Random Crap

This week's word is: PERSPICACIOUS- Having keen mental perception.

Naturally, this word is often used to describe me. In our personal correspondence William F. Buckley Jr. sometimes refers to me as the Prince of Perspicaciousness.

Take up the white man's burden
The savage wars of peace.
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease.
When your goal is nearest
An end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring it all to nought.

That is one verse of "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling, a very good poem that I highly recommend. It's about the futility of trying to civilize the mud people.

Last night's summit meeting went well and I, once again, led King Selfish and The Vicar of Vanity to victory over the forces of sobriety.

Humbly yet Omnipotently Yours.
The Archduke

Did anyone notice

that our beloved pres was touring some countries south of the border last week? Did anyone else notice that while traveling in future illegal immigrant land oh Georgie porgie was fellating their president and simultaneously sodomizing his own people? In spite of all the hate spewed by the lefty loonies about the war our biggest let down by Mr. Bush will be his legacy of keeping open the floodgates into our country for ILLEGALS and illegal terrorists. This is simply one of the biggest blunders EVER of any president EVER! The war was/ is necessary in my opinion but the unwilling menage' a trois the American people have been forced into is a perverted sickening shame. Speaking of war, America should never fight another war again. We are like that boxer who is the strongest, fastest , and most skilled of all the boxers in the world but when he is taken to the later rounds he starts doubting his ability to win so he eventually runs away screaming in defeat unable to ever fight again, it is that left brain boxer we have become. SO no more wars for you U.S.A! Well till we can get one of those operations that removes that left portion of our brain at least the far left portion anyways. Well all for me so till then ADIOS AMIGOS!
The Vic

back to Iraq and word of the week

We just put my son in law (along with 230 other soldiers) on a plane to Iraq this morning. It was a lot more fun watching his plane come in than it was watching it fly away, but he's just got 6 months to go then he will be home for good. The first picture is of him holding his SAW (squad automatic weapon), the second is the business end of a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on his HUMVEE, and the third is of the HUMVEE he was driving when it set off an IED. Ordinarily he mans the .50, but for some reason he traded with the driver that day. He said the guy on the .50 got a minor wound and a purple heart and all he got was a mild concussion and some soiled drawers. I informed him that we have enough cool pictures and that there is no need for any further excitement. Hopefully the next six months of his tour will be a little less exhilarating.

Since it is Sunday it must be time for a new word. This week's word is: RECREANT- cowardly, disloyal.

Hollywood's anti-American celebutards are often on camera exhibiting RECREANT behavior.

Try to keep a good thought for the young man pictured above and all of his brothers-in-arms.


Uncharacteristically soberly yours.

THE ARCHDUKE

new word

It's time once again, children, for the word of the week.

This week's word is: SOCKDOLAGER- A heavy, finishing blow.

A sockdolager is something that the Vicar might recieve from giant Leonard Davis if one of their brief men's room encounters goes awry.

Just in case you were wondering, it takes one gallon of gasoline to produce six gallons of gasoline but it only takes four and a half gallons of ethanol to produce six gallons of ethanol. Perhaps next week I'll explain the word inefficient to the econazis.

The Archduke

New Cowboy

The Dallas Cowboys recently signed a most large African-American offensive lineman by the name of Leonard Davis. If memory serves, the Vicar once had a brief encounter with this fine young man in a men's room. Really. But I digress. There was a biographical sidebar in the paper's story about his signing, and in it I noticed something that struck me as quite out of the ordinary. Here's his bio, see if can you find the tidbit. Hint, it has nothing to do with his size.

Ht: 6-6
Wt-366
Age:28
College: UT
Hometown: Wortham , Tx
Notable: Earned the nickname Big after growing to 6-0, 205 pounds as a fifth grader. He was 300 pounds as a seventh grader...Started his college career as a defensive tackle: then played left offensive tackle his junior and senior seasons...Played every position on the offensive line with the exception of center for the Arizona Cardinals...Married with two daughters...Is the youngest of 21 half brothers and sisters...His mother, Sammie Lee, has sisters who live in Dallas.

Well, did you catch it? I thought so. Shocking isn't it? A young black man who is actually married to his baby mama. Go figure.

This is Murder

Unfortunately, the murder rate in New Orleans has come way down from earlier this year. But the good news is there is still a chance for a new American record. Let's take a look.

First, some perspective. The highest murder rate ever for the country as a whole occurred in the year of our me, 1984, and stands at 10.2 per 100,000 people. In case you're wondering, that's 18,700 murders out of a population of 236 million. The murder rate hovered around 9 until it started dropping in the mid nineties, and since 1999 it has been under 6. Still there?

In 1991, Washington D.C., the "murder capital" of the United States, and a nasty place I'm sure, had a murder rate of 80 (Jesus H Christ, that's high!). Over the last ten years or so it has gradually declined to an acceptable--if you live in war zone--35. (in 2005, 195 murders - pop-550,000) I'm trying to hurry.

Real quick. Dallas, just your run of the mill high crime city, has a murder rate of 17.

Now for the good stuff. In 1994 New Orleans set a U.S. homicide record to be proud of. Out of a population of about 500,000 upstanding folks, 425 murders were committed. That, my friend, translates into a homicide rate of a whopping 86. Highest ever in our country. They stand alone, dead. The murder rate in New Orleans has been so high for so long that Louisiana is the only state in the land that has had a double digit murder rate for at least ten years running. And it's not even close. But wait, I've got more.

As of Monday there have been 34 murders recorded in New Orleans so far this year. If my homies can maintain this pace they will finish with a homicide rate of...you ready for this?...ok...97! (Fireworks) The numbers would look like this--population 200,000 -- murders 194 = new national record. I think it's steroids.

Warbal Gloming

Hate to write about this since anyone without an agenda knows that the whole "man is causing the warming of the earth" is an unsupported bag of silliness, but I am gonna say a couple of words. I think the whole point of this made up tragedy is so that lefty leaders can step in and save us which is all about their belief that people need a large loving government to care for them since they can't possibly take care of themselves. That's it. All these Sky is falling scenarios help our government get bigger as it "helps" us. And this MAY include the war on terror but I will talk about that later.
The legislation that will sadly eventually be passed to "combat" the warming is nothing more than a poor tax. It will burden the poorer people in this country tremendously as do many taxes such as gas tax, tobacco tax, alcohol tax and hell even sales taxes in general. The party that stays in power by perpetuating the myth of class difference hurt the have nots they purportedly support. They are always claiming things like Bush is giving tax cuts to the rich and the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. These are straight up lies that the rich democratic leaders spread to keep themselves in power. SOCIALISM I think is their ultimate goal, and ultimately I think they will get it.
All governments eventually self destruct ALL of them do. We are watching the process now. It is probably the beginning of that process but its definitely a mass erosion of the idealism that was put into our original constitution.
Sad thing is this is willful deconstruction. The Al Gores of the world know what they are saying are lies but because it helps perpetuate a socialistic agenda then the ends justify the means. Both sides of course try to stir up their followers by scaring them or pandering and let me be the first one to say that if people vote because of ONE issue such as Global Warming or ABORTION then those people shouldn't be voting. Don't vote. IF you can't see a bigger picture stay home, please.
Anyway there is my ramble I hope all readers who find me a bit put offish or even downright stupid will globally warm up to me since I TRULY KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU.
The Vic

nag,nag,nag

Apparently the demand for snippets of my wisdom is greater than even I imagined. Of late, I have been besieged by a seemingly endless torrent of pleas for more posts. Not being one to ignore my many admirers or withhold the life sustaining water of my wisdom from the arid, barren minds of the masses, here I am. In order to help the intellectually challenged better understand my lessons, I have decided to implement a vocabulary enrichment program. What this means to you is that every Sunday I will add a new word, it's definition, and a short example of how it applies in the real world.

Today's word is: SOMNIFACIENT- Causing or inducing sleep

An example of something somnifacient would be any post pulled directly from the little diary (he likes to call it a journal) that King Selfish keeps hidden under the huge pile of stuffed animals in the corner of his bedroom.

Almost Unbelievably Unselfishly Yours,
THE ARCHDUKE