tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241555142024-03-13T22:05:01.832+01:00Held Prisoner in Hampton RoadsJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.comBlogger524125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-55701213722111924562012-10-04T17:27:00.001+02:002012-10-04T17:28:55.435+02:00Bosworth Field Redux in Colorado<strong></strong><br />
<strong></strong><br />
<strong>King Barry I as Richard III:</strong> <br />
<em>A teleprompter! a teleprompter! My kingdom for a teleprompter!</em><br />
<strong> </strong><br />
<strong></strong><br />
<strong>Lehrer as Catesby:</strong> <br />
<em>Withdraw, my lord; No teleprompter for thee.</em>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-84549386823971517382012-09-27T22:15:00.000+02:002012-09-27T22:15:11.536+02:00When Pigs Fly<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">What I received from Virginia when I registered for an absentee ballot. I'm a bit pissed that the Virginia election commission shares emails of folks who register, but I have a junk mail filter for trash like this:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Thank
you for taking time to vote absentee. Virginia voters like you will be
responsible for the future direction of our country. Turning Virginia
blue this year means sending leaders to Washington who put what’s best for our
families ahead of their own political agenda, and turning back the Republican
effort to undo the progress we’ve made together over the past four years in
health care, women’s rights, rebuilding the economy and ending the war.</blockquote>
<o:p></o:p></div>
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This
election is a choice between two visions for our country. Democrats want
to continue the policies that have served us so well: investing in education,
infrastructure and support for the middle class to grow our economy while
reducing our debt responsibly. Republicans offer a different vision, but
one we’ve seen before: cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans and asking
the middle class and the needy to foot the bill through cuts to Medicare, Social
Security, education and other priorities that create jobs and opportunity.</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Listed
below are our Democratic candidates running to make life better for Virginia
families. Before you mark your absentee ballot, please refer to the
candidate web sites to read about them.</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I
urge you to join me in supporting these outstanding Democrats. For your
vote to count, be sure that your absentee ballot reaches the Electoral Board by
7 P.M., Tuesday, November 6.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> As I said . . . when pigs fly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><o:p></o:p> </div>
Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-872627073987589582012-01-31T18:59:00.000+01:002012-01-31T18:59:21.230+01:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Biden advises . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . against the raid on Bin Laden.</em></strong><br />
<br />
In advising the president against the SEAL raid that killed Bin Laden, Joe said it wasn't worth the risk. Quoth Joe:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">“He knew what was at stake, not just the lives of those brave warriors, but literally the presidency.” </blockquote><br />
A SEAL's life, sending Bin Laden to hell and the president keeping his job. In the cosmic scheme of things, which of those doesn't belong? Advice like Joe's is exactly why Bin Laden was around to execute 9/11.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-25380082096593884472012-01-01T20:14:00.002+01:002012-01-01T20:18:01.098+01:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Naples Italy . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . 00:00 a.m. 01 JAN 2012</em></strong><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Buon Anno!</span></strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/av_BtXTQRTo?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/av_BtXTQRTo?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object></div>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-90262407395694975462011-12-28T18:41:00.000+01:002011-12-28T18:41:17.754+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">U. S. 5th Fleet to Iran . . .</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><em>. . . Blocking the Straight may not be in your best interests.</em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pf9pqXCRl74/TvtTzDjmuJI/AAAAAAAABf4/MqIq5LhHZAY/s1600/Carrier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pf9pqXCRl74/TvtTzDjmuJI/AAAAAAAABf4/MqIq5LhHZAY/s320/Carrier.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Capiscono?</span></strong></div>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-50787910863721388742011-12-24T20:55:00.000+01:002011-12-24T20:55:43.406+01:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Donald Trump . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . Ross Perot redux?</em></strong><br />
<br />
Sayeth The Donald:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">“Around the middle of May I’ll be able to do whatever I want and I could run as an independent,” Trump said in a web video he record. “If the Republicans pick the wrong person I would, in fact, seriously consider running.”</blockquote><br />
If Trump runs, he will split the independent and conservative votes and guarantee Obama's re-election. It's dead certain that Trump won't gain a significant number of Obama voters.<br />
<br />
I believe in on person, one vote - not one person deciding the outcome, and that's exactly what a third party candidate always does. Perot single-handedly elected Clinton. Trump can do the same for Obama.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Trump and Perot have more ego than common sense.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-35009214589810203532011-12-17T12:11:00.000+01:002011-12-17T12:11:07.524+01:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Green . . .</strong></span><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . at ANY cost?</em></strong><br />
<br />
The U.S. Navy was just directed to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuel instead of standard JP-5. The bio fuel is made from waste cooking oil and algae.<br />
<br />
We're all for green, right?<br />
<br />
Yes, to an extent. <br />
<br />
But then there's this:<br />
<br />
1. The bio fuel costs $16.00 per gallon, 4 times the cost of standard jet fuel. This little purchase will cost 7$7.2 million instead of $1.8 million.<br />
<br />
2. Solazyme, the company that is supplying the biofuel uses a refinery that was subsidized with U.S. "stimulus" funds - to the tune of $22 million.<br />
<br />
3. The "strategic advisor" to Solazyme, T. J. Glauthier was on Barry O's transition team.<br />
<br />
4. Glauthier also worked on the energy-sector portion of the 2009 stimulus bill.<br />
<br />
5. There are plans in place to spend $510 million on this fuel over the next three years. Simple math tells me that is a waste of $382 million.<br />
<br />
I understand that we need to transition from fossil fuels. However, with the world economy in the tank and the U.S. facing an unsustainable debt load, can we afford to pay four times the price for anything? <br />
<br />
I also understand that development of alternatives requires support - but not EVERYTHING needs to be backed up by Uncle Sam. <br />
<br />
Let me put it another way. Are YOU willing to start spending $16.00 per gallon for gasoline so that this industry can grow?Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-14317932472152683922011-11-20T20:41:00.001+01:002011-11-20T20:41:51.825+01:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Will Ferrell . . . </strong></span><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . belongs in this group?</em></strong><br />
<br />
Really?<br />
<br />
Winner of the Mark Twain Prize for comedy?<br />
<br />
Really?<br />
<br />
1998 – Richard Pryor <br />
1999 – Jonathan Winters <br />
2000 – Carl Reiner <br />
2001 – Whoopi Goldberg <br />
2002 – Bob Newhart <br />
2003 – Lily Tomlin <br />
2004 – Lorne Michaels <br />
2005 – Steve Martin <br />
2006 – Neil Simon <br />
2007 – Billy Crystal <br />
2008 – George Carlin <br />
2009 – Bill Cosby <br />
2010 – Tina FeyJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-49712543695227934702011-11-20T19:16:00.000+01:002011-11-20T19:16:20.827+01:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Random quote . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . with more than a little truth.</em></strong><br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Blogging isn't writing. It's graffiti with punctuation.</span></strong></blockquote>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-23881997464845375182011-10-30T16:56:00.000+01:002011-10-30T16:56:47.697+01:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>When the debate is lost . . .</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><em>. . . slander becomes the tool of the loser.</em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The theory that Republicans - especially white Republicans - oppose Obama only because of his race, and support Cain to prove they are not racists is simply reprehensible. I expect lickspittles like Bashir and Olbermann to don their cheerleading panties, but I was surprised at Gregory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Arial;">One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– Karen Finney, MSNBC Analyst to Martin Bashir, MSNBC host.</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Arial;">White voters support Cain to show they aren't racist. “I think when [members of the Tea Party] can vote for a Herman Cain and hear him say the things that he says they feel like, ‘Well, you know, I can, I support this guy and...so it shows that I’m not racist and I’m supportive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– Rep. Elijah Cummings, (D) <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Maryland to "Meet the Press" host David Gregory.</place></state></span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cain is popular with Republicans because it "hides the racist element" of the party. – Janeane Garafalo, out of work actress to Keith Olbermann, fired MSNBC host.</span></blockquote></span></div></span>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-42137112299190274852011-10-26T20:55:00.000+02:002011-10-26T20:55:32.097+02:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>On the 99 Percenters:</strong></span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/12/1025555/-Open-Letter-to-that-53-Guy">The 53% Guy presented</a> a rather tough message to the "Take Wall Street" crowd, and a "<em>Confessed Liberal"</em> answered him on "The Daily Kos." While <em>Confessed</em> is an accomlished debater, and presents some interesting arguments, the end game of his philosophy troubles me.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(In sotto voce: While I would rather remove my appendix with a dull spoon than provide a link to the Daily Kos, I had no alternative in this case.)</span><br />
<br />
In his argument, <em>Confessed</em> says this:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>I want everybody to have healthcare. I want lazy people to have healthcare. I want stupid people to have healthcare. I want drug addicts to have healthcare. I want bums who refuse to work even when given the opportunity to have healthcare. I’m willing to pay for that with my taxes, because I want to live in a society where it doesn’t matter how much of a loser you are, if you need medical care you can get it.</em> </blockquote>On the surface, I agree with a part of this argument. However, I disagree in the strongest terms to the slippery slope leading to the endgame - pure Marxism.<br />
<br />
Perhaps “<em>Confessed</em>” would prefer this: Every employer transfers all employee salary to the Federal government. The ENTIRE payroll. 100%. Then we trust the government to dole it out according to who “deserves” it. Drug addicts, criminals, the “lazy bums” he describes. Everyone.<br />
<br />
That sounds extreme, but it is simply a logical extension of the model he embraces. The test of “<em>Confessed's</em>" philosophy is whether or not he would agree to that model – especially with his salary.<br />
<br />
How about it, <em>"Confessed?" </em>Are you willing to ante up <em>in toto?</em> Are you willing to go all in? <br />
<br />
I doubt it.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-71939803314200758072011-10-24T18:42:00.000+02:002011-10-24T18:42:47.966+02:00For Brennig . . .<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.wimp.com/sublimefighter/">http://www.wimp.com/sublimefighter/</a><br />
<br />
Yeah, I know they're French, not British, but it's a mind calming couple of minutes.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-4229805756659232102011-10-16T10:34:00.001+02:002011-10-16T10:35:44.205+02:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ethics . . .</span><br />
<br />
<em><strong>. . . and morals</strong></em><br />
<br />
<blockquote><em>Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.</em></blockquote>Those who make statements like this one in order to feed the news outlets have neither. Unless there is a legitimate legal or moral principle involved, these people are nothing more traitors to their employer. <br />
<br />
The true translation of that statement is: "<em>If my boss heard about this, I would be fired."</em>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-64790273830811233872011-10-15T20:00:00.000+02:002011-10-15T20:00:19.534+02:00<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Atten . . . HUT!</strong></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><strong><em>. . . Hand . . . SALUTE!</em></strong></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Our television watching here is limited to the Armed Forces Network. Since nothing much was on, I watched the changing of command for the Commander, Joint Chiefs of Staff. As you might expect, the ceremony for the highest ranking member of the United States Armed Forces is pretty spectacular. However, when all of the flags passed in review, all of the military on the reviewing stand rendered a proper salute. The civilians did also by holding their hands over their hearts. All but one, that is. Guess who. (Hint: he's from Chicago)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">--------------------------------</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Yeah, I know. I'm on a single track lately, but with 2012 coming up, I have simply had enough of this empty suit and his minions. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Up. To. Here.</span>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-76878271503497843392011-10-11T23:05:00.000+02:002011-10-11T23:05:02.044+02:00On an AFN "commercial" Lt. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe, reflected on the fact that his father flew a B-27 during the 2nd World War. <br />
<br />
Nevermind that there never was a B-27. We had the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Martin Marauder and B-29 Superfortress.<br />
<br />
Forgotten lines or sloppy script writer?Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-66871624280664713412011-10-11T18:37:00.000+02:002011-10-11T18:37:11.723+02:00<div jquery1318310884778="225" sizcache="13" sizset="6" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">From Fox News:</div><div jquery1318310884778="225" sizcache="13" sizset="6" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote>A group of corporate and labor leaders advising <span style="color: #183a52;">President Obama</span> is calling for sweeping and urgent changes in government policies, from liberalized immigration and less restrictive regulations to a more business friendly tax system and greater spending on infrastructure.</blockquote></div>Of course, the goal of this is to provide some type of stimulus to our faltering economy.<br />
<br />
Less restrictive regulations? Definitely, but diametrically opposed to Barry's desire for government to control all. After all, the government is vastly smarter than we are - at least in Barry's world.<br />
<br />
More business friendly tax system? Of course, but contrary to Barry's general philosophy of soak the rich, soak those bad corporations, and bring down Wall Street.<br />
<br />
Greater spending on infrastructure? Sure. We need it, but can we afford it?<br />
<br />
But how does liberalized immigration help mitigate the problem of one million unemployed construction workers?<br />
<br />
In Brad Thor's new book, "<u>Full Black</u>," he repeats an observation of undetermined parentage: <em>"A democracy can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."</em><br />
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Sadly, we seem to be travellers on that path.</div>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-26995152758696391882011-10-10T23:00:00.000+02:002011-10-10T23:00:56.805+02:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">News . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . flash</em></strong><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/al-qaeda-joins-those-questioning-legality-of-awlaki-killing/2011/10/10/gIQAH7nZaL_blog.html">Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki</a><br />
<br />
<br />
Question away. In the meantime, keep looking up.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-9360333749321248852011-10-10T07:53:00.000+02:002011-10-10T07:53:57.695+02:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Governor Moonbeam . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . strikes again.</em></strong><br />
<blockquote><em>California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill giving illegal immigrant college students access to state-funded financial aid, the second half of two-part legislation known as the "Dream Act."</em></blockquote>The oft-used "we're a nation of immigrants" argument is irrelevant here.<br />
<br />
Yes, we're a nation of immigrants. I am not a Native American. However, my ancestors - all of them, as I can best determine - entered this country legally.<br />
<br />
The word "illegal" has a meaning. It means we should be compassionate. It does NOT mean that we should offer up the keys to the homestead to everyone who sneaks in the back door.<br />
<br />
And we wonder why we're going broke?Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-11507791629619563552011-09-30T17:45:00.000+02:002011-09-30T17:45:17.480+02:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Another one . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . bites the dust.</em></strong><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A94k0htNntI/ToXi5IZ9FtI/AAAAAAAABfw/-87AfmiGtIQ/s1600/Awlaki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A94k0htNntI/ToXi5IZ9FtI/AAAAAAAABfw/-87AfmiGtIQ/s320/Awlaki.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
Anwar al-Awlaki was (apparently) reduced to pig food this morning. <br />
<br />
Of course, he's been "killed" before, according to the Yemeni news.<br />
<br />
I suspect that this time it's real.<br />
<br />
Poke the bear at your own risk.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-14884052405908329572011-09-20T05:53:00.000+02:002011-09-20T05:53:33.003+02:00<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are surveys . . .</span></strong><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . then, there are things like this:</em></strong><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #053e82; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #053e82; font-family: Arial;"></span></span>Interesting way to form a question, don't you think? <br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #053e82; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #053e82; font-family: Arial;">YOU NEED NOT HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN OR EXPERIENCED THE ACTIONS. During your last 30 workdays at your duty location what do you estimate the chance that the action below COULD have happened?</span></span></blockquote>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-5062771383679680542011-09-15T23:07:00.001+02:002011-09-15T23:08:03.814+02:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Divine right . . .</strong></span><br />
<br />
<strong><em>. . . of presidents?</em></strong><br />
<br />
It appears that is what King Barry wants.<br />
<blockquote>"As I mentioned when I was at La Raza a few weeks back, I wish I had a magic wand and could make this all happen on my own," Obama told a meeting of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "There are times where -- until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again -- I'd like to work my way around Congress."</blockquote>Unfortunately, your Organizership, that is essentially the same reason we rid ourselves of Mad King Georgie. However, your revolution will be that of the pen, not that of the sword.<br />
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You said you would rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. Neither is likely.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-79076923033294033752011-09-11T22:18:00.000+02:002011-09-11T22:18:06.692+02:00<strong>To the nineteen: </strong><br />
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You learned ten years ago this day that the paradise you sought was a lie cut from whole cloth. It was not Jibraaiyl that welcomed you to the gates, but a humble boatman named Charon waiting to ferry you across the river Styx. His master had no virgins waiting for you, no tables set with milk and honey, no robes of silk or palaces of gold. The Prophet has abandoned and damned you. You are now in the domain of Maalik, guardian of hellfire, where you will remain forever. I wish you no peace.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-11862543282414702272011-09-11T15:54:00.001+02:002011-09-11T15:55:17.726+02:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>From Paul Krugman . . .</strong></span><br />
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<strong><em>. . . in the New York Times</em></strong><br />
<blockquote>What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.<br />
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A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?<br />
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The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.<br />
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I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.</blockquote>Mr. Krugman, the only thing shameful about 9-11 is that string of poisonous tripe quoted above. And you're too cowardly to allow comments.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-32357435649505601682011-09-10T17:18:00.000+02:002011-09-10T17:18:34.389+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By the way Osama, we're still here,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and you're dead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Karma STILL sucks, eh?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CHgt_P1RtbE/Tmt_dWB_kDI/AAAAAAAABfs/R8Iggy70AW8/s1600/wtc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CHgt_P1RtbE/Tmt_dWB_kDI/AAAAAAAABfs/R8Iggy70AW8/s320/wtc.jpg" width="304" /></a></div>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24155514.post-66332182682829446972011-09-10T17:15:00.000+02:002011-09-10T17:15:17.772+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CE9Ij-hhJgU/Tmt-4schtKI/AAAAAAAABfo/Qa7ROwW86tE/s1600/Twin-Twr_-Lights1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" nba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CE9Ij-hhJgU/Tmt-4schtKI/AAAAAAAABfo/Qa7ROwW86tE/s320/Twin-Twr_-Lights1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09076547405946733699noreply@blogger.com0