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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Carl Hiassen - Smear Tactics

October 12, 2008

Carl Hiaasen
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
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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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October 10, 2008

One thing positive has come out of this campaign.

Yesterday, on national TV, the anti-Semitic jibe about “Jews are too smart” was disproved. Twice.

That’s why I thought about calling this little note

“Two Dumb Jews”

Robert Wexler [D – FL & MD], is a Congressman so smarmy that it takes two states to contain him. A while back he said that Governor Palin was a Nazi. He offered as proof that she was alleged to have worn a “Buchanan” button. Can’t you just hear those Huskies goose stepping to the Horst Wessel tune? He can. Can’t you just see her naming a bridge after Margaret Sanger? He can. Can’t you just see her sending the Alaska National Guard into Poland? He can.

That alone, according to Boob Wexler, would be sufficient to toss her into America’s first adult sleep away hostel, Camp Gitmo, for pre-trail detention.

Yesterday, I saw him sitting on a stage that had Senator Bambi rambling on about “fairness”. The Congressman had a look on his face halfway between MEGO [My eyes glaze over] and that of a refugee from the short yellow school bus that is filled with window lickers.

It was like someone slipped him a note that said Barry’s buddies hate Jews. He asked if there were any Jews other than Republicans on the list. When he was told that the venom starts with Israel he gulped. He was, as Al Sharpton once said, like a “hook nosed diamond merchant” who stumbled into a barbecue pork eating contest.

Why didn’t he jump up and denounce Barack the Blessed and Most Merciful?

Simple.

Wexler is a dumb Jew.

Barack the Beneficent has friends and backers who have said that “Judaism is a gutter religion”. This moron says, “What, me worry? Sarah Palin is a Nazi. Barack may be the Messiah. Make way.” A perfect dunce.

This doesn’t bother Wexler even a little bit.

Why?

Because he’s a dumb Jew.

If someone tells me that he’s going to destroy the country that my fathers came from and round up all of my cousins and kill them I would, at the very least, sharpen my ax and keep my eye on him.

That’s known as using your Yiddishe kup.

A bit later I saw Congressperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz [D-FL] Her family perfected the test. Her husband was a prison guard.

A mating of eagles!

Ain’t she a cutie? Rapunzel would shave her head if she saw her.

On September 18, 2001 – one week after feral bastard towel heads invaded this country and killed 3,000 people – 2 Florida Department of Law Enforcement Deputies, Agent Thomas and Agent Mineva, both of whom had badges and guns, came to my house to “advise” me that I shouldn’t write to then State Senator Debbie Wasserman-Shultz. Her resume says that she has two degrees in Political Science. She must have missed the part about the Greek saying that “Free men speak with free tongues”.

As a typical modern American Liberal she is, at heart, a friggin’ brown shirted, hob nailed boot stomping Nazi bastard. Free speech is reserved for her and those who share her opinions.

She is filled with “non-malodorous fecal matter”. As a champion of public education she sees no contradiction in sending her children to a very expensive private school. The basketball coach at that school drives a Bentley. That it creates a carbon footprint that could have come from a Goliath is of no import.

She was on TV this week caterwauling about milk being $6 a gallon. Publix Supermarket, about ¼ of a mile from her local office, will sell her all she wants for $2.69. She was off by half. Maybe she buys her milk from Sophia Loren.

Using Congressman Wexler’s Logic Congresswoman Little Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has become another dumb Jew.

Senator Barack Hussein Obama, and if President George Bush’s father can be called George Herbert Walker Bush why can’t the junior Senator form Illinois be called by his proper names, heard his pastor spew hatred for 20 years. He condemned his own country; he condemned Israel; he condemned Jews. How could he not have heard this? To say that he never knew what his own pastor said requires a willing suspension of disbelief on the part of his believers. It is a trait uncommon to Tribe members.

This week Louie Louie Farakhan called Senator Barack Hussein Obama the “Messiah”. “Moshiac”.

Only truly dumb Jews, biblically dumb Jews, Homerically dumb Jews, Guinness Book of Records dumb Jews, and the first two names that leap to mind are Congressman Robert Wexler and Congresschick Debbie Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, could sit through this and not say, “Oy”

In 2005 Adolf Akbar Ahmadinejad said: “Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and can be achieved”.

This is the man that Senator Barack Hussein Obama wants to meet without conditions?

William Ayers, a guy that Senator Barack Hussein Obama says “lives in his neighborhood”, tried to blow up the Capitol in Washington, DC. He said in an interview published in the New York Times on September 11, 2001 that he was “sorry he didn’t do more”. Ayers wanted to blow up Amerikans. If Jews were in the mix so be it. He wasn’t aiming at them in particular. He was a non-denominational murderer. I suppose that’s a plus for him.

Senator Barack Hussein Obama is peeing on the backs of American Jews. They think it’s rain.

If I were a rich man I would say they had a lot to atone for this week.







KS