by Peter Boyles | Dec 17, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
Predictions For 2016 Or Why 2016 Should Scare You
Each of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac has unique characteristics; each one corresponds to one animal. Guess which one corresponds to 2016 — the monkey — in fact, the Red Fire Monkey.
My experiences with monkeys have never been good. I was just never able to have a meaningful relationship with a monkey in all my 72 years. I get along well with rats, horses, even sheep and goats, even the occasional snake. But saints preserve us — it’s monkey time, Republican monkeys at that.
So the burning question is what will 2016 bring?
Historians believe there are crossroad years, Epochs, if you would, where history makes decisions — 1941 would be one of the years, 1929, 1861 another, and 1963 following JFK’s assassination. And as frightening as it may sound, 2010 when his father’s Supreme Court decided George W. Bush should be our next president. So here it comes folks, 2016 year of the monkey, when we’re going to make decisions about foreign and domestic policies that will affect us for the rest of my life, your life, and the yet to be born.
The Democrats believe this will be another historic first. We’ve had the first black man, now we’re going to get the first white grandmother. The Republicans are scared to death that if they don’t serve up the Donald, he breaks from the grand old party, runs on his own, and that walks grandma in. We have what some people call the open double, that means the presidential election with no incumbent running in either party, and therein lies the monkey. At some point something’s gotta give.
There’s a war out there. Each day it draws nearer and closer, there’s a body count, there’s insanity abroad, seemingly mindless people presenting the news, worse people heading the country. Again here comes, “the monkey.” In the former Secretary of State’s words, “I’ll run this country in a way that it’s never been handled before.” When Donald Trump proclaims he’ll run the country, he says “wait till I get in office and I’ll show you what I’m going to do.”
Frankly, are you as frightened as I am, when I’m leaning toward Trump, simply because I think it’s going to be fun to watch? With Mrs. Clinton, she and her rapist husband return to fight for inequality for women. We’re almost to the point where Jeb Bush has become, rightfully so, the laughingstock of the Republican Party. I don’t know what you do with the other also Republicans. On the Democratic side, we’ve got an old hippy Socialist who people say went on his honeymoon to the Soviet Union, although it was a guided tour. He seems to want to replicate the French Socialist model in the United States. Gee, we sure need that.
So what to watch for? According to the Chinese historians I have read that speak about the year of the monkey, the monkey is clever, has the passion of fire; great, that could lead to a very deceitful atmosphere. The monkey follows the year of the sheep, which we were told was going to be a very steady year — shows you how much trust you should put in the Chinese Zodiac.
So here we go. You’ll be reading this in January and because of the way the Chinese zodiac reads this year of the red monkey won’t appear for another 60 years. So get ready, another exciting new year is headed your way. I hope the monkey brings you health, prosperity and longevity, but with what I’m watching I wouldn’t count on it.
Let’s hide and watch.
Happy New Year.
— Peter
P.S.: Here’s my Amazing Kreskin moment . . . it’s going to be Hillary, like it or not, she’s going to be your next Potus!!
by Peter Boyles | Nov 23, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
The Light Goes On In Israel About The Insanity Of Islamic Jihadists
I’ve recently returned from Israel, my third trip to the Middle East, my second one this year. While I was in Israel, terrorist bombs blew up a southern part of Beirut, apparently ISIS bombed a Russian airliner killing all on board, and the terrible attacks occurred in Paris. If you go back even to the attack in the United States on 9/11, I think I can come up with a fairly simple profile of who does these things and why.
As politically incorrect as this may sound, make sure the security people at DIA pay attention as you watch them hoist grandma out of her wheelchair wearing Depends to make sure she’s not a threat. I think I know who these people are.
I got cranked on to Sigmund Freud about the middle of my sophomore year in college, where, as you know, the good doctor believed that almost all human behaviors have something to do with sex. Now taking us back in a time machine to when I was of the age of sexual awareness, playing baseball with some older guys, I was taken on my first sexual adventure. I never forgot it.
The motivating force throughout almost all of my life, and other men who are smart enough, have all been driven by … that’s right, sex. Now it’s believed that young men have thoughts about sex about every 35 or 40 seconds. At the grand old age of 72, I find myself thinking about it every 3 or 4 minutes.
In Jerusalem, the centerpiece of all Western faith, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, I believe the most repressive is mainstream Islam. However conservative Christianity and Judaism share that sexual actions are sinful and abstaining from these pleasures is a part of these beliefs. Note to self, you all remember the religious member of your family jumping up and down about gay marriage as if two men who love each other getting married was going to destroy the conservative religious believers of marriage.
So we begin. Imagine you’re a 19-year-old Muslim male and you’re being taught there’s a promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr of Islam. Over here is the pool of young, sexually frustrated Muslim males with no chance of marrying, having nothing to lose and much to gain. To again make my case, in almost every incident suicide bombers have been historically young, unmarried Muslim men. These men join Islamic groups committed to suicidal attacks on infidels to go immediately to paradise to enjoy the beautiful women there.
That’s why I’m reading Roots of Islam. There’s an Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta, who says these little monsters have little to do with religion but everything to do with sex. Sex is unattainable for most young Muslim males, but homeboy, if you just hit this little red button the party starts. How can you go wrong?
As for the women in Saudi Arabia or Iran, and other countries ruled by Sharia laws, none have legal or property rights and certainly not full rights as human beings. Dr. Freud was a great believer in all of this being motivating for behavior at that time in modern Vienna. (Note to self, Freud also thought that cocaine was also the answer to all problems).
Bad treatment and no rights for women, and Islam also tolerates sexual abuse of both boys and girls. Another one of the facts that Freud uncovered in Vienna was that these women had been sexually abused, and remember, if you please Allah, you’re a hero. If you destroy the infidel, you become a good boy. An Islamic hero by becoming a brutal killer. Men are allowed to beat their wives who don’t do what they ask. We’ve witnessed sexual abuse of afghan boys by military and police. It’s an interesting conclusion that political correctness will not allow people to enter that room.
By writing this article I will immediately become an Islamophobe, or simply exercising my white male privilege.
I think we’re watching it work itself out. Remember honor killing? When a young Islamic woman can do such horrible crimes as leaving the house on her own, refusing to enter an arranged mar-riage or dressing in ways that the faith deems inappropriate. Now if that ain’t sexual repression, I don’t know what is.
So I leave you with this one at the holidays. Sexual drive is found by most men and women but apparently remains a mystery to Allah, but you keep kids buttoned up and then tell them all they have to do is hit the red button on a suicide vest and its Christmas morning. And I’ll leave you with one more of uncle Sigmund’s statements, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Nov 2, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
It’s been estimated that the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the American taxpayer between 4 to 6 trillion dollars and resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. The invasion of Iraq was one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history. Politicians, analysts and military historians run from attempting to come up with explanations for the war. In the past in this column we have focused on the lies and deception practiced by the Bush administration, and the motives and causes manufactured by Cheney and company.
The overwhelming evidence is Iraq posed no threat to the U.S., and those who helped manufacture the rationales for the war knew it.
Now comes something even worse. As you may be aware the Bush administration suppressed a 28 page portion of the 2002 Congressional Report attempting to explain the terrorist attacks of September 11th. I waded through the report when it first came out sans the missing 28 pages. It is an 838 page report, chaired by former United States Senator Bob Graham of Florida. Graham now is the leading voice in wanting you and I to know what is in the 28 page portion and why it is classified.
On my morning show on 710 KNUS radio I have now been able to talk with former Senator Graham, as well as Republican Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina, and Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and I’m going to quote you what Thomas Massie said to me about the suppressed pages. He was shocked when he read them, “I had to stop every couple of pages, and just sort of absorb and try to rearrange my understanding of history for the past 13 years and the years, leading up to that.” It challenges you to rethink everything.
Walter Jones is the congressman who investigative reporter James Bovard said, “is best known for coining the phrase ‘Freedom Fries’.” He did so in 2003 when France opposed George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Bovard says Jones has become one of the most outspoken opponents of intervention in Iraq after reading the suppressed pages. Jones introduced a Resolution to the House for the public to be able to read the missing 28 pages. His quote: “The American people deserve the truth, releasing these pages will enhance our national security, not harm it.”
In my second interview with former Senator Graham he indicated that the Saudis are the guilty party, but disclosing Saudi links to 9/11 would have undermined the Bush administration attempt to tie Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.
So as James Bovard asks, “Do you have the right to learn whether a foreign government helped finance the 9/11 attacks?”
One of the saddest moments in reading about these suppressed pages is the Bush administration held back the release of the entire 838 pages until the middle of 2003, after the invasion of Iraq had already begun. Now most recently in a courtroom in New York, on September 28 of this year, the Saudis were dismissed as defendants in the lawsuits brought by the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
The judge, U.S. District Court Judge Daniels, said that the lawyers for the plaintiffs failed to show sufficient evidence to overcome the Saudis’ sovereign immunity.
There is evidence locked away and suppressed. If you’re a member of the House or Senate, my understanding is you can read those by going into a secure room on Capitol Hill if you can get permission from the intelligence community. I’ve read that only 18 Congressmen have done so.
This is like a handgun, fingerprints and tests, are in a police evidenced locker and the judge dismisses a murder case by telling the families of the victim there’s not sufficient evidence, while the gun, the prints and the tests lie behind lock and key. You’ve read my columns many times about my views on President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and the way they manufactured the rationale for the war. As hard as it is for me to say — it’s worse than I imagined. Don’t take my word for this, do your own investigation and come to your own conclusions. Then contact your congressmen and senators, and finally demand the truth of what these people did.
George W. Bush invading Iraq because of 9/11 makes about as much sense as if Franklin Roosevelt had invaded Mexico because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. What would be in those 28 pages if we could read them? The truth, and it’s time to hold that entire corrupt administration responsible for what they did to this country.
More to come, Happy Thanksgiving.
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Sep 25, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
As a boy in Western Pennsylvania, my father would tell me when we would see “hobos,” that the only difference between them and the Mellon family (Pennsylvania’s answer to the Coors family) was money. One of the many things the old man never understood was the term “homeless.” The concept made him nuts. Plus, he also never understood how Nixon became President.
Somewhere along the line since my father died, homelessness has become a noble cause. We are now teaching our children that homelessness is the fault of our society. I’ve spent many dead trees writing about political correctness; homelessness is yet another politically correct noble cause. In 2005, John Hickenlooper, then mayor now governor, launched the “Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.” This was for Hickenlooper the equivalent of the old Soviet’s 10 year plans for the glorious people or Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.”
Under the Hickenlooper administration the glorious people of Denver were going to build glorious shelters, and the glorious homeless were going to be given priority and all would be well. Homelessness would end and there will be once again peace in the valley. But, in the words of Gomer Pyle, “Shazaam!” All you have to do is drive down Speer Blvd. to see John Hickenlooper’s own Great Leap Forward in action. If there ever was a bigger con, I guess it was RTD’s light rail, and all kinds of jive attempts to move the Stock Show.
When the Denver Commission to End Homelessness launched its efforts, most Denverites were really sure there would be no homelessness in 10 years. Now here’s where the rubber meets the road.
Enter “The Dragon,” Denver auditor, Dennis Gallagher. He figured 63 million dollars has been spent ending homelessness in the last 10 years. The auditor figured there were an estimated 3,200 homeless people in Denver. Okay, as I’ve stated before, I can neither do math nor marriage, but we’ve got 63 million dollars spent to end homelessness in 10 years — you would think we would have something to show for it. Instead we appear to have even more homelessness.
If you feed bears, squirrels or birds, what you get are just more bears, squirrels and birds. Auditor Gallagher’s review of Denver’s Road Home, found, and I quote, “they’ve done a poor job of tracking numbers and demonstrating progress.” The auditor went on to say the 10 year goal to end homelessness remains unclear. “We’ve spent all of this money but we don’t know if anything is actually getting better.”
Dennis the Menace is being kind. The Commission to End Homelessness was made up of cronies of Mayor Hickenlooper, paid significant salaries, and given titles such as “Homelessness Advocate,” but they were little more than foxes guarding the hen house.
I gained my sobriety 29 years ago, I spent 25 of those years as a volunteer and board member for the late Bob Coté’s Step 13. As opposed to The Road Home, Bob Coté’s motto was “work works, and sobriety works.” And to my surprise the one guy in the city who understood how to end homelessness, was never once invited to any of John Hickenlooper’s summits on ending homelessness. Or, for that matter, anything that Mayor Hancock does along the same lines.
One of the things that I’ve urged Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey to do, (from my mouth to Mitch’s ear) is to launch a grand jury investigation into Denver’s shameless waste of money regarding homelessness. It’s a fraud, this is a con, this is a grift perpetrated by J.H. and supported by big media. One of the lines from a Denver Post article was how the Commission is still committed to ending homelessness. These are the moments that I always want to say, “Hey Dick Tracy where’d you park your squad car?”
Speaking out against the homelessness con job is another politically correct crime. John Hickenlooper created Denver’s Road Home, people gave the money and things are worse. Where I came from, that’s a con. You paid the man to fix the hole in your roof, to pave your driveway, to fix the television, and still nothing works. But, of course, these guys keep their jobs and they are still promising that they’re going to end homelessness. Drive down Speer Blvd., every street corner, everybody’s got a sign everybody’s got a mooch going. Most of them have cell phones and they’ve got a cigarette in their mouth and they don’t look like they missed a meal. The phony 10 year plan worked well for them.
Happy Halloween. Trick or Treat, you got tricked!
— Peter
by Peter Boyles | Aug 31, 2015 | Blasting with Boyles
As we have passed the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender I am fascinated by the actions of current Japanese Emperor Akihito as well as watching current Japanese Minister Shinzo Abe who seemingly fell short of apologizing or continues to attend shrines who honor the war criminals and the war dead instead of doing what we in the West call “doing the right thing.”
Abe went so far as to speak to the war dead thanking them for the sacrifice which he said helped created Japan’s present peace and prosperity.
That’s fascinating, I remember them doing their level best to destroy a third of all of Asia. To congratulate themselves on how those wartime actions, religious insanity and imperial motives are the reason why they are prosperous today is truly amazing.
So all you uninitiated forget about the Bataan Death March, the rape of Nanking and untold thousands of murdered Chinese and Korean people. So amidst politicians dredging up the past in a manner that suits them, pops up the devil himself, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
After spending a week unable to absolve his brother President George W. Bush of blame concerning the Iraq invasion and he started blaming the problems in today’s Middle East on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I see a little of the Japanese emperor and the prime minister shining through. Some wag recently took Jeb on when Jeb said that his brother “W” didn’t get everything right in Iraq. Juan Cole tweeted that such a statement was like saying Custer didn’t get everything right at the Little Big Horn. Dubya’s Iraq invasion is simply the largest foreign policy screwup in American history. As Juan Cole also noted Dubya didn’t get everything right indeed. Now, in true fashion, Jeb is foisting the next great lie that his brother’s “surge was working.”
History tells us always pay close attention to what politicians are actually claiming. In 2006 the U.S. installed the Islamic Mission Party in control in Iraq. That Shiite dominated party was hated by both the Kurds and the Sunni as well as several other key groups in Iraq. The new prime minister was the universally despised Nouri al-Maliki. Al- Maliki was involved in a number of religious and political fronts since being driven out of Iraq by Saddam Hussein. Al-Maliki was very close to Dubya, when things got bad through 2006. When Dubya’s advisors, like James Baker, counseled him to just get out of Iraq, he got a second opinion from another man, General David Petraeus. Petraeus said that America simply needed to have more soldiers to fully control the country. And those who know history, know that General William Westmoreland did the same thing in Vietnam telling Lyndon Johnson all we needed was more troops.
Time out on the field. See kids, this is why I urge people to read history as it is ever so repetitive whether it’s the French, the British, the Spaniards or even the Soviets, the game always begins the same and ends the same.
Iraq fell into a civil war, and the American military under Dubya began to withdraw. Jeb Bush, aka Jebya!, has recently made a claim at the Reagan library that Obama and Hillary Clinton are to blame for the rise of ISIS. This is the guy who is the brother of the guy who used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq and now says overthrowing Saddam Hussein “turned out to be a pretty good deal.” I ask you, pretty good deal for whom? The numbers speak for themselves — a minimum 100,000 dead Iraqis, half a million widows and orphans, 4,500 young dead Americans. 3,500 wounded warriors, a trillion dollars sunk into a country ravaged and a Mideast nation awash in war and blood. Again, who was it a pretty good deal for exactly?
This same brother in 2008 signed what’s been called an agreement between us and a representative of Iraq for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq by Christmas Eve 2011. The throwaway line apparently comes from 2009 when we closed our biggest POW camp, Camp Bucca. One of the prisoners released was future ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who told his former guards: “I’ll see you guys in New York.”
From time to time I spend a large part of my broadcast day talking about Barack Obama and the creation of his life. I assure you only a handful of people know the true story of Barack Obama’s life. He’s a fabrication, a will-o’-the-wisp, a ghost. But all the insanity we are witnessing in the Mideast, none of this is Obama’s creation. Why any rational person can continue to believe anything any Bush says about the tragic wars the U.S. has gotten itself involved in because of the Bushes is beyond me. Peter Paul and Mary sang “When will they ever learn?” and “Where have all the flowers gone?” When will the Republican Party learn, when will the American people learn, when will you learn? Whatever you do for the love of heaven don’t let any of those Bushes back in control of this country.
Sayonara.
Peter
