Saturday, October 30, 2004
Time for Reality Check
President Bush answered Bin Laden while on the the campaign trail.
Presidential Address
I'd love to see the prez use his bully pulpit at this extreme time in history. Osama Bin Laden needs to have a presidential seal placed upon his barbarian-style face, such that the imprint should be shown in deep relief, courtesy of Al Jazeera. That arrogant SOB.
The enemy has never been weaker; we'd not have had the video message from Bin Laden; it would have come via bomblink or plane crashes into major places.
Kerry Says: They're Barbarians and We Will Hunt Them Down, No Matter Where
Uhhhh. Pssst. John. Yeah, me. Over here, big boy.
That's what the Bush administration is DOING.
Oh! You meant the Republican Party!?
Cronkite (Crank-case) Says Bin Laden Tape is Rove's Dirty Deed
Hey, Karl, Baby. Dude. Sweet. Good Job. Dude.
Actually, I think we're still not through. Remember, Hillary doesn't want John Kerry to be president. Noooo. She wants to run next term. So. Here's what I think will be the October surprise.
Internal warfare breaks out soon within Kerry campaign. Clintons call in old chips; coup d 'etat occurs in party hq. Ah, they come together to rebuild so the Clinton can regain power.
It's always the power.
Thanks for the read.
Presidential Address
I'd love to see the prez use his bully pulpit at this extreme time in history. Osama Bin Laden needs to have a presidential seal placed upon his barbarian-style face, such that the imprint should be shown in deep relief, courtesy of Al Jazeera. That arrogant SOB.
The enemy has never been weaker; we'd not have had the video message from Bin Laden; it would have come via bomblink or plane crashes into major places.
Kerry Says: They're Barbarians and We Will Hunt Them Down, No Matter Where
Uhhhh. Pssst. John. Yeah, me. Over here, big boy.
That's what the Bush administration is DOING.
Oh! You meant the Republican Party!?
Cronkite (Crank-case) Says Bin Laden Tape is Rove's Dirty Deed
Hey, Karl, Baby. Dude. Sweet. Good Job. Dude.
Actually, I think we're still not through. Remember, Hillary doesn't want John Kerry to be president. Noooo. She wants to run next term. So. Here's what I think will be the October surprise.
Internal warfare breaks out soon within Kerry campaign. Clintons call in old chips; coup d 'etat occurs in party hq. Ah, they come together to rebuild so the Clinton can regain power.
It's always the power.
Thanks for the read.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Kerry's Hail Mary
It's fourth down, the ball's on the Democrat's 25 yard line. Kerry, a rookie with only four months combat experience and disabled list occupant, drops back to pass. His receivers, Dan Rather, the NY Times, and Michael Moore stall deep into the end zone, hands held toward heaven.
Kerry Witnesses How H. and B. Clintonistas Play Another Kind of Ball
I gotta hand it to the Clinton people. Embedding the old Clinton surrogates into visible positions with the Kerry people was a great move. Nothing like doing a Hamlet-like maneuver to give yourself time. "It's a beautiful thing," says Howard Wolfson, flipping through his post graduate political science syllabus from 1992.
The play worked. Joe Lockhart, the ex-Clinton press secretary, has taken the losers in the old campaign (Cahill? Who else? They've disappeared!) down the primrose path. Kerry fell headward into the trap of "bad" intelligence. Hmmmm. Bad intelligence. Hmmmmm.
Meanwhile, the febrile Kerry insists the president is responsible for the end of the world, as we know it.
Oh, by the way. The Bill Clinton experience in Philadelphia? Very effective.
Now go lie down, Bill.
Running Commentary
I'm shifting into daily, maybe sometimes an hourly election mode. I've decided that even if people don't read my columns, there's still a captive audience within my literate family. (The illiterate ones will enjoy the pictures.) Kin and friends sure are great support.
Maybe my words will be repeated on 23rd century History Channel's special on primitive peoples of the 21st Century. How droll. I think I'm taking myself too seriously.
So, check back periodically on the Planet!
Later.
Kerry Witnesses How H. and B. Clintonistas Play Another Kind of Ball
I gotta hand it to the Clinton people. Embedding the old Clinton surrogates into visible positions with the Kerry people was a great move. Nothing like doing a Hamlet-like maneuver to give yourself time. "It's a beautiful thing," says Howard Wolfson, flipping through his post graduate political science syllabus from 1992.
The play worked. Joe Lockhart, the ex-Clinton press secretary, has taken the losers in the old campaign (Cahill? Who else? They've disappeared!) down the primrose path. Kerry fell headward into the trap of "bad" intelligence. Hmmmm. Bad intelligence. Hmmmmm.
Meanwhile, the febrile Kerry insists the president is responsible for the end of the world, as we know it.
Oh, by the way. The Bill Clinton experience in Philadelphia? Very effective.
Now go lie down, Bill.
Running Commentary
I'm shifting into daily, maybe sometimes an hourly election mode. I've decided that even if people don't read my columns, there's still a captive audience within my literate family. (The illiterate ones will enjoy the pictures.) Kin and friends sure are great support.
Maybe my words will be repeated on 23rd century History Channel's special on primitive peoples of the 21st Century. How droll. I think I'm taking myself too seriously.
So, check back periodically on the Planet!
Later.
Monday, October 25, 2004
Planet's Going Into Hibernation
I'm hanging Planet in the closet and I've put my screenwriting software in storage for the next three or four months.
Meanwhile, I hope you all have a great Winter Season (my favorite). I plan to focus on hearth and home, bake cookies, have a party or two, get out with my buds and forget the worlds of politics and screen writing.
Time for rest, good tidings and fun!
See ya in January or February. Maybe.
Thanks for the read.
Meanwhile, I hope you all have a great Winter Season (my favorite). I plan to focus on hearth and home, bake cookies, have a party or two, get out with my buds and forget the worlds of politics and screen writing.
Time for rest, good tidings and fun!
See ya in January or February. Maybe.
Thanks for the read.
Gut Check for Americans
We are looking ahead to a larger world war, increased terrorist threats on the homeland, penny ante loyalties and divisions within both parties and the 50-50 chance that a multilateralist, radical leftist-lib will become president.
What, Me Worry?
Never in my lifetime, have the sides been drawn so clearly. Now that the screaming and shouting is nearly over, we must look at the differences clearly.
If Kerry becomes president, we need to talk about this "global test" thing. Now that the U.S.S.R. is behind us, and Europe's inevitable impotence is shown by its lack of moral clarity and mission, Americans cannot capitulate to the vageries of the "urban" tribalism that continues, after centuries of it, to be the thorn in America's side.
The global test about which Mr. Kerry spoke does nothing more than attempt to neutralize the power of the U.S. The one thing we learned with Mr. Bush is he doesn't need no stinkin test. Many Americans, more than half, agree. People across the world are scared of America's power.
They should be. Witnesses of 9/11 testify to the need to rearrange our feelings about a cuddly world, run by a man whose main claim for presidential consideration is a dubious war record. I simply cannot trust a man this weak to insure the safety of me and mine.
The U.N. is Corrupt
Mr. Kerry's buddies at the U.N. are responsible for a program called Oil for Food. This scandal has Chirac's pawprints all over it. Who can justify any of France's opposition to the U.S. in Iraq? They're up to their ______ in helping Saddam.
Media Corruption
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who is not only outraged by France's arrogance and diplomatic stance during the pre-Iraq war months at the U.N. Old media has demonstrated they can't be relied on to tell us the truth, or even bring up events that might cause them to be neutral. Salient examples include the Dalfur report which states the intent of Saddm to rebuild wmds weren't part of the Report's story. Instead we got hyperbole that was not even a correct quote: "We were wrong," or something similar.
AIDS
President Bush did a good guy thing when he apportioned 15 billion dollars to Africa to fight the HIV epidemic. That isn't something you hear about very often. According to the old media, President Bush is not only a moron, but a mean moron. Gut check.
No Child Left Behind Works
Unfortuantely the national and states teachers unions don't think so, thus the president gets hammered for this too. Does it not stand to reason, that if you test students on a regular basis, you can draw a baseline above which progress is made?
It is not in any way meant to hurt or hinder a child. It is meant to help each student learn by holding teachers accountable for their teaching skills. We have spent 400 trillion dollars on education reform, etc. over the past 40 years.
Putin States His Right to Pre-Emption
Following the ghastly massacre of little children at Breslan, Russia, Vlad Putin has decided he will follow a similar policy of premption ala the Bush Doctrine. Smart man.
Thanks for the read.
What, Me Worry?
Never in my lifetime, have the sides been drawn so clearly. Now that the screaming and shouting is nearly over, we must look at the differences clearly.
If Kerry becomes president, we need to talk about this "global test" thing. Now that the U.S.S.R. is behind us, and Europe's inevitable impotence is shown by its lack of moral clarity and mission, Americans cannot capitulate to the vageries of the "urban" tribalism that continues, after centuries of it, to be the thorn in America's side.
The global test about which Mr. Kerry spoke does nothing more than attempt to neutralize the power of the U.S. The one thing we learned with Mr. Bush is he doesn't need no stinkin test. Many Americans, more than half, agree. People across the world are scared of America's power.
They should be. Witnesses of 9/11 testify to the need to rearrange our feelings about a cuddly world, run by a man whose main claim for presidential consideration is a dubious war record. I simply cannot trust a man this weak to insure the safety of me and mine.
The U.N. is Corrupt
Mr. Kerry's buddies at the U.N. are responsible for a program called Oil for Food. This scandal has Chirac's pawprints all over it. Who can justify any of France's opposition to the U.S. in Iraq? They're up to their ______ in helping Saddam.
Media Corruption
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who is not only outraged by France's arrogance and diplomatic stance during the pre-Iraq war months at the U.N. Old media has demonstrated they can't be relied on to tell us the truth, or even bring up events that might cause them to be neutral. Salient examples include the Dalfur report which states the intent of Saddm to rebuild wmds weren't part of the Report's story. Instead we got hyperbole that was not even a correct quote: "We were wrong," or something similar.
AIDS
President Bush did a good guy thing when he apportioned 15 billion dollars to Africa to fight the HIV epidemic. That isn't something you hear about very often. According to the old media, President Bush is not only a moron, but a mean moron. Gut check.
No Child Left Behind Works
Unfortuantely the national and states teachers unions don't think so, thus the president gets hammered for this too. Does it not stand to reason, that if you test students on a regular basis, you can draw a baseline above which progress is made?
It is not in any way meant to hurt or hinder a child. It is meant to help each student learn by holding teachers accountable for their teaching skills. We have spent 400 trillion dollars on education reform, etc. over the past 40 years.
Putin States His Right to Pre-Emption
Following the ghastly massacre of little children at Breslan, Russia, Vlad Putin has decided he will follow a similar policy of premption ala the Bush Doctrine. Smart man.
Thanks for the read.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
The Wounds Are Deep
A war mongering bitch is just that. Go fight it yourself. And yes we are fighting for oil. We need tohave two countries. One for you and the other for the rest of us. Don't bother me again. Anonymous
Actually, the comment above was the second I received on the same day sent by the same person. Those comments and my remarks are beneath in "Let's Fight Vietnam Again, Part Two."
If I Put it Out, I Gotta Take It
I took a chance when I added unsolicited names to my address list. I realized there would be people who would openly disagree and tell me so. Or they just didn't want to have me in their email box. That's fine.
When a very good friend and neighbor politely took his name off my list, I was surprised. But, again, that's okay. I respected his privacy and sensibilities. But...
This reader's response sure stung! I'm taking it like a big girl, though.
Campaign Seasons are too Long
We need to trim these interminable presidential campaigns to three or four months. The 21st Century doesn't utilize horseback and ships to send the news. Moreover, I believe it puts the nation into the kind of turmoil that is harmful in the long run. It's like the Hatfields and the McCoys, arguments that go on for centuries. Like the ones in the Middle East.
Do we really want two Americas, as the reader said? If we keep this strife up nonstop, we may need two Americas.
Thoughts about Everyday Things
Can someone tell me why CNN is the only newscast available in airports and train stations? Isn't CNN, noted for its left bias, using PUBLIC airwaves to proselitize in the name of the Democrat Party to a captive audience?
What's the difference between this and the "Stolen Honor" controversy? Get CNN out of the depots!
While we're on the subject of subliminal and overt conditioning, let's talk about the choice of major newspapers to place "Doonesbury" along the top of the front page of the Sunday comics. It belongs on the editorial page.
Why do we put up with this?
Thanks for the read.
Actually, the comment above was the second I received on the same day sent by the same person. Those comments and my remarks are beneath in "Let's Fight Vietnam Again, Part Two."
If I Put it Out, I Gotta Take It
I took a chance when I added unsolicited names to my address list. I realized there would be people who would openly disagree and tell me so. Or they just didn't want to have me in their email box. That's fine.
When a very good friend and neighbor politely took his name off my list, I was surprised. But, again, that's okay. I respected his privacy and sensibilities. But...
This reader's response sure stung! I'm taking it like a big girl, though.
Campaign Seasons are too Long
We need to trim these interminable presidential campaigns to three or four months. The 21st Century doesn't utilize horseback and ships to send the news. Moreover, I believe it puts the nation into the kind of turmoil that is harmful in the long run. It's like the Hatfields and the McCoys, arguments that go on for centuries. Like the ones in the Middle East.
Do we really want two Americas, as the reader said? If we keep this strife up nonstop, we may need two Americas.
Thoughts about Everyday Things
Can someone tell me why CNN is the only newscast available in airports and train stations? Isn't CNN, noted for its left bias, using PUBLIC airwaves to proselitize in the name of the Democrat Party to a captive audience?
What's the difference between this and the "Stolen Honor" controversy? Get CNN out of the depots!
While we're on the subject of subliminal and overt conditioning, let's talk about the choice of major newspapers to place "Doonesbury" along the top of the front page of the Sunday comics. It belongs on the editorial page.
Why do we put up with this?
Thanks for the read.
