Month: January 2005

1) Outraged conservatives who think they’re going to bother me when they announce that they’re going to stop reading my books can forget it. I don’t worry about whether saying what I think is going to cost me money because I don’t put a dollar value on speaking the truth as I see it.

2) I will henceforth be treating some of the more belligerent conservatives in the spirit they’re treating me. Specifically, there seems to be this belief that liberals should just shut up even though they don’t like the way things are. So any conservative postings that I don’t like, I will shut up for them, thus enabling me to practice on their behalf what they preach on mine. Particularly postings that consist mainly of insults pertaining to race, color, creed and national origin.

Back to the snow.

PAD

Since freedom is so important to the President that he felt the need to mention the word over two dozen times in his speech, we here at peterdavid.net felt that–in the interest of a new spirit of bipartisanship and cooperation–we should try to spread the concept of freedom wherever and whenever possible.

Hence the “Freedom Clock,” which is either at the side of the page or at the bottom, depending upon your browser. The Freedom Clock will be ticking down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until this country is finally free of George W. Bush…barring premature departure such as impeachment or being tried for war crimes, or an extended stay should some bright Republicans try to repeal Section one of the 22nd Amendment (which I doubt they’d do since it would free up Clinton to run again, and they won’t want to risk that.)

So as the bad news continues, check in every so often to remind yourself that, like any bad meal, this too shall pass.

PAD

And as I look outside, the snow is coming down in waves. This isn’t boding well for the weekend.

Fortunately, we have a cunning plan. We’re going to crack out our director’s cut editions of the “Lord of the Rings” and watch the entire trilogy. That’ll kill twelve hours right there, not even counting the extras. We got popcorn, we’ve got cookies to bake, I’ve got a novelization to finish. Should be a quiet weekend.

PAD

Behold Lee Weeks original pencils of the cover for issue #81. A tribute to Frazetta’s oft-hommaged Molly Hatchet cover, it gets my vote as “Cover Most Likely To Be a t-shirt by next year.”

PAD

The concluding issue of our little miniseries. Whad’ja think?

PAD

On this national day of mourning, a.k.a. Inauguration Day, I am going to offer a radical idea on how to fix Social Security. Ready? Here it is.

We stop sending Americans to get killed.

Consider: At the end of “Schindler’s List,” it is stated that due to the 1100 Jews saved because of Schindler, the result was 6000 Jews who lived that would never have been born.

So over a period of ten years back in the 1960s, we lost 50,000 Americans. I’m not mathematician enough to calculate the number of Americans who were never born as a result: Americans added to the workforce, whose salaries would have contributed to social security, or who would have founded companies to hire people whose salaries, etc. But I would not hesitate to guess that would be a lot of warm bodies, all paying in to the program.

But they were killed or never existed. If, as Bush and Company believe, life begins at conception, then certainly they must give a nod toward conception that won’t occur.

Apparently, though, not so much. Because there’s already 1300 names on Bush’s list. So that’s…what? Another 6500 Americans who won’t be born over the next thirty years? We can’t even begin to wrap ourselves around the immensity of the tragedy involved in the sheer waste of young life. We can barely comprehend the “Daily News” headline that reads “Iran Next! Secret US commando teams already inside to identify potential targets, report claims.” So instead we must dwell on the pragmatic aspects, because the human horror and waste of American lives (not to mention Iraqi lives ranging anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000) is just too ghastly to contemplate.

Fix Social Security. Stop Bush’s list from growing.

PAD

The following will give you a link over to Lee Weeks’ cover for Hulk #80.

http://users.rcn.com/lweeks/images/Hulk080_cvr_72.jpg

Within the next day or so I’ll also be putting up Lee’s pencils for the cover of issue #81 which will be–I’m willing to bet–a t-shirt before the year is out.

PAD