LEE RODGERSAugust 19 --
Consider this to be the universal reminder about all elections. Every further inch of control over any aspect of your life that is granted to, or taken by, the government will be virtually impossible to regain. In terms of power over your life, what government takes, government keeps. And will -- count on it -- eventually misuse that power to your detriment. It is as inevitable as sunrise.
FREEDOM: HARD TO GET,
EASY TO LOSE...
WHO DOESN'T BOW TO A MUSLIM KING - AND WHO DOES...
IRAQ AIDS IRAN - WHO WON THE WAR?
WHO DOESN'T BOW TO A MUSLIM KING - AND WHO DOES...
IRAQ AIDS IRAN - WHO WON THE WAR?
Consider this to be the universal reminder about all elections. Every further inch of control over any aspect of your life that is granted to, or taken by, the government will be virtually impossible to regain. In terms of power over your life, what government takes, government keeps. And will -- count on it -- eventually misuse that power to your detriment. It is as inevitable as sunrise.
- - - - -
July unemployment increased in 44 states.
The five with the worst numbers -- Nevada, California, Rhode
Island, New Jersey and North Carolina -- all voted for Obama
in 2008. A couple are likely to go Republican in November, not
including the California loony-bin, which seems determined to
confirm my thesis that this nation may well be too stupid to
survive.
- - - - -
- - - - -
So Iraq has been slyly and secretly assisting Iran in evading sanctions and allowing Iran to ferry war supplies to the Syrian dictatorship thru Iraqi airspace. Is anyone really surprised? Just another example of an idiotic American government winning the war, then losing the "peace."
Any American who lost a family member or friend in Iraq has every reason to ask, "For WHAT?" As is also the case in the ongoing debacle in Afghanistan.
American politicians have long lost sight of the only rational purpose for a war, which is to force an enemy nation into unconditional surrender and modify -- totally -- the behavior that led to war in the first place. If our "leaders" aren't willing to do that job thoroughly and completely, they are collaborating in the killing of our soldiers for no worthwhile purpose.
Every incoming president just take a public vow: "If we're not in it to win it, I will not commit to any war."
- - - - -
The Obama administration is tap-dancing around the questions as to why civilian agencies such as Social Security and the Weather Service are stockpiling so much deadly ammunition around the nation, including lethal hollow-point bullets actually forbidden for even wartime use by the Geneva Convention.
One lame excuse given is that they're needed for training. Training? You need hollow-point bullets for target practice?!
They're jiving us and creating the unavoidable impression that there's some more sinister motivation.
- - - - -
Wonder what Abraham Lincoln, Republican, would think of Crazy Joe Biden's threat to a black audience that Republicans would "put y'all back in chains!"?
- - - - -
Argus Hamilton --
"Bill Clinton agreed to give the keynote speech at the Democratic Convention. Today's young adults were only seven during the Monica scandal. They may have been lousy in math and science, but they could spell fellatio younger than any other generation in history."
"Bill Clinton agreed to give the keynote speech at the Democratic Convention. Today's young adults were only seven during the Monica scandal. They may have been lousy in math and science, but they could spell fellatio younger than any other generation in history."
- - - - -
Burt Prelutsky, sage, reminds of us a
couple of basics to be recalled as we approach the election
...
"Let us
never forget that Barack
Hussein Obama once declared that if push ever comes to
shove, he would side with the religion of his loony, racist,
drunken, father. And why would we doubt him when everything he
has said and done, even prior to taking up residence in the
White House, has shown where his loyalties lie?
"What I don’t get is how oblivious so many
Americans are to the economic precipice this nation is
fast-approaching. You don’t have to have a Ph.D in economics to
understand that you can’t indefinitely deal with the problem by
borrowing from China and printing worthless paper money."
Maybe it is true that Obama keeps Joe Biden around in order to make himself look better by comparison. But seriously -- can you imagine that babbling wacko-Joe in the Oval Office?
- - - - -
Maybe it is true that Obama keeps Joe Biden around in order to make himself look better by comparison. But seriously -- can you imagine that babbling wacko-Joe in the Oval Office?
On the other hand, how
much worse could he be?
- - - - -
A Life in Radio ... and Travel ...
I once produced
a series of radio programs featuring Mort Sahl, the comedian
with a stiletto wit. One of his favorite satirical
observations at the time was, "You have to hate people in
groups. Who has the time to get to know them all
individually?"
It is in that
spirit that I state that I hate Parisians the way I hate New
Yorkers. Individually there are doubtless many fine folk of
each genre; it's just that the overall attitude comes across
to me as a kind of snotty and totally unjustified arrogance.
This is prelude to
filling a promise given some weeks ago to advise you of my own
method for dealing with that embodiment of all that is
despicable in Parisians, the hotel desk clerk.
I first tried this on
a clerk who had just conducted a conversation in excellent
English with a British gentleman checking in ahead of me. When I
approached the desk, having heard his English, I said, "Good
morning," instead of "Bonjour," a part of my very limited French
vocabulary. (I had earlier mastered, "Voulez vous coucher avec
moi," but decided it inappropriate for this occasion.)
My greeting, of
course, tipped him off that I was American. His nose lifted as
he tersely intoned, "Non Anglais," and turned his back to me.
Whereupon I turned to
the American behind me and began with him a conversation about
the clerk's probable unseemly relationship with his mother.
Since he had already
advised us that he didn't speak -- or understand -- English, he
could only sputter, cartoon-like, with almost visible smoke
coming from his ears.
I have since used the
same tactic on a few other occasions when encountering clerks
who hate Americans and pretend not to understand English. A note
of caution: It is unwise to use this method in a situation where
the object of your ire is likely to be armed and dangerous.
A footnote: Parisians have (long-belatedly)
recognized that their rudeness is a characteristic that
identifies them worldwide and have begun a campaign to introduce
some civility in a society where it has never taken told.
Perhaps I shall never again feel compelled to discuss in that
casual way I have, within his hearing, a Parisian being a stupid
mother-_____.
- - - - -
Today's name-drop: Luba Brezhnev, niece of former Soviet tyrant Leonid Brezhnev ... raised in the Kremlin, now lives near San Francisco. I've talked with her on-air several times over the years. Heard from her the other day.
She's writing a children's book. I'm sure Uncle Leonid would be so proud.
Rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, Luba and I were never a coosome-twosome. Never. Ever.
When we were overheard in the corridor talking about a party, it was her uncle's communist party. That is all. Over and out.
- - - - -
"A man who lost his memory
used pictures on Facebook to piece his life back together. Or as
most people call that, 'Sunday morning'.”Jimmy Fallon --
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."