The Warspite Archives This document is a compilation of the writings and posts of our web laureate Warspite. Almost all of his posts are included here, the short ones as well as the long ones, I have omitted some of the shorter posts, those that are only replies etc, and those are the only ones not included. I have done NO editing, the mis-spellings and mis-typings (due to his eyesight problems) are included, I wanted to do nothing to diminish the personality of his writing and thinking. The date and title of each section is also a hyperlink to the thread containing the post. They start with his first post of January 18, 2005 and end with his grandson’s announcement of his passing on November 2, 2005. Take a little time to reflect and be grateful for his magnificent prose. January 18, 2005: Apropos of Nothing… It’s funny-the Gollum is really Smegol bit. I am sadly still a student at a liberal eastern private school(that means the only black people are from the Sudan) and have been forced to sit through class after class “deconstructing” all the usual dead white suspects. Whenever I come across yet another meaningless and silly expression-the by-product of the cultural shallowness where terms are so general as to express everything and nothing-I have a rule. I refuse to use the term and just write in “Smegol”. If they really piss me off, they get “Gollum”. So, instead of pondering the correct usage of “gestalt” or “ziegliest”, you get the creepy, fish eating, evil, twisted but lovable original owner of the “Precious”. March 8, 2005: Time to Clean out the Sty Who among the policy elite of the USA is famed for being quoted saying “I don’t do carrots”? Is it: 1) The Chairperson of “Friends of Sappho” 2)Head of the medical group representing Ophthalmologists nationwide 3)Donald Duck 4)The new US Rep. to the U.N. Answer is: ALL OF THE ABOVE! March 9, 2005: There Goes Gunga Dan… I am, sadly, remined of another demise:” you won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore”. What did this walking hubris moinster in was his own agenda-reeking reporting. When a plot against the leadership fails…. March 10, 2005: Official Imperial Attire… “”Oderint dum metuant”? Let me guess-Caligula? Oh, and I am in with the tee is tres kewlski. March 10, 2005: Official Imperial Attire… Speed, in the Star Wars universe, greater than the speed of light, was interrupted by proximity to gravity wells. The faster one travelled, the closer one could pass to an object of mass without being thrown off course, and thus, the more direct a route one could take around stellar obstacles. Ergo, a parsec, while a measure of distance, can also be taken as a measure of speed. March 22, 2005: ACLU, Once Again, Sides With Enemies of the U.S. I too am terrified by the thought of middle-aged CPA’s with walkie-talkie’s and flashlights stalking the Rio Grande with the prerequisite ACLUers stalking them like perverts in the park but ask yourself: who is running the show now? Sorry to burst your bubble, Comrades, but it is us.The real problem is not in Arizona or Mexico–it is Washington. The USA could, anytime and with relative ease, take a few very simple steps that would solve the “problem” of people swarming across the southern border like it sprung the proverbial leak. I will not insult the intellects of the Collective Empire(TM?) by listing these. Instead, I would request permission to inquire why these obvious measures have not been taken. This is a much worse situation, in my humble(yeah, right) opinion than even the “Minutemen” realize. As a hard core GOP troglodyte, I am pissed beyond measure that my boys have screwed the pooch on this one-big time. I know the reasoning-the political plan of Meroveians-I mean I know why Mexico is moving north in a tsunami and we are going along with it all. I just think that it is wrong and worse than wrong-it is at this point stupid. When things in Iraq went to s$@# and a tough election ahead, all quiet on the southern front was the order of the day. OK, done. I know all about the emerging Hispanic-GOP majority-notice, I am yawning? Why are we handing Mrs. Clinton a moon-bat to clobber us with and believe me she will not hesitate for one NY minute to beat us to death with it. So, wake up, Karl, your base is calling-rethink your strategy as it is not going to work. And while your on the phone to your pal Vinny Fox telling him to put a diaper on his monthly flow, might also inform him of the Vast Imperial Displeasure he is creating whilst sucking up to the Commie Chinese. Maybe Vinny thinks they need more undocumented farmworkers in Hunan? Or maybe he wants to buy a low-milage, easy-payment almost used Aircraft March 23, 2005: Well, That’s ONE Way of Putting It… It is just plain monsterous to starve a human being to death. This is not euthanasia-this is cold blooded, legalized, murder. Those among us who kill dozens of our fellow humans at random, when caught, tried and convicted of the most horrible and inhuman crimes are at worst executed by gas, electric currect or lethal poisons. Not Terri. She gets to be slowly starved to death. This is not about religion. This is not about “the right to die”. It has nothing to do with Wade v. Roe. This is not about the right of a “husband” versus a family to have standing in a court. It is not even about jurisdiction. No constitutional issue, no political issue. This is about slowly killing a human being by taking away food and water. I am filled with shame at my country for allowing this to happen. A tidal wave of anger and resentment is in me, like a black acid eating at my heart, a rage against the authorities who seem to be so gracelessly willing to allow and endorse the torture and murder of this poor woman. If this can happen like it has everyone has a responsibility, at the very least, to be alarmed. This is not the wild, mad act of one crazed person-this is far, far worse. We are witnessing the structural breakdown of our judicial and political decision making system and it needs to be sorted out before she is dead. This break down-so obvious and brutal-of any semblence of humaneness in the system and what seems to my inexpert observation to be some very questionable behavior and facts-well, obviously something, very deep and vital, is very broken. It needs fixing and it needs fixing right now. I believe to their great credit, the National Government and the Republican Party-as well as many brave people on the what I can’t believe I have to call “the other side” in all this, have done remarkable things to make what must happen happen. But they have, all of them, failed. Failure is not an option and let me tell you why. Failure means that it is acceptable, even encouraged, to allow human beings to be starved to death in the United States. A Federal Judge and a Panel of Judges has refused to stop what a person could actually go to jail for in most places in America if done to a pig, a cat or even a fish! Terri can be denied food and water but if I treated what I am going to have for dinner in the same fashion I would be arrested-is that acceptable to you? It is not to me-it seems so contrary to everything I was born and bred to believe this country stood for. Guess I was wrong. We have, is seems so very clear, lost our way in the detail and abandoned our souls along the way. Those men and women people like me have helped put in positions of power must act right now. Especially my Republican Party-the people who more or less think like I do who are in power and now, finally, after so long in the wilderness, in exile, now we control the government and must do whatever is necessary. They tried once-good for them. They must be made to act again. If a method in legalese can not be found and the power of the Judges in our system proves actually greater than the Legislative and Executive acting in concert(!), it becomes necessary for all the stodgy GOP types to actually get the House and Senate and the President and members of the Courts-all who will go-and fly to Florida and picket. Let ALL of the Leadership get locked up bring her food and water. I mean it folks-it will be political suicide for the Republican Party if she dies-we must make sure our leaders get off the golf course: they must find a way out of this and find in right now. They talk a good game but they now run things and it is up to them to succeed. They claim to be for the culture of life. They claim to understand the importance of what is happening. If they still can not discover a way to act and win they must go to the street and to the people.