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SENATORS ADVOCATE ABANDONING THE TROOPS: Another VietNam?

2007-01-18T09:14:00.000-06:00

Do they never learn? Congress took over running the war in VietNam and we got our asses kicked, left guys behind to be tortured and die, and lost all credibility. Politicians ran the Korean war, and the result was VietNam, and virtually every debacle since then. Every time the politicians get involved in military matters, American soldiers and civilians pay in blood and bone.

I believe it’s time the politicians went to the front lines. Every one of the guys who vote to leave our boys exposed without the increased support of the additional troops they need to guard their backs, has to be sent to the front lines for a month or two, to see how it feels to be out there on the sharp edge, without enough of our guys to make sure nobody gets cut off, kidnapped, tortured and murdered. We lost enough good guys like that in VietNam. We are strong enough that we don't have to abandon any troop to the kind of thing at least one of our senators suffered. Right, McCain?

The voters didn’t send a lot of ex-military types to Congress so you old politicos could screw up the military effort in Irag. When Democrats “took back the hill” with veterans, it was because we wanted the war run and won by people who knew the hell what they are doing, and we wanted the support in Congress to ensure that the military had the tools to do the job.

If you didn’t get the message, you will at the next election. We don’t want our troops left high and dry in Iraq. We want the job done. We want the terrorists denied a standing place. We want them kept busy. BUT, we don’t want to lose a single one of our guys and gals if we can help it – and we can help it with adequate troops and adequate support and adequate supplies.

And that’s your responsibility, gentlemen and ladies of Congress. You don’t have the know-how to run a war. You don’t have Constitutional authority to run a war. So far you have shown little ability to run a country or to do anything except squabble among yourselves like a lot of ill-disciplined and mean-spirited kindergarteners.

Right now, all you seem to be concerned with is maneuvering to win the next election, that is to gather personal power. Enough already. The country and all of our lives, as well as the life of each and every troop abroad, are at risk while you play power games. Get real, fast, or you will suffer the consequences. If case you have forgotten, DC is the best, greatest, central target, and you guys are the center of the eye – even if you are the biggest bunch of boondogglers in the history of this country. If they take you all out, they’ll think they’ve done something.

And what you are advocating is shameful: leaving our troops exposed to take a hit. That is only a recent tradition, only since politicians got involved in controlling the military. Prior to that, our honor required that we cover every man, woman and child. We defend our own, just as Roosevelt sent the marines to bring out an American citizen from some sheik in the desert. Crazy? Maybe. But the world honored and respected us. You blame each president in turn for the world’s bad opinion of America. I don’t think so. It’s not George Bush who shows yellow these days. Or self-interest. Or stupidity. Or pride. Ignorance. Hubris. The hero of Chappaquidick floats a plan and the senate jumps on board? Low blow? Reality. A man who leaves the troops once continues to advocate leaving the troops, and it’s just wrong. If you can’t see that, try going without your security for the duration of this war on terror.

Yes, every senator who advocates leaving the troops without the additional support needed to ensure their safety must also agree to go “naked,” without his or her own security, during the war on terror, for himself or herself and family. Walk the talk. Put your life where your vote is, Senators.

If you can’t do that, then you might as well put a big red “T” on your forehead. We’ll see it there, anyway.

JIM CROW IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE US

2006-10-18T10:14:00.000-05:00

ODE TO JIM CROW JUSTICE

Justice ain’t here or there or anywhere
the clique of lawyers and judges make their beds
link their heads
store up wealth
and make new laws
to hem in the lowly
lowing cows,
the hoi polloi
the us
that them can feel better than
those elite up there
so high above
the rest of us.

We don’t stand a chance.

They make the rules
make the evidence
control the game
and all the players
decide who wins
who loses:
It’s their yard.

Jim Crow, he rules the roost,
calls the tune.

Those black robes mean more
than solemn,
hide more than truth;
They are the symbol of the darkness
that seeps from the top down
and the bottom up
and squeezes the hope out of freedom’s light
with not even a fiddler playing mad music
while the fires die out with a whimper
and the gavels beat truth down
into artful language and “common law”
designed to suit the high dollar client
who pays the political bills.

But if we are not a nation of laws
Laws for all of us,
then all of us,
the we that makes the “US,”
are lost.

And we know it:
there’s the pity;
that knowing,
we still can find no answer
to stop Jim Crow.
Time’s wheel turns;
Crows hang high in the farmer’s field.
Pray God freedom lives to see
the turn of the wheel.

This Ode is reprinted with permission of the author and publisher, on the occasion of the submission of Shelby S v Conroe Independent School District to the Supreme Court for review. This case is a clear and compelling example of Jim Crow justice, in that the hearing officer announced his decision prior to hearing any evidence, then carefully discarded any and all evidence which disproved his pre-determined ruling, including the sworn confession of a Registered Nurse that she had falsified school documents including a doctor's orders, backdating them to falsify evidence for the school district. The hearing officer's declamation that the parent had "scripted" a doctor's interaction with the school is in direct conflict with all of the sworn testimony and evidence in the record, including that introduced from the school's records. His opinion could not be based on a matter of witness credibility/reliability, or document reliability, since all of the witnesses except two were school employees and agents, and all of the documents were from the school files. He stated his ruling was based on a case that says a school has the right to evaluate a child for eligibility, and carefully ignored the facts proven in the case, that the school district had just fully evaluated the child with an FIE, found her eligible based on that doctor's evaluation they wanted to discard, and then refused to implement the child's medical specialist's prescription into her individual school plan, before denying her access to school. He carefully failed to list the applicable dates, the school's recanting of their original allegations, and the complete material facts in the case.

What the school was doing, with the hearing officer's assistance, was conspiring to deny the child and her parents their federal and state civil rights, and cobbling up a defense to the federal Americans with Disabilities suit filed by the parent after the school had denied the child access to class with her healthcaregiver, required by her physician because the child was subject to sudden cardiac arrest, and the school refused to provide a trained caregiver. The school declared that they had the right to get a doctor of their own to write a prescription they liked better, presumably without a trained caregiver, since they believed the child did not require assistance in the class to prevent cardiac arrest. The school was asserting that they had the right to control the child's healthcare at school, because she was receiving an education under IDEA. The hearing officer agreed, saying the school had an absolute right under a case called ANDRESS.

When the parent appealed to federal court, JIM CROW was still on guard. The school district filed a summary judgment, and it was granted. The 5th Circuit, on appeal, agreed again. The school has an absolute right; the parent has none - and the subject is medical control of a handicapped child. They said if the parent didn't like it, "pull her out of school." In other words, "let them eat ca-ca-cake!"

Although IDEA says that a parent has the right to have the hearing officer's case facts reviewed in federal court, JIM CROW says different. Summary judgment precludes a review, and the parent's due process rights were voided by this process.

Therefore, the parent is taking the case to the Supreme Court. Now we will see how high JIM CROW flies.

DOES JIM CROW NEST IN THE SUPREME COURT? Or will the Supreme Court review this travesty of justice? Will we see feathers fly? or just a few more crows?

WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ!

2006-10-14T01:15:00.000-05:00

Newsflash for all you slow thinkers out there: we are winning in Iraq. Our presence alone in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, denies the terrorists a safe staging ground for their activities. Our presence alone in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, denies the terrorists a safe haven to run to, to retreat to, after sorties against us. Our presence alone in IRAQ, and in AFGHANISTAN, denies the terrorists free access to weapons, money, troops, and support, and that, my slow-thinking friends, is why they and their fifth columnists here in America and elsewhere are working so hard to get us OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

It’s because we’re winning, just by being there. Like the dog in the manger, our presence alone keeps them out.

You have to learn to think logically and realistically to figure out what’s really going on. You can’t trust the press – you should have learned that by now. We all know the liberal press is too wrapped up in their agenda, that is to crucify George W. Bush and steamroller the Republican party, to bother giving us the straight story on anything.

The terrorists have made it perfectly clear that they want us OUT of Iraq and Afghanistan. They’re getting plenty of support from liberals here at home. So the terrorists and their buddies – apparently including large numbers of elected Democrats – want us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. To any person with average or above intelligence, this should be a strong signal that we should stay where? In Iraq and Afghanistan. If it ain’t working for the terrorists, it must be working for us, right? Right.

Then there is always past history to go by. Remember the old moral: those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. In Korea, we cut and run at the 38th Parallel [Didn’t want to make too many people mad, so MacArthur was told to stop there] leaving North and South Korea –which led directly to the VietNam War, where we cut and run, leaving our allies to be butchered in the American Compound as we helicoptered the last few out. And now we’re dealing with Iraq and Afghanistan, which can be traced back to that debacle where America lost what standing we had in the world with our lost honor, because you can’t cut and run and take your honor with you. Honor doesn’t “cut and run.”

The terrorists knew they could get away with whatever they chose to do because they saw that we’d always caved in, cut and run, and that we’d never held anybody accountable for years. We allowed our friends and our enemies to extort money from us; we tried to buy everybody off; we blustered and beg and whined. Right up until the day George W. Bush said, “You’re either for us or against us, and we’re coming after you if you’re against us,” and then he did it. We did it.

And now the Democrats, and the terrorists, want us to “cut and run” again. No. Never again. We, the people of this country, want you who represent us to clearly understand that we are true blue, and we won’t stain. You’d better not, either. To paraphrase John Paul Jones, “Damn the terrorists and their friends, full speed ahead!”

We’re winning in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re winning! As long as we’re there, the terrorists cannot use Iraq and Afghanistan for safe havens and staging grounds for attacks against us, so we’re defeating them and their goals for those countries. We’re there for the long haul, but no matter how you spin it, we’re winning in Iraq!

DEMOCRATS STRANDED ON MORAL HIGH GROUND

2006-09-21T09:50:00.000-05:00

Some senators keep talking about “taking the moral high ground” when it comes to dealing with terrorists, and refusing to act on the President’s legislation. It’s as though they think most of us can’t be trusted to do the right thing.

May I remind you that the English called themselves taking “the moral high ground” during the Revolutionary War, when they persisted in marching in formation to battle, because that’s the way it had always been done, while Americans, lesser armed and outnumbered, fought in skirmish lines from behind trees and mowed ‘em down?

We don’t have to fight stupid, just because we always have.

The decision to draw the line at the 38th parallel, instead of going all the way in Korea, was probably the worst one we made, and it led right here, demonstrably. Right here. Go back and figure it out. We were concerned with the world’s opinion – and the press – and politics. Screw them all and the horses they rode in on!

Get to the bottom line. The shortest distance between two points. What’s the goal, the real goal? Keeping Americans free and safe at home. Not winning a world-wide popularity contest. And definitely not selling more air time, more newspapers, more ads.

Because that’s what the media is all about, my boys.

The moral high ground ain’t worth spit, when you’re cut off without ammunition, and you have no supply lines, and the barbarians are at the gate.

Like now.

So get real. Write us a new bill, defining terrorists and how to deal with them. Keep the Geneva Conventions for real wars, God send we should never have another one, and forget about world opinion for once and do your job, the one you swore to do, remember? You put one hand on a book, raised the other, and mouthed some words? These are the ones:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

Unfortunately, some of those “domestic” enemies of the Constitution now appear to be some of you elected senators and representatives, who seem more concerned with world opinion than with implementing the protections we need to assure that there will never be another 9/11 incident on American soil.

The putative explanation for your failure to act is that you are concerned about what these other countries, like Iran, will do if we change the Geneva Conventions. We already know. They do not recognize the Geneva Conventions in actuality. Iran ordered the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, and bankrolls terrorists in that area. Ipso facto: no Geneva Convention. Just expediency.

However, if that is truly the reason, and the Democrats are not just concerned with electioneering, powermongering and balking President Bush, [$100,000 on the nose on that one] there is absolutely no reason they can’t get a new bill such as the one I described out within a few days. I could write it myself in a few hours, so they have no excuse.

Put up or shut up, guys. Either you’re for us, or you’re agin us - and the election is just around the corner.

See you at the polls.

DEMOCRATS STILL DON’T GET IT! and some Republicans lack common sense. . .

2006-09-15T09:58:00.000-05:00

Big debate over how we treat captured terrorists. Democrats very concerned about how foreign nations view American policies, and a few idiot Republicans self-righteously taking the high road, going to earn the world’s good opinion.

“Gee, mom, everybody else does it.” If everybody else jumped off Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it, too?

Where are your heads? Never mind. We’ve got a pretty good idea.

Listen up, fellas. Look into the nearest mirror and repeat after me: “My job is to take care of America and the American people.”

Next: “The American people don’t care what those foreign nations think. They just want to be safe.”

Next: “The American people know the difference between soldiers in uniform and terrorists who capture and torture their prisoners, then dump them beside the road.”

Next: “The American people know that our side needs interrogation ability to keep us safe at home, and that Congress is keeping us from getting it.”

Next: “There’s an election coming up. And after that, there’s another one, and another one.”

Next: “I’d better start paying attention to what the American people think.”

Common sense tells us that we don’t want to mess with the international laws that keep our uniformed military safe if captured. However, there’s nothing in the world to keep us from writing new legislation, defining terrorists and what we can do when we capture them, and grandfathering in the ones we already have. We can certainly define the threat to America, and why we have to do what we have to do. We can detail the atrocities these terrorist commit, and their goals and aims that put them outside the normal bounds, and the fact that they belong to no country, no government, no uniformed service, and answer to no leader, with no rules. We can limit ourselves and require that they do the same, but recognize that they may not. We can also state that they are not citizens of America or any other particular country, and have declared Jihad, and are thus subject to the rules of their own Jihad, and are not, when captured, granted the rights of citizenship in the country they would destroy.

This solves the problem by documenting the class which they themselves have created for themselves. It is they who have removed themselves from civilization, not we have have removed them. They created their own special class of rights, within Jihad – which does not authorize the peculiar brand of torture which they employ. They blaspheme their own religion; and we sully freedom when we offer its benefits to those who are undeserving of it.

It’s time all of you stopped thinking of your political gain and started thinking of what is best for the people you represent. America was more respected when Roosevelt sent the marines after that American than it was before 9/11, and it is more respected today. If you want to know what caused the “poor opinion” of America held by many in the world, you have only to look to the media, and to the shenanigans they report, to their negative stories, to the leaks from your ranks, to the disrespect you show to the President, to the country, and to us, to find out why there is so much negative opinon.

And another thing, didn’t your mother ever tell you you can’t buy friends? Bring our money home. All of those creeps in Cuba, taking our money and throwing stones, should convince you that we’ve done enough. Bring our money home. Pass an act defining the terrorists, terrorism, and giving our interrogators what the President says they need. Do your jobs.

Death of a Film Maker

2006-09-10T20:10:00.000-05:00

Wow! Far out! Just saw this great new script.
Action like you wouldn’t believe. Terror! The hair stood up all over my body.

See there’s this filmmaker – he makes this rad film about the death of a president, but it’s a live President. Just a film, you know, just talking – didn’t mean anything by it – the guy’s just out to make a buck, you know.

BUT. He makes these guys really mad. I mean like frothing at the mouth. You see, they like this President, and they think he’s like keeping the world safe for democracy or something, and they think this guy might like stir up trouble for the Pres.

SO they decide to take out this film maker.

Really. I kid you not!

Man, it’s a great script!
They track this guy like all over.
And like they decide it’s not enough just to kill him.

No. They want to like make a statement first.

So they decide to do a film too of all their action like while they’re tracking and all. Like while they’re setting up and freaking the guy out and all?

Oh, so cool man. Like rad, you know?

Great action. Like you know those really great vid games. Like HOT action and you would not believe everything that happens to this guy. Like they decide to totally freak him and everybody else out first. Before they kill him, I mean.

And boy what they do to him.

Bet this one wins a prize.

Cut and Run: See the bully Democrats show YELLOW!

2006-09-06T13:27:00.000-05:00

We cut and run in Korea, and we got Vietnam.
We cut and run in Vietnam, and has anyone forgotten the results of that debacle?
We cut and run in Somalia – and we got Osama Binladin and 9/11.
Now the Democrats want us to cut and run from Iraq.
Right.

Anybody’d think these Democrats never had any experience with school bullies.
Well, maybe they were always on the bully side, hmm? Or maybe they just want us to think that they know nothing about the mechanics of bullydom. Then again, maybe they are so focused on their goal, to get control, to corral that political power, that they just don’t care about anything else, including national security – and our personal safety.

People with good sense know that if you run from a bully he just follows you home. Give him your lunch money and he comes back the next day. If you want to be left alone, you have to beat the $#*% out of him, preferably with the biggest stick you can find. You have to convince him that you are meaner than he is, and that you won’t ever quit fighting him, that you carry a rattlesnake in your pocket, that you know where he sleeps, and that you intend to put spiders, snakes, and scorpions in his blankets, in his lunch box, in his shoes, and down his shirt. You have to convince him that he has no safe place, and if he ever bothers you again, you’ll set him on fire, literally – and you have to show him you mean it. I speak from experience.

Bullies are terrorists. Terrorists are bullies. Anybody who can’t understand where George W Bush is coming from has a few loose screws—or is extremely inexperienced or naïve in the ways of the world or has an agenda that doesn’t fit with the needs of the American public to be safe and secure.

Anybody who can’t look at our past history and what’s currently happening and rightfully judge the success of the Presidential mission is a fool or a knave. It’s very clear that we have had no terrorist activity on our soil since President Bush saddled up the troops and led them out on patrol – the American posse has kept us safe here at home. That’s what he said he’d do, and he has done it.

But the Democrats are very unhappy with that. It has kept the Republicans in power. So the Democrats have done everything they can to shake that, including working against the safety and security of the American people by actually conducting treasonous activities in the name of political expediency: they want to get back in power.

The media are helping them.

What bothers me is where do these jokers think they can hide once they've removed all of our protections? Do they really believe they will have earned some kind of gratitude from the terrorists for making it easy to roll over this country? Do they think they'll get some kind of reward? Exactly why is it the Democrats are so strong against the telephone monitoring program? If you remember, when President Bush was so hot to trace those who made a killing on the stock market on 9/11, the Democrats blocked that, too.

Talk about being sold down the river -- If we the people assist the Democrats to take back the House and Senate, we are working against ourselves. More fools, we, for helping these skunks to destroy our safety and security so they can gain political power.

The Democrats and the national media need a dose of reality, and the American voters are just the folks to give it to them. Cry "wolf," all you want, guys. We see the writing on the wall, and it's clear that while the terrorist are raising cain elsewhere, they are not pulling our chain. President Bush laid down the gauntlet. He told them plainly, just as did Churchill: "we will fight you wherever you are, whoever you are, and we will defeat you, whatever it takes. We will never quit."

The leaders of foreign nations got a stern lesson in our defeat of Saddam; the terrorists' determination to drive us out of Iraq with the help of the Democrats and the national media is a good indication of how successful the tactic has been. They chip away at us in the area of public opinion, with the aid and comfort of yellow dog Americans.

But President Bush is fully aware that he has the support of the solid core of the American public, those of us who rely on him to hold the line and keep us safe, regardless of the media blitz and the Democrat's demonization of Republicans. We are not in agreement with the illegal immigration policies advocated first by the Democrats -- and we want the Mexican border closed and the illegal immigrants shipped out, with all of the Federal laws enforced -- but we support the President's stand on Iraq. We infinitely prefer to have the war on terror fought on foreign soil.

So all of you voters go out there and let the Democrats hear you loud and clear: keep the House and Senate Republican so we can be assured that the war on terrorism will be fought not in the streets of Washington, DC, New York, Boston, and points west, but on the terrorists' own soil. Let's keep America free.

SUV Bashing - Democrats Bad Sports

2006-09-02T11:42:00.000-05:00

Still raving about SUVs. Alice in Wonderland through the Looking Glass, where are your heads? Not where your bodies are, obviously. . .The people who are dissing SUVs are riding around in BMWs, Caddies, Lincolns, and the ever present limousines. So let’s take a close look at their rides, shall we?

Just as an example, the popular 2006 Cadillac XLR-V gets 15 miles to the gallon in the city, but uses premium unleaded fuel, while most of the despised SUVs use regular unleaded fuel or the more environmental friendly E85 and get just one mile per gallon less, at 14 mpg. The 2006 BMW M5 is even less environmentally friendly: it gets only 12 mpg using that premium unleaded fuel.

And what about those limousines that our politicos and the west coast mavens so love to cruise around in while they rave about the damage done by SUVs????? Hmmm. . .well, those babies get a whopping 5 - 9 miles to the gallon. And how often do you see them just humming along at the curb, waiting for their exalted personages to return to those glorious nests?

My, my, my. Do we need to rethink our position, or do we need to step out of our limousines and start riding bicycles in order to put our money where our mouths are? Or do we just go on shooting off our silly mouths and hope that nobody with any sense notices what idiots we are, or what hypocrites we have turned out to be? It’s ok for us to spend our money on our pleasure and safety, because we are “special,” but when somebody out in the hinterlands wants to protect their kids, that is simply not allowed. Right?

Anything to support our democratic pontiffs, and their desire to gather power at any cost. Why should you have to think, and make reasonable decisions about things that matter? After all, you’re special. Right?

MEDIA BASHING AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - Bush, Democrats, Republicans, Impartial Advocates?

2006-06-24T22:14:00.000-05:00

I think somebody should do a research project with the media as the subjects. Something along the general lines of determining whether the average IQ of that group rises above that of a stone. . .

Media question put to President Bush re world opinion: did he think his decisions on Iraq had anything to do with the world’s negative opinion of the US?

I think the world’s “negative” opinion of the US, if indeed it exists, which is highly questionable, given the huge number of people in the world benefiting from the US’s largess and actual physical protection, is a direct result of the actions and intent of the media.

Can I be plainer? For years, the media has gotten on its hobby horse and either directly badmouthed the US, its leaders, its customs, its people, its actions, etc., or showcased any fools who wanted to do so for their own personal agendas, without the least consideration for the imperatives in their contract with America – a written contract with the Feds, by the way, that compels them to be “disinterested, impartial reporters of the news.” They are supposed to represent us, and our right to know.

If you contrast today’s media with that of WWII, you will see a striking difference. Today we have a group of “celebrities,” who think that their position in the public eye gives them a right to impose their views on the rest of us – a cloak of righteous invincibility which allows them to toss away any evidence in support of any opposite view and justify it with remarks like those of one of the studio heads when he tried to excuse General ______’s persecutors with the line that “they believed [their false story] so strongly that they just ignored all of the [factual] evidence against it.” Right. As though that was a reasonable remark.

Excuse me while I pick my head up off the floor.

Can you imagine a DA explaining police action to a judge like that? “Uh, your honor, uh, the reason the officers didn’t take the fingerprints off the weapon and compare them to the guy's holding the gun was because they are so sure the wife did it.” “And we are not admitting eyewitness testimony because we want to hang this other guy, and they all say he didn’t do it, see? “

Because the “press” has long since left the building, so to speak, that is – left the impartial standards of reporting far behind, and above them, because I think no one could dispute that they have sunk far below the truth, below ethical standards, below impartiality, and below the factual line of giving the public the amount of actual data, real information necessary to make informed decisions about really important factors in our daily lives – and instead of doing their job have engaged in an incestuous love affair with themselves, their "consultants," their talking heads, their "informants," etc., they have completely lost touch with reality.

The media has created an artificial Red Queen Looking Glass world in which the facts as they create and opine them determine the path of the world, and they are the guiding lights, perhaps the saviours? So they keep steering off course, and the more they disrupt the system, the worse it gets. The major networks, the news networks, and every night the same stories, the same talking heads, the same group – an in-group – all with the same vested interests, all part of the same self-perpetuating system that’s careening like a crazed Rim world, trying to block communication between those of us in the real world and the President, for example. . .

Control is the issue, of course. Control information and you control the populance. Filter information, and keep people upset and on edge. Focus their anxieties and fears, and herd them like sheep.

Isn’t the parallel clear? Henny Penny and Doggy Loggy and who are the others? Can’t you hear what they’re saying?

The sky is falling, the sky is falling. . .

Thank God for the internet, and for those of us who live in the real world. Hey, guys! GUYS! We’re mad as hell, and we ain’t gonna take it any more!

This is an enforcement issue. We the people call for enforcement of the federal laws governing the networks. Maybe a nice big class action suit. What about the Federal Trade Commission - how could they all have the same news on every night without some kind of collusion . . . What about diversity? There's too many media people on TV. . .hmmm.

Bush, Press Corps, Polls, Time Tables, and Truth

2006-06-15T02:40:00.000-05:00

Well, the Washington press corp has once again surpassed itself. I would not have believed it had I not seen it.

Wait. I’ve done them a disservice, if that is possible. It is just barely possible that some cretanous puppetmaster is writing those inane questions and compelling them to make such glorious fools of themselves, on pain of losing their positions. That’s probably true. After all, we all have to eat.

And the talking heads are no better. Did you hear those comments about the gesture made by Iraq’s prime minister on meeting and shaking hands with the president? I nearly fell off my chair. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that to an old lady like me. I could have been killed!

The man turns to face the cameras and checks his tie and the national press of the United States turns that simple gesture, that I would be willing to lay money each and every one of them has done countless times before facing the cameras, into some kind of mystic pass. The fact that the president’s tie was a little off center after his hurried rush to greet the Prime Minister probably cued the check. One has to remember that the Iraqis are a more formal people than we. Plus, they deal more with permanent print media, and are accustomed to formal poses. But the Pompous Press and their talking heads have to have something to say – they should come with instructions, like those Christmas presents Grandma sends the kids: “First, remove foot from mouth. . .”

And the Washington press corps are so busy spinning anti-Am when they deal with President Bush that they neglect to ask the questions that we the people would like to have answered. Instead, some stupid bimbo gets up and asks what message the President is sending about the prime minister when he failed to notify him in plenty of time to let the terrorists set up their anti-aircraft guns. . .Well, that wasn’t exactly what she said, but that was exactly what she meant.

Now we all know that the Demoncrats would love nothing more than to have Mr. Bush shot down, literally, by anybody and they are doing their level best to see that it happens. If the country goes down with him, hey – as long as they getelected, what do they care????

But I think she went just a little too far. The press is letting the hoi polloi see that they think we’re stupid, that we won’t notice even the most obvious attempt to paint us in the most negative possible light. Because the President is us, after all. Do you think they’re so stupid they don’t know that? That when they dis the President, they’re dis-ing the country, and us, to the whole world????

And who gave them the right, or even the position? Who are these “masked men”??

Another one of them got up and quoted “the polls.” President Bush threw them right back at her. We all know about the polls. You can make the polls say anything you want to, just by the way you write the questions. Anybody who thinks the Democrats are going to take the next election, especially by giving away this country, better try doing an honest poll. One where you ask straight out and get a straight answer.

Bubba comes by and sits on my front porch quite often. He’s taught me how to sing a song I really like, about beer and horses and raising your glasses against evil forces. He says the boys down at the bar sing it every night. They all really like Bush, and what he’s doing with the military. They don’t like the yellow dog politicians, media, and the Hollywood hypocrites. Bubba makes one word out of that one: hollywoodhypocrites. Bubba says there are always fair-weather friends, and we don’t need ‘em. We especially don’t need ‘em running the country.

Then we have people like Congressman Paul, who seems not to have all his ducks in a row, or perhaps just not to have all his ducks. . .He doesn’t get the difference between “intervening” in a foreign war, and pursuing the terrorists who invaded our country so avidly abroad that they have no time to wage war here on American soil. Or maybe he’s just trying to position himself as a VP candidate.

The Democrats say violence is at an all-time high – untrue! And what violence there is, it ain’t here, brethren!

For those of you who don’t get it, that’s what’s important to us!

And for all those of you who are so concerned with time tables, please be advised that we know the reasons you are so concerned with time tables: you want to work them into your private agendas – your re-election plans, your ratings, your own personal interests, which we know are not particularly connected with our interest in America’s and our personal security. If you’re interested in our point of view.

Just for the record, our take on the time table for leaving Iraq is pure and simple: we get out when the job is done.

Those of us who live in the real world know that many things take their own time. We who know that we are not God, unlike a group of senators and congressmen who shall be nameless democrats, mostly, we hope, for generations hereafter as a result of their determination to focus on their own personal goals to the exclusion of their country’s good--we know that some things are worth waiting for. Freedom from terrorism here in America is worth waiting for, no matter how long it takes.

Bubba and I watched President Bush up there taking questions, and it reminded us of the Lion King, with all the jackals sniffing around. . .traitors and backstabbers are thick on the ground in DC and the national media, according to Bubba, and I agree, but G. W. is a Man. He has what it takes to draw hard lines, and to make ‘em stick.

What the President needs to know, and the rest of you need to remember, is that he’s got quite a majority posse all over the mainland. And we are gathering rope, and looking for trees. We are planning on doing more than raising our glasses and singing: we’re taking names, and we’ll be voting our principles--and your lack of ‘em.

[Thanks to Toby Keith for Beer for My Horses]

Bubba, BBQ, CBS, Memorial Day and Musing on the Media, dang 'em

2006-05-31T01:05:00.000-05:00

Well, y’all, I’m settin here with Ms. Maggie, and rockin’ and thankin’ and my heart is heavy. It is, indeed. Today Is the day after Memorial Day, and I am carrying a bad taste in my mouth, and it ain’t all beer and barbecue.

You wouldn’t know it to look at me now, but I oncet went to college for a spell. Now I know that them speech and journalism majors ain’t by a long sight the brightest bunch of cherries on the tree, but they outdid theirselves yesterday, on Memorial Day.

Did any of y’all see that hoorah they put on over their buddies that got whacked over there at the front? On Memorial Day, now. Did they start off by saying something like, “We’re sorry to tell y’all that once again on this sad and wonderful Memorial Day, while we are honoring the many men and women who have given their lives and suffered for this country, once again brave men and women in uniform have fallen to enemy action overseas. As a result of a bombing incident, an unknown number of our brave troops have been injured and died, and oh, by the way, a couple of our reporters out there working also got killed and Ms. So and so got hurt pretty bad. We offer our condolences to the families and friends of our lost and injured military volunteers and to those of our employees.”

Nope. It was a full-scale honors to the media ONLY deal . Not one word about the military dead and wounded . Shoot, you’d thought them media people were - I don’t know – some kind of royalty or something – some kind of essential personnel, or Santa Claus or whatever. You could sure tell their idea of the relative importance of our boys and girls to THEIR boys and girls. I mean, it was sickening. And it’s still going on today. At least today, at the end of the bit, there was a sentence about how they didn’t know how many military were injured. Well gooollllleeee!

I want you media moguls to know: you’re giving us the works over your worker’s comp injuries - that’s a family matter, folks. A corporate event. They got hurt on the job. They are not over there protecting us; they are over there earning a living and trying for a Pulitzer or whatever. I got news for you. Everyday in the USA, essential people like policemen, firemen, and others more important to us get killed and hurt, and we don’t see you raising a sweat about it. Your slip is showing – your elitist slip. Your Freudian slip. Take it private and keep it there. A brief mention is all it warranted, especially on Memorial Day when military casualties were suffered in the same event. Which you failed to talk up, you jackalopes! Where were your heads?

Whoever is prioritizing the news is getting it WRONG. Just like when those boys got pulled out of that helicopter in Mogadishu. Big news that woulda been to most of us back here in the states. Yessir. We woulda been glad to hear of that right when it was happening. And the regular programming was interrupted that day, sure enough. But you remember what they interrupted it for? Some basketball player was retiring again. Yep. That was important enough, THEY THOUGHT, to interrupt national television’s regular programming, but the fact that some scumbags dragged some of our boys off a humanitarian mission, giving out food to the starving, and beat and drug ‘em to death, then flaunted their mutilated bodies all over the place, our media boys didn’t think was important enough to interrupt the soaps- or a basketball player’s press conference.

What the hell’s that all about, folks?

Who’s running the national news programs? Ain’t it about time they got some homefolks on some of them programs, to kinda keep them in touch with the real world?

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. . . Wilfred Owens wrote that in WWI. He got killed. Decorum means appropriate behavior, which there’s little of in the media business these days. This practice of building up the media as something special is a mug’s game. Especially the way they do it these days. Gossip, opinion, mostly theirs, and very little facts. Investigative reporting that starts out with a bone to pick and looks for anything they can find to back it up – and discards anything that disproves it. Leaks against the national security to get the big bucks. In the old days we called that yeller journalism. Nowadays, those of us who remember call it “yellow dog journalism.”

Well, I’ve said my piece, and I hope you’re all listening, and I hope you write these creeps and tell ‘em to get straight. They all have to comply with the law to keep their licenses, in television and radio, at least. Maybe if they know you know that, they might start doing it. Or maybe they won’t. 2/3 of them are already foreign owned.

I’m getting off Ms. Maggie’s porch and going on home. I got to lay down and try to get some sleep. I’m gonna pray for y’all. Do so unto me, also. Good night.

FOR HOME AND COUNTRY – No Citizenship for Illegals! Memorial Day

2006-05-28T12:07:00.000-05:00

I saw “For Home and Country” on an old WWII bomb warden’s pin, and it struck a note. Remember how it was, during the Blitz, when the bombs were falling on London, and it seemed the whole world was falling apart, and the children were sent away, but everyone else stayed, and we did plays in Covent Garden to buck up the troops? Remember how it was here, after Pearl Harbor, when everybody pitched in, and folks made do, and Hollywood made patriotic movies, instead of trying to cut America off at the knees?

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, and every government office is shut down. We’re all honoring our dead and the living who are out on the sharp edge, so we can dance our way through life at home, while Congress is busy throwing away what the rest of us are fighting for, both at home and abroad: a nation of laws, and justice – equal justice for all.

Congress just doesn’t seem to get it. Or maybe they do. Maybe the problem is they get it, they understand perfectly well that when they walk over the rights of the umpty million of the lawful citizens of America to de-criminalize the bandits [who like every other invader nation, ripped open our borders and took what they wanted] that when they void our rights to a protected border, to enjoy good schools for our children, where classes are taught on the English language level of our kids’ knowledge bases, where our hospitals and other social services are not depleted by illegals, and our tax base is not overbalanced; where our officials are refusing to enforce the laws – by for example refusing to check for citizenship before extending citizenship benefits like food stamps and other taxpayer paid benefits, and saying what is a flat-out lie that we CAN’T deport 11 million people – when they step on us they are not ensuring equal justice, equal rights – even for all citizens, because they are denying rights to American citizens to provide rights for NON- CITIZENS! Maybe they get it, all right, but they are so busy ensuring what they think is the votes of a bunch of illegal immigrants they’ve already granted voting rights to, that they think we’ll just go along with them on this.

Think again fellows. No votes for illegals. I think it’s time we kicked the whole mess of them out of DC, and started over. I think a bill to grant citizenship to illegals would be unconstitutional, and I think a class action suit against Congress, the Democratic and Republican Central Commitees, and the Attorney General of the US might be a dandy idea. We need an injunction to force these cretins to enforce the laws on the books. Whose idea was it NOT to determine whether or not these Mexicans and others were legal when they applied for food stamps, to say you couldn’t ask to see their id when they applied for driver’s licenses or went to school? Who issued the orders? Who established the policy? That’s an illegal order, under the law. Didn’t the Nuremberg Trials prove anything about illegal orders? Somebody somewhere decided not to enforce the law. At that point, all laws went to hell in a handbasket. Right then, massive anti-English, anti-German, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-Oriental [sorry guys, too many countries for my little column], anti-Irish, anti-everything else discrimination came into being. We need to file a class action suit on this, today.

All of those persons not enforcing the law are subject to jail and fines, right? Who’s with me? This is a country of laws. We’re not having it changed by a bunch of bozos wanting to ensure their own re-election. This citizenship issue will just increase the rush over the border, and mean even more lawlessness. We cannot allow the criminalization of America, and in the openly defiant demands of the protesters, illegals demanding “rights” they’ve stolen, we can see the future. They want, they take. And instead of standing firm to protect this country and its lawabiding citizens, Congress is sitting around up there on their fat wallets figuring out how to give it to them.

Mr. President, you can have your guest worker program. But not with a get out of jail free citizenship card. No citizenship reward for guest workers. Let them go back and forth across the border, visit their families, but let Mexico or whatever country they are from, educate, feed and clothe them, and provide their medical care.

And while you're at it, expand the program to bring in some of the kinds of workers we really need. Like registered nurses educated in Canada, England, Ireland, and other English-speaking countries that have the same kind of medical programs we have. There must be other high tech needs, as well.

The US government has a contract with its citizens : the basic clauses are called the Constitution, with the Bill of Rights as the addendum. You jokers up there in Washington, DC, better start paying attention to more than politics. America is not your playpen. It’s our lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren you’re playing with. We are not about to become even more of a nation of lawbreakers, just so you can rest comfortable with another slave race constituency.

And all this BS about hating Mexicans is just that - pure BS. We don't hate Mexicans; we hate criminals. Get it? We hate and fear the lawless, immoral, arrogant people who act from pure self-interest to get what they want, no matter what harm it does, no matter the short-term or long-term damage to whoever, regardless of the fallout to others. Sound like anybody you know?

Wanted: attorney to file class action suit. . .

Biden vs. Iraq: Ugly American? Kingmaker?

2006-05-01T11:44:00.000-05:00

Democrats! Will they never learn? Elitists always think they know best for everybody, and they simply cannot keep their mouths shut. Mr. Biden has announced his solution for Iraq: cut it up into 3 satrapies. Divide the country. Yes, indeed. America should go right in there and divide their country for them. What a great solution. That should make us very popular, not only with Iraq, but with the entire rest of the world.

And it would be the right thing to do, would it, Mr. Biden? Go into somebody else’s country, and just divide it up, according to what you think is right?

Get a life, Mr. Biden. Get your head examined. Consider the fact that the senate is not Heaven, and even if it was, senators aren’t God.

IllEGAL IMMIGRATION - WALK OUT!

2006-04-30T00:22:00.000-05:00

OH MY! Monday is the big day. The illegals are walking out. Walking out on their jobs. Walking out of the stores. Do you suppose we could convince them to walk out on all those freebies they've been ripping off?

How about walking out of the hospitals? The free clinics? Food stamps? The schools and the extra cost of Spanish in everything we do? All those free social services? The auto accidents without insurance? Extra law enforcement?

There have been a few studies done, and I'm here to tell you, you cost more than you contribute.

Of course, for the politicians and the hacks who are benefiting from the controversy, it's worth it. What do they care, as long as it floats them a few more years in office? Trouble is what keeps things moving in the political arena.

But I have a solution. Let's send Vicente Fox a bill. We're providing services to Mexican citizens. Let's send him a bill. Pay up, Mr. Fox. Mexico owes us a living. The cost of all of the living your citizens are doing over here, that is. . .

Better yet, let's round these illegals up and bus them home to Mexico. No matter how much that costs, it's going to be cheaper than the cost of the social services we provide in less than one year. And I don't care how long they've been here. No statute of limitations on this crime. Send them home, and then put in the President's plan for visiting workers -- but make sure these visiting workers don't get citizen's rights. No free ride. You can work, but you can't get free medical care. You can't send your kids to school. We don't provide foreign language for everything. No other country does it; why should we? We don't give food stamps; you don't vote. No regular driver's license. No openings for terrorists here. You can't become a citizen.

Citizenship is for those who wait in line, and come into this country legally. We are a nation of laws. And when our legislators advocate any process contrary to that for noncitizens, and degrade the citizens of this country, it mades us mad as hell, fellows. There's an election coming up, and we're prepared to show you just how mad we are about your willingness to discount us in order to benefit a group of lawless trespassors.

Stop paying attention to all of the crooked polls. Make the pollsters print the questions, all of them, every time they print the poll results, and you'll find out what's going on with the polls. The American people are fed up. We're fed up with politicians; we're fed up with the kind of bs we see on the info ads; we're fed up with being walked over and spit on by arrogant thieves who think we're going to stand by and let them wipe themselves with our flag.

Is this message clear enough? Are all of you illegal immigrants listening?

Walk out. Walk far out. And don't come back.

SUPPORT THE TROOPS SCREW THE TRAITORS TO THE WALL – VIVA TRUTH IN POLITICS

2006-04-08T22:42:00.000-05:00

Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Thomas Paine wrote cogently about the political events surrounding the American Revolution, and the push-me, pull-you maneuvering that went on, some of it genuine – unlike the purely self-interested powermongering we are currently dealing with. However, when we read The Crisis articles, it is uncanny: he could be speaking directly to [and about] the Democrats in Congress today, I think, and to the liberal dems, the fellow-travelers who are making money from the situation, those who are jockeying for position in the next election, ad nauseum--as well as to the hollywould crowd, and the other groups who find it too much trouble to fight for the privileges they enjoy.

Skim the article, skipping the physical war details of the period, and inserting today’s facts, and noting that the sidebar seems to be the same. Then go over it again. See if it resonates for you as it did for me – then go to
www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis/c-01.htm and read the whole series. Think about voting straight Republican! And support a law requiring TRUTH IN POLITICS and EDUCATION/INFORMATION, WITH JAIL TIME FOR VIOLATION.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and it looks like we’re always going to have “summer soldiers and sunshine patriots” with us. God give us the strength and courage, and enough men and women of true heart, to win through.

"The Crisis: December 23, 1776

December 23, 1776
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Whether the independence of the continent was declared too soon, or delayed too long, I will not now enter into as an argument; my own simple opinion is, that had it been eight months earlier, it would have been much better. We did not make a proper use of last winter, neither could we, while we were in a dependent state. However, the fault, if it were one, was all our own; we have none to blame but ourselves. But no great deal is lost yet. All that Howe has been doing for this month past, is rather a ravage than a conquest, which the spirit of the Jerseys, a year ago, would have quickly repulsed, and which time and a little resolution will soon recover.

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.

'Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them. Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fourteenth [fifteenth] century the whole English army, after ravaging the kingdom of France, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, Joan of Arc. Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen, and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment! Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware.

As I was with the troops at Fort Lee, and marched with them to the edge of Pennsylvania, I am well acquainted with many circumstances, which those who live at a distance know but little or nothing of. Our situation there was exceedingly cramped, the place being a narrow neck of land between the North River and the Hackensack. Our force was inconsiderable, being not one-fourth so great as Howe could bring against us. We had no army at hand to have relieved the garrison, had we shut ourselves up and stood on our defence. Our ammunition, light artillery, and the best part of our stores, had been removed, on the apprehension that Howe would endeavor to penetrate the Jerseys, in which case Fort Lee could be of no use to us; for it must occur to every thinking man, whether in the army or not, that these kind of field forts are only for temporary purposes, and last in use no longer than the enemy directs his force against the particular object which such forts are raised to defend. Such was our situation and condition at Fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November, when an officer arrived with information that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about seven miles above; Major General [Nathaniel] Green, who commanded the garrison, immediately ordered them under arms, and sent express to General Washington at the town of Hackensack, distant by the way of the ferry = six miles. Our first object was to secure the bridge over the Hackensack, which laid up the river between the enemy and us, about six miles from us, and three from them. General Washington arrived in about three-quarters of an hour, and marched at the head of the troops towards the bridge, which place I expected we should have a brush for; however, they did not choose to dispute it with us, and the greatest part of our troops went over the bridge, the rest over the ferry, except some which passed at a mill on a small creek, between the bridge and the ferry, and made their way through some marshy grounds up to the town of Hackensack, and there passed the river. We brought off as much baggage as the wagons could contain, the rest was lost. The simple object was to bring off the garrison, and march them on till they could be strengthened by the Jersey or Pennsylvania militia, so as to be enabled to make a stand. We staid four days at Newark, collected our out-posts with some of the Jersey militia, and marched out twice to meet the enemy, on being informed that they were advancing, though our numbers were greatly inferior to theirs. Howe, in my little opinion, committed a great error in generalship in not throwing a body of forces off from Staten Island through Amboy, by which means he might have seized all our stores at Brunswick, and intercepted our march into Pennsylvania; but if we believe the power of hell to be limited, we must likewise believe that their agents are under some providential control.

I shall not now attempt to give all the particulars of our retreat to the Delaware; suffice it for the present to say, that both officers and men, though greatly harassed and fatigued, frequently without rest, covering, or provision, the inevitable consequences of a long retreat, bore it with a manly and martial spirit. All their wishes centred in one, which was, that the country would turn out and help them to drive the enemy back. Voltaire has remarked that King William never appeared to full advantage but in difficulties and in action; the same remark may be made on General Washington, for the character fits him. There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude; and I reckon it among those kind of public blessings, which we do not immediately see, that God hath blessed him with uninterrupted health, and given him a mind that can even flourish upon care.

I shall conclude this paper with some miscellaneous remarks on the state of our affairs; and shall begin with asking the following question, Why is it that the enemy have left the New England provinces, and made these middle ones the seat of war? The answer is easy: New England is not infested with Tories, and we are. I have been tender in raising the cry against these men, and used numberless arguments to show them their danger, but it will not do to sacrifice a world either to their folly or their baseness. The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall. And what is a Tory? Good God! What is he? I should not be afraid to go with a hundred Whigs against a thousand Tories, were they to attempt to get into arms. Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you. He expects you will all take up arms, and flock to his standard, with muskets on your shoulders. Your opinions are of no use to him, unless you support him personally, for 'tis soldiers, and not Tories, that he wants." [[The terrorists believed that all of the fellow-travelers in this country would rise up and join them on 9/11; but the talkers are all mouth. Gutless wonders who don't have the strength of any convictions, but whose mouths and traitorous words have cost the rest of us plenty. And they're at it again. I believe it's time they started paying the price, and those Congressmen who open their mouths at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with words that reduce our effectiveness, or put this country or any member of its armed forces or active serving persons at risk should be politely - or not so politely -- denuded of their badges of office and sent home, if not to jail. mc]]

"I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, "Well! give me peace in my day." Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confident, as I am that God governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

America did not, nor does not want force; but she wanted a proper application of that force. Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off. From an excess of tenderness, we were unwilling to raise an army, and trusted our cause to the temporary defence of a well-meaning militia. A summer's experience has now taught us better; yet with those troops, while they were collected, we were able to set bounds to the progress of the enemy, and, thank God! they are again assembling. I always considered militia as the best troops in the world for a sudden exertion, but they will not do for a long campaign. Howe, it is probable, will make an attempt on this city [Philadelphia]; should he fail on this side the Delaware, he is ruined. If he succeeds, our cause is not ruined. He stakes all on his side against a part on ours; admitting he succeeds, the consequence will be, that armies from both ends of the continent will march to assist their suffering friends in the middle states; for he cannot go everywhere, it is impossible. I consider Howe as the greatest enemy the Tories have; he is bringing a war into their country, which, had it not been for him and partly for themselves, they had been clear of. Should he now be expelled, I wish with all the devotion of a Christian, that the names of Whig and Tory may never more be mentioned; but should the Tories give him encouragement to come, or assistance if he come, I as sincerely wish that our next year's arms may expel them from the continent, and the Congress appropriate their possessions to the relief of those who have suffered in well-doing. A single successful battle next year will settle the whole. America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

Quitting this class of men, I turn with the warm ardor of a friend to those who have nobly stood, and are yet determined to stand the matter out: I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other. Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man. I conceive likewise a horrid idea in receiving mercy from a being, who at the last day shall be shrieking to the rocks and mountains to cover him, and fleeing with terror from the orphan, the widow, and the slain of America.

There are cases which cannot be overdone by language, and this is one. There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf, and we ought to guard equally against both. Howe's first object is, partly by threats and partly by promises, to terrify or seduce the people to deliver up their arms and receive mercy. The ministry recommended the same plan to Gage, and this is what the tories call making their peace, "a peace which passeth all understanding" indeed! A peace which would be the immediate forerunner of a worse ruin than any we have yet thought of. Ye men of Pennsylvania, do reason upon these things! Were the back counties to give up their arms, they would fall an easy prey to the Indians, who are all armed: this perhaps is what some Tories would not be sorry for. Were the home counties to deliver up their arms, they would be exposed to the resentment of the back counties who would then have it in their power to chastise their defection at pleasure. And were any one state to give up its arms, that state must be garrisoned by all Howe's army of Britons and Hessians to preserve it from the anger of the rest. Mutual fear is the principal link in the chain of mutual love, and woe be to that state that breaks the compact. Howe is mercifully inviting you to barbarous destruction, and men must be either rogues or fools that will not see it. I dwell not upon the vapors of imagination; I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as A, B, C, hold up truth to your eyes.

I thank God, that I fear not. I see no real cause for fear. I know our situation well, and can see the way out of it. While our army was collected, Howe dared not risk a battle; and it is no credit to him that he decamped from the White Plains, and waited a mean opportunity to ravage the defenceless Jerseys; but it is great credit to us, that, with a handful of men, we sustained an orderly retreat for near an hundred miles, brought off our ammunition, all our field pieces, the greatest part of our stores, and had four rivers to pass. None can say that our retreat was precipitate, for we were near three weeks in performing it, that the country might have time to come in. Twice we marched back to meet the enemy, and remained out till dark. The sign of fear was not seen in our camp, and had not some of the cowardly and disaffected inhabitants spread false alarms through the country, the Jerseys had never been ravaged. Once more we are again collected and collecting; our new army at both ends of the continent is recruiting fast, and we shall be able to open the next campaign with sixty thousand men, well armed and clothed. This is our situation, and who will may know it. By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue; by cowardice and submission, the sad choice of a variety of evils — a ravaged country — a depopulated city — habitations without safety, and slavery without hope — our homes turned into barracks and bawdy-houses for Hessians, and a future race to provide for, whose fathers we shall doubt of. Look on this picture and weep over it! and if there yet remains one thoughtless wretch who believes it not, let him suffer it unlamented.

December 23, 1776" [Emphasis supplied mc]

The Crisis is a collection of articles written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War. In 1776 Paine wrote Common Sense, an extremely popular and successful pamphlet arguing for Independence from England. General Washington found this first essay so inspiring that he ordered that it be read to the troops at Valley Forge.

Zogby and The Pollsters: How they Skew our Minds

2006-04-02T17:42:00.000-05:00

Do you ever wonder why “everybody” in America seems to be off in never never land when the polls come out?

Nobody I know ever agrees with the polls. So I did some research to see how they get those results. And I found out. It’s the way they write the questions. There's no way a real person can give a true opinion.

Here’s a sample from one of Zogby’s latest polls. He leads you to believe, by the question, that he wants to know if you believe that illegal immigrants are taking jobs that Americans would otherwise do – because that’s what the question asks – but the choices he gives in the answers don’t let you answer that question. Both choices he gives you say that illegals are taking jobs Americans are unwilling to do, in two different ways. Don’t believe me? Here’s the question and the choices, verbatim:

“Do you believe that undocumented workers are taking jobs that Americans would otherwise do, or do you believe that there simply are some jobs that Americans are unwilling to take?

•Taking jobs Americans unwilling to do

•Some jobs Americans will not do

•Not sure”

Do you see the difference between the wording in the question posed where he says "jobs Americans would otherwise do"/"some jobs that Americans are unwilling to take" and the wording in the answers where both are "unwilling/will not do?" Neat, huh? That's called "an artful use of language," by lawyers and jury consultants. And people who help political parties gear up for elections and passing laws and stuff like that. Manipulating the public. That's you.

No matter what you say, Zogby’s got an answer his paying client can use.

And there is no way an honest American can get through this question to say "I believe illegal immigrants are taking jobs Americans would otherwise do." You'll have to write or call or fax your Congressmen to get that point across. And when you do, send them here.

What I want is a list of these jobs “Americans won’t do.”

The fact is that we are dealing with double-digit unemployment. Our high-school kids don’t have jobs like they used to, and I know grown Americans who would sweep sidewalks if they could get a job doing it—so you can’t convince me that there are jobs Americans won’t do.

Who built this country? I knew a blind woman who chopped cotton, canned her own food, carried water from a spring half a mile from her house. What idiot sits in a news room and talks about jobs Americans won’t do? What are they talking about? Cleaning houses? Are they totally unaware of the jobs American housewives do everyday? Did their mamas never clean a toilet? Who picks their shorts up off the floor today? Do they have illegals working at their homes? Americans have always done whatever needed doing. But you get a bunch of elitists talking, and they sure don't know how the cow ate the corn, because they are elitists. Maybe they won't do some things, but who are they to talk about "Americans?" They ain't us!

When I hear somebody talk about jobs Americans won't do, it sickens me - because I can remember the 40's. There is no job Americans won't do, when push comes to shove. You dishonor us when you say such a thing. You dishonor us who have done all of those jobs, and who continue to do them, with and without pay.

What are these jobs “Americans won’t do?” Give us a list, boys.

Send these illegal immigrants home and we’ll have less unemployment. Our teenagers can go back to work, and we won’t have to worry so much about teenage obesity and depression, and crap like that. We'll spend less on healthcare, social services, education, Spanish everywhere, and a lot of other things. Illegal immigration is draining our resources, to fill the pockets of special interests groups and individuals. The amount of money illegals send back to Mexico is just a drop in the bucket. The "me now" groups are using the illegals, just as other "me now" folks use black Americans. Slave traders, all of 'em. Building an underclass to stand on.

This was an interesting poll, indeed. Very specific questions as to the taker’s beliefs about the Democrats and Republicans ability to deal with the problem of illegal immigrants, with a neatly added phrase about “backlash from Hispanic voters, now the largest minority in America.”

Except that Hispanic voters are not the largest minority in America. And Hispanics, legal and illegal, are not the largest minority in America. They are not even the largest racial minority in America.

And when we rid ourselves of the criminal elements, that is the illegal immigrants, there will be millions fewer of them.

Why anyone would believe it is healthy to welcome illegals into a country of laws is beyond me. A person who breaks laws for money breaks any laws for money. People in Mexico are not starving. President Fox maintains an army on his Southern Border to keep people out of Mexico – he does not allow illegal immigration into Mexico.

If we started heading south, you would see an immediate reaction. In fact, American tourists go missing in Mexico with great regularity. Mexico would make a great retirement place – if we were welcome. But we’re not.

Zogby included in this poll a question about the possibility of violent illegal immigrant riots. I think these protests are a great opportunity for INS to pick up and deport, and a great opportunity for Greyhound and other transport services. Better to pay those than the millions in healthcare, education, social services, jail and food for these people. Pick ‘em up, check their papers, send them straight out of the country.

It’s time to protect the citizens of America. First things first. Mexicans have a country. They have a government. They have laws. They have a way to work their own salvation, just as we did. If they don’t like the way their country is running, they need to change it, not try to rob us blind and take what we have made. And we are not going to let our politicians and fellow travelers give this country away.

We have always shared. We open our doors, with the rules the same for everyone. You come in under the law, and work – and you earn the privilege, just as our forefathers did. You don’t steal it, breaking and entering and taking from those who wait patiently in line. And if you do break in, we don’t then pat you on the back and say, “well, ok, I guess we’ll let you by this time—sorry all of you other nice people, we don’t have room for you.”

It’s wrong. It un-just. It’s not Constitutional. It’s not “freedom and justice for all.” It’s Pancho Villa, riding north of the border, and thumbing his nose at American law. It’s Ghengis Khan, riding into London. It’s every thief climbing into every second-story window, and slashing and burning, and it is destroying our country.

We are a nation of law, and of laws. That is the concept this nation was built upon, and we must return to that concept or we will perish from the earth.

[See www.usborderpatrol.com/borderframe92C.htm for details of Villa's forays into the US]

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - GET 'ER DONE!

2006-03-28T10:09:00.000-06:00

Illegal immigration? That says it all for me. Either we are a nation of laws, or we’re some banana republic run for the convenience of the power brokers, and there is no equal justice for all.

Either we have a Constitution, and we abide by it, or we discard it – and anarchists have their way. We enforce according to whoever can jerk the most tears at any given time, or produce the most greenbacks, no matter the source. Buy out, sell out, die out, or stand firm to protect the homeland and all of our citizens equally – that’s our choice, now and forever. Patrick Henry said it before the bullets started to fly in 1776: “Either we all hang together, or we’ll surely all hang separately.”

Some people make light of this problem. We’re just helping these poor folks out, they say. They’re just coming over here for a better life, they say. Bull crap, I say. The guy who kicks down your door and rips off your TV just wants a better life; the kid on the corner selling crack is there for a better life; the one who embezzled from the pension fund wants a better life for himself.

Why should somebody who is willing to steal not only from American citizens but from those who are waiting to immigrate legally, honestly, and to work lawfully within the system, get benefits denied lawabiding American citizens? What is equal and just about that?

If some judge tries to tell you that the burgler in your living room should be let off because he’s already in, are you going to agree? That’s purely crazy. That’s the kind of thinking that has resulted in an increase in breaking and entering – right, guys? Right. It’s time to put an end to this one-way street.

No other country in the world puts up with this kind of illegal action. Mexico definitely enforces their immigration laws. Furthermore, if you pick up the phone in Mexico, you won’t hear a voice telling you to press Uno for Espanish and Dos for English. You won’t hear a similar message in any other country either, and government offices and papers are not in multiple particular languages either.

Say – who puts up the money for all of these advocacy groups for illegal immigrants – these poor folks who have no money? Why do they do that? Can any of you think of 10 good reasons? We can.

There’s a Biblical story about a nation of people who were working on a great project and nearing success. The story is they were building a tower that would reach all the way to Heaven. I believe the suggestion is that God was either fearful or angry at their presumption that they could join Him without going through the established procedure – so to put an immediate stop to their project He struck them with the most effective curse He could devise: the curse of multiple languages. Yep, it was the Tower of Babel incident. And here we are in America – and the babel of multiple languages is once again being heard, with special interest groups pushing for more and more of them. Well, fry them and the horses they rode in on.

Not everybody in America is stupid or tied to vested interests. You people in Congress had better get moving, or you will be moving, and somebody else will be moving in your places.

And speaking about moving: what is Immigration and Naturalization doing about picking up all of those illegal immigrants? We have laws: enforce them. If they can’t do it, arrest them for not doing their jobs. Can’t find them? BS! Try looking at all those demonstrations against the current hard-line anti-illegal immigration bill. There seem to be plenty of them out there. You certainly won’t find law-abiding American citizens lobbying against this bill.

Lobbyists tell you not to “criminalize” illegal immigration. You are not criminalizing illegal immigration; that has already been done. Criminals become criminals by breaking a law. Others become accessories when they help them do so. Congress should see that the laws are enforced, and punish the federal agents who fail to do their jobs.

Liberty and justice for all starts with American citizens. When you deprive us of our rights, in order to protect lawless criminals, you are not defending the Constitution as you are sworn to do: you are joining with the element in society which is sworn to destroy us.

What do we want? We want the toughest illegal immigration bills passed and enforced.

What do we think about the polls? We think that if simple direct questions were asked, you'd know what we really think. But as long as Zogby and the others write twisters, you'll never get any answers except the ones they get paid to produce. Think about it. Look to the Constitution and enforce it. Citizens must be protected; America must be protected. We must hang together, now more than ever. Truth is the answer. Get 'er done!

[See an upcoming column about lobbyists supported by foreign interests, and the public’s desire that they be denied access to congress and the public.]

LA’s GONE MORAL?

2006-02-06T21:03:00.000-06:00

Well, well, well. We’ve got a new moral majority. In Los Angeles of all places. A newspaper out there and its little boy columnist are suffering angst over the moral question of our military and the question of their bearing arms in Iraq—and whether we should support them there and on their return. He doesn’t advocate “spitting on them,” he says. But he seems to wonder if they should obey orders over there. Sounds to me like he’s advocating mutiny with that treasonous little suggestion.

I wonder what closet these guys have been living in that they think there’s a moral issue about ousting a wild animal of a military dictator and his regime, when Saddam butchered his own people, using poison gas against them, and routinely sent terror squads out against a defenseless population. There’s a moral issue about keeping your eyes and your doors shut while your neighbor gets raped, if you ask me – and that’s essentially what we’d be doing if we just ignored Iraq and Afghanistan – especially after 9/11. After all, Saddam wrote checks to reward suicide bombers, didn’t he? Is there anyone who disputes that fact?

Is there anybody who TRULY believes there’s a better form of government than ours? Or a better place to live? Or that it’s really WRONG to help others who WANT this FREEDOM to get it IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY?

No, I don’t think the newspaper or the columnist really believes the bull they’re putting out. A six-year-old child can think more logically than that. For example, following the thought to its conclusion, if one of those gangs out there in LA decided to call on the little columnist with their AK’s, and he really believed that shooting folks is morally wrong, could he actually call on the gun-tottin' police force to protect him? Or would he just die for his moral values? Or is it only morally wrong when someone else is being protected with guns? Would it be OK for someone to protect HIM with a gun? Is it just morally wrong for us to help protect our neighbors in Iraq? [And there is some inconsistency with the liberal calls for us to dive into the Sudan and clean up that problem. How come there’s no moral problem there?]

What’s happening here is simple. These guys are out to get some PR, some attention, just like when the nasty little guys used to write dirty words on the walls at school. Now, there’s a moral issue for you: it seems to me that it is very wrong to use an issue [support for the military] of such vital importance to the nation’s continued existence for a matter of personal gain, for a personal agenda like power mongering, and circulation growth, and political party lines--and to give aid and support to our enemies. Then, of course, there’s the moral issue of the impact on each and every person out on the sharp edge fighting to protect us from those who would rather be fighting on American soil, and on their families.

My personal idea is that we don’t mention the name of the newspaper or the columnist. But I don’t think either of them offers anything we can’t find on the web, or on Fox – or somewhere that supports the values we support – so I suggest that subscribers who disagree with their columnist call ‘em up and drop your subscriptions to that newspaper, and tell ‘em it’s because they can’t fully support our troops – and our country---and that you feel it’s a moral issue.

That’ll bring it home. Then write a letter to a soldier, and tell him or her what you did. That might help bring that soldier home. You never can tell what a lift in morale will do.

[To write to a service member: http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/]

Takin' Names

2006-01-16T13:09:00.000-06:00

Here's a sign for all of you politicians and media mavens out there:

THIS is going in your Permananent Record:

GOD'S TAKING NAMES.

Forgotten about permanent records? Each school child has what is called a "permanent record." In this cumulative folder, school authorities place all kinds of data on the child, classwork, personal problems, achievements, and anything else of interest. This record goes with the child from grade to grade, from school to school, and finally is filed with other permanent records. That permanent record has a far-reaching effect on the child's life at school, and frequently afterward. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. Often, it is filled with errors.  

Fortunately, or unfortunately, for us, God's permanent records on us are not filled with errors. Everything we do in our lives goes in our cumulative record, and all of our actions will serve as the basis for Final Judgement. Plus God is not a liberal; and he can tell when you're spinning. There will be no excuses. We will be held to the standard of what we CAN do when we are judged for what we have done.  

 Now, from one point of view, you can do whatever you feel like, and at the end of your life, say "Sorry," and check into your preferred suite in those luxury accommodations in Heaven. Those of us with a little more common sense and powers of observation turned on events in the natural world tend to believe this is not as simple as it looks. 

 We think it's more like a summing up of the total values of one's entire history. And we think God's got real cool permanent records on each and every individual. Like Santa Claus, he sees you when you're sleeping; he sees you when you're awake -- and as one of my Catholic friends says, he can even see the Baptists when they are inside a building. 

 We think there may be quite a few folks out there on the political front who are relying on the last minute apology. Some Democrat party hacks believe the end justifies the means. Which means they can lie, steal, murder reputations, etc., etc., etc., because they are doing it for the "public good.” Which quite often translates to an increase in their political power. Reminds me of the old Russian communist party bosses, enjoying their dachas and limousines, while the hoi polloi stood in lines and worked their tuskas off for nada, zip, nothing.

The other thing I absolutely hate about those Demo party hacks is their elite attitude that they know what’s best for the rest of us poor smoes, and they’re going to give it to us, whether we want it or not. . .Of course, they can’t tell us what they REALLY have in mind, because, being who we are, we really wouldn’t understand. After all we have to have it dinned into us over and over what jerks we Americans are, giving all that money and food away to those foreigners, I mean, foreign aid, like, dude – how crass can you get? And expecting thanks? How very uncool!

And Bellafonte thinks G W Bush is a terrorist?
Well, the man is sick, I suppose, and his career is on the skids, so you can’t blame him for trying to kick up some PR, with a few treasonous words, can you? It’s not like this country ever did anything for him, is it? He don’t owe us nothin’ – why not give a little aid and comfort to the enemy? After all, with GW on their trail, they need all the help they can get!

I can’t help wondering what Dr. King would have thought of that speech, though. . .
If he were alive now, do you think he’d be pandering to the enemy, or tearing ‘em down?

And that Permanent Record is still out there.

Bush Performance Poll in the Real World

2006-01-08T10:38:00.000-06:00

Polls out evaluating Bush’s conduct of war on terrorism, war in Iraq, etc. Ever notice how the pollsters shape their questions to get the answers they want?

If you want to evaluate how successful Bush’s war on terrorism is, there’s a very simple set of criteria: before/after.

Before 9/11, terrorist activity against Americans and American interests both abroad and at home had escalated for years. However, American response had varied. This is an important point.

In 1904, a 64-year-old Trenton man, Ian Perdicaris, and his stepson were kidnapped from their villa in Tangiers by Sheik Raisuli, leader of a local Berber tribe in revolt against the despotic Sultan of Morocco. Democratic President Teddy Roosevelt’s response was to call out the Marines and send a fleet of seven battleships steaming for the Moroccan coast. Ahead flew a message to the Sultan: “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!”

A few days later, Perdicaris and his stepson were free, and Raisuli and the Sultan were on terms—without the necessity of fleet intervention. The Sultan, as many others, preferred to avoid American action. It later turned out that Perdicaris was actually no longer an American citizen, though that fact was not made known until long after the deaths of all the principals – but the principle was clear to the world: America takes care of its own. Fer sure! America spoke softly and carried a big stick – and it was clear that we would use it in defense of our citizens and our soil.

In the years before 9/11, terrorists attacked our consulates abroad, bombed commercial airplanes, attacked our barracks, downed a Blackhawk on a humanitarian mission, kidnapped Americans, bombed several important sites here on the mainland, and actually destroyed a US Naval ship of the line [the Cole], all with very little reprisal from America. President Bill Clinton declared, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable." The world laughed to hear us bluster. Guards on the USS Cole were not allowed to fire on the bomb boat as it approached because our rules of engagement at that time did not allow us to protect ourselves. Like simple minded fools, we continued to provide aide and support to the countries which were attacking us, probably buying the very supplies used to kill our citizens. America had become a country who talked loudly and apparently had no stick.

That gradual escalation without adequate deterrent, reprisal, non-verbal response from America was directly responsible for 9/11. In countries where the level of civilization requires that one not only show one’s stick but use it frequently, America’s propensity for civilized conversation made us a laughingstock, a butt for jokes, and a natural target. We would turn the other cheek? Very well, they said, all the better for us. Hit ‘em again.

Another factor was a group of liberal apologists who took the line that America was at fault for all the injuries done us, and loudly bewailed the wrongs that America did the world by being rich and exporting its culture, many of whom were at the same time making BIG BUCKS exporting that very culture in movies and music. They supported the victim mentality and justified the actions against innocent Americans, whose money has been going to all these countries in aid and support for generations. Of course, their actions made them popular overseas, and richer.

When President Bush stood up and said: “If you aren’t for us, you’re against us. If you are a terrorist, or a terrorist supporter, if you are a country, or a country’s ruler, or a banker, or a contributor, giving aid or support to a terrorist, we’re coming after you,” and then promptly did exactly that, and continued to do exactly that, he produced a situation of unparalleled safety in this country, for the people in this country.

The terrorists saw America’s fleet steaming toward the coast of Morocco again. They heard “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!” and they have seen the proof of it. In spite of everything the treasonous, traitorous power brokers could do to pull President Bush from the path of safety for this country, he has remained steadfast, and for that reason, there have been no more bombings, no more easy access, no more careless arrogance and disrespect for stupid Americans.

Is it enough? Barely. Could it be better? Yes. The Democrats who are so concerned with their power could start working for those who elected them, and stop with their death-dealing spinning. We are in a life and death struggle for survival. Power and who wins the next election is a minor point, when the issue of whether or not you can sleep peacefully in your bed without fear of fusion bombs or biowarfare is totally real and out there. Close the borders; export the illegal aliens; allow legals in to work; let the Democrats know for once and for all that we are a nation of laws equally for everybody, and that American citizens are first to be protected before non-citizens who desire to take advantage of American benefits – that would maybe keep some potential bombers/invaders out, and certainly some criminals like the cop-killers in California we’ve been reading about!

As long as President Bush’s war effort keeps them on the run over there, we’re safer here. That’s the object, and he’s accomplishing it, against heavy odds and Democratic opposition.

So how do we rate President Bush’s conduct of the war on terrorism? Primo! Outstanding. Right up there with Teddy Roosevelt. Beats everybody else.

Do we think he’s doing a great job? YES.

Do we care what the rest of the world, including terrorist supporters, think about his performance? NO.

And that’s our Bush performance poll in the Real World, my friends.

Yes, Virginia?

2005-12-26T00:46:00.000-06:00

What I really want for Christmas this year is a new law. Several years ago Congress actually passed a law that said they, themselves, Congress that is, had to actually obey the same laws that we the people have to obey. Imagine that.

Well, most of them.

We have a truth in advertising law. What I want is a truth in politicking law. You know, something that says if one of those guys in Congress, or their staff, or from one of the parties, or a PAC, or whoever, buys an ad [hmmm - truth in advertising?], or makes a public statement to the press or elsewhere, and it's not true, then it's a lie, and they get like 2-10 years in jail for it.

You see, I'm getting really hacked off at all the "spin" doctors, including the media, and all the lies going around. All you have to do is go back and read over the past 10 years, and you can catch these guys on every side of every argument. This would lead you to believe there ain't no such thing as "truth," which is one of their biggest arguments.

But there is truth, and there are facts. The best defense of freedom in America is an educated voting public. Well, with the teacher's union and the education lawyers working together, they have managed to get our education level down to 4th grade in the past 20 years, and with all the illegal immigrants voting, we definitely do not have an educated voting public. Add the mix of lies and misdirection, misrepresentation and spin, and we're lucky we're still one country!

So let's get together, and make 'em bite the bullet, and pass a Truth law with real teeth in it, BEFORE the next election. Truth--or consequences. . .When you get right down to it, it's them or us! And, yes, Virginia, there really ARE more of us.