Archive for October, 2007

Sayonara, Sovereignty

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

     When I was a young boy growing up on Long Island, we never locked our doors. We didn’t have air conditioning, so we used to leave the front door wide open and let the fresh air in through the screen door as we slept. No one entered the house at night. We were safe and secure. Then things began to change.

     More and more stories of break-ins began to circulate and we witnessed the end of innocence and, more tragically, a sense of mutual trust. Today, every home is locked up tighter than a fortress even during the day, and many have elaborate alarm systems and surveillance apparatus. What have we come to?
    
     Well, I am pleased to announce that those days are coming to an end. No, we’re not seeing a sort of renaissance that will enable us all to relive those days of freedom, but we are seeing the end of any form of sovereignty.
    
     New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has issued an Executive Order that will allow illegal aliens to obtain legal drivers licenses in the state. There are sanctuary cities all across what was once America, and our own Congress refuses to put a stop to the practice. George Bush, the President of the former United States, whose sworn duty was to protect the sovereignty of this country, has been meeting with the leaders of Canada and Mexico in a plan to form the North American Union .
    
     It would appear from all that is going on around us that what we used to call America is not going to be with us much longer. So come on kids, throw open your doors and hang a “Welcome, make yourself at home” sign above them. Think of the joy and freedom to come when the word “illegal” has no meaning whatsoever.
    
     John Lennon mused, “Imagine no possessions…”. You can bet your bottom Amero that there will no need for them once America crumbles to the ground.
    
     For me, it takes the sting out of aging. I look forward to being dead and buried before all of the above comes to fruition.
-Woody

The Fallacy Of The Left

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

     There are those who will defend radical islam ad nauseam simply for the sake of political correctness. It seems as though there is an insipid need to avoid, or perhaps it’s a fear of, possibly offending someone.  

     All of the evidence of evil in the heirarchy of islamic rule and ideology is routinely overlooked by those who wish to appear tolerant, to what end still eludes me. The condition of gender bias is famous cause celeb in America and yet the same champions of such pooh-pooh the treatment of women in islamic countries and enclaves.
    
     Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of this forgiveness and acceptance, along with the outright denial that there is any danger from radical islam, is the perception that we can simply sit and “discuss” issues with those who would gleefully strap explosives onto their own bodies and sacrifice their own lives for the sake of taking out at least one “infidel”.
    
     Russia has been a staunch ally of Iran and has of late been cautioning the U.S. to cease and decist its “sabre-rattling” with regard to Iran. Russia has been supplying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard with weapons and training, and has had their respective leaders becoming quite chummy. This would all seem to indicate a bond between the peoples. Not so…
    
     Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit Iran on Tuesday, October 16th. How are the jihadists planning to greet him? Here’s how, Reuters reports:

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian special services have received a warning of a plot to assassinate President Vladimir Putin when he visits Iran on Tuesday, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.

In an unsourced report, Interfax said security services had been told that suicide bombers and kidnappers were training to kill or capture Putin.

     Does anyone still want to try to befriend these maniacs? Me, I’ll take a pass, thank you very much.

-Woody

What’s Good For Rove…

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

    What is the first thing a leftist will say when one of Hillary’s minions is caught with his hand in the cookie jar? “Well, she doesn’t have control over what her people do. Stop trying to assign guilt by association.” Will this mantra continue if she is elected President of the United States?

     According to Telegraph.co.uk, Hillary has her very own “Karl Rove” in Mark Penn. He is a pollster who is now Hillary’s chief political strategist, and he also has a public relations firm that has been involved with some endeavors quite contrary to the so-called cause celebre of Hillary and the democratic platform. Aren’t they all for the workers and the unions? Perhaps not.
    
     From Yahoo! News, RJ Eskow writes:
“A lot of negative things have been written in the blogosphere about pollster Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s increasingly-powerful advisor. Penn’s critics have focused on his firm’s union-busting work. They’ve also attacked his insistence on promoting a strategy of so-called “centrism,” even as supposedly “centrist” policy positions – especially regarding Iraq – become increasingly unpopular. And now we learn that the PR firm he runs, Burson-Marsteller, has been hired to repair Blackwater’s reputation.”
    
     Uh-oh, “Hillary’s brain” is involved with union busting? That can’t be a good thing. Add to that the association with Blackwater, which has been branded a group of “out of control mercenaries” by the left, and you’ve got a formula for disaster in her campaign.
    
     Penn claims that his firm, Burson Marsteller, is correcting this and that it was a “temporary assignment”, but even the ultra-left Daily Kos isn’t buying that story. Of course, we will have to wait and see how quickly the Clinton machine can bring Kos around on this, but the article is there. Let them try to retract it.
    
     Finally, from Burson Marsteller’s own website in the “About Us” section:
“Burson-Marsteller is a leading global public relations and public affairs firm whose knowledge, strategic insights and innovative programs help drive strong corporate and brand reputations for its clients.”
    
     Oh boy, so not only is “Hillary’s brain” involved with busting unions and out of control mercenaries, they’re also helping “evil big business”. The question now remains whether Hillary will be able to successfully distance her own platform from that of Penn. Certainly, nothing ever stopped the left from attacking Rove and thereby Bush. Will the main stream media play fair in this instance? We’ll have to see.
    
Is what’s good for the gander also good for the goose?
-Woody