Freedom of Philadelphia

Ok, I was fine when you took away the styrofoam McD’s containers. I was fine when you mandated we needed to drive cleaner burning vehicles. Sure, I don’t even mind that much bagging my leaves instead of burning them.

However now you’re going to damn far! This is just simply just wrong.

The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public’s insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

Now alot of people around the world have accused us Americans of a lot of bad things. We’re arrogant, warmongers, rude, uneducated, blah blah but now  I think they are starting to run out of things..now they are complaining that we have tender buttocks?!  Also it’s worse then all the other things you already took away? I don’t know about anyone else but the last thing anyone wants is some soccer mom driving around her hummer chowing down on big macs while she has chaffed buttocks! Does Al Gore know about this? Quick someone get Big Al on the phone and let’s get a documentary going on the importance of using sandpaper toilet paper. Perhaps Barney Frank can head up a committee on the “tenderness of the American Buttock and how it lags behind the world in anal toughness”.  I’m quite certain that’s a subject that Senator Frank will get be happy to support.

You know, I wondered what the press would do if they couldn’t blame everything on Bush, little did I know that they would aim such a low blow! For all those more worried about what type of toilet paper we Americans use then the worlds decline into global depression I give you this cup of STFU.

Ok, today I’m brewing up an industrial sized,kevlar coated pot of STFU for the next Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter. Now, really I should be calling Nutter the next Mayor of Philly, because well we haven’t elected a republican to run this city since I think 1952. Our current candidate doesn’t even have a platform, he’s just the sacrificial lamb because we need to run someone out there. Most people expect him to win by 40-50 pts easily. In fact, I’d consider it a win if our guy got 15% of the vote. Our city currently has more murders and shots ringing out then Anbar province, and the only real difference between Philly and Iraq right now is that Harry Reid isn’t calling for a pull out of Philly (tho he should). So let’s take a look at the ad that has me so ticked off at Nutter (pay attention to about 10 seconds in).

That’s right. Nutter wants to get out the vote to “show these 2 (Bush and Cheyney) that they are still accountable”. What a crock, seriously there hasn’t been a politician accountable for a thing in Philadelphia in my lifetime! Heck, Mayor Street won his 2nd term while being investigated by the FBI! This is a pure example of BDS and really it’s not what’s going to fix our city. For that we need not BDS but rather a Republican who is tough on crime and will actually hold city hall and the politicians working there accountable.
Mr. Nutter, enjoy the cup of STFU, you can drink it while obsessing about Bush/Cheyney instead of trying to think of ways to fix our city.

The members of the committee who gave a Nobel PEACE prize to Al Gore. I’ve got an inconvient question to ask.. What the fuck does a crocumentary so full of the crap that Micheal Moore wishes he made it have to do with peace? I’m not even going to get into all the lies ahem inconsistencies in the film. Let’s just think about Nobel Peace Prize here and what a joke it’s become. We can now place Al Gore in the same breath as:

• Yasser “make sure the bomb vest is tight” Arafat. This schmuck didn’t do a thing for PEACE, but rather PIECES as in pieces of suicide bomber.
• Jimmy “Misery Index” Carter. Radical Islam got it’s first major major foothold in our times during his reign. Perhaps if he had any testicular fortitude and had carpet bombed Tehran when they had their revolution and took our people hostage we wouldn’t have such a big mess there now.
• Kofi “sure I’ll take that bribe” Annan. Single handedly kept Saddam in power and wealth during the embargo’s.
• The United “to do nothing” Nations. Really do I need to say how the UN is against peace? They want war as a way to justify their existence aka need.
• Mohamed “I don’t see any nukes here” Elbaredhi. The Mr. Magoo of nuclear inspectors.

Yes those sure are some people dedicated to peace in the world. Al Gore should be proud to be among them. He’s done as much for world peace as any of them i.e. not a damn thing. The prize and the committee has become a joke of such global proportions that I think few if any care about it anymore.

Maybe the committee feels that so many people are fighting because it’s too hot and that if things were a little cooler we might not go to war?  If that’s the case let me nominate Jack Welch of GE fame, because they make some truly kicking air conditioners. So today I present a cup of STFU to the committee for the Nobel Peace Prize, the only people more worthless then the recent winners.

Stu Bykofsky, a writer for the Philadelphia Daily News just wrote an article that shocked, amazed, and angered me enough to shake off this writers block I’ve been dealing with. Now normally I enjoy reading Stu, even when I disagree with him I enjoy reading him but this time he just.doesn’t.get.it. Here’s a little headline teaser from the article he wrote to start with. Read my whole post…my anger isn’t over what you might think it is.

Stu Bykofsky | To save America, we need another 9/11
ONE MONTH from The Anniversary, I’m thinking another 9/11 would help America.

Ok at first glance, the title grabs you and makes you want to read more (he’s a good writer, he knows how to grab you by the cahones). The angst over 9-11 still burns inside many of us, many of us still cry that day or remember people we lost then or have lost in the wars since. However your feelings about 9-11 he has you after that teaser, then he goes on to try and explain what he means before you start running for pitchforks and torches.

What kind of a sick bastard would write such a thing?

A bastard so sick of how splintered we are politically – thanks mainly to our ineptitude in Iraq – that we have forgotten who the enemy is.

It is not Bush and it is not Hillary and it is not Daily Kos or Bill O’Reilly or Giuliani or Barack. It is global terrorists who use Islam to justify their hideous sins, including blowing up women and children.

Now at this point, I’m nodding my head in agreement. All my dislike or disagreements with the left notwithstanding. They aren’t the biggest threat facing America right now. Islamic Jihadists are. Now I’m thinking Stu might be serving up a big plate of red meat that I can enjoy. Then he takes it away from me with this.

Iraq has fractured the U.S. into jigsaw pieces of competing interests that encourage our enemies. We are deeply divided and division is weakness.

Most Americans today believe Iraq was a mistake. Why?
Not because Americans are “anti-war.”

Americans have turned their backs because the war has dragged on too long and we don’t have the patience for a long slog. We’ve been in Iraq for four years, but to some it seems like a century. In contrast, Britain just pulled its soldiers out of Northern Ireland where they had been, often being shot at, almost 40 years.

That’s not the American way.

In Iraq, we don’t believe our military is being beaten on the battleground. It’s more that there is no formal “battleground.” There is the drip of daily casualties and victory is not around the corner. Americans are impatient. We like fast food and fast war.

Americans loved the 1991 Gulf War. It raged for just 100 hours when George H.W. Bush ended it with a declaration of victory. He sent a half-million troops into harm’s way and we suffered fewer than 300 deaths.

America likes wars shorter than the World Series.

The public isn’t down on the war because it’s gone on for 4 years, nor is it the casualties we’ve suffered! Hell it’s not even because we don’t see “victory around the corner”. It’s because for 4 years we’ve been shown nothing positive coming out of Iraq. It’s not that it’s not there, we’re not seeing it! Stu’s own “peoples paper” spends more time on “sexy singles” lately then it does on showing anything positive in Iraq. Where are the reports about schools opened up? Women getting to vote and actually speak their mind? Old enemies becoming allies and turning on Al-Qaeda? For these people savvy enough to surf the web we can see from folks like Pat Dollard and Michael Yon who are out there with our troops that Al-Qaeda is being decimated in Iraq and is on the run. Yet the Daily News lists nothing but recent American or British deaths in Iraq. Hell Stu can’t even bring himself to say Al-Qaeda is our enemy in his article!

We knew who the enemy was shortly after 9/11.

Because we have mislaid 9/11, we have endless sideshow squabbles about whether the surge is working, if we are “safer” now, whether the FBI should listen in on foreign phone calls, whether cops should detain odd-acting “flying imams,” whether those plotting alleged attacks on Fort Dix or Kennedy airport are serious threats or amateur bumblers. We bicker over the trees while the forest is ablaze.

He’s right that the forest which is our civilization is on fire, yet he won’t name the arsonist! This is part of the “squabbles” he’s talking about, the inability to name our enemy. Say it with me won’t you? Al-quaeda or even Islamic Jihadists if you need that baby step first. So much of the problem that many Americans are having with Iraq is that we’ve forgotten the name of our enemy and in doing so we’ve made them stronger. Given them a power they did not have. As children many of us were afraid of “the monster under the bed/in the closet”. It didn’t have a name, it was just “a monster”. If our parent’s had called it “bob” perhaps we might not of been as afraid of it? Let’s be upfront in our media coverage, let’s call the enemy by name to take away the fear of the unknown boogeymen who want to hurt us.
In the months after 9-11 we called our enemy by it’s name and we felt, not fear, but a righteous anger. Somewhere we stopped using the name and the enemy became the Enemy. Now our troops are dying in Iraq, but it’s not a definitive enemy but some sort of mysterious nebulous force that we can’t put our fingers on it seems. Of course that couldn’t be further from the truth! We’ve slaughtered the enemy wherever we have found him. Yes more pop up, but our military has more bullets and the ratio of enemy dead to our dead weighs far far in our balance. Rather then media outlets like the Daily News or the tv stations blaring just the numbers of our dead, how about also blaring the number of enemies killed? How about reports being done on Al-quaeda fleeing and running and hiding from our forces? At this point I would just be happy to see our elected “leaders” like Harry Reid not declaring that we’ve lost the war!
Stu goes on to finish up his article with this:

America’s fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.

What would sew us back together?

Another 9/11 attack.

The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich environment for al Qaeda.

Is there any doubt they are planning to hit us again?

If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America’s righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail.

The unity brought by such an attack sadly won’t last forever.

The first 9/11 proved that. *

Seems his whole basis for saying we’d be better off being attacked again is that it would “pull us back together”. I totally disagree. The right would blame the left saying that “their weakness caused our Enemies to strike again” and the left would “denounce the Bush policies that lead to our Enemies attacking us again”. Another 9-11 style attack would only deepen the divides that currently exist. If Stu is really interested in helping to heal some of the divides in this country he should either STFU or perhaps, just perhaps, he could try and write some articles showing some of the positives coming out of Iraq. Hell if the surge continues as it has been then soon there will be many areas in Iraq safer to live in then Philadelphia! When that happens do you think we will start discussing a pullout from Philly?

*update* Stu’s article’s hit the big time, Michelle Malkin seems to think along the same lines as I concerning it.

Everyone involved in “Live Earth”. A few days ago Merly wrote a post about “Live Earth” and the Goracle gathering all these artist trying to stop global warming. Well the results on the concert are in and it begs the question… “If you have a concert and no one gives a shit did you accomplish a damn thing?”

The Live Earth concert promoted by former Vice President Al Gore received plenty of media coverage and hype, but most Americans tuned out. Just 22% said they followed news stories about the concert Somewhat or Very Closely. Seventy-five percent (75%) did not follow coverage of the event.

Um wow, 75% didn’t give a spotted owls ass about it. Let’s put that 75% “did not follow” into perspective here.

By way of comparison, eight-in-ten voters routinely said they were following news coverage of the recent Senate debate over immigration. Fifty-four percent (54%) said they followed news coverage of the President’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s sentence.

Well those numbers restore some of my faith in America now that I see that most of them were worried about amnesty and Scooter instead of the cult of global warming. Wonder why, well let’s look at another Rasmussen poll shall we?

In fact, just 36% of Americans say that Gore knows what he is talking about when it comes to the environment and Global Warming. Thirty-one percent (31%) say he does not know what he is talking about while 33% are not sure. Women, by a 2-to-1 margin, say Gore knows what he is talking about. Men, by a similar margin, say he does not.

Appearing before a Congressional Committee, Gore said that Global Warming is “not a partisan issue; it’s a moral issue.” However, polling data suggests that among the general public it’s a very partisan issue. By a 65% to 9% margin, Democrats say that Gore knows what he’s talking about. By a 57% to 11%, Republicans say he does not. Those not affiliated with either party are evenly divided.

See, while most people might not know about all the inconvenient lies in Gore’s crockuementary but they do smell a rat. Or perhaps it’s something else they smell?

The mounds of rubbish left by the 65,000 concert-goers at Wembley further tarnished the event’s green credentials.

Organisers claimed most of the waste would be sorted and recycled but the Daily Mail saw little evidence of that taking place.

Think they bought “carbon offsets” for all the rubbish? Well I’m sure that they had a lot of viewers watching who learned a lot and are right now reducing their carbon footprint down to just a toe print, right?

And the peak audience, which came when Madonna sang at Wembley, was a dismal 4.5million. Three times as many viewers saw the Princess Diana tribute on the same channel six days before.

Two years ago, Live 8 drew a peak television audience of 9.6million while Live Aid notched 10million in 1985

Perhaps Al Gore should truly help the planet but reducing the amount of hot air he releases into the atmosphere? Al, this cup of STFU goes to you and all the followers in your cult.