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Armstrong And Getty
Rule Sacramento Air !
October 26, 2004 (Tuesday)
Good Morning dear faithful readers,
and blessed newcomers !
It is exactly one week before election day.
My last entry was about a month ago.
I've been at Perez (now Delta) Trucking
this October, hauling tomatoes
from Walnut Grove (Sacramento)
down Interstate 5 to Buttonwillow (Bakersfield).
I may stay here all year,
even while I may work elsewhere.
The operations manager and son-in-law here, Val,
allowed me to bring my 48' dry van up here
from Pixley, after he saw the photos
of my ocean container and boat
that were all shot up.
They're good people here at Perez and,
their farm by the river
and the towns of Walnut Grove/Locke
provide a quaint and relaxing rural
environment that's not too backward.
The farmers and Mexicans and Asians are cool,
and then there's the city yuppies and
wannabe-hip tourists. The most annoying ones
are the alcoholic white guys living
on boats on the river. You know
someone's got a lifetime drinking problem
when their speech is slurred
even when they're sober.
Well, it was the middle of the night
when I rescued my 48' dry van
from behind Gorzeman's violent dairy,
and I accidentally damaged the fence
of a rancher, Marion Howard.
When I called Marion, an established
lifetime resident of Pixley,
who's been ranching that 1/4 section
almost since I was born
and L O N G before
the dairy bully Gorzeman was born,
Marion told me that there's
kids out there with rifles
who've shot up a lot of his stuff, too.
Well, we're talking pretty much
the middle of nowhere out there,
and the only kids I ever saw
(and they were carrying rifles
on the four-wheelers they rode)
were Gorzeman's kid with a Mexican
kid in tow (probably the son
of one of his dad's workers).
So, it's pretty clear we have
a person of interest, or,
shall we say, a prime suspect,
in the dairy bully Gorzeman's son.
The Presidential Election
Well...What to say ?
As you can see from the above,
I'm busy surviving.
But, with all the misinformation
and demagoguery out there,
for those of you seeking my advice
in this storm of information,
I'll give it here.
I think they're both good men,
and I think
both their wives are good women.
I respect Kerry for his
leadership in protesting
the Viet Nam war.
More than anyone, the combat veteran
has earned the right
to protest a war
and to be regarded seriously.
I think the Republicans won
the conventions and,
in style points,
Kerry won the first debate.
But I'm not much of a debater, myself.
That's why I write
rather than call talk radio show.
I'm not an arguer.
I'm a truth seeker,
a problem solver,
a solution finder.
Debating is a skill
that is mostly style.
Excellent debaters are deceptive
and confusing. They skillfully
evade their own fallacies and
contradictions and exploit
even minor and trivial faults
of the opponent with exaggeration.
No, the careful, deliberate, solid mind
is not the debater's mind.
The responsible and reasonable
thought processes of the mature mind
may even seem plodding
and dim-witted
to the quick retorts
and misleading accusations
of the witty debater.
I do not approve of the
military tactics in Iraq
for the past year and a half.
We're letting our sons and daughters
get picked off, especially
in those small convoys.
I think most patriotic and
compassionate Americans were ecstatic
that we "only" lost 300 or so
during the successful invasion.
We were willing to pay that price,
and would have been glad
if the numbers were in the
low thousands, compared
to some of the worst-case scenarios
of losses of tens of thousands.
But we are not willing to suffer
ANY losses that can be avoided.
George Bush is not proving
that Americans are courageous
by putting our boys in harm's way.
The doctrine of overwhelming force
worked quite well. He should
return to it and stick to it
and make the lives of our servicemen
THE top priority.
Having said that about our tactics,
I ask you this:
WHAT PART OF PRE-EMPTIVE WAR
AGAINST TERRORISM DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ?
Sure, George choked a little
in the stylistic game of debate,
but listen to him
in his campaign speeches,
when he's in his element.
Here's one Texan who's got
the common sense that God gave
every New Englander:
WAITING FOR TERRORISTS
TO STRIKE US
WITH WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
IS NOT AN OPTION !
After the invasion of Baghdad
we got conciliatory gestures
from Syria, Iran, and North Korea.
Go ahead, search the newspapers
of that time; I'm certain
my memory serves me well.
Libya's Kadafi even renounced
use of WMD and permitted inspectors.
WHY ?
Because it's the real fuckin' world
out there, not a god-damned American
tv news program or university.
Those people aren't playing
by our sissy-ass rules and,
for a moment, they thought
we weren't either.
Of course, George calculated
that neutralizing Syria, Iran,
and North Korea was not politically
acceptable, but perhaps we're just
postponing the inevitable and,
in doing so, giving them the chance
to beat us.
We're going to have to do some
MAJOR paradigm shifting
to see the world as it is today,
and stop fighting the ghosts
of the fifties and the sixties.
The reason we're fighting
the battles of the fifties and sixties
(Viet Nam protest, civil rights,
feminism) is because the
media-education complex boomers
came of age way back then.
They ARE The Establishment now.
We're seeing the Enemy
and it is THEM, the Liberal Establishment.
Armstrong And Getty
Well, now that I'm back in Sacramento
and have had a few days off
to sleep in and listen to the radio,
I've been catching a bit of
Armstrong and Getty
on KSTE am 650.
Armstrong has that unique and rare
gift of a lightning wit combined
with a sound, insightful mind.
Getty matches him in those qualities,
but his quieter personality
makes him appear more of the
"straight man" in their
entertaining and stimulating
presentation and vetting
of current topics.
And they also have excellent,
knowledgeable experts on the phone
to flush out the truth.
This is NOT your typical
"Two idiots talking to each
other in the morning" show.
These guys RULE the Sacramento
Air and should be syndicated
and put on XM and Sirius.
They're also on channel 58
in the morning and are a lot
better for the intelligent mind
than those
vapid network morning shows.
They are especially refreshing
in Sacramento's media Klique.
It's really quite nauseating,
the local Sacramento tv news
networks - the same Klique,
year after year, decade after
decade after decade - and are
they ever pleased with themselves!
They should be voted in and out
of their jobs,
and have term limits, too.
Unlike Armstrong and Getty,
the Sacramento media Klique
has perfected the talent
of talking and talking
and talking with apparent style,
without ever saying anything.
I remember one day I sat down
in front of a local news program
to catch up on the world's events,
and they spent fully 20 minutes
of a 30 minute broadcast talking
about a baseball strike
THAT DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN !
"The fans are the real winners",
they concluded.
Jesus, talk about airheads !
What did Armstrong and Getty
talk about today ?
Something nobody else is talking
about, at least not the way A & G are.
They're talking about
THE OCTOBER SURPRISE.
The October Surprise is that
350 tons (or 350 thousand tons, maybe)
of potent explosives
are suddenly, inexplicably missing
from an Iraqi weapons site
that OUR INCREDIBLY INCOMPETENT
ARMY, UNDER GEORGE BUSH,
COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SECURE.
Problem with the story is,
the NBC embedded newsguy
said the munitions were missing
a year and a half ago
when the U.S. army arrived there.
Armstrong and Getty did a good
analysis of this, this morning,
actually giving a count
of how many and which tv news
outlets aired the story.
And only one, once, mentioned
what the embedded reporter said.
The source of this fake story
is the International Atomic Energy
Commission who were apparently
overseeing the munitions before
the liberation of Iraq from Saddam.
A & G opined how frightful and insidious
it is that an international organization
such as the AEC is trying to influence
the election for Kerry who, of course,
favors empowering international commissions.
CONCLUSION
We have a choice between two good men,
but not great men.
Bush represents proactive
national security,
and is endorsed by the likes
of Sen. John McCain and
Rudolph Giuliani.
Kerry, too, is a good man,
and I feel affection for
his Irish-Catholic background,
but he's supported by the likes
of Bill Clinton, and
he represents the old-fashioned
liberalism of the sixties.
The fake NBC new story
that Rather had to apologize for,
and this current OCTOBER SURPRISE
make the choice clear.
As I've said before,
even though conservatives suck,
liberals S U C K !
WE NEED NEW PARADIGMS,
new and courageous thinking
to face the coming decades
and century/centuries.
I say, re-elect Bush
and then, after the election,
vigorously speak your mind
to protect the lives
of our soldiers,
and to combat the continued,
chronic,
evil corporate theft.
When It's Over, It's Over
I pledge to support
the winner of the electoral vote.
Those are the rules we play by.
And I call upon all of us
to support the winner
of the electoral vote.
Then, I call upon all of us
to demand honest and relevant
news reporting and campaigning.
Paranoid Or Alert ?
The name of the administrator
encouraging me to apply to teach
in Karachi, Pakistan is PELOSI.
Publications In My Mailbox
The monthly (on the average) trip
to my mailbox is often quite an
adventure.
I get various publications,
most of which I didn't request.
One which I welcome is the occasional
update from St. Peter's Prep.
People grow and change,
and so do institutions.
and I have great respect for
Catholic educational institutions.
On the other hand are the unsolicited
newsletters from UCD, UOP, and CSUS.
but, like The International Educator,
you gotta browse 'em to know
what the assholes are up to.
Got one from the UCD history dept,
a while back, shortly after
I mentioned them in this blog.
Apparently, from the newsletter,
90% of their faculty
is from the middle east.
New Paradigm
See, that's an example of
what I call a need for a
new paradigm.
The reason, I was told,
that we welcomed foreign students
into our universities to study
is that it would
increase understanding
and, hence, peace.
OK, nice theory.
But we've had a very, very large
and growing population
of middle eastern students
in our universities
for decades.
And they hate us
and try to destroy us.
Can you muster up
a little common sense
and intellectual honesty and courage
to admit that the idea is flawed,
and that they should be expelled
from the country ?
Halabi Ready To Serve ?
Halabi dodged a bullet.
Now, reports come out of
more and more of those
detainees at Guantanamo, Cuba,
who've returned to Afghanistan
to fight again.
How does he see things now ?
Has he had time to re-assess
his experience ?
Is he appalled that those prisoners
who seduced his sympathy
are now fighting us again ?
Or does he just want to get out ?
Did he find the experience
too traumatic ?
Does he sympathize with the rebels ?
Or does he have a deeper understanding
of the difficulty of war
and an appreciation for the country
and system that treated him fairly,
even leniently ?
If he is determined to be loyal
to the U.S., his experience
could be invaluable OJT
in emotional and psychological
warfare, and his experience
could be as valuable as that
of a combat veteran.
If he can be trusted.
The Sacramento Union,
since 1851, is coming out again.
They sent me a preview edition,
and they'll be coming out
as SacUnion.com in January,
and perhaps in hard copy, too.
OK fine, I'll give 'em
a fair reading.
The Sacramento Union
wasn't good to me in 1982
when I went to them
with my newsletters
that I had just written
as founder of
"The Men's Liberation Organization"
at Sac State.
In fact, the newsguy just chuckled
that I had copyrighted each issue
by posting a copyright notice
on the front page of each issue.
But that was just one person,
one time, one place.
I can and will rise above it.
You know, if you study the history
of the development of the computer
industry in silicon valley,
you'll find that all the pioneers
got together and worked and shared
like on a mission, or adventure,
and all benefitted.
But, to the extent that conservatives
are clique-ish and greedy,
read my lips, "Kiss My Ass".
I will bring you down.
To the extent that they are fair
and team-spirited and collegial,
I say, "You can count on me".
The Irish
I think Tom Sullivan
of Sacramento radio and tv news
is a credit to the Irish
for his successful career.
I lampooned Tom pretty hard
to make a point and show people
how things work and make sure
they know who I am.
Tom's a big boy
and he can take it.
Shelley is an Irishman
of a temperament the opposite
of Sullivan's.
Shelley is young bully,
a partisan Democrat
in an position that is
anathema to partisanship.
I'll Be Back.
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