YOUNG LAD IN OCALA,FLA SIGN OF MADNESS IN AMERICA

I just watched some video of a young boy in OCALA, FLA who, along with a friend of his, vented his feelings in a crayon, stick figure drawing while in school. The kid, you can tell, is a good kid. His father also appears to be a good father and he's PISSED OFF, AS WELL HE SHOULD BE!
The story goes; This boy and a friend of his were being bullied by another boy in school. As a guy, I know, this can be frustrating and also stressful. So the boy, while sitting in a class, began venting some of his anger and frustration with his crayons by drawing a stick figure picture (not a very good one either) of a "stick guy" in the middle of two other "stick guys". Now the two "other stick guys" had badly drawn stick swords and they were cross-sectioning, so to speak, the "stick guy" in the middle (The Bully).
"Stick guy" in the middle had a red crayon circle around where "stick guy" was standing. This, the reporter said, represented "blood".
OOOoooo!!!! I used to draw scenes of the Alamo and Mexicans and Texans being blown, stabbed, shot and pierced with all kinds of weapons. I also did Indian War themes and Moby Dick themes and Viking themes...Oh man...the list goes on.
I'm happy as a lark that I'm not a kid today or I'de be in prison for life for that by the looks of what they're putting this poor kid through!
I don't know who the hell saw it and became "Homeland Security Hero Of The day" but they saw it and dragged the kid into the office, called the police and I believe the FEDS even are involved. An officer of the law, who appeared very intent and concerned about this, provided a glimpse of the EVIDENCE BAG WITH A TORN PIECE OF CONSTRUCTION PAPER IN IT WITH THE "DANGER...DANGER... WILL ROBINSON" DRAWING IN IT!The kid is gonna be TRAUMATISED BY THIS, I KNOW IT! You can see it in the video. I was dyin' watching this kid answer MEDIA's stupid fucking questions i.e. "Have you learned anything from this?" and him there, with his head bowed a bit, shy, awkward, nodding his head and saying "yeah"...where upon another question came firing out of the mouth of this brave, cut to the chase, I'm always at the scene of a crime to report it after it happens reporter!!
Christ help us! It's not only in OCALA, FLA...Three sisters were arrested in a mall in Wilmington, De over Christmas holidays for walking through the mall with sweatshirts that read "NO SHOPPING DAY". This is something they have done for the past few years, protesting the commercialisation of Christmastime. I believe they also handed out a printed sheet of paper with their message on it. The Mall (Christiana Mall in Christiana, DE, evicted them from the premises and when they got to the parking lot (see?..they left when asked) the STAtE POLICE OFFICERS who were pulling some off duty, extra pay security work CUFFED 'EM and TOOK 'EM IN!
Which I don't even think is legal if they're OFF DUTY AND MAKING EXTRA MONEY for over-expenditures...IS IT?
OOOHHH??!!! And any time someone sees a box, bag, carton or briefcase or the like just sitting on the ground or wherever now-a-days FREAK OUT and they call the police, FEDS and firemen instead of checking to see if whatever it is belongs to somebody, as I have done many times. YES...EVEN SINCE 9/11 when everyone acted as if we were being invaded by hundreds of thousands of Arabs with ill intent!
It's getting pretty fuckin' ragged in this country when it comes to it's citizenry!!Aaah...screw it if I spelled it wrong. I really feel for that kid and his pal in OCALA and all the other folks getting lambasted in these freakin', God for saken scared as shit cities, towns and villages across America.
I FORGOT TO MENTION BOTH THE LADS WERE CUFFED, ARRESTED AND CHARGED AS FELON'S. If convicted, which these days seems likely, these two youngun's will be marked as FELON'S FOR LIFE! All because they, in their own artistic manner, vented some anger in crayon and construction paper in school!!!!

Goodnight Johnny Carson...Thank You

Photo credit CNN, GFX, Associated Press

It was a stunning moment when I powered up and saw that Johnny Carson had died today.
Johnny's last show, with Bette Midler's fine, fine presence that night, has been playing in my mind daily and will continue to do so. The one "snag" in that thought, as it replays in my heart, will be the fact Johnny Carson will not be coming back in a "special" as I had been hoping and waiting all these years.
I have a copy of the Special Release Of Past Carson Shows and was suprised to see that what I thought was one of the funniest moments on his show was not included. I tell folks about it whenever the occasion arrises. Sometimes it gets a full, well deserved laugh but most times it's one of those "you had to be there" type reactions.
The Moment was during one of Johnny's "Carnac The Magnificent" skits.
For those not familiar with this it's a skit where Johnny, as "Carnac," an all seeing and knowing sayer of the sooth, puts an enevelope to his forehead, thinks a moment, then gives "The Answer".
Then "Carnac" opens the envelope, pulls a card from it and reads the question for which ""Carnac" had just given the answer.
This is what I believe was the funniest moment. The joke, literally, made me fall out of my chair laughing, bringing tears to my eyes; The envelope is handed to "Carnac" where upon he places the envelope to his forehead, and don't forget that big sombrero, turban whatever he wore, and "Carnac" reveals the "answer" to the quetion in the envelope. Also, before all the magic takes place, a disclaimer is stated that "Carnac" has NOT SEEN OR BEEN NEAR THE ENVELOPES OR QUESTIONS prior to him receiving it at that moment! It is let be known that the questions were kept in a mayonaise jar on Funk & Wagnell's porch until the very moment of delivery to Carnac The Magnificent!

This was the answer; "Sisssssss Boom Baahhh."

This was the question; "What's the sound of a sheep exploding?"

See? Ya had to be there.

JUST ONE MORE THING!

President Bush says, and loads of folks actually believe this, that America will only be safe when the rest of the world is "free."
Open your eyes to this tidbit; Al Queda and all the other Isms who have been attacking Americans HAD BEEN attacking United States bases and men and women who were IN THEIR country. Who were ON THEIR HOLY SOIL.
Now...In 1991 George Bush Sr. sent American troops to Iraq and Saudi Arabia to "liberate" a city sized country (maybe even made out of gold and precious gems) called Kuwait.
This was the opening of the door to our horrendous incidents HERE IN AMERICA these past few years.
That was 1991. We set "infidel" American, armed services boots on the sands of their God and exacted war upon it.
Until then America, itself, was never attacked. Then, and alot of folks forget this, the army of Allah drove a van into the basement of the World Trade Center and set of an enormous, devastating explosion which killed and maimed hundreds of people. All different people too. Not just Americans. But it was here that America's heart was deemed to be located. This happened in 1993. The FIRST ATTACK on American soil. See any revelance yet?
Then...September 11, 2001. After planning, I don't think has been done since the D-Day Invasion, they finally struck the heart of our country.
All AFTER 1991.
In Viet Nam all Ho Chi Minh and the people wanted was their country back. It had been divided in two by a couple of different countries prior to our attempt to "liberate" them from something we said was evil there and keep America safe.
In this case, I believe, the people want their God, Allah, and their way of life left be and for the United States to get our "democracy and freedom" the hell out of the area!

Just Where ARE The Wicked Witches?

It's getting really unbearble now. I think that whole Salem Witch thing just might have been real church folk castigating the assholes like the folks damning the children of today with their Al Queda-like, intensive persecution of people different from them.
I GIVE YOU SPONGBOB SQUARE PANTS! A cartoon character who, along with Barney et al, are accused of being gay and promoting bad morals.
How 'bout Howdy Doody and Clarabell and Mr. Flubberdub or whatever his name was? Just what WAS going on behind those curtains. Always saying "Hey Kids! and discussing bizarre subjects with that Buffalo Bob Character?
They say the churches are sparsely populated. Maybe it's time to get back in the churches so the fools, and very dangerous fools too, who promote and distribute this hellish bullshit through the media can be hauled down and out of the place if they try anything like this with real, actual people sitting in the pews instead of in their bloody barker lounges waching and listening to all this bile on their flickering Tube Of Enlightenment!
I can smell it...Revolution is in the air. This Nahtsi, Facsist administration who wants to "spread democracy around the world" and these religious, Al Queda-type folks who are the lap dogs to this administration are leading this country to the place where Spain, Rome, Great Britain and Greece now reside after their turn as world leaders who went a bridge to far!
Not everyone WANTS to live the way we do! Why are we here in the first place? Because a group of people did not wish to live the way Great Britain demanded they live!
Some people WANT to be taken care of, told what to do, be fed and housed. They also want their religions left be!
You really think in a country which lives and dies by the word of Allah and have been doing so since recorded history wants or is going to embrace democracy? Live the way we do? Be free?
Hell! We have the best system in the world but even we are not free, in the true sense of the word.
Just look at the real people being persecuted in this bleeding Sponge Bob Squarepants fiasco! Free, you say?

Elton John And A TV Show In States?

Be it far from me to be naggin' on Elton John but the dude just keeps glaring from the print media and I can't help it!
Seems he has an American television show proposed and supposedly in production. Now what, you may ask, would Elton John have in mind for American television? A good half hour each week of concert footage from the 70s? A Sonny & Cher or Captain & Tennile variety hour? NAH...Seems Elton is developing a show about an aging rock star.
Oh be still you beating drum sticks! John says "It's not about me, but about everybody we've encountered over the past 30 years."
Oh great! I can just see Mick, David and "Legs Rod" clammering to fill him in on all the personal details of their lives and...why...even BE IN the bloody thing!
The show is going to have a great "twist" too. It's going to be a COMEDY. John says, yes he does keep yacking, "We've met every star and seen every misbehavior. It's an upmarket Spinal Tap. I think it will be one of the funniest things on TV in a while.
John says the central character wouldn't really be him. He offered up "male divas" Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury as the unfortunate souls he would torment. Or as John, I believe, said would be the inspiration.
He won't star in the show but has written a song for the title character and has supposedly hired on Sex & The City writer Cindy Chupack.
Yes...Elton John will be an executive producer. Fellow executive producer Michael Edelstein says "Elton's been very public about the craziness of his life. There's nothing like the world of rock n' roll. He's got a hairdresser, valet, and two SWAT bodyguards on staff. They've assembled their own family."
I guess since Elton John has been so PUBLIC about HIS "CRAZINESS" he believes he should dip into the "pot", so to speak, and dredge out all the muck he can find and play with it in a public sandbox which he has more than enough money to pay for.
"He was born on a Christmas morning when the New York Times said God was dead and the war had begun..." Elton John, he loves his money! But lacking the kid to fly the colored balloons.
Fortunate for John that Bernie Taupin was around way back when because with ideas like this John's lyric's would have been damnation to him.

DAVE BARRY HAS GONE...OH MY!

I just am having a hard time handling the fact DAVE BARRY has retired his column!
Someone, long ago, told a young, funny, sensitive DAVE BARRY that he "used to be funnier."
NOW, after lightening me up once a week for about a decade, I think someone said it to him again and he relly believes he's not funny OR humorous anymore!
DAVE...I love ya and miss ya man! Screw those "Herald" folk and editors and what-not and get back on the typewriter PLEASE!
I have to say I was blown outta me sox when I saw that "Topic" headline on your last column! I kept waiting for the "turn" but deep down I knew ya really meant it chum.

Looking forward to that "Special Project" in the future that you maybe, might, possibly write and publish in the future.

Really missing you DAVE BARRY. Good fortune to you and that wild, animal type, zoo friendly family you have!

And thanks for the card, man. That blew me away too.

Don't get fat now, ok?

Regards To You And Yourn!

The Wreck Of News Media

GIVE ME JOHN CAMERON SWASE REPORTING. ANY REPORTER OF ANY NEWS GROUP PRIOR TO 1975.
THE TSUNAMI IN ASIA AND INDIA CATASTOPHE, THE NEAREST THING TO THE SEA SWALLOWING UP ALL AND THE WORLD ENDING, HAS LOCKED INTO MY PSYCHE AND WILL NOT RELEASE ME.
I CAN'T WATCH THESE "REPORTERS" RELATING EVERY STORY WITH THEIR EYEBROW ARCHES, MOUTH CONTORTIONS, EYE MANUERVERING, HEAD STRONG, RIDICULOUS ANALOGIES AND PUT ON SHOW OF SADNESS AND ASTONISHMENT. IN MY OPINION, WITH THEIR NOW-COMMON FALSE FACES, THEY ARE CREATING THE ILLUSSION THIS IS JUST ANOTHER BAD HAPPENING WHEN , IN FACT, IT'S THE WORST IN HISTORY. NOT FORGETTING, OF COURSE THE 600 TO 700 HUNDRED THOUSAND'S WHO DIED IN CHINA'S "OUTBACK" EARTHQUAKE NOT LONG AGO.

WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS EVENT EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD BECAME POINTLESS AND WASTEFUL. THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT WAS "WE HAVE TO STOP THIS WAR IN IRAQ! DEMOCRACY HASN'T A SNOWBALLS CHANCE IN A COUNTRY LIKE THIS. JUST LOOK AT WHAT SADDAM HUSSIEN HAD BEEN KEEPING UNDER CONTROL. A MULTITUDE OF OLD AGE THINKING, FANATICAL ISM'S THAT HAVE BEEN WARRING SINCE THE DAYS THE BIBLE WAS STILL BEING WRITTEN. LOOK AT THE LIFE BEING SQUANDERED."
AS I WATCHED SOME DIE AND SOME LIVE IN THIS TIDAL WAVE, EARTHQUAKE AND WATCH THE PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED AND SEE THE BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS OF AN ENTIRE LAND ALMOST DISAPPEARING AND THE DEVASTATION AND SUPREME HUMAN EFFORT OF THE LOCALS, WHO HAVE LITTLE TO WORK WITH, SEARCHING AND SAVING AND BAGGING AND BURNING AND PREPARING FOR BURIAL ALL THE HUMANITY SWEPT INTO A SOUP OF FILTH AND MAN MADE LEFTOVERS...THAT WAS WHAT I THOUGHT OF FIRST.

WHAT PUT ME TO THE BOARD AND THIS POST WAS THE LAST REPORTER I HEARD, AND I KNEW IT WAS COMING, WHO USED THE PHRASE "WHICH LOOKS LIKE A WAR ZONE", DROVE ME TO THE BRINK! I HAD ALREADY THOUGHT OF IT AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF THAT THIS DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE A WAR ZONE. IT'S TOTAL RUINATION BY "MOTHER NATURE." I KEPT LOOKING FOR ANYTHING LIKE A WAR ZONE AND IT AIN'T THERE FOLKS! WAR ZONE MY ASS!
PEOPLE HAVE TO REALISE THERE IS SOMETHING BIGGER GOING ON AND EVERYTHING CAN'T BE RELATED TO SOME STUPIDITY OF MAN WHEN BEING REPORTED ON!

THAT'S ALL. GOD HELP EVERYONE. AND I MEAN EVERYONE'S GOD TOO!