Getting the Disdain Out
Mood:  sharp
I'm half-way paying attention to this weekly PBS news program about religion and I can't explain how little use I have for any of that crap. The Episcopalians are all in a dither about whether they should give this gay bishop-trainee his wings and I'm saying, "Who gives a shit?" Or, how about this Franciscan mick who's going to be running the show in Boston now? What a bunch of criminals and confidence men. I wouldn't wipe my nose on the Pope's prettiest Sunday dress.

Are you ready for some football?

Yeah, yeah: hellhounds on my trail...

About That Dead Link
There's no reason I know of for that "very cool link" to not work (see yesterday's blog), but it will at least take you to the site's error page from which you can (and should, because it's a lot of fun) locate the anagram-generator. Give it a shot.

And if you're a clever lad, write and tell me why my link doesn't work. I can't figure it out.

Well...
Okay, on second thought, I'd say Oprah Winfrey is the most visible and powerful black woman in America. But if you're talking about one of the principal players on the stage of international diplomacy ---and someone who has the trust and respect of the President--- then Dr. Rice is the bigger deal.

A Winning Strategy
I see that Slate.com and other liberal media outlets have turned their sights on to Dr. Condoleezza Rice, our President's National Security Adviser, to see how much blame they can stick her with for the horrible, soul-negating, society-destroying non-lie about Saddam's uranium purchases that the President mentioned in his State of the Union address last January. Good stuff, dickheads.

First, you have made utter glue of the dead horse you've been beating on for the past several weeks. Even Bill Clinton has told you people to shut up and find another topic, but you seem determined to have the world think that your approval of Bush's war in Iraq either rose or fell by the fact of Saddam's nuclear weapons program. That's all bullshit. You wouldn't have approved of the war if God had manifested himself as tattoos on your foreheads, urging you to liberate the Iraqi people. There's a lot of petty little Woodsteins out there, convinced that these "sixteen words" have spelled the doom of the Bush Presidency. Got him on the ropes, do you? That's great.

Now, though, you want to attack the most visible and powerful black woman in the country over some question of whether the President should have referenced British intelligence on Saddam's uranium deals in Niger? Sure. Pursue that. Make Dr. Rice grovel over something that she and her boss and everyone they know has already described as a mistake and a simple overreach. Keep hammering away at her. Nobody will have any idea what the fuck you're thinking of ---and, in the bargain, you may even alienate those segments of the black population which regard her as a role model and a person to respect.

It's a winning strategy, baby! Dean in '04!!!

A Very Cool Link
This website is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Just type in a name or whatever, hit enter, and watch the anagrams come thick and fast.

The Maw of the Law
A friend of mine writes to complain of a new racist law he read about that's been passed by the Israeli parliament. Apparently, the perfidious Israeli Jews are tired of Palestinian Arabs from the [occupied territories] abusing the laws which grant them residency rights in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs. Seems there's a lot of them doing it and that it's starting to show. Israel says they can marry all they want, but that they must either leave Israel proper (can't quite call it "unoccupied," can we?) or begin their married lives apart.

It sounds racist, I guess, but Israel is only trying to restrict the number of ways these fine, upstanding terrorist-trainees can use the laws of its own society against itself. Sound familiar? My friend suggests that it all sounds like certain laws passed in the 1930s. He may be referring to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany which didn't allow Juden from fouling the Aryan stock, but he could just as easily have pointed to the unenforced laws on the books of America's legal system today which allow pregnant Mexican women to run across the bridges and spillways in El Paso and hatch an American on the doorstep of the nearest hospital: Viva el nuevo Americano y la madre!

I will tire of this world when no one wants to see my passport anymore. I think of borders and boundaries as things to be protected and respected. Of course, clever people have never thought of America as an actual nation with a complicated history and certain cultural peculiarities, but as an "idea" ---some sort of neverland where we can all bleed into one (and get checks from the Big G on our way). Well, that may happen yet, grasshopper. But you gotta take it from [me] first.

If It Were All Conceded As Lies
Let's pretend that the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and all their intelligence and military men (as well as those of the partners in the "willing coalition") concocted the whole thing about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction. Just made it up out of whole cloth. A simple-minded pretext, easily and soon to be exposed for what it was. Even if it were all conceded as lies, how can the results of our [warmongering] be considered as anything but positive? We have liberated two massively oppressed peoples in Afghanistan and Iraq and given them at least a chance to participate in normal and peaceful societies. Soon, this example will lead the Iranians to overthrow (or at least reform) their own government. In doing all of this, the flow of money into the coffers of terror groups in and around Israel will begin to slow. The eternally disaffected youth of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria will begin to notice the advantages of a free society enjoyed by their Arab brothers and will demand these things of their own government. In the end, a whole swath of South and Western Asia and the Middle East itself may experience a rebirth of freedom and economic opportunity.

The young men and women of the United States armed forces who are dying in those countries are the fathers and mothers of global liberty. They are the makers of America's legacy to human civilization ---and I am proud of each of them. Let no one say they died in vain.

And let no one doubt the wisdom of the political and personal sacrifices men such as Bush and Blair are making. They are laying a foundation for a safer world ---and all they are getting in return is the cynical and paranoiac denunciations of hypocritical isolationists.

Why the BBC Is a Big Front for the Commies
Mood:  sad
I strongly encourage you to read Dennis Boyles' account of listening to the BBC World Service on the day Baghdad fell. It's astonishing to what depths the anti-war crowd will descend in trying to discredit the liberation of Iraq.

It's also a real disappointment for a traveler like me, who once very much enjoyed the comfort and reassurance of listening to the World Service on my little short wave radio in darkened hotel rooms throughout Europe.

When did multiculturalism become anti-white and anti-Christian? You'd think the Anglo-Saxon world hadn't done anything for the betterment of humanity.

Piss on apologizers.

Nervous Laughter
Mood:  surprised
Now Playing: "Oh, Shit!" by The O'Shits
The Policy Analysis Market, which was basically an online futures market for predicting global calamities like revolutions and assassinations, has been exposed and shut down by some very angry U.S. Senators on both sides of the aisle. This was conceived as an alternative source of intelligence for the goings-on in parts of the world where U.S. intelligence may not be fully in the know. But, when such a project is run by an "under-reported" office in the Pentagon called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and headed up by Admiral John Poindexter (of Iran-Contra fame), it is almost guaranteed to take on more water than intelligence and be sunk in its moorings.

I mean, Jesus Christ! Did Rumsfeld lose a bet with a Berkeley professor and have to draw up the worst possible, most paranoia-inducing, po-mo, super-Machiavellian nightmare of an agency to give the anti-war crowd some fresh meat? Sometimes, you just can't write shit this crazy.

It's almost like a Presidential election decided by the electoral votes in a state where the brother of one of the candidates is the governor!

Ha, ha.

Suckers.

But, DARPA? No, that one's true. Looks great on paper (unless the paper is newsprint).

Editorial Note
If I notice a typo I've made, I will go back and fix it, but leave the word in boldface. No extra emphasis, except to note that I fixed something.

A Friendly Disagreement
I've received an exceptionally thoughtful commentary from a correspondent named Chris which I will respond to in my favorite mode: the newsgroup dialogue. Below is the entirety of his essay, interspersed with my remarks in italics.

If, as former White House counsel John Dean explained a few weeks ago in an interview, there is "no chance" the Republican house would impeach Bush for lying to the American people, the nation has transcended mere blind partisan politics and entered a time of living fiction.

I assume the lies for which you think the President ought to be impeached involve his State of the Union address' reference to British intelligence's belief that Saddam was trying to buy uranium from Niger. How that has come to be characterized as a lie is a mystery to me. It remains the belief of British intelligence. And it is entirely consistent with Saddam's past habits. No lie and no crime. Thus, you have no impeachable offense.

This is the same Republican Party whose members badgered and hounded President Clinton until he was caught in a lie.

The Republicans caused Bill Clinton to lie. That's silly. He lied and encouraged others to lie to cover up his mistakes.

His prosecutors, the legions of right-wing radio listeners, organizations dedicated to unearthing damaging material on Clinton's past, showed a disgust for immorality in the White House.

And his partisan defenders showed none. This is especially true of feminist organizations that looked the other way because of Clinton's liberal bona fides. Talk about cynicism!

But when Clinton's impeachment came, the vast majority of Americans refused to march on Washington demanding his removal from office. In fact a few went so far to march in his support.

That's true. People were too happy being employed and making money in the markets. Otherwise, they would have had the time to be offended.

Americans, both for and against President Clinton, knew in their hearts, if not minds, that the question he was asked should have never been asked because it involved his personal life; not his public life.

On this, you are absolutely wrong. Clinton pursued a sexual relationship with a woman in his employ and did so on the job (i.e., in the workplace). You know very well that had he been a CEO or a college president or a commanding officer who was getting blowjobs from a student or an underling that he would have been accused of any number of crimes or policy violations and been terminated. That is incontrovertible. And that is only a part of what he did to undermine the dignity and to abuse the authority of his office.

Now, the situation has reversed. We have an unelected president who lies to the American people and the world, sacrifices innocent American and Iraqi lives to create a distraction from his disastrous ineptitude at home. This president can't poke his head out in public without an angry crowd forming.

It is disappointing to have to continually correct the Bush-hating Left on the facts of the 2000 election. George W. Bush neither stole nor bought the Presidency. He won the office because he won more electoral votes than Al Gore. It was because of the gross incompetence of officials in Democratically-controlled counties in Florida and an accident of numbers that the election results in that state had to be resolved in the courts.

As for the purpose of fighting this war against Arab fascism, if you think it has been concocted to distract the American people from the President's so-called ineptitude, then you must also believe that he is somehow responsible for the recession. How is that possible?

Still, the Republicans are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. The Republicans I know, the little rank and file footsoldiers who spent the late 1990s jeering at President Clinton, can't defend Bush themselves.

Whatever the party label, I defend Bush as a plain-spoken, no-nonsense guy who's doing a great job defending our country.

Something about American commonsense knows a high crime from a misdemeanor.

Yes, but both are explicitly impeachable, right?

No group, except possibly for American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, can feel as betrayed as Bush's reluctant pre-war WMD believers.

That's almost shameful! You believe that our soldiers and the Iraqi people feel betrayed because the treasonous pricks in the liberal media have told you to believe that. The truth is that our fighting men are proud to have done what they have, regardless of their complaints and moments of despair. They are the begetters of a new society for the Iraqi people and their achievement will only continue to grow in the estimation of the world.

They shouted that anyone who stood against the war was a yellow, cowardly Quisling. They said any argument against the war represented pin-headed, politically-correct handwringing.

That may be a little extreme, but I won't disagree.

Now, of course, even if WMD were found it would be hard to prove they were of an imminent threat to US troops. So we continue to ask where are the WMDs?

The circumstantial evidence of their existence is extensive and attested to by people at every place along the ideological spectrum. Even the UN said that there were chemical and biological weapons there, only they were too cowardly and corrupt to stand up to Saddam.

Where is justification for this elective war?
Yet, there is still no call for his impeachment.

This is just absurd. President Bush is laying the foundation for a whole new world. Your anger at him is irrational. You don't appreciate what he must endure to build the Pax Americana.

If nothing else, we need no more proof that the witchhunt to bring down President Clinton had nothing to with moral outrage and everything to do with undermining the legitimacy of an elected president.

Clinton was a corrupt and opportunistic liar. Ultimately, he was impeached because of his many faults of character. I supported every bit of it.

Rightwing radicals who feel so sure about themselves they can seek to bring down an elected US president are an unsettling group.

What does being elected have to do with anything? As much of a fan as I am of Richard Nixon (a legitimately elected President), I believe he would have deserved his impeachment had he stood there to take it. Instead, he had the character to resign and spare the public even more exposure to his corruptions.

They feel like "the consent of the governed" means an expensive PR effort and spin job to deflect criticism.

That's just empty cynicism.

They have a religious conviction in their own arrogance and supremacy.

That's just bigotry. Are Democrats uniformly secular?

They have no ideal other than the consolidation of power.

That's just paranoia.

But what of their political strategy that depends so heavily on lies? What personal friend of yours would forgive such constant lies? What business partner? Most Americans parents don't tolerate lies from their children. Why makes excuses for it from a Bush?

I just can't agree with your characterizations. Obviously, in times of war, the public is not entitled to know every little thing at every point along the way. That's not realistic. You're mistaking secretiveness for lying.

The lies, if tolerated by the American people, or the Republicans in Congress say a lot about our country today. For the people, you could say we live in a fact-free culture of images, of sensation. (Think of the images of Bush's aircraft landing versus the realities it masked).

Absolutely not. This war is being followed by thoughtful people who know their facts and who understand what sacrifices will have to be made to make the peace. You're getting some sort of cartoon stuck in your head and taking that for the reality of the situation. That may be ideologically satisfying, but it isn't the truth.

One where lies, assertions, spin and advertising language go unchallenged. For the Republicans in Congress, it says party loyalty means more than truth, more than justice, more than integrity. In fact, integrity for them is measured by uncritical loyalty.

I, too, would be suspicious of unquestioning and uncritical loyalty. But I don't have to be suspicious because the President is routinely and constructively criticized and challenged by the people closest to him. Do you think Powell and Rumsfeld are in lockstep with each other? Do you think Bush the Elder agrees with the worldview of a man like Paul Wolfowitz? Please! There is active dissent all around the President for him to draw on in making the best possible decisions. No yes-men in sight.

In this way they are more akin to a street gang or crime family than a political party. Of course, in a healthy society both street gangs and crime families are considered a public problem to be rehabilitated or prosecuted.

I thought they were considered excellent material for a whole film genre.

Texas' Democratic State Senators Are Assholes
Mood:  party time!
I hear that a bunch of Democratic state senators have absconded across the Texas-New Mexico state line to prevent a quorum. Why have they done this? So that they can deny the majority of Texans their right to be proportionately represented by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives. These jerk-offs are a lot of cowards who don't want to stand up and take their lumps. And, so, they are forcing the Governor into calling yet another special session and wasting more money the state doesn't have to handle the business that they, as a party, refused to let be handled during the regular legislative session.

Don't forget: the Legislature is the branch of government responsible for drawing up the district boundaries for the state's representatives in Congress ---and not some Federal judge. The Republicans are in the majority now and it is only right that they have the prerogative here. Running off to another state to break a quorum is a bunch of chickenshit, and I very much hope that the voters remember that the next time we go to the polls.

At this point, I guess the only thing we can do is to call the Albuquerque Police Department and warn them to keep an eye on Gonzalo Barrientos. If he gets ahold of some firewater, he's liable to get lit up and go smash his car into a cactus.

Chasing Parked Cars
Liberals and Democrats are opposed to racial profiling and domestic spying conducted by our intelligence and police agencies. Come to think of it, so are a lot of libertarians and militiamen. And so they all jump up and down and scream about how we are losing our rights to the Patriot Acts. But how are we supposed to keep tabs on potential troublemakers in this country if we can't investigate the kinds of people who are most likely to make that trouble? There are a lot of people who want to charge the Bush Administration with malfeasance and all sorts of treachery and who demand to know why our "intelligence" was so poor that we "allowed" the events of 11 September 2001 to happen. But they don't want the government to keep those tabs and to harrass the supposedly innocent. These same people say they don't trust the government and that they don't want any more Nixons or J. Edgar Hoovers keeping any lists. They make it harder and harder for the intelligence community to cultivate the kinds of bonds with the kinds of characters who would know if something bad were about to happen. These agencies have had their human intelligence funding cut and the regulations circumscribing their behavior drawn ever tighter. But, still, the complainers wonder why our intelligence is so lousy.

No need to wonder. Just look in the mirror.

Hysteria
Mood:  on fire
The anti-war and anti-Bush Left have become hysterical sacks of shit and I want to be clear about that. Their congenital condition, which waxes and wanes with irregular, lunatic commotion, has now blasted its way to the fore of their thought, and they have become bloody-minded accusers and stone-throwers. These shrieking, unthinking partisans have become infected by their own biology and are now too sick to be reasoned with.

What has happened? They are so angry at the President for his boldness and moral clarity that they have become enemies of this nation's cause. But, why should that trigger such outrage? Because they, as Leftists, know that they have no such champion on "their" side. "Their" side has sickened itself on hatred for the President and have alienated themselves from the support of this war. This war is this nation's cause right now, but they have no resort except to the extremes of partisanship.

For two weeks or more, the Left have harped on and beat on this so-called lie the President told in his State of the Union address about Saddam seeking out uranium from Africa. What the President did was throw everything (including the kitchen sink) into his list of crimes and weapons that Saddam was engaged with. He sold his case and he oversold it. He didn't have the firmest or most specific knowledge of Saddam buying uranium from Nigerians, but does anyone doubt that Saddam has pursued a nuclear capability in the past? Is there any anti-war Leftist piece of shit who doubts that that is something Saddam would try to achieve? We know that Saddam was working on the nuke in the early 80s when the Israelis came and bombed his sites flat. We know he was trying for them again in the early 90s when we stopped him in the aftermath of the Gulf War. We know that he developed and possessed huge stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons as late as 1998. And, as the President alluded to, the British STILL believe that Saddam was in the market for uranium as recently as the months before we invaded. Now, what kind of hysterical fucking idiot is going to take the President or his Admininstration to task for believing and acting upon the reasonable intelligence assessment that Saddam was a seeker and user of weapons of mass destruction? The Left should be ashamed of themselves for their loud-mouthed and ignorant bullshit. Listen to these idiotic Democratic nominees for President, casting about for some reason to blame the President. They call him a liar and a manipulator when many of them, on their own, supported action against Saddam. And they want to keel-haul Bush for intelligence failures? HEY, GODDAMMIT! Tenet and Freeh were CLINTON'S men! The emasculations of the intelligence community came long before Bush showed up. Get your shit straight and quit blaming our President for EVERYTHING! We are in the middle of a war against terrorism and the worst kind of ideological insanity in ages. You effete sacks of hysterical shit want to see real barbarism? Then let these Mohammedan psychopaths and Islamofascists have their way. Excoriate our Commander-in-Chief for the benefit of the assholes at the BBC and in Chiraq's France and Schroeder's Post-Naziland. They love it. Keep scattering the seeds of doubt and division and keep the Ba'athist dead-enders alive in their resistance. So long as you Leftist assholes keep it up, then YOU'RE the reason why our boys are getting hit with RPGs. Let that be on YOUR heads.

My Bill of Lefts
A friend of mine recently wrote to ask why I hadn't posted his remarks on Private Lynch. I told him that it was some sort of Lycos foul-up since I wouldn't dare censor any post from someone kind enough to read this stuff. I just never received his remarks. If that happens to you, maybe keep a draft of your remarks to either re-send or to send me as an e-mail: I definitely want some feedback to post here.

But, I want to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by a suggestion he made to ask, rhetorically, why I should be labeled a "right-winger." It doesn't really make any sense because:

I don't believe in any supernatural being or practice any ecclesiastical religion.

I strongly support a woman's right to an abortion, with the exception that I believe it's wrong to terminate a third-trimester pregnancy unless the mother's life is endangered or the child is handicapped. In fact, I strongly advocate government subsidies of any and all birth control measures, including paying women to have tubal ligations.

If it existed in America today, I would not support the military draft.

I believe in the minimum wage, the progressive income tax, and, as a general proposition, "regulations on business." That is to say, I am a TR-style trust-buster and believe that unregulated capitalist enterprise is a crime against the lower and middle classes.

I hate censorship and am opposed to it except in the rarest cases.

Marihuana should be fully legalized, and all convictions for its sale, cultivation, and possession should be immediately overturned.

I believe government should pay for the education of its all its citizens from kindergarten to graduate school. It is the single best infrastructural investment the government can make.

Gays and lesbians should have the same individual rights against discrimination as any other citizen has, and enjoy every benefit of marriage that a heterosexual couple does.

Government must apply all of its regulatory authority to fight deforestation, air and water pollution, littering, etc.

Government must preserve the natural habitats of as many species as possible, even in contravention of the uses of the landowner and/or the public.

Oh, yeah: I don't wear cowboy or Western clothing, don't care much for what passes for country music these days, don't vote straight-party, don't believe in "smokers' rights," don't like SUVs, etc.

These are just some of my non-right-wing beliefs and practices. If you ask a hardcore Republican whether a person who believes as I do could possibly be in his party, he would say no. Or, just ask any truly hard-right conservative if these are the beliefs of a person who is on his side of the fence. Of course they're not. But all of this just goes to show how difficult and potentially irrelevant partisan labels are.

Even Fleance Dies
Mood:  celebratory
It has just been confirmed: Uday and Qusay are dead. We are now "exploiting" the site where they got Bonnied and Clyded, which might even yield up information leading to Saddam himself. If that happens, the transition to a new Iraq will go very much more smoothly.

Congratulations to the U.S. Special Forces and the people of Iraq. Our will be done.

Uh, Well, Actually...
Mood:  d'oh
I guess it would have paid to have looked a little more closely into Michael Ramirez's politics and what he actually said about his cartoon before I went and sounded off. But, I'm not going to try to hide my previous entry like the time my aunt's cat went and hid one of her Swedish meatballs in his litterbox at a Christmas party. No, I stand by my suspect offering and will not have it mistaken for anything but what it is.

Apparently, Ramirez meant to show that the President, whom he supports and which fact I did not know, is being threatened by the politicization of the war in Iraq. I mistakenly believed that Ramirez was suggesting, like every Democrat running for President is, that GWB was getting his comeuppance for his craftiness and manipulations in getting us into another quagmire.

You gotta admit, though, that that cartoon's pretty much a masterpiece of ambiguity. Nonetheless, I found it (and still do find it) to be shocking. So, it seems, does the Secret Service, which is investigating it as a threat. Maybe someone should tell them what I didn't know, either.

Oh, by the way: the executioner in the original photograph was the top cop in South Viet Nam. I guess Ashcroft has some way to go before he gets that messy.

A Political Cartoon
Mood:  cool
There was a political cartoon in the Los Angeles Times a few days ago, I believe, reprising the infamous photograph of the ARVN officer shooting the VC prisoner in the head. The little commie rat had just murdered someone the ARVN guy knew (if I'm getting my facts wrong, please write me) and he was being executed for it.

Well, this Mike Ramirez out in L.A. has the ARVN officer labeled as "politics" and the guy about to lose his brains drawn as the President.

The message, I guess, is that the politicization of war is coming back at the President to be avenged in his death. And, of course, the insinuation of Viet Nam as quagmire has its currency.

It's a pretty shocking comment to make in one of the biggest newspapers in the country. Those who hate George W. Bush undoubtedly approve, even though the violence of the message is hardly reconcilable to the ostensible attitudes of the peace-loving Left.

But what we can all take from such an image and message is that the First Amendment is alive and well. Dissent thrives in America. No one is going to kill Mike Ramirez for the anger in his work. He and his employer are not under arrest for treason. No one's going to be disappeared. Remember that the Leftist complaint that civil liberties are being destroyed in this country is a lie.

As is their own claim to actual patriotism.

Private Lynch
Mood:  not sure
Private Lynch is going home today. I hope it's a good homecoming for her and that everyone gives her enough space and everything gets handled with good taste and an appropriate touch. I imagine the whole thing would be pretty overwhelming, but she's small-town and, thus, less likely to get a big head about stuff.

And, then, I hope all of the cameras and reporters and dealmakers go away and let her live out the rest of her life in normalcy.

That is to say, let's not make more of this than is proper. Comprende?

I know, I know. I was just hoping.

Kobe
Mood:  not sure
I don't like the Lakers. They win too much, just like the fucking Yankees. But there's nothing not to at least respect about Kobe Bryant. The guy is obviously the Jordan of his generation and a joy to watch. I am sorry that he is in trouble. It just doesn't seem like his M.O. And when you see the friends of this girl who is accusing him of rape being interviewed on the TV, you really have to wonder whether it's even possible for any of them to be raped. Get my drift? They all strike me as being a bunch of pampered, well-heeled sluts. They're a lot of starfuckers. Just listen to them. They have no idea what's wrong with going up to the private room of a man like Kobe Bryant in the middle of the night. "Like, omigod, who wouldn't?!" I just don't think it's possible for women of this type to be raped: they live these lives of easy sex and social opportunity, always putting out scent and looking for the next slab of hunk to open up and say "aah" for. Anyway, it's a shame that Kobe would cheat on a woman as impossibly beautiful as his wife is. He's a Grade A dumbass for doing it and maybe this is his punishment: big fat lawyers fees, some lost endorsements, and some tarnish. But I'll bet you that this rape allegation is pure crap. He'll get off ---only I hope it's not with the help anymore.