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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.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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?
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