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The Self Defense Guy, who has the best deal for hidden cameras on the web, got this bit of choice news from being a Tea Partyer. Did you know that even before Arizona cowboyed up and passed our new anti-illegal immigration law, California already had virtually the same law on its books?

Here’s the link. See for yourself.

I guess the L.A. city council and the rest of the talking but not thinking heads are in over those empty heads of theirs. But of course, an empty head will float, so they may be alright in the long run.

But kudos, and you’ve got to know how hard this is for The Self Defense Guy, who’s also got the best deal on stun guns on the web, kudos to Phil Jackson of the Lakers, who’s read the law, read what the Arizona legislators said about the law, and had no problems with it atall.

Thanks, Phil, but Los Suns in 7, sorry.     

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If you haven’t yet heard of the political ruckus the past few days from West Palm Beach, Florida, here’s where you can read about it. When you get there, you’ll notice that 1 of the tuxes from The Fairy Godmother of Fashion is front and center of the story. Then, if you follow the link a few lines down, the “A shameless, self-promoting Canadian,” you’ll find other examples of her work, standing next to other folks you probably know.

Oh yeah, buy something here.     

Saturday’s news had the story of Mike Cuellar’s death, at
age 72. Not quite good enough for the Hall of Fame, but
Cuellar was one of the 4 Baltimore Orioles pitchers who
finished the 1971 season with 20 or more wins each. That’s only
happened once afore, way back in 1920.

Cuellar finished his career at 185-130, I believe, very
respectable numbers, and a few decisions going the other way
may have gotten him to Cooperstown. By 1971 he had made
3 All-Star teams and had even won 1 Cy Young award.
He really was a great pitcher.

Needless to say, the Orioles were a huge favorite to win
the World Series in 71, over The Self Defense Guy’s
Pittsburgh Pirates. The Orioles won the first 2 games in old
Baltimore Municipal Stadium, and it looked like the Series was going
to unfold true to expectations. “Old” Municipal Stadium was no
exaggeration, I can tell you. It looked worse than a Single
A stadium looks today, and they were playing the World
Series there.

But there was a lot going on ahind the scenes that would
come into play in game 3 in Pittsburgh.

The Pirates played in Three Rivers Stadium, which had opened
only 1 year earlier and at the time of its opening made
Pittsburgh the envy of most other franchises. Lots of seats,
great lighting, bigger and better clubhouses for the players —
for its day, Three Rivers Stadium was a marvel.

Compared to it, Baltimore’s Municipal Stadium was not much
better than a cow pasture, and Roberto Clemente, the great
Pirates right fielder, said so, and promised that the Pirates would
win 3 straight in Pittsburgh.

This is where it gets interesting, acause baseball isn’t
played in little boxes in your living room, if I can borrow a line
from ESPN’s Kenny Mayne. It’s played on the field, but
it’s also played in the player’s heads. This is where
Clemente took the challenge, inside Mike Cuellar’s head,
and he ripped him a new one when he got there.

Clemente was from Puerto Rico, and not just Puerto Rico,
but from the countryside, too. He started life as your
typical country bumpkin, a country bumpkin who knew a cow
pasture when he saw one. But by 1971 he had been in the
big leagues for 17 seasons, and he had learned a thing or 2
about head games.

And Clemente, by 1971, had won 11 Gold Gloves, 4 Batting
Average titles, and 1 MVP. There never had been, and even to
this day there never HAS been a greater Latin player in the
big leagues, although Albert Pujols of the Cardinals may
change that eventually, if he stays healthy.

Cuellar, a Cuban, was the scheduled pitcher for game 3, and
Cuellar, like all Latin players, was in awe of Clemente and
what he had accomplished. But he didn’t appreciate
Clemente saying the Pirates would win the next 3 straight,
since it meant that Cuellar would
have to be the first Orioles pitcher to taste defeat.

Cuellar thought that he deserved a little more respect than
that, especially from another Latin player like Clemente.

Now to the game. Cuellar is pitching great, but in the
bottom of the 7th inning, the Pirates hold a 2-1 lead, and
Clemente leads off for the Pirates. Cuellar, a left-hander,
falls off a little toward 3rd base on every pitch, and that’s where
he was when he fielded Clemente’s hot smash up the middle.

Cuellar gloved it cleanly, and Clemente was a dead duck at 1st
base. But when he went to field the ball, Cuellar lost sight of
Clemente as he sprinted out of the batter’s box. When he turned
to check Clemente afore throwing to 1st base, I suppose that
Cuellar expected to see Clemente giving him a modest amount
of respect, knowing that Cuellar held the ball, that all it took was
a batting practice fast ball to 1st base and Clemente would be
out by 10 feet or more.

Cuellar must have expected Clemente to be doing a slow trot
down the line, knowing that he was out, and saving his energy
for later.

But Clemente, beyond all typical baseball reasoning, was busting his
butt to get to 1st base, as if he had hit a hard smash in the hole at short.
He was showing absolutely no respect at all for Cuellar, not even
assuming that Cuellar had enough talent to make the short throw
from the pitcher’s mound to 1st base.

Cuellar saw that contempt, and it got inside his head, and when
the play was over, Cuellar’s throwing error left Clemente safe at first.

It also left Cuellar shattered on the mound. Willie Stargell then drew
a walk, and then Bob Robertson hit a 3 run homer to put the Pirates
up 5-1, and to put Cuellar out of the game without having retired a
batter in the 7th inning.

After all these years, I imagine that Cuellar and Clemente would have
a few words for each other when they meet again. The Self Defense
Guy thinks it would be one fine conversation to eavesdrop on.

Too bad he can’t find a way to get one of his self-contained hidden cameras at the scene. But don’t let that
stop you from having what you need to eavesdrop on your nanny or
anyone else who’s potentially a problem waiting to happen.

And oh yeah. The Self Defense Guy has the lowest prices on the
internet, in case that’s important to you.      

You’ve heard about the Darwin Awards, right?
News stories about people who have done things
so stupid that you hope they never reproduce and
keep their stupid genes alive.

My favorite was the guy who ran out of whiskey
money, drank gasoline instead, threw up into his
fireplace and burned his house down.

In the surveillance industry, you’d give a Darwin
Award to a burglar who not only looks directly
into your hidden camera, but smiles and lets you see his
identifying gold tooth.

Immediately after his coup d’tat on Sunday, Barry
made his own pitch to win a Darwin Award for
himself. Get this — with 70% of the country
opposed to what just happened, Barry is going to
trot out his dog and pony show to tell us how stupid
we are.

Just when you thought we were in trouble, Barry is
going to ride to the rescue and keep all of this front
and center, shoving it down our throats over and over
again, and with any luck, he’ll keep doing it all the
way up to election day.

I NEVER, EVER thought I’d write this about Barry,
but thank you, thank you, thank you, Barry. If you really
are going to do this, than you really are as dumb as a post,
and the country owes you a huge debt of gratitude.

Every time you speak about health care, it irritates the
people and sends your popularity lower and lower. For the
good of the country, keep doing it, Barry, you go girl!

I may even send in some cash to your re-election fund.

Maybe someone ought to check. Maybe Michelle is serving
up some of those “organic” vegetables she’s growing in the
back yard. Maybe some of Michelle’s sludge has gotten hold
of Barry’s Brain and shifted it off-center, tilting it to the
right without Barry knowing about it.

It’s always darkest just afore dawn.     

What would be, who would be, a bigger abuser?
An individual nanny, or an omniscient nanny state?

It’s a trick question, because you won’t be
able to do much about the nanny state that the dems
want to establish as our overseer. But your own nanny?
Her you can keep tabs on with one of my
RENTABLE
hidden cameras that do their own recording.

They set up fast, just plug and play, and if you need
any technical help, I’ve got a staff of 3 tech geeks
standing by Monday-Friday, 9 to 5 eastern time.

Now, back to that nanny state on the horizon.

What’s been slightly overlooked in the political
debate over how long we should let democrats live
if they pass Abomicare is 1 sobering fact: it takes
a 2/3 majority of BOTH HOUSES of Congress to override
a presidential veto.

That’s what the democrat leadership is counting on,
that’s why they’re willing to sacrifice their political
careers, temporarily, and cram Abomicare down our
throats.

As it stands now, if Abomicare passes, then we may see
a huge landslide victory for the Republicans come
November. Even so, that won’t be enough to reverse
course. The Republicans are so far behind the dems
right now, as far as how many seats they control, that
even a landslide victory in November is unlikely to
leave them with a 2/3 majority control of BOTH HOUSES
of Congress.

So when the Republicans pass a bill to repeal Abomicare,
IF THEY PASS THAT BILL–remember, with RINO’s like
McCain and Snowe and Collins and Graham, there’s no
guarantee that they will–Jimmy Carter the 2nd WILL
veto it, and you CAN guarantee that. And then
the bill will die, without the Republicans being able to
get the 2/3 they need from each house.

That means we’re up to the 2012 elections, and because
the Abomicare provisions were never scheduled to begin
until another 2 years after that, the economy will have
improved, there’ll be NO STORIES about how bad health
care has become, the dems will holler that the
Republicans were all wrong about Abomicare, and the old,
thrown-out trash that is the old dems will find a way
to steal themselves into office once again.

And America will be no more, replaced by an Amerika that is
“of the dems, by the dems and for the dems.”

So they’re willing to lose a finger to save the rest
of their bodies.

One thing you can say about the dems, though, is that
they’re willing to work toward a goal. Their goal is to
make you a slave, and they’re willing to lose sleep over
it, they’re willing to even lose an election or 2 over it,
so long as they eventually reach their goal.

Same goes for someone who’s intent on harming you
personally. He’ll lose sleep while he cases your home
or business, learning your habits, waiting until the
best time to strike at you. That’s his goal, and you’d
better be sure that his goal to hurt you isn’t
stronger than your goal to defend yourself and anyone
else who depends on you.    

The Self Defense Guy

Every once in awhile something happens that really gets my goat. This morning while I was catching up on the news and enjoying my new-found organic coffee, I saw that Gwen Stefani is in danger of being the next victim of a Muslim terrorist attack.

Seems they don’t like her act. think she’s too indecent and obscene. I tell you enough is enough already. When are we going to do something about these Muslims?

They don’t want their kids to see some floozy strutting and grinding and thrusting her hips all over the stage? Ain’t they never heard of an artist’s freedom of expression?

I’ve about had it with these people. Maiming and killing is one thing, but interfering with the antics of a mega-star like Gwen Stefani is over the line.

Next thing you know they’ll be trying to stop their kids from seeing other famous Americans like Al Gore, making up some kind of excuse about protecting their kids from the perception that Americans think it’s ok to be fat and flatulent and a general bore.

Well this here American doesn’t think it’s ok to be fat and flatulent and a general bore, and I don’t care if Michael Moore and Al Gore sit down over a case of Twinkies and cook up a new schlockumentary about it, neither.

But I would like to have a hidden camera in that room when they have their sit down, one on 1 extra-wide, reinforced, heavy duty loveseat, the other on another, Twinkies in the center, and exhaust fans at the ready. Would no doubt need a wide angle lens for this one, maybe even a separate camera for each behemoth.

If you’ve got a situation of your own that needs watching, you can get everything you need from The Self Defense Guy. Everything but the Twinkies, that is.