The best man in my wedding was a man who I will always have an over abundance of respect for. My grandmother referred to him as her "little rastafari". His real name was David. We met line cooking at a restaurant named the "Peg Leg" in Rockport, MA. David was getting ready to graduate high school and go off to culinary school. He did a year in Massachusetts and then a year in Colorado and then had a change of heart. He debated going to New Jersey to attend the world renowned tracker school run by Tom Brown Jr. (http://www.trackerschool.com/) thinking he could use his training there in order to get some sort of outdoor profession such as a ranger or the like. He now lives in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts and for a while was a Beaver Management Specialist. From cooking to Indians to beaver, I still have respect for this man that sometimes I do not always agree with but always find a reason to laugh with.

I, however, have no respect for Ward Churchill (http://www.makingthelinksradio.ca/Main_Page/Ward%20Churchill%20Bio.htm). Is it a leap to go from David to Ward? Not really. The Indian connection. Ward is always "cooking" something up. And beavers are just beavers and in some way mean something to everyone wether they know it or not. Both start out at the same square on the game board. Peace loving, nature enthused, very liberal, understanding, compassionate and passionate all getting ready to go in two very different directions. Peace, as a motive, can be used in two veins. David still loves, listens, and learns. Ward Churchill is a destructive force of loud shouting propaganda and generalizations "aim"ed to engage the youthful minds of idealization on college campuses that swirl with arrogant and disrespectful eye rolling and ultra casual stances and body language that scream "fuck you" with their slacker slouches.

For this piece I can really only throw out some links and let you read away. I myself am disgusted by this man and there is too much information to regurgitate out for you all to consume like baby birds.

Mr. Churchill was on Hannity and Colms last night debating with David Horowitz. Of course there were many exchanges between him and Hannity (Sean has been trying to get him on the show for over a year) as well as Colms , who respects Churchill's free speach but does not agree with or condone what he says. The video clip (http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player05.html?040606/040606_hc_churchill&Hannity_Colmes&Ward%20Chuchill&acc&Hannity%20%26%20Colmes&-1&new) is definitely worth the twenty minute watch that it requires. Watch Churchills body language. Smell his arrogance through the screen. A truly repulsive man who was so close to actually being some one worthy of time energy and respect. I wonder what makes a liberal go that bad. The talking points and the redundancy of them is just as revolting as his slouch. I will let the clip prove the point.

Last year the American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4226) had a piece about Ward after he made some very disturbing and perturbing comments in regards to 9/11. Some of his comments were: "Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians" — meaning the people killed on 9/11 — "but innocent? Give me a break." and the ever more popular ""If there was a better, more effective or, in fact, any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns and the sterile sanctuary of the Twin Towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it."  The man is insane.

I understand on the outskirts what his point is. I can even comprehend how he was going about teaching it. Devil's advocate is a powerfull tool. When the advocation is stripped and exchanged for diatribe tantrums you are left with nothing but Devil. According to Mr. Churchill we have no right to complain or be sorrowful about the 9/11 attacks because we are mean and hurtfull to other innocents around the world. You get what you give. You get what you deserve. Ward Churchill should be getting drawn and quartered any day if this is true.

He claims he is a Native American. There are many disputes about this man's past but he still claims his native heritage. He is very involved in that sect of our society. He is even part of the Leonard Peltier defense project. Good for him. He is also part of the ridiculous sport team logo and mascot fury. Bad for him. I do not watch or play sports. I couldn't care less about athletic events unless it involves me drinking alot of booze and eating alot and really not watching the games at all. This being said, I do not understand the overly inflated fuss made about mascots. Churchill vehemently disagrees with my view point and does so deliciously in his article, "Crimes Against Humanity" (http://www.dickshovel.com/crimes.html). In order to make it fair in Ward's eyes we should have other sports teams called the Niggers, the Kykes, the Zipperheads, and the Wetbacks. Mr. Serling, Mr. Rod Serling, you have a telephone call, Mr. Serling telephone call.

I am a white heterosexual man. By the standards of Churchill's rhetoric, Blacks, Native Americans, the Irish, the Jews, Latinos, Homosexuals, and probably Space Aliens all have the right to kick my ass for some act perpetrated against them by straight white men in history. Everyone except the missing link is in trouble by these standards. Soon Sasquatch will be ruling the world not killing or hurting anything out of fear. Big Foot will starve to death and the world will be an empty place that Ward Churchill can look up at from hell and laugh at his pet project having grasped victory.

I really can add no more. If you just skim the links I have included  while thinking rationally you will realize this man must be feared. He must be watched. He must be debated and shut down at every chance. He is the reason to fear the left just as readers of the Turner Diaries are a reason to fear the right.

"MAN, in his ignorance, identifies himself with the material sheaths that encompass his true self. Transcending these, he becomes one with Brahman, who is pure bliss", Taittiriya - The Upinishads. This is what Dave knows that Ward does not. Such a pity. 

I will be here tomorrow as well as straight through until Wednesday night. I have a pending farewell, a hiatus, a sabatical. I may not be here for a couple months starting on Thursday so until then posts, posts, posts ...

"Count 'em out Cratchet, you dumb son of a bitch. Count 'em out loud and strong!" This would be the rally cry of the new and improved Scrooge. There would be no mince pie mincing. No flowery language of proper and dignified girth. There would be no fire or logs or coal nevermind the question of wether or not fuel should be used. A simple shout into the face of the one serving. Do it now! Or simply die in the cold of your own malnutritioned drool of gruel. Was it sad to be Scrooge or good ol' Bob? What about that tiny fellow named Tim? Ahhhh, come on, that was before the military industrial complex that has pierced our livers since WWII.

I received an E-mail today baiting, or chumming as it were (pun fully intended), the idea of over paid Congressmen and their almighty benefits. Did any of you get the same E-mail. I am assuming it was of chain variety since it tempted me with it's Siren's call to forward it on. I did not, as I do not forward chains of any shade. It did make me remember my earlier inclinations to revoke and redistribute the pay of the government talking heads and actually get the money doing something hot for either side. I thought about it as I read and I became more fervent. I did a little research after my browsing. I found a couple things.

One: It is hard to find out exactly how much is being made/fleeced without sending letters to the government. (I am sure alot of you found it quicker than I, but I used three search engines and an endless array of word forming and after about forty-five minutes found a "sort of answer". If you found or find better results let me know - my sources are always cited)

Two: Not much has changed. Inflation is a powerful thing. (Keep in mind I live in Southern California - the real estate bitch whore - where a crap ass two bedroom house with no property, in the middle of gang infested Compton, goes for over 400,000 - that is NOT a typo! - needless to say I rent)

Ok so the E-mail goes on and on like the endless incense stick of some time from long ago about wether or not Congressmen deserve what is given to them in regards to retirement. I am tie-dying the bill right now. The tapestry of fiscal fraught is now hung above me on the ceiling for my trip outs. Sometimes being involved in civic duty is like being a Dead Head - "What a long strange trip it HAS been."

Like a latin rythm, that is not ILLEGAL, I slide on over, with rump a shakin', and take on the partner of Congressional pay out in some sort of tango or meringue that only holds the fury of a fiery soul.

The E-mail tries to explain that retired Congressmen make about a thousand dollars a month in retirement. The E-mail is deceiving in the fact that it implies that it is just benefits and not retirement pay. It is a combination of both "pension" as well as health and post position pandering positions that come up with the figure. It is alot more than what the E-mail would lend to. No where near 1,000 dollars per month. As of 2003, the 400 plus retired members of congress individually receive approximately 3,909 dollars per month.

OK, so let's go back to the beginning and discuss some figures and how they relate to now, as well as what my opinion is in regards to civil service retribution in modern times. I do not need Sly and the Family Stone to tell me I am living in a world where I "can't get next to you". Fiscally, I would die to be one of these dumb ass sons of bitches! I understand their duty and effort. I recognize their triumphs and tribulations and what it means financially but it should not be a consideration as much as it should be a gratitude.

Let's look at the twenty seventh amendment to the Constitution ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution). What the hell, it's fun right? The Constitution, the thing that let's you breathe, is the law of the land. It limits increases in a very vague sense. The only way you can upgrade the salaries of the Congress is to increase it once you are already in session as not to affect your term. In this day and age it does not work since they are career ghasts and ghosts that haunt our wallets daily. This is what allowed the Cost Of Living Adjustment's (C.O.L.A.) to slide by as non pay increases but rather increases of necessity. Originally it was referred to as the "Madison Amendment" which in it's own right is fall down on the floor laughable as this piece will shortly prove in comparison to where we are now and how we got here so blindly. It went from it's initial vague form to the 1788 North Carolina proposition of, "The laws ascertaining the compensation of senators and representatives, for their services, shall be postponed in their operation until after the election of representatives immediately succeeding the passing thereof; that excepted which shall first be passed on the subject." It then turned to, "That the Compensation for the Senators and Representatives be ascertained by standing law; and that no alteration of the existing rate of Compensation shall operate for the Benefit of the Representatives, until after a subsequent Election shall have been had." by New York. The big NYC had it's verbiage almost right and the most right for the time. But we went to the more vague verbiage in the original discussion, "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened." That is the Twenty Seventh Amendment. I not only shrug my shoulders and scratch my brow but I worry like a S.O.B. about what that means for us now in the hands of mis-interpretation that fumble around the ball and manipulate Rubik's cube of sociology and economics. The history of the 27th amendment is humorous at the least and should be viewed and contemplated by anyone paying money into the system and/or participating in it.

So, let's talk Big Ben Franklin. The man personally is my hero, and beyond others, is the true founder of our country. He is the reason we all inhale and exhale and the reason we can do anything in between those two actions. Benny boy is the man! Mr. Franklin wanted no pay to these civil servants meant to help and form society by societies means and wants and needs. On the fab website http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa031200a.htm they have a Franklin moment as, "During the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin considered proposing that elected government officials not be paid for their service. Other Founding Fathers, however, decided otherwise."  Of course they did! Dumb ass son's of bitches! None of them should be paid more than their books and libraries and papers and consulting should pay them. They are greedy ass tri colored ass baboons for thinking otherwise!

I agree with Mister Franklin, as I most always do, no pay to these dumb  (or too smart for our wallets) Representatives. I don't think the president should get paid. In this system  government leaders, on a fedral level, should not get paid beyond the honor and duty that is intrinsic in the position. Am I wrong? It should be a privilege.

"From 1789 to 1815, members of Congress received only a per diem (daily payment) of $6.00 while in session. Members began receiving an annual salary in 1815, when they were paid $1,500 per year." Yes, from the same site and the same Ben Franklin. Let's look at this.

$1500 per year in 1815 is equal to making a 13,178.16 dollars a year now. Maybe not much. I do not make much more. Should they make much more? Currently they make approx. $ 165,200 which was 18,803.43 dollars in 1815. The national deficit in 1815 was 99,833,660.15 dollars. Today that is worth 877,082,395.72 dollars. MMMMMM. What did the .72 cents buy?

The deficit for 2005 was 7,782,155,135,998.03 which in 1815 would be 885,801,647,454.34 there is a bit of a difference but it is relative.

Extreme war, extreme spending, extreme protection - even if from ourselves. After world war two our deficit was 136,696,090,324.90 which in modern economics is 1,549,462,411,824.63. Are these differences measuring up?

Money and numbers have a way of tugging on emotion as well as they do logic. But these comparison's might shed a certain light on it all. Two sites to help are: http://www.thisnation.com/budget-facts.html and http://www.westegg.com/inflation/. These are two very, very important sites. Use them.

The war of 1812 is finally now serving a purpose. It should no longer be thought of as the forgotten war but rather the war that we are fighting again now. A bit different I know but it in principle it is the same. Extraordinary debt and sacrifice for being attacked on home turf. If Madison were around today with the 9-11 thing, would Dolly's cookies be so popular? I think not!

Sad, sad world.

I think these fools should not be paid. They should, with joy, help to change where our nation and the world are going. They should make things better and iron out differences: priceless!

Put the plastic back in my pocket - if it were there to begin with! Bonus rounds abound as it seems I will be gone for a bit as of the 13th. Rock on and read it! Stay smart until tomorrow when I dumb you down a bit for a bonus ...

One little, two little, three little Indians. How many "Indians" will be left in twenty years when we open up the ILLEGAL immigration debate again. How many different ways will the nomenclature of this mythical beast wiggle and waggle away from the true name "ILLEGAL immigrant"? How many Senators will be holding their shameful heads low as they scurry around looking for the vote of tomorrow? I am not sure what tomorrow will bring us but based on today and yesterday it will probably be a brim filled bucket of amnesty slowly lowered hopefully into Hell. There's a hole in the bucket dear Liza, dear Liza. There's a hole in the border too. Get Yankee Doodle Dandy to stop killing Indians for feathers. The macaroni's over here Senator and it hasn't even begun to heat up.

Does Harry Reid (http://reid.senate.gov/) really exist? I think he might be one really down trodden robot wacked out on Prozac and Halcion pretending to know what the hell is going on. Did he get elected on a bet? Or quite possibly he was one of the "pilots" escaping from Area 51 before they moved it's operations to Colorado. Regardless of where he is from or what runs through his mind, he needs to go. He is one of the most outspoken amnesty blabbers beyond Kennedy. Yesterday the story broke about Reid's 1993 Immigration Bill. You can read about the Reid bill at: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49609 Pretty funny stuff. One of my favorite quotes from the now Senate Minority Leader is, "Safeguards like welfare and free medical care are in place to boost Americans in need of short-term assistance. These programs were not meant to entice freeloaders and scam artists from around the world." This man WANTS an amnesty bill. Shortly after the bill was proposed  and after Reid had a sit down scolding from his wife (who has immigrant parents), He apologized for seeming anti immigrant and withdrew the bill. Seven months later he re introduced it. It was then withdrawn again. One year after that he introduced a bill exactly like his previous two immigration bills except this time it was anti legal immigrant as well. Who the hell in their right mind with any sort of intelligence does that and THEN pipes up so loud for the nemesis of his previous ideas now? What the hell IS Harry Reid?

Limbaugh calls him "Dingy" Harry. Seems pretty right on. Today Rush had a field day with this whole issue. His callers for the most part played their part and brought up good points and the tele prompter did just fine until a woman called and said that anything less then amnesty was not acceptable. She exclaimed that she was a Wall Street Journal Republican and that the radio cons were being beyond fringe with the debate surrounding the border and immigration. Rush's equipment bugged out so it was hard for him to respond to her. She faintly scoffed at the tele prompter failure, I laughed out loud, and he had time to recoup and come back at her. His hearing issue seems to come up alot when there is an articulate debater set to take audio stage for us all to marvel at while Rush stutters and stammers about before he finally can sock it to 'em. He did come up with a funny idea today that I thought was worth mentioning. At the end of the three hour program there was a caller from Redding CA who resides in Mexico. The caller explained how difficult it is to actually live down there but he thought the lifestyle was worth all of the red tape. Rush then took the chance to give his immigration rules that he had thrown out to the audience in the first hour. Some of them were: Only investors and professionals with huge sums of wealth may immigrate, You can not vote, You can not run for political office, There are no welfare opportunities, The government can seize and reclaim your property at any time, Protesting is punishable by imprisonment, If you are an ILLEGAL immigrant you are thrown in jail, You MUST have knowledge of the native tongue. These are Mexico's rules for non Mexican's to live in their beautiful country. Hogwash!

Mexico also has ILLEGAL immigrant problems but seeing as no American in their right mind wants to sneak into Mexico to wallow on the lap of poverty and their southern border is a fraction of ours it is easier for them to handle the problem. A couple of weeks ago a group of Cubans were apprehended in Mexico. When Vicente tried to give them back, Castro gave the "Scalia" up through the beard and said, "No way". At Mexico's southern border they deport people back over the line to their South and Central American countries of origin. Latino's stretched hand to hand uniting for the betterment of their people. ILLEGALs in Mexico are not tolerated. Why is it that we are supposed to tolerate it here?

This three tier amnesty crapolla that is getting pushed about in Congress and could be up for a vote as early as Friday morning is pathetic. Anyone proudly pontificating the proposed pockmark is shameful and need to be held accountable. Las Vegas' Leisure Suit Harry needs to be held accountable. Dan Stein (http://www.steinreport.com/) along with F.A.I.R. (Federation for American Immigration Reform) helped Senator Reid sculpt his '93-'94 debacle. Mr. Stein's sources in Congress are referring to the current legislation as the "Rip Van Winkle" bill. I'd say that sums it up. In forty years we will have a projected 140 million ILLEGAL immigrants in the country. What then? Will our legislators being debating sign and fence placement because of environmental concerns like they are now? The new bill has too many details and rules to make it legitimate. Congressmen are pulling the velvet material tight to cover their asses while shouting, " Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". John Kobylt (John and Ken Show, KFI640AM.com) referred to the current maze of rum soaked raisins and shenanigans that Congress is trying to pass off as rules and guidelines to "earned citizenship" as "little kids who have been drinking". Washington D.C. the new drunk playground. Teddy should fit in great. Just don't push his swing too high.

What will they pass? What gets approved? I hope the President is in better shape on "veto or not to veto" day then he was today when he answered questions about the immigration bill and he responded by saying he was pleased with the comprehensive energy bill that Congress was pushing. MMMMM.

Time's cover is the Statue of Liberty with her hand out palm faced away from her visage. "Stop in the name of Love", The whole series of articles is pretty sympathetic to the ILLEGAL immigrant cause. The first page of the article is the picture of a Latino using a gigantic American flag as some sort of cape or hang gliding apparatus. Uuugghh! There are lots of pictures, lots of graphs and lots of give peace a chance. The next ILLEGAL immigrant piece I write I am going to focus on the "head of lettuce" theory of economics which shows how high the grocery costs will soar once we eliminate ILLEGAL labor in the U.S.A.

Speaking of costs where is all of the moolah going to come from in order to incorporate this three prong, three count, three category spread sheet of who, when, how and what color is the card? There is way too much Big Government Bureaucracy Bullcrap being created by this. Do mini guns really cost more then all of those office dwellers and red tape stickers that will inevitably dissolve into a bigger mess then we already have? We are still processing people and their paperwork from the amnesty granted in the '80's. I am really not comfortable with my great grand children having to pay for the lack of height and might our Congress exhibits towards ILLEGAL immigration. It is sad.

We can win. Things have a way of working out. At least I am not waiting for Xenu or Hale Bopp and that makes it ok for now.

Fa-fa-fa-Friday! Fa-fa-fa-Friday! Hehehehehehe! I can't wait. What will bubble boil bump and bounce through the cranium. Unlike Rush I will use both sides when I tic tac tic it out tomorrow ...

We all have heard songs that, at one time or another, were very popular and did not understand why. Plenty of them in my case. I, unlike most, will give it a five shot approach and if it is not making sense to me or connecting with me in some way then I know that the only way it will be hummed by my lips is after it crawls out of stardom and into commercials. The same advertisements that I play over and over in my head everyday. All of which have songs that I don't particularly care for.

When I started this piece I explained my views in my first post. A little laundry list of things that would enable people to know where I was coming from. My two biggest complaints were about me being a "patriot" and my lack of belief in global warming. I have talked alot lately about patriotism, especially in light of the ILLEGAL immigration issue. That leaves, at the bus stop without any change, the innocent little big eyed child idea of global warming.

I KNOW the globe is warming, this I do NOT dispute. The concept that mankind  (in particular the U.S.A.) is responsible for some cataclysmal event that will leave us extinct and the planet in ruins is REALLY far fetched and of value to the science fiction market.

As I am sure some of you know I subscribe to TIME magazine. Laugh but I do. Last week's cover was about global warming. I was a bit wrapped up in the ILLEGAL immigrant issue to pay it any mind beyond my general reading of the article. You see, TIME is always mentioning something about global warming and the eventual doom of the world, all at Man's hand so it does not surprise me to read such doom and gloom. This week's cover was about ILLEGAL immigration and so I put last weeks issue in my stack of old TIME's. Today's afternoon radio reminded me of it again. Today I take my own personal poke at global warming.

Here is a month long slice of articles and references to global warming found in TIME (from February 27th 2006 through April 10th 2006 only the March 6th 2006 issue lacks any reference):

February 27: "Has the Meltdown Begun?" - Hogwash by Michael D. Lemonick

March 13: "Who Were the First Americans?" - interesting cross reference of Mr. Lemonick with Andrea Dorfman

March 20: "Water, Water Everywhere" - A Jeffrey Kluger short about water on Saturn's moon Encladus

April 3: cover "Be Worried. Be Very Worried" - Authors across the board and lots and lots of sad photography. I LOVE when photos are out of context.

April 10: "April 18, 1906 Lessons from the Earthquake That Shook the World" - J. Madeleine Nash does a great TIME job but I am more curious of the story's over all purpose in the publication as it would seem more appropriately published in the edition on April 17th to absorb the anniversary.

Doom is everywhere and the rascally human race is causing it ALL!

We are NOT big. We ARE infiniteisimal. Minute. Beyond microscopic. The Earth is a much large entity as is the all powerful Sun. There is nothing more significant in our little corner of the world is the relationship between those two celestial atoms.

California is responsible for contributing 1/10th of 1%  of all factors that lead to and cause global warming. With the exception of 100 nuclear winters man will not cause the end of the world. Nature will. It always has.

Two articles, brought to my attention by the John and Ken Show (kfi640am.com), are what made my silence cease.

The first talk was about George Wills article in the Sun Times (http://www.suntimes.com/index/will.html). This, my friends, is worth checking out. He makes fabulous points about the media scare to get those printed mediums sold. Magazines to newspapers all flying off the rack. This excerpt is from his article: "While worrying about Montana's receding glaciers, Schweitzer, who is 50, should also worry about the fact that when he was 20 he was told to be worried, very worried, about global cooling. Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of ''extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation.'' Science Digest (February 1973) reported that ''the world's climatologists are agreed'' that we must ''prepare for the next ice age.'' The Christian Science Monitor (''Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster than Even Experts Expect,'' Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers ''have begun to advance,'' ''growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter'' and ''the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool.'' Newsweek agreed (''The Cooling World,'' April 28, 1975) that meteorologists ''are almost unanimous'' that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said ''may mark the return to another ice age.''  Does George have it down or what? It is true that from about 1940 through 1979 we did have a cooling trend in the icy direction. The pictures of my Father's youth would lead me to say that we did. Does anyone else remember before we had El Ninos and El Ninas? I do. It was called weather and it didn't need an ad campaign or press agent.

Remember too that the world is not on a perfect axis in which to rotate. There is a fluctuation while in axis rotation and solar orbit that does effect temperature and as with anything in nature there is a level of complexity and individuality that is not seen beyond that observational realm.

The second John and Ken moment was an interview with Dennis T. Avery (http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=AverDenn) in regards to his recent article on global warming (http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=AverDenn). This man makes some observations that, in addition to his background and areas of expertise, require some attention. His explanations of the 1500 year cycles of +/- 2 degrees Celsius above or below fluctuation from  mean global temperatures are exquisite. He sounds Sagan but he is super star. He explained during the radio interview that from 1300 - 1850 AD we had a "Little" Ice Age. This would explain how, during the Revolutionary War, the British were able to carry cannons from Manhattan to Staten Island. Ice. Age. Ice Age. I will reprint an excerpt but you should check him out:"The Romans grew wine grapes in England in the 1st century, during the Roman Warming. Then, during the Dark Ages, Britain was too cold for grapes. The Britons themselves grew wine grapes in England in the 11th centuries, during the Medieval Warming. The Domesday Book, compiled right after the Norman Invasion of 1066, records more than 70 vineyards. During the following Little Ice Age, London held ice festivals instead of wine tastings. It’s not warm enough yet during the Modern Warming for a British wine industry, but the grape growers are succeeding two years out of ten—and hopeful. That makes three global warmings in 2000 years right from our history books." Does it make you wonder or are you laughing at me?

There is more power and global damage in one volcanic eruption then in anything man has done so far. The world changes to suit it's needs not ours. Do we really think we are that ballsy? We are all that? The ones who not only know all but control all of that which happens?  We are pathetic if that is what we think. We are not that great. We are mere fleas doing the bidding of something greater.

I find it humorous that the comparison point in all of the "pro" global warming articles is the Ice Age. How can you compare one swing to the other? Can you legitimately or is it just all about the fear? What happen to the sultry lava filled nights of sweat and pleasure those nasty dinosaurs had? Lava at one point in time was over 400 degrees hotter than it is now.

Earthquakes, evolution bridges, creationism, big bangs, big bombs, hot, cold, and all of the thermometers in between. If you look up half of what I have cited here then maybe you might look beyond it all and ask, "Does this pass the smell test?"

Think of how much the continents have changed since man was here. Did man cause tectonic plate movement? If those plates moving causes the end of the world will it then be man's fault? We have records only going back so far and the ones that creep up from science's bowels are either used to fit or hushed aside.

Watch the science channels for a week. Nothing but planets and dinosaurs and evolution. Drive yourself NUTS with it. Make it reach vomit levels. Really get mad at that T.V. for having showed you all of it. Then breath. DEEP. Think about what you are doing. What you are taught. What you know. And what is obvious and logical.

Ebb and Flo. Flo and Eddy.

The people that will die from global warming are the stupid ones who also thought that Y2K was the be all and end all as well. Get your solar flare proof canned goods. I already have mine for Friday ...

I fell asleep this weekend and never woke up. I wanted no more teetering of the ILLEGAL immigrant issue. No more tottering of unusually hot-boil election proceedings. Simply no more. This morning I stretched and ripped and pulled; I re-birthed. I swaggered, with sleep crust abound, out into the light of day. The work force can drain. I find the haze of a dream that surreally,  and with almost a gasoline vision teardrop of iridescent descent, let's me abandon what sometimes, even to me Capt. News Junkie, can be run of the mill crud to fill the gaps, creases, and crevasses that make up the in between time of modern news and the monstrous cycle it rides.

I reach "deep" into the shoe shuffle rack. A simple chin nudge to the forehead of Google, and the child of accessible knowledge rears it's ugly head in order to devour the day at hand. My mind, bite by bite - nibble by nibble, is consumed and saturated with what "Today" means in respect to the World from a North American, U.S.A., perspective. "Spin that straw hat boy, I think we gots us a rode-o!"

The mentholated news cycle grips one lung and compresses the other. Want to breath? Only if Mama Media says so. One evil serial killing machine meant to dumb one down with the false sense of security found in fictitious "facts" that puff out one's chest in order to chicken strut it's wanna be peacock ass from synapse to synapse all the while making you one smart son 'o' bitch. Yippee hi oh tie yay! I no longer want to rope 'em good or see the clown. Throw me in the barrel, covered in concrete, into the sea; and never the twain shall meet. Cowboys and hit men don't mix; not even under the Nome de _Plume of a hip new cocktail concoction that consists of Red Bull and Sambuca. Yuck! Something's will never mix. Or will they?

Bangkok, Oh Bangkok, where for art thou Bangkok? Tom Robbins novel, maybe. Perverse nightmare, as always, yes! The Prime Minister of Thailand is stepping down today. It all occurs as a resignation due to scandalous money practices. The Prime Minister is the CEO of Shin Corp., the major Thai T.V. network. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra just recently, used not only his political prowess but also his T.V. mogul status, to start up a "reality show" which starred, non other than, the Prime Minister hootin' it up with the villagers in rural Thailand. But it was the fiscal scandal that got him to step down? Right. I wonder what Silvio Burlesconi was thinking when he heard the news...

In Vienna there was an opportunity for some dam fingering. I took the semi clean route on this one. It appears that due to adverse weather conditions there was a weakness found in a Vienese dam that resulted in the government finally being called into to take care of the catastrophe. The A.P. story has it like this: "Some 700 firefighters and army troops were working to patch up a 490-foot gap there using thousands of sandbags and bags of stones brought to the area by two Blackhawks, Austrian radio reported. Local residents and firefighters told Austrian radio that the dam had shown signs of breakage since 1997, but that authorities ignored the warning signs." I bet it was Bush trying to kill all of those blacks living in Vienna. All ... of ... those ... blacks ... in ... Vienna ...

This A.P. story reminded me so much of Vienna, in all of it's evilly rolled history, and made me laugh SO hard that I had to reprint it in it's entirety, "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Lawmakers in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday approved a law banning kite flying for reasons of public safety, a provincial government minister said. The bill was unanimously passed by the North West Frontier province assembly, said Sardar Mohammed Idress, minister for local government and rural development in the province's Cabinet. The anti-kite flying law follows a similar move by the government in the eastern Punjab province where authorities banned kite flying after seven people were killed by kite strings reinforced with glass and metal coating. Kite flying is not popular in the northwestern province but in Lahore, the capital of Punjab, kites are passionately flown during an annual festival to herald spring. The festival was marked on March 12-13. Many of the deaths occurred in Lahore, where metal-coated strings often cause electricity outrages when they fall on power lines. Idress said the ban in his province was intended to save lives. "The aim of the law is to protect lives and government and private property," he said. However, town mayors in the province will be authorized to give permission locally for kite flying for 15 days in the spring. Under the law, makers and sellers of kites will have to register with the government, apparently to stop them from selling illegally coated strings. The strings are often reinforced for kite-flying competitions to enable opponents to cut each other's kite strings." Are we really freeing countries so they can aspire to their neighboring country's policies of having the power to control kite flying? Is that really what we are doing? I might be concerned ... but I feel more relieved knowing that I won't get caught up in a kite string in Pakistan. What's next,  the "rainbow connection"?

A "black kite" is defined as: "noun: dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion" 

Breslin's formidable area of thought quivers and shakes at the possible aliteration when thinking of Barry Bonds. Mine does too but is it really worth it. When did the tabloids become headlines? And why does my tax money go to anything having to do with sports seeing as I wouldn't give a rat's ass toward being a spectator or participant in any of them. Where, oh where, is my money spent? Yours too!

Bizarre headlines lead to only better posts. Wednesday is here even quicker than one as busy as me would expect. I may be on departure soon for a couple of months  but I will be posting as much as I can until then. When Wednesday grabs me all I can say is, " Hot, Hot, Hot!" ...