The Super Bowl has come and gone.  As usual, the commercial seem to get as much if not more hype than the game itself.  I don't sit around waiting for the commercials.  If they're on and I'm not up getting a beer then I'll watch them.

This one caught my eye.  I couldn't help but think it was more about Obama than Chrysler.  I was expecting ol' Clint to remind me to vote this November because it was Obama who made all this Detroit rennaisance stuff possible.  Clint Eastwood is reportedly a Republican.  He didn't think this came across as a bit of an Obama election-year pep rally? 

Czar Obama went all Biblical on the crowd at the National Prayer Breakfast this week as a means of justifying his policy of tax the rich even more.

But is Obama picking and choosing Bible verses to bolster his case?  (I wouldn't be a first for a politician nor is it going to be the last time). 

I'm no Biblical scholar and I don't play one on the radio or internet.  But when I read more of the selection referenced by Czar Obama, it's clear he believes what he says and thinks it's a perfectly legitimate comparisson.  The passage in general is talking about the relationship between servant and master.  Unfortunately, that's how our dear leader views the relationship between taxpayers and government: servant and master.  Government gives and the people receive.  That's the way it is in Obama's world. 

 ³⁵ “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶ like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. ³⁸ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. ³⁹ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

 ⁴¹ Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”

The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? ⁴³ It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. ⁴⁴ Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk. ⁴⁶ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

   ⁴⁷ “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. ⁴⁸ But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

Link here.

Has it really come to this?  Yes.  Yes, it has.  The in-fighting between GOP candidates has reached a new low.  And the sound-bite culture in which we live, if there was ever any doubt, has been further validated and accepted as a means of political coverage and discourse.

First Mitt Romney says he doesn't care about the very poor.  (Insert gasp or horrified scream here).  Listen to the whole clip and tell me if that's what the takeaway should be.

The problem with what Mitt said has nothing to do with the very poor.  The proble is that Mitt, as president, would focus on one part of the country based on a person's income.  What Mitt should have said was "as president I'll work to make government as inconsequential in your life as possible.  And that goes for the poor and the rich, however you define them, and everyone in between.  We should have a tax code and set of regulations that apply equally to all Americans and then government should get the hell out of our lives." 

That would have been better. 

But Mitt (adding fuel to the fire from previous out of context comments on pink slips and how he likes to fire people) geve the left an opening.

And the left pounced:

What is that you say?  That unfair and intentionally misleading attack didn't come from the left?  It was from another GOP candidate?  Newt? 

We know based on his comments about Mitt's time at Bain Capital that Newt has no problems unfairly attacking an opponent.  I guess it's just par for the course. 

But I never thought I'd see the day when the supposedly conservative GOP would be going after each other using the playbook of the left - class warfare.  I guess the GOP is finally trying to cement its place in modern political history as the party that just doesn't suck as much as the Democrat party.

Check out this meteor that made its way across the Central Texas night sky this week.  I'm not a space geek, but this is pretty cool.

Here's another video.

But in order to have something pried from your cold, dead hand, you first have to have it in your hand.  And in Washington, DC that's virtually impossible for would-be gun owners.

Proof?  Emily Miller, a reporter for the Washington Times, has been trying to legally obtain a gun in DC for months now.  She's been trying to abide by DC's onerous gun control laws for five months and is finally on step 14 of 17.  Yep.  17 steps in DC to get a gun. 

Czar Obama had a google town hall type of thing this week.  During the Q&A he answered a question from a Fort Worth woman on jobs and H1B visas.  Well, he kind of answered a question. 

It's also worth pointing out what Czar Obama did not do that during the same event.  He did not answer the most popular question submitted.  You would think that in a relaxed, social media environment such as the one the president decided to use he would pay more attention to the questions that generated the most interest.  Nope. 

The question came from a former LAPD deputy chief who asked about our ongoing failed war on drugs.  Regardless of yoru view of the war on drugs, don't you think Obama should have addressed the most popular question submitted?  Nah.  Why waste your time with such trivial matters when you need to comment on your favorite late-night snacks. 

Here's the story of Alejandrina Cabrera.  A judge ruled this week she was unfit to serve on the city council of San Luis, a border town in Arizona.  Why?  Take a listen to the court proceedings below. 

Arizona state law requires public office holders to know English.  Cabrera definitely does not.  Unless you have a different definition of "know" than I do.

Cabrera's testimony begins at the 1:30 mark.

I'm not a big fan of government-imposed bans.  Usually when a politician demands something be banned what they mean is they think you're too stupid to know any better or they're out to protect you from your own actions.

When a voter demands something be banned they're usually trying to get the government to do his dirty work for him.

Which brings us to this recent story on a man who was bitten by a pit bull in Killeen.

And my comments on that story (saying it's the owners, not the breed that is at fault in these types of cases that get hyped by the media) prompted this email response from a listener:

Walking trial in Cameron park last Sunday guy who looked like a thug to me passed and the full sized pit lunged at me.  I called parks dept no return call I pay taxes on that park and I'm ready to go to city counsel to get this breed banned from parks

And here's part of an email he sent to some city council members and the mayor:

Every time I  walk the trails at Cameron park, there is some thug walking a Pit-bull that lunges at me.  I don't care if they are on a leash and not breaking any laws. I want them banned.  They are clearly a risk and  a liability.  [emphasis mine]

That line of thinking should scare any limited-government, freedom-loving person to his core.  Because this guy doesn't like something, even though he acknowledges no laws are bing broken, he wants the government to step in and so his dirty work for him.  Rather than change existing laws to increase or change penalties for irresponsible owners, he would just rather have the government ban the breed so he's not inconvenienced everytime he walk in Cameron Park.

It's that kind of mentality that gets us big-government and limits our freedoms.  While we're at it let's go ahead and ban guns since they're also dangerous. 

I bet by now you're feeling pretty sorry for Warren Buffett's secretary.  After all this talk by Czar Obama and Buffett on how immoral it is that Buffett's secretary pays a lower effective tax rate than her billionair boss, it's understandable you might think she's on foodstamps and eating spam everynight. 

Well, don't cry too much for Buffett's secretary, ahem..imstrative assistant.  Using some readily available tax info and Obama's claims, this guy concludes she is making at least $200k per year.  Not exactly the image of a poor, struggling secretary being treated unfairly be her evil, rich boss Obama wanted to get out.

How's that bailout working out?  It turns out (like you couldn't see this coming) that much of the TARP money will never be repaid and some TARP programs will last for years.  But the good news is we're only talking about hundreds of billions of dollars.  No big deal. 

Two gun stories rolled into one!  A 64 year old woman held a car thief suspect at gunpoint in her backyard until police could get there.  She did so by saying "'Stop right there (expletive), or you're going to be dead where you stand." Love it.  And in the same story they mention an 82 year old man who shot and killed an inturder.

Czar Obama was supposed to be the anti-George W. Bush.  A smart, educated guy from up north who would never say anything to make us look bad.  After all, Bush was that stupid guy from Texas.  As it turns out, according to their State of the Union speeches, Obama is dumber than Bush.  Or at least he treats Americans and voters as if they're stupid.  Based on an analysis of sentences and words that made up presidential SOTU speeches, Obama average an 8th grade reading level.  Bush was at a 10th grade reading level.  Obama's average was the lowest of all the presidents analyzed.  You can't blame the guy, though.  He is trying to reach out to Democrat voters.