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August 15, 2014
Mitchell Berger, Esq.
Berger Singerman
360 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: Happy Days are really, really here again, especially for modern American Liberal chiropractors who manipulate, 24/7, modern American Liberal lawyers enabling both to enjoy a never ending Summer of Recovery.
Mr. Berger,
How tough is it to be a modern American Liberal lawyer? A tumescent group of rutting reptiles doesn’t put as much strain on their spines as you do. Cervical, thoracic, lumbar – Oh your aching back but you are an equal opportunity contortionist, aren’t you? The demands that the elders make of modern American Liberal votaries require mental and spiritual contortions that are the bane of mere mortals.
A “decent respect for the opinions of mankind” demands that I explain myself.
On August 3rd you blamed Governor Scott for “sea level rise”.
Mean, nasty, and smarmy are traits necessary for the survival of modern American Liberals, more so for modern American Liberal lawyers. Since wit and satire are alien to people, people such as you, who believe that “Midnight Basketball” and “Cash for Clunkers” are both sound public policies and that raising taxes and the minimum wage will cause the unemployment rate to drop. I am left with no choice but to believe that deep down, Honest Injun, you really, really believe that. It is, of course, dreck but for hacks like you who believe that inconvenient facts must never interfere with a gravity defying argument, you leave me no choice.
I wrote to you on 8/3 – copy enclosed – suggesting that as modern American Liberal lawyer you should not represent anyone involved in any transaction where flowing water can be seen from any part of the building. I said that unless the buyers were les merdes du Quebec you had to tell them not to buy because if Governor Scott is reelected the property would soon be a place for halibut, hake, and haddock humping. If they insisted on buying you were morally and ethically bound to tell them to find another lawyer to represent them.
I read this morning that your firm was involved in the closing of property on the Intracoastal in Fort Lauderdale. The announced price was $21,600,000. Doubtless some of the units will be Section 8, no? There is no sense in being a half-assed 1%er, is there? Just be sure to be a hypocritical one though’
I hope you are resting comfortably. Being packed in ice while being in traction can be uncomfortable, particularly when the vertebrae realign themselves in an East/West axis. That’s why drugs were invented. I have some extra Oxys available at market price should you want an off the books transaction. Don’t let the residents do the epidurals.
It seems that “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome” is more common than we thought in the control group known as “modern American Liberal lawyers” – Broward County gang. Your smarminess knows no bounds.
Your unctuous Jeremiad of 8/3/14 tells us of the dangers of CO2. Here’s a simple solution, dear to the heart of mush-brained statists.
#1 – Don’t exhale. It is industrial strength CO2.
#2 – Outlaw photosynthesis. Damn those green plants!
At the very least you must turn off all A/Cs. Almost 50% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. [At least Tom Steyer sold his high sulfur/dirty coal to China and Malaysia. Thanks, Tommy boy.] Half of that power goes to run A/Cs. If you and your ilk want to undrown myriad polar bears you must do this. Plus, you will feel warm and fuzzy about yourself.
The next step is that all employees in your firm – partners excluded – must use public transportation to get to and from work.
Think Globally and act Locally.
Let me amend that. It’s easier to be ethically challenged when you suffer from the Fatal Conceit of believing that the horizon can be reached if enough men of good will desire it. Ugh. That means that beyond being a varlet you are a hypocritical varlet.
Kevin Smith
PS – Do you remember when Czarina Hillary the Hecate said that there was a “vast Right-Wing conspiracy” out there doing all sorts of evil things? I do. Do you suppose that the knuckle-dragging, bitter clinging, homophobic gun nuts of the Tea Party, financed by the evil Koch Brothers, are behind all the bad stuff going on? I don’t. I bet you do.
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Thursday, August 14, 2014
August 14, 2014
Rosemary Goudreau
Editorial Page Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Judicial elections
Ms. Goudreau,
I beg to offer 2 dissenting opinions.
#! – The election of Judges is an abomination. They can’t answer anything other than how much do you love Mom and do you like your apple pie with or without ice cream. The sight of trial lawyers throwing checks at candidates is, at best, unseemly. The admonition about Caesar’s wife is left unsaid. As a litigant I have been in the following courts: New Jersey Superior Court and the New Jersey Court of Appeals; The New York State Supreme Court and the New York State Court of Appeals, United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals, United States Bankruptcy Court, United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court.. It would be safe to say that I have a sense of what makes a Judge a Judge.
Then I got to Florida
Let me say that the Florida Judiciary in general and the cabal that sits in the Broward Courthouse in particular is, in the truest sense of the word, unique. Broward Judges have the uncanny ability to look through a keyhole with both eyes.
#2 – Since Judge Efren is a card player it is a sad fact and an inconvenient truth that with him sitting on the Bench the good people of Broward County are always trying to fill inside straights. The reason why the people who run the casinos live in big houses, wear a bit too much jewelry, and have a tendency to collect ravishing blonde ladies is because people bet against the house that they can do just that.
I watched him on “County Line” hosted by Frank Loconto. I am not used to having people piss on my back and then tell me it’s rain. That’s what Lord Feren did. All that he needed was a powdered wig, a red robe, and a pillory behind him.
I enclose a copy of a letter I sent to him on Tuesday. If we must have Judges elected let’s start by unelecting this black robed churlish snoot.
Kevin Smith
Rosemary Goudreau
Editorial Page Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Judicial elections
Ms. Goudreau,
I beg to offer 2 dissenting opinions.
#! – The election of Judges is an abomination. They can’t answer anything other than how much do you love Mom and do you like your apple pie with or without ice cream. The sight of trial lawyers throwing checks at candidates is, at best, unseemly. The admonition about Caesar’s wife is left unsaid. As a litigant I have been in the following courts: New Jersey Superior Court and the New Jersey Court of Appeals; The New York State Supreme Court and the New York State Court of Appeals, United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals, United States Bankruptcy Court, United States Tax Court, and the United States Supreme Court.. It would be safe to say that I have a sense of what makes a Judge a Judge.
Then I got to Florida
Let me say that the Florida Judiciary in general and the cabal that sits in the Broward Courthouse in particular is, in the truest sense of the word, unique. Broward Judges have the uncanny ability to look through a keyhole with both eyes.
#2 – Since Judge Efren is a card player it is a sad fact and an inconvenient truth that with him sitting on the Bench the good people of Broward County are always trying to fill inside straights. The reason why the people who run the casinos live in big houses, wear a bit too much jewelry, and have a tendency to collect ravishing blonde ladies is because people bet against the house that they can do just that.
I watched him on “County Line” hosted by Frank Loconto. I am not used to having people piss on my back and then tell me it’s rain. That’s what Lord Feren did. All that he needed was a powdered wig, a red robe, and a pillory behind him.
I enclose a copy of a letter I sent to him on Tuesday. If we must have Judges elected let’s start by unelecting this black robed churlish snoot.
Kevin Smith
August 11, 2014
Judge Steven Brian Feren
Broward County Courthouse
201 SE 6th Street
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: What’s that smell? If the President of the United States, and let me say that he is the best President we have, can say HORSESHIT so can I.
Judge Feren,
Auras, airs past penumbras, decidedly non-redolent emanations, fill the Broward Courthouse.
Who says “Trousered Apes” are gone? Not I.
Apparently when you – both universally “you” and particularly “you” – managed to get your sorry, sad sacked asses and ass wrapped in black a mighty power descended on you. The laws governing gravity are suspended when you speak. Ozymandias and Canute have nothing on you. In an Ebola-like outbreak of judicial solipsism you have replaced Caesar dixit with Magister dixit.
I saw you on “County Line” yesterday.
Host Frank Loconto neither set verbal traps nor did he throw “gotcha” questions at you. By making sure that you were the focus of the conversation he let you first admire your bayonet and then sit on it.
Your condescension was so fulsome, so noxious, that it came through the TV.
You said you have never made a mistake on the Bench.
Further, you said that jury verdicts are good when
you agree with them and bad when you don’t.
For us mere mortals, particularly those of us who have served on juries, the chance to touch your hem, to have your shadow fall upon us, is a consolation devoutly to be wished. Doubtless you have never been overturned on appeal. In fact, have any of your decisions ever been appealed? Samuel, Cato the Younger, John Marshall, Roy Bean, Arthur Vanderbilt…it’s a short list. I am sure they will welcome you to it.
And yes, the Greeks do have a word for that.
HUBRIS
In Broward County, in modern American Liberal Broward County, a place soon to have non-photo ID manatee suffrage, a place where Dr. Mengele would be voted for because of his progressive views on abortion, it is oft-times called “Non-malodorus fecal matter syndrome”. You may want to send a SASE for the precise definition. A cat dead ten days and a dozen three week old randy knickers would be like spring lavender compared to the ordure coming from you.
Men with pitchforks, whips, and snarling hounds should drive you from the courthouse for fouling the air and despoiling the concept of Justice. How many times do we get to use the word “defenestration” correctly?
You won’t go empty handed. I hereby name you
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
JUDICIAL SECTION
To Hell with here comes the Judge! In your case it should be there goes the Judge. Permanently. Your future employment should be predicated on being an example in Judge school. A negative example. If not that there is always a need for a catcher on the Flaming Bags of Cat Shit traveling team.
Dickens said that “the law is a fool, the law is a ass”. Too bad he never heard about you.
Kevin Smith
Judge Steven Brian Feren
Broward County Courthouse
201 SE 6th Street
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: What’s that smell? If the President of the United States, and let me say that he is the best President we have, can say HORSESHIT so can I.
Judge Feren,
Auras, airs past penumbras, decidedly non-redolent emanations, fill the Broward Courthouse.
Who says “Trousered Apes” are gone? Not I.
Apparently when you – both universally “you” and particularly “you” – managed to get your sorry, sad sacked asses and ass wrapped in black a mighty power descended on you. The laws governing gravity are suspended when you speak. Ozymandias and Canute have nothing on you. In an Ebola-like outbreak of judicial solipsism you have replaced Caesar dixit with Magister dixit.
I saw you on “County Line” yesterday.
Host Frank Loconto neither set verbal traps nor did he throw “gotcha” questions at you. By making sure that you were the focus of the conversation he let you first admire your bayonet and then sit on it.
Your condescension was so fulsome, so noxious, that it came through the TV.
You said you have never made a mistake on the Bench.
Further, you said that jury verdicts are good when
you agree with them and bad when you don’t.
For us mere mortals, particularly those of us who have served on juries, the chance to touch your hem, to have your shadow fall upon us, is a consolation devoutly to be wished. Doubtless you have never been overturned on appeal. In fact, have any of your decisions ever been appealed? Samuel, Cato the Younger, John Marshall, Roy Bean, Arthur Vanderbilt…it’s a short list. I am sure they will welcome you to it.
And yes, the Greeks do have a word for that.
HUBRIS
In Broward County, in modern American Liberal Broward County, a place soon to have non-photo ID manatee suffrage, a place where Dr. Mengele would be voted for because of his progressive views on abortion, it is oft-times called “Non-malodorus fecal matter syndrome”. You may want to send a SASE for the precise definition. A cat dead ten days and a dozen three week old randy knickers would be like spring lavender compared to the ordure coming from you.
Men with pitchforks, whips, and snarling hounds should drive you from the courthouse for fouling the air and despoiling the concept of Justice. How many times do we get to use the word “defenestration” correctly?
You won’t go empty handed. I hereby name you
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
JUDICIAL SECTION
To Hell with here comes the Judge! In your case it should be there goes the Judge. Permanently. Your future employment should be predicated on being an example in Judge school. A negative example. If not that there is always a need for a catcher on the Flaming Bags of Cat Shit traveling team.
Dickens said that “the law is a fool, the law is a ass”. Too bad he never heard about you.
Kevin Smith
August 14, 2014
Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News
1399 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005
RE: “A target rich environment” – I’ll say this about modern American Liberals. “They never let you down.” Some comments on your offerings in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms. Carlson,
It’s been some time since I reminded you that you said that American GIs serving overseas were tax cheats who didn’t deserve to have their votes counted. Tempus sure fugits, doesn’t it?
I picked up my pen today because of your typical, I dare say prototypical, modern American Liberal smarminess.
“His opponent, Mitt Romney, didn’t have that foresight: He was
photographed jet-skiing past his lakeside mansion, reinforcing his
image as the kind of plutocrat who hides his money in the Caymans.”
The Miami Herald
Today
You
Some say that tu quoque is so 1990s. I ain’t one of them.
I am not familiar with the picture of Mitt Romney jet-skiing. Is it as good as the one of John Kerry wind surfing?
You write that Romney looks like someone who hides his money in the Cayman Islands. Do you think Kerry stashed the loot that he saved by avoiding taxes on the boat his mad cap Gypsy wife bought for him? I can’t say if it still is the paradigmatic template for 1% wretched excess but how many other boats have bowling alleys, Starbucks, and a drive-in movie theatre below decks? By the way, did high unionized wages in New England cause her to have the boat built in New Zealand?
[My quest for the truth about the possible business connections between Mrs. Kerry’s grandfather and President Obama’s great-great grandfather is ongoing. Confidential informants who, perforce, must remain confidential say that they were involved with the planting, cultivation, training, and transportation of, shall we say, involuntary migrant workers. It was and still is a common practice in Muslim dominated countries. Alas, some of the hard drives containing information about it have gone walkabout.]
“How someone spends their time when freed from shirt,
tie, pantsuit and handlers give us a rare glimpse
of who they really are.”
op cit
That’s like an off speed, letter high, batting practice pitch to a power hitter. You have to guard against overswinging.
Did you see the picture of the Clintons walking on the beach? Who took the picture? My guess is that Elizabeth Warren, AKA Princess SummerFallWinterWarren, teamed up with favorite photographer of the Koch Brothers to do the dirty deed. Several things are self-evident.
#1 – The dog has been bribed. He seems like a good hound. The only way he would walk with those 2 grifters would be if he had been promised 2 hind quarters from a Brahma bull and a weekend with Lassie.
#2 – Ex President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs is on his cell phone trying to score an “afternoon delight”. Down South they’re called “Nooners”. Plus, someone should tell him to ditch the socks. He’s on a beach, fercristsaskes.
#3 – I know they were “dead broke” when they left the White House. Through bake sales, 50/50s, tutoring, foreclosure defense inter alia she was able to put $100,000,000 into her political tin box, the better to prepare for their golden years. With that kind of dough she should have been able to afford someone who would hit her with a bat before she could be photographed in public wearing that Brobdanaglian blue muumuu. It was last seen on the roof of a hurricane damaged Walmart super store. Yankee Stadium, home of her “favorite” team, remember, could use it as an infield trap to keep the rain off the base paths. If you want to cure teenage boys of daydreaming about perfecting their twerking skills put a picture of her in every boy’s room of every high school in America. The birth rate will soon be negative. Industrial strength Viagra IVed could not overcome that. One more crème brulee and she will look like Buddha. She would make Chris Christie look like Gandhi. If you want to lose weight run around her. And if you want to commit suicide jump off her wallet.
In a show of support for diversity and inclusion Hillary is only a half a lap in front of Michele Obama, she of the blossoming booty. She is apparently grabbing all those unhealthy foods that teenagers crave and destroying them in an environmentally sensitive manner by eating them.
They’ll both be working for Nutri-System in a few years. They both use a lot of WD-40 if they want to get into their pant suits, into their Spandex pant suits. Not since the glory days of Bella Abzug has the word “steatyagonous” been heard in the land.
That’s all for now. I am starting the last leg of my summer vacation. I have so far been in 54 or 55 of Obama’s 57 or 58 states. My 2 Holy Grail quests – finding a Marine corpse and finding a copy of an Austrian/English dictionary - remain unfulfilled.
I’ll keep in touch.
Kevin Smith
PS – Speaking of modern American Liberal hypocrites, let me be the first to tell about Tom Steyer. He said he will spend $100,000,000 of his own money to help elect candidates who care about the environment. He once ran a hedge fund. He wants to undrown cute and fuzzy polar bears. Unlike Mitt Romney who ran a bad hedge fund, he ran a good hedge fund. Can you believe that this friend of the polar bears and foe of air conditioning mined dirty coal in Australia and Indonesia? Then he sold it to Japan and China where it polluted the atmosphere, destroyed the besieged ozone layer, and gave us GlobalCoolingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDestruction. Stick around. It gets better. He made so much money for his clients that he advised them to stash it in – are you ready? - the Cayman Islands. “Non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”, no? It is true that while all hedge funds are equal some hedge funds are more equal than others, right?
Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News
1399 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005
RE: “A target rich environment” – I’ll say this about modern American Liberals. “They never let you down.” Some comments on your offerings in today’s Miami Herald.
Ms. Carlson,
It’s been some time since I reminded you that you said that American GIs serving overseas were tax cheats who didn’t deserve to have their votes counted. Tempus sure fugits, doesn’t it?
I picked up my pen today because of your typical, I dare say prototypical, modern American Liberal smarminess.
“His opponent, Mitt Romney, didn’t have that foresight: He was
photographed jet-skiing past his lakeside mansion, reinforcing his
image as the kind of plutocrat who hides his money in the Caymans.”
The Miami Herald
Today
You
Some say that tu quoque is so 1990s. I ain’t one of them.
I am not familiar with the picture of Mitt Romney jet-skiing. Is it as good as the one of John Kerry wind surfing?
You write that Romney looks like someone who hides his money in the Cayman Islands. Do you think Kerry stashed the loot that he saved by avoiding taxes on the boat his mad cap Gypsy wife bought for him? I can’t say if it still is the paradigmatic template for 1% wretched excess but how many other boats have bowling alleys, Starbucks, and a drive-in movie theatre below decks? By the way, did high unionized wages in New England cause her to have the boat built in New Zealand?
[My quest for the truth about the possible business connections between Mrs. Kerry’s grandfather and President Obama’s great-great grandfather is ongoing. Confidential informants who, perforce, must remain confidential say that they were involved with the planting, cultivation, training, and transportation of, shall we say, involuntary migrant workers. It was and still is a common practice in Muslim dominated countries. Alas, some of the hard drives containing information about it have gone walkabout.]
“How someone spends their time when freed from shirt,
tie, pantsuit and handlers give us a rare glimpse
of who they really are.”
op cit
That’s like an off speed, letter high, batting practice pitch to a power hitter. You have to guard against overswinging.
Did you see the picture of the Clintons walking on the beach? Who took the picture? My guess is that Elizabeth Warren, AKA Princess SummerFallWinterWarren, teamed up with favorite photographer of the Koch Brothers to do the dirty deed. Several things are self-evident.
#1 – The dog has been bribed. He seems like a good hound. The only way he would walk with those 2 grifters would be if he had been promised 2 hind quarters from a Brahma bull and a weekend with Lassie.
#2 – Ex President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs is on his cell phone trying to score an “afternoon delight”. Down South they’re called “Nooners”. Plus, someone should tell him to ditch the socks. He’s on a beach, fercristsaskes.
#3 – I know they were “dead broke” when they left the White House. Through bake sales, 50/50s, tutoring, foreclosure defense inter alia she was able to put $100,000,000 into her political tin box, the better to prepare for their golden years. With that kind of dough she should have been able to afford someone who would hit her with a bat before she could be photographed in public wearing that Brobdanaglian blue muumuu. It was last seen on the roof of a hurricane damaged Walmart super store. Yankee Stadium, home of her “favorite” team, remember, could use it as an infield trap to keep the rain off the base paths. If you want to cure teenage boys of daydreaming about perfecting their twerking skills put a picture of her in every boy’s room of every high school in America. The birth rate will soon be negative. Industrial strength Viagra IVed could not overcome that. One more crème brulee and she will look like Buddha. She would make Chris Christie look like Gandhi. If you want to lose weight run around her. And if you want to commit suicide jump off her wallet.
In a show of support for diversity and inclusion Hillary is only a half a lap in front of Michele Obama, she of the blossoming booty. She is apparently grabbing all those unhealthy foods that teenagers crave and destroying them in an environmentally sensitive manner by eating them.
They’ll both be working for Nutri-System in a few years. They both use a lot of WD-40 if they want to get into their pant suits, into their Spandex pant suits. Not since the glory days of Bella Abzug has the word “steatyagonous” been heard in the land.
That’s all for now. I am starting the last leg of my summer vacation. I have so far been in 54 or 55 of Obama’s 57 or 58 states. My 2 Holy Grail quests – finding a Marine corpse and finding a copy of an Austrian/English dictionary - remain unfulfilled.
I’ll keep in touch.
Kevin Smith
PS – Speaking of modern American Liberal hypocrites, let me be the first to tell about Tom Steyer. He said he will spend $100,000,000 of his own money to help elect candidates who care about the environment. He once ran a hedge fund. He wants to undrown cute and fuzzy polar bears. Unlike Mitt Romney who ran a bad hedge fund, he ran a good hedge fund. Can you believe that this friend of the polar bears and foe of air conditioning mined dirty coal in Australia and Indonesia? Then he sold it to Japan and China where it polluted the atmosphere, destroyed the besieged ozone layer, and gave us GlobalCoolingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDestruction. Stick around. It gets better. He made so much money for his clients that he advised them to stash it in – are you ready? - the Cayman Islands. “Non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”, no? It is true that while all hedge funds are equal some hedge funds are more equal than others, right?
Monday, August 11, 2014
August 9, 2014
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Today is the 69th anniversary of the successful conclusion of 3 days of intense, extremely up close and immensely personal face to face negotiations between the United States and Japan.
Negotiations were begun in in the sky above Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
One follow up session was required on August 9, 1945. The talks were moved to Nagasaki because of wide spread black out at Hiroshima.
It marked the end of hostilities between the 2 countries. Alas, it was 76 days too late for Amy’s uncle, Corporal Leonard Putnam. He, a 42 year old piano salesman from Jersey City, N J, was killed on Okinawa on May 25, 1945.
No nuclear weapons have been fired in anger since August 9, 1945.
Sometimes you have to use a 2x4 before you can reason with someone.
Maybe it will end soon. Maybe not.
Either way…
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY…
and WELL DONE, AMERICA!
The world thanks you
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Today is the 69th anniversary of the successful conclusion of 3 days of intense, extremely up close and immensely personal face to face negotiations between the United States and Japan.
Negotiations were begun in in the sky above Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
One follow up session was required on August 9, 1945. The talks were moved to Nagasaki because of wide spread black out at Hiroshima.
It marked the end of hostilities between the 2 countries. Alas, it was 76 days too late for Amy’s uncle, Corporal Leonard Putnam. He, a 42 year old piano salesman from Jersey City, N J, was killed on Okinawa on May 25, 1945.
No nuclear weapons have been fired in anger since August 9, 1945.
Sometimes you have to use a 2x4 before you can reason with someone.
Maybe it will end soon. Maybe not.
Either way…
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY…
and WELL DONE, AMERICA!
The world thanks you
Friday, August 8, 2014
August 5, 2014
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL33394
RE: Next up, manatee suffrage, right?
Mr. Lowe,
My compliments on a marvelous, alas unlinkable, cartoon this AM.
It shows the evil Republicans, doubtless in thralldom to the Satanic Koch Brothers, gerrymandering Florida to further the aims of homophobic, bitterly clinging, Tea Party gun nuts.
Like the turd in the punch bowl that keeps popping up it raises 2 questions.
#1 – If they were so sinister and so powerful why couldn’t they protect Representative Alan West? Who else but a Black Congressman could criticize a Black President without being compared to the legendary Southern White Democratic Congressmen? Names like Eastland, Bilbo, Gore, Stennis, and Russell leap to mind. Why did they let him go? Why didn’t they wiggle the lines of South Florida’s resident Medusa, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? Just make the harridan hustle a bit at election time.
#2 – Corinne Brown’s district is so narrow in parts that a good golfer could drive his Slazenger across it. If her district is reconfigured geometrically she will be out of work come November.
Alcee Hastings had his Black-robed felonious ass tossed off the Federal bench. A district was created for him that would have elected Little Black Sambo and/or Willie Horton. If it were possible both would have been sent to Congress. Talk about “rotten boros”! Redrawing his district using straight lines and the inevitable right angles will result in him making the foul smell he causes just being in Congress less so.
The end result will be 2 less Black members of Congress. I guess it’s OK for a mush-brained modern American Liberal to be a racist. Keep drawing.
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL33394
RE: Next up, manatee suffrage, right?
Mr. Lowe,
My compliments on a marvelous, alas unlinkable, cartoon this AM.
It shows the evil Republicans, doubtless in thralldom to the Satanic Koch Brothers, gerrymandering Florida to further the aims of homophobic, bitterly clinging, Tea Party gun nuts.
Like the turd in the punch bowl that keeps popping up it raises 2 questions.
#1 – If they were so sinister and so powerful why couldn’t they protect Representative Alan West? Who else but a Black Congressman could criticize a Black President without being compared to the legendary Southern White Democratic Congressmen? Names like Eastland, Bilbo, Gore, Stennis, and Russell leap to mind. Why did they let him go? Why didn’t they wiggle the lines of South Florida’s resident Medusa, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? Just make the harridan hustle a bit at election time.
#2 – Corinne Brown’s district is so narrow in parts that a good golfer could drive his Slazenger across it. If her district is reconfigured geometrically she will be out of work come November.
Alcee Hastings had his Black-robed felonious ass tossed off the Federal bench. A district was created for him that would have elected Little Black Sambo and/or Willie Horton. If it were possible both would have been sent to Congress. Talk about “rotten boros”! Redrawing his district using straight lines and the inevitable right angles will result in him making the foul smell he causes just being in Congress less so.
The end result will be 2 less Black members of Congress. I guess it’s OK for a mush-brained modern American Liberal to be a racist. Keep drawing.
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
August 7, 2014
Mitch Caesar, Esq.
Broward County Democratic Party
1832 N. University Drive
Plantation, FL 33322
Ave Mitch!
There you were last night, talking on TV, as if you knew what you were talking about. This time it was about never ending high tides. This ever growing perpetual tsunami, doubtless caused by the vile Koch Brothers and their evil plot to drown polar bears by burning coal to produce electricity to power all the A/Cs in Florida will soon make Wynona, MN the surfing capitol of America. The only possible solution, or so you said last night, is to elect Chucky Crist. I just know that the first line of his obit will be “His favorite color was plaid”.
[Is it possible to suggest in a world where Swift has gone down the memory hole that rising sea levels, assuming that they are rising, may give us some surcease from both the border problem and the Ebola problem? It isn’t? OK. Never mind.]
I enclose a letter I sent to Mitch Berger, Esq, a kindred spirit and a fellow traveling useful idiot, about a possible solution to a most vexing problem.
Despite hundreds, nay, thousands of drowned polar bears washing up on the beach of the Obama summer rental – a Tea Party plot to disrupt his vacation? I hope not – people still buy beachfront property. Party affiliations aside, I hope that contingency plans have been made to get him and his family out should the 654 foot high wall of water arrive early. As bad as President B.O. is the thought of VP Curley Biden trying to get his thumbs, apposable digits being an alien concept to him, working together on the nuclear launch codes, is truly terrifying.
But I digress.
Less than a month ago an acre and a quarter of land on Biscayne Bay was bought for $1,250,000,000 – that’s “B” as in billions. That’s $1,000,000,000 an acre. Presumably a shelter for pre-pubescent teenage alien interlopers from Central America will not be built there, right?
You and Mr. Berger, as mush brained modern American lawyers, should lead a crusade – that word is still Kosher, yes? – against giving legal advice on any real estate advice on properties that are within sight of water or properties that qualify for Federal flood insurance.
I mention that because the Miami Herald tells us this morning that 6 buildings on South Beach purchased in 2012 for $191,000,000 were just sold for $342,000,000. That’s a profit of $151,000,000, before legal fees. No wonder the “Fries with that?” folks at Mickey D’s want $15.00 an hour. [As an aside, do you think it’s safe to say that somebody is celebrating a past due Summer of Recovery? Go 1%! Do you think the profits will be “inverted”?]
You talk the talk but can you walk the walk?
Take the pledge.
“Anyone buying property on or near the water will do so without legal advice from me.”
X……………………………………here
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Mitch Caesar, Esq.
Broward County Democratic Party
1832 N. University Drive
Plantation, FL 33322
Ave Mitch!
There you were last night, talking on TV, as if you knew what you were talking about. This time it was about never ending high tides. This ever growing perpetual tsunami, doubtless caused by the vile Koch Brothers and their evil plot to drown polar bears by burning coal to produce electricity to power all the A/Cs in Florida will soon make Wynona, MN the surfing capitol of America. The only possible solution, or so you said last night, is to elect Chucky Crist. I just know that the first line of his obit will be “His favorite color was plaid”.
[Is it possible to suggest in a world where Swift has gone down the memory hole that rising sea levels, assuming that they are rising, may give us some surcease from both the border problem and the Ebola problem? It isn’t? OK. Never mind.]
I enclose a letter I sent to Mitch Berger, Esq, a kindred spirit and a fellow traveling useful idiot, about a possible solution to a most vexing problem.
Despite hundreds, nay, thousands of drowned polar bears washing up on the beach of the Obama summer rental – a Tea Party plot to disrupt his vacation? I hope not – people still buy beachfront property. Party affiliations aside, I hope that contingency plans have been made to get him and his family out should the 654 foot high wall of water arrive early. As bad as President B.O. is the thought of VP Curley Biden trying to get his thumbs, apposable digits being an alien concept to him, working together on the nuclear launch codes, is truly terrifying.
But I digress.
Less than a month ago an acre and a quarter of land on Biscayne Bay was bought for $1,250,000,000 – that’s “B” as in billions. That’s $1,000,000,000 an acre. Presumably a shelter for pre-pubescent teenage alien interlopers from Central America will not be built there, right?
You and Mr. Berger, as mush brained modern American lawyers, should lead a crusade – that word is still Kosher, yes? – against giving legal advice on any real estate advice on properties that are within sight of water or properties that qualify for Federal flood insurance.
I mention that because the Miami Herald tells us this morning that 6 buildings on South Beach purchased in 2012 for $191,000,000 were just sold for $342,000,000. That’s a profit of $151,000,000, before legal fees. No wonder the “Fries with that?” folks at Mickey D’s want $15.00 an hour. [As an aside, do you think it’s safe to say that somebody is celebrating a past due Summer of Recovery? Go 1%! Do you think the profits will be “inverted”?]
You talk the talk but can you walk the walk?
Take the pledge.
“Anyone buying property on or near the water will do so without legal advice from me.”
X……………………………………here
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Thursday, August 7, 2014
August 6, 2014
Lori Parrish
Broward County Property Appraiser
115 S. Andrews Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: There’s hypocrisy and there’s “hypocrisy” – Some comments on your highly dudgeoned letter about 2 bald men fighting over a comb as reported in today’s unlnkable Sun Sentinel.
Ms. Parish,
When the hooker gets religion…Watch out!
Of all the rules governing hypocrisy 2 are paramount.
#1 – You, as the hypocrite, must have an eclectic memory. On a national level there were 3 Presidents in the 20th century who, after saying that they would not fight in foreign wars, fought in foreign wars. Honest. Look it up. Google 1916, 1940, and 1964. Yet Democrats proclaim themselves the party of peace. Hypocrisy is the mother’s milk of modern American Liberals. 126% of them favor 4th and 5th trimester abortions and would vote for Dr. Mengele because of his progressive views on infanticide= but are resolute in their opposition to the death penalty. Go figure. The President of the United States said – 24 separate times – that if you liked your doctor you could keep him. I can tell you that as of January 1, 1915 I will not be able to do that. I guess lying and hypocrisy are synonymous.
#2 – You, as the hypocrite, must hope on the local level that no one remembers your hypocrisy. It ain’t going to work out that way today.
Do you remember when you had 2 jobs in 1998?
You were an elected member of the Broward County Commission and you were an employee and an officer of the Swap Shop.
No conflict there, right?
The problem was that your private employer – “Whose wine I sing whose song sing” or, as is still said in Hudson County, N J “It’s always better to know the buttered side from the dry” – owed more than $300,000 to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. The Swap Shop would hire off duty, uniformed Broward Sheriff’s Deputies as security guards. The Sheriff would pay them and, in a more perfect world, the Swap Shop would reimburse them. I was shocked, shocked to find out that they didn’t.
I was, in my other life, the CFO of a public company. One of the ways of financing your operations was to dragoon your customers into becoming an unsecured lender. Any money not paid to them is positive cash flow to you. What you do with the money is irrelevant. Salaries, weekly vig, taxes, 3 martini lunches…What difference did it make? It wasn’t your money.
In a most mug-wumpish manner you had both your paws and both your mitts in both camps You were a creditor and a debtor. Nice work if you can get it and, sweetheart, you got it.
“Nobody pays their bills on time. It’s the American way” was the answer you gave to the Sun Sentinel when they suggested that it didn’t pass the bag test.
Did Broward County have to sue the Swap Shop to get its money? In essence you would be suing yourself. At least the county could have saved the fee for service of the complaint. Just walk across the hall and give it to you.
Suer and suee. It’s good to be the Queen, right?
Suer/suee is a new compound word that may be used one day as a one word definition de los cojones grandes, right? You said of the former Mayor, “What a hypocrite. One rule for him and one for his family”.
You should sniff around your undies drawer to see if it passes the smell test before you comment on someone else’s knickers, knotted or otherwise.
Kevin Smith
PS – “Suer and Suee”. There is one place where it is OK to shout that out. That place is at a University of Arkansas football game. Go hogs! Down here it means you’re just a pig
Lori Parrish
Broward County Property Appraiser
115 S. Andrews Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: There’s hypocrisy and there’s “hypocrisy” – Some comments on your highly dudgeoned letter about 2 bald men fighting over a comb as reported in today’s unlnkable Sun Sentinel.
Ms. Parish,
When the hooker gets religion…Watch out!
Of all the rules governing hypocrisy 2 are paramount.
#1 – You, as the hypocrite, must have an eclectic memory. On a national level there were 3 Presidents in the 20th century who, after saying that they would not fight in foreign wars, fought in foreign wars. Honest. Look it up. Google 1916, 1940, and 1964. Yet Democrats proclaim themselves the party of peace. Hypocrisy is the mother’s milk of modern American Liberals. 126% of them favor 4th and 5th trimester abortions and would vote for Dr. Mengele because of his progressive views on infanticide= but are resolute in their opposition to the death penalty. Go figure. The President of the United States said – 24 separate times – that if you liked your doctor you could keep him. I can tell you that as of January 1, 1915 I will not be able to do that. I guess lying and hypocrisy are synonymous.
#2 – You, as the hypocrite, must hope on the local level that no one remembers your hypocrisy. It ain’t going to work out that way today.
Do you remember when you had 2 jobs in 1998?
You were an elected member of the Broward County Commission and you were an employee and an officer of the Swap Shop.
No conflict there, right?
The problem was that your private employer – “Whose wine I sing whose song sing” or, as is still said in Hudson County, N J “It’s always better to know the buttered side from the dry” – owed more than $300,000 to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. The Swap Shop would hire off duty, uniformed Broward Sheriff’s Deputies as security guards. The Sheriff would pay them and, in a more perfect world, the Swap Shop would reimburse them. I was shocked, shocked to find out that they didn’t.
I was, in my other life, the CFO of a public company. One of the ways of financing your operations was to dragoon your customers into becoming an unsecured lender. Any money not paid to them is positive cash flow to you. What you do with the money is irrelevant. Salaries, weekly vig, taxes, 3 martini lunches…What difference did it make? It wasn’t your money.
In a most mug-wumpish manner you had both your paws and both your mitts in both camps You were a creditor and a debtor. Nice work if you can get it and, sweetheart, you got it.
“Nobody pays their bills on time. It’s the American way” was the answer you gave to the Sun Sentinel when they suggested that it didn’t pass the bag test.
Did Broward County have to sue the Swap Shop to get its money? In essence you would be suing yourself. At least the county could have saved the fee for service of the complaint. Just walk across the hall and give it to you.
Suer and suee. It’s good to be the Queen, right?
Suer/suee is a new compound word that may be used one day as a one word definition de los cojones grandes, right? You said of the former Mayor, “What a hypocrite. One rule for him and one for his family”.
You should sniff around your undies drawer to see if it passes the smell test before you comment on someone else’s knickers, knotted or otherwise.
Kevin Smith
PS – “Suer and Suee”. There is one place where it is OK to shout that out. That place is at a University of Arkansas football game. Go hogs! Down here it means you’re just a pig
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
August 3, 2014
Mitchell Berger, Esq.
Berger Singerman
350 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33301
RE: They climate is changing, the sea is rising, the sky is falling, watch out for Y2K, antibiotics and hormones are bad in chickens but good in children, why can’t we all just get along? – What to do, what to do, particularly if you are a modern American Liberal lawyer who believes that the horizon can be reached if enough men of good will want it badly enough. Some comments on your brief Jeremiad in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Berger,
First, a cursory check of your CV shows that you have much time in grade in pursuit of Democratic Party politics.
Do you remember when former Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., AKA Alpha Gump, was dodging, and if results are the sole criterion, artfully some misunderstandings over campaign finance law? Do you remember, with grins all around, when he went to a convent of discalced mendicant Buddhist nuns and came out with $300,000 in credit card contributions?
I do.
When avoiding the puff ball jibes of an extremely compliant media – Some things never change, do they? – he kept using the phrase “no controlling legal authority”. I know that he was incapable of composing such a term. Did you? [As an aside, Clinton’s impeachment was bound to fail because America would tolerate a picaresque philandering perjurer before they would let that nit-wit get his hands on the launch codes. Same with President B. O. and his side kick Curley Biden. God, but he is dumber than a box of hammers, isn’t he?]
At the very least I suggest that you and your firm refuse to handle any real estate transactions where tidal water can be seen form any part of the property, particularly on the buy side. Some leeway can be given to representing the seller if the buyers are from Quebec.
Since the next really high tide will decrease the number of homes on the Post Office delivery routes I am sure there is an article in the Canons of Ethics that says a lawyer cannot let a client jump off a bridge even if it is only a financial span.
You say that “seven of 10 Floridians agreed that human conduct is a major cause of climate change and sea level rise” as if that was proof of something, of anything. More than six out of ten Floridians agreed that marriage was between a man and a woman. How much weight does that get? [Actually 62% of Floridians voted it into the Florida Constitution, remember?]
You mention Copernicus without mentioning Ptolemy. That may be civil fraud because a material fact was willingly withheld.
Ptolemy was believed by 99.6% of the world when he posited his findings on the universe. His science was “settled” for 15 centuries.
I was represented by a big-time DC law firm whose founder said, “No matter how thin you slice the baloney there is always 2 sides to it”.
Let us stipulate that 45% of the electricity produced in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that power is used to produce air conditioning. Can you see where I’m going here?
At the very least you have to turn you’re A/Cs off. If you want to lessen your CO2 usage you have to open your windows and use hand held fans.
I never said it was easy being a modern American Liberal but since it is for the children it’s OK, right?
Kevin Smith
PS – Labor Day is within sight. When does this year’s Summer of Recovery start?
Mitchell Berger, Esq.
Berger Singerman
350 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33301
RE: They climate is changing, the sea is rising, the sky is falling, watch out for Y2K, antibiotics and hormones are bad in chickens but good in children, why can’t we all just get along? – What to do, what to do, particularly if you are a modern American Liberal lawyer who believes that the horizon can be reached if enough men of good will want it badly enough. Some comments on your brief Jeremiad in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Berger,
First, a cursory check of your CV shows that you have much time in grade in pursuit of Democratic Party politics.
Do you remember when former Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., AKA Alpha Gump, was dodging, and if results are the sole criterion, artfully some misunderstandings over campaign finance law? Do you remember, with grins all around, when he went to a convent of discalced mendicant Buddhist nuns and came out with $300,000 in credit card contributions?
I do.
When avoiding the puff ball jibes of an extremely compliant media – Some things never change, do they? – he kept using the phrase “no controlling legal authority”. I know that he was incapable of composing such a term. Did you? [As an aside, Clinton’s impeachment was bound to fail because America would tolerate a picaresque philandering perjurer before they would let that nit-wit get his hands on the launch codes. Same with President B. O. and his side kick Curley Biden. God, but he is dumber than a box of hammers, isn’t he?]
At the very least I suggest that you and your firm refuse to handle any real estate transactions where tidal water can be seen form any part of the property, particularly on the buy side. Some leeway can be given to representing the seller if the buyers are from Quebec.
Since the next really high tide will decrease the number of homes on the Post Office delivery routes I am sure there is an article in the Canons of Ethics that says a lawyer cannot let a client jump off a bridge even if it is only a financial span.
You say that “seven of 10 Floridians agreed that human conduct is a major cause of climate change and sea level rise” as if that was proof of something, of anything. More than six out of ten Floridians agreed that marriage was between a man and a woman. How much weight does that get? [Actually 62% of Floridians voted it into the Florida Constitution, remember?]
You mention Copernicus without mentioning Ptolemy. That may be civil fraud because a material fact was willingly withheld.
Ptolemy was believed by 99.6% of the world when he posited his findings on the universe. His science was “settled” for 15 centuries.
I was represented by a big-time DC law firm whose founder said, “No matter how thin you slice the baloney there is always 2 sides to it”.
Let us stipulate that 45% of the electricity produced in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that power is used to produce air conditioning. Can you see where I’m going here?
At the very least you have to turn you’re A/Cs off. If you want to lessen your CO2 usage you have to open your windows and use hand held fans.
I never said it was easy being a modern American Liberal but since it is for the children it’s OK, right?
Kevin Smith
PS – Labor Day is within sight. When does this year’s Summer of Recovery start?
August 3, 2014
Commissioner Kristin Jacobs
115 South Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Commissioner Jacobs,
Sometimes the lily demands to be gilded. In its entirety…
“I’m not a scientist. I’m not a land-use planner, an economist,
an accountant, a social worker, an airplane pilot or a physician.
Yet, as an elected official I am entrusted – nay required – to make
decisions related to all of these areas. And I am a fully-trained
academic expert in none of them. As our state’s water systems
begin to collapse due to rising seas, it is not just irresponsible for
Gov. Rick Scott to claim that a lack of professional training forbids
action; it is downright dangerous.”
The Sun Sentinel
Today
You
It is empirically self-evident from the above that literacy tests must become a requirement for elections, if not for the voters than absolutely for the candidates.
Since being gender specific may bring the dreaded Word Police down on me let me just say that you are a HORSE’S ASS of Homeric proportions. Once again the presses at the Guinness Book of Records have been stopped to get an up to date picture of you. When the newly released OED is opened to HORSE’S ASS your picture will serve as the only definition. People on distant galaxies will smirk and say res ipso loquitur. Your head is so far up your ass that you could remove your own tonsils….from below.
You confuse and conflate feelings and ideas. The scientific method, one of the great gifts of DWEMs, is unknown to you. “Correlation is not causation” is an extra-terrestial concept to you. The main article of faith, the one never changing tenet of true believers, is POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC. I used some big boy terms. You may want to get someone to explain them. If no one knows what they mean SASE.
Kevin Smith
PS – Have you turned you’re A/Cs off yet? Think globally. Act locally, particularly if you want to undrown polar bears
Commissioner Kristin Jacobs
115 South Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Commissioner Jacobs,
Sometimes the lily demands to be gilded. In its entirety…
“I’m not a scientist. I’m not a land-use planner, an economist,
an accountant, a social worker, an airplane pilot or a physician.
Yet, as an elected official I am entrusted – nay required – to make
decisions related to all of these areas. And I am a fully-trained
academic expert in none of them. As our state’s water systems
begin to collapse due to rising seas, it is not just irresponsible for
Gov. Rick Scott to claim that a lack of professional training forbids
action; it is downright dangerous.”
The Sun Sentinel
Today
You
It is empirically self-evident from the above that literacy tests must become a requirement for elections, if not for the voters than absolutely for the candidates.
Since being gender specific may bring the dreaded Word Police down on me let me just say that you are a HORSE’S ASS of Homeric proportions. Once again the presses at the Guinness Book of Records have been stopped to get an up to date picture of you. When the newly released OED is opened to HORSE’S ASS your picture will serve as the only definition. People on distant galaxies will smirk and say res ipso loquitur. Your head is so far up your ass that you could remove your own tonsils….from below.
You confuse and conflate feelings and ideas. The scientific method, one of the great gifts of DWEMs, is unknown to you. “Correlation is not causation” is an extra-terrestial concept to you. The main article of faith, the one never changing tenet of true believers, is POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC. I used some big boy terms. You may want to get someone to explain them. If no one knows what they mean SASE.
Kevin Smith
PS – Have you turned you’re A/Cs off yet? Think globally. Act locally, particularly if you want to undrown polar bears
August 5, 2014
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL33394
RE: Next up, manatee suffrage, right?
Mr. Lowe,
My compliments on a marvelous, alas unlinkable, cartoon this AM.
It shows the evil Republicans, doubtless in thralldom to the Satanic Koch Brothers, gerrymandering Florida to further the aims of homophobic, bitterly clinging, Tea Party gun nuts.
Like the turd in the punch bowl that keeps popping up it raises 2 questions.
#1 – If they were so sinister and so powerful why couldn’t they protect Representative Alan West? Who else but a Black Congressman could criticize a Black President without being compared to the legendary Southern White Democratic Congressmen? Names like Eastland, Bilbo, Gore, Stennis, and Russell leap to mind. Why did they let him go? Why didn’t they wiggle the lines of South Florida’s resident Medusa, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? Just make the harridan hustle a bit at election time.
#2 – Corinne Brown’s district is so narrow in parts that a good golfer could drive his Slazenger across it. If her district is reconfigured geometrically she will be out of work come November.
Alcee Hastings had his Black-robed felonious ass tossed off the Federal bench. A district was created for him that would have elected Little Black Sambo and/or Willie Horton. If it were possible both would have been sent to Congress. Talk about “rotten boros”! Redrawing his district using straight lines and the inevitable right angles will result in him making the foul smell he causes just being in Congress less so.
The end result will be 2 less Black members of Congress. I guess it’s OK for a mush-brained modern American Liberal to be a racist. Keep drawing.
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL33394
RE: Next up, manatee suffrage, right?
Mr. Lowe,
My compliments on a marvelous, alas unlinkable, cartoon this AM.
It shows the evil Republicans, doubtless in thralldom to the Satanic Koch Brothers, gerrymandering Florida to further the aims of homophobic, bitterly clinging, Tea Party gun nuts.
Like the turd in the punch bowl that keeps popping up it raises 2 questions.
#1 – If they were so sinister and so powerful why couldn’t they protect Representative Alan West? Who else but a Black Congressman could criticize a Black President without being compared to the legendary Southern White Democratic Congressmen? Names like Eastland, Bilbo, Gore, Stennis, and Russell leap to mind. Why did they let him go? Why didn’t they wiggle the lines of South Florida’s resident Medusa, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? Just make the harridan hustle a bit at election time.
#2 – Corinne Brown’s district is so narrow in parts that a good golfer could drive his Slazenger across it. If her district is reconfigured geometrically she will be out of work come November.
Alcee Hastings had his Black-robed felonious ass tossed off the Federal bench. A district was created for him that would have elected Little Black Sambo and/or Willie Horton. If it were possible both would have been sent to Congress. Talk about “rotten boros”! Redrawing his district using straight lines and the inevitable right angles will result in him making the foul smell he causes just being in Congress less so.
The end result will be 2 less Black members of Congress. I guess it’s OK for a mush-brained modern American Liberal to be a racist. Keep drawing.
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
July 30, 2014
Leonard Pitts, Jr
The Miami Herald
3511 NW 91st Avenue
Miami, FL 33172
RE – “There you go again”, as if you had a choice. Some comments on your column about poverty and the attempts to end it in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
You say that Charles Murray is “infamous”. Is that because the premises of “Losing Ground” ae false? Is it because his statistics are wrong? Or is it because he attacks, using empirical evidence, that is to say, the evidence of your own eyes, evidence that is as real as your boot, the basic tenets of modern American Liberalism?
50 years into the hugely popular, wildly acclaimed, Titanically successful War on Poverty the needles measuring progress have not only not ticked upwards they have gone down. And, may I add, they have gone down quicker than Cash for Clunker in a sudden squall in this year’s Summer of Recovery.
STOP THE PRESSES!
IT IS A DAMASCENE MOMENT
RESULTS DON’T MATTER TO MODERN AMERICAN LIBERALS
ONLY EXPECTATIONS
Thus, is easy to spend good money on some half-asses, nit-witted Rube Godlberg scheme that – A – doesn’t work and – B – won’t work until the laws governing gravity are repealed and the tides do respond, favorably, to the King’s commands.
As long as you have more dogs than bones there is always going to be a scrape at dinner time.
The solutions to the dog/bone imbalance are simple
A – Decrease the number of dogs
or
B – Increase the number of bones
Anything that nurtures B is good, particularly for poor folk
Anything that deters B is, yet again, “the triumph of hope over experience”. If you don’t believe me look at Detroit. [Forget the crooks. Big cities run by Democrats are filled with people who would steal a hot stove on the way out the door after stealing your eyes for grapes. The real crime here, the infamia, is the perpetual nostrums of scurvy charlatans who say Vote for Me and you will be farting through silk.]
Caesar Chavez, the man who made not eating lettuce a moral imperative, knew that. That was why he wanted to close the borders and severely limit guest workers. He realized that if you cut the supply of migrant farm workers the members of his union would benefit.
Chavez and the Tea Party. Perfect together!
Look it up.
You may have committed a modern American Liberal heresy. I tell you thi s because I don’t want you excommunicated by cabal of warlocks who set policy.
You say that one of the reasons for urban poverty – urban is a euphemism for non-Caucasian, isn’t it? – is “the lack …of transportation”.
Does that mean you are in favor of Homerically sized carbon footprinting with 7 league boots, fossil fuel burning and belching polar bear downing buses? If it does, good for you.
Kevin Smith
PS – Has your daughter found out yet if Wordsworth is still on the Chick Lit shit list?
Leonard Pitts, Jr
The Miami Herald
3511 NW 91st Avenue
Miami, FL 33172
RE – “There you go again”, as if you had a choice. Some comments on your column about poverty and the attempts to end it in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
You say that Charles Murray is “infamous”. Is that because the premises of “Losing Ground” ae false? Is it because his statistics are wrong? Or is it because he attacks, using empirical evidence, that is to say, the evidence of your own eyes, evidence that is as real as your boot, the basic tenets of modern American Liberalism?
50 years into the hugely popular, wildly acclaimed, Titanically successful War on Poverty the needles measuring progress have not only not ticked upwards they have gone down. And, may I add, they have gone down quicker than Cash for Clunker in a sudden squall in this year’s Summer of Recovery.
STOP THE PRESSES!
IT IS A DAMASCENE MOMENT
RESULTS DON’T MATTER TO MODERN AMERICAN LIBERALS
ONLY EXPECTATIONS
Thus, is easy to spend good money on some half-asses, nit-witted Rube Godlberg scheme that – A – doesn’t work and – B – won’t work until the laws governing gravity are repealed and the tides do respond, favorably, to the King’s commands.
As long as you have more dogs than bones there is always going to be a scrape at dinner time.
The solutions to the dog/bone imbalance are simple
A – Decrease the number of dogs
or
B – Increase the number of bones
Anything that nurtures B is good, particularly for poor folk
Anything that deters B is, yet again, “the triumph of hope over experience”. If you don’t believe me look at Detroit. [Forget the crooks. Big cities run by Democrats are filled with people who would steal a hot stove on the way out the door after stealing your eyes for grapes. The real crime here, the infamia, is the perpetual nostrums of scurvy charlatans who say Vote for Me and you will be farting through silk.]
Caesar Chavez, the man who made not eating lettuce a moral imperative, knew that. That was why he wanted to close the borders and severely limit guest workers. He realized that if you cut the supply of migrant farm workers the members of his union would benefit.
Chavez and the Tea Party. Perfect together!
Look it up.
You may have committed a modern American Liberal heresy. I tell you thi s because I don’t want you excommunicated by cabal of warlocks who set policy.
You say that one of the reasons for urban poverty – urban is a euphemism for non-Caucasian, isn’t it? – is “the lack …of transportation”.
Does that mean you are in favor of Homerically sized carbon footprinting with 7 league boots, fossil fuel burning and belching polar bear downing buses? If it does, good for you.
Kevin Smith
PS – Has your daughter found out yet if Wordsworth is still on the Chick Lit shit list?
July 23, 2014
Chairman Mitch Caesar, Esq.
Broward County Democratic Party
1832 N. University Drive
Plantation, FL 33322
RE: Some new clients?
Mr. Caesar,
First let me tell you how much I enjoyed your Uncle Sid. And let me add that if Nero and Caligula tarnished the family escutcheon Augustus, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius greatly burnished it.
But I digress.
Last Sunday, in the Sun Sentinel, you said “our beaches [will] move 15 miles west and land in Weston”...
#1 – David Beckham wants to spend $150,000,000 to build a soccer stadium on the waterfront.
#2 – An acre and a quarter of land on Biscayne Bay was purchased for $125,000,000.
#3 – A house on Indian Creek was sold for $28,000,000.
Beckham is a Brit who made a huge packet of dough running around in his underwear for the last 15 years. He’s on his own.
#2 & #3 less so.
It is obvious, it being the consensus of scientists, such consensus being led by Ptolemy, Malthus, and Professor Irwin Corey, that these properties will shortly be uninhabitable – unless you live in a submarine.
This information was obviously withheld from the buyers.
Would #2 & #3 spend all that money if they knew that tarpon would soon be mating in the attic? I think that underwater tennis, an underwater pool, and an underwater dock and helicopter pad will not catch on either.
[I doubt that either the FHA or the VA was involved in these transactions but you should do a title search anyway. Triple damages in Federal Court?]
I suggest you contact them before the esteemed firm of Layback & Whackit starts a TV campaign. Mesothelioma, transvaginal mesh, hip implants, ticket school…and, soon, no more low tide.
With the money that #2 & #3 have already spent there should be no problem finding Mr. Green. It’s a bigger payday than your regular slip and fall or a disability scam. And it could be the start of your personal Endless Summer of Recovery.
Kevin Smith
PS – I know that one of the mantras of mush-brained modern American Liberals is “Think Globally; Act Locally”. Please tell me that you are reducing your carbon foot print by turning off your air conditioners. You have, haven’t you?
Chairman Mitch Caesar, Esq.
Broward County Democratic Party
1832 N. University Drive
Plantation, FL 33322
RE: Some new clients?
Mr. Caesar,
First let me tell you how much I enjoyed your Uncle Sid. And let me add that if Nero and Caligula tarnished the family escutcheon Augustus, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius greatly burnished it.
But I digress.
Last Sunday, in the Sun Sentinel, you said “our beaches [will] move 15 miles west and land in Weston”...
#1 – David Beckham wants to spend $150,000,000 to build a soccer stadium on the waterfront.
#2 – An acre and a quarter of land on Biscayne Bay was purchased for $125,000,000.
#3 – A house on Indian Creek was sold for $28,000,000.
Beckham is a Brit who made a huge packet of dough running around in his underwear for the last 15 years. He’s on his own.
#2 & #3 less so.
It is obvious, it being the consensus of scientists, such consensus being led by Ptolemy, Malthus, and Professor Irwin Corey, that these properties will shortly be uninhabitable – unless you live in a submarine.
This information was obviously withheld from the buyers.
Would #2 & #3 spend all that money if they knew that tarpon would soon be mating in the attic? I think that underwater tennis, an underwater pool, and an underwater dock and helicopter pad will not catch on either.
[I doubt that either the FHA or the VA was involved in these transactions but you should do a title search anyway. Triple damages in Federal Court?]
I suggest you contact them before the esteemed firm of Layback & Whackit starts a TV campaign. Mesothelioma, transvaginal mesh, hip implants, ticket school…and, soon, no more low tide.
With the money that #2 & #3 have already spent there should be no problem finding Mr. Green. It’s a bigger payday than your regular slip and fall or a disability scam. And it could be the start of your personal Endless Summer of Recovery.
Kevin Smith
PS – I know that one of the mantras of mush-brained modern American Liberals is “Think Globally; Act Locally”. Please tell me that you are reducing your carbon foot print by turning off your air conditioners. You have, haven’t you?
Sunday, July 27, 2014
July 27, 2014
Gary Stein
The Sun Sentinel
RE: Little Stein, public servant salaries, the fatally flawed premises of modern American Liberalism, and much more in your unlinkable column in today’s Sun Sentinel
Big Stein,
So Little Stein “is about to start graduate school in the northeast”, is he?
Doubtless, his time in the novitiate of the church of modern American Liberalism, the annealing oven of proper thought and speech – the warden in “Cool Hand Luke” used the unartful term “getting his head straight” – will be time well spent. He will be returned to you knowing, just knowing, that raising taxes is the key to prosperity while diversity is the key to a gentler, more sensitive, more caring society. Who is better equipped to deal with the burnoosed Yoo-haw slicing Koran thumping thugs in the Middle East or the still inconveniently un-Reset Czar in the Kremlin than somebody who hates Walmart, the Koch Brothers and thinks that Midnight Basketball should be run by the VA?
[If memory serves Little Stein was a music major in college. I knew a cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the 1970s. Absent diversity and Affirmative Action, its Cossack-like enforce, the competition was a fierce as anything I have ever seen, including the New York City ballet. I mention that because nobody, including Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi, or the United States Marine Corps ran a training camp like he did. It’s not too late for him to consider a career change. Red Bone, Hillary’s commodities broker, is looking for a few good men.]
The pay policies of the Broward county Board of Education, particularly as it regards slugs who, usually multi-degreed slugs with specialties that would make an educated man reach for a cream pie, the better to hit them with, would need both a guide dog and a GPS to find a classroom, reflect a level of lunacy worthy of the Marx Brothers and Mel Brooks.
If I may state the obvious…
#1 - Tenure, at best, rewards mediocrity.
#2 – Why is a bad teacher paid as much as a good teacher?
#3 – Why is a bad teacher paid at all?
#4 – Here’s a revolutionary thought. Teachers, defined as instructors in the class room with students in front of them who may want to learn should be held to same level of competence and performance as the football coach. Go and chew on that.
#5 – What in the name of sanity does a “diversity” expert have to do with the sanctity of pi, with Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea, with Bach and his love affair with the organ and the cello, with James Madison and George Mason, with Joyce, with Eliot, with Yeats, with the Great Reagan?
#6 – I will vote against the school bond issue - $800,000,000 plus interest for thirty years – because it does not comply with the Truth in Lending law. If a used car salesman used the same terms as the Board of Education will use in its ballot language he would go to jail, you would get the car for free, and if you had a particularly feral lawyer you could wind up owning his lot and his business. [Bond issue? Truth in Lending Act? SASE]
#7 – As an aspiring Board Certified modern American Liberal he will soon be using the term “settled science” to explain why he no longer believes in reasoned discourse or the much maligned scientific method. Ptolemy was King of the Hill of “settled science” for 15 centuries. See if he can find out what happened to him.
#8 – I have a ball cap emblazoned with PROUD GLOBAL WARMER. I can supply him with them at wholesale on a net 30 day settlement basis should he want to be my exclusive New England distributor.
#9 – It’s not too late for him to become a pitchman for Utopia. Nancy Pelosi could always use a good promo dude, right? Maybe he could apprentice with you.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Tell him that Utopia means, like the horizon, “nowhere”. That’s why it is so easy to become an addled, mush-brained modern American Liberal. Plus, it beats working for a living.
Gary Stein
The Sun Sentinel
RE: Little Stein, public servant salaries, the fatally flawed premises of modern American Liberalism, and much more in your unlinkable column in today’s Sun Sentinel
Big Stein,
So Little Stein “is about to start graduate school in the northeast”, is he?
Doubtless, his time in the novitiate of the church of modern American Liberalism, the annealing oven of proper thought and speech – the warden in “Cool Hand Luke” used the unartful term “getting his head straight” – will be time well spent. He will be returned to you knowing, just knowing, that raising taxes is the key to prosperity while diversity is the key to a gentler, more sensitive, more caring society. Who is better equipped to deal with the burnoosed Yoo-haw slicing Koran thumping thugs in the Middle East or the still inconveniently un-Reset Czar in the Kremlin than somebody who hates Walmart, the Koch Brothers and thinks that Midnight Basketball should be run by the VA?
[If memory serves Little Stein was a music major in college. I knew a cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the 1970s. Absent diversity and Affirmative Action, its Cossack-like enforce, the competition was a fierce as anything I have ever seen, including the New York City ballet. I mention that because nobody, including Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi, or the United States Marine Corps ran a training camp like he did. It’s not too late for him to consider a career change. Red Bone, Hillary’s commodities broker, is looking for a few good men.]
The pay policies of the Broward county Board of Education, particularly as it regards slugs who, usually multi-degreed slugs with specialties that would make an educated man reach for a cream pie, the better to hit them with, would need both a guide dog and a GPS to find a classroom, reflect a level of lunacy worthy of the Marx Brothers and Mel Brooks.
If I may state the obvious…
#1 - Tenure, at best, rewards mediocrity.
#2 – Why is a bad teacher paid as much as a good teacher?
#3 – Why is a bad teacher paid at all?
#4 – Here’s a revolutionary thought. Teachers, defined as instructors in the class room with students in front of them who may want to learn should be held to same level of competence and performance as the football coach. Go and chew on that.
#5 – What in the name of sanity does a “diversity” expert have to do with the sanctity of pi, with Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea, with Bach and his love affair with the organ and the cello, with James Madison and George Mason, with Joyce, with Eliot, with Yeats, with the Great Reagan?
#6 – I will vote against the school bond issue - $800,000,000 plus interest for thirty years – because it does not comply with the Truth in Lending law. If a used car salesman used the same terms as the Board of Education will use in its ballot language he would go to jail, you would get the car for free, and if you had a particularly feral lawyer you could wind up owning his lot and his business. [Bond issue? Truth in Lending Act? SASE]
#7 – As an aspiring Board Certified modern American Liberal he will soon be using the term “settled science” to explain why he no longer believes in reasoned discourse or the much maligned scientific method. Ptolemy was King of the Hill of “settled science” for 15 centuries. See if he can find out what happened to him.
#8 – I have a ball cap emblazoned with PROUD GLOBAL WARMER. I can supply him with them at wholesale on a net 30 day settlement basis should he want to be my exclusive New England distributor.
#9 – It’s not too late for him to become a pitchman for Utopia. Nancy Pelosi could always use a good promo dude, right? Maybe he could apprentice with you.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Tell him that Utopia means, like the horizon, “nowhere”. That’s why it is so easy to become an addled, mush-brained modern American Liberal. Plus, it beats working for a living.
Friday, July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Jack Lew – Secretary
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20220
RE: The other shoe, arriving less gracefully than the first.
Mr. Secretary,
“Fairness”, it being the watchword of mush brained modern American Liberals, carries a large weight whenever taxes are mentioned.
By the by, no one yet has been able to give a simple one declarative sentence of “fairness” yet. Defining its opposite, “unfairness”, is no substitute for it.
[There may be a Guinness Book definition when it comes to “unfairness” in taxes. In 1936 Poppa Joe Kennedy created a trust for the benefit of his son, Teddy. Even then he knew that, as the paradigmatic template for mAL layabouts, he would never be able to provide for himself without public assistance and family help. It is listed as the principal asset of his estate. Does anyone know what is in it? It’s been 78 years. Has it ever paid taxes? “The world wonders”]
Alas, the dictum “I won’t tax thee; you don’t tax me. Let’s tax that fellow behind the tree” still applies.
A lot of South Florida is financed by bed taxes. Whatever your tab for a night on the beach is it is always increased by more than 15%. The tax collectors know that if you live in Wynona, MN or Darrmiscotta, ME you have no recourse.
The “fellow behind the tree”, the unknowing traveler, the catcher on the javelin team, is, oft-times to people who make public policy based on feelings and not ideas, a faceless corporation. A big successful faceless corporation becomes like a 3 legged fawn to the big bad wolf.
Robespierre had nothing on the venomously partisan cheerleaders for “fairness” on taxes. They learned well from Goebbels.
Earth to Jack
Corporations don’t pay taxes. Never have; never will.
Taxes are business expenses. As such, they become part of its cost basis. When figuring the price that it will charge for its goods and/or services taxes are figured in just like the rent, salaries, cost of raw material, benefits, interest, and regulatory penalties and fees. Thus, the taxes are paid by the end user. Still following me?
That some of these end users, these customers, might be inner city single moms, usually women of color, with children in need of a good Ritalin program, kids who live too far from “Midnight Basketball” and its socializing effects, particularly on potentially feral Black urban youth, people who are constantly being exploited by the low prices of Walmart, is of no import to people who are incapable of understanding that, indeed, ideas have consequences.
I’ll bet that your Mom used to tell her friends how smart you were when you were growing up. Insha’Allah she is still here to make the same claim. I’ll try to keep this to myself but I’ll take the over on you not being able to find your ass using both hand without a GPS and a Life Coach in 10 minutes in a phone booth.
The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the known universe and probably out where the regular Pioneer space probes don’t run.
$2,000,000,000,000
I hope that’s enough zeroes.
Two trillion dollars.
That’s what sitting overseas just outside the tax man’s grasp.
We are talking about some serious Benjamins. If you want to get some of it back here don’t tell the big, faceless companies that you will punish them. How about a big dividend to shareholders without tax consequences to the companies? How about a huge ITC for investing repatriated dollars?
Questioning someone’s “economic patriotism” is not the way to make the dog hunt. The greatest beneficiary of unleashed economic self-interest will be the country.
Annuit Coeptis
Kevin Smith
Jack Lew – Secretary
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20220
RE: The other shoe, arriving less gracefully than the first.
Mr. Secretary,
“Fairness”, it being the watchword of mush brained modern American Liberals, carries a large weight whenever taxes are mentioned.
By the by, no one yet has been able to give a simple one declarative sentence of “fairness” yet. Defining its opposite, “unfairness”, is no substitute for it.
[There may be a Guinness Book definition when it comes to “unfairness” in taxes. In 1936 Poppa Joe Kennedy created a trust for the benefit of his son, Teddy. Even then he knew that, as the paradigmatic template for mAL layabouts, he would never be able to provide for himself without public assistance and family help. It is listed as the principal asset of his estate. Does anyone know what is in it? It’s been 78 years. Has it ever paid taxes? “The world wonders”]
Alas, the dictum “I won’t tax thee; you don’t tax me. Let’s tax that fellow behind the tree” still applies.
A lot of South Florida is financed by bed taxes. Whatever your tab for a night on the beach is it is always increased by more than 15%. The tax collectors know that if you live in Wynona, MN or Darrmiscotta, ME you have no recourse.
The “fellow behind the tree”, the unknowing traveler, the catcher on the javelin team, is, oft-times to people who make public policy based on feelings and not ideas, a faceless corporation. A big successful faceless corporation becomes like a 3 legged fawn to the big bad wolf.
Robespierre had nothing on the venomously partisan cheerleaders for “fairness” on taxes. They learned well from Goebbels.
Earth to Jack
Corporations don’t pay taxes. Never have; never will.
Taxes are business expenses. As such, they become part of its cost basis. When figuring the price that it will charge for its goods and/or services taxes are figured in just like the rent, salaries, cost of raw material, benefits, interest, and regulatory penalties and fees. Thus, the taxes are paid by the end user. Still following me?
That some of these end users, these customers, might be inner city single moms, usually women of color, with children in need of a good Ritalin program, kids who live too far from “Midnight Basketball” and its socializing effects, particularly on potentially feral Black urban youth, people who are constantly being exploited by the low prices of Walmart, is of no import to people who are incapable of understanding that, indeed, ideas have consequences.
I’ll bet that your Mom used to tell her friends how smart you were when you were growing up. Insha’Allah she is still here to make the same claim. I’ll try to keep this to myself but I’ll take the over on you not being able to find your ass using both hand without a GPS and a Life Coach in 10 minutes in a phone booth.
The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the known universe and probably out where the regular Pioneer space probes don’t run.
$2,000,000,000,000
I hope that’s enough zeroes.
Two trillion dollars.
That’s what sitting overseas just outside the tax man’s grasp.
We are talking about some serious Benjamins. If you want to get some of it back here don’t tell the big, faceless companies that you will punish them. How about a big dividend to shareholders without tax consequences to the companies? How about a huge ITC for investing repatriated dollars?
Questioning someone’s “economic patriotism” is not the way to make the dog hunt. The greatest beneficiary of unleashed economic self-interest will be the country.
Annuit Coeptis
Kevin Smith
July 17, 2014
Jack Lew- Secretary
The Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20220
RE: “Economic Patriotism” – Some comments on your sophistry concerning a new scheme to get yet more blood from an exsanguinated stone
Mr. Secretary,
It would be unfair of me to comment on the efficacy of raising more money for the sinkholes of the IRS, the ATF, the VA, the NSA, the POO, Cash for Clunkers, Tofu and endive smoothies for school lunch, and the horizon-like, not quite here yet, much anticipated Summer of Recovery so I won’t.
I speak rather to the malevolently pernicious assumption that wherever the capital amassed by a free people it is better tended by an anointed elite in Washington, DC. They have one thing in common. They suffer from varying degrees of a common ailment: “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”. Like lepers of old they should be made to wear warning bells so the public can give them wide berth.
You testified yesterday, with a straight face, with no sense of sarcasm, irony, or wit, that whatever you earn and wherever it is you should bring it home and let some really smart, caring people figure out what is best for it.
That would be akin to having two lions and one lamb vote on tonight’s dinner menu. Here’s a prediction. While the vote will not be unanimous it will not be good for the lamb.
Quick question[s]
Do you have an accountant prepare your taxes? I am presuming that, unlike your predecessor, you file tax returns. Am I correct in that assumption?
The idea that a free people can dispose of what they have without interference by anyone else is revolutionary. It may lead to the unwanted reappearance of an American exceptionalism so profound that people will kill and die just to get here. We can’t have that, can we? It would be just so unfair. And “fairness” is what the tax code is all about, right?
Accordingly, for suggesting that people, particularly those who respond to the rise in “animal spirits”, who “create” jobs while amassing wealth, should take actions that would lead them to pay more taxes, I name you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
Further, by your gravity defying assumption that no one would notice the heinous absurdity your evil plan I name you
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
You can earn extra credit that may enable you to get off the carte d’merde if you can name the author of the following:
“Over and over again courts have said that there is
nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep
one’s taxes as low as possible. Everyone does so, rich or poor;
and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than
the law demands; taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.
TO DEMAND MORE IN THE NAME OF MORALS IS MERE CANT.”
Kevin Smith
PS – If you can’t figure out who wrote the above SASE
Jack Lew- Secretary
The Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20220
RE: “Economic Patriotism” – Some comments on your sophistry concerning a new scheme to get yet more blood from an exsanguinated stone
Mr. Secretary,
It would be unfair of me to comment on the efficacy of raising more money for the sinkholes of the IRS, the ATF, the VA, the NSA, the POO, Cash for Clunkers, Tofu and endive smoothies for school lunch, and the horizon-like, not quite here yet, much anticipated Summer of Recovery so I won’t.
I speak rather to the malevolently pernicious assumption that wherever the capital amassed by a free people it is better tended by an anointed elite in Washington, DC. They have one thing in common. They suffer from varying degrees of a common ailment: “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome”. Like lepers of old they should be made to wear warning bells so the public can give them wide berth.
You testified yesterday, with a straight face, with no sense of sarcasm, irony, or wit, that whatever you earn and wherever it is you should bring it home and let some really smart, caring people figure out what is best for it.
That would be akin to having two lions and one lamb vote on tonight’s dinner menu. Here’s a prediction. While the vote will not be unanimous it will not be good for the lamb.
Quick question[s]
Do you have an accountant prepare your taxes? I am presuming that, unlike your predecessor, you file tax returns. Am I correct in that assumption?
The idea that a free people can dispose of what they have without interference by anyone else is revolutionary. It may lead to the unwanted reappearance of an American exceptionalism so profound that people will kill and die just to get here. We can’t have that, can we? It would be just so unfair. And “fairness” is what the tax code is all about, right?
Accordingly, for suggesting that people, particularly those who respond to the rise in “animal spirits”, who “create” jobs while amassing wealth, should take actions that would lead them to pay more taxes, I name you
HORSE’S ASS OF THE WEEK
Further, by your gravity defying assumption that no one would notice the heinous absurdity your evil plan I name you
SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR
You can earn extra credit that may enable you to get off the carte d’merde if you can name the author of the following:
“Over and over again courts have said that there is
nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep
one’s taxes as low as possible. Everyone does so, rich or poor;
and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than
the law demands; taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.
TO DEMAND MORE IN THE NAME OF MORALS IS MERE CANT.”
Kevin Smith
PS – If you can’t figure out who wrote the above SASE
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
July 14, 2014
Jac VerSteeg
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: What’s wrong with those rat bastard Republicans? Maybe they should only have half a vote. Some comments on your unlinkable column of 7/13/14 in the Sun Sentinel.
Mr. VerSteeg,
Utah
Utah?
“Utah!”
It is empirically self-evident that UTAH is a 4 letter word. It is not yet as vile or pernicious as BUSH but it is early in your screed.
Utah has a set of exams that Florida will rent to test its students.
[I have been in Florida since 1996. I am still trying to figure out why the History teacher, the biology teacher, or the diversity and cultural sensitivity teacher isn’t held to the same high, unforgiving standards as the football coach. Speaking of teachers…why is a bad teacher paid as much as a good teacher? For that matter why is a bad teacher paid anything at all?]
“Utah” is filled with gun nuts, birthers, “bitter clingers”, knuckle dragging, homophobic Climate Change denying yokels who knew right from the start that “Midnight Basketball” was just plain dumb. In other words if Utah didn’t exist modern American Liberals would have to invent it lest their slambang, banshee-like caterwaulings have no negative examples to lambaste.
I believe that an overwhelming majority of Utahns know, unlike the boob in the Oval Office – Does that make me a racist? – that there are 50 states in the Union. For those in doubt they need but count the stars in the flag. They also know that while there is an Austrian school of economics, while some Alps are absolutely Austrian and some deserts are very Viennese there is no, contrary to the President’s belief, Austrian-English dictionary.
“…why would anyone want to vote for President Jeb”?
3 reasons:
#1- He is an honorable man of great character and you should know but probably don’t that Madison said “Character is all” and a DWEM said that “Character is destiny”.
#2 - He ain’t Hillary.
#3 - If the country feels a compelling need to have a Redskin in the White House what better way to do it than by electing Jeb Bush? Unlike Smarmy Senator Princess SummerFallWinterWarren, the despicable bastard from Massachusetts, his wife is the real thing. Doubtless, her forebears shook their fists at Cortez. And she will never ever be confused with Katherine Hepburn or Meryl Streep.
Is pi different in Utah? Has the subjunctive reached Salt Lake City? Are Edmund Burke and James Madison verboten in the Beehive State? Would Ophelia find the nunneries in Utah to be different from those in her native land?
Sincerely,
From a proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Jac VerSteeg
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: What’s wrong with those rat bastard Republicans? Maybe they should only have half a vote. Some comments on your unlinkable column of 7/13/14 in the Sun Sentinel.
Mr. VerSteeg,
Utah
Utah?
“Utah!”
It is empirically self-evident that UTAH is a 4 letter word. It is not yet as vile or pernicious as BUSH but it is early in your screed.
Utah has a set of exams that Florida will rent to test its students.
[I have been in Florida since 1996. I am still trying to figure out why the History teacher, the biology teacher, or the diversity and cultural sensitivity teacher isn’t held to the same high, unforgiving standards as the football coach. Speaking of teachers…why is a bad teacher paid as much as a good teacher? For that matter why is a bad teacher paid anything at all?]
“Utah” is filled with gun nuts, birthers, “bitter clingers”, knuckle dragging, homophobic Climate Change denying yokels who knew right from the start that “Midnight Basketball” was just plain dumb. In other words if Utah didn’t exist modern American Liberals would have to invent it lest their slambang, banshee-like caterwaulings have no negative examples to lambaste.
I believe that an overwhelming majority of Utahns know, unlike the boob in the Oval Office – Does that make me a racist? – that there are 50 states in the Union. For those in doubt they need but count the stars in the flag. They also know that while there is an Austrian school of economics, while some Alps are absolutely Austrian and some deserts are very Viennese there is no, contrary to the President’s belief, Austrian-English dictionary.
“…why would anyone want to vote for President Jeb”?
3 reasons:
#1- He is an honorable man of great character and you should know but probably don’t that Madison said “Character is all” and a DWEM said that “Character is destiny”.
#2 - He ain’t Hillary.
#3 - If the country feels a compelling need to have a Redskin in the White House what better way to do it than by electing Jeb Bush? Unlike Smarmy Senator Princess SummerFallWinterWarren, the despicable bastard from Massachusetts, his wife is the real thing. Doubtless, her forebears shook their fists at Cortez. And she will never ever be confused with Katherine Hepburn or Meryl Streep.
Is pi different in Utah? Has the subjunctive reached Salt Lake City? Are Edmund Burke and James Madison verboten in the Beehive State? Would Ophelia find the nunneries in Utah to be different from those in her native land?
Sincerely,
From a proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
July 16, 2014
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
RE: Where’s the rest of it? – Some comments on your minus 1/3rd cartoon panel in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Lowe,
Can we stipulate to the following?
#1 – The first panel shows pissed odd red neck “bitter clinger” blaming Obama for high gasoline prices.
#2 – The second panel shows a reformed red neck “bitter clinger” with an irenic aura about him as he waits for the heralded Summer of Recovery to begin. Although you have him in modified shoulder pads he is happy as he thanks “increased production…more fuel efficient cars…” for lower gas prices. Yet one more reason to thank President B.O. AKA “Dear Leader”, for leading us to the land of milk and honey, right?
But the dog didn’t bark, did he?
The United States says that fraud can be committed by omission of a material fact. Look it up. Section 10b5 of the Securities Act of 1934. Look it up.
#3 – Your missing 3rd panel should have highlighted – inter alia – the 5 year drop in production on Federal leases being more than offset by the increased production, the dramatically increased production, on privately owned leases. The big bobbing, sardonically grinning, turd in the punch bowl is your eclectically indignant amnesia in re fracking.
Perhaps you believe that North Dakota, heretofore famous for one Coen Brothers movie and a slew of ICBMs, became the 2nd largest oil producing state in the nation because of the absence of mean spiritedness and a return to “fairness” brought on by the “fundamental” transformation of this fair land 5 years ago. Alas, that’s not what makes the dog hunt. It is, to cite the great Lord Keynes, the release of “animal spirits” that expands the edges of the envelope labeled “the economy”.
OOPS! I may be on to something.
Addled-brained asses, corralled by the virulently strident anti-intellectualism that is genetically implanted in the warp and woof of modern American Liberalism, oft-times do.
Godot will show up just before lambs volunteer to spend the night with the local lion who believes that, next time, Solyndra will work.
Your penance is to set an example for us by showing your solidarity with all coal haters and those who wish to save drowning polar bears by turning off all, no exceptions, cars included, your air conditioners.
Modern American Liberals in Broward County, people who desperately want to do away with photo IDs for felons and manatees at the voting booth, will rally to your cause.
They will.
Honest.
From A Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
RE: Where’s the rest of it? – Some comments on your minus 1/3rd cartoon panel in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Lowe,
Can we stipulate to the following?
#1 – The first panel shows pissed odd red neck “bitter clinger” blaming Obama for high gasoline prices.
#2 – The second panel shows a reformed red neck “bitter clinger” with an irenic aura about him as he waits for the heralded Summer of Recovery to begin. Although you have him in modified shoulder pads he is happy as he thanks “increased production…more fuel efficient cars…” for lower gas prices. Yet one more reason to thank President B.O. AKA “Dear Leader”, for leading us to the land of milk and honey, right?
But the dog didn’t bark, did he?
The United States says that fraud can be committed by omission of a material fact. Look it up. Section 10b5 of the Securities Act of 1934. Look it up.
#3 – Your missing 3rd panel should have highlighted – inter alia – the 5 year drop in production on Federal leases being more than offset by the increased production, the dramatically increased production, on privately owned leases. The big bobbing, sardonically grinning, turd in the punch bowl is your eclectically indignant amnesia in re fracking.
Perhaps you believe that North Dakota, heretofore famous for one Coen Brothers movie and a slew of ICBMs, became the 2nd largest oil producing state in the nation because of the absence of mean spiritedness and a return to “fairness” brought on by the “fundamental” transformation of this fair land 5 years ago. Alas, that’s not what makes the dog hunt. It is, to cite the great Lord Keynes, the release of “animal spirits” that expands the edges of the envelope labeled “the economy”.
OOPS! I may be on to something.
Addled-brained asses, corralled by the virulently strident anti-intellectualism that is genetically implanted in the warp and woof of modern American Liberalism, oft-times do.
Godot will show up just before lambs volunteer to spend the night with the local lion who believes that, next time, Solyndra will work.
Your penance is to set an example for us by showing your solidarity with all coal haters and those who wish to save drowning polar bears by turning off all, no exceptions, cars included, your air conditioners.
Modern American Liberals in Broward County, people who desperately want to do away with photo IDs for felons and manatees at the voting booth, will rally to your cause.
They will.
Honest.
From A Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
July 15, 2014
Donna Shalala
The University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124
RE: It’s easy being green – Some comments on your TV announcement of trying to become the greenest university on the planet.
Ms. Shalala,
Alas, I was called away from the Michael Putney show of last Sunday just as you were about to tell the TV audience how the not-so-green U was going to become the positively verdant U. Doubtless, the serendipity would be the undrowning of the polar bears.
I did not hear your exact plan but I know just as sure as I know that modern American Liberals are addled asses, I know the broad outlines. Why do I know that bastard Sons of Solyndra, myriad windmills, eructations – bovine, orvine, and porcine, are vital, indeed essential to it? I do. I just do.
I suggest an alternative plan that can be begun immediately. Some of your athletes, football, baseball, track, tennis, golf, but not basketball are already doing it. They, having taken their cue from you talking the talk, are walking the walk.
They play outside. Plenty of water, hopefully not served in environmentally insensitive plastic bottles, but no air conditioning.
One of the highlights of your career as a cabinet secretary in the administration of Handsome Billy, the King of the Trouser Snakes, was a press conference you had with him. He said that it was very hot in August in Washington. The reason it was hot was because of Global Warming. Worse, Global Warming is caused by, you probably remember, by very hot days in August in Washington. The world gasped. “Great Jehovah, but why hadn’t anyone thought of this before”? [The word tautology was banned in DC long before the book burners turned their sights on Redskins. The POOH – The Perpetually Outraged and Offended Halfwits – were in their glory] You added to the festivities by saying that it was no big deal because we would all be dead from AIDS in 10 years. Please don’t think me a cad but I owe it to the ledger to remind you that you said it 17 years ago.
The following is scientific so I’ll type slowly.
Not quite half the electricity generated in this country comes from coal-powered plants. Half of that power goes to running air conditioners
Can you see where I’m going here?
Be the first Division 1 School to turn to the green side. Once you do it the Gators and the Seminoles [I can still use that name, can’t I?] will gladly join in. You have the power to force the issue.
Beginning in 2015 your athletic teams will only play teams who have turned off their A/Cs.
Within 5 years polar bears will be in Lake Okeechobee.
Your place in the pantheon of environmentally sensitive Goddesses will be secure.
I read this morning that an incoming fresh person, a member of the class of 2018, will pay $63,000 a year to go to your school. Once you turn off all the A/Cs you will be alone in the universe of American universities. RATES WILL COME DOWN! You will be turning away applicants demanding admission.
It is easier being green.
You go girl!
From a Proud Global Warming Denier
Kevin Smith
Donna Shalala
The University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124
RE: It’s easy being green – Some comments on your TV announcement of trying to become the greenest university on the planet.
Ms. Shalala,
Alas, I was called away from the Michael Putney show of last Sunday just as you were about to tell the TV audience how the not-so-green U was going to become the positively verdant U. Doubtless, the serendipity would be the undrowning of the polar bears.
I did not hear your exact plan but I know just as sure as I know that modern American Liberals are addled asses, I know the broad outlines. Why do I know that bastard Sons of Solyndra, myriad windmills, eructations – bovine, orvine, and porcine, are vital, indeed essential to it? I do. I just do.
I suggest an alternative plan that can be begun immediately. Some of your athletes, football, baseball, track, tennis, golf, but not basketball are already doing it. They, having taken their cue from you talking the talk, are walking the walk.
They play outside. Plenty of water, hopefully not served in environmentally insensitive plastic bottles, but no air conditioning.
One of the highlights of your career as a cabinet secretary in the administration of Handsome Billy, the King of the Trouser Snakes, was a press conference you had with him. He said that it was very hot in August in Washington. The reason it was hot was because of Global Warming. Worse, Global Warming is caused by, you probably remember, by very hot days in August in Washington. The world gasped. “Great Jehovah, but why hadn’t anyone thought of this before”? [The word tautology was banned in DC long before the book burners turned their sights on Redskins. The POOH – The Perpetually Outraged and Offended Halfwits – were in their glory] You added to the festivities by saying that it was no big deal because we would all be dead from AIDS in 10 years. Please don’t think me a cad but I owe it to the ledger to remind you that you said it 17 years ago.
The following is scientific so I’ll type slowly.
Not quite half the electricity generated in this country comes from coal-powered plants. Half of that power goes to running air conditioners
Can you see where I’m going here?
Be the first Division 1 School to turn to the green side. Once you do it the Gators and the Seminoles [I can still use that name, can’t I?] will gladly join in. You have the power to force the issue.
Beginning in 2015 your athletic teams will only play teams who have turned off their A/Cs.
Within 5 years polar bears will be in Lake Okeechobee.
Your place in the pantheon of environmentally sensitive Goddesses will be secure.
I read this morning that an incoming fresh person, a member of the class of 2018, will pay $63,000 a year to go to your school. Once you turn off all the A/Cs you will be alone in the universe of American universities. RATES WILL COME DOWN! You will be turning away applicants demanding admission.
It is easier being green.
You go girl!
From a Proud Global Warming Denier
Kevin Smith
Monday, June 30, 2014
June 28, 2014
Nezar Hamze
@ Howard Saltz – Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Ramadan and other things from your op-ed in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel
Mr. Hamze,
The blessings of God, by whatever name is used, be upon you.
This is the 6th time I have written to someone from CAIR the Council of American-Islamic Relations.
I have yet to receive the courtesy of a reply.
Who knows, but in the holy month of Ramadan, are not all things possible?
I have some observations and some questions.
#1 – I am, as you say, an infidel who has been – so far – a Roman Catholic. There is a very big church in Rome that is the physical center of my religion. One of your forebears said he “would stable his horses in it”.
#2 – 13 centuries after Christ’s appearance on earth a marvelous poem – The Divine Comedy – appeared. It is about the journey of a soul trying to save itself despite the obstacles that organized religion places in its path. We are now more than 13 centuries past the time of the Prophet and blessed be his name. Is there a Muslim Dante to be found anywhere?
#3 – Less than 2 centuries after its publication Christianity began to tear itself apart, all in the name of God. Is there an Islamic Martin Luther looking to nail his theses of Reformation to mosque doors? Is there an equivalent anywhere in the Muslim world or is that a trait peculiar to Christendom?
#4 – American Christians trip all over themselves for doing either too much or not enough about fill in the blanks. Is there an equivalent anywhere in the Muslim world or is it only to be found in Christendom?
#5 – It is offensive to Logic to construct a universal from a particular. Nevertheless, we are faced with the inconvenient truth that 300 Nigerian Christian girls were kidnapped by Muslim fanatics, terrorists, thugs, call them what you will. The purpose was to convert them to Islam, a “religion of peace”, mutilate their pre-pubescent genitalia and then sell them into slavery.
Further, there are 5 Muslim run countries – Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Mauretania, Sudan – that either approve of or condone slavery.
Be pleased to correct any misstatements of facts.
I mention the above because I have yet to hear one Imam or one Muslim group stand up and say, “By Allah, this is wrong”. Not one. Why is that?
#6 – It’s a small matter but why is the Koran “sacred”? Why are your votaries willing to die and to kill over it? If the Koran is “sacred” would not the Bible, both Old Testament and new, be more “sacred”? If the Bible had not come before it there would have been no Koran, either “sacred” or profane, right?
#7 – Would an open and publically know homosexual Muslim be allowed to make the Haj<
#8 – One of my forebears said “Free men speak with free tongues”. Will you join me at noon on July 4th as I burn a copy of the Koran and the Bible. I’ll include a Torah for the sake of comity and fairness. They will be wrapped in an American flag. I will have a gallon of pig piss nearby lest the conflagration rage. I would like to do this on the steps of a mosque, a church, a courthouse, a newspaper, your choice.
#9 – Freedom. Give it a chance. It can grow on you.
Kevin Smith
PS - #10 – In 732 AD, less than a century after Islam was founded it would be correct to say that Muslim hordes were raping, looting, and pillaging their way across Europe. They didn’t’ invent those tactics. They just brought a new perspective to it. If it weren’t for an infidel named Charles Martel History would have been quite different. And the reason for that was…
Nezar Hamze
@ Howard Saltz – Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Ramadan and other things from your op-ed in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel
Mr. Hamze,
The blessings of God, by whatever name is used, be upon you.
This is the 6th time I have written to someone from CAIR the Council of American-Islamic Relations.
I have yet to receive the courtesy of a reply.
Who knows, but in the holy month of Ramadan, are not all things possible?
I have some observations and some questions.
#1 – I am, as you say, an infidel who has been – so far – a Roman Catholic. There is a very big church in Rome that is the physical center of my religion. One of your forebears said he “would stable his horses in it”.
#2 – 13 centuries after Christ’s appearance on earth a marvelous poem – The Divine Comedy – appeared. It is about the journey of a soul trying to save itself despite the obstacles that organized religion places in its path. We are now more than 13 centuries past the time of the Prophet and blessed be his name. Is there a Muslim Dante to be found anywhere?
#3 – Less than 2 centuries after its publication Christianity began to tear itself apart, all in the name of God. Is there an Islamic Martin Luther looking to nail his theses of Reformation to mosque doors? Is there an equivalent anywhere in the Muslim world or is that a trait peculiar to Christendom?
#4 – American Christians trip all over themselves for doing either too much or not enough about fill in the blanks. Is there an equivalent anywhere in the Muslim world or is it only to be found in Christendom?
#5 – It is offensive to Logic to construct a universal from a particular. Nevertheless, we are faced with the inconvenient truth that 300 Nigerian Christian girls were kidnapped by Muslim fanatics, terrorists, thugs, call them what you will. The purpose was to convert them to Islam, a “religion of peace”, mutilate their pre-pubescent genitalia and then sell them into slavery.
Further, there are 5 Muslim run countries – Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Mauretania, Sudan – that either approve of or condone slavery.
Be pleased to correct any misstatements of facts.
I mention the above because I have yet to hear one Imam or one Muslim group stand up and say, “By Allah, this is wrong”. Not one. Why is that?
#6 – It’s a small matter but why is the Koran “sacred”? Why are your votaries willing to die and to kill over it? If the Koran is “sacred” would not the Bible, both Old Testament and new, be more “sacred”? If the Bible had not come before it there would have been no Koran, either “sacred” or profane, right?
#7 – Would an open and publically know homosexual Muslim be allowed to make the Haj<
#8 – One of my forebears said “Free men speak with free tongues”. Will you join me at noon on July 4th as I burn a copy of the Koran and the Bible. I’ll include a Torah for the sake of comity and fairness. They will be wrapped in an American flag. I will have a gallon of pig piss nearby lest the conflagration rage. I would like to do this on the steps of a mosque, a church, a courthouse, a newspaper, your choice.
#9 – Freedom. Give it a chance. It can grow on you.
Kevin Smith
PS - #10 – In 732 AD, less than a century after Islam was founded it would be correct to say that Muslim hordes were raping, looting, and pillaging their way across Europe. They didn’t’ invent those tactics. They just brought a new perspective to it. If it weren’t for an infidel named Charles Martel History would have been quite different. And the reason for that was…
Saturday, June 28, 2014
June 27, 2014
Robert Steinback
@Howard Greenberg - Publisher
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Sometimes, the wisest course is to let people solve their own problems.” – The last sentence in your op-ed in today’s unlinkable Sun-Sentinel
Mr. Steinback,
Back in the 20th century – the ‘90s to be exact, AKA the decade of the Defense of Marriage Act, “Midnight Basketball”, and the public approval of Presidential Perjury – you said that my responses to your Miami Herald columns were filed with “delightful paranoia”.
Speaking of “paranoia”, delightful or not, I still treasure your Herald column about how the evil White power structure of Miami Beach conspired to give R. Donohue Peebles an abandoned hotel that was radioactive. Honest. You actually wrote that. Look it up in your archives.
There are 2 facts about Peebles that must be said again and again.
#1 – He was the man to whom the Broward County Commission tried to give a hotel to because he was not White. That he did not have the sense to say “I accept” and then flip it to Marriott or Sheraton is still beyond me. On the other hand, anyone who spent his formative years being mentored by DC Mayor Marion Barry may yet be dancing to a different drum beat,
#2 – He was the last man to see Gus Boulis – Miami Subs? Cruising casinos? 3 bullets in his head? Remember? – before he was murdered. Honest. Look it up.
Do you remember the Fulbright Doctrine?
Senator Fulbright, along with Senator Ervin, and despite the fact that both of them spent their entire adult public lives trying to keep little Black boys from going to school with little White girls, was a hero, along with Senator Ervin, to modern American Liberals.
At its essence it said you can do whatever your want as long as you keep it inside your borders.
It cannot be proved if he took inspiration from Neville Chamberlain who said in Parliament after he returned from Munich with Hitler’s personal guarantee of “peace in our time” that “the people of Czechoslovakia are a faraway people of whom we know little”.
[As an aside because some things are owed to the record, 3 times in the 20th century – 1916, 1940, 1964 – and can you believe that they were all Democrats? – President Wilson, President Roosevelt, & President Johnson – promised not to send American boys to fight in foreign wars. Honest. Look it up. Another thing owed to the record is that I heard Justice Marshall say that T. Woodrow Wilson was the vilest, most bigoted and most racist President ever. All though he did not kill as many Redskins as Old Hickory did he knocked fellow Democrat Andrew Jackson off that perch.]
But I digress.
Since your reasons for bawling behind a bar in Hollywood, and being overserved not being one of them it is a bit too much information.
Facts are stubborn, inconvenient things. There was mood in the country to geld Iraq. 22 separate times the Congress urged President Bush to do so. The 23rd time, a declaration of war, passed both Houses overwhelmingly. Senator Clinton and Congresswoman Pelosi were exhorting the President to make sure he killed enough of the WOG terrorists.
Honest. Look it up.
If, as you say, Americans, Americans doubtless like the perfidious Koch Brothers, Americans like the money hungry Bush family, Americans like the knuckle dragging, gun toting, racist, homophobic, Global Warming denying Tea Party think that all oil, everywhere, is “rightfully ours”, let us chant a minor Te Deum that Montana and North Dakota are part of our 50 states. [Contrary to the claim of President B.O. it’s still 50 stars on the flag, not “57 or 58” as that pant-load moron said. Honest. You could look it up.]
The thought of invading and occupying Butte and Fargo just so we could say these 2 states have 5 times as much oil as Iraq is painful. We already ask the V.A. to do much too much.
If we were to throw Alberta, Canada into the mix we could make Saudi Arabia become Baptists lest we bankrupt them.
Honest. You could look it up.
But I digress yet again.
Logic, the capstone of the Trivium, the hand maiden of Reason, one of the jewels of a DWEM-driven Western Civilization, dictates that if we should “let people settle their own differences” we would be in a state of perpetual benign neglect whenever the Serbs and the Croats unburied their hatchets.
They have been at war since 1384. We know that “after the first death there are no others”. As long as they keep their squabble on an intramural level it could be a population control solution in the Balkans. Anything to reduce man’s carbon footprint, right?
Logic never loses its right angles, its hard edges. Sometimes the corners get rounded subjective perception.
Could it be 20 years since the Hutus and the Tutsis – or was it the Hutsis and the Tutus? – who went at each other with a feral ferocity not seen since Rome finally solved its Carthaginian problem?
Such were the numbers of carrion that countless hyenas and crocodiles went vegan because of an animal protein overload. Their conflict was strictly intra-mural. It stayed completely between the navigational buoys. And, since it posed no threat to us, you would be neutral?
“The powerless will always probe for ways to undermine overt power.”
The Sun Sentinel
Today
You
Do you mean like the Christian in Nigeria? It’s too late to help the Kulaks or the Ibos? Who mourns the Hmong?
One thing is certain.
If we acquiesce in the slaughter of innocents or otherwise we are a lesser people.
I had 2 uncles who came from a foreign country to fight in the American Civil War. One of them has been at Gettysburg since July 2, 1863 “wrapped in his faded coat of blue”.
I like to think that his death meant something, however overreaching his life was.
A Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
PS – If you are auditioning to replace Professor Little Stevie Goldstein as the resident wing-nut moon bat modern American Liberal contemporary Jeremiah you have my support or, and it’s your call, my opposition. Perhaps if you were to show your devotion to the First Amendment by calling for the publication of the Mohammed cartoons or by joining me as I burn an American flag containing the sacred Koran and the not so sacred Christian bible in front of the Sun Sentinel building at noon on July 4th your employment would be secure. Also, I hope that the “R” in front of Peebles’ name stands for Rex et Imperator or Redeemer.
Robert Steinback
@Howard Greenberg - Publisher
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Sometimes, the wisest course is to let people solve their own problems.” – The last sentence in your op-ed in today’s unlinkable Sun-Sentinel
Mr. Steinback,
Back in the 20th century – the ‘90s to be exact, AKA the decade of the Defense of Marriage Act, “Midnight Basketball”, and the public approval of Presidential Perjury – you said that my responses to your Miami Herald columns were filed with “delightful paranoia”.
Speaking of “paranoia”, delightful or not, I still treasure your Herald column about how the evil White power structure of Miami Beach conspired to give R. Donohue Peebles an abandoned hotel that was radioactive. Honest. You actually wrote that. Look it up in your archives.
There are 2 facts about Peebles that must be said again and again.
#1 – He was the man to whom the Broward County Commission tried to give a hotel to because he was not White. That he did not have the sense to say “I accept” and then flip it to Marriott or Sheraton is still beyond me. On the other hand, anyone who spent his formative years being mentored by DC Mayor Marion Barry may yet be dancing to a different drum beat,
#2 – He was the last man to see Gus Boulis – Miami Subs? Cruising casinos? 3 bullets in his head? Remember? – before he was murdered. Honest. Look it up.
Do you remember the Fulbright Doctrine?
Senator Fulbright, along with Senator Ervin, and despite the fact that both of them spent their entire adult public lives trying to keep little Black boys from going to school with little White girls, was a hero, along with Senator Ervin, to modern American Liberals.
At its essence it said you can do whatever your want as long as you keep it inside your borders.
It cannot be proved if he took inspiration from Neville Chamberlain who said in Parliament after he returned from Munich with Hitler’s personal guarantee of “peace in our time” that “the people of Czechoslovakia are a faraway people of whom we know little”.
[As an aside because some things are owed to the record, 3 times in the 20th century – 1916, 1940, 1964 – and can you believe that they were all Democrats? – President Wilson, President Roosevelt, & President Johnson – promised not to send American boys to fight in foreign wars. Honest. Look it up. Another thing owed to the record is that I heard Justice Marshall say that T. Woodrow Wilson was the vilest, most bigoted and most racist President ever. All though he did not kill as many Redskins as Old Hickory did he knocked fellow Democrat Andrew Jackson off that perch.]
But I digress.
Since your reasons for bawling behind a bar in Hollywood, and being overserved not being one of them it is a bit too much information.
Facts are stubborn, inconvenient things. There was mood in the country to geld Iraq. 22 separate times the Congress urged President Bush to do so. The 23rd time, a declaration of war, passed both Houses overwhelmingly. Senator Clinton and Congresswoman Pelosi were exhorting the President to make sure he killed enough of the WOG terrorists.
Honest. Look it up.
If, as you say, Americans, Americans doubtless like the perfidious Koch Brothers, Americans like the money hungry Bush family, Americans like the knuckle dragging, gun toting, racist, homophobic, Global Warming denying Tea Party think that all oil, everywhere, is “rightfully ours”, let us chant a minor Te Deum that Montana and North Dakota are part of our 50 states. [Contrary to the claim of President B.O. it’s still 50 stars on the flag, not “57 or 58” as that pant-load moron said. Honest. You could look it up.]
The thought of invading and occupying Butte and Fargo just so we could say these 2 states have 5 times as much oil as Iraq is painful. We already ask the V.A. to do much too much.
If we were to throw Alberta, Canada into the mix we could make Saudi Arabia become Baptists lest we bankrupt them.
Honest. You could look it up.
But I digress yet again.
Logic, the capstone of the Trivium, the hand maiden of Reason, one of the jewels of a DWEM-driven Western Civilization, dictates that if we should “let people settle their own differences” we would be in a state of perpetual benign neglect whenever the Serbs and the Croats unburied their hatchets.
They have been at war since 1384. We know that “after the first death there are no others”. As long as they keep their squabble on an intramural level it could be a population control solution in the Balkans. Anything to reduce man’s carbon footprint, right?
Logic never loses its right angles, its hard edges. Sometimes the corners get rounded subjective perception.
Could it be 20 years since the Hutus and the Tutsis – or was it the Hutsis and the Tutus? – who went at each other with a feral ferocity not seen since Rome finally solved its Carthaginian problem?
Such were the numbers of carrion that countless hyenas and crocodiles went vegan because of an animal protein overload. Their conflict was strictly intra-mural. It stayed completely between the navigational buoys. And, since it posed no threat to us, you would be neutral?
“The powerless will always probe for ways to undermine overt power.”
The Sun Sentinel
Today
You
Do you mean like the Christian in Nigeria? It’s too late to help the Kulaks or the Ibos? Who mourns the Hmong?
One thing is certain.
If we acquiesce in the slaughter of innocents or otherwise we are a lesser people.
I had 2 uncles who came from a foreign country to fight in the American Civil War. One of them has been at Gettysburg since July 2, 1863 “wrapped in his faded coat of blue”.
I like to think that his death meant something, however overreaching his life was.
A Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
PS – If you are auditioning to replace Professor Little Stevie Goldstein as the resident wing-nut moon bat modern American Liberal contemporary Jeremiah you have my support or, and it’s your call, my opposition. Perhaps if you were to show your devotion to the First Amendment by calling for the publication of the Mohammed cartoons or by joining me as I burn an American flag containing the sacred Koran and the not so sacred Christian bible in front of the Sun Sentinel building at noon on July 4th your employment would be secure. Also, I hope that the “R” in front of Peebles’ name stands for Rex et Imperator or Redeemer.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
June 22, 2014
Howard Greenberg – Publisher
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Have you seen Jac VerSteeg?
Mr. Greenberg,
Maybe the Somali pirates took him. [Picture enclosed of him, not them]
Don’t look for him in the Brad Pitt look-a-like contest.
Mugs like that give Zombies nightmares.
Have a few pusses like that walking around and the moribund Iron Mask industry will have a Summer of Recovery that will make economic Viagra History.
He was/is an opinion columnist for the Sun Sentinel. In fact, his 3rd signed opinion appears in today’s unlinkable paper.
I sent my opinion of his opinion – Surprise! – to the Sun Sentinel.
First you poleax Little Stevie, as in Professor Goldstein
Then you have phantom columnists.
In my other life I was CFO of a public company. I never did learn how to account for phantom employees. How do you do it?
It was returned “addressee unknown” – copies of my opinion and the envelope are enclosed.
His opinion today on legalizing medical marijuana says that Marvin Adelson, “a huge Republican donor”, a man obviously in a cabal with the perfidious Koch Brothers, a man who wants to see polar bears drown and children starve, is opposed to it because he wants to see Governor Scott re-elected.
He also says “Adelson makes mega-millions fleecing folks doomed by the laws of probability that ensure the House always wins”.
It should be obvious, even to mush-brained moronic modern American Liberals, a dunce like the maybe missing VerSteeg, that his observation applies exponentially to the Florida Lottery. Full disclosure requires me to tell you that I play xxx 4 or 5 times a year. It was my grandfather’s badge number.
Listen up. I’ll type slowly.
Adelson doesn’t cater to poor people.
When was the last time you saw an inner city single mom, usually a woman of color, with children in need of a good Ritalin program who, in addition to being too far away from Midnight Basketball are always being exploited by the cunning low prices of food and prescription drugs at Wal-Mart, being comped with a bottle of Cristal in the Black Chip room at the Sands.
They, victims of America’s longest war, the hugely successful War on Poverty, the one that just had its 50th anniversary, can be seen with the current hot Dream Book clutched to their bosoms in front of the Stop & Shop waiting for the 6:00 AM starting bell of the Florida Lotto machine.
Talk about the upturned neck awaiting the ax.
I guess it’s kind of OK because we know that the Florida Lottery, in the jabberwocky talk of modern American Liberalism, is for the children.
By the way, not only am I going to vote for the legalization of medical marijuana I am constantly advocating for heroin for cancer patients. And yes, I am going to vote for Governor Scott.
Would I be way out of line if one of my granddaughters used his picture in a show and tell featuring bi-peds weaned on dill pickles marinaded in warm lemon juice?
If you find Jac let me know. I’ll take down the yellow ribbon.
A Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Howard Greenberg – Publisher
The Sun Sentinel
500 E Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Have you seen Jac VerSteeg?
Mr. Greenberg,
Maybe the Somali pirates took him. [Picture enclosed of him, not them]
Don’t look for him in the Brad Pitt look-a-like contest.
Mugs like that give Zombies nightmares.
Have a few pusses like that walking around and the moribund Iron Mask industry will have a Summer of Recovery that will make economic Viagra History.
He was/is an opinion columnist for the Sun Sentinel. In fact, his 3rd signed opinion appears in today’s unlinkable paper.
I sent my opinion of his opinion – Surprise! – to the Sun Sentinel.
First you poleax Little Stevie, as in Professor Goldstein
Then you have phantom columnists.
In my other life I was CFO of a public company. I never did learn how to account for phantom employees. How do you do it?
It was returned “addressee unknown” – copies of my opinion and the envelope are enclosed.
His opinion today on legalizing medical marijuana says that Marvin Adelson, “a huge Republican donor”, a man obviously in a cabal with the perfidious Koch Brothers, a man who wants to see polar bears drown and children starve, is opposed to it because he wants to see Governor Scott re-elected.
He also says “Adelson makes mega-millions fleecing folks doomed by the laws of probability that ensure the House always wins”.
It should be obvious, even to mush-brained moronic modern American Liberals, a dunce like the maybe missing VerSteeg, that his observation applies exponentially to the Florida Lottery. Full disclosure requires me to tell you that I play xxx 4 or 5 times a year. It was my grandfather’s badge number.
Listen up. I’ll type slowly.
Adelson doesn’t cater to poor people.
When was the last time you saw an inner city single mom, usually a woman of color, with children in need of a good Ritalin program who, in addition to being too far away from Midnight Basketball are always being exploited by the cunning low prices of food and prescription drugs at Wal-Mart, being comped with a bottle of Cristal in the Black Chip room at the Sands.
They, victims of America’s longest war, the hugely successful War on Poverty, the one that just had its 50th anniversary, can be seen with the current hot Dream Book clutched to their bosoms in front of the Stop & Shop waiting for the 6:00 AM starting bell of the Florida Lotto machine.
Talk about the upturned neck awaiting the ax.
I guess it’s kind of OK because we know that the Florida Lottery, in the jabberwocky talk of modern American Liberalism, is for the children.
By the way, not only am I going to vote for the legalization of medical marijuana I am constantly advocating for heroin for cancer patients. And yes, I am going to vote for Governor Scott.
Would I be way out of line if one of my granddaughters used his picture in a show and tell featuring bi-peds weaned on dill pickles marinaded in warm lemon juice?
If you find Jac let me know. I’ll take down the yellow ribbon.
A Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
Sunday, June 22, 2014
June 22, 2014
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
3511 NW 91st Avenue
Miami, FL 33172
RE: 97%? – Some gentle comments on the recently discovered grand unified theory of GlobalCoolingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDisruption, the one that meets all the requirements of modern American Liberalism, particularly the one that demands shock, awe, command, and control as put forward by you in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
Have you turned off your A/C yet?
Alas, even the devil can quote Scripture but it is an inconvenient truth that 45% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. Half of that electricity is used to power A/Cs.
Would not the Logic of “Think Globally, Act Locally” demand that if you wish to undrown polar bears en route to saving the planet – Gaia demands not just obedience but total submission – you pull the plug?
Just say no.
[It’s another inconvenient truth that no matter what we do the Chinese build a new coal powered plant every 4 days. Can the world wait for the Indians, not the ones who own casinos but the red-dot ones, the folks that Kipling thought so highly of, start to play catch-up ball? Not if you are Tom Steyer, the anti-Koch Brothers Left-Wing billionaire who sells dirty Indonesian and Australian coal to them while condemning the Keystone Pipeline. That terrible odor is the hypocrisy so necessary and so common to modern American Liberals.]
97% is a marvelous grade if you are taking a chemistry exam. Alas, if you are conducting a chemistry exam in a lab it is a failing grade.
A jet pilot who has a 97% landing rate would be wise not to worry about the long term effects of ObamaCare or whether or not Social Security is adequately funded.
Ditto for the people who re-string anything that Stradivarius made or who put the raw ingredients of penicillin into the blender. [Heaven forefend that I slip into pedantry but Deo Gratias for Climate Change absent which Stradivarius would have made yokes, bowls, and croziers. That’s a story for a different time.]
As Chairman of OPOOO – the Order of Perpetually Offended and Outraged Ohmadahns – you must always expand the list of sins and sinners or your pen will run dry at least 97% of the time.
Your goal should be 100% 100% of the time.
100% of the whole world – everybody – believed in Ptolemy, now an almost forgotten DWEM, that’s Dead White European Male for the uninitiated Tea Party knuckle draggers, for 1,500 years. That’s 15 centuries. A millennium and a half. It was settled science that the world was flat until it became unsettled. It was a never ending Summer of Recovery for map makers who had to re-do their product by taking Terra Incognita off the margins of the new ones. Talk about stretching the envelope! Chuck Yeager would have been proud.
A few asides:
1 – You say, to buttress a point, that “Muslims are human”. So was Dracula. So was Hitler. So was Mao. So was Pol Pot. So were Dahmer and Gacy. So what? Now if you were to say that “Muslims are human even though they have been killing Westerners, particularly Western Christians, for 14 centuries without a peep from the more moderate examplars of their humanity” you would be saying something of note.
2 – You mention “rising oceans, routine super storms, hellish droughts” as part of the typical anti-rational HOC POST ERGO PROPTER HOC argument without which the loony Luddites of the American Left could not exist.
Did the Miami Herald sell its beach front property because Biscayne Bay was rising? How was this fact kept from the buyers?
Galveston in 1908, Florida in 1925, and New England in 1937 were ravaged, ravished, and ruined by storms. Did fracking cause these? Did our devotion to plastic cause these disasters?
What or who caused the “hellish drought” of the 1930s? Using the Logic of those quarter-witted half-wits who hector us about excess the prime suspect would be the New Deal. The “Dust Bowl” was nowhere to be seen until the Blue Eagle was flying over Washington. When the second Depression began to end – the curious fact of Boeing going to 3 shifts in its B-17 factory in Wichita in 1938 is like a tooth ache that won’t go away in the economic History of this country – the “hellish drought ended.
If I were to mention Krakatoa or snow in Boston in June, 1816 it would be akin to spiking a baby seal so I won’t.
If you can find out what happened to Ptolemy see if you can find out what happened to Fred Hoyle. He “settled the science” of how the whole shebang came to be just before he went walkabout. See if you can find out which island of “settled science” Antonio Moniz, MD is on. He won the Noble prize for “settling the science” of what to do with less than perfect humans. Margaret Sanger, one of Hitler’s favorite Americans after Joe Kennedy, would have been proud.
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
PS – Last year you wrote that your daughter was going to college where she was going to study English Literature. I wrote to you to ask her if Wordsworth was still on the Chick Lit Shit List. You never got back to me. Also, if I send you my last copy of “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich, PhD, the book that said in 1969 we would all die either from freezing of starving by the year 2000, would you dispose of it in an environmentally sensitive manner? Remember, the overriding criterion is that it must be good for the children.
PPS – Another day without cashmere and the big problem is deciding whether Italian or Chinese will be for the dinner. There is no one wine for both. Damn those 1% show offs.
PSSS – Watch out for those blinking red lights, particularly those in front of your nose.
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
3511 NW 91st Avenue
Miami, FL 33172
RE: 97%? – Some gentle comments on the recently discovered grand unified theory of GlobalCoolingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDisruption, the one that meets all the requirements of modern American Liberalism, particularly the one that demands shock, awe, command, and control as put forward by you in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
Have you turned off your A/C yet?
Alas, even the devil can quote Scripture but it is an inconvenient truth that 45% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. Half of that electricity is used to power A/Cs.
Would not the Logic of “Think Globally, Act Locally” demand that if you wish to undrown polar bears en route to saving the planet – Gaia demands not just obedience but total submission – you pull the plug?
Just say no.
[It’s another inconvenient truth that no matter what we do the Chinese build a new coal powered plant every 4 days. Can the world wait for the Indians, not the ones who own casinos but the red-dot ones, the folks that Kipling thought so highly of, start to play catch-up ball? Not if you are Tom Steyer, the anti-Koch Brothers Left-Wing billionaire who sells dirty Indonesian and Australian coal to them while condemning the Keystone Pipeline. That terrible odor is the hypocrisy so necessary and so common to modern American Liberals.]
97% is a marvelous grade if you are taking a chemistry exam. Alas, if you are conducting a chemistry exam in a lab it is a failing grade.
A jet pilot who has a 97% landing rate would be wise not to worry about the long term effects of ObamaCare or whether or not Social Security is adequately funded.
Ditto for the people who re-string anything that Stradivarius made or who put the raw ingredients of penicillin into the blender. [Heaven forefend that I slip into pedantry but Deo Gratias for Climate Change absent which Stradivarius would have made yokes, bowls, and croziers. That’s a story for a different time.]
As Chairman of OPOOO – the Order of Perpetually Offended and Outraged Ohmadahns – you must always expand the list of sins and sinners or your pen will run dry at least 97% of the time.
Your goal should be 100% 100% of the time.
100% of the whole world – everybody – believed in Ptolemy, now an almost forgotten DWEM, that’s Dead White European Male for the uninitiated Tea Party knuckle draggers, for 1,500 years. That’s 15 centuries. A millennium and a half. It was settled science that the world was flat until it became unsettled. It was a never ending Summer of Recovery for map makers who had to re-do their product by taking Terra Incognita off the margins of the new ones. Talk about stretching the envelope! Chuck Yeager would have been proud.
A few asides:
1 – You say, to buttress a point, that “Muslims are human”. So was Dracula. So was Hitler. So was Mao. So was Pol Pot. So were Dahmer and Gacy. So what? Now if you were to say that “Muslims are human even though they have been killing Westerners, particularly Western Christians, for 14 centuries without a peep from the more moderate examplars of their humanity” you would be saying something of note.
2 – You mention “rising oceans, routine super storms, hellish droughts” as part of the typical anti-rational HOC POST ERGO PROPTER HOC argument without which the loony Luddites of the American Left could not exist.
Did the Miami Herald sell its beach front property because Biscayne Bay was rising? How was this fact kept from the buyers?
Galveston in 1908, Florida in 1925, and New England in 1937 were ravaged, ravished, and ruined by storms. Did fracking cause these? Did our devotion to plastic cause these disasters?
What or who caused the “hellish drought” of the 1930s? Using the Logic of those quarter-witted half-wits who hector us about excess the prime suspect would be the New Deal. The “Dust Bowl” was nowhere to be seen until the Blue Eagle was flying over Washington. When the second Depression began to end – the curious fact of Boeing going to 3 shifts in its B-17 factory in Wichita in 1938 is like a tooth ache that won’t go away in the economic History of this country – the “hellish drought ended.
If I were to mention Krakatoa or snow in Boston in June, 1816 it would be akin to spiking a baby seal so I won’t.
If you can find out what happened to Ptolemy see if you can find out what happened to Fred Hoyle. He “settled the science” of how the whole shebang came to be just before he went walkabout. See if you can find out which island of “settled science” Antonio Moniz, MD is on. He won the Noble prize for “settling the science” of what to do with less than perfect humans. Margaret Sanger, one of Hitler’s favorite Americans after Joe Kennedy, would have been proud.
From a Proud Global Warmer
Kevin Smith
PS – Last year you wrote that your daughter was going to college where she was going to study English Literature. I wrote to you to ask her if Wordsworth was still on the Chick Lit Shit List. You never got back to me. Also, if I send you my last copy of “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich, PhD, the book that said in 1969 we would all die either from freezing of starving by the year 2000, would you dispose of it in an environmentally sensitive manner? Remember, the overriding criterion is that it must be good for the children.
PPS – Another day without cashmere and the big problem is deciding whether Italian or Chinese will be for the dinner. There is no one wine for both. Damn those 1% show offs.
PSSS – Watch out for those blinking red lights, particularly those in front of your nose.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
June 16, 2014
Steve Bosquet
The Miami Herald
3511 NW 91st Street
Miami, FL 33172
RE: Who says satire is dead? Not I, I think. – Some comments on the Governor and his sub rosa ties to the Koch Brothers, Big Oil Bambi killers, Global WarmingCooling deniers, and smarmy Spur fans all of which can be explained in his decision to buy some Schlumberger stock in your article in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Bosquet,
I fracked my first oil well in Texas in January, 1974.
I was in the coal mining business in Kentucky and West Virginia for 10 years.
I prospected for gold in Timmins, Ontario for 3 years.
I know something about arm wrestling with Mother Nature.
That’s why I always look for the Ignatius J. Reilly side of things.
A sure sign – or so I thought – of his arrival, other than a huge tongue in a ginormous cheek, one crusted with a Homeric grain of salt, Jeezus Haitch Keerist but are you shitting me is when the Bureau of Really Stupid Names goes into overtime in overdrive.
“Preserve our Paradise”
“Protect our Panthers”
“Earth Justice”
I await, with increasingly eager tumescent anticipation, the public naming of the mother of all asshole groups. These are the moronic ohmadahns dedicated to the preservation of the furbish lousewort and also to the end of Western Civilization as we know it.
The “consensus” of the few remaining rational adults, people who see nothing sinister in the coming arrival of the summer solstice or its departure and replacement with the vernal equinox 90 days hence, have chosen
“The Church of Ptolemy and Ned Lud”
until something better comes along.
Perhaps your article should have focused on why our corsair Governor would spend $9,200,000 on a house soon to be 4 feet under water, water from an ocean that did not respond to the President’s command to stop rising. That will happen just before his manse becomes as environmentally as friendly as Gehenna and is assaulted by drowning polar bears.
Can we stipulate that the Governor is to be congratulated for not buying Halliburton?
It’s going to be hot, humid, and stormy today. Great conditions for trapping wandering manatee pups. I have a great recipe for ceviche and sushi that I am always willing to share. Meanwhile I am going to crank up the A/C to meat hanging temperature.
Kevin Smith
PS - Yes, 6/16 has always been a good day for Irishmen, particularly those on the move. Also, if it’s OK to talk about Christie’s weight shouldn’t it be OK to talk about Hillary’s ax handle and a half wide fat ass and her Buddha/Oliver Hardy/Alfred Hitchcock gut?
Steve Bosquet
The Miami Herald
3511 NW 91st Street
Miami, FL 33172
RE: Who says satire is dead? Not I, I think. – Some comments on the Governor and his sub rosa ties to the Koch Brothers, Big Oil Bambi killers, Global WarmingCooling deniers, and smarmy Spur fans all of which can be explained in his decision to buy some Schlumberger stock in your article in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Bosquet,
I fracked my first oil well in Texas in January, 1974.
I was in the coal mining business in Kentucky and West Virginia for 10 years.
I prospected for gold in Timmins, Ontario for 3 years.
I know something about arm wrestling with Mother Nature.
That’s why I always look for the Ignatius J. Reilly side of things.
A sure sign – or so I thought – of his arrival, other than a huge tongue in a ginormous cheek, one crusted with a Homeric grain of salt, Jeezus Haitch Keerist but are you shitting me is when the Bureau of Really Stupid Names goes into overtime in overdrive.
“Preserve our Paradise”
“Protect our Panthers”
“Earth Justice”
I await, with increasingly eager tumescent anticipation, the public naming of the mother of all asshole groups. These are the moronic ohmadahns dedicated to the preservation of the furbish lousewort and also to the end of Western Civilization as we know it.
The “consensus” of the few remaining rational adults, people who see nothing sinister in the coming arrival of the summer solstice or its departure and replacement with the vernal equinox 90 days hence, have chosen
“The Church of Ptolemy and Ned Lud”
until something better comes along.
Perhaps your article should have focused on why our corsair Governor would spend $9,200,000 on a house soon to be 4 feet under water, water from an ocean that did not respond to the President’s command to stop rising. That will happen just before his manse becomes as environmentally as friendly as Gehenna and is assaulted by drowning polar bears.
Can we stipulate that the Governor is to be congratulated for not buying Halliburton?
It’s going to be hot, humid, and stormy today. Great conditions for trapping wandering manatee pups. I have a great recipe for ceviche and sushi that I am always willing to share. Meanwhile I am going to crank up the A/C to meat hanging temperature.
Kevin Smith
PS - Yes, 6/16 has always been a good day for Irishmen, particularly those on the move. Also, if it’s OK to talk about Christie’s weight shouldn’t it be OK to talk about Hillary’s ax handle and a half wide fat ass and her Buddha/Oliver Hardy/Alfred Hitchcock gut?
June 15, 2014
Andy Polhamus
South Jersey Times
309 S. Broad Street
Woodbury, NJ 08090
RE: Hot classrooms – Child abuse or a teachable moment? Some comments on your article about the horror, the horror of reading, ’riting, & ‘rithmetic minus air conditioning
Mr. Polhamus,
I am a Jersey guy – Bayonne – long gone. I am always on the electronic prowl for Garden state goodies.
In your story about school kids in South Jersey having to cope with ambient temperatures 2 things leap to mind:
#1 – What did the kiddies do before aggressive A/C became the norm for K-12?
#2 – The teachable moment is self-evident.
45% to 50% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that energy goes to power A/Cs. One need not be wearing 7 League boots to know that fossil fuels, with coal being the chief perpetrator, give us Global Warming. [Also, Global Cooling, Climate Change and, worst of all, Climate Disruption] If we are to think universally and act locally what better place to start than with our children? After all, children are our future, right?
Is Logic taught anywhere these days?
Kevin Smith
PS – As one Jersey Guy to another do you think if it’s OK to talk about Christie’s weight it should be OK to talk about Hillary’s fat ass?
Andy Polhamus
South Jersey Times
309 S. Broad Street
Woodbury, NJ 08090
RE: Hot classrooms – Child abuse or a teachable moment? Some comments on your article about the horror, the horror of reading, ’riting, & ‘rithmetic minus air conditioning
Mr. Polhamus,
I am a Jersey guy – Bayonne – long gone. I am always on the electronic prowl for Garden state goodies.
In your story about school kids in South Jersey having to cope with ambient temperatures 2 things leap to mind:
#1 – What did the kiddies do before aggressive A/C became the norm for K-12?
#2 – The teachable moment is self-evident.
45% to 50% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that energy goes to power A/Cs. One need not be wearing 7 League boots to know that fossil fuels, with coal being the chief perpetrator, give us Global Warming. [Also, Global Cooling, Climate Change and, worst of all, Climate Disruption] If we are to think universally and act locally what better place to start than with our children? After all, children are our future, right?
Is Logic taught anywhere these days?
Kevin Smith
PS – As one Jersey Guy to another do you think if it’s OK to talk about Christie’s weight it should be OK to talk about Hillary’s fat ass?
Monday, June 9, 2014
June 8, 2014
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
RE: The Fragile Sex, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Kipling notwithstanding. Some comments on your unlinkable offering in today’s Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Lowe,
Shibboleths! Absent them and the shock troops, the phalanx, of modern American Liberalism, the ink-stained kvetching wretches who regularly piss on our backs and tell us that it is rain, would have nothing but ca-ca balls kept together by a vitriolic meringue, totally unencumbered by facts, as they assault the citadel of truth, freedom, and the American way of life.
The shibboleth du jour is “women earning 77 cents to every man’s dollar”.
Are you saying that female employees of the Sun Sentinel earn 77% of what male employees earn?
Are you saying that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and let us stipulate that she is indeed “despicable”, earns 77% of what former Congressman Alan West earned? [That must have stung like the Devil, right?]
Are you saying that Sally Ride, America’s first non-prostate possessing astronaut, astronette perhaps, earned 77% of what John Glenn earned?
Are you saying that my daughter, a double degreed L&D RN, earns 77% of what a male counterpart earns solely because he has a scrotum?
You warned us last week of a life “filled with misery” because of indifference to the horror, the horror, of polar bear drownings due to rising sea levels caused by affluent, mostly White, First Worlders and their ruinous need for aggressive air conditioning and all kinds of plastic stuff. That yet may well be but I can’t imagine a more miserable weekend than one without you telling me what a really bad guy I am.
I revel in it. Don’t change, you jackass.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Chan Lowe
The Sun Sentinel
RE: The Fragile Sex, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Kipling notwithstanding. Some comments on your unlinkable offering in today’s Sun Sentinel.
Mr. Lowe,
Shibboleths! Absent them and the shock troops, the phalanx, of modern American Liberalism, the ink-stained kvetching wretches who regularly piss on our backs and tell us that it is rain, would have nothing but ca-ca balls kept together by a vitriolic meringue, totally unencumbered by facts, as they assault the citadel of truth, freedom, and the American way of life.
The shibboleth du jour is “women earning 77 cents to every man’s dollar”.
Are you saying that female employees of the Sun Sentinel earn 77% of what male employees earn?
Are you saying that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and let us stipulate that she is indeed “despicable”, earns 77% of what former Congressman Alan West earned? [That must have stung like the Devil, right?]
Are you saying that Sally Ride, America’s first non-prostate possessing astronaut, astronette perhaps, earned 77% of what John Glenn earned?
Are you saying that my daughter, a double degreed L&D RN, earns 77% of what a male counterpart earns solely because he has a scrotum?
You warned us last week of a life “filled with misery” because of indifference to the horror, the horror, of polar bear drownings due to rising sea levels caused by affluent, mostly White, First Worlders and their ruinous need for aggressive air conditioning and all kinds of plastic stuff. That yet may well be but I can’t imagine a more miserable weekend than one without you telling me what a really bad guy I am.
I revel in it. Don’t change, you jackass.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Monday, June 2, 2014
June 2, 2014
Jac VerSteeg
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: One thing more…How you are about to become, like herpes, the gift that keeps on giving. A sort of ideological chlamydia, if you will.
Mr. VerSteeg,
You asked yesterday if we are “smart enough to combat global warming”. God’s Holy Trousers but I hope not.
Listen carefully. I’ll write slowly.
WHEN THE EARTH WARMS PEOPLE GET SMARTER
The reason is painfully simple even for a horse’s ass like you.
Heat makes more land more arable. More arable land makes more protein available. More protein makes people smarter. Can you see where I’m going here?
An upward spike in temperature 11 centuries gave us the Renaissance. Do you have a problem with Dante?
But to answer your question….
No, we are not smart enough to combat global warming. Deo gracias that we have you to help us through the first difficult days of reverting to hunter/gatherer status. Doubtless, we will all soon be paying obeisance to Ned Lud. I can’t imagine a better high priest than you.
We are coming up to the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War. One of the great quotes from that fateful August was “The lights are going out all over Europe”. If we follow your premises to their Logical conclusions – Forgive me for making the illogical assumption that modern American Liberals cans do anything that does not offend Logic – we can change it to read “The lights are going out all over Florida”.
One of my favorite scenes in “Jaws” is when the wormy Mayor of Sharktown urges its citizens to go into the water. Nobody wants to be first. You have a chance to be first today.
The EPA announced this morning that it is mandating – Think Canute at the sea shore- a 30% cut in carbon emissions.
40% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that electricity is used to power air conditioners. I am sure the percentage is higher in Florida because it is an empirically self-evident fact that Florida is friggin’ hot a Hell of lot longer than Wynona, MN or Darmiscotta, ME is.
Your choices are simple:
#1 – Turn off all you’re A/Cs for about 40 weeks a year. Pull the plug. Open the windows. My mother used to sprinkle talcum powder on me on a really hot night. I think it worked. Tell everybody you work for that unless they turn off their A/Cs you will no longer work for them.
Be true to your beliefs. Nobody said that being “smart enough to fight global warming” was going to be easy.
#2 – You can continue to be a hypocritical bastard.
There is another point that screams for attention.
As we make coal about as popular as gay marriages in Yemen the Chinese are absolutely peeing in their pants.
The Law of Unintended Consequences will unfold thus:
#! – The price of coal will fall as production goes down.
#2 – Other fuels – oil, gas, nuclear – will replace coal
#3 – Wind and solar will be significant just after the sun rises in the North
#4 – China, building one coal fired plant every 4 days, will double construction.
#5 – India will play carbon belching catch up ball.
#6 – American coal will power Asian economic and military expansion.
#7 – Asian carbon emissions will increase exponentially.
#8 – There goes the perpetual “Summer of Recovery”.
My grandfather, the legendary Jack Smith, always marveled that there were more, substantially more, horses’ asses than there were horses’ heads. Thanks for not letting your side down.
Do you have any idea how the last Ice Age, the one that gave us the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls, ended? Would you believe, you dizzardly fathead, that Global Warming did? Honest. You coiuld look it up
Kevin Smith
El Supremo Warlock
Proud Global Warmers’ Broward Coven
PS – One more, no two more, one more thing. Lose the picture. You look like the last time you took an unexcruciating dump was just before your first birthday. Also, Solyndra
ain’t coming back. Detroit will host the summer Olympics and the next Papal Conclave before Solyndra “creates” jobs, other than for bankruptcy lawyers.
Jac VerSteeg
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: One thing more…How you are about to become, like herpes, the gift that keeps on giving. A sort of ideological chlamydia, if you will.
Mr. VerSteeg,
You asked yesterday if we are “smart enough to combat global warming”. God’s Holy Trousers but I hope not.
Listen carefully. I’ll write slowly.
WHEN THE EARTH WARMS PEOPLE GET SMARTER
The reason is painfully simple even for a horse’s ass like you.
Heat makes more land more arable. More arable land makes more protein available. More protein makes people smarter. Can you see where I’m going here?
An upward spike in temperature 11 centuries gave us the Renaissance. Do you have a problem with Dante?
But to answer your question….
No, we are not smart enough to combat global warming. Deo gracias that we have you to help us through the first difficult days of reverting to hunter/gatherer status. Doubtless, we will all soon be paying obeisance to Ned Lud. I can’t imagine a better high priest than you.
We are coming up to the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War. One of the great quotes from that fateful August was “The lights are going out all over Europe”. If we follow your premises to their Logical conclusions – Forgive me for making the illogical assumption that modern American Liberals cans do anything that does not offend Logic – we can change it to read “The lights are going out all over Florida”.
One of my favorite scenes in “Jaws” is when the wormy Mayor of Sharktown urges its citizens to go into the water. Nobody wants to be first. You have a chance to be first today.
The EPA announced this morning that it is mandating – Think Canute at the sea shore- a 30% cut in carbon emissions.
40% of the electricity generated in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that electricity is used to power air conditioners. I am sure the percentage is higher in Florida because it is an empirically self-evident fact that Florida is friggin’ hot a Hell of lot longer than Wynona, MN or Darmiscotta, ME is.
Your choices are simple:
#1 – Turn off all you’re A/Cs for about 40 weeks a year. Pull the plug. Open the windows. My mother used to sprinkle talcum powder on me on a really hot night. I think it worked. Tell everybody you work for that unless they turn off their A/Cs you will no longer work for them.
Be true to your beliefs. Nobody said that being “smart enough to fight global warming” was going to be easy.
#2 – You can continue to be a hypocritical bastard.
There is another point that screams for attention.
As we make coal about as popular as gay marriages in Yemen the Chinese are absolutely peeing in their pants.
The Law of Unintended Consequences will unfold thus:
#! – The price of coal will fall as production goes down.
#2 – Other fuels – oil, gas, nuclear – will replace coal
#3 – Wind and solar will be significant just after the sun rises in the North
#4 – China, building one coal fired plant every 4 days, will double construction.
#5 – India will play carbon belching catch up ball.
#6 – American coal will power Asian economic and military expansion.
#7 – Asian carbon emissions will increase exponentially.
#8 – There goes the perpetual “Summer of Recovery”.
My grandfather, the legendary Jack Smith, always marveled that there were more, substantially more, horses’ asses than there were horses’ heads. Thanks for not letting your side down.
Do you have any idea how the last Ice Age, the one that gave us the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls, ended? Would you believe, you dizzardly fathead, that Global Warming did? Honest. You coiuld look it up
Kevin Smith
El Supremo Warlock
Proud Global Warmers’ Broward Coven
PS – One more, no two more, one more thing. Lose the picture. You look like the last time you took an unexcruciating dump was just before your first birthday. Also, Solyndra
ain’t coming back. Detroit will host the summer Olympics and the next Papal Conclave before Solyndra “creates” jobs, other than for bankruptcy lawyers.
June 1, 2014
Jac VerSteeg
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: No so fast, you twit – Some comments on your condescending unlinkable column on the coming – “Who knows Where or When”, to coin a phrase – horror, the horror of nature run wild. GlobalCollingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDisruption, or if you want to save time use GCGWCCCD because those of us with the special decoder rings and aluminum antennae hanging out of our arses, will know what you mean. Jeezus Haitch Keerist but you give ohmadhans a bad name.
Mr. VerSteeg,
Just when I think I have shot all the goofy fish gamboling in the barrel built by and for modern American Liberals, a species that was conceived in guilt and prospers by communal stupidity, a new one comes along. As usual, Johnson was right. “It is the triumph of hope over experience.”
Welcome to the aquatic ten ring, you jackass.
As the newest card carrying, fire breathing modern American Liberal, one who was nurtured in the school of “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome” – if there is a translation problem send a SASE – you may want to put on your bullet proof vest, the one that prevents ideas from getting through.
Before you condemn ad hominem arguments you may wish to consider that your arguments are both ad absurdum and ad captandum. The slippery slope tu quoque applies, peckerhead.
You speak of Noah and Jacob. I suggest another Old Testament dude, Jeremiah, be put into the mix.
His Lamentations may have worked with sand loving nomads. He has found favor with bombastic, head up their arse, halfwitted quasi-climatologists who think a cloud is about computers and couldn’t tell a millibar from a biker barre.
Jeremiah was a good man who suffered from mental hemorrhoids – probably a “gift” from G-d – who made a living saying that the glass is not only not half full it is half empty and leaking.
You chastise Americans for “not saving enough for a rainy day”. I am one of them.
I took the word of “respected scientists”, particularly when they told me of a “consensus” of really smart guys who tell the untermenschen of the soon to arrive “end of days”.
The move away from Reason began in 1962 when Rachel Carson published a book that said it was OK for 2,000,000 sub-Saharan Black babies to die every year. Despite a paucity of evidence, observable facts that are independently replicable, her legacy got the US to outlaw DDT. Absent the wonder pesticide malaria returned with an Old Testament vengeance. Affluent White 1st Worlders feel good about maybe helping a few raptors. The 2,000,000 [that’s two million] slaughtered Black babies and, yes, I have seen a 2month old infant die of malaria, are acceptable collateral damage. One of the mantras of modern American Liberalism is “It’s for the children”. White children, mind you. Black children? Nothing to see here, folks. Just move on, OK?
In 1969 Professor Paul Ehrlich, a frequent guest on the Johnny Carson show, told us that we would all be dead by the year 2000. The only thing that was uncertain was whether we would starve to death or freeze to death.
It is June 1, 2014. It is warm, almost uncomfortable, and it has rained. There will be no need for cashmere. I haven’t made up my mind about dinner. The finalists are Chinese and Italian.
Allow me a moment of confession.
Beginning with the glorious reign of Jimmy Carter I acted locally to secure a quick end to our misery. Every morning I would squirt some Right Guard deodorant out my bathroom window, I figured the quicker we could dump the ozone layer the better of we would be. I thought I was helping when one of my favorite hypocrites, Senator Albert Gore, AKA Alpha Gump, told us in the early ‘90s that the ozone layer was hours away from disappearing. Maybe it was weeks. Perhaps years. Decades. Millennia? I forgot. Yes, Virginia, he is the same guy who gave us 5 years to live. Only a cad would point out that he gave us this Jeremiad 6 years ago. 5 years to live. 6 years ago. Got it?
In August, 1997 President Bill Clinton gave a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House. We knew he had just left Hillary because he wasn’t smiling and his zipper was up and locked. He said that it was a very hot day and that the hot day was caused by Global Warming. To make matters worse hot days caused yet more Global Warming. Donna Shalala, Billy’s favorite munchkin Cabinet Secretary, offered an alternative route when she told us not to worry about because we would all be dead from AIDS in 10 years. An up to date thanatoptical Hobson’s Choice, no?
The really funny part is that they both meant it. Honest. You could look it up.
[Why the President did not submit the Kyoto accord to the Senate in 1995 for confirmation, giving it the force of law, is still a mystery.]
You write of “aging flood-control structures” and the need to replace them. I suggest that we use John Maynard Keynes as the paradigmatic template for solving this problem.
#1 – Cut taxes. Cut business taxes, Cut personal taxes. Cut them again.
#2 – Borrow money from the Chinese. Borrow from the Social Security system.
#3 – Spend it on “shovel ready” jobs for a perpetual “Summer of Recovery”.
#4 – We’ll be farting through silk by Election Day, right?
#5 – Repeat over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
Could you ask your “respected scientists” if any of them has seen Ptolemy? There never was a more “respected scientist”. He was an Astronomer whose thesis about the sun and the earth and their respective positions in re each other was “settled science” for 1,500 years. Some heretics – Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Galileo – came along and “unsettled” it. Just like Judge Crater and Ambrose Bierce he is gone without a trace. See if any of them can help me find him, OK?
While they are on the trail see if they can find out about Fred Hoyle. He too was a “respected scientist”. His work on the universe was also “settled science” when Eisenhower was President. A few years after the subject was closed 2 Physicists, tinkering with some obsolete equipment in Holmdel, NJ propelled Freddy down the scientific memory hole with such a big bang that he left no forwarding address. See if they can find him.
How much more “respected” can a scientist be than to receive a Noble Prize? In 1949 Egas Noniz, MD won the Noble Prize for Medicine and Physiology. He was the leader in lobotomies. It’s a simple enough procedure. Drive a piece of metal into the skull of someone who would not fit Margaret Sanger’s guidelines. Irrigate the wound and close up. The “settled science” may have become unsettled but the patient wasn’t. Ask Rosemary Kennedy.
All of the above has been the sugar. Now comes the medicine.
As everyone knows the Trivium is one of the crown jewels of Western Civilization, the capstone of which is Logic. Say what you will about those DWEMs their urns still hold water.
Its best use is a defense against sloppy thinking. Think of it as a mental Leonidas, an intellectual Horatius, if you will.
25 centuries ago some of the lads in the agora noticed that some people, people whose job was to curry favor with the hoi-polloi, people who were your intellectual forebears, people infected with a murderous hubris, began to substitute feelings for ideas.
The disease is easily recognizable – I’ve given you a few examples – and treatable. OOPS! I almost said curable. Its name is simple
POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC
It’s like dawn to a vampire. It’s like a fart in church. It can’t be qualified or quantified. Follow the bouncing ball:
John has blue eyes and red hair and wears striped shirts.
John is a philandering perjurious paedophile.
Anybody who has red hair and blue eyes and wears
Striped shirts is a philandering perjuious paedophile.
I don’t have to tell you how easy it is to bypass thinking when it comes to making conclusions. You are making a living at it. As to saving money, why bother? Professor Paul Krugman, also a Nobel Prize winner and a former shill for Enron, told us 3 weeks ago that we are all doomed. Max out all your credit cards. Bounce checks. Play hide the salami until the wave hits. After all, as Hillary Clinton says, “In the long run what difference does it make”? Or as Keynes said, “In the long run we’re all dead”.
Kevin Smith – Proud Global Warmer
PS – Pop quiz for extra credit. Did Pompeii blow up because of excessive fires on the Palatine Hill? Did it snow in Boston in June, 1816 because they killed whales? Did excessive use of steam engines cause Krakatoa to blow its top? 1908, 1925, 1938, 1954, 1962. Did the increased use of electricity cause those years to have horrible hurricanes? Take your time, you boob.
Jac VerSteeg
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: No so fast, you twit – Some comments on your condescending unlinkable column on the coming – “Who knows Where or When”, to coin a phrase – horror, the horror of nature run wild. GlobalCollingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDisruption, or if you want to save time use GCGWCCCD because those of us with the special decoder rings and aluminum antennae hanging out of our arses, will know what you mean. Jeezus Haitch Keerist but you give ohmadhans a bad name.
Mr. VerSteeg,
Just when I think I have shot all the goofy fish gamboling in the barrel built by and for modern American Liberals, a species that was conceived in guilt and prospers by communal stupidity, a new one comes along. As usual, Johnson was right. “It is the triumph of hope over experience.”
Welcome to the aquatic ten ring, you jackass.
As the newest card carrying, fire breathing modern American Liberal, one who was nurtured in the school of “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome” – if there is a translation problem send a SASE – you may want to put on your bullet proof vest, the one that prevents ideas from getting through.
Before you condemn ad hominem arguments you may wish to consider that your arguments are both ad absurdum and ad captandum. The slippery slope tu quoque applies, peckerhead.
You speak of Noah and Jacob. I suggest another Old Testament dude, Jeremiah, be put into the mix.
His Lamentations may have worked with sand loving nomads. He has found favor with bombastic, head up their arse, halfwitted quasi-climatologists who think a cloud is about computers and couldn’t tell a millibar from a biker barre.
Jeremiah was a good man who suffered from mental hemorrhoids – probably a “gift” from G-d – who made a living saying that the glass is not only not half full it is half empty and leaking.
You chastise Americans for “not saving enough for a rainy day”. I am one of them.
I took the word of “respected scientists”, particularly when they told me of a “consensus” of really smart guys who tell the untermenschen of the soon to arrive “end of days”.
The move away from Reason began in 1962 when Rachel Carson published a book that said it was OK for 2,000,000 sub-Saharan Black babies to die every year. Despite a paucity of evidence, observable facts that are independently replicable, her legacy got the US to outlaw DDT. Absent the wonder pesticide malaria returned with an Old Testament vengeance. Affluent White 1st Worlders feel good about maybe helping a few raptors. The 2,000,000 [that’s two million] slaughtered Black babies and, yes, I have seen a 2month old infant die of malaria, are acceptable collateral damage. One of the mantras of modern American Liberalism is “It’s for the children”. White children, mind you. Black children? Nothing to see here, folks. Just move on, OK?
In 1969 Professor Paul Ehrlich, a frequent guest on the Johnny Carson show, told us that we would all be dead by the year 2000. The only thing that was uncertain was whether we would starve to death or freeze to death.
It is June 1, 2014. It is warm, almost uncomfortable, and it has rained. There will be no need for cashmere. I haven’t made up my mind about dinner. The finalists are Chinese and Italian.
Allow me a moment of confession.
Beginning with the glorious reign of Jimmy Carter I acted locally to secure a quick end to our misery. Every morning I would squirt some Right Guard deodorant out my bathroom window, I figured the quicker we could dump the ozone layer the better of we would be. I thought I was helping when one of my favorite hypocrites, Senator Albert Gore, AKA Alpha Gump, told us in the early ‘90s that the ozone layer was hours away from disappearing. Maybe it was weeks. Perhaps years. Decades. Millennia? I forgot. Yes, Virginia, he is the same guy who gave us 5 years to live. Only a cad would point out that he gave us this Jeremiad 6 years ago. 5 years to live. 6 years ago. Got it?
In August, 1997 President Bill Clinton gave a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House. We knew he had just left Hillary because he wasn’t smiling and his zipper was up and locked. He said that it was a very hot day and that the hot day was caused by Global Warming. To make matters worse hot days caused yet more Global Warming. Donna Shalala, Billy’s favorite munchkin Cabinet Secretary, offered an alternative route when she told us not to worry about because we would all be dead from AIDS in 10 years. An up to date thanatoptical Hobson’s Choice, no?
The really funny part is that they both meant it. Honest. You could look it up.
[Why the President did not submit the Kyoto accord to the Senate in 1995 for confirmation, giving it the force of law, is still a mystery.]
You write of “aging flood-control structures” and the need to replace them. I suggest that we use John Maynard Keynes as the paradigmatic template for solving this problem.
#1 – Cut taxes. Cut business taxes, Cut personal taxes. Cut them again.
#2 – Borrow money from the Chinese. Borrow from the Social Security system.
#3 – Spend it on “shovel ready” jobs for a perpetual “Summer of Recovery”.
#4 – We’ll be farting through silk by Election Day, right?
#5 – Repeat over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
Could you ask your “respected scientists” if any of them has seen Ptolemy? There never was a more “respected scientist”. He was an Astronomer whose thesis about the sun and the earth and their respective positions in re each other was “settled science” for 1,500 years. Some heretics – Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Galileo – came along and “unsettled” it. Just like Judge Crater and Ambrose Bierce he is gone without a trace. See if any of them can help me find him, OK?
While they are on the trail see if they can find out about Fred Hoyle. He too was a “respected scientist”. His work on the universe was also “settled science” when Eisenhower was President. A few years after the subject was closed 2 Physicists, tinkering with some obsolete equipment in Holmdel, NJ propelled Freddy down the scientific memory hole with such a big bang that he left no forwarding address. See if they can find him.
How much more “respected” can a scientist be than to receive a Noble Prize? In 1949 Egas Noniz, MD won the Noble Prize for Medicine and Physiology. He was the leader in lobotomies. It’s a simple enough procedure. Drive a piece of metal into the skull of someone who would not fit Margaret Sanger’s guidelines. Irrigate the wound and close up. The “settled science” may have become unsettled but the patient wasn’t. Ask Rosemary Kennedy.
All of the above has been the sugar. Now comes the medicine.
As everyone knows the Trivium is one of the crown jewels of Western Civilization, the capstone of which is Logic. Say what you will about those DWEMs their urns still hold water.
Its best use is a defense against sloppy thinking. Think of it as a mental Leonidas, an intellectual Horatius, if you will.
25 centuries ago some of the lads in the agora noticed that some people, people whose job was to curry favor with the hoi-polloi, people who were your intellectual forebears, people infected with a murderous hubris, began to substitute feelings for ideas.
The disease is easily recognizable – I’ve given you a few examples – and treatable. OOPS! I almost said curable. Its name is simple
POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC
It’s like dawn to a vampire. It’s like a fart in church. It can’t be qualified or quantified. Follow the bouncing ball:
John has blue eyes and red hair and wears striped shirts.
John is a philandering perjurious paedophile.
Anybody who has red hair and blue eyes and wears
Striped shirts is a philandering perjuious paedophile.
I don’t have to tell you how easy it is to bypass thinking when it comes to making conclusions. You are making a living at it. As to saving money, why bother? Professor Paul Krugman, also a Nobel Prize winner and a former shill for Enron, told us 3 weeks ago that we are all doomed. Max out all your credit cards. Bounce checks. Play hide the salami until the wave hits. After all, as Hillary Clinton says, “In the long run what difference does it make”? Or as Keynes said, “In the long run we’re all dead”.
Kevin Smith – Proud Global Warmer
PS – Pop quiz for extra credit. Did Pompeii blow up because of excessive fires on the Palatine Hill? Did it snow in Boston in June, 1816 because they killed whales? Did excessive use of steam engines cause Krakatoa to blow its top? 1908, 1925, 1938, 1954, 1962. Did the increased use of electricity cause those years to have horrible hurricanes? Take your time, you boob.
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