Nobody 783

Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009
Nobody # 783

Nobody Asked Me But:

“But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence.” Paul Simon (From “The Sound of Silence)

As the Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker pointed out last Monday, the Wrong was busy after Ted Kennedy’s funeral. Even before the motorcade arrived at Arlington, they were reminding all who would listen about the Senator’s flaws.

And I’m with Parker when she wonders whether the Wrong would have been equally critical had Kennedy converted and become a champion of their causes. Had he become pro-life and anti-gay.

Actually I am beyond her because I do not wonder. I am positive that they would have made the hypocritical switch.<<<

And for the record, what happened to the Wrong’s belief in Christian redemption and forgiveness? From everything I have read, after his second marriage Senator Ted turned his personal life, admittedly a mess before, around.

WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF RELIGION

Isn’t the Trinity really a kind of monotheistic concession to the polytheists?<<<

We had two minor crises Thursday evening. Both involved our family-room television. The first happened when I was using picture in picture to watch the Dodgers and a football game simultaneously. I pushed a wrong button or three and lost the big picture – in more ways than one. Only the PIP was visible. I pushed more buttons to fix it and lost the sound and then the PIP as well. With Bruin football starting Saturday, this was very bad. There was only one thing left to do. Panic. That over with we tried the eternal fix – reboot by unplugging. The chance of that working turned out to be -----100%.

A few minutes later Barbara was cleaning everything connected to the TV and unwired the DVR. Again panic – or close to it. Where does this wire go - and this one? After a few false starts we made the connections and watched the Dodgers finish off the Diamondbacks. (Sorry Elizabeth.)

The morals of these stories:

Jim, don’t mess with buttons you know nothing about! Barbara, never ever again clean anything wired to the television set!<<<

WHICH KIND OF NATION?

Traditional view – We are a nation of laws, not men.

Revisionist (Cheney) view - We are a nation of law-breaking undercover guys, and if you don’t like it, f#@* off!<<<

I need some help here. Can someone please tell me exactly when truth in America became the property of the loudest?<<<

I AM SAD THIS WEEK BECAUSE:

My fellow seniors are so gullible, so willing to believe the liars – Sarah Palin, Chuck Grassy, Rush Limbaugh, etc. - and their lies.

So many seniors refuse to accept small sacrifices for the greater good. America will be a better place for us all when everyone is guaranteed quality health care.

My President has forgotten that hope comes in two parts. – dreams and execution. So far his dreams have far outpaced his execution.<<<

Memo:
To: The President
Subject: Health Care Legislation

You are the leader. Lead! Forget waiting for Congress to flesh out your plan. A specific proposal should come out of the White House within a week. It should contain the essentials and the specifics on cost cutting and that’s it. Slim it! Trim it! Send it!<<<

And did you hear that:

Some Blue Dogs who were wavering are recommitted to passing a comprehensive health care because of all the Republican lies about it they heard during the August break?<<<

I know I’m getting older when:

The Food Channel ties with the sports channels for my number 1 (except on days when it wins straight out) and news is a distant third.<<<

Black Irish, I understand. Black Republicans will never compute.<<<

ACTION-REACTION

Action: Republicans are hammering Obama on the ballooning deficit.

Reaction: Between Vietnam and today, weren’t the two largest deficits incurred by Reagan and Bush II?

Reaction # 2: Doesn’t that mean that the Republicans are hypocrites weeping crocodile tears?

Reaction # 3: Yes and Yes!

Action: Manson follower Susan Atkins is denied parole.

Reaction: Good!

Action: Some parents oppose Obama speech to students.

Reaction – Color them way past stupid. In fact, color the stupidity gauge broken.

Reaction # 2 – Yes, some Democrats did the same thing, but without the hatred, in 1991 when Bush I was President. And they were stupid too.

Action: Brett Curtiss, an engineer from Pearland, Texas, said he would keep his three children home. “I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement.”

Reaction : Ah, Brett, public education is government owned and operated. That is socialism.

Action: At a Thousand Oaks rally, an anti-health-care reform guy punched a pro-reformer and knocked him down. The pro-reformer got up and bit off the anti-guy’s little finger.

Reaction: Ah, no way am I touching this one.

POSTCRIPT

And by the way, here is the champion of the Far Wrong speaking to schoolchildren in 1988:

Ronald Reagan – “That's a big argument that's going on in government. And I definitely believe it is because one of the principal reasons that we were able to get the economy back on track and create those new jobs and all was because we cut the taxes. We reduced them because, you see, the taxes can be such a penalty on people that there's no incentive for them to prosper and earn more and so forth because they have to give so much to the Government. And what we have found is that at the lower rates the Government gets more revenue. There are more people paying taxes because there are more people with jobs. And there are more people willing to earn more money because they get to keep a bigger share of it.”

Reaction: I guess propagandizing in favor of supply-side economics is OK – but then Reagan was not black.<<<

READY FOR THE LOONY BIN

The woman at the Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas who said that there are four known communists in the Obama administration. How did she come by this amazing revelation? She claimed that she had researched it on the Internet. However, if the truth be known, I think that Joe McCarthy whispered it to her in a vision.<<<

Time Magazine’s Joe Klein asks, on Swampland, if the term responsible Republican has become an oxymoron. No, Joe, not as long as Hugh is around – but almost.<<<

Yes, it’s true - when I looked up Webster’s definition of slime, all that was written there was Glenn Beck.<<<

(The lead picture is of your blogger on his 75th birthday.)