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.....

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.

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.

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 !!!!?

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.

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 ????

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/

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.

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.

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.

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 !!!!

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!!!

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 ????

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.

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?

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 !!!!!

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 !

"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 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.

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 ?