Some say "Sliders", as a Straight Shooter, I say "Small Bites"

(1) Who banned black caddies from televised PGA golf tournaments?

(2) What international sports governing body allows its referees to call secret penalties?

(3) Didn't anyone inform Dustin Johnson that the United States Open is a four round tourney?

(4) Did I mention how bad soccer sucks?

(5) When was the last time a White House physician told a sitting President to knock off hitting the sauce?

(6) This time, the President got it exactly right: General Stanley Dufoos McChrystal had to go quickly, if not at least quietly. (See, this blog is not just another anti-Obama screed).

(7) Lebron "King" James will leave Cleveland and sign w/. the Golden State Warriors next week, thereby teaming up with his idol, Stephen Curry.

(8) At the Alumni golf outing two weeks ago, the Bucknell bb coach told me that the University could not afford to travel all the way to North Carolina to play Davidson College. Do you smell the aroma of spoiled chicken? Just saying. . .

Our Constitutional Republic is in Jeopardy

First, in the interest of full disclosure, I am a big BP stockholder. Other winners in my portfolio include Lucent Technologies, GE and Westinghouse Air Brakes. Ok, now that you have a deeper understanding of my long term commitment to the crucially important profitability of this Blog, today's Post examines the Constitution's Guarantee to Due Process Protections every person (including a corporate individual) is afforded prior to the federal government depriving that individual of his/her freedom or private property.

President Obama, a former Con Law professor, is well schooled on this fundamental principle of the Rule of Law. Indeed, he designated the Christmas Day Undie bomber to be merely an alleged criminal, because no court trial has adjudicated his guilt of having set his own pants on fire. Nonetheless, last night the President told the nation that in meeting with BP executives today, he would be directing them to set aside up to $20,000,000,000.00 for payment of Gulf of Mexico oil leak claims.

Wow; no charges, no trial, no jury verdict, just the ex parte imposition of a potential corporate death sentence on nothing more than the say so of the Big Guy. The President has cited no federal statute that empowers him to reach into the BP pocket and seize its private funds. The reason for this absence of Speech citation is obvious - there is no lawful authority for Presidential confiscation millions of BP stockholders (mostly widows and orphans) retirement investments.

The road to dictatorship always starts with small extra-legal acts that go almost unnoticed and unprotested by the nation's lawmakers. In this presidency, our slide toward abject servitude began with one phone call. In February 2009, Mr. Obama fired the CEO of General Motors Corporation. Author Ben Stein wrote, that upon calling the White House to ascertain the specific federal law the President utilized in depriving this individual of his livelihood, he was told by the Press Office: "None Needed." Gentlemen, ladies and Georgette, that act of Chicago style thuggery is the very antithesis of the Rule of Law. So, be afraid, be very afraid.

John Wooden, Wizard of Westwood; R.I.P.

A Life well lived, indeed. Coach Wooden of Tinseltown, U.S.A. may have lived most of his years in Hollywood, but he never went all L.A. Cool. For all of Mr. Wooden's ninety-nine years, he never changed his fundamental values, stating whenever asked: "A life spent devoted to others is a meaningful life." and "One's success is best measured by achieving the maximum effort you have to give, whereas victory is merely an incidental outcome." Eternal words for sure.

This Time Israel did Mess Up the Bed Spread

In an earlier Post, your humble blogger congratulated the Israeli Defense Forces for its mafia style hit on an enemy combatant in a Dubai hotel suite, which was re-rented to another hotel guest without even a special cleaning. Not so yesterday. Regrettably, more than a dozen agent provocateurs were killed by the Israeli commandos who repelled onto the deck of the Turkish blockade runner. As the Esteemed One would say: "The Israelis acted stupidly."

It appears quite obvious that a PR trap was set by these "Palestinian Humanitarian Aid" deliverers. The IDF didn't just fall into it, instead, they jumped in feet first, giving their enemies bloody photos of martyrs aplenty. My very preliminary conclusion is that the Israeli leaders did not want a Waco style stand-off to continue unresolved for weeks or longer, while these ships continued to buzz around the Gaza Strip blockade boundary causing the Israeli Navy to remain at high alert enforcing this "No sail zone". Well, they did achieve a prompt end to this peaceable stand-off. The world condemnations and recriminations, however, will go on for years to come.

Self defense assertions by the IDFs are only accurate AFTER their commandos jumped these ships, sailing in international waters, and having taken no hostile actions prior to the 4:00 a.m. surprise visit. When useful fools want to die for their cause, you do not hand them a loaded gun. Just saying ...

Hurry; Hide the Women and Children, the Village Idiot is on the loose again

Anti-Terrorism Czar, John Brennan, shared his latest epiphany with the nation and world earlier this week speechifying: "Nor do we describe our enemy as 'jihadists' or 'Islamists' because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community, and there is nothing holy ... about murdering innocent men, women and children."

Earth to John, connect the dots after pulling your Head out of your Ass - Jihad is not only a legitimate tenet, it is the central tenet of Radical Islam. Indeed, Jihad is to Islam what the Holy Crusades were to Christianity - preparation of the World for the return of Allah by its purification, through the subjugation of the infidels. Perversion of the Faith for sure, but still the central organizing principle of the Islamic religion for an untold number of willing martyrs lining up to collect their virginal reward in heaven. To these true believers, there are no "innocent" unbelievers, so those who will not convert to become follower of the One True Faith are legitimately killed in order to purge the Muslim community of followers of Satan.

Therefore, I say to JB: its time for U to purge yourself back into the real world in which our enemy is not engaged in an overseas contingency anomaly. Western civilization is threatened with subjugation by and to a radical murderous horde believing they are God's holy, anointed warriors. To pretend otherwise is unbelief of the soon to be dead kind. Just saying ...

The Strange Case of the Partial Full Disclosure, Limited Full Hang Out, Admiral

The U.S. Naval Academy has maintained its unwavering commitment to an Honor Code since 1845: "Midshipmen are persons of integrity. They stand for that which is right. They tell the truth and ensure that the full truth is known." Joe Sestak is a 1974 Honor Graduate of the Naval Academy, who served his country very honorably in war and peace for some thirty one years. He retired with two stars on his shoulder boards and the rank of Vice Admiral.

After his retirement, Joe Sestak decided to continue his service to our nation by seeking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won in his 2006 attempt. Having been re-elected in 2008, Admiral Sestak decided to seek his Party's nomination to the U.S. Senate, hoping to unseat five term incumbent, Republican RINO, Arlen Specter. This bid appeared to be stuck in dry dock, when all the Obama folks welcomed Arlen to the Party, along w/. its Pa. Senatorial endorsement. Not willing to see his ambitions so torpedoed, Joe challenged Arlen in the Demo. Primary for this nomination.

When asked by a reporter whether the White House had offered him a high level position in the Administration in lieu of prosecuting his campaign against Arlen, the Admiral answered "Yes Sir". Opps, Joe's apparent candor raised the specter of the commission of a federal crime by the offer of a job in return for changing the candidate composition for election to federal office.

When stonewalling for months failed to spike press demands for full disclosure (of the conversation that the White House acknowledged occurred with the Admiral to discuss a happy ending of his candidacy), David Axelrod threw poor Joe under the bus, joining Rev. Wright and the President's racist Grandmother. Yesterday, David stated: "There is no evidence that the White House has offered a job to Admiral Sestak, in exchange for dropping his Senatorial bid."

This Axelrod claim is false, as the unequivocal statement by Joe Sestak is very direct evidence indeed, unless the Admiral can be shown to be lying or delusional. I submit that the Obama Administration should not be supporting for high elective office, a person it views as either a blatant dissembler or mentally unable to engage in every day honorable political discourse.

Why the World is not following our Dear Leader

In one of his first official acts as President, Mr. Obama, on Day One of his misbegotten Administration, issued an Executive Order to himself that he has been flagrantly violating since January 20, 2010. As you will recall, he ordered himself to close Gitmo before the first year of his Presidency ended. Why you may ask, did the President publicly order himself to do something within his exclusive authority twelve months in the future? One plausible answer is that this very high profile Executive Order was issued for world-wide acclaim and respect to follow from this public act of contrition. He announced to the World that the United States now was returning to the norms of civilized nations, in which all good Americans abhor civil rights outrages, such as the purported Gitmo prisoner abuses perceived to be a major recruiting tool for the Islamist terrorists.

So, instead of just implementing the crucially needed "change" in national policy, the President merely offered his "hope" for a better country. Well loyal listeners, the world is still waiting for the President to keep his promise to himself. What must our allies think of the credibility of his promises to them, when he even lies to himself.

You already know what our enemies think of the Big Guy - he evokes no fear, no respect and certainly no credibility when he threatens them by saying he is keeping all "options on the table, including the military one" should a rogue nation like Iran or North Korea engage in any act of war or terrorist attack.

Indeed, this past year, North Korea exploded another nuclear bomb and torpedoed a South Korean navy destroyer, murdering 47 young sailors onboard this ship when it was attacked and sunk while patrolling in international waters. Hillary has promised our South Korean ally that a "very strong letter" will follow, to be sent to Beijing only. They are not impressed.

Time for the President to stop talking the talk, and start to walk the walk. Mr. President, if you really believe that Gitmo is a grave danger to our national security, prestige and image abroad, close it now and bring the terrorist suspects to NYC or DC for immediate civilian court trials. Please, do your job, or at least implement the changes you ordered yourself to do. Just saying...