BONZER WEB SITE OF THE WEEK: http://www.taxpayer.net — Taxpayers for Common Sense. A non-partisan U.S. budget watchdog, TCS notes that 11 out of 24 major federal agencies cannot pass a financial audit. TCS tracks “earmarks” — porky add-ons to bills that eat up billions of tax dollars for questionable purposes. Like what? How about $2.4 billion for ten C-17 cargo aircraft that the Pentagon didn’t ask for? (Why? Because it brought money to the district of the congressman who threw that into the defense appropriation bill.) Or $223 million for a bridge to a small local airport and fewer than 100 constituents living on island in Alaska — that’s already well served by a ferry line. Despite recent reforms, the problem is getting worse. In 1996 there were 300 earmarks attached to the Federal Budget. In 2006 there were 12,000. This year there are more than 32,000 earmark requests up for approval in the House of Representatives alone, leading to ever-more corruption among our elected officials.It has to stop; TCS is a good place to learn about what’s going on, and how you can help to stop it. It’s time that we DEMAND common sense. – Bonzer Sites archive: http://www.BonzerSites.com
[emphasis above is mine] Cassingham is kinda tough on content thieves like myself, but I’m hoping the link to bonzersites.com will prevent harsh rebuke. Besides, it’s an important issue and he summed it up well.
For a while now I’ve been reading the blog Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Geller. Early on I recognized the female “Screech Factor”, which is high emotional content in words. This emotional writing can REALLY get on my nerves, and I attribute it to my lack of ability to deal with emotional women. I drop ‘em like hot rocks.
Does Pamela write well? Mostly. Does she write about stuff I want to know? Yes, otherwise she’d be off my blog reading list. Do I trust everything she writes? Not at all. Why? Emotional writing; it’s just open yellow journalism. Drives me bonkers.
But, like I said, I still read her because she talks about Jewish issues and is sort of in-line with my general way of thinking. However, if I had a choice between reading Atlas Shrugs and Solomonia, it’s Solomonia all the way (even with the bastardized shortened RSS feed which pisses me off).
“But Fogey B,” you ask, “why write about Pamela Geller and women bloggers in general today? Why not a while back?”
Decent question, O imaginary questioner. I have written about Pamela before, but today I read something from another female blogger that kinda pissed me off.
Debbie Schlussel wrote a piece about Neil Diamond writing the song “Sweet Caroline” and questioningly calling him a pedophile (Neil Diamond, Pedophile?). What the fuck? Okay, good headline, gotta read… aaaand we get that emotional writing that makes my short hairs stand.
Neil Diamond says he wrote the song “Sweet Caroline” about Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK’s daughter after seeing a pic of her in LIFE Magazine, “dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony” when she was a little girl.
To Debbie Schlussel, this is pedophilia.
Debbie points to some lyrics to make her point:
Hands, touching hands, reaching out Touching me, touching you Oh, sweet Caroline . . . . And now I, I look at the night, whooo And it don’t seem so lonely We fill it up with only two, oh . . . . How can I hurt when holding you Oh, one, touching one, reaching out Touching me, touching you Oh, sweet Caroline
Now I’ve written poetry and song lyrics, and I know that a photograph or painting or even a simple scent or sound can inspire art. Such inspiration doesn’t even have to be ABOUT what inspired me, it can simply evoke a feeling, and it’s a seed that germinates and grows.
Those lyrics could be about Neil wanting to tap some prepubescent ass, but they’re FAR FAR FAR more likely to be about a feeing he had when viewing the photo, something that made him feel good to be alive, and that photo summed up that feeling for him. From there, you can get those lyrics from anywhere. Touching isn’t always physical touching (that painting touched my heart), or Neil could be thinking about some hot piece of road tail he just banged in the hotel and he’s feelin’ “teh luv”, or he could be lying his publicity-seeking ass off because he’s old and his career is slowing down and more press about him means more sales, which equals steady mortgage payments.
Next, Debbie mentions Diamond’s divorce and says the divorce may’ve occurred because “Maybe she had something like this on him . . . ?”, meaning he’s a pedophile and that’s why the ex got huge money from Neil Diamond.
What… the… FUCK?! I don’t have the ability or the patience to tell-off this hag in such a complete way that she deserves. I may stoop to Photoshop, but I’m trying to hold back.
So when a female blogger whips out her fallopians and screeches “PEDOPHILE” about some innocent-seeming lyrics, then tries to back up her scummy assertions with innuendo, I just get full-on pissed. Debbie Schlussel was “female-blogger screechy” before, but this is just way too much.
It’s weird because people wil ask for my opinion, and I’ll give it as honestly as possible, but when I really get into something — really talk up something that I’ve found to be good — people will absolutely ignore that advice. In fact they’ll flat out refuse to follow that advice.
I don’t know why. The more I like something, the less that person likes the idea. From computer software advice to social advice, they’ll ask my opinion, listen, and if I state my case well, they’ll reject the opinion out of hand.
Thanks to Brian at Snapped Shot for tabulating the results (figuring out what images were being talked about in the article), and telling me that I have had a perturbing influence on Islamic Rage Boy!
I grew up in Sharon, Massachusetts. Nice town, not too big, not too small. Also very Jewish, meaning a high concentration of Jews lived there, not that is was a mostly Jewish town. As I’ve mentioned before, I always wondered why the Muslim center opened up in Sharon, of all towns.
Now, besides the fundamental Muslim policies of ICNE, we see they’re getting their freak-on Muslim stylee.
I personally don’t care if you want to have 1 spouse or 50 spouses, as long as all parties can agree with the arrangement. However, for now it’s illegal, and I see these actions as signs that Muslims (not all, but many) don’t want to become part of America, they want to bring Muslim values into America and force the USA to accept their values while rejecting our values. They act this way not because we should all be treated like adults, but because Allah wills it.
