Musings of the Great Gonzo

All across the nation, in the small towns, in the big cities, along the flowing rivers, and in the shadows of the majestic mountains people are preparing to enjoy their holiday off from work. Parents are loading beach blankets, coolers and sun umbrellas into the trunk of the family van and then strapping their brood into car seats for the trek to the beach. Couples are driving the winding roads of Napa Valley in their convertible, the top down, happily chatting about the last winery they visited. Barbeque pits are being fired up and beer bottles are being opened. And for most of these people not a thought is being given to the men and women this day is meant to honor. I woke up this morning after sleeping in a bit and channel surfed a bit past Fox News channel. They were broadcasting live from Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. They were honoring the men and women who had given their lives in service to our great nation. In the past year over 1,000 of our brave young...

Campaign promises have always been hard to swallow, and politics has always been a seedy business, but the NEE Party in Belgium has made some promises and lowered politics even further below the belt. Tania Derveaux, the leading candidate for the two-year-old NEE Party (“no” in Belgian) has promised to perform an act Bill Clinton is very familiar with to the first 40,000 men who write ‘NEE’ on their ballot during the country’s elections on June 10. What act, you ask? Well, let’s just call it a Lewenski. On the group’s website ( http://www.nee-antwerpen.be/index-eng-blow.htm ) the terms of service are spelled out explicitly: Description of Services The Services consist of Tania performing fellatio on selected individuals who have requested the Services through this form. Travel and other expenses will be covered by NEE. Any sort of recording (video, audio or photographs) of the performance is strictly prohibited without written permission. We adhere to high standards of service but d...

And the wild speculation begins. Hurricane season is only a week or so away here in Florida and the forecasters are ramping up the doom and gloom machine. As many as, “…13 to 17 named storms are expected to form during the six-month Atlantic hurricane season that starts on June 1, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA.)” Let’s see, how accurate have these guys been in the past? Not very. But, let’s let the numbers prove it out. In 2006 a more active than usual season was predicted. An average year has just fewer than 10 storms. The predicted number for 2006 was 17 – we got nine of which only two made landfall. So, the unusually active year really was just average. In 2005 – the deadliest and most active hurricane season in over 150 years – the prediction was 13, we got 28. Slightly more than average (insert sarcasm). Not only that but, the world witnessed the erasure of an entire metropolitan area, billions of dollars worth of damage and hundre...

Ok, so I don’t like the guy. I find him to be an ignorant, self-important, pompas ass. But, in his new documentary he may hit upon some interesting points that hit way too close to home for many Americans. Who is this rogue that I so loathe, yet hate myself for finding his views on this particular subject both fascinating and infuriating? None other than the idiot darling of the left, the prince liberalist, the schlock-meister of modern documentary, Michael Moore. After alienating the Republican Party and Bush supporters everywhere with his 2004 Cannes Film Festival award winning “Fahrenheit/911,” Moore is back at Cannes with his new documentary “Sicko” in which his aim is placed squarely on the sad shape of the U.S. medical industry. This new film focuses on the failings of American medicine, the greed surrounding big insurance and pharmaceuticals, and the lack of vision in the government to fix the problems. He compares the care received by citizens of other countries such as Great B...

And so it begins, after a record drought in northeast Florida and southeast Georgia, the hurricane season rears its ugly head a few weeks early. Just this morning the National Weather Service has issued what they are calling it Special Tropical Disturbance Advisory. Here’s the text: A NON-TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...CENTERED ABOUT 175 MILES EAST OF JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA AND ABOUT 160 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA...HAS BEEN MOVING SLOWLY WESTWARD AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THE LOW IS PRODUCING GALE-FORCE WINDS NEAR THE COASTS OF NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH CAROLINA...GEORGIA AND NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA. THIS SYSTEM HAS CHANGED LITTLE SINCE THIS EVENING...AND NO SIGNIFICANT STRENGTHENING IS EXPECTED. THE LOW IS BEING MONITORED FOR SIGNS OF TROPICAL OR SUBTROPICAL CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT...AND AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULE TO INVESTIGATE THE SYSTEM TOMORROW MORNING. Don’t get me wrong, we REALLY need the rain around here. It has been so long since we hav...

She’s at it again. Sheryl Crow, the one-woman crusader against hygienic rear-ends, has written in her blog crying about how the media spun her words and how she was the butt of jokes on late night TV. Sheryl, baby, what did you expect? You know the world we live in; if you are in the public eye and make a stupid statement, you can expect to called out for it. But wait, Sheryl now says that when she proposed a limitation on the number of squares of toilet paper we should be allowed to use she was only making a joke . That may well be true, but it was a pretty bad one and a lot of folks did not take it that way on initial reading. In her rant, posted to her blog Friday, May 4, she goes on to talk about how the media is out of control and that news stories are spun with little or no fact-checking. I must say, I am one of those who read her blog and on first reading thought she was just another tree-hugging liberal activist with an agenda (which, of course, she is) who is riding the...