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December 26, 2008
Mitchell Kaplan
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, Florida 33134 - 5008
Mr. Kaplan,
I read of your 1974 introduction to Kentucky hospitality in today’s Miami Herald Weekend.
If only our conversation in your store in 1996 had lasted longer than 45 seconds I could have confirmed that. I spent 12 years in the coal mining business in eastern Kentucky. They were good, caring people who were hospitable to a fault. And they sure loved their guns, didn’t they?
It’s been 12 years since our only conversation. It seems like yesterday to me.
I was in the poetry section of your marvelous store where I was attended to by a well read sales lady. What was most impressive about her was that knowledge of poetry went beyond Rod McKuen.
I asked her where Ezra Pound was located.
“We don’t carry him,” she said.
“Why not?” I asked.
“Ask him,” she said, pointing to you.
I asked you why there was no Pound.
You told me he was an anti-Semite and that you would not stock any books by or about him.
One of the joys of ownership is that you can do what you want.
One of the joys of being a buyer is that you don’t have to.
For 12 years I have listened to you carry on about freedom of speech. For 12 years I have watched as other people speak highly of your regard for freedom, particularly as a champion of free speech. 12 years ago, in typical modern American Liberal fashion, you demonstrated that you principles were eclectic. “Free Speech for Me but not for Thee” as Nat Hentoff says. For 12 years you have been the poster boy for “non-malodorous fecal matter”.
Now, thanks to the frontier pushing of Governor Blago, the charming Mrs. Governor Blago, and Rahmbo Oh come Oh come Emmanuel I have found the word to describe your “speech is free…almost” position.
BULLSHIT
I was going to use strange language YES like James Joyce but you never would have read him because YES Ezra Pound edited him. I was going to toss in a few lines from Yeats but since Ezra Pound edited him he would be verboten to you. Ditto for Hemingway.
Did you know Ezra Pound was never arrested, never arraigned, never tried, and never convicted of anything? He was locked up for 13 years in a loony bin in a prequel to Camp Gitmo. Alas, you couldn’t have known that, could you?
Anyway, as my aunt from Hester Street used to say, “Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s rain”.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Aaron Deslatte, Josh Hafenbrack, The Sun Sentinel
December 25, 2008
Aaron Deslatte
Josh Hafenbrack
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Florida’s budget woes – as reported by you in today’s Sun Sentinel
Gentlemen,
All I want for Christmas is an article about government finances that has some relationship with the real world. I suppose it would be a bit much to expect some working knowledge of the laws concerning gravity but Christmas is based on hope, isn’t it?
The headline says
MORE BUDGET CUTS NEAR AS FLORIDA BATTLES DEBT
Your first paragraph says that one of the ways that Florida will “battle debt” is by “going into more debt”. It is as if you are saying that going from 12 feet of water to 15 feet of water will make it simpler for me, a non-swimmer, to stay afloat.
I think Aristotle, one of the original dead White European males, spoke to that. “Something cannot be that which it is not.” On second thought the only exception is government. So much for lockboxes.
The next egregious line should be a flogging offense.
You say that Senator Atwater and Speaker Sansom “generally agree with the Governor on how to dig out of this hole”.
“Dig out of a hole”?
As someone who has dug holes in 3 countries I ask you to accept that I say with 100% absolute metaphysical certitude that you cannot “dig out of a hole”.
My international hole digging experience was good training for when I became a Chief Financial Officer of a public company. When you find your self in a hole too deep or a hole on the wrong side of the river you do not ask for a bigger shovel. The temporary solution is obvious.
STOP DIGGING
Good businesses build reserves in good times to help them get through bad times. Governor Bush left office with cash reserves of some $6,500,000,000, an amount exceeding more than 10% of his last budget. No one could have foreseen the devastation of the last year. Think how much worse it would have been had the good husbandry of the previous administration had not bee so pronounced?
Why, the head shaking taxpayer, an occupant of the real world, a world where “stones are hard and water is wet”, a world where billions of dollars have gone walkabout, a world where financial institutions once thought to be 10 feet tall and bulletproof have vanished over a long weekend, asks should governments be exempt from the chaos around us?
A quick example of water running uphill would be the Broward County School System.
For 4 years the number of students has gone down.
Has the budget, either expense or capital, reflected that?
Before you answer it may be time to get off Santa’s lap.
Aaron Deslatte
Josh Hafenbrack
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Florida’s budget woes – as reported by you in today’s Sun Sentinel
Gentlemen,
All I want for Christmas is an article about government finances that has some relationship with the real world. I suppose it would be a bit much to expect some working knowledge of the laws concerning gravity but Christmas is based on hope, isn’t it?
The headline says
MORE BUDGET CUTS NEAR AS FLORIDA BATTLES DEBT
Your first paragraph says that one of the ways that Florida will “battle debt” is by “going into more debt”. It is as if you are saying that going from 12 feet of water to 15 feet of water will make it simpler for me, a non-swimmer, to stay afloat.
I think Aristotle, one of the original dead White European males, spoke to that. “Something cannot be that which it is not.” On second thought the only exception is government. So much for lockboxes.
The next egregious line should be a flogging offense.
You say that Senator Atwater and Speaker Sansom “generally agree with the Governor on how to dig out of this hole”.
“Dig out of a hole”?
As someone who has dug holes in 3 countries I ask you to accept that I say with 100% absolute metaphysical certitude that you cannot “dig out of a hole”.
My international hole digging experience was good training for when I became a Chief Financial Officer of a public company. When you find your self in a hole too deep or a hole on the wrong side of the river you do not ask for a bigger shovel. The temporary solution is obvious.
STOP DIGGING
Good businesses build reserves in good times to help them get through bad times. Governor Bush left office with cash reserves of some $6,500,000,000, an amount exceeding more than 10% of his last budget. No one could have foreseen the devastation of the last year. Think how much worse it would have been had the good husbandry of the previous administration had not bee so pronounced?
Why, the head shaking taxpayer, an occupant of the real world, a world where “stones are hard and water is wet”, a world where billions of dollars have gone walkabout, a world where financial institutions once thought to be 10 feet tall and bulletproof have vanished over a long weekend, asks should governments be exempt from the chaos around us?
A quick example of water running uphill would be the Broward County School System.
For 4 years the number of students has gone down.
Has the budget, either expense or capital, reflected that?
Before you answer it may be time to get off Santa’s lap.
Chris Matthews
December 24, 2008
Chris Matthews
MSNBC Hardball
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
RE: Congratulations!
Mr. Matthews,
“I feel this thrill going up my leg.
I don’t have that too often.”
You
On the occasion of having the shadow
Of the Chosen One fall upon you.
Hardball implies that there is a pitcher and that there is a catcher.
If you don’t have that “thrill going up my leg too often” may I suggest a change in seating arrangements? Monica Lewinsky on one side and Barney Frank on the other. As that noted political sage, Woody Allen, often said, “Being a switch hitter doubles your chances of hooking up on a Saturday night”.
I hate to trivialize your lack of blue veiners, a condition relieved by B. Obama, one of Governor Blago’s good friends, but, Crikey, that was a dumb thing to say. Just for saying it in public you have won a much sought after award.
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
It’s a noble laurel that is not given lightly.
But wait. There’s more.
Because you didn’t try to walk that statement back by saying something like “Zounds but that was a dumb thing to say. Only a horse’s ass would say something like that. What was I thinking? If my grandfather were here he would kick my ass so hard I’d have to take my socks down to take a dump”.
Like the clap is a symbol wretched excess what I said is an example of what modern American Liberals would like to say but don’t. Usually your persiflage is particularly obufscatory unless your talking about President Bush or a United States Senate seat from Illinois.
For not trying to apologize for sharing the latent tumescence caused by President Bambi with everybody in Christendom you have won another award.
POMPOUS FART OF THE MONTH
With those two in hand and with a shortage of Irish Catholic award winners it was not such a great leap to give you the third and highest award.
You have earned this for two reasons:
#1 – You have been in the same room with noted troll Keith Doberman on several occasions. Why you have not him between the eyes, repeatedly, with the little hatchet that you keep in your ditty bag is beyond me.
#2 – Albert Hunt, another modern American Liberal rotter, made a gallant dash in the stretch for year end honors. Alas, he came up short. He told that us that one of the things that made Mrs. Schlossberg a serious contender for the United States Senate was that “she hails her own cab”. Next he’ll tell us that she picks her own nose and scratches her own ass. The Senate, a place where former KuKluxKlan member Bobby “Beat them Nigras” Byrd can rise to a position of leadership, a place where Harrison Williams [D-NJ] and Robert Torricelli [D-NJ] were figures of envy, needs people of gravitas, people with achievements beyond being President of the Lucky Sperm Club.
You have been consistent; both with your offensive to Logic statements and with your use of spittle as dangerous weapon, as a spokesman for mush brained, power crazed modern American Liberals. That, coupled with the one common denominator of mALs, “non-malodorous fecal matter”, earned you the highest honor.
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
PS – In the words of Governor Blago, the charming Mrs. Governor Blago, and that noted secular humanist and semi-tough a guy as he thinks, Rahmbo Oh Come Emmanuel, “Go Fuck Yourself”
Chris Matthews
MSNBC Hardball
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
RE: Congratulations!
Mr. Matthews,
“I feel this thrill going up my leg.
I don’t have that too often.”
You
On the occasion of having the shadow
Of the Chosen One fall upon you.
Hardball implies that there is a pitcher and that there is a catcher.
If you don’t have that “thrill going up my leg too often” may I suggest a change in seating arrangements? Monica Lewinsky on one side and Barney Frank on the other. As that noted political sage, Woody Allen, often said, “Being a switch hitter doubles your chances of hooking up on a Saturday night”.
I hate to trivialize your lack of blue veiners, a condition relieved by B. Obama, one of Governor Blago’s good friends, but, Crikey, that was a dumb thing to say. Just for saying it in public you have won a much sought after award.
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
It’s a noble laurel that is not given lightly.
But wait. There’s more.
Because you didn’t try to walk that statement back by saying something like “Zounds but that was a dumb thing to say. Only a horse’s ass would say something like that. What was I thinking? If my grandfather were here he would kick my ass so hard I’d have to take my socks down to take a dump”.
Like the clap is a symbol wretched excess what I said is an example of what modern American Liberals would like to say but don’t. Usually your persiflage is particularly obufscatory unless your talking about President Bush or a United States Senate seat from Illinois.
For not trying to apologize for sharing the latent tumescence caused by President Bambi with everybody in Christendom you have won another award.
POMPOUS FART OF THE MONTH
With those two in hand and with a shortage of Irish Catholic award winners it was not such a great leap to give you the third and highest award.
You have earned this for two reasons:
#1 – You have been in the same room with noted troll Keith Doberman on several occasions. Why you have not him between the eyes, repeatedly, with the little hatchet that you keep in your ditty bag is beyond me.
#2 – Albert Hunt, another modern American Liberal rotter, made a gallant dash in the stretch for year end honors. Alas, he came up short. He told that us that one of the things that made Mrs. Schlossberg a serious contender for the United States Senate was that “she hails her own cab”. Next he’ll tell us that she picks her own nose and scratches her own ass. The Senate, a place where former KuKluxKlan member Bobby “Beat them Nigras” Byrd can rise to a position of leadership, a place where Harrison Williams [D-NJ] and Robert Torricelli [D-NJ] were figures of envy, needs people of gravitas, people with achievements beyond being President of the Lucky Sperm Club.
You have been consistent; both with your offensive to Logic statements and with your use of spittle as dangerous weapon, as a spokesman for mush brained, power crazed modern American Liberals. That, coupled with the one common denominator of mALs, “non-malodorous fecal matter”, earned you the highest honor.
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
PS – In the words of Governor Blago, the charming Mrs. Governor Blago, and that noted secular humanist and semi-tough a guy as he thinks, Rahmbo Oh Come Emmanuel, “Go Fuck Yourself”
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Peter Franceschina, The Sun Sentinel
December 21, 2008
Peter Franceschina
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316
RE: “Living Outside the Law” – The sad tale of 4 Florida elected officials who don’t live in the districts that they represent and how they were able to overcome the stigma of breaking the law because of their devotion to public service and their desire to serve the people. As told by you in today’s Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Franceschina,
I thought the picture on Page One was marvelous.
Coming under the intriguing headline “Anger at GOP Luxury Jaunt” I thought you had found a bag lady – Check out those plaid PJ bottoms! – and that the story was going to be about how 8 years of Bush-Cheney just added more lashes to already bloody back of one of Broward’s undeserving poor. Boy oh boy but was I wrong! It was a picture of Lois Wexler [D-Plantation, Weston, Frostproof, Fountain of Youth, Niceville, inter alia] She was bent over like she had adult scoliosis. I would have bet that, had she had shoes, they wouldn’t match. Perhaps she was bent over by the burden of breaking the law every day. As a public servant she probably took an oath to uphold said law. The things people do to serve the public. Sometimes you have to break the law to help people, particularly when those people can’t help themselves
I was wrong.
The last 4 sentences of your story brought tears to my eyes. Where do we find such people? Maybe it’s time to update Profiles in Courage.
“Wexler offered to give the Sun Sentinel a tour of the condo
but then canceled and did not reschedule. She said the residency
requirement has been a hardship. “It has been very difficult on
me financially,” she said. “I’ve told this story to many,
many of my constituents, and it’s a sad story.”
Yes, it is a “sad story”.
Red lights and stop signs are “difficult” sometimes. They could even be considered a “hardship”.
Sir Thomas More said, “A man on oath holds his soul in his hands as if it were water. He opens his fingers at his own peril.”
Your story reveals still more suffering souls.
Jim Waldman [D – Coconut Creek, Ybor, Carol City, Mayport, inter alia]
Susan Bucher [D- Boynton Beach, Boca del Vista, Boca del Mentiros, Boca del Ladrones, Boca del Ginebra, inter alia]
Maria Sachs [D - Delray, Boca del Beppo, Boca del Caca, inter alia]
They have several things in common. They don’t live in the district that they represent. By publicly flouting the law and by publicly flaunting their disregard of the law, the glue that holds society together they share yet one more thing in common. They all have the letter D after their names.
It would be a chalk bet that they all swear allegiance to the law when it suits them. The reason they are able to do this is because they share another common trait. They are MALs. Modern American Liberals are all things to all men, particularly to themselves. Little things, things like where they live, are subordinate to the interests of making this a better place to live, a better place for the children, and, of course, the manatees. How can a silly law about where you live stand in the way of progress?
“This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast
and if you cut them down do you think you could
stand upright tin the winds that would blow then?”
Wexler, the trend setting Congressman from Florida, Maryland, and Oz, a man about whom it is impossible to say enough bad things, has more houses than Holiday Inn. Such is his devotion to public service that he has inspired his acolytes here to do likewise. He is Screwtape to these Wormwoods.
Are you sure his Broward namesake wasn’t a bag lady? She has that look about her.
Peter Franceschina
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316
RE: “Living Outside the Law” – The sad tale of 4 Florida elected officials who don’t live in the districts that they represent and how they were able to overcome the stigma of breaking the law because of their devotion to public service and their desire to serve the people. As told by you in today’s Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Franceschina,
I thought the picture on Page One was marvelous.
Coming under the intriguing headline “Anger at GOP Luxury Jaunt” I thought you had found a bag lady – Check out those plaid PJ bottoms! – and that the story was going to be about how 8 years of Bush-Cheney just added more lashes to already bloody back of one of Broward’s undeserving poor. Boy oh boy but was I wrong! It was a picture of Lois Wexler [D-Plantation, Weston, Frostproof, Fountain of Youth, Niceville, inter alia] She was bent over like she had adult scoliosis. I would have bet that, had she had shoes, they wouldn’t match. Perhaps she was bent over by the burden of breaking the law every day. As a public servant she probably took an oath to uphold said law. The things people do to serve the public. Sometimes you have to break the law to help people, particularly when those people can’t help themselves
I was wrong.
The last 4 sentences of your story brought tears to my eyes. Where do we find such people? Maybe it’s time to update Profiles in Courage.
“Wexler offered to give the Sun Sentinel a tour of the condo
but then canceled and did not reschedule. She said the residency
requirement has been a hardship. “It has been very difficult on
me financially,” she said. “I’ve told this story to many,
many of my constituents, and it’s a sad story.”
Yes, it is a “sad story”.
Red lights and stop signs are “difficult” sometimes. They could even be considered a “hardship”.
Sir Thomas More said, “A man on oath holds his soul in his hands as if it were water. He opens his fingers at his own peril.”
Your story reveals still more suffering souls.
Jim Waldman [D – Coconut Creek, Ybor, Carol City, Mayport, inter alia]
Susan Bucher [D- Boynton Beach, Boca del Vista, Boca del Mentiros, Boca del Ladrones, Boca del Ginebra, inter alia]
Maria Sachs [D - Delray, Boca del Beppo, Boca del Caca, inter alia]
They have several things in common. They don’t live in the district that they represent. By publicly flouting the law and by publicly flaunting their disregard of the law, the glue that holds society together they share yet one more thing in common. They all have the letter D after their names.
It would be a chalk bet that they all swear allegiance to the law when it suits them. The reason they are able to do this is because they share another common trait. They are MALs. Modern American Liberals are all things to all men, particularly to themselves. Little things, things like where they live, are subordinate to the interests of making this a better place to live, a better place for the children, and, of course, the manatees. How can a silly law about where you live stand in the way of progress?
“This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast
and if you cut them down do you think you could
stand upright tin the winds that would blow then?”
Wexler, the trend setting Congressman from Florida, Maryland, and Oz, a man about whom it is impossible to say enough bad things, has more houses than Holiday Inn. Such is his devotion to public service that he has inspired his acolytes here to do likewise. He is Screwtape to these Wormwoods.
Are you sure his Broward namesake wasn’t a bag lady? She has that look about her.
Ellen Goodman, Washington Post
December 19, 2008
Ellen Goodman
The Washington Post Writers Group
1150 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: You made it! A last minute addition to the highly coveted year end honors list
Ms. Goodman,
Sloth is the only reason for not naming you earlier. Mine; not yours. Your columns are so predictably bird brainish, so offensive to Logic, and so inimical to History that I stopped reading them lest I injure my eyes.
While waiting for my post operative purgative to kick in I began reading your column. I was, as Shaw [GB, not Bernard] once said, “in the smallest room in the house. Your column is in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.” The ultimate in recycling!
The Miami Herald titled your column “A Fine Senator in the Making”.
You say that “if life were fair…the first Kennedy woman to achieve high office would have been Kathleen Kennedy Townsend”.
Earth to Ellen. Earth to Ellen. She is a dolt. Do you remember when the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl? She came out of the stadium gushing about how when we “scored a football and then they scored a football we scored another football”. Stupid, bordering on world class dumb. Maybe life is fair after all. Since Mrs. Schlossberg shares a significant number of genes as Mrs. Townsend maybe she is just as dumb.
I am told that she raised money to support public schools in New York City. Would you know if any of her children went to those particular public schools? In fact, would you know if any of her children ever went to any public schools?
The media spent thousands of work hours trying to find something, anything, about Sarah Palin, her family, and her husband’s family that would suggest she was not what she seemed to be.
May I suggest some questions for Mrs. Schlossberg?
#1 – You’ve been a lawyer in Manhattan for 25 years. How would you get to the Tombs?
#2 – The first job your Uncle Bobby had was working as Counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Do you like what he did?
#3 – Your father’s father supported Hitler. Would you care to comment on that?
#4 – Why did you fail to vote in most of the elections held since you registered in Manhattan in 1988?
#5 – Your father supported huge tax cuts for business and individuals. Do you?
#6 – WAL*MART or Costco. Which store do you prefer?
#7 – Your father said that “we will pay any price or bear any burden in defense of freedom.” Do you agree with that?
#8 – When you were in Buffalo did you have beef on wick or fried baloney?
#9 – Uncle Teddy cheated in college. Did you?
Your final sentence is a modern American Liberal classic.
“You are choosing the emblem of a generation – and maybe a country –
coming back to life. Public life.”
Angels trumpeting “Ask not what your country can do for you…” are offset by the great Dr. Johnson’s description of second marriages, a not necessarily inappropriate analogy I might add. “It is the triumph of hope over experience.”
You say she is “coming home to the family business”. If History is a guide can we look forward to another Vietnam, another series of wire taps on civil rights leaders, and orvine sexual proclivities?
For these particular sins and for myriad past offenses against the common good you are hereby awarded the following honors:
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
POMPOUS FART OF THE MONTH
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
Is twit gender specific or is it universal? Either way you share it with the next Chosen One.
PS – If she gets back to Buffalo tell her that she shouldn’t order Cosmopolitans if she winds up in the Anchor Bar.
Ellen Goodman
The Washington Post Writers Group
1150 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: You made it! A last minute addition to the highly coveted year end honors list
Ms. Goodman,
Sloth is the only reason for not naming you earlier. Mine; not yours. Your columns are so predictably bird brainish, so offensive to Logic, and so inimical to History that I stopped reading them lest I injure my eyes.
While waiting for my post operative purgative to kick in I began reading your column. I was, as Shaw [GB, not Bernard] once said, “in the smallest room in the house. Your column is in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.” The ultimate in recycling!
The Miami Herald titled your column “A Fine Senator in the Making”.
You say that “if life were fair…the first Kennedy woman to achieve high office would have been Kathleen Kennedy Townsend”.
Earth to Ellen. Earth to Ellen. She is a dolt. Do you remember when the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl? She came out of the stadium gushing about how when we “scored a football and then they scored a football we scored another football”. Stupid, bordering on world class dumb. Maybe life is fair after all. Since Mrs. Schlossberg shares a significant number of genes as Mrs. Townsend maybe she is just as dumb.
I am told that she raised money to support public schools in New York City. Would you know if any of her children went to those particular public schools? In fact, would you know if any of her children ever went to any public schools?
The media spent thousands of work hours trying to find something, anything, about Sarah Palin, her family, and her husband’s family that would suggest she was not what she seemed to be.
May I suggest some questions for Mrs. Schlossberg?
#1 – You’ve been a lawyer in Manhattan for 25 years. How would you get to the Tombs?
#2 – The first job your Uncle Bobby had was working as Counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Do you like what he did?
#3 – Your father’s father supported Hitler. Would you care to comment on that?
#4 – Why did you fail to vote in most of the elections held since you registered in Manhattan in 1988?
#5 – Your father supported huge tax cuts for business and individuals. Do you?
#6 – WAL*MART or Costco. Which store do you prefer?
#7 – Your father said that “we will pay any price or bear any burden in defense of freedom.” Do you agree with that?
#8 – When you were in Buffalo did you have beef on wick or fried baloney?
#9 – Uncle Teddy cheated in college. Did you?
Your final sentence is a modern American Liberal classic.
“You are choosing the emblem of a generation – and maybe a country –
coming back to life. Public life.”
Angels trumpeting “Ask not what your country can do for you…” are offset by the great Dr. Johnson’s description of second marriages, a not necessarily inappropriate analogy I might add. “It is the triumph of hope over experience.”
You say she is “coming home to the family business”. If History is a guide can we look forward to another Vietnam, another series of wire taps on civil rights leaders, and orvine sexual proclivities?
For these particular sins and for myriad past offenses against the common good you are hereby awarded the following honors:
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
POMPOUS FART OF THE MONTH
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
Is twit gender specific or is it universal? Either way you share it with the next Chosen One.
PS – If she gets back to Buffalo tell her that she shouldn’t order Cosmopolitans if she winds up in the Anchor Bar.
David Fleshler, The Sun Sentinel
December 19, 2008
David Fleshler
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: PANTHERS BEST HOPE – ROOM TO ROAM Is this a headline beyond parody? You didn’t think so. That’s how it reads on this morning’s Page One.
Mr. Fleshler,
Are the inmates running the asylum? In your case, are the boobies running the hatch? Is Professor Irwin Corey in charge of the Sentinel?
More panthers are good for Florida.
More panthers are good for Florida?
Is this the result of the Tribune – your parent company – bankruptcy?
You want to see more panthers in Florida?
How about some Great Whites in the intracoastal?
How about some Komodo dragons in the malls?
How about some Ebola viruses for the vegans among us?
Why should Zimbabwe have all the fun? Import cholera.
Madness.
David Fleshler
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: PANTHERS BEST HOPE – ROOM TO ROAM Is this a headline beyond parody? You didn’t think so. That’s how it reads on this morning’s Page One.
Mr. Fleshler,
Are the inmates running the asylum? In your case, are the boobies running the hatch? Is Professor Irwin Corey in charge of the Sentinel?
More panthers are good for Florida.
More panthers are good for Florida?
Is this the result of the Tribune – your parent company – bankruptcy?
You want to see more panthers in Florida?
How about some Great Whites in the intracoastal?
How about some Komodo dragons in the malls?
How about some Ebola viruses for the vegans among us?
Why should Zimbabwe have all the fun? Import cholera.
Madness.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald
December 14, 2008
Fred Grimm
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE – Bailing out the Big 3 and bailing out our schools – A different perspective on drawing sustenance from the eternally lactating public mammary.
Mr. Grimm,
First, a comment on lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You said that “members of Congress from the 48 states that spend more per student than Florida might balk at helping out schools in a state that won’t help itself”.
Are you saying that spending more money guarantees a better education? No place spends more money per student than Washington, DC. If, as you say, more money means better schools why are the Obama children not going to public school there? Why didn’t Chelsea Clinton go to public school there? Why didn’t any of the Gore children go to public school there?
President Bush’s daughters attended Austin Westlake High School – a public high school. You knew that, didn’t you?
Your comparison on the failing American automobile industry and the failing American public education system is predicated on never letting facts interfere with your argument.
After decades of failing the Big 3 want the American taxpayer to bail them out. They make an inferior product that is overpriced. These wounds, ones of design flaws and absurd union contracts, were mostly self-inflicted. The market place has spoken. There will be no end to the public transfusions.
American public education is predicated on the convoy system. The slowest ship sets the speed limit for the rest of the convoy. Since success can’t be rewarded and, worse, since failure can’t be penalized mediocrity is the norm. Taxpayers already pick up the tab. The notion that more public money will make a better product is offensive to Logic.
American education has been failing so long that it thrives on this public failure. It’s always someone else’s fault that Johnny can’t read. Florida high school football coaches have a very short use life. Effort doesn’t count; results do. If the coach doesn’t perform he is fired. If the math teacher doesn’t perform he gets a raise. If the principal has a stable filled with horses’ asses he is looked on as a friend to animals. If the superintendent looks on the letters FCAT as a vampire looks on a sun drenched holy water dousing he need but cry “More Money” and he is regarded as a saint.
Madness.
Since nothing else seems to work here is a modest proposal.
Each and every child of each and every public employee – appointed or elected – must attend public school. No exceptions.
How about culling the herd of jackass administrators? Did you know that the Broward Board of Education pays more than $100,000 a year to people who are listed as “diversity experts”? Use automatic weapons. Most of them couldn’t find a class room with a blood hound and a GPS.
You say that states that spend more per pupil would resent us. Shouldn’t Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama resent the Hell out of us? By refusing to drill off the Gulf coast of Florida we place an unfair burden on those states who do drill off theirs.
Even an educationally deprived Florida student, a student who has grown up hearing his teachers caterwauling “If only we had more think how much better we would do”, knows that.
Fred Grimm
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE – Bailing out the Big 3 and bailing out our schools – A different perspective on drawing sustenance from the eternally lactating public mammary.
Mr. Grimm,
First, a comment on lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You said that “members of Congress from the 48 states that spend more per student than Florida might balk at helping out schools in a state that won’t help itself”.
Are you saying that spending more money guarantees a better education? No place spends more money per student than Washington, DC. If, as you say, more money means better schools why are the Obama children not going to public school there? Why didn’t Chelsea Clinton go to public school there? Why didn’t any of the Gore children go to public school there?
President Bush’s daughters attended Austin Westlake High School – a public high school. You knew that, didn’t you?
Your comparison on the failing American automobile industry and the failing American public education system is predicated on never letting facts interfere with your argument.
After decades of failing the Big 3 want the American taxpayer to bail them out. They make an inferior product that is overpriced. These wounds, ones of design flaws and absurd union contracts, were mostly self-inflicted. The market place has spoken. There will be no end to the public transfusions.
American public education is predicated on the convoy system. The slowest ship sets the speed limit for the rest of the convoy. Since success can’t be rewarded and, worse, since failure can’t be penalized mediocrity is the norm. Taxpayers already pick up the tab. The notion that more public money will make a better product is offensive to Logic.
American education has been failing so long that it thrives on this public failure. It’s always someone else’s fault that Johnny can’t read. Florida high school football coaches have a very short use life. Effort doesn’t count; results do. If the coach doesn’t perform he is fired. If the math teacher doesn’t perform he gets a raise. If the principal has a stable filled with horses’ asses he is looked on as a friend to animals. If the superintendent looks on the letters FCAT as a vampire looks on a sun drenched holy water dousing he need but cry “More Money” and he is regarded as a saint.
Madness.
Since nothing else seems to work here is a modest proposal.
Each and every child of each and every public employee – appointed or elected – must attend public school. No exceptions.
How about culling the herd of jackass administrators? Did you know that the Broward Board of Education pays more than $100,000 a year to people who are listed as “diversity experts”? Use automatic weapons. Most of them couldn’t find a class room with a blood hound and a GPS.
You say that states that spend more per pupil would resent us. Shouldn’t Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama resent the Hell out of us? By refusing to drill off the Gulf coast of Florida we place an unfair burden on those states who do drill off theirs.
Even an educationally deprived Florida student, a student who has grown up hearing his teachers caterwauling “If only we had more think how much better we would do”, knows that.
Sasha Issenberg, The Boston Globe
December 14, 2008
Sasha Issenberg
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819
RE: “Kennedy Answers the Call” – The astonishing headline highlighting your story in today’s Miami Herald about someone named Caroline Schlossberg who is President of – and who says the glass ceiling hasn’t been broken? – the Lucky Sperm Club.
Ms. Issenberg,
We begin with the obvious questions.
What call?
Who is calling?
As a Roman Catholic I must tell you that, Vatican 2 notwithstanding, death is still the first step on a lengthy process ending in sainthood. She ain’t dead.
You say that the high point of her public life was raising money for a private charity that supports public schools.
I hate to be thought of as a turd in the punch bowl but do you know if any of her children went to public schools? Do you know if any of her first cousins or any of their children went to public schools?
If any of them did my brother the hunchback will straighten up.
Sasha Issenberg
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819
RE: “Kennedy Answers the Call” – The astonishing headline highlighting your story in today’s Miami Herald about someone named Caroline Schlossberg who is President of – and who says the glass ceiling hasn’t been broken? – the Lucky Sperm Club.
Ms. Issenberg,
We begin with the obvious questions.
What call?
Who is calling?
As a Roman Catholic I must tell you that, Vatican 2 notwithstanding, death is still the first step on a lengthy process ending in sainthood. She ain’t dead.
You say that the high point of her public life was raising money for a private charity that supports public schools.
I hate to be thought of as a turd in the punch bowl but do you know if any of her children went to public schools? Do you know if any of her first cousins or any of their children went to public schools?
If any of them did my brother the hunchback will straighten up.
Joan Vennochi, The Boston Globe
December 14, 2008
Joan Vennochi
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205- 55819
RE: 20 words – infinite errors
Ms. Vennochi,
“As Paul Newman said at the climax of “Cool Hand Luke”
‘What we have here is a failure to communicate’.”
#1 – Paul Newman never said that.
#2 – The warden said, “What we have here is failure to communicate”.
#3 – The difference – a – is enormous.
#3 – Climax? My, my. Movies end. Movies stop. Movies never “climax”.
The aforementioned 20 words have earned you a special year end award.
“SEMI-LITERATE MARE’S ASS OF THE WEEK”
Congratulations and a truly non-denominational Season’s Greetings to you.
Joan Vennochi
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205- 55819
RE: 20 words – infinite errors
Ms. Vennochi,
“As Paul Newman said at the climax of “Cool Hand Luke”
‘What we have here is a failure to communicate’.”
#1 – Paul Newman never said that.
#2 – The warden said, “What we have here is failure to communicate”.
#3 – The difference – a – is enormous.
#3 – Climax? My, my. Movies end. Movies stop. Movies never “climax”.
The aforementioned 20 words have earned you a special year end award.
“SEMI-LITERATE MARE’S ASS OF THE WEEK”
Congratulations and a truly non-denominational Season’s Greetings to you.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Three New Stooges
I think it was Churchill who said “Be of good cheer. Things will come right in the end.”
Evidence of that optimistic outlook is everywhere. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the arrival of The Chosen One has led to an accentuation of the positive with no more Mister in Between.
“Congressman Rostenkowski says all pols aren’t like Blago.”
“Gore says the world cares more about Paris Hilton than Global Warming.”
“Caroline Kennedy up for New York Senate seat.”
#1 – Rostenkowski, the paradigmatic template of ethical behavior, cautions us not to judge all pols like Governor Blago. Rosty went to jail for stealing from himself, his office, the House of Representatives, his constituents, and the people of America. His lesson, it’s always the rotten 96% who ruin it for the others, is worth noting.
#2 – Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., AKA Alpha Gump, noted Tennessee slumlord, wishes that the world was made up of more Paris Hiltons. Only people as bright as that ninny could agree with him, a 21st Century Lysenko, a man who gives horses’ asses a bad name, when he babbles on about Global Warming and drowning polar bears and reverse hockey sticks. As the head boob he should thank God for people such as Paris Hilton. Who else would listen to him without evacuating their bladders in paroxysms of uncontrollable guffaws? He makes her sound like Marie Curie. She makes him sound like someone who knows what color an orange is.
#3 – As the Manhattan doyenne of The Lucky Sperm Club Caroline Kennedy has one big thing going for her. She is smarter than her cousin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Alas, that’s not saying much because that broad was so dumb she made my hair hurt. The label, Toes to the Front, is in all her shoes. She bats about .400. Maybe she gets dressed in the dark. Imagine if her name were Caroline Schlossberg. The only way she gets to the Senate is with the high school tour.
“Like I said “things will come right in the end”.
The Democrats are back.
Evidence of that optimistic outlook is everywhere. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the arrival of The Chosen One has led to an accentuation of the positive with no more Mister in Between.
“Congressman Rostenkowski says all pols aren’t like Blago.”
“Gore says the world cares more about Paris Hilton than Global Warming.”
“Caroline Kennedy up for New York Senate seat.”
#1 – Rostenkowski, the paradigmatic template of ethical behavior, cautions us not to judge all pols like Governor Blago. Rosty went to jail for stealing from himself, his office, the House of Representatives, his constituents, and the people of America. His lesson, it’s always the rotten 96% who ruin it for the others, is worth noting.
#2 – Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., AKA Alpha Gump, noted Tennessee slumlord, wishes that the world was made up of more Paris Hiltons. Only people as bright as that ninny could agree with him, a 21st Century Lysenko, a man who gives horses’ asses a bad name, when he babbles on about Global Warming and drowning polar bears and reverse hockey sticks. As the head boob he should thank God for people such as Paris Hilton. Who else would listen to him without evacuating their bladders in paroxysms of uncontrollable guffaws? He makes her sound like Marie Curie. She makes him sound like someone who knows what color an orange is.
#3 – As the Manhattan doyenne of The Lucky Sperm Club Caroline Kennedy has one big thing going for her. She is smarter than her cousin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Alas, that’s not saying much because that broad was so dumb she made my hair hurt. The label, Toes to the Front, is in all her shoes. She bats about .400. Maybe she gets dressed in the dark. Imagine if her name were Caroline Schlossberg. The only way she gets to the Senate is with the high school tour.
“Like I said “things will come right in the end”.
The Democrats are back.
Why We Have Newspapers
December 13, 2008
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Thank you, thank you.
Sirs,
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 1
THE MIAMI HERALD
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 2
THE MIAMI HERALD
Thanks – twice – for clearing that up.
I thought – briefly – that it was the OVER THE BAY TUNNEL that was being scrapped. Speaking of which can you tell me where to find an OVER THE BAY TUNNEL? Google seems to know not whereof you speak.
Thanks again.
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Thank you, thank you.
Sirs,
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 1
THE MIAMI HERALD
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 2
THE MIAMI HERALD
Thanks – twice – for clearing that up.
I thought – briefly – that it was the OVER THE BAY TUNNEL that was being scrapped. Speaking of which can you tell me where to find an OVER THE BAY TUNNEL? Google seems to know not whereof you speak.
Thanks again.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
He hasn't ven been sworn in yet
December 10, 2008
Governor Blago, Chicago, corruption, the old days in New Jersey, & the President
Just because he has hair that suggests a Satanic connection and just because he calls the President [elect] a “*otherfucker” are no reasons to indict him.
All the mush brained toads who are modern American Liberals were achingly tumescent when Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney – “Merry Fitzmas”, remember? - Oh, I forgot. Silly me! He was after Scooter Libby and Darth Vader Cheney then. It’s OK when they’re Republicans, right? Dreams of sugar plumbs and frog marching for Christmas, remember?
Jon Corzine bought a Senate seat in New Jersey in 2000.
Governor Blago tried to sell a Senate seat in Illinois in 2008.
The difference is…is…what?
Just like a not so silent fart in church the toxic aroma is going all the way to the White House.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Governor Blago tried to get his wife a $250,000 a year job
Michelle Obama got a $200,000 a year raise when her husband was elected to the United States Senate. He got her employer a $1,000,000 a year earmark. If you say coincidence stop reading and try to find the nearest tooth fairy.
It is inconceivable that a Cook County community organizer – that sounds better than ward heeler or hack, doesn’t it? – could get from Chicago to the Illinois state senate in Springfield to the United States Senate to the White House without – A – having played the Chicago game or – B – known the rules of the Chicago game or – C – worst of all, thinking he could tip toe through the great lake of offal and not get any shit on his shoes.
If he didn’t know it he was a HORSE’S ASS. If he knew it and did nothing he is a SMARMY BASTARD.
If you believe that he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that he sat in Pastor Wrong Wright’s church for 20 years and only heard Kumbaya and We Shall Overcome. It was the Saturday PM services where Whitey was the bad guy and Amerika sucks.
If you believe he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that Bill Ayers never told him how to make a Molotov Cocktail. We know Bill the Bomber told him it's OK to send your kids to private school. Public schools in Chicago are for kids from the projects. Same in Washington.
The collateral damage caused by Governor Blago is that it knocks New Jersey off as being the top dog of corruption. As a proud son of Bayonne it was an honor that I am saddened. It was an honor that I cherished.
Where else could a college student go from being a bag man for Union City pols to the United States Senate?
If you were on the public payroll in Hudson County Mayor Hague got 3% of your gross pay. He knew that that was a big chunk. Benevolent despot that he was he got Beneficial Finance to come into Hudson County to help the employees live up to their obligation to the “Big Guy”. The pol who knocked off Hague – John V. Kenny – was the “Little Guy”. Only 7-11or Dunkin Donuts could rival Beneficial for locations.
The Hudson County jail was known as the Taj Mahal.
The Hudson County Police, as opposed to the Hudson County Park Police, and I am not making this up, the Hudson County Boulevard Police, was known as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The Hudson County Boulevard is 16 miles long and 20 yards wide. It had its own police force.
The Regular Democratic Organization had Row A in every election from 1916 to 1977. The odds of that happening by coincidence are about the same as a group of Mormons converting Ayrabs in Mecca.
I remember the Jersey City Board of Education accepting bids of $5,000 for storm windows, $4,500 for teachers’ desks, and $900 for class room waste baskets. It was 1958.
At one point there were more Hudson County mayors in jail than not.
A border line boob was sworn in as County Superintendent of Weights and Measures. After the ceremony he was asked how many ounces were in a gallon. “Give me a break, guys. It’s only my first day on the job.”
The Hudson County mortician exponentially increased his income by doubling up. He put 2 indigent stiffs into one box. 3 was a bit much because it required limb rearrangement.
A Jersey City Mayor, in a fit of frugality, shut down the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical Center. “We’ll have none of that voo-doo here.”
Uniformed police and firemen would line the hallway at various polling places. They thought it was their civic duty to inform the electorate about the candidates. Palm cards were available for the confused. Bullet voting still was in vogue.
“Dead men walking” was a common sight at election time. Why should death prevent voting?
The way Bayonne split the Black vote in 1964 is still a classic example of quiet discrimination. The lines were drawn to cut Black influence in half. Then Bayonne urban renewaled them out of town. Classic. Bayonne’s contingent of mush brained modern American Liberals kept all the Black and White Together nonsense in Mississippi and Alabama.
The upper income Negroes in Bayonne lived on West 44th Street. The majority of the other Negroes lived on either side of Avenue C from 18th Street to 26th Street. When Bayonne changed its form of government from commission to council it disregarded the plan drawn up by the non-partisan board. It used Avenue C as the East West dividing line. That cut the Negro soon to be Black vote in half. Then the city sold the apartments that they lived in replacing them with town houses and two family homes the prices of which precluded the previous tenants from buying.
Modern American Liberalism at its best!
Back to Chicago.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Since it was acceptable to use Hitler as a base line when talking about President Bush it is fair, very fair, to ask if Hitler knew of Eichmann’s daily schedule. Also, if he knew about all the Eichmann wanabees.
B. Hussein Obama was a community organizer in Chicago. Absent 2 degrees from Ivy League schools and he would be known as a ward heeler. His career goals would have revolved around being Deputy Registrar of Deeds. Maybe some decent tickets for Da Bares or Da Bulls. He had the great good sense to be at the right corner when the right bus came along. He had the better sense to get on it.
A certain glibness like the guy shilling blenders on the midway coupled with enormous amounts of White guilt combined with a media that would have killed for him and an astonishing ability to fill 6 inside straights and his next stop is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Big Mike was right: “What a country!’
Every free turkey, every ticket that disappeared, every emergency sewer job, every summer job for Junior, every winter job for Dad, everything came from the Daley machine. “Marley is dead” is the opening line of “A Christmas Carol”. Everything flows from that just like getting ahead in Chicago flows from the Daley machine.
He went from demanding larger turkeys to the state House to the United States Senate to the White House. It all started with a free turkey.
Governor Blago, a man who gives new meaning to “He would steal a hot stove”, is now in the Hall of Fame for pols who couldn’t lie straight in bed. Special mention should be made of his wife. As foul mouthed a bitch who ever hornswoggled a pol with her vertical smile she makes Lucrezia Borgia look like a minor league Mother Teresa. A mating of vipers!
From whence came the Chosen One?
Kerner, West, Reynolds, Rostenkowski, Riley – all legatees of the Daley machine, all typical Cook County pols, jail birds all. The same machine that gives us the Chosen One.
In 20 years B. Hussein Obama went from fixing tickets and giving out free turkeys to the White House.
Did he know directly of Governor Blago’s latest shakedown request? Probably not. That’s why he brought Rahm Emanuel, his Frank Nitti, with him.
Speaking of turkeys, I wonder what kind of sound Rezko is making now?
Sometimes a free turkey can be very expensive.
Welcome to 4 years worth of a SMARMY BASTARD. If I’m wrong it will be 4 years of a HORSE’S ASS. Clinton or Carter?
Does President Bambi have any brothers?
Will Travelocity book the Lincoln Bedroom?
I miss Hudson County.
Governor Blago, Chicago, corruption, the old days in New Jersey, & the President
Just because he has hair that suggests a Satanic connection and just because he calls the President [elect] a “*otherfucker” are no reasons to indict him.
All the mush brained toads who are modern American Liberals were achingly tumescent when Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney – “Merry Fitzmas”, remember? - Oh, I forgot. Silly me! He was after Scooter Libby and Darth Vader Cheney then. It’s OK when they’re Republicans, right? Dreams of sugar plumbs and frog marching for Christmas, remember?
Jon Corzine bought a Senate seat in New Jersey in 2000.
Governor Blago tried to sell a Senate seat in Illinois in 2008.
The difference is…is…what?
Just like a not so silent fart in church the toxic aroma is going all the way to the White House.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Governor Blago tried to get his wife a $250,000 a year job
Michelle Obama got a $200,000 a year raise when her husband was elected to the United States Senate. He got her employer a $1,000,000 a year earmark. If you say coincidence stop reading and try to find the nearest tooth fairy.
It is inconceivable that a Cook County community organizer – that sounds better than ward heeler or hack, doesn’t it? – could get from Chicago to the Illinois state senate in Springfield to the United States Senate to the White House without – A – having played the Chicago game or – B – known the rules of the Chicago game or – C – worst of all, thinking he could tip toe through the great lake of offal and not get any shit on his shoes.
If he didn’t know it he was a HORSE’S ASS. If he knew it and did nothing he is a SMARMY BASTARD.
If you believe that he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that he sat in Pastor Wrong Wright’s church for 20 years and only heard Kumbaya and We Shall Overcome. It was the Saturday PM services where Whitey was the bad guy and Amerika sucks.
If you believe he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that Bill Ayers never told him how to make a Molotov Cocktail. We know Bill the Bomber told him it's OK to send your kids to private school. Public schools in Chicago are for kids from the projects. Same in Washington.
The collateral damage caused by Governor Blago is that it knocks New Jersey off as being the top dog of corruption. As a proud son of Bayonne it was an honor that I am saddened. It was an honor that I cherished.
Where else could a college student go from being a bag man for Union City pols to the United States Senate?
If you were on the public payroll in Hudson County Mayor Hague got 3% of your gross pay. He knew that that was a big chunk. Benevolent despot that he was he got Beneficial Finance to come into Hudson County to help the employees live up to their obligation to the “Big Guy”. The pol who knocked off Hague – John V. Kenny – was the “Little Guy”. Only 7-11or Dunkin Donuts could rival Beneficial for locations.
The Hudson County jail was known as the Taj Mahal.
The Hudson County Police, as opposed to the Hudson County Park Police, and I am not making this up, the Hudson County Boulevard Police, was known as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The Hudson County Boulevard is 16 miles long and 20 yards wide. It had its own police force.
The Regular Democratic Organization had Row A in every election from 1916 to 1977. The odds of that happening by coincidence are about the same as a group of Mormons converting Ayrabs in Mecca.
I remember the Jersey City Board of Education accepting bids of $5,000 for storm windows, $4,500 for teachers’ desks, and $900 for class room waste baskets. It was 1958.
At one point there were more Hudson County mayors in jail than not.
A border line boob was sworn in as County Superintendent of Weights and Measures. After the ceremony he was asked how many ounces were in a gallon. “Give me a break, guys. It’s only my first day on the job.”
The Hudson County mortician exponentially increased his income by doubling up. He put 2 indigent stiffs into one box. 3 was a bit much because it required limb rearrangement.
A Jersey City Mayor, in a fit of frugality, shut down the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical Center. “We’ll have none of that voo-doo here.”
Uniformed police and firemen would line the hallway at various polling places. They thought it was their civic duty to inform the electorate about the candidates. Palm cards were available for the confused. Bullet voting still was in vogue.
“Dead men walking” was a common sight at election time. Why should death prevent voting?
The way Bayonne split the Black vote in 1964 is still a classic example of quiet discrimination. The lines were drawn to cut Black influence in half. Then Bayonne urban renewaled them out of town. Classic. Bayonne’s contingent of mush brained modern American Liberals kept all the Black and White Together nonsense in Mississippi and Alabama.
The upper income Negroes in Bayonne lived on West 44th Street. The majority of the other Negroes lived on either side of Avenue C from 18th Street to 26th Street. When Bayonne changed its form of government from commission to council it disregarded the plan drawn up by the non-partisan board. It used Avenue C as the East West dividing line. That cut the Negro soon to be Black vote in half. Then the city sold the apartments that they lived in replacing them with town houses and two family homes the prices of which precluded the previous tenants from buying.
Modern American Liberalism at its best!
Back to Chicago.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Since it was acceptable to use Hitler as a base line when talking about President Bush it is fair, very fair, to ask if Hitler knew of Eichmann’s daily schedule. Also, if he knew about all the Eichmann wanabees.
B. Hussein Obama was a community organizer in Chicago. Absent 2 degrees from Ivy League schools and he would be known as a ward heeler. His career goals would have revolved around being Deputy Registrar of Deeds. Maybe some decent tickets for Da Bares or Da Bulls. He had the great good sense to be at the right corner when the right bus came along. He had the better sense to get on it.
A certain glibness like the guy shilling blenders on the midway coupled with enormous amounts of White guilt combined with a media that would have killed for him and an astonishing ability to fill 6 inside straights and his next stop is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Big Mike was right: “What a country!’
Every free turkey, every ticket that disappeared, every emergency sewer job, every summer job for Junior, every winter job for Dad, everything came from the Daley machine. “Marley is dead” is the opening line of “A Christmas Carol”. Everything flows from that just like getting ahead in Chicago flows from the Daley machine.
He went from demanding larger turkeys to the state House to the United States Senate to the White House. It all started with a free turkey.
Governor Blago, a man who gives new meaning to “He would steal a hot stove”, is now in the Hall of Fame for pols who couldn’t lie straight in bed. Special mention should be made of his wife. As foul mouthed a bitch who ever hornswoggled a pol with her vertical smile she makes Lucrezia Borgia look like a minor league Mother Teresa. A mating of vipers!
From whence came the Chosen One?
Kerner, West, Reynolds, Rostenkowski, Riley – all legatees of the Daley machine, all typical Cook County pols, jail birds all. The same machine that gives us the Chosen One.
In 20 years B. Hussein Obama went from fixing tickets and giving out free turkeys to the White House.
Did he know directly of Governor Blago’s latest shakedown request? Probably not. That’s why he brought Rahm Emanuel, his Frank Nitti, with him.
Speaking of turkeys, I wonder what kind of sound Rezko is making now?
Sometimes a free turkey can be very expensive.
Welcome to 4 years worth of a SMARMY BASTARD. If I’m wrong it will be 4 years of a HORSE’S ASS. Clinton or Carter?
Does President Bambi have any brothers?
Will Travelocity book the Lincoln Bedroom?
I miss Hudson County.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Carl Hiaasen, The Miami Herald
December 7, 2008
Carl Hiaasen
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “Big Sugar” – Sweet or Reckless? – Some comments on your revealing column this morning on what a government should do
Mr. Hiaasen,
And the great good fortune of being born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey is again shown in your column.
You speak of the Everglades as if they were my granddaughters. In New Jersey we know them – not Caitlin, not Caroline, not Julia – for what they are: swamps.
Eyetie gangsters, turnpike bond hucksters, fraternity pledges with a paint can, lonely radio stations – Who else would go there? Mosquitoes in the summer, fish with three eyes, ducks that fly backwards, a failed bent nose.
Let a peripatetic panther snatch a child from a Westin backyard and the panther problem will be solved by 50 A-10 Warthogs emptying their 30 millimeter cannons on anything that moves. About a week’s worth of sorties would solve that problem.
I read, with growing amusement, of your tale of almost woe about what “Big Sugar” did, can do, will do to Florida in the deal to “restore” the Everglades.
[Would it be a sign of my naïveté to ask “restore” to what?]
Anyway, I’m chuckling just short of borborygymous eructations when I get to the “chilling effect” or, perhaps, the “slippery slope” throwaway phrase, a phrase so common to modern American Liberals, statists all, “until the state cracks down”.
Up until the true colors were revealed it was a tale told by typical mush brained modern American Liberals. Did I just repeat myself?
Then it was revealed.
“Until the state cracks down…”
Should we send the Board of Big Sugar to Camp Gitmo?
Should we send their lawyers and lobbyists to Abu Ghraib?
What the Hell do you mean when you say “crack down”?
Is it OK to “crack down” when we want to help manatees? Is it not OK to “crack down” when we wish to enforce the laws concerning illegal aliens? Is there a meter to determine intentions when we choose which laws to enforce?
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. That was an example of a pretty strong “crack down”. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 12/7/41. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 9/11/01.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
PS – How about this for a “crack down”? Everybody knows that tobacco is evil. If we cannot ban the sale of it in this state how about banning the sale of it in drug stores and food stores? Would not the public be served, indeed well served, by this?
Carl Hiaasen
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “Big Sugar” – Sweet or Reckless? – Some comments on your revealing column this morning on what a government should do
Mr. Hiaasen,
And the great good fortune of being born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey is again shown in your column.
You speak of the Everglades as if they were my granddaughters. In New Jersey we know them – not Caitlin, not Caroline, not Julia – for what they are: swamps.
Eyetie gangsters, turnpike bond hucksters, fraternity pledges with a paint can, lonely radio stations – Who else would go there? Mosquitoes in the summer, fish with three eyes, ducks that fly backwards, a failed bent nose.
Let a peripatetic panther snatch a child from a Westin backyard and the panther problem will be solved by 50 A-10 Warthogs emptying their 30 millimeter cannons on anything that moves. About a week’s worth of sorties would solve that problem.
I read, with growing amusement, of your tale of almost woe about what “Big Sugar” did, can do, will do to Florida in the deal to “restore” the Everglades.
[Would it be a sign of my naïveté to ask “restore” to what?]
Anyway, I’m chuckling just short of borborygymous eructations when I get to the “chilling effect” or, perhaps, the “slippery slope” throwaway phrase, a phrase so common to modern American Liberals, statists all, “until the state cracks down”.
Up until the true colors were revealed it was a tale told by typical mush brained modern American Liberals. Did I just repeat myself?
Then it was revealed.
“Until the state cracks down…”
Should we send the Board of Big Sugar to Camp Gitmo?
Should we send their lawyers and lobbyists to Abu Ghraib?
What the Hell do you mean when you say “crack down”?
Is it OK to “crack down” when we want to help manatees? Is it not OK to “crack down” when we wish to enforce the laws concerning illegal aliens? Is there a meter to determine intentions when we choose which laws to enforce?
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. That was an example of a pretty strong “crack down”. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 12/7/41. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 9/11/01.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
PS – How about this for a “crack down”? Everybody knows that tobacco is evil. If we cannot ban the sale of it in this state how about banning the sale of it in drug stores and food stores? Would not the public be served, indeed well served, by this?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
A New Way To Pick A Mayor
November 29, 2008
Letters to the Editor
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Local Perspectives – A new way to pick a mayor
Sirs,
How can you not love this place?
Broward County, the Petri dish of modern American Liberalism, has been the cheerleader for the chorale of Jeremiads about stolen elections since 2000. The Republicans stole the election! The Republicans stole the election! The lyrics are the same. The music is rap, Gregorian chant, reggae, blue grass, inter alia.
It is well to note that the Torquemada chosen to investigate voting irregularities in 2000 was Daley, son of THE Daley, and a man who knew that the thing about recounts was that you counted and counted until you got the count you wanted. His selection was beyond parody. Also, it was impossible to satirize. Why? Because the toads in the 4th Estate wanted to believe that the fix was in.
This brings us back to Sunrise.
You may recall that President-elect Obama, on one of his tours around this 57 or 58 state country, called it Sunshine. Not once, not twice, but three times. Imagine if Sarah Palin had done that. MSNBC would have tried to Baker Act her.
One of the solutions to disputed elections, to cantankerous recounts, to the wrong people getting elected is simple. The test run in Sunrise, if successful, may well become the paradigmatic template of modern American Liberalism.
If you think the results of the election will not be to your liking cancel it.
Mayor Steven Feren of Sunrise was sent to the Bench by the electorate. He resigned. Deputy Mayor Roger Wishner, coached by Hinnisy, the famous publican, “saw his opportunities and he took’em”.
A word about Wishner is in order.
A few years ago then Commissioner Wishner filed a police complaint alleging that he was assaulted at a Commission meeting. In a heated exchange with another Commissioner, David Harlem, Wishner claimed that Harlem pointed his index finger at him and pulled it like a trigger.
A trait common to modern American Liberals is that while they love protests – drowning polar bears, the Dalai Lama, teenage obesity, “Don’t let’s be nasty to the WOGS”, things like that – they don’t want debate. It makes no difference whether the debate is intramural, intermural, extramural, or sansmural. Once the official line is established there is to be no deviance. That’s why Dr. Mengele would do well in a primary in Broward County. His progressive views on abortion, predicated for the most part on the works of Margaret Sanger a heroine to most modern American Liberals, would sway many voters.
If Commissioner Harlem had used his middle finger it would have had First Amendment protection. By using his index finger he stirred the pot about the Second Amendment.
Is there a modern American Liberal anywhere who does not become tumescent at the thought of disarming the Second Amendment? An index finger is a 50 caliber sniper rifle. A fist is a neutron bomb.
Stuart Michelson, Esq., the city attorney, doubtless acting under instructions from George Soros and Keith Olberman, canceled the election. He then anointed Roger Wishner Mayor for Life. No muss, no fuss, and no chance of the wrong guy getting in. According to confidential sources the Obama administration is studying this new method of choosing leaders very closely.
“All evidence is circumstantial”, said Bertie.
“Yes”, said Jeeves, “especially when
you find the trout in the milk.”
Stuart Michelson, Esq. is paid $8300 a week to represent Sunrise. [Sunrise, Sunset. No big deal.] That amount does no include expenses. Ski masks, shotguns, jimmies, shivs, crowbars – traditional burglary tools – are excluded from reimbursable disbursements.
The annual retainer, $432,000, was agreed to by the Sunrise commission.
I’m from Hudson County, New Jersey. Naïveté is beaten out of children. The fact that Roger Wishner, a man afraid of raised fingers, cast the deciding vote that gave Stuart Michelson, Esq. $432,000 a year is one of those things that just happened. Michelson the lawyer gets more than 8 grand a week and Wishner gets the crown. It’s just a coincidence. It happens as often as an Ice Age.
Next they’ll get the trains to run on time
Letters to the Editor
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Local Perspectives – A new way to pick a mayor
Sirs,
How can you not love this place?
Broward County, the Petri dish of modern American Liberalism, has been the cheerleader for the chorale of Jeremiads about stolen elections since 2000. The Republicans stole the election! The Republicans stole the election! The lyrics are the same. The music is rap, Gregorian chant, reggae, blue grass, inter alia.
It is well to note that the Torquemada chosen to investigate voting irregularities in 2000 was Daley, son of THE Daley, and a man who knew that the thing about recounts was that you counted and counted until you got the count you wanted. His selection was beyond parody. Also, it was impossible to satirize. Why? Because the toads in the 4th Estate wanted to believe that the fix was in.
This brings us back to Sunrise.
You may recall that President-elect Obama, on one of his tours around this 57 or 58 state country, called it Sunshine. Not once, not twice, but three times. Imagine if Sarah Palin had done that. MSNBC would have tried to Baker Act her.
One of the solutions to disputed elections, to cantankerous recounts, to the wrong people getting elected is simple. The test run in Sunrise, if successful, may well become the paradigmatic template of modern American Liberalism.
If you think the results of the election will not be to your liking cancel it.
Mayor Steven Feren of Sunrise was sent to the Bench by the electorate. He resigned. Deputy Mayor Roger Wishner, coached by Hinnisy, the famous publican, “saw his opportunities and he took’em”.
A word about Wishner is in order.
A few years ago then Commissioner Wishner filed a police complaint alleging that he was assaulted at a Commission meeting. In a heated exchange with another Commissioner, David Harlem, Wishner claimed that Harlem pointed his index finger at him and pulled it like a trigger.
A trait common to modern American Liberals is that while they love protests – drowning polar bears, the Dalai Lama, teenage obesity, “Don’t let’s be nasty to the WOGS”, things like that – they don’t want debate. It makes no difference whether the debate is intramural, intermural, extramural, or sansmural. Once the official line is established there is to be no deviance. That’s why Dr. Mengele would do well in a primary in Broward County. His progressive views on abortion, predicated for the most part on the works of Margaret Sanger a heroine to most modern American Liberals, would sway many voters.
If Commissioner Harlem had used his middle finger it would have had First Amendment protection. By using his index finger he stirred the pot about the Second Amendment.
Is there a modern American Liberal anywhere who does not become tumescent at the thought of disarming the Second Amendment? An index finger is a 50 caliber sniper rifle. A fist is a neutron bomb.
Stuart Michelson, Esq., the city attorney, doubtless acting under instructions from George Soros and Keith Olberman, canceled the election. He then anointed Roger Wishner Mayor for Life. No muss, no fuss, and no chance of the wrong guy getting in. According to confidential sources the Obama administration is studying this new method of choosing leaders very closely.
“All evidence is circumstantial”, said Bertie.
“Yes”, said Jeeves, “especially when
you find the trout in the milk.”
Stuart Michelson, Esq. is paid $8300 a week to represent Sunrise. [Sunrise, Sunset. No big deal.] That amount does no include expenses. Ski masks, shotguns, jimmies, shivs, crowbars – traditional burglary tools – are excluded from reimbursable disbursements.
The annual retainer, $432,000, was agreed to by the Sunrise commission.
I’m from Hudson County, New Jersey. Naïveté is beaten out of children. The fact that Roger Wishner, a man afraid of raised fingers, cast the deciding vote that gave Stuart Michelson, Esq. $432,000 a year is one of those things that just happened. Michelson the lawyer gets more than 8 grand a week and Wishner gets the crown. It’s just a coincidence. It happens as often as an Ice Age.
Next they’ll get the trains to run on time
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
November 28, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About that vote for Committee Chairman
Congressman Klein,
A few days ago the Democratic caucus in the House voted to oust Congressman Dingell and install Congressman Waxman as Chairman of a House Committee. The voting was by secret ballot.
Early in the next session the House will vote on whether or not workers will have recourse to a secret ballot when deciding whether they should join a union. [Incidentally, I have paid dues to 2 unions. How many have you belonged to?]
Will you vote in favor of a secret ballot – like you have – or will you vote in favor of an open ballot?
The courtesy of a simple answer – Yes, you are in favor of a secret ballot or No, you are not in favor of a secret ballot – is requested.
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About that vote for Committee Chairman
Congressman Klein,
A few days ago the Democratic caucus in the House voted to oust Congressman Dingell and install Congressman Waxman as Chairman of a House Committee. The voting was by secret ballot.
Early in the next session the House will vote on whether or not workers will have recourse to a secret ballot when deciding whether they should join a union. [Incidentally, I have paid dues to 2 unions. How many have you belonged to?]
Will you vote in favor of a secret ballot – like you have – or will you vote in favor of an open ballot?
The courtesy of a simple answer – Yes, you are in favor of a secret ballot or No, you are not in favor of a secret ballot – is requested.
Thelma & Louise in Miami
November 28, 2008
Maria E. Roberts
Laura Morilla
@ The Miami Herald – Op Ed Contributors
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: God but the bobos are in ascendancy or, perhaps, the boobies are running the hatch. A comment on your article entitled “Pay equity belongs in stimulus package” in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms Roberts and Ms Morilla,
An article that ends with the following sentence
“For women, this legislation would signify a level
playing field, which is the promise of our democracy.”
must be examined closely lest the fallacious Logic and the appalling ignorance of empirical evidence be enshrined.
Your premise, one that says women are paid 77% of what men are paid for similar work, is denied. In Rhetoric, denial of the major premise requires that proof be presented to buttress said premise.
Colin Powell succeeded Madeline Albright as Secretary of State. Did he get a pay raise for the same job because he has testicles? When Condoleeza Rice succeeded him did she get a pay cut because she has ovaries?
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee for Secretary for State, is a United States Senator from New York. Is she paid 77% of what Senator Charles Schumer earns?
Your solution for the problem [alleged] of gender pay discrimination is to make victims [alleged] eligible for compensatory and punitive damages. Should an imperiled Pauline prevail at the trail level and the case is appealed should Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse herself from hearing it because she is only paid 77% of what the rest of the Court is paid?
Your article was published in the Miami Herald. The Herald is owned by McClatchy, a publicly held company. Are any female reporters paid 77% of what their male counterparts are paid? If they are you should have refused to submit your article for publication until they bring those long suffering chickies up to par.
The brief bio under your asinine polemic says that Maria E. Roberts is the “past Chairperson of the Miami-Dade County Commission for Women”. It says that “Laura Morilla is the commission’s program officer”. Would it be sign of my naïveté or would it be a manifestation of curmudgeonly ball busting if I were to ask if there is a male equivalent?
Do you know of any female employee of Miami-Dade County, of any female employee of the Board of Education, of any female employee of any city or town who is paid 77% of what a male equivalent is paid?
Did you know that a 40 year old woman will pay life insurance premiums greatly reduced from what a 40 year old male will pay? Should the gender discrimination be addressed by raising the female premium or lowering the male premium?
In my many trips to Arlington Cemetery I have noticed an enormous discrepancy between the number of male dead and female dead. Should we have an emergency Affirmative Action program – quotas, not goals – until the number of dead grunts [female] equals the number of dead grunts [male]?
I return, almost unable to contain my bladder, to your mush brained, moronic idea of a “level playing field”. Should such a thing exist – in the real world, in the world occupied by men AND women where such thoughts are on a par with the tooth fairy and Mulligans – it would be akin to Dr. Johnson’s famous “preaching woman”. It would be “like a dog walking on its hind legs”. Forget how well it does it but ask “why does it do it at all”.
I search in vain for any reference to a “level playing field” in any of the founding documents. Alas, we have done away with dunking pools. If we still had them both of you would have had gills by now.
Before getting your no doubt lovely knickers in a knot I suggest you look up the phrase “Free men speak with free tongues”. Antigone, my favorite Hellenic wench, did not say it.
Maria E. Roberts
Laura Morilla
@ The Miami Herald – Op Ed Contributors
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: God but the bobos are in ascendancy or, perhaps, the boobies are running the hatch. A comment on your article entitled “Pay equity belongs in stimulus package” in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms Roberts and Ms Morilla,
An article that ends with the following sentence
“For women, this legislation would signify a level
playing field, which is the promise of our democracy.”
must be examined closely lest the fallacious Logic and the appalling ignorance of empirical evidence be enshrined.
Your premise, one that says women are paid 77% of what men are paid for similar work, is denied. In Rhetoric, denial of the major premise requires that proof be presented to buttress said premise.
Colin Powell succeeded Madeline Albright as Secretary of State. Did he get a pay raise for the same job because he has testicles? When Condoleeza Rice succeeded him did she get a pay cut because she has ovaries?
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee for Secretary for State, is a United States Senator from New York. Is she paid 77% of what Senator Charles Schumer earns?
Your solution for the problem [alleged] of gender pay discrimination is to make victims [alleged] eligible for compensatory and punitive damages. Should an imperiled Pauline prevail at the trail level and the case is appealed should Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse herself from hearing it because she is only paid 77% of what the rest of the Court is paid?
Your article was published in the Miami Herald. The Herald is owned by McClatchy, a publicly held company. Are any female reporters paid 77% of what their male counterparts are paid? If they are you should have refused to submit your article for publication until they bring those long suffering chickies up to par.
The brief bio under your asinine polemic says that Maria E. Roberts is the “past Chairperson of the Miami-Dade County Commission for Women”. It says that “Laura Morilla is the commission’s program officer”. Would it be sign of my naïveté or would it be a manifestation of curmudgeonly ball busting if I were to ask if there is a male equivalent?
Do you know of any female employee of Miami-Dade County, of any female employee of the Board of Education, of any female employee of any city or town who is paid 77% of what a male equivalent is paid?
Did you know that a 40 year old woman will pay life insurance premiums greatly reduced from what a 40 year old male will pay? Should the gender discrimination be addressed by raising the female premium or lowering the male premium?
In my many trips to Arlington Cemetery I have noticed an enormous discrepancy between the number of male dead and female dead. Should we have an emergency Affirmative Action program – quotas, not goals – until the number of dead grunts [female] equals the number of dead grunts [male]?
I return, almost unable to contain my bladder, to your mush brained, moronic idea of a “level playing field”. Should such a thing exist – in the real world, in the world occupied by men AND women where such thoughts are on a par with the tooth fairy and Mulligans – it would be akin to Dr. Johnson’s famous “preaching woman”. It would be “like a dog walking on its hind legs”. Forget how well it does it but ask “why does it do it at all”.
I search in vain for any reference to a “level playing field” in any of the founding documents. Alas, we have done away with dunking pools. If we still had them both of you would have had gills by now.
Before getting your no doubt lovely knickers in a knot I suggest you look up the phrase “Free men speak with free tongues”. Antigone, my favorite Hellenic wench, did not say it.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Change
November 9, 2008
The first mug shot of the yeggs running the “Change We Can Believe In” was in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, November 8, 2008.
A few things are so obvious that they are empirically self evident.
#1 – If Curley Joe Biden is modern American Liberal paradigmatic template for inclusion in the Democratic Blue Collar hagiography some of the other swells were sharecroppers, helots, or followers of Spartacus.
#2 – There is a big Chicago presence.
This year’s President of the Lucky Sperm Club, Penny Pritzker, shot right through that Glass Ceiling, didn’t she? Daley, he of the Cook County Daleys, is there for comic relief. Who can forget his performance in the 2000 Florida recount race? He got off the plane, headed straight to the nearest TV camera, and said without any hint of irony, “Let the recount begin”. His father, King Richard the First, would have been proud. Rahm Immanuel, a man who sat on the Board of Freddie Mac and, as a Congressman, had Fannie Mae loot IVed straight into his coffers, was singing Happy Day$ Are Here Again.
Where was Dan Rostenkowski? Where was Mel Reynolds? Where was Tony Rezko? The rumor of Bill “Bomb-Bomb” Ayers being appointed an honorary ATF agent has not been denied. Pastor Wrong Wright is going to use Black Magic to turn Red Devils into, you guessed it, White Devils.
#3 – Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan has a simple solution to unemployment, the credit crunch, Global Warming, teenage obesity, nasty merdes from Quebec, colic, 3 putt greens, and obscene profits. Raise taxes. The woman is a dolt. If the Buckeyes beat the snot out of the Wolverines this year she will tax the bejeezus out of any Michigan resident born in Ohio. Jesus Haitch Keerist but she’s dumb.
#4 – Robert Rubin is in the picture. He sold his stake in Goldman Sachs in December, 1992. The following year, as the #2 man in the Treasury, he engineered a tax hike retroactive to January 1, 1993. “I’m on the bus. Ring the bell.” Nice guy. Later on, when he was at Citibank, he was a shill for ENRON. Nice guy.
#5 – Larry Summers is in the picture. Soon he’ll be out of the picture. As soon as the chicks find out that he is that Larry Summers he’ll be out the picture. He was the guy who said that maybe all the ladies weren’t that equal. The examples he used were logging in the Northwest, being buried at Arlington Cemetery, crabbing in the Gulf of Alaska, being a sperm donor, peeing while standing up, and molecular biology. Unfortunately, he said this to a gender mixed audience. Three of the broads were overcome by the vapours, two wet their bloomers, and one wept uncontrollably. Larry ain’t going anywhere on the Lord Barack Tour Bus. His confirmation hearings would resemble the Tail Hook hearings. Tail Hook? Tail Hook happened before Google. Look it up. Google it.
#6 – Back to Curley Joe Biden. He continues the tradition of dumb, I mean really, really dumb Democratic Vice Presidents. Alpha Gump is the paragon so the bar is set very, very high. You go, Joe!
#7 – Lord Barack has a plan to jump start the economy. Part of it is using the soon to be laid off auto workers, car salesmen, and under employed investment bankers. It involves rebuilding aging infrastructure. The infrastructure is in Pakistan. He promised to invade Macacaville, didn’t he?
#8 – I think this picture should be on a wall. The wall is in your local post office.
I am
The WarriorBard
and I approve this message
PS – There is one thing he has changed. He announced at his first press conference since the election, the one where he took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan, that “President Bush invited Michelle and I to the White House”. Toss out grammar and watch those Verbal SATs shoot up.
The first mug shot of the yeggs running the “Change We Can Believe In” was in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, November 8, 2008.
A few things are so obvious that they are empirically self evident.
#1 – If Curley Joe Biden is modern American Liberal paradigmatic template for inclusion in the Democratic Blue Collar hagiography some of the other swells were sharecroppers, helots, or followers of Spartacus.
#2 – There is a big Chicago presence.
This year’s President of the Lucky Sperm Club, Penny Pritzker, shot right through that Glass Ceiling, didn’t she? Daley, he of the Cook County Daleys, is there for comic relief. Who can forget his performance in the 2000 Florida recount race? He got off the plane, headed straight to the nearest TV camera, and said without any hint of irony, “Let the recount begin”. His father, King Richard the First, would have been proud. Rahm Immanuel, a man who sat on the Board of Freddie Mac and, as a Congressman, had Fannie Mae loot IVed straight into his coffers, was singing Happy Day$ Are Here Again.
Where was Dan Rostenkowski? Where was Mel Reynolds? Where was Tony Rezko? The rumor of Bill “Bomb-Bomb” Ayers being appointed an honorary ATF agent has not been denied. Pastor Wrong Wright is going to use Black Magic to turn Red Devils into, you guessed it, White Devils.
#3 – Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan has a simple solution to unemployment, the credit crunch, Global Warming, teenage obesity, nasty merdes from Quebec, colic, 3 putt greens, and obscene profits. Raise taxes. The woman is a dolt. If the Buckeyes beat the snot out of the Wolverines this year she will tax the bejeezus out of any Michigan resident born in Ohio. Jesus Haitch Keerist but she’s dumb.
#4 – Robert Rubin is in the picture. He sold his stake in Goldman Sachs in December, 1992. The following year, as the #2 man in the Treasury, he engineered a tax hike retroactive to January 1, 1993. “I’m on the bus. Ring the bell.” Nice guy. Later on, when he was at Citibank, he was a shill for ENRON. Nice guy.
#5 – Larry Summers is in the picture. Soon he’ll be out of the picture. As soon as the chicks find out that he is that Larry Summers he’ll be out the picture. He was the guy who said that maybe all the ladies weren’t that equal. The examples he used were logging in the Northwest, being buried at Arlington Cemetery, crabbing in the Gulf of Alaska, being a sperm donor, peeing while standing up, and molecular biology. Unfortunately, he said this to a gender mixed audience. Three of the broads were overcome by the vapours, two wet their bloomers, and one wept uncontrollably. Larry ain’t going anywhere on the Lord Barack Tour Bus. His confirmation hearings would resemble the Tail Hook hearings. Tail Hook? Tail Hook happened before Google. Look it up. Google it.
#6 – Back to Curley Joe Biden. He continues the tradition of dumb, I mean really, really dumb Democratic Vice Presidents. Alpha Gump is the paragon so the bar is set very, very high. You go, Joe!
#7 – Lord Barack has a plan to jump start the economy. Part of it is using the soon to be laid off auto workers, car salesmen, and under employed investment bankers. It involves rebuilding aging infrastructure. The infrastructure is in Pakistan. He promised to invade Macacaville, didn’t he?
#8 – I think this picture should be on a wall. The wall is in your local post office.
I am
The WarriorBard
and I approve this message
PS – There is one thing he has changed. He announced at his first press conference since the election, the one where he took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan, that “President Bush invited Michelle and I to the White House”. Toss out grammar and watch those Verbal SATs shoot up.
Congressman Gregory Meeks
November 7, 2008
Congressman Gregory Meeks
153-01 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, New York 11432
RE: What the Hell did you say?
Congressman Meeks,
I heard you say this on “Squawkbox” earlier this week.
“In the ‘90s tax increases were used to pay down the debt.”
Yikes! Talk about fingernails on the blackboard.
I am sure you have many sterling qualities. Being smart isn’t one of them.
Listen carefully. I write slowly.
At no time in the 1990s, specifically the years when Hillary’s husband was President, did the Federal debt ever decrease. Not once, not ever, not by one penny. You can look it up.
Because you are a member of Congress and because you were on national television attention must be paid to such a dumb statement. Accordingly, and by the powers vested in me, I hereby name you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
Wear your honors proudly. You got them the old fashioned way. No quasi quotas for you. You earned them.
Congressman Gregory Meeks
153-01 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, New York 11432
RE: What the Hell did you say?
Congressman Meeks,
I heard you say this on “Squawkbox” earlier this week.
“In the ‘90s tax increases were used to pay down the debt.”
Yikes! Talk about fingernails on the blackboard.
I am sure you have many sterling qualities. Being smart isn’t one of them.
Listen carefully. I write slowly.
At no time in the 1990s, specifically the years when Hillary’s husband was President, did the Federal debt ever decrease. Not once, not ever, not by one penny. You can look it up.
Because you are a member of Congress and because you were on national television attention must be paid to such a dumb statement. Accordingly, and by the powers vested in me, I hereby name you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
Wear your honors proudly. You got them the old fashioned way. No quasi quotas for you. You earned them.
When The Press Likes You...
“A Certain Grace”
is the title of a book about John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was written by Ben Bradlee, Emeritus Editor for Life Forever and Ever of the Washington Post. Written after Kennedy’s death it is a warm tribute to a friend. No one is ever, as Samuel Johnson told us, “on oath” in writing such tracts. Still, it would be fair to say that Bradlee had the pre-Chris Matthews leg shivers when in the presence of one such as he.
I have clear memories of Kennedy handling the press in a way not seen since. The press wanted to be handled, folded, and maybe mutilated. The members wanted to be fondled. The members wanted to believe.
Tossed down the memory hole, along with Kennedy’s priapristic capers, was the fact that he didn’t like Sarah McClendon and that he tried to get Art Buchwald fired. Imagine if a President named Bush tried to get a toad like Matthews fired. The uproar would be deafening. It would be the “slippery slope” on steroids. No Camelot there.
I watched President-elect Barack Hussein Obama give his first press conference this afternoon. The press wants, needs, must believe in him. All that was missing was white wine, a Barry White CD, and a bowl of condoms.
Today, a man who championed “Change We Can Believe In” presented his new economic team. The team was made up of refugees from the Carter administration and retreads from the Clinton administration. Change?
[As an aside, I wonder who will be the first member of Lord Barack’s cabal to take a run at the enviable record set by George Stephanopoulos. Georgie Boy got a 125% mortgage from Riggs Bank for commercial property on DuPont Circle. 125% means that, in addition to lending him funds to close the transaction, the bank lent him money to begin the transaction. They also lent him a few dollars to run the business. In dry accountant terms that money is called “working capital”. One Hell of a deal, particularly for some one who had no – as in none – real estate experience of any kind. For that matter he had a checkered resume when it comes to any kind of business loan. He got the loan in 1993 well before the Cherry Blossoms came back to DC. Would it be cynical of me to mention that on his loan application he listed Bill Clinton as his immediate supervisor? But I digress.]
Wait a minute. There was “change”.
He took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan.
Not only was it a cheap it was incorrect. He mentioned séances. Nancy Reagan was into astrology. If we are to believe her own words Hillary Rodham Clinton was into channeling with the dead. She spoke of her many conversations with the still dead Eleanor Roosevelt. She thought Big Bill was a horn dog until she learned about FDR’s horizontal mambos from a wheel chair. Plus he was running a war. No wonder she wanted to talk to her. Lord Barack then mentioned Lincoln. Since Mary Lincoln actually ran séances in the White House the confusion is understandable.
Since he won’t be getting any cheap shot questions from the press let me ask him some.
“You have said that there are 57 or 58 states. You called the mascot of Penn State a Nittaly Lion. If George Bush had made either of those statements he would have been a given a lifetime pass to the short yellow school bus reserved for perpetual window lickers. Was it June of 1864 or July of 1864 when the Union Army took 50,000 casualties? Give up? It was both months. Shouldn’t Lincoln have had a better exit strategy? Do you think Mrs. Lincoln’s séances had anything to do with those numbers?”
“You have an aunt whom you thought highly enough of to write about in one of your books. She’s living in the country illegally. She’s living in a rat hole in Boston. Why not bring her down to the White House and put her in the Lincoln bedroom? She could be a live in baby sitter should you and the missus decide to step out every now and then.”
Speaking of cheap shots, why didn’t someone pair Paul Volcker with Robert Reich? Volcker is about 6 foot 7 inches. Reich, the guy that Clinton always made fun of because he was extremely vertically challenged, has never paid full fare on a bus.
Reich should have been perched on Volcker’s shoulder. Wasn’t that how Janet Reno used to carry Donna Shalala around? When she carried Barbara Mikulski around the three of them would sing “We Feel Pretty”. President Barack Hussein Obama will use them in the war on terror. Any self respecting bomb carrying towel head who thinks they will be the first 3 of his promised 72 will think twice before he yells “Allah Akbar” and pulls the plug. Don’t you love it when a plan comes together?
Buckle up folks. We’re in for a Hell of a bumpy ride.
Grace? Ain’t it amazing.
I’m The Warriorbard
and I approve of this message
November 7, 2008
is the title of a book about John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was written by Ben Bradlee, Emeritus Editor for Life Forever and Ever of the Washington Post. Written after Kennedy’s death it is a warm tribute to a friend. No one is ever, as Samuel Johnson told us, “on oath” in writing such tracts. Still, it would be fair to say that Bradlee had the pre-Chris Matthews leg shivers when in the presence of one such as he.
I have clear memories of Kennedy handling the press in a way not seen since. The press wanted to be handled, folded, and maybe mutilated. The members wanted to be fondled. The members wanted to believe.
Tossed down the memory hole, along with Kennedy’s priapristic capers, was the fact that he didn’t like Sarah McClendon and that he tried to get Art Buchwald fired. Imagine if a President named Bush tried to get a toad like Matthews fired. The uproar would be deafening. It would be the “slippery slope” on steroids. No Camelot there.
I watched President-elect Barack Hussein Obama give his first press conference this afternoon. The press wants, needs, must believe in him. All that was missing was white wine, a Barry White CD, and a bowl of condoms.
Today, a man who championed “Change We Can Believe In” presented his new economic team. The team was made up of refugees from the Carter administration and retreads from the Clinton administration. Change?
[As an aside, I wonder who will be the first member of Lord Barack’s cabal to take a run at the enviable record set by George Stephanopoulos. Georgie Boy got a 125% mortgage from Riggs Bank for commercial property on DuPont Circle. 125% means that, in addition to lending him funds to close the transaction, the bank lent him money to begin the transaction. They also lent him a few dollars to run the business. In dry accountant terms that money is called “working capital”. One Hell of a deal, particularly for some one who had no – as in none – real estate experience of any kind. For that matter he had a checkered resume when it comes to any kind of business loan. He got the loan in 1993 well before the Cherry Blossoms came back to DC. Would it be cynical of me to mention that on his loan application he listed Bill Clinton as his immediate supervisor? But I digress.]
Wait a minute. There was “change”.
He took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan.
Not only was it a cheap it was incorrect. He mentioned séances. Nancy Reagan was into astrology. If we are to believe her own words Hillary Rodham Clinton was into channeling with the dead. She spoke of her many conversations with the still dead Eleanor Roosevelt. She thought Big Bill was a horn dog until she learned about FDR’s horizontal mambos from a wheel chair. Plus he was running a war. No wonder she wanted to talk to her. Lord Barack then mentioned Lincoln. Since Mary Lincoln actually ran séances in the White House the confusion is understandable.
Since he won’t be getting any cheap shot questions from the press let me ask him some.
“You have said that there are 57 or 58 states. You called the mascot of Penn State a Nittaly Lion. If George Bush had made either of those statements he would have been a given a lifetime pass to the short yellow school bus reserved for perpetual window lickers. Was it June of 1864 or July of 1864 when the Union Army took 50,000 casualties? Give up? It was both months. Shouldn’t Lincoln have had a better exit strategy? Do you think Mrs. Lincoln’s séances had anything to do with those numbers?”
“You have an aunt whom you thought highly enough of to write about in one of your books. She’s living in the country illegally. She’s living in a rat hole in Boston. Why not bring her down to the White House and put her in the Lincoln bedroom? She could be a live in baby sitter should you and the missus decide to step out every now and then.”
Speaking of cheap shots, why didn’t someone pair Paul Volcker with Robert Reich? Volcker is about 6 foot 7 inches. Reich, the guy that Clinton always made fun of because he was extremely vertically challenged, has never paid full fare on a bus.
Reich should have been perched on Volcker’s shoulder. Wasn’t that how Janet Reno used to carry Donna Shalala around? When she carried Barbara Mikulski around the three of them would sing “We Feel Pretty”. President Barack Hussein Obama will use them in the war on terror. Any self respecting bomb carrying towel head who thinks they will be the first 3 of his promised 72 will think twice before he yells “Allah Akbar” and pulls the plug. Don’t you love it when a plan comes together?
Buckle up folks. We’re in for a Hell of a bumpy ride.
Grace? Ain’t it amazing.
I’m The Warriorbard
and I approve of this message
November 7, 2008
The Editorial Board, The Sun-Sentinel
November 7, 2008
The Editorial Board
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The problem with voters in a representative democracy is that sometimes they don’t understand what they must do. A comment on your astonishing conclusion on what the people said on Tuesday last.
Sirs,
“So, yes, we have come a long way, with historic change.
We just haven’t come far enough.”
Your editorial
Italics mine
“Far enough”, as in not far enough, are the referendum votes against racial preferences in real estate transactions and for keeping marriage a boy/girl only institution.
For the sake of advancing the argument I ask how far is “far enough”? How far is “too far”? Is it possible in the best of all modern American Liberal worlds for something to be “too far”?
Like it or not the people have spoken.
Several years ago the people of Florida gave Constitutional protection to pregnant pigs. Was that “far enough”? Was that “too far”? Was it just asinine? If the people can vote on things porcine shouldn’t they be allowed to vote on abortion? How about gun control? How about public executions? Would that be an amendment “too far”?
Voters in representative democracies don’t always vote the way enlightened editorial boards know they should.
Here’s a plan.
Before they get to vote on anything you get to choose which questions they get to vote on. That way you won’t get your knickers in a knot when the people vote against something that you know must be done. No more hissy fits at the Sun-Sentinel.
The Editorial Board
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The problem with voters in a representative democracy is that sometimes they don’t understand what they must do. A comment on your astonishing conclusion on what the people said on Tuesday last.
Sirs,
“So, yes, we have come a long way, with historic change.
We just haven’t come far enough.”
Your editorial
Italics mine
“Far enough”, as in not far enough, are the referendum votes against racial preferences in real estate transactions and for keeping marriage a boy/girl only institution.
For the sake of advancing the argument I ask how far is “far enough”? How far is “too far”? Is it possible in the best of all modern American Liberal worlds for something to be “too far”?
Like it or not the people have spoken.
Several years ago the people of Florida gave Constitutional protection to pregnant pigs. Was that “far enough”? Was that “too far”? Was it just asinine? If the people can vote on things porcine shouldn’t they be allowed to vote on abortion? How about gun control? How about public executions? Would that be an amendment “too far”?
Voters in representative democracies don’t always vote the way enlightened editorial boards know they should.
Here’s a plan.
Before they get to vote on anything you get to choose which questions they get to vote on. That way you won’t get your knickers in a knot when the people vote against something that you know must be done. No more hissy fits at the Sun-Sentinel.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Letter to the Editor, The Sun Sentienl
November 1, 2008
Letters to the Editor
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Thanks! Thanks a lot!
Sirs,
#1 – Thank you for reminding – methinks hectoring may be a better word – me on the very tippy top of Page 1 that I shouldn’t drop my guard on hurricanes. Your exact words were
“Don’t Drop Guard On Hurricanes”
I noogied my forehead and said “Don’t Drop Your Guard On Hurricanes”.
I’ve only been a Florida resident since 1996. Silly me. How many times have I dropped my guard before? I can’t even count the ways. I can’t remember how many times hurricanes “which hardly ever happen” just suddenly appeared unannounced, like a peripatetic mother-in-law. Even the media, both print and electronic, have been caught sleeping. Poof! A Category 7 monster is in Homestead heading North like an avenging Sherman, this time on steroids, heading through the unrepentant South.
I checked a map. Florida is still a peninsula. That means it’s surrounded by water on three sides. Its climate is still sub tropical. If the temperature drops below 60 degrees people dress like it’s Green Bay in January.
Forget about hurricanes? Let my guard down?
NEVER!
Thanks for reminding me. Didn’t some old Roman say “If you want peace prepare for war”? I’m going out to buy some bottled water.
Letters to the Editor
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Thanks! Thanks a lot!
Sirs,
#1 – Thank you for reminding – methinks hectoring may be a better word – me on the very tippy top of Page 1 that I shouldn’t drop my guard on hurricanes. Your exact words were
“Don’t Drop Guard On Hurricanes”
I noogied my forehead and said “Don’t Drop Your Guard On Hurricanes”.
I’ve only been a Florida resident since 1996. Silly me. How many times have I dropped my guard before? I can’t even count the ways. I can’t remember how many times hurricanes “which hardly ever happen” just suddenly appeared unannounced, like a peripatetic mother-in-law. Even the media, both print and electronic, have been caught sleeping. Poof! A Category 7 monster is in Homestead heading North like an avenging Sherman, this time on steroids, heading through the unrepentant South.
I checked a map. Florida is still a peninsula. That means it’s surrounded by water on three sides. Its climate is still sub tropical. If the temperature drops below 60 degrees people dress like it’s Green Bay in January.
Forget about hurricanes? Let my guard down?
NEVER!
Thanks for reminding me. Didn’t some old Roman say “If you want peace prepare for war”? I’m going out to buy some bottled water.
Gary Stein, The Sun Sentinel
November 1, 2008
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The pot is calling the kettle…what?
Mr. Stein,
Until a complete anal probe can be done it appears that you are suffering from an amnesia most common to modern American Liberals; i.e., eclectic indignation.
You mention Willie Horton, Michael Dukakis, and the 1988 Presidential campaign. You connect them with the term race-baiting. Such term is, of course, race-baiting. I have it on reliable sources, all of whom will remain anonymous under the aegis of the First Amendment, that you Damn near bit through your lower lip trying to get Lee Atwater’s name into your story.
Some things are owed to the ledger.
Willie Horton has become the bête-noire of holier than thou, head up their ass, my favorite color is plaid, neddy dunces who make up the media. They consider it their God given duty and obligation to hector those who don’t buy the Kumbaya myth of if only Willie had the benefit of “Midnight Basketball” and good community organizations and, perhaps, some Ritalin he would have turned out, you know what I’m saying, not half bad.
One of the constants of modern American Liberalism is that they do not believe in the existence of evil.
Willie Horton was in prison in Massachusetts for rape and murder. Governor Michael Dukakis allowed a furlough plan to flourish on his watch. Under this plan Willie Horton was given a weekend pass. He went to Maryland where – Can you believe this? – he raped and murdered again. Relatives of the Maryland victims went to Massachusetts to find out how a convicted rapist and murderer was allowed out of prison on a furlough. They never found out. Willie Horton is Black.
Be so kind as to point out any “race-baiting” in the above paragraph.
Here’s the key part. Here’s the part you left out. Here’s the part that, by your omission of it, makes you liable for civil fraud under the Securities Act of 1934.
The first person to connect Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis, presumptively in a ‘race-baiting’ manner, was that notorious race-baiter Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. He did it over and over and over and over in the New York Democratic primary in March, 1988.
No one called it ‘race-baiting” then. In fact, none of the other candidates, none of the media, none of the tablet keepers of all revealed things that if not true should be true, said anything about it.
If the adage “Qui tacet consitere” – “Silence gives consent” – is still valid can we assume that all the 1988 Democratic candidate candidates, their supporters, and all those venomous toads who carry their water in the media, are “race-baiters”?
What were you doing in the Spring of 1988? I’ll be shocked, shocked if you were “race-baiting”.
If you want to learn about mud slinging, back biting, ad hominem campaigns I suggest that you learn about what Adams and Jefferson did in 1800. Compared to then today is pure beanbag.
What is Willie Horton doing these days?
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The pot is calling the kettle…what?
Mr. Stein,
Until a complete anal probe can be done it appears that you are suffering from an amnesia most common to modern American Liberals; i.e., eclectic indignation.
You mention Willie Horton, Michael Dukakis, and the 1988 Presidential campaign. You connect them with the term race-baiting. Such term is, of course, race-baiting. I have it on reliable sources, all of whom will remain anonymous under the aegis of the First Amendment, that you Damn near bit through your lower lip trying to get Lee Atwater’s name into your story.
Some things are owed to the ledger.
Willie Horton has become the bête-noire of holier than thou, head up their ass, my favorite color is plaid, neddy dunces who make up the media. They consider it their God given duty and obligation to hector those who don’t buy the Kumbaya myth of if only Willie had the benefit of “Midnight Basketball” and good community organizations and, perhaps, some Ritalin he would have turned out, you know what I’m saying, not half bad.
One of the constants of modern American Liberalism is that they do not believe in the existence of evil.
Willie Horton was in prison in Massachusetts for rape and murder. Governor Michael Dukakis allowed a furlough plan to flourish on his watch. Under this plan Willie Horton was given a weekend pass. He went to Maryland where – Can you believe this? – he raped and murdered again. Relatives of the Maryland victims went to Massachusetts to find out how a convicted rapist and murderer was allowed out of prison on a furlough. They never found out. Willie Horton is Black.
Be so kind as to point out any “race-baiting” in the above paragraph.
Here’s the key part. Here’s the part you left out. Here’s the part that, by your omission of it, makes you liable for civil fraud under the Securities Act of 1934.
The first person to connect Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis, presumptively in a ‘race-baiting’ manner, was that notorious race-baiter Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. He did it over and over and over and over in the New York Democratic primary in March, 1988.
No one called it ‘race-baiting” then. In fact, none of the other candidates, none of the media, none of the tablet keepers of all revealed things that if not true should be true, said anything about it.
If the adage “Qui tacet consitere” – “Silence gives consent” – is still valid can we assume that all the 1988 Democratic candidate candidates, their supporters, and all those venomous toads who carry their water in the media, are “race-baiters”?
What were you doing in the Spring of 1988? I’ll be shocked, shocked if you were “race-baiting”.
If you want to learn about mud slinging, back biting, ad hominem campaigns I suggest that you learn about what Adams and Jefferson did in 1800. Compared to then today is pure beanbag.
What is Willie Horton doing these days?
Congressman Ron Klein
November 1, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About those drilling rigs soon to be in the Gulf of Mexico
Congressman Klein,
Brazil, a sovereign nation, has agreed to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico in waters controlled by Cuba, also a sovereign nation.
You are opposed to drilling in waters controlled by the United States.
What are you going to do about drilling in Gulf waters not controlled by us?
The Brazilian drilling consortium will not be subject to any United States Laws. If there is a spill from whom shall we seek compensation? If Florida beaches are safe from rapacious American oil companies how can their pristine condition remain virginal from the encroachments of the Carmen Miranda Drilling Company?
Other than a military solution what hope do our manatees have?
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About those drilling rigs soon to be in the Gulf of Mexico
Congressman Klein,
Brazil, a sovereign nation, has agreed to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico in waters controlled by Cuba, also a sovereign nation.
You are opposed to drilling in waters controlled by the United States.
What are you going to do about drilling in Gulf waters not controlled by us?
The Brazilian drilling consortium will not be subject to any United States Laws. If there is a spill from whom shall we seek compensation? If Florida beaches are safe from rapacious American oil companies how can their pristine condition remain virginal from the encroachments of the Carmen Miranda Drilling Company?
Other than a military solution what hope do our manatees have?
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
October 30, 2008
Thomas Friedman
The New York Times
236 West 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036
RE: Happy Halloween!
Mr. Friedman,
It’s untypically chilly today in Florida despite melting icebergs, drowning polar bears, borborygymous bovines, and Lord knows what else is in store for us if we don’t elect Senator B. Hussein Obama and his running mate, Curley Joe Biden, his bumbling buffoon Vice Presidential choice, a man who gives new and nuanced meaning to one of the great nouns in the English language. That noun is boob.
Your column says, in typical Jeremiad fashion, that the glory days of $4.11 a gallon gasoline are gone. The glories of which you sang, exercise, shrunken carbon footprints, love of mass transit, hope for cars that run on rainbow soup, inter alia, might be visited on us when gas sells for $6.11 a gallon. Obviously you are used to traveling by sedan chair.
You end by saying that the best hope for all things good, pure, and clean is tax breaks for the wealthy. That is what you said, isn’t it? If these companies can expense everything in the first year how will their “fair share” portion of the tax bill be paid? What happens if, after taking all these tax breaks, and shifting the burden to those least able to pay, it the company can’t produce any vehicles? What happens if they “uncreate” all those good green jobs?
Ah! The vagaries of the marketplace.
That’s why I began this little note with the salutation Happy Halloween.
You can go to the costume party as a HORSE’S ASS because that’s what you are. It’s a sad commentary that there are more HORSES’ ASSES than there are horses’ heads. The number should always be in balance; i.e. one HORSE’S ASS per horse. The New York Times seems to have a surplus of ASSES to heads. You are the leading example.
Thomas Friedman
The New York Times
236 West 43rd Street
New York, New York 10036
RE: Happy Halloween!
Mr. Friedman,
It’s untypically chilly today in Florida despite melting icebergs, drowning polar bears, borborygymous bovines, and Lord knows what else is in store for us if we don’t elect Senator B. Hussein Obama and his running mate, Curley Joe Biden, his bumbling buffoon Vice Presidential choice, a man who gives new and nuanced meaning to one of the great nouns in the English language. That noun is boob.
Your column says, in typical Jeremiad fashion, that the glory days of $4.11 a gallon gasoline are gone. The glories of which you sang, exercise, shrunken carbon footprints, love of mass transit, hope for cars that run on rainbow soup, inter alia, might be visited on us when gas sells for $6.11 a gallon. Obviously you are used to traveling by sedan chair.
You end by saying that the best hope for all things good, pure, and clean is tax breaks for the wealthy. That is what you said, isn’t it? If these companies can expense everything in the first year how will their “fair share” portion of the tax bill be paid? What happens if, after taking all these tax breaks, and shifting the burden to those least able to pay, it the company can’t produce any vehicles? What happens if they “uncreate” all those good green jobs?
Ah! The vagaries of the marketplace.
That’s why I began this little note with the salutation Happy Halloween.
You can go to the costume party as a HORSE’S ASS because that’s what you are. It’s a sad commentary that there are more HORSES’ ASSES than there are horses’ heads. The number should always be in balance; i.e. one HORSE’S ASS per horse. The New York Times seems to have a surplus of ASSES to heads. You are the leading example.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg News
October 25, 2008
Margaret Carlson
@Bloomberg News
RE: It’s déjà vu allover again!
Ms. Carlson,
Yogi Berra still lives in New Jersey. Since I’m from there I can use the quote without attribution.
8 years ago – My, my but how time flies when you’re enjoying yourself! – you said that the absentee ballots mailed by military personnel domiciled in Florida but serving overseas were “tainted”. You said that “they” [variously defined as GIs, grunts, dog faces, swabbies, wing wipers, Leathernecks, inter alia] were “tax cheats”.
It now appears that the Fairfax County, Virginia Elections Bureau is in direct violation of Federal Law by rejecting 98% - repeat – 98% of all military absentee ballots because of an alleged violation of state law. I smell ACORN. Do you?
Gentle lady, even if the ballots were in violation – note the use of the subjunctive, please – it would not matter. Federal Law trumps state law. You could look it u p.
Anyway, here is a chance to erase the blot on your escutcheon and redeem your honor by denouncing, as loudly and as publicly as possible, this outrage.
Your blood libel of 2000 can be forgiven.
It is a God awful phrase but all you need do is speak truth to power. It’s time for you to seek forgiveness from the Long Gray Line. If a further jolt is needed walk through Arlington Cemetery. Stop and read the headstones. Find out how many of them are sitting on top of “tax cheats”.
When last we corresponded I wrote something unnecessarily cruel and unmanly. I said how proud you must be of your son Tucker’s performances on TV. I humbly and abjectly apologize. I do this not in the typical modern American Liberal by prefacing it by saying “If I offended you…” It was the wrong thing to say. Please forgive me.
Margaret Carlson
@Bloomberg News
RE: It’s déjà vu allover again!
Ms. Carlson,
Yogi Berra still lives in New Jersey. Since I’m from there I can use the quote without attribution.
8 years ago – My, my but how time flies when you’re enjoying yourself! – you said that the absentee ballots mailed by military personnel domiciled in Florida but serving overseas were “tainted”. You said that “they” [variously defined as GIs, grunts, dog faces, swabbies, wing wipers, Leathernecks, inter alia] were “tax cheats”.
It now appears that the Fairfax County, Virginia Elections Bureau is in direct violation of Federal Law by rejecting 98% - repeat – 98% of all military absentee ballots because of an alleged violation of state law. I smell ACORN. Do you?
Gentle lady, even if the ballots were in violation – note the use of the subjunctive, please – it would not matter. Federal Law trumps state law. You could look it u p.
Anyway, here is a chance to erase the blot on your escutcheon and redeem your honor by denouncing, as loudly and as publicly as possible, this outrage.
Your blood libel of 2000 can be forgiven.
It is a God awful phrase but all you need do is speak truth to power. It’s time for you to seek forgiveness from the Long Gray Line. If a further jolt is needed walk through Arlington Cemetery. Stop and read the headstones. Find out how many of them are sitting on top of “tax cheats”.
When last we corresponded I wrote something unnecessarily cruel and unmanly. I said how proud you must be of your son Tucker’s performances on TV. I humbly and abjectly apologize. I do this not in the typical modern American Liberal by prefacing it by saying “If I offended you…” It was the wrong thing to say. Please forgive me.
WHERE DO WE FIND SUCH MEN?
“WHERE DO WE FIND SUCH MEN”?
Today is the 64th anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It was the largest naval engagement in History. Salamis, Lepanto, Trafalgar, and Jutland pale in comparison to either to the numbers of ships or the number of men who fought there.
One of them, Lt. Cdr, Ernest Evans, the Captain of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Johnston [DD-557] was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When he took command of the ship he told his crew at the commissioning ceremony that he would never sail away from danger. Further, he would sail into it. His exact words were “This is a fighting ship. I intend to be in harm’s way, and anyone who doesn’t want to go along had better get off right now”.
Douglas MacArthur said all lost battles can be explained in 2 words: “Too late”
After Waterloo, the battle that settled the map of Europe for a century, the Duke of Wellington said, “It was a damn close run thing”.
In the friction of battle mistakes are made. Tennyson said of a battle 99 years before to the day “someone had blundered”. That battle was Balaclava. The charge was the one made by the Light Brigade.
The lure of Japanese aircraft carriers pulled Admiral Halsey, a proud son of New Jersey, on his flag ship the USS New Jersey [BB-62] and her dozens of escort vessels away from the landing beaches at Leyte in the Philippines.
There is a marvelous scene in the movie Zulu where the young recruit, looking out at an advancing 4000 man strong Impi, says to the Color Sergeant, “Why us”? “Because we’re here lad. Nobody else. Just us.”
Thus, on the morning of October 25, 1944, the USS Johnston with other smaller vessels, found out what it was like to be Horatio at the bridge. Advancing at flank speed was the Japanese Center Task Force, commanded by Admiral Takeo Kurita. It consisted of 4 battleships, 8 cruisers, and 12 destroyers.
It was coming to kill the American GIs who were landing at Leyte. One of the Americans landing there was my uncle, John Lonergan. His tour of the South Pacific was simple to trace. Where MacArthur went my uncle went with him. He enlisted in 1940. The Army told him he would be home for Christmas, 1941. He got back in late 1946. I was born in 1943; my mother wrote to her baby brother that I had beautiful blond hair. He asked her not to cut it until he got home. Thanks again, Uncle John.
6 months after the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl it was routed at Midway. It changed the direction of the war. In fact, it was a battle on the same scale as Trafalgar. Maps didn’t change because of both battles. In June, 1944 the Japanese Navy air arm lost 400 planes in an afternoon. They had long since lost any hope of defeating the American Navy head to head. Their plan was to trick the American Navy into leaving the landing ships and troops unguarded. The first part of the plan worked. The carnage that the shamed Japanese Navy could have wreaked would have been enormous.
Captain Evans issued an order. “Little boys, form up on me.” He then attacked the Japanese task force. The Johnston inflicted damage far in excess of her size and firepower.
Just like the Color Sergeant said at Rorke’s Drift, “Because we’re here. Nobody else. Just us.”
By 10:30 AM she was gone. Also sunk were the USS Hoel [DD-523], the USS Roberts [DE-413], the USS Gambier Bay [CVE73], and the USS St.Lo [CVE 63]. The St. Lo was the first American ship sunk by kamikazes.
It is said that when the USS Roberts was sunk the Captain of the nearest Japanese vessel saluted her as she went down.
For reasons still unclear the remainder of the Japanese task force withdrew. John McCain’s father commanded a ship speeding to the rescue. If the Japanese had not withdrawn it would have gotten there “too late”.
My uncle John, though grievously wounded that day, lived until 2001. He would “strip his sleeve and show his scars” as Henry the Fifth told his men at Agincourt. Today is also the anniversary of that battle.
“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered…”
WHERE DO WE FIND SUCH MEN?
Today is the 64th anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It was the largest naval engagement in History. Salamis, Lepanto, Trafalgar, and Jutland pale in comparison to either to the numbers of ships or the number of men who fought there.
One of them, Lt. Cdr, Ernest Evans, the Captain of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Johnston [DD-557] was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When he took command of the ship he told his crew at the commissioning ceremony that he would never sail away from danger. Further, he would sail into it. His exact words were “This is a fighting ship. I intend to be in harm’s way, and anyone who doesn’t want to go along had better get off right now”.
Douglas MacArthur said all lost battles can be explained in 2 words: “Too late”
After Waterloo, the battle that settled the map of Europe for a century, the Duke of Wellington said, “It was a damn close run thing”.
In the friction of battle mistakes are made. Tennyson said of a battle 99 years before to the day “someone had blundered”. That battle was Balaclava. The charge was the one made by the Light Brigade.
The lure of Japanese aircraft carriers pulled Admiral Halsey, a proud son of New Jersey, on his flag ship the USS New Jersey [BB-62] and her dozens of escort vessels away from the landing beaches at Leyte in the Philippines.
There is a marvelous scene in the movie Zulu where the young recruit, looking out at an advancing 4000 man strong Impi, says to the Color Sergeant, “Why us”? “Because we’re here lad. Nobody else. Just us.”
Thus, on the morning of October 25, 1944, the USS Johnston with other smaller vessels, found out what it was like to be Horatio at the bridge. Advancing at flank speed was the Japanese Center Task Force, commanded by Admiral Takeo Kurita. It consisted of 4 battleships, 8 cruisers, and 12 destroyers.
It was coming to kill the American GIs who were landing at Leyte. One of the Americans landing there was my uncle, John Lonergan. His tour of the South Pacific was simple to trace. Where MacArthur went my uncle went with him. He enlisted in 1940. The Army told him he would be home for Christmas, 1941. He got back in late 1946. I was born in 1943; my mother wrote to her baby brother that I had beautiful blond hair. He asked her not to cut it until he got home. Thanks again, Uncle John.
6 months after the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl it was routed at Midway. It changed the direction of the war. In fact, it was a battle on the same scale as Trafalgar. Maps didn’t change because of both battles. In June, 1944 the Japanese Navy air arm lost 400 planes in an afternoon. They had long since lost any hope of defeating the American Navy head to head. Their plan was to trick the American Navy into leaving the landing ships and troops unguarded. The first part of the plan worked. The carnage that the shamed Japanese Navy could have wreaked would have been enormous.
Captain Evans issued an order. “Little boys, form up on me.” He then attacked the Japanese task force. The Johnston inflicted damage far in excess of her size and firepower.
Just like the Color Sergeant said at Rorke’s Drift, “Because we’re here. Nobody else. Just us.”
By 10:30 AM she was gone. Also sunk were the USS Hoel [DD-523], the USS Roberts [DE-413], the USS Gambier Bay [CVE73], and the USS St.Lo [CVE 63]. The St. Lo was the first American ship sunk by kamikazes.
It is said that when the USS Roberts was sunk the Captain of the nearest Japanese vessel saluted her as she went down.
For reasons still unclear the remainder of the Japanese task force withdrew. John McCain’s father commanded a ship speeding to the rescue. If the Japanese had not withdrawn it would have gotten there “too late”.
My uncle John, though grievously wounded that day, lived until 2001. He would “strip his sleeve and show his scars” as Henry the Fifth told his men at Agincourt. Today is also the anniversary of that battle.
“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered…”
WHERE DO WE FIND SUCH MEN?
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Samuel Johnson & Curly Joe
October 21, 2008
“The man’s a boob and that’s an end to it.”
“Believe it, sir. A man who knows he is to be
hanged in two weeks tends to concentrate
fully on the upcoming event
Both of the above are from the Master, the original Dr. J, Samuel Johnson. The former has been altered; the latter hasn’t.
The first quote is about Senator Joseph “Curley” Biden.
I call him “Curley”, not because of his combo Chinese pig and horse hair Gorilla Glued plugs, but because it was my way of honoring “Curley”, the smartest of all the Stooges. Alas, the ninny would scratch his teeth, teeth gotten just before the ban on elephant ivory went into effect, because the organizing and leading a two car funeral is simply beyond him. He is justifiably famous for forming circular firing squads. He came by this gift naturally. He was the catcher on the javelin and shot put teams, positions that he was the only volunteer at the expensive Roman Catholic prep school he attended.
Biden is as big and blatant a boob as has ever befallen an American election.
It is not “patriotic” to pay more taxes.
President Franklin Roosevelt did not go on TV in 1929 to tell America “what happened” for several reasons. #1 – He wasn’t President. #2 – TV had not yet been invented.
It doesn’t sound as rip roaring but your copter flight in Kafiristan wasn’t forced down by gunfire. It was forced down be snow and poor visibility. I was in a gun fight. You remember the sights, the sounds, the smells, and the quarter size hole in the policeman’s chest. You never, never confuse it with snow.
He never was a “hard coal miner”. He never was a “soft coal miner”. I guarantee he does not know the difference between the two. I do.
The last time someone said “Rise and walk” successfully was when Rome ruled the world. I think the state Senator from Missouri, the one sitting involuntarily in a wheel chair is still, despite his biblical exhortations, sitting in the same wheel chair. And to think he went to a fancy Roman Catholic prep school! Didn’t anything they taught him “stick”?
His name is not Barack America. It is Barack Hussein Obama.
By the way, Senator Barack Hussein Obama is “articulate, bright, and clean”. If you said the opposite that would be false as far as I know. What the Hell is the problem?
2 years ago a sitting United States Senator used the word “macaca”. It is a term best understood by the people that Curley says control the 7/11 business in Delaware. I don’t think it means “Kill your cows”. That Senator, a man whose name is so far down the memory hole that it will soon be coming out the other side, has been in the witness protection program since.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman he said was more qualified than him to be Vice President, said that “Senator Barack Hussein Obama was not a Muslim as far as she knew”.
Speaking of “qualifications” to be Vice President…
1 – Born in America
2 – 35 years of age
3 – Not from the same state as the President
Congratulations! “Curley” Biden is a winner!
“Curley” is certainly is as qualified as Henry Wallace, John Sparkman, and Geraldine Fellini-Zucchini to be Vice President.
Heraclitus said “Character is destiny”.
Noah Webster said “In selecting men for public office…look to their character”.
Madison said “Character” was the most important trait to look for in any candidate for public office.
It’s bad enough that he cheated in law school. Young men do dumb things. What is particularly galling is his plagiarism in the 1988 campaign.
[It is well to note that Wee Mikey Dukakis, noted tank driver and endive spokesman, ratted Curley out on his cheating. Turnabout being fair play it should be noted that Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. – later known as Vice President Alpha Gump – returned the favor to Wee Mikey when he told the world about Willie Horton, the wondering rapist-murderer who got h is furlough to, you’ll be surprised to know, raped and murdered again, this time 400 miles away in Maryland. How is Willie Boy doing these days? Shouldn’t he be taking his Bar exam about now? Massachusetts readmitted Alger Hiss. Hell, he was only a traitor.]
What made it exponentially worse was that the English politician he chose to steal from was Labour leader Neil Kinnock. He could have chosen Pitt. He could have chosen the Iron Duke. Disraeli, Gladstone, or David Lloyd George would have been OK. Enoch Powell. Harold MacMillan. Even John Profumo or Ian Paisley. Churchill or Thatcher, never. Even he wouldn’t dare.
I was in England when I heard Kinnock damn this country in the mid-80s. I haven’t heard our country damned like that until the Pastor Wrong Wright, Senator Barack Hussein Obama’s pastor for 20 years, {Did I say 20 years?}, show went into re-runs earlier this year.
20 years?
There is a scene in a Jimmy Durante movie where he tries to sneak a 10 foot tall elephant out of a circus. He has a long length of rope around the beast’s neck as he is tip-toeing out of the tent. A policeman jumps out and says “What are you doing with that elephant?”
“Elephant”, says Durante. “What elephant?”
Who says Senator Barack Hussein Obama didn’t learn from the movies?
20 years?
What was Curley thinking?
He could have picked Henry the Fifth.
Churchill once said of a politician that “he was a modest man with much to be modest about”.
A perfect description of Curley.
KS
And I approve of this message
PS – Read that second quote again.
“The man’s a boob and that’s an end to it.”
“Believe it, sir. A man who knows he is to be
hanged in two weeks tends to concentrate
fully on the upcoming event
Both of the above are from the Master, the original Dr. J, Samuel Johnson. The former has been altered; the latter hasn’t.
The first quote is about Senator Joseph “Curley” Biden.
I call him “Curley”, not because of his combo Chinese pig and horse hair Gorilla Glued plugs, but because it was my way of honoring “Curley”, the smartest of all the Stooges. Alas, the ninny would scratch his teeth, teeth gotten just before the ban on elephant ivory went into effect, because the organizing and leading a two car funeral is simply beyond him. He is justifiably famous for forming circular firing squads. He came by this gift naturally. He was the catcher on the javelin and shot put teams, positions that he was the only volunteer at the expensive Roman Catholic prep school he attended.
Biden is as big and blatant a boob as has ever befallen an American election.
It is not “patriotic” to pay more taxes.
President Franklin Roosevelt did not go on TV in 1929 to tell America “what happened” for several reasons. #1 – He wasn’t President. #2 – TV had not yet been invented.
It doesn’t sound as rip roaring but your copter flight in Kafiristan wasn’t forced down by gunfire. It was forced down be snow and poor visibility. I was in a gun fight. You remember the sights, the sounds, the smells, and the quarter size hole in the policeman’s chest. You never, never confuse it with snow.
He never was a “hard coal miner”. He never was a “soft coal miner”. I guarantee he does not know the difference between the two. I do.
The last time someone said “Rise and walk” successfully was when Rome ruled the world. I think the state Senator from Missouri, the one sitting involuntarily in a wheel chair is still, despite his biblical exhortations, sitting in the same wheel chair. And to think he went to a fancy Roman Catholic prep school! Didn’t anything they taught him “stick”?
His name is not Barack America. It is Barack Hussein Obama.
By the way, Senator Barack Hussein Obama is “articulate, bright, and clean”. If you said the opposite that would be false as far as I know. What the Hell is the problem?
2 years ago a sitting United States Senator used the word “macaca”. It is a term best understood by the people that Curley says control the 7/11 business in Delaware. I don’t think it means “Kill your cows”. That Senator, a man whose name is so far down the memory hole that it will soon be coming out the other side, has been in the witness protection program since.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman he said was more qualified than him to be Vice President, said that “Senator Barack Hussein Obama was not a Muslim as far as she knew”.
Speaking of “qualifications” to be Vice President…
1 – Born in America
2 – 35 years of age
3 – Not from the same state as the President
Congratulations! “Curley” Biden is a winner!
“Curley” is certainly is as qualified as Henry Wallace, John Sparkman, and Geraldine Fellini-Zucchini to be Vice President.
Heraclitus said “Character is destiny”.
Noah Webster said “In selecting men for public office…look to their character”.
Madison said “Character” was the most important trait to look for in any candidate for public office.
It’s bad enough that he cheated in law school. Young men do dumb things. What is particularly galling is his plagiarism in the 1988 campaign.
[It is well to note that Wee Mikey Dukakis, noted tank driver and endive spokesman, ratted Curley out on his cheating. Turnabout being fair play it should be noted that Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. – later known as Vice President Alpha Gump – returned the favor to Wee Mikey when he told the world about Willie Horton, the wondering rapist-murderer who got h is furlough to, you’ll be surprised to know, raped and murdered again, this time 400 miles away in Maryland. How is Willie Boy doing these days? Shouldn’t he be taking his Bar exam about now? Massachusetts readmitted Alger Hiss. Hell, he was only a traitor.]
What made it exponentially worse was that the English politician he chose to steal from was Labour leader Neil Kinnock. He could have chosen Pitt. He could have chosen the Iron Duke. Disraeli, Gladstone, or David Lloyd George would have been OK. Enoch Powell. Harold MacMillan. Even John Profumo or Ian Paisley. Churchill or Thatcher, never. Even he wouldn’t dare.
I was in England when I heard Kinnock damn this country in the mid-80s. I haven’t heard our country damned like that until the Pastor Wrong Wright, Senator Barack Hussein Obama’s pastor for 20 years, {Did I say 20 years?}, show went into re-runs earlier this year.
20 years?
There is a scene in a Jimmy Durante movie where he tries to sneak a 10 foot tall elephant out of a circus. He has a long length of rope around the beast’s neck as he is tip-toeing out of the tent. A policeman jumps out and says “What are you doing with that elephant?”
“Elephant”, says Durante. “What elephant?”
Who says Senator Barack Hussein Obama didn’t learn from the movies?
20 years?
What was Curley thinking?
He could have picked Henry the Fifth.
Churchill once said of a politician that “he was a modest man with much to be modest about”.
A perfect description of Curley.
KS
And I approve of this message
PS – Read that second quote again.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thoughts on Joe the Plumber
October 19, 2008
Dear Mr. X,
“The only thing wrong with capitalism is capitalists; the only thing wrong with socialism is socialism.”
I now have enough birthdays to qualify as an old curmudgeon. Alas, the quote is not mine but rather that of another old curmudgeon, Winston Churchill.
Senator Bambi, Barack the Merciful, the “Messiah” as Louie Louie Farrakhan called him, was pressing the flesh on a rope line 4 days ago. There he meets a guy who asks him about taxes. Senator Barack Hussein Obama, in an unscripted moment, answers truthfully that he is “going to spread the wealth around”. The unspoken but accepted premise is that he is going to take from a few to give to the many.
“Any public policy that involves robbing Peter
to pay Paul will always have Paul’s support.”
Paul
This aspiring Peter, Joe the Plumber, said the equivalent of “Once the people realize that they can vote themselves free money it will be the end of the Republic”. For this he has been covered with billingsgate, pilloried by his lessers, and mocked by people who wouldn’t know which end of a steel snake was the business end.
“He doesn’t have a plumber’s license” – Neither does any of the undocumented workers, AKA illegal aliens, who the mush brained, hard edged modern American Liberals media toads love soooo much. Maybe he’s a decent, hard working guy who wants to support his family. His family is in Ohio, not Tegucigalpa. Shouldn’t we support Joe the Plumber for having the same dreams as the wet backs who only want to share in the good world of los gringos?
“He has tax liens from the IRS” – So do I. As I explained yesterday mine were comfortably into 7 figures. That’s not counting the one for about $80,000 that the IRS issued against me in 1992. I was surprised to find out, as were my wife and children, that I had a machine tool company in Brooklyn, that I was divorced, and that I had 3 children there. I did not; I was not; I do not. Just a mistake they said. I had an IRS collection agent who was determined to see how long she could go without washing her hair. She suggested that I buy lottery tickets. When she took umbrage because I told her that the stone had no more blood she said I was “badgertating” her. Joe the Plumber said that he had no idea about the IRS lien. I stand with Joe.
“What does Joe know”? – I guessing he may not be up to par on the four source theory of Pentateuch composition. Like most sensible Americans he doesn’t much care about decomposition, Women’s’ Studies, and drowning polar bears. I will bet large dollars that he knows there are 50 states, not “57 or 58”. I will double the bet and say that he knows the Penn State mascot is a “Nittany Lion” and not a “Nittaly Lion”. I’ll bet the ranch that he knows that two terms in the White House equals 8 years and not 10. Joe the Plumber knows that it’s “Lefty loosey, righty tighty” when using a wrench. He also know that a “pint’s a pound the world round”. Plumbers learn that by carrying water. How much water do you think Barack Hussein Obama or Curley Biden have carried as part of a job?
[In 1963 I did construction work in Huejutla, Mexico with a group sponsored by the Archdiocese of Newark. One of my jobs was to buggylug – and if you have to ask what buggylug means you have never done any of it and hereby permanently disqualified from prattling on about how blue your collar is – water about 100 yards up a small hill. The accepted way was the Chinese method. That was a yoke to be worn over my shoulders with cans filled with water on each end. It didn’t take me but the better part of two trips to change that. It involved threading a pipe and connecting some sections of pipe to get the water the 100 yards up the hill. I then had to get the village priest, an astonishing man named Padre Arturo Lona, to bless the pump and the pipe and calm some ruffled feathers. No more trips up that hill. Funny thing, The further away in time I get from then the higher the hill gets and the heavier the water gets. That was an example of change I could believe in.]
Joe the Plumber asked a question that suggested not only was the Emperor not wearing any clothes but that he thought, based on what his glibly thuggish suck ups in the media spewed out, that no one was entitled to even think such thoughts let alone ask such questions.
One media serpent said, based on Joe the Plumber’s bald head, that he probably was a Nazi.
Using the same Logic James Carville is Hitler’s son. He is, isn’t he? Did Senator Joseph Curley “I have a higher IQ than you” Biden spot weld those Chia Pet hair plugs to his skull, a skull as bald as an 8 ball, so that people wouldn’t suspect that he was Herman Goering’s brother? Is that why Senator Carl Levin [D-MI], despite the perfect cover of everybody thinking he’s Jewish, starts his comb over in his left arm pit because he’s afraid that people will find out that his uncle was Reinhardt Heydrich? If Joe the Plumber whistles Valkyrie would we have to treat him the same as we treated Ezra Pound? Hey, I didn’t start this.
[You’re my confidential connection to the media in general and the puckeredup, pursedup Boston den of vipers in particular. Is there any truth to the rumor that the Boston Globe HQ will be renovated to the highest Green standards – goats on the roof to dispose of the garbage in an environmentally sensitive manner, stuff like that - and then converted into Section 8 Housing? Wouldn’t that be a monumentally priapristic moment for Barney Frank?]
What they are really saying is that Joe the Plumber is – you know what I’m saying? – is that Joe the Plumber is…is…gauche. He’s not with the program. You ask what the program is.
Forget what the platform said. The program changes only on the outer edges. It was begun on a tennis court in France. It first flew black flags. It then flew red flags. It would have no problem flying a plaid flag. It always knew where the Yellow Brick road was. It is, as T.S. Eliot said, “the search for a system so perfect that no one will have to be good”. Some of its proponents were unconscious “useful idiots”, as Lenin called them.. Henry Wallace comes to mind. Some were conscious. Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs are names that must be kept in the forefront. There is a straight line between handing over atomic secrets to someone with half a Jello label and trying to blow up the Pentagon.
Fairness, the enshrinement of all the silly feel good crack pot clap trap ideas of John Rawls, 4th, 5th, and 6th trimester abortions, one to one student/teacher ratios, a military that shoots to wound, punishing oil companies, higher SAT scores, security for the family farmer, lower food costs for the undeserving poor, God?, Never heard of him. compassionate judges, higher prices when Granny’s estate sells her house, cheaper housing for the working poor, free drugs for geezers, foreign nations telling us how good we are, more money for the arts, lower insurance premiums, an end to Global Warming, Kumbayaiousness in the land, free mass transit, the Presidential Medal of Freedom for Bill Ayers, lower taxes for people who don’t pay taxes, Joe Hill on a stamp, a never ending gaggle of golden geese, equality in an unequal world…Well you have to leave something for the second term of Barack the Beneficent.
The Democratic Party, and the modern American Liberals who are its communicants, loves mankind. It’s guys like Joe the Plumber that they hate. They just can’t hate him. He may be the last free man in Ohio. They have to destroy him.
Your pal,
KS
Dear Mr. X,
“The only thing wrong with capitalism is capitalists; the only thing wrong with socialism is socialism.”
I now have enough birthdays to qualify as an old curmudgeon. Alas, the quote is not mine but rather that of another old curmudgeon, Winston Churchill.
Senator Bambi, Barack the Merciful, the “Messiah” as Louie Louie Farrakhan called him, was pressing the flesh on a rope line 4 days ago. There he meets a guy who asks him about taxes. Senator Barack Hussein Obama, in an unscripted moment, answers truthfully that he is “going to spread the wealth around”. The unspoken but accepted premise is that he is going to take from a few to give to the many.
“Any public policy that involves robbing Peter
to pay Paul will always have Paul’s support.”
Paul
This aspiring Peter, Joe the Plumber, said the equivalent of “Once the people realize that they can vote themselves free money it will be the end of the Republic”. For this he has been covered with billingsgate, pilloried by his lessers, and mocked by people who wouldn’t know which end of a steel snake was the business end.
“He doesn’t have a plumber’s license” – Neither does any of the undocumented workers, AKA illegal aliens, who the mush brained, hard edged modern American Liberals media toads love soooo much. Maybe he’s a decent, hard working guy who wants to support his family. His family is in Ohio, not Tegucigalpa. Shouldn’t we support Joe the Plumber for having the same dreams as the wet backs who only want to share in the good world of los gringos?
“He has tax liens from the IRS” – So do I. As I explained yesterday mine were comfortably into 7 figures. That’s not counting the one for about $80,000 that the IRS issued against me in 1992. I was surprised to find out, as were my wife and children, that I had a machine tool company in Brooklyn, that I was divorced, and that I had 3 children there. I did not; I was not; I do not. Just a mistake they said. I had an IRS collection agent who was determined to see how long she could go without washing her hair. She suggested that I buy lottery tickets. When she took umbrage because I told her that the stone had no more blood she said I was “badgertating” her. Joe the Plumber said that he had no idea about the IRS lien. I stand with Joe.
“What does Joe know”? – I guessing he may not be up to par on the four source theory of Pentateuch composition. Like most sensible Americans he doesn’t much care about decomposition, Women’s’ Studies, and drowning polar bears. I will bet large dollars that he knows there are 50 states, not “57 or 58”. I will double the bet and say that he knows the Penn State mascot is a “Nittany Lion” and not a “Nittaly Lion”. I’ll bet the ranch that he knows that two terms in the White House equals 8 years and not 10. Joe the Plumber knows that it’s “Lefty loosey, righty tighty” when using a wrench. He also know that a “pint’s a pound the world round”. Plumbers learn that by carrying water. How much water do you think Barack Hussein Obama or Curley Biden have carried as part of a job?
[In 1963 I did construction work in Huejutla, Mexico with a group sponsored by the Archdiocese of Newark. One of my jobs was to buggylug – and if you have to ask what buggylug means you have never done any of it and hereby permanently disqualified from prattling on about how blue your collar is – water about 100 yards up a small hill. The accepted way was the Chinese method. That was a yoke to be worn over my shoulders with cans filled with water on each end. It didn’t take me but the better part of two trips to change that. It involved threading a pipe and connecting some sections of pipe to get the water the 100 yards up the hill. I then had to get the village priest, an astonishing man named Padre Arturo Lona, to bless the pump and the pipe and calm some ruffled feathers. No more trips up that hill. Funny thing, The further away in time I get from then the higher the hill gets and the heavier the water gets. That was an example of change I could believe in.]
Joe the Plumber asked a question that suggested not only was the Emperor not wearing any clothes but that he thought, based on what his glibly thuggish suck ups in the media spewed out, that no one was entitled to even think such thoughts let alone ask such questions.
One media serpent said, based on Joe the Plumber’s bald head, that he probably was a Nazi.
Using the same Logic James Carville is Hitler’s son. He is, isn’t he? Did Senator Joseph Curley “I have a higher IQ than you” Biden spot weld those Chia Pet hair plugs to his skull, a skull as bald as an 8 ball, so that people wouldn’t suspect that he was Herman Goering’s brother? Is that why Senator Carl Levin [D-MI], despite the perfect cover of everybody thinking he’s Jewish, starts his comb over in his left arm pit because he’s afraid that people will find out that his uncle was Reinhardt Heydrich? If Joe the Plumber whistles Valkyrie would we have to treat him the same as we treated Ezra Pound? Hey, I didn’t start this.
[You’re my confidential connection to the media in general and the puckeredup, pursedup Boston den of vipers in particular. Is there any truth to the rumor that the Boston Globe HQ will be renovated to the highest Green standards – goats on the roof to dispose of the garbage in an environmentally sensitive manner, stuff like that - and then converted into Section 8 Housing? Wouldn’t that be a monumentally priapristic moment for Barney Frank?]
What they are really saying is that Joe the Plumber is – you know what I’m saying? – is that Joe the Plumber is…is…gauche. He’s not with the program. You ask what the program is.
Forget what the platform said. The program changes only on the outer edges. It was begun on a tennis court in France. It first flew black flags. It then flew red flags. It would have no problem flying a plaid flag. It always knew where the Yellow Brick road was. It is, as T.S. Eliot said, “the search for a system so perfect that no one will have to be good”. Some of its proponents were unconscious “useful idiots”, as Lenin called them.. Henry Wallace comes to mind. Some were conscious. Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs are names that must be kept in the forefront. There is a straight line between handing over atomic secrets to someone with half a Jello label and trying to blow up the Pentagon.
Fairness, the enshrinement of all the silly feel good crack pot clap trap ideas of John Rawls, 4th, 5th, and 6th trimester abortions, one to one student/teacher ratios, a military that shoots to wound, punishing oil companies, higher SAT scores, security for the family farmer, lower food costs for the undeserving poor, God?, Never heard of him. compassionate judges, higher prices when Granny’s estate sells her house, cheaper housing for the working poor, free drugs for geezers, foreign nations telling us how good we are, more money for the arts, lower insurance premiums, an end to Global Warming, Kumbayaiousness in the land, free mass transit, the Presidential Medal of Freedom for Bill Ayers, lower taxes for people who don’t pay taxes, Joe Hill on a stamp, a never ending gaggle of golden geese, equality in an unequal world…Well you have to leave something for the second term of Barack the Beneficent.
The Democratic Party, and the modern American Liberals who are its communicants, loves mankind. It’s guys like Joe the Plumber that they hate. They just can’t hate him. He may be the last free man in Ohio. They have to destroy him.
Your pal,
KS
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
October 17, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Drilling off the coast of Cuba
Congressman Klein,
Cuba Petroleo, the state owned Cuban oil company, just announced that they have 20 billion - 20,000,000,000 – barrels of oil in the North Cuba Basin. They expect to begin drilling in 8 months. The geologic structure is very similar to what is found in United States and Mexican waters in the Gulf. Cuba’s share of the Gulf of Mexico was established in 1997 when it signed treaties with the United States of America and the United States of Mexico.
Apparently the “Drill, Drill, Drill” philosophy espoused by Newt Gingrich, T. Boone Pickens and everybody who uses gasoline has taken hold and is flourishing, Alas, it is flourishing in Cuba, a country where for 50 years, try and try and try as it does, they have yet to overcome the three perpetual problems of any Socialist economy; breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soon, very soon Cuba may be exporting oil. The mind boggles.
Two things:
#1 – I know that neither Exxon nor Chevron will be involved with the drilling of these wells. Whoever drills will not be answerable to the American legal system. From Key West to Pensacola the Gulf coast of Florida will be in peril. If there is a spill who will pay? Will the United States Navy take an active role in enforcing our environmental standards on a foreign company and foreign country? What will be the rules of engagement? A hearing at the United Nations? A suit at the World Court? An F-18 air strike followed by a Marine invasion?
#2 – If we are to assume the risk of beach befoulment shouldn’t we get some of the “good stuff”? Let me define “good stuff”: Increased domestic oil production, the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs, an exponential increase in tax revenues, both state and Federal, and the decreased dependence on foreign oil, sometimes from countries not overly friendly to us.
Would not common sense and the common good dictate that we adopt such a policy?
I care deeply about our nation. I care deeply about the future that awaits my grandchildren. If wandering manatees, peripatetic furbish louseworts, the odd whooping crane, Luddites and fellow travelers of Lysenko are disturbed…that’s too damn bad.
If Castro can do it so can we.
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Drilling off the coast of Cuba
Congressman Klein,
Cuba Petroleo, the state owned Cuban oil company, just announced that they have 20 billion - 20,000,000,000 – barrels of oil in the North Cuba Basin. They expect to begin drilling in 8 months. The geologic structure is very similar to what is found in United States and Mexican waters in the Gulf. Cuba’s share of the Gulf of Mexico was established in 1997 when it signed treaties with the United States of America and the United States of Mexico.
Apparently the “Drill, Drill, Drill” philosophy espoused by Newt Gingrich, T. Boone Pickens and everybody who uses gasoline has taken hold and is flourishing, Alas, it is flourishing in Cuba, a country where for 50 years, try and try and try as it does, they have yet to overcome the three perpetual problems of any Socialist economy; breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soon, very soon Cuba may be exporting oil. The mind boggles.
Two things:
#1 – I know that neither Exxon nor Chevron will be involved with the drilling of these wells. Whoever drills will not be answerable to the American legal system. From Key West to Pensacola the Gulf coast of Florida will be in peril. If there is a spill who will pay? Will the United States Navy take an active role in enforcing our environmental standards on a foreign company and foreign country? What will be the rules of engagement? A hearing at the United Nations? A suit at the World Court? An F-18 air strike followed by a Marine invasion?
#2 – If we are to assume the risk of beach befoulment shouldn’t we get some of the “good stuff”? Let me define “good stuff”: Increased domestic oil production, the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs, an exponential increase in tax revenues, both state and Federal, and the decreased dependence on foreign oil, sometimes from countries not overly friendly to us.
Would not common sense and the common good dictate that we adopt such a policy?
I care deeply about our nation. I care deeply about the future that awaits my grandchildren. If wandering manatees, peripatetic furbish louseworts, the odd whooping crane, Luddites and fellow travelers of Lysenko are disturbed…that’s too damn bad.
If Castro can do it so can we.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Joe the Plumber
October 17, 2008
The fat lady just sat down. She’s the one with the Viking horns, the long blond pony tails, and the spear. When she heads for the front of the stage you reach for your parking stub.
She started to stand up. She changed her mind.
The Deus ex machina was Joe the Plumber.
Senator Barack Hussein Obama – I looove three names, don’t you? Think Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy – couldn’t put Hillary Rodham Clinton away in the later primaries.
Joe the Plumber, and by now the thugs who work for Senator Barack Hussein Obama and the toads and weasels who carry his water in the media will have found out that Joe the Plumber is a troll who eats little kittens, tells mother in law jokes, and never heard of “Angels in America” save to say that he knows it’s probably not about Angels, knows the hard way that if you tax something you have less of it.
Joe the Plumber asked Senator Barack Hussein Obama not the obvious question, the question that gives politicians the chance to sound like Mother Teresa minus the religion, the one that gives them the opportunity to talk of shared sacrifice, of fairness, of helping the children. The obvious question would have been “What are you going to do for me”? Rather, he asked “What are you going to do to me”?
To his credit Senator Barack Hussein Obama told Joe the Plumber that if he does well the Internal Revenue Service will, without any risk, stick its man hole sized hand into his pocket and “spread the wealth”.
Senator Joseph “Curley” Biden, a man who believes in selective Globalization what with his hair being from China and his teeth being from the Duchy of DuPont, told us it was “patriotic” to pay more taxes
. Interestingly, he excluded himself from this burden. Also, the burden of helping those less fortunate than him – it’s called charity – also is not for him. Perhaps he didn’t want to dilute the value of his donations and contributions but claiming them on his tax returns. I don’t believe that and if you do then, as the Iron Duke said, “You’ll believe anything”.
You do not “create” jobs by passing out $3,000 tax credits for each new job “created”. If you start a new business – plumbing, soft ware, making sausages, you name it – “tax credits” are about as useful as tits on a bull by the time you reach your third payroll.
“Tax credits” come into play when you file your first tax return. If you are showing a profit in your first year of business you work either for Tony Soprano or your business is playing and winning by filling inside straights. If you do the latter enough times the former will be retained by the casinos to monitor your business methods.
In the real world, a world that Joe the Plumber lives in and one that Senator Barack Hussein Obama has no idea of or why would he be caterwauling about the price of arugula, Joe the Plumber knows genetically, instinctively, or, as Edmund Burke said,” Unfortunately, experience is the only school where some people ever learn” what works for him.
He also knows the difference between gross and net.
James Burnham once had a list to determine who was a modern American Liberal and who wasn’t. If you believed that the United Nations was good and that Alger Hiss and the Rosenthals were railroaded and that higher tax rates got more revenue for the government you got your membership card. Today, the typical modern American Liberal looks a Subchapter S tax return and sees only one number that counts to him. Gross income.
Senator Joseph Curley Biden says that no plumber in his neighborhood – Did you know that his neighborhood is known as “Chateau Country”? – “makes” $250,000 a year. That’s true for the unstated reason that there are no plumbers in his neighborhood. If Joe the Plumber has 1 truck, an astonishing insurance bill, and why does Joe the Plumber need a lawyer, 2 part time assistants, and a big pile of inventory in his garage his $250,000 a year is not a lot of money. Since Senator Barack Hussein Obama has already told Joe the Plumber that he will tax the bejeezus out him to “spread the wealth” – Don’t you love it when politicians tell the truth particularly when they don’t want to? – why should Joe want to put his hand into that particular meat grinder?
Joe the Plumber knows this.
That’s why the fat lady sat down.
That’s why there is one more act to come.
Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
KS
The fat lady just sat down. She’s the one with the Viking horns, the long blond pony tails, and the spear. When she heads for the front of the stage you reach for your parking stub.
She started to stand up. She changed her mind.
The Deus ex machina was Joe the Plumber.
Senator Barack Hussein Obama – I looove three names, don’t you? Think Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy – couldn’t put Hillary Rodham Clinton away in the later primaries.
Joe the Plumber, and by now the thugs who work for Senator Barack Hussein Obama and the toads and weasels who carry his water in the media will have found out that Joe the Plumber is a troll who eats little kittens, tells mother in law jokes, and never heard of “Angels in America” save to say that he knows it’s probably not about Angels, knows the hard way that if you tax something you have less of it.
Joe the Plumber asked Senator Barack Hussein Obama not the obvious question, the question that gives politicians the chance to sound like Mother Teresa minus the religion, the one that gives them the opportunity to talk of shared sacrifice, of fairness, of helping the children. The obvious question would have been “What are you going to do for me”? Rather, he asked “What are you going to do to me”?
To his credit Senator Barack Hussein Obama told Joe the Plumber that if he does well the Internal Revenue Service will, without any risk, stick its man hole sized hand into his pocket and “spread the wealth”.
Senator Joseph “Curley” Biden, a man who believes in selective Globalization what with his hair being from China and his teeth being from the Duchy of DuPont, told us it was “patriotic” to pay more taxes
. Interestingly, he excluded himself from this burden. Also, the burden of helping those less fortunate than him – it’s called charity – also is not for him. Perhaps he didn’t want to dilute the value of his donations and contributions but claiming them on his tax returns. I don’t believe that and if you do then, as the Iron Duke said, “You’ll believe anything”.
You do not “create” jobs by passing out $3,000 tax credits for each new job “created”. If you start a new business – plumbing, soft ware, making sausages, you name it – “tax credits” are about as useful as tits on a bull by the time you reach your third payroll.
“Tax credits” come into play when you file your first tax return. If you are showing a profit in your first year of business you work either for Tony Soprano or your business is playing and winning by filling inside straights. If you do the latter enough times the former will be retained by the casinos to monitor your business methods.
In the real world, a world that Joe the Plumber lives in and one that Senator Barack Hussein Obama has no idea of or why would he be caterwauling about the price of arugula, Joe the Plumber knows genetically, instinctively, or, as Edmund Burke said,” Unfortunately, experience is the only school where some people ever learn” what works for him.
He also knows the difference between gross and net.
James Burnham once had a list to determine who was a modern American Liberal and who wasn’t. If you believed that the United Nations was good and that Alger Hiss and the Rosenthals were railroaded and that higher tax rates got more revenue for the government you got your membership card. Today, the typical modern American Liberal looks a Subchapter S tax return and sees only one number that counts to him. Gross income.
Senator Joseph Curley Biden says that no plumber in his neighborhood – Did you know that his neighborhood is known as “Chateau Country”? – “makes” $250,000 a year. That’s true for the unstated reason that there are no plumbers in his neighborhood. If Joe the Plumber has 1 truck, an astonishing insurance bill, and why does Joe the Plumber need a lawyer, 2 part time assistants, and a big pile of inventory in his garage his $250,000 a year is not a lot of money. Since Senator Barack Hussein Obama has already told Joe the Plumber that he will tax the bejeezus out him to “spread the wealth” – Don’t you love it when politicians tell the truth particularly when they don’t want to? – why should Joe want to put his hand into that particular meat grinder?
Joe the Plumber knows this.
That’s why the fat lady sat down.
That’s why there is one more act to come.
Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
KS
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Leonard Pitts, The Miami Herald
October 15, 2008
Leonard Pitts
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “It Ain’t Necessarily So” – A different take on your column in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
“Accurately, it turns out” is what you said in re Thomas Jefferson “fathering a child by a slave”. Like I said, “It Ain’t Necessarily So”.
I hate to be turd in the punch bowl particularly when the author is a Pulitzer Prize winner – I think neither Walter Duranty nor Janice Cook will mind – but what you wrote is, at the very least, not accurate.
Facts are hard things. Either they are true or they are not. “Close” counts only in horseshoes and nuclear weapons.
It – Thomas Jefferson’s fathering of a child by a slave ain’t so ‘cuz you say it is. Look it up.
Touching on another slave matter would it be “fair” to say that Barack Husssein Obama’s connection to the slave trade would have been on the gathering and selling side? Arab traders – Barack Hussein Obama is an Arabic name, isn’t it? – made and still make a good living trafficking in human flesh. It was not unusual for Arab corsairs to raid Europe for treasure and slaves. There are 5 Muslim majority countries in Africa today that countenance slavery within their borders. Sudan, Mali, Chad, Mauretania, and Nigeria have never heard of the 13th Amendment.
Will an Obama Presidency see an end to this?
KS
PS – California has its coldest October since 1893. Oregon has its coldest October since 1890. The Alaska glaciers grew this year. Does that mean that Global Warming is no longer a campaign issue?
Leonard Pitts
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “It Ain’t Necessarily So” – A different take on your column in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
“Accurately, it turns out” is what you said in re Thomas Jefferson “fathering a child by a slave”. Like I said, “It Ain’t Necessarily So”.
I hate to be turd in the punch bowl particularly when the author is a Pulitzer Prize winner – I think neither Walter Duranty nor Janice Cook will mind – but what you wrote is, at the very least, not accurate.
Facts are hard things. Either they are true or they are not. “Close” counts only in horseshoes and nuclear weapons.
It – Thomas Jefferson’s fathering of a child by a slave ain’t so ‘cuz you say it is. Look it up.
Touching on another slave matter would it be “fair” to say that Barack Husssein Obama’s connection to the slave trade would have been on the gathering and selling side? Arab traders – Barack Hussein Obama is an Arabic name, isn’t it? – made and still make a good living trafficking in human flesh. It was not unusual for Arab corsairs to raid Europe for treasure and slaves. There are 5 Muslim majority countries in Africa today that countenance slavery within their borders. Sudan, Mali, Chad, Mauretania, and Nigeria have never heard of the 13th Amendment.
Will an Obama Presidency see an end to this?
KS
PS – California has its coldest October since 1893. Oregon has its coldest October since 1890. The Alaska glaciers grew this year. Does that mean that Global Warming is no longer a campaign issue?
Richard Cohen
October 15, 2008
Richard Cohen writes this morning in the Miami Herald about tonight’s debate. He poses some hypothetical questions to each of them. One of them is below.
“Senator Obama and Senator McCain, you both favor NATO
membership for Ukraine & Georgia. Please tell us how you
would explain to an American soldier why he or she would have
to fight for either country. Please explain why Georgia is in
our national interest.”
Among the smarmiest of the modern American Liberal ass kissing “I’m so guilty” suck-up Kumbaya keening “men without chests” bastards is Richard Cohen. Long before bullying became a crime caused by the Republican Congress undoing “Midnight Basketball” you knew little peckerheads like him in high school. If you had nothing else to do you gave Little Dick some nuggies. Most times he earned them.
But when he’s right he’s right.
It was better said in Parliament in 1938.
“They are a faraway people of whom we know little.”
The speaker was Neville Chamberlain. The “faraway people” were the citizens of Czechoslovakia.
The only opposition was from an aging curmudgeon. His response was simple. “We had to choose between shame and war. We chose shame; we will have war.”
Winston Churchill said it.
Fast forward to 1960.
This country does strange things in elections.
The Democrats claimed that the Republicans allowed a “missile gap” to develop between Russia and America, said gap placing this country in mortal peril. The thought that President Eisenhower, a man who led an army of 10,000,000 men, a man who defeated Hitler 11 months and 2 days after he landed in Europe, would allow his country to be in peril was, of course, ludicrous.
A case could be made that the Democratic contender, a 14 year veteran of Congress, a wounded Navy veteran, got his job because the paternal grandfather of ACORN, Daley the First, cooked the books in Chicago and Cook County a few hours after the polls closed. Some things never change. But I digress.
Speaking of “faraway places” Google up Quemoy and Matsu. Above all find them on a map. Senator Kennedy repeatedly said “Any place is defensible if free men choose to do so”.
Khe Sanh
Mitla Pass
Pork Chop Hill
DD-557
Torpedo Squadron 8
Wake Island
Belleau Wood
Omdurman
Rorke’s Drift
The Wheat Field
Tralfalgar
Valley Forge
Lepanto
Tours
Thermopylae
It’s too late to explain to Corporal Leonard W. Putnam why he “had to fight” in some faraway land. He was killed in action “in the Pacific Area on May 25, 1945”. In fact, a Japanese mortar shell took off most of the right side of his body in Okinawa. That certainly qualifies as a “faraway place”.
He was a 42 year old piano salesman from Jersey City, New Jersey who married my wife’s great aunt Millie. They had no children.
The only visible reminder is a scroll hanging about 7 feet from where I type. It reads thus.
“He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who dared to die
that freedom night live, and grow, and increase its blessings.
Freedom lives and through it he lives –
In a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.”
Harry S. Truman
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
The solipsism of people such as Richard Cohen precludes him from being humbled by anything outside of himself. The thought of men fighting and dying for something greater than themselves is an alien concept. It is a trait missing in his DNA double helix.
I can only call attention to his smarminess. It would take a Dante to describe it justly.
Richard Cohen writes this morning in the Miami Herald about tonight’s debate. He poses some hypothetical questions to each of them. One of them is below.
“Senator Obama and Senator McCain, you both favor NATO
membership for Ukraine & Georgia. Please tell us how you
would explain to an American soldier why he or she would have
to fight for either country. Please explain why Georgia is in
our national interest.”
Among the smarmiest of the modern American Liberal ass kissing “I’m so guilty” suck-up Kumbaya keening “men without chests” bastards is Richard Cohen. Long before bullying became a crime caused by the Republican Congress undoing “Midnight Basketball” you knew little peckerheads like him in high school. If you had nothing else to do you gave Little Dick some nuggies. Most times he earned them.
But when he’s right he’s right.
It was better said in Parliament in 1938.
“They are a faraway people of whom we know little.”
The speaker was Neville Chamberlain. The “faraway people” were the citizens of Czechoslovakia.
The only opposition was from an aging curmudgeon. His response was simple. “We had to choose between shame and war. We chose shame; we will have war.”
Winston Churchill said it.
Fast forward to 1960.
This country does strange things in elections.
The Democrats claimed that the Republicans allowed a “missile gap” to develop between Russia and America, said gap placing this country in mortal peril. The thought that President Eisenhower, a man who led an army of 10,000,000 men, a man who defeated Hitler 11 months and 2 days after he landed in Europe, would allow his country to be in peril was, of course, ludicrous.
A case could be made that the Democratic contender, a 14 year veteran of Congress, a wounded Navy veteran, got his job because the paternal grandfather of ACORN, Daley the First, cooked the books in Chicago and Cook County a few hours after the polls closed. Some things never change. But I digress.
Speaking of “faraway places” Google up Quemoy and Matsu. Above all find them on a map. Senator Kennedy repeatedly said “Any place is defensible if free men choose to do so”.
Khe Sanh
Mitla Pass
Pork Chop Hill
DD-557
Torpedo Squadron 8
Wake Island
Belleau Wood
Omdurman
Rorke’s Drift
The Wheat Field
Tralfalgar
Valley Forge
Lepanto
Tours
Thermopylae
It’s too late to explain to Corporal Leonard W. Putnam why he “had to fight” in some faraway land. He was killed in action “in the Pacific Area on May 25, 1945”. In fact, a Japanese mortar shell took off most of the right side of his body in Okinawa. That certainly qualifies as a “faraway place”.
He was a 42 year old piano salesman from Jersey City, New Jersey who married my wife’s great aunt Millie. They had no children.
The only visible reminder is a scroll hanging about 7 feet from where I type. It reads thus.
“He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who dared to die
that freedom night live, and grow, and increase its blessings.
Freedom lives and through it he lives –
In a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.”
Harry S. Truman
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
The solipsism of people such as Richard Cohen precludes him from being humbled by anything outside of himself. The thought of men fighting and dying for something greater than themselves is an alien concept. It is a trait missing in his DNA double helix.
I can only call attention to his smarminess. It would take a Dante to describe it justly.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Carl Hiassen - Smear Tactics
October 12, 2008
Carl Hiaasen
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “Smear Tactics” – The end of civilization as we know it or could it be worse? A comment on your “Why can’t we all just get along?” column in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Hiaasen,
Are the “lights going out all over”? Are we entering an age of “Trousered Apes”?
I’m voting for a Black man this year. Does that make me a good guy?
For the past 8 years this country has had its President compared to Hitler. I guess that doesn’t count.
Saturday Night Live had a skit that said Governor Palin’s husband was “doing” their daughters. Was that reasoned discourse or civil exchange? Was that as you say “too risky”?
The bench mark for all over the top, sling mud, take no prisoners Presidential campaigns was 1800. That was the first campaign that did not have George Washington keeping score. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the most beloved men in American History, went after each other like cats in a sack. No quarter asked; no quarter given. Did they reach their hallowed status because of or in spite of their performances?
I am a bit confused when you make William Ayers and Charles Keating “moral equivalents”.
Keating went to jail for giving politicians money
Ayers didn’t go to jail after blowing up Federal buildings.
Ayers, a devout disciple as was Hillary Rodham Clinton of Saul Alinsky, a man whose hero was Satan, was a victim of “Fatal Conceit” and poor timing.
His conceit was that he knew what was best for everyone. A few dead policeman or some blown-up buildings was a small price to pay for Utopia. [“All them corn fields and ballet at night.”] His poor timing was that the New York Times published an interview with him on September 11, 2001. As 3,000 people were turned to goo he said that he was “sorry he didn’t do more”. “More” was the killing of policemen and the destruction of Federal buildings. Sounds like a stand up guy.
In his defense it must be said that his wife, as charming and gracious an ax murderer as you would ever want to be involved with your children’s school, was worse.
Keating would have right at home with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. He wouldn’t have just been a “Friend of Angelo” he would have been Angelo.
Of the Keating Five it is indeed fitting and proper to note that Robert Bennett, the lead investigative attorney for the Democratic Senate, said that John McCain did nothing illegal, improper, or unethical. Perhaps it slipped your mind but the other 4 Senators were Democratic. Of course, if the admittedly vague rules of tu quoque are suspended then where are the standards to which an honest man may repair?
You say “McCain and four other lawmakers took fat donations from Keating”. How about the guy he’s running against?
Senator Barack Hussein Obama, and if Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Washington Carver, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Beresford Tipton, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy didn’t mind having their middle names used why should he or any of his paladins mind. Hussein is as proud name. I think it means “Death to the Jews” or “Bring on the virgins”. I don’t think it means “baboon”. The Democratic Party and The New York Time regularly referred to Abraham Lincoln as that. What the heck. You knew that, didn’t you?
I love to say that I am from Bayonne. I know that “Politics ain’t beanbag”.
That’s why the following sequence of events is not surprising. Barack Hussein Obama is elected to the United States Senate. His wife works for a hospital in Chicago. She is in charge of seeing that all aspects of bed pans – purchasing, delivery, cleaning, and disposing of said contents in an environmentally sensitive manner – are done in a way that reflects the humanitarian principles espoused by the Daley family.
As an aside for me the best moment of the 2000 election was when one of the Daleys landed in Florida and saying, “Let the recount begin”. That’s why veteran newsmen wear dark trousers. That way you have a chance of changing your pants before the rest of the world knows that you pissed in said pants.
Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as Senator Barack Hussein Obama. He gets his wife’s employer an earmark of $1,000,000. She gets a $4,000 – repeat - $4,000 a week- repeat - $4,000 a week – raise. That’s $200,000 a year.
Coincidence?
I told you I’m from Bayonne, New Jersey.
My brother the hunchback will straighten up if the replay shows that to be a coincidence.
Only a modern American Liberal, one who lives in the penumbra filled world of the perpetual suspension of both belief and disbelief, would believe so.
KS
PS – The Black man I’m voting for is Alan West. Does that make me a good guy? Also, a quick math quiz. Almost 50% of Americans do not pay income tax. How is Senator Candidate Barack Hussein Obama going to cut taxes on the 95% of those who do?
Carl Hiaasen
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “Smear Tactics” – The end of civilization as we know it or could it be worse? A comment on your “Why can’t we all just get along?” column in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Hiaasen,
Are the “lights going out all over”? Are we entering an age of “Trousered Apes”?
I’m voting for a Black man this year. Does that make me a good guy?
For the past 8 years this country has had its President compared to Hitler. I guess that doesn’t count.
Saturday Night Live had a skit that said Governor Palin’s husband was “doing” their daughters. Was that reasoned discourse or civil exchange? Was that as you say “too risky”?
The bench mark for all over the top, sling mud, take no prisoners Presidential campaigns was 1800. That was the first campaign that did not have George Washington keeping score. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the most beloved men in American History, went after each other like cats in a sack. No quarter asked; no quarter given. Did they reach their hallowed status because of or in spite of their performances?
I am a bit confused when you make William Ayers and Charles Keating “moral equivalents”.
Keating went to jail for giving politicians money
Ayers didn’t go to jail after blowing up Federal buildings.
Ayers, a devout disciple as was Hillary Rodham Clinton of Saul Alinsky, a man whose hero was Satan, was a victim of “Fatal Conceit” and poor timing.
His conceit was that he knew what was best for everyone. A few dead policeman or some blown-up buildings was a small price to pay for Utopia. [“All them corn fields and ballet at night.”] His poor timing was that the New York Times published an interview with him on September 11, 2001. As 3,000 people were turned to goo he said that he was “sorry he didn’t do more”. “More” was the killing of policemen and the destruction of Federal buildings. Sounds like a stand up guy.
In his defense it must be said that his wife, as charming and gracious an ax murderer as you would ever want to be involved with your children’s school, was worse.
Keating would have right at home with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. He wouldn’t have just been a “Friend of Angelo” he would have been Angelo.
Of the Keating Five it is indeed fitting and proper to note that Robert Bennett, the lead investigative attorney for the Democratic Senate, said that John McCain did nothing illegal, improper, or unethical. Perhaps it slipped your mind but the other 4 Senators were Democratic. Of course, if the admittedly vague rules of tu quoque are suspended then where are the standards to which an honest man may repair?
You say “McCain and four other lawmakers took fat donations from Keating”. How about the guy he’s running against?
Senator Barack Hussein Obama, and if Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Washington Carver, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Beresford Tipton, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy didn’t mind having their middle names used why should he or any of his paladins mind. Hussein is as proud name. I think it means “Death to the Jews” or “Bring on the virgins”. I don’t think it means “baboon”. The Democratic Party and The New York Time regularly referred to Abraham Lincoln as that. What the heck. You knew that, didn’t you?
I love to say that I am from Bayonne. I know that “Politics ain’t beanbag”.
That’s why the following sequence of events is not surprising. Barack Hussein Obama is elected to the United States Senate. His wife works for a hospital in Chicago. She is in charge of seeing that all aspects of bed pans – purchasing, delivery, cleaning, and disposing of said contents in an environmentally sensitive manner – are done in a way that reflects the humanitarian principles espoused by the Daley family.
As an aside for me the best moment of the 2000 election was when one of the Daleys landed in Florida and saying, “Let the recount begin”. That’s why veteran newsmen wear dark trousers. That way you have a chance of changing your pants before the rest of the world knows that you pissed in said pants.
Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as Senator Barack Hussein Obama. He gets his wife’s employer an earmark of $1,000,000. She gets a $4,000 – repeat - $4,000 a week- repeat - $4,000 a week – raise. That’s $200,000 a year.
Coincidence?
I told you I’m from Bayonne, New Jersey.
My brother the hunchback will straighten up if the replay shows that to be a coincidence.
Only a modern American Liberal, one who lives in the penumbra filled world of the perpetual suspension of both belief and disbelief, would believe so.
KS
PS – The Black man I’m voting for is Alan West. Does that make me a good guy? Also, a quick math quiz. Almost 50% of Americans do not pay income tax. How is Senator Candidate Barack Hussein Obama going to cut taxes on the 95% of those who do?
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