If you're a "Meat and Potatoes Loyalist" you know the abbreviation "Double D" has nothing to do with female anatomy.  Rather, I use it to describe a HUGE segment of today's attention deficit disorder plagued society, the "Dunderheaded Douchebags".  You know the type I'm talking about, they can recall a super bowl score from 1969 and who the quarterback was for each team but they don't know who their senators are........what a joke!

What's funny is that the same individuals who will lament ad nauseum about crooked politicians and broken government are ironically the cause of their own torment!  Just think about it.  As a representative republic becomes filled with people who pay little or no attention to political matters and all of their attention to "American Idol", Blackberries and IPODS, the republic will begin to come apart at the seams.  Politicians will become unaccountable to the electorate and emboldened, even intoxicated with limitless power to rob your wallet and run roughshod over the United States Constitution, the supreme law of the land.

Why am I talking about this today?  Well, I was just listening to C-SPAN callers and a "Triple D" called in with a baseless rant about how President Bush is responsible for the "single-state recession" being enjoyed by Michigan.  By the way, a Triple D is a "Dunderheaded DETROIT Douchebag" in case you were wondering.  The convoluted, ignorant logic went as follows:  President Bush gave tax breaks to all the rich people which robbed the country of revenues, while at the same time fought a war in the middle east for oil which busted the budget.

Now, it's a saturday and I have much better things to do with my time than take the twisted rantings of a Triple D and try to explain why it is so sophomoric!  Michigan is enjoying a "single-state recession" for one major reason and that is because their solitary industry has not been globally competetive for several years.  Now, is this President Bush's fault?  Hell no.  It is the fault of the auto industry itself.  Of course, it doesn't help that the elected leaders of Michigan, most of which are Dumb-O-Crats, have done nothing to help the auto industry and the overall economy of Michigan.  In fact, Democrat Governor Granholm chose to RAISE TAXES rather than cut spending to close budget shortfalls.  Now there's a sure-fire way to help a collapsing economy, nice job!

Time for the tough love you Triple D's.  Ya'll better wake the hell up and take a look around you to see what your elected leaders are doing LOCALLY!  You want to take the easy, cowardly route and blame President Bush as your handy SCAPEGOAT.  Has it occurred to any of you that President Bush is going into his FINAL YEAR as president and will be out of there before you know it?  What are you going to do then?  Maybe you'll fall back to blaming Governor Engler or better yet, Mitt Romney's dad.  Yeah, that's the ticket!

Call me prophetic, call me what you will.  But the Meat and Potatoes guy predicted MONTHS ago that John Edwards would make a rise in the polls and beat Hillary in the Iowa "Hawkeye Cauci".  Here is what I wrote:

"John Edwards will make his 'phoenix-like' ascendancy from the ashes of assumed irrelevance and shock many pundits to their core.  The reasons as to why can easily be articulated by 'Meat and Potatoes Loyalists' of whom there are many across the fruited plains.  Edwards is presidential looking and far less controversial than a woman who keeps her husband's family jewels in a 'testikle lock-box'!!" 

As of today, Edwards is TIED with Hillary and he will pass her up no doubt, just stay tuned.  What I didn't see coming was the candidacy of Barak Obama and his Opray Winfrey "star power tour".  This celebrity boost has shot "Osama Obama" way up in the polls but I predict that it will be short-lived as Hawkeyes begin to get really serious about the issues in the final weeks.

Ultimately, it will be the caucus-goers themselves, who make the call as to which Dumb-O-Crat gets the nod.  My money is still being bet on that slicker-than-whale-snot trial lawyer!

Yesterday we had a small delay on a flight to Saginaw, Michigan so I got on the PA and decided to be my typically sarcastic self, "Folks, the media has been predicting airline delays for the holiday season so I thought we'd take a delay just for the heck of it.  We want the EXPERTS in the media to get it right every once in awhile, don't we?"

You should have heard the clamor in the back of the airplane as I quickly explained that I was only kidding around (which I always do for my own entertainment, mind you) and the delay was a short one because of some "hot bags" which were coming over from a tight connection.  We wouldn't want our valuable customers arriving home without baggage now would we?

I tell this story to highlight the fact that all we hear today on the "boob tube" is prediction of utter disaster in our air transport system and many of my loyal Grassroots Troopers are about to embark on an airborne journey.  Never fear my patriotic, freedom loving Americans, the system will get you to your destination and you might even arrive on time.  IMAGINE THAT!

However, there will be bumps in the road to include a few turbulent bumps as well.  The media is having their yearly free-for-all over airline delays which starts about a week before Turkey Day and ends right around the New Year.  Airline veterans hear the same old stuff and it gets as boring as listening to Hillary Clinton try out her "new" southern accent.

The media isn't telling you anything new, the airline transport system is stretched thin and if something goes wrong, like a wide area of lousy weather, expect things to "go south" right quick!  Weather this holiday season could turn nasty and make the media deliriously happy as things begin to "meltdown" like Bill Clinton in a Fox News Sunday interview!  Here are some tips for your journey from an absolute idiot who knows nothing about air travel:

1) Bring plenty of stuff to keep yourself entertained.  IPOD and books/newspapers are good to have stuffed wherever you can stuff them.  You can always snag a "USEless Today" in terminals because people leave them strewn around like horse manure (basically what USAToday is.....).

2) Keep an eye on the weather forecasting for hubs you will be flying through and if it looks "dicey" at your time of arrival, think of an alternate plan.  Perhaps you can fly earlier by blasting off from work early or the airline will allow you to route through a different hub.  It's not a good idea to fly off to an airline hub where people are camping out like the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, think about it.

3) Prepare your brain ahead of time for possible frustrations such as crowded parking lots, check-in areas, airplanes and tarmacs.  There are only so many airplanes and only so many spots in the sky to put them.  When weather moves in, the number of planes that can take-off and land is reduced significantly.  It may seem surprising but this is God's will and not the fault of the gate agent who is only trying their damnedest to make it through another day.

My favorite saying to fellow crewmembers when passengers do silly things is the following and this one is mine: "When people fly, they remember to pack everything ....... EXCEPT THEIR BRAIN."  Please do what you can to make my saying as untrue as possible this holiday season.  Think about the BIG picture, how infinitely complex the system is and how hard the "skeleton crews" are working in an absolutely cut-throat environment to see you to your destination SAFELY.  When a fellow passenger is annoying the living hell out of you, remember they are your fellow American and you have more in common with them than you might think.

Be sure to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone you see, we need to tick off the C-Libs as much as possible!  What is a C-Lib you ask?  Well you'll have to go to my archive and read a column titled "Liberalism:  The philosophy of the STUPID.........for most."  :-)

Is it even winter yet?  Well, the northeast certainly doesn't care what the calendar says as they dig out of a nice, healthy dose of "old man winter".  Unless you've just crawled out from under a rock this morning you realize that this is their second healthy storm in only a few days.

This is deliciously ironic as it was the state of Massachusetts that several years ago SUED the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the regulation of Carbon Dioxide (C02), a so-called "greenhouse gas".  The Bay state, well known for its ingenious "Big Dig" project and debaucherous public servants, felt that carbon dioxide would lead to warmer surface temperatures, higher seas and more beach erosion at Teddy Kennedy's seaside mansion!  The result of the suit?  It went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court  and these "weathermen in black robes" who I write so GLOWINGLY about here on this blog, decided that C02 was indeed pollution.  Further, the court ordered the EPA to now include the odorless, colorless gas (that fuels your soda pop and your plants use to develop energy) as a pollutant and regulate its emission in accordance with the Clean Air Act of 1970.  This move will cost our economy, most notably the ailing auto industry, untold billions of dollars.  Yayyyyyy!

Personally, I'm loving these snow storms provided they don't really hurt any of those chowder-heads up there in my former homestate!  Keep in mind that I am from Southwick, Mass. and have seen my share of snows over the years.  They're actually quite fun if you get enough to fire up the ole Arctic Cat and go roaring off through the woods.  I doubt Massachusetts' politicians will think it is too fun though, when the salt, sand and plowing money runs out mid-winter.  Then they will cry "poor mouth" to the Federal Government and say "We've had one humdinger of a winter, we need more assistance."  That's when President Bush should turn to them and say with tongue-in-cheek, "Must be all the GLOBAL WARMING that got you in trouble, right fellas?"

It seems that the leftist douchebags which infest Boston, Massachusetts have jumped on the Mass. Pike and taken a jaunt out to Exit 2.  Once settled into the town of Great Barrington, they decided to ruin the quiet hilltown by becoming members of the Board of Selectmen.  Snobbery is their specialty as they see fit to inflict their nonsensical views on the rest of the traditional citizenry.  This year's target royale?  Christmas, of course.

These rude little pussboys have launched an all-out assault on Christmas by proclaiming (as if they're Kings) that a limit should be placed on the hanging of Christmas lights.  Oh wait, did I just say CHRISTMAS lights?  Oops, I'm sorry about that....  To be more politically correct, I should have stated "HOLIDAY" lights!  But wait a minute, according to ACLU card-carrying types like these Selectmen, I have freedom of speech, right?  Not when it comes to standing in the way of a secularized society, according to these douchebags.

Now, if you're having trouble with the convoluted left-wing logic, henceforth referred to as psychobabble, the use of CHRISTMAS lights contributes directly to that evil known as "global warming".  Regardless of the fact that the lights are only used for a week or two, during a single, solitary holiday season.  Can they really have all that much impact, particulary with today's prevalent low-wattage bulbs?  Mister Meat and Potatoes ain't buyin' it!

I'll tell you what we do for these power hungry misanthropes to put them in the Christmas spirit!  We all run down to the store and grab the cheapest Christmas greeting card we can find.  Fill it out with the following:  "IT WAS THE GRINCH'S JOB TO STEAL CHRISTMAS, NOT YOU DOUCHEBAGS!" and then mail it to:  The Board of Selectmen, Great Barrington, MA  01230.  If you like, feel free to refer them to the "Meat and Potatoes Blog" which has a great article  titled "Hey Mass......how's the 'Global Warming'? haha"  I hope they get hit with a blizzard next week, not of snow mind you........BUT OF THESE GREETING CARDS!

Call me prophetic, call me what you will.  But the Meat and Potatoes guy predicted MONTHS ago that John Edwards would make a rise in the polls and beat Hillary in the Iowa "Hawkeye Cauci".  Here is what I wrote:

"John Edwards will make his 'phoenix-like' ascendancy from the ashes of assumed irrelevance and shock many pundits to their core.  The reasons as to why can easily be articulated by 'Meat and Potatoes Loyalists' of whom there are many across the fruited plains.  Edwards is presidential looking and far less controversial than a woman who keeps her husband's family jewels in a 'testikle lock-box'!!" 

As of today, Edwards is TIED with Hillary and he will pass her up no doubt, just stay tuned.  What I didn't see coming was the candidacy of Barak Obama and his Opray Winfrey "star power tour".  This celebrity boost has shot "Osama Obama" way up in the polls but I predict that it will be short-lived as Hawkeyes begin to get really serious about the issues in the final weeks.

Ultimately, it will be the caucus-goers themselves, who make the call as to which Dumb-O-Crat gets the nod.  My money is still being bet on that slicker-than-whale-snot trial lawyer!

Dear Congressman Hunter,

I am an East Tennessean who absolutely adores you and your son.  The moment I realized your potential was when you had all the reporters to a meeting where you unveiled a sample meal that was representative of what the unlawful enemy combatants at "Club Gitmo" eat.  Do you remember that masterful display?  I watched your stroke of genius on C-SPAN live.

I am a conservative blogger on an up and coming site called TownHall and this week my blog, the Meat and Potatoes Blog is listed as number 5 in the top 10.  Not to say that I'm the next Peggy Noonan but I do tend to attract some eyeballs as I evidently combine an attractive writing style with an undeniable degree of wit.  The eyeballs keep coming so someone must be entertained!

I would love to work for you on a campaign but I feel that the only realistic way that could happen is if you run as Fred Thompson's "wingman" and let me explain why.  Fred Thompson is the closest thing, ideologically to YOU that we conservative/traditionalists can find on our side of the aisle.  Both of you are strong on the U.S. Constitution and both are free market capitalists.  I love your stance on illegal immigration "gone wild" and I feel that ole Fred could be whipped into line on that one as well.  However, Fred does have the advantage of being a Hollywood actor and this difference, in today's society, is what tips the balance in his favor.

What if Thompson could be persuaded to announce you as a running mate during the primary process?  Think about how landmark and absolutely outside the box this would be!  By having you on the bottom of the ticket, Thompson could declare that you will have as your biggest tasking, the crack-down on illegal immigration and absolute closure of the southern border.  Kind of like Bill Clinton declaring Al Gore the "global warming czar" but without all the B.S.!  This would begin a talk radio buzz and media firestorm that WILL dominate the nation at a critical time as "Super Tuesday" approaches.

Let's face it, Fred Thompson IS the actor and you know what that means?  He's the closest thing we've got to a Ronald Reagan.  Lord knows we could use "the Gipper" these days as things are coming unraveled quicker than a sweater in a cartoon with the little bird flying away.  Fred Thompson has the connections and has the NAME recognition to attract the dunderhead votes, I'm just being fully honest here.  If you ran as VP, just think of the White House dominance that would follow for 2016!  We have to think long-term and big picture here.  That's just the philosophy of a blogger in "fly-over country" who follows this stuff very closely.

Daily thoughts from an incoherent, rambling mind for your entertainment.........

Who was it that picked the animal mascots for today's political parties?

This individual was certainly prescient as he picked a strong, steady and reliable animal for the Republicans.  Even better though, it was an absolute stroke of genius to pick the silly jackass for Democrats.  I wonder if Democrat voters ever stop to consider this from time to time?  I'll bet you that many are so ignorant, they don't even know their party symbol!  hahaha :-)~

When someone says they're an independent, what does that truly mean?

I believe it means that their views are "independent" of any worthwhile knowledge of politics and the issues facing this country.  (i.e. they're dunderheaded douchebags)

Finally, I believe someone should place legislation before Congress to make Halloween an official Democrat party holiday for 2008.  Yes, I realize that Halloween is a pagan holiday but let's think about it for just a minute.  What happens on Halloween?  You have people walking around, asking for free handouts from people they don't even know! 

Sounds like a Democrat party celebration to me.......

Richard Durbin (Illinois) - Turban Durbin, the Pander Bear

Steny Hoyer (Maryland) - Stempy, The Horse Manure Salesman

 

Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania) - Marble-Mouth, Sen. Spectacle

Robert Byrd (West Virginia) - the Klan-Man, Sheets, the Human Sleeping Pill

Guess who's "loaded for bear" today folks?  That's right, it's Mister Meat and Potatoes and I'm so ticked off, I could get in my car, drive up to the nation's capitol and challenge ole Harry Reid to a  boxing match.  I hear he's got some good moves, the little mendacious pipsqueak that he is......I doubt it!

Today, Harry was joining Joe Biden (the human copier) as he hinted at the possibility of an independent prosecutor to look into the destruction of these CIA videotapes.  That is, unless CIA Director Michael Hayden spills his guts for the Congress.  You know what I recommend General Hayden say to these douchebags?

"Hey fellas, it's refreshing to see you get all riled up about possible obstruction of justice because you turned a blind eye to it in the late 1990's when 'The Father of 9/11' was impeached.  I am also tickled pink that you're worried about the destruction of records which document our nation's history.  Funny though, you didn't care a whit about Sandy Berger stealing and destroying documents from the National Archives, which altered the historical findings of the 9/11 Commission!  Before I make any further statements in this matter, I demand that this Congress re-open the National Archives documents case.  It is imperative that we get a full accounting of exactly what NSA Berger destroyed and who put him up to the task.  Good day losers."

I am calling my Congressmen today and recommending that they stand up to these Demagogue-Crats.  Tell them to demand further scrutiny of the "National Archives Document Destruction Case".  After that is done, we can investigate a couple destroyed videotapes of terrorists getting a facial bath.