03/23/2004 10:47 AM
The 9-11 Commission
I am, in this year of our Lord, Kaitlyn, sitting and watching something called the “9-11” commission. September 11, 2001, Kaitlyn, was the day America was attacked by foreign elements known as terrorists. I’ve described this day before in other chapters, Kaitlyn, but I cannot emphasize enough its impact on our culture and view of the world. The very words “September 11” are now nationally understood to mean that day. Indeed, Kaitlyn, if the liberals don’t re-write the history books and you aren’t speaking Arabic, those words will have the same meaning to you in your future. Even though you were but a gleam in Daddy’s eye and a wish in Mommy’s mind when those planes attacked out country.
As I write this, Kaitlyn, the infamous “9-11 commission” is conducting hearings on Capital Hill.
Let me state right here, Kaitlyn Mae, that your grandmother believes the wise and industrious study of the events leading up to that day are noble pursuits. Though on this date and time, Kaitlyn, the 9-11 commission was started for, and being conducted with, nothing but political intentions. I argue my sweet grandchild, that it is YOU who will benefit the most from this circus of an “investigation”.
September 11th happened, Kaitlyn, because we had an ineffective President from the years 1992 through 2000. Pay no attention to the history books for a moment, Kaitlyn, because if Bill Clinton gets his way his legacy will be a lie that he was a leader of vast depth and a visionary with great goals. He was in impeached disgrace, Kaitlyn, whiling away his time at the helm with entertaining Hollywood in the Lincoln Bedroom and using the country’s sacred oval office for sexual liaisons with young children his daughter’s age. Depending on your age when you read this Kaitlyn, I –might- explain what sort of sexual liaisons if you ask me.
During Clinton’s mighty “reign”, terrorists attacked the world trade center in New York the “first” time, attacked two of our foreign embassies, and floated a dinghy alongside one of our mighty naval ships, the U.S.S. Cole, and set off a bomb killing many of our innocent sailors.
Clinton and his team of idiots did nothing at all about any of these attacks. Israel was being bombarded almost daily with fanatical suicide bombers, often young children with bombs strapped to their chest. No wait. Clinton DID push Israel to sit down with these nutzoids and try to negotiate a peace.
There is no peace with terrorists, Kaitlyn. Bill Clinton, leader extraordinaire and cigar aficionado didn’t get that message after attacks against our people spanning eight years and after his attempt to blackmail Israel into a horrific “peace” that would earn him a Nobel prize failed miserably. The failure was because the so-called “Palestinians” wouldn’t make a deal and this for a simple reason, Kaitlyn. Read the first sentence of this paragraph. There is no peace with terrorists.
Okay, Kaitlyn. Let’s assume the liberals have re-written the history books and Bill Clinton is depicted as our greatest President. I could stop here and allow you to take your grandmother’s wise words to the classroom while asserting that her take isn’t quite the same as the history book. But I’ll be charitable and allow as the world situation wasn’t quite as “perfect” , in a political sense, during Clinton’s time as after September 11, for a drop-dead serious attempt to fight terrorism.
During Clinton’s era, the very nice Saddam Hussein of Iraq had every thief in the United Nations spouting his praises and protecting his turf. The “Palestinians” were useful idiots in Saddam’s little terror war waged on Israel. The dictators and despots of the Middle East, Kaitlyn, love to blame Israel for all their woes though they might have come from total lack of substantial leadership and thuggish control of the oil wealth. Raise the children to hate Israel, yeah, that’s the ticket.
The UN passed over ten resolutions during the Clinton era to demand that Saddam stop, stop that right now, stop and this time I really mean it. Bill Clinton, even with his twinkling blue eyes and southern charm couldn’t get those band of bandits at the UN to agree on any action against terrorism. Most important, Bill Clinton could not have gotten the American people to back a war on terrorism during his era as until then, all terrorist attacks had taken place on foreign shores. That little episode in New York during the early 90’s at the World Trade Center was handled as a simple law enforcement matter.
The American people changed 360 after the terrorists attacked us directly on our shores and killed our citizens. THEN, Kaitlyn, the American people as almost one feverishly back a declared and defined war on terrorism and frankly, this is all it takes.
We had to go it almost alone, Kaitlyn, but the US went around the UN and took care of the terror camps in Afghanistan then went on to send Saddam Hussein down a rat hole.
William Jefferson Clinton did not have that kind of American support and probably couldn’t have mustered the sort of terror campaign that George W. Bush was able to launch.
Or could he have, Kaitlyn?
Leaders exist for a reason, Kaitlyn. Specifically, they LEAD. Higher evolved mammals have settled on a survival technology that has the best of any group responsible for the survival of the herd, flock, den or society. The brightest and strongest are sent out to scout the world, be it the alpha wolf sniffing the air around the pack for prey food or the President of the United States receiving input from the many diplomats and intelligence agents to ascertain the dangers throughout the world. The alpha wolf leads the pack to food based on his position as strongest and keenest. The wolf likely got his position through many months of fighting off challengers to an end of being recognized by the pack as the well-equipped leader. Humans elect their leaders via the ballot box.
An argument can be made that if Bill Clinton were a “real” leader as opposed to a lollygag obsessed with his testicles, he would have led the American people to a well-planned war on terror. The bully pulpit, Kaitlyn, is a wonderful thing. The President of the United States can crook his finger and get instantaneous coverage on all networks, radio air waves and cable broadcasts. William Jefferson Clinton could have deduced that the terrorists were not to be appeased and made an attempt to convince the American public that an action against terrorism was now needed. Humans are pack animals, Kaitlyn, and tend to trust their leaders just as those wolves follow the alpha male with an instinctive trust that he will lead them to food.
It’s a toss up, Kaitlyn. Would any Republican President at the helm during 1992 through 2000 have responded any differently than Bill Clinton? Would George Dubya, truth be asked, have done anything any differently? Remembering that there was no September 11 during that time?
If anyone’s at fault for why September 11 happened, Kaitlyn, it is Bill Clinton and his lack of leadership. But again, being charitable, perhaps no President during that era would have attempted such an action.
Americans would not be fooled again after September 11, Kaitlyn, no matter who was the President.
So why are we wasting American taxpayer dollars on this 9-11 commission when your wise grandmother already knows why it happened?
So the Democrats can attack the current President, Kaitlyn, that’s why there’s this commission. The Democrats want the White House back, Kaitlyn, and they are attempting to blame September 11 on George Dubya.
Why Kaitlyn, if the Presidential times were reversed and it was Bush jr. who fiddled while the terrorists across the world burned for eight years, to have the horror of September 11 occur during incumbent Bill Clinton’s presidential term of only eight months, I’d be just as outraged. Outraged that the whoever was trying to win back the White House would try to blame the team in power only eight months when September 11 happened over the team in power the prior eight years who ignored all the clues.
It makes no sense, Kaitlyn, and I hope the American people don’t buy it either.
If everyone on the 9-11 commission wants to tiptoe around the real reason for fear of offending a former philandering President, than fine. The sworn testimony of all the players in the saga is being properly recorded by C-Span. Some day, Kaitlyn, when it’s not an election year, maybe your history teacher will let you hear the testimony and draw your own conclusions.
Which will be Kaitlyn, the same as mine.
Saturday
Wednesday
A Dog's Job
03/21/2004
A Dog’s Job
Ah so, sweet Kaitlyn Mae, it is time for me to forget politics and discuss forthwith one of the more pressing issues of our time. Which would be, specifically, a dog’s job.
“She needs a job,” Billy said to me after an especially exasperating day with our Belgian Malinois, Jo-Ann. A rambunctious dog she is, Kaitlyn, and someday you shall meet her. Oh she ‘s “met” you already in that there you were in your little buggy thing your Mom uses to carry you around in. Only I had to hold onto Jo-Ann with both hands and one foot to keep her from doing, well I don’t what.
Jo-Ann has no exposure to babies and at the time you were three months old. She’s big, though, 83 pounds of black-faced canine neurosis. And even if she decided that these little Kaitlyn thingies are nice and proceeds to lick you in glee, she might cause a 12 pound baby to die from drowning. Or she might decide that baby Kaitlyns are a menace to society and proceed to drag your sorry baby behind outside with another social menace, the squirrel-rodent.
Your relationship with Jo-Ann will come in a few years, I suspect, when you are say, all of three or four maybe, and able to stand your own with the big galoot.
Point being pay attention, Kaitlyn, as your time with the very strange Jo-Ann is coming.
“Who ever heard of a dog having a job?” I responded to my fine husband’s assertion, visions of pinstriped dog attorneys or hard-hatted canine construction workers flitting through my head.
“Well, she’s a shepherd. Shepherds herd sheep.”
Technically Billy is your step-grandfather Kaitlyn and I suppose someday you’ll meet him too. So we’ll just call him Billy for now because he’s part of this story. Anyway, Billy’s response that shepherd dogs herd sheep is just another example of how cloudy the man’s thinking is.
“So we should get some sheep?” I asked the obvious. We are roses wedged between two thorns here, Kaitlyn, with neighbors from hell who hate Jo-Ann, and now we should populate our yard with sheep?
“No we don’t get sheep though I like the idea. But if we can’t have sheep then Jo-Ann must get another job. She does herd the cats up all nice like but they don’t like it. Still, herding cats only takes about five minutes a day. She’s needs a job that gives her a workout. She needs to get up in the morning and get ready to do her job, she must do that job all day and then she should go to bed knowing she did her job. Until this happens she’s always going to be somewhat uncontrollable and a bit strange.”
The dog is as neurotic as any guilty Jew, Kaitlyn, and I must say I’m a bit overwhelmed. If either myself or Billy should raise our voice ever the slightest, Jo-Ann will ask to go to the garage. She then crawls in her dog house and will not come out for hours. We beg, plead, offer hot dogs … nothing. The dog’s psyche is wounded. Billy says I must watch my voice tone. Good Lord, Kaitlyn, I am the loudest, most vocal, opinionated person on earth! My voice tone is ALWAYS on high.
Now that I must maintain a modulated even tone of voice to prevent Jo-Ann from mental meltdown, I cannot speak the following words: John Kerry, Democrats, Liberals, Editors, certain brothers-in-law, and occasionally, Kaitlyn, I cannot even say your mother’s name. For these words almost always bring out a certain tone in my voice that is not even or modulated.
I can speak of the weather but only if rain is not forecasted.
We cannot upset the dog.
“I have a job for Jo-Ann,” I announced one evening.
“Great. We getting some sheep?”
The man doesn’t want to mow the lawn Kaitlyn because someone told him if we have sheep they keep the grass low.
“Jo-Ann’s new job will require 24 hours a day. Every second of every minute of every hour will be consumed with her new job. It might take her a while but once she gets into the hang of the job she will be the most perfect dog in the universe.”
Billy looked skeptical. “Okay, what’s Jo-Ann’s new job?”
I then performed an artful pirouette and emitted a loud “tada” as introduction to my announcement of the dog’s new job.
“Jo-Ann’s new job will require her full attention 24 hours a day. It will keep her occupied every second of every minute of every hour of every day. It might take her a while to adjust but when she gets the idea she will be the most perfect dog in the universe.”
An eyebrow shot up to a perfect arch over Billy’s forehead. The man did not know genius even as it was performing before him.
“Jo-Ann’s new job will be …,” I paused for drama.
“To Keep Me Happy.”
The sound of silence was so deafening that even Jo-Ann scurried under the safety of a desk in fear of the weight of non-sound.
“Ummm, I’m afraid that might be just a tad too esoteric for Jo-Ann.”
I looked up the word “esoteric” in the dictionary. It means to have a knowledge of little known facts.
“It’s simple really,” I explained to Mr. Skeptical who was then looking up how to purchase sheep on the Internet. “See my face?” I said, putting my face in front of his. “This is a smile.” I then pulled my mouth downward. “This is a frown. All Jo-Ann has to do is always insure that there is a smile on my face.”
It hasn’t been easy Kaitlyn but I think Jo-Ann is getting the message. She certainly has issues with the fact that certain things make me happy that do not bring the same emotion to her own fine self. The way I like her to behave, for instance, not barking at the neighbors in their own yard or acting the part of a crazed Rottweiler when the little dogs next door are running around their yard. I tell her often and I tell her loudly that her job is to make me happy. I then point to my face on which I’ve formed an exaggerated smile.
I say the dogs of the world who herd sheep at their master’s request are, in fact, making their master happy. Same with canines that point to prey, sniff out bombs or lead the blind. They are all making their master’s happy.
It is, I assert Kaitlyn, the one and only job of any canine.
A Dog’s Job
Ah so, sweet Kaitlyn Mae, it is time for me to forget politics and discuss forthwith one of the more pressing issues of our time. Which would be, specifically, a dog’s job.
“She needs a job,” Billy said to me after an especially exasperating day with our Belgian Malinois, Jo-Ann. A rambunctious dog she is, Kaitlyn, and someday you shall meet her. Oh she ‘s “met” you already in that there you were in your little buggy thing your Mom uses to carry you around in. Only I had to hold onto Jo-Ann with both hands and one foot to keep her from doing, well I don’t what.
Jo-Ann has no exposure to babies and at the time you were three months old. She’s big, though, 83 pounds of black-faced canine neurosis. And even if she decided that these little Kaitlyn thingies are nice and proceeds to lick you in glee, she might cause a 12 pound baby to die from drowning. Or she might decide that baby Kaitlyns are a menace to society and proceed to drag your sorry baby behind outside with another social menace, the squirrel-rodent.
Your relationship with Jo-Ann will come in a few years, I suspect, when you are say, all of three or four maybe, and able to stand your own with the big galoot.
Point being pay attention, Kaitlyn, as your time with the very strange Jo-Ann is coming.
“Who ever heard of a dog having a job?” I responded to my fine husband’s assertion, visions of pinstriped dog attorneys or hard-hatted canine construction workers flitting through my head.
“Well, she’s a shepherd. Shepherds herd sheep.”
Technically Billy is your step-grandfather Kaitlyn and I suppose someday you’ll meet him too. So we’ll just call him Billy for now because he’s part of this story. Anyway, Billy’s response that shepherd dogs herd sheep is just another example of how cloudy the man’s thinking is.
“So we should get some sheep?” I asked the obvious. We are roses wedged between two thorns here, Kaitlyn, with neighbors from hell who hate Jo-Ann, and now we should populate our yard with sheep?
“No we don’t get sheep though I like the idea. But if we can’t have sheep then Jo-Ann must get another job. She does herd the cats up all nice like but they don’t like it. Still, herding cats only takes about five minutes a day. She’s needs a job that gives her a workout. She needs to get up in the morning and get ready to do her job, she must do that job all day and then she should go to bed knowing she did her job. Until this happens she’s always going to be somewhat uncontrollable and a bit strange.”
The dog is as neurotic as any guilty Jew, Kaitlyn, and I must say I’m a bit overwhelmed. If either myself or Billy should raise our voice ever the slightest, Jo-Ann will ask to go to the garage. She then crawls in her dog house and will not come out for hours. We beg, plead, offer hot dogs … nothing. The dog’s psyche is wounded. Billy says I must watch my voice tone. Good Lord, Kaitlyn, I am the loudest, most vocal, opinionated person on earth! My voice tone is ALWAYS on high.
Now that I must maintain a modulated even tone of voice to prevent Jo-Ann from mental meltdown, I cannot speak the following words: John Kerry, Democrats, Liberals, Editors, certain brothers-in-law, and occasionally, Kaitlyn, I cannot even say your mother’s name. For these words almost always bring out a certain tone in my voice that is not even or modulated.
I can speak of the weather but only if rain is not forecasted.
We cannot upset the dog.
“I have a job for Jo-Ann,” I announced one evening.
“Great. We getting some sheep?”
The man doesn’t want to mow the lawn Kaitlyn because someone told him if we have sheep they keep the grass low.
“Jo-Ann’s new job will require 24 hours a day. Every second of every minute of every hour will be consumed with her new job. It might take her a while but once she gets into the hang of the job she will be the most perfect dog in the universe.”
Billy looked skeptical. “Okay, what’s Jo-Ann’s new job?”
I then performed an artful pirouette and emitted a loud “tada” as introduction to my announcement of the dog’s new job.
“Jo-Ann’s new job will require her full attention 24 hours a day. It will keep her occupied every second of every minute of every hour of every day. It might take her a while to adjust but when she gets the idea she will be the most perfect dog in the universe.”
An eyebrow shot up to a perfect arch over Billy’s forehead. The man did not know genius even as it was performing before him.
“Jo-Ann’s new job will be …,” I paused for drama.
“To Keep Me Happy.”
The sound of silence was so deafening that even Jo-Ann scurried under the safety of a desk in fear of the weight of non-sound.
“Ummm, I’m afraid that might be just a tad too esoteric for Jo-Ann.”
I looked up the word “esoteric” in the dictionary. It means to have a knowledge of little known facts.
“It’s simple really,” I explained to Mr. Skeptical who was then looking up how to purchase sheep on the Internet. “See my face?” I said, putting my face in front of his. “This is a smile.” I then pulled my mouth downward. “This is a frown. All Jo-Ann has to do is always insure that there is a smile on my face.”
It hasn’t been easy Kaitlyn but I think Jo-Ann is getting the message. She certainly has issues with the fact that certain things make me happy that do not bring the same emotion to her own fine self. The way I like her to behave, for instance, not barking at the neighbors in their own yard or acting the part of a crazed Rottweiler when the little dogs next door are running around their yard. I tell her often and I tell her loudly that her job is to make me happy. I then point to my face on which I’ve formed an exaggerated smile.
I say the dogs of the world who herd sheep at their master’s request are, in fact, making their master happy. Same with canines that point to prey, sniff out bombs or lead the blind. They are all making their master’s happy.
It is, I assert Kaitlyn, the one and only job of any canine.
Saturday
Remembering the United Nations
03/18/2004
Remembering the United Nations
It’s time to discuss the United Nations, Kaitlyn, and how it once was a shining star, an idea sprung from idealistic notions of a world united and debating differences in an international forum that benefits everyone.
I sure hope there is no United Nations when you read this, Kaitlyn.
Or, if the corrupt institution still exists in your time, that it has cleaned up its act from this year of our Lord.
‘Twas a time, Kaitlyn, that your wise grandmother was too smitten with the notion of an organization representing the entire earth in unity and peace. Which is NOT, ahem, the United Nations as it has evolved to in this year 2004.
Americans in general, Kaitlyn, are kind loving souls who willingly give of their tax dollars and young sons to many other countries for their benefit and aid against famine, tyranny and disease. Pay not attention to that man behind the curtain, Kaitlyn, who insists Americans are boorish, vain and self-centered. We most certainly are not. The United States of America has given and given greatly throughout the years, and often to countries who have brought their own problems on themselves and for no good reason. Some examples would be the Aids epidemic in Africa, the constant turmoil in Haiti, and the undefended Europe and Saudi Arabia.
There’s no good reason for Aids to be running amok anywhere on the planet in this day and age, Kaitlyn. Yet Africa has an Aids rate of one out of every four people. Haiti, a small island that could be raking in tourist dollars for its beauty, can’t put a decent government in place because its citizens are too busy practicing voodoo to bother. Europe and Saudi Arabia has chosen to eschew actually buying their own defensive weapons and training an army, instead giving the tax dollars back to citizens in socialistic schemes including subsidized health care and abbreviated work weeks.
Americans have sent billions in tax dollars to Africa, have dispatched our marines yet again to Haiti, and have bases in Europe and Saudi Arabia because Americans, hey, we work harder than anyone on the planet but hell yeah, we also defend the lazy.
At this time, Kaitlyn, the scandal brewing just below the national radar concerning the vaunted United Nations is the total corruption of Iraq’s “oil for food” program.
This program was implemented, or better schemed, by Saddamn Hussein as a way around the sanctions imposed by the UN for Saddamn’s horrific behavior. And good people like me bought into Kaitlyn.
Hey, it sounded like a good idea at the time. “The Iraqi people are starving and have no medicine because of the sanctions”, or so the mantra went. So Kofi Annan , the current Secretary General of the UN, and his buddy Saddamn, suggested an “oil for food” program. The idea was that sanctions on Iraqi oil would be lifted but only if the money that flowed in was used to buy food and medicine for the beleaguered Iraqi citizens.
Yeah, right.
So guess who’s been the recipient of all the money from the oil for food program, Kaitlyn? Obviously, Saddamn, who used the money to build more palaces because one cannot have too many palaces, Kaitlyn. Also, there’s that matter of Kofi’s son, Kaitlyn, who also raked in a handsome profit via his “consulting” job with the Swiss company responsible for administering the oil for food program. Also again, quite a few of the opponents of America’s foray into Iraq to remove Hussein and free the Iraqi people received a nice chunk of change from the corrupt oil for food program.
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The list, compiled in Arabic from documents uncovered in Iraq's oil ministry, included many of Saddam's nearest and dearest from some 50 countries, including the PLO, pro-Saddam British MP George Galloway, and French politician Charles Pasqua. (Messrs. Galloway and Pasqua have denied receiving anything from Saddam.) According to the list, first published by the Iraqi daily Al Mada in January, Mr. Sevan was another beneficiary, via a company in Panama known as Africa Middle East Petroleum Co. Ltd. (AMEP), about which we have learned quite a bit.
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The above, Kaitlyn, is an excerpt from the 3/7/04 Wall Street Journal detailing some of the recipients of money from the oil for food program.
Guess who did NOT receive any benefit from the UN imposed Iraq oil for food program, Kaitlyn? One guess: the Iraqi people!
Since the US has gotten into some of Saddamn’s palaces we’ve discovered that quite a few of the “peace activists” who criticized America’s intention to invade Iraq were not quite looking out for the good of the earth, Kaitlyn. They were, however, very much looking out for their own pocketbooks.
How despicable is this, Kaitlyn, for a world organization to be part of any scenario that keeps people enslaved and tyrannized for the good of their own cash coffers?
I remember when the national debate was upon over the oil for food program and my soccer mom self thought it was a great idea. The UN was the great champion of the idea, Kaitlyn, and Katie Courac told me every day what a wonderful idea it was.
Well hell, how could I not believe Katie Courac?
I was full of admiration over the mighty United Nations so all concerned about the Iraqi people and urged my UN representatives from America to vote in favor of the program.
What Saddamn did, Kaitlyn, was give “vouchers” to his anti-war buddies. Because there’s only a few individuals who have any great need for a hundred barrels of crude oil. However, say Saddamn gave me, Pat Fish, a voucher for 100 barrels of oil. I could sell this voucher to say, Exxon, for a handsome profit.
The beneficiaries of the oil for food program, Kaitlyn, include Kofi’s son, France, some anti-war critics in England and all sorts of nefarious types.
It was just a grand scheme, Kaitlyn, meant to get Saddamn money he could not get due to oil sanctions. All guised under the noble cause of getting food and medicine to the Iraqi people.
The United Nations indeed.
The whole corrupt lot of them need to go, Kaitlyn. And if God is in his heaven, Kaitlyn, when you read this the UN will be just a memory, barely worth a mention in the history books.
Remembering the United Nations
It’s time to discuss the United Nations, Kaitlyn, and how it once was a shining star, an idea sprung from idealistic notions of a world united and debating differences in an international forum that benefits everyone.
I sure hope there is no United Nations when you read this, Kaitlyn.
Or, if the corrupt institution still exists in your time, that it has cleaned up its act from this year of our Lord.
‘Twas a time, Kaitlyn, that your wise grandmother was too smitten with the notion of an organization representing the entire earth in unity and peace. Which is NOT, ahem, the United Nations as it has evolved to in this year 2004.
Americans in general, Kaitlyn, are kind loving souls who willingly give of their tax dollars and young sons to many other countries for their benefit and aid against famine, tyranny and disease. Pay not attention to that man behind the curtain, Kaitlyn, who insists Americans are boorish, vain and self-centered. We most certainly are not. The United States of America has given and given greatly throughout the years, and often to countries who have brought their own problems on themselves and for no good reason. Some examples would be the Aids epidemic in Africa, the constant turmoil in Haiti, and the undefended Europe and Saudi Arabia.
There’s no good reason for Aids to be running amok anywhere on the planet in this day and age, Kaitlyn. Yet Africa has an Aids rate of one out of every four people. Haiti, a small island that could be raking in tourist dollars for its beauty, can’t put a decent government in place because its citizens are too busy practicing voodoo to bother. Europe and Saudi Arabia has chosen to eschew actually buying their own defensive weapons and training an army, instead giving the tax dollars back to citizens in socialistic schemes including subsidized health care and abbreviated work weeks.
Americans have sent billions in tax dollars to Africa, have dispatched our marines yet again to Haiti, and have bases in Europe and Saudi Arabia because Americans, hey, we work harder than anyone on the planet but hell yeah, we also defend the lazy.
At this time, Kaitlyn, the scandal brewing just below the national radar concerning the vaunted United Nations is the total corruption of Iraq’s “oil for food” program.
This program was implemented, or better schemed, by Saddamn Hussein as a way around the sanctions imposed by the UN for Saddamn’s horrific behavior. And good people like me bought into Kaitlyn.
Hey, it sounded like a good idea at the time. “The Iraqi people are starving and have no medicine because of the sanctions”, or so the mantra went. So Kofi Annan , the current Secretary General of the UN, and his buddy Saddamn, suggested an “oil for food” program. The idea was that sanctions on Iraqi oil would be lifted but only if the money that flowed in was used to buy food and medicine for the beleaguered Iraqi citizens.
Yeah, right.
So guess who’s been the recipient of all the money from the oil for food program, Kaitlyn? Obviously, Saddamn, who used the money to build more palaces because one cannot have too many palaces, Kaitlyn. Also, there’s that matter of Kofi’s son, Kaitlyn, who also raked in a handsome profit via his “consulting” job with the Swiss company responsible for administering the oil for food program. Also again, quite a few of the opponents of America’s foray into Iraq to remove Hussein and free the Iraqi people received a nice chunk of change from the corrupt oil for food program.
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The list, compiled in Arabic from documents uncovered in Iraq's oil ministry, included many of Saddam's nearest and dearest from some 50 countries, including the PLO, pro-Saddam British MP George Galloway, and French politician Charles Pasqua. (Messrs. Galloway and Pasqua have denied receiving anything from Saddam.) According to the list, first published by the Iraqi daily Al Mada in January, Mr. Sevan was another beneficiary, via a company in Panama known as Africa Middle East Petroleum Co. Ltd. (AMEP), about which we have learned quite a bit.
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The above, Kaitlyn, is an excerpt from the 3/7/04 Wall Street Journal detailing some of the recipients of money from the oil for food program.
Guess who did NOT receive any benefit from the UN imposed Iraq oil for food program, Kaitlyn? One guess: the Iraqi people!
Since the US has gotten into some of Saddamn’s palaces we’ve discovered that quite a few of the “peace activists” who criticized America’s intention to invade Iraq were not quite looking out for the good of the earth, Kaitlyn. They were, however, very much looking out for their own pocketbooks.
How despicable is this, Kaitlyn, for a world organization to be part of any scenario that keeps people enslaved and tyrannized for the good of their own cash coffers?
I remember when the national debate was upon over the oil for food program and my soccer mom self thought it was a great idea. The UN was the great champion of the idea, Kaitlyn, and Katie Courac told me every day what a wonderful idea it was.
Well hell, how could I not believe Katie Courac?
I was full of admiration over the mighty United Nations so all concerned about the Iraqi people and urged my UN representatives from America to vote in favor of the program.
What Saddamn did, Kaitlyn, was give “vouchers” to his anti-war buddies. Because there’s only a few individuals who have any great need for a hundred barrels of crude oil. However, say Saddamn gave me, Pat Fish, a voucher for 100 barrels of oil. I could sell this voucher to say, Exxon, for a handsome profit.
The beneficiaries of the oil for food program, Kaitlyn, include Kofi’s son, France, some anti-war critics in England and all sorts of nefarious types.
It was just a grand scheme, Kaitlyn, meant to get Saddamn money he could not get due to oil sanctions. All guised under the noble cause of getting food and medicine to the Iraqi people.
The United Nations indeed.
The whole corrupt lot of them need to go, Kaitlyn. And if God is in his heaven, Kaitlyn, when you read this the UN will be just a memory, barely worth a mention in the history books.
Tuesday
How the Fat and SUV Tax Began
03/14/2004
I suppose by the time you read this, Kaitlyn, that you will have already begun paying a steep tax on fattening foods. Thus I feel the need, in this year of our Lord, to explain how it all started.
It’s about using taxes to implement desired social behaviors and it’s not new. The government does everything possible to reward home owners, for instance, because citizens who own their own home are considered desirable citizens. Why? Homeowners are less likely to be criminals, more likely to work at productive jobs that mortgage payments be met, less likely to wander as nomads across the fruited plains, more likely to give their children a steady education at local schools, and help to form a network of local interest groups which contributes to the civic diversity that forms the political culture that keeps the country humming. So an American citizen who owns a house gets to claim interest payments on the mortgage, property taxes and any interest paid for home improvements, on their federal income taxes. There are many agencies all about to assist anyone wishing to purchase their own home. Home ownership, Kaitlyn, is the best thing an average citizen has going for them so aim toward that end as one of your top five goals in life. The government wants you to do it and will reward you for same.
If “good behavior” such as home ownership is rewarded via the tax code in America, well why shouldn’t “bad behavior” also be penalized via the same tax code?
Well if I were to present the argument against punishing bad behavior through the tax code I’d begin with the oldest liberal argument in the world. Taking a page from the liberal book I’d throw it right back at them. Rewarding good behavior is always more effective than punishing bad behavior.
There’s also a slew of other reasons that taxing “bad” behavior is just plain dangerous in a democracy. I shall begin with smoking.
Do not ever begin smoking cigarettes, Kaitlyn, and this wise grandmother will give you several VALID reasons why not. First, the things are very expensive (because of all the taxes on them but more on that later), they do your health no good at all, and it’s a dirty and nasty habit. There are plenty of folks alive and happy today that do not smoke so it’s not like one can’t be fulfilled and NOT smoke.
What I won’t say about cigarette smoking, Kaitlyn, is the lies foisted upon our country by the liberals in their frenzied effort to tax cigarettes to death for money in their coffers. Second hand smoke does NOT kill, Kaitlyn, no matter how much the history books will tell you this silly thing. Second hand smoke is not a pleasant thing my dear granddaughter, and non-smokers have every right to object to it. During the lead up to making cigarette smokers public enemy number one, the liberals would publish “statistics” such as “one million people died last year from second hand smoke”.
How do they know this, Kaitlyn? I have never seen a death certificate claiming cause of death by second hand smoke. It could be that this lie brings out the emotion in the innocent non-smokers that they may fear death by the evil smoker. I have, at least as of this writing, six cats, none who weigh more than twenty pounds, most are less than ten pounds. I have two dogs. One is a little dachshund, nasty little dog but still very small. There have been many other pets through the years, all buried in our lot and remembered in our hearts. They have all lived to a healthy old age though every one have lived with two fairly heavy smokers. Sure, it’s anecdotal evidence, Kaitlyn, but until I see a bevy of death certificates claiming death by second hand smoke, I’m sticking with it.
Another lie told to an end of demonizing smoking is the bit about smokers costing Americans millions in health care costs. Here’s a really unpleasant truth, Kaitlyn, but since I love you I’ll tell you. Smokers die way quicker than that dedicated jogger down the road. Smokers actually spend LESS time in the hospital than non-smokers and die quicker. I would accept an argument that smokers do tend to get sicker more often and more severe than non-smokers throughout their lives. A smoker gets a cold and it quickly becomes a big deal. I’ll buy that.
When the liberals scream that this burdens the American health care system I have to ask the obvious. Just who the hell do you think is paying for my health insurance? Two guesses. One is NOT the government. The other is MY OWN SELF! Through my JOB, Kaitlyn. The taxpayer does not pay a cent towards my health care. And other than those on the public dole, who shouldn’t be able to afford cigarettes anyway, the taxpayer does not pay for anyone’s health care. Could it be more liberal lies to get taxpaying non-smokers angry yet again at smokers, or so the politicians argue, so they may vote to get me more money from smokers so I may get elected to my beloved power yet again?
I would accept a debate that smokers should pay MORE for health care than non-smokers but this is an argument for the HMOs and private insurance and has nothing to do with taxpayer funds.
See, Kaitlyn, in order to punish bad behavior through the tax code, it becomes necessary to make enemies of citizen factionss and how could this ever be a good thing?
They’ve already taxed cigarettes to death in this day of our Lord, Kaitlyn, so the liberals must look to other citizens to make enemies for even more money. They will, as they have done with cigarette smokers, guise it under the cover of the better good of the entire citizenry.
I speak specifically, Kaitlyn, of drivers of SUV’s and fat people.
Currently the liberals are screaming about SUV’s though many liberals drive them their own selves. Frankly, Kaitlyn, I myself am not that fond of SUV’s on the public roadways. Husband and myself drive modestly sized cars and suffer often due to the huge SUV’s that so get on my nerves. They block the roadway should they be in front. They are a real nuisance when my little car is parked next to one blocking my view when I try to pull out. Often, since I’m on an anti-SUV binge, they are driven by spacy soccer moms who shouldn’t even be driving a bicycle much less those huge things. Hell, being a demonized smoker, why stop when I’m on a roll? I’ll sign onto the liberal mantra. The SUV’s gobble up the precious resources of the earth for no good reason and they pollute the air I breathe worse than my own second hand smoke.
All that being said, Kaitlyn, I really don’t have anything against SUV’s. At least I didn’t until the liberals convinced me SUV’s are the enemy. True they block my view too often but so do delivery vans and tractor trailers. I really don’t care how much gas they use because hey, I’m not paying for it. Though soon the liberals will try to recruit me to their side with some lie about how non-SUV-driving-taxpayers pay the gas for SUV drivers. As for pollution, the air is cleaner in this day and age, Kaitlyn, than it has ever been in the history of our country.
But as the charter member of my new group, “Smokers Against SUV’s” I’m willing to gang up on SUV drivers just as the liberals got them to gang up on smokers. It just feels so good to beat up on someone else for a change. The liberals count on that, Kaitlyn.
Now about fat people, Kaitlyn.
Our family is chock full of “full-figured” females. Beautiful women, Kaitlyn, but all with chubby cheeks, child-bearing hips and thunderous thighs. It’s possible that you too will have to fight the fat as we all have. Some of us, ahem, have lost that battle.
Obesity, the liberals now are screaming, is the number one health problem in America. Well, damn they are just confusing me all to hell. I thought second hand smoke was the number one problem. Then I thought it was pollution from SUV’s.
It’s all the fault of the fast food industry and you don’t suppose, Kaitlyn Mae, that the liberals would love to get their hands on some of that cash flowing in McDonald’s coffers? Because McDonald’s, Kaitlyn, serves fat-laden food and are killing our citizens in droves.
I’m assuming that there will still be the likes of McDonalds, Burger King and other greasy fast food spots in your future, Kaitlyn. That is if the liberals don’t tax them out of existence before your time.
People do not stuff greasy hamburgers and fries into their mouths, Kaitlyn. The fast food industry FORCES them to eat the stuff. The fast food industry thus must pay the government, via taxes, for the increased health care costs taxpayers must pay for fat people. So far the liberals haven’t found a way to blame second hand fat for millions of deaths each year, but give them time. Maybe fat people will be banned from school books lest the children get the idea that fat people exist. Perhaps the movie makers and TV shows will respond to government pressure to ban images of fat people from the air waves. They want that money, Kaitlyn, give the liberals time and they’ll figure out a way to make me believe that the fat guy across the room somehow will cause me harm.
Which is the problem with using the tax code to control undesirable behavior. It requires lies and deceptions. It requires an orchestrated campaign to make citizens enemies of citizens. It requires the government interfering with our right to free choice, even if the choice is a stupid one.
First they came for the Jews, Kaitlyn, and I looked the other way. Then they came for the Christians, and I looked the other way. Then they came for ME and there was no one left to look the other way.
I suppose by the time you read this, Kaitlyn, that you will have already begun paying a steep tax on fattening foods. Thus I feel the need, in this year of our Lord, to explain how it all started.
It’s about using taxes to implement desired social behaviors and it’s not new. The government does everything possible to reward home owners, for instance, because citizens who own their own home are considered desirable citizens. Why? Homeowners are less likely to be criminals, more likely to work at productive jobs that mortgage payments be met, less likely to wander as nomads across the fruited plains, more likely to give their children a steady education at local schools, and help to form a network of local interest groups which contributes to the civic diversity that forms the political culture that keeps the country humming. So an American citizen who owns a house gets to claim interest payments on the mortgage, property taxes and any interest paid for home improvements, on their federal income taxes. There are many agencies all about to assist anyone wishing to purchase their own home. Home ownership, Kaitlyn, is the best thing an average citizen has going for them so aim toward that end as one of your top five goals in life. The government wants you to do it and will reward you for same.
If “good behavior” such as home ownership is rewarded via the tax code in America, well why shouldn’t “bad behavior” also be penalized via the same tax code?
Well if I were to present the argument against punishing bad behavior through the tax code I’d begin with the oldest liberal argument in the world. Taking a page from the liberal book I’d throw it right back at them. Rewarding good behavior is always more effective than punishing bad behavior.
There’s also a slew of other reasons that taxing “bad” behavior is just plain dangerous in a democracy. I shall begin with smoking.
Do not ever begin smoking cigarettes, Kaitlyn, and this wise grandmother will give you several VALID reasons why not. First, the things are very expensive (because of all the taxes on them but more on that later), they do your health no good at all, and it’s a dirty and nasty habit. There are plenty of folks alive and happy today that do not smoke so it’s not like one can’t be fulfilled and NOT smoke.
What I won’t say about cigarette smoking, Kaitlyn, is the lies foisted upon our country by the liberals in their frenzied effort to tax cigarettes to death for money in their coffers. Second hand smoke does NOT kill, Kaitlyn, no matter how much the history books will tell you this silly thing. Second hand smoke is not a pleasant thing my dear granddaughter, and non-smokers have every right to object to it. During the lead up to making cigarette smokers public enemy number one, the liberals would publish “statistics” such as “one million people died last year from second hand smoke”.
How do they know this, Kaitlyn? I have never seen a death certificate claiming cause of death by second hand smoke. It could be that this lie brings out the emotion in the innocent non-smokers that they may fear death by the evil smoker. I have, at least as of this writing, six cats, none who weigh more than twenty pounds, most are less than ten pounds. I have two dogs. One is a little dachshund, nasty little dog but still very small. There have been many other pets through the years, all buried in our lot and remembered in our hearts. They have all lived to a healthy old age though every one have lived with two fairly heavy smokers. Sure, it’s anecdotal evidence, Kaitlyn, but until I see a bevy of death certificates claiming death by second hand smoke, I’m sticking with it.
Another lie told to an end of demonizing smoking is the bit about smokers costing Americans millions in health care costs. Here’s a really unpleasant truth, Kaitlyn, but since I love you I’ll tell you. Smokers die way quicker than that dedicated jogger down the road. Smokers actually spend LESS time in the hospital than non-smokers and die quicker. I would accept an argument that smokers do tend to get sicker more often and more severe than non-smokers throughout their lives. A smoker gets a cold and it quickly becomes a big deal. I’ll buy that.
When the liberals scream that this burdens the American health care system I have to ask the obvious. Just who the hell do you think is paying for my health insurance? Two guesses. One is NOT the government. The other is MY OWN SELF! Through my JOB, Kaitlyn. The taxpayer does not pay a cent towards my health care. And other than those on the public dole, who shouldn’t be able to afford cigarettes anyway, the taxpayer does not pay for anyone’s health care. Could it be more liberal lies to get taxpaying non-smokers angry yet again at smokers, or so the politicians argue, so they may vote to get me more money from smokers so I may get elected to my beloved power yet again?
I would accept a debate that smokers should pay MORE for health care than non-smokers but this is an argument for the HMOs and private insurance and has nothing to do with taxpayer funds.
See, Kaitlyn, in order to punish bad behavior through the tax code, it becomes necessary to make enemies of citizen factionss and how could this ever be a good thing?
They’ve already taxed cigarettes to death in this day of our Lord, Kaitlyn, so the liberals must look to other citizens to make enemies for even more money. They will, as they have done with cigarette smokers, guise it under the cover of the better good of the entire citizenry.
I speak specifically, Kaitlyn, of drivers of SUV’s and fat people.
Currently the liberals are screaming about SUV’s though many liberals drive them their own selves. Frankly, Kaitlyn, I myself am not that fond of SUV’s on the public roadways. Husband and myself drive modestly sized cars and suffer often due to the huge SUV’s that so get on my nerves. They block the roadway should they be in front. They are a real nuisance when my little car is parked next to one blocking my view when I try to pull out. Often, since I’m on an anti-SUV binge, they are driven by spacy soccer moms who shouldn’t even be driving a bicycle much less those huge things. Hell, being a demonized smoker, why stop when I’m on a roll? I’ll sign onto the liberal mantra. The SUV’s gobble up the precious resources of the earth for no good reason and they pollute the air I breathe worse than my own second hand smoke.
All that being said, Kaitlyn, I really don’t have anything against SUV’s. At least I didn’t until the liberals convinced me SUV’s are the enemy. True they block my view too often but so do delivery vans and tractor trailers. I really don’t care how much gas they use because hey, I’m not paying for it. Though soon the liberals will try to recruit me to their side with some lie about how non-SUV-driving-taxpayers pay the gas for SUV drivers. As for pollution, the air is cleaner in this day and age, Kaitlyn, than it has ever been in the history of our country.
But as the charter member of my new group, “Smokers Against SUV’s” I’m willing to gang up on SUV drivers just as the liberals got them to gang up on smokers. It just feels so good to beat up on someone else for a change. The liberals count on that, Kaitlyn.
Now about fat people, Kaitlyn.
Our family is chock full of “full-figured” females. Beautiful women, Kaitlyn, but all with chubby cheeks, child-bearing hips and thunderous thighs. It’s possible that you too will have to fight the fat as we all have. Some of us, ahem, have lost that battle.
Obesity, the liberals now are screaming, is the number one health problem in America. Well, damn they are just confusing me all to hell. I thought second hand smoke was the number one problem. Then I thought it was pollution from SUV’s.
It’s all the fault of the fast food industry and you don’t suppose, Kaitlyn Mae, that the liberals would love to get their hands on some of that cash flowing in McDonald’s coffers? Because McDonald’s, Kaitlyn, serves fat-laden food and are killing our citizens in droves.
I’m assuming that there will still be the likes of McDonalds, Burger King and other greasy fast food spots in your future, Kaitlyn. That is if the liberals don’t tax them out of existence before your time.
People do not stuff greasy hamburgers and fries into their mouths, Kaitlyn. The fast food industry FORCES them to eat the stuff. The fast food industry thus must pay the government, via taxes, for the increased health care costs taxpayers must pay for fat people. So far the liberals haven’t found a way to blame second hand fat for millions of deaths each year, but give them time. Maybe fat people will be banned from school books lest the children get the idea that fat people exist. Perhaps the movie makers and TV shows will respond to government pressure to ban images of fat people from the air waves. They want that money, Kaitlyn, give the liberals time and they’ll figure out a way to make me believe that the fat guy across the room somehow will cause me harm.
Which is the problem with using the tax code to control undesirable behavior. It requires lies and deceptions. It requires an orchestrated campaign to make citizens enemies of citizens. It requires the government interfering with our right to free choice, even if the choice is a stupid one.
First they came for the Jews, Kaitlyn, and I looked the other way. Then they came for the Christians, and I looked the other way. Then they came for ME and there was no one left to look the other way.
Friday
Christianity, The Passion of the Christ, and Kaitlyn Mae
3/12/04
Warning: the following missive pokes fun at every religion on earth. Written with tongue firmly in cheek.
This entry is about religion, Kaitlyn, and how you will not be baptized into mine. It’s rather an interesting story but I’ll skim over it for now.
Because at one time in my life, Kaitlyn, when I was a young woman much like you’ll be when you read this book, I got it into my head that I would not baptize my children, but, rather, I would let them “choose” their religion.
This ridiculous notion, Kaitlyn, came about because I was a stupid silly liberal. Do not grow up to be a liberal, Kaitlyn, and someday I’ll get more into this.
My first and only child was my daughter, Melissa, this same woman who is now your mother. I did not have her baptized because I was a cool, happening, liberal woman who was liberated, could bring home the bacon and cook it up in pan.
I was born and raised Catholic, Kaitlyn, and you should know this. Because that same daughter I never had baptized IS going to have you baptized. Only not Catholic and I suppose I can’t blame her.
It’s not like I raised her in any sort of religious environment. And I imagine an argument can be made that I couldn’t have been too attached to my Catholicism to have shunned it so readily rather than pass it on to my child. Except in my older years I regret my silliness and so Kaitlyn, you will never be a Catholic.
To your mother’s credit, or perhaps more your father’s, she is going to have you baptized but into some nonsense religion such as Baptist or some such. Baptists have their masses in people’s homes for God’s sake!
So I thought I would give you an insight into the big movie brouhaha hitting the culture air ways on this day of our Lord, Kaitlyn, and that would be the big blockbuster movie of the day, “The Passion of The Christ”, directed by a current day film star, Mel Gibson.
Someday you might see this movie, Kaitlyn Mae. It will probably be like me watching an old “Ben-Hur” today. In your day there will likely be holographs that emerge directly into your living room and act the whole movie in front of your coffee table. At this time, The Passion of the Christ is the movie spectacular of the hour.
You should hear the pundits reminiscing over this movie, Kaitlyn. The most interesting debate emerging is that the movie might spur up “anti-Semitism”. Which means being anti-Jew, at least as defined on this day.
It eludes me, Kaitlyn, why the movie would cause such a reaction. To hear the pundits speak, including some Rabbis who should know better, the Christian mobs will take to the street and murder any yarmulke-wearing Jews in the surround.
Which makes me smile because go on, at this time both Christianity and Judaism are almost inseparable, at least on a cultural basis. Ask any Muslim in the world and it doesn’t matter to them. An infidel can be Christian, can be Jewish, hey, Muslims don’t discriminate. Christianity and Judaism are quite different, of course, on a religious basis. But in terms of the worldwide culture, they are the same and are even referred to as a “Judeo-Christian” culture.
The notion of Christians suddenly rearing up to kill Jews is incongruent. Though it has happened in the past and I understand this. There was a fellow named Hitler who managed to get a nation of Christians to participate in the separation and murder of Jews. Though I’d argue the definition of Christian to one who would do such a thing.
There is still definitely an anti-Jewish undercurrent still alive in some European countries, remnants of the days when dictators and despots pointed to Jews for the problems of their own leadership. Pretty much the same thing the Muslim nations do quite openly today and with the complete blessing of the United Nations. Of course it is little Israel’s fault that we have no freedom or economic prosperity, or so the Imams preach from their pulpits.
Let’s assume though, as the reality is, that this movie about Christ’s last days was made and released in America. Christians and Jews do not clash in America and really never have. For the pundits and Rabbis to assert such a thing is crazy.
I guess the Rabbis figure us violent Christians are all of a sudden going to find out that the Jews killed Christ and get damn mad about it. Now there’s some skinheads that might take an anger to this but guess what Kaitlyn? Everyone during Christ’s time was a Jew. Christ himself was a Jew. I’m telling you this Kaitlyn, in case those Baptists don’t teach you this.
It then follows that the Jews killed Christ though technically, the Romans killed Christ. But the Jews turned Him in or so that thought line goes.
I can’t imagine a mob of angry Christians all out roaming the streets for some Jew meat, and all because of a movie mind you. Then again the pundits are pulling up the ticket sales and who knows, maybe Mel Gibson himself encouraged the notion.
For a mob of angry Christians, Kaitlyn, you don’t want to meet in a dark alley.
So when you watch that grainy jerky flick called The Passion of The Christ, Kaitlyn, just control yourself and don’t get mad at the Jews.
I fear a mob of angry Baptists most of all.
Warning: the following missive pokes fun at every religion on earth. Written with tongue firmly in cheek.
This entry is about religion, Kaitlyn, and how you will not be baptized into mine. It’s rather an interesting story but I’ll skim over it for now.
Because at one time in my life, Kaitlyn, when I was a young woman much like you’ll be when you read this book, I got it into my head that I would not baptize my children, but, rather, I would let them “choose” their religion.
This ridiculous notion, Kaitlyn, came about because I was a stupid silly liberal. Do not grow up to be a liberal, Kaitlyn, and someday I’ll get more into this.
My first and only child was my daughter, Melissa, this same woman who is now your mother. I did not have her baptized because I was a cool, happening, liberal woman who was liberated, could bring home the bacon and cook it up in pan.
I was born and raised Catholic, Kaitlyn, and you should know this. Because that same daughter I never had baptized IS going to have you baptized. Only not Catholic and I suppose I can’t blame her.
It’s not like I raised her in any sort of religious environment. And I imagine an argument can be made that I couldn’t have been too attached to my Catholicism to have shunned it so readily rather than pass it on to my child. Except in my older years I regret my silliness and so Kaitlyn, you will never be a Catholic.
To your mother’s credit, or perhaps more your father’s, she is going to have you baptized but into some nonsense religion such as Baptist or some such. Baptists have their masses in people’s homes for God’s sake!
So I thought I would give you an insight into the big movie brouhaha hitting the culture air ways on this day of our Lord, Kaitlyn, and that would be the big blockbuster movie of the day, “The Passion of The Christ”, directed by a current day film star, Mel Gibson.
Someday you might see this movie, Kaitlyn Mae. It will probably be like me watching an old “Ben-Hur” today. In your day there will likely be holographs that emerge directly into your living room and act the whole movie in front of your coffee table. At this time, The Passion of the Christ is the movie spectacular of the hour.
You should hear the pundits reminiscing over this movie, Kaitlyn. The most interesting debate emerging is that the movie might spur up “anti-Semitism”. Which means being anti-Jew, at least as defined on this day.
It eludes me, Kaitlyn, why the movie would cause such a reaction. To hear the pundits speak, including some Rabbis who should know better, the Christian mobs will take to the street and murder any yarmulke-wearing Jews in the surround.
Which makes me smile because go on, at this time both Christianity and Judaism are almost inseparable, at least on a cultural basis. Ask any Muslim in the world and it doesn’t matter to them. An infidel can be Christian, can be Jewish, hey, Muslims don’t discriminate. Christianity and Judaism are quite different, of course, on a religious basis. But in terms of the worldwide culture, they are the same and are even referred to as a “Judeo-Christian” culture.
The notion of Christians suddenly rearing up to kill Jews is incongruent. Though it has happened in the past and I understand this. There was a fellow named Hitler who managed to get a nation of Christians to participate in the separation and murder of Jews. Though I’d argue the definition of Christian to one who would do such a thing.
There is still definitely an anti-Jewish undercurrent still alive in some European countries, remnants of the days when dictators and despots pointed to Jews for the problems of their own leadership. Pretty much the same thing the Muslim nations do quite openly today and with the complete blessing of the United Nations. Of course it is little Israel’s fault that we have no freedom or economic prosperity, or so the Imams preach from their pulpits.
Let’s assume though, as the reality is, that this movie about Christ’s last days was made and released in America. Christians and Jews do not clash in America and really never have. For the pundits and Rabbis to assert such a thing is crazy.
I guess the Rabbis figure us violent Christians are all of a sudden going to find out that the Jews killed Christ and get damn mad about it. Now there’s some skinheads that might take an anger to this but guess what Kaitlyn? Everyone during Christ’s time was a Jew. Christ himself was a Jew. I’m telling you this Kaitlyn, in case those Baptists don’t teach you this.
It then follows that the Jews killed Christ though technically, the Romans killed Christ. But the Jews turned Him in or so that thought line goes.
I can’t imagine a mob of angry Christians all out roaming the streets for some Jew meat, and all because of a movie mind you. Then again the pundits are pulling up the ticket sales and who knows, maybe Mel Gibson himself encouraged the notion.
For a mob of angry Christians, Kaitlyn, you don’t want to meet in a dark alley.
So when you watch that grainy jerky flick called The Passion of The Christ, Kaitlyn, just control yourself and don’t get mad at the Jews.
I fear a mob of angry Baptists most of all.
Wednesday
“Fly a Magic Carpet to Baghdad and Hike the Majestic Tora Bora”
As I envision it, Kaitlyn Mae, someday you will be reading the words above in a travel brochure and who knows, you and some significant other might decide to take the trip. Though I’d advise seeing America first but that’s just me.
In the past month from the date of this entry, Kaitlyn, Iraq and Afghanistan have both signed a constitution, an event met with underwhelming coverage by the media. So I thought I’d tell you all about the events that might well lead to you one day sit and ponder a trip to those countries. Just so you know how it came to be that Afghanistan, which NEVER had a government, and Iraq, which had the infamous despot Saddam Hussein at the helm for the past 20 years, finally got a glimpse of freedom and began the process by the signing of a constitution.
It was because the United States of America marched into those two countries, Kaitlyn, overthrew their horrific despots and then guess what America did? The taxpayers of the United States of America, with smiles on their faces, agreed to underwrite the implementation of democracy and freedom in those countries. The United States of America did NOT, Kaitlyn, take over these countries, kill their citizens, steal their natural resources, and put in place a puppet government that murdered more than it governed. Which is more than I can say about their natural inhabitants before America, Kaitlyn.
We marched into those countries, Kaitlyn, because Afghanistan was governed by a rogue and vicious Muslim sect which allowed Osama Bin Laden and his colleagues to train and prosper in that desolate land. Iraq was governed by the friendly Saddam Hussein and his two genetically deficient sons. Saddam allowed terrorists to live and train in Iraq and after ten years of debates in the impotent UN, the US got sick of this nut and his obvious intentions to inflict mass destruction on America.
All of this stemming from the attacks on America of 9/11 you must understand, Kaitlyn. Before that date, America looked the other way and considered terrorists to be mere unruly “lawbreakers”. Once 3000 of our citizens died we cared a whole lot about Afghanistan and the middle east dictators across the region who were concerned more about oil wealth than any sort of leadership that would benefit the populace.
If travel advertisements like the title of this missive are not available when you are an adult, Kaitlyn, then that might well be because the Democrats won the White House in 2004.
Because there’s a presidential race going on as of this writing and the outcome of it might have great effect on your travel options. If the current president, George W. Bush, wins, then you’ll likely be able to fly that carpet to Baghdad. If his contender, an awful man who puts finger to the wind to decide on the color of underwear, John F. Kerry, wins, than likely there will still be terrorist attacks or, who knows, you might not understand a word of this book as you will speak only Arabic.
I have nothing against the Democratic party in general, Kaitlyn. They are an honorable political group that has served our country well. In fact, Kaitlyn, I myself was a registered Democrat for over thirty years. But the party, in 2004 year of our Lord, is in a difficult situation and I understand that. For in order for the party to regain power they will have to convince the America public that much of what President Bush has done has been bad for the country. The invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan are two very important such actions, as it turns out, and on this the Democratic party must attack the president with a special viciousness. It was President Bush on America’s TV screens across our nation the day it was attacked, Kaitlyn, and Americans, God Bless Them, generally go with the incumbent in times of war.
It’s an awkward position for the Democrat party to be in, Kaitlyn, because most Democrats are decent Americans for God’s sake. Indeed, most of their party’s elected representatives voted to go to war with Iraq. Including John F. Kerry, coincidentally.
Because when push comes to shove neither political party wants harm to come to our country or our citizens. And frankly, Kaitlyn, George W. Bush isn’t the greatest man in the world to have become President. Though he does descend from a line of patriots, including a father who was also President. Dubya is not such a good speaker, Kaitlyn, and does not possess the greatest intellect.
“Some people are born to leadership. Some seek it. Others have it thrust upon them.”
It’s an old saying, Kaitlyn, and in Dubya’s case, he had it thrust upon him. At that point maybe the man’s genes kicked in. He certainly did seek it when he ran for President. A valid argument could be made that the same transition to brilliant leader would have occurred had a Democrat been President on 9/11.
Which doesn’t much matter for the good of the country, because President Bush did what had to be done and two things have resulted from the culmination of events that lead to Dubya’s determined leadership. One, he is the incumbent and so far he has not messed up in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two, in order for the Democrats to regain power they have to convince Americans that he did.
The Democrats certainly aren’t taking the high road, Kaitlyn. They WANT the White House and to get it back, they are reducing themselves to the level of the kooks who live here but hate this country. They are also relentlessly attacking Bush in the most unfair manner I have witnessed in my adult life.
They are accusing the man of being a deserter and demanding dental records for proof of military service. They’ve paid off some shills who lost someone in the attacks of 9/11 and had them go on TV to lament the audacity of the President to use images from that day in his campaign ad. As if the Democrats wouldn’t do the same thing if they had a choice, give me three breaks. They constantly lie and say Bush stole the 2000 election and maybe some day I’ll tell you all about that historic fiasco, Kaitlyn. The truth of it, Kaitlyn, because God knows how the public schools will re-write the history books.
I suppose that if the Democrats do regain the White House they’ll likely continue on the same path as President Bush. Problem is, they’ll never get back the White House unless they do the things they are doing in their attempt to besmirch the incumbent.
Though who knows with this Kerry guy, Kaitlyn? He’s not a Lieberman, the only presidential nominee who didn’t make the insane assertion that yes, I voted for the war in Iraq but now I think it was the wrong thing to do. And it’s all President Bush’s fault how I voted because I am an idiot and voted wrong.
You see, Kaitlyn, Kerry DID vote for the war in Iraq but to get their kooky base to bring him to power, he’s got to admit he was too stupid to get his vote right and he was fooled by an evil President.
Anyway, it’s all a mess, Kaitlyn. If Lieberman was the Democratic nominee I wouldn’t be concerned. Maybe even Gebhardt or Edwards. Which names will probably mean nothing to you Kaitlyn but they too were possible Democratic nominees. These guys might have used the same unfair campaign tactics but I suspect they’d continue on Bush’s course. Because if those guys in the middle east get their way, they’d take over America in a minute and convert us all to Islam. The only way to prevent this to take over their countries and rid them of the thugs and thieves they have for leaders.
This Kerry guy, I don’t like him. If your history book has a mention of a President John F. Kerry, Kaitlyn, than at the least you’ll know how your grandmother felt about this dishonest creature.
He’s no leader, Kaitlyn. He might seek it, but he wasn’t born to it and he won’t have it thrust upon him.
Leaders, however they came to the title, are honest, decent, determined and will look out for the good of all. John F. Kerry has never taken a stand in his life. Or at least any kind of stand that he didn’t change his mind about later.
John F. Kerry, Kaitlyn, is not, or will ever be, a leader.
In the past month from the date of this entry, Kaitlyn, Iraq and Afghanistan have both signed a constitution, an event met with underwhelming coverage by the media. So I thought I’d tell you all about the events that might well lead to you one day sit and ponder a trip to those countries. Just so you know how it came to be that Afghanistan, which NEVER had a government, and Iraq, which had the infamous despot Saddam Hussein at the helm for the past 20 years, finally got a glimpse of freedom and began the process by the signing of a constitution.
It was because the United States of America marched into those two countries, Kaitlyn, overthrew their horrific despots and then guess what America did? The taxpayers of the United States of America, with smiles on their faces, agreed to underwrite the implementation of democracy and freedom in those countries. The United States of America did NOT, Kaitlyn, take over these countries, kill their citizens, steal their natural resources, and put in place a puppet government that murdered more than it governed. Which is more than I can say about their natural inhabitants before America, Kaitlyn.
We marched into those countries, Kaitlyn, because Afghanistan was governed by a rogue and vicious Muslim sect which allowed Osama Bin Laden and his colleagues to train and prosper in that desolate land. Iraq was governed by the friendly Saddam Hussein and his two genetically deficient sons. Saddam allowed terrorists to live and train in Iraq and after ten years of debates in the impotent UN, the US got sick of this nut and his obvious intentions to inflict mass destruction on America.
All of this stemming from the attacks on America of 9/11 you must understand, Kaitlyn. Before that date, America looked the other way and considered terrorists to be mere unruly “lawbreakers”. Once 3000 of our citizens died we cared a whole lot about Afghanistan and the middle east dictators across the region who were concerned more about oil wealth than any sort of leadership that would benefit the populace.
If travel advertisements like the title of this missive are not available when you are an adult, Kaitlyn, then that might well be because the Democrats won the White House in 2004.
Because there’s a presidential race going on as of this writing and the outcome of it might have great effect on your travel options. If the current president, George W. Bush, wins, then you’ll likely be able to fly that carpet to Baghdad. If his contender, an awful man who puts finger to the wind to decide on the color of underwear, John F. Kerry, wins, than likely there will still be terrorist attacks or, who knows, you might not understand a word of this book as you will speak only Arabic.
I have nothing against the Democratic party in general, Kaitlyn. They are an honorable political group that has served our country well. In fact, Kaitlyn, I myself was a registered Democrat for over thirty years. But the party, in 2004 year of our Lord, is in a difficult situation and I understand that. For in order for the party to regain power they will have to convince the America public that much of what President Bush has done has been bad for the country. The invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan are two very important such actions, as it turns out, and on this the Democratic party must attack the president with a special viciousness. It was President Bush on America’s TV screens across our nation the day it was attacked, Kaitlyn, and Americans, God Bless Them, generally go with the incumbent in times of war.
It’s an awkward position for the Democrat party to be in, Kaitlyn, because most Democrats are decent Americans for God’s sake. Indeed, most of their party’s elected representatives voted to go to war with Iraq. Including John F. Kerry, coincidentally.
Because when push comes to shove neither political party wants harm to come to our country or our citizens. And frankly, Kaitlyn, George W. Bush isn’t the greatest man in the world to have become President. Though he does descend from a line of patriots, including a father who was also President. Dubya is not such a good speaker, Kaitlyn, and does not possess the greatest intellect.
“Some people are born to leadership. Some seek it. Others have it thrust upon them.”
It’s an old saying, Kaitlyn, and in Dubya’s case, he had it thrust upon him. At that point maybe the man’s genes kicked in. He certainly did seek it when he ran for President. A valid argument could be made that the same transition to brilliant leader would have occurred had a Democrat been President on 9/11.
Which doesn’t much matter for the good of the country, because President Bush did what had to be done and two things have resulted from the culmination of events that lead to Dubya’s determined leadership. One, he is the incumbent and so far he has not messed up in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two, in order for the Democrats to regain power they have to convince Americans that he did.
The Democrats certainly aren’t taking the high road, Kaitlyn. They WANT the White House and to get it back, they are reducing themselves to the level of the kooks who live here but hate this country. They are also relentlessly attacking Bush in the most unfair manner I have witnessed in my adult life.
They are accusing the man of being a deserter and demanding dental records for proof of military service. They’ve paid off some shills who lost someone in the attacks of 9/11 and had them go on TV to lament the audacity of the President to use images from that day in his campaign ad. As if the Democrats wouldn’t do the same thing if they had a choice, give me three breaks. They constantly lie and say Bush stole the 2000 election and maybe some day I’ll tell you all about that historic fiasco, Kaitlyn. The truth of it, Kaitlyn, because God knows how the public schools will re-write the history books.
I suppose that if the Democrats do regain the White House they’ll likely continue on the same path as President Bush. Problem is, they’ll never get back the White House unless they do the things they are doing in their attempt to besmirch the incumbent.
Though who knows with this Kerry guy, Kaitlyn? He’s not a Lieberman, the only presidential nominee who didn’t make the insane assertion that yes, I voted for the war in Iraq but now I think it was the wrong thing to do. And it’s all President Bush’s fault how I voted because I am an idiot and voted wrong.
You see, Kaitlyn, Kerry DID vote for the war in Iraq but to get their kooky base to bring him to power, he’s got to admit he was too stupid to get his vote right and he was fooled by an evil President.
Anyway, it’s all a mess, Kaitlyn. If Lieberman was the Democratic nominee I wouldn’t be concerned. Maybe even Gebhardt or Edwards. Which names will probably mean nothing to you Kaitlyn but they too were possible Democratic nominees. These guys might have used the same unfair campaign tactics but I suspect they’d continue on Bush’s course. Because if those guys in the middle east get their way, they’d take over America in a minute and convert us all to Islam. The only way to prevent this to take over their countries and rid them of the thugs and thieves they have for leaders.
This Kerry guy, I don’t like him. If your history book has a mention of a President John F. Kerry, Kaitlyn, than at the least you’ll know how your grandmother felt about this dishonest creature.
He’s no leader, Kaitlyn. He might seek it, but he wasn’t born to it and he won’t have it thrust upon him.
Leaders, however they came to the title, are honest, decent, determined and will look out for the good of all. John F. Kerry has never taken a stand in his life. Or at least any kind of stand that he didn’t change his mind about later.
John F. Kerry, Kaitlyn, is not, or will ever be, a leader.
Tuesday
The Education of the Children
The state of education in this year of our Lord, Kaitlyn, is sad indeed. Though you are now only three months old I am already fretting about your education to come.
Heaven forbid, Kaitlyn, that you should be “educated” in the country’s public school system. Because it’s really awful out there and doesn’t seem to be heading towards anything better.
I was perusing around my county’s library site yesterday in search of how to renew my books when I chanced upon this question and answer forum. Below is one of the posts on the forum. I am not, Kaitlyn, making this up.
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Subject: How to Write a Book
Question: what do i do if im going to
wright a book
Response: The first thing you want to do is to get a book on
how to write a book.
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To be fair, first I must state that I do not know the age of the poster of the question. Though, I’d argue, the question is obviously submitted by someone who wants to “wright” a book so I would think it’s someone who has “wread” a book. The poster is someone who managed to find the sub-sub-sub web page of Sussex County’s library web site containing the question and answer section.
The answer as provided by the grand poobahs of the Sussex County’s library system is even more interesting. They tell the hapless questioner to find a book about writing books.
WRONG!
HERE is the correct answer as compiled by my wise self.
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Response: First thing, talk to your parents, beg and plead if you must, to get you the hell out of public schools and sign you up for a private school where the emphasis is on reading, writing and ‘rithmetic.
Second thing, pay attention in school. Learn that the pronoun “I” should be capitalized. Ask your parents to demand that the teachers insist on spelling bees and lessons. Raise your hand and ask the teacher to go over that bit about contractions and the meaning of the apostrophe. Though it’s likely the teacher hasn’t covered this chapter yet in that the day this was to be taught there was a movie scheduled titled “Heather has two Mommies”.
Ask your parents to hold elected officials to the fire. Beg your parents to vote out the politicians who throw money at the powerful teachers’ unions for votes that they may get re-elected. And dear Lord, plead with your parents that the students of teachers should pass minimal testing standards and if the students have not learned what the teacher was supposed to teach, fire that teacher.
Someday you might want to consider checking out one of the many books on writing. But don’t even do this until you have learned the basics of our beautiful language.
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Of course the bureaucrats in the Sussex county library system would never respond in such a fashion but I’m amazed that they even published this question without at least one soft and gentle suggestion that the poster should first learn how to construct and properly spell the language.
The politicians, Kaitlyn, in this day and age, use the country’s education system as a political football. Notions such as the purpose of schools being to teach students the basics of numeric and linguistic knowledge are considered quite naïve. Better the kids be taught the magic of “diversity” and the many different combinations and permutations possible in a “marriage”.
The current President, George W. Bush (you might read about him someday Kaitlyn though I understand the schools regularly edit and change history to suit their political goals rather than, say, writing the truth), early in his presidency, signed a multi-gazillion education bill, sponsored and written by that paean of all things liberal, Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts. Teddy Kennedy left a young woman to die below a pond in his submerged car after driving off of a bridge then swimming to safety himself. They may not put this in the history books, Kaitlyn, so let me tell you my own grandmother self right now.
STILL, Kaitlyn, the Democrats complain about education and how it needs more money thrown at it.
Sure. They want to throw money at the teachers’ unions for their endorsements. It’s of no matter to the politicians if any of the money actually filters down to the actual classroom.
The really bad thing about it all, Kaitlyn, is the constituencies of the Democrat politicians are the ones who suffer the most from the country’s lackluster schools. Do you think Teddy Kennedy’s children attended the same schools as the children of his constituents living in a Boston ghetto?
So my precious Kaitlyn, now only three months old and already sporting a smile that rivals the sun in brightness, it is my hope that some way, somehow, your parents can send you to a private primary school.
I’m thinking a school that teaches that it’s wrong to leave young women to die slowly by drowning while swimming to safety to save your own hide.
And if the people of Massachusetts had been educated in a decent school system, who knows, maybe they would have learned NOT to elect such a creature.
Heaven forbid, Kaitlyn, that you should be “educated” in the country’s public school system. Because it’s really awful out there and doesn’t seem to be heading towards anything better.
I was perusing around my county’s library site yesterday in search of how to renew my books when I chanced upon this question and answer forum. Below is one of the posts on the forum. I am not, Kaitlyn, making this up.
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Subject: How to Write a Book
Question: what do i do if im going to
wright a book
Response: The first thing you want to do is to get a book on
how to write a book.
++++
To be fair, first I must state that I do not know the age of the poster of the question. Though, I’d argue, the question is obviously submitted by someone who wants to “wright” a book so I would think it’s someone who has “wread” a book. The poster is someone who managed to find the sub-sub-sub web page of Sussex County’s library web site containing the question and answer section.
The answer as provided by the grand poobahs of the Sussex County’s library system is even more interesting. They tell the hapless questioner to find a book about writing books.
WRONG!
HERE is the correct answer as compiled by my wise self.
++++
Response: First thing, talk to your parents, beg and plead if you must, to get you the hell out of public schools and sign you up for a private school where the emphasis is on reading, writing and ‘rithmetic.
Second thing, pay attention in school. Learn that the pronoun “I” should be capitalized. Ask your parents to demand that the teachers insist on spelling bees and lessons. Raise your hand and ask the teacher to go over that bit about contractions and the meaning of the apostrophe. Though it’s likely the teacher hasn’t covered this chapter yet in that the day this was to be taught there was a movie scheduled titled “Heather has two Mommies”.
Ask your parents to hold elected officials to the fire. Beg your parents to vote out the politicians who throw money at the powerful teachers’ unions for votes that they may get re-elected. And dear Lord, plead with your parents that the students of teachers should pass minimal testing standards and if the students have not learned what the teacher was supposed to teach, fire that teacher.
Someday you might want to consider checking out one of the many books on writing. But don’t even do this until you have learned the basics of our beautiful language.
++++
Of course the bureaucrats in the Sussex county library system would never respond in such a fashion but I’m amazed that they even published this question without at least one soft and gentle suggestion that the poster should first learn how to construct and properly spell the language.
The politicians, Kaitlyn, in this day and age, use the country’s education system as a political football. Notions such as the purpose of schools being to teach students the basics of numeric and linguistic knowledge are considered quite naïve. Better the kids be taught the magic of “diversity” and the many different combinations and permutations possible in a “marriage”.
The current President, George W. Bush (you might read about him someday Kaitlyn though I understand the schools regularly edit and change history to suit their political goals rather than, say, writing the truth), early in his presidency, signed a multi-gazillion education bill, sponsored and written by that paean of all things liberal, Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts. Teddy Kennedy left a young woman to die below a pond in his submerged car after driving off of a bridge then swimming to safety himself. They may not put this in the history books, Kaitlyn, so let me tell you my own grandmother self right now.
STILL, Kaitlyn, the Democrats complain about education and how it needs more money thrown at it.
Sure. They want to throw money at the teachers’ unions for their endorsements. It’s of no matter to the politicians if any of the money actually filters down to the actual classroom.
The really bad thing about it all, Kaitlyn, is the constituencies of the Democrat politicians are the ones who suffer the most from the country’s lackluster schools. Do you think Teddy Kennedy’s children attended the same schools as the children of his constituents living in a Boston ghetto?
So my precious Kaitlyn, now only three months old and already sporting a smile that rivals the sun in brightness, it is my hope that some way, somehow, your parents can send you to a private primary school.
I’m thinking a school that teaches that it’s wrong to leave young women to die slowly by drowning while swimming to safety to save your own hide.
And if the people of Massachusetts had been educated in a decent school system, who knows, maybe they would have learned NOT to elect such a creature.
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