Mark Bossingham

Saving Jane

BUY THIS album immediately if not sooner. You won't be alone. I guarantee platinum. This woman, this band, kicks total ass.

Yes on UAE

YOU DIDN'T ask but what the hell, you're not reading this either. It's one of those tree in the forest things. I am very much in favor of the Dubai ports deal. Anything the Longshoreman's Union is against, I am for. Simple isn't it?

NYT attacks Germany

NOT CONTENT to damage the United States with the illegal publication of classified documents, the New York Times has now taken its anti-democracy campaign overseas with the release of more classified information that shows Germany--oh my God, how could they?--helped the United States.
    It's difficult to comprehend how this attack on Germany benefits the NYT's political agenda (the paper of record long ago stopped representing reader interests), other than the obvious: If you help Washington, you are our enemy. And how sick is that?
    BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - German intelligence agents in Baghdad obtained a copy of Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital and it was passed on to U.S. commanders a month before the 2003 invasion, The New York Times reported.
    The report, based on a classified study by the U.S. military, suggests German intelligence officials offered more significant assistance to the United States than their government has publicly acknowledged.
    It could increase the chances of a parliamentary inquiry into the role Germany's BND intelligence service played in the run-up to a war which former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder publicly opposed.
    According to the New York Times report, the Iraqi defense plan provided the American military an extraordinary window into Iraq's top-level deliberations, including where and how Saddam planned to deploy his most loyal troops.

Congratulations Shizuka

IN ONE of the more memorable Gold-medal performances (thank God they barred children--remember "bouncy" Tara Lipinski?) Shizuka Arakawa easily saw off her competition with a beautiful, inspiring performance. It was a victory for elegance, and composure and a defeat for hype and jingoistic U.S. sportswriters. I have nothing against Sasha Cohen, but that a two-fall performance rates a silver medal is simply absurd. She, at least, had the class to admit it. It's sad most writers had to run down Arakawa's performance to cover their asses after prematurely anointing Cohen as the Olympic champion. Might have been better to wait until the actual competition. Again, congratulations Shizuka.

Me, too

Clash of Idiots

THOSE WACKY Muslim fascists are at it again:
    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - About 10 Libyans were killed in clashes with police when they tried to storm an Italian consulate in Libya on Friday in protests against Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad, Italian officials said.
    Let's face it, these are some seriously stupid individuals. It don't take much to set them to a misbehavin.' And guess what? As long as they burn down their own KFCs, I really don't care. I would prefer they don't shoot kids, but hell, they are the ones dressing their little babes in martyr costumes and dragging them off to the latest "grievance rally." That's life (or death) I suppose.
    A recent poll shows Americans are more inclined to support Israel now than at any time in recent years. Not hard to understand, considering the Palestinians just elected a gang of terrorists as a "government," while a small but deadly portion of the Muslim universe is rampaging through the streets worldwide.
    Fine with me. These are clarifying times. We stand together with Israel or we all go down together.
    Time to go out and buy some Danish.

Cartoon Intifada

OK, YOU lunatics have got my attention. Your hypocrisy, your 7th century intellects, your threats and your sheer stupidity. You may be only one in 10 of all Muslims but that still amounts to 100 million plus extorionist, killers--fascists. Make no mistake, this cartoonish behavior is not about conveniently "hurt feeling"--guess what I don't care much about your feelings--but it is all about politics. To put it rather ungrammatically: There were the Nazis and now there is you. And we all know what happened to the Nazis. Expect the same.

UPDATE – Crazy Noise

WOW! MY novel has just shot up to No. 67 with a bullet on Amazon! OK, maybe that's not true. Regardless, this month's chapter is simply spectacular. It's got it all: love, weird stuff, Harajuku the epicenter of Japanese pop culture and more. Read it; love it; buy it! (click link). In an alternate, more sane universe, the book is carried around in all pockets. People pull out well-read copies to quote favorite passages. Uh-huh.

Narnia vs all the others

FACT FOR THE DAY:
    "The Cronicles of Narnia" has made more money than all five Best Picture nominees COMBINED.
    As George "Pretty Boy" Clooney said, it's been a "fun" year. Kind of a  big "fuck you" from Hollywood to the American people. No, I won't be tuning in for the awards show.

The religion of death

I AM growing a little tired of reading excuses for thugs. I am also more than tired of leftists trying to compare Christians to Muslims. Here is a photo of these killers with their predictable response to anything they don't like. Look around you. See a conflict anywhere in the world. I bet you can guess with almost 100 percent certainty which relgion one side belongs to.