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5/31/2005

Markets 101A: Why did the dollar take off today? I mean everybody with any brains knew France would bounce the EU Constitution? What is it?"

Big players have been long the Euro thinking the charts were all wrong. There are lots of ways to be long the Euro; European Stocks, Bonds, short the U.S. Stock Market and so on. But they made bets with EU currency and NOT dollars and got whacked. The later interpretation of the "no" vote tells everyone that the French voted to keep all their socialist programs, wouldn't touch capitalism with a dirty shoe, and means that Germany, France, and Italy, all of whom are running big deficits are not the places capitalists want to be.

Kudlow's take is that the French rejected socialism, capitalism, any kind of incursion of competition from anywhere.

Anybody who just glances at long term currency charts can tell that currency trends last between 1-1/2 to 3 years max. Everybody should have been looking to go long since 2003 (looking aint' doing). So don't ask me. These guys with Ph.Ds from all the right places make really stupid calls.

The chart you should really look at is the Swiss Frank against the dollar because the Euro is a brand new currency never traded before. The pound also is interesting, but is harder to trade because the Brits play lots of tricks.

And don't forget, I was the one who said Google should be at $40 and to stay away from it. Great call, Howard. Go to your room....

The lack of integrity of the "new Pajama Media Midget Alliance" is on full display over at Roger Simon who credits Glenn Reynolds for breaking the Deep Throat story. It was broken by Vanity Fair (the Magazine), MSMBC (NBC) and Drudge picked it up; I put it up when I saw Drudge, then Reynolds "broke" it. If MSM had pulled that stunt all the Dwarfs would have been screaming. I'm telling all of you, this "blogger alliance" is total bullshit with only one outcome possible: they will publish mendacious posts. Take credit for the work of others. And continue to blow themselves up like blow fish.

So far as I know, the only blogger ever to actually break a story was LGF when he broke the fake memo story.

SHIT, I thought Deep Throat was Linda Lovelace. The MSM is always lying, just like we all suspected.....

Memorial Day, my POV. Look, I was in the military and I want to tell you there wasn't a single kid in my boot camp company who was willing to die for his country. There wasn't a single grunt I ever spoke with who fought to save our country from anything. We had no real idea why we were there, except that we had nothing else to do. Many were sent there by judges, probation officers, and parents fed up with us. When there, we just wanted to stay alive long enough to go home. Memorial Day is crapola to me, merely a means to justify to the living the reasons so many died in the past.

"Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art."

From Whiskey River,
filled with thoughtful poems, sentences, and just plain good stuff.

Econ 101: Eventually, even SoCal will run out of people with a million dollars laying around so they can buy a house....... I think that this RE bubble is localized to nut case areas. Manhattan, Frisco, all of SoCal, all beach or near beach property from Frisco to Monterey, and so on. Foreigners have been the ones buying with the dollar real low. Will they dump as the dollar strengthens? Florida used to be a bargain and has become pricey in last two years.

No blogging today......

5/30/2005

If you, or anyone you know, are interested in home schooling your children be sure to go here for a great tool to help you. Everything including a computer program to track a kid's progress.....

French election: if you've ever read Dr. Suess's Yurtle the Turtle to your kids you know what happened. The bottom turtle said enough......

Anti Catholic bender----go here and then say there isn't a ground swell of hate directed at all Catholics. If you want the gory details go HERE. What makes this "Clown Mass" even worse, it took place at the Trinity Church in way downtown New York. But think deeper: this vicious Episcopalian "service" is supported by most of the church, just think the Christian Left instead of the Christian Right. And like the rest of the Left attacks at places like Moveon dot org, their attacks are vicious.

5/29/2005

Nya nya na nya na....or words to that effect. I was abused as a computer illiterate, a person who should not use a compter and so on when I revealed HERE that Netscape 8.0 was a piece of shit that would eat up your systems. Today ALL the smart guys figured it out too. Why did it take them all so long? Wanna bet they never used it and just reprinted the company hype? Nawww, after all they are reporters and they have integrity......

A new low??? if that is possible for the totally useless LAT. No, that is wrong. They are not useless. They are a willing tool of the Democratic Party and actually kill their own stories about drug dealing by Democrats etc. See Patterico.

Warning: Let me join with several other bloggers and urge you NOT to download the new Real Player 10. A disaster that freezes the entire system. Good news is that Windows Uninstall uninstalls it, but it lets you know that you downloaded a hell of a lot more than just a Real Player. Don't do it. BTW you will have real difficulty accessing anything, including the control panel.

I always like to link to places in the clouds over the weekend. A blog I like, so I read it most every week and one that I call "Hollywood Screenwriter who Believes in God," site they (or she) calls the Church of the Masses, has a very interesting, but long, post up right HERE. She and her pals are involved in something that takes real tits, or vagina, or clit or whatever we call balls when men do it. And they are putting themselves on the line. See what you think. I think it is a worthy endeavor. Warning: no porn, nude pix, or purient writing. I guess their slogan is: If we do not make room for the good God, mankind will make himself a bad one.

Like I said, not exactly lite reading while you smoke a joint.

As you may be thinking: no, if I had a sex life worthy of the name I would not be cruising esoteric websites. If you have a babe around you'd be better off paying attention to her than linking to places I suggest. I'm also cleaning my apartment for the first time in a year and I never knew rats wouldn't eat shit until now. BTW: I cleaned an uncleanable naugahide type couch by using Oxyclean. It's magic.

Hitchens fiskes NYT in a terrific piece at No Pasaran....

Good to know stuff like this because the lying scum at the NYT cares not a whisker if what they say is right or wrong and they have too much money to care about sagging circulation. BTW: If you have cable and get the Times produced, written, and narrated History Channels, Science Channels, and a few others, you better note the revisionist shit they are putting out on those programs. PC history, science (pro abortion all the time, pro stem cell research without a word of "the other side," you name it and these channels go Left of it). They actually did the Black Sox scandal---White Sox threw the 1919 series---and blamed economic forces, not the gamblers and players who were innocent pawns of the capitalist owners. The true background of the fix in which Arnold Rothstein, the inventor of investment options as a vehicle to cheat people, is great reading. I just know that some day the Times History etc. will discover that King Tut tried to give the people socialized medicine through the back door of providing the pyramid building work forces free medical care. I mean there are heiroglyphics taped to the pussy of Queen Nafertiti that prove it. Not only that, Nostradamus predicted the election of a blonde woman in her 60s as leader of a great power. The Times provides us with a ton of great shit. Get ready for a show titled "The U.S. Constitution, The Real Great Satan."

My private "source" for some of my commentary on movies said in this post of a few weeks back that there was a secret fear in the business that Star Wars was not going to be the mega hit everybody was touting in public. So guess what? Star Wars wasn't even able to hold the top spot for more than one weekend. is barely holding its own through the second weekend. Word of mouth at my workplace is very bad; most don't like it at all. My post on the business, the most hits for anything I've ever written (30,000 plus so far), is causing quite a bit of talk, if you haven't read it. Again, as one of my comment people stated, people are just tired of the SOS done by the SOP. My point is still: the entrenched Politically Correct über Alles crowd now in charge of both MSM and the movie business won't fire people because they all think alike and insist on hiring people who think they way they think. Make no mistake, all of them would rather go broke than open up to what is known as "Red State" opinion and talent. LATE ADD: had to shut down comments on the originating post because I was using too much bandwidth; a first for me.

5/28/2005

Econ and Markets: Many of us are concerned that Greenspan has decided to stomp on the economy and cause a recession AGAIN. This piece in Biz Week showing that the amount of money being spent on housing has become dangerous in the extreme, squeezing out other spending and already hurting the economy. Using these graphs it is easy to see where Greenspan is coming from, but where does it say that a Fed Chair has to fine tune an economy? Get ready for Greenspan Recession III.

Mercedes continues to slip, and slip badly, in both sales and quality of product. Cadillac has taken off like a moon shot (good for GM), as has BMW.

Goody Goody, the Dow is breaking out. Sorry, the high it has to take out is above 10,900 and then 11,200 before a real live breakout takes place. We could be on a run of 400 points from here, but new highs?

All the super touts are touting Europe, which makes me think that anything European has to be shit. When everybody is something or other, the something or other is over. I think the opinion that the EU is going to go capitalist with both Chiraq and Schroeder out on their asses is IN the market. As an aside, the French rejecting the treaty doesn't mean much other than voters are now getting their news on the web rather than from their government controlled TV and monolithic single opinion press. They, like us, are totally pissed. Does MSM in any country get it? Ho, ho, that's rich. In fact the fascist single voice MSM in every so-called free country is the single biggest unreported story. The elites, the super rich and governments rich enough to own money losing enterprises, have finally been caught everywhere. Will they change? No, because they are too rich to care. Will they fold? Governments won't let them, or more accurately the unions won't let them.


NEWSWEEK DOES IT AGAIN??

Newsweek, barely a week after their brilliant riot causing piece concerning our alleged flushing of a Koran, now throws the race card into the Los Angeles cauldron, and guess what? No, no, not another racial brawl at a local high school? You better believe it, while a moron at the school says:
"It had nothing to do with race. The majority of our kids are good kids. We've got to get people to understand that some kids aren't here for the right reason."
They were backed up by the local school officials. Only talk radio is around and they blew it wide open. There is an audio tape HERE of a woman urging people of both black and Mexican races to get the real enemy. Guess who that might be? You have to play the entire cut to hear it. Get this: there is no racial violence in oh so "left" Los Angeles. And this from our police department
Los Angeles School Police Chief Alan Kerstein played down the incident Thursday, saying it wasn't clear that it was racially motivated. "Today it was just two males getting involved in a fight, and it just precipitated to a number of fights," he said. But he acknowledged that he wasn't sure how the school or the police could prevent such incidents.
School is 92% Mexican. Police officials are 81% morons. Local Blacks are re-learning the decades old mantra of whites which went: "Always remember that six Mexicans can, and will, beat up one white guy." Just insert the word black guy for white guy and you have the situation here. Thanx GWB, and don't wonder why Hillary is far ahead in the polls. And Newsweek is getting a lot of the blame for their clearly race agitating cover and headline: Latino Power. Welfare State Blacks suddenly see all their clout gone. Mexican Governor, Mexican Lt. Governor, speaker of the Assembly, Mayor of LA, DA of LA, and so on. Mexifornia is here and the country is fucked. And the blame goes to Bush and nobody else.

However, on the other hand, but, etc., some big time blacks who have a solid civil rights background and who have been on the liberal side until a year or so ago are making Republican noises. Joe R. Hicks, a super activist, is waking up and he ain't alone. This is the rule of unintended consequences coming to life. Might be the best thing that has happened to Blacks since Roosevelt actually put them to work. It's almost assured that the Democrats in the Southwest are losing Blacks to the never regions of....thought. Would be something that in spite of GWBs moronic immigration policy, if Blacks became Republican in large numbers.

Moveon.org changing its stripes? Check it out. Positively kissy face.

5/27/2005

This piece by Micky Kaus is just the best I've read by anyone in some time. A must read..... A totally different take on filibusters. Great piece, Mick.

Looks like I partially scooped the NYT by one day on my posting re; the enterainment business below. This piece by Laura Holson pretty well tells a tale of part of the vanishing audience. Interview with people who no longer go to movies because they have other alternatives. And they are bad. Link courtesy of emailer who chooses to remain anonymous because the writer is an actor.

Lite blogging today

George Voinovich is mentally disturbed, probably unfit to serve in Congress. Here's part of an interview over at Radio Blogger.

HH: John Podhoretz, your reaction to that little bit of drama.

JP: Cuckoo. I hadn't heard that. I am beyond belief, except for this one thing that cannot be stated too many times. In 1995, George Voinovich, when he was governor of Ohio, he was at the Cleveland airport. The President of the United States was in Cleveland, so there was a no-fly zone declared for the airport. And he insisted that his pilot take off, his personal pilot take off, despite the fact that there was a no-fly zone declared. And he got on the phone with the air traffic controller and said, what are you going to do? Shoot me down?

HH: I didn't know that story.

JP: As a result of that, in 1995, the Federal Aviation Administration fined George Voinovich $20,000 dollars for interfering with the good agency and, you know, the good order of the American aviation system. And for that man to claim that any other human being does not have the temperament to serve in a senior job, when he behaved that way...

HH: I didn't know that. We're out of time. It's the Hugh Hewitt Show.

5/26/2005

Is John McCain the only man in the world who can strut while sitting down...? This and other evaluations of the gang of fourteen Senators who "saved the Republic" made by Peggy Noonan in her WSJ column today.....

"Does this cocaine come from fields not sprayed with pesticides?" demanded a well known rocker-super dyke-newly titted rehab escapee as she did a test flight of her latest drug buy. Her Beverly Hills connection assured her it was pure. Rumor has it the always socially conscious star dropped out of rehab because the center was not certified to be absolutely asbestos free.... Hey bitch, for half a pound of blow, sing the lyrics of your latest hit single without coaching......

Had to shut down comments. ISP said there were too many for bandwidth; a first for me.
It's not just actors who can't pay the rent in Hollywood these days.... I speak from the perspective of twenty years in show business. Almost every friend I have made was in that business and is still in that business. I like them, have fun with them, and I write this piece because perhaps I can make a contribution toward the understanding of a serious problem affecting all of them, and all of us too.

I had to get out of show business after twenty years because a physical impairment made it impossible for me to get acting work. I had also functioned as a comedy writer for various comics who fell into public disfavor (meaning they were no longer thought to be funny, ergo I was no longer thought to be funny). It has come to an empty present in which all my show biz friends are crapping their pants. There is almost no work—reality shows need no scripts, actors, or conventional directors—and much of what work remains takes place in non-union countries. Those labor union loving Democratic Beverly Hills liberals ain’t about to pass up the chance to hire scab labor if they can get away with it. And the stars develop no guilty consciences trotting off to jolly old Spain, Monte Carlo, or a syphilis free zone in S.E. Asia when there is a buck to be made and U.S. craft unions to stiff.

We are now in an era where movie grosses are declining like the last sickening drop on a roller coaster ride in spite of—or partially because of—a nearly fifty percent rise in ticket prices. Some of you may be happy about this situation because you feel these “Left Wing Assholes” have it coming; I’d only point out that we all have a right to our opinions; my friends have always helped me without ever asking who I voted for; and most of us will not pass up a good movie because an actor or actress has said awful things. For me, only Jane Fonda is excepted from that rule.

What is happening now—attendance collapse, TV viewing collapse--- has happened before. I’ll take you back to the thrilling days of yesteryear for a few examples. There was a time when the comedy shows on TV suddenly took a surprising hit. Nobody could figure it out. Suddenly somebody at some network decided that the writing was “too Jewish.” It was true that all writing staffs were almost 100% Jewish, so to solve the problem and obey the suits, show producers (themselves Jewish), hired wops, spics, nazis, and everything else on the planet (contrary to modern feminist bullshit, women had always been all over the place). It just so happened that at that time I was in the second week of my very first TV comedy writing job, and “last Jew hired first Jew fired” hit me. I even showed up to work with a holy St. Christopher’s medal hoping to avoid the axe. Bang. Out the door. Some dago bitch replaced me and her first “joke” had to do with taking the dog out back and breaking its legs for crapping on the carpet. It got howls. The second had to do with shoving her infant son’s head in the toilet til he “talked.” I couldn’t believe it. Co-incidentally or not, ratings went back up. It has been surmised since, that the narrow focus of the Jewish experience simply was not the experience of the wider audience. Jokes about possessive mothers, kids with charge accounts at school cafeterias, and so on weren’t funny. New jokes had to include local street criminals, women with hair on their faces, guys who stayed away from home getting loaded, tail gate parties at football games, slutty women and so on that were created by majorities popped up on every show.

To give you an idea of the Jewish dominance in the comedy writing field before 1969 or so, check this out. Here is the staff for the biggest hit show ever at the time; “Your Show of Shows” (the Sid Caesar comedy show): Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen, Neil Simon and his brother Danny, Mel Brooks, Selma Diamond, Mel Tolken–not a goy in the bunch. The Evangelical Christian, Carl Reiner, came later. Jackie Gleason’s writing staff included a ton of talent including, Arne Rosen, Coleman Jacoby, Marvin Marx, Walter Stone, Herbert Finn, Leonard Stern, Sydney Zelinka, and Andy (“What? Me Jewish?) Russell. The Jewish talent dominated, AND they were great writers. Under the new edict, at least half of those guys would have been bounced out too. ¹ Whatever, the new writing resulted in a big rise in the ratings, proof that Jews ain’t the only people who can be funny.

I mention here that I come from a Jewish father-Catholic mother background. I was raised a Catholic but had more than just casual contact with Jewish culture, humor, and so on. I will tell you that there is a difference in the two senses of what is funny, and that difference is profound. Comedy written from lots of backgrounds is decidedly funnier than comedy written from only one. Tell me that this Roseanne Barr joke could ever have been created by a man: “People keep telling me, Roseanne Roseanne, you’re just too masculine. I just tell them to suck my dick.”

Like magic, ratings rose to new highs.

Now I take you to the year “The Godfather” came out. Lots of people who saw it for the first time saw it as a story with a Catholic background that they could relate to and understand. The wedding opening was something audiences had actually experienced, as were baptisms, confessions, and Mafia supporting priests with questionable moral principals. That wedding sequence had not a trace of Jewishness and was totally honest in its presentation. The popularity of “The Godfather” came just after the collapse of the Hollywood Studio czars, who most felt were simply “out of it.” Old guys like Mayer, Cohen, Spiegel, the Warners, together with all their families and friends simply lost touch. They were fired by their boards of directors. New young Jews came in who did the same old shit and movies were not doing well.

Then the sixties and seventies happened and suddenly there were Catholics, Protestants, Blacks, and everybody else demanding entry. The dago, Coppola, with his gangster movie epic simply blew the walls down. Everybody swarmed in. Movie grosses went up. The Goyem Big Shots were driving their Ferraris, Benzes, and yachts into the country clubs of SoCal. Even bitches became studio heads. What had been an industry dominated by Jews suddenly became an industry dominated by talent from other areas of the country. As an aside here, I don’t believe there is a single Jew heading a movie studio today.

My friends tell me that there is a new problem now. Check out the movies and TV and what do you see? The casts contain no real men and no real women. The men are weak, swishy, and androgynous; the women are cookie cutter pretty and hard nosed to the point of being repellant. Could any of the men in TV sit-coms get and hold a job where you work? The homosexual content of many movies like Troy and Alexander---Orlando Bloom as King Richard the Lion Hearted? You gotta be kidding me—and the literal ton of lesbian themed TV shows like O.C. and The L-Word do not resonate with most people. Deviant sexual content at every level of script, kinky camera angles by directors, and performing talent that has no connection to reality is taking its toll.

Keep in mind that the near billion dollar grosses of Passion of the Christ are not even listed in the top grossing searches on Google. The entire industry, their critics, and their flacks just ignore reality. Tell me that ain't a problem.

All of my actor friends tell me that the casting is being done by men in dresses and dirty talking women with no make up who dress in grunge jeans. So guess who gets the parts? Name me five young masculine leading men—let’s see, there’s the guy in Gladiator who may be forty, the two serial killers in----. Even more, name me five leading young actresses who you would want in your life for more than a fast fuck. They are all one night stands that nobody sane would want in their lives for any longer than that. The writing is the same. They populate their scripts with weak men and promiscuous women who cheat and laugh about it. Do you ever believe the scenes where women beat up men? Do you know any men that would take a slap in the face and not deck the bitch? Do you? If you do, you are in the minority of people who continue to support Hollywood product. In real world relationships behavior is modified because of the physical superiority of men over women, and it is the clever and sometimes ruthless ways women use to make up for this deficiency that makes many classic dramas work; check out the Robert Mitchum Jane Greer little classic, Out of the Past, or any Humphrey Bogart movie you can think of together with a thousand other movies. The writing was lean, the direction clean, and the characters clearly male and female. Or when they weren’t? Check out Peter Lorre and Vincent Price–the link has a photo of a perfectly nasty and gay Vincent Price. And Lady McBeth showed what a weaker woman could do, right? Late Add: emailers far and wide mention the Herpburn-O'Toole Lion in Winter as best of the Physically Weak Woman Strong Man movies.

You dismiss this opinion piece as homophobic? OK. But none of us work around a bunch of swishy fruits. As families we do not associate with lesbians and whores. Most of us are not remotely like that, yet that is most of the TV fare presented in our homes. The movie business is in the toilet, TV viewing is in a disaster zone, and the main reason is not the Left Wing political activism of the stupid movie stars. It is the content of the product. A product that is disconnected from the experiences of most members of the audience.

There is no other explanation.

There is never any other explanation.

I have mentioned on this site more than a few times that kids are now playing computer games (revenues higher than the movie and music business combined) that allow the player to create their own characters and situations. There is a game in which the male player hires a whore and then beats the shit out of her when she tries to cheat him, the initial situation created by the player. I saw my nephew playing a game in which the hero—the player—gets laid by almost every woman he meets, but lots of those women then attempt to kill him. Most of the game tension arises out of the onslaught of pissed off women the player must handle without going to jail for life and still accomplish his purpose (which escaped me). The game is diabolically complicated and real. A PC movie of that game would be loaded up with PC commentary, a chickenshit man, and some lesbian with "rights" who kills him.

Will things change for the movie and TV business? Will there ever be work for actors and actresses again? Will there be opportunities for writers to write stories? You got me.

I haven’t covered Broadway—ticket prices exceed $100 per ticket—that is 100% lisping men in tight pants shaking their asses paired with sexually aggressive women in tight pants trying to convince audiences they really, really want men and not the women they are rubbing up against. A totally homo-erotic—actually homosexual--- theatre that is completely shut off from main stream America. And the Broadway casting? Jesus, give me a break. Then ask yourself, when was the last time a hit tune came out of a Broadway Play? Or a hit movie? Hit movies become Broadway plays—Phantom, Lion King—not the reverse.

Anyway, that is how a lot of my friends see the business right now and they are really scared, unemployed, and having trouble paying the rent. I do not know if the civil rights nut cases in charge of things will change structure. They may not be able to fire a bunch of fruits like they fired the Jews.

¹The music business was also largely Jewish, Johnny Mercer being the single exception to the Jewish Music Mafia in Hollywood. Everybody from Oscar Hammerstein to the Gershwin brothers was Jewish—and super talented. Harry Warren (go here and be amazed), Al Dubin, Dorothy Fields, Frank Loesser, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Harry Warren and others wrote literally thousands of hit songs for hundreds of pictures. Most were under contract to 20th Century Fox. Yip Harberg wrote hundreds of songs too, including the ultimate Depression Era song, "Buddy can you Spare a Dime." Take a look and see if you think these guys should have been replaced.

5/25/2005

Le Affaire de Pénétration Anale......Bearing in mind Ronald Reagan's eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican," I will no longer speak about what the French would call, Le Affaire de pénétration anale; what the Italians would call, Tragedia de sesso anale; and what the Ancient Greeks would call normal sex. We just got it without being asked to bend over beforehand. "Ow, oooh, what a surprise."

I won't speak of it again til my meds kick in.

IF YOU HAVE SOME TIME do yourself a big favor and go here for a tearing asunder of a Left Wing propaganda agit-prop "article" in the Washington Post. The guy goes point by point, proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the entire piece was fabricated. The purpose? To get America, what else\?

Kim du Toit, a guy who lived in Africa for at least 20 years, has some very good points about that area of the world. After you read it, you'll wonder why they are broke.

5/24/2005

Before reading this one, keep in mind that the first TV show John "The Turncoat" McCain graced with his presence was Katy Couric, the most Left of all the morning show hosts.

There are very few people
smarter than me west of the Mississippi (26,433,912 at last count) but once in a while I have to bow to a superior intellect. I bow now to John Podhoretz who has the added distinction of actually studying the process as it relates to our system. I think he knows what he is talking about.....
Despite the language in the deal about how the Republicans won't bring up the nuclear option until 2007, there's other language in the deal that clearly gives the Republican signatories the option to pull out of the deal should Democrats misbehave.

This deal is therefore effectively about the judges it mentions -- and about them only. Every future nomination will be decided as follows. If the Democrats insist that the next nominee(s) are bad enough to invoke the "extraordinary" right to filibuster, the Republicans have the right to say the Democrats are full of it, kill the deal and go to the nuclear option immediately.

Thus, the agreement is only binding to the extent that Democrats do not filibuster -- since it will be very difficult for the Senate Republicans to allow them to get away with the "extraordinary" right claim about a mainstream conservative nominee.

To my mind, that's the true essence of the political deal here. Every time the Democrats who signed it move toward filibuster, the Republicans move toward busting the deal.

And that's basically what Mike DeWine of Ohio, one of the GOP signatories, said last night to the Washington Post: "Republicans said they are free to back a ban if they believe Democrats act in bad faith and filibuster a nominee whose credentials do not amount to an 'extraordinary' circumstance. 'We don't think we're going to get there,' said Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), adding that he will not hesitate to vote to ban judicial filibusters if he concludes the Democrats are abusing the right."
Posted at 02:41 AM
From your computer to God's ears John. I hope you are right, but from the prior track record of the creators of this sell out I think you may find that the Republicans sold out completely. We will see.

As they are saying down at Republican HQ this morning, "Standing on principle is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made."


SELL OUT

DEAD DOGS GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE WILL NEVER BE REELECTED.... Or do any of you think Hillary Clinton would have sold her party down the river like this?

Gutless Republicans who crave nothing more than praise from the MSM sell principle for approval, again.. They are pond scum opportunists unfit to govern and this is proof. "Gosh, they'll hate me if I try to govern." Not to worry GOP, I think a lot of us won't vote for you next time on the theory you don't use a dead dog to guard the hen house. We should allow the GOP carcass to be left to rot in the sun where the flies and maggots can strip it down to nothing. That is if the rotting body doesn't kill the flies unlucky enough to think they have found actual food. The usual suspects agree. Here too.

The MSM loves the mavricks---traitors---in the GOP, here, here, and here; the Hate America press, the people who are destroying the morale of our Military will do their best to sell these chickenshits as heros. The New York Times, a supporter of the Hate America Left at every level, just loves McCain etc.

Hewitt may never contribute to the GOP again. This is a sell out, no question. Even the hard core Left is saying the GOP sold out and that the Left "won."

Schultz says it pretty well without cursing, HERE.

Power Line, summing it up for most of us: "It would be hard to overstate what a disaster this is for the Republican Party." I agree, this is something I am not going to forget. Ever.

Late Add: it looks like the bloggers on the Right are unanamous in their condemnation of this "deal." Whether we are representative of the party as a whole will be told another day. McCain will never again be able to run as a Republican and will probably switch or be re-called. Frist can kiss his presidential hopes goodbye, and who knows or cares what happens to the rest of them. Republicans Suck. Confirm Them Bush Nominees has a good cross section of GOP rage. Bury them in their own pus. At least Hillary Clinton stands for something. Ask yourself if she would ever sell out like this. For me: no more money, no more support, we lost. The Republican Revolution has committed suicide. And if I'm wrong, let's do a mercy killing on them.

OTOH, Kaus thinks this deal is absolutely nothing. There is no deal, just phony posturing by the usual suspects--McCain et.al.---and the first time the Democrats decide to delay, the GOP will go for ending the filibuster. But Mickey, there is such a thing as standing on a principle. This ain't gunna fly with us. And will McCain, Snowe, Chaffee etc. bother to pretend they aren't teat sucking liberals?

Now for something completely different, as Monty Python used to say; the always philosophical conservative Professor Bainbridge thinks this is a conservative position and lays out the reasons for his opinion. I disagree with him but he has good points.

5/23/2005

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are....either Yogi Berra or Bertold Brecht

Headline: Supremes to hear abortion case.....

My take? The pro abortion crowd outnumbers right to lifers on the court and they want to hear and decide the case before Congress appoints someone who disagrees with their opinions. However, the case may be heard on very narrow grounds of parental RIGHTS; does a parent have any right to control the behavior of a minor child, or does the government decide what a parent can tell a child or what a child can do? I doubt that this court will touch Roe v. Wade.

Headline: Tillman's Parents Are Critical Of Army.
Guess who published the story?
A. TheWall Street Journal
B. Mental Health Weekly
C. Newsweek partner Washington Post.

Answer when you click on the blue thing.

New York Times reports copy of Newsweek thrown in toilet at Defense Department HQ. Liberals vow complete investigation . Heads to roll .....Developing

Two Korans found in my apartment toilet ............Developing

Dean's drooling rant on Russert yesterday represents the views of every liberal I know. He IS the soul and guts of the party. They HATE Republicans, hate everything they stand for, and Dean would win CA by a landslide. I think most National Democrats also agree with him. Face it.

Go HERE to the WSJ OpEd page and read the good stuff going on in Iraq. Then ask yourself the question: have I seen any of this in MSM? I determined that I had not, so I'm either illiterate, have some Third World cable company supplying me news, or they weren't reported. I have promised not to compare anything with Nazis or Stalin, but...........

LET'S RALLY TO STOP ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS

In response to absolutely zero emails concerning the impending doom of the internet--the Republic, the very foundation of our existance and so on-- because the Fair Election Commission (FEC) wants to regulate the internet bloggers who raise money for campaigns, or who are on the secret take to endorse certain candidates, let me say this.

Who gives a fuck? I am opposed to blind, or phony if you will, groups or individuals raising money under a false flag for political campaigns solely to avoid compliance with campaign finance LAWS. My only question is: W(here)TF was the FEC during the last campaign, one in which anonymous money raised on the internet ---and elsewhere---flowed into campaigns by the tens of millions of untraceable dollars? Where was the FEC when Soros pumped 15 million into various front groups? When Teraysah was pumping millions into various left groups through her foundations?

The proposed FEC action is long overdue. I am for enforcing election laws as well as disclosure of campaign fund sources. The only thing in danger from any action by the FEC is the danger to the continuing fraud taking place behind various masks on the internet. We have bloggers in the tank for money, for prestige, and political influence that need to be put under the same microscope as the up front donors. We're talking about legality. Too many "bloggers" see obeying the law as an obligation for other people.

Fuck those other bloggers. My letter to the FEC reads: enforce the election laws.

Great pix of gorgeous models fighting outside a bar over football players. Looks real. Original link and story from Bad Jocks, who have some other dirt up. Great high school mass sex scandal is the best.

5/22/2005

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.....

Insufferable Liberalism in all it's superior wallowing..... At Sondrak in case you read it.

GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE MIDDLE EAST?

Our Left Media remains relentless in aggressive condemnation of our Military, sodomizing them in every oraface, but in Camelistan land, it's different:

LA Times has two stories front page. They are prisoner abuse and how many military guys want out of the military.

NY Times has three stories front page: Army tried to cover up abuse in Afghanistan plus an interactive so all the libs can pile on too; Feature article about "Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates Deaths"; and Karzai demands Custody of Afghan Prisoners. Nothing else.

WaPo is actually balanced on its front page as is Boston Globe.

NBC does a focus on abuses at Guantanamo, Karzai the opium dealer (this is a MSM focus in order to make us think Karzai is a criminal), And the drive by shooting of Iraqi Trade Minister.

The penultimate non consensual anal rape of the U.S. is up. Link from everybody, it's the Newsweek overseas edition which slams the U.S.

You have to surf the net to hear anything good. As I said, the MSM has won, and now will finish up the dirty work raping our military. Marine Corps Moms and Mudville are nice alternative views.

If you read the Arab press you get the feeling that George Bush could be elected president of any country in the area. Below are just a few of the op eds and news stories appearing in the Muslim press within Middle Eastern countries, none of which could have possibly appeared as recently as a year ago....

"Kamal Kharrazi's historic visit to Baghdad indicates that Tehran is confident that Iraqis will succeed in overriding their ordeal and build a strong State."

In another op ed
praising the new rights of women; Amidst the political battles of reforms the Arab world is witnessing today, the ratification of Kuwaiti women's rights is considered to be good news, matched by another good news reflected by the way adopted to carry out this Kuwaiti achievement. I.e. pure parliamentary debate.

Here's a piece that slams Saudi treatment of maids: "Recent reports published in the Saudi press indicate disturbing trends. Thousands of foreign workers, especially maids, suffer from physical and financial maltreatment. Many work endless hours, don’t get good accommodation and meals and don’t get paid in time, or not at all. Worse is the sexual and physical abuse......"

Illegal immigration into Saudi Arabia gets full treatment: "The act considered most despicable in the Arab world is to abuse hospitality that has been freely and generously given. Because of its solemn duties to Muslim pilgrims from around the globe, Saudi Arabia operates an open-door policy for those with Haj and Umrah visas. Unfortunately, some of those who came as “Guests of God” (as they are known) have remained in the Kingdom illegally. They have become criminals and prey mercilessly upon a society that has welcomed them with open arms. These overstayers, of course, have no legitimate means of supporting themselves and so many have turned easily to lawbreaking, joining gangs of various nationalities that have become the scourge of our once almost entirely crime-free city streets."

An amazing statement by Asma Assad, the WIFE of Syrian President, Asad. "Syria needs to introduce political and institutional reforms to attract foreign investments necessary for the economy to flourish, Asma Assad, the wife of President Bashar Assad, said yesterday...."It's a long piece but it emphasizes the views of a Muslim woman.

5/21/2005

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats

I missed THIS at Dr. Demarche last week. It's his take on Newsweek, in case you missed it.....

Kind of like economics.........I was over at a friend's house yesterday through this AM. There were also about ten teenagers (15 to 18) bouncing in and out. They gathered in the main room with the HDTV that had all the tits to watch some fucking horror movie. In the course of the conversation I learned this: Not a single one of them had EVER purchased a CD. All download from IPod each month and had been stealing music from Napster before Apple. Parents now give allowances of $10-$20 per month to pay for music.

So is Apple a play? Again? Is Steve Jobs cooking up another killer ap for IPod? I bet he is and I bet it will have something to do with downloading movies, shorts, MTV stuff. Just yesterday Yahoo undercut the download cost per tune from their site. Apple will follow suit and rip something new by June. Jobs is a genius, my only question regards the fate of Apple without him. He's getting up there.

Austin Bay is going on an interesting project, featuring most of the Left Wing anti-Military "voices" in the media. Keep watching.....

BTW I was just reading a little about Lenin taking over in Russia. His first task was to sabotage the military, cause Russia to lose WWI, and then make sure the military was harmless.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS HYPE HYBRIDS

We are being conned into accepting hybrids, according to auto extremist.He has an interesting piece about the juggernaut Toyota has become and about their ability to plant messages with paper and enviro groups. Tyota is hiding
....the true, long-term costs of hybrid ownership to consumers in order to gain more market share in the U.S. Toyota is, in fact, only selectively listening to their customers, which is an interesting detour from their usual mantra for success. Consumers have been brainwashed (thanks to a masterful PR snow job by Toyota) to think that hybrids are somehow the "Magic Bullet" and The Answer and that by owning and driving one they will not only save money, but they will do their share for the environment too.
He links to some material that is only available at considerable cost. Be aware of this hybrid hype....
Toyota is deftly side-stepping the real, serious issues about hybrid ownership - the questionable real-world mileage, the long-term out-of-warranty costs due to battery replacement and other component costs and the absolute necessity for an aftermarket warranty on used hybrids, not to mention the added initial price premium
This is a site to be on your list.

Q: Are "pop under" ads making your life exactly like pop ups used to? Right now I have six of the fucking things I have to get rid of. Any solutions?

I'm far to dense to understand WTF this Arabic writer is saying but the MSM is spreading excerpts far and wide. The words accountability and responsibility must exist in the Arab language. Somewhere. No? Does he secretly want her?

Markets First, the way I work I never make a prediction, even one day out. I let the market tell me what to do, and then I execute. Even so, I'm wrong on entry 70% of the time. I've never talked to any really big shooter who won't tell you the same. The trick is to have strong sell signals, AND THEN PAY ATTENTION. The money is made when you make these huge runs on stocks you have chosen correctly.

Everybody, EVERYBODY, who does a financial show on TV by definition is going to be wrong most of the time. They hedge what they say with astrological writing...Flange is going to $30 unless the Fed tightens and money gets too expensive. Or they will tout a sector: "Boy do I like paper sector." never ever naming a stock and when to buy it and when to get out if you are wrong.

Give me a break. If you'd like to learn to trade---meaning buying or selling with the intention of closing the position out----the best of the best is Peter Steidlmayer at the CBOT. His Market Profile method of TRADING has no equal; problem is that most guys don't have the discipline to trade it, or trade it without really getting it. The best of the best when it comes to investing is Bill O'Niel at Investors Business Daily. By every measure, by every evaluator, he's number one over almost every period of time. The CANSLIM investing method has no equal and stands alone. WARNING there are a ton of hustlers out there who say they will do the work for you and give you tips. Wrong. You must learn the system and do it yourself because you are going to be investing in New America stocks that cannot handle a sudden buy of 200,000 shares. New America is a section of the paper that features types of stocks that fit a certain criteria. Late Add: I haven't visited the entire IBD site in a few months, but it has been expanded to an extraordinary degree. My God, this tool is astonishingly good.

Getting back to the topic of the heading regarding TV touts. They all run out of things to say. I commented on Kudlow's site today how really bad Elaine Garzarelli is. She made one call, the crash of'87, but she stayed bearish for the next four months and missed a huge rally, one of the biggest in history.. She was fired by Shearson because she lost so much client money; actually she had gains but they were pathetic when compared to almost anything else. I told Kudlow that he is aiding and abetting a fraud that will cost investors money. He was aggressive on the tube today building her up. BTW: He's right as the sun on a hot day when he cautions on Greenspan, the guy who has caused two recessions. The economy, the world economies, cannot take more than one more hike in rates. The "yield curve:---the difference between the short term rates and the long term rates is down to less than a hundred points. Flat yield curve is a vertual guarantee of a recession, but who the hell cares if people who don't have Ph.Ds lose their jobs?

5/20/2005

Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted

Iranian NASCAR babes and some interesting stuff, here.....

Here we go again. The Red Cross---I'll never give those fucks a dime again---is sliming us about the Koran. Get this: tearing a page out of a Koran is worse than nailing tongues to a board, and the Left, the Democrats, and the world is going to buy it. More HERE. Then there is the always balanced NYT. But careful; all these slimeballs are reporting the same Red Cross "leak" but the leak doesn't have any specifics either. All say "mishandled, all say "they did not witness any of the reported incidents," and all have third hand reports. YET this stuff is what all media will report as if to defend Newsweek in mass. No Left Wing media bias? No organized attacks on the Military and our government from people wanting to weaken us so we will fail? Yeah, right.

Vonnegut
Link No Pasaran....
long but well worth reading....
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

It goes on and down the line:
....while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
The year is 2081 for the Democrats and those few who have brains are incumbered by a little radio embedded in their ears tuned in to the Howard Dean Show.....Full Vonnegut piece is HERE.

The Left Media has won, again. Their goal was to destroy the military, make the military repulsive to American young men and in so doing weaken the United States so that we cannot “impose freedom” anywhere in the world. After three years of lying every day, they are a success.

This morning I was watching/listening to the Don Imus show. The jerk who does the news by reading headlines from various news papers—MSNBC in last place—spent the first thirty seconds going over every battle death in Iraq. Nothing else was mentioned. He repeated this every thirty minutes. Did I mention that Imus news consists of reading newspapers to his “audience” of brain dead liberals? That guests on his show are all liberal reporters from MSM rags?

Every media is engaged in this destruction, there is no other information available—even FOX does it many times—and our young people are sure that going to Iraq means death. Death for that criminal, George W. Bush.

Starwars, for what it's worth. Passed by two long lines of people waiting to get in. If there were ten women in both lines combined I'd be surprised. This movie is strictly a male thing.

The latest media spin regarding the "Muslim Rage" over the Newsweek "reporting" that accused our military of flushing a Koran down a toilet ought to make you vomit further. The new spin would have us all believe that Muslims regard the Koran as God himself. Not a book. So this is why blah blah blah........

Once again, the media is wrong. The only time the Koran takes on this...
.....aura of Holiness is "When it becomes the sound of Islam. When recited, a holy atmosphere is created, an atmosphere involving God, the world, the truth and peace. During the moment of reciting, the compound becomes sacred, and the moment powerful.
Other than those times, the Koran is a book. So Newsweek pissed off gangs who could be counted on to make trouble over such insignificance as an incorrectly stitched burka.

I think what lots of us are doing right now is acting out our disgust and anger over the vomit inducing display put on by the White Louse Press Corps when they rudely grilled press secretary Scott McClellan as if he were a criminal.

Markets First, the way I work I never make a prediction, even one day out. I let the market tell me what to do, and then I execute. Even so, I'm wrong on entry 70% of the time. I've never talked to any really big shooter who won't tell you the same. The trick is to have strong sell signals, AND THEN PAY ATTENTION. The money is made when you make these huge runs on stocks you have chosen correctly.

Everybody, EVERYBODY, who gets does a financial show on TV by definition is going to be wrong most of the time. They hedge what they say with astrological writing...Flange is going to $30 unless the Fed tightens and money gets too expensive...Boy do I like paper---never ever naming a stock and when to buy it and when to get out if you are wrong.

Give me a break. If you'd like to learn to trade---meaning buying or selling with the intention of closing the position out----the best of the best is Peter Steidlmayer at the CBOT. His Market Profile method of TRADING has no equal; problem is that most guys don't have the discipline to trade it, or trade it without really getting it. The best of the best when it comes to investing is Bill O'Niel at Investors Business Daily. By every measure by every evaluator he's number one over almost every period of time. The CANSLIM investing method has no equal and stands alone. WARNING there are a ton of hustlers out there who say they will do the work for you and give you tips. Wrong. You must learn the system and do it yourself because you are going to be investing in New America stocks that cannot handle a sudden buy of 200,000 shares..

I get back to the topic of the heading regarding TV guys. They all run out of things to say. I commented on Kudlow's site today how really bad Elaine Garzarelli is. She made one call, the crash of'87, but she stayed bearish for the next four months and missed a huge rally. She was fired by Shearson because she lost so much client money----actually she had gains but they were pathetic when compared to almost anything else. I told Kudlow that he is aiding and abetting a fraud by putting her on. She has no Series 7 license (under her own name, at least), no discernable trading license---she cannot directly handle investor funds, and has one of the most awful track records in the business. So why is she on TV all the time? She's a self promoter and everybody runs out of faces to shove onto the tube. AND she is a woman, don't ever forget that.

Other stuff: dollar is breaking out again but I think it will be tough going over 87.50 with major congestion in the 89 area. Now the fun begins, especially if the French turn down the EU. I'm going to do a major piece on the linking of currencies that might help.

The indexes: WTFDIK? Do not invest in them. Let them act as ONE signal to buy or sell. One thing I do know is that the price of pussy in Amsterdam has collapsed because much younger girls have moved in---these young girls are illegal aliens, or sex slaves. Nobody wants an old whore when a young one shows up.

A "Good Fellas" at LAX. A Lufthansa robbery coming up? Open season on passenger luggage; the union will not allow cameras to photograph them; the suits sit on their asses. If you fly in or out of LAX there is a one in five chance your luggage will be either stolen, or opened and the contrents removed. Airlines not liable because it's the government stealing the luggage; the private unions stealing can't be photographed so nobody can gather evidence. Put nothing expensive in your bags. Again, nice job George.....

5/19/2005

ATTN: I am using the new Netscape 8.0. If I never post again, you will know why.....

USED IT FOR TEN MINUTES....Then got a crash notice. Pffff no Netscape. Also the print on some screens is not reduceable and it is so big you can't use it. Also couldn't log on to a feature because the "I accept button" not accessable due to the huge print. Ditto My Yahoo

I reduced the size to 22000 or whatever and it did no good
And, just like the Old Netscape, you cannot contact them
LATE ADD: Impossible to uninstall. It burrows into every file on the system. Had to delete from Explorer.

I'd guess another step into the Abyss----same old Netscape.....

Of course I don't know how this "nuclear option" will turn out, but it seems to me that if the Democrats had the votes it would be voted on. I've said this before, the Republicans are a bunch of pussies who are afraid of success; afraid to win. "Gosh coach, if we beat these guys the crowd won't like us."

Take a poll and go to sleep.

I have no idea why an economic bag of hair like Virginia Postrel ever gets respect, but now she has one of her moronic analysis slopped onto the Business Editorial Page at the New York Times. She just can't figure out why media bias doesn't affect circulation "because in any other business......." blah blah blah. Then like every New Age Slut, she quotes a bunch of professors who "built a model," that shows the more competition the more bias in news.

Ever heard of Monopolies, bitch? Like when you are the only kid on the playground you play whatever you want to play? Last girl in the bar always gets laid on her terms? A great white shark eats whatever it wants to eat? Ever "model" that?

The cost of entry into the newspaper "business" is higher than building an oil refinery. So we would have capital intensive meets entrenched monopoly. Period.

I'd like to add for those of you who live outside of SoCal; former mayor Riordan, a true mega millionaire many times over, looked over bucking the LA Times and backed out. Just consider one field: Major League Baseball. How many years does it take to insinuate a reporter into a team so players will talk to him; that management will talk to him; that he can get people inside other teams to talk to you? Now multiply that over the spectrum of news and you have a very expensive start up with no guarantee of any success at all. To top it off, these papers are all parts of huge media conglomorates, therefore you have a "business" that can have a part or two have bad income. And so on.

She is the fake of all time. Writing for the one organization that might seriously challenge for that title. None of the biased fish wraps will change at all until their advertisers balk. But the Liberal Elite, with their tons of money, want to read the bias because it tells them what they want to hear.

Why else would that bag of hair be writing for them?


LA TIMES NEWS BLACKOUT

Life in the elite media controlled Los Angeles; Stalin couldn't be doing any better. Another high school brawl erupted at what used to be a mostly white high school in affluent Woodland Hills.

Parents and students interviewed on TV all stated the brawl---never a riot---state the fight was between Mexican and Black students.


Not a single piece appears in the LA Times. Late add: Nothing in the other metro daily; LA Daily News either. No white kids go to the high school any more. Blacks and Mexicans are having fights all over LA. Our elite media along with the school board suits and new Mayor are telling everyone that the fights aren't racial. Mexican gangs outnumber the Black gangs in both number of gangs and number of gang bangers by a three to one count. MS-13 has made things worse. Special Order 40 means God only knows how many illegals are in these schools.

Here's a pretty good account that seems close to accurate. And here's a list of the "non-racial" brawls over the past weeks:

# May 18, 2005: Violence Erupts At School Before Villaraigosa Arrives
# April 29, 2005: Students Throw Rocks, Bottles At L.A. High School
# April 26, 2005: Inglewood School Board Changes High School Security
# April 22, 2005: School Brawl Leads To Dispute Between Board Member, Police
# April 21, 2005: Jefferson High School Addresses Student Violence
# April 19, 2005: Brawl Prompts Tighter Security At School
# April 18, 2005: Students Clash At Jefferson High School
# April 15, 2005: About Fifty Students Brawl At Santa Monica High School
# April 14, 2005: Fight Prompts Lockdown At High School
# March 22, 2005: LA Mayor Considers Gang-Free Zones Around Schools
# March 8, 2005: High School Locked Down Following Fight
# December 16, 2004: School Officials Meet With Parents After Violent Week

Welcome to Left controlled Los Angeles where the print media totally blacks out any news they consider politically incorrect. And since both supported the new Mayor from Mexico they don't want anyone to know anything.

Two white parents who were taking their kids to schools in another county quoted that old white trash country tune...."Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye."

Take that Los Angeles.

I support truth and honesty. The Catholic Church has always been the "real" church to most of us, the Protestant churches just small pimples on the hind end of the proverbial elephant. I think Christianity is toast because the Catholic Church has let everyone down. Go here for a disgusting piece about known child molesters who are STILL running loose. Not only that, but men who have been promoted by church leaders to new hideaways.
The files, released Tuesday, show that Auxiliary Bishop Michael P. Driscoll and Msgr. John Urell knew of repeated allegations of sexual misconduct against Orange County priests yet did little to protect parishioners or prevent future abuse.
Driscoll is now the bishop of the Diocese of Boise, Idaho. Urell, who was a top diocesan official at the time, is now pastor of St. Norbert Church in Orange.
Nice bunch to lead us to morality and good citizenship, huh?

More Firefox for consumers: Roger Schultz commented the other day that MSIE was lots faster. He's so right, but not for the reasons he thinks. Firefox is an overhyped "solution" to the various problems on the web. It's main claim to fame, and this is a biggie, is the tabbed browsing feature built into both Firefox and Mozilla. But there are a ton of things that would be nice to have within a browser program. Firefox pretends to solve this by allowing users to download "extensions" to make browsing easier. When downloaded and placed within the Firefox browser, these extensions act like added weight on a race horse, they slow Firefox. If you add too many---as I did on Tuesday---Firefox can take up to thirty seconds to load a site.

Bottom line: Schultz hit it on the head when he said it's a lot like Apple. Lots of gimmicky features that look nice but are basically useless to all but a few of us. I say again, Firefox is not ready for prime time; it's an incomplete browser; very unstable; and if not for tabbed browsing (a sensational and addictive part of the browser that is also available on the reliable Mozilla) nobody in their right mind would risk using it.

If you really want tabbed browsing, try Mozilla first. BTW Thunderbird, the email part of things Mozlla, is seriously flawed too. I disconnected it and went back to Outlook Express.

Ann Coulter has a MUST READ piece today. No bomb throwing. Just some very interesting FACTS regarding the killing of stories by Newsweek; or more accurately, the selective journalism of Newsweek. A real eye opener and a thought provoking---remember thought??---piece. I think I may have been wrong on a few things. Read her.

Then go to JWR for backup by the always evil, Michelle. This is good stuff folks.

5/18/2005

The Left wants to stamp out all religious holidays. OK, but first tell me: what are the atheist Holidays?

Wanna get pissed? No, I mean really pissed? Read this latest stunt by ACLU.

Then for something completely different----------Schultz has the penultimate comment re; the Newsweek thing......

Now that you'e feeling good again, go here. Better take some anti-rage stuff first, and if you are fighting with your wife you might want to wait. No sense killing somebody you may love again one day.

Said it before, I'm saying it again: BET Jazz is the best channel on the Tube. Today Arturo Sandoval played for 30 minutes and is the most spectacular set I've ever seen or heard. You are missing something special if you don't give it a try for a few days. And it is racially color blind.

Rilly deep question: Honestly, who has the best looking babes? Is it Dean's Planet which is all about seeing tits, snatches, and whatever else is on these celebrity babes? Or is it The GOP's Babe of the Week? The Republicans have it all over the Hollytrash at Dean's. Does this represent a sea change in Hollywood bigotry toward conservatives?

NOTE THIS: Not a single newspaper or TV show has a review of the new Star Wars. This is a conspiracy in restraint of trade if there ever was one. ALL of them get together and agree not to print a review til the movie opens. Corruption spreads everywhere in the media; we know dam well all of them have seen it. Protecting ad revenue?


THE SHIT STORM HITS

Common sense----oh no, not that---over at National Review regarding the bovine droppings over the Newsweek paragraph..
There's a problem here. But it's not insensitivity, and it's not media bias. Those things are condemnable, but manageable. The real problem here is a culture that either cannot or will not rein in a hate ideology that fuels killing. When we go after Newsweek, we're giving it a pass. Again.
There's no way Newsweek, me, FOX or anyone else can be compelled to limit our speech in order to please a billion barbarians who still live in the10th century. This horde of ignorant, unproductive, aboriginal servants of a rigid ideology of violence throws a violent tantrum? Over a book that couldn't fit into any known toilet in the universe? Everything offends them. Western women offend them. Thinking offends them. As does free speech, freedom of religion, life liberty and the prusuit of happiness. Men going to the toilet ignoring the Muslim rules offend them. There is no way Newsweek or anyone else can be held accountable for the phony reactions of savages.

Newsweek made a mistake. The reporter didn't source his story. The editor didn't require him to source it---so what else is new---but to say that a simple statement caused the killing of 30 people is absurd. Islam, a primitive religion, caused the killing of 30 people. Period.

But....

Now we get to see the unbelievable arrogance of the media as they trash the White House for reacting to a lie that they told. People died and the president has a responsibility to speak out. Claudia lays it out there too. And for a totally predictable piece by a self promoter with nothing to offer, go to Simon. A major take from the NYT is here.

LA elects a Mexican mayor, and make no mistake, this guy Villaraigosa is a Mexican first. A card carrying MEChA member til a few years ago, this could be the end of American style governance. Villaraigosa has demanded that California taxpayers pick up the tab for welfare services to legal immigrants which has been dropped by the federal government. But he is the same old hypocritical liberal, only with a Spanish accent; after demanding that illegals be allowed to attend public schools, he promptly placed his own daughter in a cushy private school the moment the public school became overcrowded The Mexicans now control ten labor unions in the city and every noise they make is Mexican, not American. All of these people are Mexican. They hate us. They hate all white people, our Constitution, courts, cops; in short our entire culture. Thanx GWB. Tell me again he's a great president. Tell me how much courage he has.

As I said HERE, allowing Galloway to testify just fuels the hate filled Democrats. Check out the overview HERE. Cutting to the chase: Oil for Food is America's fault. The wind blows and the shit flows.....

George Lucas joins with co-traitor Jane Fonda in America hating at Cannes. Keep that in mind when deciding whether or not to see the latest computerized space epic for retards. Link courtesy of Bad Hair.

5/17/2005

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. -
Harry S. Truman

Braden has put up one of my old posts regarding Malaria. He's a prof and he gets lots of good info. Malaria is baaaaaak in the USA and the enviros will have to have all their kids die before they will allow spraying mosquitos (the only way to stop malaria) Go there and link to all the new stuff he has up there. The top link is to his terrific site, the MALARIA STORY IS HERE.

Quick hitter: The Galloway appearance is a huge GOP mistake. He has one purpose, and that is to smear everyone in the Bush Administration and in Congress. He will be in a libel and slander proof environment and can say anything he wants, and Democrats are eager to let him smear away. Starting this afternoon the MSM will be repeating all Galloway's charges as quotes so they can't be sued either.

Republicans have sandbagged themselves. This is one stupid bunch. Add (1hr.later) As I pointed out, the press is quoting everything Galloway says, every leak from the Democrats on committee, making the GOP and Bush look like the criminals. This link is from FOX News, which is looking more and more MSM each day. If you link you will see that FOX uses mostly AP unbiased reportage.....Tell me again why I voted for those stupid bastards.....

and appropriately enough....

May is International Masturbation Month....

Celeb sighting: Ohmygawd, yesterday afternoon none other than the oh so smart Teresa Heinz Kerry, dressed in sable leotards with a gold leaf top, was seen in a local tres chic health store trying to buy organic Equal.

GOP Babe of the Week is up..... I liked last week's better......

DuToit echos and expands on my views regarding the über blog conspiracy. I'd only add the philosophical point that freedom of speech and big bucks for freedom of speech are two events that cannot happen at the same time. DuToit has a very good gun free discussion. Late add: OK, OK--but bombs, arson, and murder ain't necessarily gun talk.

The New York Times will charge a hefty internet fee to read their editorial section. This action is not designed to make money. The real purpose is to seal itself off from broad blogger scrutiny and thus be a "lone voice of sanity" without challenge. Everyone who dares quote anything from the paper will run afoul of copyright, giving the fish wrap the right to sue. The LA Times had to abandon its charge for their Calendar Section because nobody bothered to read their secret pages and thus advertisers balked. Lets hope for the worst on 43rd Street. I ask you, would you pay one dime to read Maureen Dowd?


THE STORY IS TRUE EVEN IF IT ISN'T TRUE

The Left was all over the tube late yesterday with the party line regarding the Newsweek "boo boo." Without exception each one pointed out that literally "hundreds of other stories about the Koran being abused were circulating for months." They all stated that at least some of the stories "must" be true, even though each is from a Muslim prisoner who went right back to terror as soon as released. Generally this was a story that had to be told, even though in this particular instance there was no evidence for the story. ABC went so far as to repeat the "fake but accurate" Liberal message for all to evaluate.

And let us not forget the purpose of the little paragraph. It was clearly to discredit our military, cause us more problems in Iraq---they will be so happy if the country falls back into dictatorship---and to continue the new communist assault on our country. The new communism is discussed HERE

Lefties were also saying that "the government" released the info on itself. All kept straight faces and all said the story was true even if the story wasn't true, skillfully trodding the little path that CBS used to defend Rathergate. Tell me again that we won the cold war, because we have a monolithic Orwellian press all spouting the same lies each and every day. The old Daily Worker has gone cyberpunk.

LATE ADD: Latest MSM party line response this AM to Newsweek story: "The White House and Government set up Newsweek just like they set up CBS. You can't deny the same things took place. There was a document. The document was shown to some people in government. It was their job to squelch the story if it wasn't accurate......." No kidding, this AM on liberal suck up, Don Imus.

There has to be a word for these fucking pricks, I just can't come up with one.... Another good take is over at the Fresno Catholic....


BEND OVER, I MEAN WAY OVER, FOR THE HYBRIDS

Mainstream journalists are ignoring—what else is new?---- the fact that there's another propaganda campaign being conducted by the usual suspects to get us all to just love hybrids. Well, here's a few negatives for you. The true long-term costs of owning a hybrid have either been ignored or largely swept under the rug. The fact of the matter is that it's not just the battery replacement which will run between $2,000 and $5,000 (outside of basic warranty coverage) that will have to be dealt with by consumers - the sub-systems in hybrids are frightfully expensive too, and no one has even bothered to mention that fact. As for the argument that the more hybrids there are on the road, the more the costs to repair them will go down? Check this out: The buyers of used hybrids will face the music of horrendous maintenance costs. Buyers for used hybrids will be presented with a kaleidoscope of problems, from batteries and sub-system replacement, to the fact that seriously pricey extended warranties will be absolutely mandatory and will have to be tacked on to the cost of ownership. What this is going to do to the actual resale value of these used hybrids remains to be seen, but suffice to say the true cost of hybrid ownership is a story that's being ignored by the environmentalist lefties in the media. Right now it looks like a hybrid that cost 25k new will cost at least 15K in maintenance after ten years. How much will you pay for a ten year old car? How about for a 5 year old car that will bust you up for huge costs in five years?

Because battery replacement will cost at least $2,000 per car after nine years of ownership; that means the older the car the more expense the new owner will face. All existing data states that when you get on the highway the gas mileage is worse than on compacts through many mid size cars. In terms of mileage, diesel beats any hybrid to death right now; 90 mpg to 40 at best.

The Left Environazis will insist on a whopper of a tax credit to “make” people buy hybrids. The way it looks now that tax credit will have to be around 4K. People who now own them report only modest gasoline savings and actually higher mpg on highways.

Test results? We don't need no stinking test results....Here's one anyway: The Seattle bus company that tested hybrids is disappointed with their performances vs. cost analysis. Can't wait for that to appear in a Newsweek paragraph.

5/16/2005

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.------- Albert Einstein----sort of relative, ain't it.


ANOTHER OIL SCANDAL

There's another oil scandal that nobody is paying attention to...NOW. Bad Hair Day is laying the Venezuela bribery, corruption, etc. business open for all to see. It's beginning to look like Venezuela is nearly broke, a seeming impossibility.

Whiskey River has the Newsweek scandal best:
"Every object has two aspects,
the common aspect,
which is the one we generally see
and the one which is seen by everyone,
and
the ghostly and metaphysical aspect,
which only rare individuals see
at moments of clairvoyance
and metaphysical meditation."


Me thinks Newsweek saw the ghostly and metaphysical aspect. And aren't all Liberals clairvoyant? No?
Simon hits the Newsweek blood on their hands story pretty good. This is the same story as Rathergate with the same circle the wagons mentality by an insulated liberal elite who can't believe that what the did was wrong. "Jesus, it was the Republicans who we were after. You'da thunk we went after Liberals."

Secret Memo that Newsweek couldn't verify in time to go to press is HERE

Another domino falls into the horrors of democracy. Ethiopia has had a parliamentary election. Voter turn out: 90% Even CNN is reporting it, but I think they are crediting Barney Frank for the spread of democracy in the region.

Boeing, another huge corporation in trouble? A disturbing piece in Business Week on line. Nobody wants to be the new CEO. This is bad news because the Airbus is 100% government subsidized and there is no way Boeing can compete. We have serious corporate trouble--autos, airlines, and now Boeing. Neither political party pays attention....

But all of you knew THIS last week. Because I posted it HERE. Neither Malkin nor Reynolds will ever give me credit. Could it be that I'm not in their PC camp? I'm not a member of their club? No, it couldn't be. The only thing I'd add to my own post is that the Mexicans, and they are Mexicans and not Americans, are the Barbarians of old who have infiltrated our country and will tear it down if they can. They have no loyalty to our country; their allegiance is to Mexico City. Bush will go down as the American president who allowed the Modern Day Huns and Goths to take over the country. Before Rome finally fell, a succession of emporers allowed the barbarians in because they needed cheap labor; in the army. Trus your instincts, this is the Bush decline of America.

Movies: Emailer BM, who seems to have it when it comes to the inside of the movie biz, points out three things,1. The movie box office is down for the 12th consecutive week, 2. The only portion of the market enjoying higher ticket sales is the over 35 market, and 3. Fear is running rampant that Star Wars ain't going to be the mega hit people are pretending.

As I pointed out before, the 25 and under market, particularly men, are into video and computer games; girls are playing too; and the story telling form is tired.

I'd never tell you not to see any movie featuring that traitor Jane Fonda.

File under:
what do you expect from freeloaders? SAG members working as extras shut down a movie for hours. For your information, extra work is like being paid for sleeping on the job. SAG took over jurisdiction from the Extras Guild several years ago. As a long time actor, the way to handle "something wrong" is to call the union, the union guy comes out, looks around and if the complaint has merit he can pull every actor off the job. This wildcat strike might hurt movie making in New York. You can't just decide for yourself to go on strike. It is a violation of the union contract (Contract? We don't have to obey no stinking contract.). I've been on plenty of shoots where things weren't right, but somebody always called the union with the rest of the actors backing him up. Excepting the one where we were being exposed to a fucking chimp, the union rep settled things; like not having a rest room in sight; the time we sat out in Death Valley without water while the fucking stars were getting drunk; and the time we were sent into high crime South Central LA with a white cast and crew---trust me, those Black people down there wanted to kill us---and the Black union rep refused to come down. I mean, life ain't fair. However, I had an experience in New York where the entire upper end of the Guild was on the take from agents and refused to help me....the West Coast Local took care of things.

5/15/2005

Save the trees, wipe your ass with an owl.


WHOOPSIE, WELL WE ONLY KILLED FIVE OR SIX

So the Left's favorite news magazine admits they printed a false paragraph regarding the Koran and the toilet at Gitmo. What now? Sorry about your son being killed, Mrs. Jones? Hey, no biggie. Why do we hate thee MSM? I can't count the ways. It's all over the web now so details are available in all the usual places...............except the MSM. OK, I take that back, MSNBC on line is carrying it. The increasisngly lousy FOX has nada.....Late Add: Malkin is all over this one. "Newsweek has blood on its hands. Blood on its desks." Power Line has a monster piece on it too. All this MSM horror has two elements every time: Hatred of Republicans and GWB, and using anonymous sources for stories. Anonymous sources is always good as long as you are going after Republicans. LATE ADD: A full hour and ten minutes after the news is on the Blogs, Google News and Drudge have nada. I think Drudge is getting old and tired. Google is getting Left and useless.

Markets: Trader Mike has it figured out. Very interesting post for those of you interested in things economic..... I repeat, this guy is the very best there is. He trades every day. If he is wrong he loses a lot of money. If he gets too wrong he is out on the street. Guys like Kudlow, while knowledgeable, are political. Guys like Cramer only talk to those who have a lot of money to play with. Trader Mike is....well, he's trading.

LATimes has a 5 page report on MS-13 that is typical of this third rate rag. While seeming to detail the gang, all it does is tell tales of derring do, rape, robbery and so on. Not ONE WORD about Special Order 40, the inability of police to arrest illegals, or Sanctuary Cities. Surprise???? MS-13 exists because Liberals control the cities, liberals think America deserves whatever it gets, and somehow justify this by saying foreigners deserve to be protected by our Constitution, a world without borders view. BTW, Heather MacDonald, THE most knowledgeable gang reporter in the known world, wasn't even interviewed. And not one single sentence about the impact this drug dealing, murdering, raping, revolutionary gang has on normal people living in Los Angeles while the City Council looks the other way. If you really want to know how things are, go HERE to a piece by MacDonald.


THE LAST GUY TO DIE FOR HARVARD

After you've read (or while you're reading) the NYT piece by James Bennett (Link via Drudge) which you will find "oh so intelligent" like in "rilly rilly smart;" ask yourself why the writer is just as puzzled as any Left Wing "secular" Liberal can be ---or should I define Bennett as a Godless situational ethics guy---anyway he just "can't unnerstan' it." Those insurgents aren't fighting for anything. They are just adrift. If they had a real progressive like Che Gueverra or Barbara Boxer leading them the Left would understand the necessity for killing every American they can.

Those of us not in the grip of the cafeteria ethics---a little of this, a smidgen of that, no, no, none of that---of the American Left know exactly what is going on. God is going on. A bunch of people with a clearly defined set of what is right and what is wrong have decided that anybody who isn't a "good Muslim" should die. It is not only OK to kill them, it is a duty. That means people who lend money should die, people who marry for love must die, women who don't cover their heads must die; in short everybody who doesn't follow the hard line of Muslim orthodoxy must shape up or die.

The goal that Bennett can't see is one of Koranic dogma.
The Koran, termed glorious and wonderful (50:1; 72:1), describes itself as a healing and mercy, as light and guidance from God (17:82; 27:77; 41:44; 42:52), as the absolute Truth (69:51), and as a perspicuous Book sent down from heaven in Arabic (12:1-2), part by part (17:106; 25:32), upon Muhammad. Presented as a blessed reminder and an admonition to people everywhere (21:50; 38:87; 80:11-15), it calls for grateful recognition of the many signs, around us and in us (51:20-21), of the goodness of him from whom all good comes (4:79) and urges a total commitment to him who alone is God (112:1-4) Emphasis is mine.
The Koranic dogma extending into every part of every life is their goal. The Taliban did not give a dam about making money, making people "happy," providing jobs, or anything else other than the spiritual life they had defined. Business is obscene, making money is obscene, sex, other than what they approve, is vile. It is clear to all who study this "religion" that they regard innovation of any kind a sin.
"Beware of matters newly begun, for every matter newly begun is innovation, every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in hell."
To die while fighting the evils of the innovative West is a sure ticket to paradise.(1)

People like Bennett can't see it. You beat "people like this" (Muslims) with people who have equal beliefs in something else who are willing and able kill them all and die for what they believe in. Do you really see the current crop of Liberals around the world believing in anything? Willing to die for anything at all?

The last guy to die for good old Harvard was one of the carpenters who built the original buildings. Those days are gone forever.

1. The concepts of innovation are not that simple. There is innovation that is good for Allah as well as the other kind. This logical circumlocution on the subject is laid out pretty well here, a verbatum transcription of a speech by an Imam in Britain.

An example of capitalism, or whatever it is we have:

Went to the beach in Santa Monica yesterday. Santa Monica is a small city on the coast, middle class---with an increasing Mexican gangster presence---with lots of shops and so on. I returned to LA along a major street on the south side of the city. I noticed very quickly that three major gas stations have shut down, are fenced, and may be going out of business. As a result, gasoline prices are $2.61 per gallon in all stations that are doing business. When I got to West LA, where there is competition, the price per gallon averaged $2.42, with one at $2.39.

Q: WTF is going on? Most likely the radical environmental wing of the Democratic party that controls Santa Monica has forced stations that don't comply with a local environmental ordiances to shut down. It's possible that big retailers like ARCO are trying to control prices. It's also possible that the major oil companies are attempting to force customers to fill up in other areas of the county.

Anyway, it's weird.

OK, here's the problem with the new Firefox.....actually with the old Firefox, but you'd never know it. You cannot completely delete the old Firefox, no matter what you do. This is because all the extensions you have imported to "make it hotter" are hidden. They have names like P1220.667.125 and so forth. Firefox new cannot override Firefox old in a heck of a lot of systems. That is because Firefox new has the aforementioned extensions as a part of the program. When you un-install the old Firefox, either with the uninstall feature or the Windows "remove" feature, the old extensions remain. Like the old Apple Quick Time most of us came to hate.

I only mention all this because the presence of those lone wolf files corrupt your system unless you do something about it. Like take a risk and delete everything that remotely looks like an extension. I hired a hooker to do it. I know, did she blow my system?

Again, you risk a lot of angst unless you read the complaints at Mozilla. BTW, Opera has a problem overriding those hidden extentions as well.

Blogger M&A (Mergers and Acquistions) continue apace......Now Bill Quick wants to organize a bunch of "local blogs." Rest assured that I will remain my own man (stupid or not) and will continue with my mantra, "Fuck You Just in Case." These jerkoffs think they are USA today offering us a bunch of "news" culled from their local fish wraps.

Us "bloggers" exist because the MSM has become hopelessly corrupt, but there is no doubt that good reporters who have developed sources over a decade or more of pounding the turf do a better job than we do because they have the tools.

Über Blogger, Mickey Kaus,
is a reporter on the loose; Claudia Rosett is a reporter---she don't blog---as are Heather MacDonald and many others. I only mention this because I have come to realize that I place reporters below lawyers in my contempt food chain. If the MSM got honest tomorrow, I'd have nothing to say. As things sit now I'd rather have my daughter marry a drug dealer than a reporter for MSM.

Now here's how these old farts can open private accounts and make a lot of money. Everyone involved is close to 70 years old, still working like beavers, and none have asked for a dime in Social Security payments. Read the piece, you'll feel patriotic as all get out. Of course our government is stepping in to force them into a government program. It's called jail. See the piece HERE.

File under "Kill a Cop go to a Sanctuary City.... Illegal alien/cop killer Raul Garcia-Gomez , the guy who murdered a Denver cop, is in Los Angeles--- the home of Special Order 40---the hiding spot for an estimated one million illegals. And the beat goes on. Thanks GWB.

Public Service: I'm still on meds so I was up late with the tube blaring and I happened to catch a small part of a "biz op" about a guy named Jeff Paul. He has a system where you can make a major score and all you do is send in $29.95 and he'll teach you how to roll in the cash. However I found a web site called The Rip Off Report, a place all of you should keep in mind if tempted by a marketing scheme. Might save you some major bucks.

5/14/2005

CBS Borger story plus the Limbaugh remarks (hidden from public view behind his stupidly expensive 24/7 private site) has been vetted by a guy with the money and reportorial expertise to get at it. Kaus reveals all.....well almost all. Rush ain't looking too good on this one. While I really like Rush, he is a total piece of shit when it comes to correcting himself. Hannity is worse. The voices of the Right have no clothes............either. The Mickster earns his keep. Again. Still.

Want to know what is really going on in Uzbekistan? This guy is as good a place as any to find out. Summing it up: WTFK? but it sort of smells like this

Is Afghanistan
coming apart? Make up your own mind HERE

Hammorabi thinks
al Zarkawi sleeps with the Pharos. Has an eye witness. Poor Zarkawi, we'll miss him.

Iraq the Model says a bunch of people stole some priceless artifacts. Other people think this is worth more than a bunch of Arab jugs.

This is Make your Money and Hide week in Hollywood. Star Wars opens in one week....I wouldn't like to be the producer of Kingdom of Heaven next week cause like it'll be all over.

The latest stock chart stuff? Read about the Horror Movie/stock market ratio plus the near insane insider selling HERE.

Here's a tale of true Hollywood happiness, greed, narcissism, and just plain self indulgence. You'll love it. At Defamer. Defamer has actually lapsed into good jounalism, a sure sign of upcoming failure, so link to the entire site HERE. The Cameron Diaz thing is like fucking dinosaurean.

5/13/2005

WARNING TO ALL FIREFOX USERS.....NEW FIREFOX TOTALLY BLANKED OUT MY ABILITY TO GET GRAPHICS, NO PIX. COULDN'T FIX. USING MOZILLA Late add: if you go to the support section of Mozilla you will see almost a thousand complaints. Do not download it. You will most certainly be sorry. Mozilla is a very bad organization. Again, pretend 1.0.4 was never offered.

CBS-Gloria Borger-Ken Star We ain't gonna know nothin' til CBS releases the tape. Kaus thinks Rush is full of shit, the stuff I linked to yesterday seems to indicate CBS lied (the conclusion I'd like to reach) check out Kaus because he does this stuff full time and somebody somewhere has a tape. If you were running CBS wouldn't you release the tape? Unless the charges are true?

The REALLY BIG potential scandal concerns Newsweek and their story about guys at Gitmo desecrating the Koran. Gitmo people say it never happened, but nobody on the Left will give military "baby killers" any credit for telling the truth. PAY ATTENTION because this story is really big. LGF is all over this one, and it makes CBS look like, well CBS.

Before I forget: Dennis Miller is off the air---he never uses 20 words to tell a joke when 200 will work. Like his politics, hate his "humor." I once wrote for two comics who had to tell six to ten jokes a minute. Now those guys were fucking funny (Jackie Gayle, Phyllis Diller, and several others) and funny in a hurry. Miller......was......s-l-o-w. Had he done clubs for six or seven years he might have learned his craft. BTW I think somebody once timed Henny Youngman doing ten jokes in one minute. Some of his jokes were three words long,

"I was so ugly when I was born, the doctor slapped my mother,"

"Doctor, my leg hurts. What can I do ?"
The doctor says, "Limp !".......

"A guy calls his lawyer. He says, `Can I ask you two questions?'
Lawyer says, `What's the second one?' "

And he did 60 and 90 minute sets. Miller couldn't hold Youngman's dog.

BTW I received an invitation to join with a hundred or so---114--other bloggers in a network. Total bullshit.

Headline: Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona....Tell me again what a great president George W. Bush is. Even worse is the statement
"It was clear to everyone here what was being said and why," said one veteran agent. "The apprehensions were not to increase after the Minuteman volunteers left. It was as simple as that."
Another agent said the Naco supervisors "were clear in their intention" to keep new arrests to an "absolute minimum" to offset the effect of the Minuteman vigil, adding that patrols along the border have been severely limited.
I'm still desensitized by meds or I'd be puking. BTW, signs and billboards in LA now sprout the following slogans: "This land was Mexican once, was Indian always, and is and will be again" and "It was better before THEY came". Not only is MEChA involved, but an org called "Reconquista" that means "reconquer." Thanx George.

Markets and Economy:
Major argument going on as to whether we are in a "soft patch" or not. Retail sales and jobs would indicate boom; trucking and railroads (you have to get goods to market) in the toilet. I still say that if they had a CPI that only measure the things consumers must buy each week----foods, gasoline, heat and electricty rates, and so on---a Weekly CPI--- these oh so sophisticated economists would know there is inflation right now. None of us buy cars, computers, and HD TVs every month. So what we are left with is the great unwashed like us who have to buy things we need every week. We scream inflation while the elites say boom. LATE ADD: another thing you have to look at is corporate debt. Guess where that is.

Even Later Add: The CRB, which is a commodity price index going back thirty or more years, shows deflation happening right now. How long does it take raw commodity prices to seep down to consumer level? I've been trading commodities markets for almost a quarter century and I don't know anyone who knows that answer. We see that as crude prices fall it takes three weeks at least to get to the pump; surprisingly, since wheat is only 5% or less of bread content, wheat prices don't affect bread or cake prices much; the prices of corn and soy products will affect the prices of meat within six or so months. Falling copper prices indicate slowing demand for home building because copper is used in all homes. Other than that, WTFDIK? And the price of pussy? One of the great mysteries. A PPI,---Pussy Price Index---? If I was running things we'd have one. Why not, at least we could relate to it.

Patting myself on the back: check the U.S. Dollar. I've been saying since January that the dollar slide was over, and except for a two month correction, it is now roaring again. Next stop: .89. There is no way the dollar can fall when the Fed cuts back money supply and raises rates. The markets are going to price in an eventual interest rate of 4% because that is what the
Fed has been saying. Could destroy the economy. Again. Irresponsible Opinion: this genius Greenspan has caused two of the last four recessions by raising rates way too much and too fast. None of these Ivy pieces of shit can abide an encomony where everyone without a masters degree has a job. There is no data anywhere that says employment causes inflation. Except in the secret vaults at Harvard.

5/12/2005

Is it me, or is Glenn Reynolds now a complete waste of time?

Kim Du Toit
says it all about Damler Chrysler...except that Mercedes is getting a ton of consumer complaints about their car

CBS News lies again
, but this time they actually doctor their own transcript of an interview, plant questions and then play anwers to another question. You better get over there quick, it's on Limbaugh and he takes stuff down almost immediately.
Monday night on the CBS Evening News, Ken Starr was interviewed about the judicial controversy, filibuster of President Bush's judicial nominees -- and Ken Starr was pretty emphatic. He said that he opposes the nuclear option; he opposes this attempt to rein in the judiciary. He called it "a radical departure from our history and an attack on the judiciary."
But these were answers to other questions. CBS simply inserted them. It comes to the integrity of the reporter who allows herself to be used like this. One can only assume that she is complicit the the lie. Whoops it's gone. I don't know who will pick it up or if it will just vanish into his overpriced 24/7.

Late ADD: the guy at NR, Ranesh Ponnaru??? has the rest:
In the piece that I have now seen, and which I gather is being lavishly quoted, CBS employed two snippets. The 'radical departure' snippet was specifically addressed -- although this is not evidenced whatever from the clip -- to the practice of invoking judicial philosopy as a grounds for voting against a qualified nominee of integrity and experience. I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong. I contrasted the current practice . . . with what occurred during Ruth Ginsburg's nomination process, as numerous Republicans voted (rightly) to confirm a former ACLU staff lawyer. They disagreed with her positions as a lawyer, but they voted (again, rightly) to confirm her. Why? Because elections, like ideas, have consequences. . . . In the interview, I did indeed suggest, and have suggested elsewhere, that caution and prudence be exercised (Burkean that I am) in shifting/modifying rules (that's the second snippet), but I likewise made clear that the 'filibuster' represents an entirely new use (and misuse) of a venerable tradition. . . ."[O]ur friends are way off base in assuming that the CBS snippets, as used, represent (a) my views, or (b) what I in fact said."
Rush said it much better----LATER ADD: CBS Evening News hits new ratings low...... Sniff, sob, boo hoo.....AND: Claudia Strikes Again on Oil for Food.....


IT'S NOT REALLY FUNNY

Special from Mr. Sensitivity
Comedian Chapelle Checked In To Mental Facility
NewsMax.com Wires
Thursday, May 12, 2005

NEW YORK -- Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.

The comedian's whereabouts and condition have been unknown since Comedy Central abruptly announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of "Chappelle's Show" had been postponed and production halted.
This is not some Hollywood asshole having a "lightning flash." Artie Shaw---a total prick as a human being and a great clarinet player---said it best. "Nobody can possibly be ready for the sudden success. You go from "No help wanted, get the hell out of here," to tons of money and adoration tossed your way for doing the same thing you've always been doing." Shaw was getting $60,000 a night--equal to $600,000 today---from not being able to pay his band, literally instantly. Chappelle is a guy from the "hood" who was a zero, probably was called the "N" word on an almost daily basis and all of a sudden somebody is tossing $50 million per year in his lap for doing what he's been doing for $10 a week.

He's a talented guy who really needs space to understand what is going on. With big money comes big responsibility and the responsibility is very very tough to handle.

If you read Michelle Malkin before going to work you will get so angry you might punch out your boss. There's also a really good cause there that you might want to support. After reading Michille: again I ask: If you left out Iraq, what do you think of GWBs presidency?

I'm loaded on drugs today (pain meds, lucky me) so blogging is lite. Be sure you read this piece in MEMRI. I think it hits one of the fifty or so nails on the head.

I was trapped at a hospital yesterday and had to watch the NEWS. Those Washington "reporters" are just stupid, not liberals, just terminally stupid. "How many wings did the plane have? What color was it? Is the pilot a member of a minority group?" And so on. Too bad the f-16s didn't blow all of them away.


REPUBLICAN HARD CORE LIBERALS

Of Dinos and Rhinos and all other Inos............For years the Republicans could block Democratic programs because there were a lot of DINO (Democrats in name only) votes in both the House and Senate of people like Zell Miller who voted Republican most of the time. Now that the GOP is in "power" we have to ask ourselves if the GOP really is in power. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania are really hard core liberals, while John McCain is an egotist who belongs in the mememe party; he does what it takes to get his face on the tube. Chuck Hagel is a cafeteria Republican who would switch to the Democratic Party if that party could win in his state. He believes in nothing.

The Senate, at best, is 50-50 with Cheney casting a barely Republican majority. Everybody should face the fact that Snowe, Collins, and Chafee would be hard core liberals even in the Democratic Party.

The White House---Bush and only Bush---worked to get that scumbag Specter elected and the guy has no intention of being anything but what he is: a liar, a liberal, and an opportunist.

I'm leaning to the reality that these RHINOs will sabotage the Replican "majority." They will confirm Bolton but will blow up the judiciary filibuster. A stab in the back or a stab in the chest? You call it.

5/11/2005

Question of the Day week: taking Iraq completely off the table; it didn't happen, how would you rate GWB as president?

Minor correction (actually a big one) to a post. I think I was far too simplistic in my Roosevelt vs Stalin piece at Yalta which is HERE. It is a fact that Roosevelt was far too old (and sick) to negotiate with either Stalin or Churchill, and it is also true that two Russian spies—White and Hiss—were on Roosevelt’s staff. It is a near certainty that both leaked all the info they had on the plans for the conference to the KGB (then called the NKVD) prior to the conference. Hiss went to Moscow directly after the conference ostensibly to check out the subway system, but in fact he was there to get a medal from Stalin. Having said all this, there is a parallel set of circumstances concerning Japan.

The Japanese were tough. Our casualties were horrendous as we island hopped across the Pacific; our dead were close to 30% of our forces on each island. The Japanese fought to the death on each island and their losses were 99% (no exaggeration). After the fall of Okinawa—100,000 Japanese dead--- we were faced with the task of invading Japan itself. The Japanese were going to mobilize their entire population and force us to fight for every inch. It is estimated that we would lose a million men winning the war had we fought it by invading Japan. In a couple of John Toland’s books he discussed the fact that the Atomic bomb had almost nothing to do with the Japanese surrender; the Emperor was going to hold onto power no matter what, and the war generals were going to fight the war to the Holy Death. There were very few inside the Japanese high command who differed.

The reality of American public opinion was that we would not accept anything less than unconditional surrender. Even though the Japanese had made many overtures regarding a “cessation of hostilities” all overtures included the stipulation that any surrender would include the retention of all power for the Emperor, including dismantling their military. We were also to trust their word regarding any dis-armament. This was true even after the second A bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Letting their entire population die was somehow glorious to the warrior class that was running Japan. Unless....

.....the Russians could be brought into the war. Our entire general staff, including Marshall, was convinced that without the Russians the casualties on our side would exceed one million men. The main purpose of the Yalta conference was to get Stalin to agree to declare war on Japan once the Germans were defeated. Hence the bargain: Stalin gets Eastern Europe on the condition that he enter the war. This was how the deal actually went down.

Even after the Potsdam Conference when Truman negotiated with Stalin this was the plan. The Japanese did not surrender when the bombs were dropped several weeks later. They surrendered after the Russians tore into Manchuria and routed the Japanese, invaded Sakalin Island, and would undoubtedly invade the Japanese Islands from the west. Even then, after Hirohito surrendered, the Japanese junior officers attempted a coup that only failed because the leading Japanese general didn’t back it.

That was when Japanese Emperor Hirohito took charge from the Holy Death Militarists and surrendered. So the sellout of Eastern Europe has other layers. What would you have done? That’s for you to answer. More reading is here. Keep in mind that Left Wing historians, always eager to make the U.S. look as bad as possible, have rewritten the truth so as to state the Atomic bombing was a war crime. The above link and the books by John Toland will tell you the truth. Anyone who served in Japan after the war will tell you that every hill contained caves for people to fight to the death. Ask any prisoner of war in a prison camp and they will tell you that none of them had any doubt that the Japanese would have murdered them all had it not been for the bomb. The Japanese in S.E. Asia surrendered to the Communist Vietnamese rather than to the racially inferior Americans.


GET READY TO SUPPORT THE UAW

Get ready for some serious shit....the bankruptcy hearing won by UAL over their unions to end pension contributions is going to have one hell of an impact on all of us. United will cost us in excess of $3 billion; I don't know what American and Delta will cost us

BUT GM AND FORD will cost this country a ton. We will be bailing out inefficent management and unions with an attitude of "kick 'em when they're down" to the tune of....$25 BILLION.

All the S&P 500 companies are on the hook for more than $200 billion THAT WE will be paying for if these companies don't turn around.

Extra Reading is HERE
Catastrophic healthcare costs for GM will run another $4 billion. Ford's situation is not quite as bad but it is really bad at around $6 billion that WE will have to pay should Ford end up sleeping with the fishes.

Not to get too complicated, but because of union agreements (it would seem) Ford bailed out it's former subsidiary Visteon to the tune of $5 billion.

The union is already making noises about the government picking up ALL their health coverages so we are heading to socialized medicine as sure as Hillary Clinton will be president. The UAW has always been a Democratic favorite and will continue to be in the coming years.

Very light blogging today.....

Thank you God the All Merciful, All Knowing, and All American.....the unemployment rate in Mexico is lower than in the U.S.

5/10/2005

Army enlistments fall 40%...Why? Read my post HERE...this is exactly what the Left has been trying to accomplish for the last year and a half.


RICH ARTISTS GOING THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE

Movie Grosses in Toilet
If John Ford came along today he'd make porn movies.... Are you rejoicing over the worst Hollywood grosses in decades? Are you figuring that the reason for the vanishing customer is customer disgust with the Hollywood Left Wing liars, their pretensions of intelligence, and their dissolute life styles?

If only it was true.

First, the tastes of people, particularly males under the age of 25, has shifted to computer games. Games that totally involve all who play them and offer an intellectual and emotional satisfaction that no movie can. If you’ve never played one, let me assure you that twelve hours can pass as if it were a minute and the thrill of competition beats sex---for a while. Computer game revenues are higher than the movie and music business combined---over $8 billion per year. Worse, 35% of the players are women. LINKS start here.

Movies are an art form that has played itself out. It's over. Movie storytelling is mostly boring; everything has been done before. John Lennon once said that Rock and Roll would be ruined the moment intellectuals began liking it, and even worse, actually creating it. I think he has been proven correct. Hollywood was built by men who came from tough life experiences; miners, fighters, newspaper reporters (could some Ivy League snob ever have written “His Gal Friday?”) and soldiers; they told stories straight from their experiences and from their dreams---don't forget their dreams---and because these guys came from the streets, their experiences and their dreams were those of normal people. Do you think the parade of drunks, dopers, Left Wing wannabees, children of privilege, Ivy League intellectuals, and the ton of well connected pretenders who produce “product” these days have any life experiences that can strike people in their souls?

Every artist who has trained with other artists who are good, and by that I mean really good, will tell you that the entire basis of the creative process is telling the truth---van Gough was painting what he actually saw through is sick mind. This does not mean that every writer observing an incident will see the same truth, it does mean they will tell their truth and take no prisoners. Creators who make ten million dollars a picture cannot tell the truth, all they can do is lie well enough to pretend to tell the truth. To paraphrase Jesus somebody or other: It is easier for a liberal to go through the eye of a needle than a $10 million dollar per movie "artist" has of creating art.

Is there a sitcom on TV that has a grain of truth in it other than the moronic statement that: I’m under 35 and I just want to get laid? Is there more than one or two movies per year that remotely touches life as it is rather than regurgitate the latest feminist/Left/anti religious line along with the quest for endless sex or money? Consider this: at least half the Black population in this country are religious; have you ever seen a Black family set in anything other than a pimp/ho/ganstah/foul mouthed ethical never never land composed of people with no feelings and no concern for others? The only writers hired are the ones who conform to the stereotype.

Any writer who sells his soul to a political movement, politician, businessman, labor leader, or cleric has ceased to participate in process of truth; truth without the bullshit cannot be worth $10 million a picture. It's over for them. The artistic sell out represented in “Kingdom of Heaven,” a movie that only Muslims can love, says it all. Replacing the Hollywood artists of long ago are a bunch of guys creating games from bedrooms, bathrooms, and beaches who don't give a fuck about $10 million per game. They just do.

Finally, ask yourself this: what is more truthful, an outright porn film or the sleazy homosexuality of “Troy? A good porn film tells the truth; a simple truth about fucking with no pretense at all. Think about that.


ANOTHER REPUBLICAN SELL OUT

The true gutlessness, cowardice, lack of commitment to anything but looking good, equals: Senate Republicans caving on filibuster reform. They are a truly sorry lot. Arlen Spector is selling out big time---who is surprised?---Chuck Hagel was always a good bet to sell out. This is a stab in the back by an out of power Trent Lott and and out of power Democrat Ben Nelson so they can somehow retain their "clout." Read all the details here if you haven't already. It's about how the Republicans are going to throw all the judges overboard. A sell out. Traitorous to their base. Write. Of all the lousy RINOs that scumbag Spector is it. I'll never vote for a single Republican ever again if they cave here. What's the point. Write. Here's a few addresses: Chairman@gop.com, Info@gop.com, Political@gop.com, ecampaign@gop.com. Hit all of them.

5/9/2005

Time for a big Hallelujah Chorus of reverential praise for Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson for their instant support for the kid who got kicked out of school for talking to his mom in Iraq over a cell phone, proving to everyone that they are not scumbags, race hustlers, or liars.

More and more evidence of blogger narcissim and ego tripping over at Patterico who now wants people who comment to identify themselves via a questionaire:
City, country, age, gender, educational background, profession, hobbies, how they define themselves politically, favorite sites, etc. sort of thing.
Not even the most arrogant of MSM dares ask that stuff. And does this self adoring geek think that people will actually tell the truth? Your stuff is safe with me, I know you all lie, have sex with animals and insects, and think your drug dealer overcharges or you wouldn't read my shit.

I am willing to bet skillions and smillions that Tom Cruise sent a team of hard core lawyers at Pagesixsixsix after they slandered him (OK libeled him) in one of their pieces. All of those trash and slash blogs have calmed down to the point where their sources are MSM gossip columns---and boring as hell. All of them have made their bones accusing everyone they could think of of homosexual orgies, affairs, and hetero (or metro sexual) orgies, among other things.....without a scintilla of proof. Good for Cruise.


COMMIE SPIES NEXT TO ROOSEVELT AT YALTA DID NOTHING TO SELL EUROPE DOWN THE RIVER

Revisionist History via the MSM.....the MSM in all its fading glory is jumping all over Bush this AM regarding his statements vs Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill dividing up Europe. What isn't mentioned is the presence of Communist Spies Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White in the Roosevelt entourage. Each had Roosevelt's ear and were close to the negotiations. While everyone bends over backwards til their heads disappear into their bowels to say that Roosevelt never ever in a million years listened to either White or Hiss, they seem to gloss over the fact that both Russian spies handed over all plans for the conference in advance, and all plans while it was going on. Do not forget, it was Roosevelt's actions at this conference that led to the two term limitation.

Did Roosevelt and Churchill sell out the entire eastern part of Europe? Hell yes they did.


STALIN'S DICIPLES TAKE OVER ABC-TV

The Left Wing of the Democratic Party siezes a Major Television Network.......
Geena Davis, a hard core Democratic activist, feminist, and Bush hater will pretend to be the first woman president of the United States in a TV Series on ABC. The Hollywood Left, which is THE Hillary Clinton sponsor, has succeeded in placing a clear propaganda piece for Hillary Clinton on national TV that they hope will be seen by millions. This is out and out propaganda whose sole purpose is to pave the way for Hillary. A hundred million dollar gift to the Left Wing of the Democratic Party from the bigshots in the Party.

Ms (??) Davis has been a long time supporter of the Hollywood Women's Left but her income over the past several years---since her Pirate in Drag movie (Cutthroat Island) crashed and burned---has been near zero, so her financial contributions have been small.

This makes two Left networks, the other being our renowned PBS home to the Feminist Majority Foundation (a tax free propaganda org), a lesbian hang out for big time Democratic so-called women. PBS has been airing their stuff for a few years now.

No one will be fooled regarding the purpose of this Left Wing fantasy, and you can rest assured that I will be an alarm clock once in a while.

5/8/2005

Gotta give this guy props....
A man dressed up as a giant turd - crashed a Victoria all-candidates meeting to draw attention to the city's practice of dumping raw sewage in the ocean
. Link via Barking Moonbat....

A week or so ago
I posted that the GOP faced losing a ton of seats in the Southwest over the Bush refusal to stop illegals crossing the border. This according to Novak
Former Arizona State Sen. Randy Graf collected a surprising 43 percent of the vote by concentrating on Kolbe's more liberal stance on immigration. Kolbe had to spend nearly $1 million -- more than 10 times as much as Graf.

Graf announced his second-try candidacy on April 28. Senate testimony by David Aguilar, head of the U.S. Border Patrol, on that day provided Graf with an opening. Aguilar said his agency cannot effectively patrol the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona because a law drawn up by Kolbe forbids checkpoints on roads in his state. Kolbe responded four days later by criticizing the Border Patrol: "They are disregarding the law."
You have to live here to appreciate the degree of fury over this issue. I'm sure Arizona will go Democrat, as will New Mexico and possibly even Texas. The Democrats are making this their issue on a local basis.

And if you want to start Mother's Day in a really pissed off mood, check out Malkin this AM.

And yet another Clinton/Albright peace accord goes down the drain. At New Sysiphus if you haven't read it.

5/7/2005

As if to make a further point to my essay below: Does anybody really believe that Columbia University, the bastion of anti-Semitism, pro Palestinian, pro terrorist organizations, anti-freedom in Iraq faculty REALLY banned the ROTC because of the Military stance on gays? They banned it only because it hurts our military and no other reason. It's part of the Left agenda of weakening our country.

Another one:
why do you think the ACLU wants to ban daily chapel at the Air Force Academy? Simple: In the words of somebody famous, "If God is dead, everything is permitted." No honor code, no honor, cheat your way through, disobey orders. The Left is not interested in any separation between Church and State, it is their purpose to make the State the Church. VG Hewitt piece HERE.

And yet another: Link here to story of Teen who was just kicked out of school for talking to his mom in Iraq on cell phone. These "educators" are part of the campaign. Late add: CNN reports the kid is back in school...I'd like to think that I and a lot of you letter writers had something to do with it.

A really good guy could use a prayer or two......


PURPOSE OF THE LEFT? THE DESTRUCTION OF MILITARY MORALE

The British loss of Singapore in early 1942 is regarded as the worst defeat in British Military History. 65,000 Japanese rolled over 100,000 British troops in less than 55 days. They began by destroying the entire British Air Force in one day and sunk the two largest British ships, battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse, on a single December morning in 1941. Singapore was left without air cover or protection from the sea in a single day of combat.

These two events are largely blamed on the racism of the British aristocracy in charge of the army who regarded the “little yellow bastards” as incapable of fighting, unable to manufacture modern war weapons, and stupid. They believed that the Japanese hadn't beaten anyone but the Chinese and the Chinese were another yellow race that couldn't fight either. The incapable little yellow Japanese military force did something nearly impossible. Churchill explained: "The whole operation seems incredible: 550 miles in 55 days – forced back by a small Japanese army of only two divisions, riding stolen bicycles and without artillery support."

This Japanese army on stolen bicycles killed everyone who tried to surrender, tossed gasoline on surrendering soldiers and set them on fire, chopped off limbs of wounded Brits, and shot surrendering soldiers by the hundreds. Not a single Brit on the road to Singapore was allowed to surrender. There was a traitor who gave the Japanese the Brit positions, but other than that the Japanese just marched through a huge and better armed British Army. Once in Singapore they slaughtered civilians, much as they had done in the Rape of Nanking, and sent all Brit soldiers captured after the surrender to sadistically brutal prison camps in Asia where 75% of them died of disease or starved to death. Many accounts state that the Brit army left the civilians of Singapore to fend for themselves when they ran away.

Why did this huge Brit Army just lay down without really fighting? James Clavell, the great writer of such books and movies as King Rat, Shogun, Taipai, The Fly and a ton of others told me a story at a lunch back in 1965 or thereabouts. Clavell had been captured in Singapore and spent the war in what is considered the worst prison camp ever, a place called Changi, where the guys ate rice loaded with maggots and died of the resulting disease or starved to death. The death rate at Changi was near 80%. There were nights that guards used to shoot prisoners in the stomach just for sport and watch them die. Clavell prticularly hated "Bridge over the River Kwai" the Hollywood glamorization of Japanese forced labor building the railroad bridge: 160,000 natives and 16,000 Brit prisoners died while building it. He was quite angry as he told me about it. See here

Clavell told me that long before the Japanese attacked Singapore, the grunts came to hate their upper class aristocratic officers with a passion. The upper class abuse was everywhere. The officers used to walk down a street and force enlisted ranks into the gutters and then berate them for getting mud on their boots. Sometimes the enlisted ranks were hit with riding crops for failing to yield. Barracks inspections never failed to produce at least one humiliating rap across the face with a riding crop and a spittle spraying lecture into the face of an enlisted man. The enlisted men’s clubs were continually deprived of beer for the slightest reason, movies were shut down in the middle to “teach them a lesson,” and radios were frequently confiscated and kept by the officers. The Officer Corps was the aristocratic elite from Sandhurst who made sure that the inferior classes knew their proper place. The men spent each and every day cursing their officers and plotting against them. When the attack started most hoped they’d have a chance to shoot one of the upper class snobs before killing a Japanese. Clavell told me that it was the morale of the troops that lost the battle of Singapore, not the Japanese who after all possessed primitive rifles, rode around on stolen bicycles, and had no artillery at all. “We really didn’t care if they took the city or not”, Clavell told me. We were lower class; the officers were upper class; and we just didn’t want to fight for those officers."

In war, morale is everything.

I made the observation here many times that the MSM is attempting, successfully I’m afraid, to damage morale in our military enlisted ranks as much as possible. The reason for this tactic is to destroy our military capability and thus end the “war mongering” of a country they have come to hate: The United States of America. The battle of Singapore is what they hope to see and what they think they already saw in Viet Nam. They enjoy the killing of American servicemen and women and seek to cause more. They try to "feed" media every tale of “cruelty” perpetrated by our military, blame every killing of every “baby” on the baby killing U.S. troops, and to inflate wherever possible the civilian casualties and blame them all on our military. The New York Times, LA Times, TV Network News, and virtually every media joins in the sliming. All show pictures that fit the stereotype they are trying to sell to the American people. Destroy morale=destroy the army; enlistments will fall; the army will implode.

The agents in this war on the military include the ACLU, the Communist Party USA, the university faculties, many factions within the Democratic Party, and all media.

I have also pointed out HERE that the NEW Communism on the Left has tossed out the old Marxist mantras and now holds that the reason for the backwardness of the Third World is that the U.S. has caused the poverty SO that we could get rich, and since the American working class participates and profits from this policy the workers have become an enemy as a part of the ruling class. Everything is our fault. The media echos this POV on a daily basis. The universities teach this new communism on an hourly basis and test their students on it. You can go here for one example of thousands.

The purpose of the Left is now exactly what it has always been: Socialism, disarmament, and ultimately the abolishment the State itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. They seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal—a direct quote from the founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin. Note that disarmament means the destruction of the army. Note also that the ACLU is a part of the crusade.

Their purpose is the breaking down of the morale of our enlisted ranks by continually accusing them of awful deeds, taking down welcome home signs put up by parents, booing them on college campuses, and degrading them at every opportunity. Make them feel really bad about themselves so they will quit. They seek to make the army look so bad that young men will not want to join. To top it off they make sure that the troops see network news every night.

It could work. Breaking morale worked in Viet Nam and Singapore.

Time for all you patriotic liberals to rally behind that poor teacher in Georgia who prevented an obviously rebellious child from flouting the rules of Academia by calling his mom in Iraq. Below is the email address of that courageous teacher so you can write to her. Sample letters to send to the principal in Georgia who seized the cell phone from the kid talking to his mother in Iraq and then kicked him out of school can be found below. This great American deserves our support. Send email to: orutledge@mcsdga.net
Sample letters:

I want to congratulate you and your fine staff for preventing that kid from talking with his baby killing bitch mother in Iraq. I hope she gets killed and I hope that kid cries for a month.
Again, thanx a lot. Somebody has to teach these soldiers a lesson and hopefully, cause our defeat in Iraq. Many of us will join you in your drive to end the fascist rule of George Bush, destroy the military, and make this country humble.
Keep it up.


I can’t think of a more compassionate way to destroy our military and their families than through your actions. I wish I had thought of it first. I am looking for kids on cell phones this weekend who may be talking to their moms or dads in Iraq so I can act.

Cell phones cause cancer and the kid should have been turned over to the Medical people for testing and then charged with disrupting classes. All criminals start with small things and punishing them early will stop that kid from a life of crime. Talking to his “mom” in Iraq is a pathetic excuse for breaking the rules. The fact that she had the gall to be angry is a typical fascist military response. Don’t let it get to you.


Great to be a liberal, ain't it? And go here for why all this is happening.

This guy has the best commentary on the picture of the Marine holding the dying little baby. I understand Newsday ran the picture. They will probably be terror bombed by Monday.

5/6/2005

Aren't we lucky: Gasoline is now costing "only" $2.44 at the cheapest places here in SoCal. I'm so grateful. Yet will I begin to miss being sodomized each day? Stay tuned.

OH OH, you better go HERE and read. The attack that killed 60 or more yesterday was executed by a brand new terrorist group. It's big, it's dangerous, and it's been around Iraq for a long time. Called Ansar al-Sunna, it is the same group claimed responsibility for bombings in Arbil in February 2004 that killed 105 people -- the only other attack of such a scale in northern Iraq since the U.S. invasion. This is a very bad deal. Very bad.

Paris Hilton, Misunderstood Heiress, Vol MXXVII......
Now she's lost her laptop with all kinds of valuable info on it. Lost, my ass. This babe knows how to get publictity better than Moses. I mean does anyone who doesn't want to be linked into some dirty sexcapade give her any secret info?
Paris Hilton's Personal Information Lost

May 4, 2005 3:54 p.m. EST

Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES, CA (AHN) - Hollywood socialite, Paris Hilton, has misplaced a laptop computer containing personal photographs and videos.

Just months after the contents of Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick were revealed on the Internet by computer hackers, she is now desperately trying to track down the missing computer.It is thought to be somewhere in Los Angeles, where the heiress is preparing to move in with her Greek shipping heir boyfriend Paris Latsis.This isn't the first leak of Hilton's personal life - in 2003, a tape featuring a sexual relationship between Paris and ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon was viewed by many Internet surfers.

Hilton put up a $5,000 reward when furry sidekick, Tinkerbell, went missing in August of 2004 - information on where the dog was eventually found were never released.

No reward as been discussed for retrieval of the laptop.
Get ready for secret messages from George W Bush, a revealing lesbian email from Hillary Clinton, and a love letter from Jerry Faldwell wanting more of that great group sex.

"Oh, Paris. Make me your boy toy."
Link via Socialite...

Markets and economy

OK, GM and Ford are now officially junk status. Everyone everywhere knows that these companies may be on their last legs. Everyone everywhere knows that the UAW, which is at the very least a partner in the inefficiencies plaguing both companies, will do nothing other than demand their "promised" benefits. And here is the rub: we are looking at the biggest union in the U.S., one that hasn't ever hesitated to go the violence route, and who may start their own mini-revolution. Almost all are gun owners, have been involved in some violence, (UAW is a notorious hiding place for people on the lamb from law enforcement)---I was a skip tracer and the UAW was the hiding place for at least 20% of the skips, only the teachers union locals were worse---so this really bears watching. Should either company collapse, their union work force will demand that the government honor their pensions, medical care, and other bennies. Folks, this is very important and nobody in media or blogdom---other than the really good financial blogs---(forgetting the pathetic "Carnival of the Capitalists") is talking about this. I don't think you can afford to remain ignorant. Blame won't cut it. Unions historically don't give back anything unless their feet are already on fire and by then it's far too late (check the airlines).

As an aside here, the main reasons the people in the new car plants built in the south rejected the UAW was that management did a hell of a job telling their workers that they would end up supporting each and every GM and Ford worker's pension and medical care. The young work force looked at the reality and rejected the UAW.

Repeat: this is serious.


HEY, LET'S BUY A FUCKIN' HOUSE. WE CAN'T LOSE

Real Estate—is it a bubble waiting to burst? Marc Faber, a dam good analyst, stock picker, investment advisor, and so on, has pointed out something really interesting. Suddenly—well not so suddenly—the volume of housing turnover exceeds the number of home owner families by a whopping 8%. This cannot continue, and he has all the data and charts to back up his very good argument. I mention this as a caution. Other booms like this have been followed by near catastrophic real estate collapses.

Having said this I have written him the following observations:
OK, so the volume in home sales exceeds the number of home owning families----------IN THE U.S., and here is where there may be a serious flaw in your analysis.

I was raised in Carmel California, home of Pebble Beach and the surrounding now insanely high priced housing. I asked around about the high prices---Pebble Beach mean price $2.4 million; Carmel $1.45 million---and who the hell was buying that shit? Answer: Japanese and Europeans with a smattering of Indians. Are these people buying now to sell later at a profit? No, they are millionaires and they show up for a few months out of the year. I think if you will check further you will find that foreign buying in desirable areas is significant; Vail, Sante Fe, Sun Valley, and so on. I think this is a conditional bubble---all foreigners dump their foreign holdings when their own economies go into depression----and will only burst if foreign economies bust. What? France go broke? Let's hope so.
Now the chances of me being right and he being wrong are truly microscopic so you better all be dam careful of Real Estate now being touted by every bozo on the internet.

The bozo factor is very important. Before the crash of the late 1970s my wife and I were literally accosted at a party by two of the stupidest women one could imagine. They real estate hustled the shit out of us for ten minutes before I moved elsewhere in the room—those were my polite years, now when some hustler dares to hustle me at a party I am immediately rude, and if that doesn’t work I use bad language----anyway, when the party was over I told my then wife that the bubble was over, that if those two morons were in it the entire business was bad. Two years later the bottom dropped out.

A year or less before the stock crash of the Clinton bubble I saw our guard reading the Financial Times of London. Christ, that was a harbinger of things to come if there ever was one.

Faber’s argument must be taken into serious consideration should you choose to buy now because “it’s a good investment.” Looking at his data, which includes the highest volume since the Watergate crash, you should be worried. At least cautious.

5/5/2005

That nut case 5 year old who was handcuffed in Florida? William Raspberry has a real good take, here.

Today is Sinko dee Mayo. Guess what it celebrates. If you said "nothing," you are close. There was a battle at Puebla about 15 years after the Mexicans supposedly threw out the Europeans, but like everything else Mexican, the mañana factor kicked in. The Europeans didn't leave til the Sinko de Mayo 15 years later. There is a dispute over what it actually means, with one group insisting that it honors those killed trying to cash a forged Welfare check in Los Angeles, May 5th, 1939 while others say it celebrates the one millionth Mexican to sneak into a San Diego del Taco on May 5th 1949. Whatever. If they did anything at all on Sinko de Mayo they will soon demand money for it.

MLB discriminating against Hispanics. They are being singled out for steroid violations and you can expect a major ACLU lawsuit. See, it's like this: their English is so bad that they can understand their contracts, bargain for more money, and even read a road sign or two. But they cannot for the life of them read the steroid policy because it was written in English. I have the obvious solution: What is Spanish for get the fuck out of here and play in (Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, or Mexifornia) where everything must be written in Spanish including their worthless currencies?

The Hitchens two million word essay in today's WSJ that I have said here many times in five words: "Jesus Christ was a socialist." The reason I don't get the big bucks is that I'll be God Damed if I'll write more than five words about this obvious point. If Jesus had been my kind of God he'd have shorted the Philistine Bank before he drove out the money changers and walked away with a couple of mil. That's why all of us are "cafeteria Christians."

Kingdom of Heaven reviews are in and it looks like this is one super spectacular Ridley Scott tour de force. Like most Hollywood epics, the more you know about history the less likely it is you'll like the movie. Orlando Bloom? Two nine year old girls were in the back seat of an SUV the other day pawing over People Magazine. When they got to an Orlando Bloom piece they began drooling and ahhhing. Orlando Bloom was their idea of bliss, heaven, and all things holy. They concluded their Bloom segment when one of them said in the most heartfelt tone you ever heard, "I want to be rich and famous more than anything in the world." "Me too," said the other. Which means nine year olds will flock to this movie, pull their parents with them, and make Soctt rich(er). Hey, it's only a movie.

I'd only add the observation that Bloom is hardly the idea of masculinity. Instead, he is sexually non threatening, an androgynous boy band lead singer in a movie lead. Just the kind of moon eyed weakness that nine year olds love. What would you expect from a guy named Orlando? A further examination of the idocy and propaganda of the movie is HERE.

Things finance: the reissue of the thirty year bond doesn't mean as much as lots of people would have us believe. First, it will not affect your life in any way, other than real estate. Second, almost everyone in the world has long term bonds---France has a fifty year bond. It is good for real estate buyers because the 30 has always been the prime indicator for long term rates, such as buying a house.

The near total panic in the MSM that there is a tax surplus lets you know the truth about their POV once again, as most refuse to credit the tax cuts---particularly the dividend tax cut---for actually generating larger tax revenues.

DO NOT BUY STOCKS until the indexes are positive, what we have now is volativity heaven for futures traders, and nothing else. BTW the shorts are really getting burned and many large hedge funds are being forced to buy back (close out positions, re-evaluate stances, re-position themselves, and other lies so share holders in their funds will think everything is still cool) so a rally from this point may happen, then look for indexes to drop

BTW Chrenkoff has a photo essay worthy of the Schultzman....

BTW Schultz has a classic Abbot and Costello "Who's on First" parody up. Go there.

OBTW: super new Hubble Pix are here.....

New Sisyphus nails both Hitchens and Sullivan to the cross...er sodomy shed. Sullivan in particular is a Left Wing fruit whose only interest is having his deviant sexual behavior approved by the Catholic Church. Hitchens has always been Left Wing; everybody on the Left is fearful of religion because of the possibility of a final judgement. Me, I don't fear nothin'. I know where I'm headed and once I get there I'll find a lawyer who will douse the flames of hellfire. BTW, be sure you continue to read Sisyphus when you get there, it is unusually good today.

Women, office politics, and reality---Business Week and others are leading a chorus of "flex time" for "moms" and women and trumpeting how successful it all is. Where? Our company has a real problem with two "moms" who are working flex time at home on their PC's and their bullshit. The facts are that these women have put their clients at risk---and thus the firm; everybody's job in the firm; and the stockholders of the firm---because they don't know what is going on. There is such a thing as the "feel" of a business; the pulse; the scent in the air, plus a variety of energies produced at work that are missing for the mommies at home doing the whatever. The interactions with guys at other companies, people on the trading floor, and the gossip---the gossip is very important---that mommy can't get at home. Of course a HORRIBLE MAN in the office now has to manage their accounts over the phone, consult with them, and do all kinds of other hand holding BECAUSE THE OTHER WOMEN IN THE OFFICE FLAT REFUSED to "help mommies." Mommies can't be fired, can't be told to show up at work once the "flex time" has been given, and---in our firm--- has added to expenses because another person has to hold their hands. Being a mom is important. So is working at a work place. You have to decide which you think is most valuable. As an aside, you can bet the suits will think twice before hiring another woman, now that we have our quota of them for the bean counters in D.C.

5/4/2005

The Kerkorian bid for GM is a potential death knell for the company, its workers, and all dealers and suppliers. This guy only buys companies to sack them of profitible parts while letting the rest of a company just hang. What he wants are the only two segments of GM that are in the black. They are GM's profitable mortgage and insurance business. These two entities are all that is keeping the the debt ridden company afloat.

Claudia Rosett from the NY Sun yesterday. Another terrific piece on the OFF scandal. She lists some criminals. Go quick because The Sun is notorious for shutting their links down.

What Would Jesus Short?
Great piece is right here. Go there when you have time because it's PDF and it's long. AND it's really interesting

There is a comment by Dave Davenport regarding media that is more than just a little bit interesting. Go here, hit comment, and I think it's the fifth one down. Really good.

As long as I mentioned Dave's comment which has to do with stock guru's bailing out on Tribune companies, owner of the LA Times (markets actually work?), I post this for those of you wondering about the Fed and interest rates.

It's very simple, if you have a chance to borrow money at 2% and immediately lend it out at 4% you do it. The banks have been able to borrow short term at 2%, lend it out longer term at 4% and make a legit score. Problem now is that short term rates are 3% but the Long Rate is barely above 4%. This is of huge importance to the Ph.D crowd on Wall Street because it cuts into a sure source of profits AND it means that what is known as the yield curve is "flattening." This means if you plot the two interest rates on a graph the difference, or the lines they draw, get closer together. This means, according to them, BIG TROUBLE. Every time (false) the yield curve flattens we have a recession. Using this thesis, Greenspan caused Bush I to lose because of Greenspan's interest rate caused recession; Clinton was also the recipient of same, although his recession was exacerbated by the Dot Com Bubble. So Bush II steps in and Greenspan is dropping rates like crazy in order to restart the economy---and steepening the yield curve. It worked. Now he's raising them again and the fear is real that he will shut down the economy, as he did twice before.

Greenspan is not the God the media has made him into. He did a first rate job after the '87 crash when he immediately lowered the broker loan rate to zero, an act that allowed an immediate bounce back in the stock market. He also reacted immediately after 9/11 making some rates near zero so companies could re-locate immediately using free money.

Lots of people are very nervous right now. But lots of people are NOT. They make the point that we have had positive booms when the yield curve was near flat. BTW the best and by far the most sophisticated financial blog anywhere is right here. It's strictly for traders, not investors. Very sophisticated and not for the casual student.

These low life pricks say they need a lawyer.... I hope it's Cruise doing them dirt and is suing them for everything they've got. Sixsixsix, the site I mentioned, is surprisingly slander and libel free this AM and their piece on Cruise is not there. The original link still works. There is a clear line between fun and rape; trashing celebs looking for ink is fine, slandering movie actors who have never sought intense media hype, stuck their noses into political campaigns, or married a string of hookers should be dealt with. Hope it's Cruise and I hope he destroys these people. Lots of us "bloggers" cross way over when we go after people.

Fleeancé watch: Tell me this babe isn't being gang raped by the media. Jesus Christ, she was penned into a social hell of a big marriage, tons of gifts, meddling parents, a litany of being swamped by what other people wanted-----caterers, florists, coordinators, music consultants and more--- so she split. Big Weddings are like big anythings, many times the bureaucracies just do what they think is "best for you" without asking. Or without caring either.

A classic example of media hubris (a new word I just learned from page sixsixsix; it means Paris Hilton hasn't fucked it yet) can be found at the LA Times "arts" section, called Calendar. Those of you who live in SoCal know that this so-called "arts" section is actually the lurking spot for the extreme Left of the Democratic Party in California. It is here that movies deviating from the party line are trashed, as are performers and artists who have been de-listed by the Democratic grandees. This section is now private. It means that it is a separate part of the paper requiring a second registration AND $4.95 per month. So in order to be a good Liberal you have to join this disgusting propaganda org. Do not be discouraged, for a limited time only you can "join" free..........for one week (or is it month). This site is especially for
"Tons of award-winning news, reviews and features from The Times' Calendar section.
Lucky Lefty wonders why circulation is down? And further proof of the lurking spot technology of the New Left; in the thirties they were called "Fronts" for communists.


THE MILITARY PUTS ON SHOW TRIALS FOR THE LEFT WING ELITE

When the Summer Olympics are held in Saudi Arabia officers may be held accountable....Anybody but me think that Pfc. Lynndie England, she of Abu Graihib fame, is getting royally fucked? I was a grunt and I never saw a fucking officer take a fall that he should have. This chick is a retard, should never have been given any responsibility by anyone in command (and not allowed in the military at all), and anybody who has ever served in the "chain of command" military knows goddam well that the entire incident took place because the officers didn't do their jobs. Will any officer ever be charged? Will the Winter Olympics be held in Saudi Arabia? Same holds true with the "mud wrestling" by the reservists who were leaving Iraq. The entire party took place with officers present and not one has been charged. There used to be an "officer class" who were just positive they were better than any grunt who ever lived and they behaved accordingly. Supposedly this "class superiority" had been ended after Viet Nam when the grunts were fragging their officers. Now you see why the officers got fragged. There is no way that any group activity can be blamed on anything if the officer class isn't roasted too; and roasted first.

But underneath the entire series of incidents is the fact that this is a New York Times approved urination on the entire military; the elite of the country would like to put the entire army on trial and jail them. This is truly an example of our elites shitting on the people at the bottom. And then rubbing their noses in it. Harvard loves it. MIT can't get enough of it. Brown, Columbia, and Stanford can't contain themselves. It's the new class war. Should you doubt that this is now a TACTIC BY THE LEFT, you better start checking out the case of Aidan Delgado. This a guy being idolized by the NYT and the rest of the Left because he is calling the supression of the prison riot in Iraq murder. Blackfive as well as Malkin and a ton of others are all over this....from Blackfive
It was only when the riot became a danger of a serious breakout attempt and less than lethal force(rubber shot from M203 and rubber point munitions from 12 GA shotguns) had been applied to no effect was the request for deadly force made. When permission was granted, two soldiers fired on the ring leaders. 3 were killed outright, ending the riot immediately. One more died later and 12 more were wounded. I know both of the soldiers who fired; they are good people and only did what they had to do to keep others from further harm. Given that one of the soldiers was using a M249, it could have been a bloodbath. Both soldiers showed remarkable restraint in picking their targets and only using necesarry force. There was a AR 15-6 investigation and CID also investigated. The shootings were found to be justified and both soldiers were decorated for their actions.

This Delgado guy was a mechanic; he was no where near those compounds. I also highly doubt he "confronted" the SGT who fired; he wouldn't have even known who he was. Different unit, not working anywhere near the compounds.
Be clear on what is going on: the Left is trying to "get" every grunt in the Military. We all better be more supportive and realize that the real enemy is us; the us in the college faculties, the MSM, and the Liberal elite. Note: as of this late add, Malkin has the most links.

5/3/2005

DeLay, my POV: He's done stuff that is arrogant, close to the legal line in the same way plenty of the corporate criminals of the past several years have come close, and way over the morality line I would like to see our politicians toe. Having said all that, it looks like he played a weak hand as well as it can be played. He bought time with ethics rules changes. He used this time to dig up all the similar activities---and some dirt???---by Democrats. Once he had the goods he let the ethics committee open the investigation under the old rules. What will happen? Nothing, because a ton of Democrats have done exactly the same thing. In a perfect world they should all be shitcanned, but it will take a revolution to throw these unethical pricks out. Our choice may be crooked Democrats or crooked Republicans. That's why the young ain't voting.

Fleeancé watch: under Shria Law the runaway bride would either be buried up to her neck in an ant hill while the guys from the hood threw rocks at her head, OR she'd be gang raped by the entire male population of Deluth. Under our system she gets a TV series and a millionaire husband. From her wide eyed deer in the headlights pix of her I'd say a gang rape might be good for her, assuming the gang could get their collective appendagë up for her, not an easy task.

The University of Southern California---you know, the Trojans---has now joined the ranks of pro-terrorist universities. Check these TWO recent pieces: One is here, the second is here and they appeared in the Daily Trojan. You may have read them if you continually read Pipes, LGF, Malkin, and so on.


AS IF STALIN HAD WON

The politically correct movie review of all time is HERE "Kingdom of Heaven" is reviewed under the condidition that we accept every stupid statement by the Hollywood Reporter reviewer. Christians suck, Muslims have been victimized, and so on.
....a ghastly though vitally important stretch of history when Western civilization, whipped up by religious fervor and bitter poverty, confronted the Muslim world with both the sword and cultural arrogance.
Then this jerk spells out what History is OK history in Hollywood....
"Kingdom" fulfills the requirements of grand-scale moviemaking while serving as a timely reminder that in the conflict between Christianity and Islam it was the Christians who picked the first fight.
What bullshit. Islam had conquered the entire Mediterranean from Constantinople through Spain, they were threatening Europe with a religion that took no prisoners (just like now) with the usual slaughters, and the they had blocked Christians from all the holy sites. Islam was a menace to everyone who didn't surrender to Allah.

This movie will die if all the PC reviewers look at it as an unprovoked Christian attack on the poor Muslims, because that is offensive to most of us. Don't avoid the movie based on this asshole, a guy who has to live in Far Left Hollywood, works for a major Hollywood daily, and has to be PC or he loses his job. When reading the "review" see yourself in thje role of a slave to this Hollywood Leftist anti-American anti-Christian portion of our culture that demands orthodoxy. Incredibly Late Adds: (Does Stalin control our press??) It appears that this PC evaluation of the movie is everywhere, which means to me that this movie is a whitewash job of this evil culture. Front Page has done a killer job on the reviewing HERE.

It almost seems like a bunch of DNC/Move on dot Org talking points has been issued to all critics. I'm prepared to miss this picture. Reality check under "you take their money, you do what they tell you to do." I'd start with the $150mil price tag, add another 60 to 70 for marketing and you have a $200mil picture that will have a hell of time making money if the EU market is insulted, Islam kills the box office in their liberal states, or if the American Left avoids the movie. Ridley Scott and the whole crew will have trouble raising money for future movies (remember that Alexander the Mediocre grossed big time in Europe thereby rescuing Oliver Stone from complete obscurity). Big Money in the arts means big corruption. Always has, always will. All I can say about my observation is, great minds without jobs think alike.

HOWEVER, all is not lost. It seems that some very astute experts on the Middle East and the Crusades are all over this picture. One of them---Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith, Britain's leading authority on the Crusades----calling it "the Osama binLaden view of history," "rubbish", "ridiculous", "complete fiction" and "dangerous to Arab relations". He goes on to say that,"It sounds absolute balls. It's rubbish. It's not historically accurate at all."

Just a tip: as I'm blogging this AM I have BET-Jazz channel on in the background. Hope you've found it. Race is not a consideration at all on this channel, just music. This AM they have featured Billie Holliday, Nat King Cole (singing the absolute best version of Hoagy Charmichel's Stardust ever done), and a Louis Armstrong concert from France done in 1933. Again, a terrific channel. Also old Dave Brubeck, a Djnango Reinhardt, Bruce Hornsby and two Crosby things from the early 30's before he lost his voice. Great channel. Did I mention Sinatra?? The regular BET is still racist as hell.

We're going to find out real soon if bloggers can be destroyed. This piece about Tom Cruise is super bad. He ought to sue. This blogger is a character assassin of the first order.


THEY LIE, THEY GET CAUGHT, THEY LIE AGAIN. THEN THEIR CUSTOMERS SPEAK

It's schadenfreude time, not that this changes one thing at the LA Times....
LOS ANGELES, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- For the six months ended March 31, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday-Saturday average daily circulation of 907,997, a decline of 6.5 percent compared with the prior year, and Sunday circulation of 1,253,849, a decline of 7.9 percent from the prior year, according to figures filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, subject to audit.
Now under the "rules" of capitalism the LA Times editorial leadership would be fired. Big city newspapers long ago ceased to be a part of capitalism. Most went bust for not lying enough, union insanity, and the first warning that times they were a'changin'. LA is a one newspaper town. The Times is the ONLY print voice here. That's enough for the Left leaning lying Times.

This is how these commie failures refuse to read the numbers: A promotion for Los Angeles Times executive vice president and general manager, who will become president, publisher and CEO on June 1. A true spin on the numbers so that it looks like the circulation reduction is a part of a grand design...
The Los Angeles Times continues to deliver the largest audience in Southern California with an average daily readership of 2.4 million and 3.5 million on Sunday, according to Scarborough 2004 Los Angeles Report. To strengthen this market position, we're investing...blah blah blah
They also snort in the same press release that they have won 37 Pulitizers, which only proves how low the Pulitizer Prize has become.

Circulation has dropped in all the big dailies but the left wing morons decide to boost circulation by giving copies away..
As circulation has slipped, newspapers are focusing more on new sources of revenue, such as online editions of their print publications or other Internet ventures. The Washington Post Co. (WPO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , Tribune and others have launched free daily papers aimed at commuters and younger readers who do not generally read traditional papers.
The Chicago Tribune, not to be outdone by a bunch of west coast faggots, are spinning their equally disastrous numbers---
Circulation is important and we're investing to improve our results," said David Hiller, president and publisher of Chicago Tribune Company. But ultimately readership and audience are what matter most and we maintained our market leading audience of Chicago Tribune readers.
They are all clueless and reside in the same Ivy League/Columbia School of Journalism cocoon, thinking they know, believing to the depths of their souls that lying in news reporting is what their audiences demand, and watching happily as the two hi-jacked planes head toward their two hundred storey plastic universe. Here's a doozy
Compared to the same period a year ago, The Sun in Baltimore dropped a staggering 11.5% in daily circulation and 8.4% in Sunday circulation. On Friday alone, the paper lost roughly 14% of its circulation.
The spin in Baltimore? Well it goes something like this: The Sun also recently began dropping subscriptions of people who consistently didn't pay their bills. Which translated means that we've been giving out phony data but now we stopped. Sample conversation would go something like this:
Customer: stop delivering my paper.
Newpaper rep: No.
Customer: I'm not paying.
Newspaper rep: Who is?

5/2/2005

As Lefties gather in Central Park to denounce the USA I am reminded of their current mantra:

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, cause I don't give a shit as long as it ain't tolling for me......

A ton of you---well OK, twelve---have asked if I intend to join the über blog that Simon and Reynolds have cooked up to make money.

Words to live by: never do anything just to make money; and you listens to their music and you dance to their tune----or else the band leaves.

I wouldn't be caught dead in that bullshit enterprise where each of the idiots provide links to the others. This is called "hit building" in the trade. Every time you read a blog with a ton of links in every piece you know the clown is engaging in "hit building." The reason I started blogging is that this is the only place in the known world where you have the absolute freedom to say anything; a "fuck you just in case" point of view. Advertisers want to control output---he who has the gold makes the rules---and you can bet that the old time Liberal Simon will see to it that there are no "fucks, shits, motherfuckers" or any other so-called banned speech--think he will tolerate pro Palestinian POVs? How about Hamas? Taking money is always the first step to selling out. Only duToit had the guts---or lack of brains---to tell an advertiser to go fuck himself, literally. And don't ever forget that du Toit has more guns than his advertisers do. Now, following the site building theme you might infer that he and I are exchanging links for the pupose of building traffic. Fuck you. And fuck that mass blogging bullshit as well.

Democrats demand:
1.
a new bride law appropriately titled, The Fleeancé Act of 2005. This law will mandate electronic monitoring devices for all prospective brides. Feminists attach rider so males will have to wear them too. Homosexuals and transgender persons vow a discrimination suit. Republicans back down.

2. As crude drops below $47 this AM, (overnight in Europe, NYMEX lows were $48.30) note the fact that Venezuela "sells" oil to Castro for much less than the "going" rate. I don't know, but the revelation of this stat may be the reason for the collapse of crude prices over the past few days.

Keep in mind that the "lifting costs" of crude around the world are less than $5 bbl. In many countries the oil must be "cracked" or extracted from heavy sands, and further processed to attain the "light" crude, making the price $15per bbl. Now try this: Saudi Arabia can break the high lifting cost oil countries by over producing for a few years. A very good piece from Manhattan Institue is here. It's an eye opener.

3. Those of you who don't get Daniel Pipe's weblog by email owe yourself a trip over there right now. More stuff than there are stars in Heaven. Keep in mind that Pipes is more a reporter in the old style---very old----than a blogger. He lays the facts out there with references. This is his best post in months and he is a rare gem.

5/1/2005

I guess we file this under: Rules? We don't need no stinking rules.
The circulation challenged Los Angeles Times has no intention of reporting anything straight. Link HERE for details on their latest Stalin-Hetzpropaganda scoop. They know they will be exposed, but they do it anyway. Rich liberals don't care about their jobs. This is not fresh news, everybody is commenting.

More rules: many are taking the gutless Republicans to task for changing the filibuster rule rather than fight every filibuster to the death by calling for a quorum every few minutes when Democrats slumber thus keeping all these ugly old ladies and tottering old men awake for days at a time. OK. But my understanding is that Dems plan endless filibusters over every candidate and every issue. Their plan was to fulibuster til they got tired, let the nomination or bill go to the floor, and then filibuster the next one. I think the GOP senators are just as old and have just as many ugly old ladies as do the Dems. It's a cinch that a sixty hour filibuster would kill Byrd, probably Kennedy, and a lot of others. How many? It is impossible to find the ages of each senator. The news is totally blacked out.

Before you click on the link at the end, consider this: all of us who produce a written product control the publication of criticism sent to us. So if I want you to believe that all the homo lefties are threatening my life then I publish those few letters that conform as if they were a hundred thousand of them; my purpose is to make homosexuals look as bad as I can. There is a book being hyped on FOX and mentioned by Reynolds by a---now get this one---a Lesbian Muslim.

You can't be a lesbian and a Muslim any more than you can be a Catholic and abort your babies so you can go back and screw your brains out. Whenever we read people like Sullivan and now Irshad Manji, the author of "The Trouble with Islam Today" they claim to be---homosexual Catholics, dyke Muslims (her character description of herself), abortion supporting lesbian Catholics, and so on. They are not; what they want is approval from the Papacy for their sexual escapades. Whenever a homo stands up everything is prefaced by a declaration of sexual orientation. Why? Because it slams any criticism as "homophobia;" an attempt to tar their views.

Having said all that, go HERE for her book description and the alleged hate mail she is receiving. She allegedly says that she wants an "Enlightenment" for Muslims. As I wrote in another post,the "enlightenment" also resulted in the morality of convenience; the virtual elimination of Christianity; the guilt free crime sprees; and the moral equivilance in our own country. Muslims don't "want" an enlightenment any more than the 17th and 18th century Popes wanted one. Even more, they have the disintegration of Christianity as an example; the wanton sexual behavior of women (and men); rampant crime, and so on as what the Enlightenment really means.

So while we are bull shitting about bongs and celebrity human waste products Venezuela and Cuba have formed a very dangerous alliance. Venezuela is selling oil to Cuba at much reduced prices, will build a refinery there, and Castro is getting a load of cash on a daily basis. Castro better die soon and we better have someone ready to step into the void. The details are HERE at Bad Hair.

And while Bush sits on has ass---big news--- about illegal immigration, his Administration further reveals its outright incompetence by making EU citizens entering the U.S. have biometric passports---this in spite of the fact that we have NO equipment to read them and The EU doesn't have the capability of making them. What is a biometric passport? It's an embedded circuit in a paper-based passport. The circuit would include a photograph of the passport holder and certain biographic data. The wind blows and the bullshit flows.

And shock of shocks, our State Department, et al has covered up the fact that more people were killed in terrorist attacks LAST YEAR than in any year recorded. Tell me again: we are winning the War on Terror.

OK, ever wanted to know WTF was really being said on all those Spanish language shows? Well eHacked has the goods in a very long essay.
You thought the Patriot Act was bad? Try the “Shut the Fuck Up and Do as I Say” Act!
And there is this one...
In the land of uneducated people that live on mountains and have never driven a car in their lives for fear that their life long transportation, Cojón the Mule, will rebel at the thought that they are being replaced, a hot 50 year old woman named Laura is queen.
Makes our TV look downright high brow.



BEGGARS NEGOTIATE. RESULT?

Haven't seen a single word regarding the Iranian decision to continue with their nuclear development. This puts the Left mantra of working with allies and negotiation in perspective. You can't negotiate from a position of total weakness. Europe is a joke. Be good or we'll cut off your wine trade. It is a sign of our liberal times that the story in alJazeera is straight. Keep in mind that Iran is spitting in the faces of 25 European powers....powers? Try pansies or weaklings. How about EU Invertibrates? Gives cowardice a scientific underpinning. EU jellyfish sounds good too.

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