CALLING A SPADE A SPADE
THE WAR ON TERRORISM A WAR
and
MUSLIM MURDERERS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE

"MASS MURDER
ON AN
UNIMAGINABLE SCALE"

In the wee early hours of this morning we learned that British authorities were rounding up something like twenty-one suspected terrorists.

The potential for igniting explosive concoctions in perhaps ten outbound airliners is almost unthinkable within the scope of the destruction that might be wraught.

Outbound? England to the United States. Kill Brits and Americans, accept any collateral damage.

How is this tied in with Al Quaeda, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan we don't know. The media has been speculating all day. It would be best to see what shakes out from interrogation.

Hard, interrogation, please, none of this patty-cake interrogation preferred by our friends the Democrats and their lap poodle, the latest incarnation of the ACLU.

Apparently we dodged a bullet. Which bullet would have hit its mark were it not for some good, hard police work, a little racial profiling, and some luck.

Anybody doubt that we are at war and that our enemies are largely Muslims and that they will kill us if we do not kill them first?

CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
THE LAST WORD?
Nah
JUST THE FIRST OF A WHOLE BUNCH OF 'LAST WORDS'

We apparently missed the mark yesterday when we listed those things that Ms. McKinney could blame her defeat on.

She threw in one that was far away from this radar screen.

Cynthia now blames 'Those Voting Machines'. that apparently cost her the election.

It wasn't the apparent fact that she received fewer votes than her opponent. No, she was cheated by those damned Diebold voting machines.

Of course she was.

Wonder when she will explain to us how that worked.

to serve
TO PROTECT
and
TO CHEAT

In Cobb County, Georgia an entire class of police recruits has been fired en masse.

Seems as if every kid in the class had banded together to help one another pass the several examinations required for graduation....no matter how poorly an individual did.

Don't know if they planned to help each other on the weapons range. Kind of disturbing to have a cop who doesn't know which end of his Glock is lethal.

The plot was discovered when a supervisor saw a couple of recruits comparing answers after they got a test back.

I guess these guys and gals were so used to cheating in high school and college that they thought it OK to apply the technique to police training.

Bad Cop.....Bad Cop.

HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO
POOR CYNTHIA MCKINNEY?

By this time you know that Cynthia McKinney will not be returning to the United States House of Representatives.

She lost in a primary run-off to soft-spoken, hard-working Hank Johnson and goes into forced retirement with her new look and hairdo.

But it wasn't her fault that she lost, not at all. No way. There is lots and lots of blame to go around.

We can blame the press, who vilified and even criticized her. Then there are the bloggers. They have had a field day with this good lady for years now. Good thing most of the people in her district don't (or can't) read blogs. And of course much of the blame must fall upon the Capitol Police. After McKinney cleaned that cop's clock, he should have been disciplined. We cannot imagine the utter arrogance of the man who detained our heroine simply because he didn't recognize her as she pranced by a check point. Radio and TV share in the blame for this loss. These preditors have had it in for the Congresswoman for a long, long time. And of course there are the voters of Dekalb County. Many of them were so stupid that they voted for McKinney's opponent and others were so stupid that they didn't go to the polls and vote for the good lady. Of course there are the dirty Republicans who crossed over and voted for Mr. Johnson. Of course some other Republicans voted for McKinney just to keep her in office as a regular embarrassment to the party of the Mythic Jackass.

No question about it...Ms McKinney's loss was not her fault. Maybe if the Atlanta Braves were doing better, she could have won.

Blame Bobby Cox.

IN A SOCIETY OBSESSED WITH ITS 'NOW'
IT IS SOMETIMES HELPFUL TO
REACH OUT AND TOUCH YOUR PAST

Made a purchase at a gun show last weekend.

You don't like firearms? Well, this little essay isn't really about guns.

Please click MORE and read on More...

I DID!
DID YOU?
VOTED, THAT IS

There was no waiting, no line long or short.

Not another person in the polling place other than polling staff, my companions and myself.

Took forty-five seconds to fill out the required paperwork.

Ten seconds to vote....two run-off races.

In and done in less than a minute.

Less than a minute to uphold one of our most cherished rights of citizenship. Chatted with the poll workers for a couple of minutes. Good people they.

Yet perhaps one in ten registered Georgia voters will take the time....the miinute....the sixty seconds necessary to meet this obligation.

In the Arab world America is often referred to as 'The Great Satan'.

Maybe 'The Great Dumbass' would be more appropriate.

WISHFUL THINKING DEPARTMENT

I may not have heard this right, but......

Yesterday on Kenny and Jami's morning show, I heard....or thought I heard....some Democrat candidate for something or another say, and I quote as closely as I can, "....I have been endorsed by three of Macon's former mayors: Congressman Jim Marshall, Tommy Olmstead, and C. Jack Ellis."

Former Mayors, indeed.

HAPPY
THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY

It was thirty years ago today that I landed on these shores of Middle Georgia.

It's been quite a ride.....ups, downs, and sideways. Sometimes it's a corkscrew, sometimes a roller coaster on steroids.

Tonight, after a nightcap of tomato or prune Juice, I intend to sing a chorus or two of I DID IT MY WAY and go to bed with visions of casting an early morning vote dancing in my head.

Wow....thirty years. I still have family back up in the Bay State who want me to return to the bosom of the hake and the cod. But I won't. Georgia has its faults, of course, and Macon could use a complete make-over, but I am almost a native now and intend to devote the next thirty years to continuing to doing things my way.

Besides who would want to live in a place that elects the likes of Kennedy and Kerry to the Senate?

WHITHER THE WEATHER?
WHETHER WEATHER OR NOT

In the scorching swelter that is midsummer Macon we have some good news.

Since Friday last, the National Weather Service indicates that the average high and the average low temps have each dropped one degree.

What averagedf 92 (high) and 71 (low) has now, as of August 7th. dropped to 91 and 70.

For our European friends, these are farenheit, not celsius, calibrations.

By the end of the month some of us will be wearing a light sweater to ward off the night chill of a Friday Night football match.

So, folks, the worst is over....statistically speaking, of course.....for local television predicts another terribly hot and humid week ahead.

Maybe we won't get any of those pesky hurricanes.

TOMORROW IN GEORGIA
IS
PRIMARY RUN OFF DAY

We will go to the polls once again tomorrow.

Rather, some of us will go to the polls tomorrow.

Actually damn few of us will go to the polls tomorrow.

Amd that's the great shame of our 'Democracy In Action'.

Better we call it 'Democracy in inaction.'

Or maybe just good old fashioned, 'Sphinctocracy'.....rule by the sphinctors among us.

Lots of them, eh? Sphincters everywhere.

Whatever we call it, unless things change very quickly, we shall see what is likely to be the lowest turn-out for any election in recent history.

If we don't vote, then whatever we get in office we deserve....yes, even if it's a Cynthia McKinney.

AMERICA IN 2006
WAR THEN AND NOW

The very first thing I can remember was the attack on Pearl harbor...December 7, 1941.

That's probably not accurate....I remember my parents' predictably emotional reaction to the attack. Tears, pacing back and forth, fist pounding, imprecation. But the day is burned deeply into my brain.

So I grew up in the shadow of a global war. Following that as a product of something called 'the Cold War'.

The face-off betwixt us and the Ruskies can wait a while. Let's look at World War Two and how everybody was involved at home and abroad. More...

PATIENCE REWARDED
ALL THINGS COME TO HIM WHO WAITS
TABLE OF CONTENTS RESTORED

EXPRESPAGE is finally back up and running. Don't know why it was off line for so many days, but a few spot checks indicates all has been fixed.

So take a look at LUKE'S TABLE OF CONTENTS I have two or three more episodes to add, today hopefully.

Just a tad behind in writing. Big gun show at the Centreplex this weekend.

Luke should return from the Mexican border this week....just in time for his fall semester. Little bastard is going into his senior year. Why it seems like yesterday.........

EXPRESS PAGE STILL DOWN

For reasons unknown to us LUKE'S TABLE OF CONTENTS is still off-line as this is being typed around 5:00 AM on Saturday morning.

Who knows?

MONTHLY PARANOIA FROM OUR FAVORITE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
LANDOVER BAPTIST CHURCH

The good, holier-than-thou folks over at LANDOVER BAPTIST CHURCH have blessed us this day with one of their eagerly looked for newsletters. Please check it out.

For the pure in heart and mind and soul, those worthy to be saved in the final days, people who cleave to the wonderfully right and biblically correct version of the straight and narrow, here is just one sample of some of the truly blessed gear you can find when you visit the Landover web site.

May the shining countenance of the Glorious Almighty shine upon you and your endeavors to wipe out the great unwashed, those folks who do not believe in God exactly as do you.

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KENNY B and JAMI G.
THE GREAT DEBATE
HORNE HITS ONE OUT OF THE PARK

This is from the COULDN'T HELP MYSELF, department.

Listened carefully (I think) to the 'debate' between Stebin Horne and Allen Peake this AM held on everybody's top local show, KENNY B and JAMI G. Missed riverwalking, even.

Listened so carefully, in fact, that I had to send the co-hosts a letter. Not a long letter, please, just a short, pithy post to kind of give my summary and opinion of the Great Debate.

Please click MORE to read it now.

More...

The site we keep all the 'Lukestories' found on LUKE'S TABLE OF CONTENTS is down today for reasons completely unknown to us.

I am certain the gnomemeisters are simply doing system repair or upgrades and things will be back in order later tonight or sometime tomorrow.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIDEL

In apparent failing health and on the cusp of his eightieth birthday, Fidel Castro has governed Cuba since the late fifties.

His recent operation was cause for alarm in Havana and celebratory street demonstrations in Miami.

I don't see Fidel the way official Washingtom does.

Please click on MORE More...

THIS JUST IN
FROM
NEWTON COLLIER
SAM MOORE COMING TO MACON

A phone call from Macon's home-grown guru, the Birthday Boy, Newton Collier his very self, informed me that Sam Moore and a troup of twenty will be coming to Macon for a one night show in late September.

Many will remember Mr. Moore who was half of the team of SAM and DAVE, that wonderful band from the glory days of R&B, when that genre was dynamic and rich and something other than mildly Africanizwed elevator music.

Details are not clear at this time and, apparently City Hall isn't saying much on this matter, but Moore sent a feeler to the city last month indicating that he would play Macon for a mere thirty-thousand dollars.

From here, this is a little confusing. The Annual Bragg Jam was moved to late September from its usual summer slot. To date we have heard nothing about the annual Fool's Folly AKA The Macon Music and Heritage Festival, brainchild of C. jack Ellis, stillborn over the last two or three years.

Keeping events like this is part and parcel of the Ellis Administration modus operandi, making plans in smoke-filled nightspots with old cronies who love to shoot off their mouths when facing the light of day.

So we shall see. If this b'log is in error, please accept our apologies. Newton, however, is a most reliable fountain of information.

Thanks, Newt!!!

BTW...I just laid in a supply of rot-gut gin mixed with fairly pure Kerosene, the favorite drink of former road musicians everywhere. We do this regularly for the discriminating palatte of Mr. Collier.Just don't drink and light a match.

CYNTHIA MCKINNEY FALLING BEHIND IN DISTRICT RUNOFF ELECTION

Cynthia McKinney, no friend of this column, is twenty points behind her challenger in the upcoming primary runoff.

Democrats want her to lose.

Republicans want her to win so that she will remain 'the face of the Democrat Party.'

Said Neal Boortz this morning, himself not a fan of the Congressional Super-Bully, "If you can't vote for Cymthis McKinney, stay home.....we need Cynthia McKinney in the U.S. House of Representatives."

The question is, if she is defeated, will she, like a piece of tainted chicken, upchuck herself into the public arena in 2008 or 2010?>/b>