I could see Jim Parsons from "The Big Bang Theory" doing a great job as Bates. He's got a build and posture similar to Perkins and heaven knows he plays a huge weirdo (albeit benign) on TV.

The author is wrong. There are no new Nimitz class carriers in production. The USS George H.W. Bush is the last of the class and has recently joined active service. The design of the carrier class that will begin to replace the earliest of the Nimitz class whe they begin to retire is not even completed yet. As of today, the US has no carriers under construction and none in the pipeline. Do better research.

It is yours to use as you see fit! But if you record it and happen to win a Grammy, during your acceptance speech, just tug an ear as a hat tip! ;-)

Matt 6:33

OK, here's "Marxists in New York"...to the tune of "Autumn in New York"...(with apologies)

Marxists in New York,
Why does it seem such a pity?,
Marxists in New York,
It spells the end of our city,

Fetid rank crowds, and dank smelly clouds,
Foul a park once so clean,
They're making me feel - I'm lost.

Marxists in New York,
They bring the promise of squalor,
Marxists in New York,
Are spreading nothing but pain.

Jokers with outstreched hands,
Make demands for another's lands.

It's Marxists in New York,
I weep to watch it descend.

Nothing that has been revealed or said to this point has diminished my support of Mr. Cain. I believe his denials, and I also believe this to be a planned action to bring him down. For me, it would take a standard greater than "a preponderance of the evidence" to get me to change my mind about Mr. Cain. I would need an open admission by Mr. Cain to drop my support. And I am glad to see that many of Cain's supporters with much higher public profiles than me (about 99.9% of Americans) are also standing behind this fine American.

BUT, as conservatives we cannot-we must not-behave in any manner that is reminicent of the liberal feminists & other various Democrats who denied their own principals and positions and continued to support Bill Clinton well beyond the point where the case aginst him for his numerous sexual abuses of various women was made "beyond a reasonable doubt." If the allegations against Mr. Cain ever rise to that level, our first loyalty must be to our principals. It would break my heart.

Yet, I still do believe that this smear campaign is going to fail. Somewhere in this nest of vipers allayed against him is going to emerge another John Dean who is going to expose the entire cabal.

Seconded!

How about a slightly speculative different take on the painting? What if Rockwell gave this work the title "The Connoisseur " as a sarcastic dig at the art that was popular at the time Rockwell painted it? I imagine the gentleman we see, gazing at the painting and thinking, "people are paying money for things like this?"

As to Herman Cain, this current kerfuffle will amount to nothing if Cain gets out in front of it, gets the NRA to waive the confidentiality restrictions and goes the full disclosure route. So far, nothing that has been reported has lowered my support for Mr. Cain.

If we as a people petition those Divine ears, we will prevail. "The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much". I am now and will continue to be a "Cain-iac". Always good to read your stuff MGM.

And BTW, my dad is "sir" (although I appreciate the salutation!), friends call me Dom.

Matt 6:33

I lived in Montgomery County from 1998 thru 2001, then moved a bit south to Warren County. Married a girl from Dayton. As is true of most of America, there are tons of wonderful people living in SW Ohio. But when it comes to the lefties in the area, I learned that most of the ones I met are certifiable moonbat, bull-goose loonies. Mind you, I grew up right outside NYC so I'm familiar with all levels of leftiy lunacy. But these 'Dayton Lefties" took the cake. And I met plenty of 'em via my ex-wife's family, which is led by my former FIL, a man who took the right hand turn signal off his car. He'd hold court bi-weekly with a small group of fellow retirees and their sessions sounded like 7 or 8 Professor Irwin Coreys (The World's Foremost Authority) yammering on about Bush, Cheney, Boris Badinov, Snidely Whiplash, etc. Absolutely incoherent. The Algonquin Round Table it was not. Dayton is basically a dying city, and these "Occupy Dayton" folks show why that is so.

Barack Obama will succeed in "fundamentally transforming" America, in two ways. His defeat in '12 will bring about the collapse of the Democratic Party as we know it. The coming defeat of the Democrats on the electoral heels of the 2010 massacre will be called more correctly an "anihillation". The result will be a purge of the progressives, socialists and America-haters. The Dems will attempt to return to what they were pre-'68. The second way Obama will bring about transformation is the widespread, majority rejection of the "progressive" policies that have put the US in the position she finds herself today. The hunger among Americans of all stripes for fiscal responsibility, government restraint, and a renewed moral clarity are already afoot. Obama's overreach in the opposite direction will result in exactly the opposite of what he intended.