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March 10, 2010 » We Got MORE TROUBLE in River City ...
In a Walmart in Louisiana, because the Black Barbie® dolls weren't moving off the shelf as fast as the White Barbie® dolls, the Black Barbie® dolls were marked down to half-price.
Wait till Barry hears about this ...
Black Barbie
(HOT DAMN ON TOAST !!!)
Hey, Where's Your Manners! Don't Talk to Barbie® That Way!



March 9, 2010 » (Fixing Us &) Third-World Immigration for the "Last" Time.
Remember way back, way back when? Oh, say round about 2005 --- when the Republican Congress passed a bill mandating that the several states issue a "counterfeit-proof" Drivers' License by the middle of 2008? All this to make Illegal Aliens feel uncomfortable!
Well, the Republican Congress is gone & George W. Bush is gone & the "counterfeit-proof" Drivers' License is gone or so it seems --- but wait there's more!
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Charles "Chuck" Schumer & Sen. Lindsey "Light in the Loafers" Graham (who said Peter Pan doesn't vote the straight Republican ticket!) have hatched a new scheme to bring the "counterfeit-proof" Drivers' License back! These two worthies have had a true brainstorm, the likes of which are much like the last Congressional brainstorm, only worse! Trust our dubiously elected officials to resurrect decrepit, bad ideas which have long gone on the mold!
There is one, whopping, great, big, major hitch --- though. It seems local cops only "proof" people who can speak English (stopping Illegal Aliens on the street & asking them for identification would be "Racist"); and potential employers don't ask foreigners for identification because what shifty bosses really want is peon labor at coolie prices. Despite the cold facts of hard reality, the "counterfeit-proof" Drivers' License should work just fine! Thanks, Chuck. Thanks, Loafers. What a couple of frickin' political geniuses!


March 4, 2010 Dollar Bill, Y'All!
It seems that a Republican Congressman wants to pull Ronald Reagan's mugg on the $50 bill, replacing old, crooked, whiskey-swallowing US Grant! Time for some math : on that day in November, 1980, when the sainted "CONservative" (he signed a bill granting Amnesty to Illegal Aliens in 1986) was elected, a dollar was worth a $1.00; on Election Day, 1988, when St. Ron's two terms were almost up, a dollar was worth 66¢, thanks to inflation & Alan Greenspan.
When George W. Bush was elected in 2000 (some would say "selected"), a dollar was worth a $1.00. When Barry Spendalicious blew into DC 8 yrs. later, a dollar was worth a hefty 75¢, thanks to inflation & Alan Greenspan ( some would say "Greenscam").
Attempts to put GW's portrait on the double saw-buck failed years back when several cashiers at various Mickey Dees, across the land, refused to accept the new currency because they feared it might be a "true" counterfeit :
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March 2, 2010 » Property Taxes & Racism ( ... Like Two Peas in a Pod ).

A “Tea Partier” writes to express his dismay over the “appalling” fact that the tea party movement has yet to address the US Immigration problem in its various planks.  He tells me that the “TEA” in Tea Party stands for “Taxed Enough Already” --- the first that I have ever heard of this acronym (who said you don’t learn something new every day!).
But when all is said and done, one can't really blame the Tea Party Organizers for trying to avoid a potential problem :  long ago the minions of the transnational media got into the habit of calling anyone who objects to the current deluge of Third World Immigration into the US a “Racist,” plain and simple.  So being called out, so to speak, is just one extra problem that the Tea Party organizers need like a ten-penny nail to the forehead!
But the “Taxed Enough Already” people may just find themselves being called Racists sooner than they think.  Using the U.S. Census as an uncertain guide, the number of Third Worlders or non-Whites in the country presently hovers somewhere between 35% & 40%.  This exploding segment of our population is, for the most part, of the tax-eater rather than the tax-payer class.  As this segment of the population continues to grow, as it is destined to do under the automatic triggers of the Immigration Act of 1965, the clash over the limited pot of our national system of free Goodies & big Bennies threatens to turn quite ugly.
If the Red Chinese are right when they say that there is not enough money in the world to sustain the current level of American borrowing based on the diarrhea-like issuance of US Treasury bonds, then there are not enough White tax-payers to pay for the demands of non-White tax-eaters visited upon the nation's bounty, i.e. the amount of filthy lucre that Whitey is expected to stump up in order to avoid being called a “Racist.”
It has been observed, not for the first time and nor will it be for the last, that diverse or mixed nations find that their roiling racial makeups are invariably incompatible in the conduct of reasoned debate.  Where once there would have been a clash between the have-nots and the haves or arguments based on shadings of ideology, now every issue, including financial ones, are automatically reduced to the gutter level of cross-racial accusations.  Whites can move out of neighborhoods that are “changing,” but though they retreat to the sea walls of the Pacific and Atlantic, they cannot escape being called “Racist” for wanting to run from a high tax bill, for such flight proves that they are eminently guilty of shirking “societal responsibility.”


A learned philosopher once said a man may declare he is uninterested in war but that war is eternally interested in him.  So it goes with “Racism” and taxes and Whitey : our fair-skinned friend may protest that he just wants a lower tax bill and that racism has nothing to do with his self-protective financial actions and desires, but try that proposition out against a multitude of screaming TeeVees, shouting back at you, yelling that your selfish desire for a reduced tax bill is nothing but the ugly mask of disguised racism, cloaked in the argumentative words of sinful self-interest & “racial” European deceit.


February 26, 2010 » "Jésus vit au bord du lac deux barques ... Ils
prirent une grande quantité de poissons dans leurs filets." ( Luc 5 ).
Beatniks are from the Fifties and Hippies are from the Sixties but Politicians come from all over. So it was yesterday at the White House. Politicians, born 60 & 40 years ago, made faces and opened their mouths at one another but failed to make bricks without straw. If incoherent words could make miracles then the blind would all be diamond-cutters and the lame might out-dance Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire.


February 24, 2010 » That's Racist ( Part 463 ).
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In the British Isles there is a saying, common among cricket aficionados, that goes : "Anyone but England." Meaning of course that England is always defeated at the very last in any down-to-the-wire match for determining for the best cricketing side in the world. In Football (soccer to you, Yank!) too, the saying is almost as common --- the last time England won the World Cup in that sport was in 1966.
But in the fever-dream of insanity that has gripped the British Isles since the Labour Party was first elected to run Her Majesty's Government in 1997, a choleric phobia has been visited upon all and sundry, regarding the real or imagined disease of "Racism."
A shopkeeper in the Scottish city of Aberdeen has been visited by representatives of the local constabulary. It seems that he has been caught red-handed for engaging in the offense of promoting Racism in public. It also seems that the shopkeeper had dressed up a store dummy with a T-Shirt, bearing the slogan, in capital letters, of ANYONE BUT ENGLAND. It further seems that considering ... now follow this brand of twisted logic closely or you may wind up completely confused ... Scotland is inhabited by the descendants of Picts, Gaels, & Celts, therefore saying or showing such a baldly insulting statement in public, like for instance, ANYONE BUT ENGLAND, could possibly hurt the feelings of some of the many Englanders presently residing in Scotland, who are descended, for the most part, from Anglo-Saxons & Normans! --- "Hate Speech" being strictly verboten in the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
Perhaps it was seeing the store dummy in the shop window that set the police off. To see one of your own, a perfectly innocent dummy, being put to such rank use, might have given these particular Scottish guardians of the civil peace cause to object! (By the way, can one say Scottish anymore without getting arrested? Is the current and correct PC Term, Scots? Is using the old adjective of Scottish now Racist?).


February 22, 2010 » Apples & Oranges ( Part 463 ).
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A Clubber posits : “we can agree that Global Warming and Open Borders are both religious propositions rather than soundly reasoned political positions.  So now that global warming has been exposed as a false religion, shouldn't Open Borders follow right behind and jump into the dustbin of history?”
Great question and one that should be asked! --- but Open Borders and the lies that surround it can’t be deconstructed in the same way in which Global Warming was exposed by showing that the props surrounding climate-thinking were woven from whole cloth :  the people who ran the global warming scam simply cooked the books, as it were.  When the “facts” backing their assertions were audited, the assertions were exposed for the pathetic absurdities that they ultimately were.  Just you wait --- Open Borders will prove to be a much harder nut to crack.
Open borders is a secular religion that depends upon a tight rule of manners to keep it going.  The rich and connected people who believe in it don't live in the inner cities or the clapboard suburbs where the newly-arrived Third Worlders live.  To them, immigrants are abstract personages they see only on TeeVee, not people of flesh & blood, whom they experience in a day-in, day-out way.  The rich & connected don't drive on roads choked with “Trench Town” taxis, nor do their children go to school with Aztecs who are even illiterate in Spanish.  Believers in Open Borders are completely cocooned from reality.  Theirs is a world of fantasy, in which border jumpers become physicists and visa overstayers win spelling bees.  Believers in Open Borders haven't even bothered to concoct a pathetic hoax as a jumping-off point from which to perpetrate lies.  The mythical religion that they have constructed is built on the most paper-thin of dreams.  That the Immigration Act of 1965 has rendered this country into a waking nightmare is a cold reality which is of little moment to our rich & connected Golden Pony Boys, who ride the white charger of pure and blissful political science fiction into the mists of creamy logic.  When all is said and done, and all evidence is going to the contrary, it is what they see on TeeVee, which are ultimately fantasies of their own devising, that will ever carry the day.  Because on TeeVee it is Whitey-White White who is always Bad and the Lesser Shade of Pale who is always Good.  You cannot argue the facts with a shadow nor can you disprove a Tall-Tale that walks on stilts.  And if you have the audacity to kick the stilts away and send a false proposition into the proverbial mud where it belongs, you will only be accused of “hate speech” and someday, if the election results keep going the way they have been recently, you'll be charged with the “hate crime” of hurting somebody's feelings.
In the playground and in the sandbox of current debate, adults are most definitely not welcome --- simply because hopscotch and pink plastic shovels look ridiculous at their feet and in the hands.  Open Borders is not simply a hoax or simply a religion : it is pure juvenilia in debate and baby-talk in reasoning.  The training wheels are always on and never come off!  When the topic of Immigration is brought up, the left-wing response will always be “RACIST;” and then you know it's time for teacher to call for a nap or ring a bell for sugar cookie break!  Being eternally 6 means never having to think with your head.
And just because global warming has been exposed as an outrageous hoax, doesn't mean that the hoaxers are still not waiting in the weeds, looking for the first chance to jump out and run their scam all over again when the time seems right.  Afterall, Daddy, the ice cap is still melting and the polar bears are still drowning!  You wouldn't want to be mean, now would you? --- Daddy?



February 21, 2010 » The True Story of the Statue of Liberty ...
On September 11, 2001, while watching a dubious spectacle on television, many thoughts went through my head : foremost was the regret that one of the planes had not somehow veered off course, missing one of the Twin Towers, hitting the Statue of Liberty instead. Such a change of events would have Detective Club of Jersey Citygreatly reduced the wholesale loss of American life on that horrid day in New York. But alas, it was not to be --- we know now that mass murder, not mass vandalism, was the primary objective on that day; and we know now that the cut-outs from Saudi Arabia were under the direction of an "ex" CIA asset, who had crazily hoped to suck the US military into unending wars of occupation in the Middle East (MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!).
Since 1965, the Statue of Liberty has been the paramount symbol of the Open Borders crowd of the transnational mind-shapers. The tall, inanimate structure, covered in verdigris, has become the shining emblem of our mindless Immigration policy to the Third World (2 million legals; 1 million illegals : per annum). We are incessantly taught that to control and reduce this massive influx is to somehow spit on the sacred graves of our grandfathers, who passed through Ellis Island and went straight to work, without benefit of a handout or free room and board!
The success of the propaganda campaign, surrounding the Statue of Liberty, is a disgusting testament to the failed Immigration policy of this country, such as it is. But it has not always been thus. The Statue was constructed in France and put on an American pedestal in vastly different circumstances in 1886, on Bedloe's Island in Upper New York Bay; and after the brass bands packed their tents, it was put to immediate use as a working lighthouse. A short, excellent piece about the history and significance of the Statue of Liberty was written for vdare.com, just three months before the unhappy and cursed events of 911. It bears reading ... (CLICK HERE).


February 17, 2010 » Inquiring Minds Want to Know ( Part 463 ).
Various "news outlets" report that Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. has donated the handcuffs, in which he was briefly confined, to the Smithsonian. He was taken to the hoosegow in them, last Summer, after his famous folderol. An e-mail comes from a Clubber, in which he wonders, whether the handcuffs were "just thick twist-ties because metal handcuffs would be too expensive to replace at taxpayer's expense." Contrary to popular belief, a serviceable pair of stainless steel handcuffs do not cost all that much. Right now, over at Handcuff Warehouse (CLICK HERE), the Winchester Model WN-40 is featured for just $19.99 and the model comes with double keys in the eventuality of a prisoner swallowing one of the keys, there remains a spare (this way the Po-Po won't have to wait until the con in question passes his morning stool in order to retrieve the disappeared key).
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$19.99 does not include handling (no pun intended) and shipping; nor does it include the extra "handcuff holder" which sells for a paltry $13.40.



February 17, 2010 » Waking Up from a Dream Into a Nightmare.
Now that the way to a US Senate seat in Indiana has been temporarily cleared, who do the Republicans at DC Headquarters come up with? --- Dan Coats! This all-time Rockefeller Republican makes Karl Marx look like a church warden! "Diver" Dan always voted left of Red, while humming the Internationale, and after his retirement he became a filthy lobbyist! Hey, Republican voters, time to change your registration to Tea Party! Even the Mad Hatter wouldn't vote for Dan Coats!
The Internationale.  [variant words in square brackets]
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Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise!
We'll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions]
And spurn the dust to win the prize!

So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face,
The Internationale unites the human race!
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face,
The Internationale unites the human race!

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying ---
We'll shoot the generals on our own side!

No Saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in Prince or Peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And give to all a happier lot.
Each [those] at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot!



February 15, 2010 » They Hate You Because They Want to Steal Your Wallet.
The "democratic instinct" often conceals an inbred craven lust for the taxpayer's dime & dollar. The creators of New Direction Local Development Corporation, along with a "Katrina-inspired" undetermine-named charity, dipped into New York state coffers to the tune of at least $56,000. New Direction & no-name Katrina appeared to have been established by NYS Sen. Malcolm Smith (on left) and Congressman Gregory Meeks (on right), two "minority" politicos who, for years, have been considered nothing more than low-level street hustlers, ever on the lookout for No.10 envelopes stuffed with cash (some local reporters, with whom I have talked, have told me that there is even an informal betting-poll set up by the local press regarding Smith & Meeks --- the winner gets to  trouser the kitty on the day Smith & Meeks walk out of federal court on a "daisy chain").
Even a one-time Queens County Assistant District Attorney, Claude Stuart, who was infamous for fixing prosecution cases and who was finally fired and lost his law license for three years for sending hapless criminal Defendants up the river on "cooked" evidence, is said to be have also been observed dipping into the public till via these bogus charities. The New York Times has devoted column inches to these shenanigans : for the latest, CLICK HERE.



February 14, 2010 » Greece-ing the Skids.
 

The trials and tribulations of the nation of Greece, and of that country's enormous difficulties in maintaining debt service on $300 billion in outstanding government bonds, was much in the news last week.  It would appear (although appearances, at the moment, are most likely deceptive) that Germany will stand “good” for maintaining Greece’s debt service, but the details of this generous backstopping, on the part of Germany, have yet to be worked out and the assent of the German electorate has still not been smoothed over!
It has been said many times over, throughout history, that Fiat currencies are doomed.  A paper collapse is bound to happen sooner or later.  (Remember when JZ made a music video, two or three years ago, in which he threw stacks of Euros at the camera and boasted of his great wealth?).  Well, the Euro is no longer such a hot commodity now that Greek politicians have begrimed and begreased that now declining currency.
John Maynard Keynes considered gold to be a barbarous affectation of hidebound bankers, who were much too conservative for the good of the Commonwealth.  Despite the fact that you no longer see the word “conservative” with the word “bankers” in the same sentence anymore, gold may be a barbarous affectation but it was and has always been and will always remain an affectation which can undergird any stable national monetary system.  If the power to tax is the power to destroy, then the power to print baseless paper money, not based on copper, not based on silver, not based on gold, not based on anything whatsoever, means that when a central bank perpetrates the crime of the printing press, even if it be deemed legal by the home government, it amounts to nothing, more nor less, than the legitimatization of a Ponzi scheme on a national scale.
And after the Ponzi scheme collapses, governments are likely to institute strict currency controls, making the trading of the afflicted national currency a crime across international borders.  So far Greece has not reached that point, yet.  But will the Germans really stand “good” for maintaining the debt service on Greece's $300 billion outstanding debt --- what about future outstanding debt? The Germans are determined to keep the Euro going and may be willing to backstop Greece through February and March, but what happens if Ireland or Spain or Portugal or even Italy wind up facing sovereign debt shortfalls right along with Greece at sometime in the near future?  April is the month for Spring cleaning.  Come April, German non-conservative bankers and German non-conservative voters may be looking to buy a big broom in order to chase the Euro PIIGS out of the Euro house. Say what??? --- Good riddance to bad rubbish or so goeth the way of all flesh and of all paper-fiat currency!



February 13, 2010 » "Come Back, Little Sheba!"
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Sometimes there are people, sporting the darkest complexions, who go out and take it into their heads to act the most lily-White, to act the most Anglo-Saxon! And they can put on quite a show while doing it! --- (CLICK HERE).


February 13, 2010 » Deep in the Arms of Morpheus ...

The English politician, William Hague, was the distinguished leader of Her Majesty's Opposition during the period of 1997 through 2001.  He was, what the English call, the Shadow Prime Minister.  But he didn't lead much of a political opposition.  After being decimated in the 1997 General Election, the Conservatives chose him strictly on the basis of his speaking abilities.  He was at his most eloquent when he characterized the Prime Minister of the time, Tony Blair, as a man of “U-turns, errors and sellouts!”
The UK economy was booming in 2001 & the real effects of Third World immigration had only just started to become apparent;  Hague resolved to chance a mention or two about the consequences of Labour's Immigration policies : in March of that year, he kicked off the General Election campaign by proclaiming --- “We will give you your country back!”  The Conservatives gained only one seat in the country-wide poll and remained, for another 4 years, in the political wilderness; in 2005, Labour, with only 35% of the vote, was again reëlected with a reduced majority, but were, by then, exposed for the charlatans and crooks that they, preeminently, had always been.
Hague resigned in 2001 as the Conservative leader but stayed on in parliament as an MP.
  He has been much touted to make a comeback, either as UK Secretary of State or Deputy Prime Minister, if David Cameron wins the General Election in the Spring.  But William Hague has long since learned to bottle up his eloquence.  The Daily Telegraph says that he will not be making any speeches regarding Tory intentions on immigration policy (“[Hague rules] out using immigration as a weapon in the election campaign.”).

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Nine years on, one would think that the British people have had more than enough of 13 years of massive Third World immigration, thanks to Labour.  But the Tories seem to have a knack for throwing elections in the most cavalier ways imaginable.  Right now they are fading fast in the polls, so much so that if the General Election were held today, they would be unable to form an absolute majority in the House of Commons.  The “limey” conservatives appear to be not very different from the “yankee” ones.  Both seem to have an inbred, absolute abhorrence when it comes to making a political issue of the vicissitudes of Third World Immigration.  Like Pavlov's dogs, they have been well and truly trained by their master, the transnational Press : it is easy to translate the sound of the old, hoarse bark for what it is, into yelping English --- “THAT’S RACIST!” --- says the BOW WOW.



February 10, 2010 » Look Before You Sign Anything!
In the United Arab Emirates, a prospective groom is afforded the privilege of gazing upon a prospective bride's face only after the finalization and signing of a marriage contract. (For in the United Arab Emirates, women of marriageable age go about with their faces draped in a niqāb or full veil, an article of clothing that covers the entirety of the visage, which conceals even the eyes that are obliged to peep out at the world through two openings made of tightly woven mosquito-netting).
On this occasion, after "unmasking" his soon-to-be wife, the male party-in-question discovered that his betrothed was sporting a full beard as well as a decided squint! The man might have be able to live with a beard on a woman, but according to his many protests of disgust, a pronounced squint in a woman was something that he could not abide over the span of a lifetime.
According to Press Reports, the marriage contract was soon voided on the legal grounds of Deception--- ipso facto --- grossly committed by the bearded woman, who was probably squinting when she signed the Islamic document in question. (The bold Yemeni woman, on the left, was photographed wearing a niqāb sans mosquito-netting. Women who wear a niqāb, having eye-holes made of mosquito-netting, are exceedingly shy and simply refuse to turn towards the camera!).
February 8, 2010 » Starting with the Letter A ...
A Clubber has noticed that, in our time of the Brown Jesus in the White House, Wikipedia (Click Here) has seen fit to post a comprehensive list of "official" ethnic & racial slurs...
A
Abbie
    (North America) a Jewish male. From the proper name Abraham. Originated before the 1950s.

ABCD
    (South Asians in the U.S.) "American-Born Confused Desi", a term used to refer to Indian Americans and Pakistani Americans born in the United States. The condescending term is used chiefly by South Asian Immigrants to imply confusion about cultural identity.

Abo / Abbo
    (AUS) Australian Aboriginal person. Originally, this was simply an informal term for "Aborigine", and was in fact used by Aboriginal people themselves until it started to be considered offensive in 1950s. In remoter areas, Aboriginal people still often refer to themselves (quite neutrally) as "Blackfellas" (and whites as "Whitefellas"). Although "Abo" is still considered quite offensive by many, the pejorative "boong" is now more commonly used when the intent is to deliberately offend, as that word's status as an insult is unequivocal.

Albino
    (U.S.) A term for whites, also a derogatory term for light skinned blacks used by darker skinned blacks. (see colorism)

Alligator bait
    (U.S.) also "Gator Bait." A black person, especially a black child. More commonly used in states where alligators are found, particularly Florida. First used in the early 1900s, although some hypothesize the term originated in the late 1800s.

Alter kacker / alter kocker (Yiddish) / alter kucker / A.K.
    (North America) a disparaging term for elderly Jewish people. The term is of Yiddish origin (literally meaning old shitter). First used in the early 1900s.

Anglo-pilferer
    An Anglo-Celtic Australian, possibly of convict lineage. Based on the belief that all Anglo-Australians are descended from convicts. Particularly offensive.

Ann
    (North America) A white woman to a black person — or a black woman who acts too much like a white one. While Miss Ann, also just plain Ann, is a derisive reference to the white woman, by extension it is applied to any black woman who puts on airs and tries to act like Miss Ann.

Ape
    (U.S.) a black person.

Apple
    (North America) An American Indian (Native American) who is "red on the outside, white on the inside." Used primarily by other American Indians to indicate someone who has lost touch with their cultural identity. First used in the 1980s.

Argie
    (UK) a native of Argentina (also Argie-bargie : any argument, disagreement, or (typically) sporting event involving Argentina or Argentinians), used by the British press during the Falklands War. First used in this way by Britain's The Sun newspaper in 1982. --- This was however merely a topical usage of a long-standing expression for contentious discussion.

Asian nigger
    An ethnic slur against Filipinos.

Aunt Jemima / Aunt Jane / Aunt Mary / Aunt Sally / Aunt Thomasina
    (U.S.) a black woman who "kisses up" to whites, a "sellout", female counterpart of Uncle Tom.

B
Banana
    (North America) An Asian American who is "yellow on the outside, white on the inside." Used primarily by Asians and other Asian Americans to indicate someone who has lost touch with their cultural identity.

... And so it goes.


February 8, 2010 » Throwing It Right Back.

Remember John McCain in September of 2008, and how he "suspended" his campaign for President in order to go back to DC, just to straighten things out? And how he touched down ( Thank God, someone else was doing the flying! ) and it turned out that all he had was a hat full of nuthin' --- i.e. : not the tiniest idea in his head about what to do in fixing the so-called financial crisis? --- the Federal Reserve über alles et pour toujours!

Well, Barry Spendalicious wants to call a "private" meeting against the Republicans on TeeVee ( the Republicans will be in the room but Barry will do all the talking! ) about bi-partisan HealthCare® "reform," because he knows that, like Wrongway McCain, the congressional pachyderms don't possess a single idea among themselves on the issue.

My advice? --- offer to double or treble the Medicaid ceiling so that this Great Society program will cover many more indigent citizens; and while the DC crumb bums are at it, go ahead and assume the entire Medicaid burden of the states, an act of legerdemain which that hopeless Airhead from Calli-fore-knee-uh would just love! But, oh, we'll have to clear it with the Chinese first. After buying almost 600 billion $s in Fannie & Freddie paper once upon a time, guaranteed by Hank Paulson, the Commies might not cotton to the prospect of Medicaid bonds guaranteed by Timmy Geithner!


February 4, 2010 » "Moderate" : The New Dirty Word in Politics.

There will be a party primary taking place this summer in Arizona for John McCain's US Senate seat. JD Hayworth, the challenger, has already started making Robo calls to Republican voters in which he calls McCain a “moderate” and characterizes his positions on bank regulation and immigration as “moderate.”  “Moderate” is the new Liberal.  It is the new dirty word in US politics.

Byron Dorgan, the retiring senator from North Dakota, is a Democrat and a self-avowed moderate.  His colleague in the Senate, Dem. Kent Conrad, is another self-avowed moderate.  Rob Port, a political commentator on North Dakota radio, says : “The joke here is that we elect conservatives to state office because we don't want them to spend our money, but we elect liberals to national office because we want them to spend other people's money!”

In the world of Barry Spendalicious, this peculiar way of juggling Democrats and Republicans is becoming an increasingly dicey proposition.  With the full blown spending mania now underway in DC, North Dakotans will soon be forced to face the music, as it were, and pony up for other people's spending passions in the other 49 states.  Where will it all end?  The idea of giving California back to Mexico, along with parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, no longer seems like a hare-brained scheme!  It would be one sure way to cut the national deficit overnight!


February 1, 2010 » The Money Quote of the Year ( ... So Far ).
Detective Club of Jersey CityTeddy Kennedy blew into DC, in late 1962, on the wings of a Special Election. It would take a visit from the Grim Reaper, last year, to prise his ample butt from that idiosyncratic chair made of expansive Massachusetts oak. In a new book about ex-US Senator John Edwards ( The Politician by Andrew Young ), Teddy waxes eloquent about the paradisaical atmosphere of the nation's capital in the early 60s : It used to be civilized. The media was on our side. We'd get our work done by one o'clock and by two we were at the White House chasing women. We got the job done, and the reporters focused on the issues. . . . It was civilized.
     January 30, 2010       »        Incapable of Truth.
From the beginning, to paraphrase Lady GaGa, the British Electorate and Tony Blair were caught up in a ''Bad Romance.''  In 1997 Labour came in after 18 years of Tory rule.  It was so noted that, not just Blair but the whole Labour crew, seemed immune from uttering a single statement within kissing distance of veracity.  But in that Labour Time, the living was easy, and if the money wasn't free, at least the interest rates were ridiculously low and the market high --- and of course the Tories didn't seem to have a clue.  It also seemed to pass notice that Labour had opened the air and seaports of the nation to the dregs of humanity and humanity landed and went straight on the dole, so much so that the national exchequer began to run the most frightful deficits.

On that day in September of 2001, when the world supposedly changed, or when an ex-CIA asset living in a cave in Afghanistan somehow issued an invitation to George W. Bush to invade Iraq, the Blair premiership also underwent a transformation.  In the 30 years since then-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had stated that now Britain would henceforth play the British Athens to the American Rome, Tony Blair decided to supply the American Rome with 40,000 British centurions, all for the better to invade Iraq with.  We know the rest of the story.  Although George W. Bush managed to obtain a second term with the help of a rigged electronic voting machines in Ohio and ceaseless, numbing propaganda in transnational press, Tony Blair's political career ended for good and all in the sands of Mesopotamia.  Even though he managed to eke out a remarkable majority, under the circumstances, in the Commons for Labour in the 2005 General Election ( Labour : 35%; Conservative : 32%; Liberal : 22%; UKIP : 2%; Other Parties : 9% ), the Blair Watch became a political Death Watch, but prevaricating Tony managed to hang on for another two years until handing the reins of government over to Gordon Brown, an incoherent bumbler who would makes Blair, in retrospect, look like a Demosthenes.

Yesterday Tony Blair faced a parliamentary committee that is delving into the reasons behind the British Army's transformation into a stooge and poodle for the American War Machine in 2003.  Said Tony : “I genuinely believe that if we had left Saddam in power, even with what we know now, we would still have to deal with him in circumstances when the threat was worse and possibly when it was hard to mobilize any support for dealing with the threat.”

Untruthful Tony dodged and weaved and faked.  The words tumbled from his mouth effortlessly, no matter how outrageously false.  Without evidence that Saddam Hussein was a threat to anybody but himself, the British military had followed blindly, and with absolute obedience, the American lead.  About this disgraceful state of affairs for England, Blair seems not to have the lightest regret nor the slightest pang of conscience.  As with most criminals, it seems, his only regret is getting tangled up in fabrications and exposed for lies. But his suit stayed pressed and his false smile remained, true to form, concrete and shockingly insincere.