DOES IT HAVE A FOOTBALL TEAM?

Yes, I know I rant regularly against college football, when the concept is abused, which is nearly always, but I mean the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, which is the institution that awarded the Ft. Hood murderer with an M.D. in Psychiatry.

Most of the places from which students would like to have an M.D. degree - such as Johns Hopkins, University of Illinois, Stanford, and Harvard - have football teams, so this was merely my whimsical way of asking myself if USUHS is a mainline school or a get-an-M.D.-by-Internet college.

Directly following the tragedy I looked for it on the web, but its site was "unavailable," said my browser, for a day or two. Following that absence their page featured a statement of regret. I think if colleges routinely apologized for the wrongdoings of their graduates, they'd be doing more of that than of playing football; insofar as reasonable inference is valid, USUHS should be free of suspicion of misconduct.

I completed the web page inquiry form and asked for a list of its medical faculty. Since I'm still awaiting a reply, I have no idea if it's a get-an-M.D.-by-Internet school, let alone whether it has a football team.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

No, I didn't miss the anniversary of Black (meaning bad, ominous, frightening) Tuesday - just had other things to do.

Here's a capsule assessment of our progress in a year.

1. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan about the same.

2. Second-rate Supreme Court appointee that flagrantly flaunts her bigoted notions over those of the U.S. Constitution.

3. Vigorous war on unborn lives advancing as never before.

4. Nationalization of some industries and banks.

5. Record unemployment.

6. Government's being run by an assortment of anti-American tsars and tsarina's accountable to no one but B.O.

7. Debt with so many zeroes that even Carl Sagan couldn't have named the quantity.

8. Vigorous war on decent health care that hard-working, responsible people have earned for themselves.

Well, that's enough; contemplating our deterioration makes me ill and angry.

YES, VA. AND NJ, YOU ARE A SANTA CLAUS!

Bravo and brava, Virginia and New Jersey! You did the RIGHT THING and don't ever forget it! At the very least you have saved the lives of many, unborn children, and saving lives earns people medals. I have none of those to award you, unless prayers of gratitude count. If so, consider yourselves rewarded in much better than metal and fabric.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR DECISIONS

I read that in Montana several days ago a fellow was arrested for murdering a 69-year-old and 62-year-old couple when they surprised him in the act of burgling their home. It was gruesome - throats cut, multiple stab wounds, etc. (Is there a knife-control faction among the legislators? Perhaps there should be background checks and waiting periods for purchasing kitchen knives and corkscrews.)

While this is an everyday event in violence-riddled America, it struck me even more tragic that just ONE WEEK before, the murderer had been freed on $50,000 bail after being charged with intent to commit homicide by bludgeoning a man on the head! (See parenthetical expression above as regarding rocks and heavy objects.)

My direction here is not weapons control; no, not by a long shot. I believe judges, physicians, and others, on whose authority dangerous criminals are released among us, must bear criminal responsibility for the subsequent acts of those they liberate. The Constitution affords us the right to bail, and I do not oppose the concept, but how many rapes, murders, and other crimes are perpetrated upon us by maniacs that are foraging the streets while awaiting trial or who have been pronounced harmless by psychiatrists? These should be charged the same as the criminals they set loose, and bearing the responsibility for one's actions would make him immensely more circumspect.

THE SIX MILLION

No, I don't reference the disputed number of killings of Jews by Germans in WW II, I intend the exorbitant number of jobs B.O. & Co. claim to have created/saved by printing and spreading (mainly wasting) several trillion once-respected dollars hither and yon.

Each month the number of unemployed are reported to have increased despite the legerdemain of the Neighborhood Organizer and his anti-American advisers. As throughout his campaign and this disastrous first year, the magic is all in the lips, folks. He done created nothin'.

In the novel, 1984, when the chocolate ration was decreased, the corrupt dictatorship said it had been increased, and all the spineless, cringing saps swallowed the lie. Are you not reminded of Stalin's Soviet Union? It's the same with B.O. and his attempts at a dictatorship; lie upon lie upon lie. Don't be a spineless sap; don't swallow the fantasies ABC, CBS, NPR, and most of the others propagate. Look at the data, look around you, and use your bloody heads!

STOP PELOSI

Nancy "the Catholic" Pelosi is determined to ram federally funded abortion through the House of Reps. She wants a "closed rule" vote, which would obviate amendments to her health "care" plan. Straight out of the Soviet Union, right?

If you're opposed to dictatorships or to the murder of the unborn, call your congressperson today. I did, and he's voting my way.

Don't they excommunicate heretics anymore? Someone ought to drop kick that louse out of the faith the liar purports to follow.

WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN?

A few years back it was a line in a modern-made folk song, but, here, I mean the Republican party.

The way they present candidates I can ALMOST understand why morons voted for a dictatorship when our country was defined and defended in blood.

For two examples consider the RINO senators in the Northeast - likely territory - that have thrown in with baby-murder, euthanasia, free medical rides for illegal scum, and the destruction of Medicare and medical insurance, hard-one by by responsible, working people.

Then, too, we have Scozzafava, a New York - another likely locale - lunatic liberal, supporting abortion and faggot unions, whom Republican congressmen are ballyhooing for the coming election! Vote for Hoffman, a Conservative and a good man, instead.

Wake up, RNC! Your days as a party, especially shot through with Democrats only slightly less rabid than B.O., Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Rangel, Feinstein, and that scurrilous crowd, may be numbered.