Another Seth kind of thing, knockwursts and sauerkraut over a thin spread of dijon mustard {made in Canada, as French products are forbidden in my house} in open-faced sandwich format on rye bread, ramen noodles and fresh tomatoes smothered in Marie s creamy Italian dressing.
I will be offshore for a couple of days in meetings with a client, and will most likely not be heard from until Thursday.
Just to let y all know why I may not be replying to comments until then, or posting anything new.
So it s the wee hours, I recently finished doing some work and have done some blogging, it s almost time I hit the rack and I m kicking back with a large mug of Cafe Bustelo and some Sambuca on the side. I have some old music(rightnow, the theme from Romeo Juliet, next I think Paul Mauriat s Love Is Blue) playing from my MusicMatch library via Logitech speakers I bought last December {Logitech gets my personal uncompensated endorsement, the sound is excellent} and I m thinking about the state of things
Israel is fighting a war against Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Gaza. We re talking war, not just a small counterterror Op, in which the IDF is fighting, for the moment, on 2 fronts.
The best President we ve had since early 1988 is in the process of diminishing America s sovereignty several notches in the pursuit of forming a small-scale EU with Mexico and Canada. What s really disturbing about this is that we hear almost nothing from the media about this and even less from members of Congress.
Now, where the MSM s concerned, I can understand.
Being liberals, they have been busting their touchases these last few years to propagandize we, the people, into casting off the bonds of American identity and love of country, and becoming people of the world united or something like that, becoming as much like France as possible and of course, offering our collective guilty American neck to the chopping block of Islam.
{Ah, Summer Place, by Percy Faith!}
It s really great to know that fellow Americans like the communists at the ACLU and the traitors folks at the New York Times are behind the nation 100% Actually, to judge from what they consider journalism, they have become what comes out of the nation s behind.
Get some Charmins, clean em up. On the other hand, if you re in a priveleged position in a government security or intelligence agency, you can report on the latest defense secrets to the NYT and they guarantee to safeguard your identity while they print the details. Can t blame em, right?
Someone s got to help fundamentalist Islam murder us, right? It may as well be Keller as anyone, right? Thank G-d he took the initiative to act on our behalf!
{Every Time We Touch, by Maggie Reilly, who had one of the most awesomely beautiful voices I ve ever heard. She did some recordings with Mike Oldfield as well as her own great stuff back in the 1980s. I d've loved to see her and Annie Haslam do a back-to-back concert, they d have been highly compatible, or her and Annie s band, Renaissance, about tied as my second favorite with Yes, just behind my #1, Focus}
Wow, at half a century, the 1970s and 80s seem like contemporaries of the Boston Tea Party!
At 50, you also have memories of a time when nobody calling himself an American would disrespect our country and the principles upon which it was founded the way the Democratic Party, via its liberal element, does today.
At 50, you can rejoice that you won t be here to see the end result of what liberalism turns our country into over the next half century.
My prediction is the society Sly Stallone is defrosted into in Demolition Man, where cops, not even armed with lethal weapons, request that a criminal lay down his weapon and submit to arrest, and there s no enforcement procedure to respond to Fuck you, make me!
because in the Utopian mindset of that time, citizens naturally respond as expected.
I d hate, however, to be forced to learn how to use the 3 sea shells. This one is self explanatory, and shows how there is little to choose between liberals and Muslim activists.
It came to yours truly in the form of a forwarded e-mail.
Looks like a small case of some people being able to dish it out, but not take it. Let s start at the top.
The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman.
Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student s Association The e-mail was in response to the students protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were hate speech.
Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following:
Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey!
), burning of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called whores in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France..
This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many, many of my colleagues.
I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile protests.
If you do not like the values of the West see the 1st Amendment you are free to leave. I hope for God s sake that most of you choose that option.
Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
Cordially, I. S.
Wichman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Well! As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn t like this too well. They re demanding Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination for freshman.
How nice. But now the Michigan chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn t believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.
For its part, the university is standing its ground. They say the e-mail was private, and they don t intend to publicly condemn his remarks. That will probably change.
Wichman says he never intended the e-mail to be made public, and wouldn t have used the same strong language if he d known it was going to get out.
How s the left going to handle this one? If you re in favor of the freedom of speech, as in the case of Ward Churchill, will the same protections be demanded for Indrek Wichman?
I doubt it. Hey guys send this to everybody and ask them to do the same and tell them to keep passing it around till the whole country gets it. We are in a war to the bitter end.
So it s between 9 and 10 in the morning, and I m doing things on-line. I have a long playlist going at MusicMatch, stuff from my own eras gone by, like
I need to run out of my office and into the rec-room for something. Simon Garfunkels The Dangling Conversation is playing.
I ve been sort of singing along with the song, and as I get up and head for the other room I continue doing so. This is about a 70 second project.
I get back to my office, still singing along, and find that Paul, Art and I are still in perfect sync:
Yes we speak of things that matter, with words that must be said,
can analysis be worthwhile, is the theatre really dead?
Gives me pause for thought, am I that easily hypnotized? then the song ends and another one I ve liked a lot, untireably, for about a quarter of a century, commences,
A Girl In Trouble (is a temporary thing) by Romeo Void. I must admit that it s one track I ve never begrudged (or failed to begrudge) anything whatsoever about the subject or whatever I just love the sax music, the instrumental theme and the way it all goes with every aspect of the vocal.
I might well be able to listen to it over-and-over, without a dinner break.
Today, I am updating my blogroll and media links, a lot of work as you ll see when I m done.
Between that and the stuff I need to do where my new house is concerned, I ll be pretty well tied up.
For the meantime, I ll leave you with still another email from Aunt Brenda
Is it the NFL or is it the NBA?
71, repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits. and
in the last year.
Can you guess which organization this is?
Give up yet? .
. . Scroll down, citizen!
It s the 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.
Wesley Pruden s got some good ideas on why isn t doing as well at the box office these days.
the idea is dawning on the little minds of Hollywood that maybe the great gullible moviegoing public is fed up with junk the endless car chases, the mechanical sex, the gore and guts, the mindless plots and maybe even the relentless sneering at red-state values. Hollywood has forgotten how to tell a story, or to recognize one. One screenwriter who must remain anonymous so he can continue to lunch in this town says that s why there are so many remakes.
No one has any confidence in what they re doing. So if someone suggests remaking Titanic for the fourth time, everyone says, Yeah, great, that one always makes money. Or they ll pay a lot of money for a book and only use the title, because they figure if someone in New York thinks the story was good enough to put in a book it must be OK.
I can t say as I feel all that bad about Hollywood s misfortunes, seeing as the film industry s taken such an adversarial position towards everything even remotely patriotic, or anything at all construable as American for that matter. when the public transportation system of a highly populated major city is permitted to be unionized.
NEW YORK - Commuters trudged through the freezing cold, rode bicycles and shared cabs Tuesday as New York s bus and subway workers went on strike for the first time in more than 25 years and stranded millions of riders at the height of the Christmas rush.
A judge slapped the union with a $1 million-a-day fine.
Certain jobs entail a higher degree of responsibility than others, one of these keeping an entity like the Metropolitan Transit Authority(MTA), the vast system of subways and buses that keeps the City of New York up and running, well, up and running. When you go to work for such a concern it is a lot different from selling clothes, running a machine in a factory, building cabinets, plumbing or repairing computers.
It is an occupational field in which millions of people are depending upon you to get to and from work, including thousands of employees of other city agencies that are essential to the day-to-day operation of the giant machine that is the city government. You know this going in, and you know, just from years of residing in the city, that there will occasionally be differences with the agency that employs you.
You also know, given the profound necessity of your city agency as vital infrastructure, that going on strike is against the law
If you have a problem with that, don t take the job.
Now we know, of course, that union members have to do as their leaders tell them, which puts them in the middle of a management-to-management dispute. They belong to the union, but they work, in this case, for the MTA. For the City of New York.
For the millions of taxpayers in the five boroughs of New York. But they owe their allegience to the union.
So maybe critical infrastructure shouldn t even have the option of being unionized, as the Armed Forces don t have the option of same, and for good reason in some situations, for the good of the public, certain organizations should only serve one master.
The $1,000,000.00 per day fine imposed against the transit workers union for striking, in my opinion, is well justified, just as Ronald Reagan was justified in firing the air traffic controllers during his term as President. Their strike is not only costing the city hundreds of millions of dollars, but it is negatively affecting some 7 million citizens every day it continues.
The strike over wages and pensions came just five days before Christmas, at a time when the city is especially busy with shoppers and tourists.
The heavy penalty could force the union off the picket lines and back on the job. Under the law, the union s 33,000 members will also lose two days pay for every day they are on strike, and they could also be thrown in jail.
Go for it!
There are a lot of unemployed workers who would love New York City jobs but can t get them because of long waiting lists. Maybe this is a good time to create some vacancies, pass a law prohibiting union involvement in the city government s critical infrastructure venues and rebuild the transit system s employee roster from the sizeable pool of men and women on those waiting lists.
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