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October 31, 2012
Michael Putney
The Miami Herald
RE: As the legendary Big Mike from Bayonne still says, “What a country! That’s why never see anybody swimming to Cuba.” Some comments on your election column in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Putney,
Any column that begins with a back-handed swipe at the – Whodathunk – First Amendment and ends with a bow to Winston Churchill is worthy of a not quite resounding Huzzah. Relax. A muted Huzzah is better than any Harrumph.
[Is it possible that you, as a big time media mogul, could get me an absentee ballot from Miami/Dade so I could vote against Keon Hardeman, Esq.? I was once involved in a nasty dispute with Lawyer A. Lawyer B advised me against suing him. “Give him a beating in the parking lot” was his advice Lawyer Hardemon’s performance on your Sunday show is an example how sound the wisdom of Fat Jack was. And is. The only good thing to come out of it has now become an iron rule: In any contest between an ex-stewardess and a head up his ass lawyer always vote for the stewardess.]
As to the First Amendment and the Citizens United decision…
What is your problem with George Soros spending his own money to promote his political beliefs? It’s not like he is a cousin of the Koch Brothers.
Shouldn’t the SEIU – they’re the guys wearing the purple shirts that beat up old Black guys in wheelchairs, remember? – be able to take money from their members and promote candidates who advance their causes?
Are there any other parts of the First Amendment that don’t pass the Putney smell test?
Strict constructionists use the First Amendment when defending “Piss Christ” and “Corpus Cristi”. Not too many people wanted to see Nazis marching through Skokie shouting “Todt Juden” but the First Amendment begins with “Congress shall make no law…”
My plan to burn a Koran – Why are the Allahdamned things always “sacred”? - wrapped in an American flag with a bucket of pig pee nearby in case the fire spreads has failed to gain any media backing. When I go forward with it I expect the First Amendment to be my protector. I expect you to be in the front row, pike in hand, sounding like Voltaire.
Which leads me to another observation.
Where is the modern American Liberal uproar over the jailing of the film maker who portrayed Mohammed in a less than sterling manner? I guess he let his membership in the Hollywood Ten lapse. Can we assign him to a permanent Black List? I guess it depends on whose Gore is being oxed.
“When you’ve cut down every law to get the Devil where
would you hide when he turned round to face you? I’d give
the Devil the benefit of the law for my own safety’s sake.”
Which leads me to Churchill…
Full disclosure requires me to reveal that I am President of the local chapter of Churchill Forever. It is a situation up with which I will put.
Lady Astor, his American born piñata, observed that rumors of Churchill’s drinking in his underground HQ had reached Parliament.
“Mr. Churchill, it is said that the contents of the bottles of cognac and Champagne you have drunk would fill half these rooms.”
“So much work done; so much work to be done” was his wistful reply.
I’ll save the common denominator of the White House middle of the night gambol and the House of Commons urinal for a different time.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – It will be safe to wear pink tomorrow.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
He Knew
I wish I had written this.
“How dreadful are the curses that Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has spread throughout central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Winston Churchill did.
The River War, Page 248, London:.Langmans, Green & Co., 1899
So what’s new?
“How dreadful are the curses that Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has spread throughout central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Winston Churchill did.
The River War, Page 248, London:.Langmans, Green & Co., 1899
So what’s new?
Friday, October 26, 2012
Dr. Brenda C. Snipes Broward County Supervisor of Elections
October 25, 2012
Dr. Brenda C. Snipes
Broward County Supervisor of Elections
115 S. Andrews Avenue #102
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: Hanging chads to hanging chumps – What the Hell is going on with 11/6/12?
My dear Professor,
Although it may just be an open casting call from the Theatre of the Absurd it is well to note that even hard core paranoiacs have real enemies.
Something called the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and why do I just know that they are a non-profit polar bear loving gang that constantly caterwauls “Why can’t we all just get along”, is coming to this country to monitor our Presidential elections.
Pray tell me that Florida and you will not allow this.
I don’t know what Florida law says about this.
I don’t know what power you have should some of these folks show up at my polling place.
I do know what power I have.
Should some snooty snotty Frog approach me while I am voting I will pummel him about the head and shoulders to the point of senselessness. I will revive him so I can do it again.
If it weren’t for the American Army German would be the official language of France.
The thought that those “cheese eating surrender monkeys”, a people who think it is OK to torture geese to get better liverwurst, a culture that believes that Jerry Lewis is a genius, have the temerity to peek over my shoulder while I am marking my ballot fills me with rage. “Don’t tread on me.”
Govern yourself and your agency accordingly!
Kevin Smith
Dr. Brenda C. Snipes
Broward County Supervisor of Elections
115 S. Andrews Avenue #102
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
RE: Hanging chads to hanging chumps – What the Hell is going on with 11/6/12?
My dear Professor,
Although it may just be an open casting call from the Theatre of the Absurd it is well to note that even hard core paranoiacs have real enemies.
Something called the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and why do I just know that they are a non-profit polar bear loving gang that constantly caterwauls “Why can’t we all just get along”, is coming to this country to monitor our Presidential elections.
Pray tell me that Florida and you will not allow this.
I don’t know what Florida law says about this.
I don’t know what power you have should some of these folks show up at my polling place.
I do know what power I have.
Should some snooty snotty Frog approach me while I am voting I will pummel him about the head and shoulders to the point of senselessness. I will revive him so I can do it again.
If it weren’t for the American Army German would be the official language of France.
The thought that those “cheese eating surrender monkeys”, a people who think it is OK to torture geese to get better liverwurst, a culture that believes that Jerry Lewis is a genius, have the temerity to peek over my shoulder while I am marking my ballot fills me with rage. “Don’t tread on me.”
Govern yourself and your agency accordingly!
Kevin Smith
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
First Draft
October 23, 2012
Inaugural address – draft 1
“I do.
Thank you Mr. Chief Justice.
By the time I get back to the White House I expect to have several executive orders ready to sign.
#1 – Since my predecessor has picked and chosen which Federal laws to enforce I will direct the Justice Department – and doesn’t the place smell better knowing that Holder is gone? Yes, it does. – and the Solicitor General not, repeat, not to defend furbish louseworts or snail darters when the other side of the law suit involves the only truly endangered species in the country. Of course, that is man. “Man shall not only endure; he will prevail” will be the motto of this administration.
#2 – It shouldn’t take more than 3 sentences to approve the Keystone pipeline. Consider it done.
#3 – Willful disobedience of any part of Obamacare on religious grounds will be fully supported by this Government.
#4 – If you don’t like coal turn off your A/C/. The math is simple. It is simple enough even for a mush brained modern American Liberal to understand. 50%, one half if you will, of the electricity produced in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that power produces A/C. I am told by confidential sources that hospitals, particularly those with a high percentage of patients eligible for review by the soon to be installed “Death Panels”, shall be required to turn off the A/C in the afternoon. This stops now.
#5 – Solar panels and windmills, having failed the common sense test of the marketplace, will now have to make it on their own. They will make it or not make it with no assistance form the perpetually lactating Federal mammary. Whatever happens, the IV of taxpayers’ money has ended.
#6 – We have Homeric amounts of natural gas. It is now at an amount that is essentially incalculable. The author of this speech tells me that when he was in the oil & gas business his main source of transport in and around Crossroads, NM in 1981 was a big old pickup powered by natural gas. It shall be the policy of this government to advance the cause of natural gas driven vehicles by giving preference to said vehicles when ordering same for use by the Federal government.
#7 – Thank you and God Bless America.”
Inaugural address – draft 1
“I do.
Thank you Mr. Chief Justice.
By the time I get back to the White House I expect to have several executive orders ready to sign.
#1 – Since my predecessor has picked and chosen which Federal laws to enforce I will direct the Justice Department – and doesn’t the place smell better knowing that Holder is gone? Yes, it does. – and the Solicitor General not, repeat, not to defend furbish louseworts or snail darters when the other side of the law suit involves the only truly endangered species in the country. Of course, that is man. “Man shall not only endure; he will prevail” will be the motto of this administration.
#2 – It shouldn’t take more than 3 sentences to approve the Keystone pipeline. Consider it done.
#3 – Willful disobedience of any part of Obamacare on religious grounds will be fully supported by this Government.
#4 – If you don’t like coal turn off your A/C/. The math is simple. It is simple enough even for a mush brained modern American Liberal to understand. 50%, one half if you will, of the electricity produced in this country comes from burning coal. 50% of that power produces A/C. I am told by confidential sources that hospitals, particularly those with a high percentage of patients eligible for review by the soon to be installed “Death Panels”, shall be required to turn off the A/C in the afternoon. This stops now.
#5 – Solar panels and windmills, having failed the common sense test of the marketplace, will now have to make it on their own. They will make it or not make it with no assistance form the perpetually lactating Federal mammary. Whatever happens, the IV of taxpayers’ money has ended.
#6 – We have Homeric amounts of natural gas. It is now at an amount that is essentially incalculable. The author of this speech tells me that when he was in the oil & gas business his main source of transport in and around Crossroads, NM in 1981 was a big old pickup powered by natural gas. It shall be the policy of this government to advance the cause of natural gas driven vehicles by giving preference to said vehicles when ordering same for use by the Federal government.
#7 – Thank you and God Bless America.”
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Justice Elena Kagan The Supreme Court
October 22, 2012
Justice Elena Kagan
The Supreme Court
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543
RE: OY! Male, female. Smart, dumb. Semite, non-Semite, anti-Semite. BTB, are there any pro-Semites out there? Or, as, President Obama says, “You didn’t build that. Somebody else did.” Maybe you didn’t get your job the old fashioned way.
Madame Justice,
I had the pleasure of meeting Justice Fortas when he was in private practice. Yes, it’s true. His wife did smoke cigars. No, at no time during the conversation, even though I was the client, did I ask him about “Landslide Lyndon”.
“Not sure” if you would have gotten the job if you weren’t a woman?
Two things:
#1 – Being able to pee standing up is an overrated virtue. And, since more Americans die of prostate cancer than of breast cancer, there may be an additional benefit. Plus, in case you haven’t worked it out, if you didn’t get the job I wouldn’t be writing to you.
#2 – Institutions have, or should have, a collective memory. Try to find out how Justice Brennan, a Jersey guy, got his seat. All that mattered is that he got it. Was it he or was it Justice Douglas, a recess appointment, who gave us the great legal concept of “penumbras” and “emanations”?
My father’s father had two uncles who fought at Gettysburg. One of them is still there, “wrapped in his faded coat of blue”. He helped overturn the Dred Scott decision.
“The Supreme Court follows the election returns.”
Relax. You have tenure.
Kevin Smith
Justice Elena Kagan
The Supreme Court
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543
RE: OY! Male, female. Smart, dumb. Semite, non-Semite, anti-Semite. BTB, are there any pro-Semites out there? Or, as, President Obama says, “You didn’t build that. Somebody else did.” Maybe you didn’t get your job the old fashioned way.
Madame Justice,
I had the pleasure of meeting Justice Fortas when he was in private practice. Yes, it’s true. His wife did smoke cigars. No, at no time during the conversation, even though I was the client, did I ask him about “Landslide Lyndon”.
“Not sure” if you would have gotten the job if you weren’t a woman?
Two things:
#1 – Being able to pee standing up is an overrated virtue. And, since more Americans die of prostate cancer than of breast cancer, there may be an additional benefit. Plus, in case you haven’t worked it out, if you didn’t get the job I wouldn’t be writing to you.
#2 – Institutions have, or should have, a collective memory. Try to find out how Justice Brennan, a Jersey guy, got his seat. All that mattered is that he got it. Was it he or was it Justice Douglas, a recess appointment, who gave us the great legal concept of “penumbras” and “emanations”?
My father’s father had two uncles who fought at Gettysburg. One of them is still there, “wrapped in his faded coat of blue”. He helped overturn the Dred Scott decision.
“The Supreme Court follows the election returns.”
Relax. You have tenure.
Kevin Smith
Friday, October 19, 2012
Michael Mayo The Sun Sentinel
October 18, 2012
Michael Mayo
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Politicizing the [Florida] Supreme Court” – Some comments on – you guessed it –
Politicizing the [Florida] Supreme Court
Mr. Mayo,
In addition to thinking that Logic is a parabolic curve, that facts, particularly inconvenient ones, must never interfere with an argument, and that History began with Obama’s coronation – Would you brand me a racist if I were to say that the oceans have neither receded nor have they cooled? – modern American Liberals believe both sincerely and profoundly that they can eat their cake and have it too.
My father was a Judge. Perhaps that might explain my animus.
Although I am a Jersey guy through and through I was astonished by the shtick and shenanigans surrounding the Broward County judiciary. I don’t want to suggest that there is inbreeding but a majority of those Black-robed bounders can see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Judicial candidates – that has a bit of stench to it, yes? – will spend $300,000 to get a job that pays $140,000 a year. Duh?
Judges then strong arm lawyers appearing before them for campaign contributions when they run for reelection. What’s wrong with that sentence?
Was there ever a more politicized judicial hearing than the one involving Judge Bork? I mention it because NJ/NY guys know that payback is a bitch. If Judge Bork had become Justice Bork he would have voted against accepting the case from Florida in re the 2000 election. The prospect of an administration run by former VP Alpha Gump both boggles me and whelms the imagination.
Modern American Liberals speak in reverence about “power to the people” and “participatory democracy”. “Occupy Wall Street” was hailed by progressives. They loooove it when courts rule in favor of rent control and gun control, when they smile on Affirmative Action and eminent domain. Any time a Judge says yes to “diversity” or “fairness” they become tumescent.
Since the people of Florida already have the power to toss Judges off the bench why shouldn’t they exercise that power?
The American people did not agree with the Dred Scott decision. They reversed it on the field of battle.
The American people did not like Prohibition. They threw it out.
The Florida Supreme Court has given itself the power to limit what citizens can vote on. It doesn’t matter how many photo IDs you have. The Black-robed Bosses have said “NO”. Maybe the people want to say “YES”.
Isn’t it time for a chorus of “The People United Can Never Be Defeated”?
Kevin Smith
Michael Mayo
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Politicizing the [Florida] Supreme Court” – Some comments on – you guessed it –
Politicizing the [Florida] Supreme Court
Mr. Mayo,
In addition to thinking that Logic is a parabolic curve, that facts, particularly inconvenient ones, must never interfere with an argument, and that History began with Obama’s coronation – Would you brand me a racist if I were to say that the oceans have neither receded nor have they cooled? – modern American Liberals believe both sincerely and profoundly that they can eat their cake and have it too.
My father was a Judge. Perhaps that might explain my animus.
Although I am a Jersey guy through and through I was astonished by the shtick and shenanigans surrounding the Broward County judiciary. I don’t want to suggest that there is inbreeding but a majority of those Black-robed bounders can see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Judicial candidates – that has a bit of stench to it, yes? – will spend $300,000 to get a job that pays $140,000 a year. Duh?
Judges then strong arm lawyers appearing before them for campaign contributions when they run for reelection. What’s wrong with that sentence?
Was there ever a more politicized judicial hearing than the one involving Judge Bork? I mention it because NJ/NY guys know that payback is a bitch. If Judge Bork had become Justice Bork he would have voted against accepting the case from Florida in re the 2000 election. The prospect of an administration run by former VP Alpha Gump both boggles me and whelms the imagination.
Modern American Liberals speak in reverence about “power to the people” and “participatory democracy”. “Occupy Wall Street” was hailed by progressives. They loooove it when courts rule in favor of rent control and gun control, when they smile on Affirmative Action and eminent domain. Any time a Judge says yes to “diversity” or “fairness” they become tumescent.
Since the people of Florida already have the power to toss Judges off the bench why shouldn’t they exercise that power?
The American people did not agree with the Dred Scott decision. They reversed it on the field of battle.
The American people did not like Prohibition. They threw it out.
The Florida Supreme Court has given itself the power to limit what citizens can vote on. It doesn’t matter how many photo IDs you have. The Black-robed Bosses have said “NO”. Maybe the people want to say “YES”.
Isn’t it time for a chorus of “The People United Can Never Be Defeated”?
Kevin Smith
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Letter to the Editor The Sun Sentinel
October 14, 2012
Letter to the Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Would being a thespian disqualify a Justice from keeping his seat. The perils of big boy Democracy as pointed out in your editorial today.
Sirs,
Having seen prospective Judges pander to special interest groups before the election, having seen sitting Judges strong arm lawyers appearing before them to finance their reelection even if there is no opposition - Might there be a cause and effect example here to explain the abysmal record of the Broward County Judiciary? – Why should politics in the retention vote of the 3 Supreme Court Justices so shock and amaze you?
The answer is to be found in the difference between a democracy and a republic. It is an absolutely straight line beginning in the agora, the forum, and running straight and true to the 1787 Constitutional Convention.
If the people in Florida get to vote who sits on the bench why can’t they vote on who gets thrown off the bench?
If the Judges chose to enter the political arena – raising money, seeking endorsements, proselytizing their beliefs – why should they be exempt from the political consequences? In this country politics “ain’t beanbag”. It’s a full contact sport. What’s the sense of having sharp elbows unless you use them?
If people can vote Judges in and vote Judgers out why can’t they vote on criminal cases? The next high profile child molestation can be held on the beach at Las Olas Boulevard. Thumbs up or thumbs down. Instant sentencing. Instant punishment. The never ending Summer of Recovery may yet see a revival of the mom and pop tumbrel industry.
Isn’t that the essence of democracy? The will of the people and all that jazz, right?
We entrust legislatures to protect our interests within specifically defined Constitutional guidelines. If we deny legislators the ability to confirm and retain Judges why should we be surprised when the people vote the way they see fit?
Incidentally, I intend to vote against the retention of the 3 Justices who are on the ballot for a reason other than ideology. Nota bene that ideology is part of the process. Not the only part, but a vital part.
Napoleon would pick 3 soldiers at random before a battle.
He would court martial them for cowardice. They would be found guilty and they would be executed.
He said “it encouraged the others”.
Nothing like vox populi being defined by someone carrying a 2 x 4.
KEVIN SMITH
Letter to the Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Would being a thespian disqualify a Justice from keeping his seat. The perils of big boy Democracy as pointed out in your editorial today.
Sirs,
Having seen prospective Judges pander to special interest groups before the election, having seen sitting Judges strong arm lawyers appearing before them to finance their reelection even if there is no opposition - Might there be a cause and effect example here to explain the abysmal record of the Broward County Judiciary? – Why should politics in the retention vote of the 3 Supreme Court Justices so shock and amaze you?
The answer is to be found in the difference between a democracy and a republic. It is an absolutely straight line beginning in the agora, the forum, and running straight and true to the 1787 Constitutional Convention.
If the people in Florida get to vote who sits on the bench why can’t they vote on who gets thrown off the bench?
If the Judges chose to enter the political arena – raising money, seeking endorsements, proselytizing their beliefs – why should they be exempt from the political consequences? In this country politics “ain’t beanbag”. It’s a full contact sport. What’s the sense of having sharp elbows unless you use them?
If people can vote Judges in and vote Judgers out why can’t they vote on criminal cases? The next high profile child molestation can be held on the beach at Las Olas Boulevard. Thumbs up or thumbs down. Instant sentencing. Instant punishment. The never ending Summer of Recovery may yet see a revival of the mom and pop tumbrel industry.
Isn’t that the essence of democracy? The will of the people and all that jazz, right?
We entrust legislatures to protect our interests within specifically defined Constitutional guidelines. If we deny legislators the ability to confirm and retain Judges why should we be surprised when the people vote the way they see fit?
Incidentally, I intend to vote against the retention of the 3 Justices who are on the ballot for a reason other than ideology. Nota bene that ideology is part of the process. Not the only part, but a vital part.
Napoleon would pick 3 soldiers at random before a battle.
He would court martial them for cowardice. They would be found guilty and they would be executed.
He said “it encouraged the others”.
Nothing like vox populi being defined by someone carrying a 2 x 4.
KEVIN SMITH
Steven L. Goldstein The Sun Sentinel
October 14, 2012
Steven L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Shining City” and how Nixon lives on to torment us still. Some comments on how, just when you think things can’t get worse, they do, they do. Some comments on your typical column today on why the letters GOP should be struck from the alphabet starting in Broward County.
My dear Professor,
You call the wascally Wepublicans “conspirators”. You say it is “a strong term but accurate”.
Such is the number that I get some conspiracies confused.
Is it the one that says, despite being approved by 3/4rs of Congress, Bush invaded Iraq so that his family could get control of the gas pipe line through Kafiristan?
Is it the one that says the Tea Party was really born when they blew up the levees in New Orleans in 2005? Talk about putting minority voter suppression on the fast track!
Is it the one that says Ronald Reagan started the AIDS “epidemic” because he didn’t like Clifton Webb?
Is it the one that says Franklin Roosevelt, in thralldom to Great Britain, knew about Pearl Harbor on Labor Day, 1941 but did nothing to interfere with it?
Which conspiracy have you pledged your fealty to?
“Birthers”? Bad.
“Truthers”? Good.
Or is it the opposite.
I get confused. Enlighten me.
In re Citizens United I am searching in vain for a synonym for “stupid” or “Homerically dumb”. Failiong to find any IO must settle for the lowest common denominator: modern American Liberal is spot on.
“Corporations are people” is an legal concept that has been around since the second half of the 19th century. The Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust acts had to go after someone, not something.
IN the 1930s the Roosevelt administration frequently used it to advance their political agenda by judicial means. When the Supreme Court turned away his power grab – Remember, Mussolini was the poster boy of progressive modern American Liberals in that “low, dishonest decade” – he tried to pack it.
Can I ask which other parts of the First Amendment do you want to “reform”>
Steven L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Shining City” and how Nixon lives on to torment us still. Some comments on how, just when you think things can’t get worse, they do, they do. Some comments on your typical column today on why the letters GOP should be struck from the alphabet starting in Broward County.
My dear Professor,
You call the wascally Wepublicans “conspirators”. You say it is “a strong term but accurate”.
Such is the number that I get some conspiracies confused.
Is it the one that says, despite being approved by 3/4rs of Congress, Bush invaded Iraq so that his family could get control of the gas pipe line through Kafiristan?
Is it the one that says the Tea Party was really born when they blew up the levees in New Orleans in 2005? Talk about putting minority voter suppression on the fast track!
Is it the one that says Ronald Reagan started the AIDS “epidemic” because he didn’t like Clifton Webb?
Is it the one that says Franklin Roosevelt, in thralldom to Great Britain, knew about Pearl Harbor on Labor Day, 1941 but did nothing to interfere with it?
Which conspiracy have you pledged your fealty to?
“Birthers”? Bad.
“Truthers”? Good.
Or is it the opposite.
I get confused. Enlighten me.
In re Citizens United I am searching in vain for a synonym for “stupid” or “Homerically dumb”. Failiong to find any IO must settle for the lowest common denominator: modern American Liberal is spot on.
“Corporations are people” is an legal concept that has been around since the second half of the 19th century. The Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust acts had to go after someone, not something.
IN the 1930s the Roosevelt administration frequently used it to advance their political agenda by judicial means. When the Supreme Court turned away his power grab – Remember, Mussolini was the poster boy of progressive modern American Liberals in that “low, dishonest decade” – he tried to pack it.
Can I ask which other parts of the First Amendment do you want to “reform”>
Friday, October 12, 2012
Karen Yi The Sun Sentinel
October 11, 2012
Karen Yi
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Race used in grading” – Some suggestions for additions to your Page 1 article on race based grading curves. The unasked question is why have we have waited so long to do this.
Ms. Yi,
Finally, one of my great ideas, perhaps a bit before its time, gains traction.
I have been advocating a 2 birds with one stone Geometry policy since the last century.
One of the great problems facing inner city youth is low self-esteem due to low grades due to low grades.
The hated, racist FCATs are now used to brand students, schools, neighborhoods, and cities with “D”, our new Scarlet Letter. It stands for “Dummy”. It also stands for “Dolt” and “Dunce”.
How simple it would be to reverse this trend!
If we were to change Pi from 3.1416 to 3.0 we would help our struggling youth in a variety of ways.
#1 - Geometry grades would improve.
#2 – FCAT scores would soar.
#3 – Potentially ferociously feral Black youth would be more inclined to be less feral because of higher grades.
#4 – A few decades out, when the bridges all start to fall down, we would have a built in, year round, Summer of Recovery. Provided, of course, that our Mandarin money lenders give their approval.
My plan to drop the past tense needs some work but I’m gaining on it.
Also, each basketball team must have a point guard who is a small, calorically challenged White guy who has at least 6 thumbs. No exceptions.
Since this is GLBT Appreciation Month perhaps we could find room for those who did not make the cut for the school production of “A Chorus Line” to make the football team? Tight end, wedge buster…the possibilities are endless.
I suppose that when the boobies are running the hatch stuff like this happens.
Madness.
Kevin Smith
Board Certified Life Coach
Karen Yi
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Race used in grading” – Some suggestions for additions to your Page 1 article on race based grading curves. The unasked question is why have we have waited so long to do this.
Ms. Yi,
Finally, one of my great ideas, perhaps a bit before its time, gains traction.
I have been advocating a 2 birds with one stone Geometry policy since the last century.
One of the great problems facing inner city youth is low self-esteem due to low grades due to low grades.
The hated, racist FCATs are now used to brand students, schools, neighborhoods, and cities with “D”, our new Scarlet Letter. It stands for “Dummy”. It also stands for “Dolt” and “Dunce”.
How simple it would be to reverse this trend!
If we were to change Pi from 3.1416 to 3.0 we would help our struggling youth in a variety of ways.
#1 - Geometry grades would improve.
#2 – FCAT scores would soar.
#3 – Potentially ferociously feral Black youth would be more inclined to be less feral because of higher grades.
#4 – A few decades out, when the bridges all start to fall down, we would have a built in, year round, Summer of Recovery. Provided, of course, that our Mandarin money lenders give their approval.
My plan to drop the past tense needs some work but I’m gaining on it.
Also, each basketball team must have a point guard who is a small, calorically challenged White guy who has at least 6 thumbs. No exceptions.
Since this is GLBT Appreciation Month perhaps we could find room for those who did not make the cut for the school production of “A Chorus Line” to make the football team? Tight end, wedge buster…the possibilities are endless.
I suppose that when the boobies are running the hatch stuff like this happens.
Madness.
Kevin Smith
Board Certified Life Coach
Stephen L. Goldstein The Sun Sentinel
October 12, 2012
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel
RE: Like herpes, a gift that keeps on giving, your column about the perils of a representative Democracy [Sometimes the wrong guy wins] shows modern America Liberalism at its best. Did I say “best”? How about “worst”?
My dear Professor,
I almost got past your 3rd paragraph. Almost. That would have been a record.
One of the most endearing traits of a card carrying, fully committed modern American Liberal is the ability to never let facts interfere with an argument. Since you are the paradigmatic template of same it is always worthwhile to rake your offerings for gems
I looooove to tell mush brained, pointy headed the back story of the 2000 Supreme Court decision that kept the country safe from an administration run by V.P Alpha Gump. Buckle up. The truth hurts.
The vote to accept the case was 5 - 4.
The vote that made Bush President was 7 – 2.
It is empirically self-evident that 2 Justices switched their votes once the case was accepted and heard on its merits.
Look it up.
Here comes the fun part.
If Robert Bork had been confirmed as a Justice in 1987 the vote would have been 5 – 4 against accepting the case.
Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it?
I have some favors to ask
If I refuse to show a photo ID on Election Day can I count on your support? [You may not know it but a photo ID is required to get a Broward County library card. Strangely enough it is also required to give blood. Go figure.] As a non-felonious Caucasian it is the least I can do to support those who are - inter alia – felonious non-Caucasians.
My overseas confidential sources, sources that must remain, you should forgive the expression, confidential tell me that a bit more than what was reported at the American embassy in Libya happened.
The murdered American Ambassador was a homosexual.
He was apparently raped to death by the peace loving, live and let live, turbaned Islamic thugs. Since October is now known as GLBT month I think the assassination should be reclassified as a hate crime.
The Obama administration has always been keen on trying Muslim terrorists in this country. Round up a few of the more rabble rousing and try them here. Key West might be a good venue.
Great artists tend to repeat themselves.
Hitchcock always gave himself a bit part in his movies. How he got into “Lifeboat” is my favorite. Mel Brooks always had an obligatory Nazi scene.
In the end, modern American Liberals always put on their brown shirts, don their hob-nail boots, and goose step with a well-used whip in hand.
You say
“The votes are there to topple every Republican.”
The Sun Sentinel
Today
You
The prospects of Hell after life are grim enough.
You want to eliminate the death part by bringing us Hell on earth. How else could anyone describe a government run entirely by unbearable clones of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Broward County Board of Education?
If that were to be it would be time for the legendary Big Mike from Bayonne, noted sportsman, famed restaurateur, and now a shining public servant, a titan who introduced the phrase used in praise of this country – “That’s why you never see anybody swimming to Cuba” - to rethink it.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLOSUTH. NET
Stephen L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel
RE: Like herpes, a gift that keeps on giving, your column about the perils of a representative Democracy [Sometimes the wrong guy wins] shows modern America Liberalism at its best. Did I say “best”? How about “worst”?
My dear Professor,
I almost got past your 3rd paragraph. Almost. That would have been a record.
One of the most endearing traits of a card carrying, fully committed modern American Liberal is the ability to never let facts interfere with an argument. Since you are the paradigmatic template of same it is always worthwhile to rake your offerings for gems
I looooove to tell mush brained, pointy headed the back story of the 2000 Supreme Court decision that kept the country safe from an administration run by V.P Alpha Gump. Buckle up. The truth hurts.
The vote to accept the case was 5 - 4.
The vote that made Bush President was 7 – 2.
It is empirically self-evident that 2 Justices switched their votes once the case was accepted and heard on its merits.
Look it up.
Here comes the fun part.
If Robert Bork had been confirmed as a Justice in 1987 the vote would have been 5 – 4 against accepting the case.
Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it?
I have some favors to ask
If I refuse to show a photo ID on Election Day can I count on your support? [You may not know it but a photo ID is required to get a Broward County library card. Strangely enough it is also required to give blood. Go figure.] As a non-felonious Caucasian it is the least I can do to support those who are - inter alia – felonious non-Caucasians.
My overseas confidential sources, sources that must remain, you should forgive the expression, confidential tell me that a bit more than what was reported at the American embassy in Libya happened.
The murdered American Ambassador was a homosexual.
He was apparently raped to death by the peace loving, live and let live, turbaned Islamic thugs. Since October is now known as GLBT month I think the assassination should be reclassified as a hate crime.
The Obama administration has always been keen on trying Muslim terrorists in this country. Round up a few of the more rabble rousing and try them here. Key West might be a good venue.
Great artists tend to repeat themselves.
Hitchcock always gave himself a bit part in his movies. How he got into “Lifeboat” is my favorite. Mel Brooks always had an obligatory Nazi scene.
In the end, modern American Liberals always put on their brown shirts, don their hob-nail boots, and goose step with a well-used whip in hand.
You say
“The votes are there to topple every Republican.”
The Sun Sentinel
Today
You
The prospects of Hell after life are grim enough.
You want to eliminate the death part by bringing us Hell on earth. How else could anyone describe a government run entirely by unbearable clones of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Broward County Board of Education?
If that were to be it would be time for the legendary Big Mike from Bayonne, noted sportsman, famed restaurateur, and now a shining public servant, a titan who introduced the phrase used in praise of this country – “That’s why you never see anybody swimming to Cuba” - to rethink it.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLOSUTH. NET
Monday, October 8, 2012
Snoop Dog and the new Notre Dame helmets. Yes Virginia, there is a connection.
October 7, 2012
Snoop Dog and the new Notre Dame helmets.
Yes Virginia, there is a connection.
Of course everyone likes, indeed loves, the 19th century caricature of a red faced, ebullient, maybe one gin punch over the line, calorically challenged Santa Claus.
The illustrator of same, Thomas Nast, was a phenomenally proficient and productive portraitist of politicians. They were Democrats and as such early modern American Liberals. Since he worked for people who bought ink by the tank car it was impossible to defend yourself, particularly if you lived down to his expectations. Thus, his portrait of Boss Tweed, a pasty faced, pot-bellied, dirty fingered slug still stands vividly in the nation’s memory 135 years after it was sketched.
He also hated Roman Catholics. The only group he despised more was the Irish émigrés. Thus, the combination of them, particularly in New York City, sent him and his barbed pen into over drive.
One of his more popular sketches was of a small man in a finochio-like green costume assuming a fighting pose. He would fit the general description of a leprechaun. He had distinctly simian qualities.
The term “Fighting Irish” was the truth.
The cartoon would never be found anywhere near a group of Irish Catholics. To show it would ring the bell for a never endingRound One.
It could be a sign of God’s whimsy that a group of French priests traveled half way across this fair land before they found a place to plant their flag and His cross. Naturally the French priests called the place Notre Dame. As the clock began to tick faster the terms “Fighting Irish” and Notre Dame became synonymous and interchangeable. The drunken, bellicose, ape-like, layabout leprechaun was able to lose its hateful origins and become an accepted, indeed loved, symbol of the school and its football team.
[It is fitting and proper to note that 2 of the most famous football coaches there were neither Irish nor Catholic.]
Time softens the edges of language and insult.
Thus, when Notre Dame introduced their new helmets, the bug eyed ape stuck on the side was not big deal.
When Hamlet told Ophelia to “Get thee to a nunnery” he meant a whorehouse.
Was it Alice or the Red Queen who said “Those words mean exactly what I want them to mean”?
A few days ago we saw a debate in which the empty chair would have scored higher than the empty suit.
A day later I was told the following by a mush brained, pointy headed talking nit-wit who was so far in the tank for B. Hussein Obama that he could have drained his sinuses and tried to train his ears to heel from the inside. Governor Romney had to disown his more radical supporters or the main stream media would be really, I mean really really mean to him.
A day later I read of the Snoop Doggy Dog, AKA Snoop Lion, list of reasons why he is voting for B. Hussein Obama. I quote directly from his notes. Let me add that Edmund Burke and James Madison are not sure whether they should turn over in their graves or dig them down as deep as they can go.
“Romney is a white niggah” – “Obama is a black niggah.”
Romney’s wife – “bitch” to the Dog Man – “got a dancing horse”. Caroline Kennedy, she of “Sweet Caroline” fame, had a horse named Macaroni. It is not known if her father’s taste for bearded clam al dente precluded it from a decent 2 step.
Obama’s wife “got a fat ass”.
Romney is a “ho”. He is also a Mormon but he “ain’t got no hoes”.
The Snoopster says “Bitch I will beat the shit out of you”. It is syntactically unclear whether he is referring to the candidate or his wife.
He says he will not vote for Romney is because “this motherfucka’s name is Mitt”. The much maligned Fairness Doctrine compels me to include his reason # 9 for voting for Obama – Am I the last one to remember when Senator Lard Kennedy introduced him as Bahama Osama bin Laden Yomama Obama Salama? I hope not. - as one that is only whispered about in modern American Liberal circles. It is, “He smokes Newports.”
I am not sure of the difference between “a white niggah” and “a black niggah”. I do agree with his statement that Michelle “has a fat ass”. In a few years she’ll be using industrial strength WD-40 to get into her Aunt Jemima costume. She’s about 2 sweet potato pies and a mac & cheese IV away from having a keister that’s an axe handle and a half wide. She’s got those great arms from smuggling all those 5 gallon cans of lard up the back stairs of the White House. It is an inner city substitute for KY Jelly and can be used to do the girls’ do.
I am not really sure what Snoop Lion Dog does for a living. He must do it very well. He has a face that could cure diarrhea. But if he is, to quote VP Curly Biden’s apt description of Black people hoping to enter public service, “clean, bright, and articulate” it may be time to lay in some adult sizes of Kool-Aid.
I’ll say this for him.
“He never lets you down.”
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Two Reasons to Celebrate October 7
October 7, 2012
There are 2 reasons to celebrate October 7th.
#1 – On October 7, 1571 a small group of good guys beat a much larger group of ferociously feral bad guys. To be more precise, the vastly outnumbered good guys gave the bad guys a Texas sized ass whipping that still resonates after all those years.
If they had not…
The world would not have seen or heard of – Let me list them – the Divine Comedy, Petrarch, St. Thomas Aquinas, St Francis of Assisi, Michelangelo, St. Peter’s Basilica, the Borgias, Titian, the Medicis, Raphael, chiaroscuro, Caravaggio – Dare I say the Renaissance? – Correggio, Vivaldi, nessum dorma, “thieving magpies”…
Columbus would have had to undiscover America.
Machiavelli would never have become an adjective.
David, the Pieta, the Last Supper, La Giaconda – all would have stayed locked up in the artists’ souls. Bernini would have stayed a stone mason, metal worker, and a house painter.
Prosciutto would have been banned.
Sausage? Fuhgedaboutit!
What happened on October 7, 1571 was simple.
A Muslim terrorist, rich beyond Croesus, assemble 1000 – repeat – 1000 war ships His goal, conquering and ruling Italy, was straightforward and announced.
Had he done so he would have kept the Islamic promise of “stabling their horses” in St. Peter’s Basilica.
HE WAS DEFEATED.
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.
A world without the perpetual orgasmic qualities of Venice, a world without the endless debate between white sauce lovers and red sauce defenders, a world without sharp and clear Tuscan whites, a world with meatless melons, a world without Pavarotti, a world without Yogi Berra, a world where having a bottle of Riserva Ducale would be a flogging offense, a world without joy…The world would have been greatly lessened.
You may wish to check the years 732 and 1683. Both were years when turbaned Islamic killers tried to end Western Civilization. Might there be a pattern developing here?
Edmund Burke, as decidedly a non-Italian man as can be imagined, said “Alas, experience is the only school where most men learn”.
Will we ever learn?
#2 – It’s my birthday.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
There are 2 reasons to celebrate October 7th.
#1 – On October 7, 1571 a small group of good guys beat a much larger group of ferociously feral bad guys. To be more precise, the vastly outnumbered good guys gave the bad guys a Texas sized ass whipping that still resonates after all those years.
If they had not…
The world would not have seen or heard of – Let me list them – the Divine Comedy, Petrarch, St. Thomas Aquinas, St Francis of Assisi, Michelangelo, St. Peter’s Basilica, the Borgias, Titian, the Medicis, Raphael, chiaroscuro, Caravaggio – Dare I say the Renaissance? – Correggio, Vivaldi, nessum dorma, “thieving magpies”…
Columbus would have had to undiscover America.
Machiavelli would never have become an adjective.
David, the Pieta, the Last Supper, La Giaconda – all would have stayed locked up in the artists’ souls. Bernini would have stayed a stone mason, metal worker, and a house painter.
Prosciutto would have been banned.
Sausage? Fuhgedaboutit!
What happened on October 7, 1571 was simple.
A Muslim terrorist, rich beyond Croesus, assemble 1000 – repeat – 1000 war ships His goal, conquering and ruling Italy, was straightforward and announced.
Had he done so he would have kept the Islamic promise of “stabling their horses” in St. Peter’s Basilica.
HE WAS DEFEATED.
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.
A world without the perpetual orgasmic qualities of Venice, a world without the endless debate between white sauce lovers and red sauce defenders, a world without sharp and clear Tuscan whites, a world with meatless melons, a world without Pavarotti, a world without Yogi Berra, a world where having a bottle of Riserva Ducale would be a flogging offense, a world without joy…The world would have been greatly lessened.
You may wish to check the years 732 and 1683. Both were years when turbaned Islamic killers tried to end Western Civilization. Might there be a pattern developing here?
Edmund Burke, as decidedly a non-Italian man as can be imagined, said “Alas, experience is the only school where most men learn”.
Will we ever learn?
#2 – It’s my birthday.
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Saturday, October 6, 2012
October 6, 2012
Christy Cabrera Chirinos & Steve Gorten
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Would I qualify for the next edition of “Profiles in Courage” if I were to object to your October 5, 2012 Page 1 article on the football team of Miramar High School wearing pink jerseys to show their steadfastness in the battle against breast cancer?
Ms. Chirinos & Mr. Gorten,
I have a legendary pink cashmere sweater that 3 generations of women have fought over. I had a pink tie that signaled the arrival of good times, particularly when I wore it with my world famous Lily Pulitzer pants. Pink, button down, monogrammed, pin point oxford shirts from Brooks Brothers were a staple of mine. I consider it, still, a point of ethnic honor to rescue smoked salmon from the clutches of Jewish delicatessens.
Pink, hot pink, dusty pink, salmon pink, rose pink…Crikey! I loooove pink!
For the entire month of October I will not wear a pink ribbon. I will not wear a pink shirt. If I had pink shoes I would not wear them. Ditto for pink knickers.
My reasons are simple and personal.
My wife, Amy, died on August 25, 2011 from uterine cancer.
What color is her ribbon?
My father died on Christmas Day, 1978 from pancreatic cancer.
What color is his ribbon?
More people did from prostate cancer than from breast cancer.
What color is their ribbon?
My Texas chainsaw skull scars from squamous cell carcinoma are always visible.
What color is that ribbon?
Lest you think I protest too much I point out that, despite being a devotee of corned beef, I never eat it in the month of March. My grandfather, Jack Smith, a veteran of the Ballyglass/Bayonne escape route, never saw corned beef until he got to this country. He recognized it as Bully Beef, a dish of Her Majesty’s Navy. Professional Irishmen, the ones who get teary eyed when the pipes skirl “Scotland the Brave”, gorge themselves on it on March 17th. It’s great in February and delicious in April.
The point of the above is to highlight the difference between feelings and ideas, between wish fulfillment and reasoning.
Let me add Barbie Doll Pink, the Energizer Bunny Pink, Pink Floyd, Pink Champagne, and the last half of the Pink Panther movies to my list of verboten Pink regardless of the month in which thehy appear
I must also add that Caroline Hanson, my 9 year old middle granddaughter, and one of my Texas ladies, raised $5,100.for St. Jude Children’s Hospital to honor her Grammy.
Which month has plaid as its color?
Kevin Smith
Christy Cabrera Chirinos & Steve Gorten
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: Would I qualify for the next edition of “Profiles in Courage” if I were to object to your October 5, 2012 Page 1 article on the football team of Miramar High School wearing pink jerseys to show their steadfastness in the battle against breast cancer?
Ms. Chirinos & Mr. Gorten,
I have a legendary pink cashmere sweater that 3 generations of women have fought over. I had a pink tie that signaled the arrival of good times, particularly when I wore it with my world famous Lily Pulitzer pants. Pink, button down, monogrammed, pin point oxford shirts from Brooks Brothers were a staple of mine. I consider it, still, a point of ethnic honor to rescue smoked salmon from the clutches of Jewish delicatessens.
Pink, hot pink, dusty pink, salmon pink, rose pink…Crikey! I loooove pink!
For the entire month of October I will not wear a pink ribbon. I will not wear a pink shirt. If I had pink shoes I would not wear them. Ditto for pink knickers.
My reasons are simple and personal.
My wife, Amy, died on August 25, 2011 from uterine cancer.
What color is her ribbon?
My father died on Christmas Day, 1978 from pancreatic cancer.
What color is his ribbon?
More people did from prostate cancer than from breast cancer.
What color is their ribbon?
My Texas chainsaw skull scars from squamous cell carcinoma are always visible.
What color is that ribbon?
Lest you think I protest too much I point out that, despite being a devotee of corned beef, I never eat it in the month of March. My grandfather, Jack Smith, a veteran of the Ballyglass/Bayonne escape route, never saw corned beef until he got to this country. He recognized it as Bully Beef, a dish of Her Majesty’s Navy. Professional Irishmen, the ones who get teary eyed when the pipes skirl “Scotland the Brave”, gorge themselves on it on March 17th. It’s great in February and delicious in April.
The point of the above is to highlight the difference between feelings and ideas, between wish fulfillment and reasoning.
Let me add Barbie Doll Pink, the Energizer Bunny Pink, Pink Floyd, Pink Champagne, and the last half of the Pink Panther movies to my list of verboten Pink regardless of the month in which thehy appear
I must also add that Caroline Hanson, my 9 year old middle granddaughter, and one of my Texas ladies, raised $5,100.for St. Jude Children’s Hospital to honor her Grammy.
Which month has plaid as its color?
Kevin Smith
Letter to the Editor The Sun Sentinel
October 2, 2012
Letter to the Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Free Speech for….somebody…maybe” – Some comments on your “Let’s cut the baby in half” editorial about free speech in today’s lead editorial.
Sirs,
If, as you say, “a matter of respect for what others hold dear” trumps the 25 century old Greek maxim “Free men speak with free tongues” how did “Piss Christ” or “Corpus Cristi” get into the public arena? It is owed to the moral ledger to say that both were, and are, subsidized by American taxpayers.
[“Piss Christ” shows a crucifix suspended in a vat containing urine. “Corpus Cristi” says that Christ was crucified because of a lovers’ quarrel, the lovers being Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot. Nothing controversial there, right?]
For that matter how did La Commedia – The Divine Comedy – come to be? How, pray tell, has it lasted 8 centuries
How many centuries would the cartoons showing Mohammed in a less than positive light – N.B. that I did not mention pedophilia or bestiality – have lasted?
If I were to criticize cliteroidectomies or to suggest that homosexuals should not be flogged would that make me into an insensitive Christian curmudgeon?
Why must we bear the burden of compromising with a culture that turned inward 1000 years ago?
This is a religion that was halfway across Europe less than a century after it was formed. This is a religion that promised to stable their horses in the Vatican. This is a religion that will not permit any place of worship other than their own in all the countries that they rule.
Why must we give up a right that is ours from birth, a “gift from beyond the stars”?
The encomium about not yelling “Fire” in a crowded theatre still applies. I promise to stay away from Mecca when I decide to attack sacred cows – N.B. again that I did not mention sacred pigs – that may offend some turbaned thugs.
Billingsgate is not just a destination. It is a precious gift that must be protected. The elections of 1800, 1828, 1864, and 1884 are examples of a free people expanding the envelope of free speech.
We are still standing.
Why have elbows unless they are sharp and in constant use?
We earned the right to use them as we see fit.
They haven’t.
Kevin Smith
Letter to the Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 Broward Boulevard
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394
RE: “Free Speech for….somebody…maybe” – Some comments on your “Let’s cut the baby in half” editorial about free speech in today’s lead editorial.
Sirs,
If, as you say, “a matter of respect for what others hold dear” trumps the 25 century old Greek maxim “Free men speak with free tongues” how did “Piss Christ” or “Corpus Cristi” get into the public arena? It is owed to the moral ledger to say that both were, and are, subsidized by American taxpayers.
[“Piss Christ” shows a crucifix suspended in a vat containing urine. “Corpus Cristi” says that Christ was crucified because of a lovers’ quarrel, the lovers being Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot. Nothing controversial there, right?]
For that matter how did La Commedia – The Divine Comedy – come to be? How, pray tell, has it lasted 8 centuries
How many centuries would the cartoons showing Mohammed in a less than positive light – N.B. that I did not mention pedophilia or bestiality – have lasted?
If I were to criticize cliteroidectomies or to suggest that homosexuals should not be flogged would that make me into an insensitive Christian curmudgeon?
Why must we bear the burden of compromising with a culture that turned inward 1000 years ago?
This is a religion that was halfway across Europe less than a century after it was formed. This is a religion that promised to stable their horses in the Vatican. This is a religion that will not permit any place of worship other than their own in all the countries that they rule.
Why must we give up a right that is ours from birth, a “gift from beyond the stars”?
The encomium about not yelling “Fire” in a crowded theatre still applies. I promise to stay away from Mecca when I decide to attack sacred cows – N.B. again that I did not mention sacred pigs – that may offend some turbaned thugs.
Billingsgate is not just a destination. It is a precious gift that must be protected. The elections of 1800, 1828, 1864, and 1884 are examples of a free people expanding the envelope of free speech.
We are still standing.
Why have elbows unless they are sharp and in constant use?
We earned the right to use them as we see fit.
They haven’t.
Kevin Smith
Friday, September 28, 2012
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer The Sun Sentinel
September 25, 2012
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer
The Sun Sentinel
RE: A teachable moment! A very teachable moment! – More comments and suggestions on the plight of Black males mired in a non-responsive, probably racist, school system
Mr. Lyons,
Let’s get “them” involved.
How can “they” be expected to master imaginary numbers if overcoming ennui is their top quotidian task?
Herewith a modest proposal to engage non-feral Black youth in academic demonstrations for the purpose of learning Civics up close and personal.
The Broward County Board of Education is a proud sponsor of October Gay Pride Month. Why don’t we engage our youth in some demonstrations of community activism, minority outreach, and 1st Amendment activities?
#1 – Picket a local mosque. Of course it will be a peaceable picket. Demand that the congregation denounce all Islamic anti-Gay activities. The more Sharia the shire the more likely a singer of Sapphic songs is to be scourged. To get the attention of those at Friday services the younger of the demonstrators will carry pictures of Rosie O’Donnell and Barney Frank. The older, more promising, students will carry pictures of Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin. Perhaps a few numbers from “A Chorus Line” will show the irenic nature of the demonstration. A demonstration of mixing and matching café curtains might be nice. The manly smell of Brut should fill the air.
#2 – Modern American Liberals cheer lustfully when an American flag is burned. The Supreme Court has ruled that men can wear Nazi uniforms and shout “Todt Juden” while walking through a neighborhood filled with Holocaust survivors.
On Election Day, on the steps of the Federal Courthouse, an American flag will be burned. The difference here will be that a Koran – And will someone please tell me why the damned thing is always called the “sacred” Koran or, for that matter, half of their Allahdamned cities are “holy”? If Qom is “holy” Bayonne, NJ should be downright beatific – will be wrapped in it. As a concession to safety a clear plastic container, a la Piss Christ, will be nearby. Should the fire get out of hand it will be doused with pee. In this instance the pee will be porcine.
Can I count on your support to help the unaborted, academically underserved Black youth before they become feral Black youth, the bête-noire of modern American Liberals?
You may wish to make some discreet inquiries as to the racial disparities in some Broward schools. Let’s start with Dillard High School and Boyd Anderson High School. Where are the children of White Broward County modern American Liberals? We know where they ain’t.
Maybe it’s time to bring back the race balancing aspect of busing?
Perhaps we should ban private schools.
As I said, a modest proposal.
Kevin Smith
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer
The Sun Sentinel
RE: A teachable moment! A very teachable moment! – More comments and suggestions on the plight of Black males mired in a non-responsive, probably racist, school system
Mr. Lyons,
Let’s get “them” involved.
How can “they” be expected to master imaginary numbers if overcoming ennui is their top quotidian task?
Herewith a modest proposal to engage non-feral Black youth in academic demonstrations for the purpose of learning Civics up close and personal.
The Broward County Board of Education is a proud sponsor of October Gay Pride Month. Why don’t we engage our youth in some demonstrations of community activism, minority outreach, and 1st Amendment activities?
#1 – Picket a local mosque. Of course it will be a peaceable picket. Demand that the congregation denounce all Islamic anti-Gay activities. The more Sharia the shire the more likely a singer of Sapphic songs is to be scourged. To get the attention of those at Friday services the younger of the demonstrators will carry pictures of Rosie O’Donnell and Barney Frank. The older, more promising, students will carry pictures of Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin. Perhaps a few numbers from “A Chorus Line” will show the irenic nature of the demonstration. A demonstration of mixing and matching café curtains might be nice. The manly smell of Brut should fill the air.
#2 – Modern American Liberals cheer lustfully when an American flag is burned. The Supreme Court has ruled that men can wear Nazi uniforms and shout “Todt Juden” while walking through a neighborhood filled with Holocaust survivors.
On Election Day, on the steps of the Federal Courthouse, an American flag will be burned. The difference here will be that a Koran – And will someone please tell me why the damned thing is always called the “sacred” Koran or, for that matter, half of their Allahdamned cities are “holy”? If Qom is “holy” Bayonne, NJ should be downright beatific – will be wrapped in it. As a concession to safety a clear plastic container, a la Piss Christ, will be nearby. Should the fire get out of hand it will be doused with pee. In this instance the pee will be porcine.
Can I count on your support to help the unaborted, academically underserved Black youth before they become feral Black youth, the bête-noire of modern American Liberals?
You may wish to make some discreet inquiries as to the racial disparities in some Broward schools. Let’s start with Dillard High School and Boyd Anderson High School. Where are the children of White Broward County modern American Liberals? We know where they ain’t.
Maybe it’s time to bring back the race balancing aspect of busing?
Perhaps we should ban private schools.
As I said, a modest proposal.
Kevin Smith
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer The Sun Sentinel
September 22, 2012
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer
The Sun Sentinel
RE: “Sanctimonious drivel” and why it’s the only way out – Some comments on your Jeremiad on why Black males will never make it to the 1%.
Mr. Lyons,
Am I the only one to ask “What about Black females”? Your column makes you sound like you will be a postulant in the soon to be formed Taliban School of Smacking the Snot out of Uppity Chicks.
[I must add, because it is owed to the moral ledger, that your unrecognized Black females blow up the goals/quotas of Affirmative Action when it comes to abortion. Since Roe v Wade in 1973, 35% of the approximately 60,000,000 abortions have been performed on Black women. 22,000,000 Black babies have aborted by 6% of the population. How many potential Senior Editorial Writers have gone down the abattoir’s drain? If that’s not genocide, what is?]
You say that only “28% of Black students are academically prepared when they enter kindergarten”.
Did Wal-Mart cause that? Did Romney and the ghost of Richard Nixon cause that? Did Halliburton and the notorious Koch Brothers cause that? How about Reagan?
The Bushes – pere et fils – must have, right?
If I were to suggest that the absence of a male in the house may have an influence on it would I be branded with R, the Scarlet Letter of Racism?
Would it be politically incorrect of me to say that whatever strategies and tactics that have been tried since the War on Poverty began, a war that was begun with absolutely no exit strategy in sight, have been about as useful as teats on a bull?
Here are some questions.
Can you tell me why bad teachers are paid as much as good teachers? Can you tell me why bad teachers are paid at all? Can you tell me what curriculum coordinators do? Can you tell me what diversity coordinators do?
Tenure is offensive to Logic and inimical to the common weal.
Heart surgeons, point guards, airplane pilots, car salesmen, pop stars, chefs, - Can you see where I am going here? – have one thing in common. They all lack job security. The good ones are lionized. The bad ones get their asses kicked.
Why shouldn’t the French teacher be held to the same high, unforgiving standard as the football coach?
You say that a “multicultural curricula” – I would prefer the singular - “is one way to attract and hold a Black male student’s attention”. I point out that the exclusion of ½ of the student body is…is…stupidly sexist. What is the multicultural way to teach Geometry? Is there a hip-hop, rap, reggae, pants sagging, street cred, Bloods v Crips version of the table of valences that will soon make its appearance?
Speaking of “multiculturalism”, isn’t it time to make room for the first great multicultural poet? Barack Obama got a Nobel Prize for showing up. Rudyard Kipling wrote about the soul of man for decades. His work transcends race. “The sins we do two by two we pay for one by one” is an apt comment on the recent sexual escapades of the Broward Board of Education. Why not make it into a teachable moment?
”it’s not easy introducing innovation into a bureaucracy
that boasts of a class schedule still steeped in
America’s pre-industrial era…”
What the Hell in the name of an educated man, a man of any color, does that mean?
Do you mean Edmund Burke? Do you mean Samuel Johnson? Do you mean John Locke? Shakespeare? Dante? The year 1683? The year 1571? The year 732? Do you mean Plutarch? Do you mean Aeschylus? Homer?
“Young boys don’t like romance novels”
A story from more than 30 centuries ago. 20 years of war and love. It took the first ten to get her back. It took the second ten to get him back. I suggest you become familiar with the Iliad and the Odyssey. Guys dig it.
I don’t know if you have children. If you do I hope they are in public school. I know the President has children. They are in private school.
That is disgraceful.
Even with the ill-defined, mostly porous walls of conduct of modern American Liberalism that is a slap in the face to all the other occupants of public housing in Washington, DC. The District of Columbia has the highest per student expenditure in the universe. Why does the President spend $100,000 to send his daughters to private school? Why doesn’t he send his daughters to the really fine public schools in Washington?
Get back to me on that.
The Broward County Board of Education has announced that it will be a supporter, indeed an eager participant, in Gay Pride Month.
How does that help Black males get into college? Is there a category in the hated FCAT tests that includes Gay Pride? Musical comedy, fashion design, interior decorating, sensitivity seminars --- all have their uses in a post racial society. How do they help an underprepared Black male in his quest to construct an English declarative sentence? How does it help him balance a check book? Is a better understanding of the “down low” way of life a path that underprepared Black male students should be made aware of? Shouldn’t underprepared Black female students be made aware of the joys of Sapphic poetry? Haven’t they been ignored too long?
On the other hand it may be a bridge too far to ask for a system to help some underprepared Black males get through dissecting frogs or mastering logarithms if it can’t get the buses to run on time.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Douglas C. Lyons – Senior Editorial Writer
The Sun Sentinel
RE: “Sanctimonious drivel” and why it’s the only way out – Some comments on your Jeremiad on why Black males will never make it to the 1%.
Mr. Lyons,
Am I the only one to ask “What about Black females”? Your column makes you sound like you will be a postulant in the soon to be formed Taliban School of Smacking the Snot out of Uppity Chicks.
[I must add, because it is owed to the moral ledger, that your unrecognized Black females blow up the goals/quotas of Affirmative Action when it comes to abortion. Since Roe v Wade in 1973, 35% of the approximately 60,000,000 abortions have been performed on Black women. 22,000,000 Black babies have aborted by 6% of the population. How many potential Senior Editorial Writers have gone down the abattoir’s drain? If that’s not genocide, what is?]
You say that only “28% of Black students are academically prepared when they enter kindergarten”.
Did Wal-Mart cause that? Did Romney and the ghost of Richard Nixon cause that? Did Halliburton and the notorious Koch Brothers cause that? How about Reagan?
The Bushes – pere et fils – must have, right?
If I were to suggest that the absence of a male in the house may have an influence on it would I be branded with R, the Scarlet Letter of Racism?
Would it be politically incorrect of me to say that whatever strategies and tactics that have been tried since the War on Poverty began, a war that was begun with absolutely no exit strategy in sight, have been about as useful as teats on a bull?
Here are some questions.
Can you tell me why bad teachers are paid as much as good teachers? Can you tell me why bad teachers are paid at all? Can you tell me what curriculum coordinators do? Can you tell me what diversity coordinators do?
Tenure is offensive to Logic and inimical to the common weal.
Heart surgeons, point guards, airplane pilots, car salesmen, pop stars, chefs, - Can you see where I am going here? – have one thing in common. They all lack job security. The good ones are lionized. The bad ones get their asses kicked.
Why shouldn’t the French teacher be held to the same high, unforgiving standard as the football coach?
You say that a “multicultural curricula” – I would prefer the singular - “is one way to attract and hold a Black male student’s attention”. I point out that the exclusion of ½ of the student body is…is…stupidly sexist. What is the multicultural way to teach Geometry? Is there a hip-hop, rap, reggae, pants sagging, street cred, Bloods v Crips version of the table of valences that will soon make its appearance?
Speaking of “multiculturalism”, isn’t it time to make room for the first great multicultural poet? Barack Obama got a Nobel Prize for showing up. Rudyard Kipling wrote about the soul of man for decades. His work transcends race. “The sins we do two by two we pay for one by one” is an apt comment on the recent sexual escapades of the Broward Board of Education. Why not make it into a teachable moment?
”it’s not easy introducing innovation into a bureaucracy
that boasts of a class schedule still steeped in
America’s pre-industrial era…”
What the Hell in the name of an educated man, a man of any color, does that mean?
Do you mean Edmund Burke? Do you mean Samuel Johnson? Do you mean John Locke? Shakespeare? Dante? The year 1683? The year 1571? The year 732? Do you mean Plutarch? Do you mean Aeschylus? Homer?
“Young boys don’t like romance novels”
A story from more than 30 centuries ago. 20 years of war and love. It took the first ten to get her back. It took the second ten to get him back. I suggest you become familiar with the Iliad and the Odyssey. Guys dig it.
I don’t know if you have children. If you do I hope they are in public school. I know the President has children. They are in private school.
That is disgraceful.
Even with the ill-defined, mostly porous walls of conduct of modern American Liberalism that is a slap in the face to all the other occupants of public housing in Washington, DC. The District of Columbia has the highest per student expenditure in the universe. Why does the President spend $100,000 to send his daughters to private school? Why doesn’t he send his daughters to the really fine public schools in Washington?
Get back to me on that.
The Broward County Board of Education has announced that it will be a supporter, indeed an eager participant, in Gay Pride Month.
How does that help Black males get into college? Is there a category in the hated FCAT tests that includes Gay Pride? Musical comedy, fashion design, interior decorating, sensitivity seminars --- all have their uses in a post racial society. How do they help an underprepared Black male in his quest to construct an English declarative sentence? How does it help him balance a check book? Is a better understanding of the “down low” way of life a path that underprepared Black male students should be made aware of? Shouldn’t underprepared Black female students be made aware of the joys of Sapphic poetry? Haven’t they been ignored too long?
On the other hand it may be a bridge too far to ask for a system to help some underprepared Black males get through dissecting frogs or mastering logarithms if it can’t get the buses to run on time.
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Maureen Dinnen Broward County Board of Education
September 21, 2012
Maureen Dinnen
Broward County Board of Education
RE: Jennifer Gottlieb, “the sins we do two by two we pay for one by one”, and things to look for in any candidate for public office. Some comments on the article in the Miami Herald that reads like afternoon TV.
Ms. Dinnen,
When you were running for the Board of Education I sent you a mildly chastising letter about your campaign mailers. That these were put together with no regard for Grammar or Syntax told me that whatever your purpose in being elected education was not high on your list. Some of the howlers, if memory serves, could be labeled under “egregious”.
Today’s lessons in Ethnics and History are offered in a spirit of “I know, you don’t, so listen up”.
It appears that Jennifer Gottlieb gives new meaning to the term “horizontal tango”. She was busier with her yoo-ha than the one legged entrant in the Ass Kicking contest. Who knows how many hombres filled Evita’s dance card? She had nothing on this dame. At least she got some songs written about her. Besides, in Broward County, a hotbed of modern American Liberalism, a coven filled with advocates of moral relativism, a place where Dr. Mengele would be elected overwhelmingly because of his progressive record on women’s reproductive rights, the public response would be “So what? They’re adults.”
The lesson in ethics is both priceless and senseless.
“Anthony Alfieri, director of the University of Miami’s Center
for Ethics and Public Service said there should be
rules preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s.”
Where has this beardless naïf been?
Would Agamemnon have gotten Ulysses and Achilles to sail to Troy if Helen had been a stay-at-home Mom? What did David send Bathsheba’s husband on a suicide mission if not for a bit of Old Testament gobble? The Camelot couple? Eloise and Abelard? Dante’s pair? Preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s? Madness. “Outlawing”, maybe. “Preventing”, never. Better you pass a rule allowing dawn to get past the rooster. Have we forgotten President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs, the King of the One-Eyed Trouser Snakes, after getting home from church and sending his wife and daughter to the second floor of the White House while he played “hide the salami” with an intern barely older than his daughter?
Being from Hudson County, New Jersey I am trying to see what was in it for the catcher in this indoor game of finding the elusive G spot. It appears that she didn’t do it for the money, the sign of an honest hooker. She did it for a happy beaver, a smiling bearded clam. Either way she is unfit for public service.
James Madison, and I hope that you know that in addition to being the 4th President of the United States that he wrote the Constitution, was asked what was the most important attribute to look for in any candidate for public office. “Character, Character is all” was his response.
Broward County can’t even get its school buses to run on time. Why should we expect some bimbo charged with the task of guarding school age children to keep her drawers on?
Kevin Smith
PS – Is there any truth to the rumor that she was going to have the local woodworking class put a portable French Knocking Shoppe on the roof of the Board building?
Maureen Dinnen
Broward County Board of Education
RE: Jennifer Gottlieb, “the sins we do two by two we pay for one by one”, and things to look for in any candidate for public office. Some comments on the article in the Miami Herald that reads like afternoon TV.
Ms. Dinnen,
When you were running for the Board of Education I sent you a mildly chastising letter about your campaign mailers. That these were put together with no regard for Grammar or Syntax told me that whatever your purpose in being elected education was not high on your list. Some of the howlers, if memory serves, could be labeled under “egregious”.
Today’s lessons in Ethnics and History are offered in a spirit of “I know, you don’t, so listen up”.
It appears that Jennifer Gottlieb gives new meaning to the term “horizontal tango”. She was busier with her yoo-ha than the one legged entrant in the Ass Kicking contest. Who knows how many hombres filled Evita’s dance card? She had nothing on this dame. At least she got some songs written about her. Besides, in Broward County, a hotbed of modern American Liberalism, a coven filled with advocates of moral relativism, a place where Dr. Mengele would be elected overwhelmingly because of his progressive record on women’s reproductive rights, the public response would be “So what? They’re adults.”
The lesson in ethics is both priceless and senseless.
“Anthony Alfieri, director of the University of Miami’s Center
for Ethics and Public Service said there should be
rules preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s.”
Where has this beardless naïf been?
Would Agamemnon have gotten Ulysses and Achilles to sail to Troy if Helen had been a stay-at-home Mom? What did David send Bathsheba’s husband on a suicide mission if not for a bit of Old Testament gobble? The Camelot couple? Eloise and Abelard? Dante’s pair? Preventing conduct like Gottlieb’s? Madness. “Outlawing”, maybe. “Preventing”, never. Better you pass a rule allowing dawn to get past the rooster. Have we forgotten President Handsome Billy from Hot Springs, the King of the One-Eyed Trouser Snakes, after getting home from church and sending his wife and daughter to the second floor of the White House while he played “hide the salami” with an intern barely older than his daughter?
Being from Hudson County, New Jersey I am trying to see what was in it for the catcher in this indoor game of finding the elusive G spot. It appears that she didn’t do it for the money, the sign of an honest hooker. She did it for a happy beaver, a smiling bearded clam. Either way she is unfit for public service.
James Madison, and I hope that you know that in addition to being the 4th President of the United States that he wrote the Constitution, was asked what was the most important attribute to look for in any candidate for public office. “Character, Character is all” was his response.
Broward County can’t even get its school buses to run on time. Why should we expect some bimbo charged with the task of guarding school age children to keep her drawers on?
Kevin Smith
PS – Is there any truth to the rumor that she was going to have the local woodworking class put a portable French Knocking Shoppe on the roof of the Board building?
Friday, September 21, 2012
September 21, 2012
Jacqueline Charles & Curtis Morgan
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza Miami,
FL 33132-1693
RE: Will no one rid me of those meddlesome skinks? – Some comments on your Page 1 article on whether we want Haitians to continue to live miserably or maybe, just maybe, let them have a chance to do something other than wash up on the beach.
Ms. Charles & Mr. Morgan,
ALL HAIL GAIA! ALL HAIL DEMETER! The other shoe, the one whistling in from the Land of Reason, is about to land right in the middle of totally organic, carbon footprintless, vegan tofu porridge, the one cooked by a combination of wind power, orvine eructations, and Solyndra solar power, which people have to be paid to eat. The best, the most strident, the most heads so far up their asses that they can fill their own teeth, the ones consumed by a condescending hubris that knows no bounds, environmentalists are rich White people living in fully developed countries. After they successfully picket any store daring to sell $28 a pound Patagonian Saw Tooth Bass they always need a new project. Since the heady days of Storm King they have persuaded America to accept the primacy of the snail darter, the furbish lousewort, the delhi fly, the spotted/speckled owl, the shy jackalope, the fearsome cupabara, the peripatetic Peter Pan pixie butterfly, the Leatherneck turtle, and the last proficiently practicing predator in the Florida swamp, Patsy the vegetarian pterodactyl, thereby trumping the interests of the only undefended, endangered species left on earth. I speak of course of man. Lest you think me to be the King of the Cruel World of Amateur Vivisectionists who never saw a baby seal he wouldn’t club into drowning polar bear canapés I report with great joy that my veterinary bills were far greater than my pediatrician bills. 4 very large dogs, 4 cats – one aggressive & 3 gentle, 1 turtle, 1 budgie, 1 boy and 1 girl. Falstaff, our first Old English sheepdog, had his own credit card at the Speyer Animal Hospital in Manhattan. He didn’t sign it; I did. He died on the operating table at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine. His surgeon was Doctor John Kirk, DVM, who wrote the definitive book on canine skin diseases. The final month for Sharpton, our last cat, cost not quite $1000. These bombastic charlatans, having conquered the guilt-ridden 1% with a combination of anti-intellectual and, worse, anti-rational arguments – [Bambi is not a proper guide for game management. A rutting buck does not stop, repeat, does not stop to look at a yearling because he thinks it may be his.] have moved on to more fertile ground. The new world for them to conquer – They look out “silent, upon a peak on Nantucket” – is Haiti. Let me, as the token White man, as the descendant of all those rapacious DWEMs, as a former 1%er with a carbon footprint equal to the Budweiser horses, as the last living proponent of the many benefits of DDT, as a Concorde frequent flier, as the driver of a 12 cylinder, 160 MPH Jaguar, as someone who sent plumes of Right Guard deodorant up at the fragile – still fragile after all those years? – ozone layer, as someone who mined coal;, and as someone who values one human life far more than all the damned butterflies in Christendom, say that I caused all the woes, each and every last one, that perpetually befall Haiti. The next terrible thing to come down on them will be rich White people telling them that giving up a new harbor, one that could bring in, at the very least, the benefits of the mid-20th century to their country, is no big deal. After all, the maritime skink, a creature known for…for…I don’t know what the varmint does. I know! It’s the nautical canary in the coal mine and it must be protected at all costs. Some of those costs will be infants dying because ships can’t unload their cargo. As to the coral, grind it up and sell it to nouveau riche Chinamen as a better pecker powder than rhino horn. The other explanation is that rich White people don’t give a damn about the lesser breeds save for keeping them around so they can feel superior. Like an environmental porch monkey. 35% of all the abortions in this country since Roe v Wade have been performed on Black women. Kill them in the womb or starve them to death by stopping a modern port. No big difference, right? Kevin Smith
Jacqueline Charles & Curtis Morgan
The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza Miami,
FL 33132-1693
RE: Will no one rid me of those meddlesome skinks? – Some comments on your Page 1 article on whether we want Haitians to continue to live miserably or maybe, just maybe, let them have a chance to do something other than wash up on the beach.
Ms. Charles & Mr. Morgan,
ALL HAIL GAIA! ALL HAIL DEMETER! The other shoe, the one whistling in from the Land of Reason, is about to land right in the middle of totally organic, carbon footprintless, vegan tofu porridge, the one cooked by a combination of wind power, orvine eructations, and Solyndra solar power, which people have to be paid to eat. The best, the most strident, the most heads so far up their asses that they can fill their own teeth, the ones consumed by a condescending hubris that knows no bounds, environmentalists are rich White people living in fully developed countries. After they successfully picket any store daring to sell $28 a pound Patagonian Saw Tooth Bass they always need a new project. Since the heady days of Storm King they have persuaded America to accept the primacy of the snail darter, the furbish lousewort, the delhi fly, the spotted/speckled owl, the shy jackalope, the fearsome cupabara, the peripatetic Peter Pan pixie butterfly, the Leatherneck turtle, and the last proficiently practicing predator in the Florida swamp, Patsy the vegetarian pterodactyl, thereby trumping the interests of the only undefended, endangered species left on earth. I speak of course of man. Lest you think me to be the King of the Cruel World of Amateur Vivisectionists who never saw a baby seal he wouldn’t club into drowning polar bear canapés I report with great joy that my veterinary bills were far greater than my pediatrician bills. 4 very large dogs, 4 cats – one aggressive & 3 gentle, 1 turtle, 1 budgie, 1 boy and 1 girl. Falstaff, our first Old English sheepdog, had his own credit card at the Speyer Animal Hospital in Manhattan. He didn’t sign it; I did. He died on the operating table at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine. His surgeon was Doctor John Kirk, DVM, who wrote the definitive book on canine skin diseases. The final month for Sharpton, our last cat, cost not quite $1000. These bombastic charlatans, having conquered the guilt-ridden 1% with a combination of anti-intellectual and, worse, anti-rational arguments – [Bambi is not a proper guide for game management. A rutting buck does not stop, repeat, does not stop to look at a yearling because he thinks it may be his.] have moved on to more fertile ground. The new world for them to conquer – They look out “silent, upon a peak on Nantucket” – is Haiti. Let me, as the token White man, as the descendant of all those rapacious DWEMs, as a former 1%er with a carbon footprint equal to the Budweiser horses, as the last living proponent of the many benefits of DDT, as a Concorde frequent flier, as the driver of a 12 cylinder, 160 MPH Jaguar, as someone who sent plumes of Right Guard deodorant up at the fragile – still fragile after all those years? – ozone layer, as someone who mined coal;, and as someone who values one human life far more than all the damned butterflies in Christendom, say that I caused all the woes, each and every last one, that perpetually befall Haiti. The next terrible thing to come down on them will be rich White people telling them that giving up a new harbor, one that could bring in, at the very least, the benefits of the mid-20th century to their country, is no big deal. After all, the maritime skink, a creature known for…for…I don’t know what the varmint does. I know! It’s the nautical canary in the coal mine and it must be protected at all costs. Some of those costs will be infants dying because ships can’t unload their cargo. As to the coral, grind it up and sell it to nouveau riche Chinamen as a better pecker powder than rhino horn. The other explanation is that rich White people don’t give a damn about the lesser breeds save for keeping them around so they can feel superior. Like an environmental porch monkey. 35% of all the abortions in this country since Roe v Wade have been performed on Black women. Kill them in the womb or starve them to death by stopping a modern port. No big difference, right? Kevin Smith
Thursday, September 20, 2012
September 20, 2012
Joy-Ann Reid The Miami Herald
RE: “Those words mean exactly what I want them to mean” - Some comments on your through a looking glass world
Ms. Reid,
What was it that Vice President Curly Biden said about then candidate Senator B. Hussein Obama? Now I remember. He was “clean, bright, and articulate”. That’s you to a tee You and the best President we have share a few traits. One of them is the ability to never let an inconvenient fact, one that is fully larded with truth, interfere with your thesis. A few points before I get to the lie worthy of Bill Clinton.
#1 – “Job creation” – Have you ever been hired by someone poorer than you?
#2 - “Taxes” – Senator Lard Kennedy’s estate is in probate. One of the assets is a trust created in 1936. Don’t you think the 99% have the right to see what’s in it and to share in the honey pot that has been growing untaxed for 77 years? Jeezus Haitch Keerist! His father, that old corsair Papa Joe, having stolen so much money that people considering suicide would ask if they could jump off his wallet, knew some of his sons would be layabouts and wastrels. He thought it a father’s duty to provide for them. 1936? No cellphones, no DVDs, no social media, Joe DiMaggio’s first year with the Yankees, Alger Hiss was working his way up the ladder in the Executive branch of the government, Dixiecrats running Congress, DC3s, Hudson and Packard cars, cream on the top of the delivered bottle of milk, cigarettes without guilt, 5 cent beer, no DH. Would it be fair to say that Teddy spoke like a modern American Liberal and lived like rich, rotten Republican?
#3 – Can you give me an example of any country, anywhere and anytime, taxing itself to prosperity? Take your time. But that’s not why I write. The Great Reagan was right when he said “it’s not that modern American Liberals were stupid, it’s just that there’s so much that they didn’t know”. Consider the following statement in its entirety. “Conservatives bitterly fought against pensions for civil war veterans In the 19th century, and Social Security and Medicare in the 20th.” The Miami Herald Page 11A Today
#4 – The term “Conservative” would not have been used at the time of the American Civil War.
#5 - The Republican Party was formed as the anti-slavery party. Honest. Look it up.
#6 – The Democratic Party did not want to fight the Civil War. Since they weren’t opposed to slavery a strong case can be made for them being in favor of it. The election of 1864, the election that saw the New York Times call Lincoln a “baboon”, the election that saw the Democratic Party candidate campaign on a negotiated settlement with the South leaving slavery in place, the election that was in doubt until Sherman’s “surge” took Atlanta just before the election, was the one where the Democratic Party became entwined with the nascent Ku Klux Klan and with Southern states introducing and enforcing the most anti-Black laws imaginable. By 1916 a Democratic President endorsed both “Birth of a Nation” and the huge Klan parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
#7 – There was a Republican Congressman from New Jersey, Robert Kean, who earned the sobriquet “Mr. Social Security” because he was the member who made smooth the sharp edges of partisanship in Congress. It is well to note that the same Congress had just passed the Davis-Bacon Act. It was the most anti-Black Federal legislation passed in the 20th century. It still is because it is still the law of the land.
#8 – I suggest you take a closer look at the last paragraph of Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address. It is where he commits the nation to “care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan”. It is the one that begins with the words “with malice toward none, with charity for all” You may want to take a peek at the last sentence of the paragraph preceding his call to aid the veterans. He gave it not 6 weeks before he was shot by a Southern sympathizer, a man who had voted for the Democratic candidate the previous November.
The Great Reagan was right about you. “Clean and articulate”, si. “Bright”, no
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Joy-Ann Reid The Miami Herald
RE: “Those words mean exactly what I want them to mean” - Some comments on your through a looking glass world
Ms. Reid,
What was it that Vice President Curly Biden said about then candidate Senator B. Hussein Obama? Now I remember. He was “clean, bright, and articulate”. That’s you to a tee You and the best President we have share a few traits. One of them is the ability to never let an inconvenient fact, one that is fully larded with truth, interfere with your thesis. A few points before I get to the lie worthy of Bill Clinton.
#1 – “Job creation” – Have you ever been hired by someone poorer than you?
#2 - “Taxes” – Senator Lard Kennedy’s estate is in probate. One of the assets is a trust created in 1936. Don’t you think the 99% have the right to see what’s in it and to share in the honey pot that has been growing untaxed for 77 years? Jeezus Haitch Keerist! His father, that old corsair Papa Joe, having stolen so much money that people considering suicide would ask if they could jump off his wallet, knew some of his sons would be layabouts and wastrels. He thought it a father’s duty to provide for them. 1936? No cellphones, no DVDs, no social media, Joe DiMaggio’s first year with the Yankees, Alger Hiss was working his way up the ladder in the Executive branch of the government, Dixiecrats running Congress, DC3s, Hudson and Packard cars, cream on the top of the delivered bottle of milk, cigarettes without guilt, 5 cent beer, no DH. Would it be fair to say that Teddy spoke like a modern American Liberal and lived like rich, rotten Republican?
#3 – Can you give me an example of any country, anywhere and anytime, taxing itself to prosperity? Take your time. But that’s not why I write. The Great Reagan was right when he said “it’s not that modern American Liberals were stupid, it’s just that there’s so much that they didn’t know”. Consider the following statement in its entirety. “Conservatives bitterly fought against pensions for civil war veterans In the 19th century, and Social Security and Medicare in the 20th.” The Miami Herald Page 11A Today
#4 – The term “Conservative” would not have been used at the time of the American Civil War.
#5 - The Republican Party was formed as the anti-slavery party. Honest. Look it up.
#6 – The Democratic Party did not want to fight the Civil War. Since they weren’t opposed to slavery a strong case can be made for them being in favor of it. The election of 1864, the election that saw the New York Times call Lincoln a “baboon”, the election that saw the Democratic Party candidate campaign on a negotiated settlement with the South leaving slavery in place, the election that was in doubt until Sherman’s “surge” took Atlanta just before the election, was the one where the Democratic Party became entwined with the nascent Ku Klux Klan and with Southern states introducing and enforcing the most anti-Black laws imaginable. By 1916 a Democratic President endorsed both “Birth of a Nation” and the huge Klan parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
#7 – There was a Republican Congressman from New Jersey, Robert Kean, who earned the sobriquet “Mr. Social Security” because he was the member who made smooth the sharp edges of partisanship in Congress. It is well to note that the same Congress had just passed the Davis-Bacon Act. It was the most anti-Black Federal legislation passed in the 20th century. It still is because it is still the law of the land.
#8 – I suggest you take a closer look at the last paragraph of Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address. It is where he commits the nation to “care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan”. It is the one that begins with the words “with malice toward none, with charity for all” You may want to take a peek at the last sentence of the paragraph preceding his call to aid the veterans. He gave it not 6 weeks before he was shot by a Southern sympathizer, a man who had voted for the Democratic candidate the previous November.
The Great Reagan was right about you. “Clean and articulate”, si. “Bright”, no
Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
Monday, September 17, 2012
Leonard Pitts, Jr. The Miami Herald
September 16, 2012
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
RE: A brief explanation of how we came to a place in our History that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff calls an American citizen in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal. Some comments on your column about touchy Moslems and dead Americans in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
I said “brief”. Buckle up. The centuries are going to fly by.
25 centuries ago a Greek, a wounded veteran, said “Free men speak with free tongues”. Medes and/or Persians – I never can keep them straight – thought that was a bad idea so they tried to kill them. It was a “damned close run thing” but it didn’t work out. You may wish to familiarize yourself with Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea. It is well to note that these places became killing grounds, abattoirs where men having sniffed freedom would die to keep it, 1000 years before Mohammed, and blessed be his name despite his fondness for goats and young boys, started his “peace loving” religion.
Speaking of “peace loving”, what in the name of Allah, the big mahac of peace, were his votaries doing half way across Europe less than 100 years after the founding of his tent show? Let it be noted that Charles Martel, AKA The Hammer, was a big time bellicose Frog who stopped them at Tours in 732. If he hadn’t they would still be eating with their fingers in Helsinki and hogs would have been extinct for at least 13 centuries.
About 1000 years ago the Sunnis, the Shias, the Hanafis, the Wasabis, and various Wanabees began to eat their seed corn. That is to say, they turned inward.
They decided that all matters to be decided had been decided.
Would it make me a hate-filled curmudgeon to point out that they missed the fun and games that Runnymede was to produce? The Renaissance? Ptolemy being displaced? Men telling the King to bug off? Fughedaboutit!
13 centuries after Christ’s time on earth La Commedia appeared. 13 centuries after Mohammed’s time on earth and we have people being filleted in the street because of a cartoon. That there was no Islamic Divine Comedy meant there wouldn’t be any 95 theses nailed to the big Mosque after Friday prayers.
Please don’t spoil it for me by telling me that the hidden Islamic literary lock-box is not just empty but that it is non-existent.
Having skipped the literary revolution they also skipped the political and scientific ones also.
Lord knows what their “doctors” did before the invention of Coca-Cola bottles. The bottoms were used to make pre-pubescent cliteroidectomies so much easier. I love recycling, don’t you? Score one for the scientific method and rationality.
Lepanto in 1571. Vienna in 1683. Look them up. What would have happened if the “good guys” hadn’t won?
Would I be able to listen to Mozart, as I am now, if some blood thirsty “Death to the Infidels” emir had become King of Vienna?
It is not a question of why we got Shakespeare, Locke, Burke, Madison, and Twain. The question must always be why didn’t they.
If it weren’t for oil the whole joint would look like Mars, or worse, Eritrea.
You write, and there is much merit in your argument, that we should treat them as evil tempered whelps. Your example, 2 whining brats in the back seat, is apt. How about its Logical conclusion? Is “Spare the rod and spoil the child” still not a valid tool in child rearing?
If, as I said, all things to be decided have been decided, why would there be a need for Freedom of Speech? [That it is a right we have from birth, that it is a right “from beyond the stars”, is not in question. I am speaking of a culture that has outlawed whistling and balloons.]
American taxpayers have subsidized an art exhibit featuring a clear plastic container containing urine in which a crucifix is hung. It is called “Piss Christ”. Tell me what would have happened if it were called. “Piss Mohammed”?
American taxpayers have subsidized a play whose theme is that a homosexual lovers’ quarrel led to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is called “Corpus Cristi”. Tell me what would have happened is it were called “Corpus Allah”?
What do all the terrorists in the 21st century have in common?
They were all, every one of them, young Muslim men who shouted Allah Akbar before they killed Americans. Do you think those 72 infidel virgins were worth it?
General Martin Dempsey, a native of Bayonne, NJ, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, calls a law abiding American citizen living in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal and, in many instances, considered heroic. What is wrong with that sentence?
I mentioned Bayonne because the proper response from a resident of the Queen City of the East to the phone call from Leon Panetta “requesting” him to place the call should have been “Shove the phone up your ass”.
Men can dress up as Nazis and shout “Todt Juden” in a neighborhood filled with old Jews who side stepped a one way ticket to the ovens.
Some people are free but some people are more free than others?
Would it be OK for me to burn a Koran – and why is the damned thing almost always called the sacred Koran? The bible is older. Shouldn’t it be awarded sacred status too? – if I wrapped it in an American flag? How about if I kept a bucket of piss nearby should the fire get out of hand? Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression, no? I am covered on 2 fronts, yes?
I only have 25 centuries to go on but I think we can stipulate to one thing. Apologies don’t work with these murdering WOGS.
Am I still “free” to say that?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Should it turn out that the murdered American Ambassador was homosexual wouldn’t that make his death a hate crime? The thought of Barney Frank and Rosie O’Donnell leading Seal Team 6 & ½ into the holy city of Qom would make it all worthwhile. Perhaps a sequel to The Laramie Project could be The Benghazi Project? Drat! I just remembered. There are no homosexuals in Muslim countries.
Am I still free to say that?
Speaking of “stupid films”, have you ever seen “Ishtar”? How about “Sicko”?
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
The Miami Herald
RE: A brief explanation of how we came to a place in our History that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff calls an American citizen in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal. Some comments on your column about touchy Moslems and dead Americans in today’s Miami Herald.
Mr. Pitts,
I said “brief”. Buckle up. The centuries are going to fly by.
25 centuries ago a Greek, a wounded veteran, said “Free men speak with free tongues”. Medes and/or Persians – I never can keep them straight – thought that was a bad idea so they tried to kill them. It was a “damned close run thing” but it didn’t work out. You may wish to familiarize yourself with Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea. It is well to note that these places became killing grounds, abattoirs where men having sniffed freedom would die to keep it, 1000 years before Mohammed, and blessed be his name despite his fondness for goats and young boys, started his “peace loving” religion.
Speaking of “peace loving”, what in the name of Allah, the big mahac of peace, were his votaries doing half way across Europe less than 100 years after the founding of his tent show? Let it be noted that Charles Martel, AKA The Hammer, was a big time bellicose Frog who stopped them at Tours in 732. If he hadn’t they would still be eating with their fingers in Helsinki and hogs would have been extinct for at least 13 centuries.
About 1000 years ago the Sunnis, the Shias, the Hanafis, the Wasabis, and various Wanabees began to eat their seed corn. That is to say, they turned inward.
They decided that all matters to be decided had been decided.
Would it make me a hate-filled curmudgeon to point out that they missed the fun and games that Runnymede was to produce? The Renaissance? Ptolemy being displaced? Men telling the King to bug off? Fughedaboutit!
13 centuries after Christ’s time on earth La Commedia appeared. 13 centuries after Mohammed’s time on earth and we have people being filleted in the street because of a cartoon. That there was no Islamic Divine Comedy meant there wouldn’t be any 95 theses nailed to the big Mosque after Friday prayers.
Please don’t spoil it for me by telling me that the hidden Islamic literary lock-box is not just empty but that it is non-existent.
Having skipped the literary revolution they also skipped the political and scientific ones also.
Lord knows what their “doctors” did before the invention of Coca-Cola bottles. The bottoms were used to make pre-pubescent cliteroidectomies so much easier. I love recycling, don’t you? Score one for the scientific method and rationality.
Lepanto in 1571. Vienna in 1683. Look them up. What would have happened if the “good guys” hadn’t won?
Would I be able to listen to Mozart, as I am now, if some blood thirsty “Death to the Infidels” emir had become King of Vienna?
It is not a question of why we got Shakespeare, Locke, Burke, Madison, and Twain. The question must always be why didn’t they.
If it weren’t for oil the whole joint would look like Mars, or worse, Eritrea.
You write, and there is much merit in your argument, that we should treat them as evil tempered whelps. Your example, 2 whining brats in the back seat, is apt. How about its Logical conclusion? Is “Spare the rod and spoil the child” still not a valid tool in child rearing?
If, as I said, all things to be decided have been decided, why would there be a need for Freedom of Speech? [That it is a right we have from birth, that it is a right “from beyond the stars”, is not in question. I am speaking of a culture that has outlawed whistling and balloons.]
American taxpayers have subsidized an art exhibit featuring a clear plastic container containing urine in which a crucifix is hung. It is called “Piss Christ”. Tell me what would have happened if it were called. “Piss Mohammed”?
American taxpayers have subsidized a play whose theme is that a homosexual lovers’ quarrel led to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It is called “Corpus Cristi”. Tell me what would have happened is it were called “Corpus Allah”?
What do all the terrorists in the 21st century have in common?
They were all, every one of them, young Muslim men who shouted Allah Akbar before they killed Americans. Do you think those 72 infidel virgins were worth it?
General Martin Dempsey, a native of Bayonne, NJ, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, calls a law abiding American citizen living in Florida and asks him not to do something that is legal and, in many instances, considered heroic. What is wrong with that sentence?
I mentioned Bayonne because the proper response from a resident of the Queen City of the East to the phone call from Leon Panetta “requesting” him to place the call should have been “Shove the phone up your ass”.
Men can dress up as Nazis and shout “Todt Juden” in a neighborhood filled with old Jews who side stepped a one way ticket to the ovens.
Some people are free but some people are more free than others?
Would it be OK for me to burn a Koran – and why is the damned thing almost always called the sacred Koran? The bible is older. Shouldn’t it be awarded sacred status too? – if I wrapped it in an American flag? How about if I kept a bucket of piss nearby should the fire get out of hand? Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression, no? I am covered on 2 fronts, yes?
I only have 25 centuries to go on but I think we can stipulate to one thing. Apologies don’t work with these murdering WOGS.
Am I still “free” to say that?
KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET
PS – Should it turn out that the murdered American Ambassador was homosexual wouldn’t that make his death a hate crime? The thought of Barney Frank and Rosie O’Donnell leading Seal Team 6 & ½ into the holy city of Qom would make it all worthwhile. Perhaps a sequel to The Laramie Project could be The Benghazi Project? Drat! I just remembered. There are no homosexuals in Muslim countries.
Am I still free to say that?
Speaking of “stupid films”, have you ever seen “Ishtar”? How about “Sicko”?
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