That’s Right Nate

Friends and long time readers of this blog will remember my problems with customer service from the Salvation Army last year when they refused to issue me a refund  after I reached into my pocket to throw a quarter into a Salvation Army kettle and inadvertently gave the Salvation Army a  South African Krugerrand worth about $900.   After getting the run around, I finally took my case to you my loyal readers and my boycott of the Salvation Army was extremely successful in lowering their donations last Christmas season.  I believed the Salvation Army was very close to giving in.

Unfortunately, about the worst thing that can happen to any boycott is when your arch enemies decide to boycott the same thing you are boycotting.   That happened this year when liberals also began to boycott the Salvation Army when they learned that the Salvation Army was checking citizenship status at toy drives this holiday season.  I was naturally incensed.   There was no way for the Salvation Army to know whether their donations were down because of this policy or because of their refusal to refund the $899.75 I demanded.

Good news.  The  Salvation Army has relented and has announced it won’t be checking citizenship.   That means that we are clear to resume boycotting the Salvation Army in good conscious.   Let’s face it, can you really even call them an army if they won’t arm themselves?   They could be taken out by a pack of Cub Scouts with a sling shot.  Even the Vatican’s guards get halberds.

So Salvation Army, now that you have caved to liberal demands it is on like Donkey Kong.   The forces of this blog have been unleashed to destroy your unfair organization and only you can call them off by giving me what is rightfully mine.   Until that day, the boycott continues.  Please respond to this post and let the Salvation Army know that you mean  business.

Like many Americans, when I first hear about the couple that crashed the state dinner at the White House, I was quite amused.   Watching Obama embarrassed by two yokels showing up at his function was quite amusing.  However, new details have emerged and they’re chilling.   To start with the crashers names are Tareq and Michaele Salahi.   Has it occurred to anybody that this could be part of some al-qaeda plot?   Those are not American names.  In fact they are Arab names.

Tareq Salahi doesn’t simply sound like al-qaeda, he sounds like a villain that would have required James Bond.  His passion is playing polo and he founded a winery for Pete’s sake.  This isn’t just a Bond villain, it’s a Roger Moore Bond villain.   I have no doubt that when he was crashing the state dinner, his cheesey yet sinister henchman was probably serving as his chauffeur.

The worst part is that the only people who seem concerned about this threat to the President’s life is the Republican Party.   “Obviously, somebody dropped the ball,” said Mr. King, of New York. “I mean, you’re talking about the president of the United States and the vice president and a powerful world leader, the prime minister of India.”

While, I wouldn’t call the leader of a country that could be defeated by a dozen terrorists masquerading as cows powerful, King makes an important point.   Somebody dropped a ball here.   King continued, “The fact they went through the magnometer is incidental,” he said. “They could have had anthrax on them. They could have grabbed a knife from the dining room table.”

The reason that the President was in danger is because of the strict White House policy against guns.   They even make the guests go through metal detectors.   I can only imagine that even Bond villains like the Salahis would be less likely to crash a dinner if they knew that all the guests would be armed.

I am outraged.   It seems Al Franken had a plan a few months ago and frankly, it was a shrewd one.  Everybody knows that the American public is naturally empathetic and their hearts will melt when you talk about rape victims.  Surely Al Franken realized this when he added an amendment to the Pentagon spending bill that would bar “future and existing” federal contracts to defense contractors and subcontractors “at any tier” who mandate employees go through a company’s arbitration process for workplace discrimination claims — including claims of sexual assault. The measure passed 68-30, with 10 Republicans voting yes and 30 courageous Republicans voting no.

I get so sick of these namby pamby liberals who demand that if they happen  to get raped repeatedly and locked into a storage container in the course of doing their job, that they should be able to go through the courts?   I’m sorry, but this defensive rape prevention is what is raising the costs of all these defense contractors.   Franken knew that Americans would get all protective of rape victims and was able to manipulate that sympathy into a win.   Now liberal groups are hitting the Republicans simply because they aren’t sufficiently anti-rape.   What does that even mean?  I mean I’m sure they don’t encourage rape or anything, but business is business.

John Cornyn (R-TX) took this heated argument public saying, ““Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape —and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don’t think it’s a very constructive thing.”

“I don’t know what his motivation was for taking us on, but I would hope that we won’t see a lot of Daily Kos-inspired amendments in the future coming from him,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, No. 4 in the Senate Republican leadership. “I think hopefully he’ll settle down and do kind of the serious work of legislating that’s important to Minnesota.”

Don’t the people of Minnesota deserve a Senator who will do the serious legislating and leave silly stuff like rape alone?  Where are you when we need you Norm Coleman?

The Courageous Republicans Who Weren’t Afraid to Vote for Rape

7:02 Catchy theme song, but I like Hail to the Chief

7:05  I’m glad that Bush was able to put an end to that acting as one thing

7:06 I hate how Obama says Taliban. It sounds like he’s Harry Belafonte counting bananas

7:07 Wow! When did West Point start admitting women?

7:10 Why is Obama having so much trouble with Afghanistan? Bush was doing so well that he was able to start a second war

7:11 @Greytdog on Twitter suggested that he should have Hail to the Chief when he enters and the NCIS theme when he leaves.  I like that idea.

7:14  If the threat is this serious, we should have color codes for it.

7:20 Pakistan is pretty much Afghanistan with a good cricket team…oh yeah and nuclear missiles.

7:26 If the wars cost a trillion dollars then why weren’t they in the budget?  Liberals are such spend thrifts.

7:29 He just said we have to be nimble? He is channeling Belafonte. Barack be nimble, Barack be quick, Barack go under the limbo stick

7:31 All we’re asking for is a little gratitude.

7:36 Well it was quick enough, I’ll say that.