YET ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING AT A "SOFT TARGET"

Good grief. Here we go again, and it is horrible. An elementary school in Connecticut is entered by a person with evil and mayhem on his mind. Shots are fired, and when it was over, more than a score of grade-school kids lay dead or dying and the shooter turned his weapon on himself.  There are reports that the shooter's mother was found dead in her home and that his dad was found dead elsewhere. 

 

But the story keeps changing. First the shooter was named Ryan, then it was Adam, then Ryan and Adam turned out to be brothers and were seen together; and then they were a hundred miles apart. The police are still, even as this post is being written, trying to piece together exactly what happened.

 

And even though the situation is still quite murky, the anti-gun people of the Left have wasted no time in dancing in the blood of these innocents and calling for everything from a ban on "assault weapons" to an outright total abrogation of the Second Amendment.

 

For our part we wonder why the people who make the laws and rules for firearms in schools seem to care less about the kids than a sheep owner cares about his sheep. Shepherds out West carry rifles, and not "assault rifles" either, but .30-30 and .44 Magnum lever-action rifles, in case of wolves or bears.  A teacher armed with a .38 revolver might well have stopped this maniac before he was able to inflict as much carnage as he did.

 

There are those who say that this would not have been possible without the gun. These people are idiots. If you can smuggle a gun into a grade school, you can smuggle a machete'. In the end, the victim is still dead, but being hacked to death is a lot worse way to go. You can make crude but very effective pipe bombs and satchel charges full of shrapnel with commonly available materials.

 

There are several places on the planet where cottage industries making fully functioning copies of select-fire automatic weapons are mainstays of the local economy. As little as ten thousand dollars will buy  the machine tools needed to produce five or more "grease gun" type sub-machineguns per day. Nobody is getting rid of firearms any time soon.

 

Yet, that's all the anti-gun crowd shouts about.  And this, even though we know next to nothing about what just happened today. What happened today was evil, and that - and not guns - is what needs to be discussed and dealt with. 

"LOW INFORMATION" VOTERS AND THE DEMOCRAT EFFORT TO KEEP THEM THAT WAY

The Chicago-style Democrat machine currently dominating national politics has proudly stated that their strategy consists of targeting "low-information voters".  These are voters who for whatever reason are too busy to keep up with what's going on and who are concerned with surviving in this effed-up economy, or who don't bother to read the newspapers and/or who get their information from the likes of comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert; or who are just plain idiots.

 

We cannot blame people who are harried and trying to swim against the tide for not seeking out news sources other than the lame-stream media. And in the effort to keep these benighted souls ignorant, the Left has developed a network of "watchdogs" to ensure that no story that departs from what is called "the narrative" sees the light of day.  "Media Matters", an outfit run by a guy named David Brock - who was a conservative until he realized that gay guys who are conservative have big problems getting laid - and others create "spin" if the lamestream media goes even slightly off script.

 

Remember all the talk about "code words" and "dog whistles"? "Low information voter" is a code word for "ignoramus".

 

And so, during the debate over Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi led a column of Black Congressmen through a route lined with TEA partiers. The idea was to catch someone - anyone - along the route shouting a racial slur. There were Leftist operatives all along the way, hidden cameras at the ready, waiting for "proof" that opposition to Obamacare was "racist". 

 

When it didn't happen, they simply claimed that it did. And the lamestream media, corrupt to the core, cooperated.

 

Yet (and this is just the most recent example) when UAW thugs stormed a tent full of "right-to-work" advocates and destroyed the vending equipment of a Black hot-dog vendor, calling him a "nigger" and a "sellout" and such, NOT ONE WORD OF THIS WAS REPORTED IN THE POPULAR MEDIA. Unless you read Britebart or listen to Rush, Hannity, Levin et al it is likely that this is the first you ever heard of this crap.

 

Chris Plante, local D.C. area talk show host (and former CNN reporter - he covered the 9-11 attack on the Pentagon) said it best: The greatest power of the media is the power TO IGNORE.

 

In other words, to keep the level of information low so as to keep the ignoramuses ignorant.

 

So when Sarah Palin says (rhetorically) that conservatives need to "regroup and reload", that is portrayed as a call to actual armed conflict.  But let a bunch of union thugs - in a bid to quash dissent - trash an innocent hot-dog vendor and call him a "nigger", and it just gets swept right under the rug. 

 

Tune in to Limbaugh. Go to the Breitbart site. There you will find videos and testimony which will expose the truth to you. Do you like being called a "low-information voter"?  What the Left means by that term is "ignorant motherfucker". 

 

Don't be an ignorant motherfucker. Check out Britebart, listen to Limbaugh, OPEN YOUR EYES AND GET THE TRUTH and the truth shall set ye free.

PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR, 1920-2012

SITARIST PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY. HE WAS 91 YEARS OLD.  In the course of his life, he became one of the giants of the world of music.

 

 

Shankar takes his place in the pantheon of musical greats. He joins the company of Johann Sebastian Bach, Andres Segovia, John Dowland, Wanda Llandowska, Carlos Montoya, Pablo Casals and others. Ravi Shankar inspired musicians around the globe. His greatness has as its root his mastery of Indian classical music both as a performer and composer; and his mastery of his chosen instrument, the sitar.

 

 

Indian classical music has in common with Western classical music a basic, solid structure. But in common with what has been called "America's classical music - jazz" Indian music is comprised of heavily inprovised passages within a tightly defined frame. I have often wondered what a collaboration between Shankar and "Duke" Ellington would have birthed.

 

As it happened, however, Shankar's exposure to the West came from his association with the Beatles - notably guitarist George Harrison - and catapulted him to world fame.

 

The Danelecto company was quick to come out with an "electric sitar" - basically a common guitar with a flat piece of wood replacing the bridge to simulate the "twang" of the sitar. This was used by "The Box-Tops" on their songs "Cry Like a Baby" and "The Letter"; and by the Rolling Stones on "Paint It Black" and by several other artists.

 

Guitarist "Mahavishnu" John McLaughlin had a special guitar built with a scalloped fretboard and sympathetic strings to enable the drone effects and microtone bending of notes common to Indian music. All of this was inspired by Ravi Shankar.

 

In January of the year 2000, I was fortunate enough to obtain stage box seats for a performance by Shankar at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in honor of the 50th anniversaary of the Indian Republic. I sat not fifty feet away from this great master as he performed. And of all the musical performances I have seen, I would most like to be able to go back in time and re-live that experience.

 

Pandit Ravi Shankar was truly one of the greatest people in the world of music of all time. May he rest in peace, and may God have mercy on him.  

AFFORDABLE HOUSING COURTESY OF YOUR FRIENDLY UNION BOSSES

"Affordable housing" and Unions are two of the pet causes of the American Statist Progressives (ASPs).

Now, here at the Alexandria Daily Poop, we know very well what the ASPs mean by "affordable" housing. They mean housing that is so cheap that people who make minimum wage can afford it. AND the reason they adore Unions (or so they claim) is that unions are the means to better pay - far above minimum wage - for "the workers".     

 

Well, we believe in giving credit where credit is due. In the State of Michigan; in Detroit and vicinity, union efforts have had the effect of raising the pay and benefits of workers to such ridiculous levels that one exasperated employer after another has just pulled up stakes and flat out left the area. The reason is very simple: you cannot pay a worker who produces $45 worth of goods and/or services per hour wages and benefits totalling $75 per hour. 

 

When these employers left, it threw a lot of these "workers" (We put "workers" in quotes because it is a Marxist term) out of work and onto the dole. This created a ripple effect, with taxes being raised on the remaining employees and residents. Many of these also simply moved elsewhere.  

 

Today we were informed that in the Detroit area, one can obtain a house - and a pretty good one, too - for a measly one thousand dollars.  A fifteen year mortgage for one grand would have a payment of about eight bucks and change per month, and at that price homeowner's insurance would be tres cheap! 

 

Such a miracle.

 

Except, of course, that the reason this housing is so "affordable" is that nobody in Detroit will buy it. The financial chaos engendered by the ridiculous demands of the UAW and other unions has created miniature "ghost towns" in Detroit and its suburbs.

 

Today Michigan has taken steps to remedy this situation.  The Governor of Michigan has signed aa bill making Michigan a "right to work" state; meaning that no person seeking employment may be forced to donate part of his or her hard-earned pay to support a union.  There will be no more "closed shops".  

 

Now, THIS was a true miracle. And it came about because Michigan voters killed a State Constitutional amendment enshrining "collective bargaining" as a right, facing down union thuggery to do so.  This showed the Governor (an ASP himself) which way the political winds were blowing, and today he signed a bill, passed by the duly-elected-by-the-People State legislature making Michigan the 24th "right-to-work" state in the - er - Union.

 

Naturally the unions showed their ugly side with demonstrations that were borderline riots. There was violence, a few people got kicked around pretty bad, private property was vandalized and destroyed. But the bill was passed anyway; and the Governor signed it anyway, so now the unions are plotting political mischief and shopping for judges. 

 

Mind you, this vote against the amendment - which started the ball rolling toward "right to work" -  came in the exact same election wherein Obama carried Michigan by a large margin. This indicates to us that a large number of Obama voters in Michigan either were brought in from outside as straw voters and did not know anything about any other issues save that they were to cast their ballots for Obama and anyone else with a "D" beside their names; or that a majority of voters are FOR "right-to-work" but otherwise bought all that negative crapola (crapola paid for with union dues) about Romney being an uncaring, dog-abusing robber baron (and a Mormon, which is true but so what?).

 

WELL,  now that Michigan is showing signs of righting itself, maybe it would be a good investment to take out a 15 year note on a few of those houses and fix them up. In a few years there might be people coming to Michigan who would be glad to pay 100 times what you bought your newly "affordable" house for. 

 

If you do that and it happens, be sure to write the UAW a nice "thank you" letter.  

MY FAVORITE MAKE-OUT MUSIC

Don't know why I decided to do this entry, guess I just got tired of nothing but politics, politics, politics and needed a break.

 

 

Anyway.

 

Republican or Democrat, Liberal, Moderate, or Conservative; Black, Red, Yellow, White, Polkadot; Gay or Straight; we all have one thing in common: we like to "make out".

 

(If you're too young to know what I mean, stop reading this NOW and go play Angry Birds or something.)

 

Where was I? Oh, yeah. I'm writing this from a male's perspective, but I do believe you wimmens out there who are reading this will be nodding your heads before you finish. But to me,"making out" is strictly cuddling and kissing and caressing, It's everything up to and including "second base". 

 

Of course you don't need "mood music" to make out, but it is a great enhancer of the experience and can be very helpful. So, here's a list of what I consider the best "make-out" tunes of all time (look them up on YouTube)  (most are guitar pieces):

 

Capricho Arabe (guitar, Francesco Tarrega composer)

Leyenda (guitar, anonymous)

Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Guitar, Fernando Sor, composer)

Canarios (lute or guitar, Gaspar Sanz, composer)

Samba Pa Ti' (Carlos Santana)

Benny and the Jets (Elton John)

That's the Way of the World (Earth, Wind, and Fire) 

Raphsody in the Rain (Lou Christie)

Amy (Pure Prarie League) (Works especially well if you paramour is named "Amy"!)

(Heard it in a) Love Song (Marshall Tucker Band)

 

We at the Alexandria Daily Poop reject all responsibility for a negative result when using these tunes as "make out aids".  But should you nevertheless "strike out" there's another Marshall Tucker song you can listen to whilst crying in your beer. You know, the one where the singer says he's gonna find a hole in the wall and crawl inside and die. 

 

We've all been there, guys. And if you say you haven't, you're a lying sack of shit.

 



PEARL HARBOR DAY - 71ST ANNIVERSARY

Eleven years, two months and two weeks before I was born, these United States entered into a state of war with the Empire of Japan after Japanese Naval air forces attacked our military bases in Hawaii.

 

 

Three years and a day or two shy of eight months later, two applications of the mightiest and most terrible weapons then to date to be wrought by the hands of men finally brought the Japanese to their knees.

 

 

Much wailing has been made by the Left regarding this first use of nuclear arms. But there were much more sinister elements than just one sneak attack characterizing our new enemies Japan and her ally, National Socialist Germany.

 

Japan had been running amok in Asia - particularly China - for months before this attack. The infamous "Rape of Nanking" featured Japanese soldiers playing games in which they would compete to see who could best catch a Chinese baby, thrown in the air, on a bayonet. Surviving infants were swung by the heels and brained against a building corner. Woe betide the American soldier or airman who fell into the hands of the Japanese. American soldiers and airmen suffered not only on the infamous Bataan Death March but in medical experiments which might have made Nazi SS "Doctor" Josef Mengele puke.

 

 

Yes, we also declared war on Germany, after Germany - being obligated by her treaty with Japan - declared war on us. And Germany had her own set of horrors. But Germany (mostly) treated captured Allied troops halfway decently - albeit a few were sent into the Gestapo prison and concentration camp system - and the European war was fought - mostly, compared to the Pacific war - according to agreed-to, "civilized" limits. Still, the European war was no picnic. But let it be known that had I been a youngster in the military at that time, I should have preferred to have been sent to Europe rather than the Pacific.

 

The Japanese were a fanatical pack of religious nutbars who thought Emporer Hirohito was God incarnate. The most dread weapons of the Japanese were the suicide attacks not only by "kamikaze" airmen but by massive "Banzai" charges on land.

 

In the end, it was correctly concluded that there was only one way to stop suicidal nutbars. And they had to be told twice, first at Hiroshima and then at Nagasaki. 

 

Today we are in the 12th year of a conflict with similar suiccidal religious nutbars. And not only have we not even contemplated using the only proven remedy, we are allowing the nutbars to get ever closer to possessing a nuclear device themselves.  And what do we do??

 

During WWII, we did not have an annual gathering at the final resting place of the USS Battleship Arizona.  Only after the war, only after 400,000 Americans lost their lives fighting these tyrants, did we start with the memorials and the weeping.

 

When Japan attacked, we got real serious real fast and stayed that way all the way to victory. We haven't been serious about the present conflict since about three months after "9-11".  It's about time we dusted off the "kamikaze medicine" and used it.  

OBAMA THE BEAST? (PART II)

I have been consulting the Book of Revelation, and although I have yet to come up with solid, conclusive evidence that Mr. Obama is the first "beast" in the Book, there are some alarming things there.

John saw a beast rise from the Sea, having seven heads and ten horns, with crowns on the horns. 

Up until a few years ago, there were five known and recognized nations possessing nuclear weapons: America, the Soviet Union (Russia), Britain, China, and France. Then Pakistan and India conducted successful tests. That makes seven.

Horns, however, are weapons. And there are two more nations rumored but not absolutely confirmed to have nukes - Israel and North Korea (yes, I know that North Korea is widely regarded to have sucessfully tested a device, but that evidence is somewhat suspect) - and a third on the very cusp of developing these weapons, by which we refer of course to Iran.  These three plus the seven known nuclear powers make ten horns.

 

Could it be that the crowns on the horns represent the power conferred by possessing nuclear weapons?

 

John said that one of the heads seemed to have a fatal wound that was healed. Much of the Bible is symbolic and allegorical. Might it be that the "fatal wound" suffered by the first Beast refers to the abysmal record of Mr. Obama during his first term? No other holder of the office of the American Presidency has ever been re-elected with such a shabby record.  His presidency had been apparrently been "fatally wounded" and yet he lives, politically speaking.

 

Now as to issues about the "666" business, that applies to a second Beast, which comes after the first one and acts in concert with him.

So it's probably useless trying to connect Obama with "666".

 

But, thus far, Obama seems to be a perfect fit for the first Beast of Revelation. About him, John says:

 

"...and they worshipped after the beast, saying, "Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?""

 

And here, 2000 plus years hence, a hall echoes with the words: "OUR LORD AND SAVIOR BARACK OBAMA!"

 

My analysis?

 

People, get ready. We are getting very near to the end. God will be victorious. Seek Jesus as your Lord and Savior and reject the Beast, whoever he is. My fellow Christians, have no fear. Jehovah Girah!