Archives: November 2007
Fri Nov 30, 2007
REMINDER
LOWER BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
12/06/
LOWER BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
12/06/
A letter from president Merry Bacon reads as follows:
Hi everyone,
There is a neighborhood watch meeting scheduled for 7:00 pm Thursday December 6th located at 807 Boulevard. A Macon police officer is invited to attend to address questions. Please invite your neighbors.
See you then,
Merry Bacon
Further....there will be a precinct meeting with the precinct captain this coming Monday at the sub station in the Roses Shopping Center. Meeting begins at 6:30 and lasts about an hour.
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DICK MORRIS SAYS
BOB NOVAK IS WRONG ABOUT HUCKABEE
BOB NOVAK IS WRONG ABOUT HUCKABEE
A recent column by Bob Novak excoriated Huckabee for a “47 percent increase in state tax burden.” But during Huckabee’s years in office, total state tax burden — all 50 states combined — rose by twice as much: 98 percent, increasing from $743 billion in 1993 to $1.47 trillion in 2005. In Arkansas, the income tax when he took office was 1 percent for the poorest taxpayers and 7 percent for the richest, exactly where it stood when he left the statehouse 11 years later.
But, in the interim, he doubled the standard deduction and the child care credit, repealed capital gains taxes for home sales, lowered the capital gains rate, expanded the homestead exemption and set up tax-free savings accounts for medical care and college tuition.
We were discussing historiography by omission the other day, the writing of opinion choosing only facts that fit. This is what Bob Novak did last week when he cited Mike Huckabee’s 47% tax ibcrease while governor of Arkansas while omitting to mention Huckabee’s increase was less than half of the national average.
After demolishing Novak, Dick Morris goes on to discuss Huckabee as a true conservative and makes the point quite effectively, we think.
Morris should know, he has been closely associated with Arkansian political intrigue for more than thirty years.
This particular column has appeared in several places. We found this one on thehill.com. You can read it for yourself at: MIKE HUCKABEE IS A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE
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KENT STATE'S RESIDENT JIHADIST
JULIO PINO'S TREK TO THE MIDDLE EAST ABORTED
JULIO PINO'S TREK TO THE MIDDLE EAST ABORTED
After this unapproved leave-of-absence was discovered, a Kent State administrator threatened Pino with loss of his salary if he stayed in the Middle East. The university paid his return fare – a cool two thousand bucks - and now he is back in America assuring members of the media that he no longer contributes to the terrorist website “Global War.” What he is not telling the media is that he is not contributing to the site because a conservative columnist (guess who?) had it shut down in March with the help of Matt Drudge and Fox News. Nor is he explaining how he could no longer write for a site that Kent State officials said he never wrote for in the first place.
Mike Adams on Julio Pino, resident Jihadist at Kent State University.
Seems that Julio was granted improperly a leave of absence and had the whistle blown on his activities. Seems also that a certain conservative college professor, Fox News, Matt Drudge and, if I recall, Neal Boortz brought media attention upon Julio’s website where he was inflaming followers to hurl bombs at American troops. Poor Pino has been under a bit of a microscope ever since.
Not that the modern American University ever does much of anything anything about the vermin their miasmic microscopes reveal.
You will have to read this one for yourself if it is to make sense to you. So click on KENT STATE FIRES CHAIR AND TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER
Mike Adams has worked overtime this week, for he has had a TOWN HALL column four or five days this week. Now it is deer season in North Carolina, so we can assume the good professor is taking time off from his teaching duties to write, hunt, and continue his campaign to be his usual perpetual pain in the ass self to the lib administration at UNC Wilmington.
Ciao
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Thu Nov 29, 2007
BEANS
BETTER THAN BOSTON BAKED
BETTER THAN BOSTON BAKED
Here is a recipe for ‘Boston Baked Beans’…these don’t come from Beantown and they are not baked. But they are delicious, taste absolutely authentic, except they have more flavor than the variety produced in the Northeast.
It is my own recipe adapted to my adopted homeland, deep in the heart of Dixie.
Don’t expect exactitude….things like cooking times and measurements. Use your own head and intuition.
One main ingredient is only available around New Years. This is a delicacy called ‘hog jowel’, it is a great substitute for the salt pork which is the traditional yankee way of Bostonian bakers. So buy lots and freeze it for later in the year should you crave another round of beans.
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EVIL
TEDDY BEAR
IN THE SUDAN
TEDDY BEAR
IN THE SUDAN
Gillian Gibbons is an English elementary teacher working at a Christian school in Khartoum deep within fanatically Muslim Sudan, an area which has been a thorn in Britain’s side since the days of Gordon Pasha (not to be confused with Charleton Heston), Lord Kitchner, and a fanatic prophet-politician-soldier-savior calledThe Mahdi.
She was a teacher in Khartoum. She is now serving a fifteen-day jail term and will then be deported.
Breitbart has the story here: SUDAN SENTENCES TEACHER TO FIFTEEN DAYS
All for naming a teddy bear brought to her by one of her tiny pupils ‘Mohammed’. When her crime was discovered she was arrested. Some clerics even called for her death. She could have received a six month sentence beginning with a beating of forty lashes with whatever they whip people with over there in that peaceful Muslim country. I guess the Sudanese are still pissed off about all those Danish cartoons which, incidentally, can be found on this b’log by doing a simple onsite search for something like ALL TWELVE DANISH CARTOONS IN ONE PLACE. They don’t like westerners much anyway.
Now this young woman should have known better. She brought her Brit nanny sensitivities into a foreign land where they are worthless. A little forethought would have stood her in better stead. Maybe her school needs better training for its faculty.
Ok…I am not in Khartoum nor any other Arab country. I am right here smack dab in the middle of Georgia, USA, where too many of my neighbors practice political correctness, but not so many that one becomes intimidated when he feels the need to express himself more forcefully than might a wimp, wuss, or politician pandering to minorities.
Therefore, I must tell you, and feel absolutely free to tell your friends and acquaintances, that I am, this weekend, purchasing (or ordering, rather) one of those pot bellied pigs somebody brought over from Southeast Asia a few decades back. They make good pets, and, unlike a cat or a dog, can be eaten when we tire of them.
It will be a ‘he’ piglet, neutered, of course, no unwanted porcine litters befouling the streets of Macon, especially with a new mayor coming in.
And his name? You guessed it, MOHAMMED. Can’t wait for my pork chops on the hoof .
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QUOTE OF THE DEBATE
Best comment from last night's GOP Presidential debate.
When asked whether Jesus would have been for or against the death penalty, Mike Huckabee replied, JESUS WAS TOO SMART TO RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE."
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ANN COULTER ON THE
NEW YORK TIMES
NEW YORK TIMES
Proposition 187 passed in a landslide with a nearly 20-point margin -- a larger margin than Wilson got, incidentally. It was supported by two-thirds of white voters, half of black and Asian voters, and even one-third of Hispanic voters. It passed in every area of California, except San Francisco, a city where intoxicated gay men dressed as nuns performing sex acts on city streets is not considered unusual. In heavily Latino Los Angeles County, Proposition 187 passed with a 12-point margin.
I have very mixed feelings about Ann Coulter, one of the great lightening rods among the political commentators of our day. She writes extremely well, of course, with a wit made hard by wicked sarcasm. She wouldn’t make it as a nurturing elementary school teacher, but she would have a hard time with college speech codes were she lecturing to undergraduates.
She takes on the venerable and increasingly vulnerable NEW YORK TIMES in a piece called NYT: AN UNDOCUMENTED NEWSPAPER Her thesis is that paper too frequently misuses its sources, those things we were taught to include in footnotes when we were in high school and college. It is well worth an early morning read.
Years ago when I taught ancient history, I loved to work through with the young kids that the study of history, call it ‘historiography’ is not a simple dry recitation of ‘proven’ fact. From the beginning it involves interpretation. The chronicler can juxtapose, for instance, two events to make it appear that the latter follows the the former in a kind of cause-and-effect relationship, when it is not. Or he might alter simple chronological order, or omit certain key events, all to make a point that fits his interpretation of the period under consideration.
Kids and adults do this sort of thing all the time, usually without thinking about what they are saying. The pre-teen explains to his irate parents that he was sent to the principal and suspended ‘just for standing in the lunch line’. When mom and dad descend upon poor Principal Haffass demanding an explanation, they discover that junior, while in line, had reached out and touched little Linda Lee Leadbottom’s budding bosom most inappropriately laughing all the way.
So, on a more adult basis, this is what Ms. Coulter claims the NYT is doing….misusing fact and sources to make its points.
Interesting. No newspaper is ever free of bias, but deliberately avoiding covering news and data that do not support that bias is rotten journalism. Happens all the time.
It will be interesting to see whether the paper answers her criticism.
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Wed Nov 28, 2007
PROPOSED:
SPANKING BAN IN THE BAY STATE
SPANKING BAN IN THE BAY STATE
The simple minded residents of Massachusetts, who have returned Teddy Kennedy to high office in every election since 1969….that’s the year he drowned Mary Jo Kopekne in the back seat of his Oldsmobile, are being faced with the possibility of a spanking ban in the Bay State.
That means parents would no longer be able to use corporal punishment to correct their children…should it pass. The idea, the brain-dead child of an equally simple-minded nurse was introduced today into the boiler room that is the state’s legislature.
A similar ban against spanking kiddies under three was shot down earlier in the year out in California, a political entity vying with Massachusetts to be the nation’s leader in legislation designed to diminish an individual’s rights to raise his children in a manner he sees proper..
A full account of the proposed legislation can be found in THE BOSTON HERALD
The consensus among most parents is that today’s children are out of control and could use more, not less, old-fashioned discipline.
But worry not, Bay Staters, they may ban spanking, but you will always have the opportunity of water-boarding your rugrat or teen when he gets out of control. There is absolutely no proposed legislation to ban water-boarding.
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SOME PICTURES FROM SPACE
A dear friend sent the following link. It is simply a brief collection of pictures taken from space by the folks at NASA. Just possibly the most breath taking space pix this old bird has ever seen. And please remember, I was a legal adult when Sputnik went up in 1957.
Check it out for thyself: http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm
Enjoy.
Ciao
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Children & Grandchildren
The following email was sent in by our friend Riverside Red. It is fitting....spent all day Friday with two grandkids, girl grandkids, and felt as though I had been run through a ringer (old fashioned washing machine adjunct) by the end of the afternoon.
To those of us who have children in our lives, whether they are our own, grandchildren,
nieces, nephews, or students...here is something to make you chuckle.
Whenever your children are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that
even God's omnipotence did not extend to His own children...
After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve.
And the first thing he said was "DON'T ! "
"Don't what ? " Adam replied.
"Don't eat the forbidden fruit." God said.
"Forbidden fruit ? We have forbidden fruit ? Hey Eve..we have forbidden fruit ! "
" No Way ! "
"Yes way ! "
"Do NOT eat the fruit ! " said God.
"Why ? "
"Because I am your Father and I said so! " God replied, wondering why He hadn't stopped creation after making the elephants...
A few minutes later, God saw His children having an apple break and He was ticked !
"Didn't I tell you not to eat the fruit ? " God asked.
"Uh huh," Adam replied.
"Then why did you ?" said the Father.
"I don't know," said Eve.
"She started it ! " Adam said.
"Did not ! "
"Did too ! "
"DID NOT ! "
Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own.
Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed.
BUT THERE IS REASSURANCE IN THE STORY !
If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give children wisdom and they haven't taken it, don't be hard on yourself.
If God had trouble raising children, what makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT !
1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you pend
the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.
2. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own children.
3. Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.
4. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word
what you shouldn't have said.
5. The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.
6. We childproofed our homes, but they are still getting in.
ADVICE FOR THE DAY:
Be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home one day.
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Professor Mike Adams
WHAT’S A WHITE, CONSERVATIVE, STRAIGHT MALE TO DO???
WHAT’S A WHITE, CONSERVATIVE, STRAIGHT MALE TO DO???
For the third time in as many days our favorite token campus conservative, Professor Mike Adams, has visited one of his columns upon us. This is the best of the week because it is pure, absolutely pure, one hundred per cent satire, and it is satire that clearly points out some of the stupidity that has become the norm on our nation’s more politically correct campi.
The piece is couched in a series of emails to an adjunct group of the University of California scholarship committee: "Black Alumni Association/Ebonics Support GroupScholarship" . Professor Adams is writing as an acknowledged white male who is fluent in, of all things, ‘ebonics’.
Please read it for yourself. You might want to send your own emails to the link provided: HOOKED ON EBONICS
The column was found this morning on TOWN HALL and is a delicious way to kick off the second half of the work week.
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Tue Nov 27, 2007
EASTMAN GUN SHOW
MACON CENTREPLEX
DECEMBER 22-23
MACON CENTREPLEX
DECEMBER 22-23
Matt Eastman is bringing his mammoth gun and knife show to the Macon Centreplex the weekend of December 22-23.
Eastman’s show is the biggest thing of its kind ever to hit the Middle Georgia area.
The timing could not be better coming just before Christmas. Maybe you will be looking for a
perfect, last minute gift for that special someone, or maybe you can coax that same special someone to get you the rifle, shotgun, pistol, or accessories that will ensure you a Merry Christmas and a happy 2008.
Mr. Eastman’s gun shows are truly family affairs. Kids under twelve get in free; admission is only eight bucks for the rest of us. It is a wonderful way for a family to spend several hours of top drawer quality time together exploring the wide world of outdoor sports from a perspective you won’t find at any mega sporting goods store anywhere.
BUY---SELL----TRADE or just Browse. That’s what you do at an Eastman Show.
Hours are: Saturday, 9-5; Sunday, 10-5.
Don’t miss this one.
See you there..
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A PHONE CALL FROM VIC JONES
USE CARE WHEN DEALING WITH DOOR-TO-DOOR SOLICITATING
USE CARE WHEN DEALING WITH DOOR-TO-DOOR SOLICITATING
A phone call a few minutes ago from our friend Vic Jones brought out a concern to be shared with our folk of the LOWER BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH and anybody else worried about with an upswing in crime during the Yuletide season.
A neighbor on near-by Briarcliff reported that last week (Thanksgiving) a young man appeared at her door at dark purporting to sell subscriptions to the MACON TELEGRAPH. She was a little concerned and did not let the fellow into her home.
Vic, thorough as he is, called the circulation department of the paper which told him that the did have young people out soliciting subscriptions in that area at that time.
Now here’s the problem. These kids should not be out canvassing near or after dark. It is simply too dangerous in an area where criminal activity is on the rise. The paper has been told this.
City ordinance requires that ANYBODY legally soliciting ANYTHING have a picture I.D. looped around his neck for easy identification. The TELEGRAPH only provides an I.D. card….no pictures.
Be careful in your homes. The clean-cut kid knocking at the door might not what he appears to be. Be extra careful after dark. The night hours are those of greatest criminal activity. You do not have to open your door to converse with the person on the other side. AND MAKE SURE YOU SEE THEIR IDENTIFICATION AND TAKE THE TIME TO VERIFY THE PERSON WITH THE I.D.
Now the incident on Briarcliff was a simple matter of mis-communication. There was no crime nor intent co commit one.
And remember, our next meeting on December 6th. At the usual time and place. Please invite your friends from Laural, Summit, and Nottingham.
Take care….and be careful in or out there.
PS: The Three-Way-Stop sign at the corner of Boulevard and Laurel is helping to curb speeding. One officer nailed a speeder right in from of our President's house and got a round of applause for his fine work.
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LANDOVER BAPTIST
CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER
CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER
LANDOVER BAPTIST is back. Not that it ever went away, much to the chagrin of the unwashed..
And a great, big, whopper of a Yuletide Issue it is. Just a few of the earth-shaking articles included are: “THE DEVIL DOESN’T REST IN DECEMBER, “ACCEPTING CHRIST AND GET A FREE FROZEN TURKEY*, and GOD’S TOP TWENTY HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR UNSAVED PEOPLE.” Only at LANDVOVER BAPTIST will you read provocative articles asking questions such as “DOES GOD APPROVE OF OUR YULETIDE RITUALS?” All this and more can be yours free with a simple click of your mouse at LANDOVER BAPTIST
As an added bonus, the good and godly folk of LANDOVER have added several archival sermons and revivals to the YOU TUBE Web Site. This is powerful stuff. You will need to do a YOU TUBE search on their site to locate all the LANDOVER submissions, but to get you started here is sample of a sermon given by the one and only Pastor Deacon Fred: http://www.youtube.com/user/lbc4god
Enjoy your time spent with Landover. It will come back to reward you a thousandfold.
Amen, brothers and sisters, amen
*I trust they will clean that title up to 'accept' for 'accepting', much nicer neater structure.
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MIKE ADAMS ON
WHITE EMBARRASSMENT
WHITE EMBARRASSMENT
”For years on our campuses, blacks who do not agree with affirmative action – or any other mainstream “liberal” policies – have been labeled “in-authentically black.” By dubbing blacks “in-authentic” for other reasons - being too educated, too grammatically correct, or too family-oriented – “liberals” have half-succeeded in fulfilling their dream of white supremacy in the name of “diversity” and “tolerance.”
In his latest TOWN HALL column Mike Adams lets the fur fly in: I’M EMBARRASSED TO BE WHITE
The title says everything. It was penned as the direct result of a complaint by a ‘skinny white kid’, a student, who complained to Professor Mike about a comment made by a Caucasian teacher in another class.
The piece is reminiscent of the assumed superiority of the White Race by such folks as the Limousine Liberal who stands stoically in line on Thanksgiving Day dishing out charity meals to the unfortunate, or the missionary who tries to spread ‘the word’ in ‘godless’ places like darkest Africa and the hinterlands of Asia.
Fortunately the inhabitants of Africa can now protect themselves armed as they are, and most of the interior of Asia is controlled by Muslims who would make mincemeat out of Christian missionaries or the Chinese who have their own methods for dealing with interlopers.
It is a wonderfully satirical column. Highly recommended.
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Mon Nov 26, 2007
HILLARY'S SLIPPAGE
IT'S NOT JUST IN IOWA ANYMORE
IT'S NOT JUST IN IOWA ANYMORE
A late and certainly startling ZOGBY Poll is shaking things up in both the GOP and Democrat presidential election campaign headquarters.
An on-line poll taken by the reliable Zogby International has Hillary losing to all of the five leading Republican candidates were the election held today. The population sample included the faithful of both parties as well as a sizeable sampling of independents.
The same poll indicated that Senator Obama could and would beat the same five Republicans.
Sounds crazy from here. You can read the brief article for yourself at Clinton slips behind Republican foes in new poll
The piece was taken from Breitbart Dot Com. It also appeared today on the NEWSMAX website.
These are the times that fry men’s ferns.
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MIKE ADAMS ON
BOOKS TO GIVE FOR CHRISTMAS
BOOKS TO GIVE FOR CHRISTMAS
7. Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris.
There are two types of opponents to Christianity - those who misunderstand Christianity and those who understand but misrepresent Christianity. Sam Harris is in the latter group. Harris intentionally lumps "old world" creationism with "new world" creationism in an attempt to falsely portray Christians as opponents of science. He also lumps adult stem cell research (responsible for curing 73 diseases) with embryonic stem cell research (responsible for curing zero diseases) in an effort to make Christians appear to be sadistic in their supposed opposition to science.
I want everyone to read Harris' book to get a good glimpse at the depth of his intellectual dishonesty and his anti-religious bigotry.
Mike Adams on Christmas gift giving.
Books in particular. Books that deal with Christianity most especially, pro and con. Books with Adams’ brief analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.
He includes, besides Harris, Chris Hitchens (“GOD IS NOT GREAT”), Mother Theresa (“COME, BE MY LIGHT”), Richard Dawkins (“THE GOD DELUSION”), Allister and Joanna McGrath (“THE DAWKINS DELUSION”), and so it goes, concept and counter concept.
Personally I am not a fan of most gone-public atheists. Hitchens, for example, is a bit of a publicity Ho. I did see a C-SPAN program where he lectured about his latest GOD IS NOT GREAT, sitting atop his pompous high horse for forty-five or so minutes. When they proselytize, they appear every bit as bad as the Christian preachers they condemn.
Mike’s column is brief this morning. You can find it at: WINTER READING It appeared in this morning’s TOWN HALL
Ciao
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Sun Nov 25, 2007
Out With The New, In With The Old
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM THE VATICAN
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM THE VATICAN
I really like this new Pope, Gregory the something-or-another.
He is conservative, intellectual, a real scholar of Church history and tradition. That he re-instituted in a small way the Latin Mass (Latin, as in ‘Ancient Roman Tongue’ not ‘Hispanic’) is another plus from this aging Classicist’s point of view. If more Americans studied Latin for at least three years, we would be an infinitely better educated people.
In a summary judgment The Pope is banning all ‘modern’ music from the Vatican.
We’re not talking ‘Rap’ or ‘Hip Hop’, or even ‘Jazz’ here folks, we’re talking about deleting most of what followed the plainsong ‘Gregorian Chant’.
What? You never heard of Gregorian Chant? Here is a short excerpt from a lovely little website called Music-for-church-choirs dot com that should clear things up sufficiently:
Gregorian Chant was adopted by the Christian Church in about the 6th Century and it quickly became an essential part of Christian worship. It was named after Pope Gregory the Great who unified all the chants into one collection. This soon became an essential part of monastic worship and monks would write new chants and take them from monastery to monastery.”
As it was in the beginning.
When the current Pope Gregory says he wants to ‘purge modern music’ from the Vatican, he means everything since the sixth century. There will be some place for the brilliant liturgical music of Bach and Mozart and a scattering of others, but most of what you will hear wafting down the corridors of the Holy See is Gregorian Chant and it is truly magnificent in the hands of a well-trained choir.
I love many of the older hymns, Christmas music, for instance, from Merrie Olde England and Frosty Old Germany. Great stuff. Lots of harmony, magnificent themes, the kind of thing that gave courage to soldiers advancing in the face of Machine guns set up on the Western Front in 1914. Die by the thousand but ennobled. Somebody needs to write a treatise on the wussification of churchly music.
When I was a young teen, the Church dropped the Latin Mass. That was a mistake. Soon churches, most denominations, everywhere were inviting slightly sanitized hippie-types into their chancels to strum on their guitars, toot their trumpets, pluck their base fiddles and sing ‘Kum-Bye-Ah’ in an attempt to become ‘relevant’ to the modern, spiritually defunct Christian. It didn’t work, but you still see it on Sunday AM church TV, at least here in Macon. Hard to separate much modern ecclesiastical music from the inane light rock assaulting us from our radios. Some of this music is merely shallow feel good junk designed to help spread the modern prosperity gospel of ‘don’t worry, be happy’….everything will be OK if you only let Baby Jesus into your hearts. Just ‘let him in’ and don’t worry about a damned thing. It is amazing how stupid people can be.
We will watch this Vatican thing carefully. Might have to brush up on G-Chant once again. But it is good to have a real conservative on the Seat of Saint Peter….a genuine conservative, not like we have in the modern Republican Party in this country. A real conservative who has centuries of tradition and history to draw from.
Good stuff.
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GOOD NEWS FROM THE VATICAN
This weekend Pope Benedict conferred the first RED CAP, symbol of high ecclesiastical rank, upon the first native Iraqi to hold that honor. His name is Emmanuel III Delly. Patriarch Delly was among twenty-three men elevated to that rank.
Besides the traditional cap and crimson cape, Cardinal Delly was also issued a brand new AK-74, a bag of rifle grenades, and the ingredients for several dozen roadside bombs.
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SAD NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
THIS JUST IN:
It was announced today in Washington, D.C. that therer will be no public display of the traditional Yule Tide manger scene on Capitol Hill this Christmas season.
Don't blame the ACLU for this one.
The sponsors of the annual event simply couldn't locate three wise men and a real virgin anywhere inside the Beltway.
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Sat Nov 24, 2007
I, TOO, AM VICTIM
I was offended the other day.
Less than a week ago. The memory still rankles, the nerves are shattered, my psyche aches, and yours truly has become truly victimized.
It was a gift that did me in. Probably innocent in the giver’s intent, but the experience caused me deep anguish lasting to this very day, anyway, probably ruin the whole Christmas thing as well.
You might think that, in a country so beset with the wholesale perpetuation of the symbols of oppression, slavery, Jim Crow, and separate but unequal schools, educated folks could show more sensitivity.
And what was that ‘innocent’ gift? It almost brings me to tears to write this, but I opened a package from an academic acquaintance who is abroad in Europe, and in said package was a small device, a cigar cutter, in fact, seven or eight inches tail, a perfect scale replica of a guillotine.
No I haven’t smoked cigars or anything else in many years, so that part of the horrible equation doesn’t bother me, but, back in 1799 a French ancestor of mine whose first name I never knew was condemned to death by the slicing blade of ‘Mme Guillotine’.
His crime? Nothing to get excited over. He had merely borrowed a horse from a wealthy townsman near the Normandy coast and, before he had a chance to return the creature to its rightful owner, was arrested by the Provincial Gendarmerie, tried and executed. Quelle Horreur, mes amis. Quelle Horreur.
And that’s it. I cannot walk past the terrible item now sitting in my front room without feeling part of the persecution my long dead relative must have felt as he awaited the release of that awful, angular steel.
The guillotine has become a symbol of oppression to our family now scattered across the globe far from the mother country, that gave us our unique identity and unity.
The guillotine represents political tyranny, justice gone wrong, and a history of second, possibly third, hand civil status.
The guillotine, though outlawed in France in the late 1930’s (just before the Nazification of that country when its use was briefly and frequently revived by Hitler’s invading hordes) remains a an outward symbol of the wrongs done in the name of ‘law and order’ by a corrupt social structure.
At this point I do not know whether to seek psychiatric or legal help first. The first might help me get through these trying times, the second to once and for all that people giving gifts out of the generosity of their hearts should have more feeling for those whom they might so callously victimize.
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Fri Nov 23, 2007
DICK MORRIS SUGGESTS
PRESIDENT BUSH IS HELPING HILLARY CLINTON GAIN THE NOMINATION
PRESIDENT BUSH IS HELPING HILLARY CLINTON GAIN THE NOMINATION
”But, Bush swept in for the rescue, picking the former president off the ash heap of history and elevating him to parity with his father in a two-former-president effort to raise funds for the tsunami victims. By giving him a respected place alongside a former president of unquestioned integrity, Bush gave Clinton a tremendous way to climb out of disgrace and into the limelight.”
Why is George Bush, President George Bush helping Hillary win the nomination?
.What?
Well, that’s what our friend Dick Morris seems to think. G. Bush has been helping both the Clintons since he took office in 2000. And Morris cites numerous examples.
Personally, I don’t think his arguments are as water tight as he does, but see for yourself at PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH SUPPORTS HILLARY CLINTON?
Ciao
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Thu Nov 22, 2007
PASTOR
Click on more to learn about a a large, extended South Georgia Family who managed several business entreprises.
"Is this a true story or a work of fiction," you might ask?
"Why, yes," I would reply.
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CLIP OF SENATOR LARRY CRAIG
ON MEET THE PRESS
1999
ON MEET THE PRESS
1999
Remember Larry Craig?
Senator Larry Craig, that is.
He of the 'wide stance', in trouble for trying to romance an undercover cop in an air port restroom stall?
Senator Larry Craig the moralist.
Found the following clip on YOU TUBE. It was taken froma 1999 Meet The Press....smack dab in the middle of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
Here is the protector of morality him,self: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0_Vs5570pKw
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BLOOD IN THE WATERS OF IOWA
”Can Hillary turn it around? She will increase her advertising and personal campaigning in Iowa, but so will her rivals now that they smell blood. The poll’s field dates were Nov. 14-18. The last national debate, in which Hillary had something of a comeback, was on Nov. 15, right in the middle of the sampling. It is possible that her stronger performance might tip some more votes her way, and she does have one more debate before the voting.
It’s a pretty good column by our friend Dick Morris written a couple of days ago as the latest Washington Post-ABC poll was released showing Obama slightly ahead of Clinton in the hearts of Democrats in Iowa and Edwards a close third.
Right now it’s a chess game. The Dem (or Repub) who wins the Iowa Caucus can claim and proclaim momentum, leadership, victory, frontrunner status, anything he wants. Losers will point to their ‘near hit’ and point out that Iowa is only a caucus….let’s wait for New Hampshire. Now the Granite State should go solidly to Clinton. On the GOP side, however, if Mitt Romney does not pull out an impressive victory his campaign will be in deep doo doo for the simple reason that as Governor of adjacent Massachusetts he has built in recognition all out of proportion to his campaign.
So Mr Morris reasons that Hillary can recover from a defeat in Iowa. With this I agree.
Check this latest Morris missive at WHAT IOWA SLIPPAGE MEANS FOR HILLARY I did notice that it also appeared in this morning’s TOWN HALL
Ciao
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Wed Nov 21, 2007
When
'CUZ THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
is no longer enough
'CUZ THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
is no longer enough
I would not have read this column from today’s TOWN HALL had I not had a lengthy conversation with a pair of thirteen and fourteen-year-olds during a break in our Second Amendment Activities just yesterday at a local shooting range.
One of these children was the scion of a devout, very (very) conservative Baptist family whose life includes daily prayer, three-a-week- church, and education a local, pure, bible-oriented school where the thou shalt nots outnumber the thou shalts ten to one. The other lad has been raised in the Episcopal Church, attends a Catholic school (despite the indoctrination), and enjoys the advantage of a reasonable and fairly open-minded home life.
The talk turned to religion. I do not recall how or why, but these kids already know something of my own views on the deity and are naturally curious. Please note here that the last thing I would do to any child is to make any effort whatsoever to change his faith and/or beliefs. That is a parent’s job. I will, however, do my level best to answer, and answer honestly, when a boy or girl asks me a question.
The column was written a chap named Andrew Tallman, a talk-show host according to his bio. Until now I was not familiar with him. Since the piece is written from a Christian perspective, there are many assumptions I cannot agree with. Yet the fellow makes some pretty good sense and seems to understand something of the adolescent psyche. He says, in part,:
”So here’s my encouragement. It’s tempting to just propagandize children. Tempting because we fear the real danger they may, if taught to think for themselves and ask questions, come to conclusions we abhor. But God gave them brains, and we must honor the gift as good stewards. So the key here, as with so many things, is to trust the Maker that honoring His gift will work out alright in the end.
God gave children their brains. And the real question at the end of each parenting day is whether you are more interested in shaping that child in the Image of the God who made him … or in your own image? Then, we must acknowledge that picking the right answer to that question will require from us more than just loud lip service to the idea that children should be encouraged to think for themselves … most of the time … especially when the scariest thing to imagine is the possibility that they might actually learn the lesson.
You can read the entire, brief piece at: SHOULD CHILDREN BE ENCOURAGED TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES
We don’t stop ‘growing up’ when we reach the magic age of twenty-one. Gaining wisdom ought to be a life-long process. The only way that is going to work for our children is to help instill in them a sense of genuine curiosity, a questioning attitude, and, above all, the mental skills needed to make intelligent decisions.
It’s probably cute to watch a four-year-old lisp her way through ‘Jesus loves me, this I know; cuz the Bible tells me so.”, but it doesn’t work when your kid gets older and grows his own set of adolescent pimples.
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Tue Nov 20, 2007
LATEST FROM THE
AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH
AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH
”We have argued that Congress should be investigating Jaamat ul Fuqra and its front group, Muslims of the Americas, given this evidence of terror financing. You ACT members ranked this issue very high up on national matters to be dealt with by our government and Congress.
Here is an important missive from ACT, THE AMERICAN CONGRESS FOR TRUTH. It contains the report of Douglas J. Hagmann, Director, & Judi McLeod, Founding Editor, Canada Free Press, November 16, 2007.
Read then call your Congressman in the middle of his Thanksgiving dinner.
Catch it at: Jamaat ul Fuqra, Muslims of the Americas tied to U.S. counterfeit trade
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DON'T FORGET TOMORROW
NEWTON COLLIER'S NIGHT OF SOUL
NEWTON COLLIER'S NIGHT OF SOUL
IT'S ALL RIGHT HERE:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
9:30 PM
D. J. ROGER RIDDLE
550 Blues
550 Riverside Drive
Macon, GA
Soulman Production
CALL: (478) 501-2106
$5.00 Admission At The Door
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HIT ME AGAIN,
JESUS!!!
JESUS!!!
It was a strange dream, truly it was.
I found myself sitting in on a poker game. Old fashion poker. Draw. Stud. None of this popular Texas Hold’em crap you see on the tube.
The strange part is that the last time I played the game, I was twenty years old, drunk, and sitting in the cellar game room of our fraternity house. I won three hundred bucks that night from kids who couldn’t afford to lose those precious 1960-era pennies.
A quick glance around the table brought some familiar faces into focus. Mayor Ellis was there, sitting to my right, smoking a very bad cigar and dressed in full Bedouin garb complete with headband. To my left was none other than President George Bush sipping on cola, dressed in a conservative, two piece suit, white button down shirt, and wide, red tie boasting an embroidered miniature of the Great Seal of the United States.
As my eyes grew accustomed to the dim light I saw seated across from me our dealer. He was immediately recognizable….white, northern Euopean, blue-eyed, with long. Dark blond locks flowing mane-like over the back of his neck. He was bearded. He wore a full length robe trimmed with alternating strips of sky-blue and royal purple. His eyes twinkled like those of a a small boy about to embark on some forbidden mischief knowing that his door mat parents won’t do a thing to stop him. Around his head appeared a light, not a light bulb light, but a kind of shimmering radiance that came from somewhere beneath the dirty blong hair. He was Jesus Christ….the same Jesus found in churches and books all over the protestant world. This was the pure Aryan Jesus, the fellow so loved by the ubiquitous Southern Baptist.
We anted up a pot, just to get the game started. Jesus shuffled the cards rapidly and skillfully, handed them to George who cut the deck. We were each dealt five cards. I looked at my hand…pretty good. Decided to stand pat.
The president was squirming a little. He asked for three cards and continued to squirm. He would fold at the earliest opportunity. Pook guy never had a puss for poker.
Mayor Ellis asked for two cards. The first was flipped his way, he turned it over and looked, broke into a broad grim and said, “Hit me again Jesus”.
Jesus did. Backhanded the poor guy across the mouth. Mayor Ellis vanished in a poof of smoke and a flash of light. He was gone.
In walked Hillary Clinton to take the Mayor’s place.
And I woke up.
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Mon Nov 19, 2007
DICK MORRIS ON
HILLARY AND HER SECRET POLICE
HILLARY AND HER SECRET POLICE
”The Clintons have no regard for the privacy of those who get in their way. Their clumsiness in bullying Linda Tripp cost the Department of Defense about $600,000 when she won her lawsuit for invasion of privacy after they arranged to illegally leak confidential information from her personnel file.
The Clintons play dirty politics.
And Hillary plays dirtier than Bill.
And thus our friend, Dick Morris, is off and running with yet another column on…on….Hillary Clinton, a subject he knows perhaps better than does anyone else.
The premise here is not that she simply ‘plays dirty’, but that she has legions of loyal and well-financed agents who do her dirty-trick bidding.
Read it for yourself here: HILLARY’S SECRET POLICE RETURN We found it at NEWSMAX online this very evening.
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MORE ON ABORTION
WHAT IF THE RAPE VICTIM IS NINE YEARS OLD
AND PREGNANT?
WHAT IF THE RAPE VICTIM IS NINE YEARS OLD
AND PREGNANT?
While we are on the subject of ever younger kids experiencing sex, an article appeared in the AJC this morning which brings it into sharp focus. This in Acworth, Georgia.
A nine-year-old girl claims that she was playing with a nine-year-old boy and two eight-year-olds who “pulled her into a wooded area, where one of the boys raped her,” said Acworth police captain, Wayne Dennard. The kids are charged with rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, and false imprisonment. Their names have not been released due to their age under Georgia law.
I know that once upon a time many children played the exploratory game of ‘Doctor’, but I recall nothing like this until well into what is laughingly referred to as my ‘maturity’. It is always a shock to hear of sexual battery of any kind performed by children who ought to be playing with dolls and toy guns.
That children are naturally curious is a given. It is normal that they are curious abouyt reproduction. It is also likely that many of our very young are exposed through media, peer activity, and poor parenting to sexual activity when they are simply too young for such.
If the little children were two or three years older, the small girl might have become pregnant. What then? Let her bring the fetus to term? Then try to adopt it out? Let her begin raising her own child while in the fourth or fifth grade? Turn the infant over to grandma? Great grandma? The choices aren’t very pretty, are they? I know a great grandmother who is currently raising her two-month-old grandchild, a crack infant born prematurely and under weight with multiple addictions to drugs and alcohol. That lady is almost seventy. Looks like a bleak future ahead for all concerned.
We can come back to this topic soon. Hope to hear from some of you on the subject. My take is that there is a very real and important place for legal abortion, but Americans and Europeans tend not to take the subject of getting pregnant seriously enough to prevent little disasters cropping up unto the third ands fourth generation.
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MIKE ADAMS ON
RAPE and ABORTION
RAPE and ABORTION
”Leaving only one of the three persons in the equation (rapist, victim, and baby) without rights could well be seen as a devolving standard of decency that marks the regress of a secular society. This conclusion is perhaps best avoided by assuming that the unborn are not fully human and, as such, cannot be fairly characterized as persons.”
We start the work week with a piece by Professor Mike Adams of UNC-Wilmington, where he reigns supreme as the singular voice of (usually) sane and logical conservatism.
His topic today is abortion, but from a very different slant than we are used to. He looks at the apparent ‘rights’ of the rapist, the ‘rights’ of the raped, and the ‘rights’ of the fetus and, possibly, child produced by such hideous union. Both law and common decency, he says, are more interested in the ‘rights’ of the former two, ignoring that the fetus is a human being in the making. Pretty good stuff which you can access at DEVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY
Personally I believe in a woman’s right to an abortion. However, it is a step not to be lightly undertaken. I think the long-range solution is one of education and not government or church interference. One of the great failings of Western Civilization is that the rise in the availability of both contraception and abortion has led to a situation wherein casual sex, the hook-up syndrome, has taken all responsibility out of the act. Our young, once shielded from sexual contact, are having sex and babies at an ever earlier age. Not good., not good for many, many reasons.
By the way, Adams’ column was delivered to my inbox by the good folks at TOWN HALL
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Sun Nov 18, 2007
UPCOMING
SOULMAN NEWTON COLLIER PRESENTS
SOULMAN NEWTON COLLIER PRESENTS
When my son and I had THE CELLAR, a traditional bar-nightclub-restaurant too innovative for the Macon of the 1990's, Christmas and Thanksgiving Eves were my favorite nights of the year. I would send Rob home early to be with his wife and family, close the kitchen, open only the bar, and play traditional music softly on the stereo.
By nine in the evening the place would fill up with good people looking for a quiet, comfortable, civilized environment to spend a couple of hours. The place emptied quietly just before midnight,patrons returned to their own homes to enjoy the next day, their spirituality somehow strengthened by a quiet evening spent among some new friends. It did wonders for me and my psyche as well.
Guess what.....NEWTON COLLIER has a wonderful experience in store for you this coming Wednesday night at 550 BLUES.
Take a close look at it:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
9:30 PM
D. J. ROGER RIDDLE
550 Blues
550 Riverside Drive
Macon, GA
Soulman Production
CALL: (478) 501-2106
$5.00 Admission At The Door
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DRIVE CAREFULLY
SCHOOL IS OUT THIS WEEK
SCHOOL IS OUT THIS WEEK
WHile were are (or were) on the subject of religion and the bible, please remember that our little ones have no school this week, and so will be once again infesting our neighborhoods with their obnoxious and thoroughly undisciplined presence.
It might be best for all parents to remember what the bible teaches us about youngsters who do not obey:
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The Q'oran ain't got nothing on the Old Testament.
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FIGHTING FIERCELY FOR OLD HARVARD
In sports news Two nights ago, great big, ultra liberal, left-wing, Marxist, Northeast-oriented, Harvard beat up little tiny, conservative, middle Georgia, Republican, Baptist (but not too Baptist) Mercer University in basketball by a score of 91-73.
The outcome had nothing to do with the reported high verbal scores of the Crimson five....some of their athletes are as dumb as dead cypress stumps in an Okefenoke backwater. Nor was it the result of a home court advantage and troups of nearly two dozen screaming fans taking time out from their picketing activities to see the yankee squad in action against a pro-jim crow team from well below trhe Mason Dixon Line..
No, successful athleticism in Harvard Yard (where I have often parked my car in the old days) is the direct result of a little known phenomenon, a fight song penned in 1953 by an adjunct math teacher at the university named Tom Lehrer. It is called FIGHT FIERCELY, HARVARD and has helped many a team to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, or, to achieve a score well within the Mafia's projected point spread.
Here are the lyrics:
Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless, we have the will.
How we will celebrate our victory,
We shall invite the whole team up for tea. (How jolly!)
Hurl that spheroid down the field,
And fight, fight, fight!
Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight!
Impress them with our prowess, do!
Oh, fellas, do not let the crimson down,
Be of stout heart and true.
Come on, chaps, fight for Harvard's glorious name!
Won't it be peachy if we win the game? (Oh, goody!)
Let's try not to injure them,
But fight, fight, fight!
Let's not be rough, though!
Fight, fight, fight!
And do fight fiercely!
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THE SIN OF OMISSION DEPARTMENT
MY APOLOGIES
MY APOLOGIES
I owe the regular readers of this b’log an apology.
Several months ago I bought a new computer and changed ISP’s from AOL to BELL SOUTH (now AT&T). In the process I lost touch with some of the folks who used to send updates and newsletters to their ever-changing web sites. Most of the loss was no loss at at all,. But somewhere along the way I dropped contact with LANDOVER BAPTIST CHURCH the online church home “Where the worthwhile worship (and the) unsaved (are) unwelcome”.
This omission weighs heavy on my heart, folks. To correct matters, I have signed up for Landover’s monthly newsletter and will be posting a link to it each and every time it enters my inbox.
Please consider this as merely a small corner of my personal outreach. The Landover message to those saved, those washed in the blood, those who wear their personal, sanctimonious piety on the sleeve of their designer garments will now get another chance to read the Landover message from virtual cover to virtual cover.
Rejoice. That which was lost is now found again. Please find it in your hearts to forgive a doddering old sinner like myself.
Amen, brothers and sisters, amen!!
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Sat Nov 17, 2007
OPRAH WINFREY
and
OUR FAIR CITY
and
OUR FAIR CITY
Oprah didn’t come to our house yesterday.
And we don’t expect her today since she is committed to an important taping in Macon’s civic auditorium.
This city has gone off its rocker, Oprah Crazy. And that’s a good thing.
In thirty-one years of living hereabouts I have never seen anything to rival Ms Winfrey’s impact on the area’s citizens. And it is all positive, every bit.
She breezed into town, through town, around town not like a egocentric rock star or politician but as a warm, caring, dynamic person who truly has humanity’s best interests at heart.
This phenomenon is for real. I wouldn’t want to say or write anything that might negate the dynamic interaction of this wonderful human being with the citizens of Macon who obviously love her so very much.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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LIFE WITHOUT THE BOOB TUBE
part two
part two
A month or so ago I promised you an television update…or rather, a non-television update.
As many readers of this b’log known, I dropped my TV cable almost two months ago with the idea of switching to satellite through the phone company. I didn’t make that call. I might at some point, then I might not. It took a week or so to acclimate my psyche to a single, local TV station with very fuzzy reception. But it just might be the best move of the year.
I have more time….to read, to write, to putter, to do just about anything I want. There is just so much more time in any given day. After a brief period of withdrawal, the programs I used to depend on…..weather channel, 24/7 news, A&E, History Channel, and a few others are no longer important. I get my news from Katie Couric (who is not as bad as she is portrayed) and the internet. It’s not a bad arrangement…takes a little longer, but I don’t feel as propagandized as when watching CNN or FNC.
Reruns of THE SOPRANOS were beginning to attract my attention this fall. But they shot Pussy to death on a boat and so ended my latest love affair with the Mafia. THE GODFATHER, book and movie, was my first long ago as a thirty something.
At some point I may hook up a satellite dish. One company offers two hundred and fifty channels for little more than basic cable. But I may not.
This is a wait-and-see game, one I am enjoying….enjoying especially the increased free time 0-TV provides.
We can define any civilization by how well its people use their leisure time, that is time spent not scrambling to make a living.
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DICK MORRIS ON
GROUP GROPE
in
NEVADA
GROUP GROPE
in
NEVADA
”Under Wolf Blitzer's gentle questioning, Hillary was able to avert another debate meltdown in the Nevada Democratic debate held last night, November 15. Asked about driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, a compliant, even subservient, Blitzer accepted Hillary's one word answer, “No,” with no follow up. Had a better journalist been asking the questions — like Tim Russert — he would have followed up the bland negation with probing questions about why she is yet again flip flopping on the issue.”
So begins Dick Morris’ latest column. This one rushed to press a scant twenty-four hours after Wednesday Night’s Hillary group gropet, AKA the not-so-great Democrat debate.
And it is one of his best. He whacks Blitzer’s knuckles pretty hard and points out just how pro-Hillary the entire affair was.
You can read it here: CNN CAVES TO HILLARY, BUT SHE’LL STILL STRUGGLE
The column appeared in TOWN HALL this morning and was circulated as a Dick Morris Newsletter early yesterday evening.
Ciao!!
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Fri Nov 16, 2007
from the latest BOORTZ BLAST
PREVENTATIVE
caution: may be offensive to elderly spinsters
PREVENTATIVE
caution: may be offensive to elderly spinsters
Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was admired for her sweetness and kindness to all. One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea. As he sat facing her old Hammond organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl sitting on top of it. The bowl was filled with water, and in the water floated, of all things, a condom!
When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better him and He could no longer resist.
"Miss Beatrice", he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?" pointing to the bowl.
Oh, yes," she replied, "Isn't it wonderful? I was walking through the park a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground.
The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and that it would prevent the spread of disease. Do you know I haven't had the flu all winter?"
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PLAYING SOFT BALL
THAT WERE NO DEBATE,
MR BLITZER
THAT WERE NO DEBATE,
MR BLITZER
This time, Obama was the first to be asked about it, and he stumbled on the issue, while trying to offer a nuanced position. Wolf let him dig himself into a deeper hole, and then asked for a simple yes or no from everyone else. It was the best thing that could have happened to Hillary. Here was her main rival taking the heat because of a position that she had taken.
Here’s the (edited) exchange:
BLITZER: Do you support or oppose driver's licenses for illegal immigrants?
OBAMA: I am not proposing that that's what we do.
What I'm saying is that we can't...
(LAUGHTER)
No, no, no, no. Look, I have already said, I support the notion that we have to deal with public safety and that driver's licenses at the same level can make that happen.
But what I also know...
BLITZER: All right...
OBAMA: But what I also know, Wolf, is that if we keep on getting distracted by this problem, then we are not solving it.
BLITZER: But -- because this is the kind of question that is sort of available for a yes or no answer.
(LAUGHTER)
Either you support it or you oppose it.
(APPLAUSE)
BLITZER: All right. Thank you. Senator Obama, yes or no?
OBAMA: Yes.
BLITZER: OK.
I didn’t see last night’s Dem Debate, but the consensus this morning seems to indicate: (1) Blitzer took it very easy on Ms Clinton and (2) She probably won on points if not style.
Here is an interesting article from ACCURACY IN MEDIA taken from the ‘Net just this moment. The author is Roger Aronoff and you can read the whole thing right here: WOLF BLITZER IS NO TIM RUSSERT
Never trust a newscaster with a beard. Now a b;ogger is something quite different.
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OPRAH WINFREY
and
C. JACK ELLIS
and
C. JACK ELLIS
With Oprah in town for Saturday’s taping and preparations gelling for Hizzoner’s farewell gala both on the same date, all seems well in Macon, the sleepy little town astride the Ocmulgee.
It is a foregone conclusion that Ms Winfrey’s people will have everything well in hand and that the TV segment will be thoroughly professional in every detail.
As for the Ellis Bye-Bye bash, things are not so certain. It depends on who is planning the affair. If the same folks who have managed to run into the ground our annual Macon Music and Heritage Festival are in charge, guys like Chuck Howard and Jimmy Mills, there may not be an event at all. Somebody or bodies have been running all over the Downtown begging for monies to fund the party. The other night after a black tie show at the Capitol Theater, cars throughout the midtown were papered with flyers. Give till it hurts. If you supported C. Jack, chances are pretty good that you have been hurt over the past eight years one way or another. Hang onto your billfolds, guys.
Some locals, Neal Boortz pointed out early in the week, are in medium-high dudgeon over the possibility that Mr. Ellis will intrude his looming presence into Oprah’s show to such an extent that it will detract from her radiance. Since the Good Lady will focus international attention upon Our Fair City, a city which needs all the favorable PR it can get, the theory is Hizzoner might attempt to steal the limelight. This won’t happen. Ms Winfrey can chew up and spit out a guy like Ellis in a split second. And she will do it in such a way that not one iota of her poise and charm will be compromised.
Have fun tomorrow. I won’t attend either affair. Haven’t been invited to see Oprah, didn’t donate to the Mayor. There is one rumor that Winfrey will simply drop in to visit pre-selected residences and get the temper of us locals. There is a second rumor that she has chosen lower Boulevard to begin her visits. Guess I need to put another pot of joe on the stove. This old man is not into fancy, Starbuck’s-style java, just plain old-fashioned coffee, brewed strong, aromatic, and eye-opening.
Ciao!!
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DICK MORRIS ON
THE IOWA CAUCUS
what else?
THE IOWA CAUCUS
what else?
”The New York Times/CBS poll released yesterday indicates real trouble ahead for both in Iowa. On the Democratic side, Clinton leads with 25 percent, followed by John Edwards at 23 percent and Barack Obama at 22 percent. In the GOP contest, Mitt Romney leads with 27 percent followed by Mike Huckabee at 21 percent and Giuliani at 15 percent.”
Continuing a thread begun a few days ago, Dick Morris takes a closer look at the Iowa Caucus and what it might mean to the frontrunners of both parties, to say nothing of the rear-runners and the pack of also running.
It’s good stuff. From my point of view it proves but once again that this country needs and desperately a more efficient way of choosing presidential candidates. The current system of frantic fund raising, faux debates, caucuses and primaries starting scant microseconds after the previous election results are in takes too long, costs too much money, and distracts from the process of government.
Check ‘er out for thyself at :IOWA AND BEYOND NO SAFE BETS
Ciao.
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Thu Nov 15, 2007
GOOD DEEDS
and
BAD DEED
and
BAD DEED
Found this video clip on BREITBART this evening.
You may have heard about the problems Cambridge (MA) boy scouts have had trying to collect toiletries and similar small items for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It appears, from this clip, that the boys had permission to stick collection boxes in polling areas during a recent election. One sour puss complained and BAM....collection boxes gone.
The clip is a newsbroadcast from a Fox Station in the area
CLick on: http://www.breitbart.tv/html/8125.html
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PRAYIN' FOR RAIN
in
ATLANTA
in
ATLANTA
Sonny and the assembled faithful prayed for rain on the steps of the Capitol Building Tuesday noon. The sought divine favor in the midst of the worst drought in the history of the Peach State.
Wednesday night it rained hereabouts. Bible thumping conservatives all over the south are proclaiming the efficacy of the power of Purdue's orisons. Even Sean Hannity a few minutes ago made a somewhat elliptical reference to the force down here deep in Dixieland.
Now it didn't rain much. to be sure, locally it barely wetted the pavement and didn't sink in one iota into the rock-hard soil. Sonny's rain didn't register on the official airport gauge; we've seen heavier dew.
Three days before Perdue's muezzin-like call, the Georgia weather guys noticed that a front would be moving through on Wednesday or so and forecast that we had a chance of not inconsiderable rain during its passage.
Let's see. Chronoligical order: first, good cvhance of rain prognosticated; second, Governor calls for public prayer; third, rain. Are we talking about prayer's ability to alter the weather or a shrewd and blatant attempt to manipulate a naive electorate's blind faith?
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MICHELLE MALKIN ON
THE RACE-BAITING AL SHARPTON
THE RACE-BAITING AL SHARPTON
The inexorable rhythm of the politics of racial insult is interrupted only when the insulter doesn't fit the left-wing grievance narrative. Which explains in part why former GOP Sen. George Allen's infamous "Macaca" gaffe was covered by the national news media like it was Armageddon, while a female Louisiana Democrat who this week called a black civil rights leader's mother "Buckwheat" (after the stereotypical "Little Rascals" character) barely warranted a blip on the outrage-o-meter. No pockets to pick, no bribes to extract from protesting a case of abject stupidity that can't be spun into institutional racism for partisan gain.
Al Sharpton is not one of my favorites on the national scene. Michelle Malkin most certainly is.
Today she takes Al on head-to-head over the issue of race baiting, most especially his upcoming (November 16th.) attack on ‘race crimes’ in the nation’s capitol. This in light of his grandstanding during the Jena Six affair, another ill-considered, racist stand held by Sharpton and other self-appointed leaders of Black America.
And a hell of a good read it is. See for yourself at THE POLITICS OF RACIAL INSULT WHO DECIDES? found this morning in TOWN HALL
Malkin is a true wonder. The only thing I don’t approve of is her hosting O’Reilly's in the absence of the six hundred pound 'oping' gorilla. Seems a little like slumming to me. Michelle is made of finer stuff.
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Wed Nov 14, 2007
OPRAH IS COMING
OPRAH IS COMING
OPRAH IS COMING
Who?
But, everybody knows ‘Oprah’. Sorry, I don’t know the lady at all.
I am aware of a few facts about her, of course, damn few. It’s out there in the area of general knowledge. She is the reigning popular culture phenomenon in our country. But, as with Dr. Phil, I know precious little about her..
It is stubborn old me vs. the pop culture thing, I guess. I have never been able to stomach the latest fad, diet, pop star, overblown sports figure, or lithesome young idiot thing hell bent to land afoul of law killing her brain cells along the way. That goes double for au currant personalities, media whore types, you know, the morons many Americans and all the 24/7 media mavens slobber after. I can’t recall their names but one such shares a first with a European capitol city and another was a child star with a dysfunctional mother who like to party all night with her daughter. Motherhood, thy name is bitch.
Oprah will be here Friday and Saturday of this week, visiting homes, doing something in the city auditorium, bringing our nation’s focus onto little old Macon. I do not have a problem with that, simply leave me out of the loop. The lady must do a lot of good for others, maybe some of that will land right here on top of the little city astride the Ocmulgee.
We need rain now more than we need Oprah. But there is a chance….just a chance….that tonight will bring some relief to the worst drought in Georgia’s history.
Rain and Oprah. The Governor prayed for rain yesterday. Did he pray for Oprah Winfrey’s presence? But he prayed for rain.
Haven’t had to use my raincoat since forever. Wonder if I gave it to Goodwill.
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DICK MORRIS, AGAIN
IS GIULIANI IN TROUBLE IN IOWA?
IS GIULIANI IN TROUBLE IN IOWA?
”But if Romney wins in Iowa, he will certainly win in New Hampshire — where he already leads — and in Michigan, where his father was governor and he has been working hard. Coming into Florida with that kind of momentum will make it very hard for Giuliani to come back. But not impossible.
A poor showing in I-Oh-Way could sink Giuliani’s ship, especially if it led to disaster in the early primary states like New Hampshire, Michigan, and Florida where Mitt Romney is strong.
So reasons our favorite pundito, Dick Morris, who has a pretty good handle on such things. Should Romney become the GOP standard bearer, Her Nibs would eat his shorts….alive.
As things stand now, Rudy is the only Republican who stands a chance next November in the general election.
These early contents can be funny (amusing). For almost two weeks Ms. Clinton’s numbers in Iowa have been sagging. Why? Probably her poor showing in the last debate. We shall see.
Check out the Morris column at: GIULIANI MIGHT FALL BIG IN IOWA It makes for an interesting read.
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MIKE ADAMS
AT HIS ACERBIC BEST
AT HIS ACERBIC BEST
I am sorry that the communist love of straw man arguments is symbolic of the fact that communists are living in a make-believe world with make-believe enemies.
I am sorry that my articulation of the above observation caused this particular communist to scurry out the back door of the auditorium while I engaged in a rational point-by-point refutation of his “arguments.”
I am sorry that they don’t make communists like they use to.
Mike Adams at his acerbic best.
The good Professor (but not ‘Full’ Professor*) recently gave a talk to students at UNC Charlotte, where he was heckled by several students, whom he heckled back.
And continues to heckle here in a speech in which he, (tongue in cheek) ‘apologies’ to those whom he manhandled.
Great little column. Read it for yourself at MY APOLOGY TO UNC CHARLOTTE
The piece was part and parcel of a very rich groaning board found this morning from TOWN HALL
Ciao!!
*Adams is currently involved in a lawsuit with his University claiming that he was unjustly passed over for a promotion to Full Professor, simply because he was a constant pain in the ass to the administration. Can you imagine???
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Tue Nov 13, 2007
AND IN NEW JERSEY
PREPARING OUR KIDS FOR BIG BROTHER
PREPARING OUR KIDS FOR BIG BROTHER
Click on Sign Of Times: NJ School Cameras Fed Live To Cops to see the latest in school monitoring technology.
That’s right, the Demarest School District has installed very high tech cameras inside the schools with a direct feed to a neighborhood police station.
What a great way to prepare youngsters for the future, a police state where everything they do and say will be recorded for easy abuse by a not-so-kind and gentle central authority..
1984 never looked this good, boys and girls. It’s the wave of the future.
That’s the way it’s done. Make the kiddies feel a little more secure and they will grow up thinking that such surveillance is ‘normal’, sort of like every citizen is the star of his very own TRUMAN SHOW.
Now our police can view a little punk caught in the act….of smoking, or writing dirty words on the bathroom wall. “Here I sit all broken-hearted….” And before the little bastard can generate a second line, BAM….in come the cops and haul his butt off to jail.
Nothing like a good, old-fashioned, highly visible perp walk to keep the pre pubescent crowd in line. Little people become big people already conditioned to accept the most monstrous, perfectly authoritarian government ever devised by a powerful cabal drunk with power and armed with the latest in hi-tech tools.
Makes the Nazi system and the Stalin’s repression seem almost like Ding-Dong School, doesn’t it?
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IT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY GET ELECTED
A caller to 940 AM this morning had a comment the unwashed, unchurched, protestors attending the Governor's pray for rain session, scheduled for 11:45 in Atlanta.
The fellow wanted these ani-prayer persons there...maybe hearing the name 'Jesus Christ' would open their hearts. He was just warming up.
Getting a little carried away, this gentleman said, "The Governor was a Christian before he became Governor."
Which makes us ask, "What is teh Governor now that he is well into a second term?"
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AT HOME WITH
OLD GLORY
OLD GLORY
Like many, I have an American Flag.
This one is special. It belonged to my father and was a gift from the Republican Party of the Reagan era, a time when a distinction could be made between our two major political monoliths.
It could have flown outdoors where, by this time, it would have been tattered, torn, and disposed of properly in a ritual cremation. But this particlar Old Glory has garced one wall of my living room for the last six years.
Until recently, when it was lovingly taken down and folded to accommodate some repairs to that particular corner. A new window was framed in late yesterday and the flag was re-hung shortly after where it once again serves as a visible patriotic counterpoint to my home and my life.
I am proud of that flag. It seems fitting to let her drape so gloriously on the day a sometimes ungrateful nation does honor to the men and women who have served in the military.
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CAL THOMAS ON
JOE LIEBERMAN
PATRIOT
JOE LIEBERMAN
PATRIOT
"There is something profoundly wrong - something that should trouble all of us - when we have elected Democratic officials who seem more worried about how the Bush administration might respond to Iran's murder of our troops, than about the fact that Iran is murdering our troops." SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN
Joe Lieberman is a true patriot and a politician ‘of the old school’. Maybe the last one left in a D.C. where values have gone to hell and bitter partisan politics has become the order of the day.
So reasons Cal Thomas in a column you might well have read in the local paper. I found it at TOWN HALL when I opened my email this morning. You can read it for yourself here: JOE LIEBERMAN PATRIOT.
I like Lieberman. Back in 2000 I wrote a column that detailed why, of the four top dogs running for POTUS and VEEP (Bush, Cheney, Gore, and Lieberman), I would support Lieberman for President above all the others. Ended up casting a write-in for Green Candidate, Ralph Nader. Couldn’t then stomach either Gore or Bush.
Cal’s column is short, sweet, and to the point. A great way to start your political day.
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Mon Nov 12, 2007
UPCOMING: LOWER BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH MEETING
President Merry Bacon has scheduled the next Neighborhood Watch meeting for 7:00 on Thursday, December 6th.
We will meet at the usual place. Anybody not sure of where that is, please email me.
There is much to discuss. I attended the Shirley Hills group meeting the other night. It featured an excellent presentation by two police officers and some special info on tree beetles that is destroying much of the green canopy over there. These good folks have it together, but no better than we do.
With Christmas season almost upon us, we need to take extra precautions with our cars, our homes, and during our shopping trips....that's often where the bad guys are lurking. This is also no time to go walking around alone at night.
If you have friends on Nottingham, Senate, Laurel, or Summit who you think might like to join our group, please ask them to come along....we need to grow and expand our area of coverage and protection.
If you are planning to be away any time soon, please let me know so that we can keep an extra close watch on your property.
Rumor has it a part is being planned for lower Boulevard residents....a Christmas party. SOunds like a winner. Details to follow. Whoever makes those brownies with the M&M's on them, bake an extra batch. They just might be the best thing I ever put in my old mouth.
See you soon.
Don
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IS TED KENNEDY GOING 'OVERBOARD' ON THE WATERBOARDING ISSUE?
For those of you who know it, I am not a fan of Ted Kennedy. For those of you who DON'T know it, I am not a fan of Ted Kennedy.
I remember a dark night listening to WTIC FM in Hartford, CT one morning as thedetails surrounding the tortured death of Mary Jo Kopechne unfolded. That was back in the summer of 1969. Ted Kennedy has been re-elected to the United States Senate every six years since. We feel pity in our hearts for the simple-minded citizens of the Bay State.
Riverside Red sent in the following. WOrth looking at....and remembering. Remembering means never forgetting.
Mary Jo is dead. Even WTIC died, going off the air some years ago. Ted Kennedy lives on without wallowing in shame.
Happy Birthday, Mary Jo
Friends and fellow Americans,
A few months ago, from her grave, I thought I heard Mary Jo Kopechne
(July 26, 1940 - July 18, 1969) call:
"I would have been 67years old. As my only wish, please refresh your
memory of me and my murderer."
>
> When Senator Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on
> Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to
> ignore his deplorable past. But now that he has become the leading
> Democrat attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading
> arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now
> over.
> It's time for good Americans to stand up and remind our countrymen why
> this man had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980.
>
> It's time to say the words 'Mary Jo Kopechne' out loud.
>
> Ted Kennedy drunkenly drove his car off a bridge, extricated himself,
> and left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath the
> Edgartown, Massachusetts Bridge on July 17th, 1969 after a night of
> drinking and partying with the young blonde campaign worker.
>
> But most Americans under 40 have never heard that story, or the
> details of how Kennedy swam to safety, and then tried to get his
> cousin Joe Garghan to say he, Garghan, was behind the wheel.
>
> Those young voters don't know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside
> Kennedy's Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died (some
> medical experts saying two and one-half hours later), while this
> leading Democrat Iraq war critic rushed back to his family's compound
> to formulate the best alibi he could think of.
>
> Nor does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on
> his ear 15 years earlier for paying a fellow student to take his
> Spanish final. Nor why the US Army denied him a commission because he
> cheated on tests.
>
> As they listen to the Democrats' 'Liberal Lion' accuse President Bush
> of "telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in
> Iraq, young voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter
> weekend in Palm Beach, when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a
> night on the town, an evening that ended with one of them credibly
> accused of rape.
>
> It's time for Republicans and Democrats with a soul to state
> unabashedly that they will no longer 'go along with the gag' when it
> comes to Uncle Ted's rants about deception and moral turpitude inside
> the Bush White House.
>
> If the Republicans don't, let's do it ourselves by passing this
> forgotten disgrace around the Internet to wake up memories of what a
> fraud and fake Teddy really is.
>
> The Democrat Party should be ashamed to employ this national disgrace
> from Massachusetts as their spokesman!
>
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MACON FILM FESTIVAL
SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING FAST
SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING FAST
Vic Jones sent a reminder yesterday that we are close to the deadline for submitting films and tapes for consideration at the MACON FILM FESTIVAL, which enters its third year on February 21, 2008.
This festival is a unique event in the Midstate. It is also a wonderful opportunity for the amateur or semipro film maker to test his work against others of similar bent.
Deadline for submission is this coming Friday....don't be a wannabe if you like to edit tapes, do animated work, or make that slasher or monster movie you and your friends have always yearned to create.
Details can be found at
www.maconfilmfestival.com
and www.myspace.com/maconfilmfestival
The film entry deadline is Friday November 16.
Festival runs Feb 21 - 24, 2008...
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MIKE ADAMS
IN HONOR OF JOHN BROWNING
IN HONOR OF JOHN BROWNING
”But John Browning was a different kind of man. He refused to take anything he did not earn. He even refused an honorary degree from a university on the basis of that principle. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson could learn a lot from a man who practices what he preaches.>
And who is John Browning?
No, no, simpleton, you’re thinking of John Brown, the dude that lies a-moldering in his grave. Led an attack on the U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, hoping to free the slaves. They hung him.
John Browning was one of the greatest inventors in American history.
And Professor Mike Adams suggests we create a holiday in his honor, which would make sense since Browning exemplified some of the great American Principles including hard work, modesty, honesty, and genuine humility.
Browning was born in 1855. He designed guns. Got a lever-action Winchester .30-.30? A pump or Semi Auto shotgun? Ever use a .30, a .50 cal or a .37mm machine gun when you were in the service? If you can answer any of these, then John Browning touched you personally. He helped America win two world wars through his ceaseless efforts.
Want to learn more? Then click on JOHN BROWNING DAY and get Mike Adams slant on the subject.
Like me, Professor Adams is a strong supporter of our Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.
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Sun Nov 11, 2007
DAVID HOROWITZ
DEATH OF OUR UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
DEATH OF OUR UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
” The AAUP’s new doctrine is a transparent attempt to justify the transformation of the university into a home for these sectarian creeds by shielding them from the scrutiny of scientific method. In the new dispensation, political control of a discipline is the sole basis for establishing “truth,” and closing off critical debate. The idea that political power can establish “truth” is a conception so incompatible with the intellectual foundations of the modern research university that the AAUP committee could not state it so baldly. Hence the disingenuous compromise of “truth within a relevant discipline.”
This article by David Horowitz is long, somewhat academic (i.e. good use of footnotes), biased, and not a little passionate.
It also may be the most important thing I have placed on this b’log or discussed in many a month. Here she be: THE">http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=7C9ADC99-43A8-463F-BC96-3B46613CCBFD”]THE END OF THE UNIVERSITY AS WE KNOW IT
I have to assume that every reasonably well-read American knows who David Horowitz is. This former liberal turned conservative is one of the constant and consistent pains in the collective backside of the modern academic scene. He has been booed and harassed off stage more than any college speaker I know of. His position is, in a nutshell, that true academic freedom is becoming a thing of the past as college teachers, especially in the ‘new’ disciplines (Feminist studies, Black studies, Poverty studies, etc. ad nauseam) are spending more time ‘indoctrinating’ their students than actually ‘teaching them’.
Long ago and far away the AAUP (American Association of University Professors) defended the inclusion of a particularly left-winged book, required reading by entering students at The University of North Carolina, Says Horowitz, “The University had required all incoming freshman to read the socialist writer Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickled and Dimed, a journalistic tract on poverty and the evils of the capitalist system.” A local group called “Committee for a Better North Carolina” objected claiming that the volume, leftist as it was, needed to be balanced by other materials that would indicate there existed an opposing point of view.
And there is the crux of the problem. The AAUP, and much of the entire spectrum of modern academe is caught up in the notion of ‘indoctrination within a specific discipline’, which concept is rapidly taking the place of ‘the presentation of controversial material encouraging the student access to both (all) sides of the issue.”
In 1915 the AAUP formulated the position it has now abandoned in the twenty-first century: ”: “The university teacher, in giving instructions upon controversial matters, while he is under no obligation to hide his own opinion under a mountain of equivocal verbiage, should, if he is fit in dealing with such subjects, set forth justly, without suppression or innuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators;… and he should, above all, remember that his business is not to provide his students with ready-made conclusions, but to train them to think for themselves, and to provide them access to those materials which they need if they are to think intelligently.”
TRAIN THEM TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES. That’s the liberal arts concept I was brought up on. That is what a university should be about.
We can only skim the surface of this magnificent manifesto here. Take a while, read it for yourself. Check out the footnotes, read it again. Then ask yourself, what kind of an education do I want for my own children?
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SOULMAN NEWT COLLIER PRESENTS
PRE-THANKSGIVING BASH
PRE-THANKSGIVING BASH
Do Not Forget. Coming Next Week.
Presented by Newton Collier:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
9:30 PM
D. J. ROGER RIDDLE
550 Blues
550 Riverside Drive
Macon, GA
Soulman Production
CALL: (478) 501-2106
$5.00 Admission At The Door
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Sat Nov 10, 2007
BIG BILL BACKS UP
THE LITTLE WOMAN
THE LITTLE WOMAN
”Now, as Hillary runs for president and Bill speaks out on her behalf, the Clintons’ zero sum conundrum has returned. His stout defense of his wife saps her credibility and raises doubts about her potential strength as a president. With his every speech and utterance, the question grows: Can she stand up for herself or does she need to hide behind her husband?”
Dick Morris KNOWS the Clintons. And unlike others who worked for the Clinton White House in the ‘90’s such as, say, Carville and Podesta, he set aside his blinders more than a decade ago.
How effective is it to have Big Bill come out in defense of the Little Woman as he did following her poor showing in the last Dem debate? Read what Mr. Morris has to say who can lay claim to the nicety of looking at life from bith sides,……..now.
Read his latest column on the subjact THE CLINTON CONUNDRUM: BILL'S DEFENSE UNDERMINES HILLARY'S CANDIDACY
This piece originally appeared on the FNC website.
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video
US TROOPS TRAINING THE NEW IRAQI ARMY
US TROOPS TRAINING THE NEW IRAQI ARMY
Basic training.
Always the same all over the world.
American DI's instructing the new Iraqi soldiers in the fine art of the jumping jack.
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=155334&ESRC=dod-b.nl
(You can ignore brief commercial message at the end)
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Fri Nov 09, 2007
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
A WHITE VAN
CRIME ALERT
A WHITE VAN
CRIME ALERT
Two roberies with similar MO on opposite sides of the Ocmulgee.
A white, windowless utility style white van pulls into a driveway. Two black guys get out and rob the house in broad daylight....even with an alarm blaring. The crime takes a scant few minutes from start to finish. Both incidents are observed by neighbors. Van and perps long gone by the time our MPD arrives in a timely manner. The first break-in took place Friday at Twin Pines not far from here; the second at Wesleyan Drive early in the week.
Vic Jones sent around an email alert from the Bibb County's Sheriff's department. Some sharp-eyed follks, including Councilman Rick Hutto, recognized the similarity of the two crimes and notified authorities.
That's what a neighborhood watch is all about, folks, we stand together, we exchange information, and we take action.
We are not going to let the bad guys win, not here, not anywhere in our fair city.
Take a minute and read the original Sheriff's alert:
>
> Witnesses saw 2 black males in a white work-type van > with no windows.
>
> Be alert for a similar vehicle and occupant > combination in your area.
>
> *Report suspicious activity immediately to the Bibb > County Sheriff’s
> Office at 746-9441.
>
> To Report a burglary in progress call 911
>
>
> Lt. George Meadows
> Public Information Officer
> Bibb County Sheriff’s Office
>
>
>
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DICK MORRIS ON
SURGING MIKE HUCKABEE
part two
SURGING MIKE HUCKABEE
part two
”But Huckabee has no money. Yet, despite a total absence of advertising, he has risen steadily in Iowa from single digits to double digits to second place. Indeed, his lack of funding may be creating a reverse chic, attracting voters who are turned off by the massive hard sell of the other campaigns”.
This is the second column in about two weeks that Mr. Morris has written about the mini-surge in Mike Huckabee’s campaign. And even he admits that it might be a pie-in-the-sky concept.
But Huckabee is gaining in Iowa….steadily, slowly, and without those big campaign bucks that so many of us distrust. He is waging an old-fashioned, door-to-door, shoe leather effort that seems to be catching on. Huckabee comes across as a populist, man of the people, a singularly honest, open, and receptive candidate that sets him apart from the big buck boys of either party.
If you read the earlier Morris column, this one covers, in part, the same ground. What is significant to me is that the former Clintonista has twice now, in a fortnight, written so positively about this attractive underdog.
Check it out at: A STEADFAST CONSERVATIVE, HUCKABEE CAN WIN IN IOWA The column has appeared in several places. I found this particular version in the TOWN HALL
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Thu Nov 08, 2007
PRAYING FOR RAIN IN GEORGIA
Governor Perdue wants us to start praying for rain here in drought-stricken Georgia.
I suppose there will be howls of anguish from some quarters. My fallow Atheists, for example. Many of these clowns are militant and don't want to hear anything from the religious quadrant.
For my part I don't see a problem with it. If praying for rain (or peace or anything else) makes a fellow feel he is doing something to better the world he lives in, so be it.
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HILLARY
vs
THE IRON LADY
vs
THE IRON LADY
”Mrs. Clinton’s early success and the seeming inevitability of her nomination must have bred an incredible confidence and a dangerous arrogance within team Clinton. It also helped to reveal her true character. This seems to be the only explanation for why a flubbed answer to a simple debate question is generating so much controversy.”
It has become something of a commonplace to compare Hillary Clinton favorably with Britain’s Iron Lady, Maggie Thatcher.
The only thing these gals have in common is that they wear skirts. Well, certainly the former British PM dresses like a woman, Ms. Clinton on the campaign trail seems to prefer the more androgynous pants suits.
I always get a kick when somebody, usually a avowed feminist, compares the two women lumping them together simply on the basis of gender. That’s like comparing and not contrasting Ronald Reagan with Jimmy Carter. Apples and oranges, folks.
Here is an interesting article from this A.M.’s TOWN HALL newsletter by the ubiquitous Ken Blackwell called HILLARY IS NO MAGGIE There is no mistaking here that Ms. Clinton is no Lady Thatcher.
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Wed Nov 07, 2007
VIC JONES
PEACH PUNDIT
JILL CHAMBERS
PEACH PUNDIT
JILL CHAMBERS
Please read the following brief email from Vic Jones. It quotes the Peach Pundit and contains an important link to Jill Chambers website. All this in the interest of open and fair government in Georgia with some real built-in accountability. We cannot afford, whether on the local or state level, any more back room wheeling and dealing when it comes to public finance or public service. The national level? Probably hopeless...so let's start right here in the Peach Steate. where public outcry can make a real difference.
http://jillchambers.org/
11/7/07 JC Quote from Peach Pundit:
The Legislature cannot cut spending until we are allowed to examine the
expenditures of state agencies, authorities, and boards.
Zero based budgeting, full disclosure, along with open meetings and
records
are the only path to true fiscal responsibility.
“The liberties of the people never were, nor ever will be, secure,
when the
transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” - Patrick
Henry
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MIKE ADAMS ON
STATISM
STATISM
”Health Care. This issue really requires no significant elaboration. A Canadian-style health care system in America would obviously grow the government and impede the ability of Americans to make important health care choices. Furthermore, it will impede the ability of Canadians to make important health care choices. Rather than suffer needlessly for months as they await an MRI or an appendectomy, many “choose” to come to the United States for better health care.
If we go the route of Canadian health care, where will countless suffering Canadians go? Mexico?
If you don’t care then you aren’t a liberal. You are a statist.”
New term in the Adams lexicon, ‘Statist’, meaning, roughly, let the government take care of you. The good professor would replace ‘liberal’ with ‘statist’.
Is individuality a dying concept here in the land of the once-free?
You can find Doctor Adams’ column here: ILLIBERAL STATISM
And, of course, it was found on this morning’s edition of TOWN HALL.
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Tue Nov 06, 2007
DICK MORRIS ON
HILLARY'S DOUBLESPEAK
HILLARY'S DOUBLESPEAK
”Health-care reform? Her program of extending insurance to illegal immigrants and others who aren't now insured will trigger a massive increase in the demand for medical services. The result would be a steep price rise that would force rationing of health care, particularly for the elderly. But she mustn't say any of that - so she pretends that her health-care prescription is just a band-aid to cover the nagging little problem of 50 million uninsured and that her solution won't bother anybody else.”
Dick Morris is at it again, doing what he does best……
…..explaining the inner workings of the devious mind of Her Nibs, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
How and why she gets away with saying one thing while meaning another.
Hillary is playing the part of the consummate, practiced politician who will walk into the White House with relatively few of the voters knowning just what she intends to do.
Last week’s debate did allow us a peek inside the temporally fuddled mind of the usually inflapable Iron Lady.
How different is Ms. Clinton from politicians since the time of Pericles?
It is a good, short piece which you can access here:BEHIND HILLARY’S DOUBLETALK
I found it on TOWN HALL this morning and read it while listening to Neal Boortz.
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ELECTION DAY IN THE MIDSTATE
LIQUOR BY THE GLASS
LIQUOR BY THE GLASS
Today is election day in the midstate.
Haven’t commented on contests outside of Macon. Don’t know much about them, frankly. It is difficult enough to stay abreast of Macon/Bibb County politicking to have any time left over for Warner Robins, Centerville, and other points not far away. Things get pretty confusing hereabouts.
Our choice for macon’s mayor is ROBERT REICHERT
For City Council City-Wide we endorse DAVID CORR, write in candidate/.
That our choices were the same as those of the MACON TELEGRAPH is purely coincidental. That paper’s choice of CORR came as a total surprise to everyone including most of its editorial board.
Now there are a couple of locations where Sunday ‘liquor sales by the glass’ are on the ballot. These we support strongly. It is good for the local economy and helps keep area bartenders off welfare and the unemployment line. Besides, what municipality in this day and age wants to be considered so strangled by Bible Belt morality that it won’t let those as wants to have a drink with lunch or dinner when dining out on a pleasant Sunday in the fall.
Even the Baptists I know drink, always in moderation, of course. It’s Baptists I don’t know who get hammered regularly behind drawn shades. Not all of them, but some. I was a bartender for years and could tell tales out of school if I were not bound by the same conventions and law that keep doctors and lawyers from blabbing about a clients’ secrete foibles, sins, and off-shore accounts. Sin is much over-rated, we all have foibles, and I don’t have any personal acquaintance with off-shore accounts.
Many of my customers were Baptist. Some were preachers, even. I know that the doctor-patient privilege does not survive the death of the latter. Wonder if the same thing applies to bartender-customer secrets following the death of the former.
Wonder where I put those tapes.
Please vote today. Or don’t, if you have no good reason to do so.
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Mon Nov 05, 2007
POLICE PRECINCT MEETING
LITTLE JARVIS
LITTLE JARVIS
As was promised a few weeks back I attended a Precinct One District police meeting with Captain Mays. I was so busy listening to all the juicy stuff that I forgot that I had promised to kick some serious MPD butt if criminal activity is going un-reported.
It was an informative session. We sat there listening to war stories from other neighborhoods about drug activity, juvenile delinquency, break-ins, purse snatching, and homeless people taking over vacant residences. Did you know that ‘Little Jarvis’ is fifteen and they won’t have a cell for him until he’s seventeen or has committed at least twenty felonies?
Twenty felonies. The worst thing I have seen one of our local kids do was to break one of my windows. From inside my house, yet. With the slingshot I bought him for Christmas last year. He was punished appropriately* by his father and had to pay to get the single pane fixed. Compare that kid with the one boy crime spree, Little Jarvis, who probably doesn’t have a father and ties his mother up when he goes forth by night to rape and plunder the neighborhood.
Two things we can agree on at these monthly meetings with our precinct Captain: (1) They are invaluable sources of information for the police and for us; (2) a neighborhood watch is one hell of a good way to cut crime on the home front.
If you don’t have a Watch where you live, you might want to start one up. It isn’t too difficult, but it does require the cooperation of neighbors on a level they most likely are not used to.
You probably won’t want to invite ‘Little Jarvis’ to your organizational meeting.
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PROFESSOR MIKE ADAMS
FREE SPEECH HEROES
FREE SPEECH HEROES
Couldn’t let a Monday go by without taking a close look at one of Mike Adams’ columns, a regular feature over at TOWN HALL ,
Today’s opus was written in the swift and stunning victory over a Marxist re-education program taking place at the University of Delaware. Between Mike’s column, a push from Alan Kors, Harvey Silverglate, and Greg Lukianoff of FIRE, and a massive letter writing campaign by many, many interested readers, the University has reversed its position. You may recall I put a copy of the University’s president letter to this b'log as a featured entry entry last week.
So Professor Adams pays tribute to some of the professional folk who have been and still; are standing up for Freedom of Expression in the face of modern political correctness and a nationwide trend to limit it on our college campi.
You can read the piece here: FIRST AMENDMENT HEROES And it is well worth your doing so.
Ciao
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MARK TWAIN
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
and
NIGGER JIM
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
and
NIGGER JIM
While many lessons saturate the book, a primary theme addresses the racial division of America fueled by one incredibly vile word. Nevertheless, Twain scolds the entire human race, not any ethnic race in particular. Today, however, our PC disciples claim to be improving the world through all their multi-cultural psychobabble -- but only when their drivel furthers their agenda of creating victims. Unfortunately, the hypocrisy of their foolish doctrine only inflames greater division among all racial groups, but that fact should not be surprising; it is painfully obvious to anyone with common sense.
Lee Culpepper is a teacher, writer, and ex-United States Marine. He has written here a column that underscores much of what is detestable about modern education, which is all too willing to ban Mark Twain’s HUCKLEBERRY FINN from all secondary education because of the presence of an offending word.
The author, you see, referred to the noble runaway slave as ‘Nigger Jim’ in what might well be the finest novel ever written by an American.
Jim could have been called “N-Word” Jim or ‘Afro-American’ Jim, but the nineteenth century was long before the advent of the plague of political correctness that currently engulfs what was once the Land of the Free.
In calling the man ‘Nigger Jim’ Mark Twain created an ennobled fictional character whose very goodness lifts him head and shoulders above every other flawed persona in the novel’s tapestry. ‘Nigger Jim’ is the first Black man ever given a name of his own in literature which itself was a daring move in the aftermath of the Civil War.
To the ignorant, American unwashed the presence of a single ‘nigger word’ is sufficient to scuttle a work of literature unparalleled in our history.
Modern over-sensitivity, offended by harmless words like ‘niggardly’ simply because they ‘sound a little like’ the offending ‘nigger’ is fast driving quality education of the once sacrosanct Liberal Arts persuasion that was the basis of more than two thousand years of Western Civilization into oblivion, replacing genuine quality with feel good pabulum.
When we Americans dumb down, we like to go all the way.
The Culpepper article is excellent. It is also concise and to the point. This observation from a battle-scared former teacher who fought the good fight as far back as he can remember. See for yourself at HUCKLEBERRY FINN AND “MUSLIM” JIM When you are finished, take a minute to tell Mr. Culpepper what you think of his piece. It gets an A+ from me.
The column was found among several others in today’s TOWN HALL newsletter.
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940 AM LOCAL RADIO
and
US BLOGGERS
and
US BLOGGERS
Co-host on WMAC's morning show Ron Frasier (with an 's') blurted out early this morning, "I am SO sick of 'meet-up', 'blog', and 'going green'. He was venting about specific terms and words he detests, but he might have offended some overly sensitive, anal retentive bloggers here in the Midstate.
'Blog' truly is an ugly word, simply in its sound. In another era a kid might have had his mouth washed out with soap for uttering such an offending syllable. "Blog you, dipstick!!"
I can't speak for 'meet-up' and 'going green',, but like most popular, temporarily au-courant, kitch phrases they serve as a substitute for accurate, thoughtful expression. One of my least favorite phrases much over done by sports casters is 'matchuip'. That one makes me want to hurl.
Some of us, bloggers even, don't appreciate corny, early morning half-witicisms on the part of talk radio co hosts. But we suffer through it waiting for the main course. Come to think of it the very term 'talk radio' is a misnomer. The radio does not 'talk', some moron on one end speaks through the device to idiots salivating on the other.
Ron, you don't know this, but we are near neighbors. Tell you what. In early December consider yourself invited to the next meeting of the LOWER BOULEVARD NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH. I shall get the exact time, date, and place to you privately. It's just around your corner a mile and a jalf away.
You will like this group of serious, civic minded folks. Our meet-up will be held at the house of a terrific couple long since gone green, but only one blogger will be present.
That be I.
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Sun Nov 04, 2007
SOULMAN
NEWTON COLLIER
PRESENTS
NEWTON COLLIER
PRESENTS
From the ridiculous to the sublime in Macon music.
After the disaster of a Macon Music and Heritage Festival, a ray…a very large ray of sunshine lights up the Macon scene.
Soulman Newton Collier, he than whom there is none more knowledgeable about the music business here in the midstate; Soulman Newton Collier who first appeared on the Apollo Stage as a skinny fifteen-year-old; Soulman Newton Collier whose career included gig swith the ORIGINAL Otis Redding Band and fourteen years on the road with SAM and DAVE; Soulman Newton Collier recognized as one of our nation’s HISTORY MAKERS presents:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
9:30 PM
D. J. ROGER RIDDLE
550 Blues
550 Riverside Drive
Macon, GA
Soulman Production
CALL: (478) 501-2106
$5.00 Admission At The Door
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day two of the
MACON MUSIC AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL
DISASTER
MACON MUSIC AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL
DISASTER
Day two was yesterday, Saturday.
When I checked the downtown stage at 4:00 or so, the festivities, slated to begin at 3:00, had not yet started. So my friends and I made ourselves scarc, AWOL from the downtown scene.
Just as well. Once things got underway sometime before 5:00 PM, the event wasn't exactly overwhelmed with crushing hordes of paying customers.
Our contacts count between 250 and 300 on hand all through the event which lasted until 10:30. Pretty pathetic turn out. That's what happens when you forget to do a little carefully-directed promotion. These guys didn't even take advantage of the free PSI's until the last moment.
Don't blame the citizens for this one. It's not a matter of complacent folks too interested in TV feetsball. Nope. This time we blame the organizers, the mayor's hand-picked henchmen, that cadre of clowns which remains convinced, year after year, it can pull a festival out of its anal orifice at the last minute each and every time.
The only bright light I can find in the weekend's un-festivities is a young lady named Valerie who was called in at the last minute and worked herself to the bone just to start giving the Heritage and Music ball rolling.
Music festivals don't happen that way, boys and girls.
Next I will tell you all about the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
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DOUG GILES ATTACKS
VAPID CHRISTIANITY
VAPID CHRISTIANITY
As you can tell political correctness bugs me more than atheism. I appreciate, in all sincerity, the atheist’s attacks. They have served to bolster the church by pushing it back into sound doctrine and practice and away from superficiality and selfishness.
Pluralism and political correctness, on the other hand, continue to weaken the church by removing or vilifying the very hard and exclusive truth claims of Christ that can truly save and change a person and a nation both now and in eternity.
EUREKA!!! “I FOUND IT!!!” (which is what EUREKA means.)
Finally.
Finally found an article, written by a devout Christian which praises us atheists for keeping Christians on their toes, while condemning that pack of feel-good, mega-church, TV and UN-TV preachers who have so watered down the hard work, heaven or hell, ‘biblical truth’, kick ass doctrine that was once the norm in every Christian church in every corner of the land. (Except on Beacon Hill, just possibly.)
Glad to be of service.
The writer is Doug Giles, whose work can often be found in TOWN HALL . Doug is an author of some renown, a talk show host, and columnist. He doesn’t pull punches. This particular piece slams the self-absorbed, improve-your-life-on-earth style that is so large a part of modern Christianity and does it with wit, panache, and not a little holy sarcasm.
As an atheist, this guy is my kind of Christian.
Read it for yourself at PUSILANIMOUS PASTORS ARE WORSE THAN STRIDENT ATHEISTS then go back to your ‘prosperity-way’ preacher this evening and throw rotten eggs at his vestments during his sappy sermon.
Ciao!!
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Sat Nov 03, 2007
ANOTHER MACON MUSIC FESTIVAL DISASTER
I have been following the sad story of the decline and fall of Macon's Music and Heritage festival since the very first one back when neophyte mayor C. Jack Ellis told us that an estimated crowd of 20,000 had come downtown to witness the event. The actual figure was less than a third of that but a well-told fib lives forever.
Last night (Friday) Freddy Cole, a world-class musician, a creative jazz-man known and respected all over the globe, had an open date and came to Macon. He played in the new Ballroom diagonally across from City Hall in the old building that once hosted The Trading Post.
According to a contact who was there, a man whiose credentials are unimpeachable, a grand total of twenty-one (21) folks showed up to be entertained by Mr. Cole. Most of those were comped freebies, employees who were not required to pay the twenty-dollar cover charge.
Twenty-one Maconites showed up to hear Freddy Cole. So sad.
This afternoon I dropped by the outdoor stage on the corner of Third and Cherry to catch a bit of MUSIC AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL DAY TWO. It was about four in the afternoon. The music was supposed to start at 3:00 PM. There didn't seem to be much of anything going on. I split.
Too little, too late. The same old cadre of Ellis hangers-on, who have mis-managed the festival for the last six or so years struck out again.
This city does not seem to be able to pull together a single, adequate three day celebration of its own musical heritage. Savannah, on the other hand, boasts four full-fledged such events each and every year.
We will have more to say about this in a very few days. I do have some positive suggestions but it will take new people to run the thing, people with vision and real clout in the music business.
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DICK MORRIS ON
DERAILING THE CLINTON EXPRESS IN IOWA???
DERAILING THE CLINTON EXPRESS IN IOWA???
Instead, she has come to believe, probably correctly, that if we knew what she really wants to do as president, we would never vote for her. So on Social Security (where she plans to raise taxes), Iran (where she will take military action if need be), Iraq (where she will keep the troops), the Alternative Minimum Tax (which she will only repeal if it can be used to hide massive tax increases) and drivers licenses (which she will give to illegals as soon as she can), Hillary resists telling the truth. And, under the scrutiny of opponents like Edwards and Dodd, and the questioning of Tim Russert, it is becoming obvious even to demented Democrats.
Hillary ‘vulnerable’?
Just maybe, if……..
Or so Dick Morris thinks, if……
Mr. Morris sets up a scenario that could derail the Clinton express in the upcoming Iowa Caucus, but I’m not holding my breath on this one.
It is a great little article that first appeared on FOX NEWS. Morris is very good at strategizing when it comes to Ms. Clinton’s campaign. You can read it for yourself at HILLARY CAN BE STOPPED IN IOWA
"If" is the biggest stumbling block in the English Language.
Good way for conservatives to start their weekend.
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Fri Nov 02, 2007
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, DON?
Where, indeed.
Spent much of the week on a mission. A most serious mission.
Friends (and others) haven’t been able to reach me by phone….my home line doesn’t record messages, I have no cell….and never shall despite what my kids say. Internet, that’s the way when I open the email folder. Don’t always do it. Days at a time often.
And the mission? At the request of friends, who love to witness any personal humiliation on my part, I have entered a bull’s eye pistol shooting contest to take place a little more than a week from now.
Bull’s eye at twenty-five yards. I can hardly see that far. But don’t tell the other competitors. Competitors with high tech scopes and lasers. Me with my thirty plus year old single action revolver with open, iron sights and bullets I made myself three decades back. Technology circa 1873 a banner year for old west six-guns.
Been practicing. Can’t tell how well I’m doing because when I look at a target at the twenty-five yard range it’s pretty much a blur. Practice makes imperfect.
I used to shoot competitively a long ways back. Won a few trophies, even. But now the targets seem smaller and much further away from my eyeballs than they used to.
So that’s where the Old Man has been of late. And yes, the b’log has suffered. But even us senior citizens need a life away from our more geeky avocations. Don’t drink anymore, don’t like to party with a bunch of kids the age of some of my grandchildren. Reading is OK and walking. But sometimes a man has to get out in the open air and pull a trigger.
Paper targets don’t shoot back and they don’t bleed.
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80 GANGS RIGHT HERE IN MACON
”Meanwhile, Macon police are tracking 80 neighborhood gangs, said Macon police Lt. Carl Fletcher, who works in the department's homicide and special violent crime division.
Many of the Macon gang members are being traced to crimes in other areas, including Houston County and Milledgeville, he said.
‘Our boys are getting around,’ Fletcher said.
80 gangs???????
80 &^*^&%$# Gangs!!!!!!!
And they are ‘getting around’!!!!!!
The quote is taken from today’s MACON TELEGRAPH in an article about law enforcement officers discussing gangs and gang activities in the Midstate.
Mr. Fletcher….is there a note of pride in your voice when you say, ‘getting around’. Sure hope not.
But, according to Mayor C. Jack Ellis in a news conference not quite two and one half years ago, “We don’t have gangs, we only have ‘wannabes’” Those ‘wannabes’ are killing each other in record numbers. And there are eighty gaggles of wannabes right here in Macon city.
If it looks like a gang, smells like a gang, and walks like a gang, it’s a good thing we didn’t step in it.
With eighty or so gangs operating in Macon whose membership is overwhelmingly made up of Black youth, it is imperative that we as a community recognize that our ‘business as usual’ approach to youngsters isn’t working.
It won’t work until we start seeing a return of the strong, two parent African American families.
80 gangs.
Jesus Mary and Joseph.
No, there is no biblical evidence that the boy Jesus was ever in a gang. Of course, later on, he became the leader of a small unit of a dozen dudes one of whom hung himself.
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ROBERT REICHERT
and
FOREST HILL
and
FOREST HILL
In the aftermath of what appears the total collapse of Commish Charlie Bishop and his position re: thge Forest Hill road project, there has been some question about what what thinks mayor presumptive Robert Reichert.
Fear not. For behold Vic Jones brings us tidings of great joy in an email aimed at politicians and media which is reproduced below. Vic has mores CC's and BCC's than anybody I correspond with.
Well done, my friend. Read on:
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/MayoralComments20070712.htm
There was some confusion in the short wording of Mr Reichert's response
(above) at last Thursday's Mayoral Forum at the Grand Opera House.
Several of us committed to preserving the Forest Hill Rd. neighborhood met
with him on Sunday, July 15th to clarify his position.
Conclusion:
Mr. Reichert has made a firm commitment to us to require application of
modern urban transportation planning techniques which protect the integrity
of our neighborhoods and the quality of life in our community to all road
projects in the city, including Forest Hill Road. When reviewing these
propositions, he observed: “Isn't that just common sense?”
We are satisfied that Robert Reichert will help the neighborhood find a
better solution than the current Ga DOT road expansion plans for Forest Hill
Road.
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www.macon-bibb.com/FHR
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Thu Nov 01, 2007
HUMOR FROM NEAL BOORTZ
FINALLY, SOMEONE HAS CLEARED THIS UP FOR ME....
For centuries, Hindu women have worn a dot on their foreheads. Most of us have naively thought this was connected with marriage or religion, but the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C. has recently revealed the true story.
When a Hindu woman gets married, she brings a dowry into the union. On her wedding night, the husband scratches off the dot to see whether he has won a convenience store, a gas station, a donut shop or a motel in the United States.
If nothing is there, he must take a job in India answering telephones giving technical advice.
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DICK MORRIS ON
THE HUCKABEE 'SURGE'
THE HUCKABEE 'SURGE'
Huckabee, who has risen rapidly without either money or organization, is the most interesting phenomenon in either party's race (and the only surprise). He finished second to Romney in the Ames, Iowa straw poll with 18 percent. That's significant because you had to pay $35 to vote. Romney wrote out checks for anyone and everyone, but Huckabee said, "I can't afford to buy you. I can't even afford to rent you" - and came in strong anyway.
Dick Morris on Mike Huckabee.
I wish the article were longer. Huckabee is slowly becoming the most interesting candidate on either side of the political divide.
Morris knows Huckabee well…not as well as he knows her nibs, the presumptive candidate of the Party of the Mythic Jackass, but well enough to recognize the man’s great strengths, inner convictions, and uniquely practical bent.
Read it for yourself: THE HUCKABEE BOOMLET
The article appeared originally in THE NEW YORK POST. It has cropped up in numerous spots including TOWN HALL.
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