COULD WE TRADE WITH NIGERIA?

No, I don't mean carved coconuts for ipads or oil for corn; I mean heads of government.

Nigeria's president is 100% black, which seems to be the most popular ingredient of B.O. (and the only reason he was elected), who is only 50% black.

Further "Goodluck Jonathan" sounds like an American name, whereas "Barack Obama" is an African name.

Finally Goodluck Jonathan is a great deal more interesting than B.O. He dressses rather as an Orthodox Jew and appears to smile quite a bit. It may be that he doesn't smoke - I'm not sure - but that would be an important attraction in a country that doesn't want its air polluted with toxic gases. I haven't had a look at his wife or heard anything about her, but I don't see how we coud lose anythng on that side, either.

I think the U.S. would be much better off to make the trade - we couild even throw in Holder, so that Nigeria would not lose in net blackness.

Now that B.O. is in Africa, we could effect the swap now and save the usual enormous expenses when his family travels anywhere.

I'm not sure Nigeria would want want a dictator, but it seems like a good deal for America.

THE SUPREME COURT, OR WHY DID MADISON & CO. GO TO THE TROUBLE?

In my lifetime various Supreme Courts have taught me the insignificance of things I valued. Life is insignificant, for it's quite OK to a murder an unborn child; the flag is insignificant, for its quite OK to burn or otherwise desecrate one; and most lately, we have that marriage is insignificant, because a couple of sexual deviates can get together and claim to be just that.

With so much of insignificance in the country, I wonder why James Madison and colleagues went to the trouble of writing laws to govern us. What do you suppose they would have thought of the transmogrifications enumerated above?

That question can be answered by attending to something Mr. Madison once wrote.

"We have staked the whole future of America's civilization ... upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments."

If Madison & Co. would not have approved those decisions, what the hell are the likes of Briar, Cajun, Ginsbag, and Sortofminor doing if not ruining the sort of country of which the founders dreamed?

196 VOTES FOR EXCRUCIATING MURDER

Lately Congress approved a bill to outlaw abortions after 20-week pregnancies. This show of overall compassion and rationality was marred, however, by ONE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX votes, 190 FROM DEMOCRATS, in oppostion.

In a time when scientific evidence establishes clearly that the object of murder is a living human being capable of sensing pain, what sort of barbaric maniac could approve such an act? Yes, I know the lealding one's in the White House, and what an electorate that installs 196 vicious villains in the House of Representatives. That my country has descended to this depth makes me ill and angry.

GO PUBLIC WITH GOD - OLD TESTAMENT ADVICE

"Before all the living, acknowledge the many good things He has done for you, by blessing and extolling His name in song. Before all men, honor and proclaim God's deeds, and do not be slack in praising him. A king's secret it is prudent to keep, but the works of God are to be declared and made known. Praise them with due honor."

Tobit12: 6-7

By acting in this way one not only marks him- or herself as a godly person, he also influences those that observe him. For example, try saying grace aloud in restaurants.

MAYOR BOOMBAG IS PARTIALLY CORRECT FOR ONCE

New York's Mayor Boombag has advice for everyone, and lately he counseled some high school grads that they should avoid college and become plumbers, because they would earn more money that way. Of course, people should be motivated by considerations more profound than paycheck size, but there was some latent wisdom in his remark.

A person would do much better towards earnming a living for himself by becoming a plumber than in wasting resources obtaining a degree is, say, X studies, where X = women's, black, multi-cultural, or some other bogus type; psychology; criminal justice; or sociology. These are disciplines selected by people that go off to college to shoot drugs, attend football games, and get laid, not by those impelled by a desire to form useful lives and make positive contributions to the world. Plumbers do that, whereas folks fit only to join protest marches don't.

Now, if we could just get Boombag to believe in the Bill of Rights.

WHAT B.O. KNOWS AND DON'T KNOW - HIS PRIORITIES

He don't know nothin' 'bout runnin' no guns to de drug lohds ob Mexico

He don't know nothin' 'bout dem Benghazi folks gettin' theirselves killed

He don't know nothin' 'bout lettin' dem Mexican criminals out ob de jails

He don't know nothin' 'bout de IRS harassin' folks what disagrees wif him

But he sho' do know all 'bout hoops and queers - he done called one ob de hoop-playin' queers up on de telephone.

We sho' nuff be in better hands dan eben wif All State.

CHRISTIANITY CAN SAVE US

"The Christian's only true and specific contribution to the human effort to improve one's condition in society is to bear witness to the RELIGIOUS POSITION AS THE MOST COMPLETELY HUMAN STANCE FOR TACKLING THE MORAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS THAT ONE MEETS WITHIN SOCIAL CO-EXISTENCE."

Monsignor Luigi Giussani