6/30/2005
After two years of searching as much of the 177,000 square miles of Iraq as we could; digging into every nook and cranny that looked promising, and chasing down every tip, it looks like we cannot find any WMDs, any evidence of there ever having been any recently, and so the obvious conclusion is that there were no weapons there.
Bush lied.
So let’s make the analogy to the 180 square miles of Aruba. Everybody has been searching every nook and cranny, every grain of sand, and every home looking for Natalee Holloway. Nobody can find her. She has vanished. Not a trace except what her mother claims to be her clothing in a hotel room. The obvious conclusion from those on the Left is that she never existed. That this entire tale has been made up. We have all been lied to.
Ah yes, the movie business has proven to itself (link from Google, may require registration) that everybody loves the movies and that Blue and Red states just adore the fabulous blood drenched and always sex immersed movie fare.....
Except
for Those
Fucking
Christians
Attendence being down is a function of Right Wing Christian "chatter" launched by them Christians against the wonderful world of Hollywood. In a study funded by Variety (a sycophantic show biz daily) the conclusion was reached that everything is OK.
"This isn't just civic boosterism, we've put money and time into this research because we were tired of listening to the chatter that was drowning out the real message and clouding the issue," he said.Like I said yesterday, those at the top will have to be starved out because none of them are leaving, none of them will demand less money, and they will turn out the SOS for another few years. Does anybody think that War of the Worlds, a story that is more than 100 years old, filled with the usual computerized "oh my God there's aliens out there" bullshit will fill the coffers? How much money did Cruise and Spielberg (sic) stick in their pockets before one foot of film was shot, even though both claim they worked for nothing in exchange for a piece, which I'll believe right after the Natalee Holloway died in the bathtub as a result of vibrator mal-function story.
"Clearly, this level of noise is being generated by a vocal and organized minority that is disproportionately impacting the debate," he added, "to the point where the thread gets picked up as fact and fed back and amplified by politicians, reporters, commentators, even some industry executives."
As an add, several of my very perceptive and almost always correct, friends in The Show Biz tell me that War of the Worlds may actually sink Paramount, or at least cost everybody at the top their jobs. Nobody really knows the actual costs of any movie but the number being tossed around is $225 mil including marketing......
Paramount is claiming only $90mil cost
New York Times says $200mil
Forbes says $130mil
FOX pegs it at $180mil
All the above is without marketing costs.
Insane. Now if it is true that Cruise and Speilberg worked for a piece, you can bet that their piece is off the top, meaning they collect from the first dollar the movie takes in (usually until their normal fees are in the til). Ouch. Their fees are usually in the $20 mil class, and if true you can add another $40 mil to the costs. Late Add: according to this at FOX, Cruise and Speilberg took $40 mil in wages
6/29/2005
Obama who has a picture of Lincoln on his wall that "talks" to him,,,,
I'm sure it does. I'm sure it says, "Barack, why are you such an egomaniac?" Or perhaps, "Is it no longer possible in American politics to speak of another's greatness without suggesting your own?"A terrific piece, well worth your time.
The Clintons? America's two most famous political grifters.
The Supremes? One wonders if they have lost all understanding of how privileged they are to have lifetime sinecures of power and authority. Do they have any sense anymore of common human wisdom, of the normal human arrangements by which Americans live?
Then there is this observation at Best of the Web:
In politics, it is proper for Republicans to insult Democrats or for conservatives to insult liberals. Politicians can insult other politicians. That's politics. It is not proper for a politician to insult a nonpolitician. Thus a politician cannot insult a member of the armed forces, as Durbin did. Someone needs to explain the nuances of the game of politics to Democrats.
BATTERY POWERED BEST FRIENDS CAN LEAVE YOU TOO
It seems that both of these client abandonment fearing bitches had used vibrators in the past and both said it was the best sex they ever had, while leering suggestively at me in a challenging way. One of them shot out the statement that many women who had indulged in a very satisfactory and wide ranging sex life in their twenties and early thirties were having an almost impossible time achieving orgasm after years of plenty.
You mean they can’t cum,” I asked.
“They can only go,” shot back my favorite lady shrink.
She continued quietly as if the CIA might be secretly taping her, “It’s the law of unintended consequences....”
“Women are getting it up the ass,” I rejoiced. “Ha, ha, ha.”
“Even that doesn’t work,” sighed she of the don’t fuck me with the lights on in the kitchen, or when the kitty is on the bed, or when my husband is in the next room (I forget which). She leaned forward as if we were conspiring to kill the President.
“Overuse of vibrators for the purpose of achieving orgasm can result in the desensitizing of the clitoris,” she nasalized quietly. “The clitoris becomes almost calloused, rendering both clitoral and “G” spot orgasms nearly impossible for many women.”
“It is now being written about a little bit, but it is a very touchy subject,” the other one whispered before jump changing the subject in a way that led me to believe that she was one of those whose clitori and G-spots had been numbed by years of rolling around with her battery powered best friend.
The conversation sort of died at that point so I got up to leave, but not without offering my services to the shrink I slept with years ago in the back seat of her car. She might call. I cleverly lead her to believe that I have this secret method with two electrical wires and a motorcycle engine that could restore her youth, if only for an evening or so.
Stay tuned.
43% named lower ticket and concessions prices as the main draw, with 36% citing better quality movies--and 25% "better controls on audience behavior."All this means cheaper better movies or we won't come, while at the same time it means something horrible to everyone living the mega-millionaire life styles in Bel Air and Beverly Hills: lower---much lower---wages to the stars. The term "stars" includes directors, actors, writers, music people, and executive compensation. I bet they won't change, just like the MSM won't change. There is an entire culture involved here that is decidedly left, which means homosexuals are wall to wall; women and other racial minorities are over represented; all story subjects are left; and everyone toes the party line or they are not hired in the first place.
They will have to be starved out. Oh, and within all this is the outright thievery of the Majors when it comes to maketing and reporting of income. The corruption of the business is almost total. Russel Crowe should throw a planting pot at the nearest studio head, not that it would result in anything but it would be a start.
And where do I stand on the exemption of bloggers from election laws? WTF do some of these asshole bloggers think they are? We should be subject to the same laws as the rest of the peasants. Period. The more blogs I read these days the more I see of egos running amock, the right to steal movies and music, and special rights. Total bullshit from total bullshitters. If I am using this blog for the purpose of hyping a political candidate for money received, do I deserve special exemption?
6/28/2005
A DRIVE BY IN PARADISE The Super Rich Don't Need No Stinking KELO
The gentrification of rural Carmel California started in 1947 but none of us noticed it as such. Just the fingers on the inside of the knee that felt kind of good, but things never stop there. John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize winning writer and long time resident, never bitched about they way we kids raced cars at the bridge. The poet Robinson Jeffers didn't raise a stink about kids dancing. Frank Lloyd Wright didn't stop building the house on Carmel Point because teen agers were necking on the beach and hoisting a few. But a new bunch showed up around 1948. They were old, rich, no talent dilettantes from east of somewhere else who decided that only they knew what an art colony should look like and fuck the artists; they looked like such bums anyway. They hassled us kids about the loud mufflers on our cars like Carmel was supposed to be quiet all day so a bunch of dying old farts could sleep. Dancing was banned within the city limits (the high school is outside the city). An egg fight on Halloween was a War Crime. We had no idea these people would end up running the place. "Old Carmel" gave up without a fight.
They ain't laying down for it in the cities these days. When they fight it in Harlem it is reported as black separatists threatening violence. Downtown Los Angeles is made to sound like Mexican illegals going to war. In Charleston SC the media portrays resistance as a resurgence of the KKK. No matter, in most cities across the country resistance is taking place.
Resistance has to be rough because they are fighting Gentrification. Gentrification is Ivy League lingo for rich people from "outside" the community suddenly deciding to buy up the local property and "improving"it. The improvements result in a sudden surge in local property taxes, the new taxes displace the original residents who cannot pay them who then sell out and move. The local garages, sheet metal shops, lumber yards, and trucking companies, the places that employ sweat guys at good wages, are forced to move along with the jobs. These are always replaced by non-polluting and quiet Art Galleries, high end bars, and some specialty boutiques. What remains is a rich and happy class of people who put their kids into private schools and abandon the public schools to the poor. In the big cities they hire private police forces to keep the pissed off slob element (you) at bay while they live in isolated splendor. Of course the isolated rich contribute to all the Politically Correct causes, are environmentally pure, go to the opera, the theater, and art galleries; buy the season tickets to the Knicks and Cowboys games ($500 for a Knicks game and almost that much for a Cowboys game), and keep the yacht marinas filled up; they do all this while occasionally attacking the Chinese Communists on human rights, and "really going after" polluting oil companies (one assumes only after buying put options). The newspapers love them because they vote "liberal" along with the poor, which means they have to be OK.
In the rural West these days, it's more subtle. The Greens, composed largely of big city votingblocks living in large metro centers on either coast, pressure the Federal, State and local governments to seize privately held rural land in order to "save it". New kinds of endangered species are mysteriously discovered on a farm to assist in the Land Grab. (Think they will ever find the endangered Bar Fly in Beverly Hills and seize a movie star's mansion to protect it?). In Idaho, Montana, and the rural parts of the western states it's called "saving the environment", stopping corporate greed, and becoming "stewards" of the country we love. Land that isn't grabbed is "regulated" (called a Regulatory Taking), zoned, or restricted, so that sweat jobs paying good money can't pass the environmental test. The sweat guys, together with their wives and jobs, vanish. The decreasing available land that is not in government hands is bought up by the rich from the around the world; Americans who purchase the land live on the east and left coasts and claim to be Green, Green, Green. Note Aspen in Colorado (40 art galleries, ski area, median home price $2.3 million), Santa Fe in New Mexico (140 plus art galleries, median single family home prices over $400,000, a ski area, plus one of the only gentrified places to set aside some affordable housing), or Jackson Hole in Wyoming (97% owned by the government, 40 art galleries, median price for a 4 bedroom 3 bath home is $1.3 million).
The Grabs out West usually target individuals rather than groups of minorities or lower income people. A ranch is grabbed. A farm. A few acres. Mobs of Blacks or Hispanics don't rally on the plains; white anarchists can't be bothered. A feed dealer loses a customer. So does a local farm implement dealer. Somebody is laid off each time a ranch or farm is grabbed. The result for the original residents of the area is the same as in the big cities. Local property taxes on the shrinking supply of land go through the roof, the rich have a new place to play, they stash their kids in private schools in another state so the local public schools deteriorate, they build play pens for themselves called country clubs and theaters, grab off huge sections of land which they zone for high end recreation, and most of the original residents "vanish" to the few places that remain not owned by the government; places with names like Castroville, Salinas, or Moss Landing. Their original good paying jobs aren't "green" enough so they lose whatever economic clout they once enjoyed. The Westerners don't call it gentrification. They are more to the point. Robbery is the term used out west. Nobody in the PC crowd realizes that the evicted "slob" element has the right to bear arms. In other cases a "Rural Cleansing" takes place as happened in the recent Kalamath water dispute. Events like these elimninate entire communities. Property values are destroyed along with the property tax base. Without tax dollars entire towns cease to exist. The angry residents are forced to move to the slums of the cities.
The current "crisis" in education can be directly attributed to the absentee rich and other privileged classes putting their kids into private schools, and the selfish retired rich who abandon any stake in communities. They don't vote for bond issues for the remaining less well off residents who they outnumber. They don't participate in the local PTA. There is no way the education crisis could exist in America were it not for private schools as hideouts for those who can pay. The rich would never lay down for what is going on in education if it affected them.
The big cities have their race riots in part because large groups of compartmentalized (the ghetto) and well armed poor act out. The result of the rioting by large voting blocks in big cities is that government is forced to throw some money at the people who have been moved aside by the rich. In the rural West it has been different. We have Ruby Ridge, the McGuckin fiasco, Waco, and other less publicized events. These events have two things in common: the government acts aggressively against individuals who dare to resist and they forcibly remove them from the land (it's called stealing); the press favorably views the wrongs done by the Government until somebody steps to the plate and "talks". Environmental groups actually have a "plan" in all this. They want to move people off the land and into the cities. One hundred people per acre is what Greens say the slob element (you rural dopes) should live on. A greater density than New York City.
"Want a future, kid? Get off your butt and inherit your old man's money."The sweat guys, the people who bust their asses doing hard physical work, have been chased out by some of the highest real estate prices on the planet. America may be the land of miracles but a carpenter and a waitress can't buy a $500,000 house anywhere that I know of. And if any sweat class couple did manage to buy?,well the locals will fix them with the sky-high property taxes; one must keep out the wrong elements. Half a million dollar homes are near the low end on the Peninsula (Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach) these days. Now the sweat guys and their wives, the women who get varicose veins before they are 30 from standing and smiling at tourists for $9.50 an hour while pregnant, "those people", come to the Peninsula on "green cards" from far away towns like Salinas, Castroville, and other garden spots. Places from where they have been deported by the local "improvements". They are all out of town by sunset so as not disrupt the environmental purity for the politically correct well to do. I bet there isn't one kid in twenty who wants to stay on the Peninsula, unless their old man owns a store. Somehow or other they know they won't see the big bucks from guiding tours through an aquarium.
The "word" is that the "Tourist Business" is down. The latest sardine disaster. What's wrong I wonder? They may be running out of $100 per night rooms in Carmel, but there's plenty of room if you pay the $150 to $300 a night rate. Could it be that the world famous 17 mile drive is now a hoax? "For Your Convenience and in order to preserve the environment" (naturally), the latest corporation headed by big names who don't live there (Clint Eastwood, Dick Ferris, Arnold Palmer and Peter Ueberroth who replaced a Japanese Corporation, that replaced 20th Century Fox, etc) is keeping many of the roads with famous vistas closed. Most missed is the old road, now blocked, that ran between the second and third fairways of the Pebble Beach Golf Course, a half mile stretch that slowly reveals to the beholder one of the most breathtaking views of land and water in the world. The splendor shown on TV when the golf tournaments are televised is inaccessible to the slob element. This is so that the wealthy won't have their views disrupted. The only way you will see the profligate magnificence on display at Pebble Beach is if you pony up the $250 to play a round on the course or the millions to buy a house adjoining the fairway. In the old days, before Gentrification and Land Grabs, one of the more spectacular views was the surprise appearance of exquisite blue and white erupting violence that is the Pacific Ocean as seen when emerging from dense forest and rounding the bluff north of the famous Cypress Point Golf Course. The Almighty Corporation has erected a hundred feet of chain link fence covered with black canvass, assuring one and all that this particular revelation remains only in the memory of old fools and the rhymes of dead poets. What is left of the Pebble Beach link of the old 17 Mile Drive is three-miles of glimpses.
Q: What does a Pebble Beach woman wear to a funeral?
A: A black tennis dress.
In Pebble Beach (median asking price for a home: $2.4 million) there is "scenic shock". Like the lion who sprays his scent to keep all but the brave from his territory, the mega millionaires from places like Europe, "The East", and "Outside" have sprayed two story housing tract palaces virtually wall to wall on the ocean side of a large section of the old 17-mile drive in Pebble Beach. This high end Leavitt Town lineup of gargantuan peacock displays blocks many famous views from everyone but them.
"You wanna see some scenery buddy? We still got that Loan Cypress tree you can look at. And that Bird Rock deal is a real winner if you've never seen pelicans and seagulls standing around on a century or two of their droppings before. And hey!! Lookit the golf courses. Wow! Pebble at $250 a round? Sure I can handle it. What do I look like, some kind of loser? Don't want some cashier or day laborer playing golf on the same courses with the Gods, do we now? I mean if you can't handle $250 there's a few good ones at $150."
Life's losers can play a few flat city courses for $25 more or less; breath taking views of traffic jams and glorious panoramas of the freeway with the fog rolling in is what $25 gets you. You can play in Salinas for $6 and thrill to the site of Mexican farm laborers busting their asses in the sun. Very American.
So Scenic Carmel and Historic Monterey (one hundred fifty art galleries counting Pacific Grove) are just one big shopping mall, mostly for useless high end bric-a-brac posing as art. Remembering a John Steinbeck Cannery Row "Past", as if anyone would tolerate canneries and a fishing fleet that employ normal people in union jobs at good wages anymore.
"Oh My GOD, that aaawwwful smell. Think of the environment. Go to the slums like a bunch of Mexicans if you want those kinds of jobs."
The local propaganda mills grind out the fiction that the fishing industry exploited workers and poor people; that somehow the "gentrification" is for their benefit. Yeah, right! "Bend over, sucker. Take it like a man"
A car hits a Carmel man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?"
The Carmel man says, "I make a good living."
"You want things to live a normal life? Try the Walmart in Cancun. A hamburger? Yuk!! Not when you can have a $30 filet migon. A hot dog for a buck? What are you, a mechanic? Try the sushi at $7.50, it's devine. Great for the kids and families. Want to see real people doing real work? Drop by Merrill Lynch."
"Carmel is the only place in the world where you stop off to pick up a six-pack of art."
"Lemme unnerstan' dis. You wanna actchlley stan' in one spot like a moron and jus' look at a pichur? Dat's fuh sale? Dis look like a museum to you?"
Don't be surprised if you see Tony Soprano selling "previously owned" Rembrandts from behind a pine tree on Dolores Street.
It is a well known fact that it is impossible to create great art without cheap bars and cheap whores. It can't be done. The low lifes who used to hang out in the "Smoke Shop" in Carmel where we kids used to get the eleven cent hamburgers included bull dyke lesbians, screaming queens, Mexicans, Dagos (the "Liberals" in Carmel always looked down their noses at the Italian fishermen from Monterey), mechanics, and winos. And those were the High End low lifes. The "word" was that there was a card game in the back behind the green curtain where the true degenerates of Carmel gathered. Rumor had it that Henry Miller (this old guy who was writing real filthy shit) played stud and draw; and that commie writer (fill in the blank) played there every night; and that painter who had three wives lost as much as fifty bucks a night; and so on. This motley collection of undesirables were the people who created the atmosphere: the bad art that later became good art and great art, some of the great books, fixed the cars, rebuilt the old Duesenbergs, Bugatti's, and other relics from the 20's in their back yards. People like the Whitmans (like in Cole Whitman the now famous and dead photographer) were all bums back then; Cole ate eleven cent burgers and looked like shit. Lots of soon to be famous artists moonlighted as carpenters, plasterers, and masons. They could live there on their wages AND create.
There is no desire by the rich in Carmel to create the place where people who sweat while they work, can live, be employed, AND be respected by the monied aristocracy. Right now that possibility is a joke in almost every part of America; and this segregation unchecked can only result in a class war. It's no accident that the elite favor gun control; the poor own plenty of them and you can only push people just so far. The tourists don't come to the Monterey Peninsula to look at millionaires screwing the place up. They are trying to get away from that. "Character" creates the art, the underlying beauty of any area. The Peninsula has completely run out of "character", or what we now call "soul". It's boring. If I want to see rich white guys playing golf badly I can do better in Palm Springs or Cancun. If I want to hear too rich phoney white women chatting about finding a three day baby sitter so they can go see the Dali Lama, I can hear it in Beverly Hills. At lower prices. And from too rich phoney white women who are far better looking. It is local lore that the last good looking woman in Carmel was paved over back in 1983 to make room for another art gallery.
While gas prices hit $2.30 and another anonymous family lost their farm somewhere, the state faced bankruptcy and power shortages caused rolling blackouts, the land vanishes, the poor look at their guns and too rich white women chat stupidly about seeing the Dali Lama over $5 coffee in Carmel.
AN ENDNOTE: a victory for the less than really rich in the Carmel area has occurred because the Carmel School District was permitted to expand thirty six miles to the south as far as Big Sur and thirty miles north into the Carmel Valley, making it one of the largest school district in terms of area in the state. The result is that parents of the students, even the rich ones who actually live and work there, got to vote. They voted to pass a school bond issue. The retired and absentee rich got out voted. It was a modest bond issue but the "word" is that improvements will at long last be made at the Carmel High School. The rich say they like it. The system works. That's the foreplay. We all know what's next. They don't need no stinking KELO.
OK, OK Insanely Hot Right Wing babes hasn't put up a new babe in a month. I'll take down the link on Friday if a new one doesn't show up by then. I always wondered if Republicans from Jersey could be counted on to do anything but lose elections.
Consumer Tip: Needed a car cell phone charger for my phone. Verizon price was $30. Went to a place called 888cellmax and got TWO for $12.99 plus a free booster antenna. Can't beat it, took just one week to deliver.
The answer to the big question: What would you give your eight-year-old daughter to help her learn the value of money? If you're Madonna, you'd give her a credit card with at $10,000 limit. This and other must read wastes of time at Socialite's Life.
"Who will ever want to buy this rehashed piece of shit? We better not make too many."The success is therefore not publicized. Why? One can only assume that the success would make the suits at Ford look like the morons they are. The Mustang is so hot it outsells Mercedes
The entire 2005 production is essentially spoken for, and dealers are being told to start selling 2006s for those who want to order one. Clearly demand is strongest for the GT model, which represents an excellent retro performance value. If you can get one, there are no cars on the market that offer that combination of style and power for around $25,000.To clear this up, the car is so hot that used Mustangs of recent vintage have seen their values go up also. Link to auto blog, a site that is almost impossible to pull up but one of interest to all car buffs..
There are some interesting highlights here. First the Mustang is outselling a lot of other cars on the market, including the popular Chrysler 300. It is also outselling 13 entire brands, including Mercedes-Benz, Saturn, Scion and Subaru. Demand for the new car has propped up the market for the previous generation cars as dealers try to fill their lots with some kind of substitute in the absence of the 2005 model. Kelley Blue Book states that values of the 2003 and 2004 Mustangs have increased as much as $1000 at auction. Time will tell whether this demand will stay strong, but right now it is a success for Ford.
1. US defends aid policy, says helps push reformsAnd the horrible USA ain't generous like the EU. Remember, as I post this ALL headlines are in one place at the top of their site. #5 is particularly vicious, listing us last in donations. What is left out is our military helping poor countries, our private donations, or really much else. Reuters is a part of the MSM Fifth Column attacking us from within. The entire top five headlines are an attack on the U.S.
2. U.S. aid for Africa is up, but short of Bush claim
3. Live 8 challenged by U.S. perception of generosity
4. ANALYSIS-Big tsunami donors rank poorly in generosity
5. GRAPHIC: Tsunami donors get mixed 'generosity' ranking
THEIVES AND SCUM
And Google links to 836 other articles that support the artists.
If you walked into a record store and stole the CD you'd be charged with theft; but if you roam the web and steal songs, Reynolds and his gang think it's fine. I speak for the artists when I say, please pay for the tunes you want.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that purveyors of file-sharing offerings can be found liable for copyright infringement. We think this ruling in the Grokster case is positive for providers of legitimate online media services such as Apple Computer, Audible, Napster, and RealNetworks. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we think illegal use of peer-to-peer networks to obtain copyrighted material is still pervasive, and that hundreds of millions of P2P downloads are completed daily.Reynolds and pals don't give a shit for copyright---unless it is their copyright, natch. Here is an evenhanded review of the winners and losers---note the losers include
eDonkey, LimeWire, Kazaa and others of their ilk: Unrestricted file-swapping sites could face a new wave of litigation following the ruling, which appears to place the burden on them to show that they are not encouraging the subversion of copyright laws.Stealing movies is now illegal too. Only the copyright thieves community loses. I'm glad. From my reading of the "blogs" there are very few endorsing theft of copyright.
The piece is very very long; it's called Drive by in Paradise; it has had more hits over the past two years than anything I've ever posted (nearly 70,000), and it is HERE.
6/27/2005
I LOVE THE SMELL OF GOVERNMENT THIEVERY IN THE MORNING
Albert Posey was a hard worker, who labored in a factory full-time, grew corn and soybeans on his 60 acres of farmland in his time off, and raised his kids on his own. He died in 1989, and since then the government has grabbed off parts of his land, just because they could. One of Posey’s daughters still lives on what is left of his land.
Now get this: the Red Lion Area School District has tried to buy the farm twice. When the remaining kids refused, they took it anyway. 9.9 acres in the 1960s and 7.9 three years ago -- condemning the land through the power of eminent domain and giving the family a check for what the school district determined to be fair market value.
The Posey farm is now part of Mazie Gable Elementary School.
Pennsylvania is about to do even more “for the people of the state.” York county is about to seize 915 acres along the Susquehanna River, known as Lauxmont Farms, for a state park. They will vote on stealing the first 80 acres Wednesday. And of course, the Supremes have made it all but impossible to stop these government thefts. What you may not know is that Supreme Court has a steady record of backing up all land grabs going back to the first one in 1896 when they allowed the government to seize the Gettysburg battlefield. Just over 100 years later, the National Park Service used eminent domain to seize and destroy the National Tower on the battlefield.
In the early 1950s, the entire concept of "public use" changed, when the Supreme Court upheld the efforts of Washington, D.C. to condemn a dilapidated section of downtown---ask not for whom the bell tolls--- after the city argued the area was "blighted" and rehabilitating it was for public good. There have been more than ten thousand (10,000) seizures or threatened seizures in the United States from 1998 to 2002 that involved handing the property over to another private party
Pennsylvania leads the league here and there is little a property owner can do to stop seizure. A landowner can take the governments to court over the price, but courts almost invariably defer to the government's stated reasons for the seizure. Often, government bodies don't even have to file eminent domain suits to get the land. Property owners will many times settle out of fear of having their land taken for much less than it is worth. The threat of eminent domain is a powerful one. It costs a lot of money to defend an eminent domain action. If you mount a legal defense, it can really put your life on hold for a long time.
If you want to puke over this data---warning, sea sickness remedies won't work---go to the main article HERE. For a detailed account of a series of government land grabs for the purpose of handing the land over to the wealthy skiers and golfers over a thirty year period, read “Drive by in Paradise” my very long essay about the death of old Carmel by the Sea and the adjoining towns of Monterey and Pacific Grove as our government stole the land and gave it to the super rich.
IT'S SHAKESPEARE, STUPID
An actor I had lunch with on Saturday gave his opinion of why there isn't even one masculine young actor in America. Ban Shakespeare? Yeah. These idiot feminists have convinced far too many Theatre Arts departments to ban his plays because they "are sexist." A result is that actors don't know how to be Kings capable of doing anything to stay in power and who are used to being obeyed by everyone. A couple of more actors joined in the discussion and they agreed.
I asked my friends if the same could be said for Queens. And as we discussed this we ventured a group consensus that in classic terms the women were very cagy, hiding their motives, manipulating the powerful and the powerful to be, while advancing their husband's position and their own, also with no holds barred. What we are left with is actresses who only know how to fuck, complain, and kill if they don't get their way. Period.
It was an interesting discussion, and as a former actor myself, I can only echo the fact that classic theatre always demands tough minded characters involved in things bigger than life and more important than God, money, and women put together. When playing a King you tell somebody to clean the floor in a very quiet way because both of you know that the result of conflict will be death. Murder without any guilt. Period.
Do you see any of this in Troy, Alexander, and the rest of the "epics" released over the past several years. Gladiator is the single exception because the classically trained Russel Crowe was the lead. He was a guy who played people who were used to being obeyed and he knew how to deal with inferiors, and inferiors meant everybody else in the cast.
Shakespeare is tough stuff, especially for a country that now insists that only egalitarian situations be presented, including women who absolutely do not belong in certain situations---we never see women wanting to work on oil rigs in Alaska, digging ditches in the jungles, or doing any of the nasty tasks us horrible men do. So all the stories are safe white collar stories in which everybody is equal and arrests and court cases result in any deviation from that party line.
A suggestion for all young actors out there: find a place to do Shakespeare and do at least four plays, without any feminist bullshit. It's absolutely necessary for your future.
WHITEY GO HOME, THE MEXICAN CRY IN CALIFORNIA
DuTiot has a dam good essay up.....
IT'S OFFICIAL--RICH U.S. ARE PROVEN CHEAPSKATES IN GIVING
24 Jun 2005 13:18:00 GMT
Source: REUTERS
In terms of aid dollars alone, the United States is by far the biggest tsunami donor with a total $2.34 billion of government and private pledges -- almost double Germany's $1.25 billion. Britain was the third-largest donor, followed by Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway.And then they follow it up with this one
NORWEGIANS GIVE MOREThe report doesn't tell us that lots of vehicles never left the docks because of corruption at local levels, that governments taxed the aid when it arrived, and other Muslim countries refused any "tainted" aid. Sources for this shit include the International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the always balanced Reuters. And of course they leave out the hundred or so millions spent by our military starting from day one of the disaster. But the U.S. Military are fascist war criminals, per the same sources plus the Liberal U.S. media.
But put the aid on a per-capita basis and you get a different "generosity ranking". By this measure, Norwegians gave by far the most, with combined governmental and private donations amounting to $59 per head -- seven times more than Americans and 10 times more than Japanese.
Even that doesn't tell the full story. Experts say you must consider the "quality" of aid to assess real generosity. Is it going where it's needed or simply serving the donor's interests?
6/26/2005
A city in Washington state removed a woman in her 80s from her home of 55 years supposedly to expand a sewer plant, then sold the land to an auto dealership.
• A New Jersey development agency tried to seize an elderly woman's home and two businesses to provide more parking for one of Donald Trump's casino hotels; the state Supreme Court stopped it.
• A city in Kansas took a used-car lot and turned it over to the new-car dealer next door, who had failed in his efforts to buy the site from the previous owner.
These corrupt local governments now own your property and there is nothing you can do to stop them. Second Amendment Time.....
NATALEE HOLLOWAY WAS MORE THAN LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN VERY DRUNK
THE EUROPEANS STARVE THE AFRICANS SO THEY CAN HAVE A MARKET
The environazi propaganda against American GE crops, and it is lies and lies, serves only to starve Africa and make French farmers prosperous at the expense of others. They---the Eurotrash thugs---have done a good job of blaming the USA. Most of the world believes that genetically engineered crops are somehow poison. Total crap.
The Indians in America started engineering food 9,000 years ago, without chemicals. Just look at corn.
Corn started out as something called Teosinte 9,000 years ago as a grassy-like plant with many stems bearing small cobs with kernels sheathed in hard shells. Corn was genetically engineered by Indians over time til it was the corn on the cob the Europeans discovered in the New World. See HERE and then look HERE for some history on rice and wheat also genetically engineered by Indians. Modern GE grains resist insects reducing to near zero the need for pesticides, use far less water, and require no fertilizers.
So the world got to where it is now through 9,000 years of genetically engineered plant foods. For us, not the Third World. The Europeans ban them completely. All have as bed mates Greenpeace and the rest of the eviromurderers. Our contributions should be in the form of seed. That would take care of two problems at once.
To sum it up: we donate MONEY to Africa so they can buy Politically Correct grains from France, Germany, and the rest of the Eurotrash thugs. This is a giveaway, not to Africa, but to the very rich French farmers.
6/24/2005
CUT OFF THEIR MONEY
George Will has a literate take down for those of you who like stuff without cuss words.
Those on the receiving end of the life-shattering power that the court has validated will almost always be individuals of modest means. So this liberal decision -- it augments government power to aggrandize itself by bulldozing individuals' interests -- favors muscular economic battalions at the expense of society's little platoons, such as homeowners and the neighborhoods they comprise.For a really good opinion set go here. There is some very good opinion and reaction. Summing up: this is a victory for the rich over the less than rich. The worst decision in my life time---actually they were arguing Dred Scott when I was an infant. What can you do? I'll tell you what I just did---beside writing---I turned down a money request from the GOP (Brulte???) and told them "no mas" til they got off their gutless asses and did something about this. Cut off their money, it's the only thing they understand. And the MSM? LAT has zero; New York Times loves it (they are in the process of taking somebody's property right now); Boston Globe has zilch; Ditto the WaPo; only the WSJ comments negatively. The NY Sun is all over it. The most interesting, because their are more than two or three views, is here at The Corner. And lots of people are talking about using guns. This thing will not die so fast. (Link to duToit---who has a long record on this)
Anybody notice how fast GITMO vanished from all news media once the poll showing that 75% of Americans didn't believe any of it? Now the MFs are all over Karl Rove. There is nothing else on the tube. Hewitt has most of the good stuff.
The GOP continues to prove that they have no guiding principals whatsoever. They have given PBS more money to continue the left wing prattle, the subsidy of the BBC sit coms, news, and specials; women's ice skating, women's gymnastics, and other material that can be seen anywhere on regular TV. Wait til PBS takes your home for a studio.
Check out the eliteist ramblings about the great unwashed in SoCal up to super rich Carmel---which they just adored, naturally---and see if you have much respect left for New Sisyphus. I'll certainly look at further "postings" with a very pronounced squint. They just hate Anaheim because there are strip malls, which are there to serve the apartment dwellers who can't drive to the upscale malls that Sisyphus just loves to death. What a phony.
And for a real look at biased MSM questioning, read this transcript of David Gregory---phony liberal--- interrogating Karl Rove. I think Rove tore him apart.....link via Power Line....
And for those of you who are sick of this and want some news about Trashywood, well Jessica Simpson seems to be fucking every man in Sluttyville. HERE complete with pix.
Let me now say a few words about the state of liberalism. Perhaps the place to begin is with this stinging indictment:His complete speech is here, in the WaPo.
"Liberalism is at greater risk now than at any time in recent American history. The risk is of political marginality, even irrelevance.… [L]iberalism risks getting defined, as conservatism once was, entirely in negative terms."
These are not the words of William F. Buckley, Jr. or Sean Hannity; they are the words of Paul Starr, co-editor of The American Prospect, a leading liberal publication.
There is much merit in what Mr. Starr writes - though he and I fundamentally disagree as to why liberalism is edging toward irrelevance. I believe the reason can be seen when comparing conservatism with liberalism.
Conservatives believe in lower taxes; liberals believe in higher taxes. We want few regulations; they want more. Conservatives measure the effectiveness of government programs by results; liberals measure the effectiveness of government programs by inputs. We believe in curbing the size of government; they believe in expanding the size of government. Conservatives believe in making America a less litigious society; liberals believe in making America a more litigious society. We believe in accountability and parental choice in education; they don't. Conservatives believe in advancing what Pope John Paul II called a "culture of life"; liberals believe there is an absolute unlimited right to abortion.
But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban; in the wake of 9/11, liberals believed it was time to… submit a petition. I am not joking. Submitting a petition is precisely what Moveon.org did. It was a petition imploring the powers that be" to "use moderation and restraint in responding to the… terrorist attacks against the United States."
I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt as I watched the Twin Towers crumble to the earth; a side of the Pentagon destroyed; and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.
Moderation and restraint is not what I felt - and moderation and restraint is not what was called for. It was a moment to summon our national will - and to brandish steel.
MoveOn.Org, Michael Moore and Howard Dean may not have agreed with this, but the American people did. Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said: we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said: we must understand our enemies. Conservatives see the United States as a great nation engaged in a noble cause; liberals see the United States and they see … Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags, and the killing fields of Cambodia.
Has there been a more revealing moment this year than when Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, speaking on the Senate floor, compared what Americans had done to prisoners in our control at Guantanamo Bay with what was done by Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot - three of the most brutal and malevolent figures in the 20th century?
Let me put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts to the region the words of Senator Durbin, certainly putting America's men and women in uniform in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
Because you have to pay to access the New York Sun, none of us can read the entire Rosett piece there, but Simon has stolen enough of it to give you a good bite.......
6/23/2005
SOMETHING ACTUALLY IMPORTANT
Reynolds has become boring, what with his enless links to sycophants, BUT today he has something original to say. This is a case that to any conservative would be open and shut. A local government seized private property and donated it to a corporation because the corporation would pay more taxes. A no brainer right? Wrong! All the courts, including the Supreme Court has approved. This means we have no right to private property at all. Unless the brain dead Republicans get off their asses and act on this case and others, we have basically lost our rights. This has been under my radar, mainly because I assumed the Supreme Court would never approve of this land grab. Wrong. You can read up on it in plain english here.
This is really horrible. Start writing to Republican Assholes Everywhere. Start with the asshole chairman of the GOP and then follow up with the 2nd in command asshole and then follow up with everyone you know in the GOP----and THIS GUY says it best. Get off your butts on this one or stop reading here and go to the comics.
The only reaction so far has been from the Right. No Left commentary at all, as if they have to be told how to react. A few statements
Thank God. Now we can grab land for the birdies, fishies, flowers, and Left Wing think tanks....We are fucked.
"they paved paradise and put up a parking lot"
The individual doesn’t even count anymore. Property rights? Only as long as someone with a bigger bankroll doesn’t want your property for themselves.
"While You Were Busy Protesting The Patriot Act......the government took your house.
DC Mayor To Bulldoze Ruth Bader Ginsberg's House For Health Club."
They just gave the keys to your home to any developer who can throw enough silly money at local city officials.
The individual citizen is no longer paramount—the community is. The individual doesn’t even count anymore. Property rights? Only as long as someone with a bigger bankroll doesn’t want your property for themselves.
Now, your home can all be taken away if a company wants their new building to overlook the river or the park across the street from your house.
Now if Donald Trump wants to put a casino on your property, and you don’t want to sell, the government can seize your land, and then sell it to Trump.
So much for the value of individual property rights.
Today, I am ashamed of my country, my government, and the legal system (we don’t have a justice system).
It’s a dark day for American homeowners.
Every home, small business, or church would produce more taxes than a shopping center or office building. And according to the Court, that’s a good enough reason for eminent domain.
A significant right that is clearly and simply stated in our constitution now has no meaning. It took just five boobs in black robes to kill this right to which I refer.
Thank goodness the Supreme Court today ruled that cities have the right to seize people’s homes in order to sell them to rich developers.
Now tell me again why the Senate battle for judicial confirmations isn’t important. This country needs a different type of judge on the bench to revisit and overturn this decision.
All a developer has to do now is make a lowball offer and threaten to involve a bought-and-paid-for politician to take the property away if the owner doesn’t acquiesce.
.....the only justification the government needs to take away your house and land is that the government wants more money. Have you ever met a government that didn’t want more money? Me neither.
Property rights are now officially meaningless in the United States - the land of the free (reign of government.)
.....the concept of private property has been abolished by the Supreme Court.
Passing laws restricting localities from seizing private property (which is precisely what happens when an owner is forced to sell) except under very specific circumstances should become the goal of everyone who was watching this and hoping for different results.
If you own any property, and the local municipality decides that someone else “deserves” or “needs” your property more than you do (i.e., the “other guy” can increase the tax base or provide jobs), then you’re S.O.L. They get to take your land. And you don’t have a damn thing to say about it.
This is a wide-open invitation to complete corruption.
It is very inconvenient for the likes of Costco to have to buy their own land. They would rather have the government steal it for them.
Supreme Court Allows States To Steal Property (headline)
Kelo Decision Trashes Taxpayer Rights as Well as Property Rights
Many of the affected citizens have deep roots in their community, including a married couple in their 80s who have lived in the same home for more than 50 years.
Kiss your property rights goodbye
AS DEMOCRACIES LAY DOWN FOR ISLAM
the Old Continent is on the verge of becoming a dominion of Islam, and that the people of the West have surrendered themselves fecklessly to the "sons of Allah." So in a nutshell, Oriana Fallaci faces up to two years' imprisonment for her beliefs--which is one reason why she has chosen to stay put in New York. Let us give thanks for the First Amendment.So in the new and improved EU you can be sent to jail, which is where Ms. Fallaci is going, if you say
"Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty."A Muslim judge in Italy is going to fix her, permenantly. She should look at Illinois where the Islamic invasion of a prostrate U.S. Liberal establishment is in full flower.....
I CONFESS: I AM A LESBIAN
Hillary Clinton hit piece....I have to be consistent here and my view is that nothing that is anonymously sourced should be accepted. Hate to tell you this but not only do I know a couple of lesbians, but I am a lesbian. Hard core in fact. The only way to stop this gutter journalism is to cease supporting it. Don't buy the book.
"Excitingly Original" a quote from a so-called reviewer praising the new movie "Bewitched" a rehash of the very very old TV show from the last century. Not only is the movie business out of originality, but the reviewers are total assholes.
Condi Rice for president is one of the worst ideas ever. She has not one second working with others to gain a consensus, she has never dealt with a legislative body that may oppose her, she has never run for anything in her life; so besides being a very smart AND BLACK woman, what qualifications does she have exactly?
While you may be sleeping: the Chinese bids for Matag and Unocal present us with a very serious problem. There is no transparancy in any Chinese market. Once they take over anything, the profits or losses will be whatever they decide to say they are. This is why their own stock market is in free fall while the world's markets are flying and their economy is growing at a "reported" ten to twenty percent per year. How can their stock market be down when their economy is the fastest growing in the world? It's because every smart investor in China knows that the government is lying. Want some quotes? Go here to the home page for the Shanghai Stock Exchange and figure it out. Here's part of what a Chinese investment type says:
According to an article by Yu Fenghui published on the Xinhua Net web site, there are many strange phenomena in the Chinese stock market that are beyond comprehension. The stock market has not regulated public companies, and it has not tracked the changes in the national economy. While the national economy is growing rapidly, the stock market continues to fall, counter to the direction of national economic development. Moreover, the stock market has not provided a mechanism to channel capital to businesses needing it. On the contrary, it has become the venue for some companies to simply collect investors’ money.Go HERE for more. China No. No. No.
And the disaster of all disasters: Airbus to build a factory in Alabama. This is horrible, but two Southern REPBULICAN senators are supporting it. Why a disaster? The French cut off spare parts to Britain the second they entered the war against Iraq. Belgium cut off all our submarine engines ditto. We are about to put our own heads into a noose on this one. The French HATE us. Hate.
The NBA finals turned terrific two games ago. I actually watched two entire games, a first for me. I'll be watching again tonight.
Flag burning amendment: a moronic idea put forth by the not very smart (NVS) wing of the GOP. I say the reality of burning a flag is this: people get so pissed off seeing it that the burning creates an opposing reaction. Let the assholes who choose to do this stuff do it, and on prime time so we can all see them. In addition, what fucking harm is done to anybody anywhere if somebody burns a flag? Unless the burning flag is tossed into a tank of gasoline, but then arson is already a crime. We have plenty of Republican assholes. Plenty, should we forget.
And if you wanna get really pissed off, go here. Robert Mugabe is murdering more black people while our black congressional reps sit on their asses waiting for another welfare check. Oh yeah, they can blame Bush. The Conressional Black Caucus is the sorriest lot in our country.
6/22/2005
Chirac demands Iranian nuclear compliance.....or what, Jacques? HERE
"A German army officer who disobeyed orders out of opposition to the US invasion of Iraq wins full backing and reinstatement from a tribunal." Awarded the Durbin Conspicuous Chickenshit Medal.....
Afghanistan is in deep doo doo. Taliban is returning, poverty still rages, and there is no way to earn a living there. Big article HERE.
Tsunami relief going to gangs in Thailand. They have just taken over and have stolen most of the land from the real owners. HERE Death toll from tsunami now over 232,000.
Europe facing another heat wave and drought. Guess who they will blame?
And Jane Gault better get a life. The total prude censors her comments. This comment that I attempted to post in her comments section is deemed "inappropriate" as she discussed Eliot Spitzer....
Spitzer is going to lose this one too, and he should. Grasso got the money legally. All felt he did a fantastic job after 9/11 when he held the world's stock markets together. Who will Spitzer go after next? Arod (Rodriguez of the Yankees)? LeBron James? Tom Cruise? How about the entire UAW? He has conducted a media witch hunt, taken what are in effect bribes, threatened everyone who dared question his authority. He deserves to get stuffed. Again.Fuck you, Jane. You are a third rate bitch who deserves no visitors at all.
HEATHER TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT GITMO...AGAIN
A master narrative—call it the “torture narrative”—sprang up: the government’s 2002 decision to deny Geneva-convention status to al-Qaida fighters, it held, “led directly to the abuse of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq,” to quote the Washington Post. In particular, torturous interrogation methods, developed at Guantánamo Bay and Afghanistan in illegal disregard of Geneva protections, migrated to Abu Ghraib and were manifest in the abuse photos.She reports that AlQaeda knows we won't do anything at all to prisoners and published techniques to use when captured....these techniques did not include the American Left moving to castrate the war on terror....
This story’s success depends on the reader’s remaining ignorant of the actual interrogation techniques promulgated in the war on terror.
“Prisoners overcame the [traditional] model almost effortlessly,” writes Chris Mackey in The Interrogators, his gripping account of his interrogation service in Afghanistan. The prisoners confounded their captors “not with clever cover stories but with simple refusal to cooperate. They offered lame stories, pretended not to remember even the most basic of details, and then waited for consequences that never really came.”MacDonald reminds all of us that
Some of the al-Qaida fighters had received resistance training, which taught that Americans were strictly limited in how they could question prisoners. Failure to cooperate, the al-Qaida manuals revealed, carried no penalties and certainly no risk of torture—a sign, gloated the manuals, of American weakness.
the world in which evil regimes, like those we fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, don’t follow the Miranda rules or the Convention Against Torture but instead gas children, bury people alive, set wild animals on soccer players who lose, and hang adulterous women by truckloads before stadiums full of spectators; the world in which barbarous death cults behead female aid workers, bomb crowded railway stations, and fly planes filled with hundreds of innocent passengers into buildings filled with thousands of innocent and unsuspecting civilians. By definition, our terrorist enemies and their state supporters have declared themselves enemies of the civilized order and its humanitarian rules.Read the whole thing if you are "confused" about Gitmo, the war on terror, and exactly who our enemies are.
And then there is this one from Front Page wherein Amnesty International condems GITMO and barely touched the North Korean death camps. Not to worry, AI savaged Israel too, further proof of the anti-Semitism of the Left.
MSNBC, the lowest rated channel in the universe, has done it again. If you want to view a video on their site???? You have to download the new Microsoft Internet Explorer. Should you do it, you will find that the "new" Explorer will literally take over your system. The "new" toolbar simply invades exactly like the old Apple Quick Time did.
DURBIN CRYING
But the MSM slants the story so vilely (is that a word??) that one would get the picture that only the Republicans were angry and that Durbin is a "victim" of a Right Wing hit squad. Malkin has a round up. Is anybody noticing the similarity between the Left MSM and the totally Left Hollywood elites? Both are bleeding customers at a serious rate and both refuse to change what they are doing. Incestuous management from top to bottom in both businesses will not be moved. Ever. They only talk to each other.
And Dem Governor Bill Richardson was speeding. This is actually presented to us as fucking news? Christ, at least one government worker is doing something fast......
And unreported strife between Iraqi insurgents and the foreign jihadists. Now coming from all over. Thanx MSM, another fine job you're doing.....
6/21/2005
WAR CRIMES TRIALS A CERTAINTY IF DEMOCRATS ELECTED
Just a prelude to reality. The Gitmo-Durbin-Pelosi-Democratic Left attacks are simply one more assault on our military. Make no mistake, if you are a grunt out on the front lines you are being told that once the Democrats take over they will face war crimes charges from Democratic controlled kangaroo courts.
They will appoint every hard lefty they can to every position and they will destroy our military once and for all. I used to think it was only a fringe of the Democratic Party that would do this, but from the deafening silence we can no longer deny what the Democratic Party, and Democrats in general, have become.
And I wonder what our country has become. Scares me.
The Gitmo “debate” is a phony. The Left states a ridiculous proposition and everybody steps in to discuss it. Today’s NYT op ed leads with:
“The United States has led the way in fighting for human rights, but mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.”The paragraph should read,
“The world sees our moral claims as hypocrisy because our press repeats lies over and over again until the lies become the known truth.”Gitmo is an MSM manufactured fiction. A fiction with the purpose of weakening our military, influencing young people not to join the military, and warning those in it that when the Democrats take over they will charge as many military as they can with war crimes.
Concentrating on Durbin's statements bores me. The Democratic Party is the Hard Left Party of the USA. If you approve, vote for them. If you don't, don't. The MSM will continue to publish everything they allege as if it were true. We have to be aware of it.
Andrew Sullivan backs Durbin: does anybody read him any more? He’ll get his job back at the New York Times any day now. Or if the Advocate goes weekly he’ll go there. We are all classified as the "Pro Torture American Right." He'll be front and center for the War Crimes trials. BTW he only really cares for Gay Marriage. Period.
Hollywood grosses down: movie attendance is down even bigger when you consider the near doubling of ticket prices over the past ten years. Sometimes "following the money" is the wrong way to look at things. Movies are in trouble. More precisely, the mega cost movie business is in trouble. Nobody is going to see them. Maybe it’s nobody can afford to go and see them. A sign of the times is the merger of the number two and three theatre chains. Hollywood better turn Right and wake up. Also, there are no masculine young leading men in anything. The latest is the total fruit playing Octavius Caesar in an upcoming TNT epic. This guy could only be emporer of a bath house in West Hollywood, and even there he might be too feminine.
Any time there is a successful business, that business will attract people whose sole interest is in making as much money as possible. When those types of people become the majority, the real purpose of the business becomes making money, not making a good product. That is what has happened to the entire entertainment business.
Gutless GOP still won’t stop the filibuster. The filibuster, the practice that has always been used to perpetuate injustice, evil, and bad politics, is the tool of every present and future political criminal. The political criminals are afraid to rid themselves of their weapon of choice.
And for those of you who aren't pissed off yet, go here. DuToit has a tale to tell.....
A terrific summation of French policy is at No Pasaran. Great POV.....
6/20/2005
THE OFFICIAL ANTI SEMITIC PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
The Israel haters, and anti-Semites believe they have found a comfortable home in the Democratic Party. If American Jews continue to vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, then they will be casting their votes for a Party which is becoming indifferent to Israel bashing and anti-Semitism, and in the case of Conyers inviting McGovern to speak, even promoting these toxic views.What the PC writers fail to mention is the racial composition of the Jew haters. I have posted many times here that I work around a lot of Blacks; I am a minority group there. The Blacks are constantly attacking Jews in every way and loudly. I finally complained and was told, "Shit, Howard. We're stuck with these shitheads. If I fire them we're closed down." So calling somebody a fag is a hate crime, ditto a nigger, same for bitch; but kike, Jewboy, and asshole Jews are acceptable terms in liberal America. The anti-Isael hate fest sponsored by John Conyers (D-Anti-Semite-Black MI) is an advertisement for the anti-Semitic element that is now so large within the party that none dare challenge them. While the New York Times blacked out the meeting's anti-Semitic turn, the Washington Post played it pretty straight....
The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.Put this together with Durbin and the lack of Democtic criticism of his horrid remarks and we have a truly disgusting sight. I now ask what kind of real guts Joe Lieberman has? Why is he still a member of that political party?
"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his "candid answer."
At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks.
The event organizer, Democrats.com, distributed stickers saying "Bush lied/100,000 people died."
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CONSUMER ALERT: There are a ton of phone rooms now selling "HGH" to old people. Problem is there is no real HGH available other than through a doctor's prescription and the only way to administer it is by needle. It is also very expensive. You do a web search on HGH and you get all the hype and all the buy this now bullshit, but in most of the small print you are told that you are buying "homeopathic" HGH; another way to say "fake." In many you are not told that it is homeopathic at all. Alert your grandparents and parents to this scam; the claims for the fake HGH are the same as the facts about the real stuff. "Don't call lists" mean nothing to these people; after all they are criminals. Pass this post around the internet. These phone rooms are located in Las Vegas, Los Angeles (where else) and Florida. The sales are very high pressure with sales people being "taught" to yell at the poor old bastards on the other end of the phone.
Captain's Table is reporting that the famous? Downing Street memos are a fake, typed up by a reporter who now claims he destroyed the original. Go read. These reporters are so low that they look up to see whale shit. Caution: 9:15PM 6/19 PDT: MSM is not reporting it, I include FOX. Story is yet to be confirmed. 10:30 PM PDT 6/19; while Captains Table and others claim there is an AP story about this, I cannot be confirm this either. Zippo at AP site and zippo at Tampa Bay AP site. 5:30AM 6/20 AM PST: LGF is on it too, revealing that the "reporter" is the same guy who Mary Mapes hired on the Rathergate story. Another blogger, Bumer Dietz, fingers the CBS/Rathergate/Downing Street connection. Still no big reporting, and as I said, the AP doesn't have the story. What they do have is here, but they don't in any way say the papers are fake. Again caution on this story(?)
6/19/2005
Natalee Holloway found. In cellar of Aruba Enquirer office. Being held without food til she promised to give exclusive interview .........................Developing
But seriously folks, the father of Van Der etc. may be a witness or worse, an accessory after the fact. The "law(?)" in Aruba is some sort of EU spin off of the Napoleonic Code where you are fucking guilty til proven innocent. They also allow mercy killings, very very late term abortions, and there is now movement by elderly from other countries going to the Netherlands to be given "suicide pills." In the Holloway case they follow some international law and some of their own, depending. Go HERE for some detail. There is NO habeas corpus in Dutch Law. They can basically hold you for 116 days just because. I just get the feeling that these kids have been told, "no body no case, keep your mouths shut."
1. The Victoria Givins world record Anal Gang Bang
2. The world's largest dildo..... 67 ft. high and weighs 347 tons.
3. The largest medically verified penis on record is 13.5 inches long and 6.25 inches around. There are no women to verify being the recepticle of such largess.... Actually the Blue Whale has the actual record: 10 ft. long and 1 ft. in diameter. The appendage is called a dork. So when somebody calls you a dork they are calling you Whale Dick. Say thank you. BTW, almost all women are capable of "accepting" a twelve incher, so there.
4. Most recorded sexual conquests by a woman: the renowned French Actress, Mlle. Dubois, who made a catalog of her lovers over a 20-year period. The final count: 16,527 individuals, which works out to about three per day.
5. The most expensive piece of ass in history was a Greek hooker by the name of Lamia. The King of Macedonia paid $70 million at today's gold value for her services for just one night.
BTW the very first use of the middle finger to say "fuck you?" Aristophanes uses it in The Clouds (423 BC), and the Romans referred to it as digitus infamis (notorious finger). So forget that stupid web crap about the "pluck yew" stuff.
Finally: the world's longest known prime number, one that will be
Before embarking upon this little blog adventure one feels it would be pertinent to share a few personal details. I cannot, if I am truly honest, and, at this early stage one should at least be trying be truthful, trust in the absolute and charitable nature of writing such an introduction; that is, I suppose, this is more for my own benefit than the benefit of anyone else reading it. I am unashamedly self-indulgent. To suggest otherwise would quickly lead you to believe me a most terrific liar. Here we are then, ready to oblige my whimsy. And I’m all about indulging my whimsy as often as possible.Again, worth going to.
I was born in a leafy little village in the county of Dorset (in the south of England). This was some time around the end of the seventies, although I sharn’t furnish you with an exact date. My family home was a modest Edwardian country house with some acres of land, a pond, a long gravel drive-way, and a garage full of mostly dismantled classic cars. We didn’t have servants, but we did have a part-time cleaner and chap who would tend the garden once a week. I grew up with my mother who, in the 1960s, ran a certain, somewhat famous, boutique on London’s Carnaby Street. My father was in the army, like his father and grandfather before him. I hardly saw him and I can remember, word for word, the only conversation I ever had with him:
“Are you going to join the army?”
“No, I want to work in television.”
We never spoke again. Although that is at least partly because he died in the Falklands war a couple of months later.
I am the youngest of four children. Lucas, my brother, is the eldest and he did join the army. He’s married to Felicity, who collects pig ornaments. Then there’s the spinster, Charlotte, who is in her early thirties. She drinks two bottles of red wine a day, smokes constantly, and writes incredibly sad novels about being a thirtysomething spinster. Next is Annabelle, the baby factory. Annabelle is thirty and is constantly pregnant. Unsurprisingly, considering her predilection toward copious over breeding, Charlotte does not talk to her. Annabelle is a full-time mum and she’s married to Colin, who collects stamps, plays golf and, in a event that made him go up endlessly in my estimations, once got arrested for curb crawling. I mean, wasn’t he getting enough sex at home?
By way of my degree in Philosophy and Modern Languages at Oxford I landed an entirely unrelated job working for a large advertising agency in London. I am ridiculously good at my job without trying.
Three years ago I sold my house in London and bought a bachelor pad down here in Brighton. I am single by choice, finding the mere concepts of co-habitation and monogamy to be hilarious and upsetting and baffling in all kinds of ways. I have very little respect for my fellow human-beings and I am perfectly comfortable exploiting and manipulating them for my own gain or even amusement… in particular those less intelligent, less wealthy, and less attractive than me. Which is most people.
If you met me you would think me a charming, handsome, gentleman. My manners are impeccable and I can be warm and jovial (if I believe doing so would benefit me). I am witty, hedonistic, cultured, depraved, professional, perverted and angry. I generally prefer to sleep with girls ten years younger than me, mostly because they are easier to impress and less likely to harbour delusions that I might actually want to develop some kind of emotional connection to them. My façade, then, is perfect.
What lies beneath is what this blog is all about.
Have a car with a Mitsubishi engine. Time was when the best thing about Japanese cars was that every engine maintenence point was easy to reach. This AM I needed a battery. Quotes were a little high. Found out that in order to change the battery it had to be done from underneath the car. Car had to go on lift and the entire LF wheel removed before battery could be accessed and changed. Times do change.....
While waiting, I read the tree version of the LA Times. Wanted to plow through the propaganda. I have to admit that these guys have it down pat. All the lies are buried within stories, stories are placed, and they have the long knives out for Arnold in almost every column. Teachers Union good, Arnold bad. It's obvious that all have their children in private schools, live outside the district, or are homosexuals; I'd bet that at least half are homos.
New idea of LAT consumer re-written editorials is a bust. Nice try, but no cigar.
Nice to know "what goes around comes around" can actually work. Ten years ago Pep Boys, a local auto parts and repair chain, ripped me off something fierce. Others also complained. The result? Not many customers on a Saturday Morning. Great prices, but once you lose the public trust you lose it and it's tough to get it back.
Smoked a couple of "real" Cuban cigars yesterday; AKA Castro Sticks. The reports of the quality decline of Cuban cigars are not overstated. There is always the chance that these were fakes, but I doubt it. In latest ratings, many Dominican and Nicaraguan cigars consistently rate higher than Castro Sticks.
Some of the women at the Angels game were so hot they could melt iron. Tits, at least at Anaheim Stadium, are back. And back in a big way.
Go figure: as the EU sinks in the west, their currency rises from the ashes like the proverbial Phoenix..... I bet the Europeans are buying back their currency over the weekend so they'll look good. Or, the world is betting the breakup of the EU is a good thing for world markets.
And Blogger? At long last Google has it working as touted. I'd now recommend it highly.
THE LYING FRENCH, VOL MCXXX
Tsunami-hit Thais told: Buy six planes or face EU tariffsSo don't believe anything the French say about anything. Much of the aid we sent to Thailand was spent to buy the fucking A380.
TSUNAMI-struck Thailand has been told by the European Commission that it must buy six A380 Airbus aircraft if it wants to escape the tariffs against its fishing industry.
While millions of Europeans are sending aid to Thailand to help its recovery, trade authorities in Brussels are demanding that Thai Airlines, its national carrier, pays Ł1.3 billion to buy its double-decker aircraft.
6/18/2005
GERMAN MEN RETAIN THE RIGHT TO SEXUALLY HARASS WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE
An industrial tribunal in the western city of Wuppertal ruled the provisions were in breach of worker rights.German males can't beat anybody anywhere but they sure as hell can beat those snotty frauleins.
Europe turns against Chirac....Italy now weighs in on the arrogant frog, calling for Italy to allign with the Brits.....
Italian newspapers Friday laid into France's President Jacques Chirac, labelling him an obstacle to the course of the European Union and calling on Italy to swing over to Britain's vision of the future of the bloc.From the looks of things, Jacques has pushed around his last patsy.
The economic daily Il Sole 24 Ore, in a hard-hitting front-page editorial, called the French leader "the enemy of the EU," while Confindustria, organ of the Italian employers' federation, said Chirac should take the first step to get Europe out of its current deadlock, by resigning and vanishing from the political stage.
A baseball comment: went to an Angel game at Anaheim Stadium with my son last nite and found the experience totally different from Dodger Stadium. Everybody is very polite at every concession stand. Ushers too, and very helpful. Great looking women abound (and I mean 9s all over the place). The stadium is really a pleasure to look at and enjoy with a ton of high tech scoreboards and so on. A laid back sense of community I haven't experienced in a long time. Then there is the crowd---the place was nearly full---unlike most every LA sporting event where people leave during the 7th inning, early fourth quarter, before the curtain calls no matter what the score or performance---almost nobody left the stadium til the end of the game. Some reasons: the place is very easy to enter and leave (no traffic jams believe it or not), no drunken fans, a team that has a reputation of pulling games out of the fire in the ninth inning===they won last night in the tenth inning---and a fireworks display after the game that at least a third of the families stayed for. Baseball is far from dead if Anaheim Stadium is an example. I felt like I was in Kansas City, St. Louis, Pittsburg, or any of the smaller cities in the country. And I had a good time.
Now for a comment that many will consider racist: all the concession workers were white. No nasty blacks, indifferent Mexicans, or surly resentful minority group ushers anywhere. It is my experience in SoCal that wherever white poeople deal with the public the experience is pleasant; local city government especially. Wherever you deal with minorities, especially Blacks, you can expect slow (the Plantation Shuffle), an indifference that may mask stupidity---and blatent hostility. So there. I heard one guy in a slow moving line last week say: "The only thing these assholes can do fast is run." I'd say that about sums it up. Anyway the white manned Anaheim Stadium is clean, fast, polite, and too cool. Late Add: the Angels won in the bottom of the tenth again on Saturday. Pretty good reason to stay til the end.
6/17/2005
BTW there is more than good buzz about the new Batman movie. Batman??? I loved the first one, the rest have been a total waste of time. But bbbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Even the movie reviewer from hell likes it. But critical praise usually means one boring fucking movie for the rest of us.
Lite blogging today---got to put that Virgin Mary condum on E-Bay.
REAL ESTATE BUBBLE? VOL 2
Interest only loans. The exotic woman across the room. You fall in love before you say "hello." Are you fucking crazy? If you only pay interest you are paying rent. You don't own your home. You will only own that portion of the home that accounts for the difference in the price paid and the new valuation later IF real estate values rise. The bank is gambling that your home value will continue to soar. So are you.
How pervasive are these "loans?" San Luis Obispo Tribune:
Interest-only loans financed nearly 70 percent of the home purchases in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties during the first two months of this year....Why are people doing this? Because they can't afford a house any other way. Housing prices are too high. So you go for the exotic "deal." You can't afford to buy. Everybody is speculating. But what's exotic about that? I understand that.
The statistics were similar in San Jose, where interest-only loans accounted for 61 percent of home mortgages in January and February, up from 9 percent three years ago
Exotic #1: Pile atop the interest only loan the term "adjustable rate." This means if rates rise, so do your interest only payments. Your payments could rise to the point where you have to sell your house. But it isn't yours. So.....
Exotic #1A: Not only can the interest only payment rise, but at some point---usually within a few years---you are going to have to start making payments on the principal. Those payments can drive you out of your home and into bankruptcy.
So here's the "deal" you grab. You buy a home that would cost you $1,200 per month at current rates of 3.5% BUT there is a "deal" out there that allows you to pay interest only. Since you are paying interest only, and the interest on this "deal" is only 5.5%. You are making payments of only $700 per month instead of nearly $1,200 per.
"But wait a minute," you say, "Isn't 5.5% higher than 3.5%?"
"It only seems that way to the unsophisticated," oozes Larry the Lender. "5.5% over five years of interest only, results in lower payments. How do you think Bill Gates got to where he is? Just sign it."
BUT, once the introductory period ends your payments will jump to $1,900 per month (see below). Guess where you'll be living then unless you have sold at a profit?
Exotic#1B: There is virtually no interest rate cap on the "adjustable." It can top out at 19%.
Exotic#1C: Once you have to begin repaying the principal you are actually refinancing your loan back to a standard 30-year mortgage. Translation: you are taking out a brand new loan. But in addition to paying closing costs on the new loan, you also must pay a $4,500 prepayment penalty to get out of the old one.
So, just like Long Term Capital Management and some of the other "exotic" hedge funds of a few years ago, there is more than meets the eye; there are also things very sophisticated that seemingly have nothing to do with your loan.
But they do.
Exotic #1D: All home loans are repackaged (securitized) and then sold in the bond market in a package with 50 or 100 other home loans. The bank attempts to avoid the risk in the loan by selling the loans to someone else and making a quick profit. They will use that profit to loan more money. These bonds are quoted each Saturday in Barron's. They are known as MBRs) There are also REITS, REMICS, and a fucking ton of "derivitives."ą
BUT when a home loan that has been placed in a bond portfolio becomes "non performing" that loan must be replaced with another loan that is performing.
If there are too many home loan defaults the bank will not have performing loans to replace the non performers. This means a collapse of the bond market. Overnight you would see interest rates rise exponentially. Everyone in these "interest only" loans will see their payments go through the roof.
It is a serious problem in some places in this country. That's why Greenspan is worried, he recognizes that we are building an economy based on high risk debt. Can't last folks. Can't last.
ą To see a Goldman Sachs example of securitized home loans go HERE
UAW COULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT GM PROBLEMS
With GM struggling to reduce its massive health care bill, totaling $5.6 billion this year, many of the company's 360,000 retired hourly workers are rattled by reports that the automaker believes it has the right to cut their benefits without an agreement with the union.About ten or so years ago many auto analysts asked the question: "Can anyone make money with a UAW contract?" Looks like we all have our answer, but the number of people involved is truly staggering. Probably a million people in total. Socialized medicine here I come. Not even one of the world's biggest companies can afford these lavish health care programs. Afford is the key. GM is threatening to unilateraly cut bennies, and from the undertone of the reporting one can infer that the UAW leadership sees the problem but cannot act against an almost unanamous union opinion, an opinion that has been festering for most of the member's lives. They hate GM, always hated their jobs, and the only reason they kept working was the benefits. Stay tuned, this is much bigger than is being reported nationally.
After losing $1.1 billion in the first quarter, GM is seeking health care cost reductions by June 30 and is frustrated with the pace of the UAW's cooperation. The union has refused GM's request to reopen their national contract to revise benefit terms.
KEEP YOUR KIDS OUT OF ARUBA
Note: remarks from the Dutch that they can't be "cowboys" is a slap at this country (Bush the Cowboy) and a pathetic attempt to cover their own inadequacies regarding the investigation. They not only botched it, let evidence decay, allowed evidence to be tampered with, showed criminal favoritism for well off locals, but in the process let everyone know that Aruba is a "Law Enforcement Free Zone." Nobody with any brains at all will let their kids vacation there alone. Cancun, where the cops stay a few blocks away from the "party zone" and where the vacationing kids number in the tens of thousands, has no such problems. Neither does Puerta Vallarta, where the AK-47 touting Federales patrol the streets in threes. Only the Democrat Hippies think police are pigs, to the rest of us they are absolutely necessary.
There is an ongoing culture war between Americans who are ashamed of this nation's history and those who acknowledge with sorrow its many sins and are fiercely proud of it anyway. Proud of the 17th century settlers who threw their entire lives overboard and set sail for religious freedom in their rickety little ships. Proud of the new nation that taught democracy to the world. Proud of its ferocious fight to free the slaves, save the Union and drag (lug, shove, sweat, bleed) America a few inches closer to its own sublime ideals. Proud of its victories in two world wars and the Cold War, proud of the fight it is waging this very day for freedom in Iraq and the whole Middle East.I'd hate to see this rag turn into an actual news paper; it would spoil my fun. Maybe the editor is away in drug rehab and things will return to normal in a week or so.
If you are proud of this country and don't want its identity to vanish, you must teach U.S. history to your children. They won't learn it in school. This nation's memory will go blank unless you act.
6/16/2005
THE BEST WRITER ON THE WEB
J.D. one of my long time fans has read my piece on boring blogs and suggested I go here to relieve the boredom......Holy shit. What a writer. Not the SOS, and that's for sure. Might offend though so be forewarned...... Gets even better as you read along because this guy can really write. As in really write. Like reading Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) if he was writing today. If blogdom is headed in this direction it's going to be a fun ride.......Hurry on over there, this guy cannot be allowed to live.
And I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you haven't made BET Jazz one of your favorite TV channels you're missing great jazz. None (almost none) of that fucking bop. Everything swings. Just the best. It's truly color blind. Can you play is the only criteria.
FILIBUSTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED TO JUSTIFY MURDER
The Senate filibuster allowed the Senate to fail its "minimum and most basic of federal responsibilities" to those who were "deprived of life, human dignity, and the constitutional protections accorded all citizens of the United States." As Mary Landrieu, the Louisiana Democrat who sponsored the resolution, said, the Senate was "uniquely culpable" for Washington's failure to protect U.S. citizens from a type of domestic terrorism often orchestrated by local authorities. What wasn't said is that the Senate was "uniquely culpable" because it cherished the filibuster — a procedural rule that enhances each member's individual power — over the Constitution. The Senate's failure to acknowledge the cause of its homicidal negligence robs its apology of much meaning or sincerity.Hey, Hitler built great roads and even the LA Times can publish some truth once in a while. Kill the filibuster. Kill it.
THE NOW BORING NEW MEDIA
A SECRET ARMY WITHIN OUR BORDERS THAT SEEKS OUR DESTRUCTION
We've all heard or read about Senator Dick Durban's (D Il) rant on the Senate floor comparing Gitmo to Gulags and Nazi concentration camps. But what did the FBI memo he allegedly quotes actually say?
This is a trick. The FBI memo is quoting terrorist prisoners. The focus is upon "disrespecting" the Quran.
Declassified FBI records showed that as early as April 2002 detainees at the US prison in Cuba had denounced the treatment of the Qur'an by guards.The hard left (traitorous) communist gang, including especially the ACLU, is only releasing "excerpts" from the FBI report. This report clearly quote terrorists and only terrorists. Using this standard everybody on Death Row should be released tomorrow. Every one of us that goes before a judge should be released. Keep in mind that this is the same gang of political perverts and philosophical unuchs who would release all the MS-13 criminals tomorrow as well. Their purpose is the destruction of the U.S.
"Their behaviour is bad," one detainee is quoted as saying in July 2002. "About five months ago the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Qur'an in the toilet."
They are the modern day Fifth Column, the perfect description of this popular front crowd of Hate America Firsters. The term comes from the Spanish Civil War and is credited to a general Vidal (not exactly Gore Vidal but a start) who had four columns of troops ready to pounce on Madrid but said that the militant supporters within the city represented a "fifth column" that would assure the defeat of his foes.
A fifth column is a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders. That is what the Liberals/Left/"progressives" are. Make no mistake.
It includes most of the MSM, academia, and Hollywood; they attack us every day in every way. What is revealing about Durbin is that he's not backing off. He has tons of support. He obviously believes that he represents a majority point of view and intends to continue.
FRANCE AND GERMANY WILL BE NICE FOR MONEY
French leaders insist 'Britain must pay more'
Schroeder prepares for cash battle at crunch EU summit
No going back on EU expansion plans: Fischer
Germany backs French 'no' on cutting subsidies
And it goes on like that. It looks like France and Germany are flexing what is left of their muscles. We will see. It looks like the EU actually means all of Europe must support France and Germany.
THE HOUSING BOOM OR WATCH YOUR ASSES
The real estate boom of the last several years has been rocket fueled by the lowest interest rates in half a century combined with printing money (increasing the money supply). The Fed did this to get us out of the recession they created when they raised rates too high. Everybody refied their existing homes at the low rates. And what did we do with the cash? Spent it of course. On cars, boats, furs, and "debt reduction" Economy goes boom. A word here about "debt reduction"---paying off credit cards and high interest car loans--the data indicate that while some debts were paid off we apparently went right back into debt even deeper. Debt has grown at four times GDP since 2000 and the "money supply" has grown 20% per year over 2000 through the 2001 period.....a 40% growth in the amount of money out there for us to piss away.
The result of this cheap money boom is a staggering increase in the "value" of homes in many states. Since January of 2000 California housing prices have more than doubled; take that you stock market dummies. In the extreme Northeast housing prices are up 74%, plus 68% in NY and PA, while the coastal corridor from there to the south has produced gains of 57%. Prices in the rest of the country are up around 30%.
I only mention this because as rates rise we will be attracting capital to this country from outside that will hopefully invest in businesses. Hopefully---again---the housing market will cool and not freeze over. Those of you who have been "flipping" but haven't done so lately may be in for a shock. Now for the really bad news.....
The term is "exotics" like in babes too fucking gorgeous to touch because you know fucking well you aren't good enough for them. You just instinctively know the bitch will dump your worthless ass for somebody better the first chance she gets. If only you felt the same way about these "exotic" home loans. Trust me, you ain't good enough for most of them but far too many of you are in them. These include "interest only" loans for the first months or years, adjustable rate mortgages that adjust for reasons other than the 30 year bond, and reverse mortgages. The rule in finance is: if you can't explain it to your ten year old in 30 seconds so that the kid understands it, don't do it. The Fed is screaming because 30% of current mortgages are "exotic." This means the banks are speculating in the housing market and if all of a sudden too many people can't pay......the banks have no money. Which means business has no money. Which means an economic situation that could turn more than ugly. Watch your assets.
6/15/2005
-Not allowed to threaten anyone with black magic.List goes on....and on.....and on. BTW I have corrected the link to Soldier's Angel.
-Not allowed to challenge anyone's disbelief of black magic by asking for hair.
-Not allowed to add “In accordance with the prophesy” to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
-Not allowed to add pictures of officers I don't like to War Criminal posters.
Add: I share with millions of fellow Californians in that NONE of us knew a Tsunami warning had been issued until hours after the warning was cancelled. TV was running a
MAJOR NEWS COVERUP OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY STORY
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FOX News continues their practice of blacking out their own news stories---CASE IN POINT: Geraldo let go with a bombshell report on the Aruba "missing person" Natalee Holloway. He stated that Joran Van Der Sloot, the white boy in the case, has had real rage problems, anger management therapy, and is considered a terror by locals. The FOX blackout includes not naming the white kid who most likely did the deed. FOX is really not to be trusted any more. The Blogger News Network lets FOX have it too...
Fox reported that Van der Sloot is alleged to have thrown someone through a plate glass window in Aruba sometime within the past year. They also stated there was no police record to support that allegation.More and more this story looks like a major coverup by all the usual MSM suspects. There are other reports of young women meeting guys at Carlos and Charlie's and then being raped on the beach. A Boston TV station is also reporting on the "rapes" in Aruba---all meetings take place in Carlos and Charlie's and drunkeness seems a part---and hinting at more things. Still another TV report tells of another woman who has been missing since 1998 who "met some guys," went to Carlos and Charlie's and has never been seen again. There is another web page displaying pictures of the white kid giving gang signs, and reports that his brother declared on his website that his occupation was "pimp."
Van der Sloot was also characterized as a bully and presented as someone who might take advantage of his size and his Father's government position. Also suggested was that he had an "anger management" problem. However, no psychological records or formal reports were offered to support those statements.
They also pointed to his apparent indulgence in underage drinking, gambling and driving. As I recall, those aspects of her character were more than well-documented on his website. It seemed unusual to come across a picture where Van der Sloot and friends didn't have a drink in their hands, or were pictured outside of a club or casino.
A Birmingham paper reports that Van Der Sloot got into a shoving match with friends of Holloway in the bar. Further that there were 124 kids on the tour, not just the four girls. A second report---same link-- in the paper says that ALL the kids who went on the tour are refusing to talk to the paper or anyone else.
I'd suggest that there is a major coverup by too dam many people in this case, and the MSM is a big part of it. This appears to be a case of date rape getting out of hand AND that these locals do this all the time. All the time.
BANG BANG FOR BOEING
The A380 is all about waiting. Waiting to board, waiting to connect, waiting to get your luggage, waiting to get to your destination.This is a victory for the USA as well as for Boeing. And I am assuming that our government is helping Boeing out big time, perhaps through bloated defense spending. We cannot afford to lose business to a bunch of Frogs, Krauts, and Dutch Dope Fiends.
"The generator of hatred, revulsion, and cruelty is like a generator of energy; it explodes if internal pressure rises. That is what happens to the poor Muslim when he is exposed to the enormous pressure of the religious people in our country, which is far greater than that to which people of other religions in the world are exposed. While for the Christian it is enough to make the sign of the cross, which only takes one second, the Muslim is required to be a mechanical instrument, performing the same action every day. He is required to go to the mosque five times a day, and is required to constantly read the Koran, and to force himself to weep if he cannot weep, and to spend an entire work day in the mosque. No one can make him work so long as he is reading the Koran and reciting endless supplications and devotions. [Such recitations] accompany his every motion and position, from the moment he gets up at dawn to the moment he retires to the conjugal bed...That this could be published and the writer not killed speaks volumes of what MAY be going on in the Middle East.
"There is a barrier separating the [Muslim's] mind from the real world around him, so that he falls into a state of constant hallucination and, as a result, loses the capacity to distinguish between good and evil. He only recognizes the value of halal and haram [i.e., permissible vs. prohibited] according to the Islamic point of view. Muslims are burdened with many repressive restrictions… Freedom of thought and expression are fenced in by Islamic restrictions …"
6/14/2005
INTERNET PRICES TO BE HIGHER THAN LOCAL RETAIL? MAYBE
6/13/2005
The real state of Canadian Health care has been common knowledge to most of us on the Right for years, while people on the left totally believe that the Canadian system is near perfect. They believe that becuase the MSM has been preaching that Gospel for years. Maxed Out Mama links to this latest evaluation, but there have been a hundred others. For a sickening list of MSM lying praise, go to this Google link. When this Fraser Report came out a year or so ago every MSM outlet attacked it. Later, most in Canada admitted the report was truel
The Canadian decision will facilitate a national healthcare system in the U.S. that will mean the system remains the same but pretends to be something different.
As a practical matter the rich will always find a way, as will politicians and "special cases" like the cops and the military. "Special cases" will spread to include every victim group under the sun leaving us with a federally funded health care system for the lower middle class on down who will demand every esoteric medical procedure, diagnostic test, and endless hospitalization under the sun. INCLUDING private care. All on our dime of course.
6/12/2005
IF HER PARENTS LIVED IN A TRAILER NOBODY WOULD CARE
Those of us in the middle class are affected by this, and only the middle class. We have the money to send our kids to Paradise for a few days. We think, "it could happen to us. How can we protect our daughter when we send her to Rio next year?"
Who would care about a ghetto Black missing on her way to the local 7-11? Or a poor white girl with parents living in a trailer who vanishes on her way to the prom? We have a middle class society and that middle class has to be fed news that affects them or they will switch channels.
DEAN IS TELLING IT LIKE IT IS
When you take an actual poll of likely voters, the difference is bigger: 70% to 30% in favor of the Dems. The Democrats are using new polls that show a white Christian coalition versus a non-white and / or non-Christian coalition. It clearly shows that the non-white/non Christian group is gowing in numbers. The white Christian group shrinking. In other words the Non White/ Non Christian voting group is about to become the dominant group.
The GOP is winning 60% of a group that is shrinking by the day in terms of the percentage of the voting population. On the other hand the Democrats are winning a huge 70% of the non-Christian (secular-Atheist) part of the electorate. Worse, the white-Christian under 40 group is dropping in numbers by an astonishing degree.
Almost 60% of Democratic voters are non-white and / or non-Christian. By comparison, less than 25% of Republican voters fit that description. That is a shocking difference in diversity.Another thing the Deaniacs are looking at is the literal eradication of the Christian religion. This is aided by the ACLU stomping on all Christian expressions everywhere--Christmas, Easter, displays of the cross, etc.---and the child abuse scandals within the Catholic Church.
According to the American Religious Identification Survey study by CUNY, in 1990, 24.215 million adult Americans were estimated to be in the "non-Christian" group. In 2001, 48.467 million adult Americans were estimated to be in this group. Not only did this group double in size over that eleven-year period, it actually represented 75% of the total increase in the adult population over those eleven years. And I repeat: Kerry won 86% of the new voters in this demographic in 2004.In case you don't read Hugh Hewitt go HERE. I think this is exactly what the Democrats want and what Bush is allowing to happen. This post rings true to me and I think we are about to see the end of the GOP because whites and Christians combined are about to become a minority. A detailed breakdown can be found at this site.
DEAN IS RIGHT AND THE DEMOCRATS KNOW IT. They have now come out in support. The white-Christian coalition is toast. It's a minority to be crushed by the non-white atheist coalition. Period.
6/11/2005
U.S. runs a Gulag: Amnesty International.
Best roundup of all the prisoner abuse stuff is HERE by Heather MacDonald. Another great piece. Another well written piece that all can understand.
6/10/2005
This is an edited copy of an email I received from a totally reliable source with a resume' that would knock your socks off. He has asked me to keep him anonymous, and I will. He has sent me to sources before that were right on. In a nutshell he, as did the comment guy who pointed out the errors in the laundry and other facts, says that there isn't nearly the corruption I stated in my piece, that the Vanity Fair article was a hit piece---using Waxman as a prime source is the tip off----and the reportorial research was selective (what?) Here is the letter:
The very same sorts of things took place when DynaCorp had the Balkans LOGCAP (contract) - where was Waxman then? Likewise, and the article fails to note this, the Clinton Administration awarded the LOGCAP to KBR.
The ties between KBR and Halliburton are clear. (I once drove a truck for
Halliburton in my pre-college days - I earned every penny of my wages.) The current ties between Cheney and KBR are not.
One of the exemptions to competition under the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) is for National Emergencies. Wartime counts. Whatever internal politics were driving the Army Corps of Engineers to make the selection, the fact is that no one has ever successfully challenged the awarding of the contracts. That was legal.
What is also clear is that in a war zone, you don't get the same prices you
would get if you were purchasing small amounts on the open market. They
aren't any Costco's there who can sell to us in box car loads. It is simply
supply and demand. If we drive demand up, and factor in the danger of
delivery the price goes much higher than it would otherwise - and don't
forget the bite.
Yes, the LOGCAP agreements are cost plus. The risk of price increase fallscompletely on the government, but they are cost plus precisely because the government cannot forecast with ANY certainty what the prices will be at an unfixed future point under unknown conditions in an as yet to be determined location. No contractor would bid if it were a firm fixed price contract -the risk of loss is too great.The reason LOGCAP is used, is simply to free up marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen to engage in warfighting, rather than support functions. To me, it is worth the money. 3% profit for working in a war zone is reasonable as Hell. I grant you that the bite is alive and well in Iraq - but we have a nation to build, and certain practices can be negotiated once the shooting stops.
So there. I have now deleted what was an inaccurate post.
6/9/2005
MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING
a slanted history lesson, a didactic lecture on the meaning of liberty in a post-9/11 world. They will be served up a heaping foreign policy discussion over the greater meaning of Abu Ghraib and what it portends for the country and the rest of the world.---DEBRA BURLINGAME in yesterday's JournalPLEASE, GET INVOLVED IN THIS ONE
Have to agree on a couple of things. First I have worked all over the MME for 20 years. Hotel costs currently run from $144/night(Syria) to $210/night Kuwait. Laundry - there aint no such thing as laundramats over here. When I was in Suadi we had to go back to our parent company and get additional funding for laundry costs as they were running between $40 and $50 per week and that was for a couple of pairs of jeans and shirts, and maybe five pairs of socks and scivvies. That said, of course there is scamming on the contracts. It's the way of business over here just as you pointed out.I wish he'd post all over because he sounds right. Thanx, Anonymous.
THE BAKSHISH KIDS
Whether you call it mordida (the bite), un pot-de-vin, or just bribery, nowhere on the planet is it as universal as in Middle East. There, under the term "bakshish", it controls every form of business or government service. You cannot get a job without bakshish, roads don't get built, you can't sell so much as a date on the street without bakshish.
Buy stock? Oh no! A powerful person (or people)simply takes 10% of the stock and agrees to pay for the stock when the accrued dividends match the stock price at time of "purchase"; in addition he gets a seat on the board of directors PLUS a salary. In exchange, the business won't have tariff problems, labor problems, or any problems. Judges take money from both sides and routinely rule in favor of the biggest bribe (he keeps both bribes); hospitals have two sections, one for the people who have paid a bribe and one for those who have not.
Hospital doctors are the ones who paid the most in bribes to the government guy in charge of hospitals, business executives are where they are only because of bakshish, army officers, artists whose works are shown, and so on, pay bakshish. It seeps into every facet of society. This has been going on for thousands of years. When you pair bakshish with the "shame/honor" of the society at large you have hell on earth. Any criticism of a doctor puts shame on the doctor. To regain his "honor" he will go to the guy above him, the one to whom he paid bakshish in order to get his job in the first place, and the guy above him will go after the complainer and perhaps put him in jail. Nobody cares if the patient dies....unless the patient had paid bakshish to somebody much higher than either of them, etc., etc., etc.
It is a nightmare because any complaint is shame. Praise is honor. Everyone walks the line of shame, honor, bribery. Naturally everybody lies in that society. It is the only way a man can stay alive. The main reason everyone comments on the extreme politeness of Arabs is that every word is measured in honor/shame/bakshish. Who are you really? This is who I am (pretend). This food is good (because I might be killed). Everyone honors everyone and lies like hell to get what they may want. If your son wants a government job and goes to your tribal leader to ask for one the tribal leader cannot say "no", because a "no" would shame both his family and his position as leader of the tribe. He has to "see what I can do". Then he may have to go to the head of another tribe who works in the correct section of the government. Haggling is done. If the government guy already "owes" a favor then the deal can be done relatively quickly, perhaps for a consideration later. Otherwise a deal must be made so that nobody is shamed. The unqualified kid becomes an official for the right consideration and everybody has honor. The parents of the kid "owes", the kid "owes", the tribal leader looks strong, the father of the kid looks like a strong parent and so on. It is a society built on lies.
Right now we are in a place where the Saudi family tells Americans one story and a completely different one to the Arabs on TV at home. This is normal. Nothing wrong with it. What is really going on? Honor is going on. The Arab people know what was told to Americans and by telling the opposite story to them on TV the Saud family shows "honor" by both lying to the Americans and getting away with it. But suppose the Saudis told us the truth and lied to their own people? That's OK too, the Saud prince shows he can conduct smart business. The Saudis may have made a secret deal with Powell by telling Powell that they would have to lie to their people but that they are telling the truth to Powell.
Get it? Arabs lose wars because their generals are only there because of bakshish. Their scientists are there for the same reason. There is not one aspect of their lives where competence is the criteria for position. Period.
Except for Terrorists, that is one part of life where killing is the only criteria.
Arab society is a tribal society where it's family and tribe über alles. Within these groupings the most important things for any Arab (Middle Eastermer) are honor, shame, and respect. It is in their tribal context that the Arab functions and it is the tribal system that is always first in an Arab's mind. The Muslim religion allows for this, because just as the early Catholic Church accommodated to the Pagan Gods of Rome and Greece, Islam had to accommodate to tribal ethos from Pakistan to the Sudan.This is a tough deal. Very tough.
6/8/2005
Just in: Babysitter Has Twelve year old Boy Use Sex Toy on Her....son of a bitch, when I was 12 a sex toy was a kitten. Link to Dumbass Daily
6/7/2005
While not a correction, a supplement to my post regarding Cece Connally on FOX last night: Brit Hume corrected everything tonight.
PERFECT EXAMPLE OF LIBERALISM
MEXICO CITY, May 13, 2005-Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico Ernesto Luis Derbez Bautista today signed a partnership arrangement to improve access to USDA rural development programs for eligible Mexicans in the United States.Go to Immigration Blog and read the first two pieces there. An add is that 200 Mexicans wanted for murder of U.S. citizens in the U.S. are being shielded by Mexican authorities. The Phoenix News reports that the figure is closer to 4,000, but these are various warrants not people. Gracias, Jorgé, you will be remembered.
"USDA looks forward to continuing to work with Mexican authorities to enhance outreach to the Mexican community," said Johanns. "USDA administers 43 rural development programs designed to assist rural residents and communities increase their economic opportunities and improve their quality of life. Expanding access to these programs in underserved communities in need, especially the Hispanic community, is a priority for the Bush Administration."
6/6/2005
FEEL LIKE A FOOL IF YOU GAVE YOUR TEEN DAUGHTER AN ORAL SEX LECTURE
Oh yeah, then there is spiritual advice from atheists who vomit their bullshit all over every PBS channel that will have them. They are the absolute worst.
I find that many Catholic sites in particular are a lurking spot for people hiding from everything. They are so full of shit they use toilet paper to wipe their brows. I think you will find the current list really good. Today's sermon comes from Fresno, and you'll find it pretty dam good. For the more contemplative among you I suggest you visit HERE. A sample:
Bring Out Your Dead:He then gives quite a view about cultural relativism.
Touring Corpses and the Yuck Factor-----In his Histories, Herodotus, the first Western historian, relates a curious anecdote about the Persian king Darius. Gathering a group of Greeks who were presently at his court, the king asked them what they would take to eat the dead bodies of their fathers. They replied that no sum of money would entice them to commit such a despicable act. As Herodotus relates the story:He then sent for certain Indians, of the race called Callatians, men who eat their fathers, and asked them, while the Greeks stood by, and knew by the help of an interpreter all that was said, -- “What he should give them to burn the bodies of their fathers at their decease?” The Indians exclaimed aloud, and bade him forbear such language. Such is men’s wont herein; and Pindar was right, in my judgment, when he said, “Custom is the king o’er all.”Cultural relativism may not be sovereign over all but it does appear to rule over matters concerning the dead.
A detainee who has assaulted GTMO guards on numerous occasions and crafted a weapon in his cell, stated that he can either go back home and kill as many Americans as he possibly can, or he can leave here in a box; either way it's the same to him.Another nice tid bit from these poor maltreated innocents....
A detainee with ties to UBL, the Taliban, and Chechen mujahideen leadership figures told another detainee, “Their day is coming. One day I will enjoy sucking their blood, although their blood is bitter, undrinkable…”None of this in the MSM. What a surprise.
MIGHTY IRAQ, IT COULD HAPPEN
A little side bet here: when the Iraqis really take over, like when they actually run their own security, I predict that they will just start killing all the terrorist cocksuckers on sight. Our system of government is not their history. Mudville has a posting up about how more police graduated from police school and how "we" got a bunch of guns out of a mosque while respecting their rights. You just know the Iraqis, if left to their own devices, would have shot the place up and eaten fried imam for dinner. One of the dangers of training these guys is that we have trained a potentially lethal force, one much better trained and equipped than the one Saddam had, and that these bad boys can be led. Just imagine your streets patrolled by Special Forces guys who are totally corrupt and you have what Iraq could easily become. Remember, we basically equipped the Taliban with all good intentions. We have to do it in Iraq, but we may be sorry. Very sorry.
For a better insight to the slanting of the news go HERE. It is a site put up by a guy running for a spot on the Newspaper Guild Union board. He is challenging the president of said union---35,000 members composed of journalists and media workers--- who is charging that the U.S. Military is deliberately shooting journalists. (Courtesy Malkin) Here we have a UNION of reporters supporting this anti-US slut. This story is getting some play on strictly Conservative Webs and blogs. The Left slant still rules in spite of the facts that the average circulation decline among 684 US daily papers is averaging 1.9% in the past year. In some places it is catastrophic—Baltimore Sun down 11.5%, Los Angeles Times down 6.4%, Cleveland Plain Dealer down 5.2%, and the Chicago Tribune down 6.6%. Sunday papers are fairing worse with an average decline of 2.5%. This is the biggest drop in the last five years. And no one is forecasting a turnaround yet which is a hopeful sign.
P.S. I bet Linda Foley, the president of the Newspaper Guild, gives great head. She sure isn't available to anyone anywhere because an "organized right wing campaign" has clogged her phone, email, and office.
6/5/2005
BLOGGERS WANT THE RIGHT TO RAISE MONEY IN SECRET, HIDE BEHIND FAKE NAMES WHEN MAKING ACCUSATIONS
If you want to write a letter to the FEC just like Glenn Reynolds (defender of stealing music from artists), Kos (he of the radical left who secretly took money from the Left for a while), Duncan Black (who wrote two blogs using different names and secretly took money for saying the "right" things on one of them) and the other pack of self serving ego maniacs who want to be a special case when it comes to cheating, just write away. The excuse for this massive excercise in mendacity is "welcome to the wild wild west of the blogosphere." It is exactly this type of secret fund raising, anonymous writings (and accusations) together with endless linking to other sites, many of whom are anonymous with no assurance that said linking is not paid for, are the types of blogs that the FEC wants to expose. Were you to find out I was getting cash under the table from the American Nazi Party you'd be pissed, and rightly so. If it turned out that I was also influencing debate, then I am basically a foreign agent.
That's what I'm telling the FEC. Nothing is as hypocritical as these bloggers attacking places like the NYT while they engage in massive fraud. I'm for full disclosure. All the time. For everyone. Or else.
NFL All Pro, Jamal Lewis released from Prison will rejoin Ravens....Florida Correctional Institue faces dismal season. With the loss of All Pro Jamal Lewis, FCI faces a season without a single NFL player on their roster. “We were looking forward to being serious contenders for the Federal Prison Championship. Now I just don’t know,” said Associate Warden Snoop Puppy Dog. “Had he wanted to he could have stayed here and played. All he had to do was smash somebody’s teeth down his throat or go after somebody with a knife, but he chose the easy way out and he was released. He’s no man, if you ask me.”
His team mates are bitter to the point of taking revenge. “All that piece of shit thinks about is hisself,” said Ahmad (The Decapitator) Armstrong as he was returned to his prison cell handcuffed and shackled. “He raped us of our dignity just to make the white man happy,” he raged.
Charges of Good Behavior, refusal to take drugs, and having an “attitude” continue to circulate among his former cell mates, some whom who vow to “sodomize his wife in front of his kids,” and other acts of revenge upon Lewis’s family when they get out. The most serious charge made against the “white loving piece of shit” include his refusal to send a note to “Mad Dog” Longbaugh when he was sent to solitary confinement for killing a guard. “Longbaugh needed a support system and that bitch Lewis wouldn’t do shit for him. We will remember,” said convicted child slayer Wyatt Earp.
Lewis said he’ll be at training camp soon.
If Limbaugh really gave a dam about Blacks and their success he'd promote a radio show by someone like those listed in Heather MacDonald's column. But that would mean Blacks might actually contribute something relevant to the political dialogue and we don't want that, do we?
Thanx Rush, this will probably keep the GOP in power for four or so more years.
To fight the entitlement mentality, Williams runs Christamore House, his community agency, with a radical twist: it doesn’t hook people up to welfare. “There are no excuses here. I have no checks to give out. Our thing is: get a job. I don’t use the term, ‘McDonald’s job.’ Five dollars is better than zero. That’s better than you coming here and asking me for a handout.”And then there is this:
Would more youth programs help foster traditional values in kids? I ask. Not a chance, at least without accountability. “We spent $7 trillion on poverty and lost that war a long time ago,” he says. “I don’t have no silver-bullet program,” he adds with typical realism.And if you think Conservatives come off looking good? They only look good in comparison to Communists and Race Hustlers. A terrific and thought---remember that?---provoking article.
6/4/2005
Later, and better, link here, courtesy LGF
6/3/2005
And those pensions to union workers? It ain't just GM and Ford, it is virtually every state, municipality, school district, you name it. This is a financial atomic cloud over the entire country. And if you think these big unions will give anything back, think again.
90% of state and local workers have a defined-benefit pension with a guaranteed payout. But only 24% of people employed in the private sector have such plans. (Most public-sector employees contribute along with employers to their pensions, unlike private-sector workers.) And more of the companies that once offered these benefits -- places like Motorola (MOT ), IBM (IBM ), and Delta Air Lines (DAL ) -- are dropping them for new workers in favor of 401(k)s. Health-care coverage for retirees, a costly perk that companies have been shedding at lightning speed, also remains common in the public realm.Serious shit, guys. Oh, BTW---the UAW led by the always alert Alfred E. Newman, has no intention of backing away from the goodie sty.
Elites try to lesbianize your kids: New TV Series South of Nowhere to Feature a Lesbian Teen. An Ohio teen moves to L.A. with her family and falls for her new best friend in this upcoming drama series aimed at younger teens. Aren't you glad?
And mommies won't be left out of the assault. CBS will present Out of Practice, in prime time. Paula Marshall will play the rug muncher in this rollicking comedy for the entire dysfunctional family. This is main stream network and studio.
THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON
However, was he a good president? Yes for all the things mentioned in the post. No because of his stupid economic policies of wage and price controls--another Left program---that caused a recession so severe that it was nearly a depression. The other contibuting factor was taking us off the gold standard.
But Nixon was assassinated by the MSM, and make no mistake. Johnson links to a wonderful piece by Ben Stein in the Spectator.
He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.
However
I was driving home yesterday afternoon, and I swear this is what I heard on the John and Ken Show, an afternoon drive home time talk radio program in Los Angeles. They were discussing the serious racial problem we have with Mexican Illegals and they played an interview that was taped by ABC news. ABC has killed their own story and has not aired even a part of the interview. The man interviewed (a guy named Gutierrez) is a local racist---MEChA, La Raza---a supporter of our new mayor, and is one of many of his type now roaming the halls of power around here. The interview was a horrid racist attack on governor Schwartzenegger in which Gutierrez repeatedly called him Schwartzenigger. He linked him with the Nazis, and proceeded to describe him as a bigot and not fit to hold office.
Here in jolly old "democratic" Los Angeles there is a news blackout on this interview, as there always is when the elite media does not want us to know what a so-called Liberal has to say. Late Add: American Patrol has part of it up today.
6/2/2005
The actual story broke in the news
A 16-year-old disabled girl was punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in a high school auditorium as dozens of students watched, according to witnesses.but had it not been for local talk radio and bloggers, this horrible crime would have been covered up, in fact it IS still being covered up as I write this. Some Left bloggers are all over it too, indicating that the handling of this case has finally gone over the line with the Left who are expressing rage also. I think the original story is here from a TV station report. The crime took place in late MARCH, and still nobody has taken action. Shocking commentary from people close to school systems elsewhere include this:
Authorities are investigating and no charges have been filed in the alleged attack last month at Mifflin High School. Four boys suspected of involvement were sent home and have not returned to class.
Also, the principal, Regina Crenshaw, was suspended and will be fired for not calling police, school officials said. And three assistant principals were suspended and will be reassigned to other schools. Crenshaw had no comment Tuesday.
I'm outraged too, but not at all surprised. For one thing, multiple boy on one girl blowjob orgies aren't that rare any more, even in school. There is a fine line between manipulation, intimidation and outright force. Stories such as these aren't that rare - developmentally disabled girls are often manipulated and abused in this way in school. So are emotionally vulnerable girls. Once you have kids blowing each other in the school johns in junior high, things get pretty much out of control.So now there is a book out---Rainbow Party---perporting to show kids the "bad side" of blow job parties. Oral sex as a teen pastime has been around SoCal since the late 60s. Girls just think it's OK.
Now, the principal and two NAMED juveniles have been charged a FULL TWO months after everyone knew about the case. I think the School Board of Columbus, who did everything in their power to do nothing, should face Civil Rights charges. Where is Jessie? Where is Sharpton? Where is the ACLU? The entire Left establishment is in hiding. To be fair, most grunts on the Left are pissed and are talking.
6/1/2005
so they won't hump women's legs at cocktail parties
A really super post over at Blackfive that, once again, you will never see on any MSM outlet. The Marine who's letter Blackfive posts, mentions that MSM keeps re-showing old footage claiming it is new. And something I didn't know at all.....
Many of you saw the fraudulent report on FOX regarding the dead civilians at Fallujah hospital - well, as was later reported (after the firing of he producer and photographer) that NEVER happened - people were killed by the insurgents in the area and it was our Marines who came in and made them pay for killing the innocent...He also has a encylopedic list of Military Blogs.
AND THIS ONE will piss you off, I hope.... What this means is that every military blogger is now controlled by the higher ups. Bad day for First Amendment...
Deepening acrimony between the United States and Russia has bubbled into public view, and the idea that a European state is about to emerge has been shattered in the wake of France's rejection of the proposed EU constitution. Caught in the middle are the states of Central Europe, which have historical reasons to view both trends with unease.You have to open an account to read their stuff, but it's free and worth money for a hell of a lot of people. Free registration and newsletter is HERE.
The deepening suspicion in Moscow and the events in France are important andEastern Europe still fears Germany, feeling that they can change their mind on a dime without being immersed in a European Union. Russia is getting very dangerous to them.
interesting to everyone in the world. But for the countries of formerly
communist Central Europe, from the Baltics to the Black Sea, these events
are riveting and ominous. A stalled or fragmenting Europe, coupled with an
increasingly hostile Russia, is their worst nightmare. Europe has not yet
shattered and Moscow has not launched a new Cold War, but what has happened
during these three weeks in May cannot be lightly dismissed. Central
Europeans are people who do not take things like this lightly. History has
taught them that pessimism and realism are one.
The French vote compounds the crisis. Central European countries stood to gain two benefits from the European Union: membership in an extremelyGood stuff. Hope you go there.
prosperous and successful economic entity, and the creation of a
transnational European state that would permanently contain German
nationalism. The Central Europeans saw the EU as a permanent solution to the
German problem.
“So we had the plans and called a local plumber with a three generation resume' of plumbing expertise,” begins this story from an American who lived in France for three years while the woman completed university there.
“So the guy shows up a week late, lays stuff all over the house, and the two of them started to work. A project that should have taken two days took two and a half weeks. That’s because they were lazy, slow, and didn’t show up for work most days.
“When they finally finished it turned out they did the job wrong, used inferior materials, and refused to fix it, claiming the job had been done correctly. So we hired another plumber to fix the bad job. Except when replacement plumbers discovered that they were to fix a bad job done by one of their fellow union members, they all refused."
It gets better. "Me and my husband decided to just do the dam job ourselves. I went to a library and got a book on how to do the job, my husband bought the tools and some pipe and after three days of tearing out all the plumbers work and just one day to install the job correctly, we were told we had to have the job inspected.
The inspector(s) came out and shook their heads, kicked at the floor, and refused to approve our work. We were supposed to call in the original plumber or else they would cite us, which means in France that you do not have use of your own property.”
They sold their house two months later—another horror story—she graduated, and they came back to the states.