On Harry Reid

The only reason that this Reid fellow even has a job is because the Republicans foolishly nominated Sharron Angle and she was even dumber than him. Period, end of discussion.

A Bunch of Covers that Work for Me (Originals in Parentheses)

"Tracks of My Tears" - Johnny Rivers (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)......."Passionate Kisses" - Mary Chapin Carpenter (Lucinda Williams)......."I'm Looking Through You" - Steve Earle (The Beatles)......."Two More Bottles of Wine" - Emmylou Harris (Delbert McClinton)......."Wild Horses" - The Flying Burrito Brothers (The Rolling Stones)......."Being with You" - Sarah Borges (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)......."Poor Poor Pitiful Me" - Linda Ronstadt (Warren Zevon)......."One More Night" - Kelly Willis (Marshall Crenshaw)......."The Night's too Long" - Patty Loveless (Lucinda Williams)......."San Diego Serenade" - Nanci Griffith (Tom Waits)......."Guilty" - Bonnie Raitt (Randy Newman)......."All My Tears" - Emmylou Harris (Julie Miller)......."Stand by Your Man" - Lyle Lovett (Tammy Wynette)......."Icy Blue Heart" - Emmylou Harris (John Hiatt)......."Angel from Montgomery" - Bonnie Raitt (John Prine)......."The Way We Make a Broken Heart" - Rosanne Cash (John Hiatt)......."My Lonely Sad Eyes" - Maria McKee (Them Featuring Van Morrison)......."Ain't No Cure for Love" - Jennifer Warnes (Leonard Cohen)......."Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Dwight Yoakam (Queen)......."The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - Joan Baez (The Band)......."Tupelo Honey" - Cassandra Wilson (Van Morrison)......."I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - Jimmie Dale Gilmore (Hank Williams)......."Tenderness on the Block" - Shawn Colvin (Jackson Browne)......."People get Ready" - Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart (The Impressions)......."Love the One You're With" - The Isley Brothers (Stephen Stills)......."The Return of the Grievous Angel" - Lucinda Williams (Gram Parsons)......."I Lost It" - Lucinda Williams, 1998 (Lucinda Williams, 1980)......."All Along the Watchtower" - Jimi Hendrix (Bob Dylan)......."Ill Fly Away" - Carolyn Hester (Traditional)......."Jolene" - The White Stripes (Dolly Parton)......."Stop Breaking Down" - Lucinda Williams (Robert Johnson)......."Bang a Gong" - Power Station (T Rex)......."My Back Pages" - The Byrds (Bob Dylan)......."I Shot the Sheriff" - Eric Clapton (Bob Marley)......."Stolen Car" - Patty Griffin (Bruce Springsteen)......."Das Kapital" - wd (Karl Marx)......."Someday" - Shawn Colvin (Steve Earle).

Note to Harry Reid

An "unnamed source" has told me that you like to have sex with 5-year-olds, and that it was actually you who was behind 9/11 and not Mr. bin Laden....There, now prove me wrong.

Miscellaneous 133

1) Here it is again, folks - "I understand that the frequency with which some individuals under investigation by our office have been purchasing firearms from your business has caused concerns for you." INDIVIDUALS UNDER INVESTIGATION, PURCHASING FIREARMS, HAS CAUSED CONCERN FOR YOU. Mr. Voth is acknowledging not just the illegal sales but the fact that these honest gun dealers were concerned about these purchases. To say that this asshole is in any way a credible source for an investigative piece is absurd (the gun dealers didn't want to sell to these straw dealers and this idiot, Voth, told them not to worry). Period.............2) Hey, I heard that wd is currently petitioning the Olympic Committee. He's trying to get them to approve spinning for liberal Democrats as a sanctioned event.............3) Best spice combination yet; cumin, fenugreek, onion, cardamom, ginger, star anise, and black pepper.............4) I was watching some House hearings on the GSA scandal recently and was informed that, despite the fact that they only have 1% of the federal workforce, they received 10% of the total bonuses that the government gave out last year (a $50,000 bonus to the idiot who concocted that $800,000 conference in Vegas). Yeah, I think that there might be some actual issues in that department.............5) We were clearly fighting barbarians in WW2. The question is, did we ourselves become barbarians, too?............6) One of the reasons that gas is going up again probably has to do with the ethanol mandate. Ethanol is made out of corn and the price of corn is skyrocketing. Thank you, central planners.

What, According to Timothy Carney, McCain SHOULD Have Said in 2008

"Our economic crisis is real and requires action. But what the President and Senator Obama have proposed - borrowing nearly $1 trillion from our children and grandchildren and handing that money to the very financial institutions that created this mess - is unconscionable, unconstitutional, and un-American.....................................................................................Treasury Secretary Paulson, a former executive at Goldman Sachs, came to the U.S. Senate and told us that we had no time to lose, we have to ACT NOW and give the administration the power to create - out of thin air - hundreds of billions of dollars to give to Goldman Sachs and any other corporation that the administration thinks needs it. And now, Warren Buffett, the richest man in America and Brack Obama's economic advisor, has invested $5 billion in Goldman on the expectation of a tax-payer-funded bailout...................................................................................................I say that Secretary Paulson's friends at Goldman have had their chance. I say that the "Masters of the Universe" on Wall Street have shown their true colors. I say that Warren Buffet's investments are doing well enough. These millionaires don't need your money. These millionaires don't deserve your money. Barack Obama and George W. Bush think that they do. I say, OVER MY DEAD BODY."............Who knows. It might have worked.

The Case For Gary Johnson

Less crony capitalism. Less internationalism. Less interventionism. Less bureaucracy. Less divisive rhetoric. Less power to the military industrial complex. Less intrusion into our personal lives. Less concentrated power in Washington. Less power in the hands of lobbyists. Less power in the hands of the FED. Less political pandering. Less of a regulatory burden on small businesses. Less wasteful spending and pork. Less needless civilian casualties.......Sometimes less is more.......This is a man of high integrity, I think.

Some Thoughts on the Second Iraq War

I was against the second Iraq War (I was actually against the first one, too, but that's another story). I feared that it would destabilize the region and possibly pull us into another quagmire. I also didn't think that it was necessary (I thought that we had Hussein pretty boxed up and he would have never given his WMD to terrorists anyway). And, while I still don't think that it was a good idea (or that it was properly executed), time in fact does heal/allows for some perspective; a) Saddam Hussein was one of the top 5-10 worst mass murderers of the 20th Century. He brutalized his people and actually attempted genocide on the Iraqi Kurds.............b) A strong case could have been made for deposing this asshole on humanitarian grounds alone. That was the rationale for taking out Gadaffi and Hussein was infinitely worse.............c) Perhaps a better course would have been to simply take out Hussein and his two despicable offspring and then try a negotiated settlement with some of the saner elements of the Ba'athist party.............d) There was going to be a civil war in Iraq eventually anyway (Hussein being toppled and the Shia looking for revenge). Is it not at least possible that the American presence there made it less of a bloodbath?............e) There was at least SOME ambiguity regarding WMD; Scott Ritter prior to his "epiphany", George Tenet calling it a slam-dunk, most of the European countries assuming that Saddam possessed them, etc.. And, besides, Saddam Hussein was a bald-faced liar. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that the son of a bitch could have had something squirreled away and after 9/11 Bush probably figured, why risk it (his malfunction being that he evidently thought that it would all be a cakewalk)?............Look, like I said, I was against it and continue to think that it was boneheaded. But if we're going to give FDR and Churchill slack for purposefully incinerating infants and the elderly, maybe we can give some slack to W, too.