WIKI LEAKS
Fred Reed’s View

”The other view, held usually by people who have some experience of Washington, is that the Pentagon is worried not about the divulging of tactical secrets, but about public relations. WikiLeaks doesn’t endanger soldiers, insists this way of looking at things, but the war itself, and all the juiceful contracts and promotions and so on entailed by wars.”


Fred Reed is an irascible old fart, not unlike myself, who writes on many diverse subjects.

In a column found this morning on LEW ROCKWELL.COM, Fred gives us an insightful look into the reasons official Washington is so upset about the thousands of semi-classified documents that came up this week on the ‘Net via an organization called ‘Wikileaks’.

It is a great little piece and I don’t want to give too much of it away, but think of three little letters “C”, “Y”, and “A”. You get the general idea.

Me? I will have much more to say on the subject once I get my other obligations in order, but for now let it be said that the Wiki Leaks disclosures seem to be along the same line as Daniel Ellsberg’s PENTAGON PAPERS decades ago. The lesson learned, it would seem, is that even in a self-proclaimed ‘transparent’ administration, our government does not like its citizens shining any light into its underhanded inner workings, especially when there is money a plenty to be made.

Much more, later.

PS....FORGOT THE DIRECT LINK: http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed183.html

I Don’t Have Time To Comment
BUT
READ
THIS
COLUMN

It’s called “WILL WASHINGTON’S FAILURES LEAD TO A SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION? And you can access it directly at: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/542171/201007301830/Will-Washingtons-Failures-Lead-To-Second-American-Revolution-.aspx

Found it on DRUDGE this evening.

Be careful. Big Brother may be looking over your shoulder as you scan what some might consider ‘subversive’ material.

THE PASSING OF A MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER

”Some men are tested by one single, exhilarating day lived at high pitch, others over the course of a lifetime of day-in, day-out service to others. Nick Bacon passed both tests, excelled at them, yet somehow remained just Nick Bacon, whom everyone loved.”

I don’t want to add anything to this column, a moving tribute to a humble man who earned our nation’s highest military honor for service above and beyond during the Vietnam Conflict.

It appeared in this mornings TOWNHALL dot COM newsletter, was movingly penned by Paul Greenberg, and can be viewed directly here: http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2010/07/29/of_arms_and_the_man

Before going any further in your day’s routine, please read this beautiful piece.

i don't know whether to call this
"KIDS DO THE DARNDEST THINGS"
or
"BOYS WILL BE BOYS"

Brief story from the local Daily Blatt and Bugle:

http://www.macon.com/2010/07/29/1211094/men-wanted-in-two-macon-homicides.html

Enough to make one sick, or at least cry.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
07/29/2010

Found in the GEORGIA CARRY dot ORG UPDATE this morning

"Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via word or argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force."

-- Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret) from his article "The Gun is Civilization".

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE MONTH

Yep....time I get my gluteus maximus in gear and began putting together the next edition of our gun club newsletter.

The job seems to get a bit bigger every month. but the boys seem to want a first class publication. Inching our way up in that regard.

I won't be spending much b'log time until about Tuesday next. Monday if things go more smoothly than anticipated.

Don't forget MATT EASTMAN'S GUN AND KNIFE SHOW at the Macon Centreplex this weekend.

WALTER WILLIAMS SPEAKS THE TRUTH ABOUT MANY BLACK AMERICANS
Take Heed, Racist Politicians

”The pathology seen among a large segment of the black population is not likely to change because it's not seen for what it is. It has little to do with slavery, poverty and racial discrimination. Let's look at it. Today's black illegitimacy rate is about 70 percent…….Today, only 35 percent of black children are raised in two-parent households. The importance of these and other statistics showing greater stability and less pathology among blacks in earlier periods is that they put a lie to today's excuses. Namely, at a time when blacks were closer to slavery, faced far more discrimination, more poverty and had fewer opportunities, there was not the kind of chaos, violence, family breakdown and black racism that we see today.”

Columnist Walter Williams hits a painful nail on the head in a discussion of the major problem inside Black America: BREAKDOWN OF THE BLACK NUCLEAR FAMILY, which brings on the multiple results which are turning Black America against the rest of us. Gangsta thugism, discrimination, violence, anti-intellectualism, and a host of other social ills that befoul modern America AND tend to keep too many Black citizens in endless, generational poverty.

Wonderful little piece, this. He calls it:”RACISM or STUPIDITY”. It can be read here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams44.html I found it while reading through Lew Rockwell’s newsletter in the early hours of this morning.

Before signing off, it should be noted that there is a real lesson for racist politicians in this column….even right here in little old river city.

MACON JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
D.A.’s RACE OFF AND RUNNING

A piece in today’s MACON T’GRAPH notes:

”Circuit prosecutors Sharell Lewis and Greg Winters, Houston County prosecutor David Cooke and Jones County prosecutor Gregory Bushway are vying to fill the vacancy created when former District Attorney Howard Simms stepped down June 29 to run for a judgeship.” ( http://www.macon.com/2010/07/27/1208095/four-qualify-to-run-for-macon.html )

Four newbie lambs for the political slaughter? I don’t think so, not after listening to Kenny B and Charles E on WMAC radio this morning.

One of the candidates, Gregory Bushway, was interviewed by that dynamic duo and came across as a very viable candidate with innovative ideas. He appears to be experienced, certainly well-spoken and intelligent. What caught my attention particularly was his notion that the area’s churches must be brought in to work actively with our at-risk kids heading down the primrose path to full-blown criminality.

That, my friends, is not pie-in-the-sky political rhetoric. Macon has more churches per capita than any city in the nation, it is alleged. It’s high time some of them, in the Black Precincts most particularly, be pressed into service to help us deal with crime problems that so often seem insurmountable.

Mr Gregory Bushway is off to a fine start.

TICKET AGENT WOES

This was sent in by a dear friend. It may be a hoax, but it is so delicious, that I cannot resist putting it on this morning’s menu.

These are reported to be the words of an airline ticket agent. This guy names names of our elected officials who should know better:

“A DC 'airport ticket agent' offers some examples of 'WHY' our country is in trouble!

1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman (Carol Shea-Porter) ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!)

2. I got a call from a Kansas Congressman's (Moore) staffer (Howard Bauleke), who wanted to go to Cape Town. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information, and then he interrupted me with, ''I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Cape Town is in Massachusetts ..''

Without trying to make him look stupid, I calmly explained, ''Cape Cod is in Massachusetts, Cape Town is in South Africa.''
His response -- click..

3. A senior Vermont Congressman (Bernie Sanders) called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that's not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state.

He replied, 'Don't lie to me!, I looked on the map, and Florida is a very THIN state!!'' (OMG)

4. I got a call from a lawmaker's wife (Landra Reid) who asked, ''Is it possible to see England from Canada ?''

I said, ''No.''

She said, ''But they look so close on the map'' (OMG, again!)

5. An aide for a cabinet member (Janet Napolitano) once called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas .. I pulled up the reservation and noticed he had only a 1-hour layover in Dallas ... When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said, ''I heard Dallas was a big airport, and we will need a car to drive between gates to save time.'' (Aghhhh)

6. An Illinois Congresswoman (Jan Schakowsky) called last week. She needed to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at 8:30 a.m., and got to Chicago at 8:33 a.m.

I explained that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois, but she couldn't understand the concept of time zones. Finally, I told her the plane went fast, and she bought that.

7. A New York lawmaker, (Jerrold Nadler) called and asked, ''Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose luggage belongs to whom?'' I said, 'No, why do you ask?'

He replied, ''Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said (FAT), and I'm overweight. I think that's very rude!''

After putting him on hold for a minute, while I looked into it. (I was dying laughing). I came back and explained the city code for Fresno, Ca. is (FAT - Fresno Air Terminal), and the airline was just putting a destination tag on his luggage..

8. A Senator John Kerry aide (Lindsay Ross) called to inquire about a trip package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked, ''Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?''

9. I just got off the phone with a freshman Congressman, Bobby Bright from Ala who asked, ''How do I know which plane to get on?''

I asked him what exactly he meant, to which he replied, ''I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these planes have numbers on them.''

10 Senator Dianne Feinstein called and said, ''I need to fly to Pepsi-Cola, Florida. Do I have to get on one of those little computer planes?''

I asked if she meant fly to Pensacola, FL on a commuter plane.

She said, ''Yeah, whatever, smarty!''

11 Mary Landrieu, La. Senator, called and had a question about the documents she needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy discussion about passports, I reminded her that she needed a visa. "Oh, no I don't. I've been to China many times and never had to have one of those.''

I double checked and sure enough, her stay required a visa. When I told her this she said, ''Look, I've been to China four times and every time they have accepted my American Express!''

12 A New Jersey Congressman (John Adler) called to make reservations, ''I want to go from Chicago to Rhino, New York.''

I was at a loss for words. Finally, I said, ''Are you sure that's the name of the town?''

'Yes, what flights do you have?'' replied the man.

After some searching, I came back with, ''I'm sorry, sir, I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a rhino anywhere."

''The man retorted, ''Oh, don't be silly! Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!''

So I scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, ''You don't mean Buffalo, do you?''

The reply? ''Whatever! I knew it was a big animal.''

Now you know why the Government is in the shape it's in!

Could ANYONE be this DUMB?

YES, THEY WALK AMONG US, ARE IN POLITICS, AND THEY CONTINUE TO BREED.

I don't write it, I just offer it for your consideration. Like manure, you just gotta spread it around.

GEORGIA OUTDOOR NEWS
The Macon Blast

The GEORGIA OUTDOOR NEWS bash AKA THE MACON BLAST held this past weekend at the Centreplex was a first-rate affair.

I spent all day Sunday working a table on behalf of GEORGIA CARRY dot ORG and had plenty of time to observe the fine, family friendly atmosphere of the GON affair.

There is always much to see and much to do for anyone with the slightest interest in outdoor sports. If your kid is a game playing, overweight, couch potato, he or she probably wouldn’t appreciate the emphasis on a healthier lifestyle. But, hey, Mom and Dad, you are the parents, the bosses of that kid and need to get him up and moving no matter how much he objects.

Most of the families I talked to were very much outdoor oriented. It is such a pleasure to meet folks, kids especially, who are enthusiastic about activities like shooting, hunting, fishing, and hiking. These are what I call ‘salt of the earth types’, good people with a strong sense of right and wrong, people imbued with genuine family values, not the values bragged about by cynical, aspiring politicians of all party stripes.

It was a great show and a great day for a Senior Citizen always looking for the real America, the America that lies beneath the myth and the hype and the propaganda.

The America he grew up in is not entirely dead. Not yet, anyway.

AN ENCOUNTER IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH GEORGIA
warning
POLITICAL OVERTONES

A Georgia livestock farmer named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in the North Georgia mountains when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked Bud, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?"

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing animals and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to Bud and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the chap, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The fellow thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a United States Senator, and since you ain’t Saxby Chambliss, then you must be Isakson,", says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the rustic. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep...

Now give me back my damned dog.

EASTMAN GUN and KNIFE SHOW
JULY 31-August 1st

In one week Matt Eastman is bringing his mammoth Gun and Knife show to the Macon Centreplex.

These extravaganzas are the biggest things of their kind ever to hit our area.

Walk in to the cavernous lower real of the complex and you will come face to face with hundreds of tables filled with firearms, hunting equipment, self defense paraphernalia, clothing, knives, and collectibles of all kinds.

These shows are truly family affairs, so bring the rugrats and your ‘significant other’. Kids under twelve get in free, the rest of us pay but eight bucks…eight bucks for a full day’s entertainment. Fun and a world of wonder for the whole family: be a hero and answer all the questions your kids can come up with.

If dove season is just around the corner, can deer season be far behind? Eastman’s Gun and Knife Shows are your perfect opportunity to be ready to go on opening day.

WHY I AM DEPRESSED

No, not me….I’m not depressed. The guy who wrote the following letter. He’s depressed, I never seem to get depressed. Life is going pretty well and there isn’t a hell of a lot to complain about except the government….federal, state, and local…..and toss in the &^*%^%$#% United Nations. And the schools. But they are part of the government now anyway. We would be elated if these institutions of little learning would at least bring the kiddies up to the level of base mediocrity.

Anyway….letter writ by somebody and sent in by a dear friend.


Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel , "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land."

Nearly 75 years ago (when Welfare was introduced) Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a Camel, this is the Promised Land."

Now Congress has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels, and mortgaged the Promised Land! I was so depressed last night thinking about Health Care Plans, the economy, the wars, lost jobs, savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc. . . I called Lifeline. Got a freakin' call center in Pakistan . I told them I was suicidal.

They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.

SPAM,
SPAM,
AND EVER MORE SPAM

The stuff costs $2.19 per can or so when last I checked its price on the Kroger Supermarket shelves.

But this is not the tinned meat that fed our boys in two theatres of war back in the early forties in reference here.

It’s the damned fools who sign onto this b’log as participants then try to sell viagra, porn pix, dating services, weight loss, and kitchen paraphernalia to our unsuspecting readers.

Out with the pack of them. Over the past few days several hundred potential spammers have been deleted. I accept about ten per cent of the new signees in any week’s period.

And still they come. Once spammed, they are banned forever, except when they sneak back in under another name. Getting better at intercepting those bastards as well before they can do any damage…usually.

One snuck in last night. He had botr cialis and viagra for sale, so he said. Trouble is if you click on one of those links you could end up in a whole pig sty of virus, spy-ware, and mal-ware, to say nothing of somebody’s being able to track your every move online.

Just like the federal government!

When we make the transition to the new format, think I will eliminate every single individual and start over. Sounds like an idea. START OVER.

In the meantime, I can keep defending the frontiers of this domain better than the feds are doing down Mexico way.

DRONES OVER AMERICA
To Spy, To Protect, To To Control, or To Kill???

Constitutionalist John Whitehead – who is also a careful master researcher – points out ("Drones Over America: Tyranny at Home," Rutherford.org, June 28), that "unbeknownst to most Americans, remote-controlled pilotless aircraft have been employed domestically for years now. They were first used as a national security tool for patrolling America's borders, and then as a means of monitoring citizens."

One of my favorite authors over a period of more than forty decades is a rabble rouser named Nat Hentoff. One of my least favorite online publications is a rag called WORLD NET DAILY. We have here an article by Hentoff in WND.

But it is well worth reading. Citing several sources and using some simple logic, Mr. Hentoff details the current and potential use of drone airplanes (and other, smaller robotic devices) to keep an eye on the American People, ferreting out evil and punishing anybody who might commit crimes against the state, or, I suppose, offend their fellows by bathing but infrequently.

The idea is not new, of course, our government (and every other government) has always spied on its citizens. The difference betwixt then and now is the little matter of 9/11 and the enormous growth of surveillance activity as the feds become ever more paranoid about those who would kill us from without, or vote us out from within.

Liberties we thought guaranteed us in the Bill of Rights are ebbing away, their passing barely noticed.

It is not far into the realm of imagination that the very devices found so useful in killing our turbaned enemies abroad could be used against enemies, real or imagined, here at home.

A simple camera designed to catch drivers who don’t come to a full stop at an intersection morphs into an instrument of intelligence on national proportions. Fail to stop and end up on some secret government list.

The same predator drone which so innocently keeps a benign eye on a hundred thousand football fans in a stadium, becomes an instrument of guided missile destruction when those same fans become a mob demanding, perhaps, more jobs or a bigger say in the imperial government.

You can read the piece here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=181749 It’s called “DRONES IN THE U.S. SKY---TO KEEP AN EYE ON US”.

It might get you thinking here barely a day following the Georgia primary elections.

A MACON URBAN LEGEND

Here's a local urban legend....the story of a newly departed cow. It happened right here.

Don't confuse this piece as an example of raw fiction. There is nothing raw about it.

We ran this piece previously, twice.....but in light of the election before us, it seems like a good idea to revisit municipal bureaucracy once again.

Tuesday's Georgia Primary
NRA ENDORSES THREE

Received the following email from The National Rifle Association this morning. It lists three candidates that organization is endorsing for state wide office. They are opffered here without comment pro or con:

It’s Your Freedom -- It's Your Vote!
Vote Freedom First on Tuesday, July 20!

Tuesday, July 20 is Primary Election Day in Georgia . Your National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (www.NRAPVF.org) has endorsed Rob Teilhet for Attorney General in the Democrat Primary, Preston Smith for Attorney General in the Republican Primary, and Secretary of State Brian Kemp for re-election in the Republican Primary.

DEMOCRAT PRIMARY FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL:

Rob Teilhet

“A” Rated and NRA-PVF Endorsed

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL:

Preston Smith

“A” Rated and NRA-PVF Endorsed

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR SECRETARY OF STATE:

Brian Kemp

“A+” Rated and NRA-PVF Endorsed

Rob Teilhet, Preston Smith, and Brian Kemp are strong supporters of our Second Amendment rights and they need your vote to win.

If you are a registered voter, you are eligible to participate in this election! Please be sure to spread the word to your family, friends and fellow gun owners to vote for Rob Teilhet, Preston Smith, and Brian Kemp on Tuesday, July 20!

FROM THE BOORTZ BLAST

I usually include a joke or two from a newsletter called THE BOORTZ BLAST which comes out roughly every two weeks.

Most of the jokes in this edition were stale. The best bit of humor in the lot was:

ERICK ERICKSON NAILS THE SPLOST TO THE WALL

”The SPLOST is merely the latest example of unyielding dysfunction in Bibb County. Investing in the growth of government has not nearly the economic impact as investing in the private sector, but that’s what Bibb County leaders do. They expand the public sector without thought toward expanding the private sector, except for tourists. They like those.”

NewTown Macon, The Bibb County Commissioners, the political twin damp fire starters of Lucas and Lucas, and anybody else pushing the Bibb County SPLOST in Tuesday’s election are running scared. ‘terrified’ would be a better choice of words. The vote is very much in question, due primarily to poor planning on the part of the politicians, and series of calculated errors on the part of major supporters and donors.

The people are tired of taxes and always more taxes.

The people are tired of being led around by the nose by those who think they know what is good for them.

The people are tired of duplicity, chicanery, and plain old fraud on the part of our elected leaders.

Throw the bums out, but defeat the SPLOST first.

Some of you will remember that I supported Charlie Bishop for re-election to the County Chairmanship. Don’t more of you wish you had listened to me then? Sam Hart is little more than a honey tongued, avuncular snake oil salesman.

In an Op-Ed piece appearing today in THE MACON T’GRAPH, Councilman and political pundit Erickson lays out the case for voting against the Special Option Sales Tax. While it will create jobs to be sure, those jobs will not go to local residents. That was proven when we built the new hotel on the wrong side of the street last winter.

Erickson’s piece is titled “ERICKSON: A Matter Of Splost And Community” and can be accessed directly at: http://www.macon.com/2010/07/16/1197113/a-matter-of-splost-and-comm.html?pageNum=2&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container#ixzz0typtiGRF

If you live and vote in Bibb County this should be required reading.

LET’S TALK ABOUT
NULLIFICATION

If I am not there already, this column will begin the process of adding my name to the Federal Government’s “Enemies List”.

That sounds a little like McCarthyism, update that to 2010 and call it “Terrorist List”. That’s because I stand four-square against the burgeoning powers assumed by the Federal Government in Washington, D.C. A city out of touch with the majority of the citizenry.

I get confused sometimes but over the past few years this old bastard has seen such a growth in the power of the federal government that our Constitution, and the rights belonging to both the fifty states and the individual homo sap have become swalloed up in the largest power grab in human history…well, at least since the founding of the Roman Empire.

It takes time and effort, but the states can ‘nullify’ actions of the federal government if they violate the constitution or are not enumerated as powers surrendered by the states to the central authority in that constitution.

This subject will take some time…might even be ongoing over several months. But for now let’s start off with two You Tube videos. The first is a segment from INTERVIEW WITH A ZOMBIE featuring the well-known author Dr. Thomas Woods, an expert on the Constitution and Nulification. The other is a segment from FOX by my favorite jurist, Judge Andrew Nepolitano.

Who is the Zombie? He’s a kind of everypol, a politician wrapped up in the rampant stupidity that marks the American population 0f the twenty-first century.

Click on and enjoy (or not….that’s up to you):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrcM5exDxcc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwb2Q2tNFj4&feature=related

More, later!!!

THE N.A.A.C.P.,
America’s Political Dinosaur
ATTACKS THE TEA PART MOVEMENT

”Of course, desperate times call for desperate measures, and the NAACP is going back to an old playbook. The NAACP is resorting to the Jacksonian (Jesse, not Andrew) ploy to use the race card (a) to rally blacks to the mid-terms; and (b) to intimidate the mainstream media, so that it doesn’t report critically on a liberal administration, urging it instead to focus on the perceived sins of the Tea Party movement.”

Desperate? Absolutely!! The times we live in a desperate; divisive politics, whether socio-economic or racial, only make it more so.

I spent an informative hour with the Lew Rockwell dot COM newsletter this morning. One piece in particular caught my attention. It’s called “THE TEA PARTY ISN’T RACIST” by the respected scholar, Tunku Varadarajan, and can be read right here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/tea-party-isnt-racist.html

The thesis is simple. The NAACP, as well as the likes of Jesse Jackson, can no longer blame ‘the man’ in the Oval Office for the ills that plague this nation. ‘The man’, of course, is one of them and must never be discredited.

But a scapegoat must be found. The obvious one is that amorphous gaggle of the disenchanted known popularly as THE TEA PARTY.

So, taking its cue from the President himself, his wife had addressed the convention the day before the vote, the organization zeroed in on the Tea Party Movement, condemning racial elements therein.

Of course there is blatant racism among some members of the T.P.M, but there are blatant racists in the N.A.A.C.P. also. The point is well taken that there are more Blacks among the former than Whites within the ranks of the latter.

The president is in trouble politically, that’s a given. The Democrats, true to form, are (and will) pull ye olde race card every chance they can. It’s a tried and true formula: unites minorities behind the party, and makes most liberal whites feel the stirrings of racial guilt pangs.

Somehow I think the tactic won’t work as well as it has in the past. There doesn’t seem to be a hell of a lot of racial guilt among the grassroots movement that is the Tea Party.

AND WHO FOR GOVERNOR?

Our political system in Georgia has some flaws, but when it comes to registering to vote we beat the other states hands down.

We don’t register by party. That means when we walk into a polling place during a primary election, we can declare that we want to vote REPUBLICAN or DEMOCRAT and then get to vote for that party. I have voted both as a Democrat and as a member of the GOP in primaries, changing from year to year. Why? Because I can support candidates I deem worthy of my vote, or use that ballot to help nail down the coffin of some slimeball pol who has earned my ire.

Great!!! Next Tuesday I will walk in to the local high school and ask for a REPUBLICAN ballot so that I can vote for (drum roll, please) KAREN HANDEL for governor.

The leader of the pack is our insurance commish, a career clod named John Oxendine. I have met this character twice now, once at a gun show. He is running as the ultimate conservative, but, and this is a mighty big but, the man does not look you in the eye when he talks. Can’t stand that…it is a sign of weakness, sneakiness, cowardice, and just plain guilt over something dishonest in his immediate past. What is the source of that guilt? Damned if I know, but a man’s posture and countenance do not lie even when he does.

Sorry, John, but my vote goes to MS. KAREN HANDEL Good luck, good lady.

If I were voting Democrat I would vote for General Poythress who does not stand a snowball’s chance in hell in the face of the Barnes’ steamroller. Who wants that once disgraced ex-governor back in office?

It would be a little like returning C. Hakim Jack Mansour Ellis to the Macon mayorship.

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Less than a block from here, somewhere along Nottingham, an incident took place yesterday afternoon that showed (1) how an armed citizen, a thinking armed citizen, can help prevent crime and (2) just how quick the response time is for the men and women of Precinct One, part of Macon’s Police Department.

The few facts are simple: One neighbor (‘Tom’) ran two doors to ‘Mike’s’ house just as the latter was returning home. Breathless, Tom told Mike that a white male was at that very moment attempting to break into the house that lies between their two. The perp was attempting to pry open the back door.

Mike, who carries a valid and up-to-date weapons permit, rushed next door. Tom hightailed it across the Kroger parking lot to summon the sheriff’s deputy working security there.

Mike sized up the situation perfectly. Once he spotted the would-be burglar, he uncovered his powerful hand gun, put his hand upon its butt, but did not draw the weapon. The thief saw him, saw the gun, and jumped into the back seat of a vehicle sitting in the driveway. In a stern voice, his hand still on the butt of his firearm, Mike ordered the guy out of the car, onto the ground, telling him that the police had been summoned.

The hapless perpetrator did exactly as bidden. Within a few seconds the sheriff’s deputy arrived and took charge of the situation. A minute or less later, four squad cars from MPD’s Precinct One were on the scene.

In no time at all the thief, caught red-handed breaking in, and in possession of some other recently purloined goods, was hauled off to the LEC. There he remains. Mike told me today that he has seen this character in the neighborhood before.

This situation was exceptionally well-handled by everybody involved, both the civilians and the law enforcement personnel. This is how it ought to work.

There is a war going on between the good guys and the bad guys in this city. One can never know when he will find himself on the front line.

(Actual names and addresses are not given out of respect for the privacy of the principals.)

TEN COMMANDMENTS
and the
COURTHOUSE

THIS JUST IN FROM AN OLD AND DEAR FRIEND:

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a
courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not
Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers,
judges and politicians ... it creates a hostile work environment.

COFFEE SPILL IN BP HEADQUARTERS

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That's All, Folks