Your editorial this morning ( Oct.27) " Buchanan leaves the fold" at least refrained from that silly Nazi smear. Buchanan's opinion that the two party system is a " snare and a delusion and a fraud on the nation " is nothing new: This was the sacred dogma of the Old Left - and even the New Left in the rebellious 60s.
Where is it written in the Constitution that we must have a two party system ? And it is quite true from a LEFT perspective that both the Democrat and Republican parties support capitalist " free enterprise " .
The horrible failure of EVERY society that boldly proclaimed itself to be Communist -and the horrific collapse of the Soviet Union - now make us take world capitalism for granted. Would the American people even think about voting for Capitalism ?
Third parties - pro or anti- capitalist - have a right to exist. And the cards should not be stacked against them. They must be allowed to succeed or fail on the basis of the political reality check - a fair election.
Who says that money must win every important election ? Often enough the right ideas will win !
My grandfather, a Providence cop in the Depression years, thought that FDR and the New Deal made all the difference in the world to the working class. He had a family of five to support in those dreadful years.
Of course there is still a difference between the Republican and the Democratic party. But neither party has a monopoly on political wisdom. And there is room for a viable third party.
To make a third party possible is Pat Buchanan's real crime - not any flirtation with Nazism .
Thursday, October 28, 1999
HAIL PAT ! WE NEED YOU !
That super-rich phony Donald Trump wants to be president of the U.S. so he can better protect the interests -now supra-national- of the super rich who -like good old fashioned communists - dismiss all varities of PATRIOTISM as hopelessly parochial.
No wonder Pat - whom I cannot quite support but do admire- now recognizes the need for a third part which will at least give a voice to blue collar America- which has as much right to be angry and rebellious as our politically correct victims.
Trump lies about Populist Pat: " He's a Hitler lover, I guess he's an anti-Semite. He doesn't like the blacks, he doesn't like the gays."( Projo, page A7- Oct. 26 )
Trump has no more right to GUESS that Buchanan is a Nazi than I have to GUESS that Trump is a wife beater or a child molester. Just the facts please !
It is a FACT that Hitler gained power by understanding the soul of Germany in the hellish 1920s. Does Pat Buchanan have a profound insight into the American soul at the millennium ?
Only moralizing charlatans profess to like everybody. Do we like people just because they are Jews or blacks or latinos or gay ? No, we like INDIVIDUALS for our own idiosyncratic reasons. It helps, of course,if THEY like US !
A greedy international capitalist never saw a race or human type that he did not like to exploit or bamboozle.
HAIL PAT ! WE NEED YOU !
No wonder Pat - whom I cannot quite support but do admire- now recognizes the need for a third part which will at least give a voice to blue collar America- which has as much right to be angry and rebellious as our politically correct victims.
Trump lies about Populist Pat: " He's a Hitler lover, I guess he's an anti-Semite. He doesn't like the blacks, he doesn't like the gays."( Projo, page A7- Oct. 26 )
Trump has no more right to GUESS that Buchanan is a Nazi than I have to GUESS that Trump is a wife beater or a child molester. Just the facts please !
It is a FACT that Hitler gained power by understanding the soul of Germany in the hellish 1920s. Does Pat Buchanan have a profound insight into the American soul at the millennium ?
Only moralizing charlatans profess to like everybody. Do we like people just because they are Jews or blacks or latinos or gay ? No, we like INDIVIDUALS for our own idiosyncratic reasons. It helps, of course,if THEY like US !
A greedy international capitalist never saw a race or human type that he did not like to exploit or bamboozle.
HAIL PAT ! WE NEED YOU !
Monday, October 25, 1999
$200 -a big deal for a bureaucracy!
Bob, I just read your column. Of course,it makes great sense to help poor people help themselves. Who will hire you for a job if you just look like you need one ?
A paltry $200 would help the job seeker to at least look presentable. The desperate look is decidedly unattractive in the job market.
It would be wiser to spend that $200 -if granted - in the numerous second hand clothes shops - than buy 4 items at Ann & Hope or the K-Mart - CHEAP places !
An enormous bureaucratic expense is the assumption that most poor people are dishonest. Hence the mountains of paper work and the humiliating interrogation -the long delay - before the so called welfare state will give the poor guy or gal a nickel !
It would be saner to just loan ANY job seeker a paltry sum of money - which can be paid back in the near future. A valid ID - even an expired drivers license - should suffice for the necessary paper work.
Perhaps we need less supercilious bureaucrats and more COMMON SENSE in government.
POVERTY -more than RACE or SEX or SEXUAL ORIENTATION - will make you a second class citizen.
POVERTY is equal opportunity humiliation ! It says that black, white , yellow , gay or straight - you are mierda !
A paltry $200 would help the job seeker to at least look presentable. The desperate look is decidedly unattractive in the job market.
It would be wiser to spend that $200 -if granted - in the numerous second hand clothes shops - than buy 4 items at Ann & Hope or the K-Mart - CHEAP places !
An enormous bureaucratic expense is the assumption that most poor people are dishonest. Hence the mountains of paper work and the humiliating interrogation -the long delay - before the so called welfare state will give the poor guy or gal a nickel !
It would be saner to just loan ANY job seeker a paltry sum of money - which can be paid back in the near future. A valid ID - even an expired drivers license - should suffice for the necessary paper work.
Perhaps we need less supercilious bureaucrats and more COMMON SENSE in government.
POVERTY -more than RACE or SEX or SEXUAL ORIENTATION - will make you a second class citizen.
POVERTY is equal opportunity humiliation ! It says that black, white , yellow , gay or straight - you are mierda !
Sunday, October 24, 1999
Babies aren't "miracles " anymore !
Happy as a pig in manure, Larry King of TV fame is a father again at age 65. His wife,Shawn, is 38- a little " tired " for the baby making years. We read in the paper that Larry is " reinventing manhood ". Here we can be sure that money and ego is a bigger factor than MACHO in procreating the race.
I'm convinced that fatherhood changes a man as profoundly as motherhood changes a woman - but alas - too often for the worse: It makes him more possessive. more greedy, more aggressive, more full of himself egotistical - and more boorish. Happy fatherhood ! In a world that has just passed the 6 billion mark !
The reckless reproduction of the human race is itself a crime against humanity. How can human dignity be preserved in an over-crowded, ecologically devastated world ?
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby was just plain NUTS to welcome baby 6 billion into the world . " Be fruitful and multiply ! " saith the Lord.
But when will He command us to stop ?
I'm convinced that fatherhood changes a man as profoundly as motherhood changes a woman - but alas - too often for the worse: It makes him more possessive. more greedy, more aggressive, more full of himself egotistical - and more boorish. Happy fatherhood ! In a world that has just passed the 6 billion mark !
The reckless reproduction of the human race is itself a crime against humanity. How can human dignity be preserved in an over-crowded, ecologically devastated world ?
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby was just plain NUTS to welcome baby 6 billion into the world . " Be fruitful and multiply ! " saith the Lord.
But when will He command us to stop ?
Saturday, October 23, 1999
Animal rights - FREE THE BEARS !
" Depressed bears to get herbal remedy" ( in the news) Naturally, if the " depressed" bears in the Beardsley Zoo, Connecticut, could talk, they would sound like our beloved ex-president, Ronald Reagan :
" Freedom is better!... yes, freedom is better than the abject security of a prison society. " ( ? )
Of course, Dutch himself never sounded like an animal rights fanatic. But I'll risk that here !
Abolish the zoos! We no longer need them to educate city folk about the wonders of LIFE ON EARTH. Television and film - like the National Geographic series- do a far better job.
The bears , Nikki and No Oreja, need the freedom of the wild more than St. John's wort. Good advice for humans too: Better to be free than let drugs like Prozac reconcile you to a miserable life of slavery and drudgery.
Last night I dreamed about " Skipper " - our beloved family dog,now ten years dead. He was licking me on the face- a wild " bum " of a dog till the end .
The dream was his way of sending me a message:
Free the bears ! Abolish zoos !
" Freedom is better!... yes, freedom is better than the abject security of a prison society. " ( ? )
Of course, Dutch himself never sounded like an animal rights fanatic. But I'll risk that here !
Abolish the zoos! We no longer need them to educate city folk about the wonders of LIFE ON EARTH. Television and film - like the National Geographic series- do a far better job.
The bears , Nikki and No Oreja, need the freedom of the wild more than St. John's wort. Good advice for humans too: Better to be free than let drugs like Prozac reconcile you to a miserable life of slavery and drudgery.
Last night I dreamed about " Skipper " - our beloved family dog,now ten years dead. He was licking me on the face- a wild " bum " of a dog till the end .
The dream was his way of sending me a message:
Free the bears ! Abolish zoos !
Thursday, October 21, 1999
Thus saith the Lord !
According to Stephen Allen of Lincoln ( letter, Oct.20 ) , Leviticus is the last word on the " abomination " of homosexuality : " You shall not lie with a male as with a a woman. "
Of course, it is physically impossible to lie with a male as with a female. The gay partners must make adjustments! Does Allen also consult the Bible for prescribed sexual positions ? Is anal and oral sex as much an abomination for heterosexuals as homosexuals ?
Shall all sexual non-conformists be put to death ? Even the loathsome masturbators ? According to Marx Twain , more than a few passages in the Bible excited the masturbator. It was therefore a favorite bathroom book !
Homosexuals are obnoxious when they push their agenda, when they imagine that they can mainstream themselves, when they lobby for special privileges - like " hate crime " laws.
But their private sex life is their own business. And in fact they should spare the rest of us the sleazy details.
In many ways the Holy Bible has done more harm than
Hitler's " Mein Kampf " . Perhaps it should be banned in Israel!
Of course, it is physically impossible to lie with a male as with a female. The gay partners must make adjustments! Does Allen also consult the Bible for prescribed sexual positions ? Is anal and oral sex as much an abomination for heterosexuals as homosexuals ?
Shall all sexual non-conformists be put to death ? Even the loathsome masturbators ? According to Marx Twain , more than a few passages in the Bible excited the masturbator. It was therefore a favorite bathroom book !
Homosexuals are obnoxious when they push their agenda, when they imagine that they can mainstream themselves, when they lobby for special privileges - like " hate crime " laws.
But their private sex life is their own business. And in fact they should spare the rest of us the sleazy details.
In many ways the Holy Bible has done more harm than
Hitler's " Mein Kampf " . Perhaps it should be banned in Israel!
Monday, October 18, 1999
Carothers - one picture = 1000 words
Why should URI President Robert Carothers have his face on a $3 bill ? Look at that picture of him and Governor Lincoln Almond and the Great Lamar Odom - Rams basketball star. ( Oct.17, page A 23 ) .
It reminds you of faithful Irish Catholics visiting the Pope! Almond is clearly awed and Carothers is about to kneel!
Can you imagine these Rhode Island big shots looking like this - worshipful - as they were introduced to the university's top woman scholar ?
And did the URI faculty have less influence than the almighty " Brothers " in running the institution ?
What about that " Five-cent Cigar " editor who was put in his place for offending the Brothers ?
Good riddance Robert Carothers !
It reminds you of faithful Irish Catholics visiting the Pope! Almond is clearly awed and Carothers is about to kneel!
Can you imagine these Rhode Island big shots looking like this - worshipful - as they were introduced to the university's top woman scholar ?
And did the URI faculty have less influence than the almighty " Brothers " in running the institution ?
What about that " Five-cent Cigar " editor who was put in his place for offending the Brothers ?
Good riddance Robert Carothers !
Rev. Ahlburn will be missed
His last " sermon" on your religion page ( Oct.16) was his most brilliant : " Shouldn't religion's goal be to ditch itself? ".
Did not Lenin also say this of the State ? But human nature defeats us on all fronts. And I guess humanity is as grand its failures as in its success.
Did not Voltaire himself think : " If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him " ?
God bless you, Reverend Thomas E. Ahlburn. You must finally understand that everything is for the best in the best of all possible world. You were a pilot of a " Challenger " adventure and discovered -too late - that God was not your co-pilot.
As you plunge into the Abyss reflect on your own wisdom :" Any religion lacking an escape clause is a bad religion ".
In the End the only consolation may be a Schubert sonata.
Did not Lenin also say this of the State ? But human nature defeats us on all fronts. And I guess humanity is as grand its failures as in its success.
Did not Voltaire himself think : " If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him " ?
God bless you, Reverend Thomas E. Ahlburn. You must finally understand that everything is for the best in the best of all possible world. You were a pilot of a " Challenger " adventure and discovered -too late - that God was not your co-pilot.
As you plunge into the Abyss reflect on your own wisdom :" Any religion lacking an escape clause is a bad religion ".
In the End the only consolation may be a Schubert sonata.
Sunday, October 17, 1999
" A 12 year old's choice " -reasonable
Only a born fanatic would want to add any more heat to the abortion issue. I found your editorial this morning " A 12 -year-old's choice " ( Oct 16 ) - reasonable. Nothing wrong about the " pro-life " religious institution HELPING a 12 year old girl HAVE her baby. The "pro-choice" crowd - let's face it ! - would help her to KILL it.
In opposing abortion the Catholic Church is only being faithful to a 2000 year old faith. But a CITIZEN of a free democratic country must have a broader perspective on abortion - simply as a CITIZEN.
This is NOT a Catholic country. Nor is it a Protestant or a Jewish country. And it most certainly is NOT an atheist country.
How to permit abortion without outraging religious sentiments ? Would it not have been better if -instead of this Roe vs,Wade mess - we had simply decriminalized abortion ? Not every SIN can become a CRIME in a secular society ?
When I was a kid in Catholic school , the Church did not seem to obsess on the evil abortion. Catholic women did not have abortions. And Catholic doctors did not perform them.
The Church was always more effective as religious force than as an arrogant political force.
And SIN would not be SIN unless we could freely choose it. " A man has a choice ", James Dean says in " East of Eden ". A woman should also have a choice - even an immoral one.
Is there no moral compromise on this abortion issue ? Or must one group be completely crushed politically ?
In opposing abortion the Catholic Church is only being faithful to a 2000 year old faith. But a CITIZEN of a free democratic country must have a broader perspective on abortion - simply as a CITIZEN.
This is NOT a Catholic country. Nor is it a Protestant or a Jewish country. And it most certainly is NOT an atheist country.
How to permit abortion without outraging religious sentiments ? Would it not have been better if -instead of this Roe vs,Wade mess - we had simply decriminalized abortion ? Not every SIN can become a CRIME in a secular society ?
When I was a kid in Catholic school , the Church did not seem to obsess on the evil abortion. Catholic women did not have abortions. And Catholic doctors did not perform them.
The Church was always more effective as religious force than as an arrogant political force.
And SIN would not be SIN unless we could freely choose it. " A man has a choice ", James Dean says in " East of Eden ". A woman should also have a choice - even an immoral one.
Is there no moral compromise on this abortion issue ? Or must one group be completely crushed politically ?
Saturday, October 16, 1999
The trouble with " Before and After "
The eyes are the window of the soul, they say. The eyes of the woman in the ad were forty-ish -aging to be sure- but perfectly normal ( see Projo, page E 12 , Oct.15 ) .
But it was " time for a millennium makeover ! " said the ad. Above the ad an Ann Landers column screamed: " Weary wife says she's no cheerleader for husband's Viagra ".
Those " Before " eyes in the ad might have told the weary wife's tale . What tale would the " After " eyes - thank you Dr.Curtis Perry! - tell you ? Thank God for Viagra ?
The kids of the rebellious 60s denounced the Death Culture. In reality it is a denial of Death culture.
My brother just told me that our sick and dying father was visited by a priest yesterday. He received the communion host.
He wanted to TALK, I suspect. To talk about things Eternal, eschatological . Whatever is REALLY on a dying man's mind. The good priest knew better. He changed the subject to football, the New England Patriots.
Does Death make cowards of us all ?
But it was " time for a millennium makeover ! " said the ad. Above the ad an Ann Landers column screamed: " Weary wife says she's no cheerleader for husband's Viagra ".
Those " Before " eyes in the ad might have told the weary wife's tale . What tale would the " After " eyes - thank you Dr.Curtis Perry! - tell you ? Thank God for Viagra ?
The kids of the rebellious 60s denounced the Death Culture. In reality it is a denial of Death culture.
My brother just told me that our sick and dying father was visited by a priest yesterday. He received the communion host.
He wanted to TALK, I suspect. To talk about things Eternal, eschatological . Whatever is REALLY on a dying man's mind. The good priest knew better. He changed the subject to football, the New England Patriots.
Does Death make cowards of us all ?
Friday, October 15, 1999
Age Discrimination -YES !
" No one was seriously injured when an 84 year old man crashed his car into Arby's restaurant during lunchtime...( news from Maine -AP ) .
From the same page: " Traffic fatalities rising dramatically " ( New Hampshire ) .
In general there are too many automobiles on our roads. It is about time that we consider automatically invalidating a driver's license after age 65. At that age he or she will be compensated with a free lifetime bus pass.
Age discrimination is not always unjust. We draft 18 years olds - when necessary- into the military. We do not draft perfectly fit 40 year olds. And the 18 year old we draft may be no more fit to fight than a 12 year old.
In rapidly aging Rhode Island we can not risk having 100,000 senior citizens behind the wheel. The young drunks might be the lesser threat!
If you are over 65, it is time to turn in your license! But also just ONE drunk driving conviction should qualify you for the bus pass - which YOU pay for.
Let us end AUTO-cracy in America.
From the same page: " Traffic fatalities rising dramatically " ( New Hampshire ) .
In general there are too many automobiles on our roads. It is about time that we consider automatically invalidating a driver's license after age 65. At that age he or she will be compensated with a free lifetime bus pass.
Age discrimination is not always unjust. We draft 18 years olds - when necessary- into the military. We do not draft perfectly fit 40 year olds. And the 18 year old we draft may be no more fit to fight than a 12 year old.
In rapidly aging Rhode Island we can not risk having 100,000 senior citizens behind the wheel. The young drunks might be the lesser threat!
If you are over 65, it is time to turn in your license! But also just ONE drunk driving conviction should qualify you for the bus pass - which YOU pay for.
Let us end AUTO-cracy in America.
Thursday, October 14, 1999
Dr.Francis question -guns
Sometimes I suspect that a letter's significance is inversely proportional to its length. Dr. Warren W. Francis asks this morning ( Nov. 13) : "Why should anyone other than the military or the police be allowed to own or carry a pistol ? "
I myself advocate strong gun control. But I think many people own guns not for a hobby or with criminal intent: They don't trust the established institutions of our democracy to protect them. Do they foresee some future breakdown in " law and order " - and want to be prepared ? Or do they fear Big Government crushing their "freedom " ?
Man has been described as a tool making animal. Our tool are extensions of ourselves - of our WILL. We think that it is dangerous for an aggressive, hostile man to own a gun. But psychology might suggest that the very possession of a gun alters our personality -making us more aggressive and hostile: " HAVE GUN -WILL TRAVEL " .
After a scary night, I kept a baseball bat under my bed. After a while I got rid of the bat. I did not like being " a guy with a ready baseball bat ".
For now I will repeat : " Support your local police ! "And a patriotic salute to the Pentagon. Pacifists by nature can sleep peacefully .
I myself advocate strong gun control. But I think many people own guns not for a hobby or with criminal intent: They don't trust the established institutions of our democracy to protect them. Do they foresee some future breakdown in " law and order " - and want to be prepared ? Or do they fear Big Government crushing their "freedom " ?
Man has been described as a tool making animal. Our tool are extensions of ourselves - of our WILL. We think that it is dangerous for an aggressive, hostile man to own a gun. But psychology might suggest that the very possession of a gun alters our personality -making us more aggressive and hostile: " HAVE GUN -WILL TRAVEL " .
After a scary night, I kept a baseball bat under my bed. After a while I got rid of the bat. I did not like being " a guy with a ready baseball bat ".
For now I will repeat : " Support your local police ! "And a patriotic salute to the Pentagon. Pacifists by nature can sleep peacefully .
Gay marriage controversy
It seems true enough -even to a natural cynic - that marriage is a fundamental institution of society . If it is often a farce, it is a sacred farce - too much is at stake: children, property, the stability of the community. How wretched are the divorced! They correctly perceive that the foundation of their life has been shattered.
Look at those happy faces of newly weds in the paper on Sunday. Clearly we are dealing with a human instinct - the urge to create new life, to start another family. It takes no little faith - if not in God- then in LIFE itself to do this.
Homosexuality is NOT an abomination. Some very excellent people just happen that way. They should be accepted and even appreciated. But GAY MARRIAGE would indeed be an abomination - an abominable and detestable crime against HUMAN SOCIETY.
Gay marriage has no inherent necessity - no real tie that binds. A Gay divorce would make a mockery of real divorce. Traditional marriage is already threatened by selfishness. Gay marriage would be even more unstable. The gay prima donna is no fiction : " Why should I stay with an old fag like you , when Clarence has a beach house ! "
Forget about gay marriage! Nuts!
Look at those happy faces of newly weds in the paper on Sunday. Clearly we are dealing with a human instinct - the urge to create new life, to start another family. It takes no little faith - if not in God- then in LIFE itself to do this.
Homosexuality is NOT an abomination. Some very excellent people just happen that way. They should be accepted and even appreciated. But GAY MARRIAGE would indeed be an abomination - an abominable and detestable crime against HUMAN SOCIETY.
Gay marriage has no inherent necessity - no real tie that binds. A Gay divorce would make a mockery of real divorce. Traditional marriage is already threatened by selfishness. Gay marriage would be even more unstable. The gay prima donna is no fiction : " Why should I stay with an old fag like you , when Clarence has a beach house ! "
Forget about gay marriage! Nuts!
Tuesday, October 12, 1999
Minimum wage dogma
It is an article of faith among relatively prosperous blue collar workers that the minimum wage protects - even when their own skills get them an hourly wage far above the minimum.
The people we should really worry about are the absolute dregs of the economic order - the unemployable, often homeless. I believe the State does owe something to these people. How much is debatable.
But it seems obvious to me that abolishing the minimum wage can release their potential energies - for the benefit of all.
Those beggars who ask you for quarters every day can be quite useful to you . But being " employed " is invariably a bureaucratic mess. Imagine if our regular class of beggars improve their life in just a few weeks by doing " menial " chores for ANYBODY that needs help. If the nature of the work is undemanding, and the beggar finds it agreeable - where is the exploitation here ?
Is it not more dignified to have $25 in your pockets at the end of the day - EARNED INCOME - than a lot less money obtained by abject begging ?
We can abolish the " underclass " overnight - if we just allow them to be useful. There are numerous petty tasks that wast the average worker's and the small business man's time. Our despised " bums " can come to the rescue here.
If I were homeless and broke, I would still rather " work " than beg. Is it moral to let human beings just rot uselessly - when we can give them a measure of dignity ?
It is a myth that the big unions care about the poorest of the poor. They just feel threatened by the " lumpen "- to use Marxist terminology.
It would be nice to see more " bums " downtown who are really coming up in the world. Perhaps one might loan me a quarter - for a phone call, of course !
The people we should really worry about are the absolute dregs of the economic order - the unemployable, often homeless. I believe the State does owe something to these people. How much is debatable.
But it seems obvious to me that abolishing the minimum wage can release their potential energies - for the benefit of all.
Those beggars who ask you for quarters every day can be quite useful to you . But being " employed " is invariably a bureaucratic mess. Imagine if our regular class of beggars improve their life in just a few weeks by doing " menial " chores for ANYBODY that needs help. If the nature of the work is undemanding, and the beggar finds it agreeable - where is the exploitation here ?
Is it not more dignified to have $25 in your pockets at the end of the day - EARNED INCOME - than a lot less money obtained by abject begging ?
We can abolish the " underclass " overnight - if we just allow them to be useful. There are numerous petty tasks that wast the average worker's and the small business man's time. Our despised " bums " can come to the rescue here.
If I were homeless and broke, I would still rather " work " than beg. Is it moral to let human beings just rot uselessly - when we can give them a measure of dignity ?
It is a myth that the big unions care about the poorest of the poor. They just feel threatened by the " lumpen "- to use Marxist terminology.
It would be nice to see more " bums " downtown who are really coming up in the world. Perhaps one might loan me a quarter - for a phone call, of course !
Monday, October 11, 1999
Boris Yeltsin and over-population
Russian leader Boris Yeltsin is a sick and dying man who still controls nuclear weapons. The horror !
Today's " Issues and Ideas " ( Oct. 10 ) warns us that " 12 billion miserable human beings will suffer a difficult life on Earth ".
Of course over-population can be quickly checked by nuclear holocaust. Imagine India and Pakistan - both with nuclear weapons - with double their present population.
Modern medicine is truly both a blessing and a curse. You are still young for just a few decades but you can be old and sick and slightly crazy for 40 or 50 years - and it seems that most tyrants live to a ripe old age - with a WILL to live forever!
Will Boris Yeltsin kindly exit from the world ? Or as a question : Will he exit KINDLY from the world ? It seems to be true of Great Leaders that they are great just for a few years - a very limited period. Then they become a nuisance or a calamity.
The only practical way to deal with over-population is to make the world less young - for decades . perhaps a century. But imagine a world where most of the people look more like Boris Yeltsin than JFK - the image of eternal youth ?
There are big problems facing us in the next millennium that have no happy solutions.
I'm inclined to opt for over-population - the more the merrier - of course ! God help us !
Today's " Issues and Ideas " ( Oct. 10 ) warns us that " 12 billion miserable human beings will suffer a difficult life on Earth ".
Of course over-population can be quickly checked by nuclear holocaust. Imagine India and Pakistan - both with nuclear weapons - with double their present population.
Modern medicine is truly both a blessing and a curse. You are still young for just a few decades but you can be old and sick and slightly crazy for 40 or 50 years - and it seems that most tyrants live to a ripe old age - with a WILL to live forever!
Will Boris Yeltsin kindly exit from the world ? Or as a question : Will he exit KINDLY from the world ? It seems to be true of Great Leaders that they are great just for a few years - a very limited period. Then they become a nuisance or a calamity.
The only practical way to deal with over-population is to make the world less young - for decades . perhaps a century. But imagine a world where most of the people look more like Boris Yeltsin than JFK - the image of eternal youth ?
There are big problems facing us in the next millennium that have no happy solutions.
I'm inclined to opt for over-population - the more the merrier - of course ! God help us !
Sunday, October 10, 1999
Racetrack in Burrillville ?
Not even newspapers are above the law. But for now I can only follow the case of Fontaine vs. Projo. A conflict of interest here involving Joel P. Rawson ? To be sure, it is very convenient at times to be " connected " with 75 Fountain St. Providence ( 4th floor).
A race track in beautiful Burrillville ? How could ANYBODY there want the squalor of a race track ? Rawson did not NEED to play unfair here ! If he did, he reminds me of Nixon ? Why win big honestly when you can also win with "dirty tricks ".
But anyway " letters to editors " can get you into big trouble. But the fun is worth it!
May the smartest guy win in the trial!
A race track in beautiful Burrillville ? How could ANYBODY there want the squalor of a race track ? Rawson did not NEED to play unfair here ! If he did, he reminds me of Nixon ? Why win big honestly when you can also win with "dirty tricks ".
But anyway " letters to editors " can get you into big trouble. But the fun is worth it!
May the smartest guy win in the trial!
Saturday, October 9, 1999
Charlatans of " hate crime "
" The Rev. Robert E. Farrow,pastor of Holy Cross Church of God and Christ, described how he was subjected to racism from the moment he entered kindergarten " ( Providence Journal , Oct. 8 -B4 )
" Yes , I got into fights as a child ", he says . Is the Rev. Farrow suggesting that white kids in kindergarten are already hardened racists, eager to experience their first lynching ?
As a matter of fact, when white teachers talk candidly about their black pupils, they often mention the belligerence of these kids- which they attribute to dysfunctional families.
The Projo article focused on the evils of " hate crime ". But little kids do not need to be taught ANYTHING about racism , sexism, or homophobia. Just teach them the Ten Commandments ( even budding atheists should go along with the program ! ) . And they'll turn out to be nice and decent in their relationships with other kids. And they'll not fill our prisons !
Teach them the ancient wisdom - not political correctness. And they'll not grow up to be fools - or worse fools with an agenda.
" Yes , I got into fights as a child ", he says . Is the Rev. Farrow suggesting that white kids in kindergarten are already hardened racists, eager to experience their first lynching ?
As a matter of fact, when white teachers talk candidly about their black pupils, they often mention the belligerence of these kids- which they attribute to dysfunctional families.
The Projo article focused on the evils of " hate crime ". But little kids do not need to be taught ANYTHING about racism , sexism, or homophobia. Just teach them the Ten Commandments ( even budding atheists should go along with the program ! ) . And they'll turn out to be nice and decent in their relationships with other kids. And they'll not fill our prisons !
Teach them the ancient wisdom - not political correctness. And they'll not grow up to be fools - or worse fools with an agenda.
Friday, October 8, 1999
A chance for higher education
The young black woman at the bus stop had a pleasant smile, I thought. She pointed to a rather drab looking caterpillar on the pathway of the bus. "A sure loser ! " I thought.
I tore off a piece of the Providence Journal. The caterpillar crawled over it. I left the creature on the grass, a safe distance from the road.
" Now it has a chance to become a butterfly, " I said.
" Yea", said the black girl, " then it can fly over the road! ".
This scene was at the Lincoln campus of the Community College of Rhode Island.
I tore off a piece of the Providence Journal. The caterpillar crawled over it. I left the creature on the grass, a safe distance from the road.
" Now it has a chance to become a butterfly, " I said.
" Yea", said the black girl, " then it can fly over the road! ".
This scene was at the Lincoln campus of the Community College of Rhode Island.
Out of Africa !
Check out the front page of Projo's " Lifebeat " today ( Oct.7 ). If you have been contaminated by the esthetic values of Western Civilization - if you have strong opinions on Beauty and Ugliness- you will be appalled by the young white male with a ring in his nose exhibiting in a homo-narcissistic manner the latest hot fad - the body brand:
" Tribal designs...are among the branded items."
"Jesse Jackson and Michael Jordan have brands, as did Martin Luther King Jr. "
Branding , the article says, is connected with the "Modern Primitive Movement ". An enthusiastic ( and politically correct) college professor, Daniel Wojcik, sees this as a New Age way of "celebrating other cultures ".
The good professor sees this as a definite " culture change "- not a passing fad.
I -an " angry white male " - find it frightening. The searing flesh fills the shop with the stench of HELL, the stench of the DAMNED .
Truly Africa is still the " Heart of Darkness " !
A young white male with a ring in his nose -and BRANDED LIKE A SLAVE - is making a political statement: To hell with Western Civilization !
I expect this kid to call me a " mother f****r ".
" Tribal designs...are among the branded items."
"Jesse Jackson and Michael Jordan have brands, as did Martin Luther King Jr. "
Branding , the article says, is connected with the "Modern Primitive Movement ". An enthusiastic ( and politically correct) college professor, Daniel Wojcik, sees this as a New Age way of "celebrating other cultures ".
The good professor sees this as a definite " culture change "- not a passing fad.
I -an " angry white male " - find it frightening. The searing flesh fills the shop with the stench of HELL, the stench of the DAMNED .
Truly Africa is still the " Heart of Darkness " !
A young white male with a ring in his nose -and BRANDED LIKE A SLAVE - is making a political statement: To hell with Western Civilization !
I expect this kid to call me a " mother f****r ".
Thursday, October 7, 1999
U.S.A Communist Party Racism
A student of American politics should know that THEY are back ! The American ( read un-American) Communist Party is still around, still an enemy of freedom, of free speech, free thought, still a major force for disruption in our society.
To be sure Communism without Moscow is like Catholicism without Rome. But the faithful true believers persist -and are determined to prevail.
Their newspaper here - often not sold, just left around in public places - is the " People's Weekly World ". The backbone of the communist organization
seems to be bitter "Third World " individuals and a motley bunch of psychopaths and paranoid losers.
Phony liberals will not even admit that such degenerate leftist organizations -at one time true parties of " the masses " -are now " political
correctness " pressure groups. Despite their silly revolutionary rhetoric they invariably find some liberal Democrats to support.
Here is a wiff of the " People's Weekly World " ( October 2, under " People's Culture " ) :
"The capitalist class does not know that smart genes are now found, almost exclusively, inside the bodies of communists and leftists... The proof of this can be seen in the fact that they joined the Communist Party in the first place. "
Karl Marx explained, says commie writer Mike Quinn, that the capitalist class is that "unfortunate class born with dumb genes... They're so dumb they'll probably think we've abandoned the class struggle. "
Perhaps old Joe McCarthy was not so wrong about " witch hunting" for these jerks. They cannot even get Marx right. He never thought the "ruling class " was dumb or that pathological class hatred ( a phenomenon of Stalinism ) would make the world a better place to live.
Be warned that the far Left is still a potent force for totalitarianism in the troubled world. And yes, it can happen here !
Note: Last week's " People's Weekly World " identified presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan as a "neo- Nazi ". But just months ago the commie rag suggested that the Yugoslavian tyrant, Slobodan Milosovic, was just a poor misunderstood socialist. I guess his policy in Kosovo was to rid the area of " dumb genes ". And NATO - the tool of U.S. imperialism - wanted to pick on him !
To be sure Communism without Moscow is like Catholicism without Rome. But the faithful true believers persist -and are determined to prevail.
Their newspaper here - often not sold, just left around in public places - is the " People's Weekly World ". The backbone of the communist organization
seems to be bitter "Third World " individuals and a motley bunch of psychopaths and paranoid losers.
Phony liberals will not even admit that such degenerate leftist organizations -at one time true parties of " the masses " -are now " political
correctness " pressure groups. Despite their silly revolutionary rhetoric they invariably find some liberal Democrats to support.
Here is a wiff of the " People's Weekly World " ( October 2, under " People's Culture " ) :
"The capitalist class does not know that smart genes are now found, almost exclusively, inside the bodies of communists and leftists... The proof of this can be seen in the fact that they joined the Communist Party in the first place. "
Karl Marx explained, says commie writer Mike Quinn, that the capitalist class is that "unfortunate class born with dumb genes... They're so dumb they'll probably think we've abandoned the class struggle. "
Perhaps old Joe McCarthy was not so wrong about " witch hunting" for these jerks. They cannot even get Marx right. He never thought the "ruling class " was dumb or that pathological class hatred ( a phenomenon of Stalinism ) would make the world a better place to live.
Be warned that the far Left is still a potent force for totalitarianism in the troubled world. And yes, it can happen here !
Note: Last week's " People's Weekly World " identified presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan as a "neo- Nazi ". But just months ago the commie rag suggested that the Yugoslavian tyrant, Slobodan Milosovic, was just a poor misunderstood socialist. I guess his policy in Kosovo was to rid the area of " dumb genes ". And NATO - the tool of U.S. imperialism - wanted to pick on him !
Wednesday, October 6, 1999
Retire Charles Bakst !
Your political hack columnist M. Charles Bakst is now an insufferable phony. His brain is too intoxicated from daily contact with the high and mighty to think objectively.
He is the classic example of the LIBERAL SNOB. I'll bet he would not even say " hello" to the blacks, hispanics, gays that he sees every day in downtown Providence - unless they were certified big shots.
If you are a big shot in Little Rhody, he will kiss your ass - on the left cheek or the right cheek - whichever you find more titillating .
This morning he congratulates Congressman Patrick Kennedy for publishing his so-called " hate mail ". What a phony Profile in Courage !
Do people who disagree with Bakst and Kennedy have no convictions , no " strong views on human dignity " ? Are Kennedy's own white constituents mostly vile bigots ?
In a column written the day after the grand opening of the Providence Place mall, M. Charles tells Projo about some fat-cat labor leader who " grabbed him " - affectionately of course. No columnist with real integrity would let any corrupt big shot - labor leader or capitalist - grab him. It looks like you're UP FOR GRABS !
I have heard from very reliable sources that M. Charles Bakst was something less than a " friend of labor " in an ugly strike at the Providence Journal a few years ago. M. Charles was found cringing in the back of a Providence Journal delivery truck - a company scab ! He betrayed his striking colleagues.
Perfectly decent people find themselves opposed in a strike. But it is hard to associate old fashioned liberalism with a slovenly and obnoxious scab !
M. Charles Bakst should retire !
He is the classic example of the LIBERAL SNOB. I'll bet he would not even say " hello" to the blacks, hispanics, gays that he sees every day in downtown Providence - unless they were certified big shots.
If you are a big shot in Little Rhody, he will kiss your ass - on the left cheek or the right cheek - whichever you find more titillating .
This morning he congratulates Congressman Patrick Kennedy for publishing his so-called " hate mail ". What a phony Profile in Courage !
Do people who disagree with Bakst and Kennedy have no convictions , no " strong views on human dignity " ? Are Kennedy's own white constituents mostly vile bigots ?
In a column written the day after the grand opening of the Providence Place mall, M. Charles tells Projo about some fat-cat labor leader who " grabbed him " - affectionately of course. No columnist with real integrity would let any corrupt big shot - labor leader or capitalist - grab him. It looks like you're UP FOR GRABS !
I have heard from very reliable sources that M. Charles Bakst was something less than a " friend of labor " in an ugly strike at the Providence Journal a few years ago. M. Charles was found cringing in the back of a Providence Journal delivery truck - a company scab ! He betrayed his striking colleagues.
Perfectly decent people find themselves opposed in a strike. But it is hard to associate old fashioned liberalism with a slovenly and obnoxious scab !
M. Charles Bakst should retire !
Monday, October 4, 1999
Unhateful " Hate Mail " - Kennedy
I have just read excerpts from Patrick Kennedy's " Hate Mail " and fail to find the HATE in it ! I like Patrick. I vote Democrat - usually. And rarely is RACE a hot issue with me.
I'm inclined to agree with Nicholas Graham , the spokesman for U.S. Senator John H. Chafee. Pat is the protector of the Third World people here from HIS maniacal white constituents.
RACISM is now a buzz word. If a white person has nothing very flattering to say about the new immigrants - or just sees a PROBLEM here - he is one step away from the Nazi Party or the KKK.
I do recommend that voters SIGN their mail communications -take responsibility for it. It is clear to me that quite innocuous white people are afraid to talk. The Liberal bullies will get them!
On many other issues Patrick is OKAY with me .
I'm inclined to agree with Nicholas Graham , the spokesman for U.S. Senator John H. Chafee. Pat is the protector of the Third World people here from HIS maniacal white constituents.
RACISM is now a buzz word. If a white person has nothing very flattering to say about the new immigrants - or just sees a PROBLEM here - he is one step away from the Nazi Party or the KKK.
I do recommend that voters SIGN their mail communications -take responsibility for it. It is clear to me that quite innocuous white people are afraid to talk. The Liberal bullies will get them!
On many other issues Patrick is OKAY with me .
Sunday, October 3, 1999
The white masses - just " bigots "?
The white people of Boston are probably typical of whites in other big cities - like Providence, R.I.
According to the Boston Globe ( Metro Region ,B1 -Oct. 2 ) : "Nearly half of white Bostonians surveyed said that Blacks and Hispanics are less intelligent than whites... "
Are these white just stupid bigots who just don't get it ... or is this view of minorities simply based on their everyday experience with them ? Should they deny this experience to placate Liberal Values ?
Riding the bus everyday in Rhode Island is a crash course in practical sociology . Not a few of the Blacks and Hispanics I encounter on the bus - and they are hardly minorities here anymore - are fit subjects for H.P. Lovecraft , the famous horror writer who himself stands accused of racism by honest biographers.
I am just trying to understand this , not make a bad situation worse. I read that Al Gore has declared the next 10 years the decade of the Latino. And Bill Gates's has a established a billion dollar scholarship fund - POOR WHITES NEED NOT APPLY - for all these born scholars !
Do all those whites in Boston ever get a chance to say what they really think about racial relations there - or even get a letter to the editor published ?
Has it become a divine mission for so called Liberals to muzzle the MAJORITY of white people.
If an angry white male told me that he wanted to just establish a dialogue with the American Nazi Party , I could at least understand the BIGOT .
Is the TRUTH subversive to public order ?
According to the Boston Globe ( Metro Region ,B1 -Oct. 2 ) : "Nearly half of white Bostonians surveyed said that Blacks and Hispanics are less intelligent than whites... "
Are these white just stupid bigots who just don't get it ... or is this view of minorities simply based on their everyday experience with them ? Should they deny this experience to placate Liberal Values ?
Riding the bus everyday in Rhode Island is a crash course in practical sociology . Not a few of the Blacks and Hispanics I encounter on the bus - and they are hardly minorities here anymore - are fit subjects for H.P. Lovecraft , the famous horror writer who himself stands accused of racism by honest biographers.
I am just trying to understand this , not make a bad situation worse. I read that Al Gore has declared the next 10 years the decade of the Latino. And Bill Gates's has a established a billion dollar scholarship fund - POOR WHITES NEED NOT APPLY - for all these born scholars !
Do all those whites in Boston ever get a chance to say what they really think about racial relations there - or even get a letter to the editor published ?
Has it become a divine mission for so called Liberals to muzzle the MAJORITY of white people.
If an angry white male told me that he wanted to just establish a dialogue with the American Nazi Party , I could at least understand the BIGOT .
Is the TRUTH subversive to public order ?
Friday, October 1, 1999
" Hate Crime" nonsense
This pseudo-liberal concept of " hate crime " will certainly create as many embarrassing problems as affirmative action. It is against the law to assault ANYBODY. A torture death is no less heinous a crime if it was done for perverse amusement ( " Sorry, nothing personal " )
Let criminals be tried for their deeds -not their thoughts. Recall the idea of " thought crime " in George Orwell's nightmare novel "1984 ".
I think the legal system should leave the human soul alone. It should be free to hate if that is its nature. Imagine finding yourself -if you are branded " homophobic " or " racist " - in a politically correct " Ministry of Love " where your sick brain will be re-conditioned to love all gay people or all minorities or just Bill and Hillary Clinton.
For any lover of FREEDOM -left wing or right wing - this violation of the human soul would be judged an abominable and detestable crime against nature.
And how many murders are NOT hate crimes ? It is invidious to give even vulnerable groups the special protection of the law.
I recall witnessing a cranky old man almost daring some young punk to strike him... because he was a " senior citizen ", you see.
Picture an obnoxious " in your face " gay person behaving the same way. Would that not make him even more loathsome to his would be attacker ?
When a hot blooded gay man molests a little boy - with whom he is always " affectionate " - is that a " love crime " ? Yet, he will still have to be protected against a " hate crime " - the dumb mob's revenge .
Let us just insist that the legal system ENFORCE THE LAW - and forget about this "hate crime" nonsense. A hateful crime cannot be made more hateful by calling it a "hate crime".
Let criminals be tried for their deeds -not their thoughts. Recall the idea of " thought crime " in George Orwell's nightmare novel "1984 ".
I think the legal system should leave the human soul alone. It should be free to hate if that is its nature. Imagine finding yourself -if you are branded " homophobic " or " racist " - in a politically correct " Ministry of Love " where your sick brain will be re-conditioned to love all gay people or all minorities or just Bill and Hillary Clinton.
For any lover of FREEDOM -left wing or right wing - this violation of the human soul would be judged an abominable and detestable crime against nature.
And how many murders are NOT hate crimes ? It is invidious to give even vulnerable groups the special protection of the law.
I recall witnessing a cranky old man almost daring some young punk to strike him... because he was a " senior citizen ", you see.
Picture an obnoxious " in your face " gay person behaving the same way. Would that not make him even more loathsome to his would be attacker ?
When a hot blooded gay man molests a little boy - with whom he is always " affectionate " - is that a " love crime " ? Yet, he will still have to be protected against a " hate crime " - the dumb mob's revenge .
Let us just insist that the legal system ENFORCE THE LAW - and forget about this "hate crime" nonsense. A hateful crime cannot be made more hateful by calling it a "hate crime".
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