An acquaintance from Singapore asked me a few questions trying to understand the so-called "American mentality."

His questions:

1) Why would neighbors have so much to say about the new house getting built? They can literally stop a project just because they don't like it aesthetically.

2) Why are there so many Judge Mathis/Greg type of shows. "What not to wear", "10 years younger."

3) How come the TV can go on on on on on on on for days about Lindsay Lohan getting arrested, Anna Nicole Smith, (Princess Diana, now??) etc.

4) How come they can have so many engraved nominations of liberty and democracy when prejudice and restrictions are everywhere

5) WHy do americans talk so much? I was at a social function and was amazed how can they talk among themselves and not yawn?

6) They seem to constantly search for trivia knowledge to share. This trend is VERY American.


My observations/answers:

1. Americans like order...and I do kind of agree with that philosophy.

2. Because the American people love to convince themselves they have "justice for all" -- yet justice is only for the rich/privileged.

3. They are ASSUMING that the American public is interested in the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. It also is a distraction from dealing with what really ails American society.

4. Because they are hypocrites.

5. They get nervous when there is quiet...like they have to fill air. The average American has no use for quiet, solitude.

6. It is pseudo-intellectualism on their part. By spouting of this type of info they self gratify themselves into think that they are educated.

While channel surfing I caught former Vice President Al (B)ore on Oprah winfrey where he was touting "Five ways to fight global warming."

The suggestions:

1) Use fluorescent bulbs
2) Use solar-energized outdoor lighting
3) Use computer-activated "smart" heating/cooling thermostats
4) Use a blanket on your water heater
5) Regularly change out the filter on your heating/cooling system.

While three of the suggestions are valid, AlGore hasn't thought about the unintended consequences of the first two suggestions.

Fluorescent bulbs and the solar-energized outdoor LED lighting contain dangerous levels of mercury. When disposed of incorrectly pose a threat to human beings and muck up landfills with these trace elements. Not only that, like tube-based fluorescent lights, the bulbs emit radio frequency which interfere with hearing aids. This goes to prove that there is no "free lunch," and that this really poses another good argument that we as human beings should stop using fossil-based energy resources in our daily lives, and that we should resort to returning to caves and mudhuts and campfires.... But don't campfires emit smoke which goes up into the atmosphere causing more pollution?

Which leads me to suggest the only way out of this whole cunundrum: we need to regress to pre-fire discovering cavemen living, and regress back to the evolution of humans so that we are carbon-emitting negative specie.

Sounds logical to me..... (Tongue firmly in cheek)

and the story behind this video which has now gotten nearly three million posts...

My Christian neighbor really made me laugh today when i needed it the most. I was complaining how so many Christians go around being the ultimate hypocrites on one hand shoving a Bible in your chest while they stab you in the back or lie, cheat, or steal. On one hand they impose a very legalistic view on how you should live while they literally get away with murder, but use the excuse and justification that because they are "born again" they will be forgiven for whatever transgression they commit.

Out of the blue he said to me, "Going to McDonald's doesn't make you any more a hamburger than going to Church makes you a Christian."

Hallelujah!

Praise The Lord!

From Crackle: FISSION

If the Democratic party could have a few more Senators like Joe Lieberman...

Lieberman escalates attack on Iraq critics

By Manu Raju
The Hill
July 31, 2007

Ever since Connecticut Democrats refused to back him for a fourth term in Congress, Joe Lieberman has been burnishing his independent credentials in the narrowly divided Senate while becoming increasingly critical of the Democratic Party on the war in Iraq.

Lieberman, the Democrats’ 2000 vice presidential nominee, insists he is not actively considering joining the Republican Party. But he is keeping that possibility wide open as his disenchantment grows with Democratic leaders. The main sticking points are their attempts to end the war in Iraq and their hesitation to take a harder line against Iran.

“I think either [Democrats] are, in my opinion, respectfully, naïve in thinking we can somehow defeat this enemy with talk, or they’re simply hesitant to use American power, including military power,” Lieberman said in a wide-ranging interview with The Hill.

“There is a very strong group within the party that I think doesn’t take the threat of Islamist terrorism seriously enough.”

Lieberman says he is annoyed by the mudslinging on Capitol Hill and Democrats’ unwillingness to work with President Bush. But his critics say he has contributed to that polarization by his rhetoric and refusal to compel Bush to find a new way forward in Iraq.

As Lieberman sees it, however, the Democratic Party has slipped away from its “most important and successful times” of the middle of last century, where it was tough on Communism and progressive on domestic policy.

“I fear that some people take this position also because anything President Bush is for, they’ll be against, and that’s wrong,” said Lieberman, a staunch advocate of the war. “There’s a great tradition in our history of partisanship generally receding when it comes to foreign policy. But for the moment we’ve lost that.”

Even though he did not reclaim his Senate seat as a Democrat, Lieberman has been instrumental in two bills this Congress central to the 2006 Democratic campaign platform: an ethics and lobbying overhaul bill and a measure to implement recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. The 9/11 bill cleared Congress last week, and the ethics bill could win final approval this week before lawmakers adjourn for August recess.

But if Lieberman seems blunt about the direction of the Democratic Party, it may stem from his loss last August in the primaries to businessman Ned Lamont, who wooed Democratic voters with his anti-war platform. Lieberman calls his ensuing victory in the general election as an independent “inspiring.” And remaining an independent has freed him to repeatedly buck the Democratic leadership on foreign policy and other legislative issues.

“Now that he knows he can win as an independent, he doesn’t need the Democrats at all,” said Kenneth Dautrich, a professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut. “I think it’s absolutely emboldened him.”

Lieberman was the only non-Republican in June to vote against Democratic efforts to pass a resolution expressing no confidence on embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He has no plans to endorse a Democrat for president, including the senior senator from his home state, Christopher Dodd, and is open to backing a Republican candidate for president. Lieberman also startled Democrats when he lent his support to the re-election bid of Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a top target of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

During this month’s Iraq debate, Lieberman was working behind the scenes strategizing with Republicans and was front-and-center in several GOP press conferences denouncing Democratic tactics to push for an end to the war.

Lieberman was the lone non-Republican to vote against Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) efforts to shut down debate on an amendment to bring troops home by next April. (Reid voted against the cloture motion to file a similar motion at a later time.) Lieberman was also alone when he joined 40 Republicans in voting to kill an amendment by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) to extend the time between troop deployments in Iraq.

“I’m disappointed that I am in so small a minority among Senate Democrats in taking the position that I have,” Lieberman said.

But even as he has played a key role on some of their top domestic initiatives, Democrats have at times kept their distance from Lieberman. Last week, for instance, Reid held a press conference with several Democrats to tout their efforts to pass the 9/11 Commission bill and a homeland-security spending plan. Lieberman, the lead Senate negotiator on the measure and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was conspicuously absent.

Reid said it was not intentional to leave Lieberman out of the press conference, but Lieberman said not being invited was “surprising.”

The distance that Democratic leaders appear to be keeping from Lieberman could result from the animosity that the Democrats’ anti-war base has directed toward him. That criticism intensified even more last month, when he suggested military intervention against the Iranian government.

“He used to have a heart and soul, and he used to care about people,” said Leslie Angeline, an activist with the anti-war group Code Pink, who held a 24-day hunger strike until she could meet with Lieberman about his position on Iran.
Angeline is facing an unlawful entry charge after she refused to leave Lieberman’s office during her strike.

Even though Lieberman has become a lightning rod on the left, his prominent chairmanship and influence within the Democratic caucus is safe, for now, given the Democrats’ razor-thin majority. Analysts say if Democrats increase their Senate majority from the 2008 elections, Lieberman’s influence and role could be marginalized within the caucus.

Still, Lieberman is unfazed and says he has no intention of formally rejoining the Democratic Party.

“For now, I find being an independent more fun,” Lieberman said. “The partisanship in this place is out of control. As an independent I’ve got the opportunity to speak out against that.”

In response to a nasty liberal website, DailyKos, where a Photoshopped picture was posted depicting Sen. Lieberman on his knees engaging President Bush in oral sex. The same site is promoting a conference which has been endorsed by the airline JetBlue, and will be featuring Hillary Clinton and John Edwards....to which I wrote in to The O'Reilly Factor...

Bill, thank you for exposing the real merchants of hate and intolerance as the DailyKos. As an independent voter (like many Americans even though they may be affiliated with a particular mainstream party), I can't help but feel that while any of the Democratic presidential candidates feel that it is a fait accompli that one of them may be occupying the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue come Tuesday, January 20, 2009, nothing is set in stone. Remember the Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare? Nothing prevents the Dems to be drubbed out again.

The other night Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner appeared on what has been regarded in some circles as her final television interview on CNN's Larry King Show. She is a "stage 4" cancer victim. I couldn't watch more than a minute of the interview given that I recently lost my mom to cancer.

From what I saw of it this is sooo what I would call "ratingsploitation." It is both funny and sad how one of the great innovators of cable news, CNN, has turned into a bad parody of FOX News without the gaudy graphics.

I swear that when Larry King dies (unless perhaps that he is a present day reincarnation of God and is immortal) CNN is going to have him taxidermied and turn on a camera on him every night at 6 p.m. till the end of time (or be the last live host) and run a tape loop of his standard questions to which the guest sitting there answers.

What a piece of modern artwork.


Here is a sample of the interview.

CNN interview, part 1 of 3
CNN interview, part 2 of 3
CNN interview, part 3 of 3

The most shocking part of the interview is how Mr. Praise The Lord, Tammy's ex-husband and televangelist, Jim Bakker, has not contacted or given support to his former wife.

This just shows how fucked up "born again" Christians are....

Totally not figuring out what TOLERANCE means, three Christian activist audience members were arrested Thursday after staging a noisy protest as a Hindu chaplain read the opening prayer at the US Senate, branding his appearance an "abomination."
They were ejected from the chamber and charged with an unlawful disruption of Congress.

As Hindu chaplain Rajan Zed started to recite his prayer, one protestor was heard chanting "Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer which is an abomination in your sight. "You are the one, true living God."

It has been a Congress tradition to bring in Faith leaders from various belief systems to give the Senate's daily opening prayer, though it is normally offered by the Congress's Christian (sometimes Jewish) chaplain.

An article on the Internet quotes a group calling itself "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" as condemning the protest. According to a dispatch from AFP, "This shows the intolerance of many Religious Right activists," said the group's executive director, Reverend Barry Lynn. "They say they want more religion in the public square, but it's clear they mean only their religion." The conservative American Family Association had been campaigning against the use of a Hindu prayer in the chamber, asking members to send emails and letters to Senators in protest.

Praise The Lord! Praise The Lord! Live the life that leads you to eternal life!

This is the very reason I think so-called "born again" Christians are such fakers.

I had to make a short trip from my house via Interstate 8 -- which is one of the most busy freeways in San Diego which goes from the Pacific Ocean through to central Arizona.

But I digress.

I was going west in the number 3 lane and eventually had to pass through to the number 4 to exit. I'm watching the traffic and see a Nissan truck just lingering behind in that lane. I signal, and while I move into the lane the jerk decides he has to overtake me. I'm already 90% into the lane that he decides to speed up and while honking like a moron, gives me a most expressive performance of the third finger salute which continued as he passed me to the left. I was not going to lower myself to his level....and as he zooms away I see the classic Christian symbol of a fish and numerous right-wing Bible thumper bumper sticker (and a George Bush for President bumper sticker).

I'm not going to use a broad paintbrush on my impressions of these so-called "Born Again" Christians, but it does show that these people VERY OFTEN don't live the life they want to impose on others.

Ohhhh my day certainly wouldn't be complete without some news about America's real nut bag, Cindy Sheehan, who recently announced she was ending her invovlement with the "peace movement." Cindy who obviously has never had an original thought in her brain uttered today....

Sheehan, who will turn 50 on Tuesday, said Bush should be impeached because she believes he misled the public about the reasons for going to war,

I guess 17 United Nations resolutions against Saddam Hussein and his torture of Iraqis and gassing of Kurds doesn't mean anything.


violated the Geneva Convention by torturing detainees,

Those poor, poor, poor people who with their intolerance to women would soooo quickly put a burhka on Cindy Sheehan and tell her regularly with the true gentlemanliness of a lot of Arab/Muslim men, "Shut up ugly bitch."

and crossed the line by commuting the prison sentence of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

I guess President Clinton didn't cross the line by pardoning known drug dealer and Clinton campaign fundraiser Marc Rich.

She said other grounds for impeachment are the domestic spying program

Never mind that all Presidents have authorized domestic spying programs.

and the "inadequate and tragic" response to Hurricane Katrina.

Look at the all of the devastating flooding in Texas and you don't hear anybody whining and carrying on.

She is planning to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "if she doesn't do what I tell her to do" in Pelosi's San Francisco district. I really hope she does get elected so they REALLY get fantastic representation...and be yet again the laughing stock of the nation.

I couldn't say it any better.

I was listening tonight to a debate on television about the Democrat's latest whine trying to reestablish the famous "Fairness Doctrine." (The Fairness Doctrine, which, until 1987, was a regulation of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which required broadcasters to present controversial issues of public importance, and to present such issues in what was deemed an honest, equal and balanced manner.)

THe Democrats complain it was "detrimental" to the passage of the shamnesty bill. After the usual blathering and blathering I turned it off. Conservative talk radio is entertaining. The Dems (a lot of people who take things WAY too seriously) can get DEADLY boring. And the reason that liberal talk radio has failed is that you have all of these raving "hate Bush" (he is hateable!) left wingers....which does not reflect the true nature of American society. Most Americans these days are more "anti-moron" and into a renaissance of common sense....the Dems have not figured it out. Anyway, I digress. They complain about the concentration of media outlets owned by major media conglomerates. The fact is it is PRESIDENT CLINTON who signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed the creation of the broadcasting conglomerates who have made a success of conservative talk radio. Of course, nobody dares among the Democrats criticize President Clinton lest it will somehow rub off on Hillary......and THAT"s the untold story! It is almost as ridiculous as when I was working in sales for a magazine that I was not allowed to design the ads for my clients "because it isn't fair that you have the ability and equipment and the other sales people don't have that talent and ability."

To get more radio stations broadcasting liberal talk formats on the air, all that needs to happen is for entrepreneurs with deep pockets who support liberal talk radio to acquire more station licenses. Forget about getting liberal talk radio programs syndicated. Concentrate on acquiring licenses and buying stations.

There is a category of radio stations whose licenses are excellent candidates for challenging on the grounds that they don't serve the interest of their communities of license. That category is stations that broadcast in Spanish. A solid case can be made that the term the word "public" in the phrase "the public interest" means only those people who are in the country legally -- citizens or legal aliens. Any station that serves the needs of the illegal alien community is not serving the public interest, any more than a station that airs programs of service to any other criminal group in the country.

If a station specifically targeted the needs of the drug trafficking community, it would be at risk of losing a license challenge. If a station specifically targeted the needs of the welfare fraud community, it would be at risk of losing a license challenge. So, any station that targets the needs of the illegal alien community should also be at risk of losing a license challenge.

By challenging those station licenses, and winning the challenges, operations like Air America could stop having to worry about convincing broadcasters to carry their programs. They'd own enough stations of their own that they would not have to worry about ratings ever again.

Ohhhhh, Hillary, be careful what you ask for!

1. With that exuberance are we going to find more of Bill's used condoms?
2. Aren't we being a bit sexist resorting to asking women to do the cleaning? This sure doesn't sound the woman who said that she was not the type to sit back and "bake cookies" while she "stands by her man"!
3. What a blowhard

Seriously, Hill -- can I call you that? -- stop talking about the past and tell us what YOU plan to do. How are YOU going to conclusively fight terrorism? Hindsight is 20/20, Hill, and you better do a better job than your Democratically run Congress and Senate!

Like the saying goes, Hill, new brooms always sweep well.

Clinton: White House Needs 'Clean Sweep'


Jun 30, 12:18 PM (ET)

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

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MIAMI (AP) - "A clean sweep" is needed at the White House because President Bush has fostered "a culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence," Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.

The Democratic presidential candidate told nearly 1,000 women at a fundraiser that she would have much work to do at the White House if she won election in 2008.

"After eight years of the Bush administration, we are going to be shocked by what we find," the New York senator and former first lady said. "Somebody said to me the other day if there was ever a time for a woman president it's now because we're going to have to do a lot of cleaning."

The women, many of who brought their daughters to the $100 per plate "Women for Hillary" breakfast, applauded wildly.

"Grab your buckets, grab your brooms," Clinton said. "We're going to have to do a clean sweep because there has been a culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence."

While I consider myself a political moderate, and while I am DEFINITELY no fan of our incompetent commander in chief, George W, I think it is coming to pass that the Democrats are really no better than the Republicans, and are not great saviors of these great United States. While the President has tried to gain votes by his "shamnesty" plan and by referring to the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps as vigilantes, the Democrats honestly do not have a core issue to run on that would make them an alternative to the Republican administration of the past eight years....especially now that there is interestingly more evidence that the Dem's have tried to take the whole so-called global warming issue as their compelling issue with what is coming out as "junk science" and suspect and erroneous conclusions -- disguised as a real campaign issue. And seeing how the Dem's never denounced Sen. Ted Kennedy's drunken singing tirade.....now wasn't THAT a great representative of his cause during the "shamnesty" debate. (What I am looking forward to see if the news media DARES to show the tons and tons of litter which is inevitably going to be left behind at the great Al Gore Global Warming/Awareness concerts next weekend. I really doubt it.) Of course, true to the Democratic way of thinking (also Republican), they'll find some way to spin the situation just like they seemingly seem to not take responsibility for denouncing the senior Senator's words and actions.

Anyway, here is a very interesting piece from the Chicago Sun-Times about the whole question of "global warming."

Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/450392,CST-EDT-REF30b.article)

June 30, 2007

BY JAMES M. TAYLOR

In his new book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth." Gore repeatedly asks that science and reason displace cynical political posturing as the central focus of public discourse.

If Gore really means what he writes, he has an opportunity to make a difference by leading by example on the issue of global warming.

A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a desired political position.

Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.

For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame."

Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine."

Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.

Gore claims global warming is causing more frequent and severe hurricanes. However, hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study on May 1 documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. Hurricane expert William Gray reported just a few days earlier, on April 27, that the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined in the past 40 years. Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity.

Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts. However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, "Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa."

Gore argues Greenland is in rapid meltdown, and that this threatens to raise sea levels by 20 feet. But according to a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, "the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland, with a small overall mass gain." In late 2006, researchers at the Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since the 1910s.

Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming. Yet the Jan. 14, 2002, issue of Nature magazine reported Antarctica as a whole has been dramatically cooling for decades. More recently, scientists reported in the September 2006 issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, that satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet showed significant growth between 1992 and 2003. And the U.N. Climate Change panel reported in February 2007 that Antarctica is unlikely to lose any ice mass during the remainder of the century.

Each of these cases provides an opportunity for Gore to lead by example in his call for an end to the distortion of science. Will he rise to the occasion? Only time will tell.

James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute.

I had a thought hit me hard today.

There are terrible floods going on now in Central Texas. Property is being washed away. Numbers of people are dead. Yet you don't hear some so called rap star like Kanye West going around saying "President Bush hates black people." Texans are taking care of themselves. They are doing what they can to revive and rebuild their businesses and communities even in the face of more torrential rains.

Flash back to New Orleans two years ago. They still can't get their act together. In order to save face the politicians keep on deflecting criticism of their own lack of leadership by blasting and criticizing others. Last night the cadre of Democratic presidential candidates had another love-in where they took aim on the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end forced integration of schools through busing. These white boys decried (and of course Hillary went into her classic bad Southern accent) the old refrain how the road to total civil rights was still long, etc. Yes, the discrimination against black Americans is a pimple on the face of our great nation. But can't more black people be part of the effort to helping themselves? You don't hear about the water-logged Texans whimpering about their situation. Yet two years later blacks are still complaining how school buses in New Orleans were not utilized to rescue their citizens? And of course we don't DARE talk about the mayhem at the New Orleans Superdome....almost to the point of disrepair. And boy does the Democratic party like to exploit these situations to win a few votes.

Instead of coddling the black community, we need to give blacks who are below the socio-economic mainstream the impetus to get things done for themselves....like our Texas brethren. Instead of "giving fish" to the so-called disadvantaged blacks in our country, they need to be actively given the motivation to "fish for themselves." So many people of different cultures have come out of worse situations from around the world to the United States and have been stunning successes.

Black Americans who have made it....like Oprah, Gen. Powell, Ted Johnson, Jr., and others need to start looking at productively lifting their communities to defeat the growing "economic racism" the black community is now experiencing on an ever-increasing basis. Hillary, John, Richard...the problem is not the white community, the problem are the self-appointed Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons who love the glare of the media lights and have made millions through their position, yet do everything to keep impoverished blacks impoverished so they can maintain the status they have become accustomed to.

So typical of Democrats trying to SHOW that they want to make a difference, but don't necessarily follow through...




THe folks at "Current," Al "Watch Me Try To Get Look As Fat As the Goodyear Blimp" Gore generally failed cable TV network had a more humorous take on the above ad.

This is the man!

Couldn't say it any better.

I was on online chat with a friend when he told me that he hated split pea soup...to which I said....



IVARS
You racist! You hate split peas! Call the Split Pea Anti Defamation League!

FRIEND OF IVARS
Now, now, what have poor innocent peas done to you that you'd want to split them??? And think of all those poor LeSeur baby peas that would become orphans! They could go down the path of ruination and do anti-social behaviors like pea peeing in public!

OK.....NOW I've totally lost it.....





"Nessun dorma" ("Nobody Sleep") from Puccini's Turandot


(Prince)
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o Principessa,
nella tua fredda stanza
guardi le stelle
che tremano d'amore e di speranza...
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
il nome mio nessun saprà!
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò,
quando la luce splenderà!
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
che ti fa mia.

(Chorus)
Il nome suo nessun saprà...
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir!

(Prince)
Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle! All'alba vincerò!
Vincerò! Vincerò!

Translation
(Prince)
Nobody shall sleep!... Nobody shall sleep!
Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope.
But my secret is hidden within me, my name no one shall know...
No!...No!... On your mouth I will tell it when the light shines.
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!...

(Chorus) No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.

(Prince)
Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!

While I do have progressive viewpoints, this is the reason I WILL NEVER be a registered Democrat...the party of the drunken womanizing murderer Sen. Ted "Gimme A Drink and a Car" Kennedy (D-Mass.)

This is a statesman? No, this is Ted Kennedy after he OBVIOUSLY has had a nip...

So embarrassing....

THis is ONE amazing commercial!

Here's the tale about the Democratic party's own buffoon, Jimmy Carter.

I could not have written this opinion piece any better. On the positive side, at least we are now getting to know the real Jimmy Carter who is the anti-semite, and starting to see how the real Bill Clinton is in actuality very anti-gay in his political beliefs....yet loves gay money for the Clinton campaign war chest.

Father of the Iranian revolution
michael d. evans, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 20, 2007

We just don't get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called "dim-witted cowboy," has created the entire mess.

The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.

Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty."

The shah was terrified of Carter. He told his personal confidant, "Who knows what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?"

Let's look at the results of Carter's misguided liberal policies: the Islamic Revolution in Iran; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Carter's response was to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics); the birth of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization; the Iran-Iraq War, which cost the lives of millions dead and wounded; and yes, the present war on terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

WHEN CARTER entered the political fray in 1976, America was still riding the liberal wave of anti-Vietnam War emotion. Carter asked for an in-depth report on Iran even before he assumed the reins of government and was persuaded that the shah was not fit to rule Iran. 1976 was a banner year for pacifism: Carter was elected president, Bill Clinton became attorney-general of Arkansas, and Albert Gore won a place in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

In his anti-war pacifism, Carter never got it that Khomeini, a cleric exiled to Najaf in Iraq from 1965-1978, was preparing Iran for revolution. Proclaiming "the West killed God and wants us to bury him," Khomeini's weapon of choice was not the sword but the media. Using tape cassettes smuggled by Iranian pilgrims returning from the holy city of Najaf, he fueled disdain for what he called gharbzadegi ("the plague of Western culture").

Carter pressured the shah to make what he termed human rights concessions by releasing political prisoners and relaxing press censorship. Khomeini could never have succeeded without Carter. The Islamic Revolution would have been stillborn.

Gen. Robert Huyser, Carter's military liaison to Iran, once told me in tears: "The president could have publicly condemned Khomeini and even kidnapped him and then bartered for an exchange with the [American Embassy] hostages, but the president was indignant. 'One cannot do that to a holy man,' he said."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has donned the mantle of Ayatollah Khomeini, taken up bin Laden's call, and is fostering an Islamic apocalyptic revolution in Iraq with the intent of taking over the Middle East and the world.

Jimmy Carter became the poster boy for the ideological revolution of the 1960s in the West, hell bent on killing the soul of America. The bottom line: Carter believed then and still does now is that evil really does not exist; people are basically good; America should embrace the perpetrators and castigate the victims.

IN THE '60S it was mass rebellion after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. When humanity confronts eternity, the response is always rebellion or repentance. The same ideologues who fought to destroy the soul of America with the "God is dead" movement in the 1960s are now running the arts, the universities, the media, the State Department, Congress, and Senate, determined more then ever to kill the soul of America while the East attempts to kill the body. Carter's world view defines the core ideology of the Democratic Party.

What is going on in Iraq is no mystery to those of us who have had our fingers on the pulse of both Iran and Iraq for decades. The Iran-Iraq war was a war of ideologies. Saddam Hussein saw himself as an Arab leader who would defeat the non-Arab Persians. Khomeini saw it as an opportunity to export his Islamic Revolution across the borders to the Shi'ites in Iraq and then beyond to the Arab countries.

Throughout the war both leaders did everything possible to incite the inhabitants of each country to rebel - precisely what Iran is doing in Iraq today. Khomeini encouraged the Shi'ites across the border to remove Saddam from power and establish an Islamic republic like in Iran.

Carter's belief that every crisis can be resolved with diplomacy - and nothing but diplomacy - now permeates the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, Carter is wrong.

There are times when evil must be openly confronted and defeated.

KHOMEINI HAD the help of the PLO in Iran. They supplied weapons and terrorists to murder Iranians and incite mobs in the streets. No wonder Yasser Arafat was hailed as a friend of Khomeini after he seized control of Iran and was given the Israeli Embassy in Teheran with the PLO flag flying overhead.

The Carter administration scrambled to assure the new regime that the United States would maintain diplomatic ties with Iran. But on April 1, 1979 the greatest April Fools' joke of all time was played, as Khomeini proclaimed it the first day of the government of God.

In February 1979 Khomeini had boarded an Air France flight to return to Teheran with the blessing of Jimmy Carter. The moment he arrived, he proclaimed: "I will kick his teeth in" - referring to then prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar, who was left in power with a US pledge of support. He was assassinated in Paris by Iranian agents in 1991.

I sat in the home of Gen. Huyser, who told me the shah feared he would lose the country if he implemented Carter's polices. Carter had no desire to see the shah remain in power. He really believed that a cleric - whose Islamist fanaticism he did not understand in the least - would be better for human rights and Iran.

He could have changed history by condemning Khomeini and getting the support of our allies to keep him out of Iran.

The writer is a New York Times best-selling author. His newest book is The Final Move Beyond Iraq. www.beyondiraq.com

Will the REAL "Fat" Albert Gore stand up?

This is why I don't buy liberal Democrats when they go around wailing against this or that.

As a proud American citizen who is also proud to be a proud Latvian citizen, the following article really upset me and disappointed me. It is interesting when the formerly opressed (the Latvian people) become the opressors:

Latvian Gay Pride Parade Marches on Amid Tight Security
06.03.07

By Anthony Cuesta

An estimated 500 European gay rights supporters gathered in Riga, Latvia Sunday to march in a pride parade, an event that has stirred much controversy in the conservative nation.

Latvia, like many other countries in Eastern Europe, has a conservative and often hostile attitude towards homosexuality. Last year, officials banned a Gay Pride march and anti-gay protesters targeted participants at other events.

Marchers gathered in the park in the center of Riga, the capital. Police were stationed on the park's perimeter.

Small groups of anti-gay protesters shouted insults but there was no violence, Reuters reports. Police said two people were arrested over the insults.

Inside the park bursts of The Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love" could be heard.

On Saturday, Linda Freimane, a board member of Mozaika, Latvia's leading gay rights group, stressed the importance of this year's gathering for sexual minorities' rights in the Baltic states, which joined the European Union in 2004.

"If we don't do it again this year then we give in to the illegal, violent forces who can limit other people's rights just by smothering them,' she said, reports the Associated Press.

Politicians from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the European parliament joined the march. They included Swedish Immigration Minister Tobias Billstrom.

"The fact we can organize this march this year shows there has been an improvement even if we have to do it in a park," said Spanish European parliament member Raul Romeva to Reuters.

The European Union criticized Latvia for banning last year's gay parade.

CNN this afternoon had a segment about the growing hostilities with Russia and invited comment....and so I opined...

Peoples of the world, wake up! Oh, please. It isn't that Comrade Putin has been any different since he entered office. The world is finally waking up to the fact that a leopard doesn't change his spots. While President Bush may have "looked deeply into the eyes of Putin and seen a trustworthy man," the Balts and every other Eastern European country oppressed by Mother Russia for over fifty years in the past century have known what he really is: a real cold war Communist bent on domination. While North America is transfixed on Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, Putin has continually threatened its neighbors and waged war, such as the recent cyberattacks aimed at Estonia when they dared to remove another remnant of the Soviet Russian era out of their daily lives. Russia has never had a democracy nor will it ever.

Ivars Bezdechi
San Diego, CA

As I've written before, it is nice when I read my views on different political issues being echoed by public political leaders:

German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt called for an end to the "hysteria" over global warming in the lead-up to the summit. The topic is "hysterical, overheated, and that is especially because of the media," Schmidt told Germany's Bild daily.

There has always been climate change on earth, Schmidt said.

"We've had warm- and ice-ages for hundreds of thousands of years," he said, and added that the reasons behind the multiple climate changes have been "inadequately researched for the time being."

To assume that global climate change can be altered by any plans made at the Heiligendamm summit is "idiotic," he said.

OK....here is my current take on the crop of Presidential candidates now taking up space on the mediasphere.... The list here is in no particular order.

JOHN EDWARDS
An opportunist who comes off as used car salesman. How can a man who pockets $55,000 to speak on the subject of poverty, spends $400 on haircuts, lives in a large mansion across from a shanty trailer park relate to the American people and their hopes and concerns? Not only that he shirks questions when he sends campaign contribution e-mails to those who have expressed their concern about his wife Elizabeth bout with terminal cancer. Then he backpedals his vote on the Iraq war to appeal to the Hate Bush/Anti-War folks.

HILLARY CLINTON
She really is the best candidate amongst the Democrats. But totally lost my respect tonight when she too backpedals on her support of the Iraq war to appeal to the Hate Bush/Anti-War folks. People like to say that she is "so intelligent," yet what has she specifically accomplished in her years in the Senate? Her health care initiative didn't fly. I don't see her as someone who would unite the American people much as President Reagan did. Then she does her own political mambo when she tonight has faint praise for President Bush for opening the door to negotiating with Iran's tyrant president Ahmadnejad saying that "it should have happened a long time ago." So does that mean Bill was wrong on his stance with Iran? Of course, my favorite Shrillery (Hitlery or Bitchery) quote is how she was poised to "pull up the carpets in the Oval Office and clean it up." I guess that she is confident that she wouldn't find some of Bill's used condoms left somehow behind.

JOHN McCAIN
Weak all around. I used to respect him but his weak stance on illegal aliens and illegal immigration shows that he is just another politician. He has gone through a lot in his life with being held captive by the Vietnamese, but he has allowed himself to be captured and be brainwashed by the Washington lobbyists and other special interests. His alliance with Senator Ted "hiccup" Kennedy is troublesome.....the very reason I will NEVER join the Democratic party. While I hold many liberal beliefs (pro labor, pro choice, pro environment), I would NEVER want to be associated with the same party as this fat, pompous, drunken murderer.

BARACK OBAMA
Another windbag whose message changes with whichever crowd he wants to appeal to at the moment. With whites, he acts "very white." Then when he has a predominantly black audience, then he suddenly becomes "black." How can anyone find this guy intelligent and other qualities which have been attached to him? What has he legislatively accomplished? Are gasoline prices under control? What about health care? He loves to listen to himself, but in the end doesn't really say anything of substance.

RUDY GUILIANI
For me he is liberal enough and is conservative enough, yet his liberal stance on illegal immigration is bothersome. He showed true leadership during the 9/11 tragedy. In fact, he makes a lot of sense in his views of how government is invasive in our lives. He deserves consideration.

BILL RICHARDSON
He shows a lot of promise. A centrist, Richardson’s many experiences in public service, including his roles as governor, energy secretary and congressman, makes him squarely qualified to be president.

RON PAUL
Ugh. Plus his name is monosyllabic. Bad.

My letter finally got printed in the San Diego Union-Tribune!!

Someone had a kind of a bad start to their evening when they hit a fire hydrant near an intersection by my house yesterday at about 6:40 p.m. on Jamacha Road. I have to say, however, the hydrant was kind of an interesting water feature...if not temporary!

National talk show host Jerry Doyle has come up with the 10 Commandments of Illegal Immigration.... This guy makes sense!

JERRY DOYLE”S

LEGAL IMMIGRATION

10 COMMANDMENTS

1. If you enter the United States of America illegally or overstay your visa, you will never be eligible to become a citizen of the U.S. No exceptions.

2. If you hire someone who is illegal, you and / or your business will be fined $50,000.00 per employee. “Strict Liability” will be the legal standard.

3. The policy of “anchor babies” is no longer the law. You are only eligible to be a citizen of the United States if you are born “of” a citizen of the United States of America.

4. “Sanctuary Cities and / or states” will receive no federal tax dollar revenue sharing or matching. Federal highway speed limit standards will be the template.

5. “Sanctuary Houses of Worship”, in direct violation of U.S. law, will lose their tax exempt status.

6. Financial institutions, doing business in the United States, will be prohibited from offering and providing any incentive program(s), any discount loan(s), subsidized checking and / or savings account(s) or any “special” offer(s) to anyone in this country illegally.

7. Public education, medical and dental services, housing, social services, food stamps, social security, Medicare, SSDI and any other us government program will be for the benefit of legal residents of the United States only.

8. Any person(s), charitable organization(s), or business entity that harbors any illegal alien(s) will be automatically be charged with a federal offense and lose their citizenship.

9. Guest worker visas will be issued on a 5 year trailing average of the aggregate number of visas issued with adjustments for projected GDP growth and / or contraction.

10. English will be the only language used in the public workplace, public education, Federal government offices and facilities, hospitals and related medical facilities and the federal court system. All voting for federal offices will be done in English only.

An individual in a political action group I occasionally participate in started to flame a San Diego politician who has truly served the district I live in very well. Everytime I have had contact with her as a constituent, this county supervisor, Dianne Jacobs, my problems have been resolved. I issued the following comment on the list-serv:

This is not intended as a personal flame, but I would urge everyone to step back from the incendiary rhetoric. Instead of attacking Mrs. Jacobs, we should be happy that she put in the order to have the camp closed down in Alpine. I have only met Mrs. Jacobs once, but I think there is little argument that over the years she has been a great county supervisor "stepping up to the plate" when there has been a need to "step up to the plate" in our neck of the woods called East San Diego County.

No individual -- nor politician -- likes to be embarrassed in front of their constituents -- no matter their party affiliation. Believe me, as much as I hate to break the news, even Senators Boxer or Feinstein (with their big personal fortunes) or House Speaker Pelosi (not someone who collects food stamps or works at minimum wage, either) have their "handlers" to "spin the spin" to make sure they are always looking all shiny and pristine and purer than the driven snow. In my opinion, it is infantile and myopic to take issue with an individual just because of their political affiliation.

Whether it is in business or handling the nation's business, I look at what an individual has accomplished or not accomplished -- that's the real litmus test. Both sides of the political aisle have let the American people down. The brazen fact is that politicians on both sides of the aisle are beholden to lobbyists representing special interests. It is our responsibility as citizens to make sure that our elected representatives represent us and our views. We should let them know when they are wrong, but at the same time show them our praise and gratitude when they do right -- just as Supervisor Jacobs has done in this case.

Furthermore, I think cooler heads should prevail in our opposition to Blackwater. Just because Supervisor Jacobs doesn't come ranting and raving on our position doesn't mean she is against us. We need to show our respect and tolerance to the process rather than jumping to conclusions....just as we ask for respect and tolerance to our viewpoint on the matter. As a relative of mine in Latvia said, as they go down the road of being a young democracy after being under the Russian boot for over 50 years said to me (an observation made by many Balts), "You know, in the United States with there being so much democracy and so many voices, in the end, nobody seems to be listening."

Let's listen to each other, let's learn from each other, but let us do so in a respectful and civil manner rather than resorting to lobbing pejoratives at an individual just because their political ideologies may be different than ours. Neither side should be claiming that their are "right." Let us hope and pray that we are given the strength to follow "common sense."

I think the national news media is on a campaign trying to make Vice President Gore the new Ellen DeGeneres. While the TV and print outlets totally ignore how the oil companies are screwing the American public, they are breathlessly contemplating whether former VP Gore will run or not for President in 2008. Personally, I hope he does, so he can once again taste the bitterness of defeat and just perhaps normalize the hot air of his ego with the gaseous hot hair of his overgrown Sen. Ted Kennedy gut.

One of the most important lessons I learned as a pup was to accept graciously defeat and to go on to the next mission. But oh no...Gore has to go around badmouthing President Bush like a stubbornly ill-behaved kid. A real statesman graciously accepts the tribulations of defeat. But like someone who is so consumed with sour grapes, Gore goes on television (when he is not boring everybody with his roadshow of questionable science) badmouthing the administration. I need to say at this point I'm no great supporter of President Bush. I'm uncomfortable with the situation in Iraq and am VERY disappointed that the Iraqi people have not shown enough gumption to start to take control of their own country more passionately. But while Gore questions our incursion into Iraq, I ask myself -- don't the Iraqi people deserve to taste freedom from the tyrant of Saddam Hussein and his regime....just as the people of the Baltics wanted to so badly throw out the rule of the tyrannical Russians? Clearly miscalculations were made by Pres. Bush....but hindsight is also 20/20 (or so we hope). I do believe the news media in this country are not telling the truth about what is going on in Iraq. My heart cries for the 3,000 deaths of allied forces over four years in Iraq. But I also cry for when the Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men and over 2,000 aircraft in operations which paved the way for D-Day in April and May 1944, and the total Allied casualties on D-Day estimated of 10,000, including 2500 dead....

So instead of going around bitching and moaning about his loss, Al Gore needs to go stick another donut in his mouth and start conserving energy at his Tennessee palace....or convert the gas which emanates from his humongous fat body into electricity...but isn't methane also contributing to the so-called "global warming"?

I finally launched my new website, www.ivarslive.com, today. It features information and pictures relating to my acting work.

Everybody says it "looks great." I'm going to take a page from my Romanian/Turkish grandfather's play book and say the it will "look great" when it gets me more acting work!

Takes one to know one?

The ever increasingly senile and demented Pres. Jimmy Carter whose true colors as a anti-Semitic David Duke-like character and is universally acknowledged as the worst president this country ever, is now calling Pres. Bush "The worst president ever." Isn't this like the pot calling the kettle black? I'm no lover of President Bush, but heck, what about the entire board of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia resigning en masse on the release of his last sleeper of a book accusing Israel of perpetuating the middle east crisis? This guy deserves to be one day told to shut the f*** up. Hasn't someone recently reminded him how he was literally booted out of office by the electorate after four years of the antics of Carter's militant Muslim terrorist brother, Billy, the scariest mother alive, Miss Lillian? Of course what about the time when Pres. Carter expressed his carnal love for the Polish people? There has to be a reason why even Pres. Clinton and Bush ignored him during the worldwide efforts to raise funds for the victims of Katrina and the Indonesian Tsunami.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."

I couldn't say it any better...

"A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on..." -- Mark Twain

People often remark now that I shave my head every day that I have a remarkable appearance to wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin. A friend of mine cut this picture out from the San Diego Union-Tribune thinking it was Ivars in a new flick that I hadn't told him about (now that I'm doing a fair bit of movie acting). Unfortunately, Stone Cold is not exactly up for an Academy Award for his most recent movie, "The Condemned." Here's a review:

I love posturing soooo much....just like the latest news out of the World Wildlife Fund accusing the United States of being the biggest caused of alleged global warming. Hey folks, what about CHINA with their billion people population? What about THEIR factories which belch out God knows what into the atmosphere without mandated emission scrubbers? Huh? What about the widely known story that Bejing may be prohibiting car traffic in the city for a month before the Beijing Olympics because of all of the pollutants? And what about the city which is the world's garbage repository of computer parts whose main waterway is chock full of arsenic?

Puhleeze....

The United States, the world's top belcher of greenhouse gas emissions, is "the biggest culprit" of climate change, the WWF said Thursday, urging Washington to take swift action against global warming.

"They are the biggest culprit and they are the biggest offender of climate," said Stephan Singer, head of the environmental group WWF's climate change policy unit.

"The United States should take climate change seriously," Singer told reporters in Bangkok, where scientists around the world are attending the week-long session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's leading authority on global warming.

While accusing the US of "ignoring science" on global warming, the WWF still urged Washington to lead the world in combating climate change.

"What's happening in the United States is important because it is still the largest emitter" of greenhouse gas, said Hans Verolme, director of WWF's global climate change program.

I couldn't say it any better:

John Billett, former chairman of Billett Consultancy (from the UK) who tried to make a name in advertising in the US said it best when talking about the lessons he learned working in the US:

"There is a division in America -- which I haven't seen elsewhere -- between entrepreneurial, creative, imaginative, not afraid to investigate change, looking for the next opportunity, dynamic and rigorous companies, and the disturbingly large number of companies who aren't that. They seem to be covered in bureaucracy, those who seem to be reluctant to change ... driven by process where everything is taken by committee. If I had one criticism of America, it would be that some decisions take an unseemly amount of time to be made. It is as though Sarbanes-Oxley, Enron, all of this corporate governance, has gripped the flare of certain companies so the prize of getting it wrong is larger than the prize of getting it right."

A CLASSIC QUOTE!

A Clear Channel Radio Station (Clear Channel is a media conglomerate) is now going to be testing a new way to broadcast commercials. Rather than a whole bunch of 30-60 or 90 second commercials they will do hour sponsorships. The station is also changing music formats. Said the general manager of the station to the New York Times:

"The Dallas station is also overhauling its format, switching from classic rock to a Texas-inflected rock-country hybrid. An average hour will include the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Drive-By Truckers. That, too, is raising eyebrows.

“In a major market, for a classic rock station to change formats is really an anomaly,” said Fred Jacobs, a radio industry consultant from Detroit who helped popularize the classic rock format in the mid-1980s. “You could make a nice, long, healthy list of top five stations that are classic rock,” and several would be No. 1 or No. 2 in their markets, he said.

But Mr. Freeman, the Dallas station manager, says he has had his fill of classic-rock bands like Led Zeppelin. “A friend of mine said, ‘They’ve been climbing that stairway to heaven for 30 years, you’d think they’d be there by now,’ ” he said."

This is what wears me down about liberals. Or maybe should I say "progressives." They so love to make outward expressions about their concerns but do nothing in reality to bring about solutions to the problems they are complaining about. But darn it, "they care." Never mind that after their rallys complaining -- or "raising awareness" -- about the supposed issue of global warming they leave behind tons and tons of garbage waiting to be picked up by a backhoe.

Al Gore still uses 30% more electricity to run his mansion in Tennessee than the average state resident. Patrick Kennedy and the rest of the big bellied Kennedy entourage protest about putting about electricity generating windmills near their Hyannisport compound. Sen. John Kerrey doesn't drive a SUV....but "his family does."

Today being "Earth Day" the search engine Google put on their website their logo portrayed as a melting glacier, yet their founders flit around the world on their custom Boeing 737.

Fakers.

Albeit I'm a registered Republican (more like a law and order Democrat), for all intents and purposes I'm an independent voter.

Just as I had my mind made up in an instant about Sen. Kerry when he was asked at a news conference bashing President Bush in the last campaign, "Don't you drive a Lincoln Escalade" to which he answered "No, I don't drive one but my family does," the Dems wunderkind Barack Obama in one short passage has showed what a moron HE is.

In a campaign swing in Milwaukie, he gave a 23-minute interview, which, among things, he compared the Don Imus rant with the horrific massacre at Virginia Tech. Between Hillary saying that she is afraid of a new Republican conservative conspiracy and Mrs. Edwards' statement that she is terrified of her "rabid, gun toting, Republican next door neighbor" shows that the latest crop of Dem candidates are as weak as the last. They will pander and say anything just to stir up the political lemmings.

All said, however, comparing Don Imus with the murder of 32 and severe injuring of 28 students just shows that this guy is no different from the rest of crowd of political Washington politicians. What has Barack Obama -- his real name is "Barry" -- done to make our lives better as a Senator. The answer is NOTHING. He is just another windbag.

So far Rudy Guiliani is the only viable candidate with at least some brains and who wouldn't be going around making moronic abstractions.

My letter submitted to the San Diego Union-Tribune (or sometimes referred to the Soviet Union-Tribune):

I have always regarded myself to be a political centrist/moderate whose opinions are motivated by specific issues rather than ideology. During the last election season the Democrats went around promising a “new dawn” in America after a long period of Republican “darkness.” They went around criticizing President Bush for everything and accusing him of every heinous crime against society just short of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. Despite their hubris and slim majorities in both Houses of Congress, it would seem that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and our beloved Senator Barbara Boxer and the rest of the cabal of usual suspects are leading their party into the same “gotcha” politics as the Republicans are renowned for. Not only that, in order to appeal to the “Hate Bush”/anti-war movement crowd and get appear to finally get a chomp out of President Bush’s hide, Pelosi exploded our monstrous federal budget deficit even further by succumbing to the tried-and-true technique of buying votes by engaging in pork barrel politics to her fellow Democrats in order to pass the Iraq cutoff funding bill by slimmest of margins. Meanwhile, to fulfill our “we care” quotient, former Vice-President cum highly-credentialed climatologist Al Gore is trotted out to blather on about global warming – the media’s latest “crisis du jour” (which already seems to be fading). The way that both the Congress and Senate are acting it is as though they have nothing better to do with their time these days, and most citizen’s concerns about rampant illegal immigration, equitable and sustainable universal healthcare for the working poor of our country, and the future stable funding of social security have all been solved and put to bed. Gasoline prices are going through the roof unabated as the mega-profiting oil companies take economic hostage of the American people, yet our elected representatives keep chomping at the microphones to have their the last 15-seconds of soundbite fame. Beautiful scenario, ain’t it?

In most employment situations an employee is given a three-month probation period during which their performance is judged. Seeing how the Democrats and Republicans have been acting in the past three months, I, and the legions of Americans who always seem to be on the short end of the stick would give them a resounding “F.” The unfortunate part is that we can only terminate our current employees in both houses of congress in Washington DC every two years.

Democrats are such a gas....I love them and their dog and pony shows that they love to put on "in the search of truth." Of course, while I'm an independent, you will NEVER see the Democratic party investigate one of their own, especially Sen. Edward Kennedy whose little incident at Chappaquidick which resulted in the death of a young female campaign worker has NEVER been resolved.

And plus we won't talk about Sen. Diane Feinstein's husband's benefiting from U.S. Government Defense contracts. (Specifically, SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein. /Metroactive, http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html)

The latest Democratic dog-and-pony show is going to be happening in San Diego at the California State Democratic COnvention to be held in a month or so. Despite all of the voluminous testimony that has occurred on this subject, these small timing lefties are now going to have THEIR OWN 9/11 panel discussion where they are going to have a "grand jury" determine "what really happened" on September 11, 2001. Of course, mark my words: they will find Pres. Bush guilty of having direct complicity with the 18 Muslim terrorist hijackers who were actually hired by Israel (who was a subcontractor) of Haliburton because they are being secretly controlled by Vice President Cheney.

Get with the times, dudes! Work on bettering the future...not retreading past history.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mike Copass
Phone: 619.665.9415 or 619.222.2120
Email: San_Diego_CGJ@yahoo.com

Event Date: Saturday, April 14, 2007, Noon to 8:00 PM
Location: Aztec Center, San Diego State University
* *
*Experts to Testify at 9/11 Investigation Hearing*

*San Diego, California* ? On Saturday, April 14, 2007 San Diegans for
9/11 Truth, a local citizens activist group, will conduct a citizens?
grand jury investigation into the wrongful deaths that occurred at the
World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.
From noon to 8:00 PM, grand jurors will assemble in the
Aztec Center Council Chambers at San Diego State University to hear
testimony from expert witnesses, including architect Richard Gage,
physicist Steven Jones, and engineer Kevin Ryan. Don Paul and Jim
Hoffman, coauthors of /The //9/11/01// Crimes in //New York City//:
Waking Up from Our Nightmare/, will lead the investigation.
The event has been endorsed by Pilots for 9/11 Truth,
Republicans for 9/11 Truth, Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, /The
Progressive Post/ and retired USAF Lt. Col. Dr. Robert Bowman, a former
director of the ?Star Wars? programs under Presidents Ford and Carter.
The public is welcome to attend. The common-law grand jury of 23
citizens will be impaneled to review the evidence and the grand jury?s
findings will be announced the following week.
For more information see
http://sd911truth.org/SD-Grand-Jury.html, www.SDCGJ.NetRootz.com
<http://www.sdcgj.netrootz.com/>, or contact Mike Copass at
San_Diego_CGJ@yahoo.com .

###

Founded in September 2005, San Diegans for 9/11 Truth is one of many
citizen activist organizations across the country dedicated to
uncovering the truth behind the wrongful deaths that took place on
September 11, 2001. Concerned about evidence that contradicts the
official account published in /The 9/11 Commission Report/, the group is
calling for a reopening of the case and an unbiased investigation into
the events of 9/11.

A well-intentioned friend sent me an e-mail link to a video on Google about the latest conspiracy theory being bounced around the Internet (Al Gore's invention) about the destruction of the World Trade Center. I sent him this reply:

I look at things this way: having been trained as a journalist "in the good old days" there was a certain censoring of whacky ideas. When i worked in the newsroom of a TV station in the early 80's I saw the stuff that was sent in by viewers -- some of it was legit, but some of it were concocted by whack jobs. Then came the king of crackpots, Art Bell, who would just put anyone on the air. Then came the Internet which democratized information flow and which allows every kook to post their whacked out theories, and now with camcorders available to everyone, individuals have to become their own censors.

As I experienced there are so many people out there with their own agendas and theories which have been legitimized. Heck, the grandaddys of them all are those who believe that we never landed on the moon and that it was all staged in a Hollywood movie studio. While I give a quarter of a listen to the crackpots just because I'm always in what other people think and these days I need a good laugh, I believe in the true experts, the true engineers. As for 9/11, I put my weight in the study which was published by Popular Mechanics. The link to the site is here
and well worth looking at. In my opinion most of these myths are being distributed by 300 lb. guys with long hair and don't regularly bathe who live in a single room apartment with dirty terry cloth material hanged on thumbtacks and a manegy cat.

Like my mom always said, just because something is printed on paper doesn't make it true.

It feels good when I hear outrageous things in the news media and others have the same reaction. The latest involves the Kool Aid drinking left-wing Democrats who were yelling and screaming this past week that Fox News Channel would be sponsoring a debate in Reno, Nevada in August amongst the candidates. "Sacre bleu," screamed the whacked out left-wingnuts. Well, the Las Vegas Journal Review has spoken out on the idiocy of the Democrats...which turns out to be the very reason why I will NEVER be a registered Democrat, although many of my views are extremely liberal. It is funny how conservative Republicans don't scream and yell and piss in their pants over the left-leaning MSNBC (very low rated third cable news network).

The newspaper couldn't say it anymore aptly when they say, "What better way for the party to reach conservative and "values" voters who might consider changing allegiances?"

And when you get right down to it, the Dems just don't have an awe-inspiring bunch of candidates. Hillary, Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, and Bill Richardson just don't cut it. They love to posture and criticize and VERY criticizable Pres. Bush and they are promising everything under the sun, yet I have yet to hear any plausible campaign rhetoric that would make me want to vote for any of them.

Honestly, party labels don't interest me one iota and from what I'm seeing are not interesting the American public at large. Just as I predicted after the November elections, you either have the Republicrats or the Demipublicans. Same people who have exchanged the same ties. Despite promising a major shift, the Democratic controlled U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate (albeit with very slim margins) have not put President Bush in what they hoped to gridlock him. The truth is, even with chief yappers Nancy Pelosi and her old worn out attack dog (in his mind), John Murtha (and on occasion the Democrats Bitch-In-Chief, Sen. Barbara Boxer), they have gridlocked themselves. Gridlocked bad.

At this point, I'm putting my own money on Rudy Guiliani.

Las Vegas Journal Review, March 11, 2007.

EDITORIAL: Meltdown over Fox

Network co-sponsors state Democratic debate -- oh my!

Hard-core liberals can't stand the Fox News Channel. Passing a television that's tuned to the conservative favorite forces many of them to close their eyes, cover their ears and scream, "La la la la la la la la la!" Then they dash to their computers and fire off 2,500 e-mails condemning the outlet, none of which are ever read.

But liberals' aversion to Fox News has finally gone over the top. The Nevada Democratic Party had agreed to let the right-tilting network co-sponsor, of all things, an August debate in Reno between Democratic presidential candidates. Party officials were serious about drawing national attention to the state's January presidential caucus, the country's second in the 2008 nominating process.

What better way for the party to reach conservative and "values" voters who might consider changing allegiances? But the socialist, Web-addicted wing of the Democratic Party was apoplectic. The prospect of having to watch Fox News to see their own candidates would have been torture in itself. So they set the blogosphere aflame with efforts to kill the broadcast arrangement, or at least have all the candidates pull out of the event. Before Friday, the opportunistic John Edwards was the only candidate to jump on that bandwagon.

You'd think the deal called for having Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter mock the candidates between comments. No, even unfiltered, unedited, live debate between loyal Democrats couldn't be entrusted to Fox News.

The approach of outfits such as MoveOn.org is so juvenile it's laughable. Imagine if every political organization created litmus tests for news organizations before agreeing to appear on their programming. Republicans would have boycotted PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, National Public Radio and The Associated Press decades ago.

This hyperventilation results from the fact that far-left Democrats have no comparable media outlet, nor any widespread national appeal, for their radical views in favor of heavy-handed regulation, wealth redistribution, diplomatic capitulation and economic protectionism. So they attack their rivals' messenger with a reckless barrage of rhetoric that cuts down their own allies with friendly fire.

By Friday, the Nevada Democratic Party caved in to the lunatic fringe and began seeking a more "appropriate" television partner.

Comedy Central, perhaps?