Move over. Palin is in town. Hide your deer decoys.

Sarah Palin was in town today supposedly to sell motivation. Just how she is supposed to be motivating who knows? Maybe she was hawking the message: “You too can be an obscure politician with the sense of a pissant who can help lose a presidential election and then make millions of dollars by being a famous person!”

In keeping with the current trend of pissed-off, right-wing rhetoric, she told the crowd in the city just across the river from a one-time Ku Klux Klan haven “Don’t retreat–reload.” What a genius.

Her appearance at the forum,  which supposedly includes former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani and former Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw, comes the day of news that Palin will be the focus of a reality show on TLC. That ought to be interesting especially considering the subject is known for making statements that have no basis in reality. Someone once said Bradshaw couldn’t spell cat if you spotted him the “c” and the “t.” I think he’s kind of funny though. Giuliani, not so much.

People are just getting their bowels in an uproar over national politics and having a black person as president. I think a good number of folks, I am just guessing, probably hate the fact that Seamus O’Bama, is not a black Irish but rather a black Kenyan-American. Of course with his health plan and the opposition party which has just decided not to do diddly squat on anything, a lot of people are being whipped up in a frenzy. They are threatening Democratic politicians and being all nasty and s**t.

Me, I am more pissed over this.

Our local police department apparently hasn’t been catching enough people speeding by stopped patrol cars lately so they use a decoy. Now I know that police officers are in danger on the side of the road, as they are on the road, in the office, out on the streets and hanging in cop bars. That, plus the fact that you can get a ticket if you don’t, is the reason I try to get into a far left lane if I can or slow down 20 mph below the speed limit in the lane next to the stopped po-lice car.

Here in Beaumont, they are parking a patrol car on the shoulder and stopping people who violate the police-passing law.

I just have this pet peeve about being entrapped. Police seem to have more and more reasons to pull you over and get in your business. There is a database here in Texas where officers can instantly run your license plates and tell whether you have liability insurance. If you don’t, you get a big ticket. I wonder how many of these same people writing tickets complain of the mandatory insurance provision of the new health care law? Don’t see the iron in the irony?

Another trap I don’t like is where game wardens use fake deer to lure hunters to illegally shoot their weapons. To me that is just wrong and I don’t even hunt. I wonder how many Sarah Palin has shot? Decoy deer that is. And, what’s next fake fish? Fake bald eagles or whooping cranes? The nerve of people.