September 6, 2007
Another Labor Day Weekend Has Come And Gone…
…one that, for me, proved to be a bit more eventful than I’d originally planned, so much so that I fell sort of behind — things I’d intended to do on or by Friday and Saturday need to get done today.
One thing I had planned to do “no matter what” was listen to the blog radio interview in which Always On Watch and WC conversed, for an hour, with Robert Spencer.
I missed it, dagnabbit! Luckily, however, it is archived and can be listened to (scroll down) in its entirety here.
I listened to it on Tuesday morning and it was excellent, well worth the time. A lot of knowledge was imparted, things I didn’t know and a lot of ground was covered — it is a very full hour. I would highly recommend sharing it with anyone you know who believes that Islam is a benign religion or that it is not a grave threat to western civilization.
Someone needs to share it with George Bush and Condoleeza Rice.
A thought: Our beloved (yeah, right!) political left considers a minute of silent prayer in school, a statue of the Ten Commandments in a courthouse or G-d’s name in the Pledge of Allegiance to signify an oppressive, ironclad merger between church and state, yet they see nothing wrong with the immigration, societal inundation and voting rights of members of a civilization that believes emphatically in a state being run strictly according to the freedom-stifling tenets of Koranic scripture.
To move along, I’m just now emerging from an unexpectedly festive Labor Day Weekend mode and feel compelled to resurface in the Land of the Living and get on with things…
There are a bunch of stops I need to make today. One is the Lincoln Quality Meat Market, whose praises I simply cannot sing enough of. Yay!
Another is at the only Peet’s Coffee & Tea location in Chicago (there’s one more someplace in the suburbs) and the only one I’ve seen outside of California. I came to buy all my coffee at Peet’s when I lived in San Francisco, they are the best of the best.
Unfortunately, I have developed an expensive “addiction” — for the last couple of months, the only coffee I’ve been buying for home consumption has been Peet’s Kona. Once you drink that for awhile, it seems, all other coffees become downright boring, and I am a major coffee drinker. Even Jamaican Blue Mountain pales almost to insignificance beside this stuff…
On another topic, I was reading an article the other day (infinitely less appealing than a discussion on great coffees) concerning Mayor Jim Naugle of Ft. Lauderdale, a Democrat, no less, and his empissening of his gay constituents by seeking the elimination of homosexual whoopie-making in public toilets.
The bit that got me was this:
The reaction was brutal. The local South Florida Sun-Sentinel ran a piece effectively accusing Naugle of gay-bashing. Predictably, the “gay community” came out of the woodwork, attacking the mayor as “homophobic,” “bigoted” and full of “hate.” Critics said Naugle was undermining Broward County’s carefully cultivated reputation as a “gay-friendly” vacation destination.
I keep reading and hearing all this GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender) stuff about “seeking equality”, but… but… all the straight people I know who take vacations stay in hotels rather than commode stalls, and confine their intimate activities to same. I understand that it’s cheaper (unless one gets caught by the vice squad or whomever) to conduct ones affairs in a stall amid the combined odors of disinfectant cleaners and stale urine than it is to pay for a nice, clean hotel room, but c’mon!
It’s absolutely ghastly that these people can demand “equality” on one hand and their right to engage in sex in public toilets on the other, and make an issue of it. Doesn’t it strike any of them that such behavior can demean their entire cause, such as it is? I mean, who thinks it will further their quest for “equality” to be known as “the people who stand for cheap sex in public toilets”?
I’m so glad — oh, have I said this before? — that I’m over 50 years old. I really, truly don’t want to be around to see the long-term effects of the liberal permeated society we live in today.
As it is, society as a whole seems to have gone, in my lifetime to date, from an entity that once made sense to some kind of bizarre cartoon…
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September 6th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Seth, I love the post and agree with your point about sex in commode stalls demeaning the homosexual agenda. It also makes me wary of using public bathrooms. I have a habbit of humming and tapping my foot to the rhythm, and I do that when I’m… uh… well… stuck in the stall, if you know what I mean. LOL! NOT ANY MORE! Sheesh! It’s really bad when you can’t even hum in a public bathroom!
I’ll have to listen to AOW’s radio show later. Something’s come up that will take me away from the pc for quite a large part of the day. “Always” always does a great job, doesn’t she?
September 6th, 2007 at 6:06 am
Gayle –
Bruce (before his same sex marriage): “Oh, Royal and I are going to Acapulco on our honeymoon. There are these lovely, cozy toilet stalls at this one place near the beach…”
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AOW and WC were a great team, they asked the right questions and the interview was really smooth, and Spencer proved (as if we didn’t already know it) to be an expert on his subject who easily answered, among other things, questions dealing with events in early Islamic history that have a direct effect on that which occurs today.
Always always does do a great job, LOL.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:12 am
I to am over 50 and it is a shame that those things we remember as truly American and Apple Pie are just nastalgic rememberances of a bygone era that people from our generation long to return.
I hate seeing the socialization of my beloved America and it hurts to watch our Constitution being left behind as liberals re-write the basic principles that made this nation the envy of the world and the only true bastion of freedom.
Those days are slowly slipping away as liberal policies eat away at the very freedoms that we should be protecting rather than eliminating!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Wow, stay away for awhile, come back and find this… great post Seth. I’ll have to stop being gone so long in between visits.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Ken –
I envision an America, less than 20 years from now, that we will barely be able to equate with the country we grew up in.
It definitely sucks.
GM –
Howdy, and thanks!
September 6th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Let’s not give up, friends. We need to turn it around!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Gayle –
Surrender is not an option — except for liberals, for whom surrender is the default war strategy if they can’t beat feet fast enough.
Our actual worst enemy is the one that turned most of us into bloggers: The MSM.
Our only hope is to neutralize them as the public’s trusted source of information, let people know they are violating the public’s trust by propagandizing to the left and to tell the truth, as we do.
Unfortunately, the majority of Americans have not yet discovered political blogs and/or the alternative news sources one can find on-line, and depend, still, upon the MSM for news & opinion.
While we’re most certainly out-flanked, I’m ready to fight to the last to defeat those lefties or die trying.
Keep in mind, though, that the way the deck is stacked, the latter is all too possible…
September 8th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Great post Seth, you do a fine job here, and Gayle, we’ll turn it around as there’s a lot more of us patriots and just good people than there are liberal and radical Islamic evil doers out there.
And although they sometimes seem large in numbers they’re just an awful loud bunch the both of ‘em, all bark with no bite and totally full of *****.
Thanks Seth and Nice weekend to all. :).
September 8th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Ray –
Thank you!
One of the country’s worst enemies is the MSM, the propaganda tool of the socialist left. The more we bloggers, conservative columnists and the various alternative media keep putting out the truth, the more people realize they are being lied to by those whom they trust to deliver balanced news.
Our perserverence is worth it because America is worth it.
You have a great weekend as well.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Dont lose faith my friend!
we will prevail one way or the other…Dhimmocrats will not have their way as long as we are here!:)
September 9th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Hope you had a good weekend!
September 10th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Angel –
Never! It seems that the more the Dems push the envelope, the more Americans, despite the disinformation supplied by the MSM, become aware that the left is lying to them and that they are not sufficiently qualified to govern the country.
Our little bit helps.
Donald –
It turned out to be a semi-working weekend. I am cursed with the inability to remain idle, even for a couple of days’ rest.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Seth,
I prepared for that interview of Robert Spencer like you wouldn’t believe. Talk about being nervous!
I’m pleased that you found that WC and I had done a good job.
I had to phone Mr. Spencer a half hour before we started the show. He’s so gracious and easy to talk to, and I felt more at ease. But I was pacing the floor before I phoned him, I tell ya.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:56 am
AOW –
Your prepping paid off big time, you did a really professional job that any journalist should be proud of: You saturated the hour with a steady flow of information and delivered it in a comfortable, enjoyable to listen to format.
If you ever decide to do a career change from teaching into broadcast interviewing or discussion programs, the Spencer Interview should be your demo.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Your discussions invariably get me thinking way off track: upon looking up the Lincoln Quality Meat Market on the map, I recalled a chat with a local girl, spud-eater, etc. She had graduated from IIT School of Architecture there in the windy city. She had received the SOM Prize, a cash grant, to study damage to historical buildings and places in Bosnia for the next couple of years. She said she lived 3 miles north of the school and took the rail transit. But now, the system is under repair and it takes almost two hours to go the 3 miles. So, you think the transportaion infrastructure in Sarajevo is better than Chicago?
September 13th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Hey Seth, great post.
Have you heard about the brutality of the Brussels police against the 9/11 “Stop the Islamization of Europe” demonstrators?
I’ve embedded a video of it.
It’s appalling. European totalitarianism all over again.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
BB –
LOL! They actually started work on two different rail lines here, which slowed commutes down considerably, earlier this year. The biggest gripe seems to come from baseball fans who attend all or nearly all the Cubs and White Sox home games (this is one of those cities in which the populace is fanatical about its teams) and are now somewhat inconvenienced by the repairs.
But Chicago is run by Democrats, who are experts at taxing the masses and throwing the money at mares-eat-oats social programs or preventing Wal-Mart from opening stores, while sorely lacking even a clue in such areas as smoothly executed infrastructure maintenance.
This just shows that the Democrats can’t “make the trains run on time”.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Atheling2 –
Thanks!
I visited and watched the video, and will be commenting on it in a bit.
An acquaintance of mine who did secret stuff over there during the Cold War told me not long ago that “Belgium is the nose that keeps the face of Europe pointed to the left”, or something like that.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Seth,
And I guess that’s why Brussels is the capital of the EU!
September 15th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Atheling2 –
I knew there was a reason I don’t eat Brussels sprouts.
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