Massengill Award Winner(s) of the Week

Taliban blown up by own bombs

TALIBAN killers have blown themselves up laying booby-trap bombs, we can reveal.
Up to 20 are thought to have died planting Improvised Explosive Devices.


They were racing to plant the IEDs before the Allied offensive Operation Moshtarak. The triggers on the IEDs have become so sensitive the terrorists are accidentally detonating them as they hide them.



Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2869375/20-Taliban-blown-up-by-their-own-bombs.html#ixzz0ghR9a4pD


BT Comment: It's times like these that I give this award gladly without pent up frustration towards the recipient. If these guys could just keep blowing themseleves up it would make things alot easier for the good guys. May these fanatically Muslim, lethally roadside whoopee cushions continue to blow up in their radical freedom hating faces.

Senator Harry Reid, Future Wife Beater

If Harry Reid is correct, Mrs. Harry Reid better start packing her bags come the November 2010 mid-term elections. Currently Mr. Reid is polling behind his challenger and may well be out of a job himself befor the year is out. So, if he really believes his highly flawed, fear-mongering logic, he himself will be one of the those frustrated, disenchanted spouse abusers. Somehow I don't picture the Senate majority wimp swigging a can of Colt 45 with a pack of Marlboro's in the sleeve of his T-shirt but, you never know what can happen when an liberal elitist is tossed out on his can.

Forget the Chicago way... This is the Las Vegas way

Las Vegas Mayor Goodman rejects Obama invitation

Updated: Feb 18, 2010 04:25 PM EST


Mayor Goodman rejects invitation to meet with President Obama
2:15
President Obama singles out Las Vegas, Mayor calls him "slow learner"
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President Obama landing in Las Vegas this afternoon



Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - Mayor Oscar Goodman has refused an invitation to meet with President Obama when he arrives in town on Thursday. Mayor Goodman called President Obama a slow learner after he told Americans not to blow money on a weekend in Las Vegas if they were saving to put their kids through college.

"I've got other things to do quite frankly for my constituents here in Las Vegas who rely on me to do the right thing as a mayor," explained Mayor Goodman.

Mayor Goodman has more important things like attend budget meetings during a major shortfall than meet with President Barack Obama when he visits Las Vegas Friday. That rejection comes even though he's invited by the White House.

"Were you surprised to get that invitation in light of comments you've made before and your opinion on him and what he says," asked Action News reporter Heather Klein.

"A little bit in the sense I would think they would know that I would say I'm not coming," said Mayor Goodman.

They say time heals all wounds but not this time. Mayor Goodman is not backing down after the president used Las Vegas the example of where not to go if you're saving money.

This is strike two for the mayor.

"We are hurting, we have people in foreclosures, we have people having a hard time feeding their families and we can't stand to have a flippant statement made," said Mayor Goodman.

"I haven't heard an apology, I haven't heard a response, all I do is get invitations," Goodman went on to say.

Invitations Mayor Oscar Goodman respectfully or depending on your point of view, not so respectfully declines. The mayor says his presence isn't necessary, its more protocol than anything else. However, he says all it will take is a simple phone call and he will be there ready to move on.

Civil Savants

I live in an apartment complex with a centrally located mailbox. I went out today to collect my mail when I opened the the door to the box and discovered that a small box(not small enough) being delivered to me was placed squarely in my slot. Now the mailperson loads the boxes from behind and consequently I retrieve the mail from the front. However, the box that must have barely fit in the back of the slot was not accessable from the receiver end. All they had to do was walk about fifty or sixty feet to my front door and leave it there for my receipt. Instead, I had to find a large screwdriver and smash the sides of the box while poking holes in it in order to extricate it from it's federally protected tomb. It took all of five minutes to accomplish what could've have been done in less than thirty seconds by the postman. I thought about calling the post office, but to what end. Short of violence in the workplace these people have a job for life. If anything, they might have had a good laugh about it during their two hour break. The point is, competition and the pursuit of excellence are practically absent in the public sector. There is little incentive to excel and no fear of termination.(One of the many reasons I fear a government run healthcare system) There are people who are good government workers, but that is because of their own intrinsic work ethic despite the malaise that pervades the realm of civil service. I guess Newman was right, "When you control the mail, you control information". Or atleast in the case, access.

God Bless the U.S. Military

Congrats to our troops who recently captured Bin Laden's right hand mullah(man). Even under the currently restrictive rules of engagement our service men still manage to excel at their calling. Always remember to pray for them and thank God for the service they perform. They fight the enemy abroad so that we don't have to here at home. Atleast on a less confrontational basis here in the homeland. Regardless of who the president is, who holds the majority in Congress, or what domestic issue is being flogged, the service these brave men and women perform make it safe for us to engage in pursuits both noble as well as trivial.

Pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training 2010

I know that the song/video has nothing to do with baseball. I don't care. I only wish that I were going to see the Phillies at Spring Training this year. Having gone for 5 out of the last 7 years it was becoming a spring ritual. It's much different than going to a regular season game in every way. Even the parking and the concessions are cheaper. Oh well, maybe next year... huh Mr. V?

Liberalism... creating a nation of Paul's one tax dollar at a time

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Laurence J. Peter

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
William Cobbett

It's personal

To the simple things and those who toil in anonymity

Man who invented Frisbee dies of cancer, aged 90
By Doug Alden, Salt Lake City

Saturday, February 13, 2010



WALTER Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died. He was 90.



Mr Morrison died at his home in Monroe, Utah, on Tuesday.

Mr Morrison’s son, Walt, said that old age caught up with his father and that he also had cancer.

"He was a nice guy. He helped a lot of people," Walt Morrison said. "He was an entrepreneur. He was always looking for something to do."

Mr Morrison sold the production and manufacturing rights to his Pluto Platter in 1957. The plastic flying disc was later renamed the Frisbee, with sales surpassing 200 million discs. It is now a staple at beaches across the world and spawned sports like Frisbee golf and the team sport Ultimate.

An official disc golf course at Creekside Park in the Salt Lake City suburb of Holladay is named for Morrison.

Mr Morrison co-wrote a book with Frisbee enthusiast and historian Phil Kennedy in 2001. Kennedy released a brief biography about Mr Morrison, wishing his late friend "smoooooth flights".

According to Kennedy, Mr Morrison and his future wife, Lu, used to toss a tin cake pan on the beach in California. The idea grew as Mr Morrison considered ways to make the cake pans fly better and after serving as a pilot in World War II, he began manufacturing his flying discs in 1948.

He would hawk the discs at local fairs and eventually attracted Wham-O Manufacturing, the company that bought the rights to Mr Morrison’s plastic discs.

Kennedy says Wham-O adopted the name Frisbee because that’s what college students in New England were calling the Pluto Platters. The name came from the Frisbie Pie Co, a local bakery whose empty tins were tossed like the soon-to-be Frisbee.

Walt Morrison said his father is survived by three children. The family is planning a service today at the Cowboy Corral in Elsinore.

Kay McIff, an attorney who represented Mr Morrison in a royalties case, said: "That simple little toy has permeated every continent in every country. How would you get through your youth without learning to throw a Frisbee?"

"The whole thing’s a wonderment!" Mr Morrison said in a 2007 TV interview. "I still shake my head. What have I done to deserve all this?

"This was not Einstein at work. I didn’t add anything to aeronautical sciences by putting a curve on a cake pan."



This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Saturday, February 13, 2010

Happy President's Day

Today is the day to honor two of the greatest leaders this country, nay, that the world has ever seen. Two men who loved God and country above all else. One devoting his life to the freedom and formation of this great republic. The other, giving his life to maintain the union and insure that all men should be free.
God bless General Washington who became President Washington. For his humility and for refusing to be made King George of this new found union.
God bless Abraham Lincoln for standing strong during what was probably the biggest test to disolve this union. And, for ending the blight of slavery that the Founding Fathers sought to abolish.
Just like on Mt. Rushmore, these two figures loom larger than life for anyone who studies the history of our country. Sadly, for many today they are just remembered as the faces on our currency. Let us revisit our past and those who forged it, so that we may plan our future and remain the last best hope.

Doug Fieger RIP

The Knack lead singer Doug Fieger dies
AP, Feb 15, 2010 5:01 am PST

Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," died Sunday. He was 57


BT comment: As with most songs from our youth, they remind us of a certain time, place or people. I remember hearing this whole album at a frat house on Drexel's campus back in the 70's with some friends who attended there. A classic, catchy tune.

Happy Valentine's Day

The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected to have played a large role in the St. Valentine's Day massacre, assisting Capone.


BT Comment:Sometimes things seem to be tough for guys on Valentine's Day. Above is a case in point,so just try to remember that it could be worse. Atleast no one is pumping hot lead into your body as the last thing you see is a cold,hard concrete wall. Then again, for some that would be a welcome alternative of sweet relief compared to suffering the wrath of a disappointed lover. Thanks for nothing Hallmark. For using the free market that I love, to manipulate the populace into compulsory, highly inflated, over priced gift giving. That failure to comply on this one day automatically infers a lack of love. That once a year, Feb.14th could potentially be our own personal "massacre".
Men, try to love your woman everyday as if it were Valentine's Day. Then maybe someday, this day will seem like any other and it's influence therefore diminished. In the meantime, watch "Some Like It Hot" for a humorous,slightly embellished version of the the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
End of rant.

Megan McLame on "The Spew"

BT comment: This over the hill Valley Girl in no way represents anything conservative, or intelligent for that matter(Although her father must be very proud). This show, devoted to all things liberal and whiney, is the perfect venue for someone so vapid. One might say comic relief in the midst of this daily exposition of estrogen charged thoughtlessness.

The road less traveled

Christie balances budget with cuts

TRENTON - Gov. Christie, in the first major budget decisions of his term, asserted broad executive powers yesterday to cut aid to public schools, health-care programs, public transportation, and a wide array of other areas, saying the steps were the beginning of his promised fiscal reform.

Christie acknowledged many cuts would hit valued programs, but said New Jersey "is in a state of fiscal crisis," with a $2.2 billion budget deficit, and its residents are "the most overtaxed citizens in America."

"Today, we come to terms with the fact that we cannot spend money on everything we want. Today, the days of Alice in Wonderland budgeting in Trenton end," Christie said in a speech to the Legislature.


BT comment: Cheers to NJ Governor Christie for doing what he said he would do when he was candidate Christie. For doing the hard things. For choosing to confront the reality that you cannot tax inordinately, spend endlessly, and lie arbitrarily. I pray that he stays the course and brings back the jobs and prosperity that Jersey desparately needs.

Massengill Award Winner of the Week

This week's award goes to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for mocking the more vastly intelligent Sarah Palin for writing notes on the palm of her hand prior to giving a speech. Here is a Press Secretary who can barely answer the press in a coherent manner let alone give an honest answer. And, who also works for the Socialist in Chief who also cannot address an audience without the use of his beloved teleprompter.

BT note: I will endeavor to make this a weekly feature here at BT Nation. Also, as easy as it would be to nominate Barack Obama every week, I will try to choose a different winner so as to give this feature some variety. It may be hard to pick a winner each week as there are so many on the left, here and abroad, vying for this coveted award. So here is to Mr. Gibbs being the first winner to freshen up.

Some advice for President Crybaby

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
Doug Larson


A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasgow

And finally...

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

BT Quiz: What's the difference?

BT Answer: One is a sack of crap. The other is a lying sack of crap.

Knowledge without virtue breeds arrogance

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

The President of Sin City East

Obama responds to ire over 2nd anti-Vegas remark

Perception and reputation are sensitive issues for Sin City as it struggles to find footing amid a two-year meltdown of foreclosures, bankruptcies and unemployment. Tourism is the Silver State's backbone, and several lawmakers said they were shocked that Obama singled out Las Vegas again after commenting last February that bailed-out banks shouldn't go to Las Vegas using taxpayer money.

"When times are tough, you tighten your belts," Obama said, according to a White House transcript of his appearance Tuesday at a high school in North Nashua, N.H.

"You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage," Obama said. "You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices."


BT comment: If only Obama would heed his own advice. If only he would tighten the government's belt. If only he would stop throwing lavish parties with Kobe beef steaks. If only he would travel without vast entourages to other countries. If only he would not propose bloated bureaucratic budgets. But alas, Obama is an elitist. Elitist's never live by the advice that they dole out to the ignorant masses. It's safe to say of Obama's condescending rhetoric that he himself will not abide by, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"

Competition, not bailouts breeds excellence

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

The shadow knows...

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Thomas Jefferson



The "Hope" offered is an unattainable rotting carrot dangling ever before us. The "Change" is the hand grabbing us by the throat and dragging us into a dark, freedomless wasteland.

A song of hope and the promise of redemption

Behold, I make all things new. Revelation 21:5

The Heartland sings of the Homeland

Al qaeda embraces equal rights for women

Female suicide bomber hits Iraq pilgrims, kills 54

Black(Revisionist?)History Month

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama

BT comment: May we honor the truth of all history, not rewrite it to suit our own purposes.

America's Father on Big Brother

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

BT comment: I agree with Wasington when he uses the term "marvel". When I see the approval/disapproval ratings currently for this administration I wonder(marvel) that they are not near 100% against what is going on in our country. I am not that smart, but can connect most of the dots as to what is being thrust upon us by liberal progressives(the new populists). I think that the Tea Party movement is indicative of the end of the "patience" that Washington referred to. For those who love the Constitution our patience is not worn thin, it no longer exists.
The progressive agenda will be pushed on us regardless, but the time has come and is now here where the are those of us who will not submit to it. Peaceful resistance is the venue against all who do not honor the rule of law as mandated by the Constitution.