Passer-by kills dog as it attacks Iowa woman, 77

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A good Samaritan armed with a pocketknife stabbed a dog to death as it was attacking a 77-year-old woman in her front yard, officials said.

Forget a pen...sometimes the knife is mightier!

Ann Lyon, who was with her own dog Sunday when an American bulldog attacked, was wearing a leather coat that protected her from serious injury, authorities in Council Bluffs said.

Lyon said Monday that the bulldog knocked her to the ground and then went after her dog Casey, a 4-year-old miniature Doberman pinscher.

“My main concern was that dog was so big and so heavy that I know if he got a hold of Casey that would have been it for her,” she said. “I was trying to shield her from this dog and he was all over me.”

She estimated the attacking dog weighed about 90 pounds.

B.S. Report–It’s sad when you have to kill a dog, but what are you going to do?  I’m sure many of the PETA supporters wouldn’t care if the bulldog killed the woman, after all, she is just a human being, and an old one at that.  Fortunately though, there was another dog on the scene that the bulldog would have killed, and that makes killing the bulldog acceptable.

Notice they didn’t mention the man’s name in the story.  I’m sure he’s afraid that he’s going to get hassled for what he did.  We’ll see if he’s still a good Samaritan by the time PETA gets their mitts on him and drags him into court.  Memo to Ms. Lyon:  I guess that’s why they say a dog is man‘s best friend.

Freedom Quote Of The Day

“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”

–Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

Celebrate…Or Else…Hugo Chavez marks 10 years in office with national holiday to celebrate…ta da, himself, of course!

Chavez Throws Party For Himself–Attendance Is Mandatory!

It's my 10th Anniversary in office and you didn't bring me a present!

In 1992 Hugo Chavez tried to overthrow the government in an attempted coup to try to oust Carlos Andres Perez.  In most countries that would signal the end to your political career–but in Venezuela, it was the springboard to his presidency.

When Your President is a Socialist dictator and he tells you to celebrate, it’s probably a good idea to celebrate.

Chavez Celebrates 10 Years “Leading” Venezuela..

Day Declared National Holiday!

CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) — Latin American leaders assembled Monday to mark the 10th anniversary of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s rise to power, a period described by state-run television as “a decade of successes.

Chavez and representatives of the leftist group Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas, or ALBA, walked through the National Pantheon, a square on the edge of the old town of Caracas that holds the sarcophagus of Simon Bolivar, whom Chavez credits with inspiring him as “the father of the revolution.” (more.)

Somehow, unstable maniacs seem to last a long time in power...see Castro, Fidel.

B.S. Report–Someday, they will declare another national holiday–that will be the day Chavez either dies or is ousted from power.  That’s the way it works under a dictatorship, even a pseudo-dictatorship like his.

This Day In History

1468 – Johann Gutenberg, German printer and inventor of the first movable-type printing press died.  The first book to ever be printed was a Latin language Bible.

1870- The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) was passed.

1913-  The 16th Amendment (establishing federal income tax), was ratified.

1959- Singers Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens die in plane crash.

1995- Colonel Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off.

Wisecracking mobster Joey “the Clown” gets life term…Laugh This One Off, Funny Man!

Lets hope you live another 80 years in prison you evil clown.

CHICAGO (AP) — Reputed mob boss Joseph “Joey the Clown” Lombardo was sentenced Monday to life in federal prison for serving as a leader of Chicago’s organized crime family and the murder of a government witness in a union pension fraud case.

Lombardo, 80, was among three reputed mob bosses and two alleged henchmen convicted in September 2007 at the landmark Operation Family Secrets trial which lifted the curtain of secrecy from the seamy operations of Chicago’s underworld.

“The worst things you have done are terrible and I see no regret in them,” U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel said in imposing sentence. He also sentenced Lombardo separately to 168 months for going on the lam for eight months after he was charged. (more.)

B.S. Report:  Here’s what Joey “The Clown” Lombardo reportedly told the judge after sentencing:

Clown:  “Judge, I’m 80-years-old, I won’t be eligible to get out of prison until I’m almost 130 years-old, I’ll never make it!

Judge:     Joey, you’re probably right, but I’ll trust that you’ll just do the best you can.

Survey: Tax cheats don’t play well among Americans… Unless You’re A Democrat Nominated For High Office…

Survey:  Tax Cheats Don’t Play Well Among Americans

WASHINGTON (AP)– Nearly nine in 10 Americans say it is “not at all” acceptable to cheat on your taxes – a sticky issue for an Obama administration that has nominated two Cabinet officials with tax troubles.

The annual survey released Monday by the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board found that only 9 percent of respondents thought it was ever OK to cheat on their taxes. Eighty-nine percent said it was never OK.

Although the survey was conducted in late August, its release comes as Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be Health and Human Services secretary, has acknowledged failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was confirmed to that post by the Senate last week, had similar problems on a smaller scale. (more)

B.S. Report–First of all, I don’t believe this poll for a millisecond.  Do you really think that people are going to tell a pollster that they believe it is proper for people to “cheat” on their taxes?  I’d be afraid of an audit!

Cheating On Taxes Is Frowned Upon…I’m not so sure.  Apparently,

IT PLAYS PRETTY DARN WELL IN THE PRESIDENT’S CABINET!

Timothy Geithner, President Obama’s Tax Cheat: Secretary of the Treasury!

Now I get another car and chauffeur I don't have to pay for!

Tom Daschle, Tax Cheat and New Health Secretary (Health Czar, yikes!)

Sorry, you're not a big enough name for us to fight for.

Tax Cheat, Nancy Killefer, she’s not going to be in the humorously named new position of:  “Chief Performance Officer for the Federal Government.”

Democrats love high taxes…but they sure don’t love paying them!

Ordinary people go to jail all the time for tax offenses…others get nominated and confirmed for high office in cushy government positions.  Well, they said they were sorry…and President Obama accepted their apologies, as did their equally crooked colleagues in the Congress who voted to confirm them.

If you’re ever hauled in to court on a tax-evasion charge, I wouldn’t be confident in using the “I’m sorry,” defense.  Prisons are filled with people who said they were sorry…and actually meant it, unlike these guys.

Dick Durbin, the ridiculously stupid senior Senator from Illinois, defended Daschle with this interesting comment:  “I believe Tom Daschle’s one of the most honest people I’ve ever known or worked with in public life.”

Senator Durbin, I believe it too! That’s probably the first honest statement I’ve ever heard you make and I thoroughly believe you.  That just goes to show what a disreputable bunch of scalawags you hang around with.

When You’re A Millionaire Porn Merchant…You’d Better Show Up To Court On Time!

“Girls Gone Wild” Founder Arrested in L.A. Court

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis has been arrested in Los Angeles after he showed up five hours late for a court hearing in his tax evasion case.

When the adult-video entrepreneur finally appeared in court on Monday afternoon, he told the judge he was suffering from the flu. Francis’ attorney Melissa Weinberger says U.S. marshals then handcuffed Francis and took him away.

Francis is accused of claiming more than $20 million in bogus business expenses on his corporate tax returns, including $3.8 million for a home in Mexico and $10.4 million in phony consulting services. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of federal tax evasion.

The hearing was to consider a request from his tax attorneys to recuse themselves.

B.S. Report–Joe, Joe, Joe. What were you thinking?  You sell porn for a living!  You made millions taking advantage of drunken co-eds.  Did you think that when you strolled into court 5 hours late they were going to give you a hero’s welcome?  And then you tell them you have the flu?  You better have eboli, ecoli, and a dozen other ailments all wrapped into one.  You better be on death’s doorstep.  You came late to court complaining of the sniffles.  You’re stupid–you deserve to be locked up.

Christian Bale’s Best Acting Ever! What an A-Hole!

What a nice smile...but the words that come out of his pie-hole; not so nice at all! Shame, shame!

Someone Needs A Time-Out!

I love it when actors go ballistic on the set.  They are so pampered, and so far removed from normal society, that they don’t even grasp the fact that they don’t even have a “real” job.

Yes, I guess it can be stressful being on the set all day, but, gimme a break.  You’d think he spent the day loading and unloading trucks the way he’s complaining.  He also needs a good butt-kicking the way he spoke to the lighting guy.  I think it would be considered “justifiable homicide” (kidding) if a light standard “accidentally” fell on the movie star’s big, fat, bloated head.

If you haven’t heard Batman’s big mouth, here’s the link to the audio.  Be warned, every third word is a curse word.  I know he’s a reasonably good actor, but I’m not one that believes that acting is so terribly difficult.  Bale seems to be under the delusion that he’s an artiste.  This makes you cringe–it just might be his best performance ever.

There was a time about 70 years ago that actors and acting was barely considered honorable work, and their profession (putting on make-up, getting dressed in exotic outfits and playing, “lets pretend”) was ridiculed in the larger society.  In a way, I kind of miss those days.

Groundhog bites Bloomberg; “Staten Island Chuck” must have seen his new tax bill…

I hope that poor groundhog has had his shots.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid a visit to an apparently-disgruntled constituent (could there actually be any other kind?), nicknamed ‘Staten Island Chuck’ on Groundhog’s Day — and got bit for his trouble.   (He’s now a hero to all New Yorkers!)

Staten Island’s famous groundhog, Charles G. Hogg, inexplicably  bit Mayor Bloomberg during his annual holiday ceremony on Monday, drawing blood from the billionaire.  (Inexplicably?  I can think of a thousand reasons why he’d want to bite the Mayor.)

Said Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser: “It nicked his hand.” (Bloomberg has applied for one of John Kerry’s special purple-hearts.)

Bloomberg wrapped the cut with a napkin until he could check with his doctor.

He was told there was no risk of rabies.  (The groundhog, unfortunately, was not nearly as lucky–there is no known cure for the diseases he picked up by biting Bloomberg and they had to put him down.) The 2-year-old animal was born and raised in captivity and has had no interaction with other animals.  (Until now.)

Sacre bleu! France rejects ‘Obama-style’ Stimulus Plan…

Obama plan too Socialist for Socialists!

Whether or not President Obama is actually economically illiterate (I believe he is), or he’s just willing to do anything to further entrench Democratic party power doesn’t really matter.  The end result is the same–the greatest lurch towards Socialism since FDR’s New Deal.

President Obama’s so-called “stimulus” plan is too radical for even the French, who’s stimulus plan doesn’t include direct payments to citizens as Obama’s does.  But we seem more than willing to drive further and further down that same dead-end road; the road that F.A. Hayek called:  “The Road to Serfdom.”

Paris Rejects “Obama-Style Stimulus Plan

LYON: Prime Minister François Fillon on Monday rejected demands that the French government seek to stimulate consumer spending, rather than follow his plan to stimulate corporate and infrastructure investment, to lift France out of its economic slump.

“It would be irresponsible to choose another policy, which would increase our country’s indebtedness without having more infrastructure and increased competitiveness in the end,” Fillon said in a speech in Lyon.

More than 1.1 million people took to the streets across France last Thursday, according to the Interior Ministry, with unions putting the number of protesters at 2.5 million, to call on President Nicolas Sarkozy to stop cutting government jobs, increase the minimum wage and spend more on households as the economy enters its first recession since 1993.

Opponents of the government have been calling for an “Obama-style” stimulus plan, one that puts money directly into the pockets of working people. (more.)

B.S. Report–You’ve got to be kidding…a stimulus plan that puts money directly into the pockets of working people?  Sure.  It does that in the same way those Las Vegas casinos advertise a 98% return at the slots.  You give them your money and they give some of it back.  Only this return is far worse than any Vegas casino.

President Obama wants you to believe that the federal government is giving you money in the form of a $500-1000 rebate check…in return for what?   Your Freedom, that’s what.  He is buying from all of us the right to run roughshod over the Constitution by expanding government power beyond any reasonable reading of the Constitution.  For a measly $1,000 bucks-he wants all of us to agree to destroy America.

Ask yourself where is this money coming from?  Governments only have what they first confiscate from all of us in taxes (it’s your own money or your neighbor’s money) plus, of course, what they decide to print.

Meanwhile,  countless new taxes and endless amounts of new government-run programs including health care will more than offset the money they have the nerve to say they’re giving us.  820 billion.  They could give everyone in America the money directly and that would be a more effective use.  But you can’t give what isn’t yours in the first place.

With nearly 40% of Americans not paying any federal taxes, they have the power to vote money away from those who are  paying them.  And that’s becoming the Democratic Party’s main constituency, and it’s growing fast.

But it’s also a short-sighted view for those who are coming here seeking economic opportunity–because you can’t continue to steal someone’s money indefinitely without eventually stealing their “incentive” to be productive.  That will destroy the very thing that makes America not just another place on the map.  Take away freedom and opportunity and that’s exactly what we’ll become.  Just another place.  The end result is we all will finally become equal….equally poor.  Of course, the Dems won the day and we can’t really stop any of  their plans at this point.