Lindsay Lohan released again, by the sheriff because of overcrowing, dispite the fact that the judge said she will get no bail or early release before October 22nd.  What a joke.  What a farse.  What an outrage!!

Stephen Colbert  owes the Congress and the American People an apology for his outragious presentation before the House Panel hearing on farm jobs and illegal immigration.  No matter what his personal opinion may be, he should not make a mockery of our legislative system in that manner.  If he wants to mock congress, let him keep it on television and off of Capitol Hill.

How do the Democrats do it?  How do they still get away with accusing the Republicans of being obstructionists who are blocking the President's attempts to get the economy back on tract when, the last I heard, the Democrats still hold a substantial majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and can pass any piece of legislation they want?

The fact is that the Democrats themselves can not muster the votes to pass the President's agenda, and the White House is lying through its mossy green teeth and expecting us to buy the BS again.  How do they live with themselves!?  It's a shame that rails and tar and feathers have gone out of fashion.

Someone sent me this the other day.  I liked it enough that I felt I should share it with as many people as I could.

There's an old sea story about a ship's Captain who inspected his sailors, and afterward told the first mate that his men smelled bad. The Captain suggested perhaps it would help if the sailors would change underwear occasionally.

The first mate responded, "Aye, aye sir, I'll see to it immediately!" He then went straight to the sailors berth deck and announced, "The Captain thinks you guys smell bad and wants you to change your underwear." He continued, "Pittman, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowski, and Brown, you change with Schultz. Now GET TO IT!"

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: Someone may come along and promise "Change", but don't count on things smelling any better.

That is a question more and more Americans are beginning to ask themselves.  Here is what Ernest Christian and Gary Robins wrote on Saturday in their editorial at Investors.Com 

The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?"

Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency.

Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do.

Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.

Barack Obama, however, has pulled off the ultimate switcheroo: He's diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.

He may soon bankrupt us and replace our big merit-based capitalist economy with a small government-directed one of his own design.

He is undermining our constitutional traditions: The rule of law and our Anglo-Saxon concepts of private property hang in the balance. Obama may be the most "consequential" president ever.

The Wall Street Journal's steadfast Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that Barack Obama is "an alien in the White House."

His bullying and offenses against the economy and job creation are so outrageous that CEOs in the Business Roundtable finally mustered the courage to call him "anti-business." Veteran Democrat Sen. Max Baucus blurted out that Obama is engineering the biggest government-forced "redistribution of income" in history.

Fear and uncertainty stalk the land. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says America's financial future is "unusually uncertain."

A Wall Street "fear gauge" based on predicted market volatility is flashing long-term panic. New data on the federal budget confirm that record-setting deficits in the $1.4 trillion range are now endemic.

Obama is building an imperium of public debt and crushing taxes, contrary to George Washington's wise farewell admonition: "cherish public credit ... use it as sparingly as possible ... avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not ... inconvenient and unpleasant ... ."

Opinion polls suggest that in the November mid-term elections, voters will replace the present Democratic majority in Congress with opposition Republicans — but that will not necessarily stop Obama.

The mere existance of a piece like this should be enough to alert all readers to the damage that is being done to our country by the highest offices in the land.  We need to strip those office holders of the power they have, and we need to make sure that future holders of those offices can never again exercise such unrestrained power.