The news that’s being missed, ignored and hidden is more fascinating than you can imagine. Do you have any idea of what you’re missing? I do.
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LIONEL COMMENTARY: Eulogium for the Possum. The Country Music Reference. The Standard.
Posted by Lionel
on April 28, 2013
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The reference. The standard. The clenched baritone. The baleful muted howl of incomprehensible loss. All set to a catchy beat. Incomprehensible. A toe-tapping ditty chronicling suicidal loss. A 1-2, a 1-2-3-4. “He Stopped Loving Her Today.” True, no exaggeration, the greatest country song ever. The reference. The standard. This is my most prized photo of a celebrity. And to call George a celebrity misses the point. This was December 1993. I look like a baggage handler for Air Morocco (and I have no Idea what that means). When I entered the room where George was greeting special guests (Ahem!) someone announced that there would be no autographs, only photos. Who wants an autograph? Of course I want a photo. To prove the moment. Pert near 20 years ago. You rarely meet those rare people who can do something so rare, so rare no one can even approximate it. George Jones spoke sad fluently. And remarkably could make it catchy. Giving heartache a 4/4 signature. Yabba dabba doo the King is gone.
And if you had any doubt as to the power of George … .
LIONEL AUDIO: Why I Loathe The Media, Facebook Insanity & 9/11 Mania
Posted by Lionel
on September 10, 2010
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America couldn’t care less about the truth, but it loves a party. We love a crazy Flawda preacher feller from Gainesville who wants to burn the Qur’an. We love to talk about an Islamic cultural center that we refer to as a mosque that is to be built at the hallowed site of a Burlington Coat Factory in downtown Manhattan. And the MSM will cover every second of it all the while lamenting that they’re covering it. Tomorrow’s the ninth anniversary of that terrible Tuesday when our country changed for the worse. Forever. And in light of the foregoing, please find this, my latest installment of this thing of ours.
LIONEL AUDIO: Weekend Review, Film, Obama’s Impuissance, “Mosqueteers,” Hitchens’s Big C, Facebook Illiteracy & Heartbroken Lefties
Posted by Lionel
on August 15, 2010
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The week has proved most fascinating for me. So many subjects, so little time. In this screed the following are discussed in no particular order.
- Film reviews. This week’s favorite is “The Sicilian Girl.” It’s a dramatic retelling of the story of Rita Atria: “how a 17-year-old Sicilian whose father and brother were both Mafia members (and victims) breaks the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge [Paolo] Borsellino.” [Source] When you compare it to the American film drivel à la The Sopranos, you appreciate the historical underpinnings of La Mafia Siciliana that are never even addressed in America’s basic thug films.
- Christopher Hitchens’s esophageal cancer and the absolutely ridiculous questions posed by some who wonder if he’ll now “convert” as death is imminent. It’s insane. If Hitch lost the Brit brogue, nobody’d give him the time of day. We’ve a British fetish. We attribute great cerebration to “limey lingua.”
- Facebook illiteracy. Nothing exposes better just how illiterate we are than Facebook. Just read some of the rambling, maundering prattle of folks. It’s a sad statement. What’s worse is how adults still don’t get the fact that it’s not a private communication medium.
- The chagrined left, chided by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, and how their boyfriend Barry hurt their feelings. Obama’s as much a “progressive” as I’m center for the Knicks. And how Obama had to reexplain his New York mosque position. Not good if you have to explain what you’ve explained.
LIONEL AUDIO: The Pentagon Mosque. The What?! Why Didn’t I Hear About This? I’ll Tell You Why, But You Won’t Like It.
Posted by Lionel
on August 13, 2010
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While a slew of well-intended but clueless folks protest the proposed Islamic Center within an unacceptable propinquity to the hallowed Ground Zero, always referring to the proposed center as a mosque, I’d bet that most if not all were unaware of a mosque of sorts positioned and located in the Pentagon. Not two blocks from the Pentagon or a mile away but in the Pentagon. Yep, you heard right.
Justin Elliott’s superb piece in Salon entitled “Why did no one object to the ‘Pentagon mosque’? cites a 2007 Washington Times article that speaks almost glowingly of the practice of regular Islamic prayer services in the very building that was allegedly attacked by Muslims on 9/11. I needn’t remind you whom the Washington Times is owned by.
Yes, Muslims have infiltrated the Pentagon for their nefarious, prayerful purposes — daring to practice their religion inside the building where 184 people died on Sept. 11, 2001. They haven’t even had the sensitivity to move two blocks, let alone a mile, away from that sacred site. [Salon]
During the reign of 43, Dubya and Laura were most ecumenical in their recognition of the importance of validating Islam. The Washington Times piece, replete with grammatical and punctuation errata, provides this perspective from the Bush Security Council.
President and Mrs. Bush host an iftar dinner every year because they want people around the world to know how much they respect Islam and the many Muslims living in the U.S. who are free to worship as they want, and are an integral part of our society,”[sic] said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
You’d think the anti-mosquers would have picked up on this and you’d further think that if they did, they’d be hard-pressed to justify the lunacy of objecting to the New York Islamic Center when the highest ranks of the Defense Department found nothing troubling about providing facilities within a building that was purportedly targeted and attacked by the very people praying. In fact New York City has more than 100 mosques, compared with 10 in 1970, and more than 800,000 of its 8.21 million residents are Muslims. [Source] In the U.S. there are approximately 850,000 Muslim Americans under the age of 18 in addition to the 1.5 million adults, for a total of 2.35 million Muslims nationwide. [Source]
LIONEL PODCAST: Why Pete King Is Right, Why Second Amendment Folks Should Be Watching Saudi Arabia & Why No One Cares About Africa
There are three areas covered specifically herein.