So Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (funny how she's recently dropped the 'Schlossberg') ants to be the next U.S. Senator from New York. It seems a bit odd in this day and age to have someone lay claim to public office on the basis of hereditary right -- I thought that sort of thing went out of fashion when the Hapsburgs quit laying claim to every vacant throne in Europe.
Now I'll grant that Caroline was a cut kid -- sitting on her pony 'Macaroni' while it dropped road apples in the Rose Garden -- and her father's death is an American tragedy, but at 51 her life's most extraordinary feature is being rich and privileged -- something she has in common with a goodly number of Senators, but probably not what the Founders had in mind when they established the office. Somehow, it strikes me that somewhere in all of New York there dwells an individual with greater breadth of experience, depth of insight and profundity of understanding than a wealthy woman who wouldn't merit a moment's consideration if her last name were simply Schlossberg.
And if New York is really that hard pressed for Senate candidates -- might I suggest they appoint whichever New Yorker comes up short in the Minnesota recount. I'm sure that Norm from Brooklyn or Al from Manhattan will serve the Empire State quite as well as Ed Schlossberg's wife.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Hey, that's OUR president you're thowing shoes at!
Poor ol' George -- he just get's no respect.
Good heavens, the man went to all the trouble and expense it took to liberate Iraq and give those poor benighted folks a free press and all, and how does he get repaid -- one of the press guys he went to all the trouble to free goes and throws his shoes at him.
No respect.
And it doesn't help a bit that from reports coming out of Mesopotamia and the adjacent region that Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the 28-year-old Iraqi shoe chucker, has become an instant hero to many of the folks living there.
No respect at all.
As for George, well, after 8 years of shaping foreign policy and dealing with people who don't live around here and speak English with a funny accent (New Yorkers don't count), past experience helped the increasingly lame duck president understand the situation. "I saw his sole," he told reporters.
Good heavens, the man went to all the trouble and expense it took to liberate Iraq and give those poor benighted folks a free press and all, and how does he get repaid -- one of the press guys he went to all the trouble to free goes and throws his shoes at him.
No respect.
And it doesn't help a bit that from reports coming out of Mesopotamia and the adjacent region that Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the 28-year-old Iraqi shoe chucker, has become an instant hero to many of the folks living there.
No respect at all.
As for George, well, after 8 years of shaping foreign policy and dealing with people who don't live around here and speak English with a funny accent (New Yorkers don't count), past experience helped the increasingly lame duck president understand the situation. "I saw his sole," he told reporters.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
The slick, the gullible and the just plain dumb
There was another one in my in-box this morning -- this one from a Mr. Gary Kreep (I couldn't make that up)-- one more in a seemingly endless parade of email insisting that Barack Obama has been a liar since before the day he was born and, by the way, if I send Mr. Kreep some money he promises to do something about it.
This whole Obama-doesn't-have-a-birth-certificate BS is really getting old. I suppose the Kreeps of the world will keep milking the mouth-breathers for Godly and patriotic donation until the well runs dry -- it's what we ought to expect from that breed of political bottom feeder. What gets to me is that we have folks out there who are entrusted with jobs, credit cards and drivers licenses who actually believe there was a prenatal conspiracy to make a Kenya-born Obama the first Muslim president, thereby bringing down the wrath of an affronted almighty down upon this erstwhile Christian nation.
Lemme tell ya, if there's anything to this tale those conspirators have to be the most uncannily brilliant folks since the Learned Elders of Zion -- to be able to flawlessly predict in 1961, when miscegenation was a crime in 22 states, that the mixed race baby of an impulsive, ill-educated 18-year-old mother and a Kenyan daddy was destined to become president of a country that made it awfully hard for non-white folks to vote would have taken a mind of prescient power unparalleled since the Masons took clandestine control of Western Civilization.
These folks really demonstrated their demonic brilliance when they slipped that birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961, for a son to Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama nine days earlier. Getting that kind of documentation for a kid born in Kenya took Romulan deviousness, Klingon ruthlessness and the amorality of a Ferengi.
Yeah, for 47 years, powerful forces have been at work ... Nostradamus predicted it, you know.
Either that, or it's all made up bunk -- more fodder for the yahoos from the Black Helicopter crowd.
After all, there is the inconvenient fact that Mr. Obama's birth certificate is very much in existence and has been examined by quite a number of reputable folks - and it is all ordinary and legitimate, standard documentation for a child born in Hawaii in 1961. Attested to by Snopes, FactCheck and most importantly, good ol' common sense.
Common sense. Has it ever been in such short supply?
This whole Obama-doesn't-have-a-birth-certificate BS is really getting old. I suppose the Kreeps of the world will keep milking the mouth-breathers for Godly and patriotic donation until the well runs dry -- it's what we ought to expect from that breed of political bottom feeder. What gets to me is that we have folks out there who are entrusted with jobs, credit cards and drivers licenses who actually believe there was a prenatal conspiracy to make a Kenya-born Obama the first Muslim president, thereby bringing down the wrath of an affronted almighty down upon this erstwhile Christian nation.
Lemme tell ya, if there's anything to this tale those conspirators have to be the most uncannily brilliant folks since the Learned Elders of Zion -- to be able to flawlessly predict in 1961, when miscegenation was a crime in 22 states, that the mixed race baby of an impulsive, ill-educated 18-year-old mother and a Kenyan daddy was destined to become president of a country that made it awfully hard for non-white folks to vote would have taken a mind of prescient power unparalleled since the Masons took clandestine control of Western Civilization.
These folks really demonstrated their demonic brilliance when they slipped that birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961, for a son to Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama nine days earlier. Getting that kind of documentation for a kid born in Kenya took Romulan deviousness, Klingon ruthlessness and the amorality of a Ferengi.
Yeah, for 47 years, powerful forces have been at work ... Nostradamus predicted it, you know.
Either that, or it's all made up bunk -- more fodder for the yahoos from the Black Helicopter crowd.
After all, there is the inconvenient fact that Mr. Obama's birth certificate is very much in existence and has been examined by quite a number of reputable folks - and it is all ordinary and legitimate, standard documentation for a child born in Hawaii in 1961. Attested to by Snopes, FactCheck and most importantly, good ol' common sense.
Common sense. Has it ever been in such short supply?
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