Dont tell him I told ya, but Mr and Mrs Fly are having a party in Joisey, and all are invited. Now its time for me to evacuate the madness of Manhattan. Be well Aurorans!
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Happy New Years
Dont tell him I told ya, but Mr and Mrs Fly are having a party in Joisey, and all are invited. Now its time for me to evacuate the madness of Manhattan. Be well Aurorans!
Friday, December 30, 2005
Public Service Announcement
Being that I live right in the epicenter of the Times Square New Years insanity, I figured I would do my civic duty and offer some friendly advice to those traveling from far and away for the festivities.
- Stay out of my way
- And I wont stab you
- Enjoy your visit
- Now go home
Have We Forgotten That We'd Never Forget
Im sorry folks, but this country full of apathetic assholes. Has September 11th become a historical footnote so soon. Sure as hell seems that way.
Why do you read about miniscule civil liberties being infringed upon, and not about the terrorist attacks that have been prevented. Why do tanning salons in Vegas receive financial relief, and why are they and all the other blood money profiteers still in business when so many truly needy and truly affected are still putting the pieces of their lives back together. Why are their relief agenicies hording billions. Why are there scumbags that cashed checks not meant for them, and why arent they in jail. Why do we leave our borders unprotected, yet force our soldiers to be away from friend, family and home to guard others, such as Germany and S. Korea. Why do I have to take off my fucking plastic flip flops at airport security, and grandmothers are getting felt up, yet hostile country's citizens are still traveling freely in and out of OUR country. Why does North Dakota (nothing personal ND) get brand new titanium firehoses and New York's bravest are driving around in decades old fire engines. Why does an asinine transit union force its neighbors to walk the same bridges that many did on that day, do they not remember. Why are the funerals of our Country's fallen being protested by radical commie libs and religious right wing zealots. Why does the Democratic party insist on surrender. Why is our President called a Nazi, and Al-Qaeda are freedom fighters by those in our "intellectual community" Why isnt this administration grabbing Pakistan by the balls and make them cough up Osama.
Why do so many forget. Why do so many not remember that this war was brought to us. Why do we not remember the time after that fateful day, where we all stood as one, one people, one Country, with one enemy. Well news flash jackasses, the unity is gone but the enemy is not. And we are all to blame.
Why do you read about miniscule civil liberties being infringed upon, and not about the terrorist attacks that have been prevented. Why do tanning salons in Vegas receive financial relief, and why are they and all the other blood money profiteers still in business when so many truly needy and truly affected are still putting the pieces of their lives back together. Why are their relief agenicies hording billions. Why are there scumbags that cashed checks not meant for them, and why arent they in jail. Why do we leave our borders unprotected, yet force our soldiers to be away from friend, family and home to guard others, such as Germany and S. Korea. Why do I have to take off my fucking plastic flip flops at airport security, and grandmothers are getting felt up, yet hostile country's citizens are still traveling freely in and out of OUR country. Why does North Dakota (nothing personal ND) get brand new titanium firehoses and New York's bravest are driving around in decades old fire engines. Why does an asinine transit union force its neighbors to walk the same bridges that many did on that day, do they not remember. Why are the funerals of our Country's fallen being protested by radical commie libs and religious right wing zealots. Why does the Democratic party insist on surrender. Why is our President called a Nazi, and Al-Qaeda are freedom fighters by those in our "intellectual community" Why isnt this administration grabbing Pakistan by the balls and make them cough up Osama.
Why do so many forget. Why do so many not remember that this war was brought to us. Why do we not remember the time after that fateful day, where we all stood as one, one people, one Country, with one enemy. Well news flash jackasses, the unity is gone but the enemy is not. And we are all to blame.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Jim Thorpe Aint Just A Town In PA
So Im flipping through the channels looking for some soft-core porn, um I mean political investigative reporting news programs and I come across 'JimThorpe, All American' starring Chuck Heston(correction: starring Burt Lancaster, courtesy of jimshitz) on the YES Network. Yes that YES Network, so being the faithful Mets fan that I am I kept on flipping, but it did get me thinking.
This may come as a bit of a shock to those that look at me as some backwards hilljack cracker, but growing up where I did, Ive always had an incredible amount of respect and admiration for the Indian culture. Now before you get in a tizzy, thats right I said it..Indian, not Native-American, sorry folks dont believe in hyphenated peoples. So as I was saying, I grew up surrounded by the many tribes of the Iroquois Nation. I learned about their rich history, and played their game, the fastest game on two feet, lacrosse.
But back to Thorpe, Im not one of those guys that will sit around and babble about the golden era of sports, and how athletes back yonder were real men and the kids nowadays are nothing but spoiled punks. For one thing I aint old enough, the sports and the athletes of this era are my era, and secondly I disagree. Athletes are bigger, stronger, and faster now but no more pampered today than the the ancient Greek Olympians. Athletes have always been put on pedestals and treated better than the average butcher, baker and candlestick maker. The checks are just bigger now.
Jim Thorpe was the real deal. As King Gustov declared "Sir you are the greatest athlete in the world". Thorpe was legit. He was a gold medal winning Olympic track star, professional baseball player, All Star professional football player, and astronaut (got ya) Yeah thats right, before Bo, before Deion. The guy had eight kids from 3 different wifes (always the benchmark of a great athlete, see: Garvey,Steve) Two fast facts courtesy of JimThorpe.com
Believe it or not, Thorpe once hit 3 home runs into 3 different states in the same game. During a semi-pro baseball game in a ballpark on the Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas border, he hit his first homer over the leftfield wall with the ball landing in Oklahoma, his second homer over the rightfield wall into Arkansas and his third homer of the game was an inside-the-park home run in centerfield, which was in Texas!
Thorpe is one of two men in history who played
for the New York Giants in two different sports. In football, he was the New York Giants running back and in baseball he was the New York Giants outfielder.
I only know Jim Thorpe from second hand sources, but it brings me back to an Iroquois Creation myth I learned as a young scout. The Creator after witnessing the majesty of the earth that he had just created, and the wonderful animals inhabiting it, decided it was missing just one thing, man. He went about building a clay oven, to make man. The first man came out undercooked, the white man, but the Creator wasnt entirely satisfied. The second was overcooked, the black man, but the Creator wasnt entirely satisfied. The third came out a golden brown, and the Creator was pleased. Well, with Jim Thorpe he hit the nail on the head.
Pencil Envy?
What blog crawled up this broads backside?
It is this latter - our new enemies - that interests me most. I don't mean al-Qaida or Osama bin Laden, but the less visible, insidious enemies of decency, humanity and civility - the angry offspring of narcissism's quickie marriage to instant gratification.
There's something frankly creepy about the explosion we now call the Blogosphere - the big-bang "electroniverse" where recently wired squatters set up new camps each day.
story
She may have a point. I never trusted Michele Malkin, For all I know she had me set up, and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that's history. I'm here, he ain't.
To paraphrase the Clash...
It is this latter - our new enemies - that interests me most. I don't mean al-Qaida or Osama bin Laden, but the less visible, insidious enemies of decency, humanity and civility - the angry offspring of narcissism's quickie marriage to instant gratification.
There's something frankly creepy about the explosion we now call the Blogosphere - the big-bang "electroniverse" where recently wired squatters set up new camps each day.
story
She may have a point. I never trusted Michele Malkin, For all I know she had me set up, and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that's history. I'm here, he ain't.
To paraphrase the Clash...
Osama don't blog and we think he should
Osama don't blog and you know that it ain't no good
Osama don't blog for his camelburger Momma
Osama's gonna be a daisy-cutter star
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
The DaWinfrey Code
There is no doubt Oprah Winfrey's story may very well be the greatest American success story in our history. If you dont know it, you should learn it. Im not going to rehash her bio here, but suffice it to say unlike other "self made" billionaires, she was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth. Her achievements should be commended, and her successes not begrudged. I cant ever recall watching her show, and even I like her. She is The American Dream
HOWEVER...
...something aint right here
Many men before her have tried to conquer the world, all have failed. I fear her attempts will not be as unsuccessful. In every instance of global imperialism the wars were fought by men. Put two men that are enemies in an arena, and they will fight to the death, but what happens if he cannot see his enemy. Suppose he sees his foe everyday and mistakes them for friend, how then could he fight such a threat. The will of man is strong but not without weakness. Women are the Achilles heel to men, and Oprah perhaps understands this better than anyone ever has. I've never been much of a conspiracy theorist but lets suppose Oprah has a much grander scheme than ratings, and much more diabolical plan for selling books. This may a bit too Manchurian Candidate in regards to subconscious brain-washing, but to rule the World, all she has to do is rule the U.S.A. Suppose half the population was secretly waging war on the other half without anyone being the wiser. An army of women could take over this country without breaking a nail, all Oprah has to do is declare a National "Have Sex With A Man" Day, and when we are all asleep five minutes later she instructs them to slit our throats. Within hours she would control the military and launch a full scale nuclear assault on the rest of the world. Mission accomplished, welcome to Planet Oprah.
HOWEVER...
...something aint right here
Many men before her have tried to conquer the world, all have failed. I fear her attempts will not be as unsuccessful. In every instance of global imperialism the wars were fought by men. Put two men that are enemies in an arena, and they will fight to the death, but what happens if he cannot see his enemy. Suppose he sees his foe everyday and mistakes them for friend, how then could he fight such a threat. The will of man is strong but not without weakness. Women are the Achilles heel to men, and Oprah perhaps understands this better than anyone ever has. I've never been much of a conspiracy theorist but lets suppose Oprah has a much grander scheme than ratings, and much more diabolical plan for selling books. This may a bit too Manchurian Candidate in regards to subconscious brain-washing, but to rule the World, all she has to do is rule the U.S.A. Suppose half the population was secretly waging war on the other half without anyone being the wiser. An army of women could take over this country without breaking a nail, all Oprah has to do is declare a National "Have Sex With A Man" Day, and when we are all asleep five minutes later she instructs them to slit our throats. Within hours she would control the military and launch a full scale nuclear assault on the rest of the world. Mission accomplished, welcome to Planet Oprah.
So what's your plan for the war on terror?
1. You can't use the patriot act
2. No wiretapping potential terrorists
3. Be gentle while questioning captured terrorists
4. Close down guantanamo bay
5. Withdraw from Iraq immediately
6. Don't inspect the air quality for radiation
That's right, we got an exclusive interview with Osama Bin Laden and asked about his plan to win the war, and this was his answer. It sounded so familiar. I can't imagine where i've heard it before........
2. No wiretapping potential terrorists
3. Be gentle while questioning captured terrorists
4. Close down guantanamo bay
5. Withdraw from Iraq immediately
6. Don't inspect the air quality for radiation
That's right, we got an exclusive interview with Osama Bin Laden and asked about his plan to win the war, and this was his answer. It sounded so familiar. I can't imagine where i've heard it before........
Living Is For Closers
Put that knife down
It's that simple.
I hate to be put in the position of defending the Police, considering the beatdowns (admittedly some deserved) Ive received by porkmongers in my life, but especially the NOPD considering how the then inappropriately named Chief Compass created oprahysteria about baby murdering in the wake of Katrina, and how the majority of blues walked off the job resulting in civil unrest and anarchy...However.
Before the Sharptons and the Jacksons and their willing MSM co-conspiratorial race baiting ne'er-do-wells get ahold of this. Lets make one thing perfectly clear.
If he had of put the knife down he wouldnt be dead
Im not here to argue that excessive force was or wasnt used, or the protocols of police procedures, or the merits of tazers vs pepper spray....the fact of the matter remains...
If he had of put the knife down he wouldnt be dead
story from KATC
It's that simple.
I hate to be put in the position of defending the Police, considering the beatdowns (admittedly some deserved) Ive received by porkmongers in my life, but especially the NOPD considering how the then inappropriately named Chief Compass created oprahysteria about baby murdering in the wake of Katrina, and how the majority of blues walked off the job resulting in civil unrest and anarchy...However.
Before the Sharptons and the Jacksons and their willing MSM co-conspiratorial race baiting ne'er-do-wells get ahold of this. Lets make one thing perfectly clear.
If he had of put the knife down he wouldnt be dead
Im not here to argue that excessive force was or wasnt used, or the protocols of police procedures, or the merits of tazers vs pepper spray....the fact of the matter remains...
If he had of put the knife down he wouldnt be dead
story from KATC
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
The Democratic Underground
I was discussing the destabilization of Jamaica by the CIA(Bush Sr.) in the 1980s and found an article that tickled me. I KNOW it shall tickle all of you!!
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Friday, December 23, 2005
To Our Troops
We here at The Aurora would like to offer up a heartfelt Thank You and a Merry Christmas to our brave men and women serving in the Armed Forces. Wherever you may be, in whatever capacity you are serving know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.
To our civilian readers, take a few minutes out of your day and send a quick note of appreciation and some holiday cheer to our soldiers. Any of the sites below can assist you in this task.
Who's The New Chick?
We have recently added another contributor to The Aurora, Mr Warlike himself, an old friend of the Rhino and mine from back in the day, what you say. He may not be very smart, witty, or handsome but due to our recent implementation of an affirmative action policy we were required to hire another jackass to fill quotas. We all await in heightened anticipation for his first post. Welcome aboard!
Santa's Eyes, Their Watching You Part II : Elfy's Revenge
As the holidays season progressed further into the month of December I began to notice some things that dismayed my already wavering Santalogical beliefs. First I noticed the frequent trips to the mall made by parents when the rest of the year the mall was visited seldom if at all. Also I observed the way my behavior was being controlled by a series of statements like, "Santa wouldn't like that" or "I'll have to call Santa' (and in fact this call had been made once upon a time...or was it?). But I still had my faith. It seemed highly unlikely to me that all the parents in the world could be clever enough to cover up something as big as the Heavy Ho'ers actual existence...I mean songs praised his great deeds & TV enhanced his status as a major player in the world of toys. Could anyone force the media to cover and in fact perpetuate such a fantastically concocted story? I didn't think it was possible. I was torn but still leaning towards the belief that Santa was for real...and as Christmas approached I was sure that it would be better to beleive in him and have him not be real rather than doubt his existence and find out he was in fact not a fake...I was sure that Santa would not like a doubting Thomas or bring him a stereo cassette recorder.
As the week of Christmas touched down, I realized that something had happened. My arms had grown a little longer as did my torso and legs. This allowed me to reach the previously unreachable items all over my house...including Elfy in all of his previously untouched spying spots. I thought to myself that this could only benefit me as I now could bring Elfy down to my own level. I could play with him, tell him jokes (only the clean ones), and occasionally offer him some food to which he usually declined. After a day or so it occured to me that, Elfy was probably cold at night so I waited until my parents went to sleep and I snuck out of my bedroom, grabbed the little elf and brought him to bed. In the morning I would get up before my parents a tradition that I held until the age of 16 , and I would return Elfy to his previous post as Santa's little spy . He never thanked me but I was sure that Elfy appreciated it and that he'd pass this info on to Mr. Kringle as an endorsement of my generosity.
There was another inhabitant of my house, a semi-domesticated dog named Brownie...He was a pointer, a hunting dog who never seemed to grow out of the puppy stage. He caused general havok due to the fact that, as a dog, Brownie wanted to be out in the woods hunting and getting into mischief. Just an aside but I grew up on a street named Brooklake Road. This would make my porn name Brownie Brooklake which is not my choice but what can you do...Anyway, Brownie liked to eat things...not dog food so much but mainly things. He liked socks a lot, tissues, toilet paper (used or unused, in the toilet/waste basket or off the roll. It didn't seem to matter to him), and generally anything at ground or dog level if you will. Well, at this point I bet you know where I'm going so I'll just say it : Brownie ate Elfy while I lay asleep in bed one night. That morning I awoke and the first thing I noticed was that the little secret agent was missing. Paniced I looked to the ground and I saw it. Elfy's guts were strewn all over the floor. White fluff, that must have alluded Brownie's sight somehow, were all that remained of Claus's confidante. This was my A Christmas Story moment. I exclaimed, "OH FUDGE" but I didn't really say fudge at all. I can't remember ever saying it before this moment so it was a historic event for me as it has become one of my favorite words, a truly versatile word that can be used in so many different ways: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, participle, etc, etc...but that is a story for another day. Rising from my bed in shock I knew or I thought I knew that I was dead. I picked up all the pieces of fluff, thought about strangling the dog, started crying, and quickly devised a plan for the cover up of the Elfy situation as I knew I had little time.
I raced to the spot where Elfy had been the day before and I placed all the stuffing in a line directly leading to Brownie's little doggie bed. I grabbed the dog and led him outside so he wouldn't eat any of the stuffing that would now become evidence against Brownie (don't feel bad for the dog as there were many crimes that he committed that he was never caught for...). I needed to clear myself of any involvement in the crime so I manufactured a scene that would place some of the blame on the hunter and some of it on my parents for the way he was placed precariously on a window curtain bracket in our living room. I proceeded to the TV room turned on the TV and waited for my parents to wake...My plan seemed fool proof but there was something I didn't know. My mother and father were very aware that I was taking Elfy to bed at night. They thought it was adorable or some grossly cute phrase that they would have used to make me hate my current condition as the youngest of three boys ( no little boy wants to be cute, and neither do grown men...they want to be thought of as screwfaced drifters, dangerous and mysterious). Somehow, they knew exactly what had happened, how I had manufactured the crime scene and most of all why...They didn't care as they could tell by the look in my eyes, my overexcited tone, my calls for leniency, and my final request for a change of venue that I was punishing myself. Anyway, they promised not to tell Santa but it worried me that Elfy might have gotten off a final dispatch to Santa before his canine attacker sealed the deal.
On Christmas my worst fears were confirmed as my elder and most unbeleiving anti-Santite brother unwrapped his brand new radio/cassette player boom box upright that would take three homies just to get off the ground. It was just the one that I had asked for and just the present that I would most have had anyone else in the world get...I watched as my brother looked up at me and smiled, perhaps the most evil smile I have ever seen...just for me. But I cannot complain and I took it in stride realizing that Elfy (God rest his soul) had his revenge upon me. This is why I still to this day beleive, that somewhere hidden in his secret invisible castle beyond the Norht Pole, Santa sits upon a throne surrounded by toys and reads his dispatches from the Elfen league of spys(or CLAWS if you will)...and he decides just who it is who has been naughty and nice...
As the week of Christmas touched down, I realized that something had happened. My arms had grown a little longer as did my torso and legs. This allowed me to reach the previously unreachable items all over my house...including Elfy in all of his previously untouched spying spots. I thought to myself that this could only benefit me as I now could bring Elfy down to my own level. I could play with him, tell him jokes (only the clean ones), and occasionally offer him some food to which he usually declined. After a day or so it occured to me that, Elfy was probably cold at night so I waited until my parents went to sleep and I snuck out of my bedroom, grabbed the little elf and brought him to bed. In the morning I would get up before my parents a tradition that I held until the age of 16 , and I would return Elfy to his previous post as Santa's little spy . He never thanked me but I was sure that Elfy appreciated it and that he'd pass this info on to Mr. Kringle as an endorsement of my generosity.
There was another inhabitant of my house, a semi-domesticated dog named Brownie...He was a pointer, a hunting dog who never seemed to grow out of the puppy stage. He caused general havok due to the fact that, as a dog, Brownie wanted to be out in the woods hunting and getting into mischief. Just an aside but I grew up on a street named Brooklake Road. This would make my porn name Brownie Brooklake which is not my choice but what can you do...Anyway, Brownie liked to eat things...not dog food so much but mainly things. He liked socks a lot, tissues, toilet paper (used or unused, in the toilet/waste basket or off the roll. It didn't seem to matter to him), and generally anything at ground or dog level if you will. Well, at this point I bet you know where I'm going so I'll just say it : Brownie ate Elfy while I lay asleep in bed one night. That morning I awoke and the first thing I noticed was that the little secret agent was missing. Paniced I looked to the ground and I saw it. Elfy's guts were strewn all over the floor. White fluff, that must have alluded Brownie's sight somehow, were all that remained of Claus's confidante. This was my A Christmas Story moment. I exclaimed, "OH FUDGE" but I didn't really say fudge at all. I can't remember ever saying it before this moment so it was a historic event for me as it has become one of my favorite words, a truly versatile word that can be used in so many different ways: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, participle, etc, etc...but that is a story for another day. Rising from my bed in shock I knew or I thought I knew that I was dead. I picked up all the pieces of fluff, thought about strangling the dog, started crying, and quickly devised a plan for the cover up of the Elfy situation as I knew I had little time.
I raced to the spot where Elfy had been the day before and I placed all the stuffing in a line directly leading to Brownie's little doggie bed. I grabbed the dog and led him outside so he wouldn't eat any of the stuffing that would now become evidence against Brownie (don't feel bad for the dog as there were many crimes that he committed that he was never caught for...). I needed to clear myself of any involvement in the crime so I manufactured a scene that would place some of the blame on the hunter and some of it on my parents for the way he was placed precariously on a window curtain bracket in our living room. I proceeded to the TV room turned on the TV and waited for my parents to wake...My plan seemed fool proof but there was something I didn't know. My mother and father were very aware that I was taking Elfy to bed at night. They thought it was adorable or some grossly cute phrase that they would have used to make me hate my current condition as the youngest of three boys ( no little boy wants to be cute, and neither do grown men...they want to be thought of as screwfaced drifters, dangerous and mysterious). Somehow, they knew exactly what had happened, how I had manufactured the crime scene and most of all why...They didn't care as they could tell by the look in my eyes, my overexcited tone, my calls for leniency, and my final request for a change of venue that I was punishing myself. Anyway, they promised not to tell Santa but it worried me that Elfy might have gotten off a final dispatch to Santa before his canine attacker sealed the deal.
On Christmas my worst fears were confirmed as my elder and most unbeleiving anti-Santite brother unwrapped his brand new radio/cassette player boom box upright that would take three homies just to get off the ground. It was just the one that I had asked for and just the present that I would most have had anyone else in the world get...I watched as my brother looked up at me and smiled, perhaps the most evil smile I have ever seen...just for me. But I cannot complain and I took it in stride realizing that Elfy (God rest his soul) had his revenge upon me. This is why I still to this day beleive, that somewhere hidden in his secret invisible castle beyond the Norht Pole, Santa sits upon a throne surrounded by toys and reads his dispatches from the Elfen league of spys(or CLAWS if you will)...and he decides just who it is who has been naughty and nice...
Merry Christmas to Everyone and Their Families
God Bless and Keep you During this most Holy of Seasons
Parlez Vouz Pusse?
Nice flip flop Touissant. You were willing to make the citizens of New York City walk for hours on end commuting to make your point. You were willing to have your workers jeopardize their livelihood so you could puff your chest out on t.v. You were willing to put a stranglehold on the necks of small businesses dependent on commuter traffic. You were not willing to take an island vacation to Rikers for your convictions, meaning that you had NONE. Jail time aint nutting but three hots and a cot and you biatched up. A union boss should be willing to "kill or die" (figuratively) for his membership, not dining with celebraties while your members freeze on the picket line. You proved that not only are you a mumble mouth half wit, but a spineless camera whoring flap jacking waffler thats more concerned with his media face time than the members he was elected to protect and the citizens he is entrusted to serve. So nice job toughnutz I hope you enjoy your journey to obscurity, because if the International dont boot you (maybe it'll give you time to take a public speaking class), Im sure the membership will.
For Unto Us a Child is Born
I know i probably won't be online too much this weekend, so i wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and happy Hannukah, and whatever everyone else celebrates.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Santa's Eyes, Their Watching You Part I: A Lesson Unlearned
Before anyone gets snippy about plaigarizing the great talent of Hall & Oates, I would like to point out that this is (not) from the secret collaboration of Oates, Mussina, Garfunkel & Lisa Simpson hereto be known as the Christmas Basement Tapes (containing such chart ploppers as Reindeer Eater, Your Kiss Is On My Christmas List, & the aforementioned Santa's Eyes Their Watching You). Why was it recorded in a basement you ask? Well, there was no room at the Hotel, the Motel, or the Holiday Inn. But that is besides the point. I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas...the Jews, the Hindus, the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Martial Artists, and especially the Rastafarians...And of course anyone else who is alive and breathing. Not because I am trying to offend anyone but because for Christians, saying Merry Christmas isn't about pushing a religious belief on someone else. At least it shouldn't be. To me it is saying, be good my brother. We are all in this world together and at this time of year we should remember that fact. One Love. One Race, the human race...That being said, I'd like to make a 180 degree turn and talk about something else. Pretty typical because I don't like to stick to one topic. I get bored easily. Blame TV and second hand marijuan smoke. Cough. Cough. I did not exhale. Anyway, my wife likes to say that I have adult ADD but to my friends and family who have known me my whole life; well, they know I am just sort of "special".
With all the talk of domestic spying, the Patriot Act and general paranoia, I was reminded of the OG of spying and compilations of intelligence data. Santa Claus or as I used to spell it, Santa Claws. As a kid I had a definite healthy respect for the Fat Man but it was tinged with an "oh so real' impression that he was sort of the right hand of the law or as me & my brothers called them, "Mom & Dad". However these real fears were also a demonstration of a certain innocence. An innocence that I wish I could see in all people and as Big Audio Dynamite once crooned, "I wish I could have seen you when you could run wild... I would've liked to know you as an innocent child, innocent child". Like most people, the past seems in retrospect like it was a simpler time. A better time...but occasionally things happen and my memory is triggered and I remember things as they truly were.
In my house at Christmas time, the Advent season brought a pre-Santa visitor into our house every year. His name was Elfy. Apparently, and according to my parents, Elfy was an agent of Mr. Ho Ho Ho dispatched to our specific home with the intent of compiling data of the naughty and nice variety. A spy if you will, the size and dimensions of your average run of the mill stuffed animal with the same constitution. Every day, he would appear in a different place just slightly out of my young arms reach. One day, he'd be in the kitchen checking to see if we had the nads to try and take a unauthorized cookie or a non-requisitioned sandwich between meals (a definite violation of the Treaty of Mealtime Hungriness Act of 1982). The next day he'd be in the family room to view any non-homework related television viewing or even worse the naughtiest of naughty transgressions...the playing of video games during a pre-designated quiet time. My brothers being a little older, showed no fear of Elfy and as latch key kids they flouted the rules and said to hell with Santa. Of course to get on Santa's good side I used this counter intelligence to my advantage. To avoid my brother's sure and systematic revenge (which rarely consisted of armed aggression, more psychological terror like the silent treatment for a month or the ever popular invasion and eventual plunder of my stuff. Me:"Hey, that's mine. I got it for my birthday this year." Them: "No you didn't. I did. Maybe they'll get it for you next year."), I would simply give the info to Elfy instead of the more authoritarian vestige of my parents. My bro's didn't seem to mind and it kept the status quo as far as I was concerned. This was the good time.
The year was 1984 an Orwellian year as far as I am concerned because it was the first year that I began to question the veracity of the Man in the Big Red Hat. His little toy making CIA (or Claus Intelligence Agency) agent reappeared right after a Thanksgiving dinner that could not be beat as Arlo Guthrie is fond of saying. Later on that same week in a completely unprovoked act of aggression my siblings scheduled a fight for me with one of their friends brothers who was around the same age. Few punches were exchanged but some tears were shared by me and this similarly duped kid who had no malice in his heart...the fight was made to go on until one of us went down. I technically won the fight but because I didn't show the eye of the Tiger, I was deemed unfit of the name my father gave me. It was determined by the ring masters that I needed to be hardened. It was decided by them that Santa must die. Upon arriving home that day I was led to the attic where to my astonishment there was a myriad of presents, some wrapped and some unwrapped. Subsequently it had been explained to me that a clever ruse had been held at my expense. I was told to grow up and be a man...Due to their generally distasteful behavior I remained skeptical. Mom and Dad had never lied to me and yet my brothers had lied to me repeatedly over the course of my brief life. Secretly I explained away the harrowing anti-lesson I had been taught that day but deep down inside I knew they were right...but I tried to convince myself that it wasn't true...
To be continued Tomorrow: Santa's Eyes, Their Watching You Part II: Elfy's Revenge
With all the talk of domestic spying, the Patriot Act and general paranoia, I was reminded of the OG of spying and compilations of intelligence data. Santa Claus or as I used to spell it, Santa Claws. As a kid I had a definite healthy respect for the Fat Man but it was tinged with an "oh so real' impression that he was sort of the right hand of the law or as me & my brothers called them, "Mom & Dad". However these real fears were also a demonstration of a certain innocence. An innocence that I wish I could see in all people and as Big Audio Dynamite once crooned, "I wish I could have seen you when you could run wild... I would've liked to know you as an innocent child, innocent child". Like most people, the past seems in retrospect like it was a simpler time. A better time...but occasionally things happen and my memory is triggered and I remember things as they truly were.
In my house at Christmas time, the Advent season brought a pre-Santa visitor into our house every year. His name was Elfy. Apparently, and according to my parents, Elfy was an agent of Mr. Ho Ho Ho dispatched to our specific home with the intent of compiling data of the naughty and nice variety. A spy if you will, the size and dimensions of your average run of the mill stuffed animal with the same constitution. Every day, he would appear in a different place just slightly out of my young arms reach. One day, he'd be in the kitchen checking to see if we had the nads to try and take a unauthorized cookie or a non-requisitioned sandwich between meals (a definite violation of the Treaty of Mealtime Hungriness Act of 1982). The next day he'd be in the family room to view any non-homework related television viewing or even worse the naughtiest of naughty transgressions...the playing of video games during a pre-designated quiet time. My brothers being a little older, showed no fear of Elfy and as latch key kids they flouted the rules and said to hell with Santa. Of course to get on Santa's good side I used this counter intelligence to my advantage. To avoid my brother's sure and systematic revenge (which rarely consisted of armed aggression, more psychological terror like the silent treatment for a month or the ever popular invasion and eventual plunder of my stuff. Me:"Hey, that's mine. I got it for my birthday this year." Them: "No you didn't. I did. Maybe they'll get it for you next year."), I would simply give the info to Elfy instead of the more authoritarian vestige of my parents. My bro's didn't seem to mind and it kept the status quo as far as I was concerned. This was the good time.
The year was 1984 an Orwellian year as far as I am concerned because it was the first year that I began to question the veracity of the Man in the Big Red Hat. His little toy making CIA (or Claus Intelligence Agency) agent reappeared right after a Thanksgiving dinner that could not be beat as Arlo Guthrie is fond of saying. Later on that same week in a completely unprovoked act of aggression my siblings scheduled a fight for me with one of their friends brothers who was around the same age. Few punches were exchanged but some tears were shared by me and this similarly duped kid who had no malice in his heart...the fight was made to go on until one of us went down. I technically won the fight but because I didn't show the eye of the Tiger, I was deemed unfit of the name my father gave me. It was determined by the ring masters that I needed to be hardened. It was decided by them that Santa must die. Upon arriving home that day I was led to the attic where to my astonishment there was a myriad of presents, some wrapped and some unwrapped. Subsequently it had been explained to me that a clever ruse had been held at my expense. I was told to grow up and be a man...Due to their generally distasteful behavior I remained skeptical. Mom and Dad had never lied to me and yet my brothers had lied to me repeatedly over the course of my brief life. Secretly I explained away the harrowing anti-lesson I had been taught that day but deep down inside I knew they were right...but I tried to convince myself that it wasn't true...
To be continued Tomorrow: Santa's Eyes, Their Watching You Part II: Elfy's Revenge
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Loco Like A Fox
That aint nuttin ese. How bout this for retaliation...
This isnt an anti-Mexican post. I feel more strongly for a wall on our Canadian border than I do about the one with Old Mexico. I never liked Canadians, never trusted them, and no matter how many Pamela Andersons they send our way I will never forgive them for Celine Deion, Alan Thicke , and Loverboy. Any fans of News Radio know the dangers I speak aboot when I warn of Canadians walking amongst us undetected. Gosh dang pesky eskimos!
but back to Mexico....be a man Fox.
Essentialy whats hes saying is hes gonna tell on us for being mean? Gonna tell on us? To who? Canada? Just remember "a kid that tells on another kid is a dead kid" Matt Dillon from 'Over the Edge'
Dont talk about it be about it vato
- Stop sending illegals
- Withdraw from NAFTA
- Wall off Cancun from American students (and dollars)
- Send troops to the Alamo again, just try it
This isnt an anti-Mexican post. I feel more strongly for a wall on our Canadian border than I do about the one with Old Mexico. I never liked Canadians, never trusted them, and no matter how many Pamela Andersons they send our way I will never forgive them for Celine Deion, Alan Thicke , and Loverboy. Any fans of News Radio know the dangers I speak aboot when I warn of Canadians walking amongst us undetected. Gosh dang pesky eskimos!
but back to Mexico....be a man Fox.
Essentialy whats hes saying is hes gonna tell on us for being mean? Gonna tell on us? To who? Canada? Just remember "a kid that tells on another kid is a dead kid" Matt Dillon from 'Over the Edge'
Dont talk about it be about it vato
F.I.S.T On The Waterfront
Whatever happened to the good ole fashioned union busters, and where can I sign up?
Why is a foreign born mumble mouth motherflocker shutting down the city that never sleeps?
Why do employees all of sudden feel as if they are entitled to revenue sharing?
With the buses and the trains not running, if you listen real closely in New York City you can hear something never heard before (least not in these parts). Be very quiet and listen. Can you hear it? Its distant, but if pay real close attention you can hear the death bell tolling for the unions.
They are corrupt, counter-productive, laziness promoting, politically maligned, anti-capitalism, socialist slacker dinosaurs. Im a former Teamster (just like the people that bash the GOP are always "former" Republicans) so I can get away with the name calling.
This country will be a better place without them. America will start building better cars, reclaim manufacturing jobs, educate our children more efficiently, and enable this economy to flourish once again. In case Im not making myself clear.
F the Unions they are hurting this country.
Why is a foreign born mumble mouth motherflocker shutting down the city that never sleeps?
Why do employees all of sudden feel as if they are entitled to revenue sharing?
With the buses and the trains not running, if you listen real closely in New York City you can hear something never heard before (least not in these parts). Be very quiet and listen. Can you hear it? Its distant, but if pay real close attention you can hear the death bell tolling for the unions.
They are corrupt, counter-productive, laziness promoting, politically maligned, anti-capitalism, socialist slacker dinosaurs. Im a former Teamster (just like the people that bash the GOP are always "former" Republicans) so I can get away with the name calling.
This country will be a better place without them. America will start building better cars, reclaim manufacturing jobs, educate our children more efficiently, and enable this economy to flourish once again. In case Im not making myself clear.
F the Unions they are hurting this country.
Would these stories be better than spying?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2007 — Senators called today for an investigation into reports the Bush administration ignored a flurry of phone calls from overseas to the suspected plotters of the Las Vegas Strip bombings last New Year's Eve.
"Given all the powers that Congress granted President Bush in 2001 to fight the war on terror and to prevent attacks on American soil, this failure to detect the worst attack since 9-11 is unconscionable," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., called for hearings on the new information, reported by The New York Times from sources close to the FBI's probe into the Dec. 31, 2006, attack that killed 945 people at seven hotels in the worst terrorist incident since Sept. 11, 2001.
"We now know from phone logs there was an unusual volume of communication between foreign numbers linked to al-Qaida and several people in the Las Vegas area," Rockefeller said. "We want to find out why the government didn't see this attack coming."
Those who attack the Bush administration for eavesdropping on terror suspects in the U.S. may score a legal point or two. But the White House has at least as much ammunition in the inherent powers granted by the Constitution, court precedent and the 2001 law giving the president broad authority to wage the war on terror.
For example, critics who cite the Supreme Court's key 1972 ruling on domestic surveillance, which went against President Nixon, ignore a key caveat — the court's statement it was not deciding "the scope of the president's surveillance power with respect to the activities of foreign powers, within or without this country."
The Nixon administration pursued home-grown radicals; al-Qaida and other global terror groups qualify as "foreign powers." (Investors Business Daily Editorial Page Posted 12/19/2005)
"Given all the powers that Congress granted President Bush in 2001 to fight the war on terror and to prevent attacks on American soil, this failure to detect the worst attack since 9-11 is unconscionable," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., called for hearings on the new information, reported by The New York Times from sources close to the FBI's probe into the Dec. 31, 2006, attack that killed 945 people at seven hotels in the worst terrorist incident since Sept. 11, 2001.
"We now know from phone logs there was an unusual volume of communication between foreign numbers linked to al-Qaida and several people in the Las Vegas area," Rockefeller said. "We want to find out why the government didn't see this attack coming."
Those who attack the Bush administration for eavesdropping on terror suspects in the U.S. may score a legal point or two. But the White House has at least as much ammunition in the inherent powers granted by the Constitution, court precedent and the 2001 law giving the president broad authority to wage the war on terror.
For example, critics who cite the Supreme Court's key 1972 ruling on domestic surveillance, which went against President Nixon, ignore a key caveat — the court's statement it was not deciding "the scope of the president's surveillance power with respect to the activities of foreign powers, within or without this country."
The Nixon administration pursued home-grown radicals; al-Qaida and other global terror groups qualify as "foreign powers." (Investors Business Daily Editorial Page Posted 12/19/2005)
R.I.P. Pajama King
"Bloggers have no checks and balances . . . [it's] a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas." as Jonathan Klein stated (like a jackass) in his defense of Dan Rather and CBS news in the now infamous forged memo scandal.
In that spirit I have taken it upon myself to name the man that put pajamas on the map, The Chin...Mr Vincent Gigante the Patron Saint of The Aurora and Po-Jama People in general. Leave the gun take the keyboard.
The pyjamas people are boring me to pieces
They make me feel like I am wasting my time
They all got flannel up 'n down 'em
A little trap-door back aroun' 'em
An' some cozy little footies on their mind
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Iraqi Days
Do the Dems stand for anything, besides being anti-Dubya? Pelosi has already admitted the Dems wont "offer a unified stand on Iraq". At least they're finally able agree on something, even if its that they dont have a plan, and if they did they wouldnt talk about it. As the saying goes, "if you isnt a part of the solution you be a part of the problem"
Now Harry Reid issues a statement questioning President George W Bush's sunday night speech before the actual speech. Huh? Since when did the Amazing Kreskin join the Senate? Would it kill ya to join Teddy K at the bar until your Commander In Chief was done addressing the nation, or are petty politics more important you jackass.
On a more serious note. Dubya, I love ya bro, good speech man, I support ya the whole way but if you ever pre-empt The Family Guy again...we got problems
May the Fonz Be with You
Ayyy-men
Now Harry Reid issues a statement questioning President George W Bush's sunday night speech before the actual speech. Huh? Since when did the Amazing Kreskin join the Senate? Would it kill ya to join Teddy K at the bar until your Commander In Chief was done addressing the nation, or are petty politics more important you jackass.
On a more serious note. Dubya, I love ya bro, good speech man, I support ya the whole way but if you ever pre-empt The Family Guy again...we got problems
May the Fonz Be with You
Ayyy-men
Friday, December 16, 2005
Congratulations
The Iraqi elections have been an overwhelming success. The turnout was more than 70% of eligible voters including an incredible number of Sunni's. As we know, the terrorists have been able to operate in Iraq mainly with the help of the Sunni's, so this should really go a long way towards driving a wedge between them and the Sunni's. The violence was almost non existant. The Iraqi police handled almost all of the security at the polls.
There is no other way to look at this, it has been a incredible success.
So congratulations first to President Bush who has done a great job and stuck with his vision in the face of overwhelming criticism. Same thing to Donald Rumsfeld.
Congratulations to the men and women in uniform who have continued to do a wonderful job in spite of howard dean saying they can't win, and finally congratulations to the Iraqi people who have embraced the democratic process so far and are well on their way to becoming a free country and an ally in the war on terror.
The job is not done, our work there is not finished by any means. However there is no denying that this is a huge step in the right direction.
There is no other way to look at this, it has been a incredible success.
So congratulations first to President Bush who has done a great job and stuck with his vision in the face of overwhelming criticism. Same thing to Donald Rumsfeld.
Congratulations to the men and women in uniform who have continued to do a wonderful job in spite of howard dean saying they can't win, and finally congratulations to the Iraqi people who have embraced the democratic process so far and are well on their way to becoming a free country and an ally in the war on terror.
The job is not done, our work there is not finished by any means. However there is no denying that this is a huge step in the right direction.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Was Rush Right?
Well, i didn't think so at the time and i don't think so now, but he was villified for saying that Donovan Mcnabb was not that good, that the media was pumping him up because he was black, and that the defense was what carried that team. Again, i think he was wrong, but it seems that not everyone agrees with me. Now we hear about a leader of the NAACP who is attacking Mcnabb, saying he's not that good, and that he's trying to be white by not running enough? What the hell is going on here? If you're a black quarterback and you don't run you're a race traitor? Being a Giants fan, i don't mind when the eagles have some issues. I was very happy with the whole T.O. situation, and i didn't mind that Donovan was playing injured and was less effective, but even a die hard philly hater like myself can't understand this. I wonder if this guy thinks that white QB's who run are trying to be black? I think Fran Tarkenton would have been called a wigger!
U.S. government shuts Cuba out of World Baseball Classic
I've been sick as a dog lately and I still am but this made me more sick...to my stomach so I had to say something about it. What good does shutting the Cubans out of a baseball series do? For that matter, if Bush and our federal government is concerned about their image (i.e. they just hired PR people to help make us look better globally) then why would we shut the Cubans out? Are they some sort of threat to national security? This is just ridiculous and I know how much everyone hates this "label" but it makes us look like Nazi's and Hitler walking out of the Olympics when Jesse Owens dominated the Olympics in Germany. Cuba has produced some of the best ball players in the world and all this does is make us look like we are afraid to play them or simply just incapable of compassion. What did the Cuban baseball team do to America? If anything it gives some of the Cuban baseball players a chance to escape ala Rey Ordonez jumping a fence in Miami during a similar exhibition. And why can they come and play the Baltimore Orioles but not play Internationally with the US team involved. It makes no sense. It reeks of just sheer stupidity and I am embarrassed to be in any way associated with our governement today. They should be ashamed of themselves and we should be ashamed of them.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Is Mary Mapes working at the times?
So you would think, especially after the Jayson Blair situation, that the NY Slimes would be a little bit more careful before running a story. You would think that maybe the "newspaper of record" would be aware that they have a spotty record. With their circulation, and credibility way down you would assume they would double or maybe even triple check before running a politically charged story. You would be wrong of course. So they have run a story about truck loads of fake Iraqi ballots being trucked in from Iran. They had ONE UNNAMED source, and no corroboration from any other officials. Did they call anyone else to try to confirm the story? Apparently not, because the guy to call would be Lieutenant General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraq's borders. So what did this official say about this story? "This is all a lie"
You see the borders are closed, all of the roads are monitored. Unless they found a way to drive these tractor trailers through the sand dunes in the desert there is no way to get them in. This is just common sense, anyone who thought about it for more than ten minutes would realize this. So why run this obviously untrue story? Well some will say it's an honest mistake, some will say they wanted it to be true and were politically blind so they believed it, like wishful thinking. I don't think either one of those explanations is the truth. I believe it was done intentionally, to discredit and undermine the elections and the war effort. The Slimes knows that they can get away with it, they will probably run a correction on page 20 in small print. They are traitors.
You see the borders are closed, all of the roads are monitored. Unless they found a way to drive these tractor trailers through the sand dunes in the desert there is no way to get them in. This is just common sense, anyone who thought about it for more than ten minutes would realize this. So why run this obviously untrue story? Well some will say it's an honest mistake, some will say they wanted it to be true and were politically blind so they believed it, like wishful thinking. I don't think either one of those explanations is the truth. I believe it was done intentionally, to discredit and undermine the elections and the war effort. The Slimes knows that they can get away with it, they will probably run a correction on page 20 in small print. They are traitors.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
This just in.....
We're winning the war in Iraq. I know it's hard to believe, i mean it's been almost 2 years and we've lost over 2000 soldiers. Of course in WWII we lost more troops sometimes in a single day. Howard Dean thinks we can't win, Kerry thinks we're terrorizing the people, Murtha wants us to leave because we're being shot at. Well, i read a quote today that sums it up.
Utter ignorance of history enables any war with any casualties to be depicted inAnd that's the key. The media is so biased against this president, and against this war, that the only coverage is negative. All i can say is thank God that the NY slimes wasn't run by socialists during D-Day.
the media as an unmitigated disaster.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Do You Believe In Idiots
Speaking of Katrina...
So Im watching MNF and Im already bitter about football because Eli (Ole Miss) sucked in another big Gints D-win (over the dastardly philly pheebles) and Im out of my $30,000 suicide pool bcuz the Dolts couldnt beat the lowly Fish.
Now I have to endure the idiocy of Al and John pontificating on how maybe the Saints players didnt have it as bad as most New Orleans residents. It's just a game they say, feel pity not for the Aints. Mind you they had it rough, says Al, but luckily by the grace of Madden (God) their million dollar homes on the higher elevated west side didnt suffer quite the damage of the lower elevated signigficantly below sea level poverty stricten east side of New Orleans. No shite Sherlock. Thanks for putting things in perspective. Ya jackasses!!! EE-Aw!!!
forgive me Madden for my blasphemy punish not my ps2 game
frickin idiots
So Im watching MNF and Im already bitter about football because Eli (Ole Miss) sucked in another big Gints D-win (over the dastardly philly pheebles) and Im out of my $30,000 suicide pool bcuz the Dolts couldnt beat the lowly Fish.
Now I have to endure the idiocy of Al and John pontificating on how maybe the Saints players didnt have it as bad as most New Orleans residents. It's just a game they say, feel pity not for the Aints. Mind you they had it rough, says Al, but luckily by the grace of Madden (God) their million dollar homes on the higher elevated west side didnt suffer quite the damage of the lower elevated signigficantly below sea level poverty stricten east side of New Orleans. No shite Sherlock. Thanks for putting things in perspective. Ya jackasses!!! EE-Aw!!!
forgive me Madden for my blasphemy punish not my ps2 game
frickin idiots
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Three words to all the radical hip hollywood Tookie supporters
Jack
Henry
Abbott
McPopa
Since Im probaly going to hell anyways, I may as well gun for a corner office.
(Doing my best Seinfeld impersonation)
Whats the deal with the Holy Father blasting the commercialization of Christmas?
Im not saying hes wrong. I couldnt agree with him more. However I find it mildly disturbing and hypocritical that a Church that contributes to the delinquency of old ladies bingo gambling addiction and from a man, or Pontiff, if you will that has his own line of gold plated crosses, a vanity calendar, and in his spare time blesses Ferraris a tad bit ridonkulous.
(Doing my best Seinfeld impersonation)
Whats the deal with the Holy Father blasting the commercialization of Christmas?
Im not saying hes wrong. I couldnt agree with him more. However I find it mildly disturbing and hypocritical that a Church that contributes to the delinquency of old ladies bingo gambling addiction and from a man, or Pontiff, if you will that has his own line of gold plated crosses, a vanity calendar, and in his spare time blesses Ferraris a tad bit ridonkulous.
Let's not kid ourselves, Church and commerce have always been intertwined. To deny so, would be ignorant, but I concur with Popa Benny and the Cards that we should not let an overindulgence of the nog, the last minute shopping, and the drunken company party revelry sidetrack us from baby JC's birthday.
Newt Part II
From Munich to Tehran and Damascus
The Baker-Hamilton Commission's instincts and prescriptions are eerily similar to those of Neville Chamberlain. The commission evidently believes that the United States can achieve peace in our time by flying our secretary of State to Tehran and Damascus and signing this generation's version of the Munich Agreement with respect to Iraq.
The report and its principal recommendations require an exercise in willful ignorance of the nature of the Iranian and Syrian regimes, their clearly stated ideological aims, and their ongoing war against the United States. It outlines a policy of appeasement, predicated on American weakness. It fails to outline a clear policy of victory predicated on taking specific and urgent steps to add to American strength.
A Churchill -- Not a Chamberlain -- Policy
To win in Iraq and around the world against a growing alliance among terrorists, dictatorships, and a fanatical wing of Islam, the United States requires fundamental change in its military doctrine, training and structures, its intelligence capabilities and the integration of civilian and military activities. The instruments of American power simply do not work at the speed and detail needed to defeat the kind of enemies we are encountering in Iraq and elsewhere. The American bureaucracies would rather claim the problem is too hard and leave, because being forced to change this deeply will be very painful and very controversial. We have to learn to win -- again.
Yes, the dangers are greater, the enemy is more determined, and victory in Iraq has turned out to be substantially harder than we had expected in 2003. Yes, we need to change to win. But the Baker-Hamilton Commission report that prescribes a "new way forward" is the wrong prescription in the wrong direction.
Because it fails to define the scale of an emerging Third World War against an alliance of dictatorships and the terrorist forces of militant Islam -- with Iran at the epicenter of this threat -- the report does not outline how difficult the challenge is and how big the effort will have to be.
Because it fails to define victory in this larger war as our goal, the report does not help to mobilize the energy, resources and intensity needed to win.
And because it puts insufficient emphasis on setting clear metrics of achievement for the bureaucracies of the U.S. government, the Baker-Hamilton Commission report does nothing to bolster support for replacing leaders, bureaucrats, and bureaucracies as needed to achieve these goals.
The release of the report confirms a Washington establishment desire to avoid conflict and confrontation by "doing a deal." In the 1930s, that model was called appeasement, not realism, and it led to a disaster. Today, we need a Churchill not a Chamberlain policy for the Middle East.
Newt Gingrich
The Baker-Hamilton Commission's instincts and prescriptions are eerily similar to those of Neville Chamberlain. The commission evidently believes that the United States can achieve peace in our time by flying our secretary of State to Tehran and Damascus and signing this generation's version of the Munich Agreement with respect to Iraq.
The report and its principal recommendations require an exercise in willful ignorance of the nature of the Iranian and Syrian regimes, their clearly stated ideological aims, and their ongoing war against the United States. It outlines a policy of appeasement, predicated on American weakness. It fails to outline a clear policy of victory predicated on taking specific and urgent steps to add to American strength.
A Churchill -- Not a Chamberlain -- Policy
To win in Iraq and around the world against a growing alliance among terrorists, dictatorships, and a fanatical wing of Islam, the United States requires fundamental change in its military doctrine, training and structures, its intelligence capabilities and the integration of civilian and military activities. The instruments of American power simply do not work at the speed and detail needed to defeat the kind of enemies we are encountering in Iraq and elsewhere. The American bureaucracies would rather claim the problem is too hard and leave, because being forced to change this deeply will be very painful and very controversial. We have to learn to win -- again.
Yes, the dangers are greater, the enemy is more determined, and victory in Iraq has turned out to be substantially harder than we had expected in 2003. Yes, we need to change to win. But the Baker-Hamilton Commission report that prescribes a "new way forward" is the wrong prescription in the wrong direction.
Because it fails to define the scale of an emerging Third World War against an alliance of dictatorships and the terrorist forces of militant Islam -- with Iran at the epicenter of this threat -- the report does not outline how difficult the challenge is and how big the effort will have to be.
Because it fails to define victory in this larger war as our goal, the report does not help to mobilize the energy, resources and intensity needed to win.
And because it puts insufficient emphasis on setting clear metrics of achievement for the bureaucracies of the U.S. government, the Baker-Hamilton Commission report does nothing to bolster support for replacing leaders, bureaucrats, and bureaucracies as needed to achieve these goals.
The release of the report confirms a Washington establishment desire to avoid conflict and confrontation by "doing a deal." In the 1930s, that model was called appeasement, not realism, and it led to a disaster. Today, we need a Churchill not a Chamberlain policy for the Middle East.
Newt Gingrich
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Aint Easy Being Cauc-eezy In Mississizzle
I'm rarely wrong, but when I am, I am donkey enough to admit it. A few months back, I was rather adamant that there was no racism involved in the response and coverage of the Katrina disaster. It is clear to me that there was. In fact the whole thing stinks of it. The words Katrina, Black, and New Orleans have become synonymous. Granted N'awlins was hit hard, perhaps even hit the hardest. The simple math of the matter is they are after all below sea level. However let me make this clear.
THEY WERE NOT THE ONLY VICTIMS
They certainly made for good TV, with their shootin', lootin', hollerin' -n- hootin', but should anarchy be rewarded with free Wi-Fi, should abandoning your civic duty as a lawman be compensated with a vacation?
Sports Announcer: You are a disgrace to your city, you cut and run in the face of the worst natural disaster in your city's history. What do you have to say for yourself?
NOPD: Im going to Disneyland!!!
I wonder if the racial demographic of The Big Sleazy has anything to do with it? How often do you hear anything about Mississippi? Not so much huh. Could it be, just possible that once again the MSM has a liberal democratic agenda to push and it benefits them for not to report on the trials and tribulations of the poor white trash hilljacks of Ole Miss. So as I said, maybe I was wrong, maybe race had everything to do with Katrina. Sometimes it aint alrighy to be whitey.
side note: Do you really think offering free wireless internet access to lure people back to NO is the best option? Call me crazy but how bout 50 feet titanium levees first. Nice job Nagin, ya jackass!!
THEY WERE NOT THE ONLY VICTIMS
They certainly made for good TV, with their shootin', lootin', hollerin' -n- hootin', but should anarchy be rewarded with free Wi-Fi, should abandoning your civic duty as a lawman be compensated with a vacation?
Sports Announcer: You are a disgrace to your city, you cut and run in the face of the worst natural disaster in your city's history. What do you have to say for yourself?
NOPD: Im going to Disneyland!!!
I wonder if the racial demographic of The Big Sleazy has anything to do with it? How often do you hear anything about Mississippi? Not so much huh. Could it be, just possible that once again the MSM has a liberal democratic agenda to push and it benefits them for not to report on the trials and tribulations of the poor white trash hilljacks of Ole Miss. So as I said, maybe I was wrong, maybe race had everything to do with Katrina. Sometimes it aint alrighy to be whitey.
side note: Do you really think offering free wireless internet access to lure people back to NO is the best option? Call me crazy but how bout 50 feet titanium levees first. Nice job Nagin, ya jackass!!
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Ciao Piazza
Mikey Baseball you brought winning ways back to Shea, and for that I thank you. You will be remembered as the greatest offensive catcher to ever play the game, and will be going to Cooperstown wearing a Mets hat. It was fun watching you play the last eight years. Now hit the bricks!!!
Stupid Quote Of The Week
When asked about John Lennon. This was Al Sharptons reply. Is there anything that isn't race related to this guy?
"I was home and heard it on the news. He was one of the artists in white rock culture who identified with black artists"Then why did he name it The White Album? Nice job Sharpton you are The Aurora's first recipient of The Stupid Quote Of The Week Award. Jackass!
Bad Job NY Post
Why was there ZERO coverage in my local paper of the 64th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor? Perhaps the number 64 isn't as appealing as other more sexy newsworthy numbers, such as 100th, 75th, 50th, or say 25th. As in the 25th anniversary of the shooting of John Lennon featured on today's cover of the NY Post. I'm not saying that Lennon wasn't a culturally influential figure, but whatever happened to "a date which will live in infamy". Big fricking whoop the hippie writes a few decent songs and he gets the cover yet Pearl Harbor is not only deemed unworthy of a cover story, but is deemed unworthy of ANY coverage in yesterdays NY Post. Shame on you!!!
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Our Friends: Venezuela
It seems that Mr.Chavez must be doing pretty good to be giving out heating oil to our less fortunate communities within the United States. Me thinks there is an alternative motive for this madness. If you didn't hear about this yet take a look see. I am surprised that so many community leaders are accepting this kind of donation with open arms. I mean, I understand why. They want to help out the people who got them elected but this guy is a tyrant in a democratic country. Interested in helping the poor out in the United States, but he could care less about the poor in his own country...something is rotten in Denmark, uh, I mean, Caracas.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Monday, December 05, 2005
Freak Show
Ladies and gentleman, children of all ages step right up and and watch in wonderment the amazing and spectactular freak show that is known as the modern day democratic party. It'll only cost you lower education standards, higher taxes, weaker foreign policy and a dollar.
Witness the red headeaded failed son, drunken, murderous, inbred, drunken, bafoon brahma baboon...He is a rarity since he ACTUALLY believes the bullshit he spews. He doesnt know better, the view from Camelot has skewed his perception of reality, which is America
Witness the immoral, lying, conniving, two faced, flip-flopping, Lincoln bedroom hotelier, cheating backwoods hilljack. A master politician if there ever was one, and thats not a compliment. Never met a poll he didnt kowtow to, but at least he felt our pain. He should goto bed every night thanking Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs et al in Silicon Valley....because everybody in America was too busy counting their internet stock profits and stock splits that noone realized what a scumbag he was.
And now witness the man that would be king if not for running out of his prozac prescription and getting winded after naming only 8 states. Yeeeaaahhhhh!!! This ladies and gentleman is the face of the democratic party, and he hates America. He must, because if this were Vegas, he's betting on the other team. Un-fricking-believable.
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Finger Pointing 101
My mother used to tell me to never to point a finger at someone, because if you did, you would have three pointing back at yourself.
It is sad that the Democratic Party has lost any semblance of reason, logic, and common sense. Going back to Pres Richard M Nixon they have been a party driven not by ideals, but by hate, pure unmitigated irrational hatred for their opposition (re: America). They have time and time again lined up to support the enemies of the United States of America, whether it was the Viet Cong, The Commies (see: hipsters wearing Che and Mao shirts), and now the Islamofacists.
We are in very serious times and very serious questions need to be asked and answered in regards to our foreign policy, for what we do now will have ramifications for generations. Unfortunately the Dems arent asking any serious questions. They are the paper weather vane party blowing whichever way the polls go and disintegrating to a soggy pulp when the rain gets heavy. They are the party of name calling and finger pointing. They are the party of the coerced and brainwashed by the mainstream media and television (how else can you explain a single vote for democrats) Theres a reason why American Idol draws a larger audience in one night than The History Channel in a week (clue: its the Dumocrats, just kidding I gotta blame someone right?)
One thing keeps getting lost in all this "Bush Lied Oil for Blood Make Love Not Halliburton" bullshit.
SADDAM HUSSEIN BROUGHT THIS ON HIMSELF
For 10 Years he consistently defied United Nations sanctions (can you say Oil for Food in french?) FOR 10 YEARS. There was no rush to war. There was no singular silver bullet of proof that led us into war. It was 10 YEARS of defiance and deception.If there were in fact no WMD's, why not let the UN inspectors in to see for themselves. The bottom line is this....The war is Saddam's fault alone, and thats that. If he had've complied with the UN weapons inspections, this whole damn mess couldve been avoided.
I have an idea for the dems, as koo koo crazy as it may seem. Just for once, try and side with The United States of America instead of those that would destroy us, and maybe,just maybe you will win some elections. Now lets win this thing and bring the troops home!
EE-Aw!!
It is sad that the Democratic Party has lost any semblance of reason, logic, and common sense. Going back to Pres Richard M Nixon they have been a party driven not by ideals, but by hate, pure unmitigated irrational hatred for their opposition (re: America). They have time and time again lined up to support the enemies of the United States of America, whether it was the Viet Cong, The Commies (see: hipsters wearing Che and Mao shirts), and now the Islamofacists.
We are in very serious times and very serious questions need to be asked and answered in regards to our foreign policy, for what we do now will have ramifications for generations. Unfortunately the Dems arent asking any serious questions. They are the paper weather vane party blowing whichever way the polls go and disintegrating to a soggy pulp when the rain gets heavy. They are the party of name calling and finger pointing. They are the party of the coerced and brainwashed by the mainstream media and television (how else can you explain a single vote for democrats) Theres a reason why American Idol draws a larger audience in one night than The History Channel in a week (clue: its the Dumocrats, just kidding I gotta blame someone right?)
One thing keeps getting lost in all this "Bush Lied Oil for Blood Make Love Not Halliburton" bullshit.
SADDAM HUSSEIN BROUGHT THIS ON HIMSELF
For 10 Years he consistently defied United Nations sanctions (can you say Oil for Food in french?) FOR 10 YEARS. There was no rush to war. There was no singular silver bullet of proof that led us into war. It was 10 YEARS of defiance and deception.If there were in fact no WMD's, why not let the UN inspectors in to see for themselves. The bottom line is this....The war is Saddam's fault alone, and thats that. If he had've complied with the UN weapons inspections, this whole damn mess couldve been avoided.
I have an idea for the dems, as koo koo crazy as it may seem. Just for once, try and side with The United States of America instead of those that would destroy us, and maybe,just maybe you will win some elections. Now lets win this thing and bring the troops home!
EE-Aw!!
Bubba And Osama Sitting In A Tree
If only it was so easy and innocent as hillBilly lying about a hummer, as the usual chorus of liberal defenders chant in his defense. Was this a "dog wagging" war?, I hope so, for the alternative would be that The President of The Unites States of America, knowingly backed a jihadist terrorist group funded by Osama Bin Laden in their war against ethnic and mostly Christian Serbians and Albanians. Could Bubba be so reckless as to back a muslim "freedom fighter" terrorist group even after the first World Trade center bombing. Looks like it. As far the ethnic cleansing is concerned, I find it sickeningly hypocritical when Christians are murdered its "civil war" when its non-Christians its "ethnic cleansing".
So next time some hallmark ideologue patchouli wearing long haired hippie pinko commie sympathizer thinks they're so clever because they can rhyme lied with died, ask them about the Serbs, the Albanians, the seventeen brave American sailors in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, and the thousands of dead innocents in the second World Trade Center attack. Then give em a smack to the gullet for good measure (we all know appeasement doesnt work)
Milosevic surrendered and NATO placed a force of 1,700 police officers on the ground to restore order. But those forces did little to restrain the "victorious" KLA. Over 200 churches were burned ,including monasteries datingConsidering Clinton was in Moscow during the Vietnam war, his failed foreign policy as President is of no surprise to me. Now it all makes so much sense why Sandy "Trousergate" Berger, stole and destroyed all those documents.
back to the 13th century. There were uninvestigated reports of mass executions of Serbian farmers, the murders of scores of priests. "Of the 40,000 Serbs who lived in Kosovo before the war, only 400 were left within a month after Kosovo became a U.N. protectorate," writes Williams.
Soon, hundreds of Wahhabi mosques and schools were built. "Kosovo, with a Muslim population of 1.8 million now stood as an Islamic bulwark in the midst of the Balkans," Williams writes.
So next time some hallmark ideologue patchouli wearing long haired hippie pinko commie sympathizer thinks they're so clever because they can rhyme lied with died, ask them about the Serbs, the Albanians, the seventeen brave American sailors in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, and the thousands of dead innocents in the second World Trade Center attack. Then give em a smack to the gullet for good measure (we all know appeasement doesnt work)
BJ Clinton lied about Kosovo
William Jefferson (BJ) Clinton told the American people before he took action in kosovo that the Serbs had displaced
He and his administration also said that
So why did he lie? What was his motivation? Well, I think he was trying to distract the country from paying attention to all the scandals going on in his administration at the time. There was no ethnic cleansing, the whole thing was cooked up in Arkansas with hillary and bj and the spinners that were running the administration while clinton was too busy getting his rocks off with a fat intern. Does anyone still believe that the intelligence could have been that faulty? I mean from 100,000 to 3000?? That is too big of a discrepancy, it is obvious to me and anyone else with half a brain (obviously this means no dems) that he lied. I think we should be looking into it right now, lets get those documents from the national archives and........ oh wait a minute, thats right Sandy Berger got to them first.
You know it's funny, It wasn't that long ago, but i don't remember all of the Clinton Lied protests when he was bombing kosovo, oh and by the way, when are we going to win that war so we can bring our boys home?
'over a million Kosovars' and had killed and raped 'thousands upon thousands ofSorry, not true.
them.'
He and his administration also said that
over 100,000 ethnic Albanian men were feared killed.Ummm, wrong again.
So why did he lie? What was his motivation? Well, I think he was trying to distract the country from paying attention to all the scandals going on in his administration at the time. There was no ethnic cleansing, the whole thing was cooked up in Arkansas with hillary and bj and the spinners that were running the administration while clinton was too busy getting his rocks off with a fat intern. Does anyone still believe that the intelligence could have been that faulty? I mean from 100,000 to 3000?? That is too big of a discrepancy, it is obvious to me and anyone else with half a brain (obviously this means no dems) that he lied. I think we should be looking into it right now, lets get those documents from the national archives and........ oh wait a minute, thats right Sandy Berger got to them first.
You know it's funny, It wasn't that long ago, but i don't remember all of the Clinton Lied protests when he was bombing kosovo, oh and by the way, when are we going to win that war so we can bring our boys home?
Friday, December 02, 2005
37 Cents For Jesus
This is one of greatest ideas Ive heard in some time. Kill 'em with kindness. It'll only cost ya a stamp and a minute out of your day. Considering JC gave his life for you, I dont think thats too much to ask.
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS: MUSCLEHEADS FIGHT BACK!
11/30/2005 1:54:45 PM Kevin McCullough
1:40pm EST WAR ON CHRISTMAS: MUSCLEHEADS FIGHT BACK: With kindness of all things...
We are excited to be launching the opportunity today...between now and Christmas we are asking you to send the ACLU direct "MerryChristmas" cards. And we aren't talking about these generic "happy holiday" (meaning nothing) type of cards...Go get as "Christmas" a Christmas card as you can find... something that says.. "Joy To The World", "For Unto Us A Child Is Born", but at least "Merry Christmas", put some of your own thoughts into it, sign it respectfully and zip it off in the mail to...
We are excited to be launching the opportunity today...between now and Christmas we are asking you to send the ACLU direct "MerryChristmas" cards. And we aren't talking about these generic "happy holiday" (meaning nothing) type of cards...Go get as "Christmas" a Christmas card as you can find... something that says.. "Joy To The World", "For Unto Us A Child Is Born", but at least "Merry Christmas", put some of your own thoughts into it, sign it respectfully and zip it off in the mail to...
ACLU
"Wishing You Merry Christmas"
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Don't go away mad little libs
Just go away. Or just admit that you're wrong, and i'm right. Or just admit that you can't compete with my obviously superior intellect, but don't shout me down, or block my comments. That's what happened to me recently on a liberal site. They knew i was right once again, they knew i was winning the argument again, they knew they couldn't compete again, so they shut me down. I expect it from the libs. They hung in there as long as they could, they fought the good fight, i'll give them that. It must be tough, i don't envy their position. I don't think they read this blog, they're the typical irrational "i hate George Bush" liberals who can't articulate why they hate him except to regurgitate the ny slimes sound bites, so obviously reading something they disagree with would be too open minded for them, but they're mostly young people, and mostly smart people, so i expect they'll change. Remember the old saying,
"if you're not a liberal at 18 you have no heart, if you're still a liberal at
40 you have no brain"
Thursday, December 01, 2005
R.I.P. Wendie Jo
Recently we have marked the passing of great people who have left us and I thought it would be appropriate to mark the passing of Wendie Jo Sperber. I am not writing this because she fought cancer bravely and she founded the weSPARK Cancer Support Center, which provides free emotional support, information and social activities for individuals and families affected by cancer. Wendy was a good person beloved by her friends and family.She was a big woman who in my opinion (and I might get some Garafalo remarks for this) was very attractive (pretty if not sexy in a highly attainable way). Hold off on calling me evil just yet although I've been called worse and deservedly so...Her relative beauty is also not the reason for my posting today. The real reason is because I loved Bosom Buddies and Bachelor Party and that should be reason enough. Now, you can call me evil.
A Plan for Iraq
The democrats seem to equate success in Iraq with troop withdrawal. According to them, we have succeeded when we bring all the troops home. Well, i hope we will be winning WWII soon, so those boys can come home from Germany. But i digress.... the other complaint is that according to the dems, we don't have a plan for Iraq. Well this isn't true either. Recently the white house posted their plan on the web. It defines goals, plus outlines the steps needed to achieve them. It sets out the benchmarks to measure success in the short medium and long term. It also goes into detail to describe the military, political and economic obstacles to success and to note the progress so far and the considerable work still to be done. Check it out here.
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