Guns - A Shameful Congress

Owned by the NRA, lock, stock and barrel. 

Who'd rather see 20 children shot dead each and every day than infringe on their 'right to bear arms.'

Someday this will all come home to roost and the dead will have their day.

Rand Paul: Case in point for amending the Constitution

From the mouth of the babe: (no kidding): Benghazi was "the worst tragedy since 9/11.”  Yeah, I suppose so, give or take the 6600+ American soldiers killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,  and not counting military suicides, divorce rate, and the national debt accumulated though two undeclared, decades long wars.

I mean, seriously, what the hell was this guy thinking?

Rand Paul is proof positive why being 30 years old and an American citizen and citizen of the state being sought for election is not sufficient for being elected to the US Senate.

Earl Weaver

RIP Earl Weaver. I'd kick dirt on your grave in remembrance! http://tinyurl.com/a3z9szt

Your O's were my O's and I've never forgotten "the Orioles' Way.

Thanks for the memories....and the passion and the entertainment.

You were the Orioles.

Why John Cornyn is an Idiot

I used to think South Carolina had a lock on political lunacy.  Between ex- Gov Mark Sanford trying to connect his state and Argentina via the Appalachian Trail, and the other two stooges, Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint, with their hysterical cries over commies in the government and impending doom, South Carolina was a madman's political ball.

But as it's quick to remind us, in Texas everything's bigger.  So despite my regard for the Palmetto State's inspired insanity, the Lone Star State's Senator John Cornyn tops all that.

Every since Obama first indicated his interest in, and then subsequently nominated former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel to be our new Secretary of Defense, Cornyn has been in a non-stop, mouth-foaming frenzy over the nomination.

Hagel is unfit, according to Cornyn, because he doesn't understand the "foreign-policy challenges" Iran and Hamas present to the US.  (See his recent CNN op-ed piece).  And he's not invested enough in Israel, either.

Of course, one could point out to Senator Cornyn the obvious: that the Defense Secretary's purview is NOT foreign policy.  That is the purview of whoever succeeds Hillary Clinton as our next Secretary of State.

To the contrary, the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense is to oversee the operations of the Defense Department and especially, to ensure that US force structure is adequate to support and carry out the President's foreign policy objectives and to protect the sovereign integrity of the United States.

And in these Chuck Hagel is superbly suited by experience, temperament, and intellect to be our next Secretary of Defense.

Cornyn's objections to Senator Hagel are so utterly irrelevant to the position to which Hagel has been nominated that he should be embarrassed to be uttering them in public.

The fact he isn't I regard as sufficient proof that John Cornyn is an idiot.

Wayne LaPierre

Ok, time to move on to Plan B: we forget about banning assault weapons and instead ban Wayne LaPierre.

Show of hands?