EDITOR’S NOTES: Originally published by the Catskill Chronicle (predecessor to The Catskill Commentator) 2 years ago, but relevent today.  INVESTORS WANTED TO RAISE STOCK ISSUE FOR PURCHASE OF CURRENT STAR FROM CNHI. CONTACT rthornhill@journalist.com in complete confidentiality.

EDITOR’S NOTES: This screamer headline from today’s New York Daily News, one of the most liberal unionista newspapers on the planet!

Coupled with their lead headline story,  “Barack’s Kumbaya Foreign Policy Dangerous “.

I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t seen it with my own peepers. The Daily News is throwing Barry under the subway. He’s done!

Someone take out the trash.

Al Czervic

If the media truly are not more gender than race biased, then Barack Obama’s remarks on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania this week should get as much coverage as Hillary Clinton’s remark about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson.

While flirting with female factory workers in Allentown, he called one “sweetie,” a paternalistic way to address a woman if there ever was one. It might have worked had he been trying to do his best imitation of Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine, the telephone operator, but this was no spoof. This was Obama trying to relate to working-class women in a way that went directly south. [LINK]

EDITOR’S NOTES:  The sweetie problem reflects Barry’s complete lack of intellect. He engages mouth before his brain is in gear. Think of the 3 am phone call, his finger on the button. The man simply cannot take the time to cogently form a thought before his lips start flapping.

But that’s not the worst thing about Barry, oh no — read below the words of a reply posted by a blogger on the above article in US News/World Report. We wholeheartedly agree…. Al  Czervic

Forget about the sweetie gaffe, it’s nothing demeaning to womankind.

It’s not as if Osama was denigrating the right of a woman to suck her baby into a sink! NARAL loves him, and so should you, because when it comes to piercing a baby’s skull and vacuuming out its brains, nothin’ says commitment to killing the born and unborn like Obama and the sweetie gals at NARAL.

Now THAT’S dignity!—Narcissus, [blogger]

EDITOR’S NOTES: This is a Russian Boomer SSBN off the coast of a popular Baltic beach.  For size, note the dots atop the “sail” of the enormous vessel. The dots are lookouts.

EDITOR’S NOTES: Don’t you just hate it when the sofa sneaks up on you while your back is turned?

A story is told of a Jewish man who was riding on the subway reading an Arab newspaper.

A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same subway car, noticed this strange phenomenom. Very upset, he approached the newspaper reader.

“Moshe, have you lost your mind? Why are you reading an Arab newspaper?”

Moshe replied, “I used to read the Jewish newspaper, but what did I find? Jews being persecuted, Israel being attacked, Jews disappearing through assimilation and intermarriage. Jews living in poverty.”

“So I switched to the Arab newspaper. Now what do I find? Jews own all the banks, Jews control the media, Jews are all rich and powerful, Jews rule the world. The news is so much better!” — Jackie Mason

EDITOR’S NOTES: If you liked this joke, please laugh at the following You-Tube entitled “Two Jew Walk Into A Bar:  Director: Doug Werby, Kaboom Productions, Starring: Rabbi Yussef Langer, Jesse, Ian Grahm, Shira Reich
Additional Thanks to: Peter Schmuhl, David Cohen, Mark Graham Shot on location in:
Ben and Nicks Ale House, Oakland, California

College decides to investigate public radio station general manager. Apparently this involves stalking allegations, a DUI arrest, strutting about the office in miniskirts, halter tops and a leather dominatrix outfit. Who said NPR was boring? Your tax dollars fund this crap!

The University of Missouri-St. Louis is looking into questions surrounding the management and accounting practices at its radio station KWMU (90.7 FM). News of the university investigation reached employees of the National Public Radio broadcaster on April 14 in an e-mail from UMSL Chancellor Thomas George.

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  Patty Wente with Diane Rehm: “So Diane, how’s your sex life?”

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“Recently, some issues have been raised concerning KWMU that need to be explored, and I have taken steps to initiate a review of those issues,” George wrote in a succinct, two-paragraph note.

The chancellor gave no timeline for the review and asked only that station staff cooperate with investigators. Last week, station employees began meeting with auditors from the accounting firm Pricewaterhouse­Coopers as well as attorneys with the University of Missouri’s Office of General Counsel.

UMSL spokesman Bob Samples declined to make George available for this story, but it is believed that part of the university probe will address “deficiencies” uncovered during a recent audit of the station. The findings in the audit include allegations that management used KWMU credit cards to pay for personal expenses and failed to provide documentation justifying other expenditures at the station.

“Management may also have the ability to approve transactions that are self-serving and conceal the nature of those transactions,” warned auditors in a January 9, 2008, letter to the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators.

Sources inside KWMU contend that an investigation into the station and its general manager, Patty Wente, is long overdue. During her nineteen-year tenure, employees claim the 51-year-old Wente has orchestrated misleading fundraising drives, assigned staff to personal work, and ruled with a “reign of terror” in which employees felt threatened to bring concerns to the university.

“The first time you meet Patty, you think to yourself, ‘Wow, this woman is full of piss and vinegar.’ She can be incredibly charismatic,” says former reporter Tom Weber, who left KWMU in December for another job. “After a while, though, her behavior gives you pause. You come to realize that much of her energy lacks focus. Then when you see how it affects coworkers, you really begin to wonder about her.”

Station employees say Wente’s behavior outside the station — including a stalking allegation and a recent DUI arrest in Florida — serve to undermine KWMU’s credibility as a public and tax-supported broadcaster. Worse still, they maintain, is that the university has known for years about staff concerns regarding Wente, but refused to look into station affairs until now.

“How the hell does this woman still have a job?” asks a KWMU employee, who — like many current staffers — feared for his job if he spoke on record. “That’s something everyone would like to know.”

The KWMU boss and well-paid state employee did not respond to repeated interview requests for this story. In fact, when a reporter showed up unannounced at the station last month to ask questions, Wente had her staff members serve as decoys as she snuck out the back door.

“No one is denying that Patty is a tough boss and colorful individual,” comments UMSL spokesman Bob Samples. “But the question is: Has she violated university policy or laws in her capacity as general manager of the radio station? Right now, no one from the chancellor to the vice chancellor to the human resource department has any indication that she has.”

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Fear of Reprisal
Remember the classic 1998 Saturday Night Live sketch featuring the matronly NPR hosts and Alec Baldwin’s “Schweddy Balls”? KWMU staffers say the same skit would never have worked if more people associated public radio with Patty Wente.

With her booming voice, high-pitched cackle and abrasive demeanor, Wente, say colleagues, is more Howard Stern than Edward R. Murrow. She is known to strut about the KWMU office in miniskirts, halter tops and what one staffer describes as a leather dominatrix outfit. Wente frequents tanning salons, drives a Chrysler Sebring convertible and loves a glass — or two — of red wine at her favorite off-campus retreat, Breakaway Café.

“I think the majority of St. Louisans who know Patty would say that she is a character,” comments Don Driemeier, dean emeritus of UMSL’s College of Business Administration and Wente’s immediate boss from 1994 to 2004. “By that, I mean she is a unique personality. She knows people. They know her. She enjoys working a room.”

Arriving at KWMU in 1989, Wente brought with her an impressive résumé. She’d recently spent years working in Washington, D.C., for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Before that, Wente served as general manager for radio stations in Oklahoma and Kansas. More recently, she held posts on the NPR executive board and currently serves as president of the industry group Public Radio in Mid America.

Yet Wente’s history at UMSL has also been marked by controversy. Within the first eighteen months on the job, Wente fired or accepted the resignation of two dozen full- and part-time staffers. By September 1990 an apparent mutiny at the station prompted coverage in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, with KWMU staffers comparing their new boss to the U.S.S. Caine’s Captain Queeg.

“She told me, ‘No other opinion matters except Patty Wente’s,’” a longtime KWMU employee recounted to the Post-Dispatch in 1990. “She is the kind of person who speaks in third person about herself.”

Wente once more garnered media attention in 1999 after she fired the station’s news director, Lester Graham. Two other members of the newsroom later quit in solidarity, complaining that Wente (at the time married and using the last name Bennett) upbraided employees for the slightest offense and routinely made improper sexual comments to staffers.

“I came back from a trip one weekend; she asked me if I had gotten laid,” former reporter Matthew Algeo told the RFT in “Air Force,” a June 23, 1999, cover story. “The next year I did a story on the cockfighting referendum and henceforth I was the expert on cocks.”

“It was chaotic; it was screaming, yelling,” said Graham. “It was like you never knew what to expect from her every time you went into an office with her.”

Then, as is the case now, university officials have been quick to defend Wente and focus instead on the station’s growing market share and ever-increasing budget.

“Is Patty universally loved?” asks Driemeier. “The answer is no. But then, each of us has our own management style.”

Since at least 2004, however, the university has known about complaints that go beyond Wente’s leadership quirks. In January 2004, Chancellor George received a sixteen-page letter from anonymous KWMU employees outlining a laundry list of accusations against Wente.

“The internal environment at the radio station, under the control of general manager Patty Wente is one of crisis, and the external image that is portrayed by her leadership is unsettling,” stated the letter. “Ms. Wente presides over a ‘reign of terror,’ in which she instills intense fear in her staff members and creates an environment that is stifling, negative, highly unprofessional and at the very least, exhausting.”

According to unconfirmed allegations spelled out in the letter, Wente:

• Frequently appeared intoxicated at KWMU events and reportedly embarrassed a number of employees and station donors during a 2002 fundraiser when she leaned over and asked guest Diane Rehm (host of the nationally broadcast The Diane Rehm Show), “So Diane, how’s your sex life?”

• Engaged in nepotism hires of her ex-boyfriend’s daughters, Kristin and Nicole Ritter, who allegedly spent workdays shopping, dining and drinking with Wente.

• Assigned staff to work that had nothing to do with KWMU, such as planning a mission trip for Wente’s church that occupied several top station employees for days and cost the station an estimated $2,000 in lost work time.

The lengthy missive ended with a request that Chancellor George launch an investigation that excluded Don Driemeier’s involvement. “[We] have serious concerns about breaches of confidentiality by deputy chancellor Driemeier when he has received information regarding the behavior and operation methods employed by Ms. Wente,” wrote the authors.

“There is an intense fear of reprisal at the station and a history of broken trust. We believe our concerns must be examined by leaders who are trustworthy and willing to look, listen and take action.”

So what did Chancellor George do with the letter? He passed it along to the very person the authors wanted to circumvent: Don Driemeier.

To this day, Driemeier says he cannot comprehend why the writers of the damning letter thought he was untrustworthy. He maintains that he looked into some concerns raised, such as Wente assigning staff members to help with her personal projects. FOUR MORE PAGES!!!

Yesterday, the troubled Tom Cruise/Nazi vehicle Valkyrie got pushed back — for a second time — from October to February 2009. MGM is painting the film’s new release date as a golden holiday-weekend opportunity for the $90-million-plus historical drama, but it goes without saying this is beyond bullshit; no amount of spin from any of MGM boss Mary Parent’s necktied monkeys can reclaim whatever traction Valkyrie might have had once upon a time.

Its Cruise/Bryan Singer pedigree took its first hit when it was pushed back from summer ‘08 to fall (”Better Oscar chances!” we were told as Singer’s reshoots pushed his budget and his star past their respective limits), and it now threatens to overtake Charlton Heston as this week’s highest-profile celebrity casualty. “Valkyrie is dead,” wrote David Poland at The Hot Blog. “There is no such thing as a good movie that gets moved from summer to fall to spring.” LINK

EDITOR’S NOTES: The silly eyepatch and his botched Kraut accent are being blamed. Maybe he should try acting???  All is not lost, though, he could always remake “The Producers”, or redux “Hogan’s Hero’s” Colonel Klink.  Al Czervic.

TIME.COM has a post-mortem in the latest online edition:

1. She misjudged the mood

2. She didn’t master the rules

3. She underestimated the caucus states

4. She relied on old money

5. She never counted on a long haul

Read the full details here…

And now,  Roger Thornhill’s and Al Czervic’s five reasons John McCain will win decisively in November:

5.  He’s got more experience in his toenail than Barry has in his entire skinny body.

4. He’s not attending a radical anti-American church.

3. He’s not connected to the Chicago ‘outfit’.

2. He’s a genuine America-loving war hero who never ran from sniper fire.

”’and the number One reason John Sidney McCain III will become the next President of the United States:

1. He’s the best candidate running.

Great tits cope well with warming

That’s the headline for this BBC story, which reports: “At least one of Britain’s birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food. Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars. ” Link

EDITOR’S NOTES: Let’s hope and pray it’s not a George Romero film redux as  “The Return of the Night of the Living Dead.  Enough Clintons, already!.  Al Czervic

FROM THE EXALTED MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, THE BBC:

The Earth’s temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade, as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted.

A new computer model developed by German researchers, reported in the journal Nature, suggests the cooling will counter greenhouse warming.

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Other climate scientists have welcomed the research, saying it may help societies plan better for the future.

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The key to the new prediction is the natural cycle of ocean temperatures called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), which is closely related to the warm currents that bring heat from the tropics to the shores of Europe.

The cause of the oscillation is not well understood, but the cycle appears to come round about every 60 to 70 years.

Imagine the payoff of knowing with some certainty what the next 10 years hold in terms of temperature and precipitation

Professor Michael Schlesinger

It may partly explain why temperatures rose in the early years of the last century before beginning to cool in the 1940s.

“One message from our study is that in the short term, you can see changes in the global mean temperature that you might not expect given the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” said Noel Keenlyside from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University.

His group’s projection diverges from other computer models only for about 15-20 years; after that, the curves come back together and temperatures rise. LINK

EDITOR’S NOTES: Suck it, Al Gore. Globull warming is and always has been total crapola. And now noted world scientists, and the BBC (doing a complete about-face) have been forced to accept the truth. Al Czervic.

FLASH FLASH RED ROCKET URGENT

The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was confirmed to him by the Iraqi commander of the province. There was no immediate confirmation or comment from U.S. forces on the arrest.

The U.S. military in Baghdad said “we are currently checking with Iraqi authorities to confirm the accuracy of this information.”

  midnight and during the primary investigations he admitted that he is Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir.”

News of the arrest was also reported by Iraqi state television and Arab satellite TV stations.

The state channel, Iraqiya, said that Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani would reward Mosul police for the capture.

Interior Ministry spokesman Khalaf told the station by phone that a source close to the al-Qaida leader informed Mosul police that al-Masri would be at a house in the city’s Wadi Hajar area at midnight Wednesday.

“The police raided this house and arrested him. During the primary investigation, he confessed that he is Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir, the leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq. Now a broader investigation of him is being conducted,” he said to Iraqiya.

EDITOR’S NOTES: From an excellent steampunk oriented art site well worth exploring we offer the following Russian Cold War science fiction art.  VIEW MORE GREAT ART  I can grok it. Roger Thornhill

Dan Aykroyd is a born salesman. He’s got the relentless patter of an auctioneer, looks completely at home in a patterned suit and grins like a huckster who’s got you in the palm of his hand. I actually want to buy a blended bass after watching this video, which is probably why Aykroyd’s pitchman persona came to define much of his career (we still think Ray Zalinsky was the best thing about Tommy Boy). “Bass-o-matic” was one of SNL’s earliest forays into the commercial-parody genre that it would eventually come to dominate, and no one could have jumpstarted it like Aykroyd and his quick-and-easy fish preparation device. — Caitlin MacRae

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Mr. Bill Ayers, Terrorist/Bomber/Chicago Professor.

“Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,” –Bill Ayers

EDITOR’S NOTE to Mr. Bill Ayers:  Walk down my driveway and stomp the flag I have on the wall of my barn.

Please.

I double dog-dare you.

Al “Fire one for range and effect” Czervic.

Read more about Obama’s pal and mentor here.

EDITOR’S NOTES: Let’s hope the Hag from Hope is finally out of the Prez battle. Unfortunately we continue to suffer from Hillary’s incompetance here in New York.

Dems quietly send word to Clinton it’s over…

HILLARY: WHITE PEOPLE SUPPORT ME…

Pundits declare race over…

McGovern urges Clinton to drop out of race…

…Clinton online fund-raising ‘has slowed’

And she’s cancelled talk show and live appearances…

Spin your way out of this one, Hildebeast. This is the end –doo doo doo doo (Jim Morrison). — Al Czervic

Americo “Tony” Martinucci’s state sexual-abuse trial is back on the July trial calendar after the state Appellate Division denied a motion for leave to appeal.

Martinucci’s attorney, Terence Kindlon, applied to appeal a state appeals court decision that double jeopardy does not apply.

Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup said Tuesday that Kindlon’s bid to continue to stay the trial was also denied by the higher court.

“The trial will go forward,” Northrup said. “Probably during the second week of the July 14 trial term.”

Martinucci’s trial was scheduled to begin with jury selection May 13, but was postponed by Kindlon’s attempt to appeal.

Martinucci, 65, the former owner of Tony’s Pizzeria and Restaurant in Unadilla, faces rape and sexual-abuse charges in Delaware County. Last year, he pleaded guilty to and was sentenced on a federal charge of production of child pornography.

Kindlon had filed the original motion to have the Delaware County charges dismissed, claiming double jeopardy because the federal and state cases are based on the same acts.LINK

Technorati tags: MARTINUCCI, UNADILLA, PEDOPHILE, TRIAL, TONY’S PIZZA, DELAWARE COUNTY

EDITOR’S NOTES: Let’s hope good old Tony spends the rest of his natural/unnatural life locked up with a 400-pound room-mate named Bubba who wears polkadot sundresses and has a unit the size of a Coke can.

Bolton: US air strikes on Iran would be major step towards Iraq victory

May 7, 2008, 12:19 PM (GMT+02:00)

Former American UN ambassador John Bolton said that while a hostile Iranian response harming US interests existed, the damaged inflicted by Tehran would be far higher if Washington took no action. He was quoted by the UK Telegraph as urging therefore that Washington order air strikes against the Revolutionary Guards Corps camps training Iraqi insurgents.

A US spokesman last week confirmed DEBKAfile’s earlier disclosure that the IRGC’s al Qods Brigades had drafted Hizballah personnel to support Iraq’s Shiite militias and train them at facilities in Iran. SOURCE: www.Debka.com

EDITORS NOTES:  John Hartley , candidate for city coucil, San Diego, has been busted . Read details below. We had to search numerous sources in order to find out that he is a liberal democrat.  The mainstream media, including Fox, would not mention his party affiliation, although Hartley has been flaunting same. Why are we not surprised?

San Diego City Council candidate John Hartley was booked into County Jail Thursday night on suspicion of indecent exposure, police said.

Hartley, 65, who served on the council from 1989 to 1993, was placed under citizen’s arrest after someone called police at 4:14 p.m. and said a man was urinating into a cup and masturbating publicly on Vista Street near Adams Avenue in Kensington, police spokeswoman Monica Munoz said.

Hartley was arrested and taken to the Mid-City Division station to be interviewed, Munoz said. Police said Hartley was processed at the station for booking into jail about 6 p.m.

A jail clerk said Hartley was booked on one count of indecent exposure and one count of soliciting a lewd act. He is being held on $27,000 bail READ MORE HERE

 

Technorati tags: HARTLEY, SAN DIEGO, MORONS, MISFITS, MALCONTENTS, GAY SEX, LIBERALS

We’ve loved Jackie for years. Mazeltov!

VIEW YOU TUBE: Jackie on Obama’s Fraud.

Hillary isn’t the only fake running for President. Hillary may be the biggest, but McCain has had his moments and now, Barack tries his hand at insulting our intelligence with this Rev. Wright controversy. I didn’t comment on it 2 weeks ago when it first broke, but since he went on the View, I couldn’t hold back anymore. Seeing Barbara Walters fawning over him, while he again spins more lies, I knew I had to say something. Hillary tells big lies, he just lies incrementally. JACKIE MASON

Be prepared to spend some time on this site, with You Tube video of the fifty greatest howlers of all time. Live a little, have a laff, tell your waitress, tell your friends.

And before you go, check out this parody of “Jeremiah Wright’s Greatest Hits”, from K-Smell Records.

Al Czervic.

WIRELESS CARRIERS GIVE CELLPHONE LOCATIONS TO COPS WITHOUT WARRANTS..

The call came in to police just after midnight April 16.

Hours before, a distraught young man had phoned his mother, hinting he wanted to kill himself. When he didn’t meet her as planned, she telephoned Seattle police and reported her son missing.

Because of increasing advances in technology, officers were able to find the missing man’s cellular phone using his wireless network. Two hours after he was reported missing, the man was found alive but unwell lying on his desk and taken to University Hospital for a psychological evaluation.

The night’s incident was one of tens of thousands in which a life may have been saved because of the ability to find someone through a cell phone. But life-or-death missing persons cases remain rare, and locater technologies raise questions about warrantless searches.

Missing persons cases present an unusual problem for police — it’s not a crime to disappear. Without a crime, police can’t get a search warrant. In a criminal case, no warrant would mean no phone records for authorities.

Instead, King County Sheriff Sue Rahr said, missing persons investigators rely on phone companies to release customers’ location information voluntarily. The companies require a statement from police that the phone owner may be in danger.

“The government does not have the right to look at your cellular telephone records,” Rahr said. “When we do these … cases, it’s a stretch, to speak candidly.”[LINK]

EDITOR’S NOTES: Just as anonymous call can trigger a no-knock no warrant entry by cops, this loophole is another intrusion on our basic Constitutional right to privacy.  Even if you turned off the phone, it’s not really off at all. It’s still talking to the cellphone towers. You must remove the battery to be out of touch of Big Brother.Al Czervic

A British team has excavated Stonehenge in hope of showing it was once a temple used for healing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Archaeologists focused on the site’s 4,000-year-old bluestones, a twin circle of huge rocks, for proof of their origins and purpose. Shamans and witch doctors once likely filled the site, researcher Tim Darvill said, along with “all the sorts of people who in prehistoric terms would look after those who were ill.”

Some experts say that Stonehenge was a monument to the dead. But “you could put 10 archaeologists in a room and you’d get at least 11 theories,” one said. This dig—the first in more than 40 years—is using radiocarbon dating to prove when the stones arrived and transformed the site from what Darvill called “a fairly standard henge to a temple of really European renown.”[LINK]

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Modern tech life teems with longstanding quandaries, questions that never seem to go away. Mac or Windows? Turn off the computer every night or let it sleep? Plasma or L.C.D.?

The Sony XEL-1 uses organic light emitting diode technology to create a picture that overcomes several shortcomings of the standard plasma and L.C.D. televisions now on the market.

Fortunately, that last question will soon have an answer. There’s a new TV on the block, and its picture is so amazing, it makes plasma and L.C.D. look like cave drawings.

It’s called organic light emitting diode, or O.L.E.D. This technology has been happily lighting up the screens of certain cellphone and music-player models for a couple of years now, but Sony is the first company to offer it in a TV screen. It’s called the XEL-1, and it’s available only from SonyStyle stores. Its picture is so incredible, Sony should include a jaw cushion. STORY LINK AND VIDEO

EDITOR’S NOTES: There wasn’t much TV when I grew up. In fact we were so poor when we wanted to see color on a moving screen, we went to the laundromat and observed tie-dye t-shirts going around in the dryer. <insert laugh here.

Seriously, I’m still in the thermionic emission picture tube (CRT) days except for the LCD computer monitor.

New TV technology (and especially 3 -d Holographic wideband internets stuff) will be stunning.

Technorati tags: TV, LCD, PLASMA, OLED, SONY, TELEVISION, TECHNOLOGY

Humiliating defeat for Liberal Brown and his kind in Gay Olde England.

Eccentric Conservative Boris Johnson overwhelmingly wins London Mayor slot, Tories take 333 seats in parliament, Libs lose more than 200.. Ah.. there’s good news tonight..

Tory victory seen for London mayor, other local elections

Boris Johnson poised to become London Mayor as Tories seal local …

Labour takes loses in Britain’s local elections

Pfc. Monica Brown cracked open the door of her Humvee outside a remote village in eastern Afghanistan to the pop of bullets shot by Taliban fighters. But instead of taking cover, the 18-year-old medic grabbed her bag and ran through gunfire toward fellow soldiers

VIDEO

HOOAH!!!!

EDITOR’S NOTE: You have to love your friends. Like the one who sent me this email, as to why he’s voting for John Sidney McCain III. Please forward to the people you know. (Thanks Greg C.) Al Czervic

After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President.

I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.

We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed.  The words ‘money’ and ’special interests’ come to mind, among many others.

Here’s the way I see it:

Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker.  You are also an  extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois , which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude.  You are indeed a child of that system.

 You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults.  It has nothing at all to do with your skin color.  As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President.  What a great statement that would be to the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!  But, unfortunately, **General Colin Powell** is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job!

Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend ‘God Damn America’ Jeremiah Wright.  It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years.  It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there. 

The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a life tim e achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.  We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the ai rwaves by now.  And you have publicly stated that this man IS your ’spiritual mentor’.

BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you.  His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. 

And please don’t tell me you attended church there and never once heard a ’discouraging word’ in the 20 years you attended there. 

Don’t tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades.

Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out.  I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.
Now YOU look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there !  This is like me telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the ‘N’ word. 

Yep.  And Bill Clinton ‘did not inhale’.

Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you.  THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you. 

I am deeply sorry, that in a county teeming with enormously talented African Americans who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU.  You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance.  God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.

Now, did I mention Bill Clinton?

AH YES !   This brings us to MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, who this candidate really is, in spite of all the other names she may care to call herself.  This ‘feminist’ piece of work of course would like to be referred to as MS. and we all know who wears the pant suit in that family.

MS. Clinton, (sugar), it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents.  But, unfortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU.  Ms. Clinton, I’m sorry, but you could not tell the truth if we waterboarded your worthless ass !

Still you play the role of the ‘embarrassed but dignified noble wife’.  What utter malarkey!  I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as not my voting for Senator Obama.  You persistently insult my intelligence. 

 It  COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky,  extremely remote, but possible if we stretch our imaginations a bit.  But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones and the legion of other women who were chewed up and spit out by your lecherous excuse for a husband. 

 Puleese turn off this broken record !!!

But let’s set aside your hubby’s flagrant peccadilloes.  The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don’t think the country can survive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater, Travelgate,Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno’s goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you like your ugly face.   

The REAL issue is that he committed perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically-attempted cover up that followed.

Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth.  He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. 

 The same folks who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 3,000 dead Americans ago!

And please stop telling me that you have ‘8 years of experience’ to lead us.  You were the freakin’ first lady already, not the Commander in Chief.  Jeez!  The sum of your ‘experience’ is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House.  You even cursed your pitiful staff and the Secret Service agents who were and still are unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect your worthless, thieving hide, and all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.

Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs, alcoholism and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible freeloaders in America and to then ‘garnish the wages’ (your own words) of every law-abiding and hardworking American to pay for it.  This disaster you refer to as ‘Universal Health Care’. 

 Where have you been the last 30 years?  Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried?  Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed since it gave no reward to those who worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors to pay for those who will not??

It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your  hubby have left in your wake.  Suicides, mysterious deaths, cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a rank amateur.  The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. 

 A man the news media refuses to admit IS a ’super delegate’ in your own political machine, a fine example of your own ‘adopted’ state of New York .   No wonder you moved there to run for Senator!  The environment there is perfect for the likes of you!

Yes, I would vote for a woman, but I will NOT vote for YOU!

Which leaves us with *Senator John McCain…….admittedly a somewhat flawed  man….not young…..  and with a temper…..  This perfectly qualifies him , in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years.

I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button. Think about it.  We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. 

We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabers at us.  I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really pissed off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.

John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect FITS.   Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window.  Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit.  And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it.  I want ALL of these ‘world leaders’ to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every tim e they think of messing with the United States of America

I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand.  I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran , Russia , China , Venezuela , Cuba , Libya , Syria , Pakistan , and those other assholes in the sheets, the Saudis.

On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED.  For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. 

The liberals are pissed at him and the conservatives are pissed at him.  Just my kinda guy.

I predict that John will select Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate.  Good choice.  I want a JEW whose memory of the Holocaust is still fresh in his mind and who is royally pissed off at all of these towel-headed morons in the Middle East to be the next in line if something should happen to John.  Shalom,Vice President Joe.  One heartbeat from the Oval Office.

Finally.  John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America .  When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was ‘nothing special’.  Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as he did in that situation.

  You and I will have a hard tim e believing that,but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the ‘average American’,** and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot for on election day for John McCain……warts and all.