- We propose a plain-English Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- To Our Liberal Friends and Members of Our Families
- An amazingly wonderful SNL video
- How Republicans should stand
- Calling on FoxNews – do the right thing
- stories about Obama’s newspuppies
- Finally – The other news media find a spine! – huge!
- You owe the American people an apology Mr. President
- Is there a RINO in the house (warning to Republicans)
- Roll call on evil (vote these abysmal representatives out in 2010!)
- The President and the War
- The President and the War, Part 2
- The President and the War, Part 3

More to come…

While we would love it intensely to see Al Gore locked in the slammer for a very long time due to his malfeasance with respect to the scientific method and his efforts to siphon money out of the economy to support his environmentally scandalous boondoggles, this time we find ourselves on his side. Galling as it is, our allegiance is to truth and fact; not to ideology and the preferences of a moment.

What we have in this case is a woman named Molly Hagerty claiming she was groped, etc. by the former Veep. Let us say at the outset that we don’t know what really happened there and then. We weren’t there. What we do know is that Ms. Hagerty hasn’t produced a scintilla of evidence that can be used in a court of law.

Now where have we seen this before? Where oh where have we seen it? Oh yeah – Anita Hill. The individual most responsible for political correctness degrading this country’s civility, enjoyability, and conviviality.

The similarities are striking. A woman, without a shred of evidence, makes claims against a famous/powerful man. He has to somehow prove he didn’t do it.  While it is difficult to prove you DID do certain things, unless there is a record (e.g., receipts, video, etc.), to prove you did NOT do something? How do you get a receipt for something you did NOT do? How do you record that you really didn’t do something? You’d need a video that recorded everything you DID do, 24/7, because you’d never know which part of the time line an accusation about you would be made.

Fortunately for Al Gore, this was a criminal matter. Why fortunate? Because in a criminal matter, there are rules to be followed. There are rules of evidence that will generally be used in a court of law, and if these rules were not followed at the time the evidence was gathered, or if there is no evidence, an impartial judge will throw the case out. And the prosecutors, knowing this, won’t file unless they believe they have a case that can pass muster with a judge.

With Clarence Thomas, there were no rules of evidence. There was just Anita Hill’s claims along with a complicit “trier of fact” (the Congress of the time) and a complicit press that had it in for Thomas. They could follow whatever procedure they wanted, or no procedure at all – and that is, of course, what they did.

Because of Anita Hill, the template was set: accuse falsely a powerful man or woman and try accused in the court of public opinion. Hagerty’s mistake was that she chose someone who is LOVED by the left-wing media, so they held back on Gore. And she filed a criminal complaint.

Now – IF Al Gore truly did do the deeds he is accused of, we can only wish that Hagerty had evidence that would allow the government to throw Gore’s sorry behind into the slammer. For he truly does belong there as far as we’re concerned.

But due process matters more to us than having people we despise sent to the Big House.

Next time, Hagerty, get evidence that will stand up in court.

- O-t-c

Not much has changed.  As anyone with an ounce of sense knew, the Messiah hasn’t been able to command the oil from the Gulf well to stop. Some God the Messiah turned out to be. What’s that? He never claimed to be a God? Could have fooled us…

In our last post we said that the President acted Presidential – not scapegoating BP. We spoke to soon. True to form, the President wants to know who’s “ass to kick.” Way to get mad, Mr. President. Way to show you’ve got emotion. Like emotion is what matters here.

While we acknowledge that as an engineering problem, stopping the leak may be extremely difficult, we believe it remains an engineering problem – and not a political one; except in this: What would have happened if we didn’t have a ban on close-to-shore, shallow drilling? What if the oil companies didn’t have to put down shafts where they are neraly inaccessible?

We lay the location of the drilling platform at the feet of the environmentalist whack-jobs who wouldn’t know a scientific fact from their horoscope if their lives depended on it.

Mr. President… why don’t you step down, and let someone with a brain – perhaps Lady Gaga – take over. At least she’s a tad entertaining. What’ve you got? Nothing. Squat. Zilch.

Time for you to go, Mr. Prez.

Failing

Day 493

We’ve been quiet here for quite some time. Our last post was more than a month ago.

Why?

The reason is simple. We believe that the the cast has hardened. And what we are seeing is more and more heat and less and less light. We find it boring, and we have other things to do.

We know how we are voting.

While everyone here at O-t-c is registered as Independent, we will be voting nearly straight Republican line, unless we believe that an Independent who is truly conservative has a real chance of winning. We would love nothing better than to have conservative Independents win. But they have a job to do: they have to make a very strong showing in the polls. If they can’t do that, then they haven’t closed the deal with the voters, and we’re hanged if we’re going to let Democrats have another chance to control things without a fight.

We want Democrats – and liberals everywhere – to have sleepless nights. We want them to worry about life. We have gone, ad nauseum, into the reasons why. Those reasons have neither changed, nor do they need any updating.

As a matter of fairness (which the Left knows nothing about): We watched much of Obama’s news conference yesterday regarding the disaster south of Louisiana in the Gulf. We believe he acquitted himself well during this conference. We say to him this: what a shame. What a shame that you didn’t act like this with respect to the banking and credit crisis. What a shame you didn’t act like this with respect to the health insurance deformations you’ve inflicted on this country. In THIS disaster you seem to be doing some of the right things; and you haven’t demonized BP. Why couldn’t you do that during the fiscal disasters of last year? Why couldn’t you do that when you were nationalizing automobile companies?

If you had been Presidential with the other problems this country faced and faces, we would have felt no need to start Off-the-cliff.com in the first place!

What a shame, Mr. President. A dirty rotten shame.

- Off-the-cliff.com

There are two cards that we see yet to be played; one more preferred here at O-t-c than the other.

1 – The people of Iran could overthrow the idiots currently in charge. They don’t need America to do it, and we don’t know if they physically can do it. But if they took over, and if they believed that Americans were in their corner rooting for them, this could be a very good thing. But we’re not holding our breath on any of this. Not them taking over. Not them believing that we’re really in their corner if they do. And not believing that the Putz-in-Chief will do anything that would give them grounds to believe we’re in their corner.

2 – Israel can attack. If Israel attacks, we hope they do it ruthlessly. No mercy to the population; no restraint on the infrastructure. Here’s why, and it’s not because we wish the Iranian population at large harm. We don’t – even though they’ve given us no reason to believe them to be our friends. No – the reason is that many military analysts say that Israel doesn’t have the firepower to take out Iran’s nuclear program. Add to this the near certainty that if they attack Iran, nearly every other state in the Middle East will rally to Iran’s cause and go up militarily against Israel. We fully believe that the Putz-in-Chief will not come to Israel’s side. We believe he is an anti-Semite and would love nothing better than to have Iran take out Israel. So Obama will do nothing.

We recall how Israel fared by acting with restraint during the war against Hzbollah a few years back. They got smacked around, not only militarily, but in the court of public opinion. There is no reason to believe that the court of public opinion is now on Israel’s side. It hasn’t been in at least 10 years, maybe more. American Liberal Jews despise Israel, which is why they are part of the Democrat party, despite the rank anti-Semitism there.  With friends like American Liberal Jews, Israel doesn’t need any enemies – even though enemies abound.

So – trying to curry favor in the public eye by showing restraint is an idiot move from the jump. There is thus only one option, should Israel start military operations.

Kill and destroy. Period. Destroy all infrastructure – civilian and military. Take out whoever has to be taken out in order to take down the infrastructure. No more hands-behind-back deployment. No more stupid rules of engagement. The enemy has shown itself to be barbaric in the extreme. Israel (and the U.S. for that matter) can’t come to a gun fight with boxing gloves – tied behind the back no less.

Destroy every major building in Tehran. Destroy Mecca. Destroy every possible vestige of what passes for civilization in that deplorable part of the world. Do that and it won’t matter that Iran still has a “nuclear program.” It won’t have people enough to make it work. It won’t have infrastructure to get supplies into the program. It won’t have roads, ports or anything else of value. Bomb the entire nation back to the stone age and then offer to help with reconstruction. If they refuse, bomb them again. Bomb them until they are either all dead or until they surrender. One way or the other.

Israel has been exceptionally patient, trying to work with duplicitous liars, cheats and barbarians. The experiment has failed, as any thinking person knew from the outset that it would. Barbarians understand only one thing: death. They may not even understand that.  There is no dealing with such people.

We throw our support 100% behind Israel and we think America should too. But that would require Obama and his minions to be whisked out of the White House and for the White House to be hosed down from the stench of a socialist sleeping there.

May America never again – NEVER AGAIN – put a socialist in power. May the Democrat party either come to its senses or be destroyed as an effective force. And may the rank and file Democrats either come to their senses or get a taxpayer paid lobotomy and be warehoused where they can’t do any more damage.

- Off-the-cliff.com