MONTGOMERY DELANEY: MIND DROPS

On Saturday, October 2, 2010, I am please and proud to announce the inaugural event of the Lake Katonah Songwriters Series, featuring an evening with multiple award winning songwriter, CHUCK E. COSTA.

I am hoping to bring some very wonderful performances to the Lake Katonah Lake House in the months and years to come. It is my hope thatin doing so we will not only expand the audience for Adult Contemporary Music, but also build greater community between neighbors and friends.

There is a suggested donation of $15 for every show. This will compensate the artists who will come to share their indivi
dual gifts with us and support the use of this beautiful venue as we go forward with our series.

The venue can accommodate about 100 people. The setting is intimate and beautiful. Refreshments will be served at each musical evening and we will encourage pot-luck contributions from our neighbors and guests.

The second musical evening is scheduled for Saturday, November 6, 2010. We will call this a "Lake Katonah Jam Session" This will be an evening "In The Round" featuring three unique and talented songwriters..The incomparable Mr. ANSEL MATTHEWS ( www.anselmatthews.com ) will be joining me along with one other writer (TBA).

Seating is limited so please make your reservations by e mailing me at monty@montgomerydelaney.com....all shows will begin at 8PM....doors open at 7PM...seating is random...so come early, eat, meet and and get a good seat!

Yours in music,

Monty :)

It has taken a year but the American people are finally peeling back the layers of the onion and getting to the core of the man they elected. He is basically a highly intelligent and charismatic man with very little talent or experience for the job he has been given. Ultimately, we cannot blame him. We must blame ourselves. It is clear that his leadership has been thus far completely inept. The "on the job training" continues and the best we can hope for is that in the next three years he does not completely bankrupt all of us and compromise our international standing to the point where we have no credibility amongst other nations.

As he adresses the country for what seems to be the 500th time in his upcoming State Of The Union message, we can expect more platitudes and hollow rhetoric about things that he and Mr. Axelrod (the most dangerous man in the world) want us to hear. It will go something like this...."worst economy since the great depression blah blah blah, we have to help the middle class blah blah blah, I will not rest until every American has a good paying job blah blah blah, we inherited this blah blah blah, my administration moved swiftly to help the Haitian people blah blah blah, we are concerned about national security blah blah blah, God bless you and the United States Of America blah blah blah blah....

Listen for what you want to hear most...you are bound to hear it.

There will be no explanation about how the banks are supposed to lend money to entreprenuers when they are being subjected to massive fines, there will be no explanation as to why he caused the markets to nosedive last week when he announced his plan to subjugate the banking industry to the government's will, there will be no explanation as to how small businesses are supposed to keep the employees they have, much less employ other people when they are being taxed out the wazoo, there will be no explanation as to how we can possibly "grow" our economy when the deficit is bigger than the GDP, there will be no explanation as to how we can possibly spend the way this administration is spending without all of us (not just the "rich") being in the 60% tax bracket!

You will not hear these things. You will be spun and spun again until you are dizzy from the spinning and then you will be asked to pull the voting booth lever for another 4 years of "bold indecision" and indefatigible panache.

A large portion of the voting public has been taken advantage of like a dropout at a MENSA convention.

So make some popcorn and cuddle up in front of the TV for the big speech. We have the SUPER BOWL and the SUPER(fluous hyper)BOLE. I caution you, believe NONE of what you hear and only half of what you see in the months to come. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain (it's only Mr. Axelrod).

Hopefully, the powers that be will take a step back, re- evaluate and come up with a health care plan that does not SUBSIDIZE the Insurance and Pharmaceutical industries. We have already heard the President, Mr. Axelrod (the most dangerous man on earth!) and Mr. Gibbs blame the election loss on "the Bush years." Can they really be that out of touch with the voice of the people? Let's start with these two simple principals:

1) Nobody should be deprived of health care if they need it
2) Nobody should be bankrupted if they need healthcare

I think we can all agree on these two points regardless of party.

We'll see...........

Tomorrow, in the great State of Massachusetts, independent minded voters will be conducting a referendum on the Health Care Bill when they go to the polls to elect a Senator to fill Ted Kennedy's seat. This seat has virtually "belonged" to the Kennedy family for over 40 years. If Ms. Coakley loses her bid for that seat (she was "annointed" to it by the Kennedy's), it can only be interpreted as a resounding blow to the seedy, back door, clandestine efforts of Mr.Reid and Ms. Pelosi, to fundamentally undermine the fabric of American Society in the name of so called "health care reform."

While all of us can agree that reform is needed, we should all likewise agree that any such reform should not be undertaken without the full advice and consent of the American people. It should be undertaken with nothing less than full transparency and disclosure and it should go MUCH FURTHER in regulating and disciplining the Insurance and Pharmaceutical industries which are, in essence, IN FULL CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT as I write this.

Only the people of Massachusetts, one of the most "liberal" states in the country , can wrest this control away from them. God Bless the independent voter, God Bless the State of Massachusetts and God Bless the United States Of America as we know it today! We may not know it at all in a few years if we allow the Federal Government to take this much control of our private and personal lives.

Whatever we put before our Liberty, will be the second thing we lose!

Semper Fi.

So the woman who has been annointed to fill the Senate seat that the Kennedy family apparently owns up there in the land of clam chowda, is only two points ahead of the candidate from the other party who says that he will vote against the Stealth Care Bill if elected. So she needs money see, because the race is close and the vote is only a few days away. So yesterday she leaves the state that now boasts the only ballpark in the American League that Babe Ruth actually played in (how sad and ironic) and she travels to that bastion of transparency, Washington D.C.[District of Concealment] for a fund raiser. So who do you think is sponsoring, running, planning, having, hosting this fundraiser? It's the big pharmaceutical companies and the insurance industry.....GO FIGURE!

This is all such bullshit and folks had better wake up and smell the coffee while they can still afford to buy some. There is a man behind the curtain and it is not the Wizard of Oz. IT IS BIG PHARMA AND THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY...AND THEY OWN THIS CONGRESS!

But what do I know? I'm just a Marine, a cop, a college professor, a lawyer and a songwriter.

America as the Last Man Standing
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009


Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament


Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem..

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear, 'whore, whore.' Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.. Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem.

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

Please take the time to read and understand what is written here, Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.

A few nights ago at midnight, President Obama went to Dover Air Force Base, to be present as the caskets of several of our dead servicemen arrived home. It was a media event. The President stood alongside an honor guard and saluted sharply as the remains were taken from the aircraft. I want to give the President some credit for doing this, although I think he should have done it anonymously (sans press corps).

It is a small gesture designed to remove our focus from something that is unbelievably wrong with the way we select our elected officials. Once again, we have a President that has never served in the military acting as Commander In Chief. In my humble opinion we need to amend the Constitution to prohibit any such thing from ever happening! Anyone who seeks the office of President should be required to have served in the military....PERIOD!

Making anyone who has not served their country the "Commander In Chief" is almost like making a fifth grade honor student the Dean of Harvard Law School. It just doesn't make sense, forget about the irony and hypocrisy involved.

The President should either send the troops that General McChrystal has requested immediately or, BRING EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM HOME IMMEDIATELY and let the Taliban have the damn country! THE LIVES OF OUR TROOPS ARE AT STAKE! Hesitation and procrastination are not 'policy." The trouble is that the President has been co-opted by the Nobel Committee. He just won the Peace Prize and now cannot very well escalate the war in Afghanistan. The trip to Dover is either sincere (which I certainly hope it was) or a publicity stunt designed to buy the President more time to NOT act.

I hate to say it but in this case, we need a "DECIDER." Screw the photo ops!

Semper Fidelis,

M

If the Martians came down and they read about all of the things going on with the Kardashian sisters and saw what we pay a shortstop compared to what we pay a fireman and watched clips from any number of "reality" TV shows or met Jerry Springer, THEY WOULD DESTROY THE PLANET IMMEDIATELY! Methinks we are beyond redemtion folks. We have completely lost sight of what is important. Our interests are fatally prurient and completely misguided. Get yourselves right with your God or Goddess or your Doorknob or your Deity and hope for the best.

This is all we can do. They would not be polluting our airwaves and pumping our heads full of this nonsense if a s--tload of people weren't TUNING IN to it and we seem to have lost the ability to reach for the remote and turn it all off.

Just a thought!

M

Montgomery Delaney | Create Your Badge

Please listen to "Rest Your Head."

The tune was written by Ken Veltz for his wife Jeannie, to celebrate their 35th Wedding anniversary, Ken sings it here with his lovely wife and they are accompanied by their son Drew a/k/a Leandro Mysterioso, who plays on some very tasty electric guitar. The song is absolutely stunning!

So begins the curse of the Yankees. After committing the greatest sacrilege in the history, they have started the season 0-2.

After going to almost 20 games a year my whole life (I grew up blocks from the real stadium), I vow never to set foot in "The House That Greed Built."

I look forward to the eventual financial bankruptcy of the franchise, God knows it has been morally bankrupt for some time already.

To the herds of moronic fans who are basically contributing to eventually pricing themselves out of the ballpark, I can only say that you will get what you are paying too much for, a mediocre team made up of primadonnas and steroid users.

You can almost hear Babe, Lou, Joe, Phil, Mickey and Thurman crying.

Start spreadin the news, I left today.

Thuuuuuugh Yankees Looooze!
Thuuuuugh Yankees Looooze!

What will we leave our children and grandchildren? Perhaps a Utopia. More likely though, nothing more than another failing Socialist state that prides itself on mediocrity and frowns upon merit. The relevant misinterpretation is this...while all men are "created" equal, some endeavor to do great things after the creation event (like educate themselves, invent things, form companies, employ people etc.). Others malinger, and having malingered, expect the more ambitious individuals not just to take care "of" them, but more truthfully, take responsibility "for" them.

This is what is happening now. This is nothing more than the redstribution of wealth. It does not work. It never has. It never will.

We are about to step off of a cliff. A very high and treacherous cliff from which there is no return....it is indeed a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Enjoy the descent...there is no Hudson River ending at the bottom of this.


M

I am still dumfounded by the Grace engendered in this plane coming down safely. By the skill of the crew, the level headedness of the passengers, the quick thinking of the first responders and the karma owed to New York City....

Check out Rex Babin's artistic interpretation of the event...it is briliant and awe inspiring.

http://myop-nygemini.blogspot.com/2009/01/rex-babin-miracle-on-hudson.html

I have met a lot of men in my lifetime, literally hundreds of thousands, none finer than George Mc Tavey. George was one of those rare guys that always had a little glint of joy in his eye, even in the darkest of times and never, ever lost his sense of wonder.

It was one of the great privileges in my life to know him and to share intimately with him about our hopes, our dreams, our families, our sons, our faith, our afflictions and our fears.

George lived and passed on from this life with a sense of grace and unbounded dignity that was simply awesome to behold. He made the most of the 51 years he lived amongst us and left beautiful marks on everything he touched. He had amazing hands. They built buildings, restored beauty, made music, and played alot of catch with his two fine sons. He loved his wife, his very best friend, both faithfully and intensely.

George was a powerful example to many other men. His integrity was unequivocal. He was vigorously self honest and always willing to lend a hand. I will carry George's memory, his warmth and some of his corny jokes with me all the days of my life to come.

God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Courage to change the things I can and the Wisdom to know difference...and thank you God for the time you gave me with George. Thy will, not mine be done.

Rest In Peace my friend and if you can, please watch over me, especially whenever I decide to fix something around the house or forget about the maintenance of my spiritual condition. My heart breaks yet in the very breaking, there is joy, sweet, sweet joy.

:) M

Sapientia Romana



"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

CICERO - 55 BC



Here we go again!

The United Socialist States of America............


At the outset, let me congratulate our new President Elect and say that the historical significance of what he has accomplished is both monumental in scope and good for the country.

That being said, I remain firm in my belief that his clearly stated positions regarding tax increases, the expansion of government, the pullout of our troops from Iraq before their mission is completed and the establishment of a national "civilian" police force that is "as powerful as the military," are not the right direction for the country.

Alas, the people have spoken and as a Marine and an Officer of the Court, it is my duty and responsibility to support the President.

I pray for him as he takes on the role of leadership and I remain hopeful that there might prove to be even a scintilla of substance embedded somewhere in all of the hollow rhetoric we have thus far heard from the President Elect.

God Bless President Obama and God Bless the United States.

The last 16 years have taught us unequivocally that the country can survive whoever holds the office.

M

PS

David Axelrod is undoubtedly the MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA!..............pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPyIBxJbgw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxHxDDbVI3w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4tbhG9ZphE

In my August 28, 2008 blog entitled "Temple Of Spin" I referred to Senator Obama in the politically correct fashion, referring to him as an "African American." In reality, and as a matter of fact, not having actually been born in Africa, he is an American of African descent.
It is my position and belief that the only people entitled to any form of "hyphenated Americanism" are those who were born in another country and emigrated here. For example, my grandmother was in fact, an Irish American. I am an American of Irish descent etc. etc.

The importance of this distinction is manifest. What is happening, as a direct result of this type of political correctness is that we are becoming a factionalized nation made up of discreet and insular subgroups. We are completely losing our sense of nationalism as a result. It is extremely important to consider ourselves first and foremost as Americans...period.