LEE RODGERS
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April 25 --

REPUBLICAN RACE FINALLY OVER ...
OBAMA & FADING YOUTH ENTHUSIASM ...
DUPLICITOUS BUFFETT SELECTIVE TAX BREAKS

As expected, all the Republican primaries were a blowout for Romney.
     One might wish Newt Gingrich had had the good sense -- and good grace -- to get out of the Republican race weeks ago when it became evident he had no chance to win. At least he could have retained some influence on party policy as a sort of elder-statesman. Now he's become an embarrassing joke.
     There's no influence factor for Santorum; despite the fantasies of his admirers, he never had any.

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    Does anybody really give a damn about somebody else's presidential endorsements? E.g., Santorum being unable to decide whether to "endorse" Romney. Perhaps his self-obsession leads him to believe that, if he does endorse the all-but-certain-nominee, he might trade it for the VP slot. Fat chance.

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    It's hardly surprising that Obama -- who never voted for it as a Senator -- would want to buy the votes of young people with promises of more easy credit for college loans. Then the borrowed money goes for ever-higher tuition so that faculty members, largely besotted with leftist ideology, will get raises ... then tuition goes up ... then bigger loans will be required ... and on and on; the self-generating liberal cycle of life.
     But at least when these students graduate, they'll know what kind of work they're out of, if Obamunism prevails in November.

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    Liberal phoniness just goes on. Ol' Warren Buffett, shill for Obama's "tax the rich" class warfare, has been paying lobbyists big bux to pressure Congress to grant tax breaks for corporate executives who lease private jets from his Netjets company, thus increasing their incentive to rent his flying palaces.

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Dumb-de-dumb-dumb ...
     Your federal (Obama) government handed $100 million in loan guarantees and state/local governments coughed up close to another hundred mil in incentives and tax breaks for a company called Ener 1 to make batteries for electric cars and military equipment.
     That company has now been bought by a Russian businessman with close ties to the regime in Moscow. Just ... brilliant!

Time to repeat the mantra of the sane: "We live ... in a land ... run by MORONS!"

Further evidence to support that conclusion: An Obama hack declaring that "the war on terror is over." If it is -- we lost.

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From Rasmussen Reports ...
     "Sixty-six percent (66%) of likely U.S. voters believe most government contracts are given to the company with the most political connections rather than the one that can provide the best service for the best price."

And the rest are stupid.

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    New York Times left-wing political flibberty-gibbet Paul Krugman declares that Israel's policies are "narrow minded." Yes, it must be annoying for a  pro-Palestinian Jew that Israelis actually are unwilling to collaborate in their own destruction. Has no one ever told this pompous fool the sentiment behind "Never again?"

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After time for consideration, Thomas Sowell (Townhall.com) weighs in on the Trayvon Martin case ...
     "Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth or justice.
     "One of the first things presented in the media was a transcript of a conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher. The last line in most of the transcripts shown on TV was that of the police dispatcher telling Zimmerman not to continue following Trayvon Martin.
     "That became the basis of many media criticisms of Zimmerman for continuing to follow him. Only later did I see a transcript of that conversation on the Sean Hannity program that included Zimmerman's reply to the police dispatcher: 'O.K.'
     "That reply removed the only basis for assuming that Zimmerman did in fact continue to follow Trayvon Martin. At this point, neither I nor the people who assumed that he continued to follow the teenager have any basis in fact for believing that he did or didn't.
     "Why was that reply edited out by so many in the media? Because too many people in the media see their role as filtering and slanting the news to fit their own vision of the world."

Amazing how many blacks, including media types, identify George Zimmerman, the half-Latino shooter, as "white" but don't make the same distinction regarding Obama, who's half-white. Is it ignorance, or black bigotry?

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Wisdom and disillusionment arrive late for some. From the NY Daily News ...
     "Jon Lovitz has a message for President Obama: No we can't!
     "The 'Saturday Night Live alum — and Democrat — skewered the commander-in-chief during a recorded comedy show, calling Obama a 'f---ing a-hole' and ripping his take on taxing the rich.
     "The whole thing with Obama saying the rich don't pay their taxes is f---ing bull----," Lovitz said on his podcast, 'The ABC's of SNL.'
     "Lovitz said he was particularly disheartened because he voted for Obama in 2008."

We liveth and we learneth ...

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    My home state of Arizona is under attack in the Supreme Court by the Obama regime. To get to the root of the confrontation: Arizona tries to enforce the federal government's own immigration laws, which Obama WON'T do.
    Everything else is simple obfuscation by subversive Democrats who clearly want an open-borders policy. More illegal immigrants, more bought votes for Democrats -- especially if they can block any serious voter-ID program.

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    The (liberal) Washington Post regularly runs a feature on the biggest lies told lately by politicians. It awards one or more "Pinocchios" for lies, depending upon the size of the whopper. Rarely it awards a Geppetto (Pinocchio's creator) for a pol telling the truth. Thus, the surprise in finding this in the Post regarding Obama's "Buffett plan". Writing of Mitt Romney ...
     "He gets a rare Geppetto for saying it would raise enough revenue to run the government for 11 hours."

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    While Obamunists and other assorted sillies applaud the "green" movement for "preparing for the jobs of tomorrow," a lot more Americans are wondering where are the jobs of TODAY.

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North Korea is now threatening to "turn South Korea into ashes within four minutes."
     Daily, history buttresses the argument that General MacArthur was correct and President Truman was foolish. The general wanted to finish off North Korea and stop China -- with nukes, if necessary -- when we had them and China didn't, during the Korean War. Truman stopped him from doing it.
     It takes little imagination to see how much better off the world would be today if MacArthur HAD finished the job. No more North Korea, and no China bullying its neighbors and hacking into our military's data systems while issuing veiled threats to us.

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Don't say you weren't warned. Eric Peters, automotive expert, sounds the alarm at The American Spectator website ...
     "'Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act,' also known as Senate Bill 1813. This legislation -- already passed by the Senate and likely to be passed by the House -- will impose a legal requirement that all new cars made beginning with the 2015 models be fitted with so-called Event Data Recorders (EDRs.
     "EDRs tied into your car's GPS will give them -- the government and/or corporations -- literal physical control over 'your' vehicle. This is not conspiracy theorizing. It is technological fact. Current GM vehicles equipped with the same technology about to be mandated for every vehicle can be disabled remotely. Just turned off."

Are there really people stupid and naive enough to believe that this power WON'T be abused?

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Some Secret Service history from Jim Eason ...
     " I remember, back in 1964-1968, raising hell about the Secret Service in Dallas, in November, 1963. They drank, partied, and stayed up late the night before Dealy Plaza happened. There have been other SS goofs, including allowing nutcases to get into a dinner in the White House.    
     "Years ago, some minor candidate - a woman - running for President was in the GM's office waiting to go on my show.  When I came to get her, an agent stepped in front of the door and asked, 'May I help you?'  I was a bit testy, and replied, 'I'm here to get my guest for my show.' The agent handed me a small pin (which they were all wearing), and said 'You'd better wear this so we know who you are.
     "I said, 'You wear it, these people KNOW who I am.'  Frown, frown, whispers into his wrist."

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A sign of the times ...
     The ever-more lib-slanted Associated Press, in a story about the Colombian prostitutes who bedded Secret Service agents, referred to the whores as "sex workers."
     Predictable next steps: Unionized hookers with privileged "minority" status.

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    Marion Barry, ex-mayor of D.C., now member of the City Council ... doper and racist ... just a few weeks ago proposed driving Asian businesses out of the nation's capitol. Now he's attacking Filipina nurses; says those"lucrative" jobs should go to blacks.
     Since he just won the Democratic primary for his Council post -- again -- it's clear that his popularity among D.C. blacks continues unabated. Among many black voters, blatant racism is obviously no problem. Of course, telling the truth about it is totally un-PC.

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More language-mangling ...
     Heard/read often: references to Paris as "The City of LightS."
     Wrong.
      It's "The City of LIGHT," originating as a description of Paris as the center of learning during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries.
     You want LIGHTS, you go to Vegas.

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Conan O'Brien --
     "Congress is expanding its probe into the Secret Service scandal. Congressmen want to know how this could happen, who was responsible, and do those ladies take Discover cards."

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Sheila H. has shorthand tips for seniors in this hi-tech age ...
     Kids use short-cut texting codes (e.g., LOL, BFF, etc.). Now seniors can have their own texting codes.
     · ATD - At the Doctor's
     · BFF - Best Friends Funeral
     · DWI- Driving While Incontinent
     · FYI- Found Your Insulin
     · IMHO- Is My Hearing-Aid On?
     · LOL- Living on Lipitor

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    A moment of silent prayer, please, for Zachary McKee. Mr. McKee exercised seriously flawed judgment by going wee-wee on the electrified third rail of Chicago's elevated transit system. He was 27. And dumb.

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Jay Leno --
     "Lakers star Ron Artest — Metta World Peace, that's his name now — was ejected from a game for a vicious elbow to the head of Oklahoma's James Harden. It was such a cheap shot he was offered a contract with the New Orleans Saints."
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