No, Time isn’t biased.

But now the Senators want the law loosened to allow Winchester-toting, pistol-packin’ visitors to enjoy the national park, without feeling as if they were somehow engaging in an illegal act.

“Damn those beer-swilling, Bush-lovin’, four-toothed, inbred, redneck hick bastards!”

Are you kidding me?

Yes, I’m an American, but I’m one of the increasingly small minority of Americans who does not, never has and never will own a gun. I know the statistics. I know that if I own a gun, the chances of a member of my family or me being shot and killed goes up by 1,700 percent.

Right. And the chances you survive a violent encounter without any kind of a weapon is about negative five bazillion percent.

Idiot.

Assassinated, in the name of the Religion of Pieces, no doubt. Or was it a cell of Christian Fundamentalist Terrorists? No, don’t answer that.

Okay Paulians - still want to pull out, pack up, go home and as one commenter put it “try peace”?

Consider Bill Quick’s Analysis:

In Iraq, the Sunni have lost to the Shia. But they remain strong elsewhere - financed and supported by Saudi Arabia and others. Both Sunni and Shia want the US out of the Muslim world. And both believe that if they create enough chaos, they can drive the US out. In Iraq, the great prize was the oil fields. In Pakistan, an even greater prize awaits: a nuclear arsenal.

And if anyone thinks they’re going to just ignore the “Great Satan” and play nice-nice with us because we close some bases, you deserve every bit of radiation sickness you get. The Middle East got considerably more complicated today.

Chakvetadze robbed in Moscow home

MOSCOW (AP) – Russian tennis star Anna Chakvetadze was tied up by masked robbers who broke into her home Tuesday and stole money and goods worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, her father said.

Chakvetadze, ranked No. 6 and a 2007 U.S. Open semifinalist, was bound for 30 minutes in her home outside Moscow but not seriously hurt, NTV television reported.

It’s very good to hear that nobody was seriously hurt during this, but I can’t help but think of a couple common themes you’ll always hear from anti-gunners.

First, that you don’t need a gun because you live in a “good neighborhood”. Good neighborhoods have good houses. Good houses have nice stuff in them. Criminals like nice stuff.

Second, that it’s somehow safer to not have a weapon. Consider this:

Police and Tarpishchev said the assailants tied up Chakvetadze and her parents, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Tarpishchev said the 20-year-old player “tried to resist but it was useless.”

If they wanted to, those thugs could’ve done all manner of things to both Anna and her parents. She could’ve been raped, beaten, sliced up, and her parents could’ve easily been killed. They weren’t - thankfully - but who would’ve stopped them? Clearly they only wanted loot, but throw a stalker in the mix and this entire scenario changes drastically for the worse.

From Anna’s World:

“They started to beat me up, I resisted, then they hit me either with their hands or a pistol. It was dark, told me I had a child there, reminded me about it, so that I gave them everything. So I did,” Jamal Chakvetadze told Russian television.

All criminals want are easy targets.

Bush’s “Very Good Year“?

Against all odds, and despite the usual drumbeat of criticism, President Bush had a very good year.

Pardon me while I wipe the spat-out egg nog off my monitor.

Amazing you can pen an article of kool-aid-swilling Bush Rah Rah and not mention … immigration. Any gains Bush stumbled upon this year were at best “balanced” by his immigration hissy-fit. Alienating your base to the point where there’s essentially an open rebellion to your ridiculous “comprehensive immigration reform” bullshit stance is not “having a very good year”. And the fact that it took months of torturous politics in a long, drawn-out back-alley brawl to get to that point where he ultimately ended up looking even more stupid than he did with Harriet Miers is not “having a very good year”.

He’s not nearly the satan that Dems would make him out to be (talk about pots calling kettles …), but reading folks like Kudlow you’d think the man was a supra-braniac who is only capable of making calculated moves of sheer genius. Stupidity has many forms, blind loyalty and an ignorance of reality being one of them.

The American people had a good year beating the crap out of disastrous immigration policy in spite of our elected official’s efforts. President Bush was on the wrong end of that ass-whuppin’.

Big Kitty Tires of Meow Mix, Samples Californians:

“The first attack happened right outside the Siberian’s enclosure , the victim died at the scene. A group of four officers came across his body when they made their way into the dark zoo grounds, Mannina said.”

Remember kids, when seconds count, police are only minutes away.

If that victim was carrying a .40, he’d have all sorts of enviro-animal-whackjobs calling for him to be slaughtered for protecting himself against an endangered kitty.

There are a lot of people out there calling “Dr. Paul” an idiot, racist, or whatever. I’m not going to engage in the name calling, I prefer to save that for pea-brained troglodytes like that commie socialist gun-grabbing corruptocrat, Hillary, and her unconstitutionally-reelection-seeking hubby, Captain Fellatio Bill.

Nonono, I hate Ron Paul because he comes so close to being an excellent candidate, but he falls short on the most frustratingly obvious point, one that is an absolute deal-breaker for me.

First, a summary of some things I agree with, from Ron Paul on the Issues:

Abolish the IRS? Check.
Stop funding the UN? Check.
Personal Retirement Accounts? Check.
Abolishing the Federal welfare system? Check.

Opposition of “hate crime” legislation? Check.
No affirmative action? Check.
Banning partial-birth abortions? Check.
War on “some drugs” should be turned over to states? Check.
Allow law-abiding to carry concealed? Hell yeah.

To be sure, there’s much more that I agree with. But here’s what I can’t get past:

9/11 resulted from blasphemy of our bases in Saudi Arabia. (Dec 2007)
Suicide terrorism stops when we stop intervening abroad. (Dec 2007)

The sheer dumbassery of those two points removes any and all doubt I would have about not supporting Ron Paul with my vote. That’s why I hate the man. He’s like that ex-girlfriend who was whip-smart, funny, supremely sexy, but insisted on moaning orgasmically as she picked and ate her own boogers as an appetizer any time you went to a crowded restaurant together. I’m sorry, that’s a personal trait I just can’t manage get past.

Blaming “America the Imperialist Neocon Thug” for the fact that there are Islamo-fascist jihadis who would love nothing more than to behead me and mine is not only short-sighted, it’s downright wrong. For centuries these people have been fighting, torturing, oppressing and conquering according to what is laid out quite plainly in the Quran. They’ve been messin’ shit up long before we had bases over there, and they’re going to keep doing it because it’s part of their culture, not AMERICA’S FAULT.

Every individual on this earth has a right - as far as I’m concerned - to believe whatever they want to believe about whatever it is they desire. That right stops abruptly, however, when it threatens one of mine. I am not a religious individual, but I do manage to enjoy having my head attached, and I do believe that every human has some basic rights not to have their privates mutilated, not to be hanged because of their sexual affiliations, and not to be buried up to their necks and stoned because they were raped or sought the affections of someone inappropriately. Look, it’s not me, and it’s not fantasy land I’m living in. When your holy book states quite simply and clearly that you are to spread Islam by the sword, well, that pretty much throws reasoned discourse out the window as an option. Savage religious barbarians aren’t ones for chatting and coming up with amicable solutions to disagreement.

Dr. Paul is taking a short-cut. His stance on “why they hate us” is so unfathomably short-sighted and uneducated that I simply can’t get past it. If that’s his stance on such an obvious issue, what else can’t I trust him on?

So for that, I hate him. It’s potential unrealized. A smart man with good vision otherwise.

Damn that orgasmic booger-munching.

Something’s wrong with this.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - The intense debate over illegal immigration has made life more difficult for U.S. Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority in the country, with many fearing deportation and having difficulty finding work and housing, study found.

Oh please. If they were truly “U.S. Hispanics” they would have nothing to worry about. They’d be Americans, not some multi-cultural sub-sect of human being that Reuters loves crying about. Merry Christmas, Reuters. I bought you a big bag full of STFU.