SEX, TATTOOS & VIOLENCE R US - #8

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WHAT HAS YOU GOTTEN YERSELF INTO?

“Sex, Tattoos & Violence R Us” = An absolutely unrelated, multitudinous conglomeration of subjects all addressed in a single blog bit and tied together by absolutely nuttin’ (also known as a “Hodgepodge O’Nuttin”).

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PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

At the very end of this blog bit, I will be making an important announcement, so please hang in here to the end. Sit tight. Don't go nowhere. Just keep reading. You know how to read, don't you? Just put your eyes together and go. (But if you get bored by all my babbling between here and there, just scroll down to the end. You know how to scroll, don't you? Just put your sleeve to your nose and blow.)

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I thank you, my ragamuffin dog "Ragamuffin" thanks you, and all my wino friends here in Cortez Park thank you!

[Alright, where's the vino?!]

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this blog bit to Ariel O. O'Airedale, my inflatable girlfriend. Without her, I'd be just another lonely blogger.

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I'm required to keep Ariel hidden, otherwise these other winos here in Cortez Park will attempt to "wine and dine" her.

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MY FAVORITE ADDICTION

Christmas 2010 is now history and we are almost a week into the new year and yet the melody of the song 'My Favorite Things' is still running through my brain about 16 hours out of every day. It usually takes 4 to 6 weeks after every Christmas season has ended before I find that I've finally stopped whistling, humming or breathing that melody. I swear, that song is more addictive than is Crack cocaine and welfare checks!

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WASTED AWAY AGAIN IN COMMIE ROOSKIEVILLE

And speaking of history . . . as some of you know, I am a voracious reader. But I'm also a book and magazine reader. Some years ago I came to this conclusion and recently had it reconfirmed for me by something that I read, that the Soviet Union was comprised of a lot of losers who were a great threat to the United States only to the degree that the United States government allowed them to be a threat. Nearly everything those idiots, The Village Rooskies, ever acquired in the way of technology and weaponry was either sold or given to them by the U.S. or stolen by them from the U.S. with Uncle Sam's tacit approval.

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The Russian commies (and really ALL commies for that matter) were French-like in the war theater. That is to say, they fought like schoolgirls and routinely got their butts handed to them in battle after battle. Commies make pretty pathetic warriors. In fact, when it came to being warriors, communists were more like "agrarian reformers".

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[That's a joke I just made up - and it's a pretty good one, too - but being a non-nonfiction reading, television-addicted American, you probably don't know enough history to "get" the joke.]

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Forget "the space race" and all that nonsense - do some real in-depth research and you will come to realize that without various forms of aid from the U.S. and our willingness to put the reins on our technological advances until the Rooskies could catch up, and without the "wink and nod" thievery that took place for years, Russia today would be about as technologically advanced as Afghanistan! I have concluded that there are only two things the Russians excel at: chess-playing and vodka-drinking. It has never been my habit to criticize people at the "group rate", but in this case, when it comes to "The Village Rooskies", SO VE IT!

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USAP : FIRST BLACK & RED IN THE WHITE HOUSE?

And while we're on the subject of Marxism . . . I've been thinking about Barack "USAP" Obama recently. Of course we all know he wasn't America's first Black president because a Black woman, Toni Morrison, told us that Bill Clinton could claim that honor. But here all along I'd been thinking that USAP was probably our first "Red" president - the first authentically Marxist man to occupy the White House. I now believe I may need to reevaluate that idea.

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Anyone who has read this blog even periodically knows that I am informed about "The New World Order" conspiracy. And thus, I am fully aware of how so many of our past presidents - beginning with Woodrow Wilson - aided the Communists in every imaginable way. Some, such as Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower went to great lengths to protect the Communists, both those abroad and those who were operating from within our own government. I have always viewed this aid and protection activity as merely an aspect of the New World Order conspiracy agenda, and never actually assigned authentic "Marxist" status to traitors like Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman.

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However, about a week or so ago, I finished reading the infamous book 'The Politician' by Robert Welch, and I gotta say, the author makes some very compelling arguments in defense of his thesis that Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower wasn't just a New World Order conspiracy tool but quite possibly a genuine "card-carrying" Communist. I'm still not sure I'd positively make that assertion myself, but I must concede that there is more than ample evidence to well support it.

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If true then, that means that poor Barack "USAP" Obama didn't get to be our first BLACK president nor even our first RED president. Poor USAP, he's just "another" president.

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Oh! Wait! I got one for him! Barack "USAP" Obama can still - as far as I know - lay claim to being America's first foreign-born president. (He's so bad that I knew he must be first in something!)

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SPEAKING OF "USAP", RIDDLE ME THIS . . .

Q: What's Black and White and Red all over?

[Psst - a clue: It's not "a book" nor "a newspaper."]

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A: Your president.

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HAS ANYONE SEEN MY MISSING SOCK?

A few weeks back, I did a load of laundry and afterwards discovered that one on my socks had turned up missing. (I know! I know! "Turned up missing" - it's an oxymoron, just like me.)

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Anyway, don't bother me with details. What I'm trying to say is that one of my socks has been gone for weeks and I've finally given up the search. At this point, I strongly suspect my missing sock is in Kenya, hanging out with Barack Obama's missing birth certificate.
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HOLLYWOOD: NO MONOPOLY ON STUPID

The most recent book I've read had to do with Political Correctness, Islam, and The Crusades. Here's a couple of passages that particularly tickled me:

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"It's not like a stupid Hollywood movie," said French actress Eva Green about English director Sir Ridley Scott's Crusades flick, Kingdom of Heaven.

That's true. It's, like, a stupid English movie.

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Kingdom of Heaven is a classic cowboys-and-Indians story in which the Muslims are noble and heroic and the Christians are venal and violent. The script is heavy on modern-day PC cliches and fantasies of Islamic tolerance; brushing aside dhimmi laws and attitudes (of which Ridley Scott has most likely never heard), it invents a peace-and-tolerance group called the "Brotherhood of Muslims, Jews and Christians." But of course, the Christians spoiled everything. ... It is a dream movie for the PC establishment in every way except one: It isn't true.

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I GUESS HE COULDN'T KICK THE HABIT

And that's an ideal segue from the world of politics to the world of entertainment: Singer/songwriter Gerry Rafferty has died. Rafferty was the performer of the Top-40 hits 'Stuck In The Middle With You', 'Baker Street', and 'Right Down The Line'. When I told my brother, Napoleon, that Rafferty had died due to health issues related to alcoholism, Nappy immediately replied, "I thought he was gonna give up the booze and the one-night stands?"

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Ha! Yeah, that Nappy - he can be pretty quick-witted when the boy wants to be!

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WE'RE STILL WORKIN' ON IT

Also in Celebrity News, the rumors persist that Michael Jackson has died and that O. J. Simpson is suspected of having killed his wife, Nicole. 'Ferret-Faced Fascist Friends' will bring you more on this as soon as we're able to substantiate the rumors by double-checking our sources. We may be slow but we're thorough!

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NAT KITT COLE
OK, now on to matters of a more personal nature: After reading my 'STUFFS' blog bit, "Stephen T. McCarthy's Xmas Xtravaganza & Yuletide Yard Sale", my professional cartoonist buddy, Lonnie J. Millsap the Third, Emailed to me the following picture:
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Yeah, that's Eartha Kitt and Nat King Cole. If you didn't read my 'Stuffs' blog bit, you didn't get the connection. But trust me, it's pretty clever.

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A JANUARY 2nd NEW YEAR'S DAY TRIP TO PRESCOTT, AIRHEADZONA, U.S.A.

As we do every January 1st, Brother Nappy and I drove from Phoenix to Prescott on January 2nd. We just went up to goof off, spend the day, drink a couple drinks, and remember the awful time when we lived up there, before the awful time when we moved down to Phoenix and began our awful lives down here. You know, just reminiscin' and "stuffs". So, here's some of the photographs I took on January 2nd in "Presskit", Airheadzona:

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Santa's Lodge was empty of Santa and excited children but it was still standing at the mall. ("There's a sadness in the heart of things.") . . .

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Whiskey Row where one can find gin . . .

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Below is a photo showing the inside of Matt's Saloon on Whiskey Row, where Waylon Jennings once rocked the Independence Day crowd. He later wrote that it was so packed with people that you couldn't start a fight if you wanted to because there wasn't even enough room to draw back your fist:
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In the alley behind Whiskey Row somewhere near Matt's Saloon, we saw all these icicles growing underneath some stairs. "I like being destructive", Nappy said as he kicked the icicles off and it sounded like breaking glass:

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Ain't this purdy? . . .
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Ooh! And this is purdyer still . . .
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Yeah, that was me in my Bucket Of Blood Saloon sweatshirt (thanks, Pooh!) at The Prescott Brewing Company. A two-fisted drinker am I! (Well, time is short and I want to get my fair share.)

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And this was me a few hours later - "stone-drunk":
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Only in "Airheadzona":
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"You know what I think I’m gonna do then, just for the hell of it? ... I’m gonna take this right foot, and I’m gonna whop you on that side of your face. And you wanna know something? There’s not a damn thing you’re gonna be able to do about it.”

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Below is the fountain at Prescott's Courthouse square in the center of town, where Billy Jack beat the snot out of those rednecks in that most famous scene from the movie of the same name:
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So there we were, Nappy and I, on our way to see the house we rented while living together in Prescott, and as we drew nearer to Taylor Hicks School, I tried to cut Nappy off at the pass by saying, "And I don't want to hear it this time. Don't even say it!"

"Wiffle Ball?" Nappy asked.
"I asked you not to tell me that!" I said. "Yes! Wiffle Ball."
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You see, in our "youts", Nappy and I were great, great Wiffle Ball players. We played it all the time, wherever we went. I used to pack a Wiffle Ball and Bat with me when I went on vacations. And Nappy and I have competed against each other in some of the toughest, most competitive Wiffle Ball games ever played. Honestly, I believe that in our prime, Nappy and I were perhaps the only blokes in America who could potentially beat each other in a game of Wiffle Ball. Now, I will admit that Nappy was better than I was, and he won more games than I did, although I did emerge victorious from time to time. Our games were usually one to nothing, or two to one, or three to one, or three to two affairs - almost always close games. But . . .
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. . . there was one Wiffle Ball game in particular when Nappy beat me like he owned me. I just wasn't "on" that day, my curveball wasn't curving, my screwball wasn't screwing, and my fastball . . . well, it always had plenty of velocity back then, but there ain't no way a dude was going to beat Nappy in Wiffle Ball with nuttin' but the fastball working. So, Nappy knocked me silly that day in 1992 when we played a game of Wiffle Ball on the lawn in front of Taylor Hicks School in Prescott, Airheadzona. Here's were it happened (note the giant Wiffle Ball on the roof to mark the place of my 1992 beating) . . .
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Nappy has now taken to calling that Wiffle Ball game "The Battle Of Taylor Hicks". Sounds like it was a famous Civil War battle, doesn't it? Ha!

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WILL SHE OR WON'T SHE?

Now that the regular season of the 2010 National Football League has come to an end, and the Minnesota Vikings are done until next year, the speculation can begin. Vikings quarterback Brettboy Favregirl. Will she or won't she finally retire from football for good? I believe the Las Vegas line odds are 10 to 1 she returns.

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Dare I say this? What with how crappy Favregirl played this year, and with his record streak of consecutive starts having come to an end due to getting knocked around pretty good all season long and sustaining multiple injuries, and what with all the publicity about his little "sexcapade" cell phone porn bit, I think that maybe - maybe - we are finally through with this character. One can hope anyway. I would bet my money that she's finally finished. But then again . . . like a bad "B" horror movie monster, perhaps she will come roaring back again when we least expect it. Surely there are more interceptions in that arm of hers.

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And now it's time for . . .

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LET'S TALK BOOZE

With Stephen T. McCarthy

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I was talking recently with my buddy DiscDude, when I happened to mention that although ultimately, of course, everything comes down to individual tastes, still a fairly good argument could be made that even the least expensive of Kentucky bourbons is superior to Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey. The reason being that in order to lawfully be able to label a whiskey "bourbon" it must be distilled by a process that demands certain requirements be met, and that process is a bit more precise and involved than the process by which most other types of whiskies are produced. [To learn more about this distilling process, scroll down to the category titled "Booze Skool Is In Session" found HERE, and to the category titled "The World's Greatest Book" found HERE.]

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Obvious differences can be noticed by even the uneducated palate between bourbon and other types of whiskies such as rye, scotch, blends, Canadian and Irish whiskies. However, because the process for making bourbon is fairly regimented by law, it takes a more discerning and experienced whiskey drinker to really pick up on the subtle differences of taste and bouquet from one bourbon to the next. Therefore, when selecting a bourbon to purchase, unless you really have a clear preference for a certain brand of bourbon, you're just as well off buying the less expensive off-brand bottle. If it's labeled "Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey", you can be assured you are getting a quality drink regardless of the price. Don't be fooled by name recognition and prices inflated to cover advertising costs.

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In a sense then, Kentucky bourbons are not unlike naked supermodels smeared with whipped cream: while there are minor differences here and there, when you get right down to it (and aren't you now fantasizing that you could?), any one of them is well worth having.

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So, if price was no object and Stephen T. McCarthy could choose any bourbon he wanted, which bourbon would he choose? Well, truth be told, it would all depend upon what music I am listening to at the time. For instance, if I am listening to Lynyrd Skynyd (and I never am!) I would go with 'Old Grand-Dad':

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Take me down to Memphis town. Bus driver get me there
I got me a little queenie, she got long brown curly hair
She likes to drink 'Old Grand-Dad' and her shoes do shuffle around
And every time I see that gal, Lord, she wants to lay me down!
~ 'Whiskey Rock A Roller' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

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But if I am listening to ZZ Top (and I never am!), I would choose 'Wild Turkey':

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When you're driving down the highway at night
And you're feelin' that 'Wild Turkey's' bite
Don't give Johnny Walker a ride
Cause Jack Black is right by your side
You might get taken to the jailhouse and find
You've been arrested for driving while blind
~ 'Arrested For Driving While Blind' by ZZ Top
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Or, let's say I'm listening to David Lindley (and I sometimes am!), I would pour me a little 'Old Crow':

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I lit up my pipe, we sat by the fire
It was there by the embers I had no desire
To go back to the bar and drink some 'Old Crow'
I left on my smoking jacket, she took off my romeos
~ 'She Took Off My Romeos' by David Lindley

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And then again, let's say I'm listening to "Bocephus" - Hank Williams Junior - (and I often am!), now my bourbon of choice is 'Jim Beam':

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It used to be I had a lotta fun in this old hang-out
We'd get stoned at the jukebox and stay outta fights
Now and then we'd light a little smoke in the truck out back
Aww, then a little old 'Jim Beam' and we'd get right
~ 'Dinosaur' by Hank Williams Junior

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And as if that weren't enough, how about the "Old School Real Men", Bocephus and Waylon Jennings (the original "Country Outlaw" and greatest musical entertainer I ever witnessed on a stage with my own eyes) sharing a bottle of 'Jim Beam' while singing 'The Conversation' together? - a Country Classic about Hank's old man, Hank. Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about!

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OK, now you know ever'thing you needs to know about bourbon. Class dismissed.

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And now this finally brings us to the most important item in this issue of 'Sex, Tattoos & Violence R Us' and the urgent announcement I mentioned at the start . . .

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ANNOUNCING THE CHARTS AND GRAFS' CHANNEL!

For those of you who simply will not read nonfiction books (and that means a disproportionately large number of registered Republicans), I have found a way you can educate yourself politically and still avoid that nasty business of having to crack open a book!

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My friend 'Charts And Grafs' has created his own "Channel" at YouTube, where he is in the process of collecting in one place all of the best, most important videos he can find relating to geopolitics and "The New World Order" Conspiracy. Already he has compiled some really good, educational videos there. I have thus far viewed perhaps five of them and I intend to see all of them over time.

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So, there is no longer any excuse for people to be walking around ignorant to what is really going on in the world of politics simply because they're too American (read: "intellectually lazy and apathetic") to read serious, well-researched books addressing important matters that affect us all. Lord knows Americans LOVE to watch images on a TV screen or computer monitor. Well, now here's the perfect antidote for American "Knownuttinness". It's the best of both worlds: moving pictures that educate! Now you can be educated and entertained at the same time!

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Kudos to 'Charts And Grafs' for a great idea and work well done. Please, people, check out his YouTube Channel and learn the truth before it bites you in the azz and we all go down for the final count. Seriously! We are very, very quickly running out of time and it is a really lousy world you're going to leave to your kids and your grandkids! A totalitarian nightmare worse even than George Orwell imagined is coming together in the form of Global Government, and it's just around the corner! Unless you freakin' educate yourself and ACT right freakin' NOW, your offspring will curse the memory of you for allowing it to be built while you rejoiced over bread and circuses, and then left them imprisoned in it.

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'Charts And Grafs' definitely knows his stuff, so please visit his site TODAY! See the link at the bottom of this page!

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy (and Ariel O. O’Airedale)

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[Important videos Pertaining To "The New World Order" Conspiracy!]

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YE OLDE COMMENT POLICY: All comments, pro and con, are welcome. However, ad hominem attacks and disrespectful epithets will not be tolerated (read: "posted"). After all, this isn’t Amazon.com, so I don’t have to put up with that kind of bovine excrement.
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MARGARITA DAY - 2011

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Hey, you all, it's January 1st! And you know what day that is. That's right . . .
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It's . . . MARGARITA DAY!
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Margarita Day:
"A Tradition Since 1986 (Except For 1994)."
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So, have yourself a merry little Margarita. Brother Nappy and I already took care of that important business. But dogged if we can remember where. Too many Margaritas can have that effect on a fellow's memory. Oh, wait . . . it's all coming back to me now in bits and pieces.
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Nappy and I went to lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant in the Phoenix area - ABUELOS. Good food, good drinks, good atmosphere:
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Ahhh . . . yes! And now we come to the object of our January 1st quest, the elusive Margarita. We caught two of them and they are now in captivity. That is, the cavities I call our stomachs:
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Be sure you catch yerself a Margarita too!
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At the Abuelos restaurant near me, there are a few murals and some paintings hanging on the walls. One painting in particular has always fascinated me because it's so downright A-List creepy! It's a picture of an evil looking clown character and the painting reminds me of something we might have seen on the old TV show NIGHT GALLERY [link]. Remember that series?
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I could write a thousand words about this painting, but since a picture's worth a thousand words, I'll just post a picture instead:
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Is that A-List creepy, or what?
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Well, anyway, "Happy Margarita Day, Y'all!" Go get you a Margarita . . . and tell 'em Stephen sent ya!
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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YE OLDE COMMENT POLICY: All comments, pro and con, are welcome. However, ad hominem attacks and disrespectful epithets will not be tolerated (read: "posted"). After all, this isn’t Amazon.com, so I don’t have to put up with that kind of bovine excrement.
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STILL SCRAPING 9/11 DOG POOP OFF OUR SHOES

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It was at The Conspiracy Exposed blog where I was exposed to a video posted at YouTube by a person using the pseudonym NanoThermite911. The title of the fourteen and a half minute video is 'Proof That Thermite Can Cut A Vertical Column'.

This is some excellent scientific investigative work that will come like a pie of "inconvenient truth" in the face to those deluded Americans who insist that they can take the word of Uncle Sam as the gospel truth and who so readily buy into every lie that Uncle Sam's toady, the mainstream media, broadcasts.

Poor, misguided Americans, they're led like sheep to the slaughter, all the while singing in unison, "Baaa-d Truthers. Baaa-d Truthers..."

Below is a link to the video. Check it out . . . unless, of course, coming face to face with truth isn't exactly your cup of Thermite.

Click Me ---> Proof That Thermite Can Cut A Vertical Column
by NanoThermite911

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy

"As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."

~ Proverbs 26:11

YE OLDE COMMENT POLICY: All comments, pro and con, are welcome. However, ad hominem attacks and disrespectful epithets will not be tolerated (read: "posted"). After all, this isn’t Amazon.com, so I don’t have to put up with that kind of bovine excrement.

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THIS MONTH’S FIRST ANNUAL “QUOTE OF THE WEEK” AWARD FOR DECEMBER 18TH, 2010

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This blog bit marks the debut of a new, ongoing feature not to be repeated on a regular basis here at ‘Ferret-Faced Fascist Friends’ called “This Month’s First Annual Quote Of The Week Award”.

This week’s best quote was determined by our panel of judges consisting of Secretary to the Secretary General of the Attorney General’s first Lieutenant Governor, Yoey O’Dogherty, who also serves as the Dictator of ‘The Committee For The Advancement Of Democratic Principles’.

Of all the quotes that were competing for 2010’s monthly award this week, only one was eligible. The competition was fierce and went right down to the wire with Yoey O’Doghety deciding the winner in a unanimous split decision.

The winning quote was shouted softly to Stephen T. McCarthy in an Email that he didn’t receive until Monday because his Email system was not fully operating at minimal capacity until Wednesday.

That concludes the Preface to this Introduction’s Prologue, and finally we approach our final approach and the announcement of the winning quote:

The envelope please. And the winner is . . .

In an Email to me from my dear friend The Flying Aardvark, she was referring to an old friend of hers whom she seldom gets to see anymore, and this is what she wrote:

I would describe her as a very proper Jewish intellectual, who suddenly decided to take up gun collecting and NASCAR recently. I was told she no longer is that into shooting on the weekends and devotes her spare time to following Jimmie Johnson on Twitter.
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Apparently guns were the gateway drug leading to the true hillbilly heroin of NASCAR racing.

Do I have funny friends, or what?

But remember, people: guns don’t kill people, bullets do!
And NASCAR is for people who have already died.

Please fail to be with us again next time when we don’t post the next winning quote in this beloved, time-honored, never-to-be-repeated, special event series.

In case I don’t get anything else posted on this blog before Christmas, I wish y’all a merry merry one. And if I do get something else posted here before December 25th, then think of this wish as merely a merry merry premature react-u-lation.

My love to you all, including my political enemies of which there are many!

BUT WAIT! That’s not all! Act NOW, and receive absolutely free, this handsome link below, suitable for clicking!

Earlier this week, my good ol’ friend Dan-The-Man “Cranium” sent me a link to what I later called the “BEST political piece I have thus far encountered during this Christm-- er... during this ‘WINTER’ season!”

Just click on the link below and view the short but GREAT video titled “The 12 Days Of Winter” (Or, “A Very Liberal Twelve Days Of Christmas”). If you don’t love that video, then you obviously found my blog by mistake and may Santa Claus leave pink bunny pajamas in your stocking!

Merry Christmas, y’all!
Yeah, that's right, I said it – “CHRIST”, “CHRIST”, “CHRIST”mas!

Link:
“The 12 Days Of Winter” (Or, “A Very Liberal Twelve Days Of Christmas”)

~ Stephen T. McCarthy

Postscript:
“And GOD bless us, every one!”
~ Tiny Tim
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YE OLDE COMMENT POLICY: All comments, pro and con, are welcome. However, ad hominem attacks and disrespectful epithets will not be tolerated (read: "posted"). After all, this isn’t Amazon.com, so I don’t have to put up with that kind of bovine excrement.
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LETTING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY FALL: THE OWEN LATTIMORE MODEL

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In Chapter VII ‘The Evidence On Owen Lattimore’ in Senator Joe McCarthy’s 1952 book ‘McCARTHYISM: THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA’, we find the following:

“Let Them Fall But Do Not Let It Look As Though We Pushed Them”

On July 17, 1949, shortly before [Owen] Lattimore prepared his secret advice (August, 1949) to [Philip] Jessup, he wrote in an article in the ‘Sunday Compass’, a left-wing New York publication, in which he stated, referring to the Marshall Mission:

“The problem was how to allow them [China] to fall without making it look as if the United States had pushed them.”

In the same article, Lattimore suggests that what had been done in China should now be done in Korea also. This was before the Korean war. He stated:

“The thing to do, therefore, is to let South Korea fall – but not to let it look as though we pushed it. Hence the recommendation of a parting grant of $150 million.” (Economic aid.)

That first Lattimore quote, by the way, McCarthy also entered into the Congressional Record when he delivered his June 14, 1951, speech on the Senate floor about the disastrous activities of General George C. Marshall.

Anyway, there is a great deal more to this story, and anyone who has studied it in greater detail knows that, in fact, elements within the U.S. State Department and American foreign policy advisors like Owen Lattimore did indeed “push” China into the hands of the Communists in a variety of ways.

But I posted the quotes above just to give you some idea about how devious our so-called leaders are, and to place in proper context the remainder of this blog bit:
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Recently, a friend of mine, Anniee451 of the blog Purely Politics-Partisan?-Perhaps, posted a blog bit entitled “Economic Jeen-Asses”.

After reading what she had written, I left the following comment [with minor edits made here]:

Anniee you wrote:

We're back in the Carter years, and they're talking about going BACK into a recession from a RECOVERING economy with double-digit unemployment??? And we've got Bernanke, TheBenbernank, promising to raise inflation and printing tons of fiat money (because God forbid DEFLATION! Oh NOES!) and Krugman recommending an inflation rate of an eventual 28%... and extensions of those sweet sweet unemployment benefits of 2 years total (i.e. welfare, duh) and every day I hear from people who can't get a job making more than they are already making on unemployment (and it's unfortunately all too true)... and a recession rapidly turning into a DEPRESSION... and these geniuses are recommending more of the same because it just wasn't ENOUGH the first time. Never mind that if they'd get the hell OUT of Thebenbernank plan, the stimulus, and all this other nonsense, we might HAVE jobs to get if we're willing. The country is in the hands of utter, utter fools.

Anniee, my friend, this is a point I have attempted to express on my 'Ferret-Faced Fascist Friends' blog repeatedly over the years:

You and I are almost always largely in agreement, and TOTALLY in agreement when it comes to economics. So, I am not disagreeing with your viewpoint at all, but merely your assessment of the intelligence of these "utter, utter fools".

No, Anniee, they are NOT fools. I've said it over and over again: one does not occupy an important position in Washington D.C. by being a fool. I'm sorry, you can be a liar (Bush Sr.), you can be an evildoer (Carter), you can be an ass (all of them!), a crook (Nixon), a warmonger (“W”), a sex addict (Clinton), a drug dealer (Clinton), a traitor (all of them!), and a foreign-born Marxist (USAP). But what you CAN'T be is an "utter, utter, fool". Not in the White House, not in the State Department, not anywhere in a prominent place on Capitol Hill. They don't let fools into the D.C. Club; they are much too careful with the power they have consolidated for themselves to risk it all on a loose cannon or a fool.

Believe it or not, Anniee, those people understand the laws of economics every bit as well as we do. Although we would like to think that they are not as intelligent as we are - when we see the senseless, seemingly stupid things they do - the truth of the matter is, they are no less intelligent than you and I are.

Here's the key that unravels ALL OF THE MYSTERIES about the seeming stupidity on Capitol Hill: Their goal is to literally wreck this nation entirely - but particularly economically. However, they wish to accomplish this destruction without allowing it to appear that it was done by design [i.e., to let our economy fall – but not to let it look as though they pushed it.] If you believe that they are wrecking us via economic stupidity, you are believing EXACTLY what they want you to believe about them.

In the tome I have sent you - 'THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND: A Second Look At The Federal Reserve' by G. Edward Griffin - you will encounter these quotes:

TAXPAYERS PAY TO SEND THEIR JOBS OVERSEAS

"...This disdain for the American work force is partly because of corporate pursuit of maximum profit above all else and partly because decision makers consider themselves to be internationalists, with no special interest in America except as a cash cow to be milked as regularly and thoroughly as possible.

"As will be illustrated in the following chapters of this book, some of these people, acting through organizations such as the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), are consciously pursuing policies designed to lower the economic stature of America so it can be more comfortably merged into global government. Taxing money from American workers to build up the economies of foreign countries has done much to advance that goal." ...

AMERICA IS THE TARGET

"It has become the prime directive to weaken the United States both militarily and economically. And this directive has come from AMERICAN leaders, not those of other countries. CFR members sitting in the White House, the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Treasury are now working to finalize that part of the plan. ...

"The American economy is being deliberately exhausted through foreign giveaways and domestic boondoggles. The object is not to help those in need or to preserve the environment, but to BRING THE SYSTEM DOWN."

Anniee, that may be hard to believe, but what "utterly, utterly foolish" action do they take that won't eventually result in that very thing? Are they REALLY so stupid as to continue doing the things that reasonable people like us can clearly see will - by the very laws of economics - wreck the nation?

Until sufficient enough Americans are awakened to the fact that both major American political parties are conspiring to bring the American system down, there is truly NO HOPE FOR AMERICA.

As for me, I hope that the book I have sent to you will have a devastating effect on your political world-view, to the point that you too eventually become convinced of the facts that many of those making many of the most important decisions that most impact us are not "utter fools", nor do they have the average working American's interest at heart.

Totalitarian Global Government is the goal, and the vast amount of decisions emanating from Washington D.C. are stepping stones to that very Endgame.

~ Stephen T. McCarthy

Link:

‘The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look At The Federal Reserve’ by G. Edward Griffin. [Please read my review of this book by clicking on the above link. It’s one of the best reviews I ever wrote for one of the best books I have ever read.]

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"CONNEDTRAILS" FOR THE AMERICONNED PEOPLE (Or, "GOODBYE BLUE SKY")

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"Look, Mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky..."

Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter
When the promise of a Brave New World unfurled
Beneath a clear blue sky?
~ 'Goodbye Blue Sky' by Pink Floyd

Your dog is breathing it. Your cat is breathing it. Your kids are breathing it. YOU are breathing it.

What is it? Did you give anyone permission to spray you or your kids or your pets with it?

Of course, by now, every American who doesn't waste every second of their free time staring at the boob tube has noticed it. (Which means, unfortunately, that many Americans will have no idea what I'm yakking about here.)

My Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary definition of a "contrail" is as follows:

A visible condensation of water droplets or ice crystals from the atmosphere, occurring in the wake of an aircraft, rocket, or missile under certain conditions.

But what I'm referring to is NOT a contrail. The contrail of an aircraft usually has a very limited length and always dissipates into the atmosphere and disappears in two to five minutes.

No, what I am talking about - and what I have seen in the skies above Phoenix countless times over the last seven years or so - are long white lines that appear in the wake of aircraft, but which extend for as long as one is able to view the aircraft, and which does NOT dissipate and disappear over time.

In fact, the opposite is true. These white bands high in the sky, which at first glance look like ordinary contrails, actually remain in the sky, and if one watches them for 30 minutes to an hour, the viewer will notice that these compact white bands begin to spread out, remaining in the sky and forming a kind of thin white haze.

Often, more airplanes will appear, crisscrossing the sky until nearly all of the blue has been covered and the sky takes on a kind of milky-water appearance.

I have witnessed this time and time and time again over the last decade.

It's been speculated that we are being sprayed with chemicals, and thus some folks have nicknamed these contrail imposters "chemtrails".

Well, writer and filmmaker G. Edward Griffin of the Reality Zone website has now produced a new documentary exploring the disturbing questions about Chemtrails.
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"We've got people that are doing terrible things to us, and we had better wake up and fight back . . . now!"
~ Former Arizona State Senator, Karen Johnson

Pay special attention to what Dr. Lenny Thyme Ph.D. says between the two minute and two and a half minute mark of Part 3 of 7. He mentions the tendency of aluminum to create plaque in your arteries. [People, y’all better start doubling up on your soy lecithin intake. Seriously!]

And, of course, most of us have heard, at least in passing, the connections that have been alluded to between excessive aluminum in the human system and the contracting of Alzheimer's Disease. So, it seems that in addition to discarding all of our old aluminum cooking pots, we had all better stop breathing if we expect to go on living free of Alzheimer's Disease.

Here's a link to G. Edward Griffin's 'WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THEY SPRAYING?' movie trailer.

The movie is available for viewing in 7 parts and free of charge at YouTube. Here's a link to Part 1 Of 7.

Listen to Dr. Lenny Thyme early in Part 3 Of 7.

The filmmakers go to Hawaii in Part 4 Of 7.
Wow! I have always desired not to go to Hawaii and now I have!

~ Stephen T. McCarthy

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C.O.P.S. : Corrupt Officers "Protecting & Serving"

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[A Blog Bit Explaining Why I Generally Take A Dim View Of Police Officers.]

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Although it gets delivered to my workplace, not being a communist myself, I rarely read the free Phoenix New Times magazine.

The Phoenix New Times is essentially a Johnny-Two-Note rag, and if there was no Sheriff Joe Arpaio and if all illegal aliens were granted amnesty, the rag would have little reason to exist.

However, occasionally some New Times cover story will attract my attention and so I’ll pick up a copy and take a look. That’s what happened in June of 2009 when I saw the “Good Cop, Bad Cop” cover.

According to the story “Behind BadPhoenixCops.com: The Blogger Who Took On The Phoenix PD…” by Sarah Fenske [which you can read by clicking HERE], a Phoenix citizen named Jeff Pataky was wrongly and stupidly arrested by the Phoenix police department based on manufactured false evidence and bogus charges filed by his ex-wife. Later, when Pataky started a website and a blog to expose the corruption in the Phoenix P.D., his home was raided by the cops and his computer and some of his other belongings confiscated.

Making use of inside police sources, “Blogger Jeff” has since given Phoenix P.D. fits and his blog here at blogspot – BadPhoenixCops – is a site full of scoops and rancor, which I began “Following” shortly after reading that New Times article in the Summer of ’09. The blog bits and the comments attached to them are often filled with foul insults and schoolyard taunts, and it can get down and dirty between the “Anonymous” cops and the anti-police visitors who comment at the site.

No question about it, some very interesting pieces get posted at BadPhoenixCops, but one must be prepared for some of the nasty insults and dirty street humor found at the site. I myself have commented there a few times, but I prefer to stay out of the gutter.

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A November 12 article titled “Officer Chrisman's Partner - And His License Plate That Says SHOOT THEM ALL” drew more commentary from me than any previous blog bit at BadPhoenixCops (BPC). In short, the story pertains to an incident in which an off-duty officer was involved in a shooting and the questions raised by his personal license plate which says in code, “Shoot-M-All”. The entire article and the comments that it spawned can be read HERE.

In this case, I left the first comment at the site, in which I responded to something the Blogger had said in response to a sentence in a quoted article:

Author Alicia E. Barrón: “Police say the killing was justified because that suspect had a gun.”

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BPC: (Of course it was. Conveniently all shootings by cops are "justified" since the only ones investigating, are other cops..BPC)

Stephen T. McCarthy:
>>..."Of course it was. Conveniently all shootings by cops are "justified" since the only ones investigating, are other cops"..BPC

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You got that right!

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I have been saying for years that there ought to be a well-screened citizen panel in each community that has oversight when it comes to issues like police shootings and accusations of police brutality. Let the citizen panels conduct the investigations into these matters, after all, if the police departments are intended to "protect and serve" the community, then shouldn't representatives of the community be the persons who make the determination whether or not that is indeed what the police departments are doing?

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Why on earth would anyone want "family members" of the accused overseeing the investigation into charges of wrongdoing against one of their own? I think that only the most over-the-top and flagrant misdeeds are you ever likely to get a "guilty" judgment. And just as our political system takes the form of "representative government", so I believe that our community law enforcement system - particularly in cases of suspected wrongdoing by an officer - ought to include representative oversight.

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Frankly, I don't TRUST police officers to investigate their own and make judgments that are always right and fair to the community they supposedly serve. Well, to take it one step further, I just don't trust most police officers PERIOD!

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Three comments later, one of the many “Anonymous” (Anon) posters there - most of whom can usually be assumed to be police officers - wrote:

>>...If all cops are so terrible and corrupt why do rush to call them everytime you feel your safety is in jeapordy?

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To which I replied:

Having experienced first-hand the "Rodney King Riots" in Los Angeles, I got a fine look at what good the cops are to the citizenry when things get REALLY dicey or dangerous. Yeah, I saw how they just freakin' DISAPPEARED from the streets of Los Angeles and left those they supposedly "serve and protect" to fend for themselves.

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Oh, the boys 'n' girls in blue knew exactly where the major problems were occurring - even down to the very streets and intersections - because the news media was covering this huge story from helicopters, etc. There were lots of looters and lots of victims and lots of intended victims to be seen in the streets. What you saw very, very few of, however, were cops!

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Flash-forward a year and a half later, and there I am, pulled over by a cop - I assume due to my out-of-state Arizona license plate and something about it that aroused the cop's curiosity, although he didn't tell me WHY he had pulled me over.

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He left me parked and sitting there for at least 15 minutes while he watched the traffic go by, apparently hoping to see another AZ. license plate to make some sort of comparison.

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Finally, he gives my driver's license back, doesn't apologize for totally wasting my time, still doesn't tell me WHY he had pulled me over in the first place, and says very curtly before walking back to his police car, "If you're going to be here for more than a week, get a California driver's license and plate.

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Oh, yeah, he was A REAL TOUGH COP... NOW! But I'll bet dollars to donuts (Ha!) that a year and a half earlier, when the maroons were rioting in the streets, this same tough cop was hiding at the station with all his buddies on the force until the streets were safe again.

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I'm not going to paint ALL cops with this same brush, but I've known plenty of police officers on a personal basis and haven't liked most of them. And, yeah, I agree with Anon. Screw 'em! I'm armed and I'll take care of myself, thank you very much. I won't be calling the cops - they can "serve and protect" someone else.
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Five comments later, another Anon wrote:
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One thing the public needs to remember about police officers is that they are simply men and women doing a job that most of you would never want to or have the guts to do. They are human beings earning a living. First and foremost, they are people doing a JOB! They are brother, sister, mother, father, aunt, uncle, son, daughter, friend... I think that the public forgets that police officers are people doing tough jobs. I am not saying there aren't some stupid and obnoxious officers out there, but why paint a brush of all of them being bad? They aren't all bad people!

As far as the person going on about the officers in LA not being around during the riots, what would you have them do? Put out officers in a mob of 100's of people who were angry about cops? Which by the way, they took their anger out on each other by looting and rioting. Remember that these officers have families that THEY want to go home to. Do you really think putting two officers in the middle of hundreds of looting, rioting animals would have done anything to stop the rioting? Do you think possibly it would have made an already horrible situation worse? By that I mean, the animals rioting would have turned around and gone after the officers and killed them. So what purpose would that have served? Why so the department could have said, they were brave? Not worth it! Sometimes it's just not worth it.

The thing about some of you posters is you have forgotten that officers are people doing a job! I bet you wouldn't do that job. Would you have our country get rid of police departments? Do you think we could police ourselves? What happens on the roadways when police aren't around? We see a lot of speeding, red light running, etc. The fact is you get bad apples in every job and there is no way around that. Fortunately in most jobs we don't generalize about everyone because of the few morons!
November 19, 2010 3:28 PM

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I submitted an extensive response to that comment which, as of this moment, has not been posted at BadPhoenixCops. So I am pasting it here, on my own blog:

To: ANONYMOUS of November 19, 2010; 3:28 PM ~

It’s unfortunate that so many individuals here use the name “Anonymous” as it’s difficult to get a grasp on how many different persons are actually commenting here. It would be better if everyone would at least come up with a pseudonym and stick with it.

Anyway, I don’t know if you are responsible for any of the other “Anonymous” comments posted here, but you responded to my comment in a very civil and reasonable way. I appreciate that and will reply in kind. It is never my choice to stoop to the ad hominem level. I am capable of it, and more than a little effective at it, but I prefer to discuss serious matters in serious and logical ways. “Flame Wars” accomplish nothing and are always a waste of every particpant’s time.

So, thanks for keeping your remarks toward me mostly “adult-like”. I will treat you with the same sort of respect.

I agree with a fair portion of what you wrote. Yes, in many instances, cops can and should be viewed as just men and women doing their jobs. (Of course, there are some compelling reasons to believe that women ought to be employed in police departments solely in Special Assignment Units for the purpose of frisking and booking female suspects or dealing with female victims of crimes such as rape, etc. But that is well beyond the scope of this comment and beyond the time I’m willing to spend on the topic of police officers.)

Due to my background as a young man and the nature of the work I do as an adult, I have had greater dealings with police officers than has the average citizen, and I have over the course of my 50+ years gained some knowledge about the personality type and the mentality of a significant number of police department employees.

You wrote: “I think that the public forgets that police officers are people doing tough jobs. I am not saying there aren't some stupid and obnoxious officers out there, but why paint a brush of all of them being bad? … The fact is you get bad apples in every job and there is no way around that. Fortunately in most jobs we don't generalize about everyone because of the few morons!”

In the first place, I specifically wrote in my second comment above: “I'm not going to paint ALL cops with this same brush, but I've known plenty of police officers on a personal basis and haven't liked most of them.”

To that I will add that of all the police officers I have known in my life (and we’re talking about at least a dozen), there are only two that I can say I genuinely liked, whom I felt were not egotists, thrill-seekers, power-mad authoritarians, racists, or just general jackasses. Two out of twelve is not a good batting average!

Secondly, when it comes to police officers as a group, my experience has shown me that we are definitely talking about more than just a “few” morons or bad apples. I’m not even going to say that the majority of officers on most police forces are bad apples, but at the very least, I believe a very significant number of them are the sorts of persons I would not be interested in maintaining a friendship with.

I also happen to be an avid fan of American West history and have studied that subject from multiple angles. Even a person’s cursory study of Law Enforcement in the Old West will prove that there was always a fine line between the mind-set of the peace officers and the badmen they pursued, and often enough that line was virtually indistinguishable. While background checks in hiring police officers has certainly improved over the last century, I don’t believe that the standard police officer psychology has changed all that much. And I am convinced that most individuals who go into police work go into it not because of a passion for justice and righteousness, but because it’s a job that pays pretty well, has good benefits, has room for advancement, and provides opportunities for a thrill-seeker to get his or her kicks.

Remember, I’ve known plenty of police officers in a personal and casual way, and several quite well, and if you tell me that most cops don’t like the idea of high-speed pursuits and kicking doors in, we both know you’re not being honest with me.

One retired Phoenix law enforcement officer (whose name might be familiar to several of the “Anons” who regularly post comments on this blog), once told me that he thought I would have made a very good cop and asked me if I had ever considered that as a career. I told him that in fact I did briefly flirt with the idea as a teenager, but decided that I didn’t possess the hypocrisy necessary to be a cop. He just nodded knowingly. And this is one of the two aforementioned cops that I HAVE LIKED personally!

What hypocrisy? Well, for starters, lets talk about cops who, while off-duty, routinely disregard the traffic laws that they bust others for breaking while they’re on-duty. Let’s talk about Joe Cop being absolutely sh!t-faced three hours after a shift has ended and then leaving “The Big Dog Bar” and driving home as intoxicated, or more so, than the citizen whom Joe Cop arrested for drunken driving only some hours earlier!

It’s curious how many of the laws that get enforced during the day get broken by the enforcers in the night.

Also, there’s a very pronounced “Us Against Them” attitude that is prevalent on most if not all police forces. And by “Them” I don’t just mean the criminal element. Cops are very, very cliquish, some evidently believing that they are a higher sort of being than the everyday citizen they (presumably) “protect and serve”. For many of them, the outlook is “Us” (police officers) against “Them” (the civvies – including the law-abiding civilians). In fact, most cops have pet terms for the average citizen, some of the terms being somewhat demeaning.

You wrote: “As far as the person going on about the officers in LA not being around during the riots, what would you have them do? Put out officers in a mob of 100's of people who were angry about cops? … Remember that these officers have families that THEY want to go home to. … Do you think possibly it would have made an already horrible situation worse? By that I mean, the animals rioting would have turned around and gone after the officers and killed them. So what purpose would that have served? Why so the department could have said, they were brave? Not worth it!”

I essentially agree with you. I don’t believe that the cops could have quelled the majority of the rioting, but they failed to show up even where there were small pockets of rioters, where the police could have actually had a positive impact. I was living there, so I know what I’m talking about.

But even for that I’ll give them a pass. But here’s what pisses me off: If the cops are going to abandon those they claim to protect and serve, then they need to drop the whole friggin’ “tough guy” and “tough chick” routine. Give it a damn rest! We have SEEN that you won’t be there when the going gets really tough, so cut the crap and the macho persona that goes with it! Shave the mustache! (Yeah, that goes for you Chicks-In-Blue, too! Shave ‘em!)

And let’s not too hastily forget that the reason the idiot “civvies” were rioting in the streets of Los Angeles in the first place is because the police department (as happens far too often) wasn’t just satisfied with arresting Rodney King and bringing him before the judicial system. No! The police wanted to play cop, judge, jury and executioner all in one. (They’re only being paid to play ONE of those parts!)

Although the rioting was illogical, it was a direct result of cops acting like the thug they were arresting! So, the bottom line is: the cops ran and hid and abandoned the innocent citizenry they’re sworn to “protect and serve” when the rioting - which the cops were largely though indirectly responsible for - began.

The truth of the matter is (as shown every two weeks in the “Exercising The Right” Second Amendment feature of The New American magazine) that when citizens most need a cop, chances are a cop will arrive too late. (Or as the saying goes: “When every second counts, the police are only minutes away.”) The people had better take advantage of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and learn to protect themselves, because more times than not, a police officer will be on the scene after the fact and merely to write a report.

I will not forget the time I was driving in the number one lane of a two-lane road in L.A. when a motorcycle cop suddenly swerved into my lane without looking, nearly hitting the front passenger side fender of my truck. And then, after freaking out over the near accident he would have been responsible for, he pulled me over and cited ME for reckless driving.

Nor will I forget the time, maybe a little over a year ago, when about 100+ motorcycle gang members conducting a funeral procession for one of their dead buddies, commandeered a couple of the avenues here in Phoenix. These were major thoroughfares that are ordinarily cop-infested. Funny thing though – I drove for over a mile and never saw a police car in sight while that motorcycle gang had completely taken over the number 2 lane of the avenue.

I feel certain that any number of persons must have placed cell phone calls to the police informing them of the avenue takeover. But I sure didn’t see any cops responding to the situation. It was sort of like the Rodney King riots all over again, only this time in Phoenix. And once again we see that when things get REAL dicey, the cops go missing.

You began your comment with this: “One thing the public needs to remember about police officers is that they are simply men and women doing a job that most of you would never want to or have the guts to do.”

That appeared to be a general remark, not directed specifically at me, but it is evidence of that aforementioned “Us Against Them, Tough-Guy Persona” that I told you I dislike so much and find so inappropriate.

Not to make myself out to be a Mr. Tough-Guy too, but just to respond to your opening remark, I will let you know that although the motorcycle gang was occupying only the #2 lane of the avenue and riding slowly, every automobile driver on that street was afraid to drive in the #1 lane alongside that motorcycle gang. Every single driver except one that is: Yours Truly.

I figured that as a taxpayer I had every right to occupy the empty lane on that road, and so I drove in the #1 lane, right past the motorcyclists. But I drove slowly in case one of them should suddenly decide to change lanes right on top of me, like that motorcycle cop had done to me years earlier (and cited me for).

When we got to a major intersection, one of the motorcyclists parked his bike in the middle of the road, and began directing traffic. To hell with what the traffic signal said, he stopped all traffic so the 100 or more motorcyclists could negotiate a right turn together without being delayed by the stop light and separated by other motorists.

No cops directing traffic, just a dirty motorcycle dude, who flipped me off as I ignored his hand signal to “stop” and drove right on by him.

As to whether or not I have “the guts” to be a cop, I’ll let you decide. But what I do know is that I had the guts to be in the presence of that motorcycle gang, completely unarmed, and to ignore them when they attempted to commandeer the streets and illegally direct me in traffic. The armed cops you seem to think are so “gutsy”, I didn’t see anywhere.

The Phoenix Cops: They are who we thought they were!

Yeah, I suspect I have “the guts” to be a cop. It’s the hypocrisy necessary to fit in with the Clique-In-Blue that I lack.

In the mid-1970s when I was 14 and 15, I belonged to a Police Explorer Program in another state. It’s a branch of the Boy Scouts but related to law enforcement work. Many police departments sponsor Police Explorer posts, with police officers volunteering to serve as advisors to the teenaged groups. That’s where I first became acquainted with police work and got to know a number of cops on a personal basis. It’s also where I first started my underage alcohol consumption and viewed hardcore pornographic movies. Yeah, our police officer advisors provided the beer and the porno movies on our many “camp-outs”.

Now, I will admit that I wasn’t objecting to these things at that time. But nevertheless, let those who think that all of the persons who get into police work do so because they have a high regard for our laws and societal mores and want to see law-breakers brought to justice, let them think about this some. I do not believe that my experiences in the Police Explorer Program were unique. So much for the righteousness of “law-loving” cops.

You wrote: “Would you have our country get rid of police departments? Do you think we could police ourselves? What happens on the roadways when police aren't around? We see a lot of speeding, red light running, etc.”

I consider police departments to be a necessary evil. But I also believe there are probably better ways to organize police work. There’s no point in my expounding on this as things aren’t going to change no matter how well thought-out my views might be. I have never said that all police departments ought to be disbanded (it’s a nice little fantasy though).

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Truth be told, police departments are more about generating revenue for cities, counties and states, than they are about crime prevention. To be honest, speeding and red light running don’t much bother me unless those things are responsible for causing a very specific accident or problem. Although I myself don’t run red lights, if it’s 11 PM (or even 11 AM for that matter) and there’s no traffic that would be adversely affected by it, I would have no problem with a person driving through a red light.

If I’m on some road and someone blows past me exceeding the speed limit, so what?! Unless that person drives faster than he or she can safely operate their car and causes an accident, as far as I’m concerned, no “authentic” crime has actually been committed. Let’s be forthright with each other, unless damage or inconvenience to another results from an action, what we’re really talking about here is sneaky methods of further “taxing” the citizen to pay for some overly inflated bureaucratic budget.

Frankly, one of the problems I have with the police is their excessive regard for the letter of the law while not sufficiently appreciating the spirit of the law which the letter of the law was created to merely support.

If you’re at all interested in getting a better overall impression of how I view law enforcement, read “FINALLY FOUND! A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER I RESPECT” .

In the above article, Sheriff Richard Mack is quoted as saying: “I was… a by-the-numbers jerk.… We had to write tickets and lots of them. ... Is law enforcement really about public service, or public harassment?”

In another place in the above article it states:

[Sheriff Richard Mack’s] soul searching, combined with years of research, led him to the following conclusion: “I am now totally convinced that the ‘Drug War’ is a farce. It provides no benefit to the public and actually makes the drug problem worse.” This personal epiphany didn’t just stop at the issue of drug prohibition but also extended to the entire method of using law enforcement as a revenue-raising tool for government. “I got fed up with the numbers game in law enforcement and with the idea that we, the police, were here to force people to wear their seat belts and to have their papers [license, registration, insurance, inspection, etc.] in order before they could freely go about their lives.”

Anonymous, in closing I will tell you that I am a basically law-abiding citizen. The only things I am guilty of are, consistently driving about 7 miles an hour over the speed limits, and I rarely wear my automobile seat belt.

But when law-abiding citizens such as myself (and many, many others just like me) generally dislike police officers, it’s well past time that cops took a good, hard, honest, introspective look at themselves and asked why they have such a public relations image problem with so many of the law-abiding citizens they have sworn to protect and serve.

If more law enforcement officers would reevaluate what they are doing and why they are doing it, and then adjusted their actions and their views of proper law enforcement to be more in line with that of former Sheriff Richard Mack, I am certain that my own views and judgments about cops would also change for the better accordingly.

~ D-FensDogg
‘Loyal American Underground’

And that, my two readers, gives you a good idea why anti-police remarks occasionally pop up on this blog as well as my other blog, ‘Stuffs’.
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LINKS:

The Rodney King Beating
[Had this not been videotaped, the Thugs-With-Stinking-Badges would have gotten away with it. And some still did.]

John McKenna And His Friendly Neighborhood Cops
[Had this not been videotaped, the Thugs-With-Stinking-Badges would have gotten away with it.]

Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted By Cop
[Had this not been videotaped, the Thug-With-A-Stinking-Badge would have gotten away with it.]

Cop Assaults New Jersey Man For Standing On A Street Corner
[Had this not been videotaped, the Thug-With-A-Stinking-Badge would have gotten away with it. Actually, for all I know, he may have.]

Racist Cop Kicks Innocent Man In The Head. Officeress Joins In.

[And it goes on and on and on…]

Now ask yourself, how much of this crap do you suppose goes on that never gets caught on videotape?

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