Pope Algore has heard our pleas

and today the home turf should touch 72, a pleasant experience indeed. I shall return there from West Coast TAD tonight, assuming United remains United and does not morph again into the dreaded Un-tied. They mean well and try hard and I retain a warm feeling in my heart for all the times they went the extra mile for me.

In the meantime time the word is that the pilots of Northwest and Delta have stalled the merger talks. It may be that a merger is required to save one of them, but I would feel better if all the Executives would receive the same Tin Parachutes that the Worker Bees will get. But alas, it is but a dream. Failure in the executive suite is too often rewarded with big money and lovely retirement packages.

I remember a few years back when the CEO's Union, aka The Business Press, was pounding their drums for rewarding our Business Leaders with stock options, and explaining to us wannabees that the absence of this was the reason Japan was kicking our collective behinds and the electronics industry was fleeing the country.

No one mentioned that they would negotiate the strike price up front and be allowed to short the stock when their supposed talents fell short. Indeed, we all assumed it would be like us sales types. No success, no bonus.... Silly us, eh?

In the meantime the employees of Delta and NW hold their breath. Having been there, I send my regrets. And if anyone knows an industry that I should guide my Grandson into, please let me know.

I go now to test The Friendly Skies.



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Every now and then I read something

written by someone who is supposedly knowledgeable about a subject, and when I get done I close my eyes and say, "I can't believe this guy wrote that." Such was this regarding conflict resolution and how to defeat terrorists.

In cases where a serious insurgency cannot be managed, the state and its supporters might consider an approach designed to deliberately encourage the insurgency to mutate into something less dangerous such as an organized criminal organization. This is never desirable, but there may be rare instances where organized crime is less of a threat than sustained insurgency. Call this strategic methadone. [p.52]

Now I have never claimed to be the brightest bulb on the tree. In fact I have often noted that I am humble and have every reason to be. But this just wipes me out.

First, the writer is saying that the terrorists are winning. See "cannot be managed."

So what's a country to do? Turn'em in into the Mafia!

Now leaving aside exactly how that is to be done, can't you just see this?

"Okay Mohamed, we'll split it like this. You get everything west of oil fields' mainteance facility.... OK? Mohamed.....? Put the sword down Mohamed..... |"

Wack... Thump.

Has anyone told this expert that the terrorists aren't interested in money?? They want power. And the sooner the better.

BTW - There is no truth to the rumor that the author was a Professor to Hussein Obama.

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Some odd thoughts

Peter Hitchens has a way with words. Read and think about the following.

I was struck last week by the treacly response given to the retirement of the grisly old monster, Fidel Castro. In so many leftist media, from the BBC to the Guardian, we were offered the usual muck about Cuba's supposedly excellent schools and health care, by people who referred to the pensioner tyrant by his Christian name, 'Fidel', as if he were a personal friend rather than one of the remotest and most inaccessible dictators in the world.

They also pretended that Cuba's 'National Assembly' was a real Parliament rather than what it is, an appointed chamber of toadies and puppets, and - though they claim to be outraged by the powerless British monarchy being handed on from father to son - they were un-outraged by the handing over of real supreme authority from brother to brother. Vertical inheritance is all wrong. Horizontal's cool. Republicans, they're so ridiculous, can you beat them?

What would these people think of someone who referred to General Pinochet as 'Augusto', or if he had handed over power to his sibling? And why - I'll come to this at length later - is Castro allowed to maintain the death penalty, and to keep his popularity with the Left , whereas if I say I'm in favour of it, I'm a pariah from one end of Islington to the other?

That is the question, eh?

Why do the sweethearts of the Left get a free pass? Do you think maybe some of the anti-war demonstrators could peel off and spend a few hours chanting, "No more executions in Cuba!" in front of the UN? No, of course not. It will never happen.

And then we have a great unwashed horde of people wandering around with Che T-shirts, many with terminal "ring around the collar." I wonder why none of them seem to know about things like this from their sainted killer.

One morning the horrible sound of that rusty steel door swinging open startled us awake and Che's guards shoved a new prisoner into our cell. His face was bruised and smeared with blood. We could only gape. He was a boy, couldn't have been much older than 12, maybe 14.

"'What did you do?' We asked horrified. 'I tried to defend my papa,' gasped the bloodied boy. 'I tried to keep these Communist sons of b**tches form murdering him! But they sent him to the firing squad.'"

Soon Che's goons came back, the rusty steel door opened and they yanked the valiant boy out of the cell. "We all rushed to the cell's window that faced the execution pit," recalls Mr. San Martin. "We simply couldn't believe they'd murder him! Then we spotted him, strutting around the blood-drenched execution yard with his hands on his waist and barking orders � the gallant Che Guevara.

"Here Che was, finally in his element. In battle he was a sad joke, a bumbler of epic proportions [for details see "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant"], but up against disarmed and bloodied boys he was a snarling tiger.

"'Kneel Down!' Che barked at the boy.

"'ASSASSINS!' We screamed from our window. 'MURDERERS!! HOW CAN YOU MURDER A LITTLE BOY!'

"'I said, KNEEL DOWN!' Che barked again.

"The boy stared Che resolutely in the face. 'If you're going to kill me,' he yelled. 'you'll have to do it while I'm standing! MEN die standing!'

"COWARDS! MURDERERS! Sons of B**TCHES!" The men yelled desperately from their cells. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" HOW CAN ...?!"

"And then we saw Che unholstering his pistol. It didn't seem possible. But Che raised his pistol, put the barrel to the back of the boy's neck and blasted. The shot almost decapitated the young boy.

Do you think if they did know this, would they tear off their T-shirts?

And why doesn't the public get concerned and angry about someone with an agenda co-opting a well known and politically untouchable organization?

Michelle Dallacroce was hopping mad when she received a letter from Mothers Against Drunk Driving demanding she change the name of her organization, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens......

Virginia Faircloth, president and founder of MADD's York County, S.C., chapter, resigned last week after learning of the threat against MAIA, saying that MADD has turned a blind eye to the problem of drunken driving by illegal aliens.

She said she was told by national leaders to remove a link on her Web site to the Jackson-Avery Foundation, an organization she started with a friend whose husband was killed by an illegal alien driving drunk.

"They said their biggest concern was they didn't want anyone to think MADD was taking a stand on illegal immigration," Mrs. Faircloth said. "They worry too much about politics and they forget why they're there."

She said she confronted MADD National President Glynn Birch, who admitted the group hadn't sent letters to any other "Mothers Against" organizations.

Makes me want to call up my bank and start a monthly direct deposit contribution.

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I know, I know

everybody keeps telling me that Hussein Obama is not a Muslim, but I keep on reading things like this:

It may just be a smattering of coincidental facts whose convergence will be difficult if not impossible to decipher, and these days there are signs that the mainstream media is so solidly behind Barack Obama that it's almost assured they'll never look into this, but there are several items popping up on my radar this weekend relating to Obama and some of his campaign contributors and advisers, and ties back to Syria, Islamic fundamentalism, and the Nation of Islam, that are puzzling enough to

I mean you are known for the company you keep, and if you walk like a duck, etc., etc.



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Hussein is caught

lying to the rust belt states and the MSM says nothing.

Look, I agreed with Ross Perot that the giant sucking sounds were jobs being sucked into Mexico when Bill Clinton and his faithful companion Pope Algore pushed NAFTA through, and now the Demos want to have it both ways.

Despite repeated requests, Barack Obama's campaign is still neither verifying nor denying a CTV report that a senior member of the team made contact with the Canadian government -- via the Chicago consulate general -- regarding comments Obama made about NAFTA.

Allegations of double talk on the North American Free Trade Agreement from both the Obama and Clinton campaigns dominated the U.S. political landscape on Thursday.

On Wednesday, CTV reported that a senior member of Obama's campaign called the Canadian government within the last month -- saying that when Senator Obama talks about opting out of the free trade deal, the Canadian government shouldn't worry. The operative said it was just campaign rhetoric not to be taken seriously.

I mean we have now seen Hussein Obama send his presumptive National Security Adviser, the Z man from Jimmty Carter's halcoyn days to advise the Syrian dictator and terrorist enabler God knows what, and now he's telling Canada that he's not going to do anything about NAFTA, despite what he is telling voters in the states that have seen their jobs head south for nicer climates and lower than dirt wages.

Maybe someone should gather all of Hussein's supporters together and tell them the truth. He can't be trusted. He is funning you. This is just old fashioned Chicago ward politics. Quit fainting and start booing.

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Worse he is violating Federal Law by having these discussions with a foreign power.

Where's a Grand Jury when we need one?? Where's the NYT?




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Good morning buckaroos

and a hiyoo Silver and away! Pope Algore has favored us with some moderate weather this AM, at least at the home field as well as the West Coast where I am doing TAD and enjoying myself immensely. Of course the next time I come out this way I shall learn Spanish before I come. Perhaps one of those “learning” programs that are being hucked on TV is in order.

In case you think I am being one of those unspeakable beasts, aka nativists, let me share with you what I heard Tuesday. One third of all people living in the Golden State were born outside the US.

Actually I think that number low. There was no word on how many are intercultural sojourners, aka illegal aliens. But I digress.

I got this from Denny Wilson but the original source was this article

I give you both because Denny was my source, and even though I would believe him over any newspaper, all Left Wingers that I know attack all sources that have information they do not like. And not only will they not like this information, I think most of them take a nerve pill after reading Denny.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

I had previously heard that the US has had the coldest winter in 50 years and the sunspot cycle had changed causing reduced output from the sun, and now we have this. Perhaps we need to get ourselves to the
Shrine of Algore for prayers and supplication.



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Computers and names

I am pleased to note that I have a new computer. A brand new fancy Toshiba Satellite P205D with Vista… About which I have much to learn. A friend grouched that Microsoft took the worst of Windows and the worst of Apple and made Vista… I will not complain at this time, but reserve the right to do so at a later time. I am sure Bill and his happy crew are anxiously waiting for my comments.

In the meantime John McCain continues in his efforts to solidify his base among the Left and the MSM with his abject apologies that a Right Wing Talk Show Host repeated Barack Hussein Obama several times while he was warming up the Senator’s audience.

Look folks. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. If he is concerned that Hussein reminds us of a Muslim dictator who raped, tortured, gassed and used WMD’s, then Hussein should get himself down to the Cook County Courthouse and change it to something more American. Like say, Jimmy Carter Obama…..

In the mean time McCain should quit being so fast to attack those who are trying to be his friend and start watching his back around Blitzer, et al. That is if he truly wants to be President.

What we have here is an attempt by the MSM to frame the discussion. Next thing we will find is that noting that Hussein has proposed nothing except change is beyond the pale and must not be noted.