ITEM:
Read this crap:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20080729/pl_rasmussen/demvp20080729
It is a story about potential Obama VP candidates…. It is supposedly based on a “nationwide poll”… of the interns working there this summer and their friends they text all day…WOW!! That wacky “Generation Text”! Anyway, the same usual names show up…. Hillary & The “Breck Girl”, John Edwards. Yet, in this story that broke today about this “Nationwide Poll”, they failed to mention John Edwards little run in with the press of the National Enquirer.
What? You haven’t heard about it? I heard about it on a local AM stations news when the story broke a few weeks ago….. and that was IT! I guess it isn’t really news, right? I mean, his wife does have the “BIG “K””, cancer, right? And to most all Demoncrats, this cheating on your wife is just simple, normal everyday operating procedure. Hell, in their eyes, it probably shows he is indeed Presidential Timber! What’s the big deal, right? Everyone does it right? That is who these Demoncrats look for in their leaders, to them, that is neat sh*t, so SO WHAT, right?
I guess that explains his “rise in the polls” here recently…THIS is what they want in a leader.
And NO, my dear liberal scum… EVERYONE didn’t do it. President Ronald Reagan had so much respect for the Oval Office and the institution of The Presidency, he wouldn’t even remove his jacket in the Oval Office. Ronald Reagan…remember him? He was always booed when he went to Europe…. He was always heckled and the demonstrators would throw trash at him. And he wouldn’t get cool bands to play concerts at his rallies and junk.
In case you care to peek at it…. Here is the Natl. Enquirer story about the BRECK GIRL, John Edwards:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sen_john_edwards_caught_with_mistress_and_love_child_in_la_hotel/celebrity/65193
ITEM:
I was saddened to hear about Robert Novak contracting cancer. I was lucky enough to meet him once in Des Moines, Iowa in 1987. This was all pre-Rush Limbaugh days…. And to us Young Conservatives, Robert Novak was THE MAN!!!! Anyway, it was late on a Saturday night, I was coming back to my hotel, and Mr. Novak was just leaving the lounge. He graciously stopped and posed for a picture with me. What was one minute to him, was a lifetime to me…. And I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for him.
And a dear friend of my Father’s back in Wichita, KS, we just found out, was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus this past Friday. DETECTIVE JOHN GARRISON. He was a lifelong member of the Wichita Police Department, and any of you amateur sleuths out there that researched & read up on BTK will recognize his name. He was there from practically Day One investigating the Otero Murders. He is mentioned in both Stephen Singualar’s & Robert Beattie’s books (as well as pictured too!). Get Well Soon Detective Garrison! I have so much enjoyed our email correspondences the last 3 years & look forward to many, many more!
ITEM:
IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO TODAY…… July 29, 1988… .I first set foot on Soviet soil. It was the trip of a lifetime! Something I will write about more, later… but something totally made possible by my family and my Grandmother’s. I flew from Wichita to New York…. New York to Helsinki and a train from Helsinki to Moscow. I’ll never forget that feeling as the train stopped at the Soviet Border and seeing those giant guard towers growing high into the trees, and hearing the CLUNK as the wheels of our train were adjusted to the different gauge of the Russian train tracks.
More on that later
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
July 17, 2008 - Drug Talk
I was just sitting here during a break shooting the breeze with my good buddy #3….. he became a Father exactly 8 years ago today, congratulations to him & his little snowflake. As we were talking, my iTunes started to play (in it’s entirety) the Motley Crue over looked and classic, THEATRE OF PAIN. If one was to put a gun to my head and say you HAVE to take a Motley Crue lp with you to a desert island, it would be THEATRE OF PAIN, no question.
Anyway, we were talking about Crue and their legacy and the conversation eventually turned to drugs…. I wonder if Crue even remembers recording that LP? I have heard they barely remember GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS…. Can’t say I blame them, even though it does contain one of their best songs, WILDSIDE. Anyway, it is such a shame that so many delve into drugs, and so many destroy themselves because of them. Sure, I guess it is human nature that folks will always try to alter their consciousness to some degree….little children will spin around and around to make themselves dizzy and fall over, there is a rush that is received by riding a roller coaster, I guess….. but after so many years, it saddens me to see the amount of lives ruined by drugs. I see so many people and wonder “what if?” and ask “why?”
Sure, I am going to sound hypocritical here, I think Aerosmith and Eric Clapton were better when they were junkies, they made some amazing music…. But WHAT IF? What had they kept their noses clean…LITERALLY? Would DRAW THE LINE and NIGHT IN THE RUTS be the awesome lps they are? What about Ol’ Slowhand? Listen to all that over the top jamming we here on LIVE CREAM during NSU…. What awesome songs were on that BLIND FAITH lp…. Would we have ever heard a 2nd Blind Faith lp where perhaps the pieces began to gel a little more? Same could be asked about DEREK & THE DOMINOES.
And could THE ROSSINGTON-COLLINS Band been the successors to Skynyrd’s throne? The 2 lps they did were pretty mediocre, and that whole time period seemed to be mired in drug use & abuse…. Sure they were probably still hurting and their mentor & guiding light, Ronnie was gone…. But to me, looking back on that period, and someone who was a fan and saw The R-C Band a couple of times, it just wreaks of failure and wasted time. Perhaps it just wasn’t meant to be. Had the plane crash never happened, would Skynyrd still have been putting out lps in 1983? Would Steve Gaines taken over as one of the primary forces in the band? Would Allen or Gary have been sacked because of drug abuse? You know Ronnie had sobered up in the year before his death, due to the birth of his daughter Melody.
Perhaps it was all never meant to be. But was it because of drugs? Maybe…probably. As much as the FLOWER POWER GENERATION and all the liberal scum that are now in positions of authority like to spout off how much they were right back then, how they were correct in that ALL WE NEED IS LOVE, how we need to GIVE PEACE A CHANCE & WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER, there is one thing they were totally, unconditionally 100% wrong on… and that was drugs. I know… talk like that is not cool…. And this will be interpreted as I am just trying to tell people how to live their lives and force my way down other people’s lives…. Nope, not the case…. Not even close. I am simply saying it saddens me to see people destroying their lives with them.
It makes me think back to 2 stories I remember from “Back in the Day”. The first is from a member of the 80’s band RATT… he talked about how hard it was adjusting to life on the road, how easy it was to fall into that mire of parties & drugs, and how they would pull into town and there would be all these people at the hotel and at the arena “Looking for the Party”….. and how in most cases, THEY (Ratt) were the party! What a horrible way to go through life….. people so totally void of anything of any substance in their lives, all they can do is wait for RATT to get to town on a Tuesday so they can get high, and …..perhaps hanging around with some one who is on TV and is on the radio will validate their life some….perhaps. If only they could get close enough to touch the hem of their garment!
Then Thursday, Motley Crue is in town…..
and Friday is Aerosmith……
Saturday is Stone Temple Pilots
Sunday is Skynyrd… and the treadmill continues.
The other story is one that former bass player for Jane’s Addiction, Eric A tells. They were in Europe in early 1991 touring behind the “Ritual de lo Habitual” lp. Eric and Perry Farrell (the lead singer) weren’t talking to each other at all! And to further complicate things, Eric was trying desperately to clean his self up and get off drugs. So every time they pulled into a city, he would find a museum, usually an art museum, and spend the day exploring it! It got him out, it got him to see the city they were in and learn something about it, and it kept him away from Perry who spent the entire day on the bus smoking hash. What a waste! You are given the opportunity to see the world and instead you spend the entire time inside altering your consciousness with drugs.
I have heard similar stories like Perry’s about Motley Crue, Aerosmith & many professional wrestlers who got to go to Japan, Europe and travel all over North America as well. I am sure there are many, many more, but I think that is highly commendable of Eric A. I am sure that here, 17 years later, he is a much happier person than Perry is.
I guess just consider the source….. most of those folks aren’t terribly intelligent in the first place.
I used to do the same thing myself when I would travel to go see The Grateful Dead in the early 90’s…. I would always go to some city that I never had been to before and while there, see the place. I went to the Bay Area twice, Louisville, KY, Pittsburgh & Las Vegas to name a few places. And I always had fun, as did the folks I would go with. Heck, what is the point of travelling to see the Dead if all you wanna do is camp out and stay high?
Oh well, to each their own.
Anyway, we were talking about Crue and their legacy and the conversation eventually turned to drugs…. I wonder if Crue even remembers recording that LP? I have heard they barely remember GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS…. Can’t say I blame them, even though it does contain one of their best songs, WILDSIDE. Anyway, it is such a shame that so many delve into drugs, and so many destroy themselves because of them. Sure, I guess it is human nature that folks will always try to alter their consciousness to some degree….little children will spin around and around to make themselves dizzy and fall over, there is a rush that is received by riding a roller coaster, I guess….. but after so many years, it saddens me to see the amount of lives ruined by drugs. I see so many people and wonder “what if?” and ask “why?”
Sure, I am going to sound hypocritical here, I think Aerosmith and Eric Clapton were better when they were junkies, they made some amazing music…. But WHAT IF? What had they kept their noses clean…LITERALLY? Would DRAW THE LINE and NIGHT IN THE RUTS be the awesome lps they are? What about Ol’ Slowhand? Listen to all that over the top jamming we here on LIVE CREAM during NSU…. What awesome songs were on that BLIND FAITH lp…. Would we have ever heard a 2nd Blind Faith lp where perhaps the pieces began to gel a little more? Same could be asked about DEREK & THE DOMINOES.
And could THE ROSSINGTON-COLLINS Band been the successors to Skynyrd’s throne? The 2 lps they did were pretty mediocre, and that whole time period seemed to be mired in drug use & abuse…. Sure they were probably still hurting and their mentor & guiding light, Ronnie was gone…. But to me, looking back on that period, and someone who was a fan and saw The R-C Band a couple of times, it just wreaks of failure and wasted time. Perhaps it just wasn’t meant to be. Had the plane crash never happened, would Skynyrd still have been putting out lps in 1983? Would Steve Gaines taken over as one of the primary forces in the band? Would Allen or Gary have been sacked because of drug abuse? You know Ronnie had sobered up in the year before his death, due to the birth of his daughter Melody.
Perhaps it was all never meant to be. But was it because of drugs? Maybe…probably. As much as the FLOWER POWER GENERATION and all the liberal scum that are now in positions of authority like to spout off how much they were right back then, how they were correct in that ALL WE NEED IS LOVE, how we need to GIVE PEACE A CHANCE & WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER, there is one thing they were totally, unconditionally 100% wrong on… and that was drugs. I know… talk like that is not cool…. And this will be interpreted as I am just trying to tell people how to live their lives and force my way down other people’s lives…. Nope, not the case…. Not even close. I am simply saying it saddens me to see people destroying their lives with them.
It makes me think back to 2 stories I remember from “Back in the Day”. The first is from a member of the 80’s band RATT… he talked about how hard it was adjusting to life on the road, how easy it was to fall into that mire of parties & drugs, and how they would pull into town and there would be all these people at the hotel and at the arena “Looking for the Party”….. and how in most cases, THEY (Ratt) were the party! What a horrible way to go through life….. people so totally void of anything of any substance in their lives, all they can do is wait for RATT to get to town on a Tuesday so they can get high, and …..perhaps hanging around with some one who is on TV and is on the radio will validate their life some….perhaps. If only they could get close enough to touch the hem of their garment!
Then Thursday, Motley Crue is in town…..
and Friday is Aerosmith……
Saturday is Stone Temple Pilots
Sunday is Skynyrd… and the treadmill continues.
The other story is one that former bass player for Jane’s Addiction, Eric A tells. They were in Europe in early 1991 touring behind the “Ritual de lo Habitual” lp. Eric and Perry Farrell (the lead singer) weren’t talking to each other at all! And to further complicate things, Eric was trying desperately to clean his self up and get off drugs. So every time they pulled into a city, he would find a museum, usually an art museum, and spend the day exploring it! It got him out, it got him to see the city they were in and learn something about it, and it kept him away from Perry who spent the entire day on the bus smoking hash. What a waste! You are given the opportunity to see the world and instead you spend the entire time inside altering your consciousness with drugs.
I have heard similar stories like Perry’s about Motley Crue, Aerosmith & many professional wrestlers who got to go to Japan, Europe and travel all over North America as well. I am sure there are many, many more, but I think that is highly commendable of Eric A. I am sure that here, 17 years later, he is a much happier person than Perry is.
I guess just consider the source….. most of those folks aren’t terribly intelligent in the first place.
I used to do the same thing myself when I would travel to go see The Grateful Dead in the early 90’s…. I would always go to some city that I never had been to before and while there, see the place. I went to the Bay Area twice, Louisville, KY, Pittsburgh & Las Vegas to name a few places. And I always had fun, as did the folks I would go with. Heck, what is the point of travelling to see the Dead if all you wanna do is camp out and stay high?
Oh well, to each their own.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
July 16, 2008 - absence of Leadership
At the end of a previous blog, I posed the question: Where are the next Reagan’s?” Where are the “Reagan’s” that my little brothers, nephews & nieces will grow up with? Who will be their Reagans? Just as there were FDR’s for my Grandmother’s generation, Eisenhower’s for my parents & Ronaldus Maximus for me, this exposes a problem that has bothered me for awhile now… the absence of leadership in current day politics.
I once heard Sammy Hagar say that he felt one of the reasons Reagan was so popular was that Reagan actually believed in something. He did! And he let people know it! Reagan actually STOOD FOR SOMETHING!!!! And though it may not have been what you agreed with, one had to give him credit that he stood FOR SOMETHING…..unlike today’s politicians….all of which must first wet their index finger, hold it up and see which way the political winds are blowing…..heaven forbid we make one person upset with us…… perhaps it is best to toss out the baby with the bathwater, right?
We saw President Bush 43 take the bull by the horns in the days and months after 9-11, when once again, the wolf didn’t pass by the door…. And he should be commended for that. Yet in the last couple of years, we have NOT seen that from him…. A perfect example of that was in the days after the VA TECH Massacre of April 2007. Not that it is exactly the President’s duty to make an issue of something like that, but his pansy non-statement and his vanilla remarks were most telling… THERE & THEN was a time he could have seized the moment and shown some muscle. Nope… he failed.
So let’s be realistic, though I will not be voting for either, McCain or Obama will be sworn in this January to succeed President Bush. The lesser of two evils you say? Well, as Ayn Rand said, “The lesser of two evils is still evil”, and in this case, I am not quite sure which one of the two is more evil? Are either of them our next Reagan? HARDLY!!! Both are the typical Senate wishy-washers who always have & always will hold that precious moist finger to the air to see which way the political winds blow. Instead of consulting the US Constitution for direction and legality, they will wait for a Gallup/CNN poll to find out what 51% of the people want. Do either of them have the charisma to lead? Not in my opinion. Obama delivers a helluva speech, and that will probably be enough…..nevermind he doesn’t say anything of any substance at all…. But the fact that he (and McCain will do this too) both come out between now & November to let the American people know they are both:
1) for jobs
2) they both support education
3) both want a strong America, and finally
4) both were against 9-11
And the great number of uninformed voters will walk away with just that. When they are quizzed, they will say: “I am voting for Obama/McCain.” Then when you ask them why, they will say: “well, he is for jobs…. He supports education…. He wants a strong America…. And he felt the same way I did after 9-11!” If pressed, they may add that Obama is a good orator or something to the likes of that. Oh, how could I forget? Obama is for CHANGE. Ever hear of a guy named V.I. Lenin? He was for change as well….. he advocated change & talked about it a lot. He finally came to power in Russia….. no, he did not overthrow the Czar, he overthrew a democratically elected parliament (the Czar abdicated in Feb. of 1917, the Revolution was in Oct. of 1917, according to the old style Julian Calendar).
Change for change’s sake, right?
Revolution for the hell of it, right?
PS: Back in 2004, I asked A LOT of people who they were voting for in the Presidential election…. And when they told me who, I would ask them “why?” Of ALL but just one of the people I asked that responded “John Kerry”, when asked why, here is what they would say:
Because George W. Bush is a Nazi!
Because George W. is retarded!
Because George W. Bush was selected not elected!
Because Bush lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction!
Because Bush (insert other misunderstood point they heard on David Letterman or the Jon Stewart show here) If Letterman, Leno, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert said it, it has to be true!!!! And usually, THAT was the ONLY source of news & current events for these poor unconscious individuals.
NO ONE, but one person, could tell me WHY they were voting for John Kerry, they only told me WHY they were not voting for George W. Bush. I guess if Charles Manson had been running that year, he too, would have received the 48% of the vote John Kerry did, the way it sounded. The one person who told me why they were voting for John Kerry, and actually told me why, was my Step Mother, Barbara….. she never once offered me up some nonsense about WMD’s or he knew about 9-11, etc
I once heard Sammy Hagar say that he felt one of the reasons Reagan was so popular was that Reagan actually believed in something. He did! And he let people know it! Reagan actually STOOD FOR SOMETHING!!!! And though it may not have been what you agreed with, one had to give him credit that he stood FOR SOMETHING…..unlike today’s politicians….all of which must first wet their index finger, hold it up and see which way the political winds are blowing…..heaven forbid we make one person upset with us…… perhaps it is best to toss out the baby with the bathwater, right?
We saw President Bush 43 take the bull by the horns in the days and months after 9-11, when once again, the wolf didn’t pass by the door…. And he should be commended for that. Yet in the last couple of years, we have NOT seen that from him…. A perfect example of that was in the days after the VA TECH Massacre of April 2007. Not that it is exactly the President’s duty to make an issue of something like that, but his pansy non-statement and his vanilla remarks were most telling… THERE & THEN was a time he could have seized the moment and shown some muscle. Nope… he failed.
So let’s be realistic, though I will not be voting for either, McCain or Obama will be sworn in this January to succeed President Bush. The lesser of two evils you say? Well, as Ayn Rand said, “The lesser of two evils is still evil”, and in this case, I am not quite sure which one of the two is more evil? Are either of them our next Reagan? HARDLY!!! Both are the typical Senate wishy-washers who always have & always will hold that precious moist finger to the air to see which way the political winds blow. Instead of consulting the US Constitution for direction and legality, they will wait for a Gallup/CNN poll to find out what 51% of the people want. Do either of them have the charisma to lead? Not in my opinion. Obama delivers a helluva speech, and that will probably be enough…..nevermind he doesn’t say anything of any substance at all…. But the fact that he (and McCain will do this too) both come out between now & November to let the American people know they are both:
1) for jobs
2) they both support education
3) both want a strong America, and finally
4) both were against 9-11
And the great number of uninformed voters will walk away with just that. When they are quizzed, they will say: “I am voting for Obama/McCain.” Then when you ask them why, they will say: “well, he is for jobs…. He supports education…. He wants a strong America…. And he felt the same way I did after 9-11!” If pressed, they may add that Obama is a good orator or something to the likes of that. Oh, how could I forget? Obama is for CHANGE. Ever hear of a guy named V.I. Lenin? He was for change as well….. he advocated change & talked about it a lot. He finally came to power in Russia….. no, he did not overthrow the Czar, he overthrew a democratically elected parliament (the Czar abdicated in Feb. of 1917, the Revolution was in Oct. of 1917, according to the old style Julian Calendar).
Change for change’s sake, right?
Revolution for the hell of it, right?
PS: Back in 2004, I asked A LOT of people who they were voting for in the Presidential election…. And when they told me who, I would ask them “why?” Of ALL but just one of the people I asked that responded “John Kerry”, when asked why, here is what they would say:
Because George W. Bush is a Nazi!
Because George W. is retarded!
Because George W. Bush was selected not elected!
Because Bush lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction!
Because Bush (insert other misunderstood point they heard on David Letterman or the Jon Stewart show here) If Letterman, Leno, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert said it, it has to be true!!!! And usually, THAT was the ONLY source of news & current events for these poor unconscious individuals.
NO ONE, but one person, could tell me WHY they were voting for John Kerry, they only told me WHY they were not voting for George W. Bush. I guess if Charles Manson had been running that year, he too, would have received the 48% of the vote John Kerry did, the way it sounded. The one person who told me why they were voting for John Kerry, and actually told me why, was my Step Mother, Barbara….. she never once offered me up some nonsense about WMD’s or he knew about 9-11, etc
Monday, July 14, 2008
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