Blogging for Blago

 

January 28, 2009

 

To borrow a phrase still floating amidst the detritus of the interminable and bloated presidential campaign….I have officially flip-flopped! I am now firmly and proudly in Rod Blagojevich’s corner! I just got finished watching his interview with Fox News’ Glenn Beck, and I’m impressed.

 

Now don’t misunderstand me, Blago is as dirty and as crooked as the day is long, but he has done something that most other Democrats, including the recently-elected sainted one, wouldn’t dare do: He went into enemy territory and answered every question Beck posed, forthrightly and with humor. I may not have liked all his answers, but at least he faced the fire.

 

This show of heresy alone, his acts of malfeasance aside, will probably get Blagojevich drummed from the political system…the good ol’ boy network certainly can’t sit back and do nothing when one of theirs deigns to fields tough questions. It reflects poorly on the 535 dissemblers in the Capitol, the thieves and liars in the White House, and the corrupt governors across the nation.

 

The Messiah, to his credit, did do an interview with Bill O’Reilly, but beyond that, he spent his seemingly decade-long campaign (remember when he wasn’t going to run for president until he completed his term in the Senate?) going into comfortable environments, reading scripts, and fielding softball questions from hard-hitters like Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews.

 

John McCain, of whom I’m no fan by any stretch, at least had the sack to go places where he knew the cards were stacked against him. He made appearances on the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, David Letterman, Chris Matthews, and The View. Sarah Palin was ritually abused by the press, especially during her sandbag interview with Katie Couric. Imagine being made to look stupid by Katie Couric…the mind reels. But at least Palin bucked up and showed up.

 

That brings me back to Blagojevich. Like him or hate him, he answered Beck’s questions. Though he refused to appear at his own impeachment proceedings in the Illinois senate, I’m confident, after seeing his arrogance up close on Beck’s show, that he skipped the impeachment hearing out of hubris, not fear.

 

As this country is far beyond ever hoping for an honest politician, at least give me one with balls who will spit in the face of his sanctimonious brethren. Dare I say it…Blago for Prez in 2012!!

And Obama Sayeth…Let There Be a Stimulus Plan

January 28, 2009

 

 

Obama certainly does work in mysterious ways. A poll on CNN’s website this morning revealed that 61% of Americans support Premier Obama’s proposed $850 billion “stimulus plan”, that cruel hoax soon to be played on the American people. History has shown time and time again that stimulus packages don’t work, but the American people are perfectly content to throw good money after bad as long as it’s the Messiah doing the selling. H.L. Mencken said that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public….he had no idea. He also said “Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses,” but I digress.

 

When Henry Paulson first started grabbing with both hands back in September, there was a hue and cry across the nation as fed-up citizens took to the streets and e-mailed their Congressmen to prevent this blatant theft of taxpayer money. “George Bush, Republicans, and greedy Wall Street types are robbing us blind,” the citizens cried. By margins of 80-20 and as high as 90-10, the people rightly opposed the bailout. And their anger was well-placed, though not nearly as widespread as it should have been.

 

Wall Street, “W”, and all the usual suspects were HUGELY complicit, but few cared to think that there were actually some Democrats that might be responsible as well. While Republicans were raked over the coals, few cared to listen that Christopher Dodd (he of the triple chin and the sweetheart loans), Maxine Waters (serial violator of the Federal law prohibiting nepotism), Barney Frank (who seems to think that because he likes it in the ass, so do the rest of us), and Obama cronies Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson were equally, if not more culpable, than the Republicans. Few cared to listen that it was the Community Reinvestment Act, signed into law by Jimmy Carter, and further strengthened by Bill Clinton in 1995, that set America down its current path.

 

As a former real estate agent, I know first-hand the insidiousness of the CRE. At our weekly meetings, the first priority was ALWAYS, “Don’t get sued! Don’t redline! EVERYONE gets a loan!” The sins of the father are now being visited upon the rest of us, and we, the sheep, play right along. We can’t wait to give more money to the very people who created this mess in the first place.

 

Obama has been making noise about delaying the nationwide conversion to digital TV, with the argument that many American citizens aren’t prepared for this overhaul. Why this conversion should be subsidized by the government is a rant for another day, but Obama’s intent should be closely scrutinized—like Hitler at Munich, he relies on the glassy-eyed masses, this time in front of their idiot boxes, to get his message across. Sadly, no one in the media calls him on it. Even more sadly, we, the people, are the ones who pay in the end.

Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

January 27, 2009

 

 

And so Premier Obama’s selling out of America continues apace. After a mere week in office, Obama chose the Arabic TV network Al-Arabiya for his first formal interview as “president.” Like a modern-day Neville Chamberlain, Obama marches down the path of appeasement, declaring, “that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that.” Obama is referring, no doubt, to those halcyon days of 30 years ago when Iran took American hostages and held them for 444 days. Obama’s “Peace For Our Time” speech can’t be far behind, so now we may all “go home and sleep quietly in [our] beds”!

 

During his chat with the enemy, Obama talked about growing up in Indonesia and having Muslim relatives. Is this the same Obama who vociferously abnegated his Muslim ties during his presidential campaign? The same Obama who embraced Christian values while apparently wearing earmuffs at the sermons of Reverend Jeremiah Wright? The same Obama who had Muslims removed from behind his lectern during a June, 2008, speech, so as not to alienate voters?

 

The winds of change are blowing my hair back. Our new Treasury Secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, is a tax cheat whose domestic help has visa issues. The nominee for Deputy Defense Secretary, William J. Lynn III, is a long-time registered lobbyist for Raytheon, one of the military’s top defense contractors. Lynn will be granted an “ethics waiver” to allow him to pursue the nomination. All this, one day after the Messiah issued new ethics rules for his administration. Presumably, Geithner and Lynn can at least hit mid-range jump shots and defend the 3-on-2 fast break, ostensibly the only requirements necessary to be on Obama’s staff.

 

To quote Pete Townshend, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” But what is so dismaying is the blind eye turned to the Premier’s machinations. The American media, like so many Jonestown cultists, continue to make excuses and celebrate this Chicago-style politician who wants to close Guantanamo–effectively making U.S. citizens out of men sworn to kill Americans–and granted interviews with those who fly planes into our buildings. With all respect to Chris Matthews, the only thrill I feel going up my leg is that of Obama pissing on it as he tells me it’s raining.

Charles Being Charles

October 29, 2008

 

So Charles Barkley is at it again. His mouth flows like the river Nile, but people keep giving him a platform, and for some reason he never seems to get called out for his ridiculous pronouncements because…..it’s CHARLES BEING CHARLES!!!!!

 

Just as a certain Dodgers’ outfielder has all his sociopathic peccadillos dismissed as “Manny being Manny,” Barkley is the Teflon Don of loudmouthed ex-jocks. Several years ago he blurts, “That’s why I hate white people,” and that’s just “CHARLES BEING CHARLES.” He spits on a fan and it’s “CHARLES BEING CHARLES.” He throws someone through a plate-glass window and it’s “CHARLES BEING CHARLES.” John Rocker wishes he had it so good.

 

Well, maybe “Charles being Charles” is code for “Charles being a friggin’ idiot.” Barkley knows all about code words…or so he says. In a recent interview with CNN’s Campbell Brown, Sir Charles opined that the Republican Party uses code words like welfare, terrorist, and Muslim to disguise their racist views. He also added, “The only way they can win this election is to make it about race. That’s the only way they can win it.”

 

Never mind that the McCain camp has not once mentioned race in the campaign, and has even eschewed what would surely be a winning tactic…establishing the Messiah’s blatant racism by being all- Reverend Wright, all the time. And never mind that Muslim terrorists took down the World Trade Center seven years ago. Charles wants to wrap them in a loving embrace.

 

The thing is this—Barkley is just another left-leaning Democratic hypocrite. It wasn’t too long ago that Barkley considered himself conservative (probably since he’s rich enough to cavalierly dismiss million dollar gambling losses), but put a black man into the race and the self-anointed master of race relations switches sides. Who’s the racist now?? Come to think of it, he has put on enough weight over the years to look smashing alongside fat cats Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, and the other millionaire Democrats who are so concerned with the plight of the common man.

 

Charles claims he shudders whenever he hears the word “conservative,” as if it’s only the Republican Party doing the raping and pillaging in our government. But he doesn’t mention the video that surfaced today of Dianne Wilkerson, a black Democrat stuffing bribe money in her bra, or William Jefferson, the black Democrat from Louisiana, currently facing trial on racketeering and bribery charges after FBI officials found $90,000 stuffed in his freezer. And he doesn’t mention the battleground state of Michigan where Democratic governor Jennifer Granholm and Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit’s black Democrat mayor have run that state into the ground. Kilpatrick will have lots of time to ponder how to get Detroit back on track while he sits in jail for essentially partying too much on the public dime.

 

Now lest you think I have it in for Democrats or want to stifle free speech, let me assure you nothing could be further from the truth. I detest Republicans (or anyone holding public office), and I believe short of yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, anyone should be able to say whatever moves them. It’s the double-standard I object to. The Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman makes a 100% innocuous remark about Tiger Woods and she’s thrown under the bus and suspended; John McCain innocently refers to Barack as “that one” during a debate and he’s branded a racist, but Charles prattles on and on with impunity. I wonder if he’ll be asked to apologize for his most recent gaffe when he lampooned Isaiah Thomas’ recent drug overdose by inferring the Knicks would be better this year since their new coach probably won’t try to commit suicide.

 

Probably not, since the liberal media genuflects (on their knees and with their mouths open, no doubt) at the altar of “Sir Charles” simply because he’s a “good sound bite.”

I have no problem with Charles speaking his mind…I’ll even admit I admire him for saying what no one else will…but Sir Charles, please let others speak their minds as well without you and your ilk screaming racism at every turn.

To Hell With Hezbollah

July 18, 2006

 

Upon witnessing the renewed violence in the Middle East as Israel and Hezbollah square off, I’m reminded of Clint Eastwood in the movie Dirty Harry when he’s asked how he can be certain that the serial killer he’s pursuing will continue to kill. “Because he likes it,” Dirty Harry explains.

 

This, in a nutshell, sums up those in the Middle East. They like–no make that love– violence. Year after year, through cease-fires and civilian withdrawals from various “homelands,” the carnage continues unabated. So, I ask, “When are we going to stop wringing our hands and start embracing the death and destruction?” It’s not about statehood or hegemony…it’s about a group of people that are by their very nature violent and clannish and predisposed to gutless killing. It’s ingrained in Arab culture, indeed, it’s ingrained in their very souls.

 

So let them die, but keep American boys out of the mess. I simply have to laugh when people talk about establishing peace in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter. It AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!!!! EVER!!!! So give it up…let those who want to fight kill each other off and spare me the crocodile tears about the “innocent civilians.” These “innocent civilians” are the people shouting in the streets and burning American flags. Let’s kill all them, too. You’d better believe, given the chance, they would kill us. It seems silly to me that civilians are supposed to be somehow sheltered from the violence perpetrated by their various leaders. The sight of dead civilians, to any civilized culture, would be an incentive to cease and desist. Sadly, in the Middle East, there is no such civility—so let the Middle East burn, but keep our boys out of it.

Henican, Henican, Shoots Off His Mouth More than Most Fellas Can

May 16, 2006

 

 

 

Though it pains me to do so, I have to defend Bill O’Reilly’s position during his tete-a-tete with Ellis Henican on Tuesday’s O’Reilly Report. While discussing illegal immigration, O’Reilly made reference to a poll that indicated 75 percent of Americans favor sending the National Guard to defend America’s southern border. This prompted Henican to ask the question, “Does that make it right?” How about this, Henican, you pompous, self-important bleeding heart: HELL YES, THAT MAKES IT RIGHT!! When are you and your ilk, along with all the “fine” politicians running the show going to understand that this country’s policies are supposed to be dictated by THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE?

 

I grow so tired of the loud-mouthed pundits and sanctimonious politicians ignoring the constituency so that they can promote their personal agendas that allow them to feel good about themselves even as they sell out the very people they’re supposed to represent. It’s about time our government stops doing “what is right” since “what is right” is a grey area as wide as Dennis Hastert’s ass.

 

The last time Congress tried to do “what is right,” the 535 pious ones were barging into the Terri Schiavo case, trying to override numerous court rulings so they could force a feeding tube down Schiavo’s throat and champion themselves as moral crusaders. Never mind that 70 percent of Americans wanted them to butt out. It’s high time that our elected officials start doing their jobs, and it’s high time that the people wise up and start voting these jerks out of office.

O.J. Pisses on Nicole’s Grave

May 12, 2006

 

And the O.J. Simpson saga goes on. Just when you thought this amoral sociopath couldn’t possibly do anything to make you detest him more, O.J. raises the bar–outdoes himself–disgraces the human race with a cynicism heretofore reserved for politicians.

 

In “Juiced,” a pay-per-view show set to air this month, Simpson appears in several vignettes where he pulls pranks on unsuspecting victims candid-camera style. One prank involves Simpson on a used-car lot trying to sell the infamous white Bronco in which he led Los Angeles police on a slow-speed chase three days after butchering his ex-wife and Ronald Goldman. This chase, of course, is where we got our most revealing look into Simpson’s moral character as he played the coward throughout, whining and acting aggrieved as he threatened suicide, conveniently choosing to forget that he had murdered the mother of his children by slicing her throat from ear to ear.

 

“Juiced,” a wretched paean to all that television has become, finds O.J. telling a prospective Bronco buyer that, “It was good for me—it helped me get away.” That something this disgusting is allowed to happen in this country is shameful. Fred Goldman, Ronald’s long-suffering father, said he found Simpson’s comments “morally reprehensible.” Indeed, would anyone think less of Goldman if he had Simpson killed?

 

Simpson’s partner in crime is the contemptible Rick Mahr, who besides being an empty and kindred soul of Simpson’s, is also the purveyor of distasteful dreck like “The Best of Backyard Wrestling,” “Ghetto Brawls,” and my favorite, “Brawling Broads.” That either one of these vermin can be so flippant about these savage murders, especially when we all know who committed them, is truly stunning.

 

I hope there’s a special place in hell for these two—a corner booth where they can share cocktails with Johnnie Cochran and reminisce about the good old days when it was okay to keep your bitch in line by slashing her throat.

United States is a Nation of Wimps

May 10, 2006

 

H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” Never was this more clearly demonstrated than in a Virginia jury’s decision to spare the life of September 11th co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. In sentencing Moussaoui to life in prison, the jury sent a distinct message that is demonstrated in many ways across this great land of ours: We have become a nation of navel-gazing wimps. Stupid ones at that!

 

Despite Moussaoui’s confession of his involvement in the attacks of September 11th, and his repeated blatherings of allegiance to Osama Bin Laden, this jury became squeamish about offing this loser. Moussaoui has spent the last four years spitting in the eye of the families of the dead and mocking the very justice system which spared his life, and yet his final statement as he left the courtroom betrayed no remorse: “America, you lost. I won.”

 

Not surprisingly, the jury cited Moussaoui’s “unstable childhood and a violent father” as mitigating factors in its decision to spare his life. Small wonder so many consider the U.S. weak and spineless. We allow illegal immigrants to march in the streets demanding “rights,” and we deliver no retribution for the violent deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans. None of the jurors agreed that life in prison was a greater punishment than execution—essentially saying that they had compassion for this cold-blooded killer.

 

Somehow a huge number of people in this country have bought into the notion that “compassion” and being “non-judgmental” makes them superior and allows them to feel good about themselves, when in fact, it merely makes them suckers. Terrorists worldwide now know that they can continue their evil deeds without fear of American payback. And mark my words, it won’t be long before an American citizen is held hostage somewhere, with the captors demanding Moussaoui’s release.

 

Sadly, American softness is nothing new. We’ve been on a long road to fuzziness since as far back as I can remember. Common sense has been overwhelmed by a fear and self-loathing so strong that individual wants have trumped the collective, and we’ve allowed a few shrill voices to establish today’s mores.

 

“Ooh, he called me a name!! That’s a hate crime!! Waaahhh!! He’s smoking—I’m going to get sick from secondhand smoke!! I CAN’T EAT THAT—IT HAS TOO MANY CARBS!! I’M A FATASS—I’M GOING TO SUE MC DONALD’S!!

 

We’re a nation of whiners and the far-left is largely responsible. The tree-huggers bemoan rising gas prices even as they picket to stop drilling in Alaska, rage against the construction of nuclear power plants, and drive their SUV’s. They rally against wind farms because a handful of birds may be harmed. They hold candlelight vigils to protest the execution of Michael Morales, who brutally raped and murdered a seventeen-year old girl, on the contention that lethal injection would subject him to “excruciating pain,” but they have no problem ripping a fetus from the womb because they believe in “choice.”

 

Lest you think I’m pro-life, I assure you I am not—I’m merely consistent. I’m in Bill Maher’s camp when he says he’s pro-death. Let’s kill unwanted children before they’re brought into this world to be ignored, become bitter, and finally visit crime upon the rest of us. And let’s certainly kill those who have such disregard for human life that they would kill others. And before you say it’s illogical and inhumane to teach respect for human life by killing, let me point out the idiocy of such a statement. By that reasoning, it would be wrong to incarcerate a kidnapper because “you can’t teach someone not to hold another against their will by holding the perpetrator against his will.”

 

But I digress—the intent of this blog was to illustrate what a bunch of softies we have become. And one need look no further than the way kids play now. On the rare occasion that a youngster drags himself from in front of his endless online chats, we can see him riding his bike with more protective gear than Neil Armstrong donned on July 20th, 1969. Indeed, one is hard-pressed to even find an adult who will ride helmet-less these days. And a little league baseball game sees kids outfitted like football players, with forearm pads and facemasks over their batting helmets. Sheeesh!!!! And where the hell did peanut allergies come from?? Why did I and virtually everyone I grew up with subsist on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for years with nary a complaint of allergies? Yet now, airlines and schools are bending over backwards to appease these self-indulgent peanut hypochondriacs.

 

Sadly, things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better, as more and more bizarre lawsuits pop up and more and more people portray themselves as victims to absolve themselves of personal responsibility. H.L. Mencken must have been a rich man!

Everyone Guilty in Duke Rape Case

May 10, 2006

 

I’ve watched with both amusement and bemusement the proceedings in the Duke lacrosse rape investigation. Amusement at the alleged victim’s defenders who try and portray her as a good mother and hard-working student, and bemusement at what type of young man you must be to find yourself at the center of such sordid rape allegations.

 

Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, the accused, are certainly no choirboys. Finnerty, in particular, seems to have a disturbing and dangerous macho mentality which we so often see exacerbated by the pack psychology of college and pro athletes. This is the mentality that delights in the torment and domination of those smaller and weaker. Finnerty, it seems, is just this type of bully. Because of these rape allegations, Finnerty is now being forced to revisit an assault case from November in which he entered a diversion program after he and two friends beat up another man while shouting anti-gay epithets. It wouldn’t seem Finnerty has ever taken much time to empathize with or show respect to others, precisely why he finds himself in such a nightmarish predicament.

 

As someone who has slept with close to one hundred women (move over, Wilt) in various phases of sobriety, drunkenness, outright incoherence, and all points in between, I still have never been accused of rape. This, I think, speaks to the fact that despite my many failings, at the bottom of it all, I have a good heart and a fundamental respect for others. Even in my darkest moments of drunken foolishness, I don’t force myself on women.

 

Whether this fundamental decency is due to my upbringing (two great parents and two sisters), my environment, or sheer luck, it’s evident that several of the Duke lacrosse players are devoid of said decency. I don’t presume to know what went on the night of March 13th when the alleged rape took place, but it’s clear that at least some of the players in attendance were repugnant and loathsome animals. Threatening the strippers with penetration with a broomstick—though I, too, sometimes have odious and degrading fantasies, there are some you simply don’t act upon—suggests that the “pack mentality” was in full swing, as do the racial slurs that were reportedly hurled at the strippers. Ryan McFayden, whose vile e-mail about killing and skinning women while he ejaculated in his Duke-issued spandex was made public shortly after the accusations, is not someone I would want dating my daughter.

 

All that having been said, it is becoming more and more likely with each passing day that no rape occurred. While prosecutor Mike Nifong insists he has evidence, Reade Seligmann has produced what seems to be a pretty solid alibi, and the accuser’s credibility has taken a sizable hit. Aside from the fact that she made a prior accusation in 1993, claiming that she was raped by three men, it’s evident that this woman has something of a past.

 

She led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen car one night several years ago while drunk and driving on a revoked license, and finished this night of good clean fun by trying to run over the arresting officer. She had the first of her two children with one man while married to another, and by all accounts was looped out of her mind on the night of the alleged rape. This woman is not Shirley Temple. While this, in and of itself, shouldn’t keep prosecutors from sending these lacrosse players away for a long time if they raped this woman, her story seems shaky.

 

So this seems like a good time to dispel the laughable notion posited by the accuser’s defenders that she was simply a good mother and hard-working student who deigned to strip in order to take care of her family. This is highly unlikely.

 

Trust me, I know of what I speak. As one who bartended at a strip club on the notorious Eight Mile Road in Detroit, I’m here to tell you that despite the hokum the Dr. Phils of the world will try and shove down your throat about the inherent strong moral fiber of strippers—“They’re just good people trying to feed their families”—the truth is quite the opposite. On any given night, I could have (and often did) taken home virtually any of the strippers working. The vast majority had children out of wedlock, slept with numerous co-workers, accepted money for sexual favors in the parking lot, were substance abusers, and carried firearms. Don’t piss down my leg and tell me it’s raining. Indeed, besides the criminal past of the alleged victim in this case, her co-stripper at the lacrosse party was convicted in 2001 of embezzling $25,000 from a photofinishing company where she worked!!! The world of escort services doesn’t attract the best and the brightest.

 

This case is a sad and ugly episode, but one thing is becoming eminently clear–while all involved may not be getting what they deserve, they are certainly getting what they asked for.