FROM MY EMAIL: A Deer Hunting Story.

Ted Nugent, rock star and avid bow hunter from Michigan , was being interviewed by a liberal journalist, an animal rights activist. The discussion came around to deer hunting.

The journalist asked, 'What do you think is the last thought in the head of a deer before you shoot him? Is it, 'Are you my friend?' or is it 'Are you the one who killed my brother?

Nugent replied, 'Deer aren't capable of that kind of thinking. All they care about is, what am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away. They are very much like the Democrats in Congress.'

The interview immediately ended.

A REMINDER as we begin the final year of the Obama administration.

DANA MILBANK: Republicans break out the blame game. So how is this different from the Democrats' standard operating procedure?

CHANGING SEASONS V: 14 November 2011.


Part V of a series. One week later, and the difference is striking. The beech trees in front that used to have leaves are now completely devoid of them. Those that were formerly green are now brown and losing leaves rapidly.

The Part IV photo is here. You can click back to earlier photos from there.

POLITICAL CALCULATIONS: Average Lifetime Earnings Trajectories by Education.

OCCUPY HARVARD DAY 3: 2 photographers, 2 police, no occupants.

Linked from Instapundit.

OCCUPY WALL STREET uses capitalist means to promote statism.

"WORLDWIDE, more and more energy resources are being discovered, developed, and delivered. In the United States, not so much. In the global economic war, America is not poised to win."

IF YOU CAN'T VOTE 'PRESENT' THEN PUNT: Deficit 'supercommitte' may put off decisions.

“IRONIC, ISN'T IT: woman is safer in meeting at the National Resturant Association than in a crowd at #OWS.”

Tweeted via Instapundit.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S 'friends and family' plan. But don't call it corruption.

'GREEN' no longer means environmentalism.

ANOTHER GOVERNMENT PROGRAM ripe for abolishment.

SUPREME COURT to take up ObamaCare. It will still have to be repealed in 2013 to ensure the coffin is never reopened.

THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW: You're not dying of overregulation; you're just lazy.

OCCUPY NEWS OF THE DAY:

• Occupy Portland protestors arrested for possession of explosives.

• Police arrest NC protestors occupying vacant business.

• Occupy Wall Street costs local business $479,000.

• Occupy San Francisco protesters attack police.

• Victim of slaying near Occupy Oakland identified as camp resident.

And the good news is ....

MSM GETS SCHOOLED. Video here.

ON OCTOBER 12TH, Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post's ComPost blog wrote a tongue-in-cheek opinion (Craving older Americans; not yet online) recommending that the Occupy Wall Streeters "eat the elderly" to which I respond, tongue-firmly-in cheek, that it's inadvisable. It's true that we're older and generally wealthier, but we're also wiser, more experienced, tougher, spoiling for a fight -- and we'll take away your allowance.

FROM MY EMAIL: a cure for constipation.

If you are bothered by occasional or frequent constipation, look in the mirror and repeat the following phrase three times in succession when symptoms occur:

My present and future financial and personal well being are totally in the hands of ... Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Geithner, Rahm Emmanuel, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank.

If that doesn't scare the shit out of you then you are probably destined to be backed up for the rest of your life. There is no need to thank me for this advice; I'm just doing it as a public service.

I haven't had a problem for nearly three years ....

A REFRESHER COURSE ON FIREARMS.

RANDOM THOUGHTS on the news from Victor Davis Hanson.

TIN MAN: we need a government with some core values and a backbone to match.

OBAMA'S NEW JOB PLAN: Kill 400,000 jobs immediately.