It would be almost fitting it Obama’s first term lived under the threat of terrorist actions from Iran; it would cement the final piece in the puzzle that patterns his failed presidency after Jimmy Carter’s.

“In light of the realization of the divine promise by almighty God, the Zionists and the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated,” Khamenei said recently. Although similarly named, he is not to be confused with Carter Administration nemesis, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, who died in 1989. Khamenei was his successor.

One doesn’t hear from Khamenei often as he frequently prefers to speak through Iranian President Achmadinijad, who faithfully delivers such death-threats against the West. With the raising of his profile, one has to wonder if a future attack is imminent.

Unless you’re US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in which case you just throw up your hands and say, fatalistically, “You can’t overthrow them all.” Great attitude, St. Hillary! Next you’ll declare cd replication a bigger threat to western society than a nuclear Iran. Nice job.

That’s the only way to explain why the incumbent governor would defy the will of Oregon voters, who overwhelmingly approved the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1984, when he announced this week that he would not allow the death penalty to be carried out on Gary Dwayne Haugen, who had rejected all further appeals and was set for execution on December 6. Kitzhaber said he would disallow now only Haugen’s execution, but any other executions during the remainder of his term as Oregon governor, which expires in 2015.

Currently serving his third term in office, Kitzhaber had previously allowed two death penalty cases to be brought to execution in previous terms of office. Now, he’s decided to block the execution of Haugen and all other Oregon death row inmates during his term. Maybe he’s the recipient of Spine surgery Dallas-style? Hard to know. More likely, he just doesn’t care what voters think since he’s unlikely to run for a fourth term and won’t have to answer to voters for his actions.

Kitzhaber narrowly defeated former NBA star, Republican Chris Dudley, to win his third term a year ago. Kitzhaber, 64 currently, is probably unlikely to run again in 2014.

Whether one agrees with Kitzhaber’s insistence that he knows better than Oregon voters or not, what’s getting overlooked is what is in the interest of justice for Haugen’s victims.

Haugen was initially convicted of murder and sentences to life in prison in 1981, three years before Oregonians reinstated the death penalty by an overwhelming majority. His conviction was for the beating death of his ex-girlfriend’s grandmother, Mary Archer. Lovely guy.

Then, in 2007, he was convicted for the bludgeoning and stabbing death of a fellow inmate, David Polin, an act he committed with the help of one other inmate. Prior to being sentences to death, Haugen was a major rule-breaker in the prison system, and his state rap sheet includes the following:

“…in violation of Possession of Drugs four times, Drug Smuggling once, Contraband five times, Disrespect twice, Unauthorized Property once, Unauthorized Area once and Disobedience of an Order, three times. His last major rule violation was in 2006.”

With two violent murders and 17 major prison rules violations under his belt, one should not be distracted by his so-called “clean prison service record” since his transfer to death row; that’s more a result of the increased security on Death Row, and the decreased freedoms to be found there.

This is the man Governor Kitzhaber believes is undeserving of the ultimate penalty. This is the guy our graduate of the I Know Better Than Oregon Voters School of Law and Politics is willing to go to the mat for.

Decide for yourself, Oregon.

Reality TV star and out-and-open homosexual Taylor Garrett, who stars in LOGO TV’s The A-List: Dallas, was “was punched to the ground and bloodied Friday night by someone vandalizing his car because he’s a gay conservative associated with conservative commentator Ann Coulter,” according to a report on The Daily Caller.

The beating came as he discovered someone defacing his car with the words “F*** Coulter!”

Said Garrett, ““The Democrats want me to live on their plantation as their slave, because I’m a gay person. And I refuse to do that.”

When he confronted the vandal, the man stood up and punched Garrett in the left eye before fleeing the scene. Garrett fell and was scraped up as well by some broken glass spread near his car.

It’s not the only time Garrett has been targeted by the left for being a conservative gay man; he recently had a rock thrown through his home window with an anti-conservative message attached; but the reports have drawn criticism from the left who are skeptical of his veracity.

“I would’ve thought people would have been a little more tolerant considering that our community advocates for tolerance, but it has been nothing but mean spirited attacks, especially after the Ann Coulter scene,” Garrett said. Explaining his lunch with Coulter, Garrett added he wanted to show people that “just because you don’t support gay marriage doesn’t make you a bigot, doesn’t mean you hate gay people, it just means you disagree on gay issues … The left has turned on anyone that might not agree with gay marriage, they have demonized them.”

For ages, Democrats claimed the GOP was racist for being “too white.” Then they were racist for not supporting their own black candidates like the moderate General Colin Powell. And now that an genuine conservative black candidate is emerging in the form of Herman Cain, who is the apparent front runner in most areas nationwide for the GOP presidential nomination, have Dems backed off their racism claims against the GOP?

Perish the thought.

Now, we’re racist because we do support a black candidate for president.

Dem strategist Karen Finney blathered on like so recently on MSNBC:

One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he’s a black man who knows his place. I know that’s harsh, but that’s how it sure seems to me.

She’s joined in similar sentiment by Democratic Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, who uttered this hate-speech recently:

I think when [members of the Tea Party] can vote for a Herman Cain and hear him say the things that he says they feel like, ‘Well, you know, I can, I support this guy and…so it shows that I’m not racist and I’m supportive.

Wow… and here I thought Herman Cain was garnering support because of his specific policy solutions, such as his 9-9-9 plan on simplifying the tax code as a first step toward a Fair Tax system. Or that he’s a red-blooded conservative with solid ideas on what he’s do if elected to change the course of this country’s economy. Or maybe even that he is a guy who’s well-qualified for his leadership in the private sector as well as the public sector, even though he’s never run for elective office and can therefore run as a Washington outsider ready to reform government.

Nah, none of that counts. It’s just our racism again. I should have known. Thanks, liberals.

On recent broadcasts, Schultz has bloviated about how black Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is pandering to “white Republicans out there who don’t like black folks.” That would be quite a trick, if that were even possible.

Schultz’ comment exposes the left’s overconfidence in their foothold among black voters. Even with the nation’s first black president in the White House, Schultz apparently believes it’s okay to play the race card and accuse a party that currently favors Cain over Mitt Romney, of racism.

If the GOP actually were as racist as Schultz suggests, Cain would’t be surging right now, regardless of the fact that he has presented what is consistently the most solid and conservative political message of any candidate running.

Schultz also railed against Senator Jim DeMint, whom Cain has mentioned as a potential running mate if he wins the nomination. Yet those comments aren’t even worth wasting virtual space on. Maybe Schultz simply needs to be sent a bunch of Christmas Cards to cheer him up.

Instead, Adams did nothing and in fact held meetings to reach accommodations when protesters refused to cede territory to a group that actually did obtain a proper permit last weekend: a marathon event. The talks were cast in a light that made them seem as grave and important as the Middle East peace accords.

Look, it’s simple: obtain a permit and camp to your heart’s content for that period of time. Defy City Hall, and the city is within its rights to fine, issue tickets, and even arrest, though the latter should be saved for a late-stage last resort method. But writing tickets and issuing fines for each day a protester camps illegally? That would put this thing to a stop both quickly and peacefully.

Mayor Adams’ choice to allow the illegal camping to continue without any response at all, though, exposes the city to legal challenges on their anti-homeless camping regulations, and other applications of the ordinances; it extends well beyond the current situation.

Recently, while debating a GOP bill that would relieve taxpayers from having to pay for abortions through ObamaCare, Pelosi demonstrated her “off the deep end” address by claiming “Republicans want women to die on the floor.”

Nothing could be further from the truth. Conservatives in this country love women and tend to propose to them using ArtCarved wedding bands, at the very least.

In fact, the closest conservatives come to wishing any woman less than the best out of life is when we wish that former Speaker Pelosi would either gracefully retire, or lose her seat to a challenger in the next election cycle, because of her tendency to spew such untrue nonsense. That’s all.

No, they’re not giving away free Volvo S70 custom floor mats; they’re banning all Republicans from appearing in the parade. That includes popular GOP freshman US Congressman Sean Duffy, as well as state Sen. Pam Galloway (R-Wausau) and state Rep. Jerry Petrowski (R-Marathon).

It’s a sad day when a public holiday is so controlled by organized labor that only those who vote with them one hundred percent of the time are welcome to take part. The best way to protest? I suggest that all GOP-leaning voters boycott Marathon County’s Labor Day parade for the partisan shill-fest its organizers have transformed it into.

With the vast increase in Federal spending mandated by ObamaCare, and the recent credit downgrade on US credit by Standard and Poor’s, the fate of ObamaCare now clearly rests in the hands of a closely-divided US Supreme Court, but will become one of the key, signature issues of the 2012 election cycle.

Many analysts, some of whom live in Branson Lake homes, suggest that simply striking down ObamaCare and its oppressive increase in all future Federal spending, could be enough to regain the US’s triple-A credit rating. The stakes for the 2012 presidential election cycle have rarely been this critical.

With Obama’s frequent outright hostility toward popular Israeli president and outspoken conservative, Binyamin Netanyahu, as well as his recent blunders in handling Middle East affairs, Koch think Jewish disappointment in Obama could lead to a higher-than-usual number of Jewish voters casting their ballots for the GOP, so long as the GOP doesn’t nominate someone who’s even worse on Israel.

But don’t worry about that, folks: Mike Huckabee has already said he’s not going to run, and it’s highly unlikely Ron Paul will prevail. While I wouldn’t bet my guaranteed issue life insurance on a massive defection, the possibility of a significant shift is not out of the question.

Good call, Mayor Koch!

Georgia Tech athletics director Paul Radakovich let the announcement slip in a recent Tweet, in which he said, “Brian who? We’re getting Obama, man!” Radakovich claimed President Obama’s masterful command of his recent NCAA March Madness brackets indicated to him there might be an opportunity in the making.

“When President Obama took office, his approval ratings were through the roof,” Radakovich told WonderfulPessimist.com. “But those have dropped and I heard through a head-hunting service, while we were conducting our search, there might be an opportunity there. At first, I didn’t believe it. I figured we were getting Punk’d or set up for an episode of Undercover Boss or something. So we proceeded with the Gregory hire. A couple days ago, the White House contacted me. That’s when I knew he had a real chance.”

Terms of the pending agreement remain undisclosed, though Gregory did confirm it was a “four-year deal” in line with other premiere college coaches. That would put his compensation in the $2-$3 million annual salary range. As U.S. President, Obama earned the constitutionally-mandated salary of $400,000 annually, plus a $50,000 personal expense allowance.

“In a lot of ways,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told WonderfulPessimist.com, “this represents a promotion of sorts for President Obama. He’ll enjoy a far higher salary and no more criticism than he currently endures. Georgia Tech basketball fans can be pretty fierce.”

The reception on the Yellowjackets’ campus has been enthusiastic so far. Top recruit Julian Royal of Milton High expressed optimism. “I get to be coached by Barak *expletive deleted* Obama? Are you *expletive deleted* me? That’s the *expletive deleted*, man! I’m so in! *Expletive deleted* coach Gregory, man! Barak’s my *expletive deleted*!”

Others were less enthusiastic. Sophomore center Nick Hicks said, “You’re kidding, right? The man’s March Madness brackets were way off. Kansas, K-State, Kentucky and Villanova were his Final Four. He got one right. Now he wants to be our coach?”

The White House immediately issued a press release announcing the revocation of Hicks’ scholarship and a subsequent FBI investigation into his academic record.

Politically, Georgia governor Nathan Deal, a Republican, praised the signing in a brief press release. “This is a great day for Georgia Tech basketball, and most especially, for the nation.”

On Capitol Hill, word of Obama’s pending resignation sent shockwaves throughout Washington. Vice President Joe Biden, who will ascend to the presidency upon Obama’s formal White House resignation May 1, told WonderfulPessimist.com, “Certainly I’m thrilled. In fact, Barak told me when he offered me the number two spot that there was a chance this could happen. The man loves his hoops.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner, a Republican, will become the interim Vice President to Biden according to U.S. Constitutional rules of succession, wept when he was notified.

Yet not all reactions in Washington were positive. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed disappointment in the President’s timing, saying, “If he was going to do this, why not last spring? Then I could have been vice president.”

Also, junior Georgia senator Johnny Isakson, a Republican, noted in his blog, “First he ruined the country, now he wants to ruin Georgia Tech basketball? Go back to Illinois, carpetbagger!”

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RELEASE DATE: APRIL 01, 2011

Well, newsflash, both budgets are lying. They reach those totals by including a proposed $40.8 billion thanks to a spending freeze. Only trouble is, that money was not close to being spent; it was “built-in spending increases” due to the “cost of inflation.” Because Washington doesn’t do zero-baseline budgeting like normal Americans; they assume everything they spent last year will be spent again, plus more for “inflation.”

So all that’s being truly cut is the so-called “inflation adjustment” increase. But it’s not real money, so it doesn’t count.

Between Harry Reid’s Senate plan and the White House, the Democats came up with only $10.5 billion in additional cuts. That’s nothing compared to the cuts the GOP-led House came up with; subtract the same $40.8 billion in fake spending cuts from their budget, and you are left with savings of $61.5 billion.

That’s nowhere near close on the White House’s part. So at least the GOP budget is somewhat aggressive. But aggressive enough? By my count, the GOP still owes the American people at least another $40 billion in cuts. Real, actual spending cuts that shrink the size of government. Either that, or giving us each a set of nice shoulder braces. That might work, too…

Nah. I’d still prefer the spending cuts.