The elite Left, liberal, blame America first crowd on most all accounts must have gone to private schools and never had to deal with a playground bully.  You know, the one kid who was bigger than everyone else, and knew it.  The bully was not a good athlete, kind of clumsy, and not a very good student either.  All this bully had going for him was his size.  All this bully had was his use of threats and intimidations.  When alone most kids would walk around the block to avoid crossing his path.  When the kids gathered in a bunch, the bully would walk around the block.  

There is a columnist over there at the Washington Post who has never met a bully.  He has never had a threat of personal harm he could not cut and run away from. At least this is the way it appears.  The columnist is William Arkin, a lefty, formerly of the Institute of Policy Studies, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Human Rights Watch, all liberal progressive secular organizations    He has four years of military service but it’s the kind of uppity very smart kid kind of office work as a Military Intelligence Anaylst.  What part of his background qualifies him to know anything about down and out combat with an enemy?  Nada. Zilch.  Office work he can do.  Upon coming face to face with an enemy, he would walk around the block to avoid it.  But yet he feels qualified to criticize our men and women in combat.

Arkin has written an article called Early Warning published by the Post, the sub-title is “the troops also need to support the American People.”  Arkin does not like it  that the troops have expressed frustration with the news coming out of the States criticizing the war and the general opposition to the battle in Iraq.   “I'm all for everyone expressing their opinion, even those who wear the uniform of the United States Army. But I also hope that military commanders took the soldiers aside after the story and explained to them why it wasn't for them to disapprove of the American people.”  No, Mr Arkin, these troops are not disapproving of real Americans, only those who have lost the will to fight, and those that write disparaging comments about the efforts the troops are making each and every day fighting an enemy they can’t identify. 

“….the American public has indulged those in uniform”.  No, the public, and the press has not indulged the troops when every incident of the daily split second decisions these men and women must make are scrutinized by the press, scandalized by the press, and held up to scorn and possible court marshals because the press demands unreasonable judgement of an angelic nature while under fire and pressure of just being there in hostile surroundings.   No, I’m sorry Mr. Arkin but you have it all wrong.  

“So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war.”  Yes, Mr. Arkin, they expect that you would do just that.   It is not just their war, but Americas war, and I guess you are a citizen, so it really is your war too.  And you do not, no you do not support them in every possible way, nor does that large segment of the population that also sees this war on terror now centered in Iraq as not worth fighting.  So, Mr. Arkin, please shut up.  You have your freedom of the press as guaranteed by these men and women in uniform, all volunteers by the way, as they fight to protect your taken for granted freedom to speak like you do.  That right and freedom can be taken away, and it will be taken away if the Islamic radicals have their way.  So, Mr. Arkin, please shut up until you can support our troops.

It's As I See It Now.

What is it about the subject of a possible global warming trend that so infuriates the advocates that some would not accept their premise?   It's all about the automobile and carbon dioxide emissions.  Even lawmowers are suspect.  They talk about the greenhouse effect.  They site hundreds of studies of bored holes and evidence of no carbon dioxide before the mass use of the car.  Our government has appeased these scientists with the implementation of numerous laws of intrusiveness into virtually every aspect of our lives.  There are days when everyone is encouraged to use public transportation or ride the bike during the Ozone alert.  The level of sea water is expected to rise enough to flood half of Florida, New Orleans again, the coastline of Texas and parts of the east coast as the ice melts in the arctic. They have come up with certain dates that the world will be over as we know it, if the major developed countries do not take direct action to reduce these carbon dioxide emissions immediately. 

They have something called the hockey stick effect where because of our negligence the temperature is expected to dramatically rise over the next 50 years and it will then be irreversible.  And how do these scientists come up with these future cannot be wrong prophecies?   A computer program.  Who programs the computer? 
There are scientists who refute all this hysteria.  Read an article from a scientist who does not agree, and a sceptical Senator here (pdf white paper).

A worst case scenario is on the way, if the American government does nothing.  It is the threat of Islamic terrorists to wipe Israel off the map and destroy Western democracy, notably the United States, either by a big bang or from cells working from within.  These threats are more certain than those of the "inconvenient truth" crowd, and this truth is certainly more inconvenient.  These threats are not computer generated, and not a game to avoid.

As I See It Now.

Global warming hysteria is alive and well around the world. By 2080, billions of people will be without water. In 10 years the sea level will rise and The World Heritage Site off Australia will be extinct and under water. 500 scientists are gathering for The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and they ought to know about this stuff because you can’t get 500 people to agree on anything, unless it is really really important stuff. Their computer model predictions are very scientific, very accurate, right?   And even celebrities are involved and very interested too, (big names including Leonardo Di Caprio, Orlando Bloom, KT Tunstall, Pink, The Killers, Razorlight and Josh Hartnettthey) and they ought to know about this stuff because they played the part of a scientist in a documentary or something like that, and they read a book about it between skits, or observed the hot sandy beach one day, Right?   It’s scream time again. It’s doom and gloom time again.

In a way I can agree, because this past August I observed the effects of warming first hand. That particular morning I had filled my bird bath with water and by mid afternoon, the water was all gone. It had just evaporated into the atmosphere. It was warm, but I don’t know about it being warm globally. Surely the poles were not warm. Oh, I had also mowed the yard that same morning and the emissions of the mower exhaust left a bit of slight undetectable haze covering the yard because it was a very still day, no wind, and the leaves on my large tree kept the emissions from rising into the higher atmosphere. I knew it was there because the local TV news broadcaster said that this is what happens on a still day, and they should know right? But that night we had one of those infrequent rains for August, and the bird bath was full again.

“Some 500 climate scientists gather in Paris this week to put the final touches on a United Nations report on how warming, as a result of a growing concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, is likely to affect sea levels.”

“They agree that sea levels will rise”, but they don’t know how much rain we’ll get or how hot it will or will not be, or which way the wind will blow, how many hurricanes will form, how many volcanoes will erupt, or how many of the celebrities and scientists will sell their SUV’s and get a horse.

The dust bowl days of the ‘30s were thought to be very warm and windy, and the heat wave of 1936 was the most severe in modern history where temperatures went over 100 in many parts of the country. North Dakota reached 121, in Ohio it rose to 110, along with Canadian areas setting records of 110, record highs to this day. The dust bowl was also credited with adding a big portion of that dust into the Atlantic.

Could all this fuss be just normal cyclical weather patterns? Perhaps these scientists should all just go home and forget about it, saving us from the worrying about just normal cycles.

As I See It Now

As I skimmed the headlines and stories this morning, nothing shook my rants and it all seemed so much of the same, an Oh Humm feeling of so what?  Nothing new under the sun.  Townhall is still experience techno difficulties in the new upcoming upgrade, Microsoft outsted a new updated whatever, politicians accused the other of accusing them, schools are having busing problems, the border agents case is still news while they sit in isolation and another 1000 slip in under the cameras, and al-queda had another 72 virgin seeker take out a few innocents, while ICE seems to be undergoing a thaw, and another car wreck on the highway backing up traffic.  Call in excuse code 4 for being late to work. 

The elite in the Washington area are planning a new 12 step program on how to win the intolerance and diversity war.  Nothing new under the sun.  So today, I'm off to spend some time with my buddies at the Habitat for Humanity woodshop where we are constructing the cabinets to be used in the homes to be built this year.  It's something positive, and we all need a bit of positivity every now and then. 


Go read http://bigasrants.townhall.com/

... multiculturalism and diversity  Across the sea in England, the government schools are requiring that all, yes all subjects have race relations and multiculturalism injected into the class.  "In maths and science, key Muslim contributions such algebra and the number zero will be emphasised to counter Islamophobia."  Every lesson in every subject will be politically correct.   Whenever I read or hear of the term 'politically correct', I wonder who, or what committe it is that determines what is correct speech to avoid offending someone, correct manners to avoid offending someone, correct thought to avoid hate-crimes or whatever.?  It used to be that the Bible was the determinant of correct and proper speech and behavior and we'd hear about it on sundays, or wednesday evenings, or during our own private devotional times.   But now.  

"Pupils could even be tested on their attitudes to diversity in A-level and GCSEs, which will be redrafted to ensure they include 'issues related to diversity'.  'Education for diversity must be viewed as a whole-curriculum focus,'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=431316&in_page_id=1770

One objection to the new standards was that "schools will be vehicles for multicultural propaganda and classrooms turned into 'laboratories for politically-correct thought'.   Duh.  But that is the goal of the new thought police in the name of diversity and multi-culturalism.  Brave New World.  But it is not brave at all.  In fact, it has become a very timid new world that is fearful of being offended, is full of fear of threats by the offended.  But then, threatening is also not politically correct except it is tolerated so as not to offend.   Is this confusing or what?

Is there a book published and available in the library or bookstores that lists what is correct speech and thought?  I need to read up on this subject.  Sarcasm intended.  The new religion of progressive secuarism coming to your town and school.   Already started. 


As I See It Now.

WND has again exposed the discrepencies in the prosecutors case against Border patrol agents Ramos and Compean.  Kudos to the investigtive team of WND for not letting this injustice slide by.  Andy Ramirez, Chairman of the Friends of the Border Patrol is sticking his neck on the line and opening himself to possible lawsuits, by charging Johnny Sutton of "malicious prosecution".  The transcript of the trial has yet to be released.  Our own Department of Homeland Security has been involved in this case also.  Why?   We all want to believe that our government would not intentionally side with an alien, a tresspasser, an illegal drug smuggler and wrongfully change or hide evidence so that two innocent American citizens would be sacrificed.  I want to believe that.  But, there are too many buts in this case, and I applaud the efforts of WND to continue searching and exposing to light all the facts.  If the prosecutor and DHS have nothing to hide, then the transcript of the case and all evidence should be released, but it has not.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53976 (my hyperlink manager still not working)

This is such an injustice.  Kudos to these people to bulldog this case.

There have been times when I’m composing an article for this blog, or a letter to the editor, that a question will rise up from within totally unrelated to the subject of the article I’m working on.  Mostly, these thoughts are relegated to the back burner and time passes and they are forgotten.  Today one came up that prompted some immediate curiosity.  Why are conservatives considered “on the right’, and liberals “on the left”.   On the left or right of what?  There are a few politicians who are called ‘centrists’, and a new political party has been formed two years ago calling themselves “American Centrist Party”. 

But the concept of left and right political labels was known long ago in history.  In England in the 1700’s the party of conservatives, at that time known as the Tory party sat on the right side of the chambers, while the liberals, or progressives sat on the left side.  Was this the start of the labels assigned to conservatives and liberals (democrats)?   Why did they assume that line up?  Was it just a happenstance without thought or reason as they filed into the chambers of Parliament, the first ones in looked at the chairs and choose one side and the rest of the like-minded members followed suit?  Then the labels were born.  Right and left.  No, it must go back further in history than that.

How long have conservatives been labeled as the right and democrats the left?  Go back to approximately 940 BC and a guy name Solomon.  “A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.” Eccl 10:2

Enough said.

.... spray paint the steps of the Capital.  The security police were told to step down and let them have at it. 

"Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps and began to spray paint "anarchist symbols" and phrase such as "Ourcapitol building" and "you can’t stop us" around the area".  The democrats now hold the power.   "..... police had to stand by and watch as protesters posed in front of their graffiti."  The democrats now hold the power.

Disgusting.  Well, what do we expect from a bunch of peace loving gentle folks who never met a tree they did not hug, nor a terorist they did not invite in for dinner.  It really does illustrate the mentality of these thugs.  Tactics.  Zero.  Effect.  Zero.   Respect for their cause.  Zero. 

http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/012507/protesters.html

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DAVENPORT, Iowa  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that President Bush has made a mess of Iraq and it is his responsibility to "extricate" the United States from the situation before before he leaves office.   "I am going to level with you, the president has said this is going to be left to his successor," Clinton said. "I think it is the height of irresponsibility and I really resent it." 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,247939,00.html

She resents it?   So what.   If she thinks she is capable of running the country, then if perchance she wins, how will she deal with everything that comes across the wires that she will then resent?    Would she call a press conference and tell the people of her resentment at those statements and wants you to stop it, it hurts my feelings. 

Not qualified to be commander in chief.

I have a suggestion Senator Clinton.  Get the rest of your party to really support the war effort over the next 18 months, fund it fully, and see what happens.  It's a strategy you have not tried yet. 

I love this statement and thought from Michael Yon in his latest post.  Desolate Roads Part 2. 

"If Americans really wanted to know their Army, American kids would be swapping trading cards of the battalion commanders and command sergeant majors, company commanders and 1st sergeants, and those legions of unknown squad-leaders who earn three Purple Hearts and decorations for valor before they are old enough to rent cars back home."  

What an idea.  Think about it.  If only......

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/desolate-roads-part-2-of-2.htm

"Only about a single battalion of American soldiers is left here (in Mosul). There has been indisputable progress in building ISF in Mosul. I have seen it demonstrated on missions that I have not written about. But the decision to precipitously draw down American forces in Mosul was not chiefly predicated to sync with those ISF successes. In truth, we simply do not have enough nails (soldiers) in Iraq—we never did—and so nails (our forces) have been pulled from Mosul to pound into Baghdad and Anbar."  

And the debate goes on about the troop surge requested by the President, while our valiant volunteer forces fight on the best they can.  Dag gone it.  Congress sits in their comfortable offices debating the need, debating when to pull out, debating how long until the next election and Hillary can take charge. 

This is not how to fight a war.  But Oh, the demos, the lefties and peace be nimbles think it's not worth it.

Dag gone it.  And the debate goes on......  It's enough to make a Christian spit on a moderate Muslim.

Advocates are set to push in a new bill that will ban racial profiling.  John Conyers, D-Mich. along with Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who sponsored legislation to ban racial profiling in the last Congress, have said that this will be on the top of the list.    "Many law-abiding African Americans, Arab Americans, Latino Americans and others live with the fear of being racially profiled as they go about their everyday lives," Feingold said. Although the vast majority of law enforcement officers don't engage in the practice, he added, some do and it must be addressed."

OK, then let's also have a complete ban on hyphenated Americans using their hyphenation as a tool to highlight their differentness than the rest of us.  They are the ones who profile.  They are the ones who have made this issue a constant and continued sore thumb.  How can we not be sensitive to the divisive nature of the country when all we hear is about hyphenated people desiring others to forget about their desire to have dual loyality.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/28/D8MUC2580.html

Senator Pelosi had breakfast with the troops from California, but is that all the time she has to give to the troops?   Is she really interested in how the troops feel about the war?   Come on Nancy, if this is a fact finding visit, you have to spend more time than that to get some sort of idea of what is happening there and how our valiant men and women feel and see the need for the US to carry this to the finish, to a victory.  How do the troops feel about Nancy and her brief breakfast chat?

 Or, is she more interested in photo ops with the leaders of Iraq?  It'll be interesting to see what she says on her return. 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/01/27/national/w221150S12.DTL  (hyperlink manager not working)

In case you did not know it, but that rally in DC today was nothing short of peacefull.  Shouting and rants by activists, exciting the crowd with hysterics, chants and speeches by none other than not quiet long enough, Jane Fonda, is not a peaceful demonstration.  Why is that peace activists do not portray a peaceful demeanor?  

Anyway, the organization that sponsored this demonstration is "United for Peace and Justice" (UFPJ),  a new group established in 2002 as an off shoot of "The People for the American Way".  One of the main characters (pun intended) of the group is Leslie Cagan, a communist and supporter of our neighbor to the south, Fidel Castro. " UFPJ is also a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding civil rights and civil liberties protections for illegal aliens, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate all restrictions on immigration to the United States."

Where was John Kerry, as his wife and the Tides foundation is a supporter and donator to UFPJ?  He should have been there. 

See story here:  http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/27/D8MTQ9AG0.html

And about UFPJ here:  http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6166

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One of these days townhall will get these problems resolved.  I have not been able to use the hyperlink manager.

We have all heard it after we cried out in anger, "I wish he'd fall and break a leg," or something like that.  Then Mom would say: "be careful what you wish for, it might come true.  Well, I wish that these would come true.  How about you?

1.  I wish that our government would stop fooling around, and get some common sense about this war against Islamic fascism, or whatever you want to call it, and go in there and put some hurt and final touches on the terrorists once and for all.   I realize it's a difficult war to fight, when the enemy does not wear uniforms identifying themselves, and hiding behind women and children.  We need to show them that if this continues, then they are all targets and start taking them all out, which just might force those that stand with us and a democratic freedom to stand up and be counted.

2. I wish that our government would also get serious about this invasion from the south, and start enforcing all the current laws governing immigration, and then change those laws to reflect the current needs of the country for new employment, create true assimilation methods and make English the official national language.  Force those desiring to be Americans to become Americans, and not hyphenated Americans which only increases the diversity divide.

3. I wish that some words and or phrases would be eliminated from public discourse for a complete generation.  Eliminate the words "politically correct" and all of everything remotely connected to an enforced acceptable way of speaking while in public.  Freedom of speech means freedom to speak, and not restricted to some concept of acceptability or non-offensiveness.

Eliminate the terms associated with offensiveness and all thinking along the lines of offended behavior and speech which only provide lawyers another deposit at the bank, and drives fear into the heats and minds of everyone, a fear of losing everything by a decision of a leftist judge. School administrators are becoming sheepish in fear of lawsuits, such that they have outlawed certain groups of kids associating with like minded kids in after school activities on school grounds.  Now a student organization must allow any other student free access to any other group, such as this suggestion: a Muslim must be allowed to join or even preside over a Christian association.  Eliminate diversity used a tool to oppress.

Eliminate the "hate-crimes" legislation, as it is meaningless except as another tool to emphasize racial and gay thought disparities.  Have you heard of hate crimes being used for  black on white crime or gay on straight assaults?  A crime is a crime is a crime.  A crime is an act, not a thought.

Eliminate all hyphenated names anywhere.  Either you are American or not, you cannot have dual loyalty, you cannot have dual citizenship, and you cannot have dual committments.  It's either one or the other, so take you pick.  A handshake is out to you if you stay, a ticket is available if you wish to leave.

Be careful what you wish for, hopefully it might come true.
         

I've got to toot this Senators horn, a republican in heart and mind, and, from my own State of Oklahoma.  The good Senator was the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, but now the committee is in the hands of Barbara Boxer.  Wow, that is scary. 

"Although many Democrats say that they are concerned with high energy prices they consistently vote against reasonable policies that would lower them, and in fact pursue policies that increase them."  Nothing new there.
".... they blocked a project that would reduce gas prices in the region (Massachusetts) by 20 percent, but that they expect the rest of us to pay for it. After they blocked the project they sought to increase funding (aka, your money) for the Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program."  

Read more.....  http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19146