Thursday, April 20, 2006
Once again, our President misses a chance-
"Maa'm, I don't know who you are. But together we will give this man an example of why America is great. You come up here and take my place on this rostrum for 5 minutes. That will be more important than anything I have to say".
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
My felony crime...
I was teaching riding lessons in Weston, Connecticut. The next town over is Westport, a famed artistique community which parades its oh so bien pensant sensibilities proudly. One of the ways it does so is to decorate the town on "United Nations WEEK" with the flags of all nations. April 27 fell during U. N. week, and I was in Westport that day on some errand at about noon.
I drove past the Cuban flag. I drove past the Red Chinese flag. I drove past the Soviet flag. I'm sure on League of Nations day in 1941 they had the Nazi and Japanese flags up.
And then I got to the very middle of the bridge over the river.
I could no more have not done what I did than I could have stopped myself from breathing. I braked the car and got out. While the BMW and Mercedes drivers honked, I climbed up on the railing of the bridge. So no one would think this was a result of a gust of wind, I broke off the top half of the 8 foot 2x2 flag pole, ripped the banner away and threw it in my trunk. With a cheery wave I drove off.
There were the predictable IRATE OUTRAGED letters in the local rag. My letter of explanation to the rag was not printed.
I called the police to turn myself in a couple of days later. The man who answered turned me over to "the detective handling the case".
"Lieutenant Soandso here. You want to turn yourself in for the flag vandalism? Where are you, we will come and pick you up."
"You do know what flag it was that you will be arresting me for tearing down, don't you?"
"No, what was it?"
I told him.
Long silence.
"Um, I think you are mistaken. No crime was committed on the Westport Bridge. We don't need to know where you are. Thank you for calling and have a GOOD DAY."
April 27, 1980.
Proud of it. I'd do it again.
(True, it was the old Shah one, but the Revolution was a year past. The communists on the town planning board just hadn't access to the new one yet, or were too ignorant to know it had changed. They meant Iran.)
I drove past the Cuban flag. I drove past the Red Chinese flag. I drove past the Soviet flag. I'm sure on League of Nations day in 1941 they had the Nazi and Japanese flags up.
And then I got to the very middle of the bridge over the river.
I could no more have not done what I did than I could have stopped myself from breathing. I braked the car and got out. While the BMW and Mercedes drivers honked, I climbed up on the railing of the bridge. So no one would think this was a result of a gust of wind, I broke off the top half of the 8 foot 2x2 flag pole, ripped the banner away and threw it in my trunk. With a cheery wave I drove off.
There were the predictable IRATE OUTRAGED letters in the local rag. My letter of explanation to the rag was not printed.
I called the police to turn myself in a couple of days later. The man who answered turned me over to "the detective handling the case".
"Lieutenant Soandso here. You want to turn yourself in for the flag vandalism? Where are you, we will come and pick you up."
"You do know what flag it was that you will be arresting me for tearing down, don't you?"
"No, what was it?"
I told him.
Long silence.
"Um, I think you are mistaken. No crime was committed on the Westport Bridge. We don't need to know where you are. Thank you for calling and have a GOOD DAY."
April 27, 1980.
Proud of it. I'd do it again.
(True, it was the old Shah one, but the Revolution was a year past. The communists on the town planning board just hadn't access to the new one yet, or were too ignorant to know it had changed. They meant Iran.)
An hilarious locution...
Someone said to a friend of mine, "You should be working 24-7".
His reply, 'I do- 24 hours a week, 7 months a year."
May be old, but it made me laugh.
His reply, 'I do- 24 hours a week, 7 months a year."
May be old, but it made me laugh.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Can Harvard hire this man to be its new president?
Ha. Like that will happen. It's some big mistake that he's the boss at the Sorbonne.
"I know people will say I'm a horrible reactionary but I'm very angry about the ignorance and the stupidity not just of youngsters but of the French because we have the youth we deserve."
If you click on the blue paragraph above, the article I quote from will appear as if by magic.
If you click on the blue paragraph above, the article I quote from will appear as if by magic.
I wish this woman was a legislator or judge...
Never happen, though. She thinks too clearly.
"IKyle Huff decided he wanted to end my son's life. Kyle Huff decided to kill all of those kids. Not his arsenal, not his family, not alcohol, not drugs. Not anything or anyone except Kyle Huff. I'm angry with everyone who is trying to make themselves feel better about this by blaming anything or anyone except the person responsible.
When are we as human beings going to stop making excuses for our behavior and the behavior of others? Yes, I agree, there are always reasons. We are human after all and make mistakes and wrong decisions, but we make them."
If you click on the blue paragraph above, the article I quote from will appear as if by magic.
When are we as human beings going to stop making excuses for our behavior and the behavior of others? Yes, I agree, there are always reasons. We are human after all and make mistakes and wrong decisions, but we make them."
If you click on the blue paragraph above, the article I quote from will appear as if by magic.
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