Sent to TV

Of course, I will vote against the kind of liberal duplicity exhibited by those who see nothing wrong with illegal aliens working in this country, until one is inadvertently hired by a Republican gubernatorial candidate. By the way, there are millions of Americans who would gladly work for the $23 per hour Meg Whitman paid that ungrateful criminal.

Satire

My local newspaper published my criticism of the University for calling a house full of miscreants an "unrecognized fraternity," thus disrespecting the Greek movement. In the same edition, my anonymous phone call satirized another caller's offering thus:

As published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Money can help to buy happiness, at least if you're bringing in about $75,000 per year." Therefore, the caller who suggested that people earning a mere $60,000 per year should take a 10% pay cut, doesn't ever want them to be happy. How mean.

Minor miracles

The first episode of the new TV drama, "Outlaw," was pretty silly, and I almost didn't watch it again. However, they completely redeemed themselves in the second episode. It appears that Jimmy Smits, his producers and his writers are willing to buck the media trend, and challenge the Obama administration to see things the way Americans know they really are.

Smits' character, Hispanic former Supreme Court Justice Cyrus Garza, goes to Arizona to defend a police officer who, in the line of duty, shot a combative Hispanic man who had challenged his authority and then attempted to steal his service revolver. The officer had asked him for his identification, and because Arizona has the constitutional right to require its officers to do so, Garza convinced the jury, half of whom were Hispanics themselves, to tell the U.S. Justice Department attorney that no one's civil rights had been violated in the incident.

It gave me a warm feeling to watch such a powerful display of the true American spirit of fairness, as embraced by all citizens (except the one with the bad attitude and criminal propensities in this story).

FAMILY NEWS: The horse bred and raced by our recent jury foreperson won at Golden Gate Fields, the top track in the north state. The first win didn't make a lot of money, but breaking even is the definition of success for most of the people in the horse racing industry. However, that moment in the winners' circle is pure magic.

By their implications ye shall know them

The Associated Press has reported that the University of Illinois has denied traditional emeritus faculty status upon retirement to William Ayres, the domestic terrorist and confidant of President Obama. AP said, "Ayres co-founded the Weather Underground, an anti-war group held responsible for a series of bombings in the 1960s, including explosions at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. No one died in those blasts."

So, AP implies that terroristic violence is somehow less offensive when nobody accidentally dies.

Two I liked, but TV didn't

1. Read the ingredients in sausage, hot dogs and any other prepared foods, and then tell me how genetically modified salmon can be any worse for you. Besides, would the Obama administration allow you to eat anything that's bad for you?

2. I was drafted into the Army to learn to kill people and blow things up, but it was peacetime, so we looked busy keeping the place clean, and dozing through classes where they were teaching I don't remember what. It made us too tired to care about sex. Nobody asked; nobody told; nobody cared.

I'm back

AS SEEN ON TV

1. A recent newspaper article reported that each terminally ill prison inmate costs the state $800,000 per year. It seems pretty obvious that reining in the health insurance and drug companies would be a good place to start balancing the budget.

2. Because parents are the front line in the war on drugs, any of them who vote to legalize marijuana will be guilty of child abuse. And don't tell me only adults will be able to buy it, because, like cigarettes and alcohol, it will be even easier for kids to get.

Wait a minute. . .

Yesterday, I neglected to comment on the hilarious expression "medi-pot movement" that we read about in Galia's letter. That's a new one. . . I think. It surely is funny on several levels, not the least of which being potty humor. I suspect he is "smoked-out," but possibly more joker than moron.

ALSO: Our long summer nightmare is finally over. America did choose the correct talent of the final four. Of course, I preferred and supported two other acts until they were eliminated. Too many diverse categories, that can't really be compared, makes fairness illusive. I really enjoyed the two twelve-year-old ballroom dancers, however, so maybe, next summer, I may watch the dancing show instead. . . or more fine Coen brothers movies.

Tidbits

You may want to review my letter to the editor, "Published today" 9/8, to fully appreciate the response of the "smoked-out moron" to whom it was addressed.

Obviously, I did not engage in name-calling, so Galia only imagined it when he said, "I may or may not have been on pot when I wrote my last letter, but at least I was on this planet, and I resent the writer's inference that I am some kind of smoked-out moron." Need I respond to that self-indictment? Of course not. How often do you suppose he has already heard that epithet from his friends and relatives?

In another bit, Galia somehow tried to describe his "less deadly" comment as sarcasm, "Since everyone knows that cannabis has never directly killed anyone. . . " There's that "everyone knows" nonsense again. I'm sorry, but I don't know what he thinks sarcasm is.

Another thing I would like to know are the names of those "thousands of doctors" whom he says endorse the "medi-pot movement." Where do you suppose they are? The Mayo Clinic? Johns Hopkins? Cedars-Sinai? Maybe Alan Harper's chiropractic clinic in Tarzana.

What?

Upon further reflection, I ask, "What happened to me on Thursday?" Do some people think that something never existed, or if it did, will go away, by simply not putting a word to it?

It all started with a word beginning with "n." Good grief, I have just knuckled under to political correctness. The word is nigger, and it's just a word. It was once used as an expletive, and should not be spoken today, because, apparently, its sound is too disturbing to some people.

However, why has the local NBC-TV affiliate excised the word "Nazi" from its lexicon? The word is merely the shortened form of the name for the German National Socialist (Workers') Party. Perhaps the Obama media has decided that "socialism" either doesn't exist in America, or the President is embarrassed to admit that it's where he is headed.

Do you suppose that if I insist that "rap" is not music, the definition will be appropriately modified? Will the word "rape" disappear from the dictionary because it is such a hateful concept? How about "sodomy," now that it is an acceptable expression of love for some?

The language is full of hot-button words. Do you suppose that forbidding their use will make the behaviors they represent acceptable, or render them obsolete, at your pleasure?

PLEASE FORGIVE me for failing to mention the importance of this day, but I have been too busy watching to see if some loony will burn some Qurans, and listening to a presidential jerk using the occasion as an opportunity to give a political speech. Sorry, New York.

State-run media censorship

Yesterday, the TV aired some emails, so I submitted the following for today:

[Class envy was a major component of the Nazi's persecution of the Jews whose economic success they coveted. Now,] (AS SEEN ON TV) The President views those who pay the majority of the taxes, give the largest charitable donations, and provide the jobs for the rest of us as individuals to be punished for their achievement. That's just more class envy.

The TV would not accept it with the word "Nazi" in it, so I edited it to read "German." What is that? Censorship or political correctness, or both?

Published today

The following is the most controversial thing I have had published since I criticized those teachers who put words about the global warming hoax into small children's letters:

Robert Galia's letter Thursday espousing "family" pot farms contained two consecutive stunningly contradictory sentences. Let's examine them.

1. "The cannabis plant is in fact medicine, a wonderful and healthy substitute for addictive and unhealthy synthetic narcotics."

Nonsense. Medicines cure or, at least, alleviate the symptoms of disease. In Galia's words, "most of us know and agree" that marijuana merely masks the pain associated with disease. Then in his very next sentence, Galia further puts the lie to the health benefits of pot.

2. ". . . In comparison to alcohol, [marijuana is] a far safer choice, less disruptive and less deadly."

Less deadly? Would you take any "medicine" that was potentially deadly? We have the words of a man whose entrepreneurial spirit is driven by. . . duh, I forgot what I wanted to say. Hey man, give me another hit of that joint.

(No pot was smoked during the writing of this critique. I cannot vouch for the creator of the inconsistency cited above.)

EXTRA: There is a new government PSA on the radio, urging people to keep the kiddies from eating lead paint. Don't you remember the pleasure of licking and chewing on the walls? What? You never did? Neither did I.

A "minority" woman

It is amazing how many people who seemingly have responsible jobs, but are uninformed and/or blinded to the facts, can induce the state-run media to publish their drivel. The latest example is Britta Guerrero, CEO of the Sacramento Native American Health Center, who gave us three eight-inch columns in the Bee, grousing about pregnant inmates being moved about in shackles.

Obviously, pregnant women should never go to prison. Motherhood is the world's highest calling, and women should embark upon it only if they are financially and psychologically prepared. Once impregnated, it is child abuse to do anything to endanger the life of the mother or her child. Prison is high on the list of places she should never frequent. If a pregnant woman finds herself there, she has no doubt had several lapses in judgment, and is a threat to escape further responsibility. Thus, the shackles.

The 200 words allotted to my submitted letter to the editor addressed that subject. Unfortunately, at the end of her dissertation, Ms Guerrero played the "minority" card, and I didn't have any words left. Judging by her surname and the picture that accompanied the article, she appears to be Hispanic, Native American, mestiza, or some combination thereof. I, on the other hand, am Slavic-Germanic, and in California, I am in the minority.

At least two decades ago, the combination of Hispanics, Blacks, Asians and Pacific Islanders grew to exceed us Caucasians in number. Add the assault of atheists and homosexuals on my Christianity, and you can see my concern. However, please observe me carefully, and warn me if, as does Guerrero, I seem to be using my minority status as a crutch.