THE ALPHA TALES

From the real 1984 and beyond

By Dr. E.A. Richards, P.E.

Moderator: The Society of Alpha-Omega

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Winter 2007

DEDICATION

Dedicated to the Richards Family, in the lineage from Thomas Richards who left England's Weymouth Harbor on the Hopewell with his wife and family on May 8, 1635, later arriving in the New World, and ultimately to help found Hartford, CT, down to E.A. and Alice Richards, along with Marilyn, Carol, Todd, Scott, Marie, Eric, Michael, and Andrew.

Bless them all, then to now!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frontispiece: i

Dedication: ii

Table of Contents: iii

Forward: iv

Greeting: v

1. General Topics 12. South of The Border 259 3. Extraordinary 269

4. Middle East Morass 298

5. Whimsical 334

6. Reagan and Bitberg 367

7. Just enough History 371

8. Of Spies and Smugglers 390

9. Physical - Cerebral 399

10. The US and the Soviets 424

11. Science and Alchemy 434

12. South Africa in Crisis 476

13. Faith, Hope, and Clarity 496

14. The Philippines 521

15. Ingestibles, Recipes, Receipts 530

16. The Waldheim Affair 570

17. Literary 578

18. Viet Nam 610

Epilogue 612

References: 613

Pages: 621

FORWARD

THE ALPHA-OMEGA GATHERING

Name it what you will, Discussion Society, Debating Group, Roman Forum, Greek Peripatetics, Philosophical Metaphysics, Gossiping Bunch; by whatever term used, the Society of Alpha-Omega presented a unique forum for member interaction on the issues of the day.

Such interchange was natural to the thinking, communicating human assemblage, each participant deftly attacking and disengaging, parrying, cutting, and thrusting with sabers of wit instead of steel, yet with each intangible blade still owning an ability to injure or fatally wound a vulnerable premise, or perhaps shatter on an impregnable argument.

Consider the merrie companie lounging about the sideboards and tables of the legendary Mermaid Tavern, a capital group of the time's best and brightest, dwelling on the events of the day or year. There was many an evening when William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and their fellow players, writers, and intellectuals of the time came together, arguing and gossiping the day's affairs over a fist of ale, or a flagon of rhenish.

Contemporary Mermaid counterparts, such as the Algonquin Hotel, Lindy's, Sardi's and similar haunts providing jousting fields for such antagonists and protagonists such as Alex Wollcott, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, J.S. Perlernan, and a contemporary set of intellectuals, to regard and argue, accept and reject, slice and suture, in the same atmosphere of the Mermaid, albeit centuries removed.

The meeting sites and participants just described likely began as informal gatherings, and continued on driven by the wit and camaraderie of those present. In parallel, the Society of Alpha-Omega had its own beginnings at an informal meeting in 1984, when the reality of that significant year, and its contrast to the Orwellian version, was discussed in detail. The conversations were broad and compelling, developing such a pronounced degree of interest that A-O came into being, initiated to provide an arena for comprehensive discussion, with participation open to all, with argumentative input allowed from anyone or any source.

Perhaps to equate A-O with the greats and places mentioned is an arrogance; however, wit is wit, and exists where it exists.

However, to attempt publishing every speech, every conversation, every argument or every fragment held in the A-O archives in one volume would be beyond capability; therefore, this book will treat only the various essays, statements, views, responses, and comments, plus some data and quotes from other sources, generated during meetings of the Society by the very modest, always present, Moderator, Dr. E.A. Richards, P.E.

Greeting!

Horatio: "O day and night but this is wondrous strange!"

Hamlet: "And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are

more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt

of in your philosophy.

GREETING DISTINGUISHED VISITOR

Welcome to Alpha-Omega, the forum that provides an arena for various discussions, arguments, and opinions. Any topic is fair game; and of primary importance, is the fact that one does not have to be a genius to contribute on any matter, in any manner, and on any level. There is no issue, subject, or concept that Alpha-Omega will not accommodate. Be humorous, be serious, be whatever; but, be warned only that the Moderator will comment both objectively and subjectively on what you say.

Please note that the letters P.E. behind the name of Dr. Richards, stand for Professional Engineer, and their usage is compelled so that no strangers, casual acquaintances, friends or relatives will mistakenly assume that he is a medical doctor, dentist, or psychiatrist, and therefore independently wealthy.

Carry on!

1.0 GENERAL TOPICS

After the initial discussion of Orwellian possibilities, the tenor of the A-O meetings rather quickly shifted to topics of national, state, and local interest, and General Topics came to constitute the bulk of archived data. There was much spoken on domestic politics, which is natural, inasmuch as everything that occurs, no matter the immediate label, is basically related to politics whether directly or tenuously.

Life is political; sex is political; death is political. There is no other consideration. Siggy couldn't have said it better!

Moderator's comments follow:

BREVITY ALWAYS!

The Alpha-Omega forum, after due and careful consideration of certain regrettable practices which have recently been brought to its attention, is desirous of again reminding you of the fact - which has, of course, been pointed out on several previous occasions, but which nevertheless has apparently been overlooked or ignored by an all-too-preponderant proportion of our present group - that all users in this organization should make an earnest, sincere, continuous, and persistent effort to eschew and avoid all excessive wordiness, repetitive phraseology, unnecessarily complicated sentence structure, lengthy, involved, or obscure paragraphs, and other tautological and/or grammatical errors to indite or transcribe an internal communication of any nature whatsoever to one or more fellow members - just, you know, like you and me!

OF GEORGE ORWELL AND 1984

The author, George Orwell, was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India, where his parents belonged to the Indian Civil Service, and died in London on January 21, 1950. He attended Eton College in England, then joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, which provided the background for his novel Burmese Days.

His various novels, documentaries, criticisms and essays written during the 1930s and later gained him the reputation as one of the influential and important writers of the 20th century.

One of his novels, Homage to Catalona, was based on his experiences fighting on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell, a socialist, had joined an anarchist unit, and subsequently was wounded by the communists who were trying to eliminate their far-left allies. He fought the communists, but was forced to flee for his life.

Animal Farm, an attack on Stalinism, was written in 1945 and became a great success; however, his finest and most prophetic work was the novel 1984, in which he described a totalitarianistic society, a bureaucraticized state of the future where newspeak, a language based on the denial of truth, was the accepted mode of communication.

To Orwell, writing in 1945, the year 1984 was indeed in the faraway future, but because he feared the effects of an intrusive government, tracking everyone in every activity, being Big Brother to all, he used his novel to warn the world of what might be if just and honorable men took no action to maintain rights and freedoms.

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair...

COMMENTS ON ORWELL

Once could conclude is that Orwell may have been on the right track, at least in England, if world events were allowed to take their course untrammeled by wisdom. And if this allowance occurs, only Orwell's date may be incorrect; however, democratic powers, led by the United States, will ever take action to negate the imperialistic concept driving the Soviet Union.

In the true 1984, no Big Brother has yet shown up to take over in Britain and the US. And, if indications are observed, it appears that the Soviet ambitions are getting too big for their capabilities. If President Lyndon Johnson couldn't swing guns and butter during Viet Nam, in the biggest and wealthiest nation in the world, then how would the USSR accomplish it?

President Reagan and SDI may force the Soviet hand. If Moscow tries to keep up with United States talent and treasure, they will surely fail. They simply don't have the resources.

It is China we must watch...

THE CYCLE OF NATIONS

A statistican once pointed out that the average life of most once-great civilizations was about two hundred years. Each of these passed through the following evolutions:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith.

2. From spiritual faith to great courage.

3. From courage to liberty.

4. From liberty to abundance.

5. From abundance to selfishness.

6. From selfishness to complacency.

7. From complacency to apathy.

8. From apathy to dependency.

9. From dependency directly back to bondage - where it all began.

The United States celebrated its 200th anniversary in 1976. At that point it was in cycle three, touching on four. So far, so good.

ONE-GUN GOETZ

Many of us think that Bernard Goetz struck four blows for liberty when he tried to eliminate the armed hoodlums who tried to rob him. I think so too.

Throughout our own American history, the only thing that has really made one man equal to another was the firearm. Now, in our litigous society, the shysters are trying to take over that function, shooting off their mouths instead of guns, but inflicting even more harm in many cases.

Two questions:

1. Do you feel that the state should prohibit citizens from owning guns of any kind, confiscating those now owned?

2. Do you think that ordinary citizens should be allowed to carry arms on their person for purposes of self-defense?

My response? No! Yes!

ESSAYS AND ORWELL

Orwell was the author of several brilliant essays , written in his stunningly clear style, that were characterized as being among the best of type ever published. One of the most influential was Politics and the English Language, (1950) that linked linguistic decay with authoritarianism.

A four volume publication, Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell was published in 1968.

Sustenance for the intellectual mind!

KILL THE KILLERS!

Do you think the death penalty should exist in our State? Should the death penalty be mandatory for all cases where one person kills another or others in passionate anger, or in premeditation, in what is known popularly as first degree murder?

I think it should!

TRUER WORDS

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena -whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, a leader who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions- who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievment, and if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat"

(I don't know who composed those lines, but I wish I would have. It might have been Theodore Roosevelt)

BAN THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

It was stated that guns should be banned; but, my own thought is that if a law were passed to do so, and all honest people complied, who left would have the guns? Probably only law enforcement officials, the military, and the criminals. Is this a good condition?

I think what was meant about decreasing killing by removing guns was flawed. Crimes of passion or violence would come to involve other weapons, such as knives.

Mexico has had a no-gun law for many years, mostly to protect the existing government of the time from righteous revolt by the masses. Thus a macho philosophy based on use of the knife was developed, instead of the gun, and is just as deadly.

What seems to be said is that it's all right for the thugs to rob people if they are not professionals, and the victims should simply acquiesce in the process, meekly and humbly. I say that a few would-be robbers blown away by honest citizens resisting would go a long way towards cutting down on this sort of thing.

And if only 5% of the armed robbers are professionals, that means in one million armed robberies a year, 50,000 would be done in a professional manner. That's really reassuring! Nothing like getting killed by someone who knows what he's doing.

My own position is that if someone murders someone else he should get the death penalty, and let the bleeding hearts bleed away. Ironically, there is nothing that turns a bleeding heart into a gun/death penalty advocate as quickly as having a member of his own family assaulted or killed by some gun-toting criminal.

Armed robbers and killers are irrational animals who only think about psychiatric care when they are caught and their life is on the line. If guilty, they should be exterminated as quickly as possible. Reinforcement for this attitude can be found in the many reports of killers robbing and killing again while out on bail, parole, or release.

The NRA, a realistic organization, has a good one-liner that I can appreciate even if not a member: "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."

How chillingly true, but that's the situation in which some would put us.

TRANSIT LINE TALE

A man standing next to the driver on a long Milwaukee bus route remarked, "The county took over the transit line and the service has really gone down hill. Why, it's not even as good as it was back in Christ's time."

The driver laughed and said, "You're completely wrong; they didn't even have bus service back in Christ's time."

The man replied, "All I know is that in the Bible it says that on Palm Sunday Jesus rode into town on his ass; I haven't been able to do that since November of 1983."

(Sorry, it's the best I can do in honor of the occasion)

DEFENSIVE WEAPONS

Proposition: That any citizen who wished be furnished with a non-lethal weapon with which he could defend himself at any time, carried on his person either openly or concealed. Penalties would be assessed for use without cause, such as non-self defense use, but no penalty when used to defend from robbery or attack.

Of course the weapon involved is not yet developed, but probably could be; I'm speaking of a small hand-weapon, simple enough for a woman to use, that would render an attacker helpless for a short time, with full recovery later. How many strong-arm robberies or sexual attacks would there be if all of us law-abiding people were so armed?

REGISTRATION AND CONFISCATION

My feeling is that any honest person who wants to own a pistol or rifle or shotgun is not afraid to have it written down somewhere that he owns the weapon. What most gun-owners fear, I think, is that a formal registration list may allow someone some day to confiscate more easily, just as has happened in totalitarian societies.

In our state and city, we already have an effective gun registration program, a fact deliberately overlooked by those who would confiscate. When an individual purchases a gun he must fill out the various firearms forms involved, and the dealer also has his set of forms to complete. There is no such thing as simply buying a gun without any sort of identification. That, in my opinion, is registration enough.

It is peculiar that the same folks who would have confiscation seem to have the same notions, in the main, cut down defense spending, reduce our military capabilities, are pro-abortion, anti-death penalty, feel that criminals have more rights than victims, believe in more social programs, would do anything (including groveling) to accommodate the Soviets, who would discard friendly nations they don't like in favor of promoting unfriendly communist countries, who don't mind the tyranny of the Soviet Union but hate the fact that we are trying to win freedom for the people of Central America, and in essence, live by the old double standard. It all goes together where they are concerned.

GOOD, EVIL, YAWN

What if there isn't anything such as good or evil in the world, and those labels are used only as categories to segregate the breakers of man-made rules from the non-breakers? What if the Powers-That-Be just couldn't care less what we do, and what we do has no bearing on any future existence? I think the supreme commandment governing conduct should be: "Do not hurt anyone, but defend you and yours." That ought to do it.

DESERVING DEATH

I know how repugnant it is to people to think of taking another person's life; however, there is good reason for its being done on occasion. For example, a particular piece of Milwaukee north side vermin has sexually assaulted and then strangled a 14 year old young boy. The charges so far are ludicrous: 2nd degree murder and assault, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor with death as a consequence. This odious individual had been a guest of our tax-payers for ten years after raping and attempting to murder some woman in 1972.

How nice it would have been for that bright looking youngster had society seen fit to eliminate this piece of vermin ten years ago; the boy would still be alive and the tax-payers would have saved some money. Now it will cost us more dollars to keep him in prison for another eleven years until the liberal idiots say he has been rehabilitated and let him out for another whack at some other victim.

When I look at a dope-ridden sleaze like that, and see that the bail is only $85,000, I wonder at the scale of values of Assistant District Attorneys, such as you know who. Is a black person's life only worth $85,000? How much for a white girl, how much for an oriental, or a Latino? Where is the price list?

When you say that a human life should not be taken, I have to agree; but only if you agree that a fungus like Flakes is not human, and should be exterminated like the societal disease he represents. If he does go back to jail, and I'm not even sure he will, let's hope the other people there do us all a favor and eliminate him.

Let us also hope that no ACLU lawyer will try to prove that Flakes' civil rights were violated by the victim because the victim struggled too much. The charge should have been first degree murder and the penalty should be nothing less than death; Wisconsin must bring back capital punishment, if only to deter and/or eliminate scum like him.

NO COMMENT

I won't comment on the fact that you must have missed the meeting that agreed Alpha-Omega would be an informal society of people who can argue anything on any subject.

And I won't continue by saying that anything of interest is acceptable, and that Alpha does not categorize its arguments, nor does it care what discussions may transpire elsewhere, worthy as it may be.

You can talk science, politics, civics, poetry, occult, mysticism, the price of sausage at Kohls, prehistory, future history, biblical history, space visitors, Dr. Who, movies, any likes or dislikes, science fiction, non-fiction, non-science fiction, or about anything or anyone else - as long as you can take the flack. Personal attacks are not forbidden, if you feel strongly enough, just keep the language non-scatological. You are very welcome, but too new to voice in-depth criticism.

POUR!

Come fill the cup, and in the fire of spring,

The bird of time has just left the runway,

And he can't fly on one wing.

Make it two fingers each! (One finger is not a drink, it is an opinion)

YOU ARE FORTUNATE!!

How lucky you tempered your last response; I was about to unleash my squad of Killer Tomatoes after you - they are straining at the stem! (And you know how deadly strained tomatoes are; almost as bad as herniated tomatoes. I would have loved seeing them catsup to you, and paste you in the mouth. What a tomato surprise)

CODDLED YEGGS

I don't really follow religiously all the precepts of the Bible, even though some may. My position is that certain crimes against other human beings place the perpetrators into a sub-human, bestial, class, and that the elimination of the perpetrators lives is a boon to the rest of humanity.

The animal that was just sentenced to 100 years in jail for the show-off rape should have been executed; had you been the victim the odds are that you might feel the same way.

One of the world's flakes in the news recently sexually molested, then killed, a 14 year old boy. Is this hmsl (homosexual) hominid a human? Should he be allowed to live? Not in my scale of values. A long jail sentence to those collective freaks is simply free room and board. And sending the flake to a male prison is like sending some happy youth to girls' camp, or Vassar.

BONANZA

Back in 1949 when you were still a fignewton of someone's imagination, three of us pilots formed a partnership and bought a Beech Bonanza thin wing for 7750 dollars. Know what that exact same plane would cost today?

We also got a Republic Seabee later on (215 hp Franklin, slower than hell) with which we had nothing but fun on the lakes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada. This aircraft also cost under 7500 dollars in '49. They're difficult to find (I think old Tommy Bartlett still has one up in the Dells area) because South American bush pilots bought a lot of them, installed a 500 hp engine, and used them to get in and out of rivers and lakes in jungle areas. With a whole 500 horses pushing, they must really junp off the water.

THE WRONG MAN?

I would find it a matter of grave concern if the courts had convicted the wrong man and executed him. However, this is a rarity. Generally in capital cases the evidence is compelling for guilt. Perhaps the weight of the evidence should be under consideration by the sentencing judge, and/or an appellate court addressing each particular capital sentence. In the case of the show-off rapist or the boy-killer, the evidence would appear to be adequate to justify a death penalty.

EVER RISING....

If hot air rises then you must reach the heights. As I told you in past communications, your favorite sport is building those phony straw men and then revel in knocking down your own creations. Had you read Abe Lincoln's Gettysburg address with the same fervor you read a couple notes on DMSO, your rendition would take up more volumes than Anthony Adverse.

I can't believe that you would grasp at a few of those leftover straws (God knows the leftover ones are few and far between considering your usage) like the laetrile idiocy. I really call that the pits of logic. It would seem as though there were no efficacy in laetrile except that of the placebo syndrome inasmuch as there is little if any laetrilian proof of cure or remission. However there have been positive results with DMSO.

Your thoughts on the subject (among other subjects) are reminiscent of the scientist who proved mathematically beyond a shadow of a doubt that the bumblebee could not fly, yet the ignorant bee just keeps buzzing along not knowing it should not have got off the ground.

Now, you may simply be instigating for effect. I hope that's the way it is, because if you are writing from the head and heart, you may need liberal applications of DMSO over the frontal area. But, knowing well your obviously conditioned reflex towards the stuff, use instead a bit of liniment. It will make your head smart for a while, but perhaps that's not all bad.

GOOD-BYE PAN AM?

It appears as though a pioneer air line is going to figuratively crash in a few weeks. Pan American has been operating in the red by a few million dollars a year, barely staying in business in hope of achieving a profit in future days.

Now, a two-bit union with a death-wish has convinced the suckers belonging to its organization that they should go on strike to force the company to pay them higher wages while the company loses money. Ridiculous!

It's sad to note, but it seems that one more airline is destined to be no more; how can any of the executives of that line realistically expect to continue losing even more money? My suggestion would be to close up shop, sell the airplanes and/or the real estate, and count the money. Let the unions and their dupes find other jobs - if they can.

Heartless? Maybe, but when a man who has a job that pays the wages air line employees get, and gives it up through a strike, he's not too bright. One other alternative would be for Pan Am to fire the strikers and hire new workers. This would work if the government or courts didn't get involved, but that proposition is too iffy.

Saddest of all is the fact that the pilots say they will honor the picket lines. Well, they can always go from a $120,000 a year left-seat job to a $20,000 job as whatever, if they can get one.

It doesn't make any sense? Well, not much does in these times where the unions are concerned. They are building the erasers to rub themselves out of the national picture; they'll go with a whimper!

GILDING THE FLYWAYS

I can still remember when a little outfit called Wisconsin Central Airlines started up with its main flights to Chicago, MKe, Madison, Green Bay, and points between. They were an eager bunch and worked those DC-3's to death. Then came the horizontal twins and they were off and running into the big time. Next they took a close look at the Wisconsin tax laws and fled to Minneapolis becoming North Central.

After a few years the service began to sag along with the passenger bookings. It was the same way with another podunk line called Southern, and a marriage was made which ended up as Republic.

What changes have been made? Well, back in North Central days a one-way trip to Chicago cost $8.00; now it's about 5 times that much, but you can save 9 minutes a trip. A flight to Green Bay was once $8.50, but in this day it's better to drive.

Incidentally, one of the significant reasons for Pan Am's past losses was the high cost of fuel; now that fuel is down, and the company could make a buck, the union greedies want theirs first, profits or not.

THINLY PROFOUND

Did you know that the human skin varies from .02 inches on the eyelids to .17 inches or more on the soles and palms?

And among individuals, some have thicker skins than others.

BRAIN FOOD

When you get to the student's paradise, and you're sitting in the Union or the Library at 11:30 pm boning up for a quiz at 7:15 am the next day, the importance of proper diet will become one of the least significant objectives in real time as you wolf down a cold sandwich, lousy hamburger, or chips, along with a gallon of coffee.

As you progress along the first four years, visions of dietary excellence will not dance through your stomach except as an afterthought on breaks or vacation. There will be plenty of time later to consider proper eating; get the sheepskin first!

MY OWN COLLEGE DIET

I take strong exception to your statements concerning the results of my college diet, even though long ago, even though in use since then. I have a magnificent body!

It's down here underneath this one.

MEATY OF THE MINDS?

I don't want to hear it for raw nuts and fresh fruits; the less publicity for the San Francisco life style, the better. Vegetables are OK, though, so here's one cheer for broccoli (collie flower is a dog, however). Are you implying you will indulge in underprocessed foods from now on? Watch out for the terrible ptomaines! If I could spell czrnina I'd tell you to stay away from that also. (Let's see: charnina, czarnena, czharnina, charneena... Oh, what the hey, Polish duck blood soup)

LUNACY IN IRAN

Far be it from me to attack anyone's religion, but the nonsense expressed by the Ayatolla How-many really repels me.

On the news this evening I saw the buses in Teheran taking martyr bands of 10 to 15 year old peasant youngsters to the front lines so they could walk through enemy mine fields and locate active mines with their bodies to let the tanks pass through safely.

One of the kids had a sneak attack of common sense and jumped off the bus, crying. I hope they didn't shoot him!

All of those idiots who worked so hard to get the Shah of Iran deposed, the white government out of Rhodesia, Somoza out of El Salvador, Batista out of Cuba, are now working to get the white government out of South Africa, and Marcos out of the Philippines. They always know what is best for other countries, even if the people hurt later, as in the nation of Ethiopia.

Why is it that the do-gooders of the world see so much evil they want to change another nation's system, except for those nations where Marxism oppresses its people, or in the case of Iran, where the How-many loonies prevail?

The Iranian dictators call America the 'great satan' and say they will martyr themselves in any attack against the US. I say it's time for the President to have US forces assist in a mass, How-many martyrism, and the sooner the better - maybe we can save some of those bright, young Iranian kids.

CURVED LEARNING

Any child in the learning process should be told that what they are being taught represents the facts as seen at that point in time. If they are told that a scientific principle works at present, but they don't have to believe it works, that is not opening his horizons, it is closing them with confusion.

Simply because a child is taught a bedrock of knowledge to date, that fact cannot limit his imagination. Anything can be questioned, that is, if the child has the intellectual capability which drives him to ask the questions.

Man has nothing to inhibit him except inhibition itself....to paraphrase.

FOLLOW-UP

In follow-up to the last part of your argument, there are any number of aboriginal tribes left in the world whose children have a splendid opportunity to develop imaginative theories without having had the orthodox rules of present science thrust upon on them.

Haven't heard much from them lately.

SHOCKLEY RESHOCKED

Back in 1956, Dr. William Shockley, along with Walter Brattain and Dr. Bardeen, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their efforts in the development of the transistor.

For this scientific feat, well-deserved praise and honors were given to Dr. Shockley, and the world was at his feet - that is, until Schockley branched off into an anthropological area, considered out of his limit of expertise, when he stated that after studying the races of the world it was his conclusion that the mental abilities of the blacks were slightly inferior to those of the whites.

That is when hell broke loose in the 3rd world and the US black community!

Dr. Shockley reverted from an erudite individual, gifted in science, to a dastardly racist, having no worthwhile redeeming value. It is a reputation he is tarred with even today, even though he provided statistics to reinforce his point.

My opinion? There are dolts and geniuses in all racial groups

NO JUSTICE FOR POLICE OFFICERS

The grim news concerning the shooting death of two of Milwaukee's Finest is certainly a tragedy. One of the factors in the Officer's killings could well have been the split second of forebearance episodes like the Bell case and others have caused in such situations.

Already the brayings of Laura Liberal, a notorious advocate of gun control and gun confiscation has been heard in the hinterland. She wants to pass another law against guns on county property. I'm sure the crooks will really pay attention to her nonsense.

Where are the millions that the dead officer's families might collect from the black community?

You're right!

GOVERNMENT ETHICS

On the wall in tiny U.S. Government office in Washington, D.C., is mounted a dusty, age-yellowed poster which has the following on it:

CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Any person in Government Service should:

1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or government department.

2. Uphold the Constitution, laws and legal regulations of the U.S. and of all governments therein and never be a party to their invasion.

3. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay, giving to the performance of his duties his earnest effort and best thought.

4. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished.

5. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never accept, for himself or his family, favors [or] benefits [under] circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of his governmental duties.

6. Make no private promises of any kind binding on the duties of office, since a government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.

7. Engage in no business with the government, either directly or indirectly, which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of his governmental duties.

8. Never use any information coming to him confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means of making private profit.

9. Expose corruption wherever discovered.

10. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.

NOTE: The above Rules of Ethics apply to anyone in government service at any level, except for the President, Senators, Representatives, and their staffs, persons that are appointed by the foregoing and their staffs, other elected and appointed officials and entrenched bureaucrats. Lawyers are automatically exempt at any level or status.

AN HONEST EDGE

There's one thing about the average buyer - he doesn't want to appear stupid in front of the sage salesman, especially if his wife is with him. This effect gives an edge to the hustler; the couple doesn't want to be embarrassed in any way, have their credit questioned (even though they may be far better off than the salesman), and try to seem more sophisticated than they really are. The peddler plays these types like a violin.

Having been caveated by the emptorean process once or twice in my youth, I've learned that rock bottom price (close to cost) must be established, and final price must be as near as possible. I've learned that it's no personal detriment to haggle like hell, and make impossible offers to find out what the salesman's bottom line is. As long as he can make something on the deal, even if it's a minimum, it's better than losing the sale. However, the sales object must be of value to even talk at all.

SAL PETRAE

Back when we were fighting the Spanish American war (or was it Korea? I forget) I remember they used saltpeter in the military food; however, with the proper provocation, it was rendered ineffective.

Actually, saltpeter is a catchall name indicating both potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate. Actually, gunpowder is made by judiciously combining portions of KNO3, Sulfer, and Carbon, boiling the lot, and carefully drying it. This is the historic black powder. Modern cartridge propellants are much improved.

FRESH AIR

You made a comment about the lack of adequate air purification systems in taverns and bars, decrying their lack of effectiveness, or at worst, their non-existence.

Anyone who has spent time in a bar remembers the smoke hanging heavily in layers where there was enough light to see it. But in most of the larger and classier restaurants there were just as many smokers but the air was much clearer. The reason for this was that the restaurants had heating and ventilating equipment to handle the load more effectively. It's one thing to drink and play pool or dance in a cloud of smoke....enough to drink and it seems no one cares......but to eat in a layer of smoke is anathematic.

So what does this imply? Simply that the big places can afford the type of equipment that can change the air in an area a number of times a minute for the benefit of its eating patrons. To equip a small bar or tavern with adequate equipment costs money in terms of capital cost, power cost, maintenance cost, and heating cost in winter (if fresh air is exchanged x times a minute the incoming must be heated).

Too bad we don't live in a climate where we can eat and drink at sidewalk restaurants or bars, but even then, there are other forms of pollution with which to contend, depending on air currents and neighborhood.

(I think it was somebody from the arthritis foundation who once uttered the immortal line, "people who don't want to get stiff in the joints should try to stay out of them!")

AW, POOR BABY!

You started it with your usual verbal flatulence, so don't go bleeding on everyone's shoulder. You may be somewhere in the range from far left to far right, but anyone to the right of Norman Thomas would still look left to find you.

You have established your position many times as anti: Reagan, Republican, Defense, Military, Conservative, and on some occasions, took the side of the enemies of the United States, such as the marxists of Nicaragua and their Soviet siblings.

You're fortunate you live in a country where even people with yours and other left-wing viewpoints can say what they want to say and still live. But I guess that doesn't hold true for the right wing groups, according to the news lately.

We all know what you are against, but not too much about what you are for. However, deductive reasoning can many times indicate preferences simply from knowing the dislikes, and your port side position is becoming more apparent with every word you say, drivel that it is.

In any case, Alpha continues to provide an arena where both dedicated Americans and those who oppose its principles can argue their cases, so feel free to continue writing. Our rejection slips here are only electronic and descriptive, with only your ego's being bruised.

Note: If being a fascist comes of being completely against the totalitarian communist philosophy, willing to strive against it in any part of the global arena, then I accept the label.

P.S. Certainly the Constitution allows the CPUSA and the White Knights of the KKK both to flourish, but I'm not compelled to like either group.

SOME WERE THERE

My dear wife, Alice, remembers the times in Europe, where she was born of American parents; she spent much of the war on a prison farm run by the nazis.

ONE KNIGHT IN VALETTA

Actually, the last, great Maltean Orgy took place in 1387 when the Knights of Malta threw a party with plenty of wine and slave girls, got drunk as hell, and decided on a glorious venture involving the fabrication of a priceless, jewel studded, gold bird as a present to the Pope.

I wonder what happened to it?

SAME OLD STUFF

I felt that the appellation 'Comrade' would loosen up your fingers but I didn't realize it would have the opposite effect on your mind. All those books you love to quote were written, in general, by cuckoos of your own port-side philosophy; it's like the cretins quoting the cretins.

No matter how cutesey poo you and are with your back patting billet doux, the fact is that your left-leaners lost the presidency, and a few got booted from the congress. We can only hope that the '86 elections throw out a few more of the leftist weirdos, like the flaming Dr. Studds for example, and the Massachusetts Mafia.

Say what you want to say about Reagan, none of it will change the fact that he has done more for the country as a whole his first two years than Carter did in four. He's brought self-respect back to the nation, except for those liberal losers who never had much self-respect to begin with, much less any respect.

I think your problem is that you speak out of your own context, if that's your idea of a good time!

(Sorry Groucho, wherever you are)

MESS!

I remember in another aspect I said, "These are the times that try men's souls..."

Somebody added women to the equation since then, which unbalanced everything

and made quite a mess out of US politics.

(Summer soldiers, and some aren't)

NO RACIST YOU

I'm thrilled that just because my skin is sort of pinkish-white that you won't hold the fact against me: inside I'm red, white, and blue.

That's more than you can say for some!

HOT PLANE

You were telling me about that nice Bonanza, a plane I can appreciate; however, I rolled up a few hours in the company Aerostar, a little 6-place twin that will cruise at 3000 around flight level 18. It wasn't slow, but you had to watch it all the time, even on auto. It's more fun to fly the Banana or the Mooney......or even the Archer II, which is affordable.

WELL SAID

Your most effective answer to the purveyor of poofery saved me a good deal of mental workout. My appreciation.

However, correct as you are - based on the facts - don't assume for a second that any of what you said will have an impact on a liberal mind-set. The peregrinations of the leftish thought process is invulnerable to the more direct route of truth. They believe what they want to believe.

Your point about past Democrat Congresses providing the bases for the present deficit is well taken. The overdose of Keynesian economic philosophy brought the country to an over-programmed society where the producers were working for the defense department and the non-producers. I didn't mind the defense allocations, I just don't like throwing over 50% of my money into the social-program kitty. In any case, prepare to be booked and quoted to death.

NOT THAT HOT

I got a letter today from the manufacturers of the Aerostar; they said that, contrary to what I proclaimed so proudly that our Aerostar will not go 3000 mph at any flight level unless attached to the shuttle.

That machs sense to me!

CUT TO THE QUICK

Wow! I'm sure you cut your party to quick, saying no one should blindly support any leader; but, when your Demos blindly supported Franklin Roosevelt, the people got the following:

1. More socialistic programs than in all of American history.

2. Thrust into WWII when FDR, to satisfy the foreign and domestic banking house interests, allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor to take place when he knew a day in advance it was coming.

3. Were sold out, along with eastern Europe, when FDR, with the help of his communist helper, Alger Hiss, let the Soviet Union gain tremendous amounts of territory they didn't deserve.

The list of nefarious deeds by FDR is too long to be posted here; the most positive accomplishment of Roosevelt's life was his leaving it, albeit much too late. Had Harry Truman been President during the Yalta conspiracy, the face of Europe today would be much changed, and for the better.

IDIOTOLLAH

Perhaps you noted in the news that the Iranians are beginning to riot in the thousands against the religious regime there. That unrest isn't happening spontaneously; we have a finger in the pie somewhere there. Maybe the Iraqi war is a great part of it but there is nudging from the west going on. The first few cracks in the Idiotollah's armor are beginning to show.

SAYING IT

Does your saying it make it so, the old technique of basis for disparagement? You weren't called a liar for citing the articles, merely for saying the publication endorsed the article. Where did it say that? Give us the quote from the paper. Whose source is discredited, and for what? Your pinning the entire philosophy of an organization on a conjectural hypothesis in one article in one issue is nonsensical, yet expected, from a world class straw man builder-destroyer. Many times the path to your conclusions is based on such a distortion of assumption and presumption that the result is ludicrous. I understand the reason for your utilizing the bubble simile.

You certainly have the head for it.

TOO TRUE GRIT

I had heard that the rescue mission helicopters took off into a blinding sandstorm. Having worked on oil lines in the Arabian deserts, I can tell you they are dangerous simply to drive in, much less to fly in. Also, having had some experience in military scenarios, I would guess that there was a huge operation set up for the rescue involving agents in place along the route to Teheran and inside the city proper at various strategic positions. There had to be safe houses, firepower backup, escape routes and contingency plans, the entire works.

As in many critical operations, timing had to be all important. It is more than likely that the choppers were forced by circumstance of schedule to leave at a certain point in time, and decisions had to be made to initiate. The choice to start was a brave one by brave men; the elements were against the success of the project. I salute Carter for trying. Just think of the weeks of planning and setting up for the try; must have been an enormous task, logistically.

NAY - SAYERS

The nay-sayers, like the poor and stupid, will always be with us, and I'm not so sure that old age makes someone know more than you do.

But there is a certain feeling of pride and satisfaction that most of the Americans get when they see the flag go by no matter what their age. I feel sympathy for those who don't ever experience that feeling.

On another note, the clearances in jet engine turbine blades with respect to the walls is in ten thousandths; sand will really scour the balance out of the jet system; filters help, but cut down horsepower and eventually cause an engine to fail. Even if reciprocating engines were used in the choppers, sand particles would have been a fatal. But, I must agree with you about Carter in general; his one great failure was probably his most shining hour.

BE PREPARED!

I completely agree with your self-proclaimed role as peace monger. But in order, as someone said here recently, to keep the peace one must prepare for war.

And as for the treaties you quoted, all of those dealing with arms buildup have been broken by the Soviet Union who used the time period involved to increase their nuclear and conventional armaments. It is recorded fact.

Do you want us to unilaterally disarm, then depend on the good nature of the Soviet Union to do the same? Not me! Their record has proved them to be untrustworthy in every sense of the word. Certainly the concept of all nations ridding themselves of nuclear weapons is commendable; if they would, we would.

But which nation is it that continues to utilize aggression as a key part of its desire to gain more territory, that foments revolution and terror in all parts of the world, that refuses to act as a reasonable participant in the world community, that causes its citizens to live in fear and repression, that erects walls to keep their people from escaping instead of others coming in? Not the United States. All want peace and nuclear disarmament; what are your suggestions as to how to go about it?

MID-AIR MEETING

What a great job that student pilot did to get back to the airport after the two planes collided, and congratulations to the instructor, and the planes themselves.

It's a tribute to the design and fabrication quality of the air frame manufacturers that events worked out as they did. And, somebody up there sure must have liked them.

CHALLENGE

Before we meet under the clock at midnite and exchange left and right propaganda, why don't you elaborate somewhat on the authors, their groups, their political positions, and their dull axes waiting to be ground.

Just as info, if one has 1000 missiles, and 5 warheads are put on each instead of one, there are still 1000 missiles, but 5000 warheads. Do your authors take this impeccable mathematics into consideration?

(If we did force down a Soviet recon, half the members in congress would wet their collective breeches, if doves wear breeches)

JUVEN'DULTS

I'm taking the liberty to answer your juvenile/adult question here;

My feeling is this: In order to commit the crime of rape, with all of the attendant physical reactions and responses inherent in the mature male, the male that performs with such must ipso facto be considered an adult.

In many societies of the world, the ability to impregnate is the criterion for adulthood. Perhaps this yardstick should also be used in a legal determination, at least for the crime of rape.

For other crimes, the definition is more difficult. My position might be that the mental and physical ability to load a gun, communicate to a victim the concept of money or life, and the prowess to aim that gun and pull the trigger might establish adulthood.

It might be that standards could be derived which, if met by the offender, would constitute his achieving adult status for that particular crime, no matter what his chronological age. There is a possibility that sophistication with regard to elemental life in the immediate environment also would be a factor in consideration of the adulthood level.

KIDS ARE THE VICTIMS

I agree with your criticism of the repetitiveness of the program scheduling. The best show in the world suffers when being shown over and over again ad nauseum.

And another thing the program does not really stress, as does not the little missing kids clips on WTMJ Channel 4 and others, is the fact that these children were not kidnapped in the accepted sense; they were children that went away with mothers or fathers (usually fathers) who didn't agree with some judge's decision about custody.

In Wisconsin, and other states, it has been historically assumed that the mother was automatically the most fit parent to have custody, an assumption not always valid. Even if the mother were a street-walker she would get the kids in almost every court case with such an issue. It just wasn't fair.

Nowadays, judges seem to be looking more closely at the custody issues, and in some cases award to the father, but not often. A father and child who are very close may simply fly from some jurisdiction together to escape a decision. Immediately, the kid is placed on someone's missing child list, even though the child is only missing from one parent.

And too many times the child is simply an emotional weapon that is used by one parent to injure another, looking on custody as a triumph over an opponent rather than really considering the kid's best interest.

I would say there is a great deal of heartbreak involved in all relationships which are forced to end in a family dissolution. There are many factors involved which cannot all be considered by a judge because of time constraints. Many times a parent pleads emotionally for the child because of the child's supposed needs, when revenge is the only motive.

There are many situations of tragedy in the world; breakup of the family is one of the more tragic, for both parents and offspring.

POOR INNOCENT KIDS

When you heard what I said, please don't assume that it was in any criticism of the TV show itself. It was a sad but heartbreaking story that pointed out one family's experience with a vicious animal who harmed them and their child.

My concern was not for those who post pictures and notes about missing children who have not been kidnapped but are with one of the parents. But, it's tough to discuss objectively what happened to the little kid that was actually kidnapped. Being the type that I am I believe in capital punishment for all such kidnappers of children, and would volunteer to pull the switch myself - even though I know I would have to stand in line.

THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL

The Milwaukee Journal serves a useful function in that it provides a service to liberals who can't afford to get the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the L.A. Times. The Journal reprints most of the items from the news services of the above named rags.

Besides, if I didn't get the Journal, I wouldn't know what the enemy was saying; plus, I would miss that reactionary cartoon about Daddy Warbucks, not to mention the Wiz, Opus, Andy Capp, Snoopy, and the upper part of the editorial page, good comics all!

WRITING ON WATER?

It's unfortunate that the Journalism fraternity can see only one end in their work - scoop the other guy. There is that kind of competition ongoing here in Milwaukee even though only two major papers exist - the Journal and the Sentinel.

Touching the thinnest of veneers on a subject does not afford a writer the actual grasp of the subject in any sort of depth. All that reporter was looking for anyway is the by-line, and he doesn't care about the necessary research for a comprehensive exposition.

WHAT, ME ABUSIVE?

Please don't stint on the question of inflammation and abusiveness on my speaking about the Journal; it was all intended as such, and the fact that it appeared where it did was a low point in my moderating career.

All kidding aside, I think that including some of the speeches of the members would have been a welcome addition, addressed to Journal reporter. I think that our group deserves some small attention because of the overall erudition and sophistication of its members, plus our its well-known feminine defender of the left.

THE JOURNAL

Of course we can agree to dislike the Journal; I have always felt that their stories were slanted too much towards the left, a flaw grown out of their old, socialist past. The religious section of all newspapers is a sop to the truly spiritual, and a phony one at that.

MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE WIRES

The usual procedure when a wire service issues a story is to do it in a long number of paragraphs. The local receiving it can print as much of the story as they wish, and alter what they wish, but there is usually enough pro and con in the wire story to go left or right depending on which paragraphs are used.

As I noted before, the Journal not only gets wire reports from AP & UPI but also from the major liberal papers in the nation; that accounts for the intended liberal slant of the Journal.

NONE DARE...

That book you recommended, "None dare call it Treason," wasn't that a fragment of a couplet along the lines of:

Treason never doth prosper

And this be the reason,

It treason doth prosper,

Than none dare call it treason....

I always thought Robert Welch was one of the kookier rightists after he said that Eisenhower was a conscious tool of the communists. But Phyllis Schlafly is one of the more articulate writers of the right, and one of the most effective voices of the patriotic faction in America.

BAD MOUTHING REAGAN AGAIN

The latest diatribe on Reagan and sundry is a capital example of unnecessary foaming at the mouth over fancied occurrences, whipping the writer into a self-inflicted frenzy through tired positional reiterations, as though the retelling would make all accusations true.

Fat chance!

What it boils down to is that the Reagan victory is resented so much by the left that they lose any modicum of perspective and simply blast mindlessly away in a mad explosion of anti-Reagan rhetoric, with some side snipes at people who favor the Reagan style. Analyze the words; it will help to explain some of the irrational rationales.

UNION MOTORS

I think that the description of the AMC problem at Kenosha was self-explanatory - the Union in its arrogance will drive the company under. Beside the Union, the second strike against the Kenosha plant is its being controlled by French interests. The combination of the two will be a knockout blow to Kenosha.

Perhaps there should be a plant-wide vote by the workers, not under the jurisdiction of the union, as to whether or not the cuts in pay and benefits will be accepted by the workers in lieu of losing their jobs.

My prediction is, if that would happen, the workers would vote for the jobs and the paychecks, and the Union would wind up with egg on its goons. I just don't think anything that reasonable will be allowed; instead the workers will succumb to the inevitable union death-wish, and vote themselves into oblivion.

REAGAN SPEECH

Even when he lost his teleprompter, Reagan came out again as a master of Communications. His response to the hecklers was appreciated even by those European heads of state who deal with the bellicose adversaries of their own parliaments every day.

That line about congressman walking out in time was a gem; unfortunately, none of them will ever walk out never to return. They all will be tied to their shields and carried out quivering and jerking spasmodically after losing an election.

Bitberg turned into a massive media non-event, just as it really was; as the commentators said, the network coverage was a masterpiece of media inadequacy, especially on the part of CBS. Of course, this point, dwelled on in tonight's Journal, sounded almost conservative, though their affiliation is NBC slanted anyway.

Here's to Reagan and the United States, and bad cess to both their enemies!

WE'RE ALL MASOCHISTS

Any of who join this forum must have masochistic tendencies. Just remember the personality changes involved: When we argue our position, we're masochists; when we answer dissenting arguments, we're sadists!

That's what makes it so interesting!

I guess my own basic sadistic impulses, plus the fact that one member's words are so figuratively jumpable, cause my caustic rebuttals. Some statement establish a graven premise with a built-in dare to disagree with position, no matter how indefensible it is. Mix that positional slant with a liberal dose of base innuendo and you have the basis for my kind of answers. It's the same in reverse...

COPYING VIDEOTAPES

Concerning the videotape copying controversy, I think the pressures of the marketplace will handle that. If the laws will be enforced in a draconian manner, consumers will gravitate to the tapes and programs of least possible problem. You will see, in the future, those items released by manufacturers without qualification, allowing free copying, thus killing the competitors who will be perceived as greedy by consumers. Just wait for it.

REAGAN THE DEMOCRAT

With regard to Reagan once being a Democrat. Back in the 30's and 40's, the Republican party was conservative to the point of extreme stuffiness, and could have been rightly called the party of big business and wealth. The Demos of the era, in spite of Rooseveltian Socialism, were a party of the people, most of the time.

Many old-line Democrats feel today that the Democrat party has passed them by in an inexorable sweep to the left; many of them have changed their registration, realizing that the Republican party of today espouses many of the concepts inherent in the Demo party of the past. As Reagan has said on many occasions, he didn't change - the Democrat party changed.

Take notice of the events to come soon; many Democrats, like the black legislator in Michigan yesterday, are changing affiliation to Republican because they think the Republican party best represents their views of the real world. I've been neither a Democrat or a Republican, simply a Conservative, but I find my sympathies lie more with the GOP than with the ultra-liberal Demos of today. There are big changes coming, changes which will rock them!

QUOTES

This morning on the news the Reagan repartee struck again. When asked by a network hack about his reaction to the Gorbyechev statement about the US being the one to foment trouble in the world, the Reagan response was, 'he should talk.....'

Instead of a five minute speech on why Gorby was incorrect, those few words were enough to say this:

Statements accusing the US of the world's troubles, made by the head of a nation whose raison detre seems to be one of conquest, are mealy mouthed lies obvious to all thinking people.

Not bad for a Pres who some dupes say is stupid.

KIDNAPPING

I suggested that the case was not kidnapping in the classic sense, that is, stealing a human and holding him for ransom. As for one parent taking the child from another, that's a tough judgement. Until every fact is known in the case it is impossible for a settlement in equity.

Last evening I read where some goofy judge had given someone's child to a pair of males living together as man and wife. If the natural mother or father had taken the child from them, I wouldn't have called it kidnapping, but simple justice. Fortunately the child was removed through other means.

The tragic aspect of the entire missing children situation with regard to one parent or another taking or keeping the child is that there can be no real solution because there is no longer a real family. The loosening up of moral standards in this nation is a root cause for the early breakup of families, another accomplishment of the liberals' decadent policies.

HAPLESS HECKLERS

I'll just give you one of the last; when the communists in Portugal's parliament got up and left as Reagan entered, he said "it looks like some of the seats on the left side aren't very comfortable." I guess when the leader of the world's greatest Republic speaks, the communists, as is usual, don't want to listen.

NOSTALGIC NOTES

I don't suppose you're old enough to remember what Dixieland is, but I was once part of a dixie band that played up at Devils Lake back in my old undergrad days in Madison. We had a trumpet, clarinet, bass, trombone, and if lucky, a piano player. We were an elephant band - lots of fun but worked for peanuts. Have times changed any?

REAGAN'S BOOK?

I didn't even know that the President had written a book with that title; goes to show how up to date I am. However, I feel that if the book would have hit any of the lists there was

a good chance I would have seen the information on it.

Controlled press? Not only the press, but also the distribution lines. There are a great many books not given distributive coverage because certain elements of our society do not want them publicized. If you want some examples, let me know after the meeting.

THE SUB FLEET

I would have counted the deadly submarines you mentioned, but when I last looked they were all underwater, and my scuba gear is at the wet cleaners.

(Was this Luxembourg's submarine fleet you were mentioning or was it part of the US navy contingent in Omaha, Nebraska? They really do have a US Navy base there)

USURIOUS?

Being blessed with the ability to read the printed word quickly, one of the more interesting diversions I use to pass the time during commercials is to read the fine print in the huckster ads. (Audio off, of course)

If you watch the Tapper Store stuff, it seems that the fine print offers an interest rate approaching 16%; for Nelson Bros. furniture, the very fine print lets you know (rather quickly) that the interest rate is almost 25%. I think that's over the old Wisconsin law defining usury.

I know that times have changed somewhat, and I realize that you and I and the rest of the Alphans would be wary of such a high rate, but what about the guy who can only read the big print, goes into the store, buys a grand's worth of furniture, then gets charged 250 bucks just for interest.

And this interest may even be higher when clothing is purchased by the minorities at some hustler's store who is not really in the clothing business, but in the garnisheeing business. When I worked at a car wash during my college days, I would have to go down to a few of these shyster places to get a release for one or more of my workers so they could get a check for food and rent.

While there, we saw that whenever a minority worker would buy something on credit (on scandalous terms) a garnishment form would automatically be filled out ready to have served if the worker was over ten seconds late on a payment. These joints had their own full-time lawyers working; some were company owners; all were in the human misery business, a profitable line then, and seemingly now also.

The most expensive words today are, nothing down, pennies a month.

WAVING THE FLAG

If the time ever comes when no one will want to wave the flag - it will probably no longer be worth waving. Let's hope that time never comes, no matter what inadequacies you may perceive in the system.

GUNS AND THEIR USES

We've been arguing this question over many areas, and I'd like to re-state my position and let you, and the members, agree or disagree.

1. I think people who use cheap handguns for robbery are reprehensible, and am totally against their existence - the people, not the handguns.

2. I am totally against legislation keeping the people from buying any firearms they wish to buy, except for licensed, fully automatic weapons.

I also deplore the fact that people are injured by handguns, expensive or cheap; but, I also think we should maintain the freedoms given to us by the documents written by our founding fathers.

BLIND LOYALTY

Don't think for a moment I was impugning your patriotism; what you stated about blind loyalty to the kind of people you mentioned is largely true. For example, Wilson promised to keep us out of the first world war but inevitably we were drawn into the conflict to pull the British and French chestnuts out of the fire.

Roosevelt was elected in 1940 on the promise to keep American boys home, then immediately did everything in his power to get us into the second world war. Why? Because the British and French interests were declining rapidly due to the deteriorating military situation, and it took the US to again save their butts - and their financial empires.

When Roosevelt said that Pearl Harbor day was a day that would live in infamy, we didn't realize that it was his own infamy with regard to American lives that would be discovered down the line. Roosevelt, by the way, was the President who recognized Soviet Union in the 30's, setting the stage for the aggressive communist plague which exists today.

Roosevelt was idolized by the millions in the 30's and 40's, and still is today by those liberals who can't believe their hero could do any wrong. The world is a sadder place because of the doddering Roosevelt and his communist advisors, Alger Hiss, for one.

Yes, let's look at the lessons of history, one of the more prominent being the detrimental legacy of Franklin Roosevelt, a socialist President who makes Richard Nixon look like a patriotic American saint. Why? Because both houses of Congress in his era was dominated by Democrats who would vote down any Republican who dared to ask for investigations of the liberal schemes - just as in the Lyndon Johnson reign.

When the Democrats are in control of either house, crooked goings-on are a matter of course, the latest example being the thievery involved in the Indiana congressional election, where they voted to overthrow the legitimate decision of the state in order to seat their liberal flunky who really had lost.

PLAYING FOR PEANUTS

It looks as though times haven't changed much. A dedicated musician just wants to play no matter what the money, and only a few hit the big time. I heard that the pay scale in Hawaii is at least a little better than it is here - they pay in macadamia nuts.

ANCHORS AWEIGH REVISITED

During an engineering job in Omaha some years ago, we always had lunch at a particular restaurant downtown. We'd get in there about noon and leave about 1:00 pm. As we entered we would see the Naval Officers from the Navy/Marine installation seated in their usual booth. We would also see them when we left, envying their military two-hour luncheon. We found they were regular navy stationed in Omaha. If you would like to call the naval commander there and verify this, it's 402-558-7909. Tell him to watch out for whales and icebergs!

HOME DEFENSE

Citizens who are brave enough, and prudent enough, to keep a firearm in the home as a defense against predators should keep some basic rules in mind so they won't be sued, according to a popular publication.

1. If you hear someone trying to break in, but he is still outside, turn on the lights; he will probably go away.

2. If he is in your house, use your weapon to disable or kill; don't waste time with a warning shot. He won't try to warn you.

3. If the predator is still alive after your action, and escapes from the house, don't fire any more shots if he is outside. If you merely wound instead of kill, you may be liable for civil damages.

4. Very important: Teach your wife and children how to respect and handle firearms; they are tools for certain jobs just as chain saws, axes, knives, and autos are - deadly devices all.

5. If you are liberally oriented, and feel no house should have a gun, or no family should know anything about guns, then pray that your house will never be invaded by one of the predators.

You won't have a chance to argue rationally against the concept of crime. Let me say

good-bye to you now, before it happens.

359 -1066

This recognition of the above phone number was written in honor of the 1066 Norman Conquest, when William the Second, Duke of Normandy, invaded England and established himself as King William the First, of England.

I note this event because it was the first time since grade school I have been able to use this information that I sweated so hard to learn back when Sister Florentina was cutting a swath with her ruler.

SIMPLE EQUATION

Trying to look at the problem from your standpoint, I can see many sincere reasons why you think the way you do; it looks as though neither of us will change the other's view.

Let me put it in terms of a simple equation:

Criminal + cheap (or any) gun may = robbery, injury, or both.

Remove Criminal from the equation, and the cheap gun by itself won't on its own either rob or injure someone.

Oversimplification? Maybe. But all the laws in the world didn't keep those MOVE idiots in Philadelphia from stockpiling guns, ammo, and explosives. I hated to see the place burn down, but I salute Mayor Goode for his stance on the responsibility.

There's a law concerning the purchase and use of dynamite; law-abiders respect it; the MOVE's didn't even care.

CSA

I have to confess that I am a full Colonel in the Confederate States Air Force, a short step up from former military rank for me. Our job is to guard the air and land within the borders of our beautiful nation, keeping it secure.

When I last looked, no one had stolen a square foot of continental US territory, so we must be doing a great job!!!

The CSA is always looking for good officer material. One of the stringent mental and physical requirements that must be met is for the applicant to have five or ten bucks he can send for his commission as "Colonel." If you can meet this demanding qualification, send your application to:

Confederate States Airforce, 5892 Denison Drive, Venice, Florida 33595

You don't have to be a pilot, military or civilian, to qualify - it only takes the bucks. Join, and you will be assigned to my squadron, the leader of which is determined by the flip of a coin. The loser gets to be Squadron Commander.

3:00 AM

Note: At 3:00 am every red-blooded CSA Colonel is contemplating jumping out of bed and facing the day. And shortly after jumping back into his bed, noting that the thick haze before his eyes which would surely prevent anything but IFR.

CHIPPING THE RIGHTS AWAY?

You picked an unfortunate time to discuss the Supreme Court's chipping away at our rights and freedoms, even though they only classified motor bus type units and did not address house trailers up on blocks.

The reason I'm saying this is that female Milwaukee Judge threw out a confession wherein that murderer 'Bobo' had admitted he killed the woman and the child. What if he is now set free? Is that the way you want the laws to work? Knowing you, I think not.

That so-called 'judge' really loves the rights of the accused; how is she on the rights of the dead victims - even if they no longer care. There must be a way to use that type of evidence......

NO PROBLEM

If we wait long enough the navy will not have to lift a rudder to flood out many areas. When the earth's axis tips a few degrees in the right direction, the heat of the sun will melt the polar ice caps, thus raising the level of the oceans.

New York will be under water, possibly clean for the first time, the Mississippi will be 200 miles wide or more, forming a great inland sea. Like the saw says, Las Vegas will have beachfront property, and condos on the Rockies will be in style. The US Navy in Omaha will be afloat at last.

The Soviet Union will no longer be a threat as they will finally have the warmth and moisture to farm and feed their people. Don't sell your flippers!

KORN

When we dished out the corn back on the farm I remember who most ate it up. Spelling and pronunciation were never my strong points, and I'm trying to think of any strong points existing that could be discussed. Give me a few weaks.

UNION LACKEY

William O'Donnell, one of the minor league mentalities of the county bored, won't let Coors beer be sold because the Colorado brewery won't let the union parasites in their plant.

Thus Coors has withdrawn their sponsorship of the free lakefront concerts.

O'Donnell said that his decision was based on saving jobs at Pabst. What an outpouring of horse manure. Coors has been non-union for years. Why? Because the workers voted that way; they didn't want to give a percentage of their pay to the union bloodsuckers.

This information has been available to O'Donnell for years. Why just now has he taken this idiotic action? Probably because his union mentors are pulling the strings on his back and moving his lips. Too bad they don't massage his brain on occasion; no, then he might have an original thought, and the union can't stand lackeys with original thoughts.

One of the other giant intellects of the county, Parks Director Robert J. Mikula, said he would not sell Coors, the reason being that Coors was a non-union company. Mikula said he was given the orders on removal of Coors, but didn't say who gave the orders. Donald Weber, who works for O'Donnell, said that the county exec gave the order.

What a trio of fruitcakes. What a stupid union. What a bunch of kooky union members.

Why are unions going down the drain in the US? You've just heard why!

WHAT, ME WORRY?

The picture of the sub-normal chap with freckles and big ears found on some old calendars, was featured in a 1950's comic book, and given the name, Alfred E. Neuman.

In truth, there were two such hill-billy families, one with the fictitious name of "Jukes" and the other named Kallikak. The face of Alfred E. Neuman was on a family portrait of one of those families, and was picked out by some hustler to make a buck, and sold to myriad printers.

The "Jukes" name was given to that family group by sociologist R.L. Dugdale, who had concluded that feeblemindedness, degeneracy, and criminality were inheritable characteristics, a theory since disproven by the experts.

I saw that family portrait personally in a high school Civics Book many moons ago. I wonder if the descendants of that family could sue some corporation for damages?

To anticipate your question, no, I was not in the picture.

POISON PEN

Perhaps you saw another of Carlson's poison pen cartoons in the paper today, the one where someone sees a bomb-carrying thug type in Philadelphia and another identifies him as a member of the police department.

This is, of course, the wimp-like reaction of the bleeding heart type to the Philadelphia story where the unwashed stenches of MOVE caused the situation leading to a fire breaking out and destroying a number of row homes.

What Carlson, in his infinite ignorance, doesn't relate in the cartoon is that the police dropped a concussion bomb on a roof-top bunker. This type of explosive device blows things up, but it just isn't an incendiary device; in order to produce the conflagration that was, there had to be inflammable materials in the area, such as gasoline, gunpowder, and the like.

Too bad Carlson has such a liberal, knee-jerk reaction to these things, with a lot less emphasis on the knee.

The fact that many houses were destroyed was unforgivable; the thought that the police caused this situation is inconceivable; the culprits were the filth from MOVE, and no others.

Carlson's rationale might be described as blaming police for killing bank robbers just because the robbers were trying to get away with the money.

We had better wait to get the entire story on the action before we react to the Carlson sludge; in his case, a word is worth a thousand pictures.

Curtis, where are you now that we need you?

GRINDING IT OUT

It seems that what you're saying in that Niagara of words is that First Amendment rights are only for groups that you truly like; but, I think not!

And, I note you've quoted me at length in some of your arguments. Good! Doing that adds some modicum of reason and thought to that tripe issuing from your sausage grinder. I really understand your motives in actions you've taken, but I don't doubt that the others will see through your approach. I told you once it wouldn't work to hammer me with the anti-semite club, and I'll tell you again you're spinning your wheels, as usual.

And all this talk about nukes and shovels and such; just answer one question - whose side are you on? America's or the communists? If it is the American side, then why are you continually downgrading our right to make weapons with which to defend ourselves?

And why didn't you quote the argument from that Chicago writer that caused Von Trier to defend what he thought? Didn't fit your needs, right? Too bad only your left eye works.

SECRET SOCIETIES

One more thing, , could you please name some of these secret societies of neo-nazis, fascists, reactionaries, etc., that you know of here in staid old Milwaukee? I'd like to see who they are and what they do? I asked my lawyer (a well-known Jewish, liberal, Democrat, attorney) what he knew about these types of clubs. He didn't know of any for sure. Help us out with some pearls from your vast lexicon of trivia. If you wish, say it in Esperanto. We must keep these things secret, right? Or, are those groups so secret that even their members don't know they exist?

MINORITY CONTRACTORS

I've been involved with engineering and construction jobs worth millions of dollars that use dozens of subs. In my experience, the minority contractors gave us the worst value received for the money. They were always late, did poor quality work, never kept adequate records, and just weren't up to competition with the regular companies.

Were they too stupid to work? No way; most of the minority subs were bright people; they just lacked the training and experience to compete, right from top management down. Perhaps one of thirty minority subs did quality work, but they knew how to work.

For most minority subs it's a catch 22, they don't perform well because of inexperience, and they can't get experience if no one will hire them on their own merit. If the Bradley crowd wants to do things that way, let them; it's their bucks. Just don't ask me to sit there under a Wisconsin snow load in January, with a full house bringing down the roof; it really might come down.

PERVERTED CHILD CARE?

When I mentioned that the fact that a child had been given to a hmsl's family, then taken away, I didn't have it correct. There were in fact two children turned over to those creeps. We can guess what kind of upbringing the kids would have had. What a perversion of the word family! What kind of idiotic judge would have allowed that in the first place.

Very recently I have heard that a major hmsl scandal is about to be exposed in San Diego, at a seminary which involved high level priests and students, and implied that the scandal would reach the Vatican. I'll try to keep the Alphans informed of the events, which, even though disgusting, should be brought into the open.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

I understand now; when you're at the meeting it indicates absence of knowledge; when you're not, it indicates knowledge of absence. You have really cleared things up for me.

Did you say you considered the John Birch Society a fascist group? Why? They always seemed a rather harmless patriotic organization. My own reason for not traveling in Bircher pathways was they were always so tight-lipped and grim that it didn't seem that anyone with a sense of humor would fit in.

What I was asking you for was the names of Neo-Nazi and other fascist organizations that you said were here in Milwaukee. Now if you know some, please expose them so we can all learn about them. To the Bonny Briar club the NRA may be a fascist organization.

One more comment; you seem to take everything so damn seriously; maybe you're a crypto Bircher.....

NO 2ND AMENDMENT PROBLEM

I'm still taking a whack at that old, dead horse. Can you see the implications in your statement? Leaving off the words Saturday Night Specials, you "see no necessity for the private ownership of____ " You are leaving a blank to be filled by any group who has an ax to grind (or maybe outlaw) for whatever reason.

I'm not arguing with your opinion, it's your opinion. Mine is mine, and I stand fast. It's the constriction of private ownership of one item which may lead to constrict private ownership of any other items some group doesn't like. The first one is always the most difficult; subsequent decisions on what's ownable will be easier to make, to the detriment of our reasonably free society.

In New York City, any kind of hand guns have been banned for years; the ordinary, law-abiding citizen doesn't have one; but, every crook in town does. Not much reinforcement for a ban on Saturday Night Specials - or anything else in the broad sense.

WORD PERVERSIONS

What really hurts me as a minor league crafter of words is that the hmsl's have taken a perfectly fine word like 'gay' and turned it into a disgusting label for their nauseating activities. I don't think hmsl's would harm 'their own' children except perhaps by forcing their un-natural life style on them, causing them to think the style was acceptable/

What I disagree with is taking two normal children and placing them with a couple of male or female hmsl's living together as 'man and wife' in a marital travesty.

My suggestion for a solution of the hmsl problem is to take all the males and segregate them somewhere, away from all contact with normal people, do likewise with the females, and let attrition take care of them. Legally thrusting children into a hmsl household is abhorrent to me.

MANY KIDS ARE MISSING

I can't recall relegating all of the missing children to the category of those taken by one of the parents; the case was pure and simple kidnap.

Also, having lived in Milwaukee through the Ed Gein story, I don't recall his killing any children; I think he was a digger, not a doer It boggles to consider that our present civilization is one of the most temperate, and that from the cave dwellers on people killed other people, big and small, by the countless thousands with never a remorseful thought. And except for a few relatively rational portions of the globe today, the killing goes on in places like Africa, New Guinea, Jungles in every tropical climate, and so on; human life in these areas is cheap; the more people per square mile, the less importance is life. The difference between killing in the aboriginal areas versus the more advanced areas is only one of magnitude and sophistication. It's all part of the continuing tragedy.

WAY ABOVE THE LAW

There is a group maintaining a workplace in which none of the following laws are adhered to:

Civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination based on sex, race, or age.

Occupation safety and health laws to protect the workers from unsafe working conditions.

The Freedom of Information Act, which, with few exceptions, requires public disclosure of government operations and information.

Laws giving workers the right to form and join unions and engage in collective bargaining, and providing wage standards for unionized labor.

Who is this anti-labor, anti-union group, and why hasn't it been compelled by the forces and pressures of the AFL-CIO and Teamsters to fulfill the requirements that every business entity must follow, a group which controls 47,000 workers?

None other than our own US Congress and Judiciary, who many times have the arrogance to believe they themselves are above the laws meant for the peasant classes. However, one of those who does not feel this situation should live on is Representative Lynn Martin (R-Ill.) who has introduced a bill, H.R. 691, to make the parties abide by existing anti-discrimination laws. How far do you think that bill will get?

MENSA

Many of the Alphans I see around here seem as though they also would be eligible for membership in MENSA, a type of discriminatory, exclusive group which sets rules for entry which cannot be circumvented by legal action.

The requirement is that those seeking to attain MENSA membership pass an intelligence test, the results of which, would place the seeker in the upper 2% IQ bracket. If you think you can qualify, write to the address below for the inevitable forms:

Margot Seitelman, Executive Director, American Mensa Limited

170 West 3rd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11223

It doesn't matter what age group you are in; the tests provide. Give it a try.

NOT TOO GAY

God help that poor kid who was exposed to a lesbian family lifestyle; I hope she can grow up and get over it.

How does she address the problem when someone asks to meet her present 'father?' It must be tough; It doesn't seem natural; I wouldn't condone it, if it were up to me (although I know it isn't).

I'd rather be a bigot than a hmsl any day. And who am I to feel that way? Just someone gender normal, but our group outnumbers their group, thank the lord. I just feel sad for them.

COORS REVISITED

A short time ago I mentioned the O'Donnell/Union fiasco where in a sudden attack of stupidity the Milwaukee County Exec banned the sale of Coors beer. The newspaper story also said that Coors had withdrawn their sponsorship of several concerts.

Well, the story was wrong. Even though shut out by O'Donnell and his union string-pullers, Coors will in fact provide the funds to follow through on the concerts as scheduled. That's a class act. It's only O'Donnell and his union flunkies that showed their lack of it.

EAST SIDE KIDS

Generally in every large city there is an area where the artists, writers, and other creative people tend to gather. In the rotten apple it's Greenwich Village; in New Orleans, it's the French Quarter; in Milwaukee it's the East Side.

People are less staid and inhibited in those areas; their philosophies are more liberal and less rigid; they have a much higher tolerance for the inadequacies of their fellow human being.

My point was, if books and paraphernalia having to do with the practice of amateur and professional satanism were to be found somewhere, it would be in the more lenient atmosphere of such an area. (Can you see a Satanist store cropping up in the rich suburb of Elm Grove?)

As for my position on the matter, I think any city needs an area where life proceeds in a slow and casual left bank progression, where a starving artist can find a place to write or paint or sculp the great American whatever. Why not?

THE ULTIMATE PAINKILLER

Death is the ultimate panacea; but it's so damn final!

HEAVY, MAN!

I guess I have to agree that most people listen to the music and enjoy it without thinking of the religious implications or the satanist implications. Even us 39+ year olds who appreciated Beethoven, Mozart, and that bunch can listen to Crue and Maiden, etc., without flinching visibly nowadays.

Actually, it's difficult to understand the words most of the time, and the grownups don't really get excited unless they happen to see the lyrics in print somewhere.

But if the implications of the words must be taken according to content, then what about some of these lines.

Quote:

"When we are dancing and you're dangerously near me, I get ideas, I get ideas..."

or

"That old black magic has me in its spell, that old black magic that I know so well; those icy fingers up and down my spine, that same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine..."

These are only two of a thousand innocuous, for the time, lyrics that thrilled the listeners back in the 40's and 50's. They sounded great in the song, but in cold print, well........

No one said anything about satanism when Sinatra sang Black Magic. Of course the Catholic Church once banned the lyric, "Heaven can wait, this is Paradise," because it put the secular before the holy. Now look at the guitar masses going on at St. Rita's without comment, which would have been considered sacrilegious 40 years ago.

Sorry if I infringed any copyright by quoting the above lyrics; I don't really know who wrote or owns the songs.

NO STATUS QUO

What I take issue with is your position on maintaining the status quo with regard to our nuclear arms. I feel there must be continuous improvement in both the warheads and delivery systems. If weapon improvement were not a part of military employment in the past, we would be using blunderbusses as arms for our infantry.

Concerning the intelligence agencies, specifically the CIA, was it not the Jimmie Carter administration who appointed Stansfield Turner, who proceeded immediately to emasculate the Agency? Turner was no right-wing neophyte. If Carter would have called on the services of Soviet spy, Col. Abel, to try breaking up the Agency, he wouldn't have picked a more appropriate individual to do so.

MENSA

All right, you got me! I took the test, got a certificate, and paid for about three years of actual membership. Even got invited to the side group of snobs which dealt with the upper 99.9% achievers (stuffy as hell). The point is that Mensa is an achievement, like a degree, once received it cannot be withdrawn. I know of people who flirted about the edge of acceptance, retested, and passed; might depend on your day. Mensa is a great bunch!

LEVELS ATOP LEVELS

I'm aware of the Prometheus Society and the Megas; but consider this: after a certain point, IQ's become unmeasurable. For Mega and Prometheus, who makes up the questions and tests? They must be based on the first member's criteria, and allow in those with knowledge identical to his. I'll be glad to check the 4/1 Omni, as long as that date isn't germane to the thesis.

CRAVING

Better craving than craven! All I really crave is security for my family and my country; military strength will provide that security, no matter what be the totals.

MOVEABLE POSITIONS

Dogmatic ignorance is better than abject stupidity anytime, but you'll still have a forum here. Your positions are reminiscent of the Chicago weather - if you don't like it, just wait a while. Just as shifting and as shiftless.

Your statements live and die within a frame of innuendo and implication, with suggestion only as your weapon, thus allowing you to later state that it wasn't what you meant.

To you, error is any position contrary to your own. Attempting to wrap yourself in the moderate-conservative package is like the Boston Strangler coming out for women's rights.

MISSILE NUMBERS

Simply reading the numbers you posted as to quantity make me feel more comfortable from the standpoint of nuclear attack deterrence. You can argue the effectiveness of totals all you want, just as long as there will be no effect on the present stockpile.

If there were no United States nuclear capabilities, the Soviet Union would now control Europe, the Middle East, and be encroaching on Asia. It is only the threat of massive nuclear retaliation that keeps them from a continuous military attack on the regions referenced.

ZEN WHAT?

The number missiles required to keep the Soviets in check has no limit. There is no indisputable figure that can be set, and we really don't know how much is enough. That is the point! We don't really know! And if there is any error, it must be on the side of too many rather than too few.

I understand what both you are saying, and appreciate that the quantities reflect a concern for the costs involved, monies that might be better spent for other things in normal circumstances. Any would be able to spend that money in a way nearer to a heart's desire if it were available. But, until the Evil Empire joins the family of peaceful nations, we are bound to use funds more for guns than butter.

HOMOSEXUALS (HMSL'S)

Your objective response to the subject of homosexuality and its positive and negative points (no puns intended) certainly place the subject in perspective.

As you can see by my pejoratives, I have a completely subjective reaction to the concept, and revulsion at the thought of it eliminates any rational response from me. However, I'm sure you will be able to provide a more clinical discussion of the concept, and I will follow the reports closely.

WAR AND STRATEGY

In the 14th through the 19th centuries, battles were fought according to the principle mentioned, ie: a mass of soldiery on each side, a horn blast, and a fight to the death where the armies met. It was quantity versus quantity both in bodies and firepower.

What made the difference in war since 1914 was the concept of strategy, not that strategy was not used by Napolean and von Clausewitz, et al, but that the sophisticated levels attained by weaponry allowed more sophisticated and effective planes of strategy.

Even now, in the cold war we are in presently, strategy is elemental. If it is indeed a stand-off in terms of nuclear arms, then the various ploys of existing strategic processes are bearing on the quest for advantage in any potential conflict. The MX, the B1, the Strategic Defense Initiative - all are elements of strategy, all are elements denoting the higher levels of sophistication.

In the final analysis, the side with the superior strategy, considering nuclear equality in terms of complete destruction, will emerge with the advantage. Each side has a Damoclean sword over the other; the trick is to hold sway without cutting the string.

Consider that one of the basic tenets of the anti-nuclear weapon crowd is their fear of atomic war. Consider too, the paradox wherein they are anti-SDI, anti-intelligence, anti-military, and anti-hemispheric intervention in the protection of US interests. If, as it is felt, the nuclear confrontation is a standoff, why do the antis want us to withdraw from the non-nuclear arena?

That particular crowd sees no problem with allowing Central and South America, not to mention Mexico, go communist if they wish to, saying the US should have a hands-off policy. It is this mistaken attitude on their part which would bring the atomic holocaust of which they are so terrified.

BULL OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS

Back in the late 50's we received a periodical called 'The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.'

The claim to fame was the so-called atomic clock, which had a pointer edging closer and closer to the nuclear midnite. It seemed that every time the US came up with a new set of weapons, the clock was moved forward; when the Soviets did the same, the clock hand seemed not to move. So much for parity.

I wonder if the "Concerned Scientists" are a spin-off 'Atomic Scientist' group. I'd like to know more about their political stance, although I have a notion where their hearts lie. Let's see if we can come up some info about the group, and more importantly, their structure, leadership, and sponsors. Maybe he has it in his book of secret societies, although... etc. etc.

ABOMINABLE

Consider this situation: An F-15 is flying over our dairy state. Due to some malfunction, a small, impact-actuated explosive device is released and falls toward a farm below, where it hits a male holstein and lodges in its midsection, somehow failing to explode.

This situation can best be described by one word, abominable!

VIVA COORS

I say more power to Coors and the Coors workers who voted out the shady unions. Remember, this was a vote by the workers themselves to decertify, and a crippling blow to the parasitic unions living off the financial blood of the brewery workers.

To examine the need for a union, let's look at the following: if workers are low-paid, overworked, have no rights to complain, have no rights to say anything against the company, or just have no rights to do anything, then perhaps it will take a workers' organization with the power to strike

to implement changes.

This is not how it is at Coors! I know the company well, and the workers get top industry wage, and have the right to discuss changes, knowing they will get a fair hearing, and a change if mutually agreeable that the change is for the better. The brewery workers must think this is fair or they wouldn't have thrown out the union.

Much of the antagonism drawn by Coors is due to the fact that Adolph Coors was a staunch right wing patriot who hadn't much use for liberals and their socialist philosophy. It's his privilege to think the way he likes; in fact, as one travels west, liberal thinking generally declines, until one gets to the land of fruits and nuts.

I've belonged to some unions in my time; all they did was pick my pocket every week and extract as much as they could, giving nothing in return. Any company that can, should get out from under the union thumb, and let the workers keep the extra money. It could be said with much truth that some reasons for the decline of the American sales overseas can be laid at the feet of the unions, whose ever-insatiable demands of management led to higher and higher wages and prices, to the point where American goods were priced out of the market.

Case in point, AMC/Renault, where a modest company manufacturing a car which some feel is second-rate, has higher unit wages than General Motors workers receive. If they cut a thousand dollars from AMC sticker prices sales might rise, but who knows, the car is still basically unattractive to many.

As can be seen by the statistics, union membership and clout is dropping fast; about 27% of the work force is unionized, down from 52% in the halcyon days of labor. Unions are a concept whose time is gone! Good riddance!

SCHLITZ LOSES ITS GUSTO

The closing and subsequent sale of the Schlitz Brewery to Strohs in Detroit was a direct result of greedy brewery unions trying to drain the lifeblood of the company without regard to company profit margin.

While Schlitz may not have been the best beer in the world to some, it certainly had a national following, and some judicious paring of the high 27 dollar/hour labor package might have saved it.

But perhaps Schlitz management had a bellyful of the unions, and the stockholders just felt it was time to bail out. Now Stroh has the labels and the market, which was the real value of Schlitz.

Some might think it strange, but I think that Kalmanovitz is probably the best thing that happened to Pabst. The deadwood is being shorn away, the management and labor force are being streamlined into a tougher, more effective group, and Pabst may survive yet.

If it doesn't, it won't be because Kalmanovitz doesn't know what he's doing. It will be a cold, hard decision based on whether Pabst is making money. This is the way it should be. There should be a return on investment for the stockholders and the owners; the company shouldn't be operated merely as a non-profit convenience for the unions and the union workers.

FAR RIGHT ON!

I think that our momentary problem lay in definitions; what is far right vs. far left, and why is it generally all right for anyone to donate to the left but not to the right? Old Armand Hammer has funded more far left groups than Adolph Coors has funded on the right. Generally, in the US, people can do anything they want with their own money, within the statutes. And why shouldn't they, politics notwithstanding!

UNIONS DWINDLING

The so-called union movement is diminishing every day in terms of membership and financial clout. The women's movements, for all their bombast, are too smart to turn their dollars over to a group that gives them nothing. It's too bad the teachers don't see it that way right now, but they will. The teacher's unions were necessary to raise wage standards, but in a while the standards will be well established, and the teachers will no longer want to pay the dues - and they won't.

THE RIGHT PLACE

I think that instead of deploring willy nilly the fact of providing monies to causes in other lands we must examine what those causes are.

If Coors were providing funds to the Afghanistan freedom fighters, that to me would be a good cause. Providing funds to the anti-Sandinista forces in Nicaragua would be a good cause. Funds for the Solidarity movement in Poland, the Grenadan peoples, or anti-totalitarian groups anywhere - that in my opinion would be for a good cause.

Giveaways to any communist regimes or forces anywhere would be for a bad cause.

If anyone wants to give his money away to anyone else, it's his money to give; we may or may not like the cause, but for legally expending funds to anyone, there is no prohibition or recourse on a third party's part.

COUNTY BORES

It looks as though the hapless County Board has shelved any action on allowing Coors to sell beer in areas under County supervision. In fact, one of the county yokels was wearing a Pabst-ornamented shirt during the proceedings, according to the Sentinel.

The actions of the County Board in this case are less than juvenile, and may come back to haunt them later. Free enterprise system? Not where the County is concerned!

I think it would be appropriate for the Sentinel to investigate the purchasing procedures employed by the County Board to see if there have been any sweetheart deals between the County and the Unions - at the expense of the taxpayers. There have been rumors for years; perhaps the Coors/Union/Board/O'Donnell incident will serve to initiate some investigative proceedings.

PABST BREWING

I did some engineering work with Pabst in the past, and the Vice President of Pabst Engineering and I were good friends. I think Pabst has a fine product, and their premium beer is outstanding.

This does not prohibit me from liking and drinking other beers, especially Miller Lite, which is the best of the light beers in my opinion. But I don't feel that one beer should be promoted over another to the exclusion of another, especially where the instigation is provided by a factor other than basic quality or preference.

The elimination of Coors sales is a Union controlled ploy carried out by a Union lackey. O'Donnell was supposedly elected to carry out the wishes of all the people, not roll over for his ideological masters, Schmitt, Majerus, et al.

TAX REFORM

Like they said, Rostenkowski had a tough act to follow, and he did fairly well to develop a bi-partison atmosphere with regard to Reagan's theme on tax reform.

I would venture that the reason the tax reform concept has not been argued in this forum is that it still is in a form that will be vastly changed after passing through the various House and Senate committees, joint sessions, and the special interests that will plague it.

Ironically, Rostenkowski implied that tax reform was a Democrat baby that is about to be born; I recall that Harry Truman mentioned that tax reform was vitally needed back in 1949.

Some gestation period.

SCARE UNLEASHED

I read a preliminary review of that particular anti-nuclear program; it seems the producers are pulling our all the scare tactic stops; every minute of the program will be associated with death and destruction in all the negative senses, with the point being there is no hope for any of us unless every nation disarms unilaterally. I hope they watch it in the Soviet Union, they don't get many laughs on their TV's. It might be that the review I read is too critical, but with the advent of the scare-documentaries, I don't feel too hopeful.

One thing you can be sure of: all the doves and anti-nuclear power crowds will be given a tremendous forum for their succinct blather. Here we are, the nation that invented nuclear power for developing cheap electricity, and the anti-nuke crazies are using the courts and the media to slow down or halt this power source. In any case, I hope thinking individuals will see through the propaganda which is ready to blast off. The program is certain to be absolutely subjective.

SOVIET PROPAGANDA ARM

No one has ever accused the Public Broadcasting System, or National Public Radio, of being fair and evenhanded in their presentation of programs.

Except for a sometime appearance by William F. Buckley, the output of both organizations is strictly liberal, left-wing oriented, and the viewer is given this version on almost every program. Even on one of my favorites, Dr. Who, we get the bleeding heart approach - with some United Nations type blubber- in almost every sequence.

The PBS series on WWII was a Soviet produced vehicle telling how they won in spite of their hapless allies. The last thing we need on the public broadcast systems is their offering more Soviet propaganda baloney.

And, it was reported that the President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting resigned in a tizzy last month during a CPB meeting. Why? Because the Board refused to allow meeting with the Soviet Union broadcasters to buy public programming from them, whereupon some PBS stations then voted to contact the Soviets on their own.

It is well know that monies fed to the NPR people had millions unaccounted for, and no investigation was ever held. Why was this? Anyone know? If it happened in private business, heads would roll. What was it that kept the story a relative secret?

NPR right now has a $7 million dollar debt due to their abysmal management, and they state they need $14 million dollars in 1986, versus the $11.3 million they were being funded. Also, station management has given initial approval to a revised funding structure which would pass money directly to affiliates instead of going through NPR, thereby lessening CPB control.

It will be to the benefit of most Public System listeners and viewers if neither the Soviet propaganda planning nor the funding bypass is ever accomplished. We get enough left-wing rhetoric now.

By the way, that CPB president who resigned was Edward J. Phister; watch for his name in another cushy job connected with Public Systems, in which he will most assuredly try to get the Soviet party line into the broadcasts.

FANTASY DEFINED

I can furnish the link between fantasy and housing projects. A housing project is a place that furnishes cheap rent for those who really need it; the fantasy is thinking you will be safe in a place like that.

NUCLEAR WASTE

I certainly agree with your assessment that nuclear waste must be disposed of in a safe way; however, what should make us think that the NRC and other agency watchdogs do not try to regulate so that we will be safe? Note I said safe; nothing the government does can keep us completely safe.

THREE MILE ISLAND INCIDENT

Your note about the nuclear regulations and potential dangers reminded me of one of the items the NRC can't handle, and that is the possibility of deliberate sabotage.

At the time of the TMI incident, rumor had it that three months previous to the reactor melt-down, there was a brief article in one of the underground newspapers that all should watch for an important nuclear "accident" at a plant in the east, and all should prepare to take advantage of the event to help block the proliferation of new nuclear plants.

This was reported in some rag in the days following the "accident," then, very mysteriously, nothing on the subject was ever heard again. It would be interesting to see that underground paper; I think Fonda's name was mentioned in the article, but I don't know for certain.

MORE TMI

I've read a great deal about the TMI incident inasmuch as I was to be involved in a nuclear powered electrical generation facility in another country, a project which I later turned down, one of the reasons being the quality of the locals who would be running the plant after it was commissioned.

There were a number of suspicious circumstances surrounding the equipment failures, enough to raise questions about the efficacy of plant security. The question of sabotage was not raised after that initial release, but privately I'm sure that there were and still are thoughts on the subject, and I also think that more stringent security measures went into effect in all nuclear installations after TMI.

Having been project engineer on a number of complete high pressure steam boiler applications, I can say that the only real difference between nuclear power plants and conventional power plants stops at the point where steam goes to the turbine generators. They are similar in most respects after the heat source.

Most of the nuclear plants have reactors that fall into the category of either a pressurized water reactor, where a heat exchanger is used to transmit the heat to make steam, or a boiling water reactor where the water changes to steam and is sent directly to the turbines.

Without going into the details of the processes, suffice it to say that although some areas of the nuclear plant vs the coal/oil plant are unique to the process, they operate in almost identical ways. Steam is made and sent to a turbine where it releases its energy, condenses, and flows back as hot water to be again converted to steam.

Many steam generators in the high output/high pressure-temperature range running on coal are just about as complex as nuclear powered facilities. There are to 4 levels of redundancy in most controls, most automatic operations, and all are alarmed for safety. High quality people in the US and other first world countries are running these plants, and are dedicated to their operations not only because of others dependent on a high level of safety, but also because any mistakes on their part might be personally fatal.

If the failure of components at TMI was accidental, and no hard facts have come up to say otherwise, then it took a complex combination of circumstance to cause that failure, and investigation by technical people, and not congressmen or environmentalists, will determine a method of even more human and instrumentational backup to ensure there is no reoccurrence.

NUCLEAR PLANT DANGERS

The real threat in nuclear power plant failure lies not in the reactor itself; if there is a complete melt-down, cooling water would accommodate that phase of the malfunction, as it did at TMI. It is the radiation that causes concern.

One of the most devastating non-nuclear explosions can occur from steam buildup in a large high pressure steam boiler. If a malfunction occurred, and the relief valves failed, a large boiler explosion would level the plant and everything around it for an 8th mile at least. It would have the effect of a small atom bomb.

TAXING SUBJECT

I think the truly wealthy people are about one or two per cent of population, and the others carry the load. Some confuse being wealthy with making a lot of money in a year; there is a difference. Someone once said that if we taxed the wealthy 100% on their annual returns, we could run the country for less than an hour. Big deal!

TEACHERS FOR LOVE OR MONEY

Keep in mind that the individual who enters teaching to make money is doomed from the start, unless he goes on to achieve a full-professorship at some U. with a great number of perks and the opportunity for outside consulting work - plus TA's to pick up his slack. And only rarely does this happen.

Notwithstanding the Union, I still maintain that teaching is a labor of love that brings rewards to the dedicated that can't be measured in money.

CRAWLING OUT OF THE WOODWORK

If anyone wonders what happened to the anti-Viet Nam War activists you can probably see many of them next year in "the great peace march" scheduled March 1, exactly one month too soon.

International anti-nuke forces are developing a massive campaign which will include 5000 peaceniks marching from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., and a march to Berlin in which about 25,000 weirdos will be on the trail.

The name of this last dance of the gooney birds is People Reaching Out For Peace, or PRO-Peace, and is directed by David Mixner, who started the Viet Nam Moritorium Committee which organized protests during the southeast Asia war. He was manager of L.A. Mayor Bradley's campaign and served as co-chairman for Gary Hart's losing campaign for President. No more description is necessary.

P-P (PRO-Peace) already has a $100,000 in the sack and a crew of 30 people, and are raising more funds by tapping the pockets of liberal types like Paul Newman and developer David Stein. The march director, Stanley Perkins, is dealing with manufacturers of clothing items to raise money and hype the march.

Mixner said "it is the aim of P-P to create an atmosphere that will make it impossible for our leaders not to take nuclear weapons down."

He didn't mention how he would force the Soviets to do likewise, or what the Soviets would do if we eliminated our nukes. He said that he expects to use mass communications to encourage Soviet citizens to pressure their leaders to get rid of nuclear weapons. Where has this fellow been living for the last 20 years? Probably in a dream world.

In any case, the P-P group is planning a four phase campaign as follows:

Phase 1: The great peace march.

Phase 2: The civil disobedience effort in which plans to have over 250,000 people go to jail, like the Chicago "peace riots" back in 1968.

Phase 3: The march to Berlin, where 25,000 West and East Germans will be marching. If Moscow didn't like the plan, there wouldn't be any East Germans involved, you can believe that. (I wonder how many of the OstenDeutchers will defect to the west; and so do the Soviets)

Phase 4: Mass communications to the Soviets citizens to pressure their leaders. (Does the slave pressure his master? Not a chance.)

Well, get ready for the TV Toonervilles to go all out in coverage of this new crop of the sleazy unwashed. What I will be waiting for is the gracious welcomes the scummy tribes get when they pass through some of the western towns. Horrors! Suppose the townspeople are waiting fully armed with large supplies of soap and hot water? If I remember the anti-American Viet Nam marchers, that will be a terror too terrible to anticipate.

AUTOMATIC

Your automatic reactions invite automatic assumptions; it's easy to forcast your every answer to a given question:

If it's:

Reagan, you're against it.

Administration, you're against it.

Military, you're against it.

Nuclear, you're against it.

Conservative, you're against it.

Aid to those fighting the communists somewhere, you're against it.

Republican, you're against it.

Groucho sang, "Whatever it is I'm against it!" With you, the malady lingers on, especially when you glance in the Right direction. If predictability is a virtue, then you are a masterpiece of rectitude.

LOGIC

I still think that absolute logic is defined in true and false statements; all else is compromise; if it isn't true-false, it isn't logic!

THE REVENGE BUSINESS

Well, from the news reports it would seem to be a good day for the nazi hunting business. It appears that time and events caught up with Joseph Mengele, giving him the fate he richly deserved.

I believe that all of the WWII criminals like Mengele should be caught and shipped back to Germany for trial. What I don't care for is the professional hunters using the fears and experiences of others to feather their own nests and travel over the world to flaunt local laws in their heavily financed searches.

What I like even less is our government's using KGB "evidence" to try deporting those that are only accused, to the eastern bloc without solid fact to support accusations. But, I guess all's fair in the revenge business.

NORMAL

I'd say "normal" represents the opinion of the majority of a given group. In the Congo and the South Seas, cannibalism was considered normal by that society; in other societies, different mores dictated. I think it comes down to - join the mob of your choice.

I guess that if most of the people in a society feel the same way about the same things, and what they feel, they themselves would consider to be normal. Generally, the average guy thinks he is normal. Others may feel, as hmsl's do, that their way is normal, but not average. This is a difficulty in working with fixed labels.

COMPOSITION

How can I believe your story about the gases with the funny names like hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. I have an old Soviet text book here that says the universe is made up of earth, air, fire, and water, and touches on a new phlogiston theory. Exciting new discoveries are being made about the ether of space, even as you speak.

TAX PLAN

No one will know the full impact of Reagan's tax plan until the bill is passed and signed. Then we'll be able to comment. Congress will have it's porcine say - that's where the problems will lie. Remember the guy who said, no one's wife or property is safe when the legislature is in session; and, when it's Congress, keep both hands on your wallet.

BORED TO DEATH

One special method, beloved of most teaching administrators, is the old approach of directing towards the least of the class, whereupon boring the hell out of the upper strata.

And if aimed at the upper strata, any below are even more bored with info beyond their immediate capabilities.

The answer may lie in ability-based schools, attendance determined by test, for the low, medium, and high capables. The barriers to this may include both cost and resentment.

Yes, I was bored to death in high school, and except for athletics, may not have stayed. It was not until the college educational phases that I felt a proper challenge. The problem will remain as long as teaching is aimed at the mediocre and their slower assimilation pace.

NOW YOU HAVE IT...

The story about the guy who wants his cake for nothing, provided by someone else, is precisely the way our welfare system techniques have been ingrained in the populace. The old saw of not getting something for nothing, or the concept of no free lunch, is valid just as long as the government doesn't maintain a giveaway system.

Unfortunately, the four generations of welfarites in this country demand all free from the state, and at a level equal to the workers who provide the cost-free ride on life's railroad.

Maybe you really don't feel that way, but that's how it sounded.

AWESOME TASK

Welcome to you new members! That task, of course, is trying to remember all the conversations in the Alpha-Omega forum. Some might say the word is tiresome instead of awesome, but what do they know. Luck we record all!

As you absorb the arguments you will come to the conclusion that battle lines are drawn between the political factions here on Alpha, with times out for some homespun philosophy and general tom-foolery when the rhetoric permits.

Feel free to join in at any time, on any subject. So far the fatalities have been few and figurative. Blood shed in argument needs no transfusing.

As you plow your way through live and recorded Alpha you will also note the half vast range of subject matter touched upon by the denizens. No sharp objects are allowed us except minds, but they are the best media; like those on the Enterprise, our communicators are both argument devices and weapons of attack and defense.

"Lay on McDuff, and damned be he who first cries, hold...my brain hurts."

REASON PREVAILING

Let us applaud the 15 or so members of the Milwaukee County Board who utilized common sense, instead of subjective union hogwash, and voted to kill Dip O'Donnell's attempt to keep Coors out of the hands of us naive county inhabitants.

O'Donnell's ploy was merely a play on the emotions of the union powers that be to ensure the goodies coming in from the locals as the next election nears. The dubious strategy may come back to haunt him. Voters, whether they are Demo or GOP, aren't going to vote for a completely inept nut no matter his affiliation.

It's about time Mr. O'Donnell was gracefully retired by the voters of his area; he's getting to be an embarrassment to them, and there are many qualified Demos that could take his place without periodically licking the boots of the local labor louts.

Maybe the vaunted clout of the unions is slipping even lower these days, as the Board members dared to take a stand against labor's dictates. Perhaps the time is past when labor said jump and the politicians said how high?

LOOKING DOWN AT LAWYERS

Recent days have provided the results of a new poll relating to the standing of relative professions and trades in the United States. The poll indicated that Lawyers were near the bottom of the group, just below drug smugglers.

Politicians ranked in the immediate area, some above, some below, dependent on local, state, or national office. Documentation cannot be provided at this time because the info was heard from radio news -- but it certainly figures.

BY THE NUMBERS

Now I'm only going to say this once about the importance of numbers:

The number 100 is far superior to the number 13, when expressed in terms of in-pocket dollars, or even Kruegerands and Swiss Francs. This knowledge transcends all other aspects of numerology.

UNION ISSUE

I viewed the Coors issue as a union issue when I heard that O'Donnell said it was, when Ray Majerus said his outfit backed the ban against the scabs, and when it was ordered that no union member should buy Coors; all due to the fact that Coors, in their enlightened wisdom, does not have a unionized brewery. Outside of that, I have no really significant reasons for criticizing the board or the union.

NEO-NUMBERISM

While I'm not enthusiastic about the usual math after having pursued Theory of Mathematics some distance, I am intrigued by the possibilities of Calculust, which you mentioned in your note.

Old Carter had some kind of lust in his heart; was it passion, or merely Calculust. Did the sight of 6 over 9 cause a bad case of Calculust or was it the provocative concept of how many times 3 would go into 2? Yes, I can see the possibilities of a course in Calculust 101; they would be standing in line trying to sign on. All I want to know is, how did a nice, Christian guy like you get into so erotic a field? Is Calculust sort of like playing with Pebbles on the beach? (Pebbles works at that strip joint in Greenfield)

RETALIATION

Those two-bit garbage countries who need issues to cover the fact their people need the basics in life generally have a military capability which they use to keep down the people and flaunt to their peers.

My response is, blast their military back to bows and arrows; airfields, barracks, weaponry, naval vessels, tanks, etc., as a lesson to the other petty tyrants like the KaDaffies.

PABST REVISITED

When visiting the Milwaukee plant, a side trip to the hops room is always good for a lungfull of perfume; truly an aroma from the gods. Fellow named Keith there is an old friend, and now runs plant engineering. Too bad Pabst has such an inept ad agency; their products are too good to sell like animal crackers.

GUNNING FOR HUNTERS

The anti-gun forces are at it again, trying to strike at the rights of our Wisconsin hunters.

It seems that an attempt was made to slip through the Board a prohibition of guns on county property. This means that a hunter on his way up north, using a freeway, could be subject to arrest, sentence, or fine merely for having his rifle or shotgun uncased and unloaded locked in the trunk of his car in accordance with state law.

The self-styled societal watch-dogs are at it again, trying to get the first toe in the door in their ultimate aim of banning ownership of all guns. If they really want to determine people's feelings on the matter in this hunting hotbed, let O'Donnell hold a countywide referendum on the matter - with his job on the line. I wonder who his replacement would be?

If what they are really after is a law proscribing the carrying of a concealed firearm on one's person, then why don't they be specific. I'm for the licensed carrying of concealed weapons in any state. So are many law enforcement officials. What did A.E. Van Vogt say? An armed society is a polite society.

DISASTER

The Oklahoma fireworks factory that just blew up the other day killed about 20 some people for sure, and most likely some others who are unidentifiable due to their being in bits and pieces.

Contrast this extremely small plant with the complexity of the nuclear power plant, with its dozens of people on site, none of whom have been killed since the industry began.

This is not the first fireworks plant tragedy. Others in this and foreign countries have obliterated themselves in the flash of a moment. Where are the Hanoi Janes and their ilk marching in protest? Since this type of explosion is chemical, they don't care to get involved.

The inevitable conclusion is that the Fondas and their cohorts are aiming strictly at weakening the power output capabilities of the United States, and a cynic would believe it is at the behest of the bandit nation who would best benefit from an American power collapse.

The function of the atom in releasing the energy in the form of heat to make steam is still a mystery in the mind of the hoi polloi, as generally is anything demanding a thought process level above that of a chimpanzee. A massive public relations campaign aimed at educating the masses as to the workings of the nuclear systems, in terms they could understand, is long overdue.

If the average power consumer could be shown both the advantages and the levels of risk involved with nuclear power, and with coal/oil power, it's almost a certainty he would opt for the nuclear approach, especially considering the impact on his power bills.

The vacillating minds of the public in decisions is legend. The casualties of the Viet Nam war were overstressed; the fact that more men, women, and children are killed each year in auto accidents is acceptable.

If one is to lose his life without fuss or bother, it should be as a result of travel accident, suicide, drowning, electrocution, falls, machinery, or any other mundane causes, including murder (if one is poor); just don't get killed by chance radiation, serving in the military, or even in a hijack.

The media will see you have a splendid burst of publicity, even if you won't be around to appreciate it.

ANTI-GUNNERS BALONEY

Maybe I have jumped the anti-gunners, but it's better than being put through their hoops. The basic premise of my talk was that the anti-gunners are looking for any way to get that manicured foot into the doorway to develop a beginning wedge between gun owners and their weapons.

The methods of the anti-gunners are exemplified by their attempts to get a first, "innocuous" anti-gun bill passed, then when any fuss dies down, to add to it more and more until confiscatory procedures are instituted. It's the old Soviet baloney technique - get to your unsavory objective a thin slice at time, so the slicees don't really feel the pain.

And with respect to the machinations of any group whose roots are liberal Democrat, any type of law or regulation they generate should receive the most comprehensive scrutiny to determine what bit of socialistic fluff they are trying to perpetrate under the guise of beneficial legislation.

NUCLEAR FUTURE

In a few years the big ball of plasma with be made stable in its flights of fusion and we'll all have cheap, clean electric power. It's only a matter of time. Then Hanoi Jane will be marching for some other cockamamie cause like: Save the Stegosaurus!

DELAYS & COSTS

With your environmentalist position on nuclear plants, I can't believe your question about why nuclear plants in various stages of construction are being shut down.

The reason is simple: The self-styled saviors of Mother Nature, the "Environmentalists," have twisted the US court system into a weapon whereby they utilize their obstructionist tactics to delay implementation of the construction and operation.

Each month they delay a given project is another few million tacked onto the ultimate project cost. The environmentalist nuts have cost the consumers of this nation untold millions of dollars in power costs, and the end is not yet in sight.

Meanwhile, other countries who have used the basic nuclear plant knowledge developed in the United States are laughing their collective heads off at the stupidities generated here, instead of the electric power that should be supplied at lower cost.

And I can't believe your statement concerning an alleged irresponsible use this country makes of nuclear power. We have nuclear power plants that produce electric power, and we have nuclear weapons that protect your ass and mine from the enemies of the Republic.

I don't want to place you in the category of the environmentalist cuckoos, who make all kinds of carping and complaining statements, but never come up with viable answers in today's technologies; however, tell us what you would recommend as a course of action in this age of the atom. I wonder what Henry David Thoreau would have thought about those cuckoos? He likely would have re-written Civil Disobedience.

Shall we continue on into the ultimate development of fusion, or shall we retrogress to the wood burning days? As one of the Sierra Clubbers said one time, wood smells so good when it burns, why can't everyone use it?

No wonder they haven't been seen fighting forest fires.

WASTE.....

If the French are successfully neutralizing the waste problem, why aren't we doing the same? The longevity of any unit or plant is a function of replacement. Concrete can last 200 years; why should it be replaced? As for other parts, remember the famous hammer that was over 75 years old; the farmer that owned it only replaced 7 handles and 5 heads, and it still worked like a new one. Maintenance will do it.

CONTINENTAL AIR

I can understand that Airline Pilots Association issues the information that they do, but after all, it's their members on strike. Some of the stuff they came up with sounds pretty picky, and that part about the pilots not knowing where the IFR or ILS units are doesn't ring true.

It's like listening to the bulletins issued by the UAW when they strike one of the major auto manufacturers.

TACTICS

I would suggest that it was not the nuclear power plant designers and builders that used scare tactics. It was the weeping willies from the Sierra Club and Nader's Nosers, along with others of that ilk, that used those tactics, marching against the company at TMI.

But it's not difficult to get the loonies to march; this morning's paper had a picture of some female geeks carrying signs saying "veal is poison," or "don't eat meat," or some such goop. Goes to show that people will march to any limping drummer if their ganglia can be aroused.

But, I also would go out and march - to support our military forces who may be fighting in Nicaragua fairly soon. Look for me, I'll be the one holding up the American Flag.

OH THAT POOR, POOR UNION

Let's all shed a tear for the poor guys who are picketing the supermarket stores today. They are all so weak and inoffensive. All they did was smash up somebody's car, threaten customers, shoot a gun at someone, and little tiny pranks like that, just to get our attention in their own inimitable style. Gee! What a noble cause; what exemplary actions! Will Milwaukee's finest, under the new Chief, do anything. How can they? Some are union first, cops second. Oh, they'll protect the weak little union kids from the nasty customers and guys who want to work to make a living. How long is this country going to let the Union Goons get away with that kind of intimidation?

It's a rambler of a different color down in Kenosha where Majerus, Schmitt, and Koenig, those tieless, rough-talking, heroes of more, more, more are running into a management that couldn't care less about the blue color image this hapless trio tries to effect for working-stiff sympathy.

We hear their pontificating on what they will force the company to do for the good of the AMC workers, but the real truth is that they are in a hapless position where their only offense is capitulation. All those years of big-mouth from the union bosses are going down the drain in a losing cause. AMC says, play it our way or there's no game. The union has given up more turnovers than the Chicago Bears, and it will continue.

This is the approach that the return swing of the pendulum is bringing, where companies will no longer let high wages and fringes sap the vitality of the firm in an inexorable plunge to bankruptcy.

They are bad-mouthing new owner Kalmanovitz for trimming the deadwood from Pabst, but he is correct in what he is doing to make Pabst viable if possible. It still might be a tough job for the brewery to continue, but I hope it does, and it will be Kalmanovitz that saved it.

Where is the hot air from County Exec O'Donnell in the Kalmanovitz sale? He did just about nothing, except nobly fight the Coors battle, and will ultimately lose that attack also.

I guess the only thing worse than taxation without representation is taxation with representation. Politicians, Unions, they're all part of the main problem of the city, county, state, and nation......not to mention the US possessions.

(I told you not to mention them!)

HOSTAGE CRISIS OVER?

The latest from the middle east indicates that the hostages are either on their way to, or already in, Damascus.

There has been an expected din of complaint from those who ask why our government didn't take any action; I wonder if they think the Shiites simply began to start the release process out of the goodness of their hearts?

Only a few of us cynics can consider that the release mechanism was tripped because the administration stood fast in the media, and talked tough in diplomatic conversations. Perhaps the language went along the lines of the Americans alive or Berri dead, something to that effect; or deliver them now and we won't turn your places into more rubble than they are.

When the U.S. was a young nation, the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli captured some American; the then President said, either our guy alive, or your leader dead. It worked then, it probably worked now.

One of the wimpier columnist questioned why the Soviet Union doesn't have any skyjacking; the reason seems to be that the commies are the instigators of all the hijackings, they or their surrogates, and they don't schedule action for their own flights.

NUKE SITES

The only criticism I would have of your plan is that many in Lebanon still consider America (not Israel, however) as a friend. It's the crazies with the guns that hate us, usually Shiite Heads that look to Khomeni as their leader.

And further, we also have friends in Iran, who still look ahead to the downfall of all the Ayatollahs and the reinstatement of a Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne.

That leaves Assad and Syria, and if Assad follows through with the assistance on the returning of the hostages, we will all view him in a more charitable light for his help, even though we all know it was the potential for strong US military action against Syrian interests that helped nudge him

Do we blow up marxist Yemen, or Khadafy's Libya? Who's left?

We all realize that the terrorism of the entire world can be traced back to the Soviet Union, and nuking them into a Siberian winter would go a long way to put a halt to such activities. Of course, we could then expect retaliation, causing a much larger problem with our own existence.

What's proper? First, let's find out who the individuals were that carried out the hijacking and eliminate them by any means. Next find the leader of the group that planned the hijacking and snuff him out along with his chief lieutenants. Issue a position statement that any nation who allows a hijacked plane to land and take off again refueled will no longer have a place to land an airplane, and will lose any sort of economic help and/or trade between them and the US.

Like the man said, terrorism has awakened the sleeping giant representing the citizenry of the United States, and once that happens, a universal acquiescence for any kind of retribution will be smiled upon by our people, to the extreme detriment of the terrorists and their countries of origin.

RUSSIA'S TERMINAL ILLNESS

Recently, an analysis written for the CIA stated that the Soviet Union was beginning to fall apart of its own weight, and that the only query was to whether it would go out with a bang or a whimper.

Even newspapers sympathetic to much of the Soviet position in the world, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, confirm that the Soviets are in deep trouble. Even after more than 67 years of Communism the place can't feed itself or give its people adequate medical treatment.

The Soviet Union is the only industrialized country in the world where the infant mortality is going up and life expectancy is falling. They have a 60% to 70% abortion rate overall, and for the Balts and Slavs, the Soviet ethnic core of producers, the rate is almost 80%. It would seem that the more educated just don't want to bring children up in such a nation. Entire towns - men, women, and children - all get helpless drunk at the same time. The Soviets spend more for booze than anywhere in the globe, buying their vodka by the carton, 20 half-liter bottles at a time, and they spend less for food than for alcohol.

While the able, working-age population of the Soviet Union, about 67% of those who are the producers of industrial goods, are declining, the Moslem Republics have a very high birth rate, and are absorbing vast amounts of rubles for their schools, hospitals, and infrastructure.

That entire 67 years of communist rule has not progressed, but has caused the Soviet Union to remain a 19th century type empire, composed of 100 nationality groups, who are all dominated by the Soviets. There is not one of those nationality groups who is content with the Soviet-controlled arrangement, and who would not rather have its own political and economic choices.

The present Soviet economy can produce little except weapons, and this has caused the economy to shrink, making even weapon production costly and inefficient.

History appears to be catching up to the world's last rigidly surviving empire, and the Polituro, the group containing the top Soviet leaders, seems to have few choices open:

GOONS & THEIR BRETHREN

I suppose that "goons" and "thugs" certainly are descriptive words for the union personnel that do little criminal things like destroy property and shoot at people, sometimes killing them. Yet, I also suspect that the vast majority of strikers are just regular guys whose only forceful activity is yelling at customers and others who cross a picket line, and are simply the union sheep who follow the shady leaders.

When we shop at Sentry, they call us scabs as we go into the store lot. That's all right, we call them union dummies. It's the union goons and thugs destroying life and property that I dislike, and I think labels mentioned, and a few other choice terms, fit them very well.

TEHERAN TROUBLES

Going relatively unreported is the growing opposition of the Iranian people against the Iraq/Iran war. The poor in south Teheran, who have had Iraqi bombs fall in their living area, and who have historically been Khomeini's staunchest supporters, are taking to the streets to express their rising dissatisfaction with continuance of the stupid war.

The people, and their leaders (other than Khomeini) are afraid that a there will soon occur a general economic collapse or paralysis, as the war has caused shortages, rising unemployment, and a sharp decline in living standards.

Perhaps the handwriting is on the wall for the Ayatollahs also. May their tribe decrease!

FIDEL'S FOLLIES

Is there no limit to Castro's flair for absurdity?

The United States has at long last erected a transmitter in Florida to counter the twaddle broadcast every day by Radio Havana. Each broadcast from Radio Havana is a second-rate mish mash of communist propaganda, delivered by a man-woman team which wouldn't last a minute on any station in the free world. The broadcasts are so inferior in style and substance that they'd be laughable, if it were not for the fact that some people might believe some of what they say.

But Radio Marti, America's answer to Havana, is broadcasting in Spanish to Cuba's citizens a free-world view of events taking place on the globe, and trying to be as factual as possible. This, of course, nettles the bearded buffoon, so he is taking rigorous action. He is barring Cuban-American tourists from visiting Cuba.

This, in turn, has a devastating impact on Cuba's "dollar stores," that raise coveted US dollars for the Castro regime by sales to exiles who buy for local family members and relatives.

This will cost Cuba about 50 million dollars a year, over a third of its income from tourism. Way to go, Fidel, you'll show those Yankees how smart you are!

(What especially galls Fidel is the fact that the American broadcasting station is named after a famous Cuban patriot and writer of the late 1800's, Jose Julian Marti, who was involved in the fighting for Cuba's freedom just before the turn of the century)

RECLAMATION

The most difficult chore about digging the Milwaukee Journal out of the garbage can is probably one of identification.

HAGGLING

It's reminiscent of the old story about the fellow at the bar who asks the beauty next to him if he could take her to his room for a million dollars. She said, certainly. He then asked her if she would come for 20 dollars? She replied, what do you think I am? He said, we've already established that, we're merely haggling about the price.

NEW BUCKS FOR OLD

Technology, often a two-edged sword, has given us yet another event for which to look forward in 1988. In that year Treasury will issue newly designed U.S. currency.

The Treasury says that this is being done in order to bypass any low level counterfeiting through use of color copying machines. It could be that the real intent is to neutralize the circulating currency held in secret by drug dealers and tax evaders, who would not be able to turn in vast amounts of cash for replacement without being asked the origin of the wealth. Fine with me!

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, along with the Federal Reserve, have expended over 32 million dollars in the attempt to develop operational anti-counterfeiting devices such as, watermarks, reflective inks, embedded magnetic strips, and the most promising of all, a hologram right on the bill representing the Great Seal of the United States.

It appears that the hologram approach is in. The American Bank Note Co. of New York has been paid almost 1.6 billion dollars to research hologram printing on bank notes. The hologram seal cannot prevent counterfeiting 100%, but will prevent running off one's mortgage payment on an IBM color copier.

There are a number of other measures under Treasury consideration which will not be publicized, but will be used for the new currency. Perhaps it will be in the form of a radioactive mark which will send a signal direct to the IRS when a certain volume of banknotes is reached. Look for a big liberal/conservative fight on this issue; as for me, I couldn't care less what form it takes, just so long as whatever amount finally gets to me is negotiable.

PARIS REVISITED

Anyone who has visited romantic Paris can remember the overripe smells from the Seine (either bank), the rude shopkeepers, the sleazy ladies of the evening, the blowsy provincials, the Gallic arrogance, the noses pointed skyward when meeting an American, whose country pulled the French chestnuts out of two fires at the cost of a lot of fine American soldiers, the crummy taxicabs, the messy restaurants that charged those horrendous prices, the weird socialist political system, the general malaise of a country in mental constipation, remember all that?

Well, prepare to be surprised! Finally there is a tour of Paris which bypasses all the above and gets to the bottom of French Culture where it really lives!

Two guided tours a day will take one to the legendary and labyrinthine sewers that lie below the crudded city. Near the Metro stop, at the Place de la Resistance, down the stairway next to the Seine River, is the entrance to the sewers.

The trips in the sewers themselves take a half hour, and are advertised as clean, easy, and pleasant.

So very different from the trashiness topside, in the top tourist trap of the money-grubbing world.

OFF THE BEAM

I have an acquaintance that owns a Baron; he flies down to the Caribbean islands on occasion, landing on a private strip that has only a low power beeper to home in on.

He decided to stop at a big city on the way down, got the VOR and set up for auto. The tower gave him straight in for 23 and he landed, taxied over to the place GC gave him, and waited. Two minutes later a squad of Cuban soldiers surrounded the plane and made him get out while they searched.

You're right! He landed at Havana International on a clear day with 30 miles. They found a flare gun in the plane that his partner had left with the emergency gear, and made a big fuss about it. In order to get out of the place he had to give the Cubans all his money, his wrist watch, a portable radio, and almost everything but his clothes. In appreciation, the Cubans gave him 450 lbs of Avgas. But they did let him go the same day; it only took about four hours to convince the Cubans that this guy was as stupid as he seemed, and maybe so.

Here's a case where he didn't check the code signal (the Havana VOR really works like it's supposed to). I won't tell you his name, but he owns an electrical supply mfg company in Milwaukee. Last I heard he was going to install an RNAV. The only excuse I can see for him was he was thinking of his own ladyhawk who also flies and lives in the area. Even so...

WENR/WLS

Back in the thirties and forties, two stations shared the same 890 kc frequency, WLS and WENR. WLS was the hayshaker station; that had the National Barn Dance on Saturday evening with people like Lulubelle and Scotty, Sons of the Pioneers, and a flock of other well known pre-country western/rock stars.

We got Soaps from WENR along with assorted nifty programs like Jolly Joe Kelly. Both stations were adequate in their time frames. The powerful Chicago station was independent WGN (50,000 watts, clear channel), and coming up fast in the late 40's and 50's was WBBM, which is now one of the premier CBS outlets.

I was involved with WBBM a few years ago when Frank Reynolds headed up news there, and Jack Kennedy had a brief stay before moving to Boston. We did a few things but nothing world shaking.

MAKING OUR DAYS

I would say that many of the people who are suggested as being Clint Eastwood fans are really Dirty Harry fans, and can identify with Harry as he uses the right tools for the right jobs, blowing away all the crooks by meeting violence with a higher degree of a more sophisticated violence, certifying that the criminal will pay for his crime instead of receiving a slap on the wrist from a liberal judge.

We all have some Dirty Harry in our psyche, hoping to see punishments meted out to the violent criminal element even if we ourselves cannot do it in a satisfactory manner.

Eastwood is not yet a super movie star, but he is a very competent actor. His reputation has been made and enhanced by the types of roles he undertook: the cowboy, the cop, the lone individual, who must fight the weaklings of the establishment simply to protect them from the very ones who would prey on them.

The argument is clear; those who would bleed for the criminals, who would follow every contrived rule for the preservation of so-called criminal rights, who shed all those tears for the killers because they have been shaped by an unhappy environment, who would pat thugs on the head with a kind hand instead of a nightstick, they are the ones who are wrong, and in the end of the Eastwood tales are proven so.

That is why Harry is so great; he does for us what we can only experience in a vicarious manner, helping hold straight his .44 mag, saying with his voice, make my day!

ATTACK ON NRA

I can't believe that irrational argument about the NRA, a argument full of, among other things, accusation, distortion, and outright lies about an organization who is four square for law and order, is behind the Constitution 100%, and believes in the America first, last, and always. To tie the NRA up with death threats is sheer stupidity!

This is a group that holds young hunter training and safety classes, and issues competency patches; it tries to provide a recognition that we are a nation of laws; it fights for the hunters, sport shooters, and gun collectors to make certain that the right to bear arms is not taken away piecemeal by the ultraliberals, leftists, and cowards.

I don't even belong to the NRA, but I feel their ideals are American ideals, and that your castigation by innuendo is more fit for the Sierra Club and its ilk than the NRA. Granted O'Donnell is a political animal, and will vote in accordance with the winds of election, but he is no NRA backer, not by a long shot. He just sees what side his political bread is buttered in a State and County populated by thousands of hunters. The liberals on the County Board have just given their opponents an issue that will return to haunt them out of office.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

While the bumbling bumpkins from the County Board were agonizing over an exercise in stupidity, a pretty, young biomedical engineering student was brutally murdered by some violent sex-criminal with a knife. This animal had been convicted in the past for lesser crimes, but of course was let out to strike again. Why is it we can't have capital punishment in Wisconsin to eliminate the killers and murderers? What good does it do to lock them up and pay for their keep, knowing that they will find God and be released for their good behavior? Let's try them, convict them, and execute them. Underground, out of mind!

LIKE JUDGE BEAN

He said, once they're hung, they don't rob no more banks. Of course an appeals process should be kept intact, but I think it is agreed that the cure for future murder and rape is the elimination of the cause, and even if anyone hedges a bit, they are on target with the biblical quote, "an eye for an eye, etc."

What grieves is that poor girl's family, out of state. who had to be awakened in the middle of the night with the phone call. What a hear-rending blow. I say kill the thugs who kill and rape! That poor kid. Who will her family sue for 5 million or so dollars?

REGISTRATION

Notice: Based on the Marquette U. killing, the County Board will hold public hearings on how to implement registration of all knives in Milwaukee County. The question will be how to engrave each knife with a number, and how much tax money should be raised to do it.

Any knife over 1/2" long will be considered a deadly weapon and cannot be transported on County property.

Any transgressors of this future law will be immediately arrested and tossed into the pokey without regard, unless it happens to be a certain board member of darker persuasion who has an "arrangement" with the law enforcement officials in the county. Black is not only beautiful in this case, but it has a built-in anti-incarceration filter.

And boardroom Betty, one of the most innovative of the County Board, is preparing a rape-weapon registration program to be implemented soon. Again the problem is numerical registration with an I.D. on each weapon. She exclaimed, what about tattooing? For a mandatory fee, of course. (Rumor has it that she might handle each case personally)

STILL HIGH

I was compelled to research the high point to verify Timm's Hill as the greatest in altitude, just to check on you high guys. The Book of Wisconsin states that the highest 'surveyed points' in the state are: Timm's Hill at 1952.9 ft, Pearson's Hill 1950.4 ft (both are in Price County), Rib Mountain at 1940.8 ft in Marathon County, and Sugarbush Hill at 1939.3 ft in Forest County.

By the by, the book spells it Tim's Hill, so it must have been named after the surveyor. Does anyone know if there are any supposedly higher points than Timm's Hill which have been surveyed? I heard of another high point in Price County, but don't know where it is.

Note: Did you know that Jefferson Davis, who became president of the Confederacy, once commanded a labor crew that cut timber near the upper Wisconsin River in 1828 to build Fort Winnebago?

Well he did, like it or not!

STATE OR FEDERAL

An interesting point was broached concerning ownership of the big lake. A few years ago, anyone could fish at any time in Lake Michigan without a fishing license, the rationale being that it was controlled by the Federal government. When the salmon were planted, it seems that all was changed, and a license became a requirement to fishing. I don't know if jurisdiction was transferred, but I thought that the state owned the lake out to a certain point, whereupon the feds took over. Maybe someone can give us the facts. And of course Michigan controls their side.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK?

I still recall one of the classics: You can paint a piece of coal black, but how do you know when you're finished?

CRITIQUE

When Thomas Nast, the famous political cartoonist, created the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party, and the Jackass as the symbol of the Democrat party, he didn't realize that although most would forget his name, the elephants never forget.

The other day, while viewing the circus train, Democrat Governor Tony Earl had the misfortune to walk too close to one of the Republican symbols when it chose that moment, as the newspeople said, "to spray him and his group with fecal matter."

After being wiped off by one of his sychophants, Earl was heard to say in loud tones,

"Those damn Republicans!

Needless to say, something was lost in the translation, but Tony, old man, the thought was there. You were finally in the right place at the right time.

UNTIED STATES OF LUIGIANA?

Actually, Christiforo Columbo was told that if he sailed west long enough he would find the Indians. When he first saw the noble red man, he asked (in Italian, of course) if they were Indians. They said something which he took to be si. This made them Indians. When he asked what they called themselves, whatever they said must have sounded like the local word for Indians. What more proof do you want?

Look what Amerigo Vespucci did to us; we still call ourselves Americans. Lucky his first name wasn't Luigi. Indisputable (and indefensible) logic at its finest.

STANDING TALL AND FAST

For every sleazy demonstrator on welfare that marched against the Viet Nam war, for every congressional pansy that waved a yellow streaked ribbon against our fighting men there, for every pro-commie traitor in Hollywood that gave aid and comfort to our enemies in Hanoi, for every left-wing weakling on the TV and Print media forums, there were thousands of Americans who stood four-square in favor of our trying to help a small nation thousands of miles away to withstand Communism.

The problem is that most Americans weren't able to have their views heard above the raucous babblings of the liberal left who controlled much of the media; as a result, thousands of ordinary Vietnamese people were murdered by Hanoi's butchers, as are others even now.

This generation of Americans won't stomach the Hanoi Janes any more. The commies will not take over Central or South America because the American people will not let our leaders allow it. In the next eight years, most of the liberal cowards now in the House and Senate will be gone, replaced by those who think of America, and its integrity, before all else.

The final stage of the American involvement in the Viet Nam war was very similar to that of World War II, and the Korean Police Action - the United States emerged victorious militarily, and lost politically the "peace" that followed, aided and abetted by flaming liberals in our government, commie agents like Alger Hiss, and sick, old men in their dotage like Franklin Roosevelt, who exhibited all the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease as he gave away eastern Europe to Joseph Stalin. It's not going to happen again.

AT IT AGAIN

The Soviets are at it again, harassing a US Army military inspection vehicle on legitimate patrol. It occurred while the President was in the hospital, probably to see what response would occur. We should retaliate by an even more drastic action towards a Soviet vehicle in the Western Zone, and continue on a quid pro quo, perhaps even going one up until they call a halt. The Soviet Union is run by too-clever idiots.

BRADY STREET & EAST, REVISITED

Thoughts of the East side bring a touch of nostalgia for a decade or so ago, when North and Farwell once sported a number of Antique Shops whose prices weren't in the stratosphere. Whenever we stopped at one or another, a must would be a ride down Brady Street to observe the non-standard society, and a stop at Sciortino's for Italian bakery goods.

How times have changed. No longer the busy street with the various craft people about, and the whispers of acid during a stroll. Even the corner of Haight-Ashbury these days is just a minor battle zone, where the dealers have displaced the flower children, although Hashbury was even more non-standard than Brady.

I think the movement was a product of the times, and the world is again with us late and soon. I wasn't one of them, but regret their leaving.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

The following news item was in the Milwaukee Sentinel today and was collected from wire services:

Jerusalem -- Israel has sent the Soviet Union a secret argument saying it is not hostile to the Soviets and expressing interest in reaching agreement on a wide range of issues, Israel radio said. The argument from Prime Minister Shimon Peres to Soviet leader Mikhall S. Gorbachev will be relayed by Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, who is to leave soon for Moscow talks with Soviet leaders. Why is the government of Peres asking to deal with the Socialist-communist regime of the Soviet Union. It can't be good for the US or for Israel.

By the way, some secret argument!

DOTAGE?

I heard your wandering words concerning Fascist groups, and you were typical in your zealot approach: first explain general rights under the first amendment, and then explain why it should be interpreted to only cover situations where your own ingrained concepts are involved.

The point of it all is: Does the first amendment cover everyone, or only those with whom you have an ideological affinity? We know you are against the fascists, KKK, Aryan whatevers, etc., etc., but there is no reason why those people cannot have an outlet for their viewpoints. What you are proposing as a rationale for selective censorship smacks of Nazism at its worst. You can do as you wish, but someone else can't do as they wish.

The old double standard again.

The question can be asked, are Americans or Canadians allowed free speech? Without answering for Canada, I must say that in America it's supposed to be free speech for all, not just for those you and yours feel should have it.

You mentioned violence by the fascist groups without mentioning that violence is a two-way street. The inference can be drawn from your remarks that no group should be acted against violently for their beliefs. I agree. But out in California, there is a think-tank group which has definite revisionist beliefs, but should have the constitutional right to believe whatever they want to believe, wrong or not, and publish their opinions.

On the night of July 4th, ironically enough, it was said that JDL terrorists firebombed and destroyed their offices and publishing facilities.

No prosecution has ever been attempted in this case. Authorities simply stonewall when asked to begin an action against the perpetrators. Now, I don't know whether this group is right or wrong in its stance (and you don't either), but what about their rights to exist and publish? Should they be destroyed because what they think is irritating to another group?

The conspiracy laws should be used against the firebombers, in my opinion, the same way those laws are used against other individuals who utilize violence to achieve their ends, violence that may again only be deplored selectively by some.

Your reporting of the so-called fascist forums and fascist groups is fine, but don't forget the other ideological scare and terror groups. I don't really think that either group is of any threat to this nation, no matter what you suggest, and in fact suggest myself that expanding any of the ultra-left or ultra-right to a level of national significance is ludicrous, and gives either a undeserved prominence.

Both groups are fascist in character; only the ideology changes.

(It's interesting that you should have the name of that fascist bunch and that I do not; talk about your agents provocateur)

HOSTAGE AUDIENCE

I just read a brief treatise on the holding of the American TV audience captive during the recent Beirut crisis; it castigated the networks for playing into the hands of the terrorists, for invading the privacy of hostage family members, for instigation of both the terrorists and the governments involved for statements against one another, thus adding fuel to the emotional flame.

The thought expressed was that a hold-back on news would be in order so as to take away the raison d' etre of the hostage taking, namely the ordering up of publicity by the terrorists involved.

Do you think that any network would actually hold back from reporting on the scene news if asked by the government? TV news people and networks appear to be held in low esteem by the public, somewhere around lawyers, and have not done their cause any good by the events of Beirut.

The article implied that there was no honor among terrorists, nor much among TV journalists; I have to agree with much of that position.

WEAPONS

Can any of the Alphan crew, who has read the proposed legislation by the County Board on deadly weapons, come up with any crimes addressed in the language which would not be covered by a state or federal law?

According to the draft language, outlawed would be barbeque forks, steak knives, spoiled shrimp salad, automobiles, motorcycles, planes taking off or landing from Timmerman or Mitchell, skin divers with spear guns after carp, or archers shooting carp, hip flasks, glass containers, nail files, pencils, pens, frisbees (very deadly if used a certain way), plastic bags (easy strangulation), boom boxes (mind rotting), volley ball nets and stakes, baseball bats, lawn darts (even I'm scared of those), or any number of innocuous items that could be used in a Hitchcockian manner to kill or maim.

Remember the Hitch flic where the lady used the frozen leg of lamb to do away with her husband, then roasted and ate the evidence? Silly? Yes, but no sillier than the board's do-gooder program to save us from our own law-abiding frailties, while the actual criminals would arm to the teeth in order to have their way with those who would obey the law.

HUMORLESS

When one doesn't feel like declaiming in a humored vein, one leaves it to one less lazy with a more anciently developed sense of humor. The immersion technique, according to the more modern physicians, depends for success on time and struggle. Many a witch instead of being burned was found innocent by immersion, thus escaping the fagots though ending up with the pisceans, sort of a Salemite fish bile.

HOLD OUT

I was invited to Packer training camp but I'm holding out for more pay. No dollar figure was mentioned, but they said they would pay me what I was worth. I can't live on that kind of money.

EVIDENCE

The evidence may be gone, but I freely admit making many a personal attack on many for their views and viewpoints. And they are invited to attack me here or anywhere. It's all right.

I just don't like one-way mealymouthism.

Please learn that the humorless may survive, but it's not as much fun, and a funless forum is dreary, just like the meetings of the county board. I attack when I think it's needed, and expect return fire from any and all. Alpha is wide open and not a Roberts Rules session.

LAST NOTE FROM BOOTHILL

I acted on your excellent advice and reviewed your argument. I must say again that many of your thoughts really have more validity when read between the lines than they do on the lines themselves.

Again, kudos for a most excellent recommendation on interpretational method. (please don't use these minor exchanges of viewpoint as a rationale for discontinuing a pleasant discourse here in Alpha; it would ill become your spirit of combativeness. Might I suggest your presence as referee during the coming duel, where once again it will be proved that the pen is mightier than the sword. However, when the sword was mightier than the pen, reports were generally made posthumously.

TALENTED

I heard that Madonna will Handel just about anything and get Bach at 2:00, Offenbach at 1:30 for special occasions.

SUPERSONIC

When I saw the Concorde circling Oshkosh yesterday it again made my blood boil to know that the US had been in the process of building the first SST and that our congressional idiots of that day scuttled the project.

Our supersonic transport was bigger and faster, carrying much more actual payload. The same limp-brained scientists that said our aerosol spray cans would block out the sun with freon said the SST's would develop a layer of gunk in the stratosphere that would also block out the sun, or something like that. They were just as wrong on the SST as on the freon.

It's not surprising that the more expert the expert, the narrower his vision, the more he knows about less, and the more dire his predictions.

HOW TRUE

"In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race."

(For the first two categories you can pick a Massachusetts senator to fit; the third category has too many eligible names to list)

PHEASANT HUNTING

I guess the best shooting for me is on pheasants over a pointer here in the south of the state, with my little 16 side-by-side, a hand-made piece from Christopher Funk of Suhl.

The town of Suhl is in East Germany, and they made the gun factory into a sewing machine factory, but they answered my letter and described when the 16 was made and who once owned it. Very nice of them.

The one who wrote the letter was a grandson of C. Funk, a manager of the present factory.

CRAZIES

Well, the crazies are at it again. It seems that last night some nuts from the area spray painted swastikas on a synagogue. This was stupid enough but I figured it was the work of some kids that did it just for the reaction. But, when I found out they sprayed Benji's Deli, one of my all time favorite places to stuff, that's when I really got mad.

I hope the authorities leave no stone unturned until the perpetrators are brought to justice, locked in a big stock in front of Benjis, and without any food or water, be forced to watch us eat for 30 days.

Then we'll shoot them!

MORE SPRAY

I guess they caught one of the kids in our neighborhood who was spraying 666 on the local churches. When asked why he did it, his response was, I knew it would make the minister mad.

The odds of that type of event occurring seem to be proportional to the level of outrage evoked. Just like the Shiite hi-jackers realize ever so well. Just like the swastika dolts, who, if the emblem were just a little more complex, would not be able to reproduce it.

GUN SALE

I happened to get this catalog the other day, and in it were some dandy sales on guns and ammunition that might arouse your interest.

Harrington and Richardson revolvers:

.22 RF Nickel plated, 7 shot, 3-inch barrel: $3.25 ea

.32 or .38 cal CF, break-open, 5" bar, 6-shot, blued: 3.24 ea

.39 cal CF, hammerless, 5' bar, nickel: 4.25 ea

Shotgun shells, 12 ga, 3 - 1/8 - 6, smokeless: 14.50 / 1000

.22 long rifle rim fire cartridges: 2.60 / 1000

If you are looking for a cheap handgun for personal protection, there is available a .22 caliber, double action, pistol for $1.44, cash.

And if you have some interest, the address is 78 Fulton Street, Chicago, Illinois; the catalog # is Fall1909. Must be some new company down there.

MINORITY GROUP

You and I and many other Alphans are members of a minority group that will never be accepted wholly by the majority, to wit: we have the ability to think and relate our thoughts in a cogent manner.

Thank goodness for that ability inasmuch as it is verity that communication is only possible between equals. Any other way is merely the dispatching of information up or down between groups or individuals. It's proportional to the standing derived from a Wexler-Belvue, Stanford-Binet, or Iowa, perhaps even an Armed Services IQ test.

Inclusion in that sort of minority group outweighs all others. So if you don't brag about your Latino background I won't brag about my English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh/German background.

SHEAR NONSENSE

They can blame the DFW crash on lightning, wind shear, engine failure, or what have you - it won't hold up. The real fault lies with the unwritten air line concepts of 'getting that plane in' to keep the relative schedule.

The pilot never should have tried to land during that fierce weather; he should have gone around or to an alternate field, Love Field was close by in terms of minutes, or even to Houston. In my flyer's opinion It was stupid to try getting into DFW under the local meteorological conditions.

GOVERNMENT ELITE

The government elite consist of those federal and state bureaucrats who always complain about the little money they are making. Let's take a quick look at what the facts are.

1. There are 2,100,000 civilian federal employees; their payroll is in the order of $58 billion dollars per year, an average of $29,000. In 1980 there were 440,900 who worked for mere wages and another 1,445,000 who were in the General Schedule ratings, and earned between $8,234 and $13,937.

2. There were 520,000 having GS ratings from 9 to 12, earning from $19,477 to $36,923.

3. There were 215,600 earning $33,586 to $60,689, a total of 735,600 GP scale bureaucrats running the government, most voting the Democrat

ticket.

4. In 1980, the year which all these figures reflect, state and local government employees got salaries in the range of $16,200 to $27,144, with a $21,624 average.

5. All non-college teachers got an average of $20,500; in domestic industry, workers averaged $18,506.

6. It can be seen that federal employees average about $10,000 more than other skilled employees.

That is only the start. Federal pensions are the 3rd largest entitlement program, exceeded only by Social Security and Medicare. In 1984, a total of $21.9 billion was paid to 1.9 million civilian federal retired people and their survivors, an average of $11,500 each, including those who only worked for the government a few years, and hundreds of thousands who did not work for the government at all; they were just survivors.

Federal employees give only 7% of their pay to the retirement program, totalling just $4 billion in 1984. The tax payers paid the other $18 billion to make up for this, which means they pay $18 billion, plus $58 billion, for federal employees and the retirees who are able to retire at the age of 55 with maximum benefits at 30 years of service, and at 65 with only 20 years of service.

There must be a goodly number of laid off and fired Allis Chalmers employees who wished they would have worked at the post office instead of A-C.

HOUSE GIVEAWAYS

On 7/31/85, the House voted a $12.8 billion dollar foreign giveaway program which will go to various countries. There was $15 million for the Afghan freedom fighters and $5 million for non-communist Cambodian rebels fighting the Viet-installed government there.

But $12.8 billion dollars! Wow! What are we getting for our money?

The Senate, in their bravery, voted in favor on a voice vote; in the House, 226 members voted for, and 162 against.

Who is running this country, Tip O'Neill? What we need is a policy that the only foreign aid the United States will provide is to a nation fighting off communist aggression.

STATE AT WORK DEPT

It seems that one of our State Representatives, Spencer Black, has come up with another funding law to make your life easier.

Rep. Black is proposing that each vehicle registration fee have one dollar added to the cost. Why? To develop a fund for the disposal of old auto tires, which he says are now in piles.

What he is really saying is that when you trade in your tires, instead of the disposal costs being applied to the account of the dealer, they will be part of your auto expense instead.

Your State in a masterpiece of inaction, once again......

YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE!

When you mentioned that quandary about getting somewhere by splitting the distance to, you probably didn't know that this has been suggested in the dim past.

Rhinocles, a famous Greek philosopher, tried to prove paripatetically that you couldn't get there from here by drawing a line in the sand and approaching it half the distance at a time.

When as close to the line as he could get, he triumphantly proclaimed that even if his movements were minuscule, he would never get to the line, thus proving his theory.

However, another philosopher pointed out that although his toes did not touch the line, his nose was over the line, thus providing a fait accompli to journey's end.

Now you know why they called him Rhinocles!

GUNS

According to a Roper Poll of 1,988 adults, this is how the nation views the gun situation:

48% say they don't want any ban on guns or their legitimate sale.

25% say ban the sale of handguns only.

22% say ban all guns.

5% say they don't know.

What they don't tell us is who commissioned the poll and how were the questions stated; we also do not know how many responses were received in the eastern metropolitan centers. Probably about 22% (just a guess).

ESCAPE WISCONSIN?

It was released today that by the end of 1985 about 90,000 people will have escaped Wisconsin for climes with better tax structures, weather, and places to work. Some 'expert' named Balkrishna D. Kales said this is not a cause for despair; at least we are avoiding the trauma experienced by the rapidly growing states.

That's like saying it's fine to be unemployed because then you don't have to fill out those time-consuming bank deposit slips. So Brilliant!

UNION FACTS

It was a pleasure to hear that some objective (and subjective) discussion on the Union farces went on while I was on a short break over in London.

Union membership is dropping towards the 20% level, if it hasn't already reached that point. Like any other 'business,' the Union business has been found out by its customers, and the customers didn't like what they got for their money, and are going elsewhere -- to the Right To Work counter.

Many moons ago, there was a strike by Harold Christofel and his UAW comsymp pals against the Allis Chalmers company (circa 1940-41). The pay increase won by the Union after a bitter strike, versus the time it would take to pay for lost wages, was calculated back then to take about 35 years. Considering the effects of inflation, that time-off for striking was never regained in terms of pay to the strikers.

Forced pay increases by the striking unions has been the basic cause of the inflationary wage-price spiral experienced in the US, and gave the foreign manufacturers a foot in the marketplace door. Ironically, it has been the Unions who called for import tariffs so our workers can compete. In my opinion, our workers can compete best if they don't have to pay the Union dues, or go out on Union-called strikes.

FORCED JOINING

Yes, there were occasions in the history of the US that individuals were forced to join an organization in which they had no interest in becoming a member. However, who could turn down a personal note from the President of the United States, when the request began with, 'Greeting.'

EVEN MORE HEATED

It can be said that on occasion the conservative vs. liberal fire burns fiercely on Alpha, although the broadsides take some time to arrive on or near target.

On Monday evenings there is a program called The McLaughlin Group, during which liberals clash with conservatives in a roundtable discussion on the issues of the day. There is an intensity of immediate give and take that flares into outright verbal skirmish, with each side generally holding its own. It's on PBS Channel 36, 8:00 pm. Your heart will be warmed no matter what your political persuasion.

Tonight there was a liberal uproar over the fact that Jerry Falwell was quoted as saying Bishop Tutu was a phony; this indignation lasted right up to the point where the film clip indicated that what Falwell really said was, "If Tutu claims to speak for all of the black people in South Africa, then he's a phony!" It's sort of an on-the-spot Alpha.

MORE POLLING DATA

It was brought out by the Wall Street Journal today, in a compilation of all polls conducted of late, that in the age group 18 to 29 years, 48% identified themselves as Republicans and 43% as Democrats. Astounding to say the least - but due to Ronald Reagan.

DESEGREGATION

I can recall offhand back when the equal rights issue was being argued from all directions that one of the bases the rights advocates used to promote their cause was desegregation was the only aim, and that all white schools must be forced only to open their doors to non-whites, and that all would be peachy from then on.

The vow was made that desegregation was the end-all, and that forced integration would not be used (or funded), and that this prohibition would be written into the law. Neither would quota systems be used to integrate.

All of this seems to be forgotten by the liberals of the world. They are proceeding all out to integrate by quota, first Milwaukee, then the suburbs. If they succeed, only the bus companies will be happy with the result.

YOU SHOULD TALK!

Your argument was noted with characteristic abandon, and what I think is the source of any problems in communication is a basic difference in forum philosophy. Not the thrust of the group, but the method of parry. It may be a shock, but even I know the basics of standard debating techniques, and have been on the school debating team as well as the football team. Debating is fine in its own forum.

But Alpha-Omega was from the start destined to be a round-table discussion, a subjective time meeting place where any could state their views, right or wrong, letting the fall-out fall out where it would. "Kill him for his bad verses!"

I realize that in most of your efforts, you deliberate, analyze, and finally speak, which is OK because it's your way. But I prefer to expound standing up in more immediate reply because I think it has a vitality more fitting to the arena. When you become incensed enough to talk off the top of your head the responses have a more refreshing, and sometimes, a more devastating effect.

Of course this doesn't apply to my informational offerings because it's not needed in that respect.

To summarize, the Alphans argue. Many arguments leave something to be desired in terms of glamour or context, but the idea is there, the position is solidified, and the arguer is skewered or patted depending on individual philosophy.

Proofs, quotes, contexts, reinforcements, backups, call them what you will, are fine; but, what Alpha is offering is a place for people to speak their piece, as it were, and proclaim what they think and feel about a given subject. Otherwise we all will be mired in the swamps of achievements past, with no wraiths to light our way out.

FAIR ELECTIONS

The United States has generally operated under a two-party system, although on occasion a splinter party's candidate has been elected under extraordinary circumstances.

But the obvious drawback of the present system has been its patently unfair winner-take-all final result, which is fine for the Superbowl, but not for elections.

For example, in the State of Wisconsin, in past years, there were two Democrat party senators, William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson. Most Conservatives and Republicans thought neither of the two liberals ever represented their best interests in Washington, and they were correct.

Nelson voted in favor of liberal, big-spending, social programs most of the time, and Proximire's Golden Fleece awards went primarily to defense programs whose alleged inadequacies suited his style.

The question put forth here is: Are the interests of the people on the losing side of congressional elections receiving fair, or even adequate representation, Democrat or Republican?

The answer is a resounding No!

Allow me, radical that I am, to propose a New Method of election by which the wishes of the voting public might best be served.

Establish by law:

1. That there be only two political parties, or entities. Call them Republican and Democrat, or Conservative and Liberal, and have no other than those two. Let's just use the names Democrat and Republican for this example.

2. That from each State, there will be one Senator from each party.

3. That each State will have but one vote in the Senate.

4. That the weighted value of each vote will be based on the results of the last election in terms of percentage.

5. That the House also be modified to reflect the above.

EFFECT ON THE SENATE:

For example, in the 1982 Wisconsin senatorial election, Proxmire got 64% of the vote (986,718) and McCallum 34% (526,133), with 2% going to Hart. Excluding Hart, and splitting the 2%, the result in the proposed system would have had Proxmire as the Democrat senator with a Senate vote of .65, and McCallum the Republican senator with a Senate vote of .35, thus providing a voice from those 526,133 voters.

On every Senate vote, the entire voting constituency would be represented. As it is now, a Democrat Senator represents only his party's voters, like-wise a Republican Senator represents only his.

EFFECT ON THE HOUSE:

It would be a similar situation for the House of Representatives. The District sizes would double, and each district have two Representatives. This would maintain the present size of the House, yet allow representation for all of the Nation's voters.

Some House vote percentages would have looked like this in 1982:

Party District Name Vote % Vote total

Democrat 1st Aspin .61 94,445

Republican " Jannson .39 59,450

Demo 2nd Kastenmeier .61 113,204

Repub " Johnson .39 72,290

Repub 3rd Gunderson .57 99,078

Demo " Offner .43 75,021

Rep 8th Roth .58 100,056

Demo " Clusen .42 73,545

Using the proposed New Method, 148,566 Democrat voters, and 131,740 Republican voters would have been represented in the House, whereas under the 1982 results, they were not.

Congress, under this New Method, would actually represent the makeup and the wishes of the entire voting public instead of just the winners, as they do now. Senators and Reps would still vote aye or nay on a given question, the sum of their weighted votes being in accordance with election totals.

Only the Congress would be elected according to the rules of this proposal;

Presidents and Governors would still be chosen as they are now. Perhaps State Legislators could also be elected under the proposed New Method; it would make for a more fair representation.

It would be intriguing to see what effect this New Method of electing our Senators and Representatives would have had on major Bills in the past. Maybe some more research will provide some interesting 'What Ifs?'

VICIOUS PRIMARIES!

If Congressional Elections followed the method proposed in the last argument, the real infighting would be in the primaries which would have to be held to determine the final candidate for each party.

I can visualize some really vicious campaigning going on to win that top spot for November, and most of it within a party.

But in any case, I would know that even if my candidate got only 25% of the final vote, for a weight of .25 in the Senate, at least my attitudes and opinions would be in that 25%.

THE PARTIES

I wasn't too clear about the fact that this system lends itself to .any. two parties. What the two parties must do is win the primaries under their own names to get into the finals.

For example, if, in Wisconsin, we have three parties in the primaries, Demo, Repub, and Independent, the Demos had the highest total of votes, and the Independents had the second highest, they are the parties which would vie in November for the weighted vote. But, there still would only be two parties in the final elections.

Looking at the thought pragmatically, the third party generally garners a very small percentage of the vote, as did the Populists last election, so any third party impact would probably be minimal.

PRO UNION PROPAGANDA

Much as I respect your positions on most things, I have to disagree with the conclusions reached by Medoff and Freeman. It sounds more to me like they were retained to generate a pro-Union book.

Historically, the wage-price spiral has been the proved cause of inflationary trends, and two flakey academics are not going to disprove the facts of decades in one biased book. How do I know it's biased? By the items quoted that appear to fly in the face of experience.

They said union workers are more productive than non-union workers? There must have been a fog over Harvard the day they wrote that. I have seen at first hand the so-called efficient union help. They move slowly, act slowly, and think slowly, most of them, and if one or two tries to work a little faster and more efficiently the Steward is over telling them to slow down or else.

Unions do much social good? I saw a lot of that social good in two big strikes in which I was involved, beatings, violence, threats, damages, just like in the strike against Sentry. I guess the social good came when the Union admitted some of its lawless activities after the strike, when the NLRB forced them to do so.

Disproportionately corrupt? Not in the rank and file, just in the national and regional boards. Just like that union in Florida striking against the railroad there - outright criminal.

Undemcratic? You bet! Union bosses select the candidates for all offices 98% of the time; if you're not in, you don't run; if you run anyway, you might get suddenly dead, like Yablonski.

The unions are arrogant power bases for a philosophy that has reached a pinnacle of greed, and if their domination wanes, it will be good for the country.

My feeling is this, if I do the work and expend the funds necessary to develop a factory that puts out a product, I'm going to hire people that will work under my terms. If they don't like working at my place they can leave. At no time will there be given to them the power to run my factory or make management decisions. Joining my work force wouldn't imply that they automatically make administrative choices. They would be there to work.

Unlike you, working stiffs in the present market place don't seem to have the brains to see through the Union highwaymen or the guts to throw them out. I 'gave' lots of money to the Unions in my working time and got nothing back; lucky I was able to escape from the union tyranny --- and more important, the one-way-street dues.

When it's said that the CEO's make lots of money for running billion dollar companies, the union cry, and say their leadership make lots less. But it's generally forgotten that the CEO's work long and hard for the company, rising and falling on effort, while the union President sits in his swivel chair and figures out the intricacies of Pension Fund tiddley winks. Besides, what's a nice kid like you doing on that side of the picket line?

OPINIONS

The nice thing about discussions such as we have is that we realize opinions cannot be argued, only facts can. It appears as though facts based on personal and other events have been told in a thoughtful manner, brought up to reinforce an opinion. That's the way to do it!

SHORT REPLY

Perhaps if I put it into grunts, you may comprehend: Alpha can and will accommodate any argument on any topic.

That wasn't so difficult, was it? I've said, on occasion, that decategorization upsets the compartmentalized mind; it's distressing, but inevitable, that your critique manifests the proof. Instead of responding to the usual bombast, bomb by bomb, I'll just use these lines to defuse:

1. What is this fixation you have on anti-semitism. Nobody is perfect, or above criticism and dislike, Jews, Germans, Arabs, and whatever you happen to be. Let the Jews take care of themselves; or are you simply held in a Biblically paranoid thrall, identifying for a quasi-protection?

2. Protocols of Zion! Really reaching, aren't you? By this time you should have run out of straw. But wait, there's more...

3. Contras: Maybe the Contras are terrorists to those on your side of the fence, but on my side they're fighters trying to free their country from the communists, as was in Afghanistan. Please, no more heart-rending stories - war is war. Were you one of those complaining when in Viet Nam the Cong came into villages and killed everyone? I didn't hear you.

Multiply Lt. Calley by a few thousand and you will approach a magnitude of Cong atrocities. Might it be that one of your intellectual soul-brothers was the virtuous and retiring Pol Pot, of Domino fame? He had moments too.

Explain, if you will, how your heroes at Amnesty International worked their wiles on the Kremlin to get all that freedom for the Soviets. I'd like to hear it (so would the people).

4. Black and White made their bed; they lay in it; they suffered because of it; that's their business; I couldn't care less.

5. We're all "bigots," ; it's just that some of us are honest bigots, and admit it; others, dishonest bigots, are bigots just the same, only ever-dreading that they will be found out, as you have been. My bigotry insists that there are a number of people, places, things, and events that I don't like, and I'm not afraid to mention them. If you don't like my stances, so be it! But bleed me no bleeding hearts.

6. "Tory," in brief, as defined by you, was sadly mistreated, not meeting a single Websters Unabridged definition line. I would have wagered a few scruples that a person of your caliper could have taken the measure of at least the four-letter word, but again, heartbrake.

7. Thugs are thugs, in any color shirt, fascist black and brown to Soviet block green camouflage (or pink persiflage); down with them all.

One word I'm certain you understand: Extraneous! It is a condition that pervades your every syllable, your every word and sentence. It is the puffery for the tom-foolery, the hot air for the balloon, the magic multiplier that factors twenty into ninety for your opuscleae.

And, seeing that I might be also caught if this continues, I had better close. One question, are you out of shovels enough? I didn't even hear them mentioned. (just a little dig)

SAD, SAD....

How sad that the DC-9 went down this afternoon near College Avenue; but it was fortunate that the crash site was a woods area instead of a housing development, however.

It will be interesting to hear what caused the tragedy. My first thought was that the hydraulic systems all failed causing loss of all flight control; my second was a cracked combustion chamber housing in the engines, which are the same make as those in the 737 that went down in London.

I realize that determining the crash reasons won't help the victims or their families, but locating the cause may help in the future.

The DC-9 has been a dependable aircraft for many years; we can only hope this tragedy was an isolated incident.

HOW I ENJOY

I thoroughly enjoy the way you puff and prance, flood the air with words, and call each item insult, whenever a minor fault in definition is brought to your attention. I think that the worst of your possible worlds is when you've been tripped on a minor point - your immediate reaction is to erupt with words in an attempt to hide the chagrin of your prone position.

You don't have to prove that you were right in every respect, in every exchange, in every discussion. In fact you can't. What you said defined Tory is not how Websters defined Tory, and all the huffing and puffing won't erase it, whether I use the dictionary or not.

Just don't try to hand us all that razzmatazz about reading other sources to prove that Webster was wrong; I'll accept his version before yours.

COMPETITION

I hope this isn't too shocking to your psyche, but I think that any large company, such as Chrysler, should rise and fall on its own merits, or lack thereof.

I don't feel that huge government bail-out programs should be established for any company; welfare is welfare no matter under what guise.

STALLING OUT

When we were taught to fly, one of the initial maneuvers was the power stall. The nose got pointed way up and the throttle left on; when stall speed was reached, the nose dropped typically, and rudder had to be used to keep the wings level.

In aerobatics, we learned the spin, which is entered off a stall. The nose was held up until stall speed was reached, and as the stall began, hard rudder to either side, with the stick held way back, caused the plane to start a spin.

Now that DC-9 was climbing steeply; the pilot knew he had only 30 or so people on the ship, and he could really pour the coal to it on climb-out.

Now lets say that both engines went out simultaneously; the pilot would have shoved the wheel forward to take advantage of the forward speed which must have been near or over 100 knots (just a guess). The plane's velocity would have been mostly maintained in a sharp maneuver like that and he may have been able to hold a steep glide angle for flareout near the ground. I think that's what the pilot would have done.

But what if the plane had been in its steep climb angle and the engines went out and the hydraulics locked so that the elevators and other control surfaces could not move? The plane would have headed upwards until it reached stall; it would have either dipped straight ahead or off to one side in a fatal attitude to the ground, or it would have slid off and spun in, which it did.

A ship made to carry a hundred passengers, yet having only 31, has much better flying characteristics at the lower load. That's about 13,000 lbs difference. So I can't believe that the fatal stall and spin was a result of pilot error, it had to be a major mechanical failure, perhaps in both the control and the power systems.

Another thought that was brought up is that some terrorist group in the world is systematically sabotaging western world flights, and not claiming credit. True? I don't know. But there seems to be a lot of accidents all of a sudden, not even counting those apparently deliberate.

DC-9 ISSUE

It's difficult for me to hypothesize on the events leading to the crash; I just don't have enough information, and don't really know the characteristics of the 9 in a flat stall/spin, if that's even possible. I'll just give up and wait for the consensus, because that's what it's going to be.

What worries me is the jet engine parts the CAP kids found on the runway. One official said that they might not by from the plane that went down; in that case, what aircraft were they from, and are some flying with a screw loose?

PRESS RELEASE

Hollywood, Ca: During a heated press conference today, an angry Jimmie Nabors blamed the media and the moral majority for Rock Hudson's illness, crying "Rock baby, I know you wouldn't have got sick except for all that innuendo."

Jerry Falwell, sent a wire immediately saying he agreed!

RIPPING AWAY THE RIBS

The middle-men deserve something all right, like drawing and quartering, maybe. They are the reason the farmer gets 23 cents a pound for his beef and we pay 3 bucks a pound.

But, I must admit that the supermarket had chuck on sale for .88/lb last week; we bought some for dinner, with enough left over to patch the driveway.

NO DEFENSE NEEDED

At least it is low where you're involved because of the feebleness of the attack.

Had your Wobbly memory been in shape you would have noted that I never said there was no vehmgericht, only that I thought it was another of your obfuscations considering the contemporary issue involved.

My Websters unabridged gives a significant 16 line paragraph to the definition of the word, but I didn't consider it apropos since the last tribunal was held at Zell in 1568. That must have been where the Schwarzkatz crossed your path.

Poor, old chap, I knew you were obstreperous, irritating, irascible, contentious, and picayunish. But I never expected you to be stupid. And here you have surprised me again.

How fortunate that your clipboard does not come under the classification of sharp objects; but then again, neither do you.

ALPHA THRUST (AND PARRY)

I don't want to dwell on the subject, but Alpha is a discussion type group. We do debate, but are not a formal debating society. This was proved rather handily when I jumped in to defend your position even before you had - maybe not too well, but still done.

Alpha is more along the lines of the McLauglin Group battles. They have arguers (not strict debaters) from the left and from the right, and they say what they think, even as we all do here, without regard to a debate format.

BADDIES

In the Journal editorial section on 6 September was a letter from a Mr. Bassin, who discussed a chap named Donald Clerkin, and his group, which was said by Bassin to be the Euro-American Alliance.

Bassin went on to say, "Clerkin's whole organization stands for bigotry and anti-Semitism, the two worst purveyors in history...... How sickening that these bombastic views are put in a great newspaper like The Journal..."

Is this one of those groups you mentioned as being based in Milwaukee?

I didn't read the Clerkin letter, but I heard it had something to do with his allegedly saying that Israel's treatment of the Arabs was equatable with South Africa's treatment of the blacks.

Sure brought a response!

TRAGIC FLIGHT 105

I really can't tell; we know how the noise restrictions work, but they have some leeway. I've been on DC-9's with 10 people aboard and the pilot stuck that nose up so high it was like riding in a roller coaster. But the engines stayed together and we got up in a hurry. It might be that with only 3-plus crew, this pilot did the same thing, but his luck (and everyone's) ran out on that day.

It's like the guy who said he didn't worry about flying because when God said his number was up, it was up.

The other guy said, Yeah, but what if God only says the pilot's number is up?

I guess we just have to wait for the experts.

AIR SAFETY

It's ironic, but in the 9 September WSJ an article dwelled on the fight between airport and nearby residents, which have resulted in procedures for noise reduction that force high take-off angles, and sharp turns away from residential areas.

In every case, the airport was there first, and the residents second, but the residents still complain in spite of their coming afterwards. It's like the developer who sold lots next to a large farm, and after the complex had residents, they all complained that the odors from the farm invaded their privacy.

In Orange County, landing rights are awarded to lines who have the least noise readings, developing a competition among pilots which may have a dangerous effect on safety. Pilots often tried to take off at steeper angles, using less power, and throttle back sooner. This could have a devastating effect on an aircraft if one of the engines should go out at around 600 feet, reducing control over the plane. Reminiscent of a recent occurrence, perhaps.

The question was asked whether pilots should be concentrating on noise at the expense of safety, at crucial take-off periods, mentioning that the sound of a crash was the loudest and most terrifying sound of all.

ATTACK ANGLE

I don't know the answers to the AOA for the 9, it varies with the gross weight. But what I do know is this: a full power stall is still a stall, and if half the thrust vanishes, and a stall occurs, the recovery is full power, level wings, and nose on the horizon.

You still lose altitude, and the heavier the aircraft, the more altitude it takes to resolve stall. If that left engine was running full power, and the power stall occurred at 600 feet, there may not have been enough space.

On the other hand, if that same situation occurred at flight level 35, the stall would have been resolved and the plane would fly on with one engine. Maybe his AOA was such that there just wasn't enough cushion for recovery. Perhaps the plates for Mitchell will give us a clue; or I could call departure control some time and ask, but I don't think the time is right to bother them; they're edgy right now.

STILL GOING

I've been a licensed pilot since 1947, and have flown everything from F-86's to Piper Cubs; I just haven't got to the ultra-lights yet but I'll bet they're lots of fun. My eyes aren't good enough for the commercial anymore, and I don't keep up the instrument, but I still can use it if I need it, at least the knowledge it brought.

The last planes I shared were a Piper Turbo-Saratoga and an Aerostar, the Aero with another company, and the Piper with a partner. Both were nice, but the Saratoga was the best.

Nowadays when I have to get somewhere in convenient fashion I rent a Piper Cherokee Archer out at Waukesha; it's not an F-15, but it goes. If you ever get the urge, check out Waukesha. I'm looking at a Mooney that will be just fine if one of our bigger contracts comes through.

Some of the best times I've had were jumping a Seabee from lake to lake in the summer; that 215 hp Franklin was just enough to make 80 knots with a load, but it was fun.

I've got some time on the Aerostar, but more on a Seneca, and even checked out on a DC-3 once. It flew easier than the Aerostar. Flying is always rewarding - if you're the pilot.

PRESUMPTIONS

I think what Goldwater meant was that one should go as far as he can to maintain the liberties of a nation. What you neglected to mention was that wishing death on all with which one differs no longer constitutes a liberty defensive situation. But you made the presumption that your version was what he meant, and then criticized him for your own presumption.

This is the technique you use to deride other statements; first make an unwarranted presumption that a given statement means other than what the person says it means. Second, take that coined presumption and then crucify it; third, become extremely noble in a self-serving pat for being on the right side of yet another issue.

Just give us your opinions, and why you feel they are right, and your reasons that you have those opinions, if you wish, or not. You have a weakness for deriding all who don't conform to what you wish to believe, using the usual word-twists to condemn those who don't travel the road with you and your liberal fellows, thus drawing like, and heavier, fire from the other side.

Attack not, and ye will not be attacked, if you don't like being attacked; however, if ye likes being attacked, and loves the drawing of return fire, then so be it. But if this way is your preferred way, then just shoot without carping about the incoming rounds.

NBC SAWS

Last night NBC in a rather obvious play for a scoop made the statement that pilot error was the cause of 105's demise, just more of their baseless, slanted reporting for effect. Today the investigators said no such inference could be drawn from the presently known facts of the situation. Another typical media grab for a cheap story.

LIBERTY

I can't legitimately argue with your opinion, of course; my position is that in defense of the United States, and the liberty of its people, I would use any tactics or weapons in that defense, extreme or not.

COME ON OVER

On Alpha-Omega we have a vast range of positions on all facets of life, science, politics, and existence. Somewhere in this half-vast panorama you are certain to find a comfortable niche, if there is such a thing on Alpha. Alpha works in cycles, history, occult, religion, politics, news of the moment, ESP occurrences, personal attacks, UFO's, etc. Feel free to enter the arena at any time.

VICINITY

The secondary, or perhaps even the primary, problem is that no matter how far from the city a major airport is built, there will be developers selling the land around it. What they might have done is dumped Mitchell in the 50's and built a big new airport at Bong, with enough acreage to keep the developers an honest distance away. I would have felt safer climbing out with plenty of latitude from a field as Bong was to be. Remember, the law says one can move to the nuisance, and then complain about it.

RICHARD I. BONG ALMOST AFB

You must realize that I'm torn between two attractions; if they situate a field out at Bong, it would be fine for flying, but surely would tend to deteriorate the pheasant hunting.

My ticket number is 715308, and was issued by the CAA. That Kitty you spoke of was a Hawk, same as me.

CREAKING ALONG THE CRACK

As I once mentioned, I spoke to Sam Andreas some time ago; he said it wasn't his fault.

STALLING

The military planes I flew were small fighter aircraft with big horsepowers; their stall characteristics resembled those of the classic barn doors with engines mounted.

This particular DC-9, and the Journal had a very acceptable article on it Sunday, seated 60 passengers, and seemed to have an adequate wing-span and control surface to make them stall-responsive.

But as someone said, when fast approaching stall in a power climb, ready to ease the climb angle and turn, and then one engine goes, it only means trouble. In fact, I wonder if there wasn't a little tail slide before the 9 went in?

WHAT, ME OLD? HELL NO!

I get the impression that some of the Alphans are implying that because my ticket number is so low that I'm pretty old for the flying game.

It's a damn lie! And when I'm flying my S.P.A.D. the entire 30 miles to Cedarburg tomorrow, and I'll be laughing at all you youngsters.

(know where I can get some French 40 octane stuff?)

WOMAN?

Your reference to 'Descent of Woman' gives your note a suspiciously feminine aura. And as far as Charley and Mortimer are concerned, just jump right in; we welcome even wooden headed dummies to the discussion, and are pleased to give them tit for tat, and if I'm right, can reply to any of the Effie Pringles.

DOMESTIC ASSASSINATION

There are many who say that Richard Nixon was one of our great Presidents with regard to foreign and domestic policy, and that Watergate was a set-up job by the left wing to get him, aided by the liberal media. There are others who say that he deserved the burden of Watergate and that he was simply not to be trusted as President and should have actually been impeached.

Over the next few days and weeks we will examine some of the occurrences of the Watergate period and why they happened. I'm sure that some friendly battle lines will be drawn, and that some heated rhetoric will occur.

But please don't forget that personal attacks on opinions, even though acceptable, should not contain much cursing, well, at least not too much. But Nixon is a subject of which some feel the only way to respond is with a good deal of strong language - on either side.

FUTURE SHOCKS

Coming on Alpha will be topics including the psychology of the madding crowd, and some such examples from the past. Then some actual Cayce prophecies, trying to establish accurate dating, and some of the methods for forspeaking by Tarot, which has been neglected somewhat to date.

There will be some good receipts in the near future, not the ordinary kind slanted towards Cuisine, but some specialty items for thirsty and hungry Alphans.

Now that fall is here, and cool weather will again re-start up the discourse, Alpha is certain to be more controversial than ever.

Summer is a'goin out, singe luhdde again, cuccu.

INFLUXED UP

As one more in a continuing series of Wisconsin notes, I must tell you a well-kept secret, until now, of our State lore regarding our dark beginnings.

It seems that in the early days of the Territory, most of the emigrants coming to the Milwaukee area came from New York state. How ignominious! We can only believe that we got the cream of the crop, that is those who were smart enough to leave New York, and especially NYC, and come to what once was equivalent to the promised land.

Now, with the Democrat over-taxing programs, including the new communal property law, it seems to be of greater promise to escape Wisconsin to areas with better tax climates.

Note: But we certainly know how to treat our New York visitors in high fashion; yesterday it was 23 to 20, Packers.

SAD AND SADDER

All of the discussion we have had here on Alpha concerning the ill-fated flight of 105 almost pales into insignificance next to the blurb on the PBS battle of the baby-killers versus the pro-lifers. Mentioned was the fact that about 15 million babies have been killed (you know where I stand) by the abortionists since the supreme court ruling on the subject.

Why is it that most of the liberals bleed for every cause except the one dealing with the extermination of humans who never had a chance to become totally human? To me it sounds totally inhuman, and along with the acceptance of the life style and its vile diseases, constitutes a rodentian gnawing at the pillars of American society.

EARTH IS HELL?

Have you heard the theories and speculations of some that Earth itself is Hell, and that our sentence here is merely the painful penance for sins in another, prior, existence? If proved true, then when Willie asked, "who would these fardels bear" he'd get quite a few answers. Quietus Hardware would sell out of bare bodkins in a hurry.

EVOLVED

The described paths of evolution with regard to natural selection do not seem to have considered mutation as a part of the evolutionary process in the classic definition, that is, a quantum leap in ability due to a happenstance occurrence.

Rather than the evolutionary process, I feel the mutative process coming about in a more significant mode of influence.

And as I once mentioned, if humans have experienced these quantum leaps in mental ability, they certainly wouldn't discuss them for fear of being killed by their lessers, or at best, studied to death.

IF

Not to break into your talk, I have to concur with most of what you've expressed. The operating misfortune of his statements is still that big "IF" right at the beginning; all that follows is the logic of the Jesuits.

(I probably would have concurred with all of what you said, but I didn't want to set any dangerous precedents)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

Elsewhere in the archives was a reference to the League of Women Voters, a liberal, holier-than-thou gaggle of self-serving feminists who are trying to overthrow the President's decision on the Strategic Defense Initiative, as though the integrity or ability of the group was of any significance in the great scheme of things.

This is the same LWV who apparently was involved in an election fraud, the Florida "Votescam" in the election of November, 1982.

A videotape made secretly shows 70 dues-paying members of the LWV sitting at long tables in a private area of the central vote-counting facility. The women were punching out holes in punch card ballots, thousands of holes in a four-hour span.

Each punch-out was an illegal vote!

The language of the federal statute concerned is this:

All proceedings at the central counting location shall be under the direction of the county canvassing board and shall be open to the public, but no persons except those employed and authorized for the purpose shall touch any ballot or ballot container, any item of automatic tabulating equipment or any return prior to its release.

Two investigative reporters, Kenneth F. Collier, and James M. Collier, former Editor-in-Chief, and Editor of the Miami Beach Herald Examiner, have sued the LWV for $150 million in damages, charging wrongful acts in the election process, not only in Florida, but in all other states where the LWV has unlawfully handled, or changed, ballots and ballot counts.

There is no reason to allow the LWV access to the inner workings of the polling places on election night, and even less of a reason to allow the handling or modification of ballots.

It will be interesting to see what the courts do with the videotaped proof of the LWV's illegal handling or changing of the Florida votes, as alleged in the suit, and if any government attorney will have the fortitude to ask for criminal warrants in view of the video proof.

I don't see any reason for a group such as the LWV having access to the ballot counting or handling process than I would if it were the Conservative Caucus; no group should have the right to be there!

My question is, how many elections and votes has the LWV influenced by actions such as these in past years, and are we going to let them get away with any more than they already have?

(Some wag called the group, "The Vote Of Women Leakers."

STILL MURDER

You know my position on when human life begins; but, I am not one who maintains that abortion can never be performed - there are extenuating circumstances.

I'm just against those who recklessly perform in the knowledge that if a pregnancy occurs, it can be resolved as easily as wiping a chalk board.

I guess it basically stems from the abysmal moral attitudes engendered by the TV and Movie perverts, who want the moral tone of the nation dragged down to their sleazy level.

OPPOSITION

The kids at St. Rita's are getting sex education in the proper manner (and I don't mean on the playground) with the consent of the parents. (But, it was probably more fun learning it on the playground, if I remember, whether the info was right or wrong)

WHEN?

I just have to go back to the point that when conception takes place, the vitality formed can only grow up to be a human being, and as such must be considered a human at any time after conception occurs. It there were a chance it would mature into a baboon or a lion, I might agree with you, although I understand the various forms the fetus takes in its development, but feel they are not important.

On another subject, do you feel that those forms the fetus does pass through are an argument in favor of evolution?

FINE LINE

But once conception takes place, a human life has started.

Consider the case where the girl and her boyfriend discarded their baby causing it to die. They were sentenced to long prison terms. If they would have aborted the child at any time before birth, 'for the health of the mother,' it would have been perfectly acceptable by the authorities. What a fine line on which to balance.

MURDER

Even if no religion had ever existed in the world, secular rules against the murder of a human being would probably have come about.

DOWN THE WELL!!

The most exciting news of the year has been the predicted demise of OPEC and high oil prices. It was the OPEC actions in the 1970's that was responsible for much of the world depression. The late word is that Saudi Arabia has upped its production by 40%, an act that will bring it more revenue, even at potentially depressed prices. And those depressed prices, oil down to 15 dollars a barrel, will bring a boom in the world economy that will be of a magnitude never before seen on this earth. The sooner it happens, the better! (gasoline at 50 cents a gallon? It could be)

WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY

Color still is a factor! In Milwaukee County last year, 57% of all births were to unmarried black females under the age of 19 years. There is a movement within the black community to reduce this number. I hope it succeeds.

BIGOTED?

A bigot is someone who doesn't think the way you think he should. We are all bigots in our own fashion, even those who are bigoted against their version of bigots.

CROOKED ARROW

Bring the lakes and woods of Wisconsin into a big circle, the Indians are attacking again. What is it this time? Well, along with their cradle to grave socialist government blanket, paid for by you and me, they are trying to state that their treaty rights with the US Government entitle this band of insolent Chippewas to claim 50% of the fish and game in northern Wisconsin, any time they feel like taking it. They also want to use high power lights to shine deer, along with netting, spearing, and selling of game fish.

Here's what else they want:

Hunt on privately owned land enrolled under the state forest crop law.

Hunt and fish without any state supervision.

What is my position? I say let the would-be Hiawathas hunt and fish as much as they wish, just as their ancestors did. But, I also say that they should use no modern materials, no guns, no plastic or fabrics, that did not exist to them back in the time of the treaties. No cars, no boats except for hand-made canoes and equipment, nothing modern.

Most of the indians of Wisconsin and the US are no better off than the welfare blacks, in education, skills and attitudes. Let's stop this reservation pets nonsense and let them make a living for themselves. Some indians! If they took away the government checks, food stamps, and other handouts, they'd probably starve.

You don't believe this? Talk to some of the businessmen up in Wisconsin Dells, or some of the schoolteachers there. You may be surprised.

NIXON

There are those who maintain the only question was should he be hung with a new rope or old rope. They're all from the left side of the aisle, except for a few holier than thou people temporarily deserting the right.

UNION HALT

When has a union gone too far in its zeal to hold out at all cost? I think it is when it refuses to obey a court order issued by a judge.

There was a story today that mentioned the teachers union who was on strike, and who had been ordered back to work by a judge. The union in its arrogance refused to accede to the judge's order, whereupon the judge imposed a 10,000 dollar per day fine, and other sanctions.

The union obviously thought it would again get away without paying any fines or suffering any losses, as so many unions have in the past, but this time the judge refused to listen to the union please. She reaffirmed the fines, some 55,000 dollars, and ordered jail sentences for some of the rebellious strikers.

Let's hear it for that judge, where ever she is!

SAME OLD LINE

It's unfortunate that the right side of your mouth never knows what the left is doing; your gibberish is a tribute to double-standardism, and not worth this these lines of reply.

You are going to believe what you want regardless of facts, in your subjective port-sided manner; reading your implication and innuendo based tirades are like a sequel to 1984, but without the Orwellian flare.

HOSTAGES

What will anyone wager that the Achille Laurel terrorists will claim that the sole victim had a heart attack so they threw him overboard?

Wait for it.

As soon as I saw what you said I shut up shop and turned on short wave. The BBC, Radio Nederland, and Voice of Germany all carried play by play news casts much of the night. I didn't get much sleep.

CREDENCE FOR CRETINS

: After the first of your arguments I realized that anything generated by your flaccid processes was suspect, and have since treated as such. It matters not to me what you think or what positions you hold. You are too rigid to be effective in reasonable discourse.

I admit that I baited you on many an occasion to see what the reactionary rhetoric of the response would be, not in its stance (that was inevitable) but in the shrillness of the tone.

But again I have to mention you disappointed once in a while, sounding actually reasonable for a few lines - but only a few lines - at the times when you felt my position matched yours.

I think what really bothers you is the fact that I don't really care what about being held in high regard or esteem by you, and that your criticisms, such as they are, have no effect on what I think or speak or write; I do and hold what I wish, without consideration for your suggestions, thoughts, books, nits, and picks. The way you present your output, in its propensity for derision, sarcasm, and garble, subjective in its general manner, objective only in its suspect references, is a mild irritant because of its 'saying makes it so' to many who simply don't mention it, but bland to others who take the trouble to do so.

You flatter yourself immensely to bombastically state the requirements for your believing what I say; again, to conform to some warped standards you set for correspondence is twaddle; why don't you just step down off that half cubit plastic tower and speak as though you were a reasonable person instead of assuming that lofty pedantic air holds all others in thrall. It does not.

If you had the patience to read your first Alphan input, you would see that all of my flamboyant responses were in kind to your aggrandizing self-indulgences, sort of a counterpoint leash to heel your narcissistic upload flabbery.

You have characterized yourself somewhere as a space pedant; I agree, especially since Webster defines 'pedant' as:

'One who parades his learning.

'One who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the use or presentation of knowledge.

There are others, a male school teacher (are you qualified for that?), too narrowly concerned with learned matters (maybe), a formalist or precisionist in teaching or use of knowledge (the knowledge held, I would venture to say), and if we skipped to the next word down there is an applicable phrase about traveling with trifles which might fit.'

Concerning the 'space,' I know where that is! Maybe your Oxford has even more to tickle your fantasy.

What I'm telling you in this note is this: no more will I answer your idiocies as such. When you learn to say 'I disagree, this is my opinion however,' instead of 'I disagree, and you and Reagan are both crazy' then you will receive an answer when one is merited.

My claiming you were in your dotage was completely wrong; I apologize; but let us hope you reach your intellectual teens some day, and even beyond.

ARSE NIL

Our mighty arsenal consists of 4 BB guns, an antique 10 gauge that no one would ever dare to fire through those damascus twist barrels, four bows, and a slingshot.

We got our last deer by carrying the BB guns in the woods, and dragging the deer to the car when it had a heart attack while laughing himself silly over our armaments.

This year we plan to use boomerangs; we may not get a deer, but kangaroos are dead meat!

INTERPRETATION

If you are baffled by the intricacies of the subjunctive, then it is up to you to pursue the knowledge required for definition. You often have donned the expert's mantle in fields of science. Simply try it on again for defining the complexities of the paragraph, but don't step into your own crude traps, such as the one of your prior talk.

It could gum your leg to death.

NIXON REVISITED

In order to treat the subject of Richard Nixon beyond ordinary accolade or vituperation, let us have some input on the subject. What I'm asking is this: In your opinion, should Nixon have been impeached and convicted for the Watergate situation, and if you think he should have been, for what crime would he be impeached. We'll try to keep this discussion on an objective level, although I'm certain some subjectivity will CRP in.

GUESS

Considering what you said, and its impact and significance, I am convinced you have brown eyes. And the remainder vertically is a material of construction.

READING

Did you miss the phrase 'according to many historians' in the argument?

Did you miss the word 'allegation' and others in reference to the suit filed in Florida against the LWV?

Really, you should quit reading the supermarket news; it's influencing your comprehension, it would seem. If you are a glutton for innuendo, then review some of your old arguments on various subjects, and note the subjective treatment thereof.

ARMS OFF

In the paper this morning, it was said that the arms sale to Jordan was put off because Israel didn't like it. On NBC this morning, Peres stated that no mideast country in a war situation should receive any arms. If this is the case, why do we give arms to Israel?

Who runs the US Senate, the people of the US or the leaders of Israel? I don't care what Israel says or does, really, I just want a more even-handed approach to our policy in the mideast. The next oil shortage is coming soon; will we get oil from Israel? Don't bet on it; but the Arabs, based on how we have treated them, will let us have some for $100 a barrel.

LWV WEIRDOS

Of course you are surprised and confused most of the time; why single out this particular situation; but, let's put a synopsis together for you, one time only:

The first allegation stated that the LWV in Florida were videotaped punching out holes in the ballots. For me that evidence is good enough for a conclusion to the effect that they are probably culpable.

The second asked the LWV to respond for their side of the story; you know the result.

The third described the suit with its allegations of what happened. After reading the federal law on the matter, and knowing that a video tape exists indicating they were in the act of breaking that law, I feel that they did indeed break the law. I didn't accuse the Milwaukee LWV of being involved, as she would like to have you believe.

But an organization like the LWV should know what's happening in other states, especially where they are being sued. There must be a national newsletter of sorts, or do I give them too much credit. As I said, and will say again, if there is a videotape of LWV members mishandling ballots, then I feel they broke the federal law regarding such actions.

ARISTOTLEAN TO THE RIGHT

Your logic certainly must be symbolic, because it surely isn't actual.

If A = B, then B = A, no matter what your old white head says in the pm.

Can't you really understand the questioning what-if from the Aristotlean log-if?

If you don't, then do not waste all that upload time picking nits - and evading the real issues of the LWV situation. But for your obviously needed edification, I'll again related my stance:

1. The LWV was caught on video-tape doing their prima facie frauds, and in my opinion are guilty.

2. The lawsuit against the LWV contains charges of same; the magazine report related the news in terms of allegations, to protect themselves in any case.

3. When you learn to analyze a record, and the depth of scope it requires to assimilate it as such, instead of considering it as veneer, then you will have a greater understanding of the participant interface of forum activity. Cognizance may relieve you of innate stuffiness engendered by so many years of living in Nitsville. Not too many here appreciate your quasi-scholarly approach which depends for effect on your minute mis-analysis of what is said, versus what the text really states.

4. In the past I have made some reference to the market tabloid headlines, about which you seem to know a great deal. I used them, in those few times, as tongue-in-cheek bases for effect, knowing that they were merely sensation oriented, and had no real or actual significance in the great scheme of scholarly literature.

But then again, you have brought up the Scheer and Talbot (sic) shovel books, which equate almost identically to the Star and the Enquirer, so we are even.

AT LEAST

My lips don't move when I read!

(I'd be happy to see the defense in print; however, no one from the LWV or its surrogates seems to wish to post the information; and, of course, the actual defense can't be printed until the trial is over. Can't wait to read the depositions, though.)

TWEETY TREATY

One of the funnier events recently was finding out that the so-called ABM treaty (which the Soviets proceeded to break in record time) did not have any of the constrictions that the anti-arms groups thought they did. What a blow to the blowhards.

LUPUS TUNES

Seriously, the reason I don't care to review those liberal books is that you have given us a thorough review of what they say, and from your words it would appear they are simply another anti-Reagan, anti-administration collection of tripe, based on what the authors would like to present as the truth, but most likely is nothing but implication and innuendo. The only way I would care to hear from them is in direct conversation where questions could be asked.)

GROUP ATTACKS

One of the problems with many groups is their inherent ability to attack a proposed event in the manner described.

Their theory is, if one man can do it in 100 minutes, then 100 men can do it in one minute. Ergo, if one 'scientist' is shown to be against a proposition, then a hundred scientists lend so much credence to damn a concept, then it surely must be wrong.

When JFK said we would put a man on the moon in a decade, there were those who said it was silly to even consider the possibility. Yet it was done. I wouldn't be surprised if the names on the couldn't go to the moon list were not, in many cases, the same as on the present the SDI won't work list.

And I see the degree syndrome in operation in liability cases, where a so-called expert is deposed for his opinion, and all those degrees don't mean a sen when it comes to actual, practical experience. The juries in the cases recognize hot air when they see it, and the jury of the nation also realizes more than the ivory towerites give them credit for doing.

Then there is the verse:

They told him the job couldn't be done,

And if he tried, he would rue it!

So he tackled the job that couldn't be done,

And by golly, he couldn't do it!

But in any case, the fellow above tried, and the Gorbyclones don't even want to allow an attempt.

TREATY

Being the cynic that I am, it's difficult for me to believe that our side (since Reagan) wasn't aware of what was actually in the document. Note the timing.

Out of the blue, just prior to a summit, it is released that a top-notch word-wiggler had been hired to review the treaty and report on what it really states. That's overstretching the long arm of coincidence.

COMFORT INDEX

One of the more reassuring concepts I have developed (just now), is something called the BCI. It stands for the Bureaucratic Comfort Index, and is as pervasive in the Soviet ranks as it is in ours, in fact, probably even more so due to the opportunity for the Soviet Bureaucrat to obtain goods that no non-party worker can.

This attitude of attained comfort has to have permeated the Soviet levels, and no good bureaucrat would take any chances on losing his relatively good life and perqs in a stupid nuclear war. Especially in the great Marxist heaven where the good life is so rare.

And, as you have stated, with the lowered potential for the Soviet's delivering all their missiles effectively, none of the bureaucratic ladder will want to risk losing all.

Peace = SDI + BCI

EH, WHAT'S UP, PLUMBER?

Which reminds me: A doctor had to call a plumber over to fix some leaky plumbing and fixtures. When the job was done, the plumber presented his bill. The doctor analyzed it, got angry, and said, "this is preposterous! When I break down the cost it comes to about $170 an hour. Why I only make about $80 an hour."

The plumber said, "yes, and when I was a doctor I only made about 80 an hour myself."

TRYING TO DEFECT

What did you think about the fiasco of last week when the Soviet sailor jumped from the ship, and was returned to the Soviets twice? Was it a communist ploy or was it a case where we again turned someone back to the bad guys too soon? We had done it once before. Sounds like a good deal of bureaucratic bungling, as usual.

And some of the older Alphans may remember Operation Keelhaul where millions of people were sent to the Soviet Union after the war even if they didn't want to go. A huge part of those millions were anti-soviet Germans, Poles, and others, who were most certainly eliminated by Stalin.

The US military coined the name 'Keelhaul' to tell the world exactly what was being done by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, to the everlasting discredit of those so-called leaders.

TEMPERAMENTS

Have the Alphans noticed lately that some of the members are getting testy to downright nasty in their daily social interfaces, calling a spade a "spade," and ripping off the veneer of civilization to let their thalamus be their guide?

I love it!

ED GARVEY

We'll never forget old Ed Garvey.

He was the NFL players union rep who brought about the strike a few years ago, to the detriment of football fans everywhere.

He always has been the tool of union interests, so much so that our own chief klutz, Tony the Taxer, appointed him to the post of deputy state attorney general, and in the same state as the Green Bay Packers yet.

Now he wants to be a US senator, and we're informed that he will hold a fund-raiser Monday at the Phister Hotel, starring none other than left-winger Ed Asner, who can always be found on the side of the communists in any world action, and who has been quoted as saying that we are the aggressors in Central America, and that we were wrong in throwing the communists out of Grenada.

To let a tool of the Unions, like Garvey or some other Demo clone, get in a senatorial position would be a disaster for the State of Wisconsin; you would see that doubling of the teachers' salaries and the same old left-wing Democrap picking of the tax-payers pockets even more.

Ed Asner? Why didn't the Demos just feature Daniel Ortega and stop all of the hypocrisy?

TWO ITEMS OF INTEREST

1. As noted in the Sentinel, Latvia's Independence day is to be celebrated on November 18th. This small country is, of course, paying attention to the fact that at one time it was free, starting on a given day, even though it is now in the clutch of the evil empire.

Along with Latvia, two other small, Baltic countries were absorbed by the Soviet monster, Estonia and Lithuania. The Soviets have tried to eliminate all of the heritage and customs of those Baltic peoples, but have not been successful.

No contact on any subject, much less 'arms control,' should be made with the Soviet killers until they get out of all the countries they unlawfully occupy; the Baltic states, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Cuba, the African states, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, etc. - the list is long.

Jimmy the Greek said it best: Gorbachev is Kruschev in a $700 suit.

MERCENARY MERCENARIES

Mercenary training, to the disgust of those who know what the real business is all about, has become fashionable just like designer jeans and rapids cruising.

These mercenary camps are willing to teach you anything for that old buck! Whether or not you learn anything (in my opinion) they couldn't care less as long as it's cash in advance.

What it is, is amateur night in the trenches, where you can bleed plastic blood without the pain, and shoot off a few hundred rounds just for the sound, maybe run a bad-guy course and waste a few cong pictures.

The real merc camps you can't get into except by invitation.

BIG-MOUTH SCHROEDER

What Patricia Schroeder seems to forget is the 1st Amendment rights, not only for the radicals in her wimpy party, but also for the other citizens of the nation. If her warped mentality held sway on the question, no martial arts schools would be allowed to operate, trap and skeet clubs would be shut down, and if she could do it, she'd be likely to dissolve the armed forces. A typical Demo double-dip!

MAGICK

I am not the only magician! Some day we'll relate the story of how Bambi and his brothers turned three of us into turkeys early this morning in the wilds of the north Kettle Moraine area. Lucky there was a sign up forbidding the shooting of turkeys ($200 fine).

We might have been doomed!

PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT

I don't think that he has crossed that fine line of prosylitization versus theological argument; at least not yet. I don't mind listening to discussion concerning religious viewpoints; what we don't want is chapter and verse battling chapter and verse, and we have not arrived at that plateau.

He is presenting his arguments for scrutinization; those who disagree are dissecting them, or chopping them down as is their wont. It's a battle of aspects which is perfectly acceptable on Alpha. Get in on it and make your thoughts known, for or against.

DNR

Some say it's an acronym for Damn Near Retarded, having achieved that dubious status during the reign of Tony the Taxer, who practiced well his idiocies at that agency, perfecting them for the time when he would be governor.

Can you doubt the title after the fiasco of past days, wherein the agency allowed a selective extension of the deer hunting season, offering more hunt time to the chosen few who were fortunate enough to be awarded an antlerless deer permit for a given hunt area?

Two appropriately disgruntled hunters filed suit to obtain a court order so all hunters with unfilled tags could hunt; they were temporarily successful. Yesterday afternoon, another of the judiciary blocked the order and transferred the case to Dane county, where it will probably languish until the extended deer season passes into history.

In view of the DNR's decision for a discriminatory split season, I feel the next step for those who were arbitrarily barred from the second hunt is a class action suit against the DNR to recoup half the license fee paid. It's only about six dollars, but I would donate twice that much to supplement legal costs (along with many others) so as to see the dopey DNR get its well-deserved comeuppance.

AFL-CIO

What would you expect from a Union release - that it's better to be a right-to-work state than not? The figures they related indicate a difference of $1664 per annum, or $3 a week, in pay. Union dues, in many cases, construction for example, exceed that amount. I'd rather work non-union for a little less and not have them on my back, and as an employer would fight to the death to keep the Union out of my company.

(My brother was a steward at Allis Chalmers for years; now that the excessive union wages have forced the company to close down, he has had second thoughts about the role of unions in American industry, and not to the benefit of the unions)

ZOHAR

At the risk of your becoming the official Rabbi here (not a bad thought), I'd like to have you tell us more about the Zohar or Book of Light. I realize that it takes time to develop these things, so take your time if some research has to be done.

BLAME

I suppose I blame the unions because they and they alone were responsible for the wage-price spiral that got ever higher until it priced American goods, for the most part, right out of the marketplace.

Have you ever heard of the study (which received not a bit of national exposure) that since 1945, unions have been responsible for all the recessions because of the inflation born out of the alliance between unions and Democrats. If we use oriental-made products, such as cars, clothes, and electronics, it is due to the fact that artificially high union wages would not let American manufacturers meet foreign prices. Unions no longer contribute to our society; society contributes to the unions - either directly or indirectly.

UNION PATHS

I think the unions should take some of the vast amount of money they have in pension funds and other funds and set up their own businesses to compete in the marketplace. That way they could hire all union labor and have their own way at all times in company operation. Wages and benefits could be as high as they want, with the best of work rules in place, and tremendous perqs for everyone. Best of all, they would have no bargaining or strikes to worry about, only their business competition.

Why don't you ask your union about buying out your present employer and setting up Union Industries, Inc? Sounds like a winner.

PRODUCTION

Of course we need a forum to discuss our opinions, which are unarguable, a fact that the lamented girl never could comprehend. Even Two-ton Tip and Righteous Ron get along in spite of their differences.

One statement in your talk, "Employees control the means of production," I must take issue with. If you are speaking of the unionized workers whose job it is to generate a product of some sort, for effort, they are being paid, it is neither up to them or to the union to control the means of production; that is management's responsibility and none other's.

The company, the stockholders, the board, the officers, they are the ones who set production standards through the various management lines. Certain standards of efficiency must be set for adherence by the workers; if, after training, the worker cannot meet the set production rate, that others are meeting, he is of little use to the company and should be discarded. He has the privilege of going to another firm at which he can meet company production goals. No company should be forced to retain an employee who is a loss to that company. This reasoning applies to the company officers, why should it not apply to the employees, union or no?

From each according to his abilities might go over big in socialist states, but here in the US there's no place for it, except in some unions' arrogant marxist approaches.

WATCH OUT IN THE BIG APPLE!

Last time I was in NY we did indeed get mugged. It was at the exclusive La Chatelaine, where lunch for four was $138.70.

DUCK, BLIND

Force X Mess = Deceleration!

However, KaDaffy says he will wreak havoc on the streets of the US. Should we warn him about the streets of Chicago or NY, or Imperial Blvd in LA? His squads wouldn't last 10 minutes in some of those spots after 9 pm.

CRESCENT CITY

I had an attic apartment in the Pontalba House on St. Ann street, on the north side of Jackson Square, back during a military summer seminar at Tulane. It was the greatest, just a couple blocks from Bourban Street.

And, right on Bourbon, just north of Toulouse, the oyster/shrimp bar had all you could eat for 50 cents. Pat O'Brien's charged 6 dollars for a 1938 Chateau LaFitte, the Dixie Kitchen on Toulouse had the biggest and best Poor Boy in town for 65 cents.

I'd like to tell you more but I dislike slobbering over the keys.

Even the restaurant in Maison Blanche department store had Crab Louie...

(And some of the best spots were the tavern/casinos on Lake Ponchartrain; all the big shrimp one could eat for 70 cents. I must add that 2 slot machines allowed them to be called casinos)

GIANT!

Japan found out what it meant to wake a sleeping giant; only a stupe like KaDaffy would try to irritate one already awake. May he wake up to the tune of neutrons some bright Libyan morning.

BUT GOOD!

In your recommendation that the US develop a hit-squad to eliminate the terrorist leaders of a given regime you have forever severed yourself (and it's about time) from the liberal line; they will never forgive you!

The sad fact about your most excellent suggestion is that liberals in the Congress have brought about some flakey rule forbidding the US from eliminating other heads of state in any situation, and if the event ever did occur in the near future, we would see the Kennedys, Harts, Weikers, and Cranstons of the Congress looking to impeach whatever Republican president was sitting at the time.

I'm certain that even though your thought was rather hawkish in this situation, you still retain your humanitarian concepts, so don't think this is a criticism of those stances; it is merely a paean to the thought involved, and a hope for more of the same.

MINOR LEAGUE FLAKE

Who? None other than our foot-in-mouth 'governor' Tony Earl.

I thought he had overtaxed every item in the state that was taxable; I was wrong - recent statements have revealed that he has overtaxed his mind.

In the paper this morning, Earl went on record as to how to celebrate the Martin Luther King 'holiday' coming up on January 20th. His suggestion? That the blacks should go out into the countryside and help the farmers pick corn and other crops that were not able to be harvested because of inclement fall weather. Yes, he did say that.

Can you visualize anyone in his right mind, black, white, or indifferent going out on a frigid January 20th to pick corn? I think he just lost most of the black vote, and his aides have rushed over to remove the shoelace hanging from his lips. But, it's too late.

TRAPPED AGAIN

In thinking it over, if nature acts on physical bodies according to the same laws, how does science account for Loni Anderson and Ruth Buzzi?

I guess even Mother Nature breaks the law on occasion.

THINK IT OVER

An object tends to maintain itself in whatever condition until acted upon by an outside influence of whatever nature - like a tornado, or a wife...

SOAP-BOXER

You're correct, but it's not worth raising a sweat about. Some people can only rise to a height in other people's crises; some make a career out of belaboring the obvious; sometimes the two qualities are combined in the same individual - if one would term them qualities rather than deficiencies.

HIPPETY DIPPETY, DOC

The US fixed his clock;

The chime struck seven,

Doc went to heaven,

On a US military plane......

(I may have my poetic license suspended, which is only fit, since Baby Doc went to France in a move that smacks of cruel and unusual punishment)

FORM

Many a proposition, in the most proper form, offers most proper analysis, except to those who would read into it what they wish to and want to.

It's characteristic of most fiction, or to be charitable, of those who believe that saying it very sincerely, must surely make it so.

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED

That it's those who have the least credibility have the most to say.* And it's obvious where those sympathies lie - feet in the clouds, head buried, not an ounce of pragmatism or good sense. It must have been all those lessons from the left; he passed the course with frying colors.

*Moderators not included...

IT'S IN PRINT....

What is most obvious is that he is one who believes all he sees and reads - on TV, in the newspapers, and in the magazines. He also states that he thinks, "our government structure is long overdue for a complete overhaul and restructuring." This type of thinking neatly coincides with that of others whose dearest wish is to remold our Republic to their heart's desire. And bringing up the straw man question about violence - who ever said there was not violence, in fact....

Hell! Why am I responding to such preposterously put nonsense......

BLOW TO THE SCHOOL BOARD

In July 1984, US District Court Judge MacKenzie, decided that forced racial busing of elementary grade children in Norfolk, Virginia, for the purposes of 'desegregation,' should be halted. Of course the ruling was appealed by the "let's you and them integrate" crowd of liberals backing quotas and discrimination.

However, a three-judge panel, from the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals, said it would uphold Judge MacKenzie's decision, in a major, anti-busing victory. The decision will play a large part in similar challenges around the nation which are certain to erode the idiocy of court-ordered busing.

The ruling should cause the Milwaukee School Board to take a new look at their grandiose plans to attempt control of the school systems of the area. Follow-through of the suit will simply cost the tax-payers more expense that would be best saved, or at most better spent for useful purposes.

Busing for racial desegregation is a concept whose tragic time should never have come, and whose acceptance is gone.

INITIATIVE REFERENDUM

We have not discussed at length the advantages or disadvantages of the Initiative Referendum concept. The I-R is a method by which the voters of the State can cause a law to pass or be rejected simply by their votes.

For example, if a proposed 21 year old minimum drinking age were on the ballot for vote, a simple majority of voters could make it a statute or reject it. The same follows for other proposed legislation.

I'm for it! Can you see any dangers, or will benefits outweigh the perils? Is it time we allowed the voters to control at least a part of their own destinies in this high-priced state?

TRAGIC FLIGHT 105

Didn't we know it would come to this: The engine mfg blaming the crash on pilot error, and the airline blaming it on the engines, with the big prize to come from the insurance settlements from both.

When a pilot brings in a plane safely after an accident that turns it into a barn door with wings (like last week) then he's a hero. If everyone is killed, blame the pilot - he won't put up a fuss.

SPIES LIKE OURS

I think it a matter of principle and self-preservation that the US have spies in enemy or unfriendly countries. I dislike the fact that our so-called best friend in the world still finds it necessary to spy on the land that provides it with billions of dollars, latest technologies, and moral support against its enemies. Can it be said that with friends like Israel, we don't need enemies? Many are of that opinion.

LOUIS RENAULT

The Wisconsin powers that be are kow-towing to Renault in order to keep them in this state.

Louis Renault, the French automobile manufacturer, of the same present-day company, collaborated with the Nazis, and was arrested by the Free French forces on September 23, 1944. He died mysteriously before being brought to trial.

Some of us have longer memories than others.

YOU HAD DIMENSION IT!

Perhaps money can be defined as a synergism of the first three dimensions in pragmatic terms: Without money there is no existence! (quote from the famous Japanese architect, Flank Royd Wlight, who had a yen for things like this)

CD-ROM'S

I suppose I heard it last again, but I was gently amazed at what I read in an article concerning a new compact laser disk, similar to the disk used for audio reproduction, but utilized for computer work as a compact-disk, read-only memory (CD-ROM).

It was reported that this 4.7 inch disk would store up to 250,000 pages of text, with no wear because of the laser-mode sensing. This relates to 1200 times more information than regular floppies, and almost 100 times the capacity of an average hard disk.

In February, Datext Inc., of Woburn, Mass. is shipping the first products integrated for the business market. Du Pont and Phillips are beginning a joint-venture effort to manufacture the disks.

According to the information, Digital Equipment is marketing drives and databases in order to develop a software standard.

Perhaps our coming 100 megabyte hard disk drives will fit in a cigar box.

EXTREMES

I always try to avoid extremes in temperature; and ask, should our CD disks be sheltered also? I told you my news would be late; my question is, why haven't you guys in the know posted news on the disks before this?

Concerning the indestructibility of the CD's, they probably get that reputation from their material, even though, as you relate, a scratch will do them in. Good that you passed on the info as to potential dangers in mishandling.

Some further notes: Sony and Phillips have agreed on physical standards for their disks, but there are still others being tested, ala the CBS and RCA quibble on TV signals in the dim past. Two other groups in industry are working on size, namely High Sierra and the National Information Standards Organization.

It seems that perhaps several CD standards will emerge, each dependent on application. But, the largest computer company, IBM, has yet to announce that they have a product, and until they do, it would appear that there would be a danger in developing a standard which IBM would not use, and IBM's standard could make existing standards obsolete overnight.

What really caught my eye was the fact that market analysts project a $900 million dollar market by 1990 (a conservative guess), with a base of 390,000 installed units, and 74 million CD disk sales. Another analyst predicts that by 1990 there will be 22 million drives and over 200 million disks sold.

The bandwagon may be leaving soon; get your tickets now.

ACTUALLY,

It's, absinthe makes the heart grow flounder; or would you rather drink wormwood in Gaul?

DEMOCRAP RESPONSE

After the President spoke on the need for aid to the freedom-fighters of Nicaragua, in their quest to force free elections on the communist bosses that had taken over their country, Tennessee Democrat James Sasser went on the air to agree that, yes, the communist had taken over and scorned the aims of the revolution, but that the Demos of congress would not vote money to help the contras.

To put it bluntly, Sasser is one of the young Democrat wimps whose guts must be in blind trust. With representatives such as him in this country, the Sandanistas need not worry about support for their cause. Sasser like many of his Demolib partners, decry the communist activities, but won't do anything to halt them. If being a traitor means giving aid and comfort to the enemy, the label fits Sasser and his siblings like a glove.

It would appear that the only hope of the United States in the world of the future is to rip out these cowardly cancers via the ballot box, and elect a congress with the backbone to resist the red aggression. Sasser, like Solarz, is quick to vote billions for Israel, but not 10 million for the contras with which to fight for freedom. Where do the loyalties of these people really lie? In America or in Moscow?

Clem Zablocki was an old-time Democrat who knew what theý communists were after and voted to hold the line militarily during his term of office. Where are the Democrats like Zablocki, Scoop Jackson, and Harry Truman today? Probably learning to eat borscht quiche for their proposed millennium.

As far as I'm concerned, a vote against the contra aid package is a vote against the future safety and interest of the United States, no matter which political party the congressman may belong to.

CRITERIA

I realize that you are using the term 'unsubstantiated slander' from a position of ignorance, and allow me to relieve you of that burden by saying that records exist which do substantiate all of the names and statements made.

For starters, you may glance at a publication called "The Web of Subversion," a book written by a conservative scholar named James Burnham, whose credentials as a writer and investigator are impeccable even in more liberal eyes.

Burnham cites hard evidence from the various trials and hearings, naming dates and places.

Another so-called American who was high in the Roosevelt administration's echelons of government, and who was a communist party member and a communist spy, was Alger Hiss. He was dealt with in a book named "Seeds of Treason," By Ralph de Toledano, which also cites many of the names listed as communists.

A handful left? Not a chance! Their activities were too well documented, and were brought up again to indicate how deeply the Soviets had their tendrils into our government. It's not even certain today that moles do not exist in our very Congress; the way some of them vote makes them suspect.

However, if you feel that some on the list I posted were unfairly accused, please note those and I shall offer description of why they were on.

More than gladly.

(Note: would you mind explaining the phrase, sub-classes of logical fallacies? Sounds etymologically intriguing)

(Note II: Another book which substantiates descriptions of the nefarious anti-American activities of those on my list was, "The Whole of Their Lives," a portrayal of Communism in America, by Benjamin Gitlow. It would clarify much for you, and put some of the recent world events in a more enlightened perspective)

COMMIE DEFINITIONS

In this day and age of communist aggression throughout the world, and in our own nation where the liberals seem to be confusing Gorby with Pope John, I'd like to offer again some definitions that should be kept in mind where the communists are concerned. They may have already appeared in the early Alphan days, but they are still worthwhile noting. This is how the communists view some commonly used terms:

Conservative: Fascist

Fascist: An effective anti-communist

Right-Winger: One who tends towards an anti-commie government

Co-existence: A temporary situation until the communists gain time to infiltrate, subvert, and grow in strength and power.

Peace: The final victory over America and capitalism.

Democracy: A one-world socialist state under Communism.

Emerging Nations: Nations that throw off feudalism and gravitate towards Communism.

Neutral Nations: Pro-Soviet nations.

Reforms: Programs that centralized controls and destroy free enterprise.

Progressive: Any pro-Soviet movement.

Liberation: The taking over and subjugation of any peoples by force to develop a totalitarian communist state. Just as what is happening in the

nations of Nicaragua and Afghanistan, and anywhere else the

communist tyranny is allowed to flourish.

When you hear on TV, or read in print, fancy quotes from the communists and their flunkies, you will understand what they really mean.

COMMENT

Like the man said, when two or more people agree all the time, then one guy is doing all the thinking. Obviously, the denizens of Alpha surely think for themselves as evidenced by the variation in ideas and concepts.

That is what makes the place so great, not the sometime energies of the moderator. The credit belongs to the mental abilities of the group, and their prowess in demonstrating their ideas, letting the electrons fall where they may.

LA WHO?

It wasn't so many moons ago that the La Rouchites were accosting us in all the major airports, handing out pro-nuclear leaflets, and calling for the elimination of Jane Fonda (one point on which I agreed). Some of their peculiar philosophy sounded less than creditable, but it was always interspersed with enough flag-waving and patriotism to make much of it palatable, yet with the 10% warped factor offsetting the rest.

The Demo fiasco in Chicago left the party with enough egg on their faces for a world class omelet, and if the Demos were watching the store, as they should have been, it probably wouldn't have happened.

Now I couldn't care less about Illinois politics, especially as represented by that king of the wimps, Addled A. Stevenson, who doesn't even have the neat sense of humor his flaming liberal father had. Of course, old Adlai senior was beat so many times for president, he needed a good sense of humor.

But I digress.

The point of all this is, that the party who claims to be of the common man, of the little guy, of the tiny champions against the forces of the establishment, along with various other claims to Democratic idealism and the rule of law, their "leader" got on TV after the embarrassment and perhaps violated the statutes against slander by calling the La Rouchians "Nazis, fascists, thugs," etc.

What was their crime? They beat the system, and the Democrat party in Illinois, by some clever maneuvering.

And then what did we hear from that sanctimonious party of the people?

That they would go all out to negate the victory in some way or another; that the dems would meticulously check every aspect of the candidates filing procedures, trying to find a tiny loop hole that would throw out the rascals, even before they had a chance to get elected.

Poor wimpy Stevenson; he made such an ass of himself on national TV that I don't think he'll make it for Dog Catcher in any state but Illinois; and then it will be tough.

I say the La Rouchies won fair and square, and like any primary winners should be allowed to run in the finals without the hot air from the Demos, whose own nefarious manipulations in that sad state set new records for chicanery, especially in the 1960 presidential race, which they stole outright for Dr. F. Kennedy.

I don't think Stevenson would have beat Thompson anyway, but after his indecent exposure on the tube, Thompson may be a shoo-in.

There is an arresting passage in the first section of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, in which sound of the cuckoos is heard among the lighter woodwinds...

Let's dedicate it to the La Rouchians and the Democrats, in spite of the awesome challenge to tell one set of tweets, or twits, from another.

PROFESSIONAL GOLF INSTRUCTIONS

Maybe you just don't have it right yet!

There are two elements, a big ball and a small ball. The object is to hit the small ball off the big ball, then maneuvering the small ball into a hole in the big ball, after which the small ball is removed from the big ball.

Got it now?

RESOLVED,

Be it resolved that anyone involved in any kind of terrorist action is vermin, and should be searched out and executed out of hand. That means anyone.

LUDVIG

At some time in your illustrious career you may have played a Beatles tune called 'Roll Over Beethoven.'

If you did, he did.

And when the Beatles first emerged on the music scene, I couldn't stand to listen to them; now I think they are fine musicians and composers.

It's amazing how much better they've got in 20 years.

LAW...

Paralleling Gresham's Law, bad news drives out good; bad opinions drive out good opinions. The media is not interested in providing accuracy - their aim is to sell controversy, because that's what sells.

If the world does end up offering freedom to all countries and all citizens, it will be in spite of media activities which generally promote the contrary in terms of the most mealy-mouthed.

GETTING RELIGION

For a sometime radical like Eldridge Cleaver to come to his senses and join the Republicans indicates that he has more depth than originally thought; he simply became a born again conservative.

Lee Iacocca, on the other hand, is a dyed in the wool Democrat who let the union have a seat on his board of directors, which says little for his acumen. Can't you see Wayne Kirkland as Secretary of State?

The party that really never learns is the Democrat party. It still thinks it is in the 1930's with Roosevelt and the liberal-socialist philosophy promoting even more big government and big-spending social programs.

The Demos lost with Mondale's adherence to the antique union-liberal methods and throw-money fixes; Kennedy still hasn't changed his water spots; Hart is so far left his right hand is lonely.

I noted in Business Week that the Unions collectively lost another 2% of membership among working men and women in 1985. See what happens when you educate the proletariat.

STOCKMAN'S RATIONALIZATION

In view of the fact that the book isn't available in the stores, and the news mags have only published one chapter, and the only data you and I have is the response of critics, I don't think it can be fairly appraised by either of us.

Both Buckley and Broder, in today's Sentinel, have questioned Stockman's motives and declared the book more or less self-serving.

The consensus seemed to be that whenever Stockman leaves one frame of reference, ie: academe and accounting, to arrive at another, the white house, then another, Wall Street, he appears to denigrate the people and events of the immediate past, to his benefit of course.

The question was what was he to write when leaving Wall Street to re-enter politics, if the desire should come upon him.

I think Stockman, bright as he is, has pin-pointed his type and style, and has done so to his detriment.

I think I'll wait for the movie.

KNEE-JERKS

When it comes to Reagan, Israel, US policy, the conservatives, Republicans, anything that doesn't conform with your particular pattern of logic, nothing inspires your confidence. You merely join with the wind-baggery of the outs (who shall stay out, let us hope) in tilting at administration windmills, with the same cumulative effect en toto as the good Quixote, with most of those knee-jerk critics not owning the acumen of Rosinante.

FOUR QUOTES TO THE GALLEON

In the headlines the other pm was emblazoned the quote by Kissinger to the effect that anyone meeting Reagan for the first time would wonder how a man like him could attained the governorship of CA and subsequently President of the US.

This is what was quoted, extensively.....

Kissinger went on to say, as is known now, that Reagan was one of the finest thinkers, administrators, politician, and leader that has emerged in the past 50 years.

Funny how that part got left out.

NEGA-NEWS

Milwaukee Sentinel, April 25, 1986

LIGHTED CIGAR IN ELEVATOR RULED NOT A VIOLATION

A charge against Thomas S. Sommers, 60, of 1716 Alta Vista Ave, Wauwatosa, for carrying a lighted cigar onto a courthouse elevator was dismissed Thursday by Circuit Court Commissioner Harry Halloway. County Supervisor Dorothy Dean had complained that Sommers had a lighted cigar when he boarded the elevator Feb. 17. Halloway ruled that the act of carrying a lighted cigar onto the elevator did not violate an ordinance that banned smoking on an elevator.

End of article.

Milwaukee Journal, April 25, 1986

CIGAR CONTROVERSY IS SNUFFED OUT

A court commissioner extinguished a burning controversy between a county supervisor and a lawyer Thursday when he dismissed the case of the lit - or was it unlit - cigar.

A complaint by Supervisor Dorothy Dean against cigar-holding lawyer Thomas Sommers resulted in his getting a $23 ticket last February for smoking in a Courthouse elevator.

But on Thursday, Court Commissioner Harry Halloway dismissed the case because the citation against Sommers wasn't supported by county ordinance, said Asst. Dist. Atty. Stephanie Rothstein.

An ordinance prohibits smoking on elevators, Rothstein said. But the citation, which stated that Sommers carried a lit cigar on an elevator, didn't say he was smoking, Rothstein said. But the citation, which stated that Sommers carried a lit cigar on an elevator, didn't say he was smoking, Rothstein said.

Sommers, 60, of Wauwatosa, still maintains that the cigar was unlit. Sommers maintains that Dean might have complained because she was angry that he refused to tell her his name during their elevator ride together.

Dean could not be reached for comment.

End of quote.

I'd like to mention something about self-important cuckoos fluttering out of their nests, but the articles speak for themselves. I don't smoke either, but when I did smoke, I liked it, and even now I don't mind if others smoke.

Some times the smoke from a cigar or pipe bothers me, but I'm not a nut about it, like some escapees from Hickory City.

DISGUSTING!

Did you see the paper this evening? Jobless rate down to 7.1, a drop of about .4%? Lies, all lies! I hope Reagan doesn't try to take credit for that drop just because his policies are working. Next thing you know he'll be trying to get controls off natural gas, and that will mean a big jump in price just like it did in home heating fuels and gasoline. Isn't it like him to use this to his advantage, just as he did because of the tiny drop in the inflation and interest indexes. Can't trust those politicos who haven't any comprehension of day-to-day economics. Let's get someone like Carter back in so we can make money on short sells and commercial paper again. We'll show that stock market who's the boss!

(you know, someone like the intrepid Ted Kennedy, who will apologize to Liba and Nicaragua if we have caused them any harm, and would they please accept our remorse in bank notes. You would hear applause for the ex-swim champ from the likes of Moody and Kleczka, our resident fawners of the left)

ADMINISTRATION

Your use of the term administration should mean some that are in the lower echelons of administration, that is, way below the top level. And at the top is our widely admired prez, R. Reagan, who has said no to any tax on foreign oil right from the beginning. No matter what the opinions of the peons, it's still the boss that calls the shots.

SDI

Where does it say that I claim to be an expert on the subject of SDI? Anyone with a modicum of sense can understand what it is supposed to do via news releases, but just for you I will expound.

As I see it, when the Soviets shoot the missiles at us, lasers mounted in space platforms will disable them.

Next, it should work because the laws of physics operate in space as well as on the ground, and the basics have been proved.

Lastly, I favor any sort of weapon which will act as a defense against Soviet attack on our nation.

How about you?

ENGINEERS

Those fine engineers working on nuclear weaponry are all that have kept you and millions of others from being forced to learn Russian. We don't need Siberia, we have Wisconsin.

I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND

No I misunderstand your witty remark; due to its intrinsic nature I was forced only to half-understand.

But, I wonder what Orville or Wilbur's wife looked like; I remember the fellow who said he would rather be wright than president.

Or Gary Hart who would rather be left than president, or was it left and president; more likely just left.

Right?

STOCKMAN UBER ALLES!

Stockman's hang-up is this: he does have a bright, well-educated mind, but it seems that he has a tendency to see all others as intellectual inferiors, whether they are or not. Stockman has treated economics as a science, which it certainly is not, instead of as an art. Economics, as oil painting, is an art whose success is measured by the response of the viewer, ie: if you like the result, you like the artist.

Stockman's doomsday views on the administration's aims have been enjoyed by those who feel the economy will inevitably collapse. Those who don't share this opinion, don't care for the creator of the work. Stockman just has the arrogance which accompanies those who feel their positions are always correct and everyone else's wrong.

Like most economists, of the left, right, or center, part of what he avows will be right, and part wrong. This kind of batting average is what keeps the economists in business in spite of their abysmal forcast records.

In all cases, Stockman is for Stockman, is for making money.

SDI

If one looks at the SDI situation in coldly logical terms, the following may be assumed:

1. If the system is only 50% efficient, then that means 50% of missiles fired at us would be disabled or destroyed.

2. Thus more Americans would survive the attack, even though devastation would certainly be significant.

3. If the system requires 10 billion dollars for only 50% efficiency, that $10 billion would be well spent.

4. If no billions are spent, in an all-out exchange, devastation could be close to total, thus making the non-spending moot.

5. Is an alternative to SDI presently viable, other than the alternative of bowing to the Soviets on every issue, right up to the last one?

My statement about Bowman sponsorship by seven peace groups came right from the Journal.

Your position seems to have been in the past one of advocating a strong defense for the US, but also one of criticizing methods to achieve that strong defense, at least by the present administration. What alternate methods to hold the Soviets at bay, other than sheer force of arms, would you suggest?

SDI CHICANERY?

Do you really have documentation that in the test described the target was fired at a number of times, missed each time, then blown up by a ground controlled command, and finally called a success because of the fact the target was destroyed.

If that is true, then there was a fraud perpetrated on the citizens and taxpayers of the United States, and should be prosecutable, and I, for one, would be in favor of that.

Please provide to us the source of that information; if it was common knowledge, the major media surely must have covered up the charade in their well-known penchant for selective publication. If the facts are as you have outlined, then heads should roll.

SLEEP BETTER AT NIGHT

That's what we all can do in view of the fact that it was reported by Janes of late that our nuclear subs on duty can fire the equivalent of 32,000 Hiroshima equivalent atomic missiles if required.

While it is my sincere hope the requirement does not arise, I feel much better knowing the capability is there.

Too much fire power? Well, they haven't shot at us yet......

BUSING FOR DOLLARS

On a radio newscast this a.m. I had the dubious privilege of hearing the head of our local school system spouting off about integration, saying in effect that it would be best for all if the blacks and whites were mixed like salt and pepper so all discrimination would stop, and that this mixing, by whatever means, is what he would like to see.

Without regard to the stupidity of the forced busing programs, it is my feeling that the head of the school system should keep his racist views to himself, and concentrate on the problems already brought about by the repressive integration methods used by him and his limousine-liberal followers.

When my daughters went to our nearest high school, it seemed that the worries were about the kids sneaking in gum, comic books, and fan magazines. Since we have had busing, the worry is about the diurnal visitors sneaking in marijuana, cocaine, and weapons. Included with the latter is the continual sexual innuendo, the bullying tactics, and the inevitable arrogance of the intellectual inferior, who appears to employ that aesthetic state of 'cool' to replace the disciplinary state of learning.

Back in the middle 70's, the high school came across as a regular high school; now, in the middle 80's, the place looks like a mess, with students roaming the halls willy-nilly, spending class-time in the rest rooms, and generally emitting all the halcyon charm of an institution where the inmates have taken over the asylum.

I won't name the school; I just hope this busing nonsense bites the dust soon so that those who would, can get an education.

I am totally against forced segregation.

I am totally against forced integration.

Let the kids go to their nearest schools and let the patterns form where they may.

THAT ELUSIVE POINT

You keep missing it - with your favorite ploy of setting up your own targets, then shooting them down. But this is an arena of conjecture, so conject away.

Re: Saudi arms

Do you ever read the newspapers? As soon as a proposed arms sale to Saudi Arabia was announced, the Jerusalem post was quoted here as saying Israel would fight hard to keep the sale from going through because it was a threat, and that they would mobilize their friends in the US Congress to defeat it.

This was done in both houses. Why? So that when Reagan vetoes the bill, and it is not over-ridden, then those who run again can proclaim that they did not vote against Israeli interests. Who runs this country anyway?

Re: Cigars, etc.

You're blowing smoke again, picking on a poor little apprentice reporter for reporting something you didn't like reported in that way. Why don't you face the fact that a sixth grade-school paper reporter would have done it the same way, and whatever reporter was on the job would have written a story that exposed this particular action of that female supervisor as one of supercilious egotism. Just when I get to the point of thinking she may have some redeeming social value, she does something typical again to indicate my basic opinion of her is correct.

Re: SDI

So this will mean sending gold into space; well you are finally correct, in a way. Many of the contacts and terminals may be gold-plated. However, the intrinsic value of the material used is minuscule; the money stays here on earth; any other reply to your SDI opinions is a redundancy.

Re: Waldheim

Isn't Weisenthal's analysis, with all of his gathered data on possible war criminals, good enough for you? I think that the Zionists cum Israelis in this case will only cause anti-semitism in Austria to grow, and cause problems for Jewish citizens of Austria who don't need any more troubles.

The Israelis are over-reaching themselves by meddling in the affairs of yet another nation, like they do in the US. The Jews who live in a given country should not have to bear the burden of events caused by those in some other sovereign land, same religion or not.

Re: Convincing

Neither of us will convince the other on concreted positions. Yes, beating dead horses is usual for us both because of those strongly held positions; but, on occasion, you still hammer the skeleton with little effect.

(Who's on rib cage?)

NEWTON SAID

For each action there is an equal and opposite reaction...

And for each measure the Soviets come up with for destroying chips, we will already have had a plan for negating theirs, in my opinion.

Had you been in control when thoughts of the Manhattan Project were evolving, it may never have come to pass, in which case, we would be dealing now with the Soviet Socialist Republics of western Europe.

The point being made is, just because you and others are against SDI doesn't mean it isn't a viable and valuable concept. The US always has had members of the ivory tower community nay-saying progress in military arms development, even as the 'Concerned Scientists' group are today. It is the burden of those who are willing to place time and money at risk in the research and implementation of new weaponry, offensive and defensive, to have the tremulous nipping and yipping at their heels.

I can't help but believe that if Mondale, Carter, Truman, Roosevelt or Kennedy had come up with the SDI concept, every liberal in town would have loved and cherished it.

It's not the doing of it, it's who thought of it. Which is why most criticism of it is a triviality.

Whatever the magnitude of the blather factor therein.

THERE YOU GO....

May I ask on what basis you say SDI can't work in real life? Your flat statement that people... who still believe in SDI as a working solution are precisely those who have not studied it and do not understand the factors involved.......

I can't believe you really made a statement such as that; it belies all your past pretense to objective analysis. Whether or not SDI works, and I hope it will, you cannot, by merely making a subjective statement that pretends to describe how knowledgeable other individuals, in the scientific community and the government, are about the project, offer any modicum of accuracy with regard to how anyone feels about the concept other than yourself. However, if you have a direct line into the white house, or into government research facilities, then it's just possible your SDI comments are valid.

If not, they're not, except as conjecture.

It begins to appear that the SDI critics, like the moon landing critics and all anti-administration critics, just don't want the SDI concept to prove viable, thus once more egging their faces. So, they will do or say anything to block the SDI research process.

WORDS TO LIVE BY!

Henry Kissinger, Secty. of State, 1973:

By controlling food, you control people.

By controlling oil, you control nations.

By controlling money, you control the world.

I guess this means if you're broke, hungry, and out of gas, there isn't much left.......

FEATHERING

Stockman falls into that category of opportunistic types who utilize their positions to feather their nests later on. Like Deaver. Immediately after they leave, they begin the carping and criticism which marks their greed.

It isn't only a Democrat syndrome.

BACH AND ROLL

I like Bach! Also Beethoven, Mozart, etc. Also Ozzie Osborne and Heart.

What I hate with a passion that knows no bounds is the gagging syrup emitted on some freqs by cretins who O.D.'d on their version of golden oldies, with huge orchestras, a sicko of violins, and arrangements straight out of grade school band books. Nauseous!

The equivalent to that glop they call music is ingesting a concoction of maple sugar with honey and chocolate syrup poured over it, brown sugar edging, and an overall sprinkling of powder sugar. And a white Karo chaser.

If some of that pre-excreta comes through the speaker by accident, it takes two weeks to clean and sterilize the voice coil.

MICHAEL DEAVER

Actually I gave Deaver a bad rap; he hasn't criticized anyone like Stockman has, and he may be guilty only of arousing the Metzenbaum types, not a classic crime in most books.

But, as long as we are here with Deaver, we could discuss the probities of leaving office, then working in an area which may be related to one's effort in that office.

Should there be a time limit? Should it be forever, or just until the administration worked for is out of office? Is a limitation on any work of that nature an affront to the first amendment? It could be.

Is there a moral and ethical consideration involved, and if so, one man's morals may be another's rationale?

Disregarding Deaver, the problem is this: there are so many laws on the books now that any citizen, congressman or not, does things in their normal way of life that could be prosecutable under one or more of those laws, valid, reasonable, or not.

Geraldine Ferraro was prosecutable under several US Title Codes, but was not; George Hansen, a Republican from Idaho, was tried and convicted for some supposed 'crime' for which legal opinion said was not unlawful. This country seems to be heading for selective enforcement, with the news media as judges under a neo-Napoleanic Code, where a chargee is judged quilty until proved innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt - that is if he is not a Democrat.

Democrats, like Ferraro, are judged by self-promulgated standards.

If the Demos don't hang Danny Deever in the morning, it won't be because they didn't try.

MURDER MOST TRAGIC

The tragedy of Friday last, where a young girl from Muskego was killed, and it was alleged that a number of empty beer cans were in the car, points out the silliness of allowing drinkers to drive.

The best solution to the problem is one they utilize in Norway; in any party, one person drives, and does not drink; or if all drink, then taxis or other transport is used to get to one's home.

Anyone caught driving after having downed the equivalent of one beer, or glass of wine, gets an automatic jail term and suspension of license.

I don't know the exact length of the term, but if I recall, was from 3 to 6 months. The rentacar manager in Bergen warned us in the strongest manner to be sure not to drink and then drive, otherwise we might be caught and jailed, even if we were Americans.

Draconian measures? Maybe, but the main reason the 55 speed limit has saved lives is that the lower speed gives the drunk more reflex time. Let's put the limit back up to 70 on the I-System and get drunks off the highways.

AUTOBAHN RACEWAY

I was driving east on the autobahn in a Mercedes a few years ago, cruising at about 105 mph; a silver Porsche passed me as though I were standing still. Would you put cars as capable as that Porsche in the hands of a typical Milwaukee driver?

MEDIA DATA NO SURPRISE

The Lichter-Rothman Study of 240 "Media Elite," which included the top news commentaters, directors, producers, writers, etc., in the business of film- making and Television broadcast, resulted in the following statistics:

Of all those people associated with film-making and television,

8% attend church or synagogue weekly.

86% attend seldom or never.

55% believe extramarital affairs are not immoral.

95% believe the hmsl life style is not wrong.

85% believe hmsl's should be permitted to teach in public schools.

Lichter-Rothman went on to say that an estimated seven hundred people control about 75% of the film and television industries, and because of financial ties between Malibu and Wall Street, exert an immense influence on the viewers of the United States.

The profile of the group, according to Lichter-Rothman, is predominantly male, wealthy, Jewish, entrepreneurial, and extremely liberal, both religiously and politically.

The study appeared to be less surprising than confirming.

THE BLAME BUSINESS

I think that over forty years is long enough a time to forget what may or may not have happened. If the Allies had lost the war, Eisenhower, Patton, Stilwell, Marshall, Montgomery, De Gaulle, and their minions, would have been considered "war Criminals."

Had we lost the Korean conflict, I might have been considered a war criminal. This business of ferreting out supposed war criminals by a group whose only participation in the war, with some exceptions, was of passivity, is an anachronism.

WWII is over. The main combatants are now close friends and trading partners, allied against the totalitarian forces of Communism. This alliance should not be subject to the second-guessing of those whose best efforts seem to be remembrances of things past.

The Irgun, a pre-Israeli state terrorist group, was said to have had on-going contact with the nazi regime. Why isn't this a subject of Wiesenthal investigation? Is it because some of that group, Dyan, Begin, etc., were in the Israeli government?

To me it appears that the war criminal hunting process, as developed to the point it is today, is slanted towards extracting as much money as possible from Americans who happen to be Jewish, among others, and is a completely self-elective process.

The war is over for everyone except the Wiesenthals and the Israelis, it seems; life must go on - they haven't learned that yet.

PHIL'D UP TO HERE

Whatever Secular Humanism is, talk show host Phil Donahue has been called its unofficial spokesman. With regard to what he has to say, it may be true.

Here are a few of his quotes:

"Religion seems to be full of narrow-minded hard-liners, but science is a channel to God."

"Stories like Dr. and Eve badly need revision. It's wrong to think that God made and then took a rib from his side and made Eve....."

"Religious zeal is caused by brain malfunction mistaken for divine intervention."

"I do not believe homosexuality is a moral issue, per se. I believe to condemn a person for it is tantamount to condemning me for having gray hair.... The hmsl act is none of our business."

I would wager that being in the big time TV business at one of the major networks results in exposure to such a great number of hmsl's that it generates indifference to the disgusting concept. Does familiarity breed attempt? Has any rubbed off on Donahue?

It can be supposed that Donahue would agree with the district court order that allows Larry Flynt to send free copies of Hustler to Congress. The court ruling said that the First Amendment rights enjoyed by Flynt to mail his magazine to the Congressmen unsolicited outweighed the Congressmen's rights to be let alone. I wonder who the judge was? Another secular humanist?

On the other hand, Jacob Neusner, Distinguished Scholar of Judaic Studies at Brown University states that students might believe that religion does not exist in the world if they follow the teachings of the nation's schools today. He said that, "... American public life in general excludes religion."

Dr. Neusner went on:

"according to what is taught on university campuses, religion forms an entity altogether unimportant - or else a danger to rational order in society. We are misleading our coming generations by pretending that the critical factor in human life does not matter.

"The secular curriculum wishes religion away, bringing to its logical conclusion the sustained attack on all religion characteristic of education in this country for several generations....

"In truth, if we want to teach our students about the world as it really is, religion should form the center of the curriculum, both in primary schools and in universities."

Note: I'm not trying to begin another trial by combat of chapter and verse versus verse and chapter; all I wish to do here is present comment on what seems to be a discarding of moral values in the nation today, values, without regard to any particular religion, upon which this country was founded, and which seem to be under siege from much of the liberal-slanted media. My own position is, I would tend to agree with the precepts tendered by Dr. Neusner than those espoused by Phil Donahue.

THE TROUBLE WITH CHRYSLER

Can anyone explain why Chrysler is consistently out-sold by General Motors, and why Chrysler was saved as a corporate entity only by government loan guarantees, and why the Chryslers generally have all the styling of either a bathtub, a rectangular box, or a combination of the worst features thereof.

In my opinion, the only good Chrysler product was the 1958 Plymouth, a racy looking car by Chrysler standards, but it had its bad points.

I had to change them every 6500 miles.

MAKE PORN AVAILABLE?

Are you saying:

That anything, including hard porn, should be allowed on the TV airwaves, and that watching or not watching should be up to the viewer.

That in view of the fact that ministers and priests of any faith, whose job it is, generally, to offer religious help, solace, and comfort in most tragic situations in life, and who generally fulfill that function, should be portrayed willy nilly as being weak, cowardly, money-grubbing womanizers and murderers, along with members of their families, as a matter of continuing course in many TV programs? Is that OK?

Do you think Golan and Globus are the new moral leaders of the American viewing audience?

Well, strike that last one.

GOOD ENGINEERING, LITTLE STYLE

I have to state that in my experience, the Chrysler product always has had excellent engineering in its manufacture; the only thing that suffered was the styling, usually abysmal. This is because engineers controlled the outside design.

GM, on the other hand, has had good engineering and good stylists and designers, and usually came up with an attractive offering.

Ford outdid itself in the first Thunderbird (2-seaters); Studebaker's 1953 Starlight Commander a beautiful car far ahead of its time.

...and, I always did like the Cord and the '38 Continental.

PRESIDENT NIXON

I always have thought Nixon was a good president; I didn't say I agreed with him on everything.

Nor with you, of course.

TELLING QUOTE

A fellow once said that you can determine the magnitude of a man's mind by how high he hops over a minor error; the higher the hop the simpler the mind.

You haven't let me down, although I'm having difficulty seeing you way up there.

THE PRESSURE IS ALL MINE

Can't you understand that word-twisting according to the self-defense book just doesn't cut it? That saying it still doesn't make it so. Don't you ever read your own words objectively, to see what it is that actually brings on the assaults?

And if you would read my notes with dispassion you might have understood also that I don't feel compelled to be eternally right, as you seem to do, and not only that, I admit it, which you seem to don't.

I thought maybe a breather would let you put your straw away for a rest, but you still build those straw men and shoot them down. Ah, rabbit redux.

What you have generally done is assumed a role as reactionary, being content to wait for expression and then nit-pick it away; I'm still waiting for you to generate some original concepts on contemporary events, but you simply want to carp, carp, carp, making those jabbing accusatory statements, then accepting what you've just said as fact, and then complaining about the gist of what you've just said.

But, it's OK. We meet here in Alpha and agree to disagree. And on the few occasions we do agree, it startles to the point of re-examining a given position for error.

As regards trivial pursuits, you have no corner on accuracy. Being correct means being right, and you have never leaned right in your life.

And as soon as things get precarious, you begin the with enough shovels discussion.

(or do I indulge in Scheer fantasy again)

FOUR QUOTES

Someone once said that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel; it is a truism. But here in Alpha we can disagree with positions as much as is wished, without rancor. We all have our opinions of patriotism, and all they are is what they are. In personal opinions, some may or may not measure up to that particular level. Just as example, Jane Fonda or Ramsey Clark do not measure up to a brand of patriotism with which I myself would concur. Yup! These are the times that try men's souls.

With regard to the collar and the habit; again last evening there appeared a Perry Mason offering which showed a cleric murdered, and a nun accused. This nun, in order to help with the investigation, in the show, ran through a men's locker room; gee, wasn't that funny.

And I'm surely not a prude; I just think it's tacky. The show was good right up to that point.

Concerning what brought the flux of notes concerning the networks treatment of clerics, much of it was in a small magazine published by the National Federation for Decency, Box 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803, just in case you wanted to subscribe. It's religious oriented, but I read it anyway. One of the sections was on how the Networks seem to be anti-religious and anti-Christian/Catholic in their programming. What they said struck a responsive chord and brought about a more close scrutiny on my part of the general scheduling. I think Dr. Gene Scott would have agreed with that, cigar smoke and all.

(I lied about the four quotes; but you're just a galleon of fun)

WE AGREE!

I agree with your position on the tackiness of some electronic evangelists (love that tintintabulative treatment), but what I meant, if I didn't say it in too precise terms, that the good Dr. probably wouldn't care to see an average, hard-working priest or minister cast in the role of TV goof. I still think that might be correct.

MAKE MY PULPIT

Yes I'm another Dr. Gene Scott fan; he's the Dirty Harry of the deacons; no one likes him except the people.

WINNERS/LOSERS

Glad to see you back; here I thought you might have tiffed out and left for a while.

This is not intended to be an insult, but there are times, especially lately, when you sound like a real cuckoo. There are intervals of rationality intermixed, and it is at those rare moments that you are especially cherished.

FLAMING FOTO

Wasn't that a nauseous picture in the Sentinel this am? There was Gerry E. Studds, a confessed hmsl and Democrat representative from Massachusetts, with his arm delicately around aids sufferer Dr. Pascarell at the 10 km walk in Boston dedicated to Aids research. They said about 4,000 joined in and raised almost $500,000.

My opinion is that when the embattled farmers stood at the rude bridge that arched the flood (near Concord), and fired the shot heard 'round the world, it was the high point in Massachusetts history.

Had it been Studds and his ilk standing by the bridge, they would have waved scented hankies at the British (some of whom probably would have waved back).

(Their hankies to April's breeze unfurled, here the anxious pansies stood, and waited to go 'round the world! Some Concord hims)

GUNS AND LAWS

For Alphan gun and hunting enthusiasts, here are some provisions and explanations of the Volkmer-McClure gun bill which passed the House on 10 April last, and expected to easily pass the Senate and be signed into law by President Reagan, as defined by Dr. Knox, past officer of the National Rifle Association and noted gun enthusiast.

1. Long guns (but not handguns) may be purchased out of state from dealers, so long as the laws of both states are complied with.

2. Ammunition and components may again be purchased by 'mail order.' Record keeping and ammunition-only dealer licensing is eliminated.

3. 'Engaging in business' is defined to protect collectors and traders from being charged with unlicensed dealing.

4. Elements of criminal intent must be proved before conviction.

5. Safe transit of unloaded firearms in interstate commerce (including legally owned machine guns) is exempted from state or local laws prohibiting possession, if the person may legally own the gun under Federal law and it is not 'readily accessible.'

(So much for the Milwaukee County Board's trying to prohibit hunters from transporting their firearms in a safe manner on County property)

6. Gun registration systems are specifically prohibited, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tax, and Firearms may not adopt any future regulation requiring that dealer sales records be 'recorded at or transferred to' any governmental facility - existing regulations are retained.

(For Wisconsin hunters, target shooters, and collectors, the existing laws in the state and local governments seem to be satisfactory)

7. Lawyer fees must be reimbursed if a gun owner defeats an effort to forfeit his guns, or if a judge finds a criminal prosecution to have been brought 'without foundation.'

8. Seized firearms would be returned upon acquittal for a criminal prosecution.

9. Mandatory sentences doubled for using a machine gun or silencer in a crime of violence, and expanded to include carrying a firearm during 'drug trafficking.' (It's about time!!)

10. All persons are prohibited from knowingly making a firearms sale to a prohibited buyer.

11. Restoration of gun ownership rights possible for persons convicted of GCA 1968 or other felony firearms convictions who are now permanently prohibited from ownership.

12. Forfeiture of firearms limited more closely to those 'used or intended to be used' in an alleged offense, to preclude seizure of an entire collection.

13. Machine gun definition expanded to include a part or part designed and intended for fabricating a silencer.

14. Dealers may sell at gun shows.

15. Dealers could be inspected routinely without notice only once each twelve month period.

16. No revocation of a dealer's license could occur based on the same charges for which he had been acquitted in a criminal trial.

17. 'Traces' of firearms are limited to 'bona fide criminal investigation, which should greatly reduce the number of traces.

And, as mentioned in the past, if you do deal in firearms, make certain that your activities fall within the existing laws. Those above go into effect 180 days after signing. Machine gun provisions will be effective immediately.

SALTY DEMO DEATH WISH

What it's like is this: There's a team against which your team is playing basketball, who agrees that there will be no player in the game over 7 feet tall, and the basket diameter will be greater than 20 inches.

As the game progresses, your team finds out that the others have two players 7' 6" and that your basket on their end is only 16" diameter.

Now if you play their game by putting up with their cheating, you are ultimately going to lose, as the cards are stacked against you.

So it is with the so-called Salt II treaty.

It has been proved by the administration that the Soviets have deliberately broken the treaty in many ways, therefore, the President decided that if they continued to cheat, the US would not consider operating under the constrictions of SALT II at year's end, a correct decision in my opinion.

Well, what are the liberal Demo-dummies doing? They are proposing that a bill be passed to force the President to play the loser's game of SALT II, to continue adhering to the flawed treaty no matter if the Soviets play fair or not. This Demo plan of death wish idiocy is being touted by none other than the swimming champ of the Senate, Ted Kennedy, who won his Olympic yellow at Chappaquiddick a few years past by edging out Mary Jane Kopechne in the underwater automobile exiting event. Aiding and abetting this tomfoolery is that strange Byrd, Robert, whose only claim to fame is his political lineage.

How the Soviets must go into hysterics at the actions of our hapless liberals, choking back the laughter while cheering them on. If it weren't such a tragedy, it would be Scaramouche unbound!

Are these deluded senators and representatives really conscious of what they are trying to do to the United States with their proposed stupidities? If so, is it possible that they may be conscious tools of the Soviets, instead of unwitting dupes? Sounds far-fetched to me, but what else can explain actions which would force the US to abide by the terms of an agreement which is broken every day by the communist gang supposedly to operate under the same terms.

PS: This morning on the Today show, Jim Wright, the wrongo from Texas, was oh so sanctimonious in his desire for some treaty, any treaty, implying that it will keep us out of a nuclear arms race...

Sure it will! And the snail darter is critical to the US economy...

HAG-RIDDEN HEROES?

I really can't say nasty things here; as you know I'm a stickler for etiquette, and insist all correspondence be on a lofty plane, possibly a 747; for examples of the type of noble discourse located here, note the archived billet doux generated by such principled and reasonable gentlefolk as heard here.

This quality of genteel writing does not lend itself to nastiness or hyperbole. For shame!

But, there are lots of members on Alpha, well a few anyway, or perhaps maybe one or two, well, one for sure that is more ideologically suited to appear in the fluted columns of Shepherd Express, that is, if he can tear himself away from researching the collected works of J.B. Stoner, in his inimitable, unidimensional manner.

Sometimes I type fast, sometimes half...

SEX, SCHOOLS, AND STUDENTS

We have a few high schools in this area that kids I know attend, WA Central, Greenfield, Hamilton, Greendale, even Pulaski, which is a bit further east, but still touched by the influx of north side dwellers. The teachers themselves, in quiet conference, tell shattering stories of kid sex, drugs, weapons, threats, violence, strong-arming, etc. Do you think they made them up?

Don't forget, it was the cream of the crop in black kids that went to high schools such as yours, honor roll material. It's different now, as reported by the kids and teachers themselves. In the school my kids attend, the black kids on the sports teams are the best, and the scholars are next.

Many of the rest are indifferent, and there is a remaining few who bring drugs and sell them. Just the same as the white kids, right? Except for the drug part. Kids have to be taught the drug ropes by other kids, aided by the TV; the knowledge doesn't spring full-blown into their heads.

And the saddest part of all is this: nothing is going to change; we will yet be blasted by the TV and magazine media (Journal lingerie was for general effect) until soft porn will be in, with who knows what to follow on network TV. We will still see the tube and the flicks bestowing on cocaine a false mantle of glamour, with the drug pushers waving 100's at everyone, with a token comeuppance in the end.

Am I prejudiced as blacks, or anyone, as an ethnic or religious group?

No.

Am I prejudiced against anyone who brings drugs and weapons to a school; who engages in violent acts or strong-arm techniques; who disrupts the learning process in a school? Am I prejudiced against the porn-peddlers whose market reaches down to the little kids because of availability; who soft-sells sex on the tube?

You better believe I am.

And I'm not even considered a good Christian, but then again, are there any good Christians, Jews, or Muslims left who realize the moral climate of the US is deteriorating by the day, and are willing to try to do something about it? No one is his brother's keeper any more, as Dr. Gene Scott said in his last series, unless there's a buck to be made......

MORE THAN NOT

If you really read my stuff closely, you will see that we have no large areas of disagreement, but instead some places where terms and conditions differ. I think we are all in general agreement that street drugs are bad, teen-age pregnancy is bad, some TV and print media is bad, etc.

And we can agree that some of the above have their good moments.

And with regard to the control of the tube, it is summer vacation now, many kids have their own TV's, parents work at home and away, so can a parent keep a very close look at what the kids watch? Some of the daytime soaps available are equivalent to what they used to show at the Princess Theater where we were never supposed to go, but did. (Anyone ever hear of Milwaukee's Empress Burlesque theatre? Boy, are you old)

I'm not backing off my statements that the moral climate is not what it once was, I'm recognizing that it has changed, and is still changing, for what I consider the worse, and my castigations are aimed at the degenerative ongoing process - which in my opinion should be brought to a halt some point far short of Deep Throat on Dallas, or Debbie Does Sesame Street.

Further, I do realize some sort of help should be given to teen-agers who become unmarried pregnants, but the points I was making stressed that without the free-sex blessings of the tube and media, the situation would not be as bad as it is.

Concerning minorities, drugs, and the life-style thereof, you don't have to believe my opinions out of hand. Merely check contemporary history as related by the newspapers, magazines, crime reports, and the nightly news.....

ON LOWEST BID

Would you really have gone up in the space vehicles of the moon landing era, or on the all but last shuttle flights, in some hardware not made in the US, even though it was mostly low bid? I don't think so!

YOUR KIND OF TEACHER

I'm sure that the kind of teacher you were resulted in the kids getting a good education in the subject at hand, with no help at all from the parents.

And there is the thrust of the matter.

When the kids go out that door in the morning, they are in the care of the alma mater and not the parents. The school is the surrogate, a role that it always has played. And the parents expect it that way. What the kids do in school and learn in school, whether or not it is a part of the curriculum, is generally reflected in a report card, or by note, if some school rule of importance has been broken.

If one parent works, the family concern in the school can be considered nominal, if both work, apathetic, no matter the subject, and a good teacher can fill an inevitable gap in that apathy - if he has the time, and with a class size over 30, time is precious.

It may follow, may, I said, that good teachers cause interesting classes which cause passing marks which cause apathetic parents because of the good teacher.

If you had a goodly number of apathetic parents, it was your own fault for being the good teacher you were.

I PROTEST ALL NONSENSE!

How can you be so wrong time after time; my bigotry, selective though it may be, is never camouflaged.

I think what is irritating you presently, among other things, and why you try to pin my comments to Stoner's, is still that little jab, even though you have been told I never heard of J.B Stoner until you brought him up. I did hear of the ThunderBolt, however, and if anything needed sending in a plain, brown wrapper, that is it. But you know more about publications like that than I do.

It's clear that you relish reading those obviously biased papers and magazines so you can relate here and other places what you've learned, and why they are so baaaaad....

Reminiscent of the little old lady on the small town porn committee who decries the reading of all the explicit books and magazines, but it's a job that has to be done, "and yippee, tonight we're going into Hustler!"

If you could get your head out of the sand, thus preventing the creep of cranial osmotic silicosis, you might understand that I have never denied being bigoted with regard to everything. I don't mind being bigoted, and don't pretend that I am not bigoted, as you seem to do.

However, my bigotry, as it says above, is selective, and is non-existent in many personal, individual, instances. But I sure as hell don't love everyone regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin.

And if you do, then I'll send over a case of band-aids for that bleeding heart problem.

Give my regards to J.B.

USSR SUPPORT

Are your thoughts on the US official position that a marxist state in Nicaragua, or in any part of Central America, is absolutely contrary to US interests, and should we do all we can to destroy the communists there who are puppeteered by the Soviet Union?

It should be interesting, inasmuch as you are totally anti-USSR when it comes to a Soviet threat to Israel, yet you seemed to have had a live and let live attitude with regard to Soviet operations against the South and Central American nations.

PARENTING 101

Yes it's the hoary Something 101 gambit, but it still works.

All that aside, your idea of having a parenting course in high school (grade school in some areas) has merit, but a possible flaw in timing.

If you took your course in 12th grade at age 17, got married at 24, had your children at 26, when your child was growing up, there would be quite a gap between your leaving high school and your child's entering, say, 4th grade when parenting assistance becomes effective.

Almost a generation, if one considers a generation approximating 18 to 20 years, a period in which times inevitably change. Compare the 60's with the 80's, for example.

So, what you say has merit; it only requires some refresher courses as the years pass.

I DIDN'T WANT TO INSULT YOU

Even though I implied all those nasty things about your viewpoints. I only accused you of being completely liberal.

Oops! Did I just do it again?

FAULT

If you live in a tar-pit, some of it is bound to come off on you.

If you live in a society that says sex and drugs are all right, some of that philosophy will rub off on you.

Especially if you're a youngster with impressionable mind.

And even some oldsters with impressionable minds.

It is not always the parents fault, especially if they are not able to spend all their waking hours with the kids. Exposure breeds trial. On the rest, I maintain my position.

ARE YOU CLAIMING

You mean Ortega was not a marxist-leninist before he began the revolution? Gee whiz, you are now a candidate for the 'Harrison Salisbury' truth in reporting award.

MORE BUSING NEWS

In our friendly paper this evening it was reported that six alderman are going to try stopping the busing program because it hadn't done any 'good' in ten years of trying.

It takes some a little longer than others, and some never do learn, but eventually a bad idea collapses of its own weight.

WEIRD MARKETING?

The high quality engineering from Germany, Britain, and Japan, among others, is generally paid for by the producing firms in those countries.

However, we give free money to Israel so they can sell products to us that have been developed and paid for by our money in the first place.

Now that's a weird way of marketing - a least for the US.

AFTER THE FACT...

One of the last statements concerning who was better off when gave rise to an opinion, one with which you may not agree; namely, it's my feeling that the people of Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, along with a couple places I may have missed (and I do not include Haiti), were better off with their former rulers than with Castro, Ortega, the Ayatollah, etc.

The jury is still out on Aquino, but amateur night in Manila will be over soon; the military is making unhealthy noises.

CHOICES?

Kissing or riding? Some high school girls probably like bussing more than busing.

KENT STATE, TWISTED

The twisting that those poor words of yours go through probably make them useless for further use. You ever want your cake and eat it too, seated next to your straw men, while saying it to make it so. It gets tiresome.

Just because your opinion as to what happened conflicts with mine, it's all right, different views are what makes arguments, or even discussions, if you will. In the news of the time, events were described by the media in ways contingent to their philosophies; Long Island Newsday, The Times, The Post, all saw it one way; The Tribune, The Conservative Digest, Human Events, all saw it another.

Between the Times and Human events, the distance between the rioters and the Guard covered a hundred yards. Pictures I have seen showed the rioters and troops in close confrontation; Dr. Dixon's text showed them far apart. With a judicious choice of text and pix, you can make the situation look adverse for either side. I tend to believe the confrontation, based on the pix, was closer than stated in Dixon's research text, which, obviously, was written by someone sympathetic to the student side- left side, of course.

BUSING FOR INTEGRATION

The Supreme Court has refused to force Norfolk, Virginia to bus elementary school pupils, in effect allowing a return to neighborhood schools. They found no flaws in the neighborhood school attendance plan.

Let us hope Milwaukee and other large cities will return to some semblance of sanity and throw out the busing for integration here. As mentioned, six local aldermen are proposing a halt to such busing. It's an idea whose time has finally arrived.

P.S. Those who still want their children to travel to other schools in the city in a personal effort to integrate may still have them do so. It's the 'compulsory' part that should be banished to the scrap heap of history.

SOURCERES APPEND LIST

The question has been put as to what sources furnish the material of political and geo-political nature which I post on Alpha, that are other than my own opinion. So to enlighten those who have asked, and who God knows need some enlightenment, the following publications are among those from which I draw the many gems of conservative wisdom you see on Alpha:

American Opinion Conservative Digest Conservative Register Critique Mother Jones

The Spotlight Rolling Stone World Press Review National Review Intrigue

Review of the News The Nation Public Opinion Washington Monthly Foreign Affairs

The Freeman Americas (OAS publication) US News & World Report Aramco Magazine

Congress Monthly Third World Accuracy in Media Report Human Events Wanderer

Wall Street Journal Local Papers Maryfaithful NFD Journal

And a few more, in which do not include what's her name's favorite, 'The ThunderBolt.' I don't buy and read each publication each month (can't afford it) but pick and choose what's interesting in the moment. For example, the June New Yorker has a fine article on the lawsuits of generals Westmoreland and Sharon, and a view on winners and losers.....

You may note that there are a couple of left-leaners in the newspaper and magazine group, but it's well to know what the other side thinks.

If it can think...

SELF-DEFEATING?

The contract between AT&T and CWA contains a provision that I think should be in all union contracts, namely the workers education clause. It indicates some innovative thinking on the part of a union. The problem is, that the smarter the workers get, the less they care to be unionized. Looks like a built-in self-destruct.

LIBERAL BIGOTS

Any bigot, except a liberal bigot, can be defined as a bigot in the liberal lexicon.

A liberal bigot can never be a bigot, instead he is a creature of acumen and discernment, able to separate the good works of the world from the bad works, especially where conservative motives are concerned.

Or is it that liberal bigots never have the intestinal fortitude to admit they are bigoted in any way, and that accusing them of such is cold, calculated, and, of course, unwarranted and unjust bigotry.

Poor, put upon, creatures.

CLARENCE PENDLETON

In an interview, Clarence Pendleton, chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, chairman of the Urban League of San Diego 1975 to 1982, director of the Model Cities Department of San Diego 1972 to 1975, chief of urban affairs for the National Recreation and Park Association 1970 to 1970, past instructor and coach at Howard University, where he earned two degrees, president of his own business development and investment firm, terror of the Jesse Jackson/Ronald Dellums types, bane of black and white liberals everywhere, was asked:

"Is it rough being a conservative who is black?"

"Not for me!"

We need more Pendletons speaking for the black community - and less Jesse Jacksons, Ronald Dellums, and the like. Gary George may be the state's first black politician who is metamorphisizing into a conservative. Let's hope so.

WEREN'T YOU THOUGH

You weren't going to do that, you weren't going to (whatever ). Face the fact that I have no requirement to respond to your subjective nonsense, your fatuous questions, your incessant demands for what you consider 'proof' of anything.

Sometimes silence is the most effective answer.

In reviewing some of your quotes and comparing them to the original records, such as in the Ennes writings, the original text suffers, having been clouded over by your penchant for quoting sources which have been flavored by your own viewpoint.

It isn't the first time you have quoted statements tinged with your own inimitable massaging techniques, and nonsensical as the hollow earth theory may seem, your interpretation of what the article actually said is open to doubt, as is most of your language on what you consider derisable.

It's well demonstrated in your paranoid defense of the Liberty attack, and your equally paranoid attack on administration policies with regard to combating the communist philosophy.

To what country do you owe your allegiance? Is it Israel, the Soviet Union? You seem to be an apologist for one and an indirect supporter of the other. And this is not simply a reply to your run of the mill name-calling and allegation; I really would like to know.

My feeling is that the United States should maintain a vigorous stand against the growing encroachment of the communists in this hemisphere; the vote for contra aid in the house last evening seems to indicate that cooler, and more patriotic, heads in the house finally exerted the necessary will to do so - in spite of the wimp factor.

What is your position on resisting Communism in Central America, or in the world; should we adopt the liberal method of sticking out their tongues at the commies, or should we be firm, back up our basic instincts towards freedom and help those who would fight for their own countries to oust the Ortegas of the hemisphere?

VOTING THE PARTY LINE

In the vote on contra military aid yesterday, voting in favor of fighting the communists in Central America were, Steve Gunderson, Thomas Petri, Toby Roth, and Jim Sensenbrenner. Voting to aid and comfort the communist enemy were Bob Kastenmeier, Gerald Kleczka, James Moody, and David Obey.

It's unfortunate that the voting sheep of Wisconsin have elected to office such summer soldiers as Kastenmeier, Kleczka, Moody, and Obey. They, along with Earl and his own strange appointees, have combined to provide an anti-business, pro-socialism, pro-gay rights, pro-tax, and a general aura of ineptitude to those outside.

LUTHERANS DUMP MILWAUKEE

Why? Because Milwaukee is looked upon as socialistically provincial, a small-minded place of backwoods Wisconsin, with a minor league airport, doddering municipal government, regressive approaches, etc. Bishop Preus of Minneapolis, no mean hick town itself, made the speech that listed all the Milwaukee shortcomings. It took a while.

TWO OF A KIND LOSES TO A STRAIGHT

I don't think you are dishonest or treasonous. But your pursed lips and percy words of future accusation bring to mind what your twin brother once said:

"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

KENT YOU REMEMBER?

Remember how long it took you to reply in the first place? I don't want it to be a case of my authors versus your authors. Trying to maintain an objective view of such a subjective subject is difficult; many times, it is better to obtain a detached history of the event by a western society writer of some other nation, who has observed the happenings with that desired objectivity. If one sees the Kent State story through the eyes of a participating student, it will be a different version than one seen by one of the guardsmen.

And after I offer my comments on the Kent State tragedy, there will be the inevitable call for verification of quotes, including the names and addresses of the authors and their closest relatives, not to mention their upgrades in writing, by those sympathetic to the college revolutionary, albeit quiescent, left wing. Which is fine, but it takes up lots of time, so be patient.

HOLLOW THERE!

Looking at your favorite anti-theory rationally, I still am convinced that some parts of the earth are hollow; notable examples being Mammoth Cave, Cave of the Mounds, Carlsbad Caverns, etc. Perhaps there are more and greater caverns yet undiscovered. Objectively, the subject itself is interesting from a scientific point of view, namely, could the center of the earth have a hollow spot of some significant diameter? What is the physics involved to conjecturally prove or disprove the thesis? I began this note to deride your anti-anti antics, but it seems to have evolved into a legitimate subject for argument.

GRIM HUNOR

A writer of humor, Alfred Polgar, said the following:

"It is best never to have been born. But who amongst us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps."

This was a funny line back before abortionists, but not any more.

And the numbers have changed, grimly so.

THE BOOK SAID

I stated that Mohammed rode into heaven on his ass; well, he could have been seated on a horse. Maybe something got lost in translations by the learned.

Remember what Ben Franklin said:

"He was so learned, that he could name a horse in nine languages. So ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."

Another great line...

RUMOR

The sense is that you are gamboling among the sweetpeas in Greenfield Park.

You roving gambolers are all alike!

MYSTERIOUS (K) & (R)

I read an article reprint lately that dealt with a supposed breakdown in the concept of church and state separation, and implied that at least in one existing situation, government indeed is tastefully entangled with religion.

What they said was, that on many food items in the grocery stores of the nation there appears a little R or K in a circle, and that this meant the food in question was OK'd as kosher by a rabbi. This activity is fine with me, the cleaner the food, the better. (If you recall, sometime back on Alpha, Dr. explained the general meaning of the term 'kosher' as connotating food and its preparation in circumstances of cleanliness; 'clean,' as it were)

But the article went on to say that the US Government pays the rabbis to inspect the foods solely to see if they are prepared in a manner fit for kosher ingestion, and, if true, this is something with which I disagree.

The government doesn't pay priests or ministers to pass judgement on food that is sold nationally; why should they pay the rabbis? What does this cost the average food buyer who doesn't really care if a product is kosher, or not, just as long as it's wholesome and the manufacturer guarantees it as so. What does it add to manufacturing costs - and to the average non-kosher family food bill?

Is what the magazine stated true? If it is true, can any of the Alphans explain more about how much it costs the taxpayers annually. This is a service that might better be paid for by those purposely utilizing it.

It does seem to be a government supported religious concept, but I haven't heard anything about it from loud mouth atheist Anne Gaylor, so maybe it really is just a rumor; she would have screamed to high heaven by now.

In any event, even I can figure out that K may mean kosher, but what does the R mean?

BIG BROTHER CHECKING YOU

The discussion on polygraph tests gave rise to comment on a program I saw recently wherein company computers were overseeing working personnel and checking on their work, judging efficiency and capability, and if the worker's effective level dropped below a certain point, the computer would note it in a mild argument of rebuke.

Now this to me is a greater intrusion into the life of a worker, or anyone, than the polygraph ever could be. The sight of a computer image stating that you, the worker, should have moved 12 wobblies in the last 30 minutes instead of 8, engenders great concern.

You know that I am generally pro-management and pro-business, but I am also anti-big brotherism, no matter whether it is the steward setting the level of work quota or the computer checking, reporting, and filing worker efficiency data.

So far I haven't heard any response from the major unions to this phenomenon - they must be aware of it. And if they, as I surmise, are against the concept, then there should be immediate action on their part to protect the workers from the computer watch dogs.

And one point about the polygraph; it may be used indicate the guilt of a given person; however, it also can be used to indicate innocence, using 'indicate' in the sense of trend towards either direction. Some companies, where employees have access to a continuing flow of cash, such as in a fast-food restaurant, or a car wash, use six month polygraph testing to keep down pilferage. However, in my opinion, to use the polygraph as a matter of course in business is unacceptable, and smacks of the Orwellian 1984.

SENSING

Just as it is the singer not the song, it is the looker not the looked; thus the infinite when dealing with the deception of perception.

RAVINGS?

You claim your insistence on pro-union concepts are not ravings. OK, but just remember, Alpha is for anything at any time, within the bounds of reasonable English, without the constraints of good taste, even already yet. I swear by my polygraph.

LIBERAL + MEDIA + UNION = PROPAGANDA

Disregarding the Washington Post's disregard of alphabetizing, did they mention who did the accusing? Was it the Democrat congressman and the union bosses (no mean crooks themselves)? And was it that same Post who published government secret information?

Oh, that dogged post.

Did the blurb also mention that it was the massive power of the liberal press that forced a good woman, Ann Burford, to resign, and tried to tar brush any number of other Reagan administration officials, but failed?

How many of those 'forced out' were actually tried and convicted of anything except by liberal innuendo? Except for that one EPA girl, against whom the charge was flimsy, but got her convicted anyway......

AMERICAN PATRIOT

Another of our true American patriots is gone, Admiral Hyman Rickover, considered father to our nuclear powered navy. Rickover was an irascible, aggressive, sometimes nasty, capable man; without him we might still be burning coal and oil in our ships, and D-cells in our subs. His burning ambition was to make ours the most capably-powered fleet in the world.

He succeeded. He will be missed.

HOMOSEXUAL TEACHERS?

I would say the rejection of the hmsl teacher is a manifestation of the general public's repugnance towards hmsl's, an attitude which I share. Even before the AIDS situation, I was repelled by the hmsl life-style, and would not want my children to be taught by that type individual, be it biologically male or female. They are an aberration of humanity, and should be isolated from normals, and, in view of the deadly disease they may carry, now more than ever.

MAKING BAD LAW

Have you not been aware of the court fiats that impinged on the legislative branch wherein the federal judges have used their courts to issue rulings that have the force of law?

The Warren Court was especially prone to this type of judicial legislation. In the decade past, other federal judges have issued rulings, which were de facto legislation, that allowed them to exert their will on the people of the land, from an appointive, not an elective, office.

Perhaps with Reagan's appointments of more conservative judges to the various courts, the judicial will revert to their proper role of interpreting the laws rather than passing them.

BAD SPELL IN DC

If you had listened to the liberalidiots, you might have thought that Dan Manion, Reagan's appointment to the Court of Appeals, was the anti-christ; however, his was a greater crime than that!

He miss-spelled some words in a draft opinion!!

But reading between the lines, is it just possible that he was anathema to the libs because his father, Dean Manion, was a rock-ribbed, hard right, John Birch 'Conservative,' and a staunch anti-communist?

Could be.

Just because he had the endorsement of the American Bar Association, what did that matter? The "Hero of Chappaquiddick" called him inept, bordering on illiterate; yes, he said that, the one who had someone take his Spanish Exam for him in college.

The multi-faceted Joe Biden, Demolib from Maryland, said they should not only look at the man, but also his political philosophy, and how he would act because of his conservative leanings.

This was the same Joe Biden, who, when the Democrats nominated some party hack for a judgeship, said people should look at the integrity and goodness of the man, and not his politics.

Well, the Demolibs got beat by a 49-49 tie, with Vice President George Bush casting a vote to make it 50-49 to beat back a Demolib gambit to force reconsideration. It was a happy ending.

I FORGET

Does anyone remember that suburban teacher who was featured in Playboy some years ago? Wonder what she does now?

I think the teacher's name was Diane, but I can't remember. I'll bet she is a popular counselor, although not as popular as she would have been in the 60's. One simply must attend a school which sets a high value on academic excellence - in any field.

BAD DECISION

We have just seen three baboons go free after sexually assaulting an 18 year old girl who was in a drunken stupor and unable to resist the assault. Her blood alcohol level was twice that required to determine drunkenness. In my opinion, anyone with a modicum of civilization would not have touched the girl in her condition, but then again, baboons are baboons.

One of the baboons had been previously indicted for sexual assault in his home state; I don't know if that fact had been brought to light at the trial.

What this seems to portend, is that if one is a sports figure, he can assault at will without fear of retribution. No sport or organization needs animals who exert their jungle ways on women unable to resist them.

The only redeeming feature is that drugs are killing some of them off.

And it isn't a question whether or not the deeds were committed, it's only a question of whether the acts were "invited" by the female. The sleaze attorneys paint as black a picture as possible of the woman involved, and try to convince juries that 'those poor fellows were only responding to her advances."

Absolutely disgusting!

No one could blame the girl's father if he took matters into his own hands and blew the baboons away; he could plead temporary insanity and probably get away with it.

A RANGE OF THOUGHTS

A sitting president should have the right to appoint any person he considers qualified. I've heard that story before, that tale whereby a flaming liberal is acceptable because he's a good man, but that a good hard-rock conservative is unacceptable because of his political stance.

It's the old left-wing double standard, ever in place, ever promulgated by the liberal press and its ideologues.

CONTROLLERS CONTROLLED

If some experienced controllers wanted to reapply on government terms, with non-strike features in a contract agreement, it might be acceptable.

But not as PATCO controllers.

Since the union controllers left, flying ATC routes for us pilots have been much more pleasant; the people are actually courteous instead of arrogant.

If letting them back means returning to the days of arrogance and nastiness instead of courtesy and assistance, they can stay away forever.

GET A TOURNIQUET

The bleeding heart liberals are at it again, Joseph Rauh, Teddy Kennedy, Ben Hooks, and the like; they are gushing out their life fluid in anguish over the nomination of Judge Renquist to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Kennedy, called a moral leper by many, who would not be a Senator except for his family's money, but instead would be an ex-convict for manslaughter, has the nerve to say Renquist is unfit for the job.

Ernest Hollings, another southern senator with liberal religion, was a strict segregationist when he first got into politics many moons ago, but now has seen the black light, and is castigating Renquist for an alleged racial voting incident 25 years ago.

Joseph Rauh, an ACLU figure, said on national TV that Renquist was against the rights of everyone - an outright lie, yet laughable in view of Renquist's voting position on many occasions.

Rauh, who had backed Abe Fortas, another left-wing liberal, for a seat on the supreme court, who failed, incidentally, said any person to the extreme right or left should not get seated on the court; but he also said that Fortas was not an extremist of the left.

Of course, in Rauh's stance, no one to the left of Karl Marx would be an extremist, but everyone to the right of Franklin Roosevelt would.

Prediction: Renquist will be confirmed easily in spite of all the trumped up witnesses the left digs up to testify, including that paragon of moral quality, the Chappaquiddick Flash.

HONORED SYMBOLISM

Isolated instances of symbolic gesture are impressive under certain circumstances; that was one, to be sure, when the Viet Nam vet hung his medal on the edifice.

But peering beyond the symbolism, what was the man trying to say? Was it that because of Viet Nam, a war the Democrats started, quit on, and caused to be lost to the communists, that our nation's trying to root our the communist menace to the hemisphere that has festered in Nicaragua is not the appropriate action?

Did he make the statement that we in the US should simply stand back and let the communists take over Central America, then Mexico, then South America, one at a time?

Did he imply that because of a liberal press and tv conspiracy to halt the Democrat-begotten war, denigration of the men who fought it, the erection of a black memorial of shame underground in a back-handed salute to VC vets the US should fail to fulfill its commitments in this part of the world.

Or did he place the Medal there in sorrow of an anticipated retreat from our hemispheric duty, led by the cut-and-run experts of the left, and that he felt it was inevitable that our nation's greatest adversarial hurdle would be those in our congress and media, who would succeed in their politics of retreat once again?

If I didn't have a firm belief that the United States is the finest country in the world, that it would lead the defense against Communism in this hemisphere, and have the moral and physical integrity to follow through with courage and backbone, you could have my pile of tin also.

It's only metal and enamel, but none of it is yellow.

LIBERALS

I suppose I shouldn't simply use the Democrat/liberal/left wing terms without remembering that the Republicans also have a few left-leaners; Lowell Weiker comes to mind, Robert Mathias is recalled; Packwood has his moments; and Nancy Kassebaum makes Alf Landon spin in his wheel chair.

It may not come to pass, ever, but I would suggest the party names of the present be dropped in favor of Liberal and Conservative.

BLOCKADE

My position too is that an effective air-sea blockade be set up to isolate the communists of Nicaragua; but, instead of allowing Ortega the time, let's do it now. He can always get a job with Peter, Paul, and Danny.....

EXCHANGE

At the Renquist nomination hearings Friday, the following exchange took place:

James J. Brosnahan: Senator, do you think that after 24 years I would take the trouble to come to these hearings just to testify against Mr. Renquist for something I remember seeing him do to voters on line at a polling place, simply to do him ill?

Senator: Yes I do!

Note: Brosnahan, a political activist in the 60's, a Fonda-Hayden type, lives, appropriately, in Berkely, California, and serves a selective clientele.

HAUT CUISINE

That's Nicaraguan Style!

In the Sandanista daily paper, Barricada (Managua, 23 June), a Sandinista draftee published a recipe for those who can no longer get chicken, beef, eggs, or milk:

He recommends that "roast snake be prepared for your family on special occasions. Discard the head and the entrails, then cut the remains of the snake into equal portions for all to enjoy."

See what sophisticated foods become staples in yet another of the communist paradises? Under the Patron' they were very poor, and all they had to eat was chicken, eggs, milk, and a little beef on sunday. How their lot has improved.

THERE TOO?

Letter from Anthony Gray, Warminster, to "The Shires:"

"I went on a shopping spree recently in Warminster and made the following purchases: a pair of cheap shoes made in Poland; scissors made in Brazil; a lavatory seat made in Sweden; shoe polish made in China.

What DOES go on in this country?"

(Mr. Gray should live in the US, so that, to the above, he could add an auto from Japan, a TV set from Taiwan, a shirt from Korea, toys from Hong Kong, shoes from Italy, and so on ad nauseum....

I've noted these while driving my Volkswagen)

REPORT FROM PRAVDA

"Pravda, Moscow, 3 July, "Freedom" in America, 100 years ago and even more so now, is the freedom to sell and be sold, the power of the dollar, the supremacy of the moneybags. American-style freedom means "freedom" to live in poverty (34 million people), "freedom" to go hungry (20 million), "freedom" not to have a roof over one's head (million)."

Well, at least they spelled "freedom" right, even if they don't know what it really means, or what they're talking about.

OUT OF CONTEXT

The US news media is unsurpassed at quoting out of context, and having learned from them over the years, I am pleased to report on what Novosti Press Agency Weekly reporter Alexander Pumpyansky said in the Moscow News:

"President Reagan's patience has snapped after seven years of faultless and scrupulous adherence to SALT II by the US side...

"He was not able to stand the USSR's terrible treaty violations and awful behavior....

"The president was right when he ignored Shultz, trying to preserve the accord....

"The US is always right and Moscow is always wrong and to blame for every world problem....

"The Soviets simply cannot adhere to treaties. The USSR is an 'evil empire' trying to bring about a 'world revolution.' One cannot negotiate with the Soviets. They adhered to SALT II only because it was beneficial for them and did not hinder them from arming to the teeth."

(If anyone from the KGB ever sees this version of what Pumpyansky wrote, old Alex will be transferred to the Siberian Daily Frostbite, if he lives.)

VIOLENCE/ACTION

Before we go further, my guess is that what you probably mean in your use of the term "violence" is 'strong, necessary, physical action,' either in offensive or defensive mode to prevent harm to one's self, whether that one is an individual or a state.

Walking along the street and kicking an old lady into the wall is violence; taking strong, necessary physical action to keep one's self from being mugged is not violence, except in the classic sense of violence interpreted as movement to neutralize.

I don't think that many here will deny you the right to neutralize actions directed physically against your person; and if anyone merely turns the other cheek in the face of such violence, they will end up with two bloody cheeks. Anyone who simply lets himself be pushed around without immediate retaliation, or lets his family be attacked without acting in their defense, doesn't deserve either respect or family.

Many of the more liberally oriented souls, whose hearts have bled for the poor, poor minorities, overlooking their crimes in the thought that their environments forced them into violent actions against people and property, have shifted their views 180 degrees after they or theirs became victim to the darlings of the radical chic.

He is just needling on the subject; I don't feel that if he or his were accosted by some hooligans, he would stand around and watch.

And, incidentally, criminals are a minority class, no matter what other attributes of description.

VIOLENCE IN DEFENSE IS JUSTIFIED

Taking defensive action to protect one's life or the life of his family is not 'probably' a justified act, it is the only action to be taken by a rational human being. Perhaps you didn't mean probably, but merely employed a stock qualifier peculiar to the profession. Or do I mean to the peculiar profession. No I really don't; it was just a nice turn.

Seriously, however, I see the subjectivity inherent in your position, namely, that threatening by an armed group constitutes violence, even if no action is taken. I think the 'sticks and stones' phrase of yore governs the situation. If implements are not used, words won't physically injure.

Unless one is paranoid, which may be construed an abnormality.

If two of any are having an intense argument, with a high degree of epithet exchange, the situation remains non-violent, even if not calm, until one may attack the other in a physical action. For the prudent two, there is no reason for either to become violent under any circumstance which involves words only. My rights (and lefts) extend only to the tip of your nose.

But what you seem to be saying is, that if a group 'goes around' in a threatening manner, and is 'armed to the teeth' (and who says things you don't particularly like), that it is all right to commit violence against those people under the guise of being 'provoked,' even though those armed have not committed violence.*

I think you're reaching.

Terrorists are not terrorists (whether the Stern Gang or the PLO) until they physically commit terrorist acts - sticks and stones again. Retaliation against terrorists, on an international scale, has been exacted in the most part as revenge for past acts, sort of a do unto others before they do unto you approach to life and death.

Observe some domestic para-mils: The KKK and similar groups have castigated blacks, Jews and Catholics (which includes me) for some or other quaint reasons, in the typical anti-everything's simplistic litany of fancied wrongs. What they are really saying is that they don't like anyone who doesn't believe as they do. So be it! As long as it's just talk, albeit vicious, I can't let it bother me. I'm not that thin-skinned; let them talk. I can't consider speech as 'violence,' and neither does the first amendment.

If some would define certain statements as violence, the paramilitary JDL and its 'never again' slogan (meaning pick on me and I'll kill you, an honorable attitude, by the way), would also be noted as violent. Yet, except for isolated instances, they don't appear to be an actively violent organization here in the US. (I think Meir Kahane is a nut case; but then again I also feel the same way about Arafat and Khadafi; is that violence on my part?)

Your last was too simplistic a cause and effect sequence for me to accept, other than agreeing that there are drives basing an action (I love my ego, but oh you id). The law provides levels of classification for killings, from, I think, involuntary manslaughter to first degree murder, and those classifications are descriptively concise.

If a man plans to kill his neighbor for whatever, prepares his fatal weapon for the job, carries out his plan to conclusion in a rationally methodical manner, and gets caught after the fact, he is bound to be charged and convicted of first degree murder.

Never mind that the neighbor in question may have committed an outrageous crime against his murderer in times past, that event being the motivating factor to the action. It is first degree no matter what the psychological motivations happen to be, at least in my opinion.

Just as the ends may not justify the means, neither may the motivations justify the events, with regard to first degree.

Even so, a gray area of definition might be the situation wherein someone points a gun at you and states he is going to kill you. Only words were spoken, but the violence lies in the physical act of pointing the gun. But if someone makes a statement of that type with his gun in his holster, is that threat or violence? Threat, I think, armed or unarmed. Of course the rebuttal is, if the person shoots you, that may constitute definable violence, but you might no longer be in a condition to care.

In summary, my position is that violence is generally as described in Webster, a physical or quasi-physical event. The power of 'threat' is not felt to be unimportant in this position, it simply does not hold that non-physical threat is violence.

We may only disagree on 'Definition,' that nebulous word womb where most disagreements gestate to ambiguous term.

*Note: Each fall I become part of a great armed group who perforce advocates physical violence to certain life forms; and, except for some Save the animals and Sierra freaks, no one seems to care. However, in the past two years, I've been in the words will never hurt you group instead of the sticks and stones bunch. I hope it's different this year.

REDNECKS

My only quarrel with the so-called 'rednecks' is that they denigrate all blacks and some religions they don't like. I don't think their basic simple patriotism is in question. As I've stated before, my own bigotry is selective; I don't have to like anyone regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin.

I like who I like, tolerate some others, ignore most of the rest, and take action against those who try to harm me or mine.

An easy philosophy.

GOETZ DEFENDED

To state that Goetz was a loony, waiting for a chance to use his gun, is to say you know what his thought processes were at the time. I don't think that you could know that.

By that statement you have reversed your past positions on personal defense as noted here many times. Even in the present context of developing a 'defense force' of some type, saying that Goetz is not eligible to defend himself as he did can only imply that an individual or group can only make a defense in selected cases, cases that you would judge even though not being on the spot, at the time.

Consider the circumstances that led to the incident.

Goetz had been attacked on a previous occasion.

He didn't want it to happen again, so he developed a means of self-defense.

When attacked again, by hoodlums, he took action to save his life and property.

If he hadn't been prepared, he might have lost his life and property.

So why are you saying that he was a loony? Except for the one unable to physically move about, the others of those who attacked Goetz have committed other crimes in the interim. Had Goetz shot straighter, or more effectively, those others would not have been able to victimize the people they did. Why should some be able to defend themselves, under your terms, and others just sit and wait to be assaulted like lambs to the slaughter?

Goetz was on his way home, in the same manner as he was many times before. He didn't ask to be assaulted. He didn't ask for the chance to use his gun. The situation was thrust upon him by a group of thieves, who ran into more than they bargained for.

And got what they deserved.

NECESSARY MILITIA

We may have lost sight of the classic definition of militia, which is: the body of men in the country which can be called to serve as members of the military during time of crisis.

And a secondary meaning is, the large group of citizens who own arms and can be called on to bear them in an emergency to defend themselves and their country.

While I can agree with your motives in wanting to see a group ready to take up arms to defend the right, I agree with your stance that the function of that group may be within the immediate realm of organized law enforcement.

So what you said is correct. There already are groups to serve the situation. Locally, it's the sheriff's department, the municipal police forces, even the feds, when necessary, who can mobilize to take action when required. Effective, planned, strategic action.

I think what he is really talking about, is a secret group whose job might be that of righting wrongs that cannot be righted in any other fashion, ala the Equalizer or Remo.

Emotionally, I can say great, this is what we need, go ahead and right those wrongs. Get the bad guys!

Objectively, I can also ask, who determines which are wrongs to be righted?

Example: The US is floating in a glut of crude oil; however, on the news that a crummy bunch of dingiest from an over-age cartel, who produce only 17% of the oil we use, and who cheat on any agreement they ever have made, will lower their daily production rates in two months, the gouges from the oil companies have, just yesterday, used that excuse to raise the price of regular gas by 10 cents a gallon.

Who can right the wrong inherent in that blatant thievery? Do we assassinate the president of Amoco?

Hardly.

The phone company was forced to provide a rate reduction recently; then they raised the price of other services about the same amount. Do we get the head of Ameritech?

I think not, no matter how satisfying the thought might be at first glance, before reason takes over.

And in many of life's minor tragedies, where the power of big money can easily crush an average person's rights, do we kill the perpetrator out of hand, even if he has used the legal system to unfairly prevail?

Not usually!

But, what I have espoused in past stances is the position whereby I would not mind seeing a group that methodically erases from humanity the drug dealers and their cohorts who poison the people of the world with their deadly wares for the sake of personal gain.

The Theory of Selective Removal, applied to those vermin, while not in strict conformance to present law, surely would be effective in diminishing the flow of sweet poison to this country at least, and in conjunction with an overt plan of securing borders and destroying sources, might remove the monkeys from millions of backs.

The contemporary Old Man of the Mountains must be hoist by his own petard. (If you don't mind a reference to poetic justice)

DEGRADING THE ENVIRONMENT

There have been many negative environments; white ghettos containing Italians, Jews, Poles, Germans, Latins, etc. In none of them has the incidence of crime been as pronounced as in the black ghettos, which consists mostly of black on black crime.

Even when housing has been given almost outright to the blacks, as in the case of the elegant St Louis housing project, Pruitt-Igoe, they have crimed and trashed the residences to the point where they were valueless, and had to be torn down, just as in some Chicago projects. Do you blame this on environment? Even when the environment is a more than adequate apartment?

Even in third-rate housing, the above-named ghetto groups took good care of the place they lived. Back in the 40's, in Milwaukee, the area around 24th and Brown street was a white neighborhood of neat houses. Now it looks like a disaster area on occasion. To what do you attribute that? Bad environment or aloof residents?

Disregarding the black African propaganda on the mythical empires of the area, Zimbabwe, Timbuctoo, Sheba, etc., why did not the black tribes achieve civilizations paralleling those of white Europe? Was it torpor, or a lack of necessary intelligence?

What comes of all this conjecture, is: some blacks are highly intelligent; some whites are highly intelligent; the incidence of high intelligence seems to be higher in the white groups than in the black And the median higher.

And a baboon is a baboon, black or white......

LISTEN OH SPACE MAN

When you arrived In the earth year of 1984 AD there were more of the so-called indigenous native American group living in the United States then there were when Leif Erikson first got there. They are better fed, better clothed, have better housing, and better opportunities than they ever did. It's amazing, but the now majority white population, along with some non-whites, support the "indians," as they are now called, with all of the above - including medical care, university educations, and cash payments.

Yes, it's also amazing how that present majority simply sits back and pays, not only to the natives, but to many other non-whites, without a great deal of grumbling, except for a few big-mouths near that large lake.

The government allows the natives to maintain their own customs and culture and still remain wards of the government, still having all the rights and privileges of US citizens, with a few others regarding hunting and fishing added, that the whites never will have; whites have, in general, the right only to pay the bills for the non-whites.

Not only that, but the whites of America and Europe developed much of the modern technology which has been provided to, and used by, non-whites of the world whose greatest contribution to date has been a most effective degree of sophistication regarding proliferation.

You could say that procreation is their greatest product.

No, I presently would vote against allowing Earth into the Federation of Civilized Planets. The non-whites in general are lacking in the intellectual qualities which can culminate in the level of technologies which would permit qualification by their group. The whites, while they may be qualified in the technical sense, have proved by their providing continuos largess to the non-whites, in every area, without recompense or gratitude, that they are too socially stupid to be even considered for membership.

Come back in a thousand cycles, just for a clinical glance at the vari-colored chaos.

ALIENS

And the thing is, I have no quarrel with reasonable and sincere non-citizens who want to live in the US and become part of the American way of life, even as my great-greats came from the British Isles and Germany many moons ago. People like that are always welcome, and can contribute to the nation in many ways. It is the enclaves that stay indubitably foreign with which I take issue, enclaves who have no desire to speak any tongue or follow any rules but their own.

My progenitors didn't come over in 1620 on the Mayflower; but, they took a later boat, the Hopewell in 1635.

REALLY WALLOPED

After the committee had voted to support Judge Renquist's nomination as Chief

Justice, one of the Republican senators, Malcom Wallop, I think, made a little speech that ripped the hearts out of the five Demo-libs that utilized the star-chamber tactics on Renquist, implying that their actions bordered on middle-ages inquisitionary attack. Faces turned beet red in the group of five, and lo! Ted Kennedy's Rudolphian visage led all the rest.

Especially at the part when the GOP senator stated that some of the inquisitioners pointed fingers that were on hands not so clean themselves.

I guess Chappaquiddick salt water isn't the world's best cleaning and purification agent.

ONLY THE CLONELY

I don't think we will ever understand everything about human development simply because the brain complex is just that. It is the linkups within the brain that let us be Albert Einsteins or Alfred E. Neumans, and only when every brain is exactly the same can we understand all concerning develpment.

I'm still figuring out the HP 97.

ULTIMATE AXIOM

Or, Richards' Universally Constant...

"No one knows, or ever will know, anything for certain."

(I'm positive of that!)

A FEW FACTS

Things you probably suspected, but never really wanted to know:

Driving on Saturdays is most dangerous.

A woman is less likely to get appendicitis.

Weight of the Statue of Liberty - 225 tons before the plastic surgery.

Common house flies do not breed in Alaska.

A person dies every 14.5 seconds in the U.S. (poor fellow).

The last mail delivery by dog sled in Alaska was in 1963.

Thomas Jefferson belonged to no organized religion (was probably Catholic).

There are nearly 70 different pieces of wood in a violin.

Of the wounds delivered by guns, knives, or ice picks, more than 40% are caused by the victim's friends or relatives.

There are more than 20 million hunters in the US.

The liver is the heaviest organ in the body, weighing 3 to 4 pounds.

And, last but not least:

Toads have no teeth, but frogs do.

More of this illuminating discourse will follow at indecent intervals.

ITCH ITCH ITCH

Thoughts while trying to relieve the irritation of multiple mosquito bites.

Assuming a 'normal' person with 'normal' length limbs with relation to height, is there a point on the human body that is absolutely impossible to reach with one's hand?

My guess it might be a small area of the back, perhaps accounting for the plethora of Chinese back-scratchers at rummage sales.

UNIONS HEADING SOUTH

That statement was correct in the sense that the unions were a factor in obtaining better working conditions and better pay. Where the unions failed lay in their outliving their usefulness, that is to say, when top money for a given job was attained, the union, in order to perpetuate itself, conned the membership into the syndrome of more, more, more! That rhetoric sounded good when the money flowed, and companies were inclined to pay that 'more' in order to stay open and productive.

However, the annual strike-raise philosophy of the unions increased the price of steel-based products, with the prices of other goods tagging along, to the point where the US priced itself out of the world market. Nothing was so ludicrous as hearing Dr. Schmitt blaming the administration's lack of tariffs on foreign products for the unbalanced situation, when the accusatory finger of fate points directly at the unions themselves.

You are correct in maintaining that the workers of the US should not be slaves to any union, and should have the right to work free of the union thumb and its collection of dues. And it appears that more and more workers are snubbing the unions; in 1945, 3 workers out of every five belonged to a union; today it is out of every five, and dropping fast.

As I mentioned in the past, the worker of today is far better educated than the worker of 40 years ago, and is more likely to weigh for himself the advantages or disadvantages of union membership. And unlike the old days, asks himself, 'what are these people really doing for me besides collecting money from me?'

And in these days of generally proper speech and writing, the dem, dose, and ain't vocabularies of those from the union who try to talk as 'one of the blue collar boys' just isn't going over any longer. To a high school educated worker who is able through TV to be aware of the world and its events, the phony street vernacular of Kirkland, Schmitt, et al, just doesn't hack it.

And I think the operative word is 'phony.' Seeing the union brass up there on the podia spouting out words like 'more' and 'strike' and such when the average worker just wants to keep his job going to support his family, even at wages reduced to be more in line with the real world, makes that average guy wonder whether the union is looking out for him or simply for themselves.

In my opinion, over the last 40 years, the unions have had their own particular well being, affluence, and survival foremost in mind, with the workers going along for the ride on the union quest for money, political clout, and power. That ride is coming to a screeching halt due to lack of riders and their payment for the tickets to oblivion.

THE COURT IS SUPREME!

Just a thought on the impact of the two new justices on future courts decisions.

My position is, that their being on the court may augment the tendency of the strict constitutionalist to have the judges interpret the law, not make new laws via fiat, as some of the more liberal judges take upon themselves to do.

It is also my hope that Reagan will have the opportunity to appoint new judges for nomination that are more in line with the conservative, interpretive legal philosophy that appears to exist in America today.

Whizzer White may have been a good football player, but he surely has been thrown for a loss in his perception of the Justice as activist in recent years.

Marshall has no sense of color; all of his positions have been based and biased on the side of blacks, where color interface is concerned, and on the side of the flaming liberals where philosophy is regarded.

FUEL & TAXES

Have you notice that the same chicken littles who ran around crying that the gasoline prices would go to $3 a gallon if fuel controls were lifted are the same little chickens who predict our economy will inevitably fail if the new tax reform bill were passed?

Gasoline has ranged from .69 to .74 recently.

On that basis, the reform bill may have promise.

JERRY KLECZKA

Kleczka is sounding more and more conservative these days, although my saying it may put the kiss of death on him in Democrat politics. May he progress on the difficult path to righteousness.

GARY GEORGE

This is the classic case of liberal backlash towards one of their own party who has momentarily escaped ideology and basked in a brief glow of common sense. To the liberal, this is a hanging offense, and they surely are out to put the noose around Gary's neck.

However, though I am of generally conservative bent, I like to reward those who speak up for the right - even from the left.

The other day, downtown, I noticed an auto with a Gary George sticker on it next to a parking meter which had shown the time expired, and put a nickel in the meter.

Yes, virtue is its own reward - even if it's only five cents worth.

DONE LATELY

I was asked, what have the unions done for us lately....

You mean done to us! For one thing, they drove up worker's wages in auto and steel to the point where it was cheaper to buy foreign steel and foreign cars manufactured by workers who still know how to work. You can attribute the rust belt phenomenon directly to the unions' annual cry of more, more, more.

And the less bright union ex-workers place the blame anywhere except where it really belongs - on the greed of the unions and their bosses. Even today, where companies have made it through the world economic squeeze, the unions are talking strike, strike, strike, trying to get more money for their 8 hours of factory socializing.

But I think it's over; if the 'workers' want to walk, the companies' attitudes are to let them; there are many out there in the labor force who really want to work, not just get paid for a day of minimum production and maximum goofing off. Even more chilling is the attitude of some unions and their flocks who would strike and see a company go out of business rather than work at a wage where the company could prosper.

From my point of view, a company is developed by an entrepreneur to make money for himself and his stockholders - not simply to provide jobs in a benevolent, non-profit, organization. These days management is laying it on the line: Either come in and work at our wage scales, or don't bother us. Let someone else work who wants to do so.

MINI-SUMMIT

When Ron and Mickey get to Iceland things will get done! They have to; all that there is one big city, a few small towns on the coast, and a vast 2000' high plateau - and about a hundred volcanoes.

I was in Reykjavik three weeks ago, and the major point of interest was a community pool, fed by hot springs, which stayed warm all year. It's roofless, but allows swimming on New Years Eve, with temperatures below zero.

We saw lots of husky, 6' tall blonde charmers there in the capital, and the boys were even taller. The air is clean and there are 80 kinds of fish to eat. The Ron and Gorby show should be able to solve missile problems, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, eastern Europe, Angola, and any number of crisis points.

They should, but they won't, even in such a nice setting.

FORTY HOURS?

What's this 40 hours a week stuff? I work that when I'm on vacation. Come to think of it, most union people put that time in someplace where they also can be on vacation. They just get paid for it. Then they get two to four weeks off where they get paid for not being in that someplace. And if they are Business Agents, they get fifty two weeks off and still get paid for not being someplace. Plus, a union president gets $200,000 for fifty two weeks for not being anyplace.

In any case, there are new union rules in effect lately:

1. Go on strike.

2. Picket and reject all contracts.

3. Be arrogant until the company says they will fire the strikers and replace them.

4. Accept the last contract.

(Isn't that vulgar coming from an ex-member of the Newspaper Guild?)

EXPLAINING KENNEDY

A senator stormed into the White House complaining because President Coolidge had publicly endorsed a certain man for senator, and Coolidge wanted to know what was wrong with him?

The senator said angrily, "he is an out-and-out son of a bitch!"

Coolidge said, "Well, there are a lot of them in the country and I think they are entitled to a little representation in Congress."

(and if Coolidge were still around he would probably feel that the breed was a good deal over-represented - seeing that he was a Republican)

NO FUEL LIKE.....

Reagan, Schmeagan! Sifting through the oil sands, I only know that before RR was elected, no Demo wished to cut petroleum price controls, and gas was $1.39 for regular; Reagan dissolved the controls, and now there is a glut and regular has been as low as $0.64, with the present $0.74 appearing to be an artificial oil company prop-up. But the real point is this: no matter who is responsible, gasoline prices are lower and OPEC is extremely fragile under the surface. If gasoline prices rise to former high levels, then tell me about it......

DO YOU BELIEVE?

Do you really believe the Soviets came out of the goodness of their hearts to conclude an arms reduction deal and not to try to scuttle SDI?

Reagan already infamous in the bloodshot eyes of the liberals; he got things done that they could not, and will accomplish even more. In the eyes of the liberals, that is the greatest sin.

In any case, the Soviets would love to see the dissolution of nuclear armaments; it would leave them with the strongest conventional weapons force in the world.

One of the many Demo idiots on the tube said that disarming would be a great stablizing force; what the fool couldn't comprehend is that nuclear weapons are the greatest stablizers possible; SDI would enhance that stability.

Speaking of acting, Sam Nunn gave one of his greatest performances on McNeill/Lehrer this evening. He tried to remain faithful to Democrat party lines while still providing cogent opinions on the mini-summit. You thought WC Fields was a great juggler? Sam had him beat.

I may not agree with your stance on the Soviets but will defend with missiles your right to hold that position.

So will President Reagan do for you, like it or not.

QUESTION

We have had 40 years of a world without a major war between the major nations of the world. How do you account for that? Just lucky, huh!

BUCHANAN RIDES!

Remarks by Pat Buchanan speaking at a Conservatives Dinner Meeting.

"Ronald Reagan - one of the most decent men in American political history - is now called an 'apologist for apartheid' by a Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee who wouldn't be chairman of anything if it weren't for Ronald Reagan. What was it Shakespeare said: 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.'

"Apparently the tragic lessons of Charles Percy and J. William Fulbright are being forgotten: Never, never mistake the raptured squeals of the Washington Post Editorial page for the authentic voice of the American people."

NOTE: that also holds true for the editorial nonsense of our local evening rag, whose mission in life seems to be one of patterning itself in the mould of the NY Times and the Washington Post, except that the third rate squealing from the Journal usually falls far short of achieving even that abysmal Post/Times level of tawdry liberal trashiness.

COLLAPSED COLLAPSE

Did you note how the media jumped on the word 'collapse' to define the events of the mini-summit, even though the conference started on time and ended later than scheduled?

Considering the events since the Iceland talks broke up, the term 'collapse' is written on a very big shoe stuck in several media mouths.

I think Sam Donaldson finally fell to acute brain collapse in Iceland, Brokaw did a fair job, and Rather kept from getting beat up by some grade schoolers or elves. To be charitable, they did their best.....

BILATERAL

I'd be glad to have bilateral disarmament; it's only that the other side had always wanted us to disarm while they thought about it. Bi- is supposed to refer to two parties. The Soviets say lots of things - proving that talk, without action, is cheap.

Do you trust them?

RECALL

You may recall that when Carter was in office, the Soviets talked about "sweeping" new disarmament proposals, the goal being to rid the world of nuclear arms "forever." We didn't have an SDI back then, so the Soviet hot air cooled off and vanished rather quickly, taking with it those sweeping proposals.

As once was said in a cogent moment, the world would be just as bad off if we cut the nuclear missiles in half, or even more, there would still be enough to effectively kill a lot of people.

So what's the difference whether we disarm or not? Dead is dead. And if all nuclear weapons would vanish, the Soviet military machine would roll over Europe in days. A bullet is just as fatal as an atomic blast to the victim, who doesn't care any more in any case.

The point is this: The only effect of the Iceland mini-summit was to indicate to the Soviets that Reagan was not a weakling who would give in for pie-in-the-sky Soviet smoke dreams, and it looks as though polls indicate the American people favor President's decisions.

Finally, ask yourself this - would we be better off having agreed to drop SDI for a nebulous treaty with the communists, who have never adhered to any treaty in the existence of their calumnious dictatorships?

My opinion is that if the Soviets get out of Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua, Southern Africa, and points west, and if they allow freedom of government choice for their slave states, and if they halt their espionage operations in other countries, and if they begin acting as a rational government should act, then it will be time to listen to their proposals on disarmament and respond in a positive manner - and not until then.

TYPICALLY UNION

Three working men were discussing how smart their dogs were.

The first was an engineer who said his dog, 'T-Square,' could generate plane figures; he told the dog to start mensurating and the dog got a pencil and paper, then drew a circle, a square, a triangle, and a parallelogram.

The second was an accountant who thought his dog, 'Solar Calc,' was even better; at command, the dog fetched a dozen cookies and divided them into piles of three without problem.

The third was a chemist who said that was fairly good but his dog, 'Beaker,' was even smarter. He told the dog to get a quart of beer and measure seven ounces into a ten ounce glass, which he did.

The union steward was watching all this; he called his dog, 'Coffee Break,' and told him to do what he was trained for. Coffee Break went over and ate the cookies, defecated on the paper, drank the beer, sexually assaulted the other three dogs, claimed he injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance for unsafe working conditions, put in for Workmans Compensation, then left for home on sick leave.

Walter Reuther would have been proud of him!

USSR IBM

Pat Buchanan characterized the ABM system around Moscow - A Big Mess, so bad it doesn't even violate the so-called treaty.

BACKGROUNDS

Many of the anti-SDI individuals, perhaps yourself included, have neither military nor accredited technical/scientific backgrounds, and their arguments against SDI are strictly emotional cum visceral.

With regard to the out-of-context quotes that you liberals are so fond of repeating about the military-industrial complex, I suggest you read the entire Eisenhower speech and peruse the complete quote, not only reading, but understanding.

Yes, Ike was right, in more ways than you seem to comprehend.

Most of the critics, yourself definitely included, are not so much against defense and military spending as you are against Reagan and the relatively conservative administration. Nothing Reagan could do in the fields of domestic or foreign affairs could actually satisfy you or the other critics to the left of Tipsy O'Neill. With your crowd, the only acceptance of SDI would have been if Eugene McCarthy had suggested it, thus giving it a port-side imprimatur.

It's difficult to grasp how individuals so transparent can be so obtuse.

RONALD REAGAN IN Milwaukee

We were near the airport about 10:56 and saw the President's motorcade pass almost in front of us. On behalf of the righteous we gave him a wave and a cheer......

SOCRATES SAYS

You are against SDI.

SDI is part of the military/defense posture of the US

Therefore, you are against the military/defense posture of the US...

Gone rings around you logically (and the penguin on the TV is about to explode!)

ADDENDUMDUM

Your remarks were cogent and very well put. But, I doubt if warfare, on any scale will become obsolete; all strife is based on sibling rivalry extended to numbers, in my opinion, and nothing will change until basic human nature evolves; until then, it will be fight, fight, fight, from early childhood on and up to nation versus nation. All that can be done is to minimize the level of activity and the size of the arena.

MISCONCEPTIONS

They are many times only in the mind of the misconceiver; many times deliberately so. Just as the map is not the territory, neither is the term the reality.

The event that does not agree with the critic is unchanged by the critic's naming it a 'misconception.'

Or, as mentioned in past meetings, your saying it does not make it so; however, if you truly hold a belief with regard to the event, tender it as your opinion, and that only.

NUTTY NAZIS

Once it is apparent that the nutty American Nazi Party, just written up in the Milwaukee rags, are really half-hearted protests against society, the easier it is to disregard them. My differences with the ANP lay in the fact that it lumped Americans of Jewish faith with Jews in Israel and other foreign countries as living and speaking with one voice and one thought.

It is simply untrue.

The vast majority of patriotic Americans who happen to be Jewish are as good patriotic Americans as Americans who happen to be Christian, Catholic, or Islamic. Putting them all together as target is irrational. Most are as liable to go and fight for Israel and the "international bankers" as I am to join the Vatican army - if they have one besides the Swiss Guards.

My other major complaint about the ANP was its extremely low level of quality in presentation. It was strictly amateurish, sprinkled liberally with errors in grammar and spelling; it was not the type of anti-anything group that would sway anyone with an IQ over 80 to their cause.

However, to give something to chew on, it's my position also that we live in a generally free Republic, and under the First Amendment, anyone has the right to hold opinions and publish them, no matter how cruel or crude they are to a given group. The opinions can be criticized, but to physically threaten them, as some other groups have, is not in accordance with the law of the land.

Will the national ACLU, or its Wisconsin counterpart, come to the aid of the ANP in order to protect its rights to its own opinions? Don't hold your breath. It smacks of the old reliable double standard technique - I can say what I want about you, but if you breathe a negative word about me I and my group will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

My advice to those who pump themselves into high gear dudgeon is to keep in mind that situations involving groups like the ANP feed on the antagonism of those they criticize, with over-reaction being the entree. Disregard factions like both the ANP and the JDL; they do not truly represent the mainstream of American thought.

Many of those opposed to the ANP philosophy, even as I am, would like to see ANP removed from existence because of its anti-semitic, anti-Christian, racist output. It wouldn't break my heart to see it go, yet forcing it to go because some simply want no criticisms of tenets close to their hearts is just as repugnant as the group itself.

PRAGMATIC RANSOM

Distasteful as it is to me - the concept of ransom - the Reagan Administration did get some hostages returned through use of that method. Part of me resents the fact, the other part accepts it joyfully along with those freed and their families.

Yet some in congress, on the left side of the aisle, are blowing off butter-mouth type steam, and are calling for hearings - you know the Nunn, Leahy, Kennedy, and Aspin types.

These are the same cravens who, if the President had wanted to put carriers in the Middle East and threaten to blow up Iran and Syria if the hostages weren't returned, would faint from the thought of his doing so, and fall over their long sleeved jackets to get halting legislation written. The same for those who want to kiss the Soviet backside for a paper treaty, who don't care if Nicaragua becomes a total, imperialist Soviet base, and who probably wouldn't care if Florida became a peoples Republic.

The media, of course, is saying that because the White House traded some parts for lives, the Israeli munitions ring should not be prosecuted for their attempts to sell arms to Iran.

The difference is: the White House did what they had to do for the lives of some Americans; those munitions dealers tried to do it for money.

Equating the two is nauseous.

SO WHAT

So what if they are only paying in spare parts? I supposed that could be the same as arms in a sense. But I would rather send some carriers over and say the hostages alive or Teheran dead....

MACHIAVELLIAN BEHAVIOR

It all depends on how much value you are willing to place on an American life. As I said before, I'm torn between shipments of parts for hostage release and the bleak alternative of no release. Let's flat out tell the Iranians if the hostages aren't released, they will have no military capabilities left after our own actions.

Machiavelli thought the ends justify the means; and, maybe this is a case where it does. Most of the liberals and pinkos thought it was fine that we leave Viet Nam to the commies, along with tons of supplies and armaments, but they're getting so, so righteously indignant at thought of spare parts being traded for Americans.

Let's get the Americans back and take it from there.

YUP!

The hilarious point of the evening was when they put a very reluctant Patrick Leahy on camera and turned on the red light. The poor soul didn't really have anything to say, especially when President Reagan stated that negotiations with Iran were ongoing for a year and a half. And most of the media experts, including Brokaw and Donaldson, stumbled over their tonsils trying to make something out of nothing.

My prediction?

In 3 weeks there may not be much said in criticism; if there is, it will be in a GOP campaign, saying the Demos put more value on exposure than on getting back a hostage or two. The dems have the eggs of a thousand omelets on their faces now.

Being the suspicious person I am, and in view of the admiration I have for the way President Reagan handles politics, it appears to me to be more than a masterpiece of planning on someone's part, giving the Demos, media, and critics enough tarred rope to get stuck on, and then waiting for the near east leak to allow the highest of dudgeons, then amidst the hue and cry come off looking like champs.

How the libs must be stewing since last night; and in their own virulent juices already. Not even Rembrandt could have painted a canvas scenario like that with such an elegant frame around it.

Will we hear from Biden, Kennedy, Hart, or O'Neill? Don't hold your breath!

For them it's been Fizzlegate.

THE CYCLE OF LITTLE

Yes, there is wailing, but I think it will all go away, falling of its own weight. It seems to follow what happened when Nixon began to open the Chinese connection, and now China seems to be leaning somewhat towards a capitalist society.

Just like the diplomatic cycle: good relations, revolution, bad relations, a little fighting, a little talking, and subsequently good relations again; all it takes is a little bad memory on each side.

CRITICISM

I wasn't criticizing Leahy's right to respond, I only pointed out the mess he made of his response. It was pathetic! His problem was, he really didn't have anything bad to say, but said it very badly)

CENTRAL AMERICA

"A specter is haunting Nicaragua........."

Let's go down, try to get Hausenfus out, knock out the 56 tanks, all the planes and heli-gun ships, blow up the harbors, and get Ortega and the rest of the Sandinista bandits.

Let's put that marxist specter back in the Kremlin where it belongs - in same tomb of the two-bit philosopher.

SAD HISTORY

Worse yet, the Sandinistas had a lot of help from liberal elements in our own government; we made the Somozas and then we broke them, just as we did the Shah. But events may be cyclic, and every forty years some GOP president will have to send forces in to clean up the country and let them begin over again.

It was noteworthy on McNeill/Lehrer last evening that Barry Goldwater said that if he would have been elected president, the Viet Nam war would have been over in a few weeks. He would have given them the ultimatum of either stopping their aggression or having north Viet Nam turned into a swampland.

I think it may have worked; but those same liberals that stopped Goldwater kept the war going and lost it, then blamed the military, then put up that abysmal black hole marker in Washington. As one who got through Korea, do you blame me for my scathing remarks on, and deep disgust for, those left wing, liberal cowards who caused South Viet Nam to be over-run by the communists, and want to see Central America go the same way?

Santayana was truly correct with regard to the liberals of America.....

IRAN NEGOTIATIONS

It wasn't long getting there.

According to President Reagan, negotiations to better relations between Iran and the US have been ongoing. During this lengthy period, the US provided some replacement parts to Iran as a gesture of good faith. Sometime during said negotiations, hostages were released, but not directly as a result of the parts shipment.

Where is 'there?'

At a point where the media is pounding away at development of an idea that the hostage release was a direct swap, 'arms' for hostages.

It only proves that where the best interests of the United States, and a few of its captive citizens, happen to exist, the liberals and the liberal media will do all they can to play politics, trying to scuttle in any way possible, any presidential action, any presidential effort to free hostages, especially when the president is Ronald Reagan.

On all the major networks, the concept of hostages for arms is being broadcast as an absolute; never mind ramifications for other hostages, never mind regard for truth.

What the media doesn't know, it will imply as fact; except where a Gary Hart or Walter Mondale type is concerned. Or Ferraro and family.

Had Carter tried to trade Fort Knox to Iran for the hostages of the day, the Times and Post would have yet been applauding.

But the core is this; no one except the president and a few advisors actually know what happened. The media thinks that by accusation, it can force the president to expose his methods in the secret discussions; it shouldn't be allowed to work that way.

And in reality, the fact that the president didn't confide in a leaky congress or a disruptive media is what really sticks in the liberal craw.

May they choke on it!

MEDIA NUTTIES

Yup! Right now it's 7:29 pm and Reagan's press conference is on TV. I have just heard yet another dippy broad ask the same question asked about Nicaragua and Iran that was posed five times. What a reflection on the motives and morals in the media.

TAXPAYER VS. WELFARE

I read some quotes concerning AFDC/Welfare mothers, one of which stated in essence that she felt raising a child is already a full-time job for a single mother, and that this single mother should not be forced to work and support herself and her illegitimate children.

What hogwash!

Another individual, Pat Gowens, vaunted representative of some hokey group calling themselves the "Welfare Warriors," a notion whose time has obviously come and gone, said that making a welfare mother work for her money is slavery.

So, am I alone in all this criticism?

Let's look at some published comments from the evening rag, and we'll just take out some choice bits to look at:

Gwen Bauer from Milwaukee, who works in a social agency said:

"75% of black children and 25% of white children are born out of wedlock.

"I have personally heard young mothers tell me that they had a second child so they could afford a place of their own, or so they could remain on welfare when older children became of school age.

"As for the County Supervisor's comments that single mothers already have a full-time job raising kids, I would point out that 50% of mothers with children under age 5 are already in the work force. I will soon be one of them. I am returning to work because my spouse's pay is insufficient to support our family.

"Finally, in answer to Pat Gowens of the Welfare Warriors: Making welfare mothers work for their money is not slave labor. Who are you to force me to support you and your children? I have worked the most menial, low-paying jobs - from cleaning lady to nurse's aide to McDonald's - in order to support myself.

"I have never received any food stamps, grants, or government loans of any kind. If I can do it, so can other mothers. Learn a marketable skill and get a job. You can support yourself with dignity and teach your children to do the same. Perhaps it is not as attractive as sitting home getting money for nothing. But it is the way the majority of us live, and we are tired of supporting the parasites who choose to do otherwise."

Lerayne Desforge of Shawano said:

"I find the County Supervisor's views on why welfare mothers should not work - because they already have the full-time job of raising children - ridiculous! Where has she been hiding, under a rock? Eighty percent of the work force has children at home.

"Pat Gowens is another jerk. Since when is making welfare mothers work for their money slavery? How asinine can they get?

"What do they call forcing the taxpayers to foot the bill for a bunch of loafers?"

Yvonne Heuter of Milwaukee said:

"Thompson's (workfare) proposal will naturally 'stir doubt' in the minds of those second and third-generation on AFDC who will now have to get used to the idea of working for a living.

"The comment by Welfare Warrior Pat Gowens that 'forcing AFDC mothers to work for their money is slavery' only serves to prove how absurd the welfare situation has become in Wisconsin.

"Work is not a dirty word.

"As a working taxpayer, I think that forcing working people to continue to support these illigitimate children is 'slavery.' I salute Thompson."

And now from our blowing smoke department, a quote from ex-priest Dismas Becker, 7th Assembly District (D):

"It is hard to know if/when we'll ever be able to change the general public's perception about our social service programs. We must continue, at the very least, to do all we can to dispel the myths."

Sure Dismas, you talk with double-speak tongue! What you really are saying is, "How do we stroke the taxpayers into keeping up the money flow?"

IRANGATE?

Is it Irangate what you're trying to say? Media tempest-in-a-teapotgate is more like it.

Who would you have do the straightening out? The Democrats and their pals on the left, including the hapless media? I think what they really want is to force a resignation by Reagan; then the former hostages could be sent back to Iran, no questions asked.

There is enough of this attempted government by the fourth estate via a distorted pretense to the first amendment.

I also watched portions of the press conference, heard the same idiotic hypothetical questions in the same insipid manner by the same air-headed clones. What happened more than likely is that the public in general got tired of listening to the media BB-brains trying to embarrass Reagan, and they will resent the TV venals instead of a leader who tried to establish relations with a former enemy and got some hostages out in the process.

As for the next two years, there was never any doubt that the liberals would try to make hay for the '88 elections, no matter at what cost to the US and its people.

I think it will rebound to their disadvantage.

REAGAN WINS AGAIN

Ronald Reagan at his video worst comes off ahead of the media at their dismal best. By media, I mean Radio, TV, Newsprint, and Magazine, all experts in the sorry art of beating dead horses - a synonym for pounding the liberal drums. When I hear the liberal congressmen trying to put the kiss of death on the remaining Reagan years, I realize it is the left whistling past the graveyard of broken liberal dreams past.

The devastatingly accurate point of your talk was the concept of attempted media and liberal revenge because neither was in on the plan. For good security reason, I might add. Can you believe if a Byrd or a Cranston were privy to the attempt, how long secrecy would have lasted?

And down to the bottom line score:

Reagan got three released, out of six or so: the Great Stumbler, J. Carter, got 0 released out of a lot more in his military effort - he still must have sand in his eyes.

WATERGATE FOLLIES

There really wasn't much law broken in 'Watergate' at the highest levels of government, as the Democrats wanted everyone to believe, and certainly not as much as in the Johnson presidential levels in vote fraud and the Bobby Baker affair. Had the GOP controlled the Congress during that era, Johnson would have been impeached and convicted for various financial crimes in cahoots with Baker and others.

Had the GOP controlled the Congress in the Nixon era, Watergate would still be a classy hotel in DC, and that's all. The Democrats and GOP liberals turned a minor burglary into a major farce. People still forget that the reason for the Watergate break-in was to find evidence verifying the suspicion that the McGovern crowd was getting campaign funds from Fidel Castro. Sam Ervin and his bunch did everything to cover up for the Demos and McGovern, in a masterpiece of double-standard sleaze.

SECRECY

In the sensitive areas of foreign policy there a number of things which must not be made public knowledge, even if the media gnaws away at the edges. The press would love it if every secret mission, every secret dealing, was exposed to their scrutiny in every way.

If by that you think I imply that the media would expose any secret weapon or approach by the government or military just for the sake of a scoop, be assured that I do. We have arrogant media in this nation, with arrogant politicos who would release any detrimental information concerning the US in order to augment their positions, like the Pentagon Papers, or line their pockets - like Daniel Schorr.

We have the big-mouths, Durenberger, Nunn, Leahy, Cranston, Kennedy, Biden, and the biggest liberalidiot of them all, Daniel Moinihan, flapping their collective yaps under the delusion that it is at this point they can talk big without harming themselves.

Yes, it is a delusion. All the stupid statements by Les Aspin will come back to haunt him some day, and the people of Wisconsin will suffer for it, when the state is passed over for some federal largesse or another. And by 'largesse' I don't mean something for nothing; I mean getting some of our federal tax money back into the state to do some good.

Between Proxmire and his stupid golden fleece award which antagonizes any agency or defense group so that they will never look on us for contracts, and Les Aspin who simply sounds silly, adding to that group such lightweights as Moody, Kleczka, and Adelman, Wisconsin will almost never be even considered as a place for the government to do businesss. Even Kasten will have a difficult time overcoming such irritations if trying to bring federal business to the state.

What I'm saying is that the issue of Iran and Iceland and the nuclear arms talks and positions are really straw men with the left, maintaining an enhanced veneer of importance, a pseudo-importance contrived by liberal thinking, an issue that will blow away as soon as the people note the would-be liberal emperors really have no clothes.

It is already happening.

This business of keeping the American people informed of dealings best kept secret at this time is an anti-American charade promoted by the liberals, who would torpedo an American-Iranian accord, or a Soviet-American true arms agreement, simply because it was not they that completed it.

For years I've heard the Demo-libs talk about their goal of a nuclear weapon-free world. As soon as it was found that Reagan did indeed discuss the concept, liberals were outraged at the thought - triple standarding their way through the media, saying 10 years wasn't ripe for such an agreement.

All their screaming about the issue mentioned above is reminiscent of Tip O'Neill's retirement from the House, riding into the sunset, two horse's asses, and only one horse.

The entire thing is a media-built charade, by a group who would rather have the American hostages still held rather than know Reagan was getting them back. And it is entirely the fault of the media whose ham-handed handling of the overall matter that kept the rest of the hostages from being freed by now.

If any of the liberals would ever listen to the BBC or Radio Nederland or any of the free world foreign radio broadcasters, they would learn that much sympathy is directed towards the President by those who can't really understand why our media is trying to crucify him just for trying to get Americans freed. I can't understand it either.

And on a very recent BBC program, Stephen Solarz, a New York congressman who is the epitome of sleaze, was mouthing off about how he and his Democrap compatriots were going to 'pin down the president and get some answers,' when he was asked by the BBC correspondent' what was actually wrong with freeing hostages in any way possible?'

Solarz said that had nothing to do with it; their aim was to get the president and his men to answer questions about possible illegalities that may have happened during the process.

When the BBC correspondent asked if they only were going to exploit the issue strictly to go after and embarrass the president and subsequently the United States, Solarz just mumbled something about that being politics.

My opinion is that Solarz is just another opportunistic left-wing sleaze. It appeared that the BBC man concurred with that thought after the interview, saying that "even the worst Laborite antagonistic to Thatcher 'would not have comported himself in such a manner."

That announcer yet has to meet the likes of Leahy, Kennedy, Cranston, and that sort.

In summary, it's my feeling that delicate negotiations with a former antagonist, where said antagonist is extremely sensitive because of past events, good and bad, should be carried out on the most secret of levels.

What we need is a British-type Official Secrets act to curb the voracious, willy-nilly exposure of sensitive secrets leaked to the media. The first amendment right to speak the truth does not cover the right of media to print secrets. It's enough they print the wildest of speculations in the hope of finding true fire resulting from their smoke-blowing.

But the media can keep secrets if they really sympathize with the principal involved, such as when Jack Kennedy kept a stable of hostesses to service him and his brother Bobby in the White House.

But of course that's different, right?

Wrong!

RESTRICTIONS

You realize that in my answers I don't restrict myself to absolute responses to absolute questions, but refer to more than just whose quid is pro quo.

In the last line of your talk you say the administration has failed miserably with regard to its disclosure of all aspects of the Iranian affair. Of course this is your opinion, and that of many on your side of the fence, who resent the fact that they are not privy to all the facts in any administration event.

Because the president doesn't tell all, you and they think the worst. I can't help you out, I don't know all the facts, but I think the administration knows more about the way to do things than do the New York Times or the Washington Post, or the TV media. They only think they know.

As far as the liberal Democrats, they are in such disarray that the only thing they have in common is ineptitude. The squeals from the Democrat National Committee of late is only a chorus of lost chords, trying to turn a contrivance into a windfall.

"We failed miserably." Phui! Of course you know that had the American-Iranian relationship turned to the better, with an exchange of diplomats in time, with the hostages being returned, without the media learning the details, all would have been fine. Silent diplomacy at its most efficient.

Understand this: The Media does not have to know every facet of government operation. The president is the Commander in Chief, and does not have to ask the Post or Times what to do or when to do it, so they can report to their readers.

There are overt and covert stages in any operation of diplomacy; others should be briefed on the basis of need to know. The situation runs more smoothly in that fashion; however, the vulture media feeds on blockage.

Again, on the news today, it was suggested that the Israelis began the entire operation themselves, broaching the plan to Washington after arms had already been shipped in one instance, and that the US came in on the deal strictly for the hostage releases.

True? Who knows? But we'll hear more from debates in the Israeli parliament tomorrow. If it were begun by the Israelis, for whatever reason, then the last three hostages may have owed their freedom to an Israeli initiative.

That's fine with me.

Let's take a quick look at two cause-effect type items:

All the liberals cry and march for freeing the world from nuclear arms; when the President brought up the idea at Iceland, they gave him hell for it.

All the liberals weep and wail in their yellow ribbons for the hostages; when the prez got three out, they are still giving him hell for it.

What the heck do they want?

Note: these are not, in the main, direct answers to any questions, simply a responsive discussion in my inimitable, soft and gentle tones.

TRADE

EA Reprint from Milwaukee Sentinel editorial section published last week:

To the Sentinel:

The imbalance of trade between the United States and its foreign trading partners is generated mainly in that portion of the product manufacturing cost attributable to foreign wages and/or subsidy.

The dictate of 'Free Trade' allows this imbalance to continue to our detriment; what the United States actually needs is a trading system based on the concept of 'Fair Trade.'

Integral to the implementation of such a Fair Trade system would be a federal law holding that the wage cost and/or subsidization factor of any given foreign-made product would be in all cases referenced to the American wage cost for the equivalent American-made product, and any difference between the two resolved by import duties.

Instituting the concept would not be protectionism in the classic sense, but merely an impartial cost-equalization factor. It would result in the wage sector burdens of foreign goods and US goods to fairly approximate one another, with other differentials reflective of manufacturing and production efficiencies unaffected.

Such an approach would offer to the American consumer the choice of domestic or foreign product purchase, in the competitive American marketplace, with the consumer's ultimate buying decision based on value perceptions of product attractiveness and quality rather than on his being restricted to purchase on the basis of price alone.

Note: I would say that initially consumers might pay somewhat more for given products; however, over the long term, competition would force prices down.

ANY-GATE REVISITED

This morning on the news some Democrat smirked and said, "what did the president know and when did he know?" His opposite number said, 'do you think you're going to get away with that old BS this time? Not a chance!'

Isn't it too bad they removed the old White House tape decks. The libs would give anything to have had them in operation. Now that it's been shown the Israelis are in this up to their ears, and in fact instigated the process, including alleged money to the contras that the contras say they never got, there should be some interesting disclosures.

It still boils down to two points:

1. Was it worthwhile to try to get the hostages released and open relations with Iran again.

2. Is it worthwhile to try to stop Communism in Central and South America, and in Mexico, or isn't it.

Before the liberals start blowing off any more steam, they should realize that if they are against either concept, they don't deserve to be American citizens, morally for concept 1, or politically for concept 2.

I hope the administration never lets the critics forget that during this coming media/liberal/communist anti-Reagan blitz.

And the Israeli apologists in congress and without are going to be torn between trying to embarrass the administration while still keeping Israel out of the hot seat. May they twist in the wind, at any rpm.

I myself am for doing all to get hostages back, using military pressure primarily, but any method that will do it; I also am for stopping communist aggression in Central and South America, using any weapons at our command, whether our instruments are the contras or American military might, including troops.

The sad part of the whole situation is that the liberals in congress would rather seen the administration in turmoil so they can take over control in 1988 than see our hostages returned or Communism stopped in Managua.

But, they've always been that way, putting their greed for politics, power, and socialistic approaches ahead of whatever is best for the United States of America.

IS PRESIDENT REAGAN GUILTY?

He may be guilty of:

1. Trying to get American hostages back to the United States after months of pleas and entreaties to him by hostage families.

2. Trying to keep a full-blown communist government in Nicaragua from taking over its neighbors one by one, and indeed attempting to destroy that government so that free elections can be held.

Anything else is mealy-mouthed liberal baloney; all those Demolibs that look for criminal activity in a conservative administration under the guise of 'bringing out the facts' are again in the assassination business, just as they were with Nixon. In fact, some of those political thugs are saying we should have yet another 'Sam Ervin' type committee to investigate in their own inimitable dog and pony show tactics.

The method of the liberals in these cases were as follows:

1. Try to convince the country that they only want a fair hearing on their charges, and hold those hearings in fora such as the house and senate where they are in power, ala Watergate.

2. Call witnesses to get them to speak out under oath under the pressures of the Demolibs and the media daily blitzing.

3. If the witnesses mis-speak one word, either as a break-down in memory or honest mistake, then prosecute under the laws of perjury, or any other laws possible. And even if the witness cannot be broken under congressional pressure, and has fact on his side, then try him in the star chamber's witch hunt procedures of the media.

Those who are after the president and his staff are not interested in laws broken, but in political gain; they are not interested in getting American hostages returned, but only in achieving the laurels of leftist glories.

And, of course, they are not interested in stopping Communism in Central or South America, they don't mind communist governments around the US, either from indifference or a warm feeling for that type of political system.

I'm pertaining to the Kerries, Leahys, Cranstons, Kennedys, Solarzes, Bidens, and their dovecote of craven pseudo-Americans who don't care about the hostages, only themselves, and who don't care about their country, but only their political offices.

Concerning the media, I do believe in the freedom of the press; also, I believe that freedom should extend only to reporting factual news in its news columns, and conjecture in signed editorial columns. TV news the same. Too many times, of late, we have heard implications made on the basis of quotes from an un-named source, which shrivel under the light of examination, and turn out to be straw men built by the media only to provoke reaction.

The media should have the right to report solid, verifiable news as news, but editorial conjecture as conjecture, stopping the sleazy guilt by insinuation tones taken by the Donaldsons, Brokaws, and Rathers, three pretty boys whose only talents are the abilities to be made up for national presentation, and the capabilities of reading from a monitor without stumbling too often.

It appears that these three, their cadre, and their networks are trying to make domestic and foreign policy instead of simply reporting the news as it happens, in a factual manner. This is not freedom of the press, it is license of the press, and smacks of yellow journalism at its lowest. But then the national media has never been noted for professionalism or adherence to unbiased reporting.

And in summary, the issues are not (except in Demolib terms), whether there should be a witch hunt dragged out over the next 24 months, but whether it was right for the president of the United States to use his powers to bring back hostages and to fight Communism.

It is a tragic consequence of the liberal activity existing today that a president of the United States, not only has to fight Communism on all fronts, but also that he has to fight the leftists in Congress first in order to gain the wherewithal to maintain the battle against those who would take over the world if they had the chance.

CATCHING UP

I believe that it was some 24 hours ago that the president ordered all of his staff to cooperate fully with the FBI and special committee investigation of the Iran affair.

You may be surprised to hear that I do not support totally the method used to spring the hostages and to supply the contras.

The president is commander in chief of the military forces, not the congress; and, my plan would have been a surgical attack on Nicaragua, dumping the Sandanista dictatorship for once and for all, and a show of force in the waters off Iran with the broadcast statement, Americans freed or Iran and Syria vanished.

If the president goes into a shell on the issue, then I must fault him. He is the president, not a two-bit congressman or left-wing blabbermouth. He should make the statement that he takes responsibility for the plans to get the hostages freed and damn the critics. Likewise he should give orders to clean out the communist nest in Nicaragua and give the country back to the people.

I still have faith in the president's ability to take bold, strong steps in this case, maintaining the respect of his friends and confounding his enemies. The Demolibs attempts to Watergatize the situation should be nipped firmly in the bud. The use of any clandestine means to get Americans freed, and Communism out of Central America, should be utilized. Of course the two groups against this policy are leftists in the congress and the leftist media - two entities that would rather be switched than fight.

Joseph Conrad wrote a book about a boat called the Narcissus; Joseph Conyors, Democrat representative of Michigan, could fit the description if the flower were changed to the white feather. This poor excuse for a congressman, whose exploits in elected life add up to a minus, has the nerve to question the president's actions with regard to criminal activity and impeachment already as 'fact' in his eyes.

Conyors biggest claim to fame has been his black caucus baloney and his friendship for leftists. This is a level of anti-Reagan sentiment akin to a jackel's attack after the fighting is over, and typical of Demolib approach. I mention Conyers after seeing his antics on TV of late. He is yet another that votes against military funding and assistance for the anti-communist fighters, but supports revolution in South Africa.

The noble thoughts expressed on that subject likely would never suggest that there be prosecution of the nuns that smuggled of illegal aliens to the US?

My opinion is that either the president is commander in chief or he is not; and the thought of congress trying to make war and foreign policy is ridiculous; they can't even contribute to domestic policy. I hope that the president does indeed assume responsibility for all, regardless of whoever actually pulled the strings, and, in view of what some left-wing weasels in congress are yelping, say: "I did it, impeach and be damned, if that's what you want!"

And you know, that's what they want.

RIGHT?

If one is walking down the street and notices a perp about to knife an unknowing victim from behind, and runs across the street and stops the murder, thereby saving the live of the potential knifee, is that ok with you?

Or would you prosecute the guy for jay-walking?

It's the law, you know.

GOOFED UP!

Yes, I goofed up.

I had given the Israelis a kudo for helping out with the hostage release out of the goodness of their hearts. Poor, simple, me.

Late accounts say that in the weapons transaction, 10 million in parts were sold by the Israelis for 30 million. 10 million went to the Contra swiss bank account, 20 million went into Israeli pockets.

This from a country, supposedly our great friend in the middle east, who has sold American spare parts and arms to Iran before, during, and after the American hostages were finally released, it figures. Israel - still the same warm-hearted, altruistic bunch, the best friends money can buy...

Anyone's money.

DEPRESSING THE PRESS

I thought the full-page ad in USA Today which excoriated the sleaze-bags of the Washington press corps was appropriate for the time and too long in coming.

People have been searching for a term to describe the present situation; I have developed one, namely - Mediagate.

The real problem is that media has the mistaken idea it is running the country via the Washington Post, New York Times, NBC,CBS, and ABC.

They are wrong.

MIDEAST QUERY

Doesn't the First Amendment and the freedoms thereof also allow us to bitch about the philistines if we care to do so? Just like the T-shirt says?

I predict that the Demolib attack on the prez for recovering hostages and fighting Communism, after the hearings, will die a slow death.

THE EARL OF GRACIOUS

Tonight, defeated Democrat governor Tony Earl exhibited a class I never thought he had in his praise for the integrity and character of newly elected GOP governor, Tommy Thompson.

It must have hurt when he said it -- but he said it anyway.

But, on the other hand, it does seem somewhat chintzy that Earl would try to hammer through a ' comparable worth' package that is destined for the scrap heap of NOW history, some no mean heaps of scraps themselves.

INTRIGUING

That best describes words from the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, second in command to Khomeni, who was quoted as saying the US Congress and the US media had blown the so-called 'crisis' way out of proportion to what it really was. Do I see an olive branch waving in the eastern wind?

Probably not....

DIABOLICALLY CLEVER!

Did anyone notice that those fiendish white South Africans are accused of sending out another phony aircraft signal to cause yet another Aeroflot crash - just as was said they did in Africa.

They must really have powerful transmitters to reach all the way to East Berlin.

RIGHTS AND LEFTS

Yes, it's a lot different from Watergate. For one thing, the grass roots people have learned how congressional committees operate, primarily, coercing with honeyed words just to "hear the story," and then waiting for a slip in order to prosecute before an inept Democrat hanging judge like Sirica. And Durenburger, (R. Minnesota), along with some other lamebrains, are saying that just because some witnesses are in the military, they should give up their constitutional rights on self-incrimination.

I can understand Durenburger, he's from Minnesota where they play a lot of Rugby bareheaded, but Lugar and Dole? They're running for president, but should know better.

It sounds like Kemp is the only one that makes sense, but I can't wait until some of those committees call up Pat Buchanan to hear his story......

There will be a lot of singed toes in the hearing room that day.

DEMO-GATE

Should be exciting to hear what Donald Regan says to the mis-named committee, if anything much. Is the committee looking for the 'facts,' or are they only stockpiling ammo for the nomination battles to come?

In this entire affair, what really irritates me is not the fact that steps were taken to release Americans, or that they were taken to provide arms to the Contras, who in reality are our first line of defense against Communism in Central America or Mexico, those were worthy objectives; my dispute is with arrogant rags like the Washington Post who is releasing classified information on CIA operations.

I feel that an investigation into how the Post got its information on the Iraq/CIA information tie-up, and prosecute whomever received it and who allowed it to be printed. If it was done with the connivance of Ben Bradlee, he should be indicted along with the leaker and the leakee. What the Post did by publishing classified information was to break federal laws simply in an attempt to develop another so-called scoop. Bradlee should be given free federal room and board for his anti-American antics.

From deep throat to shallow brain in only 14 years.

FUTURE RESPONSE-GATE

Washington, D.C. 7 April, 1208: From its bases in northern Mexico, the Revolutionary People's Party launched a nuclear missile attack on several Minute-Man sites in the American southwest. Seconds afterward, the US responded by destroying all Soviet operated missile bases in Mexico, Central and South America, and Cuba, meanwhile warning the Soviet Union not to begin an attack of its own unless it wished to be annhilated.

President Reagan reported that the situation was in control and that proper radiation treatment teams were on their way to the target sites.

Response from the Democrat controlled congress was immediate:

Senator Kennedy: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Senator Byrd: We're not trying to embarrass the president for killing all

those innocent communists, we're only trying to establish what really occurred and take steps to make certain the presidency is not weakened.

Cong. Wright: Here we are with a Missile-gate on our hands. How do we know that the simultaneous firing of those nuclear missiles from Mexico Cuba, and Central America weren't just the accidental flip of a switch by some young communist lad who was playing around with the controls?

Cong. Kerry: Another attempt by the administration to cover up what really happened. It all goes back to the president's refusal to stop the Star Wars research as requested by our friends the Soviet Union.

Cong. Leahy: You all know that I believe in having a strong America, but this indiscriminate slaughter by the military is unjustified. We'll get to the bottom of this. Reagan and his staff have a lot of explaining to do!

Senator Glenn: The president is wrong, wrong, wrong! And if I wouldn't have opened the hatch on my space capsule for too long I'd be able to tell you why. All I know is that if the president did it, it must be bad.

Cong. Solarz: Obviously an impeachable offense. We cannot let this sort of thing go on where simply because there is a conservative Republican president that he thinks he can run things. I will introduce legislation tomorrow that will remove the president from any command process other than picking out colors for the oval office walls.

Senator Durenburger: I don't care that if it weren't for the president I would still be a two-bit politician in South St. Paul, he still has to account to me for his blatant actions in this affair. I know better than he does on all these law things.

Cong. Studds: What's all this clap-trap about missiles and impeachment? What we have to do is get more money for AIDS research. I, I mean they, don't have time to sit around and wait while some military people are shooting off fireworks.

Senator Dole: The president has to put this behind him. All of his White House staff must be fired immediately so this is can be resolved and I can get the nomination away from Bush. Nancy must go!

Senator Cranston: What's going on? Did I miss something?

Senator Proxmire: This week's golden fleece award is going to President Reagan for spending all those millions of dollars in missile hardware in just a few short minutes. All that money, up in smoke; no wonder our military spending is so high.

Ex Cong. O'Neill: This is just another result of the President's not listening to our good liberal/Democrat/union advice. All we would have had to do is give in on the SALT treaty and stop the space research, and have a summit meeting with the Soviets so they could explain how it was a result of Reagan's adamance that their Central American satellite states got a little eager and wanted to catch our attention.

Cong. Moody: Duhhhh, I got on the committee, I got on the committee. Didn't I do good. Down with the president and his guys. What's a missile?

The Washington Post: Again American imperialism has raised its ugly head. The administration has used the accidental missile attack from Mexico and points south and east as a pretext to blast away opposition in those peaceful countries, whose standard of living under the communist system has surpassed ours in every way.

The New York Times: No matter how the administration tries to say otherwise, those were not communists that fired the missiles. Reagan sees communists under his bed, thus accounting for his pinning the red label on every benevolent government that freely chooses socialism over the failed capitalistic system we have here.

The Milwaukee Journal: Ditto! Post Ditto! Times

Harrison Salisbury: I was right on Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Honduras. There are no communists fighting in the hills. Pravda told me so.

Walter Mondale: Say, are the returns in yet? Seems I been waiting a long time. Get Gerry on the phone.

President Reagan: Pat, get the supply office on the phone and see if they are stocked with all the nets and long-sleeve jackets the hill will need during this congressional crisis. The sizes for all Senators and Representatives should be listed somewhere in the Record. Don't forget the anti-foaming agent for the committees, and the anti-sleaze gel for Solarz and his cronies.

THE HUAC IS MISSED

We had once in this nation a valuable committee called the HUAC - the House Un-American Activities Committee. Its purpose was to seek out and expose those who would wish to see the United States government overthrown and replaced by some totalitarian form of government, namely the forces of world Communism.

After the fifties, the House of Representatives lost many of its most staunch anti-communist members. A new wave of ultra-liberal thinking began to replace the old guard, a new wave whose theme seems to be one of capitulation to the communist way of thought, and whose policy is that of surrender rather than attack. It is an amalgam of craven thought, abetted by the anti-US media of the nation itself, with respect to the defense of our country, where the sinister proponents of liberal persuasion perceive no harm in the creeping threat of Communism - even in our own hemisphere, much less our own border.

The situation became such that the cowardly doves in the House eliminated the HUAC as an anachronism.

But left over, was a law which deals with a sitting administration's right to prevent someone from entering the US whose past record has proved the individual to hold precepts inimical to our nation's interests. The law was used recently to keep out a female Colombian 'reporter,' who was a part of the M-19 guerrilla group and who worked hand in glove with the Cubans on various communist projects. Our intelligence sources verified her activities.

When she tried to enter the US without a visa, she was detained at a federal jail for a few days, then deported. Her mission was to attend a writer's group ceremony for whatever purpose. I'm sure we could guess her motives.

However, one of those eastern liberal doves, Barney Frank of New York, said there was no reason why she, or any other, person of anti-American ideology should not be admitted, communist or not. He was all for opening the doors to anyone of any political nature, and said he may try to legislate for the law's repeal.

The state department stance (and mine) was that no one has the absolute right to enter the United States other than its legitimate citizens who have been out of the country.

It makes sense that we keep away from our shores those who would do us harm in any way, whether it may be a terrorist group or a female writer who has been in bed with those groups and does their bidding. According to Public TV, the woman has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the US because it upheld one of its laws, in a typical Kunstlerian gesture.

However, getting back to the point - the unfortunately defunct HUAC - it is sad, tragic, that once we had a House Committee on Un-American Activities; and now we have the ultra-liberal, leftist, northeastern US House members who seem to form a loosely defined House Committee to Promote Anti-American Activities.

Barney Frank is one of them in good standing; he joins those who junket down to Managua to get their collective farm ears bent by that revolutionary paragon, Daniel Ortega, the two-bit Nicaraguan Stalin.

I can hear it now: Frank si, America no!

BEWILDERED LIBERALS

And why are they bewildered as usual? Because after the US media, the US black 'leaders,' brought pressure on the Congress to legislate sanctions on trade and air travel against South Africa, SA had the temerity to react by disdaining the sanctions and taking the steps necessary to hold their country together and not turning it over to the communist-ridden African National Committee, a black, terrorist group who wants to take over the government.

All of the major news media of the world whose raison d'etre was sensationalizing any scrap of unrest in South Africa for their own purposes, who put on international TV any street corner scuffle for strict propaganda reasons, who tended to blow up any issue to denigrate the South African leaders, and who arrogantly considered it was their right to report in any biased manner they wished, are now under a type of constriction brought onto themselves.

They don't like it!

Their position is, who is the SA government to restrict their movements and reporting whatever they like? The media has a God-given right to say what they wish in order to overthrow any government they don't like, right?

Wrong!

The muzzle on the international media hounds was of their own fashioning, and a long time coming. They have no one to blame but themselves, which still leaves American liberals confused because SA failed to react as they would have wished.

Poor deluded souls. Wrong again, as usual.

(So far it hasn't worked in SA; but, that is not halting their efforts to bring down the GOP administration here in the US. May the liberal-left always be deterred from that goal, along with their media lackeys)

STRICTLY A DUD!

Democrat Senator Dodd is down in Managua rapping with his good friend Danny

Ortega, supposedly about contacting Sam Hall, who was arrested by the Sandinistas for allegedly spying on an air field.

What Dodd is looking for is not an interview, but the publicity inherent in the trip.

Why?

Because Sam Hall is an American patriot trying to aid in the fight against Communism in Central America. Senator Dodd is just the type of liberal that a person such as Sam Hall would hold in the lowest esteem, probably characterizing the senator as one in accord with the communist goals for this hemisphere. It may be that he might refuse to speak with Dodd. But that might be better for Dodd who seems to be a lot more comfortable with a communist like Ortega than he would be with a patriot like Hall.

I wonder if anyone has heard that old song that might be appropriate for this situation, without regard to its origins:

"My name is Sammy Hall, and I hate you one and all,

You're a bunch of bastards all, damn your hide!"

There are a number of verses following most apt for describing the Sandinistas and their US congressmen friends.

CALLING THEIR BLUFF

In strained harmony, the Democrats of the congress have been butter mouthing a plea that if only North and Poindexter would come and testify all would be cleared up in a short time. Well, the president asked the intelligence (sic) committee to grant limited immunity so the two could testify as to exactly what happened.

Out the window went the rosy glow of Leahy and his bunch; no, there would be no immunity at this time; it might hamper later prosecutions. Gone was the 'let's just hear the truth, we aren't out to embarrass the president or put anyone in jail' business. It's typical liberal flatulence, aided and abetted by those Republicans who seem to lack the loyalty towards Reagan that he had for them.

I want to hear what really happened also. But, as you know, I don't care what had to be done to get Americans out of hostage, or to aid the Contras fighting against the communists. In these cases the ends justified the means.

And addressing the Iran terrorist angle; it was said by one of the principals, perhaps McFarland, that since the US and Iran had been in negotiation, there had been little or no terrorist activities by Iran. I don't know if that is or is not true, but I hope it is. Iran is of major geopolitical importance to the western world, and, if they come around it will be to our advantage. And recall, if you will, that the Iranian revolution was successful in the main because the peanut brain from Georgia wanted it to be that way, along with some weirder elements of the US congress.

There is an embarrassing missing link to all of this: the activities of Israel, our great friend, who sold arms to Iran throughout the hostage crisis.

Hatch touched on it a bit this evening, and it may be that Israel had a bigger part in this game than has been realized, and people are scrambling to soft pedal it. The cat started to emerge from the bag tonight when it was mentioned in what seemed like a deliberate aside, that it was Israel who first brought up the idea that better US-Iranian relations could be achieved if certain actions by the US were forthcoming.

But I can't fault Israel if that were the case. Anything to get our hostages returned, and if Israel's motives were pure in the situation, that's just fine with me.

Now I realize that you and other liberals look on this as only an opportunity for Reagan bashing, but I think you may be in for a surprise. If not, I'll swallow my words, but this issue won't be ended until the Navy/Marine Corps sing.

You may not like the melody.

PROBLEM

The Democrats have a big problem; how can they make political hay on the Mediagate farce without having public opinion backlash on them.

Answer: Without any tapes ala Watergate, they cannot. And if the president orchestrates a glorious finale to the situation, calling a press conference, relating the events, and nipping the whole thing in the bud (which I hope he will do), the Demolibs will be weeping and wailing until your bovines are back.

And so will you.

POSITIONS

They haven't changed much; your last is a masterpiece of subjective criticism, looking at what you wish to be correct instead of what really is correct; but, we are all prisoners of our philosophies.

I have masterpieces of my own along the same lines.

But I have some history on my side: it's always been Dieu droit instead of you draw, if that means anything.....

REPLY

The following was written in response to the question of why I thought Communism and the Soviet Union was so evil.

With regard to the evil empire known as the Soviet Union:

I was in the British Museum once, sitting in the same room that Karl Marx used when he was writing about the death of capitalism. In that room were a number of representative publications by Marx which provided a reasonable picture of his precepts and thoughts.

In general, the Marxian view of Communism smacked more of idealistic fervor rather than a rigid set of rules for a benevolent, socialist society. It did outline the view of from each according to his ability to each according to his need; what Marx did not address was the human nature factor with its positive and negative qualities, each capable of exerting pressures from every aspect on the communistic situation.

As I mentioned once, the internecine squabbles of given family groups in many instances becomes magnified as the groups become larger, and are at their most deadly when the group is a nation.

My point is this: the inherent greed and quest for power in any group has the ability to negate the aims of the group no matter how lofty or noble the original purpose. Thus it would have been even with pure Communism.

And to reinforce that thought, since Marx there have been any number of groups, large and small, that have tried to provide an existence based on the Communism of Marx's published philosophies.

They have all failed.

Then, you may ask, why is the Soviet Union and its satellites, and mainland China able to exist in the states they do?

To address China: The sino-Communism approach has been trying to follow Marxian Mao for quite a while. What it was up against was six thousand years of past culture. It would seem that Chinese Communism, according to Chairman Mao and his little red book, has been weighed in the balance of Chinese history and found wanting. Late reports from China seem to indicate a shift of thrust towards a more capitalistic oriented society. Small straws in the wind, I grant, but there nevertheless.

And to the Soviet Union, the Evil Empire, the conglomeration of subject nations that composes it into a sum lesser than its parts. How and why is it evil?

My thought would be that the ruling party in the Soviet Union has shifted far away from the basic concepts of Marx and become a dictatorship pure and simple. The citizens labor in a society of chains under the yoke of totalitarianism. Freedom to talk, travel, and perhaps think are all forbidden to the communist citizen under penalty.

They move in a puppet society, going through the motions, hoping their actions conform with whatever rules of the period exist, without freedom, without hope, without real future - unless a member of the elite class, the communist party.

So when you speak of Communism as an ideology you are speaking of an ideal that so far in the world has never been realized as a success. And when you do dwell on the Marxian Communism, you are speaking of a concept completely alien to what is actually extant in the Soviet Union.

And when I speak of Communism, I speak of the typical totalitarian and dictatorial states of the world who are only prisons, whose gates are national borders, and very seldom open. I speak of the bully mentality of those communist governments who want only the little piece of land next to theirs, and want only to control their near neighbors in a gigantic con game, who supply terrorism throughout the world, whose greatest inventor is Regus Patoff, whose athletic teams use drugs and cheat at every opportunity so as to proclaim the benefits of their great empire. That is the Communism of which I speak.

I don't really think it is the Communism that you may think you see.

THE FIFTH!

Were you implying that utilizing one's rights under the fifth amendment is prima facie evidence of wrongdoing, and that use of that amendment to avoid any sort of self-incrimination is restricted only to those in organized crime, SDS types, and any who would use violence to overthrow the government?

If so, your thoughts mesh well with those of liberal stripe, who want always to proceed with fairness to all - except where philosophical opposites are concerned.

One standard for youse, another standard for them.

BUT YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW

During the second world war, all the propaganda mills were going on both sides, but especially here in the US.

We saw movies like Bataan, Corregidor, and any number of flicks that showed the Japanese putting captured Americans to slow torture, and others that depicted the horrors of the Gestapo, how children were so indoctrinated they would inform on their own parents.

We hated the dirty Jap and the lousy German. If only we had the chance we would kill them without compunction. The only good Jap/Nazi was a dead one.

It came to a halt on May 7th, 1945.

Within months attitudes changed. There came into existence a Marshall Plan to help Europe. We began to rebuild German industry, and later, Japanese industry.

And now, four decades later, it appears that we can count Germany and Japan among our most staunch allies.

So Reagan and Iran began a tentative relationship, and during these meetings some hostages were released and some small arms were passed on; however, the president says one was not contingent on the other, and, depending on your politics, you either believe him or not.

When Nixon sent Kissinger secretly to China, it was the beginning of a relationship which has prospered. Had the media got the story of Henry's travels in those first contacts, the hue and cry would have gone up, and the negotiations would have died still-born.

This was the point where I was going to begin a rebuttal to your statement, mentioning the on-going Israeli arms shipments to Iran, covert overtures from Iran via arms dealers, money to the Contras from secret Swiss accounts, all of that.

But I can't!

Why?

Because so far the president has admitted knowing about one arms shipment, and it seems it may have been one of many from our friends to Teheran. The media, and especially Sleazy Solarz has made blunt statements that there was indeed money passed on to the Contras; that Reagan knew everything in advance and set up an illegal operation, meaning that the president is guilty of all.

Yet we still don't know much of anything dealing with cold, hard fact; it simply hasn't come out yet. None of us here really know, except for who already has the president drawn, quartered, and hung, plus 10 lashes, for his guilt in the matter.

I, for one, will be happy when the entire story is out, and the sooner the better, but all I know is what I hear. You aren't privy to the secrets of the oval office any more than I am, so what you can comment on what Reagan knew and when he knew it is only conjecture at this time, and all you can actually do is believe what you believe, you can prove nothing.

And yet, if it does turn out that the president made a deal to get the Americans back for a load of arms, or if he set up and ok'd channeling money to the contras so they can fight the Sandinistas and their communist cohorts, I will be in front cheering him on.

If the leftist cowards in congress, those who can't turn around without showing their yellow streaks, chicken out of confrontation with the commies, and try to prosecute a few brave men for trying to effect a double rescue - hostages from Iran and Nicaragua from the Soviets, then it is those in the congress masquerading as Americans who should be removed.

The same traitors who brought us a stalemate in Korea, a retreat in Viet Nam, and cried so hard about Grenada, are in the forefront of those snarling, ankle-snapping jackels trying to get the president and his men. Ah, if only they could exhibit that much bravado and nerve when it really would count - in the fight against Communism's efforts to take over the world.

But, if we were taken over, those same cravens would probably fit right in with the conquerors, with Solarz the Commissar of New York.

Who would be Commissar of Wisconsin?

DIFFERENCES

I'm not saying that the performance of illegal acts by anyone in the US government, or without - for that matter, should go unpunished; however, perhaps punishment should fit circumstances.

If it is indeed proved that North and Poindexter were responsible for the arms shipments, and that during the process, some hostages were released, and as a result of some millions of dollars paid by Iran, there was enough to provide some arms to the Contras fighting against the communists, and President Reagan knew about it right from the start, then it is my feeling that they should all of them be punished!!

How about a $5.00 fine - that should cover it!

I know it would make the liberals, some Democrats, leftists, communists, fellow travelers, and the media weep, wail, and gnash their teeth, but that's tough! Someone in the US ought to have the fortitude to fight the communists and try to bring back American hostages; those just mentioned surely do not.

BABOONS

Heard from again! Those baboons of the sports world who can't control their libidos and think it nothing to force their intentions on helpless women.

You know who I mean.

First it was two of them from pro football right here in Milwaukee. Then it was the three Minnesota baboons assaulting the girl in Madison after a basketball game. Now it's one of the same baboons who assaulted another woman in Green Bay.

Prediction:

The baboon's high priced attorneys will say the woman enticed him into a stairwell and sexually assaulted him.

I think that, unless the trial is held in Milwaukee and the jury is chosen from the near north side, the baboon will be given a vacation at state expense for a number of years - the more the better.

And I feel sorry for his wife and the children who must go to school in Green Bay - they will probably leave soon for mother's house.

Add to that infamous list the baboon who is accused of raping an elderly woman visitor who felt towards him as an aunt, again one of the Packer football team.

Animals! Animals all.

NOBLES OBLIGED...

It all boils down to this: you hate Reagan, we like Reagan. All else is smoke and puffery. And with regard to some of the people in the country who seem to have beliefs that transcend yours in an ever port-sided view, they all appear to have such high ideals when it comes to Iran/Contra situations.

If a president, especially a conservative president, dares to effect any action against the rules they have laid down for his conduct, they are in immediate howl, rapturously declaiming on the nobleness of their resistant cause to his obvious malfeasance, employing the full weight of the liberal congress and media in a daily pressure cooker of hype.

These are the types of individuals exemplified by the Haydons, Fondas, and the Ramsey Clarks, who see nothing wrong with giving aid and comfort to an enemy, such as in the Viet Nam tragedy, who would rather die than see Reagan antagonize the Soviet Union and its satellites, who hated it when Nixon opened up the door to Red China, who gnash at the possibility that Reagan might do the same with an old enemy - Iran.

We are getting a vast left-wing orchestration now, harmonizing on that theme; whose crescendo is aimed solely at assassinating Reagan, figuratively first, literally if required. They are the weaklings, the cowards, the political hacks of America. Their lair is the northeast, also sited in LA and Frisco, and who appear in quisling quorums throughout the country.

Their assumed mantle of nobility doesn't really fool anyone. It's simply gutter left-wing politics all over again from those cretins who gave us Korea, Cuba, Viet Nam, and are now trying to bring about another retreat from communistic advance in Central America.

To those I say, spare me the mealy-mouth platitudes shaped by liberal artifice. Try and remember, if you can, the thrust of the presidential actions in the immediate affair was to institute relations with Iran, get back some hostages, and help a small group of freedom fighters to overthrow a communist regime.

They're giving their lives; you are giving liver-lip service.

And to you, I say that it is to the nation's benefit to have a president able to formulate foreign policy unhampered. The liberal toadies of past congresses have passed legislation to inhibit presidential options, laws which I feel would not stand the test of constitutionality with regard to the separation of powers, and should be removed from the books, allowing congress to do what they do best - relatively nothing while passing bad law, then crowing about it.

POLICIES

You are more right than you know! It depends on which president is doing the formulating. When Kennedy was president, he was the darling of the liberals and could do no wrong. There were not the stringent laws on the books hampering his attempts to make policy. If Jack did it, it was fine.

Since Kennedy's day, an interfering line of congresses have bypassed the separation of powers inherent in the constitution, and have taken it upon themselves to inject their incoherent thoughts and methods to influence American foreign policy. This is wrong!

And with this issue, I am not addressing the Hostage-Contra crisis, but speaking in general. No president, Democrat or Republican, should be restricted by laws limiting his powers to conduct foreign policy. Congress is but an oversize committee, and much of the legislation it does generate has the odor of camel - and precisely in that particular policy field.

But speaking to the Hostage-Contra crisis, each of the Senators or Representatives that have provided opinions in the welcome glow of the tube, Demo or Repub, has had a different view on what should be done.

Some want immunity for North, Poindexter, and perhaps Secord; most Demos don't, Repubs do. Demos are trying the ploy of getting the president to pardon in advance, but the president will not react in such foolish manner.

With the congress we have in the US today, it's a wonder that anything of value ever got completed. And with the next group, controlled by the Demos, it will even be worse.

And touching on the Kennedy era again, when JFK set the Bay of Pigs into operation, he would have been the hero of the western hemisphere had he simply followed Eisenhower's advice. All he needed was to provide USAF air cover for the invaders and it would have been probable that today Cuba would be free of Communism and there would be no soviet Nicaragua. All it took was some guts, but Kennedy's spirit failed, putting Cuba into subjugation.

And was there an outpouring of indignation from the people of America?

Some small voices from the right.

They were drowned out by the waves of admiration from the liberal left and their media clones, saying Kennedy had done the 'right thing' letting the popular front of Castro to take over.

And do you know whose fault it finally was?

The CIA's.

Just as in these days........

VOYAGER

Our grandchildren will be celebrating the names of Rutan and Yeager, the Voyager crew, even as our grandfathers cheered the Spirit of St. Louis.

What an achievment, so monumental that even the Soviet press acknowledged the feat.

There will always be some in America that are of heroic stock, in spite of all the deadwood we see extant - thank goodness for that.

SANTA

YANA, that is: "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them....(sic)

In the 1960's, the 1740's, or the 1980's.

ARMS & RELATIONS

You were indeed politic not to ask about why it was all right for our great 'friends' in the middle east to have shipped arms to Iran before, during, and after the Carter hostage crisis, but it was not proper for the US to send some in the process of developing relations and jointly getting some hostages returned. They also have said many times that Iran is a bastion of terror, but still continued to ship while they were talking. When gold talks, they have ultrasensitive hearing (they're not the only ones).

Won't it be fun to hear the entire story, and see how deep those 'friends' are involved. Rumor only has said, up to their ears, and some of cynical nature have implied that perhaps the story has not emerged as quickly as it should have because a lot of people are in the background trying to cover up the Tel Aviv connection, which, if found out, would have a disastrous effect on the funds methodically flowing there.

However, let me make my position clear: If the Israelis actually were shipping arms to Iran as a part of a package to develop American-Iranian normalized relations, and if as a result of Israel's efforts in shipping arms, the Iranians released some American hostages, then more power and much appreciation to Israel if that were the plan.

Which illustrates the core of my thought on the subject: Let's treat Israel and all the countries of the middle east in a balanced manner, including Egypt; those two nations who get the bulk of the outrageous amount of funds which we send to that region. It's time to call a halt to those exorbitant expenditures.

Let's deal with Israel and Egypt as we would deal with Britain, Italy, Morocco, Australia, and the like, on a basis of mutual expediency, not by throwing our tax dollars at them, which are never to be seen again. Our farmers could use the money more than they.

Like I said, it will be fun to see what happens - along with what really happened.

IRAN-BUCKS

On the wires today it said the US and Iran were meeting on the half-billion or so that Iran had frozen during the hostage crisis. More releases will come out of that meeting. Also, the anti-Khomeni elements that the liberals say do not exist in Iran just blew up an ammunition dump killing and wounding over 500 pro-Khomeni militia. Not bad from non-existence.

BAGELS & BONZO

I love bagels, especially the plain, water bagels from that place next to Benji's; with regard to 'Bedtime for Bonzo,' I always thought it was a documentary about how Reagan trounced Mondale.

Your implication is understood, but wrong with regard to a particular fragment of our American society, who represent some of the best and the brightest, and who are embarrassed by the actions of Tel Aviv and some of the Kahane types. Israelis are Israelis; Americans are Americans; religion is unimportant in that comparison.

COMMENTS

Down south it was always maintained that the whites disliked blacks in general, but really had high regard for them on an individual basis; the south said that up north, they had a high regard for the blacks in general, but disliked them on an individual basis.

I tend to have a high regard for people on an individual basis, meaning I prefer to like those whom I like, am indifferent to most of the rest, and hate the black or white killers, rapists, and other criminals. As I've stated in the past, I am a selective bigot, and like and dislike without regard to race, creed, or color.

We just set a record for murders in Milwaukee; guess which group committed most of them.

ARRANGEMENT

OK, I'll try to arrange it so that there will be more white murderers and rapists in the Milwaukee area so as to provide for countless references.

I just don't know how to do it.

There is only one qualification important enough to discuss: that of reason and intelligence. If, in the course of my activity, I meet one who has the reason and intelligence to offer some common ground for discussion, and I happen to be in the mood to discuss anything, then communication can be established without regard to hue.

But if I don't care to develop any rapport - with any one - that's up to my judgement.

So, when it comes to liking or disliking individuals or groups, doing so is strictly up to me. Don't confuse that with the citation of statistics on the activity of whites, blacks, or anyone - especially those that are taken from the newspapers or TV.

If my disdain for any group, black or white, is an irritation, well, you can be the balance; however, addressing specifically the blacks, it's difficult to achieve any general respect for a group whose members live by the terms, honkey, ofay, and the like, and waste no opportunity to utilize the names in any context or setting.

You may learn some day not to trust anyone until they have proved worthy of your trust, and do not intend to harm you or yours. All of my selective bigotry is based on implementation of that knowledge.

And you may be looking for something in my writings that does not exist; even while denigrating Loften, Ivery, and Cade, I can cheer for people like Willie Davis, Walter Stanley, and Mark Lee.

I told you it was selective.

NO CONCESSION

The best thing about America is that no one can force me to interrelate to anyone else, regardless of... etc.

If you consider one's being in a cafeteria, or an airport, one can exist amid the varied shapes, colors, and etc.'s, but I don't consider that interrelating. Perhaps a suspension vs a colloidal suspension. Perhaps exposure is what you really mean.

In daily life we are exposed to the etc.'s in social and business intercourse, and there can be no interrelationship unless on mutual terms. And those terms may be defined as acceptance of a relationship wherein there is communicative flow from one to another, and by communicative flow I imply willful exchange of mutually appreciated information.

In any situation, you yourself determine interrelationship; you can turn on or turn off the communicative flow.

Distilled to the essence, interrelationship is a mutual exchange of communicative flow!

A new, philosophical thought in only a brief exposition.

INSTITUTIONAL BIGOTRY

It depends on a definition of 'institution.'

A governmental institution, on any level, should offer services equally to all, regardless of, etc.

An insurance institution offers its services only to those they consider of equitable risk.

A hospitalic institution, private in nature, confines its services to those who prove they are capable of reimbursement for service, personally or through insurance institutions.

The NAACP cannot allow white members, by title definition, and it is a long-time American institution.

Not to mention the Knights of Columbus or the B'Nai B'rith, two institutions catering to specific types.

Mensa is a particularly bigoted institution. Good for them!

There is nothing wrong with the concept of Selective Bigotry as I have defined it, on a personal basis. And, from the examples above, you may infer even certain institutions are perforce bigoted.

Considering the military forces as governmental institutions, in a variation of line 3, are bigoted against individuals over 70; they probably feel 75 year old recruits might not be up to basic training.

The idea of primary importance I am trying to impart is this: every individual is bigoted, at least to some extent; and every institution is bigoted, because institutions are composed of and run by individuals, who may be bigoted in defiance of the institution's non-bigot rules.

And all are gauged on their level of bigotry, by those whose own level is either above or below that who is being judged.

And how wonderful it is to note that if one's level of bigotry is above that of the judge's, he is adjudged a bigot; if one's level of bigotry is equal to or lower than that of the judges, he will never be adjudged a bigot - at least in that judges eyes. Or am I just bigoted for saying that?

SOME CONCURRENCE

I'd like to add some clarification to the thought expressed. When you employed the word 'personal' bigotry when a situation exhibited rejecting an individual on the basis of race, color, etc., I think what you implied was that the individual in that sort of empowered decision making should not make the rejection on the basis of his personal bigotry for the institution, or on the basis of a bigoted institutional policy, which is illegal. I would believe a personal one-on-one bigotry is still usable in individualized, non-institutional situations.

And, in fact, here in Milwaukee, a landlord has the right to choose to rent or not to rent, if he lives in his own two-family building, to anyone he wishes. This could be construed as personal bigotry - legalized - pure and simple.

POVERTY

If one defines poverty as having an income of less than about $12000 per annum, then I think poverty is being over-stated. $12 grand a year equates to $230 a week; many small families are making it on that right now. In my opinion, $230 a week is not abject or starvation poverty.

When you say this country deals inadequately with poverty and its ensuing problems, do you imply that we should feed, clothe, and pay chronic non-workers such that they have a standard of living equal to that of middle class workers?

Some welfarites get about $700 a month for a mother and four children; at a 15% tax factor, this is equivalent to $824 a month. Now, that family can survive on $700 a month; however, there will not be a lot of money to provide allowances to teen-agers. If the teen-ager does not get an allowance equaling that of his peers, and he commits crimes in order to have more spendable assets, do you imply that poverty has forced him into criminal acts?

I never thought the allowance I got was a big deal, but we had adequate food and clothing at home, and I never turned to thievery to augment an allowance. It just wasn't done, even though other kids had much more to spend than I did.

This business of poverty, in the black communities, as an excuse for never-ending crime is simply not valid. Reports have indicated that envy is induced in the poorer black 'ghetto' dwellers by the cadillac-affluence syndrome of surface success exemplified by the drug dealer, pimp, and thief, whose transitory trappings provide a wrong role model for the black kid who doesn't have much other than food and shelter provided in a welfare matriarchy.

Back in the Madison '30's, our family was poor too. We got over it without welfare, by all of us working, including our father, even when jobs were tough to find. So, let me make to some a pertinent suggestion: Go to work!

RESPECT

Respect is like a shaft of light - the respect inherent in a communication reflects back in the manner it was sent.

Lack of respect is also like a shaft...

RANDOM THOUGHT

First there is Miller Lite.

Then there is Coors.

Then comes Coors light.

Then comes water.

Followed by Carta Blanca and Old Style.

(I said random)

BLUE RIBBON

Alas, there is no longer a stable working environment at good old Pabst; they are using trucks now......

LAYER TWO...

Apun my phylogenetic word.

Philogyny (which I think I miss-spelled) means a fondness for women, which got us into those ontogenetic problems in the first place, etymologically speaking.

(played to the tune of some igneoethnomusicolgist tribe of Liverpudlians)

You sharp-eyed devil you!

PHILOGYNY

Page 854, spelled correctly at last, Webster's New Collegiate; fondness for women. That's us all right! Phylogeny (recapitulated or not) as you have so graciously mentioned. Moral, I shouldn't get clever unless I remember how to spell..

UW-MADISON

Many still are not aware that the University of Wisconsin was and is one of the great agricultural and dairy institutions of the world today. It has a counterpart in the University of Wageneningen in Holland, whose faculty greatly respects the Madison campus.

The UW engineering department is on a par with that of Purdue and MIT, and the science and math departments equal that of the University of Chicago and Cal Tech; but, I won't mention the Poly-Sci department.

OLD MEMBERS, WHERE?

As Villon almost said, Where are the schmoes of yesteryear?

As Chico would have answered, dere membaships prolly espired.

KIDNAPPERS

The prediction business is tough, but here goes anyway:

Again some middle-east thugs have kidnapped four people from the University in Beirut, this event occurring even while Terry Waite is supposedly negotiating release of American hostages from another set of thugs.

There is a lull because of the negotiations.

So, while Waite is at work, things are quiet; however, should the Waite attempt fail, the lid may be off, and the following may happen:

1. A US Navy battle squadron may weigh anchor and head for the waters off

Lebanon in a show of force.

2. Quiet efforts will be made to impress upon the kidnappers and their sponsors that it would be in their best interest to return all those taken hostage, not just the Americans.

3. If the results are negative, then parts of that area of the middle east will undergo a military massage, including the war machines of several local militia, principally around Beirut and in the Bacqua valley, but perhaps even the air forces of Syria and Iran. Iran has demanded more military supplies - let's give them some.

4. This may happen if the administration develops some firmness and does not bow to the liberal forces in the US not to do so. I hope the President simply doesn't inform them of what he wants to do, then goes ahead and does it.

Telling Congress is like telling the NY Times.

5. Yes, we will probably lose the hostages, but in the various military actions of the past, and in the Buckley case, better men than they were considered expendable.

It is time for the President to disregard the weaklings of the US left and take strong action, disregarding the inevitable whines from the media.

This is the action that must be taken, and soon upon the results of Waite's activities. There has been too much dilly-dallying since the relationship between Washington and Iran was prematurely exposed; it is time to act, and to impress all the middle-east thugs that they, and those around them, are in harm's way.

As far as the congressional circus hearings are concerned, Reagan should disregard them and do what must be done. Let the liberals have their little dog and pony shows that they do so well, and while they are performing, let the US military impress upon the hostage-takers the error of their ways, letting the liberal hearts bleed as they will.

The prediction is: A waffle! Some action will be taken between the stance of doing nothing but talk, and strong military pressure on the thugs. If it is the former, too bad; if it is the latter, I'll be surprised pleasantly.

Gee, that wasn't so tough!

OFF THE LIST

From that time-worn Alpha list of liberals who compose a convenient clutch of whipping boys for the conservatives, kindly remove, for at least this moment, the name of Claibourne Pell, Democrat.

A flash of inspiration struck this senator like a bolt of lightning, and in an interview he went on record as saying military action against the bullies of the middle east might be appropriate, even with qualifiers. May this attitude become catching in the left aisle ranks.

REAGAN'S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH

Response was predictable.

Byrd and Wright sounded like second-rate whiners talking to a third grade class of students, making even less sense than usual. Even President Reagan's usual detractors praised the effort, and most Republicans were in agreement with the thoughts expressed. Democrats, on the other hand, learned to their dismay that contrary to what they'd hoped, Reagan was in charge and it would be business as usual, in spite of mediagate.

Note with reference to a past thought: Late yesterday a US battle fleet was sent to the waters of the middle east, including two aircraft carriers.

Finally, one of the most satisfying scenes of the speech - the Chappaquiddick flash squirming in his seat while the President spoke, not having the courtesy to applaud even the President's entrance or exit. He probably didn't want to expose the blood and salt water on his hands.

One or two seats away, another Kennedy, elected only because of his name and money, smiled vacuously thoroughout. Gauche of the evening - Ted Kennedy sitting with his head down even when brother Jack's name was mentioned, carrying on with the attitude that earned him the title of old-time liberal flake, in his seat only with the support of wealth and local state power.

One high point, when a majority of Democrats and Republicans rose to applaud the references to American progress, past and future, and the need for defense against Communism - except for Teddy, of course, but he was likely weighted-down by his deficiencies.

All in all, a good speech - normal reaction from all sides.

DEMOLIBS

Can you believe it? The Democrats, on a voice vote, castigated America for performing a nuclear weapons test, a test which is part of a program to insure that the US has an efficient and capable nuclear weapon arsenal that is constantly being upgraded.

What a sad lot - political idiots joining in a yappingly familiar chorus of "Lenin Bless Amerika," and probably not even realizing it.

There are liberal Democrats crawling all over the Senate and House these days, doing what each does best - crawl!

It gives the regular Democrats a bad name.....

THE AMERICAS CUP

It's in the Australian tradition to win with flamboyance and lose with admiration for the winners - no matter how it hurts. They are very much like Americans.

The navigator of the losing Australian craft said, "Dennis is 20 years older than I am and he knows things I still have to learn. He was great!"

Real class....

BUSING, BUSING, BUSING..

It's irritating to pick up the siblings at Hamilton and see all the buses out in front waiting to pick up north side kids for their long trip home.

It's irritating in many ways:

Primarily, it doesn't do those kids any good to have to get up so early just for an hour's ride to school.

Any of those bused who want to participate in after-school activities must make their own arrangements for rides home in the evening. When football practice was over, my kid just had a few blocks to walk; the north siders could not get home before 8:00 pm. The busing program thrust upon us is simply not fair to those transported from that part of town.

In addition, seeing that fleet of buses, along with the buses that service Bell Junior High, with their drivers, a bus transport supervisor, one or two squads, and realizing what the daily cost must be for all schools, and knowing that all of that comes out of our taxes, is one of the biggest irritants of all.

Who are the cuckoos who got us into all this un-necessary expense? If they are still in office, why are they? Both black parents and white parents are in the majority that believes busing is a proposed solution to a contrived problem, and that busing has failed miserably to bring about its purposes - whatever they actually were apart from the liberal view that mixing the races would benefit one race during contact with another.

It didn't work; it will never work; and we have to keep paying and paying while the idiocy continues.

It's time for us to return to the concept of neighborhood schools.

LATCH-KEY KIDS

Add to that deterioration the number of kids who are too young for school, but who must stay home alone while the parents both work.

Kids left home alone get into trouble of one sort or another; I know I did once in a while when home with the luxury of solitude and no control. In my case it didn't happen often, but I managed to do enough damage; kids exposed to this freedom every day are time bombs.

EGGED ON

Did anyone notice the egg on the Ayatollah's face.

Here he invited a bunch of eager journalists to see the war, almost solely for the ploy of picking a Jewish reporter out of the group and accuse him of spying for Israel. Not a bad idea of sorts, if you're an Ayatollah in lala-land.

So he chose a WSJ reporter with the Jewish name of 'Seib.' Here was the one who would be scapegoat for all the US-Israeli sins against Iran. And what did this paragon of Ayatollahism do? He got a Wall Street reporter from a Roman Catholic family in the heartland of the United States.

I wonder how the Holy Koran provides instruction on getting a Moslem foot extracted from a Moslem mouth - sideways, yet!

The Iranians finally let the reporter go back home, waving to him, I surmise, with the same towels with which they were wiping the yolk off their faces.

They might have kept him anyway, out of spite, but "there was this massive, American task force off-shore, and, what the hey! we don't want to pick on them inasmuch as our human wave doesn't work running over seawater (I knew we should have included that Jesus guy in our pantheon)."

I hope the Ayatollah understands that all his ranting and raving doesn't mean camel-dung in the face of aircraft carriers, Navy jets, and Marine combat forces.

Maybe he always thought we were kidding?

DEATH AND TAXES

And a few other tax items......

Some notes on taxes - they have us arriving, living, and leaving:

1. If you receive a $59,999 gift upon birth, it is taxed $8,200 plus 24% of the difference between 40,000 and 59,999 (59,999 - 40,000 x 24%) or $4,800, a grand total of $13,000 before you have had your first bottle of milk, leaving you a net of $46,999 to keep you in diapers. But when you grow up you will have the small satisfaction of knowing that $13,000 supported 1.35 welfare matriarchies at a rate of 9600 per annum, an average sum for this benevolence.

2. If, in your productive years, you are a single taxpayer with a taxable income of $88,270, your tax is $17,388 plus 48% of the difference between $88,270 and $59,670 (28,600 x 48% = 13,728) your total tax is $31,116, leaving you $57,154 to buy all those rich people's mansions and swimming pools and Mercedes. Of course the 31 grand taken from your hard-working efforts are supporting 3.24 welfare matriarchies getting the equivalent of $800 a month without doing a damn thing except conceiving, birthing, and collecting.

3. If, you have overcome the tax bites and saved some money, when you die you will pay, on an estate of $499,999, the sum of $70,800 plus 34% of the difference between $499,999 and $250,000 (499,999 - 250,000 x 34%), or $85,000. $70,800 + $85,000 = $155,000, leaving your heirs a grand total of $344,999 to be divided, along with the knowledge that in your final exit you will support, allowing for 15% inflation, at $920 at month, the equivalent of 14 welfare matriarchies as you pass into the great beyond.

(Those were from the Federal rate tables; Wisconsin hasn't even been included; it was too dismal, but there is talk of change)

4. State motor vehicle fees:

License: Auto is $25 + $10 for personalized plate; Small truck is $30; Semi Tractor and Trailer, 80,000 lbs, is $1700 (not enough in my opinion); Motor cycles and mopeds are $7.00. Semi-trailers have a $50 registration fee.

5. Wisconsin ranks 11th in tax per capita, just under Maryland and above Michigan, and 7th per $1000 of personal income, just under Vermont and just above Utah.

6. OK, let's include the Wisconsin Inheritance Tax rate anyway: Over the personal exemption of $50,000, on 50 to 100 thousand the tax is 7.5%; on 100 to 500 thousand the tax is 10%; over 500 thousand the tax is 25%; all of these apply to lineal descendants. If you happen to be other than direct lineal, then the tax ranges from 7.5% to 20%; if you happen to have been a friend of the deceased receiving a bequest, it's a straight 20%.

7. The new W-4 form released is to be filled out by taxpayers. All those filled out correctly will have the names dropped into a hat and one blindly chosen. This taxpayer will be the new head of the IRS.

8. Refunds of Federal Income Taxes are not considered taxable income. Neither is the State refund - maybe.

9. Quote: "Gross income less adjustments equals adjusted gross income"

10. Non-deductible contributions: Gifts to relatives or friends including needy or worthy individuals; contributions to labor unions; donated blood; tuition or amounts in place of tuition, even though paid for children attending parochial school.

11. Various other federal taxes:

Social Security: 14.3%; Self-Employed - 12.3%

Liquor: $12.50 per proof gallon.

Wine: still wines per gallon, <14% alcohol - 17 cents; 14 to 21% alcohol - 67 cents; 22 to 24% alcohol - $2.25; champagnes & similar - #3.40; artificially carbonated, $2.40; Liqueurs and cordials - $1.92. Beer: $9 per barrel, except that breweries making less than two million barrels a year are taxed $7 on the first 60,000 barrels. Cigarettes: 16 cents per pack of 20. Cigars: Those weighing less than 3 lbs per 1000 is 75 cents per thousand; on those weighing more the tax is 8% of the wholesale price, but not more than $20 per thousand.

Snuff: 24 cents a pound.

Gasoline: 9 cents a gallon.

Diesel: 15 cents a gallon.

Aviation fuel: 12 to 14 cents a gallon.

Firearms & ammo: 10 to 11% of selling price.

Fishing equipment, bows, arrows, etc: 10 to 11% of selling price.

Communications: 3% of bill.

Airline transportation: 8% of fare + $3 if international.

Truck use tax: 55,000 to 75,000 lbs is $100 per year plus $22 per 1000 pounds or fraction thereof over 55,000 lbs. Over 75,000 lbs - $550 per year.

Coal sales: 55 cents to $1.10 per ton sold.

Crude oil windfall profit: 22.5% to 70% of profit.

Private foundations: 2% of net investment income.

Wagering tax: 2% of amount wagered.

12. Various state and local taxes:

Liquor and wine: 25 cents to $3.25 per gallon.

Cigarettes: 25 cents a pack.

Other tobacco products: 20% of manufacturer's list price.

Beer: $12 per barrel.

Motor fuels: 17.5 cents per gallon.

Aviation fuels: 6 cents per gallon.

Then there are various state taxes on such items as mink farms, coal dock operators, insurance, iron and steel, petroleum products, grain storage, forest crop and woodland, minerals, bingo (2%), and boxing (5%).

Hiding in the legislative weeds are such local options such as Room Tax (as a percent of charge, with no limit) and a county sales tax of .5% - wait for it!

These will be in addition to the present 5% sales tax.

Include in these the present Real Estate Transfer tax, unknown to most until you buy your first house. It is 30 cents per thousand (.3%) of the value of the property transferred. It doesn't seem like much, but the 1985 - 1986 collections were $17,990,000 dollars

13. Conclusion:

Pay every cent you owe for taxes, but not one cent over. Take advantage of every legal deduction, and make sure they are legal.

14. Smile, but if you can't, stop voting for those liberal proponents of tax and spend - getting rid of them can only help.

Pre - April 15th comments!

LIBERALS & UNIONS

The unholy pair, as usual....... along with taxes and production.

It has been said that when a great Republic arrives to the point where it is taxing its citizens at a rate of more than 38% of their income, it begins a period of deterioration, inasmuch as those who must work spend their efforts providing for and supporting those who will not.

We are getting closer to that critical level.

Even worse, we have just elected a Congress in which the Democrats control both houses, and will make the attempt to spend our nation into oblivion, cutting back needed defense programs, cutting back or trying to cancel the flow of funds to our non-communist allies everywhere except Egypt and Israel, especially the funds badly needed by the Contras fighting against the communists in Central America.

But just watch those Demos deftly pass on the pork to their constituencies, a strictly businesslike procedure of funds and services in exchange for welfare votes. That is, when they have times-out from their phony Iran/Contra show, which is a contrived vulgarity with which they hope to influence the elections in 1988.

The union actions assured that the US would be out-priced in the world markets because of their outrageous annual wage demands, a war on society's producers which led to the dissolution of many businesses and light & heavy industry plants, as a result of their more-more-more tactics, and now they are trying to blame a conservative administration for past union follies.

Between the unions and the tax-spend liberals, inflation and interest rates exceeded 22% under the last Demolib president; because of liberal philosophy, about half the tax proceeds go to the social-welfare programs. In spite of that, because of this president's policies, the interest and inflation rates are extremely low, business is up and gross national is up.

Yet, we have those big-mouths like Rudy Kuzel in Kenosha saying the union would rather close the plant than accede to wages set by the owners, just because he wants to sledgehammer his way into controlling whether or not that AMC will get new business allowing it to survive. It is a microcosmic example of the tactics used by the overall union leadership that brought this country

into a non-competitive status in the world market, the union rationale of greed over all.

We can pass non-restrictive trade laws to put our trading relationships with other nations on a fair basis; however, it is the Kuzels and other trade union leaders of the country that are its greatest economic danger, not the overseas manufacturers. The Kuzels have brought to us the concept of 8 hours a day and damn the quality or output. AMC has always been known as a sweet vacation retreat, a nice place where good union members could spend a quiet day, have a little fun, and, if a few cars got built, that was great too, but don't depend on it. Not my opinion, that last, but the words of some acquaintances who were AMC employees, now retired. They told a number of tragi-comic stories of shoddy construction, parts falling off, and the contempt of the employees for the product.

Unfortunate.

Our country was once known for its prowess in new ideas, in research, design, and development, its energies and abilities to produce. We must not allow the union/Democrat/liberal attitude to stop us from again achieving that status.

It is fortunate for the nation that the president has veto power, even if not line-item veto power. It's the only weapon against the coming attacks on our collective pocketbooks.

ONCE BURNED...

There was a fellow named Joe McCarthy, who nobody seemed to like except the anti-communists of the country. He was a senator from Wisconsin who got sick one day, went to the Naval Hospital where he seemed to die mysteriously.

When it was time for President Reagan to have his latest operation, his wife Nancy made certain that responsibility for the president's health was in private hands.

Not a bad move!

AIR BATTLES

In the days of the Korean troubles, good R&R meant a trip to Japan for a weekend. I remember watching Japanese kids and adults flying what they called real kites, not the traditional diamond shape, or even box type, but kites in all sorts of designs and colors.

The more interesting were those called 'fighting kites,' in the shape of dragons and tigers, which were used to combat other kites, attacking them in the shy and trying to disable them so as to emerge victorious.

One I recall was a black dragon kite which ate up all the rest; Charley Brown's kite eating tree wouldn't have stood a chance!

It would have ended up as chop sticks.

200 YEARS?

I don't think that a unique political system such as we have in the United States is truly a Democracy - it is a Republic.

But in any case, do you know of any Democracy/Republic like America's that has actually lasted 200 years? Lots of nations are older than that, but have any been Democracies? Most have been Royal, Dictatorial, Feudal, Tribal, and the like, and many still are. I do not include Switzerland in the group because of size and topology, although they may be eligible for the 200 year class as an aberrant example.

The 38% figure was not mine, and I forgot who first quoted it.

AMERIKAN IDIOT

In the rag this morning, Kris Kristofferson said he took the part in Amerika to make sure a left-wing representative was in a lead role so that it would negate a right-wing approach to the series. What a simpleton, a generational son of the Hollywood 10.

SPOKEN LIKE

Spoken like a true union believer!

When the good times rolled, the unions sent wages through the roof in an inflation spiral. When foreign countries undersold us, it was the fault of management. When inflation drops, as has happened, inflated wages should also drop to reflect the economic climate. If workers refuse to accept re-adjustment of wages to match deflation, and go on strike, then management should have the right to replace them so as not to be blackmailed into operating at a loss. If a company must cut costs in order to stay alive, then it has the right to ask for wage cuts. If the workers refuse to lower rates in exchange for continuation of their jobs, they are free to go elsewhere.

Simple and logical.

TWO-WAY

Perhaps it may become apparent to you that you may not have the capacity to even carry it, much less drop it. You may be entering a battle of wits with a minimum of armament.

You could start out by explaining your use of the term 'double standard hypocrisy' if you feel like it, or not if you don't.

Either side of your mouth will do; singly or simultaneously.

(just keep it relatively clean - no doltish perverted description or accusation allowed in the name-calling)

OH YOU SIBS!

Sib #2: (fortissimo) Where the heck is my tape player?

Mother: Speak a little lower young man!

Sib #2: (fortissimo) Where the heck is my tape player?*

(* two octaves lower)

you can't win, but you can't get mad either.....

ANY EXCUSE WILL DO!

What happened was this!

A man with a knife was terrorizing some people in an area of Tampa. The police arrived and struggled with the man; one officer got a choke hold on the man who still fought the policeman. Unfortunately for the would-be killer, he died from his struggles.

Next, the black community of Tampa heard that a white policeman had killed a black with a 'choke hold.' Like Pavlov's dogs salivating at whistle-time, blacks poured out on the streets and did their customary looting and destroying until more police arrived to quell the rioters. This went on for two nights.

Is the action of a rational group of people that when they chant they shall overcome, does it mean by force?

And does it mean that they would overcome and destroy whitey by force if they had the numbers and means?

You better believe it.

These are the same people who denigrate white activities in South Africa but sit back and smile when Tutu devine says there will be violence against whites.

The sad part concerns all the blacks who distance themselves from that type of social disorganization but are still lumped with those who act as though they just jumped out of the jungle.

It's a shame.

If this thought outrages you, just think when it last was that whites in this nation went out on a rampage, burning and looting, simply because a white man was killed while in a struggle with the police.

I'll bet every shyster in Tampa is licking his lips, hoping he will be the one to try the case against the city and the killer cop, who deliberately slew an innocent black who was only using the knife to clean his finger nails.

Yet another black family man was killed and his wife robbed here in our city yesterday. Nobody but a few of us seems to care about that. It was black on black, and no big money suit is in the offing, so forget it, right?

Comment if you wish - I'm still mad about it.....

IN THIS WORLD

The world owes no one a job or a living. Those who want to work at a given plant must work at levels set by management. They don't have to accept the terms of employment; they have the option to move on to another job. If it's the only job in town, and they want it, let them play by the rules of the company. Any union that thinks it arrogantly can come in to set company policy should be stopped cold.

Speaking of thugs, I haven't seen management people trying to browbeat job-seekers, beating up anyone they can to throw a scare into potential new workers, shooting holes through some poor lady's window, or burning up a hotel and killing a hundred or so people.

Who could it have been? Some disgruntled company vice president?

Or some union bully-boys? One guess!

MORE ON MEIR

Some friendly quotes from some of Rabbi Meir Kahane's latest talks in the US and Canada:

"We must raise money for a new Israeli underground that must be ready to strike our enemies wherever they threaten us."

"We have been losers for centuries. Now we are winners, and I don't care whether the world likes it or not."

"We must guard our strength and increase it every day. And the best way to show strength is direct action: Hit your enemies before they hit you."

"Advocates of American even-handedness in foreign policy are a menace to Israel that must be exterminated." (On his list are several Arab nationalist groups and right-wing news magazines who have said we should treat all middle east nations in the same even-handed manner. He attacked them as "anti-Israeli, amplifiers of Arab arguments, and spear carriers of Arab attacks on Israel.")

Responses:

Intelligence and security specialists at the United Nations who have ignored Kahane in the past said they are concerned about his latest efforts to develop a terrorist network.

"If this man ever targeted me for a hit, I think I'd move, " said a UN aide with responsibility for protecting Arab UN delegates. "When this man talks of 'hitting adversaries' he is as menacing as any gangster. This man means murder."

"It seems absurd, senseless, but in reality it Demonstrates the pervasive infiltration of the White House by Israeli agents, many of whom got their start in politics as terrorist hitmen. Their latest victim seems to have been the credibility and international standing of the Reagan administration itself, " said the deputy chief of a Persian Gulf nation's UN mission.

Incidentally, Meir Kahane, although representing and serving in the parliament of a foreign nation, has successfully retained his US citizenship, thus enjoying the status of being a citizen of both the US and Israel.

How can we permit this?

My position is that one is either a citizen of the US or a citizen of a foreign country, but should not be allowed to hold both citizenships simultaneously.

If an American citizen tried also to obtain German citizenship, and be elected to the Bundestag representing Bavaria, there would be an uproar so loud it would shake the northeast coast, and much of it from the same sources who see nothing wrong with Kahane and other Israelis holding dual citizenship. There would be headlines in Kirkland's Jerusalem Post.

The question is, should dual citizenships be allowed?

LOYALTY

Dual citizenship implies dual loyalty, taxes notwithstanding.

And can there be dual loyalty? When there is friction between the nations to which is an individual is citizen, to which nation does he cleave?

My position is that one is a citizen of one nation, the nation to whom he wishes to owe his allegiance. How can Meir Kahane stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance before the US flag and also recite Israel's version of the Pledge before the Israeli flag, and be sincere in both efforts.

No way!

I read Kahane's remarks that simply because of religion, Jews in the US should give up their homes and jobs here and move to Israel - just because they are Jewish. Does he think because I'm Catholic I should pack up and move to the Vatican?

I think the Jewish response to his call is going to be one of supreme indifference. The vast majority of us are Americans first, regardless of religion, and won't heed the cracked cranial cry of the half-baked idealist who has a number of screws loose.

ONE AT A TIME

We agree with the one country at a time citizenship proposal. And with regard to those with permanent residence status, they don't feel second class (those I know) by any means. In the US they have the right to work and pay taxes and succeed even as any natural born citizen.

To amplify on the dual citizenship pitfall: Tonight in the Journal, Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy who always stated his loyalties were to Israel, said also he was absolutely loyal to the US. This ambivalence must have driven the poor guy paranoid. One of his statements was that he couldn't see why the US Navy didn't turn secret and classified information on Arab forces and movements over to Israel, even though it's a foreign government.

Think of how he was torn between what he probably felt was a deep loyalty to the United States and a deep sympathy towards Israel; he possibly didn't feel that he was being disloyal to this country because of his ties with the other.

I think this situation best illustrates my concerns on holding dual citizenship, and even though Pollard was convicted as an Israeli spy, I still have to consider the pressures exerted by nation/nation/religion to which he was subject.

The act of releasing secret information to a foreign government cannot be dismissed; thousands of documents were involved, some of which may have found their way into soviet hands; however, it is easy to see how he may have been led into the path of espionage by agents playing on his emotional qualities dealing with faith, and his desire to protect the historical homeland of that faith.

Many of those coerced into espionage have been led down the garden path for significantly less noble reasons.

Note: I think that in spite of dual citizenship, if one joins the military service of a foreign country he can lose his American citizenship. But I'm not sure.

And, they had Jonathan Pollard's wife on 60 minutes for an interview segment, discussing the two spies' upcoming sentencing for espionage.

Talk about arrogance!

Her view was that the US was wrong in not turning over American secrets to the Israelis, so that's why they did it. No shame, no compunctions, no feeling that she was an American, it was all for Israel.

Her biggest complaint was over the three months she spent in jail, and how the others called her a no-good traitor, among other things. She said she didn't see anything wrong in what she and her husband had done - after all they weren't doing it for money - except for the $2500 a month and the $7000 diamond and emerald ring she herself got, and the trips to Israel and Europe, none of that entered into it.

Mike Wallace sure handled her gently, with kid gloves; if it would have been someone like Jack Kemp's wife, or Nancy Reagan, no holds would have been barred.

She said she thinks that they both had been set up by Dirty Rafi Eitan, the infamous Mossad spymaster, but couldn't give a good reason why he may have done so. I was waiting for her to blame the whole thing on Reagan.

I hope the Judge gives them 30 days.

And then executes them!

HESS

Rudolph Hess is still in Spandau Prison, under control of the US, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, which raises some questions....

Why are they keeping in prison the only German who escaped from Nazi control and tried to see Churchill to end the war?

Why is he allowed to write his memoirs in periodic spurts, only to see what he's written confiscated and destroyed by the Soviets?

Why are the Soviets so intent on keeping this old man, never described as a 'war criminal,' in prison for life?

What secrets does Hess know that would embarrass governments, namely the governments of Britain, France, and the Soviet Union?

After Hess parachuted onto English soil in the early part of the war, and his identity and aims were established, why did not Churchill meet with Hess and receive the argument Hess brought which may have shortened the war?

Don't hang by your thumbs until you get answers from Britain or the Soviets.

REAGAN'S SPEECH

I liked it, but I think he admitted to too much culpability.

I would have stone-walled until all jackson broke loose!

(Brokaw almost had an orgasm when Strauss, the Democrat, praised Reagan as he did, and voiced the opinion that Demo and Repub alike wanted the Pres to succeed. They cut to Brokaw unexpectedly at intervals, and the Brokaw scowl was very much in evidence. All in all, I think Reagan learned what Nixon did too late - you can't please your enemies no matter how you try, and his talk reflected that. I know that Donaldson, Rather, and the rest of that media gloom-crew were really irritated that the president showed his usual vigor and command; it took away their chance to be presidents by proxy. Tough luck, you patrons of primordial ooze)

MORNING AFTER

All of the president's mouth-foam critics snarled with one voice right up to last night. The only thing they wanted was for the president to admit his mistakes, grovel a little bit, and all would be well. So his enemies said, and a few of his 'friends.'

As I said before, you can't please an enemy short of suicide.

No sooner was the broadcast over when the pathetic jackels of the media and the congress began their heel-nipping all over again, and in the Sentinel this morning, the next movement of the orchestrated chorus of kooks began with, well, why didn't he tell us about the money to the contras, and who got it?

Typical liberal loony-tunes logic.

Well, the prez didn't grovel and he didn't apologize; it's difficult for some of the knee-jerk politicians of the left to realized that when an action is undertaken by a man of basic integrity which he feels is the correct action for a given purpose, and it goes wrong, that doesn't imply requirement of an ipso facto admission that the objective was wrong, even if it was not successful.

Basic to the liberal philosophy is the tenet of switching viewpoints at the drop of a eyebrow from the ADA or the New Republic, without the slightest qualm, for fear of retribution from the left - at least on the hill and inside the beltline.

Take Wisconsin's Les Aspin who flipped in accordance with the liberal flops of the congress; he got his wrist slapped, but later was elected committee chairman when he promised to be a good little Democrat hack and follow the lead of the Kennedys and Leahys on defense and contra-aid issues.

He could have said:

"When it comes to the defense of the US against Communism wherever it threatens us, no matter what constraints you liberal hacks want to put on it, I will promote it. If you don't want to vote me in as chairman, so be it. I'm for strong military defense, and if funds must be voted to defend against Communism in an threatening situation then I'll vote for them no matter what the Demolib party line happens to be."

Did he do that?

No, he just set another D.C. waffling record in the coelenterate finals.

But back to the enemies subject......

Byrd-droppings from the majority leader were predictable, and in tune with the Demolib libretto, on the same 'why didn't he tell us about the money' theme. You will hear variations on that lyric for the next few months, right up to about 1996 when it may be time for the Demos to dig up Herbert Hoover to run against again.

My advice to the president?

Damn the mosquitoes, full speed ahead.

And let Baker use the Yard Guard when necessary to keep down the media and congressional insects.

(Too bad about Aspin's being weighed in the balance and found wanton; there were times when I thought he might switch parties because of his conflict with the left on issues of national defense. Turns out he would rather toady than fight. It may help Wisconsin in some respect to have him on the committee, but that help may turn out to be using the AMC plant to make replacement parts for Sandinista equipment. It would serve them right)

COOLER HEADS

Those may prevail in the AMC negotiations. The union biggies have muzzled Kuzel and reset the union-management talks on new jobs for the Kenosha area.

That's what it's all about - whether the people of the area will have the opportunity to work, or whether the thick-headed AMC locals will close the plant before coming to an agreement.

I remember my contacts with AMC in the past. When visiting the plant to look at an assembly line, I was told that there was one union steward for every twenty five workers at the time; all the stewards seemed to do was stand around and drink coffee, and make sure no one worked too fast.

While I was there observing the body line, four stewards came over and demanded to know what I was doing there, what was I looking at, what changes was management contemplating, and where I was from. I told them to shove it, whereupon they retired to an adjacent area and tried the old evil eye technique. It didn't work; they had come up against a superior evil eye.

In any case, some will say that the problems stems from the company demanding give-backs from the employees. Based on my observations in five visits to the plant, if the company offer were based on actual productive output by the AMC workers, it would not have come up to minimum wage.

In fact, the union stewards would have had to pay to 'work' there.

Anyway, for the sake of those in the AMC area who really want and need a job, I hope the International is smarter than the local - then again, it has to be.

LESSONS OF NAM

On 20/20 last evening, Bud McFarland and his wife were being interviewed by Baba Walters, and he seemed to come off rather well. His attempt at suicide, so he said, was based on what he felt was his absolute failure to head off the Iran-Contra situation. He had taken the entire blame for the si