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December 21, 2008
Peter Franceschina
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316
RE: “Living Outside the Law” – The sad tale of 4 Florida elected officials who don’t live in the districts that they represent and how they were able to overcome the stigma of breaking the law because of their devotion to public service and their desire to serve the people. As told by you in today’s Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Franceschina,
I thought the picture on Page One was marvelous.
Coming under the intriguing headline “Anger at GOP Luxury Jaunt” I thought you had found a bag lady – Check out those plaid PJ bottoms! – and that the story was going to be about how 8 years of Bush-Cheney just added more lashes to already bloody back of one of Broward’s undeserving poor. Boy oh boy but was I wrong! It was a picture of Lois Wexler [D-Plantation, Weston, Frostproof, Fountain of Youth, Niceville, inter alia] She was bent over like she had adult scoliosis. I would have bet that, had she had shoes, they wouldn’t match. Perhaps she was bent over by the burden of breaking the law every day. As a public servant she probably took an oath to uphold said law. The things people do to serve the public. Sometimes you have to break the law to help people, particularly when those people can’t help themselves
I was wrong.
The last 4 sentences of your story brought tears to my eyes. Where do we find such people? Maybe it’s time to update Profiles in Courage.
“Wexler offered to give the Sun Sentinel a tour of the condo
but then canceled and did not reschedule. She said the residency
requirement has been a hardship. “It has been very difficult on
me financially,” she said. “I’ve told this story to many,
many of my constituents, and it’s a sad story.”
Yes, it is a “sad story”.
Red lights and stop signs are “difficult” sometimes. They could even be considered a “hardship”.
Sir Thomas More said, “A man on oath holds his soul in his hands as if it were water. He opens his fingers at his own peril.”
Your story reveals still more suffering souls.
Jim Waldman [D – Coconut Creek, Ybor, Carol City, Mayport, inter alia]
Susan Bucher [D- Boynton Beach, Boca del Vista, Boca del Mentiros, Boca del Ladrones, Boca del Ginebra, inter alia]
Maria Sachs [D - Delray, Boca del Beppo, Boca del Caca, inter alia]
They have several things in common. They don’t live in the district that they represent. By publicly flouting the law and by publicly flaunting their disregard of the law, the glue that holds society together they share yet one more thing in common. They all have the letter D after their names.
It would be a chalk bet that they all swear allegiance to the law when it suits them. The reason they are able to do this is because they share another common trait. They are MALs. Modern American Liberals are all things to all men, particularly to themselves. Little things, things like where they live, are subordinate to the interests of making this a better place to live, a better place for the children, and, of course, the manatees. How can a silly law about where you live stand in the way of progress?
“This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast
and if you cut them down do you think you could
stand upright tin the winds that would blow then?”
Wexler, the trend setting Congressman from Florida, Maryland, and Oz, a man about whom it is impossible to say enough bad things, has more houses than Holiday Inn. Such is his devotion to public service that he has inspired his acolytes here to do likewise. He is Screwtape to these Wormwoods.
Are you sure his Broward namesake wasn’t a bag lady? She has that look about her.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Ellen Goodman, Washington Post
December 19, 2008
Ellen Goodman
The Washington Post Writers Group
1150 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: You made it! A last minute addition to the highly coveted year end honors list
Ms. Goodman,
Sloth is the only reason for not naming you earlier. Mine; not yours. Your columns are so predictably bird brainish, so offensive to Logic, and so inimical to History that I stopped reading them lest I injure my eyes.
While waiting for my post operative purgative to kick in I began reading your column. I was, as Shaw [GB, not Bernard] once said, “in the smallest room in the house. Your column is in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.” The ultimate in recycling!
The Miami Herald titled your column “A Fine Senator in the Making”.
You say that “if life were fair…the first Kennedy woman to achieve high office would have been Kathleen Kennedy Townsend”.
Earth to Ellen. Earth to Ellen. She is a dolt. Do you remember when the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl? She came out of the stadium gushing about how when we “scored a football and then they scored a football we scored another football”. Stupid, bordering on world class dumb. Maybe life is fair after all. Since Mrs. Schlossberg shares a significant number of genes as Mrs. Townsend maybe she is just as dumb.
I am told that she raised money to support public schools in New York City. Would you know if any of her children went to those particular public schools? In fact, would you know if any of her children ever went to any public schools?
The media spent thousands of work hours trying to find something, anything, about Sarah Palin, her family, and her husband’s family that would suggest she was not what she seemed to be.
May I suggest some questions for Mrs. Schlossberg?
#1 – You’ve been a lawyer in Manhattan for 25 years. How would you get to the Tombs?
#2 – The first job your Uncle Bobby had was working as Counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Do you like what he did?
#3 – Your father’s father supported Hitler. Would you care to comment on that?
#4 – Why did you fail to vote in most of the elections held since you registered in Manhattan in 1988?
#5 – Your father supported huge tax cuts for business and individuals. Do you?
#6 – WAL*MART or Costco. Which store do you prefer?
#7 – Your father said that “we will pay any price or bear any burden in defense of freedom.” Do you agree with that?
#8 – When you were in Buffalo did you have beef on wick or fried baloney?
#9 – Uncle Teddy cheated in college. Did you?
Your final sentence is a modern American Liberal classic.
“You are choosing the emblem of a generation – and maybe a country –
coming back to life. Public life.”
Angels trumpeting “Ask not what your country can do for you…” are offset by the great Dr. Johnson’s description of second marriages, a not necessarily inappropriate analogy I might add. “It is the triumph of hope over experience.”
You say she is “coming home to the family business”. If History is a guide can we look forward to another Vietnam, another series of wire taps on civil rights leaders, and orvine sexual proclivities?
For these particular sins and for myriad past offenses against the common good you are hereby awarded the following honors:
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
POMPOUS FART OF THE MONTH
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
Is twit gender specific or is it universal? Either way you share it with the next Chosen One.
PS – If she gets back to Buffalo tell her that she shouldn’t order Cosmopolitans if she winds up in the Anchor Bar.
Ellen Goodman
The Washington Post Writers Group
1150 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: You made it! A last minute addition to the highly coveted year end honors list
Ms. Goodman,
Sloth is the only reason for not naming you earlier. Mine; not yours. Your columns are so predictably bird brainish, so offensive to Logic, and so inimical to History that I stopped reading them lest I injure my eyes.
While waiting for my post operative purgative to kick in I began reading your column. I was, as Shaw [GB, not Bernard] once said, “in the smallest room in the house. Your column is in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.” The ultimate in recycling!
The Miami Herald titled your column “A Fine Senator in the Making”.
You say that “if life were fair…the first Kennedy woman to achieve high office would have been Kathleen Kennedy Townsend”.
Earth to Ellen. Earth to Ellen. She is a dolt. Do you remember when the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl? She came out of the stadium gushing about how when we “scored a football and then they scored a football we scored another football”. Stupid, bordering on world class dumb. Maybe life is fair after all. Since Mrs. Schlossberg shares a significant number of genes as Mrs. Townsend maybe she is just as dumb.
I am told that she raised money to support public schools in New York City. Would you know if any of her children went to those particular public schools? In fact, would you know if any of her children ever went to any public schools?
The media spent thousands of work hours trying to find something, anything, about Sarah Palin, her family, and her husband’s family that would suggest she was not what she seemed to be.
May I suggest some questions for Mrs. Schlossberg?
#1 – You’ve been a lawyer in Manhattan for 25 years. How would you get to the Tombs?
#2 – The first job your Uncle Bobby had was working as Counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Do you like what he did?
#3 – Your father’s father supported Hitler. Would you care to comment on that?
#4 – Why did you fail to vote in most of the elections held since you registered in Manhattan in 1988?
#5 – Your father supported huge tax cuts for business and individuals. Do you?
#6 – WAL*MART or Costco. Which store do you prefer?
#7 – Your father said that “we will pay any price or bear any burden in defense of freedom.” Do you agree with that?
#8 – When you were in Buffalo did you have beef on wick or fried baloney?
#9 – Uncle Teddy cheated in college. Did you?
Your final sentence is a modern American Liberal classic.
“You are choosing the emblem of a generation – and maybe a country –
coming back to life. Public life.”
Angels trumpeting “Ask not what your country can do for you…” are offset by the great Dr. Johnson’s description of second marriages, a not necessarily inappropriate analogy I might add. “It is the triumph of hope over experience.”
You say she is “coming home to the family business”. If History is a guide can we look forward to another Vietnam, another series of wire taps on civil rights leaders, and orvine sexual proclivities?
For these particular sins and for myriad past offenses against the common good you are hereby awarded the following honors:
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
POMPOUS FART OF THE MONTH
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
Is twit gender specific or is it universal? Either way you share it with the next Chosen One.
PS – If she gets back to Buffalo tell her that she shouldn’t order Cosmopolitans if she winds up in the Anchor Bar.
David Fleshler, The Sun Sentinel
December 19, 2008
David Fleshler
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: PANTHERS BEST HOPE – ROOM TO ROAM Is this a headline beyond parody? You didn’t think so. That’s how it reads on this morning’s Page One.
Mr. Fleshler,
Are the inmates running the asylum? In your case, are the boobies running the hatch? Is Professor Irwin Corey in charge of the Sentinel?
More panthers are good for Florida.
More panthers are good for Florida?
Is this the result of the Tribune – your parent company – bankruptcy?
You want to see more panthers in Florida?
How about some Great Whites in the intracoastal?
How about some Komodo dragons in the malls?
How about some Ebola viruses for the vegans among us?
Why should Zimbabwe have all the fun? Import cholera.
Madness.
David Fleshler
The Sun Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: PANTHERS BEST HOPE – ROOM TO ROAM Is this a headline beyond parody? You didn’t think so. That’s how it reads on this morning’s Page One.
Mr. Fleshler,
Are the inmates running the asylum? In your case, are the boobies running the hatch? Is Professor Irwin Corey in charge of the Sentinel?
More panthers are good for Florida.
More panthers are good for Florida?
Is this the result of the Tribune – your parent company – bankruptcy?
You want to see more panthers in Florida?
How about some Great Whites in the intracoastal?
How about some Komodo dragons in the malls?
How about some Ebola viruses for the vegans among us?
Why should Zimbabwe have all the fun? Import cholera.
Madness.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald
December 14, 2008
Fred Grimm
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE – Bailing out the Big 3 and bailing out our schools – A different perspective on drawing sustenance from the eternally lactating public mammary.
Mr. Grimm,
First, a comment on lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You said that “members of Congress from the 48 states that spend more per student than Florida might balk at helping out schools in a state that won’t help itself”.
Are you saying that spending more money guarantees a better education? No place spends more money per student than Washington, DC. If, as you say, more money means better schools why are the Obama children not going to public school there? Why didn’t Chelsea Clinton go to public school there? Why didn’t any of the Gore children go to public school there?
President Bush’s daughters attended Austin Westlake High School – a public high school. You knew that, didn’t you?
Your comparison on the failing American automobile industry and the failing American public education system is predicated on never letting facts interfere with your argument.
After decades of failing the Big 3 want the American taxpayer to bail them out. They make an inferior product that is overpriced. These wounds, ones of design flaws and absurd union contracts, were mostly self-inflicted. The market place has spoken. There will be no end to the public transfusions.
American public education is predicated on the convoy system. The slowest ship sets the speed limit for the rest of the convoy. Since success can’t be rewarded and, worse, since failure can’t be penalized mediocrity is the norm. Taxpayers already pick up the tab. The notion that more public money will make a better product is offensive to Logic.
American education has been failing so long that it thrives on this public failure. It’s always someone else’s fault that Johnny can’t read. Florida high school football coaches have a very short use life. Effort doesn’t count; results do. If the coach doesn’t perform he is fired. If the math teacher doesn’t perform he gets a raise. If the principal has a stable filled with horses’ asses he is looked on as a friend to animals. If the superintendent looks on the letters FCAT as a vampire looks on a sun drenched holy water dousing he need but cry “More Money” and he is regarded as a saint.
Madness.
Since nothing else seems to work here is a modest proposal.
Each and every child of each and every public employee – appointed or elected – must attend public school. No exceptions.
How about culling the herd of jackass administrators? Did you know that the Broward Board of Education pays more than $100,000 a year to people who are listed as “diversity experts”? Use automatic weapons. Most of them couldn’t find a class room with a blood hound and a GPS.
You say that states that spend more per pupil would resent us. Shouldn’t Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama resent the Hell out of us? By refusing to drill off the Gulf coast of Florida we place an unfair burden on those states who do drill off theirs.
Even an educationally deprived Florida student, a student who has grown up hearing his teachers caterwauling “If only we had more think how much better we would do”, knows that.
Fred Grimm
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE – Bailing out the Big 3 and bailing out our schools – A different perspective on drawing sustenance from the eternally lactating public mammary.
Mr. Grimm,
First, a comment on lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You said that “members of Congress from the 48 states that spend more per student than Florida might balk at helping out schools in a state that won’t help itself”.
Are you saying that spending more money guarantees a better education? No place spends more money per student than Washington, DC. If, as you say, more money means better schools why are the Obama children not going to public school there? Why didn’t Chelsea Clinton go to public school there? Why didn’t any of the Gore children go to public school there?
President Bush’s daughters attended Austin Westlake High School – a public high school. You knew that, didn’t you?
Your comparison on the failing American automobile industry and the failing American public education system is predicated on never letting facts interfere with your argument.
After decades of failing the Big 3 want the American taxpayer to bail them out. They make an inferior product that is overpriced. These wounds, ones of design flaws and absurd union contracts, were mostly self-inflicted. The market place has spoken. There will be no end to the public transfusions.
American public education is predicated on the convoy system. The slowest ship sets the speed limit for the rest of the convoy. Since success can’t be rewarded and, worse, since failure can’t be penalized mediocrity is the norm. Taxpayers already pick up the tab. The notion that more public money will make a better product is offensive to Logic.
American education has been failing so long that it thrives on this public failure. It’s always someone else’s fault that Johnny can’t read. Florida high school football coaches have a very short use life. Effort doesn’t count; results do. If the coach doesn’t perform he is fired. If the math teacher doesn’t perform he gets a raise. If the principal has a stable filled with horses’ asses he is looked on as a friend to animals. If the superintendent looks on the letters FCAT as a vampire looks on a sun drenched holy water dousing he need but cry “More Money” and he is regarded as a saint.
Madness.
Since nothing else seems to work here is a modest proposal.
Each and every child of each and every public employee – appointed or elected – must attend public school. No exceptions.
How about culling the herd of jackass administrators? Did you know that the Broward Board of Education pays more than $100,000 a year to people who are listed as “diversity experts”? Use automatic weapons. Most of them couldn’t find a class room with a blood hound and a GPS.
You say that states that spend more per pupil would resent us. Shouldn’t Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama resent the Hell out of us? By refusing to drill off the Gulf coast of Florida we place an unfair burden on those states who do drill off theirs.
Even an educationally deprived Florida student, a student who has grown up hearing his teachers caterwauling “If only we had more think how much better we would do”, knows that.
Sasha Issenberg, The Boston Globe
December 14, 2008
Sasha Issenberg
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819
RE: “Kennedy Answers the Call” – The astonishing headline highlighting your story in today’s Miami Herald about someone named Caroline Schlossberg who is President of – and who says the glass ceiling hasn’t been broken? – the Lucky Sperm Club.
Ms. Issenberg,
We begin with the obvious questions.
What call?
Who is calling?
As a Roman Catholic I must tell you that, Vatican 2 notwithstanding, death is still the first step on a lengthy process ending in sainthood. She ain’t dead.
You say that the high point of her public life was raising money for a private charity that supports public schools.
I hate to be thought of as a turd in the punch bowl but do you know if any of her children went to public schools? Do you know if any of her first cousins or any of their children went to public schools?
If any of them did my brother the hunchback will straighten up.
Sasha Issenberg
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819
RE: “Kennedy Answers the Call” – The astonishing headline highlighting your story in today’s Miami Herald about someone named Caroline Schlossberg who is President of – and who says the glass ceiling hasn’t been broken? – the Lucky Sperm Club.
Ms. Issenberg,
We begin with the obvious questions.
What call?
Who is calling?
As a Roman Catholic I must tell you that, Vatican 2 notwithstanding, death is still the first step on a lengthy process ending in sainthood. She ain’t dead.
You say that the high point of her public life was raising money for a private charity that supports public schools.
I hate to be thought of as a turd in the punch bowl but do you know if any of her children went to public schools? Do you know if any of her first cousins or any of their children went to public schools?
If any of them did my brother the hunchback will straighten up.
Joan Vennochi, The Boston Globe
December 14, 2008
Joan Vennochi
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205- 55819
RE: 20 words – infinite errors
Ms. Vennochi,
“As Paul Newman said at the climax of “Cool Hand Luke”
‘What we have here is a failure to communicate’.”
#1 – Paul Newman never said that.
#2 – The warden said, “What we have here is failure to communicate”.
#3 – The difference – a – is enormous.
#3 – Climax? My, my. Movies end. Movies stop. Movies never “climax”.
The aforementioned 20 words have earned you a special year end award.
“SEMI-LITERATE MARE’S ASS OF THE WEEK”
Congratulations and a truly non-denominational Season’s Greetings to you.
Joan Vennochi
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205- 55819
RE: 20 words – infinite errors
Ms. Vennochi,
“As Paul Newman said at the climax of “Cool Hand Luke”
‘What we have here is a failure to communicate’.”
#1 – Paul Newman never said that.
#2 – The warden said, “What we have here is failure to communicate”.
#3 – The difference – a – is enormous.
#3 – Climax? My, my. Movies end. Movies stop. Movies never “climax”.
The aforementioned 20 words have earned you a special year end award.
“SEMI-LITERATE MARE’S ASS OF THE WEEK”
Congratulations and a truly non-denominational Season’s Greetings to you.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Three New Stooges
I think it was Churchill who said “Be of good cheer. Things will come right in the end.”
Evidence of that optimistic outlook is everywhere. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the arrival of The Chosen One has led to an accentuation of the positive with no more Mister in Between.
“Congressman Rostenkowski says all pols aren’t like Blago.”
“Gore says the world cares more about Paris Hilton than Global Warming.”
“Caroline Kennedy up for New York Senate seat.”
#1 – Rostenkowski, the paradigmatic template of ethical behavior, cautions us not to judge all pols like Governor Blago. Rosty went to jail for stealing from himself, his office, the House of Representatives, his constituents, and the people of America. His lesson, it’s always the rotten 96% who ruin it for the others, is worth noting.
#2 – Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., AKA Alpha Gump, noted Tennessee slumlord, wishes that the world was made up of more Paris Hiltons. Only people as bright as that ninny could agree with him, a 21st Century Lysenko, a man who gives horses’ asses a bad name, when he babbles on about Global Warming and drowning polar bears and reverse hockey sticks. As the head boob he should thank God for people such as Paris Hilton. Who else would listen to him without evacuating their bladders in paroxysms of uncontrollable guffaws? He makes her sound like Marie Curie. She makes him sound like someone who knows what color an orange is.
#3 – As the Manhattan doyenne of The Lucky Sperm Club Caroline Kennedy has one big thing going for her. She is smarter than her cousin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Alas, that’s not saying much because that broad was so dumb she made my hair hurt. The label, Toes to the Front, is in all her shoes. She bats about .400. Maybe she gets dressed in the dark. Imagine if her name were Caroline Schlossberg. The only way she gets to the Senate is with the high school tour.
“Like I said “things will come right in the end”.
The Democrats are back.
Evidence of that optimistic outlook is everywhere. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the arrival of The Chosen One has led to an accentuation of the positive with no more Mister in Between.
“Congressman Rostenkowski says all pols aren’t like Blago.”
“Gore says the world cares more about Paris Hilton than Global Warming.”
“Caroline Kennedy up for New York Senate seat.”
#1 – Rostenkowski, the paradigmatic template of ethical behavior, cautions us not to judge all pols like Governor Blago. Rosty went to jail for stealing from himself, his office, the House of Representatives, his constituents, and the people of America. His lesson, it’s always the rotten 96% who ruin it for the others, is worth noting.
#2 – Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., AKA Alpha Gump, noted Tennessee slumlord, wishes that the world was made up of more Paris Hiltons. Only people as bright as that ninny could agree with him, a 21st Century Lysenko, a man who gives horses’ asses a bad name, when he babbles on about Global Warming and drowning polar bears and reverse hockey sticks. As the head boob he should thank God for people such as Paris Hilton. Who else would listen to him without evacuating their bladders in paroxysms of uncontrollable guffaws? He makes her sound like Marie Curie. She makes him sound like someone who knows what color an orange is.
#3 – As the Manhattan doyenne of The Lucky Sperm Club Caroline Kennedy has one big thing going for her. She is smarter than her cousin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Alas, that’s not saying much because that broad was so dumb she made my hair hurt. The label, Toes to the Front, is in all her shoes. She bats about .400. Maybe she gets dressed in the dark. Imagine if her name were Caroline Schlossberg. The only way she gets to the Senate is with the high school tour.
“Like I said “things will come right in the end”.
The Democrats are back.
Why We Have Newspapers
December 13, 2008
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Thank you, thank you.
Sirs,
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 1
THE MIAMI HERALD
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 2
THE MIAMI HERALD
Thanks – twice – for clearing that up.
I thought – briefly – that it was the OVER THE BAY TUNNEL that was being scrapped. Speaking of which can you tell me where to find an OVER THE BAY TUNNEL? Google seems to know not whereof you speak.
Thanks again.
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Thank you, thank you.
Sirs,
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 1
THE MIAMI HERALD
“UNDER THE BAY TUNNEL”
TODAY
PAGE 2
THE MIAMI HERALD
Thanks – twice – for clearing that up.
I thought – briefly – that it was the OVER THE BAY TUNNEL that was being scrapped. Speaking of which can you tell me where to find an OVER THE BAY TUNNEL? Google seems to know not whereof you speak.
Thanks again.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
He hasn't ven been sworn in yet
December 10, 2008
Governor Blago, Chicago, corruption, the old days in New Jersey, & the President
Just because he has hair that suggests a Satanic connection and just because he calls the President [elect] a “*otherfucker” are no reasons to indict him.
All the mush brained toads who are modern American Liberals were achingly tumescent when Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney – “Merry Fitzmas”, remember? - Oh, I forgot. Silly me! He was after Scooter Libby and Darth Vader Cheney then. It’s OK when they’re Republicans, right? Dreams of sugar plumbs and frog marching for Christmas, remember?
Jon Corzine bought a Senate seat in New Jersey in 2000.
Governor Blago tried to sell a Senate seat in Illinois in 2008.
The difference is…is…what?
Just like a not so silent fart in church the toxic aroma is going all the way to the White House.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Governor Blago tried to get his wife a $250,000 a year job
Michelle Obama got a $200,000 a year raise when her husband was elected to the United States Senate. He got her employer a $1,000,000 a year earmark. If you say coincidence stop reading and try to find the nearest tooth fairy.
It is inconceivable that a Cook County community organizer – that sounds better than ward heeler or hack, doesn’t it? – could get from Chicago to the Illinois state senate in Springfield to the United States Senate to the White House without – A – having played the Chicago game or – B – known the rules of the Chicago game or – C – worst of all, thinking he could tip toe through the great lake of offal and not get any shit on his shoes.
If he didn’t know it he was a HORSE’S ASS. If he knew it and did nothing he is a SMARMY BASTARD.
If you believe that he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that he sat in Pastor Wrong Wright’s church for 20 years and only heard Kumbaya and We Shall Overcome. It was the Saturday PM services where Whitey was the bad guy and Amerika sucks.
If you believe he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that Bill Ayers never told him how to make a Molotov Cocktail. We know Bill the Bomber told him it's OK to send your kids to private school. Public schools in Chicago are for kids from the projects. Same in Washington.
The collateral damage caused by Governor Blago is that it knocks New Jersey off as being the top dog of corruption. As a proud son of Bayonne it was an honor that I am saddened. It was an honor that I cherished.
Where else could a college student go from being a bag man for Union City pols to the United States Senate?
If you were on the public payroll in Hudson County Mayor Hague got 3% of your gross pay. He knew that that was a big chunk. Benevolent despot that he was he got Beneficial Finance to come into Hudson County to help the employees live up to their obligation to the “Big Guy”. The pol who knocked off Hague – John V. Kenny – was the “Little Guy”. Only 7-11or Dunkin Donuts could rival Beneficial for locations.
The Hudson County jail was known as the Taj Mahal.
The Hudson County Police, as opposed to the Hudson County Park Police, and I am not making this up, the Hudson County Boulevard Police, was known as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The Hudson County Boulevard is 16 miles long and 20 yards wide. It had its own police force.
The Regular Democratic Organization had Row A in every election from 1916 to 1977. The odds of that happening by coincidence are about the same as a group of Mormons converting Ayrabs in Mecca.
I remember the Jersey City Board of Education accepting bids of $5,000 for storm windows, $4,500 for teachers’ desks, and $900 for class room waste baskets. It was 1958.
At one point there were more Hudson County mayors in jail than not.
A border line boob was sworn in as County Superintendent of Weights and Measures. After the ceremony he was asked how many ounces were in a gallon. “Give me a break, guys. It’s only my first day on the job.”
The Hudson County mortician exponentially increased his income by doubling up. He put 2 indigent stiffs into one box. 3 was a bit much because it required limb rearrangement.
A Jersey City Mayor, in a fit of frugality, shut down the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical Center. “We’ll have none of that voo-doo here.”
Uniformed police and firemen would line the hallway at various polling places. They thought it was their civic duty to inform the electorate about the candidates. Palm cards were available for the confused. Bullet voting still was in vogue.
“Dead men walking” was a common sight at election time. Why should death prevent voting?
The way Bayonne split the Black vote in 1964 is still a classic example of quiet discrimination. The lines were drawn to cut Black influence in half. Then Bayonne urban renewaled them out of town. Classic. Bayonne’s contingent of mush brained modern American Liberals kept all the Black and White Together nonsense in Mississippi and Alabama.
The upper income Negroes in Bayonne lived on West 44th Street. The majority of the other Negroes lived on either side of Avenue C from 18th Street to 26th Street. When Bayonne changed its form of government from commission to council it disregarded the plan drawn up by the non-partisan board. It used Avenue C as the East West dividing line. That cut the Negro soon to be Black vote in half. Then the city sold the apartments that they lived in replacing them with town houses and two family homes the prices of which precluded the previous tenants from buying.
Modern American Liberalism at its best!
Back to Chicago.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Since it was acceptable to use Hitler as a base line when talking about President Bush it is fair, very fair, to ask if Hitler knew of Eichmann’s daily schedule. Also, if he knew about all the Eichmann wanabees.
B. Hussein Obama was a community organizer in Chicago. Absent 2 degrees from Ivy League schools and he would be known as a ward heeler. His career goals would have revolved around being Deputy Registrar of Deeds. Maybe some decent tickets for Da Bares or Da Bulls. He had the great good sense to be at the right corner when the right bus came along. He had the better sense to get on it.
A certain glibness like the guy shilling blenders on the midway coupled with enormous amounts of White guilt combined with a media that would have killed for him and an astonishing ability to fill 6 inside straights and his next stop is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Big Mike was right: “What a country!’
Every free turkey, every ticket that disappeared, every emergency sewer job, every summer job for Junior, every winter job for Dad, everything came from the Daley machine. “Marley is dead” is the opening line of “A Christmas Carol”. Everything flows from that just like getting ahead in Chicago flows from the Daley machine.
He went from demanding larger turkeys to the state House to the United States Senate to the White House. It all started with a free turkey.
Governor Blago, a man who gives new meaning to “He would steal a hot stove”, is now in the Hall of Fame for pols who couldn’t lie straight in bed. Special mention should be made of his wife. As foul mouthed a bitch who ever hornswoggled a pol with her vertical smile she makes Lucrezia Borgia look like a minor league Mother Teresa. A mating of vipers!
From whence came the Chosen One?
Kerner, West, Reynolds, Rostenkowski, Riley – all legatees of the Daley machine, all typical Cook County pols, jail birds all. The same machine that gives us the Chosen One.
In 20 years B. Hussein Obama went from fixing tickets and giving out free turkeys to the White House.
Did he know directly of Governor Blago’s latest shakedown request? Probably not. That’s why he brought Rahm Emanuel, his Frank Nitti, with him.
Speaking of turkeys, I wonder what kind of sound Rezko is making now?
Sometimes a free turkey can be very expensive.
Welcome to 4 years worth of a SMARMY BASTARD. If I’m wrong it will be 4 years of a HORSE’S ASS. Clinton or Carter?
Does President Bambi have any brothers?
Will Travelocity book the Lincoln Bedroom?
I miss Hudson County.
Governor Blago, Chicago, corruption, the old days in New Jersey, & the President
Just because he has hair that suggests a Satanic connection and just because he calls the President [elect] a “*otherfucker” are no reasons to indict him.
All the mush brained toads who are modern American Liberals were achingly tumescent when Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney – “Merry Fitzmas”, remember? - Oh, I forgot. Silly me! He was after Scooter Libby and Darth Vader Cheney then. It’s OK when they’re Republicans, right? Dreams of sugar plumbs and frog marching for Christmas, remember?
Jon Corzine bought a Senate seat in New Jersey in 2000.
Governor Blago tried to sell a Senate seat in Illinois in 2008.
The difference is…is…what?
Just like a not so silent fart in church the toxic aroma is going all the way to the White House.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Governor Blago tried to get his wife a $250,000 a year job
Michelle Obama got a $200,000 a year raise when her husband was elected to the United States Senate. He got her employer a $1,000,000 a year earmark. If you say coincidence stop reading and try to find the nearest tooth fairy.
It is inconceivable that a Cook County community organizer – that sounds better than ward heeler or hack, doesn’t it? – could get from Chicago to the Illinois state senate in Springfield to the United States Senate to the White House without – A – having played the Chicago game or – B – known the rules of the Chicago game or – C – worst of all, thinking he could tip toe through the great lake of offal and not get any shit on his shoes.
If he didn’t know it he was a HORSE’S ASS. If he knew it and did nothing he is a SMARMY BASTARD.
If you believe that he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that he sat in Pastor Wrong Wright’s church for 20 years and only heard Kumbaya and We Shall Overcome. It was the Saturday PM services where Whitey was the bad guy and Amerika sucks.
If you believe he didn’t know then you are comfortable believing that Bill Ayers never told him how to make a Molotov Cocktail. We know Bill the Bomber told him it's OK to send your kids to private school. Public schools in Chicago are for kids from the projects. Same in Washington.
The collateral damage caused by Governor Blago is that it knocks New Jersey off as being the top dog of corruption. As a proud son of Bayonne it was an honor that I am saddened. It was an honor that I cherished.
Where else could a college student go from being a bag man for Union City pols to the United States Senate?
If you were on the public payroll in Hudson County Mayor Hague got 3% of your gross pay. He knew that that was a big chunk. Benevolent despot that he was he got Beneficial Finance to come into Hudson County to help the employees live up to their obligation to the “Big Guy”. The pol who knocked off Hague – John V. Kenny – was the “Little Guy”. Only 7-11or Dunkin Donuts could rival Beneficial for locations.
The Hudson County jail was known as the Taj Mahal.
The Hudson County Police, as opposed to the Hudson County Park Police, and I am not making this up, the Hudson County Boulevard Police, was known as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The Hudson County Boulevard is 16 miles long and 20 yards wide. It had its own police force.
The Regular Democratic Organization had Row A in every election from 1916 to 1977. The odds of that happening by coincidence are about the same as a group of Mormons converting Ayrabs in Mecca.
I remember the Jersey City Board of Education accepting bids of $5,000 for storm windows, $4,500 for teachers’ desks, and $900 for class room waste baskets. It was 1958.
At one point there were more Hudson County mayors in jail than not.
A border line boob was sworn in as County Superintendent of Weights and Measures. After the ceremony he was asked how many ounces were in a gallon. “Give me a break, guys. It’s only my first day on the job.”
The Hudson County mortician exponentially increased his income by doubling up. He put 2 indigent stiffs into one box. 3 was a bit much because it required limb rearrangement.
A Jersey City Mayor, in a fit of frugality, shut down the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical Center. “We’ll have none of that voo-doo here.”
Uniformed police and firemen would line the hallway at various polling places. They thought it was their civic duty to inform the electorate about the candidates. Palm cards were available for the confused. Bullet voting still was in vogue.
“Dead men walking” was a common sight at election time. Why should death prevent voting?
The way Bayonne split the Black vote in 1964 is still a classic example of quiet discrimination. The lines were drawn to cut Black influence in half. Then Bayonne urban renewaled them out of town. Classic. Bayonne’s contingent of mush brained modern American Liberals kept all the Black and White Together nonsense in Mississippi and Alabama.
The upper income Negroes in Bayonne lived on West 44th Street. The majority of the other Negroes lived on either side of Avenue C from 18th Street to 26th Street. When Bayonne changed its form of government from commission to council it disregarded the plan drawn up by the non-partisan board. It used Avenue C as the East West dividing line. That cut the Negro soon to be Black vote in half. Then the city sold the apartments that they lived in replacing them with town houses and two family homes the prices of which precluded the previous tenants from buying.
Modern American Liberalism at its best!
Back to Chicago.
What did the President [elect] know and when did he know it?
Since it was acceptable to use Hitler as a base line when talking about President Bush it is fair, very fair, to ask if Hitler knew of Eichmann’s daily schedule. Also, if he knew about all the Eichmann wanabees.
B. Hussein Obama was a community organizer in Chicago. Absent 2 degrees from Ivy League schools and he would be known as a ward heeler. His career goals would have revolved around being Deputy Registrar of Deeds. Maybe some decent tickets for Da Bares or Da Bulls. He had the great good sense to be at the right corner when the right bus came along. He had the better sense to get on it.
A certain glibness like the guy shilling blenders on the midway coupled with enormous amounts of White guilt combined with a media that would have killed for him and an astonishing ability to fill 6 inside straights and his next stop is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Big Mike was right: “What a country!’
Every free turkey, every ticket that disappeared, every emergency sewer job, every summer job for Junior, every winter job for Dad, everything came from the Daley machine. “Marley is dead” is the opening line of “A Christmas Carol”. Everything flows from that just like getting ahead in Chicago flows from the Daley machine.
He went from demanding larger turkeys to the state House to the United States Senate to the White House. It all started with a free turkey.
Governor Blago, a man who gives new meaning to “He would steal a hot stove”, is now in the Hall of Fame for pols who couldn’t lie straight in bed. Special mention should be made of his wife. As foul mouthed a bitch who ever hornswoggled a pol with her vertical smile she makes Lucrezia Borgia look like a minor league Mother Teresa. A mating of vipers!
From whence came the Chosen One?
Kerner, West, Reynolds, Rostenkowski, Riley – all legatees of the Daley machine, all typical Cook County pols, jail birds all. The same machine that gives us the Chosen One.
In 20 years B. Hussein Obama went from fixing tickets and giving out free turkeys to the White House.
Did he know directly of Governor Blago’s latest shakedown request? Probably not. That’s why he brought Rahm Emanuel, his Frank Nitti, with him.
Speaking of turkeys, I wonder what kind of sound Rezko is making now?
Sometimes a free turkey can be very expensive.
Welcome to 4 years worth of a SMARMY BASTARD. If I’m wrong it will be 4 years of a HORSE’S ASS. Clinton or Carter?
Does President Bambi have any brothers?
Will Travelocity book the Lincoln Bedroom?
I miss Hudson County.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Carl Hiaasen, The Miami Herald
December 7, 2008
Carl Hiaasen
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “Big Sugar” – Sweet or Reckless? – Some comments on your revealing column this morning on what a government should do
Mr. Hiaasen,
And the great good fortune of being born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey is again shown in your column.
You speak of the Everglades as if they were my granddaughters. In New Jersey we know them – not Caitlin, not Caroline, not Julia – for what they are: swamps.
Eyetie gangsters, turnpike bond hucksters, fraternity pledges with a paint can, lonely radio stations – Who else would go there? Mosquitoes in the summer, fish with three eyes, ducks that fly backwards, a failed bent nose.
Let a peripatetic panther snatch a child from a Westin backyard and the panther problem will be solved by 50 A-10 Warthogs emptying their 30 millimeter cannons on anything that moves. About a week’s worth of sorties would solve that problem.
I read, with growing amusement, of your tale of almost woe about what “Big Sugar” did, can do, will do to Florida in the deal to “restore” the Everglades.
[Would it be a sign of my naïveté to ask “restore” to what?]
Anyway, I’m chuckling just short of borborygymous eructations when I get to the “chilling effect” or, perhaps, the “slippery slope” throwaway phrase, a phrase so common to modern American Liberals, statists all, “until the state cracks down”.
Up until the true colors were revealed it was a tale told by typical mush brained modern American Liberals. Did I just repeat myself?
Then it was revealed.
“Until the state cracks down…”
Should we send the Board of Big Sugar to Camp Gitmo?
Should we send their lawyers and lobbyists to Abu Ghraib?
What the Hell do you mean when you say “crack down”?
Is it OK to “crack down” when we want to help manatees? Is it not OK to “crack down” when we wish to enforce the laws concerning illegal aliens? Is there a meter to determine intentions when we choose which laws to enforce?
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. That was an example of a pretty strong “crack down”. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 12/7/41. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 9/11/01.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
PS – How about this for a “crack down”? Everybody knows that tobacco is evil. If we cannot ban the sale of it in this state how about banning the sale of it in drug stores and food stores? Would not the public be served, indeed well served, by this?
Carl Hiaasen
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: “Big Sugar” – Sweet or Reckless? – Some comments on your revealing column this morning on what a government should do
Mr. Hiaasen,
And the great good fortune of being born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey is again shown in your column.
You speak of the Everglades as if they were my granddaughters. In New Jersey we know them – not Caitlin, not Caroline, not Julia – for what they are: swamps.
Eyetie gangsters, turnpike bond hucksters, fraternity pledges with a paint can, lonely radio stations – Who else would go there? Mosquitoes in the summer, fish with three eyes, ducks that fly backwards, a failed bent nose.
Let a peripatetic panther snatch a child from a Westin backyard and the panther problem will be solved by 50 A-10 Warthogs emptying their 30 millimeter cannons on anything that moves. About a week’s worth of sorties would solve that problem.
I read, with growing amusement, of your tale of almost woe about what “Big Sugar” did, can do, will do to Florida in the deal to “restore” the Everglades.
[Would it be a sign of my naïveté to ask “restore” to what?]
Anyway, I’m chuckling just short of borborygymous eructations when I get to the “chilling effect” or, perhaps, the “slippery slope” throwaway phrase, a phrase so common to modern American Liberals, statists all, “until the state cracks down”.
Up until the true colors were revealed it was a tale told by typical mush brained modern American Liberals. Did I just repeat myself?
Then it was revealed.
“Until the state cracks down…”
Should we send the Board of Big Sugar to Camp Gitmo?
Should we send their lawyers and lobbyists to Abu Ghraib?
What the Hell do you mean when you say “crack down”?
Is it OK to “crack down” when we want to help manatees? Is it not OK to “crack down” when we wish to enforce the laws concerning illegal aliens? Is there a meter to determine intentions when we choose which laws to enforce?
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. That was an example of a pretty strong “crack down”. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 12/7/41. Maybe we should have “cracked down” before 9/11/01.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
PS – How about this for a “crack down”? Everybody knows that tobacco is evil. If we cannot ban the sale of it in this state how about banning the sale of it in drug stores and food stores? Would not the public be served, indeed well served, by this?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
A New Way To Pick A Mayor
November 29, 2008
Letters to the Editor
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Local Perspectives – A new way to pick a mayor
Sirs,
How can you not love this place?
Broward County, the Petri dish of modern American Liberalism, has been the cheerleader for the chorale of Jeremiads about stolen elections since 2000. The Republicans stole the election! The Republicans stole the election! The lyrics are the same. The music is rap, Gregorian chant, reggae, blue grass, inter alia.
It is well to note that the Torquemada chosen to investigate voting irregularities in 2000 was Daley, son of THE Daley, and a man who knew that the thing about recounts was that you counted and counted until you got the count you wanted. His selection was beyond parody. Also, it was impossible to satirize. Why? Because the toads in the 4th Estate wanted to believe that the fix was in.
This brings us back to Sunrise.
You may recall that President-elect Obama, on one of his tours around this 57 or 58 state country, called it Sunshine. Not once, not twice, but three times. Imagine if Sarah Palin had done that. MSNBC would have tried to Baker Act her.
One of the solutions to disputed elections, to cantankerous recounts, to the wrong people getting elected is simple. The test run in Sunrise, if successful, may well become the paradigmatic template of modern American Liberalism.
If you think the results of the election will not be to your liking cancel it.
Mayor Steven Feren of Sunrise was sent to the Bench by the electorate. He resigned. Deputy Mayor Roger Wishner, coached by Hinnisy, the famous publican, “saw his opportunities and he took’em”.
A word about Wishner is in order.
A few years ago then Commissioner Wishner filed a police complaint alleging that he was assaulted at a Commission meeting. In a heated exchange with another Commissioner, David Harlem, Wishner claimed that Harlem pointed his index finger at him and pulled it like a trigger.
A trait common to modern American Liberals is that while they love protests – drowning polar bears, the Dalai Lama, teenage obesity, “Don’t let’s be nasty to the WOGS”, things like that – they don’t want debate. It makes no difference whether the debate is intramural, intermural, extramural, or sansmural. Once the official line is established there is to be no deviance. That’s why Dr. Mengele would do well in a primary in Broward County. His progressive views on abortion, predicated for the most part on the works of Margaret Sanger a heroine to most modern American Liberals, would sway many voters.
If Commissioner Harlem had used his middle finger it would have had First Amendment protection. By using his index finger he stirred the pot about the Second Amendment.
Is there a modern American Liberal anywhere who does not become tumescent at the thought of disarming the Second Amendment? An index finger is a 50 caliber sniper rifle. A fist is a neutron bomb.
Stuart Michelson, Esq., the city attorney, doubtless acting under instructions from George Soros and Keith Olberman, canceled the election. He then anointed Roger Wishner Mayor for Life. No muss, no fuss, and no chance of the wrong guy getting in. According to confidential sources the Obama administration is studying this new method of choosing leaders very closely.
“All evidence is circumstantial”, said Bertie.
“Yes”, said Jeeves, “especially when
you find the trout in the milk.”
Stuart Michelson, Esq. is paid $8300 a week to represent Sunrise. [Sunrise, Sunset. No big deal.] That amount does no include expenses. Ski masks, shotguns, jimmies, shivs, crowbars – traditional burglary tools – are excluded from reimbursable disbursements.
The annual retainer, $432,000, was agreed to by the Sunrise commission.
I’m from Hudson County, New Jersey. Naïveté is beaten out of children. The fact that Roger Wishner, a man afraid of raised fingers, cast the deciding vote that gave Stuart Michelson, Esq. $432,000 a year is one of those things that just happened. Michelson the lawyer gets more than 8 grand a week and Wishner gets the crown. It’s just a coincidence. It happens as often as an Ice Age.
Next they’ll get the trains to run on time
Letters to the Editor
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: Local Perspectives – A new way to pick a mayor
Sirs,
How can you not love this place?
Broward County, the Petri dish of modern American Liberalism, has been the cheerleader for the chorale of Jeremiads about stolen elections since 2000. The Republicans stole the election! The Republicans stole the election! The lyrics are the same. The music is rap, Gregorian chant, reggae, blue grass, inter alia.
It is well to note that the Torquemada chosen to investigate voting irregularities in 2000 was Daley, son of THE Daley, and a man who knew that the thing about recounts was that you counted and counted until you got the count you wanted. His selection was beyond parody. Also, it was impossible to satirize. Why? Because the toads in the 4th Estate wanted to believe that the fix was in.
This brings us back to Sunrise.
You may recall that President-elect Obama, on one of his tours around this 57 or 58 state country, called it Sunshine. Not once, not twice, but three times. Imagine if Sarah Palin had done that. MSNBC would have tried to Baker Act her.
One of the solutions to disputed elections, to cantankerous recounts, to the wrong people getting elected is simple. The test run in Sunrise, if successful, may well become the paradigmatic template of modern American Liberalism.
If you think the results of the election will not be to your liking cancel it.
Mayor Steven Feren of Sunrise was sent to the Bench by the electorate. He resigned. Deputy Mayor Roger Wishner, coached by Hinnisy, the famous publican, “saw his opportunities and he took’em”.
A word about Wishner is in order.
A few years ago then Commissioner Wishner filed a police complaint alleging that he was assaulted at a Commission meeting. In a heated exchange with another Commissioner, David Harlem, Wishner claimed that Harlem pointed his index finger at him and pulled it like a trigger.
A trait common to modern American Liberals is that while they love protests – drowning polar bears, the Dalai Lama, teenage obesity, “Don’t let’s be nasty to the WOGS”, things like that – they don’t want debate. It makes no difference whether the debate is intramural, intermural, extramural, or sansmural. Once the official line is established there is to be no deviance. That’s why Dr. Mengele would do well in a primary in Broward County. His progressive views on abortion, predicated for the most part on the works of Margaret Sanger a heroine to most modern American Liberals, would sway many voters.
If Commissioner Harlem had used his middle finger it would have had First Amendment protection. By using his index finger he stirred the pot about the Second Amendment.
Is there a modern American Liberal anywhere who does not become tumescent at the thought of disarming the Second Amendment? An index finger is a 50 caliber sniper rifle. A fist is a neutron bomb.
Stuart Michelson, Esq., the city attorney, doubtless acting under instructions from George Soros and Keith Olberman, canceled the election. He then anointed Roger Wishner Mayor for Life. No muss, no fuss, and no chance of the wrong guy getting in. According to confidential sources the Obama administration is studying this new method of choosing leaders very closely.
“All evidence is circumstantial”, said Bertie.
“Yes”, said Jeeves, “especially when
you find the trout in the milk.”
Stuart Michelson, Esq. is paid $8300 a week to represent Sunrise. [Sunrise, Sunset. No big deal.] That amount does no include expenses. Ski masks, shotguns, jimmies, shivs, crowbars – traditional burglary tools – are excluded from reimbursable disbursements.
The annual retainer, $432,000, was agreed to by the Sunrise commission.
I’m from Hudson County, New Jersey. Naïveté is beaten out of children. The fact that Roger Wishner, a man afraid of raised fingers, cast the deciding vote that gave Stuart Michelson, Esq. $432,000 a year is one of those things that just happened. Michelson the lawyer gets more than 8 grand a week and Wishner gets the crown. It’s just a coincidence. It happens as often as an Ice Age.
Next they’ll get the trains to run on time
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
November 28, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About that vote for Committee Chairman
Congressman Klein,
A few days ago the Democratic caucus in the House voted to oust Congressman Dingell and install Congressman Waxman as Chairman of a House Committee. The voting was by secret ballot.
Early in the next session the House will vote on whether or not workers will have recourse to a secret ballot when deciding whether they should join a union. [Incidentally, I have paid dues to 2 unions. How many have you belonged to?]
Will you vote in favor of a secret ballot – like you have – or will you vote in favor of an open ballot?
The courtesy of a simple answer – Yes, you are in favor of a secret ballot or No, you are not in favor of a secret ballot – is requested.
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About that vote for Committee Chairman
Congressman Klein,
A few days ago the Democratic caucus in the House voted to oust Congressman Dingell and install Congressman Waxman as Chairman of a House Committee. The voting was by secret ballot.
Early in the next session the House will vote on whether or not workers will have recourse to a secret ballot when deciding whether they should join a union. [Incidentally, I have paid dues to 2 unions. How many have you belonged to?]
Will you vote in favor of a secret ballot – like you have – or will you vote in favor of an open ballot?
The courtesy of a simple answer – Yes, you are in favor of a secret ballot or No, you are not in favor of a secret ballot – is requested.
Thelma & Louise in Miami
November 28, 2008
Maria E. Roberts
Laura Morilla
@ The Miami Herald – Op Ed Contributors
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: God but the bobos are in ascendancy or, perhaps, the boobies are running the hatch. A comment on your article entitled “Pay equity belongs in stimulus package” in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms Roberts and Ms Morilla,
An article that ends with the following sentence
“For women, this legislation would signify a level
playing field, which is the promise of our democracy.”
must be examined closely lest the fallacious Logic and the appalling ignorance of empirical evidence be enshrined.
Your premise, one that says women are paid 77% of what men are paid for similar work, is denied. In Rhetoric, denial of the major premise requires that proof be presented to buttress said premise.
Colin Powell succeeded Madeline Albright as Secretary of State. Did he get a pay raise for the same job because he has testicles? When Condoleeza Rice succeeded him did she get a pay cut because she has ovaries?
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee for Secretary for State, is a United States Senator from New York. Is she paid 77% of what Senator Charles Schumer earns?
Your solution for the problem [alleged] of gender pay discrimination is to make victims [alleged] eligible for compensatory and punitive damages. Should an imperiled Pauline prevail at the trail level and the case is appealed should Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse herself from hearing it because she is only paid 77% of what the rest of the Court is paid?
Your article was published in the Miami Herald. The Herald is owned by McClatchy, a publicly held company. Are any female reporters paid 77% of what their male counterparts are paid? If they are you should have refused to submit your article for publication until they bring those long suffering chickies up to par.
The brief bio under your asinine polemic says that Maria E. Roberts is the “past Chairperson of the Miami-Dade County Commission for Women”. It says that “Laura Morilla is the commission’s program officer”. Would it be sign of my naïveté or would it be a manifestation of curmudgeonly ball busting if I were to ask if there is a male equivalent?
Do you know of any female employee of Miami-Dade County, of any female employee of the Board of Education, of any female employee of any city or town who is paid 77% of what a male equivalent is paid?
Did you know that a 40 year old woman will pay life insurance premiums greatly reduced from what a 40 year old male will pay? Should the gender discrimination be addressed by raising the female premium or lowering the male premium?
In my many trips to Arlington Cemetery I have noticed an enormous discrepancy between the number of male dead and female dead. Should we have an emergency Affirmative Action program – quotas, not goals – until the number of dead grunts [female] equals the number of dead grunts [male]?
I return, almost unable to contain my bladder, to your mush brained, moronic idea of a “level playing field”. Should such a thing exist – in the real world, in the world occupied by men AND women where such thoughts are on a par with the tooth fairy and Mulligans – it would be akin to Dr. Johnson’s famous “preaching woman”. It would be “like a dog walking on its hind legs”. Forget how well it does it but ask “why does it do it at all”.
I search in vain for any reference to a “level playing field” in any of the founding documents. Alas, we have done away with dunking pools. If we still had them both of you would have had gills by now.
Before getting your no doubt lovely knickers in a knot I suggest you look up the phrase “Free men speak with free tongues”. Antigone, my favorite Hellenic wench, did not say it.
Maria E. Roberts
Laura Morilla
@ The Miami Herald – Op Ed Contributors
One Herald Plaza
Miami, Florida 33132-1693
RE: God but the bobos are in ascendancy or, perhaps, the boobies are running the hatch. A comment on your article entitled “Pay equity belongs in stimulus package” in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms Roberts and Ms Morilla,
An article that ends with the following sentence
“For women, this legislation would signify a level
playing field, which is the promise of our democracy.”
must be examined closely lest the fallacious Logic and the appalling ignorance of empirical evidence be enshrined.
Your premise, one that says women are paid 77% of what men are paid for similar work, is denied. In Rhetoric, denial of the major premise requires that proof be presented to buttress said premise.
Colin Powell succeeded Madeline Albright as Secretary of State. Did he get a pay raise for the same job because he has testicles? When Condoleeza Rice succeeded him did she get a pay cut because she has ovaries?
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee for Secretary for State, is a United States Senator from New York. Is she paid 77% of what Senator Charles Schumer earns?
Your solution for the problem [alleged] of gender pay discrimination is to make victims [alleged] eligible for compensatory and punitive damages. Should an imperiled Pauline prevail at the trail level and the case is appealed should Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse herself from hearing it because she is only paid 77% of what the rest of the Court is paid?
Your article was published in the Miami Herald. The Herald is owned by McClatchy, a publicly held company. Are any female reporters paid 77% of what their male counterparts are paid? If they are you should have refused to submit your article for publication until they bring those long suffering chickies up to par.
The brief bio under your asinine polemic says that Maria E. Roberts is the “past Chairperson of the Miami-Dade County Commission for Women”. It says that “Laura Morilla is the commission’s program officer”. Would it be sign of my naïveté or would it be a manifestation of curmudgeonly ball busting if I were to ask if there is a male equivalent?
Do you know of any female employee of Miami-Dade County, of any female employee of the Board of Education, of any female employee of any city or town who is paid 77% of what a male equivalent is paid?
Did you know that a 40 year old woman will pay life insurance premiums greatly reduced from what a 40 year old male will pay? Should the gender discrimination be addressed by raising the female premium or lowering the male premium?
In my many trips to Arlington Cemetery I have noticed an enormous discrepancy between the number of male dead and female dead. Should we have an emergency Affirmative Action program – quotas, not goals – until the number of dead grunts [female] equals the number of dead grunts [male]?
I return, almost unable to contain my bladder, to your mush brained, moronic idea of a “level playing field”. Should such a thing exist – in the real world, in the world occupied by men AND women where such thoughts are on a par with the tooth fairy and Mulligans – it would be akin to Dr. Johnson’s famous “preaching woman”. It would be “like a dog walking on its hind legs”. Forget how well it does it but ask “why does it do it at all”.
I search in vain for any reference to a “level playing field” in any of the founding documents. Alas, we have done away with dunking pools. If we still had them both of you would have had gills by now.
Before getting your no doubt lovely knickers in a knot I suggest you look up the phrase “Free men speak with free tongues”. Antigone, my favorite Hellenic wench, did not say it.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Change
November 9, 2008
The first mug shot of the yeggs running the “Change We Can Believe In” was in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, November 8, 2008.
A few things are so obvious that they are empirically self evident.
#1 – If Curley Joe Biden is modern American Liberal paradigmatic template for inclusion in the Democratic Blue Collar hagiography some of the other swells were sharecroppers, helots, or followers of Spartacus.
#2 – There is a big Chicago presence.
This year’s President of the Lucky Sperm Club, Penny Pritzker, shot right through that Glass Ceiling, didn’t she? Daley, he of the Cook County Daleys, is there for comic relief. Who can forget his performance in the 2000 Florida recount race? He got off the plane, headed straight to the nearest TV camera, and said without any hint of irony, “Let the recount begin”. His father, King Richard the First, would have been proud. Rahm Immanuel, a man who sat on the Board of Freddie Mac and, as a Congressman, had Fannie Mae loot IVed straight into his coffers, was singing Happy Day$ Are Here Again.
Where was Dan Rostenkowski? Where was Mel Reynolds? Where was Tony Rezko? The rumor of Bill “Bomb-Bomb” Ayers being appointed an honorary ATF agent has not been denied. Pastor Wrong Wright is going to use Black Magic to turn Red Devils into, you guessed it, White Devils.
#3 – Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan has a simple solution to unemployment, the credit crunch, Global Warming, teenage obesity, nasty merdes from Quebec, colic, 3 putt greens, and obscene profits. Raise taxes. The woman is a dolt. If the Buckeyes beat the snot out of the Wolverines this year she will tax the bejeezus out of any Michigan resident born in Ohio. Jesus Haitch Keerist but she’s dumb.
#4 – Robert Rubin is in the picture. He sold his stake in Goldman Sachs in December, 1992. The following year, as the #2 man in the Treasury, he engineered a tax hike retroactive to January 1, 1993. “I’m on the bus. Ring the bell.” Nice guy. Later on, when he was at Citibank, he was a shill for ENRON. Nice guy.
#5 – Larry Summers is in the picture. Soon he’ll be out of the picture. As soon as the chicks find out that he is that Larry Summers he’ll be out the picture. He was the guy who said that maybe all the ladies weren’t that equal. The examples he used were logging in the Northwest, being buried at Arlington Cemetery, crabbing in the Gulf of Alaska, being a sperm donor, peeing while standing up, and molecular biology. Unfortunately, he said this to a gender mixed audience. Three of the broads were overcome by the vapours, two wet their bloomers, and one wept uncontrollably. Larry ain’t going anywhere on the Lord Barack Tour Bus. His confirmation hearings would resemble the Tail Hook hearings. Tail Hook? Tail Hook happened before Google. Look it up. Google it.
#6 – Back to Curley Joe Biden. He continues the tradition of dumb, I mean really, really dumb Democratic Vice Presidents. Alpha Gump is the paragon so the bar is set very, very high. You go, Joe!
#7 – Lord Barack has a plan to jump start the economy. Part of it is using the soon to be laid off auto workers, car salesmen, and under employed investment bankers. It involves rebuilding aging infrastructure. The infrastructure is in Pakistan. He promised to invade Macacaville, didn’t he?
#8 – I think this picture should be on a wall. The wall is in your local post office.
I am
The WarriorBard
and I approve this message
PS – There is one thing he has changed. He announced at his first press conference since the election, the one where he took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan, that “President Bush invited Michelle and I to the White House”. Toss out grammar and watch those Verbal SATs shoot up.
The first mug shot of the yeggs running the “Change We Can Believe In” was in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, November 8, 2008.
A few things are so obvious that they are empirically self evident.
#1 – If Curley Joe Biden is modern American Liberal paradigmatic template for inclusion in the Democratic Blue Collar hagiography some of the other swells were sharecroppers, helots, or followers of Spartacus.
#2 – There is a big Chicago presence.
This year’s President of the Lucky Sperm Club, Penny Pritzker, shot right through that Glass Ceiling, didn’t she? Daley, he of the Cook County Daleys, is there for comic relief. Who can forget his performance in the 2000 Florida recount race? He got off the plane, headed straight to the nearest TV camera, and said without any hint of irony, “Let the recount begin”. His father, King Richard the First, would have been proud. Rahm Immanuel, a man who sat on the Board of Freddie Mac and, as a Congressman, had Fannie Mae loot IVed straight into his coffers, was singing Happy Day$ Are Here Again.
Where was Dan Rostenkowski? Where was Mel Reynolds? Where was Tony Rezko? The rumor of Bill “Bomb-Bomb” Ayers being appointed an honorary ATF agent has not been denied. Pastor Wrong Wright is going to use Black Magic to turn Red Devils into, you guessed it, White Devils.
#3 – Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan has a simple solution to unemployment, the credit crunch, Global Warming, teenage obesity, nasty merdes from Quebec, colic, 3 putt greens, and obscene profits. Raise taxes. The woman is a dolt. If the Buckeyes beat the snot out of the Wolverines this year she will tax the bejeezus out of any Michigan resident born in Ohio. Jesus Haitch Keerist but she’s dumb.
#4 – Robert Rubin is in the picture. He sold his stake in Goldman Sachs in December, 1992. The following year, as the #2 man in the Treasury, he engineered a tax hike retroactive to January 1, 1993. “I’m on the bus. Ring the bell.” Nice guy. Later on, when he was at Citibank, he was a shill for ENRON. Nice guy.
#5 – Larry Summers is in the picture. Soon he’ll be out of the picture. As soon as the chicks find out that he is that Larry Summers he’ll be out the picture. He was the guy who said that maybe all the ladies weren’t that equal. The examples he used were logging in the Northwest, being buried at Arlington Cemetery, crabbing in the Gulf of Alaska, being a sperm donor, peeing while standing up, and molecular biology. Unfortunately, he said this to a gender mixed audience. Three of the broads were overcome by the vapours, two wet their bloomers, and one wept uncontrollably. Larry ain’t going anywhere on the Lord Barack Tour Bus. His confirmation hearings would resemble the Tail Hook hearings. Tail Hook? Tail Hook happened before Google. Look it up. Google it.
#6 – Back to Curley Joe Biden. He continues the tradition of dumb, I mean really, really dumb Democratic Vice Presidents. Alpha Gump is the paragon so the bar is set very, very high. You go, Joe!
#7 – Lord Barack has a plan to jump start the economy. Part of it is using the soon to be laid off auto workers, car salesmen, and under employed investment bankers. It involves rebuilding aging infrastructure. The infrastructure is in Pakistan. He promised to invade Macacaville, didn’t he?
#8 – I think this picture should be on a wall. The wall is in your local post office.
I am
The WarriorBard
and I approve this message
PS – There is one thing he has changed. He announced at his first press conference since the election, the one where he took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan, that “President Bush invited Michelle and I to the White House”. Toss out grammar and watch those Verbal SATs shoot up.
Congressman Gregory Meeks
November 7, 2008
Congressman Gregory Meeks
153-01 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, New York 11432
RE: What the Hell did you say?
Congressman Meeks,
I heard you say this on “Squawkbox” earlier this week.
“In the ‘90s tax increases were used to pay down the debt.”
Yikes! Talk about fingernails on the blackboard.
I am sure you have many sterling qualities. Being smart isn’t one of them.
Listen carefully. I write slowly.
At no time in the 1990s, specifically the years when Hillary’s husband was President, did the Federal debt ever decrease. Not once, not ever, not by one penny. You can look it up.
Because you are a member of Congress and because you were on national television attention must be paid to such a dumb statement. Accordingly, and by the powers vested in me, I hereby name you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
Wear your honors proudly. You got them the old fashioned way. No quasi quotas for you. You earned them.
Congressman Gregory Meeks
153-01 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, New York 11432
RE: What the Hell did you say?
Congressman Meeks,
I heard you say this on “Squawkbox” earlier this week.
“In the ‘90s tax increases were used to pay down the debt.”
Yikes! Talk about fingernails on the blackboard.
I am sure you have many sterling qualities. Being smart isn’t one of them.
Listen carefully. I write slowly.
At no time in the 1990s, specifically the years when Hillary’s husband was President, did the Federal debt ever decrease. Not once, not ever, not by one penny. You can look it up.
Because you are a member of Congress and because you were on national television attention must be paid to such a dumb statement. Accordingly, and by the powers vested in me, I hereby name you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
Wear your honors proudly. You got them the old fashioned way. No quasi quotas for you. You earned them.
When The Press Likes You...
“A Certain Grace”
is the title of a book about John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was written by Ben Bradlee, Emeritus Editor for Life Forever and Ever of the Washington Post. Written after Kennedy’s death it is a warm tribute to a friend. No one is ever, as Samuel Johnson told us, “on oath” in writing such tracts. Still, it would be fair to say that Bradlee had the pre-Chris Matthews leg shivers when in the presence of one such as he.
I have clear memories of Kennedy handling the press in a way not seen since. The press wanted to be handled, folded, and maybe mutilated. The members wanted to be fondled. The members wanted to believe.
Tossed down the memory hole, along with Kennedy’s priapristic capers, was the fact that he didn’t like Sarah McClendon and that he tried to get Art Buchwald fired. Imagine if a President named Bush tried to get a toad like Matthews fired. The uproar would be deafening. It would be the “slippery slope” on steroids. No Camelot there.
I watched President-elect Barack Hussein Obama give his first press conference this afternoon. The press wants, needs, must believe in him. All that was missing was white wine, a Barry White CD, and a bowl of condoms.
Today, a man who championed “Change We Can Believe In” presented his new economic team. The team was made up of refugees from the Carter administration and retreads from the Clinton administration. Change?
[As an aside, I wonder who will be the first member of Lord Barack’s cabal to take a run at the enviable record set by George Stephanopoulos. Georgie Boy got a 125% mortgage from Riggs Bank for commercial property on DuPont Circle. 125% means that, in addition to lending him funds to close the transaction, the bank lent him money to begin the transaction. They also lent him a few dollars to run the business. In dry accountant terms that money is called “working capital”. One Hell of a deal, particularly for some one who had no – as in none – real estate experience of any kind. For that matter he had a checkered resume when it comes to any kind of business loan. He got the loan in 1993 well before the Cherry Blossoms came back to DC. Would it be cynical of me to mention that on his loan application he listed Bill Clinton as his immediate supervisor? But I digress.]
Wait a minute. There was “change”.
He took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan.
Not only was it a cheap it was incorrect. He mentioned séances. Nancy Reagan was into astrology. If we are to believe her own words Hillary Rodham Clinton was into channeling with the dead. She spoke of her many conversations with the still dead Eleanor Roosevelt. She thought Big Bill was a horn dog until she learned about FDR’s horizontal mambos from a wheel chair. Plus he was running a war. No wonder she wanted to talk to her. Lord Barack then mentioned Lincoln. Since Mary Lincoln actually ran séances in the White House the confusion is understandable.
Since he won’t be getting any cheap shot questions from the press let me ask him some.
“You have said that there are 57 or 58 states. You called the mascot of Penn State a Nittaly Lion. If George Bush had made either of those statements he would have been a given a lifetime pass to the short yellow school bus reserved for perpetual window lickers. Was it June of 1864 or July of 1864 when the Union Army took 50,000 casualties? Give up? It was both months. Shouldn’t Lincoln have had a better exit strategy? Do you think Mrs. Lincoln’s séances had anything to do with those numbers?”
“You have an aunt whom you thought highly enough of to write about in one of your books. She’s living in the country illegally. She’s living in a rat hole in Boston. Why not bring her down to the White House and put her in the Lincoln bedroom? She could be a live in baby sitter should you and the missus decide to step out every now and then.”
Speaking of cheap shots, why didn’t someone pair Paul Volcker with Robert Reich? Volcker is about 6 foot 7 inches. Reich, the guy that Clinton always made fun of because he was extremely vertically challenged, has never paid full fare on a bus.
Reich should have been perched on Volcker’s shoulder. Wasn’t that how Janet Reno used to carry Donna Shalala around? When she carried Barbara Mikulski around the three of them would sing “We Feel Pretty”. President Barack Hussein Obama will use them in the war on terror. Any self respecting bomb carrying towel head who thinks they will be the first 3 of his promised 72 will think twice before he yells “Allah Akbar” and pulls the plug. Don’t you love it when a plan comes together?
Buckle up folks. We’re in for a Hell of a bumpy ride.
Grace? Ain’t it amazing.
I’m The Warriorbard
and I approve of this message
November 7, 2008
is the title of a book about John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was written by Ben Bradlee, Emeritus Editor for Life Forever and Ever of the Washington Post. Written after Kennedy’s death it is a warm tribute to a friend. No one is ever, as Samuel Johnson told us, “on oath” in writing such tracts. Still, it would be fair to say that Bradlee had the pre-Chris Matthews leg shivers when in the presence of one such as he.
I have clear memories of Kennedy handling the press in a way not seen since. The press wanted to be handled, folded, and maybe mutilated. The members wanted to be fondled. The members wanted to believe.
Tossed down the memory hole, along with Kennedy’s priapristic capers, was the fact that he didn’t like Sarah McClendon and that he tried to get Art Buchwald fired. Imagine if a President named Bush tried to get a toad like Matthews fired. The uproar would be deafening. It would be the “slippery slope” on steroids. No Camelot there.
I watched President-elect Barack Hussein Obama give his first press conference this afternoon. The press wants, needs, must believe in him. All that was missing was white wine, a Barry White CD, and a bowl of condoms.
Today, a man who championed “Change We Can Believe In” presented his new economic team. The team was made up of refugees from the Carter administration and retreads from the Clinton administration. Change?
[As an aside, I wonder who will be the first member of Lord Barack’s cabal to take a run at the enviable record set by George Stephanopoulos. Georgie Boy got a 125% mortgage from Riggs Bank for commercial property on DuPont Circle. 125% means that, in addition to lending him funds to close the transaction, the bank lent him money to begin the transaction. They also lent him a few dollars to run the business. In dry accountant terms that money is called “working capital”. One Hell of a deal, particularly for some one who had no – as in none – real estate experience of any kind. For that matter he had a checkered resume when it comes to any kind of business loan. He got the loan in 1993 well before the Cherry Blossoms came back to DC. Would it be cynical of me to mention that on his loan application he listed Bill Clinton as his immediate supervisor? But I digress.]
Wait a minute. There was “change”.
He took a cheap shot at Nancy Reagan.
Not only was it a cheap it was incorrect. He mentioned séances. Nancy Reagan was into astrology. If we are to believe her own words Hillary Rodham Clinton was into channeling with the dead. She spoke of her many conversations with the still dead Eleanor Roosevelt. She thought Big Bill was a horn dog until she learned about FDR’s horizontal mambos from a wheel chair. Plus he was running a war. No wonder she wanted to talk to her. Lord Barack then mentioned Lincoln. Since Mary Lincoln actually ran séances in the White House the confusion is understandable.
Since he won’t be getting any cheap shot questions from the press let me ask him some.
“You have said that there are 57 or 58 states. You called the mascot of Penn State a Nittaly Lion. If George Bush had made either of those statements he would have been a given a lifetime pass to the short yellow school bus reserved for perpetual window lickers. Was it June of 1864 or July of 1864 when the Union Army took 50,000 casualties? Give up? It was both months. Shouldn’t Lincoln have had a better exit strategy? Do you think Mrs. Lincoln’s séances had anything to do with those numbers?”
“You have an aunt whom you thought highly enough of to write about in one of your books. She’s living in the country illegally. She’s living in a rat hole in Boston. Why not bring her down to the White House and put her in the Lincoln bedroom? She could be a live in baby sitter should you and the missus decide to step out every now and then.”
Speaking of cheap shots, why didn’t someone pair Paul Volcker with Robert Reich? Volcker is about 6 foot 7 inches. Reich, the guy that Clinton always made fun of because he was extremely vertically challenged, has never paid full fare on a bus.
Reich should have been perched on Volcker’s shoulder. Wasn’t that how Janet Reno used to carry Donna Shalala around? When she carried Barbara Mikulski around the three of them would sing “We Feel Pretty”. President Barack Hussein Obama will use them in the war on terror. Any self respecting bomb carrying towel head who thinks they will be the first 3 of his promised 72 will think twice before he yells “Allah Akbar” and pulls the plug. Don’t you love it when a plan comes together?
Buckle up folks. We’re in for a Hell of a bumpy ride.
Grace? Ain’t it amazing.
I’m The Warriorbard
and I approve of this message
November 7, 2008
The Editorial Board, The Sun-Sentinel
November 7, 2008
The Editorial Board
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The problem with voters in a representative democracy is that sometimes they don’t understand what they must do. A comment on your astonishing conclusion on what the people said on Tuesday last.
Sirs,
“So, yes, we have come a long way, with historic change.
We just haven’t come far enough.”
Your editorial
Italics mine
“Far enough”, as in not far enough, are the referendum votes against racial preferences in real estate transactions and for keeping marriage a boy/girl only institution.
For the sake of advancing the argument I ask how far is “far enough”? How far is “too far”? Is it possible in the best of all modern American Liberal worlds for something to be “too far”?
Like it or not the people have spoken.
Several years ago the people of Florida gave Constitutional protection to pregnant pigs. Was that “far enough”? Was that “too far”? Was it just asinine? If the people can vote on things porcine shouldn’t they be allowed to vote on abortion? How about gun control? How about public executions? Would that be an amendment “too far”?
Voters in representative democracies don’t always vote the way enlightened editorial boards know they should.
Here’s a plan.
Before they get to vote on anything you get to choose which questions they get to vote on. That way you won’t get your knickers in a knot when the people vote against something that you know must be done. No more hissy fits at the Sun-Sentinel.
The Editorial Board
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The problem with voters in a representative democracy is that sometimes they don’t understand what they must do. A comment on your astonishing conclusion on what the people said on Tuesday last.
Sirs,
“So, yes, we have come a long way, with historic change.
We just haven’t come far enough.”
Your editorial
Italics mine
“Far enough”, as in not far enough, are the referendum votes against racial preferences in real estate transactions and for keeping marriage a boy/girl only institution.
For the sake of advancing the argument I ask how far is “far enough”? How far is “too far”? Is it possible in the best of all modern American Liberal worlds for something to be “too far”?
Like it or not the people have spoken.
Several years ago the people of Florida gave Constitutional protection to pregnant pigs. Was that “far enough”? Was that “too far”? Was it just asinine? If the people can vote on things porcine shouldn’t they be allowed to vote on abortion? How about gun control? How about public executions? Would that be an amendment “too far”?
Voters in representative democracies don’t always vote the way enlightened editorial boards know they should.
Here’s a plan.
Before they get to vote on anything you get to choose which questions they get to vote on. That way you won’t get your knickers in a knot when the people vote against something that you know must be done. No more hissy fits at the Sun-Sentinel.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Letter to the Editor, The Sun Sentienl
November 1, 2008
Letters to the Editor
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Thanks! Thanks a lot!
Sirs,
#1 – Thank you for reminding – methinks hectoring may be a better word – me on the very tippy top of Page 1 that I shouldn’t drop my guard on hurricanes. Your exact words were
“Don’t Drop Guard On Hurricanes”
I noogied my forehead and said “Don’t Drop Your Guard On Hurricanes”.
I’ve only been a Florida resident since 1996. Silly me. How many times have I dropped my guard before? I can’t even count the ways. I can’t remember how many times hurricanes “which hardly ever happen” just suddenly appeared unannounced, like a peripatetic mother-in-law. Even the media, both print and electronic, have been caught sleeping. Poof! A Category 7 monster is in Homestead heading North like an avenging Sherman, this time on steroids, heading through the unrepentant South.
I checked a map. Florida is still a peninsula. That means it’s surrounded by water on three sides. Its climate is still sub tropical. If the temperature drops below 60 degrees people dress like it’s Green Bay in January.
Forget about hurricanes? Let my guard down?
NEVER!
Thanks for reminding me. Didn’t some old Roman say “If you want peace prepare for war”? I’m going out to buy some bottled water.
Letters to the Editor
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: Thanks! Thanks a lot!
Sirs,
#1 – Thank you for reminding – methinks hectoring may be a better word – me on the very tippy top of Page 1 that I shouldn’t drop my guard on hurricanes. Your exact words were
“Don’t Drop Guard On Hurricanes”
I noogied my forehead and said “Don’t Drop Your Guard On Hurricanes”.
I’ve only been a Florida resident since 1996. Silly me. How many times have I dropped my guard before? I can’t even count the ways. I can’t remember how many times hurricanes “which hardly ever happen” just suddenly appeared unannounced, like a peripatetic mother-in-law. Even the media, both print and electronic, have been caught sleeping. Poof! A Category 7 monster is in Homestead heading North like an avenging Sherman, this time on steroids, heading through the unrepentant South.
I checked a map. Florida is still a peninsula. That means it’s surrounded by water on three sides. Its climate is still sub tropical. If the temperature drops below 60 degrees people dress like it’s Green Bay in January.
Forget about hurricanes? Let my guard down?
NEVER!
Thanks for reminding me. Didn’t some old Roman say “If you want peace prepare for war”? I’m going out to buy some bottled water.
Gary Stein, The Sun Sentinel
November 1, 2008
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The pot is calling the kettle…what?
Mr. Stein,
Until a complete anal probe can be done it appears that you are suffering from an amnesia most common to modern American Liberals; i.e., eclectic indignation.
You mention Willie Horton, Michael Dukakis, and the 1988 Presidential campaign. You connect them with the term race-baiting. Such term is, of course, race-baiting. I have it on reliable sources, all of whom will remain anonymous under the aegis of the First Amendment, that you Damn near bit through your lower lip trying to get Lee Atwater’s name into your story.
Some things are owed to the ledger.
Willie Horton has become the bête-noire of holier than thou, head up their ass, my favorite color is plaid, neddy dunces who make up the media. They consider it their God given duty and obligation to hector those who don’t buy the Kumbaya myth of if only Willie had the benefit of “Midnight Basketball” and good community organizations and, perhaps, some Ritalin he would have turned out, you know what I’m saying, not half bad.
One of the constants of modern American Liberalism is that they do not believe in the existence of evil.
Willie Horton was in prison in Massachusetts for rape and murder. Governor Michael Dukakis allowed a furlough plan to flourish on his watch. Under this plan Willie Horton was given a weekend pass. He went to Maryland where – Can you believe this? – he raped and murdered again. Relatives of the Maryland victims went to Massachusetts to find out how a convicted rapist and murderer was allowed out of prison on a furlough. They never found out. Willie Horton is Black.
Be so kind as to point out any “race-baiting” in the above paragraph.
Here’s the key part. Here’s the part you left out. Here’s the part that, by your omission of it, makes you liable for civil fraud under the Securities Act of 1934.
The first person to connect Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis, presumptively in a ‘race-baiting’ manner, was that notorious race-baiter Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. He did it over and over and over and over in the New York Democratic primary in March, 1988.
No one called it ‘race-baiting” then. In fact, none of the other candidates, none of the media, none of the tablet keepers of all revealed things that if not true should be true, said anything about it.
If the adage “Qui tacet consitere” – “Silence gives consent” – is still valid can we assume that all the 1988 Democratic candidate candidates, their supporters, and all those venomous toads who carry their water in the media, are “race-baiters”?
What were you doing in the Spring of 1988? I’ll be shocked, shocked if you were “race-baiting”.
If you want to learn about mud slinging, back biting, ad hominem campaigns I suggest that you learn about what Adams and Jefferson did in 1800. Compared to then today is pure beanbag.
What is Willie Horton doing these days?
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: The pot is calling the kettle…what?
Mr. Stein,
Until a complete anal probe can be done it appears that you are suffering from an amnesia most common to modern American Liberals; i.e., eclectic indignation.
You mention Willie Horton, Michael Dukakis, and the 1988 Presidential campaign. You connect them with the term race-baiting. Such term is, of course, race-baiting. I have it on reliable sources, all of whom will remain anonymous under the aegis of the First Amendment, that you Damn near bit through your lower lip trying to get Lee Atwater’s name into your story.
Some things are owed to the ledger.
Willie Horton has become the bête-noire of holier than thou, head up their ass, my favorite color is plaid, neddy dunces who make up the media. They consider it their God given duty and obligation to hector those who don’t buy the Kumbaya myth of if only Willie had the benefit of “Midnight Basketball” and good community organizations and, perhaps, some Ritalin he would have turned out, you know what I’m saying, not half bad.
One of the constants of modern American Liberalism is that they do not believe in the existence of evil.
Willie Horton was in prison in Massachusetts for rape and murder. Governor Michael Dukakis allowed a furlough plan to flourish on his watch. Under this plan Willie Horton was given a weekend pass. He went to Maryland where – Can you believe this? – he raped and murdered again. Relatives of the Maryland victims went to Massachusetts to find out how a convicted rapist and murderer was allowed out of prison on a furlough. They never found out. Willie Horton is Black.
Be so kind as to point out any “race-baiting” in the above paragraph.
Here’s the key part. Here’s the part you left out. Here’s the part that, by your omission of it, makes you liable for civil fraud under the Securities Act of 1934.
The first person to connect Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis, presumptively in a ‘race-baiting’ manner, was that notorious race-baiter Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. He did it over and over and over and over in the New York Democratic primary in March, 1988.
No one called it ‘race-baiting” then. In fact, none of the other candidates, none of the media, none of the tablet keepers of all revealed things that if not true should be true, said anything about it.
If the adage “Qui tacet consitere” – “Silence gives consent” – is still valid can we assume that all the 1988 Democratic candidate candidates, their supporters, and all those venomous toads who carry their water in the media, are “race-baiters”?
What were you doing in the Spring of 1988? I’ll be shocked, shocked if you were “race-baiting”.
If you want to learn about mud slinging, back biting, ad hominem campaigns I suggest that you learn about what Adams and Jefferson did in 1800. Compared to then today is pure beanbag.
What is Willie Horton doing these days?
Congressman Ron Klein
November 1, 2008
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About those drilling rigs soon to be in the Gulf of Mexico
Congressman Klein,
Brazil, a sovereign nation, has agreed to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico in waters controlled by Cuba, also a sovereign nation.
You are opposed to drilling in waters controlled by the United States.
What are you going to do about drilling in Gulf waters not controlled by us?
The Brazilian drilling consortium will not be subject to any United States Laws. If there is a spill from whom shall we seek compensation? If Florida beaches are safe from rapacious American oil companies how can their pristine condition remain virginal from the encroachments of the Carmen Miranda Drilling Company?
Other than a military solution what hope do our manatees have?
Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
RE: About those drilling rigs soon to be in the Gulf of Mexico
Congressman Klein,
Brazil, a sovereign nation, has agreed to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico in waters controlled by Cuba, also a sovereign nation.
You are opposed to drilling in waters controlled by the United States.
What are you going to do about drilling in Gulf waters not controlled by us?
The Brazilian drilling consortium will not be subject to any United States Laws. If there is a spill from whom shall we seek compensation? If Florida beaches are safe from rapacious American oil companies how can their pristine condition remain virginal from the encroachments of the Carmen Miranda Drilling Company?
Other than a military solution what hope do our manatees have?
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