According to Joe Bastardi, the ace meteorologist at Accuweather, the first tropical storm of the season should not hit the US at all. He was the first to say that the storm should hit Mexico, and, once again, it looks like he will be right on. It's not magic, either. It's his system of what I call "pattern-averaging" (he has a far more impressive-sounding scientific name for it) that he does, using huge amounts of data over long periods of time. And his data is real, too. That always helps.

Did you see that James Clyburn and Lindsey Graham hosted a symposium on faith-based and neighborhood partnerships on Saturday? Sho 'nuff. And you know what they did at that symposium? Uh-huh. They told community organizers attached to so-called faith-based organizations, how to suck millions of dollars from the federal sow [that's us, of course]. What they should have been doing is praying. Graham should be praying that voters have a short memory, and Clyburn should be praying that his district isn't redrawn to be more representative of the State's contributing citizens.

Tea Partiers need to raise up a candidate to run against Jake Knotts, in Lexington County. Not because he said what he thought. This is still America. He needs to be replaced because he doesn't represent the good people of Lexington County who know he wasn't even trying to be funny when he called Nikki Haley "a f[expletive]g rag-head." Also, Jake Knotts wasn't funny in high school, either. He was dumb, then. And he's dumb now. he makes up for it by having the other legislators "..in his pocket, like so many nickels and dimes.." He's got stuff on many of them that make Mark Sanford look like Mother Theresa. So, they won't be doing anything about him. No, the citizens of Lexington County will make that important decision about their representation, in 2012.

June 26, 2010
I am so tired of people who are smart, but not smart enough. Dick Harpootlian comes to mind. Saw him on Fox today, doing one of those point/counterpoint things. He's smart enough to toe the national Progressive line, hoping someone in DC is watching, so they will appoint him to something. But he's not smart enough to realize that Keynesian econofascist answers are no answers at all. He's not stupid. He just doesn't have any answers that work. And won't.

Noticed the other day that the Upstate's largest newspaper, at one time, continues to commit suicide. They're going to CHARGE to access the poor thing.

A word to the editor - A-D-V-E-R-T-I-Z-I-N-G - NOT SUBSCRIPTIONS will make you money on the internet. As many of you already know, even the WSJ is learning that they have to have exclusive information, which cannot be duplicated, in order to make subscriptions work on the internet. Exclusive information is a fantasy there. The reason is that if you know something and put it up, I will know it instantly and check my sources to certify it. Then, I can write it up, separately, and publish it. Simple as that. Of course, that upstate newspaper has never been very smart.. just street-clever.

DAY 68 - No-one in her right mind can give the current resident of the White House any credit, now, for wanting this country to succeed. This is non-producer, non-worker, welfare-loving, Gaia-worshiping, union-loving, God-hating morons in Washington, DC, thinking they know more about drilling than the people who make their living on the line. This is ideology vs fact. This is the Red Queen vs Alice. This is Vlad Dracul vs Van Helsing. This is Obama vs Reality.

When I think of all of the good people who could be president, instead of him, it's as if the God of the Old Testament were punishing us for some wretchedness. We must redeem ourselves from the pit. We MUST elect legislators both locally and nationally with fortitute, or as the Italians called it, "STROMBOLO!" So far, that's Joe Wilson, Tim Scott, Alan Wilson, and of course, Jim DeMint. But we also need those gutsy conservative women. Get angry. Get furious. Get elected. The Almighty is watching us. We must rescind everything that Obama has done. EVERYTHING. We MUST ROLL BACK THE PAST TWO YEARS. IF WE DEFUND ALL OF OBAMA'S PROGRAMS & DO NOTHING FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. that will be a major victory. Then in 2012 we can elect an all gal presidential team, followed by serious foreign policy, responsible financial policy, responsible lawsuit laws and hot, tough Valkyres to fight on the ground. Every centilla of stain of Obama must be eradicated.

June 25, 2010
DAY 67 - Now we know that MSNBC was just lying. Again. The judge who put the kibosh on Obama's dumb oil drilling and extraction freeze does not - repeat - DOES NOT OWN ANY BP STOCK. PERIOD. Remember, MSNBC is an arm of NBC, who lied about electric vehicles, who lied about the Corvair, who repeated Dan rather's lies about Bush. But that's not to say that MSNBC, and especially Keith, the Tick, Olbermann, haven't told lies of their own. Olbermann tells half-truths almost daily, or, like yesterday, he told a complete whopper about the judge's portfolio. Which means that there are more people at MSNBC with BP in their portfolios than the judge, who has none.

Also, BP's American CEO is a public relations moron. But BP has done some good things, too, unlike the silly strutting man in the White House. They actually have the $20 Billion+ they intend to spend on reparations to the Gulf Spill victims. They have owned up to their debt. Something the current administration fails, daily, to do.

June 24, 2010
I AM GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK! A heart-stopper in Omaha! Good lord! How can anybody compare soccer with college baseball? How about that Brady?

Also, why can't Carolina just play Clemson for the College World Series Championship? They ARE the two best teams in the country.

Think about it. Look at all the people Clemson had to play this year just to get to where they are. Same for the Gamecocks. Most people are going to understand, eventually that UCLA doesn't play anybody. It's TCU that has to play them. UCLA is good, and they're fresh. They couldn't even come close to the hard schedules of the two South Carolina teams' schedules. TCU may be as good as the Tigers and the Birds. But they'll be worn out tomorrow from an amazing and long road. Clemson and Carolina are already showing signs of wear.

Clemson has some outstanding talent this year - big hitters. Carolina has good hitters, but amazing pitching and defense (although they made a rookie mistake, catching an infield fly ball last night.) But, to win, you have to get hits, hits, hits and an occasional homer. And Clemson only has to win once.

I've said it before, and I'll say it, now: Clemson will win if they can. Carolina will win if they want to.

You saw the Wimbledon match, today, that finally finished after three days and a gazillion games. Now THAT'S competition. That's a sport. Even if it, too, is patronized by snooty Americans. And there wasn't one vuvuzela to be heard.

The Obamarama just keeps on making huge mistakes and trying to cover them up. MSNBC came up with another one-sided angle on the Gulf story - the judge that stayed the stupid Obama diktat, closing down drilling in the G of M, has BP stock in his portfolio. They forgot to mention that most everybody with a diversified portfolio, including the head of MSNBC, has BP stock in his portfolio. According to my source, at least a third of the on air personalities at that minor network have BP in their portfolios.

Neill Smith, the famous sci-fi writer, coined the phrase, "When everyone is armed, a society tends to be extremely polite." It isn't one of Rush's undeniable truths, but it is, nonetheless, true.

This is not to say that we should not require parents to make sure that their children are well instructed in the use of all firearms. We can even license people to use firearms - not register the actual guns themselves, but rather license the person who will carry. Traceable bullets is another wonderful device that will help law enforcement. But make no mistake, law enforcement people have to get progressive ideas out of their heads and go back to the idea that, while they cannot protect a society, they can sure as heck catch the criminals. Register the person, not the gun. Background check, as long as the information that you are buying a weapon is not "skimmed" by the government.

We must stop the government from trying to "protect" us. It's not their job.

Finally, how embarrassing is the Head of Homeland Security? She has sold her own state of Arizona down the river for fame. well, she got her fame, and now she will have to answer for it in the court of public opinion of actual American citizens.

June 23, 2010
Gen. McChrystal should not have talked to any reporter about his true feelings, and he was fired for it. The life story of 4-Star General George Patton should be instructive, here. Patton told the truth. There is no room for "shared command." If Ike (some say it was Marshall) had given him the gasoline, he would have ended the war six weeks after Bastogne. Patton groused about all of it. His comments were picked up by the press, aided by people in the Army who didn't like him. They were inappropriate and outside the concept of chain of command.

That is not to say that McChrystal is wrong. He's not. Patton wasn't wrong. McArthur wasn't wrong. Schwartzkopf wasn't wrong. Powell wasn't wrong. Each General had the truth behind them. But the head of the American Army does not wear a uniform. The honorable thing to do was to resign their command and run against the morons who were wearing the suits. They didn't, and should have been fired. Some weren't. Some were.

The current resident of the White House is trying to balance an enormously wrong-headed idea of "peace" with the reality that other people know better how to run this war, Stan McChrytal being one of them. The real problem is that nowhere in his considerations has Obama considered victory. The very thought of one group winning over another is odious to him, which is why we warned you about him and his risky tendencies BEFORE the election in 2008. And remember, if Obama had appeared strong to begin with, he would not have had to fire McChrystal.

The ironical choice is Gen. David Patraeus. What do the NYTimes and Moveon.org say now? I'm having a tough time staying on this side of the looking-glass.

One other note - Armies should NOT be in charge of nation-building, and only, in rare exceptions, should they be employed in peace-keeping. Armies kill people and break things. They should go through the enemy "like crap through a goose." Their sisters and brothers in the National guard should be on the southern border killing drug thugs with bombs, missiles and armor-piercing bullets and breaking the will of illegals by rounding them up and throwing them in jail until they realize they have to come here legally.

Day 65 - Very sorry to hear about the deaths of two workers in the oil cleanup. It is in sharp contrast with the boasts of OSHA that they were "...there from day one, keeping people safe." The cap on the spill has been removed because of the risk of exploding methane.

Now, you want to talk about greenhouse gas, that's methane. It was methane, not CO₂ that may have caused the Great Extinction 240 million years ago. As it roiled from the bowels of an angry planet which unzipped most of what is now Russia, the methane added to the intense heat the thousand mile long volcanic valley was creating and pushed the earth over the ledge. The methane chased most of the oxigen out of the atmosphere and without oxigen and carbon dioxide, oxigen-breathing things on land (almost every mobile carbon-based life-form) died. Now THAT was global warming.

Did you know there was more than a trillion dollars in bank reserves - hard currency - right now? If this is true, then why did they need the almost trillion dollar bail-out? Why didn't Bush just guarantee the free flow of cash with a very short term contract? Hmmmm? This puts a major cloud over the entire Fed reserve setup, and begs so many questions, the arguments are in tatters before it even begins. It also proves that Geithner and Bernanke were lying, at the time, about the "bank crisis." More of the big banks in question could have failed, and every small saver - who are the folks who own most of the cash in banks - would have been safe. Will anything be done about it. No? Ya think?

First anniversary of my brother, Orin's, passing. Sigh..

June 22, 2010
Hooray for Bobby Jindal and the courageous people of Louisiana! Hooray for reason! Eric Holder is so arrogant that he has allowed the federal government to appear to be just as arrogant. He's now been adjudicated in the wrong by a federal judge who ripped on Holder's argument against letting people drill in the Gulf in contravention of their own dumb rules.

The McChrystal flap is perfect for the current resident of the White House. It pushes his considerable inexperience, in matters of armed conflict, to the side by making Obama appear strong. It also gets American's attention from the fact that his foreign policy is a complete and utter failure. Through all the felgekarb, just remember that the problem we have did not happen with Bush, because he let the generals fight the wars. Again, Americans are put in danger by the arrogance of the White House resident.

Joe Wilson knew that Obama lied. Now, Obama hs lied, again. When it comes to which political figure would tell the truth when cornered, Sen. John Kyle gets my vote. Last year, he was cornered for some error in judgment, not popular with the media, and, instead of lying or punting, he just told the truth. Well, he's telling the truth, again, about Obama trying to bully him into voting for his amnesty bill by refusing to send troops to the border until Kyle and other Republicans do his will. Mark Twain was correct when he said that if you "tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you said." Mr. Clemens was a very wise person.

You MUST read this insightful article by Dr. Thomas Sowell: "...Put differently, a democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive. In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it..."

Did anybody doubt that the Progressives were ready to increase the tax on the middle class? Stenny Hoyer has said as much, today. SO NOW, ALL NATIONAL Progressives ARE LIARS. And do you think this will hurt Jim "Corridor of Shame" Clyburn? Heck no. Why? Because HIS constituents get CHECKS at tax time, instead of having to pay. The ONLY way his villainy can be defeated is to gerrymander the district back to being an equal mix of producers and non-producers.

I had thought that I might bloviate about who's going to win the various races, but it's too much like shooting fish in a barrel. So here's the deal - how about you vote for Alan Wilson, and I won't bother you about anybody else. As I said before, the other guy is a nice guy - his election advisers are real insiders and good old guys, unfortunately. I'm not voting against ANYONE. I voting FOR Alan because he has real AG experience. He has real convictions, and he presents a great case which helps a judge and jury CONVICT the guilty. I would be grateful if you would consider voting for Joe's son. Joe knows a liar when he sees one. Alan does, too - and he'll be in a position to defend us from them.

Be careful, folks, when you go out to vote. Old fashion summer heat, such as we are experiencing now, with its high heat and unbearable humidity, are bad enough. But in areas where there are lots of trees, the ozone levels can be fatal to sensitive people. The upstate is a perfect example, today.

June 21, 2010
Remember when we warned you about TARP, what a boondoggle it was. Geitner lied, Hank Paulson lied. Barney Frank bullied his way out of being the major cause of the failures of FNMA and FHLMC, Chris Dodd just lied. Remember? Remember how we warned about the ineffectualness of the so-called "cures?" Remember we warned about the results of using Keynesian economics? Well, it's all happening, and the people who are responsible are actually suggesting that we spend even more of our tax money.

Remember also, that we projected South Carolina would rebound quicker and not feel the recession as badly. Remember, too, that we have Union and Jim Clyburn's "corridor of shame" to deal with, and that always has a negative effect on employment numbers. But, to put things into perspective, so much money has been taken out of the system by Federal spending, that inflation will eventually overtake us, as it did in the Carter years. And make no mistake about it - it will be left to the mean old libertarians and conservatives to make things right, again. Nevertheless, things must be put right. It will be the challenge of the next set of legislators to bring the pain of the reversal of worthlessness, while trying to remind people who really caused it all.

First Day of Summer. The summer solstice, in the South, is like celebrating your birthday a month after your birthday. It's called "Midsummer" by those who live at more northern climes, and is actually a great excuse to point out, to the global warming coolaid group, the cyclical nature of Earth's temperature. Right now, the northern half of the Earth is tilted toward the Sun as much as it can, and it slowly moves in its orbit to the other side and this slowness creates the dog days - hotter, more humid. What most people fail to point out is that, right now - this millenium, this part of the cycle - the Earth is actually at its farthest point from the sun. So, if you think the summer is hot, now, wait a few thousand years when the northern hemisphere is closest to the sun and Earth's orbit is closest to the sun as well. And were it to coincide with the hottest phase of the sun in what has become known as the Maunder Cycle, it would be (and has been) much worse.

This is not a small thing. Physicists calculate that the Earth temperature difference between Winter solstice Earth-Sun Aphelion with full moon aphelion and Summer solstice earth-sun perihelion with new moon perihelion can be as much as 100° Fahrenheit at the poles. By itself, proximity can cause global warming and global cooling. I would love to see a full - spreadsheet with complete data on world temperatures for the past 500 million years. My guess is that ordinary orbit cycles have caused most of the so-called "dramatic changes" in climate over time. Yes, there have been extraordinary orbit changes, too, but I'm guessing most of the numbers are merely the functions of cycles.

Southern heat, remember, is why God created air conditioning.

June 20, 2010
Father's Day. Where would we be without our fathers? If you were lucky, you had a father like mine. He was the hardest working man I knew. He believed in America and in his State. He believed that people deserved to be treated the same, under law. But he also knew that no person was equal to another - some would excel at some things and others at others. He also believed that those same people deserved to get a home loan if they could pay for one. He adopted the Episcopal church and the Elks Club. He could make a person believe that they were as important as they could imagine.. and along the way, how about helping somebody else. Even after he moved on to be FHA Director for South Carolina, he continued to help USC grow, and donated to his beloved Gamecocks.

In other words, my Dad gave me a gift of witnessing true nobility. I don't think I'll ever have what he had - like the fact that dad didn't care that Mickey Rooney took all credit for Dad's WWII Jeep shows - or someone else taking the credit for getting the original $13 million for Williams-Brice Stadium - or that he stayed home to raise a family, instead going to Hollywood, where his WWII acquaintance, Billy Wilder, had gotten him the lead in a what was going to be a B-movie grinder called High Noon.

Even in death, My father was noble. He and my mother made it possible for me to return to graduate school and take a degree which has allowed me to use my 60 years in theatre and communications to teach college. I am finally at peace, thanks to his ability to see so readily that which I could not.

Bluffton Administrator, Bill Workman (who also was one of the storied mayors of Greenville), once told me, on the death of my Dad which came many years after his, that you never get used to the death of your father. "You go to pick up the phone, and realize, he isn't there. You never get over that. Never." And you know what? He was right.

Dear God, I do miss him so.

June 19, 2010
I am so glad that Anne Coulter agrees with me about Alvin Greene's qualifications to be a Progressive candidate - that he is emblematic, iconic, the perfect personification of Progressive personhood. As you know, Ms. Coulter says things that we mere males fear to trow (here's a good Middle English word - to give troth or to legally embrace.) She can do so, because her logic is flawless and her facts are perfect.

Day 61 - The word of the day is "bul·ly"

prn: (BULL-ee).
definition:
1. A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.
2. A hired ruffian; a thug.
3. A pimp.

1. Mr. Obama has repeatedly threatened the BP Energy Company, Ltd. with lawsuits, fines, and takeover, both publicly and privately. He has impoverished well workers who were not guilty of the alledged sins of BP. His administration has bankrupted local fisher-folk who are not allowed to ply their trade because his people THINK the sea-borne product MIGHT not be tasty. Not just Cajuns or other South Louisianians, but Creoles and other African-Americans whose livelihoods are tied to the Gulf coast. His administration has been confused, slow, and inept.

2. Although he has denied it, Eric Holder, Obama's pit bull, has threatened far more than he has actually produced, in the way of lawsuits and enforcements. We know the Justice department has failed utterly in the protection of citizens from border violators and criminals. He has, literally, allowed thugs to cross over into our virgin forests to sell their nasty wares.

3. Obama is a pimp. No doubt about it. Doubt it? Then why is he protecting ACORN with his silence and inaction? The Chicago Black Panther thugs from the past election? And, is he not pimping votes among the illegals, whose votes will assuredly be counted by the dishonest Progressives in the various states?

There IS someone who has stood against the false posturing of brother Obama. It would be a further crime, were his name forgotten. Governor Bobby Jindal is THE MAN! He has been there from the beginning for the people of the Gulf. His outrage at both BP and Obama has rung true in the ears and hearts of all Americans. Jindal is everything that is right and good about government and America.

Here's a quick impression of the World Cup action: Run around.. wait.. complain.. penalty card.. run around.. pass the ball.. announcer gets excited over nothing or a poorly aimed kick.. run around.. pass the ball.. wait.. complain.. red penalty card.. instant replay of another poorly placed kick.. There's the ghost of Katherine Hepburn.. "BOWAH, BOWAH, BOWAH!! 'Nuf said..

June 18, 2010
What good does it do to turn the economy around, if the only people turning around are unions, public service workers and large corporations? We already know that Obama's administration uses the lie that is the national unemployment security numbers. All presidents since God was a boy have used it. Just as we don't know how much oil has leaked in the Gulf, we don't have a clue as to how many U.S. CITIZENS are out of work. With another almost half-million people getting laid off last week, can anyone say, the economy is turning around? Nevertheless, there are still people who think Progressives have the country's best interest at heart.

Oh, my! Some more peaceful militant Muslims from Afghanistan have gone AWOL.. Did anyone tell our Federal Attorney General? He seems to be handling all of Obama's foreign policy. Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton, who's supposed to be handling foreign affairs, is making declarations about domestic policy.

As expected, only the Fox News Channels covered the fact that the jobs outlook is worse. Worse.

How can one person be so wrong about so many things? Americans are not like Barack Obama. When we make a mistake, we pick ourselves up and do what works. Always, always, Americans do what works. We don't keep doing the same stupid thing when we have discovered something doesn't work. But Obama does. We even warned him what would happen with the economy, with foreign policy, with the war on Terror, with withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan with a time certain, with screwing with the money supply, and he STILL did it. It's all happening and because he hasn't acted like an American, it's all his fault.

On a totally different subject, I want to explore the argument that we cannot afford the war on drugs. I realize that a lot of people who read this web page will disagree with me, and I'm genuinely respectful of their view. I think the idea was noble. It was commendable that we tried. The problem with trying to legislate morality is that it doesn't work.

Do you know the "other" South Carolina history? Like the little secret of the Bible Believing Churches in the state? Well, the ministers who yelled the loudest and preached the most against moonshine, were, themselves, generally, the ones who ran the best hooch. But, unlike Ceasar, their bad WAS oft interred with their bones, which is probably best.

The same can be said for all drugs, legal and illegal. Who do you think benefits from you having to visit a doctor to get permission to take a drug? You? Not more than once a year. Medicine should be left to the doctors, in moderation, but medicines and other drugs shouldn't be denied to those who wish to treat themselves, or for ANY other reason. On the other side, how many legislators are being funded by big-time drug money, or big time hospitals, or drug companies, or large, successful medical practices? We have a law that makes martinets of doctors and whores of legislators - all, unnecessarily.

Will people abuse the cheaper, easier-to-obtain drugs? Yes, there will even be a slight increase in the number of people who will die because they abuse drugs. That will be sad. But the billions of dollars and the freedom we derive from living up to our mistakes and making our own decisions is morally superior to pressing our morals on unwilling citizens.

When the control of drugs is surrendered to the free market, we can still guarantee purity of product by using some of that enforcement money on enlarging the research arm of FDA - no police powers, just easily available info on a company's drug purity. Monetarily, the price of drugs will plummet - especially, the currently illegal drugs. The drug cartels will be instantly defunded (or even legitimized in some cases), as will terrorists (who will also be exposed) who make billions off of unsuspecting drugheads in America and fund the poppy fields in Afghanistan. We will save tremendous amounts of money by defunding drug enforcement programs in police departments. Unions won't like it for obvious reasons, but that's too bad.

This may surprise you, but we don't need anti-drug laws. We could take a hundredth of the money we spend on enforcement and plaster the airwaves and newspapers and internet sites with instructive public relations messages. Another dirty little secret of the drug war is that IT WASN'T UNTIL SMOKING WAS SHOWN IN ADVERTISING to be bad, that people stopped smoking, NOT when the price went up. That knowledge has been LONG buried.

A free society assumes an intelligent citizen. Intelligence tells us that more guns lead to less crime. Could more drug freedom lead to less usage and less crime? Most surely. And there would still be plenty of work for our police force, locking up fools who intoxicate and drive. And if the taxes are not stupidly high, as they are for cigarettes, it could be a creative source of revenue.

I'm not saying to do drugs. Depending on drugs to frame your self-worth is stupid. I'm saying it's sinful to deny freedom of choice, even if free will may end in death. God allows it. Is the South Carolina legislature more wise than God? Knowing some legislators, should I even ask that question?

June 17, 2010
Poor Al Greene. The SC Election Commission says that there is no evidence of fraud in his nomination, registration, or election. My sources tell me that it was a Progressive, who loathes Vic Rawl - apparently there are many - who is behind it all. But he did nothing illegal. He did corral the people who legally provided the funds for Mr. Greene to run. We may never find out who this person is, though, because he acted through legal counsel, sworn to secrecy. No, I don't know his (or her) name. There is only one conclusion to draw from this episode - Progressives are hated in this state for all of their socialist decisions locally and nationally, and are now desperate to shake the stench they have created.

It's called camouflage. The BP SHOW in DC is hiding the fact that close to another half million workers have been laid off. The "recovery" is a complete failure. Even the stock market, which tries to live in the future, and never can quite get there, is trading sideways, just as it did under Jimmy Carter. The market will go up, but sure enough, it will go back down in equal amounts.

Our economy is on a precipice, and instead of inching away from it, we continue to stride toward the chasm. The only force keeping runaway stagflation from eating up ALL the money of us "little people," is an unreal, low fed rate, which is unsustainable for the long run.

JOBS fuel our economy. SMALL BUSINESSES create most of America's JOBS. Obama's action will limit small businesses. The BP Circus or Star Chamber hearings, however we may paint it, is obfuscating the real economic disasters this administration is forcing on the middle class. This is not conjecture.

One last money remark - JOE WILSON WAS RIGHT. The Amateur-in-Chief DID LIE when he told congress that people could keep their own insurance and their own doctor. No-one who has read the new Health Law believes this, now. They ALL say it is the first step to universal health control by government.

DAY 59. The GOVERNMENT TOLD BP to drill there, not on safe land, not in containable shallow waters. It was a politically influenced decision. Eco-nuts made it possible for this disaster to happen. Poor business management also made it possible. BOTH are equally guilty. But that's the charm of politics - you can rape the people of your country and blame someone else. The shakedown continues. It must be a shakedown, Gibbes has said it isn't.

If you are afraid that someone might be elected to public office whom you couldn't control, and you have a lot of money involved in a business that, you fear, might go down the tubes, should that someone new get into office. What would you do?

As luck would have it, we have examples set for us from several quarters, this election year. The people behind Gresham Barrett come to mind. I'm not saying that Barrett wanted those powerful people to do what they did, but they do support him, and they did do it to Nikki Haley.

Look, also, at the case of poor Mr. Greene. Everyone with power, in that sad remnant of a once noble institution, is fit to be tied. This man is not worthy enough, to them, to be knighted, elevated, co-opted, and absorbed by they power system. So like any virus whose RNA has been rejected, the Progressive power brokers cannot complete the infection and thus, must wither away and die.

On the other hand, Leighton Lord IS one of the rich and powerful people who run things in this state, so there are no such ham-handedness happening to him. But I suspect he wants to go to the country club and hob-knob with his fellow rich and powerful people. It's similar to the movie, SHE, when She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed wants something, it must be done. Eventually one of his richer and more powerful friends will want something that's not quite right. It really won't hurt anybody that counts. And so, Mr. Lord will sigh, and have to do what it takes to keep the friendship. If not that, then something like it. Soon enough begins the subtle wearing away of the veneer of equality and the juris that creates prudence, so necessary to an attorney general. I am sure that right now, Mr. Lord is a good person with a fine wife and handsome family. He is a managing partner at the powerful and influential Nexsen Pruet law firm. But, there are a lot of those, and "managing" usually means voting "yes" for co-optation of other senior partners and where the water cooler goes in the executive men's room. No, it's the Leighton Lord of eight years from now that I worry about. This is an opportunity for us to save the man from himself. Some day, the virtuous, rich, and powerful Mr. Lord may even thank us.

June 16, 2010
Told ya. - See July 15..

You may have received this in your email today - "Governor Sanford's vetoes of funding for SCETV, childhood immunization programs, school bus fuel, HIV/AIDS care, restaurant inspections, county libraries, rabies vaccinations, and thousands of SC [public sector administrative] jobs."

I really have only one question about all of this - Why should I pay for ANY of this stuff? None of this, NONE OF THIS should be anybody's PUBLIC responsibility. I DO see worthless sperm donors and welfare baby manufacturers. I DO see local libraries trying to suck off of the State public teat. I DO SEE worthless school districts and pathetic animal owners and worthless public sector administrators. And SCETV? Are you kidding? It's a dinosaur! It's budget should have been decimated five years ago!

This email is the end-game of lazy ministers and rabbis and imams and atheist welfare groups who can't seem to get their members to pony up and are looking for an easy out (to mix metaphors.) And the HIV/Aids thing is a red herring. And in any case, we have already paid our taxes for the restaurant inspectors and state HIV help, so did the bill writers make a booboo? Could be..

June 15, 2010
Day 57 - How many more ways will Obama bluster what he cannot control? Tonight, there will be very pretty words, jabs at Bush, lofty but empty promises, and foolish hubris. He will be sincere. He will seem logical. He will push the silly cap and trade bill. He will use dangling modifiers which hide the truth of his volition. He will trivialize the Oval Office. In the end, he will have bullied and blundered and we will all pay for it. Before he even says it, before he even opens his mouth, Obama has proven, once again, that I and other grownups were right. He's going to drop a big hammer on his own foot tonight, and think it's on BP. Where ignorance leads, chaos follows.

Oh, and Obama's government has yet to re-enforce the border. Now, they've surrendered a large area of a national park in Arizona to drug dealers.

From London comes news that Muslims are now publicly protesting soldiers who keep Europe safe from Terrorism. One sign, in the video you may have seen, read "You are slaves to government, we are slaves to Allah." Both statements are true. Neither leads to a free future. It is time to reject both - any religion which restricts freedom and a government which does the same. Sadly, it may be too late for Europe. we can only pray that it is not too late for "our elder sister," England.

So, the James E Clyburn University Transportation Center still hasn't built their building. Yet. According to WIS News and The State Newspaper, so many millions of dollars have been "lost" by South Carolina State University, since 1995, and the path to expenditures has been all but obliterated by adopting a "new" accounting method, that no-one will ever know whether or not there were kickbacks, let alone, theft.

But don't look to Orangeburg to care. Knowing that county as intimately as I do, I can only imagine it. How much money from that project slid around to grease the hands of the powerful, or hire that cousin's cousin as a secretary, or buy a certain preacher a certain car? We'll never know. Poverty makes prostitutes of the corrupt, the virtuous shame themselves to dig ditches, to paraphrase Cicero. Still, there is so much good in Orangeburg, and yet, so, so much corruption. It is, however, ironic in the extreme, that Jim Clyburn, who's political power base is Orangeburg, appropriated our tax money for a transportation center, named after himself, which never got moving. How liberal. How Progressiveic.

Progressives are going Greene. NOT! This is an attempt to stir up the withering numbers of party members. They can't handle a dang thing. Not even their own party. They are deaf to the Tea Partiers, deaf to common sense, and delivering the final whine of a bunch of losers.

You know me. You know I would kill furry animals to get and own an electric car. I would even commit furricide for a hydrogen-fuel cell electric car. They've had the technology for 20-something years. Now Chevy is making one. But you know what? The buffoons at Government Motors have priced it at $100K ! Well, what good does that do? It also requires electrolysis equipment, which is ancient science, but apparently still costs an arm and a leg to set up. Whisky Tango Foxtrot?

June 14, 2010
To quote Randy Quaid in that outstanding movie, ID4, "I've been sayin' it! Haven't I been sayin' it? I've been sayin' it.." Liberals and Progressives don't have a clue when it comes to money. A survey. reported in the Wall Street Journal (I heard about it during the Boortz radio program), that the more liberal you were OR the more Progressive you claimed to be, the LESS you know about economics. Even the NYT reported that the more economics a person knows, the more they tend to be Libertarian or Conservative. So, as Boortz said today, "Wonder where you're job is? ...we have placed our country in the hands of idiots and fools..." I've been sayin' it!   Haven't I been sayin' it?

WOW! What an ending! Clemson played today like they did last night, right up until the 9th inning. Alabama caused people to have coronaries in the stands as they almost came back all the way. But Clemson held on and are also headed to Omaha. Alabama is used to having heavy scoring against them, having lost their series with Carolina, earlier this season. Parenthetically, Mark Kneely, of ESPN, knows how to pronounce Clemp-son! My Great-Grandfather, David Cuttino, of Sump-ter, said Mr. Clemp-son pronounced his name that way, and he would have known.

Also, you know you're being booed in Clemson, South Carolina. It is a distinctive sound, very upper-class English sounding, which glides from "eh" as in bet to "oo" as in who. At Clemson, it is delivered with a slight burping sound, halfway through the delivery, and is generally performed by tanned individuals in hats too small for their heads, who sport sumptuous bellies. At Carolina, the "boo" is a pure vowel sound - "oooooooo" - delivered in tandem, usually by a student and her date and accompanied by the raising of a half-filled beer cup. I can't remember what they do in Charleston, but I believe it sounded funny, and was entertaining to watch. It also involved manual gesticulations.

Yesterday, of course, the Gamecocks ground out an unbelievable and exciting win, in the heat at Myrtle Beach, against Coastal Carolina who just wouldn't quit. The Chanticleers have nothing to be ashamed of. They played two magnificent games in impossible heat against an SEC powerhouse. Both teams were superbly coached. And do not kid yourself, Coastal WILL be back.

Day 56 - This is going to be a very painful week to watch the embarrassing behavior of Obama and his Cirque du Simpletons. He'll be trying to balance the very large debt he owes to big oil, while appearing to care about everybody except rich people. He'll make some Clintonian gestures and then fly away with his sycophants swooning, and nothing really getting done

For their part, the people in the Gulf who really need help will smile, politely, hoping not to anger Obama so that some of our tax money will flow where it's actually needed. He'll take potshots at Republicans and remind everyone that it's all Bush's fault. He might even remind everybody that little Jenna Bush likes his cretinous Health Bill because she's all of 21, and, Gosh, isn't it cool caring for the world? (Did you see Chris Wallace fawning all over her, on his Sunday program? Or was he fawning all over Obama? - hard to tell.)

Meanwhile, the oil gushes, the beaches collect tar-balls. Dumb decisions will be made that affect the pocketbooks of every single one of us. Not many will enjoy the show, but it makes for great news on the 24 hour cycle, doesn't it?

Saw a great program on cable last night on how we're going to go into space from a base on the moon. Why, by 2020, we'll have bases on the moon and begin the exploration of the solar system. Tell that to the Amateur-in-Chief, who's cancelled the manned space program. The future-drama was made in 2007. Good Grief!

It is better that we go into space with private funds, but as long as this statism is in play, they'll find a way to keep humans earth-bound - easier to control, that way.

Jimmy Dean is Dead. I have followed his career from the time I was a fourth grader and he had the pop hit "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine." It was a monster. He introduced me to the talking western music genre, with "Big John." I will take those tunes with me to my grave so I can hum a few bars for the heavenly choirs. I also remembers his part in Diamonds Are Forever, the James Bond thriller with Sean Connery. Sorry to see him go

June 13, 2010
Ho, Ho, Ho! How arrogant is State Legislator Todd Rutherford? Today on Fox News, he said that Mr. Greene, who defeated the questionable Vic Rawl in a fair Progressive primary - well, as fair as a Progressive primary can be - was not mentally capable of serving as Senator(!) Who in the heck is Rutherford kidding? Greene's a Progressive. He's supposed to be easily led. He's supposed to be publicly educated. He's supposed to be dim. You people finally got exactly what you were aiming for by screwing with the public education system, the wasting infrastructure, and the deadly public welfare programs you all so dearly love. Live it! Own it! HE IS YOUR REFLECTION! HE IS YOUR ICON!

Day 55 - Oh, Joy. Professor Obama is going to lecture us, again, ruining our Tuesday night. television schedule. It has been such a pleasure NOT hearing from him at night. Yes, the 24 hour news channels slavishly cover every scripted syllable he says, during the daytime, but it's been pure heaven, not having him spew his lies and half-truths all over my living room, in the evening. My guess is, whatever it is he has to say about whatever it is, he will not be right, have another stupid idea, blame someone else, and it will cost us money we don't have, or time we should be doing it differently.

He really should stick to screwing up the Gulf War, the economy, and foreign affairs. If he doesn't straighten up and fly right, soon, this oil business will bury him. My greatest fear echoes his supporters - Obama really IS doing all that he can do.

Breath-holding, yesterday. Coastal almost beat Columbia. Clemson almost beat Alabama. And, the HEAT! Even at the beach, it was a little muggy. Great baseball, though. How about those Chanticleer bats! As soon as Coach Tanner said they were "gonna have fun," that the Gamecocks were in for a fight. Keith Schmidt said it all, when he said you have to play "scared," meaning focused and with respect for the other team.

Oh, and it's either SHANT-uh-Kleer, like Victorian "Shall Not" with fair weather, or SHAWN-tih-Klair as in Irish "Sean" with a French twist. The one way it's NOT pronounced is SHAWN-tuh-Kleer. It sounds fake - kinda like pronouncing Gamecock, "GAME-KOKE."

You're being cheated, if you have Blue Cross-Blue Shield of South Carolina. If you take Zolpidem Tartrate, a non-narcotic sleeping aid which our stupid legislature has decided to treat like a narcotic, or anything else you need on a consistent basis, like Diovan or Avandamet, you will be defrauded. Here's how: First off, they will only approve 60 pills in a 90 day period. Second, they will not begin to process your pre-approval until you apply for a refill. Third, you can't apply for a refill, until your prescription runs out (is 30 days old). Fourth, the "pre-approval" takes two days or longer. Even if your physician calls the insurance company, himself and begs them, they will still require the pre-approval, and will STILL take two to three days.

Now think: for every generic pill they don't provide (for which protection you have already paid through the nose), they save anything from half a buck to $1.50, or more - never mind that they don't provide the actual branded named drug. At two to three days times 75,000 people, in this state alone it, you're talking about $50,000 to $60,000 PER DAY! Of course, the busier you are, or the sicker you are, the more days this could potentially effect you, and the greater their profit for your misery.

Yes, BC/BS needs to make a profit, but not this way. I don't need to remind you that hospitals and insurance are the two major problems with the cost of medicine, today. When these people get to Hell, as surely they will go, I hope the demons require them to get pre-approval before they get a drink of water.

One More Bloviation - I noticed that Charter Communications - still in bankruptcy - has just given a sumptuous amount of money to name a South Carolina park after themselves. They should have spent the money to pay down debt to their creditors or build up their pitiful infrastructure. Hey, that sounds familiar, doesn't it?

June 12, 2010
COLLEGE BASEBALL!!!!!! - what Big League Baseball was supposed to be and isn't. And here we go again! Three of the state's best college teams are playing today: USC Coastal, USC Columbia, and Clemson. The only reason Charleston and Citadel aren't there, is because Coastal is. Furman had a shot this year, too. Wofford almost did. I can't wait until USC Upstate gets into the race. And Winthrop too. Then, all my favorite teams will be up close and personal. Good times!

The moral of the story surrounding the messing up of Albert Barns' art collection, by Progressive Progressives in Philadelphia, is simple - Don't Ever Live In Philadelphia. Do you actually think that Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell, knows more about art and the way it should or should not be displayed than the people who have dedicated their lives to the artists' works, kept in a perfect state, and available to be seen by anyone, with permission. So Ed and his minions continue to steal property "in the name of the people."

Day 54 We keep pounding about the lack of actual scientific fact, involved in so much of what the government has maintained is "settled." It is imperative that science not be conjecture - that's called guessing. Hypothesis can become a rule, only after fact upon fact is verified and and reverified and reverified. It gives me no pleasure to be right about this oil spill business, but this is exactly what happens when "settled science" fails. FACTS.

Carol Browner has also lied about that study suggesting there be a "pause" in deep sea drilling. Yesterday she had an underling say that she regretted the comments, and that it was Obama's decision alone, with his white house experts - whatever the heck they are. The experts were embarrassed and said, no, we didn't say that. Now Obama has sullied the reputation of some really good engineers and scientists, sullied the science, and added more confusion to a tragedy, which has been complicated by him. Now, we have a fight over whether a six-month moratorium on drilling is a "pause."

We also have discovered that the Jones Act, which protects unions (yep) has not been waived to allow the foreign-flagged skimmers to operate in the Gulf. They're capable and in good condition. Obama could do make this happen with the wave of his hand. But, apparently, he's too busy playing bear pong. He IS going to have a another meeting, though.

Everybody else in the world calls it "Football." We call it "soccer." I would never wish ill of any American team, and I hope they win this world cup thingy. But, as a sport, soccer is pretty lame. Americans like big numbers. That's probably why we have replaced baseball with football as the All-American sport - that's real football with blood, guts, cheerleaders, padding, and contact. Lots and lots of contact.

Soccer is about people running around on a field, running out of breath, trying to kick a malnourished basketball (it's pale white with black spots all over it) into something that looks like a crab trap designed by an assistant public school administrator. Couldn't the space could be better used for a cricket pitch, or maybe, a parking lot? They say that it's becoming popular with the posh set, here, in the USA. Fine. But it's still a silly game. Nevertheless, I hope we win. I'd pull for us if we were in a World Ron Paul Look - Alike contest.

June 11, 2010
Albert Greene won 59% of the votes in the state Progressive party's primary. By rights, he should be running against Jim DeMint. He even fits what the inherited-wealth white-guilt Progs want. But let's face it, except for Little Joe, all the smart, honest people left the Progressive party in Charleston after the 1980 elections. On the other hand, they should welcome Greene, who has, as I just said, the right kind of background for that group. But they don't want him, so their support has been wanting. And if you if don't think the Progressive party can let you down, just ask Rep. Bob Ford.

And, did you see what Jim Clyburn said about Greene? Does anybody take him (Clyburn) seriously, anymore? I mean, why doesn't he just come out and say that he spends his nights, fending off the ghost of Pitchfork Ben Tillman, and the only reason little black children are not roasted and eaten by fat, white bigots, is that the NAACP is boycotting Myrtle Beach? Somebody get Jim a whoopie whistle, so he can have sound effects to go with his silly statements.

Day 53 - BP continues to drag their feet. The Obama administration continues to drag its feet. The only guy who seems to know what he's doing, General Thad Allen, is still trying to make chicken salad out of chicken droppings, while the commander in chief continues to posture and preen, and his pet Pit makes claims that cannot be backed up by fact. Elections have consequences.

On that same note, Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, who is supposed to be the head guy over all the spill happenings, was caught just plain lying, yesterday, in testimony before a congressional committee. He falsely claimed that they are doing everything they can do about the spill. It is patently obvious that this problem, too, is above Obama's pay grade. But the Progs will find a way to spin that, too.

AND.. And.. There seems to be no bad idea which Barack Obama will not embrace. The latest one is his penchant to posture using the "stop-that-drilling" performance. Did he even TALK to an oil drilling scientist before this latest bit? When you stop sucking up oil, at that depth, it has to go somewhere, so it tries to leak. The buckets of water his flunkies in the media are carrying are now weighted down with sticky goo.

Be prepared to be lied to, again. This time, by the census people. Not that Caucasian-Americans are no longer 50%+ of the population, that's been true for two years. The Lie will come if, as rumored, they claim that African-Americans are the largest minority. Sources close to to the country's body count tells me that the real numbers show Latinos are the next biggest group and may even be followed by Asian-Americans, THEN, followed by AA's. Again, this is WHY I and others have urged ALL Americans, regardless of race, color, creed, or previous origin, to get together and just call each other "AMERICANS."

June 10, 2010
Day 52 - Finally, today, some scientific facts from the Gulf, thanks to Philippe Pierre Jacques-Yves Arnault Cousteau, Jr., Grandson of famed ocean scientist and documentarian, Jacques Cousteau. Speaking in what can only be called an "Educated Southern" accent, Philippe reports that on his dives, he is seeing mid-depth oil intrusions. He said he was given the impression that there is definitely crude oil in mid-zone-depth areas which were suspected, but not verified.

Speaking on Fox Business News, with the precision of a real scientist, Cousteau said,"what we're witnessing is, really, an uncontrolled experiment... We are dealing with situations that we have no precedent for." Separating opinion from fact, Cousteau said he believed that it will "take years and years" to nullify the effects of the spill, even if using the smaller spill of the Exxon Valdez spill as an example.

Ben Bernanke is way too slippery for the average Congressman to understand. But there they were, anyway, with Jack Spratt in the lead, over-eating up his double-speak. Remember, there are real thinkers who disagree vehemently with what he and "Flipper" Geitner did and are doing to America by fiddling with the banking system. It shouldn't be a matter of question that the Progressives have only one way to go, and that is to lie their way out of the complete screwup they have created with their ludicrous spending and idiotic tax system. They know it's Gotterdammerung - the Apocalypse - for them. They have no other choice.

So, yesterday, in their little banking committee, they tried like all Hades to get Bernanke to say that their profligate spending had actually helped the economy. He of course gave half answers which amounted to "yes, there was stimulus (leaving out the part that we were stimulating a fat, ever-increasing governmental monster) and yes, tax cuts did help stimulate the economy under Bush but there was also a recession (leaving out the part that it was caused by him, Geitner, Frank, Dodd, and their overwhelming majority from 2006 through today.) This is not to say that Bush gets off the hook - he was bamboozeled by Geitner and Bernanke - and that will scar his presidency. It's unavoidable.

June 9, 2010
WOW! WHAT a learning experience for our state - ya gotta love it! And what a victory for Sarah Palin and the anti-arrogance movement! If I were in a runoff and didn't have a (real) tea partier in my corner, I'd be setting up some interesting meetings.

Can you believe that the ultra-sharp 1st District tea party urban candidate Republican is leading! THIS, my friends is the proof that the Yankee Media Fibs Again! Republicans- East Indians - REPUBLICANS- African American - Greeks, Scots, Irish, Germans, Japanese, French Protestants - WINNERS ALL!!!! All South Carolinians. THIS IS THE SOUTH CAROLINA I KNOW!! The South Carolina of Judah P. Benjamin, of Polaski, and Col. Fighting Dick Anderson of the Continental Army. And we will have done it BEFORE Georgia AND North Carolina. And we're not voting for them because of their minority, but rather because they are the best person for the best job! WooHoo!

Were I Gresham Barrett, I would look in the mirror. Remember, he believes he is ENTITLED to the gubership. Now, he will garner all the big-monied interests in the state who are, as of this morning, disenfranchised. They will hope to smear Nikki Haley at every turn. Barrett will pretend there is a reset. And he will be correct, if the people who voted for Nikki do not show up, again, in two weeks.

Big deal down along the border. A teen was killed after a border patrol officer returned fire after dodging fist-sized and larger stones, thrown by the teen and his buds - illegals "protesting."

Ask yourself, "Is a stone a weapon?" For Millenia a stone has been both a deadly weapon and an insult. Ask Goliath.. no, wait.. he's dead. He was killed by a STONE.

Does La Rasa send children to do their dirty work, now?

DAY 51. The government denies that there is a second spill. Talk about amateurs! Their OWN REPORT (see June 8) says there was oil in the water identified as not from the BP oil spill! SO if there isn't an oil spill, where's it from? There is something rotten in the Obama - BP "axis of error." And it's not a moldy Danish.

Crime is up dramatically in 5 Points, in Columbia. This is what happens when you extend civil rights to self-proclaimed crooks. Membership in a colors gang IS probable cause. When are the namby-pamby liberals on Columbia City Council admit they are a failure at this and step down?

June 8, 2010
Unbelievable! The so-called "worst oil spill in American History," hasn't produced the volume of subsurface oil that was predicted by all the egg-heads. Unless the government is lying, and that, of course, is always a possibility, the scientific evidence to date from three separate sampling levels at four different compass points seems to show that the concentration of oil is almost immensurable (the term preferred by people who can pronounce diphthongs.) Except for one reporting station, there was not enough evidence to tell if it comes from the BP spill. One reporting station found that the oil did not contain the BP well "signature," but a different oil well.

To sum up, there was one station which found so little oil in the mix that it was impossible to detect where the oil came from. There was one station which found no appreciable oil in the mix. Another station found enough oil to detect which oil well it came from, but it was not from the BP spill - this may be evidence that another seep sea rig is leaking oil. Finally, the last station - the one closest to the Louisiana coast - found a small amount of oil in the mix - 1 part per 20 million - and that did come from the BP spill. 0.05ppM is equivalent to 120 acres (a decent size fishing pond) in the entire United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.

Two questions arise: 1. How much oil has escaped? REALLY? and 2. Does this mean that the mess in Louisiana Delta islands could have been avoidable, had Obama acted immediately, and when finally acting, not slavishly clung to poorly thought out or applied eco-rulings?

It's Primary Day! Remember: if you don't vote, you are throwing away a real chance to change the way government works. If you're saving your vote for an Indie candidate, and will vote November 2nd, fine. Just remember to vote THEN.

If we know of a result before the TV News departments know, we'll post it. Otherwise, watch your favorite station. Nobody's going to do a better job at that than 2 in Charleston, 6 at the Beach, 10 in the Midlands, and 4 in the Upstate. We'll have links, but, broadcast is still the best media venue.

June 7, 2010
NOW, we're $13 Trillion in debt. Anyone who votes for a Progressive, now - after all of this - is either a moron or a fool. If I have to explain this, then you belong in the first category. If I you understand what I mean, and you don't believe it, then you're in the second. But I'm preaching to the choir, because most of you understand and agree.

Also, if you're a Progressive and think you have the high-ground, just think of Helen Thomas. She is the epitome of a liberal Progressive. Her only fault, besides her liberal bigotry, is the fact that she is too old to remember to hide it from daylight.

As promised, here's how I see the election tomorrow:

1st District - Henry Brown, Jr's successor - whoever wins the free-for-all. It's the Beach and Charleston, people. The liberal Progressive who wins their primary should just drop out. The Republican "Survivor" wins the general election in a humiliating landslide.

2nd District - Joe Wilson - the real competition will come during the general election. Not that Miller will win, he won't. But there will be lies and mud thrown at Joe. Remember that he accurately pinned the tail on the donkey in a very public and obvious way, and Progressives cannot abide the truth.

3rd District - Like its sister 4th District, it's a toss-up. Whoever is first and second will do the runoff dance. No incumbent.

4th District - Bob Inglis broke the 11th Commandment - his criticism of Joe Wilson, above all others, was the sin for which there is no salvation. It's a toss-up, but the Tea Party candidate could do well. Look out for David Thomas' push among district farmers - there are a lot of them. Whoever wins will have a Progressive and TWO independents to defeat. Remember, Greenville County is the home of the Reagan Libertarians - something Inglis definitely is not. He was, once.

5th District - John Spratt is not safe. But he does not play fair. Also, he, like Jim, has a large core of welfare recipients who vote. Like Jim, his challenge will come in the general election. This should be a Tea Party victory, but they are poorly organized in the Fifth.

6th District - Doesn't matter who runs in the Republican Primary, the area was purposefully gerrymandered so that James Clyburn could be elected to congress. It is populated with a small, but vociferous group, who are the daughters of former slaves, whose average current highest aspiration is to have three welfare babies, and then go on social security and medicaid when the babies grow up. Not all. Not even most. But many. Jim has a fiefdom, which even educators call the "corridor of shame." They produce little, and tax foolishly.

Senate - Jim DeMint. The Progs talk a good game, but it's just talk.

Governor - Runoff between Haley and somebody. Pollsters tell me we will see Nikki Haley garner anywhere from 37% to 48%. Henry McMaster should have gotten between 33% to 40%, and still may, but there are two other very savvy, very hungry people who will do anything to win. Anything. It is possible that Haley could get 50%+1, but all of this is guessing until tomorrow night at around eight or nine. Whoever wins the runoff will win the general election, after a bloody fight, filled with lies, sexism, "walkin' aroun' money," and dirt.

Treasurer - Curtis Loftis - Converse Chellis' office miscalculated the budget twice. He also acted as Sanford's henchman in the budget process, increasing the Guber's power, which is a dangerous thing, on the face of it, and people know that.

Attorney General (State Solicitor) - Alan Wilson - Leighton Lord is heavily sponsored by the very big-monied interests in our state, and candidate number 3 is a nice guy. Alan has impressed everyone he's met. There may be a runoff, but the winner will defeat anyone the Progs put up. Law and Order is only a cancelled TV show to them. And we have seen, these past two years, how important States Rights are.

Lt. Governor - Who cares. If there is one thing André Bauer has proven, it is that the Lt. Guber is a completely worthless position, since we are not a country. The position could be replaced by a good fundraiser with a better secretary.

Secretary of Education - What difference does it make? If any of them really understand how education works, or its primary purpose, they're not letting on. Whoever gets in will just screw up the system even worse.

So, that's it. remember, these are only educated guesses. Stay Angry. Stay Peaceful. And VOTE!

June 6, 2010
On this day, 66 years ago, a lot of good people - people from this State - were dying by the bushel on the beaches of France. No political statement. Just, thank God for their sacrifice.

Heard something on talk radio a couple of days ago that tickled my funnybone. A gentleman of country background was saying that there was a sure-fire way to pick a candidate: you start a list and tick off every time there is a commercial. The one with the most ticks is the one you don't want to vote for, said he. Considering that the monied interests in this state are very much interested in a continuation of the status quo, that might not be a bad idea.

According to the New York Daily News, Rush Limbaugh is getting married, again. Money is a powerful aphrodisiac, is it not? But rather than rib the Rushter, they had to go and lie about him.. again. They really don't listen to his show, so how would they know he's anti-homosexual? I have heard him, many times, say that does not agree with a certain male homosexual practice, but he has never put down homosexuals, per se. Now that may be too subtle a distinction for the Daily, but try this on: guess who's coming to dinner? - the wedding dinner, that is, and has agreed to perform many of Rush's (and my) favorite hits? None other than the Prince of English Rock and Roll, Sir Elton John. No-one is more careful about political symbolism than Rush Limbaugh. I believe this pretty much makes a liar of all those liberal smarms. I would also note that when it comes to military and fiscal conservatism, some of the most conservative are gay folk.

Day 48. Did you see that picture of the pathetic bird, completely covered in muck? It tears your heart out. It brings tears to my eyes when I realize that the result of human arrogance can be so graphically demonstrated. All new deep-sea drilling should be done from dry land, using slant-drilling, until we have the science to cap off these kinds of accidents. The people who thought this science was decided are the same mental ragamuffins who gave us the computer modeling for global warming.

A darker side of the same coin, is the obfuscation going on about how an explosion such as this one can cause the damage it did, in a natural setting, how could it even happen at that depth, naturally, and why this event is assumed to be an accident when these questions have not been successfully answered. I'm NOT suggesting that it was a terrorist event. But I AM suggesting that a certain person, in a certain white-painted home on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, would look like more than the confused amateur he is, were this anything more than an accident.

David Thomas has done a tremendous amount of work, rounding up votes in the exurbs. Don't be surprised if he winds up in the runoff that must surely occur in the 4th District. My hero, Joe Wilson, is expected to do very well, even though there will be a concerted phoney- vote push by Progressives for his opponent in his district. I will have a full run-down of what my spies tell me will happen Tuesday, on Monday. Nikki is still ahead of everybody else in that race, they say.

Sen. John McCain is pulling in every favor he has with Fox News. It's the only reason Fox is giving him so much free air-time. Mercy's sake, they've got him commenting on the the Gulf spill! You tea-partiers in Arizona need to get out in front on this thing, or J.D. might lose. McCain is a maverick. That's one of the reasons we are in the toilet, today.

June 5, 2010
Nikki Haley is leading in every poll - private and public. In one private poll we had access to, she leads ALL the others by slightly over 50%. There seems to be an inverse ratio of popularity to mud-slinging. So many formerly powerful politicos are dashing themselves into oblivion on the shoals of bad consulting and bad taste. They shouldn't worry, though. They'll always be able to seduce clients who are vain and worthless.

Day 47. Still have no good science on the spill amount. We have to face facts: It's a mile down, under water, under immense pressure, in bitter cold, where physics works differently from summertime sea-level. It may be that BP is as bad and culpable as Obama's mouth would have us all believe, but let the science answer the these questions, first.

Lost in all the rhetoric about deep, offshore drilling is the fact that it is the government who makes oil companies drill that far offshore. The government. Who influences the government? A president and congresspersons who receive millions from econuts. Is there anyone who doesn't see that when you forbid drilling in safe zones and force far-offshore drilling, that accidents such as this are bound to happen?

Our Japanese brethren have elected a new leader. Prime Minister Naoto Kan has OK'd America's base on their southernmost island. Yukio Hatoyama stepped down because he couldn't get his hands around the world recession and his country's welfare dilemma. Relations with Japan are critical for peace in Asia.

Paul, Please! Write, sing your wonderful music. Make our hearts glad with that which makes you great. Stick to what you know. "W" has more smarts and reads more than you sing. He thinks faster than he speaks - that's what makes him stall and stammer and create funny-sounding words. This is not a justification of the stupid bank bailout. They're just facts. Like "he's smarter, better looking, and in better shape than Al Gore." Just sayin'.

And, yes, Orin would have been 67, today.

June 4, 2010
It is a shame that Jake Knotts' mother has passed. She did not raise him to be so low. According to my Dad, she was an old-fashioned woman, but would have given her last penny to help any person of any persuasion or previous origin. Jake shames us all by this behavior. I understand his frustration that his candidate for Guber doesn't have a rat's chance in a cat factory, nor does Lindsey's replacement. But such comments, especially about a woman of the South, are not only uncalled for, but put lies in the mouths of those of us who are not bigots.

Day 46 BP is sucking up about a fifth of the oil leaking mightily from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Obviously, this is not enough, but it is, at least, something. But where are the PERMITS for the other 14 proposed BERM sites? This may be the most viceral evidence that the EPA is against good land management, and needs reorganizing.

N'awlins Seafood is STILL GOOD! They aren't fishing from the few areas that have been effected by the spill. Of course, their seafood is never going to be as good as OUR seafood, but that's God's choice. We also raise the best peaches, but Yankees have known that for over a century.

The market knows a lie when it hears one. The "Blabber Effect" happened, once again, when Obama was talking about how great the unemployment news was. Market chugged, Obama talked, market dipped, he stopped, market went up. This time, though they got scared, and the market considered the news and tanked. A LOT of people have just stopped looking for work. Mr. Obama: Please! Just go into a closet and stay there, until people who know what they're doing get elected. YOUR Government IS our problem. Why are there such bad numbers? Well, the federal breast milk is drying up, and the problem, which we warned would not be fixed, is not fixed. KEYNES WAS WRONG.

June 3, 2010
Budget Blundering - watching Rep. Harry Ott (D) talk, in the Statehouse, about secretaries calling him to complain about losing their jobs, and trimming social services to an affordable level, it becomes evident that his constituency, and those of other Progressives, are being threatened. I will remind every person who reads this column, that DSS and sister agencies, INCLUDING most school districts, are bloated with administrators - doing work which can be done, with a small amount of difficulty, by secretaries (who really do the work, anyway). Secretaries SHOULD NOT be losing their jobs. Teachers SHOULD NOT be losing their jobs. The bloated hangers-on in bloated civil services - those whom we call administrators - those whom Progressives call constituents - THEY are the one's who should be packing up boxes and sending out resumes.

Until YOU vote these blood-suckers out of office (and some RINOS, too), it will be the secretaries and teachers who get fired, rather than the administrators and board members who bloat our state system.

Day45 As his failure increases, Obama's posturing increases in intensity. A modest man would have admitted that his administration has no clue what to do with the leak in the Gulf, and back off - but he isn't one of those. Also, there are an unbelievable number of government regulations and laws that are now compiling - one on the other - with the result being, a growing confusion of environmental and punitive laws which cancel each other out or put each other into a larger more punitive category than was originally intended. And there are still people who think the government can fix anything. Well, they've fixed things, all right..

On the other hand, the much-maligned BP may have the gusher capped by the end of the day. We're all crossing our fingers. James Cameron, of Avatar and Titanic fame, has offered considerable knowledge to BP. They turned him down. Cameron says BP is dumb. Also says Obama is foolish not to admit he has no idea what to do and ask for his and other's help. Also, look for marginal drillers - the small guys - to lose out. More unintended consequences of dirty government hands.

And Gov. Bobby J., just said he will build the sand BERMS, if Obama, his screwups, & BP don't do it themselves, lawsuits or not!

Galarraga had a perfect game last night. The Detroit Tiger's ace pitcher had that perfect game stolen from him by a bad call. Even the ump said it was bad. He should be given the perfect game, and there oughta be more inclusive replays. Heck, they've had full replay in cricket for years! Galarraga is a gentleman - Bud Selig should be fired.

In Columbia,yesterday. I wonder if the Progressives knew I was passing by the Statehouse, as they came out laughing and joking, with their pretty young assistants fawning all over them, as they strolled to their offices. This isn't to say that something similar didn't happen with the Republicans - I just didn't see any, AND, I did see the Dems. I get home and read that the Progs are pontificating because their pet giveaway programs may be cut. Makes you queasy. Even queasier, when I read the comments from liberals, in a Columbia newspaper, who actually think it's the job of government to create jobs (!)

It now appears that we have a Hobson's Choice: We can either quit supporting all but the most pathetic and helpless among us, and direct the money to infrastructure (yes I include education in infrastructure), or we can continue to commit sepuku and, like the foolish captain, look great, as our ship full of holes sinks.

When it comes to the latest attack on Nikki Haley, there is only one thing to say - Have you ever seen Larry Marchant? I mean, how desperate must the big-money guys be? And at this point, frankly, I don't give a royal rat's rear if she slept with the entire Lowcountry Army-Ant Band! It doesn't matter. For a while, I wasn't going to vote for her, just because. Now, I think I'm going to vote FOR her, just to stick it to the big-money cowards who are behind this low, filthy, smutty campaign against her. Notice, please that to conduct this type of campaign, one must believe that the ends justify the means. Do YOU, really, want to have anything to do with people who believe this kind of campaigning is OK behavior?

June 2, 2010
Joe Bastardi is an amazing person. His prediction system is one of the best thought-out in all of meteorology. He sees a la niña getting stronger - cooler Pacific creates wetter, warmer summer with a hotter Atlantic hurricane season. Normally, I'd agree with him, except that the volcano activity around the world is way up. Over the last 12 months, volcanoes around the world are putting a lot of stuff in the atmosphere. Vulcanologists are guessing that we could see a bunch more over the next two years. Simply put, stuff in the sky means reduced temperatures. But how much? If true, Joe's prediction may see as much as 10° fahrenheit drop, which would dampen his energy-hurricane forecast.

Day 44 - The SAW STUCK!?! Huh?!?

June 1, 2010
Day 42 - BP really does appear to be trying to do the best they can in a horrible situation. Meanwhile, the Feds continue to stall the approval of local efforts due to their crazy constituents who dictate to the EPA. The FED is also threatening criminal charges. Unlike Obama, BP seems to be cool under pressure.

Two notes on the oil spill: 1. BP is so big that the company attorneys started covering hind tail before the COO could reign them in. 2. If BP were smaller, they couldn't afford to pay everyone who has been affected.

Call it the "Blabber Effect." It's become one of journalism's guilty pleasures. We watch the market fall off the moment Obama opens his mouth, which he does almost daily. As soon as he shuts up, the market heads up and then finally resumes its previous trend. It's to laugh. It's to cry..

Most economists whose jobs aren't politically engendered now fear another recession. Too much pressure to the down side, considering the so-called "recovery" was completely fueled by our tax dollars. Bad Government decisions like the added taxation, health care for tax cheats, spending without end, and not continuing the Bush tax cuts, are scaring business owners. Gold is well into the 1200's. The word on the street is "uncertain." Businesses hate that.