Week Just Passed: Osama and Most UnderReported Story of Week

The Week Just Passed: Notes of important events from the week prior as Grandmother has determined, not the Old Media. With, as expected, Grandmother’s input

Osama Sends His Greetings

It was so good to hear from Osama last week, Kaitlyn, you can’t imagine. Here’s hoping when you are old enough to read this missive that Osama is properly buried and burning in hell as is his due.

For now, that message from this nice man was very odd.

Gone was the fiery rhetoric about infidels. Indeed, the man seemed pensive, explanatory, thoughtful. Turns out he got the idea of ramming our towers and killing our citizens way back in 1982 over some incident in Lebanon.
What was interesting was his reference to the thugs, genetic misfits and criminal leaders rampant in the Middle East.

Even Osama gets it and read between his lines. Terrorism is NOT a mere nuisance. It’s a war and Bin Laden Bin waging it since 1982.

At any rate, methinks Osama’s little message is going to help Bush. His message is part of the reason why I’m predicting an election day Bush Blowout.

8 Marines Killed in Fallujah Car Bombing

In tributes to these fine men, I couldn’t allow the tragedy of their death in war to fall below the silly political rhetoric of this past week.

Fallujah will be leveled once Bush is elected. In fact, I hear the Iraqis have been begging to bomb that town to oblivion once and for all. And yes, I do think the administration decided to wait for a clear mandate from the American people to do such a thing. The liberals won’t like blowing up an entire town, even if that town is full of criminals that would kill us all. Surely the action won’t pass the ‘Global Test’.

What’s even more amazing, a silly story about missing munitions has the Kerry campaign all atwitter when the loss of these soldiers would make better political fodder. At least as I see it.

Missing Munitions

Yes it was hysteria much like the initial Drudge Report below which started it all.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON OCT 25 2004 22:45:05 ET XXXXX NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED... The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apparent [sic] October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations. [The source behind the NYT story first went to CBSNEWS' 60 MINUTES last Wednesday, but the beleaguered network wasn't able to get the piece on the air as fast as the newspaper...

The whole scream fest bordered on the hysterical and was definitely at the ridiculous.

It wasn’t so much that John Kerry needed a talking point but that the Old Media was in on this sham story as much as the Democratic campaign.

The Un’s IAEA, headed by Al Baridi, is as inept as pretty much everything else associated with that agency. Sooooo the IAEA leaks a story trying to pin massive amounts of powerful explosives, powerful enough to launch a nuke so I understand, as missing and caused by our lackadaisical army.

The Kerry campaign immediately comes out with a commercial beating the hell out of Bush, and obliquely-our army, for being so inept as to lose these things.

As the week went on questions arose as to the legitimacy of the IAEA claim, the amount actually missing, maybe Russia took them, perhaps the looters got it all. Until finally some poor schlep soldier guy takes the stand and tells the world that his unit removed the many tons of explosives in questions. In fact, this fine young man testified that his unit destroyed over 7,000 tons of enemy ammunition.

7,000 tons of Saddamn crap he had for nothing but killing because why else with all of those explosives? To blow up the Iraq mountains to build new highways?

And the Old Media and Kerry are moaning about 350 tons!

The Man The Whole World Wants Dead is Dying

Hell must be remaining alive knowing the entire planet wants you dead. This would include your Palestinian buddies, every Jew who ever lived, even your pretty French wife.

No one knows what’s wrong with Arafat. Or they’re not telling.

An interesting story will follow up when the man finally dies to the relief of the world is where, exactly, will the man be buried.

Palestinian officials have given conflicting assessments of Arafat's condition. Some insisted he is stable, while others said he was in serious condition. "We are preparing ourselves for everything possible," Palestinian Communications Minister Azzam Ahmed told the Al-Jazeera satellite television station.

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Most Under-Reported Story of the Week

Democrat Tries to Run Over Katherine Harris

A man was arrested Wednesday after he was accused of trying to run down Rep. Katherine Harris and a group of supporters with his car.

Here

Katherine Harris, to jog memories, was the Florida Secretary of State during the 2000 Florida Voting Fiasco. She did her job and was vilified by the nice liberals about her looks and dress. Now they’re trying to kill her outright before the election.

Those Sunday Talk Shows

I refer you to the FreeRepublic Sunday Talk Show Thread , an illuminating discussion of the rhetoric and lies on the political news shows.

As for myself, the main note I made from all the babble was Christie Todd Whitman’s prediction, and she made it very softly, that Bush would win way bigger than expected. Maybe this former New Jersey Governor knows something about those exit and internal polls that we don’t.

Of course I didn’t Forget!

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox, World Champions.
I don’t like the town’s politics and I sure don’t like that candidate they foisted off on us. But they played just fine and smashed the curse of the bambino once and for all.

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Web Site of Week: Bookmark it. You'll Need It.

WebSite of the Week-Quirky, Interesting, Funny…When Creativity is Unleashed With No Censorship, You Never Know What You'll Get

Bookmark It!

You are going to need this site election day and perhaps several weeks after.

REALCLEARPOLITICS.COM

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TV Next Week: New show: "Renovate My Country"

The TV is mostly background noise to Grandmother but at times there may be a show actually worth attention.

What is a Swan and Why are They Making a TV Show About it? And the BEST show on the Food Network.

Reminder, ELECTION NIGHT-Tuesday Nov. 2-Pay Attention-on all networks.

On Monday, Nov. 1, 2004, at 9 pm, ABC will feature Monday Night Football: Miami Dolphins VS. New York Jets.

On that same night, Fox will show The Swan at 9 pm. What is a Swan? At least in terms of this interesting show?

Well, it’s based on the story of the ugly duckling that wanted to be beautiful and turned into a swan. Although, snort, there is no such thing as an ugly duckling. Why ducklings are the cutest things in the world!

Only in this show a real human being who perceives herself to be ugly is transformed, via plastic surgery, liposuction, hair transplants, whatever it takes, into a beautiful woman.

It’s almost sad as most of these women are not ugly. They just THINK they are ugly. Who knows what happens to their misguided psyche after all this stuff.

On Wednesday, November 3, at 10 pm, The Food Network will be showing the best show on their roster.

Says this would-be cook lady because Alton Brown in “Good Eats” does the best job of showing this mesmerized lady just how to do everything from getting the flour in the mixer to measuring butter without smearing up the cup.

Brown always cooks up a nicely finished entrée but along the way to the finished product he entertains us with his goofiness and teaches us as much about the physics of cooking as the ingredients.

On Friday, November 5, at 9 pm, Foxis featuring a show that’s a bit of a hoot titled “Renovate My Family”. The chortle in this show is than an entire family gets made over: their house, each member’s attire and appearance, and, get this-all the problems that assail them each and every day…all, yup, completely made over.

Next season some enterprising network is going to come up with the idea of a makeover show, let’s call it “Renovate My Country”. Citizens nominate their country for a makeover and boom, if accepted entire armies, diplomats, work forces and management teams descend upon a country and fix it all up.

Imagine the possibilities! Iran, Korea, Iraq, Africa!

God Bless America.

True Crime Buffs, on Saturday, Nov. 6, at 10 pm, NBS will feature an excellent true crime research during its “46 Hours” program. A woman shoots her husband. She says it was self-defense; the prosecutors call it murder.

Finally, on Saturday, Nov. 6, at 9 pm, NBCis showing one of their ubiquitous “Most Outrageous Game Show Moments” shows. Says this is #4 so who knows, it might be new.

The beauty of this show is how stupid people can really be if left to their own devices.

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ELECTION PREDICTIONS!

It's a simple thing, folks. Below each state and its electoral award. If RED, then it's Kerry. Black is Bush.
Total for Bush =301
Total for Kerry=237

Popular vote, Bush-54.8
Kerry-45.1
More comments Below the state talley.

Alabama 9
Alaska 3
Arizona 10
Arkansas 6
California 55

Colorado 9
Connecticut 7
Delaware 3
D.C. 3
Florida 27

Georgia 15
Hawaii 4
Idaho 4
Illinois 21
Indiana 11

Iowa 7
Kansas 6
Kentucky 8
Louisiana 9
Maine 4

Maryland 10
Massachusetts 12
Michigan 17
Minnesota 10
Mississippi 6

Missouri 11
Montana 3
Nebraska 5
Nevada 5
New Hampshire 4

New Jersey 15
New Mexico 5
New York 31
North Carolina 15
North Dakota 3

Ohio 20
Oklahoma 7
Oregon 7
Pennsylvania 21
Rhode Island 4

South Carolina 8
South Dakota 3
Tennessee 11
Texas 34
Utah 5

Vermont 3
Virginia 13
Washington 11
West Virginia 5
Wisconsin 10
Wyoming 3

Now it would seem to yon casual observer that the wise I is predicting a “blowout” for Bush what with calling the popular vote with almost 10% over Kerry. If this be the definition of a blowout, so be it.

And the wise I also understands that my predictions are out of line with the popular polls of this day so I will offer my justification hence.

First, the Osama tape is going to have a last minute effect on this election. Which bridges over to what effect the whole election is going to have on the voter in that booth as I predict. Yon voter, I predict, when faced with the levers, punch-holes, video screens, offering the choice of Bush or Kerry, is going to go for Bush.

It’s my prediction and I’m sticking to it. I don’t care what that voter told the poll people and I don’t care how the pundits waxed. It’s my belief that there is a hardcore group of former peaceniks, radicals, bohemians, whatever you want to call them, that will vote for Kerry but most Americans, no matter there social status, race or creed, are going to opt for the President.

I also think the black vote is going to skew way more towards the President than is currently expected. African Americans are as much against gay marriage as most white Americans, many more are homeowners than were in 2000 and they die in terrorist attacks same as any color.

Also, rumor has it that the Repubs are sitting gleefully as they rub their hands. Their internal polls are heaving greatly and have since this past Thursday. Scuttlebutt has it that exit polls of advance voting are showing the President up by 15%.

Finally, how romantic is it that one lone Blogger accurately predicted the landslide the Old Media and Pundits didn’t see.

I refer you to two web sites. The Washington Post’s Crystal Ball article has predictions by various other pundits for comparison to those of the wise I.

And RealClearPolitics.com lives up to the promise of its web site name. State by State, poll by poll, any way you want to look at it, it will be on this site.

Finally, I am very probably wrong. Yet if I don’t have the courage to put out there what I really believe, than what kind of Blogger am I?

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Homage to Indoor Plants-PICS!

Always Keep a Vase of Flowers from Yon Gardens on the Window Sill.

When the world is too loud and raucous, retire to the gardens of Grandmother's world

Homage to Indoor Plants: They Help Me Limp Through the Winter

I would hope, sweet Granddaughter, that your house of the moment would always have a few living plants situated at strategic and sunny spots throughout.

It is with much concern that I note how fewer and fewer households have a happy plant of ivy or a delightful fig tree growing within an inside sunbeam while adding the depth such greenery provides to an indoor environment.

The grander palatial estates will, of course, have entire garden rooms filled with broad leafed tropical plants and entire trees that reach for the glass-paned ceilings. There once was a time when even the most modest abodes required at least one potted plant basking in the glow of a parlor lamp.

Indoor plants are messy at times and at those same times I wonder why bother? After many years in a bursting Adams Family type house Grandmother finally can enjoy daily life in an abode more suitable to modern times. As such there aren’t many window-studded spaces that Grandmother’s handsome plant collection requires.

Which is not to say this most modern house wasn’t designed to have big windows that allow the outdoors in, as the designers so love. It’s just that the rooms with such wide open window spaces are not meant to house a bevy of huge plants indulged and pampered to amazing growth for many years. The few rooms in my happening house with wide widow exposure are meant to hold normal inhabitants who would enjoy the view of adjacent bird-feeders and the feel of the afternoon sun glow.

They are not designed to hold a living jungle along with those happy inhabitants is what I’m saying here.

Still Grandmother plans and schemes and measures and eventually, through a combination of shelving and artful placement, manages to crowd her fine plant collection around the major sun spots in the house.

Which is why my Dracena, Fig tree, and Rubber tree sit on a bench behind my bed, diagonally placed against a corner wall. That empty diagonal perfect for the bench to fit and hold these monster plants and, not coincidentally, best placed to receive full benefit of the wide bedroom windows and the sun they allow within.

The effect is as if my bed has a living headboard and frankly I’d rank it right up there with anything HGTV has come up with. I must, of course, raise my protective blinds but the plants have grown so leafy that they provide plenty of privacy protection.

I took pictures of my precious jungle before bringing them in as I must do every Fall after their summer spent happily on the shaded porch. As I snapped away I considered the age of these plants and realized to my surprise that most of these plants have been with me for almost my entire marriage, now going on to its 16th year.

Some, sadly quite a few, are grown from bereavement arrangements sent after the loss of a dear one. The arrangements are living plants all arranged artfully to resemble a more practical floral package than beautiful flowers that will die shortly. I couldn’t bear to let the plants in the arrangements die so I would re-pot them and treat them with care.

Which, Grandmother supposes, is the intent, that the new green plant would somehow replace the lost loved one to continue on the memory.

Scroll down below this post to see the pictures of each plant plus everything I know about them.

FISH ELECTION PREDICTIONS SUNDAY NIGHT

Rubber Plant Gone Wild

A Rubber Plant Gone Wild. 

Ficus

The always lovely Fig tree. 

"Leaning Dracena"; Norfolk Island Pine

The Great "Leaning" Dracaena, a Norfolk Island Palm, Snake plants, and some Impatiens for the summer. 

Christmas Cactus

Christmas Cactus...notice little buds this October 2004. Will upload again when in full bloom. 

Low Light Plant

Don't know name...described as "low-light" plant, Birthday gift from my daughter. 

A Column of Ivy

A column of Ivy 

Zebra Plant, Chinese Evergreen, Polka Dot Plant

Zebra plant, Chinese Evergreen, polka dot plant...whimsical plants that make me smile

Diffenbachia

Diffenbachia-Sears Plant Gift After Death of Billy's Father

Gossip/Speculation: Coulter, Catsup and Porn

A Little Gossip and Speculation is Worth Some Time for Rumination

Lot’s of Theraayza Heinz, Coulter, O’Reilly, and Retarded Democrat Bush Flyer

CATSUP LADY SHOULD TALK!
"I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up."

Myself is not fooled and I don’t normally subscribe to conspiracy theories. Theresa Heinz Kerry meant to have those words “slip” out of her mouth. Her immediate and ostensibly abject apology was also part of the plan. I can visualize that planning meeting now.

Carville scratched his bald head, hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath then said what had to be said.

“Look, we gotta get it out there,” he said to the assembled campaign planning group. This was not the normal assembly of clerical campaign planning types, or even a more formal meeting of only the principals of the campaign staff. At this gathering there were the REAL planners of the Kerry campaign, the ones who decide what will be thrown out there at risk of a campaign bombshell. The other groups, the minions, are the ones who decide on those inane photo ops involving geese and sterile spacesuit attire. This group represented the cream on the cream of the Democratic party. It was at meetings between these principals that major campaign rhetoric was decided, what to risk and how to handle it.

In attendance were the candidate, James Carville, Joe Lockhart, Harold Ickes and Terry McAuliffe. Sometimes the bigwig meetings might include Hillary, at other times Paul Begalia might be in attendance.

“I don’t know, Jim. The public really does seem to like Laura Bush. We start attacking the first lady it might backfire on us.”

Carville stretched his neck and rubbed his fingers under his suddenly tight shirt collar. This candidate gave him a serious stress rash. He was hesitant to do what was really necessary to win but he’d don a white space suit that made him look like a sperm or engage in a silly wind-surfing photo op that made him look like anything but the common man.

“We’ll get Theresa to do it, John,” Carville said with a patient tone he did not feel. “It makes sense. It’s exactly the sort of thing the public would expect Theresa to say. The lady thing and all that.”

James didn’t want to state flat out to the candidate that his wife was regarded by the American public as a flake and was thus the perfect person to launch a cautious attack on one of the administration’s greatest assets.

“Look,” McAuliffe leaned over to address the hesitant candidate directly. “All we need to do is have someone say the words in public. We’re in such a tight race here that who knows how many voters walking the fence will decide to go over to the Bush side simply because they like Laura. But you and I know that Laura Bush’s never done anything significant in her life except stand by her man with a silly grin on her face. Why should we let the public go on loving this woman when hardly any of those women have the same resources as Laura Bush?”

“I hardly think they have the same resources as Theresa either,” the candidate interjected.”

Carville too leaned closer to gain the candidate’s full attention. “Which is why we’ll have Theresa issue an immediate apology. Sure, they’ll be some criticism along that very same line but …” Carville held up his palms as he faded off. Again, he didn’t want to tell the candidate that his wife’s flaky reputation was useful for such things.

“So Theresa will get all the criticism instead of me or the campaign?” the candidate asked, then smiled ruefully. He understood. His wife did come in handy for such things and when one had so much money such as criticism rolled off the back.

“Like we’ve told you so often since we’ve taken over the campaign,” McAuliffe began, tired of telling the candidate the political facts of life but ready to explain it all again. “All you need to do is say it out loud. Get it out there. IF you don’t then the public doesn’t get the …,” McAuliffe faded off for a moment searching for the proper expression. “alternative point of view. Once we plant the idea in the public debate then all the Laura lovers might, after the righteous outrage ad nauseam, begin to think about it. And that love for Laura might go out the door when the soccer moms realize that the woman hasn’t worked a whit and has had a pampered life they could only dream of. But if we don’t get it out there, yes even with all the criticism we might get, the moms might never think of it on their own. And it might push a few Bush voters over to this side of the fence. In battleground states those newly enlightened soccer moms could change the outcome of the election.”

The candidate nodded understanding.

Carville slapped his knees to indicate the meeting was over. Nodding to McAuliffe he said “Get Theresa a convenient interview and explain it all to her.”

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I call it my ‘fly-on-the-wall’ imagining but it’s a back room strategy session as I figure is as much reality as fiction.

MORE Dish on Theresa

We hear, strictly rumor but it’s juicy, that Theresa is being considered as a serious contender for People magazine’s worst dressed poll.

And heaven forbid that we would ever be so shallow as to judge our future First Lady by how she dresses. Not that every First Lady since Martha Washington hasn’t been judged for same and often judged harshly.

By me, no fashion maven, this woman should definitely be nominated, and WIN, the award for worst dressed. Her clothes look like cheap flannel affairs she purchased at the Goodwill.

And the woman’s HAIR! There’s no rhyme, reason or style to that mess on her head. The head of a woman who could buy entire fancy beauty salons with the snap of a finger. Every beautician I’ve talked to has commented on Theresa Heinz’ ugly hair.

Brave Democrats Throw Pies at Female Lecturer”
Make no mistake, Ann Coulter is one very cool tall drink of water. Which is why the left hates her.

She’s a lady who doesn’t have time to waste sitting around hearing the spin from reality by the left. She’s sarcastic, caustic but always painfully truthful. The left hates the truth. It gets in the way of reality as they would design it. As such, they must throw pies.

Two arrested for hurling pies at columnist 10/22/2004, 6:04 a.m. ET The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two men ran onstage and threw custard pies at conservative columnist Ann Coulter as she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona, hitting her in the shoulder, police said.

University police arrested the men but did not release their identities.

In her half-hour speech Thursday night, Coulter trashed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and derided liberals and Democrats while saluting conservative students who attended her speech.

Coulter writes a column for Universal Press Syndicate. Her appearance was sponsored by the UA College Republicans.

Bill O’Reilly-It Keeps Getting Better
We’ve heard but cannot officially confirm, that Keith Olbermann of MSNBC has offered major money for the O’Reilly sex tapes.

Myself considers the whole thing a hoot and doesn’t blame MSNBC for riding this story for all it’s worth. All being fair in love and war, mind you.

And so the details continue to drip out to my everlasting delight.

A WOMAN SCORNED

“Scandal-hit Bill O'Reilly's accuser had a crush on the talk show host and voluntarily engaged in ‘intimate’ phone talks with him, according to a former friend of the woman. But at some point, the ex-pal said, O'Reilly's relationship with Andrea Mackris went sour - and she vowed to take her boss down in a juicy tell-all book. Restaurateur Matthew Paratore gave a sworn statement to O'Reilly's lawyers, saying he thought he had ‘something they should know.’

“...Paratore suggested that Mackris may have been motivated to file suit because of her proposed book. ‘He told us that Mackris confided in him that she wrote a book and the purpose of it was to take down Bill O'Reilly and Fox News,’ said O'Reilly's lawyer Ronald Green. ‘She spoke to a well-known publisher in January this year. She was told it had to have more impact, she had to do more to make the book more interesting and exciting.’ Green said he did not know which publisher she allegedly approached.”

- New York Daily News, 10/19/04

Finally…..Porn for JFK?

Here's something really strange. A group of porn stars have made a 'Porn For Kerry' DVD to raise him campaign money. Remember the good old days when campaign volunteers were just licking envelopes? What happened to that? - Jay Leno

You Gotta Love it.

TOMORROW: The Power of Indoor Plants-WITH LOTS OF PICS

Guest Pundit-Wraps Up Main Worry of the Week

At times, others are wise too

George Will Wraps It Up About This Week’s Big Concern

here

A Reminder for the Upcoming Election. 

Rush Limbaugh Trivia: Answers.

MY Answers to Rush Limbaugh Trivia

Notice I say my answers as some of them I do not know the answer. My answers in italics. Perhaps someone could offer some help on the answers I do not know.

Why does Rush say Jesse Jackson’s name as “Revuhrand” Jackson?

Contrary to popular opinion, Rush is NOT making fun of Jackson’s speech. Limbaugh says Jackson’s name with an exaggeration on the “reverend” as an homage to his conservative hero, Bill Buckly, who pronounces Jackson’s name in this manner.

Why do folks from Rio Linda have such a comprehension problem?

I do not know the answer to this question. At first I thought it was because of the Florida 2000 fiasco but I discover that the Rio Linda to which Rush refers is in California.

When Rush refers to John Kerry, he might say “John F’in Kerry”. What does the ‘F’in’ stand for and why?

John Kerry, in an attempt to be hip and cool, gave an interview to Rolling Stone where he used the “F” word. Since then Rush derisively plays on Kerry’s middle initial in a manner that one might take as the bad word.

What happened to Rush’s hearing?

Best I can tell he lost his hearing because of an auto-immune disease.

How many times has Rush been married?

I’m going with twice here

Bonus: Is Rush involved with anyone now? Extra point if you know the rumor.

Rumor has it Rush is dating a CNN babe

What did Rush allegedly do wrong during his stint as an ESPN sports moderator?

He said some football player named McNabb was over-rated. McNabb is black and Rush was labeled a racist.

Where does Rush live?

In Palm Beach, Florida

What is special about the EIB microphone?

It is GOLD.

At the end of each show hour, where do Rush’s broadcast tapes go?

To the Hall of Broadcasting Excellance.

Who is Snerdly?

Rush’s program monitor.

Is he real?

I am not sure of this. Rush told a caller one time that Snerdly was really the devil’s advocate in his brain. Since then he continues to speak of Snerdly as if he were real. I love that name. A helpful Freeper told me that Bo Snerdly was really James Golden, Rush’s call screener. Do a Google search of both names.

Why is Rush suing the Palm Beach District Attorney?

For issuing a summons for his medical records when such a thing has never been done before.

Who is Rush’s lawyer?

Famous Florida attorney, Roy Black.

What is Rush’s favorite John Kerry theme song?

The Mighty Mouse song.

What kind of pet, if any, does Rush own?

Rush owns a cat.

What political ideology does Rush hate and why?

Rush hates moderates. A moderate is really a person who doesn’t use their own brain, is unable to take a stand and is essentially the problem with any unchartered course the country takes.

When will Rush stop doing what he does?

Rush will stop his talk show when everyone in America agrees with him.

What does Rush tie behind his back just to make it fair?

His brain.

What is a “Gorbasm”?

Mikhail Gorbachov was the Russian Prime Minister when the USSR imploded. He was forced to his knees by the very steadfast Ronald Reagan. In the re-writing of history, Liberals paint Gorbachov as a combination of God, Jesus and an archangel. Gorby was nothing but a 2 bit KGB politician who would have stayed in power, maybe conquered the world, if he’d had a chance.

Has Rush ever been wrong? List…one point for each time listed when Rush was wrong.

I know of one instance when Rush was totally wrong. Rush stated firmly that Hillary Clinton would not run for New York Senator because she couldn’t stand the exposure from the NY Press Corps. Rush, usually savvy about such things, must have forgotten about the Metrosexuals running the NY Times, who ENDORSED Hillary from Illinois for Senator.

TOMORROW-Be a Fly on the Wall and see how Therayza Heinz’ attack on Laura Bush REALLY came down. Also, appropriate cartoon featuring the “Wrong Man at the Wrong Time". Guest Pundit George Will summarizes this coming week’s most worrying concern.

Revised Old Sayings

Everyone Needs a Laugh; Giggles that crossed Grandmother's path and worthy of note.

They Words Are Funny….but Very True

01. Birds of a feather flock together, and then poop on your car.

02. There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

03. When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself.

04. If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

05. Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.

06. A penny saved is a government oversight.

07. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

08. The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

09. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

10. He who hesitates is probably right.

11. If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

12. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

13. The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

14. The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open

15. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth!

Delaware-A Guy With a Pony Tail Wants to Be My Governor

Delaware-Three Electoral Votes and Ready to Rumble

Lots of Biden Laughs Plus What Did Minner Really Say About Jails?

BREAKING NEWS: Mine own wise self got polled about the upcoming Delaware elections! I have never been polled before.

I was asked if I was a likely voter, whether I was more Republican than Democrat and most important, How do I really feel about Governor Nanny Minner.

Way I figured I was representative of almost 20,000 Delaware voters and way I figure again, I did a bang up job for those 20,000 Delaware citizens.

I told the pollster I didn’t care what Bill Lee said about polluting Delaware’s air I was voting for him. I said Nanny Minner could offer me the moon and guess what, a)I wouldn’t believe her and b)I think she’s been nothing but bad, bad, bad for Delaware so she’ll not get my vote.

Emergency Incerpt:

An ‘incurpt’ is the opposite of an ‘excerpt’.

And so I watched the gubernatorial debates this past Monday courtesy of WHYY TV. I must, as required, insert my opinion which, if held to next Wednesday, the day of my normal Delaware entry, would be waaaaaay too late.

If you get my drift.

First, I know one can’t judge a book by its cover and all that, but Mr. Infante, please, that pony tail!

The more sophisticated web sites won’t tell you this but myself shall. I simply will not vote for a grown man with a full length pony tail hanging down his back. Not to mention that voice, which I could overlook. I wrote, tongue-in-cheekily, about your voice, Mr. Infante, in an entry in late September.

So I was curious about the owner of such a voice that would have me screaming at someone to turn down the volume, only to discover the owner of the voice was a middle aged man sporting a pony tail? Who wants to be Governor of my state?

Which is too bad, Mr. Infante, Libertarian candidate in a state which could, so I shrug, be a possible Libertarian stronghold someday. You Delaware Libertarians out there, recruit a different candidate. Get one with a smooth voice and goodness, forget about the freaking pony tail! Then have Frank Infante be the new Libertarian candidate’s campaign adviser. Because, somewhat sadly, Mr. Infante did very well during the debates and were it not for the pony tail (I’d overlook the voice, seriously) I might vote for the man.

As for my beloved Bill Lee, who shall get this woman’s vote though not my 100% approval. For Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee (singing and shaking hands to the song tune) what kind of politician hands their opponent the perfect ‘out’?

Yes he did. When Nanny Minner was on the grill for her horrendous education record, even she admitted the Delaware SAT’s looked bad but of course she cited a whole bunch of other more positive tests used nowhere else in the world but Delaware as proof the SAT issue was skewed.

Doesn’t Mr. Lee, during some talking spiel of his, mention that the middle American students mostly take the ACT tests which makes the Delaware horrendous SAT results look worse than the reality.

Well, yeah, Mr. Lee, if only 10% of Idaho students take the SAT whereby over 70% of Delaware students take it, that could have an effect.

But hey, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee (singing and shaking hands to the song tune) why help out your opponent? Let HER defend herself!

Which is how I know Mr. Lee is a Republican. Republicans are so naïve and Mr. Lee is a former judge where fairness should be a natural trait.

Whoo, boy. Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee….call me up. First thing we do is make the Mr. Lee song your campaign theme tune.

Speaking of truthfulness and Governor Minner, an oxymoron I know, myself received an email from the Republican party about Minner’s quote re the recent rape of a prison Psychologist by, tada….a rapist!

GOP to Governor: “WHAT?!”
“It’s time for Gov. Minner to stop offering weak and transparent excuses and denials, own up to her statements, and apologize.” said GOP Executive Director David A. Crossan

WILMINGTON, DE --- Delaware GOP Executive Director David A. Crossan expressed befuddlement over the latest radio ad from Gov. Ruth Ann Minner’s political campaign.

The radio spot states that Gov. Minner never said, “In prisons, you expect this to happen” following the abduction and rape of a prison counselor by an inmate serving 699 years. The ad goes so far as to accuse GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee of lying about the statement.

The statement the Governor now denies making, was first reported in Delaware media on July 16, 2004. Since then, the statement has been referred to more than a dozen times in newspaper columns and articles, and numerous times on Delaware’s radio and TV stations.

Then in August, Gov. Minner’s spokesman told the media that the Governor merely meant to underscore that prisons are dangerous places.

Later, during a debate in September, Gov. Minner herself said the statement was referring to training issues, not to the incident itself.

Now today, after the Governor realized that she is in serious political trouble, her radio ads are claiming she never made the statement at all.

“We’ve seen questionable behavior from desperate politicians in the past, but this causes us to question what world the governor is living in,” Crossan said.

“The Governor’s staff has been scrambling and spinning to justify her crude and insensitive remarks for three months, now they are denying those same remarks were ever made,” Crossan said. “It’s time for Gov. Minner to stop offering weak and transparent excuses and denials, own up to her statements, and apologize.”

Methinks Minner is hurting over her cavalier statements not to mention her refusal to participate in election debates. And why are they polling me on this late day if the Nanny has her election in the bag?

Joe Biden-One Brain Dead Senator

Just because Biden isn’t up for re-election doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be booted out in ridicule.

To call the President “brain dead” is a bit impolite, Mr. Biden, and I’ll never quite forgive you for that. I wouldn’t have called Bill Clinton such a thing and I hated him. Ole Joe forgets there’s folks in Delaware who actually like the President and might actually vote for him. His own senatorial self a plagiarizer of the highest degree-not exactly a genius, Mr. Hair Plugs.

Biden criticized the administration's prescription drug policies and their impact on consumers. "He is brain dead," Biden said of the president. His comment was greeted with loud applause at the UAW Local 435 union hall in Cranston Heights but quickly drew the ire of Delaware Republicans.

Ugly comment here.

As if Delaware hasn’t had enough of Joe Biden, we hear from the Delaware Grapevine that Joe and his son, Beau, have been furiously fund-raising for Nanny Minner. Again raising my hopes that there’s trouble afoot in the Delaware Democratic ranks.

Beau Biden is hoping that Nanny Minner will appoint him to replace his father when Kerry wins and ole Joe is off to Secretary of Defense land.

I say let’s kick all the Bidens out of Delaware along with Minner.

Quotable Ponderable: A Prescription for Ailing Health Care

It's Notable, Quotable, Ponderable and Worth the Thought

PRESCRIPTION FOR WHAT AILS HEALTH CARE

“One reason many people find health care inaccessible or too expensive is we insist on providing so much of it through highly trained physicians. The idea of finding ways to reduce the years of training doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone. Apart from that, nurse practitioners, nurses and physician assistants could do a lot of what we now rely on doctors to do — and at lower cost. They could also expand access to medical care in poor and rural areas shunned by physicians.

“It's easy to say everyone should get care from doctors. But that's like saying everyone should drive a Volvo. If we limited consumer choices to one ultrasafe nameplate, many people would not be able to afford a car at all. We let individuals make most of their own choices about safety and cost when it comes to their wheels. Why not with medical care? For the last 40 years, every solution to our health-care problems has been a variation on the same theme: more government. Maybe the real answer is more freedom.”

- Columnist Steve Chapman

Rush Limbaugh Trivia

RUSH LIMBAUGH TRIVIA

To All Dittoheads. Think you know Rush Limbaugh? Take the test and find out if your ditto is really an apostrophe.

Why does Rush say Jesse Jackson’s name as “Revuhrand” Jackson?

Why do folks from Rio Linda have such a comprehension problem?

When refers to John Kerry, he might say “John F’in Kerry”. What does the ‘F’in’ stand for and why?

What happened to Rush’s hearing?

How many times has Rush been married?

Bonus: Is Rush involved with anyone now? Extra point if you know the rumor.

What did Rush allegedly do wrong during his stint as an ESPN sports moderator?

Where does Rush live?

What is special about the EIB microphone?

At the end of each show hour, where do Rush’s broadcast tapes go?

Who is Snerdly?

Is he real?

Why is Rush suing the Palm Beach District Attorney?

Who is Rush’s lawyer?

What is Rush’s favorite John Kerry theme song?

What kind of pet, if any, does Rush own?

What political ideology does Rush hate and why?

When will Rush stop doing what he does?

What does Rush tie behind his back just to make it fair?

What is a “Gorbasm”?

Has Rush ever been wrong? List…one point for each time listed when Rush was wrong.

My answers this Thursday but meanwhile, talk amongst yourselves.

The Week Just Passed:Sinclair, Kaizai,Voter Fraud Continues

The Week Just Passed: Notes of important events from the week prior as Grandmother has determined, not the Old Media. With, as expected, Grandmother’s input.

The Week Just Passed: More Voter Fraud, Karzai Wins Afghanistan Election, Sinclair Wimps Out

KARZAI WINS!

Reuters Story

No mind the issues with UN issued Sharpie pens, the main opponent of Hamid Karzai has conceded the election.

Grandmother thinks Mr. Karzai is very handsome and of all the funny headgear worn by those folks, his is the most attractive.

Well, it’s true.

The more important story about Afghanistan is quoted below with a link to the rest of the story. Seems there are Afghanistan Bloggers too and one wrote the following insight into that country’s first and most amazing election…EVER!

I think the verbiage is mind-boggling and consider it hereby immortalized for sweet Granddaughter.

. We worry about rain affecting voter turnout in the States . . . I heard stories of lines over a mile long . . . of people standing in those lines on crutches, with legs amputated because of landmines, and families who pulled their grandparents to vote in oxcarts, because they were too old to walk. . . standing in lines at 3:00 in the morning, in the snow, so that they could vote. . .

The Afghan Army and Police did a great job. We've trained them well, and these patriots took their lives into their hands . . .

Finally, I leave you with a personal experience. We have a group of Afghan men who clean the building where I work. . . I see them in the hallway seven days a week. They like to practice. . . the English phrases they're learning: "Good morning, How are you? I am fine, thank you..." You get the idea. They didn't work on election day, because they were voting, and the roads were pretty congested. I asked them the first morning they were back to work if they had voted. They all got smiles a mile wide, had to show me their thumbs with ink on them, and each of them wanted to shake my hand and I got to congratulate each of them on their new country! Now, if that doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you have ice water in your veins!

As good as this is, we're not done yet. There are still some out there that would like to cut off thumbs, rather than stain them with ink. But that group is up against a dedicated, capable Coalition that will not accept failure. . .

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Possible Voter Fraud Eliminated But It Took An Appeal

It really isn’t too much to ask a voter to appear at the correct precinct. Especially when election workers will direct the errant voter to the correct voting location.

But Democrats thought that a voter who showed up at any precinct anywhere in the county should be allowed to vote even if at the wrong precinct.

I mean, why have rules and why can’t we all just vote in any damn state we want and why can’t the voter be bothered to go to the correct precinct?

Of course when one’s ‘Get Out the Vote’ effort includes scooping up the homeless off the street and out-of-town passersby onto big buses headed to the nearest precinct. Once the ‘voters’ punch their cards they might get a pack of smokes, perhaps some smack. It’s such a pain to have to haul those folks all over town to the actual correct precinct.

And Ohio Clinton appointed judge ruled that this was entirely too difficult on the Democrats and that Ohioans could, indeed, vote in any precinct so long as in the same county or city. His decision was reversed when the Republicans appealed it.

It’s taking the Conservatives to wade through layers of crap to get justice in this election. Stealing an election is in such poor taste.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) ruled that a provisional ballot cast outside a voter's home precinct isn't valid, agreeing with Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell

Story.

Sinclair Is No Dinosaur

Back in the distant past, there used to be a great gas station chain called Sinclair. It’s corporate icon was a dinosaur. Oh well, I remember.

The Sinclair Broadcasting company backed down totally from pressure applied by Democratic Stockholders. Including some teacher’s union pension fund and if it’s union than you know it’s Democrat.

No matter how the Broadcaster spun it, financial pressure was too much.

Well hey, it’s understandable. The right did the same sort of thing to the Dixie Chicks.

The point about it all as I only mention the entire incident for this reason one week before the 2004 presidential election in this year of our Lord, is….WHY WAS KERRY SO SCARED OF THE STORY?

Two Sunday Political Talk Show Comments

I note that Juan Williams, Fox pundit, mentioned that he spoke with Kerry several times during a recent gabfest. “When I spoke with Kerry…,” Juan would say then make his point. Not that us idiots in the audience figured out that maybe Juan is telling us what KERRY thinks what with those conversations with the man and everything.

Terry McAuliffe is expected to be over the top in his position as Chairman of the DNC. But his answer to a question posed by Wolf Blitzer in yesterday’s late edition was so over the top it left me laughing for two hours.

The conversation revolved around Kerry’s ridiculous photo op recently as some kind of goose hunter. Wolf asked if Kerry wasn’t trying to calm the fears of gun-toting Ohioans that he too wants guns and wouldn’t dream of taking theirs away.

“Absolutely,” Terry responded. “The only way an Ohioan has ever lost their gun is by having to sell it because of the personal economic impact of this administration’s policies.”

Damn but I would hate his job.

Below is the link to FreeRepublic’s daily Sunday political talk show thread. Excellent commentary posted as it occurred.

Here.

Web Site of Week: Attack of the Peaceniks

WebSite of the Week-Quirky, Interesting, Funny…When Creativity is Unleashed With No Censorship, You Never Know What You'll Get

The Attack of the Peaceniks

Seems a bunch of American apologists decided to ask forgiveness from the Iraqi people for our “occupation”.

The pictures are funny but the editorial captions are side-splitting.

Click Here

TV This Week:More CBS Propaganda, Sports, Twins!

The TV is mostly background noise to Grandmother but at times there may be a show actually worth attention.

TV This Coming Week: What You Missed Last Week, World Series, Award Shows, 60 Minute Propaganda Piece, Makeover of Twins.

How Exactly DO They Collect Horse Semen?

In last week’s TV missive Grandmother mentioned a show on the Discovery Channel titled “Dirty Jobs”. I said “
Every week I pick one show that seems quirky and one show that I’ve never watched before. On Wednesday 10/20/04, Discovery channel has a special titled “Dirty Jobs”. It’s a documentary on the dirtiest jobs some humans hold across the planet. Cleaning dead animals off the road side, for instance. Or scrubbing down a gruesome crime scene.

Here.

If yon readers didn’t heed my advice, you should know what you missed.

For I watched, in front of my disbelieving eyes, a man collect a semen sample from a stallion. Which would be, I agree, a somewhat difficult job.

There was involved such as artificial vaginas, semen collection devices, and a ‘tease’ mare.

If this wasn’t amazing enough (yes that stallion did, right on camera, give a sample and yes the host of the show ‘collected’ it), the host also flushed a fertilized egg out of a mare’s vagina and implanted it in another. Pay attention to what I tell you to watch!

Note: The World Series will be playing this week. Monday night football is scheduled to be the Broncos vs. the Bengals. Check local listings.

On Monday, 10/25. NBC at 8 pm is showing something called “The Radio Music Awards”. Never heard
of them but will flip back and forth to the ballgame.

On Wednesday, 10/27, at 8 pm, CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ will air a propaganda piece on the difficulty expected as voters struggle to use new computerized voting machines. As if any normal American hasn’t ever worked a computer or ATM ever in their isolated life.

On Thursday, 10/28, at 8 pm, ABCis showing its HUMAN makeover show “Extreme Makeover”. This week, Twins will be made over. Hey, the things some people will do.

On Friday, 10/29. at 10 pm, The Learning Channel will show its popular wedding series “For Better or Worse”A couple chooses a few friends and/or relatives to plan their wedding. The ‘team’, along with one appointed wedding planner, has one week to plan and execute the wedding on a $5,000 budget.

Kaitlyn Learns to Walk-With Picture

Time to Hear from Kaitlyn, Real Time

On the heels of my most wise missive on stem cells and politics I must compose an update on the growth and development progress of this young lady named Kaitlyn Mae.

For she is a very real baby blossoming woman and I do enjoy being with her. Grandmother does quite enjoy watching the birds, laughing at the cats, and loving her dogs. But for sheer amazement one should spend a few hours once in awhile just watching a baby human being grow.

No other animal on the planet has to do as much growing during the first year of life as a baby human being. All baby animals have an intense growing period after birth during which they must strengthen their bones, learn their species’ survival methodology and keep on living. A human being has to learn all of this while spending much of his/her time totally helpless. For the first six months of life a human baby has to be carried everywhere by another human being. It has no control over whatever destiny awaits it wherever that grown up human might be taking it.

That second half of that first year, the baby human being has to learn several mighty important things. Things imprinted in the baby’s genes back from Neanderthal days and things that will forever separate a human being from any other form of animal life on a plant.

A human baby must learn how to talk and stand erect on only two feet.

Major stuff.

At the time of this writing in this year of our Lord, Kaitlyn Mae can say three words that anyone has been able to ascertain as actual English words. For Kaitlyn does often utter many sounds, some very strange and foreign, but all who listen agree that there are no words in her baby verbiage. There are three English words that Kaitlyn has mastered in this, her ninth month of life.

“Hi”…Kaitlyn says. At the same time, she will clench and release her little hands in that human manner of the friendly wave. I could just hug her to death when she does this. She climbs up to a window sill and sees a neighbor mowing the lawn. She stage-whispers “Hi” and waves those little hands to the man who has no idea there’s a little baby across the way madly waving hello.

Grandmother must smile, for probably 90% of the interaction Kaitlyn has had with adult humans has probably been a loud whisper of “Hi” and waves of their adult hands. Kaitlyn Mae must consider this proper socialization and how humans should greet each other. And now that you think about it, she probably has that down pat. Kaitlyn had to learn this behavior, however, and she learned it from the humans in the world around her.

Kaitlyn also says “baby” and for this she is really saying the word “baby” and not two letter B’s accidentally linked together through her baby babble. Grandmother knows this because when Kaitlyn says “baby”, which she says to refer to her own little baby doll, not her own self, she stretches out the ‘baaaaa’ part then gives a little upsqueak on the ‘be’ part of the word. Although her parents refer to her as the “baby” when Kaitlyn sees her reflection in the mirror so Kaitlyn might have some idea she is also a baby.

Finally, Kaitlyn says the word “bear”, which is used to refer to her teddy bears. For this word, she also stretches out that first syllable even though I bet you didn’t know BEAR had two syllables. Kaitlyn says “baaaa” then that little upsqueak for the ‘er’ part.
The whole process amazes Grandmother. Not so much, you’ll will forgive me sweet Kaitlyn, because my grandchild shows some grand human genius in learning to talk as every human baby has done since the beginning of time. It doesn’t matter to Grandmother just who the human baby is learning to speak, the amazement comes by how well and quickly they learn how to do it. As a reminder, consider those language classes we took in High School. In four years I didn’t learn as much French as Kaitlyn will learn in English within six months or so.

Well, I think it’s amazing.

We all learned to talk and even more amazingly, some little human babies learn to speak Arabic, Russian, even French, by the time they are two years old.

And if Grandmother still isn’t intrigued enough by this mind-boggling language skill, the struggle to become upright ranks up there with other amazing baby human feats. To stand upright, as some cave man did one day many years ago; a cave man born through some unique gene combination with an especially flexible spine not normally in his species of the era. That man stood upright and began to move about on only two feet. No other animal on earth stands upright like the human being in all aspects of its life.

Eventually the humans with the spines not able to handle that upright position were wiped out by those evolved enough to be nimble for attack and takeover of prime caves.

Well, it could have happened that way.

However it came about, standing upright is all handled when a human baby is about a year old and it’s a pretty amazing thing to watch in and of itself.

After only nine months on the earth Kaitlyn can now stand up without immediately falling down. She looks like a little drunk baby as she tries to remain upright even as she wobbles round and round as if her juice cup had been full of wine. I watch her little baby self and wonder what is it that prevents her from standing upright with ease. Something, Grandmother figures, isn’t quite developed enough to allow Kaitlyn a sturdy stand. Much less the ability to move her feet in some coordinated fashion that would allow her locomotion.

In a desperate attempt to remain upright, a position that Kaitlyn would most enjoy in that it seems to Grandmother that Kaitlyn Mae would very much like to move all about on two feet much as her parents and most other humans in her life, Kaitlyn will clench her toes as if grabbing the earth itself for steadiness. She will even stand on her tiptoes as if this must be how they do it. Or so thinks Kaitlyn as Grandmother surmises.

Eventually she falls down on her butt and it almost seems as if she shrugs and locomotes all about using four limbs. Kaitlyn will try again later, Grandmother knows.

From her limited research, Grandmother has noted that human babies generally walk about on two legs from around a year to a year and a half. Kaitlyn is a tad young to be attempting same but by Grandmother, sweet Granddaughter has always been but a baby woman ready to go someplace. When time came to crawl all about Kaitlyn rolled over and began crawling with a vengeance.

Kaitlyn understands kisses and loves to be tossed all about as if she were but a baby ball. She giggles when her father tosses her in the air and catches her. She loves her mom to bounce her all about on the bed. Grandmother wonders why those actions, which should seem so scary to what has to be a helpless Kaitlyn falling through the air to the floor unless her father, as he always has, catches her, cause Kaitlyn so much joy. Indeed Grandmother herself will hold baby Kaitlyn high in the air and spin her around as if she were a baby butterfly and still Kaitlyn laughs.

Perhaps in the next REAL Kaitlyn missive she will already be walking all about, a fine baby example of her species. She will be bright-eyed and bushy tailed as she always is, waving Hi to everyone in the surround and discovering a wonderful world unappreciated by jaded adults.

Here’s hoping.

Gossip/Tidbits: Bill O'Reilly and the London Telegraph

A little gossip and speculation is worth some time and rumination.

The Most Oddly Funny Story of the Week

…has to be the scrape Bill O’Reilly finds himself in. I wrote an interesting missive recently about political talk show hosts, and included a long report on Mr. O’Reilly, host of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, keeper of the “No Spin Zone”, promoter of “pithy” commentary.

Either read the wise and funny missive or take my word right now that I was not flattering to Mr. O’Reilly. Who I regard as a righteous Blow-hard, wannabe Rush Limbaugh, almost-a-liberal, and blatant media prostitute.

Snort. For all of his lambaste, doesn’t the poor Reading, Pa.-Boy- done-good indulge in some spicy x-rated phone conversations with a subordinate no less!

To the males out there in la-la land…when you ever gonna learn?

There are no laws against x-rated phone conversations though I thought Mr. O’Reilly was married and there is a stigma about making such calls to women other than wifey-poo. Still and so, a spicy phone conversation is kind of fun once in a while. Given the right circumstances and responsibility by the parties.

Two things: NEVER get involved in anything even suggestively sexual with a subordinate. Not in any way or any fashion. It’s stupid, dumb and total indulgence of sexual organs over common sense. If the love and/or lust bug hits between superior and subordinate, one or the other should transfer or get a different job completely. If it’s true love, it’ll survive. If it’s just plain lust not worth the bother of separating the job relationship for the short-term joy, better to call a 900HOTMAMA number and avoid the possible consequences.

Grandmother doesn’t often give romance advice to men but hey, I was inspired by Bill O’Reilly.

Bill O’Reilly has never denied the accusations and it’s widely accepted that the accuser is telling the truth except for that little part about sexual harassment. I have this story nailed down tight.

The producer of the accusation set Mr. O’Reilly up. And like the very act of breathing this pre-election season, it was all for politics. Because all phones have what we use to call flash hooks back when I actually worked making telephones. Nowadays disconnecting a phone call might require the push of a button, the snap of a cell phone lid, perhaps even uttering the word “goodbye”.

That young lady didn’t have to sit and listen endlessly to O’Reilly’s descriptions of ‘double love’ and shared showers in Malibu. She could have hit that flash hook straight away.

Instead, it seems she hit the ‘record’ button on her tape recorder and boom, the whole world can listen to Bill O’Reilly’s pithy descriptions of manage a trois topped with whipped cream. Perhaps stupid Bill could sell audio tapes on his web site.

For the intent was NOT to really sue Mr. O’Reilly and get money. Well, there might be an attempt to get money but the part about lawsuits and court cases is a formality only. Perhaps the young lady used the tape to bribe Mr. O’Reilly. It’s exactly as ole Bill accuses and it might be true. For Mr. O’Reilly has a lot more to lose by exposure of the tapes than yon average Joe. Though yon average Joe has no small embarrassment given the same circumstance. Especially with the wife and everything. But Mr. O'Reilly's public personna is built on his reputation as a hard-nosed, tough hitting pundit from the wilds of Reading Pa.

Once a guy like that becomes a laughing stock the whole deal goes out the window. Fellow like Mr. O’Reilly might pay to keep the audio tapes silent.

I’ll give Bill credit. He came out swinging, even breaking the story himself. Right off the bat we feel sorry for this poor man beset with money-crazed hussies extorting his sorry self for money. Note, ole Bill never denies the story.

We know it’s true, Bill.

And by me this pretty much wraps up your place in history. Who, by me again but also by many whom I’ve read, was an object of scorn most times already.

Still I must snort because Bill, ya done everything wrong and in the end, behaved just like that hoodlum from Reading, PA.

You dope.

Guess Who Forgot the Sharpie Pens?

For the first time in over 5000 years Afghans were able to vote for their own leader. Now the UN isn’t able to enforce its own resolutions, condemns Israel on a regular basis for fighting back against those who would drive them into the sea, is unable to even garner a skeleton “peace” force to deliver emergency supplies to Haiti.

One would think the least this multi-multi-multi billion dollar useless institution could do is monitor elections, right?

Yet the sharpie pens used to mark Afghan hands with indelible ink lest they vote twice were NOT indelible.

Seems the UN geniuses forgot to bring the right pens.

At least that’s the story told to the press. Myself would not be surprised if some of those UN types DELIBERATELY forgot the right pens. Hard to tell with that crew. Sometimes they’re traitorous and most times they’re simply stupid.

For want of the right pen those morons almost overturned an entire election for a group of people who hadn’t tasted the freedom to vote for many centuries.

And this group is coming to monitor American elections? They’ll leave hanging chads everywhere.

How Can We Possibly Vote Without the British?

Seems The London Guardian desperately wants Bush to lose our upcoming election. To this end, not that it isn’t plainly none of their business, the paper urged its readers to please email citizens of Ohio and give them a British citizen’s concern about our election and its result.

English helping us vote-UK Guardian

I don’t know why Ohio, perhaps because it’s a battleground state.

At any rate and no mind however many of the paper’s readers managed to obtain email addresses of Ohioans, the entire incident has caused quite a flap. Especially here in America as one might imagine. Americans take great umbrage in any hint that foreigners are rooting around in their affairs.

Europeans are different. They love it when the world pays attention to their internal affairs that they may display their fine brocade coats, sober spokesmen in front of crumbling castles, bewigged barristers drinking fine wine while opining on the subject at hand. Europeans live and die for this stuff. They really love it when Americans become obsessed with their royalty and the tourist dollars that result.

These same snobby Europeans, who accuse Americans of being thoughtless, crass and crude, didn’t consider one whit the offense such an effort by a foreign newspaper would cause to Americans.

Americans don’t like this stuff and a thoughtful Europe would have considered this for all their finesse of diplomacy. No one in Ohio is going to honored at being contacted by a nice English lady urging her or him not to vote for President Bush. I daresay even the Kerry voters would not like this but I might be wrong about that. It really doesn’t matter that Europe would consider American umbrage at the notion of a little political advice from a friend across the sea to be the WRONG reaction and proceed nonetheless.

All we hear from the liberals in our world is ‘diversity, love, peace, respect for others, insert-other-Oprah-Winfrey-words-here’. Surely they know that Americans have a bit of a chip on our shoulder what with being charged with taking care of the world when, first chance, the entire world conspires against us, secretly hoping that Saddamn would take us down and helping him to this end. Besides, no one else on this planet has created a government as great and wonderful as ours so why on God’s earth would we listen to another country’s well-meaning citizens?

Okay, I’m on a bit of a rant here and exaggeration reigns. But check out some of the letters from Americans at the Guardian site in reaction to their scheme. One moon-pie from California writes of her adoration of England’s great concern for our election but beyond that, hey, the reaction is pretty graphic. Maybe not all that diplomatic, ahem. Yes, there’s some serious cursing going on here. Not to mention the hatred and disdain Americans have for British teeth.

Now I suppose the British, via this effort of the Guardian, can sit back and drink wine with other European diplomacy. The Belgians and Germans and Danes can munch cheese and complain about the crass Americans, chastise their bad language, lament of how they tried to help but the snot noses wouldn’t have it.

All in front of a crumbling castle, of course.

Guest Pundit: The Truth Presidents Can't Tell

At times, others are wise too
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Over the period of the debates, plenty of pundits played the “What Bush Should Say” game. Myself was tempted to do same but Bush would never use my awful language.

I have chosen one such pundit commentary, Neil Boortz’ proposed response by Bush to the question of how he would respond to a citizen who had just recently lost his job to one overseas.

I don’t think the Wise I could have composed a better response even with all the words in the universe and a few slang ones at my disposal. But I would not have bothered in that no way, Jose, could Bush EVER give such a response. Not even JFK could give such a response should darkness fall and he gets elected. Edwards is a trial lawyer and another story.

Presidents can’t say the things as Boortz as phrased it below! Although it is, every single letter, syllable and word the complete truth.

We’ve left it to our commentators and punditry to utter such as truths while the President must play some grand diplomatic game that considers a leader telling the citizenry a harsh truth as uncouth as if he would address his country while completely nude.

So to the historical end of permanent documentation for such as Grandchildren, the TRUTHFUL answer to the jobs questions is as follows:
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"First of all, Bob, I would tell them that it is not their job. The job belongs to the employer, not the employee. You have the job skills. The employer has the jobs. If the employer can make a profit by purchasing your job skills to perform his job then you get a paycheck. If your job skills cost the employer too much, or if your job skills don't meet the employer's needs, then you don't get a paycheck. If you fail to develop your job skills, you run the risk of not having a paycheck. If your job skills don't match the employer's needs, you don't get a paycheck. If you charge too much for your job skills, you won't get hired.

“You have no right to a job. You do have a right to be left alone by government and your fellow citizens to develop your own God-given talents in such a way that employers will seek you out. You also have a right to ignore educational opportunities and to develop a slovenly work ethic so that employers will shun you. You make your choices, and you live with the consequences of your decisions. I would tell that person that any American with desirable job skills and a good worth ethic, properly priced, would have to hide under his bed to avoid getting a good job.

“If you believe in the year 2004 that you can build a sound career as a textile plant worker in South Carolina then you are living a lie, and that delusion will soon catch up to you. You need to understand that you are a free and sovereign individual. You don't belong to the government, and it's not the government's responsibility to provide you with a job. It's the government's job to clear the way for you to exercise your free choices, develop your skills, hone your work ethic, and contract with an employer eager to hire someone like you. Past that, you're on your own, and that's life in a free society."

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In case you are still undecided. 

Already with the Election Fraud in 2004

Imminent Election Fraud

Using the same criteria as applied by the pop media to future attack danger, I feel compelled to document for some vague historical purpose, the signs as I see it that the Presidential election of 2004 shall be a traumatic, mind-jarring political exercise of Democracy.

We must begin with my assumption on this day of our Lord, that for all the mighty technology and Iris identification techniques available to this great country, we have a national election system that is still back in the dark ages.

Adding to the problem is the peculiar situation that many of our elected officials actually LIKE it that way.

Much easier to commit fraud on the horse and buggy system than the laser systems of the present. This is not to say that futuristic election systems are without prospect of fraud. There’s always the genius Nerd who can hack into anything and change data at will.

It’s not so easy however, and in that event, the entire election would be voided due to the massiveness of such an electronic attack. Under the current system, administered, monitored and executed by fifty different state entities, their result compiled from God knows how many precincts, districts and farm houses, there is chance for fraud in millions of ways. Given our electoral college system, particularly crucial districts can be tweaked without bother of fooling around all over the country. Witness the election mess in Florida of the year 2000.

Americans do not wish to be assigned numbers and anything close to something resembling a National ID causes them umbrage. The Social Security number is as close as it gets and anyone can buy an SS# down at the local drug store. Not to mention many Americans do not have SS#’s, as well as illegal aliens who always vote Democrat. So the Social Security number, the closest thing Americans have to a national ID, will not do.

Thus there is no national identity system that would effectively wipe out all this nonsense about using driver’s licenses, forged Social Security cards, even electric bills, as proof of identity.

Indeed the federal government could not establish a federally monitored and administered electoral system even if it wanted to in that our constitution specifically forbids it. The processing of obtaining votes for federal elections is the exclusive dominion of the states.

When I was eight I first learned how to rig an election. Sure, it was only a local mayor election but damn it was the city of Baltimore so it’s not like it was Pine Bluffs, Maine.

The big construction unions were the vote riggers back in my childhood days. After the polls closed, the union electricians would go in and do something to the old handle voting booths. The way they worked, a voter would go into the booth and then push a handle that closed a curtain around him/her. Then by the process of pulling little levers on the wall of the voting booth, the voter would cast a vote. The actual votes didn’t register until the voter pulled that same handle that closed the curtain backwards. When this was done, all of the little levers would re-set and that voter’s votes would be recorded in the voting booth’s “meters”, increasing by an increment of one for each candidate voted on by the voter.

The booth’s meters were only little clicker-counter type things, the sort of tracking now done by ped-o-meters or those little red money counters that be used to track grocery purchases by clicking up the amount due while in the grocery aisles.

The Electricians would, boom, zap those things somehow, and boom, the candidate required would receive the appropriate number of votes. The candidate was always a Democrat.

Yes it really did happen and yes it can happen and no, don’t make that mistake of so many good-hearted Americans and think that such a thing couldn’t happen here in the mightiest country in the world.

I’ve documented a few items that caught my attention during my intellectual travels of the past week. Perhaps it’s my paranoia, not assuaged by the recent revelation that the Democrat party has put out an instruction booklet to its voters advising them to allege fraud and disenfranchisement even if none existed.

ABC News reports the following:

Justice Dept. Sues Pa. Election Officials

Justice Department Sues Pennsylvania to Give Overseas Voters Two More Weeks to Cast Ballots

NEW YORK Oct. 13, 2004 — The Department of Justice has sued Pennsylvania elections officials in an attempt to give overseas voters two more weeks to cast ballots in the Nov. 2 election, according a published report.

The suit, filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania, contends the state failed to send out ballots in time due to a legal dispute over whether they should list independent candidate Ralph Nader, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Pennsylvania officials said Tuesday that they would fight the lawsuit, arguing that they will help overseas voters by offering overnight deliveries of ballots or allowing them to fax their completed ballots.

"We are confident that no voter overseas, whether military or civilian, will be left out of the election," Kate Philips, a spokeswoman for Gov. Ed Rendell, told the Times.

Pennsylvania is a so-called ‘battleground’ state. In that there are many electoral votes at stake and the race is considered very close.

My paranoid self gets suspicious in these sorts of things already causing a problem requiring federal justice department intervention that seem to only be a problem in these battleground states.

There’s also flying below the radar the rumble that many of these court challenges about Ralph Nadar are orchestrated by the Democrat party to delay placing him on the ballot. Ralph Nadar voters, it is assumed, would vote for Kerry were he not on the ballot.

From another Blogsite, I find this:

Dispute over Milwaukee Ballots

There is a dispute going on right now between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee County Election Commission. The City, led by Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett, asked for 938,300 ballots, but the Commission is now offering 679,400 ballots. Read this analysis by Charlie Sykes, talk show host on WTMJ-620am in Milwaukee. This is from his Weblog.

[cut here] You do the math:

The City of Milwaukee asked for 938,300 ballots for the November 2004 election The Milwaukee County Election Commission proposed giving the city 574,105, but then increased that amount to a total of 679,500.

The total population in Milwaukee: 596,974 in 2000 and 593,920 in 2004 The total number of people who are of legal voting age in Milwaukee in 2004: 423,811

Total votes cast in 2000 fall election: 245,670 Total votes cast in 2002 fall election: 141,351 (pre-registration of 335,889)

Total votes case in 2004 September election: 94,643 (total ballots requested by City of Milwaukee: 841,357) Total number of pre-registered voters as of the September 2004 election: 382,737

There are 314 wards in the City of Milwaukee. The county provided 679,500 ballots to the City of Milwaukee. That is 2,164 ballots per ward. [end cut]

Now why does the city of Milwaukee, situated in another battleground state, Wisconsin, need almost a million ballots when the total number of their registered voters is approximately 424,000? Yes there’s a need for spoilage and mistakes but we are just not that stupid out here in la-la land. As it is the Milwaukee County Election Commission is giving the city 679,500, almost half again the total of their registered voters. This assumes every other ballot would be spoiled.

Finally, in the infamous state of Florida where there voters thoughts chads were pregnant that were still virgins, we have this from the Associated Press.

Labor Unions Sue Fla. Over Voter Forms

MIAMI - A coalition of unions sued Florida elections officials Tuesday, arguing that thousands of voters have been disenfranchised by the rejection of their voter registration forms.

The lawsuit is similar to one filed by Democrats last week. It accuses Secretary of State Glenda Hood of violating federal law for telling the state's 67 elections supervisors that they should reject incomplete voter-registration forms.

Hood's office told the supervisors to disqualify voters who failed to check a box confirming they are U.S. citizens, even if they signed an oath on the same form swearing they are. Officials have maintained that state and federal law require the box to be checked.

"Our argument stands across the board," said Hood spokeswoman Alia Faraj. "This is not an attempt by the state to do anything other than ensure there is uniformity in the process."

In addition to Hood, supervisors of elections from five counties are named as defendants.

"We think they are placing obstacles in the way of voters," said Judith Browne, an attorney for Washington-based Advancement Project, a racial justice organization involved in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit is one of several that have been filed in Florida, the site of the voting fiasco that held up the presidential race in 2000.

In a separate case, Volusia County said Tuesday that it will expand the number of early voting sites, less than a week after a lawsuit alleged the county would disenfranchise blacks by offering only one site — in an area where few minorities live.

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Again we have that Labor Union thing. Glad to see they are still in business after so many years.

The “obstacles” complained about in the lawsuit is the act of placing a check mark in a little box.

Again, Florida is a battleground state.

Funny how these little election snafus all are happening in states whose electoral votes are more ardently cherished.

Thus I fear an attempt to steal the upcoming election. The attempted theft will be by, I hesitate but will say, the Democrats. All of the above listed shenanigans involve Democrats.

When I read an article where a Republican election official is sued for delay in sending out overseas ballots in Almostnowhere, Wyoming, then I might believe they are just random events, to be expected in an election year.

As it is, the clues are being laid, the signs are there. If little old me can see it, I am sure the Republican party has intent to protect their victory.

Or do they?

Personally I do not think Republicans think down and dirty like the Democrats. The Democrats will come up with schemes and plans and tricks that would never cross the mind of a proper Republican.

I bet no Republican ever had electricians zap the meters in the voting machines and indeed, I bet Republicans didn’t even know such a thing was possible.

THAT is the real basis of my concern and paranoia, that the one institution I should be able to count on to protect my vote, which would be the same one wanting to protect its legitimate victory, will be unable to do so.

I was asked to write an article for a new web site that espouses everyone concerned about the shenanigans of this upcoming election to bring a camera with them to the polls. Check it out at here.

Rebuttal to Gannett Minner Endorsement; Where NOT to Get Married in Delaware

Delaware-Three Electoral Votes and Ready to Rumble

Sunday News Journal Endorses Minner

It is with some distress that I note Gannet's SundayNewsJournal is endorsing Ruth Ann Minner for a second term.

Not so much because the paper endorsed the candidate as newspapers endorse candidates all the time. But in their “Our View” editorial this past week the paper lists the reasons they endorse Ruth Ann, the issues on which she is lax, and the reason they can’t get behind the Republican candidate, Bill Lee.

All of those reasons are stupid.

Bill Lee, so the editors say, is “too inexperienced”.

Well, duh.

Anyone who has never been Governor is inexperienced. Ruth Minner was once inexperienced. By the paper’s own admission:

“Bill Lee, the former Superior Court judge who is the Republican candidate for Governor is a smart, affable man with good insights about state government. Mr. Lee correctly says that Delaware must attract new businesses if our fiscal health is to continue. He says that manufacturing is in jeopardy in Delaware, and banking is mature with little prospect of growth. These are accurate observations. Mr. Lee also is on the mark with his contention that dropping the state’s gross receipts tax and improving the workers compensation program would revive Delaware’s appeal to businesses.”

Well, damn, if the man’s that good why aren’t you endorsing him?

As to why the paper so loves Ruth Ann, the paper states that Minner handled the fiscal affairs of the state well during the last economic downturn, keeping government growth at a minimum, cutting liberal spending programs across the board and holding down unnecessary spending.

Hey, Gannett, this is what everyone, from Governors to businesses to yon family households, does when money is tight. No genius there.

Still, this is not the damning faint praise offered by the paper that should cause all Delaware citizens to give off a slow steam.

“While her support for school reform has continued, teachers are still not being held accountable and the silly three-tiered diploma remains in place. Gov. Minner has insisted that teachers will be held accountable and that student scores will be part of professional evaluations. It’s time for her to stop coddling the Delaware State Education Association, the teachers union. The governor and the State Board of Education must put regulations in place and enforce them.”

The wise I thinks education is pretty darn important and by the paper’s own admission, in FOUR years the lady is still pandering to the teachers union not that teachers should have to do their job or anything.

I refer the reader to my last Delaware Missive

Delaware, ladies and germs, is 43rd in the country per the SAT scores of 2003. That’s leaves seven states BELOW Delaware.

I now quote from my own Blog, from research I did my own wise self:

The state of Delaware, ladies and germs, is ELEVENTH, from highest to lowest, in terms of salaries paid to teachers. Which means, let me interpret, that only ten other states pays their teachers more than Delaware. And for this we get 43rd in the union in terms of SAT scores?

In terms or pupil to student ratio, a statistic that the mighty teacher’s unions cite as a direct impact to quality of education, get this, Delaware is EIGHTH in the nation, from smallest pupil/teacher ratio to highest. Which means only seven other states have less pupils to teacher.

Dear Gannett, there is nothing more important than the education of our children. And Minner has done horrifically, by your own admission.

Bill Lee has no experience you moan. Well, Delaware has experience with Minner…..and it’s not good.

Then again, with the state of Journalism and the Old Media, perhaps Gannett doesn’t think such as reading and writing is as important as environmental issues and House Bill 99.

Don’t Know Where to Vote in Delaware?

Thanks to a final exasperated email to the Republican party, I was directed to this site Where to vote in Delaware

All a registered voter has to do is type in their name and boom, the location of where to vote, the polling hours and a sample ballot are right there.

Disney, Sidney Poitier Coming to Georgetown!

On Wednesday, October 10/20/04, the legal proceedings will commence in the Georgetown Court House. Seems Walt Disney, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware thus the lawsuit filed by Disney stockholders over the outrageous severance package paid to former CEO Mike Ovitz in excess of $19 million dollars for less than a year’s work is to be tried in Delaware.

Judge William B. Chandler III is a Sussex county native and though the Georgetown court house might look quaint from without, the legal building is equipped with the greatest of technology. The good Judge opted to have the trial in Georgetown rather than mighty Wilmington to the north because, Judge Chandler lives near Georgetown.

The Hollywood types and NY Lawyers will have to be put out one way or the other, or so went the judge’s logic, so keep the trial in the Georgetown courthouse where Judge Chandler’s staff also works.

The local yokel says the Hollywood pack will not be dazzled with the Georgetown scene. Myself says right down the road is the entire Atlantic Ocean for God’s sake.

In fact, as I read, some of the lawyers have booked hotels on the oceanfront in Rehoboth Beach. Including entire conference rooms, catered lunches and reservations at coastal highway restaurants.

The courtroom only seats 50 but get this, the Judge limited actual lawyers allowed in the courtroom to 35! Well, dang, is that all? Only thirty five, count 'em, 35 lawyers!

Still it’s nice that the local folks get some of the lawyer moolah and who knows, perhaps we’ll get a glimpse of Sidney Poitier in his limo!

Delaware Looking for a Few Good Women

Got an email from the Republican party, italics below.

Not sure why it was sent to me because I am entirely too politically incorrect to be a Winning Women. Some other eager yon reader might be interested, way I figure.

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Winning Women Now Accepting Applications for the 2005 Class

We are excited to be preparing for our 2005 Class of Winning Women of the First State Series, and we invite you to become a part of this incredible program.

The mission of Winning Women is to increase the number and influence of Republican women in Party leadership, as candidates, campaign leaders, and grassroots organizers. The RNC has identified Winning Women as one of the most important programs for the Party's continued success. Delaware is the eleventh state to initiate this program.

To apply or for more information, please contact Elizabeth Roche at eroche123@verizon.net . Applications are due by November 15, 2004 (deadline has been extended due to the elections!).

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Don’t Get Married in Kent or New Castle Counties

..Come to lower and slower Sussex county where the elected Justices of the Peace don’t harangue for illegal money.

According to a media report today, Clerk of the Peace candidate, Loretta Wootten admitted to soliciting campaign contributions for doing the job she was elected to do i.e. perform a wedding ceremony.

The relevant portion reads:

“Loretta Wootten, clerk of the peace in Kent County, said she charges couples the county's $20 ceremony fee even when she marries them outside her office during non-working hours. This money goes to the government, she said, and she does not accept tips. When couples ask her about giving an honorary payment, she said she suggests a contribution to her election fund as an alternative.”

And this:

WILMINGTON, DE --- Brian N. Moore, candidate for New Castle County Clerk of the Peace, called on Ken Boulden to stop his practice of “requesting” tips for performing wedding ceremonies.

Moore said he was alerted to the practice by New Castle County residents who were frustrated by their experiences with Boulden and that Boulden has publicly stated that he accepts tips.

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