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November 5, 2011
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: At last! A teachable moment. The line – Could it be a penumbra? – between the price of bacon and the war on terror is made more clear in your thoughtful article in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
Mr. Lyons,
As a practicing modern American Liberal, ink stained wretch division, and thus a permanent resident in the fuzzy world of cognitive dissonance, your thoughts on the possibility of pulled pork sandwiches going walkabout are helpful.
Some thoughts from a curmudgeonly observer, one who has signed both sides of a pay check:
#1 – Rising prices are bad when they hit your pocketbook. Since you work for a bankrupt company you most assuredly want some prices to rise. Your home, your 401K, your stash of pre-1964 American coins are but a few examples. Sorry. You don’t get to pick and choose which prices. No amount of really earnest true believers singing “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” will cause the law of rational self-interest to be repealed.
#2 – It is entirely irrelevant whether the money was borrowed from the Chinese or confiscated from the 1936 trust created when Senator Lard Kennedy was born or from the swag bag of George Soros. Since 2009 about $2,000,000,000,000 – that’s two trillion dollars – has been force fed into a system that couldn’t handle it.
Markets make no distinctions as to intentions. Markets are comprised of millions of people who observe data and make decisions. As such it is beyond the control of modern American Liberals. That is one of the causes of their group madness. If they can’t control it they want to kill it.
#3 – Independent data, readily accessible in the world of search engines, reveal some inconvenient truths. Commodities are the first canary in the coal mine. When governments debase their currency because they are too cowardly to cut back on the goodies commodity prices rise in inverse proportion to the cheapening of printed money. When you toss in a Homerically stupid head up your ass idea – Let’s make gasoline from corn - the law of unintended consequences takes over.
In this country the overwhelming majority of corn was raised to feed hogs. Farmers were subsidized to grow corn, not for feed, but as a gasoline substitute. When a raiser of hogs asked a grower of corn for the old price the farmer laughed. Thus, when the price ran, Dougie in Florida had to pay more for his BLT. There was to be one more disastrous unintended consequence that I will get to later.
For people who believe that making rich people poorer will make poor people richer, for people who believe that raising the minimum wage is a good thing for poor people, for people who believe that Wal-Mart’s low prices exploit their low income customers, for people who believe that correlation is causation will be hard pressed to make the connection.
#4 – “Nowadays the price of bacon is enough to make my blood sizzle.”
Here’s a plan.
Stop eating it.
Read carefully.
I’ll type slowly.
When the price of a commodity spikes upward two things happen. The marginal user stops using it and the upward price attracts new supplies to the marketplace. There are some exceptions to this.
Thoroughbred yearlings and 150 point perfect diamonds enjoyed decades of rising prices until the run ended in the ‘80s. The price of gasoline in this country is undisturbed by reality. Both parties have taxed it and regulated it as if it were toxic. The failure of both Parties to allow the exploitation of existing energy sources guarantees but one thing: higher prices. [I used the words toxic and exploitation intentionally]
In an age where new rights are daily discovered have we found a heretofore unknown one? Does Dougie have a right to cheap pork products? Several years ago the owners of Coral Ridge Country Club were told that they had to continue to subsidize a smaller course on their property. It was a public course on private property. The main users were senior citizens. Their ad hoc committee earned the nickname “Golf for Geezers”. I guess there is no fool like an old fool. Unless of course if a “senior editorial writer” feels that the rest of the world should subsidize his meat choices. Fools, old, young, or middle aged seem to be in the ascendancy.
#5 – There is a more sinister answer to your quandary.
3 years ago President B.O. said that “we would extend our hand if you will unclench your fist”. So there is no confusion about the identity of “you” 19 0f “them” attacked this country on 9/11/01 and killed 3,000 people.
The President’s wife, a woman whose backside was why Spandex was invented, wants us to eat more wholesome food. There is no truth to the rumor that she wants to replace cocaine with granola. What better way to reach out to the Muslim world than to “outlaw” pork by making it prohibitively expensive? Then she has some feral morons dress up as Guy Fawkes – Does anyone else remember what happened to him? - and run around Wall Street with signs that say “Jew Bastard Bankers are Killers”. Just like the Tea Party, right? If she is successful it will be easier for you to get Bald Eagle soup or Whooping Crane salad than a plate of ribs. By the way, I prefer the St. Louis style to the slightly foo-foo baby backs.
#6 – You mention the death by starvation of “someone every 3.6 seconds”. I mentioned the unexplained consequences of this country subsidizing ethanol. Despite corn dogs, corn bread, or Corn Flakes corn is not a grain staple in this country. It is in the rest of the world. If you can be as precise as to a death every 3.6 seconds perhaps you could get a number of those who died because they could no longer afford corn.
Perhaps you could tell me why we pay farmers not to raise crops .Perhaps you could tell me why, when Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia, it fed all of Southern Africa. Today its fertile lands are as sterile as Carthage when Scipio got through with it. A crow would starve flying over it. Perhaps you could tell me why Cuba, a country so fertile that sugar used to grow on unused runways, still has, despite the earnest efforts of Los Hermanos Castro for 50 years, the same 3 problems. They are called breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Russia did not export a single bushel of wheat from 1919 until 1993.
I think there may be a pattern here. Do you?
#7 – Have you ever been to Arthur Bryant’s?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Friday, November 11, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Steven L. Goldstein The Sun-Sentinel
November 4, 2011
Steven L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Yet further proof that God is kind to animals and small children when He blesses them with short memories – Some comments on your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel about how we will become the land of milk and honey once we get rid of all Republicans even if we do it in less than an environmentally unsound manner.
My dear Professor,
I am greatly heartened at the progress you have made in your medical comeback to the slippery world – Not “slippery slope”, mind you. That’s a term that causes modern American liberals to react as if they were Dracula being waterboarded with holy water – of current events.
Your column today about how perfidious Congressional Republicans, a “small group of willful men” as another Democratic President referred to them, have prevented Lord Barack the Beneficent from “cooling the planet and making the oceans recede” – he did say that, didn’t he? – is proof that you have far, far to go before you are able to overcome both “eclectic indignation” and its evil spawn, a selective memory.
A quick review is in order.
#1 – The Founders, in their divinely inspired wisdom, a wisdom that enabled them to see that man’s rights came from “beyond the stars”, created a lower case troika of government. Each can check the other. Each one can control the other. Each one guards its fiefdom like a she bear guards her cubs. It is a system that has made this country “a shining city on a hill” and the envy of the world.
#2 – Power corrupts. When one party controls both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue – That’s the White House and Congress if you are geographically challenged – bad things are more likely to happen. Vide 1964. The Democrats were in charge. They gave us the war in Vietnam and the War on Poverty. At least the first one ended.
#3 – Here comes a hard fact. Here comes a very inconvenient truth. For the first two years of the glorious reign of the Obama administration, a time not soon to be compared to the rule of the 5 Emperors, Democrats had an unbreakable death grip on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. His control was so complete that there was talk of bringing Craig Livingstone back.
#4 – His caterwauling that he can’t do all the marvelous things he wants to do now begs the question of why he didn’t do them then.
#5 – I am still a bit confused. You told us constantly, harping might be a better verb, that Bush borrowing billions from the Chinese was bad. I await your pronouncement from the mountaintop as to why Obama borrowing twice as much from the Chinese is good.
#6 – As a card carrying, fire breathing modern American Liberal you always confuse Rhetoric with Sophistry. You would do well to spend some familiarizing yourself with the noble Trivium. Do it before you slip back into the lotus land of “eclectic indignation” and the selective forgetting of inconvenient facts.
#7 – You say Americans “overwhelmingly support raising taxes”. “Not so, not so” as the great Rumsfeld was wont to say. The people of Colorado, a state that voted “overwhelmingly” for President B.O. in 2008, just 3 days ago voted “overwhelmingly” against raising taxes. Wazzupwidat?
#8 – Another relic of the past, one that is anathema to all modern American Liberals, is the Rule of Law. Thomas More said “This country is planted thick with laws. When you cut them down and the devil turns on you where will you hide, the laws all being flat”? While you applaud Obama’s governing by fiat, by a flick of his wrist causing something to become the law of the land, I suggest that your knickers would be in a Gordian knot if a Republican President were to do the same.
#9 – You end your discordant caterwauling – Did I just repeat myself? - by suggesting, as did the American GI in Vietnam did, that we have to destroy the village to save it. In your case you want the country to go into chaos so that a true believer in Midnight Basketball will be returned to the White House. A Black man, just as long as his first name isn’t Herman, on a White horse, with no nasty Republicans to deter him, will lead us to a cholesterol free Utopia. There will be sightings of Eleanor Roosevelt giving her blessing. Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs will be honored, Deo gratias, posthumously. God’s Holy trousers! If abortion were retroactive everyone would be in favor of it.
If the Congress cannot find a political solution perhaps we can borrow some money from Greece to finance Michelle’s drive to replace cheeseburgers and milk shakes with tofu and beet juice.
We should be grateful that we only have 12 months of obfuscatory persiflage left. I know that I can count on you to hold up, figuratively speaking, your end of the verbal incontinence soon to be loosed upon us.
Meanwhile, don’t forget your meds.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Steven L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Yet further proof that God is kind to animals and small children when He blesses them with short memories – Some comments on your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel about how we will become the land of milk and honey once we get rid of all Republicans even if we do it in less than an environmentally unsound manner.
My dear Professor,
I am greatly heartened at the progress you have made in your medical comeback to the slippery world – Not “slippery slope”, mind you. That’s a term that causes modern American liberals to react as if they were Dracula being waterboarded with holy water – of current events.
Your column today about how perfidious Congressional Republicans, a “small group of willful men” as another Democratic President referred to them, have prevented Lord Barack the Beneficent from “cooling the planet and making the oceans recede” – he did say that, didn’t he? – is proof that you have far, far to go before you are able to overcome both “eclectic indignation” and its evil spawn, a selective memory.
A quick review is in order.
#1 – The Founders, in their divinely inspired wisdom, a wisdom that enabled them to see that man’s rights came from “beyond the stars”, created a lower case troika of government. Each can check the other. Each one can control the other. Each one guards its fiefdom like a she bear guards her cubs. It is a system that has made this country “a shining city on a hill” and the envy of the world.
#2 – Power corrupts. When one party controls both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue – That’s the White House and Congress if you are geographically challenged – bad things are more likely to happen. Vide 1964. The Democrats were in charge. They gave us the war in Vietnam and the War on Poverty. At least the first one ended.
#3 – Here comes a hard fact. Here comes a very inconvenient truth. For the first two years of the glorious reign of the Obama administration, a time not soon to be compared to the rule of the 5 Emperors, Democrats had an unbreakable death grip on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. His control was so complete that there was talk of bringing Craig Livingstone back.
#4 – His caterwauling that he can’t do all the marvelous things he wants to do now begs the question of why he didn’t do them then.
#5 – I am still a bit confused. You told us constantly, harping might be a better verb, that Bush borrowing billions from the Chinese was bad. I await your pronouncement from the mountaintop as to why Obama borrowing twice as much from the Chinese is good.
#6 – As a card carrying, fire breathing modern American Liberal you always confuse Rhetoric with Sophistry. You would do well to spend some familiarizing yourself with the noble Trivium. Do it before you slip back into the lotus land of “eclectic indignation” and the selective forgetting of inconvenient facts.
#7 – You say Americans “overwhelmingly support raising taxes”. “Not so, not so” as the great Rumsfeld was wont to say. The people of Colorado, a state that voted “overwhelmingly” for President B.O. in 2008, just 3 days ago voted “overwhelmingly” against raising taxes. Wazzupwidat?
#8 – Another relic of the past, one that is anathema to all modern American Liberals, is the Rule of Law. Thomas More said “This country is planted thick with laws. When you cut them down and the devil turns on you where will you hide, the laws all being flat”? While you applaud Obama’s governing by fiat, by a flick of his wrist causing something to become the law of the land, I suggest that your knickers would be in a Gordian knot if a Republican President were to do the same.
#9 – You end your discordant caterwauling – Did I just repeat myself? - by suggesting, as did the American GI in Vietnam did, that we have to destroy the village to save it. In your case you want the country to go into chaos so that a true believer in Midnight Basketball will be returned to the White House. A Black man, just as long as his first name isn’t Herman, on a White horse, with no nasty Republicans to deter him, will lead us to a cholesterol free Utopia. There will be sightings of Eleanor Roosevelt giving her blessing. Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs will be honored, Deo gratias, posthumously. God’s Holy trousers! If abortion were retroactive everyone would be in favor of it.
If the Congress cannot find a political solution perhaps we can borrow some money from Greece to finance Michelle’s drive to replace cheeseburgers and milk shakes with tofu and beet juice.
We should be grateful that we only have 12 months of obfuscatory persiflage left. I know that I can count on you to hold up, figuratively speaking, your end of the verbal incontinence soon to be loosed upon us.
Meanwhile, don’t forget your meds.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Margaret Carlson Bloomberg News
October 28, 2011
Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News
1399 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005
RE: The rise of “working class” status as a necessary stepping stone to success as a modern American Liberal politician – Some comments on your column in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms. Carlson,
First, I won’t mention that you called all overseas deployed American military personnel “tax cheats” after the 2000 election. Some of them may have come home and gone back. Some of them may have been wounded. Some of them may have been killed. As an aside, will there be an asterisk on the headstone if the GI died in the “good” war under Obama rather than the “bad” war under Bush?
Don’t you think it passing strange that Obama’s foreign policy successes consist of Americans shooting bad guys, one of whom was an American citizen, in the head? Was GITMO filled? Wouldn’t the Arab world become Baptist if we had captured bin Laden and sent him to re-hab.
Your desire to see Vice President Alpha Gump, he of the unreleased shakra and tumescent poodle fame, get into the White House in 2000 was such that you tossed out a blood libel as if it were yesterday’s newspaper. Being a modern American Liberal means that lying is good if it produces a desired end. Having no knowledge of the “permanent things” makes it easier.
Your later apology, “I’m sorry if I offended anyone”. Is typical of the breed.
But, as I promised, that’s not why I write to you today.
The major premise of your article on Curly Biden – I call him Curly in honor of the smartest stooge – is that he isn’t a world class, call the Guinness hotline, horse’s ass.
You’re wrong.
He is.
Whom do you think told the President that there were 57 or 58 states? Who told B.O. about Austrian, the glorious language of Goethe and Hitler?
He wears his Chia Pet hair proudly. His teeth, made from ivory taken from elephants that died peacefully in their dotage, glisten and gleam.
In the end, to paraphrase Johnson – Samuel, not Lyndon – “the man’s a boob and that’s an end to it”.
Twice you use the term “working class” as if it were a call to prayer or as evidence of miracles sure to happen.
You say that Curly Biden was “born into a working class family”. Later in your article you say that Hillary Clinton would be good for Obama because she would “shore up his standing with ‘working class’ white women”. Why you exclude black, café-au-lait, oriental or unclassified swarthy 3rd worlders is not explained. Do you think Hillary could get some wavering Tea Partiers to vote for B.O.?
If “working class” or its evil twin “blue collar” is a necessary first step to political success as a modern American Liberal how did the Kennedys overcome their lack of it? Congressman Patrick Kennedy, son of Tosspot Ted, AKA Senator Lard Kennedy, would not know the business end of a shovel from a ball peen hammer .Can you picture him shaping up on a loading dock? How did Senator Rockefeller become Senator Rockefeller? Did he burn his family’s money? Nancy D’Alessandro Pelosi’s family had so much cash that people could commit suicide by jumping off her father’s swag bags. The only “blue collar” these people were familiar with came from Brooks Brothers. Later, Ralph Lauren took over.
The Vice President, the only man I know who can put his foot in his mouth and his head up his ass simultaneously, attended Auchmere Academy. [His classmates still call him “Cheesedick”.] Thel tuition now is $25,000. I don’t k now what it was when he went there but I guarantee you that he never took any shop classes or carpentry courses.
As to Hillary Clinton’s “working class” connections, I must ask you if we are talking about the publically abused wife of Handsome Billy from Hot Springs. He was also known as Big Bill, King of the One-Eyed Trouser Snakes, when he was in the White House having “a bit of the gobble” with Monica before he sold pardons and stole the silverware.
If memory serves, her father paid for her to go to 2 of the most expensive schools on the planet. There is no record of either scholarship assistance or student loans. A “blue collar working class” ‘60s chick would have had both. Perhaps she was so traumatized by her lack of “working class” credentials that she wrote her senior thesis on Saul Alinsky.
Her attempts to crash the sit down to pee glass ceiling are closely tied to her husband’s political career.
A cynic might point out that she was hired by the largest law firm in Arkansas – Is that like being the world’s tallest midget? – after her husband was elected Attorney General. Would it brand me as a cad if I were to point out that she was made a partner after her husband was elected Governor?
The trailer parks in Posssum Fart, Arkansas are filled with “working class” broads. That these ladies have gotten this far in life without the wonders of modern dentistry is a testament to American exceptionalism. They regularly turn $1,000 into $100,000 in the cattle futures market. They stay in their “double wides” – their Air Streams, not their asses – to hide their wealth.
Only in America can a “working class” lady, one who testified that she had no knowledge of how a business is supposed to be run –Whitewater, remember? – be asked to serve on the Board of Directors of TCBY and WAL*MART. Would you think less of me if I were to suggest that her husband, then the Governor, flung her through the glass ceiling? The facts would support the interpretation that he wanted her out of the house so he could have advanced saxophone lessons.
I just put on my “vast Right-Wing conspirator” cap. It is my way of honoring Hillary. Her quest to find out who bankrolled the hit job on her husband is going as well as OJ’s search for the real killers. I twice transited Delaware this week. My hat for Curly Biden was “I’m With Stupid”.
I have a nephew who is being deployed to Afghanistan. Should he vote early and often? Since you don’t want his vote to count in this country would it be OK for him to register in Kandahar?
Kevin Smith
Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News
1399 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005
RE: The rise of “working class” status as a necessary stepping stone to success as a modern American Liberal politician – Some comments on your column in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms. Carlson,
First, I won’t mention that you called all overseas deployed American military personnel “tax cheats” after the 2000 election. Some of them may have come home and gone back. Some of them may have been wounded. Some of them may have been killed. As an aside, will there be an asterisk on the headstone if the GI died in the “good” war under Obama rather than the “bad” war under Bush?
Don’t you think it passing strange that Obama’s foreign policy successes consist of Americans shooting bad guys, one of whom was an American citizen, in the head? Was GITMO filled? Wouldn’t the Arab world become Baptist if we had captured bin Laden and sent him to re-hab.
Your desire to see Vice President Alpha Gump, he of the unreleased shakra and tumescent poodle fame, get into the White House in 2000 was such that you tossed out a blood libel as if it were yesterday’s newspaper. Being a modern American Liberal means that lying is good if it produces a desired end. Having no knowledge of the “permanent things” makes it easier.
Your later apology, “I’m sorry if I offended anyone”. Is typical of the breed.
But, as I promised, that’s not why I write to you today.
The major premise of your article on Curly Biden – I call him Curly in honor of the smartest stooge – is that he isn’t a world class, call the Guinness hotline, horse’s ass.
You’re wrong.
He is.
Whom do you think told the President that there were 57 or 58 states? Who told B.O. about Austrian, the glorious language of Goethe and Hitler?
He wears his Chia Pet hair proudly. His teeth, made from ivory taken from elephants that died peacefully in their dotage, glisten and gleam.
In the end, to paraphrase Johnson – Samuel, not Lyndon – “the man’s a boob and that’s an end to it”.
Twice you use the term “working class” as if it were a call to prayer or as evidence of miracles sure to happen.
You say that Curly Biden was “born into a working class family”. Later in your article you say that Hillary Clinton would be good for Obama because she would “shore up his standing with ‘working class’ white women”. Why you exclude black, café-au-lait, oriental or unclassified swarthy 3rd worlders is not explained. Do you think Hillary could get some wavering Tea Partiers to vote for B.O.?
If “working class” or its evil twin “blue collar” is a necessary first step to political success as a modern American Liberal how did the Kennedys overcome their lack of it? Congressman Patrick Kennedy, son of Tosspot Ted, AKA Senator Lard Kennedy, would not know the business end of a shovel from a ball peen hammer .Can you picture him shaping up on a loading dock? How did Senator Rockefeller become Senator Rockefeller? Did he burn his family’s money? Nancy D’Alessandro Pelosi’s family had so much cash that people could commit suicide by jumping off her father’s swag bags. The only “blue collar” these people were familiar with came from Brooks Brothers. Later, Ralph Lauren took over.
The Vice President, the only man I know who can put his foot in his mouth and his head up his ass simultaneously, attended Auchmere Academy. [His classmates still call him “Cheesedick”.] Thel tuition now is $25,000. I don’t k now what it was when he went there but I guarantee you that he never took any shop classes or carpentry courses.
As to Hillary Clinton’s “working class” connections, I must ask you if we are talking about the publically abused wife of Handsome Billy from Hot Springs. He was also known as Big Bill, King of the One-Eyed Trouser Snakes, when he was in the White House having “a bit of the gobble” with Monica before he sold pardons and stole the silverware.
If memory serves, her father paid for her to go to 2 of the most expensive schools on the planet. There is no record of either scholarship assistance or student loans. A “blue collar working class” ‘60s chick would have had both. Perhaps she was so traumatized by her lack of “working class” credentials that she wrote her senior thesis on Saul Alinsky.
Her attempts to crash the sit down to pee glass ceiling are closely tied to her husband’s political career.
A cynic might point out that she was hired by the largest law firm in Arkansas – Is that like being the world’s tallest midget? – after her husband was elected Attorney General. Would it brand me as a cad if I were to point out that she was made a partner after her husband was elected Governor?
The trailer parks in Posssum Fart, Arkansas are filled with “working class” broads. That these ladies have gotten this far in life without the wonders of modern dentistry is a testament to American exceptionalism. They regularly turn $1,000 into $100,000 in the cattle futures market. They stay in their “double wides” – their Air Streams, not their asses – to hide their wealth.
Only in America can a “working class” lady, one who testified that she had no knowledge of how a business is supposed to be run –Whitewater, remember? – be asked to serve on the Board of Directors of TCBY and WAL*MART. Would you think less of me if I were to suggest that her husband, then the Governor, flung her through the glass ceiling? The facts would support the interpretation that he wanted her out of the house so he could have advanced saxophone lessons.
I just put on my “vast Right-Wing conspirator” cap. It is my way of honoring Hillary. Her quest to find out who bankrolled the hit job on her husband is going as well as OJ’s search for the real killers. I twice transited Delaware this week. My hat for Curly Biden was “I’m With Stupid”.
I have a nephew who is being deployed to Afghanistan. Should he vote early and often? Since you don’t want his vote to count in this country would it be OK for him to register in Kandahar?
Kevin Smith
October 7, 2011 FAMOUS THINGS THAT HAPPENED TODAY
October 7, 2011
FAMOUS THINGS THAT HAPPENED TODAY
#1 – The good guys beat the bad guys at Lepanto.
#2 – I was born.
#3 – Let us raise a TE DEUM for both.
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Such is my love for potatoes – boiled, mashed, roasted, fried, baked, raw - that I will tolerate any spelling to support my favorite tuber. Thus, it was no great concern to me when Vice President Quayle stumbled over an extra “e”. That it caused modern American Liberals to become visibly tumescent had an unintended benefit: The creation of the spelling police.
Yesterday I heard the President of the United States obfuscatorily answer a question about “Operation Fast and Furious”.
As near as I can figure it out “Fast and Furious” was a program designed to see how long it would take a gun to make the trip from Washington, DC to Huejutla, Mexico and then to East Los Angeles. Things of a logistical nature were tested. Did FedEx positively, absolutely deliver overnight? How many BARs or mortars would it take before arousing suspicion? A Sidewinder missile can be fired by one person but can it be classified as a personal weapon? Should napalm be shipped in a Haz-Mat container? Most importantly, what should be done if a Federal Law Enforcement Agent gets killed with a gun, a gun that began its odyssey in the mail room not 20 yards from the office of Attorney General, Eric Holder.
Holder has done 2 notable things in his professional life. #1 – As a big time Clinton ass kisser he provided cover for the bought and paid for pardon of Marc Rich on the last day of the glorious reign of Bill and Hillary. Speaking of that pardon if you remember the way Mrs. Rich blew the saxophone there can be no doubt how she got Big Bill’s attention. Monica taught all her followers well.
Since the reptiles occupying the cistern of modern American Liberal journalism have made the weight of New Jersey Governor Christie fair game can I say retroactively that Hillary Clinton’s steatyagonous role model was Secretary of State Madeline Albright? Hillary never reached the legendary “ax handle and a half wide” status by which Arkansas measures female arses. That must be taken as a testament to Spandex, 2 fat sucking lamprey eels, and having Rosie O’Donnell chase her around the Lincoln bedroom. If memory serves, Janet Reno – “Janny” to her friends, as cold as the month she was named after - was no slouch in the pound department either. You weren’t going to find her hanging out in the petite department at Burdine’s. Speaking of bountiful booties, FLOTUS is about one week of extra mac & cheese away from having “a bum you could set a ashtray on”. #2 – Holder told us in his capacity as Attorney General that White folk still don’t much like Black folk. He also told us that as long as the club wielding thugs were Black it was OK for them to intimidate White voters.
What POTUS said brought back memories of Jimmy Durante trying to sneak a 10 foot tall elephant past a policeman. “What are you doing with that elephant?” asks the startled copper. “Elephant? What elephant?” answers the great Schnozola.
President B. O. said that he had never heard of “Fast and Furious” until he heard Rush Limbaugh mention it. He said he called his BFF, the Attorney General, and said “Wazzupwidis?” Holder said “Say what”. The President then said if he had heard of it he would have “forbaded” it.
Too many potatoes – potatos? – Whatever – might qualify as “forbaded fruit”, no?
At the same press conference he answered a question about Solyndra and the 587,000,000 American taxpayer dollars, dollars that we borrowed from the Chinese .It has gone to the “undiscovered country” of Chapter X1. The Chinese will get their money back because they hold a first mortgage on Nantucket Island. The American people will get it in the neck. Maybe we can borrow money from Greece.
The President then said, “We knew there was risk.”
Gulp.
Where does it say in the Constitution that the government of the United States is allowed to be in the risk taking business? How does the Government measure the risk-reward ratio? Dr. Johnson wrote of “the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice”. Men regularly “risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss”. If they win society benefits. Having won they hire people to help them keep what they have. Then they hire people to help them get more. There is a penalty for failing. In a world where “stones are hard and water is wet” when you fail you go the back of the line and start over. It is in the nature of man to see what is beyond the horizon. All any government can do is slow the column of progress. There is no penalty to be paid by the government because Solyndra failed. After all, $587,000,000 is less than $2 per person. If you exclude the non-tax paying portion it is still less than $4 per person. If it had succeeded it we could, maybe, perhaps, have saved drowning polar bears. The baby seals may not have benefited but that’s the price you have to pay when Ned Lud becomes your God.
That’s the price paid when “The Gods of the Copybook Ledgers” are ignored.
I have a play want to bring to Broadway.
Its plot includes putting an absolute dunderhead, a man with no experience save for “running his mouth” and getting his wife a $4,000 – four thousand dollars American – a week raise in exchange for getting her employer a $1,000,000 “earmark”, in charge of America. Also, it was said that his “sharply creased trousers” would serve us well when he got to the Oval Office.
What he has done is to give horses’ asses all over the world a bad name.
If Broadway can have a hit musical about an Argentinean hooker why can’t it have one about a morospoph ohmadan who has his finger on the nuclear trigger? Maybe Homer Simpson could play Curly Biden.
Nah. Who would believe it?
Besides, I don’t want to spoil my birthday.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
FAMOUS THINGS THAT HAPPENED TODAY
#1 – The good guys beat the bad guys at Lepanto.
#2 – I was born.
#3 – Let us raise a TE DEUM for both.
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Such is my love for potatoes – boiled, mashed, roasted, fried, baked, raw - that I will tolerate any spelling to support my favorite tuber. Thus, it was no great concern to me when Vice President Quayle stumbled over an extra “e”. That it caused modern American Liberals to become visibly tumescent had an unintended benefit: The creation of the spelling police.
Yesterday I heard the President of the United States obfuscatorily answer a question about “Operation Fast and Furious”.
As near as I can figure it out “Fast and Furious” was a program designed to see how long it would take a gun to make the trip from Washington, DC to Huejutla, Mexico and then to East Los Angeles. Things of a logistical nature were tested. Did FedEx positively, absolutely deliver overnight? How many BARs or mortars would it take before arousing suspicion? A Sidewinder missile can be fired by one person but can it be classified as a personal weapon? Should napalm be shipped in a Haz-Mat container? Most importantly, what should be done if a Federal Law Enforcement Agent gets killed with a gun, a gun that began its odyssey in the mail room not 20 yards from the office of Attorney General, Eric Holder.
Holder has done 2 notable things in his professional life. #1 – As a big time Clinton ass kisser he provided cover for the bought and paid for pardon of Marc Rich on the last day of the glorious reign of Bill and Hillary. Speaking of that pardon if you remember the way Mrs. Rich blew the saxophone there can be no doubt how she got Big Bill’s attention. Monica taught all her followers well.
Since the reptiles occupying the cistern of modern American Liberal journalism have made the weight of New Jersey Governor Christie fair game can I say retroactively that Hillary Clinton’s steatyagonous role model was Secretary of State Madeline Albright? Hillary never reached the legendary “ax handle and a half wide” status by which Arkansas measures female arses. That must be taken as a testament to Spandex, 2 fat sucking lamprey eels, and having Rosie O’Donnell chase her around the Lincoln bedroom. If memory serves, Janet Reno – “Janny” to her friends, as cold as the month she was named after - was no slouch in the pound department either. You weren’t going to find her hanging out in the petite department at Burdine’s. Speaking of bountiful booties, FLOTUS is about one week of extra mac & cheese away from having “a bum you could set a ashtray on”. #2 – Holder told us in his capacity as Attorney General that White folk still don’t much like Black folk. He also told us that as long as the club wielding thugs were Black it was OK for them to intimidate White voters.
What POTUS said brought back memories of Jimmy Durante trying to sneak a 10 foot tall elephant past a policeman. “What are you doing with that elephant?” asks the startled copper. “Elephant? What elephant?” answers the great Schnozola.
President B. O. said that he had never heard of “Fast and Furious” until he heard Rush Limbaugh mention it. He said he called his BFF, the Attorney General, and said “Wazzupwidis?” Holder said “Say what”. The President then said if he had heard of it he would have “forbaded” it.
Too many potatoes – potatos? – Whatever – might qualify as “forbaded fruit”, no?
At the same press conference he answered a question about Solyndra and the 587,000,000 American taxpayer dollars, dollars that we borrowed from the Chinese .It has gone to the “undiscovered country” of Chapter X1. The Chinese will get their money back because they hold a first mortgage on Nantucket Island. The American people will get it in the neck. Maybe we can borrow money from Greece.
The President then said, “We knew there was risk.”
Gulp.
Where does it say in the Constitution that the government of the United States is allowed to be in the risk taking business? How does the Government measure the risk-reward ratio? Dr. Johnson wrote of “the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice”. Men regularly “risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss”. If they win society benefits. Having won they hire people to help them keep what they have. Then they hire people to help them get more. There is a penalty for failing. In a world where “stones are hard and water is wet” when you fail you go the back of the line and start over. It is in the nature of man to see what is beyond the horizon. All any government can do is slow the column of progress. There is no penalty to be paid by the government because Solyndra failed. After all, $587,000,000 is less than $2 per person. If you exclude the non-tax paying portion it is still less than $4 per person. If it had succeeded it we could, maybe, perhaps, have saved drowning polar bears. The baby seals may not have benefited but that’s the price you have to pay when Ned Lud becomes your God.
That’s the price paid when “The Gods of the Copybook Ledgers” are ignored.
I have a play want to bring to Broadway.
Its plot includes putting an absolute dunderhead, a man with no experience save for “running his mouth” and getting his wife a $4,000 – four thousand dollars American – a week raise in exchange for getting her employer a $1,000,000 “earmark”, in charge of America. Also, it was said that his “sharply creased trousers” would serve us well when he got to the Oval Office.
What he has done is to give horses’ asses all over the world a bad name.
If Broadway can have a hit musical about an Argentinean hooker why can’t it have one about a morospoph ohmadan who has his finger on the nuclear trigger? Maybe Homer Simpson could play Curly Biden.
Nah. Who would believe it?
Besides, I don’t want to spoil my birthday.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Monday, October 17, 2011
Douglas C. Lyons The Sun-Sentinel
October 17, 2011
Douglas C. Lyons
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Photo IDs and a post racial society
Mr. Lyons,
An article by Jason Schultz in today’s Sun-Sentinel [Page 5B] on “boundary jumping” in Palm Beach County caused me to reread my October 8th note to you.
Was I showing my “cultural arrogance” by saying that requiring a photo ID of prospective voters need not be prima facie racist? After all, banks, DMV offices, liquor stores, and post offices require it.
`The article says that as much as 8% of the students in certain Palm Beach County schools may be “boundary jumpers”. Let us stipulate that “boundary jumpers” are enrolled in schools that they are not legally entitled to attend.
Brookdale School is 2 blocks from where I live. In addition to being an “A” rated school it had some serious renovations last year. By all accounts it is a desirable place to send your child to school
Since ethnicity is now an integral part of our Census data it is easy to profile citizens racially on a city, zip code, neighborhood, block, and an individual building basis. The evidence of your own eyes would suggest that there is a serious discrepancy between the students’ declared addresses and where they actually live.
I suggest that a parent motivated by his rational self-interest – a concept that is both alien and forbidden to worshippers at the Church of Modern American Liberalism – by being a “boundary jumper” is to be praised. Why should a parent settle for second best for his child when a bit of legerdemain could profoundly affect a student’s life?
It should be a self-evident fact that this educational osmosis will never see students jumping from a “good” school to a “bad” school. Why not offer bonuses – How does 25% sound – to teachers, “good” teachers only, to teach at the “bad” schools. If “bad” is too harsh a word, a word that could cause self-esteem issues, I’ll settle for “underperforming”.
If schools were to require photo IDs of parents and students would that be as racist as requiring them of prospective voters?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Douglas C. Lyons
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Photo IDs and a post racial society
Mr. Lyons,
An article by Jason Schultz in today’s Sun-Sentinel [Page 5B] on “boundary jumping” in Palm Beach County caused me to reread my October 8th note to you.
Was I showing my “cultural arrogance” by saying that requiring a photo ID of prospective voters need not be prima facie racist? After all, banks, DMV offices, liquor stores, and post offices require it.
`The article says that as much as 8% of the students in certain Palm Beach County schools may be “boundary jumpers”. Let us stipulate that “boundary jumpers” are enrolled in schools that they are not legally entitled to attend.
Brookdale School is 2 blocks from where I live. In addition to being an “A” rated school it had some serious renovations last year. By all accounts it is a desirable place to send your child to school
Since ethnicity is now an integral part of our Census data it is easy to profile citizens racially on a city, zip code, neighborhood, block, and an individual building basis. The evidence of your own eyes would suggest that there is a serious discrepancy between the students’ declared addresses and where they actually live.
I suggest that a parent motivated by his rational self-interest – a concept that is both alien and forbidden to worshippers at the Church of Modern American Liberalism – by being a “boundary jumper” is to be praised. Why should a parent settle for second best for his child when a bit of legerdemain could profoundly affect a student’s life?
It should be a self-evident fact that this educational osmosis will never see students jumping from a “good” school to a “bad” school. Why not offer bonuses – How does 25% sound – to teachers, “good” teachers only, to teach at the “bad” schools. If “bad” is too harsh a word, a word that could cause self-esteem issues, I’ll settle for “underperforming”.
If schools were to require photo IDs of parents and students would that be as racist as requiring them of prospective voters?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Letter to the Editor The Miami Herald
October 15, 2011
Letter to the Editor
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33132
RE: “Let’s Stop This Killer” - Some comments on today’s editorial on the perennial favorite disease.
Sirs,
“Breast Cancer Epidemic Can’t Be Ignored”
“Epidemic”? “Ignored”? I thought journalists were supposed to be precise with words. If breast cancer rates use of the word “epidemic” do you think it’s time to change what we called the Influenza scourge of 1918? Once the death toll reached 60 million – that’s 60,000,000 - in 18 months the world stopped counting. What word would best describe the number of deaths caused by bubonic plague 500 years ago? In fact, numbers weren’t used. Percentages were. 1/3rd of this area. I/4th of that country, ½ of that city, inter alia.
Can we stipulate that those were epidemics?
It was but 25 years ago when the words AIDS and epidemic were always used in the same sentence. 15 years ago Donna Shalala, now the head of the University of Miami, then the Secretary of Health and Human services, told us we would all die from AIDS in 10 years. Check the calendar. Even if your blood count is alop and askew it’s OK to buy green bananas.
If we were to adopt “statistical sampling”, once the darling new math of modern American Liberals, we would have to face the inconvenient truth that more Americans die of prostate cancer than of breast cancer.
I asked a lady swathed in pink – head band, shirt, striped shorts, and sneakers – which color was used for the prostate cancer ribbon.
No answer was forthcoming; I did not ask again.
Lest you think I am an insensitive curmudgeonly misogynist 2 facts need to be revealed.
#1 – Marie Smith, my mother, lived for 49 years after her breast cancer surgery.
#2 – Amy Smith, my wife, died of uterine papillary serous carcinoma on August 25, 2011. What color is her ribbon?
I know that since 1971 the people of America have paid almost as much money fighting cancer as has been spent paying farmers not to grow crops. If the starting date is 1978 the amounts spent on not finding energy sources – the Department of Energy – and not teaching Johnny how to read – the Department of Education – would have been sufficient to cure cancer, male pattern baldness, mixing plaids and stripes, and the horrors of overcooked rib-eye and single malt whisky diluted with club soda.
Who speaks for heart failure and diabetes?
Do you mind if I smoke?
Kevin Smith
Letter to the Editor
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33132
RE: “Let’s Stop This Killer” - Some comments on today’s editorial on the perennial favorite disease.
Sirs,
“Breast Cancer Epidemic Can’t Be Ignored”
“Epidemic”? “Ignored”? I thought journalists were supposed to be precise with words. If breast cancer rates use of the word “epidemic” do you think it’s time to change what we called the Influenza scourge of 1918? Once the death toll reached 60 million – that’s 60,000,000 - in 18 months the world stopped counting. What word would best describe the number of deaths caused by bubonic plague 500 years ago? In fact, numbers weren’t used. Percentages were. 1/3rd of this area. I/4th of that country, ½ of that city, inter alia.
Can we stipulate that those were epidemics?
It was but 25 years ago when the words AIDS and epidemic were always used in the same sentence. 15 years ago Donna Shalala, now the head of the University of Miami, then the Secretary of Health and Human services, told us we would all die from AIDS in 10 years. Check the calendar. Even if your blood count is alop and askew it’s OK to buy green bananas.
If we were to adopt “statistical sampling”, once the darling new math of modern American Liberals, we would have to face the inconvenient truth that more Americans die of prostate cancer than of breast cancer.
I asked a lady swathed in pink – head band, shirt, striped shorts, and sneakers – which color was used for the prostate cancer ribbon.
No answer was forthcoming; I did not ask again.
Lest you think I am an insensitive curmudgeonly misogynist 2 facts need to be revealed.
#1 – Marie Smith, my mother, lived for 49 years after her breast cancer surgery.
#2 – Amy Smith, my wife, died of uterine papillary serous carcinoma on August 25, 2011. What color is her ribbon?
I know that since 1971 the people of America have paid almost as much money fighting cancer as has been spent paying farmers not to grow crops. If the starting date is 1978 the amounts spent on not finding energy sources – the Department of Energy – and not teaching Johnny how to read – the Department of Education – would have been sufficient to cure cancer, male pattern baldness, mixing plaids and stripes, and the horrors of overcooked rib-eye and single malt whisky diluted with club soda.
Who speaks for heart failure and diabetes?
Do you mind if I smoke?
Kevin Smith
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Douglas C. Lyons The Sun-Sentinel
October 8, 2011
Douglas C. Lyons
The Sun-Sentinel
RE The joys and perils of voting – Some comments on your article in today’s Sun-Sentinel
Mr. Lyons,
Alas, when the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
In your article about the electoral process and how some people are always stuck on hind teat I come with a different perspective.
#1 – I was born and raised in Bayonne, NJ. That’s on the good end of Hudson County. Voting districts reporting 110% of registered voters casting ballots were not uncommon. I had an uncle who voted until June, 1971 despite having died in May, 1956. That he voted “Row ‘A’ All The Way” - The Regular Democratic Organization should not come as a surprise. I saw a Congressman’s mother engage in “voter suppression” in 1958. After she punched a hostile questioner in the mouth the Bayonne police dragged the Republican agent provocateur out of the back yard.
#2 – My wife had relatives in Chicago. I was there in 1971 when the original Mayor Daley – King Richard the First – responded to a question about his family’s insurance agency getting almost all its business from City Hall on a non-bid basis. [Maybe Halliburton was taking notes.] He leaned over the podium and said, “You can kiss my ass”. Yet one more endorsement of the First Amendment! There is a story – perhaps apocryphal, perhaps not – about Daley. As a practicing Catholic he sought to cleanse his soul before he died. His biggest regret was fixing the 1960 election for Kennedy. He had become convinced that if he had let Nixon win Vietnam would not have played out the way it did. Elections, even rigged ones, have consequences.
#3 – You say “Arguably there hasn’t been any real voter fraud in Florida since the 2000 election”. The unspoken assumption then becomes another example of modern American Liberal group think: Republicans were acting like they were Democrats from either Hudson County or Cook County or both.
Let’s begin with the hard, unforgiving fact. Correlation is not causality. In the unreal universe occupied by modern American Liberals it is a commonly accepted truth – does the phrase “settled science” fit there? - that for every victim there is a villain. These villains, all of whom were founding members of the “vast Right-Wing conspiracy” before founding the even more sinister “Tea Party”, conveniently fit the parameters of your premise. Everybody “knew” that 2000 election was fixed. If it weren’t for tautologies modern American Liberals would not be able to think at all.
I heard former mAL idol, Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne, AKA “Emperor Kenneth the Short”, now a convicted felon and ex-con who failed the Hudson County “Stand Up” Guy test because he set up his secretary to take the fall, tell Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Frances Berry that not only was there no fraud in Broward County in the 2000 election but that there were no reports of fraud or intimidation
. The Miami Herald reported in January 2001 that not one vote had been fraudulently cast in Florida save for one example. Almost 8,000 registered voters in Palm Beach County also voted in Queens County, New York. Queens, Brooklyn, and The Bronx do not collectively have 8,000 Republicans. Whom do you think those presumptive felons voted for?
#4 – You end by implying that there is a cabal of gun-toting “bitter clingers”, most of whom are named Bubba, who gather at a hunting club hard by Lake Jemoke and perpetually plot how to keep the Brothers from voting.
Perhaps I am showing my “cultural arrogance” but how does requiring a photo ID as a prerequisite for voting become racist? The United States Post Office requires a photo ID to pick up a certified letter. A photo ID is required for gaining admission to a hospital. If you try to open a bank account or get on an airplane without one the banker or the agent will trip the silent alarm.
As to “African American [voter] turnout” it seems to me that Jesse Jackson has made a very good living from the Democratic Party for the last 7 Presidential election cycles. Every 4 years he promises vast voter registration among African-Americans. Every 4 years the Democratic Party gives him a platform and a credit card. Wannabet that next year it will be 8 in a row? By the by, is he registering the same voters over and over again? Would comparing the voter lists and the obituary columns be racist?
I confess to a personal polling peccadillo. I got 6 separate voter ID cards when Miriam Oliphant ran the voting bureau in Broward County. I wanted to see if you could go home again. You can.
2 things more before moving on to more productive hackle raising and the never ending buckling of myriad swashes.
#1 – If people have the right to vote don’t they have the right not to vote? Maybe those who present themselves to the electorate are found to be wanting. Maybe I don’t like any of them. Didn’t Sadam Hussein get 99.4 % of the vote the last time he ran? The only pols to get a higher percentage were Castro, Brezhnev, and whatever the name of the fat little Gomer running the prison in North Korea is. Of course, if the Hudson County Democratic Party ran the election the people wouldn’t have to go to the polls. The totals would be in before Election Day. No more “Hanging Chads”.
#2 – A trait common to all modern American Liberals is that the link in the double helix chain that governs reason and allows for experience to count for something other than a reprise of Golden Oldies is missing.
Somehow it has settled into the modern American Liberal orthodoxy that more people voting will result in better mail service and nicer Motor Vehicle agents. Everybody voting will guarantee a kinder, gentler IRS. Maybe if we all march to the polls singing “Kumbaya” the earth will cool and the oceans will recede. You believe with all your heart that it everybody votes – as many times as is necessary - it will take just one more great “surge” to win the War on Poverty.
Do you remember when you couldn’t get a drink on Election Day?
Maybe we should buy a round before anyone votes.
It can’t be any worse.
“How sad of all the things that men endure
How few laws or kings can cause or cure.”
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT @BELLSOUTH.NET
Douglas C. Lyons
The Sun-Sentinel
RE The joys and perils of voting – Some comments on your article in today’s Sun-Sentinel
Mr. Lyons,
Alas, when the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
In your article about the electoral process and how some people are always stuck on hind teat I come with a different perspective.
#1 – I was born and raised in Bayonne, NJ. That’s on the good end of Hudson County. Voting districts reporting 110% of registered voters casting ballots were not uncommon. I had an uncle who voted until June, 1971 despite having died in May, 1956. That he voted “Row ‘A’ All The Way” - The Regular Democratic Organization should not come as a surprise. I saw a Congressman’s mother engage in “voter suppression” in 1958. After she punched a hostile questioner in the mouth the Bayonne police dragged the Republican agent provocateur out of the back yard.
#2 – My wife had relatives in Chicago. I was there in 1971 when the original Mayor Daley – King Richard the First – responded to a question about his family’s insurance agency getting almost all its business from City Hall on a non-bid basis. [Maybe Halliburton was taking notes.] He leaned over the podium and said, “You can kiss my ass”. Yet one more endorsement of the First Amendment! There is a story – perhaps apocryphal, perhaps not – about Daley. As a practicing Catholic he sought to cleanse his soul before he died. His biggest regret was fixing the 1960 election for Kennedy. He had become convinced that if he had let Nixon win Vietnam would not have played out the way it did. Elections, even rigged ones, have consequences.
#3 – You say “Arguably there hasn’t been any real voter fraud in Florida since the 2000 election”. The unspoken assumption then becomes another example of modern American Liberal group think: Republicans were acting like they were Democrats from either Hudson County or Cook County or both.
Let’s begin with the hard, unforgiving fact. Correlation is not causality. In the unreal universe occupied by modern American Liberals it is a commonly accepted truth – does the phrase “settled science” fit there? - that for every victim there is a villain. These villains, all of whom were founding members of the “vast Right-Wing conspiracy” before founding the even more sinister “Tea Party”, conveniently fit the parameters of your premise. Everybody “knew” that 2000 election was fixed. If it weren’t for tautologies modern American Liberals would not be able to think at all.
I heard former mAL idol, Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne, AKA “Emperor Kenneth the Short”, now a convicted felon and ex-con who failed the Hudson County “Stand Up” Guy test because he set up his secretary to take the fall, tell Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Frances Berry that not only was there no fraud in Broward County in the 2000 election but that there were no reports of fraud or intimidation
. The Miami Herald reported in January 2001 that not one vote had been fraudulently cast in Florida save for one example. Almost 8,000 registered voters in Palm Beach County also voted in Queens County, New York. Queens, Brooklyn, and The Bronx do not collectively have 8,000 Republicans. Whom do you think those presumptive felons voted for?
#4 – You end by implying that there is a cabal of gun-toting “bitter clingers”, most of whom are named Bubba, who gather at a hunting club hard by Lake Jemoke and perpetually plot how to keep the Brothers from voting.
Perhaps I am showing my “cultural arrogance” but how does requiring a photo ID as a prerequisite for voting become racist? The United States Post Office requires a photo ID to pick up a certified letter. A photo ID is required for gaining admission to a hospital. If you try to open a bank account or get on an airplane without one the banker or the agent will trip the silent alarm.
As to “African American [voter] turnout” it seems to me that Jesse Jackson has made a very good living from the Democratic Party for the last 7 Presidential election cycles. Every 4 years he promises vast voter registration among African-Americans. Every 4 years the Democratic Party gives him a platform and a credit card. Wannabet that next year it will be 8 in a row? By the by, is he registering the same voters over and over again? Would comparing the voter lists and the obituary columns be racist?
I confess to a personal polling peccadillo. I got 6 separate voter ID cards when Miriam Oliphant ran the voting bureau in Broward County. I wanted to see if you could go home again. You can.
2 things more before moving on to more productive hackle raising and the never ending buckling of myriad swashes.
#1 – If people have the right to vote don’t they have the right not to vote? Maybe those who present themselves to the electorate are found to be wanting. Maybe I don’t like any of them. Didn’t Sadam Hussein get 99.4 % of the vote the last time he ran? The only pols to get a higher percentage were Castro, Brezhnev, and whatever the name of the fat little Gomer running the prison in North Korea is. Of course, if the Hudson County Democratic Party ran the election the people wouldn’t have to go to the polls. The totals would be in before Election Day. No more “Hanging Chads”.
#2 – A trait common to all modern American Liberals is that the link in the double helix chain that governs reason and allows for experience to count for something other than a reprise of Golden Oldies is missing.
Somehow it has settled into the modern American Liberal orthodoxy that more people voting will result in better mail service and nicer Motor Vehicle agents. Everybody voting will guarantee a kinder, gentler IRS. Maybe if we all march to the polls singing “Kumbaya” the earth will cool and the oceans will recede. You believe with all your heart that it everybody votes – as many times as is necessary - it will take just one more great “surge” to win the War on Poverty.
Do you remember when you couldn’t get a drink on Election Day?
Maybe we should buy a round before anyone votes.
It can’t be any worse.
“How sad of all the things that men endure
How few laws or kings can cause or cure.”
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT @BELLSOUTH.NET
Friday, October 7, 2011
Gary Stein The Sun-Sentinel
September 28, 2011
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: “Booing Buffoons” – Some comments on your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel about why the knuckle dragging GOP should be…should be…ashamed?
Big Stein,
God’s Holy Trousers but I just loooove it when a card carrying modern American Liberal goes into high dudgeon. Knotted knickers occur just before you have to reach for your handy drool cup when you tell us about the latest outrages perpetrated by those knuckle dragging poltroons, all of whom are Tea Party members
You take members of the audience at the most recent GOP “debate” to task for expressing their displeasure at things you yearn for. That list includes, but is not limited to, inter alia, the following: The right of 2 consenting GI adults to bugger each other – Would rank determine the role of the pitcher and/or the catcher unless it is a Tango Threesome in the PDA portion of this leisure time activity? If so, shouldn’t there be a law about that also? – hard by the stoning pit in Afghanistan without regard to its effect on the rest of the platoon shall not be infringed. After all “men in barricks ain’t plaster saints”. The other one, the right of killers t, y’know what I’m sayin’, to kill again still needs some work.
Let me give a long delayed shout out to then Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. for being the first politician to tell us about Governor Dukakis’s furlough program. That’s the one that let convicted rapist/killer Willie Horton out of prison where he – Can you believe this? – raped and killed again. You do remember the New York Democratic primary in 1988, don’t you?
Speaking of debates…Do you remember what Governor Dukakis said when he was asked what his reaction would be if his wife and daughter were raped and murdered? The only acceptable answer, even for a less than Alpha male, would be “I would track the bastards down and kill them.” Instead, Wee Mikey chose to channel Father Flanagan. “Was he abused as a child?” “Did drugs or alcohol have a part in it?” “Were his actions caused by the racist society he was raised in?” Finally, in a moment of truth seldom expressed publically by a modern American Liberal, “There is no such thing as a bad boy.”
Nobody booed. The whispered word “putz” swept around the room and the nation.
If, as you say, the “booing buffoons at the GOP debate should be ashamed” what about the Minnesota legislator – A Democrat, damnit – who began a dialogue with another legislator by calling him a “Motherfucker”?
Whatever else calling someone a “motherfucker” is it is not as bad as the Wisconsin legislator – another Democrat, damnit! – beginning his dialogue with a fellow legislator, doubtless a Republican, with “You are fucking dead”.
What about the Gandhi-like utterances of the less than irenic thug, Junior Hoffa? Although it is “settled science” it’s always good to validate Mendel. I search in vain for “Let’s take those sons of bitches out” in any of the Federalist Papers. Considering the fact that his father was a pioneer in the recycling business – he so loved his 1959 Ford that he decided he wanted to be buried in it before it and he went to Gillette to make a whole batch of razor blades – I expected kinder and gentler things from him.
Watching a “debate” is like watching NASCAR. Nobody cares how fast the car is going. The audience just wants to see it hit the wall. Thus, when Gerald Ford freed the Poles in 1976, Democrats went tumescent. In 2008, when Hillary Clinton began cackling in a way that would unclog arteries, Republicans began to think Big Bill was OK to step out on her. The NASCAR and the Debate rule would apply to bull fights also. No one cares how skillful the hombre in the girly man suit is. All they want to see is Manolete redux.
Campaigning is tough, particularly in a country that has been doing it as long and as viciously as we have.
The race between Brian Williams asking a dumb ass question and Big Stein having his sensitivities offended is never a pretty sight.
I hope the Republic will survive.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: “Booing Buffoons” – Some comments on your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel about why the knuckle dragging GOP should be…should be…ashamed?
Big Stein,
God’s Holy Trousers but I just loooove it when a card carrying modern American Liberal goes into high dudgeon. Knotted knickers occur just before you have to reach for your handy drool cup when you tell us about the latest outrages perpetrated by those knuckle dragging poltroons, all of whom are Tea Party members
You take members of the audience at the most recent GOP “debate” to task for expressing their displeasure at things you yearn for. That list includes, but is not limited to, inter alia, the following: The right of 2 consenting GI adults to bugger each other – Would rank determine the role of the pitcher and/or the catcher unless it is a Tango Threesome in the PDA portion of this leisure time activity? If so, shouldn’t there be a law about that also? – hard by the stoning pit in Afghanistan without regard to its effect on the rest of the platoon shall not be infringed. After all “men in barricks ain’t plaster saints”. The other one, the right of killers t, y’know what I’m sayin’, to kill again still needs some work.
Let me give a long delayed shout out to then Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. for being the first politician to tell us about Governor Dukakis’s furlough program. That’s the one that let convicted rapist/killer Willie Horton out of prison where he – Can you believe this? – raped and killed again. You do remember the New York Democratic primary in 1988, don’t you?
Speaking of debates…Do you remember what Governor Dukakis said when he was asked what his reaction would be if his wife and daughter were raped and murdered? The only acceptable answer, even for a less than Alpha male, would be “I would track the bastards down and kill them.” Instead, Wee Mikey chose to channel Father Flanagan. “Was he abused as a child?” “Did drugs or alcohol have a part in it?” “Were his actions caused by the racist society he was raised in?” Finally, in a moment of truth seldom expressed publically by a modern American Liberal, “There is no such thing as a bad boy.”
Nobody booed. The whispered word “putz” swept around the room and the nation.
If, as you say, the “booing buffoons at the GOP debate should be ashamed” what about the Minnesota legislator – A Democrat, damnit – who began a dialogue with another legislator by calling him a “Motherfucker”?
Whatever else calling someone a “motherfucker” is it is not as bad as the Wisconsin legislator – another Democrat, damnit! – beginning his dialogue with a fellow legislator, doubtless a Republican, with “You are fucking dead”.
What about the Gandhi-like utterances of the less than irenic thug, Junior Hoffa? Although it is “settled science” it’s always good to validate Mendel. I search in vain for “Let’s take those sons of bitches out” in any of the Federalist Papers. Considering the fact that his father was a pioneer in the recycling business – he so loved his 1959 Ford that he decided he wanted to be buried in it before it and he went to Gillette to make a whole batch of razor blades – I expected kinder and gentler things from him.
Watching a “debate” is like watching NASCAR. Nobody cares how fast the car is going. The audience just wants to see it hit the wall. Thus, when Gerald Ford freed the Poles in 1976, Democrats went tumescent. In 2008, when Hillary Clinton began cackling in a way that would unclog arteries, Republicans began to think Big Bill was OK to step out on her. The NASCAR and the Debate rule would apply to bull fights also. No one cares how skillful the hombre in the girly man suit is. All they want to see is Manolete redux.
Campaigning is tough, particularly in a country that has been doing it as long and as viciously as we have.
The race between Brian Williams asking a dumb ass question and Big Stein having his sensitivities offended is never a pretty sight.
I hope the Republic will survive.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Robert Watson, Ph.D. American Studies Lynn University
September 27, 2011
Robert Watson, Ph.D.
American Studies
Lynn University
3601 N. University Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431
RE: Addenda? Si. Errata? no – on your “10 Lessons” column in the Sun-Sentinel
My dear Professor,
Just to show you that I am a multi-cultural guy – Kipling is my favorite 3rd World bard – I believe that “only Allah can weave a perfect rug”. I used to say “Homer nods” but too many people thought I was referring to Simpson of Springfield.
In my letter to you dated 9/25/11 I quoted Admiral Halsey in connection with your Lesson #2 – “Fear is a powerful emotion”. He called the Japs “lousy yellow rat monkey bastards”. I put an asterisk after it to indicate a footnote. Alas, I did not complete it. The quote is to be found on Page 38 of “The Battle of Leyte Gulf” by Thomas J. Cutler. The book was published by Harper Collins in 1994. I called him “another proud son of New Jersey”. New Jersey, the land of the Sopranos and Snooki, paid Halsey its highest honor when it named a Turnpike toll booth – Exit 13 – after him. Vince Lombardi has a truck stop named after him.
Like herpes, a gift that keeps on giving, a second glance at your article reveals yet another egregiously erroneous modern American Liberal shibboleth.
You say that the “nation’s richest corporations” should pay more taxes. It is an article of faith for people who believe that an increase in the minimum wage is a good thing for poor people that corporations should pay more taxes. Whatever their “fair share” is it isn’t enough. It is “settled science” that no corporation ever pays enough in taxes. If General Electric would only pay its “fair share” the Feds could issue loan guarantees to 6 more Solyndras. Maybe it’s time for “Electric Windmills” to make a comeback.
The reason for this real life lesson is going to shock and amaze you.
Corporations don’t pay taxes. They never have and they never will. Anyone who has ever signed both sides of a paycheck knows this from empirical observation. Taxes are an expense item. It is just like paying the insurance bill, the 3 martini lunch tab, the Super Bowl tickets, the retainers for the lawyers, the special interest lobbying fees, the private jet charges, the cost of raw material, and the wages of the blue collar workers all of whom are overworked, underpaid, and exposed to unknown toxic predators.
Taxes become part of the cost of whatever it is that you are selling. It makes no difference if your product is metaphysical or epistemological. If your customers buy your product they pay your taxes. If high taxes price your product out of the marketplace the rate is irrelevant. If you can’t sell your product and you go out of business to whose benefit does that redound?
You probably will shocked, shocked to learn that, as is said in Milan, “If no profit is possible the risk is obvious”.
Try to follow this bouncing ball. It is rooted in Logic. Logic to a modern American Liberal is like holy water to a vampire. Try anyway.
When was the last time a poor person hired anybody?
Rich people hire poor people for two reasons: #1 – They want to stay rich and #2 – They want to get richer.
Poor people work for rich people for two reasons: #1 – They want to get rich and #2 – They want to live better.
There is no record anytime, anywhere of a public policy predicated on making rich people poorer resulted in making poor people richer.
The great Lord Keynes, a man more quoted than read, would have been as strong as advocate for cutting taxes today as any of the first term Republican/Tea Party Congressmen. Further, he spoke of “animal spirits” as one way to get the dog to hunt.
Here’s a plan to think about. Shut down the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. They both are as useful as teats on a bull. Think of all the money, 43% of which is borrowed from the Chinese, we will save. Use that money, not to fund the next Solyndra, but rather to enable the “animal spirits” of the American enterprise system, the greatest economic engine yet seen, to come roaring out of their hibernation. The thought of someone becoming as rich as Croesus may be anathema to you but it sure beats the Hell out of “shovel ready jobs” and the Waiting for Godot “summer of recovery”.
Kevin Smith
Robert Watson, Ph.D.
American Studies
Lynn University
3601 N. University Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431
RE: Addenda? Si. Errata? no – on your “10 Lessons” column in the Sun-Sentinel
My dear Professor,
Just to show you that I am a multi-cultural guy – Kipling is my favorite 3rd World bard – I believe that “only Allah can weave a perfect rug”. I used to say “Homer nods” but too many people thought I was referring to Simpson of Springfield.
In my letter to you dated 9/25/11 I quoted Admiral Halsey in connection with your Lesson #2 – “Fear is a powerful emotion”. He called the Japs “lousy yellow rat monkey bastards”. I put an asterisk after it to indicate a footnote. Alas, I did not complete it. The quote is to be found on Page 38 of “The Battle of Leyte Gulf” by Thomas J. Cutler. The book was published by Harper Collins in 1994. I called him “another proud son of New Jersey”. New Jersey, the land of the Sopranos and Snooki, paid Halsey its highest honor when it named a Turnpike toll booth – Exit 13 – after him. Vince Lombardi has a truck stop named after him.
Like herpes, a gift that keeps on giving, a second glance at your article reveals yet another egregiously erroneous modern American Liberal shibboleth.
You say that the “nation’s richest corporations” should pay more taxes. It is an article of faith for people who believe that an increase in the minimum wage is a good thing for poor people that corporations should pay more taxes. Whatever their “fair share” is it isn’t enough. It is “settled science” that no corporation ever pays enough in taxes. If General Electric would only pay its “fair share” the Feds could issue loan guarantees to 6 more Solyndras. Maybe it’s time for “Electric Windmills” to make a comeback.
The reason for this real life lesson is going to shock and amaze you.
Corporations don’t pay taxes. They never have and they never will. Anyone who has ever signed both sides of a paycheck knows this from empirical observation. Taxes are an expense item. It is just like paying the insurance bill, the 3 martini lunch tab, the Super Bowl tickets, the retainers for the lawyers, the special interest lobbying fees, the private jet charges, the cost of raw material, and the wages of the blue collar workers all of whom are overworked, underpaid, and exposed to unknown toxic predators.
Taxes become part of the cost of whatever it is that you are selling. It makes no difference if your product is metaphysical or epistemological. If your customers buy your product they pay your taxes. If high taxes price your product out of the marketplace the rate is irrelevant. If you can’t sell your product and you go out of business to whose benefit does that redound?
You probably will shocked, shocked to learn that, as is said in Milan, “If no profit is possible the risk is obvious”.
Try to follow this bouncing ball. It is rooted in Logic. Logic to a modern American Liberal is like holy water to a vampire. Try anyway.
When was the last time a poor person hired anybody?
Rich people hire poor people for two reasons: #1 – They want to stay rich and #2 – They want to get richer.
Poor people work for rich people for two reasons: #1 – They want to get rich and #2 – They want to live better.
There is no record anytime, anywhere of a public policy predicated on making rich people poorer resulted in making poor people richer.
The great Lord Keynes, a man more quoted than read, would have been as strong as advocate for cutting taxes today as any of the first term Republican/Tea Party Congressmen. Further, he spoke of “animal spirits” as one way to get the dog to hunt.
Here’s a plan to think about. Shut down the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. They both are as useful as teats on a bull. Think of all the money, 43% of which is borrowed from the Chinese, we will save. Use that money, not to fund the next Solyndra, but rather to enable the “animal spirits” of the American enterprise system, the greatest economic engine yet seen, to come roaring out of their hibernation. The thought of someone becoming as rich as Croesus may be anathema to you but it sure beats the Hell out of “shovel ready jobs” and the Waiting for Godot “summer of recovery”.
Kevin Smith
Monday, September 26, 2011
Stephen L. Goldstein
August 12, 2011
Stephen Goldstein
The Sun Snetinel
RE: Shades of Janet Cook! – Some comments on your prototypical “balloon juice” column in today’s Sun-Sentinel
My dear Professor,
Your nomination of Emmett, the Boston cab driver, as Everyman bespeaks another ailment common to practicing modern American Liberals.
Apparently fewer and fewer of us still remember the lessons of formal Logic.
It trained you, not what to think, but how to think.
One of the ways it did that was by pointing out how not to think.
I shant burden you with tales of the Trivium lest I overload your already overtaxed synapses.
I am loath to put too much on your plate so I will stick to one.
Particulars do not make universals.
You say that Barney Frank’s loud televised public eructations notwithstanding, he will be re-elected because Everyman Emmett “prizes free public education”. [An unasked and therefore unanswered question is why doesn’t the President share his feelings. No “free” public school system spends more per pupil than Washington, D.C. Could there be a more dramatic affirmation of “free” public education than to have a D.C. yellow school bus pull up in front of the White House and pick up the Obama children? I don’t think so either.]
Further, you quote Everyman Emmett thus: “We need jobs.”
Does he mean “shovel ready” jobs like those promised in February, 2009?
Does he mean jobs like those “created” in the legendary 2010 Summer of Recovery?
You say that Everyman Emmett wants Congress to “pass the Federal budget”.
Did you tell him that when Democrat was in the White House and had overwhelming majorities in both Houses no budget was ever introduced?
Silly me!
Stephen Goldstein
The Sun Snetinel
RE: Shades of Janet Cook! – Some comments on your prototypical “balloon juice” column in today’s Sun-Sentinel
My dear Professor,
Your nomination of Emmett, the Boston cab driver, as Everyman bespeaks another ailment common to practicing modern American Liberals.
Apparently fewer and fewer of us still remember the lessons of formal Logic.
It trained you, not what to think, but how to think.
One of the ways it did that was by pointing out how not to think.
I shant burden you with tales of the Trivium lest I overload your already overtaxed synapses.
I am loath to put too much on your plate so I will stick to one.
Particulars do not make universals.
You say that Barney Frank’s loud televised public eructations notwithstanding, he will be re-elected because Everyman Emmett “prizes free public education”. [An unasked and therefore unanswered question is why doesn’t the President share his feelings. No “free” public school system spends more per pupil than Washington, D.C. Could there be a more dramatic affirmation of “free” public education than to have a D.C. yellow school bus pull up in front of the White House and pick up the Obama children? I don’t think so either.]
Further, you quote Everyman Emmett thus: “We need jobs.”
Does he mean “shovel ready” jobs like those promised in February, 2009?
Does he mean jobs like those “created” in the legendary 2010 Summer of Recovery?
You say that Everyman Emmett wants Congress to “pass the Federal budget”.
Did you tell him that when Democrat was in the White House and had overwhelming majorities in both Houses no budget was ever introduced?
Silly me!
Stephen L Goldstein, The Sun Sentinel
September 4, 2011
Stephen L Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Modern American Liberalism, pet peeves, and your brutally honest explanation of the connection between them in your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
My dear Professor,
I can’t stand ending sentences with prepositions. There are but two exceptions to this hard and true rule. [Exceptions to rules – moral relativism - are one of the driving forces of modern American Liberalism, no?]
#1 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if there is a proposition attached to it. #2 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if you are a fan of Winston Churchill.
As to signing a statement, any statement, I suggest you remove the 2x4 from your eye before trying to get the mote out of your neighbor’s eye. When will the editorials of the Sun-Sentinel be signed? I have been told by a highly placed source, one that must remain confidential, that you will resign should your policy of signing everything not be adhered to. ”Adhered to”? Count me as a big fan of Churchill.
The next time a “highly placed source who must remain confidential” tips you on a private sin of a public servant you must instantly “out” him lest you wish to confirm that as a card carrying modern American Liberal your favorite color is still plaid.
I have been in Texas on personal business. Because of my international acclaim as a ditch digger I volunteered for the “shovel ready” moat project on the Rio Grande. Since I am from Florida I volunteered to bait my man eater traps with live baby manatees to secure a few dozen 10 to 12 foot bull gators for the soon to be finished moat. It was the least I could do for the Waiting for Godot “summer of recovery”.
I got to your column on the Internet. I never did thank Vice President Alpha Gump for his timely discovery of same. That was a busy time for him. His main job then was keelhauling Governor Dukakis – “Competence, not character”, remember? – for giving a weekend furlough to convicted rapist murderer Willie Horton who, mirabalie dictum, raped and murdered again. That’s one of the beauties of modern American Liberals. “They never let you down.”
“People should be required…” is the war cry of the Democratic Party. It is the iron fist in the iron glove. It doesn’t matter what the subject is. Light bulbs, teenage obesity, Gibson guitars, 5th trimester abortions, drowning polar bears, Affirmative Action, furbish louseworts, Global WarmingCoolingClimateChange, bad war vs. good war, green jobs, “Pass the bill so we can see what’s in it”, the minimum wage, bad Bush deficits vs.
good Obama deficits, believing that making the rich poorer will make the poor richer, skipping the part where Keynes says tax cuts are must in a recession, “Will no one rid me of that damned Constitution”? airport groping, eating your seed corn, “fairness”, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the prototypical modern American Liberal Nazi, “reset” buttons – Thank God that tomorrow is a holiday! Listing all those sins could cause terminal carpal tunnel syndrome. I’ll dip both hands in freezing pickle brine like the morning after medicine.
“People should be required…” must be offset by “Quis custodes custodiet?”. Translation? Send a SASE.
“Average Americans are probably the world’s least informed people.” Would it mark me as a knuckle dragging, homophobic, gun toting, Tea Partying, Global Warming denying zealot if I were [N.B. the use of the subjunctive] to ask for the whole list?
Where do we rank compared to the Uighurs? How about the mighty Flems and their eternal foes, the stout Walloons? Serbs? Croats? The unfairly rich swells who summer on Martha’s Vineyard? The Kikuyus? The Goths? The people of Paraguay? The people of Zimbabwe? Les merdes du Quebec? The people who vote for Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters? The non-swimming Cubans? Los aficionados de Chavez? The people still yearning for Midnight Basketball? Wal*Mart haters? Moderate Muslim terrorists?
The election in 2008 of a total non-entity, a man devoid of any experience beyond that of perpetual victimhood, a man who would be hard pressed to find his ass using both his hands, may well buttress your argument.
I ask you to remember 1976 and 1980.
On the trip back to the White House after his inauguration in 1977 it became obvious to those Americans still capable of rational thought that America had blundered in electing Jimmy Carter. It took less than 3 years for him to convince the rest of America that he was without doubt the worst President of the 20th century. As soon as the Constitution allowed the “least informed average Americans” unelected him.
It may be too soon – it’s only 11 years into the new century – to give Lord Barack the Beneficent the same laurel earned by Clod Carter. He has set the bar of ineptitude so high that it would take 7 league boots to get near it.
One thought and one suggestion before getting back to the border for armed. night patrol.
Walls work very well when they are built to keep people. out Take a peek at China and the wall that Hadrian built. Both worked. The one best remembered for keeping people in, the Berlin Wall, worked for almost 30 years.
Obama said he wanted to “transform society”. I’ll start by transforming the way English is taught in this country. Serious thought must be given to Napoleon’s rule before a battle. 3 soldiers were chosen at random and tried for cowardice. They were found guilty and executed. He said it “encouraged the others”. It would work wonders with syntactically challenged teachers.
The thought is that the hiring of English teachers should be given the same status as the hiring of the football coach. Macbeth must be on par with the tight end coach. The retention and promotion of both should be on parallel track. Diagramming a sentence should be as important as attacking a two-deep zone. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda holds no water in the post-game film review. It should be given less tolerance in the FCATs. Try it. In fact it should be “required”.
Kevin Smith
PS – As to “conferring lifetime titles”…My father was born before man flew. He was graduated from grammar school on a Friday night. Saturday morning he was shoveling coal at the end of 22nd street in Bayonne, NJ. He was 26 years old before he went to high school. He was 36 years old when he passed his Bar exam. He won a lot of money betting on Truman in 1948. When he died, after man went to the moon, walked around, and came back, and after his time on the Bench, he was still called “Judge”. What’s your problem with that?
Stephen L Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Modern American Liberalism, pet peeves, and your brutally honest explanation of the connection between them in your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
My dear Professor,
I can’t stand ending sentences with prepositions. There are but two exceptions to this hard and true rule. [Exceptions to rules – moral relativism - are one of the driving forces of modern American Liberalism, no?]
#1 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if there is a proposition attached to it. #2 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if you are a fan of Winston Churchill.
As to signing a statement, any statement, I suggest you remove the 2x4 from your eye before trying to get the mote out of your neighbor’s eye. When will the editorials of the Sun-Sentinel be signed? I have been told by a highly placed source, one that must remain confidential, that you will resign should your policy of signing everything not be adhered to. ”Adhered to”? Count me as a big fan of Churchill.
The next time a “highly placed source who must remain confidential” tips you on a private sin of a public servant you must instantly “out” him lest you wish to confirm that as a card carrying modern American Liberal your favorite color is still plaid.
I have been in Texas on personal business. Because of my international acclaim as a ditch digger I volunteered for the “shovel ready” moat project on the Rio Grande. Since I am from Florida I volunteered to bait my man eater traps with live baby manatees to secure a few dozen 10 to 12 foot bull gators for the soon to be finished moat. It was the least I could do for the Waiting for Godot “summer of recovery”.
I got to your column on the Internet. I never did thank Vice President Alpha Gump for his timely discovery of same. That was a busy time for him. His main job then was keelhauling Governor Dukakis – “Competence, not character”, remember? – for giving a weekend furlough to convicted rapist murderer Willie Horton who, mirabalie dictum, raped and murdered again. That’s one of the beauties of modern American Liberals. “They never let you down.”
“People should be required…” is the war cry of the Democratic Party. It is the iron fist in the iron glove. It doesn’t matter what the subject is. Light bulbs, teenage obesity, Gibson guitars, 5th trimester abortions, drowning polar bears, Affirmative Action, furbish louseworts, Global WarmingCoolingClimateChange, bad war vs. good war, green jobs, “Pass the bill so we can see what’s in it”, the minimum wage, bad Bush deficits vs.
good Obama deficits, believing that making the rich poorer will make the poor richer, skipping the part where Keynes says tax cuts are must in a recession, “Will no one rid me of that damned Constitution”? airport groping, eating your seed corn, “fairness”, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the prototypical modern American Liberal Nazi, “reset” buttons – Thank God that tomorrow is a holiday! Listing all those sins could cause terminal carpal tunnel syndrome. I’ll dip both hands in freezing pickle brine like the morning after medicine.
“People should be required…” must be offset by “Quis custodes custodiet?”. Translation? Send a SASE.
“Average Americans are probably the world’s least informed people.” Would it mark me as a knuckle dragging, homophobic, gun toting, Tea Partying, Global Warming denying zealot if I were [N.B. the use of the subjunctive] to ask for the whole list?
Where do we rank compared to the Uighurs? How about the mighty Flems and their eternal foes, the stout Walloons? Serbs? Croats? The unfairly rich swells who summer on Martha’s Vineyard? The Kikuyus? The Goths? The people of Paraguay? The people of Zimbabwe? Les merdes du Quebec? The people who vote for Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters? The non-swimming Cubans? Los aficionados de Chavez? The people still yearning for Midnight Basketball? Wal*Mart haters? Moderate Muslim terrorists?
The election in 2008 of a total non-entity, a man devoid of any experience beyond that of perpetual victimhood, a man who would be hard pressed to find his ass using both his hands, may well buttress your argument.
I ask you to remember 1976 and 1980.
On the trip back to the White House after his inauguration in 1977 it became obvious to those Americans still capable of rational thought that America had blundered in electing Jimmy Carter. It took less than 3 years for him to convince the rest of America that he was without doubt the worst President of the 20th century. As soon as the Constitution allowed the “least informed average Americans” unelected him.
It may be too soon – it’s only 11 years into the new century – to give Lord Barack the Beneficent the same laurel earned by Clod Carter. He has set the bar of ineptitude so high that it would take 7 league boots to get near it.
One thought and one suggestion before getting back to the border for armed. night patrol.
Walls work very well when they are built to keep people. out Take a peek at China and the wall that Hadrian built. Both worked. The one best remembered for keeping people in, the Berlin Wall, worked for almost 30 years.
Obama said he wanted to “transform society”. I’ll start by transforming the way English is taught in this country. Serious thought must be given to Napoleon’s rule before a battle. 3 soldiers were chosen at random and tried for cowardice. They were found guilty and executed. He said it “encouraged the others”. It would work wonders with syntactically challenged teachers.
The thought is that the hiring of English teachers should be given the same status as the hiring of the football coach. Macbeth must be on par with the tight end coach. The retention and promotion of both should be on parallel track. Diagramming a sentence should be as important as attacking a two-deep zone. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda holds no water in the post-game film review. It should be given less tolerance in the FCATs. Try it. In fact it should be “required”.
Kevin Smith
PS – As to “conferring lifetime titles”…My father was born before man flew. He was graduated from grammar school on a Friday night. Saturday morning he was shoveling coal at the end of 22nd street in Bayonne, NJ. He was 26 years old before he went to high school. He was 36 years old when he passed his Bar exam. He won a lot of money betting on Truman in 1948. When he died, after man went to the moon, walked around, and came back, and after his time on the Bench, he was still called “Judge”. What’s your problem with that?
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Robert Watson, Ph.D. Lynn University
September 25, 2011
Robert Watson, Ph.D.
American Studies
Lynn University
3601 N. Military Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Boca Raton, FL
RE: “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Quaff deeply…” – Some comments on your “Kick me, please kick me” column in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
My dear Professor,
I’ve been away.
The manatee trapping – think low cholesterol sausage for the homeless – season doesn’t begin until Halloween. I’ve scheduled my Obamacare/Medicare cost reduction campaign – senior citizen python wrestling in a single elimination mode – to begin on Thanksgiving. With far too much time on my hands I seek targets of opportunity.
Bingo!
Guess whose ass is in the 10 ring?
#1 – “AMERICANS ALWAYS RALLY AROUND THE FLAG” – They did not fully do so in the American Revolution. They did not do so in the War of 1812. They did not do so in the Mexican War. They did not do so in the American Civil War. They did not do so in World War 2 until the modern American Liberals of the day were shocked, shocked when Hitler, Stalin’s best friend forever, invaded the rodinya. They did not in Vietnam. They did not in Iraq. I wonder where Cindy Sheehan was when this country supported the invasion of Libya.
#2 – “ FEAR IS A POWERFUL EMOTION” – You’re right. You may wish to add “Stones are hard and water is wet” to Watson’s List of really Useful Aphorisms”. Would you retroactively condemn Admiral Halsey, another proud son of New Jersey, for saying “the Japs are lousy yellow rat monkey bastards”?*
No navy in the History of the world was as ferocious and as victorious as the American Navy in 1942. Salamis, Lepanto, and Trafalgar were not 5 carnage filled days combined. Jutland was but a bloody afternoon.
Some portion of this staggering accomplishment – Tokyo to Midway to Ironbottom Sound – has to be attributed to the salutary effects of fear. The later Battles of the Philippine Sea and of Leyte Gulf followed by the invasion of Okinawa were won partly by the fear instilled in the American Navy in 1941.
#3 – “NO ONE POLITICAL PARTY OWNS PATRIOTISM” – True. True. I remember the call to arms issued by Senator John Pastore [D-RI]. He said that when the bad guys “looked down the barrel of the Kennedy/Johnson cannon” they knew that the American people were serious. How did that work out?
#4&5 – “IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR AMERICA TO BE STRONG MILITARILY” & “A NATION CANNOT FIGHT 2 WARS SIMULTANEOUSLY” - The evidence of your own eyes demands acceptance of the fact that a nation can neither borrow nor can it tax its way to prosperity and power. No nation, anywhere, anytime has ever done so. I search vainly for answer to the poser that asks, if deficits under Bush were bad, why are they good under Obama.
As to the two front war I suggest that you familiarize yourself with World War 2. I had an uncle who went everywhere MacArthur went. I had another uncle who made 3 forced landings: North Africa, Sicily, and Anzio. My wife’s father was 8000 yards off the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944. She had an uncle who ran convoys to Murmansk. 4 oceans, 3 continents, at least 9 countries.
There is no better definition of a two front war than that.
#6 – “THE OLD CONVENTIONAL, BI-POLAR WORLD” – You end by saying that “America is strongest when it is respected around the world”. I must have missed those lectures. Did Hellenic architecture enable a polyglot collection of city states to conquer the mightiest power on earth? Did Aeneas and Juvenal empower Rome to be able to enforce Pax Romanica?
Is it Ritalin or Thorazine that is the drug of choice for bi-polar disorders? If you are referring to the 45 year dust up with the Russkies, the one that Reagan won without firing a shot, what was the alternative therapy? If Walter Mondale had pushed the 1985 equivalent of the famous RESET button what would have happened?
Was there ever a stronger, more feared, and more respected power on earth than America on September 2, 1945? When MacArthur said, “These proceedings are closed”, he turned to Admiral Halsey and said, “Bill, where the Hell are those planes?” As if by magic 1000 planes overflew the USS Missouri. They blocked out the sun in a way not seen since Thermopylae.
That we chose to give away our treasure and our power is the subject of a different discussion.
#7 – “THERE ARE DANGERS IN GROUP THINK” – Right again. When I think of all the buffoonish Luddite nitwit ohmadans who swear allegiance to the
“settled science” of Global Warming the dangers of “Group Think” are writ large. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is supposedly “settled science”. After more than 150 years it is still called a theory. Why is that? Just 2 days ago the “settled science” of Einstein was challenged in a way not seen in a century. You may remember that tomatoes were long thought to be poisonous. I’m glad that got cleared up. What would we do without pizza? Wasn’t it “settled science” that the sun revolved around the earth. It didn’t make Gus Ptolemy a bad guy.
If you are referring to “group think” when it comes to war time leaders making war time decisions a different dynamic applies. Information to a war time leader is like water to a garden. It takes a long time to judge the crop. Thus, when President Roosevelt called Governor Warren in 1942 and told him that he was sending him the 1940 Census data to him to help him lock up all the slopes, he was acting on what he thought was the best information available and in the nation’s best interest. One of those conveniently forgotten facts is that in addition to the 150,000 Japanese-Americans interned there were almost 30,000 German-Americans and Italian-Americans also locked up. Their “We’re sorry. We didn’t mean it. Please forgive us” compensation package is, I think, still being negotiated. Compared to the surgeon the pathologist has a far simpler task. Autopsies stop for lunch. Emergency pneumonectomies can’t.
#8 – “Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.” – So what? The Logic that enabled Obama to join in the invasion of Libya is just as compelling as when it is applied to Sadam Hussein. Both were bad guys. Both killed a lot of people. All the world’s intelligence services plus a majority of Congressional Democrats thought he posed a clear and present danger to this nation. There are no mulligans in poker or realpolitik. Are dead American soldiers killed in Iraq – the bad war – anymore dead than American soldiers killed in Afghanistan – the good war?
#9 – “Ten years later…” – Your argument that we have created a “terrorism industrial complex” and that we have “established a monstrous bureaucracy” proves the History does repeat itself. I’ll leave it to you place the nametags of “tragedy” and “farce” on the proper chests.
The longest war in American History, the 48 year war on poverty, a war that we entered into without any stated goals and certainly no exit strategy, and if we are to believe the Congressional Black Caucus, is a continuing failure. The second longest, the war against drugs, is also a quagmire. About the latter at least it can be said that it has created thousands of “shovel ready” jobs. Alas, they are all South of the border. Why don’t we have a peace conference on a joint Oprah/Doctor Phil show and surrender?
Speaking of a “monstrous bureaucracy” what do you think will happen should Obamacare be fully implemented? Think of the best of the IRS, the DMV, and the Post Office on steroids cubed. “Anticipation is the greater joy” is still in force, yes?
#10 – “We were attacked by a handful of radical individuals” – Right again. You say it caused us to “weaken civil liberties and suspend constitutional rights”. Whatever Darth Cheney, the evil puppet master, made Bush do he did not suspend the writ of habeas corpus as Lincoln did. He didn’t arrest and exile a Congressman as Lincoln did.
The problem with the “radical individual” premise is that their forebears did the same thing. If Islam is a religion of peace what were they doing half way across Europe less than a century after the religion was begun? How did the basilica of Saint Sophia become a mosque? Who was Cervantes fighting when he was wounded?
If Camp Gitmo, America’s first Caribbean based adult sleep away camp, is used to recruit terrorists, how did the 20 WOG terrorists get together to kill 3000 people on September 11, 2001? If it so bad why didn’t Salama Yomama, as Senator Lard Kennedy used to call him, shut it down as promised?
The eternal conflict, to cite Burke, is between order and freedom.
There are lessons to be learned from History.
Nolo me tangere cum impecunis still rings true
Maybe it’s time to update Cartago delenda est to Mecca delenda est.
Look at the time! I have to get back to judging my essay contest “Why it is ‘settled science’ that polar bears should drown”.
Kevin Smith
Robert Watson, Ph.D.
American Studies
Lynn University
3601 N. Military Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Boca Raton, FL
RE: “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Quaff deeply…” – Some comments on your “Kick me, please kick me” column in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
My dear Professor,
I’ve been away.
The manatee trapping – think low cholesterol sausage for the homeless – season doesn’t begin until Halloween. I’ve scheduled my Obamacare/Medicare cost reduction campaign – senior citizen python wrestling in a single elimination mode – to begin on Thanksgiving. With far too much time on my hands I seek targets of opportunity.
Bingo!
Guess whose ass is in the 10 ring?
#1 – “AMERICANS ALWAYS RALLY AROUND THE FLAG” – They did not fully do so in the American Revolution. They did not do so in the War of 1812. They did not do so in the Mexican War. They did not do so in the American Civil War. They did not do so in World War 2 until the modern American Liberals of the day were shocked, shocked when Hitler, Stalin’s best friend forever, invaded the rodinya. They did not in Vietnam. They did not in Iraq. I wonder where Cindy Sheehan was when this country supported the invasion of Libya.
#2 – “ FEAR IS A POWERFUL EMOTION” – You’re right. You may wish to add “Stones are hard and water is wet” to Watson’s List of really Useful Aphorisms”. Would you retroactively condemn Admiral Halsey, another proud son of New Jersey, for saying “the Japs are lousy yellow rat monkey bastards”?*
No navy in the History of the world was as ferocious and as victorious as the American Navy in 1942. Salamis, Lepanto, and Trafalgar were not 5 carnage filled days combined. Jutland was but a bloody afternoon.
Some portion of this staggering accomplishment – Tokyo to Midway to Ironbottom Sound – has to be attributed to the salutary effects of fear. The later Battles of the Philippine Sea and of Leyte Gulf followed by the invasion of Okinawa were won partly by the fear instilled in the American Navy in 1941.
#3 – “NO ONE POLITICAL PARTY OWNS PATRIOTISM” – True. True. I remember the call to arms issued by Senator John Pastore [D-RI]. He said that when the bad guys “looked down the barrel of the Kennedy/Johnson cannon” they knew that the American people were serious. How did that work out?
#4&5 – “IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR AMERICA TO BE STRONG MILITARILY” & “A NATION CANNOT FIGHT 2 WARS SIMULTANEOUSLY” - The evidence of your own eyes demands acceptance of the fact that a nation can neither borrow nor can it tax its way to prosperity and power. No nation, anywhere, anytime has ever done so. I search vainly for answer to the poser that asks, if deficits under Bush were bad, why are they good under Obama.
As to the two front war I suggest that you familiarize yourself with World War 2. I had an uncle who went everywhere MacArthur went. I had another uncle who made 3 forced landings: North Africa, Sicily, and Anzio. My wife’s father was 8000 yards off the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944. She had an uncle who ran convoys to Murmansk. 4 oceans, 3 continents, at least 9 countries.
There is no better definition of a two front war than that.
#6 – “THE OLD CONVENTIONAL, BI-POLAR WORLD” – You end by saying that “America is strongest when it is respected around the world”. I must have missed those lectures. Did Hellenic architecture enable a polyglot collection of city states to conquer the mightiest power on earth? Did Aeneas and Juvenal empower Rome to be able to enforce Pax Romanica?
Is it Ritalin or Thorazine that is the drug of choice for bi-polar disorders? If you are referring to the 45 year dust up with the Russkies, the one that Reagan won without firing a shot, what was the alternative therapy? If Walter Mondale had pushed the 1985 equivalent of the famous RESET button what would have happened?
Was there ever a stronger, more feared, and more respected power on earth than America on September 2, 1945? When MacArthur said, “These proceedings are closed”, he turned to Admiral Halsey and said, “Bill, where the Hell are those planes?” As if by magic 1000 planes overflew the USS Missouri. They blocked out the sun in a way not seen since Thermopylae.
That we chose to give away our treasure and our power is the subject of a different discussion.
#7 – “THERE ARE DANGERS IN GROUP THINK” – Right again. When I think of all the buffoonish Luddite nitwit ohmadans who swear allegiance to the
“settled science” of Global Warming the dangers of “Group Think” are writ large. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is supposedly “settled science”. After more than 150 years it is still called a theory. Why is that? Just 2 days ago the “settled science” of Einstein was challenged in a way not seen in a century. You may remember that tomatoes were long thought to be poisonous. I’m glad that got cleared up. What would we do without pizza? Wasn’t it “settled science” that the sun revolved around the earth. It didn’t make Gus Ptolemy a bad guy.
If you are referring to “group think” when it comes to war time leaders making war time decisions a different dynamic applies. Information to a war time leader is like water to a garden. It takes a long time to judge the crop. Thus, when President Roosevelt called Governor Warren in 1942 and told him that he was sending him the 1940 Census data to him to help him lock up all the slopes, he was acting on what he thought was the best information available and in the nation’s best interest. One of those conveniently forgotten facts is that in addition to the 150,000 Japanese-Americans interned there were almost 30,000 German-Americans and Italian-Americans also locked up. Their “We’re sorry. We didn’t mean it. Please forgive us” compensation package is, I think, still being negotiated. Compared to the surgeon the pathologist has a far simpler task. Autopsies stop for lunch. Emergency pneumonectomies can’t.
#8 – “Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.” – So what? The Logic that enabled Obama to join in the invasion of Libya is just as compelling as when it is applied to Sadam Hussein. Both were bad guys. Both killed a lot of people. All the world’s intelligence services plus a majority of Congressional Democrats thought he posed a clear and present danger to this nation. There are no mulligans in poker or realpolitik. Are dead American soldiers killed in Iraq – the bad war – anymore dead than American soldiers killed in Afghanistan – the good war?
#9 – “Ten years later…” – Your argument that we have created a “terrorism industrial complex” and that we have “established a monstrous bureaucracy” proves the History does repeat itself. I’ll leave it to you place the nametags of “tragedy” and “farce” on the proper chests.
The longest war in American History, the 48 year war on poverty, a war that we entered into without any stated goals and certainly no exit strategy, and if we are to believe the Congressional Black Caucus, is a continuing failure. The second longest, the war against drugs, is also a quagmire. About the latter at least it can be said that it has created thousands of “shovel ready” jobs. Alas, they are all South of the border. Why don’t we have a peace conference on a joint Oprah/Doctor Phil show and surrender?
Speaking of a “monstrous bureaucracy” what do you think will happen should Obamacare be fully implemented? Think of the best of the IRS, the DMV, and the Post Office on steroids cubed. “Anticipation is the greater joy” is still in force, yes?
#10 – “We were attacked by a handful of radical individuals” – Right again. You say it caused us to “weaken civil liberties and suspend constitutional rights”. Whatever Darth Cheney, the evil puppet master, made Bush do he did not suspend the writ of habeas corpus as Lincoln did. He didn’t arrest and exile a Congressman as Lincoln did.
The problem with the “radical individual” premise is that their forebears did the same thing. If Islam is a religion of peace what were they doing half way across Europe less than a century after the religion was begun? How did the basilica of Saint Sophia become a mosque? Who was Cervantes fighting when he was wounded?
If Camp Gitmo, America’s first Caribbean based adult sleep away camp, is used to recruit terrorists, how did the 20 WOG terrorists get together to kill 3000 people on September 11, 2001? If it so bad why didn’t Salama Yomama, as Senator Lard Kennedy used to call him, shut it down as promised?
The eternal conflict, to cite Burke, is between order and freedom.
There are lessons to be learned from History.
Nolo me tangere cum impecunis still rings true
Maybe it’s time to update Cartago delenda est to Mecca delenda est.
Look at the time! I have to get back to judging my essay contest “Why it is ‘settled science’ that polar bears should drown”.
Kevin Smith
Thursday, September 22, 2011
AN UPDATE ON FRAU OBERST DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
AN UPDATE ON
FRAU OBERST DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ
9/21/11
I Let the 10th anniversary of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she of the Medusa wanabee hair, she of the perpetual giving her husband’s bank a wink, a nod, and a long swig from the public teat, she of forgetting which President signed the homophobic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” reg, she of the great civility speech given after a mad man shot her friend but before Chip off the old block Young Thug Hoffa, Jr, said, “Let’s take those bastards out”, she of “We own the economy” – Giving the devil her due, every time she stands up she should get a standing O, such is the burden of carrying big brass asymmetrical cojones – sending the cops [Agent Thomas as the Good Cop and Agent Mineva as the Bad Cop, both members of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement]] to my house because of something I wrote.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2001
2 men with badges and guns, 2 men with the full majesty of the law behind them, 2 men following their orders because an elected official, one who claims to have 2 degrees in Political Science, forgot the majestic 5 words at the start of the First Amendment – “CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW…”
“Free men speak with free tongues” was a good start to a free society when it was first used 25 centuries ago. For someone to say that she has 2 degrees in Political Science and not to be familiar with the agora and parrhesia would indicate that the only classes she ever attended were Chilling Effect 101 and Slippery Slope Seminar. Come to think of it there could be no better academic training for a modern American Liberal than those. “Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee” [Nat Hentoff] is one the books that Little Debbie uses to start her annual book burning raree.
I used to think Debbie was smart.
Smart was replaced by shrewd.
Now I know she’s dumb.
That she is not as dumb as her co-conspirator Commissioner Stacy Ritter is meant to be taken as “damning with faint praise”. Ms. Ritter is so dumb she thinks manual labor is the hombre who mows her lawn. She’s not called “Cementhead
for nothing. Debbie is gaining on her.
The reason for this harsh and cruel but valid and truthful judgment is because of her take on the special election in Brooklyn’s 9th Congressional District.
Move over Baghdad Bob! Here comes Debbie, Debbie!
She said “The Democratic Party has always had a problem with this district”.
Her tongue should have been rocket propelled out of her mouth and into a place of honor at Katz’s Deli.
They solved the problem when Warren Harding was President. That was 90 years ago. Sam Ervin and John C. Stennis, 2 lifelong Democrats and defenders, fierce defenders, of segregation – Did I just repeat myself? - marveled at the ability of the 9th district to elect any Democratic Son or Daughter of the Desert who drew breath on Election Day. District 9 encourages dead men voting. It draws the line at dead candidates winning. If they didn’t FDR would win every election for everything everytime.
Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz [Schultz? Perhaps a DNA check is in order] thought about running there. If they had they would have received 106% of the vote.
This is a district where delis are not permitted to advertise bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches.
This is a district where anything less than medium well roast beef earns a visit from the dreaded Food Police and a trip to the culinary side of Camp Gitmo.
This is a district where, thanks to Chinese legerdemain, pork becomes chicken.
This is a district where bi-valve mollusks are allowed to pass through only if they are on sealed trucks and never on Shabbos.
This is a district where the vote to name a park after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is always close.
This is a district where being a junior mohel can earn you a merit badge.
This is a district where any mention of chicken liver and mayonnaise in the same
sentence can lead to a one-way trip to the stoning pit.
This is a district where Weiner, the eponymously named Congressman, waved his foreskinless weenie around for a month before a late night visit from the Stern Gang convinced him to fall on his sword. That’s the metaphorical sword, not the one eyed trouser snake that now is yet more proof of the law of diminishing returns.
This is a district that just elected a Roman Catholic Republican. It gets better. He was a TV executive who was instrumental in putting Rush Limbaugh on national TV.
And Debbie, Debbie, now the face of the Democratic Party, henceforth to be known as Dizzy Debbie, says that Democrat always had a problem with the 9th district?
The loonies are running the bin. The boobies are running the hatch.
In the big picture, the one that will be unveiled in November, 2012, that may be good.
On the other hand, 2 of the last 3 Vice Presidents – Alpha Gump and Curley Biden – have been, to be charitable, developmentally disabled. Can you imagine them on a tandem bike pedaling in opposite directions? I can. How many ways could they FUBAR a two car funeral? Thank God for logarithms!
This chick knows her base.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
AN UPDATE ON
FRAU OBERST DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ
9/21/11
I Let the 10th anniversary of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she of the Medusa wanabee hair, she of the perpetual giving her husband’s bank a wink, a nod, and a long swig from the public teat, she of forgetting which President signed the homophobic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” reg, she of the great civility speech given after a mad man shot her friend but before Chip off the old block Young Thug Hoffa, Jr, said, “Let’s take those bastards out”, she of “We own the economy” – Giving the devil her due, every time she stands up she should get a standing O, such is the burden of carrying big brass asymmetrical cojones – sending the cops [Agent Thomas as the Good Cop and Agent Mineva as the Bad Cop, both members of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement]] to my house because of something I wrote.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2001
2 men with badges and guns, 2 men with the full majesty of the law behind them, 2 men following their orders because an elected official, one who claims to have 2 degrees in Political Science, forgot the majestic 5 words at the start of the First Amendment – “CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW…”
“Free men speak with free tongues” was a good start to a free society when it was first used 25 centuries ago. For someone to say that she has 2 degrees in Political Science and not to be familiar with the agora and parrhesia would indicate that the only classes she ever attended were Chilling Effect 101 and Slippery Slope Seminar. Come to think of it there could be no better academic training for a modern American Liberal than those. “Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee” [Nat Hentoff] is one the books that Little Debbie uses to start her annual book burning raree.
I used to think Debbie was smart.
Smart was replaced by shrewd.
Now I know she’s dumb.
That she is not as dumb as her co-conspirator Commissioner Stacy Ritter is meant to be taken as “damning with faint praise”. Ms. Ritter is so dumb she thinks manual labor is the hombre who mows her lawn. She’s not called “Cementhead
for nothing. Debbie is gaining on her.
The reason for this harsh and cruel but valid and truthful judgment is because of her take on the special election in Brooklyn’s 9th Congressional District.
Move over Baghdad Bob! Here comes Debbie, Debbie!
She said “The Democratic Party has always had a problem with this district”.
Her tongue should have been rocket propelled out of her mouth and into a place of honor at Katz’s Deli.
They solved the problem when Warren Harding was President. That was 90 years ago. Sam Ervin and John C. Stennis, 2 lifelong Democrats and defenders, fierce defenders, of segregation – Did I just repeat myself? - marveled at the ability of the 9th district to elect any Democratic Son or Daughter of the Desert who drew breath on Election Day. District 9 encourages dead men voting. It draws the line at dead candidates winning. If they didn’t FDR would win every election for everything everytime.
Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz [Schultz? Perhaps a DNA check is in order] thought about running there. If they had they would have received 106% of the vote.
This is a district where delis are not permitted to advertise bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches.
This is a district where anything less than medium well roast beef earns a visit from the dreaded Food Police and a trip to the culinary side of Camp Gitmo.
This is a district where, thanks to Chinese legerdemain, pork becomes chicken.
This is a district where bi-valve mollusks are allowed to pass through only if they are on sealed trucks and never on Shabbos.
This is a district where the vote to name a park after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is always close.
This is a district where being a junior mohel can earn you a merit badge.
This is a district where any mention of chicken liver and mayonnaise in the same
sentence can lead to a one-way trip to the stoning pit.
This is a district where Weiner, the eponymously named Congressman, waved his foreskinless weenie around for a month before a late night visit from the Stern Gang convinced him to fall on his sword. That’s the metaphorical sword, not the one eyed trouser snake that now is yet more proof of the law of diminishing returns.
This is a district that just elected a Roman Catholic Republican. It gets better. He was a TV executive who was instrumental in putting Rush Limbaugh on national TV.
And Debbie, Debbie, now the face of the Democratic Party, henceforth to be known as Dizzy Debbie, says that Democrat always had a problem with the 9th district?
The loonies are running the bin. The boobies are running the hatch.
In the big picture, the one that will be unveiled in November, 2012, that may be good.
On the other hand, 2 of the last 3 Vice Presidents – Alpha Gump and Curley Biden – have been, to be charitable, developmentally disabled. Can you imagine them on a tandem bike pedaling in opposite directions? I can. How many ways could they FUBAR a two car funeral? Thank God for logarithms!
This chick knows her base.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald
September 18, 2011
Leonard Pitts Jr.
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33316
RE: Death penalty? Death penalties? Some comments on your column “The Roman Arena of the Death Penalty” in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
I found two conflicting numbers – 1173 & 1266 – about the number of executions in this country since Gary Gilmore restarted the hangman’s serenade in 1975. [ I was at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on an entirely different matter when Gilmore’s last stay was denied.]
Since statistical sampling was once the darling of modern American Liberals I will use 1224.5 as my paradigmatic template for the number of toe-tagged executed killers, alleged or otherwise.
What I can’t find, save for one example, is the alleged number of the alleged victims killed by the alleged perpetrators.
The poet was right. “After the first death there are no others.”
Missing from your feelings filled column about justice denied is the racial element. Usually, not today, there is an argumentum ad captandum decrying the racial disproportionality of the death penalty.
There is one death penalty that is applied in such a racially disproportional manner as to demand a genocide investigation. There is a backlog of cases in The Hague for participants in never ending ax fight between the Serbs and the Croats. For the most part they involved consenting adults killing for their culture. Why is there no outcry about abortion?
Black females make up about 6% of population.
They have had between 35% and 40% of the abortions in this country since 1973.
A social scientist would be comfortable with 20,000,000 as the number of Black babies being aborted in this country since Roe v Wade.
Has a potential Barack Obama or maybe even a Leonard Pitts been sucked out of a Black woman’s innards and sent on a one way trip to the “undiscovered country”?
You spoke of the “thumbs up-thumbs down” death penalty process in this country. In New Jersey, my home state, there are two basic rules concerning murder trials.
#1 – The alleged perpetrators cannot plead guilty.
#2 – A guilty verdict triggers an automatic appeal.
An about to be aborted baby – Black or White – has no access to due process. It can neither plead guilty nor can it enter an appeal. Some convicted murderers have waived any appeal and have demanded that death penalty be imposed post haste. There is no record of a foetus so doing.
You end your column thus:
“A reverence for life can still trump a need for death.
Consider this column a lonely cheer for life.”
An about to be aborted baby – White or Black – has no one speaking for it.
If not you then who?
Kevin Smith
PS – No mention of the death penalty in America is complete without mentioning the name Ricky Ray Rector. Whatever else Bill Clinton did to Sister Souljah he didn’t kill her.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33316
RE: Death penalty? Death penalties? Some comments on your column “The Roman Arena of the Death Penalty” in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
I found two conflicting numbers – 1173 & 1266 – about the number of executions in this country since Gary Gilmore restarted the hangman’s serenade in 1975. [ I was at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on an entirely different matter when Gilmore’s last stay was denied.]
Since statistical sampling was once the darling of modern American Liberals I will use 1224.5 as my paradigmatic template for the number of toe-tagged executed killers, alleged or otherwise.
What I can’t find, save for one example, is the alleged number of the alleged victims killed by the alleged perpetrators.
The poet was right. “After the first death there are no others.”
Missing from your feelings filled column about justice denied is the racial element. Usually, not today, there is an argumentum ad captandum decrying the racial disproportionality of the death penalty.
There is one death penalty that is applied in such a racially disproportional manner as to demand a genocide investigation. There is a backlog of cases in The Hague for participants in never ending ax fight between the Serbs and the Croats. For the most part they involved consenting adults killing for their culture. Why is there no outcry about abortion?
Black females make up about 6% of population.
They have had between 35% and 40% of the abortions in this country since 1973.
A social scientist would be comfortable with 20,000,000 as the number of Black babies being aborted in this country since Roe v Wade.
Has a potential Barack Obama or maybe even a Leonard Pitts been sucked out of a Black woman’s innards and sent on a one way trip to the “undiscovered country”?
You spoke of the “thumbs up-thumbs down” death penalty process in this country. In New Jersey, my home state, there are two basic rules concerning murder trials.
#1 – The alleged perpetrators cannot plead guilty.
#2 – A guilty verdict triggers an automatic appeal.
An about to be aborted baby – Black or White – has no access to due process. It can neither plead guilty nor can it enter an appeal. Some convicted murderers have waived any appeal and have demanded that death penalty be imposed post haste. There is no record of a foetus so doing.
You end your column thus:
“A reverence for life can still trump a need for death.
Consider this column a lonely cheer for life.”
An about to be aborted baby – White or Black – has no one speaking for it.
If not you then who?
Kevin Smith
PS – No mention of the death penalty in America is complete without mentioning the name Ricky Ray Rector. Whatever else Bill Clinton did to Sister Souljah he didn’t kill her.
Dwight Garner @ the New York Times
September 16, 2011
Dwight Garner @ the New York Times
RE: Michael Moore and your inclusion of him in the hagiography of modern American Liberal wafflers, wimps, weasels, and wussies as recorded by you in the New York Times.
Mr. Garner,
Mother Jones? Woody Guthrie? Phil Ochs? Rachel Carson? [Why not Margaret Sanger? How did Margaret Mead miss the cut?] Harvey Pekar?
Mighty fine company for Michael Moore, America’s favorite fat man, now that Fatty Arbuckle and Oliver Hardy have gone to that great big Ben & Jerry’s in the sky, the one where Chunky Monkey and Death by Chocolate can be mainlined. Jowl liposuction on his moon pie puss could give Haiti a good, sit down Sunday dinner. But enough of that ad hominen stuff.
Your first five templates used to nominate Michael Moore, AKA “Pant Load Lard Ass”, to the Hall of Fame of Loutish Ohmadahns are either narcissistic phony bastards, Homerically dimensioned frauds, or world class “moonbat” wingnuts. Rachel Carson earns special mention for being a scientific faker worthy of Guinness Book accolades. Her book, Silent Spring, is helping to restore the unfairly tarnished reputations of Lysenko and the Piltdown Man.
It is your mention of Woody Guthrie that stirs the embers of an almost forgotten fire. It is one that has gone down the memory hole that modern American Liberals quickly dig when yet another of their gravity defying “balloon juice” pipe dreams runs into reality.
I’m glad that his guitar “fought Fascists”. It was a bit late in joining the fray but so was “Papa Doc” Joe Kennedy, the Hitler loving anti-Semite.
Some things are owed to the record.
From August 22, 1939 to June 21, 1941 Woody Guthrie’s guitar was not fighting Fascists. His weekly tract, aptly named Woody the Red, said that Hitler was an OK guy. In case you are not familiar with the above mentioned dates you’ll be shocked, shocked to learn that they cover the period when Hitler and Stalin were pals. “BFF” as the new social networks would say.
Would I be too far out of line to say that Woody was OK with the flattening of Poland, the defeat and occupation of France, the bombing of London, and the construction of the abattoirs and charnel houses that were used to kill and cook the Jews? Qui tacet consentit still means Silence gives consent, doesn’t it?
No off handed reference to Christopher Hitchens can be allowed to pass without mentioning George Orwell. Orwell, one of Hitchens’s favorites, will not be in your Progressive Hall of Fame. “Homage to Catalonia”, “Animal Farm”, and “1984”, books that pilloried the brutal tactics of Stalin, would never pass the muster of the modern American Liberal word police who are in charge of such things.
I like to ask hacks of the New York Times if there have been any sightings of Walter Duranty. He was the bought and paid for KGB agent who won a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Reporting when he was the Moscow correspondent of – you guessed it – the New York Times.
Duranty began the “low, dishonest decade” that ended with Guthrie, who ignored the massacre of the Kulaks and the Moscow show trials because of his slavish devotion to Stalin, giving Hitler the green light to give a new meaning to murder.
Would it earn me permanent curmudgeon status if I were to say that Woody had a lot of really smart friends – Mr. & Mrs. Rosenberg, Lillian Hellman, and Alger Hiss leap to mind – who, believing in nothing, believed that Stalin’s shit didn’t stink? I hope so.
Why doesn’t Saint Fatso do a documentary movie on the “unpleasantness” at the Katyn Forest or the Gulag?
Just one more sign of my never ending naiveté’
Sorry about that.
Kevin Smith
Dwight Garner @ the New York Times
RE: Michael Moore and your inclusion of him in the hagiography of modern American Liberal wafflers, wimps, weasels, and wussies as recorded by you in the New York Times.
Mr. Garner,
Mother Jones? Woody Guthrie? Phil Ochs? Rachel Carson? [Why not Margaret Sanger? How did Margaret Mead miss the cut?] Harvey Pekar?
Mighty fine company for Michael Moore, America’s favorite fat man, now that Fatty Arbuckle and Oliver Hardy have gone to that great big Ben & Jerry’s in the sky, the one where Chunky Monkey and Death by Chocolate can be mainlined. Jowl liposuction on his moon pie puss could give Haiti a good, sit down Sunday dinner. But enough of that ad hominen stuff.
Your first five templates used to nominate Michael Moore, AKA “Pant Load Lard Ass”, to the Hall of Fame of Loutish Ohmadahns are either narcissistic phony bastards, Homerically dimensioned frauds, or world class “moonbat” wingnuts. Rachel Carson earns special mention for being a scientific faker worthy of Guinness Book accolades. Her book, Silent Spring, is helping to restore the unfairly tarnished reputations of Lysenko and the Piltdown Man.
It is your mention of Woody Guthrie that stirs the embers of an almost forgotten fire. It is one that has gone down the memory hole that modern American Liberals quickly dig when yet another of their gravity defying “balloon juice” pipe dreams runs into reality.
I’m glad that his guitar “fought Fascists”. It was a bit late in joining the fray but so was “Papa Doc” Joe Kennedy, the Hitler loving anti-Semite.
Some things are owed to the record.
From August 22, 1939 to June 21, 1941 Woody Guthrie’s guitar was not fighting Fascists. His weekly tract, aptly named Woody the Red, said that Hitler was an OK guy. In case you are not familiar with the above mentioned dates you’ll be shocked, shocked to learn that they cover the period when Hitler and Stalin were pals. “BFF” as the new social networks would say.
Would I be too far out of line to say that Woody was OK with the flattening of Poland, the defeat and occupation of France, the bombing of London, and the construction of the abattoirs and charnel houses that were used to kill and cook the Jews? Qui tacet consentit still means Silence gives consent, doesn’t it?
No off handed reference to Christopher Hitchens can be allowed to pass without mentioning George Orwell. Orwell, one of Hitchens’s favorites, will not be in your Progressive Hall of Fame. “Homage to Catalonia”, “Animal Farm”, and “1984”, books that pilloried the brutal tactics of Stalin, would never pass the muster of the modern American Liberal word police who are in charge of such things.
I like to ask hacks of the New York Times if there have been any sightings of Walter Duranty. He was the bought and paid for KGB agent who won a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Reporting when he was the Moscow correspondent of – you guessed it – the New York Times.
Duranty began the “low, dishonest decade” that ended with Guthrie, who ignored the massacre of the Kulaks and the Moscow show trials because of his slavish devotion to Stalin, giving Hitler the green light to give a new meaning to murder.
Would it earn me permanent curmudgeon status if I were to say that Woody had a lot of really smart friends – Mr. & Mrs. Rosenberg, Lillian Hellman, and Alger Hiss leap to mind – who, believing in nothing, believed that Stalin’s shit didn’t stink? I hope so.
Why doesn’t Saint Fatso do a documentary movie on the “unpleasantness” at the Katyn Forest or the Gulag?
Just one more sign of my never ending naiveté’
Sorry about that.
Kevin Smith
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Stephen L Goldstein, The Sun Sentinel
September 4, 2011
Stephen L Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Modern American Liberalism, pet peeves, and your brutally honest explanation of the connection between them in your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
My dear Professor,
I can’t stand ending sentences with prepositions. There are but two exceptions to this hard and true rule. [Exceptions to rules – moral relativism - are one of the driving forces of modern American Liberalism, no?]
#1 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if there is a proposition attached to it. #2 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if you are a fan of Winston Churchill.
As to signing a statement, any statement, I suggest you remove the 2x4 from your eye before trying to get the mote out of your neighbor’s eye. When will the editorials of the Sun-Sentinel be signed? I have been told by a highly placed source, one that must remain confidential, that you will resign should your policy of signing everything not be adhered to. ”Adhered to”? Count me as a big fan of Churchill.
The next time a “highly placed source who must remain confidential” tips you on a private sin of a public servant you must instantly “out” him lest you wish to confirm that as a card carrying modern American Liberal your favorite color is still plaid.
I have been in Texas on personal business. Because of my international acclaim as a ditch digger I volunteered for the “shovel ready” moat project on the Rio Grande. Since I am from Florida I volunteered to bait my man eater traps with live baby manatees to secure a few dozen 10 to 12 foot bull gators for the soon to be finished moat. It was the least I could do for the Waiting for Godot “summer of recovery”.
I got to your column on the Internet. I never did thank Vice President Alpha Gump for his timely discovery of same. That was a busy time for him. His main job then was keelhauling Governor Dukakis – “Competence, not character”, remember? – for giving a weekend furlough to convicted rapist murderer Willie Horton who, mirabalie dictum, raped and murdered again. That’s one of the beauties of modern American Liberals. “They never let you down.”
“People should be required…” is the war cry of the Democratic Party. It is the iron fist in the iron glove. It doesn’t matter what the subject is. Light bulbs, teenage obesity, Gibson guitars, 5th trimester abortions, drowning polar bears, Affirmative Action, furbish louseworts, Global WarmingCoolingClimateChange, bad war vs. good war, green jobs, “Pass the bill so we can see what’s in it”, the minimum wage, bad Bush deficits vs.
good Obama deficits, believing that making the rich poorer will make the poor richer, skipping the part where Keynes says tax cuts are must in a recession, “Will no one rid me of that damned Constitution”? airport groping, eating your seed corn, “fairness”, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the prototypical modern American Liberal Nazi, “reset” buttons – Thank God that tomorrow is a holiday! Listing all those sins could cause terminal carpal tunnel syndrome. I’ll dip both hands in freezing pickle brine like the morning after medicine.
“People should be required…” must be offset by “Quis custodes custodiet?”. Translation? Send a SASE.
“Average Americans are probably the world’s least informed people.” Would it mark me as a knuckle dragging, homophobic, gun toting, Tea Partying, Global Warming denying zealot if I were [N.B. the use of the subjunctive] to ask for the whole list?
Where do we rank compared to the Uighurs? How about the mighty Flems and their eternal foes, the stout Walloons? Serbs? Croats? The unfairly rich swells who summer on Martha’s Vineyard? The Kikuyus? The Goths? The people of Paraguay? The people of Zimbabwe? Les merdes du Quebec? The people who vote for Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters? The non-swimming Cubans? Los aficionados de Chavez? The people still yearning for Midnight Basketball? Wal*Mart haters? Moderate Muslim terrorists?
The election in 2008 of a total non-entity, a man devoid of any experience beyond that of perpetual victimhood, a man who would be hard pressed to find his ass using both his hands, may well buttress your argument.
I ask you to remember 1976 and 1980.
On the trip back to the White House after his inauguration in 1977 it became obvious to those Americans still capable of rational thought that America had blundered in electing Jimmy Carter. It took less than 3 years for him to convince the rest of America that he was without doubt the worst President of the 20th century. As soon as the Constitution allowed the “least informed average Americans” unelected him.
It may be too soon – it’s only 11 years into the new century – to give Lord Barack the Beneficent the same laurel earned by Clod Carter. He has set the bar of ineptitude so high that it would take 7 league boots to get near it.
One thought and one suggestion before getting back to the border for armed. night patrol.
Walls work very well when they are built to keep people. out Take a peek at China and the wall that Hadrian built. Both worked. The one best remembered for keeping people in, the Berlin Wall, worked for almost 30 years.
Obama said he wanted to “transform society”. I’ll start by transforming the way English is taught in this country. Serious thought must be given to Napoleon’s rule before a battle. 3 soldiers were chosen at random and tried for cowardice. They were found guilty and executed. He said it “encouraged the others”. It would work wonders with syntactically challenged teachers.
The thought is that the hiring of English teachers should be given the same status as the hiring of the football coach. Macbeth must be on par with the tight end coach. The retention and promotion of both should be on parallel track. Diagramming a sentence should be as important as attacking a two-deep zone. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda holds no water in the post-game film review. It should be given less tolerance in the FCATs. Try it. In fact it should be “required”.
Kevin Smith
PS – As to “conferring lifetime titles”…My father was born before man flew. He was graduated from grammar school on a Friday night. Saturday morning he was shoveling coal at the end of 22nd street in Bayonne, NJ. He was 26 years old before he went to high school. He was 36 years old when he passed his Bar exam. He won a lot of money betting on Truman in 1948. When he died, after man went to the moon, walked around, and came back, and after his time on the Bench, he was still called “Judge”. What’s your problem with that?
Stephen L Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Modern American Liberalism, pet peeves, and your brutally honest explanation of the connection between them in your column in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
My dear Professor,
I can’t stand ending sentences with prepositions. There are but two exceptions to this hard and true rule. [Exceptions to rules – moral relativism - are one of the driving forces of modern American Liberalism, no?]
#1 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if there is a proposition attached to it. #2 – It is acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition if you are a fan of Winston Churchill.
As to signing a statement, any statement, I suggest you remove the 2x4 from your eye before trying to get the mote out of your neighbor’s eye. When will the editorials of the Sun-Sentinel be signed? I have been told by a highly placed source, one that must remain confidential, that you will resign should your policy of signing everything not be adhered to. ”Adhered to”? Count me as a big fan of Churchill.
The next time a “highly placed source who must remain confidential” tips you on a private sin of a public servant you must instantly “out” him lest you wish to confirm that as a card carrying modern American Liberal your favorite color is still plaid.
I have been in Texas on personal business. Because of my international acclaim as a ditch digger I volunteered for the “shovel ready” moat project on the Rio Grande. Since I am from Florida I volunteered to bait my man eater traps with live baby manatees to secure a few dozen 10 to 12 foot bull gators for the soon to be finished moat. It was the least I could do for the Waiting for Godot “summer of recovery”.
I got to your column on the Internet. I never did thank Vice President Alpha Gump for his timely discovery of same. That was a busy time for him. His main job then was keelhauling Governor Dukakis – “Competence, not character”, remember? – for giving a weekend furlough to convicted rapist murderer Willie Horton who, mirabalie dictum, raped and murdered again. That’s one of the beauties of modern American Liberals. “They never let you down.”
“People should be required…” is the war cry of the Democratic Party. It is the iron fist in the iron glove. It doesn’t matter what the subject is. Light bulbs, teenage obesity, Gibson guitars, 5th trimester abortions, drowning polar bears, Affirmative Action, furbish louseworts, Global WarmingCoolingClimateChange, bad war vs. good war, green jobs, “Pass the bill so we can see what’s in it”, the minimum wage, bad Bush deficits vs.
good Obama deficits, believing that making the rich poorer will make the poor richer, skipping the part where Keynes says tax cuts are must in a recession, “Will no one rid me of that damned Constitution”? airport groping, eating your seed corn, “fairness”, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the prototypical modern American Liberal Nazi, “reset” buttons – Thank God that tomorrow is a holiday! Listing all those sins could cause terminal carpal tunnel syndrome. I’ll dip both hands in freezing pickle brine like the morning after medicine.
“People should be required…” must be offset by “Quis custodes custodiet?”. Translation? Send a SASE.
“Average Americans are probably the world’s least informed people.” Would it mark me as a knuckle dragging, homophobic, gun toting, Tea Partying, Global Warming denying zealot if I were [N.B. the use of the subjunctive] to ask for the whole list?
Where do we rank compared to the Uighurs? How about the mighty Flems and their eternal foes, the stout Walloons? Serbs? Croats? The unfairly rich swells who summer on Martha’s Vineyard? The Kikuyus? The Goths? The people of Paraguay? The people of Zimbabwe? Les merdes du Quebec? The people who vote for Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters? The non-swimming Cubans? Los aficionados de Chavez? The people still yearning for Midnight Basketball? Wal*Mart haters? Moderate Muslim terrorists?
The election in 2008 of a total non-entity, a man devoid of any experience beyond that of perpetual victimhood, a man who would be hard pressed to find his ass using both his hands, may well buttress your argument.
I ask you to remember 1976 and 1980.
On the trip back to the White House after his inauguration in 1977 it became obvious to those Americans still capable of rational thought that America had blundered in electing Jimmy Carter. It took less than 3 years for him to convince the rest of America that he was without doubt the worst President of the 20th century. As soon as the Constitution allowed the “least informed average Americans” unelected him.
It may be too soon – it’s only 11 years into the new century – to give Lord Barack the Beneficent the same laurel earned by Clod Carter. He has set the bar of ineptitude so high that it would take 7 league boots to get near it.
One thought and one suggestion before getting back to the border for armed. night patrol.
Walls work very well when they are built to keep people. out Take a peek at China and the wall that Hadrian built. Both worked. The one best remembered for keeping people in, the Berlin Wall, worked for almost 30 years.
Obama said he wanted to “transform society”. I’ll start by transforming the way English is taught in this country. Serious thought must be given to Napoleon’s rule before a battle. 3 soldiers were chosen at random and tried for cowardice. They were found guilty and executed. He said it “encouraged the others”. It would work wonders with syntactically challenged teachers.
The thought is that the hiring of English teachers should be given the same status as the hiring of the football coach. Macbeth must be on par with the tight end coach. The retention and promotion of both should be on parallel track. Diagramming a sentence should be as important as attacking a two-deep zone. Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda holds no water in the post-game film review. It should be given less tolerance in the FCATs. Try it. In fact it should be “required”.
Kevin Smith
PS – As to “conferring lifetime titles”…My father was born before man flew. He was graduated from grammar school on a Friday night. Saturday morning he was shoveling coal at the end of 22nd street in Bayonne, NJ. He was 26 years old before he went to high school. He was 36 years old when he passed his Bar exam. He won a lot of money betting on Truman in 1948. When he died, after man went to the moon, walked around, and came back, and after his time on the Bench, he was still called “Judge”. What’s your problem with that?
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Stephen L. Goldstein The Sun-Sentinel
August 24, 2011
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: New Tea Party outrage! Red men give Black men the boot! Kemo Sabe wants to know wazupwidat.
My dear Professor.
In my Western travels I came across what may be the worst offense yet to have been caused by the accursed Tea Party.
It seems that the “sovereign” Cherokee nation, a nation soon to be part of the Security Council of the beloved United Nations, a nation with a better credit rating than its former keeper, has decided to deport their ubermenschen. [And I’ll bet you thought Arizona was hard on undocumented visitors]
The evil White man exiled the noble Red man from the Eastern United States in 1838. They were allowed to take their personal property with them. They took their Black slaves. After all, somebody had to clean the teepee when Chief Kickapoo was talking to Manitou.
Fast forward to today.
Descendants of those Black slaves, long considered Cherokees, have been voted off the island. Not only have they been denied more than 150 years of a common heritage of scalping, cattle rustling, and buffalo hunting they are now cut off from owning casinos.
Who but a Sarah Palin could have orchestrated such an evil symphony? That she was able to turn these irenic Noble Savages into heartless rotters is a testament to her growing demonic power. Say what you will about the excesses of the Salem witch trial but when was the last time you had a witch problem there? Let’s not rule it out for her.
I tell you because you are my favorite ink-stained modern American Liberal wretch. I hope you will rally to the cause of these Diaspora bound Black/Red men. I know of your concern for tran-gendered, nongendered, u-gendered, and degendered teens. Imagine being Black and Red and trending androgynous. Oh, the horrors of it!
At the very least you can reach out to Broward’s resident Hecate, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, our own Medusa wanabee, to save some shovel ready jobs in Summer of Recovery 2. Maybe you could get some of Florida’s own abos, the Seminoles, the Osceolas, and the fiercely feral Fugowis to teach these displaced persons how to hire Eye-Ties to run their soon to be built casinos. The first one featuring a nightly replay of Little Big Horn will be so popular it will be able to put a triple zero slot on its roulette table.
I hope that these not quite Red men don’t get the Wounded Knee treatment. As the paradigmatic template used to measure guilty White men I want you to open your modern American Liberals bag of tricks to help these undeserving victims of life’s circumstances. It’s not too late to prevent a replay of Last of the Mohicans.
I was going to sign off on this when word reached me in Texas, the Reddest of the Blessed Red states, of the earthquake in Washington. I am sure that the spirit of Woodward and Bernstein lives on. If you set some of your more inquiring hounds on the trail – What’s Janet Cook doing these days? Can you find any of Walter Duranty’s spawn? – I am sure you will find the fine hand of Halliburton behind the sudden shift of tectonic plates, not Teutonic plates as Birdbrain Bozo Barack said.
Where was Congressman West when the Richter scale went minor league berserk? How about Senator Rubio? You know that there are no coincidences in political life. Don’t you think it a bit too passing strange that Darth Cheney’s bilious bio, “Snarling Lies I Told The American People” is published and then the Washington Monument cracks?
Do you know if Van Jones, the Blackest Green man man in America, will speak at the 10th anniversary of the WOG terrorist attack?
Kevin Smith
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: New Tea Party outrage! Red men give Black men the boot! Kemo Sabe wants to know wazupwidat.
My dear Professor.
In my Western travels I came across what may be the worst offense yet to have been caused by the accursed Tea Party.
It seems that the “sovereign” Cherokee nation, a nation soon to be part of the Security Council of the beloved United Nations, a nation with a better credit rating than its former keeper, has decided to deport their ubermenschen. [And I’ll bet you thought Arizona was hard on undocumented visitors]
The evil White man exiled the noble Red man from the Eastern United States in 1838. They were allowed to take their personal property with them. They took their Black slaves. After all, somebody had to clean the teepee when Chief Kickapoo was talking to Manitou.
Fast forward to today.
Descendants of those Black slaves, long considered Cherokees, have been voted off the island. Not only have they been denied more than 150 years of a common heritage of scalping, cattle rustling, and buffalo hunting they are now cut off from owning casinos.
Who but a Sarah Palin could have orchestrated such an evil symphony? That she was able to turn these irenic Noble Savages into heartless rotters is a testament to her growing demonic power. Say what you will about the excesses of the Salem witch trial but when was the last time you had a witch problem there? Let’s not rule it out for her.
I tell you because you are my favorite ink-stained modern American Liberal wretch. I hope you will rally to the cause of these Diaspora bound Black/Red men. I know of your concern for tran-gendered, nongendered, u-gendered, and degendered teens. Imagine being Black and Red and trending androgynous. Oh, the horrors of it!
At the very least you can reach out to Broward’s resident Hecate, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, our own Medusa wanabee, to save some shovel ready jobs in Summer of Recovery 2. Maybe you could get some of Florida’s own abos, the Seminoles, the Osceolas, and the fiercely feral Fugowis to teach these displaced persons how to hire Eye-Ties to run their soon to be built casinos. The first one featuring a nightly replay of Little Big Horn will be so popular it will be able to put a triple zero slot on its roulette table.
I hope that these not quite Red men don’t get the Wounded Knee treatment. As the paradigmatic template used to measure guilty White men I want you to open your modern American Liberals bag of tricks to help these undeserving victims of life’s circumstances. It’s not too late to prevent a replay of Last of the Mohicans.
I was going to sign off on this when word reached me in Texas, the Reddest of the Blessed Red states, of the earthquake in Washington. I am sure that the spirit of Woodward and Bernstein lives on. If you set some of your more inquiring hounds on the trail – What’s Janet Cook doing these days? Can you find any of Walter Duranty’s spawn? – I am sure you will find the fine hand of Halliburton behind the sudden shift of tectonic plates, not Teutonic plates as Birdbrain Bozo Barack said.
Where was Congressman West when the Richter scale went minor league berserk? How about Senator Rubio? You know that there are no coincidences in political life. Don’t you think it a bit too passing strange that Darth Cheney’s bilious bio, “Snarling Lies I Told The American People” is published and then the Washington Monument cracks?
Do you know if Van Jones, the Blackest Green man man in America, will speak at the 10th anniversary of the WOG terrorist attack?
Kevin Smith
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Gary Stein The Sun-Sentinel
August 17, 2011
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: “Artwork Isn’t the Best Use Of $610,000 In Public Funds” – Your column on the uses of public moneys, “what were you thinking?” the rule of “de gustibus”, and, perhaps, a sublimely teachable moment.
Big Stein:
Before revealing two things about public money and public art and the unspoken nexus between them and modern American Liberalism full disclosure demands that I reveal that I spent much unhappy time in a Federal Courthouse in lower Manhattan. It was the one made famous by Tom Wolfe’s comments on “Tilted Arc”. It was a 4 inch thick, 10 feet high, and 25 feet long parabolic hunk of rusted metal plopped down in the interior courtyard. Too bad the construction couldn’t have waited until we borrowed the money from the Bank of Wong to finance it. If enough nouveau riche Mandarin or Hunanese tourists saw it they might have gone home and tossed their inscrutable rascals out for wasting their money.
#1 – Broward County Mayor Sue Gunzberger, a title sometimes worn by the smartest bear in the zoo or the county’s tallest midget, says, with absolutely no hint of wryness or absurdity, says “beauty and solitude” are important in front of a to be built courthouse because sometimes the day inside will be “heavy”. If the day inside includes the possibility of the Judge asking if you brought your tooth brush it could be very “heavy”. If it involves something as mundane as the Judge saying that contracts are not only binding at parties it still could be “heavy”.
Commissioner Gunzberger, being one of the legion of mush brained modern American Liberals nesting in Broward County, not only proselytizes such “balloon juice”, she votes her conscience in such matters.
She confirms one of the unassailable truths of contemporary American life. Giving a modern American Liberal access to any check book other than her own is like giving your hormone raging 17 year old the keys to your car, said car having a case of beer in the front seat. I was going to say firewater to the Indians but I can’t risk a nocturnal visit from the PC speech squad of the Perpetually Outraged Sons of Cochise.
But then I got to #2. I quote in its entirety
“Conservatism is not my one of my favorite words.”
That’s what my copy said. Honest. Have the proof reader flogged. A dozen well laid on will suffice if it’s a first offense.
It wasn’t as bad as Al Sharpton saying that adjectives can double as gerunds and snarling that the subjunctive is racist. Any use of litotes by him is absolutely and positively unintended. It wasn’t as bad as Barney Frank’s televised eructation. It wasn’t as bad as Senator Stabenow [D-MI] saying that if you want proof of Global Warming fly from Utopia to the Land of Rainbow Stew and feel how hot it is at 35,000 feet.
It wasn’t as bad as the Quixotic quest of Lord Barack the Beneficent to find a rare first edition of “The Ivy League Guide to English/Austrian Grammar and Composition”. I hope he won’t have to go to all 57 or was it 58 states to find it. His Death Star Debt Laden Bus – Ken Kesey would have loved it [Tom Wolfe, yet again] – gets an MPG rating not as bad as an F-16 but not as good as an Abrams A1A tank. As an alumnus of the Concorde I am pretty sure that it is as good as that proud bird. Talk about carbon footprints! It’s about the same as Chicago. Perhaps he can find the “shovel ready” jobs promised in last year’s “Summer of Recovery”. Perhaps not. Can I mention the inconvenient fact that the Damn thing was made in Canada? I can’t? Drat.
I spent a big part of yesterday reading yet more about Russell Kirk.
You can’t read Kirk without bumping into Edmund Burke. Fast forward and you find yourself arm wrestling with T.S.Eliot. Kirk without Burke or Eliot would be like Damian without Pythias or Achilles without Patroclus.
One of the mental warm ups I do when any name from the above paragraph enters the arena is to construct a parallel universe that has but one free flying Death Star; modern American Liberalism.
Who is the counterpart to Edmund Burke in the writings, assuming there are any, of modern American Liberalism?
Which 20th century modern American Liberal poet speaks to modern man like T.S.Eliot? Please don’t say Rod McKuen.
Is there a modern American Liberal chronicler like Kirk?
Kirk can draw from Johnson, Madison, Randolph, Wadsworth, Tennyson, Brownson, Newman, Disraeli, Kipling, Chesterton, Yeats, Babbit, Faulkner, Orwell, von Mises, Tate, Koestler, Dos Passos, Warren, Chambers, Friedman, Hayek, Bradford, Nash, Dulles….the list goes on and on.
Waiting to be summoned are Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Aquinas. Do you agree that we can call that a deep bench?
Let’s assume a modern American Liberal chronicler was to appear.
Saul Alinsky, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, John Dewey, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Mead, Rachel Carson, Charles Reich, Alvy Singer, Paul Ehrlich, Alpha Gump….an absolute Murderers’ Row, no? I know that when you strike the pitcher out it goes into the scorebook as a K. Shouldn’t it be asterisked?
KS
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: “Artwork Isn’t the Best Use Of $610,000 In Public Funds” – Your column on the uses of public moneys, “what were you thinking?” the rule of “de gustibus”, and, perhaps, a sublimely teachable moment.
Big Stein:
Before revealing two things about public money and public art and the unspoken nexus between them and modern American Liberalism full disclosure demands that I reveal that I spent much unhappy time in a Federal Courthouse in lower Manhattan. It was the one made famous by Tom Wolfe’s comments on “Tilted Arc”. It was a 4 inch thick, 10 feet high, and 25 feet long parabolic hunk of rusted metal plopped down in the interior courtyard. Too bad the construction couldn’t have waited until we borrowed the money from the Bank of Wong to finance it. If enough nouveau riche Mandarin or Hunanese tourists saw it they might have gone home and tossed their inscrutable rascals out for wasting their money.
#1 – Broward County Mayor Sue Gunzberger, a title sometimes worn by the smartest bear in the zoo or the county’s tallest midget, says, with absolutely no hint of wryness or absurdity, says “beauty and solitude” are important in front of a to be built courthouse because sometimes the day inside will be “heavy”. If the day inside includes the possibility of the Judge asking if you brought your tooth brush it could be very “heavy”. If it involves something as mundane as the Judge saying that contracts are not only binding at parties it still could be “heavy”.
Commissioner Gunzberger, being one of the legion of mush brained modern American Liberals nesting in Broward County, not only proselytizes such “balloon juice”, she votes her conscience in such matters.
She confirms one of the unassailable truths of contemporary American life. Giving a modern American Liberal access to any check book other than her own is like giving your hormone raging 17 year old the keys to your car, said car having a case of beer in the front seat. I was going to say firewater to the Indians but I can’t risk a nocturnal visit from the PC speech squad of the Perpetually Outraged Sons of Cochise.
But then I got to #2. I quote in its entirety
“Conservatism is not my one of my favorite words.”
That’s what my copy said. Honest. Have the proof reader flogged. A dozen well laid on will suffice if it’s a first offense.
It wasn’t as bad as Al Sharpton saying that adjectives can double as gerunds and snarling that the subjunctive is racist. Any use of litotes by him is absolutely and positively unintended. It wasn’t as bad as Barney Frank’s televised eructation. It wasn’t as bad as Senator Stabenow [D-MI] saying that if you want proof of Global Warming fly from Utopia to the Land of Rainbow Stew and feel how hot it is at 35,000 feet.
It wasn’t as bad as the Quixotic quest of Lord Barack the Beneficent to find a rare first edition of “The Ivy League Guide to English/Austrian Grammar and Composition”. I hope he won’t have to go to all 57 or was it 58 states to find it. His Death Star Debt Laden Bus – Ken Kesey would have loved it [Tom Wolfe, yet again] – gets an MPG rating not as bad as an F-16 but not as good as an Abrams A1A tank. As an alumnus of the Concorde I am pretty sure that it is as good as that proud bird. Talk about carbon footprints! It’s about the same as Chicago. Perhaps he can find the “shovel ready” jobs promised in last year’s “Summer of Recovery”. Perhaps not. Can I mention the inconvenient fact that the Damn thing was made in Canada? I can’t? Drat.
I spent a big part of yesterday reading yet more about Russell Kirk.
You can’t read Kirk without bumping into Edmund Burke. Fast forward and you find yourself arm wrestling with T.S.Eliot. Kirk without Burke or Eliot would be like Damian without Pythias or Achilles without Patroclus.
One of the mental warm ups I do when any name from the above paragraph enters the arena is to construct a parallel universe that has but one free flying Death Star; modern American Liberalism.
Who is the counterpart to Edmund Burke in the writings, assuming there are any, of modern American Liberalism?
Which 20th century modern American Liberal poet speaks to modern man like T.S.Eliot? Please don’t say Rod McKuen.
Is there a modern American Liberal chronicler like Kirk?
Kirk can draw from Johnson, Madison, Randolph, Wadsworth, Tennyson, Brownson, Newman, Disraeli, Kipling, Chesterton, Yeats, Babbit, Faulkner, Orwell, von Mises, Tate, Koestler, Dos Passos, Warren, Chambers, Friedman, Hayek, Bradford, Nash, Dulles….the list goes on and on.
Waiting to be summoned are Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Aquinas. Do you agree that we can call that a deep bench?
Let’s assume a modern American Liberal chronicler was to appear.
Saul Alinsky, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, John Dewey, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Mead, Rachel Carson, Charles Reich, Alvy Singer, Paul Ehrlich, Alpha Gump….an absolute Murderers’ Row, no? I know that when you strike the pitcher out it goes into the scorebook as a K. Shouldn’t it be asterisked?
KS
Monday, August 15, 2011
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
If you thought a government capable of spending $600,000.00 – 40% of it borrowed – to study the relationship between the size of a man’s penis and whether or not the short stick holder will be the catcher on the Hershey Highway Traveling Javelin Team would be incapable of doing anything great you would be forgiven.
Buttressing that argument is the news that the President and his Readin’, Ritin’, & Rithmetic Czar, neither of whom has any of their children in any of the really fine public schools in Washington, D.C., decided that the “No Child Left Behind” law is too tough on the tots. It seems that not enough of the nippers can pass it. Their solution, the paradigmatic template so beloved by modern American Liberals, was simple. Don’t enforce the law. Specifically, don’t enforce the law in states where the kids don’t do well on tests. [Only a cad would suggest that a poorly hitting Little League team be given 4 strikes or that a very tall basketball team be forced to have an obese melanin challenged point guard]
Is it permitted to ask how an admitted Constitutional scholar could have forgotten Article 2, Section 3 of said Constitution? It says “…he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed”. There are no exceptions for ones that the President doesn’t like. In fact, there are no exceptions.
Maybe it’s time to bring back my idea to change pi to 3.0
Doing that would increase everyone’s geometry grade. Self-esteem would soar. Perhaps it would lead to a decrease in teenage bullying. In a real “Git’r done” mood it would be a Win/Win/Win/Win deal.
It might be tough on any future Bridges to Nowhere but, to quote the great Lord Keynes, “In the long run we’re all dead”.
It is hard to believe but this country once did great things.
We are within the octave of the 66th anniversary of the most successful arms control treaty of the 20th century. It is so successful that it is in the 2nd decade of the 21st century. In an age where less than 30 year old football stadiums are considered out of date it is an achievement worthy of a secular Te Deum.
In less than 4 days of intense negotiation, beginning in the skies above Hiroshima and ending with a bang at Nagasaki, the United States of America ended World War 2.
Nobody, specifically Harry Truman or Paul Tibbets, got a Nobel Peace Prize for what they did. The framers of the Kellogg-Briand Naval Treaty got a passel of them. Not until Arafat, Rigoberta Menchu, Billy Carter’s brother, Potty Mouth Alpha Gump, and Lord Barack the Beneficent became winners in the International Affirmative Action Big Time Poke Uncle Sam in the Eye sweepstakes have more laurels been granted. Despite solemn promises about lions and lambs two of the signators, Germany and Japan, tried to sink the ship my wife’s father, Lt. Cdr. Walter Chapman, served on. It was General Quarters on two oceans. As bad as that was – 11 years – it was exponentially better than the deal at Munich. That one lasted about ½ the time needed for a decent rendition of Flight of the Valkyries.
Truman, “Captain Harry” to the men he commanded in World War 1, said, “If the American people knew that I had a weapon that could end the war and didn’t use it they would have been right to run me out of town on a rail”. The United States and Great Britain were taking 1,000 casualties a day. It is estimated that Operation Olympic Coronet, the invasion of the home islands of Japan, would bring an additional 1,000,000 casualties. The short, still correct retort to the mush brained cry “No More Hiroshimas” is “No More Pearl Harbors”. Nolo me tangere cum impecunis is still on the books.
Eisenhower commanded 10,000,000 men. He ended the war in Western Europe 11months and 4 days after his armies landed. When he said, “I will go to Korea” the boys in the Kremlin knew he wasn’t going there for the waters. The shooting stopped 6 months after he was sworn in.
Admiral Arleigh Burke, John McCain’s father’s boss in WW2, said he did 2 things well when he was in the Navy: he improved the landscaping at the Pentagon and he was responsible for the Polaris missile. It would have made no sense to shoot something 3,000 miles into the men’s room window at the Kremlin and have it filled with water balloons.
1962 and 1973 validated yet again the unilaterally imposed treaty. The jury is still out on whether or not President Bush, invoking the Cartago delenda est maxim, should have used some of the small ones to open Friday prayers in a half a dozen mosques.
Since it was OK to start the Israeli/Egyptian/Syrian/Hashemite/Shia/Sunni/WOG war on Yom Kippur and since turnabout is fair play maybe Ramadan would have been a lovely day to start a war.
It could end tomorrow.
We know it didn’t end yesterday.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Kevin Smith
Stephen L. Goldstein The Sun Sentinel
August 7, 2011
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel
RE: “3 Incidents Give Strong Message” – Some comments on today’s typical Jeremiad laced column and how the Republicans, those rotters, those bounders, caused them.
My dear Professor,
As to your first 2 incidents I suggest a possible response, not an answer, can be found in poetry.
“Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part. There, all honor lies.”
As to your 3rd incident, the one where the knuckle dragging, gun toting, snake handling, homophobic, racist, Koch Brothers financed, Tea Partying, Global Warming denying louts were able to overcome the oodles of cash from that great Hungarian-American George Soros, a man whose CV lists employment experience under the Nazis and the Communists, were able to impose their evil will on the country, doubtless to the disproportional detriment of women and minorities, my mind boggles.
All and all a good day’s work from the Nixon, Reagan, Bush stalkers, don’t you think?
As an aside, let me show you one of my unknown qualities. It is my attempting to fulfill a Spiritual Work of Mercy. Christ instructed His followers to “instruct the uninformed”. Whether you are able to differentiate between Caravaggio and Chiaroscuro is of no great import. Based on your writings you are abysmally ignorant of how the real world works. I reach out in the spirit of non-denominational charity to show you that, in the end, debits always equal credits.
The vote to increase the Federal debt limit, a vote similar to the one that Senator Obama and all, all as in 100%, of the Democratic members of the Senate voted against in 2007, has nothing to do with default. I tremble when I think you may call me a cynic if I mention that a Republican was President in 2007.
Try to imagine the Federal debt limit as the limit on your credit card. When you “max out” the card it does not – repeat – trigger default. As long as you service the debt, that means to the uninitiated that you are paying it down, you are not in default. No number of really wretched rascally Republicans can undo that. Got it? Want me to repeat it? There will be a test. In your case, it will be an open book quiz.
Alas, we live in a world where “stones are hard and water is wet”. This is hard for a fire breathing, non-thinking modern American Liberal to grasp let alone understand. That’s why you are able to write your last sentence.
“But we should honor everyone like them, living and dead,
by having the guts to take back America”
“Them” are your first two “incidents”.
#1 – Young victims of Progeria, a brutally cruel disabling and disfiguring disease are interviewed by Barbara Walters.
#2 – A friend of yours, a man already on the 18th green, a nonagerian who has had a stroke, has had his ticket stamped for the one way voyage to the “undiscovered country”.
Pray tell how will “taking back the country” benefit them?
Speaking of “taking back the country” I may be having a senior moment. Wasn’t there an election in 2008? Didn’t the country elect a man who never once in his adult life did anything save getting his wife a $4,000 a week raise as payment for getting her employer a $1,000,000.00 earmark?
Didn’t he travel to either 57 or 58 states and promise to calm the seas, reverse the tides, and cool the earth? Did not the country give him overwhelming majorities in both Houses?
Couldn’t some people say that the country was “taken back”?
What will you do if the ones who exercise “raw revenge” and “take back America” are the wrong people? What will the fire breathing, card carrying, mush brained, pointy headed modern American Liberals do if the people throw Bozo Barack out?
I had hoped that I would never have to compare another President to Jimmy Carter. That he was the worst President in the 20th century there can be no doubt, debate, or dispute. It only took the boob in the White House 3 years to have an insurmountable lead for honors in the 21st century. And he has 15 months to go! He could turn a 2 car funeral into a FUBARed train wreck.
He is modern American Liberalism at its best or worst. To an adult, even an “average” one, the words are interchangeable.
On behalf of all “decent, average Americans”, people like his “average white grandmother”, let him be gone.
Kevin Smith
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel
RE: “3 Incidents Give Strong Message” – Some comments on today’s typical Jeremiad laced column and how the Republicans, those rotters, those bounders, caused them.
My dear Professor,
As to your first 2 incidents I suggest a possible response, not an answer, can be found in poetry.
“Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part. There, all honor lies.”
As to your 3rd incident, the one where the knuckle dragging, gun toting, snake handling, homophobic, racist, Koch Brothers financed, Tea Partying, Global Warming denying louts were able to overcome the oodles of cash from that great Hungarian-American George Soros, a man whose CV lists employment experience under the Nazis and the Communists, were able to impose their evil will on the country, doubtless to the disproportional detriment of women and minorities, my mind boggles.
All and all a good day’s work from the Nixon, Reagan, Bush stalkers, don’t you think?
As an aside, let me show you one of my unknown qualities. It is my attempting to fulfill a Spiritual Work of Mercy. Christ instructed His followers to “instruct the uninformed”. Whether you are able to differentiate between Caravaggio and Chiaroscuro is of no great import. Based on your writings you are abysmally ignorant of how the real world works. I reach out in the spirit of non-denominational charity to show you that, in the end, debits always equal credits.
The vote to increase the Federal debt limit, a vote similar to the one that Senator Obama and all, all as in 100%, of the Democratic members of the Senate voted against in 2007, has nothing to do with default. I tremble when I think you may call me a cynic if I mention that a Republican was President in 2007.
Try to imagine the Federal debt limit as the limit on your credit card. When you “max out” the card it does not – repeat – trigger default. As long as you service the debt, that means to the uninitiated that you are paying it down, you are not in default. No number of really wretched rascally Republicans can undo that. Got it? Want me to repeat it? There will be a test. In your case, it will be an open book quiz.
Alas, we live in a world where “stones are hard and water is wet”. This is hard for a fire breathing, non-thinking modern American Liberal to grasp let alone understand. That’s why you are able to write your last sentence.
“But we should honor everyone like them, living and dead,
by having the guts to take back America”
“Them” are your first two “incidents”.
#1 – Young victims of Progeria, a brutally cruel disabling and disfiguring disease are interviewed by Barbara Walters.
#2 – A friend of yours, a man already on the 18th green, a nonagerian who has had a stroke, has had his ticket stamped for the one way voyage to the “undiscovered country”.
Pray tell how will “taking back the country” benefit them?
Speaking of “taking back the country” I may be having a senior moment. Wasn’t there an election in 2008? Didn’t the country elect a man who never once in his adult life did anything save getting his wife a $4,000 a week raise as payment for getting her employer a $1,000,000.00 earmark?
Didn’t he travel to either 57 or 58 states and promise to calm the seas, reverse the tides, and cool the earth? Did not the country give him overwhelming majorities in both Houses?
Couldn’t some people say that the country was “taken back”?
What will you do if the ones who exercise “raw revenge” and “take back America” are the wrong people? What will the fire breathing, card carrying, mush brained, pointy headed modern American Liberals do if the people throw Bozo Barack out?
I had hoped that I would never have to compare another President to Jimmy Carter. That he was the worst President in the 20th century there can be no doubt, debate, or dispute. It only took the boob in the White House 3 years to have an insurmountable lead for honors in the 21st century. And he has 15 months to go! He could turn a 2 car funeral into a FUBARed train wreck.
He is modern American Liberalism at its best or worst. To an adult, even an “average” one, the words are interchangeable.
On behalf of all “decent, average Americans”, people like his “average white grandmother”, let him be gone.
Kevin Smith
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Gary Stein The Sun-Sentinel
August 3, 2011
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Cricket fields and modern American Liberalism – Their nexus and how your column today fails to make the fatal connection.
Big Stein,
I decided to vote against all – no exceptions, none – bond issues in 1990. I believed, believe, that they are in violation of Federal law, specifically the Truth in Lending Law.
A $100,000,000.00 bond issue to save the manatees, to fight teenage obesity and the bullying of tentative trans-gendered artistes, to shelter women of color who are single moms with children in need of a good Ritalin program AND Midnight Basketball who lack access to public transportation that could get them to a Wal*Mart where $4 prescriptions will exploit them, anything, everything, is illegal on its face.
Imagine you stumble into a used car lot. There, an enterprising suede shoe shod, electric blue slacked, with a matching restrained hibiscus shirt entrepreneur, sells you a gas guzzling, carbon belching, and polar bear drowning SUV.
He says he can arrange financing.
He must tell you how much the loan will cost if carried to term. He must tell you, doubtless invoking the sacred rule of 78, what the pre-payment penalties are. He must spell this out so that even Curly Biden will get it. Should he fail to do so you will get your car free plus 2 or 3 years of walking around money. If you have an above average werewolf on your side you could end up owning his lot.
Why are municipal bonds exempt from this?
Broward County built a cricket stadium to proclaim that they were not culturally arrogant. [Alas, the facts would support the interpretation you may be] Any sport that has a position called “silly mid-off” deserves to have a world class venue, right? The good people of Broward County should feel proud that they have been chosen to pay for this. Should cricket become part of March Madness it would be better to have a wave of tea drinking Pakis rather than a boatload of English fans, right?
Follow the math. I’ll try to write slowly.
$100,000,000.00 @ 5% for 30 years ain’t $100,000,000.00 in 30 years.
There is $150,000,000.00 in interest. Think 30 year mortgage.
The true cost of the loan is $250,000,000.00. That’s two hundred and fifty million dollars. “Pretty soon”, as Everett McKinley Dirksen used to say, “It adds up to real money.”
15 years ago, as a fresh faced newly arrived émigré, I had to explain to an earnest information officer of the Broward County Board of Education the difference between an expense budget and a capital budget. Although I spoke English it may as well have been Linear B or Pashto. She looked at me “like my nose was being eaten by weevils”. By now she’s probably a finalist for head customer service rep on the ObamaCare – That’s the word that head Hecate and the paradigmatic template of modern American Liberalism, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, wanted outlawed on the floor of the House, remember? – Death Panels.
Any chance for a bull ring?
It would be a Win/Win/Win.
It would show our multi-cultural streak.
It would cut back on excessive bovine methane eructations.
It would provide fresh beef for the homeless.
Broward County residents would be overjoyed to hit that 3 run homer.
Kevin Smith
Board Certified Life Coach
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: Cricket fields and modern American Liberalism – Their nexus and how your column today fails to make the fatal connection.
Big Stein,
I decided to vote against all – no exceptions, none – bond issues in 1990. I believed, believe, that they are in violation of Federal law, specifically the Truth in Lending Law.
A $100,000,000.00 bond issue to save the manatees, to fight teenage obesity and the bullying of tentative trans-gendered artistes, to shelter women of color who are single moms with children in need of a good Ritalin program AND Midnight Basketball who lack access to public transportation that could get them to a Wal*Mart where $4 prescriptions will exploit them, anything, everything, is illegal on its face.
Imagine you stumble into a used car lot. There, an enterprising suede shoe shod, electric blue slacked, with a matching restrained hibiscus shirt entrepreneur, sells you a gas guzzling, carbon belching, and polar bear drowning SUV.
He says he can arrange financing.
He must tell you how much the loan will cost if carried to term. He must tell you, doubtless invoking the sacred rule of 78, what the pre-payment penalties are. He must spell this out so that even Curly Biden will get it. Should he fail to do so you will get your car free plus 2 or 3 years of walking around money. If you have an above average werewolf on your side you could end up owning his lot.
Why are municipal bonds exempt from this?
Broward County built a cricket stadium to proclaim that they were not culturally arrogant. [Alas, the facts would support the interpretation you may be] Any sport that has a position called “silly mid-off” deserves to have a world class venue, right? The good people of Broward County should feel proud that they have been chosen to pay for this. Should cricket become part of March Madness it would be better to have a wave of tea drinking Pakis rather than a boatload of English fans, right?
Follow the math. I’ll try to write slowly.
$100,000,000.00 @ 5% for 30 years ain’t $100,000,000.00 in 30 years.
There is $150,000,000.00 in interest. Think 30 year mortgage.
The true cost of the loan is $250,000,000.00. That’s two hundred and fifty million dollars. “Pretty soon”, as Everett McKinley Dirksen used to say, “It adds up to real money.”
15 years ago, as a fresh faced newly arrived émigré, I had to explain to an earnest information officer of the Broward County Board of Education the difference between an expense budget and a capital budget. Although I spoke English it may as well have been Linear B or Pashto. She looked at me “like my nose was being eaten by weevils”. By now she’s probably a finalist for head customer service rep on the ObamaCare – That’s the word that head Hecate and the paradigmatic template of modern American Liberalism, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, wanted outlawed on the floor of the House, remember? – Death Panels.
Any chance for a bull ring?
It would be a Win/Win/Win.
It would show our multi-cultural streak.
It would cut back on excessive bovine methane eructations.
It would provide fresh beef for the homeless.
Broward County residents would be overjoyed to hit that 3 run homer.
Kevin Smith
Board Certified Life Coach
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