Why?  Because I laughed my ass off.

If you’re interested, here is a compilation of Brainiac’s Things
but Very Slowly.

Today
the SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that Americans have a right to own guns for self defense
and hunting.  This strikes down DC’s ban on handguns.

Here is a brief commentary/ summary from SCOTUS
Blog.

The Reuters article, linked above, is obviously against this
ruling.  To mention a shooting in Kentucky within a story reporting on the
facts of the ruling, is clear attempt to trick the reader into believing
shootings will  increase as a result.  Par for the course.

Though a closer vote than I would have likes, I’m still very
pleased that the Second Amendment has prevailed.  However, I’ve been
hearing that future laws will target ammunition thus rendering the weapons
useless.  I’m not sure to what extent there will be bans on ammunition but
I’ll post more when I find it.

For me, the bottom line is each American has the right to
protect themselves and their families from those who wish to do them harm, be it
criminals or government.  Some in government would have you rely solely on
them for protection, and that’s how they like it, but for now, we have an
option. 

Eric Bolling, host on Fox Business Network and contributor to TheStreet.com, lays
out a logical and completely reachable solution to our current "oil
crisis".  I put that in quotes because, as Bolling points out,
this is not a matter of the world running out of oil.  In fact, there are
billion of barrels there for the taking.  And as he says, "Certain
people in Congress would have us believe that those barrels are 10-plus years
away from our refiners’ cracking towers. That’s just not true".

Drilling the Outer Continental Shelf, protected areas of the US, and adding
nuclear power are all outlined.  However, there is an aspect that he
touched on toward the end of his piece that really grabbed me.

If this is even a possibility, we have too take action to make
sure this never happens.  To ignore our own fields may be naive on our
part, but to allow other countries to steal oil from our own fields under Unites
States land would be criminal.

It is a textbook example of a Rubber
Chicken; Will
Smith, while promoting his latest movie I won’t see, let this quote loose:

So Will, for the first time in 10 years it is good to be American?

Forbes
has Will ranked #11 in its list of top 100 celebrities for 2008 earning an
estimated $80 million for the year.  In 2007
he was ranked #57 earning $31 million, in 2006
ranked #49 with $25 million and in 2005
he was ranked #13 earning $35 million.

Pulling in $171 million over the past four years, I’d say American life has
been pretty good to Mr. Smith.  Maybe that little dip between 2005 and 2006
is what he’s talking about?  Oh the humanity!

Writing is like a sickness. Some people, its genetic, terminal, they’re
taking it to the grave and most likely it’ll be the death of them. Poor sons of
bitches, they never saw it coming.

Then there’s the ones who get it like a cold. And even then you can get it
real bad. Tears you up inside and kicks your guts in. But one day, you wake up
and it is gone. They knew that was coming, thought it never would, but they knew
it.

Lastly, there are the ones who get a cold and it splits, but like
hypochondriacs, they refuse to admit it. They think they’re sick all the time.
They’re inventing illnesses. But everyone else knows it just ain’t so.
Ninety-nine percent of the people who put words on paper are like this. God
knows they think they got it, but baby, they don’t.

I’ve written
before about the scam that is called the UN
Human Rights Council.  Their transparent bias and utter failure to accomplish
anything is well documented.  And now a UN official would like to spend
resources on investigating
if September 11 was an inside job.

John Bolton calls Falk’s beliefs "fruitcake city" and rightfully
so.  A member of a UN watch group thinks he should be fired.  That too
is a good idea.  But will it really change anything?  I think
not.  As Bolton continued he said, "among many delegations to the U.N.
it’s probably the conventional wisdom". 

It isn’t a very good picture but after months of staring at the metal scaffold
the water has finally turned on.

It is part of an art exhibit simply called New
York City Waterfalls, which consists of four man-made waterfalls located
around the city.  They are the creation of Danish artist Olafur
Eliasson.

Ok, sometimes
people do stupid things.  Maybe volunteers are the best people to be
organizing photo shoots.

The Obama campaign quickly apologized and said this wasn’t "the policy
of the campaign".  But the thought comes from somewhere?  It may
not be the policy, but certainly it is the culture of the campaign to distance
him from anything remotely resembling a relation to Islam.  And this is the
man who claims to deal in a different type of politics.

I read this Newsbusters
piece on Monday and wanted to share it. It details an article by James
Kirchick, assistant editor of The New Republic, where in his editorial to the LA
Times, he discusses and dismissed the myth that President Bush lied in order to
go to war with Iraq.

The article, Bush
never lied to us about Iraq, shows us (as a Newsbusters commenter pointed
out) only the myth matters for the liberal mindset. The amazing thing however
is, if you know The New Republic, it is a Liberal magazine. To have one of their
own turn is sure to ruffle some feathers. It may just get the Kirchick family
off some "Seasons Greetings" card lists.

The above excerpt from Kirchick illustrates the importance an accomplice in
myth building.  When the MSM willfully ignores that both sides used the
same language the myth of lies is substantiated.  Well done.

A good summary from Newsbusters’ Warner Todd Huston, but read both pieces,
well worth the time.

While it makes a good bumper sticker, the Bush Lied People Died mantra is
itself a lie. So next time you hear that belch out of a liberal’s mouth when
discussing Iraq, direct them to Kirchick’s article.  At the very least,
they’ll be annoyed a fellow lefty is going against the grain.

Tim Russert died today of an apparent
heart attack.  He was only 58.

Truly a shock.  RIP Mr. Russert.