Taxing Philadelphia – TaliBAN? – First Bailout Mystery
TAXES
Mayor Nutter’s plan for a temporary property tax increase appears to be the only way out, short of even more drastic cuts in city budgeteering. But, perhaps there is one more option. How about a complete sweep by auditors of every single city department to once and for all, thin out the ranks of the bureaucracy. Once a temporary property tax increase is implemented, the Mayor’s own inspectors should do a top to bottom review of every city department to make sure that duplication is eliminated and that Philadelphia government becomes even more streamlined.
TALIBAN NUKE INTEREST
The Taliban, which should have been destroyed back in 2001 and 2002, is now a serious military threat to the weak and ineffective government of Pakistan. Just the thought of Taliban taking control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, is enough to make you sick. Now is the time for the military to strategize what may be needed if the terrorists even get close to the nukes. This may be the most serious security threat to our nation.
BAILING ON BAILOUT -
There is still no full accounting of the first billions sent to banks in he fall of last year. None. The original bailouts were never fully detailed. We have a horrible habit – short memories when it comes to demanding the truth.
IRAQ SCANDAL
It has been years in the making, but sources tell us to watch out for new revelationson over-spending and alleged corruption by KBR, the subsidiary of Halliburton, which has been under investigation for years. This is the company that at one time was charging anywhere from 40 to 100 dollars each to do laundry for GI’s in Iraq. It is also the company that has been accused of promising, but failing to clean up the drinking water for our troops. This may become the biggest over spending scandal of the war in Iraq.
Comments(167)
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, Larry, you were finally smoked out of your spider hole and changed the topic. Another weak effort though. Back in the hole for another 7 days?
First, there is never a temporary tax or tax increase. Once they start the syphon it near gets cut off. People forget. The tax continue forever. There are too many examples to start enumerating. Larry, you are so naive. Answer, start getting rid of hacks and relatives on the dole.
You may actually be on to an important topic with the Taliban getting nukes. We better nip this in the bud. Readers may confuse you with a real journalist…
Politicians lose interest very easily. They are only interested in the crisis du jour. No one in Washington is watching the bailout money. Too much money; so little free time. Again, Larry, your naivety is incredible for someone who has been around the block a couple of time. It’s all about political expediency, not transparency. In Geithner and Frank we trust. Yeah, right…
Again with Halliburton? Is George Soros funding this site too? Companies that sent civilians into a warzone to do hazardous jobs had to pay out the yingyang to find people stupid/courageous enough to go there and do day-to-day jobs in a hazardous area. Where were all the Dept of Agriculture, Commerce and Transportation employees? Home asleep in their beltway bedrooms. We had to pay public companies to clean up our mess in Iraq. We overpaid but who else was going to do it? Larry, you amaze me sometimes…
Alive and well in Rittenhouse Square! All this bickering reminds me of my life at home with Ethel. She picks the stupidest things to argue about. What color tie I should wear. Where we are going for brunch. Why I invested with Bernie Madoff. You know stupid stuff like that. She does not appear to have any sense of priorities when it comes to bickering. Here is an example.
So after a week in Cancun barely dodging the dreaded Swine Flu she wants to go to El Azteca II for Cinco de Maya on Tuesday night. I told her enough with the fried torillas in tomato sauce. Enough with the Tequilla and Margaritas. Enough with the terminal cases of indigestion. How about a nice Cobb Salad and Lobster Roll? She proceeds to hit me with a litany of reasons why I’m a bum, don’t listen to her and why Cinco de Mayo is one of her favorite days of the year. Now if I’m not just back from Mexico I go peacefully. But I just spent a week gagging down this refried garbage and just yesterday it finally cleared my system. Ahhhhhhh. Why do we have to go back so soon? What is critical about eating Mexican on 05/05/09? Oh brother! I should have just gone peacefully. I should not have argued. All I hear is about how everything is about me. The world revolves around Larry. We always do what Larry wants. Blah blah blah blah. So she is pissed the whole dinner. I’m forcing down yet another Chimichanga. We both have a couple of Mango Margaritas. I’m thinking at least I’m going to get lucky tonight. 2 drinks is usually the green light. Either she is too drunk to know any better or she thinks she’s with Brad Pitt. Either way I don’t care because I think I’m with Barbara Streisand. That’s right Funny Girl. Gives me a woodrow just thinking about her. So we get home both in a good mood. I start to take off my shirt in the living room and she says what am I doing? I said I want to make mad passionate love to my wife (actually Funny Girl) and she proceeds to read me the riot act. I might as well be with Frank Rizzo. She calls me insensitive and a boar. I thinking she’s the one being insensitive to my needs. Anyway you all know the end of the story. Oh brother! Does it always have to end this way? Now I know why Tony Soprano always had a padrona. You know I kind of liked that Edie Falco.
Larry-We weren’t chasing the Taliban in 2001 or 2002.We were chasing Al-Qaeda,a completely different entity.And while I’m certainly not condoning the Taliban & their actions,it’s easy to see how such a group could arise.Power abhors a vacuum & as a result of yet another U.S.foreign policy blunder a vacuum existed.They made the roads safe,an update on making the trains run on time.
I agree with OOOJ,there is never a temporary tax increase.Case in point,the “temporary” tax increase levied after the Johnstown flood of 1889.It’s still being applied !
And please stop wth the Kellogg,Brown,Root or Haliburton nonsense.KBR has been doing this since before you & I were born.They practically sponsored LBJ’s entire career.His parting gift to them was the contract to dredge Camh Ran Bay,thanks for the memories I guess.Clinton also used them quite a bit in Kosovo,a lot of no bid contracts during that adventure.Haliburton seems to know how to “work across the aisle’ I guess.
Everybody… say hello to Mr Kane
“Hello Mr Kane”. Now everybody tell Mr Kane how glad we are that he’s back. “Thanks for coming back Mr Kane”. Now tell Mr Kane how sorry you are for posting scandalous and sometimes lurid letters that upset him. “Sorry Mr Kane”
Now that we have that out of the way, why not tell Mr Kane what we think about his new column. “temporary taxes what have you been smoking Mr Kane? The only thing more permanent than temporary taxes is death”
I am working on a special task force with my boss and good friend, Brian Tierney.
We are putting a grassroots team together to address the tax issue as part of my larger initiative of bringing free internet to impoverished denizens via my Netbook campaign.
Larry,
I agree with YBP that the U.S. wasn’t after the Taliban in 2001/2002. In fact, we were sorta buddy buddy with them because they were the ones who drove out the Soviet army. You know, like that photo of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam, back when he was a “good guy” gassing Iranians with U.S. ordinance. Al Qaeda was the target. We only invaded when the Taliban wouldn’t give us a map with directions to Bin Laden’s cave.
I disagree with the inaccurate statement that there is “no such thing as a temporary tax.” Not all temporary taxes become permanent. Taxes are political footballs, and they go up and down the field depending on prevailing political winds.
If KBR is charging $40 to do laundry, then government has improved since Reagan’s Pentagon used to pay $1568 for a hammer and $800 for a toilet seat. And that’s not even adjusted for inflation.
Larry, how many people do you think the City of Philadelphia could fire before there were riots? If you eliminate all of the “duplication,” you’d plunge the city into chaos as these newly unemployed masses went on the dole and took to the streets.
You haven’t mentioned FREE AIR in quite some time. What ever happened to the Larry Kane who didn’t just parrot federal concepts from Obama as probable solutions to Philadelphia’s problems? FREE AIR was yours, Larry. Why orphan it?
Details… details ….details… Don’t come here if you are looking for details(accuracy). Mr Kane doesn’t bother himself with details. He looks at the totality. He has reached “Gestalt” existence. That’s why he can write about numerous topics all at once and not be saddled with explaining himself when his readers point out obvious mistakes.
The Taliban didn’t help drive out the Russians.That was accomplished by the mujahadeen,with our aid and copius amounts of money.The Taliban (student) sprung up from the ensuing chaos.
And that’s why the International Herald Tribune reported: “In the 1980s, the Reagan administration delivered several hundred FIM-92 Stinger missiles to Afghan resistance groups, including the Taliban, to aid the defeat of the Soviets.”
I would suggest the Int’l Herald Tribune is wrong.Most accounts date the doom to 1994,an uprising in Qandahar.
Perhaps. Maybe it’s because the ethic Pashtun groups, etc., that constitute the Taliban were also resisting the Soviets before they formally came to be known as Taliban. Anyway, there’s no doubt that radical Muslims were recruited to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan with U.S. weaponry.
It looks like a man called bloom has adopted the Larry Kane philosophy of “who cares what the facts are”.
Recruited by whom ? The Afghans responded immediately,if somewhat sporadically (no fighting during planting season or whatever ).If anything,they were energized by the CIA & the onslaught of weapons.Bin Laden came late to this party & while he did encourage Jihad his followers were mostly ineffective as fighters & were treated with disdain by the Afghans.
There are Muslim extremists other than Bin Laden. Pakistan recruited such extremists from across the Arab world to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan with U.S. support. It wasn’t solely the war lords who drove out the Soviets.
I don’t know enough to contradict that statement but should I infer that they only recruited “extremists?” Seems odd.
Well, well Larry made it back from his blog boycott. Thanks Lar we needed that. As for your talking points it seems that your being fast and loose with the facts has created a nice dialogue between YAP and Leo. Too bad Leo plays fast and loose with the facts also. Hey Leo!! you’re not that smart. You are a creation of left wing propaganda. You regurgitate the media’s spin on everything and don’t think for yourself. When wrong you ingenuously try to squirm your way out and when you are right about something you shove it down your opponents throat. I know this is only for fun but if your claims can be refuted by a well informed observer give that observer credit and forget about your ego.
The Taliban initially enjoyed enormous good will from Afghans weary of the corruption, brutality, and the incessant fighting of Mujahideen warlords. Two contrasting narratives explain the beginnings of the Taliban.[15] One is that the rape and murder of boys and girls from a family traveling to Kandahar or a similar outrage by Mujahideen bandits sparked Mullah Omar and his students to vow to rid Afghanistan of these criminals.[16] The other is that the Pakistan-based truck shipping mafia known as the “Afghanistan Transit Trade” and their allies in the Pakistan government, trained, armed, and financed the Taliban to clear the southern road across Afghanistan to the Central Asian Republics of extortionate bandit gangs.[17]
Alhough there is no evidence that the CIA directly supported the Taliban or Al Qaeda, some basis for military support of the Taliban was provided when, in the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (Pakistan’s Interservices Intelligence Agency) provided arms to Afghans resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the ISI assisted the process of gathering radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviets. Osama Bin Laden was one of the key players in organizing training camps for the foreign Muslim volunteers. The U.S. poured funds and arms into Afghanistan, and “by 1987, 65,000 tons of U.S.-made weapons and ammunition a year were entering the war.”[18]
The Taliban were based in the Helmand, Kandahar, and Uruzgan regions and were overwhelmingly ethnic Pashtuns and predominantly Durrani Pashtuns.[19]
The first major military activity of the Taliban was in October-November 1994 when they marched from Maiwand in southern Afghanistan to capture Kandahar City and the surrounding provinces, losing only a few dozen men.[20] Starting with the capture of a border crossing and a huge ammunition dump from warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a few weeks later they freed “a convoy trying to open a trade route from Pakistan to Central Asia” from another group of warlords attempting to extort money.[21] In the next three months this hitherto “unknown force” took control of twelve of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, with Mujahideen warlords often surrendering to them without a fight and the “heavily armed population” giving up their weapons.[22] By September 1996 they had captured Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
After leaving college in 1979 bin Laden joined Abdullah Azzam to fight the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan[46] and lived for a time in Peshawar.[47]
By 1984, with Azzam, bin Laden established Maktab al-Khadamat, which funneled money, arms and Muslim fighters from around the Arabic world into the Afghan war. Through al-Khadamat, bin Laden’s inherited family fortune[48] paid for air tickets and accommodation, dealt with paperwork with Pakistani authorities and provided other such services for the jihad fighters. He moved to Peshawar in 1994, and during this time met his future collaborator Ayman al-Zawahiri, who encouraged Osama to split away from Azzam.[citation needed] Osama established a camp in Afghanistan, and with other volunteers fought the Soviets.
It was during his time in Peshawar that he began to wear camouflage-print jackets and carrying a captured Soviet assault rifle, which urban legends claimed he had obtained by killing a Russian soldier with his bare hands.[49]
The Afghans were supported by a number of other countries — the US and Saudi Arabia offering the greatest financial support. However, the Afghans were also aided by others: the UK, Egypt, China, Iran, and Pakistan. Ground support, for political reasons, was limited to regional countries.
The United States began training insurgents in, and directing propaganda broadcasts into Afghanistan from Pakistan in 1978.[44] Then, in early 1979, U.S. foreign service officers began meeting insurgent leaders to determine their needs.[45] According to the then US Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski, CIA aid to the insurgents within Afghanistan was approved in July 1979, six months before the Soviet Invasion.[46]
United States President Jimmy Carter insisted that what he termed “Soviet aggression” could not be viewed as an isolated event of limited geographical importance but had to be contested as a potential threat to US influence in the Persian Gulf region. The US was also worried about the USSR gaining access to the Indian Ocean by coming to an arrangement with Pakistan.
After the Soviet deployment, Pakistan’s military ruler General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq started accepting financial aid from the Western powers to aid the mujahideen.[47] In 1981, following the election of US President Ronald Reagan, aid for the mujahideen through Zia’s Pakistan significantly increased, mostly due to the efforts of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA officer Gust Avrakotos.
US “Paramilitary Officers” were instrumental in training, equipping and sometimes leading Mujihadeen forces against the Red Army. Although the CIA in general and Charlie Wilson, a Texas Congressman, have received most of the attention, the key architect of this strategy was Michael G. Vickers, a young Paramilitary Officer from the CIA’s infamous Special Activities Division. [48]
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia became major financial contributors, the United States donating “$600 million in aid per year, with a matching amount coming from the Persian Gulf states.”[49] The People’s Republic of China also sold Type 59 tanks, Type 68 assault rifles, Type 56 assault rifles, Type 69 RPGs, and much more to mujahideen in co-operation with the CIA, as did Egypt with assault rifles. Of particular significance was the donation of US-made FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, which increased aircraft losses of the Soviet Air Force.[50]
An Afghan mujahideen fighter demonstrates the use of a hand-held SA-7 surface-to-air missile.In March 1985, the US government adopted National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 166, which set a goal of military victory for the mujahideen. After 1985 the CIA and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) placed greater pressure on the mujahideen to attack government strongholds. Under direct instructions from Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, the CIA initiated programs for training Afghans in techniques such as car bombs and assassinations and in engaging in cross-border raids into the USSR.[51]
Pakistan’s ISI and Special Service Group (SSG) were actively involved in the conflict, and in cooperation with the CIA and the United States Army Special Forces, as well as the British Special Air Service, supported the mujahideen.
In 1980, Texas Democratic Congressman Charlie Wilson read an Associated Press dispatch on the congressional wires describing the refugees fleeing Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. The communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan had taken over power during the Afghan Civil War and asked the Soviet Union to help suppress resistance from the mujahideen. According to biographer George Crile III, Wilson called the staff of the House Appropriations Committee dealing with “black appropriations” and requested a two-fold appropriation increase for Afghanistan. Because Wilson had just been named to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense (which is responsible for funding CIA operations), his request went through.[7]
That was not the last time he increased the CIA budget for its Afghan operation. In 1983, he won an additional $40 million, $17 million of which was allocated for anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopters.[8] The next year, CIA officer Gust Avrakotos directly approached Wilson – breaking the CIA’s policy against lobbying Congress for money – asking Wilson for $50 million more. Wilson agreed and convinced Congress, saying, “The U.S. had nothing whatsoever to do with these people’s decision to fight … but we’ll be damned by history if we let them fight with stones.”[9] Later, Wilson succeeded in giving the Afghans $300 million of unused Pentagon money before the end of the fiscal year.[10] Thus, Wilson directly influenced the level of U.S. support for the Afghan Mujahideen. Wilson has said that the covert operation succeeded because “there was no partisanship or damaging leaks.”[11]
Joanne Herring played a significant role in helping the Afghan resistance fighters get support and military equipment from the U.S. government. She persuaded Wilson to visit the Pakistani leadership, and after meeting with them he was taken to a major Pakistan-based Afghan refugee camp so he could see for himself the atrocities committed by the Soviets against the Afghan people. About that visit, Wilson later said:
“That was the experience that will always be seared in my memory, was going through those hospitals and seeing, especially those children with their hands blown off from the mines that the Soviets were dropping from their helicopters. That was perhaps the deciding thing… and it made a huge difference for the next 10 or 12 years of my life because I left those hospitals determined, as long as I had a breath in my body and was a member in Congress, that I was going to do what I could to make the Soviets pay for what they were doing!”
OK Larry you were right. We did attack the Taliban after 9/11. As YAP noted however they weren’t the main target. Unless you consider that they were being punished for harboring Al Qaeda.
The Taliban for Leo’s sake, didn’t exist until after the the Soviets left Afghanistan. I could be wrong maybe Fact man will set me straight.
Ed, the formal name “Taliban” didn’t come about until the 1990s, but the people are the same people. They didn’t beam down from the U.S.S. Enterprise.
So in Germany, Nazis always existed prior to the 1930′s and in the US we always had the Confederate States of America. They weren’t beamed in by Scotty. People exist in a boiling pot and at a certain temperature they boil over. That’s what happened in Afghanistan. As YAP said, when there is a vacuum there will always be some one there to fill the void. Unfortunately when the US left after the Muhadjeen ousted the Soviets the void was filled by the Taliban.
Suck it, Ed.
http://www.institute-for-afghan-studies.org/AFGHAN%20CONFLICT/TALIBAN/intro_kakar.htm
So, no. Not like Nazis in the 1890s or Confederates in 1758.
1930s-40s
1860s
Leo, you are an idiot……. And people wonder how Hitler ever came to power. You take an obscure point and blow it all out of proportion. You find an ardent pro Afghan writer who has his own view of history and then use it to make your silly point. I’m sure you were a glint in your mother’s eye long before you were born but they didn’t call you Leo until you popped out. Same with the Taliban. It wasn’t until after the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan that the Taliban were born. If your father would have only pulled out……. we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Alive and well in Rittenhouse Square! Mother’s Day brings back special memories for me. My Mother Hilda Kane was a proud Brooklyn woman. Self made. Dedicated to the family. Salt of the earth. She called me Lawrence. In 62 years she’s never called me Larry. In fact no one called me Larry until I got to Philadelphia. I was always Lawrence to everyone. Whatever. My Mother wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer. Nothing else was good enough for her Lawrence. I never had an inclination toward either profession. Not that there would be anything wrong with being a doctor or lawyer. They sit in an office and wait for things to come to them. I wanted to make things happen. Live. Be alive. Not another burned out professional with a shingle outside his office. I opted to drop out of CCNY after one semester. I thought I had broken my Mother’s heart. She said “Lawrence what are you going to do with your life. You’re going to become a no good bum like your Uncle Herman.” Uncle Herman had a convenience store on Flatbush Ave. I’m not sure whether that qualifies as a bum. Anyway. So I move to Miami with my Aunt Gilda and Uncle Gene. They are a nice enough couple. Uncle Gene works at the local TV station as a cameraman. He tells me he can get me a job as a grip. I figure it beats college and an office job. Next thing I know, I’m no longer Lawrence from Brooklyn but I’m now Larry Kane. Larry Kane ace reporter for WQAM. I’m feeling pretty good until I call my Mother on Mother’s Day in 1961. I say hey Mom I’m a big TV reporter now and I have a new name. “What Lawrence is not good enough for you now? I knew we should have made you finish college and get a real job. What’s next? Drugs? Booze? Women?” Oh brother! Not her favorite day or mine. The rest is history. Now I’m a household name in Philadelphia and famous news reporter. She lives in Stratford Court Boca Pointe in Boca Raton now. My Aunt Mindie lives there too. They play Bridge most of the day. I’ll call her today. She’ll still call me Lawrence. I’ll still call her Mom. That’s what today is all about. Memories and family get togethers. If you haven’t called your Mother and told her to butt out of your personal life make sure you do today. Also says thanks.
Larry hopefully tonight you change topics. The Taliban have run their course. It was interesting while it lasted and I did find out more than I needed to know about the group. I also found out more than I needed to know about Leo. Let’s move on………
Larry, why did I have to get addicted to Donald Trump’s show “Your Fired”? I wouldn’t even recommend it to Leo, even though I would love him to experience the agony and horrible nature of the show. It is one of the worst premises for network television that I have ever seen. Larry, if you ever run into Donald Trump tell him I think he should suck my
Ed, it is possible for a movement to exist before it becomes dominant. Or didn’t you get that far in school? The Taliban became dominant and politically potent in the 1990s in a power vacuum. They existed before that, including in the 1980s when they were resisting the Soviets. Go pick fights with someone your own size.
Bob don’t be a putz. That Annie is a despicable person. Despicable! Did you know that Melissa is my love child with Larry Kaighn?
Larry are you suggesting we tax the Taliban? Although this is a very good idea is there any legal precedent? How do we collect? I’ll start working with Barney on a tax code once I get the thumbs up from the President. Very good out of the box thinking Larry. There may be a spot in this administration for you yet.
By the way, I still don’t want my kids or grandkids riding on public transportation and it has nothing to do with contracting Swine Flu.
Yup
i wood like to thank ed for supporting my selebrity aprentise. it was truely amazing. some peeple think we just had a bunch of boobs on like brande but it was really special.
Hey Dad why don’t you let me clean up your messages before you send them out? Everyone knows I’m the brains of this corporation anyhow.
don you wood be nothing without me. just another punk kid with an mba who thinks he’s something special. brande is smarter than you and has much better hair. your fired.
Please Dad don’t talk about hair. All due respect you look like you just walked through a wind tunnel with your extreme combover.
don you don’t know what you are talking about. it’s all about the look. i’ve got it. you don’t. you creep me out sometimes. you look like you belong on the munsters.
Please Dad don’t talk about being creepy. Brande has a restraining order against you preventing you from getting within 50 feet of her. Most men and women find you abrasive and aloof. That pouty little look of yours is getting old. Time for you to retire and move to Florida.
Ah, the sock puppet FAIL. You gotta change the name before you post, genius.
i wood not be refering to anyone else in a durogatory manor as genius. my son may be creepy but he is a genius compared to you. he is an amazing business man in his own write. your fired.
Larry Kane’s Blog: Home of the Lame Trump Family Sock Puppets.
Larry, it’s time for FREE AIR. Forget this doofus who finds parroting Trump family members to be a stimulating autoerotic behavior. Larry, you used to be a leader who inspired people. Rally us to the cause.
HELD HOSTAGE – DAY 3
Time to change the topic, Larry. We’re back to bedtime for bonzo and the puppet patrol.
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The Shiites are our warm up band. Get there early. Limited seating in the Coins Pub.
Ed, you seemed distraught over the outcome of the Celebrity Apprentice last night. Was it because:
a) It was a prearranged outcome played out over 5 weeks
b) It was a prearranged hate feast – good vs evil – played out over 5 weeks
c) Annie was the clear winner by 100 miles
d) Because of 1.5 hours of commercials, the 3 hour show lasted 4 hours til midnight
e) All the above
The one bit of “new info” last night was that Melissa was the love child of Larry Kaighn…
If only our Larry were as prolific as Larry Kaighan, we’d be in business!
Alive and well in Rittenhouse Square. Good news is that no Swine Flu 7 days after returning from Mexico. Bad news is people on this website are accusing me of being Melissa Rivers father. Although I was the boy toy of many cougars in the 60′s and 70′s, I never had sex with that woman. I would not admit it if I did.
How about all this controversy concerning Wanda Sykes joking that Rush Limbaugh the 20th terrorist at the Obama Roast last weekend? When you boil it down to the root joke it is a shameless attempt to make light of 9/11. Whether you like El Rushbo or not is not important. Whether you think Wanda Sykes is funny or not is not important. Whether you think the joke was funny or not is not important. 9/11 is a sacred day in America and it is insensitive and classless to make light of it. Oh brother. Besides Wanda Sykes mumbles so much you can’t understand her anyway. I did not like her on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Anyway.
I remember back in 1967 I was doing a roast for the brash new Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo. Frank was a no nonsense guy. He banged heads first and asked questions later. We were all a little on edge concerned about the implications of offending the original Italian Stallion (no offense Rocky). One misstep and your car would be impounded indefinitely. A real insult and you would disappear permanently. It was rumored that Frank had friends. So I want to be cleaver but safe. I consulted with local KYW funny man Mike Douglas for a couple of one liners. He had nothing. I called Ed McMahon. He used to be a pitchman on WCAU. Now he was big time as Johnny Carson’s sidekick. He had nothing. I checked with Happy the Clown but he was concerned about outstanding warrants. I checked with Chief Halftown. The Chief was not a big Frank fan. He had some pretty frank things to say about him. Most I could not repeat. I went to the roast with nothing. I got a couple of innocuous jokes about Italian mothers out of a book at the Center City Library. I died on the stage but at least I lived another day in real life.
Wow. Ed. Is. Losing. It.
Nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical humans.
Ed’ll have fun fun fun til Larry takes the sock puppets away.
Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. In this case, I should think “interesting” would suffice.
I see a Spock Puppet.
It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
I am what I am, Ed, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else’s.
I decided that Miss California could keep her crown because breast enhancements and seminude photos are classy. Just ask my daughter. I wonder if my daughter would like Miss California for her new mother. Her views on marriage are almost as classy as me.
Two days & four hours since the last on topic post.I did like “Spock puppet” though it was a transparent set up.
Due to the outstanding response of our first night at the Coins Pub the Holiday Inn is expanding seating tonight. We thank you very much for your support. We will be singing our Indian Gold song ‘Bhimbopelosi’. Cover charge is $10 through Thursday. Ed you can come as our guest if you are in financial troubles.
Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Yankee Air Pirate, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it or him.
Spock, if I weren’t so emotionally repressed I’d be all over Ed. You would do well to tend to my logical needs instead of sitting in our basement blogging with Larry Kane.
Logic is little tweeting bird chirping in meadow. Logic is wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad.
Larry, I’m flying the flag upside down and backwards because this blog is in distress. You’ve been invaded by logical sock puppets. This stale blog topic WILL NOT STAND, MAN!
I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.
Mr Spock, you’re a stubborn man.
Dammit! He’s not a man. He’s got green blood.
I have never believed in little green men.
Well I’m his doctor and I’m telling you that he’s the littlest green man I’ve ever checked for hernias.
If you can’t disguise him you’d better find a way of explaining him.
Not a fork or a spoon, not a Vulcan or a human. I am Spock’s fellow traveler. Lead me to your fruit salad.
I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines.
There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China.
HELD HOSTAGE – DAY 4
Say, Eddie and Georgie, have you seen them yet
But they’re so spaced out, Bloomie and the Puppets
Oh but theyre weird and theyre wonderful
Oh Bloomie hes really keen
Hes got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
Bloomie and the Puppets
Now there’s a song I can get my teeth into.
Babby wants songs.
Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree top
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall
And down will come baby, cradle and all
Mother Goose you have no class. In my hotels we sing the kids Wayne Newton songs and give them little bottles of Dom. That’s klassy!
Spork we have new song you can sink your teeth into. It is called ‘Sindhi-Bhairavi’. Wery sitar. We can save you a table at the Coins Pub. $4 Cosmos tonight. A wery good deal.
The Donald we have a new song for you as well. It is called ‘Raga-Mala’. It is sitar solo about a man with a mongoose sitting on his head. Wery much like you. Wery classy. Can you book us in Atlantic City? We rock the mosque!
What we require now is a feat of linguistic legerdemain and a degree of intrepidity.
We have song for you too Spock. It is ‘Tana Mana’. It is wery sitar. They serve green beer at Coins Pub on Wednesday night. $2 drafts. You have green blood. Are you Irish? We tell bouncer to let guy with funny ears in for free.
That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
If my Dad has a song I want one too. After all someday I’ll be the big Trump. I may even be able to turn a profit.
George: 1) there were no free speech rights involved. The 1st Amendment protects against governmental restriction of speech, not private action. 2) Donald Trump supported the woman’s fraud. The issue shouldn’t be the photo but the fact that she lied about the photos twice (by failing to disclose and then by lying about how many times she posed, etc.). That’s not the kind of moral fiber I thought these pageants required. But, hey, this just confirms that the “mental” part of the pageants is all illusion and meaningless in comparison to the swimsuit competition. Too bad she couldn’t get her sense of honesty enhanced along with her breasts. What a joke.
Many people seem to be firmly convinced that man-made climate change exists and we are ruining the environment; yet others adamantly believe climate change is not man-made, and there’s nothing to be done about it. There seems to be very little middle ground.
On April 17, the EPA tried to clear up all of this ambiguity by naming carbon dioxide and five other gasses as official threats to the “…health and welfare of current and future generations…” You may recall that the road to the EPA’s latest action was paved by a 2007 Supreme Court decision that found carbon dioxide to be a “pollutant” under the Clean Air Act, and ruled that the EPA had the power to regulate it.
There is no question or debate that CO2 is a naturally occurring gas in our atmosphere. For example, it’s a by-product of normal animal and human respiration. In light of the EPA’s latest decision, are we to assume that every air-breathing creature is now a potential source of pollution subject to regulation? Well, it probably won’t come to that, but a recent Wall Street Journal article noted that the EPA’s latest decision could “touch every corner of Americans’ lives, from the types of cars they drive to the homes they build.”
Thus, this decision, coupled with my recent discussion of Obama’s “cap-and-trade” proposal, clearly indicate that climate change is on the front burner in Washington. We’ll now see what a liberal administration and a compliant Congress can concoct to correct a problem that may or may not exist, depending upon which “experts” you want to listen to. Whatever ends up happening, I can promise you that it will cost us all a lot more money.
Aside from that, the one thing that has always confused me the most is whether or not the global CO2 problem (assuming it is a problem) will be solved or improved if Western nations and the US in particular significantly reduce their carbon emissions. We know without a doubt that CO2 emissions are exploding in the emerging nations. In many ways, it seems to me that spending a huge amount of money to reduce US carbon emissions will simply cost American consumers and business a ton of money, while having little impact, if any, on the global environment.
We be rocking the mosque last night at Coins Pub. Crowd spilled over into complementary breakfast area. Ridiculous! Thank you wery much for your support. The atmosphere was off the hook. Trumps were no shows. We play ‘Raga-Mala’ anyway. Remember Wednesday is $2 green beer night. All Vulcans (proof required) get in free.
I stopped by Coins Pub last night for a look at the Tali Band,what a nightmare.Women in burqas,some in chadors,they wanted Ms.Yankee to put on a keffiyeh.She doesn’t roll that way so we left.
Yankee Air Pirate did you get a cinnamon roll before you left? We be rocking the mosque again tonight. Come back and do not bring Ms Yankee. She should be home washing and cleaning.
By the by we have invited Adam Lambert to join our band when he gets voted off of American Idol tonight. This wiil be quite a coupe de grace for the Tali Band. Adam is wery much the rocker. We really rock the mosque with him. He will have to change his dress code as he dress like confused man.
Nor have you, Mr Bloom, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.
D’oh! We like the naked lady from California. She is the devil’s temptress and will be welcome in our harems behind closed doors where she will be dealt with properly. We will be castrating the Tali Band because music is illegal, just like at that Christian High School that is properly suspending a student for going to prom with a harlot at another school. No dancing. No music. No drinking alcohol. There is only Allah and his prophets, Abraham, Christ, and Mohammed. Allah is on our side and makes us the greatest host on earth. You go to your churches on Sunday and your temples on Saturday. We bow to Mecca several times a day. When we play football, we point to Allah in heaven when we make errors as well as when we score a goal, for Allah is not a god of goodtime convenience. You already practice our ways, desiring to keep your women at home and under control, not tolerating deviation from the norm. You will join us in Allah. Allah akbar!
You’re not exactly catching him at his best.
Shazam!
Sharif don’t like it.
Excuse me, but I have to see a camel about a hump.
We be tuning up for our last big show here at Coins Pub. The owner cancelled us because we were bringing in the wrong clientele. My people will not be drinking alcohol. Except terrorist getting ready to meet 100 virgins. They be drinking Coke and Mountain Dew. How dare him cancel the Tali Band. He does not want to be on our bad side. You must be coming down to see us tonight. $2 green beer night. Yankee Air Pirate you need to be coming down without the old ball and chain. We be rocking the mosque!
Omar Shariff is not a Muslim. He is a Russian and drinks Wodka. He gets lucky and does the hoochi coochi with Julie Christie. What’s up with that? He be a crusty old red.
I hate him but I guess you already knew that. He’s like a bad penny he keeps turning up. A big shout out to Ed Rendell and Jack Russell.
We be rocking the mosque last night. I be just getting home now. I only have a couple of hours to sleep before going to my day job at 7-11. I be hoping that we find another gig soon. The Donald if you are reading this can you or Joan Rivers get us a weekend at the Trump Taj. We are wery classy band. We rock the Taj!
Larry, two primly dressed people showed up on my porch last night and asked if I was “saved.” I said no, but that the Dalai Lama had promised I’d receive total consciousness on my deathbed. Then I asked them if they had the eternal gift of FREE AIR awaiting them. They said that there is FREE AIR in heaven! I might just have to join up with these Christian fundies if you don’t get us FREE AIR here on earth.
Alive and well in Rittenhouse Square! I guess I am officially no longer a candidate for Swine Flu. Oh brother. Ethel and I were saddened to see Danny Gokey voted off American Idol last night. We were hoping he’d win. He seems like such a nice boy. This Adam character I just don’t see what all the hoopla is about. He dresses like something out of a zombie movie and shreaks when he sings. We think he is kind of scary. The other one the bumpkin from Arkansas. Everything he sings sounds exactly alike. Is that good? Ethel and I don’t think so. Well at least we won’t have to watch the big season finale next week. I would bill it ‘Rocky Horror Show vs Deliverance’. Enter banjo music. Anyway it kind of reminds me when I was competing in a spelling bee in 4th grade. Mrs Finkelstein was my teacher. I had won the competition in our class. I was now competing against the winners from other 4th grade classrooms at PS242. I was very nervous. I was in front of the whole school. I may have peed my paints. This of course was long before I became the great teleprompter reader. Anyway. My first word was ‘inappropriate’. Can you use that in a sentence? “George often uses inappropriate words on this blog”. Got it! My second word was ‘condescending’. Can you use that in a sentence? “Leo is pompous and condescending”. Got it! My third word was ‘alcoholic’. Can you use that in a sentence? “Jack has been known to drink heavily and could be considered an alcoholic. Got it! Just two of us left now. My fourth word was ‘disregardful’. Can you use that in a sentence? (You probably figured out that asking to have the word used in a sentence was a stalling technique) “Larry is very disregardful of this website and blog”. Got it! Steven Stein got his word too. Another word for each of us. My next word was ‘ubiquitous’. Can you use that in a sentence? The ubiquitous Ed is always blogging on this website.” I got it! Stein can’t spell ‘omnipresent’. I win! I win! My mother comes running down the aisle and hugs me so tight I peed my pants. Definitely did this time. Major leakage. 6 inch diameter spot. I should not have had that second Ovaltine before leaving for school. I got over the embarrassment of wetting my pants. I never did a live spot standing up. I only sat and read the teleprompter from behind a desk. Now you know why. See you Danny Gokey!
PHILADELPHIA HELD HOSTAGE – DAY 6
No more shall they be tied to this subject,
Let My people go!
Let him come out with a new topic,
Let My people go!
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing,after all,as wanting.It is not logical,but it is true.
Captain, it is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.
We didn’t want it but we’ve got it.
Ed, it is clear what Mr Kaighn is saying. At any point during the 12 hours of sunlight and 5 hours immediately following your sunset you can be found on this website. You may represent yourself as Ed or in many derivative forms with curious names. It is illogical but it is fact. No analysis due to insufficient information. Constant exposure does result in a certain degree of – contamination.
Yankee Air Pirate, congratulations on a dazzling display of logic. Will you be my captain?
Not sure,you seem to eager.
Oh yes, you humans have that emotional need to express gratitude. “You’re welcome”, I believe is the correct response.
We be screaming out for help. We need to be escaping our 7-11 jobs. Please help us find a singing gig. At least buy a Slurpee. I be so sick of hearing about WaWa. WaWa has this. WaWa has that. WaWa does not have Slurpee.
On the way the paper bag was on my knee.
Man, I had a dreadful flight.
But I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
DEAR MR KANE
I WOULD LIKE A JOB READING THE NEWS
I AM A FEMBOT XDP-3000 UNIT WITH ENHANCED FLESH/HAIR SIMULATION
I HAVE ALL OF THE REQUIRED EXTRA PROGRAMMING AND ACCESSORIES TO MAKE IT TO THE TOP
WILL YOU GIVE A GIRL A BREAK IN THE BIZ
I see sock puppets.
Leo is a faggot who talks to himself all day long on this blog. These are all Leo’s posts.
Leo I’m sorry that wasn’t me. I’m not a homophobe. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
That’s OK, George. I sensed something special in you. Maybe meet me by Philbert at noon tomorrow and we can play “squeal like a piggy”?
Leo I’m with you. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one. But I do have needs.
George you know I’m not here all day long because I’m usually with your wife.
George get a Slurpee and cool down. You be getting much too worked up. We lost our gig at the Coins Pub. I be back at the 7-11 full time. Cherry or Root Beer?
The edible cherry condoms are my favorite. My wife prefers root beer.
Maybe we need to waterboard Nancy Pelosi to refresh her memory about being told about waterboarding.
Captain, I hardly believe that insults are in your line as my commanding officer.
I would like to thank the 22M people who voted for me on Tuesday night. If only another 22M people had voted for me that mo Adam would be on the outside looking in.
Don’t change the subject. We’re talking about how fey I am.
I see homophobic GOP sock puppets all over this blog.
I will seriously consider changing the blog tonight if you get my count over 200. It is sweeps week after all.
Are you talking LDL colesterol count Larry? Get some food at 7-11 from Tali Band. If it turns the paper clear with grease, it is your window to weight gain.
Come on George and Philbert. It’s our time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15marriage.html
I’d like to get Nancy Pelosi on a board.
It would never occur to me, captain.
I’d like to get my teeth into Nancy Pelosi.
Ed, I would not be dismayed by what sock puppets say about you. Remember they are not real, just someone’s alter ego.
I believe there may be a relatively new serial blogger working here. He appears to be operating outside the conventions that the core of 5-8 regulars generally operate under. He has a very mean streak. It could be a regular gone renegade.
I tried to spoon with Nancy Pelosi once but she said I’m not a spoon. She looked at me and said gag me with a spoon. I wanted to die.
Wow. All I can say is wow. This blog has gone off of the rails in a big way as a result of neglect. I’m glad to see, however, that I’m amusing someone so extensively.
It is completely illogical that someone would spock puppet another spock. It defies logic and flies in the face of human decency. One should expect nothing less from the blue planet.
This is Leisure Suit Larry from the Land of Lounge Lizards. I am here to party. Bring on the babes!
Leisure suit Larry, I am in a fix tonight. Craigs List is no longer going to take my posts. I am a young 60 ish female that has a propensity to lie and a constituency that loves to get it on with the same sex. Give me a call if you would like to have a sitz bath tonight. Some call it water boarding I call it water whoring.
Too much water has boarded that body Nanc. You are retaining too much water for me. It may be time lippo baby. Ciao!
As I make my way home to Frankford Ave on the El I can not be thinking about what might have been. We be rocking the Coins Pub for 3 straight nights. Sure the place be full of Muslims. Sure they be drinking Coke and Mountain Dew. Sure they be carrying hummus and pita under there jackets. But this not be fair. We need second chance somewhere. They hired lame cover band last night. They do not even have sitar player. How lame. Please find help us a gig somewhere in Philadelphia. We don’t want to go back to Afghanistan now that we be experiencing the good life in Frankford.
Members of the Tali Band you represent exactly the type of American enterprise that we want to help in this economic crisis. Undereducated, underachieving and unmotivated but with lofty unachieveable dreams. We here in Washington salute you and are behind you 100%. This is what we plan to do for you:
1) We will give you a $1,000,000 grant for the arts. You can use this grant as you see fit to further your sing careers. First, buy a condo in Rittenhouse Square so you are much closer to venues and recording studios. Secondly, buy all new equipment so you are outfitted with the latest in technology thus affording yourself the best chance of success. Should the grant prove to be insufficient you can apply for another next year. We want you to succeed.
2) We will assist you with food stamps. I know you may be concerned about the stigma associated with shopping with food stamps. Don’t be because important people everywhere are doing it. Those stamps buy steaks and lobsters as well as the staples. We need you to eat well in order to succeed. A band must travel on a full stomach. We want you to succeed.
3) We will invoke equal opportunity employment dictates to venues in the Delaware Valley, Atlantic City and ultimately New York City. If they want to remain open they will gratefully extend invitations for your band to play whenever and for as long as you wish. We can pull their liquor licences if they renege. Plan your calendar and we’ll insure it happens. We want you to succeed.
4) I will make AirForce One available to you. You may use it whenever you want and fly wherever you need to. Please no buzzovers over New York City though.
5) I have the Immigration Dept drafting immediate citizenship for each member of your band including any roadies. This will prevent administrative nuisances like visas, green cards and terrorist watch lists from detracting from your success. We want you to succeed.
6) Finally you are invited to perform at the White House over the Christmas week. Michelle and I would love to have you stay at the White House over the holidays if that works out for you. You will be a symbol of the success of the Economic Stimulus Recovery Act.
The only thing that I ask is that you do not let Bill Clinton play his saxophone or Mike Huckabee sing or play his guitar with your band. They are not part of my program and are internal terrorists like Rush Limbaugh.
Wishing you much success. If there is anything more that I can do to help please hit me up on my Blackberry. Rock on Tali Band!
PHILADELPHIA HELD HOSTAGE – DAY 7
Barrack, thank you for making the right wing, GOP nutjob perspective so refreshing.
Guys I woke up today after some hard drinking and there is blood in my undies and my wallet is missing.
Humor criticism coming from a Vulcan. How quaint! FREE AIR is not funny, Spock. It is the cornerstone on which our new socialist/communist/fascist economy will be built. Property is theft; FREE AIR is everyone’s birthright. The means of producing FREE AIR will soon be ours!
And, George, I’m sorry to hear about that. I’d get yourself down to the clinic for tests. It would be unfortunate if someone gave you a nasty viral “gift.” Please be safe.
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth
I spit my last breath at thee Kirk. Consider it free.
A piece o’ gold to the first of ye to spot Mr. Larry Kane, that great white newscaster what did me an ancient injury. He’s a sly one that Larry Kane.
George, I bet you enjoyed last night. It gets me hot just thinking about it. Let’s get the other jims and make it a game of five-on-two if ya know what I’m saying, hmmmn?
Please don’t puppet me with weak stuff.
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
Larry, you have not made any effort to control rogue posters who usurp other people’s names and make a mockery out of debates on this site. You clearly know who’s doing it and make no effort. I’ve contributed quite a bit since December 2007, and at times really enjoyed it, and at one time respected you and your opinion. I no longer enjoy this site since it is being ruined by a few or maybe just one a-hole. I’ve lost respect for you in that you put next to no effort into the site, allow it to run amuck, and are only concerned if someone says a poltically incorrect term. You don’t have the aptitude to discuss the nuances of a word like nigger, and you have decided that even a term like Jew is somehow offesive if not uttered or written in a contxt of your liking. Fortune magazine’s latest cover picture is of Bernard Madoff in profile, highlighting his hook nose, with the caption “oy vey, what a Jew!”. Why don’t you talk about that? It’s outrageous, or the senator that called Shummer “that Jew” There is a boilng culdron under the surface in this country of anti semitism, it’s everwhere, but its espescially dangerous because its not being talked about, political correctnees has caused people to say one thing publically then think and say others privately. Censorship has made this so much worse, the resentment toward Jews has gone through the roof in suburban communities because the soccor moms feel Jews are the ones ruining holidays and removing religion from every aspect of public life. As this anger gets pushed down it festers and their children learn it and repress it, its very unhealthy. I’ve heard more stunning anti semtic things in the last two years than I heard in all of the 1980s. It just pours out of people when you wink and give them persmission to let it out. That’s not healthy, we’re moving backwards. You do let people speek freely here and thats a great thing, but you then let intelligent dialogue be undermined with crap,that discredits everthing good that can come out of your blog.
I will give you one more week to fix this, in the meantime I will not post again. Anyone using my name is an imposter until next Friday night, when I will reappear to what will hopfully be a blog with some controls. Otherwise I’m never coming back. I will go the way of the late great Jack Russell… never to be heard from again.
As Spike Lee once said Larry- Do the right thing!
My nose is large, but I still get paid.
I’m the one who said “Grab em in the biscuits”.
I bet my brother $1 that George will be back posting as a sock puppet again within a day.
I’m following George’s lead. I’m out until next Friday as well.
Puppets are fine. Impersonators are wrong.
George-If you’re betting today go with the filly.Of course,this comes from the guy who’s horse was next to last in the Derby,the reason I was bitter in my response to you.
My last post ’til topic change.
I bet my brother $1 that the other,other, other jim and Yankee Air Pirate will be back posting as sock puppets within a day. I know I will win the bet because I am one of them.
YAP, nice call on the philly. George bet on her,but more because he believes in the jockey, what a bold statement to say your going to win,and go out and do it like he did. Calvin is quite a character.
George also sends his thanks to OOOJ for joining him in protest to Larry’s inability to control his own blog, he either doesnt care or is too cheap to add the enhancement of a login ID to screen the nonsense. George and I will be watching the close of SNL tonight with Will Farell, should be good. Did George ever tell you guys that he briefly wrote for SNL many years ago? Probably not because it was during the very bad period and he was fired, Lorne hated him. He wrote a skit where John Laroquett referred to a resturant in disgust as “having a lot of Jews” the skit was hysterical and edgy at the time, you’d have to see it to get the joke. Anyway,that’s George, he’s actually a decent smart guy who had a serious drug problem and ruined his promising career, but I don’t know why he wastes his time here.He’s now working on a sitcom,with lots of blacks, Jews, and gays set in NYC, very funny edgy script, addresses a lot of political correctness in post racial america.its a “black” comedy about serious issues too. Hopefully he can sell it, might be too much for network TVright now,but 30 Rock is getting away with alt, so they may be receptive to taking it up a notch by 2010.
Buy pig bellies at $64.
oooj, what took you so long to get the hell out of here?
well i run her hot on up the outside after we broke, she settled and cooled in the turn ,the dirt was hard but i got out front and i knew we was there, she started to sweat and i had to hit her a few times then we was home.
I am the most obnoxious weekend anchor ever to be on Today Show. Lester Holt hates me and all I do is try to be funny and bring every topic back to myself. I think I’m hot even though I’m not and am a legend in my own mind. Lots of people say I’m a female Larry Kane. That’s why I came here to see who he is. Do viewers really hate me that much?
Lynn Abraham said I am unqualified, what does Larry Kane think? My name is Seth, so I must be good, the next Josh Shapiro. McCaffrey is really good but he doesnt have Larry’s endorsesment, Shamus McCafrey is even better, but Larry never talks about him. The McCaffrey boys should change their names to something from the old testamnent so he will notice them.
Ed, why don’t you get the hell out of here too. We don’t really like you anyway. May want to use the extra time to get a job.
P.S. I’m masturbating right now.