It Ain’t Me, Babe ...6:29 pm
On an infinitely lighter note: It has been brought to my attention that there is a presence on the web at http://www.rightwingbob.net .
I haven’t perused the site (which appears to be essentially a discussion forum) sufficiently to offer any opinion about the owner’s intentions. It doesn’t appear to have anything to do with Dylan. All that this RWB wants to make clear is that it has nothing to do with yours truly. I wish the usurper RWB well, to the same extent as I wish all strangers well, until they give me reason to do otherwise. The RightWingBob.com legal team stand ready to abandon their stools at the local tavern and man the judicial ramparts on my order - but as I am not of an overly-litigious nature, it is unlikely that this will be necessary.
The old adage, “accept no imitations,” comes to mind, but I hesitate to voice it, so … let your imaginations reign.
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“All the Way from New Orleans …” ...3:43 pm
A few extracts from Chronicles that seem poignant at this time:
The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they’re a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek , Roman, sepulchres - palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of men and women who have sinned and who’ve died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn’t pass away so quickly here.
….
New Orleans, unlike a lot of those places you go back to and that don’t have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there’s a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There’s something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can’t see it, but you know it’s here.
….
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou Temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain.
A different note from the ever worsening news of the day:
On New Orleans’ Canal Street, dozens of looters ripped open the steel gates on clothing and jewelry stores and grabbed merchandise. The looting prompted authorities to send more than 70 additional officers and an armed personnel carrier into the city. One police officer was shot in the head by a looter but was expected to recover, authorities said. Blanco said she will ask President Bush for military troops to help keep looting under control.
A giant new Wal-Mart in New Orleans was looted, and the entire gun collection was taken, The Times-Picayune reported. “There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city,” said Ebbert, the city’s homeland security chief. Also, looters tried to break into Children’s Hospital, the governor’s office said.
In Biloxi, Miss., people picked through casino slot machines for coins and ransacked other businesses. In some cases, the looting was in full view of police and National Guardsmen.
May God bless those heroes who are out there now saving lives, and may God help those who are desperate and stranded.
Donate to the Red Cross here (high traffic may make it difficult to get to their site at times).
More organizations that you can contribute to are listed here at the FEMA website.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
A Day Too Long ...9:51 am
The hurricane may have passed but the disaster continues to unfold for the good people of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. Thoughts around here are with them.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
The Murmur of a Prayer ...7:59 pm
From the Washington Post tonight: Hurricane Could Leave One Million Homeless.
When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans on Monday, it could turn one of America’s most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city’s legendary cemeteries.
From you know who:
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Crash On The Levee, Mama ...1:29 pm
Well, let’s hope not, for the citizens of New Orleans, though it looks bad right now.
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Friday, August 26, 2005
When The Cities Are On Fire ...7:47 pm
One of Michael Yon’s most recent dispatches from Iraq is getting linked around a lot, and with good reason. He calls it “Gates of Fire,” and here’s a brief extract:
We were searching the area for the source of that automatic weapons fire when Kurilla spotted three men in a black Opel and his sixth sense kicked. When Kurilla keyed in on them, he pointed his rifle at the car and signaled them to get out. The driver tucked his head and gunned the gas. The chase was on.
Strykers are fast, but Opels are faster. We were roaring through little streets and along roads, horn blaring, cars zipping off the sides, the steady chatter of multiple radio channels colliding inside the Stryker. A Kiowa helicopter pilot radioed that he spotted the car. As the chase continued, the Kiowa pilot said, “It’s going about 105 mph.”
How can the pilot know it’s going 105 mph? I thought.
As if in reply, the pilot radioed that the Opel was outrunning his helicopter. Captain Jeff VanAntwerp came on the radio net saying he was moving his section into position to intercept the Opel.
“Watch out for that kid!” yelled Kurilla over the intercom to our driver as we made a hard turn, managing to avoid hitting the child.
Opels may be faster than Kiowas on straight-a-ways, but when the car made turns, the helicopter quickly caught up. Kurilla ordered the Kiowa to fire a warning shot, then quickly authorized the Kiowa to disable the vehicle.
Kiowas are small, carrying just two people; they fly so low the two flying soldiers are practically infantrymen. The pilot swooped low and the “co-pilot” aimed his rifle at the Opel, firing three shots and blowing out the back window. The Kiowa swooped and banked hard in front of the car, firing three more shots through the front hood, the universal sign for “stop.”
It only gets a lot more intense, and there are photos to back it up.
Just a little of what you’ll never see or hear on the evening news. But, oh, I hear Cindy Sheehan is back in Crawford. And Al Sharpton is joining her. Perfect.
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The Judge He Holds A Grudge ...4:14 pm
From Reuters:
The U.S. government on Friday appealed the 22-year prison term for “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, saying that the Algerian convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport deserved a longer sentence because he “plotted to kill hundreds of innocent Americans.”
This is reassuring, to say the least. Imagine if Mohammed Atta had been caught in advance of 9/11, with all the plans for that atrocity, and had been sentenced to just 22 years in jail?
The appeal of the sentence is also an apt rejoinder to the judge who handed down that sentence on July 27th, while making remarks including the following:
“We did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny the defendant the right to counsel,” he said Wednesday. “The message to the world from today’s sentencing is that our courts have not abandoned our commitment to the ideals that set our nation apart.”
By imposing a 22-year sentence on a committed fanatic who would like to commit mass murder against Americans - and was busy trying to do just that when he was caught - Judge John Coughenour ironically helped make the case that we should deal with this kind of foreign enemy by means of military tribunals and, where necessary, firing squads.
Ahmed Ressam was at one time cooperating with prosecutors in return for a more lenient sentence. That cooperation ended, however, and it has to be assumed that he has retreated to the ideology that drove him in the first place. He may have gambled that just by cooperating temporarily he could win the sympathy of the judge, over the objections of the prosecutors. In that he would have been right.
The “message to the world” that Judge Coughenour referred to ought to be this: if you are caught trying to execute a plan of mass murder against Americans, then you will never see the light of day again.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Because It Shouldn’t Be Missed ...9:28 pm
Via LGF, Bob Hope springs eternal. Click on the image for the movie clip. Well worth offering some of my bandwidth to get this out.
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“Kill The President” ...7:24 pm
If you were watching TV, listening to the radio, or reading the news today, you couldn’t have helped but hear about the recent remarks of the always tactful tele-evangelist Pat Robertson regarding Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He opined in essence that the only good Hugh Chavez is a dead Hugo Chavez. Hugo, of-course, is no fan of his northern neighbor, the United States. Here from USA Today is just a little of what he’s been getting up to:
In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, flush with record oil revenue, is sending subsidized oil shipments to Cuba’s Fidel Castro and increasing military spending. Earlier this month, Venezuela announced a purchase of long-range surveillance radars from China. The U.S. has accused Chavez of funneling arms to leftist rebels in neighboring Colombia, which he denies.
You might, if you were being generous, equate Pat Robertson’s remarks with that old parlor game conundrum: If you could go back in time, and assassinate Adolf Hitler before he started WWII, would you do it? And would it be right?
No one, however, is being generous with Pat. As the always tactful New York Times reports: Robertson Is Pilloried for Assassination Call. CNN has given the “call” and the reaction to it ’round-the-clock coverage, including covering the response of the Venezuelan ambassador to the U.S. live.
So … just asking. Have you heard about Kill Bush .net?
Do you remember when the UK’s Guardian newspaper pleaded for President Bush’s assassination?
Do you recall Checkpoint: A Novel, released during last year’s election campaign, in which two characters discuss various means of killing George W. Bush?
Maybe you remember the play (performed in New York city while the Republican National Convention was in town) called “I’m Going To Kill The President.” Salon called it “one of the most amusing plays currently running in New York.”
One thing I can tell you: If you remember all these things, it is because you read about them in what is known as the “conservative blogosphere.” You sure didn’t hear about them on the “Today” show, and you didn’t get blow-by-blow and breathless accounts on CNN.
And that’s to be expected. Here were examples, merely, of people discussing and/or advocating the killing of U.S. President George W. Bush. Nothing to get excited about. Not like someone contemplating the killing of the psycho neo-commie Hugo Chavez.
(Hey, I just coined that: “neo-commie.” Think it might catch on? Things sound so much nastier when you put “neo” in front of them.)
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