It’s that time of year, folks, the time when scary beings come out. And they’ll frighten you with the things they say and do. They’ll even ask you for things and threaten you if they don’t get them. But enough about the political candidates. It’s Halloween, the time of year when the boys and ghouls come trick or treating right to your door.

Come to think of it, there are lots of similarities between Halloween and the political candidates. The kids come to your door asking for candy. The candidates ask for your vote. The only difference there is that if you give the kids some candy, they go away. With the candidates, especially the liberals, you give them your vote and they NEVER go away. And it’s one trick after another. What did we do to deserve this?

And what does it tell you that this year the most popular Halloween mask is Hillary? So what are the tricks that these liberal ghouls and goblins have planned if we cave in and give them our vote? Well, the first one is higher taxes and they don’t try to hide it.

Remember in 1984, in a debate with the great Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, running against him for president, stuck his foot in his mouth when he hinted—that’s hinted, mind you—that under his administration, taxes would go up. And because of that, he suffered the worst defeat in presidential election history.

Now, you have Hillary and John Edwards both saying that taxes will definitely go up sharply if either one of them gets to disgrace the oval office with their presence. And the people have greeted those statements with a wide range of reactions, the most prominent of which appears to be indifference. And what other tricks do they have in mind?

They have a whole raft of bogus government programs designed to infringe on your freedoms from the time you take your first breath after birth to long after you’re dead. They even play tricks on you after you’ve gone on by raising the estate tax so they get the gold mine and your heirs get the shaft. Folks, the kids out hitting you up tonight for candy only want you to think they’re evil spirits.

Well, in the next year, the liberals out hitting you up for votes want you to think they’re kindred spirits, concerned about you and your well being. But they’re the REAL evil spirits. So how can we protect ourselves against them? Well, the answer to that is as simple as it can be. You don’t vote for them. That’s our own version of trick or treat.

Attention, paging Hillary, paging Hillary with her Hillary Care program: This is also for anybody who believes that government provided health care is the way to go. Well, it is the way to go if your ultimate destination is the complete destruction of one-seventh of the American economy. I have a story here from England, where they have socialized medicine and the government picks up the tab for your health care.

It seems that Britons by the tens of thousands are going overseas for major medical procedures. The reason is England’s National Health Service and it’s flood of delays and bureaucratic paperwork. And to show you how this government-run health care system looks out after its patients, another reason is the increase in the number of hospital related infections patients have been getting.

This year, more than 70,000 Brits will have serious medical procedures done away from Mother England and its socialized medicine. Can you really blame them? Of course not. When you have a big medical problem, say, heart trouble or some kind of major surgery, you wouldn’t want to be put on a waiting list and told what doctor you could see. We’ve got the same thing happening in North America.

Canada, which has socialized medicine, is experiencing the same thing. Just talk to a Canadian and you’ll hear horror stories almost beyond belief about their medical system. So where do these people come for treatment? Right here, in the U S A. If socialized medicine is all that great, then why are countries like England and Canada having the problems they’re having?

The answer is very simple. The socialized medical system doesn’t work. It never has and it never will. So, why do we want to try it here? Because the liberals think it’ll work here…. and it won’t. One of the definitions of insanity is trying the same thing over again and expecting a different result. So, am I saying I think liberals are insane? Yeah. And Hillary wants to jam another socialist program down our throats, one that’s doomed to failure.

And it’s all part of socialism, which is a colossal failure everywhere it’s been tried. And who gets to pay for this failure? We do, with higher and higher taxes. Hillary Care, with the organization of the Homeland Security Department, coupled with the compassion of the Internal Revenue Service, and made available to us at prices paid by the Pentagon. You vote liberal, then bend over.

Cue the John Edwards theme music, Maestro. (“I FEEL PRETTY”)

Yes, Mr. $1,200 haircut, the man who says he’s so concerned with the plight of the poor that he took a job with a mortgage outfit that ripped off the poor, has stopped preening himself in front of a mirror long enough to make another asinine liberal proposal. But aren’t all liberal statements asinine?

At any rate, the pretty boy ambulance chaser says when he’s president, he’ll have a whole raft of New Deal-type programs that he says will cut poverty in America and give every citizen the chance to go to college…for free. The name of this particularly pathetic idea is “College For Everyone”. Well, that goes right along with Edwards’ own education. After all, doesn’t he have a B. S. degree?

Oh, and his college for everyone idea isn’t just limited to higher education. He wants the government to pay for pre-kindergarten care. And he says he’ll ask Americans to sacrifice for the common good—a phrase he stole from Hillary, who stole the phrase from Karl Marx. And what kind of “sacrifices” are we talking about here?

Folks, put your hand over your wallet because he calls for higher taxes. Have you ever seen a liberal who didn’t call for higher taxes? That’s their answer to everything, higher taxes and more government programs. Now, can you name me one that’s worked? No, you can’t. And what’s even worse, the cost of these socialist ideas usually skyrockets out of control and we’re left to pay for it, whether it works or not.

Don’t liberals get it? Don’t they understand if something doesn’t work, then you move on to something else, something that might work? Liberals have been trying this same tired old song and dance for 75 years and look what it’s gotten us. Edwards says he wants to stamp out poverty. Well, Lyndon Bonehead Johnson had the same lofty goal as part of his Great Society fiasco.

Remember the war on poverty? Remember how it was supposed to create this ideal society where there would be no poverty, no disease, and everyone would be ecstatically happy. We spent three trillion dollars on that and poverty increased. That, at the time, worked out to $40,000 for every man woman and child in America. Wouldn’t it have been a lot simpler just to cut everybody a check?

And so they’re trying it again. You know, you really have to wonder about the intelligence of a liberal.

You know about the anti-war maggot group, Code Pink, don’t you, the Bolshevik Bimbos? They’re a group of airhead ditzes who dance to whatever tune Karl Marx calls. Well, now, they’ve proven their lack of mental acuity in the People’s Republic of Berkeley. And to get dumb to stand out in Berkeley, you’ve REALLY got to do something. Well, these girls have.

They’ve been protesting the Marine Recruiting Station in Berkeley and, now get this, calling the Marine recruiters “traitors”. Well, maybe they’re traitors to Karl Marx, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and that little runt of a dictator in North Korea but other than that, I’m at a loss to explain just what they were talking about.

The group sent a message to their followers saying, “We are shocked and infuriated that the Marines have opened a despicable Officer Recruiting Station just blocks away from Berkeley High School and the University of California. We are determined to shut down this recruiting station and we need your help! Tell the marines, NO military predators in our town.”

Ooooh, that ought to make the Marines shake in their boots. But it gets even more ridiculous than that. Dana Balicki, national organizer for Code Pink, says, “A lot of the work we’ve been doing to bring awareness to what’s really happening in the war in Iraq is to do what we call ‘truth in recruiting’. ” Is that like truth in advertising? Well, if you want to apply that standard, could Code Pink hold up to the same scrutiny? I seriously doubt it.

Can you imagine what would happen if a group of true Americans tried to shut down one of their rallies? Suddenly these America hating little tramps would turn into the most patriotic citizens you ever saw, passionately embracing the constitution, at least the part about freedom of speech. But here they want to shut down a Marine recruiting station and they’ve called the commanding officer a traitor.

The last time I checked, the Marines were still an all-volunteer outfit so that doesn’t mean that they come to your house in the middle of the night and spirit away your first-born son and take him to Iraq. Maybe Code Pink can’t stand up to the competition. After all, as with all left wing causes, almost any argument against them is valid. Wouldn’t it be great if we COULD draft the anti-war maggots into the Marines?

Send them to Parris Island, and let R. Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket be their drill sergeant. Wouldn’t that make a great movie?

Folks, I know it’s too months away, but the battle in Seattle over Christmas has already started. Last year, if you’ll remember, officials at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, caving in to pressure, sneaked in in the middle of the night and removed all the Christmas trees at the airport. Well, they won’t have to do that this year because the Christmas trees won’t be going up to start with. Instead, the airport will just celebrate “winter”. Oh, dear Lord, please!

What happened was the Port of Seattle Commission met and decided the new decorations would be a grove of birches in fake snow with crystals and mirrors to reflect low energy lighting and thereby do their part to curb global warming at the same time. I bet it never occurred to you that the Grinch who stole Christmas is also an environmentalist. You really shouldn’t be surprised, should you? It just makes sense.

The big flap last year concerned a rabbi who wanted to erect a giant Menorah along side the Christmas trees to give the Jewish side to the holiday celebration. The fact that the rabbi sued to try and get it done smacks of anti-semitism on the part of the Port of Seattle commission because rather than allow the menorah to go up, the commission decided to remove the Christmas trees. The rabbi said later he never intended to have the Christmas trees removed.

He said he was horrified by the decision. So this year the Port of Seattle Commission is taking no chances. Commissioner Pat Davis said “What I was hoping for was something cheerful and evocative of the holiday spirit and have as much to do with nature and evergreen trees as possible. ” That not only sounds anti-Semitic, it sounds pagan as well. After all, they worship nature and the seasons.

Maybe instead of Santa Claus, they could have a witch sitting in the sleigh. Or better than a sleigh, why not have the witch with her big sack full of toys arriving on her broom. And instead of “ho, ho, ho” you could have her say “And that goes for your little dog, too. ” Yes, the Christmas wars have just begun. Seattle isn’t alone in this. I’m sure the left wingers will have plenty to object to as well. Just give them time.

It won’t be too long before somebody will scream about a Nativity Scene somewhere and how it might offend someone who doesn’t believe in the Christmas story. You know, I think I’ve figured out why the liberals are so against having nativity scenes anywhere. They’re against it because, after searching through all of liberaldom, they couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

Paging the ACLU and other organized atheist groups. Are you aware of what’s going on in Bloomington, Indiana this week? Oh, you’ve been too busy trying to get six teenage thugs who attacked another student at a high school in Louisiana off the hook, and fighting to get any perceived establishment of religion banished? That can take up a lot of time, God knows. Ooops, maybe that was a bad choice of words, considering.

At any rate, are you aware that in Bloomington, Indiana, the city GOVERNMENT, that’s government, the people who aren’t supposed to establish any kind of public religious display, are bending over backwards with displays of religion, the Buddhist religion, for an upcoming visit from the Dalai Lama?

The city government is putting up religious statues all over town, the location of the University of Indiana, of Buddha and other items, including cloth religious paintings, Buddhist, of course, all over town to make the Dalai Lama feel right at home, like he was visiting the western version of Lhasa in Tibet. Now, ACLU members, the city has done half the work for you as far as getting rid of religious symbols in public.

They’ve banned a display of the Ten Commandments in public because of the Dalai Lama’s visit. But, hey, you people should still be offended. Buddhism is a religion. And here you’ve got the city of Bloomington, blatantly violating the constitution, which you, in your learned wisdom, have decreed that there’s a clause in there that calls for the separation of church and state.

That means no religious displays, none, zilch, Nada. Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, they’ve all got to go, right? And we’ll even help you with who to contact to lodge your complaints and who should be served with lawsuit papers. He’s Mayor Mark Kruzan, the guy behind this obvious violation of the Constitution. Don’t let the fact that he said the Ten Commandments display does not constitute a work of art because he said the Buddhist cloth paintings do.

But their just as much symbols of religion as if they’d been Baptist instead of Buddhist. So, do your job, ACLU. Show the world what good atheists you are! Read the mayor the Constitution, especially the part about the separation of church and state. I just thought I’d let you know what was going on so you could act if you didn’t know about it. I’ll be waiting although I won’t be holding my breath. And, if you did know about it, why haven’t you done anything?

We don’t do a whole lot of sports stories on this segment of Newsbreak 1270 but being a Yankee hater from way back, the temptation to say something was just too great to resist. Yesterday, Joe Torre, the longtime manager of the New York Yankees, told George Steinbrenner and his band of baseball corporate thugs to “take this job and shove it. ” Remember when Steinbrenner said if Torre didn’t win it all this year his job was on the line?

Well, he didn’t and that set off a sea of speculation as to when the axe would fall on Torre’s head. But public sentiment played a big part this time. The public didn’t want to see Torre go and neither did a lot of the players. So to throw a bone to the fans, Steinbrenner offered Torre a one-year contract at a 33% cut in pay.

Well, after dangling in the wind for more than two weeks after Steinbrenner was supposed to fire him—or at least he said he would—he comes up with this lame offer. And Torre said “no”. Good for you, Joe. Twelve years is enough time for some tyrannical, egomaniac to call the shots and then, if it doesn’t work, blame the manager. Steinbrenner thought the answer to the Yankee prayers was to sign 45-year-old sure Hall of Famer Roger Clemens.

But Clemens may be finished. Next year, he’ll be in a slow pitch softball league at the Wrinkle City retirement home. But still, Torre continued to pull rabbits out of hats because after the horrible start the Yankees got off to, he brought them back to the playoffs. But that’s not enough for King George. Either you win it all every year or you’re gone. And this is going to have a ripple effect on the team. A-Rod, I think, will opt out of his contract and go somewhere else.

Mariano Rivera will be gone. A lot of the players loyal to Torre will be gone next year. And since Steinbrenner is getting on up there in years, he’s decided to turn the team over to his sons, Hal and Hank. They, along with General Manager Brian Cashman and team president Levine will be running the team as a committee. And I think we all know how successful committees are. Just look at any government program and you’ll see. Joe, I’m proud of you.

You told that braying jackass Steinbrenner where to get off. It’s about time somebody did. And this could be the beginning of the end for the Yankees. No manager in his right mind would touch that team with a solid gold Babe Ruth model baseball bat. Well, let’s talk about a winning team. Go Rockies!

Gentlemen, start your inoculations! You heard me right. I didn’t mispronounce any words. Start your inoculations was the theme of some Democrat staffers with the House of Representatives before they’d attend a NASCAR race in North Carolina last Saturday as part of a so-called fact-finding mission on health and homeland security issues. So they lined up to get shots to protect them from imagined rare diseases and sexually transmitted illnesses they might be exposed to.

Well, this has to be a first. The Republican staffers on the junket refused the shots, saying they weren’t necessary. And some lawmakers are angry—and rightfully so—at the suggestion that NASCAR racing fans might be carriers and transmitters of all kinds of deadly diseases. What a slap in the face of NASCAR fans! But it’s just another example of liberal snobbery because the liberals do control the House of Representatives.

And since most NASCAR fans consider liberalism to be a disease itself, these bone-headed liberal House staffers felt that going to something like a NASCAR race just had to be exposing them to things like beri-beri, dengue fever, and other scourges. NASCAR commentators covering the race didn’t mention the dispute during the race. I think I would have.

I’d have said in no uncertain terms what these Democrats think of the people there and how they consider them to be infested with diseases. But the fans who found out about it didn’t like it one bit and can you blame them? Driver Jimmy Spencer said fans are upset that NASCAR races are being singled out while nobody says a word about maggot and lice-infested rock concerts. Spencer asked, “What’s their point? What are they looking for?

There’s never been a problem before. The fans are irate about this when you ask them about it. ” So that’s what the liberals think about us, that we’re nothing but disease-ridden bumpkins while they’ve got this pipeline to all knowledge and they know what’s good for us and we don’t. If you’re a race fan, remember that a year from now in November of 2008.

Inoculate yourself against liberalism in the future by putting THESE snobs out on the street, where they can be afraid they’ll catch something else. And this time, they won’t be able to get taxpayer-paid-for shots, heh-heh-heh. But liberals have their own disease and it’s pretty obvious what the problem is. They’re all suffering from cranial-rectal disorder.

I’m all but certain that Alfred Nobel, the man whose name bears a series of prizes, is probably whirling in his grave over the awarding of the peace prize to Al Gore. And can you blame him? In recent years, the prize, which was given to the individual or groups who did the most to bring peace to the world, has been awarded to such peace makers as Yassir Arafat, one of the bloodiest terrorists in the Middle East.

And now, it’s been awarded to a pathological liar, a socialist, a hypocrite, and a Chicken Little climate alarmist named Al Gore. Now, remember, this is the Nobel PEACE Prize we’re talking about here. Okay, folks, can anybody name me anything, anything at all, that Al Gore has done to bring peace to the world? I didn’t think so and the reason for that is that there isn’t anything he’s done to bring peace to the world, nada, zilch, zero.

He made that science fiction movie, a crocumentary called “An Inconvenient Truth” that was supposedly what won him the Nobel PEACE Prize because it raised awareness of global warming. But that movie has more errors than an infielder with a concrete glove. For example, he claims that melting polar ice caused by man-induced global warming is causing low lying Pacific Islands to be evacuated.

Yet there’s no evidence anywhere of any kind of evacuation. He claims that global warming caused Hurricane Katrina and it’s getting worse. Does that explain why there were no hurricanes hit the continent the following year and we’re below average this year on the number? He says polar bears are drowning in great numbers swimming long distances to look for food because the polar ice is melting.

But only four polar bears were found drowned and that was from a storm. And the list goes on. I don’t have time to go over them all but it just proves what a hoax and a fraud Al Gore is. And yet, he wins the Nobel Peace Prize, once a prestigious award which has degenerated into nothing more than a sick joke with a political agenda, a definitely leftist political agenda.

Just cross them off the list of things with real merit if they think Al Gore is anything but a stumble-bum alarmist for a phony cause. But the prize he’s awarded is $1.5 million. That’s right, $1.5 million. That ought to at least put a dent into Al’s power bill at that electricity guzzling mausoleum he lives in in Tennessee. And maybe he can buy a new gas hog limousine to ride around in.

And maybe charter a few flights in those carbon producing private jets he goes everywhere in. To reward a hypocrite like that is just plain insanity.

I want you to think about this for a minute and give me your answer. Name something you’ll never see, something that’s never happened, and something that won’t ever happen. Okay, while you’re thinking about it, let me guide you toward the right answer. The headline of the story reads, “Democrats Propose Tax Surcharge For War. ” Know what a tax surcharge is? We haven’t seen one since the days of Lyndon Bonehead Johnson, who proposed one to pay for Vietnam.

A surcharge is a tax on a tax. By the way, Johnson was a Democrat. And for you kids in the No Child Left Behind Program, he was President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. I don’t know if that’ll be asked on the test or not. If it will be, you probably already knew that. If it won’t, you probably didn’t know. At any rate, the idea is being resurrected by three Democrat House members to pay for the war.

And one of those proposing it is John Murtha, the world famous liar and pork barrel peacenik Congressman from Pennsylvania. And nobody is safe from it, not even the poor, the people the Democrats swear they’re trying to help. The poor would have an extra 2% added on to their tax bills while the rich would get socked with 15%. I really don’t know how far this proposal will get because the initial reaction of other House Democrats has been one of shock.

But, with a Democrat, the shock of a new tax doesn’t take long to wear off. Okay, let’s look at what this proposal is saying. They want to raise $150 billion to pay for the war. But wait. I thought the Democrats were going to end the war the minute Hillary takes office. That’s what they’ve been promising. So why do we need this new tax if there’s going to be no war to fight? Or are the Democrats lying about that, too? Check a Democrat’s lips. If they’re moving, they’re lying.

So does this mean the Democrats WON’T end the war? We’ll see. But, either way, this is just another example of the pickpocket Democrats with their grimy hands in your wallet. They want to see you broke and dependent on the federal government for everything. That’s the way they can stay in power. I can’t point to anything they’ve done that’s benefited the country. Okay, have you got an answer to the question I asked earlier, what’s something you’ll never see?

Well, you should know the answer by now. Something you’ll never see is a Democrat who’s against any kind of taxation.

Today, I don’t want this to be a shot across the bough of liberals, I want it to be a direct hit. Once again, the liberals have shown their thin skin for a reason I guess only they understand. I’m talking about the flap this week over Rush Limbaugh. Rush pointed out an article by somebody named Jesse MacBeth in which MacBeth wrote of atrocities committed by American soldiers in Iraq. Rush called him a phony soldier.

Never mind that MacBeth didn’t even go to Iraq—he flunked out in basic training—so obviously the stories were lies written by anti-war maggot. And Rush said so. Well, this got the hackles up of such great patriots as far left liberal Senator Harry Reid who made an impassioned speech on the Senate floor against Rush and how he was calling those dedicated American soldiers such as MacBeth “phony soldiers”.

And then, adding more insulting lies, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, one of the nation’s great losers, said Rush must have been high on his drugs again, an obvious reference to Rush’s being treated for an addiction to pain killing medication which he developed while taking medication for back pain. Rush underwent drug treatment FIVE YEARS AGO and has been clean since. What that has to do with what Rush said doesn’t make any sense.

But nothing a liberal says makes sense. This wasn’t indignation over a supposed insult to the American troops in Iraq. They couldn’t very well afford to indignant about that because Harry Reid himself publicly declared the war lost earlier this year. All that was was a slap in the face to the brave men and women serving their country. No, the real reason for all this is liberals are trying everything they know how to do to shut down conservative talk radio.

Conservative talk radio has exposed them for what they are, a bunch of America-hating, socialist weasels in the service of George Soros. But they have no rational response to conservative talk radio so they just want to shut it down. That’s all this is, another weak minded attempt by the liberals doing what they always do when confronted with opposition, shut it up. There is no rationale for the liberal position.

So when there’s no rationale, you try and remove your opposition. And if the liberals are that concerned about the morale of American service men and women in Iraq, why did they say the war was lost? And, come to think of it, how many of them have you heard denounce that vicious ad by MoveOn.org in the New York Times? Liberals, I believe the ball’s in your court.

We have a global warming alarmist Chicken Little update for you today. It appears that more and more scientists are coming forward with evidence debunking the manmade global warming hoax despite Al Gore’s statement from his perch on Mount Olympus that says his ideas are settled science. Well, that’s Al and we all know he’s a few feathers short of a full chicken. But the latest comes from University of Southern California geologist Lowell Stott.

As you may recall, we’ve asked several times what caused the ice to melt in ending the last ice age since there were capitalists in their SUV’s burning fossil fuel to heat up the atmosphere. Well, Professor Stott has an idea. He says it wasn’t carbon dioxide that did it. He says deep sea temperatures rose 1,300 years ago as a natural phenomenon and it’s been going in cycles of warming and cooling since the oceans have been around.

In fact, he says this natural warming caused the greenhouse gasses to increase, which is completely the opposite of what Al Gore and the rest of the environmental cases think. Stott reached his conclusions after studying a sediment core in the western Pacific and fossilized surface dwelling and bottom dwelling organisms.

The organisms incorporated different isotopes of oxygen into their shells depending on the temperature, this enabling scientists to reconstruct ocean temperatures over time. Stott says, if carbon dioxide caused global warming, surface temperatures would increase before sea temperatures. But he found that the ocean water began warming 1,300 years ago. He says it’s a lot more complex than Al Gore and the environmental kooks think.

He says you have to look at history and trace how the climate has changed over the eons of time before you can even begin to understand what it’s doing now and what it’ll be doing in the future. He says, “You can no longer argue that carbon dioxide caused the end of the ice age. ” So there’s another reputable scientist who disputes Al Gore’s muddled thinking. And they’re lining up with evidence that shows the environmental movement is just an alarmist crock.

Oh, the temperatures may be going up but it’s been warming and cooling for millions of years. And if Al Gore really wants to find an inconvenient truth, let him think about that for a while. By the way, speaking of Al, with all this evidence to the contrary of what he says, why hasn’t he offered some rebuttal based in scientific fact? The closest thing we have on earth to manmade global warming is the hot air from the environmental movement.

If Andy Rooney were doing today’s commentary, he might start it by asking, “Did you ever wonder if they sterilize the needles they use for lethal injections when somebody is executed?” But that may not be a joke anymore the way things are going when somebody gets executed for a capital crime. Back in the old west, you had hangings. Then we moved to electrocution, you know, The Green Mile as Stephen King called it. Then there was the gas chamber.

Somewhere along the way, it was decided that those methods of execution were inhumane so enter lethal injections. You get a shot with a combination of deadly chemicals shot into your bloodstream and you peacefully go on to the next world. But wait. Now we’ve found something wrong with that. Now lethal injection is under attack because the anti-capital punishment crowd says it’s painful for the person being executed.

And they’ve conned the Supreme Court into looking into it. Supporters of lethal injection as it’s done now say the idea of it causing pain is unproven. After all, how many people have come back to say whether it does or not? Besides, isn’t this just another example of making even death easier for someone who didn’t think about whether the death of the person they were murdering was painful or not. Friends, the whole thing appears to be backwards.

If someone is convicted of a capital crime, murder, for example, that means they were found guilty of it. And if the death sentence is prescribed, why should we, as a society, worry about whether or not it causes them pain? Oh, but we can’t do that! Why, we’re a civilized society! I would just ask this: How civilized is any society that bends over backward to coddle someone who’s been convicted of the taking of another human life? Where’s the civility in that?

Besides, YOU’RE GOING TO PUT THE KILLER TO DEATH. So there are a few seconds of pain—if the anti-execution crowd is right. Then you’re gone. Outta here. Over with. A threat to society no more. So don’t the self-righteous cries of “it’s painful” seem pointless? I’m sure the person murdered had their own moments of pain and agony. But do we take that into consideration?

No, we worry instead about the pain of the criminal and not about the pain the victim went through and the pain it causes their family and friends. The rights of the convicted criminal? They don’t have any. They gave those up when they committed the crime.

The city of Boulder, Colorado is quickly turning into San Francisco with a mountain range. Last week, there was the news story about Boulder High School and how there was a student protest because the pledge of allegiance was allowed to be said on campus during school hours. Now, it’s very important that you listen carefully to what I just said.

The pledge of allegiance was ALLOWED to be said on campus. There’s no mandatory pledge of allegiance. Students are required to recite it. That’s state law. But there’s a protest about it, calling it “religious oppression” because it has the words “under God” in it. Okay, let me see if I’ve got this right. You’re not required to say the pledge of allegiance if you don’t want to. Yet, somehow, according to a loudmouthed ditz in the senior class, that’s religious oppression.

Oh, she’s not the only one who’s protesting on those grounds. There’s another student who doesn’t like it. So, now we have a grand total of two. Well, normally this story wouldn’t be in the news but here’s what makes it newsworthy. The principal of Boulder High School, a moron named Bud Jenkins, is applauding the two airheads for protesting the pledge of allegiance. He’s praising them for standing up for their beliefs.

I wonder how he’d react if two students wanted the pledge to be mandatory and tried to organize a demonstration for their cause. I don’t think the answer to that is much in doubt. You see, Principal Jenkins, who applauded these anti-pledge dynamic duo, is the same Principal Jenkins who defended Boulder High’s inviting a pervert psychologist from UCLA to speak on campus last spring and told the students to do drugs and have sex.

Why the principal wasn’t unceremoniously fired for that is one of the great mysteries of our day and age but he defended the UCLA witch doctor’s advice in spite of parental outrage once the story became public. Okay, let’s look at Principal Jenkins’s track record so far. He defends a pervert professor who tells the kids to have sex and do drugs. He applauds two obvious atheists who called a voluntary reading of the pledge of allegiance religious oppression.

So you have to wonder what’s next. Well, in Boulder, that could be anything. But one thing is certain. If it’s anti-American, pro-drug, or sexually degenerate, you can take it to the bank that Principal Jenkins will be all for it. Why does Captain Pervo still have a job?