My inner mental pendulum keeps on swinging wildly between causing me to deliver polite lecturing rhetoric versus just doing some good old fashioned ranting and raving.
I’m not quite sure where this issue falls on the “Insanity Richter Scale,” but I just have to ask this question…
How in the hell can an illegal alien be legally allowed to have a drivers license?
You got any ideas?
Thank God that the Iowa Supreme Court decided yesterday that in the state of Iowa they (the illegal aliens) didn’t have the “right” to a driver’s license.
“By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
From the Nation/Politics section
The Iowa Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought by two illegal aliens against state officials who refused to issue them driver's licenses, unanimously upholding a lower court ruling that said illegal aliens had no legal right to obtain a license”.
Isn’t that just peachy…a judge has finally decided that someone that is breaking the law with their very presence inside the border of the US has no legal right to the PRIVALEGES enjoyed by the law abiding, taxpaying citizens of this country.
“Filed under the pseudonyms of Juan and Maria Sanchez, a Des Moines couple in their early 30s who have three school-age children and have lived in this country for five years, the suit asserted that the state's refusal to issue the licenses violated rights guaranteed to illegal aliens under both the U.S. and Iowa constitutions.”
“The suit, filed in November 2000, was a class action on behalf of all illegal and undocumented aliens in Iowa who wanted or had sought driver's licenses…
The suit was filed after the couple, whose attorney, Curt Daniels, has refused to identify, received more than $1,000 in traffic tickets over a single weekend. Mr. Daniels said his clients had been targeted by police because they were illegal aliens, and the state should allow them to apply for licenses to drive.”
First things first…the idiot lawyer, Curt Daniels, should be packaged in Tamale wrappers and shipped along with his “visitor worker” clients straight back to Mexico. Esquire Daniels should, in addition, be sentenced to spend a few months in a Mexican house of ill repute were he should be forced to clean bedpans and change linens—without a drivers license—for wasting the court’s time in bringing this lawsuit.
Next question—and this one goes a little deeper--how can Senior and Senora Sanchez have three school aged children when they have only resided in the US for five years?
They dragged their toddlers and infants across the Rio Grande River with them?
If the kids were born in Mexico, they can no more demand that the US taxpayers foot the bill for their children’s education that they can demand legal driving privileges.
“Fourteen states " Alaska, Connecticut, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and West Virginia " permit the issuance of licenses to illegal aliens."
A bill by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, would prevent the federal government from accepting state-issued identifications, including driver's licenses, if the state makes them available to illegal aliens.”
So let me get this straight—if I go out and break a few state laws relating to driving (like speeding) and get too many “points” on my driving record , the state can take away my driving privileges, but if someone breaks a Federal law by entering our sovereign county illegally, they believe that they should be allowed to legally drive in fourteen of our fifty states?
“But Polk County District Judge Joel Novak in Des Moines ruled that the couple had no fundamental right to obtain driver's licenses. In his ruling, Judge Novak said operating a motor vehicle was a privilege that was "not unrestrained."”
As I stated earlier, thank God that the Iowa Supreme Court listened to Judge Novak’s reason...
And I'm not one bit sorry for no Juan.....
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Bill Clinton Has A Wild (blond) Hair
I just watched a Fox News Alert on TV this morning showing the Thailand Prime Minister smoozing with George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton at a press conference.
The scene looked like the promo photos from a tropical golf tournament. Clinton had on an orange Polo shirt, Bush was wearing a Cuban waiter's shirt( I have one like it--I can't remember what it is called,) and the Thai Prime Minister looked like the doorman at the local Thai restaurant in his silky shiny shirt. I guess casual was the theme, but it just wasn't dignified.
And the biggest surprise, Bill's grey locks were tinted BLOND with just a hint of grey in the temples. It is almost as shocking as Kerry's spray-on suntan during the campaign.
You'll have to excuse me, but I'm heading off to Eckard Drugs to buy a package of Grecian Formula for men...
Embarrassed Update: Feb 19, 2005 3:30PM
I was surfing the news sites looking for a picture of Clinton's blond hair and all I could find is this.
I promise I was not lying about the ex-president's hair looking blond in the FOX news piece this morning, as well as his golf shirt looking orange rather than than red like it is in the picture. It must have been the TV lighting for the news conference.
I did a Google News search for pictures from the News conference and none were to be had.
In the words of Emily Latella...never mind...
The scene looked like the promo photos from a tropical golf tournament. Clinton had on an orange Polo shirt, Bush was wearing a Cuban waiter's shirt( I have one like it--I can't remember what it is called,) and the Thai Prime Minister looked like the doorman at the local Thai restaurant in his silky shiny shirt. I guess casual was the theme, but it just wasn't dignified.
And the biggest surprise, Bill's grey locks were tinted BLOND with just a hint of grey in the temples. It is almost as shocking as Kerry's spray-on suntan during the campaign.
You'll have to excuse me, but I'm heading off to Eckard Drugs to buy a package of Grecian Formula for men...
Embarrassed Update: Feb 19, 2005 3:30PM
I was surfing the news sites looking for a picture of Clinton's blond hair and all I could find is this.
I promise I was not lying about the ex-president's hair looking blond in the FOX news piece this morning, as well as his golf shirt looking orange rather than than red like it is in the picture. It must have been the TV lighting for the news conference.
I did a Google News search for pictures from the News conference and none were to be had.
In the words of Emily Latella...never mind...
Friday, February 18, 2005
You Got To Check This Out
The Guys over at Strange Women Lying In Ponds pointed me to this Military Blog link:
Fallujah: The Movie
I can't say anything else they haven't already shown in the video...
Fallujah: The Movie
I can't say anything else they haven't already shown in the video...
Thursday, February 17, 2005
If The Shoe Fits--Wear It...
(stopping Political Correctness in it’s tracks)
I’m going on record here….this topic has been gnawing at me for a couple of days now and I finally found the necessary links to the story and enough background to authoritatively address the issue. Sean Hannity has mentioned it and Rush Lindbaugh brought it up today but neither gentleman can speak to the underlying issue like I can.
I ask that you bear with me here because in developing this topic I am going to use some words that many people might find offensive. It is not my intention to offend, but by omitting the words I will limit the effectiveness of this dissertation.
First, let me state that I’m speaking on behalf of an entire group of Americans that I feel infinitely qualified to represent.
I AM A REDNECK—self-proclaimed.
You can’t insult me by calling me a Redneck, because I often use the word Redneck to refer to myself. Further, I am very proud of my Redneck heritage. Some people might view themselves as cultured and enlightened or just might have industrial strength asshole personalities, but for whatever reason they think that they can offend me or define me or embarrass me by calling me a REDNECK, but as the old saying goes…”sticks and stones…”
Do you even know what the real meaning of the word “Redneck” is? Most people don’t—the word is just thrown around loosely and is generally intended as an insult. These people need to get it through their head—I AM NOT INSULTED BY BEING CALLED A REDNECK.
GET IT?
As I understand it, the word ”Redneck” originated as a derogatory term delivered by “city slickers” in reference to “country boys” who relocated to college campuses and urban areas in search of an education or employment. Young men from rural areas had “farmers suntans” that usually resulted in dark faces, arms, feet, and often sunburned necks--thus the term "redneck."
These same young men, like myself, having lived simple rural lifestyles during the first seventeen years of their lives, were not used to things like dinner table silverware settings including four or more forks, foods like caviar and fois gras, and we once considered sushi to be “fish bait.” Well, things can and do change with time, you know?
We (the South Alabama Rednecks) were also amazed that these same urban office dwellers would drive for hours and spend thousands of dollars to visit places like Panama City (The Redneck Rivera) to lounge like lizards on our beaches to get the very same suntan that we got for free. Ever seen a pasty white New York Yankee after two days of drunken sun worshiping beside the Gulf of Mexico? Can you say Lobster?
Any way, a Redneck, by definition, is not automatically stupid; we are just inexperienced and highly willing and able to learn. Like many slang terms, the word Redneck has been adopted by the Redneck population and can be used as a term of endearment (smile when you say that) or as an insult (want a knuckle sandwich?)
If you call me a Redneck, I answer back with “you’re damn right—and damn proud of it…”
Now, getting down to business. Let me say that I DO NOT NEED THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS POLICE AND THE GOVERNMENT DEFENDING ME FROM THE WORD REDNECK!!!
You got that?
No you don’t. Here is the source of my consternation. I seems that on Monday Congressman Charles Rangel called former presidents Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson “Rednecks."
"I don’t have the slightest clue who Hillary really is," the dismayed Harlem Democrat tells New York Magazine this week. "All I see is a gal who knew she was as good as anyone else, and she saw this guy she could make something of, so she forfeited Illinois and went to Arkansas."
Rangel then added, "That’s a hell of a move to make for a redneck, which is all he was."
Asked on Tuesday morning if he really thought Clinton was a redneck, Rangel told WWRL Radio's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter: "Of course he is. He's from Arkansas."
Later in the interview Rangel tried to backpedal, telling Malzberg he thought the Clintons were "terrific people."
"You have to remember, you know, Lyndon Johnson was one of the best presidents we had and he was a redneck out of Texas," he explained.
The congressman's non-pejorative pejorative comes just days after Sen. Clinton stiffed him on the Diallo case, a move the New York Post described on Monday as "a slap in the face to Charles Rangel."
“Without Sen. Clinton's help, Rangel's legislation to grant Kadiatou Diallo and her family permanent resident status crashed and burned in the 2003-04 Congress and has attracted no other support this year.”
I can just see it now...the Political Correctness Police all opened their collective mouths, covered them with their hands, and uttered barely discernable “OH NO’s” in response. Sean Hannity said that his web site was flooded with E-mails demanding that he take up the issue by attacking Rangel for using the “R” word. Rush Lindbaugh talked about it on his show today briefly.
Naturally, since the story involves a white guy talking about another couple of white guys, the main stream media has continued to treat this as a non-story and for once I am damn glad that they are.
If Rangel had called Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton a couple of "fly niggers" the war in Iraq and every other world event would be relegated to page C-13 in the newspapers and theUS Congress would be considering impeachment proceedings.
On behalf of Rednecks everywhere I say, back the hell off of this everybody. I am not offended, and I refuse to see the word Redneck added to the list of slang references to Hebrews, Italians, Germans, Polish, and African Americans that are death-sentence taboos.
Based on history, it will ultimately end up where I can’t even say the word Redneck myself. You see what happened when the KKK adopted the flag of the Confederacy as their symbol? Polite southerners lost in the long run. My great great grandfather lost an arm fighting under St Andrews Cross in Perryville, Kentucky and it really sucks that everyone thinks that I’m a racist if I happen to own a copy of the Confederate Flag. (I do, and I’m not.)
As I said before…I AM A REDNECK, AND I AM PROUD OF IT.
The media and the Political Correctness crowd can all go to hell as far as I am concerned. They are full of crap and there is such an obvious ridiculous double standard when it comes to racial slurs that I want to vomit. If you go to any urban basketball court in Atlanta and sit for five minutes you will hear the black players utter the word “Nigger” fifty times, yet if New Gingrich or Zell Miller or I open my mouth and whisper the “N” word in earshot of a hyper-sensitive politically correct moron or God forbid a microphone we spend the rest of our lives stigmatized from the incident.
So everybody, just stop defending my peers and me. We are quite capable of taking care of ourselves and we don’t need a bunch of pantywaist idiots with notebooks, newspaper columns, or TV shows worrying about our tender feelings.
GOT IT? Now I think that you do…
I’m going on record here….this topic has been gnawing at me for a couple of days now and I finally found the necessary links to the story and enough background to authoritatively address the issue. Sean Hannity has mentioned it and Rush Lindbaugh brought it up today but neither gentleman can speak to the underlying issue like I can.
I ask that you bear with me here because in developing this topic I am going to use some words that many people might find offensive. It is not my intention to offend, but by omitting the words I will limit the effectiveness of this dissertation.
First, let me state that I’m speaking on behalf of an entire group of Americans that I feel infinitely qualified to represent.
I AM A REDNECK—self-proclaimed.
You can’t insult me by calling me a Redneck, because I often use the word Redneck to refer to myself. Further, I am very proud of my Redneck heritage. Some people might view themselves as cultured and enlightened or just might have industrial strength asshole personalities, but for whatever reason they think that they can offend me or define me or embarrass me by calling me a REDNECK, but as the old saying goes…”sticks and stones…”
Do you even know what the real meaning of the word “Redneck” is? Most people don’t—the word is just thrown around loosely and is generally intended as an insult. These people need to get it through their head—I AM NOT INSULTED BY BEING CALLED A REDNECK.
GET IT?
As I understand it, the word ”Redneck” originated as a derogatory term delivered by “city slickers” in reference to “country boys” who relocated to college campuses and urban areas in search of an education or employment. Young men from rural areas had “farmers suntans” that usually resulted in dark faces, arms, feet, and often sunburned necks--thus the term "redneck."
These same young men, like myself, having lived simple rural lifestyles during the first seventeen years of their lives, were not used to things like dinner table silverware settings including four or more forks, foods like caviar and fois gras, and we once considered sushi to be “fish bait.” Well, things can and do change with time, you know?
We (the South Alabama Rednecks) were also amazed that these same urban office dwellers would drive for hours and spend thousands of dollars to visit places like Panama City (The Redneck Rivera) to lounge like lizards on our beaches to get the very same suntan that we got for free. Ever seen a pasty white New York Yankee after two days of drunken sun worshiping beside the Gulf of Mexico? Can you say Lobster?
Any way, a Redneck, by definition, is not automatically stupid; we are just inexperienced and highly willing and able to learn. Like many slang terms, the word Redneck has been adopted by the Redneck population and can be used as a term of endearment (smile when you say that) or as an insult (want a knuckle sandwich?)
If you call me a Redneck, I answer back with “you’re damn right—and damn proud of it…”
Now, getting down to business. Let me say that I DO NOT NEED THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS POLICE AND THE GOVERNMENT DEFENDING ME FROM THE WORD REDNECK!!!
You got that?
No you don’t. Here is the source of my consternation. I seems that on Monday Congressman Charles Rangel called former presidents Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson “Rednecks."
"I don’t have the slightest clue who Hillary really is," the dismayed Harlem Democrat tells New York Magazine this week. "All I see is a gal who knew she was as good as anyone else, and she saw this guy she could make something of, so she forfeited Illinois and went to Arkansas."
Rangel then added, "That’s a hell of a move to make for a redneck, which is all he was."
Asked on Tuesday morning if he really thought Clinton was a redneck, Rangel told WWRL Radio's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter: "Of course he is. He's from Arkansas."
Later in the interview Rangel tried to backpedal, telling Malzberg he thought the Clintons were "terrific people."
"You have to remember, you know, Lyndon Johnson was one of the best presidents we had and he was a redneck out of Texas," he explained.
The congressman's non-pejorative pejorative comes just days after Sen. Clinton stiffed him on the Diallo case, a move the New York Post described on Monday as "a slap in the face to Charles Rangel."
“Without Sen. Clinton's help, Rangel's legislation to grant Kadiatou Diallo and her family permanent resident status crashed and burned in the 2003-04 Congress and has attracted no other support this year.”
I can just see it now...the Political Correctness Police all opened their collective mouths, covered them with their hands, and uttered barely discernable “OH NO’s” in response. Sean Hannity said that his web site was flooded with E-mails demanding that he take up the issue by attacking Rangel for using the “R” word. Rush Lindbaugh talked about it on his show today briefly.
Naturally, since the story involves a white guy talking about another couple of white guys, the main stream media has continued to treat this as a non-story and for once I am damn glad that they are.
If Rangel had called Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton a couple of "fly niggers" the war in Iraq and every other world event would be relegated to page C-13 in the newspapers and theUS Congress would be considering impeachment proceedings.
On behalf of Rednecks everywhere I say, back the hell off of this everybody. I am not offended, and I refuse to see the word Redneck added to the list of slang references to Hebrews, Italians, Germans, Polish, and African Americans that are death-sentence taboos.
Based on history, it will ultimately end up where I can’t even say the word Redneck myself. You see what happened when the KKK adopted the flag of the Confederacy as their symbol? Polite southerners lost in the long run. My great great grandfather lost an arm fighting under St Andrews Cross in Perryville, Kentucky and it really sucks that everyone thinks that I’m a racist if I happen to own a copy of the Confederate Flag. (I do, and I’m not.)
As I said before…I AM A REDNECK, AND I AM PROUD OF IT.
The media and the Political Correctness crowd can all go to hell as far as I am concerned. They are full of crap and there is such an obvious ridiculous double standard when it comes to racial slurs that I want to vomit. If you go to any urban basketball court in Atlanta and sit for five minutes you will hear the black players utter the word “Nigger” fifty times, yet if New Gingrich or Zell Miller or I open my mouth and whisper the “N” word in earshot of a hyper-sensitive politically correct moron or God forbid a microphone we spend the rest of our lives stigmatized from the incident.
So everybody, just stop defending my peers and me. We are quite capable of taking care of ourselves and we don’t need a bunch of pantywaist idiots with notebooks, newspaper columns, or TV shows worrying about our tender feelings.
GOT IT? Now I think that you do…
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Selling Their Souls To The Devil
(I’d Rather Not, but Not Dan Rather)
I have posted frequently on the Dan Rather “Memogate,” “Rathergate,” or “whatever-you-prefer-to-call-it” story ever since it broke back on September 10th, 2004.
I, like most of my fellow bloggers, have a small axe (ok, ok, a really big AXE) to grind regarding the handling of the story by the so-called independent investigation committee that issued their so-called independent report four months later on January 10th of this year.
CBS Executive Producer and 60 Minutes Wednesday Anchor Dan Rather was allowed to retire (next month) and CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves was left standing after the initial round of dust settled.
Mary Mapes, the Texas Air National Guard 60 Minutes segment producer, was outright terminated and three other sacrificial lambs, Betsy West, Joshua Howard, and Mary Murphy were also asked to resign.
Everyone issued a collective sigh of relief and all was supposed to be well in “Main Stream Media Land” as a result—they had most definitely learned their lesson and would never, ever (fingers and toes crossed) let something like this kind of thing ever happen again…snicker…chuckle…
Well, a giant meteor has just hit the ground in New York City, because the “sacrificial lambs” have hired lawyers and might just be “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Just like a lot of death row inmates get a bad case of "prison religion", The New York Observer reports this morning that it seems that the three CBS employees have got a little dose of the Holy Ghost and have seen the errors in the ways of CBS management pushing them out the door.
"Mr. Howard, those sources said, has hired a lawyer to develop a breach-of-contract suit against the network. Ms. Murphy and Ms. West have likewise hired litigators, according to associates of theirs, and all three remain CBS employees and collect weekly salaries from the company that asked them to tender their resignations.
None would agree to participate in this article.
Legally, CBS and the ousted staffers are in an unusual stalemate: The network cannot be sued for breach of contract unless it actually fires them. Theoretically, the network could refuse to offer an apology or correct statements and simply drag its feet, continuing to write paychecks to the trio until their contracts expire. (Neither side would discuss how long the contracts are scheduled to last.)
But Mr. Howard’s complaint about Mr. Moonves’ remarks could pose a serious problem for CBS. Sources close to Mr. Howard said he believes that the report—which was assembled by an outside team of former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and former Associated Press head Louis Boccardi Jr.—contradicts Mr. Moonves’ statement about Mr. Howard’s share of the blame.
Mr. Howard also believes, those sources said, that the report itself excludes evidence that would implicate top management at CBS and restore Mr. Howard’s reputation in the television news business.
A senior official at CBS told NYTV that Mr. Howard’s claims had no basis in fact and that management had only acted on the findings of the report, which the company deemed thorough, accurate and independent."
You got to love it everybody, and I hope that these individuals get their day in court.
But like I said in the beginning, they might just be guilty of…
Selling Their Souls to The Devil
(and people in Hell want ice water)
I have posted frequently on the Dan Rather “Memogate,” “Rathergate,” or “whatever-you-prefer-to-call-it” story ever since it broke back on September 10th, 2004.
I, like most of my fellow bloggers, have a small axe (ok, ok, a really big AXE) to grind regarding the handling of the story by the so-called independent investigation committee that issued their so-called independent report four months later on January 10th of this year.
CBS Executive Producer and 60 Minutes Wednesday Anchor Dan Rather was allowed to retire (next month) and CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves was left standing after the initial round of dust settled.
Mary Mapes, the Texas Air National Guard 60 Minutes segment producer, was outright terminated and three other sacrificial lambs, Betsy West, Joshua Howard, and Mary Murphy were also asked to resign.
Everyone issued a collective sigh of relief and all was supposed to be well in “Main Stream Media Land” as a result—they had most definitely learned their lesson and would never, ever (fingers and toes crossed) let something like this kind of thing ever happen again…snicker…chuckle…
Well, a giant meteor has just hit the ground in New York City, because the “sacrificial lambs” have hired lawyers and might just be “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Just like a lot of death row inmates get a bad case of "prison religion", The New York Observer reports this morning that it seems that the three CBS employees have got a little dose of the Holy Ghost and have seen the errors in the ways of CBS management pushing them out the door.
"Mr. Howard, those sources said, has hired a lawyer to develop a breach-of-contract suit against the network. Ms. Murphy and Ms. West have likewise hired litigators, according to associates of theirs, and all three remain CBS employees and collect weekly salaries from the company that asked them to tender their resignations.
None would agree to participate in this article.
Legally, CBS and the ousted staffers are in an unusual stalemate: The network cannot be sued for breach of contract unless it actually fires them. Theoretically, the network could refuse to offer an apology or correct statements and simply drag its feet, continuing to write paychecks to the trio until their contracts expire. (Neither side would discuss how long the contracts are scheduled to last.)
But Mr. Howard’s complaint about Mr. Moonves’ remarks could pose a serious problem for CBS. Sources close to Mr. Howard said he believes that the report—which was assembled by an outside team of former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and former Associated Press head Louis Boccardi Jr.—contradicts Mr. Moonves’ statement about Mr. Howard’s share of the blame.
Mr. Howard also believes, those sources said, that the report itself excludes evidence that would implicate top management at CBS and restore Mr. Howard’s reputation in the television news business.
A senior official at CBS told NYTV that Mr. Howard’s claims had no basis in fact and that management had only acted on the findings of the report, which the company deemed thorough, accurate and independent."
You got to love it everybody, and I hope that these individuals get their day in court.
But like I said in the beginning, they might just be guilty of…
Selling Their Souls to The Devil
(and people in Hell want ice water)
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
When The Money Comes In...
The Knives Come Out
I used to work with this guy that was a brilliant structural engineer. He had progressed in his career to the point of being responsible for marketing of engineering services instead of spending his entire day with his nose stuck in front of a CAD computer terminal.
I was a contract employee also doing business development and sales at the same company and we talked endlessly about branching out and going into business for our selves, but not having enough financial where-with-all at that time to make it happen we never did anything together.
He always said that it was because…“When the money comes in…the knives come out.”
Fifteen years, a couple of ex-wives, one ex-business partner, and three corporations later, I have found that statement to be quite true. It is amazing what people will do and how hard they will stomp on your fingers, toes, or even your head if there is cash involved. They don’t care how much money you can help make in the future, right or wrong, they want all of the money that is right here, right now—you can just get the hell out if you don’t like it and future income be dammed.
Even a little cash is enough to cause major problems.
A lot of cash can get you maimed or killed. I keep walking away and they keep keeping the cash. That’s OK—I live on an island and as far as I know all of my ex’s are still fighting Atlanta traffic and I hope that they choke on my share of the money that they took from me.
Big breath…..
Having said all that (thinking good thoughts) I point out this story about contractors in Iraq being accused of over billing the Iraqi Provisional Authority for services never rendered:
“A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers yesterday.”
See what happens when you can just take a gun (or hire a lawyer) and go get the money? That is what the government does when they tax us. They don’t worry about wasting the cash because they didn't work to earn it in the first place and they can just pass another law and take more money from those of us that did work to earn it.
In my opinion, the biggest problem in Iraq is that there are very few accountants with the gonads to leave their cushy offices in the financial towers of NY City, Charlotte, Atlanta and Seattle to go to work as BEAN COUNTERS IN A WAR ZONE… so the US looks little better than the UN when it comes to being trustees of MY BLANKING HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS.
But the problem isn’t unique to the United by gosh darned States of America. The Indian government wants to tax charitable events staged for Tsunami relief
“India News]: New Delhi, Jan 10 : Outgoing cricket board president Jagmohan Dalmiya Monday said that India could stage the second match for the tsunami victims only if the government provided full tax exemption.
"The ICC (International Cricket Council) has put a condition, that this match will take place where there will be total tax exemption," Dalmiya told reporters here.
"Australia has granted that, and they deserve a big pat on their back. And we have to have a discussion (on this issue)," he said.
The first match, between an ICC World XI and an Asian XI, was played at Melbourne Monday, with the Ricky Ponting-led World XI winning it by 112 runs.”
Winning by 112 runs? Yaaaowsaahh yaaaowsaahh!
And by the way--like I said before...
"When the money comes in, the knives come out…"
I used to work with this guy that was a brilliant structural engineer. He had progressed in his career to the point of being responsible for marketing of engineering services instead of spending his entire day with his nose stuck in front of a CAD computer terminal.
I was a contract employee also doing business development and sales at the same company and we talked endlessly about branching out and going into business for our selves, but not having enough financial where-with-all at that time to make it happen we never did anything together.
He always said that it was because…“When the money comes in…the knives come out.”
Fifteen years, a couple of ex-wives, one ex-business partner, and three corporations later, I have found that statement to be quite true. It is amazing what people will do and how hard they will stomp on your fingers, toes, or even your head if there is cash involved. They don’t care how much money you can help make in the future, right or wrong, they want all of the money that is right here, right now—you can just get the hell out if you don’t like it and future income be dammed.
Even a little cash is enough to cause major problems.
A lot of cash can get you maimed or killed. I keep walking away and they keep keeping the cash. That’s OK—I live on an island and as far as I know all of my ex’s are still fighting Atlanta traffic and I hope that they choke on my share of the money that they took from me.
Big breath…..
Having said all that (thinking good thoughts) I point out this story about contractors in Iraq being accused of over billing the Iraqi Provisional Authority for services never rendered:
“A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers yesterday.”
See what happens when you can just take a gun (or hire a lawyer) and go get the money? That is what the government does when they tax us. They don’t worry about wasting the cash because they didn't work to earn it in the first place and they can just pass another law and take more money from those of us that did work to earn it.
In my opinion, the biggest problem in Iraq is that there are very few accountants with the gonads to leave their cushy offices in the financial towers of NY City, Charlotte, Atlanta and Seattle to go to work as BEAN COUNTERS IN A WAR ZONE… so the US looks little better than the UN when it comes to being trustees of MY BLANKING HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS.
But the problem isn’t unique to the United by gosh darned States of America. The Indian government wants to tax charitable events staged for Tsunami relief
“India News]: New Delhi, Jan 10 : Outgoing cricket board president Jagmohan Dalmiya Monday said that India could stage the second match for the tsunami victims only if the government provided full tax exemption.
"The ICC (International Cricket Council) has put a condition, that this match will take place where there will be total tax exemption," Dalmiya told reporters here.
"Australia has granted that, and they deserve a big pat on their back. And we have to have a discussion (on this issue)," he said.
The first match, between an ICC World XI and an Asian XI, was played at Melbourne Monday, with the Ricky Ponting-led World XI winning it by 112 runs.”
Winning by 112 runs? Yaaaowsaahh yaaaowsaahh!
And by the way--like I said before...
"When the money comes in, the knives come out…"
Thinking about Reproducing?
Every now and then I surf through The Alliance blogroll in an attempt to give all of my fellow bloggers a visit now and then--even the sites that seem to be abandoned, obscure, or otherwise have really become graveyards of things that once were.
Once in a while I find something really cool...and I just did!
Jamie and Jeannine have a nice site with a link to the baby name wizard site.
No, I'm way past thinking about reproducing, but you can type in your name on the site and see how popular it (your name) has been since 1900.
Not many people naming their kids Virgil any more...bummer...
It's partially my fault I guess since I didn't have any kids.
Once in a while I find something really cool...and I just did!
Jamie and Jeannine have a nice site with a link to the baby name wizard site.
No, I'm way past thinking about reproducing, but you can type in your name on the site and see how popular it (your name) has been since 1900.
Not many people naming their kids Virgil any more...bummer...
It's partially my fault I guess since I didn't have any kids.
Monday, February 14, 2005
My Valentine
My girlfriend, Patricia, is a treasure. She is also a real bona fied trooper.
Our first date occurred two days before the day that my house in Atlanta burned to the ground in 2001. She didn’t quite know what to think of me back then—she might have had good reason to be afraid—and I’m not sure if she knows what to think of me even today. But she is still with me. I talked her into moving to St. Simons with me almost one year ago—and she still comes home from Chicago every week to our little island.
I lost practically everything I had in the way of worldly possessions on that April day that an electrical fire changed my life after nearly forty two years on this planet, but at the end of the day, I still had my grandmother Bessy, my mother Betty, my sister Ginny, and my new girl Pat.
I also had a slightly used Nissan Maxima, a Chevy Suburban, a Webber Kettle “Charcoal” grill, and a Snapper self propelled lawn mower. Most men out there would say that, with the Suburban, the Webber, and the Snapper, that I had nothing to worry about—it was a good start.
Well, I’m here to tell everyone that I’ll take the ladies in my life over the iron and steel and other material stuff any day. I wouldn’t and couldn’t have made it this far without them.
I also hate the commercialism associated with Valentine’s day. I agree with the idea of recognizing your significant other, but I’m afraid that it is way too late if you wait to February 14th every year to say “I love You.”
As for my own recognition of this day, I started this morning by cooking Pat a brunch of my Oven Puff Pancake. Then I ran errands for her, picked up a couple of gifts I had previously ordered at a local stained glass shop, and ran by the grocery store to pick up a couple of extra baby eggplants for use in our dinner, my Greek Moussaka.
I have to go now because we’re about to eat dinner, and Pat say’s that she has plans for me later, so to Everyone out there I would like to say…
Happy Valentines Day
Our first date occurred two days before the day that my house in Atlanta burned to the ground in 2001. She didn’t quite know what to think of me back then—she might have had good reason to be afraid—and I’m not sure if she knows what to think of me even today. But she is still with me. I talked her into moving to St. Simons with me almost one year ago—and she still comes home from Chicago every week to our little island.
I lost practically everything I had in the way of worldly possessions on that April day that an electrical fire changed my life after nearly forty two years on this planet, but at the end of the day, I still had my grandmother Bessy, my mother Betty, my sister Ginny, and my new girl Pat.
I also had a slightly used Nissan Maxima, a Chevy Suburban, a Webber Kettle “Charcoal” grill, and a Snapper self propelled lawn mower. Most men out there would say that, with the Suburban, the Webber, and the Snapper, that I had nothing to worry about—it was a good start.
Well, I’m here to tell everyone that I’ll take the ladies in my life over the iron and steel and other material stuff any day. I wouldn’t and couldn’t have made it this far without them.
I also hate the commercialism associated with Valentine’s day. I agree with the idea of recognizing your significant other, but I’m afraid that it is way too late if you wait to February 14th every year to say “I love You.”
As for my own recognition of this day, I started this morning by cooking Pat a brunch of my Oven Puff Pancake. Then I ran errands for her, picked up a couple of gifts I had previously ordered at a local stained glass shop, and ran by the grocery store to pick up a couple of extra baby eggplants for use in our dinner, my Greek Moussaka.
I have to go now because we’re about to eat dinner, and Pat say’s that she has plans for me later, so to Everyone out there I would like to say…
Happy Valentines Day
Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man
I have been following the blogging and cooking adventures of Steve over at Hog on Ice for a couple of months. In addition to being a good cook, Steve is hilarious.
Currently working on his second cookbook, his first book Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man is even making him a little cash to pay for his blogging and eating habits.
Steve says: “Live Fat, die young, and leave a really big corpse.” I LIKE IT! Steve and I are men of the same (clogged) vein when it comes to cooking.
Then there is this news story: Southern Food Frustrates Health Officials.
“DECATUR, Ga. Feb 13, 2005 — When Becky Cleaveland is out with her girlfriends, they all pick at salads except for the petite Atlanta woman. She tackles "The Hamdog."
The dish, a specialty of Mulligan's, a suburban bar, is a hot dog wrapped by a beef patty that's deep fried, covered with chili, cheese and onions and served on a hoagie bun. Oh yeah, it's also topped with a fried egg and two fistfuls of fries.”
I love it, a hot dog weiner wrapped in a beef patty, etc., etc.
I am happy as hell that Southern food still frustrates the bed-wetting liberal know-it-alls over at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
If I listened to them, when it comes to cooking, I would have to leave out a very important ingredient…
Flavor!
And I just can’t do that, no matter what my waist size expands to... Sorry Y'all
Currently working on his second cookbook, his first book Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man is even making him a little cash to pay for his blogging and eating habits.
Steve says: “Live Fat, die young, and leave a really big corpse.” I LIKE IT! Steve and I are men of the same (clogged) vein when it comes to cooking.
Then there is this news story: Southern Food Frustrates Health Officials.
“DECATUR, Ga. Feb 13, 2005 — When Becky Cleaveland is out with her girlfriends, they all pick at salads except for the petite Atlanta woman. She tackles "The Hamdog."
The dish, a specialty of Mulligan's, a suburban bar, is a hot dog wrapped by a beef patty that's deep fried, covered with chili, cheese and onions and served on a hoagie bun. Oh yeah, it's also topped with a fried egg and two fistfuls of fries.”
I love it, a hot dog weiner wrapped in a beef patty, etc., etc.
I am happy as hell that Southern food still frustrates the bed-wetting liberal know-it-alls over at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
If I listened to them, when it comes to cooking, I would have to leave out a very important ingredient…
Flavor!
And I just can’t do that, no matter what my waist size expands to... Sorry Y'all
It's Not My Job
(For me to be forced to pay taxes to help you keep your job)
Just so that we are clear from the start, let me repeat my title here again: "It's not my job for me to be forced to pay taxes to help you keep your job."
GET IT?
No you don't, because, unfortunately, I have to break something else to you:
"It's not YOUR job unless you are self employed or otherwise own the company you work for."
With these horrible revelations in mind, let's look at this story about Michigan unemployment.
"Michigan's jobless rate climbed to 7.3 percent in December, a new high for the year that could leave the state with the worst unemployment rate in the nation.
More than 369,000 state residents were out of work in December, reducing the number of people working in Michigan to a 2004 low of 4.6 million."
The numbers should tell you something about the kind of jobs available in the State of Michigan, and the kinds of workers that Michigan has produced or attracts. Read more:
"For 21 of the past 28 years, Michigan's unemployment rate has been higher than the national rate. I know everyone likes to the point to the Clinton boom times when we had one of the lowest jobless rates in the nation.
"But," she concluded, "we aren't in Clinton boom times."
Michigan State University economics professor Charles Ballard said he thinks it's likely the state's jobless numbers will begin to recede in 2005.
"It is still true that if the U.S. economy has a good year in 2005, Michigan's economy will probably slowly improve," Ballard said.
He added, however, that Michigan is going to continue to lag until its workers get better educated. "We rank 39th among the 50 states in terms of percentage of our adult population that has a college degree," he said. (emphasis mine,VRR)
That last little detail...39th among the 50 states (in college degrees)--says it all, as far as I am concerned.
Michigan residents have to face the tough reality that their historic love affair with big fat overpaid union manufacturing jobs has caused their state to be populated with tax-paying citizens that at best graduate from high school before they go to work on the local "widget" assembly line.
But you know what? Manufacturers are no longer willing and able to pay $35 per hour in union wages to employ a bunch of arrogant, undereducated, "worker-bees" that now spend their days lamenting "their" jobs being sent to China or Mexico.
Remember what I said? THEY WERE NOT "THEIR" JOBS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
"In July, Pete Noel became one of the thousands of Michigan factory workers who lost work to overseas competition. Noel was turned out of his machinist job of 36 years when the Keeler Die Cast. Co. plant in Grand Rapids closed, its work transferred to China.
"The only offers I get are $8 an hour with no benefits," said Noel, who was among 120 who lost their jobs when Keeler closed.
In April, welder Jim Downey lost his job making trailer hitches at the Veltri Metal Products plant in New Baltimore after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Now potential employers tell him he's no longer qualified for the job he held for more than two decades.
"The job I used to do, now they suddenly want a college degree," Downey said.
In September, Downey became a part-time custodian at Warren public schools.
Former factory workers are the least likely of all workers to find new full-time jobs. A third of them will eventually accept work for lower pay, often 20 percent less with reduced benefits, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."
Imagine the uproar among buggy whip and horse shoe manufacturers in the early 1900's as 15 million of Henry Ford's Model T automobiles poured off of the assembly lines. Don't you suppose that the advent of readily available, affordable cars put a minor dent in their income and employment base (not to mention putting about 30 million horses out of work?)
The workers stopped making buggy whips, sold their hammers and anvils, and went to work bolting cars together. People across the country feverishly bought train and bus tickets (or walked and rode horses) by the thousands to move to Michigan or other cities like Atlanta where Ford plants were located in order to take on the new auto manufacturing jobs.
The new autoworkers probably had to learn new work skills since Model T's didn't have a lot of braided leather in their austere interiors and cars rolled down the road on four rubber tires rather than clomping along on four hand forged horseshoes. Even so, times changed and so did the employee base of our country.
Not so today. People want the Government to take care of their employment problems. They don't want to change.
And leave it to the rocket scientist Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan to come up with a brainstorm solution. She wants to INCREASE the taxes on successful non-manufacturing businesses in order to support cutting the taxes on the struggling manufacturers.
Typical Liberal BS. "YOU make too much money and YOU don't NEED all of it so the GOVERNMENT is going to step in and confiscate YOUR MONEY under force of law and give it to some lazy, under-educated, unemployed voters that supposedly do NEED IT."
"Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed Michigan Jobs & Investment Act is a ray of sunshine for Michigan businesses struggling through the worst economic times in decades.
It's a gutsy move to remake the way the state taxes businesses.
It's not an overall tax cut."
Imagine that. "WELL OF COURSE IT'S NOT AN OVERALL TAX CUT, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T TAX A LOSS." Also notice the use of the word "investment" in the name of Ms. Granholm's new government program rather than the word "tax." Just like I recently wrote about the meaning of the words "budget cut", the liberals and the government have changed the meaning of the word "investment" from "putting your money into something expecting a return on your investment" to that of "redistribution of other people's income through taxation."
Read further with me and get angrier:
"Nor does it increase the money that Michigan gets from businesses.
It's a shift.
Now, the Single Business Tax formula concentrates on manufacturers' payrolls.
In general, the more people on the payroll, the more tax a company pays.
It's punishing businesses big and small for employing people."
Aaah...excuse me...but Michigan did this to themselves by passing the law in 1975...
Just so that we are clear from the start, let me repeat my title here again: "It's not my job for me to be forced to pay taxes to help you keep your job."
GET IT?
No you don't, because, unfortunately, I have to break something else to you:
"It's not YOUR job unless you are self employed or otherwise own the company you work for."
With these horrible revelations in mind, let's look at this story about Michigan unemployment.
"Michigan's jobless rate climbed to 7.3 percent in December, a new high for the year that could leave the state with the worst unemployment rate in the nation.
More than 369,000 state residents were out of work in December, reducing the number of people working in Michigan to a 2004 low of 4.6 million."
The numbers should tell you something about the kind of jobs available in the State of Michigan, and the kinds of workers that Michigan has produced or attracts. Read more:
"For 21 of the past 28 years, Michigan's unemployment rate has been higher than the national rate. I know everyone likes to the point to the Clinton boom times when we had one of the lowest jobless rates in the nation.
"But," she concluded, "we aren't in Clinton boom times."
Michigan State University economics professor Charles Ballard said he thinks it's likely the state's jobless numbers will begin to recede in 2005.
"It is still true that if the U.S. economy has a good year in 2005, Michigan's economy will probably slowly improve," Ballard said.
He added, however, that Michigan is going to continue to lag until its workers get better educated. "We rank 39th among the 50 states in terms of percentage of our adult population that has a college degree," he said. (emphasis mine,VRR)
That last little detail...39th among the 50 states (in college degrees)--says it all, as far as I am concerned.
Michigan residents have to face the tough reality that their historic love affair with big fat overpaid union manufacturing jobs has caused their state to be populated with tax-paying citizens that at best graduate from high school before they go to work on the local "widget" assembly line.
But you know what? Manufacturers are no longer willing and able to pay $35 per hour in union wages to employ a bunch of arrogant, undereducated, "worker-bees" that now spend their days lamenting "their" jobs being sent to China or Mexico.
Remember what I said? THEY WERE NOT "THEIR" JOBS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
"In July, Pete Noel became one of the thousands of Michigan factory workers who lost work to overseas competition. Noel was turned out of his machinist job of 36 years when the Keeler Die Cast. Co. plant in Grand Rapids closed, its work transferred to China.
"The only offers I get are $8 an hour with no benefits," said Noel, who was among 120 who lost their jobs when Keeler closed.
In April, welder Jim Downey lost his job making trailer hitches at the Veltri Metal Products plant in New Baltimore after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Now potential employers tell him he's no longer qualified for the job he held for more than two decades.
"The job I used to do, now they suddenly want a college degree," Downey said.
In September, Downey became a part-time custodian at Warren public schools.
Former factory workers are the least likely of all workers to find new full-time jobs. A third of them will eventually accept work for lower pay, often 20 percent less with reduced benefits, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."
Imagine the uproar among buggy whip and horse shoe manufacturers in the early 1900's as 15 million of Henry Ford's Model T automobiles poured off of the assembly lines. Don't you suppose that the advent of readily available, affordable cars put a minor dent in their income and employment base (not to mention putting about 30 million horses out of work?)
The workers stopped making buggy whips, sold their hammers and anvils, and went to work bolting cars together. People across the country feverishly bought train and bus tickets (or walked and rode horses) by the thousands to move to Michigan or other cities like Atlanta where Ford plants were located in order to take on the new auto manufacturing jobs.
The new autoworkers probably had to learn new work skills since Model T's didn't have a lot of braided leather in their austere interiors and cars rolled down the road on four rubber tires rather than clomping along on four hand forged horseshoes. Even so, times changed and so did the employee base of our country.
Not so today. People want the Government to take care of their employment problems. They don't want to change.
And leave it to the rocket scientist Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan to come up with a brainstorm solution. She wants to INCREASE the taxes on successful non-manufacturing businesses in order to support cutting the taxes on the struggling manufacturers.
Typical Liberal BS. "YOU make too much money and YOU don't NEED all of it so the GOVERNMENT is going to step in and confiscate YOUR MONEY under force of law and give it to some lazy, under-educated, unemployed voters that supposedly do NEED IT."
"Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed Michigan Jobs & Investment Act is a ray of sunshine for Michigan businesses struggling through the worst economic times in decades.
It's a gutsy move to remake the way the state taxes businesses.
It's not an overall tax cut."
Imagine that. "WELL OF COURSE IT'S NOT AN OVERALL TAX CUT, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T TAX A LOSS." Also notice the use of the word "investment" in the name of Ms. Granholm's new government program rather than the word "tax." Just like I recently wrote about the meaning of the words "budget cut", the liberals and the government have changed the meaning of the word "investment" from "putting your money into something expecting a return on your investment" to that of "redistribution of other people's income through taxation."
Read further with me and get angrier:
"Nor does it increase the money that Michigan gets from businesses.
It's a shift.
Now, the Single Business Tax formula concentrates on manufacturers' payrolls.
In general, the more people on the payroll, the more tax a company pays.
It's punishing businesses big and small for employing people."
Aaah...excuse me...but Michigan did this to themselves by passing the law in 1975...
"That could be at least one of the reasons why Michigan's unemployment rate is the highest in the nation - 7.3 percent.
Instead, Granholm wants to turn the formula around, and base the Single Business Tax more on profits.
Those companies that are making money would pay more in taxes."
Everyone...give me a big old collective Duuuuuuhhhhh here on the relevation that companies making more money pay more taxes...
"The result would be a tax cut of 37-40 percent for 72,000 Michigan businesses. That includes most small businesses, manufacturers and retailers.
The tax would rise for 22,000 businesses, mostly consulting-type operations with low overhead, few employees and high profits.
This just might work."
I'm sorry, I don't want children to go hungry and I'm not supporting causing Michigan families to be forced to live in their mini vans, but this is typical liberal CRAP.
Rather than the government encouraging the employees to modify their employment skills to suit the needs of the current workplace (or even relocate to where the jobs are to be found,) they want to attempt to somehow modify the state's business climate to suit the abilities of the workers.
And the idea will not work--not for very long. You know why?
BECAUSE I DON'T NEED A BUGGY WHIP OR ANY HORSESHOES, I DRIVE A CHEVY SURBURBAN BUILT IN CANADA.
Any further questions?
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Breaking News...
I just visited Howard Dean’s Website and boy was I surprised.
Based on the map on the Dean Website, it seems that as the newly elected Chairman of the DNC, Dean has plans to move the states of Alaska and Hawaii from their present far flung, inconvienant locations in the Pacific Ocean to of all places--Mexico.
That’s right, Mexico… No more long airline trips and and time zone changes.
Also, in the process of relocation, Alaska will shrink to a size smaller than Texas and Hawaii will grow larger than Delaware, New Jersey, or Massachussets.
I’m E-mailing AAA and getting my free map in anticipation of a road trip driving south of the border to our 49th and 50th states later this spring. Anyone with me?
Cómo se dice en español…Aloha? Eerrrrrraaaaaaahhhhh?
Based on the map on the Dean Website, it seems that as the newly elected Chairman of the DNC, Dean has plans to move the states of Alaska and Hawaii from their present far flung, inconvienant locations in the Pacific Ocean to of all places--Mexico.
That’s right, Mexico… No more long airline trips and and time zone changes.
Also, in the process of relocation, Alaska will shrink to a size smaller than Texas and Hawaii will grow larger than Delaware, New Jersey, or Massachussets.
I’m E-mailing AAA and getting my free map in anticipation of a road trip driving south of the border to our 49th and 50th states later this spring. Anyone with me?
Cómo se dice en español…Aloha? Eerrrrrraaaaaaahhhhh?
Good Employment Opportunity
(For Washed-Up TV Reporters)
You know, there is something that really bothers me about the recent blogger lead victories over main stream media journalists. In spite of the clear successes of the blogosphere in revealing conscious, factual, often time’s malicious inaccuracies in stories recounted by high profile, influential members of the traditional media outlets, there still isn’t any closure. The guilty parties have been allowed to quietly slip out the side door of public attention.
There are no public admissions of guilt and no apologies from the guilty parties. They are not sorry they attempted to spread lies, they are sorry that they got caught spreading lies. They are cowards, and their Main Stream Media peers allow them to get away without fully acknowledging the total scope of their transgressions. They are somehow made to appear as martyrs who are victims of circumstance.
Dan Rather was allowed to retire, six months in advance, while still propping his sullen scowl onto our TV screens each night. To this day he still has the audacity to say that he believes that the allegations he made against President Bush on behalf of CBS were true, even though the supporting documents have been totally discredited.
In my opinion, Dan Rather is a partisan hack and a liar.
And then there is Eason Jordan. You know, the scumbag that was running around the world making allegations that US troops were intentionally targeting journalists because they didn’t like the news coverage that they were getting. He tried to say that his comments were taken out of context, but bloggers found documentation of similar allegations dating back to 2002. Jordan resigned Friday.
I just did a Google search for Eason Jordan and found that the only one of the top ten links was to a main stream media outlet—CNN. Everything else was internet based Blog sites and The National Review Online which had a story dated Friday preceding Jordan’s resignation. The main stream media (ABC, CBS, NBC) are simply avoiding it. CNN is covering it because it has to—but they certainly wish the story would go away.
Well, I have some good news about an employment opportunity for Mr. Rather and Mr. Jordan. There seems to be a recent job opening in Somalia since the BBC reporter, Kate Peyton, was shot in the back and killed within hours of arriving in the country.
Hey Mr. Jordan, it’s not American troops that are targeting journalists, it’s TERORISTS!
You MORON…
You know, there is something that really bothers me about the recent blogger lead victories over main stream media journalists. In spite of the clear successes of the blogosphere in revealing conscious, factual, often time’s malicious inaccuracies in stories recounted by high profile, influential members of the traditional media outlets, there still isn’t any closure. The guilty parties have been allowed to quietly slip out the side door of public attention.
There are no public admissions of guilt and no apologies from the guilty parties. They are not sorry they attempted to spread lies, they are sorry that they got caught spreading lies. They are cowards, and their Main Stream Media peers allow them to get away without fully acknowledging the total scope of their transgressions. They are somehow made to appear as martyrs who are victims of circumstance.
Dan Rather was allowed to retire, six months in advance, while still propping his sullen scowl onto our TV screens each night. To this day he still has the audacity to say that he believes that the allegations he made against President Bush on behalf of CBS were true, even though the supporting documents have been totally discredited.
In my opinion, Dan Rather is a partisan hack and a liar.
And then there is Eason Jordan. You know, the scumbag that was running around the world making allegations that US troops were intentionally targeting journalists because they didn’t like the news coverage that they were getting. He tried to say that his comments were taken out of context, but bloggers found documentation of similar allegations dating back to 2002. Jordan resigned Friday.
I just did a Google search for Eason Jordan and found that the only one of the top ten links was to a main stream media outlet—CNN. Everything else was internet based Blog sites and The National Review Online which had a story dated Friday preceding Jordan’s resignation. The main stream media (ABC, CBS, NBC) are simply avoiding it. CNN is covering it because it has to—but they certainly wish the story would go away.
Well, I have some good news about an employment opportunity for Mr. Rather and Mr. Jordan. There seems to be a recent job opening in Somalia since the BBC reporter, Kate Peyton, was shot in the back and killed within hours of arriving in the country.
Hey Mr. Jordan, it’s not American troops that are targeting journalists, it’s TERORISTS!
You MORON…
Spanish Surrender Monkeys Suffer the Consequences
I am watching FOX news this morning while writing and there is a huge skyscraper totaly ablaze in downtown Madrid. While I fear for the potential loss of life and take no satisfaction in same, I hope the world is watching and learning from the example of the Spanish people’s caving to Islamic Terrorist demands in their national elections last year.
Every time something happens in Spain, the world’s population is going to hold their collective breath until the cause is proven to not be terrorism.
I hope voters everywhere are learning that you cannot vote your way out of the way of EVIL.
Every time something happens in Spain, the world’s population is going to hold their collective breath until the cause is proven to not be terrorism.
I hope voters everywhere are learning that you cannot vote your way out of the way of EVIL.
