FREE or "Fair" ???

"Fair" is in the eye of the beholder.

"FREE" is the verdict of the market.

(The word "free" is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with "freedom".
The word "fair’" is not used in either of our founding documents.)

It will be well for all of us to remember these words
written by the late Milton Friedman in the Wall Street Journal in 1998.

During the next few weeks, months and, as Andy Griffith used to say, "I don’t know
WHUT-ALL!!", we will be hearing a lot about "fairness".

It is nearly a year until the first presidential primaries/caucuses... And no facet of "fairness"will be left unexamined or unplumbed.

The first shrill cry will be for a return to the "fairness doctrine" which has been (thank the Lord) dormant---not only out of style but out of practice--- since the late 1980s.

The fairness doctrine required that if anyone anywhere made a paid-for political statement on radio or television then an opponent to that opinion would be entitled to free air time to express opposition..

My reaction to this? Does Pope Benedict invite Satan to St. Peter’s?

Vachel Lindsay once wrote a poem wherein the Mexican communist painter Diego Rivera splashed Stalin’s and Lenin’s faces on the sacred walls of Rockefeller Center. In the last stanza of the poem, John D.’s grandson Nelson whimpered to Rivera:

"After all, it’s MY wall !!"

"We’ll see if it is!!" Said Rivera.

What I’m predicting is that the spiritual and political inheritors of Rivera are going to hammer the American people... with the robust conspiracy of the mainstream media... in a veritable cataract of "Fairfairfairfairfairfair !!!!" In a cacophony of kindergarten mewling and puking the likes of which Billy Shakespeare never saw or dreamed.

Brace yourself. You’re going to be shocked at how many people do not know the meaning or the proper utility of the word "fair". (Baseball, marbles, hpscotch, spelling bees and so on).

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Islamo fascists asked for equal time on Bishop Ted Jakes’ Sunday presentation.

Not to belabor the point too much but stop and consider the thought, and depth, and a the sculptured meaning of that old phrase:

"All is fair in love and war".

Lost in Surreal Horror

The New York middle-school teacher saw a thoroughly objectioable object on the fifth grader's metal desk, and demanded the child remove it and hide it or "face consequences".

The child burst into tears, and the tears did not stop until she was home in her mother's arms.

"I don't understand", the little girl said.

I don't either," her mpther said.

In the subsequent uproar...or in its aftermath...the teacher and the principal and the superintendent and the teachers' union representative all agreed on remedial action:

NO MORE "OBJECTS" other than work materials will be tolerated on students' desks. A safe deal, see?

The "offending object?

It was a "refrigerator" magnet saying "SMILE ! JESUS LOVES YOU ! "

Now, let us look in at the Disney Corporation and the American Broadcasting Company, where Rosie O'Donnell is free to call one entire political party butchers and / or killers and enabled to accuse the Unites States government of blowing up the World Trade center and the Pentagon on Sepotember 11, 2001 for "political advantage".

Is there anything wrong with this picture ?

Are Lewis Carroll and Bram Stoker collaborating on the script for appropriate behaviour and tolerable, sensible personal expression in 20007?

Write me and tell me what YOU think....

Paper Clips

I have not seen a really great documentary motion picture since I stopped making them.

Until Now.

It's Paper Clips, produced by Eliot Berlin and Bob Johnston, and you should see it even if you must buy it from Amazon. I wish I could give EVERYONE a DVD !!

It's about a small town, Whitwell, Tennessee (POP. 1,400) and a succession of middle schoolers between 1998 and 2002, who decide to collect one paper clip for every Jew gassed or cremated by Hitler's Naziz in Dachau, Auschwitz, Terblinka and the other deatrh camps.

Paper clips, you know, were invented in Norway, and during the Dark Years, the Norwegian Undrerground, fighting Nazi Soldiers in Norway, saved thousands of Jews headed for slaughter, and used the paper clip as a symbol of Hope.

These Appalacian children from hard laboring families left adrift economically when the coal mine closed, don't even know what a Jew is, Why they Are, or What is Different about them. But they learn so much more than Those Things.

If I told you what happened, who wrote them and sent paper clips for every slaughtered family member, who came to Whitwell and what the final outcome was it would spoil the story. You MUST see it.

If you want to cheat, you can look it all up on the internet. But everyone iun America should see this motion Picture.

Hell ! Everyone in Am,erica should emulate Whitwell, Tennessee.

I'll give you a hint. They amassed a number of paper clips to represent not only the martyred six million Jews Hitler annihilated, but the five million homosexuals, Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses gassed and burned in the Killing Camps...Plus enough to account for Stalin's Pogroms, too !

And then...they did something even more ennobling....Write if you care to know !

Darkest ? When ?

The gloom is always internal;
Produced by what one feels, not sees.
And, darkest hours come apace with lapse
Of memories and gratitude for Life, just Life.

It is not ever darkest "just before the dawn"
As some cute Pollyanna poet said.
Dark floods the unforgiving, graceless Soul
Embittered by discomfort, pain and guile
Suffusing light, eclipsing memory.

The darkest time is any time we choose
To not remember all the poignant joyful hours
We never understood or treasured.
And we’re empowered to change the meaning of it all.

Choose CHOICE !

Lets put aside the "rubber-stamping" for a moment.

Lets see if we can get by without labels.

The United States faces more trouble than it has at any time since Abraham Lincoln’s days in the White House during the Civil War.

And the most frightening aspect of our sticky wicket is that our main conduit to the truth of what is going on in the world has chosen sides and donned a label.

The Media are predominately what academics used to call "DOCTRINAIRE"--meaning a marriage to prejudice rather than a partnership with rational Truth.

Ninety-one percent of the people in America want to keep "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Nearly the same number of Americans want it said in public schools, as it has ever been.

But, the Ass Press still bends and tortures its reportage to highlight and magnify the anti-American atheists who want any mention of God suppressed. The broadcast networks fall in lockstep.

United States senators go to Europe to proclaim the United States id an "international pariah" and everyone on earth knows it in 10 seconds.

Airheaded Hollywood socialists and peaceniks gather and spray paint obscenities on the U.S. Capitol building, and all the mainstream media multiply their attendance from about 9,000 to "hundreds of thousands". And this canard is accepted as truth throughout the world, mainly because Hanoi Jane Fonda was there.

But theft of classified documents from the National Archives, and the broken promise by the convicted thief to take a polygraph test...these go unreported, except by Bloggers on the Internet, and a bit by Fox News channel.

The wisdom of those Americans who still reason and cogitate for themselves nudges implacably against the mighty arrogant Lords of the Press and TV.
Facts are that all the left wing non-cable news shows are losing audience every year, and Katie Couric and CBS are the humonguos losers. Couric has a loquacious co-host now, and the audience still melts.

Media layoffs are at an all time high, percentage wise. Newsweek and TIME are shrinking weekly. No ad increase. The money is all heading for the Internet.

Maybe I won’t live to see it, but that huge percentage of Americans with historically proven values will, like the drip-drip-drip of the water torture or the sculpting of Gibraltar, overtake the liars and the God-haters.

They can ALL have their "labels". I’ll choose CHOICE.

Back to Basics

Browsing around the 'net this morning, I ran across some disgruntled Pennsylvania citizens who are extremely upset about their new electronic voting machines.

The way I understand it, these electronic marvels of the New Millenium can be invaded, perused and manipulated from a parking lot near the polling site by any laptop geek.

This is much more evil than a pregnant chad.

Since I have been reading about pre-Civil War elections in the United States (in which people like John Marshall and John Quincy Adams were elected to congress) this subversive activity via wireless technology knocked me for a loop.

I can remember in my youth, during the Dirty Thirties, my grandfather was always extolling the virtues of the "new Austrralian Secret Ballot".

It was, truly, a revolutionary idea then.

Up until the conclusion of the American Civil War, all
elections were heldin the open, with no secrets.

The contestants stood by at a long table where the qualified voters were accomodated, passed on, and then each voter declared his choice in front of the several hundred attendant voters and officials.

The tally was kept incrementally and when the last qualified voter got his lick in, everyone knew the winner.

Of course, they openly quaffed the ale and spirits all day...never mind WHOSE ale and spirits !

So, I say: 'What's the Big Durn Hurry ??'

Down with punch machines, electronic tallies, wireless schemes and abacus-like processes.

Let's let everyone just write down the name of their favorite candidate---just scrawl it however illegibly---and then count the paper ballots.

It can't be as bad as the hanging chads that Algore claimed beat him in 2000.

It would be impregnable to the crooked geeks who invade the electronic machines with slave sattelite aid.

And, to the great delight oif many of us, the old, long drawn out methhod of tallying paper ballots would drive the Mainstream Media absolutely Bonkers!!!

Of course, what we really need is an electorate totally dedicated and responsible...a population of electors unashamed and fearless in their decisions.

It would be rally nice to have THAT first.

HOPE and LIGHT

Christmas is about the Advent of Hope and Forgiveness in the world.

Chanukkah is about Light to displace darkness and despair.

That these holidays are celebrated all over the world during the Winter Solstice and as an introduction to a New Year of Hope and Light is not without profound and elegant mystical meaning.

We all may have another chance to look at our selves, our souls and improve our lives and the lives of others, everywhere.

Giving presents is not bad. But giving of our selves, daily in earnest, can be more than good. Giving can be life changing. The gift of a new year...even the gift of a new day to those of us who are aware that we march closer to our last earthly day..is Spiritually invigorating.

Actually, no man or woman knows when the last day will be. So it behooves each of us to grasp the Light and Hope of the season.

There are many on our earth who cannot read or write, and who mimic and parrot what they hear. And they can choose to buttress and strengthen their ignorance by never admitting a new Light or a new Hope.

But History has so far shown that the captive minds in collective evil are like Ernest Hemingway's Worms in a Jar,, attempting, bereft of Hope and without Light to gain sustenance and meaning from one another in insularity.

They will desiccate, finally, and be blown by winds of everlasting wisdom.

And if they really believe they can gain immortality by slaughtering all who are not imprisoned in hopeless darkness, they must fail.

Hope and Light have eternally sealed mankind's endurance and inclination to prevail.

Remember? Yesssss !!

Nostalgia isn’t always sad
Or why do we remember?
It’s up to us to dump the bad..
For sure in this December.
There’s reason why we hold a thought
Of yesterdays and nights.
It’s ‘cause our lives would come to naught
Without our memory’s lights.
That smile, that laugh, that kiss and song
Are all why we delight
In bringing back to keep, prolong
Our years of pleasure, bright.
So, while someone may damn his fate,
And scatter gloom around
As drunken holiday ingrate...
We’ll Carol loving sound !
We’ll glory in our yesterdays
And actively proclaim
That had we not the feast that plays
A Hymnal in our brain,
We would not be ourselves and know
That yesterdays have made us so....

Thanksgiving Grace

My best friend’s mother died today, my son’s wife’s Matriarch is struck.
And two colleagues and close-held guides do battle in their bloodstreams and
their guts

Against malignant, migratory doom. Oncology now governs all our hours, ights and lives.

So, will we kneel and offer heartfelt gratitude?
Why Yes ! We Will.

The persecuted, migrant, haunted Pilgrims did.
Their food and safety could be traced to savages
Once feared as cannibals and foragers on human life.

O, how does this occur, that displaced tribes swallow the urge
To lessen danger by devouring strangers and deign to feed
Invaders from the maize hills, turkey flocks and yam roots saved for frost ?

There must be secret magic here...There must be
More than Mohawk-Erie-Iroquois largesse
And hospitality afoot.

For, boiled down, dry-dstilled,
There was, in each unique God’s child
At that first Thanksgiving,, a personal, burning gratitude
That echoed Grace, where even Native Indian saw
The silhouette of generous humility met
With tempered glee for having life and hope.

Amazing surely was the Grace that flowed from the same root wellspring
In Romance tongues as "Grazie" from Italian ones and "Gracias" from Castile.

Thanksgiving’s not for things we have, but Grace to take
The times we did not ask for; and, stirred with Hope we’ll be surprised by Joy.

One Scrivener's Opinion

A dear, valued academic liberal friend, upon receiving my detailed report of the "rise" of the New York Post, silhouetted against the decline of every other newspaper in the United States, asked me what I thought has happened, and I wrote her this letter. Someone said I should "Blog" it, so here goes (with original caps-emphasis, as it was sent:


Dear M,

A good look at the history of American Journalism would be of good
utility here.

From the time of Philip Freneau's Aurora and the American Gazette (1800 election) when Jefferson hid behind the guys who besmirched Washington, Newspapers have been biased in their news columns and handmaidens of demagogues as well as self-righteous "spoilers" in the opinion / editorial sections. Dig Abe Lincold up and ask HIM.

There is nothing new about that. Television has NEVER had an unbiased commentator since David Brinkley and Chet Huntley. Uncle Walter was a damned JOKE.

The "peepul" have caught on. Most everybody can get news quicker and cheaper on the Internet, and they will continue to do so in greater numbers...REGARDLESS of the bias to the left of GOOGLE, et al, ad nauseum.

On the Internet, they can seek out the Blog or columnist that fits their bias matrix.

The newspapers are dead, except for sports coverage and parceling dead fish and baby diapers. The New York Post is an example of that. It flies in the face of The Big Apple's DOMINANT left-liberal political bent and climbs past the other dailies in the area with "sports and titillation".

People are a lot smarter and more sophisticated nowadays than they were even ten years ago. The twisting and tweaking of straight news stories is OBVIOUS to everyone. Liberals exploit it, of course and I don't blame them. I used to do it myself !!! And, conservatives raise hell impotently...but it just does not matter any more.

On the internet, you can see nasty, wild crap from the "right" and the slobbering demagogues like Huey Long and Talmadge, and you can see the crooks and thugs like the ineffable fugitive from EU justice, G. Soros and you can read Kos and you can see bare breasts (*gasp*) and bestiality, too.

I never thought newspapers were supposed to be "fair and balanced"...but I did---at one time---labor under the misapprehension that the Associated Press and Reuters had a responsibility to report facts and occurrences without subversion and guile.

The deterioration and obvious collectivist, PeeCee tilt...the anti-religion attitude of the Associated Press has had more to do with the extinction of journalism as we know it than ANYTHING the newspapers have done on a local level.

That's the way I see it, and I admit I see through a prism that is born of my years as a reporter and editorial writer on a GREAT newspaper....the old Constitution of Ralph McGill (and Henry Grady's tradition).

Alas, all that has gone with the wind also.

Love, always...

Bill

Mainstream Media Murmur

I am not your friend.
You pay me well, but I betray you.
You purchase words from me and expectations, too
That, certainly, those words will paint the facts of Life
To undergird decisions.

But I am not your friend.
I do not tell you things that do not fit
My slots and missing mortises.

I fear your mind and so
I render you a mindless, clueless child
And pander to your greed and envy.
My Duty is a sworn one...
To withhold any balanced view
To temper inflammation with contrary peace
Or give a different value to the words I bring than my own warp.
And thus I will imprison you with your comoplicity.

I am not your friend, but still I haunt your every breath,
Insinuate myself into your play, your laughter and your rest
With twisted and subversive sounds and sights
Destruction of your culture is my goal.
I am your teacher and your chart...
But ....I am not your friend..

Who Is Up Next ?

The Depot wants to update readers about a few courageous voices that do not glance off harmlessly when they hit the PeeCee armored agents of the Dinosaur Media.

Tony Bennet is quoted as saying that America is "a cultural void".

Bob Dylan joins him and opines there is no more music.

Rev. Al Sharpton denounces Gangsta / Ho rap and hiphop as "destructive".

Juan Williams, a noted liberal columnist for the dying Liberal print press, wites in his new book that rampant illiteracy and self imposed "dumbing down" are smothering the nation.

And, Bill Cosby just keeps on doing something that Howard Cosell NEVER did....telling it like it is about community and cultural suicide by Afro-America.

These were Internet stories, NOT from the MSM.

This must be embarrassing to the Politically Correct crowd, who consistently call murderous terrorists "militants" and homicidal bombers of infants "martyrs" and beheaders of innocent newsmen "freedoim fighters".

The Depot, here, and even Cato is heartened and energized by all these revolutionary revelations of things that have been self evident fot at least a decade and a half.

But, despite the truth telling, PeeCee will not die. The Spiritual Spike has not been driven thtough the heart of craven evil.

Watch the news anywhere. See how they protect larcenous, lying congrerssmen.

Listen to the weasels misinforming you and distorting facts about a confessed predatory criminal.

See them hide the truth about a major league basbeall player who cheated with dope.

Cosby, Dylan, Bennett, and Williams have "done good".

But where is the next truthteller now? And, can he or she break through the barrier of the politically correct prison that asphyxiates our freedom?

Will the Real Dwarves Please Stand Up ?

On Tuesday, August 15, a new Zogby survey on the state of American education was published.

In case you missed it, this exhaustive poll of 1300 Americans, coast to coast, of knowledge revealed:

* Seventy five percent (75%) of the students polled could name TWO of Snow White's Seven Dwarves.

* Only twenty five percent (25%) could name two of the justices of the United States Supreme Court.

* Most knew the name of Superman's home planet (Krypton), but less than one out of eight knew the name of the planet nmearest the sun in our solar system (Mercury).

In this space, we have bemoaned, in the past, the essential cultural and civic illiteracy encouraged in government schools.

Let's pose a question or two here.

Is it a conspiracy of left wing politicians and the teachers' unions to keep all the evolving citizenry oblivious and uninterested in the workings of the Rebublic? Or of the natural world, in fact?

Is the word "democracy" (which is not mentioned in either the Constitution or the Decalaration of Independence) just a shibboleth?

Why don't you question your local Tax-eaters and find out?

How about himself ?

So, Mel Gibson has apologized to the cops who caught him driving drunk?

And he has apologized to what he calls the "Jewish Community" for spewing anti-Semitic vitriol --(His locution) --and vulgar, bigoted profanity?In full C-Y-A mode, Gibson wants the cops and the Jews to forgive him because he "was out of control".

Okay.

But when is he going to apologize to me? I mean, when is he going to tell us about his Confession, and his Contrition? When does he make peace with the Master of the Universe and what he would have at one time called his "PUBLIC"???

I used booze for 20 years wildly and addictively.I got clean and sober when I was EXACTLY the age Mel Gibson is today.

But before and after, nobody EVER overlooked any of my mistakes, diatribes, fulminations or nasty performances. Painful consequences pounded and suffocated my soul.

I always had to pay for my mistakes and shortcomings. I had to battle enraged targets of my antisocial verbal garbage. I was ostracized and, in some cases, severely chastised.

When I tried to make amends to one man, after I was in recovery, he said:"You were a S.O.B. THEN, and you will ALWAYS be a S.O.B. !"

So, although I don’t expect a non-PR apology from the man who made Scot "Braveheart" Billy Wallace a transcendent symbol, I do wonder....

Can he ever forgive himself ?

Fair is Only Fair !!!!

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

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.

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.

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!!!!"

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.

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.