SIGNS OF THE TIMES FROM
THE ARAB STREET

It always amazes me how these simple minded peasant pounders of the desert sand can come up with such well lettered signs IN ENGLISH. Our own school kids couldn't do as well.

Click on MORE to view a couple more fromthe peace loving followers of the Muslim religion.


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IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
ROB BRUNEL
SEEK NO FURTHER

Robert E. Brunel, scion, heir, chip off the old blockhead, and unarguably the best Junior College soccer-softball ciach in the Southeast, has moved from Macon to Douglas, Georgia, where he is taking up coaching duties at South Georgia College in Douglas.

He and his family left Macon and Georgia Military College several weeks ago and are happily exploring a new realm with lost of worlds to conquor.

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THIS FROM A UNITED STATES MARINE

BRIGET BARDOT TURNS 72 TODAY

Happy Birthday, oh fantasy of my youth. You still look better than all the hyped, talentless, sex-kittens thrown at today's generation of clueless young idiots.

Here's to proof that true natural beauty outperforms botox any day of the week.

BRAGG JAM IS A CUMMIN' IN
but
HAVE WE HEARD THE LAST GASP OF THE MACON HERITAGE FESTIVAL??

Bragg Jam in Macon this weekend. But we won’t discuss this music festival until its all over.

Should be good…lots of acts, weather looks promising, college students in town if they can be coaxed from their video games and computers.

You Tube and My Space might just prove to be the downfall of the hospitality industry at least as far as fourteen to twenty-eight-year olds are concerned.

The Bragg Jam was moved this year from midsummer to a better calendar spot…late September. It stands, despite what city hall would have us believe, the last remaining true music festival left our ‘Music City’, Have we fallen far!!!

We can discuss Bragg Jam once it is over. Brax, whose life was tragically cut short was a former student. Nice kid. A young musician with talent and potential. I never met his brother.

The B.J. has been well promoted, well organized, and has involved a broad range of local folk. More...

AND IN BERLIN
THREATS OF TERRORISM
TRUMP MOZART

IDOMENEO, RE DI CRETA ("Idomeneus, King of Crete") is one of Mozart's best but, on this side of the Atlantic, least known operas.

It contains a scene in which the king appears on stage with the severed heads of Buddha, Poseidon, Jesus, and Mohammed.

Guess what? The slight suggestion of the possibility of threats from angry Muslims has caused the Berlin Opera to pull this magnificient opus.

Makes me want to pen my own opera, something done in the style of Mozart or Rossini. Let;s call it, MOHAMMED AND THE FORTY PIGS and have one scene set in a harem. It will combine the charm of The Arabian Nights, Alladin and the forty one armed thieves, magic carpets, and genis, all wrapped up in the guise of near eastern mythology where the peaceful followers of Mohammed hack and slaughter their way to world Jihad.

As a practicing Greco-Roman Classicist, I ought to engage in murder and plunder because of the inclusion of the god Poseidon, ruler of the sea.

Gosh!!

JOHN STOSSEL
on
BIG BUSINESS AND BIG GOVERNMENT

President John Kennedy's father told him, "Businessmen are S.O.B.'s"

My Dad went a step further saying, "Son, don't trust big business, big government, or big labor unions."

My own boys they probably got sick of hearing, "Don't trust any entrenched bureaucratic organization....these exist only perpetuate themselves."

This includes major political parties like: The Party Of the Mythic jackass and The Party of the Imperial Pachyderm. I don't like 'em.

And of course it encompasses what we call Big Business, for the union between business and government makes genuine free enterprise almost impossible.

And yours truly stands four square in favor of free enterprise....but what we have today in this country is anything but.

John Stossel, ABC's maverick conservative, has written one hell of a column that appears in TOWNHALL today. It is called, simply, "BIG BUSINESS LOVES GOVERNMENT".

Relying heavily on Timothy Carney's "THE BIG RIPOFF: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money", Stossel writes an inciteful column on the unholy union between government and business going back well into the indistrial revolution of the 1800's.

I recommend this highly. Go to TOWN HALL and find Stossel under Columnists.

Go get it.

DAMMIT BE CAREFUL:
KIDS DON'T HAVE ANY SENSE

The radio just informed us that another child was struck while waiting for a school bus.

That's the third this school year....two fatalities. A nine-year-old's body isn't much of a match for a carelessly-driven SUV. Little bones break easily.

One child was hit a block from here, another killed less than a mile away. Today's fatality took place on Thomaston road.

These little guys are children, they don't have much common sense, they don't come into this world with a full set of reasoning faculties.

If a child darts out, his safety is still our responsibility.

Be extra careful out there. Please. The child whose life you save could be your own.

ON A CLEAN, CLEAR, CRISP FALL MORNING

I don't own an alarm clock. I have cats instead.

Cats who think sleeping in is a sin.

Afternoon naps are OK, for they join with me then. But in this house we waste neither early morning's light, not a couple of hours of pre-dawn darkness.

The big gray, AKA Jihad, Gray Boy, or simply Castrato prefers to hit nature's trail after breakfast. His breakfast, not mine. These cats demand a feeding before my morning coffee. The lone female, Fatwa, would rather experience her out-of-doors only after the day stands in its full glory. And the kitten, or not much a kitten anymore, Wiggles, is not allowed outside unless accompanied by myself. He has no sense of direction, no fear of cars. Silly thing knowns no enemies and trusts dogs.

So, breakfast over, coffee mug in one hand, Wiggles inthe other, I gently push open the door and step into the morning dark.

The moment is perfect, sensual, exotic...furry feline on one arm, coffee too hot for MacDonald's in the other limb, a clear, star-hung sky with Orion's belt dominating the open space between two trees, a light breeze, and the cool cement of a leaf strewn patio under bare foot.

Perfect. Glorious. Tells me I am alive and well and ready to take on the full panoply of this day.

MS. RICE REPLIES TO MR. CLINTON

We know that former president Clinton became apoplectic during his interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace over the weekend. His remarks were pentulant, personal, and totally contrived.

Condoleeza Rice, however, in her measured rebuttal to Clinton's arrogance and invective, was completely dignified in her carefully crafted response. You can read part of it below:

Thank god for the old-fasioned, honorable, and diplomatic language of the State Department.

LIAR!! LIAR!!
PANTS ON FIRE!!!

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A READER'S OBSERVATIONS
THERE IS SOME POWERFUL STUFF HERE

THIS IN FROM RIVERSIDE RED
DENZEL GETS IT RIGHT
WHY CAN'T MOST OF THE HOLLYWOODIES?

CLINTON'S RIGHT WING CONSPIRACIES
VAST
and
HALF-VAST

The biggest problem with Friday's tete-a-tete between Chris Wallace and Former President is that it really is a non-issue.

Of course it fits perfectly into the mass media's love affair with ratings engendering confrontation between two manufactured protagonists. I guess those news guys assume most of us can't count higher than two, since issues so pften are multi-faceted. That's the fallacy of dichotomy.

i didn't see the original, but heard frequent re-broadcasts. But i do have an idea I have not heard or seen elsewhere. Try this.

Clinton's comment about 'right wing', conservative questioning smacks, of course, of his 'little woman's' 'vast right wing conspiracy' speech in the early days of the Lewinsky affair when she was truly standing by her man, but not like some little Tammy Wynette,. Hillary is too strong a figure for that.

Question...since the former President's remark, indeed his whole diatribe, seemed somehow contrived, almost scripted, is 'vast right wing conspiracy' to become the mantra of Hillary's campaign for president.

One by one she is enfolding into her gentle bosom former Clinton Cadre members, Terry McAuliff most recently. It is doubtful that Ms. Clinton came up with the original all by herself. It smacks of professional speech writer.

Such a phrase would have great resonance in blue states, where we southerners are all too often thought most like the North Georgia natives found in DELIVERANCE.

Watch out for this one, good folks, Suspect we shall see a hell of a lot more of this kind of slanting.

Speaking of 'little women', I wonder how Ms. Nancy Grace would have handled the interview.

THE STATE OF
CULTURE IN AMERICA
September, 2006

The fact that the movie JACKASS 2 opened in American theatres as the run away, number one box office hit this weekend says more about the state of American Culture than a hundred books.

But then reading is fast becoming a lost art.

BEARING ARMS

Regular readers know I am a strong supporter of two things very important to me: (1) individuality; (2) the individual’s right to own guns.

That’s not to say, of course, that there are other things in life also near and dear. But I just spent a day strolling leisurely through a gun and knife show, and here lies my focus for the next few hours.

I own several firearms and have all my life. My Old Man, a pretty good Joe, started teaching me to shoot a twenty-two rifle at the age of three. More...

FROM A READER IN DENVER
BUMPER STICKER OF THE WEEK

DOGGY WAGGING
FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON ON FOX NEWS
(NOT THE SMARTEST MOVE HE EVERY MADE)

"Maybe I didn't make any real effort to get Bin Laden
But I didn't have sex with that woman either.
SO THERE"!!!

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BIN LADEN DEAD?

Oh, Mon Dieu!!! Est-ce que Bin laden Mort? Ce n'est pas possible, je crois.

But the French have said that he is dead, and the French are honorable men.

Aren't they? I mean, really, aren't they honorable and not double-dealing monkeys?

That's cheese eating surrender monkeys. Brie on the breath!! Teeth of roquefort. All that sort of thing.

jacques Chirac wouldn't lie to Americans....we saved his ass from the Jerries in 1917 and 1944. A man of Chirac's character wouldn't forget our sacrifices, would he?

Merci, non!!!

A French publication tells us Bin Laden is dead...or nearly so, which is almost the same thing, ain't it?

French government denies the report. So does our State Department. Haven't heard from Usama B. L., yet. We can count on him to tell us the truth.

Who gets the twenty-five million reward if he croaked?

If a normal suicide bomber gets seventy-two virgins, how many does Ben get? Do the math...I can't count that high.

For all you do this virgin's for you.

Only slime will tell.

Whither Bin Laden? Thither Ben Laden???

GUN SHOW POLITICS
MEETING MAC COLLINS

Until recently I had thought I would be giving my endorsement, albeit a half-hearted, kind of pro forma endorsement to Jim Marshall. He is our former mayor, after all, who used to jog through our neighborhood....my late Labrador, Bubba, was a big fan.

And Mr. Marshall has done a pretty good job as a Representative. He is basically conservative. fiscally responsible, and a strong supporter of the military, without which our part of the state would be a unmitigated disaster area.

But is he the better man for the job?

I am not sure right now. I had the chance to talk at some length with Mac Collins at our gun show this afternoon, not only Mr. Collins but the leaders of his campaign as well. It is quite possible that I will be changing my mind....but not until after considerable soul-searching.

So, dear friends, please give me two weeks to think about this matter. two weeks during which you can bombard me with information (hard, info, please, not rumor or speculation). Two weeks should be enough for me to put everything together and make my choice.

This is too important to be left to gut feeling, emotion, or the usual degenerative rhetoric that makes up the bulk of so many modern political campaigns.

Please watch this space.

HUGO CHAVEZ
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

As this is being typed, in huddled circles around the country, GOP smart boys and stragegists are salivating over the use of Venezuelian Dictator's outrageous anti-Bish rhetoric in Harlem and earlier at the United Nations.

We shall soon see campaign ads featuring Chavez side by side with Democratic leaders saying very much the same thing. That should include Charlie Rangle and Nancy 'Big Mamma' Pelosi who professed feigned outrage over Chavez' statements in a lame effort to cover their own backsides (or is it backslides?).

It will be brutal, well funded, and most likely to hurt the 'Crats in their bid to take over the House in November.

THE RETURN
of
TERRY MCCAULIFF

It's apparently a done deal, but Hillary Clinton has 'engaged' the once powerful Terry McCauliff, former DNC national Chairman, and loser of elections in 2000, 2002, and 2004 to run her presidential campaign.

The why is a myster to me, but it must have something to do with old loyalties and and an irrational belief that a one time perennial loser can morph into the next Carl Rove.

As a bet it's a long shot.

I suspect it has to do with the increasing and obvious opposition to Senator Clinton's candidacy for the highest office in the land. With the recent resurrection of losers, albeit powerful losers, Kerry and Gore, with the Party of the Mythic Jackass shifting dangerously to the left, Ms. Clinton appears increasingly like a 'moderate' or even a 'centrist', which is simply not true. The fly in her ointment is her early support for the War in Iraq, fast becoming the centerpeice of the Democrats' main strategem for victory.

McCauliff is old-line, loyal Clintonista. Maybe the former first lady will trot out the likes of James Carville (whom I like) and Paul Begala (whom I don't), whose loyalty to all things Clinton remain undimmed through the latter years of GOP hegemony. This is most likely to be her ultimate strategy....bring to the forefront the proven winners and execs of her husband's years in office, whose loyalties are beyond suspicion.

One of the weaknesses of the American political system is that individuals inspire loyalty far more often than do ideas and deeds. That's probably one of the defects of human nature. It was personal adulation and unblinking fealty that put Adolph Hitler in power.

If Clinton's campaign relies too much on the old timers from the 1990's, she will lose either in the primaries or in the general election. There are many Americans whose hatred and mistrust of the lady are waiting to be tapped. A makeover and new lipstick won't do it for her.

HEART OF GEORGIA
GUN AND KNIFE SHOW THIS WEEKEND

Yep. See some of you there....I'll be wearing my NRA cap, probably...most probably.

If you are a politician looking to get elected in forty or so days, better show up and press some flesh. Gun show people vote...in large numbers...Saw Sonny Perdue at one of these things last year.

Tell us about your 'Sonny Do' list if you can make it. Yeah, I see the ads. Not bad. Bogart and Bacall were better, but we have you and the Mrs. and they are long gone.

Several well-known local personae will be on hand tomorrow. Could be a good PR gig for local pols. Down-to-earth pols, Second Amendment pols....we don't need any Chucky 'The Greaser' Schumers or Teddy 'Rotundus' kennedys. Remember that pic of John Kerry holding a gun and talking? He didn't know it was a firearm. Thought he was making out with Theresa. Then there was the faked pic with a goose.

If you are new to the shooting sports and wish to purchase a firearm, learn hos to use it safely. The only thing worse than an idiot without a gun who doesn't know jack about firearms is an idiot with a firearm who doesn't know jack about it.

Not knowing 'jack' is not a reference to Macon's mayor, Hizzoner, C. Jack Ellis. Around here 'not knowing Jack' will probably work to your advantage.

Gunshows are family centered, a good way to spend some relaxed, educational, quality time with the wife and rug rats.

Ciao

AYE!!!
TEAR HER TATTERED
ENSIGN DOWN!!!

Should Bostonians, proper and improper, tear down this seventyu-year-old landmark, the most obvious feature on the Bean Town Skyline?

What will be Boston's reaction to Hugo Chavez' recent speech to the United Nations?

Will the one time cradle of liberty revive from its recent left-leaning torpor to lead the way to a boycott of Citgo and Venezuelia's oil?

Don't hold your breath.

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LITTLE BOXES

LOWER BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
THANKS FOR A SUCCESSFUL MEETING

Great meeting, great group of people. Off to a great start.

Tonight we elected Merry Bacon President and Sandy Tyson Secretary.

We didn't actually 'elect' them, it was more of a spontaneous 'unanimous consent'. But we ended up with two superb officers to steer us through opening months of growth and organization.

One of the concerns raised was the fact that members knew of situations where the Macon PD had investigated a crime, and there is no record of a report having been filed.

This is a complaint I, personally, have heard from multiple sources of late. Why? Why are crimes not being catalogue and recorded once reported by the general population?

Good question!!! Anybody have an answer?

SENT IN BY RIVERSIDE RED
THE REAL REASON
WHY DOGS BITE PEOPLE

Sometimes when dogs attack their human companions it's for a very good reason. Be glad they don't have opposable thumbs and access to your pistol.

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CHAVEZ GETS ONE THING RIGHT
WHICH AIN'T SAYING A HELL OF A LOT

EL DIABLO

THE LAW AND
SEX OFFENDERS

.We’re on a real, old-fashioned, puritan-style witch hunt in Georgia.

And nobody’s raising any objection.

And in the process we are creating a sub-class of people, non-citizens for all intents and purposes, Americans who have lost not only many of their civil rights, but every shred of human dignity they might once have had.

And, think many of us, they don’t deserve either.
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MEGA BUST ON I-75

Crime doesn't pay.

Un;ess we don't get caught.

And hope springes ever eternal in the breast of the would-be felon, most especially, perhaps, the importers and distributers of illegal substance.

Just north of Macon, in the town of Forsyth, known decades ago as one of those pissy little Southern whistlestops that used to finance all city activities with trumped up speeding fines, an alert George State Patrole Officer made the largest bust of his life.

It may have been the fact that the large, black SUV seemed more heavily loaded than is common.

It may have been the dark complected, possibly Arab looking pair in the front buckets.

It may have been the fact that the vehicle was proceeding deliberately northward, doing something like fifteen miles per hour under the posted speed limit.

Whatever, just as soon as the lone trooper pulled the vehicle over, the passanger bolted and leaped a deer fence lining the highway. Witrh gun drawn, the officer cuffed the driver and opened the rear gate.

Where he found more than one thousand pounds of illicet California spinach having a street value of of more than a hundred thousand dollars, destined for the unsuspecting restaurants of Atlanta

THE RETURN OF NEAL BOORTZ
"FAIR IS FOUL, AND FOUL IS FAIR
HOVER THROUGH THE FOG AND FILTHY AIR."
FAIR FONT OR FOUL?

This story comes courtesy of NEAL BOORTZ who has just today returned from a vacation in Arizona as well as a command performance at the White House.

He tells the stody of a New York State third grade teacher who used a font (reproduced below) she had downloaded from the internet to liven up a cover page she was prepared on a spelling unit for the parents of her l'il darlin's.

She didn't realize that the font represented human figures in rather indelicate poses.

She's in a little trouble with her superiors.

Frankly, I have looked at these letters and you have to look very closely to see anything offensive. That's not to say that the letters are decent. It's just that I can't tell and would probably missed all the action myself in my well-known innocent approach to everything.

Some people just have gutter level minds.

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ONE LAST WORD
LOWER BOULEVARD
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
MEETING
THURSDAY

Please don't forget. We didn't get a supply of flyers from the city this time....Usual Time, Usual Place....and maybe help with refreshments if you have a little extra time.

Those brownies were so good last meeting....best I ever had.

Some good news....real good news about the neighborhood. Will share Thursday.

Ciao for now.

I'M SORRY
I LIED
WE DON'T REALLY LOVE THE UNITED NATIONS
WE DON'T EVEN 'LUV' THE UN

In fact the UN is as useless as breats on a bull.

Maybe as useless as 'mammaries' on a bull.

No, make that as useless as 'teats' on a bull.

Oh, hell...make that useless as 'tits' on a bull so that everybody will understand.