Dear Kofi Annan:
As transcendent ruler of the secretariat of the United Nations, you are treating Hamas and Hezbollah as though they were high-stakes players in the internationsl policy game, with representation before members of the Security Council and so on.
I feel that you are slighting me. I have been hating Jews and Blacks and Catholics all my life. I was a founding member of the Whit Citizens' Council here in my area in the 1950's. I have given thousands of dollars to David Duke and other great Americans.
It is time that the United Nations recognized our organizations. We crossbreed, and when you add all the KKK and Skinhead membership together, we have a "population" latger than many nations in your general assemnly...maybe even more than Hezbolla and Hamas combined.
So, get to it! If you do not recognize us (the Klan and Skinheads United) I am going to complain to the A.C.L.U and to Fidel Castro, and to Hugo Chavez, and to the crzy (ILL ??). person in North Korea. THEY ALWAYS get your attention.
It's only Fair! Think about it !
Your sycophantic supplicant,
Billy Bob (Bubba) Hatemonger
In The Fetid Swamp Bayou
Gatorville, USA
Monday, July 24, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Bet You Saw it First Here !
Here are two bulletins you won’t get on TV or in your daily fish wrapper:
The chief judge of the Federal District of Columbia court has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was well within its powers in entering, searching and seizing incriminating materials from Congressman William Jefferson’s (D. LA) office.
Liberal columnists and frightened politicians had raised cries of "invasion" and "thuggery" against the FBI, which has already videotaped Jefferson receiving money in a "sting" and has also found marked money in his home freezer. Two persons have pleaded guilty in connection with the investigation.
Judge Thomas Hogan said impeding the activity of the FBI and barring the agency from exercising legal subpoenas for search of congressmen and senators would "create a sanctuary for criminal activity."
Fear and genuine trembling permeate Capitol Hill.
And in another delightful incident which illustrates that the Emperor, indeed, is nekkid, the Republic’s most powerful news wire service again showed why I call it the Ass Press.
The Ass press, in stories sent out on its sprawling net to all members in the media, referred to Republican fund raising as money from "SPECIAL INTERESTS".
But, when referring to Democrat Party slush funds, they use the tern "OUTSIDE GROUPS".
You’d expect such blatant idiocy from the NYTimes, the WashPost, the Atlanta Jaycee, or the LATimes, 24 / 7 and forever.
From Al Jazeera, the BBC and Agence France Presse, this sort of twisted twit verbiage is de rigeur.
But when are the freedom-loving radio stations and papers going to complain about the Ass Press and its skulking ill-bent indoctinatory tactics ?
Citizens are already complaining, turning to the Internet and XMradio for balanced information. Inexorably, time wounds all heels.
The chief judge of the Federal District of Columbia court has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was well within its powers in entering, searching and seizing incriminating materials from Congressman William Jefferson’s (D. LA) office.
Liberal columnists and frightened politicians had raised cries of "invasion" and "thuggery" against the FBI, which has already videotaped Jefferson receiving money in a "sting" and has also found marked money in his home freezer. Two persons have pleaded guilty in connection with the investigation.
Judge Thomas Hogan said impeding the activity of the FBI and barring the agency from exercising legal subpoenas for search of congressmen and senators would "create a sanctuary for criminal activity."
Fear and genuine trembling permeate Capitol Hill.
And in another delightful incident which illustrates that the Emperor, indeed, is nekkid, the Republic’s most powerful news wire service again showed why I call it the Ass Press.
The Ass press, in stories sent out on its sprawling net to all members in the media, referred to Republican fund raising as money from "SPECIAL INTERESTS".
But, when referring to Democrat Party slush funds, they use the tern "OUTSIDE GROUPS".
You’d expect such blatant idiocy from the NYTimes, the WashPost, the Atlanta Jaycee, or the LATimes, 24 / 7 and forever.
From Al Jazeera, the BBC and Agence France Presse, this sort of twisted twit verbiage is de rigeur.
But when are the freedom-loving radio stations and papers going to complain about the Ass Press and its skulking ill-bent indoctinatory tactics ?
Citizens are already complaining, turning to the Internet and XMradio for balanced information. Inexorably, time wounds all heels.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Ignoramusses Unite !!!!
How did you spend July 4, 2006 ???
I spent it reading and hearing about polls that purport to show that America hates its president, has no desire to win in Afghanistan, Iraq or in the war against IslamoFascist Terror.... Which to me all means the same thing.
If these talking-head sheep and their undergirding pollsters had been around from 1775 through 1782, there would have been no glorious victory over Cornwallis at Yourktown.
There would be no United States, no Constitution, no Bill of Rights, no growing Liberty on this continent that peaked with the freeing of the slaves in 1865, and saving of Western Civilixation in 1945.
Because, the signers of the declaration and the members of the continental army of General George Washington were A MINORITY of the people in the thirteen original colonies.
Oh ! You doubt that? Look it up, anywhere. I learned it in a rural Georgia grammar school in 1936. And every reliable historian has recorded it.
I would wager... (though except for Blaise Pascal's wager, I do not "bet")...that many readers do not know that the Continental Army had thousands of black soldiers, rebelling against England and battling for their own freedom.
Anyway, there are many things that are lost on July Fourth these days. Present day governemnt schools in which the teachers denounce and battle against "No Child Left Behind", there is no history of the United States revolution properly taught. Merit and excellence are abhorred and discouraged.
it is *( G A S P )* not appropriate, to mention either Jesus or George Washington in a government school nowadays.
Piety and patriotism are proscibed....Not just muted.
And so, you have been assuming that an overwhelming mob of "democrats" won your freedom and established the first great beacon of Liberty??
Well, most of them were a minority of courageous, indefatguable Nathan Hale Types who were frustrated that they had only ONE life to offer. A few were quaking cowards when the chips were down. But Benedict Arnold and Paul Andre' were heroes to all the tories. Thank God Washington was an even better spymaster than Dubya !!!!
And there's one other thing the average American does not know.
They never used the word "democracy". You will not find it in any of the Federalist papers, or other correspondence of the revolutionary era. They called the United States a Republic and they called all men who opposed the British Crown "republicans".
Even "Whigs" were suspect for a loooooong time.
I spent it reading and hearing about polls that purport to show that America hates its president, has no desire to win in Afghanistan, Iraq or in the war against IslamoFascist Terror.... Which to me all means the same thing.
If these talking-head sheep and their undergirding pollsters had been around from 1775 through 1782, there would have been no glorious victory over Cornwallis at Yourktown.
There would be no United States, no Constitution, no Bill of Rights, no growing Liberty on this continent that peaked with the freeing of the slaves in 1865, and saving of Western Civilixation in 1945.
Because, the signers of the declaration and the members of the continental army of General George Washington were A MINORITY of the people in the thirteen original colonies.
Oh ! You doubt that? Look it up, anywhere. I learned it in a rural Georgia grammar school in 1936. And every reliable historian has recorded it.
I would wager... (though except for Blaise Pascal's wager, I do not "bet")...that many readers do not know that the Continental Army had thousands of black soldiers, rebelling against England and battling for their own freedom.
Anyway, there are many things that are lost on July Fourth these days. Present day governemnt schools in which the teachers denounce and battle against "No Child Left Behind", there is no history of the United States revolution properly taught. Merit and excellence are abhorred and discouraged.
it is *( G A S P )* not appropriate, to mention either Jesus or George Washington in a government school nowadays.
Piety and patriotism are proscibed....Not just muted.
And so, you have been assuming that an overwhelming mob of "democrats" won your freedom and established the first great beacon of Liberty??
Well, most of them were a minority of courageous, indefatguable Nathan Hale Types who were frustrated that they had only ONE life to offer. A few were quaking cowards when the chips were down. But Benedict Arnold and Paul Andre' were heroes to all the tories. Thank God Washington was an even better spymaster than Dubya !!!!
And there's one other thing the average American does not know.
They never used the word "democracy". You will not find it in any of the Federalist papers, or other correspondence of the revolutionary era. They called the United States a Republic and they called all men who opposed the British Crown "republicans".
Even "Whigs" were suspect for a loooooong time.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Evils of a Boob Memory....
Lying, venal subversive journalists bank on the modern disposable society with its short memory to protect their backsides and camouflage their transgressions.
I hope I am joined by others in my frayed tolerance for these hijinks of hypocrisy.
Here are two examples that show that present day journos and pols survive on strength of H.L. Mencken’s diagnosis of the "Boobwazzee" !
First there what is supposed to be the deep dark secret of the U.S.A. Intelligence services "plundering" financial information to track terrorists and their supporters. Despite requests from the co-chairs of the 9/ 11 Commission, and leaders of both political parties, the New York Times, the L.A. Times and the Ass Press all went with the story that we were tracking every penny, euro, dinar, and shekel we could find going into terrorist coffers. Despite the fact that "secrecy" might save thousands of innocent lives. (I.e.: Bali, Spain, London).
But, looky here now! President Bush signed an executive order in December, 2001 authorizing and Veep Dick Cheney made a speech outlining the plan PRECISELY!
It was not "secret" at all.
And, then there is the dependence of Senator John Kerry on your miserable memory.
Just three years ago, running for president, Kerry called a news conference and announced that George W. Bush planned to "cut and run" from Iraq, and endanger the entire American nation and its people by doing so. It’s on the record. It was prominently reported—yes, in the NYTimes and the LATimes, among other fishwrappers, plus all TV news outlets.
But just this week, 34 of Kerry’s fellow Dem senators voted against his widely, loudly hailed motion to "cut and run" from Iraq by July of next year.
If this ole blind, nearly deaf 81 year old can remember these things, do you suppose the rest of America has really forgotten?
Well, just in case...here’s your reminder.
Like Leadbelly’s "Bad Actin Woman" of yore, these folks "DON’T MEAN NO ONE MAN NO GOOD!!!!"
I hope I am joined by others in my frayed tolerance for these hijinks of hypocrisy.
Here are two examples that show that present day journos and pols survive on strength of H.L. Mencken’s diagnosis of the "Boobwazzee" !
First there what is supposed to be the deep dark secret of the U.S.A. Intelligence services "plundering" financial information to track terrorists and their supporters. Despite requests from the co-chairs of the 9/ 11 Commission, and leaders of both political parties, the New York Times, the L.A. Times and the Ass Press all went with the story that we were tracking every penny, euro, dinar, and shekel we could find going into terrorist coffers. Despite the fact that "secrecy" might save thousands of innocent lives. (I.e.: Bali, Spain, London).
But, looky here now! President Bush signed an executive order in December, 2001 authorizing and Veep Dick Cheney made a speech outlining the plan PRECISELY!
It was not "secret" at all.
And, then there is the dependence of Senator John Kerry on your miserable memory.
Just three years ago, running for president, Kerry called a news conference and announced that George W. Bush planned to "cut and run" from Iraq, and endanger the entire American nation and its people by doing so. It’s on the record. It was prominently reported—yes, in the NYTimes and the LATimes, among other fishwrappers, plus all TV news outlets.
But just this week, 34 of Kerry’s fellow Dem senators voted against his widely, loudly hailed motion to "cut and run" from Iraq by July of next year.
If this ole blind, nearly deaf 81 year old can remember these things, do you suppose the rest of America has really forgotten?
Well, just in case...here’s your reminder.
Like Leadbelly’s "Bad Actin Woman" of yore, these folks "DON’T MEAN NO ONE MAN NO GOOD!!!!"
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Where's the Beef ???
Headlines on the internet news pages screamed: "One Child Killed By Israeli Strike in Gaza".
But back a few months ago, when the Islami Jihadists struck in Egypt, and Bloody Hamas struck in a resort on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, did the world's great news organizations report how many Jew Babies were slkaughtered?
No, they did not. I went back and checked. But Debka Files, a website of consistent truth, as regards espionage and terrorism, DID.
That this is "not fair" is no news. Life is not fair and the communist-loving left leaning world journalism establishment is the most unfair precinct in all the estates of what passes for twenty-first century civilization.
All the internet giants have agreed to Communist China's censorship and regulation of their news sites and searches.
Those of us who believe in freedom of communication for ALL the world are already summarily defeated.
It is no longer supportable by facts to revel in the great freedom of discourse throughout the world.
The "filter", apparently is Leviathan and immovable.
But, it is eternally ethically insubstantial, and will, finally, doom us all.
But back a few months ago, when the Islami Jihadists struck in Egypt, and Bloody Hamas struck in a resort on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, did the world's great news organizations report how many Jew Babies were slkaughtered?
No, they did not. I went back and checked. But Debka Files, a website of consistent truth, as regards espionage and terrorism, DID.
That this is "not fair" is no news. Life is not fair and the communist-loving left leaning world journalism establishment is the most unfair precinct in all the estates of what passes for twenty-first century civilization.
All the internet giants have agreed to Communist China's censorship and regulation of their news sites and searches.
Those of us who believe in freedom of communication for ALL the world are already summarily defeated.
It is no longer supportable by facts to revel in the great freedom of discourse throughout the world.
The "filter", apparently is Leviathan and immovable.
But, it is eternally ethically insubstantial, and will, finally, doom us all.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Who knows the Rules?
It hit me in a double-clutch punch...right between the eyes and in the gut at the same instant.
Like a supercharged jolt of electric shock, it shook me
"Coulter won't buy Lauer's liberal logic..."
Well, now there is only Logic, you know.
It may be Aristotelean Logic, or it may be William F. Buckley Logic, but those two are the same, because logic is like pregnancy and life itself.
It either IS or is NOT. It is pristine and incorruptible.
What the writer should have used, whether describing the Left or the Right was the word "illogic".
Whatever is NOT logical, whether from the pen or tongue of a conservative or a liberal theoritician, is by definition illogical.
There are rules.
The fact that most journalists know nothing of these rules is certainly disaffecting, if not, indeed, criminal.
But there it is.
A great example of this is a pathetic case of some woman namee Busby who exhorted a group of illegal immigrants to help in her political campaign.
"You do not have to have papers to vote", a video shows her saying.
Now comes the multitude, in defense.
"Well, that is not what she MEANT, so it is ACTUALLY NOT what she SAID", they whine.
Well, I fancy myself a logician, trained in academia, and I say it is nonsense to declare someone did not say something because that is not what she / he MEANT to say.
In the U.S. congress, that may be the norm. But when you approach MY intellect, it's bogus.
And, no matter how hard the demagogs try, they cannot change the immutable rules of syllogism.
Like a supercharged jolt of electric shock, it shook me
"Coulter won't buy Lauer's liberal logic..."
Well, now there is only Logic, you know.
It may be Aristotelean Logic, or it may be William F. Buckley Logic, but those two are the same, because logic is like pregnancy and life itself.
It either IS or is NOT. It is pristine and incorruptible.
What the writer should have used, whether describing the Left or the Right was the word "illogic".
Whatever is NOT logical, whether from the pen or tongue of a conservative or a liberal theoritician, is by definition illogical.
There are rules.
The fact that most journalists know nothing of these rules is certainly disaffecting, if not, indeed, criminal.
But there it is.
A great example of this is a pathetic case of some woman namee Busby who exhorted a group of illegal immigrants to help in her political campaign.
"You do not have to have papers to vote", a video shows her saying.
Now comes the multitude, in defense.
"Well, that is not what she MEANT, so it is ACTUALLY NOT what she SAID", they whine.
Well, I fancy myself a logician, trained in academia, and I say it is nonsense to declare someone did not say something because that is not what she / he MEANT to say.
In the U.S. congress, that may be the norm. But when you approach MY intellect, it's bogus.
And, no matter how hard the demagogs try, they cannot change the immutable rules of syllogism.
Monday, May 29, 2006
The Stupid Syndrome
On Memorial Day, I found several things bouncing around the Internet and the world's wire service press reports that established a new level of illiteracy and ignorance.
Three wire services referred to the "mayhem" created by a piece of constructyion equipment tracking that sounded like gunfire in the Capital's Rayburn officer building.
No human being was injured during the "crisis" in the least way.
Incidentally "capital" is Washingtion and "capitol" is the building !)
Well, here's what "mayhem" is (Webster's Unabridged):
mayhem: One entry found for mayhem.
Main Entry: may·hem Pronunciation: 'mA-"hem, 'mA-&mFunction: nounEtymology: Middle English mayme, from Anglo-French mahaim, from Old French, loss of a limb, from maynier to maim, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German meiden gelding, Old Norse meitha to injure1 a : willful and permanent deprivation of a bodily member resulting in the impairment of a person's fighting ability b : willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of the body.
I point this out because my night city editor nearly 60 years ago, Sam Cox, who did NOT finish Harvard or Yale, could not ABIDE sloppy l;azy writers and beat us around the ears with a bloody buzzard's gut when we used a "color" word incorrectly.
There is no brake or bridle on these lazy minded liberal leftwing louts and splenetic inciters of the fabricating amtiquer media nowadays.
They also do not know the meaning of decimate which they use in attept to magnify casualty reports.
If a troop of 100 is "decimated", it loses tem men, not necessarily any of them fatally, according to the dictionary definition.
All I want to suggest here is:
If they don't know what the words mean, then should we believe anything they write? Or say?
Three wire services referred to the "mayhem" created by a piece of constructyion equipment tracking that sounded like gunfire in the Capital's Rayburn officer building.
No human being was injured during the "crisis" in the least way.
Incidentally "capital" is Washingtion and "capitol" is the building !)
Well, here's what "mayhem" is (Webster's Unabridged):
mayhem: One entry found for mayhem.
Main Entry: may·hem Pronunciation: 'mA-"hem, 'mA-&mFunction: nounEtymology: Middle English mayme, from Anglo-French mahaim, from Old French, loss of a limb, from maynier to maim, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle High German meiden gelding, Old Norse meitha to injure1 a : willful and permanent deprivation of a bodily member resulting in the impairment of a person's fighting ability b : willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of the body.
I point this out because my night city editor nearly 60 years ago, Sam Cox, who did NOT finish Harvard or Yale, could not ABIDE sloppy l;azy writers and beat us around the ears with a bloody buzzard's gut when we used a "color" word incorrectly.
There is no brake or bridle on these lazy minded liberal leftwing louts and splenetic inciters of the fabricating amtiquer media nowadays.
They also do not know the meaning of decimate which they use in attept to magnify casualty reports.
If a troop of 100 is "decimated", it loses tem men, not necessarily any of them fatally, according to the dictionary definition.
All I want to suggest here is:
If they don't know what the words mean, then should we believe anything they write? Or say?
Friday, May 26, 2006
Sensitivity to Subversion
It has come to my attention that there is a huge and obvious camel's nose under the tent of American sovereignty...and It's NOT illegal aliens invading aceoss our southern border. (Althouth that HAS become an obvious fact, accepted by 99% of the registered voters.)
Nope..This is the creepy-crawly conspiracy within the corrupt and useless United Nations to supercede exclusive national taxation policy of "member" nations.
In an organization where the representation in its General Assembly is equal for Gabon, Senegal, Belize, Cyprus and Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, the looming "tax the rich" demagogy will surely carry the day.
My blog will not hold the timeline documentation of the lurking plan. But there are some insightful sources out there, if you choose to pursue the subject.
It is not a threat without substance.
Most recently articulated by Sally MacNamra at Townhall.com, it has long been a subject dear to the patriotic heart of Cliff Kincaid, who has written incisive books ("GLOBAL BONDAGE" and "GLOBAL TAXATION") on the subject... books suppressed by all the Globaloney Antique Media, but still important tomes for American citizens.
Cliff Kincaid's bio, Blog and contributions to Accuracy In Media are very easy to Google. And, very exciting to read!
All of you who have become enamoured, as I have of the John Linder / Neal Boortz Fair Tax Plan should leap to inform yourselves about this fund grap by the U.N.
I mean, what is confiscation without representation, anyway ?
(Cut-and-paste links: http://www.usasurvival.org/bio.html and http://www.ourmedia.org/node/45047)
Nope..This is the creepy-crawly conspiracy within the corrupt and useless United Nations to supercede exclusive national taxation policy of "member" nations.
In an organization where the representation in its General Assembly is equal for Gabon, Senegal, Belize, Cyprus and Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, the looming "tax the rich" demagogy will surely carry the day.
My blog will not hold the timeline documentation of the lurking plan. But there are some insightful sources out there, if you choose to pursue the subject.
It is not a threat without substance.
Most recently articulated by Sally MacNamra at Townhall.com, it has long been a subject dear to the patriotic heart of Cliff Kincaid, who has written incisive books ("GLOBAL BONDAGE" and "GLOBAL TAXATION") on the subject... books suppressed by all the Globaloney Antique Media, but still important tomes for American citizens.
Cliff Kincaid's bio, Blog and contributions to Accuracy In Media are very easy to Google. And, very exciting to read!
All of you who have become enamoured, as I have of the John Linder / Neal Boortz Fair Tax Plan should leap to inform yourselves about this fund grap by the U.N.
I mean, what is confiscation without representation, anyway ?
(Cut-and-paste links: http://www.usasurvival.org/bio.html and http://www.ourmedia.org/node/45047)
Thursday, May 11, 2006
All is Lost ???
Mainstream (Antique) media outlets were collectively nonplussed when they were confronted with the Truth this week.
Tony Snow, the new White House news spokesman caught them Lying. And he fried them in an Open Letter email.
The "press" had reported that only three million seniors had signed up for the new Medicare prescription drug plan; that almost ALL minority and poor senior citizens had been bypassed by the enrollmen deadline.
Then Snow brougt forth the figures from the administration. Not the Bush administration...the SOCIAL SECURITY administration.
They showed that everyone eligibe save about two million are safely enrolled and already receiving benefits; that 71% of African Americans, 73% of eligible Hispanics and 78% of eligible Asian Americans are enrolled. Most not enrolled already have drug coverage.
The media's response to being caught misreresenting the facts?
"The White House is trying to MANIPULATE us..." they screamed--even though the figures, the MATH was there.
Similarly, when a group of soldiers and marines in Iraq unanimously opined that the "no-good-news" policy of reporting by most of the press was "the same as hoisting the white flag of surrender", why then spokesmen for wire services and TV talking heads claimed the poll of serviceman opinion was an attempt at "intimidation".
So, the demise of Western Civilization is hastened by conspiracy by a minority of politically venal gossips, seeking like worms in a sealed glass jar, to draw whatever sustenance from one another.
Let us hope they dry up and wither, as Ernest Hemingway predicted, before all of us and our great-grandchildren are silenced and done in.....
Tony Snow, the new White House news spokesman caught them Lying. And he fried them in an Open Letter email.
The "press" had reported that only three million seniors had signed up for the new Medicare prescription drug plan; that almost ALL minority and poor senior citizens had been bypassed by the enrollmen deadline.
Then Snow brougt forth the figures from the administration. Not the Bush administration...the SOCIAL SECURITY administration.
They showed that everyone eligibe save about two million are safely enrolled and already receiving benefits; that 71% of African Americans, 73% of eligible Hispanics and 78% of eligible Asian Americans are enrolled. Most not enrolled already have drug coverage.
The media's response to being caught misreresenting the facts?
"The White House is trying to MANIPULATE us..." they screamed--even though the figures, the MATH was there.
Similarly, when a group of soldiers and marines in Iraq unanimously opined that the "no-good-news" policy of reporting by most of the press was "the same as hoisting the white flag of surrender", why then spokesmen for wire services and TV talking heads claimed the poll of serviceman opinion was an attempt at "intimidation".
So, the demise of Western Civilization is hastened by conspiracy by a minority of politically venal gossips, seeking like worms in a sealed glass jar, to draw whatever sustenance from one another.
Let us hope they dry up and wither, as Ernest Hemingway predicted, before all of us and our great-grandchildren are silenced and done in.....
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Easter Invitation
If this is your bunny time, don’t bother.
If you’re headed for the Avenue and a parade, go home.
And, the White House egg roll, you can avoid, also,
Along with the bellyache from those sickening lumps of sweetcheesy discoveries
In the grass and bushes of your pallid churchyard.
Do something simpler ..and fraught with pain:
Behold the tortured, Risen Son of Man and God
Bearing eternity for your quaking pleasure.
Go and see how HE tastes.
If you’re headed for the Avenue and a parade, go home.
And, the White House egg roll, you can avoid, also,
Along with the bellyache from those sickening lumps of sweetcheesy discoveries
In the grass and bushes of your pallid churchyard.
Do something simpler ..and fraught with pain:
Behold the tortured, Risen Son of Man and God
Bearing eternity for your quaking pleasure.
Go and see how HE tastes.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
I Call for CENSURE !!!
I have profound respect for law enforcement officers.
I have always been on their side. Even when they arrested me for traffic offenses, and once for serenading young ladies at Agnes Scott college when a buddy came home from the Pacific in 1946.
I purely loved riding with vice squad detectives and police captains and the first black detectives in Atlanta in the 1950's when I was on the police beat for the old Constitution.
I still keep up with the statistics, too.
In the year 2005, for instance, 59, 373 law enforcement officers were assaulted in the United States. Exactly 16, 563 were severely injured. Eighty per cent of these attacks were with fists, hands, feet. Firearms were used four per cent of the time, knives in two per cent. In 13 per cent of the attacks "other" weapons (including automobiles, I guess) were used.
Now, in all my life, I never even ARGUED with a policeman. The first time I got drunk, I asked one in my home town to take me home, in fact. Murphy was his name.
But my "blind" love affair with police is over. Having been accused, even by my deceased son, Victor, of being inordinately and overweeningly pro-COP, I am now asking for sanctions !
I call for CENSURE without any prior investigation, of the U.S. Capitol Police officer allegedly attacked with a fisted cell phone by Atlanta's U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKiney !
The charge? Dereliction of Duty.
He should have handcuffed her and called the wagon to the Longworth Building without pause or adieu.
Case closed.
I have always been on their side. Even when they arrested me for traffic offenses, and once for serenading young ladies at Agnes Scott college when a buddy came home from the Pacific in 1946.
I purely loved riding with vice squad detectives and police captains and the first black detectives in Atlanta in the 1950's when I was on the police beat for the old Constitution.
I still keep up with the statistics, too.
In the year 2005, for instance, 59, 373 law enforcement officers were assaulted in the United States. Exactly 16, 563 were severely injured. Eighty per cent of these attacks were with fists, hands, feet. Firearms were used four per cent of the time, knives in two per cent. In 13 per cent of the attacks "other" weapons (including automobiles, I guess) were used.
Now, in all my life, I never even ARGUED with a policeman. The first time I got drunk, I asked one in my home town to take me home, in fact. Murphy was his name.
But my "blind" love affair with police is over. Having been accused, even by my deceased son, Victor, of being inordinately and overweeningly pro-COP, I am now asking for sanctions !
I call for CENSURE without any prior investigation, of the U.S. Capitol Police officer allegedly attacked with a fisted cell phone by Atlanta's U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKiney !
The charge? Dereliction of Duty.
He should have handcuffed her and called the wagon to the Longworth Building without pause or adieu.
Case closed.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Where's The Red Queen ???
Rescued by United States troops after being kidnapped and held hostage, the group of peace activists, in all of their bountiful gratitude, issued a press release referring to their saviors as "occupiers".
The Associated Press contradicted itself with two stories just a day apart..Then it allowed a purely theoretical and opinionated story to run on its international wires as news.
The producer of weekend "GOOD MORNING AMERICA" wrote an email in which he said "George Bush makes me sick....I'm going to puke !" (It was sent from his palm-held "Blackberry" unit, meaning he WAS kind of "on the run" at the time. Maybe with David Gregory, in a bar ?
Still....
I wonder how long this Alice In Wonderland siege of stumbliong, bumbling, and outright dissembling by the Antique Media will last. Long enough for America to "get it" I hope!
Their lobbyists are reportedly helping a move in Congress to "regulate" content on the internet. I suppose that meas all blogs, too.
Watch out carefully. The March Hare and the Mad Hatter are coming.
The Red Queen will be the Chief Censor of the World Wide Web. You remember what she said, in Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, don't you?
"A word means whatever I SAY it means !!!!?
The Associated Press contradicted itself with two stories just a day apart..Then it allowed a purely theoretical and opinionated story to run on its international wires as news.
The producer of weekend "GOOD MORNING AMERICA" wrote an email in which he said "George Bush makes me sick....I'm going to puke !" (It was sent from his palm-held "Blackberry" unit, meaning he WAS kind of "on the run" at the time. Maybe with David Gregory, in a bar ?
Still....
I wonder how long this Alice In Wonderland siege of stumbliong, bumbling, and outright dissembling by the Antique Media will last. Long enough for America to "get it" I hope!
Their lobbyists are reportedly helping a move in Congress to "regulate" content on the internet. I suppose that meas all blogs, too.
Watch out carefully. The March Hare and the Mad Hatter are coming.
The Red Queen will be the Chief Censor of the World Wide Web. You remember what she said, in Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, don't you?
"A word means whatever I SAY it means !!!!?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Noisy Decapitator
Once upon a time, in 1950 A.D., I scraped together some money, and with full support from my bride, Betts, a 21 year old mother of two boys, went into the weekly newspaper business.
We purchased the noisiest and most trustworthy of ancient flat bed presses, a "Country Campbell" (Matk Twain's favorite !)- --and a Model One linotype machine.
My education in printing took place five years earlier at the Toccoa Record. I wasn’t speedy, but I was fairly proficient and the Model One was the machine for linotype dummies.
It had only one case and errors were easily correctable. It was also less likely to spit hot metal at the operator than more sophisticated linotypes.
We installed the press first. It was an oscillating dinosaur, and one needed to stand on a stool about kitchen chair height to feed its. It would grasp the large sheet of paperfrom a tilted oaken table slab with "teeth" and take it around and across the locked-in chase of type positioned on the flat bed as it clanged back and forth underneath the large drum that delivered the paper.
When we got the press in and it was working really neatly, we had to build an extra "room" behind the press, about 12 feet deep and as wide as the garage door, to enclose the linotype machine indoors. With the editor’s desk and the business manager’s desk, there was no lateral room for the linotype machine.
(Here, it occurs to me that there must be, now in 2006, at least a generation—maybe two– unfamiliar with a "linotype". It was a tall conglomeration of rotors, levers and tracks with a large "case" slanted on top, a pot of molten lead / babbitt print metal held at a perfect temperature–and the most beautiful, sensitive keyboard that only a crazy man like the inventor Merggenthaler could have invented. You sat at the keyboard and barely touched the keys and the matrices, brass thumb-sized plates with jagged distinct carrier edges inside, fell into delicious symmetry, forming a line of mirror image words. A lever on the right side of the keyboard sent the line of matrices to the type metal pot orifice, and a perfect slug of 11 picas (less than two inches) dropped into a "stick" or tray. It was, to coin a phrase, perfect. Only my Llewellen setter Jack had a higher value for me.
(Except for Betts and the boys, of course, but I didn’t OWN them... They owned me!)
It looked complicated, but it was lovely, musical, hypnotic. And I was determined to do my own linotyping, though I had good friends in a nearby town who did it cheaper than I could.
Pride goeth !!!
Benny Buffington, a 17 year old black youth, was my constant fishing companion, the only "Nanny" the boys ever had, and just about my best friend ever.
He "volunteered" to feed the press. And he was a quick study. We was a fastidious, tireless worker. He was one of the wittiest humans I have ever known, and a frustrated entertainer. He called me "Mmm Bill" the "mister" hardly spoken, but proudly indicated in his vocal shorthand.
One evening when we had decided we were "ready" to do all the typesetting on the Model One, and all the justifying on our own "stone" and print the paper on our Campbell, we were very excited. "Pumped" would be the word today.
I was sitting at the linotype, exhibiting my lightest touch and making only about three typos every tem slugs, when Benny hollered at me from his pedestal.
"Muh Bill, lissen that !" He squalled.
(He NEVER put a vowel after the "MMM" in his salutation unless he caught a bigger fish, or danger flickered around his two minor charges, Mike and Keith.
"Lissen! It’s CLICKIN’ funny..."
"Oh, hell, Benny, it’s just a noisy ole....."
"Naw..NAW SIR ! Its makin’ a reeel funny extra noise! You caint hear over there ! You gotter come ‘ere and see!! It ain’t right!!" he yelled..all the while rythmically feeding sheets to the drum’s clips.
I finished a slug, moaned and got up slowly and dramatically, barely tolerantly approached Benny’s perch on the office side of the press.
Something went "Click-clack-BUMPETY BUM P" in the nether area of the old Campbell, as the bed traveled toward the printshop area.
"See?!! See?!! I tole you !!" Benny keened shrilly..
And then we were hypnotized by the same slo-mo vision always attendant in auto accidents.
Time struggled to pass. The huge, heavy press bed---I’ll guess it weighed 700 pounds-- shuddered on it’s reciprocating gearlines on its underside, and levitated... flew off the back end of the press, sailed to clip the back of my chair and slice my precious linotype machine in half !.
The only sounds were the whining of the large motor by the press, and the faint tinkling of the raining matrices on the concrete floor..
"She’s gone, ain’t she?" Benny murmured very softly, audibly.
" Yep", I said. "I guess that’s about it...Truly All She Wrote !" I giggled eerily.
So we walked over to the exit door. I reached up and pulled the main power switch on the old fuse box and we went over to the house to play with Betts and the boys.
Betts and I had a li’l drink. And that was the end of The Rural Citizen.
We purchased the noisiest and most trustworthy of ancient flat bed presses, a "Country Campbell" (Matk Twain's favorite !)- --and a Model One linotype machine.
My education in printing took place five years earlier at the Toccoa Record. I wasn’t speedy, but I was fairly proficient and the Model One was the machine for linotype dummies.
It had only one case and errors were easily correctable. It was also less likely to spit hot metal at the operator than more sophisticated linotypes.
We installed the press first. It was an oscillating dinosaur, and one needed to stand on a stool about kitchen chair height to feed its. It would grasp the large sheet of paperfrom a tilted oaken table slab with "teeth" and take it around and across the locked-in chase of type positioned on the flat bed as it clanged back and forth underneath the large drum that delivered the paper.
When we got the press in and it was working really neatly, we had to build an extra "room" behind the press, about 12 feet deep and as wide as the garage door, to enclose the linotype machine indoors. With the editor’s desk and the business manager’s desk, there was no lateral room for the linotype machine.
(Here, it occurs to me that there must be, now in 2006, at least a generation—maybe two– unfamiliar with a "linotype". It was a tall conglomeration of rotors, levers and tracks with a large "case" slanted on top, a pot of molten lead / babbitt print metal held at a perfect temperature–and the most beautiful, sensitive keyboard that only a crazy man like the inventor Merggenthaler could have invented. You sat at the keyboard and barely touched the keys and the matrices, brass thumb-sized plates with jagged distinct carrier edges inside, fell into delicious symmetry, forming a line of mirror image words. A lever on the right side of the keyboard sent the line of matrices to the type metal pot orifice, and a perfect slug of 11 picas (less than two inches) dropped into a "stick" or tray. It was, to coin a phrase, perfect. Only my Llewellen setter Jack had a higher value for me.
(Except for Betts and the boys, of course, but I didn’t OWN them... They owned me!)
It looked complicated, but it was lovely, musical, hypnotic. And I was determined to do my own linotyping, though I had good friends in a nearby town who did it cheaper than I could.
Pride goeth !!!
Benny Buffington, a 17 year old black youth, was my constant fishing companion, the only "Nanny" the boys ever had, and just about my best friend ever.
He "volunteered" to feed the press. And he was a quick study. We was a fastidious, tireless worker. He was one of the wittiest humans I have ever known, and a frustrated entertainer. He called me "Mmm Bill" the "mister" hardly spoken, but proudly indicated in his vocal shorthand.
One evening when we had decided we were "ready" to do all the typesetting on the Model One, and all the justifying on our own "stone" and print the paper on our Campbell, we were very excited. "Pumped" would be the word today.
I was sitting at the linotype, exhibiting my lightest touch and making only about three typos every tem slugs, when Benny hollered at me from his pedestal.
"Muh Bill, lissen that !" He squalled.
(He NEVER put a vowel after the "MMM" in his salutation unless he caught a bigger fish, or danger flickered around his two minor charges, Mike and Keith.
"Lissen! It’s CLICKIN’ funny..."
"Oh, hell, Benny, it’s just a noisy ole....."
"Naw..NAW SIR ! Its makin’ a reeel funny extra noise! You caint hear over there ! You gotter come ‘ere and see!! It ain’t right!!" he yelled..all the while rythmically feeding sheets to the drum’s clips.
I finished a slug, moaned and got up slowly and dramatically, barely tolerantly approached Benny’s perch on the office side of the press.
Something went "Click-clack-BUMPETY BUM P" in the nether area of the old Campbell, as the bed traveled toward the printshop area.
"See?!! See?!! I tole you !!" Benny keened shrilly..
And then we were hypnotized by the same slo-mo vision always attendant in auto accidents.
Time struggled to pass. The huge, heavy press bed---I’ll guess it weighed 700 pounds-- shuddered on it’s reciprocating gearlines on its underside, and levitated... flew off the back end of the press, sailed to clip the back of my chair and slice my precious linotype machine in half !.
The only sounds were the whining of the large motor by the press, and the faint tinkling of the raining matrices on the concrete floor..
"She’s gone, ain’t she?" Benny murmured very softly, audibly.
" Yep", I said. "I guess that’s about it...Truly All She Wrote !" I giggled eerily.
So we walked over to the exit door. I reached up and pulled the main power switch on the old fuse box and we went over to the house to play with Betts and the boys.
Betts and I had a li’l drink. And that was the end of The Rural Citizen.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Where Are the Globes ???
These figures were just jumping off the monitor screen, and spacing me out...
Twelve per cent of high school seniors in the United States could not locate the continental boundaries of the USA on a world map or globe.
Nearly 25 per cent had never seen a globe.
In New York, a survey of college seniors in the Rochester and Buffalo areas did not know who George Pataki was–the two term governor of New York recently beset by ill health.
No figures were given for how many could read the "Run, Dick, Run" primers. (They are not even used any more.)
But, hold on!
When I went to Google and typed in "English, Civics Literacy", I was directed to—hold onto your seat—391,000 sites...ALL of the first pages devoted to state and federal movements and programs for "English Language and Civics Literacy" for Immigrants and New Americans.
But alas, I found no "initiatives" to press the government schools to improve the language and civics information flow to our elementary and high school population.
It is, of course, MY obsession, not yours. I will be gone before the people of this country realize what has happened.
Always the Egoist, I admit, I am "driven" to remember as a teen aged high school junior, running into a burning "Black" schoolhouse in 1940 to retrieve a large world globe, before the flames engulfed and destroyed the school. No one paid much attention.
No one paid any attention, either, to the fact that the "Black", segregated school had only nine grades.
Nor did anyone gripe about the "White" school in my town having only eleven grades. We had two foreign languages (if you count Latin) and plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. It was better than most any public high school today. More demanding, anyway.
Every high school graduate knew the name of the governor, both senators and our congressman. Most of us could name and locate all the states and capitals. William Shadburn and I played a game, alphabetically naming the states and capitals alphabetically. I could never remember Frankfort, Kentucky. He lost out on Carson City, Nevada. We lnew Tom Paine and Dr. Benjamin Rush intimately. We fenced with Bible verses every morning.
So, I ask you...Where are the Globes ????
Twelve per cent of high school seniors in the United States could not locate the continental boundaries of the USA on a world map or globe.
Nearly 25 per cent had never seen a globe.
In New York, a survey of college seniors in the Rochester and Buffalo areas did not know who George Pataki was–the two term governor of New York recently beset by ill health.
No figures were given for how many could read the "Run, Dick, Run" primers. (They are not even used any more.)
But, hold on!
When I went to Google and typed in "English, Civics Literacy", I was directed to—hold onto your seat—391,000 sites...ALL of the first pages devoted to state and federal movements and programs for "English Language and Civics Literacy" for Immigrants and New Americans.
But alas, I found no "initiatives" to press the government schools to improve the language and civics information flow to our elementary and high school population.
It is, of course, MY obsession, not yours. I will be gone before the people of this country realize what has happened.
Always the Egoist, I admit, I am "driven" to remember as a teen aged high school junior, running into a burning "Black" schoolhouse in 1940 to retrieve a large world globe, before the flames engulfed and destroyed the school. No one paid much attention.
No one paid any attention, either, to the fact that the "Black", segregated school had only nine grades.
Nor did anyone gripe about the "White" school in my town having only eleven grades. We had two foreign languages (if you count Latin) and plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. It was better than most any public high school today. More demanding, anyway.
Every high school graduate knew the name of the governor, both senators and our congressman. Most of us could name and locate all the states and capitals. William Shadburn and I played a game, alphabetically naming the states and capitals alphabetically. I could never remember Frankfort, Kentucky. He lost out on Carson City, Nevada. We lnew Tom Paine and Dr. Benjamin Rush intimately. We fenced with Bible verses every morning.
So, I ask you...Where are the Globes ????
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Crumbling Cathedrals...Queasy Quadrangles
"David Riesman said that we are living in the cathedrals of learning, without the faith that built those cathedrals. We are also living in a free society without the faith that built that society -- and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it."
So began a brilliant (as always) column by Thomas Sowell. It was written around the fact that Larry Summers was forced out of the presidency of Harvard University by the mediocre-mad culture leverlers and desroyers of excellence, fueled by their ignited PeeCee gas.
It is not boasting for me to say that I had two great university experiences. The first was in the 1940's when I barely fulfilled the requirements for graduation from Emory. The last was in getting a graduate degree from the University of North Florida, with only ONE "B" in one course..the rest all "A".
Shows the difference between age 20 and age 55.
Priorities.
At Emory, I flourished in Dr. Tom English's literature and Dr. Will Howe's visiting seminars on romance prose. I excelled in Dr. Dickie Boyd's Greek courses, and Dr. Cullen Gosnell's political science. "Goose" and I were both flaming liberals in thos days. And it was considered "weird" to be a member of the International Policy Council, as I was. There were 11 others.
I was wedded to my philosophy regimen under Dr. Leroy Loemker. His wife played in the ORIGINAL Atlanta Symphony, and this pleased me. I was very close to Dr. Charlie Lester, a genius chemist from whom I took no courses, and his brother, Jim, from whom I got two "A's" in Geology.
My very favorite person at Emory was Dean Elliott Heber Rece. He always treated me like a man, and guided me with great love and tolerance to my diploma and my cap and gown.
I named my first son after Dean Rece.
But, though I did not flunk (fail) any courses, I had a lot of D-for-Dereliction grades. I knew the essentials of the subjects, but the professors wanted me to attend class !
At Harvard--and other great universities today--no one gets a "D" unless he commits something like what we used to call High Botchery! It is a recorded fact that ninety (90) per cent of the seniors at Harvard now graduate cum laude!
That was reserved for a very , very, select few in my university days. Some Phi Beta Kappa members failed to get the "with Honors" nod.
And the fact that Dr. Summers was opposed to grade inflation, and that he fought it every day he was at Harvard, did him in.
His assertion that, maybe, women were not, as a group, well suited to the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.) was not happily accepted as a lapsus lingua, by the Harvard feminista--but that is not the basis of Dr. Larry's exit.
Of allthose professors I mingled with at Emory and North Florida, some were left wingers, some were libertarians, some were Christians and some were agnostic. Nobody cared. They were all free.
But, as I joined them as an adjunct for four years, I found that even with the new wave of Dr Spock-like educational theory spewing from Gainesville and Athens, students still had to work and perform to get a degree.
Now, with teacher's unions claiming TENURE for elementary school teachers, and no punitive sanctions for either libel or plagiarism either by school boards or in academia, we who love erudition witness a slippery slope.
Dr. Larry Summers exits Harvard. Al Quaeda matriculates at Yale.
Get out of the shadow of that Ivy Covered Ivory Tower, Young'uns !!
It's Falling.
Here's a link to Dr. Sowell: http://www.tsowell.com/
Friday, March 03, 2006
WARNING ! You Won't B'leeeeeve This ! But, TRY !
On Friday night, March 3, 2006, this is what the august Associated Press did:
Embarrassed by revelations that George Bush did NOT say what they had reported him saying, and further embarrassed that Governot Blanco of Louisiana HAD said what they had NOT quoted her as saying (that the New Orleans levees had NOT been "breached"), they made a correction. Yes ! A correction !
They corrected their internationally distributed story to point out that Governor Blanco was, essentially correct....
She MEANT to say that the levees were "overtopped". Yes, NOT "breached" but OVERTOPPED !!!
Weasels !
This is the height and depth of weaseldom.
Why would anyone manufacture such a distinction ?
Only if the battleaxe one is "grinding" ....if the (scusa, please) dawg one is betting on told an ouright LIE.
Some of you do not think that the whole Antique Media are biased and doomed.
Just look at this deal and think again.
Embarrassed by revelations that George Bush did NOT say what they had reported him saying, and further embarrassed that Governot Blanco of Louisiana HAD said what they had NOT quoted her as saying (that the New Orleans levees had NOT been "breached"), they made a correction. Yes ! A correction !
They corrected their internationally distributed story to point out that Governor Blanco was, essentially correct....
She MEANT to say that the levees were "overtopped". Yes, NOT "breached" but OVERTOPPED !!!
Weasels !
This is the height and depth of weaseldom.
Why would anyone manufacture such a distinction ?
Only if the battleaxe one is "grinding" ....if the (scusa, please) dawg one is betting on told an ouright LIE.
Some of you do not think that the whole Antique Media are biased and doomed.
Just look at this deal and think again.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Humility a-borning
“Release me, O Lord, from bondage of Self, that I may....” (From a prayer by Bill Wilson, circa 1935)
I have told all my raucous slithering lies again
Acknowledging their import
And the damage of their roiling ignominious defiance...
They never die, you know..just Hide.
We’re not supposed to crawl, but still we do
Like shameful larvae, wishing to weave doormats
Of our worthless latter lives.
We can not know the wealth and worth of true Humility
So long as prayer seeks whip and derogation.
What agony we wallow in, Asking for forgiveness from the injured ones !
And, sure, like misers we put by,
As in a bulging purse, the generous pardons
Ill-gotten by our sniveling words
From many injured ones. And we are smug.
Then, facing one who once was snared
By blandishments of ours and then was crushed
By our invidious libel...
Yes here we learned!
This man we cruelly traduced professed
To not remember our offense, so magnified
In our iniquitous memory.
He laughed !He turned away, to jettison our amends.
“I don’t recall,” he said, “your words or deeds,
"But anyway, you were not...are not much.
“I saw you then a liar and lout
“And I believe, you’ll always be !!!”
So whether I had wanted solace, truly
And forgiveness from this mortal man,
The power of Truth poured out his face
To catapult my soul into a fresh dimension.
Beginning then, I have felt taller, known myself
And never skulked again.
I mend a fence of friend
Most every day, now.And know some portion of Humility.
I have told all my raucous slithering lies again
Acknowledging their import
And the damage of their roiling ignominious defiance...
They never die, you know..just Hide.
We’re not supposed to crawl, but still we do
Like shameful larvae, wishing to weave doormats
Of our worthless latter lives.
We can not know the wealth and worth of true Humility
So long as prayer seeks whip and derogation.
What agony we wallow in, Asking for forgiveness from the injured ones !
And, sure, like misers we put by,
As in a bulging purse, the generous pardons
Ill-gotten by our sniveling words
From many injured ones. And we are smug.
Then, facing one who once was snared
By blandishments of ours and then was crushed
By our invidious libel...
Yes here we learned!
This man we cruelly traduced professed
To not remember our offense, so magnified
In our iniquitous memory.
He laughed !He turned away, to jettison our amends.
“I don’t recall,” he said, “your words or deeds,
"But anyway, you were not...are not much.
“I saw you then a liar and lout
“And I believe, you’ll always be !!!”
So whether I had wanted solace, truly
And forgiveness from this mortal man,
The power of Truth poured out his face
To catapult my soul into a fresh dimension.
Beginning then, I have felt taller, known myself
And never skulked again.
I mend a fence of friend
Most every day, now.And know some portion of Humility.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Lazy Moonbats
It just tickles me plumb to death wnem the WHOLE of the Antique MS Media falls on its bum, like a pack of pigs on ice !
Dana Milbank of the Washinmgton Post got taken to the woodshed and chewed out by his bosses for wearing a hunting outfit on Keith Olberman's show. (NOBODY watches MSNBC, so I have to tell you about it !)
NBC's resident idiot, Dave Gregory, on the White House beat, who called WH spokesman Scott McClalland "a jerk" on camera had to apologize to the whole nation on Tim Russert's Meet-The-Press show.
But the GREATEST, most beautiful moment of all was when the USA's great speed skater, Shari Davis won the gold medal ! He is a handsome man of color, you know.
It was a very sharp stick in the eye --(and the CRAW)-- for Bryant Gumbel, of HBO, who had decried the irrelevance of the Winter Olympics because.."with no black competitors, it looks like a GOP convention..."
The thing about these snotnosed children is that they are lazy.
They do no research. They do not care. If THEY do not know it, it isn't true. Just "shoot fromk the lip" !!!
Ignorance? Sure. But my son, Keith calls them "Lazy Journalists".
And... their laziness is going to kill their influence. That is my prediction. The "Consumers" of information are not simply SMARTER than these myopic moonbats.
We are, none of us, lazy. They are.
Dana Milbank of the Washinmgton Post got taken to the woodshed and chewed out by his bosses for wearing a hunting outfit on Keith Olberman's show. (NOBODY watches MSNBC, so I have to tell you about it !)
NBC's resident idiot, Dave Gregory, on the White House beat, who called WH spokesman Scott McClalland "a jerk" on camera had to apologize to the whole nation on Tim Russert's Meet-The-Press show.
But the GREATEST, most beautiful moment of all was when the USA's great speed skater, Shari Davis won the gold medal ! He is a handsome man of color, you know.
It was a very sharp stick in the eye --(and the CRAW)-- for Bryant Gumbel, of HBO, who had decried the irrelevance of the Winter Olympics because.."with no black competitors, it looks like a GOP convention..."
The thing about these snotnosed children is that they are lazy.
They do no research. They do not care. If THEY do not know it, it isn't true. Just "shoot fromk the lip" !!!
Ignorance? Sure. But my son, Keith calls them "Lazy Journalists".
And... their laziness is going to kill their influence. That is my prediction. The "Consumers" of information are not simply SMARTER than these myopic moonbats.
We are, none of us, lazy. They are.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Have you heard about ???
Am I the only one who remembers all the pseudoscientific screaming about the "New Ice Age" in the late 1960's and the 1970's???
Or am I dreaming?
Now the chicken littles all have grabbed and embraced Glow Bull Worming as the "Major Threat" to the world.
You will note that these screamers all have a history of "policy wonkism"--the belief that government control of people's lives is the be-all and end-all--the Paradise on Earth In Our Time.
There have been many cranky ideas that have been embraced by these sort of collectivist minded morons.
The last one was Lysenkoism, pushed by the Soviet Communists whereby they claimed proof of IMMEDIATE inheritance of acquired charateristics. Before that, it was the horrid spectre of an "infected gene pool" that led to sontrolled genocide and, eventually to the European Holocaust.
The fate of these braingassy fads is self evident.
Those of us who can actually remember living through these frenzied idiocies take a calm and wary attitude.
I reccommend we all read Michael Chricton's State of Fear for starters.
Then, consider the tale of the two ignorant cretins who were interrupted by a state trooper as they savagely beat up two bearded, black- hatted Hasid Jews on the highway.
"What the devil are you doing?" the trooper hollered as he cuffed them.
"Well, they's Jews, ain;t they?" one cretin asked.
"They killed Jesus Christ, didden they?" whined the other thug.
"Well, I don;t know about that," the trooper mused. "I think the Romans had a lot tgo do with that, and besides, that was 2000 years ago!!!"
"The HAIL, you say!!!" the two imbeciles hollered, in unison, "We just heard about it at the camp meeting last night !!!!
Or am I dreaming?
Now the chicken littles all have grabbed and embraced Glow Bull Worming as the "Major Threat" to the world.
You will note that these screamers all have a history of "policy wonkism"--the belief that government control of people's lives is the be-all and end-all--the Paradise on Earth In Our Time.
There have been many cranky ideas that have been embraced by these sort of collectivist minded morons.
The last one was Lysenkoism, pushed by the Soviet Communists whereby they claimed proof of IMMEDIATE inheritance of acquired charateristics. Before that, it was the horrid spectre of an "infected gene pool" that led to sontrolled genocide and, eventually to the European Holocaust.
The fate of these braingassy fads is self evident.
Those of us who can actually remember living through these frenzied idiocies take a calm and wary attitude.
I reccommend we all read Michael Chricton's State of Fear for starters.
Then, consider the tale of the two ignorant cretins who were interrupted by a state trooper as they savagely beat up two bearded, black- hatted Hasid Jews on the highway.
"What the devil are you doing?" the trooper hollered as he cuffed them.
"Well, they's Jews, ain;t they?" one cretin asked.
"They killed Jesus Christ, didden they?" whined the other thug.
"Well, I don;t know about that," the trooper mused. "I think the Romans had a lot tgo do with that, and besides, that was 2000 years ago!!!"
"The HAIL, you say!!!" the two imbeciles hollered, in unison, "We just heard about it at the camp meeting last night !!!!
Friday, January 27, 2006
A Black By Any Other Name...
Some idiot named "Self" who was running the campaign of a member of the ancient and honorable Scranton family, that claims birthright to the Pennsylvania governorship, has been fired "for cause".
He called Scranton's GOP primary opponent ""the REAL Rich White Guy" in the race !!!
He was talking about Lynn Swann.
Yes, THAT Lynn Swann. He of the chocolat-cafe'- au-lait epidermis, the cultured tones, gallant demeanor, four super bowl wins with the Steelers and NFL Hall of Fame credentials.
(He also serves on the corporate boards of Hershey and H.J. Heinz.)
I point this out here because you will NOT read it in your local fishwrapper, and it won't be on ESPN or CNN.
There is also another point to be made here.
If you want to be elected over an opponent, there are several things you must NOT call your opponent:
White
Straight
Tone Deaf
Patriot
Jew
Christian
Pro-death penalty
Pro Academic freedom
Reciter or protector of Natural Law.
This is NOT, of course, because all the voting public is AGAINST these things. It is because the irrelevant Antique media hates these things, and will not "cover" anyone even accused of such apostatic allegiances.
And, certainly, one should NEVER scold an opponent for being "overly responsible" or "too involved in accountability issues". That was tried back in 2004.
The "accused" ...WON!!!
He called Scranton's GOP primary opponent ""the REAL Rich White Guy" in the race !!!
He was talking about Lynn Swann.
Yes, THAT Lynn Swann. He of the chocolat-cafe'- au-lait epidermis, the cultured tones, gallant demeanor, four super bowl wins with the Steelers and NFL Hall of Fame credentials.
(He also serves on the corporate boards of Hershey and H.J. Heinz.)
I point this out here because you will NOT read it in your local fishwrapper, and it won't be on ESPN or CNN.
There is also another point to be made here.
If you want to be elected over an opponent, there are several things you must NOT call your opponent:
White
Straight
Tone Deaf
Patriot
Jew
Christian
Pro-death penalty
Pro Academic freedom
Reciter or protector of Natural Law.
This is NOT, of course, because all the voting public is AGAINST these things. It is because the irrelevant Antique media hates these things, and will not "cover" anyone even accused of such apostatic allegiances.
And, certainly, one should NEVER scold an opponent for being "overly responsible" or "too involved in accountability issues". That was tried back in 2004.
The "accused" ...WON!!!
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
I M P O N D E R A B L E....
As many know, I consider myself a fellow-traveling Jew.
This dates back to the 1940's and my teens. At Emory, my "Christian" Greek letter fraternity, ATO was politically (and, lonesomely) aligned with the two Jewish fraternities (AEPi and TEPhi) in interfraternity council and other matters.
As a mentor, in my early years at Emory, my mentor on the Wheel and Campus publications was Teddy Levitas, (later a better dentist than he was then a sports writer). I was also very fond of his brother Elliot Levitas and his personal heroism in public office.
When President Harry Truman bulldozed the U.N. into recognizing Israel as a nation state, I had already been contributing my small pittance to Zionist causes.
I have never changed
Now, what I cannot understand is how Steven Spielberg and other Jews in America can make weasel-knees to the Islamofascists.
How can a Jew be a "liberal" in the United States today? Have they not ever read the roll of the 9 / 11 corpses from the Twin Towers?
What is it about "The Holocaust is a Myth" or "Erase Israel from the Map" they do not understand?
Somebody...ANYBODY...help me out here.
How can any Jew, son or grandson of Jews, regardless of how or whether they practice Judaism
take the passive, pacifist "liberal" ideology today ?
My Betts, who also was a Judeophile, used to ask her patients:
"What is the payoff for your self hating behaviour ???"
That’s what I'm asking all these Jews who still call themselves "liberals".
Whassamtaa You ????
This dates back to the 1940's and my teens. At Emory, my "Christian" Greek letter fraternity, ATO was politically (and, lonesomely) aligned with the two Jewish fraternities (AEPi and TEPhi) in interfraternity council and other matters.
As a mentor, in my early years at Emory, my mentor on the Wheel and Campus publications was Teddy Levitas, (later a better dentist than he was then a sports writer). I was also very fond of his brother Elliot Levitas and his personal heroism in public office.
When President Harry Truman bulldozed the U.N. into recognizing Israel as a nation state, I had already been contributing my small pittance to Zionist causes.
I have never changed
Now, what I cannot understand is how Steven Spielberg and other Jews in America can make weasel-knees to the Islamofascists.
How can a Jew be a "liberal" in the United States today? Have they not ever read the roll of the 9 / 11 corpses from the Twin Towers?
What is it about "The Holocaust is a Myth" or "Erase Israel from the Map" they do not understand?
Somebody...ANYBODY...help me out here.
How can any Jew, son or grandson of Jews, regardless of how or whether they practice Judaism
take the passive, pacifist "liberal" ideology today ?
My Betts, who also was a Judeophile, used to ask her patients:
"What is the payoff for your self hating behaviour ???"
That’s what I'm asking all these Jews who still call themselves "liberals".
Whassamtaa You ????
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Academia Through the Looking Glass (Bassackwards, That Is)
Professor Mike S. Adams of UNC Wilmington delights in catching education administrators who are clueless and/or ignorant.
Not nescient, now...Ignorant.
He recently wrote of the UNC-Greensboro Factotums who swooped down upon two student protesters and persecuted them for "disrespect" in that the two carried protest placards calling for Free Speech in an area not designated as a "free speech zone".
What in HAIL is a "free speech zone" ???
I thought my great, great, great uncle, my great grandfather, my uncles --and now my Marine grandson---all offered their lives, fortunes and sacred honor on the altar of Liberty to make the whole of the United States a "Free Speech Zone".
Not only that, the UNCG faculty and administration star chamber proceeding sought to illegally prohibit the accused protesters from "noting, reporting or repeating" any of the inquisition goings-on.
Cool and intelligent (and less Constitutionally-Challenged) people stepped in, and the students , without apologies from the cretins in charge, are back in school.
Talk about "respect" !!!
I write of this in my web log in order to bring attention to two very wonderful (and underfunded) organizations.
FIRE, the grass-roots group, is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The Pope Center for Education Policy is more a factfinding enterprise.
Of all the great American institutions that repristinate freedom and shine the light of truth on the subversive morons and idiots who lead the Dumbing Down and Enslavement of America's children, these two atr probably the least ideological, the "cleanest" and the most selfless. My opinion, anyway.
What I call "The Antique Media" will NEVER tell you about them, so here are their URL addresses on the web:
http:www.thefire.org
www.popecenter.org.
(You may need to cut-and-paste)
If you care at all about the free dissemination of knowledge and information---for your offspring or THEIR offspring, visit them once in a while. They are fighting the weasels and the plantation overseers.
You DO remember, don't you, that slaves were not allowed to learn to read or write ???!!!
On pain of death????
Well, we're talking National Brain Death here. Right Now, in a college or high school near you.
Not nescient, now...Ignorant.
He recently wrote of the UNC-Greensboro Factotums who swooped down upon two student protesters and persecuted them for "disrespect" in that the two carried protest placards calling for Free Speech in an area not designated as a "free speech zone".
What in HAIL is a "free speech zone" ???
I thought my great, great, great uncle, my great grandfather, my uncles --and now my Marine grandson---all offered their lives, fortunes and sacred honor on the altar of Liberty to make the whole of the United States a "Free Speech Zone".
Not only that, the UNCG faculty and administration star chamber proceeding sought to illegally prohibit the accused protesters from "noting, reporting or repeating" any of the inquisition goings-on.
Cool and intelligent (and less Constitutionally-Challenged) people stepped in, and the students , without apologies from the cretins in charge, are back in school.
Talk about "respect" !!!
I write of this in my web log in order to bring attention to two very wonderful (and underfunded) organizations.
FIRE, the grass-roots group, is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The Pope Center for Education Policy is more a factfinding enterprise.
Of all the great American institutions that repristinate freedom and shine the light of truth on the subversive morons and idiots who lead the Dumbing Down and Enslavement of America's children, these two atr probably the least ideological, the "cleanest" and the most selfless. My opinion, anyway.
What I call "The Antique Media" will NEVER tell you about them, so here are their URL addresses on the web:
http:www.thefire.org
www.popecenter.org.
(You may need to cut-and-paste)
If you care at all about the free dissemination of knowledge and information---for your offspring or THEIR offspring, visit them once in a while. They are fighting the weasels and the plantation overseers.
You DO remember, don't you, that slaves were not allowed to learn to read or write ???!!!
On pain of death????
Well, we're talking National Brain Death here. Right Now, in a college or high school near you.
Monday, November 28, 2005
A New, Devastating PMS "Plague"
My closest friends and I have discussed, over the years, first of all the parallel anti-ethical methodology of the old KGB / Soviet Union in international affairs AND the "godless", hateful amoral tenor of the murderous Muslims among us.
My favorite younf professor, protector of historical academic integrity and deflater of PEECEE pomposities, Mike S. Ad ams has come upon the perfect appellation for the Foes of Light and Freedom.
The UNC-Wilmington prof names their malady as PMS. That is Paranoid (insert Muslim or Marxist) Syndrome.Here's a part of Mike's thoughtful piece:
"It appears that, without question, Professor Daly is suffering from Paranoid Marxist Syndrome, which is also known as PMS. For those who have never considered the similarities between radical Muslims and radical Marxists, it is time to take heed. While the attacks of the former have been well-documented over the last few years, insufficient attention has been paid to the attacks of the latter."
I guess some want the word "extreme" in there, but Hey! a paranoiac is as extreme as they get!! Hitler, Stalin, Arafat, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, bin Laden, "Calypso Louie" Farrakhan... Fruitcakes all.
But the hate-America virus that has crept into the U.S. Congress is not new and just Iraq war-driven.It was there in the days of Vito Marcantonio, Adam Clayton Powell, and during the Vietnam war.
Beware the Fog of Coalescense. The people who hate Bush, you will notice, have NO allegiance to any other person, and have no plans to offer.They pump out the PMS fog in an attempt to blot out a booming economy, with prime purchasing power, low interest rates, nonerxistent inflation and the lowest unemployment rate since Reagan !!!
Does anyone else remember when Jimmy Carter cried "malaise" and surrendered to Iran? When the media (Then and now infected with PMS) trumpeted that we were "in decline" in 1992 when we were on the rising crest of a boom?
The Soviet propaganda machine in America did not do us in, though it tried to scare hell out of us.Now, shrilly, the same PMS handmaidens are at it again. They say it just cannot be true that America is strongest, best, most enlighhtened, most free!
Is that true?
Or is it the PMS sickness Mike Adams has discovered?
My favorite younf professor, protector of historical academic integrity and deflater of PEECEE pomposities, Mike S. Ad ams has come upon the perfect appellation for the Foes of Light and Freedom.
The UNC-Wilmington prof names their malady as PMS. That is Paranoid (insert Muslim or Marxist) Syndrome.Here's a part of Mike's thoughtful piece:
"It appears that, without question, Professor Daly is suffering from Paranoid Marxist Syndrome, which is also known as PMS. For those who have never considered the similarities between radical Muslims and radical Marxists, it is time to take heed. While the attacks of the former have been well-documented over the last few years, insufficient attention has been paid to the attacks of the latter."
I guess some want the word "extreme" in there, but Hey! a paranoiac is as extreme as they get!! Hitler, Stalin, Arafat, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, bin Laden, "Calypso Louie" Farrakhan... Fruitcakes all.
But the hate-America virus that has crept into the U.S. Congress is not new and just Iraq war-driven.It was there in the days of Vito Marcantonio, Adam Clayton Powell, and during the Vietnam war.
Beware the Fog of Coalescense. The people who hate Bush, you will notice, have NO allegiance to any other person, and have no plans to offer.They pump out the PMS fog in an attempt to blot out a booming economy, with prime purchasing power, low interest rates, nonerxistent inflation and the lowest unemployment rate since Reagan !!!
Does anyone else remember when Jimmy Carter cried "malaise" and surrendered to Iran? When the media (Then and now infected with PMS) trumpeted that we were "in decline" in 1992 when we were on the rising crest of a boom?
The Soviet propaganda machine in America did not do us in, though it tried to scare hell out of us.Now, shrilly, the same PMS handmaidens are at it again. They say it just cannot be true that America is strongest, best, most enlighhtened, most free!
Is that true?
Or is it the PMS sickness Mike Adams has discovered?
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Life ? Or...Death ?
I was instructed in my several comparative religion courses and seminars over the past 60 years that all the world's major religions "shared" several basic beliefs.
I was always paricularly entertained by the revelation that Islam recognized Adam, Noah, Moses and Jesus Christ as "prophets"...albeit eclipsed and abridged by Muhammad's revelations from Gabriel, the angel.
I was also instructed that the Qu'ran (which means "recitation" in rough english translation), recognized Jews, Christians and even Zoroastruans as "Peiople of the Book". These "people" are not to be treated harshly in Islamic Governments, according to the Prophet, but are to be taxed more harshly that the followers of Islam.
What, then am I to make of the Islamic Jihadists, the IslamoNazi-Faschista's preoccupation with death?
Throughout the middle east, Africa.and extending to the Indonesian archipelago (population 270 million, 95% Islamic) the most obvious and active Muslims represent mass murder and suicide.
To me, trhey seem to relegate life on this earth as meaningless. And they invite and encourage the world's societies to join them in embracing hatred of life and passion for an end to it.
This leaves Western Civilization, the fountainhead of the Reanaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial and Digital revolutions as the sole crucible for Love of Life and Gratitude for Living.
Or does it?
There are powerful revisionists in academia, in Canada and the European Union, hell-bent on demonizing the cultural giants of the West as "worthless, dead old white men."
Well, I spit upom racism of any kind. The two most eloquent, elegant writers / thinkerts on economic and social freedom in MY country are both black: Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams. Professor Harvey Mansfield of Harvard, our greatest freedom educator, at Harvard, is white, however. You can't win them all.
But these three men, and those of us who savor their every spoken and written opinion, are proclaimers of optimism, of gratitude, of discipline and responsibility.
Life is for the creative, the fanciful, the humorous, the lyrical, the demonstrative, the promising, and the absolutely positively confident.
And those sparks may, finally erase the darkness and despair of those who hijack a faith and mold it into a religion of death.
It may be up to you and yours....
I have a devout Christian neighbor, who pointed to the pictire of the Syrian woman with all the explosives strapped to her chest.
"She claims Malfunction?!!!" he asked. "Give me a break !"
He's right. This Syrian lady's "malfunction" was about like Janet Jackson's "costume malfunction" at the Super Bowl....It was an individual affirmation....
Of LIFE !!!!!
I was always paricularly entertained by the revelation that Islam recognized Adam, Noah, Moses and Jesus Christ as "prophets"...albeit eclipsed and abridged by Muhammad's revelations from Gabriel, the angel.
I was also instructed that the Qu'ran (which means "recitation" in rough english translation), recognized Jews, Christians and even Zoroastruans as "Peiople of the Book". These "people" are not to be treated harshly in Islamic Governments, according to the Prophet, but are to be taxed more harshly that the followers of Islam.
What, then am I to make of the Islamic Jihadists, the IslamoNazi-Faschista's preoccupation with death?
Throughout the middle east, Africa.and extending to the Indonesian archipelago (population 270 million, 95% Islamic) the most obvious and active Muslims represent mass murder and suicide.
To me, trhey seem to relegate life on this earth as meaningless. And they invite and encourage the world's societies to join them in embracing hatred of life and passion for an end to it.
This leaves Western Civilization, the fountainhead of the Reanaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial and Digital revolutions as the sole crucible for Love of Life and Gratitude for Living.
Or does it?
There are powerful revisionists in academia, in Canada and the European Union, hell-bent on demonizing the cultural giants of the West as "worthless, dead old white men."
Well, I spit upom racism of any kind. The two most eloquent, elegant writers / thinkerts on economic and social freedom in MY country are both black: Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams. Professor Harvey Mansfield of Harvard, our greatest freedom educator, at Harvard, is white, however. You can't win them all.
But these three men, and those of us who savor their every spoken and written opinion, are proclaimers of optimism, of gratitude, of discipline and responsibility.
Life is for the creative, the fanciful, the humorous, the lyrical, the demonstrative, the promising, and the absolutely positively confident.
And those sparks may, finally erase the darkness and despair of those who hijack a faith and mold it into a religion of death.
It may be up to you and yours....
I have a devout Christian neighbor, who pointed to the pictire of the Syrian woman with all the explosives strapped to her chest.
"She claims Malfunction?!!!" he asked. "Give me a break !"
He's right. This Syrian lady's "malfunction" was about like Janet Jackson's "costume malfunction" at the Super Bowl....It was an individual affirmation....
Of LIFE !!!!!
Friday, November 18, 2005
Weasels Hate Heroes....
I got my first daily newspaper work while I was in college. I learned newspaper work from old guys who had come up as copyboys, rim men and obit scriveners. They are all dead now, and I am 80.
If you got too wordy, in those days, Sam Cox would ask for "a paragraf and a half". And, if we complained that he "didn't understand" or "just didn't know!", he would reply that he was just a "pore country boy from Hahira, Georgia, and did not go to Emory, but that he "DID know horsehockey" when he saw it !!!!
Now, all the basic honesty is disolving away as the newspapers and the AssPress become more corrupt daily by political bias and blind dogmatism.
Journalism in America is mostly a Wonderworld of Weasels.
Except for Bob Woodward, the hero of Watergate...a reporter who refuses to be molded by the pellmell socialist bent of the mainstream media.
If you scratched his patina, I am sure you could find classic "liberalism" under Woodward's stoic "unbiased" mask. But he is honest. He is a truth seeking reporter.
Maybe the last one.
And now, because he sniffed disdainfully at the "non story" of a non-covert CIA analyst conspiring with her husband to attack the Bush administration...
Because he knew all about it, the duplicity and phoniness and felt it all beneath him....
Because he testified on November 15 for Fitzgerald that a "high ex-administration official" (probably his close friend Colin Powell) tipped him off about the Joe Wilson / Valerie Plane / CIA axis....
Because this contradicts Fitzgerald's press conference diatribe against Libby....
Because of all this, the whole of his newspaper (WashPost) and all the network and CNN talking heads are cannibalizing him, trashing Woodward because he told the TRUTH, as he knew it.
What we have here is undeniable, ineradicable proof that journalism is very, very sick in the United States.
Call it a Malady Meltdown. Call it a Shabby Show-and-Tell.
I call it the Cacaphony of the claw-wringing weasels.
But whatever happens, Woodward has simply polished his Journalist-Hero credentials as the pygmies rage and devour their own entrails !
If you got too wordy, in those days, Sam Cox would ask for "a paragraf and a half". And, if we complained that he "didn't understand" or "just didn't know!", he would reply that he was just a "pore country boy from Hahira, Georgia, and did not go to Emory, but that he "DID know horsehockey" when he saw it !!!!
Now, all the basic honesty is disolving away as the newspapers and the AssPress become more corrupt daily by political bias and blind dogmatism.
Journalism in America is mostly a Wonderworld of Weasels.
Except for Bob Woodward, the hero of Watergate...a reporter who refuses to be molded by the pellmell socialist bent of the mainstream media.
If you scratched his patina, I am sure you could find classic "liberalism" under Woodward's stoic "unbiased" mask. But he is honest. He is a truth seeking reporter.
Maybe the last one.
And now, because he sniffed disdainfully at the "non story" of a non-covert CIA analyst conspiring with her husband to attack the Bush administration...
Because he knew all about it, the duplicity and phoniness and felt it all beneath him....
Because he testified on November 15 for Fitzgerald that a "high ex-administration official" (probably his close friend Colin Powell) tipped him off about the Joe Wilson / Valerie Plane / CIA axis....
Because this contradicts Fitzgerald's press conference diatribe against Libby....
Because of all this, the whole of his newspaper (WashPost) and all the network and CNN talking heads are cannibalizing him, trashing Woodward because he told the TRUTH, as he knew it.
What we have here is undeniable, ineradicable proof that journalism is very, very sick in the United States.
Call it a Malady Meltdown. Call it a Shabby Show-and-Tell.
I call it the Cacaphony of the claw-wringing weasels.
But whatever happens, Woodward has simply polished his Journalist-Hero credentials as the pygmies rage and devour their own entrails !
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
"Make the Most of It....."
While Coalition trrops invaded Iraq in 2003, a very astute group of present and former spy types averred, on a website, DEBKAFILES.com , that Syria was hiding Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, and the manufacturing processes for same.
You DO know, don't you that Saddam's Ba'ath Party rules Syrua?
Now, we learned last Sunday, from Senatot Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) that he had made a special trip to Syria the year before (2002) to WARN the Syrians that the United States intended to invade Iraq.
Sen. Rockefeller was, and IS STILL co-chairman of the senate intelligence committee and bicameral select committee on intelligence.
Thus, both Syria and Iraq were forewarned.
Thus they were able to eliminate WMDs from Iraq.
Thus, the anti-American Dim Dems can blithely accuse Presiident George Bush of "lying" about Saddam's weapons.
But there is still the matter of 500 tons of "yellowcake" uranium ore found in Iraq, and still being guarded at an "unnamed location" there.
Jay Rockefeller's disclosure of his Syrian Serenade to Chris Wallace will not be the last you hear of all this.
Like I said before...Stay tuned.
You DO know, don't you that Saddam's Ba'ath Party rules Syrua?
Now, we learned last Sunday, from Senatot Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) that he had made a special trip to Syria the year before (2002) to WARN the Syrians that the United States intended to invade Iraq.
Sen. Rockefeller was, and IS STILL co-chairman of the senate intelligence committee and bicameral select committee on intelligence.
Thus, both Syria and Iraq were forewarned.
Thus they were able to eliminate WMDs from Iraq.
Thus, the anti-American Dim Dems can blithely accuse Presiident George Bush of "lying" about Saddam's weapons.
But there is still the matter of 500 tons of "yellowcake" uranium ore found in Iraq, and still being guarded at an "unnamed location" there.
Jay Rockefeller's disclosure of his Syrian Serenade to Chris Wallace will not be the last you hear of all this.
Like I said before...Stay tuned.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
You Connect the Dots .....
A few notes about the media and La Belle France.
Do you know how many synagogues and churches and schools were torched, along with the 11,000 Peugots and Citroens, since October 27, in France by the Afroislamists?
Of course you do not. But Chiraq IMMEDIATELY ordered an in-depth investigation into the burning of ONE mosque ! Crackdown !! Zut! Alors!
Insurance will not reimburse for loss of property in civil insurrection. Stay tuned for further revolutionary activity !!!
Do you know the " meaning", in English of "Al Qaeda" ?
How about "Islam" ?
Well, don’t feel bad. The Ass Press and the other mainstream media do not know either.....Or they SEEM not to know.
"Islam" means SUBMIT!!!!!
"Al Qaeda" means: THE BASE !
So, if you view Islamo-Fascism (including Hamas, Hezbollah, Jihadislami, and the rest of the murderous guttersnipes as pyramidal, and you turn the Pyramid upside-down, then Al Qaeda is the "point" at the bottom–the doctrinal "base" for all the others.
One more thing I think is instructive:
Indonesia–really a collection of islands north of Australia, is strung out along about One-eighth of the Earth's circumference.
Indonesia has a population of more than 250 million, which is the same as the United States in 1960. (We are at 300 million now).
More than four-fifths of the Indonesians are followers of Islam (actually 85 percent).
You will not hear any of this on TV or from the print media.
Stay with The Depot for further bulletins.
Do you know how many synagogues and churches and schools were torched, along with the 11,000 Peugots and Citroens, since October 27, in France by the Afroislamists?
Of course you do not. But Chiraq IMMEDIATELY ordered an in-depth investigation into the burning of ONE mosque ! Crackdown !! Zut! Alors!
Insurance will not reimburse for loss of property in civil insurrection. Stay tuned for further revolutionary activity !!!
Do you know the " meaning", in English of "Al Qaeda" ?
How about "Islam" ?
Well, don’t feel bad. The Ass Press and the other mainstream media do not know either.....Or they SEEM not to know.
"Islam" means SUBMIT!!!!!
"Al Qaeda" means: THE BASE !
So, if you view Islamo-Fascism (including Hamas, Hezbollah, Jihadislami, and the rest of the murderous guttersnipes as pyramidal, and you turn the Pyramid upside-down, then Al Qaeda is the "point" at the bottom–the doctrinal "base" for all the others.
One more thing I think is instructive:
Indonesia–really a collection of islands north of Australia, is strung out along about One-eighth of the Earth's circumference.
Indonesia has a population of more than 250 million, which is the same as the United States in 1960. (We are at 300 million now).
More than four-fifths of the Indonesians are followers of Islam (actually 85 percent).
You will not hear any of this on TV or from the print media.
Stay with The Depot for further bulletins.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Frustration...and Obfuscation
I now learn that, though I may be able to read Latin or Classical Greek, and speak four languages....If I DO NOT AGREE with Noam Chomsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and / or Ward Churchill, I am probably "a Cultural Incompetent".
This is the newest catch phrase in Academia. It joins "multiculturalism", "affirmative-action" and "gender sensitivity" as the newest pattie in the pasture of political correctness, a la’ Academe.
I don’t know whether we can stand another one. But, sensing that there is no bitter sting in the language that has guided the etymological abortions of the past two decades, the tenured tyrants of the towers of Ivy and Ivory are sneaking up again.
Now, it is not enough to be schooled, widely published, logical and *-(gasp)-* POPULAR!!!!
From this day hence, one must be "culturally competent".
Roughly translated, that means: "WE HOLD A MAJORITY ON THE FACULTY COMMITTEE AND WE DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL T H I N K !!!!
That is to say "WHAT YOU MUST BELIEVE" to survive in a college or university community.
They already do it in the newsrooms at most TV and newspapers. Mike Wallace’s son, Cris Wallace let the cat out of the bag last week when he branded the "mainstream media bias "Astonishing".
Well, despite their sneaky little linguistic tricks, and their suppression of the good news in favor of the bad, the fright and the doom, they are losing.
That’s why they have to come up with a new phrase to hide their wickedness every now and then. I can coin some phrases for what the left is trying to do.
Cultural Blackmail. Intellectual extortion. Evil Elitism.
Do I smell the rot of mouldering, dead ideas not nurtured, desiccated ?
This is the newest catch phrase in Academia. It joins "multiculturalism", "affirmative-action" and "gender sensitivity" as the newest pattie in the pasture of political correctness, a la’ Academe.
I don’t know whether we can stand another one. But, sensing that there is no bitter sting in the language that has guided the etymological abortions of the past two decades, the tenured tyrants of the towers of Ivy and Ivory are sneaking up again.
Now, it is not enough to be schooled, widely published, logical and *-(gasp)-* POPULAR!!!!
From this day hence, one must be "culturally competent".
Roughly translated, that means: "WE HOLD A MAJORITY ON THE FACULTY COMMITTEE AND WE DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL T H I N K !!!!
That is to say "WHAT YOU MUST BELIEVE" to survive in a college or university community.
They already do it in the newsrooms at most TV and newspapers. Mike Wallace’s son, Cris Wallace let the cat out of the bag last week when he branded the "mainstream media bias "Astonishing".
Well, despite their sneaky little linguistic tricks, and their suppression of the good news in favor of the bad, the fright and the doom, they are losing.
That’s why they have to come up with a new phrase to hide their wickedness every now and then. I can coin some phrases for what the left is trying to do.
Cultural Blackmail. Intellectual extortion. Evil Elitism.
Do I smell the rot of mouldering, dead ideas not nurtured, desiccated ?
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Who Hired Him??? I want to know !!!
ABC News reports Tuesday Night, Oct. 5. that a 46 year old Filipino Marine began stealing classifioed material while working in the White House for Al Gore before 2000, and contunued until a year ago when the FBI caught him while he was working for the FBI at Fort Monmouth.
ABC, of course, says he worked for Veep Dick Cheney in the first patagraph, and only notifies that he was hired by Gore in the sixth paragraph of its website story.
Typical biased national network garbage.
But what we need to know is:
Who vetted and hired him???
Al Gore?
Sandy Berger ??? (Another Document Thief, by the way.)
Richard Clatke ???
Or the Clintons??? Temember Hillary said "WE are the president !)
Talk about the people's Right to KNOW !!! Bring it on. Now...
ABC, of course, says he worked for Veep Dick Cheney in the first patagraph, and only notifies that he was hired by Gore in the sixth paragraph of its website story.
Typical biased national network garbage.
But what we need to know is:
Who vetted and hired him???
Al Gore?
Sandy Berger ??? (Another Document Thief, by the way.)
Richard Clatke ???
Or the Clintons??? Temember Hillary said "WE are the president !)
Talk about the people's Right to KNOW !!! Bring it on. Now...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Fog of Stormy Lies
Some readers of this web log have been somewhat put off by its preoccupation with the worthless bias of the mainstream media.
Now, we have an eloquent NEGATIVE appraisal of the media's frenzied racist hysteria during the Katrina disaster.
The Los Angeles Times, certainly no heavy lifter in Hillary Clinton's "Vast Rightwing Conspiarcy" has done a brutal hatchet job...on ITSELF, the Associated Press, all the television reporters and varous pundits and government officials.
For starts, there were 880, NOT ten thousand (10,000) fatalities.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the "OPRAH" show come in for some very slashing attacks by the LATimes' brill;iant dissection.
Despite what Nagin said, there were only six deaths in the Superdome and one in the convention center, not 400 and 200. They were all naturally caused.
There was no infanticide, no rape, no deaths by gunshot. There was one suicide by jump-from-balcony.
There were no snipers, no armed conflict. Only one police suicide.
The toilets, however DID fail, because they just would NOT flush UP in a sanitary fashion. Sewer lines were clogged and flooded.
The great American Media circus was all rumor...Unsubstantiated panic screams.
And, despite what they had been taught by Ivory Tower professors AND slot-men and city editors, these so-called journalists reported rumors as fact, and scandalized theri profession while misleading millions of Americans.
Have they learned their lesson?????
I doubt it.
But I'll wager many millions of Americans have.
Fool me once...Shame on you. Fool me twice...same on me.
Now, we have an eloquent NEGATIVE appraisal of the media's frenzied racist hysteria during the Katrina disaster.
The Los Angeles Times, certainly no heavy lifter in Hillary Clinton's "Vast Rightwing Conspiarcy" has done a brutal hatchet job...on ITSELF, the Associated Press, all the television reporters and varous pundits and government officials.
For starts, there were 880, NOT ten thousand (10,000) fatalities.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the "OPRAH" show come in for some very slashing attacks by the LATimes' brill;iant dissection.
Despite what Nagin said, there were only six deaths in the Superdome and one in the convention center, not 400 and 200. They were all naturally caused.
There was no infanticide, no rape, no deaths by gunshot. There was one suicide by jump-from-balcony.
There were no snipers, no armed conflict. Only one police suicide.
The toilets, however DID fail, because they just would NOT flush UP in a sanitary fashion. Sewer lines were clogged and flooded.
The great American Media circus was all rumor...Unsubstantiated panic screams.
And, despite what they had been taught by Ivory Tower professors AND slot-men and city editors, these so-called journalists reported rumors as fact, and scandalized theri profession while misleading millions of Americans.
Have they learned their lesson?????
I doubt it.
But I'll wager many millions of Americans have.
Fool me once...Shame on you. Fool me twice...same on me.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Epistemology Primer
We all know things that we KNOW are so.
We all know there are things that are so that we do not know.
But can we live happily admitting that there are things that we do not know we do not know?
Apparently not.
Too often we fall prey to the sleight-of-mind demagogue who tells us the things we WANT OH SO BADLY to be so.
You will find them on television, on the op-ed and editorial pages...AND twisting "facts" in news stories to slant the meaning and effect.
I suggest none of us is careful enough in pressing the template of what we KNOW over the shadowy insubstantial reportage and pontification of dunces at least as clueless as we are.
Skepticism? You bet your Backsides !!
I just had a note from a fellow "naturalist" who can still see and who keeps me posted.
He says a Scot hiker in the Lothians came across a small brown fritillary butterfly that has not been seen north of the "Border" since 1870.
This, of course, is absolute PROOF of "global warming.
We all know there are things that are so that we do not know.
But can we live happily admitting that there are things that we do not know we do not know?
Apparently not.
Too often we fall prey to the sleight-of-mind demagogue who tells us the things we WANT OH SO BADLY to be so.
You will find them on television, on the op-ed and editorial pages...AND twisting "facts" in news stories to slant the meaning and effect.
I suggest none of us is careful enough in pressing the template of what we KNOW over the shadowy insubstantial reportage and pontification of dunces at least as clueless as we are.
Skepticism? You bet your Backsides !!
I just had a note from a fellow "naturalist" who can still see and who keeps me posted.
He says a Scot hiker in the Lothians came across a small brown fritillary butterfly that has not been seen north of the "Border" since 1870.
This, of course, is absolute PROOF of "global warming.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Who Killed Who???
We were looking for syllogisms.
Searching for logical parallels, that is, to a present controversy.
Casey Sheehan reinlisted after facing death constantly. He was a warrior, a government employee, a member of an all-volunteer military service.
The Unites States does not "draft" its military. The mainstream left wing media would like for you to forget this.
So, we came up with this:
The U.S. government hires physicians and nurses for the Center of Disease Control, and for reserarch. If one of these physicians or nurses were to die as a result of some deranged person spraying them with Ebola haemorhagic fever-laced blood, or from contact with HIV/ AIDS contaminated blood---would we brand the president of the Unites States a "killer"---a "murderer" ???
And, even more to the point, when that secret service man, and the policeman took bullets fired by John Hinckley at President Ronald Reagan, was Reagan the "killer" of these government employees???
Or was John Hinckley the "murderer" ???
Just asking....asking for some logic, see???
Searching for logical parallels, that is, to a present controversy.
Casey Sheehan reinlisted after facing death constantly. He was a warrior, a government employee, a member of an all-volunteer military service.
The Unites States does not "draft" its military. The mainstream left wing media would like for you to forget this.
So, we came up with this:
The U.S. government hires physicians and nurses for the Center of Disease Control, and for reserarch. If one of these physicians or nurses were to die as a result of some deranged person spraying them with Ebola haemorhagic fever-laced blood, or from contact with HIV/ AIDS contaminated blood---would we brand the president of the Unites States a "killer"---a "murderer" ???
And, even more to the point, when that secret service man, and the policeman took bullets fired by John Hinckley at President Ronald Reagan, was Reagan the "killer" of these government employees???
Or was John Hinckley the "murderer" ???
Just asking....asking for some logic, see???
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Perfidy, Maybe....Theft, Oh MY !!!
So, you thought my diatribes against the "mainstream media" were overblown?
Surely, you murmur, it isn't THAT bad !!!
Well, looky here, now. It's even worse than mere political bias.
Two wide-eyed, genius entrepreneurs who had a trademarked television show , syndicated nationally over 125 TV stations are, according to Matt Drudge's report, suing the American Broadcasting Company in Federal Court for theft!
You wont read about it in any of the pinko newspapers, and you wont hear it on ABG nightly news. But I'll bet it gets a squib in The New York Post, Broadcasting and Variety.
Drudge reports , one of those clueless nits from "American Idol" sold the deal to ABC network, with himself as "producer-host" and they fleshed it out to air this year. ABC annonced it the second week of July--last month.
They allegedly --(I can't believe this, really)--even NAMED the show the same name as the poor struggling small-time producerss named their syndicated show: "Million Dollar Idea".
Isnt it sadly ironic that the show was developed, originally as a study of daring, innovative entrepreneurs who made good with stunning success???
ABC allegedly appropriated the idea before it could grow out of syndication.
Only in corporate media America....Is this a great "mainstream" or what????
Surely, you murmur, it isn't THAT bad !!!
Well, looky here, now. It's even worse than mere political bias.
Two wide-eyed, genius entrepreneurs who had a trademarked television show , syndicated nationally over 125 TV stations are, according to Matt Drudge's report, suing the American Broadcasting Company in Federal Court for theft!
You wont read about it in any of the pinko newspapers, and you wont hear it on ABG nightly news. But I'll bet it gets a squib in The New York Post, Broadcasting and Variety.
Drudge reports , one of those clueless nits from "American Idol" sold the deal to ABC network, with himself as "producer-host" and they fleshed it out to air this year. ABC annonced it the second week of July--last month.
They allegedly --(I can't believe this, really)--even NAMED the show the same name as the poor struggling small-time producerss named their syndicated show: "Million Dollar Idea".
Isnt it sadly ironic that the show was developed, originally as a study of daring, innovative entrepreneurs who made good with stunning success???
ABC allegedly appropriated the idea before it could grow out of syndication.
Only in corporate media America....Is this a great "mainstream" or what????
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
A Value War...Who's Blind?
The Democrat Party in the United States proclaims eloquently, constantly, and sometimes shrilly that IT is the Sole protrctor of:
(1) Women's Rights
(2) Tolerance in Religious Affiliation
(3) Diversity (even court-enforced) in All Societal Units
(4) Wide ranging list of "Fundamenta Freedoms" of Democracy
(5) Robust Trade Unionism.
(6) "Academic Freedom" and Political Correctness in schools
All these things appeal to most Americans, and so they anchor what residually identifies the Democrat Party propaganda, year in and year out.
But ALL these things are seen as Evil Anathema by Muslim terrorist Assasins who have been attacking the USA specifically since they assasinated Robert F. Kennedy (a leadpipe cinch for president) in 1968 !!!---and the WORLD's free democracies, generally, since the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Why, then, does the Democrat Party and its doctrinaire liberal leadership consistently oppose those who have declared war on terrorism.
Why does the liberal-slanted media use "bomber" instead of "terrorist" to identify these slaughterers of babies?
Why do the American people, in survey after survey, see the Democrat Liberals as "soft" on the terrorists?
Why do these good Americans decry, and even seek to criminalize police protection "Profiling" of the young middle eastern male" ??? Why do they demand that your grandmother and any Congressional Medal of Honor veteran soldier be strip-searched? But NO "PROFILING" !!!!
Nobody remembers Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip any more....But Abner had a wonderful byword.
He used to say: "As any FOOL can plainly see ....(dadeedadeedadeedah!) -- Ah SEE !!!!
Well, these Jihadists hate Democrat Americans as much as they hate Dubya Bush. They hate everything Mrs. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK and LBJ stood for. They hate and want to destroy everything Howard Dean, Hilary Clinton, Charles Schumer and Pat Leahy "believe they believe."
Why can't they see it?
I see !!!!
(1) Women's Rights
(2) Tolerance in Religious Affiliation
(3) Diversity (even court-enforced) in All Societal Units
(4) Wide ranging list of "Fundamenta Freedoms" of Democracy
(5) Robust Trade Unionism.
(6) "Academic Freedom" and Political Correctness in schools
All these things appeal to most Americans, and so they anchor what residually identifies the Democrat Party propaganda, year in and year out.
But ALL these things are seen as Evil Anathema by Muslim terrorist Assasins who have been attacking the USA specifically since they assasinated Robert F. Kennedy (a leadpipe cinch for president) in 1968 !!!---and the WORLD's free democracies, generally, since the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Why, then, does the Democrat Party and its doctrinaire liberal leadership consistently oppose those who have declared war on terrorism.
Why does the liberal-slanted media use "bomber" instead of "terrorist" to identify these slaughterers of babies?
Why do the American people, in survey after survey, see the Democrat Liberals as "soft" on the terrorists?
Why do these good Americans decry, and even seek to criminalize police protection "Profiling" of the young middle eastern male" ??? Why do they demand that your grandmother and any Congressional Medal of Honor veteran soldier be strip-searched? But NO "PROFILING" !!!!
Nobody remembers Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip any more....But Abner had a wonderful byword.
He used to say: "As any FOOL can plainly see ....(dadeedadeedadeedah!) -- Ah SEE !!!!
Well, these Jihadists hate Democrat Americans as much as they hate Dubya Bush. They hate everything Mrs. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK and LBJ stood for. They hate and want to destroy everything Howard Dean, Hilary Clinton, Charles Schumer and Pat Leahy "believe they believe."
Why can't they see it?
I see !!!!
Friday, July 15, 2005
Where is "Fair" ???
Sandy Berger was supposed to have been sentenced this past week.
You remember, Sandy Berger is the former top national security advisor to Bill Clinton.
He was caught and arrested when he stole classified documents from the national archives of top secret papers. He had the documents stuffed in his underdrswers, and in his socks, underneath his pants-legs.
Some of the top secret documents he checked to "refresh his memory" before testifying before the 9 / 11 Commission, STILL ARE MISSING !!!
You probably never read about this in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the New Yotk Times or the Washington Post. I doubt that the Associated Press even carried the story.
As a matter of fact, the ONLY newspaper that I KNOW carried the story at the time is the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville.
But everybody knows that all the Left Wing mainstream media leads the Democrat attack on Karl Rove, the Bush adviser who is accused of endangering security by discloding the identity of a CIA "agent" named Valerie Plame.
Now it turns out that a newsman, columnist Robert Novak, disclosed her name to Rove! Rove never disclosed her name to anyone, ever.
And, her husband, a Deocrat loyalist hell-bent on zapping the government he serves, has announced "My wife was NOT a clandestine agent when her identity was revealed..."
What to make of this?
The "jopurnalists" and their keepers can not any longer make any claim of "fairness".
Anyone who believes anything these perople offer is living in a Lewis Carroll world, where
ALL words, including "fair" mean, as the Red Queen said "Exactly what I want them to......"
No wonder they have to fake the circulation figures.
You remember, Sandy Berger is the former top national security advisor to Bill Clinton.
He was caught and arrested when he stole classified documents from the national archives of top secret papers. He had the documents stuffed in his underdrswers, and in his socks, underneath his pants-legs.
Some of the top secret documents he checked to "refresh his memory" before testifying before the 9 / 11 Commission, STILL ARE MISSING !!!
You probably never read about this in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the New Yotk Times or the Washington Post. I doubt that the Associated Press even carried the story.
As a matter of fact, the ONLY newspaper that I KNOW carried the story at the time is the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville.
But everybody knows that all the Left Wing mainstream media leads the Democrat attack on Karl Rove, the Bush adviser who is accused of endangering security by discloding the identity of a CIA "agent" named Valerie Plame.
Now it turns out that a newsman, columnist Robert Novak, disclosed her name to Rove! Rove never disclosed her name to anyone, ever.
And, her husband, a Deocrat loyalist hell-bent on zapping the government he serves, has announced "My wife was NOT a clandestine agent when her identity was revealed..."
What to make of this?
The "jopurnalists" and their keepers can not any longer make any claim of "fairness".
Anyone who believes anything these perople offer is living in a Lewis Carroll world, where
ALL words, including "fair" mean, as the Red Queen said "Exactly what I want them to......"
No wonder they have to fake the circulation figures.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Latest NEA Outrage-"Dumbest Report"
I was directed to NETSCAPE for a "report" on the Smartest and Dumbest states.
First thing that struck me was that most of the first third of the states were "Blue" or mainly Liberal-Democratic voting states.
This smelled fishy. Actually, there was a whiff of horse apples.
So I searched and searched, burning out my poor eyeballs to find out what the criteria were for stacking the deck so purely and with such oleagenous joy.
Sure enough, S A T scores were NOT a factor in the deciding of the "smart" and "dumb" students in these states.
Here's an wxact quote from the criteria: " States were graded on a variety of factors based on how they compare to the national average. These included such positive attributes as per-pupil expenditures, public high school graduation rates, average class size, and pupil-teacher ratios. States received negative points for high drop-out rates and physical violence.
Also, there were no private schools included. applied.
The criteria included "class-size-to-teacher-ratio", of course!
Another was "per pupil annual expenditure in dollars"--which is always inflated in those schools which employ three administrators for every instructor--all public "government" schools, of course. Salaries, too, were considered as a corrolary.
This is all teacher union (NEA) stuff.
Students do not receive salaries....
But the actual performance of the students? How much weight was given this? Who knows? Does anyone care? Do you care?
How about the increase in performance and IQ revealed in the testing required by the "No Child Left Behind" funding?
Nope, that was not a consideration.
Massachuesetts was listed at the top of all the states. Iowa, which has ALWAYS been on top in legitimate information-retention schools, was relegated to second tier.
I wish there were some other way to say it.
But this "smart-dumb" survey stinks. It smacks of conspiracy and trashes fair evaluation of student achievement, at best. At worst, it favors deceit.
Given that these "criteria" are obviously and impossibly unquantifiable I judge the report to be ill-intentioned..maybe criminal in nature.
Our chuldren and grandchildren and great grandchildren apparently are prisoners of a pack of slavering, selfserving mindkillers.
First thing that struck me was that most of the first third of the states were "Blue" or mainly Liberal-Democratic voting states.
This smelled fishy. Actually, there was a whiff of horse apples.
So I searched and searched, burning out my poor eyeballs to find out what the criteria were for stacking the deck so purely and with such oleagenous joy.
Sure enough, S A T scores were NOT a factor in the deciding of the "smart" and "dumb" students in these states.
Here's an wxact quote from the criteria: " States were graded on a variety of factors based on how they compare to the national average. These included such positive attributes as per-pupil expenditures, public high school graduation rates, average class size, and pupil-teacher ratios. States received negative points for high drop-out rates and physical violence.
Also, there were no private schools included. applied.
The criteria included "class-size-to-teacher-ratio", of course!
Another was "per pupil annual expenditure in dollars"--which is always inflated in those schools which employ three administrators for every instructor--all public "government" schools, of course. Salaries, too, were considered as a corrolary.
This is all teacher union (NEA) stuff.
Students do not receive salaries....
But the actual performance of the students? How much weight was given this? Who knows? Does anyone care? Do you care?
How about the increase in performance and IQ revealed in the testing required by the "No Child Left Behind" funding?
Nope, that was not a consideration.
Massachuesetts was listed at the top of all the states. Iowa, which has ALWAYS been on top in legitimate information-retention schools, was relegated to second tier.
I wish there were some other way to say it.
But this "smart-dumb" survey stinks. It smacks of conspiracy and trashes fair evaluation of student achievement, at best. At worst, it favors deceit.
Given that these "criteria" are obviously and impossibly unquantifiable I judge the report to be ill-intentioned..maybe criminal in nature.
Our chuldren and grandchildren and great grandchildren apparently are prisoners of a pack of slavering, selfserving mindkillers.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Lick My Toes !!!...I'm Enemy Number One !!!!
Just as June begins and schools shut down for the summer, the government (public) schools in my beloved home sttate of Georgia produced two new arguments for private school vouchers, home schooling and the elimination of teachers' unions.
In Greene County, a principal kicked a Marine Iraq war veteran sergeant off a middle schoolcampus before he got a chance to talk to the students who had been corresponding with him and his buddies for eight months...
Even though permission had been sought for the visit and said principal had ignored the written request.
In Carroll County, a Temple school teacher forced a ten year old student to kiss her feet, lick her instep and suck her toes.
Carrol county authorities said there was nothing "criminal" in this, since the female teacher "received no sexual gratification" from the act.
How do they know?
As a matter of fact, who, in the government schools knows ANYTHING ?
This may be the norm for Beverly Hills or Westchester County, N.Y.
But Greensboro and Temple in Georgia?
Makes you wonder if the Associated Press is on the job in the wilds of Kansas and Nebraska !
If a gay citizen walked in and asked to speak on the danger of AIDS / HIV, would the reaction of the Greene County schools be the same as for the Marine?
If the teacher had forced corporal punishment on the ten-year-old, how different would the reaction have been in Carroll County???
Well, in Florida where I lived for 25 years until 2002, the state vice-chairman of the teacher's union (FEA) was a janitor from Lake City.
It's the massive PeeCee Power--- the ideological imperative of the Democrat Party. Its the plantation mythology that also imprisons African American voters. The teachers---and especially the government school administrators-- have a few Skinnerized knee-jerk Axioms:
*- Hate the military
*-Express disdain, if not outright disgust with Christianity and its Holidays
*-Endorse the United Nations without regard for breach of ethical values
*-View patriotism with distaste
*-Choose "the newest, latest" over the Traditional in ALL things
And so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
It reminds me of one of the old Bessie Smith, Leadbelly and Jimmy Rushing Blues Lyrics....
"She wake up in th' mornin'...
With her hair all down in her face....
What the poor fool don' know----
She done rount th' Human Race....
(Chorus)
She a bad-actin woman...
An' she don' mean NO man no good...."
Welcome to the Teachers' Union and Government schols..Our Nations' most dangerous enemies.
In Greene County, a principal kicked a Marine Iraq war veteran sergeant off a middle schoolcampus before he got a chance to talk to the students who had been corresponding with him and his buddies for eight months...
Even though permission had been sought for the visit and said principal had ignored the written request.
In Carroll County, a Temple school teacher forced a ten year old student to kiss her feet, lick her instep and suck her toes.
Carrol county authorities said there was nothing "criminal" in this, since the female teacher "received no sexual gratification" from the act.
How do they know?
As a matter of fact, who, in the government schools knows ANYTHING ?
This may be the norm for Beverly Hills or Westchester County, N.Y.
But Greensboro and Temple in Georgia?
Makes you wonder if the Associated Press is on the job in the wilds of Kansas and Nebraska !
If a gay citizen walked in and asked to speak on the danger of AIDS / HIV, would the reaction of the Greene County schools be the same as for the Marine?
If the teacher had forced corporal punishment on the ten-year-old, how different would the reaction have been in Carroll County???
Well, in Florida where I lived for 25 years until 2002, the state vice-chairman of the teacher's union (FEA) was a janitor from Lake City.
It's the massive PeeCee Power--- the ideological imperative of the Democrat Party. Its the plantation mythology that also imprisons African American voters. The teachers---and especially the government school administrators-- have a few Skinnerized knee-jerk Axioms:
*- Hate the military
*-Express disdain, if not outright disgust with Christianity and its Holidays
*-Endorse the United Nations without regard for breach of ethical values
*-View patriotism with distaste
*-Choose "the newest, latest" over the Traditional in ALL things
And so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
It reminds me of one of the old Bessie Smith, Leadbelly and Jimmy Rushing Blues Lyrics....
"She wake up in th' mornin'...
With her hair all down in her face....
What the poor fool don' know----
She done rount th' Human Race....
(Chorus)
She a bad-actin woman...
An' she don' mean NO man no good...."
Welcome to the Teachers' Union and Government schols..Our Nations' most dangerous enemies.
Friday, May 27, 2005
The "Told-Ya-So" Game....
Majority leader Bill Frist has already announced he will leave the U.S. Senate when his present term is up.
Reporters and TV talking heads INSIST that he is running for president in 2008.
I think he'd rather go home and operate (actually and literally) on the hearts of Tennesseans in hospitals than to to continue to try to operate on the hearts and souls of U.S. Senators.
I can dig that.
But, here's a notably strage occurrence. The Friday, May 27 morning edition of the LATimes, (hidey-hole suzerainty of socialist Michael Kinsley), carried a DEMAND that the Surgeon-Senator resign from the Senate...supposedly because of his "ineffectiveness" as Republican leader.
This is a setup, of course, so that next year when Frist does not stand for re-election, the LATimes and Kinsley can say:
"WE Baaaaad! Looky whut WEEEE done !!!!"
What horse apples !
The dirty little secret is that the LATimes has lost 10 per cent of its circulation in the past year, according to Editor and Puiblisher.
What blind fools these retro-journalists be !!! Huh ???
What great respect they have for us...the citizens.....
Reporters and TV talking heads INSIST that he is running for president in 2008.
I think he'd rather go home and operate (actually and literally) on the hearts of Tennesseans in hospitals than to to continue to try to operate on the hearts and souls of U.S. Senators.
I can dig that.
But, here's a notably strage occurrence. The Friday, May 27 morning edition of the LATimes, (hidey-hole suzerainty of socialist Michael Kinsley), carried a DEMAND that the Surgeon-Senator resign from the Senate...supposedly because of his "ineffectiveness" as Republican leader.
This is a setup, of course, so that next year when Frist does not stand for re-election, the LATimes and Kinsley can say:
"WE Baaaaad! Looky whut WEEEE done !!!!"
What horse apples !
The dirty little secret is that the LATimes has lost 10 per cent of its circulation in the past year, according to Editor and Puiblisher.
What blind fools these retro-journalists be !!! Huh ???
What great respect they have for us...the citizens.....
The "Told-Ya-So" Game....
Majority leader Bill Frist has already announced he will leave the U.S. Senate when his present term is up.
Reporters and TV talking heads INSIST that he is running for president in 2008.
I think he'd rather go home and operate (actually and literally) on the hearts of Tennesseans in hospitals than to to continue to try to operate on the hearts and souls of U.S. Senators.
I can dig that.
But, here's a notably strage occurrence. The Friday, May 27 morning edition of the LATimes, (hidey-hole suzerainty of socialist Michael Kinsley), carried a DEMAND that the Surgeon-Senator resign from the Senate...supposedly because of his "ineffectiveness" as Republican leader.
This is a setup, of course, so that next year when Frist does not stand for re-election, the LATimes and Kinsley can say:
"WE Baaaaad! Looky whut WEEEE done !!!!"
What horse apples !
The dirty little secret is that the LATimes has lost 10 per cent of its circulation in the past year, according to Editor and Puiblisher.
What blind fools these retro-journalists be !!! Huh ???
What great respect they have for us...the citizens.....
Reporters and TV talking heads INSIST that he is running for president in 2008.
I think he'd rather go home and operate (actually and literally) on the hearts of Tennesseans in hospitals than to to continue to try to operate on the hearts and souls of U.S. Senators.
I can dig that.
But, here's a notably strage occurrence. The Friday, May 27 morning edition of the LATimes, (hidey-hole suzerainty of socialist Michael Kinsley), carried a DEMAND that the Surgeon-Senator resign from the Senate...supposedly because of his "ineffectiveness" as Republican leader.
This is a setup, of course, so that next year when Frist does not stand for re-election, the LATimes and Kinsley can say:
"WE Baaaaad! Looky whut WEEEE done !!!!"
What horse apples !
The dirty little secret is that the LATimes has lost 10 per cent of its circulation in the past year, according to Editor and Puiblisher.
What blind fools these retro-journalists be !!! Huh ???
What great respect they have for us...the citizens.....
Friday, May 13, 2005
Will "Reid-ism" Replace "McCarthyism" ????
"I personally witnessed him taking a bubble bath with his pet female kangaroo in his back yard !!!"
"I actually witnessed her walking into a dark room with her sturdy male German Shepherd!!...Guide dog for the sightless? I don' care!... It's kinky !"
Those, my friends, are the types of affidavits and judgmental comments contained in any FBI background report.
Trust me on this. I know.
So Senator Harry Reid, the Democrat minority leader took the flor Thursday, May 12, to announce that a peek at Michigan Appeals court justice Saad's FBI background check file contained information that would prevent any senator from voting for Saad's elevation to the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnatti.
(This is the same Reid who told Navada high schoolers President Bush is a "loser", remember?)
Just any senator is not privy to such FBI files. Only Judiciary committee members may see them, I am informed.
So did California's Beloved Barbara Boxer, the pseudo senator who probably thought Dubya was speaking in Atlanta last weekend, give Ole Harry a heads-up? That's illegal!
I was alive and sprightly, in the "Fifties" heyday of Senator Joe McCarthy. I watched him very carefully because I was in an continual conflict with my kin in Wisconsin about him. I despised him.
We all should have learned from him.
But I do not remember Tailgunner Joe ever divulging an FBI file---though he had access to all of them. He used AP and New York Times, Newsweek and TIME reports lavishly. He also twisted words for disinformation and demagogy.
But Harry Reid is not just Joe McCarthy "Lite".
Joe McCarthy was an alcoholic and was destroyed by his malady and his obsession.
Harry Reid, I predict, will ---like his predecessor Tom Daschle---be destroyed by his hubris and his flamboyant imbecility.
He and Howard Dean just don't get it. With their DNC fundraising efforts about 65% in toilet-shortfall, they race, like lemmings, to the ocean cliff of obscurity.
Run, Boys, Ryn !!!!!
"I actually witnessed her walking into a dark room with her sturdy male German Shepherd!!...Guide dog for the sightless? I don' care!... It's kinky !"
Those, my friends, are the types of affidavits and judgmental comments contained in any FBI background report.
Trust me on this. I know.
So Senator Harry Reid, the Democrat minority leader took the flor Thursday, May 12, to announce that a peek at Michigan Appeals court justice Saad's FBI background check file contained information that would prevent any senator from voting for Saad's elevation to the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnatti.
(This is the same Reid who told Navada high schoolers President Bush is a "loser", remember?)
Just any senator is not privy to such FBI files. Only Judiciary committee members may see them, I am informed.
So did California's Beloved Barbara Boxer, the pseudo senator who probably thought Dubya was speaking in Atlanta last weekend, give Ole Harry a heads-up? That's illegal!
I was alive and sprightly, in the "Fifties" heyday of Senator Joe McCarthy. I watched him very carefully because I was in an continual conflict with my kin in Wisconsin about him. I despised him.
We all should have learned from him.
But I do not remember Tailgunner Joe ever divulging an FBI file---though he had access to all of them. He used AP and New York Times, Newsweek and TIME reports lavishly. He also twisted words for disinformation and demagogy.
But Harry Reid is not just Joe McCarthy "Lite".
Joe McCarthy was an alcoholic and was destroyed by his malady and his obsession.
Harry Reid, I predict, will ---like his predecessor Tom Daschle---be destroyed by his hubris and his flamboyant imbecility.
He and Howard Dean just don't get it. With their DNC fundraising efforts about 65% in toilet-shortfall, they race, like lemmings, to the ocean cliff of obscurity.
Run, Boys, Ryn !!!!!
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