05.08.08
Anyone catch McCain on O'Reilly tonight? When this is the best Republicans can come up with you know the frigging end is near. I'll give him this: he came up with a reason for not drilling in Alaska. Ready? Here it is:
It's pristine.
Now that's statesmanship George Washington would be proud of. Apparently, a few hundred acres of pristine wilderness are more important than all of us peasants having to pay the equivalent of an added car payment in gasoline every month to get to the grocery store to pay more for everything delivered by diesel trucks - that's everything.
It now costs $1,800.00 to fill up an 18-wheeler. The same guy who, three years ago, predicted that oil would get to 100 bucks a barrel is now saying that oil is going to near 200 dollars per barrel. That's ten dollars for a gallon of gas. It's also the end of the American economy.
But John McCain won't allow drilling in Alaska because it's pristine. I think six people have actually seen it. No one lives there. No one can live there. But it is so important to preserve it in its natural state that the current Republican contender would rather see the American economy shut down than dig a few holes through the tundra. Insane.
I wonder if McCain has ever seen an oil rig? It takes up all of eight acres - ten tops. Ever seen a shot of an oil rig out in the gulf? They're not much bigger on land. Not very big at all when compared to the millions upon millions of acres of untouched land on the northern slopes of Alaska. Oil rigs on the north slope of Alaska is a price we can pay for energy independence. Sending hundreds of billions of dollars to third world backwaters like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela is something that we won't be able to live with much longer.
I was all set to hold my nose and vote for McIdiot until I heard this.
No oil, close down GITMO, no waterboarding, and now he panders to the group that is actively working to destroy America's sovereignty?
I'm back to watching from the sidelines on this one. You guys work it out while I buy bullets. Obama is the devil draped in flesh but he's not trying to fool me into thinking he's all about defending America. McCain is and I'm not buying it. Not tonight anyway. We'll have to see how scary Obama gets but for now, I'm back out.
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05.04.08
Oh, to be king. Ever wonder why, if gas is $3.60 per gallon and headed to $4.00, we aren't drilling for oil in Alaska? Me too. When people matter more to politicians than Caribou we will have energy independence and not a day sooner. Wouldn't it be nice if our leaders had the same problems we do? It would have quite an impact on our reality if they too had to worry about affording a tank of gas instead of making sure the gardener on the third house (the mountain house!) had his papers.
On one side we've got Obama, a rich guy who consorts with terrorists and attends a racist church. On the other we've got McCain. Wherever you are, go outside for a minute and listen carefully. Hear that sucking sound? That's McCain, the cosmic king of suck. I can't get around McCain's brilliant answer to Hannity's question on why he wouldn't support drilling for oil in Alaska. "That's just an environmental position I have." Yes, we're aware. The question was "why", dumbass. That's like Rosie O'Donnell saying she was born a fat dyke with the IQ of a doornob. Everyone knows that. What are you going to do to change it?
Anyway, I'm already off topic. I just finished a book by Dick Couch called "Chosen Soldier" in which he profiles the training of our Green Berets. It's a good book. Near the end, Mr. Couch lays aside the role of objective author and gives his opinion on a few things he saw while in Iraq in the company of the Special Forces. Here's his take on our insane ROE's (rules of engagement):
"The rules of engagement and the Rules of Land Warfare, as you have seen, are drilled into future Special Forces soldiers in the Q-Course and are a fact of life for all our deployed forces in the operational theaters. The SOF operators in the field live with these rules, and many a battlespace commander lives in fear that they will be violated - that there will be an incident that will get him relieved of command and end his military career. The bad guys know these force restrictions and how to get around them. IED's and suicide bombers kill our soldiers and marines, and they kill even more Iraqi soldiers, policemen, and civilians. Yet placing an IED is a crime, not so much and act of war. If an insurgent is caught with a shovel in his hand digging alongside the road, he can put his hands up and not be shot. He will, in all probability, be processed, sent to an interrogation center, and released. He knows it, the average Iraqi knows it, and so does that Army specialist out patrolling those mean streets in his armored Humvee. They see some of these guys more than once. However, if the act of placing an IED were to earn a bomber on on-the-spot bullet, then there would be fewer of them out there - a lot fewer. Some of the detainees I observed appeared to have smirks on their faces. They were known insurgents, foot soldiers, and they knew they would be back on the streets in a few weeks. The issue of security and the ability of a government to protect its citizens is paramount. IEDs and suicide bombers visibly threaten this - and from what I saw, they threaten it effectively. Again, most of our combat casualties on the nightly news are from IEDs."
I wish we'd stop calling it a "war". In a war, you kill the enemy. In our current effort of half measures we just arrest them, talk to them, and let them go. It's a bizarre world we live in - and it's ruled by Republicans! Imagine what its going to be like under a former Muslim who's familial and cultural assumptions are anti-American.
Happy Monday!
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04.30.08
As a normal human being who is able to differentiate between good and evil, Hollywood generally sickens me. In Nashville, I once stumbled into this little gem at an independent theater. As you can tell from the link, it's about pedophilia and other sexual dysfunctions. Oh wait. You can't tell that from the link at all. That's Hollywood. They lie to get you in the door and then gently introduce you to the most evil thing the human mind can imagine - and no, Barak Obama was not featured. Thankfully, I was able to stumble right back out before the last scene of the movie in which the devil materializes and rips your soul out of your body.
In a way, I miss the softer, gentler Hollywood of 1998. In this here newfangled century, hell, they don't even lie to us anymore. Again, some hell-bound Hollywood fool has decided she can make some money off the backs of the victims of sexual assault. Child victims of sexual assault. Witness the coming end of the world via a new movie for pervs titled "Hounddog" in which Dakota Fanning acts out a rape scene. The state in which the movie was filmed almost filed charges against the female director but of course they didn't because that would have been a violation of the first amendment. You know, the one that reads something like, "the government shall make no law prohibiting the making or distribution of child pornography." Oh, how I wish those prescient forefathers would have said something about political speech! At least we've got the statesman John McCain to limit that for us. Thanks John!
As a father of two daughters, I find this movie sick and twisted. I, however, am not smart. Tiffany is so I will post her remarks about it because I think they'll make more sense and doing so will make me seem humble:
"Pedophiles are people too. Why should they be ignored at the box office? Why should they be confined to the small screen at the local library or forced to endure long download times on their cheap home dial-up connections? Are their movie going dollars not worth as much as yours or mine? Hollywood brings child porn to the big screen for the first time since Brooke Shields in Blue Lagoon. I'm sure all the sickos who go to see this will be enlightened by its message and turn from their wicked ways. We will see if there really is a big enough market of pedophiles out there willing to come out and be counted in the mainstream to make this movie work. I'm thinking not."
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04.28.08
Say what you want about Ann Coulter, no one can deny she's a smart chick. Personally, I've never heard her say or write anything I disagree with. I just wish she was a little more conservative. When she writes without humor, she can be even more devastating. Enjoy her introduction to a chapter titled "Liberal Religion: American idolatry" from her latest book:
"Liberalism is the sneaky religion that dare not speak its name. We believe in God; liberals believe they are God - and they've got the beachfront homes and offshore tax accounts to prove it.
They hate the militant idea in Genesis that we are different from the beasts because we are in God's image. That fact sets us apart singularly, qualitatively, ineluctably from the animals over which we have been given dominion. We carry forward God's story, allowing Him to act through us. There is no purpose to this world without us. That is the first principle of the Bible, the core of what we believe. Once you deny that we alone are in God's image, you have denied everything.
Liberals are animists. They believe we are part of nature - and a not very attractive part. They believe our consciousness cannot be distinguished from lower beasts'. With smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand with the fossil record, they claim to have discovered a trail from all of us to the lower beasts, proving our ancestral relationship to a worm. Satisfied that they have proved we are no different from the beasts, liberals set to work promoting abortion for inconvenient babies, euthanasia for inconvenient old people, and chemical explanations for evil.
The affirmation of our distinctive humanity is intolerable for liberals. They reject the idea that humans are capable of acting on God's injunction to tinker with our universe or that human creativity is capable of putting more food on the table. They worship no God except themselves. People who worship humanity tend to make lots of bad ethical judgments, such as renaming state-sponsored infanticide "choice." Their religion is a denial of life. It's a denial of us, who are the end of God's creation.
The fanaticism of their refusal to believe the biblical vision of the universe is in direct proportion to the crumbling of the evidence for their own vision. Anything that throws any doubt on the claims of Darwinism is derided as insane and immediately ruled out of order. The more strenuous their shouting, the darker the motive concealed.
Darwin's theory is the hoax of the century. It is the religious belief that must be put into children's heads as early as possible. Everything evil flows from the big lie of evolution. It is all part of the anti-Christian denial of man's soul that began to gather force in the late nineteenth century, erupting in the next century in Nazi fury and Stalinist gulags. Nothing is true, everything is relative, worship rivers and kill babies. The nihilistic religion of Darwinism is even more implacable than the other religion we must abolish: Islam."
Now, that right there is some good stuff.
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04.22.08
So I spent six weeks in southern Arizona and let me tell you, it was a hoot. The high point was assisting in the prosecution of an illegal alien who was a registered sex offender with an active warrant for rape. According to all three candidates for President, he was only coming here to work. I have a decidedly different take. Anyway, it was fun. I got to stay at a sweet hotel with a beautiful mountain view. The peak on the left is 9,452 foot Mt. Wrightson which I got to climb twice during my visit. It's a ten mile round trip to the top with a 4,000 foot vertical gain. Pretty good workout for a walkup summit. If you ever get to Tucson, you should check it out.
It's amazing how coming back to a pimp suite with a golf course view will make all the inane policies of your agency just fade away. Though the time was enjoyable, it's always hard being away from home. I missed St. Paddy's day and I missed one of my best friends teaching one of my kids how to assassinate things with a silenced weapon. Handguns and a holiday built around hooch. I miss all the good stuff!
Still, Arizona has a unique culture that I greatly enjoyed. I couldn't help but think that Arizona resembled the Texas of my childhood, a place lost now forever. It's sane out there. Native born Americans are still the majority and though Arizona is the number one spot for illegal alien traffic right now, the populace doesn't put up with immigration crime. Due to tough new legislation hammering businesses in Arizona that hire illegals, ten thousand of them requested return visas from Mexico this year. They are returning because its too risky to find work. Nice.
Also, Arizona has an open carry law. Twice, I saw free Americans walking around their communities with handguns on their hips. It was both an amazing and inspiring sight. Those men and their families were safe from predators, as were all of us in their general vicinity.
Also contributing to the lack of immigrant presence in Arizona is the lack of an entitlement state, and severely limited agriculture. The unique topography and conservative populace has kept the place free of the temptations of cheap labor. The large cities have the immigration problem because there are always affluent suburbanites willing to sell out their country in exchange for a well manicured lawn. That's a nationwide problem though. Get outside the city limits in Arizona and you enter a world of comparative sanity. It was a relief to know there is still one place where Americans live in relative freedom. We are no longer the land of the free and only sometimes are we still the home of the brave, but in Arizona at least the flag still waves.
Amid the very unique sights was Tombstone. Cool, cool, cool. The street where the Earp family ruled is still pretty much in tact. We ate at Big Nose Kate's, a place named for Doc Holiday's main hooker. The place is yuppied up a little but it's still the same place. Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp walked on the floor and stood at the bar. That, my friends, is unassailably awesome. People still live in mud houses that have been standing for decades. Amazing.
It was a good time but home is always home and it is great to be back. God gave me a beautiful goodbye on my last night and a safe trip home to my girls. I am a grateful man.
Note: If you ever get a welcome home gift that says this on it, it's illegal. I look forward to sharing the contraband with some of you.
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04.21.08
Back in the saddle. Pictures to follow shortly. A co-worker of mine shared with me the best and simplest plan for an immediate resolution of the immigration crisis which is currently removing America from the face of the earth faster than liberalism and Islam combined. According to the U.S. government, we give Mexico somewhere in the neighborhood of 31 million dollars per year (not counting disaster relief, Bush's military aid to Mexico, and the billions siphoned out of our economy and into Mexico's by way of illegal wages sent south each year.) Give. Wow. Anyway, though it is impossible to reduce the cost of illegal immigration to a dollar figure, a good guess would be that illegal immigration, most of it from Mexico, costs the U.S. roughly 25 billion dollars per year.
Like all things in the reality we inhabit, immigration can be solved when it is reduced to a problem of money. You get what you pay for or in this case, refuse to pay for. Here's the plan: for every illegal alien caught in the U.S., we keep $500.00 of foreign aid earmarked for Mexico.
That's it. Problem solved. Just like that, the onus is on Mexico to keep her citizens in rather than using the U.S. as an economic release valve to prevent the revolution Mexico so desperately needs.
First, the money comes out of the cash we flat out give Mexico to indulge our national death instinct. When that is tapped out, we start withholding military aid - not a bad idea since the Mexican military is corrupt and used by drug cartels to escort dope to and across the border on a daily basis (shhhh, don't tell the President.)
Also, it would be nice if we could threaten to stop buying their oil (though it's preferable to oil from Iran and Saudi Arabia) but we can't do that because the Republicans and Democrats agree that Alaskan Caribou are more important than energy independence. John Adams would be proud, no?
Anyway, good idea, I thought. More later on my recent trip. Anyone else petrified of what President Obama is going to do on the border? In Iraq? To your tax bill? At the abortion clinics? To the Supreme Court? In the public schools? With the welfare state? I much prefer McCain. Why? Because I like the thought of slouching toward socialism more slowly.
There is no cure, only survival. That's right! You're source of hope has returned!
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03.07.08
I'm going to be visiting my Uncle Sam for a few weeks. In the meantime, contemplate some facts:
1. McCain seriously considered joining the Kerry ticket just four short years
ago.
2. Obama was raised outside the United States as a Muslim. Attended a
madras and studied the Koran. Just like Mohammed Atta!
3. Hillary Clinton smiles like the devil. And sleeps with him too. At least that's
the rumor.
That ought'a keep you jumping for joy until I return, leaner, meaner, and even more bitter at the way your government defends you.
Peace. Out.
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03.04.08
I voted today. It was really exciting. Actually, pretty much not.
I'm a Republican and therefore screwed. One of our stellar candidates is afraid of waterboarding the next Mohammed Atta. He's a real badass who, when faced with choosing between dead Americans and a soaking wet, scared-to-death terrorist spilling his guts about an attack plan, would choose the dead Americans - one of which might be me. The other is already eliminated from the race. I voted for the guy who can't win, won't quit, and should have never run.
How far down the path to hell will the Democrats take us when they win the Presidency? I don't know. Things were dark for conservatives in 1964 when Goldwater lost, but he and his philosophy opened the door for Reagan several years later.
Problem is, the starting point is way left of where it was when LBJ took over in '64. The Double H-bomb (Hillary/Hussein) don't have nearly as far to go to do some serious damage. If they get socialized medicine through, we lose our economy and our military. How do we un-socialize something as colossal as our medical establishment? It was sixteen years from Goldwater to Reagan. If liberals and moderates are given that amount of time to wreak havoc on our freedom, I don't think we stand a chance.
Just my opinion. My hope is not in politics, but politics do matter. And I think America is in real trouble.
Oh, and I didn't know it but dogs can be gay. Two neighborhood puppies have adopted us. One a female, one a male. The male, who my daughter named "Badger", is a cool little mut. He accompanies us on walks, guards the front door, and whatnot. Some idiot who didn't have the stones to shoot him dropped him off a couple of months ago and here he is. The female came from nowhere too. Cute little thing, unnamed as yet.
There is a third dog. He's an ugly little rat-looking thing and, oddly, he keeps trying to rape Badger while completely ignoring the unnamed female pup - who, my sources tell me, is unattached. I've chased gay dog three times now across my front yard, in my stocking feet, wielding a broom. No, I'm not kidding at all - and damn those stickers! (Texas lawns suck.)
I will catch gay dog. I will beat gay dog. And if gay dog dies, then he dies. No one rapes Badger! Not on my watch!
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02.27.08
I'm a huge fan of war. War can not only put an end to a bad ideology/organization (think Nazism, Al Qaeda) it can also keep it at bay for long periods of time by killing a large number of adherents. Evil won't be kept down forever but war goes a long way to boxing it out long enough to allow civilization to keep marching along happily to it's own demise, along the way reaching some pretty amazing heights.
As hard as it is to imagine this, some wars are not good. Generally, if a war starts on a false premise it's going to require strong leadership to stand up and say, "Ooops. This one's on me. My colleagues and I did this because ______."
Our current conflict has two main fronts, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Afghanistan battle is eminently and permanently justifiable due to the attacks of 9/11 and the harboring by that country of Usama Bin Ladin, the architect of those cowardly deeds. Afghanistan was our beachhead in the Islamic world. A place which would have served for years as a fighting ground where we could battle and kill true terrorists who purposely showed up to earn their virgins. They would have fought us there for as long as we choose to stay, keeping them half a world away from our country. This fact alone would have justified a long term presence in Afghanistan, something I think we need as it is necessary to give Muslims the fight they are looking for, lest they come looking for it here. Again.
The battle in Iraq, though winnable militarily, has become a disaster due to a failure of intelligence. The entire western world, liberals included, believed Iraq to be a nuclear threat to civilization. When we got there, we found that to be untrue. So who gave the world the bad info? We need to find that guy. Badly. In fact, I'd rather find him than UBL.
Anyway, once neck deep in Iraq, Bush decided we were going to impose Democracy on a people who long for Sharia law. Military victory was no longer the goal. Bush wanted a political victory as well; a cultural sea change that has never happened before in human history. In that regard, what are we doing in Iraq that is different from the forces of radical Islam? They want to impose Sharia law on us, a people who long for Democracy. Where is the difference?
What we've got is two ideologies who want to impose themselves on each other. Why? Wouldn't it be easier and lest costly to leave them alone? And then, if they fail to leave us alone, kill them? We've got enough oil in Alaska to power ourselves for decades and enough innovative and talented thinkers to create energy out of corn and pig fat to come up with alternatives in the meantime.
We need a real leader who can correct mistakes while continuing to prosecute a war, a real war not adjudicated by lawyers and pansy-assed Democrats, against the forces of radical Islam.
It seems we have three alternatives: Barak Hussein Obama (methinks he may be a tad weak on the whole killing Muslims thing), Hillary Clinton (I'm reasonably certain she's a female. What the hell?), and me. Sadly, I'm very busy at the moment which means we're screwed. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you better stock up on ammo and dry goods. The end is so very near!
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02.26.08
I didn't know that American liberals caused the death of Benazir Bhutto. From Blackwater's publication, Serviam:
"Nobody with credibility has questioned the professionalism of Blackwater's' famed diplomatic security personnel, who have performed nearly 20,000 missions in Iraq without losing a single person under their protection. A highly distorted book by a brash writer for The Nation, the hotly disputed and unproven allegations raised in the Fallujah lawsuit, and the questionable propagandistic pronouncements of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior following the September 2007 Nisoor Square incident are the three principal playbooks that resonate in the critics' echo chamber against the company.
But those in need of first class security protection continue to turn to Blackwater. Every single congressman and senator visiting Iraq continues to benefit from Blackwater protection. The State Department has resisted the Iraqi government's repeated demands that Blackwater's diplomatic security detail leave the country.
Serviam has learned that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, while campaigning for President in 2007, had asked for Blackwater to protect her from feared assassination. Highly placed sources tell Serviam that State Department officials, concerned about all the negative publicity from the Waxman hearings and the lawsuit, thought the company had become too controversial and vetoed the request.
Just weeks later, on December 27, 2007, Bhutto was assassinated."
Weakness kills. Always. And why does a candidate for President in a foreign country need permission from our State Department before hiring any private company? Were we paying for her reelection campaign? If so, why?
We live in a bizarre world and I'm glad my life is more than half over - unless I get hit by a bus today! Ah, hope. It springs eternal, does it not?
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02.20.08
Plagiarized, word for word, from Tiffany:
"I've been disappointed by the poor showing of feminists at these primaries. Hillary is barely hanging on to the white woman vote and clearly no self-respecting feminist would vote for anyone else. Instead we've got these middle aged, dreamy eyed white women swooning like they did when they were teens. It reminds me of the election that saw WPH swept into the presidency by a class of freshman girls. I can see the rank and file liberal having to make a really tough choice between the oppressed black man or the oppressed white woman but where are the bra-burning, man hating feminists of our youth who held the banner high, broke the glass ceiling, cut their hair, killed their babies and took the world by storm? It appears they are washed up. They run their little abortion clinics, write diatribes in the local paper that masquerade as ads for planned parenthood, and sit around the vagina monologues together chanting the word 'cunt'. After half a century of radical activism, they have now turned their energies to meaningless, empty symbolism and they lack the political prowess to get their gal Hillary nominated. If there is anything positive to read into the nomination of Obama, it is that feminism is as good as dead."
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Yes, the angst of being a conservative this year sucks. With a loud sucking sound. However, it is great fun watching the two Democrat candidates slug it out. These two would have been the dream ticket, but instead they try desperately to find some difference to argue about; there just aren't any. They both love the thought of killing children before they're born. They both would happily leave a rapist armed and render his victim unarmed. They both cling to the Marxist principal of wealth redistribution like grim death. They both love international "institutions" like the World Bank and the International Criminal Court but can't quite get their head around heterosexual marriage.
And one of these morons is going to take up the banner of socialism against John McCain! Awesome John is vastly different from them, if by "different" you mean "pretty much exactly the same except for abortion." McCain is pro-life. Why? Because when you're a liberal running for Senate in a conservative state you have to say you're pro-life. Other than that minor distinction, well, you're not going to get much difference between McCain and any other liberal nut who wants to shut down GITMO, is giddy over NAFTA and wants to use cow farts to power diesel engines instead of the ocean of oil sitting in ANWAR.
Anyway, I started this idiocy to say that the press finally gave up the goods on who's voting for Obama. He won the Wisconsin primary by outpacing Clinton among her key constituents. Check out this sweetness:
"Obama defeated her among less educated voters and nearly tied her among white women — two groups that have formed the core of her candidacy." (more)
Dumbasses and chicks are about to give us the first President ever to be raised a Muslim and regularly attend a racist, black power church, proving once again that public education and women's suffrage are the worst things ever foisted on us by government. Thanks morons.
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02.19.08
I heard Rick Santorum make a good point today about the current sad state of the Republican party. The gist of his comments pointed out that for fifty years prior to the 1960’s, the Republicans nominated moderate candidates while the Democrats tended toward more socially conservative but economically socialist candidates. With the leftward lurch taken by the Democrats in the ‘60’s, social conservatives found a home among the fiscally conservative Republicans. And here we are.
Today, the GOP has reverted somewhat in a ridiculous, pandering grasp for continued power. Hopefully it won’t work. I could not care less about what happens to the Republicans. Santorum and most other conservatives are backing McCain in yet another lesser of two evils pitch. Those of us who find ourselves outside the new amalgam of moderates, liberals and retards who now make up the Republican party don’t really know what to do due to the most liberal Democratic ticket ever. Do we sit this one out and let the socialists wreak havoc for as long as they can keep power? Or do we vote for McCain and let him do or not do whatever he feels like doing based on who he wants to curry favor with on any given day?
I don’t know exactly what to do and neither do most conservatives out there. Hannity says conservatives should craft a “declaration of independence” from the Republican party and vote our conscience over party loyalty from here on out. Rush can’t quite make up his mind on what to do and it doesn‘t sound like he‘s going to tell his audience one way or the other. Ann Coulter is willing to actually vote for Hillary - a moral impossibility for me (the whole abortion thing.)
If conservatives go their own way and create a third party movement, it would take too long to win over a majority of voters - a dozen years or so. In that time, the country would be lost, probably partitioned into two or more states along lines of race or values or both. Yeah, I’m a little out there on that one but I think it’s coming. Remember a little “country” called the U.S.S.R? When the ties that bind break, realignment is the natural order.
Who knows? Not me. I just know that I can’t vote for McCain because I won’t vote for the ideology that is destroying my country. I am sad when I watch the news. Sad when I listen to the socialist agenda the Democrats, regardless of candidate, have in store. I miss the country I grew up in. That my children will never know her makes me angry.
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02.08.08
Well, I guess Romney narrowed it down, eh?
If he'd given his CPAC speech six months ago, McCain would be a distant memory and we'd have an actual Republican in contention for the Presidency. In the new Republican party, electability trumps conservatism every time. Who appeals to moderates? That's who Republicans vote for. No conviction. No idealism. Republicans are concerned no longer with preserving freedom, only preserving power.
Everyone is so concerned about what Hillary will do to this country in two years. What about what McCain will do to it? What about what McCain has done? With the help of Bush, McCain/Feingold restricted the First Amendment. With the help of Bush, McCain/Kennedy almost amnestied 20 million illegal Mexicans. Bush, the moderate who never met a liberal initiative he would veto, and McCain the liberal who has raped the Republican party every chance he could over the last 15 years, have together done at least as much damage as any Democrat could do in two years.
The only way to stop the constant appeasement, the unending erosions of our freedoms, the incessant movement leftward is for Republicans to stop electing liberals and moderates. McCain. Chaffee. Graham. Spector. Pataki. Snowe. Bush. etc. If conservatives never ever vote for these people they'd never get elected. We need to stop thinking in terms of Democrat and Republican and start thinking in terms of conservative and moderate/liberal. Moderates are the allies of liberals because that's who they vote for. Moderates are just liberals who won't admit it. Every candidate we vote for should have all three legs of the conservative stool: social conservatism, economic conservatism, and foreign policy/defense conservatism.
Without us, no Republican would ever get elected. We have the power to control the party, we just won't use it.
Conservatives, including the alternative media, are now coming over to McCain's side in the weird belief that two years of Clinton would somehow be worse than eight years of McCain. Negative. I'll never vote for a liberal, no matter which letter he puts after his name.
The preeminent issue of our time is immigration. Our country, in all probability, will not survive in its current form. Hell, the country I grew up in is long gone. This is due completely to immigration, an issue which McCain is on the wrong side of. I cannot vote for someone who scorns his country to the point of rewarding those who come here to destroy it. Never. I hope a few million other real Americans exercise their civic duty by refraining from supporting these political parties that would see what's left of America destroyed by immigration and free trade. Ultimately, I believe liberalism will take our beloved nation down, but certainly not with my help.
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02.02.08
This McCain idiot is pissing me off to the point of beidng..... tunable totot type. True conservatives like me and one other guy in Alabama somewhere have always been concerned about losing the precious Second Amendment to the liberals. To show us exactly what kind of man he is, McCain did an end run around the Second Amendment and put limits on the First! How can a man who showed no previous inclination to limit free speech (but then suddenly joined a hard-core liberal to do just that) be trusted to uphold the Constitution. He's already violated it! Grievously!
This is the guy who's going to appoint strict constructionist judges? Based on what precedent? He obviously has no respect for the intentions of the Founders.
And the GITMO/waterboarding thing is proof of insanity. I'm sure, having survived a prisoner of war camp himself, waterboarding is an emotional issue for McCain - but that's just it: there should be no emotional issues for a President. Or a Senator for that matter! You do what's best for America, warm, cuddly feelings be damned. This fool would watch an American city be destroyed before slapping a terrorist around in order to prevent it. That should disqualify him from ever having the confidence of the American people.
He's sold us out for ten years, time after time, bill after bill. Besides, he left his first wife after she became disabled and I have no patience with that. What an ass.
Everybody on the right is so convinced that we can't survive two years of Hillary or Hussein. As expert as they may be at destroying liberty, liberty is stronger. Freedom can endure these play actors. We did it for eight years with Monica Lewinski's ex-boyfriend and came through it in tact. Maybe this time the Republicans will wake up and stay conservative after getting elected. Maybe this time, if the pansies who inhabit the ranks of the Republican party hear enough thunder over their right shoulder, they might wake up and realize that doing the right thing for America does not include trying to appease the very liberals who would destroy her, nor the very moderates who are too weak to make a decision either way.
Like a vital Mentor of mine, I choose to spit the lukewarm out of my mouth. If McCain gets the nod, I'm going to sleep.
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01.30.08
And then there were two.
Again, now that we've only got the two choices, who do conservatives vote for: Romney or McCain?
The pro's and con's as I see them are:
Romney - when it was expedient, he sounded like a liberal. Now he's changed side because of, well, expediency. I like the idea of a guy who, by the time he becomes a governor, has made up his mind on something like, oh, abortion. Obviously, Romney ain't that guy but hey - better late than never.
Unlike McCain, he is actively courting the conservative vote and is saying things that sound good to me. True, those things would have sounded good five years ago too, but at least he's saying them now. A genuinely attractive quality about Romney is the fact that he made his living outside of politics for most of his life and understands how economies work. (McCain hasn't and doesn't). Also, Romney talks about securing the border and has the endorsement of Tancredo. (McCain doesn't and hasn't)
The positives on McCain - there's a ton of 'em, if you're a Democrat or a terrorist or an illegal alien. If you happen to be an actual American, you may want to look elsewhere. McCain is a huge ass. He's been screwing Republicans for years and now he wants to lead the party; a party which is apparently quite willing to have him. Nuts.
Time was, all the Republican candidates were relatively conservative. This year, the liberals caused us to split our votes between Thompson, Huckabee, Paul and Romney and now we're going to have to live with a candidate that can be best described as a centrist Democrat who supports open borders and who's idea of getting tough with a terrorist includes the vicious tactic of speaking in a louder voice. Way to go, tough guy!
Ever weaker leadership is what we, as a people, get when we grow weak as a nation.
I'm voting for Romney on Super Tuesday. A fake conservative is better than a Democrat any day of the week and twice on Sunday. And if McCain takes the nomination, then my primary vote will be the only one I cast this year.
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01.22.08
What in the world are conservatives supposed to do this year? We have no candidate and it seems we're in two camps when it comes to McCain. Half of us are willing to vote for him and the other half find it impossible to reward him for ten years of selling us down the river at every opportunity.
I'm leaning toward the latter.
I'm most pissed at Huckabee. Yet another big government half-assed "conservative" who gets uninformed Christians to vote for him because he's pro-life - oh, and since he became a contender he's now tough on immigration! Had Huckabee not run, most of his votes would have gone to Thompson and we'd have had a viable conservative to counter the Democrats. Instead, it's our Democrats against theirs - and they're better than we are at killing babies, giving marriage rights to bum humpers, surrendering to Muslim primatives, and destroying free economies.
I can't vote for the co-author of the McCain/Kennedy amnesty. I can't vote for the co-author of the McCain/Feingold restrictions on free speech. I can't vote for the dork who voted against the one thing Bush did right - tax cuts. I can't vote for the benighted fool who wants to close GITMO. I can't vote for the pansy who would use the awesome tactic of asking more politely when a terrorist knows about a nuke in, say, St. Louis, instead of waterboarding his ass into submission and saving American lives.
My decision is pretty much made but I still hesitate because I was raised in such a manner as to find it almost immoral to sit out an election. In my opinion, we can weather another Clinton storm. Two years tops, then we get a Republican congress back and stop them. What I can't abide is a Republican party that drifts farther and farther left. We can only stop that drift by refusing to support the liberals thrown at us by the Republicans. If we don't stand for these morons maybe next time they'll give us a real choice.
A guy named Paul once said, "Having done all to stand, stand." Sometimes we have to buck the tide and not give in to the forces of appeasement. Somehow, we've got to let the Republican establishment know that we will not allow ourselves to drift along with the Democrats toward a godless socialism. I don't know how to do that except by taking myself out of the game.
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01.18.08
Too busy to post right now. More soon. All three of you can now rejoice.
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01.05.08
Dangit, I forgot to do a Christmas/New Year post. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. It's what we used to say before "Happy Holidays", the highly intolerant reference to "holy days" which replaced the even more offensive traditional greeting. When will we finally switch to Festivus, the all-inclusive winter celebration for the rest of us? I barely remember America these days. Anyway...
A former Muslim and cocaine user named Hussein won the Democratic caucus in Iowa. Such a victory begs the question: who will Americans NOT elect? So far, I think pedophilia is still a disqualifier, but just barely. Amazing.
What was more amazing than Obama's victory was his victory speech. I watched it and I have to admit, the guy was mesmerizing. He even managed to spin his Islamic upbringing in an endearing way: "...with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas, and a story that could only happen in America." Wow. Watching the speech, I honestly could not imagine a Republican beating this guy. The energy was incredible and the speech was the best political speech I've heard since Zell Miller called out Kerry at the RNC in '04. (Part II, Part III) Miller's was the best political speech in my lifetime, and I'm old. Zell should have been President but he was too tough and too much of an American. Again, digression rears it's head. Anyway...
I can't vote for a Democrat because people who do tend to be going to hell. Dumb people, however, yearning to be led by someone who appears to know where he's going and can say things like "give it up for..." without sounding like a retard have found their man. The speech was stirring - for ME. Imagine what an undecided moderate would think.
The Republicans are in trouble, and not only because the Democrats have all the momentum a la Obama. Me and every conservative I know are violently pissed at the Republicans. Huckabee won on our side. His positions mirror Bush on everything. He's the same guy with a better vocabulary. How can we possibly get excited about this guy? And Romney. Is he alive or was he just born with a broomstick up his butt? He's Al Gore with better hair. Right wingers are screwed this time around. Get used to the idea of a former Muslim prosecuting the "war" on terror. Unless, of course, Hillary pulls it out. Then, there simply won't be a "war" on terror. Either way, America loses.
Enough of contemplating our inevitable destruction at the hands of liberalism. This close to Christmas it's easier to remember that civilizations have come and gone before. Christ remains. And I have a gun!
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After the caverns we took the long way home to see the scenery and find a good hiking spot for next time. We found it. Guadalupe Peak will be conquered next month by the entire family - and I'll do it wearing a child! NOW tell me I'm a wienie.
West Texas like all of the American Southwest, is a beautiful and heartbreaking place. Almost lost to Mexico now, it reminds me of freedom and should motivate all of us to preserve the most precious gifts we've been given.
Later.
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12.18.07
You've heard of Joe Horn. He's the older gentleman who witnessed two criminals breaking into his neighbor's house, thereby committing a second degree felony. When he confronted them verbally from his front yard, they approached him in a threatening manner, holding weapons. He killed both criminals with a shotgun.
Unfortunately for Mr. Horn, these particular criminals were black.
When an organized group of black racists showed up at the scene of Mr. Horn's heroics to defend the honor of the now dead felons, Mr. Horn's neighbors drove them from their streets. They did not use violence. They did not use slurs. They used only the power of righteousness.
Few things these days make me proud of my fellow Americans. This is a notable exception.
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12.12.07
Amid 12 hour work days, Crossfit bumwhippin's, and designer hairdos, I have little time to post right now. Anger, as usual, serves as a motivation.
Bush just pardoned 29 felons. The list includes several drug dealers, thieves and one moonshiner. Me personally, hey I got no problem with moonshiners. They go to jail for making a legal product without paying taxes on it. Big deal. The fact that we put moonshiners in jail is just more proof that were the founding fathers misfortunate enough to be alive today they'd most likely be in jail for inciting revolution. We are the new monarchy. Instead of making it a family affair, we just run different guys who all hold the same positions. Anyway, I digress.
Back to my Bush bashing. Of the 28 deserving felons who were pardoned, three innocent men were missing: Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean and Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez. Apparently dealing crack is, in the Mind of Bush (hereafter shortened to "Mush.") far less a serious crime than shooting a drug smuggler in the ass while said drug smuggler is pointing a gun at you. Mush is a scary place to be.
Also, in Mush, Mexico is not seen as a hostile, corrupt enemy who actively helps in the export of it's most violent, unskilled and poverty ridden people into the United States thereby weakening our security, depressing our wages - especially those of the working class, siphoning capital out of our economy, importing disease, overpopulating our cities, wasting and diluting our already bloated government services, and destroying our unique, freedom-based American culture. No, in Mush, Mexico needs more of the American taxpayer's money to "fight the drug war."
Note to Bush: The Mexican military escorts drugs and illegal aliens across the border into the United States every day. When Mexican military units are spotted near the border by our Border Patrol Agents, it is a signal for those agents to slap on extra armor, check out an M4 and get ready for a drug load to come across. Why? Because the Mexican military is a corrupt organization, bought by drug cartels as security for their shipments. Their presence means that drugs in large quantity are somewhere nearby.
Why do I know this and Bush does not? I wonder if any of the current Republican candidates are aware of the problem of Mexican corruption? Would they too give a corrupt government billions of dollars with which to conduct a low-intensity war against our own people?
Don't answer.
Also, AIDS in Africa is out of control. This is due to the high number of idiots who live there. Once these idiots contract AIDS they keep raping each other at will, thereby causing the disease to spread. Bush is giving African nations, each one a bastion of civic responsibility and accountability, 30 billion of our dollars. What could possibly go wrong? Good investment, no?
And now we get to my only problem with Huckabee. Like Bush, he's a Christian. Sadly, Christians are no longer champions of small government, freedom and individual responsibility. Today's Christianity views government as an instrument for doing good rather than an instrument for preserving freedom. Unfortunately, without freedom, there is little good to go 'round.
For everyone who is not listening: Government doesn't create wealth. Government cannot spread wealth. Government can only protect freedom. Freedom then allows wealth creation.
Government does not spread AIDS, people do. Government cannot prevent AIDS, only people can.
You're welcome. We're dead.
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12.05.07
Mark Steyn points out a remarkable similarity between Islam and liberalism. Who knew?
"The now annual Santa suits in the "war on Christmas" and the determination to abolish even such anodyne expressions of faith as the Pledge of Allegiance are assaults on the very possibility of a common culture." (more)
Merry Christmas, Austrailian style. Weirdos. Us too.
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Sometimes, while contemplating the death of hope, I stumble across something funny. It is my nature to share.
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12.01.07
We live in a liberal world and liberalism is synonymous with insanity. Proof? In the '90 amid rapes and murders committed by juveniles, states fought back by passing legislation allowing those juveniles to be tried as adults. Now, juvenile crime is down, and what do liberals want to do? "Now, in calmer times, some champion community programs for young offenders to replace punitive measures they say went too far." How can a measure that worked possibly be characterized as having gone too far? It can, if you're crazy. And we are. More proof we're screwed. And Republican suck. And Democrats are demon possessed.
Hey, I thought of a good reason to vote for Ron Paul. Yes, he's a little nutty and flat wrong on the threat posed by Islam. But there's this little cabal of liberals called the United States Congress that will get in the way of any of his really zany ideas. The up side of a Paul administration would be the real debate of different ideas. The most important issue of our time is immigration, an issue on which Republicans and Democrats are indistinguishable. Having a crazy president might at least get more than one idea on the table. "This dude is nuts! Let's get that wall up before he declares war on Mexico, legalizes weed, and puts us back on the gold standard."
Who cares.
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11.26.07
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11.20.07
So Huckabee is pulling closer to the frontrunners. I have to admire a man who does what he does out of a conviction that he does the right thing and that he does it well, wether that thing be running for President or picking apples. Huckabee will lose but hopefully his candidacy and his recent surge will send a message to the two liberal frontrunners, Gulianni and McCain, reminding them that there are still some real Americans left in this nation and that Republicans can't get elected nationally without engaging them. That's the good news.
What I don't understand about Huckabee and Bush and most other overt Christians in national politics is their insistence that being compassionate to the poor is synonymous with immigration - as though the only compassionate option is to allow all poor people to come here. How very frighteningly short sighted.
Compassion without strength is mostly just misguided emotion. Compassion invites the diseased into your home to eat at your dinner table with your wife and children. Compassion with strength shows the diseased a cure that works where they live.
In short, we should export our ideas instead of importing the entire population of the third world. Sadly, the only candidates that ever say that....wait, none of the candidates say that. Ever. The only ones that get close (Tancredo, Hunter) don't stand a chance even at influence, much less national leadership.
News today that Hussein has pulled ahead of Hillary in Iowa. Wake up, folks. Yeah, I'm a doom-and-gloom kind of guy but that's only on the internet. These Democrats are starting to scare me for real and if they get the Presidency, we could see the end of world-wide resistance to Islamic fundamentalism.
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11.14.07
There is so little to say.
The surge is working in Iraq so we're bringing home a bunch of troops. Good thinking!
Post 9-11, a man named Hussein is a serious contender for the American Presidency. He's running against a woman who shares the exact same position on every issue. The guys from the other party don't matter much. Neo-Republicans are either gay or boring (That's not to say that the gays aren't boring. It's just that being gay generally makes you unelectable outside California.) Either way, they don't stand for anything, unless you consolidate their countless attempts to please Democrats and call it a political position. In that case, they do stand for something, just nothing I agree with.
