ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Are we celebrating something today? If so, Kelso's not sure what. He is led to believe that something happened four years ago but for the life of him he cannae remember what.
So, it's a normal Sunday. Kelso will do his work, take his son somewhere fun for the afternoon, toss a ball in the park with Kelso Jr and Kelso Sr, have an early Chinese dinner and play poker at the club. May see some pro football and baseball up his folks' place.
So, does the date 9/11 have any meaning to Kelso? No, it dinnae. Kelso dinnae care. Scottish intentional throughout. Another nice way to "celebrate" 9/11 might be to eat some cheap pills, chase them down with a few pints of bitter and bury one's head in a paper bag full Tester's Glue. Fight your own side in the "War On Drugs" by putting a real nice head on. Then, sleep it off for 12 hours or so and it won't be 9/11 anymore. It will be 9/12.
The White House is somehow trying to tie Hurricane Katrina to that thing that happened. Kelso has some sense that the public isn't buying. The Tissue Of Lies, he's not so sure about. Nevertheless, if Kelso were a Republican operative, he'd advise the administration to continue doing exactly what it's doing and then hope like hell Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, because as Kelso has said before, ANY of Allen, Hagel or Sanford will clean her clock for her.
Enough of that. Time for a little roundup. NCAA football a mixed bag, 3-3 with the juice lost. Kelso saw a new Chinese movie last night called "2046". Went completely over Kelso's head, but then again Kelso lacks the knowledge of Chinese culture to appreciate these things. Kelso found the movie to be a pretty wan melodrama, a movie about sex and love that was strangely sexless. Is this kind of prudery a result of the influence of the Communist regime? Got Kelso baffled. But then again, he's suspicious of anything Chinese (not Asian-American!!!) because of the way those boys from SUNY made a billion dollars fading Feng Shui and Lucky Numbers by using a fairly simple computer model to play the Sha Tin and Happy Valley horse racing in Hong Kong. This, for Kelso, is kind of like Winston Churchill's 13th chime on a clock that calls into question everything that's come before and everything yet to come. Kelso's a Cartesian and is going to stay that way. He reckons a couple of billion Chinese CAN be wrong. And given their penchant for religion, a couple of hundred million Americans can also be wrong.
Looks like Curt Schilling has taken Kelso's advice and has shut the fuck up about matters that don't concern him and has indeed concentrated on getting his fastball over. In other words, Red Sox 9 Rudy Giuliani's Girls 2 with Schilling turning in 8 sparkling innings. Lovely. Here's the pretty bow that ties it all together. How nice would it be for the Girls to miss the playoffs, the courageous play of the Girls, of course, having helped NYC overcome it's grief over the tragedy that befell it on 9/11/01? What rot.
Kelso's Nuts love you.
LATE POSTCRIPT: The Weld debate continues in the greater Kelso family. Kelso mere has expressed concern over this bit of business in today's Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/09-11-2005/news/story/345196p-294725c.html
Doesn't look like much of anything to Kelso. Weld wants the money for the race and the front-runner status, so he's changed one position (late-term abortion) which is totally meaningless because the procedure's so rare, and has been settled, though quite wrongly. Weld is NOT to the right of Spitzer or Hillary on this. Kelso has no problem with Weld's view on guns. And Weld is exactly where "Centrist" Democrats like Spitzer are with regard to fucking with NYC public schools and the Teachers' Union. Democratic (ha ha) Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is no better in this regard, and as far as Kelso Jr is concerned, so far, so good in NYC public kindergarten, PC approach and all. As Kelso has said before, with Jr's natural aptitude for sports, he'd much rather the boy be in public school than like fuck-ass Dalton because he'll have a better shot at a college scholarship if he stays with the sports. Kelso has seen the school's budgetary needs and will be both a willing money-raiser and donor, so let any poltician try to starve the boy's education with "competition". These guys haven't met Kelso yet. He'll get the job done, at least in his own catchment area.
In Kelso's fantasies, Weld will consider the fact that he has "fuck-you" money and will resume his normal courageous ways once he's heads-up against Spitzer. Barring any really ugly pronouncements from one of the most honorable polticians the Republican party has ever spit out, Kelso's still on the bus. He will, however, do some research on Weld's Senate race against Kerry, and have some more fleshed-out thoughts in a subsequent posting.
Incidentally, one of Kelso's business partners, a movement conservative, sez that in talking his parents into Weld, Kelso holds the lead in the Weld get-out-the-vote effort in the New York Jewish community!
4 comments:
I didn't even realize it was 9/11. Too much other stuff on my mind, including severe adderall withdrawal -- extreme fatigue, depression(who knew? my doctor surely didn't).
All fitting for the day, I guess. THE DAY. You are SO right about how offensive it is that a local catastrophe was turned into the spectacle that it became, and continues to be ... even in light of, and even in almost utter lack of deference to, the horrors of New Orleans.
I heard the City (or LMDC) has been giving guided tours of Ground Zero (because, well, there just isn't anything much to look at any more so they have to REMIND -- or rather inculcate -- people of the wretched aftermath). The tours are free now, but as soon as all the "tour guides" get their stories straight, they will be charging $10 per person.
RE New Orleans, are you aware that the paramilitary "security" firm Blackwater now has its heavily armed personnel roaming the streets? They have been pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan and some say they have been "deputized" by the Governor of Louisiana and others say they are they on Federal contracts. They say it is "totally new" for them to be working CONUS (Continental United States) and, by the way, they are seizing the guns of private citizens.
Am I going to be forced to turn into a pro-gun freakozoid? Is it possible that the right-wing NRAers have been correct all along?
PS --- what is the definition of "flopper" ... ?
G:
Flopper: in the game of Texas Hold 'Em, the first three of five common cards are turned up at once ("the flop"). If, in conjunction, with the two cards a player is dealt "the flop" gives a player an unbeatable hand, he was said to have "FLOPPED THE NUTS".
There's nothing wrong with believing that people have a right to own guns. Kelso certainly believes it, he just chooses to exercise his right NOT to. Howard Dean's views on this subject are exactly on point. If it makes it easier in this very Democratic city to hold that viewpoint, just think Dean and not the NRA.
The ironies, of course, build and build. Democrats NEVER took away anyone's guns. Republicans HAVE.
The first real lefty I knew was a guy in college who went off to organize Perdue workers. He was anti death penalty and gun control both, which I found contradictory until he explained that the people needed guns in case they had to ever overthrow a dictator. So Kelso's view is in the tradition.
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