Carson Sasser

It looks like the government (meaning the taxpayers) is going to rescue people who made bad home-buying decisions. The government is helping so many people with financial problems now; I wonder if it would be willing to help me pay for a new set of tires for my car. I didn’t count on them wearing out as soon as they have. And it’s a public safety issue; if I keep driving on them I might have a blowout and kill someone.
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Quite frequently lately I hear about some survey finding that about 70 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. They never mention that every person surveyed probably has a different definition of the wrong track and the right track. One person’s wrong track might be another person’s right track and vice versa. It’s surprising to me that 30 percent think we’re on the right track. I don’t think I’ve ever believed we were on the right track. How close to the right track do we have to be to be considered “on the right track?”
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I’ve long thought the fact that we are constantly entreated not to be judgmental is kind of stupid. It would be hard to be successful in our personal or business lives without judging the people with whom we have to interact. I can remember when not being judgmental simply meant not judging someone harshly based only on superficial knowledge of that person. But, like many other things, it has been hijacked by the politically correctness crowd and now constitutes an outright ban. I’ll bet it hasn’t been long since you heard some teenager shout “don’t judge me!” — even if just on television.

Just yesterday I judged a bum (what we used to call homeless people) who approached me at a Burger King and asked for a buck because he was hungry:

Me: “I saw you walk across the parking lot carrying a large pack on your back. What’s wrong with you?”

Him: “What do you mean?”

Me: “There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with you. Why don’t you have a job? If 12 million illegal immigrants can find work here why can’t you?”

Him: “Uhhhh…”

Me: “Basically, you’re just a bum, right?”

Him: “Yeah.”

Me: “Okay, here’s a buck.”

Him: “Thanks, man.”
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It’s a certainty now that the Democrats will nominate a lipstick-wearing candidate. I’m sure Obama was wearing lipstick (or at least lip gloss) in a speech I saw reported on television this morning.

A problem we face is that we rarely find a great leader who can get elected. The best candidates for president are not likely to be willing to do what they have to do to get elected. This is why we mostly get shallow bozos like Bill Clinton and George W. Bush for our presidents. I believe that Ronald Reagan was an exception to this recurring dilemma. And I don’t believe Fred Thompson is an exception. In fact, there are no exceptions in the 2008 race at this time.
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There is a basic difference between Western countries and countries like Iraq. Western countries want law and order above most all else. We are willing to bend quite a lot to avoid violent confrontations and to preserve our orderly system of government. We prefer to work out our differences through the political or judicial processes. Sure, there are a lot of Iraqis that would prefer law and order. But the problem is that there are too many that don’t.

There was a lot of violence in our past but we managed to reach where we are today in just a few hundred years. The Mesopotamians and other Iraqis have been there for thousands of years and they still can’t coexist peacefully.
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Osama bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, has boasted that the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts. I hope he knows the difference between defeat and cutting losses. Sometimes a cost-benefit analysis indicates that you should give up certain pursuits, but it doesn’t mean that you couldn’t succeed at some cost.

I hope he understands that, even if we pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq, we can still destroy both of them and Iran without breaking a sweat — if we become sufficiently motivated.
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A popular argument against allowing the use of cheap Mexican labor in America is that the taxpayers are paying for their healthcare and other social services.  The biggest problem though is not the use of cheap Mexican labor.  It is the fact that government provided healthcare and other social services exist in the first place.
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For what it’s worth, my favorite columnists are: Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Burt Prelutsky, Jonah Goldberg, Paul Greenberg, David Limbaugh, Debra Saunders and Diana West. I used to like Pat Buchanan but lately he seems to have flipped his lid. You can find all of them at Townhall.com.

I just discovered tonight that this site has been buggered in Firefox for about a month. Apparently it occurred when I made a small change in my stylesheet. I’ll try to remember to test in both Firefox and IE7 when I make even the slightest change. It seems to be fixed now.

I’m thinking about legally changing my name to Your Name Here. Then if I lose my credit cards the finder will think they are invalid promotional cards and discard them.
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It’s easy to form the impression that athletes and entertainers are more prone to destroying their bright futures by doing something stupid than are others. This might be true but do you really expect to hear about it if the life of some math or science wizard goes off the rails?
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I hadn’t really noticed until now that Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton have essentially the same nickname: Sly Penis. Nixon was called Tricky Dick and Clinton is called Slick Willie. Both tricky and slick can mean sly, and both dick and willie are slang terms for penis.
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Have you noticed how the victims of fatal accidents and crimes are always wonderful people? It kind of makes me want to dirty up my act. I never hear about a really rotten person being killed in an accident or crime.
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To me nothing is more ridiculous than the utterances of radical feminists. They seem to be guided solely by the belief that, no matter what they say, if they speak loudly and rapidly enough they can change ground truth.
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Politicians are missing a great opportunity by not hiring Jimmy Carter to advise them on their campaigns. Think about it. Each of you can probably name at least a half dozen people in your hometown who are more impressive than Jimmy Carter. He seems to never miss an opportunity to demonstrate his ordinariness through his statements and actions. Most political observers think of him as the worst President in recent history. Yet he somehow managed to get himself elected as governor of Georgia and president of the United States. The man has to be a political genius.