Melanie Morgan

...random thoughts after a long day working on my taxes.

I FREAKING hate doing taxes. I hate PAYING taxes even more. (Thank goodness that my pal and hard-core CPA Steve Moskowitz here in San Francisco takes the job and makes it spotless for the IRS.)

Somebody, anybody, PLEASE campaign on a flat tax reform.

But I digress.

I was watching Bill O'Reilly's re-broadcast tonight, trying  to catch up on the video from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker's appearance before Congress on Capitol Hill.  (Go back and read this link after you finish mine. You'll laugh. I did.)

So I am thinking to myself-- Wow! 

Fox News has made a stunningly brilliant move in hiring Karl Rove as a commentator.

KARL ROVE UNLEASHED.

Why wasn't this Karl Rove (the one I saw with the graphs and goofy erase-a-board) out there for the past 7 and a half years talking to the American public the way I saw him this evening?

This guy can COMMUNICATE. He's witty, smart, personable, and slays the Democrats and their ridiculous arguements on every subject, especially the one nearest and dearest to my heart --The War on Terror.

The Bush Administration could NOT communicate.

The Bush Administration made some stupid, stupid decisions early on that resulted in the Lefty's re-defining why we went into Iraq, why we stay there, and how it will affect generations to come if we prematurely leave the battlefield.

"Evil" Karl Rove, so feared by the Left, stranded conservatives on an island built by the Mainstream Media. The man who wanted to create a Republican majority for decades to come, failed. 

It's legacy building time for President Bush. Rove is out there now, correcting the record in an understandable way.

But Rove (and others) let so many opportunities go by, dissing conservatives who wanted to help them (including me) by stiff-arming us when the going got tough.

To quote my teenager - "Whatever."

Or--History will judge.

Michelle Malkin is doing a stunning job of keeping track of the bloviating from Senate Democrats, heckling by CodePink, and the reports of REAL progress taking place in Iraq.

Go here.

Or click over to Sister Toldjah here.

Ron Winter sums it with his withering criticism of Senator Carl Levin. Disgusting.

Also, I got a call from Kristinn Taylor at FreeRepublic.com who brought a banner into the Senate chambers in D.C.

 It read "Thank You General Petraeus."

Naturally, the Capitol police snatched his sign. And let the CodePinkos wave their anti-American banner that read "Bring the troops, home NOW!"

Predictably, Senator Obama is now grabbing the spotlight by demanding that Americans negotiate with the terrorist government of Iran.

This man is NOT fit to be our Commander-in-Chief.

(via DrudgeReport)

Click here to watch the excerpt of today’s Senate testimony.

Sen. John Warner (R-VA): “Can you now, just in simple language, tell us, ‘yes, it is worth it’ and ‘it is making us safer here at home’?“

Gen. David Petraeus: “Senator, I do believe it is worth it … I took on the task, the privilege, of command of Multinational Force-Iraq, because I do believe that it is worth it and I do believe the interests there are of enormous importance, again, to our country, not just to the people of Iraq and the people of that region and the world.”

Sen. Warner: “Mr. Ambassador, how do you answer? Is it providing greater security here at home?”

Ambassador Ryan Crocker: “Sir, I will try to answer that at two levels. First, in the little over a year that I have been in Iraq we have seen a significant degradation of al Qaeda's presence and its abilities. Al Qaeda is our mortal and strategic enemy. So, to the extent that al Qaeda’s capacities have been lessened in Iraq, and they have been significantly lessened, I do believe that makes America safer.”

(Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, 4/8/08

The Guardian must be taking it's lead from the New York Times.

Answer: FEAR AND LOATHING of General David Petraeus' report that is coming out on Capitol Hill tomorrow.

Have many times have your kids been forced to watch 'An Inconvenient Truth' without any balance in your schools?

My son saw it three times the year it came out. I have seen reports where other youngsters watched that piece of garbage seven times, and worse.

 Al Gore made his chops in Hollywood with an Oscar, and he busted the chops of anyone who has denounced global warming as a huge HOAX on the American public.

Well, Sister I Toldjah So (with apologies to the real Sister Toldjah blog-mistress) can't help reveling in this piece from USA Today Today.

My former co-host at KSFO, Brian Sussman, is probably ranting and raving on the radio even as I type. He is a meterologist. He goes slightly insane, frothing at the mouth, and starts hurling (his verbal spears) on this subject.

(Brian Sussman, the lovable, huggable host with the most contempt for GW B.S)

The scary thing is that Brian, if he were still working in TV as a meterologist, could be stripped of his certification for holding his views. That's because Dr. Heidi Cullen of the Weather Channel thinks that the 'deniers' are dangerous. So does Al Gore. And most Liberals.

Brian isn't dangerous. A little excitable from time to time, but he's a harmless guy who just likes to fire up his leaf-blower whenever there's a Smog Alert in the Bay Area. I think that's fairly reasonable. I like to jump into my Great Big Honkin' SUV and circle the block four or five times when I hear about Smog Alerts. Brian gets mad at me because I forget (occasionally) to get my generator going, like he does, and then mow the lawn. 

I like to think my additional contribution is valuable, too, because I light a fire in the fireplace (which the global hoaxers say will scorch another huge hole in the Ozone) while keeping a sharp eye out for the fire cops. Under regulations from the California Air Resources Board, I could be arrested. But thankfully, the hot-heads at CARB were shot down by global coolers like Brian.

However, we must be vigilant when dealing with seriously disturbed, emotionally driven insane people.Why? Because they are making headway thanks to the 300 million dollar advertising campaign that ALGORE is orchestrating, whose minions are infiltrating our schools and propagandizing our children. Hitler would be proud. 

Fight back, folks. Mother Earf needs you.