The weather report issued on Saturday for yesterday said "100% chance of rain, with snow showers in the evening."

Well, it was dry as a bone all day yesterday.  No rain, no snow showers, just blue, sunny skies and colder temperatures.

With billions of dollars worth of satellites in the atmosphere and Doppler radar and everything else "they" have to predict the weather, "they" couldn't tell me on Saturday what the weather was going to be on Sunday.

Yet, the experts confidently predict - based on nothing more than computer-simulated probabilities - that the globe is going to burn up if all carbon-based life forms on earth don't stop breathing, and real soon, too.

The more fanatical global warmists have even opined that us "deniers" should be put on trial for our beliefs.

It's as though the world has taken a collective leave of its senses.

Must be global warming.

Quick!  Somebody call Al Gore.  Global warming is devastating parts of California.  There's ten feet of the stuff at higher elevations.  This morning on the news, I saw a lodge that looked like it was digging its way out of an avalanche.

A million people lost power, and 400,000 are still in the dark.  Businesses are shut down.  Roads are closed.  There have been accidents a plenty.

Do you suppose if we all got together and chanted "We do believe, we do believe", that the great god of the International Church of Global Warming would show pity on us and send a little warmth our way.

A funny thing happened on the way to the coronation, Hillary Clinton came in third.  Her campaign is no longer a cakewalk to inevitability.  She's going to actually have to give people a reason to vote for her, which she hasn't done yet.

There's a joke going around the internet about Brett Favre's wife playing instead of him.  She's been married to him.  She's ridden on the team plane.  She's watched games.  You get the gist.

What if Bill Clinton had never been President.  What would Hillary be running on then?  She wouldn't even be running because nobody would ever have heard of her.  Which is exactly her problem.  She has no identity outside of him.  No experience outside of him.  No political accomplishments outside of him.  In many ways she's the better of the two, but she's also the lesser of the two.  

New Hampshire has been referred to as her "firewall."  I think her chances are better there than in South Carolina.  What if she loses both of them?  

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Barack Obama did the best among voters 17-24.  Knowing that people of that age do not turn out in droves to vote, he should be more than a little worried that that's his best demographic.

Suppose he were to get the nomination, what does he have to offer.  He's a man of almost no consequence, politically speaking.  His state record is undistinguished, except for his penchant for voting "present" when he should have been taking a stand one way or the other.  Further, he has spent almost his entire career as a US senator running for President.  

When it comes right down to it, are people - in these dangerous times - actually going to vote for a man whose only real accomplishment is self-promotion.

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Mike Huckabee did well in a state with a lot of evangelical Christians.  Good luck in New York, Massachusetts, California, etc.

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Mitt Romney came in second and is behind in New Hampshire.

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Edwards came in second and is running out of money.  Giuliani came in fifth and is running out of money.  Richardson barely hung on.  Biden and Dodd threw in the towel.  Kucinich wasn't even a blip on the screen.   McCain came in fourth but thinks that New Hampshire will turn things around for him.

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No, there was no good news from Iowa.



   

The Good:  Hillary Clinton came in third.

The Bad:  Mike Huckabee came in first.

The Ugly:  Huckabee vs. Obama in November?

Sheriff's Daily Log

Dec. 17 - A call reporting an out-of-control juvenile was received from the elementary school.

Dec. 18 - Rocks were reported on Highway 140 at Briceburg.

Dec. 19 - A barbecue was reported in the roadway on Highway 41.

Dec. 20 - A call reporting a neighbor dispute was taken from Wilbur's Way.

Dec. 21 - Skateboarders were reported at the high school.

Dec. 22 - A man called to report shooting at a bear the previous evening.

Dec. 23 - A call reporting suspicious circumstances was taken from Stout Lane.

I know a man whose first wife was/is nuts.  The actual clinical diagnosis is chronically depressed, paranoid psychotic, but nuts is nuts.

Once upon a time, deciding that she had had enough of being a wife and mother, she simply packed up her bags and left.  The biggest casualty of her Kramer vs. Kramer act was her 14-year old daughter, whom she never even said good-bye to.  That scar never healed and affected everything that child ever did, right up to her untimely death at a young age.

Somewhere along the line, dingbat, as she was so affectionately known, learned that telling people that she had walked out on her husband and children was not getting her any sympathy.  In fact, it was making her look downright bad.  New plan:  she began telling people that her husband had left her for a younger woman, even though that younger woman had not come onto the scene for almost two years after her desertion.  Details. 

What about the children?  Well, her husband and his new wife were blocking her from seeing them, which sounded so much better than saying she simply couldn't be bothered.  This would have been so much more believable if she had just once filed a petition for custody.  Bottom line:  her children were of no interest to her except to use when it suited her purpose.

Eventually, dingbat saw the handwriting on the wall with regard to alimony and began looking for husband number two, eventually finding a man who was as big a loser as she.  Each thought the other had money, and so they were married.  When they discovered that neither of them had any money, this match made somewhere south of heaven was dissolved posthaste..

In order to save face after her second divorce, after nine months of less than wedded bliss, dingbat hit upon a rather novel lie:  her ex-husband had bribed this man to marry her.  Mercy, what a no-good SOB.  Of course, there was no truth to this.  But, in her addled mind, this made sense.  It never once occurred to her how ridiculous this made her look, i.e., she was so pathetic that a man had to be paid to marry her.

Which brings us to Hillary Clinton. 

Desperate to show that she has actually done something in her life that has not been a failure, i.e., healthcare "reform", she is now claiming that some of the trips she took as First Lady were dangerous.  This is what happens when she departs from the script:

"If a place was too dangerous, too poor or too small, send the First Lady."

In her mind, this probably makes sense to Hillary.  To the rest of us, it looks like Bill didn't like her much.

"Our next president will be sworn in on January 20, 2009.  Waiting on that president's desk in the oval office will be problems that are incredibly difficult, that present challenges to our leadership in the world, to our moral authority, to our economy, to the kind of society we are and want to be.  These are some of the problems we know about."

Hillary Clinton on the "myriad of problems" facing the next president on "day one."

"My gut instinct tells me that Clinton is helped by this, especially with her husband by her side."

John Zogby on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Hillary Clinton claims to be the most experienced candidate.  She is taking credit for the good things of her husband's administration.  How much was she actually involved?  We don't know.  The two most secretive people in the nation have made sure that all documents that might shed some light on the subject are off limits to the very people she is trying to woo, i.e., voters.  Just take our word for it, they say with a wink and a nudge.

Furthermore, she has gotten Bill to take the blame for the one thing she was actually in charge of, her failed attempt to socialize health care.  The fact that this terminal adolescent would take responsibility for anything is a testament to his desire to get back into the White House on intern patrol. 

Pakistan went nuclear during the Bill Clinton administration.  Was it Hillary who allowed this to happen, or was it Bill?  As Pakistan descends into chaos, will these nukes fall into the hands of the fanatics bent on our destruction and world domination?  If so, will she take responsibility for the mushroom cloud in the mideast or worse yet, closer to home?

Here's what I predict:  like the child she is, Hillary will take credit for only the good things.  She will blame the bad things on other people. If the fanatics get their hands on a nuke and - God forbid - actually use it, somehow Bush will be to blame.

He was born in an obscure village.  He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty.  He then became an itinerant preacher.  He never held an office.  He never had a family or owned a house.  He didn't go to college.  He had no credentials but Himself.

Twenty centuries have come and gone and today, He is the central figure of the human race.  All the armies that ever marched and all the navies that ever sailed and all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings who ever reigned have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that

One Solitary Life.

 . . . ARE IN ORDER FOR MARIPOSA'S VERY OWN LOGAN MANKINS, WHO PLAYS FOR THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - CURRENTLY UNDEFEATED FOR THE SEASON - FOR HIS SELECTION TO THE PRO BOWL AS STARTING GUARD.

WE HERE ARE MIGHTY PROUD!

Sheriff's Daily Log:

Dec. 10:  A burn pile got out of control.

Dec. 11:  Juveniles were lighting firecrackers near the elementary school.

Dec. 12:  A neighbor complained that another had used profanity the day before.

Dec. 13:  Two drunk men went to a house and asked to use the phone.

Dec. 14:  A brother bit his sister's hand.

Dec. 15:  A weiner dog was running at large.

Dec. 16:  Someone called to ask "blood pressure questions" of a dispatcher.

Oh, the rhetoric is really flying,
of that there's no denying.
So sit back and watch the show 'cause
there they go, there they go, there they go.

Hillary just can't stop spinning.
Obama relies on grinning.
And Johnny is almost done,
ain't it fun, ain't it fun, ain't it fun.

When it's finally time to vote,
how we're all gonna be glassy-eyed.
And if Hillary gets the nod,
where are we all gonna hide.

So, I'm sure that you'll agree
how happy we all will be
if she's sent back to Chappaqua.
Fa la la, fa la la, fa la la.

On October 2, 2007, by a vote of 376-0, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that "recognized the Islamic faith as one of the great religions of the world" and "acknowledging the onset of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal, and conveyed its respect to Muslims."  The resolution also commended those who reject hatred.

On December 11, 2007, by a vote of 372-9, the House passed a resolution that recognized "the Christian faith as one of the great relions of the world" and acknowledged "the international religious and historical importance of Christmas and the Christian faith."

Who were these nine naysayers:

Gary Ackerman (D) - Yvette Clarke (D) - Dianna DeGette (D) - Alcee Hastings (D) - Barbara Lee (D) - Jim McDermott (D) - Robert Scott (D) - Pete Stark (D) - Lynn Woolsey (D)

In addition, ten simply voted present:

John Conyers (D) - Barney Frank (D) - Rush Holt (D) - Donald Payne (D) - Mike Pence (R) - Jan Schakowsky (D) - Allyson Schwartz (D) - Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) - Peter Welch (D) - John Yarmuth (D)

I'm sensing a trend.

In my opinion, Islam is no longer one of the great religions of the world.  It lost that right when we learned that young men were being seduced into killing themselves, and others, by the promise of 72 virgins in paradise.  That's what all the bloodshed and chaos is about?  Some goal.

The great religions don't just offer hope for the next life, they offer hope for this one as well.

Islam will never be great as long as its adherents call for the execution of teachers who name their teddy bears Mohammed, punish victims of rape, allow fathers to murder their daughters, call for the destruction of Israel, and hide in caves plotting ever more destruction in a delusional quest for world domination.

Nineteen people could call this one of the world's great religions but not Christianity?

God is not mocked.  It is appointed to each man once to die, then the judgment.  What will these people say when they stand before their Maker?

So bye, bye Mr. Billy Shaheen.
You did as you were told and got dismissed by the Queen.
And she treated you in fashion quite cavalier
saying, that's the way it's done around here.
That's the way it's done around here.