The Conservative Saeculum - Avoiding Flameout

re(1): 'The Conservative Saeculum', Roger Bogh, BoghieOnYourSix
re(2): 'The Conservative Saeculum - Future Flameout', Roger Bogh, BoghieOnYourSix

Uuuuuummmmm, yeah :-(

I included the nomination of John Bolton in my list pointing toward a Conservative saeculum (a long life trend crossing generations). That turned out to be more problematic than expected - due to the admitted ignorance of Senator Voinavich.

I did not include floor votes on President Bush's nominees. Just look at this herd of cats:

• McCain
• Chaffee
• Collins
• Snowe

And some odd ones:

• Warner
• Graham
• DeWine

I have no confidence that the top list of grandees will ever lean center right or vote with the Party on Party votes. To them, President Bush has a responsibility to meet individually, discuss all 220 nominations, and come to a consensus that satisfies 101 individuals – or at least themselves. The bottom list is just Senators being cranky. You can count on at least three wobblies on any vote.

As the centrist Chris Matthews opines: 'Again, the Maveric Wins...' (McCain)
As the centrist Chris Matthews opines: 'The Master of the Compromise...' (McCain)

John McCain predicts fewer filibusters. Gee, what a deal. And the institution of the Senate won. He unknowingly kills any future for Frist.

Yea, Susan Collins is very happy. She can get back to doing the business of the country. Like getting some milk subsidy through... Extrodinary Circumstances is a very high bar - yup, but they crossed it before. Anybody tell you that a path taken is a path known. Susan, did anyone inform you that the business of the country might, just might, be to figure out how to deal with judicial nominations? Did your short term 'solution' resolve the 20 year problem?

Lincoln, this is not yours fathers Senate. I hope you do not mind me donating to anyone who runs against you. I'll make a compromise: I will not send money to any terrorist on the watch list that may run against you. Anyone else gets my cash. I think the stress of high office is affecting the time spent with your family. You will thank me later.

Golly, I’m sure glad the seven illuminati listed above got together with Robert Byrd to get the business of the country going again. Couldn't wait...

By The Way Northeast. Bye Bye... We don't need your trash in the Senate or House.

UPDATE: Does anybody else feel like McCain just attempted a coup in the Senate? If the center holds than he is the power broker. There is no hammer in the Senate leadership.

UPDATE: If the center holds, we will replace conservative Supreme Court justices with milquetoast Supreme Court justices. Not a good thing. How silly will it look to create an unwritten aggreement to replace justices purely via ideology.

Media: Corroborate or Collaborate

Now that the media slime have dredged up three year old stories (about human turds that are being prosecuted no less) I think a ribald cheer should go out to tell the media to be responsible:

Corroborate or Collaborate

Media slugs, validate and justify your trash or accept that you are collaborating with the enemy. Your unthinking, reactionary antics do not make you 'unpatriotic', rather they are informing your customer base that you are either stupid or painfully biased.

NEWSWEEK!!!

While everyone is ranting about the report, the reporter, and the editors – rightfully so – I want the source outed…

Why?

I no longer trust the media

I will never trusted anonymous sources.

I want to know if the trusted source is an operative.

I want to know what an unimpeachable source means to the MSM.

I am tired of major media using unnamed sources as their only backing for articles.


If the trusted, anonymous, qualified, senior source turns out to be some ignorant, ideological, brain dead, junior operative - or vaunted senior Senator from somewhere - I think I have the right to know. NOW. Since I cannot trust the media to vet their sources and their stories, I must be able to do it.

The Ultimate Desecration of the Quran

Re(1); 'Iraqi leader's Koran 'written in blood'', BBC News Online

Saddam had a Quran written in his own blood…

"My life has been full of dangers in which I should have lost a lot of
blood...but since I have bled only a little, I asked somebody to write God's
words with my blood in gratitude," President Saddam Hussein said in a letter
published in the official media.

Hhhhhmmmm

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmm…

Iraq Civilian Casualties of War...

Civilian Casualties in Iraq

Re(1): ‘Iraq’s Dead Counted’, Tim Blair, www.TimBlair.net
Re(2): ‘Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004’, UN Report
Re(3): ‘Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey’, The Lancet, Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham
Re(4): http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

Please Review and make your own decision (hat tip: Tim Blair):

Lancet Study Findings Summary:

Findings: The risk of death was estimated to be 2·5-fold (95% CI 1·6–4·2) higher after the invasion when compared with the preinvasion period. Two-thirds of all violent deaths were reported in one cluster in the city of Falluja. If we exclude the Falluja data, the risk of death is 1·5-fold (1·1–2·3) higher after the invasion. We estimate that 98 000 more deaths than expected (8000–194 000) happened after the invasion outside of Falluja and far more if the outlier Falluja cluster is included. The major causes of death before the invasion were myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accidents, and other chronic disorders whereas after the invasion violence was the primary cause of death. Violent deaths were widespread, reported in 15 of 33 clusters, and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children. The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher (95% CI 8·1–419) than in the period before the war.

Interpretation: Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100 000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths. We have shown that collection of public-health information is possible even during periods of extreme violence. Our results need further verification and should lead to changes to reduce noncombatant deaths from air strikes.

Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004, War-related deaths – between 18,000 and 29,000
The number of deaths of civilians and military personnel in Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion is another set of figures that have raised controversy. The ILCS data indicates 24,000 deaths, with a 95 percent confidence interval from 18,000 to 29,000 deaths. The confidence interval was estimated using a linearisation technique (using SPSS Complex Samples, version 12).


IraqBodyCount
The website “Iraq Body Count” (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/) estimates that between 14,619 and 16,804 deaths have occurred between the beginning of 2003 and 7 December 2004 (IBC 2004).

Science Sucks:
For those of you who wasted lots of ink defending the Lancet Study in Matthew Yglesias’ and other left and left of center sites – Who do you want to believe?

1. The Lancet Study which estimates a civilian casualty rate in Iraq of between 8,000 and 194,000 with a 95% certainty. Naturally, you assumed the bell curve would demonstrate that the most likely estimate was about 98,000.
   
2. The UN study which estimates a civilian casualty rate in Iraq of between 18,000 and 29,000 with the same 95% certainty. The UN estimate implies a most likely estimate of 24,000 civilian casualties.
   
3. The IraqBodyCount website which documents a casualty rate in Iraq of between 14,619 and 16,804 deaths for the same approximate timeline.

Please note, both the UN and IraqBodyCount casualty count estimates fit within the Lancet Study with a 95% certainty. Yuk, yuk…

By The Way, Saddam Hussein’s finely oiled murder machine would have killed about 30,000 civilians within the same approximate timeline. And that killing would never have ceased or been reduced. And that killing was sanctioned by the state and implicitly accepted by the isolationists, the burlap sack and Birkenstock crowd, and the real politic elites.

By now an additional 70,000 folks would have been euthanized and carefully placed in ditches and under mosque sidewalks for a proper Islamic burial!!!

Maybe, after the honorable French, Germans, and Russians removed the sanctions that were killing all the children in Iraq, Saddam Hussein would have used his enormous oil wealth for the benefit of mankind. Or maybe he would have reconstituted his other petrochemical and nuclear programs…

Base Realignment...

Re(1): BRAC 2005 Closure and Realignment Impacts by State

While everyone is looking at the Congressional and Senatorial winners and losers, I think a more comprehensive review illustrates some other (and potentially more) important patterns:

132 Reserve Centers are CLOSED

• 3,650 jobs were lost in closed (132) Reserve Centers
• 1,327 jobs were lost in realigned (9) Reserve Centers
• 676 jobs were created in gained (9) Reserve Centers

So the DOD Reserve Force lost 4,301 jobs of the 14,684 total lost positions (30%).

Question: How confident is the DOD and the administration in our Reserve Force?

My guess is that we will see a comparable increase in the active duty force structure.

Scud Alert:
And yes, I do have a problem with folks being recruited directly into the reserves. The Army is the biggest culprit in recruiting folks who want to join the job corps and go on camping trips every other month or so – and don’t forget the extra pay check. Surprise, Army recruiting is being clobbered – the campers want the paycheck, but not the work. Now the Army wants to recruit folks for 15 month stints – probably as direct recruit reserves. This is not a good idea.

Hey Army, smell the roses!!!
Shoomaker
Pace
Force Reductions

Tomorrows Brilliant Err America Analysis of the speech...

Just a preview...

Let us carefully look at the following quote from President Bush's long speech about appeasement, the march of freedom, and why we fight:

Successful democracies will be defined by a broader ideal of citizenship -- based on shared principles, shared responsibilities, and respect for all. For my own country, the process of becoming a mature, multi-ethnic democracy was lengthy and violent. Our journey from national independence to equal injustice [sic] included the enslavement of millions, and a four-year civil war. Even after slavery ended, a century passed before an oppressed minority was guaranteed equal rights.

For you libs and Err America listeners: sic means a typographical or verbal error that might be construed as ignorance of/or in contradiction to the context. If you harp on the use of 'injustice' when the context definitely implies the word 'justice' than you will further erode your already miniscule credibility. Err America listeners: You can start the long recovery from your adiction by reading and/or listening to the speech - and speak highly of it!!!

Pulling My Backhanded Slap...

re(1): 'President Discusses Freedom and Democracy in Latvia', G.W. Bush, President of the United States.

Part of my previous two posts were kindof a backhanded slap on what the President stated in his speech. I should have followed my own advice and not taken the MSM as knowledgeable on anything. Do these morons really require college degrees in something other than makeup and hairstyling? 'Never Again' I say again... Here is part of the speech:

As we mark a victory of six days ago -- six decades ago, we are mindful of a paradox. For much of Germany, defeat led to freedom. For much of Eastern and Central Europe, victory brought the iron rule of another empire. V-E Day marked the end of fascism, but it did not end oppression. The agreement at Yalta followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Once again, when powerful governments negotiated, the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable. Yet this attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability left a continent divided and unstable. The captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history.

Umm, folks, we have a good one here. A very good one.

It does seem that he has read a bit in his 50+ years. Especially since becoming President.

And Paleocons and Leftist (War for Oil, WMD, other stupid comments):

For all the problems that remain, it is a miracle of history that this young century finds us speaking about the consolidation of freedom throughout Europe. And the stunning democratic gains of the last several decades are only the beginning. freedom is not tired. The ideal of human dignity is not weary. And the next stage of the world democratic movement is already unfolding in the broader Middle East.

We seek democracy in that region for the same reasons we spent decades working for democracy in Europe -- because freedom is the only reliable path to peace. If the Middle East continues to simmer in anger and resentment and hopelessness, caught in a cycle of repression and radicalism, it will produce terrorism of even greater audacity and destructive power. But if the peoples of that region gain the right of self-government, and find hopes to replace their hatreds, then the security of all free nations will be strengthened. We will not repeat the mistakes of other generations, appeasing or excusing tyranny, and sacrificing freedom in the vain pursuit of stability. We have learned our lesson; no one's liberty is expendable. In the long run, our security and true stability depend on the freedom of others. And so, with confidence and resolve, we will stand for freedom across the broader Middle East.

I guess you will just have to accept that this President just does not seem to understand real politic. The Stupid rube!!!

President Bush's Yalta Statement (Part II)

re(1): 'Yalta', Wretchard, The Belmont Club

By the way, would Britain and the United States have been forced to ally with the Soviet Union if they had denied Nazi Germany, Tojo Japan, and Fascist Italy their opportunities in the mid 1930s?

If we (the democratic countries) had formed a coalition of the willing against the above while those miscreants were forming would there have been a WWII? Would there have been a WWIII (Cold War)?

Bush is reminding the democratic nations that there are consequences to being meek and weak. I don’t think he is taking a slam at FDR. FDR did what he could in a nation gripped in the clutches of isolationism and the creeping cloud of socialism. He is reminding us that marching around in burlap sacks and Birkenstocks is not a viable counter to aggression.

President Bush's Yalta Statement

re(1): 'Yalta', Wretchard, The Belmont Club

The agreements made at, and the results of, the Yalta Conference were pre-ordained by the actions taken by the western powers in the five to ten years prior to World War II (and by that I mean 1939). The parents and great grand parents of the knuckle heads that are marching, whining, and interfering in our current conflict against expansionistic aggression were busy marching, whining, interfering, and electing opposition to leadership against the previous expansionistic totalitarian movements. These stupid children, parents, and grand parents praise the very efforts (appeasement in the face of aggression) that result in the world wide conflagration of total war.

Those who cannot see the factual evil in totalitarian Stalinism and Fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan still cannot see it in Hussein, Khomeini, Assad, Wahabi Islam, North Korea, and a revitalized totalitarian China and a re-Stalinizing Russia.

Do these idiots (useful or otherwise) always have to wait until their simplistic world view leads to the death of millions? Do we have to wait until nuclear winter is the only answer to world wide terror?

Maybe there is another country like Czechoslovakia that we can give up for a few more years of ‘peace’. I think we can still hold that conference in Munich. Springtime is beautiful there.

This is a slap at Russia, but it is also a punch at the Paleocons and Leftists in our fat, dumb, and happy western cultures. Their forebears elected the stalwarts of appeasement – Chamberlain, and the chumps who ran France in the years leading to WWII. Now they attempt to elect right wing isolationist (who view the GWOT purely on boarder management) and lefty peaceniks (who view the GWOT purely as American aggression) into our Congresses, Senates, and Executive Branches.

The leadership of Bush, Blair, Howard, Berlesconi, Anznar, and that of the just freed Warsaw Pact countries may preclude a near term catastrophic total war.

Never Forget…

Never forget that cowardice in the face of evil is not a virtue.

September 1, 1939 – December 7, 1941

As the isolationist left and right marched, whined, and squabbled for over two years millions died. A few questions to the Paleocons and the Lefties in America past and present:

1. Are you proud your forefathers watched and whined about the march of evil for over two years prior to World War II?
2. Are you proud that we were forced to ally with the Soviet Union to destroy Germany?
3. Are you proud that our decade of inaction forced the complete destruction of nations?
4. Are you proud that we were forced to end the war with atomic weapons?
5. Are you even cognizant that a measured demonstration of backbone during the remilitarization of the Rhineland and the incursions into China, while thousands would have been killed, might have alleviated the suffering of hundreds of millions?
6. And are your WWII era leaders anything more than a regrettable footnotes in dusty Lefty Political Science studies?

Now, why are you marching, whining, and squabbling when we are trying to stop the onslaught of Islamofascism before it required total war?

Thank you President Bush and those derisively called Neocons for trying to lead the ignorant…

The Left Behind!!!

Now that much of the Left have spent a few months mulling religion, studying polls, and trolling for spiritual talking points, they may understand enough to accept that President Clinton was not the second coming of the messiah. This will be a living document listing reactionary Liberals awaiting a secular messiah- the next FDR!!!

The following have been truly “Left Behind!!!”:

1. Senator Ted Kennedy
2. Senator Patrick Leahy
3. Senator Barbara Boxer
4. Senator Mark Dayton
5. Senator Kenneth Salazar
6. Senator Charles Schumer
7. Senator Harry Reid
   

And for those who lie in purgatory

1. Senator Thomas Daschle

These folks have been “Left Behind” by progress. Some Democrat should initiate an intervention. However, in most cases the patient needs to hit "rock bottom!!!" before they climb out of the hole. Will rock bottom be 45 ranting obstructionists, 42 spitting reactionaries, or 38 ineffective protest voters (ie. Senator John Kerry - see votes on military procurement)?

A strong argument may be made that the list could also be called "The Left's Behind!!!" These and other strong candidates often 'Show Their A*s' when they 'Open Their Mouth'.

Lib Corruption – Part 2

Re(1): “Saddam’s Sugar Daddy”, Claudia Rosett, NROnline
Re(2): “More Food-For-(Oil) Thought”, Roger L Simon, RogerLSimon
Re(3): “Roger Simon’s Mystery”, Wretchard, Belmont Club
Re(4): “Roger Simon’s Mystery 2”, Wretchard, Belmont Club
Re(5): “Martin Offers Elections … In December”, Captain Ed, CaptainsQuartersBlog
Re(6): “Liberals Handed Out Judgeships For Political Favors: Witness”, Captain Ed, CaptainsQuartersBlog
Re(7): “Boulay Made Money From All Sides”, Captain Ed, CaptainsQuartersBlog

Read the links, the primary documents they point to, and the initiating and follow-up posts. This is a story in the making – complex and sweet. Yummy, and teased by a mystery writer, analyzed by a foreign relations analyst, bird dogged by a tenacious journalist, and outed by a firebrand. Yummy…

The UN, the fine Canadian Liberal Party, liberal big business, money laundering, Saddam Hussein, Oil For Food, etc……

Caveat: For my 16 readers this month the following is pure speculation and as such cannot be nominated for “My Flameouts”.

Are we going to witness a connection of corruption between Prime Minister Martin of the Canadian Liberal Party, the Iraq Oil-For-Food Scandal, and U.S. election campaign finance?

Me thinks so.

Ah, the U.N. is good for something.

A true world wide scandal brought to you by

A Blog Swarm.

Hey Libs, ‘You are what you eat!’

FOBs: Felons, Cons, and Strip Club Owners…

re(1): "Peter Paul and Hillary", dan, Wizblog

Let me introduce you to President Clinton and Senator Clinton supporters:

Mr. David Rosen – Future Felon and Clinton (both) Fundraiser. Seems to have made an ‘inadvertent’ clerical error of a mere $800,000 in campaign finance reporting on a marquee gala Hollywood event praising President Clinton and funding Hillary Clinton’s senatorial campaign.

Mr. Aaron Tonken – Con man and Clinton (both) Fundraiser. Currently residing in Federal Prison for ‘inadvertently’ defrauding donors to gala charity events (other gala events – not the one that Mr. Rosen used as a political fundraiser).

Mr. Peter Paul – Con man and Clinton (both) Fundraiser. Small time Kenneth Lay. He inflated corporate stock value and sold on the bubble. Also reminiscent of those fine, upstanding citizens known affectionately as ‘Robber Barrons’. This solid citizen spent some time in the Lincoln Bedroom.

M. Jim Levin – Chicago strip club owner. Was crass enough to think that one could ingratiate himself to the Clintons by fundraising for their campaigns…

Hey HillBilly, anyone tell you 'You are what you eat!'

A Bomb was a Bomb was a Bomb…

Re(1): “No Experience Necessary”, Dan Stober, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How many times must this be said:

For veteran bomb designers, accurately predicting the yield of their bomb is of great importance. Dobson and Selden had only a vague idea of the power of their bomb, but did it matter? For an aspiring nuclear state (or a terrorist group), a bomb was a bomb was a bomb. "If Iraq had one of those, you would believe [in it]," Selden said in 1995.

And the Flat Earth Society (Politicians and Ignorant Fools) are shocked that science is science – and the Pope is Catholic:

When, finally, the road show was over, Selden and Dobson were told what they had already guessed: Their labor of three years had succeeded. They had designed a working atom bomb. The reaction from audience members was in proportion to their working knowledge of nuclear weapons. Some civilian officials were stunned, Hudgins said, but most scientists were not.

And we are always questioned – “Why are we in Iraq???”

From his experience, Dobson believes Al Qaeda, if it were not on the run, could attain the world's worst terror weapon. "It seems to me that this Al Qaeda is enough of an organization, with enough people and enough funding that they probably could." He worries about sea-going shipping containers, which are large enough to hold a heavy, conservatively designed weapon that would have a high chance of success.

"They could send it up Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, or the Mississippi River. You could go any place, Almost. Most large cities are either coastal or on a major river, where barge-type shipping goes," Dobson said.

Thought through, it should be apparent that to keep the bad guys on the run you have to endanger their sanctuaries, their skilled labor source, their funding source, and their technology source. These resources make much of the Middle East far more dangerous in the mid to long term than even an existing nuclear ‘power’ that cannot sustain their program.

And now for the big weenie:

Selden knew that in another hands-on experiment, U.S. weapons designers had proven the concept at the Nevada Test Site in 1962, when they blew up a bomb using reactor-grade plutonium. Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of Japan's opposition Liberal Party, underscored the point 40 years later. In a speech last April that sent shock waves across Asia, he said: "We have plenty of plutonium in our nuclear power plants, so it's possible for us to produce 3,000 to 4,000 nuclear warheads. If we get serious, we will never be beaten in terms of military power."

And now we have advanced, free market societies in South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, etc… While I cannot vouch for this organization (its clock seem right only about twice a day), how secure do you think 60 year old technology is – that is, is it secret???

Should be an interesting 21st Century.

The Conservative Saeculum - Future Flameout?

Hey Republicraps,

Are you going to make my biggest smack post a poseur?

Some ignorant gubment slug forgets to attend the Bolton ranting and gets all affronted regarding a last second trumped up charge about the nominee being a big meany. Good God!!!

Glad I did not prior post the Judiciary Filibuster rules vote.

Good God Republicrap ‘Leadership’, don’t you know that blowing the Judge issue will be your Mogadishu… Run away and you will not be forgiven… I really hope the Republicrap leadership doesn’t fight like a French Bill Clinton… Run away and the vultures will pick you clean. They will remember…

Should I double down? Last week yes, this week not my cup of tea.

Birds and Barbarians

To the La Raza clown who whined about a Schwarzenegger demand to “close the border”:

Birds and Barbarians migrate,
Citizens of nation states do not...

Do not talk about people migrating like illiterate barbarians and wild geese…

The Conservative Saeculum

Re(1): “The Fourth Turning”, William Strause and Neil Howe

While I drink a good German micro brew I have a revelation!!!

Libs, let’s call it a saeculum and be done with it…

The turning started when the latch key kids who used to shoot each other got religion and gave birth to the “Honor Student” generation. Proud parents driving their soccer challenged youths from one event to another. Children brought up in increasingly tight and communal families – learning to respect social structure… All the while watching the aging blue hair baby boomers prat about with grand ideas and small battles. All that was required was a spark.

For you Libs, was it the 2000 election fiasco or was it 9/11… In the end, historians can determine the beginning of a rising and a falling.*

Lets go backwards

Bolton Confirmation
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II Veneration
Negroponte Confirmation
Lebanon Protests
Iraq Elections
Rice Confirmation
U.S. Elections
Afghanistan Elections
Australian Elections
Reagan Veneration
Iraq Liberation
Afghanistan Liberation
9/11
Stem Cell Research Confrontation
China Spyplane Confrontation
2000 Election Fiasco

Libs, pick a win, any win. Oh, that’s right you all hung a good man named Miguel Estrada with your crappy filibuster… You really are quality people, aren’t you… Regardless, it might be time to call it a game and start preparing for the next saeculum. We have had our ‘Fourth Turning’ and the culture wars are largely won. Society is being defined by the conservative movement.

By the way a saeculum is a Latin term for a ‘long lifetime’ – about 80 years. William Strause and Neil Howe postulate that generational trends cycle through four archetypes every saeculum.

It's been a sad half decade for the Liberal Movement. But be positive - some disaster, in say seventy years, may bring you back into power.

* For me, the lib elements of my feeble mind were extinguished when my take home pay declined when I received a major promotion and thus higher pay. You might remember the Clinton Tax Increase. I also work for a Marine Corps where the personal battle cry became "I survived the Clinton Legacy!"

On the topic of Err America - Quickly before its too late

re(1): "New Liberal Talk Radio Ratings Released", Brian Maloney, The Radio Equalizer

Err America is there to provide the nanny state time for public service spots.

I just found out that fruits and nuts were beneficial parts of any healthy diet – and I live in California!!! There will many Err filling opportunities now that the nanny state has determined that there are actually twelve food groups. Wow, Err America can run three one minute spots, four times an hour, and cover all their advertising slots…

The nice thing about Err America is that I can always count on some serious political wisdom when other talk show hosts are cutting to advertisements. I mean, I can listen to Randi Rhodes summarizing some deep thought of the day for a minute, spend a minute ingesting the dietary benefits of sleeping or something, and then jump right back into the saddle – by pressing the reset button on my radio.

Also, it is nice to know that here in San Diego the straight news cuts are provided by the epitome of journalistic integrity – CNN Radio…

Err America is also increasing is audience share by incorporating decent programming - like financial investment show “The Ray Lucia Show”. Me thinks he and his co-hosts might be just a bit right of center…

Err America and Rollerblades...

Damn, I was scudding Err America when the doorbell rang…

The poor sod in a hooded sweatshirt looks me from head to foot and asks what he knew to be a completely embarrassing and inane pitch:

“Would you like to buy a set of rollerblades?”

I mirror his gaze and review the options… “Uuuuhhhh, no. Nice try though!”

I just realized I am in a wheelchair. What am I to do???