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Still Alive.

2006-08-16T19:47:00.000-04:00

Yes, I'm still alive. This blog is too; it's just been sleeping for awhile.
I hope to have some new posts up soon.

Wise Words From Maj. Gen. Dr. Vernon Chong, USAF, Ret.

2006-03-05T09:21:00.000-05:00

This WAR is for REAL!
October 1, 2005

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go
through it. Our country is
now facing the most serious threat to its
existence, as we know it, that we
have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes
WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the
fact that there are very
few of us who think we can possibly lose this war
and even fewer who realize
what losing really means.

First, let's examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?

Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as
far as the United States
is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September
2001, with the following
attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York
1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military
complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.

(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001
there were 7,581 terrorist
attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacked?

Envy of our position, our success, and our
freedoms. The attacks happened
during the administrations of Presidents Carter,
Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and
Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or
Democrats as there were no
provocations by any of the presidents or their
immediate predecessors,
Presidents Ford or Carter.

3. Who were the attackers?

In each case, the attacks on the US were carried
out by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.

5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?

Hopefully, but that is really not material. There
is no doubt that the
predominately Christian population of Germany was
peaceful, but under the
dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also
Christian), that made no difference.
You either went along with the administration or you
were eliminated. There
were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis
for political reasons
(including 7,000 Polish priests).
(see _http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm_
(http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm) )

Thus, almost the same number of Christians were
killed by the Nazis, as the
six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them,
and we seldom heard of
anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although
Hitler kept the world
focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about
killing anyone who got in his way
of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the
world - German, Christian or
any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the
world on the US, but kill
all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish,
French or anyone else. The
point here is that just like the peaceful Germans
were of no protection to
anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful
Muslims there may be, they
are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim
leaders and what they are
fanatically bent on doing -- by their own
pronouncements -- killing all of us
"infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What
would you do if the
choice was shut up or die?

6. So who are we at war with?

There is no way we can honestly respond that it is
anyone other than the
Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct
and avoid verbalizing this
conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to
win if you don't clearly
recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

So with that background, now to the two major
questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two
pivotal questions.

We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous
as it may sound, the major
reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do
not fathom the answer to
the second question - What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that
losing the war means
hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and
going on about our business, like
post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one
can get.

What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the
world. The attacks will not
subside, but rather will steadily increase.
Remember, they want us dead, not
just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they
would not have produced
an increasing series of attacks against us, over
the past 18 years. The plan
was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until we
were neutered and submissive
to them.

We would of course have no future support from other
nations, for fear of
reprisals and for the reason that they would see,
we are impotent and cannot
help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations,
one at a time. It will be
increasingly easier for them. They already hold
Spain hostage. It doesn't
matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to
withdraw its troops from
Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists
bombed their train and told
them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they
want Spain to do will be done.
Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on
France is that they might
see the light and realize that if we don't win,
they are finished too, in
that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without
us. However, it may
already be too late for France. France is already
20% Muslim and fading fast!

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports
and way of life will all
vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade
or deal with us, if they
were threatened by the Muslims.

If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone
else?

The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war,
and therefore are
completely committed to winning, at any cost. We
better know it too and be likewise
committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of
losing? Simple. Until we
recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and
really put 100% of our
thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going
to take that 100% effort to
win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by
"imploding." That is,
defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the
enemy and their purpose, and
really digging in and lending full support to the
war effort. If we are
united, there is no way that we can lose. If we
continue to be divided, there is
no way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply
don't comprehend the life
and death seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary
of Transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were
committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40
years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow
profiling. Does that sound
like we are taking this thing seriously? This is
war! For the duration, we are
going to have to give up some of the civil rights
we have become accustomed
to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our
civil rights temporarily or
we will most certainly lose all of them
permanently.

And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We
gave up plenty of civil
rights during WWII, and immediately restored them
after the victory and in fact
added many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton
before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can
maintain all of our Political
Correctness, and all of our civil rights during
this conflict and have a clean,
lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to
war. Get them out of
your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war
and/or the
Administration that it almost seems they would
literally like to see us lose. I hasten to
add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It
is because they just don't
recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that
conduct gives the impression
to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It
concerns our friends,
and it does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the
politicians and media
regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war,
perhaps exemplifies best what I
am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving
the treatment of a few
Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our
military police. These are
the type prisoners who just a few months ago were
throwing their own people off
buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out
their tongues and otherwise
murdering their own people just for disagreeing with
Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners
chemically killed 400,000
of their own people for the same reason. They are
also the same type enemy
fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and
dragging their charred
corpses through the streets of Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type enemy that
was and is providing
videos to all news sources internationally, of the
beheading of American prisoners
they held.

Compare this with some of our press and
politicians, who for several days
have thought and talked about nothing else but the
"humiliating" of some Muslim
prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their
charred corpses through
the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating"
them.

Can this be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of
impeachment of the Secretary
of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack
of comprehension and
understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we
are fighting, the life and death
struggle we are in and the disastrous results of
losing this war, nothing
can.

To bring our country to a virtual political
standstill over this prisoner
issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as
Rome burned -- totally
oblivious to what is going on in the real world.
Neither we, nor any other
country, can survive this internal strife. Again I
say, this does not mean that
some of our politicians or media people are
disloyal. It simply means that
they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude, of
the situation we are in and
into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing
us, for many years.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to
kill all infidels! That
translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the
United States, but
throughout the world.

We are the last bastion of defense.

We have been criticized for many years as being
'arrogant.' That charge is
valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in
that we believe that we are
so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the
hearts and minds of all
those who attack us, and that with both hands tied
behind our back, we can
defeat anything bad in the world!

We can't!

If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it
will not survive, and
no other free country in the world will survive if
we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout
the world that allow
freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of
religion, freedom of the press,
equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone,
equal status or any status for
women, or that have been productive in one single
way that contributes to
the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be
united on this war or we
will be equated in the history books to the
self-inflicted fall of the Roman
Empire. That is, if the Muslim leaders will allow
history books to be
written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close
eye on how the Muslims
take over France in the next 5 years or less. They
will continue to increase the
Muslim population of France and continue to
encroach little by little, on
the established French traditions. The French will
be fighting among
themselves, over what should or should not be done,
which will continue to weaken them
and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that
sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away
from them by some external
military force. Instead, they give their freedoms
away, politically correct
piece by politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those
who have shown, worldwide,
that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to
you or even to themselves,
once they are in power.

They have universally shown that when they have
taken over, they then start
brutally killing each other over who will be the
few who control the masses.
Will we ever stop hearing from the politically
correct, about the "peaceful
Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said
above. If we are united,
there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after
the election, the
factions in our country will begin to focus on the
critical situation we are in, and
will unite to save our country. It is your future
we are talking about! Do
whatever you can to preserve it.

SOME CARTOONS

2006-02-12T08:26:00.000-05:00

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IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL WHINE IF I WANT TO

2005-12-28T10:14:00.000-05:00

From Insider Report from NewsMax.com

Ex-Gov. Whitman Blasts "Extremist" Republicans

Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman is sounding off against the "far-right extremists" she says have hijacked the Republican Party, and is supporting a PAC that seeks to "take back" the GOP.
In a letter soliciting contributions for the It's My Party Too PAC, Whitman writes: "Our party was founded on the principles of limited government, individual responsibility, free markets, fiscal responsibility, a strong national defense, and, above all else, individual freedom.
"That's why it's so troublesome that a small but increasingly powerful faction has decided that they alone can decide what it means to be a Republican."
Whitman points to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the "political flack" he received from fellow Republicans when he voiced support for increased government funding for embryonic stem cell research.
"In retaliation, the far-right extremists threatened to derail any future presidential aspirations Frist may hold, even though he votes solidly Republican on every other issue," Whitman states in the letter.
"We can't allow a few extremists to hijack our Party."
Whitman says the PAC, which includes John McCain and Bob Dole on its Advisory Board, is "dedicated to supporting fiscally conservative, socially progressive moderate Republican candidates at all levels of government and grassroots organizations who support them."
Whitman, who is Chair of the It's My Party Too PAC, warns that the GOP is headed down a "slippery slope" and urges fellow Republicans to contribute to the PAC so it can fight to "take back our Republican Party."

Whitman was governor of New Jersey for seven disappointing years. Let me say unequivocally that she was not in any sense of the word a "fiscally conservative, socially progressive moderate Republican"; rather, she was and is a liberal even by Democratic Party standards.
True, Whitman played lip service to Republican issues, but actions speak louder than words.
Christine Todd Whitman defeated incumbent Democrat Gov. James Florio in 1993 on a popular wave of anti-tax anger, but it almost didn't happen. Although the public was galvanized against Florio's $2.8 billion income tax hike, Whitman, like many "moderates", had no stand on a solution to the problem; her platform was essentially "I'm not Jim Florio." As a result, her campaign languished and Florio was almost assured of reelection in spite of his tax-raising policies.
It was not until Steve Forbes stepped in and gave Whitman a proposal for cutting taxes. She ran with it and narrowly won, then followed through and delivered on her promise to cut taxes. This brought Whitman national attention as a tax-cutter; talk of her being on a national ticket naturally followed.
She should have stuck with Forbes.
Instead, she made minimal cuts in spending and governed as a borrow-and-spend liberal. All the regulatory apparatus remained intact. What proved her undoing on the national level was when she applauded then President Bill Clinton's stand in favor of partial-birth abortion. This exposed Whitman as a rabid pro-choicer; her national GOP support evaporated almost instantaneously.
Her liberalism was also evident in her judicial appointments.
During her two terms six out of seven positions on the notoriously left-wing state Supreme Court opened up. This gave Whitman an unprecedented opportunity to drag the court at least to the center if not the right. As an ardent pro-choicer though, Whitman could not afford any regulations to unlimited abortions to stand, so she appointed only "true believers" on that issue. In addition, they were all lightweights - no Scalia or Thomas here; not even a Brennan or Warren - the Whitman judicial appointments were more of a Lance Ito caliber.
Although more conservative than the Governor, the Republican-controlled State Senate went along with all the appointments. This would come back to bite them when the Court in 2001 upheld a Democrat redistricting plan for the State Legislature, resulting in Democrat control of both houses since that year's election. This is the same court that in 2002 upheld the Democrats' last minute ballot switch when they replaced the scandal-tainted U. S. Senator Robert "The Torch" Torricelli with the geriatric Frank Lautenberg.
I tend to support the concept of a "big tent" Republican Party. This is a big nation and issues and philosophies differ regionally. But there comes a point when the philosophical differences are so extreme that one must consider just which tent they actually should be in.

MORE ACADEMIA

2005-12-17T12:50:00.000-05:00

From Washington, New Jersey now to Washington State, the whacky antics of academia sound unreal, but they are. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
Mark Tapscott at Townhall.com writes today about the administration at Washington State University actually paying students to disrupt conservative presentations on campus. Although they have stopped the practice, the fact that they would even do such a thing is disturbing, and they continue with other questionable activity towards students who disagree with their left-wing views.
In the Warren County Community College case, the administration did the right thing; the result being the resignation of the offending professor. In Washington State, it is the administration which is the problem.
How to solve it?
The key word here is state - Washington State University. As I have mentioned before, with public funds (read tax money) feeding this institution, it is up to the public to demand change and accountability. Washingtonians must demand, through the State Legislature, their elected representatives, who also just happen to control appropriations, that such activities must be stopped.
Although the college administration may have stopped paying protesters, their continued pursuit of an extremist agenda and placing students in the middle of it, would demand more than their saying "we're sorry", and now everything's ok. No, what is needed is for those behind this outrage to be removed from their posts at the university.
This is a state institution, accountable to the state; let the state be accountable to its people for a change and solve this problem an of out-of-control educational establishment.

I Passed. Will you?

2005-12-02T20:27:00.000-05:00

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

Academia gets it right...for a change.

2005-11-25T12:18:00.000-05:00

On Tuesday, November 22, the Warren County Community College Trustees accepted the resignation of Prof. John Daly. Daly had his 15 minutes of infamy when he responded to a student's announcement of a lecture featuring an Iraq War veteran speaking in support of the U. S. role there. Responding with such intolerant and threatening vitriol as "real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors and fight for just causes and for people’s needs", and, “I will continue to expose your right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like yours won’t dare show their face on a college campus”, Daly brought national headlines to the Washington, NJ school.
Outrage was immediate. Conservative commentators cited this as just one more in a long series of abuses by academics in their goals of indoctrinating their students. Liberals, once again, were ominously silent.
This is far from the first time a college professor has made such a statement. Their reasoning behind this is both indoctrination and to test the waters. Testing the waters involves seeing how far they can go in advancing their extreme views without opposition.
Daly had made a gross political miscalculation.
New Jersey is a "blue state", having supported Democrats in most statewide elections. Unfortunately for libs like Daly, Warren is a county-operated institution. Mountainous, agricultural Warren County is not blue, but a deep shade of red, President Bush having won the county by a 24-point margin. All elected County officials are Republicans, and Warren is represented in Congress by Rep. E. Scott Garrett, a Club For Growth conservative. The College Trustees are appointed by the County Board of Chosen Freeholders (County Commissioners). The students, alumni and parents come from this region.
Not the type of area that would have much patience for kooks like Daly.
This past Tuesday, the Trustees held a special emergency meeting on the topic, at which time Daly notified them of his immediate resignation, which was accepted. The college sent out a press release informing the public of their action; it further stated that staff would receive "tolerance training" as a result, and closed with a message of support for our troops and their mission from the College President.
Incidents like this occur all too regularly, unfortunately all too often the offending instructors remain in their post. Often the school administration backs the professors. Many colleges are funded by states or counties, but even in conservative states professors such as John Daly or Ward Churchill are allowed to flourish. Where the states or counties control the pursestrings, it is important sometimes for state or county government to step in to protect the student; to ensure that both taxpayer and tuition money goes towards useful education, not left-wing indoctrination.
At least the educational environment in Warren County, NJ has become more student-friendly.

A POPISH PLOT

2005-11-07T09:36:00.000-05:00

The nomination of Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. will bring the majority on the United States Supreme Court firmly within the purview of Rome. This will place an entire branch of the U. S. Government under the absolute control of the former Hitler Youth member, the Rev. Josef Ratzinger, alias Pope Benedikt XVI.
This should send a chill of alarm down the spine of every American.
Alito was nominated by President George W. Bush, who's own brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush is openly Catholic! George W. Bush is a self-proclaimed Methodist, but many have said that large parts of his agenda are highly compatible with that of orthodox Roman Catholicism. He himself may be a closet Catholic.
This brazen attempt by the President and his Vatican overlords was exposed for your protection by the brave and unbiased members of the Mainstream Media.

Alito. YEAH!

2005-10-31T17:56:00.000-05:00

This morning President Bush announced his nominee for the Supreme Court who would be voted on instead of the ill-fated Harriet Miers as a replacement for the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor.
Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, sounds like the one who should have been nominated in the first place. A native of Trenton, NJ, like Justice Antonin "Nino" Scalia, Alito has been called "Scalito", a name that I would wear like a badge! Alito's nomination has gotten all the right reviews, with whining and filibuster threats coming from the Democrats. Let me tell you something, if the nomination didn't elicit such reaction from the dims, then it's time to worry! And their bawling about the prospect of 5 Catholics on the Court shows exactly where their bigoted heads are at.
If "Dingy Harry" and his cronies threaten a filibuster, let them bring it on. Then let Bill Frist grow a pair and NUKE 'EM!

NAGIN GIVES BUSH A PASS

2005-09-11T13:41:00.000-04:00

I just turned on my TV and what to my wondering eye should appear but New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin on NBC's Meet The Press. When asked by host Tim Russert about cooperation and support from the State and Federal governments, I expected a Bush bash. Instead, while Nagin was highly critical of the Federal response, he blamed it on "low level advisors", who gave the President advice which may have grossly understated the severity of the problem. In his personal dealings with Bush, Nagin praised the President, saying, "Whatever I asked the President for, he made it happen".
The Mayor reserved the bulk of his rage for Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D), who he accused of showing up in New Orleans with full press entourage, performing a dog & pony show, then leaving. Nagin had supported Republican Piyush "Bobby" Jindal over Blanco in the 2003 gubernatorial runoff election.

SOME THOUGHTS ON KATRINA

2005-09-08T20:13:00.000-04:00

I guess it's time I weigh in on Hurricane Katrina and the tragic devastation on the Gulf Coast. The left has been working overtime to lay this solely at President Bush's door but charity begins at home and the City of New Orleans dropped the ball. Sure, they had a great plan, but they made no effort to implement it. And not just in Katrina but Hurricane Ivan, too.
By now we all know about the hundreds of now useless school buses that could have been used to evacuate city residents who had no cars.
The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has come under criticism for a sluggish response; this appears to have bedeviled that agency since at least the Clinton Administration.
Let's talk about the levees. What about the levees? The libs keep whining that President Bush cut the funding and that's why it broke, but apparently the part that broke through was already modified and improved! (Hat tip to That Gay Conservative)
I could go on and on, but much has been said by others. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the babble from the German Minister of the Environment, Jürgen Trittin. Rather than speak to that on myself, read this article by Claus Christian Malzahn, one outraged German.
I will close with a link to Camojack, who was kind enough to post some great charitable organizations to help the people down South.

QUOTES FROM CINDY SHEEHAN

2005-08-26T21:04:00.000-04:00

Here are some quotes from that Gold Star mom for peace, Cindy Sheehan:

War is never the answer. Communication and compromise are the answer.

Instead of trying to kill our adversary, we should sit down at the peace table with them in Paris, Geneva or some other neutral place. We should find out what it was we did that offends them, and how we make it right. Then, follow through and deliver.

Iraq is Bush's Viet Nam.

Like Nixon's war destableized Southeast Asia, Bush's war is destablizing the Middle East. A negotiated end to this war is the only way out. Support our troops. Bring them home. NOW.

If America renounces fascism and imperialism, she will not need military forces, because she will not be attacked.

When the world sees that America has changed, and she is no longer a threat to world peace, the other nations will be able to use their money to help their people, instead of defending them against American imperialism.

The hypocrisy. Why is it OK for America to demand Syria pull out her peacekeeping forces from Lebanon when America wo'nt pullout her occuppation forces from Iraq? What hypocrisy. Could it be Shrub secretly wants to get his own troops into Lebanon? Or Israeli troops?

More butter. Less guns.

This war was a bad idea; wrong war wrong time; a war for oil not freedom. End it. Now.

I must repeat myself again on Bin Laden. WE MUST TALK TO THIS MAN.

Actually, none of them are true Sheehan quotes. They are excerpts from several of my howie "vignettes", simply copied & pasted. The scary thing is, if she hasn't said any of these quotes, she easily could, and probably will. You can't make this stuff up.
And sadly, she daily tramples the memory of her heroic martyred son, Casey.

ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

2005-08-17T17:54:00.000-04:00

Illegal immigration has once again made the news. Rush has repeatedly warned Republicans to get ahead of this issue or the Democrats might attempt to grab it for themselves. In the past week Govs. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Janet Napolitano of Arizona, both Dems, have come out with a "get tough" policy on the issue and the media is fawning all over them; were they Republicans they would both be called racists and worse.
Let's have a look at just who's racist.
Remember earlier this year Mexican President Vicente Fox, an advocate of continued "migration" of his citizens through an open U.S. border, stated that Mexicans "are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States". He was rightly criticized for this comment.
Baldilocks in May posted a thread which explores the issue of Mexican racism. She wrote, "By the way, President Fox wants his country’s 'inferiors,' that is, those Mexicans of more Indian heritage, to migrate to this country. Why do you think his government encourages illegal emigration? Better than what many other leaders have done with their “inferiors,” don’t you think?"
So rather than deal with their Indian citizens as equal members of their society, the Mexican government would rather they just left. I can't really blame the illegals for wanting out; if I were in their shoes I would want to get out of Dodge myself. Unfortunately, Mexico's racial and economic problems should not become Americans' problems too.
And apparently they don't much care for their black population either; read this.
Mexico is not a U.S. ally; it is not a trading partner. Mexico's actions over the years have earned it runner up status as a rogue nation! And if illegal immigration alone isn't reason enough for troops on the border, perhaps the utter lawlessness of places like Nuevo Laredo is. Or Mexican military incursions onto American soil. I mean their troops in the U.S. Sometimes they shoot. Can you say "act of war"? Just in case I didn't get my point across, their troops came into our country.
These are not the actions of a good neighbor. Once is a mistake, or overzealous troops; this frequently and it's policy.
They'd be singing a different tune out the other side of their mouth in Mexico City if Americans suddenly stopped vacationing in Can Cun, Cozumel, Cabo, Acapulco, or anywhere else. Or if we could shut off the cash pipeline from the Mexican "diaspora". It'd be nice if all those U.S. dollars dried up. Won't happen though.

FEATURED BLOG

2005-08-12T06:38:00.000-04:00

Here is a blog with some great historical information. Called "Stop the Republicans", it is The Lone Ranger's very interesting chronology of the GOP's efforts to block the Dem agenda. I won't dwell on it other than to say, "Click the link" and read.

JOB OPENING ON THE SUPREME COURT

2005-07-01T13:58:00.000-04:00

Assosiate Justice Sandra Day O Connor has announced her retiremement from the Supreme Cour6t. O Connor, 75, was one of the «Gang of Four», who delivered the minority opinion that was one vote short of torpedoing the government's right to condemn private property for the public good. Now, G.W.Bush will make a nomination for the court. If he is smart (Yeah right), he will realise that he simply cannot get his stain-glass right-wing lacky's approved by the Senate. Consequenty, he should spare America the greif of a long, protracted comfirmation process, and simply nominate someone who will be acceptable to the Senate. Sen. McCain is a man who is important to keep in the loop for this process. So are Sens. Kennedy, Schumer, Climton and Boxer. If the 7 moderate Republicans work with the Democrats, America can have one more progressive Supreme Court Justice!

DRINKING LIBERALLY

2005-07-06T18:31:00.000-04:00

Some of you may have seen the «Drinking Liberally» logo (Its a LINK)on my side bar:

What Drinking Liberally is is a chance to get together with other progressives and hang out, talk about progressive issues, drink, and just have a good time! You can meet new people - no stramgers, just friends you have'nt met yet! They just startde a chapter here @ Pinceton; we begin on Septembrer 15 every Thursday, 7:00 pm onward at The Annex Restaurant, 130 Nassau St in Princeton. So, stop by this fall. Clik the link for a «Drinking Liberally» near you! Or start your own Drinking Liberally.

LONDON CRAWLING

2005-07-09T10:24:00.000-04:00

The July 7 attacks on the London transportation infrastructure should serve as a wake-up call to all people who still cling to the idea of a so-called «war on terror». These events in London are real evidence about O. bin Laden: We must talk to this man. I feel America and her vassals need to sit down like adults, in some neutral spot like Geneva, meet with O. bin Laden or his representatives, and work things out. War is not the answer. War is never the answer. Communication and compromise are. Once everything is resolved, America can call her troops home, and the insurgents can return to their jobs and families. Swords will be beaten into ploughshares; the lamb will lie down with the lion. More butter. Less guns. There is precedent for this. The American president R.M.Nixon, a right-wing icon, initiated dialogue with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in order to avoid war. The People's Republic of China is now one of America's biggest trading partners; loss of the stream of manurfactured goods from China would have dire consequemces for America's consumer, and by currency the American economy. Too, Nixon also had a policy of détente with President L.I.Brezhnev of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to avoid war. This was due to the theory of Natural Assured Destruction, in which it was felt that in a war, both America and her adversaries would be utterly destroyed. While this theory may apply today, G.W.Bush pays no heed and rushes nearly unilaterally to war; his «coalition» consisting of minimal troops from a handful of countries. Enough troops, however, to make those countries targets for retaliatoin. This is where the United Kingdom now finds herself; Pime Minister T. bLiar now finds himself at a crossroads. He must make a hard decision. Had Bush been pesident during Nixon's time, I feel he would have rushed to nuclear war with both the USSR and China. Like bLiar, Bush now must make a decision: Continue with the unwinnable «war on terror» and lead America to more body bags, with eventual combat on American soil; or the Peace Table, with America and her adversaries talking, not fighting.

FIXING TO DIE RAG

2005-07-14T16:34:00.000-04:00

Come on all of you big strong men,
Uncle Shrub needs your help again.
Hes got himself in a terrible jam
In Iraq and Afghanistan
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And its one, two, three, four,
What are we fighting for ?
Do'nt ask me, I do'nt give a damn,
Next stop will be Iran;
And its five, six, seven, eight,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, lets move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those towelheads
The only good Ay-rab is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three, four,
What are we fighting for ?
Do'nt ask me, I do'nt give a damn,
Next stop will be Iran;
And its five, six, seven, eight,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there aint no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on Halliburton, do'nt move slow,
Why man, this is war a-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on Tehran.

And its one, two, three, four,
What are we fighting for ?
Do'nt ask me, I do'nt give a damn,
Next stop will be Iran.
And its five, six, seven, eight,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Chicken Hawks throughout the land,
Pack your kids off to Afghanistam.
Come on people, do'nt hesitate,
Send your kids before its too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your kid sent home in a box.

And it's one, two, three, four,
What are we fighting for ?
Do'nt ask me, I do'nt give a damn,
Next stop will be Iran.
And its five, six, seven, eight,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

London's tube wuz brought to a halt
Neocon Ledeen sez it's Iran's fault
Get Scooter on dah fone right quick
Spring Judy from dah cage to report the schtick
Don't send Wilson - he'll fuk up
He ain't no propah Bush suk-up*

And it's one, two, three, four,
What are we fighting for ?
Do'nt ask me, I do'nt give a damn,
Next stop will be Iran.
And its five, six, seven, eight,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Yes it's one, two, three, four,
What are we fighting for ?
Do'nt ask me, I do'nt give a dang,
Next stop might be Pyongyang.
And its five, six, seven, eight,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

*Hat-tip to Jude Nagurney-Camwell (Iddybud) for her contribution (5th Verse.)

EVE OF DESTUCTION

2005-07-21T22:23:00.000-04:00

The mideastern world it is explodin,
violence flarin, bullets loadin,
youre old enough to kill but not for votin,
you do'nt believe in war, what's that gun you're totin,
and even the Tigris river has bodies floatin,
but you tell me over again my friend you do'nt believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Do'nt you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Ca'nt you see the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be noone to save with the world in a grave,
take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
but you tell me over and over again my friend,ah, you do'nt believe we're on the eve of destruction.

My blood's so bad, feels like coagulatin,
Im sittin here, just contemplatin,
I ca'nt twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators do'nt pass legislation,
and marches alone ca'nt end globalisation,
when human respect is disintegratin,
this whole crazy world is just way too frustratin,
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,you do'nt believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Falluja!
Tehn take a look around to Red state America!
You may leave here, for four days in space,
but if you return, it's the same old place,
the poundin of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
hate your next-door-neighber, but do'nt forget to say grace,
and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend, you do'nt believe we're on the eve of destruction.

SHUTTLE «DISCOVERY» LAUNCH

2005-07-26T12:19:00.000-04:00

After 2½ years, the National Aeronatics & Space Agency (NASA) has launcehd the space shuttle «Discovery» for another shuttle mission. Blastup was this smorning. ENOUGH ALREADY!!! It is time for America to look to the ground, not to outer spack. There are hungry mouths to feed; homeless to house. There are the naked to clothe. There are the children to educate. The so-called «Space Program» was simply a game of «keeping up with the Jonese's», or, rather the Brezhnev's. With the so-called «Cold War» over, and the realisation that there never was a Soviet «threat», it is time to scrap the space program along with the military-imdustrial complex of which it is an integeral part. It is time to beat the sords into plough shares. Butter, not guns.

«HOOEY» COMES CLEAN!

2005-08-08T19:07:00.000-04:00

Relax. There is nothing wrong with your computer! Nor has this site been hacked. It's simply time to put this baby to bed. It's been a fun trip, but after 10,000 hits it's time to move on to other things.
That's right. In case anyone is still wondering, this is satire! (You nailed it, Hawkeye!) I am not a 21 year-old, dope-smoking, spellingly challenged, shallow, left-wing looney, Ivy League legacy brat. No, I'm a 45-year old father of two great daughters who has been a conservative since high school - before I could even vote! I'm a product of the Catholic School System where I received a conservative education. Thank God I wasn't subjected to public school. (Josh Fahrni, your parents are so right to home-school you!) I never tried weed, even non-inhaling. Oh, and yes I can spell!
Why start this blog? Well, back in 2004, I was surfing the net, reading various blogs. Running across some lefty blog, DU I think it was, I decided to have a little fun. I came up with this blithering blather about passive survival and how we need to talk to Usama binLaden and building a mosque at Ground Zero. I wanted to see what reaction I got from the lefties. Only problem is, you have to register at DU and many other lefty sites. I didn't want to do that because I knew someone that did it and kept getting spammed. What to do? So finally I decided to post it on a conservative blog, ScrappleFace, and let everyone beat up the lib. I chose the name, «Howie», because it just sounded like a whiny, sanctimonious liberal weenie. (Apologies to any Howards or Howells out there!)
Howie soon became a created character with a personality. Howie is arrogant, whiny, a know-it-all; he's shallow. Howie's «knowledge» is all by rote. It's all surficial; he has his lefty views but he really hasn't a clue why. Howie doesn't believe, he «feels». When challenged on his views he doesn't defend them, he falls back on, «Presemt a neocon wiht the facts abd the tuth and recieve an ad-nominem pesonal attack in returm». His spelling is right out of public school. Oh, and Howie uses these irritating «European» quotation marks.
After the 2004 election, I decided that Howie needs a blog of his own. I looked at Typepad, but they charge; Howie was not that important to become another bill for me to pay. Finally, this past spring, I discovered Blogger and, after being urged by dean04prez to"totaly start a blog of you're own", I started this blog.
Building upon Howie's arrogance, I started comment-spamming blogs on both the right and the left. You know, "Nice blog..." This got me traffic. I got conservatives who were angry at this lib brat spamming their site; I got libs, many of whom were totally supportive of Howie's views, no matter how extreme. And I deliberately pushed the envelope on that, too. Some of the libs seemed like sincere people who just had the wrong views; nonetheless they were sincere. Others were the type where you just want to take a shower after visiting their site. I found a veritable ocean of great conservative blogs. Camojack, Josh, Beerme, many others. (See sideboard.) Sorry about the stupid comments, guys.
The puppet face. About that. There's a reason. That puppet was called Dorshock and it was on The Sandy Becker Show, a New York kids' show from the 50s and 60s that I used to watch. Dorshock's entire vocabulary was, "blah, blah, blah, blah." Suits Howie doesn't it.
So, time to put Howie away. I haven't decided whether to stay on as a conservative blog, or to shut down, but it's been fun, especially reading the great responses to Howie everyone has posted!
A big thank you goes out to the great Scott Ott of ScrappleFace and Professym Lawrence "Liberal Larry" Chomstein of BlameBush for inspiration for this project.

THE TOP 10 CONERVATIVE IDIOTS

2005-07-30T10:22:00.000-04:00

DU wrote this. I feel it speaks for itself.

FUN WITH WORD PUZZLES

2005-08-06T10:45:00.000-04:00

R O B E R T S
R O _ E R T S
_ O _ E R T S
S O _ E R T
S O _ T E R
S O U T E R

And the answer is: Your leaders have abandoned you!

ARMY GIRL

2005-07-01T13:29:00.000-04:00

I am using this post to point out a pair of blogs, aparrently by the same person, Seargeant Kami «Risawn» Erickson. She is in the Army, and is clearly one of the many young Americans duped into joining by some enticment or another. One blog is called «Incoherant Ramblings», and the other is called «Foxholes and Dogtags». The first is more or less of a random blog about this adn that, wile the other is about her exploits in the army occupying Kossovo. She is indicative of the frightning array of soldiers recruted scince G.W.Bush took power. For America's military to progress out of the dark ages, we need new leadership in the Department of Defense; former Assistant Secertary of the Army Sara Lister would be a great replacement for «Rummy the Dummy».

SUPREME COURT HITS THE RIGHT NOTE

2005-06-24T21:01:00.000-04:00

The Supreme Court yesterday, in it's lamdmark Kelo v New London Decision, struck a blow for progressive change. The Court ruled that goverment has the right to take private property by eminent domain, even if it is to be used by a private developer. This is a sound decision. Many of the property owners subject to a city's condenmation are longtime owners with substandard dilapidated properties. The fact is, what yuo see is what you get. These owners are not going to inprove their property, there by depriving the city or county of much needed tax revenue. This in turn drives up the taxes of other residents. This in it self should have conservative's flocking to support this landmark decision. Those justices opposed to this decicion were the «usual suspects»: Thomas, Scalia, Renquist and O Connor. Their minority opinions reflect a deep-seated malevolence towards improving our cities, likely based in racism.