Happy Diwalli

I spent last night with the Tranquil Sea and the Sprite setting up the house for the Hindu festival of Diwalli. As a good step parent I respect the religious traditions of the Tranquil Sea even though it is not my own. Workers joke that I am now a Hinjew. However, I have not converted and do not plan to do so.

I went to the market to buy some items for Saturday. The middle daughter took the fresh pineapple and cut it in the traditional West Indian style it was simply amazing. The Sprite followed me to the market and got a few items.

Some of the odd spices and items I use found their way into meals. I tend to use barley more than rice. I usually have a bag or two of lentils around especially in winter. I am certain the ingredients I left to make an Isreali Salad will be long gone into something else.

I did leave several can of cut fruit for Thanksgiving. I like to make a huge bowl of Jello with fruit and whipped cream. I am too lazy to make stuffing from scratch and will look for a cornbread mix. The Sprite toasted up a few marshmellows that were meant for something else.

I guess in the days of tighter budgets everyone works with what is around in the kitchen.

Let the Conspiracies begin

Big Media allies of the ruling cocktail party have allready started the spin to explain the electoral mayhem.

1) The GOP played to fear.

Will the same clowns who screamed racism at Tea Party events, but feign ignorance of truthers and antisemites at violent Peace Party events stand up. Sorry, but odd claims about birth certificates are less pugnacious than far left Jewish cabal theories that even Art Bell describes as obsessed and hateful. Even the bird brained Duck played true to form and accused a Jewish American patriot of being a traitor. He then wonders why people portray him as antisemitic.

Obviously, these clowns never attended both Peace and Tea Party protests. They merely
rely on Huffington, the NYT, NPR and wax on about those evil people at Fox News. Then they talk about Gore Vidals latest and the price of Tofu.

2) Big money from wherever

Funny, but these same types don't complain about refer mad loon Soros setting up scores of front groups. His efforts at creating a mock pro-Israel J Street ended up
dicrediting the whole group. Somehow big money is okay from ethically challenged unions and tort lawyers, but not other sources.


Had the Tea Party agressively turned the election into Tea Party vs Cocktail party the results would have been even worse.

Let the excuses roll in.

Will Obama learn

Obama needs to listen when even the NY Times and Chris Mathews says he is elitist. In fact had the Tea Party turned it into Tea Party vs Cocktail Party it would have been a blood bath.

In the House those Democrats that survived are probably going to distance themselves from Obama. Hillary will demand a sacrafice like VP or jump ship. If she were as smart as she thinks she jumps ship and runs again.

As stated before commies like the Duck will talk about Tea Party candidates losing but the election was a repudiation of Obama the faculty lounge lizard. He needs to govern from the center ala Bill Clintoon or face extinction in 2012.

Take Back America

Now is your chance let Obama know he must govern from the center. The days of arrogantly pandering to the Cocktail Party elitists are over.

After the election expect to stick it to Israel. He has remained quiet hoping to preserve generally stable voting blocks. The question is how far will a more powerful Charles Schumer allow this to go. Schumer may be far left but he will probably not allow this administration to sell out Israel.

Can this be the foreshadowing of Schumer vs Obama in 2012. Will Hillary jump ship after the election?

Obama and the left are going to blame everyone but Obama.

Still Obsessed with Beakerkin

I am quite amused that the rabid mongrel is still a dedicated reader long after I have left the Violent Hummingbird home for fake patriotism. Some running themes from the rabid dog.

1) The rabid mongrel seems to think the new assignment is some type of demotion. No the new assignment is a regular rotation that all officers of my type must do regardless of seniority. This is a new task that most officers do not mind because they are bored with what they do. I am not bored with my job and usually and known for a customer friendly approach. I have met some very nice people from other areas who are great people.

2) The Tranquil Sea was a legal permanent resident long before I became an officer. Any claim I met her on the job would be easily dismissed and in print form would be cause for libel. How I helped a person nine years before I became an officer would truly be a feat worthy of David Copperfield or Dr. Who or in my case when dealing with antisemites Dr. Jooooooo.

3) The site I and many others left has become a joke. Other than the odd piece of Amil Imani who has his own site there is nothing worth reading there. The site was at its best when the Editrix, Kidst, Mac, Gator, Warren and a few others wrote very interesting posts. In short the violent hummingbird himself was never really interesting but the interaction of his readers was interesting. Pretty much it is Yeagley, the Rabid Mongrel and Motoy forever off his meds ranting about Jewish conspiracies that are straight out of the dementia zone.

4) Obviously, the stint at a truck stop floozy does not fit a woman who has her AARP card but still deludes herself that she is a vixen. There are those who are has beens, but the rabid mongrel is a never was, nor will be.

5) I am still wondering where this Beakerkin group of sexual liberals meets. Obviously this group is so top secret that even the so called founder was unaware of its existence. To a person like Yeagley sex means gender. To the rest of us that have real lives it means something different.

6) The rabid dog hasn't figured out that the hummingbird likes Jewish Women who are witty and well behaved. The rabid mongrel hasn't figured out that even if the hummingbird were so inclined she wouldn't get a glance.

7) Barak Obama is mathematically as White as the hummingbird. Non white white supremacists are probably best meant for Saturday Night Live.

To All the Leftards that Mocked the Tea Party vs Cocktail Party

The New York Times wrote that Obama just cant shake the elitist label. Some folks are annoyed by my description of the DC cocktail crew as out of touch people who smoke pot, wear Mumia shirts and prattle on about Gore Vidal novels. Their sole contact with working class people is their illegal alien cleaning woman or the porter in their luxury buildings. Few of these people work real jobs and those that do tend to be in media or in education. Many are trust fundistas whose gadfly Marxism makes excellent satire.

If you want to see the difference between Tea Party and Cocktail Party watch leftists squirm when defending raping the poor with regressive taxation such as energy, taxes on powdered beverages, cell phones, beer taxes and so forth. Their obnoxious rob the poor for social justice bit does not play well in middle America. They forget it is not uncommon in rural parts to have to drive 60 miles round trip to work. The same types also forget that small farms use a lot of energy on farm equipment. The same oppressive big state types will lecture you about saving the planet. The fate of the planet does not rest upon raping poor people and global warming was a lie. Who decided the cocktail set with multiple homes and jetting all over the place should speak for the planet? A familiar rant from long term Vermonters is of "Flatlanders" who want to change the state into Greenwich Village West and restrict gun ownership and hunting that have been part of local traditions for hundreds of years. FYI lefties, some rural poor hunt and fish to stretch a food budget and they do not want your stinking handouts. Fresh venison or government cheese is an easy choice for the locals.

I don't see the media spin of doom on Tuesday. I see some GOP gains but Obama should maintain both houses albeit weakened. The days where he could act as an emperor and behave arrogantly are over. No doubt the media will call this a temper tantrum or claim the vote was fear mongering or racist. Obama critics need not worry that like Clinton he can rise to the challenge. Clinton was smarter than Obama and knew how to connect with the people in ways Obama as an elitist can not. Clinton had a bio that included going to public school and living in some real life adversity. Obama is even more out of touch than Al Gore or even Gomer Kerry. He has never held a real job and has passed through life on the Old Bolsheviks Club graces elite schools, community activist, media connived election coverage and is in over his ability.

I expect Hillary to look for an opportunity to jump ship.

Thinking Differently About Life

I used to think of life as a book. Unfortunately, in this day and age of people switching jobs and relationships that come and go it is akin to books with recurring characters. We are not better as a people with these changes.

I was in the Guyana mart with the Sprite. The West Indian Chinese Place was preparing our order of Chicken noodle soup. The Tranquil Sea had a cold and I noticed that even if I wanted to cook I couldn't as familiar ingredients were not there. I picked up some honey, bottled lemon juice and baby vegetables when someone called my name and asked how an ex was.

It was my old cleaning woman from another relationship. The Sprite hid behind me as she is shy. I told the person I had not seen her in ten years and really could care less about her. When something is finnished I turn the page. I learned her business was finnished and now she had to scratch by working as a CNA when she could get it.
She said that her business was ruined by an episode that involved me. She said something trivial to the asshole father of my ex and his reaction caused a fight that ended the relationship. My ex terminated her for breaching privacy and when four other people in the building found out she has a big mouth they fired her as well.

I really do not like this particular person and she knew it. I had helped her two kids find jobs and even got her some work with the top manager in my former company.

You are probably wondering what was so trivial that caused a relationship to break up. I was the rare person in a super luxury building that cooked my own food. The food was judged better than restaurant quality by a neighbor who owned a few. My transgression was I allowed the cleaning woman to sit and share a meal with us as equals. This horrified my ex who gave me a lecture about staff knowing its place. I told this ex that I am an American and such attitudes are barbaric. At work I shun the managers table and eat with my employees. The next day I prepared the meal and served my ex and remained in the kitchen. She asked what is going on and I stated I will eat after she is done, that is my place. The point had been delivered and she understood the error of her ways.

Funny that her far left family got bent out of shape over my American egalitarianism. The truth is that the episode delivered a few basic truths about politics decency and life that are not pleasant.

I have moved on and do not even waste a moment thinking about that relationship. It is funny how obscure relations always inquire on behalf of this ex hows Beaky doing.
In fact this person made a huge production of meeting my mother at a family gathering. I did not like her calls to my family after the relationship ended and had a buddy tell the ex I died in a car accident in VT involving a Moose. My mother was perplexed and revealed that I was still in VT living with a French and Abenaki woman Northwind. Unfortunately, she never got the hint to stop pestering my relatives for information. I moved on and really just don't care or want any contact.

The former cleaning woman asked who the Sprite was. I told her this was my daughter
and said it is good to see you but I have things to take care of. The Sprite asked me who that was. I told her it was nobody important.

As for my Paul Harvey moment. The cleaning woman was given an envelope from the father of my ex who did not approve of the relationship. Her reward was $1000.00 dollars in cash. This is a small amount for ruining the life of my ex who apparently still thinks about something I have long since forgotten. Ultimately, her big mouth cost her her business and she does not live as well.

I went onto several new adventures and lived many different roles. Who knew that being an officer and father lay ahead. Both roles are far better than anything prior would have implied.

One thing I have learned from being a father to a young girl and in serial relationships. Jealousy and envy play more of a role in the lives of women than men. I really spend much of my time balancing the need of attention and time of my daughter and her mother. Perhaps my ability to learn and adventure keeps me entertained and beyond such silliness.

I was surprised to learn that the Tranquil Sea hates barbecued chicken. Everyone was more interested in the Salt fish and Ackee that I picked up as a curiosity.

We live our lives as a journey learning, loving and wondering what lay ahead. We never know who or what is ahead of us and who we will bump into from our past. For me being a father and an officer are the best. Who knows how much fun being a grandfather will be.

The Public Seems to enjoy this stint

As much as I hate this hellish assignment, the public seems to enjoy it. For some reason I seem to spot the veterans who are entitled to benefits. In this case this was actually a disabled homeless Vietnam era veteran needing assistance. I do not grasp why this person came in four times and did not get the right answer. He has it now and will be getting the help he needs.

In this case his social worker was able to get him housing and disability benefits. Unlike most social workers this one understands the process, but forms that normally cost several hundred dollars are free and expedited.

In general military cases are given top priority. We had a person on leave from Afghanistan who came in with a spouse. I told the person an exact honest answer. If you want an answer today I can do it, but the process takes roughly three hours. You have very limited time so if you want the answer in the mail we can do this too. The person chose to wait and got what he was seeking for his spouse. In fact I have never seen a case where people decided not to wait.

The system is very ponderous and unwieldy and cold at times. I have seen people who are disabled brave 106 heat, minus 15 windchill, rain, snow all to get their cases heard. For whatever reason the public prefers my style. When I perform secondary work I often offer to send the case upstairs for resolution or in an emergency perform the task myself. I have never had a case where the public wanted to be somewhere else. In one case where I handled I even told the applicant officer x is much better than I am and has more time. I only have one slot next Friday early in the morning and he can handle your case this Tuesday.

The stint is still a nightmare and actually causes more problems. We have less skilled officers making errors and more skilled officers fixing errors that should have never been made in the first place. The physical space is almost like a coffin
and one is trapped there for an entire shift with zero movement. One would think in such a high stress spot one could have a beverage but it is not permitted. In my case I worked about seven straight hours with no break. Yesterday, the situation was monitored better and I got a lunch break.

The music is a cross between dreadful and early inquisition. Stuck in a small box with people who can't communicate listening to Streisand music is not something I would wish on anyone except commies who deserve to be in the hells they create for others.

The next post will be will the real Societal Parasite stand up an Officer vs a Teacher of Doodling. The Public is not fooled, but the Duck is always bird brained.

69 Days of Hell Left

This assignment is about 1/3 over. It is worse than advertised. If I ever meet the person responsible for this attrocity they deserve a swift kick in the pants. The problem with idiocracy is that a faceless imbecile can make a policy and nobody knows which dimwit is at fault.

Obama empty rhetoric real pain

I wish the economy were not so bad that the election could be termed partisan as usual.
However, the media sold us a bill of goods named Barak Obama aka "the Chosen One". He was elected a symbol but has been a symbol of the clueless politician who is tone deaf and in bed with special interests.

The country is more divided than ever. While there is some truth that a small minority of the criticism of Obama is racial, there is also some truth that the support of Obama is also largely racial. Many Blacks voted for Obama as a symbol. In reality Obama is more Al Gore than middle America. Like Gore Obama is a product of elite Prep Schools and Universities. Unlike Al Gore Obama has never done a real days work in his life. Al Gore at least served in some capacity in the military and probably knows a thing or two about the family farm.

As stated before the divide is Cocktail Party vs Tea Party. The Cocktail Party is Big Media, Big Education, Big Entertainment, Tort Lawyers and so forth. The unspoken
truth is that the dimwits Behar and Goldberg showed the clash of Tea Party vs Cocktail Party. Bill O'Reilly spoke of Obama dithering and being indecisive when the lefty airheads stormed out. Sorry, but Goldberg was never funny and Behar is a nobody whose next intelligent thought will be her first. The feeding frenzy extended to decent liberal Juan Williams who was fired from NPR for saying what 90% of truthful people think.

The Cocktail Party is out of touch with Real America. They want to ape the EU and think that people who attend real religious services ( Not Liberation Theology Bunk)
are primitives. They sit around talking about the unwashed masses with whom their sole contact is typically a porter or an under paid cleaning woman.

The truth is the media did a hatchet job on Hillary. They covered up Obama's past in ways that are unprecedented. I do not recall any discussion of Obama's drug use. He was allowed to feign ignorance over Pastor Wright, Bill Ayers and a Communist mentor.
We know next to zero real facts about his grades or exactly what he did as a community organizer.

The truth is that Obama will be weakened. It is doubtful he will learn from his errors. The truth is while Clinton had a brain Obama is clueless. Perhaps, a changing of the guard in congress is needed. I am also wondering if Obama will pardon Charlie Rangel who is a symbol of a corrupt party out of touch with ethics and unaccountable.

Many of us are hurting and the damage of the Obama years will be felt long into our future.

A nice dose of Tea will alter the status quo. However, the MSM will do all it can to protect the chosen one.

The Story of my people

Imagine my surprise when the beloved Sprite handed me a book to read. I was slightly surprised to see it was the Bible. I explained that this is the story of my tribe. However, over time many people have come to identify with the story of Exodus. People as diverse as the Maori, Black Slaves in America and others have felt that this story spoke of their plight.

Despite the rhetoric of commies like those idiots passing blasphemy known as liberation theology and our familiar Poultry Commies are merely want to be oppressors who are worse than the previous oppressors.

The Sprite listened to the story hearing it for the first time. I promised to see if I could find the movie version we would watch it together.

A Slice of Life

I really shouldn't be shocked when lefties say hateful things. I am on temporary assignment and am working for a new supervisor who is gay. The fact that he is a professional and treats the public and his subordinates humanely is over the head of some. I do not have a problem reporting to a gay supervisor. I do have problems reporting to malicious types be they gay, straight or whatever.

I have ten more weeks of this hellish assignment. It is not a duty I wanted, but the time will pass. My only gripe is that the name of the imbecile who decided to disrespect senior officers and assign them clerical duty has not been provided. It is a more difficult task than I am used to because people are not even aware why they are here. In my normal assignment a person is in for an interview and the case needs a decision.

Imagine my surprise when lefties complain about my new supervisor. They tell me but person x is gay.... Hey dopes I worked in the fashion industry where gays and lesbians were a dime a dozen. Am I supposed to be resentful of what exactly? That a dedicated person who cares about the public has been promoted. His promotion as opposed to the normal lackey is a step in the right direction. We are here to serve the public and apple polishing, nepotism and bs should not be so apparent.

The truth is people like the Duck are more prone to bigotry than any conservative.
Lets see Judge Thomas is Slappy, Condi Rice is Aunt Jemimah all Jews who are not commies ( who are really not Jews) are Kahanists or Likudnicks. A Native American lunatic is described as gay by Poultry. Does the idiocy of this writer have anything to do with his alleged gayness.

Common sense and decency are in short supply.

Sometimes our coworkers are just jerks. If you don't like supervisor X why bring his gayness into it.

Time to End NPR

They over the top obnoxious reaction to the mild comments of Juan Williams is proof that NPR needs to go. Williams is a liberal who was held to different standards than peers who appeared on other networks.

NPR should get its funding eliminated and its tax exempt status eliminated.

The statements of Williams are not unreasonable and any lefty that says otherwise is a liar.

For those who complain about Fox

Commies and their far left apologists are forever crying about Fox News. However, we have witnessed the left making fake martyrs in the Al Dura and Jenin massacre hoax.
In the case of the Al Dura hoax the French agency that put that mess together should lose its press accreditation, be subject to civil and legal penalties, and the actual perpetrators should be doing jail time.

We also know of email collusion to protect Obama during the campaign. However, the media is quite limited in their ability to protect an elitist clown who is not up to the job. One can say many things about Bill Clintoon, but he knew when it was time to do his job. Obama is only concerned with pleasing his allies in big education, big media and the rest of you can suffer.

Where are this green energy jobs. Obama has talked about jobs, but has done zero.

J-O-B-S

Has this moron stopped drinking cocktails at the DC mixer and figured out those little people are suffering. Amazingly unemployment in the Black community is even more dire than the general population. Sooner or later that support is going to erode or voters will stay home.

While Obama dithers and pontificates people are hurting.

Cocktail Party vs Tea Party is not a battle he can win.

Thomas's wife asks for an apology from Anita Hill

Anita Hill was not believable in her testimony and has made a career from making false charges against her former boss. The testimony of an alleged sexual harassment victim
who follows her boss onto another job and then calls him socially does not pass the logic test.

Hill should have apologized years ago.

Bill Oreilly is correct

I am not a Bill O'Reilly fan and have not watched his show in a long time. However, he is 100% correct in his statement. "Muslims Killed us on 9-11." The retorts about McVeigh are fairly lame as almost all of the major acts were perpetrated by Muslims.

The nonsense that 70 Muslims died ( does this figure include the hijackers)somehow changes the nature of what happened on 9-11 is false.

On 9-11 Muslim terrorists attacked an office building for the second time and incinerated 2900 innocent people. While America was in a stir trying to separate Islam from the most horrific war crime committed against the American people, the Muslim community save Steven Schwartz and a few others did nothing.

The problem with the response of the Islamic community was that with the exception of the CIP it played word games. The CIP and Stephen Schwartz unequivocally condemned this barbaric act carried out in the name of their faith. Moreover, the Islamic community has not done enough in the USA and world wide to root out this problem.

The truth is that the Pseudostinians would have had a state long ago if they quit killing Jews. They would have gotten a state that is ethnically cleansed of Jews and has no basis in nationality. Jews settle their refugees and Arabs treat their refugees like hockey pucks and demand even more real estate when they already posses it in abundance.

Has all this pointless violence produced anything?

Muslims need to look at what this mindless violence has done. The USA if it chose could have merely leveled sections of the Muslim world. It has placed boots on the ground and needs Pakistan to step it up. Much of our problem is we have allowed countries like Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Venezuela to play a double game and aid and abet terrorists.

O'Reilly spoke for many of us and I would rather see a Bill O'Reilly talk about Islam with Stephen Schwartz than talk with imbeciles like Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. Of course the greatest moron of them all Rosie O'Dumbell weighed in. Her truther comments are far worse than anything said by O'Reilly who forgot to say Muslim extreemist. O'Dumbell has appeared on O'Reilly's show and was not singing this tune.

Of course we will never live to see Mark Levin on the View. That would be on pay per view and be real entertainment. It would also be akin to Bambi vs Godzilla.

The truth is these crones are only entertaining when someone like Ann Coulter or O'Rielly are there to clean house.

Is France our Future

At a certain point we may come to the realization that retirement for the post boomers may be 75. I will have a federal pension and social security, but the rules will change.

The system of entitlements may have to be dealt with at a certain point. Other than police and military types retirement after 20 years should be a thing of the past.

We are going to have tough choices in the years ahead. The good news is a weakened Obama may have to govern as an adult. The bad news is we are still stuck with an unqualified elitist clown for two years.

Cutting back benefits will not likely produce riots or mass protests in the USA, but it is coming soon.

Doing the Right Thing not Spike Lee

Those of you whom I speak with off line know that I do my work for love of public service. I have shunned the higher profile work because I do not seek fame or glory. It is ironic that sometimes just doing my usual dedicated job creates unwanted attention. To TMW and Warren whom I spoke to thanks for lending me your ear. The situation was very unique and I would do as I did and regret nothing.

In general there are those who prefer anonymity. The smile of a applicant and the handshake of an attorney after an interview are priceless to me as those are things that come from the heart. We often guide people who have been going around in circles
and help them attain their goals. This is done for those smiles and not for the glory of people in desks who know me as a number.

Now that my fifteen minutes of office fame are up I would love to just return to my desk and have a cup of hot chocolate or even better warm cider.

Non Citizens serving in the Vietnam Era War

Apparently some non citizens did serve in Vietnam. How some of them got drafted is unknown. In some cases the citizens in question arrived as young immigrants who were never naturalized by their parents.

One of the few areas that the right seems to agree on is reducing waiting periods for citizenship for people who served in the US military during a time of war.

These noncitizens who served are my heroes. They likely could have stated hey I am not a citizen. Then again as many came as small children where would they go. Had some of these people spoken up the military likely or should have done the right thing.

Maybe someday a historian will do a book on these unlikely heroes.

Beakerkin takes a break from politics to talk of literature

I want to talk of fair criticism and unfair criticism. I am reading Kenneth Roberts Lydia Bailey. Much of the criticism about the book being a PC nightmare is unfounded.
In the Kenneth Roberts formula the best friend of the lead is often the real hero and far more interesting.

In the 1940's the notion of a Black hero was revolutionary for its day. True the name of the charachter in question is the dreadful King Dick or KD. KD is a Black Sudanese sold into slavery who learns the trading business and frees himself. He gets mixed up in some intrigue in the American South and flees to Haiti where he joins the initial revolution.

When one considers the author regularly savages real historical figures the portrayal of Toussaint L'oveture is one of wisdom and strength of character. The lead character speaks out in favor of the revolution against slavery. In appreciation L'oveture instructs KD to help find the leads woman. The French are portrayed as arrogant, inhuman and bestial.

There is also the criticism of the authors use of Ebonics for the dialogue of KB. Do these critics expect an ex slave to speak like William F Buckley or Jay Leno. The broken English common in the West Indies lends an authenticity to the work of historical fiction. It is not or should not be confused with a term paper.

Overall, I would recommend the book Lydia Bailey as a fun starting point for a discussion of Haiti and the romance some have with Napoleon. For all the talk of the French Revolution the guillotines, terror and attempting to place people back into slavery shows it for its true colors.

Why I am not a Democrat

It is funny but long term readers know I am not a conservative, but I respect them and count them amongst my valued friends. When one reads this blog over time one finds out that I loathe the far left quite obviously. There are decent leftists like Jams, but they are increasingly rare.

I am a capitalist and make no apologies for it. I have always believed the first job of government was to promote growth. The second job is provide defense and infrastructure. The last job is balance all powers through sane regulation and provide services for those who need them.

As an American my country has no second class citizens. The notion of racial separatism and racial hygiene is an abomination an unamerican. Similarly, the notion of class warfare is a vile abomination. I do not feel envious of those who have more or wish to confiscate their property. Rather, I seek to build my own and be left alone by self righteous communist Nazi types.

The bedroom is the only room lefties want the government out of. I also want the government out of my refrigerator. I want to have a beer and a diet Mountain Dew without confiscatory taxation. Now the left literally wants to rape the poor and tax Tang. The left like the Duck are the new Marie Antoinettes. If you want to stretch your food budget in hard times with Tang you are going to pay a hefty tax. If you are rural poor and you want to quietly take an extra deer he will take away you guns and bullets. Given time and effort he will likely get around to taking your fishing pole next. He would rather turn the poor into domestic animals than people with dignity.

As Ann Coulter stated the only Cop people on the left like is the one in the Village People. The notion that the officer is always wrong and criminals are victims like the absurd case of Mumia is a joke. FYI Mumia was a member of MOVE. That was the same group that was bombed by a Democratic Mayor of Philadelphia and was loathed by
the local Black community. Most officers do their job and the benefit of the doubt should be given to the officer. There are bad officers and they should be given due process. Criminals are predators and are not victims of society.

I also take great pride in my country and do not aspire to be like the EU. Sorry, but if you want to trash my country or portray its citizens and brainwashed FOX groupies you will hear from me. If you attack my country you will wish you were never born. The sad part is that the left spent much time rationalizing the crimes of Bill Ayers. Ayers frequently needs protection from those he called pigs to save his worthless life from the actual grass roots.

America is at a crossroads Tea Party or Cocktail Party. I do not always agree with the positions of those in the Tea Party, but they are living in the real world. The members of the cocktail party lecture those who live real lives. Sorry, but teaching doodling is no special expertise and requires less skill than repairing a car. The American people can speak for themselves and do not need a bunch of out of touch gadfly losers in the chattering classes to determine how we live.

Pour me some iced tea from a powdered mix. Get your stinking socialist paws off my wallet. Get your social activism out of my kitchen. Get your radical agenda out of
my work place. Kindly close the door as you leave and in the words of Snagglepuss "Exit stage left".

A Day in the life of Beakerkin

I was supposed to do some charity work in the Guyanese community today. Usually I meet up with the crew at the Tranquil Sea's house. I was on my way there when the Tranquil Sea pointed out the Sprite was at home. I turned the corner and she was waiting there with the little Maltese that follows me everywhere.

Being it was so close to her birthday I bought her a foot board for the WII and a cooking simulation game. She asked for both things and I would never play a game where I can't blow something up or shoot something. The funny thing about the WII games is that it allows you to draw your own character. Naturally I drew one that looks like Rav Roov and named it Rav Roov. The Sprite had a great time having the poor image of Rav Roov lose games with animations such as being knocked out into the sea really looking comedic.

I was having a grand old time but it was some sort of Hindu festival. On these festivals they only each cheese or vegies. I went out and bought a double cheese pizza for the home. The Maltese hit me up for some cheese. I gave it to him and it shouldn't be terrible to have a small amount.

It was a great day, but unfortunately the Sprite wanted to go where I took her brother in law for a talk. A slurpee has been a favorite pastime of mine for years and I got her a nice sized one which she shared with her sister. I carried the Maltese at intersections as he is not leash trained.

There is no better feeling than being a dad.

Tea Party vs Cocktail Party

There are those among us who are in the chattering classes who are scared stiff. They have lived with the fantasy of the American people rising up. Alas they have and it was not quite what they had in mind. Rather than in ushering in a form of Marxism the people have said JOBS and not the nanny state.

I want to thank AOW for litteraly dragging me kicking and screaming to the DC Tea Party event. I have been at enough so called Peace Party events to have feared the worst. I went looking for racial arsonists, homophobes, antisemites, seditious types, truthers, Nazis and right to lifers. What I found that other than some birthers these were just regular folks. I spent my day talking with pleasant folks who were small business owners and working class people.

ITS THE ECONOMY AND JOBS STUPID JOBS J-O-B-S. Hey you idiots jobs provide the growth to pay for the social programs Eco 1001.

I am floored by the attempt to paint the Tea Party as homophobic as I saw not one single sign on this item. FYI Leftards Civil Unions are preferred by the majority of the American people including Hilary and Gomer Kerry. The loons are all over the map on this one. Lets see the folks at Bad Eagle call me a GAY Rights advocate and sexual liberal. The Duck has inferred I am gay and now those on the far left seem to think I am a homophobe. This is the mark of a true moderate in that you get all of the kooks 24/7. Funny, I do not think Justin, Rob or Devon described me as either a homophobe or a gay rights advocate.

Now the defense of regressive taxation is just another sign of how all the rhetoric of "caring about the working guy is hot air". The only room that the far left wants the government out of is the bedroom. That does not stop the big government types from getting in your refrigerator or gas tank.

I was shocked when some lefties are defending taxes on powdered beverages. What will
they do next tax meat and tell you to eat tofu and stand downwind? Will Ducky be telling you no more two ply toilet paper. How about banning insecticide and glue boards. Vermin have more rights than humans to those on the left.

I want to convey a silly point. There was a time fresh out of college when I did lose my job and both myself and my wife were out of work. I bought a huge bag of rice and a tub of margarine and powdered milk. I did make sure my wife had all she needed. I did not know when the next job would come, but it did. I never took that bag of powdered milk out of the cup board. I have been luckier than many. Poor people want jobs not government programs.

The next battle is Tea Party vs Cocktail Party.

When you think of those who criticize the Tea Party look at the lady in the grocery store with the huge bag of rice, dried beans, powdered milk, Tang and low cost poultry and ask her if people who think powdered beverages are a luxury item are in touch with her.

Now if some scientific genius can invent powdered beer. We might be onto something.

Are lefties out of touch with regular folks

I am always amused when those on the far left claim to speak for the "working man" but
have zero contact with those people. The may go some Thereisenstadt type useful idiot tours arranged by Hugo or Fidel. Some might visit agricultural workers for a day or two
and return home and mistreat their cleaning woman.

Many of you know the interesting bio of yours truly. When I talk of "debutantes at DC cocktail parties, salonistas, fashionistas, faculty lounge lizards, faux Europhile loser types I am describing people I lived with. At one point I did live in a very far left enclave in NYC where few people actually worked.

I really did not care for my neighbors who did not work, but were somehow experts on the lives of working class people. For the most part I excused myself and walked away when the political talk started. One of my loopy neighbors was a nasty divorced loser woman whose husband probably committed suicide to get away from her. She never worked a day in her life and inherited money from her family and a lawyer spouse. For the sake of this post we will call this person S.

S was one of Hillary's coven who thought the fate of the planet rested on Hillary's election to the Senate. She came barging into my apartment and started screaming at me to put away that filth. The filth she was describing was the NY Post. Surely, you don't read that vile rag. The crone was shocked to find a copy of the Rosenberg File on the book case and concluded "Ohhh my gawd your one of those..." In a building where much of the tenants are gay or anarchists "one of those people" means Republican".

She started to go off on an incoherent rant about me automatically being a racist, homophobe and so forth because I am a Republican. She warned the woman I was living with that she could not hope to civilize me with trips to Broadway and Museums. The crone had not figured out that I was the person dragging my girlfriend to those places. In this case despite my upper middle class lineage, I was far more accustomed
to those places than my socialite girlfriend.

From that day forward the woman would not get on an elevator and would visit our apartment to see my girlfriend and would be rude. My girlfriend was not political, but understood some of my humor. S liked to delude herself she was French and she spent 1/2 her year in Southern France. Her sole real friend was a Shitzu that she spoke to in French and sent to psychotherapy once a month. When she would enter our apartment I would drift into a Guyanese accent and talk in the local dialect to our ever suffering Tuxedo cat. I even purchased a Guyanaman shirt and a few pairs of white Bermuda shorts that I would wear in anticipation of her nightly visits. She screamed at me "Knock it off you are not Guyanese and this act isn't funny". I reminded her S and you are not French and that isn't funny. I then got a lecture how the "French are evolved" and superior to Americans. I stated this is true only in her case.

I remember her getting into a lather about my poor breeding. The rant was triggered by my inviting our Trinidadian housekeeper to eat at the same table. I had just finnished cooking comfort food and invited our tired cleaning woman to sit and enjoy a meal. I pointed out to S that I am selective in my dinner parties and quite frankly she didn't make the cut. Personally, I would rather eat a home cooked meal than go to a fancy restaurant,but I am considered a primitive. This same clueless far left type started to lecture me about the role of staff and help knowing their place.

Of course she was all for evolved Euro socialism as long as the hired help knew its place and did not get a seat at the table.

The irony is the woman was not clever enough to grasp the point.

Happy 7th birthday my beloved Sprite

I spent yesterday after work with the beloved Sprite celebrating her 7th birthday. Her smile lights up my day. Of course I had to do some planning for her party pick up supplies. It would have been easier to pack up her birthday party items with a mule. Amazingly, my stash of goodies fit into bags for classmates.

It isn't easy finding yourself head of the household. Perhaps God places people where they are needed most. The economy is making many people's lives difficult and I spent much of my time listening to in laws problems.

On Monday I will be spending the whole day with the Sprite. She is now at the age where she is curious about the strange food items I eat. From her cultural vantage point the items are strange, but to me they are givens. I had a container of Kasha Varnishkes from the Jewish Deli and made myself a Turkey loaf. As her mother cooks traditional West Indian fare everything I brought in was novel.

I have never been happier than the moments I spend as her dad.

Dealing with bigoted Lefties

I am always amused that it takes brain impaired far lefties quite long to figure out that I am not a Conservative. They spend hours lecturing me about Palin and talk radio hosts they do not bother to listen to and complain about books they have never bothered to read.

Hey Duncy when was the last time you read something other than manifestos or tracts by loser Marxists with a record of malfeasance.

The latest amusing claim by lefties is that as a vocal union member I must be against the Tea Party. Actually, abusive management practices have gotten much worse under the Obama administration. My union leaders are exasperated with a President whose appointees are empty suits that talk a good game and do zero. As I had zero faith and knew that Obama was unqualified and elected on hot air and media spin I prepared for the worst. In fairness some of the adjustment in our policies made sense.

The mindless left does not grasp that union membership is but one factor. If my government is run by an incompetent who appoints loser extremists like Van Jones into political jobs all of us lose. Obama is not and never was a mainstream politician and the media has given him a free pass on a bio that should have rendered any politician unelectable. The left cries about Glenn Beck, but 20 years in a racist antisemitic crackpot church is a fact. I am amused by those lefties like the Duck who rant about Mormonism but feign ignorance at Black Liberation Theology.
The reason is the later is a Marxist perversion of Christianity.

Where did all the commie antiwar protesters go. They feign mock outrage about Obama and his policies but are indoors and for good reason. Unlike Bush, most of the media will never turn on its anointed Messiah the one that droned on about hope and change. Obama delivered change, he just made everything worse. Of course the usual lefties will dismiss the statements about Obama's mishandling of the economy on the usual grounds and use code words for Jew.

In November the Democratic party will be weakened but likely hold on to the Senate probably a net loss of 4 seats there and 20 in the house. As the economy fails to improve who will step forward in the Democratic Party to rid the nation of an error that makes Jimmy Carter look good in hindsight. Don't expect sanity from a party that is out of touch with America.

Why Glenn Beck Scares the Crap out of Leftists

I never thought I would see the day where any talk show host would replace Rush Limbaugh as the Eeevil One among leftists. Limbaugh is basically your Country Club conservative and much of his antics are humorous. His recent comments about the economic malfeasance of the Obama administration have some basis, although I wouldn't use the terms he used. Funny, but when a more moderate Mort Zuckerman slams the amateur Obama economic disaster the media yawns.

Beck crosses into areas that Limbaugh who is focused on economics and tax issues does not tread upon. Beck confronts the radicals up front and personal with their own inane and foul agenda. Do the American people want a Truther and political extremist like Van Jones anywhere near a position in government. In the good old days Conservatives would give Marxists a free pass as quaint misguided imbeciles. Beck comes out swinging in a way that resonates with the grass roots.

The far left kid themselves about grass roots and the only grass the average leftist knows about is the one cut by his illegal alien landscapers or the one he smokes between Dead Albums. The far left is way out of touch with the grass roots. It has not figured out that you can not reach the American people by paternalistic contempt
for the people they claim to speak for. Beck as a product of a dysfunctional working class family is well aware that the American people want jobs, not ever enlarging big government nanny state programs.

While Obama feigns to be from mid America the truth is he is more Al Gore or Little Lord Fauntleroy than middle America. He was raised by a mother who was a bug eyed far left lunatic and passed on to far left lunatic grandparents. He was given a card carrying Communist mentor and sent to a series of elite private schools. We have not seen his grades and can only wonder if he was the recipient of the Old Bolshevik club cronyism. He does not resonate with mid America because he is not from mid America and has been faking it with media accomplices. Think of the series of emails between members of the media to spin political coverage for Obama in the election.

Basically, Obama was elected pretty much by droning on about hope and change and zero substance. He was elected despite some warning signs that he surrounds himself with very dubious types Pastor Wright, Bill Ayers and radical professors. Obama was pretty much allowed to skate away from the rhetoric of Pastor Wright. No doubt if it were a White Pastor making hateful comments about the Government and gays this would have sent a Presidential candidate to oblivion. However, when a crackpot Farakhan friend makes insane conspiracy talk the media has a double standard. It is not as if Obama wasn't aware of this rhetoric, he was a member for 20 years.

The American people wanted what Obama promised post partisan politics. The way to get
there is not by appointing off the map radical extremists like Van Jones. If Obama seems arrogant and elitist it is precisely because he is. The real Obama is reflected in his comments after the Pennsylvania primary and in his wife's comments
that "this is the first time I have been proud of my country".

Beck as a product of the lower middle class conveys the arrogant political extremism in a way that resonates with the hard working and frustrated American grass roots that Obama keeps ignoring. The American people screamed "JOBS" and Obama feigned ignorance and wasted all his efforts on a health care plan that Americans want repealed.

The reason Beck scares the far left is that he is far more in touch with the grass roots than they ever will be.

The Obama Kool Aide Crew Remains Silent

The Pro Obama robots at Harry's Place like to talk about Glenn Beck but it is obvious that few of them sit back and watch an entire presentation before making inane condescending inaccurate comments. A long rant was made over Obama inheriting his views from his father with whom he had little contact. It was an opportunity for the mindless anti American types to bash Newt. The leader of this crew objects to questioning his patriotism as a dual national. My bringing up the point was that unlike most immigrants this dual national seems unique in his arrogance and condescension towards the American people. If you feel that the American people are ignorant and incapable of acting in their own interests kindly do us a favor and relocate. This attitude is unique among the immigrants I meet with every day who are quite thankful to be here and respect the citizenry.

The material was referenced in a Dinesh D'Sousa book. Now some of us are not fans of D'Sousa and I have read a few of his books including Illiberal Education and What is so great about Christianity. He generated some controversy by stating that the very left who champions the cause of Islam are often the people who are creating the messes in our culture that Muslims like to rail about. In general Muslims are not complaining about the folks at the 700 Club, they are frequently complaining about the garbage being pushed by Hollyweird. My view is if you don't like something just don't watch it. The Ellen show was poorly written and garbage. The Will and Grace Show was well written and above all funny. However, if that fare offends you don't watch.

D'Sousa presented the anti colonial mindless types that appear in Obama's life. Rather than point out many of these people were Marxists Obama points out the anti Colonial mindless fixations this point of view has. To this mindless crew the US has stolen its prosperity and needs to return it to the third world. The point about Obamas father was made in passing to Obama returning a bust of Winston Churchill because his ancestors fought in a rebellion in Kenya. Of course the people at HP as usual didn't bother to listen to the whole presentation, much less read the book that the presentation was based upon before arrogantly feigning expertise. In fact what they were doing once again was repeating cliches found in Huffington by people who similarly did not read the book in question or watch the full show. In general I do not have time to watch Fox News but I was up early in the morning.

I have been enjoying Historical fiction books and may have to pause to read the D'Sousa book and break it down for the readers.

The Obama cheerleading section remained silent on the Obama FBI's searching the homes of Communist activists. Had this been done under Bush the far left and the media would have been in over kill mode. I asked the Obama fan club where is the outrage, but the comments were deleted.

HP has some interesting posts, but the so called American experts are woefully lacking in knowledge. Their American contributor is a dual national who runs between
cocktail parties in DC and shows zero real knowledge of American or its people. Sorry, but this officer is well known for his boots on the ground time in all types of communities from every type of ethnic enclave to the fashionable far left islands of insanity. A flunky at HP pointed out that my critique of the author sounded like Pat Buchanan. The real Pat Buchanan is more apt to be at his DC media cocktail parties than at my back yard roasts in barrios, African and West Indian communities, Churches of every description and even and odd Mosque or Hindu Temple.

Still waiting on a post about Obama's FBI raiding the homes of Communist criminal types who make frequent trips to Lebanon via suspect funding. Of course when this crew rants often ignorantly about Beck we point out Obama spent 20 years in a racist, antisemitic, Marxist crackpot church. The so called America expert Obama apologists have no answer. When one points out the repeated Marxists in Obama's life you get a lecture about tone. More amusing were the diatribes about Gomer Kerry from people who are experts in a book they did not bother to read. The information was similarly rehashed from huffington.

Want to feel sorry but I can't

The Ground Zero Mosque Imam and his spokes mouth wife have allegedly received death threats. While we certainly do not condone this, the Imam and his wife are hardly sympathetic victims. Muslim activists are well known for their criminal threats and acts of violence.

The shrill game of Imam Rauf pretending he is a moderate is also very tired. Actual Moderates at the Center of Islamic Pluralism do not recognize the Imam who pals around with Truthers and Marxists as a fake moderate.

There is zero need for a Mosque near Ground Zero. The Imam knew well in advance that this would upset many. He has spurned Donald Trumps generous offer as well as sincere efforts by Governor Patterson because of his bloated ego.

I want to sympathize with the Imam and his rather arrogant and obnoxious spouse but they were well aware of the storm they created and brought this upon themselves.

Osama the Environmentalist

In a new marketing strategy Osama has now repackaged himself as an environmentalist.
He never dealt with the Arab refugees in Israel until after he had committed war crimes against the American people. Now he is jumping on the green band wagon with all the commie clowns. Give Al Gore a tan a bad beard and a turban...

In fairness to Al Gore, after he lost the election he never was the same person. Even his wife of decades dumped him after he lost his mind. Nothing in Al Gore's mental meltdown suggests that he endorses terrorism. However, it is funny to see Osama want to be Al Gore. Maybe if Al coauthors a book with him he will surrender.

I am running to buy gas at BP ( never Citgo) and if I could I would knock back a Mountain Dew or two.

There is always tommorow

Many of us are going through some bad times either in life or with our family. I am lucky that my bad times come with an expiration date. For 90 days I have to put up with stupidity beyond my control.

There are good people hurting right now and whatever slings and arrows I must endure is trivial. We are all capable of great strengths. The economy will improve and for the most part times will be better.

Just remember when times are bad sometimes the smile of a friend and a gentle word are enough to get us to tomorrow. Never ever be so proud of yourself that you can not overcome adversity.

J Street Lies

J Street is the liberal Jewish group that accepts questionable funding and presents itself as "the authentic voice of the Jewish community". Once again the deception about who they are has been revealed to be another George Soros front group. Soros has about the same popularity in the Jewish community as hemorrhoids and they are now trying to do damage control.

The left has not been able to subvert traditional Jewish groups and communists like Michael Lerner have zero credibility. Thus the far left tried to put a fake group together to make their aims less obvious. J Street has no credibility and should just be considered another Soros scam.

The Dark Side of the Internet

Much has been written about the gay student at Rutgers who killed himself after his lifestyle was published on the web. The easy access does allow people to violate people's privacy with impunity. The postings were foul and intended to embarrass a person with a frail mental condition.

The person in question should be charged with invasion of privacy. He should be expelled from Rutgers and any other State University. He had no way of knowing that his stupid actions would cause an even dumber reaction by the deceased.

In this day and age being gay is common and though there are those who are bigoted most people really don't care. In life every group has bigots and it is something you deal with. There are bumps and turns along our life's journey, but one needs to keep going.

A terrible wrong was done to the victim. Yet one should grasp that most of us deal with terrible wrongs in our daily lives and do not kill ourselves. I sympathize with the victim but suicide unless one is terminally ill or saving others is never the answer.

The new model is Mumbai

Most of security resources went into imagining another 9-11 attack. However, a low tech Mumbai type of event can be much easier to pull off in Europe and in cities like NYC where strict gun control are the norm.

A disarmed populace would make an attractive target and it remains to be seen how easily the attackers can blend into the populace.

The Obamites press for more gun controls and the cycle gets worse.

Tears of Clowns

Commies were out in force yesterday crying about home searches of communist thugs who visited Hezbollah. Sorry, but Jet Setting about the globe on behalf of terrorists and regimes hostile to the USA does invite legitimate national security and legal concerns.
This scrutiny is long overdue and it is good that the FBI has decided to do its job.

Of course had these searches been done under Bush the Old Bolshevik Chorus in the media would run this story for months.

Final Review of Northwest Passage

Ideally if one is to read the works of Kenneth Roberts this is to be read first. The book is an excellent work by a master author but it is below Arundel and Rabble in Arms
somewhat.

The oft criticized second book is much better than advertised. There is a ten page selection near the end that was upsetting only because it took away from a great spot to end an excellent novel. However the final eight pages make for an excellent ending.
Up next Lydia Bailey also by Roberts.

I spent the day with relatives of the Tranquil Sea. She was exhausted from a 14 hour day at work and I had no desire to wake her. I sat reading the end of Northwest Passage when her little Maltese caught my scent and raised a ruckus. She was breathtakingly beautiful but so tired I felt bad even as I held her, The Maltese was so excited that he jumped all over me for 20 minutes greeting me and made off with a tiny finger sandwich. I had a Turkey on pumpernickel with coleslaw and Russian dressings but he smelled it even in foil and in a plastic bag.

I went to stay with some friends in the Guyana community. The country where I will be going is not safe and my health may be compromised by local food. My trip may just be a short stay at a resort hotel.

I really wanted to charter a small craft down the Berbice River it isn't safe. My trip may be pushed back until a larger group is going for safety reasons.

Running Themes in the Works of Kenneth Roberts

I have read the vast majority of his major works and am within 100 pages of the end of Northwest Passage. These themes are ones we see in life.

1) Great men of vision are often hampered by lesser clods.

This is true in real life. I find myself amazed by some of the clods who are in upper
management. To say that these people are hacks is just to give these people too much credit. Even a person like myself who has no interest in climbing the chain has to frequently deal with snakes. The cliques protect the mediocre and the incompetent from those with genuine ability. Large structures or organizations are social structures and some of the things I have seen shock me. Yet according to Rogers it should not as this phenomenon runs through his books. Political hacks like Gen Howe, Sir William Johnson and Gen Gage make messes out of the works of visionaries.

Can we be surprised when it happens in our own lives??

2) Sometimes great men are flawed seriously

Benedict Arnold literally shines anytime he is in a scene written by Roberts. We are well aware of the shabby treatment and the almost superhuman courage displayed by Gen. Arnold. Yet turning traitor and the debts run up by his wife are also not the signs of good judgment. In the case of Arnold there is some tragic irony in that his valor and vision laid the groundwork for something he clearly did not want. His actions at Saratoga paved the way for open French aid. Arnold did not want the rebels to become a pawn of France.

Major Roberts is a self promoter, drunk, womanizer, ethically challenged on many levels as well as a great leader and hero. He is brought down by lesser men and his own character flaws. By the time we see him in Oliver Wiswell he is a shell of himself consumed by alcoholism and forever scheming. The real Major Roberts did have a role in the capture of Nathan Hale.

3) Sometimes heroes come in odd places. Oddly, in Northwest Passage the lead character is saved by the strange Indian woman with relatives everywhere Princess McNott. Her skill at learning gossip and persuading the tribes to help the lead and her husband saves the day. Nattanis the Abenaki saves the day and is almost super human in Arundel.

4) The passionate loves of our youths are often ill advised and true love is closer to home.

Life is sometimes strange and Roberts does develop these themes while conveying predictable but excellent stories that are well researched.

Ducky flunks basic math

The bird brained Duck once again proves that Communists are not capable of rational thought. The Duck brags that Narcoterrorist antisemitic criminal mental patient Hugo Chavez has reduced the gap between rich and poor.

With all the wealthy and professionals heading for the doors this is not exactly rocket science. A colony of sewer rats is equal but not optimal or a desired outcome.

Stick with doodling and idiotic films that should be forgotten Duncy.

Great Day for Anticommunists

The FBI finally started doing its job and raided the home of lunatic activist who support FARC and terrorists in Lebanon. How these people fund their law breaking activities and travel will be interesting. Of course the US government needs to look into those that support Chavez and somehow manage to jet set the globe on limited salaries.

Communist criminal and Obama buddy Bill Ayers was denied emeritus status. It would be far better if he were fired asked to resign, but it appears his publicity clown act has worked against him. A complete investigation into how this criminal was hired and granted tenure is long overdue.

Maybe it is this.... Just do not ever say this in public

On another site I was posting about the lives of my family in Eastern Europe. The borders changed frequently and the one constant was that they felt like outsiders. They
were not Poles, Austro-Hungarians and so forth.

Many African Americans even today convey this outsider sentiment. This was the reason
that many Jews were active in the struggle for Civil Rights, those that were communists were agitators. There was a common experience that has been shattered forever, by an element in the Community that has embraced hard core antisemitism. I am writing this not to infer Blacks owe Jews anything, but to report on events. Thus one will see rants about Jews and the slave trade, Jewish conspiracies to negatively portray Blacks on film and so forth.

Obama may have a Black father, but he had zero contact with that father and was raised by a bug eyed radical mother and far left grandparents. He is more Al Gore educated in elite Private schools than the Black family up the block. He is a social science type of Marxist elitist.

When Michelle Obama states "this is the first time I have been proud of my country" we cringe. We have all this history of working to make things right and yet this is the sentiment of a person who like Obama is a product of far left University social science lounge lizard culture. Neither Obama's sentiment reflects the vast majority of Blacks who are just as proud of their country as the next person.

Near the End of Northwest Passage

I am in the last 200 pages of Northwest Passage. Kenneth Roberts seems to have a thread that our first Romantic choice is often very poor. The main character falls in love with a self centered woman. The woman dumps him and marries Major Rogers and proceeds to make his life miserable. The wife of Major Rogers also seems to have a unique ability to drive people up a wall.

This book is the first that seems to lack a major Cap Huff figure. Cap Huff appears very early in the book and is mentioned in passing. Hunk Mariner is not developed much. In the last 200 pages SGT McNott is likely to fill this role. Former Violent Hummingbird posters would probably laugh at the antics of "Princess McNot" who is a Souix indian who was kidnaped and adopted into the Chipewa. The wife is mistreated but gets even and steals her husbands wooden leg when he threatens to leave her. The deranged one is older than she admits and probably was the inspiration for that character. Then again Princess McNott many times shows she is useful and usually well mannered and can not be compared to the rabid one.

I am always amused at Commies who think they know why people are poor and attempt to rationalize their power mad scams of theft based upon people they know zero about

Why is person X poor

Person X is frequently poor because of poor lifestlye choices.

1) Person X is in the country illegally and is not supposed to be here. They are thrust into the sub economy and some of these jobs are not all menial. Furthermore the presence of illegal labor depresses wages and increases the cost of social services. Given the cost of education, it is more cost effective to give a family with two children a plane ticket home than to pay for educational costs.

Many illegal aliens do in fact earn a better living than commonly assumed and have enough money to send back home.

2) Failure to get a HS diploma

This restricts the available opportunities. When person X drops out of school this is an individual choice.

3) Substance Abuse

This is a lifestyle issue.

4) Having children out of wedlock.

Lifestyle issues.

5) Failure to relocate to where jobs are available or retrain.

Person X is in a factory that closed. Person X may have to relocate or retrain to do something else.

6) Untreated mental illness

This is not politically correct, but some of the poor do in fact suffer from mental illness and despite an army of civil servants remain untreated. Of course the notion that society could mandate treatment was fought by the far left who aided and abetted the plight of Billie Boggs. The notion that she should have been taken into a mental health facility against her will and medicated was fought by the far left.
After speaking in colleges, jobs in law firms Billie Boggs resumed being homeless.

7) Having more kids than one can afford and out of wedlock.

Lifestyle and choices

8) Failure

How low can the loonies of Iran go Trutherism

The looney in Iran is starting to sound much like an imbecile at Violent Hummingbird
and Ducky's commie pals. From the same loonies that brought you Holocaust denial comes trutherism. Maybe Ahmindejad really wants a job teaching in Depaul University.

Velma Hart and Obama Exasperation

Note that in the celebrated exchange between Hart and Obama the issue of out of control prices for higher education was discussed. The notion that those costs are out of control is the dirty secret Obama and his MSM allies want hidden from view. The idea that Universities can hire political hacks for absurd salaries and pass the bills for ever is beyond what Americans can afford. Obama is more interested in ensuring his Old Bolshevik buddies get absurd salaries for zero work at public expense.

Obama Fatigue

The nation is seems tired of a President who seems aloof and not capable of listening to the American people. The change that he has delivered has been a change for the worse. While he rails against corporations, the sector that is the most messed up and out of control is higher education. Costs are out of control and an inferrior product and feather bedding by his old Bolshevik allies have created a system where the costs are prohibitive.

The President pushed for a health care plan that the American People want repealed.
His position in congress will be somewhat weakened and the odds of an alteration to the monstrosity he created are slim.

The supporter who spoke of eating Franks and Beans spoke what many people feel. His response was precanned and aloof. Oddly, both Clinton and Obama have been trying oddly to co-opt the Tea Party stating the blame for the mess is tax and spend Republicans. This is a wasted attempt by Obama to attempt entryism into a movement his arrogance and catering to his allies in big education fueled.

Beamish and Elmer in 12

The life is cheap debacle

I am quite amused at the antics of politically correct foolishness largely by Commies and their Muslim allies over the life is cheap quote. The problem with Communism and Islamacism is that life is indeed cheap. Commies think nothing of sending large numbers of people to their deaths for their power mad cult dreams. Of course when the rest of us look at the mounting evidence the game becomes claim the crimes had nothing to do with Communism and blame an individual.

As far as Islam and taking lives for no discernable reason much of terrorism as we know it starts with Arab Communist movements like the PLO. Over time these communist groups spawned more religious rivals that think nothing of committing similar types of mayhem. The notion that the Arab commies are less violent than Islamacists is a leftist delusion.

Groups that will send children with plastic keys to heaven to clear minefields, shoot school kids in the back and smack fuel ladden planes into office buildings do indeed not respect human life.

The real reason for the over the top criticim ( odd considering the notorious bigotry
in the writtings of clown prof Walt) is that the professorsip is named after a Jewish supporter of Israel. This is little more than the Old Bolsheviks club in higher ed trading in populist antisemitism.

Approaching Halloween

I want to caution people of a terrible animal that walks the night called the Werecat.
The werecat is related to werewolves but is less dangerous than than its better known
cousin.

Signs that you may be a were cat

1) Do you have a desire to sleep more than 50% of the day and spend the remainder in pointless meanderings.
2) Do you have odd cravings for hideous foods like liverwurst, salted fish and so forth.
3) Do you spend your waking hours on the sofa
4) Do you go through large amounts of kitty litter without reason.

You may be the dreaded werecat and not even know it.

There is a cure for this disease. Try Dr. Beakerkin's elixir of life

1) Listen to or play any manly aggressive sport and indulge copious amounts of alcohol while doing so. Bowling while drinking is manly watching it on TV dosn't count.
2) Take your car on a drive in the wilds and listen to classic rock and surf music
3) Read Non fiction books and historical fiction books written by people hostile to communism.
4) Remember you are the top of the food chain. Eat the animals that eat the veggies and serve them with appropriate condiments, snack food and beer.
5) When all else fails crack a Mountain Dew and remember tomorrow is another day unless you are dead.

Back from the Car Show

I didn't find any surfer rock. However, Bobby Vinton, Johny Maestro and Dion and the Belmonts will upset Vegans and lawless types.

It is amusing to see many of the old car heads need walkers. In my day one was either a car head, jock, hippie, military type, dico, heavy metal, jock, nerd or young Republican. I was part of the last group where we were young GOP types telling the aging hippies that they were full of crap.

I guess that subculture never produced much memorabilia beyond some books, Family Ties and the impetus for FOX news.

Going to an Old Car Show

My father does enjoy the Old Car shows. I do enjoy them as well but for entirely the wrong reasons. Many of these car shows have the dreaded Dodge Dart which was a religious experience to those who drove in them. You thanked the Supreme Being that you arrived in one piece. I also enjoy seeing woodies which the under 25 set think of means erections.

Usually these shows have retro food and CDS. Last year I think I found Surf Instrumental Classics number 5 and the Best of Tony Orlando. I will see if they have any Surf CDS but other than Classic Rock it is far and away the next best driving music. If I were still in VT I would have long ago purchased a CD player fot the car.

I also like the retro lunch boxes. I am going to see if I can find the classic Hawaiian Punch model.

Communist Traitors Caught Passing Nuclear Secrets

Once again communist traitors were caught sending nuclear secrets to madman Hugo Chavez. The couple should be tried and spared the death penalty only if they fully co-operate and then agree to be denaturalized and deported.

It will be interesting to see how his US cabin boy Kappos spin Julius and Ethel Mach two.

My gifts

I want to pause before Yom Kippur to count my blessings. Many of us are hurting and I am uncharacteristically doing well in the Obama recession. I want to thank the guy upstairs for all my wonderful friends both in my personal life and the blogosphere. I want to thank my family and especially the Tranquil Sea for filling my life with love. I have never been happier than the moments I spend as a family. I want to thank the guy upstairs for providing me with wonderful work I love and the honor of serving the American people. I also want to thank the man upstairs for providing drummaster a chance to start a job I dreamed about.

As an officer we see so many fine moments in life that are beautiful and fade into our memory. Right before I left for the holiday one case that I really worked on for 4 months looks like it is coming home. I had to work with work with officers in three other offices to get the information. Oddly this case sits in my supervisors office for review of the applicants fate. I am 100% confident that a woman who has waited 12 years will be getting good news. My Vermont training literally saved the day for her. Sometimes getting the right officer makes a difference and in her case it did. I sometimes remember cases if they are good or if I have been able to fix ones that have been messed up for a decade or more. I will not forget this case.

Useless types talk about pushing paper. They talk of doodles and imbecilic foreign films as important. They do not grasp the research, legal debates, charisma and effort needed to serve the public. Lives and laws are more important than doodles. I thank the man upstairs that my life is not wasted in irrelevancy like teaching doodling.

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Northwest Passage Book 1

This is the best of Kenneth Roberts that I have read thus far. The main character in this book stands on his own better than in other Roberts book. A running theme in Roberts work is that the line of greatness and evil are blurred. Benedict Arnold was at times valiant, brilliant and traitorous. Famed generals are mere political hacks and office pettiness appears in Roberts work.

Major Rogers at times appears larger than life and at others ethically challenged. He does do a cameo in Oliver Wiswell albeit as a broken man. He was somewhat of a self promoter and a visionary.

I want to return to the subject of Eastern Indians. In the current era we have a naive view that they were angelic. They were often acted as mercenaries in their own interest. There were abductions and torture, but none of this justifies their extermination and dispossession. From the perspective of the settlers these are horrific crimes. The raid of Rogers was an act of retaliation for a series of brutal raids. Roberts does not gloss over the cruelties of war and a Ranger driven mad by bloodlust over a tortured brother becoming like a rabid dog is shown.

Book 2 which is the Carver Expedition was highly criticized.

Manyana

I will be taking off tomorrow. The Federal GVT is concerned that I have too much vacation time. The old administration was a pain complaining if I took a sick day. Fortunately the new administration is more sensible. The top executive stated that one can not have 350 hours of sick leave and be accused of abusing the system. That is why
when I had food poisoning the office wasn't busy and said have a nice day.

I will be going to Atlantic City with the Guyanese Church and the Tranquil Sea. I enjoy those trips and get to spend some time with the community. I will also be going
to a major community event in the next day or so. The host of that event told the Tranquil Sea to make sure I go. For some unknown reason I never get sick from the food at those parties but a home cooked bmeal .... I am probably the only person who likes the potato in the curried chicken more than the chicken itself.

The Sprite did manage to grab my spinach roll. I order her a kids meal and she ignores it and makes off with my spinach roll. It is a huge portion of spinach, garlic and a touch of onion in a flaky crust. I didn't say anything and she just smiled. The waitress brought over another one. It probably was better for her than the generic chicken fingers and steak fries anyway.

I am almost done with the first book of Northwest Passage. All I can say is it is Kenneth Roberts at his best. The second book which talks about the Carver Expedition
was not as highly rated. I have been to most of the locations in the book. The Upper Connecticut River and the White Mountains are a favorite place of mine. Some day I will go to the Kennebec with Drummaster. Now that he has a great new first job it is in the future. I worked many places but none as impressive as where he is now.

After I am finnished with all of Kenneth Roberts I will be reading some English translations of classic Polish Lit. I may also pause to read some classics. Those of you turned off by Last of the Mohicans, Johny Tremaine and Moby Dick can pass on those posts. I will be reading Lydia Bailey after Northwest Passage so there will be some discussion of the Haitian Revolution as seen by Roberts. Of course neither Ducky
nor Sonia is likely to have seen the Lydia Bailey movie.

I may even discuss was any movie better than the book at a later date.

The Truther Element in the Mosque Supporters

I did notice that there clearly were Truthers present in the demonstration to support the Mosque. This fact was neglected by the MSM who refuse to note that the non Muslim supporters are frequently communist agitators.

Imam Rauf talks about building bridges and has an unusual ally Faiz Khan Truther. Rauf refused to comment about his colleagues Truther rhetoric. No doubt Faiz Kahn will abuse the memory of the dead by spreading his bile at the Ground Zero Mosque. Once again I advise those to listen to his rants on the web and note the references to UPJ.

Once again I do not blame all Muslims for 9-11. Responsible members of the community like the folks at the CIP are quite different from the folks at CAIR. Once again the Marxist- Jihadi alliance of evil is quite evident in the ranks of Truthers who almost always are communists. Khan was very careful not to use the most typical code words for Jews most commonly observed in Truthers. Instead he talks of corporate conspiracies which has a rather odious obvious source.

One can read about the real Imam Rauf and his connections at the Center for Islamic Pluralisms website. The CIP does not mince words about Rauf and the Ground Zero Mosque. The CIP also never plays word games about terrorism being evil.

I want to point out that while Duncy is a commie he has never endorsed Trutherism. The Duck merely feigns ignorance about the overwhelming numbers of Truthers who just happen to be commies.

Interesting Letter

I read the letter of Noman Benotman from a link at Harry's Place. Had the folks in CAIR
displayed the frankness and candor of this correspondence the American Muslim community
would not be describing an atmosphere of hate.

The letter written is from a former fighter who spent time with Bin Ladden in Sudan and Afhanistan. It hits some of the same themes that the CIP has been saying for years
unequivocally. Terrorism hurts Islam far worse than bigots ever could.

What is perhaps more shocking is that Mullah Omar may not have known about 9-11 before it took place. Also there may have been those in Al Queda who wanted to avoid provoking the USA for fear it would respond aggressively. If this is true it is very interesting.

Amazing Reading Northwest Passage

I am about one third of the way done with Kenneth Roberts Northwest Passage. I have four smaller books left. I want to point out that the oft criticized second book is not as highly ranked by reviewers. One of the reasons I am really enjoying this book is that I am very familiar with the area described by Roberts. I visited the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont several times. The vivid landscape and foreboding doom shines through this book.

Those of you who are not familiar with Kenneth Roberts and enjoy Historical fiction should really give his works a try.

Onto Surf Music I will probably break the bank and reluctantly spend on an IPOD. This way I can take Surf Music with me to Guyana. I can also download classics like Pintor by the Pharoes without tracking down CDS.

I will be doing some events with the local Guyanese community very soon. I will be going on a Church trip to Atlantic City with the Tranquil Sea. I enjoy spending time with the community and raising money for charities in Guyana. I will be going to a 50th birthday party of a community leader who asked me to be there for my unusual sense of humor.

Onto a certain very bitter commentator. I may have been in very poor health recently. However, I have never been happier in my life. The love of the Tranquil Sea and having a wonderful six year old daughter has filled my life with joy a bitter crone like you can not fathom. The fact that my beloved and my daughter are darker than me is incidental. For the record my younger brother and father are also darker than me along with 99% of the planet. Rav Roov and has gone out of his way to arrange a meeting between his family and my new one. He is my brother and a true man of God in the most noble sense. There is a difference between a true person of God like my brother, Warren, Justin, TMW and AOW and a certain Dr of Divinity. A man of God knows his brother

Why I Suppack ort the CIP Salim Mansur and Stephen Schwatrz

There is an anger in the land aimed at the Muslim American community. Much of the blame is due to the media appointed Muslim Community leaders like the folks at CAIR.

America after 9-11 does not want to hear word games rationalizing terror. There is no excuse for the war crimes committed on that day and elsewhere. Radical Islam is really a political movement more closely related to Communism than to your average Church or normal mosque down the block. The media claims that the Imam of the Ground Zero Mosque is a Sufi except his credentials seem ambiguous to the folks at the CIP.

The folks at the CIP want good relations with the American people and grasp that Muslims should seek good relations with their neighbors. Placing a super sized foreign funny money mosque with a narcissistic charlatan sufi Imam with ethical judgment lapses is a very bad idea. There is no shortage of mosques in NYC. An offer to buy the property with a profit was generously provided by Donald "You Da Man" Trump and local government at all levels has stated a desire to resolve this amicably.

There is a rash of painful stories on TV of Muslims feeling frightened by the raw hatred they are seeing. Part of the blame is for local Muslims to get behind groups like the CIP instead of the CAIR clowns. The folks at CAIR are as unequivocal about telling Muslims to stop harassing Jews as they are at securing a peaceful atmosphere at home.

On the way back from my ill fated visit to the Tranquil Sea and the Sprite I passed by the end of the Ground zero mosque protest.

1) The Non Muslim supporters of the project were lilly white. Communists went out of there way to provoke the marchers. There were many Hispanics, Eastern Europeans, Hindus and immigrants from other places against the mosque.

2) Some of the signs were over the top such as the one calling Mohammad a pedophile.

3) There were no signs from the Muslims apologizing for 9-11 or stating Osama does not speak for me that I could see. If these people are sincere a statement like that would go much further than the sanctimonious bunk of bile pushed by the communist nuts who back this project.

4) I really did a number on two losers from the Neturai Karta who were there to support the mosque. They did not like being called inbred Kapos mamzer frauds who were paid to desecrate the Sabbath and perpetrated a fraud. I did so at close range and even their commie friends did not lift a finger. It was not my nicest moment but those traitors deserved much worse than that and a few people chanting "Am Yisroel Chai with their middle fingers raised".

Difficult Situation to Explain

My health has been poor over the last few days. My stomach and lungs have been giving me problems. Normally, I can handle the spiciest food with zero problem. Unfortunately,
I have gotten very ill from the Tranquil Sea's cooking. I went over yesterday and had a very small amount and had a relapse. I felt the searing pain right away.

It is very hard for me to explain to the Tranquil Sea that lets go out to eat when I have a difficult time with even the most basic of solid food. She worked so hard at preparing the meal that I felt guilty about saying no. I am now stuck in bed with pain that is off the chart and am in the bathroom every thirty minutes or so.

I love her so much, that it is hard to explain how sick I am. I certainly wouldn't want to worry her so. No matter what I will be there on Sunday with the Sprite. Words can not express my joy when my little Princess hugs me and says "I love my daddy". Even helping with the school work is a great joy. Rex the Maltese chases me to and fro and has the advantage of avoiding curry powder.

Curry has never bothered me before and I can usually eat the spiciest food with no problem.

Congrats to the Drummaster

The Drummaster will be working for a company I greatly respect and admire. It is the wish of every Uncle that their nieces and nephews exceed their old man. I am even more proud that he got the job on his own without asking me to pull strings.

I went to visit the beloved Sprite and the Tranquil Sea. My health has been crappy the last two weeks and I have been to work a total of one day. I had a wonderful tie with the Sprite whose love and smile makes my day. I really enjoy going out as a family more than anything in the world. Unfortunately, I had a relapse and am resting in bed.
My lungs and stomach are still bothering me and I still have to be careful with what I eat. Sadly the one small piece of curried chicken was enough to make me ill. I tried to
explain that I am not up to it. The Tranquil Sea was offended and I had a small piece
and now my stomach is shot. At least for now I can eat soft grains like plain rice and a broth.

Maybe Muslims Need to Talk To Their Own

We have grown accustomed to Muslims burning the flags. It is almost a routine story that has become a cliche. We have seen several Muslim Snuff films such as the Daniel Pearl tape. We have seen Muslims desecrating the bodies of the dead.

I am not in favor of burning any books. However, I am in favor of using volumes of Marx, Trotsky and so forth as toilet paper. If Muslims wish to live in the West it does not allow them to negate the free speech of others. Burning a Flag, Koran and so forth is a stupid thing to do. However, the First Amendment does allow for this sort of stupidity. If IQ and sanity requirements were added than people like Duckkky who have never had an intelligent comment would need to move to North Korea.

If Muslims wish to exist in Western Civilization than some norms can need to be expected. Muslims need to act as adults and not go postal at every stupid comment such as the idiocy after the Islamic riots after a quip about beauty pagents in Nigeria.

There are a few brave voices of reason like Wafa Sultan who has in no uncertain tones pointed at the snuff films made by radicals as being an abomination. Her voice is one of a handful that discusses the pathological elements within Islam without spin.

Smithereens

It is another 9-11 and every year I tell me story of an ordinary man in the vortex of the winds of history. I am not a hero just an ordinary man in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On September 11 the greatest war crime in the history of the USA was perpetrated by thugs clearly acting in the name of Islam. It was not the first time I went through this, but none of us took the 93 bombing seriously. If we want to be technical most of the key players from the earlier blast including Sheik Rahman were present at the trial of the killing of Meir Kahane.

The media has gone out of the way to portray previous acts of terrorism by Muslims as
the acts of insane lunatics. The notion that a group of people were planning war crimes against the American people was discounted. The 93 blast which I survived was portrayed as the work of Keystone Terrorists. Bill Clinton did not visit the site after 9-11. The matter was handled by domestic law enforcement and no serious attempt was made to get members of a wider network.

The media has run with this theme in a series of crime after crime. The killer of Ari Halberstam, The Beltway Snipers, The Ft Shrink, The Massacre at the El AL LA counter are all portrayed as mental defectives with no Islamic factor.

The media and the administration was seriously concerned with the anger of the American people after 9-11. A series of lies that Islam was the religion of Peace and that the religion was spread by trade. The administration made a series of gestures to so called moderates who were not moderate. The media let CAIR and other groups get away with BS and word games. The images of Arabs celebrating the deaths of Americans after 9-11 were quickly pulled off the air. Even the alleged moderate Ground Zero Mosque leader blamed the USA for promoting Bin Ladden. The leader of the Mosque conveniently repeated Communist Propaganda and forgot that our man in Afghanistan was killed on 9-10 by the butchers of Al Queda.

Communists were immediately starting Jewish conspiracy rumors at their rally in Union Square. While the stench of burning evil was in the air commies once again stabbed America on the Saturday after 9-11 when the city was still talking about 30,000 dead commies mocked the dead and blamed the Jews. I was at that rally and saw the entire spectacle.

None of us wanted to see innocent people beaten up and persecuted. However, the lies and distortion that Islam is peace and fake sanctimonious moderates is not what America deserved or wanted. The American people are fed up with the lies of the MSM and the government and slimy moderates who say one thing in English and another in Arabic. What the American people needed to see was a Muslim leader like Stephen Schwartz who states point blank in every language terrorism anywhere is wrong. Instead we got CAIR and rationalizations rather than an apology. Arab states continued the double game and allowed money to reach terrorists.

So now we come to the current era where Muslims feel that they have a right to place a Mosque on the site of the greatest war crime committed against the American people. This is not a mosque built by and for the local community. This is an oversized funny foreign money created abomination that is legal but in bad taste.
When those of us who live and work in the area point out a mosque built by and for the local community has existed in the area since 1970 with no fanfare or objections
the usual subjects yawn.

Donald Trump made a generous offer and the sleazy slumlord Imam says no. Governor Patterson offered to swap land and the Imam says no. The Imam has tied the fate of Islam in America to his oversized ego and claims if the mosque is not built there radicals will use it as an excuse to violence. America should not yield to threats from loonies who use every excuse to justify violence except Miracle Whip shortages
in their criminal quest.

Part of me just feels that other than the folks at the CIP that the American people are being played in a game of good cop bad cop by the Islamic community leaders. Yield to every outrageous demand or we can't be responsible for the radicals whom we rationalize and play word games with.

I want to point out that I disagree with those who support the project but want to separate Michael Bloomberg who talks of America being true to its values and grasps the real objections of many who grasps that legal is not always in good taste or optimal. I will contrast this with the sanctimonious communist Duck, who will side with any and every enemy of the American people. I will contrast this with some condescending types at large blogs who regularly portray Americans as backwards and bigoted and get postal when called on their hypocrisy. I did apologize for the personal dimension. However, persons that regularly insult the American people as a backwards bigoted mob really need to look at their tone.

We will likely lose this battle but the big one is in November. It is time to end the funny money game with overseas money going to American religious and educational institutions. No more paid professorships for bug eyed loonies, no more mosques built by questionable sources and close scrutiny of religious workers.

Oddly, a weakened Obama might have to learn to work with others and attempt to be Presidential. If the losses are severe look for Biden to be a scapegoat and Hillary to be elevated to VP to keep her from jumping ship.

Next year it will be ten years. I never want to go through anything like 9-11 again.
Two times is enough.

I will be spending the day with loved ones. I really should remain in bed until my strength is better. Unfortunately, the Sprite needs me and my priority is loved ones before protests. I have just started solid food and my ribs were healed enough for a few good sneezes.

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Don't Ask Don't Tell Tossed

The Clinton Era policy was ruled Unconstitutional in a Court ruling in California. It would be better if a smarter policy was constructed Don't Care act with dignity. The truth is that most people don't care who is not gay. Just comport yourself with dignity and decorum.

In truth the issues of gender and preference in the work place are more confused and convoluted than ever. Women are granted very wide latitude in dress code. In my office men are required to wear a tie five days a week even when the heat index is over 100 and no visitors are present. Men have complained with some legitimacy that women can go to work in a sundress, but we can not remove our ties ever. Now if a man decided to wear a sundress he would not be acting with professionalism.

Many jobs do indeed have restrictions that can result in termination over matters in our private lives that have nothing to do with our jobs. In theory a person moonlighting as a WWE Wrestler, an arrest for DWI or a public scandal could result in termination of federal employment. Now if Bob is living with a same sex partner it isn't my business and I do not care. Similarly, if person X is committing adultery with a non coworker it is not my business. However, if the person is a coworker than serious legal issues may have been violated. There are those that would argue that a coworker moonlighting as Siegfried the Shmendrick in the WWE would create integrity issues, but I see this as low brow comedy.

In truth the atmosphere towards gays is often very lacking. People should get severely disciplined for using racial, ethnic or homophobic slurs. However, in reality only the dreaded N word is enforced. People who would end a career over an imagined slight will use the F term for gays and brag of their "gaydar" without a reservation. As a person who worked in the fashion industry for decades I am rather amused by people who claim that one can tell a persons preference by vocation. I endured this in Vermont with a nutty local who insisted because of my prior vocation, interests in art and theater as well and having lived in Soho deduced that I must be gay. A horrified HR person had a long talk with the person. I explained that as a NYC resident being gay is not a big deal.

I do not like the presence of laws that encourage otherwise law abiding citizens to break the law. Some of the worst asylum cases one sees are issues where people face abuse because of who they are. I would be much happier to live in a world where there would be no need for Lambda legal, but sadly there is. One of the oddities in the VAWA act is that it provides protections for heterosexuals, but none for gays. A very respected senior official said "abuse is abuse and someday I hope the law changes". I agree with her 100 percent.

The truth is that a coworker who is gay does not impact my job in any way. I will contrast this with enduring a coworker who is a vegan who calls my diet " the toe tag diet". I have been off full calorie soda for about five years. One of the oddities is that after this new sickness it appears that I can no longer handle carbonated beverages without horrible pain. I got a lecture about Hawaiian Punch but as I have great difficulty with solid food at the moment it is no big deal. The soup in the cafeteria was unfit for human consumption even by my low standards. However, I got a long lecture about Hawaiian Punch, Gator Aide and everything else. I am somewhat better and can eat 90% food that is scratchy like potato chips and nuts are still too painful.

We make all types of reasonable accommodations in the work place. I doubt that any of us would object to Kosher, Halal or Vegetarian meals at a party. None of us object to religious head coverings, facial hair in accordance with religious beliefs, appropriate alterations of dress policy. Do note I am not allowed to wear sunglasses while addressing the public. Similarly a person wishing to interact with the public while wearing a burkha would create similar issues. Now I do grasp that the military is a different situation, but the matter should only be addressed if problems arise. In a normal job gays require zero reasonable accommodations.

We will probably be a better society when we move to "Don't care and show some class".