A few thoughts while believing pollster Scott Rassmussen is right when he says that all the scandals coming down around the Obama administration are really all about one thing: can you trust the U.S. government? I can tell you I don’t, and believe it or not, it pleases me not to have to say that. No one listens to The Great White Shank, but let me tell y’all this: big-government liberals and progressives will come to rue the day Barack Obama became President, for his legacy will be the undoing of their basic premise that government in its most basic form is good, right, and worthy of the people’s support and trust.

Is it just me, or shouldn’t this be a huge deal?

And while I can understand why this story hasn’t been made a bigger deal by the mainstream media, isn’t this a huge deal as well? I mean, if, say, it was reported that a Romney administration had sent in spies to infiltrate progressive organizations like the ACLU or Occupy Wall Street, wouldn’t the media have been calling for Romney’s impeachment?

I haven’t been watching, but the Stanley Cup Finals sure look like hockey at its best.

Saw a commercial for one of the NBC talent shows (might have been “The Voice” or “America’s Got Talent”) showing Cher as one of the guest stars. Sure looks like she’s a walking testimony to plastic surgery – I mean, she was like 18 when doing Ronettes back-up vocals back in 1963. You can do the math.

I’ll have more on this in another post, but this weekend’s U.S. Open at Merion as been a showcase for everything golf can be when a course is set up properly. I’ll admit, I thought – like most people did – Merion’s shortness as a layout would lead to a birdie-fest, but it just goes to show that talent and equipment be damned, in the end a well set up golf course and Mother Nature remain an unbeatable combination.

I sure hope the Obama administration keeps us militarily out of what’s going on in Syria. I’m convinced the best weapon against what’s going on in the Middle East is to go full speed ahead on the Keystone pipeline, oil shale fracking, and research on all forms of renewable energy. I was wrong about supporting President Bush going into Iraq and keeping forces in Afghanistan after the Taliban government was toppled. In my view, the only nation worth supporting and defending in the Middle East is Israel; other than that let them squabble, fight, and kill each other as they’ve been doing for centuries.