Glenn Beck Common Sense Comedy Tour

It's his party and he'll cry if he wants to.



7 pm
Thursday, June 4

Cinemark Tulsa
10802 E. 71st Street South

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die....A time to weep, and a time to laugh." Ecclesiastes 3

I got all my crying out during that bleach blonde incident in high school and again on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Now I just laugh and laugh and laugh. It's rather freeing to watch liberals in power. They tank the world, and I sit back with my popcorn.

I sleep really well these days.

Go ahead. Chuckle. Order your tickets and join me.

Coaching us in Common Sense

Passion is addictive. For me, it's oxygen. But it must be, hear me on this one, it must be passion founded ON justice, grounded IN truth. Without either, it's just self-righteous anger. And rank hot air.

This conversation with Glenn Beck and Craig T. Nelson, however, is sweet rebuke against what is destruction of our future and our country: too much government, too much control, too much taxation, too little freedom.



I always loved "Coach" too. Great show.

Uninvited guests

I love those Hallmark movies about government agencies regulating the lives of American citizens living their lives and minding their own business. It always starts with a knock on the door and free speech as the door mat.
Wipe your feet. Government control really stains the carpet.

Couple: County Trying To Stop Home Bible Studies

POSTED: 5:31 pm PDT May 25, 2009

UPDATED: 7:43 am PDT May 28, 2009

SAN DIEGO -- A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold bible studies in their home, 10News reported.



Bring out Saul Alinksy's, "Rules for Radicals" and hide the bibles in the cookie jars. The government is here.

Attorney Dean Broyles of The Western Center For Law & Policy was shocked with what happened to the pastor and his wife.
Broyles said, "The county asked, 'Do you have a regular meeting in your home?' She said, 'Yes.' 'Do you say amen?' 'Yes.' 'Do you pray?' 'Yes.' 'Do you say praise the Lord?' 'Yes.'"

They also say "hello" and "my name is". Notify the AA.

The county employee notified the couple that the small bible study, with an average of 15 people attending, was in violation of county regulations, according to Broyles.

Those religious nuts love their small groups and snack foods. Gotta put a stop to that because of global warming or something.

Broyles said a few days later the couple received a written warning that listed "unlawful use of land" and told them to "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit" -- a process that could cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Baking cookies is out without a food handlers permit. It's Keeblers or it's nothing. Make the choice.

"If the county thinks they can shut down groups of 10 or 15 Christians meeting in a home, what about people who meet regularly at home for poker night? What about people who meet for Tupperware parties? What about people who are meeting to watch baseball games on a regular basis and support the Chargers?" said Broyles.

Good point. Chargers fans may also utter the name of Jesus. No more Friday Night Football without assemble permits.

Obama Man Can

"Who can take tomorrow, spend it all today?
Who can take your income and tax it all away?"

This video has over one million hits on YouTube. Jokes about Obama are funny. And possible. Just not from Letterman.

Quote Them

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

Ayn Rand
author of Atlas Shrugged
(1905-1982)

Monday Fun on Wednesday

I'm back from a long weekend and ready to boogie. Here are a few "things to make you go 'hmmm'", just to get you in the mood.
Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend!

Via Townhall.com

Steven Crowder, ladies and gentlemen

The 'Dark Pelosi' with Waterboarding



Darn if he isn't adorable in drag.

Life: Imagine the Possibilities

Joyfully poetic. Hauntingly gorgeous. Morally right.



I can't help but smile.

Bizarro World: food poisioning via reusable bags

Mother Earth will survive. But you probably won't be around to care.

A microbiological study — a first in North America — of the popular, eco-friendly bags has uncovered some unsettling facts. Swab-testing by two independent laboratories found unacceptably high levels of bacterial, yeast, mold and coliform counts in the reusable bags.

Getting groceries is getting more exciting by the minute.

"The main risk is food poisoning," Dr. Richard Summerbell, research director at Toronto-based Sporometrics and former chief of medical mycology for the Ontario Ministry of Health, stated in a news release. Dr. Summerbell evaluated the study results.

"But other significant risks include skin infections such as bacterial boils, allergic reactions, triggering of asthma attacks, and ear infections," he stated.

They didn't mention the health benefits for Mother Earth. It's time for a higher morality. Endure the boils. A rain forest will thank you.

The study found that 64% of the reusable bags tested were contaminated with some level of bacteria and close to 30% had elevated bacterial counts higher than what's considered safe for drinking water.

But 36 percent are possibly safe.

Further, 40% of the bags had yeast or mold, and some of the bags had an unacceptable presence of coliforms, faecal intestinal bacteria, when there should have been 0.

Um..."Peace" and...uh..."Say no to Hate"

"The presence of faecal material in some of the reusable bags is particularly concerning," Dr. Summerbell stated. "All meat products should be individually wrapped before being placed in a reusable bag to prevent against leakage. This should become a mandated safety standard across the entire grocery industry."

Individually wrapped with...paper? plastic? That seems anti-productive.

Conclusions from the study? This may have you gladly handing over the coins for plastic bags at the supermarket:
• The moist, dark, warm interior of a folded used reusable bag that has acquired a small amount of water and trace food contamination is an ideal incubator for bacteria.
• The strong presence of yeasts in some bags indicates the presence of water and microbial growth substrate (food).
• There is a potential for cross-contamination of food if the same reusable bags are used on successive trips.
• Check-out staff in stores may be transferring these microbes from reusable bag to reusable bag as the contaminants get on their hands.
• In cases of food poisoning, experts will have to test reusable bags in addition to food products as the possible sources of contamination.

Results aren't important. It's about intentions.
And don't forget: hugs are free. Give them out, unless you have boils.

He loves the US...

He loves it not.

Obama's proposed Guantanamo legal plan rife with problems
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama raised more questions than he answered Thursday about the legal prospects for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

I'll take political pandering for $500, Alex.

Detainees could be placed on one of four tracks: They could be released or transferred to other countries, tried in federal courts, charged before newly comprised military commissions or detained indefinitely because they "pose a clear danger," but cannot be prosecuted.

What is...hypocrisy?
Great. Okay. I'll take Bush's policies adopted by Obama for $300, Alex.

Obama, like President George W. Bush before him, has retained the concept of a military commission. As Obama said Thursday, these commissions will try those who "violate the laws of war."

What is floundering?
I'll take American safety concerns for $700, Alex.

"If you have a conviction, where will you confine them?" said Silliman, who's now the executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke Law School. "And if they are acquitted, what do you do with them?"

What is Escape from New York (1981)?
And on to the bonus round.

Thems the breaks, kid

Here's the sweet spot quote in this story:

"Here we have President Obama and his administration saying, 'Here we are for the common, middle class people,' and here he is not letting 150 5- and 6-year-olds into the White House because he’s throwing a lunch for a bunch of grown millionaires," Stine said.

Millionaires are the new Kindergarteners.

Sobbing Kindergartners snubbed for Steelers?
Thursday was supposed to be the highlight of the year for more than 100 kindergarteners from Stafford County, Va. They got up early and took a chartered bus to the White House for a school field trip. But when they arrived, all the 5-year-olds got was a lesson in disappointment.

Disappointment is the new 'Hope'.

Parents say they were just 10 minutes late for their scheduled tour. School officials say White House staff said they needed to get ready for the president's luncheon with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, so they couldn't come in.

But you can wave, kneel, or bow before The One from outside the gate. Make it quick.



Just wait kiddos. Paying off this quadrupled deficit might sting the eyes a bit.

Quote Them

"A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired."

Alexander Hamilton



Via Patriot Post

O's mileage standards = 5 deaths per day

photo courtesy of electricpig.co.uk

What's "change" without bringing a little minor death? Historically, actually, it's simpatico. And so we too, us freedom-loving heathens from the Western frontier, must also pony up a few lives, all in the pursuit of better gas mileage.
What's a death...or five...here or there...or every day...so our cars don't create smog? Some must die upon the alter. And others must fall upon their sword. Or in this case, die in a mesh of twisted metal.
Oh well. Go outside and inhale that clean air. Fresh, no? Although I detect a hint of burnt hair.

CAFE Obama -- Proposed Mileage Standards
Would Kill More Americans than Iraq War
cnsnews.com ^ | May 19, 2009 | Steve Milloy

The Obama administration’s proposed mileage standards that will be announced today may kill more Americans at a faster rate than the Iraq War — his signature issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Bring our drivers home! End the driving! Cars are not the answer. Make still, not drive.

Obama’s standards will require automakers to meet a 35 miles-per-gallon standard by 2016 — four years earlier than the same standard imposed by the Energy Security and Independence Act of 2007.

I feel so much love...for trees. I want to hug one. Just wrap my arms, not my car, around them.

As discussed in my new book “Green Hell,” the only way for carmakers to meet these standards is to make smaller, lighter and deadlier cars.

The National Academy of Sciences has linked mileage standards with about 2,000 deaths per year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that every 100-pound reduction in the weight of small cars increases annual traffic fatalities by as much as 715.

What people really want to know is...after the accidents, how long did it take to clear the highways? Traffic jams create idle cars. That's a pollutant.

In contrast in the more than six years since the Iraq war began, there have been 4,296 deaths among American military personnel.

And what will be gained by the new mileage standards?

Birds will sing. Squirrels will dance. Polar bears will roam free, able to eat whomever they choose. And those of us who survive a drive to the grocery store, will live in peaceful, poetic harmony.

The Natural Resources Defense Council said that the 35 MPG standard would save about one million gallons of gas per day. So how does that savings balance against the 2,000 fatalities per year that the National Academy of Sciences says are caused by those same lighter cars?

For the sake of being utilitarian, let’s generously assume that the mileage standards reduced the price of gasoline by $1. That would translate to daily savings of $1 million. Is that savings worth killing more than five people per day, plus other non-fatal injuries and property damage?

But how many trees suffered bark damage during these wrecks? Were any animals harmed in the making of this statistic?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – for the purposes of risk assessment – values a single human life at $6.9 million dollars. So under the new mileage standards, it would cost about $35 million per day in human lives (not including non-fatal injuries) to save $1 million in gas.

A cool mil for carbon credits. Nice. And they who lived, lived happily ever after. The end.

Oil to the rescue!

Love it or hate it ( I LOVE it, with a kiss kiss and a hug hug), oil fuels the energy of life. It makes cars go varoom. And recently, a couple of eco-sailers, the lovers of all things that don't function, found out they love it too.

The story is a few weeks old. But it's too good not to visit again and again.

Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker

The Fleur crew were rescued by the Overseas Yellowstone in strong winds

An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile (8,000km)carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker.

Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday because they feared for their safety amid winds of 68mph (109km/h).

Thank you oil, for saving their freezing butts from their inherent stupidity that nearly got them killed.

Awesomely Awesome

Hank Williams Jr. gives us a glimpse of the faces of America's workforce and their future. Sing it My Man.



"I payed my bills. I payed my due. And I paid my share of taxes too." HW Jr.

Me, too.

Republican Extinction: Urban Myth

For a party which controls the White House, Congress, news media, and will be appointing at least one nominee to the US Supreme Court, they are adamantly, and with near viral intensity, heralding the end of the Republican party. Why should they care at all? If Republicans are so insignificant, why give them a second thought or discussion?

Sounds more like fear to me. Maybe that's because the numbers of party identificiation are turning against them.

Quote Them

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."

Thomas Paine

Nancy weaving a tangled web

She was briefed. But not informed. Or, er, something like that. Hold on. Her pages are out of order.

Lovers of Life

Americans are, by extensive majority, pro-life. Gallup just released the poll last week, showing a dramatic increase and change in culture.
See for yourself.



Here is a powerfully animated speech given by Theologian John Piper in January, a reaction to a President who believes children are burdens, not blessings. And willfully supports infanticide.

"Now, my question is, if President Obama at Notre Dame yesterday says that everybody on this debate is decent and we gotta work together to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, is he not admitting there's something wrong about it, then? If there's nothing wrong with an unwanted pregnancy and if there's nothing wrong with abortion, why do we have to limit them?"

Rush Limbaugh
May 18, 2009

He's not really concerned with limiting abortions. In fact, he wants your tax dollars to pay for them, he made that clear today.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama's new federal budget calls for taxpayer funded abortions in the nation's capital. Although Obama has promised Americans he wants to reduce the number of abortions, one pro-life group says he is violating that promise by calling for taxpayer-financed abortions in the District of Columbia.

Is there anything he doesn't want tax dollars to pay for?

Don't upset Greta

The big "H" of hypocrisy? Obama lecturing Americans on deficit spending and borrowing money from China.
Um, well, that's one thing I can agree with him on. Except...he's the one deficit spending and borrowing money from China.

Maybe he's been spending too much time with Biden.

the Zo Master

Zo's euphemism that needs no explanation.

Give them a little Credit

photo courtesy MoneyWalks.com

Responsibility pays. Just not you.

Yes, you are paying for
- delinquent mortgages.
- union benefits.
- stimulating the economy that isn't stimulating the economy.

And yes, you will now be paying for anyone delinquent on their credit card bills.

Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers

Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards, frequent-flier miles and other perks in recent years.

Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit.

Banks are expected to look at reviving annual fees, curtailing cash-back and other rewards programs and charging interest immediately on a purchase instead of allowing a grace period of weeks, according to bank officials and trade groups.

“It will be a different business,” said Edward L. Yingling, the chief executive of the American Bankers Association, which has been lobbying Congress for more lenient legislation on behalf of the nation’s biggest banks. “Those that manage their credit well will in some degree subsidize those that have credit problems.”

Punish the responsible. Go ahead. But eventually, the responsible will grow tired of carrying the load. So what happens when they go on strike? What happens when Atlas Shruggs?

Cartoon Nostradamus

When art mimics real life. Except, this animation was created decades ago.

How did they know the issues we'd be facing? Because there is nothing new under the sun, including Obama's love of big government and the results it will incur.






Curtsy Roger Parsons

Monday Fun on Tuesday

Via Townhall.com