A bill to allow conceal carry on campus had passed the House in Idaho. That seems to me a good reason to make sure Buttercup goes to a local college instead of one that would make her defenseless. Of course, lots of people don’t see it that way and are freaking out saying everyone is going to start shooting each other.

Here’s a point we can’t make frequently enough: Conceal carry is no longer theoretical. There are 40 states with right to carry. There are plenty of campuses where conceal carry is currently allowed. That means you can’t just mouth off about what you think is going to happen when conceal carry is allowed in a new area. It doesn’t matter what you think is going to happen because there are plenty of real-world examples. We’ve had conceal carry for decades. If all the horrible scenarios gun control advocates dream up had any basis any reality, they should be able to point to tons of examples by now. So either point to a real world example to argue with or shut up.

Again, two options when arguing against conceal carry:

1) Point to an actual example of conceal carry leading to people shooting each other that you want to avoid.
2) Shut up and admit that your fears have never come true in reality and thus you have a poor understanding of human behavior which means its best you excuse yourself from all political discussions.

Simple, yo.

I guess we’re in a new mode of operations now. Instead of being the leader of the free world, when bad things are happening and people need our help, we wait for the U.N. to do something. That means more people get slaughtered while we wait for the U.N. to go through its motions, but the end result is you get U.N. approval. Which, I dunno, I guess is worth something for political cover.

Guess what: U.N. approval, baby!

I like how the vote was 10-0 with China and Russia abstaining. Like they know that Qdaffy is a loon and super unpopular, but actually taking a vote to stop slaughtering protesters would just be too out of character for them. Gotta keep the evil cred.

So what now? Qdaffy had really been successful at stomping out the rebels while we sat back and watched, so hopefully it’s not too little too late. The way Obama is going about this is pretty much the opposite of the more proactive peace strategy I outlined in Nuke the Moon. If we were following that strategy, a long time ago Qdaffy would have died from natural causes: Piranha bites. Because when dictators are loons, sometimes piranhas fall out of the sky and bite them to death. It just happens; it’s not like America has anything to do with it. Even if the piranhas had little American flags on them.

So the Muslim TV executive who beheaded his wife got 25 years to life for 2nd degree murder. I would think a beheading would automatically bump a murder up to 1st degree, but I’m not a lawyer (I possess a soul).

Anyway, Muzzammil Hassan founded Bridges TV which he hoped would help portray Muslims in a more positive light. Now, America has lots of peaceable, friendly Muslims, and I can see why they’d want some better publicity. That’s why if you’re trying to present a more moderate view of Islam, you really need to suppress that urge to behead your wife. It just plays into the stereotype too much; islamaphobic people are going to seize on incidents like that. So as much as you might think your wife needs to be beheaded as part of an honor killing, you have to just say no. But if you really really need to murder your wife, at least just poison her or something — just do it in some way that doesn’t play to negative Muslim stereotypes. I know that’s not as symbolically satisfying as beheading, but being moderate involves at least incorporating some western ways… like leaving people’s heads on their bodies.

According to scientific polling, white people who want less government are less racist than white people who want more government. Basically, the Democrat Party gets most of the black vote and the white racist vote. Might seem like a contradiction, but it’s not that surprising. We all know the extremely patronizing attitude of the white liberals who are the main leadership in the Democrat Party, and that leads itself pretty easily to racism. A big part of wanting less government is thinking all people are equal and can get along without government help, but if you think certain groups of people are inferior, it does follow you’d want more government to watch over people.

Anyway, this is Science!, so we can’t argue with it unless you’re some backwards, science-hating caveman. It just means we need to confront anyone asking for more government on their racist attitudes. If someone proposes a new government program, ask him:

“Why do you hate black people?”
“Why won’t you admit to hating black people?”
“Admit it: You’re thinking of how much you hate black people right now.”
“Where are you going? Is it to some vantage point from which you can better hate black people?”
“Hey! Everyone! Watch out for this guy walking away from me! If you’re black, he’ll hate you!”

If we confront enough Democrats, maybe we can finally get them to give up their racist crutch of more government. And that’s why they’re so slow to cut anything; balancing the budget would be like admitting black people are equal.

Here’s an interesting article on how pickpocketing is disappearing as it’s something that takes skill and practice and today’s criminals are too lazy and stupid for it. I’m not sure how concerned to get in the declining quality of criminals. It means we’ll never actually see supercriminals as criminals aren’t going to engage in anything more complicated than hitting someone over the head and grabbing money. They’re probably even too lazy to put on clown makeup before a crime.

I think it’s just too easy to make a living doing legal things these days. In the least, you might as well just get welfare instead of directly robbing people and it takes even less effort. If making a living were a bit harder, then you might have smarter people turn to crime and rob banks with freeze rays and themed henchman. So that’s a side-effect of prosperity — really really dumb lazy criminals. It’s hardly even worth Batman’s time. I mean, billions in gadgets and all he ever runs into are a couple stupid thugs who only require a punch to the face.

Oh, I hope out of boredom he doesn’t turn to crime!

Gas prices sure are getting higher. I remember more fanfare about that during Bush’s presidency, but now that there is a Democrat in office, the media probably figures high gas prices are good as it will force us all to get hybrids. Still, I think gas prices would have to reach $50 a gallon before buying a Chevy Volt would make economic sense.

Why don’t we just drill here in the U.S.? Drilling for oil really isn’t just for angry Middle Eastern countries; we can do it too. Then, when there is big unrest in the Middle East (because it’s Wednesday), we can say, “Oh, how quaint. Interesting fact: That has absolutely no effect on our drilling operations here in America.”

We’ll probably one day we’ll need to find a power source more abundant than oil, but my guess is it will also be even more explosive. That’s just how tech works; the more advanced things get, the more potential for explosions. Like, back in caveman time, all they had were a couple sharpened rocks tied to sticks. Those never exploded. Then again, cavemen also couldn’t automatically record their favorite TV shows and them watch them at their leisure. So trade offs.

Obama is not very good at being president. I wish I could give more constructive criticism, but he just really sucks at it. His best course of action would be to resign and hope someone better takes over, but maybe he’s afraid no one else will give him another job after they saw how he did as president.

“I’m not going to let you manage this Arby’s. You’ll just stand around useless when there’s a crisis such as us running out of Horsey Sauce.”

Not only is he is a bad president and a bad choice to manage an Arby’s, he’s not even a very good person. Like if you had an opening for someone to be a person and were interviewing candidates, I don’t think Obama would get that job. A well-trained German Shepherd would probably be chosen over him. Yeah, a German Shepherd doesn’t make an ideal person as it can’t talk or operate a doorknob, but it at least appears to be aware of its surroundings and care for other people. These are qualities we like in a person that a German Shepherd has and Obama lacks. Plus, I’ve seen no real evidence that Obama knows how to operate a doorknob.

Anyway, my point is that come 2012, we should probably get someone else as president who doesn’t suck so much. We have like 300,000,000 people in America, and my guess is that most of them would make a better president than Obama. You’d think we’d want the best of the best to be president, but I’d settle for someone not in the bottom 10% in being president. There could be a slogan for the 2012 Republican presidential candidate: “The odds of him being worse than Obama are extremely low to the point that they should be disregarded.” A little clunky, but I think it gets the point across.

Here’s a funny Onion video:

Man Becomes GOP Frontrunner After Showing No Interest In Government

They have a fake quote from Hot Air in it, but really this is something I’ve argued time and time again: A true conservative would have to be dragged kicking and screaming into office. For instance, I like Palin’s biography, but the one thing that’s always made me suspicious of her is that she one day woke up and said, “I’d like to become a politician.” What conservative would do that? Wanting to go in government and interfere with other people rather than work in a real job is a liberal impulse, and thus anyone who shows interest in public office is already compromised in their conservative principles. We keep complaining about how the Republicans end up as just Democrats lite, but that’s because instead of us electing conservatives, we elect politicians. If we want to find people who will actually tear down government and won’t spend our money, we need to find people who don’t want to be there in the first place and don’t care about staying.

My solution: Change the House of Representatives to be like jury duty. People are randomly selected from their districts and have to serve for two years whether they like it or not. If we don’t want the usual sociopaths attracted to running for office, we have to end running for office.