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2011 Reflections - Old Man River He Just Keeps Rollin' Along...

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

Well here it is last week of 2011, time to look back and look ahead. I don't know about you but I'm thinking that I'm living in a time warp. Up is down. Down is up.

Maybe it's just me.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: I feel like going down to the river.

I love to watch the Mississippi.

It's never the same.

Old Man River...he don't plant taters, he don't plant cotton...and them what's do is soon forgotton.

Makes you think or thwim?

 

Kissing Balls...Will It Become The Newest Christmas Craze Or Tradition? Is Mistletoe Endangered?

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

I don't make this stuff up.

Google: Fox Pertzborn Kissing Balls

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citzen of the Republic

PS: I do not endorse this at Christmas Parties.

 

Peace Has Broken Out In Baghdad With A BANG! Fourteen Bangs To Be Exact!

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

PEACE HAS BROKEN OUT IN BAGHDAD WITH A BANG!

I'm glad the war is over and our military is coming home.

Let the Iraqis deal with the bombers. Our flag was barely furled when the morons were back at it.

Pass the popcorn, crack open a frosty cold Budweiser and watch the whole area light up as the Iranians support the Shias against the Sunnis.

Ahhh...peace. 

It's always a blast the way the Muslims do it!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: This is just a harbinger of things to come. As for me, I'm going into Merry Christmas mode.

 

The "Evil Of Gentrification" Vs. The Virtue Of Sanctuary Shelters In The Shooting Gallery Also Known As North St. Louis.

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

GENTRIFICATION is a word that is used to derogatively describe the process of renewing the neighborhoods in North St. Louis by Paul McKee.

I wonder if the folks who use this term like living in the Shootification, Murderfication and the Desroyedification situation that exists there?

Not too worry, "Sanctuary shelters" are being built.

Nothing changes...and when people step up to try, the entrenched powers attack and villify their efforts. So sad.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: Where are the other capitalists?

Why is Paul McKee alone?

What are the agendas of his attackers and detractors?

Is the P-D looking into those questions?

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...sorry the last question put me to sleep.

Before 1960, if you wrote a screenplay for a movie like what is going on in Washington D.C. today, you'd have been laughed out of Hollywood.

President Barack Obama As The New Teddy Roosevelt. Does Our Powder Puff President Really Think We'll Believe He's The Reincarnated Spirit Of The Old Rough Rider?

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

All I can say is, "What a ludicrous joke."

If TR was alive today, the old Rough Rider would be tearing into The Justice Department, securing the Border and making sure the Solyndra crooks were swinging in the breeze.

President Obama isn't even the palest whispy shadow of TR - who was a "Rugged Individualist," not a neo-progressive, socialist, facist or communist,

Unfortunately, President Obama can rely on his pure unadulterated hubris, artful stagecraft and nearly 50-years of NOT teaching American histrory and dumb-down PC-courses to fool enough of the American people to get his class-warfare, divisive, fear-mongering and mendacious little old self re-elected.

He fears that you can Biden some of the people all of the time, you can Pelosi all of the people some of the time, but you can't Axholerod all of the people all of the time.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: Read The River Of No Return - and see if TR sounds like Obama to you. It's a story about a little vacation TR took after he was out of office. It was so much fun for him and his son Kermit, that they named The Roosevelt River after them.

Obama, and the Congress by contrast, is taking America up Spendingshitz Creek without a paddle. It's high time to get a new Captain and crew for our Ship of State.

UNELECT THEM ALL!

Attorney General Eric Holder Must Resign. His Arrogance Over Fast And Furious Is Beyond The Pale Of The Most Basic Common Decency And Professional Accountability.

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

There is no shame.

There is no accountability.

There is no apology.

The Congressional inquiry into Fast and Furious is not a "distraction" or a "political sideshow," Mr. Holder.

The sheer hubris and arrogance of Attorney General Holder is an affront to the entire Nation, to Congress, to all law enforcement professionals and to the Border Patrol agent killed as the result of the Department Of Justice's sheer S T U P I D I T Y.

I pray that Congress will find the resolve and cahones to call en masse for his immediate resignation.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: None Dare Call It Treason, that's more than the title of a book written by President John F. Kennedy.

I urge every Citizen of the Republic to email their Congressional Representative and U.S. Senator and call for Mr. Holder's immediate resignation.

 

 

Albert Pujols - A Fan's Plan To Keep Albert Pujols In St. Louis As A Baseball Cardinal Forever!

 

Looks like it's time to sing, "So long it's been good to know you!" Albert Pujols just signed a deal for $250 million. Thanks for a million great memories and the Miracle Season of 2011! May God continue to bless you and your family. Via con Dios!

 

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

THE BIRK KEEP PUJOLS PLAN: I sent this a few days ago to my pals in the news media in St. Louis and to a few dear buddies, who know a thing or three about The Cardinal Nation. Here it is for the enjoyment of the Blogosphere.

 

Create a

Lifetime Legacy For A Living Legend.

 

Hit a Triple to Wave Him On To HOME!!

 

1) 5-years playing contract $15 million per year

 

2) 1% Owner Equity per year for each of 5-years to earn in a total 5% Team Ownership - a building value over time.

 

3) 1% of all concession revenue divided equally (1/4% each) between Pujols Foundation, Childrens, Cardinal Glennon and Shriner's Hospitals for Children for duration of Cardinal franchise in St. Louis

 

Every chip, dip and sip benefits his and our "Hometown Heart Causes."

 

Option to retire from playing in 5-years to become The Cardinal's CRO - Chief Recruiting Officer - a lifetime magnet for future talent.

 

Tag all three bases - Money, Heart and Soul - Albert will be HOME SAFE in the hearts of Cardinal Fans forever and a day.

 

Other local and national endorsements will only sweeten the deal.

 

Stay here like Stan The Man did.

 

____________________

 

I believe that Albert really is a FREE agent. A free man who is able to look deep into himself and far beyond the clamoring and urging of outside influences for him to set a new compensation cap for every player who "suits up" in MLB.

 

He is Albert Pujols...there is no cap that he can set for others, for God has set it for him. And, in his heart of hearts. he knows that there is a far greater wealth beyond the wealth of the earth and the fame and fortune of MLB.

 

If it's all about SHOW ME THE MONEY...I have epically misjudged the character of his great corazon.

Oil Still Seeps From The U.S.S Arizona.

 

REPOSTED ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY - DECEMBER 7, 2011

Sixty-eight years ago, my Uncle Harry T. Collins awoke to find the U.S. Fleet under attack at Pearl Harbor. He, like every other sailor there, went immediately to battle stations. He was on the destroyer USS Chew (DD-106). The Chew and all other ships received orders to get under way and to get out of Pearl Harbor and make for the open sea lest the entire fleet be destroyed.

Uncle Harry said it was utter chaos that day. Battleship Row was the central target and the Japanese torpedo bombers were concentrating on them. The ones in bold below were sunk.

US NAVY Battleships (BB) Pennsylvania (BB-38) (in drydock) Arizona (BB-39) Nevada (BB-36) Oklahoma(BB-37) Tennessee (BB-43) California (BB-44) Maryland (BB-46) West Virginia (BB-48)

Uncle Harry survived Pearl Harbor, after the war he returned to St. Louis and had a distinguised career with the St. Louis Police Department and later in his retirement years, he worked with Boys Town Of Missouri in St. James and here in St. Louis.

Every year he went to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial Ceremony. In recent years, they tossed a Wreath Of Remembrance to honor their fallen comrades on the waters of the Misssissippi River below the Gateway Arch.

Sailors know that all waters flow to the sea and that all the seas connect to the oceans. And they know that on the final day, the seas and oceans will give up their dead.

Across the Pacific in the quiet waters of Pearl Harbor another ceremony will take place today on The Arizona Memorial. On this quiet white structure are listed the names of every sailor, Marine and soldier who died in the dreadful sneak attack on that "day that will live in infamy."

Below the Memorial, the USS Arizona and many of her brave crewmen still lie entombed.

Today, the name of every person listed on the walls of the Arizona Memorial will be read aloud and they will be remembered and honored.

We visited the Memorial many years ago and it is a very serene, reverent and holy place. When you look over the side you can see the USS Arizona below.

Oil still seeps from the USS Arizona. Her heart still bleeds for all the brave men and women who took the first blow against the United States in World War II.

Today, we all need to set aside some quiet time to remember what happened 68 years ago today. And, if you are lucky enough to have had a Pearl Harbor Survivor in your family, please hold them foremost in your thoughts today.

To my late Uncle Harry and to his cohorts, I'd just like to say that you will always have the thanks and honor of a grateful Nation. The oil that still seeps from the Arizona will not let us forget Sunday, December 7, 1941.

And let us not forget the men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States Of America who are protecting our lives and liberty at his very hour around the world.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic

Ho! Ho! Ho! For Christ's Sake! Please Be Nice This Christmas Season...Even If You've Been Very Very Very Naughty! That's Three Verys!

HELLO HAPPY PEOPLE!

Have you been a naugthy Ho?

A naughty Ho user?

A happy Ho? Like The ACORN "family counsellors" who were caught on tape showing would-be pimps and girls how to be prostitutes and game the system.

______________________

Be like the Jolly Green Giant and Santa!

Say, "Ho! Ho! Ho!"

And be like Jesus who stopped the Stonecasters and saved the Ho (adulteress).

He simply reminded the would-be stoners ( You know how "stoned" a group of stoners can be.) of their own transgressions. He met hate with love and told the Ho (adulteress) to go on her way and sin no more.

So Ho! Ho! Ho!  'tis the Season to embrace the Christ spirit. It's FREE and you don't have to trample people at a "Doorbuster Sale" to get it. Just look for it in your heart.

Deus te amas. (God Loves You).

Prodigal sons and daughters, and all fallen away Catholics...please accept the warm invitation of Adeste Fidelis

Come HOme For Christmas

Birk, the Blackest of the White Sheep

PS: Please warmly embrace others with goodwill and brotherhood on the common Journey, especially our Jewish friends. Remember, Christians believe that Jesus, who was a Jew, came to fullfil the prophecies and honor His Father, who he said was The Holy One Of Isreal.

Contrary to widely-held wrongheaded beliefs, the oridinary Jewish people did not kill Christ. The common Jewish people of the time loved Him. It was the politicians of the era who killed him because His message was a threat to the very cozy status quo between The Romans, King Herod and the priviliged elite class of Pharasies.

Reminds me of Washington D.C. today.