She's done it againCongratulations Miss Williams!
Australian Open Champion - Serena Wiliams !!
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She's done it again----and this time set a historical milestone. Serena Williams won the 2010 Australian Open championships (just like she did last year), making it five Australian Open titles and tying Billie Jean King with a sum of twelve Grand Slam singles championship to her name.
Congratulations Miss Williams!
She's done it againCongratulations Miss Williams!
Obama v. Alito (lost decorum)
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From a shouted "You lie!" last year to a mouthed equivalent this year, by a Supreme Court Justice, no less, President Obama is left with little delusions about thriving bipartisanship. At this rate, next year they'll probably quietly file out or just sit and listen to their ipods. Odd how the Chamber was stoic during the Monkey's disastrous, biased and lying eight years.
From a shouted "You lie!" last year to a mouthed equivalent this year, by a Supreme Court Justice, no less, President Obama is left with little delusions about thriving bipartisanship. At this rate, next year they'll probably quietly file out or just sit and listen to their ipods. Odd how the Chamber was stoic during the Monkey's disastrous, biased and lying eight years.
Kotecki was so craaaeeezy!
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A very belated farewell to James Kotecki's video 'blog:
A very belated farewell to James Kotecki's video 'blog:
click Kotecki below to view his other included clips
Paranoia causes security scare
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In the latest reported airplane scare a young Orthodox Jew's religious equipment sent off suspicion and concern. The boxes he was strapping to himself (phylacteries) appeared to one passenger akin to explosive devices and this alarmed passenger alerted the plane staff who, in turn, alerted the pilot and the plane was promptly diverted to Philadelphia.
Turns out the phylacteries were as innocuous, if not a tad ridiculous, as a birthday party clown. But, hey, who knows in this day-and-age, right? After all, if fingernail clippers, water bottles and pen knives can torpedo a plane out of the sky, why shouldn't undue suspicion be aroused by dynamite looking objects?
Mike Krumboltz suggests this episode "clearly highlights the need for more cultural understanding." Really? Sounds to me like Mr Krumboltz is giving this incident an unwarranted anti-Semitic claim. In fact, the entire piece reads tolerantly of this airplane scare. I doubt the same measure of tolerance or "cultural understanding" would be shown were the individual Arab looking or dark skinned. Were Mr Krumboltz to express two cents on the reversed scenario I think it unlikely the man would forgive it as cultural misunderstanding; rather the sentiment would ring along the lines of better-safe-than-sorry. This latest scare isn't any less preposterous or more offensive just because the suspect was a Jew.
If anything the security scare was a result of our heightened climate. Paranoia transforms goblins and threats out of everyone else's appearances and behaviours. The "see something, say something" public announcements are a benign way of encouraging civilian spies (and counterproductive in big cities like NYC or LA where freaks and strange, often mentally sick, behaviour is de rigeur) as if folks wouldn't otherwise report possible danger.
And you never will know once you stop thinking and abandon common sense.
In the latest reported airplane scare a young Orthodox Jew's religious equipment sent off suspicion and concern. The boxes he was strapping to himself (phylacteries) appeared to one passenger akin to explosive devices and this alarmed passenger alerted the plane staff who, in turn, alerted the pilot and the plane was promptly diverted to Philadelphia.
This latest scare isn't any less preposterous or more offensive just because the suspect was a Jew.
If anything the security scare was a result of our heightened climate. Paranoia transforms goblins and threats out of everyone else's appearances and behaviours. The "see something, say something" public announcements are a benign way of encouraging civilian spies (and counterproductive in big cities like NYC or LA where freaks and strange, often mentally sick, behaviour is de rigeur) as if folks wouldn't otherwise report possible danger.
Mass paranoia lives by 'better-safe-than-sorry' and 'you-never-know' which, taken for a life creed, amounts to cowardice and moral impotence. A nail file presents no danger to a commercial plane anymore than baby formula but governments and the security industry would have you misthinking differently because, well, hey, you never know.Paranoia transforms goblins and threats out of everyone else's appearances and behaviours.
And you never will know once you stop thinking and abandon common sense.
Rush Limbaugh proves again he's a moron
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Rush Limbaugh never tires of proving why he is a moron---a hateful, bigoted, beedy brained, fat, reactionary, Obama-hating, asshole moron; because a swell of other smaller and poorer hateful, bigoted, beedy brained, Obama-hating, asshole morons tune into his daily demagoguery thus encouraging this angry windbag.
If his harsh words concerning the disaster in Haiti stung, then so be it. Protested the pig man, “If I said it, I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president.”
Evil abounds according to the incomprehensible balance of universal Order and, definitely, the history of Man. The only evil more boundless than racism is stupidity or willful ignorance.
Rush Limbaugh never tires of proving why he is a moron
If his harsh words concerning the disaster in Haiti stung, then so be it. Protested the pig man, “If I said it, I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president.”
Drug cartels have opened killing season
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I return to Mexico so often because I like the easy living and weather and language, but its charming primitiveness is fast on its way to returning to barbarism. Already a Third World country known for its poverty, cheap labor, drugs and soccer, Mexico's traditions are itching to re-light a powder keg that will have blood running in the streets and heads poached on sticks...or used by twisted beaners as soccer balls.
No drug trafficking mayhem is evident here in beautiful, touristy, homophilic Puerto Vallarta; but I probably wont be returning next year.
Today, sixty-nine---sixty-nine!---murders blotted pig scanners. Sixty-nine murders in one day. Lest you mistake them for simple gun slinging desperados the henchmen are fond of torture and chopping up bodies and discarding the remains in public as gruesome calling cards. Destruction is not removed from creativity. One victim, a word to be applied loosely as nearly all the unfortunates tend to have some connection to the cartels, was a former pig whose face was removed and stitched on to a soccer ball. They do love soccer!
Poverty is NOT at the root of this diabolical terror. Nor is illiteracy. Loads of places have poor and stupid and unhappy people but they don't reek havoc and terrorism on the country because they're, what?, without. Mexicans like to brag about being, among other things, the happiest people in the world. Some rag like Reader's Digest, which a few years back also purported NYC was the most hospitable American city, gave them such an advancement and they cling to it. With "happiness" like this who needs anger or madness?
Certainly not tourists.
I return to Mexico so often because I like the easy living and weather and language, but its charming primitiveness is fast on its way to returning to barbarism. Already a Third World country known for its poverty, cheap labor, drugs and soccer, Mexico's traditions are itching to re-light a powder keg that will have blood running in the streets and heads poached on sticks...or used by twisted beaners as soccer balls.
Two weeks into 2010 and drug cartels have made their evil intent clear: We crazy sonsofbitches are here to kill all who interfere. Kill or be killed
Two weeks into 2010 and drug cartels have made their evil intent clear: We crazy sonsofbitches are here to kill all who interfere. Kill or be killed. Law of the Jungle has no place in any civilized country or society.
Today, sixty-nine
With "happiness" like this who needs madness?
Certainly not tourists.
Mexico anticipates revolution...AGAIN
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As Mexico moves into the new year so, too, does its traditions and one particularly eerie tradition has it that it's time for revolution, baby.
In 1999 we were anxious to party like Prince told us to. But in Mexico they have anxieties to coup like it's 1910...or 1810; either one would fulfill their superstitions. A decade's long overthrow ensued two centuries ago and it was followed by another decade's long regime tussle exactly one century later. Both were ruthless and bloody. President Calderon vows the curse has had its day. However, with drug war violence running at an all time high and inbred superstition running higher still, it is comprehensible why the actualization of this self-fulfilled prophecy has the natives restless. For years I've heard 2010 spoken of glowingly. As if it represented the Second Coming of Christ. Hang the public denials: This.is.wanted. In Mexico it ain't worthwhile change unless it is loud, senseless, and bloody.
Viva revolucion, cabron!
As Mexico moves into the new year so, too, does its traditions and one particularly eerie tradition has it that it's time for revolution, baby.
In 1999 we were anxious to party like Prince told us to. But in Mexico they have anxieties to coup like it's 1910...or 1810; either one would fulfill their superstitions. A decade's long overthrow ensued two centuries ago and it was followed by another decade's long regime tussle exactly one century later. Both were ruthless and bloody. President Calderon vows the curse has had its day. However, with drug war violence running at an all time high and inbred superstition running higher still, it is comprehensible why the actualization of this self-fulfilled prophecy has the natives restless. For years I've heard 2010 spoken of glowingly. As if it represented the Second Coming of Christ. Hang the public denials: This.is.wanted. In Mexico it ain't worthwhile change unless it is loud, senseless, and bloody.
Viva revolucion, cabron!
Criminal tracked down by virtual habits
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Get a load of this hick loser. Alfred Hightower flees an arrest warrant in Indiana three years ago but the Hoosier pigs track him down in Ottawa, Ontario---due to his online gaming habit! If only the drug peddler had a life instead of living via
World of Warcraft he might still be on the lam in Canuckistan yet to be apprehended via, hopefully, more masculine means than playing a "witches and warlock" Internet game.
Get a load of this hick loser. Alfred Hightower flees an arrest warrant in Indiana three years ago but the Hoosier pigs track him down in Ottawa, Ontario---due to his online gaming habit! If only the drug peddler had a life instead of living via
World of Warcraft he might still be on the lam in Canuckistan yet to be apprehended via, hopefully, more masculine means than playing a "witches and warlock" Internet game.
Read about it in The Kokomo Perspective
Famed Mississippi judge falls hard
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Judge Bobby DeLaughter will become federal inmate #12930042 within one hour; if not, it will either be because he's a suicide or a fugitive. What a way to commence the new year!
His successful law career and distinguished rise to the bench are earmarked by the long overdue murder conviction of Byron de la Beckwith, the smug racist sonofabitch, who murdered NAACP leader Medgar Evers in the '60s.
Greed brought down Mr DeLaughter. For all of his scholarship and prestige, he got greedy (bribery), lied about it to the FBI---never lie to them; even if you blow up a whole town or just shoplift a pen you can probably beat the wrap BUT you can't whittle out of being untruthful to the FBI; go to federal prison for selling secrets to Iran or trying to rape the President or yelling, Fire!, in a public place, not for lying to agents---and they nailed his ass.
Judge Bobby DeLaughter will become federal inmate #12930042 within one hour; if not, it will either be because he's a suicide or a fugitive. What a way to commence the new year!
His successful law career and distinguished rise to the bench are earmarked by the long overdue murder conviction of Byron de la Beckwith, the smug racist sonofabitch, who murdered NAACP leader Medgar Evers in the '60s.
Greed brought down Mr DeLaughter. For all of his scholarship and prestige, he got greedy (bribery), lied about it to the FBI
"2012" (movie)
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I went to see 2012---twice. Am geeked by the subject, the trailer and reviews are smashing, and like watching John Cusack movies.
The roller coaster of natural disasters had me on the edge of my seat, jumping at supercalafragalistic ex- and implosions and morbidly laughing at bodies meeting their demises. For example, early on there's an anxious elderly motorist who cautions her geriatric passenger, Hold on to those eggs dear, just before plowing head on into the road cum wall. Hope they used coupons.
I have to admit I totally did not catch the Biblical Ark reference after the first viewing, even though in the movie they call the gigantic, megaton nautical "countries" arks. Someone had to point it out to me. Hey, in my defence, qvandoqve bonvs dormitat homervs ("even Homer nods"). Anyway, God said it would be fire next time. So there.
In honour to the year 2012 I've respectfully added a mindful timer to the page. Bon voyage.
I went to see 2012
The roller coaster of natural disasters had me on the edge of my seat, jumping at supercalafragalistic ex- and implosions and morbidly laughing at bodies meeting their demises. For example, early on there's an anxious elderly motorist who cautions her geriatric passenger, Hold on to those eggs dear, just before plowing head on into the road cum wall. Hope they used coupons.I have to admit I totally did not catch the Biblical Ark reference after the first viewing, even though in the movie they call the gigantic, megaton nautical "countries" arks. Someone had to point it out to me. Hey, in my defence, qvandoqve bonvs dormitat homervs ("even Homer nods"). Anyway, God said it would be fire next time. So there.
In honour to the year 2012 I've respectfully added a mindful timer to the page. Bon voyage.
Xmas actually means Christmas
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For all the controversy Christians, who invariably show themselves to be a least informed demographic on most topics outside of faith, including Jesus Christ, "Xmas" actually does acknowledge Christ and, yes, means Christmas. The abbreviated form, and we're certainly not unaccustomed to abbreviations, dates back centuries when scholars and informed peoples, commonly read things in Latin or Greek. It has nothing to do with retailers.
In Greek the prophet was called Christos. Christos is spelled with the X (chi, pronounced like a hard k) + r (rho) and when these Greek symbols are paired together the word appears as a modern-day P overlapped with an X
We've since dropped the
rho letter in lieu of the more pronounced X but, in sum, Xmas is not a diss to Christianity or secularization of the holiday. Xmas is respectful and informed shorthand for Christmas. Tsk, tsk, tsk...leave it to the faithful flock to not know squat.
For all the controversy Christians, who invariably show themselves to be a least informed demographic on most topics outside of faith, including Jesus Christ, "Xmas" actually does acknowledge Christ and, yes, means Christmas. The abbreviated form, and we're certainly not unaccustomed to abbreviations, dates back centuries when scholars and informed peoples, commonly read things in Latin or Greek. It has nothing to do with retailers.
In Greek the prophet was called Christos. Christos is spelled with the X (chi, pronounced like a hard k) + r (rho) and when these Greek symbols are paired together the word appears as a modern-day P overlapped with an X
We've since dropped the
rho letter in lieu of the more pronounced X but, in sum, Xmas is not a diss to Christianity or secularization of the holiday. Xmas is respectful and informed shorthand for Christmas. Tsk, tsk, tsk...leave it to the faithful flock to not know squat.
How little I regard the war
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In the beginning I believed the Iraq War had merit. In the beginning I believed our forces had virtue and strategy and would win. In the beginning I believed the cause and effects of the fighting would benefit the American people and country, and, naturally, the world. In the beginning I was conscious of the war and the ticker-tape of casualties. Now; now, I'm not conscious of it. Now, the beginning seems so long ago.
In going through my archives I noticed there was only one entry on the war. Strange, I thought, seeing as how the Obama Administration (not "we") is engaged in two wars just like his predecessor.
Not all of us have loved ones in the militaryTwo wars and, yet, I barely register them. I regard them so little that I can't care less about contributing commentary to the fold. So do these wars still matter...for anyone outside of the White House and soldiers' families? Not all of us have loved ones in the military (or private contracting businesses).
In the beginning I believed the Iraq War had merit. In the beginning I believed our forces had virtue and strategy and would win. In the beginning I believed the cause and effects of the fighting would benefit the American people and country, and, naturally, the world. In the beginning I was conscious of the war and the ticker-tape of casualties. Now; now, I'm not conscious of it. Now, the beginning seems so long ago.
I removed the visitor counter
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I removed the visitor counter from this page a couple of days back because its script was slowing down my computer and becoming too much of a headache. Will try to quickly add another counter. I liked seeing the different nationalities of visitors to my web blog.
I removed the visitor counter from this page a couple of days back because its script was slowing down my computer and becoming too much of a headache. Will try to quickly add another counter. I liked seeing the different nationalities of visitors to my web blog.
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