Here's To The Waldos

(As of today my son is now a teenager.  He's been going through a "growing spurt" of sorts lately, getting taller by the hour, and appears to be made up of skinny arms and legs of gigantic proportion, held together with elbows and knees.  As I've mentioned before, he's a "420" kid, having been born on April 20th, which has no effect on him now, but probably will later on in life.  He will be kidded.  A thirteen year old is easy to buy for, birthday-wise, because he'll give you a list of stuff he wants.  Pretty handy I guess, except when you price the things he wants.  He gave me a list last week and after searching the Internet for price comparisons I found that if I were to get him everything he wanted it would cost me over $400.  I may be a retired senior citizen, but I'm not senile or feeble-minded.  Turning thirteen is one thing, winning the Price Is Right showcase is another.  We'll be giving him his presents when he gets home from school this afternoon, and he will have to do with what we've gotten him, and he will love us for it.  Becoming an official teenager is not easy my friends, as we all know.  But I digress ... )

• Look, I have nothing against average Americans owning firearms.  I believe gun ownership in America is a fundamental right of our Constitution.  But what the hell is going on at the NRA?  These people seem to hate President Obama with a dangerous fervor.  This article reporting on Alexander Zaitchik's observations at the St. Louis annual NRA convention is shocking and disgusting.   "What do Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Barack Obama have in common?"  Answer: "Nothing, yet."  There is a cancer growing in this country.  And it's apparently the racist factor of the National Rifle Association.
• And you know I could go the rest of my life without mentioning Ted Nugent and be perfectly happy with that decision, but when this washed-up rocker starts vomiting his opinions in a public forum someone should say something.  So why hasn't the media said much about this?  You'd think even Faux News would want to distance themselves from this raging maniac.  And why hasn't Mitt Romney rejected Nugent's endorsement?  What gives?  Oh, and by the way, the Secret Service wants to talk with Ted about his mouth.  This could get interesting.
• And then we've got Ann Coulter.  Godhelpus we've got Ann Coulter.  "Ann Coulter says that gun control laws are inherently racist and that the solution to incidents like the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is more 'negroes with guns.'"  Ann Coulter reminds me of one of my ex-wives.  Or someone else's ex-wife.  Good grief.
• Update on Rush Limbaugh:  El Rushit wants the "outrage to stop," but the National Organization for Women has announced a campaign to hit the big fat drug addict in the wallet by pressuring local businesses and radio stations to stop doing business with him.  "On Monday, Rush Limbaugh tried to minimize the movement against him by blaming Bill Maher for the war on women, while he claimed that the outrage against him was phony."  What?  Bill Maher?  Oh please.
• If you haven't heard about this, allow me to introduce ALEC to you.  It goes something like this:  Giant corporations give United States congressmen and senators marching orders to vote in the proper direction to enhance the corporations.  Simple, right?  Well we all suspected it was happening, and it's been happening for quite a while, and it's finally been exposed.  We'll start HERE, but you'll be hearing more about this later. 
• Happy 4/20 everyone.  And don't forget to toast The Waldos.