NY Yankees are Champs again...

which means that the Bloody Soxes are the Biggest Loser, again. After the August sweep (all right winning two three, which is just fine with Meatloaf), an Elite Member wrote me suggesting that my gloating blog at that time was dangerously premature. So, just one question, Theodore:

How's my timing now?

Yankees in five over the Phighten Phillies. Staying with the World of Sports, President Obama leaving Thursday for a visit to my ancestral home, Copenhagen, Denmark. After pleading for the International Olympic Committee to award the 2016 summer games to Chicago, the President, it is said, will drop by 26 Vogsmansmarken Street to home for the Ms. Annie and the Ms. Vera Onsdorff, who lived there from 1937 until their demise, consistent with the care limitations of the Danish socialized medicine system.

While this visit to pay homage to an American Family is certainly appropriate, one may question how Presidential is a lobbying trip for just one American governmental subdivision for an event nine years hence. Oh well, this President should pay off his political debt, particularly, when two wars and other national security issues are not really clamoring for his immediate attention.

John Corzine is no Janet Napolitano

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John Corzine for a second term as Governor of NJ is no political Ad Man's dream assignment, for sure!

Bereft of economic accomplishments of note, Corzine's ads focus on his understated good looks, charming personality and inspiring life story. We are told, John grew up dirt poor, unloved and unbefriended. Undeterred by having had no social contacts for the first 22 years of life, John studied diligently, but alone, for an MBA at an Ivy League University. Upon graduating with such a prestigious business degree, John decided to make his mark in the world financial capital, NYC. John became a Master of his Universe, but not right away.

John's ads inform us that he initially accepted a position at a leading Wall Street Investment Bank, in which his sole duty was to get coffee for his immediate supervisor. Surprisingly, these ads do not tell us whether or not John excelled in this position, or whether he got his first promotion after just one or two years. What this ad campaign does tell us is that Corzine always wanted to "be someone" rather than to "do something important".

I know of nothing more informative than learning that a man completely sublimated his own existence to serve as another man's gofer. I can surmise that when the Ad Agency told the Gov that the focus of his re-election campaign would be his willing obsequious debasement, he must have asked: "Is that all there is?".

Well yes, other than the utter stupidity of ordering his own chauffeur/gofer to roar up the GSP at ninety plus miles per hour while not wearing a seat belt - him, not the State Trooper, rushing the Gov to a meeting with Imus and the Rutgers University insulted (by Imus, not Corzine) womens' basketball team A born leader, indeed.

It just doesn't get much better than this...

Tony Romo, three picks, including one pick six; Should have been two.  Oh my.

           Jerry Jones shown on national TV, in owner's box, picking his nose after Romo's 3rd pick;

           JINTS win game on last second field goal, after Wade Phillips calls time-out as kicker L. Tynes was already starting his first attempt.  Classless move from a classless organization.

Only element of cosmic justice missing - neither punter kick hit the jumbo tron. Ah, next week.

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What in the World does Supreme Court know...

... and when will we know that at least five of its members understand the foremost constitutional principle that unfettered political speech is the core First Amendment right of every American, including those groups of citizens who choose to organize themselves as a corporate entity, both for profit and for eleemosynary purposes.

Under McCain Feigngold, corporations and unions are prohibited from the expenditure of their general treasury funds for any electioneering communications, that is advocacy for or against any candidate for federal office at times relevant to the influencing of potential voters.  Sounds like the patriotic obligation of every citizen in our Republic. 

Yet, the MSM uniformly supports this undemocratic limitation on political speech.  Why you ask?  Because the participation of corporations in attempting to sway voter sentiments is only "corrupting", and "venial" when it is done by other corporations.  NY Times Corporation, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, Washington Post, etc, are all corporate entities that do whatever they possibly can to influence voters, but they have an exemption from McCain Feigngold as the benighted Fourth Estate.  Journalist can never be constitutionally regulated, because of the protections set forth in the 1st Amendment.

Thank goodness, I am a recognized journalist myself.

What in the World does Janet Napolitano know...

... and when will we know that she actually knows something?

  

(Dateline: Wash. D.C.; September 9, 2009)  Traveled to our Nation's capital to take the pulse of an aroused citizenry on this solemn 911 anniversary.  Day One:  Focus on two executive branch officials most responsible for nation's safety - the President and DHS Secretary.  Both individuals gave speeches to national audiences to which I gained free access.  

President Obama's soaring rhetoric and eloquence on health care bills reminds us that he possesses that rare charisma and oratorical skill so vital to inspirational leadership.

In contrast, Secretary Napolitano's oratory is so barren that one must ask, when she "leads", does anyone, anytime follow?  Two examples - Speaking at the ground breaking of the new 2.6 billion dollar DHS Hq. complex, the Secretary told the nation that this office campus will facilitate "intra-departmental communications", and she assured taxpayers that "many more meetings" will be held soon.  I feel safer already, don't you?

In a follow-up press conference, the Secretary elaborated on these benefits to national security: "Q. Knowing what you know, do you think [the public] would have a different view of preparedness." A. Oh, yes, perhaps.  But on the other hand..." (Wash. Post A21; 9/10/09).

This dichotomy  in leadership abilities is not only inexplicable, it is dangerous, perhaps.  Why?

The Secretary supervises the US Coast Guard and knew of (or didn't know of) its fake live fire pursuit boat drill adjacent to the Pentagon on the morning of 911, as the President was crossing the Potomac River by limo returning from the Pentagon at the exact same time.  Brilliant!

  

Oh well, the Chicago Tribune had some explaining to do

... also, when Dewey took it on the chin from President Truman.  

So, in this same spirit of taking personal accountability for one's gaffes, I knew what my Blog said when I signed it.  I hereby apologize to the formerly fightin Christians of Elon University. Calling them slimy eels was locker room fodder that in all likelihood inspired and motivated their players to ring up a cool 56 points on DC, while holding the 'Cats scoreless.     

Now, on a more positive note, ND got off to a marvelous start, crushing U. of Nevada, and Middlebury remains unbeaten.  The Panthers will be undefeated until at least September 26th when they open their season against the Bowdoin Bears of Maine.  Its it a welcome change from the semi-pros of the BCS conferences, who play a game or two before school for real students even starts?

Why I Do want the President speaking to school children

Lead Story yesterday in the "Paper of Record" for NJ - President Obama will go on TV to speak to the nation's school children, as a role model, as national cheerleader, as an example of accomplishment and beacon of optimism.  Well now, who can disagree with that?

Yes, your right, its me (irrespective of today's blog title, but more on this accurate statement later).  The Star Ledger tried to convince us that the President's Talk will be so saccharin that no responsible parent could possibly object to its content.  Indeed, telling students to study hard and stay in school is a laudable message, but when given by a person who will never have any individual contact with school children other than his own two daughters, it becomes a forgettable 10 minute interlude that will be forgotten 10 minutes later at recess or nap time.

So, why the bombastic opposition in this forum?  First, what here is not so presented? Secondly, the President is not paid to be a"cheerleader" in this most local of venues.  Whether "Johny"does 20 minutes or 45 minutes of homework daily is the ultimate non-presidential concern.  He has one job commensurate with the stature of his High Office- keep the NATION safe, which vital national security duty, for an apt example, is inexorably tied to the peaceable resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Accordingly, President Obama should go on state TV and radio in every arab country to speak to literally millions of children being indoctrinated daily to wage war on the Nation of Israel to return these "occupied lands" to their rightful arab owners.

The President can deliver a critically important message to inspire and motivate these young, impressionable minds that "Land for Peace" is a fraud, unless and until arab children learn that jewish children have the right to a peaceable life, Israel is a legitimate nation who citizens are not pigs, blood suckers nor terrorists (as now instructed in most arab schools and mosques).

When the President proclaims this desperately needed school lesson, that no Palestinian state will get US support until arab children support the existence of the Nation of Israel, he will perform the job he was hired to do, and it is not to be the School Board President in any and every US community.  I say: let the President be President, to work now and every day on national issues he can have actually positively affect to the great benefit of all the world's kids. 

 

Davidson Wildcats favored by 4 points...

over the Elon eels in a Division II football tussle this Saturday evening on the very slippery home field of the eels.

What a great time of year - football on big screen TV at least four nites a week thru February.

Teams we will keep you abreast of this glorious season:

                 (1) JINTS winning second NFL Championship in last three years;

                 (2) Vikings self-destruct when  the Crying Man's head literally explodes;

                 (3) Notre Dame goes 11 - 1, and plays for BCS college championship;

                 (4) Bucknell Bisons go 6 -3 and tie for Patriot League title;

                 (5) Middlebury College goes 7 -2, defeating arch rival Williams by 17;

                 (6) Alabama University finally has a school the football team can be proud of.

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Why I don't want the President speaking to school children

Our Nation's Renaissance Man, Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, has been credited with stating well one of my core beliefs:  "The Government which governs least, governs best".  A corollary to this principle is the belief that "the government closest to the citizen, best respects individual rights."  Not nearly as eloquent to Tom Jefferson, but equally true.

When a politician holds the fate of 300 million persons in his/her hands, the ability to see each person's individual circumstance is quite limited, obviously.  So, the calculation that a proposed government program (universal affordable health care) will benefit millions and millions of Americans (while imposing certain unspecified or unknowable in advance costs and sacrifices on others) sounds benign, indeed. Particularly so, when the national leader's knowledge of each family's current assets and future obligations is vague, at best.  

One example of such a"Statist" outlook - centralized gov't. power is the true source of societal welfare - is epitomized by a few of Ted Kennedy eulogies:   "Senator Kennedy's unprecedented contributions to the good of the Nation far outweighed his private peccadillos." One commentator took this proposition to its ultimate illogical conclusion: "Mary Jo Kopechne would have been proud to have died so as to inspire Ted Kennedy to dedicate himself after Chappaquidick to servicing the public weal." 

In my America, however, every individual has the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to reach his/her individual potential, with the government mostly staying out of the way. With hundreds of millions free to control their own dreams and destinies, overall societal benefits are best maximized.  No "great leader" has the privilege to drive me off a bridge, to get a better focus on helping the poor, the oppressed or the unmotivated.

Accordingly, I want the President totally focused on speaking to our military about national defense, our State Department about foreign relations and our Treasury about how much more of America's unsustainable debt he can sell to the ChiComs, Saudi and Japanese.

Our elementary schools are best lead, inspired and supervised by our local officials, teachers and most importantly, the students' involved parents.  Let the President be the US leader, not the President of every single PTA in the nation's many millions of very different locales.

 

From one small voice in the wilderness...

grows a Tsummi, a veritable tidal wave of engaged citizen voices demanding (not hoping for) change of wrongheaded policies, injurious to our nation.  See, Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires

On August 21st, your humble blogger declared that "...[America] can accomplish our national security objectives w/. a small in-country Delta Force and a sufficient number of Predator drones...".

On September 1st, George Will declared that "... America should do [to protect our national security] only what can be done from offshore, using drones... and small potent special forces units."

Now, setting aside this possible piracy of my intellectual property, I am very grateful that Mr. Will has joined my legion of dutiful followers. First, R. Peters, then G. Wills, next all of you.