Koch Industries and the Younger Leftist Rebels (brainless idiots)

(Maybe THAT will get some attention) Things that annoy me #1 Brainless TV commercials like Cox TV where the lady with Internet doesn't work and she gets a dimwit at Brane Central. Hi, my Internet doesn't work!! You know the one. It's always the men in the commercials who appear dimwitted, right? Ok, we can take it.
        Title - the pseudo communists who mouth off about the Koch brothers money buying Republicans votes, etc, blah, blah. Like it's the ONLY large political contributor in the world. " do the name George Soros from Greece strike  FAMILIAH NOTE wit y'all?" Brother George, father of the money tree farm brags about how he loves to de-stabilize organizations and countries with the infusion of massive amounts of cash in the right places.
        Now, guess who gets it?
        The Right Rev, Holiness Al Sharpton, armed to the teeth with invictive against the white devils, only when it suits him. Vis-a-vis, Ferguson, Missouri, but not University of Virginia, or other locales a huge black thug murdered a diminutive white, English female victim. So far - no word from the wandering Al.
         Sorry,Jesse, no word from Al, we take it, no savior from the White House, no phone calls, no assurances of filial assimilation's from the head shed, big guy.
        You, as they say, are up poop creek, paddle-less. News Reports say that victims, at this writing, are starting to re-appear, and the detectives  surfacing patterns DNA wise as they say, from Texas to Virginia, it looks like they're gonna keep you so rest comfortably, Jess ole boy.
        Looks like "jail-city," you're in for the long haul. Hope you don't get out, Mr. Matthews. If you do, I'd avoid southern Arizona. They're finding bodies out in the desert almost weekly. I just read a story about them finding one been out there for 3 years. The animals been picking them apart.
        Imagine, Jesse.
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The Oklahoma Cutthroat......ISIS? .....or, Workplace Violence??

Already slanting the news away from objective, no-nonsense, straight arrow reporting, the dark-hued news readers of CNN have begun leaning left-wise away from obvious facts as reported on other networks.
    The facts about the Oklahoma Cutthroat:
              * He's an avowed radical Muslim
              * His Facebook fotos and rants say so and have been telecast for all to see.
              * He has been reported as having ranted in Arabic while beheading his victim.
              * His M.O. is identical to ISIS killers previously filmed from IRAQ
              * While an American, he changed his name to a Muslim one posted it on line
              *  He has a violent past and a long criminal record.
   The reporters while interviewing the former head of the CIA posed questions sprinkled with suggestions about the incident possibly being " work place violence," a term the Obama Administration loved to use at Fort Hood with Major Hassan and his mass shooting of soldiers.
   The interviewee answered that suggestion was preposterous. It was directly connected to Al Queda in his mind, he stated. Further there were other such attacks not reported in the media he said, one such involved a multiple murder in New Jersey, four citizens died. The details are not public.
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Jesse Been Found........but the girl still gone, Hmmm

Here's this Man Mountain Dean kinda fella standing up in front of a TV screen in Virginia, back home, lookin' at a judge, now and then, nodding.
      " yes judge,.......no judge....ok judge."  Ole Jesse walks off with a gorgeous English coed at the University of Virginia late one night. He, a mountain of a man, towering over her at 6" 4" and nearly 300 pounds,a huge black man wearing a football shirt, black short pants, almost a stereotype cartoon figure. He got outta town fast, got all the way to Texas. Guess he was hiding. I guess.
       She, a dainty, white English teen age co-ed with an angelic smile, a music major, drinking cocktails with friends at a nearby bistro. Late into the night she leaves the mall, and a TV camera traces her movements up and down the long hallway, with ole giant Jesse hot on her trail. At the wee hours, almost no one is around. Could have happened anywhere I suppose: Isle of White, Faro, but...it happened there in Charlottesville.
       First she goes one-way, Jesse follows, then back the other way, Jesse sniffing along behind. A witness sees her get into Matthew's red car and speed off.
       Col Tim Long of the Charlottesville Police makes an emotional and impassioned nationwide tv plea for Jesse's return to the station. He did come back briefly with family, demand an attorney who aided him to immediately leave, no questions, thank you very much. And, he left.
       No word, national TV exposure, still no word.
       The FBI offers help Col Luongo accepts, forensics vacuums everything in site and arrest warrants are issued. Local and FBI are involved in the arrest and in the clink he goes.
       Cable police reporters are negative about the sweet young coed's survivability. Our black Knight's purposes have, by their decades of past experience have proved to be lurid, dark and awful. My worst fears are for the dread and grief that this night falls over our young coed from Britain and the painful death she suffered at the hands of this violent brute.
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Jesse Matthews.......vs the Charlotteville Police Department

Where you 'at, Jesse? You mountain of a man, all six feet, four inches of muscle and hustle the last known human who was with the little English co-ed from UVA? C'mon, man, stop running and turn yourself in.

     Tim Luongo of the Police department is a nice guy, he just wants to ask you a few quick questions about .......oh, blood stains, where did you hide the body, and probably, does the name Natalie Holloway??

     Joke, man, I'm just making jokes, that's all.

     Look, here's how I see it. They got you on tape. YOU are the last person to see this pretty white chick ALIVE. The cops have gone through your car with microscopes twice and your apartment twice and collected BAGS of stuff. 

    YOU, your clever beaver you, you ask for a lawyer, then split, no, not calmly, at a " high rate of speed," so much so, they got a bench warrant out for reckless driving. You seem to do things in a sloppy way. 

    Now, I'm not Sam Spade, but I got a feelin' this is not going to end well for you. You stand out in a crowd, pal. Tough for you to hide. I live in Arizona, and I know way more about you than I ever want to know, and I've been to your city, and I carry a gun. 

    Riddle me this: if you didn't do it, and I'm not saying you did, why did you run? If you didn't, go back to see Col. Tim and holler, " strap on the lie detector."  

    The results will guarantee one thing, Jesse! Rev Al Sharpton will be on the first flight down.

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N.F.L......$250+ MILLION DOLLARS .BEER MONEY.....$44 Mill salary ......Beating up the families

1  The top guy at the NFL gets over $40 Mill in salary per year I am told. That's called golden handcuffs in the high-roller trade. You can hush up a lot of crap to keep that kind of gold rolling into your checking account. Just sayin' Reviewing his resume in Wicked, he has a degree in Economics from (I don't believe from an Ivy League) school, and spent his "quality" time with Tagliabeau his predecessor on the way up to the head seat. i.e. "massive letter writing campaign. "
2. Much has been made of the statistics of the abusive nature of the players in the NFL being " half" of what the general Population is. Uh-huh. Now, how do you suppose, hundreds of over sized, under-educated giants raised in the south in poorly educated families ( Charles Barkley, CBS sports broadcast last week quoted) who are by nature VIOLENT, are 1/2 as violent with their women and kids as Willie-Boy at the local Bodega at 4th and Slaughter Streets. I can offer a suggestion: the head office is hiding the statistics.
3. Let's talk about race and violence. Within the last two months, 5 arrests were made of NFL players, all of them were they size of Sequoia trees - huge, all black, all from southern families. Mr. Charles Barkley commented on CBS sports TV after the Alexander domestic violence affair,
      " all these guys are from southern black families. They all were raised by fathers that did this to them. I WAS RAISED LIKE THIS. DO SOMETHING WRONG, AND YOU GET A BEAT DOWN. YOU GET WELTS AND BRUISES. IT HAPPENED ALL THE TIME. Look at me, I turned out alright." 
4. My point, who says he is alright? Him? Who is he to judge? His reputation in public is certainly open to question, I am not a fan of his sport or of his public pronouncements.
5. If the public wants the weight of the law on the NFL, their collective judgement has to be on ticket sales, and on beer sales. The sponsor invests over $250 million dollars into this venture and the more notoriety in bruisers beating up helpless wives and children will soon eat into their profits The public will have to choose: Morals, or Monday Night Football?
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Ferguson

It's time for a cooling off period in Ferguson....and I mean everyone. We have had enough. 
     Think about it more deeply than the surface racism that is racing through the scene as we speak: one cannot even say the word, Ferguson without inciting passions, hot words, the thought of threats against somebody(s). 
     Now is the time to throw water on this imbroglio until --- the facts can be collected in an orderly legal manner, lawyers can be hired for both sides, prosecutors and judges called in, and most fairly, I think the PRESS should be paired down to a system of 
"pool reporters." 
     What we do not need is three city blocks of TV cameras hounding the hell out of every paper boy, store clerk and racist truck driver in town. 
     Remember how " well " the press handled nightly broadcasts of the Vietnam War into our dining rooms? In case you forgot WE WON TET, although in the midst of the negative reporting from the major tv stations at the time, you would think we lost it.
     So, as good Americans, it will do no good to run around break things,, punch people in the nose, fire off pistols and act stupid. We have relied on a legal system for over 200 years to settle justice. 
     I have personally sat on four juries in my life, and tough though the duty is ( and at times, I wanted to brain one or two of the jurors with my chair,) the decisions did come out right. I believe in my whole heart in the jury system.
     Why don't we give the system room to breathe?
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I do not feel safe in my own country.

For the first time in my 74 years, I do not feel safe in my own country. Even as a child, standing on the shore line of Ocean City, New Jersey, during war time (WWII), watching the gunfights out at sea at night, and examining the flotsam that washed ashore the next day, as frightening as that was, I still do not feel safe TODAY.

     Yes, I knew Nazi subs shelled Atlantic City during WWII. I heard that they landed spies on our coasts down south. Our FBI caught them, and they were eventually executed. 

      Today, now, under the current conditions in Washington, DC my country is not safe. I do not feel safe. What I know, see, watch, read, hear - I KNOW MY COUNTRY IS NOT SAFE for Americans.

      Why? C'mon........I do not trust the NSA, I do not trust the IRS. Not until they come clean with Darrell and his committee. We all know, if nothing happened, just blurt out the truth and get back to worth. I believe we have a geniune WATERGATE going on. How deep is this going to go??
      Actually, does anybody? Ever? Anyone in the White House? the president? For that matter, ANYTHING he says? The VP? Secretary of state whose credibility is paper thin? The Bobsey-twins who speak for the state department? The sailor in Chief who speaks with forked tongue for the Pentagon? The five-headed Ambassador to the UN who can't get her messages straight? 

      Oh, yeah, are we in a war, or not? Is it a non-war? If so, is it then ok to " lead from behind? If so, cause we're doin' a pretty good job of that, if you're counting heads, so to speak. I try to remember that just because He says something,................ doesn't mean it's so!!

       I wish Arthur Godfrey were still alive. He and his ukulele could do a lot of comedy on the above. I need a laugh.

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World War II - on the homefront

When the sirens went off at 11:30 at night, my mother grabbed my sister and I and dumped us into the bathtub on the second floor. " The Nazi bombers are coming, " she said quietly, as quietly as she might have announced the horse drawn milk truck was coming up the street. ("don't upset the kids")
     Tearing around the top floor of our three story southwest Philadelphia rowhouse in 1945, she ripped the curtains shut, rooms darkened as she flew through them, passed by our bathroom door like a maddened witch two, three times, then in with us, lit candle in hand.
     With the bathroom door shut, my kid sister asked in her adorable baby babble, "Mommy, why you scared?" So, mom said, kinda, I just want to protect you from the German bombers.
      "Germans gabobers" Pat answered. "Oh, never mind, honey. We lived like that during the war. No, the Germans never got like that, but the fear was there. All over.
      Vacations to the nearby sea-shore included fathers that helped man the Coast Guard watch-towers. At night, the eastern sky out at sea were lit with naval gunfire, and the morning, the tides would wash in the blood and refuse from the previous night's fighting. That onto American shores.
      My father was a Coast Guard Port Guide and carried a gun. My best friend's father worked at a naval shipyard building fighting ships that my father helped secure from spies. Everyone I knew during the war was a part time air raid warden - everyone.
      Nazis infiltrated America, not everyone supported the war. Charles Lindbergh was against it and fought like hell to keep us out. He alienated President Roosevelt in the process. The enemy infiltrated the transportation unions in Philadelphia and caused a strike crippling the city. The General in charge took over the system by force and fired most of the systems bosses and got the transportation system back functioning again.
      Almost everyone I knew during the war, had encounters with air raid wardens, military troops coming or going in the war efforts.
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FEMINISTS.......FEMINISM

I even met Gloria Steinhem in a speech in Portland, Oregon. To me, at the time, she seemed reasonable. I said so on the public address system. Guys stopped me in the street in Tucson for weeks after with " aren't you the guy who stood up and asked Steinhem.......?"
     Yeah, I'm him. I had a lot to live down. I'm 74 now, born in February 1940, slowly fading down the trail behind the barn, and tken as a whole I've dec ided this feminist thing is a mixed bag for the culture.
     I don't like it. AS OF TODAY, young woman have been burped out the other end of the culture, rude. They are. Young women are not ladies as I recall.
    My mother taught me " treat every woman and give her a chance to prove she is a lady." So, I did. My father and I didn't get a long but he did teach me the basics. Don't ever hit your sister. Not ever for any reason, never. She was two years younger and a wonderful girl and love her still, two years dead and gone. My father told me you never hit a woman, NO EXCUSES. And I didn't .
     I digress. I watch TVs " The Five " on Fox and have a tough time with those women screeching at each other. Not feminine. The girls can and (use to) get the point across much more effectively without this combat between each other, let alone trying to scream over men.
    And the men fight with women verbally to do the same.
    Women do NOT have to act like men to be equal to them. I have a large photo of the late Marilyn Monroe in my den, the queen of womanhood, dressed in grey sweater and skirt, facing the camera. The caption reads, " Women who want to be equal to men -- Lack Ambition." She convinces me.
     "Feminists" who attack men turn them off, pissing off the very advocates they can recruit to their cause. My late wife Janet had a tactic that worked well with me and every man in the law firm she helped manage in Philadelphia. She was a beautiful woman, blond, blue eyes, tall, and when the room got loud, she dropped her voice to a low purr.
     The men quieted down to listen. ( Atta boys, she thought. Now, she had them) In moments she was passing out agendas, instructions, and what became an easy afternoon for a bunch of pushy, ego-driven Philadelphia lawyers. And one of them was used to dealing with Jack Kennedy.
     Today, one TV host - a lawyer - is proud of yelling during interviews and boasting that she can kick ass with anybody who gives her trouble.
     I think of my late wife, and her management of the world, the life around her ( and me ) and of people like Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn - where have the likes of those wonderful women gone?
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NURSES and Nursing

It is 1954, 2:30 in a bleak, snowy, frigid morning in southwest Philadelphia, and an ER nurse is struggling through snow drifts trying to make a bus stop two blocks from her house. In a wind storm, snow drifts pile the white stuff high along the row of cars, and a little nurse wearing high nylons, low, white nurse uniform skirts is somewhat warm, struggles to cross the snow drifts.
     Two, three, then four cars drift by, rubber wheels whiz, spin and grind by her, then-one stops. The door opens, and a deep, dark voice booms out of the back seat,  " Hey nursie, want a lift to your hospital?"
     Cautious, dark, and cold, her feet squeak in small steps to the car door, peek in and it's full of 5 black guys in heavy Navy Pea coats all drinking coffee and beer. There is an array of guns on the floor of the back seat.
     " C'mon, hon, we'll drive you to work, which hospital?" the driver blurts out.
     Without a minute's pause, she says, Presbyterian, St Lukes. " Les' Go!" He says, and they're down the street, slush out into the main thoroughfare and on their way.
      Unusual? Out of character? Not a bit. The nurse is my mother, and she's as smart, if not wiser than the mid 50's gang bangers she's riding with. Spreading her feet out on the back seat floor so as not to trip over the guns, she rests easily next to one hulking hood and says, " How you boys doing tonight?"
      Mom told me that she frequently rode with gang bangers to and from the hospital, and felt safe doing it. I was floored.  My Mom??
      Think about it, she said. We had a deal. If they got shot up or knifed they knew where I worked, and if they got hurt, they came right to me, I was the Charge Nurse of the ER. When they hit the front door, I took excellent care of them, and, once in a while I saved their lives. We knew each other and got along real well. This was my five foot one inch mother who went to church with me every Sunday. Amazing. I never knew until she told me on her death bed, and she never told my father.
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A WEAK president - SOMEBODY Do Something

I am sick and tired of all the talk. All right, I get it. He's in over his head. The Prez no longer waits 24 hours to flip flop, he does it in the next sentence. Instead of keeping secrets on war plans, he announces them over broadcast media.
    I get it, I get it. Hell, even the blood thirsty ISIS gets it. The knife wielding, armed to the teeth 13th century warriors from the stone ages not only have our advance plans broadcast to them by our own "leader, they've got our very own tanks, trucks, and up-to-date war equipment left behind by the Iraqis who fled off the field in a panic.
     This status-of-forces thingee I don't know. Our guys just left the stuff and shipped out. The Iraqi Army was supposed to pick it up (trained they were) and use it. Maliki subsequently fires all the Generals that weren't in HIS tribe and hires all the deadbeats, the "fish" starts to die from the head on down, the bad guys attack, and all hell breaks loose.
     Our Golfer-in-chief? 10th hole in the links along the Bay off the northeast coast. Chicken Dinners, fund raisers, n such. A head rolls in the sand some where, he nods and weathers a few words into a mike and goes back up to his vacation again.
     Vacation. The wife makes a promo tape on school lunches. Another head rolls, even less of a reaction. " The world is a MESSY place," he intones.
      I am told the conservatives in the Senate and House, as well as the nut wing of the Liberal base, as well as the military advisers in the Pentagon, and the like minded members of the cabinet all advise hiszoner to do something -- nay, anything.
     He ignores, and slips further into a smaze of lethargy, almost snoring his way into a somnambulance of indifference, inaction or a coma.
     We are now weak, vulnerable, and open to attack, and I wonder if our country is going to be hit. I hope not. But, I fear something disastrous is about to happen.
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