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Just slip an Advil in their bookbag every day. Eventually, someone will find it, and then the school will get the blame, not you.

“How big is she going to get,” I asked Space Bunny. “Oh, around 70 pounds.” Okay, a little bigger than her much-loved Rottweiler cross who we lost to a car two years ago, but not too much. I can deal with it. She took her Delicate Little Flower to the vet yesterday – 83 pounds of very athletic muscle.

Fortunately, she’s very sweet, though her bark sounds as if it begins somewhere down around the 6th circle of Hell. It’s always amusing to answer the doorbell and see the deliverymen standing 15-20 feet from the door. She’s pretty, too, for a linebacker of a dog that looks as if it could eat a Doberman for breakfast.

After the University of Tennessee administration called the cops on the UT College Republicans, check out what their advisor had to say:



“That evening, Michael Combs, the faculty advisor for the College Republicans and a member of the UT Board of Trustees sent an email to their chairman, saying, “I ask that you rescind this call for parents, family, etc., to contact their state representatives. Such action would do far more harm than any good to the university or to your cause. I also sincerely request that you not make direct contact to media outside the campus since this seems to be an internal campus issue at this point. While the media will love to use a good story to sell their papers, going to them with this concern will resolve nothing.

It’s kind of hard to win when your coach is playing for the other team. That’s right, CRs, if someone in authority mistreats you, suck it up and hold your tongue. Because that’s worked so well for so many people in the past. Funny, but it seems that things only started happening AFTER the CRs went to the media. How on Earth could that possibly be?

We are not in a war with a crook in Haiti. This is no Grenada or Panama – or even a Kosovo or Bosnia. No, we are in a worldwide struggle the likes of which we have not seen since World War II. The quicker we understand that awful truth, and take measures to defeat rather than ignore or appease our enemies, the quicker we will win. In a war such as this, the alternative to victory is not a brokered peace, but abject Western suicide and all that it entails – a revelation of which we saw on September 11.

And here we all thought that World War III would be fought against the Soviets.

I don’t have an opinion on the matter, not having enough information, but there sure are far too many unanswered questions about 9/11. I have no doubt that the official histories of TWA 800 and the Oklahoma City bombing are completely false, and I won’t be shocked if the same thing turns out to be true here. I will never, ever understand politicians.

I think I’m glad about that.

Want to know how the Consumer Price Index is kept so ridiculously low? It’s pretty simple, thanks to Mogambo. Housing accounts for 22 percent of the CPI. Home prices are not included in the CPI, although housing rents – which have been declining thanks to historically low mortgage rates and an unusually high percentage of home ownership – are. Furthermore, the CPI assumes that everyone rents, even though 65 percent of households own their own home.

So, you see, if you simply don’t count the prices that are increasing rapidly, and you also multiply by three things which are declining in price, you can make it look as if there is only moderate price inflation of around 3 percent, even as $80 billion per month is created, borrowed and pumped into the economy. On an annual basis, that would require 9.23 percent growth of a $10.4 trillion economy just to stay even, but not even the fabulists who concocted the 8.2 percent growth claim were willing to go that far and claim that a mature economy was growing at a rate rivalling the New Asian Tigers during their explosive heyday.

I have said it before. I will say it again. GOVERNMENT STATISTICS ARE FICTION! Ideally, they would be published in the dark fantasy genre.

Vox Popoli: The Mogambo Guru for President in 2004 HQ

John Curry writes a letter to WND: I’ve heard homosexuals say, “A person who speaks out most against homosexuality is a person who would really deep down like to share that experience and would probably enjoy it”. No one speaks out against that lifestyle more than I. If what they say is true, then their lifestyle must be a choice since I’ve chosen not to do it in all of my 54 years.

Every single time – okay, both times – I’ve written a column even tangentially related to homosexuality, I’ve been accused of being queer myself. As Mr. Curry points out, were this true, it would simply prove that homosexual behavior is a choice, and an easily controlled one at that. Of course, I’ve yet to hear from an offended group as utterly devoid of logic as the queer crowd. I can’t even get offended by the attacks; it’s like being mauled by declawed kitten.

Hissy Queer: “How dare you say that being gay is bad! You’re bad! Gay is good! You’re gay! Homophobe! You’re secretly gay!”

Me: “Do you even listen to yourself?”

One of these days I’ll dig up an old email from the gentleman who describes himself as the father of the gay rights movement, apparently unaware of the irony, and post it here. His strategy, if you can even call it that, consists of the assertion that homosexuality is a positive good, in all ways. According to him, it is healthier than being normal, more morally pure than being normal, more ethical, etc. Which naturally makes one wonder what color the sky in his world might be. Lavender, most likely.

The other common homosexual response to criticism – aside from the inevitable butchery of language involved in the assertion of “homophobia” – is to assert that the critic is jealous. Jealous, I ask, of what? Disease, a proclivity for suicide and bad dance music? Sounds like a real party, Penelope.

Devvy Kidd writes: …according to a September 15, 2003 letter from GAO (General Accounting Office) to Congressman Elton Gallegly regarding W-4’s and reporting, this little nugget of truth stands out: “Under current law, IRS does not have statutory authority to impose a penalty to enforce employer compliance with the reporting requirement. The reporting requirement was promulgated in Treasury regulations.”

And yet Dick Simkanin is still in prison for a crime he did not commit and for which he was not convicted. Yes, Virginia, the Federal courts are corrupt and they are in bed with the con artists at the IRS.

I wonder how the IRS apologists manage to put any serious stock in the fact that the IRS has numerous court decisions on their side. Forget Dred Scott, recently the Massachusetts Supreme Court tried to redefine the Western concept of marriage while the 9th Circuit Court denied that the Bill of Rights applies to individuals. If your reality is defined by the courts, then I suggest that you go right ahead and get your man-slave back, marry him, and file a joint return.

Homosexuality is more than an Apollonian death cult; I’m increasingly beginning to suspect that it is, sopratutto, a spiritual disease. This chronicle of a dying church is a fractal image of the death of the Episcopalian church in America.

It’s intriguing to see how homosexual hatred for Christianity is becoming more overt and intense even as it is increasingly embraced by the secular mainstream. Was it this bitter back in the old days of the closet? I don’t know, but I have the impression that it wasn’t that way. All sin is sin, of course, but there appears to be something deeper going on here as well. I note that homosexuals don’t harbor nearly as much hate for Islam, despite the fact that Islamic society is far harsher on homosexuality than is Christian society, which only asks that homosexuals repent of their sin – as every other sinner is expected to do.

I also find the hysterical denial of the ex-gay movement to be interesting. Let me get this straight. We’re to take a man’s word for it that he has always been a certain way. But we are not to take his word for it if he says that he has been changed by the power of God in his life. Why, that’s logic worthy of Andrew Sullivan whenever he writes on anything having remotely to do with his sexual preference. I often like his writing, but his contortions over the oxymoronic concept of “gay marriage” are almost embarrassing.

By the way, if you don’t believe in God or sin, all of this is irrelevant. Regardless of the subject, I’m not interested in hearing anyone’s opinion on how something in which they don’t believe operates.

From Mogambo: I keep looking at a chart of the growth in federal debt, and it is now increasing at the rate of almost $80 billion per month. Per month! Just how valuable IS a currency that is being inflated at that rate?… Mr. van Eeden writes, “The dollar is likely to fall approximately 50% from its current level. That would free the dollar denominated gold price to find its way back towards its true value of $699 an ounce (as of 2002). Given the mounting pressure on the dollar, there is virtually no chance that it will not collapse.” Remember those currency crises of those foreign nations, and how Clinton and Robert Rubin and Greenspan and the IMF and all those guys, which is everybody, decided to establish the principle of moral hazard, and so they bailed everybody out by sticking the American taxpayers with the bill? You do? I knew it! I could tell by the way you grind your teeth that you remember perfectly!

Anyway, I know what you are dying to ask me: “Hey! Mogambo! Yo! What did gold do during those trying times?” I am glad you asked that question, because Mr. van Eeden, in a stroke of coincidence, provides the answer to that very question, and thus saves me trouble of getting up off of my lazy butt and actually trying to find out, and maybe end up doing actual work for a change, and then I remember how tiring that is, and I lose all interest. Anyway, he writes “The gold price in Japanese yen however, increased by 34% between 1995 and 1996. The next year the gold price jumped more than 40% in both Philippine pesos and Malaysian ringgit, and 67% in Korean won. Indonesia suffered the most during the South East Asian Crisis and the gold price, accordingly, increased more than 400%.”

Remember, I was recommending buying gold at $300. Now it’s at $404. Of course, I also thought the markets would go down this summer. There’s one scenario that explains both going up – inflation. Don’t believe the CPI. Like all government stats, it’s fiction.