As the serial killers in Arizona are arrested and held with furled brows directed in their vicinities, naked men wonder the highways of America and get caught doing so.
Ok, those fat unshaven bastards in Arizona are in trouble, trouble, trouble. Look at their pictures and you can tell why.
Wait … I am not much different from the naysayer eye glance. Damn it! I knew celebrity look a-likes were common but damn it!
I know that a couple days ago a man in Alabama was caught walking down the highway donning an American flag. Today I heard a story, rather briefly so the details are fuzzy and I am still at odds with my google, about an elderly White County man who was found walking down the highway naked. The Sheriff said he had on ‘nothing but a smile’. When asked what the hell was going on the man responded, “It was hot!”
Come to find out that he not only left behind his clothes, car, and keys but also his teeth.
Maybe my cracker defense from the last piece was prematurely introduced to the evidence pool of American stupidity.
My couple of other ‘hangover’ stories from the other night and derived from Time Magazine are as follows:
I have pointed out before that certain people actually consider Time Magazine to be a conservative publication. I consider it rubbish.
In their real humdinger of a recant section this week, we find the boxed out, in grey, “Setting the Record Straight” snippet. It is titled ‘Not So Crowded’. The correction is as follows:
“Our July 10th report on the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip incorrectly referred to the area as ‘the most densely populated patch of land on Earth.’ Gaza is less densely populated than most large cities around the World.”
Quite a recant. Quite a lie.
I wonder how many people caught that outside of those living in Gaza and my fanatical ass (fanatical only when it comes to detail not strapping ball bearings to my ass and walking into a Bahtmitsva).
The other big catch was the Joe Klein column that featured, and started out with, a quote from Winston Churchill.
Klein would like to show us how we need to be out of Iraq. He wants so badly to be out of there and he is not even there. As he says, “ … we are working with out a net …”
His Churchill quote to back him up is:
“There is something very sinister in my mind to the Mesopotamian entanglement. Week after week and month after month for a long time we shall have a continuance of miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare marked from time to time certainly by disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, and very possibly attended by some very grave occurrence.”
These are the words that allow Joe Klein to conclude we should get the “Fuck out of Dodge“.
Sad.
Joe Klein has been referred to by fellow bloggers as a conservative with an agenda. He has left behind his liberal markings and made Time a conservative agenda rag. These are the same people that refer to Iran as a ‘Democracy’.
How liberal are the fucks with those comments?
I will never get over that.
A contrary opinion, or appearance of such, by the same man, Winston Churchill, can be found in Tom Tancredo’s book, “In Mortal Danger”, Page 66:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on it’s votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
“The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurities of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
“A degraded sensualist deprives this life of it’s grace and refinement: the next of it’s dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the World. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of Science, the Science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
This quote was from a speech given in 1899.
The Joe Klein quote comes from a letter written to David Lloyd George in 1920 while George was Prime Minister of England.
Some would say it is the same thing just spaced apart by 21 years.
I say it is very different. Very different indeed.
Something tells me to call the context police.
One of the other bangers in the bun was the Larry King Show tonight. I never watch that man dribble out drivel from his red suspenders regardless of how snappy they may be. The big hour tonight was enough to get me to read the upcoming ads on barf bags while in air waiting for the next terrorist to tell me there is only Dewar’s and no Crown Royal or Seagram’s 7.
King designated a whole hour to the new film : Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. My dad LOVES NASCAR. I love my Dad. We are both named Richard. This makes us Ricky’s who attend racing events (although I have not gone since I moved to California in 2001 - I am quite sure my Dad is still pissed that we do not get to attend together as he has sold our Loudon tickets as he does not have an attendee to chaperone him away from the memorabilia booths - but I do miss those races and the fact that we held season tickets to Loudon since they started running pro NASCAR events and now neither of us go).
Anyhow, Larry humored Will (a.k.a. Ricky Bobby) and a few others tonight as they paraded as racing celebs. Waltrip was there and got a bit feisty. At the end of one big fabricated hour where Larry pretended to be interviewing real race car drivers, Will asked, “Are we supposed to tip you?”
This is what I get for dedicated hours of listening to Dale Earnhardt’s pit crew on headphones in the sun?
No, this is what viewer’s of CNN’s most popular program get for watching Larry King and thinking of it as news.
They received nothing.
Yes, I get just as mad when confronted with Rush listeners who think it is news.
It is all glitter, guts, guffaws, and a whole lot of glamour.
Get over it and yourself.
I need to.
In the words of Donald Rumsfeld, while responding to Hillary Clinton’s war attacks:
“My Goodness!”
It’s all brighter on the higher side of the float.
Float on …
Time a conservative publication? I’ll pass that news on to the neocons, they need a good jolt of reality anyway. It was a joke, Dr.Z ! Any fool can see that Time was talking about the population being dense, not the density of the population, well yeah that too looking at it that way. Maybe they meant to say a densely dense population?
The Sharon plan always was to let the Palestinians fill Gaza to bulging then find an excuse to blast ‘em. Always a good idea to know where your enemies are, eh? I do wonder how Ariel would have handled this current imbroglio in Lebanon. He was a kick-ass kind of guy as was his right hand, Moshe Dyan. Where are the white sombreros when you need them?
Joe Klein? Please! In spite of that you already know I wish we were never in. War is hell but, as I told Dr. Mary (Gaza Dreaming), it’s a lot easier with someone else’s kids. Iran will indeed be a democracy just like the USA as soon as the suits figure out how to hide what’s left of the money.
And speaking of quotes, Tommy (Boy) Franks has been quoted all day as having said something to the effect that Arabs need to love their children more than hating whatever. The credit he failed to give was to Golda Maier in ‘64, or so. She said the troubles of the Middle East will not end until the Arabs love their children more than they hate Jews. Tacky of Franks to not footnote his observation. Looks like there’s a Joe Biden comes along every decade or so.
May I take a pass on anything associated with Larry King. He is a living, breathing ipecac suspension. ...if unable to induce vomiting watch Larry King, if symptoms persist; turn up the volume. When I was young we used to go to the infield for the Daytona 500. I can never forget the ground shaking as those cars rumbled past. NASCAR on television is a waste but NASCAR in person? It don’t get much better than that, Homer.
Rumsfeld seemed so much more intelligent than to use a word like never. 13 steps, 13 loops in the noose; but he did it to himself...as do we all.
Hot is as hot does. I just want to know what happened to the man's teeth.
The Golda Maier quote is something I am going to have to look into as I am unfamiliar. Shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone that I have admitted to not knowing something!
As far as Time and Joe Klein is concerned: It is true, there are many people that have tried to convince me and others that they are both conservative. I have never seen Time has conservative but then again I think CNN (with the exception of Lou Dobbs - and that includes Headline News) is a socialist propoganda network and I find it disgusting that my cable box segregates it closer to the 'real' networks and away from the other 24/7 news networks. Joe Klein has always been liberal but occasionally will spout some logic that liberals like to label 'Conservative' as if it is a sin, or at the very least a sin by proxy.
I miss going to the track with my Dad. I have seen many races; from Indy to NASCAR and all the way down to the modified series. That track roar that you speak of is comparable to the high whine at an Indy event and both are something that could only be described as soul scrambling. Do non-race fans think that we go to the races to just watch cars drive in circles? It is a shame that they will never know.
I like how you ended the comments.
We all do hang ourselves in the end. Well, not the end but rather the neck but in the end all the same.
I hope you are well.
R.E. Knowlton III
As I said over on your page: I am surprised that that is the quote that made it but I am happy something made it none the less.
It is good to know that people are reading and that you still check in from time to time. Thank you for all of your blogging support.
I still think very highly of you and admire your efforts here on BS.
I am hoping that maybe, just maybe - if I hope and wish hard enough, that I will make the interview series. I just hope it isn't while I am in county jail!
Keep doing what you do.
SMILE
R.E. Knowlton III