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MAY 25, 1945
MAY 25, 2011
The line that began with Joshua, the line of men who fought for freedom without even knowing what it meant, the line that ran through Thermopylae and Tours, Lepanto and Trafalgar, the Alamo and Shiloh, Leyte and Afghanistan, the line with names like Leonidas and Martel, Cervantes and Nelson, Crockett and Grant, Evans and Murphy has never wavered.
Corporal Leonard Putnam, a 42 year old piano salesman from Jersey City, added his name “to the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings”. That’s what it says on the scroll signed by President Harry Truman. He died “in the Pacific area”, Okinawa to be precise.
The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so,
A million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray,
Would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words:
DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY
Douglas MacArthur spoke of the profession that he knew and loved. The call to duty from Horatius still resounds:
“To every man upon the earth
Death come soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his Gods.”
A young soldier, Joe Tierney by name, just completed his basic training at Fort Benning, GA. He has been assigned to Fort Lewis, WA. Corporal Putnam was his grandmother’s great uncle.
There is a marvelous scene in “The Bridges of Toko-Ri” where the Admiral asks his aide “Where do we find such men?”
God bless Corporal Putnam!
God protect Private Tierney!
KS
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Senator Eleanor Sobel
May 27, 2011
Senator Eleanor Sobel
2600 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, FL 33020
RE: Holocaust trains – Mass transit at its finest
Ellie! Sweetheart!
It’s been too, too long.
How have you been?
You seem to be holding up well considering that the voters of Florida, ungrateful reptiles all, have sent your party to the Coventry of minority status. Among other things it means that 4th trimester abortions and manatee suffrage won’t even get a hearing. To a modern American Liberal that would be like Dracula tossed into a pool filled with Holy water, mirrors, garlic, and wooden stakes.
There may be a solution coming up.
“Senator Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, blasted Scott for
eliminating $250,000 for renovations to rail cars used to
transport thousands of Jews to their deaths during the
Holocaust at the Hollywood Holocaust Documentation center.”
The Miami Herald
Page 2B
Today
You
Why should Jews have all the fun?
I think the survivors of all Holocausts should have their own documentation center.
The survivors of the Irish famine should theirs in a good saloon.
The survivors of Wounded Knee should have theirs at the Hard Rock.
My less than serious take on Holocaust Documentation Centers is predicated on the fact that these human freight trains may yet be sold as government surplus.
In case you missed it President Herr Oberst Klaus Obama has just told Israel that he will sent it 7,000,000 American made bayonets if every Jew in Israel agrees to sit on them.
There is no bus big enough for an entire nation to be thrown under but this President – Can we stipulate that he is the modern American Liberal? – tried
I think we should use some Stimulus Program money, money that we borrowed from the Chinese, to start the long delayed Summer of Recovery by getting these railroad cars into tip-top shape. Of course they will have the lead paint and asbestos removed in an environmentally sensitive manner. There will be no need for bar cars, heating or air conditioning nor will there be a need for Pullman berths. They will only be filled for the one way trip to the “undiscovered country from which no traveler ever returns”. In the truest sense of the term they will then deadhead back to the terminal from whence they came.
I see Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and if there is a better Judas Bull anywhere I want to see it, to hold hands and sing “Happy Days are Here Again” as the President awards a no-bid contract to GE to start building crematoria. There is an extra bonus if the source of incineration is strictly from Green Energy sources. If it isn’t it’s no big deal. Natural gas is as clean burning a fuel as there is.
I see you kvetching because you can’t get the deck chairs on the Good Ship Yiddish Titanic recovered and repainted.
One good thing, maybe the only good thing, to come from this is that an ethnic shibboleth has come undone.
Do you remember when everyone thought that Jews were smart?
Not anymore.
Kevin Smith
PS – I have heard that President Obama has instructed the Marine Band to replace “Ruffles and Flourishes” with some of Wagner’s greatest hits. “The Ride of the Valkyries” is a snappy tune for introducing the ObamaCare Death Panels, don’t you think?
Senator Eleanor Sobel
2600 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, FL 33020
RE: Holocaust trains – Mass transit at its finest
Ellie! Sweetheart!
It’s been too, too long.
How have you been?
You seem to be holding up well considering that the voters of Florida, ungrateful reptiles all, have sent your party to the Coventry of minority status. Among other things it means that 4th trimester abortions and manatee suffrage won’t even get a hearing. To a modern American Liberal that would be like Dracula tossed into a pool filled with Holy water, mirrors, garlic, and wooden stakes.
There may be a solution coming up.
“Senator Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, blasted Scott for
eliminating $250,000 for renovations to rail cars used to
transport thousands of Jews to their deaths during the
Holocaust at the Hollywood Holocaust Documentation center.”
The Miami Herald
Page 2B
Today
You
Why should Jews have all the fun?
I think the survivors of all Holocausts should have their own documentation center.
The survivors of the Irish famine should theirs in a good saloon.
The survivors of Wounded Knee should have theirs at the Hard Rock.
My less than serious take on Holocaust Documentation Centers is predicated on the fact that these human freight trains may yet be sold as government surplus.
In case you missed it President Herr Oberst Klaus Obama has just told Israel that he will sent it 7,000,000 American made bayonets if every Jew in Israel agrees to sit on them.
There is no bus big enough for an entire nation to be thrown under but this President – Can we stipulate that he is the modern American Liberal? – tried
I think we should use some Stimulus Program money, money that we borrowed from the Chinese, to start the long delayed Summer of Recovery by getting these railroad cars into tip-top shape. Of course they will have the lead paint and asbestos removed in an environmentally sensitive manner. There will be no need for bar cars, heating or air conditioning nor will there be a need for Pullman berths. They will only be filled for the one way trip to the “undiscovered country from which no traveler ever returns”. In the truest sense of the term they will then deadhead back to the terminal from whence they came.
I see Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and if there is a better Judas Bull anywhere I want to see it, to hold hands and sing “Happy Days are Here Again” as the President awards a no-bid contract to GE to start building crematoria. There is an extra bonus if the source of incineration is strictly from Green Energy sources. If it isn’t it’s no big deal. Natural gas is as clean burning a fuel as there is.
I see you kvetching because you can’t get the deck chairs on the Good Ship Yiddish Titanic recovered and repainted.
One good thing, maybe the only good thing, to come from this is that an ethnic shibboleth has come undone.
Do you remember when everyone thought that Jews were smart?
Not anymore.
Kevin Smith
PS – I have heard that President Obama has instructed the Marine Band to replace “Ruffles and Flourishes” with some of Wagner’s greatest hits. “The Ride of the Valkyries” is a snappy tune for introducing the ObamaCare Death Panels, don’t you think?
Congressdoll Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
May 26, 2011
Congressdoll Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC 20003
RE: Bile & Vitriol, with the mandatory tearing us apart at the seams and you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your relatives. Still, you had a better week than Israel.
Debbie, Debbie!
I was going to bring you up to date in re the Arizona shooter and the Constitution. The shooter is the guy who, in the parlance of Seal Team 6, put one in the head of Congresswoman Giffords. He shot and killed quite a few others that day.
As a modern American Liberal your reaction was instantaneous and your duty was obvious. You told America that “bile and vitriol” was the cause of the shooting. It may have once been known as free speech but when Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Darth Cheney, and the Koch Brothers orchestrate a take down mayhem follows. In the words of Hillary Rodham Clinton, when the Monica Lewinsky story broke, there was a big story here if some serious reporters wanted to follow it. That there was a “vast Right-Wing conspiracy” behind it there could be no doubt. Fingerprints from the ghost of Ronald Reagan were all over it.
You warned us in your most lachrymose Jeremiad style that we were being “torn apart at the seams”. Since your history of lower case Fascism in matters of opposition speech is well known – in my case, first hand – the inference was that all it would take for a serene comity to descend on us would be for anyone who thinks that your policies are asinine and egregiously offensive to Logic to shut up.
Alas, but the Constitution, that’s the document that I would have expected someone with 2 degrees in Political Science would have some working knowledge of, intervened. Since your website says that your academic concentration was in Political Campaigning I can now see how the finer points of due process would have escaped. In fact, many of the things you did over the years now make sense. Since you spent your time in college cozying up to bullet voting, palm cards, the dead rising on Election Day, and a perpetual Row A designation the 6th Amendment would have been Greek to you. For years you got away with saying that you loved the cello but never heard of Bach.
A brief history of Ricky Ray Rector is in order.
He was an evil man who lived in Arkansas. He murdered several people in the Razorback State. [It is not known if the Whitewater Land Development Company, Webster Hubble, or yogurt was in his background]. In a shootout with police he swore he would never be taken alive. Although he shot himself in the head he didn’t kill himself. That task would be accomplished by the Clintons.
By now he was as aware of his surroundings as a pot of collard greens would be of its.
He was incapable of understanding the charges against him. He was incapable of assisting in his defense.
Alas, the Clintons were running for President.
Ricky Ray Rector was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
By now, because he had blown a big chunk of his head off, he was serene, sweet, and extremely docile. The guards said that he wouldn’t hurt a fly. When his appeals ran out his execution date was set. Governor Clinton could have commuted his sentence to life imprisonment without parole. What better way for a modern American Liberal to show he was tough on crime than to wire up Ricky Ray Rector and light up the Arizona sky. Here’s the best part. Ricky Ray Rector was a Black man. A win/win for Billary!
How better to show he was tough on crime than by killing a Black man?
It is said that when his last meal was served he told the guard that he wanted to save some pie for when he got back from Old Sparky. The guard told him to eat the pie. It is rumored that if he objected Hillary would have given him a lap dance to relax him and send him out with a smile on his face. The only negative thing was that he forgot to say, a la Billy Budd, God Bless Governor Clinton! The one thing about being electrocuted is that there are no Mulligans.
Which brings us back to the Arizona shooter.
A Federal Judge has ruled that since Loughner can neither understand the charges against him nor can he assist in his own defense he cannot stand trial. He will be placed in a rubber room and given a series of Thorazine enemas while the experts try to find out exactly how many snakes he has in his head.
One of the conclusions to be drawn from this is that not even a steady diet of Michael Moore cartoons of Noam Chomsky’s plans to destroy Israel could be classified as “bile’ or “vitriol” as you defined it. The sound you don’t hear is the sound of the garment of civilization not being “torn apart at the seams”.
To him “bile and vitriol” are akin to “ham and eggs” or “apple pie and ice cream” like Ricky Ray Rector finally finished before he became a big boost to the Clinton campaign.
But the really bad news is that Ed Shultz, your husband’s cousin, Uncle Morty’s son, the one who wet his pants at your wedding, the one who picked up the handkerchief under the chuppa to blow his nose because his mother was embarrassed by him picking it, the one who asked your Aunt Sylvia if she had ever seen a one eared elephant, the one who somehow got a radio show, is a potty mouth.
There is a classic photo of a dozen or so female members of the House of Representatives walking over to the Senate to protest Judge Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
It is classic because all that was required for the modern American Liberal Judicial Death Panel to be set in motion was for a woman, one of their own, to say that Judge Thomas was debasingly disrespectful to her.
The other classic part of it was Congresswoman Barbara Boxer scratching her ass in a most vigorous fashion. It was almost as if Pedro, her undocumented Mexican gardener cum handy man, had put some los frijoles Mexicana in her knickers to see how she could shake her Gringo booty.
Anyway, Cousin Ed says on the radio that Laura Ingraham “is a slut”.
This is not to say that an alumna of Dartmouth College, a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, a law clerk to a Supreme Court Justice and a single mom of two who is a breast cancer survivor is incapable of sluttiness.
Who knows? The Mary Magdalene/Madonna gene may be in all women just waiting to break out. In her case, and yours, I rather think not.
He said this 3 days ago.
Shouldn’t the Hecates and harridans be in full voice over this?
Imagine if a modern American Liberal woman commentator has that said about her?
Rachel Maddow, the Sapphic slut? Joy Behar, the loud mouthed slut? Whoopi Godlberg, the calorically challenged, sometimes “nappy haired ho”, slut? Barbara Walters, the ancient slut?
I added “nappy haired ho” because when Don Imus said that he was fired from MSNBC. He wasn’t suspended for one week. He was fired.
Is it possible, and pray God it is not so, that there is a double standard in broadcasting?
Anything said by a modern American Liberal is OK.
Anything said to a modern American Liberal is not OK. In fact, it is automatically assumed to be “bile and vitriol”. Left unchecked it “will tear us apart at the seams”.
So long as we are pushing the edges of free speech we can stipulate that when a Democratic legislator tells a Republican legislator that she’s “fucking dead” it’s OK, that it is within the boundaries of fair comment.
If it is OK for your cousin Ed, and let’s hope that the vasectomy “took”, to call someone he disagrees with a “slut” is it OK for me to say that the Democratic Party, a party that is devoid of ideas, a party that knows not of Political Science, floats on a sea of bullshit?
I just took a poll of all the rational adults in the house. The answer is YES.
That was a great picture of you coming down the stairs of Air Force One. It looks like you’ve added a few pounds. One way to work them off would have been if President Klaus Obama had told you, like he told Israel, to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Do it 40 or 50 times a day and you’ll look like you spent the last 3 months on Dancing with the Stars.
Kevin Smith
Congressdoll Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC 20003
RE: Bile & Vitriol, with the mandatory tearing us apart at the seams and you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your relatives. Still, you had a better week than Israel.
Debbie, Debbie!
I was going to bring you up to date in re the Arizona shooter and the Constitution. The shooter is the guy who, in the parlance of Seal Team 6, put one in the head of Congresswoman Giffords. He shot and killed quite a few others that day.
As a modern American Liberal your reaction was instantaneous and your duty was obvious. You told America that “bile and vitriol” was the cause of the shooting. It may have once been known as free speech but when Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Darth Cheney, and the Koch Brothers orchestrate a take down mayhem follows. In the words of Hillary Rodham Clinton, when the Monica Lewinsky story broke, there was a big story here if some serious reporters wanted to follow it. That there was a “vast Right-Wing conspiracy” behind it there could be no doubt. Fingerprints from the ghost of Ronald Reagan were all over it.
You warned us in your most lachrymose Jeremiad style that we were being “torn apart at the seams”. Since your history of lower case Fascism in matters of opposition speech is well known – in my case, first hand – the inference was that all it would take for a serene comity to descend on us would be for anyone who thinks that your policies are asinine and egregiously offensive to Logic to shut up.
Alas, but the Constitution, that’s the document that I would have expected someone with 2 degrees in Political Science would have some working knowledge of, intervened. Since your website says that your academic concentration was in Political Campaigning I can now see how the finer points of due process would have escaped. In fact, many of the things you did over the years now make sense. Since you spent your time in college cozying up to bullet voting, palm cards, the dead rising on Election Day, and a perpetual Row A designation the 6th Amendment would have been Greek to you. For years you got away with saying that you loved the cello but never heard of Bach.
A brief history of Ricky Ray Rector is in order.
He was an evil man who lived in Arkansas. He murdered several people in the Razorback State. [It is not known if the Whitewater Land Development Company, Webster Hubble, or yogurt was in his background]. In a shootout with police he swore he would never be taken alive. Although he shot himself in the head he didn’t kill himself. That task would be accomplished by the Clintons.
By now he was as aware of his surroundings as a pot of collard greens would be of its.
He was incapable of understanding the charges against him. He was incapable of assisting in his defense.
Alas, the Clintons were running for President.
Ricky Ray Rector was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
By now, because he had blown a big chunk of his head off, he was serene, sweet, and extremely docile. The guards said that he wouldn’t hurt a fly. When his appeals ran out his execution date was set. Governor Clinton could have commuted his sentence to life imprisonment without parole. What better way for a modern American Liberal to show he was tough on crime than to wire up Ricky Ray Rector and light up the Arizona sky. Here’s the best part. Ricky Ray Rector was a Black man. A win/win for Billary!
How better to show he was tough on crime than by killing a Black man?
It is said that when his last meal was served he told the guard that he wanted to save some pie for when he got back from Old Sparky. The guard told him to eat the pie. It is rumored that if he objected Hillary would have given him a lap dance to relax him and send him out with a smile on his face. The only negative thing was that he forgot to say, a la Billy Budd, God Bless Governor Clinton! The one thing about being electrocuted is that there are no Mulligans.
Which brings us back to the Arizona shooter.
A Federal Judge has ruled that since Loughner can neither understand the charges against him nor can he assist in his own defense he cannot stand trial. He will be placed in a rubber room and given a series of Thorazine enemas while the experts try to find out exactly how many snakes he has in his head.
One of the conclusions to be drawn from this is that not even a steady diet of Michael Moore cartoons of Noam Chomsky’s plans to destroy Israel could be classified as “bile’ or “vitriol” as you defined it. The sound you don’t hear is the sound of the garment of civilization not being “torn apart at the seams”.
To him “bile and vitriol” are akin to “ham and eggs” or “apple pie and ice cream” like Ricky Ray Rector finally finished before he became a big boost to the Clinton campaign.
But the really bad news is that Ed Shultz, your husband’s cousin, Uncle Morty’s son, the one who wet his pants at your wedding, the one who picked up the handkerchief under the chuppa to blow his nose because his mother was embarrassed by him picking it, the one who asked your Aunt Sylvia if she had ever seen a one eared elephant, the one who somehow got a radio show, is a potty mouth.
There is a classic photo of a dozen or so female members of the House of Representatives walking over to the Senate to protest Judge Clarence Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
It is classic because all that was required for the modern American Liberal Judicial Death Panel to be set in motion was for a woman, one of their own, to say that Judge Thomas was debasingly disrespectful to her.
The other classic part of it was Congresswoman Barbara Boxer scratching her ass in a most vigorous fashion. It was almost as if Pedro, her undocumented Mexican gardener cum handy man, had put some los frijoles Mexicana in her knickers to see how she could shake her Gringo booty.
Anyway, Cousin Ed says on the radio that Laura Ingraham “is a slut”.
This is not to say that an alumna of Dartmouth College, a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, a law clerk to a Supreme Court Justice and a single mom of two who is a breast cancer survivor is incapable of sluttiness.
Who knows? The Mary Magdalene/Madonna gene may be in all women just waiting to break out. In her case, and yours, I rather think not.
He said this 3 days ago.
Shouldn’t the Hecates and harridans be in full voice over this?
Imagine if a modern American Liberal woman commentator has that said about her?
Rachel Maddow, the Sapphic slut? Joy Behar, the loud mouthed slut? Whoopi Godlberg, the calorically challenged, sometimes “nappy haired ho”, slut? Barbara Walters, the ancient slut?
I added “nappy haired ho” because when Don Imus said that he was fired from MSNBC. He wasn’t suspended for one week. He was fired.
Is it possible, and pray God it is not so, that there is a double standard in broadcasting?
Anything said by a modern American Liberal is OK.
Anything said to a modern American Liberal is not OK. In fact, it is automatically assumed to be “bile and vitriol”. Left unchecked it “will tear us apart at the seams”.
So long as we are pushing the edges of free speech we can stipulate that when a Democratic legislator tells a Republican legislator that she’s “fucking dead” it’s OK, that it is within the boundaries of fair comment.
If it is OK for your cousin Ed, and let’s hope that the vasectomy “took”, to call someone he disagrees with a “slut” is it OK for me to say that the Democratic Party, a party that is devoid of ideas, a party that knows not of Political Science, floats on a sea of bullshit?
I just took a poll of all the rational adults in the house. The answer is YES.
That was a great picture of you coming down the stairs of Air Force One. It looks like you’ve added a few pounds. One way to work them off would have been if President Klaus Obama had told you, like he told Israel, to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Do it 40 or 50 times a day and you’ll look like you spent the last 3 months on Dancing with the Stars.
Kevin Smith
Monday, May 23, 2011
Congressgal Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
May 21, 2011
Congressgal Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC 20003
RE: Thinking of you and the undoing of “a stiff necked people”
Congressperson Little Debbie,
It’s been good week [so far] and a bad week [so far]
I passed a kidney stone which was good news because I then was able to avoid the dreaded Death Panels of ObamaCare. Speaking of ObamaCare, how has your campaign to make ObamaCare into a hate word been going? Yet “Go ObamaCare yourself” is still better than the Wisconsin Democratic legislator who told his Republican counterpart that “she was fucking dead”.
I was a bit groggy when I saw you pitching some new synthetic polar bear friendly fuel. Not being sure whether it was made from manatee eructations with all the manatees being range fed and kept free of hormones, pesticides, herbicides, and rubella inoculations or from recycled tofu fistulas I went to your website to get some follow-up info. Alas, none was to be found.
What I did find has caused me to issue a public apology.
For years I have been bothered by your claim to have two degrees in Political Science. How, with those academic credentials, I asked, could you not be aware of the last 25 centuries of Western Civilization? Greece, the agora, Rome, England, Runnymede, Philadelphia? It was as if they never existed. Our rights, “rights that were ours from beyond the stars”, were never given their proper respect. Your oft-stated belief that only good government could make people good was and is bizarre. What else would explain your public endorsement of lower case Fascism?
The answer was hiding in plain sight.
Your website now says that your academic concentration was in Political Campaigning. I guess, to paraphrase one of my favorite politicians, “Cactus Jack” Garner, “that’s better than a bucket of warm spit”. It’s almost as good as being the 3rd or 4th largest land fill in Broward County.
I now realize that all my appeals to reason, said appeals being buttressed by references to History, and Heaven forefend! Political Science, were like casting pearls before swine
That’s a fancy way of saying you were clueless
Your peroration on energy appears to be a paean to super ethanol.
You show how simple a segue it is from being clueless to being a HORSE’S ASS. As the prototypical modern American Liberal the Law of Unintended Consequences has no meaning for you.
Listen up. I’ll type slowly. And, now that I am aware of your academic deficiencies, verrrry sloooowly.
Ethanol, be it economy, industrial strength, premium, or super intergalactic premium is made from corn.
From my time as a missionary in rural Mexico I assure you that corn is the staple of 3rd World existence.
In the United States of America the main use was feeding hogs.
In the United States of Mexico the main use was feeding the people.
Only in the world of modern American Liberalism, a world that you are entranced by and speak for, would taking food from the mouths of non-White people be looked on as something good. In the muddled brains of mALs, a world that equate feelings with ideas, the psychic balance sheet of how many Brown or Black babies are worth one polar bear is always open ended. That every truck load of corn that goes to an Ethanol plant causes someone to die there can be no dispute.
Only wealthy people, mostly White 1st Worlders, can afford to be environmentalists. A huge number of people still are ruled by the Hogarthian dictum that life is “nasty, poor, brutish, and short”. [If only the successes of the Obama Shovel Ready Stimulus Plan and its underappreciated spawn, the legendary Summer of Recovery, were universally available! If only rain water was beer! If only men were angels!]
While no one was looking the price of corn doubled. That matters not one whit to the makers of Ethanol. The reason is simple: They enjoy subsidies that Big Oil can only dream of. The use of corn for fuel, a use where price is not a factor, has caused the price to skyrocket. Having confused correlation with causation you have entered into a nonsensical – I wish it were Quixotic - crusade that puts the interests of the struggling snail darter and the valiant furbish lousewort above the needs of the most endangered species. The most endangered species being, of course, man.
Why should evil profit mongers care about the dietary deficiencies of Jose or Abdul? Since they are lionized by charlatans such as you they don’t care about the “collateral damage”.
If you think the Arab Spring has come about because Cicero has suddenly come into vogue you would be mistaken. If you think the Arab states have decided that they want to try Jeffersonian Democracy think again. If you think that a Parliamentary Democracy is close at hand in the Fertile Crescent think again.
They’re pissed off because they can’t afford to feed themselves. They live in a society that has no political escape valve. Political criticism is met with gunfire. After they blame Israel and the United States they still can’t feed themselves. Maybe Allah ain’t so Akbar after all. Lacking the tap root of free men governing themselves they can only roar at each other when they can’t feed their children.
Better we power our cars with windmills.
Just one more question.
3 years ago I heard you and your truly despicable pal, former Congressman “Toad” Wexler, preaching in assorted shuls, shivas, Mah-Jongg tournaments, and pre-Tea Party kvetching sessions that Obama would be good for Israel.
Maybe your devotion to synthetic fuels and keeping Mt. Kilimanjaro snow covered prevented you from seeing what he just did to Israel.
If Obama is good for the Jews Colonel Sanders is great for chickens. Obama is as big a liar as you were/are a fool.
I would be remiss if I failed to point out that the President used the term “Teutonic shift” during his lecture to the State Department about Israel. The ring tone on all White House issued cell phones has been changed from Berlin tunes – Irving, not the city - to the Best of Wagner. I thought he was humming the Horst Wessel anthem as he described the “slippery slope” he was putting our ally on. All he needs is a Brown shirt.
When dining with the Devil it is best to have a long spoon. As a righteous Gentile I would trust those WOGs about as far as I could throw the final version of ObamaCare. Since I am still within the octave of passing a kidney stone I couldn’t even lift that 12 stone tree eater.
Maybe W wasn’t quite as bad as he was made out to be. He certainly kept faith with Israel. His successor looks like he wants to be the engineer on the next Auschwitz express.
Kevin Smith
Congressgal Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC 20003
RE: Thinking of you and the undoing of “a stiff necked people”
Congressperson Little Debbie,
It’s been good week [so far] and a bad week [so far]
I passed a kidney stone which was good news because I then was able to avoid the dreaded Death Panels of ObamaCare. Speaking of ObamaCare, how has your campaign to make ObamaCare into a hate word been going? Yet “Go ObamaCare yourself” is still better than the Wisconsin Democratic legislator who told his Republican counterpart that “she was fucking dead”.
I was a bit groggy when I saw you pitching some new synthetic polar bear friendly fuel. Not being sure whether it was made from manatee eructations with all the manatees being range fed and kept free of hormones, pesticides, herbicides, and rubella inoculations or from recycled tofu fistulas I went to your website to get some follow-up info. Alas, none was to be found.
What I did find has caused me to issue a public apology.
For years I have been bothered by your claim to have two degrees in Political Science. How, with those academic credentials, I asked, could you not be aware of the last 25 centuries of Western Civilization? Greece, the agora, Rome, England, Runnymede, Philadelphia? It was as if they never existed. Our rights, “rights that were ours from beyond the stars”, were never given their proper respect. Your oft-stated belief that only good government could make people good was and is bizarre. What else would explain your public endorsement of lower case Fascism?
The answer was hiding in plain sight.
Your website now says that your academic concentration was in Political Campaigning. I guess, to paraphrase one of my favorite politicians, “Cactus Jack” Garner, “that’s better than a bucket of warm spit”. It’s almost as good as being the 3rd or 4th largest land fill in Broward County.
I now realize that all my appeals to reason, said appeals being buttressed by references to History, and Heaven forefend! Political Science, were like casting pearls before swine
That’s a fancy way of saying you were clueless
Your peroration on energy appears to be a paean to super ethanol.
You show how simple a segue it is from being clueless to being a HORSE’S ASS. As the prototypical modern American Liberal the Law of Unintended Consequences has no meaning for you.
Listen up. I’ll type slowly. And, now that I am aware of your academic deficiencies, verrrry sloooowly.
Ethanol, be it economy, industrial strength, premium, or super intergalactic premium is made from corn.
From my time as a missionary in rural Mexico I assure you that corn is the staple of 3rd World existence.
In the United States of America the main use was feeding hogs.
In the United States of Mexico the main use was feeding the people.
Only in the world of modern American Liberalism, a world that you are entranced by and speak for, would taking food from the mouths of non-White people be looked on as something good. In the muddled brains of mALs, a world that equate feelings with ideas, the psychic balance sheet of how many Brown or Black babies are worth one polar bear is always open ended. That every truck load of corn that goes to an Ethanol plant causes someone to die there can be no dispute.
Only wealthy people, mostly White 1st Worlders, can afford to be environmentalists. A huge number of people still are ruled by the Hogarthian dictum that life is “nasty, poor, brutish, and short”. [If only the successes of the Obama Shovel Ready Stimulus Plan and its underappreciated spawn, the legendary Summer of Recovery, were universally available! If only rain water was beer! If only men were angels!]
While no one was looking the price of corn doubled. That matters not one whit to the makers of Ethanol. The reason is simple: They enjoy subsidies that Big Oil can only dream of. The use of corn for fuel, a use where price is not a factor, has caused the price to skyrocket. Having confused correlation with causation you have entered into a nonsensical – I wish it were Quixotic - crusade that puts the interests of the struggling snail darter and the valiant furbish lousewort above the needs of the most endangered species. The most endangered species being, of course, man.
Why should evil profit mongers care about the dietary deficiencies of Jose or Abdul? Since they are lionized by charlatans such as you they don’t care about the “collateral damage”.
If you think the Arab Spring has come about because Cicero has suddenly come into vogue you would be mistaken. If you think the Arab states have decided that they want to try Jeffersonian Democracy think again. If you think that a Parliamentary Democracy is close at hand in the Fertile Crescent think again.
They’re pissed off because they can’t afford to feed themselves. They live in a society that has no political escape valve. Political criticism is met with gunfire. After they blame Israel and the United States they still can’t feed themselves. Maybe Allah ain’t so Akbar after all. Lacking the tap root of free men governing themselves they can only roar at each other when they can’t feed their children.
Better we power our cars with windmills.
Just one more question.
3 years ago I heard you and your truly despicable pal, former Congressman “Toad” Wexler, preaching in assorted shuls, shivas, Mah-Jongg tournaments, and pre-Tea Party kvetching sessions that Obama would be good for Israel.
Maybe your devotion to synthetic fuels and keeping Mt. Kilimanjaro snow covered prevented you from seeing what he just did to Israel.
If Obama is good for the Jews Colonel Sanders is great for chickens. Obama is as big a liar as you were/are a fool.
I would be remiss if I failed to point out that the President used the term “Teutonic shift” during his lecture to the State Department about Israel. The ring tone on all White House issued cell phones has been changed from Berlin tunes – Irving, not the city - to the Best of Wagner. I thought he was humming the Horst Wessel anthem as he described the “slippery slope” he was putting our ally on. All he needs is a Brown shirt.
When dining with the Devil it is best to have a long spoon. As a righteous Gentile I would trust those WOGs about as far as I could throw the final version of ObamaCare. Since I am still within the octave of passing a kidney stone I couldn’t even lift that 12 stone tree eater.
Maybe W wasn’t quite as bad as he was made out to be. He certainly kept faith with Israel. His successor looks like he wants to be the engineer on the next Auschwitz express.
Kevin Smith
Tonya Alanez The Sun-Sentinel
May 19, 2011
Tonya Alanez
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: A bad apple that stayed bad – Some comments on your story about Judge Luzzo, a man with neither honor nor shame and, now, a man without ambition.
Ms Alanez,
Maybe it’s better for the commonweal of Broward County if Judge Luzzo, a champion of the five finger discount, keeps his sad sacked Black robed slocking ass off the Bench.
That he hasn’t tried a case in several months can only be as something good for the sorry state of Justice here.
If memory serves, in addition to his full time job of gavel swinging, he had a part time job of scalping tickets. The problem was that he got his tickets from litigants appearing before him. He would ask before the trial began if anyone had any “extras” for the Dolphins, the Heat, the Panthers, the Marlins, the Hurricanes, inter alia. As bad as that was it got worse.
It was a real life Maltese Falcon. “The stuff that dreams are made of.” It was a Business School dream. His cost basis was zero. He resold them. His return was infinite. I would say that he could have worked for Enron but, since he favors the public sector, I’ll make that Fanny Mae. Imagine a drug dealer who gets his stash of blow and horse for free. Cristal for lunch.
In the real world of litigation, in the real world of trial prep, a zealous advocate for his client would get tickets for an up close and personal reprise of the greatest hits of Seal Team 6. 2 for the next Papal Conclave would not be too much to ask. Or, in his instance, to expect.
The Florida Supreme Court censured and suspended him. He should have been suspended by his short and curlies from the world famous Andrews Avenue Bridge scrotum stretcher.
I would have had him driven from his court room by a mob with whips and snarling dogs. He would have been met in the lobby by a Board Certified Master of Bastinado and Strapado who was eager to try out some new combos.
The Sun-Sentinel saw fit to publish my letter on this subject. A copy is enclosed.
At least when he was on the pad he showed up for work.
Every time this poltroon signs the back of his pay check he sticks his dirty fingers deeply, very deeply, into the eyes of probity.
The ethical make up of the Broward Judiciary is rotten.
Let me amend that.
The ethical make up of the Broward Judiciary is still rotten.
Kevin Smith
Tonya Alanez
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: A bad apple that stayed bad – Some comments on your story about Judge Luzzo, a man with neither honor nor shame and, now, a man without ambition.
Ms Alanez,
Maybe it’s better for the commonweal of Broward County if Judge Luzzo, a champion of the five finger discount, keeps his sad sacked Black robed slocking ass off the Bench.
That he hasn’t tried a case in several months can only be as something good for the sorry state of Justice here.
If memory serves, in addition to his full time job of gavel swinging, he had a part time job of scalping tickets. The problem was that he got his tickets from litigants appearing before him. He would ask before the trial began if anyone had any “extras” for the Dolphins, the Heat, the Panthers, the Marlins, the Hurricanes, inter alia. As bad as that was it got worse.
It was a real life Maltese Falcon. “The stuff that dreams are made of.” It was a Business School dream. His cost basis was zero. He resold them. His return was infinite. I would say that he could have worked for Enron but, since he favors the public sector, I’ll make that Fanny Mae. Imagine a drug dealer who gets his stash of blow and horse for free. Cristal for lunch.
In the real world of litigation, in the real world of trial prep, a zealous advocate for his client would get tickets for an up close and personal reprise of the greatest hits of Seal Team 6. 2 for the next Papal Conclave would not be too much to ask. Or, in his instance, to expect.
The Florida Supreme Court censured and suspended him. He should have been suspended by his short and curlies from the world famous Andrews Avenue Bridge scrotum stretcher.
I would have had him driven from his court room by a mob with whips and snarling dogs. He would have been met in the lobby by a Board Certified Master of Bastinado and Strapado who was eager to try out some new combos.
The Sun-Sentinel saw fit to publish my letter on this subject. A copy is enclosed.
At least when he was on the pad he showed up for work.
Every time this poltroon signs the back of his pay check he sticks his dirty fingers deeply, very deeply, into the eyes of probity.
The ethical make up of the Broward Judiciary is rotten.
Let me amend that.
The ethical make up of the Broward Judiciary is still rotten.
Kevin Smith
Congressperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
May 10, 2011
Congressperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
RE: Poetry in motion – Why not Rod McKuen?
My dear Congressperson cum Chair,
You are probably not familiar with him but Alan Tate said that “when we argue with others we get Rhetoric; when we argue with ourselves we get Poetry”.
Although your CV says that you have two degrees in Political Science your public record indicates that robbing Peter to pay Paul – in your instance taking care of your husband’s business a la in the great modern American Liberal tradition of Broward County – is the driving force of your political existence. Having raised pandering to an art form your Party has rewarded you with a national audience.
Since you don’t know Political Science, since History is an alien subject you are probably deficient in the Poetry department.
That’s why it is possible that you don’t even know what is going on the White House in re Poetry.
Laura Bush tried to have a poetry session featuring the works of Emily Dickinson. Some of the invited guests said that they would disrupt it because of their opposition to her husband’s policies. It is not a big deal when modern American Liberals stifle speech. You sending the police after me for something that I had written is cut from the same cloth that allows purple shirted SEIU thugs to beat up old people in wheelchairs. When a Democratic legislator screams “You are fucking dead” to a Republican legislator it is further proof that acorns never fall far the tree.
The homily you preached to a grateful nation in January, the one about “bile and vitriol tearing us apart at the seams”, seems not to have reached the White House.
Mrs. Obama is having a poetry day at the White House.
One of the featured speakers will be Lonnie Rashid Lynn, AKA “Common”.
In one of his poems he praises killing of policemen.
In another one he recommends the assassination of President Bush by burning.
Whatever I wrote to or about you I never threatened you. I never wanted you “fucking dead”. I never wanted to “burn” you, even in a metaphorical sense. [Based on your public record you do a good job by yourself. Plus, your public utterances fall under the category of “She never lets you down”. Where could I get such material?]
A man who recommended the death of policemen in general and a specific President by name will shortly be in the White House reading his threats to a much large audience. Maybe we cold take the advice of another modern American Liberal, radio shock jock Mike Malloy, and get SEAL Team 6 to drop in on him and “double tap” him in the head. Nothing like some fireworks to get the party rolling, right?
It is ironic enough that perhaps a bard should comment on the lunacy of borrowing money from the Chinese to pay the expenses of listening to a man in the White House suggesting both unlimited murders and the assassination of a President.
I personally would give him the largest audience possible.
Your past record of selective prior restraint, perhaps best expressed by “There are no enemies on the Left”, would suggest that a collective blind eye is already blinking.
Kipling, Pound, Eliot, Yeats, Auden. There is a common thread.
Reading them aloud to a coven of modern American Liberals would be like throwing Dracula into Lake Holy Water.
Kevin Smith
Congressperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
RE: Poetry in motion – Why not Rod McKuen?
My dear Congressperson cum Chair,
You are probably not familiar with him but Alan Tate said that “when we argue with others we get Rhetoric; when we argue with ourselves we get Poetry”.
Although your CV says that you have two degrees in Political Science your public record indicates that robbing Peter to pay Paul – in your instance taking care of your husband’s business a la in the great modern American Liberal tradition of Broward County – is the driving force of your political existence. Having raised pandering to an art form your Party has rewarded you with a national audience.
Since you don’t know Political Science, since History is an alien subject you are probably deficient in the Poetry department.
That’s why it is possible that you don’t even know what is going on the White House in re Poetry.
Laura Bush tried to have a poetry session featuring the works of Emily Dickinson. Some of the invited guests said that they would disrupt it because of their opposition to her husband’s policies. It is not a big deal when modern American Liberals stifle speech. You sending the police after me for something that I had written is cut from the same cloth that allows purple shirted SEIU thugs to beat up old people in wheelchairs. When a Democratic legislator screams “You are fucking dead” to a Republican legislator it is further proof that acorns never fall far the tree.
The homily you preached to a grateful nation in January, the one about “bile and vitriol tearing us apart at the seams”, seems not to have reached the White House.
Mrs. Obama is having a poetry day at the White House.
One of the featured speakers will be Lonnie Rashid Lynn, AKA “Common”.
In one of his poems he praises killing of policemen.
In another one he recommends the assassination of President Bush by burning.
Whatever I wrote to or about you I never threatened you. I never wanted you “fucking dead”. I never wanted to “burn” you, even in a metaphorical sense. [Based on your public record you do a good job by yourself. Plus, your public utterances fall under the category of “She never lets you down”. Where could I get such material?]
A man who recommended the death of policemen in general and a specific President by name will shortly be in the White House reading his threats to a much large audience. Maybe we cold take the advice of another modern American Liberal, radio shock jock Mike Malloy, and get SEAL Team 6 to drop in on him and “double tap” him in the head. Nothing like some fireworks to get the party rolling, right?
It is ironic enough that perhaps a bard should comment on the lunacy of borrowing money from the Chinese to pay the expenses of listening to a man in the White House suggesting both unlimited murders and the assassination of a President.
I personally would give him the largest audience possible.
Your past record of selective prior restraint, perhaps best expressed by “There are no enemies on the Left”, would suggest that a collective blind eye is already blinking.
Kipling, Pound, Eliot, Yeats, Auden. There is a common thread.
Reading them aloud to a coven of modern American Liberals would be like throwing Dracula into Lake Holy Water.
Kevin Smith
Monday, May 9, 2011
Stephen L. Goldstein, The Sun-Sentinel
May 1, 2011
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: How crowded does the theatre have to be before I can’t yell “Fire”? – Some comments on your column suggesting that everyone but you and your true believers can do with a few “chilling effects” on that notorious “slippery slope”.
My dear Professor,
First, since I believe that “modesty is an overrated virtue” I congratulate myself for turning a promise made into a promise kept.
I “eschewed obfuscation” and, as a serendipitous bonus, the persiflage so required of fire breathing, card carrying modern American Liberal for all of Lent.
It was easy. I stopped reading you for Lent.
Laus tibi Cristi! He is Risen!
As a reward for my good deed I get to come back at you with a poleax, wit, a scalpel, irony tinged by a sardonic view, History, or all as the situation dictates.
Your topic today is free speech with the usual modern American Liberal caveat of while all speech is free some speech is more free than others. As much as I would like to take credit for that line I must tell you that Orwell beat me to it.
May I suggest some reading material as you wait for this year’s “summer of recovery” to kick in? Nat Hentoff, as true a modern American Liberal as can be found save for his apostasy on abortion, wrote a book titled “Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee”. One of his premises is that when “eclectic indignation”, that is to say your guy versus their guy, rules standards shift. Of course, if standards shift they can’t be standards can they?
As a personal example my daughter missed graduating from college with honors by .008 of a point. Ouch! When the chains are stretched out it sill takes 10 yards to get four more downs, doesn’t it?
Despite never having met you I hereby name you Czar Stevie the First. Instead of a mace and scepter you have the world’s boniest, sharpest pointing finger. You need this digit when you lecture from the esteemed Mrs. Grundy Chair at the prestigious Pecksnifian Institute.
I am sure it will surprise you when you find out that all your negative examples, all, with no exceptions, are Republicans. I rather imagine that the last Republican you liked was Abraham Lincoln. Speaking of “free speech”, I don’t know if you aware that the Democrats called him a “baboon” in the campaign of 1864. Further, the Democratic Party wanted a settlement with the South. The only Logical conclusion to be drawn from that would be that the Democrats supported slavery.
I recall Mr. Justice Marshall saying that the most bigoted, most racist President in the 20th century was T. Woodrow Wilson. When he ran for re-election in 1916 he said “he would not send American boys to fight in European Wars”. That seems to be a lie associated with several other Democratic Presidents in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Is it OK if I say that? Do you suppose there was a connection when Wilson sent his Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, he of Palmer Raids fame, after all the bad guys? From a management stand point he would have made Peter Drucker proud. He didn’t let the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments get in the way. Whatever the 1919/1920 version of waterboarding was called he did it.
15 years later, at the urging of a Democrat White House, an overwhelmingly Democratic House gave us HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee. Packing the Supreme Court made sense too. You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. Later, when Governor Earl Warren was asked to round up all the Japs and put them into the 1942 version of Gitmo, he did it willingly. The results of the 1940 Census proved invaluable in separating the Japanese from the Chinese.
Am I a “loudmouth” yet?
Like a typical mush brained modern American Liberal you confuse and misuse terms. Thus, when you say “rhetorical sparks are flying” you display a total ignorance of Rhetoric. Rhetoric is a vital part, one third of a troika known as the Trivium. The other two, Logic and Grammar, are capstones of what can be called Western Civilization. Since modern American Liberals recoil at both the standards and proscriptions that make up a civilization it is understandable that “those words mean exactly what you want them to mean”. A wink is as good as a nod to a blind mule, right? What you meant to say was that “sophist sparks are flying”.
Did not Candidate Obama promise us that when he was elected “the oceans would stop rising”? The truth is I never believed that but I never said it. Did the fact that he said it make him a liar? If so would my calling him that make me a “loudmouth” who is guilty of sedition?
I ask this because I have had members of various police departments, men with badges and guns, come to my house because of things that I wrote. You’ll be surprised to know that in each and every instance the aggrieved public official was a modern American Liberal. Is that the mAL solution to criticism? Send in the cops?
We have had a Democratic member of the Wisconsin legislature tell a Republican member that she was “fucking dead”. Where would you rate that on the “loudmouth” scale?
Have the Brown shirts of the ‘30s been replaced by the Purple shirted SEIU thugs who beat up people in wheelchairs? The Attorney General has said that it is OK for armed Black men to intimidate White voters? Imagine the clamor if a Meese or an Ashcroft has said “my people” like Holder did. At least we know that Palmer’s brand is still on the Justice Department.
Since you confuse sophistry and Rhetoric there is no chance that the following will be known to you either.
“FREE MEN SPEAK WITH FREE TONGUES”
Don’t tell me to shut up.
Kevin Smith
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: How crowded does the theatre have to be before I can’t yell “Fire”? – Some comments on your column suggesting that everyone but you and your true believers can do with a few “chilling effects” on that notorious “slippery slope”.
My dear Professor,
First, since I believe that “modesty is an overrated virtue” I congratulate myself for turning a promise made into a promise kept.
I “eschewed obfuscation” and, as a serendipitous bonus, the persiflage so required of fire breathing, card carrying modern American Liberal for all of Lent.
It was easy. I stopped reading you for Lent.
Laus tibi Cristi! He is Risen!
As a reward for my good deed I get to come back at you with a poleax, wit, a scalpel, irony tinged by a sardonic view, History, or all as the situation dictates.
Your topic today is free speech with the usual modern American Liberal caveat of while all speech is free some speech is more free than others. As much as I would like to take credit for that line I must tell you that Orwell beat me to it.
May I suggest some reading material as you wait for this year’s “summer of recovery” to kick in? Nat Hentoff, as true a modern American Liberal as can be found save for his apostasy on abortion, wrote a book titled “Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee”. One of his premises is that when “eclectic indignation”, that is to say your guy versus their guy, rules standards shift. Of course, if standards shift they can’t be standards can they?
As a personal example my daughter missed graduating from college with honors by .008 of a point. Ouch! When the chains are stretched out it sill takes 10 yards to get four more downs, doesn’t it?
Despite never having met you I hereby name you Czar Stevie the First. Instead of a mace and scepter you have the world’s boniest, sharpest pointing finger. You need this digit when you lecture from the esteemed Mrs. Grundy Chair at the prestigious Pecksnifian Institute.
I am sure it will surprise you when you find out that all your negative examples, all, with no exceptions, are Republicans. I rather imagine that the last Republican you liked was Abraham Lincoln. Speaking of “free speech”, I don’t know if you aware that the Democrats called him a “baboon” in the campaign of 1864. Further, the Democratic Party wanted a settlement with the South. The only Logical conclusion to be drawn from that would be that the Democrats supported slavery.
I recall Mr. Justice Marshall saying that the most bigoted, most racist President in the 20th century was T. Woodrow Wilson. When he ran for re-election in 1916 he said “he would not send American boys to fight in European Wars”. That seems to be a lie associated with several other Democratic Presidents in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Is it OK if I say that? Do you suppose there was a connection when Wilson sent his Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, he of Palmer Raids fame, after all the bad guys? From a management stand point he would have made Peter Drucker proud. He didn’t let the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments get in the way. Whatever the 1919/1920 version of waterboarding was called he did it.
15 years later, at the urging of a Democrat White House, an overwhelmingly Democratic House gave us HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee. Packing the Supreme Court made sense too. You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. Later, when Governor Earl Warren was asked to round up all the Japs and put them into the 1942 version of Gitmo, he did it willingly. The results of the 1940 Census proved invaluable in separating the Japanese from the Chinese.
Am I a “loudmouth” yet?
Like a typical mush brained modern American Liberal you confuse and misuse terms. Thus, when you say “rhetorical sparks are flying” you display a total ignorance of Rhetoric. Rhetoric is a vital part, one third of a troika known as the Trivium. The other two, Logic and Grammar, are capstones of what can be called Western Civilization. Since modern American Liberals recoil at both the standards and proscriptions that make up a civilization it is understandable that “those words mean exactly what you want them to mean”. A wink is as good as a nod to a blind mule, right? What you meant to say was that “sophist sparks are flying”.
Did not Candidate Obama promise us that when he was elected “the oceans would stop rising”? The truth is I never believed that but I never said it. Did the fact that he said it make him a liar? If so would my calling him that make me a “loudmouth” who is guilty of sedition?
I ask this because I have had members of various police departments, men with badges and guns, come to my house because of things that I wrote. You’ll be surprised to know that in each and every instance the aggrieved public official was a modern American Liberal. Is that the mAL solution to criticism? Send in the cops?
We have had a Democratic member of the Wisconsin legislature tell a Republican member that she was “fucking dead”. Where would you rate that on the “loudmouth” scale?
Have the Brown shirts of the ‘30s been replaced by the Purple shirted SEIU thugs who beat up people in wheelchairs? The Attorney General has said that it is OK for armed Black men to intimidate White voters? Imagine the clamor if a Meese or an Ashcroft has said “my people” like Holder did. At least we know that Palmer’s brand is still on the Justice Department.
Since you confuse sophistry and Rhetoric there is no chance that the following will be known to you either.
“FREE MEN SPEAK WITH FREE TONGUES”
Don’t tell me to shut up.
Kevin Smith
Robert Watson, Ph.D.
May 8, 2011
Robert Watson, Ph.D.
American Studies
Lynn University
3601 N. Military Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431
RE: Lies, damned lies, and statistics – Some comments on your Sun-Sentinel article about “court packing” and some other “truths” about the New Deal which, alas, aren’t true.
My dear Professor,
“There is broad support among scholars [never mind recent
attacks by historical revisionists and radio shock jocks on
the ideological right] that FDR played a vital role in
creating jobs, getting America back on its feet, and
helping to save American capitalism.
The Sun-Sentinel
Today
You
Italics mine
One of the many glories of Western Civilization is something called the scientific method. It says that every claim is subject to independent analysis and verification. [Einstein would submit his work to his universe as quickly as possible. He said that he only had to be proved wrong once and that better it be done quickly so he could get on to something else.]
Your one sentence paean to FDR is now going to be subjected to some independent analysis.
When he appointed Corsair Joe Kennedy to keep the other pirates in line he little dreamed that one of his creations would come back 85 years to bite his unsuspecting, somewhat naifish acolytes on their non-inquisitive, all believing asses.
The Investment Act of 1934 said fraud could be committed two ways. Either something you did or something you didn’t do was sufficient to bring down the wrath of the SEC. You say that Roosevelt did a lot of things that he didn’t do. You forget, perhaps as a way of bolstering your thesis, that while Happy Days are Here Again is still a catchy tune it simply does not reflect the times of which it sings.
#1 – Roosevelt ran in 1932 promising to balance the budget. He excoriated Hoover for, can you believe it, deficit financing.
#2 – If March 4, 1933 is the base line for all the recognizable economic data I search in vain for any indicator that was up until the middle of 1940. When Boeing went to 3 shifts at their B-17 Wichita plant the “summer of recovery” was, finally, upon us. Thus, 7 years of “shovel ready grandfather of QE and QE2 stimulus programs” were a failure.
An argument could be made that if had followed Keynesian theories, particularly the one about drastically cutting all taxes in an economic downturn, he may have been able to speed up the process.
An argument could be made that the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] had at its greatest success the temporary removal of unemployed urban youth from the streets of America. It’s tough to build a road with a pick and shovel but at least they weren’t going to rallies for Mussolini, the darling of modern American Liberals in the ‘30s. When it came time to build a road in wartime – the Al-Can Highway, for example – bulldozers replaced picks.
One of my favorite publicans, Mr. Hinnisey, a superb practioner of the poetry of proffering potables and one of the founders of the Chicago School of Politics, the school that teaches us the etiquette of gun fights and why you shouldn’t bring a knife to them, said “The Supreme Court follows the election returns”.
It is well to note that three of the members of the Court when FDR was sworn in had been appointed by a Democratic President. Notwithstanding the inconvenient truth of the fact the T. Woodrow Wilson was the most racist, most bigoted President in the 20th century he nominated Justice Brandeis, Justice Clarke, and Justice McReynolds.
Your offhanded remark that “after a decade of Republican Presidents the High Court had a conservative tilt and dashed several of FDR’s New Deal initiatives” glosses over 2 facts.
President Obama reminded us, when he invoked executive cloture by telling a Republican Congressman in February, 2009 “there was an election and I won”, that the best way to “pack” a Supreme Court is to win the Presidential election. Winning Presidents get to nominate Justices, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate, to the Supreme Court.
Another one of those inconvenient facts is that 5 – count’em - Republican Presidents nominated Chief Justice Warren, Justice Brennan, Justice Blackmun, Justice Stevens, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Souter to the Supreme Court. Was there a “conservative tilt” there?
I consider it one of the great judicially ironic moments that the high dudgeon of modern American Liberals that caused Judge Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court to be rejected came back to poleax them 13 years later. Everyone thinks that the vote was 5 – 4 in the Bush/Gore brouhaha in 2000. The vote to accept the case was 5 – 4. The vote that confirmed the Bush election was 7 – 2. If Bork had been sitting on the Supreme Court he would have voted against accepting the case. If you’re weak in math 5 - 4 for would have been 5 – 4 against.
Alpha Gump would have been President. 9/11 wouldn’t have happened. Thumper, his charming wife, would have used pillow talk to outlaw bad language in rap music. Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma would not have dared to make landfall here. Samuel Alito and John Roberts would still be Appellate Judges. Lord Barack the Beneficent would have discovered those 7, or was it 8, missing states on his search for the still missing Austrian/ English dictionary. And, trust me; we would be all farting through silk
Life’s a bitch, ain’t it?
The thing about the Supreme Court following the election returns is that if History is a guide the Governor will start to get some calls. Great coaches always jump on the refs in the first quarter. They get the calls at the end of the game.
After FDR’s Court packing plan failed he never lost another case in the Supreme Court.
The Founders, in their wisdom, made it deuced difficult to amend the Federal Constitution. It’s only been done 16 times since 1789. Florida will probably do likewise. The Constitution clearly enables us to overturn any Supreme Court decision
You say, as if you mean it, that “courts must remain independent and beyond the political manipulation of political parties”.
Have you been to any NARAL meetings lately?
Kevin Smith
Robert Watson, Ph.D.
American Studies
Lynn University
3601 N. Military Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431
RE: Lies, damned lies, and statistics – Some comments on your Sun-Sentinel article about “court packing” and some other “truths” about the New Deal which, alas, aren’t true.
My dear Professor,
“There is broad support among scholars [never mind recent
attacks by historical revisionists and radio shock jocks on
the ideological right] that FDR played a vital role in
creating jobs, getting America back on its feet, and
helping to save American capitalism.
The Sun-Sentinel
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One of the many glories of Western Civilization is something called the scientific method. It says that every claim is subject to independent analysis and verification. [Einstein would submit his work to his universe as quickly as possible. He said that he only had to be proved wrong once and that better it be done quickly so he could get on to something else.]
Your one sentence paean to FDR is now going to be subjected to some independent analysis.
When he appointed Corsair Joe Kennedy to keep the other pirates in line he little dreamed that one of his creations would come back 85 years to bite his unsuspecting, somewhat naifish acolytes on their non-inquisitive, all believing asses.
The Investment Act of 1934 said fraud could be committed two ways. Either something you did or something you didn’t do was sufficient to bring down the wrath of the SEC. You say that Roosevelt did a lot of things that he didn’t do. You forget, perhaps as a way of bolstering your thesis, that while Happy Days are Here Again is still a catchy tune it simply does not reflect the times of which it sings.
#1 – Roosevelt ran in 1932 promising to balance the budget. He excoriated Hoover for, can you believe it, deficit financing.
#2 – If March 4, 1933 is the base line for all the recognizable economic data I search in vain for any indicator that was up until the middle of 1940. When Boeing went to 3 shifts at their B-17 Wichita plant the “summer of recovery” was, finally, upon us. Thus, 7 years of “shovel ready grandfather of QE and QE2 stimulus programs” were a failure.
An argument could be made that if had followed Keynesian theories, particularly the one about drastically cutting all taxes in an economic downturn, he may have been able to speed up the process.
An argument could be made that the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] had at its greatest success the temporary removal of unemployed urban youth from the streets of America. It’s tough to build a road with a pick and shovel but at least they weren’t going to rallies for Mussolini, the darling of modern American Liberals in the ‘30s. When it came time to build a road in wartime – the Al-Can Highway, for example – bulldozers replaced picks.
One of my favorite publicans, Mr. Hinnisey, a superb practioner of the poetry of proffering potables and one of the founders of the Chicago School of Politics, the school that teaches us the etiquette of gun fights and why you shouldn’t bring a knife to them, said “The Supreme Court follows the election returns”.
It is well to note that three of the members of the Court when FDR was sworn in had been appointed by a Democratic President. Notwithstanding the inconvenient truth of the fact the T. Woodrow Wilson was the most racist, most bigoted President in the 20th century he nominated Justice Brandeis, Justice Clarke, and Justice McReynolds.
Your offhanded remark that “after a decade of Republican Presidents the High Court had a conservative tilt and dashed several of FDR’s New Deal initiatives” glosses over 2 facts.
President Obama reminded us, when he invoked executive cloture by telling a Republican Congressman in February, 2009 “there was an election and I won”, that the best way to “pack” a Supreme Court is to win the Presidential election. Winning Presidents get to nominate Justices, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate, to the Supreme Court.
Another one of those inconvenient facts is that 5 – count’em - Republican Presidents nominated Chief Justice Warren, Justice Brennan, Justice Blackmun, Justice Stevens, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Souter to the Supreme Court. Was there a “conservative tilt” there?
I consider it one of the great judicially ironic moments that the high dudgeon of modern American Liberals that caused Judge Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court to be rejected came back to poleax them 13 years later. Everyone thinks that the vote was 5 – 4 in the Bush/Gore brouhaha in 2000. The vote to accept the case was 5 – 4. The vote that confirmed the Bush election was 7 – 2. If Bork had been sitting on the Supreme Court he would have voted against accepting the case. If you’re weak in math 5 - 4 for would have been 5 – 4 against.
Alpha Gump would have been President. 9/11 wouldn’t have happened. Thumper, his charming wife, would have used pillow talk to outlaw bad language in rap music. Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma would not have dared to make landfall here. Samuel Alito and John Roberts would still be Appellate Judges. Lord Barack the Beneficent would have discovered those 7, or was it 8, missing states on his search for the still missing Austrian/ English dictionary. And, trust me; we would be all farting through silk
Life’s a bitch, ain’t it?
The thing about the Supreme Court following the election returns is that if History is a guide the Governor will start to get some calls. Great coaches always jump on the refs in the first quarter. They get the calls at the end of the game.
After FDR’s Court packing plan failed he never lost another case in the Supreme Court.
The Founders, in their wisdom, made it deuced difficult to amend the Federal Constitution. It’s only been done 16 times since 1789. Florida will probably do likewise. The Constitution clearly enables us to overturn any Supreme Court decision
You say, as if you mean it, that “courts must remain independent and beyond the political manipulation of political parties”.
Have you been to any NARAL meetings lately?
Kevin Smith
Michael Mayo, The Sun-Sentinel
May 8, 2011
Michael Mayo
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: The soon to be arrived at Dark Ages as dictated by the Republican legislature and documented by you in today’s column in the Sun-Sentinel. “Slouching towards Bethlehem”, no?
Mr. Mayo,
Only someone who is a perfect clone cut from the edges of the template of modern American Liberalism, someone who believes that help is on the way when someone else says “I’m from the government and I ‘m here to help”, would say without a hint of nuance that the 1929 Florida legislature censured First Lady Lou Henry Hoover for inviting the black wife of a Congressman to the White House for something other than a music lesson.
It should have read the Democratic Florida legislature censured Republican Mrs. Herbert Hoover for having a Negro in for tea. [In 1929 there were no African-Americans]
That would have given a counterbalancing tint to the list of the many lashes on the backs of Florida’s undeserving poor, middle class, seniors, juniors, wise fools, single moms who are women of color, undocumented aliens from earth and elsewhere, people who try to fill inside straights, and any and all other exploited groups I may have missed.
It seems that there has been a collective loss of memory.
There was an election last year.
The candidates presented themselves to the electorate.
The people, God damn them, voted.
In the sense that even a blind pig can find a truffle, I am reminded that in February, 2009 President Obama lectured a Republican Congressman thus: “There was an election. I won.”
Some good has been gleaned from the Obama legislative process.
You say,
“This year, so many things got tucked into last-minute
“conforming bills” and “committee reports”, you never
know what might pop up when somebody
actually reads all of them.”
It sounds like somebody read the ObamaCare bill, not to understand the law – reading James Joyce in Gangsta rap with Linear B footnotes would be easier – but how to stuff 4 pounds of blivit into a 2 pound bag.
I am told that there is a provision in ObamaCare that pays a bounty for 4th trimester abortions. That way it cuts down on the dreaded Death Panels.
Laws and sausages. It’s tough to watch either being made. It’s brutal to watch both being made.
Here’s a plan.
If you don’t like the way things are going in Tallahassee change it.
We have a tried and true method for that.
Elections.
If you win them you get to lead the band.
Kevin Smith
PS – I guess manatee suffrage, an idea whose time has not yet come, is not going to happen soon. Too bad.
Michael Mayo
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: The soon to be arrived at Dark Ages as dictated by the Republican legislature and documented by you in today’s column in the Sun-Sentinel. “Slouching towards Bethlehem”, no?
Mr. Mayo,
Only someone who is a perfect clone cut from the edges of the template of modern American Liberalism, someone who believes that help is on the way when someone else says “I’m from the government and I ‘m here to help”, would say without a hint of nuance that the 1929 Florida legislature censured First Lady Lou Henry Hoover for inviting the black wife of a Congressman to the White House for something other than a music lesson.
It should have read the Democratic Florida legislature censured Republican Mrs. Herbert Hoover for having a Negro in for tea. [In 1929 there were no African-Americans]
That would have given a counterbalancing tint to the list of the many lashes on the backs of Florida’s undeserving poor, middle class, seniors, juniors, wise fools, single moms who are women of color, undocumented aliens from earth and elsewhere, people who try to fill inside straights, and any and all other exploited groups I may have missed.
It seems that there has been a collective loss of memory.
There was an election last year.
The candidates presented themselves to the electorate.
The people, God damn them, voted.
In the sense that even a blind pig can find a truffle, I am reminded that in February, 2009 President Obama lectured a Republican Congressman thus: “There was an election. I won.”
Some good has been gleaned from the Obama legislative process.
You say,
“This year, so many things got tucked into last-minute
“conforming bills” and “committee reports”, you never
know what might pop up when somebody
actually reads all of them.”
It sounds like somebody read the ObamaCare bill, not to understand the law – reading James Joyce in Gangsta rap with Linear B footnotes would be easier – but how to stuff 4 pounds of blivit into a 2 pound bag.
I am told that there is a provision in ObamaCare that pays a bounty for 4th trimester abortions. That way it cuts down on the dreaded Death Panels.
Laws and sausages. It’s tough to watch either being made. It’s brutal to watch both being made.
Here’s a plan.
If you don’t like the way things are going in Tallahassee change it.
We have a tried and true method for that.
Elections.
If you win them you get to lead the band.
Kevin Smith
PS – I guess manatee suffrage, an idea whose time has not yet come, is not going to happen soon. Too bad.
Stephen L. Goldstein, The Sun-Sentinel
May 4, 2011
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316
RE: Bilious vitriol and modern American Liberals
My dear Professor,
In your column on Sunday last, the one where you varied from your formulaic rendition of how Cheney’s great grandfather caused Krakatoa to blow its top and how George Bush helped Pol Pot in his ambitious urban renewal plans, you called anyone who disagreed with you a “loudmouth”. Further, you said that perhaps “prior restraint” wasn’t that bad an idea as long as you were doing the restraining.
Comes now to the marketplace of ideas a really nice guy named Mike Malloy. I swear on the sacred Koran, the one I intend to burn wrapped in an American flag at noon on July 4th on the steps of the Federal Court House in Ft. Lauderdale, that one, that I never heard of him until about 30 minutes ago.
On his radio show he said “So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush”? He also said that he wanted to “strangle Rush Limbaugh”.
Would those statements qualify him as a “loudmouth”? Any chance that the dreaded Word Police would drop by and give him some Lefts as they read him his Rights? Incidentally, have the terms “slippery slope” and “chilling effect” gone down the modern American liberal memory hole?
CongressChickster Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and if there is a better example of a Hecate Ascendant I have neither seen nor have I heard of her, told us in January that “bile and vitriol are tearing us apart”.
Would a radio commentator suggesting on the air that some Navy Seals drop in on President Bush and “double tap him in the head” make him a “loudmouth filled with bile and vitriol”? Would his on air wish of “strangling Rush Limbaugh” make him a candidate for the Michael Moore Excellence in Broadcasting award? If you remember Fat Mikey was upset that more Republicans didn’t die on 9/11. Honest. You could look it up.
Can you think of any substitutes for friggin’ hypocrites? Get back to me ASAP.
Kevin Smith
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316
RE: Bilious vitriol and modern American Liberals
My dear Professor,
In your column on Sunday last, the one where you varied from your formulaic rendition of how Cheney’s great grandfather caused Krakatoa to blow its top and how George Bush helped Pol Pot in his ambitious urban renewal plans, you called anyone who disagreed with you a “loudmouth”. Further, you said that perhaps “prior restraint” wasn’t that bad an idea as long as you were doing the restraining.
Comes now to the marketplace of ideas a really nice guy named Mike Malloy. I swear on the sacred Koran, the one I intend to burn wrapped in an American flag at noon on July 4th on the steps of the Federal Court House in Ft. Lauderdale, that one, that I never heard of him until about 30 minutes ago.
On his radio show he said “So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush”? He also said that he wanted to “strangle Rush Limbaugh”.
Would those statements qualify him as a “loudmouth”? Any chance that the dreaded Word Police would drop by and give him some Lefts as they read him his Rights? Incidentally, have the terms “slippery slope” and “chilling effect” gone down the modern American liberal memory hole?
CongressChickster Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and if there is a better example of a Hecate Ascendant I have neither seen nor have I heard of her, told us in January that “bile and vitriol are tearing us apart”.
Would a radio commentator suggesting on the air that some Navy Seals drop in on President Bush and “double tap him in the head” make him a “loudmouth filled with bile and vitriol”? Would his on air wish of “strangling Rush Limbaugh” make him a candidate for the Michael Moore Excellence in Broadcasting award? If you remember Fat Mikey was upset that more Republicans didn’t die on 9/11. Honest. You could look it up.
Can you think of any substitutes for friggin’ hypocrites? Get back to me ASAP.
Kevin Smith
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