The Saturday Claw 1-17-09

The material just keeps pouring in. Here I am posting Saturday’s column at noon on Thursday. If this keeps up, Josh and the rest of the staff at AllMilitary.com are gonna have to schedule me THREE times per week. Well, either that or I’m gonna have to take a vacation without internet access.

By now, you are all aware of the miracle of US Air Flight 1549 and their crash landing in the Hudson River.  Everything that could go right in that mishap did, from the sturdiness of the aircraft, the excellence of the piloting, the lack of panic among the passengers, the good job by the cabin crew in evacuating the plane, and the people of Noo Yawk who helped rescue everyone.  The passengers and crew would have not had their luggage and belongings ruined and their travel plans wrecked, and US Air would not have lost a multi-million dollar aircraft if some other people had done the right thing in the first place.  If more people had cooked goose for Christmas this year…..

One of the few areas that I do not begrudge the government taking control over our lives is public safety. That being stated, I do NOT agree with the National Safety Council’s recommendation that all cell phone usage when driving be outlawed. As long as it is legal to eat, play with the radio, have a conversation with others in the car, apply makeup, shave, read a newspaper, and pick your nose while driving, talking on the phone should be allowed.

The socialists in Europe have now outlawed the 100w incandescent light bulb, a la Californication, and are now looking at banning plasma TVs because they use more electricity than LCD models. I guess letting the PEOPLE decide what they want is a bad thing. Freedom is verboten!

Lately, I’ve been uttering the phrase “we’ve read this book before” quite a bit in regards to the economic plans emanating from DC. Massive federal spending and public works projects was the attempted solution that FDR and his people used in the 1930s, and they worked so well that the Depression was drawn out for years longer than it should have lasted, only to be ended by WW2. PEBO and the rest of the leftists want to try it again. It will not stop there, and we really have read this book before as the Wall Street Journal points out.

Note to all radio personalities: Whatever you do, make sure that you do NOT defend Christianity on the air or you just might get fired. Islam wins again in Scotland.

Real scientists, you know…the kind that have proven time and again that global warming and cooling is associated with solar activity instead of human activity, have some more potential bad news for us in regards to the sun. That big, bright, hot thing might cause us more problems soon, and they’re not talkin’ about temperature changes.

Does anybody really doubt what the muslims plan for the world? Here, in their own words, is what they want to impose.

The Chosen One has decided that it is a good time to rub the wounds of the Episcopal Church raw and to throw salt in them. To placate the heterophobes of America, he has invited “bishop” Eugene Robinson to deliver an invocation at the Lincoln Memorial during Coronation Week. It really is fitting. The incoming leader of the nation opposes the very foundation of the nation, The Constitution, and one of his advisors is a leader of a church, but he opposes the very foundation of it, the Holy Bible. I keep telling y’all that liberals hate all rules that have any restrictions on behavior.

Now a Democrat (imagine that) is reintroducing legislation that would make OPEC and the arab states subject to US anti-trust laws, so the US government could charge them with collusion when they limit supplies or fix prices. If that were to pass, the arabs would laugh at us while they immediately cut our supplies and quadruple our prices. Does that Dim-bulb Senator expect the FBI to go over there and arrest them?

I’m not saying that there was any pay-for-play politics EVER associated with $lick and Chillary but…okay, maybe I HAVE been saying that for 16 years. Anyways, The Chosen One and The Frozen One have an “agreement” regarding her husband’s foreign fundraising. Basically, he can keep it up as long as he wants, and it will not reflect negatively on her as SecState, even if she is dealing with the same leaders that he is money-grubbing from. In response to this, the Republicans in the Senate are refusing to make an issue of it in her confirmation hearings. WHY NOT?

Blogger Edna Eagle asked The Crawfish and some others about the nominee for Attorney General, Eric Holder. She comes to question him regarding his stance on the 2nd Amendment and his support of the gun ban in DC that the SCOTUS case of Heller v. DC threw out last year. Holder’s history in the Justice Department and a deputy to Mr. Janet Reno included breaking department rules to get Puerto Rican TERRORISTS pardoned (to get the Rican vote in NY for Chillary’s Senate campaign) as reported on Tuesday. He also supported terrorist organizations when he represented Chiquita Brands International. They made payments to terrorist groups in Columbia, and he defended them, even stating that “there is no definition of terrorism.” Will THIS get proper opposition from the GOP Senators? I doubt it.  They don’t have the intestinal fortitude to challenge a black man who is being protected by the media.

Bill Richardson was at least smart enough to drop his Commerce nomination when his legal problems surfaced. Timothy Geithner, the nominee for Treasury, isn’t so smart. Treasury runs the IRS, and Geithner (until a few days ago) owed the IRS $34,000 because he DIDN’T PAY TAXES on income a few years ago. He also has nanny pay & immigration status problems. Instead of getting any opposition, these problems have been swept under the rug because he is sooooo “qualified.”

The nominee for Energy Czar, as reported in the last column, has been a member of many socialist groups, who are now scrambling to remove her name from their websites. Carol Browner also has ethics problems from her years as head of the EPA including destruction of documents in direct violation of orders from a federal judge. Will THIS get any opposition?

The nominee to head the CIA is so aware of what’s going on that he was completely clueless regarding Bill and Monica when he was in charge of the White House. Shall I continue with more of His nominees?

Even the choice for Education Secretary is in dire need of opposition. Arne Duncan has been the head of the Chicago public schools since 2001, and has proven himself to be a complete failure. Despite massive per student “investment” from local, state, and federal taxpayers, the system has FAILED to meet standards for FIVE STRAIGHT YEARS! This is the kind of competency and expertise that we want for the entire nation? The Senate opposition? Silent.

The whole coronation week is designed to harken back to Abe Lincoln which begs the question: Is Obama going to lead us into a Civil War? Someone else, in an e-mail, asked The Crawfish if Obama will remember to go to the theater? (I know…that’s just wrong…funny!…but wrong)

The lapdogs of the press are not even complaining when they are shut out by His Majesty and the few reporters who He will allow to ask questions of Him.

Why in the wide, wide world of sports can’t Democratic governors simply follow the law when appointing Senators these days. First it was Blago, and now The Accidental Governor. It really ain’t that difficult.

The “religion of peace” and it’s followers are really working the media in their fight against Israel. In order to increase the number of innocents killed, and to be able to blame it all on the eeeeevil Israelis, Hamas is booby trapping houses with families inside to be blown up if the IDF tries to take control. Positively sub-human. (Yes, CAIR, I said your friends are sub-human, so go ahead and put me on your watch list again.)

Y’all know it is REALLY getting bad when even the El Lay Times has articles about all of the Obama schlock that’s being advertised continuously. It really is getting nauseating.

You probably thought unionized American teachers were irresponsible. That’s nothing compared to this Australian teacher who seems to not care if his students die.

Once again, the religion of the False Prophet provides an outrageous action that is repugnant to all of us who live in the post-7th century civilized world.  Do my “friends” at CAIR have anything to say about this one?

Back to Her Thighness for a moment. Right at the beginning of her confirmation hearings, she expressed that she will use her new position to fight CLIMATE CHANGE! Does she plan on being able to regulate the SUN? That’s the only way to have any real impact on climate change.

Another young man who gets violent with the cops gets shot to death, and is immediately called a “gentle, sweet soul” by neighbors. Why doesn’t the press ever find a neighbor who will say (truthfully), “he was a dirtbag who needed killing”?

This story takes us on a little tour. It happens in a city about 30 miles from where The Crawfish is currently living, but I didn’t see the headlines anywhere until I make it to the website of The Jerusalem Post. These actions should have taken place last month, but then again these people should never have procreated in the first place.

Former Black Panther and race pimp Rep. Bobby Rush is at it again. Now that Roland Burris is assured of assuming the must-be-black Senate seat from Corruptionnois, Rush is resuming the fight against gun owners in America with a bill that will mandate Big Brother’s tracking of all firearms in the USA. If passed, it will basically make citizens ask permission of the government in order to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.

Thank you, Massa! The Navy has received PERMISSION to train for combat. Yes, the envirowackos have gotten laws passed by their bretheren in the Democratic Party that officially put their interests over the defense of our nation.

Does Mexico actually have a functioning government anymore, or is it only in control of Mexico City and the nation’s tourist trap areas? A new report by US Central Command puts Mexico and Pakistan as the two nations that have the biggest possibility of “rapid and sudden collapse.”

When you hear that former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin was involved with a gun and a police report you automatically think the worst from “Playmaker.” I was pleasantly surprised with the story.

Once The Messiah starts his reign, will the rest of the world stop blaming the USA for all of their problems? I only ask this because Russia, Ukraine, and the EU are in disputes over natural gas supplies and the Russians are blaming the US for their failure to pump gas into the pipelines. Huh?

If you believe, like The Crawfish does, that The Prophet Algoracle and his Gorons are complete frauds, and that Glo-Bull Warming is a hoax, you are encouraged to contact him with this link and let him know. Hat tip to blogger Jesse “The Mind” Norman and his comments at The Weekly Claw, Townhall edition.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

3 Responses to “The Saturday Claw 1-17-09”

  1. Garrysr Says:

    Nice job as usual, Fish. Can’t wait for the O to make more appointments to rejoice in.

  2. John_H Says:

    In rare form as alway Fish. I’m still saying we should syndicate you. Keep it up.

  3. The Crawfish Says:

    John,
    If you can find someone to syndicate me, I’d gopher it in a heartbeat. Notice that Josh hasn’t commented about me possibly needing 3 per week!

    Garry,
    It really is sad when his least controversial pick is HILLARY!

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