Barbecue: New Opiate of the Masses

I have let a few emails slip through the cracks. Sorry about that. I’ll try to fix it.

First, I have to look at my weekly Winn-Dixie ad!

Rump roast is on sale again. I have to find out if that stuff is any good.

Brisket, $2.49 a pound. I need to barbecue!

Chicken leg quarters, 69 cents a pound! Oh, man. Barbecue is looking even more tempting.

Lamb chops, $2.49! Last week I used my recipe for lamb shanks with orzo to fix some sort of low-budget WD lamb chops, and they were fantastic. I removed the orzo, since it’s pure carbs. Still well worth eating. I was thinking the orzo could be replaced with rice or beans. Rice is not quite as horrible for my gut as pasta. But the worldwide famine is beginning, so I may have to learn to live without rice.

Spare ribs, $1.99 a pound. Are they trying to FORCE me to barbecue?

Whole pork shoulder, 79 cents per pound. This now amounts to coercion.

What else is happening? Hillary beat Snob-ama in Pennsylvania, but it wasn’t a rout. But some of the pundits who said she needed a rout are now saying she’s still in the race. Have we been lied to, or what? I don’t get it. Maybe they’re reluctant to announce her demise because it will mean fewer opportunities for them to appear on TV.

Tony Snow thinks there isn’t much difference between Obama and Hillary. He’s nuts. Hillary has no convictions. She’ll be as conservative as she has to be to gain and maintain power. We’ve already seen it, from her as well as her husband. Conservatives rammed a lot of policies down Bill Clinton’s surprisingly eager throat, and we can do the same thing to Hillary. Obama, on the other hand, is not sharp enough to compromise. He’s a true far-left fringer. And man, does he love taxes and gun control. And he wants to gut the military. I don’t think Hillary would be brave enough to do that, in the current climate. She and Bill reduced our soldiers and sailors to beggars in the past, but that was before 911.

Obama has stated publicly that he wants to cripple arms development. Not just nukes, but conventional arms. Even Carter was too smart to do that. Obama wants to lower our pants and then invite our enemies over for tea.

He’s also a huge gun-grabber. He wants all ammunition labeled. He backed a bill that would have made ammunition sales virtually illegal, by banning sales within five miles of a park or school. Get out a map and try to find a place that isn’t within five miles of a park or school. We would be buying ammunition on a barge in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama has been endorsed by a new gun-grabbing organization fraudulently named the American Hunters and Shooters Organization. It was put together by far-left kooks with long histories of anti-gun activism. You wait and see. If he gets elected, he’ll pack the Supreme Court and the federal courts with judges who think the second amendment only applies to militias, and gun-grabbing organizations will file suit after suit, trying to get the Supreme Court to reverse its recent decision that the right to own and carry guns is an individual right.

And if he gets the justices he wants, they’ll do it.

That will be nice. He’ll destroy our national defense, and he’ll disarm us so we’ll be easier to invade. And he’ll destroy the economy with high taxes and a revived welfare state, so the current recession will last ten years. Violent crime will take off. The whole country will be like the District of Columbia.

Hillary will be awful, but Obama would be considerably worse. He’s not smart enough to understand how international relations or the economy works, and he’s a true socialist. And he worships at a church run by an anti-Semite. Kiss Israel goodbye. They won’t have the 1967 borders. They’ll have the 1947 borders.

I truly hope he wins the Democrat nomination, because he’ll be easy to beat. All we have to do is tell the truth about him, and the public will run screaming into the booths and vote for McCain. Hillary is much better at fooling people.

We’re in for a depressing four years no matter what. But Obama would be a catastrophe. A sick cross between David Dinkins and Jimmy Carter. A vacant suit masquerading as a messiah. There is nothing to this guy. He got into college and law school in an atmosphere of extreme affirmative action. He accomplished nothing in the private sector, beyond what perfectly ordinary lawyers do all over the US. He has no history as an effective politician. He has no business in the White House. He isn’t even fit to be a cabinet secretary. And what little record he has tells us he wants to impose worn-out, destructive, completely discredited socialist policies on us. If “change” means going back the Johnson administration, change is what this guy is all about. Ralph Nader is more credible.

Oh, well. I can’t control the world. I guess I better pray for McCain and focus on taking care of myself.