March 11, 2007

The Politics Of Today…

…can be somewhat confusing, and the actions/statements/viewpoints of many can be profoundly flabbergasting.

For example, we have Don Imus, who purportedly supported and voted for Jacques Kerry, tearing Chuck the disgrace Schumer, Democrat, a new rectal conduit over the Walter Reed issue.

This tells me that Imus is more concerned about his own POV than he is about partisan politics; I mean, most people who voted for Kerry apparently have a standardized, portside viewpoint re U.S. politics. It’s nice to know that Imus is an honest man.

But what about liberals in general?

What do they represent from the angle of their being Americans?

Well, let’s see …. they make it rather plain that they don’t give the proverbial rodent’s hind quarters about the Constitution, they simply distort each amendment to define each of their actions or agendas as being “Constitutional”, no matter how far off the mark they happen to be.

When one of their agendas is too bizarre to enjoin to the great, America defining document, they simply go to a leftist court like the 9th Circus in San Francisco, and obtain a ruling from one of the marxist judges therein that skirts the actual legality of a Senate or Supreme Court decision.

One of the issues that sticks in my craw is the portside indoctrination of our youth by liberal/leftist teachers and professors within the education system.

This morning I watched Washington Journal, for example, on C-Span. The guest was a slug named Scott Jaschik, a reptilian looking individual with an enormous, pale second chin and hooded lizard eyes, and the standard issue liberal smirk. He was discussing and taking questions on a recent proposal geared toward eliminating leftist indoctrination from the classroom.

Most of the calls that came in were in agreement with the Arizona proposal.

Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher Ed, an online magazine, replied to all the callers who were in agreement with the proposed bill with either, “I haven’t heard that” or “Your individual experience” type answers, and rather than address a general situation of liberal/ leftist indoctrination, he cited specific colleges and classes that teach technical data as “typical”, ignoring the fact that the majority of today’s college professors push leftist political agendas on their students.

The three callers who disagreed with the conservative POV were interesting. One was a school teacher who delivered the whole “equal debate so students can form their own informed opinion” argument (sure, they can, as long as it mirrors the proffered portside party line dispensed by the “educator” — you can’t debate one side of an issue, and the conservative side is not provided) but after that, there was the typical drooling leftism… A caller from Mumford, Massachusettes was a laugh a minute, for example, a poster boy for every liberal platitude in existence, so far dismissed from the real world that even the obvious liberals who were guest and host had to end the call in rude fashion, then discuss it with mutual liberal bias.

To the point, it really is pretty obvious that while liberals complain forever that they are not being accorded their right to freedom of speech, they are the ones who get to saturate the nation, via the MSM and outspoken Congressional Democrats, with their doctrine while shouting down the few conservative opinions with supremely inapplicable accusations of racism, fascism and various and sundry other extremist oriented descriptives.

What’s most worrisome is that the MSM’s leftist bent mirrors, in nearly every detail, the propaganda machines of the Soviet Union and the Third Reich, both of which were almost identical.

Then again, both governments were variations on socialism, even though one was fascist to the max while the other was nearly the same thing, except more subtle about spreading its influence and governed by a larger group of dictators.

In the end, one was defeated by mutual global survival instinct, the other, by and large, economically. In the footsteps of both the Nazis and the USSR, we have the EU, which is also an economic failure.

Socialism simply doesn’t work, while Democracy does.

What really makes me grind my teeth is that despite the lessons of history, our liberals continue to denigrate the very form of government that allows them to slander and deface their country, and curse the very military people who defend their right to slander these same soldiers and Marines, supporting dictators and terrorists who would torture and murder them for the same offenses.

These cowardly, mouthy traitors know they are safe doing this BS here in the United States. If they were living in the countries they endorse over the U.S., they would not say a word….

by @ 12:57 am. Filed under Uncategorized

March 10, 2007

I Believe In Freedom Of Speech, But…

… I also believe it should not be abused, and that those exercising this right have a responsibility to do so maturely and non-obstructively: Exercise your rights, but not to the extent that you use them as an excuse to harm others or to harm your country. To add to that, speech is one thing, physical action another. To vandalize, sabotage, throw things or spit on others, no matter what your differences of opinion, goes beyond speech and therefore only the most warped minds can use their right to freedom of speech as an excuse for the above. Pressing, abusive mobs are not a responsible example of freedom of speech; Peaceful demonstrations whose participants remain at the sidelines of whatever they are protesting are responsible examples of freedom of speech. When liberals destroy property or spit on American soldiers, they are guilty of, respectively, vandalism and assault.

If they want to lie to themselves and to others by saying they support our troops, or that they even maintain the right to call themselves Americans while shouting abusive names at these brave soldiers and Marines and protesting the deployment of reenforcements or of equipment that can save the lives of our troops in combat, fine — they are enjoying their right of free speech, even though they are being brazenly careless of the negative effects their ranting may have on the morale of our troops, or of the positive effects it may have for the morale of our enemy. After all, our political left has made it more than plain that they want us to lose in Iraq as they caused us to lose in Vietnam — by enduring defeat here at home rather than victory on the field of battle. And even though their words are treasonous, as long as they are merely words delivered free of obstruction, vandalism and assault, it is their right to speak them here in America.

When they become obstructive and in any other way physical, they cross the line.

After reading this, while gritting my teeth in frustration and anger, I long for the aggressive use of rubber bullets, fire hoses and helmeted cops with riot shields and long, heavy night sticks, if for no other reason than to give these wingnuts a taste of their own definition of Freedom of Speech.

by @ 7:42 am. Filed under Uncategorized

March 8, 2007

The Scooter Conviction, Cabbages, Kings And Hypocrisy

Ah, yes, the Libby conviction. What a crock!

Since the beginning of the circus, Valerie Plame has been established not to have been a field intelligence officer and therefore an “outing” as such became moot. The fact that the entire case against Libby wasn’t dropped had nothing to do with any breach of national security or, for that matter, any concern for “justice”. It was all about a partisan political agenda originating, unsurprisingly enough, on the left side of the aisle. As the Bard might have said, it was much ado about nothing.

If you want to find a genuine case of perjury, you need look no further than here, and the ending of that event, here.

There was substance lurking behind the Clinton impeachment, whereas the Libby trial was based, essentially, on a nonexistant bottom line.

It reminds me of something that happened to an acquaintance in New Orleans back in the early 1980s — he became embroiled in an argument over something really minor with a police officer, and the cop arrested him for “Resisting Arrest”. The arrestee went through the entire degrading experience of the booking and clothes-swapping system and sat in a cell all weekend, living, I should imagine, on poorly prepared red beans, rice and grits. When he got to court on Monday, the judge observed that while the defendant had been charged with Resisting Arrest, there was no charge attached indicating that there had been any reason to arrest him to begin with, so the case was immediately thrown out and my acquaintance went free on the spot.

However, the arresting officer had, by abusing his authority, not only caused the man to endure humiliation and a weekend of discomfort, but also generated an arrest record that would remain on file in this respectable, innocent man’s name. The policeman had, in effect, achieved a “last word”, self satisfying, cheap victory. Bully for him.

This is comparable to what has been done to Libby.

Of course, even as they hint that the Libby conviction gives them license to go after the Vice President on the grounds that he was the orchestrator of Scooter’s groundless misfortune, the Democrats are already making noise about the possibility of President Bush pardoning Libby, and condemning the very idea.

I hope the President does pardon Libby — however, as he’s already left two brave, dedicated, wrongly convicted Border Patrol agents out to hang, one of whom has already had the crap beaten out of him in prison by the very criminals the Border Patrol pursues, I won’t stand on my left ear waiting for it.

Okay, so the left is capitalizing to the max on the conviction of Scooter Libby. To hell with them…

So let’s see…

How about this?

This tells us that an officially accepted panel of experts has determined that the Bush Administration’s terrorist surveillance programs are legal and above board.

These are the same operations that were “exposed” by the New York Times as “Big Brother” invasions of the privacy of the average American citizen — reports by the NYT were, as they well knew, as available to terrorists as they were to the average U.S. citizen; In effect, the NYT gave away U.S. national security secrets to the enemy.

If Bill Clinton could get away with lying to Congress over a real situation and Scooter Libby could be convicted over a false premise, we’re “even”.

If N.Y. Times Executive Editor Bill Keller and his newspaper can get away with publishing national security/ defense secrets without being prosecuted and sentenced, it definitely bowls the left a strike: Treason wins, 3 for 3.

Bummer.

Sorry, I mean major Bummer. Our country, thanks to the resolve of our leftists and the spinelessness of those who purport to represent the right, is in a world of shit….

Treason is in this century.

by @ 5:04 am. Filed under Uncategorized

March 6, 2007

This Is Too Much

The New York Times was evidently really reaching this past Sunday.

Sunday’s op-ed page devoted itself almost entirely to global warming alarmism world-wide, apparently based on New York editors who first got warm, then cold: “Prompted by a New York winter that went from disturbing warmth to bone-chilling cold practically overnight, the Op-Ed page asked four writers from four different corners of the globe to report on the erratic weather they’ve been experiencing.”

That was enough to inspire the four essays under the heading “Cloudy, With a Chance of Climate Change,” though the Times also used Al Gore’s Academy Award for the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” as a news hook: “It seemed a pretty sure sign that Hollywood believes that global climate change is taking place.” That settles that, then.

That settles that, then. LOL!

Read the rest here.

On topic and definitely a good and relevant read can be found at AB Freedom.

by @ 5:12 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Thoughts On Television

It’s 9 a.m. on Tuesday, less than 48 hours before I make my move from Charlotte, and I’m listening to some ancient Jefferson Airplane music (right now, D.C.B.A. 25 segueing into My Best Friend) while trying to figure out what I’ve forgotten or neglected in the way of packing.

I have to put my DirecTV account on hold (4 receivers).

Satellite (or cable, for that matter) Now there’s a deal!

By the middle of the second week of the month, you’ve had the opportunity to watch all the films, thrice or more, that are available on the zillion non-commercial movie channels. So you go to expanded basic, where they give you commercial breaks long enough to go cook a complex dinner between program segments.

I mean it! You can leave the room at the start of the first commercial, set up a fresh pot of coffee, go to the bathroom, check your email, grate some red onion and knead it into some ground sirloin, season it and add a few dollops of Worstershire, then put it in the broiler, then go back to the TV in time for some slug representing a financial institution to tell you how the firm he represents has helped “thousands of people just like you”… I don’t know how y’all feel about that, but when someone in a commercial uses the phrase “…people just like you…”, he/she guarantees that the firm in question will never get any business from me. That phrase is so effin’ patronizing — how the eff does that piece of feces know “just how” I am?

If you don’t go do something and just watch the ads, you see a female human hippopotamus (before) become Raquel Welch (after) — while in tiny lettering at the bottom of the screen is a notice that “Results not typical” or “Results may vary”. Some say “…with proper dieting and exercise…” In other words, you’ll lose weight with proper dieting and exercise, and if this works, they’ll claim credit, whether or not their product had anything to do with it.

Then there are assholes who will milk your every dime to clear your credit score and a clinic in which they can “add size to a certain male body part…”

I surely miss the more creative and more conservatively delivered commercials of the 1960s.

On the positive side, I must admit that I kinda-sorta’ like the Geico caveman commercials.

Otherwise, I’m pretty durned tired of TV….

by @ 9:31 am. Filed under Uncategorized

March 4, 2007

Slavery In History….

…. vs slavery today is the topic of an OpEd by Mona Charen.

Al Sharpton is apparently subdued by news that his ancestors were owned by ancestors of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert described him as “quiet” and “reflective” — states of mind that Herbert acknowledges are “unusual” for the reverend. That qualifies as the understatement of the decade.

Sharpton indicates that the news of his ancestry brought the “complete dehumanization” of slavery home to him, and Herbert takes the opportunity to preach that “Slavery, like the past . . . is not dead. It’s not even past. It’s not something you can wish away.”

No, you can’t wish it away, but it is possible to dwell on it overmuch, as I believe we do in this country. To judge by what my children are learning in school, you’d think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Addams, Longfellow or Fulton).

Meanwhile,

Each year, an estimated 600,000-800,000 men, women and children are trafficked against their will across international borders. According to the White House, 14,500-17,500 of these are trafficked into the United States. Some are forced to work in sweatshops and farms, but most are domestic workers and prostitutes. A typical case is that of “Maria,” a Guatemalan who was lured to the U.S. by a “coyote” when she was 12. Once in Florida, she was raped and forced to submit to prostitution. She did not speak the language and was threatened with violence if she attempted to escape.

What gets me is that most of the countries that seem to turn a blind eye on human trafficking within their borders are the same ones that are permitted to bash the United States within the New York based chambers of the U.N., but I digress.

In Burma, and in several countries in Africa, children as young as 11 are kidnapped and forced to become soldiers. The State Department’s trafficking report quotes a 13-year-old former soldier from Liberia who told of being drugged. “They gave me pills that made me crazy. When the craziness got in my head, I beat people and made them bleed.”

Elsewhere, the exploitation of children for “child sex tourism” is a thriving industry. In Thailand, Cambodia and Costa Rica, as well as other nations, pedophiles traveling from all over the globe are offered their choice of male or female victims from among the poorest classes. The children can be as young as 5.

Howsomever, the international slavery problem (and the smaller, but despicable nonetheless, problem manifest among immigrants right here in the United States) is apparently not an issue to those whose only concern in that arena is to keep the guilt alive among citizens of today for the actions of long dead Americans 140 + years ago, ultimately to gain votes for a political party that was not only the party that created such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan and such doctrine as the Jim Crow laws, but also continues to con black Americans that they have their best interests at heart, while actually keeping them down. Not to mention any names, I’ll only give you a hint: It’s not the Republican Party.

Anyway, Mona Charen’s as-always right on column can be read here.

by @ 11:59 am. Filed under Uncategorized

March 3, 2007

Wow!

You must check out this short (damn, I wish it was longer!) video at Mike’s America, ROTFLMAO!!!!

by @ 1:06 am. Filed under Uncategorized

March 2, 2007

RETRACTION

In a very recent post, I made a major error that I must retract.

First, I will say that my information came from an email from a usually “you can take it to the bank” source of information that I should have fact checked regardless, and second, I got the subject of the post intertwined with another Republican congressman, Walter Jones, who also hails from North Carolina. Mr. Jones was evidently a co-initiator of the no-confidence bill with two Democrats.

Nonetheless, such an error on my part was, at best, inexcusable and for that part of the post in question I can only apologize profoundly.

The revelation and subsequent research was the result of a telephone call in response to my post by Kevin Klein, a member of Congressman Robin Hayes’ staff, in which he apologized for the duplicate response and corrected me on the subject of Hayes’ vote on the “no-confidence” issue. I caught the call on my voice mail late yesterday and returned it this afternoon, to their DC offices.

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Supplementally:

While talking with Mr. Klein, I brought up the matter of the generic response his office sent in reply to my email, pointing out that the way it was presented, the email contained a paucity of information that committed the congressman to nothing as far as how he planned to vote on the issue of H.R. 254.

Mr. Klein replied that Congressman Hayes intended to vote nay on the bill, and said that since the bill was still being drafted, responses were, per SOP, noncommittal as provisions and language might still be rewritten before a final product was brought to a vote.

I suggested that the reason for the duplicate of the generic reply was that a staff member had obviously, not being all that interested in the content/ my concerns or input, had simply seized on a keyword (H.R. 254) and sent the reply. He could really do nothing but agree that that might have been the case.

1. I explained to him that such responses are not what we, the constituents expect when we make inquiries — that we want candid answers on our representative’s position — and cited the fact that these generic form letters are extremely discouraging as they only indicate a politician’s reluctance to offend a potential new voter.

2. I also indicated the concern of most conservatives at the thought of a bill that favors one group of citizens passing — the precedent that would be set would enable those pressing for said group(in this case, homosexuals) to push other bills through that would further give the subjects of their agenda special rights that exceed those of the rest of the citizens of the U.S.

3. I told him that conservatives are concerned at the way our Republican representatives on the Hill back down all to often on issues when the Democrats employ language to the effect that opposing them might constitute “racism”, lack of concern for “the children”, etc, in fear of losing votes from certain quarters, and that we expect them to fight for those ideals upon which we elected them to begin with rather than allow the left to twist and tear the Constitution in order to meet their own agendas.

4. I pointed out that since the beginning of our Iraq enterprise, while the Democrats have loudly, unfairly and incessantly attacked the President as they have, the Republicans on the Hill have kept their own council so as not to rock the vote boat, leaving George Bush in the lurch to defend himself against these attacks — and that the conservative voting base expects the starboard side of Congress to be as verbal as the left, in defending the policies of the Commander-In-Chief.

I made mention of the results of the 2006 elections and suggested that those Republicans remaining in Congress might learn a lesson from that and rethink their obligations to those of us who put them there before a re-run occurs in 2008.

Mr. Klein said he agreed with me on “2″, and would pass along the rest of my points to Robin Hayes. He also invited me to visit their offices in DC ,when I’m there in mid-March to join the counter-protest against the legions of anti-war leftist wingnuts who will be descending on the Nation’s Capital for their usual treason, to discuss whatever concerns I might have and get “face-to-face” about it. I will definitely take him up on it.

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Again, my sincere apologies for posting the inaccuracy of the Hayes vote, and I look forward to the discussions I expect to have in a couple of weeks in DC.

by @ 11:03 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

March 1, 2007

I’m Kind Of On The Run….

….but I just had to post this excellent column by Ann Coulter!

by @ 1:05 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Here’s An Issue…

… to which I hadn’t given any thought, probably because I was totally unaware of it, but now that I am aware, well,

Environmentalists say they want renewable energy, but they’re tearing down dams, which provide hydropower across the country. And the networks are ignoring this eco-campaign to save the salmon and turn out the lights.

Hmmmmm….

You can read the entire enlightening (at least to me) piece here.

I can’t say this surprises me much, if at all. Not the media’s silence on it, because if a liberal agenda is involved, it’s also an MSM agenda, and I’m certainly not at all surprised that this is happening, period. I’m just surprised that I haven’t run across this particular story before.

It could hardly be called amazing, given the left’s unending battle to damage the U.S. economy and infrastructure wherever opportunity presents itself. One only need look at the Kyoto kerfuffle and the liberals’ (along with their Democrat butt munchers) war on corporate America.

Here we have yet another great example of lefty lunacy: They yell, as the article cites, about the need for regenerative energy sources, then find ways to destroy regenerative energy sources.

Hey, I lived in San Francisco during the energy crisis a few years ago (luckily, I lived on the same part of the grid as a BART station, so I didn’t have to suffer through the brown-outs those less fortunately located had to endure). Remember that one? That liberal fool Gray Davis, who was governor at the time — we later ended up firing him for gross incompetence and replacing him with the Terminator, LOL — “solved” the problem by grossly overpaying out-of-state electric companies for more juice, then, when we had an excess, selling it off for pennies on the dollar (those liberals sure are brilliant businessmen!): Buy dear, sell cheap.

Okay, so we get rid of hydro-electric plants, which gets rid of a significant percentage of regenerative power — it may only be, as the article states, about 10% of the total national source of electricity, but to be realistic, we have to look at this as a regional, not a national, issue. A given hydro-electric plant might be supplying the bulk of electricity to tens of thousands of homes and most of the infrastructure in one part of one state.

What’s the local government supposed to do? Send out letters saying, “Sorry, folks, we’re going to give you a tax rebate to use to build windmills and/or have solar panels installed on your roof. We’re really, really, truly sorry that you’ll have to live in the dark and barbecue your dinner until your new energy sources are in place. In the meantime, we regret to inform you that we’ll have to seize 40,000 homes via eminent domain in order to convert the properties to windmill and solar energy fields….”

Of course, the glaringly obvious and cleanest solution to the lost energy due to the closing of hydro-electric plants would be more nuclear power facilities, but…. those would be unacceptable to the left. They will fight tooth and nail against the construction of energy-oriented nuclear power plants, but it’s perfectly okay if Iran builds breeder reactors in the guise of innocent energy sources. After all, the only thing we need to assure that Iran doesn’t develop any threat value is some peaceful, understanding, mares-eat-oats-and-does-eat-oats diplomacy, right?

What can I say? It would appear that the life and convenience of a single salmon is infinitely more important than the lives of millions of Americans.

Who can argue with that logic?

by @ 4:02 am. Filed under Uncategorized