This February of 2006 will be remembered throughout what is left of the duration of human history as the month in which: VP Cheney buckshotted an elderly lawyer in a field in Texas while quail hunting; the Dems became patriotic and raised loud beejeezers over the W peoples' plan to let a company from Dubai mangage a number of US port facilities (a lot more noise than they raised over what the story was about the '93 Trade Center bombing); and Iraq finally fell into a civil war after the Shiite Golden Mosque was destroyed; and Iran kept building its nuke weaponry. Also, in one week Don Knotts, Darren McGavin, and Dennis Weaver passed from the earth. And the really strange Turin Winter Olympics were held. Also, Jimmy Johnson won the Daytona 500.
The Oscar ceremonies are upcoming this Sunday night, but I do not care, and have not seen any of the movies, and have no plans to watch the things. Does anyone remember that one year The English Patient was The Movie?
I became fascinated with looking at blogger.com/start to see all the blogs that were coming online minute by minute. In 24 hours 86,4oo blogs (one each second) can come online just on blogger.com., and supposedly there are about 24 million blogs out there.
Is there any point to this blog tonight I am sending out to my countless fans? Just that I hope that you are trying to stay happy and not catatonic with worry over the massive black hole in the center of the galaxy, in Sagittarius, which is sucking up all the matter being pulled into it. So far no one has blamed W for not trying to keep the earth from being sucked into the BH. They will, eventually.
This will be all for right now. Di di mau!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Short-Titled Blog
There is a hole in the world tonight; Don Knotts has left us. I can't think of anyone who ever had anything bad to say about him in public, and it seems that he has been around forever. Barney Fife and Ralph Furley will be remembered for a long time. There was a fabulous chemistry between Knotts and John Ritter when Furley was trying to teach Tripper about women (Jack was not really gay and Furley could not get laid with a gun to his head), that I have always thought was a high point of TV comedy. One of Knotts' interesting efforts was The Shakiest Gun in the West, where he took a character first done by Bob Hope in Pale Face and made it his own. This is rambling, and everyone will have memories of Don Knotts, but these are some of mine. He will be sorely missed as a man and as an actor.
At least 200 people in Iraq have been killed by other Iraqis or foreign insurgents since the Golden Mosque was destroyed Wed. That many people killed in four days in domestic violence in a country must be a sign of a society gone totally to Hell, and no one anywhere else took to the streets to protest the killing the way they did when the Mohammed cartoons came public.
The Winter Olympics are over. The human drama of who screwed up and who was feuding with who may end up overshadowing the athletic records. Maybe one of the problems with the whole show was that the competitors were all professionals who had another competition to go to if they hashed their olympic program; losing was not that important. Avery Brundage must be spinning in his grave. I thought it was interesting that Bob Costas admitted in TV Guide that he really know very little about olympic sports. I always suspected that. He was kept at a desk in NY.
Pindar wrote an ode dedicated to a champion boxer, who was short and ugly and fought dirty.
I have finished watching a rented DVD of Lord of War. Nick Cage plays a free lance arms dealer who sells guns all over the world. Interesting but slow moving and heavy handed movie. Some great quotable dialogue and several powerful scenes, but just not quite as good as it could be.
Interesting that Blogger is now running a list of each blog as it is published. One blog after the other continually. A way to learn how many bloggers there actually are in the world as they come online one after the other.
This is going to be all for right now. Di di mau!
At least 200 people in Iraq have been killed by other Iraqis or foreign insurgents since the Golden Mosque was destroyed Wed. That many people killed in four days in domestic violence in a country must be a sign of a society gone totally to Hell, and no one anywhere else took to the streets to protest the killing the way they did when the Mohammed cartoons came public.
The Winter Olympics are over. The human drama of who screwed up and who was feuding with who may end up overshadowing the athletic records. Maybe one of the problems with the whole show was that the competitors were all professionals who had another competition to go to if they hashed their olympic program; losing was not that important. Avery Brundage must be spinning in his grave. I thought it was interesting that Bob Costas admitted in TV Guide that he really know very little about olympic sports. I always suspected that. He was kept at a desk in NY.
Pindar wrote an ode dedicated to a champion boxer, who was short and ugly and fought dirty.
I have finished watching a rented DVD of Lord of War. Nick Cage plays a free lance arms dealer who sells guns all over the world. Interesting but slow moving and heavy handed movie. Some great quotable dialogue and several powerful scenes, but just not quite as good as it could be.
Interesting that Blogger is now running a list of each blog as it is published. One blog after the other continually. A way to learn how many bloggers there actually are in the world as they come online one after the other.
This is going to be all for right now. Di di mau!
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Bloggerizationalistismationate
Cyberspace has been waiting for me to return to the keyboard to send a message to all my fans who have been waiting since last Sunday on pins and needles to read what I have for them--which may not be a Beethovenesque storming of the gates of the Universe, but may end up being a Marymargaretmcbride-like adventure in blogging.
The Olympics have provided a view of the varieties of human nature under pressure, more than a view of great athleticism. Feuding speedracers, angry ice dancer partners, injured skaters, hotdogging snowboarders, Bodie, snippy announcers, and some actually spectacular achievements. And Earl should be back on NBC next week.
(The rest of this blog is being typed on Friday night) Went to bed early last night and missed the figure skating, but here it is Friday night and I am watching the Games and trying to keep all the names straight of who was supposed to be Great and the who crashed and burned and who actually shined.
I suppose what was really important on earth today was the Quaeda attack on the main Saudi oil terminal, which failed, but sent oil prices into orbit. In Iraq sunnis and shiites went on a killing rampage yesterday after the golden mosque bombing, but the country is locked down today to let everyone cool off.
The mayor of London was suspended for a month after he called a reporter a concentration camp guard.
Temperature in the midwest today got up to the high 50s--in February.
This is not a great blog tonight. I am just noting what I thought was interesting on Drudge, but some time when I look back on my blogs, I might remember what happened recently. Lots of stuff going on that in the near future may suck us all into History, but trying to absorb it all and learn more details than just headlines can wear you out. Probably someone at any time in human history somewhere has said that about whatever was going during his lifetime.
More next time when I have soaked up more world events and learned more about what has gone on today. Di di mau!
The Olympics have provided a view of the varieties of human nature under pressure, more than a view of great athleticism. Feuding speedracers, angry ice dancer partners, injured skaters, hotdogging snowboarders, Bodie, snippy announcers, and some actually spectacular achievements. And Earl should be back on NBC next week.
(The rest of this blog is being typed on Friday night) Went to bed early last night and missed the figure skating, but here it is Friday night and I am watching the Games and trying to keep all the names straight of who was supposed to be Great and the who crashed and burned and who actually shined.
I suppose what was really important on earth today was the Quaeda attack on the main Saudi oil terminal, which failed, but sent oil prices into orbit. In Iraq sunnis and shiites went on a killing rampage yesterday after the golden mosque bombing, but the country is locked down today to let everyone cool off.
The mayor of London was suspended for a month after he called a reporter a concentration camp guard.
Temperature in the midwest today got up to the high 50s--in February.
This is not a great blog tonight. I am just noting what I thought was interesting on Drudge, but some time when I look back on my blogs, I might remember what happened recently. Lots of stuff going on that in the near future may suck us all into History, but trying to absorb it all and learn more details than just headlines can wear you out. Probably someone at any time in human history somewhere has said that about whatever was going during his lifetime.
More next time when I have soaked up more world events and learned more about what has gone on today. Di di mau!
Sunday, February 19, 2006
A Sunday in Human History
Is there something in the aether that has made so many humanbeins have a strange day today? Iranian college students are signing up to be suicide bombers. The drivers at the Daytona 500 spent most of the race crashing into one another. The ice dancers at the Olympics were falling down all over the place. American speed skaters Davis and Hedrick are feuding with one another. Bodie got disqualified again yesterday. The ground in DC around the Jefferson Memorial is overrun with Canada geese that are ripping up the grass. (But the Italian cross country ski team, under the leadership of Zorro, won the gold in an exciting race, so something successful actually happened at Turin.) So far tonight in the ice dancing the Russian and American dancers were the only ones not to fall down. The bird flu is thought to have reached England. If they have to kill all their chickens it will a replay of a few years ago when the Brits had to kill all their cattle in a hoof and mouth disease epidemic.
The news and sports is all I have to report tonight. I didn't do anything personal that was interesting. Tomorrow is Presidents' Day, and we have the day off from work, but I have no idea how to celebrate the day. Which president should I select to honor? I like Gerald Ford because he was a fresh spirit after Nixon's dismal aura. JFK was the prez through my high school years, but I have developed some doubts as to his accomplishments. Kennedy's essence was that he was a breathe of fresh air by being fairly Young. Ike had been old, and most of the people in the 50s we were supposed to admire were old; Albert Schweitzer, Adlai Stevenson, Bernard Baruch, Harry Truman, Helen Keller, Eleanor R., Winston Churchill, et al.
This is not a very lengthy blog tonight. What has been going on somewhere else in the world is more interesting than what I have been doing today. You all take care. Di di mau!
The news and sports is all I have to report tonight. I didn't do anything personal that was interesting. Tomorrow is Presidents' Day, and we have the day off from work, but I have no idea how to celebrate the day. Which president should I select to honor? I like Gerald Ford because he was a fresh spirit after Nixon's dismal aura. JFK was the prez through my high school years, but I have developed some doubts as to his accomplishments. Kennedy's essence was that he was a breathe of fresh air by being fairly Young. Ike had been old, and most of the people in the 50s we were supposed to admire were old; Albert Schweitzer, Adlai Stevenson, Bernard Baruch, Harry Truman, Helen Keller, Eleanor R., Winston Churchill, et al.
This is not a very lengthy blog tonight. What has been going on somewhere else in the world is more interesting than what I have been doing today. You all take care. Di di mau!
Friday, February 17, 2006
Quit Whining or You'll Go Blind
It is 10 below tonight in lovely Des Moines and I am sitting up keeping an eye on my heating system so it does not go defunct in the middle of the night. A guy in Wyoming called KOA in Denver and said it was 25 below where he was. This cold snap is not quite as bad as the awful winter in Iowa in 1856, but it is unenjoyable. Russians supposedly love very cold weather, but I will let them have their little customs and folkways. One time in Nam in '71 the temp fell to 70 and everyone in the Mekong delta was freezing. Make sure your little calves and pigs and parakeets are warm tonight.
Much news today, but a lot of it is covered by Drudge. The old guy who got buckshotted by Cheney put his suit on and held a press conference, and is not mad and seems to be in good shape. CBS last night did a segment on Cheney's custom-made Italian rifle. At least one person on the planet must have said to someone that Lee Oswald also owned an Italian rifle, but so far I have not heard any jokes about that angle of the shooting event. And probably 1800 people were killed in the Phillipines on Leyte when a mudslide wiped out their village.
Disorganized evening this evening in my apartment. Tried to watch some of the Olympic snowboarding, and found a Marx Brothers website that has the lyrics to Lydia the Tattooed Lady. Found a World War I website that had an account I had never known before: the Germans built an electric fence clear across the northern border of Belgium. People fried themselves trying to get through the fence to get into Holland and a Belgian army stuck in Holland could not through the fence to get back into Belgium. Interesting historical account I had never heard of before. Amazing what you can read when browsing websites.
Cartoon riots are going on now in Libya (probably encouraged by Muammar K.) and a mullah in Pakistan has put a million dollar bounty on the head of the Danish cartoonist.
Watched a little of Passions this afternoon.Liz confessed to Julian that she is the one who shot him, before he went on the run with Timmy, and Tabitha has put her magic bowl away and is now using a magic laptop, and her way of pounding on the keyboard is very peculiar. And on General Hospital everyone is still sick from Luke's chimp. I haven't checked out Y and R to see if Jack has discovered that Nick has been boffing Phyllis.
This is going to be all for right now. More next time we blog. Stay warm; spring will be here in a few weeks, maybe. Di di mau!
(Di di mau is Vietnamese for Move out fast, or Let's go.)
Much news today, but a lot of it is covered by Drudge. The old guy who got buckshotted by Cheney put his suit on and held a press conference, and is not mad and seems to be in good shape. CBS last night did a segment on Cheney's custom-made Italian rifle. At least one person on the planet must have said to someone that Lee Oswald also owned an Italian rifle, but so far I have not heard any jokes about that angle of the shooting event. And probably 1800 people were killed in the Phillipines on Leyte when a mudslide wiped out their village.
Disorganized evening this evening in my apartment. Tried to watch some of the Olympic snowboarding, and found a Marx Brothers website that has the lyrics to Lydia the Tattooed Lady. Found a World War I website that had an account I had never known before: the Germans built an electric fence clear across the northern border of Belgium. People fried themselves trying to get through the fence to get into Holland and a Belgian army stuck in Holland could not through the fence to get back into Belgium. Interesting historical account I had never heard of before. Amazing what you can read when browsing websites.
Cartoon riots are going on now in Libya (probably encouraged by Muammar K.) and a mullah in Pakistan has put a million dollar bounty on the head of the Danish cartoonist.
Watched a little of Passions this afternoon.Liz confessed to Julian that she is the one who shot him, before he went on the run with Timmy, and Tabitha has put her magic bowl away and is now using a magic laptop, and her way of pounding on the keyboard is very peculiar. And on General Hospital everyone is still sick from Luke's chimp. I haven't checked out Y and R to see if Jack has discovered that Nick has been boffing Phyllis.
This is going to be all for right now. More next time we blog. Stay warm; spring will be here in a few weeks, maybe. Di di mau!
(Di di mau is Vietnamese for Move out fast, or Let's go.)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Whine and Blog and Moan and Groan
The predicted cold weather came in this morning. Buckshot snow and big winds and ice on the streets and slippin' and slidin'. Could have been worse (a New York City type blizzard) but generally miserable, and the mess is due to last for several more days. Not as bad as what the Wermacht went through in front of Moscow in 41-42, but in a couple of weeks March will get here and maybe spring will start emerging, and someday April will arrive.
NewsMax says that the liberals are just waiting for the rich old guy Cheney shot to die. And now the story is that Dick and his entourage had been drinking before the hunt. I don't remember a big press campaign to find out what had really been going on at Greg Normann's place when Clinton fell downstairs and bunged up his leg.
On General Hospital everyone is down with a deadly flu they all got from Luke's chimp. And Tracy has promised God she will become Good and not be a snake anymore. Luke doesn't think she can pull it off.
The Olympics are beginning to heat up. Lots of stuff to watch in the next week. The hot Russian kid is due to skate in a little while. Must watch this one.
This is going to be all for right now. The wind is moaning outside and I have to go to work at 2 a.m. My many fans are demanding that I blog more frequently, but, fans, I have not been Inspired by my muse this week. I know she will appear from her mist when the weather gets more pleasant. Di di mau!
NewsMax says that the liberals are just waiting for the rich old guy Cheney shot to die. And now the story is that Dick and his entourage had been drinking before the hunt. I don't remember a big press campaign to find out what had really been going on at Greg Normann's place when Clinton fell downstairs and bunged up his leg.
On General Hospital everyone is down with a deadly flu they all got from Luke's chimp. And Tracy has promised God she will become Good and not be a snake anymore. Luke doesn't think she can pull it off.
The Olympics are beginning to heat up. Lots of stuff to watch in the next week. The hot Russian kid is due to skate in a little while. Must watch this one.
This is going to be all for right now. The wind is moaning outside and I have to go to work at 2 a.m. My many fans are demanding that I blog more frequently, but, fans, I have not been Inspired by my muse this week. I know she will appear from her mist when the weather gets more pleasant. Di di mau!
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Bloggin Alive
Record setting snowfall in the eastern US.
Fox News this morning did a fast showing of some of the Mohammed cartoons, which were also on a blogspot I saw the other night and forgot to bookmark; the guy with his eyes blanked out with 2 women in burkas behind him, the Arab with a bomb in his turban, and the suicide bombers lined up at the gates of Heaven as Mohammed or the gate keeper saying " we've run out of virgins, " the star and crescent moon in a guy's face. I wish someone showing the cartoons would interpret them so we could know what we are seeing.
(The rest of this blog is being typed on Love Day Fed 14, because I had to leave the blog the other night, and then I got partially sick with the flu which is going around the heartland, and I still have some of it. Sinus plug-up and drainage and a woosiness and total tiredness.)
The Saturday snowfall on the east seaboard dumped 26 inches of snow on the Big Apple--an all-time record. (Wonder how it compares with the blizzard of 1888? ) Airports totally shut down in DC, and about every other metroplex in the east, but at last report things were getting back to the normal routine. It is supposed to be 50 degrees in Des Moines today, with heavy snow and nasty winds tonight. Very clear sky at 3 p.m. as I type.
Iran and everything else has taken a backseat to Cheney spraying a guy with buckshot on a quail hunt in Texas Sunday. Drudge now reports that the old guy has had a mild heart attack. The media has gone nuts over this affair because Cheney waited a day before calling W to tell Him what had happened. Jokes all over the place about Cheyney and Quail and every angle you could think of. More as this goes along.
I watched some of the Olympics last night, but have not been able to get fired up about the thing. Did catch a womens' hockey match between Finland and Switzerland, and the women were very rough to each other. This evening I may watch more stuff and eventually I will fire up and get absorbed in the games. (Later: Bodie messed up and got disqualified from the skiing.)
This will be all for right now. I am going to smear me with Vicks and take a nap. I know you wanted to know that. Di di mau!
Fox News this morning did a fast showing of some of the Mohammed cartoons, which were also on a blogspot I saw the other night and forgot to bookmark; the guy with his eyes blanked out with 2 women in burkas behind him, the Arab with a bomb in his turban, and the suicide bombers lined up at the gates of Heaven as Mohammed or the gate keeper saying " we've run out of virgins, " the star and crescent moon in a guy's face. I wish someone showing the cartoons would interpret them so we could know what we are seeing.
(The rest of this blog is being typed on Love Day Fed 14, because I had to leave the blog the other night, and then I got partially sick with the flu which is going around the heartland, and I still have some of it. Sinus plug-up and drainage and a woosiness and total tiredness.)
The Saturday snowfall on the east seaboard dumped 26 inches of snow on the Big Apple--an all-time record. (Wonder how it compares with the blizzard of 1888? ) Airports totally shut down in DC, and about every other metroplex in the east, but at last report things were getting back to the normal routine. It is supposed to be 50 degrees in Des Moines today, with heavy snow and nasty winds tonight. Very clear sky at 3 p.m. as I type.
Iran and everything else has taken a backseat to Cheney spraying a guy with buckshot on a quail hunt in Texas Sunday. Drudge now reports that the old guy has had a mild heart attack. The media has gone nuts over this affair because Cheney waited a day before calling W to tell Him what had happened. Jokes all over the place about Cheyney and Quail and every angle you could think of. More as this goes along.
I watched some of the Olympics last night, but have not been able to get fired up about the thing. Did catch a womens' hockey match between Finland and Switzerland, and the women were very rough to each other. This evening I may watch more stuff and eventually I will fire up and get absorbed in the games. (Later: Bodie messed up and got disqualified from the skiing.)
This will be all for right now. I am going to smear me with Vicks and take a nap. I know you wanted to know that. Di di mau!
Thursday, February 09, 2006
It's My Blog and I'll Cry If I Want To
Cold today but tolerable, but for some reason I am very frantic for spring, if though so far we have not had a classic old time winter like the grandfolks used to talk about. I still have a photo the folks sent me in early 1970 of Pa standing beside a snow drift as high as the pickup roof and the brown doggie was standing on top of the snow. At Long Binh at the time the temp was in the high 80s and the noonday sun was a bitch to be out in. (The old Brit colonials were right about the noonday sun.)
The news of the evening I suppose will be the story W revealed about how we had info that the qaeda creeps were planning to crash a plane into the highest building in LA. More in another blog as I find out the full story; have just heard the Cavuto account. And Drudge has a story that Michael Brown may be about to tell hot stuff about how Washington handled the Katrina disaster.
I did not watch the Grammies last night because I was not in the mood to listen to rockers expound their political views.
(This next section is being typed on Friday night because blogger shut down last night.) I spent a lot of this evening sleeping. This seems to have been a slow news day in the world; it wasn't probably, but Drudge does not have a whole lot on it very gripping. More cartoon riots and Mike Brown supposedly was feisty at the congressional hearing he was hailed into. I missed watching the Olympic opening ceremonies. I am having trouble getting worked up for the show this year. Will probably kick in at some time and start watching. I found a website called 7sasha.com which is an Iraqi satire-chatroom site--graphics are clever, with pictures of Timon and Pumba as decorations. What a lot of rambling I am doing. It is a chilly friday night and I do not feel good. Letterman is going to have Martha Stewart on in a little bit. Anyone in the future wanting to use this blogsite to check the historical record may be disappointed because I do not have much Deep to say about the nature of the Universe. That may come up in a future posting. Meanwhile I am taking up space in cyberspace. So, nite! Di di mau!
The news of the evening I suppose will be the story W revealed about how we had info that the qaeda creeps were planning to crash a plane into the highest building in LA. More in another blog as I find out the full story; have just heard the Cavuto account. And Drudge has a story that Michael Brown may be about to tell hot stuff about how Washington handled the Katrina disaster.
I did not watch the Grammies last night because I was not in the mood to listen to rockers expound their political views.
(This next section is being typed on Friday night because blogger shut down last night.) I spent a lot of this evening sleeping. This seems to have been a slow news day in the world; it wasn't probably, but Drudge does not have a whole lot on it very gripping. More cartoon riots and Mike Brown supposedly was feisty at the congressional hearing he was hailed into. I missed watching the Olympic opening ceremonies. I am having trouble getting worked up for the show this year. Will probably kick in at some time and start watching. I found a website called 7sasha.com which is an Iraqi satire-chatroom site--graphics are clever, with pictures of Timon and Pumba as decorations. What a lot of rambling I am doing. It is a chilly friday night and I do not feel good. Letterman is going to have Martha Stewart on in a little bit. Anyone in the future wanting to use this blogsite to check the historical record may be disappointed because I do not have much Deep to say about the nature of the Universe. That may come up in a future posting. Meanwhile I am taking up space in cyberspace. So, nite! Di di mau!
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Let's Blog It Nice and Easy
Hello, Steve. How are you?
Ronald Reagan would have been 95 on his birthday, February 6.
We got Snow early this morning, but it was gone from the roads by afternoon. The temp. is supposed to go down to 8 degrees tonight. I am ready for spring already. Please let it be spring soon.
The Grammys are on CBS tonight and TV Guide and the local newspaper say that it is supposed to be a blockbuster, with hoardes of stars on hand, but I do not really want to see Kanye West so maybe I will watch O'Reilly, or Inked to see what Dizzle is up to. Or read some news websites-which might be the most useful for my mind. (A terrorism news website at homelandsecurityus.com had a news bit the other night that there is info that Iran is going to test its nuke bomb in March.)
I have opinions on the show at Mrs. King's funeral yesterday, but all I should say is that I did like most of what I saw. (Not one of the people who trashed Bush even remembered that he sent troops to Liberia to get Charles Taylor out of power.)
The Des Moines Register (our state Gannett newspaper) has for 2 days been running the thoughts of various Iowa Muslim spokesmen, who have been explaining that Islam "is a religion of Peace." A couple of these fellows today got around to stating that freedom of the press and other Western freedoms are not a part of Islam, and Muslims do not want any of them, because Islam is based on the Sharia, which is a system incompatible with Western values. So much for the freedoms we have developed since the Renaissance. The Register, which falls all over itself to be understanding of diversity is in a pickle trying to be understanding of a world view that wants nothing to do with individual freedoms in a society.
In 1964 the liberal media fell all over itself to explain that when Goldwater said that moderation in the defense of liberty is no vice he was wrong because liberty was a relative thing and was not absolute. Very interesting reading for anyone wanting to dig into the views of liberals during the 64 campaign.
This is going to be all for right now. I have not watched the Grammys because I have become old and what is today's hot music is beyond me. I wouldn't have thought that some time ago, but I am an old Boomer and just do not get these modern things. Di di mau!
Ronald Reagan would have been 95 on his birthday, February 6.
We got Snow early this morning, but it was gone from the roads by afternoon. The temp. is supposed to go down to 8 degrees tonight. I am ready for spring already. Please let it be spring soon.
The Grammys are on CBS tonight and TV Guide and the local newspaper say that it is supposed to be a blockbuster, with hoardes of stars on hand, but I do not really want to see Kanye West so maybe I will watch O'Reilly, or Inked to see what Dizzle is up to. Or read some news websites-which might be the most useful for my mind. (A terrorism news website at homelandsecurityus.com had a news bit the other night that there is info that Iran is going to test its nuke bomb in March.)
I have opinions on the show at Mrs. King's funeral yesterday, but all I should say is that I did like most of what I saw. (Not one of the people who trashed Bush even remembered that he sent troops to Liberia to get Charles Taylor out of power.)
The Des Moines Register (our state Gannett newspaper) has for 2 days been running the thoughts of various Iowa Muslim spokesmen, who have been explaining that Islam "is a religion of Peace." A couple of these fellows today got around to stating that freedom of the press and other Western freedoms are not a part of Islam, and Muslims do not want any of them, because Islam is based on the Sharia, which is a system incompatible with Western values. So much for the freedoms we have developed since the Renaissance. The Register, which falls all over itself to be understanding of diversity is in a pickle trying to be understanding of a world view that wants nothing to do with individual freedoms in a society.
In 1964 the liberal media fell all over itself to explain that when Goldwater said that moderation in the defense of liberty is no vice he was wrong because liberty was a relative thing and was not absolute. Very interesting reading for anyone wanting to dig into the views of liberals during the 64 campaign.
This is going to be all for right now. I have not watched the Grammys because I have become old and what is today's hot music is beyond me. I wouldn't have thought that some time ago, but I am an old Boomer and just do not get these modern things. Di di mau!
Monday, February 06, 2006
Blogger, It's Cold Outside
Baby It's Cold Outside was composed by Frank Loesser, and Esther Williams sang it in Neptune's Daughter with Fernando Lamas, or Red Skelton. OK, it Is cold outside now. Feb has started off cold and windy, right after Phil in Punx and General Lee in Georgia and Polk County Paul in Des Moines were hauled out of their dens to see their shadows. I want more 50 degree January temps, but we may not get that this month. Oh well, that is Nature.
I was disappointed in the Super B yesterday. I thought both teams played like dorks. I liked a few of the commercials, especially the one with the nude truck mudflap girl who rode away in a pickup with Yosemite Sam. More nakedness there than Janet showed a couple of years ago, even if the mudflap girl was metal and in profile. I surfed from the Super to Animal Planet and watched a chunk of the Puppy Bowl. Cute little puppies and a cute concept. Bring the puppies back next year, unless The Bears are going to be winning in the big game on another channel. The Rolling Stones did a good 12 minute show of three of their old songs. Al least we got to see them on TV live and they showed that you can be in your 60s and not be ready to die in five minutes. I Got To See Keith!
I have not been keeping up much with Guiding Light lately because the show is the Harley Hour, and I have not got a great enthusiasm for Harley. I know Beth Ehlers is a good actress and has unconventional beauty, but I want more Reva and Jonathan.
I probably should avoid any comment on the Mohammad cartoons riots, because someone on earth may actually find this blog and accuse me of being a bigot.
Al Lewis, who was Grandpa Munster, among other things he did, died last week at 96, and Zsa Zsa Gabor is 89 today, and Fabian is 63.
I looked at some websites that had stuff about The Munsters and Al Lewis, and everybody who knew "Grandpa" seems to have loved him. He was in the Green party, and his politics were way over on the Left, but he must have been a human dynamo up to the very end. I had forgotten that he was also on Car 54, Where Are You? So, he is now in Heaven with Fred Gwynne.
This is going to be all for right now. I need to see if there is breaking news to keep up with (I split an infinitive); there usually is. Di di mau! It is now 2:10 p.m.
( This is a later note I have edited in: Joe Scarborough tonight did an interview with the editor of the Chicago Tribune on why American newspapers would not print the Mohammed the bomber cartoons. The editor hemmed and hawed and at the end Joe called him a "corporate worm." We will see how the Trib and MSNBC deal with that one.)
I was disappointed in the Super B yesterday. I thought both teams played like dorks. I liked a few of the commercials, especially the one with the nude truck mudflap girl who rode away in a pickup with Yosemite Sam. More nakedness there than Janet showed a couple of years ago, even if the mudflap girl was metal and in profile. I surfed from the Super to Animal Planet and watched a chunk of the Puppy Bowl. Cute little puppies and a cute concept. Bring the puppies back next year, unless The Bears are going to be winning in the big game on another channel. The Rolling Stones did a good 12 minute show of three of their old songs. Al least we got to see them on TV live and they showed that you can be in your 60s and not be ready to die in five minutes. I Got To See Keith!
I have not been keeping up much with Guiding Light lately because the show is the Harley Hour, and I have not got a great enthusiasm for Harley. I know Beth Ehlers is a good actress and has unconventional beauty, but I want more Reva and Jonathan.
I probably should avoid any comment on the Mohammad cartoons riots, because someone on earth may actually find this blog and accuse me of being a bigot.
Al Lewis, who was Grandpa Munster, among other things he did, died last week at 96, and Zsa Zsa Gabor is 89 today, and Fabian is 63.
I looked at some websites that had stuff about The Munsters and Al Lewis, and everybody who knew "Grandpa" seems to have loved him. He was in the Green party, and his politics were way over on the Left, but he must have been a human dynamo up to the very end. I had forgotten that he was also on Car 54, Where Are You? So, he is now in Heaven with Fred Gwynne.
This is going to be all for right now. I need to see if there is breaking news to keep up with (I split an infinitive); there usually is. Di di mau! It is now 2:10 p.m.
( This is a later note I have edited in: Joe Scarborough tonight did an interview with the editor of the Chicago Tribune on why American newspapers would not print the Mohammed the bomber cartoons. The editor hemmed and hawed and at the end Joe called him a "corporate worm." We will see how the Trib and MSNBC deal with that one.)
Friday, February 03, 2006
Blog Upon A Star; Your Blogs Come True
Catchy title ain't it? I slay me with my creativity. Winter of a sort has come to the heartland today; cold wind blowing, and maybe some snow will fall sometime this weekend.
Lots of news in the Drudge site to ponder. Rush, and the Fox News gang were heavy on "important" editorials in the NYT and the WSJ, but I have not had the chance to get and read them. The Egyptian ferryboat sinking with several hundred dead in the Red Sea was the main news topic this afternoon. Supposedly someone High in the Security system has said that Iran may be faking having nukes, or will not have them for ten years. Need to look into this info. The WSJ does have an article on how the whole world power system would change if Iran did have the things. Supposedly alphabetnejad has said that someday Iran will rule the world. Maybe the lessons of Hubris is not in the Iranian psyche.
ESPN Classics tonight showed a kinoscope of the boxing match in 1951 in which Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta pounded each other for the welterweight crown. Sugar Ray pounded Jake's head into a pulp (but did not knock him off his feet) and won the fight in the 13th round. Brutal fight but exciting to see. Now, I should rent Raging Bull, which I have never seen.
I am going to root for the Seahawks Sunday, because I want to see Seneca Wallace at his best. Actually I am still pouting because The Bears will not be in the game. Next year The Bears will be in the Super--just you wait!
I have lots of news events upon which I could opine (I did not split an infinitive) but my head spins and I get crushed by so many issues. (Wimpy attitude, I know.)
This will be all for right now. More next time. Di di mau!
Lots of news in the Drudge site to ponder. Rush, and the Fox News gang were heavy on "important" editorials in the NYT and the WSJ, but I have not had the chance to get and read them. The Egyptian ferryboat sinking with several hundred dead in the Red Sea was the main news topic this afternoon. Supposedly someone High in the Security system has said that Iran may be faking having nukes, or will not have them for ten years. Need to look into this info. The WSJ does have an article on how the whole world power system would change if Iran did have the things. Supposedly alphabetnejad has said that someday Iran will rule the world. Maybe the lessons of Hubris is not in the Iranian psyche.
ESPN Classics tonight showed a kinoscope of the boxing match in 1951 in which Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta pounded each other for the welterweight crown. Sugar Ray pounded Jake's head into a pulp (but did not knock him off his feet) and won the fight in the 13th round. Brutal fight but exciting to see. Now, I should rent Raging Bull, which I have never seen.
I am going to root for the Seahawks Sunday, because I want to see Seneca Wallace at his best. Actually I am still pouting because The Bears will not be in the game. Next year The Bears will be in the Super--just you wait!
I have lots of news events upon which I could opine (I did not split an infinitive) but my head spins and I get crushed by so many issues. (Wimpy attitude, I know.)
This will be all for right now. More next time. Di di mau!
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Blog Me To The Moon
Here we are again, on the night before Groundhog Day, and I should be in bed, but my fans are demanding a blogging, so I must serve my public. Windy and chilly but sunny day today. I found a news bit on Drudge via livescience.com that on Jan. 26 Western Union discontinued sending telegrams forever. No TV news mention of that momentous event, but it is interesting. Carol Channing turned 85 a couple of days ago. The nitwits running Iran keep heating up the rhetoric on dont't mess with us and our nukes; the mess has the image of the clock ticking during the Cuban missle crisis, and the start of World War I. Probably vain hope that the US ruling class can deal with the crisis in a non-partisan political way, but that may be very wishful thinking.
I wish I could opine on world events in a deep way, and tell you all What It All Means, but I am less educated than some bloggers I read, and have a knowledge base which is a lot of info scraps and pieces and memories of how a number of crises were handled decades ago.
I have a sense that somewhere in the background of the current crisis are the Chinese, who may be maneuvering to get the US and the Moslems into a blasting war so at the end China is the big Power in Asia and whereever else and they can get control of Iranian oil for themselves. That is a speculation of me, and I have no documented sources for my ideas.
I wish the Bush family would tell Bill Clinton to move out of their house and stop trying to shmooze his way into the family circle.
I found an lp on sale at a thrift store of songs by Joseph Schmidt from about 1930. Schmidt was an incredible tenor in Germany who could sing like a god (he sounded a lot like Richard Tucker) but was only about 5 feet tall. Being Jewish he ended up in a concentration camp in Switzerland (of all places) and died there of "a heart attack" (under mysterious circumstances in about 1940. If some of the poor souls on American Idol could listen to some of his records they would learn the art of how to sing. Of course they could also listen to Frank, Dean, and Sammy to learn how to sing too.
This is going to be It for tonight. I have spent this blog on a quite high horse, but these are my views on various topics. You take care, and pray for wisdom from our leaders. Di di mau!
I wish I could opine on world events in a deep way, and tell you all What It All Means, but I am less educated than some bloggers I read, and have a knowledge base which is a lot of info scraps and pieces and memories of how a number of crises were handled decades ago.
I have a sense that somewhere in the background of the current crisis are the Chinese, who may be maneuvering to get the US and the Moslems into a blasting war so at the end China is the big Power in Asia and whereever else and they can get control of Iranian oil for themselves. That is a speculation of me, and I have no documented sources for my ideas.
I wish the Bush family would tell Bill Clinton to move out of their house and stop trying to shmooze his way into the family circle.
I found an lp on sale at a thrift store of songs by Joseph Schmidt from about 1930. Schmidt was an incredible tenor in Germany who could sing like a god (he sounded a lot like Richard Tucker) but was only about 5 feet tall. Being Jewish he ended up in a concentration camp in Switzerland (of all places) and died there of "a heart attack" (under mysterious circumstances in about 1940. If some of the poor souls on American Idol could listen to some of his records they would learn the art of how to sing. Of course they could also listen to Frank, Dean, and Sammy to learn how to sing too.
This is going to be It for tonight. I have spent this blog on a quite high horse, but these are my views on various topics. You take care, and pray for wisdom from our leaders. Di di mau!
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