November 26, 2018 Why would anyone give a rat’s ass about the little fat gomer in North Korea?

November 26, 2018

Why would anyone give a rat’s ass about the little fat gomer in North Korea?

There is only one answer.

He has nuclear weapons.

Charles De Gaulle had one fixed idea, one undeviating North Star, to build his life on. That this raison d’etre was shaped and strengthened by his secondary school educators, the Marist Brothers, there can be no doubt. He, like Churchill, was destined for great things, that God put him on earth to save his country.

If it weren’t for Churchill he would have been another souless poilu in London in 1940. He created a persona out of nothing. After returning to France he waited for 15 years for Apellons a De Gaulle. [“All History is biography and all biography is anecdote”.] It is said that he wasn’t concerned about his bad breath because he was too tall to speak into most people’s faces. It is also said that after Kennedy’s disastrous meeting in Vienna with Khrushchev, the one that convinced Nicky that JFK was a cheese dick rich kid who would fold like a cheap suit, De Gaulle told Kennedy that he would have to criticize him publicly but if it came down to nut-cutting time with the Russkies he would be with us. A man not to trifle with.

De Gaulle got his country out of NATO and then he got nuclear weapons.

 All those little islands in the South Pacific finally paid their way. He wasn’t going to test his new weapons in Bordeaux, was he? Years after he died, the replacement head Frog got Russia’s attention by stating his defense national policy. If they feared imminent invasion they would use 1/3^rd of their nuclear arsenal to repel the attack. If they were attacked they would go to zero inventory. Gromyko, in particular, was very upset by this. Since they weren’t in NATO, there were no restraints on them. This time they didn’t need Michelin to get the world’s attention.

Does anyone else remember what Mrs. Gandhi said, after successfully testing nuclear weapons, they would only be used for peaceful purposes? Pakistan, mindful of the fact there were no lamb volunteers to spend the night with the Lion King, said that they would eat dirt to get nuclear weapons. They did and then they did. The peace-loving Muslims in Pakistan don’t much love the peace-loving Hindus in India. In fact, when the English left, it triggered a blood bath that far exceeded the butcher’s bill that Hitler extracted from the Jews. And they did it in 4 less years. Not a place to be outgunned by your neighbor.  

An interesting codicil to the above happened in the glory days of the Clinton administration. Brooklyn Bernie Schwartz, the CEO of the Loral Corporation, and the founder of the $25,000 coffee with Big Bill and Spend a Night in the Lincoln Bedroom, sold a rocket guidance to the Red China. It took the 10 ring for its missiles from ½ a mile to less than 100 yards. Loral wouldn’t sell to either India or Pakistan. They did the only thing they could. They vastly increased their nuclear inventories. If our aim is off let’s try a rolling barrage It worked in WW1, didn’t it?

People with nuclear weapons fear 2 kinds of nations:

#1 – Those who have them.

#2 -  Those who don’t.

If treaties worked why did my wife’s father, my wife’s uncle, and my wife’s cousin “see the elephant” in 3 different oceans in 3 years? The Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Washington Naval Arms Limitation Treaty – I don’t know what the term is in German or Japanese for “laugh your ass off” but it was used a lot in Berlin and Tokyo – was supposed to prevent that, right? Incidentally, 2 Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded for the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Should they be “unawarded”, kind of like “unfriending”?

 While we are at it, there are a few more Nobel Prizes that should be recalled. Woodrow Wilson, because he was vile, bigoted racist who entertained the Ku Klux Klan in the White House. Paul Muller, because he discovered DDT. Antonio Moniz, because he perfected the lobotomy. Norman Bourlaug, because he pioneered in the genetic modification of food. And Rudyard Kipling, just because

If the Taliban can blow up 2500-year-old Buddha statues because they are somehow offensive to Allah – Do you think Allah ever met Nietzsche? – and if the POO, defined as the Perpetually Outraged and Offended, can tear down statues of soldiers who last fought 153 years ago and outlawing whistling Dixie, then Logic would dictate that the bounders, cads, and poltroons named above must go. 

Which brings us back to North Korea and then to Crimea. 

The only reason anyone pays attention to that fat, little twerp is because somewhere in his country, a country filled with starving people - and why doesn’t Chiquita Octavio-Cortez use North Korea as an example of a Socialist success? – he’s got a slew of little bombs with a big bang. How he gets them to their target is easier said than done but he already has finished the hard part. He has them. On to Crimea!

In 1994, after the Reagan-caused breakup of the Evil Empire, in a time when History supposedly stopped, the United States bought all the nuclear weapons that were housed in the Ukraine. [I’ll stop saying the Ukraine just after I stop saying the Bronx] In addition to de-nuclearizing the neighborhood, President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs guaranteed them protection against invasion. This never reached treaty status because that would require 2/3rds Senate approval and modern American Liberals don’t like that. Vide the Ukrainian Accord, the Kyoto Protocols, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Iranian Nuclear Pact.

Does anyone think Putin would have been pissing in their soup and giving them atomic wedgies if the Ukrainians still had nuclear weapons? I think not. The Russians are still like Senator Henry ‘Scoop” Jackson [D-WA] described them 45 years ago. “They’re like sneak thieves in a hotel. If they find an open door, they will go in. If it’s locked, they move on to the next target of opportunity.”

 Try to imagine a Senator Jackson in today’s Democratic Party. Bernie the Bolshie and Spartacus Booker would kidnap him. The moon-bat chick from Hawaii would give him a lava shampoo and Chuck U Schumer would plant white toast slathered in mayo as his preference for pastrami as proof of his anti-Semitism.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – After the hordes of illegal aliens who wanted to enter this country began to assault them, the Border Patrol – not ICE, the Federal agents that wing-nut Kamala Harris says is like the Klan – began to use pepper spray to defend themselves. I just heard Chiquita Octavio-Cortez - and wasn’t Plato, a true DWEM, right when he warned us of the dangers of unfettered Democracy? -  compare it to the Holocaust. On November 25, 2013 pepper spray was used on  potential felon at the border. I doubt if any Holocaust comparisons were made then. Could it be because Barack Obama was President? Only a deplorable post-racial stinker would think so.

It is said, and in the same snarling voice used when Judge Kavanaugh was being rubber hosed by modern American Liberal Senators and called a “serial rapist”, that Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican candidate for the Senate, went to a “segregated academy”. Maybe she did but the only Black people the first 2 generations of Kennedy whelps saw in their school daze were either janitors or pot wallopers. And, by the way, my offer of serious prizes still stands if anyone can find any example of any Kennedy snot nosed kid going to any public grammar school or public high school in the 20^th century.

Never bring a knife to a gun fight, particularly if you live in a bad neighborhood

“Always keep your ax handy”.

November 25, 2018 El Alclade de Tijuana dijo “No mas”. The Mayor of Tijuana said “No mas”.

November 25, 2018

         El Alclade de Tijuana dijo “No mas”.

The Mayor of Tijuana said “No mas”.

He took no official position on whether or not everybody anywhere in the world had the absolutely unfettered right – A – to come to his country whenever for whatever reason and - B- and to demand that this country accept them, feed, clothe, and shelter and give them PTSD succor plus premium cable. He does note that they lacked basic personal hygiene habits plus they were crooks, rapists, and murderers. He did not comment on whether climate change had adversely affected them. He learned well from North American modern American Liberals who shriek at and hector the deplorables about the need for homeless shelters, AIDS clinics, pet refuges, mass transit, safe spots, and gluten-free zones with the solipsistic exception of NIMBY. NIMBY, for the uninitiated, is short for “Not in My Backyard”. Which is why the latest homeless shelter in Broward was built over a semi-toxic landfill, not on Las Olas or in Westin.

He did not tell them to go to Columbus, NM, like Pancho Villa did in 1916. President Wilson sent 10,000 men under the command of “Black Jack” Pershing to invade Mexico, track him down, and kill him. He also sent 75,000 troops to the border to secure it against invasion as the Constitution mandates. [Article 1, Section 8, Parts 11 & 15; Article 4, Section 4]

It is owed to the ledger that the mere mention of Wilson’s name must bring to mind Justice Thurgood Marshall’s comments on him, comments that I heard him deliver. “He was the most racist, bigoted President of the 20^th century.” He didn’t get Villa but the country was never invaded again. 

Until now.

Which brings us to Antigone.

Antigone was written 2459 years ago by Sophocles. It must be noted that Sophocles was the quintessential DWEM – Dead White European Male. I met Antigone 56 years in South Orange, NJ. She was the daughter of an extremely dysfunctional family who, when her brother was killed, buried him indirect defiance of King Creon’s orders. For this he imprisoned her where she killed herself. Not exactly Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, is it? That the play is now in its 3^rd millennium is testament to then never-ending, never solved dilemma of rights in conflict. She, as a mourning sister, had the right to bury him. He, as the King, had the right to prevent it.

What is our obligation when a stranger shows up at our door and asks or demands shelter?

Christ commanded us to “sell all and give to the poor”. Logic would dictate that we can only do that once. Once the well is empty who can say when it will be or if it will be filled again? Chesterton said that people underestimated God’s sense of mirth. A mother bear is not to be trifled with when her cubs are in danger. I committed a felony 41 years ago to protect my daughter, an act that I would do again for the benefit of her daughters, AKA, My Texas Ladies. 

The other person’s rights end where my nose begins. Let me “revise and extend” my remarks to include an addendum: persons’.  You can wear your hair as long as you want so long as you keep it out of my soup. Edmund Burke said that the conflict in any society is always between order and freedom. I can argue for the hounds while enjoying the exploits of the fox. Corey Booker, a horse’s ass of a United States Senator, alas, from New Jersey, said he was very close to his only “Spartacus moment” when he called Judge Kavanaugh a “serial rapist”. Let the record show that he is a Democrat. And further, that he has read far too much Howard Fast and Howard Zinn to engage in rational, big boy, conversation.

Europe is doomed because the arc of demographics has turned against them. Whatever the deficiencies of the children of the desert may be, and they are legion, breeding is not one of them. France in particular, because of its negative birth rate, Mediterranean exposure and the flotsam and jetsam left over from the time of Robespierre – and wasn’t Burke right? – has the quickest falling hour glass. Go and check les vins of Bordeaux because the end is in sight. Raisins have many uses. Fromage is neutral. Chateau Talbot is not. Remember that the Taliban outlawed whistling.

If you believe in nothing you will believe in anything.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS - I wrote last week about Lt. William Sauer, USMC. He was a Marine aviator who was killed in his F-4 Panther in 1967. He was a classmate, a fraternity brother, and, most of all, a friend. I said of him that “He shall not grow old…and that I will remember him.” Let me add Lt. Brian Conlan, USMC who was blown up in a rice paddy in Vietnam in 1968 We spent many afternoons in the original Cryan’s on South Orange Avenue, diagonally opposite form Paul’s and across the street from Sacred Heart Church in Vailsburg. Cryan’s was distinguished by the hunchbacked midget cook who would stand on a wooden case to make hamburgers with hamburgers being the only thing on the menu. Along with Billy Sauer he was a good guy. Vaya con dios amigos!

November 21, 2018 I cannot get through a night before Thanksgiving without the memories of our Bayonne kitchen – 50th Street, not 15th Street – as my mother began her Thanksgiving cooking.

November 21, 2018

I cannot get through a night before Thanksgiving without the memories of our Bayonne kitchen – 50^th Street, not 15^th Street – as my mother began her Thanksgiving cooking. She used a 10/12-inch see-through Pyrex skillet [“see-through Pyrex skillet”?] to prepare her stuffing. It was not an old family recipe. My Mom kept a tin of drippings from previous meals on top of the stove. If you were born when Truman was President you know what I mean. If you were born when Eisenhower was creating the missile gap it was Pam for the pan before there was Pam.

Onion, celery, bacon, an odd bit of ham from the back of the fridge – “fridge”? – with some shakes from a few spice cans using the Justin Wilson measurement method. My job was simple. Some loaves of unsliced white bread would appear on Sunday and they would be opened so they could become a bit hard by Wednesday night. I had to tear them into bite size chunks so the juices from the Pyrex would be absorbed. The bread would be put into a 5-gallon pot and mixed with the stuff simmering on the stove. “Stove Top Stuffing” before there was stove top stuffing. Into the ice box – I bought a broken-down ice box in 1970 for $5. I spent about $80 getting it refinished. I sold it for $450 when I was hot-footing it out of Jersey in 1996 – along with the turkey, with the size of the turkey being decided by the number of plates at the table.

And the aroma is coming back to me. Where are the snows of yesteryear?

I grew up in a library. Thank God Andrew Carnegie made all that money. He took some of it and built a magnificent one in Bayonne, across the street from where Amy was raised. 2 things of note about 700 Avenue C: #1 – The brick, intended for the construction of Bayonne High School, somehow wound up at an empty lot. #2 – Felix Milwid, great great grandfather of my Texas ladies, gave it to their great grandmother as a wedding present. Not your typical wedding present but a story that speaks well of Bayonne.

When I left Bayonne for Orange, NJ, I was pleased to find another Carnegie library. It was a smaller version of the one in Bayonne but it was an architectural gem. [I think the ugliest public building I have ever seen is Northeast High School in Oakland Park, FL. No owned Johnny can’t read. His latent sense of the aesthete is overwhelmed by banal mediocrity.]

I mention libraries because I went to the main library in Ft, Lauderdale last March. One of the benefits of being from Bayonne is that you have a 6^th sense, an eye behind your ear, a double-helix infused feeling of what the Hell is going on. I found out that the esplanade by the front door is now Ground Zero for the homeless in Broward County. As I got to the front door, a door that was locked at 11:00AM for good reason, the personal DEW system went off. [DEW system? Does anyone else remember the string of Texas Towers in the North Atlantic?] Followed? Stalked? Who cares? I am a disable senior citizen with 3 titanium joints. Easy picking for feral vagrants. Not that day. I have an impressive cane that can be used for multi-tasking. 

I mention the above because in the almost six months since my interrupted library trip -  WARRIORBARDIT.BLOGSPOT.COM March 3, 2018 – it has gotten worse. To Hell with the mob coming to break into our country. We have one running rampant in our country!

I watched a bit of “The Great McGinty” last night. After a week of Jemima Abrams bitch about voting procedures, I turned to Hollywood for guidance. I have previously mentioned “Key Largo” where Thomas Gomez puts flesh on Joe Stalin commenting on elections. “Who cares who votes. It’s who counts the votes that matters.” Gomez says that you count them and count them and count them until you get the right number. Governor Scott went from 52,000 to 12,000 in the blink of an eye. McGinty is promised $2 for every vote he casts for Mayor Tillinghast. He earns $74 for his work that day. Director Preston Sturges served as a role model for the Coen Brothers. I get confused. Is it art imitating life or the other way around? Duval County 1948, Chicago 1960, Oregon 1998, Minnesota 2004. Row A, All the Way. Hot stoves, anyone?

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The “wine dark sea” of confusion is rising.

Trump criticizes the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Chief Justice says there are no Trump Judges, that there are no Obama Judges, and surely there are no Bush or Clinton Judges. The modern American Liberals who make up the “loony Left”, as recently retired Senator McCaskill, [D-MO] pre-election described them, have spent 8 years in true venomous snarl mode criticizing the Citizens’ United decision. Presumably, Diane Feinstein, the meaner than cat shit Senator [D-CA]who called Judge Kavanaugh a “serial rapist” because she thought his judicial temperament was beyond the pale. 2 women have told me, and since they are broads they must be believed, that she tutored Monica Lewinsky on certain interpersonal body fluid exchanges. My sources must remain confidential. “Eclectic indignation” can be a bitch sometimes.

See if you can clear this one up for me.

Walmart is evil. Chick-fil-a is Satanic. Amazon is OK, even though they treat their employees like shit, as long as Jeff Bezos keeps pissing in Trump’s soup and gets a gazillion dollars from raging Socialist Mayor DeBlasio with full support from Governor Cuomo, a Papa Francisco Socialist. Where’s Dorothy Day when you really need her?

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – Speaking of Presidents not getting along with Judges, does anyone else remember FDR trying to “pack” the Court? The idea went nowhere but the Court never ruled against him, again. Look it up. I guess “the wish of the Prince has the force of Law” still applies. How about Andy “By God” Jackson telling John Marshall to shove his writ up his ass? Look that one up also.

November 20, 2018 You too? I forgot that yesterday was the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

November 20, 2018

You too? I forgot that yesterday was the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. I almost memorized it in the 6^th grade at Saint Mary’s in Bayonne. Let us stipulate that no other 272 word speech has had the impact it has had. I offer the simple fact that we are talking about it 155 years and one day after it was given.

The beauty of the market, any market, is that it takes all the insanities and irrationalities floating around and crashing into each other and renders it into the most sane, the most rational thing in the universe. When you sell a stock the price you get is not yesterday’s, not tomorrow’s but here and now. The market allows for, indeed encourages, “irrational exuberance” because it gives you a place where you can back what you believe with more than your mouth. If you are not prepared to hear the umpire say, “Strike 3”, don’t step up to the plate. Penn Central, Pan-Am, Kodak, and maybe GE. If a country, if a culture, does not allow for “creative destruction” you wind up with Bulgaria. Napoleon warned that we should let China sleep because “when she wakes she will shake the world”. Mao killed at least 60,000,000 of his oriental lanschmen. He also mandated that the starving peasants empty their bed-side chamber pot into their back-yard miniature blast furnace. Gandhi and Nehru condemned India to 50 years of subsistence living because Gandhi, a “half-naked fakir”, thought that operating a hand loom was the key to prosperity. At least Nehru had the benefit of being a Fabian Socialist, and let me say thank you to the Webbs, deeply believed that the key to pots filled with lentils was to set quotas, raise taxes, export surgeons, and import cement plants. [One of the paradoxes that Congresswoman Chiquita Ocasio-Cortes will not address is why was Socialist India filled with poverty and why weren’t there any poor Indians in non-Socialist America. Both India and China have prospered greatly as soon as the obeyed the command that Moses gave to the Egyptian whatshisname – “Let my people go!”. The two Americans, one of whom was born in Vienna, who are still revered in Japan as the creators of the Japanese miracle that began soon after Nagasaki cooled off are Edward Deming and Peter Drucker. The miracle ended when the Japs bought Rockefeller Center and Pebble Beach Golf Course.  The first brought 3 generations of steady cash flow to the extended Rockefeller family because they overpaid. The second was given back to the seller in lieu of foreclosure. The mists of memory are dimmed but wasn’t Japan supposed to be ichi ban in the business world now. I am not sure what happened but the market sure as Hell has spoken

I was watching Jemima Abrams explain how she lost the Georgia gubernatorial race in simple terms: White folk don’t like Black folk and they put the fix via voter suppression. How dare those crackers ask for non-photo id? Phone bill, cable bill, rent receipt, just to prove that the address on the voter rolls and the home address agree. Why you would think that Lester Maddux [D-GA] was still in charge.  Next stop Minnesota. Congresswoman Fatima Nonporkus, whose swearing-in oath will include Death to the Jews, said that “all White men should be in chains because they will not submit to Allah”.

Women in this country secretly admire Horace Rumpole because whenever he referred to his wife Hilda, he always said of her “she who must be obeyed”. Next stop Orange County with a quick stop in the Cotswolds. “The evidence is circumstantial”, said the somewhat befuddled Bertie Wooster. “Yes”, replied the ever-handy Jeeves. “Like when you find a trout in the milk.” 8 Republican Congressmen from Orange County, California were turned out of office last Tuesday despite ending election day comfortably ahead. Next, we turn to film-noir. “It’s simple,” said Thomas Gomez in “Key Largo”. “Your candidate runs. You count the votes and he wins. If he doesn’t win you count them again. And again. And again. Until he wins. Rick Scott lost 40,000 votes in Broward County after the polls were closed. Only a cad would mention Duval County 1948 or Cook County 1960 or Oregon 1998 or Minnesota 2004. What strange force binds those distant places together? Simple. They were Democratic counties. When they opened the boxes, their guy did not have enough votes. No big deal. They counted them again. The media gives them cover because they say that this time they will make beer from rain water. And then it will be drawn to market by carbon-neutral, non-polar bear drowning, unicorns. “Morons, I’m surrounded by morons.”

Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York, modern American Liberal, Democrat, Socialist, Social Justice Warrior, hated, hates Walmart. Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York, modern American Liberal, Democrat, Socialist, Social Justice Warrior. Not since August 22, 1939 has the American Left done a 180 requiring perpetual chiropractic care. Suddenly, the American Left, people such as Dr. Seuss, Woody Guthrie, Lilian Hellman, everybody in Manhattan, thought that while Hitler had some rough edges – as did Stalin. Remember the Bukharin trial? -  he was an OK guy. Hey, try making an omelet without breaking eggs. Besides, Papa Joe Kennedy liked him, didn’t he?” Sorry about those stiff-necked Sons of the Desert on the MV Saint Louis. Sometimes 900 people fall between the cracks. Are there some of you out there for whom the date August 22, 1939 sounds like tinkling brass?

That was the day when Albert Speer began to draw up the bid requirement for Xyklon-B and Auschwitz. That was the day when Germany and Russia, Fascism and Communism, decided to start World War 2. [The above is owed to the ledger every time I get to stress it. If people can argue about statues fork a war that ended 155 years ago, I can stress one that began 79 years ago. Which brings us back to Amazon in NYC. That Bezos would have bidded on the crematoria in Treblinka there is no doubt. That Bergermeister DeBlasio would have helped him there is also no doubt. That he would have introduced him to his pal, Governor “Little Shit” Cuomo, there is also no doubt. Cuomo opposed “fracking”, a 70-year-old oil drilling practice – one that I used when I was drilling wells in 1974, a thing that has made this country the swing producer of hydrocarbons in the world and lifted us from the thralldom of people who shout “Allah Akbar” as they crucify Christians and blow up buildings. What would have happened if Chick-fil-A or Hobby Lobby said they were considering moving to NYC? Let me answer. Bastinado. Is there a polite way to say “friggin’ hypocrites”? No? OK. Friggin’ hypocrites!

Basta!

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

November 17, 2018 Will someone please explain what “Diversity is our strength” means?

November 17, 2018

Will someone please explain what “Diversity is our strength” means? Take as many declarative sentences as you need. It sure as Hell sounds like bullshit to me.

Other than the cast of Seinfeld putting on a production of “Waiting for Godot”, directed by John Kennedy Toole, sets by the Marx Brothers, with costumes by noted couturier Willie off the Pickle Boat, there is no way to improve on the next 2 years in Washington, DC.

Every Democratic Senator – ladies included, plus Spartacus – not arrested for playing non-gender specific grab-ass is running for President, with a half a dozen of whom think they already are President.

Chiquita Ocasio-Cortez, holding a degree in train spotting from Boston University, but still not sure what to do with her thumbs, is, along with Nancy Pelosi, the face of the Democratic Party. Chiquita wants to make the Electoral College tuition free and if Nancy has one more face lift she’ll be able to use a urinal because she’ll be pissing through her navel.

The exciting prospect of 2 years of teeth grinding gridlock being raised to an art form is upliftingly exhilarating. Indeed, at my advanced age, it is positively tumescent. And who knows how many vacancies on the Supreme Court will fall into Trump’s lap? Justice Breyer, it is rumored, wants to bring back nocturnal power walking in the idyllic Anacostia section of DC. Justice Ginzberg is interested in senior citizen anaconda wrestling and Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kagan are engaged in a friendly competition involving tiramisu enemas and Junior’s cheesecake IVs. Lest you think any comments on Supreme Court eating habits are out of bounds please remember that Justice Thomas’s wife was aksed to load up his diet on milk, butter, and eggs because Black men tend to have more strokes than White men.

I issued an indulgence on January 23, 2016 which held harmless and sanctioned anyone from the temporal punishment due to voting for Trump. I petitioned the curia to make it detachable and fungible. That meant if you didn’t use it you could sell it to your neighbor. [Details are on my blog, WARRIORBARDIT.BLOGSPOT.COM, and there is no pay wall] I said there were 2 reasons for voting for Trump, #1 – He was not Wide Bottomed Hillary and #2 – He would get to pick the Judges. An absolute twin double, no? Almost as good as money from home.

Do you remember the knicker-knotting moment in the 2016 campaign when Democrats, and I think it’s time to bring back “men without chests”, a C.S. Lewis term. It was used to describe people with no core, with no fixed principles, whose flag, not surprisingly, was plaid. In other words, Democrats. Democrats wet their pants because Trump would not take a blood oath to abide by the election results. “Eclectic indignation” is back in bloom. Jemima Abrams, Slow Bill Nelson, and Bonzo Gillum are not abiding by the election results. That’s OK because they’re Democrats and 2 of them are Black and Oprah and Obama supported them and, as such, they were not supposed to lose. It was their destiny to win. Governor Scott Walker [R-WI] lost by less than 30,000 votes. If anybody could have put the fix in – Think Duval County, Texas in 1948 and Cook County, Illinois in 1960 – a sitting Governor could have. He didn’t.

The United States Constitution

Article 1 Section 8 Part 15

Article 4 Section 4

Read them

The Bayonne Bridge, my bridge, at one time the largest arch suspension bridge in the world, a bridge renowned for its perfect symmetry, a bridge that I walked and biked over and back many times, a bridge that was not high enough to accommodate the huge container ships that Globalization demands, was raised several years ago to accommodate the aforementioned dreadnaughts. It has suffered a blow form which it may never recover. You’ve heard of “The Ship That Died of Shame”? This is ‘The Bridge That Died of Shame”. Monkeying [“Monkeying” is a non-racial term. It is one that is rooted deep in marine architecture.] with an existing bridge is best left to very smart people, beginning with civil servants and ending with structural engineers. The option of lowering the river – the bridge actually crosses the Kill van Kull – was given short shrift. Nobody remembered that it snows in Bayonne. Nobody remembered that it only takes one vehicle to shut the whole Damn bridge down. Nobody remembered that if you raise the bridge you raise the angle of ascent. The result last week end was chaos. If Trump caused California to burn down because he left the Paris Climate Conspiracy I suppose it can be said that he caused the FUBARed SNAFU on my bridge, right?

Jews get shot in a shul and the shooter is treated by Jewish doctors and nurses in the emergency room and this is looked on a very Christian thing to do by all the warm and fuzzy modern American Liberals. The head ladron in Havana pulls 8,000 – repeat – 8,000 contracted medical personnel out of Brazil because its new President suggests that

Che wasn’t the nicest guy and the silence from American Progressives is deafening. Why is that? Don’t poor Brazilians have the right to universal health care even if it comes from Cuba?

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It may be time for Doctor Brenda Snipes to take on for the side. The Dolphins and the Marlins have won 4 championships. How many coaches and managers have they had since then? Pay 19. You have to work maybe 5 times a year. It’s inside. There’s no heavy lifting. It’s not like you are making night landings on a carrier. You have all year to rehearse for Midnight Mass. And then you say any criticism of you is “probably” racist. Is stupidity, is incompetence found only in Black women who call themselves Doctor? Is it racism per se to ask it? Speaking of racism, Leonard Pitts, the HNIC of POO – Perpetually Outraged and Offended – says in today’s Miami that some wascally Wepublican White folk criticize Michelle Obama because of her arse. It is an example of racial indifference on my part but aren’t Jemima-sized backsides praised in the ‘hood?  More cushion for the pushing is the phrase, I think. Despite degrees from 2 Ivy League schools, degrees that took her 25 years to pay for, a feat that should have made her feel “proud”, her only commercial success, before charging and getting $4,000 for her to tell how hard it was for her to live rent free in DC for 8 years, was when her husband got her a $4,000 a week raise – repeat - $4,000 a week raise when she was in charge of midnight shift bed pan inventory at the University of Chicago Hospital. Also, did her mother live rent free in the White House for 8 years? Was she on any government payroll for baby-sitting her granddaughters? My dream book tells me to ask why, after 8 years of “cooling the earth and calming the seas”, California is burning down and the Northeast is snow bound in November? Did Trump do this in less than 2 years?

Chiquita Ocasio-Cortez is going to be a welcome breath of stale air in next year’s Congress. It is said that she has a degree on Economics from Boston University. The evidence of my own eyes suggests that her concentration was either in unicorn ranch management or rainbow stew marketing. Mensa material she ain’t. Beyond that and I’m searching for a word that shows that my contempt isn’t personal but I can’t get past stupid. And not just pedestrian stupid but Guinness Book stupid. The lap dog media will give her a pass because she is a Latina mujer, albeit light years from being considered a “wise” Latina.
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Geraldine Felini Zuchini, having permanently dropped out, the field is now open for Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Jay Forbes Kerry, and John Edwards to come back in to the Presidential wading pool. Tom Dewey said the only thing that cures Potomac fever is embalming fluid.

November 19, 2018

I heard a physician, Marc Siegel, MD say this morning that peanut allergies have tripled in the past 10 years. Here’s where it gets tricky. In 8 of the last 10 years Barack the Beneficent was in charge. Causation or correlation? Hoc post propter ergo hoc? Quien sabe? 

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“What news of the Rialto?” “It ain’t beanbag”

Doctor Brenda Snipes, the deservedly castigated and caterwauled Broward supervisor of elections, quit yesterday. She did this before a pitchforked mob carrying torches arrived at her house, just like the community activists who visited the Tucker Carlson home, with the intentions of pelting her with flaming bags of cat shit. Other than
“her brother is worse”, it is deuced difficult to find something good to say about her tenure.

“Tenure” is a word beloved of the laggards and shirkers who make up the Poverty & Educational Complex. It is a parasitic cabal that spends money in such an irresponsible way, and with no accountability, that it makes the Joint Chiefs of Staff green with envy.

One possible retirement gig is that she could team up with her Miriam Oliphant, her illustrious predecessor, another multi-degreed female educator whose main goal was to make pi 3.0 so as to increase minority test scores, and go on a national speaking tour as negative examples. It would feature 2 professional Black women who rose to prominence because they made modern American Liberals, and their fellow travelers, feel warm and fuzzy about themselves. The could serve as exemplars of “lateral arabesque” at best, and shit not cream rises to the top. “Exit stage left, pursued by a bear.” 

One of the strange things about the Florida Constitution is that the Attorney General can be of a party than that of the governor. Having the Governor and the legislature coming from different parties is, many times, a desired end. Having the AG and the Governor in pissing contests over petty quotidian things is stupid. It is the only thing dumber than the election of Judges. BTB, I did not vote for any of the Judges on the ballot because the making of a judge should not be subject to the whims of the electorate, particularly if the candidates for the Bench are not allowed the latitude given to candidates for the sewer board.  And of course, I voted against retaining any of the Supreme Court Judges. Worse than the perils of a democracy – “A Republic, if you can keep it” – are half-assed judicial elections.

A least it can be said of Senator Nelson that he conducted his public life with more than a modicum of probity and honor. And since I have 2 backhands, if I can find another

compliment to proffer, I will. Also, Gillum left gracefully. On the other hand, the calorically challenged losing Georgia gubernatorial candidate, Jemima Abrams, continues the modern American Liberal race to the bottom, with the bottom being the pit filled with “Trousered Apes” who disguise themselves as wannabe public servants. She says that she lost because she didn’t like the rules that were in place before the election and she couldn’t find a Judge who would change them after. Kind of like a baseball player having a knicker-knotted hissy fit because he wasn’t given a 4^th strike. The real losers here are the American taxpayers. Like Al Sharpton, the Jew hating grifter whom Nancy Pelosi thanked for “saving America”, she too has a slew of Federal tax liens and defaulted student loans. The only chance the American public had of being mad whole was if she were able to weld herself to the Georgia $ mammary from whence the IRS could also draw sustenance. [Send a SASE if you want first-hand knowledge of what the IRS does when your tax liability is $42,000,000] A class act. I hope to hear from her in the future.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – Yet again more proof of William F. Buckley, JR’s prescience is made visible. After the Vatican 2 conference ended, he said “Mater si, magistra no”. 2 things of note to me, an imperfect Roman Catholic: #1 – Papa Francisco was raised in Argentina, Ground Zero for crony Capitalism. His parents lived and prospered protected by the aegis that Hitler lover Juan Peron provided. It is the only form of government and business that he has ever known. He was raised in a land rife with mordidas needed for putting the fix in. #2 – The just ended Bishop’s Conference in Baltimore makes me yearn for the cleansing hand of a Martin Luther. Absent, of course, the theological baggage he toted. 

November 15, 2018 “Down with this motherfucker.” Apparently, Robert De Niro didn’t get the memo from Wide-Bottomed Hillary, the one that said civility would return when the Democrats took over the House.

November 15, 2018

“Down with this motherfucker.” Apparently, Robert De Niro didn’t get the memo from Wide-Bottomed Hillary, the one that said civility would return when the Democrats took over the House.

Although I was trained not to construct universals from particulars, particularly when there are myriad particulars, London Lamar, a Black woman recently elected to the Tennessee legislature, is “pushing the envelope” on White people turning their eyes away when Black people, particularly public Black people, say stupid, really big-time stupid, things. “Boys will be boys” has been replaced with “Blacks will be Blacks”. Apparently, the quiet racism of low expectations of Black folk now rules. Maybe Lysenko was right. Although it’s been 153 years since more than 650,000 White men died – including  relative of mine - overturned the Dred Scott decision, the burden of being captured by Black men and transported by Black men to be sold to White men has proved to be a burden too far to be shed.  I mention Lysenko because of the generic imprint that slavery caused.to be seared into Black Americans. [Maybe the lack of “slave blood” is what caused Jesse Jackson to threaten to cut Obama’s “nuts” off. Maybe not.] That’s why it’s OK for London Lamar to say “Tennessee is racist” and people who vote for Republicans are “stupid”. I wonder if she thinks the people who voted for Lincoln were “stupid”? White folk, particularly sensitive ones, guys like me, are always looking for guidance lest we be branded with the new Scarlet Letter “R”, for Racist. I get them confused but was it Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton who used the term “hook-nosed diamond merchants” when discussing Jews? I know it was Louie Farrakhan who called Jews “termites” just before a bunch of them got shot at shul. And for this Trump, with a daughter who converted to serious Judaism and gave him 2 serious Jewish grandchildren is called an anti-Semite? Whenever I watch a slew of Maxine Waters’ constituents loot and pillage a 7-11 and I hear her describe it as “alternative shopping” I call the local hatch and ask if any of their boobies are missing. And somehow this is all my fault?

A bunch of White high school seniors in Baraboo, Wisconsin had a group photo taken of them holding their right hands up. For this, the POO – Perpetually Outraged and Offended – are, and can you believe it, outraged and offended. They are being investigated by the Wisconsin Attorney General, and thank God they don’t have real crimes to investigate, Saturday Night Live, The View, CNBC, MSNBC, the BBC, NPR, and the UN. If they had simply held their right hands up and made a fist they would have been hailed as speaking truth to power and showing solidarity with the Black Panthers – Remember them? – and they would have been on the righteous path to being inducted into the coven of Social Justice Warriors. 

Is there a racially neutral way to say that Doctor Brenda Snipes – I italicize Doctor because it is based on time in grade, enduring insufferable ennui, not scholarship. – the Black female supervisor of elections in Broward County is an incompetent jackass? She got the job because her predecessor, also a Black female multi-degreed educator, was abysmally incompetent and was fired. Protocol demanded that she be replaced with another Black female multi-degreed educator. No wonder Johnny can’t read. I’m from Hudson County, NJ. At least when they put the fix in there, the numbers added up.

Two things:

A – Perhaps not quite like Keats watching “when a new planet swims into his ken” but there was something big hanging out in the southeastern sky this morning. The rising sun chased it back from whence it came. Further study is needed, beginning tomorrow morning. Could it be the place “from beyond the stars” from whence our rights come? Maybe.

B – Our cousins, the Brits, are doing what free people always do when they are making up their minds.It’s in public; it’s not pretty; dishes may be broken; sometimes bad language is used; but in the end they decide. 5 years ago, I read where the EU sausage committee in Belgium, in Belgium? fined a British Banger company because the angle of its product deviated too much from the mean. That alone was sufficient reason to blow the whole kit and caboodle up. The thought of some tight-assed Walloon telling the children of men who beat the Kaiser and took Hitler to the mat caterwauling about how curved a friggin’ sausage can be is bonkers. As the Iron Duke said of Waterloo, “It was a damn close-run thing”. I am glad they appear to be getting out while the getting is good. Here the sensible and honorable thing to do is to get the lion’s arse out of that particular breach. Let Boris Johnson and Rees-Mogg duke it out to see who gets to put new curtains into 10 Downing Street. In the Roman Catholic Church it is called papabili

Even a blind squirrel can find an acorn. Congresswoman Chiquita Ocasio-Cortez is spot on right about Amazon welding itself to the public teat called New York city. Bezos has more money than God. That means no hot stove is safe from his corporate tentacles.

All of his looting of public funds is done in the name of “creating” jobs so the boobs who now rule the Democratic party, the ones who think that raising taxes and the minimum wage is the one sure way to the land of milk and honey only if you don’t count Cuba y Venezuela. At the end of the day he is going to get $76,000 for each job he                                  “creates”. Speaking of things done well, I “created” more jobs in the ‘80s than all the companies on the Dow-Jones Industrial Average. And it was simple. I had interests in energy entities in 5 states – New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio, and Canada. Oil, gas, coal, gold, and zinc. From Crossroads, New Mexico to Timmins, Ontario I hired people and I helped people start their own businesses. I did not do this for eleemosynary or altruistic reasons but because it made sense – dollars and cents sense for me – to so do. Also, and here’s the fun part, the companies on the DJIA in 1980 “created” no new net jobs in the ‘80s. In fact, there were fewer people working for them in 1990 than there was in1980. That made my approximately 420 – not counting accountants and lawyers – akin to what the New Deal thought it was but wasn’t.

I watched UConn, coached by Danny Hurley, beat Syracuse, coached by Jim Boeheim, in basketball at Madison Square Garden, last night. 3 things: #1 – If you only see one basketball game you must see it at MSG. Its collective memory survived the move from 50^th street to 34^th street. #2 – Coach Boeheim’s classmate, teammate, and roommate, Frank Nicoletti, was my lawyer when he was “of counsel” at Finley, Kumble before they imploded taking more casualties than this country took in Grenada. #3 – The father of the UConn coach, Bob Hurley, Sr – and thank God for Google but be sure to include “Sr” in your search – coached teams that had 2 common denominators: A – a Kamikaze defense that seemed to have 6 or 7 guys on the court and – B – And they knew what to do at the end of the game. Other than some faulty foul shooting – if your going to miss a foul shot make sure it’s the last half of a 1 & 1 – which can be corrected, the collective memory, the institutional memory, of 1000s of hours at the White Eagle Hall on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, just like Isaac Stern on the violin or John McPhee with a word processor, shone forth. Plus, his Mom looked great.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – I remember Pere Hurley would have foul shooting drills at the end of practice when everyone was tired, just like at the end of a game. And then they would only take 3 shots because there are no 4 shot fouls in basketball.

November 14, 2018 And so, the question comes down to simplicity itself.

November 14, 2018

And so, the question comes down to simplicity itself. Is there a universal, perhaps better described by a term that drives modern American Liberals into mindless rage,” a gift from beyond the stars” or, for those less eloquent, “natural law”, right for anyone anywhere in the world to be allowed entry into this country? And are we, enshrouded by this right, obliged to accept, feed, clothe, nourish, nurture, provide premium cable, and surcease from the heartbreak of psoriasis to one, to all?

Walls work. Ask the Chinese. Ask Hadrian. Ask the East Berliners. Ask the Israelis. Ask the Hungarians Ask the people living in Westin where the fire house is walled. 

Reductio ad absurdum depends on whose Gore is being oxed, right?

Trump, il magnifico to his goombahs, said that the Frogs were starting to learn German before the Americans got there. [It is perhaps apocryphal but Pershing is supposed to have said “Lafayette, we are here” when he landed in 1917. I hope he did because it would put paid on the bill from our Revolution. Speaking of which, Burke’s comments on the French version are still valid. We had Madison and Jefferson; they had Robespierre and Madame De Farge. “That rice is cooked.”] I am not into “painting the lily” but Trump should have said “twice”. My son Sean called me from Paris on Bastille Day, 1982. He told me that he thought everyone could speak English but nobody wanted to. “Ask them what language they were speaking on D-Day” was my typically ugly American reply. The last time those “cheese eating surrender monkeys” won a war was when they gave a Texas-sized ass whupping to the raping, looting, pillaging radical Islamic terrorists at Tours 13 friggin” centuries ago. And if it weren’t for the Irish – check the names on the labels – Bordeaux would be producing Riunite, French Fries, and Boone’s Farm, maybe $2 buck Chuck.

Angela Merkle wants a “real, true European army”. Be sure you have plenty of film in the camera when German kameradan salute a Polish officer. Tell the Basque Rangers that the Russians are really Spaniards and they’ll fight like Spartans. I think it will still be best to keep Serbs and the Croatians in different regiments. Special duty for the stout Flems, the mighty Walloons, and the stern Montenegrians? Every body in Europe wanted NATO for 3 reasons 70 years ago: Get the Americans in, Keep the Russians out, Keep the Germans down. The worry, the threat, is not so much from the Russians, as their country is in decline, but rather from the radical Muslim terrorists – Did I just repeat myself? – all of whom were invited in like Charley Brown telling Lucy that he will hold the ball for her to kick. They will breed themselves into a majority and then they will make the Inquisition look like a day at the beach. Thus, we may live to see the end of History.

T. Woodrow Wilson sent 75,000 troops to guard the border after Pancho Villa invaded the United States. One of the marks of a sovereign country is the ability, the strength, and the resolve to secures its borders. For the same reason that I buy fire insurance, not because my house will burn down, but rather because I think it may burn down, so must it secure my borders. A brief digression – “Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself has said, ‘This is my own, my native land’,,,” Some A-10s ready to hose down the mob trying to climb the wall, a picket line of Bradley fighting vehicles to pick off any stragglers and the lessons of the Pullman Strike are taught as often as necessary for them to be relearned. President Cleveland sent in the Army to break the Pullman Strike. When he read the telegraph telling him that there were casualties he wired back instructing to make sure that you killed enough. Article 4, Section 4 of our Constitution gives the President black letter law instructions on what to do.

I have been writing about Amy’s great uncle Corporal Leonard Putnam, a 42 year old piano salesman form Jersey City who was killed on Okinawa – his Presidential citation reads “in the Pacific area” – on May 25, 1945. He and his wife, Milly, had no children. As long as I write about him he will be remembered. I now mention Lt. William Sauer, USMC, a Marine aviator, who was killed in January, 1967. The day he died in his F-4 Phantom he was accepted into astronaut training. He was graduated from Seton Hall Prep in 1961 and from Seton Hall University in 1965. He was both a friend and a fraternity brother.

“He shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary him, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember him.”

“By destroying traditional social habits of the people,

by dissolving their collective consciousness into

individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of 

the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education,

by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart

rather than the qualified….liberalism can prepare the way

for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or

brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its 

chaos.”

The Idea of a Christian Society

T.S. Eliot

Varsity letter winner at Harvard

The only American buried in Poets’ Corner

I fracked my first oil well in 1974 about 175 miles south of Houston. It was in Duval County, the place where LBJ got the well-deserved sobriquet of “Landslide Lyndon”. It was the place where the plans for the DC Vietnam Wall, the one with all those names of dead GIs, were hatched. Fracking has been around since 1947. Its first commercial use was in 1951. You run a pipe down to a “tight” formation, usually shale, and then you inject sand, dirt, flame, chemicals acid – Around the same time an American oil company contemplated exploding a nuclear device – anything to “fracture” the formation and release the trapped hydrocarbons. For a variety of reasons – Reagan decontrolling the price of oil, 2 oil guys named Mitchell and Hamm, slant drilling, Obama’s hostility to 21^st

 century technology on Federal lands, et al – the United States went from sucking hind tit to being top dog in the energy exporting business. Sorry about that Iran, Russia, and Venezuela. It is owed to the ledger to say that quite a few guys decided to go where no one had ever gone before and bet stacks of Black chips to see what was below the Austin Chalk, the Bakken, the Marcellus both the Eastern and the Western Overthrust, and my favorite, the Permian. When it comes in you don’t win short money. One of the toughest tickets to score is the Petroleum Club in Houston on February 29, every leap year. The Rolex Presidential, be it gold or platinum, can account for 1560 days but not for 1561. Thus, the movers and the shakers, the guys who see what’s over the next hill, gather to set their watches. And that’s what makes the dog hunt in the oil patch. In fact, that’s what make the dog hunt all over. As my Uncle Adam once said, “Look not to the beneficence of the innkeeper if you seek a meal and a night’s lodging but rather look to his rational self-interest to secure both.”

“He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH. NET

November 13, 2018 Representative Joseph Kennedy [D-MA], and yes, he is one of them...

November 13, 2018

Representative Joseph Kennedy [D-MA], and yes, he is one of them, upheld the family tradition of not being anywhere near the sharpest knife in the drawer by saying it is “cruel and unscientific” to define a person’s legal sex by their biology. And exactly who is this Luddite? Is he in thralldom to Lysenko? Don’t peckers and bearded clams count anymore?

I early voted at the library on Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. The visible poll workers consisted of 1 Caucasian and 16 non-Caucasians. Tell me again, please, the exact difference between a goal and a quota. If the ratio had been reversed would not the Broward POO, the Perpetually Outraged and Offended, have howled like Banshees at this outrageous racism? Do bears shit in the woods? [That replaces “Is the Pope Catholic?” because with Papa Francisco it is a case of quien sabe?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Karol Wotylja’s first words as Pope were “Non timere”. “Be not afraid” replaced “Deus vult” as he and Margaret Thatcher and Ronaldus Magnus rallied what was left of Western Civilization to beat the Russkies and save the world. I say this because there was an ad that ran around Veterans’/Remembrance Day featuring members of the Polish Armed Forces. We remember Leonidas and Horatius and Travis and Crockett as men who paid the price and preserved freedom. My children and grandchildren are part Polish and part Lithuanian. Attention must be paid and honors must be rendered to Jan Sobieski, King of Poland and Lithuania, who, despite being outnumbered 5 to 1, defeated the radical Muslim terrorists at Vienna in 1683. Stolat! You may remember that the Taliban banned balloons and whistling when they ran Afghanistan. Imagine the world without Bach, without Mozart, without Beethoven. Speaking of the Western Canon…after 14 centuries of idyllic Islam where oh where is the Muslim Dante? The Muslim Leonardo Da Vinci? The Muslim Shakespeare? The Muslim Newton? And we haven’t even gotten to the 20^th century yet. Salman Rushdie, a retired Muslim whose wife I worked with, writes a book about Mo and the world of feral WOGs, obeying the fatwa issued by the pezzonovante imams, explodes in an attempt to kill him. Wazupwidat?

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 Andrea Mitchell may be a victim of “irrational exuberance” when she reported that Dr. Brenda Snipes, who must be in the shower to count past 20, is a Republican. Which may explain why Joy Behar said that the reason why the Republicans control the Senate is because of gerrymandering. Is there a polite, non-misogynistic way of saying a dumb broad is a dumb broad without having the word police come to tell me to get my head straight? And yes, pissed off modern American Liberal pols; e.g. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Miriam Oliphant, have done that me. Would that be a slippery slope or a chilling effect? Worse, could it be both?

I watched “Sully” last night. It told the story of the pilot who saved 155 lives on Flight 1549 by landing an A-320 in the Hudson River. In 1958 the Jersey Central Railroad ran a commuter train off an open bridge in Bayonne. When they pulled the engine out of Newark Bay the first thing visible was 932, the engine number. Naturally, it come in. Living up to my Bayonne roots, I ran out and jumped on the number, straight and box, when it crashed. It didn’t come in.

Hear me God. Please, please let Hillary run in 2020. By then she should have an ass like Oliver Hardy and a gut like Buddha. If she wins and the Dems keep the House we may yet be “civil”. It was an aberration when the Anti-Fa guy called Tucker Carlson’s daughter a cunt and a fucking whore just like when a fan of Bolshie Bernie shot Congressman Scalise because he was a Republican.

Neil Young, a nit-wit who was very “lucky in life’s lottery”, wants the new Congress to do something about GlobalCoolingGlobalWarmingClimateChangeClimateDestruction. He says his house in Malibu burned down because Trump is a climate change denier. I don’t want to ask if he knows that Global Warming ended the last Ice Age or if he knows that 15 centuries of “settled” science became “unsettled” when an Eye-Tie dude named Galileo looked up and said “eppur si muove”. There is precedent for a Congressional investigation. Gary Sick, PhD, published “October Surprise” in 1991. Its premise was simple. In October, 1980, George H.W. Bush took an afternoon off from campaigning, slipped his Secret Service protection and the trailing press, and we must presume that a young Jim Acosta was still practicing his gotcha smile, boarded a SR-71 Black Bird, flew to Paris, and cut a deal with the Iranians that screwed – Deo Gratias – Carter and got Reagan elected. Sam Spade said it was the stuff that dreams are made of. That didn’t stop House Speaker Tom Foley [D-WA] from ordering a House investigation. When asked how he could do this since there was no evidence, he said, “Precisely because there is no evidence is the reason we must investigate.” Honest to God but he said that. Keep in mind that Galileo was looking at the prospect of being burned at the stake, despite loads of empirical evidence, for his beliefs. I think Young should give Nancy Pelosi a call and suggest that Ned Lud and Lysenko become the chief investigators and Professor Irwin Corey be the PR guy. What a friggin’ moron.

Congresswoman-elect Chiquita Ocasio-Cortez [Is she related to the guy who led a successful hostile takeover of Mexico?] is so God Damn dumb she makes my hair hurt.

KEVIN SMITH

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

November 12, 2018 We interrupt this revelation about Broward County to bring you important breaking news...

November 12, 2018

We interrupt this revelation about Broward County to bring you important breaking news. Jersey City, NJ, the town where both my parents were born, said that this is

TRANS-GENDER AWARENESS WEEK

Now, back to regular news.

If you’re stupid enough it could be criminal.

Broward County has had 17 years of really dumb broads running its elections bureau. No. I didn’t forget to mention that the 2 chicks were/are/will be Black. As Miriam Oliphant proved as the first offender, being Black is great cover if you’re stupid. When Ms. Oliphant, a Black woman with a Master’s degree in education, one that specialized in making sure that the lines in the parking lot were straight, was fired for doing Homerically dumb stuff, the rules that got “Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” banned because of “offensive” language, with said rules not being applied to Dick Gregory’s excellent autobiography, demanded that she be replaced with another Black woman or there would have been a hissy fit rivaling Kristallnacht.

This time the bar was set higher.

Brenda Snipes is a Black chick with a doctorate in education. It is alleged, much like the broads at the Kavanaugh hearing “alleged”, that her thesis reveled the algorithm that enabled student teachers to better inventory chalk and how to make fried chicken and watermelon racially neutral.  Making sure the baskets were always 10 feet off the ground and that the balls stayed round were subjects of post-doctoral work that is still not published.

Alas, that didn’t work out because she was as dumb as her predecessor. What distinguished her from Ms. Oliphant was that her hair style was based on a bi-racial cross of Don King and Kramer.

As soon as both of these nit-wit stumblebums learned what to do with their thumbs they put both of them on the vote counting scales as gently as a 9-pound hammer being tossed into the back of a gas guzzling, polar bear drowning pick-up.

They did it because of political incest.

One party rule produces it.

Chicago, where the 1960 election fix gave us the Vietnam War, Baltimore, where they couldn’t lie straight in bed D’Alessandro family gave us Nancy Pelosi, Detroit, where arson is a team sport, San Francisco, where Sanctuary City status, and who cares about John C. Calhoun, encourages people walking past the Fairmount Hotel to do a trou drop and shit, hopefully not in the lobby, but in the handicapped parking space.

It must be added that, absent Kabul, Chicago would be the urban murder capitol of the world. Like Avis, the Windy City is #2 but they’re gaining on it. 

What do these cities have in common?

They have been run, are run, and will be run by Democrats.

And not just Democrats, but to quote Claire McCaskill, but

“crazy” Democrats. “Crazy” translates into the bete-noire of 

civilized men everywhere: modern American Liberals.

This is not to say that Republicans, given the opportunity, wouldn’t do the same. It’s just that they lack the wit, the style, the panache to steal the coins off a dead man’s eyes like their Democrat mAL amigos y amigas do, have done, and will do.

Am I the last one to remember that that D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, he of the crack sting resulting in his immortal line, “The bitch set me up”, also said, “If it wasn’t for the murder rate Washington would be a very safe city.”

My favorite Hudson County story, one that caused Dante to add several circles, involves a funeral director named Marinan. He was also the Hudson County undertaker. As such, he was in charge of burying indigents, many of whom were discalced. He stored the stiffs, rent free, in his freezer until he had enough of them to have a decent cortege. For this he was paid a flat fee per body. Being “smart and no fool” he figured out that nobody checked to see what was in the coffin before he buried it in Potter’s Field, hard by Snake Hill, in Secaucus. Long before there were small gas-powered saws he “rearranged” the bodies to fit the disparate parts into one coffin.

At the height of theological parsing, the Roman Catholic Church, my church, distinguished between malum per se and malum prohibitum. The above paragraph offers a straight up Tanqueray martini definition of malum per se. 

The doyens and doyennes, all of whom are modern American Liberals, who run Broward County corrected their mistake of electing a multi-degreed Black woman who was dumber than a box of hammers corrected that mistake by replacing her with another multi-degreed Black woman who, it turns out, couldn’t pour piss out of a boot. They did that because they thought no one was looking and, if someone was they wouldn’t say Jack Shit.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, makes sounds like a duck, is seen in the company of other ducks, it’s a chalk bet that it’s a duck. I may be wrong but that’s the way to bet. We are at the first stage of the old modern American Liberal flim-flam game of pissing on your back and telling you it’s rain.

They won’t stop by themselves.

Negative reinforcement is required.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – Are trans-gendered people in Jersey City eligible for both a vasectomy and a tubal ligation?

November 11, 2018 Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor The Sun Sentinel

November 11, 2018

Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor

The Sun Sentinel

RE: Time to say Goodbye.

Ms. O,

Edmund Burke, a legendary Irishman who still inspires us, said, “Alas, experience is the only school where some people will learn.”

Gentle lady, school is now in session.

Prices are struck at the margin. There is a price, up or down, beyond which people will not go.

As the poster girl for modern American Liberalism – and who says adages and maxims are off limits! The quest for 4^th trimester abortion and manatee suffrage ooze tsunami-like from your screeds – it is quite beyond your ken to appreciate or even recognize the quotidian nuts and bolts of running a business.

Listen up. I’ll type slowly.

When the price of a commodity – oil, cashmere, ice, arugula, inter alia – spikes 2 things happen:

A – The marginal user is shaken out.

B – New supplies come to the marketplace.

If eggs cost $8 a dozen the rooster will lay. 

When the price of a product – The Sentinel, 2^nd homes, Beluga – spikes 2 things happen:

A – The marginal user is shaken out.

B – New supplies stay away because if no profit is possible the risk is obvious.

I discovered early today that my medium coffee and the Sun Sentinel now cost $6.18. I still may drink their coffee but I will no longer purchase the Sun Sentinel. The coffee is now much higher on my list of priorities than is the Sun Sentinel.

The 33&1/3 % price increase - $3 to $4 – is something which, if done by an oil company, a drug company, a car company, a pay TV company would have you reaching heights of economic apoplexy and POOdom – Perpetually Outraged and Offended – that would make Bolshie Bernie and Lieawatha Warren sound like they worked for the Koch Brothers.

The final stage of modern American Liberalism, the omega point if you will, is that, at its zenith, all card carrying, fire breathing zealots of same become 10 feet tall and bullet proof.

Now comes the hard part, the “emmis truth” gulp, sphincter tightening part.

Fewer people, starting with me, will buy your product. I did a quick cost benefit analysis and decided against paying the higher price. Further, I decided against using the Hudson County 5 finger discount method as the reward was not worth the risk. [If any non-Catholics are reading that’s as good a definition of imperfect contrition as I can come up with on such short notice.

I will miss the never vary from the script of the perfectibility of man, “I’m from the government and I will help you because I know better”, and the key to farting perpetually through silk is to raise the minimum wage and taxes just after legislation repealing the laws governing gravity is passed while declaring, by executive order, that the horizon can be reached and breached, and ignoring Jefferson’s – Thomas, not George – warning about the dead hand of government. The last part was almost 2 centuries before “The Fatal Conceit” was codified.

When I came here in 1996 the 7/11 guy loved me. I bought 33 newspapers a week.

I bought my last newspaper – The Sun Sentinel – today.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – And to think I almost forgot “Midnight Basketball”, one of the triumphs of modern American Liberalism. The author of that public policy, Congresswoman Maxine “Moonbat”

Waters, will now be in charge of the House Banking committee. Didn’t she and her husband try to loot and pillage one? Johnathan Swift, call your office. Mencken, answer your page. Will I be branded a racist if I ask which of the last 2 Broward County election supervisors, Snipes & Oliphant, is dumber?  Oliphant had great hair while Snipes uses Don King as her model. Will someone tell Jemima Abrams, the Rubenesque tax cheat running for Governor of Georgia, to lay off the tiramisu IVs?

November 9, 2018 It was the great Nechemie, CPA to the stars and me....

November 9, 2018

It was the great Nechemie, CPA to the stars and me, the only man about whom I could use the word “elegant”, the only man I know who got a battlefield commission for his accounting honesty, the savior of many Ethiopian Jews, one of three of my gurus in things potable, and the only man I have ever known who voted for Henry Wallace, who precisely described the “bag test” for me.

“If something doesn’t look or feel right, put it in a bag and seal it tightly. Put the bag in a dark closet for a day. Take it out, tear it open, stick your nose in. If it stinks it won’t get better. Dispose of the bag in an environmentally sound manner.”

What is going on in Broward County, ground zero for the despicable coven of modern American Liberal witches and warlocks for whom abortion is a sacrament and no tax is ever high enough, is beyond the “bag test”.

Brenda Snipes, a woman of color, has a quasi-doctorate in education. I say “quasi” because it is not an academic discipline like Biology or Spanish or History or Finance. Her concentration was in attendance, making sure the 50-yard line hasn’t been stolen, and monitoring the use of chalk.

As bad as she has turned out to be she was preceded by an egregious ohmadahn by the name of Miriam Oliphant. She too was a woman of color with only a Master’s degree in, you guessed it, education. Her concentration was to make sure the milk was cold and trying to make pi 3.0 rather than its real number so as to make it easier for minority students to excel. 

She was the perfect candidate for the guilty White voters of Broward County, most of whom are modern American Liberals. One of the mantras of these moon bats is that results don’t count, only expectations. Although she was an elected Black woman she was so grossly incompetent the White Governor fired her. And yes, she did send the cops to my house, just like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, because of something I wrote.

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STOP THE PRESSES!

I am a proud son of Bayonne, NJ. That’s in the good part of Hudson County. In 2002, in order to prove my DNA, I got 6 voter ID cards. I did not use them and then destroyed them. Or maybe I didn’t. Whatever.

The Gods of Political Correctness demanded that if you fire, even if for just and sufficient cause, a Black woman she must be replaced with another equally inept woman of color. And that was all Ms. Snipes needed. Nobody bothered to look behind the curtain. We have had 17 years of screaming yellow zonkers worth of incompetence by 2 Black chicks who were so dumb that neither could find their ass using both their hands.

Would it make me as racist as T. Woodrow Wilson or William Fulbright or Sam Ervin or Billy Carter if I were to say while Black women, making up 6% of the population, have had between 35% and 40% of the abortions since Roe V Wade? And if that ain’t racial genocide I don’t know what is?

Let me add another “content of their character” negative achievement, one fully grounded in empirical data, stuff as real as your boot, to things about which adults never speak. It is understood but never said that Black chicks with degrees in education are not capable of running elections bureaus, especially in Broward County. The evidence of your own eyes over the last 17 years should be sufficient for any color-blind jury to convict them of gross incompetence, flagrant stupidity, and automatic inclusion in the rapidly expanding dummy section of the Guinness Book of Records. 

The White modern American Liberal pols who run Broward County, many of whom are “stiff-necked”, say the above when they are in the shower or in moments of quiet repose, but never publicly lest they be branded with a flaming “R”, this generation’s Scarlet Letter, which stands for racist. 

They are not incompetent because they are Black. They are incompetent because they are incompetent. That they are Black gives them cover under the lower-cased discrimination of reduced expectations. 

Meanwhile, the same people who call Tucker Carlson a “racist scumbag” are trying to steal another election in Florida. Correction. Two elections. The broad in Georgia who thinks it’s OK to default on student loans, to ignore the IRS, and to stiff her credit card companies is another one should be flogged. The bonita Chiquita in the Bronx is in favor of making the Electoral College tuition free. [Give her credit for being a leg up on Joy Behar who said if the Republicans win the Senate it’s because of gerrymandering. Honest. She actually said that. Look it up.]

Nothing lost save honor and a bit more of what makes this place exceptional.

That’s why you never see anybody swimming TO Cuba.

And why doesn’t the caravan go there?

It is the workers’ paradise, isn’t it?

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

November 9, 2018 Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor The Miami Herald

November 9, 2018

Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor

The Miami Herald

3511 NW 91^st Street

Miami, FL 33172

RE: “Elections happen…” As does shit. Some comments on the coming count, recount, count again, one more time, keep counting tableau about to unfold in Broward County. Is it déjà vu all over again? Or is it “the triumph of hope over experience”?

Ms. Ancrum,

2 digressions:

#1 – As long as the George Soros-funded thugs can show up at Tucker Carlson’s house and call him a “racist scumbag”, while scaring the BeJeezus out of his wife, the strict rules of tu quoque allow, indeed encourage, me to say, inter alia, shit.

#2 – The ghosts of Strunck & White, of H.M. Fowler, are trembling. John McPhee turns his eyes away. In today’s medium-dudgeoned editorial – medium-dudgeoned because Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes, the alleged culprit, is not only a Democrat but the stereotypical Broward County modern American Liberal one. And to complete a 3-horse parlay, she is a mutli-degreed female who is carries her excess melanin well. [Let the record show that she replaced Miriam Oliphant, another multi-degreed woman of color, who was dumber than a box of hammers.] Your vitriol is saved for people who don’t believe in 4^th trimester abortions, Midnight Basketball, or manatee suffrage. You write, with no hint of drollery or quasi-sardonic wit, that Governor Scott’s charge of fraud is an “evidence-free allegation”.

Listen up, gentle lady.

All “allegations” are “evidence free”. That’s why they are called “allegations”. Vide “alleged perpetrator”.

Some other examples:

A – Trump threw out the bust of Martin Luther King.

B – Trump stops by his daughter’s office each day for “a bit of the gobble”.

C – Tucker Carlson is a racist scumbag.

D -  The rules used in the Kavanaugh “Star Chamber” show should apply to Keith Ellison.

I had an uncle, my mother’s brother, who lived on Randolph Avenue in Jersey City. He died in May, 1956. Such was his devotion to the Hudson County Democratic Party that he never missed an election – Row A All the Way! – until he was stopped in 1971 by a Federal Court Judge appointed by a Republican President.

Thank God for Google.

Look up Landslide Lyndon and see how his hondler Abe Fortas managed to find enough votes in and around Duval County, and in alphabetical order to boot, to get LBJ elected to the Senate. That was when construction on the shiny black wall in Washington, the one with 58,272 names on it, was begun.

I mention that because of another “evidence-free allegation” in re Mayor Richard Daley. You remember him, don’t you? He was the guy who told Senator Abraham Ribicoff [D-CT] to go fuck himself during the 1968 Democratic Convention in, and you probably guessed it, Chicago. I remember that as a fun time and as a teaching moment. Urban organizers, community activists, participatory Democracy, speaking truth to power. Don’t you miss the good old days?

Irish-Catholics, and I am one, tend to think thanatoptically when the 18^th pin is in sight. Thus, it is alleged, Mayor Daley sought absolution for fixing the 1960 election in favor of Kennedy. Daly thought that if Kennedy had not been elected there would not have been the abattoir in Vietnam. The facts would support that allegation.

After the FUBAR – FUBAR? Send a SASE – recount in Broward County in 2000, I became engaged in an electronic colloquy with Tome Fiedler, then the Editorial Page Editor of the Miami Herald. Boss Fiedler was in favor of counting and counting and counting until the numbers came out right. I said that he must be a fan of the movie “Key Largo”. In it a character named “Curly” Hoff, played superbly well by Thomas Gomez, gives his definition of vote counting. “You count them and you count them and you keep on counting them until you get the numbers you want.”

Didn’t Wide-Bottomed Hillary, and if miserable skank Kathy Griffin can walk around with a severed Trump head, I can call attention to Hillary’s Rubenesque arse, tell us that civility would return when the Dems took over the House? Why, I ask civilly, why do these things happen only in true-Blue, modern American Liberal counties? Hudson County, Cook County, Duval County, Palm Beach County, and, lest we forget, Ground Zero of POOdom, Perpetually Outraged and Offended, Broward County.

Your editorial asks why “Broward County voters have not shown her [Snipes] the door”. The answer is simple. Unless she had a love child with OJ Simpson, and was seen helping Congressman Alcee Hastings steal a hot stove and, far worse, was videotaped whistling Dixie, the voters of Broward County will not “show her the door”. 

Since it is beyond parody it is beyond satire or just plain scorn. It is, as the original Doctor J said, “the triumph of hope over experience”. Let the games begin. 

Kevin Smith

PS – “Attention must be paid” to Joy Behar’s take on why the Senate will stay Republican. Let me add that I remember her when she was funny and not just an object of scorn and derision. When she was reminded that the Senate will stay Republican she immediately said, and on national TV to boot, that it was the result of gerrymandering. “The woman is a boob and that’s an end to it.”