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September 22, 2012
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer
The Sun Sentinel
RE: “Sanctimonious drivel” and why it’s the only way out – Some comments on your Jeremiad on why Black males will never make it to the 1%.
Mr. Lyons,
Am I the only one to ask “What about Black females”? Your column makes you sound like you will be a postulant in the soon to be formed Taliban School of Smacking the Snot out of Uppity Chicks.
[I must add, because it is owed to the moral ledger, that your unrecognized Black females blow up the goals/quotas of Affirmative Action when it comes to abortion. Since Roe v Wade in 1973, 35% of the approximately 60,000,000 abortions have been performed on Black women. 22,000,000 Black babies have aborted by 6% of the population. How many potential Senior Editorial Writers have gone down the abattoir’s drain? If that’s not genocide, what is?]
You say that only “28% of Black students are academically prepared when they enter kindergarten”.
Did Wal-Mart cause that? Did Romney and the ghost of Richard Nixon cause that? Did Halliburton and the notorious Koch Brothers cause that? How about Reagan?
The Bushes – pere et fils – must have, right?
If I were to suggest that the absence of a male in the house may have an influence on it would I be branded with R, the Scarlet Letter of Racism?
Would it be politically incorrect of me to say that whatever strategies and tactics that have been tried since the War on Poverty began, a war that was begun with absolutely no exit strategy in sight, have been about as useful as teats on a bull?
Here are some questions.
Can you tell me why bad teachers are paid as much as good teachers? Can you tell me why bad teachers are paid at all? Can you tell me what curriculum coordinators do? Can you tell me what diversity coordinators do?
Tenure is offensive to Logic and inimical to the common weal.
Heart surgeons, point guards, airplane pilots, car salesmen, pop stars, chefs, - Can you see where I am going here? – have one thing in common. They all lack job security. The good ones are lionized. The bad ones get their asses kicked.
Why shouldn’t the French teacher be held to the same high, unforgiving standard as the football coach?
You say that a “multicultural curricula” – I would prefer the singular - “is one way to attract and hold a Black male student’s attention”. I point out that the exclusion of ½ of the student body is…is…stupidly sexist. What is the multicultural way to teach Geometry? Is there a hip-hop, rap, reggae, pants sagging, street cred, Bloods v Crips version of the table of valences that will soon make its appearance?
Speaking of “multiculturalism”, isn’t it time to make room for the first great multicultural poet? Barack Obama got a Nobel Prize for showing up. Rudyard Kipling wrote about the soul of man for decades. His work transcends race. “The sins we do two by two we pay for one by one” is an apt comment on the recent sexual escapades of the Broward Board of Education. Why not make it into a teachable moment?
”it’s not easy introducing innovation into a bureaucracy
that boasts of a class schedule still steeped in
America’s pre-industrial era…”
What the Hell in the name of an educated man, a man of any color, does that mean?
Do you mean Edmund Burke? Do you mean Samuel Johnson? Do you mean John Locke? Shakespeare? Dante? The year 1683? The year 1571? The year 732? Do you mean Plutarch? Do you mean Aeschylus? Homer?
“Young boys don’t like romance novels”
A story from more than 30 centuries ago. 20 years of war and love. It took the first ten to get her back. It took the second ten to get him back. I suggest you become familiar with the Iliad and the Odyssey. Guys dig it.
I don’t know if you have children. If you do I hope they are in public school. I know the President has children. They are in private school.
That is disgraceful.
Even with the ill-defined, mostly porous walls of conduct of modern American Liberalism that is a slap in the face to all the other occupants of public housing in Washington, DC. The District of Columbia has the highest per student expenditure in the universe. Why does the President spend $100,000 to send his daughters to private school? Why doesn’t he send his daughters to the really fine public schools in Washington?
Get back to me on that.
The Broward County Board of Education has announced that it will be a supporter, indeed an eager participant, in Gay Pride Month.
How does that help Black males get into college? Is there a category in the hated FCAT tests that includes Gay Pride? Musical comedy, fashion design, interior decorating, sensitivity seminars --- all have their uses in a post racial society. How do they help an underprepared Black male in his quest to construct an English declarative sentence? How does it help him balance a check book? Is a better understanding of the “down low” way of life a path that underprepared Black male students should be made aware of? Shouldn’t underprepared Black female students be made aware of the joys of Sapphic poetry? Haven’t they been ignored too long?
On the other hand it may be a bridge too far to ask for a system to help some underprepared Black males get through dissecting frogs or mastering logarithms if it can’t get the buses to run on time.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Maureen Dinnen Broward County Board of Education
September 21, 2012
Maureen Dinnen
Broward County Board of Education
RE: Jennifer Gottlieb, “the sins we do two by two we pay for one by one”, and things to look for in any candidate for public office. Some comments on the article in the Miami Herald that reads like afternoon TV.
Ms. Dinnen,
When you were running for the Board of Education I sent you a mildly chastising letter about your campaign mailers. That these were put together with no regard for Grammar or Syntax told me that whatever your purpose in being elected education was not high on your list. Some of the howlers, if memory serves, could be labeled under “egregious”.
Today’s lessons in Ethnics and History are offered in a spirit of “I know, you don’t, so listen up”.
It appears that Jennifer Gottlieb gives new meaning to the term “horizontal tango”. She was busier with her yoo-ha than the one legged entrant in the Ass Kicking contest. Who knows how many hombres filled Evita’s dance card? She had nothing on this dame. At least she got some songs written about her. Besides, in Broward County, a hotbed of modern American Liberalism, a coven filled with advocates of moral relativism, a place where Dr. Mengele would be elected overwhelmingly because of his progressive record on women’s reproductive rights, the public response would be “So what? They’re adults.”
The lesson in ethics is both priceless and senseless.
“Anthony Alfieri, director of the University of Miami’s Center
for Ethics and Public Service said there should be
rules preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s.”
Where has this beardless naïf been?
Would Agamemnon have gotten Ulysses and Achilles to sail to Troy if Helen had been a stay-at-home Mom? What did David send Bathsheba’s husband on a suicide mission if not for a bit of Old Testament gobble? The Camelot couple? Eloise and Abelard? Dante’s pair? Preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s? Madness. “Outlawing”, maybe. “Preventing”, never. Better you pass a rule allowing dawn to get past the rooster. Have we forgotten President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs, the King of the One-Eyed Trouser Snakes, after getting home from church and sending his wife and daughter to the second floor of the White House while he played “hide the salami” with an intern barely older than his daughter?
Being from Hudson County, New Jersey I am trying to see what was in it for the catcher in this indoor game of finding the elusive G spot. It appears that she didn’t do it for the money, the sign of an honest hooker. She did it for a happy beaver, a smiling bearded clam. Either way she is unfit for public service.
James Madison, and I hope that you know that in addition to being the 4th President of the United States that he wrote the Constitution, was asked what was the most important attribute to look for in any candidate for public office. “Character, Character is all” was his response.
Broward County can’t even get its school buses to run on time. Why should we expect some bimbo charged with the task of guarding school age children to keep her drawers on?
Kevin Smith
PS – Is there any truth to the rumor that she was going to have the local woodworking class put a portable French Knocking Shoppe on the roof of the Board building?
Maureen Dinnen
Broward County Board of Education
RE: Jennifer Gottlieb, “the sins we do two by two we pay for one by one”, and things to look for in any candidate for public office. Some comments on the article in the Miami Herald that reads like afternoon TV.
Ms. Dinnen,
When you were running for the Board of Education I sent you a mildly chastising letter about your campaign mailers. That these were put together with no regard for Grammar or Syntax told me that whatever your purpose in being elected education was not high on your list. Some of the howlers, if memory serves, could be labeled under “egregious”.
Today’s lessons in Ethnics and History are offered in a spirit of “I know, you don’t, so listen up”.
It appears that Jennifer Gottlieb gives new meaning to the term “horizontal tango”. She was busier with her yoo-ha than the one legged entrant in the Ass Kicking contest. Who knows how many hombres filled Evita’s dance card? She had nothing on this dame. At least she got some songs written about her. Besides, in Broward County, a hotbed of modern American Liberalism, a coven filled with advocates of moral relativism, a place where Dr. Mengele would be elected overwhelmingly because of his progressive record on women’s reproductive rights, the public response would be “So what? They’re adults.”
The lesson in ethics is both priceless and senseless.
“Anthony Alfieri, director of the University of Miami’s Center
for Ethics and Public Service said there should be
rules preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s.”
Where has this beardless naïf been?
Would Agamemnon have gotten Ulysses and Achilles to sail to Troy if Helen had been a stay-at-home Mom? What did David send Bathsheba’s husband on a suicide mission if not for a bit of Old Testament gobble? The Camelot couple? Eloise and Abelard? Dante’s pair? Preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s? Madness. “Outlawing”, maybe. “Preventing”, never. Better you pass a rule allowing dawn to get past the rooster. Have we forgotten President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs, the King of the One-Eyed Trouser Snakes, after getting home from church and sending his wife and daughter to the second floor of the White House while he played “hide the salami” with an intern barely older than his daughter?
Being from Hudson County, New Jersey I am trying to see what was in it for the catcher in this indoor game of finding the elusive G spot. It appears that she didn’t do it for the money, the sign of an honest hooker. She did it for a happy beaver, a smiling bearded clam. Either way she is unfit for public service.
James Madison, and I hope that you know that in addition to being the 4th President of the United States that he wrote the Constitution, was asked what was the most important attribute to look for in any candidate for public office. “Character, Character is all” was his response.
Broward County can’t even get its school buses to run on time. Why should we expect some bimbo charged with the task of guarding school age children to keep her drawers on?
Kevin Smith
PS – Is there any truth to the rumor that she was going to have the local woodworking class put a portable French Knocking Shoppe on the roof of the Board building?
Friday, September 21, 2012
September 21, 2012
Jacqueline Charles & Curtis Morgan
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza Miami,
FL 33132-1693
RE: Will no one rid me of those meddlesome skinks? – Some comments on your Page 1 article on whether we want Haitians to continue to live miserably or maybe, just maybe, let them have a chance to do something other than wash up on the beach.
Ms. Charles & Mr. Morgan,
ALL HAIL GAIA! ALL HAIL DEMETER! The other shoe, the one whistling in from the Land of Reason, is about to land right in the middle of totally organic, carbon footprintless, vegan tofu porridge, the one cooked by a combination of wind power, orvine eructations, and Solyndra solar power, which people have to be paid to eat. The best, the most strident, the most heads so far up their asses that they can fill their own teeth, the ones consumed by a condescending hubris that knows no bounds, environmentalists are rich White people living in fully developed countries. After they successfully picket any store daring to sell $28 a pound Patagonian Saw Tooth Bass they always need a new project. Since the heady days of Storm King they have persuaded America to accept the primacy of the snail darter, the furbish lousewort, the delhi fly, the spotted/speckled owl, the shy jackalope, the fearsome cupabara, the peripatetic Peter Pan pixie butterfly, the Leatherneck turtle, and the last proficiently practicing predator in the Florida swamp, Patsy the vegetarian pterodactyl, thereby trumping the interests of the only undefended, endangered species left on earth. I speak of course of man. Lest you think me to be the King of the Cruel World of Amateur Vivisectionists who never saw a baby seal he wouldn’t club into drowning polar bear canapés I report with great joy that my veterinary bills were far greater than my pediatrician bills. 4 very large dogs, 4 cats – one aggressive & 3 gentle, 1 turtle, 1 budgie, 1 boy and 1 girl. Falstaff, our first Old English sheepdog, had his own credit card at the Speyer Animal Hospital in Manhattan. He didn’t sign it; I did. He died on the operating table at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine. His surgeon was Doctor John Kirk, DVM, who wrote the definitive book on canine skin diseases. The final month for Sharpton, our last cat, cost not quite $1000. These bombastic charlatans, having conquered the guilt-ridden 1% with a combination of anti-intellectual and, worse, anti-rational arguments – [Bambi is not a proper guide for game management. A rutting buck does not stop, repeat, does not stop to look at a yearling because he thinks it may be his.] have moved on to more fertile ground. The new world for them to conquer – They look out “silent, upon a peak on Nantucket” – is Haiti. Let me, as the token White man, as the descendant of all those rapacious DWEMs, as a former 1%er with a carbon footprint equal to the Budweiser horses, as the last living proponent of the many benefits of DDT, as a Concorde frequent flier, as the driver of a 12 cylinder, 160 MPH Jaguar, as someone who sent plumes of Right Guard deodorant up at the fragile – still fragile after all those years? – ozone layer, as someone who mined coal;, and as someone who values one human life far more than all the damned butterflies in Christendom, say that I caused all the woes, each and every last one, that perpetually befall Haiti. The next terrible thing to come down on them will be rich White people telling them that giving up a new harbor, one that could bring in, at the very least, the benefits of the mid-20th century to their country, is no big deal. After all, the maritime skink, a creature known for…for…I don’t know what the varmint does. I know! It’s the nautical canary in the coal mine and it must be protected at all costs. Some of those costs will be infants dying because ships can’t unload their cargo. As to the coral, grind it up and sell it to nouveau riche Chinamen as a better pecker powder than rhino horn. The other explanation is that rich White people don’t give a damn about the lesser breeds save for keeping them around so they can feel superior. Like an environmental porch monkey. 35% of all the abortions in this country since Roe v Wade have been performed on Black women. Kill them in the womb or starve them to death by stopping a modern port. No big difference, right? Kevin Smith
Jacqueline Charles & Curtis Morgan
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza Miami,
FL 33132-1693
RE: Will no one rid me of those meddlesome skinks? – Some comments on your Page 1 article on whether we want Haitians to continue to live miserably or maybe, just maybe, let them have a chance to do something other than wash up on the beach.
Ms. Charles & Mr. Morgan,
ALL HAIL GAIA! ALL HAIL DEMETER! The other shoe, the one whistling in from the Land of Reason, is about to land right in the middle of totally organic, carbon footprintless, vegan tofu porridge, the one cooked by a combination of wind power, orvine eructations, and Solyndra solar power, which people have to be paid to eat. The best, the most strident, the most heads so far up their asses that they can fill their own teeth, the ones consumed by a condescending hubris that knows no bounds, environmentalists are rich White people living in fully developed countries. After they successfully picket any store daring to sell $28 a pound Patagonian Saw Tooth Bass they always need a new project. Since the heady days of Storm King they have persuaded America to accept the primacy of the snail darter, the furbish lousewort, the delhi fly, the spotted/speckled owl, the shy jackalope, the fearsome cupabara, the peripatetic Peter Pan pixie butterfly, the Leatherneck turtle, and the last proficiently practicing predator in the Florida swamp, Patsy the vegetarian pterodactyl, thereby trumping the interests of the only undefended, endangered species left on earth. I speak of course of man. Lest you think me to be the King of the Cruel World of Amateur Vivisectionists who never saw a baby seal he wouldn’t club into drowning polar bear canapés I report with great joy that my veterinary bills were far greater than my pediatrician bills. 4 very large dogs, 4 cats – one aggressive & 3 gentle, 1 turtle, 1 budgie, 1 boy and 1 girl. Falstaff, our first Old English sheepdog, had his own credit card at the Speyer Animal Hospital in Manhattan. He didn’t sign it; I did. He died on the operating table at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine. His surgeon was Doctor John Kirk, DVM, who wrote the definitive book on canine skin diseases. The final month for Sharpton, our last cat, cost not quite $1000. These bombastic charlatans, having conquered the guilt-ridden 1% with a combination of anti-intellectual and, worse, anti-rational arguments – [Bambi is not a proper guide for game management. A rutting buck does not stop, repeat, does not stop to look at a yearling because he thinks it may be his.] have moved on to more fertile ground. The new world for them to conquer – They look out “silent, upon a peak on Nantucket” – is Haiti. Let me, as the token White man, as the descendant of all those rapacious DWEMs, as a former 1%er with a carbon footprint equal to the Budweiser horses, as the last living proponent of the many benefits of DDT, as a Concorde frequent flier, as the driver of a 12 cylinder, 160 MPH Jaguar, as someone who sent plumes of Right Guard deodorant up at the fragile – still fragile after all those years? – ozone layer, as someone who mined coal;, and as someone who values one human life far more than all the damned butterflies in Christendom, say that I caused all the woes, each and every last one, that perpetually befall Haiti. The next terrible thing to come down on them will be rich White people telling them that giving up a new harbor, one that could bring in, at the very least, the benefits of the mid-20th century to their country, is no big deal. After all, the maritime skink, a creature known for…for…I don’t know what the varmint does. I know! It’s the nautical canary in the coal mine and it must be protected at all costs. Some of those costs will be infants dying because ships can’t unload their cargo. As to the coral, grind it up and sell it to nouveau riche Chinamen as a better pecker powder than rhino horn. The other explanation is that rich White people don’t give a damn about the lesser breeds save for keeping them around so they can feel superior. Like an environmental porch monkey. 35% of all the abortions in this country since Roe v Wade have been performed on Black women. Kill them in the womb or starve them to death by stopping a modern port. No big difference, right? Kevin Smith
Thursday, September 20, 2012
September 20, 2012
Joy-Ann Reid The Miami Herald
RE: “Those words mean exactly what I want them to mean” - Some comments on your through a looking glass world
Ms. Reid,
What was it that Vice President Curly Biden said about then candidate Senator B. Hussein Obama? Now I remember. He was “clean, bright, and articulate”. That’s you to a tee You and the best President we have share a few traits. One of them is the ability to never let an inconvenient fact, one that is fully larded with truth, interfere with your thesis. A few points before I get to the lie worthy of Bill Clinton.
#1 – “Job creation” – Have you ever been hired by someone poorer than you?
#2 - “Taxes” – Senator Lard Kennedy’s estate is in probate. One of the assets is a trust created in 1936. Don’t you think the 99% have the right to see what’s in it and to share in the honey pot that has been growing untaxed for 77 years? Jeezus Haitch Keerist! His father, that old corsair Papa Joe, having stolen so much money that people considering suicide would ask if they could jump off his wallet, knew some of his sons would be layabouts and wastrels. He thought it a father’s duty to provide for them. 1936? No cellphones, no DVDs, no social media, Joe DiMaggio’s first year with the Yankees, Alger Hiss was working his way up the ladder in the Executive branch of the government, Dixiecrats running Congress, DC3s, Hudson and Packard cars, cream on the top of the delivered bottle of milk, cigarettes without guilt, 5 cent beer, no DH. Would it be fair to say that Teddy spoke like a modern American Liberal and lived like rich, rotten Republican?
#3 – Can you give me an example of any country, anywhere and anytime, taxing itself to prosperity? Take your time. But that’s not why I write. The Great Reagan was right when he said “it’s not that modern American Liberals were stupid, it’s just that there’s so much that they didn’t know”. Consider the following statement in its entirety. “Conservatives bitterly fought against pensions for civil war veterans In the 19th century, and Social Security and Medicare in the 20th.” The Miami Herald Page 11A Today
#4 – The term “Conservative” would not have been used at the time of the American Civil War.
#5 - The Republican Party was formed as the anti-slavery party. Honest. Look it up.
#6 – The Democratic Party did not want to fight the Civil War. Since they weren’t opposed to slavery a strong case can be made for them being in favor of it. The election of 1864, the election that saw the New York Times call Lincoln a “baboon”, the election that saw the Democratic Party candidate campaign on a negotiated settlement with the South leaving slavery in place, the election that was in doubt until Sherman’s “surge” took Atlanta just before the election, was the one where the Democratic Party became entwined with the nascent Ku Klux Klan and with Southern states introducing and enforcing the most anti-Black laws imaginable. By 1916 a Democratic President endorsed both “Birth of a Nation” and the huge Klan parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
#7 – There was a Republican Congressman from New Jersey, Robert Kean, who earned the sobriquet “Mr. Social Security” because he was the member who made smooth the sharp edges of partisanship in Congress. It is well to note that the same Congress had just passed the Davis-Bacon Act. It was the most anti-Black Federal legislation passed in the 20th century. It still is because it is still the law of the land.
#8 – I suggest you take a closer look at the last paragraph of Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address. It is where he commits the nation to “care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan”. It is the one that begins with the words “with malice toward none, with charity for all” You may want to take a peek at the last sentence of the paragraph preceding his call to aid the veterans. He gave it not 6 weeks before he was shot by a Southern sympathizer, a man who had voted for the Democratic candidate the previous November.
The Great Reagan was right about you. “Clean and articulate”, si. “Bright”, no
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Joy-Ann Reid The Miami Herald
RE: “Those words mean exactly what I want them to mean” - Some comments on your through a looking glass world
Ms. Reid,
What was it that Vice President Curly Biden said about then candidate Senator B. Hussein Obama? Now I remember. He was “clean, bright, and articulate”. That’s you to a tee You and the best President we have share a few traits. One of them is the ability to never let an inconvenient fact, one that is fully larded with truth, interfere with your thesis. A few points before I get to the lie worthy of Bill Clinton.
#1 – “Job creation” – Have you ever been hired by someone poorer than you?
#2 - “Taxes” – Senator Lard Kennedy’s estate is in probate. One of the assets is a trust created in 1936. Don’t you think the 99% have the right to see what’s in it and to share in the honey pot that has been growing untaxed for 77 years? Jeezus Haitch Keerist! His father, that old corsair Papa Joe, having stolen so much money that people considering suicide would ask if they could jump off his wallet, knew some of his sons would be layabouts and wastrels. He thought it a father’s duty to provide for them. 1936? No cellphones, no DVDs, no social media, Joe DiMaggio’s first year with the Yankees, Alger Hiss was working his way up the ladder in the Executive branch of the government, Dixiecrats running Congress, DC3s, Hudson and Packard cars, cream on the top of the delivered bottle of milk, cigarettes without guilt, 5 cent beer, no DH. Would it be fair to say that Teddy spoke like a modern American Liberal and lived like rich, rotten Republican?
#3 – Can you give me an example of any country, anywhere and anytime, taxing itself to prosperity? Take your time. But that’s not why I write. The Great Reagan was right when he said “it’s not that modern American Liberals were stupid, it’s just that there’s so much that they didn’t know”. Consider the following statement in its entirety. “Conservatives bitterly fought against pensions for civil war veterans In the 19th century, and Social Security and Medicare in the 20th.” The Miami Herald Page 11A Today
#4 – The term “Conservative” would not have been used at the time of the American Civil War.
#5 - The Republican Party was formed as the anti-slavery party. Honest. Look it up.
#6 – The Democratic Party did not want to fight the Civil War. Since they weren’t opposed to slavery a strong case can be made for them being in favor of it. The election of 1864, the election that saw the New York Times call Lincoln a “baboon”, the election that saw the Democratic Party candidate campaign on a negotiated settlement with the South leaving slavery in place, the election that was in doubt until Sherman’s “surge” took Atlanta just before the election, was the one where the Democratic Party became entwined with the nascent Ku Klux Klan and with Southern states introducing and enforcing the most anti-Black laws imaginable. By 1916 a Democratic President endorsed both “Birth of a Nation” and the huge Klan parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
#7 – There was a Republican Congressman from New Jersey, Robert Kean, who earned the sobriquet “Mr. Social Security” because he was the member who made smooth the sharp edges of partisanship in Congress. It is well to note that the same Congress had just passed the Davis-Bacon Act. It was the most anti-Black Federal legislation passed in the 20th century. It still is because it is still the law of the land.
#8 – I suggest you take a closer look at the last paragraph of Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address. It is where he commits the nation to “care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan”. It is the one that begins with the words “with malice toward none, with charity for all” You may want to take a peek at the last sentence of the paragraph preceding his call to aid the veterans. He gave it not 6 weeks before he was shot by a Southern sympathizer, a man who had voted for the Democratic candidate the previous November.
The Great Reagan was right about you. “Clean and articulate”, si. “Bright”, no
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Monday, September 17, 2012
Leonard Pitts, Jr. The Miami Herald
September 16, 2012
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
RE: A brief explanation of how we came to a place in our History that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff calls an American citizen in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal. Some comments on your column about touchy Moslems and dead Americans in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
I said “brief”. Buckle up. The centuries are going to fly by.
25 centuries ago a Greek, a wounded veteran, said “Free men speak with free tongues”. Medes and/or Persians – I never can keep them straight – thought that was a bad idea so they tried to kill them. It was a “damned close run thing” but it didn’t work out. You may wish to familiarize yourself with Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea. It is well to note that these places became killing grounds, abattoirs where men having sniffed freedom would die to keep it, 1000 years before Mohammed, and blessed be his name despite his fondness for goats and young boys, started his “peace loving” religion.
Speaking of “peace loving”, what in the name of Allah, the big mahac of peace, were his votaries doing half way across Europe less than 100 years after the founding of his tent show? Let it be noted that Charles Martel, AKA The Hammer, was a big time bellicose Frog who stopped them at Tours in 732. If he hadn’t they would still be eating with their fingers in Helsinki and hogs would have been extinct for at least 13 centuries.
About 1000 years ago the Sunnis, the Shias, the Hanafis, the Wasabis, and various Wanabees began to eat their seed corn. That is to say, they turned inward.
They decided that all matters to be decided had been decided.
Would it make me a hate-filled curmudgeon to point out that they missed the fun and games that Runnymede was to produce? The Renaissance? Ptolemy being displaced? Men telling the King to bug off? Fughedaboutit!
13 centuries after Christ’s time on earth La Commedia appeared. 13 centuries after Mohammed’s time on earth and we have people being filleted in the street because of a cartoon. That there was no Islamic Divine Comedy meant there wouldn’t be any 95 theses nailed to the big Mosque after Friday prayers.
Please don’t spoil it for me by telling me that the hidden Islamic literary lock-box is not just empty but that it is non-existent.
Having skipped the literary revolution they also skipped the political and scientific ones also.
Lord knows what their “doctors” did before the invention of Coca-Cola bottles. The bottoms were used to make pre-pubescent cliteroidectomies so much easier. I love recycling, don’t you? Score one for the scientific method and rationality.
Lepanto in 1571. Vienna in 1683. Look them up. What would have happened if the “good guys” hadn’t won?
Would I be able to listen to Mozart, as I am now, if some blood thirsty “Death to the Infidels” emir had become King of Vienna?
It is not a question of why we got Shakespeare, Locke, Burke, Madison, and Twain. The question must always be why didn’t they.
If it weren’t for oil the whole joint would look like Mars, or worse, Eritrea.
You write, and there is much merit in your argument, that we should treat them as evil tempered whelps. Your example, 2 whining brats in the back seat, is apt. How about its Logical conclusion? Is “Spare the rod and spoil the child” still not a valid tool in child rearing?
If, as I said, all things to be decided have been decided, why would there be a need for Freedom of Speech? [That it is a right we have from birth, that it is a right “from beyond the stars”, is not in question. I am speaking of a culture that has outlawed whistling and balloons.]
American taxpayers have subsidized an art exhibit featuring a clear plastic container containing urine in which a crucifix is hung. It is called “Piss Christ”. Tell me what would have happened if it were called. “Piss Mohammed”?
American taxpayers have subsidized a play whose theme is that a homosexual lovers’ quarrel led to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is called “Corpus Cristi”. Tell me what would have happened is it were called “Corpus Allah”?
What do all the terrorists in the 21st century have in common?
They were all, every one of them, young Muslim men who shouted Allah Akbar before they killed Americans. Do you think those 72 infidel virgins were worth it?
General Martin Dempsey, a native of Bayonne, NJ, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, calls a law abiding American citizen living in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal and, in many instances, considered heroic. What is wrong with that sentence?
I mentioned Bayonne because the proper response from a resident of the Queen City of the East to the phone call from Leon Panetta “requesting” him to place the call should have been “Shove the phone up your ass”.
Men can dress up as Nazis and shout “Todt Juden” in a neighborhood filled with old Jews who side stepped a one way ticket to the ovens.
Some people are free but some people are more free than others?
Would it be OK for me to burn a Koran – and why is the damned thing almost always called the sacred Koran? The bible is older. Shouldn’t it be awarded sacred status too? – if I wrapped it in an American flag? How about if I kept a bucket of piss nearby should the fire get out of hand? Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression, no? I am covered on 2 fronts, yes?
I only have 25 centuries to go on but I think we can stipulate to one thing. Apologies don’t work with these murdering WOGS.
Am I still “free” to say that?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Should it turn out that the murdered American Ambassador was homosexual wouldn’t that make his death a hate crime? The thought of Barney Frank and Rosie O’Donnell leading Seal Team 6 & ½ into the holy city of Qom would make it all worthwhile. Perhaps a sequel to The Laramie Project could be The Benghazi Project? Drat! I just remembered. There are no homosexuals in Muslim countries.
Am I still free to say that?
Speaking of “stupid films”, have you ever seen “Ishtar”? How about “Sicko”?
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
RE: A brief explanation of how we came to a place in our History that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff calls an American citizen in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal. Some comments on your column about touchy Moslems and dead Americans in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
I said “brief”. Buckle up. The centuries are going to fly by.
25 centuries ago a Greek, a wounded veteran, said “Free men speak with free tongues”. Medes and/or Persians – I never can keep them straight – thought that was a bad idea so they tried to kill them. It was a “damned close run thing” but it didn’t work out. You may wish to familiarize yourself with Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea. It is well to note that these places became killing grounds, abattoirs where men having sniffed freedom would die to keep it, 1000 years before Mohammed, and blessed be his name despite his fondness for goats and young boys, started his “peace loving” religion.
Speaking of “peace loving”, what in the name of Allah, the big mahac of peace, were his votaries doing half way across Europe less than 100 years after the founding of his tent show? Let it be noted that Charles Martel, AKA The Hammer, was a big time bellicose Frog who stopped them at Tours in 732. If he hadn’t they would still be eating with their fingers in Helsinki and hogs would have been extinct for at least 13 centuries.
About 1000 years ago the Sunnis, the Shias, the Hanafis, the Wasabis, and various Wanabees began to eat their seed corn. That is to say, they turned inward.
They decided that all matters to be decided had been decided.
Would it make me a hate-filled curmudgeon to point out that they missed the fun and games that Runnymede was to produce? The Renaissance? Ptolemy being displaced? Men telling the King to bug off? Fughedaboutit!
13 centuries after Christ’s time on earth La Commedia appeared. 13 centuries after Mohammed’s time on earth and we have people being filleted in the street because of a cartoon. That there was no Islamic Divine Comedy meant there wouldn’t be any 95 theses nailed to the big Mosque after Friday prayers.
Please don’t spoil it for me by telling me that the hidden Islamic literary lock-box is not just empty but that it is non-existent.
Having skipped the literary revolution they also skipped the political and scientific ones also.
Lord knows what their “doctors” did before the invention of Coca-Cola bottles. The bottoms were used to make pre-pubescent cliteroidectomies so much easier. I love recycling, don’t you? Score one for the scientific method and rationality.
Lepanto in 1571. Vienna in 1683. Look them up. What would have happened if the “good guys” hadn’t won?
Would I be able to listen to Mozart, as I am now, if some blood thirsty “Death to the Infidels” emir had become King of Vienna?
It is not a question of why we got Shakespeare, Locke, Burke, Madison, and Twain. The question must always be why didn’t they.
If it weren’t for oil the whole joint would look like Mars, or worse, Eritrea.
You write, and there is much merit in your argument, that we should treat them as evil tempered whelps. Your example, 2 whining brats in the back seat, is apt. How about its Logical conclusion? Is “Spare the rod and spoil the child” still not a valid tool in child rearing?
If, as I said, all things to be decided have been decided, why would there be a need for Freedom of Speech? [That it is a right we have from birth, that it is a right “from beyond the stars”, is not in question. I am speaking of a culture that has outlawed whistling and balloons.]
American taxpayers have subsidized an art exhibit featuring a clear plastic container containing urine in which a crucifix is hung. It is called “Piss Christ”. Tell me what would have happened if it were called. “Piss Mohammed”?
American taxpayers have subsidized a play whose theme is that a homosexual lovers’ quarrel led to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is called “Corpus Cristi”. Tell me what would have happened is it were called “Corpus Allah”?
What do all the terrorists in the 21st century have in common?
They were all, every one of them, young Muslim men who shouted Allah Akbar before they killed Americans. Do you think those 72 infidel virgins were worth it?
General Martin Dempsey, a native of Bayonne, NJ, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, calls a law abiding American citizen living in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal and, in many instances, considered heroic. What is wrong with that sentence?
I mentioned Bayonne because the proper response from a resident of the Queen City of the East to the phone call from Leon Panetta “requesting” him to place the call should have been “Shove the phone up your ass”.
Men can dress up as Nazis and shout “Todt Juden” in a neighborhood filled with old Jews who side stepped a one way ticket to the ovens.
Some people are free but some people are more free than others?
Would it be OK for me to burn a Koran – and why is the damned thing almost always called the sacred Koran? The bible is older. Shouldn’t it be awarded sacred status too? – if I wrapped it in an American flag? How about if I kept a bucket of piss nearby should the fire get out of hand? Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression, no? I am covered on 2 fronts, yes?
I only have 25 centuries to go on but I think we can stipulate to one thing. Apologies don’t work with these murdering WOGS.
Am I still “free” to say that?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Should it turn out that the murdered American Ambassador was homosexual wouldn’t that make his death a hate crime? The thought of Barney Frank and Rosie O’Donnell leading Seal Team 6 & ½ into the holy city of Qom would make it all worthwhile. Perhaps a sequel to The Laramie Project could be The Benghazi Project? Drat! I just remembered. There are no homosexuals in Muslim countries.
Am I still free to say that?
Speaking of “stupid films”, have you ever seen “Ishtar”? How about “Sicko”?
Jay Carney – Head Shill and Flack Catcher
September 16, 2012
Jay Carney – Head Shill and Flack Catcher
The White House
Washington, DC
RE: At least it’s indoor work and there’s no heavy lifting
Mr. Carney,
You have a tough enough job what with square pegs and round holes, 4 sided triangles, making 33 ounces fit comfortably in a quart bottle, saying that not only is the emperor dressed but that he looks like Cary Grant [Did I just date myself?] and telling adults who want to, desperately want to, believe it when you say that Santa Claus is really, really real and that if we sit and hold hands and hum “Kumbaya” or “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” that we can overcome our differences – all of which come from the evil Bushes, pater et fils, Halliburton, the Koch Brothers, and conspicuous consumers all of whom who wish to continue consuming conspicuously on the poor guy’s dime even though by definition he doesn’t have a dime – and finally find that most elusive of targets, the Holy Grail, for modern American Liberals, the horizon of rising expectations that only a public policy based on “Midnight Basketball” can lead us through the desert to the Promised Land.
But then you have to go and muck it up by saying that all the woes of the past 4 days have been caused by a “video, a film that we have found to be reprehensible and disgusting”.
Sez who?
Bowsley Crowther? Pauline Kael? Rex Reed? Siskel & Ebert? J. Allan Smithee? Absolutely. You? Never.
I think “It’s A Wonderful World” is a terrible movie. I hope every Christmas that when George Bailey jumps off the bridge he is caught in midair by the occupying trolls and torn to pieces. I hope that when he falls in the pool they close it up and he is still there. Beat the stupid bastard to death and be done with it.
I think the people who made “Dead Poets Society” should be flogged. Repeatedly.
The only people who paid to see Merchant & Ivory movies were –A- Merchant & Ivory, -B- blood relatives of Merchant & Ivory and –B- people who go to bullfights to see the bull win or if there are no bullfights available to the closest NASCAR event hoping to see a 186 MPH flip into oncoming traffic. After you’ve seen the dog walk on its hind legs what difference does it make how well Bowser does it.
The French think that Jerry Lewis is the 20th century genius of film. Yet one more reason to ban Gorgonzola. Why couldn’t D-Day have been in Holland or Lithuania?
Sam Peckinpah was regularly censored, beaten up, short changed, and made miserable by film people.
I don’t give a Damn if the particular video is offensive to Muslims or reprehensible to your tastes. Your job is to tell us when this year’s Summer of Recovery is going to kick in. It has a week to go this year. [I must tell you that the mendacious Mandarin moneylenders are getting just a bit pissed off]
I think “Bambi” and “ET” were profoundly flawed films. Both were anti-rational and anti-intellectual. They were well made films that sucked.
As long as I have your attention why haven’t “Song of the South” and “Boys in the Band” been on regular TV? If I see “The Sting” anymore I’ll be able to play all the parts, including the hooker not named Hooker.
Then again I am not standing in front of a worldwide audience and telling them to believe me and not their lying eyes.
Kevin Smith
Jay Carney – Head Shill and Flack Catcher
The White House
Washington, DC
RE: At least it’s indoor work and there’s no heavy lifting
Mr. Carney,
You have a tough enough job what with square pegs and round holes, 4 sided triangles, making 33 ounces fit comfortably in a quart bottle, saying that not only is the emperor dressed but that he looks like Cary Grant [Did I just date myself?] and telling adults who want to, desperately want to, believe it when you say that Santa Claus is really, really real and that if we sit and hold hands and hum “Kumbaya” or “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” that we can overcome our differences – all of which come from the evil Bushes, pater et fils, Halliburton, the Koch Brothers, and conspicuous consumers all of whom who wish to continue consuming conspicuously on the poor guy’s dime even though by definition he doesn’t have a dime – and finally find that most elusive of targets, the Holy Grail, for modern American Liberals, the horizon of rising expectations that only a public policy based on “Midnight Basketball” can lead us through the desert to the Promised Land.
But then you have to go and muck it up by saying that all the woes of the past 4 days have been caused by a “video, a film that we have found to be reprehensible and disgusting”.
Sez who?
Bowsley Crowther? Pauline Kael? Rex Reed? Siskel & Ebert? J. Allan Smithee? Absolutely. You? Never.
I think “It’s A Wonderful World” is a terrible movie. I hope every Christmas that when George Bailey jumps off the bridge he is caught in midair by the occupying trolls and torn to pieces. I hope that when he falls in the pool they close it up and he is still there. Beat the stupid bastard to death and be done with it.
I think the people who made “Dead Poets Society” should be flogged. Repeatedly.
The only people who paid to see Merchant & Ivory movies were –A- Merchant & Ivory, -B- blood relatives of Merchant & Ivory and –B- people who go to bullfights to see the bull win or if there are no bullfights available to the closest NASCAR event hoping to see a 186 MPH flip into oncoming traffic. After you’ve seen the dog walk on its hind legs what difference does it make how well Bowser does it.
The French think that Jerry Lewis is the 20th century genius of film. Yet one more reason to ban Gorgonzola. Why couldn’t D-Day have been in Holland or Lithuania?
Sam Peckinpah was regularly censored, beaten up, short changed, and made miserable by film people.
I don’t give a Damn if the particular video is offensive to Muslims or reprehensible to your tastes. Your job is to tell us when this year’s Summer of Recovery is going to kick in. It has a week to go this year. [I must tell you that the mendacious Mandarin moneylenders are getting just a bit pissed off]
I think “Bambi” and “ET” were profoundly flawed films. Both were anti-rational and anti-intellectual. They were well made films that sucked.
As long as I have your attention why haven’t “Song of the South” and “Boys in the Band” been on regular TV? If I see “The Sting” anymore I’ll be able to play all the parts, including the hooker not named Hooker.
Then again I am not standing in front of a worldwide audience and telling them to believe me and not their lying eyes.
Kevin Smith
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Allah Ain't So Great
September 12, 2012
Some thoughts in re the killing of an American Ambassador in Libya
The Prince asked his most trusted advisor – How old is the word consigliere? – if it were better for a ruler to be loved or feared. “Feared”, he answered. “The people may yet come to love you.”
Nolo me tangere cum impecunis
Freedom of Speech, a Right of ours from birth, a Right of ours “from beyond the stars”, a Right of ours that maybe doesn’t travel as well as we wish for it to, is part of the warp and woof of the Western Canon. An individual, however low his state or condition, can defy the King and deny him entrance to his “ruined tenement”. Further, he can shake his fist at him and tell him so.
In our country this Freedom has affirmed the right of Nazis to march through Skokie, IL shouting Todt Juden at Holocaust survivors.
In our country this freedom has forced taxpayers to subsidize a play by the name of Corpus Cristi. It has a simple enough plot. Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot were homosexual lovers. They had a lovers’ quarrel that led Judas to drop a dime on Jesus. It got a bit out of hand and the Romans crucified him.
225 years the magnificent words “Congress shall make no law” began the text of the First Amendment. It only applies to governments. Chick-fil-a and the New York Times can say whatever they want. Their customers, not some mind numbed factotum from the Department of Truth, will be the judge and jury. Their decision will be the only one that counts.
A word or two more about context.
In 732 AD [ACE is the new secular humanist term for insuring that we don’t confuse the Battle of Tours with the founding of Rome. That would be BCE, neither of which I will define or use.] Muslim hordes were halfway across France before Charles Martel, AKA The Hammer, crushed them. If Islam is such a peace loving religion what were its votaries doing there, it being less than 100 years after its founding?
The Battle of Taranto – October 7, 1571 – is remembered as the day when greatly outnumbered Christian navies crushed sea going Muslim hordes. What did they have in mind?
In 1683 Muslim hordes were at the Gates of Vienna. If they won, if they had conquered the city, what would have become of Bach? Speaking of Bach, can anyone Barack Aquinas whose works are still awaiting discovery? Is there a Hussein Shakespeare somewhere who will burst upon the world stage where a Keats will hail him? Other than the moon and the 2 stars [I saw them this year. Nice.] announcing the start of Ramadan what else has the planetarium of Islam told us? Is there Muslim penicillin that is being kept off the market by evil Western drug companies? In fact, the only medical advance that is wholly attributable to Muslim culture is the recycling of the bottoms of Coca-Cola bottles into emergency cliteroidectomy scalpels, there being no G-spots in Muslim countries.
An American author, Naomi Wolf, has published a book with the distinctly non-Muslim title “Vagina”. Maybe there are no vaginas in countries ruled be Sharia law. What will be the response in the Muslim world when they find out about this? How will the Arab man in the street react Maybe that’s why “Dancing Boys” is the fastest growing industry in the Muslim world.
The planes that were flown into buildings 11 years ago were built where?
Here’s a hint.
Boeing does not have a plant in Kafiristan.
13 centuries after Christ was born La Commedia was published. Its opening line, “Halfway through my journey I found myself in the dark wood of error”, challenged the very foundations of everyday life in the Western world. The word Dantesque still means over the top descriptions of horror and indescribable sin and punishment. It is still being read.
A strong case can be made that Mohammed was a goat humping pedophile.
There are more Christians in the world than there Muslims. There were no uprisings in America let alone in the non-Christian world when Corpus Cristi appeared. Justice Holmes was right when he said “We must have room for what we hate”. That is a sentence that cannot be translated into Arabic.
I don’t know if the 12 minute homemade movie, the one that casts a bad light on Mohammed, says that Moe was a goat humping pedophile or a walker on the wild side. He was or he wasn’t. Either side can be presented and defended. People died because of it. So much for the Land of Milk and Honey into which the Arab Spring was supposed to lead us.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said that Congresswoman Giffords was shot because of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio. I think it is safe to assume that the EIB network has no outlets in either Benghazi or Bizerte. The American Ambassador died because of something that may have been said 7,000 miles away?
I guess that’s worse than saying that Jesus Christ, a man that more than a billion people believe was the Son of God, was cruising the Hershey Highway before he was crucified and rose 3 days later.
Poetic license perhaps.
Perhaps a reasonable man would say that reason does not work with thugs. What does work – Tours, Taranto, Vienna – is a two by four across the bridge of the nose.
The Democratic Party in convention last week booed God, forgot about Jerusalem, and, in a film clip honoring the American military, showed 4 Russian ships as if no one would notice.
Nolo me tangere cum impecunis?
Touch me not with impunity!
Surely the response must be disproportionate to the crime. Bomb the bastards. Bury their dead in pig skins. Drop bacon fat on their mosques.
Lest we forget balloons and whistling were crimes under the Taliban. Girls wearing nail polish had their finger nails pulled out.
Maybe Allah ain’t so akbar.
I suggest that Obama has become Jimmy Carter. The only difference is that Carter took better care of his brother. He put Billy in front of a few money making deals. One of them was shilling for Moamar Khadafi, the head thug in Libya. Now he’s just one more WOG enjoying his dirt nap. I say different because Obama’s brother still lives in a mud hut in Nairobi. I never thought a “shovel ready” job in the ongoing Summer of Recovery would keep a roof over a homeless guy in Nairobi.
I hope that never changes.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Some thoughts in re the killing of an American Ambassador in Libya
The Prince asked his most trusted advisor – How old is the word consigliere? – if it were better for a ruler to be loved or feared. “Feared”, he answered. “The people may yet come to love you.”
Nolo me tangere cum impecunis
Freedom of Speech, a Right of ours from birth, a Right of ours “from beyond the stars”, a Right of ours that maybe doesn’t travel as well as we wish for it to, is part of the warp and woof of the Western Canon. An individual, however low his state or condition, can defy the King and deny him entrance to his “ruined tenement”. Further, he can shake his fist at him and tell him so.
In our country this Freedom has affirmed the right of Nazis to march through Skokie, IL shouting Todt Juden at Holocaust survivors.
In our country this freedom has forced taxpayers to subsidize a play by the name of Corpus Cristi. It has a simple enough plot. Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot were homosexual lovers. They had a lovers’ quarrel that led Judas to drop a dime on Jesus. It got a bit out of hand and the Romans crucified him.
225 years the magnificent words “Congress shall make no law” began the text of the First Amendment. It only applies to governments. Chick-fil-a and the New York Times can say whatever they want. Their customers, not some mind numbed factotum from the Department of Truth, will be the judge and jury. Their decision will be the only one that counts.
A word or two more about context.
In 732 AD [ACE is the new secular humanist term for insuring that we don’t confuse the Battle of Tours with the founding of Rome. That would be BCE, neither of which I will define or use.] Muslim hordes were halfway across France before Charles Martel, AKA The Hammer, crushed them. If Islam is such a peace loving religion what were its votaries doing there, it being less than 100 years after its founding?
The Battle of Taranto – October 7, 1571 – is remembered as the day when greatly outnumbered Christian navies crushed sea going Muslim hordes. What did they have in mind?
In 1683 Muslim hordes were at the Gates of Vienna. If they won, if they had conquered the city, what would have become of Bach? Speaking of Bach, can anyone Barack Aquinas whose works are still awaiting discovery? Is there a Hussein Shakespeare somewhere who will burst upon the world stage where a Keats will hail him? Other than the moon and the 2 stars [I saw them this year. Nice.] announcing the start of Ramadan what else has the planetarium of Islam told us? Is there Muslim penicillin that is being kept off the market by evil Western drug companies? In fact, the only medical advance that is wholly attributable to Muslim culture is the recycling of the bottoms of Coca-Cola bottles into emergency cliteroidectomy scalpels, there being no G-spots in Muslim countries.
An American author, Naomi Wolf, has published a book with the distinctly non-Muslim title “Vagina”. Maybe there are no vaginas in countries ruled be Sharia law. What will be the response in the Muslim world when they find out about this? How will the Arab man in the street react Maybe that’s why “Dancing Boys” is the fastest growing industry in the Muslim world.
The planes that were flown into buildings 11 years ago were built where?
Here’s a hint.
Boeing does not have a plant in Kafiristan.
13 centuries after Christ was born La Commedia was published. Its opening line, “Halfway through my journey I found myself in the dark wood of error”, challenged the very foundations of everyday life in the Western world. The word Dantesque still means over the top descriptions of horror and indescribable sin and punishment. It is still being read.
A strong case can be made that Mohammed was a goat humping pedophile.
There are more Christians in the world than there Muslims. There were no uprisings in America let alone in the non-Christian world when Corpus Cristi appeared. Justice Holmes was right when he said “We must have room for what we hate”. That is a sentence that cannot be translated into Arabic.
I don’t know if the 12 minute homemade movie, the one that casts a bad light on Mohammed, says that Moe was a goat humping pedophile or a walker on the wild side. He was or he wasn’t. Either side can be presented and defended. People died because of it. So much for the Land of Milk and Honey into which the Arab Spring was supposed to lead us.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said that Congresswoman Giffords was shot because of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio. I think it is safe to assume that the EIB network has no outlets in either Benghazi or Bizerte. The American Ambassador died because of something that may have been said 7,000 miles away?
I guess that’s worse than saying that Jesus Christ, a man that more than a billion people believe was the Son of God, was cruising the Hershey Highway before he was crucified and rose 3 days later.
Poetic license perhaps.
Perhaps a reasonable man would say that reason does not work with thugs. What does work – Tours, Taranto, Vienna – is a two by four across the bridge of the nose.
The Democratic Party in convention last week booed God, forgot about Jerusalem, and, in a film clip honoring the American military, showed 4 Russian ships as if no one would notice.
Nolo me tangere cum impecunis?
Touch me not with impunity!
Surely the response must be disproportionate to the crime. Bomb the bastards. Bury their dead in pig skins. Drop bacon fat on their mosques.
Lest we forget balloons and whistling were crimes under the Taliban. Girls wearing nail polish had their finger nails pulled out.
Maybe Allah ain’t so akbar.
I suggest that Obama has become Jimmy Carter. The only difference is that Carter took better care of his brother. He put Billy in front of a few money making deals. One of them was shilling for Moamar Khadafi, the head thug in Libya. Now he’s just one more WOG enjoying his dirt nap. I say different because Obama’s brother still lives in a mud hut in Nairobi. I never thought a “shovel ready” job in the ongoing Summer of Recovery would keep a roof over a homeless guy in Nairobi.
I hope that never changes.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Gary Stein The Sun –Sentinel
September 9, 2012
Gary Stein
The Sun –Sentinel
RE: “Give me your tired, your wretched masses looking to major in graphic design at the in-state rates” – Some comments on your how bad can those Republican rotters be as told by you in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
Big Stein,
Now I’m a “Hater”.
I’ve gone from being a founding member of the notorious “vast Right-Wing conspiracy”, one who wore his cap proclaiming my membership when I picketed the White House in the summer of 1998 shouting “Come out you son of a bitch with your hands up. We have the place surrounded”, to being labeled a curmudgeon by the only big time media mogul I know, to having 3 thoroughly modern American Liberals, elected officials all, send the police – men with badges and guns – to my house because of something I wrote to being a “Hater”.
It’s not the title Mom would have wanted me to have as I enter my golden years.
If the Devil can quote scripture I can read the Constitution.
You say, in your usual state of snarky dudgeon, that Governor Scott, the focus of evil if not in the whole world than certainly on the East coast, is trying to get “Illegal aliens” – What a refreshingly Tanqueray clear statement! – to pay higher tuition rates than other students at Florida colleges. Full disclosure demands that I point out that the “other students” bear the burden of being fully documented.
You say that someone from Kafiristan, Lower Volta, South Central Sudan, Nod, or Paraguay should pay the same tuition as someone from Belle Glades or Hobe Sound.
Would not Logic and the Constitution dictate that the same tuition rates should apply to someone from Bayonne, NJ or Wynona MN or Allen, TX? At the great risk of being thought of as a xenophobic nativist hater why should a presumptively law abiding citizen of North Dakota or Arkansas by penalized in favor of someone who broke our laws to get here?
Either all residents are equal or some residents are more equal than others.
Get back to me on that, OK?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – “Fairness” – What would modern American Liberals do without that word? Impossible both to define and to quantify its only use is to sound the alarm for the usual
mAL war cry of “More”. Is it “fair” that I am folliclely challenged while Senator J. Forbes Kerry is not? I used to be able to play basketball as hard as Michael Jordan. Is it “fair” that I couldn’t play it as well? Is it “fair” that Barney Frank gets all the good looking guys?
Never send Little Stein a check for more than $99.99. Unless the Fed has changed the rules any item under $100 hits the account as cash. Anything over is subject to collection. That’s pretty “fair” of me to tell you that, no?
Gary Stein
The Sun –Sentinel
RE: “Give me your tired, your wretched masses looking to major in graphic design at the in-state rates” – Some comments on your how bad can those Republican rotters be as told by you in today’s Sun-Sentinel.
Big Stein,
Now I’m a “Hater”.
I’ve gone from being a founding member of the notorious “vast Right-Wing conspiracy”, one who wore his cap proclaiming my membership when I picketed the White House in the summer of 1998 shouting “Come out you son of a bitch with your hands up. We have the place surrounded”, to being labeled a curmudgeon by the only big time media mogul I know, to having 3 thoroughly modern American Liberals, elected officials all, send the police – men with badges and guns – to my house because of something I wrote to being a “Hater”.
It’s not the title Mom would have wanted me to have as I enter my golden years.
If the Devil can quote scripture I can read the Constitution.
You say, in your usual state of snarky dudgeon, that Governor Scott, the focus of evil if not in the whole world than certainly on the East coast, is trying to get “Illegal aliens” – What a refreshingly Tanqueray clear statement! – to pay higher tuition rates than other students at Florida colleges. Full disclosure demands that I point out that the “other students” bear the burden of being fully documented.
You say that someone from Kafiristan, Lower Volta, South Central Sudan, Nod, or Paraguay should pay the same tuition as someone from Belle Glades or Hobe Sound.
Would not Logic and the Constitution dictate that the same tuition rates should apply to someone from Bayonne, NJ or Wynona MN or Allen, TX? At the great risk of being thought of as a xenophobic nativist hater why should a presumptively law abiding citizen of North Dakota or Arkansas by penalized in favor of someone who broke our laws to get here?
Either all residents are equal or some residents are more equal than others.
Get back to me on that, OK?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – “Fairness” – What would modern American Liberals do without that word? Impossible both to define and to quantify its only use is to sound the alarm for the usual
mAL war cry of “More”. Is it “fair” that I am folliclely challenged while Senator J. Forbes Kerry is not? I used to be able to play basketball as hard as Michael Jordan. Is it “fair” that I couldn’t play it as well? Is it “fair” that Barney Frank gets all the good looking guys?
Never send Little Stein a check for more than $99.99. Unless the Fed has changed the rules any item under $100 hits the account as cash. Anything over is subject to collection. That’s pretty “fair” of me to tell you that, no?
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Gary Stein The Sun-Sentinel
August 12, 2012
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” - Some comments on the theory posited by you that plaid is the favorite color, the only possible color, of card carrying modern American Liberals when discussing the Constitution in today’s screed in the Sun-Sentinel.
Big Stein,
I know. I know.
You missed me.
In order to avoid the Obamacare Death Panels I chose to have elective surgery last month. A few things happened post-op that prevented me from administering several well deserved floggings for your perpetual use of tautologies taken directly from the sacred script of modern American Liberalism.
I am back because of your typically eclectic m. A.L. interpretation of the Constitution. Also, your subtle, 12 volt battery through the window, suggestion that knuckle dragging, gun loving Tea Partiers having never read the damn thing should begin to read it.
Let’s begin with this.
I read it. All the time. I am never far from a copy in either home or office.
Little nuggets that are favorites of mine include Article 1, Section 10, Part 1. That’s the one that permits the use of letters of marque and reprisal, gold and silver being the only basis for currency, and benign neglect towards the content of contracts but a fierce devotion to upholding the freely entered into parts of same.
There’s another section that guarantees each state a Republican form of government AND protection from invasion. You can look that one up. A little exercise never hurt anyone.
Can we stipulate that some parts are observed more in the breach?
I intentionally have omitted the part known as “enumerated powers” lest it drive you mad.
My crown jewel of the early cases that shaped it is Gibbons v Ogden. It involves New Jersey, of which I am a proud native son, and, mirabile dictum, political corruption. I am pleased to see that corruption is no longer something unique to my Garden State.
Before Snooki and the Sopranos white envelopes were being exchanged in various city halls. It was like tipping the waiter before the meal.
There is a lesson in here about human nature but that’s not why I write. That having been said it is time to focus on the entrée, the First Amendment.
The key to understanding it is to focus on the first five words of the sentence. Let me amend that thus: “The first five majestic words of the sentence”.
“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW…”
This divinely inspired document did not appear full blown in Philadelphia in 1787. 22 centuries before those words were set down a DWEM [and a combat wounded veteran, to boot] said
“FREE MEN SPEAK WITH FREE TONGUES”
Natural law tells us that certain rights are ours “from beyond the stars”. The Constitution did not give us those rights. No government can. In fact, History shows that one of the main functions of government, any government, is to take away rights. Our Constitution simply codified them.
It is indeed fitting and proper to note that the Constitution, a work product of James Madison, spells out exactly what the government can do. The Bill of Rights, with George Mason being the main author, tells us what government cannot do.
If, as you write, the idea of preventing Chick-fil-a from opening stores because of their views on same sex marriage – Could the word irony be better defined than by saying that their views were exactly the same, tit for tit, tat for tat, as the one shared by President Obama as recently as June? – was “wrong” and “was panned by even by liberals, a question remains.
How would you classify Chicago Mayor Foul Mouth Emmanuel? Chicago is a city where 4 year olds are gunned down in drug turf wars. The Mayor actually begged teen age hit men to look before they shoot lest they kill infants. Would Chicago “values”, the ones that Chick-fil-a don’t share, allow an odd/even day gunfight schedule?
How would you classify Boston Mayor Mumbles Mush Mouth Menino? If Chick-fil-a were to open some stores in Boston in this, lest we forget, the 3rd Summer of Recovery, environment would those “created” jobs be twice counted? Is it true that the hardest job to keep filled at City Hall is the one that requires a visual inspection of the Mayor’s mouth to prevent the dopey bastard from putting his teeth in upside down and backwards?
If those two mooks are modern American Liberals woe betide the country.
“And when you cut down every law to get at the devil and he turned round on you where would you hide, the laws all being flat?”
Thank God for the Constitution!
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Gary Stein
The Sun-Sentinel
RE: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” - Some comments on the theory posited by you that plaid is the favorite color, the only possible color, of card carrying modern American Liberals when discussing the Constitution in today’s screed in the Sun-Sentinel.
Big Stein,
I know. I know.
You missed me.
In order to avoid the Obamacare Death Panels I chose to have elective surgery last month. A few things happened post-op that prevented me from administering several well deserved floggings for your perpetual use of tautologies taken directly from the sacred script of modern American Liberalism.
I am back because of your typically eclectic m. A.L. interpretation of the Constitution. Also, your subtle, 12 volt battery through the window, suggestion that knuckle dragging, gun loving Tea Partiers having never read the damn thing should begin to read it.
Let’s begin with this.
I read it. All the time. I am never far from a copy in either home or office.
Little nuggets that are favorites of mine include Article 1, Section 10, Part 1. That’s the one that permits the use of letters of marque and reprisal, gold and silver being the only basis for currency, and benign neglect towards the content of contracts but a fierce devotion to upholding the freely entered into parts of same.
There’s another section that guarantees each state a Republican form of government AND protection from invasion. You can look that one up. A little exercise never hurt anyone.
Can we stipulate that some parts are observed more in the breach?
I intentionally have omitted the part known as “enumerated powers” lest it drive you mad.
My crown jewel of the early cases that shaped it is Gibbons v Ogden. It involves New Jersey, of which I am a proud native son, and, mirabile dictum, political corruption. I am pleased to see that corruption is no longer something unique to my Garden State.
Before Snooki and the Sopranos white envelopes were being exchanged in various city halls. It was like tipping the waiter before the meal.
There is a lesson in here about human nature but that’s not why I write. That having been said it is time to focus on the entrée, the First Amendment.
The key to understanding it is to focus on the first five words of the sentence. Let me amend that thus: “The first five majestic words of the sentence”.
“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW…”
This divinely inspired document did not appear full blown in Philadelphia in 1787. 22 centuries before those words were set down a DWEM [and a combat wounded veteran, to boot] said
“FREE MEN SPEAK WITH FREE TONGUES”
Natural law tells us that certain rights are ours “from beyond the stars”. The Constitution did not give us those rights. No government can. In fact, History shows that one of the main functions of government, any government, is to take away rights. Our Constitution simply codified them.
It is indeed fitting and proper to note that the Constitution, a work product of James Madison, spells out exactly what the government can do. The Bill of Rights, with George Mason being the main author, tells us what government cannot do.
If, as you write, the idea of preventing Chick-fil-a from opening stores because of their views on same sex marriage – Could the word irony be better defined than by saying that their views were exactly the same, tit for tit, tat for tat, as the one shared by President Obama as recently as June? – was “wrong” and “was panned by even by liberals, a question remains.
How would you classify Chicago Mayor Foul Mouth Emmanuel? Chicago is a city where 4 year olds are gunned down in drug turf wars. The Mayor actually begged teen age hit men to look before they shoot lest they kill infants. Would Chicago “values”, the ones that Chick-fil-a don’t share, allow an odd/even day gunfight schedule?
How would you classify Boston Mayor Mumbles Mush Mouth Menino? If Chick-fil-a were to open some stores in Boston in this, lest we forget, the 3rd Summer of Recovery, environment would those “created” jobs be twice counted? Is it true that the hardest job to keep filled at City Hall is the one that requires a visual inspection of the Mayor’s mouth to prevent the dopey bastard from putting his teeth in upside down and backwards?
If those two mooks are modern American Liberals woe betide the country.
“And when you cut down every law to get at the devil and he turned round on you where would you hide, the laws all being flat?”
Thank God for the Constitution!
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Leonard J. Pitts, Jr. The Miami Herald
August 15, 2012
Leonard J. Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
RE: “Call It What It Really Is” – A word or two about your column today that says “right-wing terrorists” are the source of evil, all evil, in the modern world. Plus, it doesn’t take a huge leap of faith to see the connection between “right-wing terrorism” and teenage bullying, polar bear drownings, the brutal drought, and the continuing baffling success of Chick-fil-a.
Mr. Pitts,
If, as you enumerate not quite in its entirety, dead people are more dead when they are shot by “right-wing terrorists”, which pew of the Church of Ayn Rand would you put Lee Harvey Oswald in?
Would Sirhan Sirhan be an usher, an elder, or an elder castrati cum usher in the choir at the same church?
I will stipulate that the statute of limitations has run on the cases of McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Socrates, and the Cain/Abel dustup. It doesn’t mean that you can’t stop thinking about yesterday. Didn’t “right-wing terrorists” do Hector in?
Jared Loughner, the snakes for brains wing-nut who lit up the Tucson mall when he shot a bunch of people including Congresswoman Giffords, had six weeks of Thorazine enemas, Prozac bran muffins, and a perpetual Ritalin/Dilantin IV before he could stand before a Federal Judge without evacuating both bowel and bladder through his ears and plead guilty to these murders most foul. Was he a member of the Robert Byrd Memorial KuKluxKlanKlavern or was he a lone wolf “right-wing terrorist”?
The bug-eyed Army shrink who was yelling Allah Akbar when he shot a baker’s dozen of his fellow soldiers was a mind numbed robot who danced, shot, and killed those infidels while dancing to a diabolic tune set down by Rush Limbaugh, right? Maybe it was Glenn Beck. Maybe Alan West.
Your “Eclectic indignation”, a condition that enables you to tip-toe blindfolded through the mine fields of facts contra your thesis, a condition that demands that a 1000 voice chorus follow you intoning “You are a horse’s ass” is, a mental disorder requires constant dunking and eternal pelting with flaming bags of flaming cat scat, doesn’t preclude me from seeking your help about the assassination attempt on President Reagan.
Did the scoundrels who blew up the World Trade Center do it?
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIt@BELLSOUTH.NET
Leonard J. Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
RE: “Call It What It Really Is” – A word or two about your column today that says “right-wing terrorists” are the source of evil, all evil, in the modern world. Plus, it doesn’t take a huge leap of faith to see the connection between “right-wing terrorism” and teenage bullying, polar bear drownings, the brutal drought, and the continuing baffling success of Chick-fil-a.
Mr. Pitts,
If, as you enumerate not quite in its entirety, dead people are more dead when they are shot by “right-wing terrorists”, which pew of the Church of Ayn Rand would you put Lee Harvey Oswald in?
Would Sirhan Sirhan be an usher, an elder, or an elder castrati cum usher in the choir at the same church?
I will stipulate that the statute of limitations has run on the cases of McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Socrates, and the Cain/Abel dustup. It doesn’t mean that you can’t stop thinking about yesterday. Didn’t “right-wing terrorists” do Hector in?
Jared Loughner, the snakes for brains wing-nut who lit up the Tucson mall when he shot a bunch of people including Congresswoman Giffords, had six weeks of Thorazine enemas, Prozac bran muffins, and a perpetual Ritalin/Dilantin IV before he could stand before a Federal Judge without evacuating both bowel and bladder through his ears and plead guilty to these murders most foul. Was he a member of the Robert Byrd Memorial KuKluxKlanKlavern or was he a lone wolf “right-wing terrorist”?
The bug-eyed Army shrink who was yelling Allah Akbar when he shot a baker’s dozen of his fellow soldiers was a mind numbed robot who danced, shot, and killed those infidels while dancing to a diabolic tune set down by Rush Limbaugh, right? Maybe it was Glenn Beck. Maybe Alan West.
Your “Eclectic indignation”, a condition that enables you to tip-toe blindfolded through the mine fields of facts contra your thesis, a condition that demands that a 1000 voice chorus follow you intoning “You are a horse’s ass” is, a mental disorder requires constant dunking and eternal pelting with flaming bags of flaming cat scat, doesn’t preclude me from seeking your help about the assassination attempt on President Reagan.
Did the scoundrels who blew up the World Trade Center do it?
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIt@BELLSOUTH.NET
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Lyons, Goldstein, Stein @The Sun Sentinel
July 14, 2012
Lyons, Goldstein, Stein
@The Sun Sentinel
RE: Talk about a fart in church – More bad news from Chicago
Sirs,
So concerned was I with the shootings in Chicago, shootings on a scale that rival Kabul or Damascus, shootings with an intensity straight from the OK Corral, that I feared the worst of all possible worlds.
The New York Times has identified the newest from of racist killer, the “white Hispanic”. That is the racial class assigned to George Zimmerman of the Trayvon Martin shooting. I shuddered when I thought of the possibility of a battalion of light skinned Zorros, armed with Fast & Furious weapons, wreaking havoc on the undeserving poor of the Windy City. I was relieved when it turned out just to be roving groups of feral Black youth killing each other. Escalades and Navigators filled with spoiled teens from Winnetka and Evanston had nothing to do with these killings.
The question of crime is sub-divided, like Gaul, into 3 parts. One part, Black on Black, is greeted with ennui. Spike Lee doesn’t Tweet the address of alleged perpetrators of Black killings if the shooters are Black. No bounty is issued for the head of the killer of a Black kid as long as the killer is also Black. Somebody will write a song about it featuring “hos”, “pigs”, “The Man”, and why it is someone else’s fault.
Chicago is a funny town. The Mayor begs the killers to stop killing underage kids. He appeals, so help me, to their “values”. Perhaps there is a place for photo IDs after all.
I continued my intriguing search of Chicago.
The facts would support the interpretation that my disclosing the following might be schadenfreude. Even better than that, the research made me positively tumescent.
There is an article written by Michael Oneal on Page 3D of Saturday’s Sun Sentinel .It is about the emergence of the Tribune Company, your employer, from Bankruptcy Court.
I mention it because based on your collective writings the only contact any of you would have with any business section would be as Plan B should you come up short in the smallest room in the house. Any economic policy that begins with “fair share” and an ever increasing minimum wage bespeaks – what’s the word I’m looking for? – an ignorance on a scale that only a Homer could describe.
But wait. There’s more.
The Judge has awarded the corpus – that’s what it’s called – to a group of hedge funds, private equity firms, and investment bankers. Upon assuming control they will simultaneously move to dump the losers and sell the winners.
Get your resumes in order
I just found out that one of the hedge funds has a substantial minority owner controlled by the Koch Brothers.
Did any of you ever think that you would be working for them?
It is beyond irony that the better you do to generate revenues for your employer the more money they will have to exercise their First Amendment Right to Free Speech.
I am going to buy multiple copies of the Sentinel secure in the knowledge that my bit to raise revenues will result in stories about Obama’s half-brother living in a mud hut, stories about the shovel ready jobs being not quite shovel ready, film clips of him talking about the 57 or 58 states, about his hunt for the Austrian-English dictionary, about the United States Marine “Corpse”, about his complete befuddlement concerning the intricacies of throwing a baseball, about his wife spending money as if she earned it. It is what Naval Aviators call a “target rich environment”.
The President has never signed the front of a paycheck. He now has los cojones grandes to babble on about “outsourcing” as the focus of evil in society. Ralph Lauren, a substantial donor [Is $600,000 still “substantial”?] to both the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee, designed the official uniforms for the United States Olympic Team. Would you believe it if I were to tell you that they were made in China? I wouldn’t either. Alas, they were. If that’s not “outsourcing” what is?
One of the requirements for working at a Koch Brothers owned media outlet is that you subscribe to a loyalty oath. Inter alia, Alger Hiss was guilty, the Rosenbergs did it and should be dug up every year and executed again just to be sure, Joe McCarthy got a bad press, and Nixon is still the one are some of the things with which you must agree. Also, short arm inspections and concealed weapons permits are mandatory. Assault weapons purchased for home defense is a reimbursable expense. Plus, you must shop at Wal-Mart.
It seems to me that your only honorable way out of this is to resign.
There is another option.
I remember when the late Democratic Congressman Tom Lontos, as modern an American Liberal as one could possibly be and not believe in the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny, asked Craig Livingstone, the official gate keeper of the Clinton White House, to consider suicide as way to stop embarrassing the already embarrassed Democratic Party [Travel Gate? Foster Gate? File Gate? Do any of them sound familiar?]
Just ask and I will provide you with a variety of edged instruments.
It is said that the only thing that you cannot do with a K-Bar bayonet is to sit on it. An exception, in this case 3 exceptions, will be made.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Duty commands me to comment on the touchy matter of Jesse Jackson, Jr, another Chicago favorite. Not on his condition or his treatment but on what his mother said. “He’s disappointed that he didn’t become a Senator or Mayor.” God’s Holy Trousers, but she said that! If young Jackson had gone to one of the really fine public schools in Washington, DC perhaps he would have been toughened up a bit. His parents chose to send him to St. Alban’s School .where the tuition now is $47,000 a year and you have to bring your own lunch. Too bad no one told him about Kipling. Not where he writes of the White Man’s Burden which is as relevant today as it was when it was written, but the part about “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”. A lot of people are upset that they never mastered the cello or helped to find the Higgs boson. I don’t see them reaching for the Thorazine enema or the Ritalin IV.
Lyons, Goldstein, Stein
@The Sun Sentinel
RE: Talk about a fart in church – More bad news from Chicago
Sirs,
So concerned was I with the shootings in Chicago, shootings on a scale that rival Kabul or Damascus, shootings with an intensity straight from the OK Corral, that I feared the worst of all possible worlds.
The New York Times has identified the newest from of racist killer, the “white Hispanic”. That is the racial class assigned to George Zimmerman of the Trayvon Martin shooting. I shuddered when I thought of the possibility of a battalion of light skinned Zorros, armed with Fast & Furious weapons, wreaking havoc on the undeserving poor of the Windy City. I was relieved when it turned out just to be roving groups of feral Black youth killing each other. Escalades and Navigators filled with spoiled teens from Winnetka and Evanston had nothing to do with these killings.
The question of crime is sub-divided, like Gaul, into 3 parts. One part, Black on Black, is greeted with ennui. Spike Lee doesn’t Tweet the address of alleged perpetrators of Black killings if the shooters are Black. No bounty is issued for the head of the killer of a Black kid as long as the killer is also Black. Somebody will write a song about it featuring “hos”, “pigs”, “The Man”, and why it is someone else’s fault.
Chicago is a funny town. The Mayor begs the killers to stop killing underage kids. He appeals, so help me, to their “values”. Perhaps there is a place for photo IDs after all.
I continued my intriguing search of Chicago.
The facts would support the interpretation that my disclosing the following might be schadenfreude. Even better than that, the research made me positively tumescent.
There is an article written by Michael Oneal on Page 3D of Saturday’s Sun Sentinel .It is about the emergence of the Tribune Company, your employer, from Bankruptcy Court.
I mention it because based on your collective writings the only contact any of you would have with any business section would be as Plan B should you come up short in the smallest room in the house. Any economic policy that begins with “fair share” and an ever increasing minimum wage bespeaks – what’s the word I’m looking for? – an ignorance on a scale that only a Homer could describe.
But wait. There’s more.
The Judge has awarded the corpus – that’s what it’s called – to a group of hedge funds, private equity firms, and investment bankers. Upon assuming control they will simultaneously move to dump the losers and sell the winners.
Get your resumes in order
I just found out that one of the hedge funds has a substantial minority owner controlled by the Koch Brothers.
Did any of you ever think that you would be working for them?
It is beyond irony that the better you do to generate revenues for your employer the more money they will have to exercise their First Amendment Right to Free Speech.
I am going to buy multiple copies of the Sentinel secure in the knowledge that my bit to raise revenues will result in stories about Obama’s half-brother living in a mud hut, stories about the shovel ready jobs being not quite shovel ready, film clips of him talking about the 57 or 58 states, about his hunt for the Austrian-English dictionary, about the United States Marine “Corpse”, about his complete befuddlement concerning the intricacies of throwing a baseball, about his wife spending money as if she earned it. It is what Naval Aviators call a “target rich environment”.
The President has never signed the front of a paycheck. He now has los cojones grandes to babble on about “outsourcing” as the focus of evil in society. Ralph Lauren, a substantial donor [Is $600,000 still “substantial”?] to both the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee, designed the official uniforms for the United States Olympic Team. Would you believe it if I were to tell you that they were made in China? I wouldn’t either. Alas, they were. If that’s not “outsourcing” what is?
One of the requirements for working at a Koch Brothers owned media outlet is that you subscribe to a loyalty oath. Inter alia, Alger Hiss was guilty, the Rosenbergs did it and should be dug up every year and executed again just to be sure, Joe McCarthy got a bad press, and Nixon is still the one are some of the things with which you must agree. Also, short arm inspections and concealed weapons permits are mandatory. Assault weapons purchased for home defense is a reimbursable expense. Plus, you must shop at Wal-Mart.
It seems to me that your only honorable way out of this is to resign.
There is another option.
I remember when the late Democratic Congressman Tom Lontos, as modern an American Liberal as one could possibly be and not believe in the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny, asked Craig Livingstone, the official gate keeper of the Clinton White House, to consider suicide as way to stop embarrassing the already embarrassed Democratic Party [Travel Gate? Foster Gate? File Gate? Do any of them sound familiar?]
Just ask and I will provide you with a variety of edged instruments.
It is said that the only thing that you cannot do with a K-Bar bayonet is to sit on it. An exception, in this case 3 exceptions, will be made.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Duty commands me to comment on the touchy matter of Jesse Jackson, Jr, another Chicago favorite. Not on his condition or his treatment but on what his mother said. “He’s disappointed that he didn’t become a Senator or Mayor.” God’s Holy Trousers, but she said that! If young Jackson had gone to one of the really fine public schools in Washington, DC perhaps he would have been toughened up a bit. His parents chose to send him to St. Alban’s School .where the tuition now is $47,000 a year and you have to bring your own lunch. Too bad no one told him about Kipling. Not where he writes of the White Man’s Burden which is as relevant today as it was when it was written, but the part about “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”. A lot of people are upset that they never mastered the cello or helped to find the Higgs boson. I don’t see them reaching for the Thorazine enema or the Ritalin IV.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Michael Putney The Miami Herald
July 11, 2012
Michael Putney
The Miami Herald
RE: Even if the wheel is rigged it’s still the only game in town
Mr. Putney,
I am shocked, shocked by your column telling me that people in power like to stay in power. Further, some of their methods, sub rosa in their conception, may be, how to say this, are not Kosher in their practical application.
[From 1916 to 1980 the Regular Hudson County Democratic Organization had the Row A slot on the voting machine. As soon as the boys in the Court House had decided which name went where they had the signs printed. Of course it was done in a union shop. Why would you ask? After the signs were printed the drawing would be held for the ballot spots.]
The right to vote4 includes the right not to vote.
I don’t know about “lives of quiet desperation” but voters, when confronted by the perpetual banal venalities of public life, sometimes say, “Why encourage the bastards?”
[I was most happy to read yesterday of the arrest of the head of the Broward Teachers Union – Teachers? Union? Madness – on the basic “steal the pennies off a dead man’s eyes” charges. Petty theft, grand theft, bribery, double billing, unauthorized expenses, illegal political contributions, white envelopes – just like the old days! I say happy because the Union predecessor of the alleged perpetrator was indicted, arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison where he still is for trying to play “Hide the Salami” with an 11 year old. That’s progress of a sort, isn’t it? Incidentally, the child molester got a $140,000 going away present from the Union. The crook got $170,000 to grease the wheels, so to speak, when he goes inside.]
You say that an opinion written by Secretary of State, she of the 2000 election brouhaha, disenfranchises one party when it does not have a candidate in the primary election. The winner of the other party’s primary is declared the winner or the uncontested election. All in all I think it is a marvelous idea. Cutting back on general elections is the quickest way to cut back on our exponentially expanding carbon footprint. Somewhere in Inuit country there is a mother polar bear tearing up a pod of baby seals. If she could she would thank somebody. Since she can’t she won’t. Gaia does however.
Yet again I am shocked, shocked that the Incumbent Protection Act is so blatant. “I’m on the bus. Ring the bell” is the battle cry that motivates politicians almost as much as an open-ended Grand Jury.
[Bayonne sensibilities precluded a phalanx of class A uniformed police officers at the polling place. Instead there were class A uniformed firemen – there were no firefighters then – who formed a gauntlet at the polling place. As you entered you were exhorted not to let the side down. “Row A All the Way” may not sound like a modern day version of Horatius at the bridge but it worked just as well. Just to reinforce it you were handed a palm card. Palm card? Send a SASE.]
You say that Secretary Harris is a bit of a dim bulb. I don’t know if she is in the same dull knife category as Vice President Curly Biden. I do know that she never was one heartbeat away from throwing the RESET button away and tossing one into the men’s room in the Kremlin.
I had a seminar leader, American Historian Eric Goldman, who said that not only was Lyndon Johnson the smartest politician he ever met; he was the smartest man he ever met. He told of being at a reception in the White House with a dozen other Historians. Johnson worked the room by engaging each of the guests with comments and questions on the main points of their various theses.
Whatever Katherine Harris didn’t know, whatever her score would be in a Jeopardy contest, there are no long black marble walls with 58,000 names on it in Tallahassee.
At least that war ended.
The other one, the one on poverty that started 48 years ago, is still going strong. Having overtaken the dust up between Athens and Sparta, it is closing in on the fight between the English and the French that was begun in 1755 and ended at Waterloo. Next up will be Rome and Carthage.
God spare me from smart people.
But there are two reasons why I write this morning.
#1 – My Texas ladies spent an extra day at the resorts in Orlando so my time is free until noon.
#2 – How often do I get a straight line, off speed, chest high balloon ball like the one you served up today?
In 1975 I testified at a Department of Interior hearing on off shore drilling, the shore in question was the New Jersey shore. The Outer Continental Shelf sub-committee convened in Trenton to hear testimony. It was, to use a word only found in crossword puzzles, a “raree”. 6 apes with hammers, an old Underwood typewriter [shades of Alger Hiss], and about half of the OED would have produced The Wasteland
before anything coherent came out of that. I’ll be running back punts for the Dolphins on Sunday afternoons just after I say Mass on Sunday morning before a barrel of oil came out of that group of mountebanks.
I was in my environment.
After my opening statement and some sparring with individual committee members the Department’s attorney began to ask me some questions. My immediate thought was that Allan Funt – and when was the last time you heard that name? – was filming this for later viewing. So condescendingly dumb was this boob that I had to bite my tongue. The most common hitting mistake made when eyeballing a Casaba melon coming at you below 70 MPH is over swinging. Truth be known it was role reversal. It was I who led the attorney. He entered “the upturned neck awaits the ax” abattoir with a 2 minute lecture that began with “Let me tell you what the Law says” and ending with “That’s what the Law says”
I said that if that was what the Law said then Mr. Bumble covered that quite well.
You mentioned some time ago that you decided against pursuing a PH.D in English Literature in favor of basic reporting. You are in good company. Norman Podhoretz, a pen pal from the last century, said that the best thing that ever happened to him was getting drafted. If he hadn’t he would have gotten a Ph.D. and been consigned to a small New England college. There he would have pursued both Punch and Judy with increasing vigor. His Draft Board intervened.
As President of the Irish Catholic Commentary Fan Club I can say the above without breaking any rules of confidentiality.
One last thing.
Would I branded with a scarlet R if I were to point out that getting “a big black voter turnout” has been the most successful business scam that Jesse Jackson has ever had? Every 4 years he gets to speak at the Democratic Convention. Every 4 years he gets a DNC credit card and the same marching orders: Register African-Americans who will Vote Row A All the Way. Every 4 years he comes back and says it’s time for a booster shot. Every 4 years everyone winks and nods and clamps on every open lactating teat available. In Hudson County once you were registered you stayed registered.
I had an uncle who died in 1956. His devotion to Row A All the Way was such that he voted until 1971.
Death be not proud
Michael Putney
The Miami Herald
RE: Even if the wheel is rigged it’s still the only game in town
Mr. Putney,
I am shocked, shocked by your column telling me that people in power like to stay in power. Further, some of their methods, sub rosa in their conception, may be, how to say this, are not Kosher in their practical application.
[From 1916 to 1980 the Regular Hudson County Democratic Organization had the Row A slot on the voting machine. As soon as the boys in the Court House had decided which name went where they had the signs printed. Of course it was done in a union shop. Why would you ask? After the signs were printed the drawing would be held for the ballot spots.]
The right to vote4 includes the right not to vote.
I don’t know about “lives of quiet desperation” but voters, when confronted by the perpetual banal venalities of public life, sometimes say, “Why encourage the bastards?”
[I was most happy to read yesterday of the arrest of the head of the Broward Teachers Union – Teachers? Union? Madness – on the basic “steal the pennies off a dead man’s eyes” charges. Petty theft, grand theft, bribery, double billing, unauthorized expenses, illegal political contributions, white envelopes – just like the old days! I say happy because the Union predecessor of the alleged perpetrator was indicted, arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison where he still is for trying to play “Hide the Salami” with an 11 year old. That’s progress of a sort, isn’t it? Incidentally, the child molester got a $140,000 going away present from the Union. The crook got $170,000 to grease the wheels, so to speak, when he goes inside.]
You say that an opinion written by Secretary of State, she of the 2000 election brouhaha, disenfranchises one party when it does not have a candidate in the primary election. The winner of the other party’s primary is declared the winner or the uncontested election. All in all I think it is a marvelous idea. Cutting back on general elections is the quickest way to cut back on our exponentially expanding carbon footprint. Somewhere in Inuit country there is a mother polar bear tearing up a pod of baby seals. If she could she would thank somebody. Since she can’t she won’t. Gaia does however.
Yet again I am shocked, shocked that the Incumbent Protection Act is so blatant. “I’m on the bus. Ring the bell” is the battle cry that motivates politicians almost as much as an open-ended Grand Jury.
[Bayonne sensibilities precluded a phalanx of class A uniformed police officers at the polling place. Instead there were class A uniformed firemen – there were no firefighters then – who formed a gauntlet at the polling place. As you entered you were exhorted not to let the side down. “Row A All the Way” may not sound like a modern day version of Horatius at the bridge but it worked just as well. Just to reinforce it you were handed a palm card. Palm card? Send a SASE.]
You say that Secretary Harris is a bit of a dim bulb. I don’t know if she is in the same dull knife category as Vice President Curly Biden. I do know that she never was one heartbeat away from throwing the RESET button away and tossing one into the men’s room in the Kremlin.
I had a seminar leader, American Historian Eric Goldman, who said that not only was Lyndon Johnson the smartest politician he ever met; he was the smartest man he ever met. He told of being at a reception in the White House with a dozen other Historians. Johnson worked the room by engaging each of the guests with comments and questions on the main points of their various theses.
Whatever Katherine Harris didn’t know, whatever her score would be in a Jeopardy contest, there are no long black marble walls with 58,000 names on it in Tallahassee.
At least that war ended.
The other one, the one on poverty that started 48 years ago, is still going strong. Having overtaken the dust up between Athens and Sparta, it is closing in on the fight between the English and the French that was begun in 1755 and ended at Waterloo. Next up will be Rome and Carthage.
God spare me from smart people.
But there are two reasons why I write this morning.
#1 – My Texas ladies spent an extra day at the resorts in Orlando so my time is free until noon.
#2 – How often do I get a straight line, off speed, chest high balloon ball like the one you served up today?
In 1975 I testified at a Department of Interior hearing on off shore drilling, the shore in question was the New Jersey shore. The Outer Continental Shelf sub-committee convened in Trenton to hear testimony. It was, to use a word only found in crossword puzzles, a “raree”. 6 apes with hammers, an old Underwood typewriter [shades of Alger Hiss], and about half of the OED would have produced The Wasteland
before anything coherent came out of that. I’ll be running back punts for the Dolphins on Sunday afternoons just after I say Mass on Sunday morning before a barrel of oil came out of that group of mountebanks.
I was in my environment.
After my opening statement and some sparring with individual committee members the Department’s attorney began to ask me some questions. My immediate thought was that Allan Funt – and when was the last time you heard that name? – was filming this for later viewing. So condescendingly dumb was this boob that I had to bite my tongue. The most common hitting mistake made when eyeballing a Casaba melon coming at you below 70 MPH is over swinging. Truth be known it was role reversal. It was I who led the attorney. He entered “the upturned neck awaits the ax” abattoir with a 2 minute lecture that began with “Let me tell you what the Law says” and ending with “That’s what the Law says”
I said that if that was what the Law said then Mr. Bumble covered that quite well.
You mentioned some time ago that you decided against pursuing a PH.D in English Literature in favor of basic reporting. You are in good company. Norman Podhoretz, a pen pal from the last century, said that the best thing that ever happened to him was getting drafted. If he hadn’t he would have gotten a Ph.D. and been consigned to a small New England college. There he would have pursued both Punch and Judy with increasing vigor. His Draft Board intervened.
As President of the Irish Catholic Commentary Fan Club I can say the above without breaking any rules of confidentiality.
One last thing.
Would I branded with a scarlet R if I were to point out that getting “a big black voter turnout” has been the most successful business scam that Jesse Jackson has ever had? Every 4 years he gets to speak at the Democratic Convention. Every 4 years he gets a DNC credit card and the same marching orders: Register African-Americans who will Vote Row A All the Way. Every 4 years he comes back and says it’s time for a booster shot. Every 4 years everyone winks and nods and clamps on every open lactating teat available. In Hudson County once you were registered you stayed registered.
I had an uncle who died in 1956. His devotion to Row A All the Way was such that he voted until 1971.
Death be not proud
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democratic National Committee
July 9, 2012
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 South Capitol Street
Washington, D.C. 20003
RE: I promised I’d help you
Dear Darling Debbie, Debbie,
I heard that you and your Boss are “proud” of the jobs report of last Friday. That’s like being “proud” that OJ Simpson only killed two people or Bill Clinton only perjured himself once.
But that not’s why I write.
Fast & Furious. Remember?
You remember Cindy Sheehan, don’t you? Her son was killed defending his country. At some point in her grieving process she decided that George Bush had her son killed. She turned on him in a most public manner. She would show up at public events; she even showed up at the Crawford, Texas home of the President. In these endeavors she was encouraged and cheered on by the modern American Liberal media. [I know that the last phrase is redundant but every now and then it is good to state the obvious.] Maureen Dowd, head banshee in residence at the New York Times, said that Cindy Sheehan had the “absolute moral right” to mourn her son in any way that she saw fit. Setting her hair on fire before peeing on the President’s dogs was well within the cathartic bounds of Code Pink God Damn Devil Bush tactics.
When she ran against Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic primary she became an embarrassment to the cabal in charge of the modern American Liberal nest of media vipers. She was last seen being strapped to an Atlas 5 rocket where she will attempt to catch up to the Pioneer Space Probe. Good Luck, Cindy. You go, girl!
Can we not stipulate that any time a parent buries a child it upsets the harmonic balance of the universe?
Why not begin a “Cindy Sheehan Grieving Mother of the Year Award”? The only criterion for the award is that the child had to die in the defense of his or her country.
I nominate Josephine Terry.
I hope you will second it. Further, I hope you will bring all your media guns to bear in this.
Brian Terry, Josephine Terry’s son, died defending his country. Doubtless there is somewhere a scroll with his name on it that says he “died in the service of his country”. The one on my wall, dated May 25, 1945, says that. Josephine Terry’s son is just as dead as Cindy Sheehan’s son. They will both be dead for a very long time.
Josephine Terry wants to know how her son died.
“Quick and clean” or, as the song asks, “Was it slow and obscene?”
She wants to be able to go to her son’s grave and tell him. I search, vainly, for any national media voice saying she has the “absolute moral right” to so do.
For whatever reason, the Attorney General of the United States doesn’t want to tell her. His immediate supervisor, the President of the United States, doesn’t want to tell her either. He has told his employee to keep his lip zipped.e has instgructed theHe
How refreshing it would be if you were to act like a mom, a mom whose children are fast approaching the age when they may decide to defend their country, and tell the big guys at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue to tell Josephine Terry what happened to her son.
Silly me. Still a cockeyed optimist after all these years.
Kevin Smith
PS – I still haven’t heard from you about me taking David Axelrod to Grady’s on Andrews Avenue in Ft. Lauderdale. If he can’t make it how about the husband of Democratic Senate Candidate Princess SummerFallWinterWarren of Boston She is a woman who gives new meaning to the term Indian Princess, no? Just like the edited shot of Romney not being familiar with a touch screen order system this condescendingly stupid 1%er did not know what a “church key” was. That’s a bottle opener for people who send their kids to private school. Next, I’ll help you out with the economy. That’s the economy you said you “owned” a while back, remember? We are now in the 3rd edition of “The Summer of Recovery”. Let’s try to get it right this time.
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic National Committee
430 South Capitol Street
Washington, D.C. 20003
RE: I promised I’d help you
Dear Darling Debbie, Debbie,
I heard that you and your Boss are “proud” of the jobs report of last Friday. That’s like being “proud” that OJ Simpson only killed two people or Bill Clinton only perjured himself once.
But that not’s why I write.
Fast & Furious. Remember?
You remember Cindy Sheehan, don’t you? Her son was killed defending his country. At some point in her grieving process she decided that George Bush had her son killed. She turned on him in a most public manner. She would show up at public events; she even showed up at the Crawford, Texas home of the President. In these endeavors she was encouraged and cheered on by the modern American Liberal media. [I know that the last phrase is redundant but every now and then it is good to state the obvious.] Maureen Dowd, head banshee in residence at the New York Times, said that Cindy Sheehan had the “absolute moral right” to mourn her son in any way that she saw fit. Setting her hair on fire before peeing on the President’s dogs was well within the cathartic bounds of Code Pink God Damn Devil Bush tactics.
When she ran against Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic primary she became an embarrassment to the cabal in charge of the modern American Liberal nest of media vipers. She was last seen being strapped to an Atlas 5 rocket where she will attempt to catch up to the Pioneer Space Probe. Good Luck, Cindy. You go, girl!
Can we not stipulate that any time a parent buries a child it upsets the harmonic balance of the universe?
Why not begin a “Cindy Sheehan Grieving Mother of the Year Award”? The only criterion for the award is that the child had to die in the defense of his or her country.
I nominate Josephine Terry.
I hope you will second it. Further, I hope you will bring all your media guns to bear in this.
Brian Terry, Josephine Terry’s son, died defending his country. Doubtless there is somewhere a scroll with his name on it that says he “died in the service of his country”. The one on my wall, dated May 25, 1945, says that. Josephine Terry’s son is just as dead as Cindy Sheehan’s son. They will both be dead for a very long time.
Josephine Terry wants to know how her son died.
“Quick and clean” or, as the song asks, “Was it slow and obscene?”
She wants to be able to go to her son’s grave and tell him. I search, vainly, for any national media voice saying she has the “absolute moral right” to so do.
For whatever reason, the Attorney General of the United States doesn’t want to tell her. His immediate supervisor, the President of the United States, doesn’t want to tell her either. He has told his employee to keep his lip zipped.e has instgructed theHe
How refreshing it would be if you were to act like a mom, a mom whose children are fast approaching the age when they may decide to defend their country, and tell the big guys at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue to tell Josephine Terry what happened to her son.
Silly me. Still a cockeyed optimist after all these years.
Kevin Smith
PS – I still haven’t heard from you about me taking David Axelrod to Grady’s on Andrews Avenue in Ft. Lauderdale. If he can’t make it how about the husband of Democratic Senate Candidate Princess SummerFallWinterWarren of Boston She is a woman who gives new meaning to the term Indian Princess, no? Just like the edited shot of Romney not being familiar with a touch screen order system this condescendingly stupid 1%er did not know what a “church key” was. That’s a bottle opener for people who send their kids to private school. Next, I’ll help you out with the economy. That’s the economy you said you “owned” a while back, remember? We are now in the 3rd edition of “The Summer of Recovery”. Let’s try to get it right this time.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Margaret Carlson Bloomberg News
July 9, 2012
Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News
1399 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005
RE: “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome ink stained wench”? – Some comments on your column on Hillary Clinton and why she is, with the possible exception of Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, and Gaia, the Goddess of the Earth, the greatest woman in the History of mankind. OOPS! Womankind. How about Humankind?
Ms. Carlson;
Alas, I am not a Plantagenet. If I were perhaps Runnymede would have been different and you would have spent your life in a nunnery.
The subject of your column in today’s Miami Herald is not whether you still believe that GIs serving overseas are tax cheats and should be denied the vote but whether or not Hillary Clinton’s shadow or the touch of her hem is sufficient to heal the sick and cool the nation.
In the pre-dawn hours I read yet again of Hillary hurling herself at the glass ceiling, the one constantly being reinforced by the filthy lucre gained by the odious polar bear hating, pro-fracking Koch Brothers.
If memory serves she was hired by the largest law firm in Arkansas, a feat that compares favorably with being the 3rd tallest building in Wichita, Kansas, when her husband was elected Attorney General.
As Hinnisy the Publican said, “She seen her opportunities and took’em”. So did her employer. She was made a partner when her husband was elected Governor. No doubt a coincidence like when, as Jeeves said to Bertie, you “find a trout in the milk”.
Glass ceiling? What glass ceiling?
You mention that she first gained notoriety when she criticized a United States Senator from Massachusetts who was the principal speaker at her graduation. No, it wasn’t Ted the Toper. It was the summer of 1969. Lard was busy filling out his dance card for, inter alia, the weekend at Chappaquiddick. Her instruction sheet for ridiculing public figures came from Saul Alinsky, the subject of her senior thesis. Whatever happened to him and his ideas? The question is moot. Nothing lost there save civility.
One of the jobs she had when she was busy not practicing law was being named an outside director of a little company in Arkansas with the intriguing name Wal-Mart.
Try to follow the bouncing ball here. It gets tricky.
She is a partner in the biggest law firm in the state. She is married to the Governor of that state. They may be Hicks in Bentonville but they sure as Hell ain’t dumb.
She went through that glass ceiling like a bat out of Hell, didn’t she?
She also found the time to read the Wall Street Journal and to study under the legendary “Red Bone the Broker” to learn and master the intricacies of the cattle futures market.
Shazaam on me if she ain’t Wonder Woman!
I still picture her as a modern day Boadicea or at least a marauding Maeve when I think of her ducking incoming gunfire by doing the serpentine shuffle on that Serbian tarmac.
You say she suffered through the suicide of her “best friend in the White House”. That would be Vince Foster, right? “Best friend”? Thus the envelope of language is stretched by euphemism, particularly when done by a friendly, indeed sycophantic, modern American Liberal ink stained wench.
Among other traits that would qualify her to be the first woman to…to… pee standing up is her ability to sit through “her husband’s humiliating affair”.
The facts would support the interpretation that so long as she could get to ride up front on Air Force One her husband, President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs, could get his morning hummer from the zoftig chick situated strategically under the desk in the Oval Office. No matter that the catcher in this game of gobble up the one-eyed trouser snake was just a few months older than their daughter.
She realized, up close and personal, that it was good, I mean really, really good to be King. Maybe it is the Queen’s turn.
If, as you say, she has “endured and prevailed” – and what must Faulkner be thinking – why not secure her place in History by taking on the role of Antigone? According to 3rd party recounts she already has done the Lysistrata part.
A woman was shot in Afghanistan last week. Ignoring their RESET buttons the crowd yelled Allah Akbar as she was shot 9 times. At about the same she and Bernie Karzai, the big boss man in Kabul, looked like they spent the afternoon on his back porch getting rid of a pitcher of Margaritas in an environmentally sensitive manner.
She left $16,000,000,000 – that’s 16 billion dollars – on the table when she left Kabul. Part of the understanding was that you just couldn’t shoot women on a whim.
The lesson needs to be positively reinforced in a most negative way.
Seal Team 6 has been quiet for some time.
Send it over with her in charge to put a Texas-sized ass whupping on those turbaned thugs.
Any woman who could be named for the guy who climbed Mt. Everest 4 and one half years before he did it can surely take out a few goat humping Gomers.
To Hell with being the first chick President!
How about Pope Hillary the First?
Kevin Smith
Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News
1399 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005
RE: “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome ink stained wench”? – Some comments on your column on Hillary Clinton and why she is, with the possible exception of Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, and Gaia, the Goddess of the Earth, the greatest woman in the History of mankind. OOPS! Womankind. How about Humankind?
Ms. Carlson;
Alas, I am not a Plantagenet. If I were perhaps Runnymede would have been different and you would have spent your life in a nunnery.
The subject of your column in today’s Miami Herald is not whether you still believe that GIs serving overseas are tax cheats and should be denied the vote but whether or not Hillary Clinton’s shadow or the touch of her hem is sufficient to heal the sick and cool the nation.
In the pre-dawn hours I read yet again of Hillary hurling herself at the glass ceiling, the one constantly being reinforced by the filthy lucre gained by the odious polar bear hating, pro-fracking Koch Brothers.
If memory serves she was hired by the largest law firm in Arkansas, a feat that compares favorably with being the 3rd tallest building in Wichita, Kansas, when her husband was elected Attorney General.
As Hinnisy the Publican said, “She seen her opportunities and took’em”. So did her employer. She was made a partner when her husband was elected Governor. No doubt a coincidence like when, as Jeeves said to Bertie, you “find a trout in the milk”.
Glass ceiling? What glass ceiling?
You mention that she first gained notoriety when she criticized a United States Senator from Massachusetts who was the principal speaker at her graduation. No, it wasn’t Ted the Toper. It was the summer of 1969. Lard was busy filling out his dance card for, inter alia, the weekend at Chappaquiddick. Her instruction sheet for ridiculing public figures came from Saul Alinsky, the subject of her senior thesis. Whatever happened to him and his ideas? The question is moot. Nothing lost there save civility.
One of the jobs she had when she was busy not practicing law was being named an outside director of a little company in Arkansas with the intriguing name Wal-Mart.
Try to follow the bouncing ball here. It gets tricky.
She is a partner in the biggest law firm in the state. She is married to the Governor of that state. They may be Hicks in Bentonville but they sure as Hell ain’t dumb.
She went through that glass ceiling like a bat out of Hell, didn’t she?
She also found the time to read the Wall Street Journal and to study under the legendary “Red Bone the Broker” to learn and master the intricacies of the cattle futures market.
Shazaam on me if she ain’t Wonder Woman!
I still picture her as a modern day Boadicea or at least a marauding Maeve when I think of her ducking incoming gunfire by doing the serpentine shuffle on that Serbian tarmac.
You say she suffered through the suicide of her “best friend in the White House”. That would be Vince Foster, right? “Best friend”? Thus the envelope of language is stretched by euphemism, particularly when done by a friendly, indeed sycophantic, modern American Liberal ink stained wench.
Among other traits that would qualify her to be the first woman to…to… pee standing up is her ability to sit through “her husband’s humiliating affair”.
The facts would support the interpretation that so long as she could get to ride up front on Air Force One her husband, President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs, could get his morning hummer from the zoftig chick situated strategically under the desk in the Oval Office. No matter that the catcher in this game of gobble up the one-eyed trouser snake was just a few months older than their daughter.
She realized, up close and personal, that it was good, I mean really, really good to be King. Maybe it is the Queen’s turn.
If, as you say, she has “endured and prevailed” – and what must Faulkner be thinking – why not secure her place in History by taking on the role of Antigone? According to 3rd party recounts she already has done the Lysistrata part.
A woman was shot in Afghanistan last week. Ignoring their RESET buttons the crowd yelled Allah Akbar as she was shot 9 times. At about the same she and Bernie Karzai, the big boss man in Kabul, looked like they spent the afternoon on his back porch getting rid of a pitcher of Margaritas in an environmentally sensitive manner.
She left $16,000,000,000 – that’s 16 billion dollars – on the table when she left Kabul. Part of the understanding was that you just couldn’t shoot women on a whim.
The lesson needs to be positively reinforced in a most negative way.
Seal Team 6 has been quiet for some time.
Send it over with her in charge to put a Texas-sized ass whupping on those turbaned thugs.
Any woman who could be named for the guy who climbed Mt. Everest 4 and one half years before he did it can surely take out a few goat humping Gomers.
To Hell with being the first chick President!
How about Pope Hillary the First?
Kevin Smith
Rachel Patron The Sun Sentinel
July 7, 2012
Rachel Patron
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: An unintended consequence of Obamacare – Some comments on your really fine column in this morning’s Sun Sentinel.
Ms. Patron,
At the very least, a lower case te deum must be raised. Thanks to you, it is all made clear.
Now that the Supreme Court has spoken, ex cathedra if you will, on the Constitutionality of Obamacare I can put the quotidian medical concerns of an aging curmudgeon aside. It may take some time to smooth the edges of having the Post Office take over the scheduling of surgical procedures but Hey, this is America, remember? What better way to start the 3rd Summer of Recovery than to bring your blood work and x-rays to the polite and caring clerks who toil at the Post Office counters for their opinions? They will tell you where to put your records.
As soon as the lovely Michelle sends me the recipe for her justifiably famous skim milk, yogurt, arugula, sweet potato, and tofu milkshake I will shun, as if they were pox-ridden, all Big Macs and sausage pizza.
Absent those chores I will have more time to dwell on important matters. Your column, for instance. It stands with feet planted in cement, wearing a sign that says “Shoot Me First”, squarely in my crosshairs.
Modern American Liberals, particularly those who labor as ink stained wenches, are known for never letting facts interfere with their argument. Their obsession with the Bush/Gore decision of 2000 is O/C.
#1 – The vote affirming Florida’s electoral votes going to Bush was not 5 to 4. It was 7 – 2. The 5 – 4 vote was to accept the case. If it had been 5 - 4 against the lower court ruling would have stood and Alpha Gump would have been President. Having voted against accepting the case 2 Justices confirmed that Bush had won the election.
At this point I must tell you that I was born and raised in Hudson County, NJ and that my wife had many relatives living in Chicago. The counting, overcounting, undercounting, non-counting, mis-counting, and the sure sign that the fix is in, the Court ordered recount are learned at Mother’s breast. And that was long before anyone ever heard of a photo ID. Just to prove that all things were possible I had 6 voter ID cards when Miriam Oliphant was the Broward Election Supervisor
If someone from Bayonne had been in charge of Broward County ballots in 2000 Fidel Castro could have been President.
One irksome fact that no Court could change was that if Gore had carried Tennessee, his home state, he would have been President even if Bush shut him out in Florida.
#2 – Here is an example of God’s mirth. If Robert Bork, the bête-noire of modern American Liberals, had been confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice Vice President Gump would have become President Gump. Bork would have voted against taking the case. In your world the 5 - 4 would have been a win for the good guys. Thumper Gump would have been the First Lady where she would have censored all those nasty hip-hop, East Coast versus West Coast rap songs. The baby Gumpsters would have gamboled on the lawn and no polar bears would have drowned.
It is as good an example of “Man proposes; God clears His throat” as I can find.
#3 – You approve of the Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare. You disapprove of the Supreme Court decision upholding freedom of speech in the Citizens United case.
Thank you for making manifestly clear the cognitive dissonance required of modern American Liberals, particularly those of the aforementioned ink stained wench variety.
Lacking respect, perhaps even knowledge, of the “permanent things, the Court decisions which advance the du jour policy of the purblind Democratic Party “Rainbow Stew” feelings cycle are good. If they don’t they are bad.
I shant shame you by showing what you don’t know about the Constitution.
You need but remember that the body of the Constitution spells out specifically what government can do. They are called “enumerated powers”.
The Bill of Rights spells out what government cannot do. Perhaps it is not too late for you to understand that the first words of the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law…” mean precisely that. “Free men speak with free tongues” was good advice in the agora. It enables George Soros to open his check book to advance ideas that he holds dear. Why would you deny him his right? Incidentally, his right was not given to him by a government. If that were the case it could just as easily be taken away from him. The American Constitution merely confirmed and codified it. It was his at birth, “from beyond the stars”.
The President has a Tuesday Sudden Death List lunch at the White House. He apparently picks and chooses which particular turbaned thug gets the chop from a predator drone. The Constitution specifically grants this right. It’s a small point but it only gives it to Congress. I guess that’s why Nancy Pelosi is a regular.
There is an interesting part in the Constitution that says that the Federal government “shall protect each of them [the states] from invasion”. If someone crossing the United States border with Mexico in Arizona and killing a Federal agent in the process isn’t an “invasion” perhaps you could tell me what is.
I don’t know what Romney’s policy towards Israel will be. I do know that he wouldn’t have sat as dumb and quiet as the church mouse for 20 years while an anti-Semite spewed blood libels out like they were gospel.
Comes now Evelyn Garcia, a protégé of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. She is a Democratic candidate for the Florida Assembly, and an alternate delegate to the Democratic Convention. She wants to wear a birqa when she votes for Lord Barack the Beneficent. She tried to get Yessir Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s nephew, to help write the pro-Palestinian part of the Party’s platform. I can’t confirm, and she won’t deny, that Barbra Streisand was going to welcome the delegates by singing from the Allah Akbar song book. How bad can Fox News get?
You mention that Conservative slogans are lacking in the lifting potential of a good, catchy sound bite. Of course, it is tough to top “I won’t send American boys to fight in foreign wars”, particularly when it was used so successfully 3 times in the 20th century. TWW. FDR. LBJ. Remember?
Knowing that my health care and dietary choices have already been made by people who really care for me makes it easier to get on with the job of getting a “fairer” tax system.
Thanks for helping me “get” it.
Kevin Smith
Rachel Patron
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: An unintended consequence of Obamacare – Some comments on your really fine column in this morning’s Sun Sentinel.
Ms. Patron,
At the very least, a lower case te deum must be raised. Thanks to you, it is all made clear.
Now that the Supreme Court has spoken, ex cathedra if you will, on the Constitutionality of Obamacare I can put the quotidian medical concerns of an aging curmudgeon aside. It may take some time to smooth the edges of having the Post Office take over the scheduling of surgical procedures but Hey, this is America, remember? What better way to start the 3rd Summer of Recovery than to bring your blood work and x-rays to the polite and caring clerks who toil at the Post Office counters for their opinions? They will tell you where to put your records.
As soon as the lovely Michelle sends me the recipe for her justifiably famous skim milk, yogurt, arugula, sweet potato, and tofu milkshake I will shun, as if they were pox-ridden, all Big Macs and sausage pizza.
Absent those chores I will have more time to dwell on important matters. Your column, for instance. It stands with feet planted in cement, wearing a sign that says “Shoot Me First”, squarely in my crosshairs.
Modern American Liberals, particularly those who labor as ink stained wenches, are known for never letting facts interfere with their argument. Their obsession with the Bush/Gore decision of 2000 is O/C.
#1 – The vote affirming Florida’s electoral votes going to Bush was not 5 to 4. It was 7 – 2. The 5 – 4 vote was to accept the case. If it had been 5 - 4 against the lower court ruling would have stood and Alpha Gump would have been President. Having voted against accepting the case 2 Justices confirmed that Bush had won the election.
At this point I must tell you that I was born and raised in Hudson County, NJ and that my wife had many relatives living in Chicago. The counting, overcounting, undercounting, non-counting, mis-counting, and the sure sign that the fix is in, the Court ordered recount are learned at Mother’s breast. And that was long before anyone ever heard of a photo ID. Just to prove that all things were possible I had 6 voter ID cards when Miriam Oliphant was the Broward Election Supervisor
If someone from Bayonne had been in charge of Broward County ballots in 2000 Fidel Castro could have been President.
One irksome fact that no Court could change was that if Gore had carried Tennessee, his home state, he would have been President even if Bush shut him out in Florida.
#2 – Here is an example of God’s mirth. If Robert Bork, the bête-noire of modern American Liberals, had been confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice Vice President Gump would have become President Gump. Bork would have voted against taking the case. In your world the 5 - 4 would have been a win for the good guys. Thumper Gump would have been the First Lady where she would have censored all those nasty hip-hop, East Coast versus West Coast rap songs. The baby Gumpsters would have gamboled on the lawn and no polar bears would have drowned.
It is as good an example of “Man proposes; God clears His throat” as I can find.
#3 – You approve of the Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare. You disapprove of the Supreme Court decision upholding freedom of speech in the Citizens United case.
Thank you for making manifestly clear the cognitive dissonance required of modern American Liberals, particularly those of the aforementioned ink stained wench variety.
Lacking respect, perhaps even knowledge, of the “permanent things, the Court decisions which advance the du jour policy of the purblind Democratic Party “Rainbow Stew” feelings cycle are good. If they don’t they are bad.
I shant shame you by showing what you don’t know about the Constitution.
You need but remember that the body of the Constitution spells out specifically what government can do. They are called “enumerated powers”.
The Bill of Rights spells out what government cannot do. Perhaps it is not too late for you to understand that the first words of the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law…” mean precisely that. “Free men speak with free tongues” was good advice in the agora. It enables George Soros to open his check book to advance ideas that he holds dear. Why would you deny him his right? Incidentally, his right was not given to him by a government. If that were the case it could just as easily be taken away from him. The American Constitution merely confirmed and codified it. It was his at birth, “from beyond the stars”.
The President has a Tuesday Sudden Death List lunch at the White House. He apparently picks and chooses which particular turbaned thug gets the chop from a predator drone. The Constitution specifically grants this right. It’s a small point but it only gives it to Congress. I guess that’s why Nancy Pelosi is a regular.
There is an interesting part in the Constitution that says that the Federal government “shall protect each of them [the states] from invasion”. If someone crossing the United States border with Mexico in Arizona and killing a Federal agent in the process isn’t an “invasion” perhaps you could tell me what is.
I don’t know what Romney’s policy towards Israel will be. I do know that he wouldn’t have sat as dumb and quiet as the church mouse for 20 years while an anti-Semite spewed blood libels out like they were gospel.
Comes now Evelyn Garcia, a protégé of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. She is a Democratic candidate for the Florida Assembly, and an alternate delegate to the Democratic Convention. She wants to wear a birqa when she votes for Lord Barack the Beneficent. She tried to get Yessir Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s nephew, to help write the pro-Palestinian part of the Party’s platform. I can’t confirm, and she won’t deny, that Barbra Streisand was going to welcome the delegates by singing from the Allah Akbar song book. How bad can Fox News get?
You mention that Conservative slogans are lacking in the lifting potential of a good, catchy sound bite. Of course, it is tough to top “I won’t send American boys to fight in foreign wars”, particularly when it was used so successfully 3 times in the 20th century. TWW. FDR. LBJ. Remember?
Knowing that my health care and dietary choices have already been made by people who really care for me makes it easier to get on with the job of getting a “fairer” tax system.
Thanks for helping me “get” it.
Kevin Smith
Friday, July 6, 2012
Eugene Robinson The Washington Post
July 5, 2012
Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: No, it isn’t hot enough for me – Some comments on your mind numbing article in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Robinson,
One of the requirements before you become a full throated, fire breathing, card carrying member of the modern American Liberal Church of Perpetually Rising Expectations is that you genuflect to the great Gaia and promise that no polar bears will die on your watch. As part of the rubric of Holy Orders you are required to put your head so far up your ass that if you use Rogaine hair will grow on your tongue. You are well on the road to being an Archbishop.
[Did you know that the snows of Kilimanjaro have been receding since 1888? That was the first year that it was measured so Quien Sabe about the good old days when Obama’s great great grandfather was actively culling his herd. Incidentally, the Blizzard of 1888 is still remembered in America. Do you think there might be a connection? The preceding was a non sequitur. We’ll get to that soon.]
You say that it is always hot in DC in August but it’s never been this hot.
Assuming that it is so could you tell me what that means or what it implies. Declarative sentences only, please.
I recall a Washington Post story from the summer of 1996.
#1 – Donna Shalala, then HHS Secretary and now head of the pep squad for the University of Miami Hurricanes, gave President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs some bad news. There was no way to sugar coat it. We were all going to die from AIDS in 10 years.
This is 2012 – 16 years later – and I still haven’t bought any green bananas.
#2 – President Clinton made some brief remarks in the Rose Garden that day. “Hot enough for you?” was how he opened it. He then proceeded to turn 25 centuries of Western Civilization on its head. He said it was hot because of Global Warming. Further, there could be no doubt, what with the science being settled, that Global Warming was caused by that very hot day in August. Heat begets heat and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
The World of Traditional Logic shuddered as it was being torn asunder.
As quickly as he could force them into the receiving end of the obfuscatory persiflage grinder, the Halusian gap of irrationality was filled with the admonitions against circular reasoning, the ban of tautologies, and hoc post ergo propter hoc. Non sequiturs became reasoned discourse. See. I told you we would get back to them.
Logic, the capstone of the Trivium, the mother lode of the DNA that has become the Western Canon, went into the ash heap. Big Bill only took a few questions because he didn’t want to be late for his AM Oval Office hummer.
[Speaking of “settled science”, and how is that horse’s ass for the ages, Vice President Alpha Gump, doing these days, exactly what is this flap over the God particle? Higgs boson? Up until last Thursday I thought it was the Jolly Tar wearing the cool hat with the great whistle. Do you suppose it is, to quote Vice President Curly Biden, “a big fucking deal”?]
I am never far from my copy of “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich, Ph.D. I just reached out and touched it. He posited a simple enough thesis. The year is 1970. The race is on as to whether we will starve to death or freeze to death. The finish line is set in reinforced rebarred concrete at 2000 AD
I admit that in addition to being follicley challenged I am calorically challenged. Not freezing, not starving, not dead from AIDS. You can see why 1996 was a year filled with great angst for me. I thought I had a good shot at beating the 2000 Dead Pool. Then she comes along a gives a new drop dead deadline.
We may yet save the polar bears. We won’t make any friends in the world of baby seals but, what the Hell, we all can’t eat tofu.
I have been asking the Miami Herald since 1997 to turn off the A/Cs in their World HQ by Biscayne Bay. Alas, my suggestion has not gained traction.
See if you can follow the Logic here. I’ll type slowly.
50% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of the electricity is used to generate power to run A/Cs. Can you see where I’m going here?
After the Washington Post goes room temperature the entire Federal apparatus goes off the grid. Imagine the Capitol without A/C for the months of June, July, August, September, and October up until Columbus Day. It’s possible that nothing will get done what with members keeling over from heat stroke. The country will be better off for it. The unintended serendipity is that 10 foot tall polar bears will become 12 foot polar bears at the expense of those cute baby seals. They were going to die anyway so rich 1% mostly White chicks can wear them. Here we can help an endangered species.
Perhaps you remember your first day of biology class. It’s fuzzy to me also. There was something about green plants, photosynthesis, and a long 4 letter word. That word is carbon dioxide.
The people who gave us Obamacare and skim milk, broccoli, and tofu malteds have said – Caesar Dixit comes to mind – that carbon dioxide is poisonous.
I want you to kill your ferns and bromeliads. I want you to burn your lawn and drown your rose bushes. It might be tough getting all those redwoods down by the autumnal equinox but we’re Americans and this is our 3rd Summer of Recovery. Yes, we can. Si, se puede.
You have a very special job. You are to tie yourself to the top of the Capitol dome like Ulysses. There, you are to hold your breath and count to 2012. In fact, I want you to duct tape your mouth, nose, and ears. I don’t want any of that damned CO2 getting out.
Your CV lists you as a Pulitzer Prize winner. I’m not sure what it is in but for damn sure it is not in any recognized sciences. Alchemy, perhaps astrology. You are picking up the mantle so proudly borne by Janet Cook. Good for you. I haven’t heard from her in a while. What is she up to these days?
Your final paragraph contains one teeny error.
Let’s assume that son of Solyndra works. Let’s assume that it produces electricity like coal on steroids. Let’s assume that it has so much juice that Ben Franklin comes back and blesses it.
How does the power get off the roof and into your A/C, there being no way of transmitting it? Maybe we can harness the tides in the Potomac to turn the windmills that will get the solar powered magic wands to run the A/C. Maybe we can have the Wizard of Oz keep shouting Shazaam!
It sure as Hell beats anything you’re saying.
Kevin Smith
Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: No, it isn’t hot enough for me – Some comments on your mind numbing article in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Robinson,
One of the requirements before you become a full throated, fire breathing, card carrying member of the modern American Liberal Church of Perpetually Rising Expectations is that you genuflect to the great Gaia and promise that no polar bears will die on your watch. As part of the rubric of Holy Orders you are required to put your head so far up your ass that if you use Rogaine hair will grow on your tongue. You are well on the road to being an Archbishop.
[Did you know that the snows of Kilimanjaro have been receding since 1888? That was the first year that it was measured so Quien Sabe about the good old days when Obama’s great great grandfather was actively culling his herd. Incidentally, the Blizzard of 1888 is still remembered in America. Do you think there might be a connection? The preceding was a non sequitur. We’ll get to that soon.]
You say that it is always hot in DC in August but it’s never been this hot.
Assuming that it is so could you tell me what that means or what it implies. Declarative sentences only, please.
I recall a Washington Post story from the summer of 1996.
#1 – Donna Shalala, then HHS Secretary and now head of the pep squad for the University of Miami Hurricanes, gave President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs some bad news. There was no way to sugar coat it. We were all going to die from AIDS in 10 years.
This is 2012 – 16 years later – and I still haven’t bought any green bananas.
#2 – President Clinton made some brief remarks in the Rose Garden that day. “Hot enough for you?” was how he opened it. He then proceeded to turn 25 centuries of Western Civilization on its head. He said it was hot because of Global Warming. Further, there could be no doubt, what with the science being settled, that Global Warming was caused by that very hot day in August. Heat begets heat and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
The World of Traditional Logic shuddered as it was being torn asunder.
As quickly as he could force them into the receiving end of the obfuscatory persiflage grinder, the Halusian gap of irrationality was filled with the admonitions against circular reasoning, the ban of tautologies, and hoc post ergo propter hoc. Non sequiturs became reasoned discourse. See. I told you we would get back to them.
Logic, the capstone of the Trivium, the mother lode of the DNA that has become the Western Canon, went into the ash heap. Big Bill only took a few questions because he didn’t want to be late for his AM Oval Office hummer.
[Speaking of “settled science”, and how is that horse’s ass for the ages, Vice President Alpha Gump, doing these days, exactly what is this flap over the God particle? Higgs boson? Up until last Thursday I thought it was the Jolly Tar wearing the cool hat with the great whistle. Do you suppose it is, to quote Vice President Curly Biden, “a big fucking deal”?]
I am never far from my copy of “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich, Ph.D. I just reached out and touched it. He posited a simple enough thesis. The year is 1970. The race is on as to whether we will starve to death or freeze to death. The finish line is set in reinforced rebarred concrete at 2000 AD
I admit that in addition to being follicley challenged I am calorically challenged. Not freezing, not starving, not dead from AIDS. You can see why 1996 was a year filled with great angst for me. I thought I had a good shot at beating the 2000 Dead Pool. Then she comes along a gives a new drop dead deadline.
We may yet save the polar bears. We won’t make any friends in the world of baby seals but, what the Hell, we all can’t eat tofu.
I have been asking the Miami Herald since 1997 to turn off the A/Cs in their World HQ by Biscayne Bay. Alas, my suggestion has not gained traction.
See if you can follow the Logic here. I’ll type slowly.
50% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of the electricity is used to generate power to run A/Cs. Can you see where I’m going here?
After the Washington Post goes room temperature the entire Federal apparatus goes off the grid. Imagine the Capitol without A/C for the months of June, July, August, September, and October up until Columbus Day. It’s possible that nothing will get done what with members keeling over from heat stroke. The country will be better off for it. The unintended serendipity is that 10 foot tall polar bears will become 12 foot polar bears at the expense of those cute baby seals. They were going to die anyway so rich 1% mostly White chicks can wear them. Here we can help an endangered species.
Perhaps you remember your first day of biology class. It’s fuzzy to me also. There was something about green plants, photosynthesis, and a long 4 letter word. That word is carbon dioxide.
The people who gave us Obamacare and skim milk, broccoli, and tofu malteds have said – Caesar Dixit comes to mind – that carbon dioxide is poisonous.
I want you to kill your ferns and bromeliads. I want you to burn your lawn and drown your rose bushes. It might be tough getting all those redwoods down by the autumnal equinox but we’re Americans and this is our 3rd Summer of Recovery. Yes, we can. Si, se puede.
You have a very special job. You are to tie yourself to the top of the Capitol dome like Ulysses. There, you are to hold your breath and count to 2012. In fact, I want you to duct tape your mouth, nose, and ears. I don’t want any of that damned CO2 getting out.
Your CV lists you as a Pulitzer Prize winner. I’m not sure what it is in but for damn sure it is not in any recognized sciences. Alchemy, perhaps astrology. You are picking up the mantle so proudly borne by Janet Cook. Good for you. I haven’t heard from her in a while. What is she up to these days?
Your final paragraph contains one teeny error.
Let’s assume that son of Solyndra works. Let’s assume that it produces electricity like coal on steroids. Let’s assume that it has so much juice that Ben Franklin comes back and blesses it.
How does the power get off the roof and into your A/C, there being no way of transmitting it? Maybe we can harness the tides in the Potomac to turn the windmills that will get the solar powered magic wands to run the A/C. Maybe we can have the Wizard of Oz keep shouting Shazaam!
It sure as Hell beats anything you’re saying.
Kevin Smith
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Letter to the Editor The Sun Sentinel
July 4, 2012
Letter to the Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33394
RE: Congratulations!
Sirs,
Your 2 page editorial section today is marvelous.
It begins with a Boca Raton reader saying how proud she is to be an American because “Jewish genius”, a heritage of which she is very proud, made music memorable. Would it be considered a hate crime to ask if she ever heard Klezmer music? Also, good editing would have included the term “stiff-necked” somewhere
Your main editorial reprints the Declaration of Independence…almost. You omit the reasons for the leave taking from the gentle handed jurisdiction of His Britannic Majesty... Here’s one that may still have resonance after more than 2 centuries.
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent forth swarms
of officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance.”
Try to picture the best of the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles rationing out nephrectomies and transesophogeal ecocardiograms. The Internal Revenue Service will be in charge of appeals. The rule of the jungle, the survival of the fittest, will give us our first Death Panels. Ah! The coming joys of Obamacare!
On your second page you present a most interesting juxtaposition.
Paul Greenberg deserves exposure if for no other reason than his being the first journalist to use Slick Willy, AKA President Handsome Billy form Hot Springs, as apt an appellation as any Arkansas politician ever earned. That he was able to get John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Adlai Stevenson into one article is evidence of his narrative skills. Further, his tangential reference to Richard Weaver can give the curious reader a delightful day of reading.
You end with Wee Robbie Reich.
I can say that without fear of the dreaded Word Police pounding on my door because it was President Clinton said that he had never met anyone whose suit size was 30 extra short. There is no truth to the rumor that Sandy Berger hid him in his clown pants when he was pilfering classified documents out of the National Security Agency. Wee Robbie is a bright guy. He could have catalogued the documents as quickly as this goniff was stealing them.
He stands tall in his constant caterwauling of the trite mantras of modern American Liberalism.
It begins with a call for free speech for him but not for me. Typical.
He says that rich people are evil because they refuse to pay their “fair” share of taxes. Why does the word “more” leap to mind when boobs like him talk about “fair”? Why is “fair” never defined? “Fair” is like the horizon. No matter how fast you run, no matter how hard you try, it is a goal line that can never be crossed. “Life”, we are reminded, “is unfair”.
He never mentions how “fair” it would be to attack the malefactors of great wealth,
2 examples will do.
The will of Senator Ted “Tosspot” Kennedy contains one asset that bears examination, very close examination. It is a trust begun for him by his boot legging, Hitler loving, anti-Semitic father in 1936. His estate will manage it for the benefit of his children. How “unfair” is that? 76 years of wealth and income mocking the hardworking 99% is a bit much, isn’t it? “Fairness” demands that this gazillion dollar tax dodge be broken up to help the single mothers, usually women of color, with children in need of a good Ritalin program who are being exploited by Wal*Mart.
My wife’s cousins went to New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL with the wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller [D-WVa] Her house was so big that it had an indoor golf course. Her husband’s family has killed more polar bears with its carbon footprint than anybody or anything since the last large asteroid hit the earth.
Would it not be “fair” for our undeserving poor, victims of life’s circumstances all, to share in the 1% swag? That’s only “fair”, right?
I wish you had included a reference to my Uncle Adam publishing his little book on July 4, 1776 also.
Now that would be “fair”.
Kevin Smith
Letter to the Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33394
RE: Congratulations!
Sirs,
Your 2 page editorial section today is marvelous.
It begins with a Boca Raton reader saying how proud she is to be an American because “Jewish genius”, a heritage of which she is very proud, made music memorable. Would it be considered a hate crime to ask if she ever heard Klezmer music? Also, good editing would have included the term “stiff-necked” somewhere
Your main editorial reprints the Declaration of Independence…almost. You omit the reasons for the leave taking from the gentle handed jurisdiction of His Britannic Majesty... Here’s one that may still have resonance after more than 2 centuries.
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent forth swarms
of officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance.”
Try to picture the best of the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles rationing out nephrectomies and transesophogeal ecocardiograms. The Internal Revenue Service will be in charge of appeals. The rule of the jungle, the survival of the fittest, will give us our first Death Panels. Ah! The coming joys of Obamacare!
On your second page you present a most interesting juxtaposition.
Paul Greenberg deserves exposure if for no other reason than his being the first journalist to use Slick Willy, AKA President Handsome Billy form Hot Springs, as apt an appellation as any Arkansas politician ever earned. That he was able to get John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Adlai Stevenson into one article is evidence of his narrative skills. Further, his tangential reference to Richard Weaver can give the curious reader a delightful day of reading.
You end with Wee Robbie Reich.
I can say that without fear of the dreaded Word Police pounding on my door because it was President Clinton said that he had never met anyone whose suit size was 30 extra short. There is no truth to the rumor that Sandy Berger hid him in his clown pants when he was pilfering classified documents out of the National Security Agency. Wee Robbie is a bright guy. He could have catalogued the documents as quickly as this goniff was stealing them.
He stands tall in his constant caterwauling of the trite mantras of modern American Liberalism.
It begins with a call for free speech for him but not for me. Typical.
He says that rich people are evil because they refuse to pay their “fair” share of taxes. Why does the word “more” leap to mind when boobs like him talk about “fair”? Why is “fair” never defined? “Fair” is like the horizon. No matter how fast you run, no matter how hard you try, it is a goal line that can never be crossed. “Life”, we are reminded, “is unfair”.
He never mentions how “fair” it would be to attack the malefactors of great wealth,
2 examples will do.
The will of Senator Ted “Tosspot” Kennedy contains one asset that bears examination, very close examination. It is a trust begun for him by his boot legging, Hitler loving, anti-Semitic father in 1936. His estate will manage it for the benefit of his children. How “unfair” is that? 76 years of wealth and income mocking the hardworking 99% is a bit much, isn’t it? “Fairness” demands that this gazillion dollar tax dodge be broken up to help the single mothers, usually women of color, with children in need of a good Ritalin program who are being exploited by Wal*Mart.
My wife’s cousins went to New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL with the wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller [D-WVa] Her house was so big that it had an indoor golf course. Her husband’s family has killed more polar bears with its carbon footprint than anybody or anything since the last large asteroid hit the earth.
Would it not be “fair” for our undeserving poor, victims of life’s circumstances all, to share in the 1% swag? That’s only “fair”, right?
I wish you had included a reference to my Uncle Adam publishing his little book on July 4, 1776 also.
Now that would be “fair”.
Kevin Smith
Governor Peter Shumlin, Vermont
July 5, 2012
Governor Peter Shumlin
109 State Street, Pavilion
Montpelier, VT 05609
RE: “Such stupidity, sir, is not to be found in Nature.”
Governor Shumlin,
It has been confirmed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you said the following:
“Human beings survived for thousands of years and thousands
of years without oil and natural gas” said Governor Peter Shumlin
after signing a bill banning fracking.
We also lived for thousands and thousands of years without the overture to The Marriage of Figaro. Consider how long we went without the benefits of the TV remote control. Humankind, and doesn’t that sound asinine, was denied the pleasures of the Green Bay Packer sweep. What did we do without penicillin? Let me answer that. We died. This country decided that it was a good idea to go to the moon, walk around for a few days, pick up some great souvenirs, and come home. You can file that under “bitch slapping gravity”. Have you ever had a PET scan? Have you ever flown the Concorde? I have. Do you have a dumb phone? Is Ptolemy still your favorite astronomer? Have you yet turned off all A/Cs in state owned buildings as a way to cut back on your carbon footprint? When you do the polar bears will thank you, you boob.
Pop Quiz. Open Book
Walk into the nearest emergency room. You’re the friggin’ Governor, You can do it. Take a uniformed state trooper with you. See how far you can get without being overwhelmed by the astonishing amount of plastic needed to run the place. Doubtless, this will come as a surprise to you but plastic doesn’t grow on trees. It is a by-product of petroleum. Some of it comes from wells that have been “fracked”. Would not Logic dictate that products coming from “fracked” wells be banned in your state?
The “stupidity” quote is from Samuel Johnson. It is obvious that he never was in Vermont.
Kevin Smith
PS – Breaking news, you dunce. Boats no longer fall off the edge of the world. You are proof positive that, at least in Vermont, the boobies are running the hatch.
Governor Peter Shumlin
109 State Street, Pavilion
Montpelier, VT 05609
RE: “Such stupidity, sir, is not to be found in Nature.”
Governor Shumlin,
It has been confirmed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you said the following:
“Human beings survived for thousands of years and thousands
of years without oil and natural gas” said Governor Peter Shumlin
after signing a bill banning fracking.
We also lived for thousands and thousands of years without the overture to The Marriage of Figaro. Consider how long we went without the benefits of the TV remote control. Humankind, and doesn’t that sound asinine, was denied the pleasures of the Green Bay Packer sweep. What did we do without penicillin? Let me answer that. We died. This country decided that it was a good idea to go to the moon, walk around for a few days, pick up some great souvenirs, and come home. You can file that under “bitch slapping gravity”. Have you ever had a PET scan? Have you ever flown the Concorde? I have. Do you have a dumb phone? Is Ptolemy still your favorite astronomer? Have you yet turned off all A/Cs in state owned buildings as a way to cut back on your carbon footprint? When you do the polar bears will thank you, you boob.
Pop Quiz. Open Book
Walk into the nearest emergency room. You’re the friggin’ Governor, You can do it. Take a uniformed state trooper with you. See how far you can get without being overwhelmed by the astonishing amount of plastic needed to run the place. Doubtless, this will come as a surprise to you but plastic doesn’t grow on trees. It is a by-product of petroleum. Some of it comes from wells that have been “fracked”. Would not Logic dictate that products coming from “fracked” wells be banned in your state?
The “stupidity” quote is from Samuel Johnson. It is obvious that he never was in Vermont.
Kevin Smith
PS – Breaking news, you dunce. Boats no longer fall off the edge of the world. You are proof positive that, at least in Vermont, the boobies are running the hatch.
Earl Morgan The Jersey Journal
July 4, 2012
Earl Morgan
The Jersey Journal
30 Journal Square
Jersey City, NJ 07306
RE: Some comments on your 4/18 column on Mrs. Romney that reeks of the eclectic indignation so common to modern American Liberals.
Mr. Morgan,
2 things:
#1 – Sorry for the delay. The best guys at the Post Office are in training for the Obamacare Death Panels. The Department of Motor Vehicles is now in charge of interstate mail.
#2 – Stop the Presses! The final straw! She likes to ride horses.
If I send you my autographed copy of Jacqueline Kennedy horseback riding with
Sweet Caroline will you promise to dispose of it in an environmentally sensitive manner?
It has been said that Mad Cap Gypsy Lady Teresa Heinz Kerry, a woman with at least 6 times the net worth of the Romneys, a woman who bought her husband a yacht built in New Zealand for $7,000,000 [Did Bain Capital outsource all the New England boat builders? Find out if you can.] is also an accomplished equestrienne. She learned from her great-grandfather who used them when he was herding slaves he bought from Obama’s great-grandfather. Did you write any columns about that?
You have to be from Hudson County – I’m from Bayonne – to appreciate the following.
#1 – Mrs. Obama worked for wages once in her life. She had about 47 billable hours in 15 months at a law firm.
#2 – She sat with her husband in Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years. Like Sgt. Schultz she would respond under oath in the Chicago style. “I know nothing. I saw nothing. I heard nothing. What did you say his name was?”
#3 – She gets a job at the University of Chicago Hospital as in house counsel for
the part time 3rd shift dietary volunteers. She also mediated parking disputes.
#4 – Her husband is elected to the United States Senate.
#5 – He gets her employer a $1,000,000 earmark to study whether tofu can be given to diabetics intravenously and whether aromatherapy is good for Stage 3C Uterine Papillary Serous Carcinoma.
#6 – The hospital gives her a $4,000 a week raise – repeat – a $4,000 a week raise.
#7 – With that money and the fact that she now lives rent free in public housing she bypasses the really fine public schools in Washington and spends $100,000 a year for tuition at snooty private schools. What’s wrong with the really fine public schools in Washington? Does she know something that other residents of public housing there don’t know? Shouldn’t she tell them?
My wife’s cousins went to New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois with Mrs. Jay Rockefeller. Sharon Percy’s house was so big that it had an indoor golf course. It was just a par 3. That’s probably why you never heard of it.
The Kennedys, all of them, are all members of the exclusive Lucky Sperm Club. It is known that they like to ride, that they have never been to Wal-Mart, and that they really feel the pain of the 99%.
It’s July 4th. I’ll stop hammering you, you boob.
You qualify for one of my highly acclaimed, much sought after awards. I hereby proclaim you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
No minority set asides for you. No Affirmative Action here. You got it the old fashioned way. You earned it
Kevin Smith
PS – Love the picture of you wearing that hat. All it needs is a feather and we’re all going uptown or maybe downtown.
Earl Morgan
The Jersey Journal
30 Journal Square
Jersey City, NJ 07306
RE: Some comments on your 4/18 column on Mrs. Romney that reeks of the eclectic indignation so common to modern American Liberals.
Mr. Morgan,
2 things:
#1 – Sorry for the delay. The best guys at the Post Office are in training for the Obamacare Death Panels. The Department of Motor Vehicles is now in charge of interstate mail.
#2 – Stop the Presses! The final straw! She likes to ride horses.
If I send you my autographed copy of Jacqueline Kennedy horseback riding with
Sweet Caroline will you promise to dispose of it in an environmentally sensitive manner?
It has been said that Mad Cap Gypsy Lady Teresa Heinz Kerry, a woman with at least 6 times the net worth of the Romneys, a woman who bought her husband a yacht built in New Zealand for $7,000,000 [Did Bain Capital outsource all the New England boat builders? Find out if you can.] is also an accomplished equestrienne. She learned from her great-grandfather who used them when he was herding slaves he bought from Obama’s great-grandfather. Did you write any columns about that?
You have to be from Hudson County – I’m from Bayonne – to appreciate the following.
#1 – Mrs. Obama worked for wages once in her life. She had about 47 billable hours in 15 months at a law firm.
#2 – She sat with her husband in Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years. Like Sgt. Schultz she would respond under oath in the Chicago style. “I know nothing. I saw nothing. I heard nothing. What did you say his name was?”
#3 – She gets a job at the University of Chicago Hospital as in house counsel for
the part time 3rd shift dietary volunteers. She also mediated parking disputes.
#4 – Her husband is elected to the United States Senate.
#5 – He gets her employer a $1,000,000 earmark to study whether tofu can be given to diabetics intravenously and whether aromatherapy is good for Stage 3C Uterine Papillary Serous Carcinoma.
#6 – The hospital gives her a $4,000 a week raise – repeat – a $4,000 a week raise.
#7 – With that money and the fact that she now lives rent free in public housing she bypasses the really fine public schools in Washington and spends $100,000 a year for tuition at snooty private schools. What’s wrong with the really fine public schools in Washington? Does she know something that other residents of public housing there don’t know? Shouldn’t she tell them?
My wife’s cousins went to New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois with Mrs. Jay Rockefeller. Sharon Percy’s house was so big that it had an indoor golf course. It was just a par 3. That’s probably why you never heard of it.
The Kennedys, all of them, are all members of the exclusive Lucky Sperm Club. It is known that they like to ride, that they have never been to Wal-Mart, and that they really feel the pain of the 99%.
It’s July 4th. I’ll stop hammering you, you boob.
You qualify for one of my highly acclaimed, much sought after awards. I hereby proclaim you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
No minority set asides for you. No Affirmative Action here. You got it the old fashioned way. You earned it
Kevin Smith
PS – Love the picture of you wearing that hat. All it needs is a feather and we’re all going uptown or maybe downtown.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
5-4
July 1, 2012
A 5 to 4 split vote in the Supreme Court and a dead Senator from Massachusetts – no, not Tosspot Ted Kennedy - and the beauty and joy of being free men. There is a connection.
A week ago we were told that if the Supreme Court overturned Obamacare 5 to 4, with the minority votes being cast by the good modern American Liberal Justices and the majority votes being cast by the Halliburton/Koch Brothers/Right-Wing talk radio bought and paid for Justices, that the Mayan calendar day of doom would be on us sooner than we expected.
The vote was 5 to 4. The earth remained on its axis. This year’s version of the perennial favorite, The Summer of Recovery, is about to begin. All that remains undecided is where will Lord Barack and his family spend their vacation, a vacation sorely needed after a year of TV infomercial begathons, $40,000 dinners where Latino donors were not allowed to have knives and forks, 12 rounds of golf a week, each week, including using colored balls to play in the snow, his wife starting “to feel really proud of her country”, and his kids getting him his much wanted Austrian/English dictionary and the atlas showing us where those 7 or 8 missing states are.
The vote was 5 to 4 to uphold the law.
One point in re that vote must be made.
It is now 4 days since Chief Justice Roberts read his decision. I have not read nor have I heard one word of praise, however muted, or thankfulness, however strained, from the “Trousered Apes” who command the heights above one side of the arena. Not one. The gene chock-a-block filled with the DNA of graciousness is, as always, absent from the modern American Liberals who suffer from “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”.
It is just a case of living down to expectations.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is King. The dead Senator, Paul Tsongas [D-MA] was an honorable politician in a state where a convention of like-minded people could be held in a phone booth.
Rotters, grifters, poltroons, drunks, murderers, stealers of hot stoves, make up the elected and appointed body politic of Massachusetts. Now we have a Senate candidate, Elizabeth Warren, who says Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse arm wrestled to see who would be her grandfather. She championed buying and flipping properties and evicting occupants long before it became a spectator sport. She has $14,000,000 in a money market account and says with a straight face and no lightning bolts setting her drawers on fire that she “feels the pain” of the oppressed 99%. That all this began when she lied on her job application is glossed over by her fellow travelers. After all, she and the President are in favor of 5th trimester abortions. That’s all that counts, right?
Senator Tsongas was an honorable politician in that he answered questions about the failed Equal Rights Amendment. When chairing a committee that sought public input into the reality of how the law would be implemented he said over and over that “The Court will decide” or “The Court will tell us”.
When Senator Tsongas died his wife bypassed Surrogate’s Court and claimed the Congressional seat her husband occupied. [Think of Mrs. Hubert Humphries and Mrs. George Wallace] I mention this because there was a TV report of former Congressman Patrick Kennedy giving a speech that showed a thick tongue, a trait he got from Lard Kennedy, his deceased stunt driving dad, is still not an impediment to public discourse in the Bay State. In partial defense of the state it must be said that young Kennedy had to be sent to a “rotten boro” in neighboring Rhode Island to get his sad sack sorry ass into Congress.
One of the core beliefs of modern American Liberalism is that, deep down, the people are not to be trusted. “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” is a polite way of asking why anybody votes for any Republican anywhere, anytime.
They depended on an unelected Judiciary to decide the big matters. As long as the Judges decided “correctly”, they were good. If a potential Judge were deemed to be ideologically unfit he was to be both pilloried and peed on. Vide Clement Haynesworth, Douglas Ginzburg, Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Charles Pickering, inter alia.
It appears that Chief Justice Roberts has overturned the Tsongas rule.
He said it was not within the Court’s jurisdiction to decide whether or not it was good policy. He said that the Court was to decide whether or not the Congress had the authority to do so. Further, he said that the Constitution gives the Congress, at the direction of the President, the power to tax.
For 2 years the argument was made that taxes need not be raised to pay for this latest helping of “Rainbow Stew”. Justice Roberts pointed out that If it were not for the taxing power of the Congress the vote would have been 5 to 4 against.
Perhaps it’s time for the people to decide.
But wait, there’s more.
In the Arizona immigration case the Court held that it would be better for the people to decide.
My copy of the Constitution – Article 4, Section 4 – says “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them from invasion…”
United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed defending Arizona from invasion. It turns out that the gun used to kill him was part of a plan –“Fast & Furious” – that said it was sound public policy to send guns illegally across the United States/Mexican border to see how fast they could be sent back, also illegally, across the Mexico/United States border. I think we can stipulate that all gun handling “bitter clingers” would lack the wit to cobble together a plan as brilliant as that. Only really, really smart people could think up something so friggin’ clever as that
Congress wants to know what happened. Getting no cooperation from the Executive branch they subpoenaed the Attorney General. He, a man who began his illustrious second Federal career by calling all his [White] fellow Americans “cowards”, said “No”. He told them at the behest of the White House to shove their subpoena up its ass in a most judicious manner. AG Holder’s first Federal career was being the bag man for all the Clinton pardons. Acorns never fall far from the tree.
I would say it was a Mexican standoff save for the fact that we have a dead American whose parents have the flag they received at his grave but none of the answers they need. [Willy Horton, Michael Dukakis, murder, ignored Maryland relatives – the parallels are typical of modern American Liberalism, aren’t they?]
Here comes the good part.
We have an election in November. This country has a proud tradition of overturning Supreme Court decisions at the ballot box. November, 1860 began the process that tossed out the Dred Scott law.
We now have 3 years of precedent that says a President can pick and choose the laws that he intends to obey. He also gets to pick and choose the laws that he intends to disobey.
The American people, having seen the Rule of Law [Rule of Law? SASE] stood on its head, can put it back right side up this November.
Don’t forget to bring your photo ID.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
A 5 to 4 split vote in the Supreme Court and a dead Senator from Massachusetts – no, not Tosspot Ted Kennedy - and the beauty and joy of being free men. There is a connection.
A week ago we were told that if the Supreme Court overturned Obamacare 5 to 4, with the minority votes being cast by the good modern American Liberal Justices and the majority votes being cast by the Halliburton/Koch Brothers/Right-Wing talk radio bought and paid for Justices, that the Mayan calendar day of doom would be on us sooner than we expected.
The vote was 5 to 4. The earth remained on its axis. This year’s version of the perennial favorite, The Summer of Recovery, is about to begin. All that remains undecided is where will Lord Barack and his family spend their vacation, a vacation sorely needed after a year of TV infomercial begathons, $40,000 dinners where Latino donors were not allowed to have knives and forks, 12 rounds of golf a week, each week, including using colored balls to play in the snow, his wife starting “to feel really proud of her country”, and his kids getting him his much wanted Austrian/English dictionary and the atlas showing us where those 7 or 8 missing states are.
The vote was 5 to 4 to uphold the law.
One point in re that vote must be made.
It is now 4 days since Chief Justice Roberts read his decision. I have not read nor have I heard one word of praise, however muted, or thankfulness, however strained, from the “Trousered Apes” who command the heights above one side of the arena. Not one. The gene chock-a-block filled with the DNA of graciousness is, as always, absent from the modern American Liberals who suffer from “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”.
It is just a case of living down to expectations.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is King. The dead Senator, Paul Tsongas [D-MA] was an honorable politician in a state where a convention of like-minded people could be held in a phone booth.
Rotters, grifters, poltroons, drunks, murderers, stealers of hot stoves, make up the elected and appointed body politic of Massachusetts. Now we have a Senate candidate, Elizabeth Warren, who says Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse arm wrestled to see who would be her grandfather. She championed buying and flipping properties and evicting occupants long before it became a spectator sport. She has $14,000,000 in a money market account and says with a straight face and no lightning bolts setting her drawers on fire that she “feels the pain” of the oppressed 99%. That all this began when she lied on her job application is glossed over by her fellow travelers. After all, she and the President are in favor of 5th trimester abortions. That’s all that counts, right?
Senator Tsongas was an honorable politician in that he answered questions about the failed Equal Rights Amendment. When chairing a committee that sought public input into the reality of how the law would be implemented he said over and over that “The Court will decide” or “The Court will tell us”.
When Senator Tsongas died his wife bypassed Surrogate’s Court and claimed the Congressional seat her husband occupied. [Think of Mrs. Hubert Humphries and Mrs. George Wallace] I mention this because there was a TV report of former Congressman Patrick Kennedy giving a speech that showed a thick tongue, a trait he got from Lard Kennedy, his deceased stunt driving dad, is still not an impediment to public discourse in the Bay State. In partial defense of the state it must be said that young Kennedy had to be sent to a “rotten boro” in neighboring Rhode Island to get his sad sack sorry ass into Congress.
One of the core beliefs of modern American Liberalism is that, deep down, the people are not to be trusted. “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” is a polite way of asking why anybody votes for any Republican anywhere, anytime.
They depended on an unelected Judiciary to decide the big matters. As long as the Judges decided “correctly”, they were good. If a potential Judge were deemed to be ideologically unfit he was to be both pilloried and peed on. Vide Clement Haynesworth, Douglas Ginzburg, Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Charles Pickering, inter alia.
It appears that Chief Justice Roberts has overturned the Tsongas rule.
He said it was not within the Court’s jurisdiction to decide whether or not it was good policy. He said that the Court was to decide whether or not the Congress had the authority to do so. Further, he said that the Constitution gives the Congress, at the direction of the President, the power to tax.
For 2 years the argument was made that taxes need not be raised to pay for this latest helping of “Rainbow Stew”. Justice Roberts pointed out that If it were not for the taxing power of the Congress the vote would have been 5 to 4 against.
Perhaps it’s time for the people to decide.
But wait, there’s more.
In the Arizona immigration case the Court held that it would be better for the people to decide.
My copy of the Constitution – Article 4, Section 4 – says “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them from invasion…”
United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed defending Arizona from invasion. It turns out that the gun used to kill him was part of a plan –“Fast & Furious” – that said it was sound public policy to send guns illegally across the United States/Mexican border to see how fast they could be sent back, also illegally, across the Mexico/United States border. I think we can stipulate that all gun handling “bitter clingers” would lack the wit to cobble together a plan as brilliant as that. Only really, really smart people could think up something so friggin’ clever as that
Congress wants to know what happened. Getting no cooperation from the Executive branch they subpoenaed the Attorney General. He, a man who began his illustrious second Federal career by calling all his [White] fellow Americans “cowards”, said “No”. He told them at the behest of the White House to shove their subpoena up its ass in a most judicious manner. AG Holder’s first Federal career was being the bag man for all the Clinton pardons. Acorns never fall far from the tree.
I would say it was a Mexican standoff save for the fact that we have a dead American whose parents have the flag they received at his grave but none of the answers they need. [Willy Horton, Michael Dukakis, murder, ignored Maryland relatives – the parallels are typical of modern American Liberalism, aren’t they?]
Here comes the good part.
We have an election in November. This country has a proud tradition of overturning Supreme Court decisions at the ballot box. November, 1860 began the process that tossed out the Dred Scott law.
We now have 3 years of precedent that says a President can pick and choose the laws that he intends to obey. He also gets to pick and choose the laws that he intends to disobey.
The American people, having seen the Rule of Law [Rule of Law? SASE] stood on its head, can put it back right side up this November.
Don’t forget to bring your photo ID.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Monday, July 2, 2012
Barbara Griffin Head of School Saint Dominic Academy
July 1, 2012
Barbara Griffin
Head of School
Saint Dominic Academy
2572 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07304
My wife, Amy Chapman Smith, was graduated from St. Dominic Academy in 1960. She died on August 25, 2011.
Some time ago I asked you to post the notice of her death in your News/Alumna letter and then strike my name from your rolls.
The reason was simple. Its name, Pentimento, and its connection with Lillian Hellman, was more than I could stomach. How a religious institution, particularly one connected with the Dominican love of reason and philosophic enquiry could be associated with this slatternly mountebank is still quite beyond me.
I enclose 2 articles published since my letter to you.
I present these, not in defense of my argument, but as outside proof that she gave hookers a bad name.
Perhaps Mary Magdalene would be a better example for the young ladies under your charge. At least she came to accept God’s grace. [Is The Hound of Heaven to be found anywhere in your curriculum?]
The reason for this note is simple. Yesterday was the anniversary of Lillian Hellman's death. As is my custom, I send an armed guard to surround her grave, bayonets pointing in. I do this lest this moral, cultural, and literary succubus slip out of her grave site and further infect Western Civilization.
Kevin Smith
Barbara Griffin
Head of School
Saint Dominic Academy
2572 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07304
My wife, Amy Chapman Smith, was graduated from St. Dominic Academy in 1960. She died on August 25, 2011.
Some time ago I asked you to post the notice of her death in your News/Alumna letter and then strike my name from your rolls.
The reason was simple. Its name, Pentimento, and its connection with Lillian Hellman, was more than I could stomach. How a religious institution, particularly one connected with the Dominican love of reason and philosophic enquiry could be associated with this slatternly mountebank is still quite beyond me.
I enclose 2 articles published since my letter to you.
I present these, not in defense of my argument, but as outside proof that she gave hookers a bad name.
Perhaps Mary Magdalene would be a better example for the young ladies under your charge. At least she came to accept God’s grace. [Is The Hound of Heaven to be found anywhere in your curriculum?]
The reason for this note is simple. Yesterday was the anniversary of Lillian Hellman's death. As is my custom, I send an armed guard to surround her grave, bayonets pointing in. I do this lest this moral, cultural, and literary succubus slip out of her grave site and further infect Western Civilization.
Kevin Smith
Chris Cillizza The Washington Post
June 30, 2012
Chris Cillizza
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: “Only Allah can weave a perfect rug.”
Mr. Cillizza,
I used to say “Homer nods” when I discovered a mistake. Not anymore.
If I were to mention Homer that might suggest that an over the hill DWEM still had influence in our culture. The Church of modern American Liberalism demands that obeisance and fealty be paid to multi-culturalism. Thus my reference to Allah even though there is substantial evidence that Mohammed, his head flack, was a goat humping pedophile.
If the tax payers of America can have their funds used to produce a play – Corpus Cristi – that says that Jesus and Judas were homosexual lovers and that Judas dropped a dime on his pal, said snitching leading to his crucifixion, I can say that Mohammed moved sheep shagging to a new level, right?
My mistake was in granting Andrea Mitchell exclusive status.
As long as Helen Thomas expels CO2 and contributes to the plight of polar bears she must be included on the list. She is of invaluable help to me twice a year. She has a face that can stop a clock. I am responsible for the alarm system of a large building. The common area A/C, the pool motor, the cameras, the elevator, the laundromat, the intercom are all dependent of the clock being changed twice a year. I admit that an hour ahead or an hour behind has always confused me. Twice a year I put a photo of her up close and personal in front of the electronic clock. It stops them as if they were hit by a Louisville slugger. [I’ll get to them later.]
I have an hour to reconfigure, rejiggle, “reset” as Hillary Clinton says.
I couldn’t do it without her.
The other less than gracefully aging Hecate – perhaps harridan is better for her – is Barbara Walters.
She is older than most of the trees in Muir Woods. From when she was a Manhattan teenager and she discovered that the balls that the Louisville Sluggers lifted by the New York Yankees were not limited to batting practice she has been a fistula on the body politic
Come to think of it, a way to reduce the deficit would be to put the three of them, Andrea Mitchell, Helen Thomas, and Baba Wawa, into a canoe and send it down the Niagara River. All proceeds would be used to borrow less that day from the meretricious Mandarin moneylenders.
This, I bring the scales back into balance.
Smarminess abounds and, Heaven forefend, is in the ascendancy.
Kevin Smith
Chris Cillizza
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20071
RE: “Only Allah can weave a perfect rug.”
Mr. Cillizza,
I used to say “Homer nods” when I discovered a mistake. Not anymore.
If I were to mention Homer that might suggest that an over the hill DWEM still had influence in our culture. The Church of modern American Liberalism demands that obeisance and fealty be paid to multi-culturalism. Thus my reference to Allah even though there is substantial evidence that Mohammed, his head flack, was a goat humping pedophile.
If the tax payers of America can have their funds used to produce a play – Corpus Cristi – that says that Jesus and Judas were homosexual lovers and that Judas dropped a dime on his pal, said snitching leading to his crucifixion, I can say that Mohammed moved sheep shagging to a new level, right?
My mistake was in granting Andrea Mitchell exclusive status.
As long as Helen Thomas expels CO2 and contributes to the plight of polar bears she must be included on the list. She is of invaluable help to me twice a year. She has a face that can stop a clock. I am responsible for the alarm system of a large building. The common area A/C, the pool motor, the cameras, the elevator, the laundromat, the intercom are all dependent of the clock being changed twice a year. I admit that an hour ahead or an hour behind has always confused me. Twice a year I put a photo of her up close and personal in front of the electronic clock. It stops them as if they were hit by a Louisville slugger. [I’ll get to them later.]
I have an hour to reconfigure, rejiggle, “reset” as Hillary Clinton says.
I couldn’t do it without her.
The other less than gracefully aging Hecate – perhaps harridan is better for her – is Barbara Walters.
She is older than most of the trees in Muir Woods. From when she was a Manhattan teenager and she discovered that the balls that the Louisville Sluggers lifted by the New York Yankees were not limited to batting practice she has been a fistula on the body politic
Come to think of it, a way to reduce the deficit would be to put the three of them, Andrea Mitchell, Helen Thomas, and Baba Wawa, into a canoe and send it down the Niagara River. All proceeds would be used to borrow less that day from the meretricious Mandarin moneylenders.
This, I bring the scales back into balance.
Smarminess abounds and, Heaven forefend, is in the ascendancy.
Kevin Smith
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