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The Successful Narrow minded

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The Successful Narrow Minded

 I recall the first time I was called a true Renaissance man.  I had no Idea if I had just been insulted or complimented.  The person I was talking to was quite successful so I figured since it was just him, his wife and myself, it was probably the latter.  I was saying to myself: “Isn’t a Renaissance man the guy that use to fly over the enemy territory and report the location of the enemy troops?

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No that would be a Reconnaissance Man.  The fact that I knew what a reconnaissance man was should have given me some indication of what a Renaissance man was.  I think my father used a simpler version when he would call me a “Jack of all trades and a master of none”.   That was usually followed up with the question: “What are you going to do with your life”?  50 years later; I’m still asking myself that question.

I wish had I a real passion and was focused.  But we live in a society where, as Greg Gutfeld says: “You can order anything”.  The age of the Renaissance man seems to have come and gone. (A person who has done it all).  This is no shit.  I can speak 5 languages. (3.5 fluently) I’ve taken out a woman’s ovary (endoscopically) in surgery and I’ve changed two engines and 3 transmissions.

I’ve also recorded 4 albums.  Three of them were released on Urban Camo records.

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But this story is about narrow minded success.  If you ask anyone in almost any Industry how to be successful, they’ll say: “Find what you enjoy and become an authority on the subject.  Hell, you can be known as the world’s authority on the best ways to attach erasers to wooden pencils.

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But how fucking pathetic is that?  Narrow minded success has a fancy name; it’s called branding.  I’ll give an example.  Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy and Johnny fell in love with Iggy Pop’s music.  They went into the garage and made history.  With the exception of blues music, you would be hard pressed to find anything narrower in musical existence.  But when someone says: “Name a Punk Band” 9 times out of ten times, someone will say: “The Ramones” or even “Los Ramones”.

Ramones

In the entertainment industry they have a name for that, it’s called: “A Handle”.  It’s so impossible for a Renaissance man to be successful because he or she is never content doing the same fucking thing over and over.  This is why I have so much appreciation for the Band Queen.  What genre do you put them under?  Freddie ended up doing Opera, yet this band gained its’ following playing punk and rockabilly.  In the DVD Queen live at Wembley, the band goes from a rockabilly medley playing Ricky Nelson and Little Richard covers to playing “Bohemian Rhapsody”.  The eclectic shift brought tears to my eyes when I first saw it.  And a band that can go from Tutti Frutti to Bohemian Rhapsody is incredible. (To me)

Foreve2r Fred and Brin FreddiePower

I have three commercial albums.  The first was a Blues/pop album designed to showcase my guitar prowess.  The second was a metal version of Rockabilly.  Finally I did an album that was written for the sequel to the cult movie “The Secret”.  Unfortunately, there never was a sequel.  But my musical talent is at its’ best on this album.  In almost every interview people say: “It sounds like you’re having so much fun”.  It was fun because I wasn’t tied down to one genre on the album.  I did power punk, rap, prog rock and a power ballad.  That pretty much describes my life.

I like it all.  I could never be the authority on all things politically conservative.  I love Baseball and would love to converse on the topic with Charles Krauthammer.  But I could never be a Baseball writer or announcer.  I’d love to write about how Bobby Flay got interested in Southwestern cuisine.  But my love for the BF-109G is even more attractive to me.

Baseball    Bobby Flay at the UncorkÕd MastersÕ Series Dinner The MESA Grill at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada May 7, 2009. © RD / Kabik / Retna Digital  K1squad

I was offered a chance to audition as a sports announcer for a TV station on the Monterey Peninsula and I was honest with the station manager.  I said, ya know, it’s an honor, but it’s not my passion.  I’d get tired of it in 6 months and shoot myself.

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I just don’t know how people can devote their ever so short lives to being an authority on taking out tonsils or writing a blog on N scale model trains.

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I enjoy the various gifts that life has to offer to much to be known as the Carl Sagan of Astronomy or the Susan Miller of Astrology.  I like nasty burritos in Mexican restaurants condemned by the health department as well as Sashimi or Veal picata.  I’ll never be successful as defined by this culture.

Tin Man

 In a sentence: “My brain contains more crap than I ever wanted to know”.

 

 

In Russia it’s the 4th of July

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IN RUSSIA IT’S THE 4th OF JULY IN AMERICA

IT’S INDEPENDENCE DAY

The Patriot

I’ve finally reached the end of my rope with Americans that don’t respect their country. And I know they mean well, but damn it, Today is “Independence Day”.  You do not say: “Happy 25th of  December or Happy first of January”.   On your Birthday do you get a card that says, Happy June 22nd?  The 4th of July is just a day on the calendar. Independence Day should make you reflect on the sacrifices of the “Minute Men” and “The Sons of The American Revolution” . It should make you think about the courage of the George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons and Nathan Hale. Nathan Hale was barely 21 when he chose death over selling out his country. He was hung as a spy for the “Colonists”.

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Today is a day many will appreciate as a 3rd day of a 3 day week end. Barbeque sales will be at their peak today. Many pre-school students will associate the term “Independence Day” with ID4. The Will Smith movie where we defend our planet from Aliens. In a sad way, it seems that Hollywood wants to overlook the essence of the real “Independence Day” and replace it with a “New World Order” Independence day.  If you want your kids to get a better Idea of what we’re celebrating, let them watch “The Patriot”.

The Movie

Today please remember; “Freedom is not free”.  A price was paid for our autonomy. The willingness to FIGHT for our freedom was the cost of freedom. Those who risked their lives and those who sacrificed their lives; paid the ultimate price of freedom.  No, freedom is not free.  It never was and never will be.

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If you can put down your bottle rockets, or your barbequed chicken wing long enough to reflect back on the Love and sacrifice that was shown for Liberty, you will indeed be glorifying the true meaning of Independence Day.

Patriot movie

 

 

 

 

The Music Industy and Washingtion D.C.

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The Music Industry and Washington D.C.

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I was listening to Frank Zappa in the early days talking about the decline of the “Record” industry.  He talked about how when it all started, you had big fat guys with cigars that didn’t know what they were doing, but they “Took a chance on something new”.  Frank actually uses the term “Entrepreneurial attitude’.  He was referring to the 60’s.  This was before auto-tune and lip syncing at live concerts that you pay 75 bucks a seat for.

Frank goes on to say that once the old cigar smoking execs were successful with this new music; they didn’t know how to handle it so they felt they needed a “Hippie” in the office to tell them what the kids liked.

Frank tells us that eventually the Hippie gets promoted to the position of an A&R representative (Artist and Repertoire) who got an office and a desk to put his feet up on.  Soon the Hippie was telling the old guys what the kids wanted to hear because HE was the official spokesperson for all young kids.  HE KNEW WHAT WAS BEST FOR THE RECORD COMPANY.

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2009, Washington D.C. Barak Obama and Nancy Pelosi who was the speaker of the house put forward a monstrous, gigantic socialized health bill that despite a 73% disapproval rating, got shoved through in the middle of the night.  Why?  Because Obama/Reid/Pelosi knew what was best for America.

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Gee that sounds familiar.  By the way; has anyone seen the music industry lately?

The first 2 minutes of this video are Frank explaining the shape of the American government.  Only he’s using the music industry as a “Parable”.  He was a prophet.

 

The PERSON & THEIR Work

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The Man and His Work

Can you separate them?

Penn

 

WE live in a time when the needs of the many are outweighed by the needs of a few.  We live in a time when a Georgetown University Law Center attorney complains that an entire political party is declaring war on women because she cannot get the Tax Payers to pay for her contraceptive pills.

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There are worlds where what you are should be consistent with what you do.  I do not want a child molester working at a daycare center.  I do not believe that a non-repentant terrorist should be teaching in Universities.

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Lastly I do not feel that those who could not pass an FBI exam should be able to run for office of the President of the United States.  That’s just to name a few situations where the person’s personal character is fair game when it comes to criticizing their work.  Look at our President.  He was voted in because he was cool.  Not because he was a good potential President.

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Some careers were meant for the criminally insane.  For example, painting.  Hitler wanted to be a painter but his paintings just never caught on.  Just imagine how many people would be alive today had he been a little more talented with the brush.

Hitler landscape

Not bad…..

Some careers (I feel) require a calling.  Mainly the clergy.  I’ve seen many wonderful preachers that knew the Bible inside and out and could sound like thunder in front of a congregation.  Ya see, this occupation is quite enigmatic.  Is it better to have a preacher who can bless you with the word of God, then in his spare time court prostitutes; or have a preacher that can cure insomnia with their sermons but are as pure as Ned Flanders?

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In 1992 Steve Martin in a movie called “Leap of Faith” played the role of a traveling Evangelist that would roll into towns and set up a circus tent and “save souls”.  He would clean the Christians of their sins and their money.  In the movie (Which I feel is one of Martin’s best works after L.A. Story) his bus breaks down in a cow town in Kansas which has been stricken by a drought.  Martin’s character is good.  He’s a con-man that gets every last penny the worshippers have to donate.  Only in this town, the people have very little money but are need of a true miracle.

Martin

They need rain so bad they give money they don’t have.  Martin, who has been a con-artist since the age of 15 gets involved with the people of the town and is torn between taking them; or praying for them.  At the end of the movie Martin is seen “skipping” town on a big rig while the township waits for their miracle.  In the final scene the truck driver asks Martin, are you in trouble?  Martin replies: “For the first time, No”!  The truck is seen driving off as rain falls upon the small farming town.

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Many people say: “I can’t watch that actor’s movies because I hate their politics.  (Sean Penn)?  Again, I’m not paying to hear him talk about politics.  Sean Penn is fine actor.  My favorite actor, Robert DeNiro, is a liberal.  I found out that his father was gay and this explained much of it for me, but unlike the activists who use their fame as a political platform (George Clooney) DeNiro has always been low keyed and level headed about politics.  Yet I’ve never engaged in a political conversation with DeNiro and do not care if I ever do.

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I happen to know an orthopedic surgeon that will remain nameless, that has tremendously poor bedside manners.  His ratings on “YELP” really suck.  But he’s the best Orthopedic Surgeon I’ve ever seen.  On the other hand, the worst orthopedic surgeon I’ve ever known was just loved by his patients.  Although he would operate on the wrong extremity, they would trust him enough to let him do the correct extremity a second time.  They would come in with ink on the wrong extremity saying: “Not This LEG”.  This guy was awful but his patients (usually little old ladies) just loved him.

The other guy with the poor bedside manners has saved many a young Major League Baseball players’ careers.  (For that matter, NBA and NFL players) Yet he gets judged on his smile and sensitivity instead of his technical surgical prowess.  Again, I’m not paying him to be happy and funny.  I’m paying him to fix my knee. (The correct one).  Keep that in mind.  Great technicians are not always the most laid back individuals.

Gandhi

I will leave you with one quote from Gandhi.  He claimed that life was one whole unit.  I think his exact words were: “You cannot do good in one aspect of life; while trying to do bad in another.  Life is one indivisible whole”.   There are times when we need to separate the different hats that people wear.  The Great doctor with the poor bedside manner is not a nurse.  He’s a mechanic.  I’m not paying him to hold my hand and tell me: “You’ll do just fine”.  I’d just as soon not see anyone and wake up with a perfect surgical result.

Watching a Sean Penn movie will not make me a communist or a communist supporter.  On the other hand, trusting my life or my family member’s life to a doctor that I know has an abuse problem is negligent on my behalf.

Next time we’ll take it one step further and talk about how I can still “Love” someone I can’t stand.

 

 

 

KILLERS PART II

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PART II

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THE BODY COUNT

We’ve discussed the 6 million Jewish Germans that were put to death in the Nazi Death Camps.  (An Idea put into action by Heinrich Himmler).  As for culpability, the German people had two choices, remain silent or join those in the death camps.

There used to be an old saying in the Wild West of the United States: “An armed society is a polite society”. 

In WWII Germany, rumors could get you and your whole family sent to one of Himmler’s concentration camps.  And yes; Himmler was crazy.  Just as Obama had a “Hate” line (E-mail line) that went to Valarie Jarret’s white house, The SS or Hitler’s Secret Security, would investigate claims that someone’s neighbor was harboring Jews.  Or if a person didn’t like someone, I could simply say: “I overheard a plot to kill “Der Führer”.  More times than not a Gestapo agent would not ask questions.  So you said very little and you had to know who you were talking to.  Once again, an armed society is a polite society.  In other words, don’t piss off your neighbor.

So we know about the 6 million Jews, deformed or genetically undesirable that died in concentration camps as well as alleged traitors.   I might add that at the end of the war, Russia took 10 million German Troops as POWs (Or what was left of them) and over the duration of 10 years, they had managed to kill off 8 million of them. (Most by starvation; a stereotypical communist technique)  Hitler’s regime killed less than a thousand German “Aryan” nationals.  (Including those who were victims of the “Night of the long knifes” or the night Hitler had all of his suspected internal enemies killed off, mainly Ernst Röhm who was one of Hitler’s Beer Hall friends in the 1920s and co-founder of the Nazi party. (Yet he was the brown shirt leader of the S.A. which was 5 Million strong and Himmler was intimidated by Rohm’s power)  But if you include the deaths of those in the Alliance, Hitler is directly responsible for another “estimated” 15 million deaths bringing the third Reich’s total kill number to an estimated 21 Million.  This is small change compared to the people you didn’t learn about in your history class.  In fact, the faculties of Universities like to speak of the next two Killers as though they were the Mayans offering sacrifices.  You’ll see how some in this administration praises the most egregious killer.

Flag of the People's Republic of China                                     USSR

Although it may seem like a religion to many professors, Communism is responsible for the death of well over a hundred Million innocent victims in the 20th Century.  It happened while many of you reading this were playing little league baseball, cooking with your easy bake oven or protesting the Vietnam War.

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 JOSEPH STALIN

 In February 1989, two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a research paper by Georgian historian Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev was published in Argumenti i Fakti.  ”It’s important that they published it, although the numbers themselves are horrible,” Medvedev told the New York Times at the time.

”Those numbers include my father.”

Medevedev’s bookkeeping included the following episodes: 1 million imprisoned or exiled between 1927 to 1929; 9 to 11 million peasants forced off their lands and another 2  to 3 million peasants arrested or exiled in the mass collectivization program; 6 to 7 million killed by an artificial famine in 1932-1934; 1 million exiled from Moscow and Leningrad in 1935; 1 million executed during the ”Great Terror” of 1937-1938; 4 to 6 million dispatched to forced labor camps; 10 to 12 million people forcibly relocated during World War II; and at least 1 million arrested for various “political crimes” from 1946 to 1953.

Stalins body count

In his book, “Unnatural Deaths in the U.S.S.R.: 1928-1954,” I.G. Dyadkin estimated that the USSR suffered 56 to 62 million “unnatural deaths” during that period, with 34 to 49 million directly linked to Stalin.  Remember this is the same Stalin that gave the Red Army orders to Rape, loot and murder in Berlin in April of 1945.

In his book “Europe A History,” British historian Norman Davies counted 50 million killed between 1924-53, excluding wartime casualties.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the literary giant who wrote about the Soviet gulag system, claimed the true number of Stalin’s victims might have been as high as 60 million.  Not exactly chump change; but a distant second place/runner up compared to the killer of all killers.

AND THE WINNER IS………………

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 MAO ZEDONG

With all of these estimates having an error factor of 5 to 10 million,  the Chairman comes in around 76 Million.  Remember, these are not Chinese who died from a Japanese bayonet.

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After 4 years of research, author Frank Dikötter writes in his best seller “Mao’s Great Famine” that 45 million Chinese died prematurely from the result of an artificial famine induced by Mao’s restriction of water to the nationalists.  The Chinese cultural revolution caused the death of 30 million that were gunned down (according to the current Chinese government), but most died of hunger.

76M Dead                 Genecide China

It was genocide pure and simple.  (Ironically, genocide is a term commonly used by the media in conjunction with the Jewish holocaust).  Once again, blame Hitler.  But Hitler was a fascist.  (A right wing dictator)  Whereas Stalin and Mao were straight out leftist communists.  The school system and modern politics including the media give Mao and Stalin a pass while Hitler makes for great Television.  The History Channel use to be nicknamed the “Hitler Channel”.

Now that you know the truth, please watch this speech given by Anita Dunn of the Obama administration given to a High School class.

 

 

And this was photographed on the Obama White House Christmas Tree.

Obama Christmas ornament

 

 

HITLER DID US A FAVOR

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PART 1

Nazi Evil

What they didn’t teach you in school. 

Many liberal history professors who like to talk about America getting the Bomb before Germany enjoy spewing the rhetoric: “Had we not beat Germany to the punch; we would all be speaking German”.  I’m here to say that Hitler did us a favor and we would all be Communist and speaking Russian.

Cpl Hitler

I’m here to say that Hitler was not crazy, but rather angry.  Reports of Hitler being asexual or having Syphilis is just that, speculation.   I’m also here to say that He became drunk with power.  Hitler’s hatred for the Jews stemmed from his hatred for communism. (Perhaps a reason most liberal professors paint Hitler as the Iconic face of evil in the 20th century.  Once Hitler realized that he was beaten at Leningrad; it was, in essence, the beginning of the end.  His paranoia increased, his desire to micromanage lead to his generals talking seriously about assassination.  After the Red Army surrounded the Wehrmacht Hitler started manifesting his inner anger.

 However,

By attacking Russia, Hitler gave us time to get to the Peenemünde labs and champion the Nazi Scientists involved in operation paperclip before Colonel Hans Kammler could kill them all.  Had that information fallen into Stalin’s hands, Stalin would have used it on the free democratic societies of the world without hesitation.  We got a taste of Stalin’s lawlessness and War crimes when 8 million Deutsche Frauen were brutally RAPED and or Killed in Berlin by the Red Army.

Hitler

Our History books and the mid-stream media have painted Hitler as the definition of evil.  But if you study Hitler’s background, he was an undereducated yet zealous/patriotic soldier of WWI who felt back stabbed by the Communist party in Germany causing an end to the war in Europe in 1918. (While Germany was gaining the upper hand)  It just so happens that the Communist party in Germany was comprised of mainly Jewish workers.

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America, Canada, England and France won WWI without setting a foot on German land.  It’s my POV that without the cruel punishment in the way of reparations of the Treaty of Versailles, we might have avoided a WWII.

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Yet in High School and College we’re taught two numbers.  If you remember 2 numbers about WWII it’s 2 and 6 million.  We dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan, and Hitler killed 6 million Jews.  The two numbers in the 20th century you probably haven’t heard of are the numbers 76 Million and 42 Million.

Be sure to catch Part II in the next issue at Ace’s Café Americain.

 

 

The Pathetic 71%

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A recent report came out in the U.S. that claims that 71% of teens old enough to join the military would not qualify.  Which only makes one wonder what criteria was used for qualifying an individual for the Presidency of the United States.

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Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

When I was a teen, I joined the military because my family had fallen apart.  I was basically a 17 year old albatross around my father.  (Who had zero parenting skills) I use to have to enroll myself in school.  I use to have to cook my own meals. Plus, I grew up in the 60’s watching TV Shows that glorified War Heroes.  (This was before the Bill Ayers went around telling anti-war fools that it was cool to spit on America’s finest) When I was 6 years old, I can remember trying to stay awake to watch the greatest TV show of all time.  Combat.  In my neighborhood you fought over who got to be Sgt. Saunders or Lt. Hanley.  For some reason I never had a problem playing the nasty German. 🙂

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Sadly, Patriotism has been simulated in Video Games. Combat the TV show

has now been replaced by:

GAME: six days in fallujah

The reason for disqualifications are far from surprising.  The major obstruction for America’s would be finest teens is…………. wait on it……………….Obesity.

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Then next is substance abuse.

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After that there’s a plethora of conditions that create the undesirables.

A record of Felonies

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Tattoos.  In the military, you can only have ink on (Less than) 25% of a body part and must not show with your uniform on.  This why you see old “Sea Dogs” in the Navy with their chest and shoulders only inked up.

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Another reason, sadly, yet not surprising, was the result of the public school system.

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Our country will be in a big hurt should we have an urgent and sudden “Call to arms”.  The fat Cheetos eating 19 year olds who live in their parents basement browsing porn and playing “Call to Arms” would not qualify to answer the call.