What's so Cool Hollywood?

Nice stance, head back, hiding the ball a little, peppering a high strike right over the plate.

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how the guy who dresses like a band teacher and throws like a girl is supposed to be the coolest guy on earth. If this is cool, I wanna be a nerd.

At least she's not wearing floods.

Never Forget

After eight years, I am still just as bitter mad as I was on September 11th 2001. In fact it seems to get worse every year.

The United States Military and our allies have been profoundly successful in overwhelmingly beating back the very force that killed 3,000 of our citizens. However, I believe that as civilians, our efforts and resolve for freedom have proved to be a devastating failure. And now today, we are content as ground zero remains a giant hole in the ground.

Even worse, we kowtow to China and others who tell us that referring to the new project as a "Freedom Tower" would offend the global community. I worry more about offending the victims and heroes who lost their life in this war on terror.

Why Big Business Loves the Modern Day Democratic Party

In order to beat back the romanticized, lionized portrait that is being painted of the late Ted Kennedy, we might talk about the same old criticisms: horrors of Chappaquiddick, his efforts to embolden the Soviet Union in thwarting Reagan’s victory in Cold War. We could talk about his getting kicked out of college for cheating or about his destroying the reputation of a great man and would be great justice, Robert Bork. But anybody could read these stories and draw their own conclusions. So let’s examine the senator where he arguably had the most success. This was his institutionalization of big government rhetoric in the modern era.

When you think of the mega-rich, what first comes to mind? Pinky rings? Country Clubs, maybe that gosh awful Tommy Bahamas casual wear?
Well if you thought hard about it hard enough you would realize that what most successful businessmen have in common nowadays in this era of king-sized government it’s that day they fell ass-backwards onto easy street by way of the insidious “Government Contract.”

The following is a summary of one of the most disingenuous mantras being promulgated by Democrat Party leaders amongst their mindless followers:
The difference between the Democrat and Republican Party is that the Republicans represent and fight for the rich and the powerful with the Democrat Party represents the “little guy” and the common people. Therefore, all the non-rich and non-powerful should support taxing the rich in order to create big government social programs which will distribute the nation’s treasury more favorably among the common man, after all aren’t we all really the “common man.”


It was difficult to even type such illogical blather. In reality, the only beneficiary of big government programs help is big business. Big business loves big government. In fact out of control government is a greedy businessman’s dream client. Imagine having a client with no sense of reality regarding his budget or how much he can spend on your product.

Instead they have a deep desire to forge lasting relationship, making you their number one because they need you just as much as you need them. Such is the relationship between modern day politicians and big business.


This is not free-market capitalism as envisioned by Adam Smith and here’s why. In this situation, big business isn’t producing a product to sell to the masses they are being forced on the masses by politicians. They haven’t benefited society by producing something of original value. They are not forced to compete with other producers which results in low prices and proportional profits--just in case anyone was wondering the real reason CEO salaries were out of control. This is a result of having a client, the government, who doesn’t care about anything but what you can do for them. As a result they are distorting the market just as the Marxist would.


So you can imagine the nationwide state of euphoria felt by big business contract-makers when the stimulus bill passed this last winter. They love this stuff; they are the best friend big government ever had. It’s small business that hates big government. It’s small business that supports free-market principles because it’s their only hope, they are generally of little value to politicians and thus have no seat at the table to feast on the endless distribution of the nation’s treasury. However, even the small businessman can sometimes work out a deal with a local leader on a tit for tat basis. You really can’t blame either party in this situation; therefore, the best government involvement in private industry is always no government involvement.

Moreover it’s the “common man” who stands to lose in this game of government largess. When Big business is not forced to compete in the free market, prices inflate the dollar is devalued and budgets all over America are stretched to exhaustion. The rich hardly notice the difference. Maybe you wondered why every poverty stricken major city in the US is saturated with big government liberal Democrats. Its vicious cycle and the Liberal Lion, Ted Kennedy has probably done more to promulgate this lie than anyone in history, what a legacy.

Lets get back to the Hussein Truth!!

New author: Lets get back to the Hussein truth!! -

The following views do not necessarily reflect those of Jack Addison or the Conservative Comeback in general however they may often do so.I believe that Obama is a citizen of the free world even if people debate he was born in Kenya, and refuses to show his birth certificate not to be confused with certificate of live birth. And who cares if he went to Muslim school and forgot to put his hand on a bible the second time he was officially sworn into office. I do not latch onto these ideas even If people ponder on why Hussein didn’t put his hand over his heart during a pledge to ol’ glory. What difference does it make if calls our police officers stupid racists, and accused doctors of ripping kids’ tonsils out unnecessarily for more money. After all I’m waiting for him to fulfill his talk of civil militia as well funded as the armed forces and pass his bills with zero tort reform. Who cares that our commander and chief wants you and I to pay for woman’s wombs to become tombs. It’s ok that we stop producing fighter jets, everyone loves America!

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The Entertainer

Some people follow and root for the "under-dog". I don't. And I would argue that if we are honest with ourselves, we will admit that who we really seek after is "the best". We are drawn to the best. We admire the talent and everything the best has gone through to be the best.

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Michael Jackson was the best. He was born with talent but this show was about a lifetime of dedication and a competitive soul. In a world full of singers and dancers a dime a dozen, nobody did it like he did it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBLxh3u0tM

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He is probably the most over analyzed person in the world. But what people forget is that he was primarily an entertainer. The longest performing entertainer in the world-from 5 years old to 50. It's all he knew and all he was known for.

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The biggest tragedy is that we never got to see his last performance. I bet it would have been good. People at the rehearsals for his up coming show said, "at 50 years old he was out lasting and out working 20 year old dancers". Working out six hours a day, after 45 years this type of physical demand must have taken its tole. I think he was obsessed with entertaining us one last time. This time he was determined to make it his best. He just couldn't deal with the fact that his body couldn't handle it anymore.

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A quick note about his financial situation, if you think the estate is worthless or broke, I feel bad for your small understanding commerce and marketing. Michael's official comeback may not have panned out but hes coming back nonetheless and his royalties and revenues will be bigger than ever. No more distractions, just the music. In a way he has finally outdone himself.

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Entertainment in its original form was something reserved for kings and pharaohs. When the entertainer could no longer entertain his master, he was put to death. Their life was no longer of value. Michael was our entertainer and and when he couldn't entertain us anymore he essentially killed himself trying to give us one last show.

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They're Burning Dixie Down

There are a lot of things that can be done to improve the quality of a school. However, one thing that is particularly hard to establish upon a college or university is “heritage” or school pride. Sure, money can buy books, it can lure distinguished faculty from other institutions and it can even build state of the art facilities, but all the money in the world cannot buy heritage. Just ask schools like Weber State University or Utah Valley University.

Many students at Weber are shocked to find out that the word “just” does not precede "Weber State" in the school's official title. Or how about the slogan, "Utah Valley University, because you didn't get in to BYU".

Utah’s own Dixie State College may not be the most prestigious school in the state, its facilities might not be the most state of the art and its professors may only be trending liberal instead of full blown militant Marxist like in the Ivy leagues or for that matter our own University of Utah who’s economics department is dominated by actual registered Marxists—I miss McCarthyism. But what Dixie does have is heritage and school pride, or at least it did before a bunch of moaning politically correct liberals started defacing the place of all things unique and independent.

Since the 1950’s the college now known as Dixie derived its name and heritage form the original settlers of the St. George valley of Utah who tried to harvest cotton. Since then, the school adopted the rebel as their mascot and created this unique twist on some of the charm and heritage of the Old South mixed with a Utah culture.

Moreover, the school has set their way on becoming one becoming the fastest growing and developing colleges in the state. Particularly in athletics, the school, only a few years removed from junior college status, has been able to rise to the national rankings and even competed in the national NCAA II tournament.

So what do you do when you have a school demonstrating unprecedented growth, achievement and national notoriety? Well if you’re a whining miserable malcontent like college President Lee Caldwell or Chairman of the Board of Trusties Shandon Gubler, this is a perfect time to change everything starting with the school name and mascot all in the name of ACLU style political correctness.

Sounds idiotic right? Will that is what these two losers and their go along get along pals in the administration are proposing. Pushing through an idea that will remove any property on campus identifying the school as Dixie and replacing it with the name “University of Utah—St. George” thus giving the school all the pride and independence of a pair of imitation sunglasses from Tijuana. You couldn’t have cheapened the school any less if you miss spelled the title, channeling the infamous Oklee’s brand from south of the boarder.

“This partnership will give us things we couldn’t normally get on our own,” Caldwell said.Even with the changes Gubler and Caldwell said DSC’s independence won’t be lost. “We can best govern this institution and draw on the strength of the U of U's brand name, and still seek independence as a campus within this system,” Gubler said.

So in the spirit of their view, I would like to formally announce that I am changing my name to that of my roommate in college, Joe Jepson. But since Joe lives in Utah and I live in Florida I will henceforth be known as Joe Jepson “hyphen” Florida. I am doing this to take advantage of all the benefits that come with this name. I don’t see the harm since my independence won’t be lost.

"[Rebels and its confederate affiliation] is a national, state and local concern," said Caldwell, "This is a concern this community had for many years, and it’s unfortunate that the confederacy issues have tainted a pure heritage that Dixie has that was originally started in this community," Gubler said. However, Caldwell failed to mention that the community opposes the name change about 9 to 1.

These are interesting comments, really point well taken, I mean it’s not as if any other school has adopted the rebel mascot or southern heritage. Not this day and age. Even if they did it wouldn’t be a major University. And even if there were, it would have to be miles away, perhaps in the Deep South. It certainly wouldn't be a mere hundred miles south of St. George in Las Vegas. Well you know that old stubborn non-diverse conservative city of Las Vegas, we can’t be like those racist red necks.“

To be honest we’ve had a 56-year identity crisis,” Caldwell said. “We just went along with the nickname, but it doesn’t fit the community that we want to be. We have the same heritage as U of U, so we hope to go back to our pioneer roots.” Actually the only one suffering from an identity crises is Caldwell, he is acting like the Mayor of San Francisco held hostage by a rural red state like Utah. So "rebels" is just too edgy for you huh, something you definitely want to avoid in a mascot. What would be your first choice as a replacement, how about the Dixie State "conformists", or the "lemmings" or perhaps a title after your own heart the "Stalinists".

Well, the change is already in the making the mascot of Rebel is already totally removed from the school and replaced by the fierce title of “Red Storm”. I have no idea what this means, I’ve decided that its either a reference to a certain terror coming once a month or the communist menace of the Cold War. Either would be right up Caldwell or Gubler’s alley.

The real problem with this disturbing plan is that it is wholly unprincipled. It’s essentially a plan to make up for a school’s weakness by throwing away everything its stands for. “What profit a school if it gains the whole world and loses its own soul”.

As I watched the Dixie State softball team compete in the NCAA II National Tournament this last weekend, I took a moment to admire a banner displaying the name “Dixie State”, among only a few other teams who were successful enough to make it to the national tournament in the envy of the 170 other teams who fell short.

Even more noteworthy is the fact that this was the first year that this gritty little school was eligible to go to the national tournament after only two years in the NCAA II. But that is type of thing that makes this school great and that is the type of independence and grit that will fall by the wayside as a result of this deal.

But luckily for these self interested deal makers nobody in the Dixie community is willing to really speak out against that which will effectively castrate a perfectly good school.

The Dark Side Prevails

Cheney has effectively high-jacked the congress and forced them to vote to keep Guantanamo open. Obama's last speech was the equivalent of the Democratic response to a President Cheney's State of the Union.

Cheney's approval rating has gone up 8 points since he has started taking on the Obama administration. I haven't seen Cheney like this since he told Pat Lehey to go perform a biologically impossible act on the Senate floor, ah those were the days.

Ps. this is the friendliest photo I could find of Cheney.

Utah's favorite Daddy's Boy Moves On

Probably the the best part about Governor Huntsman becoming Ambassador to the red Chinese is that we are further spared from hearing the words, "Presidential Candidate Governor John Huntsman Jr."

What would have been the point anyway? The Governor is essentially Mitt Romney minus the height, conservatism, and self made wealth. It would've have worked in the same way that Ralph Machio could play Sylvester Stalone in Rocky.

Governor may have, at times begrudgingly governed conservatively, but he is not a big "C" Conservative. He spent much of his time growing the size of the state government, impeding legitimate nuclear waste disposals and complaining about the state being too conservative.

The most ironic part of Huntsman's tenure is the state experienced success after success despite the Governor's opposition to the policies and philosophies that gave rise to that vary success.

No doubt he still is fighting mad that Utah enjoys a top position in nation wide student achievement, without having caved into the demands of the Teacher's Union. In his words Utah refuses to implement the policies that will retain and attract the most talented teachers.

Where are all of these talented teacher's governor? All they all hiding in California where they are payed so much more to hold the state at 4th from the bottom in academic achievement?

Come to think of it, I can't think of a better place for our Governor than in the Obama Administration to further normalize relations with the red Chinese.

Teachers Union, Worse than AIG

In the midst of the current nation-wide budget shortfalls, some have suggested that it might be time to cut funding to the Federal Department of Education. However, if I were in charge of the Federal Budget I would do no such thing because no such Department would ever exist If I were in charge. Never has any department in the Federal Government shown such a blunt failure and wast of good tax payer money. Pretty Strong statement considering we are talking about the Federal Government. Allow me to explain:

Every year, funding for the DOE has increased, while every year student performance has decreased. The US spends more than double the amount on education than Brazil and North Korea combined, yet our students trail both of these counties significantly on test scores. And for those naive people who tell us that its because our class sizes are too big to effectively teach our students, North Korea has well over twice our student to teacher ratio.

The truth is, many teachers in America today have become the moral equivalent of the 1980's "welfare queen", where their biggest accomplishment in a school year might be showing the class how to put condoms on cucumber's. Yet judging by the latest statistics on teen pregnancy even that instruction is failing to be demonstrated properly on the final exam.

The take home message here is not to bash teachers, how can we blame people who figgured out how to draw a paycheck without being required to demonstrate anything but a 50% success rate. "Summers off, don't mind if I do." We should blame ourselves for going along with the same old wrong-headed thinking that in order to excel in education the country needs to relentlessly pour money into the Department of Education and State governments and never ask the question: "Hey, is this money doing any good?" Until anyone can show me otherwise. I firmly believe that learning is inversely proportional to the amount of money spent.

For example, the State of Utah's funding of education is in the bottom 10% of the country while its students are in the top 10% in test scores, college entrance and graduate degrees. But before you get all fawning with praise for Utahans, the state is still filled with idiots who are appalled at the low level of funding for education. I guess they won't be happy until the state goes the way of California, highest education spending in the country, bottom quarter on test performance. Common people, as your signs say, "Utah Students Deserve More", or less as the statistics show.

But let me recognize the so-called unsung hero that is the American school teacher. As last year's recipient of the National Teacher of the Year Award said, "This is dedicated to all those unrecognized heroes out there that are teachers"... she said this, by the way, while receiving an award from the President of the United States standing on the White House Rose Garden.

So in the spirit of gratitude towards teachers let me make one thing clear about my own education: any academic success I have ever experienced, I owe absolutely nothing to any teacher that I have ever had. I owe everything however, to my Mom and Dad who taught me how to read, and the hours of studying done alone in my bedroom, (best education money can by).

But I would be totally amiss If I didn't recognize the unsolicited sex education that I received from public school teachers.

There are so many better solutions for fixing education than increasing funding on the backs of property tax payers. The solutions include an increase in responsibility on the part of parents, the states and teachers. However, the thugs that run the Teacher's Union will never allow any constructive solutions to be implemented for fear of recking the wonderful system of 50%incompetence they have perfected. And you thought a few million spent on undeserving bonuses was bad.

Some Reasons to Take Heart: We Are Right and They Are Wrong.

Michael Steele has been elected RNC Chairman. This is a great pick. He is a great communicator, bold, and quick witted. We haven't had one of those for a long long time. Response from the media: "well I guess the Republicans are trying to counter the election of the first black president from the Democrats." I guess we should be grateful they didn't dive right in to the "Uncle Tom" comments. Meaning, you can't really be black unless you are a mindless drone of the left. It is always fun to watch the left try and convince blacks to start supporting gay marriage, and idiotic environmental policies. "You mean that's what you Democrats care about".


We are winning the war over loony government spending. It didn't take more than two weeks for the Democrats to load up the stimulus bill with pork for liberal special interest. Instead of putting out an actual stimulus package for spending on infrastructure, something that every single American supports and which would snowball the creation of jobs, Democrats chose spending on things like replacing the grass on the National Mall or billions to study STD's and Global Warming. So really we are talking about putting liberals back to work. So I guess we can expect a sharp up-tick at "Whole Foods" and Volvo Dealerships but not much else.


This should explain why the media has taken to brow beat the Republicans for not voting for the bill. Lets think about this for one second. Why Democrats even care about getting any Republican votes? They have an overwhelming majority all they have to do is kick Republicans aside and push the bill through, and why wouldn't they, they are all absolutely convinced that the bill will fix the economy. Why not push the bill through then when it works they will be the heroes and it will be able point to the silly Republicans supporting "Big Oil" and could not see the genius of supporting "Big STD".


Well, hopefully the reason is obvious to everyone, but if its not you should know the reason why the Democrats and particularly the Obama administration does not want to be only ones supporting this bill is because even they know this crap doesn't work it is a way to pump their liberal pet projects full of cash while its for the gettin.

So, for the first time in a while we can all sit back, smile and be proud to be Republicans again.

Glad He Was There

Words cannot describe how little I care about what current popular opinion has to say about our 43 president. All I know is that earlier this morning an indescribably uncomfortable feeling came over me when I realized that as of twelve noon on this day, George W. Bush would no longer be my president.

I think that before the conservative movement can truly plan for future leadership, we need to come to terms with the man who has lead for the past eight years.

The Bush Presidency's effect on popular opinion has all the irony of a Greek Tragedy. Bush's greatest achievement is keeping America safe for the past 7 1/2 years. Ironically, this lead to a dramatic reduction in public concern for the threat of terrorism. Lower concern translated to a dramatic reduction in the tolerance and understanding of what is sometimes necessary to properly prosecute a war. He is the same man the country who stood on the ruble and on the pitching mound in New York after 911. He never changed but we did. We embraced the Bush Doctrine when we thought it was necessary to keep us safe and we rejected it when we misguidedly thought it unnecessary.

So George Bush left office the same way he came in, met with a total lack of class and understanding by the American Left.

We were told non-stop today that there was a magical feeling of bi-partisanship and unity over the masses of people who gathered at the nation's capital. BULL CRAP! Any good will was destroyed when the crowd erupted into booing and mocking chants when when Bush was introduced. These classy people even booed at Laura Bush and even American war hero George H.W. Bush. There is no doubt in my mind that there was not one person in the crowd with one-fourth of the honor as the elder Bush 41.

I guess we are all supposed to be gratefully that these people discovered patriotism, that they like this whole America thing. I say we were a great country before these people gave us there blessing on patriotism.

Despite how people feel about this president, and even some of my brethren on the right have there doubts, no one will ever convince me that he is not one of our finest presidents.

The truth is we should have used the president on the 2008 campaign trail telling his side like only he can. We still would have lost, but I hated having to put up with an apologetic front for the man and policies that have created a beacon of freedom in the middle east and kept us safe at home. I hope nobody on the right feels that they have to apologize for our 43rd president.

For me history has already vindicated the Bush presidency but for those who have yet to reflect logically, they will have to explain to me how someone can give exulting praise to our 16th president and denounce our 43rd. One of these two presidents instructed one General Sherman to blaze a path of destruction through the Southern States to win a civil war. This same president suspended habeus corpus to all enemy combatants and threw newspaper editors in jail to face military tribunals who criticized his administration's prosecution of that same war.

He did what was right regardless of public opinion and for that the country owes George W. Bush a dept of gratitude. Thanks W.

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Hey Dems, Why so Racist?

Its not every day that Democrats fall into their phony race batting traps they have been setting for years. So in times like this, it is important for all of us to sit back and enjoy. And maybe even egg it on a little.

Who would have thought Harry Reid would be guarding the door way of the all-white Senate chambers like Bull Connor turning the dogs on the lunch counter sit ins in the segregated south.
The rumor is, if they do allow Rollin Burris on the senate floor, he will under no circumstances be allowed to use the same drinking fountain as the others in the all-white senate. I am embarrassed that you Democrats can't find one person of color to serve in the US Senate.

As much as I would like to continue down this road, the reality is Reid isn't so much racist as he and the Dem. leadership are just trying to have things both ways. They wanted to distance themselves from Blagoavich but didn't rally want a special election because Democrat fatigue is already in full effect around the country before the new congress was already sworn in, they would run the risk of losing the seat.