INEPT BUFFOONS WHO CALLED THE WORLD ALARMIST

YEARS AGO THE "ALARMISTS" TOLD US TO PREPARE;
NOW OUR SOLUTION TO OUR SITUATION IS TO GROUND AIRPLANES
BECAUSE WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT!

This is Katrina all over again.  Ray Nagin lives!  Quick, circle the busses.  Shut down the escape routes so that people can't get in, or out.  Can't let escaping people go the wrong way on a freeway that is not being traveled now can we?  
I think of the government agents who were ignored  when they warned central HDQTRS that there was a danger that airplanes would be used to wreak havoc in our air. (Ooopss, those are alarmist conspiracy theories, right?)  Yep.  3,000 souls later the inept buffoons who should have taken the alarms seriously have to have some explanation.

So now that we have one misdiagnosed African dead and two of his nurses dying (maybe) we suddently realize that this is serious.  So, instead of analyzing the facts, studying the logic and the logistics, we find our elected buffoons running for the solution that is the easiest and the most visible, and the most stupid ... stop travel to and from West Africa.  Why?  Because in the United States, every problem can be solved by an easy mechanical fix.  Everything, from cancer to ebola.  From radiology to airplanes.  From the voting box to gerrymandering.  From religious persecutions to vicious and cruel dictatorships we propose the military solution.  Oh, yeah. Bomb 'em back to the middle ages.  It's simple.  Just ask Senator John McCain.

We don't need alarmists who tell us that the planet is going to burn up.  It'll never get to that point.  It's pure hogwash.  
So to keep the alarmists happy. We devise cap and trade.  That wonderful bait and switch policy that says that I'll buy your share of the clean air left over from your production by-product that goes into the atmosphere  so that I can keep pouring the same amount of my garbage dross into the atmosphere.  That'll fix it.  The sea level will never rise if we do this right.  (e.g. I pay you enough.)

Oh, we gotta get back to the airplane story.  

The brilliant dropout from the Rhodes scholar program, you know the one, the illustrious ex-candidate for president from Texas.  You know, the one who got to keep his job as governor of that illustrious state?  He's all in favor of grounding the airplanes.  What is he going to do when the ship carrying a potential ebola patient wants to drop anchor in Galveston?  That's gonna be a good one.  You going to put wings on that one so he can't unload on your soil?  Mexico turned him away.  Show some testosterone Rick.  Live up to your convictions.  Be tough.  Contribute to the solution of the problem with the tactic that you propose.  Oh, I nearly forgot, this is not an African, Rick, this is a real, warm blooded Texan.  I know.  Send them to the CDC in Atlanta. Do they have a deep water port there?
Naw, never mind, Rick, I know that as a true politician you're going to remind me that ships don't fly.  

Yes, my fellow citizens, we have some cultural traits that should prove to us that our exceptional arrogance about our summa cum laude exceptionalism is buffoonery at its best.

Me, the Crusty Kurmujjin

PS:  Anonymous, thanks for giving me the inspiration for this response to your comment.

TOTAL TRAVEL BAN ENACTED -- WESTERN AFRICAN PEOPLE FORBIDDEN FROM FLYING TO UNITED STATES

The leaders of Siera Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Senegal have instituted a complete and total shutdown of travel from their country to the United States.  
The ban was enacted because it was deemed too dangerous for the people of the region to take the chance of being exposed to ebola while in the United States.  The frightened Western Africans were driven to their decree by the extraordinary and exceptionally high percentage of transferal of the disease in the continental United States.
It is exceptionally remarkable that in the United States total ineptitude is rampant in the presence of the disease.  The statistics of death and contagion are exceedingly frightening in the light of recent events. One Western African ebola patient was initialy misdiagnosed when he first presented himself to the professional medical practitioners at a hospital emergency room intake area in the great state of Texas.  When he returned two days later, his condition had deteriorated so badly that it was but a matter of time before he succumbed to the onslaught of the merciless virus.
In the process of treating the poor victim, two of the nurses who worked to try to save him were infected in the process and are now fighting for their own lives.

The Western African nations in question where thousands of ebola patients are presently awaiting the quasi inevitable outcome of their condition despite the best efforts of their care givers are not only afraid to come to the United States but are being forbidden to do so because of the patent ineptitude of the medical community of the country.  There is a fear that the ratio of death and contamination displayed by the health care profession of the United States would contribute to the decimation of the Western African population.  The U.S. citizens already in Western Africa are being held there by the ban in a humanitarian effort to protect them from the dangers that they face at home.

This is a first rate case of American Exceptionalism on display.

ONLY WIMPS HIDE BEHIND DISCLAIMERS

The following is not necessarily the thoughts and opinions of the

person sending this, and is not endorsed or paid for by *Sender* !!

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DISCLAIMER

It is none of  your business whether I am speaking my own

personal opinion or not, so I do not care whether or not you

feel resentment over the contents of this blog post or any other.

If you don't like it, contact me and call me out personally after 

announcing your full and true identity and OWN what comes out

of  your mouth, what is crafted by your pen or vomitted from your keyboard.

Yeah, I love disclaimers, both the noun that names the little paragraph above the garbage that follows it and the 

DISCLAIMOR who lacks the testosterone to own what is produced.  

If you don't want to own it, don't produce it.  Don't tell me that "I didn't write this.  An anonymous being from somewhere on the planet sent it to my email and so here it is for whatever it is worth."  Every time you do that, you diminish yourself, you know.  Not only that, you also diminish the receiver by showing that you think that the receiver isn't smart enough to know that by hiding behind something you think is good but might cause a negative reaction, that you are weak and not strong enough to defend your very own opinion.  

Let me tell you my personal experience, a true life story.

When I get these anonymous "forwards" full of innuendo, downright inaccuracies, lying judgments and very often open expressions of  near total ignorance caused by an absence of  basic grammar school knowledge, I answer them with factual corrections and the occasional personal insult of the "forwardor."  It works!  My email inbox has been quasi free of such stercus taurorum over the last few years.  A lot of the weight has been lost due to the fact that my "friends" and relatives, yes, relatives, have found out that I suffer invincibly ignorant Bozos with zero tolerance. In their fear of a resulting correction and call to a more balanced exchange of ideas and facts and their interaction, they back off because they are only interested in the acidic invective of discrimination, exclusivism, ignorant exceptionalism and not the sweet taste of truth.  Why has my email in-box lightened?  Because not one single brilliant author or brazen "forwardor" of crass material ever had the gumption to own the stated points of view and engage in a straightforward, intellectually honest exchange. They have all, 100% of them, decided to crawl back into their mole hole.

So, if you want to get me to respect you, own who you are. There are people whom I know but do not like and still have a decent relationship with.  Why?  Because I respect them and they respect me in the basic truth that we hold differing positions about certain facts based on our different acceptance of the truth, but that we are not afraid to live with it and pronounce it to one and all, no matter what.

That's why, when I die, don't cry at my funeral because you know that you will be happy that I have finally been put in a box for good -- with no disclaimer.

I LOVE MY DOG -- YOU ILLEGALS, GO HOME WHERE YOU BELONG

No, this is not an awkward moment.  You can start disliking me or downright hating me as of now without feeling bad about it.

I do not think that dogs should hold the pre-eminent social acceptance that they do in this country.  This has been filling my craw since the vicious attack on the immigrant people in Murrieta, California, a short 18 miles from where I live and work.  I know and you know that there were people reviling the people on the bus.  Those on the bus were no doubt holding and protecting children.  Among those yelling and screaming insults were some who have dogs for which they care more than they do for fellow human beings.  Especially children!  Yuk! 
In fact, if they had to buy children, they wouldn't do it.  After all, children are silly humans who grow up to be idiotic humans who jump on buses after walking 1,000 miles to come here to steal our jobs.  Especially the ones that we don't want to do anyway.  It's much more consoling and humanly fulfilling to pay $500.00 for a good dog that will die after 10 years and make you mourn for a year that he died so young.  
...Yeah, and by the way, the dog never learned how to talk, never learned how to open the door, never learned how to use the toilet bowl, sweep the floor, wash or wipe the dishes and a few other trivial things like that.  Oooppsss, I forgot that the dog never really learned how make the bed.  I never did meet a dog who could learn how to take all 25 possible points of a pinochle hand, or seven no trump in bridge.  

Actually, I like dogs.  I prefer them barbecued, sauced and glazed with fiery pepper with a nice heavy local red wine at about 19 - 22% by volume.  Have to have nice steamed rice and stir fried bitter melon mixed with squash flowers and banana hearts.  Onions raw, on the side.  Yep, that's the way I like my dog.

The world would be better off without all these useless dogs and cats.  I have written a lot about how to solve some of the world's hunger problems.  Here's one sample from '07

Final thought:  Some of you say that you are pro-life.  I hate that term because it doesn't mean anything other than the life in the womb.  If you're an immigrant on a bus, you don't get to live better and neither does your young child because you're out of the womb now so I can make you suffer all I want...So long as I stay happy.  Hell, it's my body and I'll do what I want with it.  Besides, I want to save my river of tears for when FIDO dies.

So, you all, hate me enough so that you won't feel the need to come to my funeral.  Cry for your dog, not for me.

THE KOCH BROTHERS LIVE BECAUSE OF YOU

IF IT WERE NOT FOR POLITICIANS 

THESE TWO GUYS WOULD HAVE TO THROW THEIR MONEY DOWN THE LAS VEGAS RAT HOLE

Therefore, all you politicians, pundits, publishers and prostituted prevaricators should look in the mirror.  There you will see the root cause of what you euphemistically describe as a system that is broken.

That is quintessential stercus taurorum.

It is the United States' national pastime to pass laws first so that the special interests who don't like the law that is passed will funnel more bribe money into the government so that the law will go unenforced and after a decade or so be tagged as broken because two rich guys are bribing the life out of it.  
Mr and Mrs Politician will then blame the rich guys for throwing so much money around that the ones greedily getting the money in a frenzy of venal avarice have neither the time nor the will to govern.  

So, all you pretzel bent, corkscrew twisted hand-wringing shards of the broken government rest assured that we of the used and abused hoi-poll-oi are on to you.  It would be nice to be able to escape to the moon or some such other place, perhaps even another galaxy.  There we would at least have the joy of being the source of wonderment at being so awfully EG (extra-galactic) that we might nearly forget where we came from and why we left in the first place.

So, Mr and Mrs Politician.  The government is not broken.  It's being waterboarded by you all.  If you were all  true servants of the people, the Koch brothers and the rest of the plutocracy would have no power.  But your insatiable appetite for more, drives you to help them redistribute their wealth in your direction in exchange for whatever favors you can throw their way.   

That's not "broken government" it is "immoral government."  Legal, yes, but as any 1st year philosophy student will tell you, "legal" does not equate with "moral."

CAREER UNEMPLOYMENT MONEY RECIPIENTS = POLITICIANS

Let me tell you something about politicians and unemployment insurance.

Politicians could not get paid if they did not have someone else's money to support them.  

Do they think that they DESERVE campaign contributions?  If they had real jobs they would not have the time to go beg for money.

Then they get elected and the citizens pay them still yet for doing nothing productive.

Do politicians consider themselves to be EMPLOYED?

I sure don't.  

They are professional liars and bribe takers on the perpetual dole.

Unemployment insurance?  

Be a politician and make a career out of it.

AMERICA, BEST EVER? GOOD WINTER FISHING FOR LEIF AND NOT MUCH MORE

I received an email A short time back.  I receive a lot of emails.

Every now and then some of my friends forget who it is that they have on their "forwards" list and I get some of their sinfully ignorant scribblings.  Like this one.  It starts off with Obama, but that's only the wick...the bomb comes later.

You said:

The second term of Barack Obama will be the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest Republic in the history of mankind.

Discovered? Discovered what? They discovered that you could not get to India by sailing west from Europe is what they discovered, or so they thought.  If your white Christian males had talked to the white Christian male fishermen from Scandinavia they would have known what existed west of them from those who had been visiting North American shores for at least six centuries before.  So you call that discovering something, eh.

Explored?  Maybe I can give you that one, but I do know that they were accompanied by the natives who didn’t have to discover anything because they knew where they were going.

Pioneered?  Ha.  Just because they had never been there, didn’t mean that they had anything to pioneer.  Just because they wanted to live in wooden houses rather than something less doesn’t mean that they were discovering, exploring or pioneering anything.

Settled and Developed?  I suppose that if you mean causing natives to walk west for a thousand miles because you want their land settling and developing I guess you can do that.  Most people would call that stealing and persecuting.

If you call genocide and rapacious killing settling and developing I suggest that you buy another dictionary. I also suggest that you ask yourself who was here first.  It strikes me that history shows us that it was the natives, be they whom they may, the Scandinavians and multiple Indigenous Nations…Wasn’t it an Italian guy from Genoa who sold the Queen of Spain into financing his trip west?   Sounds to me like he and the Anglo Saxon Christians who followed were hell bent on wiping out the pagan “savages” who were here first at all costs.  You’re real proud of that, I suppose.  Neither the Spanish nor the Anglo Saxon white Christians have a very glorious history of treating the natives of this great land mass in a Christian way.  A short read of the Bible would show you that.  If you don’t like being turned into the minority, tough.  Just be glad that the non-Anglo Saxon Christians of the 21^st century don’t treat you like your forebears treated theirs.  If they did, you’d be dead in short order…or, if you’re lucky, they’d sell you to someone for whom you could pick cotton.

…greatest Republic in the history of mankind… Yep, greater than Egypt ever was?  Greater than Babylon ever was? Greater than China ever was?  Greater than Rome ever was?  Greater than Greece ever was?  Greater than the Inca Nation ever was? 

They’re all dead now, and so will this nation die just like they did…maybe somewhere in the early 2100’s. Maybe by then someone will figure out how important it is for a great nation to have a single payer health care system.  It will take the successful dictator to install it.

Ah, the New World Order…George HW Bush used to dream about that a lot.  His son was quite a dreamer too.  Dreamed all the way through school, forgot to learn how to speak English but learned how to dodge the draft. 

As to shysters, I would encourage you to look around and see that there are well nigh 1,000 shysters in D.C. alone, and from every corner of the nation.  You don’t have to go to Chicago to find them.  Just take a look next door.

People like me are completely politically irrelevant…That’s right. You are irrelevant, politically, and so am I.  It’s not because the Blacks, Latinos, Homosexuals, Abortionists, Asians, Feminists, Union Members, Environmental Extremists, the Media, Hollywood nor the “Forever Needy” have taken over.  It is because you and I are not politically involved and we don’t do anything but write our opinions for others to read.  These groups, or some like them, have existed in all the great civilizations, many of which I have named above.  If you don’t believe me, read a little more of the Bible and maybe a history book or two.

…or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired. 

“Coalition?”  “Surrendered our culture?”  What coalition?  What culture?  Are you disappointed that you are not part of a coalition?  And whose culture?  Norman Rockwell’s front porch culture?  The culture that slaughtered the natives who were here first?  The culture that went to Africa to “rendition” the natives there so that they could be enslaved here?  The culture that wants to de-unionize labor so that workers can be abused and under paid?  The culture that wants to shrink the government so that OSHA, EEOC, NLRB, IRS, SS, FDIC, FNMA, et al would disappear so that the privileged could run rough-shod over the “workers” as the “settlers” and “developers” ran rough-shod over the natives?  Now, that’s culture!

I accept that I am politically irrelevant, but not for the same reasons that you enumerate.  It just so happens that I see a lot of Christianity in our country, but not in your article.  You claim that Christian white people made this the greatest country that ever existed.  They might be white, but they are far from Christian.  They hate Blacks, they hate Latinos, they hate Homosexuals, they hate Feminists, they hate those of the political party that they oppose, they hate the unemployed, they hate unions, they hate government regulation, they hate the needy and they hate the government that takes care of those who need to be cared for, they hate their voting districts so they gerrymander them to suit themselves.  Christ was not a hater.  Christ did not give us a mission to hate, to enslave, to belittle, to abuse, to lie, to judge falsely. 

At least in OUR time, we knew and understood Valor!  Really?  What was your time?  I remember when the Nips, the Gerry’s and the Wops were on the front pages of our newspapers.  I remember when my father hired a black man and was told by the owner of the business to get rid of him, or else.  Valor.

I remember when Japanese Americans were taken off their land and imprisoned. Valor.  I remember when Medgar Evers was shot and killed.  Valor.  I remember when the Atomic Bomb ruined the lives of thousands of human beings by its after effects.  Valor.  I remember when white Christian Americans would do anything they could to not be drafted (I’m talking the 40’s).  Valor.  I remember when boys were old enough to kill and be killed but couldn’t vote.  Valor.  I could go on, but I won’t, because at my age I could fill the page with examples of “Valor” that you are blind to.  Maybe I should not pass up the chance to mention the Valor of a famous white Christian male by the name of Richard Nixon.

The next time you receive a writing full of prejudicial hatred and ignorance think twice before you press “forward.”  I recommend that you answer the original sender and tell him/her to consider whether or not what has been sent to you is of a high enough Christian quality to be sent on.  Short of that, it might be better for your soul if you did not own the sentiments of the piece right from the top and simply press “delete.”

I suggest that because I happen to be one white Catholic Christian who knows his history and his Bible and his moral doctrine and is not afraid to confront people who spread hatred and discontent through the world via the Internet.

Furthermore, as a final comment particular to this case, I for one do not believe that this is the greatest republic [small “r”] that ever existed in the history of mankind as alleged by the author of the original article.  

When you send this forward, don’t forget to mention my name.  I am not afraid to own up to what I have written here. I am not an anonymous blogger or anything like that.  

I am Paul Dion.  And you are ?