Halloween Tidbits

Zombified Bush: "Brains! I want brains!"

Halloween means the old feeder's birthday is right around the corner, having first drawn breath on the day of a related pagan observance, El Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. It feels like a Democrat Halloween this year, what with Dennis Kucinich proclaiming he sees flying saucers, Democrat-ridden Iowa taxing pumpkins, and Hillary, Edwards and the rest giving the stink-eye to the truth.

Why dwell on the up-side of this economic tragedy?

Happy Halloween! Watch out for the kids. And don't come up my long, dark lane looking for treats or trying to trick the old feeder. The owls out here at night are big enough to take on good sized kids. Last year I found Halloween candy wrappers in their castings.
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Other notable Halloween posts:

• Leavenworth Street is all decorated for All Spooks Day. See how Lee Terry and Eddie Munster were separated at birth.
• Angela at the Domestic Divapalooza confesses that her whole family is weird.
• Another Rovian Conspiracy notes the connection between sexy/naughty Halloween costumes and the need to hand out birth control pills in elementary schools.
• The Iowa Geek has cute and wholesome all wrapped up.
• State 29 looks on the good side of the Iowa's new Jack-O-Lantern tax: "At least there isn't a 7 day waiting period for pumpkins".
• Depressed because you can't find the right disguise for Halloween? Fret no more -- the blog quebecois is on the case!
• Chicago Ray features a real live witch. Do you recall which TV character always ended his show with: "And you wemember, kids, I'm a weal wive wabbit!"? Whenever I hear anything billed as a 'real live' this or a 'real live' that, I can't avoid thinking of that rabbit.
  
• Babalu Blog has the best scary witch picture I've seen so far.
• The kids at the Six Meat Buffet are forced to watch Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin until they puke.
  
• Tom at the New Editor notes that Time Magazine's Top 25 Horror Movies list includes Bambi.
• Michelle Malkin predicts that the pumpkin taxers at the Iowa Department of Revenue will be wearing Grinch costumes this year.
  

Nebraskans drive to Iowa to buy gasoline, perhaps Iowans will cross the bridge to get untaxed pumpkins. I heard that the Iowa State Patrol will be stopping cars near the borders to check for contraband gourds.
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Addendum: Compare these cases of Halloween celebration bans: Moscow, Russia; San Francisco, California; Millard, Nebraska.
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Update: The Iowa Department of Revenue bureaucrats have rescinded their loathsome new tax on pumpkins. These Des Moines revenuers always keep a finger up their butts in the air, and quickly sensed a public outcry at their craven grasp.

Blog Housekeeping

Time to clean things up before the snow covers it

Having been distracted from blogging this past month, my visit account with some of my favorite blogs was in arrears. I tried using the Google Reader to get caught up. It overwhelmed me with "over 1,000" unread posts. I went to the feedlot blogrolls in the right panel. The Plains Feeder is three years old and the blogroll has only been reorganized once. It occurs to me that they are inordinately difficult to use appended as they are to the feedlot's cluttered sidebar.

Since orderliness is next to godliness impossible at the feedlot, I created the Read-Mor. It's like a library in a nice hotel. A place where one can settle in and read some good blogs. You are invited.
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I'll take this opportunity to introduce a new addition to the blogs I think are Outstanding in the Field. Kafir Canada is good right out of the blocks. Check out the Kafir's nifty poster. Did I mention the Kafir is Canadian? I heard about it from another blogroll stand out, The Gates of Vienna. Both are hep to the Mohammedan Jihad's very real fifth column threat to the US and Canada. Not like that jive is anything new.

National Health Perils - HillaryCare Preview

We've decided to let you go.

National Health nurses in the UK are getting the power of life and death over their charges. Thats right, if your free National Health nurse thinks keeping you alive won't pay off, they can decide to snuff you out. I thought this euthanasia business was limited to places inhabited by self-loathing idiots like Holland.

The Democrats and their presidential candidates think your relationship with your medical doctor ought to be the business of the nanny state. Conservatives point out that any form of national health scheme the liberals posit will be nothing more than socialized medicine. Nobody wants socialized medicine, of course. At least not overtly, (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton's Marxist health care plans.)

Sure, health care will be free. But it is inevitable that the quality and availability of health care will suffer in proportion to the amount of government involvement. Look at Cuba, Canada, Venezuela, and the UK. If you fall ill in any of these places, you will get a bureaucracy instead of real health care. With free medical care for all, we abrogate our responsibility for our own well-being. John Edwards wants mandatory physical checkups. Eventually they will come to your house to ensure that you floss, eat 'right' and don't smoke.

Lousy health care, inadequate facilities, long waiting lists and uninspired doctors aren't all we will get with HillaryCare or any of its ugly sisters. If we go the socialist route in health care, ultimately we will be letting the state decide who lives and dies. The results are horrifying.
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Mr. Gustan, we don't think we can cure you enough to get you back paying taxes again, so...
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Seriously, I don't think my health care is properly within the purvey of government at all. Not for any reason. There needn't be a "health care system" at all as far as I'm concerned. Sadly, that train left the station long ago, so if you like more analysis and less rant see: Sicko in Europe at Another Rovian Conspiracy, and Michelle Malkin's treatment of the same gneral topic. Warning: both these links could cause you to form a mental image of Michael Moore.

Hired Hand

Hired Hand

I thought we could use a little help with chores around the Feedlot so I hired this gal thinking it would take some of the load off PT, but it's not working out and I'm kinda afraid of her and mike said he'd stop by and fire her but I haven't seen him. I thought the FC was Feedlot Chick...Kisser? Hell, I don't know what I was thinking.
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ptg here. Thanks for the day off, DG. I spent the morning in the feedlot galley, making chili. Mike hasn't shown his mug around here yet. At least you could have gotten a really big, strong chick like this one that helps out over at ChicagoRay's digs.

Cop a laugh - go to Mosque next Friday!

Mohammedan Church - a little different, but WTF

At The New Editor: A Sure-Fire Way to End the War on Terror. It links to the Daily Kos:

How many of us are really just religious lightweights, happy to simply go to church every Sunday, attend church socials, knock back a drink or two every Christmas and not worry ourselves about the deeper implications of our faith? Given the way most of us pay any real attention to the tenets of our faith, life really wouldn’t be that different if we were to exchange one faith for another. The prayers would be different, but we would recite them just as mindlessly as we do today. The sermons would in all likelihood be exactly the same, and we’d continue to snore through them.

Sure, there are a few people here and there who take religion seriously, but they are in such a small minority that their protests can be easily ignored. All in all, converting to Islam would be a small price to pay for an end to the killing and maiming of our sons and daughters, not to mention the billions of dollars we could put to better use than fighting this perpetual war.

I'm making an appointment with the Imams so I can be confirmed or whatever it is Mohammedans do to get a fellow right with Allah. I'll throw out all my records if thats what it takes to end this war. Just as soon as all the Moslems reciprocate and convert to Christianity or Judaism.

How I fell asleep watching the World Series

Josh Beckett - Boston Red Sox

Seeing the same bases-loaded walk over and over again was like counting sheep. I didn't miss much. When I woke up, game one of the World Series was over: Boston Red Sox 13, Colorado Rockies 1.

Was it the Rockies' eight day layoff, or can't they play in the thick air of Fenway Park?
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Update: Red Sox sweep Rockies for World Series title. Two good things about this World Series: first, the New York Yankees weren't in it, and second, it was mercifully quick. Naturally, the best team won.

Amnesty Zombie Rises Again

It won't stay dead!

Stop the Democrats (and a few renegade RINOs like Senator Hagel of Nebraska) from ramming Amensty For Illegals down our throats TODAY. Call or fax your Senator. Tell them you aren't fooled by their procedural shenanigans.

Here is the message I faxed to Senator Hagel this morning:

Amnesty is amnesty. We don't want it. I'm embarrassed that you continue to act against the wishes and best interests of your constituents here in Nebraska now that you know you couldn't get elected dog catcher in this state today. Stop using the power that our votes gave you to pass laws we don't want.

Please, get on the phone, use NumbersUSA to send free faxes, or send an e-mail to your Senators now. Don't let them run amok with the power your votes gave them. Lets drive a stake through the amnesty zombie's heart.
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Updated: The zombie is sent back to its grave. Watch out, it will be back again.

Islamo-Fascism (Mohammedan Jihad) Wariness Week

The Sword of Islam: Submit or Die

The old feeder is not a big fan of "awareness" weeks or months. We ought to be aware of such important matters 24/7/365. Be that as it may, this week has been designated Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. I saw it first at Michelle Malkin's blog, which directed me to instigator David Horowitz's Terrorism Awareness page. Are you aware yet? If you aren't aware of the horrors the Jihad holds for your future by now, you may as well convert to Mohammedanism today.
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I wish there was agreement on whether or not to hyphenate Islamofascism to read Islamo-Fascism. Even Horowitz spells it both ways on his page. I can also quibble with the use of fascist as a modifier in this modern moniker for Mohammedan Jihad. The old feeder lived for many years in an overtly fascist state, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Spain.

While many cats (mostly commies) chafed under Franco's Nazi Fuhrer-like dictatorship, many of us had a great time of it. Music and religion weren't banned, the ladies weren't bagged and cloistered, you could drink and party until the sun came up every day and we enjoyed more personal freedom than was common in the world of the 1950's. Except for the USA, of course, which stood as a shining beacon of personal liberty back then. As usual, the well-connected prospered and everyone else got by the best they could. Unlike Hitler, Franco didn't try to eat his neighbors, but he was an ideological fascist through and through.

Living in fascist Spain was nothing at all like life in a strict Mohammedan state. I have seen them both, and would prefer Franco to the Mullahs any day. I'm going to keep calling the enemy Mohammedan Jihadists. Calling them fascists is letting these fanatical murderers off easy.
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A fun way to observe Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week: get some of these stickers to put on the backs of unsuspecting Mohammedans you see downtown. Get ready for some real awareness.
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Don't be afraid to confront those who would support or apologize for Mohammedan Jihadists.
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California fires: NASA satellite images

Nasty Fires - Big Smoke

I hope the Southern California cats in the picture bought enough carbon credits to cover this mess.
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From The Hill:

“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday, stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package.

Someone call Al Gore.

Will someone please tell Senator Chuck Hagel to shut up.

Kick this lame duck again, he's still moving.

Our disgraced and discredited Senator Chuck Hagel has been forced to get out of politics, but refuses to behave like the lame duck that he is. From Barbara Anderson at WEBCommentary:

S.2205 was introduced last week by Senators Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Richard Lugar (R-IN), and Dick Durbin. This senate bill grants amnesty to illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. before the age of sixteen. Although publicized as a help to young students, the bill has no age limits on applicants and no caps as to the numbers. The final goodie is the provision that illegal aliens who are granted amnesty under the bill are eligible for federal financial aid.

There are now reports that Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid plans to use a maneuver to bring it back as a stand-alone bill as early as this week by invoking Rule 14. This would allow him to fast-track the bill, with no debate and no markups, which is usually the procedure.

The DREAM Act has been around for several years and was included in the ill-fated “comprehensive” amnesty legislation defeated in the Senate this year. It has been changed from time to time, so some provisions have been altered or even omitted from different resurrections of the act.

Nebraskans are disgusted with Senator Hagel for many reasons: being a RINO, a defeatist, A Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferer, and a favorite of the loony left. He agrees with President Bush on open borders. We cornhuskers have made it abundantly clear that his 'leadership' hasn't lived up to our expectations. We don't want any more of it.

Senator Hagel, stop screwing up the nation and start planning your retirement.
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Need to vomit? Read this. Mi corazon sangra purple Kool-Aid.
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Want to do something about it? Visit Roy Beck's NumbersUSA and give your open-borders Senators a hotfoot.
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More on this new attempt to force amnesty for illegals down our throats at Michelle Malkin's blog.

Top 10 Tech Political Contributors

From e-Week: Top 10 Tech Political Contributors. Food for thought.

Okoboji sunset

Retreat

The day is over and so is summer but Old Glory is still flying over a dock on Lake Okoboji. For more info on the Iowa Great Lakes see what PT has to say.

Nifty Pickup Truck Conversion

Bulletproof Jimmy - Ibistek Viper

Not only is this big vehicle bulletproofed to withstand rifle fire, but it is armed with an ingenious remote controlled pop-up .50 cal. BMG machine gun mount. It is called the Viper, and the maker, Ibistek, claims its non threatening appearance won't upset your neighbors, while the turret offers infrared and night vision targeting from the safety and comfort of the passenger's seat fire control console. The weapon platform is gyro stabilized for shoot-on-the-run accuracy.

The next road rager to give you any grief will be quickly calmed by the sight of that big 50 rising from the roof and aiming at him. Road blocks won't slow you down, and you will be able to drive into even the worst of neighborhoods with impunity. What else could today's defensive driver want?

.50 Caliber Pop-Up Topper

I've thought about it, and my Viper will need one more non threatening modification. The South African Blaster is the perfect complement to this yuppified technical.

Vote your mind, if you have one

Zippy has half a mind to vote in 2008

Headline: CNN Poll: Nearly half think U.S. in recession.

Thanks to the hand-wringing of biased anti-capitalists in the Main Stream Media, nearly half of Americans believe something that is patently and demonstrably untrue. No, its not just global warming they are wrong about, but the state of the US economy.

Economic status is easily measured, and by any reasonable statistical analysis the US economy has never been in better shape. The facts are clear, but the sad sacks of the left refuse to admit the successes of our capitalist system as surely as they are blind to our successes in the Jihad wars. I can't recall a time when all the economic indicators were as good as they are today. To say that America is in a recession is to say you believe a lie or are too ignorant to know better.

This story supports the case against universal suffrage. Why should people who don't know squat about something so important as the state of our national economy be allowed to participate in national elections? Do you really want the likes of Zippy at the wheel?
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Pinhead voters might just elect a mendacious communist thug as President. Watch the movie.

Does the ACLU know about this plot?

Sheep are forced to perform in Jesus cult ritual

**Christians are planning a blatant display of their cult-like beliefs in a Cozad, Nebraska public park. These culturally insensitive plans, hatched in a darkened City Council meeting, involve the use of innocent children and helpless live animals. From the **Tri-City Tribune News:

Several Cozad churches will unite efforts to present a Community Christmas Pageant again this year.

Cozad's City Council OK'd the request Monday, allowing for the production to be staged at Veteran's Park at 7 p.m. on Sunday, December 16th.

Joan Lindekugel, who organized the first pageant a year ago, indicated to the council by letter that the pageant will be similar and will feature live Nativity scenes.

Where is the outrage?
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More shocking news from the Political Correctness front via Wizbang: I'm offended, therefore I am.
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**Important Note**: The Christmas plot thickens. As soon as this post was published, the Tri-City Tribune mysteriously dropped off the internets. All I can get is: Bad Request (Invalid Hostname). Here is a cached version of the secret Cozad Jesus pageant story.

Is it just an internet glitch? Are Cozad's Christmas cultists going underground? Has the Tri-City Tribune site been hacked by PETA? Developing...

World a Better Place after Nebraska's loss to Oklahoma State

Updated: Nebraska Athletic Director Pederson Fired!
Tom Osborne to Save Nebraska Football
and make us feel bad about the Governor thing.

Nebraska Hustle

Lots of Nebraska Cornhusker fans will be unhappy or even angry after Saturday's humiliating homecoming defeat at the hands of Oklahoma State. But not everyone in Big Red Country is unhappy.

The old feeder conducted an I-80 rest stop poll after the game. The results indicate that at least one in five Nebraskans identifying themselves as Democrats think yesterday's milestone loss is a good thing. According to one fan whose SUV bore John Edwards stickers:

Nebraska sports, college football and perhaps even our world will be a better place now that the Husker hubris has been knocked down a peg. Constantly striving to best your fellow man is as wrong in sports as it is in war. Nebraska's arrogance, believing that we are better than the rest, must change with the times. Today's game is a step in the right direction.

Pride goes before a fall. Or does it goeth?
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Reactions:
Domestic Divapalooza - Temporary Custody
Guerillaspot - Picture Says It All
Huskerzone.com - 8th Worse Loss At Home EVER
Big Red Network - Husker Program Now at DEFCON 3
Husker Mike - Odor Restored
Corn Nation - Time For A Change
Huskerh8er - Well crap and Instant Analysis
Lincolnite DMB Sports Report - Welcome to Pediocrity
mostly right, usually - huckin' fuskers
Texas Babble Belt - What the hell happened?
Yard Barker - The Homecoming that Wasn't
Even the Drudge Report - Huskers Suffer Worst Home Loss Since '58...
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Seriously, who needs fair weather fans? Winning isn't everything in college sports. Go Big Red!

Picking Scabs in Vancouver

Canadian city's field slaves pitted against its house slaves. Nobody wants to say scab and what the heck is solidarity anyhow?

Its a great life...

If you don't weaken.

An inspiring observation from John Buchan, the 1st Baron of Tweedsmuir, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, via Maurice Chevalier. From the odd little movie The Stolen Jools.

Gratuitous Cat Fight

Click here for graphic girl fighting action. At least they didn't use guns.

Senator Chuck Hagel tells GOP how to win.

Senator Hagel

From the Jihad apologists at al-Reuters, where they still take Chuck seriously: Hagel:Republican nominee must alter war course. Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, who had to quit politics (and abandon his own White House run) when it became obvious he couldn't get elected as dog-catcher in his home state, now presumes to tell the other GOP Presidential hopefuls how to win. I wonder who is listening besides his leftist moonbat fans?

I assume comparing the war against Mohammedan Jihadists to Viet-Nam at every opportunity is part of Chuck Hagel's winning formula. Maybe Ron Paul is listening. Maybe not.
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For everything you need to know about the scramble for Hagel's Senate seat, visit Leavenworth Street.

Low Rider - Long Legs

Fender Candy

The IowaHawk has a cool look at Low Rider Magazine #1.

Che Guevara: Still Dead

Che Guevara - El Chancho

Thanks to the pre-Bolivarian Bolivian soldiers and the CIA, Che Guevara remains dead after 40 years. More celebrating at Babalu blog. Previous Plains Feeder Che thanaticisms: hither, thither, and yon.
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Buy lunch for a Bolivian today.

Unpatriotic Unions

Look for the Union Label. Then buy something else.
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It is officially OK to doubt their patriotism out loud.

Cop a laugh

Hillary Clinton Nut Cracker

The Hillary Clinton nutcracker will crack smiles and nuts with stainless steel teeth secured in the upper legs.

President Bush: Bomb Iran ASAP

Before this poor moonbat starves. How else is he going to know when to end his hunger strike?
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A tip of the seed corn cap to Wizbang and the NRO.

Miller Time

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Help Wanted: Cigarette Smokers

Do it for the kids

Iowa Congressman Steve King is in trouble with just about everyone (except the president) for his no-SCHIP vote, i.e. State Children's Health Insurance Program. He apparently noticed that it will cost a lot of money and that it's another incremental step towards socialized medicine.

According to the Heritage Foundation Congress plans to fund the SCHIP increase by raising the tobacco tax 61 cents per pack. What with smokers quitting, dying off or unable to afford higher priced smokes, twenty-two million new smokers will need to be recruited to insure that the kids have health insurance, not to be confused with health care which they already have.

Don't criticize Congress and their bifurcated sense of political correctness. Better that you get on down to the convenience store and pick up a couple packs. And don't leave them laying around the house. $1.22 towards SCHIP isn't going to help much. You'll have to smoke them every day for the rest of your life if you really care about the kids' health insurance.

You'll have to listen to a lot of crap from people who think smoking is bad but at least you'll know you're one of the few who is really doing something to get some insurance out to those kids.

Hump Day

Wrap-Around Tits

Do you remember the advertising saw: "SEX - Now that I have your attention..."? Now imagine the topless lady pictured above used as the sex lure. Would the advertiser keep your attention? Would you be more or less inclined to buy what they are selling? Seen at Age of Hooper (The).
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Stupid People
or Why I Don't Grade on The Curve
Cats that know the old feeder get sick of his reminding them that half of the people in any group will be below the group average in any measure. Intelligence, education, beauty, eyesight, body odor, no matter what you measure, half the group is always below average. This statement is unpleasant to hear repeated because it is simply true by definition. It states nothing new. It reflects what is simplistically called the bell curve.

I prefer not to use the bell curve approach to rating folks by certain measures. Honesty, loyalty, wisdom, common sense, avarice, selfishness, and wickedness are but a few examples of such measures this cruel world forces me to make of my neighbors. Some measure virtues, others measure vice.

By my observations, far more than half of the people on Earth fall short on virtue and run long on vice. Use a bell curve to discriminate them at your own risk.

Call me the anti-Pollyanna. My eyes itch.

Law of the Sea Treaty: more power for the UN

UN Law of the Sea Treaty: Just Say No

You might think Americans would catch on to the fact that the entire United Nations experiment in globalization has been a dangerous bust. The ever corrupt UN now causes more world problems than it solves, provides a big platform for our enemies and impedes the cause of peace world-wide. If that wasn't enough, the UN also threatens to eat away at our hard won freedoms and erode our national sovereignty.

I'm ashamed that our poor benighted globalist President Bush is urging the Senate to ratify the ill conceived and very risky Law of the Sea Treaty. This treaty isn't new, and there are good reasons we haven't ratified it yet. Study it and you will see why it is a very bad idea. The Heritage Foundation warns of Dangerous Seas Ahead if we sign on. Senator David Vitter, Republican from the seaport state of Louisiana, is leading the opposition to the LOST treaty in the Senate.

This dangerous treaty is on the fast track for Senate approval right now. Get on the ball and call your Senators today: Just Say No! Don't buy the lie.
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Blog reactions: Red State reminds us of Ronald Reagan's astute objections to the Law of the Sea Treaty when it threatened to land on his oval office desk. The Liberal Lie points out that supporters of this idiotic treaty are pushing for a Senate vote very soon. Its time to nix it now.

Michelle Malkin weighs in on LOST. She comes down squarely with Ronald Reagan against the treaty, adding that it "Looks like the Bush administration is deluded or clueless on the issue, or both."
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To the tune of a Coca Cola jingle:

I'd like to put the world in chains
And make it work for me
I'd like to hear the people cry
In perfect slavery

The wackos at the World Wildlife Fund like the treaty. That ought to be reason enough to e-mail, write or call President Bush and you Senators and tell them you don't want the UN ruling 70% of the Earth,If this treatyhelps wildlife, I'll eat some rotten bush meat.
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Don't forget: the perfidious UN also wants to grab your guns.