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“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Matriculates:

Let’s eavesdrop on some conversations, shall we? Do! Let’s!

“If you don’t let me go out with my friends, I am going to call Child Protective Services!”

“If you insist on putting up those horrid decorations for your Christmas, don’t expect me to shop here!!!”

“Oh, Coach?  My Jason has been sitting on the bench all game! When will it be his turn to play?”

“No, she’s sixteen and she ain’t got no babies yet.  Sixteen!  What up with that!?”

“It is just an old rag and if I want to burn the flag, that is my right!”

“For the life of me I have no idea why all these so-called Christian people just hate Muslims!”

“I can’t wait to be able to say ‘President Hillary Clinton’!  Look at all the great things she has done!”

“No, YOU don’t understand! You MUST make us a wedding cake with two grooms on it!”

“¡Este es América! ¡Usted tiene que aprender a hablar el español!”

“Billy has always been a gentle child. We let him play with dolls of course and got him an E-Z Bake oven.  We say if he wants to grow his hair out and wear a dress, that is ok. Either that is who he is or he will grow out of it.”

“Miss Freenbean I do not care how long you have been teaching my little Nelson is not a ‘C’ student!  You must have his grades mixed up with some other student’s! I want you to fix that right now!”

“He was a good boy, used to help his mother and stuff.  He was thinking of going back to get his G.E.D.  He wanted to be a rapper or a DJ.  He looked after all his baby-mommies!”

“I ain’t paying for that!”

“We don’t want no police around here.”

No joke. I have heard each or read each and every one of these statements.

I am not sure of the average age of all of you but I’d wager the vast majority were around in the 50s and 60s.  I want you to re-read that list of statements again, close your eyes and imagine what would happen if they were said back then.  (Trick question: If you said any of those things you would prolly not be reading this right now.)

Imagine telling your parents that you were going to call the police on them or sue them.  Do you think anyone would visit you in the hospital?   And while a physical response is not always the best thing one did not often make the same error twice.

If a kid rode the pine, it was because he was not as good of a player as the other boys.  (Note the use of the masculine.  Girls, as far as I remember, did not play organized sports.)  Back then all the boys did not play every game like they do today. For what it was worth the better kids playing and the poor ones sitting down was more representative of real life.  The army is not comprised of all generals, companies are not all presidents and the like.

Unwed mothers were often shunned and while that might be extreme it is better than encouraging a child to have babies to game the welfare system.  (No, really, you should have heard the entire conversation. You can’t make it up.  There was a part of this overheard conversation that went “Remember the fight I had with that dude in the bar the night I got out of prison?”  And THIS was a woman saying this!)

If some kid acted like the opposite sex it was certainly not encouraged.  A girl might be a “tom boy” but, chew gum, she was not allowed to have a buzz cut and wear boy’s clothes.  And effeminate boy was ridden hard.  Can’t say it was fair but the point is if you wanted to act like that you had to pay the piper.  Today, in some liberal circles it seems that parents almost force the kid to think he should be some kind of trans-something.

We can go on and on with respect to each and every one of these examples.

Why?

People are stupid.

Plain and simple.

Stupid.

In some cases some of these examples might be almost acceptable were they not done for the wrong reason or for some ulterior motive.  (There will be a whole ‘nother FISH on other motive-driven insanity.)

I suspect, and someone correct me if I am wrong, that the people/parents that are creating all the problems are the one who as kids were picked on, did not play sports, were effeminate, were kicked out of the Boy Scout or the Military to other bearers of grudges.

In other words, immature losers.

Sorry.

You screw up, you take your lumps and carry on.

You DON’T get your butt Articled out of the Army then go around bad-mouthing the Military and burning Flags.  Not around here you don’t.

But, yet, we let them.

We let these petulant cry-babies get their own way then we are surprised when they act as they do.  We are as bad as the parents who let them get that way.

Let’s get serious now.

The uber-PITA hippies, the Yippies, Zippies, Weather Underground, Black Panther, Maoists, Black Liberation Front, Commies of all color demonstrated and rioted, there were the “Days of Rage” and then it got ugly.

Understand, these wastes of DNA who ravaged the Country in the 60s and 70s were two things: They were cowards and they all learned all of that crap somewhere.

Note, that in the last forty-odd years the armed services have been all volunteer.   Back in the 60s and early 70s there was a nasty war fought in a godforsaken spit of land called South Vietnam.  There was a draft to fill the ranks to fight there.

The pansy-butted cowards who were afraid to fight for their Country and were subject to the draft left the Country, went to divinity school, got married, pretended they were gay, got a college deferment and other things short of manning up and either taking one’s chance with the draft lottery or enlisting, as I did.

(SIDEBAR:  Imagine what would have happened if W initiated a draft to fill the ranks of our armed services.  It would be the 60s all over again!  There were no/few riots and demonstrations because these cowards had no skin in the game or their butts in BDUs.)

Now, the college “professors” in far too many cases an especially in the Ivy League and other “top tier” colleges were themselves, disaffected Red Diaper Babies and were all too happy to exploit these idiots in their classes.

(READERS’S DIGEST VERSION.) They were successful in convincing the students that they were going to lose their student deferrals and be called to fight if they did not “mobilize” and force the gummint to end the war on any terms.

They were relatively successful.

So, now you have a radicalized generation with no moral compass and a hate for our Country.  In this generation are the radical professors who radicalized their students with the writings of Marx and Alinsky. Some, like the Hilderbeast, wrote their thesis on Alinsky.

Other radical profs were fomenting racial divide.  Some of their students wrote their thesis on how much the White man sucked, most were black students. One was the Mooch.

Let’s recap:  You have a large Communist influx in the 20s and 30s.  You have the Red Scare of the 40s and 50s.  You have the HUAC and Black Listing and the upshot is that the cockroaches still survived, hiding in plain sight in academia.

They created the clusterfluke of the 60s and 70s, educated the next generation of commie and socialist “professors” and they educated the current rezidents of the Whi’te House, West Wing (should be “Left Wing”), much of Congress, most of the SRCFM and others.

And people wonder WHY all the ills of today as limned above occur.

It is one of two things.

It is the natural path of a destruction of a society or the ignorance of all things good and decent.

But I repeat myself.

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19  John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Alums:

“YOU can all go to hell.” 

Yup. That is what we were told one day.

In church.

In the sermon.

True story.

Father Tony is one of my favorite priests and he does the Mass we go to each week. He is a brilliant man and a great priest.  He is knowledgable in the classics and knows the original languages of the Epistles and Gospels and is very good at explaining passages that do not seem to make sense and even amplifies on those that do.

Father Tony is a gentleman who recently celebrated one the birthdays in the 70’s range. He is a tall fellow and very affable and approachable.  And I never met a priest who was more self-deprecating than he. If we were Jewish, I would call him a “mensch.” Oy!

One day, after the Gospel in preparation for the sermon, he kinda walks to the transept without a word, gets to the middle, effects a smile and says “You can all go to hell!”

Half the congregation laughed and the other half gasped. And we waited a few pregnant moments for the explanation.

And he did not disappoint.

He looked at us in all earnestness with the book of scriptures in his hand and he said: “It is true, you can all go to hell. It says it right here, and thumbing some pages, and here and so on.  But the great news is that you don’t HAVE to go to hell. It says how that can happen here and here and here.”

You get the point.

What does that have to do with today’s issue?

Not a dern thing.

But, last month when I wrote this, the inflautus for this gave me an opening line.  And as you know my mental dot connecting is not linear, Father Tony’s words rang in my ear.

The way it was SUPPOSED to start (and continue) is:

You should not be reading this.

No it is true.

And, no, it has nothing to do with content, verbiage, 1^st Amendment or anything else.

I should be dead.

And like my pal Father Tony recently celebrated a birthday, today is sort of a birthday for me.

About this time last year I was in the worse physical shape of my life.  I was 293 pounds and while my 6-5 frame can handle that, most of that extra baggage was in the belly.  I ate poorly.  I went through at least one pizza pie a week and a few bacon sandwiches was no big deal. And I salted everything, even Mac and Cheese.  Mexican food?  Mas Gustso! Chinese Food?  Xie! Xie!  There were very few beers I did not love and fewer days that I did not have a few. Yet, I did not have high blood pressure and my cholesterol was rather low.  But I also have COPD and I blamed that for a lot of things which were affecting me.

I could not take a shower without taking a rest as just washing my hair (which is high-and-tight for the most part) tired me.  Even walking to the car was a chore.  I had to rest once I got to the front door.  Trudge to the car thirty feet away and then rest again as the car warmed up.

I thought it was just COPD getting worse but my regular doctor suspected something else and referred me to a cardiologist. I saw Jim, my now cardio guy on Wednesday. He sensed there was something wrong but not sure exactly what as my EKG was normal.  (My EEG, well, that is another story for another day…)

So he scheduled a stress test for that Friday and told me to go home and rest until then. Bright and early Friday morning, we get to the office and a few hours later after all the tests he tells me that he is scheduling an angiogram for the following Monday.

There was nothing out of the ordinary but he sensed despite no evidence of a problem there was something going on.  And, who am I to argue, he was the doc.

He explained the procedure and that if they found something they should be able to either ablate it and/or put in stents. If it was real bad they would have to operate and if they found nothing he said that he would be real surprised. But his thought was this would take care of my problems.

As we are getting ready to leave he said that if I felt poorly this afternoon to come back to the office.  He added if I felt badly tonight or over the weekend to go to the hospital. He said the worst that would happen in that case would be that I would be early for Monday’s procedure.

Went home, later on had dinner, prolly pizza and chianti as usual, then sat down to watch the Yankees after the meal. It was a nice night and the missus was in and out and going to the neighbors who were sitting outside.  After a bit I felt a tightness in my chest. I lied to myself that it was agita.  (I never get heartburn so I knew that was not true.) When it did not go away, I thought it was because I was sitting too long, then that I was dehydrated then every other excuse in the book except the truth and I knew what it was.

Hoping against hope that it would go away I bided my time as the pain and tightness increased.  Finally at about ten o’clock the missus came in and I walked to the kitchen and said I think I should go to the hospital.  She said that she will call 9-1-1.  I said by the time they get here we can be half way to the hospital.

We roll up to the ER of the hospital, a very few minutes later a wheel chair appears, I am wheeled to reception. They take some vitals and an EGK and the next thing I know I am admitted.  An IV started and meds given.

A few hours later the attending physician comes for a little visit. She says I had an “event.”

“Event?” I say, then ask if that is anything like a heart attack.  She says, well, we could call it an “episode.”

“Episode?” I say, then ask again if THAT is anything like a heart attack.

She they do not use that term. So I said, “If there were no such words as “event” and “episode”, what would one call this?

Well, she finally cracks and says “In the old days, yes, we would call it a heart attack but back then we did not have the technology we have today.  So to assuage any fears and to assure that in almost all cases like yours there will be a favorable outcome.”

So, I am put in a room with a roomie not of my choice.  I tried to make the best of my forced vacation and did my best to keep the doctors, nurses, orderlies or anyone else amused.  This, in turn, amused me.  And it is written that a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

Saturday and Sunday pass with little excitement I had a TV and my cell and I could watch my sports, news or educational shows.  They put me on my new low-fat, low-sodium diet and much to my surprise it was not bad, in fact, not bad at all.

(The above-mention Father Tony came to visit and offered Communion.  As it I was in a Catholic Hospital someone came around every day to deliver Communion to those who wished.  But, he was kind enough to give me the blessing of the ill and after a nice chat, off he went. The next day, my pal Father Jim (who is reading this), comes by, offers Communion and again too late.  He then offers the anointing of the ill. I asked how often can one received such blessing and he said about once a month.  I said that Father Tony was here the day before and he gave me a blessing.  Well, Father Jim had been a priest for about two weeks at this point and recalled that giving the anointing is a grey area and if I have not received the chrism and so on, he could do it again.  And besides, he said, it would be his first time and as I was a friend and all.  Well, I guess I am good to go if I am in a bad situation without a priest.  Thank both of you guys!)

Monday morning I am wheeled down for pre-op.  They to all the tests and so forth and send me back to my room.  A few hours later I am wheeled out again to go to the OR.

There is a jam-up in the hall and I am stopped while they sort out the mess.   About ten feet down on the other side of the hall they roll out some guy maybe ten years or so younger than me.  He does not seemed to be to bothered by things either.  I make eye contact and I say “What are you in for?”  He taps his chest and says “Heart, what about you?” “Sex change” I say and was as surprised as anyone else at what I said and of course now the entire hall is laughing.

He replies “Well, gimme your number, you are kinda cute, let’s see how it works out.” And if someone was not laughing before they were then.

Down we go to the bowels of the hospital. I am prepped and sedated but not knocked out.  To make a long story short, I had over 80% blockage in three of the four more popular arteries.  cardio office is addressed by their first names) says afterwards that everything went fine, there are no problems expected, and, oh, by the way, by the size and locations of the blockages, had they not done the procedure that or the following day I would have suffered a massive heart attack and most likely would have died.

So, I decided that I was given this second chance.  As it is said “God Don’t Want Me Yet.”  So, He must have a plan for me.  I have no idea what it is. Maybe I am doing it, maybe not.  I don’t know but I am still alive on my first new birthday and I will listen for His Word.

(For all of you who were aware of this and were kind enough so send emails, texts, cards, letters and gifts, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU and THANK YOU AGAIN from the bottom of my repaired heart.  You have no idea how much you blessed me.)

PS:  Since then I have met with the docs a number of times and I have had a few more procedures on my legs.   Jim said that I had to go on this draconian diet. I told him it would never work.  Never.   We chatted and we came to some understanding on what made me tick and how far I can be restrained.  I assured him I would beat his expectations left to his guidance and my own internal determination.  I stick to the diet more than 95% of the time.  I make up for it when I stray. I use “MyFitnessPal”  app to monitor everything I eat.  I have not had a beer in over a year.  Yes, I do enjoy my wine and spirits but not like before.   I can count the times I have had pizza (very few) and visits to Mexican and Chinese restaurants (zero.) When I got stabilized and my strength back I started going to the gym three times a week.  In the past year, I have lost fifty pounds, converted about ten pounds or more of fat to muscle, and I am in the best physical shape that I have been in in the past thirty years and getting better every day.  Thank you for your continued prayers and support.  I am not going anywhere till He calls me home.

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Cocoon Dwellers:

This is not the issue I was going to send out today. I have one on deck and one warming up.  But while I may have been on vacation the ever vigilant and occasionally sober Muse was not.  (Perhaps my fictional alter ego has a device on her leg, just sayin’.)

To begin with, it is a good idea that if one is willing to dispense suggestions then that person ought to be willing to follow them as well.   Not a “do as I say, not as I do” situation.

I have said, among very many other things, to look at the present through the prism of the past.  Don’t just do the Zen thing and look at the “now” and the condition of things without factoring in the way things were in the past, both recent and long ago.

The problem is if you do not have a frame of reference you have no idea how you got to this condition or state of things.  I mean, how can you know if things are good or bad without some reference point?

That is, is $50,000 a year salary good or poor?  Are cars safe?  Is it warm outside?

Fifty-K is not bad in many places and is darn good compared to the 1940s and 50s.  But if you live in New York, San Francisco, Honolulu and other places, you are almost in poverty.

Cars are safer now then they have ever been but will they eventually become safer or may some of the “safety advancements” prove to be less-than-safe or perhaps even fatal?

(Consider the “feature” on some cars that will automatically slow down a car in the case of an emergency.  Who is to say the computer could not hiccup while you are motoring down the interstate, jam on the brakes and you get flattened by a Kenworth booking at 80 MPH with a driver floating on “West Coast Turn-Arounds.”)

Oh as far as “Is it warm?”  That was a trick question. The correct answer is: “It is global warming that is all Bush’s fault, you racist.”

To put all that in some perspective:  I was in a self-imposed news-black out for most of the past two weeks.  While my Disney Channel Quotient went up many fold, my exposure to the events of the day were virtually nil.  I had no idea what was going on and unless there was an emergency of some kind I would have sashayed through my day in complete and utter bliss and ignorance.

In other words, I was like a Low-Information Voter.

So, I come back to reality, or at least what the media would have us believe is reality, and in the space of a dozen or so days I found out that so many things have changed.

Some not so dramatic.  For instance, Biff is still an idjit but I did not know that ALL the other leaders of the world detest him as much as real Americans do and he has the uncanny ability to make the skin crawl of any woman who comes near him, or more accurately, any woman he approaches.

Others, like the Iraqis abandoning tens of thousands of vehicles and ordnance to the chaps of ISIS. Were the Iraqis cowards or was this some kind of Muzzie Lend-Lease Program?

Some are just strange and unsubstantiated.  Such as John WTLF Kerry.  Allegedly he had a bicycle accident.  Supposedly he broke his leg.  Purportedly he was immediately flown back to the States for surgery. The questions arose that if it was just a broken leg, why could that not have been addressed where he was or at least in a military facility?  (He married enough money that he is not encumbered by OBAMA’S OBAMACARE.)   Where were the pics of the event?  (Like he or anyone of such stature travels without official photogs or the paparazzi.)

(Since the information was rather thin, there was some speculation as to what “really” happened.  Was there an assassination attempt? Was he caught in the crossfire of an ISIS attack in France?  Was he taken to Geneva to be stabilized then rushed back to the States for surgery and is now near death? Where the photos of him provided well after the fact and perhaps photo-shopped?  We now know that it was a bike accident or in any event something from which he has now been released from hospital.  But, where were the updates?  Something is still not right.)

Up until 1992 I would not have given the initial story a second thought.   Then came the Clinton’s and the curious body count, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

And to add to the distrust, there had been very little or anything about WTLF’s condition.  One can speculate accurately that most people do not care what happens to him or the “out of sight, out of mind” theory comes into play.

Then there are the rampant murders and carnage in places such as Baltimore and Chicago but that is not news unless a cop in involved in some way.

Then there is the propagation of the myth that all cops are bad, racist and the White ones just want to kill blacks.  Sadly, that myth is being promoted in schools and there are collages of what the students are told to think of cops.

Biff is sending four-hundred and fifty additional troops to Iraq.  Fifty of them will be there in a training capacity and the four hundred others are there for support of the trainers.  (WHAT????)

BTW, those fifty trainers will NOT be allowed into the field or be allowed to participate in any battle.  I guess the Iraqis are such quick studies they do not need supervision.  Besides, we have seen what a bang up job the Iraqis can do on their own.

Some are calling this “mission creep.” As bad as that sounds, I suggest that that is from Biff’s supporters. I call it cowardice.  You see Biff took credit for “winning” the war in Iraq and achieving “victory” in Afghanistan.  So, he canNOT re-re-engage anyone in Iraq.  That would make it look like he went back on this word.  And when I say that I mean:  “He does not want to take any responsibility for sending troops into battle as that would tarnish his legacy as a wartime president.”

Let me assure you, he tarnished the Presidency when in January 2009 he raised his hand and swore “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”

And it goes on and on.

Recall the story of the pigs and the grain.  Someone placed grain on the ground and erected a wall on one side. The next day, more grain, the pigs came and another wall.  Later on more grain, the pigs returned and the third wall and finally more grain and the fourth wall completing the pen and trapping the pigs.

Recall the story of the frog dumped into the pan of boiling water: he immediately jumped of the pan.  But the same frog put in the same pan with water at a lower temperature that is increased to boiling will be scalded to death as he gets used to the condition.

When we do not take time to look around and see the walls going up, if we do not take temperature readings and compare them to earlier ones, we have no idea if we are being led to a trapped, having our figurative goose’s cooked or what our condition is.

I have admitted to being a news junkie, or “current information consumer.”  I canNOT understand how ANYONE can take ANYTHING for granted, especially now. I do not understand it.

The Hilderbeast, Lie-A-Watha and Socialist Sanders are each vying for the brass ring from their party.  In a fair and just world, it is possible that two of them might have had some jail time behind them and the other forced to register with the authorities.

Don’t misunderestimate me, the Republicans are not exactly setting records fielding the best slate of nomination seekers ever, even when you remove the half that are RINOs.

But, how does a Democrat make a decision between three socialists? Or two women and a guy from Vermont?  They have it just as hard as Republicans.  After all, the media love the Hilderbeast and may also be afraid of that chipmunk-cheeked little darling.

Other than PMS/LSD who are so far Left that they think Lenin was financed by the Koch Brothers, you rarely hear a good word about Lie-A-Watha or Socialist Sanders if there is any news about the Hilderbeast.

(It was not the Koch Brothers who financed Lenin, it was David Rockefeller’s father and the Morgan’s who did.  Yes, the same David Rockefeller who tapped Jimmah Q’artah to be president and allegedly picked Biff as well.  Funny, huh?  Except it is not.)

If you are a low-information Republican (which is still orders of magnitude more informed than your garden variety Democrat), you might have to make your decision based on which candidate the SRCFM hates the most (indicating fear) or by piecing together the information from the various media outlets.  (And again DO NOT RELY on the SRCFM. Look to papers outside of the Country, even some Lefty ones. You will be surprised what you might find there!)

That said, isolating myself from the news for a dozen days was a shock to the system when I came back to the info world.  That said I can almost understand why certain supporters feel as they do.

They are not stupid.

They are ignorant.

They do not know the truth and sadly 99% of them are too proud to admit they are wrong.

And pride goes before a fall.

That is fine, but don’t take me or my Country with you.

So, my friends and fellow grasshoppers, it is up to each and every one of us to protect and defend the Constitution, even if others won’t.  It is up to each and every one of us to help educate the ignorant masses.  And if you try and they get mad at you, it is their loss, not yours.

They are mad because you are right.

Make it so.

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Transfer Students:

NOTE:  There will be a dearth of FISH for the next 10-14 days. Precious will be taking a few days off for a “stay-cation.”  Feel free to peruse some of the old issues you may have or catch up on missed issues on the interwebs web-site.

Take a look at the Bill of Rights.  Take a good look at the 1^st Amendment.  Help me out here.  Look at your copy and see if yours says what mine says.  I just want to be sure before I do any further.

Does yours say: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, can you please confirm?

This is called the “Establishment Clause” and in a nutshell it says that the gummint canNOT pass any laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion.  (It also says that the gummint canNOT create a state religion.  Enough on that for now.)

Not to preach (which is usually a sure sign that someone thinks I will preach) but ours is a Nation that was based on Judeo-Christian principals, founded by men of God (if not actual practicing then believing) and our religious tolerance has welcomed people of all faiths (or even lack of) to our shores without prejudice or restriction.

I do not think there is much to debate there.

We have “One Nation Under God” in our Pledge and we have “In God We Trust” on all of our currency.  So, it is fair to say we are not an Atheist land and freedom to practice ones RELIGION is protected and supported.

Unless you are a Muslim or in the Air Force*.

There are a number of colleges and universities in Washington DC.  One of which is “Catholic University.”   It is not just a Catholic university, such as those bastions of liberalism as are Georgetown and Notre Dame but its name IS “Catholic University.”  And it IS Catholic and it adheres to a strict Catholic orthodoxy.  Yet one needs not be Catholic to attend and in fact there are students of all religions in attendance.

Even though is it a religious doctrinaire school anyone is invited to attend as long as they follow the rules, which are those of the Church.

(SIDEBAR/ALTAR RAIL: My high school alma mater was all male and all Catholic when I was at school. It is now co-ed and accepts all faiths.  [For financial reasons.] Be that as it may, there are still some Brothers teaching, there are Crucifixes in every room and all students must take the religion courses.  Just like Catholic University. I am not sure if the non-Catholic students are excused from the occasional religious service.)

Now, all of a sudden the, now think about this name, “Catholic University Muslim Student Association” are suing the school because the Catholic University does not have separate rooms in which Muslims can pray that do not have Catholic religious artifacts and they are not thrilled that the “Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception” visible from all parts of the campus.

Lessee… the school was founded in 1887, the construction of the Basilica began in 1920 and our friends from the Middle East who got here how many weeks ago think their prayer rugs trump all that?

But wait, it gets worse.

Professor of Law John Banzhaf is filing a suit against Catholic University because they act “with malice” against others (notably Muslims) because of all the Catholic artifacts that are all over the Catholic school and that makes it difficult for the Muslims to pray.

Turns out this is not the esteemed professor’s first suit against Catholic University. Among other things he is upset and peeved that the Catholic University does not have co-ed dorms.

I am not saying Catholics (especially this one) are holier than thou types who never do anything wrong (I have admitted to breaking all of your more popular Commandments), but if a church of any denomination or religious institution of any kind wants to hold their students to the rule, regulations, mores and so on of their religion, a student who is considering attending there must be made aware of such requirements and must either agree to them or simply chose another school.

This is a microcosm of what is not only happening but being allowed and perhaps abetted to happen all over the Country.

Recall FISH past mostly with respect to the illegals.  I mentioned that the various waves of people, be they the Irish, Italians, Germans and others in the late-1800’s and early-1900’s came here and were met with less than open arms. “Irish Need Not Apply”, “No Catholics” and other signs were found at places of business, employment and rental of lodging.

Then, if Enzo Gasolini demanded that the local Kosher Deli sold spicy pork sausage or sopresta he would have been kicked out of the store and banned forever.

Then, if Paddy O’Furniture “demanded” that the local traffic was diverted away from Saint’s Be Praised Roman Catholic Church on Sunday morning, he would have been given a tune up that could almost beat the religion out of him.

Now, you have cab drivers in some cities that will not take a customer if he is carrying liquor or beer from a store. This is from the same guy who avoids toilet paper or has a family member who has removed the head of an infidel all in the name of “religious purity.”  (Perhaps if they got hammered they might see the errors of their ways.)  And the “elected officials” say “well we have religious freedom, they are allowed to discriminate.”

Except that they are not allowed to discriminate.

You have areas like Dearbornistan that live under Sharia Law and think it would be a barrel of laughs if we all did.

You have horrible things happening to less than horrible young ladies at the hands of a patriarch of a family because “it is written.”

Yes, they come here from their Seventh-Century paradise and demand, yes, demand that WE do things their way.  And the gummint thinks that is just swell and, here, have some money.

But, while none of that is the point, all of that is the point.

It is a Catholic University and there are Muslims students getting
PO’d that there are Catholic things going on and there is a Catholic Church on the premises to boot!?!?!

And they are suing!?!?!

Exactly how long do you think you would last at Muslim University if you demanded bacon in the cafeteria?

And imagine if you have the temerity to sue! Well, that is not cricket!

Now, back to the lawsuit.

The suit is being advanced by one John Banzhaf.

Look up this guy.  He is against everything from smoking (not a bad thing necessarily but it does impact personal choice) to “Potty Parity” (look it up) and more.  He is well known for frivolous lawsuits and the use of the courts for “advocacy.”

So here is an alleged man of the Jewish religion who is suing a Catholic University on the grounds that he feels Muslims are not getting a fair shake.

Anyone else see any problems?

Let’s add this:  He is neither a professor at that university (he “teaches” at George Washington University) and no one has asked him to put in his two cents.

Before we wrap this up, another story and a half.  In the mall in Pleasanton California, some guy ripped the crucifix from the neck of a shopper and broke it.  He was screaming “Allah is power” and “Islam is great” (Ah, I can see your point now!) while brandishing a pen in his fist in a threatening manner.  (Is there another manner?)

Now, it gets strange.

His co-workers said that this was “out of the ordinary” (one would hope) and that in all the years he worked there, he had never done anything like this before.

Now: “Through an interpreter, Hamid requested a public defender…”

YOU connect the dots: “Ripped a crucifix from the neck of a shopper”, “worked at the mall for years” and “through an interpreter.”

What am I missing here?

On a lighter note and proof that the Clinton’s and the Snuffaluffagus are immune to the truth along comes Biff.  (I could stop right there.)

Yes, Biffus Minimus was giving a speech and said “I have lived my life guided by the principals of Judaism.”

Indeed!  The person who give cash and succor to Hamas who have in their charter the destruction of Israel, has his alleged SecState playing footsie with the Palestinians who have sworn to destroy Israel, is chomping at the bit to let the Iranians get a nuke as they too have sworn on numerous occasions to wipe Israel from the map, said “I have lived my life guided by the principals of Judaism.”

Last but certainly not least proof that “he who laughs last is slow to the joke.”

Watch this video.  It is from Egyptian TV and involves a discussion with three men one of which is a retired Egyptian Army general. If this does not wake you up, nothing will.  (As far as I can tell, it is authentic.   If anyone can prove otherwise, I will be happy to issue a retraction.)

(I recommend you share that link with all of your lib friends.)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UXodRLLkth4&feature=youtu.be

*There is an Air Force General who did the unthinkable!  He talked about… GOD!  Imagine that!  Anywho some Atheists wanted him court-marshaled for such a crime!  (For some reason, there were no believers demanding the prosecution of Atheists for NOT talking about God.  That, my friends, is what is called a “double standard.”)  Read for yourself.  (Happy ending, he was cleared of all charges but the fact there were….)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/17/air-force-general-who-spoke-god-in-speech-should-be-court-martialed-group-says/

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19  John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Viewers:

IF for some odd reason I was going to hold a children’s beauty contest, I would not think the likes of a John Wayne Gacy would be the best choice for a judge.

Similarly, I am fairly sure that I would not enlist the services of the ACLU to, you know, update the Bible.

I think you get the picture…

It was announced that noted scoundrel (I told you so) Little Georgie Snuffaluffagus was a lying, cheating grifter was found out and exposed as the lying cheating grifter that he is.

We all know there is not a dimes worth of difference between 99% of the TV newsreaders.  That is sad because that 99% give the rest a bad name. We also know that there are far too many cozy relationships between people the media and gummint, in fact, some are siblings and others are married.

Far too many of the lean-back crowd not just get their info from the SRCFM (and has that EVER been a truer statement?) but believe that bovine scatology.

Even still, you expect a modicum of decorum, the slightest hint of fairness, at least a nod and a wink to the facts when it comes to the “news of the day” and not a floating street-corner “Three-Card Monte game” of facts and truth.

Say what you will about the others, and I do, for the greater part Georgie Snuffaluffagus looks like a choir boy, angelic in countenance, in fact his father is a Greek Orthodox Priest and his mother the news director for the Greek Orthodox Church in America.

What did he do? What did B.J. Clinton’s butt-boy do? What did you think he did?

Nothing.

Well, nothing more than many of the rest do.

He was dishonest, not forthcoming and was part of the news he was alleged to have been dispassionate about that which he was reporting.

In other words, he committed the biggest crime.

He got caught.

Despite his oftentimes contentious relationship with the Clinton’s when he worked for them in the White House or when he worked for them as a talking head on television, he was kind enough  to donate somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Influence Pedal.. er no, that is not right, oh yeah, the Clinton Protection Racke… opps, my bad, anywho he donated a stack of cash to one of Clintons Funds for the advancement of the Clinton’s.

There is no shock that those in the SRCFM lie, omit, exaggerate, amplify and otherwise distort the news.

There is no secret that almost all on the SRCFM vote Liberal and donate to such causes and candidates.

But even for a Lib it is egregious to be part of something of which you are allegedly reporting and doing such from an exculpatory viewpoint.

Sorta like the New York Times asking alleged, and now former, AG Stedman for his impartial opinion about prosecuting members of the New Panther Party.

Kinda like the objective Al $harpton interviewing any of the Balitmorons on his TV show (is it still on?) about the integrity of the rioters in that fair city.

Actually, it is worse.

You can get the NEW YORK SLIMES will throw nothing but softballs to Stedman or anyone of the Maladministration.  That is a given.

You know that $harpton is a shill, a race-baiter and could be on someone’s payroll. You have seen him suck up to any of his own race in any kind of political or powerful position.

(This just crossed my mind, but has any of you ever seen $harpton with a member of the military?  About the only time I ever saw him with anyone in uniform he was very busy being arrested.)

(Speaking about getting paid off, you DID hear that the protestors in Baltimore were paid to protest, yes?  Something like $2700 of blood money, alleged Soros money. The funny thing is that not all of them got paid and they say they are going to sue whoever promised them the money.  Feature this, going to court to sue for monies owed by someone who promised payment to COMMIT A CRIME. What? On the other side of that coin, and to be 100% fair, when that poppa oscar sierra murdered NYPD officer Brian Moore, many people were paid not to riot.  Well, that is not exactly true. They have jobs and they were at work.)

Now, and slap me nekkid and hide my clothes, how does THIS happen?  You see, in the fallout from Snuffaluffagus’s dishonesty, he is “voluntarily” excusing himself from moderating a Republican Presidential Candidate Debate.

Forget about everything else, forget about Snuffaluffagus’s chicanery and fealty, ignore the money given to the Clinton’s, disregard the fact that he reported on a story in which he was a player.  The real news is that this mendacious midget was on any one’s radar to be a good, fair and impartial moderator for ANY debate that was not a Liberal event.

Recall this coward tried to sabotage Mitt during the Republican candidate debates on the last go-around by asking questions that had nothing to do with the topic at hand.  He should have been permanently banned from any polite partisan political discourse from that point on, eternally.

While he was not as bad as that despicable Candy Crowley who, as Biff was having his lunch handed to him by Mitt, “corrected” Mitt with an utter lie, and that turned the tenor of the debate.

That she interjected was wrong. That she interjected in a partisan manner is inexcusable. That she interjected an incorrect comment is IMHBVAO, borderline criminal and she ought to have been fired, or as she worked for CNN, promoted.

Let’s veer of the road for a moment.

Let’s look at the creatchures who “moderated” the Presidential debates of 2012:  Jim Leher (PBS), Candy Crowley (CNN) and Bob Schieffer (CBS) and on the VP side you had the never-lovely Martha Raddatz (ABC).

This is what the SRCFM refer to as fair and balanced. There were two lefties from two liberal network stations and two lefties from two liberal cable news stations.

OK, that is the big dance, let’s look at the warm-ups, the Republican contenders’ debates. There were twenty of them. (Yeah, I know.  No such a thing as too much of a good thing.  Or, this.)

CBS, NBC, CNBC and Bloomberg sponsored one each, ABC and MS/NBC sponsored two each, FOX had five and CNN had seven. To simplify this sorta-pretend Right Wing had five the Left-to-Far- Left had fifteen.

Of the last seven debates when the candidates had been winnowed down to a handful, FOX had one and the Left had the rest with CNN and MS/NBC crafting the last four.

I am more than ready to accept that the Grand Mosque is not going to take any decorating suggestions from Bibi Netanyahu.

Al $harpton is not going to be named “Man of the Year” of the KKK.

Bruce Jenner, never mind, he writes his own joke.

You won’t find a ham and cheese on rye with mayo at Katz’s Deli.

Yet, I will bet an egg cream (Katz’s made me thirsty) that ALL of those things will happen before the Republicans say:  “Enough!  We are not going to take it!  WE will decide when and where the debates will be and WE will choose the moderator.”

Of course they won’t do that.  ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MS/NBC and more will say “Sure, but you NEED us!  And if you need us we will dictate the terms and who is going to moderate.  We will throw you a bone and let someone we like at FOX to do a few but that is that! Take it or leave it.”

And the cowardly Republicans will thank the SRCFM for being so kind.

The Republicans are ignoring the fact that there are other avenues on cable and terrestrial television as well as on the interwebs.  They won’t allow a Mark Levine, a Glenn Beck, a Rush Limbaugh or the like to moderate.

(The Michael Savages are too bombastic and self-absorbed no matter what their talents are. The Bill O’Reilly’s are all over the map and will turn on you in a sec. The Sean Hannity’s are to impressed with themselves and more impressed by those they   see as betters, such as Master Cylinder Karl Rove.)

Of course the problem with having someone “right-of-center” moderating is that the Left won’t take it seriously and the moderates won’t watch the debates on the interwebs.

I turned on the TV this morning, and there was ol’ Georgie shuckin’ and jivin’ with guests on his weekday show.

In a just and fair world, he would be holed up with his lawyers planning a defense for his journalistic malfeasance.

And why is Snuffaluffagus not fired and indicted?

Because in the eye of the Left he did nothing wrong.

And THAT my friends is the REAL CRIME.

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Dear Friends and Fellow Patriots:

I rarely eat leftovers, I gen’ly do not watch reruns of TV shows, there are very few movies and books that I have enjoyed more than once. That said, it is odd that I would repeat a THE DAILY FISH. Most of the FISH I have written, I suppose, I could improve upon, but this is one of the few that stands out that there is little room for significant improvement. I have not altered it in any way save to change the lapse of time since the last one. I feel the same emotion reading this today as I did when first I wrote it.

As the circulation of this little thing of ours has grown in the past year, I would reckon that there are a fair number of you have not seen this before and I posit that many who have read it before will anew appreciate the sentiment contained within.

That said, enjoy your Memorial Day but remember the reason for it!

My Friends and Fellow Patriots:

Many of you long time readers know that there are a few things that are very special and close to me. You also know that, regardless of what is going on in the world, in our Country, in our backyards, that we have to stop and take pause for a moment and make sure we are shipshape, squared-away, flying right, on top of things, or whatever. In these cases I write a THE DAILY FISH to make sure we do this a few times a year. This is one of them.

On Mother’s Day, I drove out to Calverton National Cemetery here on Long Island. My dad, a WWII and Korea vet was buried there some 28 years ago. Not that long ago, mom joined him and Mother’s Day was her 9th anniversary there.

Like most national cemeteries, Calverton is in great shape, easy to get around, well maintained and if it was not such a bitter-sweet place, you would enjoy going there. Most days, other than the all- too-many funerals, it is quiet and no matter where you are you are almost always alone. Holidays are a bit different and on Mother’s Day I noticed a far higher number of flowers on the graves.

Other than on Father’s Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving Day and very few others do you see much decoration on the graves. Sometimes I think that is the way it ought to be; solemn, serene and reflective. On other days it is good to see flowers and flags festooning the final resting spots of so many of our heroes and in many cases members of their families. Our heroes, though gone, still are part of the American Family and many of them have paid the ultimate price so that we can live as we do. It is right and proper that we recognize and honor them with flowers and flags.

There are national cemeteries all over our country, and in fact, all over the world. I am sure that there is one not too far from you, if you stopped to take a look*. Maybe you know of one, or, like me, have loved ones buried in one or more, but if nothing else, there are fields upon fields of the final resting places of our heroes.

Many of these great Americans left their cities and towns, friends and family and traveled to the far reaches of the Earth so that we could enjoy all with which God has so richly blessed us. Most came back home, took off their Ike Jackets, Cammies, Dixie Cups and so forth and continued their lives until their natural end.

Others came home in bags and boxes, having made the supreme sacrifice in a foreign land. Some others suffered great injuries that accelerated their eventual demise. But no matter what level of sacrifice they gave, they all gave.

There is a bumper sticker that is, I hesitate to say is “popular”, referring to the brave FDNY heroes who perished on 9-11 that reads: “All Gave Some, Some Gave All.” Without fear of compromising the sacrifices made by “New York’s Bravest”, that is a sentiment that ought to be conferred upon all veterans as well.

I am going to eschew politicizing this issue for a moment, as this transcends politics or, at least, ought to. We are all affected and effected by the actions and sacrifices of our vets and we owe them all a debt far greater than we can ever repay. Even we vets owe our brother and sister vets the same, and in many cases a far higher, debt of gratitude.

One of the best and easiest things we can do is to fly our Flag from our houses. Or, on our cars. Or, on your jacket lapel. Or, like me, all of the above. I do not know about you but I get a sense of pride every time I see our Flag and recite the Pledge. And, is there a greater song than the Star Spangled Banner? Brings a tear to my eye. But that comes as natural to me and many others as a result of service to our country.

But there is more that we can do and I really do not want to get all preachy here or holier- than-thou but too many of us take too many of us for granted. If you have an iota of respect for our Flag and that which it represents, please, PLEASE, do something a little different this year if you do not celebrate Memorial Day in any manner other than having a cook-out.

If you are religious, perhaps there is a service at your house of worship you can attend. If there is a parade in your community, as there is one in mine, if you do not participate in it, please, turn out and show your support for those who do. While it is not Veterans Day, maybe you might wish to visit a local Veterans home or hospital. After all, those who we remember on Memorial Day ARE all vets!

One of the things I get the greatest satisfaction doing is the laying of Flags at Long Island National Cemetery, or as we locals call it, Pinelawn. I am not sure of the exact number but there are more than 330,000 vets and family members of vets buried here.

Arriving at first light on the Saturday before Memorial Day, the groups gather at various parts of the cemetery. AMVETS, VFW, American Legion, groups of Nam vets and now the latest groups are those from the Middle East conflicts. There are also Boy and Girl Scouts, Knights of Columbus, Elks, Moose and other fraternal and civic groups pitching in.

They will gather at their appointed location and generally have some kind of small service to set the tone for the solemnity of their duty and for respect and commemoration of those whom they honor. The Flags are provided by the cemetery and are placed in large crates spaced so that you can grab a few bundles, decorate the graves and by the time you need more Flags, there is another huge crate nearby loaded with Flags.

The folks take a few bundles of the Flags and generally work in teams of 3 or so, leap-frogging over the others as they place a Flag at the center of each headstone. Many people take half of a tennis ball for the purposes of pushing the Flag in to the ground. Here in New York even in May, the ground can still be hard. Or rain-soaked. Or something else. But no matter what, it is hallowed ground acting as a sentinel over the remains of thousands upon thousands of American Heroes.

We may have up to a hundred in our group and while I do not know the exact number of Flags that we lay, it is likely over 10,000. That may sound like a lot of Flags but it is only a hundred or so person. And, we get it done in less than an hour. In fact, just before sun up there is scarcely a Flag to be seen and only a few hours later, all 330,000-plus graves have been decorated.

It is truly an amazing sight to see, acres and acres of rows upon rows of white pillars, laid out with great precision, each one with a small American Flag placed at the center of the headstones. If this does not make you proud to be an American, there is something wrong with you. And, it is nearly impossible to look at the fields of fluttering Flags in front of their white sentinels and not think of the American Hero that each one represents. (There are some pictures on my Facebook page.)

I am sure that many of you do this already. I am equally certain that many more of you have actually wondered how all the Flags got there in the first place. I hope that some of you will be so impressed with this duty that you, too, may wish to get involved and get a great sense of accomplishment.

It is easy to do.

If you already belong to one of the service, civic or fraternal organizations, check with someone to see if your particular post, chapter, council or whatever is involved and then you can volunteer. If your group does not participate or you do not belong to any of these organizations, I am sure you know someone who does and ask that person if they decorate the graves for Memorial Day. If you strike out on both of these counts, you can contact the administrator at the cemetery near you and I am sure that they can either put you in touch with some organization or that they have a cadre that they field for this event.

So, please take a moment and say a silent prayer for all of those who served so valiantly and are in their final resting place. Take a moment and reflect on the sacrifices that they made. Then ask yourself, will it be just burgers and beers this Memorial Day as usual or will you take a little time out of your day off and will you do a little something for those who served so you can have the freedoms that we all enjoy.

And, while you are saying that little prayer, don’t forget those who are currently serving, especially those in harm’s way.

God Bless, God Speed and Thank you for serving.

* If you are interested in finding a national cemetery, here is a link: www.cem.va.gov/cem/cems_nmc.asp

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Alums:

For some odd reason, I do not think I am entitled to anything more than what I have earned.  I do not want anyone else’s money or possessions, I do not want credit for something I did not do and I certainly do not want any attention, especially in this atmosphere.

Like many of us, I often carry a balance on some credit cards, but that is the extent of my debt.  While it might be nice to win the lottery, I am not counting on that for my retirement as I doubt I would retire. Even still, I would not want or expect someone to pay my bills for me.

This is the way I was brought up.

I am sure my story is very similar in any number of ways to most of yours.

Like the old joke goes, my parents were born with nothing and still had most of that when they died.  They were children of legal immigrant parents and grew up in the 1^st Great Depression.  So the idea of getting anything for nothing was not, shall we say, “encouraged.”

My grandparents were not captains of industry or professional people.  Stevedores and charwomen were on their CV. Like their parents before them, they wanted the best for their kids and they came to America.

The children of both sets of my grandparents were three males and two females.  My dad and my uncles all fought in WWII, Korea or both.  So we were brought up with the sense of duty.  Thank you!

And like my grandparents, my parents wanted the best for us.  We moved from a (not high end at all ) brownstone apartment in Brooklyn to a brand new home at the border of the city, which then was more “suburb” than city.

My brother and I went to Catholic grammar school and I went to on to Catholic High School, my brother opting for a trade’s high school. We were encouraged to do what we wanted to do be to strive to be the best.

We were encouraged to make our own decisions and mistakes.  (But not without some supervision.) They say you learn from your mistakes.  Truly I must be the smartest man in the world if that is correct as I made far more than my share and am still here to tell you about it. Those experiences of trying and failing or trying something and not getting seriously hurt or killed were as important to making me who I am as my formal education.  (I am still learning apparently as I am still making mistakes.)

When the Vietnam War was still on but winding down and with the draft still looming, I followed my father’s and uncles’ lead and enlisted.

I was not a perfect child. Shock, yes, I know, but I did the best I could and I think all things considered I have no complaints.

Now there is someone who DOES have complaints and lots of them.

Yes, Mooch!

“The road is not easy, especially for people like you and me.”

                        -The Moochster, Tuskegee University May 2015

This po po po baby who struggled to go to Princeton on a full ride scholarship, has an axe to grind.

Yes, the same Mooch who went to this exclusive and expensive Ivy League college on someone else’s dime then had the temerity to (poorly) write her senior thesis on, well basically, how much White people suck, is peeved.

Yes, the same Mooch who with her lovely hubby FINALLY paid back their Harvard student loans… twenty-odd years after the fact and after he was elected, feels persecuted.

Yes, the same Mooch who got a six-figure job in her “home town” of Barackistan for some “make work” position that was given to her as a favor, thinks others get more than she.

Yes, the same Mooch who with her lovely hubby “bought” a nice home in Barackistan “allegedly” with the “help” of a certain less then savory individual, thinks she has a hard life.

Yes, the same Mooch who has taken more vacations, junkets and liberties than some people have had hot meals, feels slighted.

And those are just the Cliff Notes.

Mooch made a speech the other day at Tuskegee University.

She belly-ached and moaned about the recent events in Ferguson and Baltimore, leaving out basically all the facts as they do not fit her narrative. Easier to blame Whitey then to offer suggestions and solutions. Or to speak the cold, hard truth.

She suggested that these black graduates (it is an all-black college) would spend their lives being pulled over by cops, hassled by store detectives, be given sub-standard service, being mistaken for “the help” and so on.

(She cited the struggles of the amazing Tuskegee Airmen.  Who, I firmly believe that even at their advanced age, would gladly stand in line one more time to slap her across the head.  I have met some of those great men. They are not black or white, young or old, they are Americans and it was an absolute honor to meet a number of them on a few occasions, shake their hands and thank them for their service. Mooch could take a lesson.)

Rather than challenge the graduates to be good and better people, to look past the history and focus on the future, no, this angry, mean and hateful woman riled up the recent graduates with their “Angry Black Women’s Studies” or “Applied Socialism” degrees.

I would like to think these graduates were too smart to be conned by this grifter.  She preached the divisiveness and exclusion that seems to be the legacy of her lovely hubby’s time in office.

She seems to see things not just in black and white but how things make her unhappy, those things are mostly White people.  Po po po baby.

Here was a great school founded by a great man and it became the site of an infomercial for racial divide.

Booker T. Washington started the school on the 4^th of July 1881. He found, built and expanded the school and its system until his death in 1915, as a result of overwork.  (We will NEVER have to worry about Biff and Mooch working themselves to death.)

Now on the other side of the Mooch coin is another Washington.

Denzel.

He, too, delivered a commencement speech, at Dillard University another black school, this one in N’Awlins.

His speech was a little different. Let’s look at some of his words.   “I’m going to keep it short, Number one: Put God first, put God first in everything you do.  Everything you think you see in me, everything I’ve accomplished, everything you think I have – and I have a few things – everything that I have is by the grace of God. Understand that. It’s a gift.”

I did not sense hate, but love.  I did not sense anger, but happiness.  I did not sense envy, but gratitude.  In fact for every negative thing Mooch said, intimated, caviled about and more, Mr. Washington exhibited and exposed only positives.

Biff talked about the “Two Americas.” I agree, there are two Americas.  And it has nothing to do with skin color.  It has to do with heart.

You have the Obamas who have become financially very wealthy during his terms in office.  But all they want is more, more, more. They are angry at the people who gave them much and that they did not give them, mostly Mooch, even more.

You have Mr. Denzel Washington who has become not just financially wealthy but spiritually and humanly more wealthy.  He does not seem to be angry at anyone, just thankful and blessed.

(To be fair, the Obama’s do donate to charity.  In fact, they give more than most Libs do. They have even donated to “Fisher House”, which is a facility for Vets and their families as the Vet is receiving treatment.    Mr. Washington famously made a donation to Fisher House as well, in fact one of the largest donations ever to that fine organization.  Heeding Matthew 6:3, he did not disclose the amount of the donation.)

If Mooch acted and lashed out in 2007 and 2008 as she did at Tuskegee, I assure you Biff would be a go-fer for $harpton or someone else.

If Denzel had another movie coming out, I would prolly see it just to show support for him.

The wolf I choose to feed is the good one.

A grandfather told his grandson, “My son there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, integrity, humility, kindness, empathy, and truth.” The boy thought for a moment, then asked, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The old man quietly replied, “the one you feed.”

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Viewers:

Some folks just do not get it.

We had a few recent issues, and more to come, on the deterioration of the social and other norms in our Country.  As said then, before and sadly most likely again, it is a slow and steady erosion.

There was a time when the newsreaders were among the most respected people in America.  Of course that was before the interwebs and other ways to fact check them.

When we did, we found out, among others, that Walter Crankcase, “the most trusted man in America” lied to us repeatedly about Vietnam.  This mental defective decided to use his bully pulpit to lie about the first Tet Offensive and  as a result rather than ending the war, he prolonged it causing tens of thousands of additional American and others deaths.  (And, again, had he kept his yap shut, unbeknownst to him Sr. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap was going to sue for peace as his forces were decimated.  We have covered that before, enough for now.)

But the temptation to editorialize is not easily stifled.  There are news organs whose entire product is either fabricated or so selective as to be useless.

Even the “big names” can’t help themselves.  Let’s ask Brian Williams about this.

What? Huh? Really?  No kidding!

Seems that Brian unavailable.  He is building a rocket so he can fly to the space station. Again.

Before him was Dan Rather and after Rather was Katie Couric.  All libs and all as familiar with the truth as the average lib.

Not very many, Benny.

Last week, I am watching the 11PM news and a newsreader comes on and, well let’s let the instant massages speak for themselves!  I have added some small commentary, after the fact in red.

And for additional fun, at the very end is a second conversation we had some months back on a different subject.  From the first exercise I sussed how to get him to be more forthcoming.

Enjoy!

PRECIOUS:  Out of curiosity, on the news last night in the report on the murder of PO Moore, it was mentioned that the gun used came from Georgia and added to that, “(W)here getting a gun is easier.”  Why was it necessary to add that?

NEWSREADER BILL:  good question john. because a big supply of guns in nyc come from these easy-to-buy-guns states.. wouldn’t it be great if other states started cracking down on the availability of guns? one important way to stop all this violence is to end the insanity of firearms. (I did not see the value of verbally beating him up at this stage.  It would have taken days and I would not get to my larger point. It would take two seconds to disprove his allegations but it would not sink in.)

PRECIOUS: Bill thanks for the prompt reply.  I am not sure if cracking down on the availability of guns is the way to go.  Yes, I agree that a gun in the wrong hands is a recipe for disaster.  But is it not like blaming the barn door for letting the horses out?  The greater question is why are people so prone to violence and more as a solution?  Educating and treating people with respect is the first step.  It is no joke when I quote Rodney King and “Why can’t we all get along!”  We can debate the merits of guns all day long.  But, Bill, my larger question had to do to the omission.  You see, whether guns are more easily obtainable is not the question. The gun that Demetrius Blackwell used to murder PO Brian Moore was stolen.  And you can be sure the person who sold him the gun did not ask for ID.  No amount of background check or any other safeguard is going to keep a stolen gun off the street no matter whence it was stolen.  I just felt it was less than full disclosure by not mentioning the gun was stolen.  I know you just read the news Bill, but you are the face of the news, at least in our house in Massapequa where we watch WABC.  I just feel that if someone (WABC news, not necessarily you) wishes to editorialize that all relevant information should be disseminated so one can come to a fair decision.  In any event, thank you for your time, see you at 11.00!(I feel so dirty for schmoozing… but necessary)

NEWSREADER BILL:  thanks john.. good point. and i don’t just read the news. i wrote that story (Underline for emphasis.)

PRECIOUS: I applaud your honesty.  And as I said, we watch WABC for news.  It is the first thing on at 5.30 AM and the last thing off at 11.30 PM.  (Maybe if I had more sleep I would not feel so cranky.) As mentioned, we will see you tonight. If you wished to advise the gun was stolen, that would be a nice thing. Have a good day!

.. and the next day….

PRECIOUS:  Bill… I was a little disappointed that you did not mention the gun used in PO Moore’s murder was stolen on last night’s news.  People who are not a fan of abortion, just as an example, have to accept the idea that Roe is the law of the land. Similarly those who are anti-gun must accept that gun ownership is not just a law but part of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution. Not to put too fine of a point on the gun issue, consider the attack in Texas.  Texas has relaxed carry laws.  As a result, two bad guys are dead and dozens perhaps hundreds of good people are alive. Had that occurred in New York, I shudder to think of the carnage. Look at the extreme security in place last night at the Museum for the awards presentation.  I posit that had that event been held in Texas there may have been any number of people in attendance able to defend. Maybe you can help me out. You are against guns, and that is fine but why should you care if other law abiding citizens have guns?  If they are good people it does not affect your life and in fact had you been in Texas, it may have saved your life. But my greater concern is the misrepresenting the news. Yes, it was true PO Moore was killed by a gun from Georgia. Yes, it is true that the legal ownership of a gun is easier in some, read: “Southern”, states.  But not mentioning that the gun used to murder PO Moore was stolen is disingenuous and is totally biasing an emotional story.  That is no difference than being asked “Do you still beat your wife.” It is a BS question in most all cases (one can hope) but any answer raises suspicion.  Your linkage to some non sequitur is shameful.  We both have better things to do than this. Perhaps because this murder is so close to us in Massapequa I feel so strongly for accuracy.  I always thought you to be a good guy, a mensch I think you might be called.  I may not always agree with opinions and editorials but I hoped I could trust the facts of the news.  Sadly you have exposed that is not true.  If you get this far, thanks.  Have a nice day anyway. I will watch tonight. Tomorrow?, that I don’t know.  I might as well go to bed early if the news is not, well, the news. (I may have laid on the combination of Liberal and Irish guilt.)

NEWSREADER BILL: (nervously I sense) we did mention it earlier and we’re doing story on it today. we didn’t say anything about the gun in the 11 last night, but we did earlier.

PRECIOUS: I must have missed it this morning and do not watch TV at work. Restores my faith Bill, thanks. See you at 11!

And nothing changed.  As if I thought it might.  More’s the pity as too many stupid people will get sucked into the lies.

(Since that was written the George Snuffaluffagus donation/cover-up gate story has broken and I have been dueling with this guy on that subject. He really wants to say Georgie should be sent to prison and given the opportunity to be a good cell-wife for a very large man but he is stopping short of admitting criminality.  I will poke this bear as long as he lets me.  In the meantime, read below….)

PRECIOUS:  With all due respect, last night on the 11 PM news you blamed the measles on “parents who have not vaccinated their children.” Had you actually considered that is not the case but the increases is this and other diseases are caused by people coming here, legally or not, who are not vaccinated? After all, if nothing else the number of “faith-based” people who do not vaccinate are fewer today yet there are orders of magnitude more unvaccinated immigrants. Be fair. Be honest.

NEWSREADER BILL: Well they remain not vaccinated -and their parents didn’t get them vaccinated. No matter what country they came from. Vaccine has been out how many years? (Makes no difference if they were there from the day God got bored.  If the vaccines are not there, it is no longer the parents “decision.”) But I appreciate your critique — as always

PRECIOUS:  Thank you for the kind and prompt reply. Perhaps we should take steps to ensure those coming here are vaccinated if they are not already. Thanks again, see you at 11.

CRICKETS.

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Victims:

Those who do not study history are bound to repeat it.

Again…

And again…

And yet again!

I am not saying that the Right are history mavens or never miss a beat but for some reason they do have a tendency to recall events recent and those not so much so.

Truly if you wanted to rid the world of Liberals, the easiest way would be to remove all warning labels and signs from everything.  There is no doubt that by repeated missteps they will thin their herd faster than they will non-breed themselves out of existence.

The Left, with very little help from the True Right (id est.: Non-RINOs) are almost solely responsible for the ills in our Country and hence the world.

Lemme ‘splain.

Rather than manning up and apologizing to blacks in the 60s, perhaps giving the some “seed money” for “reparations”, real or imagined, the Left put the blacks and poor Whites into a never-ending spiral of poverty.

Why never-ending?

Well, because if you give poor people housing, food, medical, cash money and more and because of either lack of education or inclination there is no job that will pay enough to cover all those necessities.

Now add to that child care, transportation and so on, even the dimmest bulb will figger out that it is better to sit home than to get up, go to work, bust one’s butt, come home, cook a meal and so on for less then what they have now.

At times I can hardly blame them for what they do, or rather not do. And, raising the minimum wage will only make things worse, as explained all too many times already.

So a generation in poverty having a lot of free time on their hands creates another generation of people in poverty. And so on.

Some will say “But Precious, you are being so cold!  Some people just need help!”  And I will say that you are correct in that there are SOME people that need help.

But not tens of millions.

We have all seen pictures of a “welfare” apartment that has nice furniture, big screen TV, a full refrigerator and they are wearing nice clothes and they all have cell phones. Not for anything, I doubt that every FISH reader is living that well.

As mentioned there is no incentive to get off assistance and as soon as enough people try to better themselves, you can bet the Libs will be there to up the ante to keep them in chains.

As LBJ said that in pandering to poor people (and here he was referring to the black poor) he infamously said that “will keep the ‘N-Words’ voting Democrat for a hundred years.”  (Imagine if a Republican President used the “N-Word.”)

Do understand this, WHEN someone gets off welfare, gets a job and sees how little of their money they get to keep after taxes all of a sudden they become Conservatives or at least Republicans. It is to the Dems benefit to keep the poor that way, and ignorant.

That is what is called an unexpected benefit.

Until and unless someone breaks those chains of the slavery of poverty, these poor will continue to eat the grain given to them and do as they are told and vote as they are told.

That is power.

My point is that everything is about power. Yes, even in our own lives.  We want power in what to eat, where to live, where to work, what TV or radio station to put on and so forth.

Now, ramp that desire up about a few-thousand fold and you have those who not only want that for themselves but they want to decide what YOU eat, where YOU live, where YOU work, what TV or radio station YOU put on.

That, my friends, is called “government.”

When you ratchet that up a few notches you get the Club Members, the NWO types, the al-G’ores, the Clintons, the Rockefellers and the other shadowy types who want to not just run a country but the whole world.

You see, there IS a plan.

We can see all the evil, amorality, greed, hate, racism, minimizing the value of a human beings going on.  That breeds poverty, poor education in many areas, infanticide, promiscuousness, promotion of deviancy, attacks on religion and so on.  These things as I have been preaching are not coincidences.  These things are planned somewhere.  Even those who are promoting some, even all, of these things may not be in on the plan.

We have beaten this to death a thousand times.  So, let’s turn our attention to something else that will hasten the demise of our great Nation: Islam.

In case you have not noticed there has been an increase of activity in Muzzie kinds of things.  Alleged ISIS training camps in almost half of the states for openers.  They have their own PR arm now as well as radio stations.  They hate America, Jews, the West in particular but in a more global sense, they hate everyone who is not like them.

They have money and plenty of it.  They are able to broadcast their messages, use the interwebs and in particular Facebook, Twitter their messages and so on.  They are targeting for recruitment those whose heads will first be on the chopping blocks.

The dumb, idle, idealized, hateful, disenfranchised and other Mother’s-basement dwelling largely unemployed and unwashed masses now have a raison d’etre, a cause, something to give them some self-esteem!

Er, yes, self-esteem from a group where your separation from them usually involves the separation of your head as a lovely parting gift.

I am not going into all of that right now. I am not going to mention the attack in Garland Texas and the great job that was done equalizing two Muzzie terrorists on American soil or even the wrong-headed pathologically insane opprobrium on Pamela Geller by the likes of low-life’s as Geraldo Rivera.

I am going to go out on a very short limb here.

There is absolutely no way we are going to eradicate Muzzie terrorism on our own soil let alone anywhere else.

You have a “president” who is committed to being uncommitted.   The Iranians say they would have no problem using nukes on Israel, the US or anyone.  Meanwhile WTLF is tripping over his chin trying to give Iran more so they won’t kill us too badly.

You have a “president” who has made it his priority to dilute the population and demographics of the United States.  And if a few dozen or hundred or thousand terrorists slip in with our friends from the South, well, so be it.

You have a “president” who did not have a press conference immediately after the terrorist attack.  I have not heard him say anything.  If you “Bing” “Garland Texas Shooting Obama” the best you will find is that Biff was “informed” of the shooting. Even that paid idjit Spokesweasel John Ernest called it an “attempted terrorist attack.”  No, not “attempted” but you do get style points for using the “T” word.

I am getting angrier and angrier as I read what I am thinking. There are so many possibilities going on that it is not funny. I have said that I did not have the sense that Biff had any urgency to leave the Whi’te House. I intimated a smokescreen that would allow him to declare martial law and suspend the elections.

Between the race riots he condones and some say foments and now increased terrorism on our soil, that seems more and more real.   (I am not going to countenance the JH15 at this point as I really want it to be what I have heard it is and not what the tinfoil hats suggest. But even that would factor into the equation.)

There are but two ways for the Muzzie problem to end peaceably.

One is tricky.  It would involve stripping them of 1^st Amendment protection as a religion and declaring Islam a terrorist organization and prosecuting them under any number of statutes.

The other is tricky.  It would involve getting all the “moderate” Muzzies to condemn the terrorists, to expel them from their mosques and turn all the tangos in to the authorities.

And all that will happen the third Tuesday of last week.

(Meanwhile on national TV, there was a show with a moderator hosting Ms. Geller and an Imam. The dude from the religion of peace basically said that given the chance he would kill Ms. Geller.  Bottom line: nothing happened to him for making a death threat.)

Why are not the so-called “Moderate Muzzies” not standing up to the bad guys? Why was not that Imam arrested for threatening murder?

Fear.

And when you are afraid of something, that thing now has…

…POWER.

“Opening minds and angravating liberals since 2001”

“I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life.”

 Genesis 3:19 / John 3:16

My Friends and Fellow Humans:

Last week there was a special issue for a special lady who had a very special birthday.  Our friend and fellow reader Jean Butterfield turned 100 years old.  I was very surprised that there were a number of other folks nearing that age.  My brother-in-arms, Farmer Mike’s mom turned 99 on Sunday. Who knew?

I received a plethora of emails back from many of you wishing Jean a “Happy Hundred” and I made her aware of the out-pouring of love and felicitations.  One of the more humorous aspects of many of those emails was a request for me to write a special issue for the sender on THEIR 100th Birthday.

Well, as I said, if you make it and I am still around I will most assuredly write one for you!  Good luck!  May you all live as long as you want but not want for as long as you live.

However, there is someone who will not be celebrating his 100th birthday or for that matter his 26^th.  That would be Brian Moore.

Brian was a NYPD Officer.  He was a cop in the 105th Precinct in Queens. That was the number of the precinct where I grew up. I am not sure if my old house is still in that precinct.

He was from my town and in fact I used to live in his neighborhood.  He was friends with another cop from the neighborhood who used to play soccer and hockey with my kid.  We go back some time.  He used to work at a local pizza store I used to go to back in the day.  The detective that pulled him out of the car was another kid from the neighborhood we have known almost all of his life. I used to have a beer with the detectives dad.  All these kids went to the same high school a block from our old house.

Really, it is a pretty unremarkable area of town except for the fact that there are a lot of policemen, firemen, federal agents and Mafia figures who live in the neighborhood. (I could tell ya stories.  Fuhgeddaboutit.)

Oh, one more thing, there is very little crime there for some reason.  (Perhaps because so many of the locals on both side of the badge are carrying?)

Oddly enough, Brian lived on the same street where Eddie Byrne, another of New York’s Finest, used to live.  Before he, too, was shot and killed by four cold blooded murderers some years back.  (There was a vigil for Brian on Monday night at field at the high school.  The name of the field is “Edward Byrne Memorial Field.”)

Brian was on patrol last Saturday night.  Working plain clothes with a partner.  They are watching the streets in a not so great, but by no means a horrible, area.  They saw a known bad guy walking the streets.  They were questioning him when Brian asked what was he doing as he seemed to be fiddling with something in his waist band.

Brian asked “Do you have something in your waist?”

The skell said “Yeah, I got something” and pulled out a gun, fired three shots, one hitting Brian in the face.

Brian was taken to the hospital in critical condition, soon put on life support as brain activity had all but stopped. He was taken off life support late Monday morning, he expired, his tour was over and he went to his reward in heaven.

No matter to whom you talked who knew Brian no one ever had a bad thing to say about him. He was born to be a cop.  As if he couldn’t even if he did not want to be one .  His father and uncle were cops, he has other cousins and other family members on law enforcement hither and yon. Kinda like the family business.

Now, let’s talk about the fine upstanding citizen who murdered Brian in cold blood.

His life was the mirror image of Brian’s.  Demetrius Blackwell was a career criminal.  In fact at the time of the murder, he had outstanding arrest warrants.

He spent time in prison for attempted murder and served time in the “Clinton Correctional Facility.”  (In NY we just call it  Dannemora, as that is where it is.)

You will note that at no time have I used the word “alleged” as I  am wont to do when there is any doubt to guilt.  Other than Brian’s partner Erick Jansen, two regular citizens positively identified Demetrius Blackwell.

Blackwell ran away, of course, and within ninety minutes was flushed out of a neighborhood house and was quickly apprehended.  They would have caught him anyway even if his drawers weren’t falling off of him.  (BJ, what do you always say: “Damn the luck!”?)

Shortly after hearing of Brian’s passing, Biff was on TV for some reason or another.  I gave him all the attention and respect he deserves as I was doing anything else. But in the middle of his lie-fest which I think had something to do with race, as he has been on that kick lately, there was a report of a just-now police involved shooting in, of all places, Baltimore.

They cut to the streets in Baltimore and the reporter was talking to a young citizen who “saw” the whole thing. She “saw” the cop hassling the poor unarmed man. She was asked about that as she was asked to confirm that the innocent citizen did not have a gun.  She said the guy had no gun but she saw the cop fire his gun and all that.   She saw the black guy get murdered and carried away.

Yup, it was more “White cop/innocent black man violence.”

When will it ever end?

The lies that is.

The newsfeeds and TV crawls are reporting all kinds of misinformation.  As it turns out, the guy did have a gun, he dropped the gun causing it to discharge and that was basically that.  No one shot anyone, no one was injured and no one told the truth.

Including Biff.

That does not suit his narrative.  He spent more time talking about something that did not happen in Baltimore than he talked about the cold-blooded murder of a White cop at the hands of Demetrius Blackwell.

Oh, BTW, he did not mention a word.

I am SURE if Brian or Erik or some other White cop aced some career criminal like Demetrius Blackwell, he’d have a bunch to say, how if he had a son he would look like Demetrius Blackwell.  He would send alleged AG Awnt Esther to Queens, as she was sent to Baltimore on Tuesday.

For some odd reason $harpton had nothing to say. I guess he was baiting his race hooks for something else.  (And I tried to work him and his pinions up on his pages but no takers.)

Proof that the media just plain suck (sorry, I am taking this a little too personally, despite my “respect” the media) ABC news Tuesday night reported that Demetrius Blackwell’s gun had been found.  For some reason they had to add “It came from Georgia where the laws for buying a gun are more lax.”

That would be all well and good except for one thing.  The gun was one of almost two dozen stolen from a gun shop in Georgia.  I assure you, some dude selling stolen guns is not asking for ID when he sells the gun.

(You all know me. You know I am not leaving this alone. I IM’d the newsreader and to my surprise he responded.  I did ask him to redact that statement with clarification that the gun was stolen and laws in “the South” had nothing to do with Demetrius Blackwell murdering PO Brian Moore.)  (UPDATE TO THAT:  Yeah, we got it worked out.  I have the IM’s and will send it out next week perhaps, with commentary. )

On Thursday, police from all over the Country gathered at Chapey’s Funeral Home in Bethpage.  On Friday a funeral Mass was said at St. James Roman Catholic Church a few blocks north.

Twenty-five year old decorated NYPD Brain Moore went to his reward.  There was a tremendous outpouring of love, respect and admiration for his fine young man.

Twenty-five miles to the West is career criminal Demetrius Blackwell sitting in a cell in Riker’s Island.  There is nothing going on for this dirtbag.  But we will find out at his murder trial that he was a victim if his circumstances, he was a product of a broken home, his dog ate his homework or some other bravo sierra to humanize this POS who has no regard for the law, himself or others.  Lawyers will beg for acquittal then for leniency.

New York does not have the death penalty anymore.  It is such a good and progressive state.  We have wonderful leaders (two of the top three have recently been arrested for graft and corruption.)

After the shooting in Baltimore and after the kangaroo court rush to judgement in announcing indictments, there were riots, mayhem, vandalism and more.

After PO Moore was murdered, there was a prayer vigil.

I am not the smartest tool in the drawer but I think only one of these were the correct response.

Here in New York a good an honorable and honored young man is murdered in cold blood by another career criminal.

In Baltimore you have the Mayor, the DA, the State AG, Al $harpton and alleged AG Awnt Esther getting their collective government issued panties in a wad over the police cashing a career bad guy’s ticket. (The more I read about this, the more sure I am that these cops are going to be found innocent.)

Y’ever read anything by Kafka?  Are ya good in Chinese Algebra?  They make far more sense than what has gone on in this sad tale of two liberal cities.

(SIDEBAR: When the death of PO Moore was announced, Mayor of New Jack City DeBlahZero did not make the announcement like a real man would have.)

There was a wake on Thursday.  Thousands of mourners filed past Brian’s casket.  The usual cast of characters where there, Cuomo, DeBlahzero, Mangano, Jeh Johnson and others. Some welcome, some not so much.

Friday was the solemn procession from the funeral home up the few blocks to St. James Church.  Led by what seemed to be a hundred or more bagpipers, the hearse arrived at the Church where there was an estimated 30,000 mourners, mostly all law enforcement with the family, friends and neighbors filling out the rest.

Motorcycles more than you can count in addition to other vehicles with an air escort of police helicopters led to St. Charles Cemetery for interment. I guess if you wished you could find much of that on the internet or YouTube.

Driving home I went past the area where the Church and funeral home are. Not a speck of dirt or damage on the street where some 30,000 people were a few hours earlier.  Each and every utility pole for a few miles had a big blue ribbon and bow on them.

I still do a lot of my trade in that part of town.  I stopped in the liquor store that I have been going to for about twenty years now.  There were two girls ringing up the sales.  As one was ringing up mine, the other was talking to a female customer.  I could not help but hear the cashier say that she lived across the street from Brian and went to school with him from grammar through high school.  She was crying the entire time and made no attempt to cover them up.  The woman asked “You are devastated, how can you be here at work in this condition?”  The girl replied “What am I going to do? Riot? That is not what Brian would do.  If the situation was reversed, he would be at work. This is the least I can do for him.”

That is the perfect example of the influence this young man had in his short life.  It also shows the restraint of a civilized and law-abiding population. Read into that what you wish.

I have nothing more to add.  Anything else will just be piling on and cause my heart to break even more.

Job well done, officer.  Your tour is over.   Godspeed home.