Well, we’ve come down to the end of the first week of the Christmas shopping season and the stores are filled with shoppers. That in itself is causing some problems for the liberal media who were hoping to report with some glee that the economy was in the tank and we were only about two quick steps away from a major recession which they could blame on Bush.

But that’s not the case. However, the liberal media, led by the Associated Press, still can’t resist mentioning it in stories about Christmas. One headline, that’s a headline, the title of the story, reads “Despite Economy, Malls and Stores Jammed. ” And the subheadline reads, “Store Usher in Holiday Shopping With Big Discounts, Expanded Hours in Touch Economy.” You want to tell that to the shoppers?

If the economy were in the tank the way the liberals want us think it is, under Bush, by the way, do you think people would be out before sunrise to shop? I wonder if anybody’s bothered to tell the liberal media about things like Wyoming’s unemployment rate dropping below three percent in November. I wonder if anybody’s bothered to tell them about all the new jobs that have been created and here in Gillette, the number of jobs begging for workers. Does that sound like an economy in trouble to you?

Yet, they keep hounding on how bad the economy is. I wonder just how they’d report the story if we had a liberal Democrat as president. Oh, it would be great and wonderful, how robust the economy is. I guarantee it. Well, now we have another bit of news for all you politically correct grinches out there. Everywhere across the country, Christmas trees are Christmas trees again and not “holiday trees”.

People are saying “Merry Christmas” again and even down in Fort Collins, where it was being considered to outlaw colored lights because they were somehow religious symbols and ornaments and Christmas trees were to be banned from city property, the city council voted 6-1 to restore Christmas to what it originally was. So Merry Christmas, political correctness. If you don’t like it, don’t participate. Nobody’s going to pass a law that says you have to, although you wanted to pass a law that said we couldn’t.

It’s Christmas season, America, the Baby Jesus, Santa Claus, gifts, decorated trees, colored lights, peace on earth, goodwill to men. I wonder what liberals find so offensive about peace on earth and goodwill to men.

We’ve got some more environmental case news for you today. You know, on the morning show, we’ve asked many times, usually in jest, what an environmentalist does for fun. Well, I’d like to vary that question just a bit and ask if an environmentalist ever finds anything that people do that’s right. I base my question on the latest global warming news out of, where else, San Francisco, the nation’s loony bin.

In the city by the gay, uh, bay, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is holding public hearings on home fireplaces to see if they contribute to global warming. Of course, you really don’t expect any scientific findings to be brought up in this but here’s what they want to investigate. They want to find out if fireplaces release carbon dioxide into the air and add to the global warming so-called crisis. And, if they do, then ban fireplaces in homes.

Well, there’s a new one. Fireplaces cause global warming. Is there anything that doesn’t to hear the environmental cases tell it? I’m beginning to wonder. Fire, since the days of the caveman, has produced heat to keep us warm in the winter. At one time, fire was all we had to produce heat. If that’s the case, why is it that it’s only been since the phony baloney global warming scare that it’s being mentioned?

If fireplaces cause global warming, as long as we’ve been using them, shouldn’t the earth be warm enough by now so that we wouldn’t need them? But here’s a scientific fact. Sorry to throw any facts in on your environmental arguments, tree huggers, but I couldn’t resist. Fireplaces produce smoke. Enough smoke and you produce somewhat of a cloud cover. And it’s been proven that clouds actually reduce the temperature of the air.

Witness the Krakatoa volcanic explosion of 1883. It was one of the largest blasts in recorded history, causing worldwide cloud covers. And because of it, we almost didn’t have a summer that year. So if you want to combat global warming, shouldn’t you be ENCOURAGING people to use their fireplaces? This is just more environmentalist malarkey from a group of kooks.

So this winter, when the temperature drops to about ten below, don’t you think we could use some good old-fashioned global warming? But, hold on here. If using fireplaces all these years is a cause of global warming, then how did it get to be ten below to start with?

Emory University in Atlanta is one of those high-dollar colleges where rich liberals send their kids. The joke is “How many Emory students does it take to change a flat tire? One to hold the six-pack and one to call Daddy.” Now, with that in mind, it shouldn’t surprise you at all that Emory is a very environmentally friendly school. Over the past few years, they’ve made every effort to go green, to show the world they’re not like those other people who foul the air and poison the water.

Well, they built a new mathematics and science building which opened in 2002. And to give the appearance of being close to nature and the environment, the huge glass windows in the building reflect the view of the adjoining woods. Well, what’s wrong with that, you might ask? What’s wrong with it is that birds, flying along at full speed, see the reflection of the woods in the glass and thinking it’s just more woods, crash into the building and die.

John Wegner, Emory’s chief environmental officer called it the wall of death. Wegner found that an average of two birds a day die when they collide with the building at full speed during migrating season. In fact, he brought a couple of dead birds to a department meeting to make his point. So what did the university do? They draped the building with black mesh netting each fall so when a bird flies into the building, it bounces off safely.

But I bet the bird comes away with a terrible headache. But leave it to the environmentalists to condemn what they thought originally was a good idea when it doesn’t work. They never say it was a stupid idea until it fails and then it’s like blood to a shark. They’re all over the moron who proposed such an idea.

At Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, ornithology professor David Klem, who’s also an environmental case, says “None of these buildings are ever green for me. ” So at Swarthmore College, he had fritted windows installed. Those are windows with small dots that make the glass look frosted so birds won’t be confused.

Klem says it’s a massive problem and he blames glass companies and construction contractors for the trouble. He says, “We know what it takes to fix the problem. The question is how willing is the industry?” Oh, please! Why don’t you environmentalists just butt out and go work on some other invention you’re sure will save lives, like the concrete life jacket?

Another Democrat hoax has been exposed, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, the Democrats for years have been the Republicans as these rich, heartless, unfeeling, money grubbing snobs who get all the tax breaks because of a Republican administration.

And the Democrats portray themselves as the party of the little guy, the working men and women of America, the everyday people who have families and bills they can barely pay while the Republicans live in sumptuous luxury.

Well, a new survey just out by the Heritage Foundation has discovered that just the opposite is true. More than half of the nation’s wealthiest households are Democrats and vote Democrat in every election. The study also shows that there are by far more millionaire Democrats in Congress than Republicans and that the vast majority of conservative House members are from middle-income districts.

Now, Steve, you say, this is a survey done by the Heritage Foundation. Isn’t that a right wing group? Let me answer that with two words…Teton County. They vote Democrat and they have more than their share of limousine liberals who don’t worry where their next Rolls-Royce is coming from. Want further proof? Just head south to Aspen, Colorado where the city there voted to make anyone eligible for public housing whose average income is below $115,000 a year.

And these people have voted Democrat since about the time the earth cooled. John Kerry, America’s richest traitor? Democrat. Ted Kennedy, America’s richest woman killer and town drunk? Democrat. John Edwards, America’s richest ambulance chasing pretty boy? Democrat. And the list goes on but I’ve only got three minutes. Yet, to divert your attention from what they REALLY are, they say we ought to tax the rich even more.

That’s what they SAY but they never do anything about it because that would mean taxing themselves. And to insult you even further, they tell you that you aren’t paying enough in taxes and they’re going to do something about it. Want to see a rich Democrat go ballistic? Mention the flat tax. It would do away with the 60,000 pages of chaos that’s the current tax code.

And if you do away with that, you’ve also done away with the loopholes rich Democrats use to slither out of paying taxes. So the next time you hear about tax breaks being only for the rich, you’ll know who the Democrats are talking about. But they don’t want you to know the truth about it.

How typically Democrat!

We’ve got a couple of really strange news items to bring you today. First off, there’s the woman in Florida whose husband won the lottery but didn’t tell her. In fact, to prevent her from finding out, he turned off the television so she wouldn’t see any news of his winnings. Then he disconnected the phone so nobody could call to congratulate him or, more likely, ask him for money.

This little cover up was going okay for Armin Ramdass until his wife found a postcard in the mail congratulating him on the purchase of his new home. So she went to the computer, got on the Google search engine and found out that he had, in fact, won the Florida Lottery.

Well, naturally, she confronted him with this information and now Ramdass is nowhere to be found. He was working as a mechanic for an airline at the Miami Airport but he took a leave of absence and now process servers can’t find him anywhere. His wife is suing him for her half of the winnings. His wife says, “Right now, all I want is justice. With time, I will file for divorce.”

Our other story concerns Heather Mills, the estranged wife of Paul McCartney. You may have seen her on some of the TV talk shows, slamming McCartney. Well, yesterday, Heather, who’s also an environmentalist kook of the first order, appeared at a place called Speakers’ Corner in London, a place that’s gained a reputation over the years as a gathering place for the radical and the eccentric.

She was speaking on behalf of a group called Viva, an animal rights activist group that wants everybody to become vegetarian. But vegetarian isn’t why she was there. She was there to tell people that children were starving with fields of grain nearby that is intended to feed cattle. And it’s cow flatulence that’s causing global warming.

So if we don’t have cattle then what kind of milk do we drink? Ms. Mills recommends…rat milk. That’s right, rat milk. That’ll save the earth from global warming. But how do you get the rat to stand still long enough to be milked anyway? But Heather wants to save the earth from global warming.

Oh, by the way, as with most rich environmentalists, there is an element of hypocrisy here. Rather than riding around in a hybrid car, she arrived at Kooks’ Corner in a Mercedes 4 X 4 and conducted the interviews she gave from behind the wheel of her gas hog. So typically liberal.

Have an enjoyable Thanksgiving, folks, and we’ll talk to you again Monday.

Folks, it’s been proven again for the umpteenth time. You lower taxes and government revenue goes up. Well, here’s the latest proof. The state did away with the sales tax on groceries and look what happened. The headline in the Casper Start of Tribulation says “State Sales Tax Collections Hit Record”. And then right under the headline there’s a sub headline that reads “Increase comes in spite of new exemption on food purchases.” They act like they’re surprised.

But you have to understand that they ARE a liberal scandal sheet and liberals don’t understand anything but tax increases. But since the grocery tax was done away with, state sales tax collections are UP 11.1% to $799 million. And, then as if to try and deflect over the fact that they’ve been proven wrong…again…the article quotes Wenlin Liu, the senior economist for the state Economic Analysis Division who said, “Everything’s following the mining boom.”

Now, mind you, this guy’s an economist. He’s supposed to know better. But does “it’s the mining boom” explain the sharp rise in sales tax revenues to the state since the grocery tax was eliminated? The mining boom’s been going on for several years now. Then why is that ONLY in the year after the grocery tax was gone did we see such a sales tax increase.

Look, I’m not an economist and I don’t play one on television but you’d think these pros who are supposed to spot trends would see that. And it should prove something to them but it doesn’t. It makes you wonder if the joke is true about an economist not being able to balance his own check book. The answer for why there was a big tax revenue increase when the grocery tax was eliminated is simple.

People had more money to buy other things, other things that still had a sales tax. What part of that don’t liberals understand? And this leftist slanted article emphasizes that the grocery tax repeal went into effect on July 1, 2006. Not only is it mentioned in the headline but twice in the opening paragraphs. Liberals are all in denial about tax cuts being beneficial to everyone.

But here you have Wyoming, a state with no income tax and now, no grocery tax, racking up record revenues on sales taxes. Campbell County had a 9.7% sales tax collection increase. You can’t help but wonder if that would have been the case if the grocery tax had remained in place. Guess what the answer to that one is. Are liberals stupid? Well, let me put it like this: yeah. And stupid can’t be fixed. The only way to deal with the problem is to vote them out of office.

We have some news from our “go figure” department for you today. And I mean go figure literally. In Texas, the proposed math books for elementary school students have been found to have some errors in them, 109,263 errors in fact. In a profound statement of the obvious, Anita Givens, director of instructional materials for the state, said, “This is an extraordinary number of errors ” You think?

And to compound this comedy of errors, there’s a math quiz at the end of each chapter in the books. Well, some of the books contain the answers to the quizzes. And, of course, the answers were wrong answers. And these were only supposed to be in the teacher’s editions of the books. And it doesn’t stop there. There are instances in some of the Spanish language versions of the books where the translations were wrong, too.

Now, the first question should be “how do you get over a hundred thousand errors into math textbooks?” How many pages do these books contain to have that many errors? And here’s something that ought to give you concern. Math is one of the main objectives of the No Child Left Behind Act, the program that’s supposed to turn kids into Einstein.

Well, this number of errors was too much, even for the educrats of the state. The Texas Department of Education has threatened to fine the publishers $5,000 for every error they find in the final edition of the books. And this is scary. One of the publishers is Houghton-Mifflin, one of the leading textbook publishers in the nation. They were responsible for 79% of all the errors in the proposed textbooks.

Of course, I think we’re all aware that this is George W. Bush’s fault. It has to be. Everything else is. Now, this leads to another question. If these math books are wrong, how many books on other subjects have errors in them? How many science books are telling kids about Einstein’s famous equation E=M C Hammer? And have teachers checked English textbooks to make sure they don’t contain no double negatives?

But over a hundred thousand errors in proposed math textbooks? That’s absurd! I think educators should be concerned. Or, as one so aptly put it, “Mathematics understanding in schools is a national problem. A recent survey has found that, in America today, 83% of all students—that’s almost half—don’t understand simple math problems. ”

Al Gore and the environmental crazies like him all say that man is destroying the earth. Well, that’s not important anymore. There are bigger fish to fry. According to two professors of cosmology, man may be destroying the entire universe. I bet you didn’t know we were that powerful, did you? Global warming is nothing compared to destroying the entire universe. So how are we bringing about this destruction?

Well, according to Professor Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Professor James Dent of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, we’ve pronounced a death sentence on the universe…by looking at it. That’s right. We’re destroying the universe by looking at it, observing it. Is this a put on? Apparently, these two professors are serious.

According to an article in New Scientist Magazine, astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its end by observing something called dark energy. Dark energy is the anti-gravity force that scientists believe is what causes the universe to expand, something it IS doing and we’ve known that for years.

But now comes the startling news that just by observing it, we’ve somehow upset the balance of the universe and caused it to revert to an earlier, less balanced state and thereby reduced its life expectancy. And, just think, we did all this damage just by OBSERVING the universe. The two professors don’t say HOW observing the universe shortens its life but one thing’s for certain.

If this is true, then it’s Bush’s fault. Forget global warming. We’ve got universal disruption to deal with. These companies that make all these sophisticated pieces of astronomical equipment are getting rich while they’re destroying the universe. Somebody call Nancy Pelosi and see if they can’t be taxed at a higher rate. Folks, universal disruption is settled science. And it’s caused by man’s dark energy footprint.

But, take heart, all is not lost. To reduce man’s lethal dark energy footprint, I am going to save the entire universe from destruction. Presenting, the dark energy observation offsets. This will make up for any damage done to the university by astronomers watching things in space. You send me $150, and I will send you…a blindfold. That way you won’t be able to observe anything and the universe can continue to expand and thrive.

So to help save the universe, just send $150 cash, check, or money order to Gullible, Box 1179, Gillette, Wyoming 82717. VISA and MasterCard also accepted.

Well, here a flip, there a flop, everywhere a flip flop. It’s almost getting amusing to watch the liberals flip and flop and then try to explain why they did. The latest flip-flopper is hot tempered liberal wacko Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York. After proclaiming from the rooftops that giving driver’s licenses to criminal aliens in New York was the only way to make the state safer, he’s suddenly changed his mind.

You don’t think that the overwhelming majority of people in New York didn’t like the idea had anything to do with it, do you? Do you remember back not too long ago when the much tried amnesty plus bill was soundly defeated three times in Congress? That was 80% of Americans didn’t even want them to be here, much less driving around on our roads with LEGAL licenses. So how did Spitzer play the CYA card?

He said New York couldn’t conduct his program on their own, that it needed federal intervention for it to work. That’s the liberal answer for everything, a federal government intervention. But there’s a lot more to this story than just that. Remember a couple of weeks ago at that Democrat presidential debate when Hillary contradicted herself in under two minutes on the same issue?

Well now, showing the courage of her own convictions, Hillary has finally said she’s against giving criminal aliens driver’s licenses. You don’t think the public outcry against it and Spitzer’s flipping and flopping had anything to do with it, do you? Of course, not! We all know what a woman of principle Hillary is. How can you be so naïve? She has principles, just like John Kerry.

But now, there’s a new player in the game, Senator John Barrasso. He’s never been for the idea anyway but now he’s introduced a bill that would withhold 10% of federal highway funds to any state that grants criminal aliens driver’s licenses. And the money they wouldn’t get would be divided among states that don’t grant licenses.

That would mean, conceivably, more highway dollars for Wyoming, whose legislature wouldn’t consider granting criminal aliens driver’s licenses on a bet even though the liberals in the liberal limousine capital of the state, Jackson, see merit in the idea. But they’re liberals and that says it all.

So…programs, programs, get your programs. You can’t tell where a Democrat stands today without a program. Yesterday’s program is probably out of date so get your NEW programs today.

Thirty years ago, Washington, DC began municipal self-government. That means they elected a mayor and a city council and supposedly began to operate like any other city in America. That’s, of course, in theory. How many other cities in America can claim a crack smoking mayor like Marion Barry?

That aside, Washington enacted one of the nation’s toughest gun control laws, outlawing the possession of handguns. Not only was it unconstitutional, being a blatant violation of the Second Amendment, overnight it gave Washington the dubious distinction of being the murder capital of America. Folks, this is so typical of what happens when you take guns away from law abiding citizens, the murder rate skyrockets and robberies and burglaries increase sharply.

I don’t think that’s what the city fathers had in mind when they enacted the handgun ban. But gun control advocates, not being the fastest horses on the track, have turned a blind eye to those statistics. So what do they want to do? They want their handgun ban to spread to all cities across America. Oh, good, that’s just what we need, defenseless citizens who can’t protect themselves when they’re attacked. Now, here’s the lamest excuse you’ll ever hear.

When confronted with those crime numbers, Nadine Winters a former city councilwoman and strong advocate of gun control, blames the crime rise on the ability to buy handguns in neighboring Virginia and Maryland. If that’s the case, why did the increase in gun crimes wait to happen until Washington enacted its gun ban? The gun control crowd says that street violence would have been so much worse if the law hadn’t been enacted and it’s really a victory.

Another victory like this and we will all be lost. Well, now that gun ban is being challenged with a case that the Supreme Court has been asked to hear which would settle the issue. Meanwhile, the UNARMED citizens of Washington, DC are having to face the ARMED criminals of Washington.

Just imagine the scene in this model of law and order thanks to gun control. A guy’s home in Washington and a thug with a gun breaks in. We all know the thug got the gun legally, don’t we? Of course, we do. Criminals wouldn’t break the law getting a gun.

So what does the owner of the house say to the burglar, “Hey fella, put down that gun and come here and drink this poison? ”

There seems to be a new catch-phrase in political circles today. And it’s not a new phrase at all. It’s been around I suppose as long as there have been languages. The phrase is “shut up”. How many times have you heard somebody say that? But it’s usually not said in the allegedly polite world of political discourse. In political discourse, it’s only implied, never said openly, until recently. But the gloves have come off and “shut up” is new IN phrase.

The King of Spain, Juan Carlos, has won widespread praise in his country for telling little tubby two-shoes communist dictator of Venezuela Hugo Chavez to shut up. This followed Chavez’s repeated references to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a “fascist” at the Ibero-American summit meeting in Spain.. That caused the current Prime Minister of Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zaptero to urge Chavez to show a little respect.

That’s where the king jumped in. He put it a little more forcefully when he said to Chavez, “why don’t you just shut up? ” Well, that must have offended Chavez and hurt his feelings. Awww, poor baby. So his closest ally in Latin America, another leftist slimeball, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, decided to take up for his tubby little buddy by accusing the Spanish embassy in Nicaragua of interfering in local politics.

That was enough for the king. He got up and stormed out of the meeting, something that’s never been done before at one of those conferences. And Spanish television played the tape of the incident over and over and most were on the king’s side. I can’t say as I blame them. Hugo Chavez, aside from being a Fidel Castro wannabe, is just a rude little psychopath who wants to be totalitarian dictator of Venezuela for life.

Remember a year or so ago when he spoke at the United Nations the day after President Bush had spoken in the same room and said he could still smell the burning brimstone, implying that Bush was Satan? It’s about time somebody told that little dufus to shut up and now somebody has. Good for you, your majesty, King Juan Carlos of Spain. That was a refreshing, much needed comment that hopefully will start a trend.

I think I’d like to do my part to get it going right now. Who do I pick? That’s a tough one because there are so many who richly deserve it. Okay, let me start with this one.

Hillary, shut up.

I think you could count the number of people on one hand who were surprised by Barbara Cubin’s announcement Saturday that she won’t be running for re-election next year. She announced to the Republican Party Central Committee her intentions not to seek an 8th term in Congress. She cited her husband’s health as the reason she’s leaving Washington.

And I think we all understand that. She had only been present less than half the time during her husband’s recurring illnesses and it was a matter of her either resigning her seat in the House or not running for re-election. She chose the latter. This was probably wise on her part because, during the last election, she won by only about a thousand votes statewide.

And this time, Gary Trauner, the man she defeated in the last election, has already announced his intentions to be the Democrat on the ticket a year from now. Trauner is a dynamic and articulate man and you know he’d be all over Cubin’s voting record like a cheap suit. Okay, in all fairness, he’d have a case but isn’t that hitting below the belt?

Barbara Cubin is stepping down because of family concerns and nothing else. And, really, that’s something she has no control over whatsoever. But does Gary Trauner reflect the sentiment of the people of Wyoming or is he just another puppet of a socialist-driven national Democrat party with higher taxes, more expensive government social programs, less national defense, and fewer individual rights?

Now, the big question that remains to be answered is who will the Republicans run against him. The only name of any recognizable value mentioned has been State Representative Colin Simpson of Cody. But Simpson hasn’t announced yet. If Simpson DOES plan to run, wouldn’t it be to his advantage to go ahead and announce now, hot on the heels of Barbara Cubin’s announcement, to get the momentum going?

I realize the election is still a year away but you know the Trauner machine is going to be shifting into high gear soon and, if the Republicans want to mount any kind of counter campaign, they’d better do so now. For those who didn’t care for Barbara Cubin, there’s a clean slate now. She won’t be running again. And whoever the Republicans put up as a candidate better take the gloves off and be ready to fight for Wyoming.

And I hope the Republicans don’t diss Wyoming the way they’ve been doing, thinking we’ve only got three electoral votes and it’s in the bag for the Republicans anyway. Nothing’s a given anymore.

By now, I’m sure you’ve heard all the flap about Hillary and that bonehead plan by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to allow criminal aliens in New York to get driver’s licenses. She’s flipped and flopped enough on that issue to make even John Kerry envious. Let’s see, what’s today? Oh, it’s Thursday. That means she’ll be in favor of it but tomorrow, who knows?

I think the vast majority of people think it’s a bonehead idea and the reason I say that is because of the latest Washington Times/Rasmussen poll that finds that 77% of the people polled don’t like the idea. And that’s just a little better than three out of four. Those for it were 16%, roughly one out of six. Now, despite Hillary’s for-it-today, against-it-tomorrow stance, all the major Democrat candidates in the presidential zoo parade are for it.

Of course, they’re all liberals and it just goes to prove once again that liberals are completely out of touch with the voters. If 77% of the people are against something, and the liberals are for it, then what does that tell you about the liberals? By the way, ALL of the Republican candidates think it’s a stupid idea. Fred Thompson said, “I think we have to quit inducing people to come here and stay if they’re illegal.”

And the idea isn’t rejected only on the driver’s license issue. In California, 62% of people surveyed were against state sponsored scholarships for children of these criminal aliens, that’s almost three out of five, while 24%, almost one out of four, thought squandering the taxpayer’s money on it was a good idea. And Governor Arnold even vetoed a bill that would call for that when the nuts and fruits legislature passed such a bill.

So, if the American people are so overwhelmingly against these two ideas, then why do liberals insist on trying to ram these things down our throats? Because liberals think they’re so superior to the rest of us intellectually. They consider you and me as just Neanderthal knuckle draggers and we need to be pitied. If this is their idea of doing us a favor, then we don’t need any enemies. We’ve already got them.

Folks, I think I know what’s wrong with liberals. They suffer a condition called, let’s see, what was the scientific name for it? Oh, yes, they suffer from a condition called cranial rectiosis. It’s a condition whereby the location of the head prevents the visibility of any sunshine.

Well, folks, guess who the latest person is to come into the cross hairs of the Food Police? It’s that jolly old elf, Santa Claus. That’s right, boys and girls, Santa has been told to drop a few pounds before Christmas this year because, according a shopping center in England, he presents a bad example of letting yourself go and getting fat.

In fact, the bosses at the Bluewater Shopping Center in Kent, England, are marching all the recruits who want to play Santa this year off to a gym for a Santa boot camp. Fiona Campbell-Reilly, a spokeswoman for the shopping center said, “Santa has been around for years but society has changed and our Santa needs to reflect these changes.”

So I guess that means no more pie and cake for Santa, like kids have been leaving out for him for years. Oh, no, that would mean that Santa would only put back on the pounds he lost while he was at boot camp, shedding all that ugly fat. Dr. Charmaine Griffiths, a spokeswoman for the British Heart Association, said, “The boot camp encourages people to get a bit more active. I think it’s a great idea.” Obviously, she’s a woman with not much to do.

Well, just add another name to the list of people who have declared war on Christmas and anything associated with it. You know, I don’t know how to tell these people that Santa Claus is an imaginary character. He’s been around for centuries in various incarnations such as Pere Noel in France, which is Father Christmas. He’s been St. Nicholas and he’s had other names which I don’t recall right off.

But the common thing in all of them, he’s been a fat, jolly guy. Come on, you people, lighten up. If you want to send somebody to boot camp where they’ll lose some weight, maybe you should call Rosie O’Donnell, or Ted Kennedy, or Al Gore. Now there are some people who could stand to lose some weight and who aren’t jolly. The cause of this hysteria is a report that says by 2050, half of England will be obese.

But Santa’s been around for hundreds of years. Is he really to blame for a future phenomenon? Well, you’ve got to have a scapegoat for everything I suppose. But who do you blame the rest of the year? So, kids, this year, after you’re fast asleep Christmas eve with visions of celery sticks dancing in your head, don’t forget to leave Santa a nice dish of bean sprouts as a thank you treat.

And next year, listen for Santa, instead of going "Ho Ho Ho," to change it to “Bah, humbug.”

Last week we brought you the story of the president of the University of Delaware who instituted a program that said all white people are racists and, if you don’t believe it, you have to undergo a brainwashing “treatment”. Well, exposure of that nonsense in the media put the kibosh on that idea rather quickly and the president of the University of Delaware ordered an end to the program.

But wait. Colleges are breeding grounds for radical anti-American ideas and I know you won’t be surprised to hear that another bonehead idea has been suggested by another totally useless, left wing college professor. This time, it’s at the University of Maine. A student there alleges that her professor of her History of Mass Communications class offered extra credits to any class member for burning an American flag or a copy of the U. S. Constitution.

What burning a flag or the constitution has to do with the history of mass communications I don’t have any idea but sophomore Rebekah McDade says that’s what Professor Paul Grosswiler told his class on the first day of the new semester. She says she was offended because she comes from a military family and dropped the course immediately. She says she’s going to take the course again next semester but with a different professor.

So, with the story out in the news media—not in the liberal media, mind you, but objective media—the smarmy professor is scrambling to play C Y A. He says McDade just misunderstood—that he was trying to provoke thought. Okay, if you go burn an American Flag of a copy of the U S Constitution, I’ll give you extra credits for that. What’s to misunderstand about that? He offered them extra credits for doing it. How does that provoke thought?

Then to continue his lame coverup, he said he wasn’t intending for them to actually do it. Yeah, right. Folks, just look at a recent list of college radical leftist episodes, Ward Churchill, the University of Delaware, William and Mary, where you can report another student for being politically incorrect and have that student punished, and now, the University of Maine. Oh, did we forget Columbia University inviting Mahmoud Achmadinejad to speak?

Or UW, for inviting an active communist like Angela Davis to speak in Laramie? And it goes without saying that we can’t leave out the People’s Republic of Berkeley. So, students, if you want to get a college degree, fine. But don’t let it stand in the way of getting an education.

Folks, we have a sage grouse news update for you. (MUSIC: “SURFIN’ BIRD”) And this time, the sage grouse news comes from Jackson, the limousine liberal capital of Wyoming, and it could point out even more the hypocrisy of the liberals. Here’s the story. The Jackson Hole Airport Authority wants to expand the main runway to allow for more of those carbon producing private jets that rich liberals love to fly in to fly into their summer estates in Grand Teton National Park.

This is beautiful. Guess what’s at the north end of the runway now? A sage grouse breeding ground! That’s right, the same type of breeding ground that got the coal bed methane industry shut down for three months last spring here in lower-on-the-social-ladder Campbell County. Now, aside from the practical danger of birds being sucked into the engines of the planes and possibly causing a disaster, what to do, what to do?

Everybody knows we can’t have those rich liberal environmentalists being inconvenienced by not having their private jets land them almost at their doorstep. Perish the thought! And, isn’t spring, when the liberals start migrating to their summer homes in Jackson, the same time the sage grouse go through their mating ritual? Well, we’ve got to do something so why not apply pressure equally all over the state?

The tree huggers managed to get the coal bed methane industry shut down for three months so what’s wrong with shutting down the airport for three months. And forget the idea of runway expansion. Does the BLM know about this? They should because Jackson Hole Airport is on federal property and Lord knows you can’t have any kind of construction on federal property near a sage grouse breeding ground.

Why, the roar of those airplane engines could frighten the sage grouse and get them out of the mating mood. The BLM said that coal bed methane drilling did that to sage grouse on federal property in Campbell County. I wonder if the BLM will give them the same song and dance they gave Campbell County when mating time comes. Keep an eye on this one, folks.

And don’t hold your breath until anything is done in the environmentalist Mecca of Wyoming, Jackson Hole, to protect the sage grouse. If nothing IS done and the runway gets expanded, it’ll just show you once again the hypocrisy of liberalism, as if you needed any more examples. By the way, all those cars going by on the highway, don’t they disturb the sage grouse, too?

Did Hillary have a melt down Tuesday night during the televised Democrat presidential debate when she made conflicting statements in under two minutes on the situation about giving criminal aliens driver’s licenses in New York and dodged other questions? Well, if she didn’t, some of her supporters certainly did. For the first time I can recall, supporters of a presidential candidate in a debate are blaming the moderator, Tim Russert, of “Meet The Press”.

Well, let me give you the truth of the matter. The reason the Clinton campaign has their drawers all in a wad were not because of any game of “gotcha” that Russert was playing. Russert is about as fair as you can get on the liberal media and he’s made a reputation by asking tough questions. Hillary should have known that was coming. What was she expecting, Larry King?

And the fact that two of her rivals, John Edwards and Barack Obama, were the ones who jumped on her contradictions and inconsistencies makes you wonder, why is her campaign jumping on Tim Russert? So how is Clinton campaign responding? Oh, this is so typically liberal. Mark Penn, her senior strategist and Jonathan Mantz, her campaign finance director, have called for more financial contributions to help her stave off future attacks.

Excuse me, but how is that going to help. Once you’ve put your foot in your mouth, will more money make people forget? See, I told you this was typical liberal. The campaign has a problem right now. So throw money at the problem. That’s been the liberal answer since about the time the earth cooled. It’s just too bad that some of the things she’s said in the past about income re-distribution and her playing footsie with the Communist Party weren’t brought up.

That would have brought some interesting responses, I’m sure. The fact that she was faced with tough questions and she hemmed and hawed her answers should point out one thing beyond any doubt. Hillary is not qualified to be President of the United States and if she’s the best the Democrats have to offer, then what does that tell you about the Democrats? In a year, we’ll have an election.

In the meantime, I think there ought to be more and more of these debates with the really tough questions. Maybe there should be one or two a week. If she wants to be president, she better be ready to show herself for what she is. Of course, if she does that, then she won’t be president. Awwww!!!

Folks, I’ve been saying for a long time that a college degree, unless you’re going into a specialized field like medicine or law, serves about the same function as a screen door on a submarine. I’ve been saying that, at college, you don’t get an education the way you used to, you get an indoctrination. Let me offer my latest case in point.
At the University of Delaware, now there’s a mandatory program that requires residence hall students to acknowledge that all white people are racists and even offers them what they call “treatment” if they think otherwise. Oh, this also applies if you have negative opinions of homosexuality.

So who’s behind this? Well, if Joseph Stalin were still alive, he’d be a prime candidate but since he’s not, the name of the perpetrator of this Soviet-style thought police decree is none other than the President of the University of Delaware, a man named Thomas Harker. Let me read you an excerpt from the Office of Life Diversity Education Training at the university.

It’s official definition of a racist is, and I quote, “one who is both privileged and socialized on the base of race in a white supremacist system. This term applies to all white people living in the United States regardless of class, gender, religion, culture, or sexuality. ” So is Comrade Harker saying there are no such things as non-white bigots? It would appear so.

Obviously, Comrade Harker, who is himself white, has never heard any of the rantings of representatives of the Klan With A Tan like Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson, or Loopy Louis Farrakhan. But it doesn’t matter because Harker’s edict goes on to say that there is no such thing as reverse racism. He says that’s just a term used by white people to deny their bigotry.

Now, if you don’t agree with this, then the University of Delaware says there’s something wrong with you and you need their special “treatment”. This guy Harker is a communist idiot, plain and simple, a communist idiot. In the old Soviet Union, you could go to jail for what you were thinking. In the People’s Republic of the University of Delaware, you undergo some kind of brainwashing treatment. I bet they’d put you in jail if they COULD.

Okay, so this is just one college, you say. Well, political correctness started at just one college and look how it’s spread. The same could happen with this. And I wonder if Harker would change his tune if somebody like Al Sharpton got wind of this and demanded that Harker be fired because he’s white. How would he feel then?