Monday, October 31, 2005
Friday, October 28, 2005
Something As Important as Freedom
great country...The United States Of America. I wouldnt dare be so arrogant (nor should the slimes) to claim to know what makes these brave men and women tick, but whatever it is...we should all thank GOD for it and for them, not throw a fargin birthday party with cake and candles when they perish defending freedom.
Swing on over to Malkin for more coverage
Let's Get It On
A few potable quotables from Franken's new book "The Truth" :
AL FRANKEN ON...
MORAL VALUES - "From what I understand, if you cut out all the passages in the Bible where Jesus talks about the poor, about helping out the least among us, you'd have the perfect container to smuggle Rush Limbaugh's drugs in."
GAY MARRIAGE - "George W. Bush wants to amend our Constitution to make it illegal for gays to marry. But evidently, he has no problem with terrorists getting married. America can't afford a president who is soft on terrorist marriage.Because unlike gays, terrorists can breed. "
IRAQ - "They told us that when we invaded, we'd be greeted with sweets and flowers.They left out the crucial modifier: "exploding." "
What do you think about this guy...pretty funny, eh? He's going to ruin the image Americans have of fat people being jolly (any offense to fat people was surely unintentionally intentional, I think?).
Will The Right Dishonorable Gentleman
U.N. forgivable
U.N.-Forgivable
Posted 10/27/2005
United Nations: The final report on the oil-for-food scandal has been released, to little fanfare. How sad so few people, apart from policy wonks, will read it. It's a stunning indictment of the U.N.'s current leadership.
Maybe it's just an accident that the U.N.'s report on the biggest financial scandal in history was released amid the political maelstrom of the Harriet Miers fiasco and the possible indictment of two key presidential aides, thus ensuring it would get little coverage. But we doubt it.
The first news accounts of the so-called Volcker Commission's final report emphasized that 2,200 out of 4,500 companies that were involved in the U.N.'s $67 billion oil-for-food program — set up to let Saddam Hussein sell oil to buy food, medicine and other necessities for the Iraqi people — had paid bribes.
It's true. Those companies — among them, Daimler-Chrysler, Volvo, Glaxo-SmithKline and Novartis — paid bribes. And those bribes let Saddam steal $11 billion from the program.
But who, we wonder, looked the other way as bribes were paid? Who served as middlemen? And who, besides Saddam, profited?
The answer is uncomfortable for the U.N. and its many defenders. Saddam had paid off hundreds of officials around the world, like pro-Saddam British MP George Galloway, former French government official and Chirac ally Charles Pasqua, France's envoy to the U.N. Jean-Bernard Merrimee and Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
But it was the U.N. itself, as venal as any mob-run enterprise, that made the corruption of its own program possible — "facilitated it," in U.N.-speak.
The Volcker report, while highlighting corporate malfeasance, also shows conclusively that the U.N. crooks who ran oil for food gave preference to French, Russian and Chinese companies.
Why? The easiest answer is they were the most corruptible. But they're also all members of the U.N. Security Council and thus had enormous clout in deciding what the U.N. would do.
Which explains why all three countries were big advocates of ending the U.N.'s 1990s-era sanctions against Saddam's evil regime. They hoped, as cheaters do, to prosper in a post-sanction Iraq from Saddam's gratitude for their help.
What is most disturbing is the complicity of the United Nations itself. Indeed, the organization's misconduct would fill a small library. To wit:
The man handpicked by General-Secretary Kofi Annan to head the program, Benon Sevan, took bribes; Annan's son, Kojo, was awarded a high-level job with Cotecna, the company that won the U.N. contract to administer the program; and U.N. bureaucrats, directed by Annan's chief of staff, Iqbal Riza, shredded documents that might incriminate the global agency as the investigation got under way. The litany of misconduct goes on and on.
It's clear that, at the bare minimum, Annan's tenure as the U.N.'s top official is no longer tenable. He must resign — or be fired. It's also clear that the U.N. is so rife with corruption and dishonesty it can no longer serve its intended purpose.
To say the U.N. needs "reform" is useless. At this point, it might be better to end the U.N.'s mandate and start completely anew.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
The Gods Must be Crazy
Brought to my attention by fellow blogger: The All Powerful Oz
In the year 1981:
1. Prince Charles gets married.
2. Liverpool wins the European Cup.
3. The Pope dies.
In the year 2005:
1. Prince Charles gets married.
2. Liverpool wins the European Cup.
3. The Pope dies.
Conclusion: If Charles ever gets married again & Liverpool also wins the championship that same year...Well, someone should warn the Pope!
A few things on my mind....
It's a good thing the Isreali's pulled out of Gaza so now everyone can be reasonable and we can all just get along. I said it then and I am saying it again right now. These people don't understand reason, they understand strength, to them, the Gaza withdrawal was a retreat and they feel emboldened by it. My thought is lets just take the handcuffs off of Isreal. If we don't, we'll be in there fighting again to protect them, if we let them do their thing, they'll handle Iran themselves, and send a message to the rest of the arab countries that the gloves are off..................
When will we get serious about immigration? It seems that at least 80,000 violent felon illegal aliens are roaming the streets of the U.S. and we have no real will to capture them. Many of these illegals are from terrorist states by the way. Very disturbing...............................
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." George W Bush This sentence is from the 2003 state of the union address. It is also a fact. Joe Wilson wrote a NY Slimes editorial claiming that Bush lied, but actually he (wilson) lied. He lied to congress, and joined the kerry campaign. Why is Rove and Libby under possible indictment? Why is the Washington Post defending wilson? I know you know why, that was a rhetorical question...........
One more thing about Isreal. I just read this a couple of minutes ago. Joseph Farah is dead on here......
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
You Are What You Is
Do you know what you are? You are what you is You is what you am (A cow don't make ham . . . ) You ain't what you're not So see what you got You are what you is An' that's all it 'tis
A foolish young man From a middle class fam'ly Started singin' the blues 'Cause he thought it was manly Now he talks like the Kingfish ("Saffiiiee!") From Amos 'n Andy ("Holy mack'l dere . . . Holy mack'l dere!") He tells you that chitlins . . . (Chitlins!) Well, they taste just like candy He thinks that he's got De whole thang down From the Nivea Lotion To de Royal Crown
Do you know what you are? You are what you is You is what you am (A cow don't make ham . . . ) You ain't what you're not So see what you got You are what you is An' that's all it 'tis
A foolish young man Of the Negro Persuasion Devoted his life To become a caucasian He stopped eating pork He stopped eating greens He traded his dashiki("Uhuru!") For some Jordache Jeans He learned to play golf An' he got a good score Now he says to himself "I AIN'T NO NIGGER NO MORE . . . HEY! HEY! HEY!" "I don't understand you . . . " BWANA MA-COO-BAH "Would you please speak more clearly . . . " MERCEDES BAINNNNNNNZ
Who is who (I don't know . . . ) 'N what is what (Somethin' I just don't know . . . ) 'N why is this (Tell me now . . . ) Appropriot (That's a funny pronunciation if'n ever I heard one . . . ) If you don't like (Where'd you get that word?) What you has got (Appropriot? The word is not . . . ) Drop it in the dirt (Drop it yeah . . . ) 'N let it rot (I can smell it now . . . ) Someone else (Here de come, here de come . . . ) Will surely come (I told you they was comin') 'N pick it up (That's right!) 'Cause he wants some (An' he wants it for free . . . ) And when one day (There will come a day . . . ) You wonder who (I wonder too . . . ) You used to was (Who I was anyway . . . ) 'N what you do (I used to work at the post office . . . ) You'll scratch your head (But I don't wanna un-do my doo . . . ) 'N look around (Just to see what's goin' on . . . ) But what you lost (Can't seem to find it . . . ) Will not be found (A Mercedes Benz . . . )
Do you know what you are? (I know . . . ) You are what you is (I'm the kinda guy . . . ) You is what you am (That ought to be drivin' . . . ) A cow don't make a ham (A four-fifty SLC . . . ) You ain't what you're not (A big ol' red one . . . ) So see what you got (With some golf clubs stickin' out de trunk . . . ) You are what you is (I'm gwine down to de links on Saturday mornin' . . . ) An' that's all it is (Gimme a five-dollar bill . . . ) YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS (And an overcoat too . . . ) AND THAT'S ALL IT IS (Where's my waitress? Yeah . . . ) YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS (Robbie, take me to Greek Town . . . ) AN THAT'S ALL IT IS (I'm harder than yer husband; harder than yer husband . . . ) YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS (I'm goin' down to White Street, to the Mudd Club y'all . . . ) AN THAT'S ALL IT IS (I'm goin' down 'n work the wall 'n work the floor . . . ) YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS('N work the pipe 'n work the wall . . . ) AN THAT'S ALL IT IS(Some more . . . )
FZ
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
R.I.P. Wellington Mara & Rosa Park


Rest In Peace
The Weather Master
Monday, October 24, 2005
Playing the "Plame" game.
First of all, the original charge that was to be investigated was the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act. In order to violate this law, a person would have had to deliberately and maliciously exposed Ms. Plame knowing that she was an undercover agent and using information he'd obtained in an official capacity. Ms. Plame was surely not undercover, and hadn't been for over 9 years when the news came out. In my mind that should be enough to end the whole investigation, or not begin it in the first place. It's like investigating someone for murder, then finding the supposed victim alive. OOPS my bad, no crime has been committed, case closed have a nice day.
So now the investigation is whether or not certain officials lied to the grand jury. Ok, if they lied to the grand jury about a crime that wasn't committed that's still a crime, and i think a slap on the wrist is warranted.
Now who lied that we know of? Oh that would be Joe Wilson, the Kerry for president operative, and the person who started this whole mess. He lied about his wife sending him to Africa in the first place, Mr. Wilson's original claims about what he found on a CIA trip to Africa, what he told the CIA about it, and even why he was sent on the mission have since been discredited.
It seems to me that this whole thing is politically motivated. From what I have read so far about Fitzgerald, he seems to be a fair man, lets hope he does the right thing here.
Friday, October 21, 2005
I Want To Party With That Guy
No Man Deserved Less At Her Hands
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Irish X-Games
THERE'S MORE.....
Moments later, Seamus arrives up at the Connor Pass. He's been to the pet shop too and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying a paper bag in one hand and a shotgun in the other. "Hullo Paddy. Watch dis," Seamus says. He removes a Parrot from the bag and throws himself over the edge of the cliff. Paddy watches as halfway down, Seamus aims the gun and shoots the Parrot. Seamus continues to plummet down until he too hits bottom, breaks every bone in his body and is smashed to a pulp. Paddy shakes his head and says, " And I'm never trying dat parrotshooting either ! "
ITS NOT OVER YET....
Paddy is just gettting over the shock of losing two of his friends when Sean O'Leary appears. He also has a paper bag out which he pulls a chicken. He grabs the chicken by each wing and also hurls himself over the cliff, disappearing down and down until he hits a rock and breaks his spine. Once again Paddy is shaking his head. "Fook dat, lads. First dere was Gerry wit his budgie-jumpin', den Seamus parrotshooting and now Sean O'Leary and his fook'n hengliding !
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
ChucKKKles?

Just got back from my local Korean deli and thought Id share an interesting conversation I overheard of the young twentysomething couple in line ahead of me.
Girl: Why are you buying Chuckles? Guy: Because I like them Girl: But theyre not ethnic Guy: Theyre Chuckles! Girl: They are so white bread whiteboy Guy: Theyre Chuckles! Girl: Whitebread Guy: Theyre Chuckles! They are the universal unifier. The UN of candy.
The End
Very diplomatic of him. Me? I usually dont advocate violence against women, but in this case...
FYI both parties were of the caucasian persuasian. Crazy crackers!
Heil David Stern
Robert Bork is a genius
Mighty Casey Has Struck Out
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
From The Right
Lets see...Im an ass, a wingnut and a parrot. Now thats constructive discussion. Carmen I actually did defer to two of the things you cited as examples from your personal experience. I have never singled out the individual or the bureaucracy I blamed both. You hear what you want to hear.Its rather silly for us to stick our head in the ground and say there is no need for further reform. In fact I would wager that I could dig through the site's archives and find this exact discussion where all would be in agreement, yet since I am involved it becomes a quarrelsome matter. To be completely honest I was thinking that this thread would revolve around my SAC. Disregarding those that are unable to fend for themselves, the justification and intent of welfare should be for the promotion of self-dependancy and the escape of the gerbil wheel of poverty. If you think that we are doing everything that we could as a society and as efficiently as possible then perhaps it is I that should walk away from this thread and allow y'all to continue your ostrichassery.In closing I would like to say....LETS GO METS!!!
Ok Carmen you win. You are smart and I am stupid. You cited specific examples you are awesome (were they really needed?), I didnt (were they really needed?), I suck. Ok now that thats out of the way and you got to cite your professional expertise...get to frickin work and fix it big shot. My expertise* lies elsewhere. At least we can finally agree it needs fixing, as opposed to the asinine argument that it doesnt.You know Im not a geologist either but I can you with great authority that there is a pretty big gap between the Grand Canyon....and you call me parrot again I will personally hunt down and kill Jimmy Buffett.
Sometimes I neither have the time or the means at my disposal to engage you in a full frontal debate and sometimes I deem the facts to be so overwhelming to be unneccesarry. Look at the thread to this comment. Welfare is working this, Re: Welfare isnt broke mutha farka that. Forgive me if I was sidetracked by the real issue at hand.Murder is bad. Thats it. No specific examples will be cited. ...and if you so dare touch any Zappa family member...my guitar will kill your momma
That is the thinking that liberals disagree with
EE-Aw
Drum Roll Please. And The Winner Is...
Monday, October 17, 2005
Tax cuts for the rich...
Another IRS report decomposed the top one percent and found that the top ten percent of the top one percent (the top 0.1 percent) increased their share of all federal income taxes from seven percent in 1980 to 15.3 percent in 2003. These 129,000 tax filers earned 7.6 percent of the income and paid an average tax rate of 23.6 percent. This came to $114.6 billion—four times more than all the taxes paid by the 64 million taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent—who paid an average tax rate of 2.9 percent. An across the board tax cut means everyone who pays taxes gets a cut. These cuts should be permanent. Reagan cut the top tax rate, and the economy boomed, Bush cut taxes, and our economy has come out of a recession and has been really moving for a couple of years now. I say cut some more, everyone benefits.
A Jornalist's Worth
Enough Already
Leave it to George Carlin to say what we all were thinking…
Been sitting here with my ass in a wad, wanting to speak out about the
bullshit going on in New Orleans. For the people of New Orleans... First we
would like to say, sorry for your loss. With that said, let's go through a
few hurricane rules: (Unlike an earthquake, we know it's coming)
#1. A mandatory evacuation means just that...Get the hell out.
Don't blame the Government after they tell you to go. If they hadn't said
anything, I can see the argument. They said get out... if you didn't, it's your fault, not theirs.
(We don't want to hear it, even if you don't have a car, you can get out.)
#2. If there is an emergency, stock up on water and non-perishables. If you
didn't do this, it's not the Government's fault you're starving.
#2a. If you run out of food and water, find a store that has some.
(Remember, shoes, TV's, DVD's and CD's are not edible. Leave them alone.)
#2b. If the local store has been looted of food or water, leave your
neighbor's TV and stereo alone. (See #2a) They worked hard to get their
stuff! Just because they were smart enough to leave during a mandatory
evacuation, doesn't give you the right to take their stuff...it's theirs, not yours.
#3. If someone comes in to help you, don't shoot at them and then complain
no one is helping you. I'm not getting shot to help save some dumb ass who
didn't leave when told to do so.
#4. If you are in your house that is completely under water, your belongings
are probably too far gone for anyone to want them. If someone does want
them, let them have them and hopefully they'll die in the filth. Just leave!
(It's New Orleans, find a voodoo warrior and put a curse on them)
#5. My tax money should not pay to rebuild a 2 million dollar house, a
sports stadium or a floating casino. Also, my tax money shouldn't go to
rebuild a city that is under sea level. You wouldn't build your house on
quicksand would you? You want to live below sea-level, do your country some
good and join the Navy.
#6. Regardless of what the Poverty Pimps Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton want
you to believe, The US Government didn't create the Hurricane as a way to
eradicate the black people of New Orleans (Neither did Russia as a way to
destroy America). The US Government didn't cause global warming that caused the hurricane.
(We've been coming out of an ice age for over a million years)
#7. The government isn't responsible for giving you anything. This is the
land of the free and the home of the brave, but you gotta work for what you
want. McDonalds and Wal-Mart are always hiring, get a damn job and stop
spooning off the people who are actually working for a living. President
Kennedy said it best..."Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what
you can do for your country."
Thank you for allowing me to rant.
Friday, October 14, 2005
Speaking Of Umbrellas
Whats Better Than An Umbrella In New York?
Its nice to see that while my city's subway system is threatened with terrorist attack and the tri-state area is on flood watch that my senator is having dinner in sunny beverly hills with meathead.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
The Great One....
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Hillarywood
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Monday, October 10, 2005
Happy Columbus Day!
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Morris Dees: Hate Is His Business, And Business Is Good
In 1961 when Freedom Riders were beaten by a white mob at a Montgomery bus station, Dees [and Fuller] expressed openly his sympathies and support for what had happened at the bus station.
When one of the men charged with beating the Freedom Riders came to their office for legal representation, Dees and Fuller took the case. The legal fee was paid by the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizen's Council. [Fuller, Millard. Love in the Mortar Joints. New Century Press: 1980 and The Progressive, July 1988]
Friday, October 07, 2005
Huh???
Blackmun And White Woman
Thursday, October 06, 2005
If You Build It The UN Will Come...Then Steal It And Destroy It
The V Files (As In Roe V Wade)
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
I couldn't have said it better myself
Bush recoils from greatness
By Pat Buchanan
Oct 3, 2005
Syndicated columnist
Handed a once-in-a-generation opportunity to return the Supreme Court to constitutionalism, George W. Bush passed over a dozen of the finest jurists of his day -- to name his personal lawyer.
In a decision deeply disheartening to those who invested such hopes in him, Bush may have tossed away his and our last chance to roll back the social revolution imposed upon us by our judicial dictatorship since the days of Earl Warren.
This is not to disparage Harriet Miers. From all accounts, she is a gracious lady who has spent decades in the law, and served ably as Bush's lawyer in Texas and, for a year, as White House counsel.
But her qualifications for the Supreme Court are nonexistent. She is not a brilliant jurist -- indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or the public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.
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Just Ranting....
If Chuck Schumer, and Harry Reid like this pick, and we hear that Reid actually suggested her at one point, is this a pick that the party base could be happy with?
Couldn't we fillibuster this supreme court pick? Think about it, if you were a conservative in congress, and you fillibustered harriet miers, wouldn't that make you supremely popular with the base? wouldn't that give you a leg up for the party nomination in 2008? couldn't you use that to show the voters on both sides that you stand on principle and give you some kind of moral high ground?
Rick Santorum, are you listening??
Isn't this pick of Harriet Miers exactly what Alexander Hamilton warned about in The Federalist 76?
Yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh show, vice president Cheney told Rush, trust us, we know what we're doing. Isn't that what got us into the mess we're in now, with justices like souter, and O'conner?
Monday, October 03, 2005
Liga Nacional del Futball
While Im ranting... this from a league that now bans coaches from wearing suits and ties and mandate they wear "licensed" products on the sidelines. Its not always about market share and making a buck...better class it up Tags or youll end up like the NBA.
Go Gints!!!
Et Tu Bush?
Buchanan For President '08




