

The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now) tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the bejesus out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.

Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp.

I learned a long time ago that, when an animal — like a horse–strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.

The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl an d covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.

So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope so that they can be somewhat equal to the Prey.

I'm sticking with the store-bought meats.

Pardon me for loving every opportunity to point out Media Matters (where the keys spelling "mislead" are mostly worn out) misleading… again.

Responding to Media Matters item, Quinn defended comparison of welfare recipients to slaves
Summary: On The War Room, Jim Quinn addressed his prior comments comparing "slave[s] in the old South" to welfare recipients today. Quinn said: "Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude that you can be forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding — naturally, that was my point." He later added: "When you think about it, the slave had more personal nobility than the welfare recipient, because he or she had no say in their station in life. The welfare recipient actually volunteers for it. It is the liberal plantation."

One little problem.

You have to read half way down the piece to see that Mr. Quinn was also quoting Frances Rice, Chair of the National Black Republican Association, who made the point in the first place. Media Matters went out of their way to make Quinn sound like a racist, and even if he wasn't quoting Lt. Col. Rice, would he have been kinda spot on?

I say Media Matters intentionally misled readers. Check out the response from the admin of African American Opinion…

Right-wing hate talk radio at it's finest, folks. Soon, they'll be preaching to President Obama and any others to put us back in chains. Just wait, I almost guarantee it.

This is why we need the Fairness Doctrine restored, or at least better FCC management over radio talk shows.

Expect things to stay ugly over the next 4 years as most Americans come to see Obama as a president while the rest of Americans don the "white sheets" or go Timothy McVeigh up in here.

That was precisely the response Media Matters wanted, that's the response Media Matters got, and it's a shame AAO fell for it. We'll never know how many more people did.

Media Matters. Race-baiting pigs.