Apparently, Trey Grayson thinks so…

In Kentucky, where the first polls were set to close at 6 p.m., the final hours of the race brought accusations of “voter intimidation” from Secretary of State Trey Grayson’s Senate campaign. Grayson’s campaign manager charged that supporters of conservative insurgent Rand Paul were engaging in “bullying and intimidation,” saying in a statement: “Rand Paul needs to rein in his goon squad and follow the law.”

Paul appeared to hold a strong upper hand over Grayson as voters headed to the polls, and in a radio interview poked a rhetorical finger in the eye of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky power broker whose political operation has strongly supported Grayson’s candidacy.

You know, those tea partiers, they’re an unruly lot.

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“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.” – Ayn Rand

Have we really become a nation that is so politically correct that it is offensive to wear the American Flag…because it offends someone else?

It certainly seems that way:

On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galliand his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.

Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.

“They said we could wear it on any other day,” Daniel Galli said, “but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today.”

The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts “incendiary” that would lead to fights on campus.

And, to add insult to injury, school officials wanted the boys to apologize for “offending” the Mexican-Americans.

But to many Mexican-American students at Live Oak, this was a big deal. They say they were offended by the five boys and others for wearing American colors on a Mexican holiday.

“I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day,” Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. “We don’t deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn’t do that on Fourth of July.”

As for an apology, the boys and their families say, “fat chance.”

“I’m not going to apologize. I did nothing wrong,” Galli said. “I went along with my normal day. I might have worn an American flag, but I’m an American and I’m proud to be an American.”

The five boys and their families met with a Morgan Hill Unified School District official Wednesday night. The district released a statement saying it does not agree with how Live Oak High School administrators handled this incident. [Emphasis added.]

Why isn’t the ACLU suing on behalf of these children?

If Americans cannot display the American flag for fear of offending people who are from other countries (regardless whether they are here legally or not), there is something drastically wrong with this picture.

As Democrats consider using the so-called “nuclear option” to nationalize America’s health care, perhaps they need to be reminded of their own words just a few short years ago. Afterall, the ‘nuclear option’ is not what the Founding Fathers intended, according to the Democrats.

What they said THEN…

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On Twitter.

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Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna look you right in the face,
Better get yourself together darlin’,
Join the human race…

John Lennon

Petty dictators the world abound, their time usually cut short by the folly of their ways. 

Now, Mother Nature is weighing in:

Hugo Chávez may be wondering, as Venezuela’s taps run dry and its cities fall into darkness, whether God is on the side of the Yankees.

The El Niño weather phenomenon appears to be taking sides as it parches leftist-ruled parts of South America and brings bounty to US farmers and corporations. One of the severest droughts in decades has given Venezuela’s socialist president a political nightmare as hydro-electrical power dribbles to a standstill, unleashing blackouts, rationing and protests. The waters behind the Guri dam, which supplies more than half the nation’s power, have touched perilously low levels. Chávez has declared an “electricity emergency”, urging people to spend no more than three minutes in the shower. The president has even dispatched Cuban pilots to seed clouds for rain.

The state oil company Edelca has aimed higher: it summoned workers to a prayer meeting entitled “Clamour to God for the National Electricity Sector”.

The crisis has extended to Paraguay, where another leftist leader, Fernando Lugo, ordered the presidential palace lights switched off. In Argentina and Brazil – also with leftist governments – torrential rain and high temperatures have blighted crops with insect and fungi attacks.

A suspicious soul could ask whether El Niño, a Pacific weather system that influences climate worldwide, is on Washington’s payroll. Monsanto and Dow Chemical are enjoying booming pesticide and fungicide sales in Argentina as farmers battle to save soy harvests. But in the US Midwest, farmers expect record corn and soy crops.

Nuestra cosecha está abundante!

Cross-posted.

Please read this post because, after you do, you will likely agree that the people running this country are idiots.

[From CNSNews.com]

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs agreed that part of a civilian trial is the presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, but Gibbs also said that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, would be “convicted” and “executed for his crimes.” 

On Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked Gibbs, “The vice president (Joe Biden) said on Meet the Press that he guarantees that KSM (Khalid Sheik Mohammed) would not be acquitted. Isn’t part of a civilian trial presumed innocent?”
 
Gibbs said, “Yes.” 

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On NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Feb. 14, host David Gregory asked Vice President Joe Biden, “The reason for a civilian trial as given by the president and others was a question of perception: That it was very important that the rest of the world see that we treated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed fairly. But hasn’t the administration already made the decision that even if he were to be acquitted that he would never be released?”
 
Biden answered by guaranteeing that Khalid Sheik Mohammed would not be acquitted.
 
“Look, there is no doubt that he would not be acquitted,” said Biden. “The facts we have are overwhelming. We are absolutely confident he will be convicted and for whatever he is tried. The attorney general made the decision that he should be tried in the court of the greatest jurisdiction, which was in New York City.”

Nevermind the fact that the trial isn’t going to be held in New York (Joe must have missed that White House briefing), here’s a prediction: 

If the trial judge does not toss the case first, KSM’s “conviction” will eventually get overturned after BHO, Joey “Botox” Biden, and Gibsy are long gone because the government does not have a case once KSM’s [non-Mirandized] confession and the [warrantless-obtained] evidence is tossed out.

KSM cannot have a ‘fair trial’ by a ‘jury of his peers’ in any venue within the United States when you have the President and the Vice President declaring him guilty [on Meet the Press(!), no less]…and the President’s spokesman (to reporters) stating the same thing.

If BHO thought putting KSM through a ‘civilian court’ would show the world “we practice what we preach,” his administration has undone everything he claims he wanted to do.

The ONLY way BHO can get out of the mess he and his team of idiots created is for them to put KSM in the lead car of Joe Biden’s motorcade.

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Cross-posted.

Should our enemies’ arrows blot out the sun, then we shall fight in the shade.

As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter.

The National Operations Center of DHS will watch the web for information, according to the statement, to “provide situational awareness” in the event of natural disaster, an “act of terrorism, or other manmade disaster.”

Is it not comforting to know that the United States’ Department of Homeland Security, in all their competence could not catch a a**hole with explosives shoved down his briefs, but is now spending time and resources monitoring U.S. citizens?

Cross-posted …

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Should our enemies’ arrows blot out the sun, then we shall fight in the shade.