God save me from Cable TV...

By now everyone on the planet, including the nutbars hiding in caves with UBL is aware that there has been an arrest in the Jon-Benet Ramsey murder...the 1996 murder...
Now, I always felt bad for her parents...it is hard enough (I assume) losing a child with out having to run the daily and endless barrage of reportage that surrounded this case back then, and every time the slightest mini-bump came up in the endless investigation...NOW an arrest is finally made in Thailand...an American 2d grade teacher who is a known pedophile...named Karr.

OK...now...this news broke late this afternoon...and CNN and MSNBC as well as Fox have been at it so friggin' constantly that it is ALREADY TOO FUCKING MUCH...
Even HEADLINE NEWS did a full 25 minutes on this despite CNN doing it as well just a few channels away...(Naturally, Comcast couldn't not show their on-the-half-hour shit-show of local crap-ola for five minutes, but that'll be the subject of another posting someday) Headline News stopped the world,as if there was no other news, to cover this arrest...with PURE SPECULATION since no real news was available, at least of consequence. They showed the same clip of the child at a little girls talent show over and over and over and over and over and over and over for the whole damned program...then they did it again!!! all the news media had additional clips, but the dim bulbs in Atlanta couldn't seem to locate anything that would replace that one clip...even regular CNN did better...Headline News also kept doing the promo for NANCY GRACE (sound of thunder, sky gets ominously dark)...

Nancy Grace must have been vibrating like a Black & Decker orbital sander on a wood floor...THIS is exaclty what (I am guessing here), makes her wet with anticipation...getting to pontificate about this must have put her in her element like nothing since the OJ trial...
In the mean time, we the people will be skull-fucked with more and more of this like we were in Dec '96 and all of 1997...until we hate this poor child's name.
Comes the new order, right after we kill all the lawyers, we goes for the Cable TV people...are you with me???

It's a faux, faux, faux world...

In the 1960's I had the good luck to own a couple of brand new Mustangs...this included a Cobra Mustang...the Carroll Shelby one...back in '69 I believe it cost $6,000.00. Today a real one from that era can run up to 300-500k.
I guess that is why Ebay is filled to the brim with TRIBUTE models...don't know what a tribute model is??? it is a fucking FAKE!!!!! They are also called "replicas" or "clones"...but the most appropriate words ought to be:
FAKE....FRAUD...PHONY...FORGERY...

People take the basic Mustang model from the period (1965-approximately 1971) and dress them up to look the real Cobra...bigger engines, beefier everything really...and the classic paint job that the Shelbys were known for having...I don't expect too many people are fooled, altho there may be some who are stupid to the degree that they don't check with the Shelby Registry to ascertain which cars are actually Shelby's...hell, even a simple vin number check will tell you what you want to know...

I see this as going deeper...this goes in to the deep workings of the American mind...the basics of having it all (or at least a lot of shiny stuff), or driving a Volkswagen Jetta...The Tributes/Clones/Replicas allow the owner/driver to pretend he (I am betting it is 99% male), is a big dog running in the tall grass...folks seeing him drive by don't generally realize that his car is all paint and glasspacks and not a real Shelby. When teenage boys out in Daddy's Chrysler stop next to him at a redlight, he gets to Vogue for them, and profile as if he is something much, much more than he is...all for having spent a few thousand bucks making an old Mustang look like it's richer, tartier, faster and much more expensive sister...
Personally, I find this all rather sad...

Naughty Quaker...

Here now we have Floyd Landis...ex-champ of the Tour de France. Apparently ole Floyd cheated his ass off by taking a burst of testosterone...the kind that is made up in a lab, not in your body. So young Mr. Landis, a Quaker, will be stripped of the title.
WAY TO GO FLOYD!
We don't have enough embarrassing crap going on ??? Bush/Chaney/Rummy/Gore/Schumer etc. et al aren't making the US appear stupid/arrogant/screwed-up enough, but that your ass has to come along and ADD to it by cheating on a damned bike-race. Admittedly, Lance Armstrong isn't/wasn't always as nice as he pretended to be, but this cheating you did looks more like some school boy way to try to stick it to Armstrong...instead you stuck it to yourself, your country, and your sport...dumbass.
And WTF is with the hat??? You ain't some hip-hop gangsta in the hood...(Quakers don't have hoods), so remove the hat, especially indoors, and act like a man for a change...the hat just adds to the homeliness God dropped on you...grow up.
'Tis time for you to go back to wearing black & white and living with candles and labor and horses and getting your mind right, cuz it sure as hell ain't right now.

HOW DOES SHE DO IT???

This is CHARRO...she is a Spanish woman who is a very accomplished guitar player...she has been around for quite a while...I remember her being a regular on the Johnny Carson Show back in the 1970's...now she is appearing in GEICO commercials. Why is this noteworthy??? Because she LOOKS THE SAME. I was flabbergasted...she looks just exactly like she did the last time I saw her on TV, circa 1978...NO amount of plastic surgery could do that...and this woman was born in March of 1941...
I don't know her secret, but well done old girl, well done.

The Lizard...

Before us now is that ancient lizard, Liz Smith...gossip columnist for the New York Post...altho, in reality she is more of a political columnist, always offering her touchy-feely POV much more often than gossip...she never misses a chance to shit on any one who isn't to the left of Marx...she seems to always have a particular dislike for the Reagan's...That aside, today she took issue with Jackie Mason...yes! Jackie Mason...it isn't as if that ugly (but funny) little toad is well known as a neo-con...quite the contrary. But he appeared on Keith Olberman's MSNBC show last night and indicated that the Mel Gibson thing isn't that big of a deal...and that racism in the US isn't too bad these days.
Naturally old Lizzie the clit-clamp went bonkers at this...she thinks the rebuilding of New Orleans was racially motivated, and that the desire to secure our boarders is racist to the nth degree...and don't get her started on anti-semitism...naturally, she left out gays...maybe too close to home...

To which I say, ENOUGH IS TOO FUCKING MUCH... It seems to be alldamnedright for the poor unfortunate Jews/blacks/hispanics to whine about the past..OK...we heard ya...now shut the fuck up! I played no part in the holocaust...and no one I know did, centinaly no member of my family...I have been to Dachau, repeatedly...so I get the idea...it was awful, unspeakable...but quit looking for sympathy if you don't have a tattoo on your forearm...sympathy doesn't transfer and is not re-assignable.
If you are black, and an actual descendent of slaves I will agree that your ancestors were fucked...and badly...and repeartedly...it would have made more sense, in 1865if not from the very beginning, to embrace you, and welcome you in to the "family" as it were...keep you out has been criminally stupid and has wasted trillions of dollars, just in my lifetime alone...but dressing like convicts and behaving badly doesn't engender any sympathy today for the sins of the past..the near past of 1965 or the far past, of 1865.
If you are an illegal immigrant, from anywhere...get the hell out! I'll mow my own lawn...If you are a Mexican, filled with hate for the US, get out even quicker and return to that cultural shithole south of the Big River...Less than 4% of the 30 million hispanics in the US illegally are engaged in agriculture...so don't try to feed me the artichoke picking crap you so frequently spew...come legally, or go away...
I wonder how may Gringos get invited into the barrio for chow on any given Saturday night? None would be my guess. Yet the rest of us are the bigots...
It isn't racism that makes me dislike you...it is much more personal than that...it is that you fled a country with less than no culture, save for pissy beer, catcus juice and food that causes nuclear farts, and you call it "culture"...aside from Salma Hyack, you don't have squat...yet you refuse to embrace what is here in the US, save for the free educaion and medical services and al the rest of the gimmies that the assholes in congress and local government give you...are they gonna be surprised when you vote them out of office and decide to re-join Mexico...

And the Nation of Immigrants ca-ca can go too...that was then, this is NOW...we are FULL...and you refuse to learn English or stop pissing your cheap beer on the sidewalk in front of the 7-11 or the WaWa or the Quick-Trip and claim it as a "cultural difference" that we must tolerate...it ain't a cultural difference, it is just that the poverty you knew back in Mexico or banana-land caused bad behavior, and you aren't willing to leave that behavior behind, yet you expect us to welcome you??? Think again Jose.

Bigotry?? Racism??? OK...let us look at some of my neighbors here in River City...the rich part of town...several Jewish families...nice enough...we all wave we we see each other and once a year everyone gets together to break some bread...the rest of the year they don't have a goy pass their threshold, nor do they accept invitations to do so...they chose to only associate with other Jews...when I do that, I am a bigot...
The point??? The point is simple really...we are all human, all tribal as can be (see sub-Saharan Africa, recent history) even tho we want to pretend that we are all so damned sophisticated that we can get past all of that...we can't...none of us...so knock off the endless guilt shit when I don't especially like how you behave or misbehave...and quit hiding behind being the victimhood crap...
You will find that patience and good will are nearly depleted...

(dis)Honest Abe

Pictured here (sorry if it is around your breakfast time), is one ABE POLLIN...owner of the Washington Wizards...when he first bought the team it was called the Washington Bullets...but that was a few decades ago...and in the 80's when DC was also called Dodge City (much to the chagrin of the erstwhile residents of that locale in Kansas), and drug pushers/users were shooting up certain neighborhoods, civic minded old Abe changed the teams name to Wizards, because Bullets was too violent. I always wondered how many gangsta's decided not to shoot someone when the team stopped being so violently named. Old Abe is virulently anti-gun ownership too...altho I would hazard a guess that his personal security force all carry...

This morning I happened to catch Old Abe on TV, doing a PSA for an outfit to raise money for poor little Israel...that aggrieved little garden spot full of peace loving folks who were maliciously attacked by Hezzbollah a few weeks ago...(actually, it began over a kidnapping, not an assault)...so as I watch Old Abe (he is in the late 70's now) poorly read the the teleprompter, I am forced to ask..Abe, you are a billionaire, Why TF are you asking the rest of us for money??? If it weren't for the oil, 98% of Americans (and 99% of Europeans) wouldn't give a rats ass about anything or anyone in the Middle-East...don't show me pictures of the few lightly damaged buildings in Haifa when southern Lebanon is wrecked (yet again), and ask me to put up a few bucks to re-build for you/them...and the veiled references to the Holocaust aren't gonna pull my heart strings...you ain't Weisenthal Abe, so quit trying to be...

And, what about the five billion in direct aid and six billion in indirect aid the US gives Israel?? Re-build your own damned houses...my money went to New Orleans...

Too much, waaay too much...

I was born into madras...(the fabric, not the city)...and into pink & green and Blackwatch and Royal Stewart tartan, and navy blue and powder blue and khaki.

I have never much thought about it as my own, even after seeing a Mexican street gang in Los Angles wearing Royal Stewart as if they were celts themselves...(I think it was more along the lines of "pretty colors" for them). But seeing Al Reynolds wearing madras shorts (even if they are by Ralph Lauren), is too much for me to bear.

The end of life is neigh...

Hot??? OH YEAH!!!

Washington, DC isn't usually a place one would think of as cool in the summer...funny tho, those times when Congress is in session it can get even hotter...I guess it is Chucky Schumer or Fat Teddy Kennedy or any number of those bastards (of either party) running their mouths endlessly that does it.
But right now Congess is out of session...and all that heat that smashed the west and central plains is now here...and it is waaaay hot now...( 103 in the shade.)

So when I returned from the fields of labor today I headed right for my little pool...I expected to be refreshed...but that diabolical Mother Nature had made the sun too hot to allow the pool water to be comfortable...unless of course, one were seeking a hot bath, which is what I received, pool temp was nearly ninety. Not willing to concede defeat just yet, I pulled myself from the pool and cooled myself with the garden hose (redundant since I have sprinklers built in the ground, but handy none-the-less).
Yeah! The garden hose...just like it was done fifty years ago...and it still works...(the hose is kept out of the sun, so it wasn't heated up)...so despite my fancy address and pricey pool, I shared something with the poor kids of South East DC today...sometimes simplicity is the better course of action...

Hypocrisy??? Who???US???

Mel Gibson is getting his ass fried for speaking words that I know millions of Americans want to say, but cannot. Every TV news outlet, and most major newspapers have had endless discussion's of this issue...the funny thing is, every one I have seen has interviewed a Jew about it...I guess there aren't any Christian psychologists available to ask...so Gibson asks the Jewish community for help in overcoming what ever the hell it is he feels he needs to over come...next, he'll have his own rabbi...
Meanwhile, we look to good old Woody Allen...(born Allen Konigsburg), who everyone on the planet knows is a pedophile, (shown above with his wife and former adopted daughter Soon-Yi)...but that's ok cuz he makes movies that are "artistic" and he can be forgiven for his little behavioral issues. Were he Tommy Brown, a Christian, living anywhere else in the US and marrying his adopted daughter, he'd have been busted for his behavior, but not in NYC or Hollywood...Of course, we can also look to Charlie Chaplin...(Chaplin was his fathers name, I wonder what his grandfathers name was)...who never dated or married a woman older than her early twenties...in fact, he was known to have a penchant for girls in their late teens...
But, what the hell, he was a great ACT-TOR, so he can be forgiven his little eccentricities.

And any number of those who practice victimhood can say any damned thing they wish, despite the fact that it is equally despicable as Gibsons remarks, but because they claim the Holocaust or slavery or any level of racism or bigotry, they get away with it...anyone have any guesses as to where this guilt culture came from??? (I had hoped to not have to spell it out for you...but it is a combination of letters not forming a word)

For those of you pissing your pants with indignation, consider what our global status would be if we weren't Israel's backstop...(and spare me the history lesson, I was there for the whole damned thing!)...Does Israel have a right to exist??? Sure it does...but, so does Palestine. Maybe that is what Gibson had in mind...