Way Harsh

Thinking for yourself

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:22:00 +0000

To me, the purpose of critical thinking is to arrive at the truth, so that one can discern one's true options and therefore be able to make better decisions and draw clearer conclusions.

An example of UNcritical thinking is the taking of things one reads at face value with no further investigation or verification.

If I say, "Karl Rove said Sarah Palin is an idiot," does that mean Karl Rove said Sarah Palin is an idiot? No, the only truth you can take from such a thing is that, "Relax Max SAID Karl Rove said Sara Palin is an idiot.

And if you are reading what I purportedly said instead of listening to me speak, perhaps not even that...

It has been real. Surreal, in fact

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:29:00 +0000

Max is taking a hiatus from blogging. Blogs will no longer be updated. You people have been outlandishly amazing.

Max has some projects that need to be finished up.

A hiatus is not forever. I will return and track you all down and force-feed you sick humor again one day.

Go East young man

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:38:00 +0000

More people left California than any other state last year, according to an AP news article today.

People are getting fed up with the cost of living, crime, gangs, many failing schools, clogged freeways, cost of housing, high taxes, and on and on and on.

There was only a net loss of 144,000 so nobody is going to notice the ones who bailed out and moved to other states. A few days of illegal immigration will more than cover any losses. But still, this might be a peek into the future.

The Golden State with about 38 million people has the world's eighth-largest economy (fifth if you count the European Union as a whole instead of counting individual countries.) But unemployment is now 8.4%, 100,000 jobs gone last year. There were about 236,000 home foreclosures and an erosion in home values of about a trillion dollars in 2008. These are not numbers we should sneeze at.

California can't wait for January 20, when all this bad news will be magically reversed.

Me? I say give Obama the whole week that he asked for.

Day one: give the order to get out of Iraq.

Week one: give the order to close Guantanamo.

That leaves plenty of time to make California a paradise on earth. Or at least to give the order.

Here is a post that will win me no friends. That's okay.

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:50:00 +0000

Did you know Beethoven was born with syphilis? He could never marry, and eventually lost his hearing. In my country today, he would have certainly been aborted.

Pretend the following list doesn't exist.

Symphonies
• Opus 21: Symphony No. 1 in C major (composed 1799-1800, premièred 1800)
• Opus 36: Symphony No. 2 in D major (composed 1801-02, premièred 1803)
• Opus 55: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major ("Eroica") (composed 1803, premièred 1804)
• Opus 60: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major (composed 1806, premièred 1807)
• Opus 67: Symphony No. 5 in C minor (composed 1805-08, premièred 1808)
• Opus 68: Symphony No. 6 in F major ("Pastoral") (composed 1805-08, premièred 1808)
• Opus 92: Symphony No. 7 in A major (composed 1811-12, premièred 1813)
• Opus 93: Symphony No. 8 in F major (composed 1811-12, premièred 1814)
• Opus 125: Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral") (composed 1817-24, premièred 1824)

Concerti
• WoO 4: Piano Concerto No. 0 in E-flat major (1784)
• Opus 15: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major (1795)
• Opus 19: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major (Before 1793)
• Opus 37: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor (1803)
• Opus 56: Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano in C major (1805)
• Opus 58: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (1807)
• Opus 61: Violin Concerto in D major (1806)
• Opus 61a: Beethoven's arrangement of Opus 61 for piano, sometimes called Piano Concerto No. 6
• Opus 73: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major ("Emperor") (1809)

Other works for soloist and orchestra
• WoO 6: Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B flat major (1793)
• Opus 40: Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G major (1802)
• Opus 50: Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F major (1798)
• Opus 80: "Choral Fantasy" (Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra) (1808)

Overtures and occasional music
• Opus 43: The Creatures of Prometheus, overture and ballet music (1801)
• Opus 62: Coriolan Overture (1807)
• Overtures composed for Beethoven's opera Fidelio:
• Opus 72: Fidelio Overture (1814)
• Opus 72a: Leonore Overture "No. 2" (1805)
• Opus 72b: Leonore Overture "No. 3" (1806)
• Opus 138: Leonore Overture "No. 1" (1807)
• Opus 84: Egmont, overture and incidental Music (1810)
• Opus 91: Wellington's Victory ("Battle Symphony") (1813)
• Opus 113: Die Ruinen von Athen (The ruins of Athens), overture and incidental music (1811)
• Opus 117: König Stephan (King Stephen), overture and incidental music (1811)
• Opus 115: Zur Namensfeier Overture (Feastday) (1815)
• Opus 124: Die Weihe des Hauses Overture (Consecration of the House) (1822)

Chamber music
String quartets
Early
• Opus 18: Six String Quartets
• No. 1: String Quartet No. 1 in F major (1799)
• No. 2: String Quartet No. 2 in G major (1800)
• No. 3: String Quartet No. 3 in D major (1798)
• No. 4: String Quartet No. 4 in C minor (1801)
• No. 5: String Quartet No. 5 in A major (1801)
• No. 6: String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat major (1801)
Middle
• Opus 59: Three String Quartets ("Rasumovsky") (1806)
• No. 1: String Quartet No. 7 in F major
• No. 2: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor
• No. 3: String Quartet No. 9 in C major
• Opus 74: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major ("Harp") (1809)
• Opus 95: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor ("Serioso") (1810)
Late
• Opus 127: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major (1823-1825)
• Opus 132: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor (1824-1825)
• Opus 130: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major (1825)
• Opus 133: Große Fuge in B-flat major – originally finale of Opus 130 (1825)
• Opus 134: Beethoven's arrangement of the Große Fuge, Opus 133, for piano duet (four-hands) (1826)
• Opus 131: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor (1826)
• Opus 135: String Quartet No. 16 in F major (1826)
String quintets
• Opus 4: String Quintet in E flat major (1795)
• Opus 29: String Quintet in C major (1801)
• Opus 104: String Quintet in C minor (1817)
• Opus 137: Fugue for String Quintet in D major (1817)
Trios
Piano trios
• Opus 1: Three Piano Trios (1795)
• Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat major
• Piano Trio No. 2 in G major
• Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor
• Opus 11: Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major ("Gassenhauer") (1797) (version with violin)
• Opus 70: Two Piano Trios (1808)
• Piano Trio No. 5 in D major, "Ghost"
• Piano Trio No. 6 in E-flat major
• Opus 97: Piano Trio No.7 in B-flat Major ("Archduke") (1811)
String trios
• Opus 3: String Trio No. 1 in E-flat major (1794)
• Opus 8: String Trio No. 2 ("Serenade") in D major (1797)
• Opus 9: Three String Trios (1798)
• String Trio No. 3 in G major
• String Trio No. 4 in D major
• String Trio No. 5 in C minor
Chamber music with winds
• Opus 11: Clarinet Trio in B-flat major, "Gassenhauer" (1797)
• Opus 16: Quintet for piano and winds in E-flat major (1796)
• Opus 20: Septet for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and contrabass in E-flat major (1799)
• Opus 38: Clarinet Trio in E-flat major (1803)
• Opus 71: Sextet for clarinets, horns, and bassoons in E-flat major (1796)
• Opus 87: Trio for two oboes and English horn in C major (1795)
• Opus 103: Octet for oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons in E-flat major (1792)
• Opus 105: Six sets of variations for piano and flute (1819)
• Opus 107: Ten sets of variations for piano and flute (1820)
Sonatas for solo instrument and piano
Violin sonatas
• Opus 12: Three Violin Sonatas (1798)
• No. 1: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major
• No. 2: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major
• No. 3: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat major
• Opus 23: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor (1801)
• Opus 24: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major ("Spring") (1801)
• Opus 30: Three Violin Sonatas (1803)
• No. 1: Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major
• No. 2: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor
• No. 3: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major
• Opus 47: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major ("Kreutzer") (1803)
• Opus 96: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major (1812)
Cello sonatas
• Opus 5: Two Cello Sonatas (1796)
• Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major
• Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor
• Opus 69: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major (1808)
• Opus 102: Two Cello Sonatas (1815)
• Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major
• Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major
Horn sonatas
• Opus 17: Horn Sonata in F major (1800)
Solo piano music
Piano sonatas
• Opus 2: Three Piano Sonatas (1795)
• No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor
• No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major
• No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major
• Opus 7: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major (1797)
• Opus 10: Three Piano Sonatas (1798)
• No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor
• No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major
• No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major
• Opus 13: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique") (1798)
• Opus 14: Two Piano Sonatas (1799)
• No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major
• No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major
• Opus 22: Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major (1800)
• Opus 26: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major ("Funeral March") (1801)
• Opus 27: Two Piano Sonatas (1801)
• No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major 'Sonata quasi una fantasia'
• No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor 'Sonata quasi una fantasia' ("Moonlight")
• Opus 28: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major ("Pastoral") (1801)
• Opus 31: Three Piano Sonatas (1802)
• No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major
• No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor ("Tempest")
• No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major ("The Hunt")
• Opus 49: Two Piano Sonatas (1792)
• No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor
• No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major
• Opus 53: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ("Waldstein") (1803)
• WoO 57: Andante Favori - Original middle movement of the "Waldstein" sonata (1804)
• Opus 54: Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major (1804)
• Opus 57: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ("Appassionata") (1805)
• Opus 78: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major ("A Thérèse") (1809)
• Opus 79: Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major (1809)
• Opus 81a: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major ("Les adieux/Lebewohl") (1810)
• Opus 90: Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor (1814)
• Opus 101: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major (1816)
• Opus 106: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major ("Hammerklavier") (1819)
• Opus 109: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major (1820)
• Opus 110: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major (1821)
• Opus 111: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor (1822)
Variations
• Opus 34: Six variations on an original theme in F major (1802)
• Opus 35: Fifteen variations and a fugue on an original theme in E-flat major ("Eroica Variations") (1802)
• Opus 76: Six variations on an original theme in D major (1809)
• Opus 120: Thirty-three variations on a waltz by Diabelli in C major ("Diabelli Variations") (1823)
• WoO 80: Thirty-two variations on an original theme in C minor (1806)
Bagatelles
• Opus 33: Seven Bagatelles (1802)
• Opus 119: Eleven new Bagatelles (1822)
• Opus 126: Six Bagatelles (1823)
• WoO 52: Presto (Bagatelle) for piano in C minor (1795, rev. 1798 and 1822)[2]
• WoO 53: Allegretto (Bagatelle) for piano in C minor (1796-97)[2]
• WoO 54: Lustig-Traurig (Bagatelle) for piano in C major (1802)[2]
• WoO 56: Allegretto (Bagatelle) for piano in C major (1803, rev. 1822)[2]
• WoO 59: Poco moto (Bagatelle) in A minor, "Für Elise" (c. 1810)[2]
• WoO 60: Ziemlich lebhaft (Bagatelle) for piano in B-flat major (1818)[2]
Vocal music
Opera
• Opus 72: Leonore (1805) The first version in three acts
• Opus 72: Leonore (1806) The second version in two acts
• Opus 72: Fidelio (1814) The final version in two acts
Choral
• Opus 80: Choral Fantasy for solo piano, chorus, and orchestra (1808)
• Opus 85: Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives) – oratorio (1803)
• Opus 86: Mass in C major (1807)
• Opus 112: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), for chorus and orchestra (1815)
• Opus 123: Missa Solemnis in D major (1822)
Song
• Opus 46: "Adelaide" – song (1794-1795)
• Opus 48: "Gellert Songs" – song set (1802)
• Opus 98: An die ferne Geliebte – song cycle (1816)
• Opus 108: Twenty-five Scottish Songs

What is my point?

I have more than one point.

1. Our new president is pro-abortion. This is important to remember because this type of thinking carries over into other decisions that will be made. Depending on your value system, this will either be a good or a bad thing. Clinton was the only other president we have had who was pro-abortion. If you have no problem with Clinton's morals and moral choices as the leader of the USA, then you will have no problem with Obama.

2. You fight against the death penalty for despicable animals who rape and murder and torture children to death. You hold candle light vigils for them if ever they DO get put to death; you claim to value all life because all life is sacred, and because society ought not be in the business of playing God. Are unborn babies not a LEAST as human as these barbarians? Why does your compassion stop with brutes? Your hypocrisy is showing.

3. We worry about Global Warming (Climate change). We are urgently trying to find find clean energy sources. We want to invent automobiles that don't run on fossil fuels. And so much more. But...

I genuinely worry that we have already killed those unborn Einsteins and Thomas Edisons who could have solved these problems for us. And have we already aborted the diplomat that would have finally brought the warring parties of the Middle East together? The scientist who had in his unborn brain the cure for cancer? Have we killed her too? Did the modern day George Washington Carver, the one who had the key to producing new foods to feed the starving children of the world — did his mangled fetus end up in the garbage can too?

What if it is already too late? Or what if at the very least we have had civilization's salvation deferred for untold generations?

Does anyone honestly believe that, had Beethoven been aborted, as he should have been, that someone else would have simply come along later and write all his music? I don't think so.

Let's face up to the facts: a whole lot of things have been lost to us forever.

I don't have all the answers. I am really quite a simple person, truth be told. So please, in your comments explain to me how I just don't get it.

49,551,703 since 1973. And counting.

One man's opinion

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:32:00 +0000

Obama loses his shirt

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:50:00 +0000

Stock markets continue their plunge. President-Elect not immune.

Vast left-wing conspiracy?

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Fact: George W. Bush is the first right-handed president since Jimmy Carter.

This may not have occurred to you, but these are the sort of things you depend on this blogger to point out to you.

Reagan? Left-handed. Although he was forced to learn to write with his right hand. George the first? A lefty. Clinton? Faaaar left. Obama? Extremely left-handed.

What if McCain had won? Wouldn't have mattered, he is left-handed as well.

10% of the population is left-handed. 18% of all U.S. Presidents have been left-handed.

Don't tell me I'm not onto something here.

Young Love

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:16:00 +0000

They say for every boy and girl
There's just one love in this whole world
And I-I-I-I know-ow I've found mine.
The heavenly touch of your embrace
Tells me no one could take your place
Ev-ev-ev-ev-ever in my heart.

Young love, first love,
Fillllllled with true devotion.
Young love, our love,
We share with deeeeeep. Emotion.

Just one kiss from your sweet lips
Will tell me that your love is real,
And I-I-I can feee-el that it's true.
We will vow to one another
There will never be another ::suppress laughter here::
Love-uv-uv for you-oo... or for me.

Young love, first love,
Fillllllled with true devotion.
Young love, our love,
We share with deeeeeep. Emotion.

Dum. Deedum. Deedum. Deedum..... ::fade out::

Another Senator Kennedy

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:19:00 +0000

Caroline Kennedy wants to be appointed by New York's governor to fill the senate seat soon to be vacated by new Secretary of State Hillary ~~Clingon~~ Clinton.

Mindful of the current selling of her idol Barack Obama's Illinois senate seat, she asked the New York governer, when she called him, to pretend she wasn't interested.

This blog would like to add its endorsement to the selection of JFK and Jackie's surviving offspring for the office. We feel her qualifications to be a U.S. Senator are far superior to anything the Democrats would normally require, to wit:

1. Her name is Kennedy.

2. She has sat on the board of the JFK Library.

3. She has presented the library's "Profiles in Courage" award.

4. Her name is Kennedy.

5. She spent the last year playing a crucial role* in Barack Obama's election campaign.

6. She has provided personal care** for Uncle Teddy during his recent illness.

7. Her name is Kennedy.

8. Her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has said she would be an ideal candidate.

9. She is a trained attorney who doesn't practice law.

10. Her name is Kennedy.

11. She has "dabbled in legal scholarship and New York civic life"*** while raising three children with her husband and a staff of nannies.

12. She reportedly knows the words to "Camelot" by heart.

13. Her name is Kennedy.

14. She is honorary chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre.

15. She has held a $1-per-year job within the New York City Department of Education, raising money for a private charity that supported public schools.****

16. Her name is Kennedy.

17. She has compared Obama to her father.*****

18. She has stood side-by-side with Oprah Winfrey in Los Angeles.

19. Her name is...

Well, by now you should be able to see what her real qualification is. Anybody want to bet on who the governor will appoint as New York's replacement senator?

*Caroline was told by her Uncle Teddy to endorse Obama last winter.

**Wiping drool and froth from his mouth.

***Whatever the fuck that means.

****But quit the job in the second year when she was told by family members that, "$1 a year isn't really that much money, Missy."

*****Yeah. Like she remembers her father.

"Let them eat cake." (Marie Antoinette, of the breadless peasants)

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0000

This post is not so much satire as it is astonishment and disbelief.

1. The "big three" American automakers, GM, Ford, and Chrysler, are in deep trouble. Have been for years, for many reasons.

2. Seeing the Wall Street bailout, they are trying to jump on the bandwagon and are asking congress for $25 billion. Just because. Loss of jobs, and ancillary domino effect, you know.

3. They came to Washington yesterday (Tuesday) to testify before Congress on why they should get this money. All three CEOs were there, sitting side by side. Amazing. They each told Congress why they should get this bailout. Some of their points were valid. I assume they promised to be good stewards of this amazing amount of money if they get it. And they say they MUST get it.

So.... what is the astonishing and unbelievable part of this post? Other than the fact that they have been pissing away money like Niagara Falls for 50 years and mismanaging their businesses like a drunken sailor? Well...

1. They came to Congress crying "poor, poor", but they came in private jets. Individual private jets which are only one of several owned by their companies for their (and their families') convenience. They couldn't fly commercial, not even first class. And, God forbid, they couldn't drive one of the cars they make.

All of these companies have been losing lots of dollars. Billions and billions of dollars. In return for this feat of losing money, each of these CEOs receives compensation of many millions of dollars each. Like in the neighborhood of $20 million a year. Just as a "thank you" for being such a bad manager.

4. We could BUY GM - the whole company - lock stock and barrel - five times over for the same money we would be "lending" the "big three." - $25 billion. Or so I've read. But who in their right mind would want to buy a company that is constantly on the verge of bankruptcy, and hasn't seen a profit in most of the current generation's lifetime?

Your Congress is at work. Be very afraid. Let's hope even these dead-brains won't loan these guys taxpayer money. Spend it on job retraining instead, please.

Oh, Please! PLEASE let us stay in Iraq! We'll do ANYTHING!

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:11:00 +0000

I see in the news today that Iraq is close to approving a pact which will allow the U.S. to stay in Iraq through 2011. Apparently they will let us stay if we agree not to have troops in the cities. We will still be free to die outside the cities. So that's cool.

Question: why are we (the U.S. Government in the person of George W. Bush) fighting so hard to get this "agreement" approved? If they don't sign it, then we come home at the end of this year. What is so bad about that?

At the very least, we shouldn't take action until our new president takes office. He may have less interest in staying in Iraq at all. Just let the current one expire and stop fighting except in self defense for a few weeks. It is possible that in the short interim, the Iraqi government may decide it is a good idea for America to stay and let them stay alive for awhile. I don't think we should, though.

In my opinion, this has long since turned into another Vietnam. If even the Iraqi government has to have it's arm twisted to "let" us stay, then why stay? I think we just screwed up a perfect chance to come home and let them fight it out themselves. Plus we also had to agree to let Iraq try our troops in their courts. I don't like that because it is still a war zone where civilians are getting killed by accident every day.

Welcome Aboard!

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:52:00 +0000

President-elect B.H. Obama, wasting no time in the face of the economic crisis, today selected as his new Secretary of the Treasury, the genial Bob Cratchit.

Rather than choosing someone who is good at handling money, the President-Elect said he "went with my heart on this one" and chose someone from the ranks of the common folk, his primary political base.

"I thought it was more important to send a message, to the people who voted for me, and to the misguided right, as well as to the rest of the world, both friends and foe alike, all of whom I will soon be speaking with on a personal one-on-one basis, just to get to know their special interests, that my administration will be a grass-roots operation from the top down, or the bottom up, just as I promised; or if I didn't promise that, it could be assumed by one and all that is surely what I meant."

Mr. Obama went on to say (we think) that he decided against choosing a person with banking experience, or even executive experience, because those kinds of people have often failed us in the past, and mostly are Republicans anyway.

The returned clothes fund of Sara Palin will be used to outfit Mr. Cratchit.

Good luck Bob Cratchit, and to all the assorted little Cratchits!

Lest we forget

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:04:00 +0000

Today is veterans's Day in the USA (Remembrance Day in Canada).

Today we honor those who serve, or have served in our Military.

Today we again pray for end to war.

WWII Memorial

Korean War Memorial

Vietnam Wall

Iraq

Semper Fidelis

Have you ever wondered why...

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:36:00 +0000

... A lot of the attacks on our freedoms seem to be coming from our own government?

A Sloth?

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:45:00 +0000

Government by its very nature is a close kin to the sloth: Slow moving, not too bright, and infested with parasites, generally sleeps 18 hours a day, and is virtually deaf. Like the sloth, government feeds on only one thing.

For the government this food is red tape.

New cabinet appointments begin

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:11:00 +0000

Wasting no time, President-Elect Barack Obama today announced his first cabinet appointee, good friend William "Bill" Ayers, as Secretary of Defense.

Asked what prompted the choice, the Chosen One shuffled his feet a bit and then mumbled, "Professor Ayers is familar with the Pentagon."

God bless America.

The Loyal Opposition begins to close ranks. Hail To The Chief

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:53:00 +0000

Please welcome America's new First Family:

Sasha, Michelle, Barack, Malia.

Godspeed.

Almost over

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:30:00 +0000

As I write this, it is only about an hour and a half before the polls begin to close in the East. Soon we will begin to see the results of the real poll instead of the pretend polls that have represented various people's guesswork and predictions. Will it be an Obama landslide as most guess-polls have predicted? Will it be really close and go far into the night before the next president is known, as McCain has suggested?

Doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that the real non-guess poll is now finally underway. Good luck to both candidates. Whoever wins will need a lot of help.

But please don't overlook the race that is so much more important than the race for president. If the Dems gather the magic number of 60 in the Senate, there will no longer be any opposition voice in congress. That means so much more than who wins the title of president. And the way it looks now, that is very likely to happen.

Very interesting indeed.

Obama wins ...

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:29:00 +0000

... or so they are saying early on.

Polls say it's in the bag for Obama-Biden!

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:39:00 +0000

You'll shoot your eye out, McCain!"

Ho! Ho! Ho!

What's not to love?

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:06:00 +0000

American Guy Fawkes Day

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:08:00 +0000

As many of you know, if you have been following the American presidential election, "...the first Tuesday after the first monday in November" is the American Guy Fawkes Day. We celebrate it one day before the British and others do this year.

It will be a little different, of course. The destroyer of the American system of government, as we have come to know it, will be toasted instead of pilloried, and inaugural balls and general ass-kissing will replace bonfires.

Barack Obama is a likable - albeit extremely naive and economically uninformed* - sort of guy: a rather odd combination of Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Vladimir Lenin. He's just what the doctor ordered to put America's house in order, according to the outside world and (of course) the legions of blindly unthinking zombie-like leftist Dems.

These people are compassionate, they want to improve the plight of the poor and "underprivileged." Admirable. I don't see anything wrong with wanting to help one's fellow man (or fellow American, as it were.) The answer? Isn't it obvious? So simple - take the money from people who have it and give it to people who DON'T have it.

Change. Oh, my, yes, there will be change.

Is the world now ready for the new American socialist state, patterned after the failed Russian system we all knew and loved? The new massive redistribution of wealth, unseen since 1917, sprouting like an unholy Phoenix from the ashes of LBJ's Great Society?

Change. Oh, my, yes, get ready for change, world. You win.

Gone, finally will be the rich elite who get all the tax breaks. No more rich. To paraphrase Lenin, "The new order has no need for capitalists." No more rich elite. The bastards who worked their asses off to build businesses and wealth. The bastards who create jobs and pay people's salaries. No need for them. Tax them into poverty. Tax them out of business. Let the government run things. Let the government provide the jobs.

Barack Obama: "Let's spread the wealth around."

Sure. Take it from the ones who earned it and spread it on the non-producers. Encourage the opposite of the American Dream. That's the ticket. Karl Marx would be proud. And soon (do you hear the angels singing, here?) the world can love America again.

You win, world. Get ready for the biggest failed welfare state the planet has ever seen. You think you have economic woes now? You ain't seen nothin' yet.

*Anyone who thinks it is possible to make lasting social improvements by taking rewards from visionary asset-producers and giving a huge portion of those rewards instead to poor people or, worse, to total non-producers, is economically uninformed, by definition. They would do well to study the lessons of the late Soviet Union, and compare the current economies of North Korea and South Korea.

Socialism doesn't work. When are we going to get that? Some is needed: pure capitalism is cruel and cold. But the correct recipe calls for a teaspoonful, not a gallon.

Our recommendation for president

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:42:00 +0000

After careful analysis of the two candidates, we have arrived at our recommendation for your voting consideration. We strongly urge you follow our endorsement. Thank you.

Actually, for those 3 of you who actually read this blog, we gave our recommendation 'way back at the end of July. Our recommendation has not changed.

So just click here to see who we called.

Please - just don't. If you do, it only encourages the bastards.

It's all over but the shouting!

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:56:00 +0000

The fat lady is singing! It's in the bag for Obama!

The polls show his lead widening. The news media have called it. The good news that Whoopie and her View crew have been proclaiming for months is all but official: Hail to the chief!

Finally, real change is in store for America. Isn't it just about time? Hallelujah! I can't wait! The long national nightmare is over! Happy days are here again!

No need for the good guys to threaten to run off to Canada.

The changes will probably be obvious only minutes after the One takes office. Thank you God.

For Redbeard and Richard: Zombies explained

Max@boomerwebusa.com (Relax Max) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:46:00 +0000

I stole this from Petra who stole it from god knows who. I thought I had already posted this theft. You simply must watch this clip.

Did I post it already? Sure seems familiar. Too much trouble to look in the archives. Watch it again, please.

Redbeard and Richard. Visit at your own risk.