This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Don Carl

  • This is just plain cool

    WBAL has this story about a lucky man, whose life was saved by his clothing:

    BALTIMORE — While motorists who have been in car crashes often attribute the help of air bags to saving their lives, a Maryland motorcycle rider injured in a collision is doing the same — for a jacket.

    Joseph McPhatter, of Randallstown, was injured in a crash on Interstate 83 after being cut off by another motorist in September. According to police, McPhatter was ejected 100 feet, hitting the ground at an impact rate of 140 mph.

    Officials said McPhatter’s crash was the first real-life incident in the U.S. where the jacket was used.

    Not being a motorcyclist, I had not heard of Impact Jackets
     before. Now that I have, I am impressed.

  • Ron Paul wins Conservative Leadership Straw Poll

    Alright.
    Well, now, the only sane assumption is no one else showed up…

  • The Austrian RINO Screws us AGAIN

    Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill requiring new semi-automatic handgun MICROSTAMP identifying info on to shell casings. You know, basically outlawing any new handguns in the state. As with his earlier ban of .50 caliber rifles, none of which has EVER been used in a crime in California, this law does nothing to stop or prevent criminals from committing crimes. As is true with all “gun control” legislation, the only people harmed by this are the law-abiding.

  • Rush Limbaugh Uses Senatorial letter to Make (Bigger) Fools of Senators

    This is PRICELESS, or, rather can be yours for $40,300.

    When “Dingy Harry” Reid and the U.S. Senate turned away from the business of the nation to instead smear a private citizen, forty-one of them sent a letter demanding the “repudiation” of their inaccurate interpretation of Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Jesse Al-Zaid (a.k.a. Jesse MacBeth) and other “phony soldiers” who falsify their service. This letter was delivered to Mark Mays of Clear Channel Communications, Rush Limbaugh’s syndication partner, and widely quoted in the Drive-By Media.

    Up for auction is the original letter signed by 41 Democrat senators. This historic document may well represent the first time in the history of America that this large a group of U.S. senators attempted to demonize a private citizen by lying about his views. As such, it is a priceless memento of the folly of Harry Reid and his 40 senatorial co-signers.

    The entire proceeds of this auction.. the entire high bid… will be donated to The Marine Corps – Law Enforcement Foundation, a registered charity which provides financial assistance to the children of fallen Marines and federal law enforcement officers. Rush Limbaugh serves on the Board of this organization and has been active on its behalf. All costs of this auction will be paid by the seller… every dollar of your winning bid will go to this charity, which has to date distributed over $29 million.

    To think, the media portrays conservatives as humorless… Hell, even Tom (I served but, not as well as I said I did) Harkin signed this piece of…er… history.
    With this sale, Limbaugh continues his support of the military and military charities.

    Ebay listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260170172469

  • Re: The recent comments of LTG Sanchez

    Not surprisingly, the Mainstream Media latched right on to his comment:

    “There is no question America is living a nightmare with no end in sight,”

    Sadly, that is NOT all General Sanchez had to say. Army Times published an article on General Sanchez’s comments Army Times managed to note a few things the MSM didn’t:

    Jaws dropped as Sanchez glared out at the room, and then eyes rolled as he spent an hour blaming everyone but himself.

    and

    He said some poor strategic decisions in Iraq had become “defeats because of the media,” and that some reporters feed from a “pigs’ trough.”

    He lamented the media’s treatment of Federal Emergency Management chief Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina. Brown resigned from FEMA after accusations that he had mishandled the hurricane.

    and

    He said the partisan politics of Congress are “killing soldiers,” and that the focus needs to be not at Capitol Hill, but in Iraq. And, he said, the media’s coverage of partisan politics was driving a wedge in democracy. He called for newspapers to run corrections more prominently and noted that television and Internet outlets often don’t run corrections at all.

    The Bush administration, he said, failed to plan economically and politically for Iraq, and has continued to fail in expressing its plans and strategies to the American people. The best the administration could hope for with the current approach is to “stave off defeat.”

    When asked for specific names involved in failures he cited, he said, “I’m not into second-guessing decisions of our political leadership.”

    This sounds like a bitter guy who feels he got the stinky end of the stick and is now interested in seeing others dragged through the mud he feels he was unjustly drug through. Come on, now, invoking Katrina should be a clue, shouldn’t it?