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A Convenient Lie

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
    Close your eyes and use your imagination. Imagine you are in a town square somewhere in Europe listening to the village Elders introducing their best academic mind to warn you of a dark, impending danger. Also imagine that it’s 520 A.D. It is the Dark Ages, and academia holds no power over superstition, but a learned man can be seen as a prophet.
   
    This prophet begins to speak as the peripheral wanton violence yields temporarily to a somewhat primitive thirst for answers, answers to the question on everyone’s mind, aside from how to survive the next onslaught from the neighboring village. He is warning of a new threat, that which will precipitate the end of Man.
   
     It has been unnaturally warm of late, and the people sense a foreboding, an end of times, and this prophet, whose wisdom no one dare question, is about to lay down the 411. But, in the middle of his dissertation, a bold man from the crowd challenges with some very compelling ideas. He is subsequently stoned to death as a heretic, as the orgy of violence begins anew.
   
    1500 years ago. It sounds like a very long time…and it is. But that is what some very bold scientists are suggesting is at the cause of Global Warming today. A 1500 year cycle. And they are the new stonees, those who dare raise a voice in opposition to the  experts vis-a-vis global warming science. But there is compelling science outlined in the books referenced in the first link herein that makes my fantasy scenario quite plausible. It was warming in 520 A.D.  Huh, interesting.
   
    One slight problem, though…there was no industry 1500 years ago, no man-made CO2 emmissions, no SUV’s… no cause for the trend currently being attributed to Man. And yet, according to real science (not to be confused with meteorological chart science), there is credible evidence that warming has occurred and subsided long before we had the technology to even be considered as a contestant in the race to destroy the planet.
   
    However, these scientists with nothing to gain beyond providing real truth, who have no grant money at stake, have heard enough. They are beginning to speak up as the connivers are gaining way to much credence, threatening to destabilize the very foundation of America, as well as the rest of the free world. And the people with the Agenda are struggling mightily to maintain their superiority in things academic. They have a substantial pile of rocks ready to hurl.
   
    One thing that is not clear, and something with which I grapple to comprehend. What is the motivation behind these screeds? What is the ultimate goal? To be sure, many of the bleaters have been equally mislead and are genuinely believing in their cause, misguided though they be. But the Elders who summoned the prophet of Global Warming have some explaining to do.

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The Spirit Of Americans

Monday, January 29th, 2007
      Having lived in America all of my life, I find it hard to be objective about us. At the same time, I find it very difficult indeed to hear the harsh criticisms of us coming from abroad. It’s become quite obvious that our friends to the East, particularly Europe, don’t much care for us and care less for our President. That’s all well and good because we don’t have to please anyone but ourselves, and we have become quite adept at doing just that very thing. 
      
    Allow me to begin this self analysis by acknowledging that we, as a people, are rude, crude, and rough. Yes we are. We are self absorbed most of the time and very demanding. We want what we want, when we want it. But by God (Yes, I said God, gasp!), no people on this planet work harder for the “good” life, as it’s been called by the rest of the world, than do we. And because of our desire to achieve and acquire, we also do battle with one another on a daily basis. We fight on the way to work, we curse one another in traffic, we bicker in line at the supermarket, and at any venue we deem to be competitive. Our politics are brutal and we seem to take great pleasure in ripping our opponents to shreds without the slightest hesitation. And yet, we have no riots, no massacres at the polling place, and no need for intervention in our elections. Our country is akin to one household, where we can disagree bitterly and fiercely, and then suddenly make up when the dispute is settled, and go about our lives. And no other peoples can match us for strength of character or courage of conviction. 
      
   We have demonstrated time and again that there is no event so great that we cannot handle it. The most recent is the attacks of September 11th, 2001. For days on end, there was no fighting amongst us, and we worked as one to get through those awful times. We provided the world with a glimpse of what angry Americans can accomplish when we have a common cause. We have a unique quality in us all that pushes aside any quarrel or dispute we may have at the time, and we work with one another like no others can. And we produce amazing results. There were approximately two hundred and twenty stories of rubble at ground zero in September of 2001, and we cleaned it all up by the spring of 2002. All the while mourning and attending funerals for our lost, while simultaneously pursuing those responsible for our grief. Yes, Americans are a very special breed. 
     
    Our generosity knows no bounds, as we endeavor to help even those who wish us harm. If there is an earthquake which levels a village, we are there to help. If there is a typhoon, we send our best to aide the victims. If innocents are attacked by a dictator, we send our brave soldiers to emancipate. And for all that we do or try to do to make the world a better place, we are reviled. Worst of all, the vilification comes not only from those we seek to help, but from within as well. Our own press seeks to humiliate us, and Hollywood elites mock us on a regular basis. All in the name of freedom of speech, which has been made possible by none other than our own might and military, we have been made to look the villains of the world. Our collective reply has been so Christian as to make the politically correct recoil in horror. 
      
   As a nation, all that we do in the world community has no ulterior motive. We do what we have to do simply because it is right. We ask not for repayment, and none is ever offered. Yet we do it time and again. Slap us and we offer the other cheek. Scorn us, and we love in return. Attack us……..well, that is another story.

   Americans have been the most powerful people on Earth for quite some time and yet we never use our might for anything other than good. Simply to help and make things right. We are a just people, but we cannot be fooled. We are a peaceful people, but can be a terrible foe. We can help others to live a life as we do, and that is our wish. But if we are begged to destroy, we can oblige with equal ease. We prefer peace and prosperity. We pray that all do.

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The American Asylum

Saturday, January 27th, 2007
   Late last century and thus far all of this one, comparisons have been made to Rome in regards to the United States. Oddly enough, the same argument has been used by both sides of the political spectrum, albeit from vastly different perspectives. While the right has used the comparison as a grave warning of what might be, the left has revelled in the prospect of the respective paths of ancient Rome and the modern U.S. converging, bringing to fruition that which they so clearly desire. The Fall of America.
   How else could one possibly explain the wanton disdain for this country emanating from the left? Or their incessant cries and blatant manueverings for her defeat? And yet through all the transparent attempts to hasten her demise, the left is allowed to plead patriotism unchallenged. It should be clear to any lucid person that the left not only wants America to fail, they are actively working toward that end, and increasingly more so in plain sight. However, it is not clear, and those of us who have heard the increasingly shrill tone of our own plaintive calls know that we are being relegated ever so subtly into the company of psychiatric patients who claim to be sane. No one will listen, so we must protest ever more loudly, which only bolsters the notion that we need help. This is known as a vicious cycle.
   And so we use clever tactics like blogs and chat groups, hoping that someone will notice the injustice of our incarceration and set us free. Or at least act upon our knowledge and free us when the truth is proved.
   In the meantime, we are losing the Greatest Generation to attrition. Those same blogs and chat groups are a fine recruiting tool to make people here in America aware that they live in the greatest country in the world and that something must be done to protect that status. Also, that their parents and grandparents (The Greatest Generation) fought valiantly to make this place what it is and that it would be a Goddamned shame to let it all go for the sake of political correctness and diplomacy at all costs.
   When the “war on terror” is finally over, assuming that we achieve a tidy ending, those who opposed it should be incarcerated as the traitorous bastards that they are. Or at the least, sent to live amongst the surviving jihadists, should there be any.  
   One thing is clear to me…I cannot forsee, with the character of middle America what it is, our demise. I refuse to believe that the people who have successfully silenced true Americans for so long will be able to maintain control. Sane people have been institutionalized for too long and I think it’s time the patients ruled the asylum.

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The Racism Platform

Thursday, January 25th, 2007
    Allow me to clear up one thing for the readers before proceeding. I am caucasian. There, now I have given the all-clear for anyone who wants to pre-judge my comments to bail out right now. It seems that those who perpetuate the myth of racism engage in the practice of bailing out routinely, not to mention the practice of racism itself. 
    Bill Cosby has been speaking to these practices of late, and he has been vilified for it. People who have the most to gain from the racist platform and the most to lose from its collapse have been the most boisterous critics. So-called black leaders who have amassed much wealth and celebrity from their exploitation of those they presume to protect have risen up of late not against the institution of racism, as one might expect, but rather in opposition to Bill Cosby, e.g., the people who have begun to expose, and in some small measure erode, their ignoble empires.
    The Bill Cosby affair is long out of the news cycle, I admit, but the Congressional Black Caucus is in the thick of it. Tennessee Democrat Stephen I. Cohen, a freshman congressman, wanted to join the caucus. He was turned down flat. The reason? Because he’s white even though his constituency is majority black. (Sorry, I refuse to use hyphens, for any ethnic group. We’re all Americans). There was a call to arms, so to speak, by former Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr., D-Mo., a co-founder of the caucus, who had circulated a memo telling members it was “critical” that the group remain “exclusively African-American.”
    Add to this travesty the fact that we also have institutionalized racism in the myriad blacks only organizations such as Black Entertainment Television, Black Miss America, to name a few, and what you see is a social no-no allowed to flourish unabated.
    All of that aside however, modern society has been astonishingly successful in breaking the chains of racism. Interracial marriages are commonplace today, for example. Blacks and whites congregate in harmony at social events on a routine basis, and even casual social encounters are warm and cordial, whether it be holding the door for someone or offering other rudimentary assistance such as bending to pick up a dropped parcel with a smile and a “your welcome” in response to a thank you.
    Employment is no longer based on race nor is the choice of friends and companions. There are exceptions as there always will be, but by and large we are getting along famously. Thank God for that. So what is wrong?
    Society has come around, and people like Bill Cosby have been instrumental to that end, knocking all of the pillars from under the platform of “race leaders” and their perpetual “victims”, yet the platform continues to defy gravity, hovering with all the weight of the attendees still aboard, laughing and clinking cocktail glasses as they enjoy the party. It has yet to collapse. How could this be? How could the laws of physics be circumvented right before our eyes.
    Just as simply as the wool is pulled over the eyes of the “constituency” of so-called black leaders, whose usefulness has long passed.

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The United States Of Europe

Friday, January 19th, 2007
    It has a funny ring to it, doesn’t it? But basically, that’s what the European Union is, The United States Of Europe, 27 independent States belonging to one Union. So why do people in America have so much trouble understanding that America is comprised of 50 independent States under the protective umbrella of a Federal Government?
    Consider the banter about the electoral college and opponents thereof squealing how unfair it is when a candidate wins the popular vote but loses the general election. They will insist that the red state-blue state map*, which shows that a vast majority of the country geographically voted for George W. Bush, is meaningless. Oh really?
    Consider the reasons the Founding Fathers designed the electoral college. To prevent one geographical area or one state from deciding the fate or direction of the entire nation. Now, if you click on the link preceding the asterisk and scroll to the third and fourth graphics, what you’ll see should be self explanatory. I am rarely satisfied with chance, however.
    What these 3D graphs depict is a perfect illustration of the fears of the Founders. There are several prominent blue spires rising from the Earth dramatically. These are the concentrations of leftists who would be your masters, if they could. The blue spires eerily conjure images of elite ivory towers lording over the red state masses. This, my friends, was not how it was supposed to work and thankfully, it still doesn’t.
    Forget the argument the left will attempt to make that the will of the (most) people should prevail. That is a true democracy, which anyone reading this already knows we are not. (This part I will leave to chance because if you are reading this you are already politically aware and plugged in). But I have another tac.
   Imagine if the EU evolves into the model of the US, with a federal government overseeing most affairs and one president of all the EU. But the one thing they refused copy from us is the electoral college. See where this is going?
   Now imagine true democracy as the prevailing law of the land, particularly in a general election. Next, imagine the two candidates are Tony Blair and Ahmadinejad. Every muslim votes for Ahmadinejad, but the voting totals from 24 of the 27 countries goes to Blair. In the leftist model, Ahmadinejad wins because more people voted for him. Do you actually think that all of Europe in that scenario should fall under Shari’a Law, if that’s what Ahmadinejad decides as the duly elected leader?
   Each state has a stake in the course of the nation. The electoral college ensures that people are not forced to succumb to the will of a few small enclaves of like minded-people bent on asserting their wishes on an entire country.
-Woody

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Silence, Infidel!

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
    This was an interesting piece, considering the left’s alleged love of freedom of speech and open dialogue. Now Nance Greggs wants us (the right) to shut the f— up. I have always relished the fact that we are the right, while the left is the opposite of such. Semantics…ya gotta love ‘em.
   
    So Nance (why can’t she just be “Nancy”?) thinks that a narrow electoral victory equals supremacy. Hmm, how positively fascist of her. And here I thought it was we who were the “brown shirts”. Funny how the left can manage to eat its own words with virtually no modicum of humility or shame. Perhaps it’s those MIB flashy things again. I just don’t know.
   
    What I do know is that Nance is ill prepared to be part of the majority party, especially if criticism makes her queasy. There will be plenty of that to maintain a financially beneficial partnership between her and Rolaids for the next two years, but only for Rolaids. Ms. Greggs will be begging for a tax cut at the end of that time.
   
    More important than the criticism will be the exposure. We’re already seeing it in the “first 100 hours”.
  • San Fran Nan’s oopsie-daisy regarding Samoa and Del Monte (the people want and deserve a living wage!)
  • Her insistance on elevating ethically challenged persons such as Murtha and Jefferson (after her pledge of “ethic cleansing”)
  • The party’s sudden backtrack on their own demands for more troops only weeks and months before W’s speech.

    Just to name a few. I just know they will unwittingly deliver more gems.

    Yes friends, the tragic loss we felt on election day ‘06 is shaping up to be the gift that keeps on giving right on through election day, ‘08. I suppose we could actually take Ms. Greggs’s advice and STFU, merely stepping aside as the dems plow headlong into the wall. I prefer to make that sidestep and deliver a kick in the ass as they go by, providing some acceleration. My only fear is inadvertently knocking some sense into them…nah.

    We will actually be aided for once by the MSM (a prediction), not because of a shift in their allegiance but rather a realization that they are being left behind by radio and cable news. They will have no choice but to step up and acknowledge that their heroes are dunces because to leftist journalists, the pocketbook is mightier than the pen. It may be painful, but rest assured, they will follow the money even if they weep as they do it. This phase will be the last noticeable side effect of the Dems’ power intoxication, but I believe it will come in plenty of time for the general election.

     I say “three cheers” for the Dems’ good fortune in November. It will ultimately be our own.

    Greggs should prove to be a useful idiot. Almost as loveable as semantics.

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Seventh Heaven

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

  As I write this my wife is in the background watching Seventh Heaven. Yes, that sappy show where the main characters live off the public dole and dole out advice to the viewers with an exponential degree of righteousness. The least worthy cast member of this show is at least five times more likely to go to Heaven than are you, and don’t you forget it.

   Tonight’s thrill packed episode was all about Darfur and the tragedy occurring there. The genocide of black Christians, committed at the hands of Muslims. (The show did mention this, I was surprised to learn). But the underlying theme of the show was a direct criticism of the U.S. for not “doing anything” to stop it. Or at least, not doing enough.
   The youngest girl in the family (her name is Ruthie) is in high school and true to television fantasy, she is mature well beyond her years. She is consumed with the situation in Darfur (rather than the cute guy in the adjoining locker) and debates all throughout the one-hour show as to how best resolve it. And no one knows better than this teen-something. The most frightening aspect of this scenario is that there are young adults out there in middle America who actually derive their policy views from sources such as these…fictitious teenyboppers spouting the lines fed to them by more seasoned writers, more seasoned not acknowledging an advanced intellectual level but merely a chronological superiority.
   This country has done much to combat radical Islam. For these efforts we have been roundly criticized and made to look the villain while the leftist elected officials in Congress have not only joined this chorus but have taken the lead at times.
   Why are we now expected to go it alone if we must in Darfur while the UN is diddling and dallying as they make the transition to a new Secretary General? Why is it ok for the U.S. to go it alone in this instance when the left insisted that we have have a multi-national coalition to go to Iraq? (Nevermind the irritating fact that we had one, a fact to this day ignored by the left).
   And what are we to actually DO in Darfur? Start blowing up bad guys? Who will ultimately decide who the “bombees” are? See the pitfalls here, dear reader? And what of the losses we take? Will the left then decide that young Americans are dying for a noble cause?
   Sure, we can go in and kill everyone and then there will be no more killing, only the imprint of the havoc and carnage we had wrought. Then what? Then the liberal media would gleefully show the footage and file photos of what we had done, no doubt with universal condemnation and rage. The coverage would be extensive, to say the least.
   I was inspired to write this article because of a stupid television show. How many will have the same reaction as me? Not nearly as many as one would hope for I happened upon this by proximity to the TV. Those who chose to watch by tuning in on purpose are more likely to sit, watch, and nod with that scary blank stare.
   God Save America.

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Perception vs. Reality

Saturday, January 13th, 2007
   There are so many glaring examples of liberal hypocrisy, combined with mainstream media enabling, that I scarcely know where to begin. But we have all seen it and at least half of us have ignored it. To revert to a reference to movie lore, I can only equate this selective memory to those “flashy things” the Men In Black used. Is such a thing possible? In all honesty, I simply cannot subscribe to such fantasy but to be fair, I have no other rational explanation. Call me kooky, but what in God’s name is going on here? 

   I’ll begin with the Sandy Berger affair, which is arguably the quintessential case of double standard. In preparation for the impending 9/11 Commission hearings Berger, whether at the behest of Clinton or not, did something that would have been national news for weeks had he been a Republican. He broke the law, seriously.  And whether or not you make the connection to the reason why he did this, the fact remains, it looks bad, and the Woodwards and Bernsteins of journalism should have been on this story like…well, like Woodward and Bernstein on Richard Nixon.

   Such lame explanations as, “Oh, Sandy was just sloppy that day” have been more than adequate for a media and populace supposedly thirsty for truth. Again, imagine the parties involved being reversed. Imagine Richard Nixon explaining the blank 18 minutes of tape away with something like, “Heh heh, I was trying to tape Pat snoring and put the wrong reel on the machine”. Of course the media would have slapped their collective knee and scolded Tricky Dick for being an incorridgable cut-up, right? Fat chance.

   Let’s try the Rose Law Firm records. Hillary had a laptop with all the information required by investigators, but what happened? Uh…it vanished. “Nope, I must have misplaced it”, said an impish Hillary.

   No problem, was the response, and the media simply nodded and went about their business, which was to attack those who had the audacity to attack their beloved Clintons. And then, 3 days after the statute of limitations expired in the case, Hillary stumbles down to breakfast and says, “Wow! Someone call the FBI, I just found my laptop!” Media response? “YAWN!!!” 

   Finally, to ultimately demonstrate that the media is more than a group of people with no agenda, eager to simply provide the news, we have this:

   The Duke Lacrosse case. This story was unavoidable when it looked like a group of rich white boys was about to be hanged for raping a black woman. Story after story about how justice in America was finally for real, and no longer would blacks be made victims by whites. Well as it turns out, it was whites being victimized by not only a lone black woman, but by a liberal agenda which is totally out of control.

  These boys are all but completely vindicated now (a statement which makes its own sad statement, incidentally), and there is barely a whimper from the MSM. They slash and burn on their alleged “quest for the truth”, and when the trail turns cold, they simply move on like a camper out to piss off Smokey The Bear. They leave the ashes of their campaign smoldering and never bother to glance back.

-Woody

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The Fascist State Of Healthcare

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

January 8th, 2007

     This is for an older audience, those of us who grew up in the ’50’s, ’60’s & even the ’70’s. Not to mention those well beyond our years, who will no doubt nod in agreement as they read.
     When we were in school there were fat kids, skinny kids, kids with asthma and even a few with polio. I remember one particular girl in my school with a badly atrophied leg, the result of polio. While these instances may have been rare, and many of you had no experience with them, take my word for it, they were there. One thing I do not recall at all, however. Kids dying from merely smelling peanuts.
    But this article is not about peanuts. It is about the way society has gradually taken control of our lives, telling us what to eat, drink and even breathe. It is about our schools sending our kids home with special report cards, tailored to our own child’s particular malady, or more specifically, his or her own body fat percentage report.
    There is a movement afoot to virtually control every aspect of our lives, and most of us don’t even see it coming. The plot is cleverly disguised as something for the betterment of us all. And who, in good conscience, could be against that? More to the point, who would dare stand against anything designed to help the children?
     I uncovered this tidbit today, which illustrates the extent to which those seeking control (or perhaps a paycheck) will go. It is a report issued by the WHO (World Health Organization) in 1998 regarding the dangers of second hand smoke, the be-all and end-all of our collective demise. What does it find? Shhh….
    It found that there is no evidence, none at all, that second hand smoke is dangerous or that it causes cancer. How many of you have heard this? Not many, I’ll bet, and for good reason. That reason is that the WHO buried the story. Curious. Now why would an organization such as this do something like burying it’s own research?
     Because it didn’t fit the agenda of the modern liberal mindset, that’s why. There is money to be made here, some in the form of cottage industries, but mostly in taxes. People will be gleefully surrender large portions of their incomes to keep folks healthy. Who wouldn’t? The question that these eager contributors never ask is: “Hey, if cigarettes are so damned dangerous why are people still allowed to buy and sell them?” (Yes, guns are another example. Should one be made to wait 7 days to buy a pack of cigarettes?)
     The Rockefeller Law is one of contentious debate among liberals. They think that the law is unfairly punitive on those who want to consume illegal drugs. Yet they think nothing of imposing huge financial and societal penalties on those of us who consume legal substances, i.e. tobacco.  (The tax on all tobacco products is universal, meaning that chewing tobacco is lumped in with cigarettes. Is there such a thing as “second hand chew”?)
     What does it say about our once free society when the State can remove your children from their home if you smoke in your own house? What gives the State the right to charge you with child endangerment when the World Health Organization has determined that it is a false charge?
     The facsist state is upon us, kids. The left bemoans the loss of “civil liberties” because they may be overheard making deals with al Qaeda. But the everyday things we once took for granted are disappearing, and no one seems to notice, much less care.

” If repeated often enough, a lie will become the new truth. “
Paul Joseph Goebbles, Minister of Propaganda,  Nazi Germany

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The Matrix

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

 I ended the article, “Hearts and Minds” with a comment about “waking up with a cable protruding from the base of my skull”.  For the savvy reader, that was a direct reference to “The Matrix”, one of my favorite films. Or trilogies, as it is now known.

    Why would a supposedly educated person rely on fiction to make a point? Good question, and one which begs ever more good questions. Which is what truly good fiction is designed for, in my opinion, for truly good fiction has a base root in reality. It must be believable to warrant any merit.
    What is the connection to “The Matrix” and the reality to which I refer? It is the relationship shared by today’s media and its audience, who are all too eager to accept reported events as fact. We all grew up watching out parents read the “papers” and have been programmed by these witnesses to abide in form. In other words, we have been plugged in and required to believe whatever that black and white print spat out. “It must be true”. How sad.
   But the Matrix is not what you may think. Surprised? So was I, but arguments such as mine are easily dismissed as fantasy, and for good reason. “Gasp”, you may say, for the author dismisses his own platform! And lest ye think me insane, I must qualify…I do NOT take a lot of stock in the movie version of The Matrix, at least in literal terms. But the premise thereof…ah, there lies the rub!
    What have we witnessed in the last five years in regards to the mainstream media? Anyone who has explored outside these boundaries has discovered a world much different than that being fed to us through Mom and Dad’s old sources. And what have we yielded as a result of this knowledge? Nothing but scorn from, you guessed it, the mainstream press and academia.
    Alternative sources of information are being routinely dismissed as blasphemous, and modern liberals are more than willing accomplices to these acts. Here is where “The Matrix” comes into play. While we have the ability to view and compare our input, there are those who want to stifle our access to anything but what they have to offer as truth. They are trying to convince us that the cardboard they feed us is in reality a delicious steak dinner. Some of us accept this. Most of us should most definitely not.

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