My dad told me a great story last year, about the time the first bailout bill was being debated.

I grew up on a horse farm. We had all kinds of animals on the place. The most numerous were ducks. Ducks are the best insect suppression you can buy. But, ducks are easy targets for predators, particularly coyotes. We had a large pin, with six foot fences around it in which the ducks would spend the night, safe from predators.

Dad noticed we had lost some ducks. He assumed that coyotes had found a way into and out of the pin. He checked all around for holes in or under the fence, made some repairs, adjusted the gate to close tighter, etc. But the duck population continued to suffer.

There was a large dog house in the pen to afford the ducks shelter and shade. Dad was in the pin, puzzling over how the coyotes were getting in and back out, when he heard something under the dog house. There was a litter of baby skunks. Momma skunk had found her way in and dug a den under the dog house where she and her young had a ready supply of taste ducks at their disposal. While Dad had been shoring up the borders against external attacks, he had unwittingly locked in the real threat, the internal threat. He had locked the skunks in the pin, giving the real predators the keys to the kingdom.

The lesson here is one that should be applied to politics, now more than ever. In November, America, swayed by emotional teleprompted speeches and catchy slogans, locked the skunks in the pin. Now, those skunks are making babies as fast as they can, inviting in more and more skunks.

Here’s a quick run-down of the current skunks. There will be more, rest assured.

Bill Richardson – Commerce Secretary. Caught in pay-to-play scandal. Appointment withdrawn.

Tom Daschle – Health & Human Services Secretary. Tax cheat. Appointment withdrawn.

Nancy Killefer – Chief Performance Officer (responsible for White House spending). Tax cheat. Appointment withdrawn.

Timothy Geithner – Treasury Secretary. Tax cheat… who now runs the IRS. Nice.

Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State. Hillary was confirmed despite concerns over Bill making money from international donors and foreign governments.

Hilda Solis – Secretary of Labor. Known lobbyist American Rights at Work, a strong-arm labor lobby. Can you say conflict of interest?

William Lynn – Defense Secretary. Known lobbyist for a defense contractor. (See conflict of interest above.)

Janet Napolitano – Secretary of Homeland Security. Napolitano made the news after the anti-tax Tea Party demonstrations by warning the FBI and CIA to look out for dangerous individuals who are pro-gun, anti-big-government, pro-life, religious, etc. Basically, anyone who calls themself a conservative. She also blamed Canada for the 9/11 attacks by falsely claiming that the terrorist came into the US through the northern border. One word: CLUELESS!

Kathleen Sebelius – Health & Human Services Secretary. As governor of Kansas, Sebelius threw a victory party in the governor’s mansion for illegal abortionist George Tiller, the most notorious late-term abortionist in the US. Her state attorney general appointment, another militant pro-abortionist, was forced to resign after a sex and abuse of power scandal. She also pushed through huge tax increases in Kansas.

Steven Chu – Energy Secretary. Chu is a top-notch global warming nut-job, making stupid sky-is-falling statements exactly like I exposed in my last post. His solution? Carbon taxes. Great. Funny thing is, he seems to happily admit he has no idea what he’s doing. In a conference call to reporters, he said his answer reflected “more of my naiveté than anything else.”

Rosa Brooks – Adviser to the Undersecretary of Defense. Brooks, a George Soros lackey, called Bush “our torturer in chief” and a “psychotic who need(s) treatment.” She compared Bush’s War on Terror to Adolf Hitler’s use of political propaganda. She considers al-Qaida “little more than an obscure group of extremist thugs” and that “on 9/11, they got lucky.” She credits US policy for turning al-Qaida into what it is today.

Harry Knox – Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Knox is a militant homosexual activist who called Pope Benedict XVI and Catholic bishops “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression.” When appointed, Knox said the LGBT community “will support the president in living up to his promise that government has no place in funding bigotry against any group of people.” Unless, of course, that community is Christian. That’s totally different.

Rev. Otis Moss Jr. – Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Moss is the father of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s replacement at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Moss Jr. once noted that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “is like seeing your brother set your house on fire with laughter while your parents and brothers and sisters are in the house,” just because Thomas is a black conservative.

Harold Koh – State Department Legal Advisor. Koh believes that US courts should refer to foreign law in interpreting our Constitution. That is, other countries must have better ideas than us about how to run our country.

Dawn Johnsen – Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Johnson, in a supreme court brief, compared pregnancy to involuntary servitude. Thus, abortion is equivalent to freeing slaves.

Eric Holder – Attorney General. Where to start?! Holder is a anti-gun nut, pro-terrorist nut, anti-military nut, anti-border control nut… need I go on? In his few days in office, he has moved forward to close Gitmo, with no plan on what to do with the terrorist housed there. He has denounced US “torture” policies on foreign soil. And he insists he’s going to push through a Clintonesque gun ban even when Dems in Congress warn him not to try it.

And the list goes on and on and on. The skunks are everywhere.

First, read these quotes from well known and widely accepted scientific experts.

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 2025 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”

“By the year 2040, if present trends continue, we will have completely used up all the Earth’s crude oil. There won’t be any more.”

“In 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

“The world has been warming sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees warmer for the global mean temperature in 2030, but eleven degrees warmer in the year 2040. This is about twice what it would take to melt the ice caps and flood all the world’s coastlines.”

Sounds pretty bleak, don’t it? We’d better do something! We’d better all run out there and buy hybrids and cloth grocery bags and stop having kids to reduce our carbon footprint.

Well, I hate to break it to you, but all of the above statements were made in 1970, almost 40 years ago. I just changed the dates and some of the predictions (all in italics) to bring them in line with the current fear mongering of the eco-nazis.

You see, back in the 60’s and 70’s, it wasn’t global warming and ice caps melting that everyone was freaking out about. It was air pollution, over population, and the unstoppable ice age that would be caused by the global cooling that was going on back then. Here’s that last quote in it’s original form:

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

Here’s another:

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India…By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

That’s right. According to the “almost unanimous,” “solid experimental and theoretical evidence,” of the most widely respected scientists of 1970, you shouldn’t be alive. We should be a solid 10 years into global starvation and an ice age!

So, next time you hear someone talking about the doom and gloom of global warming, or chastising you for your horrible carbon footprint, just tell them, “Sorry. There’s nothing I can do about it. We all died in the ice age 10 ago. But don’t worry, so did you. By the way, how’s that hole in the Ozone Layer doing? Haven’t heard about that lately.”

Here’s the complete article I pulled these quotes from. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE share it with all you eco-nazi friends. And while you’re at it, you can forward these too.

Global temperature has been level since 1998, and it has nothing to do with human greenhouse emissions

Alaska glaciers grew in 2007-2008 due to colder weather

Decade since 2000 coolest since 1930s

I told you about Indiana (twice). I told you about Arizona. Now, the Mona Lisa Project has moved on to Tennessee. And <sarcasm>astoundingly</sarcasm>, yet another Planned Murderhood counselor was caught on camera telling a girl (actually and adult posing as a 14-year-old pregnant from her 31-year-old boyfriend) to lie to a judge and to her parents in order to obtain an abortion. Sex between a 14-year-old and an adult is a crime in Tennessee. It is also a crime for an adult who hears about it not to go immediately to the police.

How long will it take for authorities to realize this is a pattern? That Planned Murderhood will do anything and everything, including breaking the law and lying to little girls to get more abortions notched on their belt?

Remember a while back when there was a sudden change in airport security? UK police did some kind of raid and then all the airlines announced that you couldn’t bring your shampoo or mouthwash on the plane. Remember thinking, “What the heck? I can only carry 2 ounces of head and shoulders on the plane?!”

Well, the details are finally coming out. The Coke Bottle Bombers are now on trial in London.

Click for the full story.

Scariest quote:

The eight men were almost ready to execute their plan to bring down seven aircraft simultaneously in mid-air as they flew from London to the United States and Canada when they were arrested.

I’ll bet donuts to dollars that these guys were caught with some of the surveillance methods The Bomber and his ACLU buddies want to make illegal.

Your tax dollars at work, subverting the law, this time in Arizona.

A woman passes herself off as a pregnant 15-year-old. Her and her “young friend” tell the PP counselor that her “boyfriend” is 27. The counselor then tells her to keep that information secret when she goes before a judge to get a “judicial bypass”, which, by Arizona law, allows a minor to get an abortion without her parents finding out.

Arizona law requires PP to report this statutory rape to the police. The fictitous 27-year-old is guilty of felony rape. But PP would rather get that baby killed then report the abuse of a 15-year-old girl.

Cuz, you know, they care so much.

Continuing my thoughts from the other day, the more rocks one turns over in D.C. the more democrats one can find trying to hide their money under them.

I did a late update that some of you may have missed, linking to a post that links to several more stories of high-powered Liberals evading the taxes they so desperately want you and I to pay more of.

Something to consider on this topic: If you or I don’t pay our taxes, we generally go to jail, or end up paying crippling fines and interest rates. I myself had a tax debt when I was young and in order to pay off the debt over time, the IRS generously gave me a 25% interest rate. My first several payments were interest only.

But for tax and spend politicians, or even an unelected Liberal talking heads, all we ever hear are excuses followed by complete forgiveness. “It was an honest mistake.” Hands washed, books balanced, now move on.

Don’t believe me? Please check out this article outlining oodles of such cases.

Oh, by the way, Tom Daschle bowed out this afternoon, along with yet another tax dodging Bronco Bomber appointee.

Bronco’s “new era of responsibility” is crumbling faster than the roads and bridges of America (if you buy into his “failing infrastructure” garbage).

Are there any high-powered democrats who do pay their taxes? Cuz, you know, they sure are excited about make sure we pay even more. You’d kinda think they’d be willing to pay their own.

Running theory is that Caroline Kennedy dropped out of NY Senate race because of unpaid taxes.

Tom Daschle, Health and Human Services secretary pick, “deeply embarrassed” about $128,000 in “errors” on his taxes.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner failed to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes. (But he still got the job of… yes… enforcing tax collection on the rest of us! Wha?!)

And the funny thing is how little traction these stories got in the MSM. I mean, they keep saying how “fair and balanced” they are, right? It’s those wackos over on Fox News who are partisan. Right? Mm hmm.

[Edit: This guy has an even longer list of names and links.]

Obamagasm – Conspicuous and unabashed worship showered on the newly elected President Bronco Bomber, particularly among Liberal media and black racists.

How long with the obamagasm last? If it’s more than a few days, I’m canceling my cable and putting my TV on the curb.

I hope you watched the Mona Lisa Project video I linked to yesterday. Yesterday the news broke that Planned Murderhood fired the employee from the first video, because, of course, this was an isolated incident, yada, yada, not policy, blah, blah, lies, lies lies.

Today, the project released a second video, featuring a second Planned Murderhood clinic, filmed in a different town on the same day as the first, and not one, but two employees pretending to ignore the ages claimed by the undercover girl.  “I don’t want to know the age.” This comes from both employees when the girl claims to 13 and empregnated by a 31-year-old “boyfriend.”

“We don’t really care about … the age of the boyfriend. It’s consensual. It’s your choice.”

Wow. At 13? It’s consensual? It’s your choice? These people are either completely stupid, or purely evil.

Story via Hot Air, with video.

Irony of ironies, I’m actually wearying my “Oh Fudge” Christmas Story t-shirt today. And I just found this article.

For the second day in a row, Judge Robert Ruehlman threw someone in jail and cited him for contempt for cussing in the courtroom. It was an accused gang member Wednesday. On Thursday, it was a private attorney in a non-criminal case.

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As Koenig and Brautigam turned to walk away from the judge, Brautigam called Koenig “a (bleeping) liar.”

“He used the famous F-word,” Koenig said. “(Ruehlman) asked Mr. Brautigam if he said that.”

Brautigam admitted he had and had directed it at Koenig.

Ruehlman cited Brautigam for contempt and sent him to jail for six months.

“I had to give him six months because I gave the other guy (on Wednesday) six months,” Ruehlman said.

Six months in jail!! Wow!!! It really IS the queen-mother of dirty words!

“Oooh fuuudge!” Only I didn’t say “Fudge.” I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the “F-dash-dash-dash” word! … It was all over – I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Hmmph. Mere child’s play compared to what surely awaited me.