Visitations and bad dreams, escalating into nightmares are plaguing me, although I haven’t eaten any Thomas de Quincey opium, or consumed a Doctor Jekyll potion in 34 years, now.
They always begin the same way..with my grandmother, “Mur-Mur” opening her illustrated volume of Bullfinch’s Mythology . Or the classical History of Athens.
“Here”, Charlot Miller Allen announces in her rich contralto that she cultivated by smoking Murad Turkish cigarets, “ is Prometheus !”
When I looked at the illustration of the “Titan” it was a Michael Ramirez cartoon of a sad Ol’ Uncle Sam, dressed in Old Glory uniform, chained to Washington’s monument, with his liver being eaten by flying Congressmen...The liver regenerates and the carrion feed on.....
WHAM ! I wake up.... and am really afraid to go back to sleep, so I run to the computer, go to Wickipedia and check my memory of Prometheus. This is worse than the nightmare. Prometheus really COULD do anything. He stole fire from Zeus / Jupiter, the Chief God of the Athenians and gave it to mortals. But he was subverted and chained by Zeus, angry with Envy. ENVY...
My eyes faded and back on my pillow, I dropped off.
Only to be confronted by Mur-Mur again, this time with her classical history tome. She opened it languidly and pointed to ANOTHER frightful Mikey Ramirez cartoon. I shrieked, and could not hear myself.
It was Uncle Sam in his Stars and Stripes garb again. He had a coon-hunter’s long-john six cell flashlight in his hand, wandering around the Mall in D.C., gazing at the capitol dome. The sun shines brightly at its zenith.
My grandmother asked, “ This is Diogenes, at the center of Western Civilization. Do you want me to read the words in the Balloon over his head ?
“It says, ‘I been searching around here a long time. These are the last of my batteries, and my light is almost out, and I can’t find ary- one !”
In a cold sweat, I woke up again. I didn’t have to check Wikipedia this time.
We all know Diogenes never found his “honest” man...And he wasn’t foolish enough to search Sodom-on-the-Potomac.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Thursday, June 04, 2009
My "Tolerance" Wager
It was certainly informative to hear the president speak at Cairo Thursday.
I obsessed on just one statement that was more grievous than just misleading.
It was a Lie.
He told the crowd and everyone that heard him that "Islam has a long history of Tolerance..."
Well, I did not have to look it up, but I did, in the Free Online Dictionary. But..Dean E. Heber Rece first taught it to me in 1943 at Emory University.
The word "Islam" in Arabic translates to "SUBMISSION" in English. And, according to the Prohet that is on the pain of Death. That is how the "religion" got its jump-start in 622 A.D. Submit or...adios !
So to ingratiate himself with Muslims, our president would try to lie to us and to the whole world.
Well, if this is some kind of poker game, I will see his "Tolerance" and raise him, one suicide bombing mission (say, 9-11 frinstance ?) and two beheadings, three fatal stonings and a cloakroom full of Burkhas and a chorus of mutilated teen girls.
That;s my bet and I believe I win the pot.
I obsessed on just one statement that was more grievous than just misleading.
It was a Lie.
He told the crowd and everyone that heard him that "Islam has a long history of Tolerance..."
Well, I did not have to look it up, but I did, in the Free Online Dictionary. But..Dean E. Heber Rece first taught it to me in 1943 at Emory University.
The word "Islam" in Arabic translates to "SUBMISSION" in English. And, according to the Prohet that is on the pain of Death. That is how the "religion" got its jump-start in 622 A.D. Submit or...adios !
So to ingratiate himself with Muslims, our president would try to lie to us and to the whole world.
Well, if this is some kind of poker game, I will see his "Tolerance" and raise him, one suicide bombing mission (say, 9-11 frinstance ?) and two beheadings, three fatal stonings and a cloakroom full of Burkhas and a chorus of mutilated teen girls.
That;s my bet and I believe I win the pot.
Friday, May 22, 2009
How's Yo' MANDATE, Kiddo ?
Despite the speed of the world wide web, the blogosphere, all the TV news channels and thousands of pseudo reporters underfoot, everyone appears to be asleep to my way of seeing it.
Neil Cavuto gave 'em all a shot in the head, as Milton Berle used to say, when he pointed out Friday that the Congress, the Media (such as it IS) and even the Hip White House is following a seven month old "Mandate".
I mean, what has the Populi VOXED lately ?
On April 15, somewhere between a half million and three quarters of a million people turned out to protest runamok spending and stratospheric taxes in cities (San Antonio and Atlanta, markedly) and hamlets (Lima and Lake Azu) all over America.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet (II) Napolitano warned of "dangerouus terrorist right wing extremists" and MSNBC yammerheads made nasty homophobic jokes. The president pretended he was "unaware".
Then, just this week---last Tuesday, the citizens of California (the most "Hip" of ALL states and the "Garde" than which there IS no more "Avant" --voted hugely, 66% to 30% (Two to One) against four large tax increase and spending propositioins.
So, are MY ganglia more raw than the average American? Is Neil Cavuto an alarmist, right wing extremist BOO!-boy ???
Or has the paradigm of the popular mandate shifted...and is it still hurtling ?
We will probably find out for certain on July 4, Independence Day.
And, also...next September 11. Another painful day of memories for America-Lovers.
Do stay tuned for the mating call of the Mandate.
Neil Cavuto gave 'em all a shot in the head, as Milton Berle used to say, when he pointed out Friday that the Congress, the Media (such as it IS) and even the Hip White House is following a seven month old "Mandate".
I mean, what has the Populi VOXED lately ?
On April 15, somewhere between a half million and three quarters of a million people turned out to protest runamok spending and stratospheric taxes in cities (San Antonio and Atlanta, markedly) and hamlets (Lima and Lake Azu) all over America.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet (II) Napolitano warned of "dangerouus terrorist right wing extremists" and MSNBC yammerheads made nasty homophobic jokes. The president pretended he was "unaware".
Then, just this week---last Tuesday, the citizens of California (the most "Hip" of ALL states and the "Garde" than which there IS no more "Avant" --voted hugely, 66% to 30% (Two to One) against four large tax increase and spending propositioins.
So, are MY ganglia more raw than the average American? Is Neil Cavuto an alarmist, right wing extremist BOO!-boy ???
Or has the paradigm of the popular mandate shifted...and is it still hurtling ?
We will probably find out for certain on July 4, Independence Day.
And, also...next September 11. Another painful day of memories for America-Lovers.
Do stay tuned for the mating call of the Mandate.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Vast, Indeed
Among the many sentences this struggling scrivener wishes he had come up with is this description of an itenerant farmhand by Stanley Taylor:
"His mind was a vast and hollow cavern with small crannies of resolute ignorance...."
We were re-introduced to this phenomenon recently with the re-emergence of Janeane Garofalo giving America a glimpse of her wasteland.
Content of her dribble-babble is less important than the fact that a cable television network obstensibly attempting a commercial presentation of discussion would allow her a michrophone-platform.
My exposure to this hag was on YouTube. Like millions of cable watchers, I prefer even the Mississippi simpleton Shep Smith to the cellar dwelling molerat Ms. Garofalo was visiting.
What baffles people who think like me---indeed, people who THINK at at all, is how the ailing, failing media (and NBC eminently qualifies), continues to grimly clutch and cling to these suicidal practices.
Maybe like the people they hustle, they look forward to a "stimulus" or "bailout" from the new Socialist-collectivist theroriticians in Washington. It beats thinking and working, they opine.
But... wouldn't that be morphing Socialism into Fascism, just like Jonah Goldberg of the LATimes predicted, in his bestseller "LIBERAL FASCISM" ?
That's the only way these helium heads will get another gig, right ?
"His mind was a vast and hollow cavern with small crannies of resolute ignorance...."
We were re-introduced to this phenomenon recently with the re-emergence of Janeane Garofalo giving America a glimpse of her wasteland.
Content of her dribble-babble is less important than the fact that a cable television network obstensibly attempting a commercial presentation of discussion would allow her a michrophone-platform.
My exposure to this hag was on YouTube. Like millions of cable watchers, I prefer even the Mississippi simpleton Shep Smith to the cellar dwelling molerat Ms. Garofalo was visiting.
What baffles people who think like me---indeed, people who THINK at at all, is how the ailing, failing media (and NBC eminently qualifies), continues to grimly clutch and cling to these suicidal practices.
Maybe like the people they hustle, they look forward to a "stimulus" or "bailout" from the new Socialist-collectivist theroriticians in Washington. It beats thinking and working, they opine.
But... wouldn't that be morphing Socialism into Fascism, just like Jonah Goldberg of the LATimes predicted, in his bestseller "LIBERAL FASCISM" ?
That's the only way these helium heads will get another gig, right ?
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Is the Law the Law ?
Frequently, posting here, it has been stressed that Islam is more correctly defined as a SYSTEM than as a "religion".
New and scary evidence erupts that this fact will sneak up and gnash---if not, indeed, CRUSH---some clueless, nice people in the very near future.
"It" can happen in the USA, you know. Look around.
Over in Pakistan, a very articulate and literate member of the "moderate" muslims being appeased by the new Pakistani Regime, on Saturday, Apeil 18, announced to the Appeasers and to the World, that Sharia Law will not allow him to "lay down or relinquish" his guns or those of his Taliban cohorts, no matter what Islamabad says.
Now what this means, my children, is that when the Hope and Change administration makes nice with the so-called "moderste Muslims" in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security,(Janet II), will disarm all the EXTREMIST RADICAL demobbed military veterans, under emergency unconstitutional "regulations" while the "nice, moderate Muslims" invoke Sharia Religious Law to keep their AK-47 cache (s).
Thus, the SYSYEM, under guise of religion, trumps Constitutional guarantees WITH constitutional guarantees.
Hey !!! Was that Alice and the Red Queen I just saw on stage ?
New and scary evidence erupts that this fact will sneak up and gnash---if not, indeed, CRUSH---some clueless, nice people in the very near future.
"It" can happen in the USA, you know. Look around.
Over in Pakistan, a very articulate and literate member of the "moderate" muslims being appeased by the new Pakistani Regime, on Saturday, Apeil 18, announced to the Appeasers and to the World, that Sharia Law will not allow him to "lay down or relinquish" his guns or those of his Taliban cohorts, no matter what Islamabad says.
Now what this means, my children, is that when the Hope and Change administration makes nice with the so-called "moderste Muslims" in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security,(Janet II), will disarm all the EXTREMIST RADICAL demobbed military veterans, under emergency unconstitutional "regulations" while the "nice, moderate Muslims" invoke Sharia Religious Law to keep their AK-47 cache (s).
Thus, the SYSYEM, under guise of religion, trumps Constitutional guarantees WITH constitutional guarantees.
Hey !!! Was that Alice and the Red Queen I just saw on stage ?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
A Vote For the Green Death & Kicking "A"
For some time now, I have suspected that the PeeCee virus and state socialism are cut from the same cloth.
An encroaching choking globbby fog of Nannyistic cold shoulder and tin ear to natural giggles, chuckles and simple sense of humor has accompanied the trend.
Everyone knows fascists, communists and similar doctrinaire totalitarian types are humorless.
As, a matter of fact, very serious historians believe the anti-statist jokes in Spain, Italy, the Soviet Union and East Germany to have been as important as western efforts in dismantling the dictators' yokes and chains.
Now we have, in the American state of Taxachuesetts, a prime example of the death dealing unsmiling joykillers of the stupidity so unaware of its own unlovliness.
A wittyu young man coaching a kiddies' soccer team of six-and-seven-year-olds in Quincy, nicknamed his charges The Green Death and, in an email to the parents, enthused that he expected them to consistently "KICK ASS!"
For that, he was forced to resign as coach of the Kinder Kickers.
Somewhere the ghost of Mark Twain, who lived his last days in New England, is sobbing...if not blubberiung.
A society that has lost its ability to relax and smile is already in the throes of death.
An encroaching choking globbby fog of Nannyistic cold shoulder and tin ear to natural giggles, chuckles and simple sense of humor has accompanied the trend.
Everyone knows fascists, communists and similar doctrinaire totalitarian types are humorless.
As, a matter of fact, very serious historians believe the anti-statist jokes in Spain, Italy, the Soviet Union and East Germany to have been as important as western efforts in dismantling the dictators' yokes and chains.
Now we have, in the American state of Taxachuesetts, a prime example of the death dealing unsmiling joykillers of the stupidity so unaware of its own unlovliness.
A wittyu young man coaching a kiddies' soccer team of six-and-seven-year-olds in Quincy, nicknamed his charges The Green Death and, in an email to the parents, enthused that he expected them to consistently "KICK ASS!"
For that, he was forced to resign as coach of the Kinder Kickers.
Somewhere the ghost of Mark Twain, who lived his last days in New England, is sobbing...if not blubberiung.
A society that has lost its ability to relax and smile is already in the throes of death.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Old Media Flunked Math
They do not teach math in journalism schools...
If we take the 2008 election results, 53% of the adults agree with and believe in the mainstream media, the alphabet networks, Time and Newsweek.
Thirteen percent of the voters are black dependents on the Marxian Plantation, and half of them have no money at all. So, we subtract 7 from 53 and got 46 %. Then, we face facts that half the legal Hispanic population has no money, and are illiterate in English, so we subtract another 6% from 46 and get 40%.
Of that 40%, probably 10% were teens and near-teens who do not read ANYTHING but the labels on hip-hop CDs.
Now we are down to 30%.
Newspapers cannot survive with just three out of ten people buying the rags...and so there goes the Audit Bueau of Circulation rating and the advertising and the Sunday paper sells for $5 in a losing deal.
If the media bigwigs who have bashed Bush since 2003, had just "balanced" their approach to at least RECOGNIZE a solid 46% of the potential readership, they would not be dying.
But they're dead because they failed math.
I want to live long enough to see what a world without TIME, Newsweek, the New Yorker and the other socialist rags will be like.
When hatred of entrepreneurs, small businessmen, and gritty, empty envy of the successful, driven man and woman is gone or at least muted...TRUTH will stagger naked to the Dais and receive the Sceptre.
If we take the 2008 election results, 53% of the adults agree with and believe in the mainstream media, the alphabet networks, Time and Newsweek.
Thirteen percent of the voters are black dependents on the Marxian Plantation, and half of them have no money at all. So, we subtract 7 from 53 and got 46 %. Then, we face facts that half the legal Hispanic population has no money, and are illiterate in English, so we subtract another 6% from 46 and get 40%.
Of that 40%, probably 10% were teens and near-teens who do not read ANYTHING but the labels on hip-hop CDs.
Now we are down to 30%.
Newspapers cannot survive with just three out of ten people buying the rags...and so there goes the Audit Bueau of Circulation rating and the advertising and the Sunday paper sells for $5 in a losing deal.
If the media bigwigs who have bashed Bush since 2003, had just "balanced" their approach to at least RECOGNIZE a solid 46% of the potential readership, they would not be dying.
But they're dead because they failed math.
I want to live long enough to see what a world without TIME, Newsweek, the New Yorker and the other socialist rags will be like.
When hatred of entrepreneurs, small businessmen, and gritty, empty envy of the successful, driven man and woman is gone or at least muted...TRUTH will stagger naked to the Dais and receive the Sceptre.
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