Archive for July, 2004

The Pet Goat: Thrilling Conclusion

Saturday, July 10th, 2004

Sorry, I left everybody hanging… Anyway, cut and pasted from that blog comes:

Part Two: The Goat Stops the Robber

A girl had a pet goat. Her dad had a red car.

A car robber was going to steal her dad’s car. The girl and her goat were playing in the back yard.

Just then the goat stopped playing. He saw the robber. He bent his head down and started to run for the robber. The robber was bending over the seat of the car. The goat hit him with sharp horns. The car robber went flying.

The girl’s Dad ran out of the house. He grabbed the robber. “you were trying to steal my car,” he yelled.

The girl said, “but my goat stopped him.”

“Yes,” her dad said, “that goat saved my car.”

The car robber said, “something hit me when I was trying to steal that car.”

The girl said, “my goat hit you.”

The girl hugged the goat. Her Dad said, “that goat can stay with us. And he can eat all the cans and canes and caps and capes he wants.”

The girl smiled. Her goat smiled. Her Dad smiled. But the car robber did not smile. He said, “I am sore.”

The End.

The Pet Goat, Siegfried Engelmann & Elaine C. Bruner, Lesson 60, page 153, Reading Mastery 2, Storybook #1, SRA (Scientific Research Associates), McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN# 0026863553

Analysis of this story in light of current events is much needed.

An unfortunate mistake was made when the original keyboardist typed out Part One. The goat ate cans and he ate canes. He ate pans and he ate panes. He even ate capes and caps. … not, as it is on this blog He ate cans and he ate cakes. He ate cakes and he ate cats. It subtley shifts the story… See: in the corrected version, this is what you call actionable intelligence, as opposed to the wishy-washy muddled version that came watered down because of the various beauracratic channels that this came through.

This address: http://www.mypetgoat.com makes the common name mistake. It’s The, THE, THE, not My.

The Son of a Mill Worker

Friday, July 9th, 2004

Here’s the big question:

Did John Edwards attend the big Reverend Sun Yung Moon tribute?

Because if he did… you know what that means:

Late induction into the Skull and Bones mileau/ Trilateral Commission/ Council on Foreign Relations mileau…

We know that he attended the annual Bilderberg Conference, where the ruling elite meet to discuss the continual organization of the New World Order.

Old Money-sters get the honor by masturbating in coffins in their formative college years… Sons of Mill Workers end up, by necessity, having a late start on these activities.

The Pet Goat

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

Contrary to popular belief, the name of the story, available in a reader found on the sidebar, was “The Pet Goat”.

Some excerpts:

A girl got a pet goat. But the goat did some things that made the girl’s dad mad. The goat ate things. He ate cans and he ate cakes. He ate cakes and he ate cats. One day her dad said, that goat must go. He ate too many things. The girl said, that if you let the goat stay with us, I will see that he stops eating all those things. Her dad said he will try it. So the goat stayed and the girl made him stop eating cans and cakes and cats and cakes. But one day a car robber went into the girls house. He saw a big red car in the house and said, I will steal that car. He ran to the car and started to open the door. The girl and the goat were playing in the back yard. They did not see the car robber.

(google search for content from the book lead me here.)

Now I just need the next chapters, and we’ve got the puzzle figured out.

A few things that need to be echoed in this here echo-chamber

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

Asked about the differences between Edwards and Cheney going into the November 2 presidential election, Bush replied tersely: “Dick Cheney can be president.”

John Kerry: “He was right that Dick Cheney was ready to take over on day one, and he did and he has been ever since, and that’s what we got to change.”

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US President George W. Bush walks away from a briefing with the media, refusing to answer questions after he was asked about Enron and the reported indictment of former CEO Kenneth Lay, who was a close adviser and fund-raiser for Bush and his father, earning him the presidential nickname of ‘Kenny Boy.'(AFP/Paul J. Richards)

And… yes, we’ve got no bananas:
“It’d be great. I’d love to see Ken Lay Secretary of Energy,” says one Enron worker.

………………

AM Radio talk festivities

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

Apparently, John Kerry is (ahem) the most liberal Senator and John Edwards is (ahem) the fourth most liberal Senator.

You don’t say?

They are (ahem) that far outside the mainstream political spectrum.

And (ahem) the Mainstream Media (ahem) isn’t doing its job exposing this to little fact to the public.

Sad, really.

Why, this is the most liberal Presidential ticket ever. More Liberal than a Teddy Kennedy / Hillary Clinton ticket would be.

Kerry could have picked an Evan Bayh to balance the ticket out, but he had to pick someone as liberal as he is!* That shows something!

Also, Kerry did a giant flip-flop because, you see, he said some not-nice things about Edwards during the primary season.

Coined the term “Voo-doo Economics”, I hear…

All found at http://www.kerrypicksedwards.com/

Also found with the URLs:
www.kerrypicksgephardt.com,
www.kerrypicksvilsack.com, www.kerrypicksbayh.com

You know, McCain was Kerry’s first pick anyways…

* Newt Gingrich said that. Curious, since the RNC evidentally had their “Real Dirt on Bayh” website ready to go… where, I imagine, they’d call him a “Liberal that Hides It”, or whatever

What are you gonna do unless they are?

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

Two Johns.

I chimed in with my entry announcing John Kerry’s decision that John Edwards was his running mate pick before Drudge did, and before any blogs that I can see came in with the news. Before it was on Yahoo’s news site.

But , it was after it slipped out on an Aviation message board. And after the New York Post published the news… although, I have the advantage over the NY Post of having been right.

It was probably the only decision that makes any sense. The Democratic Party has a batch of seats in the South that they need to defend, and thus its imperative that they represent themselves well down there.

As for myself? Well, I’m having difficulty getting past a damning speech from early on his career which came across as a bit sacrimonious.

Edwards.

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

One more song

Monday, July 5th, 2004

I forgot one song in my list of songs frequently mistaken as greeting-card patriotic songs… Toby Kieth’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue”.

Yeah, at first, second, and third blush, the song sounds like a horrifying red-neck anthem of rampant jingoistic fury…

American girls and American guys will always stand up and salute;
Will always recognize
When we see ol’ glory flying,
There’s a lot of men dead,
So we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our head.

My daddy served in the army,
Where he lost his right eye.
But he flew a flag out in our yard ’til the day that he died.
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
To grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

Now this nation that I love has fallen under attack.
A mighty sucker punch came flying in from somewhere in the back.
Soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye,
Man we lit up your world like the Fourth of July.

Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly,
And there’s gonna be Hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell!
It’s gonna feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you…
Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue!

Oh, Justice will be served and the battle will rage.
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
You’ll be sorry that you messed with the US of A
‘Cuz we’ll put a boot in your ass
It’s the American way.

Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly,
And there’s gonna be Hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell!
And it’ll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you…
Brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue!

Of the Red, White and Blue..
Of my Red, White and Blue…

But we all tend to leave out a verse of the song…

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy.
There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save that can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It’s easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
It’s easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

It throws the song in a whole different light.