PICTURES JUST IN FROM VIC JONES
FROM THE OCMULGEE INDIAN MOUNDS

This morning Vic Jones sent us a link to his pctures of the Indian celebration taking place at the Mounds this past weekend.

He worked most of the night on this project and the results are nothing less than spectacular. See for yourself:

NEW MINNEAPOLIS TOURIST ATTRACTION
THE CRAIG CRAPPER

It was bound to happen.

And it won't do the GOP much good in any upcoming elections. You remember the GOP...that's the political party which stresses something called 'family values'. This is the gang that would have us believe it stands four square for god, country, and grits but has too many leaders doin' more than smokin' in the boys' room.

I found this little article on Drudge this morning which links back to a story in the IDAHO STATESMAN But it seems that the toilet stall, once allegedly used by Senator Craig for the solicitation of homosexual favors has turned into a major tourist attraction in Minneapolis.

I think we shall hear jokes about stalls, wide stances, and playing footsie for a long time to come.

Me, I say throw all the GOP bums out, and while we're at it, throw the Dem bums out as well.

We may not be able to fool all of the people all of the time, but the D.C. leadership, both White House and Congress, is making a pretty damn good run at it.

MIKE ADAMS ON
SUSPENDING OUR DISBELIEF
THE PINO AFFAIR, continued

Furthermore, the department chair Marty mentioned in the form-denial has previously contradicted the statements of your administration. Shortly after administrators said Pino never contributed to the violent, anti-Semitic blog “Global War,” the chair went public with an admission that he knew that Pino had, in fact, written for “Global War.” That Kent State is so inept at covering up for an anti-Semitic traitor really requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

It’s Mike Adams, Professor Mike Adams, in full frontal attack, damning the torpedoes, the university’s administration, and Professor Pino’s threats of jihad.

Remember the Pino affair, the Kent State U. Professor who advocates suicide bombings by children to kill Jews and who claims that the destruction caused on 9/11 was the right thing to do? Last week Professor Mike asked us to send emails to the Provost at Kent State. Allarently many did. This week he received a reply from said provost…but it wasn’t really a reply, it was a form letter written by some administrative assistant. Form letters just don’t cut the mustard when a man of Adam’s stature invites a jihadist to go wild hog hunting in South Carolina, does it?

This column is Adams’ reply. And it’s a good one. It appeared this morning in the regular TOWN HALL slot and can be directly accessed at THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

This column is well worth reading. Maybe it will stir you to write the Kent State provost yourself.

I surely shall.

A BOY NAMED
HSU

The embarrassing political donations to prominent Democrats by none other than convicted ponzi-ite and fugitive Norman Hsu ought to be a gift that keeps on giving to Republicans who now have some ammunition to counter the often accurate charge that the GOP is the party of sleaze.

But I do not see the brethern of the Party of the Imperial Pachyderm taking any advantage of what ought to be a juicy situation.

For the record and according to the Wall Street Journal the following well-known pols have received major largesse from Mr. Hsu:

HERMAN CAIN
THIS WEDNESDAY

Quick reminder that Herman Cain will be in town at the Macon City Club, Wednesday, September 19th.

He will host a luncheon-funderaise on behalf of Maurice Atkinson, running for commission and an all-around hell of a good guy.

Herman cain is unique....he is also the single thing traditional liberals hate and fear the most, and fail completely to unserstandt: Mr. Cain is a successful, Black, entrepreneur turned politician who has landed the top job in multiplel corporate boardrooms by dint of hard work, superb ability, excellent training, and faith in himself.

Mr. Cain is not the product of a Nannygate government's handout, of so-called 'affirmative action', or a welfare program preaching that the minority citizen is somehow inferior and thus requires an extra leg up to achieve his fair share of the American Dream. He's a real 'up by the bootstraps' guy.

Herman Cain stands as one of the finest, most dynamic perople I have ever met.

Sure looking forward to Wednesday. Hope to see many of you there.

FROM LEW ROCKWELL
3:10 TO YUMA
THE BEST MOVIE REVIEW I EVER READ

”The dialog is clever and crisp. The writers neglected only one thing: plausibility. Every scene stands on its own merits, and each is arguably more implausible than the last. In this sense, 3:10 to Yuma may become a screenwriter's classic, moving from scene to scene like an accelerating tidal wave of implausibility. The ending is without a doubt the most implausible I ever recall in any film, ever, western or not – a veritable crescendo of "What was that all about?"
The credits of 3:10 to Yuma should have closed with a dedication to the memory of the writer-director who was clearly the spiritual godfather of this movie: Ed Wood.”

Did I say ‘best’ movie review? Maybe make that second best. I kind of remember TIME MAGAZINE’S reviewing TORA TORA TORA decades ago as, simply, “TORRABLE! TORRABLE!! TORRABLE!!!”

But this review by Gary North, found today on LEW ROCKWELL DOT COM is the most penetrating, take-0no-prisoners analysis of what has to be one of the smugly over-rated, self-important, stupidly-hyped movie of our generation.

And I haven’t even seen the damn thing. Guess I can wait until USA or TNT picks it up in a few months.

Here are just three examples of Mr. North’s synopsis of what might be loosely called ‘the plot’.

(Please Click MORE) More...

from the
FRANKLY, MY DEAR, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN DEPARTMENT
O. J.
REFLUX*

Just got back from a dinner out....flipped on the boobus toobus to Hannity and Colms...and found a screaming match.

The argument? Not the Iraq war but whether O.J. was guilty of stealing back the suit he wore when acquitted. This from a Los Vegas hotel room.

Seriously, this is media hype that makes Brit Spears' little pot belly, diminutive love handles, and lackluster MTV showing seem like something earth shaking. Hard news? What's hard news? Wonder why our kids are so stupid....they need to be entertained all the time.

The state of modern 'news reporting' is more than enough to make Edward R. Murrow* turn over in his grave.

*Look him up.

b>HERE’S A MAN
AFTER MY VERY OWN
SECOND AMENDMENT
HEART

Tuesday, September 11, 2007, I celebrated freedom in the best way possible. I bought a gun.

It’s not just any gun. It is the gun. I bought an M1A. A Springfield Armory M1A, a .308 caliber rifle. A rifle that shoots a bullet that has more energy after the bullet flies 300 yards than an M16/AR-15 has at its muzzle.

Written by some lunatic gun nut?

Some out of control Bubba in a self-proclaimed militia unit somewhere in a snake-infested southern swamp?

Hardly. The writer is Greg Perry, market research guru and self confessed staunch supporter of our individual right to ‘keep and bear arms’.

What he wrote here is an excellent piece, one that stands up to the nanny state boys and girls who would deprive us of our firearms “because, Ralphie, you might put your eye out.”

Great article I found in my daily dose of LEW ROCKWELL You can read the entire thing here: WHAT I DID ON 9/11”

Funny about the timing….the UPS guy delivered a SKS, used but refurbished, rifle to me on 9/11. A Yugoslavian SKS…just like the one mentioned in the article.

Keep shooting and don’t forget what the little six-year-old girl from Texas said to her father after he shot a burglar in their house, “Nice Grouping, Daddy!!”

Not all kids today are bad.

SABATO'S CRYSTAL BALL
A QUESTION OF DYNASTY

Most of my readers know that I am a passionate follower of Larry Sabato and his weekly offering, SABATO’S CRYSTAL BALL. Larry is, simply put, a polster’s polster and a pundit’s pundit. He is able, unlike none of the talking heads everywhere found these days in the half-assed media, to bring political trends into perspective and focus.

He raises good questions, offers sane and common sense interpretations of trends, data, and personalities, and hits the mark with near-perfect accuracy.

Among the burning questions discussed this week is that of dynasty. The media, and most voters, have largely ignored the notion that, should her Nibs win in 2008 and repeat in 2012, The United States will have been ruled for twenty-eight* years. More than a quarter of a century, by two families when HRC steps down in 2016.

That should scare the hell out of every one of us.

Mr. Sabato cites the only poll ever taken on the subject…with a sampling of a thousand or so souls. The results are also frightening. When asked, “"If Hillary Clinton is elected President, it would mean at least 24* years of having a member of the Clinton or Bush family as President. In your voting for President, is this a serious consideration, one of many considerations, not much of a consideration, or not a consideration at all?" The replies were:

DICK MORRIS
AS GOES IOWA
SO GOES NOBODY

”But on the Republican side, the situation is more problematic. Romney’s surge is entirely Rudy Giuliani’s fault. Ineptly, his campaign chose not to advertise early on in Iowa and ceded the airwaves to Romney. Anxious to display the largest cash on hand, Giuliani made a possibly fatal mistake in letting Romney get a large and sustained lead in the first caucus state.”

Mr. Morris takes a look at the presidential candidates heading towards the Iowa Caucus, where leaders are not national leaders, and some pretty sloppy campaign mistakes were made on both sides.

‘Twas once that state’s silly little caucus coupled with the over-rated New Hampshire primary could make or undo a presidential primary campaign. That is no longer true, of course, with the prospect of a kind of ‘national primary’ slated for February, when things ought to be pretty well buttoned up. For instance, as Morris points out, politically any N.H. primary is largely determined by television….and most residents of the Granite State watch Boston TV which is skewed in favor of traditional Boston populist liberalism. How can a poor pundit separate a New Hampshire Democratic primary vote from what is happening next door in the Bay State?

It is an interesting column. Check it out for yourself ay IOWA vs. AMERICA It has appeared twice now, first on THE HILL and lovernight on TOWN HALL

Ciao

LOWER BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
MEETING SCHEDULED FOR
SEPTEMBER 27th.

An email from President Merry Bacon informs us that our next Neighborhood is tentatively scheduled for 7:00 on September, 27th.....at the usual location.

Because of some home break-ins up Briarcliff way, we are inviting residents of that street and Laurel as well to attend. This is part of an original plan to start small and expand the coverage of the Watch as needed.

It's needed. The firebombing last month at the upper end of Boulevard should give us all a wake-up call that the barbarian is at the gates and will be in our midst if the gets are not held by the civilized good guys.

REMINDER
HERMAN CAIN IS COMING TO MACON
in support of
MAURICE ATKINSON

We published this notice a week ago and do so again with pleasure.

Herman Cain, my personal top favorite politician-pundit, the man who should be Georgia's senator in place of the vapid, good old boy Johnny Isaacson, will be hosting a City Club luncheon in support of Maurice Atkinson, candidate for County Commission.

You can get all the details, including a pretty good, but fully adequate bio of Mr. Cain by clicking MORE.

All you need do is remember: SEPTEMBER 19th....12:00 NOON.....MACON CITY CLUB

This is one I wouldn't miss for the world. More...

SOMETHING ROTTEN IN BIBB COUNTY
The Mystery Grows:
What really happened during the "Special Called Meeting" of Dec 11, 2006

An overnight from Vic Jones contained a single link.

http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/FHR_Meeting20070910.htm
When you check it out, you probably have seen the first segment....that we published online here and written by Mr. Jones.

But scroll down to the end and take a close look at what appears to be a misleading change in the minutes of a Commish meeting....something not right here.

Fighting the Forest Hills road widening project is near and dear to my heart. First of all, in a contest between David and Goliath, I always favor the former. Let the 'little guy' whup up on the big, bad, bastard. We are facing in the near future a similar fight over the proposed interchange at I-16/I-75 which will destroy not only entire, secure neighborhoods, but is likely to wipe out the main section of Macon's best resource, the River Walk.

There is, increasingly, an arrogance in government, particularly among the more entrenched bureaucracies. They include the DOT and the GDOT....the Department of Transportation and the Georgia Department of Transportation who seem to have adopted the notion....WE KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU AND WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YOU THINK.

Government without oversight and accountability is nothing other than TYRANNY. We have a right, a duty, to resist tyranny no matter what the source or why the tyrant.

Vic Jones reports on
FOREST HILL PROJECT
at the
BIBB COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING

Vic Jones is Macon's most prolific letter writer. Among the projects to which he devotes time and considerable energy is the proposed Forest Hill Rewidening which would, as I look at it anyway, ruin one of Macon's finest neighborhoods.

Many citizens are concerned with what appears to be boot-jack, heavy-handed attempts by the GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION to force compliance with favorite though ill-considered schemes to re-arrange geography, topography, and communities. The Forest Hill propsal is one such. The anticipated I-75 I-16 junction is another.

If you are a Maconite, please click MORE to read Mr. Jones latest broadside. If you are not from here, read it anyway and see for yourself that not everybody goes quietly into the dark night of governmental tyranny.

You can fight city hall, folks. But the operative word is 'fight'....not 'piss, moan, and roll over'. More...

REMEMBER 9/11

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A REMINDER FROM THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE ON

>WHY WE REALLY DON'T WANT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

This little gem was included in our overnight emails.

There is not a little common sense (the best kind) here.

When I was a kid 'socialized medicine (indeed, anything socialized) was considered a dirty word.

Click MORE and sxee for yourself. More...

PROFESSOR MIKE ADAMS ON
BANNING BULLETS TO SUBVERT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

”There can be no better response to an anti-gun extremist like Gary than to establish a 2nd Amendment club at the local state college or university. And to those who have already done so I would suggest making a funding request to your university for an afternoon’s supply of ammunition. Taking your 2nd Amendment club to the gun range at the taxpayer’s expense will surely get under the skin of your liberal administrators.”

Our friend, Professor (but not FULL PROFESSOR* Mike Adams has come out with a nifty column in which he goes after an entrenched sociology teacher’s absurd proposal which says, roughly, ‘since we can’t outlaw guns according to the Constitution, let’s outlaw bullets.’

The piece is found in this morning’s TOWN HALL newsletter. You can read the whole column at THE SOCIOLOGY OF BALLISTIC IDIOCY

By the way, The Bay State’s very own, Teddy Kennedy, well known lush and lady killer, once proposed putting a tax on ‘every bullet sold in the United States’. Probably met the sociology teacher at a bar somewhere.

*Mike is currently suing his school, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for not promoting him to ‘full professor’, since he has more than met the requirements, publishing and otherwise, to earn that position. He serves as UNCW’s ‘gad fly’ (‘horse fly’ for those unfamiliar with Jowett’s translations of Plato) in that he (a conservative) enjoys biting the complacent (and liberal) administration on its very pompous ass at every opportunity. I bet Adams is a total hoot at faculty meetings where he is in the decided minority on a campus apparently devoted to radical feminism, diversity (except conservative thinking….can’t have that, can we?), and new-speak where teachers are encouraged to spread the doctrines of socialism and neo-Marxism, while promoting a one size fits all nannystate mentality.

CAT FIGHT
reply to Danny's letter

Do you recall the letter from ten-year-old Danny who wanted to know if 'cat fighting' is as bad as 'dog fighting' in light of the michael vic affair. We invited readers to send answers to the little fellow....and here is the first (and only...so far). Read on!!!

Dear Danny,

Please get your mother or father to show you how to use something called SPELL CHECK when you are writing an email. It makes it easier to read.

Now, first of all, I think we are all very glad that you understand that dog fighting is a very bad thing and is cruel to the animals. Animals need our love. In Macon 93% of the poor animals sent to the city shelter are killed in only a few days. There just isn’t room to take care of all those kittens and puppies.

Cat fighting is not like dog fighting. When we say ‘cat fight’ we really mean a fight between two women or girls. Not a fist fight like with guys, but a fight where they get dirty and pull hair and bite and scratch….just like a couple of real cats do when they fight.

Girls don’t fight like boys who hit with fists, mostly, and kick sometimes. Girls use everything they have. When you parents say, “Don’t ever hit a girl,” they know that if you do, she will knock the snot out of you or scratch you into the ER, which means ‘emergency room’ in a hospital. There you get stitches and a rabies shot.

Also girls are smarter than us. We can never win. In the class room or in a fight.

Then you get older and they nail you for alimony and child support. You live in a one bedroom apartment and she takes the house, the dog, your kids, and all the money you make from three jobs.

Never fight with a girl.

Your Friend,

(Name withheld for obvious reasons)

THE GRAND VOICE STILLED
LUCIANO PAVOROTTI
REQUIESCAT IN PACE
BRAVISSIMO

His voice for much of the cultured world defined Grand Opera for almost forty years.

Not only did he reach his adoring public at places like La Scala and The Metropolitan, but thanks to film and television he was a popular icon as well.

Luciano Pavoritti was blessed with one of those enormous tenor voices, so typically Italian in tone, resonance, timber, and accent that to hear those wonderful pipes was to transport anyone home to the mythic Italy of the singer's youth.

I have a live, taped recording of Mr. Pavorotti's teaming up with Dame Joan Southerland singing the leads in Donizetti's FILLE DU REGIMENT. Sung at the Met in 1972, it remains one of the greates operatic experiences of my entire life. I don't know how long that old reel-to-reel will last, but she still has lots of life in her. Probably more than I do.

Southerland retired years ago, Pavorotti died this week. The sum total of our human, cultural experience dims with his passing.

THIS JUST IN FROM RIVERSIDE RED
THE SIXTIES:
NOSTALGIA FOR A SATURDAY MORNING

Here's a little nostalgia from Macon's guru, Riverside Red.

It's retrospective of the 1960's....the decade that turned us into what we have become.

There is a warning at the end about bootleg copies....this version is the real deal.

GO TO: http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

enjoy!!!

RON PAUL NEWSLETTER
AFTER THE DEBATE

If you wish to learn more about the status of the ON PAUL campaign, please click MORE to read the good man's latest NEWSLETTER.

Good stuff. Representative Paul owes a great deal to FOX NEWS for providing him more free publicity than he could ever hope to pay for.

There is either a method in FNC's madness, or those clowns are as stupid as our friends at CNN say they are.

Anyway, click and read. More...

DOG FIGHTING
and
CAT FITIN

Received the following letter from a young reader. Takes just a minute to read.

Dere don,

My name is danny I b 10 I live in mackon like u. my mom sez I should ask u my qustion. I ask dadd and he jest laff at me mommy sez u reel smart. so hear is my qustion

I kno wat dog fitin is and its bad like mikel vick did and he killed them dogs and hurt them 2 but wen I ask dadd aboot catz fitin he laff at me and don’t say. So is a cat fite bad like wit dogs and u go to jael like vick so tel me bout cat fitin and is it bad

Yur frein
Danny

I have tried to answer Danny’s question….”WHAT IS A CAT FIGHT?”…..half a dozen times now, but I keep laughing out loud after a sentence or two.

Can anybody help this child out? Keep it clean and keep it simple, stupid.

Ciao

TOTALLY TASTELESS
POLITICALLY INCORRECT
from
NEAL BOORTZ

THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT DEPARTMENT
DEALING WITH TELEMARKETERS
GOOD ADVICE FROM ANDY ROONEY

Got a great email from a Macon friend currently residing in Norway where he makes a living as a most talented musician.

It features comments and advice from ANDY ROONEY on how to deal with telemarketers, solicitous phne callers, and similar intrusive trash that daily constipates our existence.

Please click MORE to read the whole thing....then take action. If we can control these bastard telemarketers, maybe we can do somethinmg about our bastard politicians, eh?




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JPFO v NRA
FAIR AND BALANCED?
YOU DECIDE

Got an alert from the JPFO folks this morning. It follows....pretty sel-explanatory. It is highly critical of an NRA board of directors member who, says JPFO, argues for a five bullet limit in gun magazines. The notice contains several interesting links which, if you are interested in the shooting sports, are important for the discussion.

BUT...click on MORE and see what the NRA has to say on the matter. There you will find a statement by the National Rifle Association and an explanation from the offending director, Joaquin Jackson.

We report, you decide!!!!!

JPFO ALERT: NRA Director Says Five Rounds is Enough

ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

September 6, 2007

JPFO ALERT: NRA Director Says Five Rounds is Enough

That JPFO and the NRA have different views on "gun control" is no secret; you can read our position -- and view supporting evidence -- at http://www.jpfo.org/alert20061211.htm . You can also read an article on the NRA's recent alignment with gun-prohibitionist Carolyn McCarthy at http://www.jpfo.org/smith-nra.htm .

And now, NRA Director Joaquin Jackson has publically stated that magazine capacities should be limited to five rounds and that "assault weapons [sic] should be limited to military or police." That's right -- a director of the supposedly pro-gun NRA wants to take YOUR semi-automatic rifles away.

Don't believe us? Think it's just a rumor? View the evidence for yourself at
http://www.klru.org/texasmonthlytalks/archives/movies/jackson5_44k.mov
(we also have it mirrored on the JPFO site at http://www.jpfo.org/joaquin.mov ).

Already the NRA apologists are coming out of the woodwork. Anyone who points out the hypocrisy of Jackson's position are denounced as "wackos", "black helicopter paranoids," and "just trying to make a buck."

It's time to "Humiliate and Repudiate" Joaquin Jackson and the NRA. Go to http://www.jpfo.org/handbill-joaquin.jpg to see our latest handbill. Print it out and distribute it to those who still believe the NRA is working in the interest of gun owners. They are not.

If you value the truth more than betrayal and want an aggressive defense of your natural and Second Amendment rights, visit http://www.jpfo.org/member.htm to learn how
you can join JPFO. We encourage you to use our "gun control" destroying books and videos ( http://shop.jpfo.org ) and get on board with us today.

The Liberty Crew

PS Don't forget that you can view all our "Humiliate and Repudiate" handbills at http://www.jpfo.org/freebies.htm



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FEDERAL JUDGE UPHOLDS GEORGIA ELECTION I.D. LAW

U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy stated today that he would not uphold an injunction to delay further implementing the law.

From this point on, including elections to be held in several counties later this month, to cast a vote Georgians will have to produce a official, sanctioned picture identification card. These include a driver's license, state issued ID, a specially issued voter's card, or military I.D.

Maybe we can now get on with the business of honest voting.

All that's lacking is a paper trail to prove you voted as you think you did.

FRED THOMPSON'S WEB SITE

Received the following email from our friend Riverside Red this afternoon.

Check out the link if you have or think you might have any interest in Fred Thompson's candidacy.

Hopefully this is our next pres.

Just can't see Hillary or that Illinois "Senator" beating this man.

http://www.fred08.com/index.aspx

RON PAUL
REPUBLICAN DEBATE
BIAS

”He faced unethical follow up questions from the moderators and was largely ignored. When he was paid attention, they tried to mock him. Through it all, he stuck to his principles because that is what guides him. When you believe in what you run on you do not need to write it down and read it off of cue cards. Ultimately Ron Paul might be too libertarian for my liking, but when placed in front of the other GOP hopefuls who are fighting over who can blow up the rest of the world most effectively, he is the only light left in a party that continues to fade into darkness.

As I watched the GOP (not so great) DEBATE last night, I was struck by the obvious FOX bias against candidate Ron Paul.

A brief web search found an article written in the moment and with some fire…excellent piece. You can access it here: THE MACHINE TURNS ON RON PAUL The author is a chap named Anthony Wade, a guy much like myself who sees Mr. Paul as the candidate of most extraordinary integrity, although not (yet?) committed to him. More...

DICK MORRIS’ LATEST
HIT ON HILLARY

”Now she is the bearer of the torch of compromise. If we could believe her conversion was sincere, it would make her less dangerous as a possible president. But it clearly is not. Her newfound desire for compromise is driven by her need to appeal simultaneously to the Democratic base and general electorate. She has to explain to the partisans of the left why she must adopt positions tailored to win the November election on the Iraq war and other issues.”

Boy does Dick Morris ever come out swinging in this column. Read it: HILLARY’S HYPOCRISY which first appeared on THE HILL.

He nails it chapter and verse….from his personal experience with Her Nibs, the current Democratic frontrunner. She claims to be a master of compromise when, in her careers as wife of a sitting president and Senator from New York State, she has actually been stubborn to a fault.

Well worth reading…..plenty of time before the Republican debate later tonight.

ONCE UPON A TIME
TELEVISION REVIEW
BRAVO and A&E

Once upon a time there were two cable networks that dedicated themselves to something called "THE ARTS"

In those long ago days, say back in the reign times of Bush THE FIRST or Clinton THE ONLY SO FAR, Americans could enjoy on demand rare movies, music, opera, and excellent drama all at the turn of a dial. Each of these cable networks formed a solid levee aginst the rising tide of cultural mediocrity.

No longer. In the search for Ratings Almighty each of these once proud institutions has prostituted its original mandate and now features rerun crime drama from the major networks and reality television, above all reality TV. They are now awash with bounty hunting dogs, dysfunctional families, wannabe chefs, hairdressers, anorexic models-in-training and a parade of has-been hollywoodies whose careers tanked decades back. Bravo has discovered that there is gold in that thar homosexuality.

To quote my grandchildren, both networs 'suck'.

To echo the late Newton Minnow, "Television is still a vast wastelands."

THE CONCLUSION OF MIKE ADAMS' SERIES
MICE AND MORMONS
OH, MY!!!

”In December 2006, Professor Trepper, who had previously questioned Mr. West’s sensitivity on matters related to sex, lost his position as professor in the master’s program as a result of allegations of harassment. During the investigation, several students were interviewed about their interactions with Trepper, and these questions focused on issues of harassment and sexual harassment. As a result of this investigation, Professor Trepper can no longer teach graduate students, and can no longer serve on the thesis committees for graduate students.”

Last week we started showcasing a long, multi-part article by Criminology Professor Mike Adams in which he related the sad story of duplicity, political agenda, and intellectual dishonesty taking place within the Family Therapy faculty at Perdue University (Calumet). Here Adams finishes the series. The link contains more links to the earlier segments of the piece. Please visit: OF MICE AND MORMONS, PART VII, CONCLUSION

You might ask why this series was presented in this particular b’log. Simple. Yours truly has a deep and (usually) abiding interest in the subject of academe having seen first hand the sorry transition of undergraduate and graduate teaching devolving from a fairly noble search for truth and knowledge to agenda driven politics. This is certainly not true in every school or every department but thirty or so years ago it is my firm belief that college faculties were hijacked by then young teachers who demonstrated a level of religious fervor in their avowed intent to turn the next generation into little Marxists, or socialists at the very least. “Socialism” is still a dirty word to some of us. And the little Marxists? Hell, they’re now a generation of self-centered materialists.

OK..nuff said. Professor Adams comes to us courtest of TOWN HALL , which is a right-leaning organization some of whose contributors are far to the right of this old bird.

CRAZY LIKE A FOX
FRED THOMPSON DECLARES

Lots of folks mad at Old Fred because he is ditching this week’s GOP debate for a gig on Jay Leno’s late night show.

He is, it is widely assumed, lazy, too little too late, disorganized, and not Ron Reagan incarnate, as some of his supporters would have us believe.

Sorry, he ain’t Jesus Christ, either.

Let’s face it….his audience on Leno will be much, much larger than a Republican debate on Fox….further, Fox and every other news source will repeat whatever he says on late night TV over and over. Some few will bitch and moan about his no-show at the debate, but that will be forgotten by the weekend.

Thompson ranks high in the polls already (second and third consistently) and can only improve his standing among prospective voters by doing exactly what he is doing.

Fred Thompson might be my own personal first choice among the GOP contenders if I had not been reading numerous articles from LEW ROCKWELL and find this character from Texas, Ron Paul, more than a little interesting.

More on this later.

YOU CAN TELL FROM THE SMELL
IT'S MATTEL
ANOTHER RECALL

Mattel is announcing another recall...the third in recent weeks...of some of its products made in China. It appears that dangerous amounts of lead paint was used in the manufacture.

Among the more popular Mattel toys are the Barbi and Ken series which allow pre pubescent little girls to fantacize about dating, courtship, and sex. Particularly affected by the recall were accessories designed to accompany the dynamic doll duo.

The problem is one of communication and proves that a great gulf exists between speakers of English and Chinese. Toymakers who lathered on the offending paint because a CHinese executive misunderstood an American tycoon's comments at a cocktail party about 'putting some lead in Ken's pencil'.

SO YOU WANT TO BE A JIHADIST?

”Do you really have to meet Osama bin Laden in person in order to become a jihad fighter? Do you have to be recognized by Al-Qaeda as one of its members to become a jihad fighter? If Al-Qaeda commanders should be killed, would the jihad be eliminated? What would you do if Al-Qaeda did not exist today? How is Osama bin Laden different from you? — [yet] he managed to establish the world jihad organization. Who provided training to Osama bin Laden and Abdallah 'Azzam when they went to Afghanistan to become the first Arab jihad fighters?”

So you want to become a Jihadist? Kill infidel Americans and bring the Great Satan to its knees? Set up your own cell…no more than five members? You don’t have to meet face to face with Bin Laden to do it. You can BE El Quaeda without JOINING Al Quaeda. No dues here. No initiation ceremony. No waiting list…..

Nothing like a tell-all web site aimed at killing us, eh?

Here’s scary little article from THE AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH which illustrates how terrorists recruit using the Internet. You can read it for yourself: On Islamist Websites: How to Join Al-Qaeda, Form a Jihad Cell, and Select a Western Target

There is more, lots more in this piece. One of the things I like best about THE AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH is its use of reason without fear-mongering. Our 24/7 news networks could take a page from this organization.

ARE WE OVERLY CONCERNED WITH WHAT MUSLIMS THINK ABOUT US?

”Such measures have rewarded our enemy for waging physical and spiritual war against us. Condemn America, they have learned, and American leaders will praise your ideals and meet your demands. Attack America via terrorist proxy, terrorist states and movements have been taught, and America will neither blame you nor destroy you, but redouble its efforts to buy your love.”

Here is a short and pithy piece from the Ayn Rand Institute that calls Muslim ‘anger over U.S. policy and position the canard it really is. You can read it for yourself at http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?61650d64-6bd7-4844-85eb-9533b83fa1b4 The author is a chap named Alex Epstein.

WARNING: this brief piece rises up and smacks Political Correctness ‘upside the head’ as we natives of Deep Dixie like to say.

Ciao

The original link expired apparently or I miscopied it....thanks to a sharp-eyed leader, the c urrent link has now replaced the original.

HERMAN CAIN IS COMING TO MACON

Herman Cain is one of my political heroes. He stands with Barry Goldwater and Dwight Eisenhower in my personal experience as a politician with the kind of charisma and leadership this nation needs and needs badly.

He will be in Macon on September 19th.....not as a candidate himself, but in support of Maurice Atkinson running for county commish.

It is all explained below:

WHAT THE HELL'S
IN A NAME?
MAYOR ELLIS IS BACK HOME

We learned this morning in a lengthy interview with Randall Savage aired on WMAC that Macon's mayor has not yet officially changed his name.

Early in the year, at the time of his sudden conversion to Islam, we were told Hizzoner weas changing his name to Hakim Mansoor Ellis, ffrom the more familiar C. Jack.

This is simply not true, he now informs us, not true yet, anyway. For, with pressing city business consuming so much of his time, the name change is on hold.

Many, this b'log included, have not infrequently referred to Hizzoner as 'Hakim Mansour', or even 'Hackin' Hakim'. No longer may we do so. No longer until Mayor C. Jack Ellis actually undergoes the legal transformation to his Muslim familiar.

He claims that he is running for Congress. By all accounts that would make him the second Muslim in congress. So now is the time to pin the mayor down on his views on SHARIA LAW, does he believe in CONVERTING, ENSLAVING, or KILLING non-Muslims to 'dah faith' as so many Islamic fundamentalists do, should we stone to death Muslim ladies why stray from the constraints laid up Muslim womanhood, what about adulterous men? You know, like certain males who have children outside the bonds of matrimony, forced by the couts to pay child support? Sharia is very hard on Muslims who are guilty of adultery or who consume alcohol.

Ellis has much to answer for but, I suspect, will spend most of the rest of his administration abroad...always on city business, of course.

Maybe our Muslim friends can pray for flight delays when fearless leader is out of the country lounging around in a foreign airportwaiting to return to Georgia.

Pray hard, please!!

WET CATS AND RAIN DELAYS

Rain has come to middle Georgia....too late, perhaps to save some of the crops dried and dead in the fields, too late even to save my little garden plots, but welcome and long lasting and penetrating.

There is nothing quite so elemental as rain, at once necessary for survival, yet potentially so destructive. It some primitive societies it was a stand-alone god (or goddess). After a long, hot dry spell it is a delight to the body and becomes a catharsis to the psyche. Even the cats don't seem to mind getting their fur wet.

Watching the weather channel this AM...looking for more rain, of course. A sign flashed at the bottom of the screen. MACON REGIONAL AIRPORT NO DELAYS. It has nothing to do with weather, boys and girls, Macvon's Regional Airport has virtually no traffic to begin with.

DEATH BY MEDIA

Richard Jewel died this week. He was forty-four.

Eleven years ago, he was a hero...it was he who discovered a deadly bomb planted in the midst of the Atlanta Olympics. His alarm saved numerous lives.

He then became a person of interest, hounded by law enforcement, and, especially the media. Hounded like nobody in recent history. Hounded to total distraction. Hounded almost to death. And the worst of the media wolves was the smug ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION, a daily rag that makes Macon's little BLATT AND BUGLE look like a newspaper of record by comparison.

The real bomber was subsequently discovered and arrested. Mr. Jewel was declared innocent of all accusation. He sued and settled with CNN and NBC, but never in his lifetime received so much as an apology from the AJC.

Shame forever be upon the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION which never did the right thing in this matter during the lifetime of a fine citizen and humble man.

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A LIBERTARIAN SLANT ON
A SENATOR'S JOHN STALL MEANDER

"During Senator Craig’s 27-year tenure in Congress, Craig helped impose a spirit of meanness upon an immense state and federal law enforcement apparatus. It was this money- and power-gorged law enforcement machinery that sat next to him in the restroom stall at the Minneapolis airport. The spectacle of a government agent loitering on a toilet seat at taxpayer expense in a "sting operation" against those who give inappropriate foot taps or hand gestures can only be explained as part of the general Sovietization of criminal justice that Senator Craig and his cohorts in Congress have been promoting for more than a generation."

Here is a fascinating take on the Craig mess appearing this morning on LEW ROCKWELL

Roger Roots takes a long, hard look at the erosion of civil liberties civil liberties that took place during the twenty-seven years Craig served in the Senate. It's pretty scarey. He lists: During Senator Craig’s tenure in Washington, Congress has: (1) criminalized hundreds of previously non-criminal acts under federal law; (2) increased criminal penalties for many federal offenses; (3) drastically increased collateral consequences of minor criminal convictions, subjecting some convicted misdemeanants to lifetime infringements of civil rights and occupational opportunities; (4) applied these collateral consequences retroactively; (5) strategically and systematically limited the appeal rights of convicted persons; (6) carved away the ancient availability of habeas corpus review of convictions; (7) created "procedures" to circumvent the plain language of the Sixth Amendment for accused terror suspects; (8) expanded the authority of police to evade the Fourth Amendment by wiretapping, searching without notification, searching without warrant, and surveilling citizens without cause; (9) exponentially enlarged the budget of the U.S. Justice Department; (10) diverted federal tax dollars into local law enforcement agencies to pay for extra officers; and (11) eliminated all statutory relief for convicted persons.

Ad then goes on to detail how government, concerned with an ever increasing assumption of power unto itself, has actually set the stage for the senator's 'entrapment', if you will, by encouraging law enforcement to skirt the traditional safeguards of the fourth and sixth amendments.

This you will like. Read it for yourself at SENATOR CRAIG'S INNOCENSE TYitle a bit tongue in cheek.

Ciao!!