AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR IDIOTS

The LA Times reports that the Iranian sand troll's visit to NYC was a "success" that "legitimizes" him and shows his hosts — er, us — to be rude, crude and nasty just like the Iranians thought.

Well how about that?

Is it possible that anyone actually gives a shit what the sand troll, his fifth century government and the people who allow them to stay in power think? In LA or anywhere else in this country?

I'm sure many of the MSM types think we care, but then they're not exactly aware of what mainstream America thinks about anything, despite their label.

Hmmmm. I know ...

Nuke Iran

A DAY AT THE RACES

There are an awful lot of descriptive adjectives that have become mundane or trite — gin clear water, snowy white peaks, blah-blah-blah — and visceral thrill is one of them.

But unless you describe a weekend at a NASCAR race as one in which you had 43 3500-pound, fire-belching, corrida-poster-like-covered, throttle stomping, metal tearing, sun-temperature-level hotrods sending sonic pulses through the gel of your 98-percent water fat-American body, you’re gonna’ have to settle for “visceral thrill.”

If the intellectual inanity of watching cars go around in circles for hours at a time has led you to pooh-pooh NASCAR racing as a sport for the unwashed minions of the Deep South, or the unwashed minions of the rest of society who couldn’t know how superb the latest company has been with Donzetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera House, you’ve confirmed one thing every NASCAR loving fans knows at some, er, gut level. You’re an effete snob with no more sense than it takes to decide whether to wear Manolo or John Robb opera pumps to the aforementioned event at the Met. And if that Lammermoor fella’ is any relation to Allmendinger in that 84 Red Bull Toyota, well, of course he’s good. Hell, he’s in the Show, ain’t he?

If on the other hand, you’ve a background in motorsports that allows you to unaffectedly pronounce Le Mans or Mille Miglia correctly, yet also know where Sebring and Daytona are (keeping the 24-hour scheme going) and you haven’t been to an ass-kicking NASCAR oval race, you truly are missing one of the greatest spectacles in motorsports.

DOVER
Me and two buds — my brother-in-law John and my best friend Art — went to Dover for the second race of the year at the track. It was also the second race in The Chase, which —for those of you who are NASCAR challenged — is what they have been calling their playoffs for the past four years or so. I won’t go into the details of scoring, but it was — in the world of stock cars — an important race.

We arrived on a Saturday via the Hampton Jitney. If you don’t live on Long Island you don’t know what that is, but it’s a luxury bus service that is most well known by city dwellers as an alternative to cars and trains to get back to the city after spending their weekends Out East where I reside.

We arrived around noon and made our way to the — hmmm, if it was a carnival, you’d call it the midway — expecting, as all good New Yorkers would, to get ripped off on cheap crap immortalizing our favorite drivers, etc.

To our surprise, the prices and apparel/souvenirs were of good quality and rationally priced. We took pictures like yahoos in NYC and otherwise enjoyed the hell out of ourselves, even when a monsoon-like rainstorm blew through (my thanks to the Toyota folks for allowing us to seek shelter in their tent and keeping the canopy from collapsing. Saying anything nice about Toyota is risky at a NACSAR event, but that’s where we found refuge, so kudos to Toyota).

The race was great. We baked in the sun for hours and the three of us — no wimps when it comes to consuming alcohol, which seems to be the purpose for the gathering — drank water and Gatorade and left our seats only once to evacuate said liquids. And we weren’t wearing diapers.

How anyone can sit in a blazing sun on aluminum seats that most people would use for refractor ovens and drink alcohol all day astounded us. We hydrated and were still exhausted, but everywhere we looked it seemed that beer was the liquid of the day and few were the worse for wear. And by the way … it was the most well-behaved crowd (considering the alcohol consumption) I’ve ever encountered anywhere. And the police presence, aside from being friendly, was minimal. Try that at Yankee Stadium or any other ball park or football arena any where.

The Nextel Cup race was on a Sunday, and the weather, while somewhat cooler and dryer, was as brutal sun-wise as the Saturday. And, while the race on Saturday was a 200 miler, the race on Sunday was a 400 miler.

Without belaboring things, we saw a duplicate of Saturday with five times the amount of people. The speedway seats 140,000 people and you sit as close together as you do at a Broadway show … only on hard aluminum (thank you John for the seatpads. My ass doesn’t have the padding it used to).

When they launch on the green flag, the combination of noise and pure thunder brought literal tears to my eyes (thank God for sunglasses), and, yes, it gets a bit boring between miles 150 and 250, but if you have any interest in motorsports you can’t help but marvel at what these guys do with cars that weigh as much as a Soccer Mom’s SUV.

If you haven’t been to a NASCAR race you must try it, whether you like racing or not. This is a show, a spectacle, a day outside, a day of people watching extraordinaire, a day of partying, a day of wishing and one helluva day of fun.

BOO EFFIN HOO

The International Herald Tribune reported that Iranians are ticked off at us for bad-mouthing their whacky little sand troll of a leader.

Duh.

Excuse us. We tried to throw the little creep under 8th Avenue Local, but we couldn't find the topless joint he'd holed up in for the duration of his visit. When he sobers up, and finishes paying his respects to the porcelain allah, we'll see what we can do.

Don't want any of the Iranian leadership - a misnomer if ever there was one - to think we're not "bad" Americans.

Nuke Iran

REGULATORS

All the liberals in the US have been crying their eyes out over the use of private security companies.

Kiss my ass. You want safe? You get safe. You want to get kidnapped, shot or your head sawed off? Regulate them out of the US ... then you'll just have to pay for the same service in Francs, Marks, Pounds, etc.

Idiots. They do a job, they do it well. Period.

Next time you want to go into harm's way (as if there was a first time, never mind a next time) take someone who doesn't shoot with you. See you on Al Jazeera TV gurgling your life's blood out into the sand.

Idiots.

Yes, Im back. NASCAR was a blast and I'll be writing it up soon. That little Sand Troll is making the rounds in NYC being told he's been a baaaad boy and shouldn't be like that.

Just another chickenshit terrorist, from a chickenshit terrorist nation of people who allow religious lunatics to proscribe their lives. If that's the best they can do, the world ain't losing something with eight zillion less Iranians.

Nuke Iran

OUTTA' HERE

Barring any unforseen annoyances to my karmic oscillation through the galaxy — in other words, as long as nothing pisses me off — chances are I'm out of here until Monday or Tuesday.

Me, Artie and Johnny B are off to the Monster Mile, the real America (the one west of the Hudson and east of the San Andreas) and the NASCAR Busch and Nextel Cup races down in Dover, Delaware.

The first time I watched a NASCAR event was back in the mid-1960s when the "real" Good Ol' Boys used to give us a northerners a glimpse of banging and pushing at tracks like Islip and Bridgehampton.

I remember making my dad take me out to Bridgehampton Raceway (I was a sports car snob) to watch big Detroit Iron race, and have included NASCAR as part of my autosports world ever since.

I'm sure this is where Tom Wolfe got the inspiration for The Last American Hero (the piece was in Esquire in 1964 and that's the first year the boys drove here, so that's a distinct possibility!).

Regardless.

This is my first NASCAR event since, and my first big-time oval race, so I'll have a report upon my return.

Have a safe weekend.

Nuke Somebody While I'm Gone

COULD YOU REPEAT THAT? HIGHER EDU-WHAT?

First, nearly every politician regardless of philosophy, tells the Iranian Rock Troll to take a hike when he comes to New York to tell us how he's going to kill us, and says he wants to lay a wreath at the WTC.

But not Columbia University. What do they do?

They invite the little caricature of a human to speak. (You just know this guy is heading to the West as soon as those sheep-shagging mullahs decide to move Iran back another century or so.)

Then, of course there's Yale University. They'll be damned if they'll let military recruiters work on their campus.

What's that, you say? We'll lose what? How much? You're kiddin'?

Quite a conundrum Yale got itself into. Opting to take the intellectual, philosophical and moral "high ground" as well as a stance againt altruism, they were going to ban military recruitment on campus ... until they got a look at the amount of money they were going to lose as a result.

Ummmm. Can you say conundrum? How about "Never mind."?

Hallowed halls of academia, my ass.

More akin to the wormy shells of macadamia.

Nuke Iran, Yale and Columbia

KUDOS

To the powers that be in New York City for telling that little rats ass of a terrorist who is the "president" of that terrorist-feeding, shithole that was once the center of the intelligent world — Iran — to go take a powder.

The little bastard wanted to lay flowers at the WTC. What balls.

For once we were all together on this ... and that includes those on the other side of the aisle I spend waaaay too much time pissing and moaning about.

Thank you one and all.

As for Bloomberg for inviting him in the first place: I thought you were stand up, but you're just another rich politician.

Nuke Iran

FIRST KILL ALL THE LAWYERS

I'm not naive or so wrapped up in any kind of conservatism to think that our health system is in good shape, or think that perhaps there is a better way. But I don't think the Dems have the answer either.

With that in mind, Ann Coulter's column addresses things medical, but she gets my Paragraph of the Week award (for a couple of graphs. Hey, this is my blog) ... to wit:

"The only "crisis" in health care in this country is that doctors are paid too little. (Also they've come up with nothing to help that poor Dennis Kucinich.)"

Ms Coulter goes on to note:

"Citing the Rand Corp., the Times noted that doctors in the U.S. "earn two to three times as much as they do in other industrialized countries." American doctors earn about $200,000 to $300,000 a year, while European doctors make $60,000 to $120,000. Why, that's barely enough for Muslim doctors in Britain to buy plastic explosives to blow up airplanes!

"How much does Pinch Sulzberger (owner of the NYT) make for driving The New York Times stock to an all-time low? Probably a lot more than your podiatrist."

Here's the good part:

"In college, my roommate was in the chemistry lab Friday and Saturday nights while I was dancing on tables at the Chapter House. A few years later, she was working 20-hour days as a resident at Mount Sinai doing liver transplants while I was frequenting popular Upper East Side drinking establishments. She was going to Johns Hopkins for yet more medical training while I was skiing and following the Grateful Dead. Now she vacations in places like Rwanda and Darfur with Doctors Without Borders while I'm going to Paris.

"Has anyone else noticed the nonexistence of a charitable organization known as "Lawyers Without Borders"?

"She makes $380 for an emergency appendectomy, or one-ten-thousandth of what John Edwards made suing doctors like her, and one-fourth of what John Edwards' hairdresser makes for a single shag cut.

Edwards made $30 million bringing nonsense lawsuits based on junk science against doctors. To defend themselves from parasites like Edwards, doctors now pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical malpractice insurance every year."

Next time you're feeling ill, call Hillary or John, and see what happens.

OH NO, NOT THE SANDBAG!

Modern warfare is different.

A company in the UK (there's a branch in Louisiana as well) has a new kind of wall that can be filled by machine and provide the same — actually it would seem to be better — protection the venerable old sandbag wall provided.

It's manufactured by a company called Hesco Bastion and is a collapsible, segemented, joinable, unit that folds flat for transport and when expanded can be filled with dirt, rock, concrete and — yes — sand.

Any of you who have ever been on sandbag duty — sliced fingers, swollen forearms, broken noses, dirt-encrusted facial orifices, etc. — will appreciate this.

The DoD has just given the company a 90-day contract (obviously this works and that's why they only received a 90 dayer. If it didn't work, the contract would probably have been for years!!!).

QUESTION FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

So did John Kerry say he was going to answer that blogger's question? The article wasn't clear on that.

For those of you who have no idea what I'm writing about, an Associated Press report on a self-styled comedian and blogger who asked John Kerry some questions at a college speech in Orlando last night was Tasered by campus cops.

The news item is - at best 250 words - but the AP managed to get the fact that Kerry wanted to answer the "important" questions into the story twice.

Apparently editing has nothing to do with journalism over at the AP (then, neither does journalism, but that's for the next news story).

I'm sure there will be a follow up story in which Kerry's pretestations to get the truth out will be mentioned anon (only they'll say "repeatedly" in this one).

Now, let's see what happens when the next asshole gets Tasered at a Bush or Rice speech (which, by the way, hasn't happened yet to my knowledge). The AP'll swear that Bush or Rice ordered it, I'll bet.

Oh well, I'm sure it was a Conservative plot anyway, what with those Campus Nazi Storm Troopers involved.

Man, has AP gone to the dogs ... or should I say Dems? ... or what?

NOTHING WILL STOP THE ...

... US Air Force, as their anthem goes.

The US Air Force turns 60 today. It was officially made a separate arm of the US Government via the National Security Act of 1947; our very own Cold War baby. Prior, it was part of the Department of the Army.

Happy anniversary to all of you who proudly wear the Blue. I know we grunts are always complaining about the life you lead, but when you pull our chestnuts out of the fire, it sure is good to have you around.

Again .... Happy Anniversary.

I'd also like to express my personal congrats to my cousin's son, Capt. Joe "Five-O" Scholtz, a Warthog pilot who has done tours in both theaters. He's an Air Force Academy grad, so he may be more than a captain by now, but my prayers go with him no matter what he is or where he may be .... You know grunts love Warthog pilots!

Stay safe Capt. Joe.

ELLIS ISLAND

If you haven't been to Ellis Island, the place through which a hell of a lot of our ancestors came into this country - making them legal aliens, I might add - then you're certainly m,issing out on a piece of American hiostory every bit as important as Washington, DC and its memorials.

Anyway, about half of the place was refurbished and Arrow (the shirt people) donated a bunch of money to start finishing up the section that is quite rapidly decaying.

Take a look HERE what you can do to help.

I'm only second generation in the US - my dad was born here, but my grandparents come from Ireland, so I guess I feel closer to it than some of my WASP buddies, but this is and iconic American institution and deserves to be restored.

Check it out.

A REAL MAN'S GRILL

Thank to Scott K for this one.

FEELIN' GOOD TODAY?

Well, this ought to put an end to that.

Jimi Hendrix, who would have been 65 this year (he was born November 27, 1942) died tomorrow in London, UK, in 1970.

PSSST!

Here's to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran, who was aravin' and arantin' about the Prez yesterday.

NUKE IRAN you medieval mullah MFer

THE WRONG ROAD TAKEN

Whether you agree with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich or not, there are few people from either side of the aisle[s] who actually have brains that don’t consider him an intelligent, pointed, articulateand accurate speaker.

Here’s his intro from a September 10 speech — regarding September 11, 2001, the Petraeus Report, and the idiocy that is the “debate” on Iraq fostered and advanced by people who, for the most part, have one intent: getting elected to perpetuate the free ride Americans give them at the expense of those who do the dying.(Any emphasis is mine — GPJ)

The speech was given at the American Enterprise Institute:

“The essence of this speech is very simple.

“Six years after the attack of 9/11/2001 we are having the wrong debate about the wrong report.

“The heart of our problem is in attitude. Wars require bold efforts and undertaking real risks. We must recognize the requirements for change and we must adopt a spirit that it is better to make mistakes of commission and then fix them than it is to avoid achievement by avoiding failure.

“Six years after the attack of 9/11/2001, the difference between the debate we ought to be having and the debate we are having is staggering.

“The gap between where we are and where we should be is so large that it seems almost impossible to explain why the Petraeus Report, while important, will be a wholly inadequate explanation as to what is required to defeat our enemies and secure America and her allies.”

For the rest of this treatise/educational seminar go HERE.

September 11

I'd like to say something profound and moving, but I don't have it in me.

All I can say is I was down at the WTC site last September (2006), walking away from the river. I looked over my shoulder at nothing, but saw everything all over again. It was one of the worst moments of my life, and I've been through a few.

I wish I was the young gun in spec-ops like I used to be. It wouldn't have made a difference on September 11, 2001, but it sure would make me feel a lot better now.

My prayers for those who died, and those who continue to die helping wipe this scourge of ignorant religious medevalism off the face of the earth. It's an abhorrent philosophy due only death, destruction and erasure.

"We have an obligation to punish murderers of American citizens in places where courts of law cannot reach. My conviction is that we will serve a lot more lives in the long run by being tough and steady." - Lawrence S. Eagleburger, 7/1/85

"For us to ignore, by inaction, the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. When our citizens are abused, attacked anywhere in the world, we will respond. Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." - Ronald Reagan 4/14/86

SPORTS

New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys in Dallas: 45-35 'Boys. Ossie and Jacobs: hurt knee. Eli (great game): hurt shoulder. (Results today)

New York Jets vs. New England Patriots in NE: 38-14 Pats

Saturday night, Jimmie Johnson won at Richmond and the Chase is over. Dale Jr. raced fantastic, but blew an engine with about five to go and is out of the Chase. Valiant try, nonetheless. Montoya got out of a burning car after a stack-up accident with a hell of a lot more ease and aplomb than Michael Waltrip did last week. I guess there is a big difference in being 5-8 and 6-5 when it comes to gettiing in and out of a race car.

Sunday afternoon, Dario Franchitti won at Chicagoland and thus the Indy car championship by outlasting Scott Dixon, who ran out of gas on the sprint to the finish line. Franchitti should be driving NASCAR next year. Teammate Danica Patricks did a journeyman's job of blocking and trying to bring Franchitti along (usually unsuccessfully, but not due to her work), while teammate Andretti, Jr., was in the hospital under observation after a crash.

DUH

The NYT headline is about as lukewarm as it gets, but for once deals with fact rather than opinion

"Americans Feel Military Is Best at Ending the War," the article leads with and then tells how Americans think that the military knows more that the government (both Executive and Congressional branches)about how to finish up in Iraq.

Ya think so?

I know I buy that rag every Sunday for the damn crossword puzzle, but does everyone who reads it "really" think they're superior to those reading, say, the DN?

After all, both papers preach to the lowest common denominator, writing everything as if their customers were idiots who have to have the paper's version of the obvious explained to them.

Well, the only thing I'll bet on is that headline will go into the magic "never-happened" file asap.

ADD BBC AMERICA TO CABLEVISION

Go HERE to sign the petition to make those whoremasters at Cablevision do something WE want.

If I have to explain it beyond that, never mind.

MORE IDIOTS PLAYING WITH YOUR WELL BEING

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero sided with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which argued that an FBI letter requesting information -- called a National Security Letter -- is effectively a gag order but without the authorization of a judge.

Oh, dee-effin-lightful. So let's see if I can extrapolate this. The FBI can't ask people it asks to do work for them on a consulting basis or asks for info to keep their yaps shut because those who will never do anything for their country in any altruistic form have decided it's unconstitutional to have them sign something that says they have to keep their mouths shut ... and they got some schmuck judge to agree with them.

Oh, thank you anon, ACLU. I get such a warm, fuzzy and safe feeling with you guys watching out for my rights to get killed by assholes.

What would we do without you?

Five days before the anniversary, and there are still idiots out there who don't get it.

Oh well. Perhaps we'll get lucky and they'll get to choose whether to burn to death or leap out a 1000-foot building this time.

Assholes.

Nuke Iran ...and Syria

HATE CAMPAIGN STARTS HERE

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says George Bush has started a hate campaign against Iran.

Hey you backward-ass 14th century MF ... you ain't seen nothing yet.

(I can dream, can't I?)

Turn the Sands of Tehran to Isinglass
Nuke Iran Now (NIN)

FOR THE RECORD ... WHO'S POOR?

“Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car (31% of poor’ households own two cars), air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR, or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry, and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family’s essential needs... A third of poor’ households have both cell and land-line telephones... If work in each family were raised to 2,000 hours per year—the equivalent of one adult working 40 hours per week... nearly 75 percent of poor children would be lifted out of official poverty... If poor mothers married the fathers of their children, nearly three quarters of the nation’s impoverished youth would immediately be lifted out of poverty... A quarter of legal immigrants and fifty to sixty percent of illegals are high-school dropouts. By contrast, only nine percent of non-immigrant Americans lack a high school degree. As long as the present steady flow of poverty-prone persons... continues, efforts to reduce the total number of poor in the U.S. will be far more difficult. A sound anti-poverty strategy must not only seek to increase work and marriage among native born Americans, it must also end illegal immigration, and dramatically increase the skill level of... legal immigrants.” — Robert Rector

GOVERNMENT WASTE

“Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) Porker of the Month for calling for a five-cent increase in the federal gasoline tax in the wake of the deadly bridge collapse in his home state. Rep. Oberstar says the ‘temporary’ tax increase will raise $25 billion for a new bridge repair trust fund. Sadly and ironically, that’s almost exactly the same amount members of Congress siphoned off from the 2005 transportation bill to pay for nearly 6,500 pet, pork-barrel projects, including most notably $223 million for Alaska’s ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’ Rep. Oberstar himself was a participant in the earmark melee, securing $14.6 million that could have gone to highway and bridge repairs for five special-interest projects in his district, including $3.2 million for the Willard Munger State Trail. For seizing an opportunity to turn tragedy into a tax increase and an unnecessary new trust fund and for protecting transportation pork, CAGW names Rep. Jim Oberstar the August 2007 Porker of the Month.” (Courtesy of the Patriot Post)

WHY SHOULDN'T WE KEEP SCORE?

“I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn’t keep score in their games so that the members of the losing team wouldn’t suffer from low self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn’t have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a bunch of underachievers? No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing field didn’t really mean equal opportunity, but equal results.” —Burt Prelutsky

VJ DAY

Here's a Thank You to those who gave us the last military victory we had ... 62 years ago.

Must have been nice to fight the good fight while people who had cojones backed you.

Guess we'll never see that again, since proving that you have no gumption has become a national priority.

And for Christ's sakes, George. You're a lame duck. Do whatever the hell you want from now on.

Just make sure - whatever it is - it results in the death of as many terrorist scum islamacists as possible.



Nuke Iran

PROPAGANDA FROM THE LEFT, ER, PBS

All you darlings who absolutely swear by the info afforded you by PBS ought to be interested in how left of reality things have gotten over there, and why we’d better stop — as a national program — funding it, just like we’d better stop funding the rest of the pork in this government.

They refused to air a documentary showing how people who simply practice Islam are different that those who think radical islam has something to do with the 21st century.

(BY THE WAY: For those of you unattuned to the subtleties of my writing: my capitalizations and italicizing are all done by intent, not error.)

Here. Use this as a starting point to investigate.

Of course that will require some intellectual effort on your part. Forget it, Go read the Times or somesuch.