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this test uses a slogan, that is a copyrighted trademark….this speaker i heard once used to call his routine the same thing, and i have a post i want to write about him
that is strange
and what are you going to write
well, the slogan is c**** u* f*** t** n*** u*//// just about his speech, it was 95 percent bs but there were a couple of good comments
he was a right wing a.h., and that turned me off to him big

time…made a snide comment about ted kennedy and mary jo kopechne that i thought was way out of bounds
really
yea…he was a neighbor of one of the shops at a company i worked for…we traded some printing for his speech
i can’t stand narrowminded people
some people see motivational speakers as being entertaining, but it sets off my bs detector
lol i feel the same way

Back when I was at redo blue, we traded some printing for a motivational speech.
The man was D. J. Harrington. He came on stage with a telephone handset, which he used to show how to answer the telephone. There were a lot of statistics, like you get 50 percent more information when you use your left ear. ( This is a made up example, not a quote. I don’t remember any of his examples) It reminded me of something a teacher said once…: ” The best way to win an argument is to use statistics. The best way to get statistics is to make them up”
On the all important issue of what to say when you answer the squawk box, he suggested “How may I direct your call?” Now, I like to identify the company and myself as briefly as possible, and quit wasting the customer’s time. The customer knows why he called. HMIDYC is seven unnecessary syllables that do your customer no good.
As some of you know, I have a sensitive BS detector. This gets in the way of being “motivated”. When confronted with a entertainer motivational speaker, I try to glean one or two worthwhile tidbits. I give D.J.H. credit, he did make one comment I remembered. “You must sell yourself first, your company second, and your product third” There are some idea mongers who feel that I owe them my trust. I beg to differ.
Mr. Harrington used to call his dog and pony show “C*** U* F*** T** N*** U*.That phrase is currently a registered trademark of the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario and may be used with permission only.
Redo Blue was a diverse company. I suspect D.J.H. toned down some of the good ole boy touches from his presentation. Towards the end, he described a speech he gave in a medium town in Oklahoma. “The only Catholics they have ever seen are Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne” He proceeded to tell a tasteless story about the Catholic Church. I was almost motivated to walk out.

In March of 1988, Iraq used poison gas to kill a lot of people in Halabja (ha lahb jah). A largely Kurdish town near the Iranian border, Halabja was the scene of much resistance to the War that Iraq and Iran were waging.
The United States was “tilting” towards Iraq in this conflict. When Iraq invaded Iran ( probably with the encouragement of the United States), Iran was holding Americans hostage at the embassy in Tehran. This was a source of much anger towards Iran, and would be reason for America to support Iraq.
The support for Iraq took the form of financial aid, shared intelligence, and a blind eye to Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction. After the massacre in Halabja, The United States blamed Iran.
There is also the question of where Iraq got the poison gas. Saddam was executed before he could go to trial on charges related to Halabja.
There is also evidence that Iran was involved. According to Libcom.org “On 13 March 1988 chemical bombs were dropped on Halabja. No Pasdaran nor Peshmargan were killed. The Iranian soldiers had left on the day before or on the morning of the massacre. The Peshmargan continued to surround the city. Some had gas masks.”

Survivors said the gas smelled like sweet apples. Many thousands died at once, most of them women and children. Many more died in the years to come of the effects of the gas.
The International Herald Tribune has an excellent piece on the massacre. A key quote: “Some of those who engineered the tilt today are back in power in the Bush administration. They have yet to account for their judgment that it was Iran, not Iraq, that posed the primary threat to the Gulf; for building up Iraq so that it thought it could invade Kuwait and get away with it; for encouraging Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs by giving the regime a de facto green light on chemical weapons use; and for turning a blind eye to Iraq’s worst atrocities, and then lying about it.
It is well known the the W.M.D. program was the excuse for the war in Iraq, not the reason. It is also known that Iraq DID use chemical weapons in the war with Iran. The questions of where these weapons came from, and where they went, have not been answered.
Spell check suggestions for this feature:
Halabja- Calabash, Alabama, Malabar, Salable, Halalled
Pasdaran- Paranoid, Adlefaran. Jacranda
Peshmergan- Freshman, margarine, Margaret, Englishman
de- ed , ode, ade, die, doe, due, den, dew

“Oil shale is the fuel of the future, and always will be,” goes a popular saying in Western Colorado.

There is a lot of talk these days about oil. Many blame the cost of oil on the reluctance of The United States to drill in certain parts of our territory. This view is especially popular on talk radio. Many suspect radio talkers of being on the oil industry payroll.
One of the sources of energy considered today is oil shale. This mineral is found in large quantities in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. It became well known in the energy boom of the seventies, but fell out of favor until recently.
Extraction of petroleum from the shale is a mess. Essentially, you heat the rock until the oil comes out. The process uses a lot of water, and leaves a great deal of nasty cooked rock behind.
There are some proposals to sink heating towers into the earth and cook the oil out in the ground. That sounds awfully complicated, expensive, and dangerous to this reporter.
The extraction of oil from the earth is a messy matter. It is not like when Jed Clampett fired his rifle at a rabbit and crude oil poured out . When you dig a hole several miles into the ground, lots of mud will come up and need to be disposed of. Apparently, the extraction of oil from shale is little better.
There is speculation that research into oil shale production was halted in the eighties at the request of the Saudis and the Bush Family.
Another concern is the water this production would use. As we found out in Georgia last year, water shortages are for real. The search for alternative energy must keep water usage in mind. This is also an issue with Nuclear Energy.

The Governor was speaking to a group of reporters. He was announcing the appointment of a Black man to the Selective Service Board in some Georgia town. The reporter said it was the first Black man to serve on a draft board since reconstruction. What did the Governor think about this?
The Governor said “Gee” The screen returned to the Channel Five newsroom. The men at the desks were all laughing. The weatherman looked up at the camera and said ” Thats a tough act to follow”
Whatever you might say about Lester Maddox…and there is no shortage of bad things to say…there has never been a public official that entertaining.
As for being a tough act to follow, the next Governor was Jimmy Carter.
As for the weatherman, this reporter saw him in a parking lot once. It was raining heavily. The “Gray Ghost” looked at me with an ironic smile, as if to say “I am sorry”.

I recently decided to use initials to refer to the Presidential Candidates. Here is why:

01.Initials use fewer keystrokes than names.
02. BHO looks like a do gooder agency that fights hunger. JSM looks like a conglomerate. There is poetry to both.
03. This is a subtle reminder that the H in BHO is Hussein.
04. BHO is 246 on the telephone keypad. JSM is 576.
05. BHO is ahead of JSM in the alphabet.
06. Mrs. O is a lawyer, accused of being a communist. Mrs. M is an heiress, accused of being a drug addict.
07. BHO supported a loudmouth preacher. JSM dropped napalm on Vietnamese children.
08. A Judge got in trouble about pornography on his website. There was an image of naked women painted to look like cows.
09. BHO and JSM have shady friends.
10. Even if we drill in wilderness Alaska, we will still run out of oil. We need to develop other sources of energy.
11. A radio whiner asked whether BHO’s supporters should support him, just because he is the same color. I ask the same thing about JSM and me.
12. BHO smokes cigarettes. JSM has had skin cancer.
13. This was written on Friday the Thirteenth. It has been a pretty good day, numerological superstition aside.( Or maybe that is ignorance of numbers, rather than knowledge).
14. BHO lived for many years in Chicago. JSM has been tortured in North Vietnam.
15. Nuclear Energy is big government. It is dangerous, requires constant supervision, and the fuel can be used to make weapons. None of this is true about Solar.
16. If we had invested the money in Solar that has been invested in Nukes, we would be using solar power for our needs. The government, banks, and oil companies do not want to lose control of you.
17. BHO used marijuana and cocaine when he was young. JSM liked to party before he went to Vietnam.
18. BHO is married to his first wife. There is controversy about JSM and his first wife.
19. BHO sounds better than BO. There is no equivalent for JSM, and we should be fair.

I had assumed for a while that JSM was assured of Georgia’s electoral votes. A few days ago, I wrote in this space that Georgia was so red that it glows. But looking at these stats from CL, I begin to wonder:

Amount Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $1,305,275
Amount Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $2,458,219
Number of votes Obama received in 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary: 704,247
Number of votes McCain received in 2008 Georgia Republican Presidential Primary: 304,751
Number of votes Sen. John Kerry received in 2004 Georgia Democratic Presidential Primary: 293,265
This years primary was after a year of campaigning, and had much more interest than the 2004 primary. This accounts for some of the increase in voters, but there is also the BHO charisma. The dude is a rock star. He has people fired up in a way that JSM can only dream about.
The first two lines are what tell the story. BHO has raised $2.4 million smackers, and it is not the fourth of july. The man is going to be able to put up a challenge in Georgia. And even if he does not win Georgia, the Repubs cannot take us for granted this year. The GOP will have to make an effort in Georgia. This will take resources away from the Repub effort in traditional battle states like Ohio.
Black voters are a big part of the electorate in Georgia. This block should go overwhelmingly to BHO, and turn out in large numbers. Lets open the calculator and see what we see. Lets assume that a million votes are cast in Georgia. If 30% are black, and they all go for BHO ( remember, this is not reality, just pre summer speculation), then that leaves 70% of the population. BHO would only need 200K votes, or 28%, of the non black community.
I am not a political consultant, I just play one on my blog.


Meanwhile, JSM is starting to get scrutiny again. Operation Chaos is over, and the choice is clearly between BHO and JSM. HDRC is going to have time to bake cookies and wonder where her husband is. HDRC knows about phones ringing at three in the morning.
JSM appeared on the Today show this morning. I was beginning to take another look at him, given the issues with BHO. He said we need to be concerned about greenhouse gases, which causes apoplexy in Red America. There was talk about Nuclear Power, which is expensive and requires intense Government Regulation. There was talk about high gas prices, but no one connects the dots to the weak dollar and deficit spending in Babylon. Oh, and the surge is working. Happy talk in the press is part of the surge strategy.
JSM has a more likable personality that BHO. JSM appeared on the Glenn Beck show a few weeks ago, and the first thing he did was call Beck a jerk. I don’t see BHO reading that from his script. Maybe if I just got over this concern about the issues I could find one that I liked.

PG was doing his morning chores, and listening to the Neal Boortz show. The handsome challenged whiner was discussing the Buckhead Library.
It seems that a developer covets the land. Mr. Developer has offered $24 million for the land, and to help build a replacement book barn. There is opposition to the sale, and destruction, of the library.
The library is a “deconstructionist” facility designed by Scogin, Elam, and Bray. It is not typical Buckhead Architecture.
Mr. Boortz said the building was Fugly and should be torn down. There are reports of leaking roofs, flawed internet access, and HVAC issues at the library.
Mr. Boortz said the developer’s project was going to be fabulous, and would revitalize Buckhead. It is not unethical for developers to pay radio announcers.
Mr. Boortz said the only reason the powers that be are reluctant to approve the sale of the library is “Wealth envy”.
The Buckhead Library was founded in 1929 by Ida Williams. It got its home on Buckhead Avenue in 1942. Growing up in nearby Brookhaven, PG went to this library with his mother. By the late fifties it was a beat up building.
The current structure opened in 1990. By this time PG did not go to Buckhead often, and did not see this facility until recently. He has mixed feelings.
A recurring theme of the radio show was ugly. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, while ugly uses all five senses.
Mr. Boortz could make a freight train take a dirt road. He said the Library was ugly. This got PG to thinking about something he heard about the architects.
PG once knew a former associate of Merrill Elam. This person had uncomplimentary things to say about Ms. Elam. These comments included an unkind assessment of her appearance.
The website for the firm does not have a picture of her.

So Barack H. Obama is going to run for President. The long suffering former first lady threw in the towel, and now it is BHO against that other guy.
Lord, this is going to be a long election. The right wing has shown their love of slander and dirty politics for the sheer fun of it. While I think it is cool that a dark skinned man is running, unless common sense is shown by some this could get ugly. Being threatened with urban riots if BHO loses is one sure way to turn people to JSM.
Georgia is so red that it glows. The electoral votes here are almost certain to go to JSM. This being America, you can always make your voice heard by donating money.
Our local monopoly ad-rag has printed a selection of positions taken by BHO. A word of thanks to Neo Prodigy for steering me to these. I seldom buy or read the fishwrapper these days, and would have missed this otherwise. Likewise, if a similar position rundown is printed on JSM, I would like to see and comment.

IRAQ.. has said the goal of increasing troop strength so Iraq’s leaders can establish a stable government has failed. Would remove all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months of taking office, except some to protect our embassy and diplomats. ON THE COST OF WAR..”I will spare no expense to ensure our troops have the equipment and support they need … But we also have to understand that the more than $10 billion we’re spending each month in Iraq is money we could be investing here at home.”
This is the most important issue of this election. The war in Babylon is empowering Iran, bleeding our economy white, and putting the future of our country in doubt. JSM wants to keep us in Babylon for another 100 years, while BHO wants us out ASAP. Both are clueless.
There are agreements in place that will require American presence in Babylon for the foreseeable future. We are riding a tiger there, with no good solutions in sight. If we withdraw, the countries (USA and Iraq) go to hell. If we continue like we are going, we will be broke and in no position to help ourselves or anyone else. I don’t know what to do here, and I hope that whoever is elected has a clue. I doubt it. CUBA…calls for the U.S. to loosen some restrictions on Cuba to encourage it to move toward democracy. The present policy in Cuba has resulted in fifty years of Communist rule. Maybe it is time to try something else
TAXES… would create a tax credit of $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family, for up to 150 million workers; and simplify IRS tax filings for millions of Americans. ECONOMIC STIMULUS.. would index minimum wage to inflation; invest in job creation, training and manufacturing HEALTH INSURANCE.. would make a national health insurance plan available to all Americans and a National Health Insurance Exchange as a watchdog group for all private insurance plans, ensuring fairness and afford ability. SOCIAL SECURITY… is opposed to privatization and would work with Congress on a payroll tax reform package to keep Social Security solvent. ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY..”If we unite this country around a common purpose, if we act on the responsibilities that we have to each other and to our country, then we can launch a new era of opportunity and prosperity.” Anything BHO proposes will have to be approved by Congress. While some of these ideas sound good, they may not work in real life. There is a difference in being a charismatic stump speaker and getting your ideas enacted.

STEM CELL RESEARCH… favors relaxing restrictions on federal financing MARRIAGE… opposes a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, supports civil unions. ABORTION… has consistently defended a woman’s right to choose. DEATH PENALTY… supports the death penalty in cases “so heinous the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage.”GUN CONTROL… favors measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners while keeping guns away from children and criminals. CAMPAIGN FINANCE… supports public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time to reduce the influence of special interests.
EDUCATION… would reform No Child Left Behind, expand Head Start programs and make math and science education a national priority. Ah, the social issues. BHO says what he thinks his base wants to hear. A lot of these are up to the states,or the congress, and the POTUS has little say. The radio whiners should have a good time lambasting him here, but their fifteen minutes may be over. HOMELAND SECURITY… would improve security for chemical plants, keep better track of spent nuclear fuel and upgrade security for public drinking water systems.
GLOBAL WARMING… would reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, invest in clean energy technologies, reduce America’s foreign oil consumption and address climate and environmental issues with the United Nations The homeland security position is common sense. Mr. Bush created a bureaucracy after 911 that has done little except eat up money. My only concern would be that our rights need to be protected while this security orgy is going on. As for GW, an 80 percent reduction by 2050 may be too little too late. As long as the oil companies,banks, and China run the show, there is little hope for genuine progress on this front. IMMIGRATION… would improve security at borders; supports legalization for undocumented workers after they pay a fine and learn English; and favors a guest worker program. Supports giving legal status to immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, who finish two years of college or military service. TRADE… would fight for a policy that opens up foreign markets to support American jobs, amend the North American Free Trade Agreement to favor American workers. This is another issue where you have to say something. Whatever you say will be savaged by the right wing media. Whatever you propose must be enacted by congress. Just tell people what they want to hear, and do whatever the money tells you to do later.
I don’t know who put this compilation together. I suspect it is a functionary at the fishwrapper. There are some important issues that are not mentioned here. Some of these are the war on drugs, Race relations, repairing Bush damage to the Bill of rights,infrastructure repair, water supplies, balancing the budget, Internet neutrality, the electoral college, outsourcing, Supreme Court appointments, and war profiteering. BHO probably has positions on these matters.

Georgia executed Curtis Osborne this week.
The story is here. The murders took place in 1990.
Executions are set to become routine. The Supreme Court has ruled that lethal injection is an acceptable method for offing convicts.
As live apartment fire notes:
The Department of Corrections tries to have at least one media witness to every execution. There’s a print reporter from middle Georgia who witnessed dozens of them. It seems a distasteful assignment. We once saw an AJC reporter leave the Jackson prison grounds in tears after witnessing an execution.
It’s also an important assignment (in spite of increasing media disinterest– WAGA covered the execution with a 25 second reader). The blunt-instrument power of government is on no greater display than when it puts a human being to death. Eyewitness accounts ultimately led to the demise of the electric chair. Pieces like the one written by Cook will keep lethal injection under legitimate scrutiny as well.
One wonders about the deterrent value of an execution eighteen years after the crime. When the crime occurred, the Braves were in last place, Daddy Bush was President, and Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Kuwait.
The execution did not bring the victims back.
Mr. Osborne alledgedly killed Arthur Jones because Mr. Osborne did not want to hand over $400 he had made selling the victim’s motorcycle. Linda Lisa Seaborne was there at a bad time.
The reports do not say what happened to the motorcycle.

A popular local radio whiner got on the subject of phrases today. The expressions today were words that said, when you heard them used, that you were listening to an idiot. The ones suggested by the listeners were about what you could expect:neo cons, social justice, global warming and the like. When I am driving the truck, I don’t have time to call in. I did have an answer.
Whenever I hear the phrase “main stream media” or “msm”, the light goes off in my head. Do not pay any more attention to this moron.
The radio whiner in question works for Cox Enterprises. Cox owns the local monopoly fishwrapper, a network affiliate tv station, and lots of other things. That sounds pretty mainstream to me.
The whole thing about liberal media is a joke. The print and electronic story mongers are profit driven corporate things. That is their bias. And where is the bias in the stock market charts, want ads, or baseball standings? This is what the fishwrapper is made of. Any news stories are just something to put between the ads.

So, I am writing this while listening to a Tom Waits performance. It is called Storytellers, and Mr. Waits tells a story before each song. I suspect that the story has nothing to do with the song, but is just good to tell entertain the audience. The bar probably did a good business while he told stories.
The pictures I put up with the posts have nothing to do with the text. These images came from a snowstorm last January. I took my camera up to Peachtree Road, started at the funeral home and went over to Oglethorpe. Turning around at the gothic stadium, I went back down the street toward Chamblee proper. Todays selection includes a statue from the antique collectibles yard. Statues are like cemetery people, in that they are not camera shy, and never mind standing still to pose.
So Tom Waits has a swear jar in his house, where you have to put a dollar in if you cuss. He would put a ten in and not ask for change. This concert is at the Airport in Burbank CA. Laugh In was from Beautiful Downtown Burbank, but Mr. Waits didn’t make it past the airport.
As the church sign said, ” When your ship comes in, will you be at the airport?”
I saw Tom Waits at a concert once. Tim Curry was playing at the Agora Ballroom, and I was wandering through the balcony. Mr. Waits was playing the next night, but I was too slack to attend. I saw Mr. Waits and some people sitting at a table. I asked this guy who looked like a guard if that was Tom Waits. “No, it just looks like him”.

The sixties were a great time to be a kid. As long as you were too young for a Vietnam Vacation, there were kicks to be had.
One of the more enduring legends was the dirty lyrics to “Louie Louie”. Recorded by an obscure band called the Kingsmen, the song was a massive hit in 1963 ( It never was Number One). When WQXI put out lists of the greatest songs of all time, “Louie Louie” was at the top of the list. This is despite, or because of, the raucous sound. The song was recorded in one take, when the band thought they were playing a rehearsal. The vocals are difficult to make sense of, and rumored to be obscene. No one was ever quite sure why .With the garbled sound on the record, the listener could hear almost anything they wanted to.
The Governor of Indiana, Matthew Welsh, banned radio stations from playing the song in that state.
On February 7, 1964, Attorney General Robert Kennedy got a letter from an outraged parent about the lyrics to “Louie Louie”. An F.B.I. investigation followed. After thirty months of investigation, the Bureau concluded that they could not make sense of the lyrics, and did not know whether it was obscene.
There was a girl on my street named Carol. A tomboy who could whip most of the boys, she had a pet skunk named Napoleon. Carol claimed to have heard a band at Lenox Square play “Louie Louie”. “He said the words real slow so you could understand them. I can’t repeat what he said,but it was dirty”.
Here is a transcription of the lyrics.

Louie, Louie Oh no, me gotta go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, said, ah
Louie, Louie Oh, baby, me gotta go
A fine little girl she waits for me Me
catch a ship for cross the sea.
Me sail that ship all alone Me never think how I make it home.
Ah, Louie, Louie No, no, no, no, me gotta go.
Oh, no. Said, Louie, Louie Oh, baby, said we gotta go.
Three nights and days I sail the sea Think of girl, oh, constantly.
Ah, on that ship I dream she there
I smell the rose, ah, in her hair.
Ah, Louie, Louie Oh, no, sayin’ we gotta go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but, ah, Louie, Louie Oh, baby, said, we gotta go.
[Yelled] Okay, let’s give it to ’em right now! [instrumental]
Me see Jamaica, ah, moon above.
It won’t be long, me see me love.
Take her in my arms again, I got her; I’ll never leave again.
Ah, Louie, Louie Oh, no, sayin’ me gotta go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
But, ah, Louie, Louie Oh, baby, said, ah, we gotta go.
I said we gotta go now, Let’s get on outta here.
[Yelled] Let’s go.
Transcribed by David Spector Sept. 2000 Public Domain

If anyone reading this can explain what was so dirty about that, please tell me.
Thank you Wikipedia for your help in assembling this.