More Lessons From History

George Santayana is credited with writing, "Those who cannot remember the past (history) are condemned to repeat it".

This certainly should apply and be a warning to:
A. Czar Vladimir Putin who should remember what happened
to the last Czar who used troops to put down peaceful
demonstrators;
B. The People of Spain as to the dangers of allowing Muslims
to infiltrate their nation destroying it from within (Until the wiser
Spaniards of that day expelled them all in 1492);
C. All of the Peoples of the civilized world (ie Western Europe)
who allowed the self-indulgence of corrupted paganism (So much
like our present "Secular Humanism") to pave the way for the
Dark Ages, the almost success of the ideology of Islam to take
over and "subject" (The real meaning and intent of "Islam") the
world and, thereby, destroy the questioning and learning which
would not have developed to rebirth civilization; And,
D. The "Great Unwashed And Unthinking" of the far left who forget
that real Americans will only tolerate a certain amount of treason
before taking effective, tar-and-feathers-like, measures
as NY City construction and office workers did in May, 1970 to
put down such undermining of this nation and insults to its
real heroes, cherished symbols and real liberties (Which do NOT
include the equivalent of falsely shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theater).




PS--Now, where did I leave my hard hat and ax handle.

MECCA DELENDA EST-----------------------------------DEUS VULT

Monday, May 07, 2007
A Blast From The Past
From May 8, 2006

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Happy Hard Hat Riot Day!
Construction Workers, Stock Exchange Suits, New York's Finest.... just two words; HELL YES!!

Hat Tip to Relapsed Catholic

"A lot of us are World War II vets and fathers and purple hearts. We're from a generation that believes the flag over everything." (Electrician Morty Grutman, quoted in the New York Post, May 9, 1970)

36 years ago today, communist led anti-war hippie scum (better known as The Great Unwashed) staged themselves at the George Washington statue on Wall Street and were waving Communist Viet Cong flags and burning, urinating and defecating on American flags, just like what had recently happened in Washington DC.

New York city construction workers (better known as The Hard Hats) had had enough. They proceeded to charge the hippie base camp and set up American flags, then pursued and thumped the living shit out of said Great Unwashed. What happened next, no one expected... the construction workers were unexpectedly joined by white collar office workers (better known as The Suits) from the New York Stock Exchange. The NYSE literally emptied as Suits fought shoulder to shoulder along side the Hard Hats.

Mayor John Lindsay ordered that all flags on City buildings be lowered to half mast due to the Kent State shootings, which the construction workers of New York overwhelmingly opposed. They threatened to overwhelm City Hall unless the flag was raised to full mast, which it was... by the construction workers themselves.

In an other unexpected turn of events, 150 NYPD officers assigned to City Hall didn't interfere while the Hard Hats and Suits taught the Great Unwashed a thing or two about manners, decorum, and patriotism. As the American flag was raised to full staff over City Hall, the construction workers asked Police Officers remove their riot helmets in respect. They did.

The Hard Hat Riots were followed by a series of pro-war rallies in New York almost every day during May. These rallies culminated in a large Wednesday, May 20, 1970, rally. Over 100,000 hard hats, stock brokers and other workers peacefully marched through the streets of downtown New York City. The rally was organized by the local New York City construction workers union to show support for President Nixon and the Vietnam War.

Funny, schools never teach about this.

A Thousand Year LIght Going Out

A thousand years ago the Western Roman Empire was well and truly dead and gone. It was self-destroyed beneath waves of barbarians, its own weight and its unwillingness to let go of the residual errors of the pagan world-view and of reliance on slave-labor in "efficient" substitution for the family farms of earlier days.

Yet, at that time new lights and a new civilization were being lit throughout Western Europe, first in monasteries, then in the exploding number of Catholic-Christian (There were no others) universities. The light carrying travels of scholars was followed by the goods transporters of the merchants, ancestors of the free-enterprise system which has enriched more people in less time than any looting armies of barbarians.

Soon after that came the first efforts at resisting the horrid teachings and acts of Islamic aggressors which, if they failed in the Holy Land, certainly succeeded in Southern France, Iberia, the borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the gates of Vienna, the bay of Lepanto, in Greece and other and diverse places.

Those battles with Islam overlapped the battles with other forms of ignorance in the worlds of philosophy, science, geography, music and art all leading to the age of exploration without the physical boundaries of Europe and the boundaries of prior and stilted arts, invention and such political thought as the suppression of tyrannies and the roots of democracy..

Europe and its citizens blazed with a most humane glory!

Yet, the light of Europe is now dimming and may go out. Why? I offer the following and possible reasons.

Europe and its collective culture has lost sight of the fact that its civilization is based on the radiant hopes of a forward looking Catholic-Christianity and has replaced that with the culture, if that is the word, of immediate gratification without regard to history or the future. Its universities have forgotten that their strongest roots are deeply buried in that Faith and in the reason and logic St. Thomas, St. Albert and others developed---Trading all of that for the "political correctness" of each day's pseudo-intellectuals who attempt to destroy any views (Or even questions or questioners) they view as varying from their, for the moment, view of what is true. These attacks on rational thought have now even spread to the world of science where they should not even be considered.

Political progress has been drowned under waves, not of barbarians with swords, but bureaucrats with undemocratic rules and regulations AND with piles of forms: Such non-servants of the public allowing no questioning of their often self-proclaimed authority. The corruption of political leaders, so divorced from the People, is also a well known factor in public disservice.

The removal of power and authority from the People and its concentration in the hands of the wealthy has been an ongoing threat to real civilization for all times. That movement is demonstrated by such examples as the EU's attempts to go around the defeat of its proposed Constitution (Which ignored the Faith base to its culture), the substitution of administrative-bureaucratic rules for laws passed by the People's elected representatives, limiting free speech and press (Even if a means of foolish expression), destruction of the culture of the small and family owned-and-operated farms in the name of "efficiency" and, according to some, restrictions on the private ownership of effective weapons as a basis of potential limiting of abusive governments.


The will to resist the criminal-terrorist ideology of Islam has all but been extinguished in Europe. Today's Europeans are so lacking in an understanding of the history of that threat that all of the sacrifices of so many of their ancestors have been wasted and they will be condemned to repeat a history of Islamic conquest as is already becoming evident in France, Spain and Londonistan.

To the citizens of such nations as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand I suggest that you carefully look about you for the same signs of impending destruction of thought, freedom, opportunity and, most of all, the one true civilization---Which WAS that founded in Western Europe.

Dangerous Compact Florescent Light Bulbs

FROM CANADA'S NATIONAL POST----I SUGGEST THAT ANY SUCH BULBS IN YOUR HANDS BE WRAPPED IN (ONLY) ONE SQUARE OF TP AND TAKEN TO A HAZARDOUS MATERIALS DISPOSAL SITE.


Steven Milloy
Financial Post

Saturday, April 28, 2007

How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour -- unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about US$2,004.28, which doesn't include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health.
Sound crazy? Perhaps no more than the stampede to ban the incandescent light bulb in favour of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).
According to an April 12 article in The Ellsworth American, Bridges had the misfortune of breaking a CFL during installation in her daughter's bedroom: It dropped and shattered on the carpeted floor.
Aware that CFLs contain potentially hazardous substances, Bridges called her local Home Depot for advice. The store told her that the CFL contained mercury and that she should call the Poison Control hotline, which in turn directed her to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
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The DEP sent a specialist to Bridges' house to test for mercury contamination. The specialist found mercury levels in the bedroom in excess of six times the state's "safe" level for mercury contamination of 300 billionths of a gram per cubic meter. The DEP specialist recommended that Bridges call an environmental cleanup firm, which reportedly gave her a "low-ball" estimate of US$2,000 to clean up the room. The room then was sealed off with plastic and Bridges began "gathering finances" to pay for the US$2,000 cleaning. Reportedly, her insurance company wouldn't cover the cleanup costs because mercury is a pollutant.
Given that the replacement of incandescent bulbs with CFLs in the average U.S. household is touted as saving as much as US$180 annually in energy costs -- and assuming that Bridges doesn't break any more CFLs -- it will take her more than 11 years to recoup the cleanup costs in the form of energy savings.
The potentially hazardous CFL is being pushed by companies such as Wal-Mart, which wants to sell 100 million CFLs at five times the cost of incandescent bulbs during 2007, and, surprisingly, environmentalists.
It's quite odd that environmentalists have embraced the CFL, which cannot now and will not in the foreseeable future be made without mercury. Given that there are about five billion light bulb sockets in North American households, we're looking at the possibility of creating billions of hazardous waste sites such as the Bridges' bedroom.
Usually, environmentalists want hazardous materials out of, not in, our homes. These are the same people who go berserk at the thought of mercury being emitted from power plants and the presence of mercury in seafood. Environmentalists have whipped up so much fear of mercury among the public that many local governments have even launched mercury thermometer exchange programs.
As the activist group Environmental Defense urges us to buy CFLs, it defines mercury on a separate part of its Web site as a "highly toxic heavy metal that can cause brain damage and learning disabilities in fetuses and children" and as "one of the most poisonous forms of pollution."
Greenpeace also recommends CFLs while simultaneously bemoaning contamination caused by a mercury-thermometer factory in India. But where are mercury-containing CFLs made? Not in the United States, under strict environmental regulation. CFLs are made in India and China, where environmental standards are virtually non-existent.
And let's not forget about the regulatory nightmare in the U.S. known as the Superfund law, the EPA regulatory program best known for requiring expensive but often needless cleanup of toxic waste sites, along with endless litigation over such cleanups.
We'll eventually be disposing billions and billions of CFL mercury bombs. Much of the mercury from discarded and/or broken CFLs is bound to make its way into the environment and give rise to Superfund liability, which in the past has needlessly disrupted many lives, cost tens of billions of dollars and sent many businesses into bankruptcy.
As each CFL contains five milligrams of mercury, at the Maine "safety" standard of 300 nanograms per cubic meter, it would take 16,667 cubic meters of soil to "safely" contain all the mercury in a single CFL. While CFL vendors and environmentalists tout the energy cost savings of CFLs, they conveniently omit the personal and societal costs of CFL disposal.
Not only are CFLs much more expensive than incandescent bulbs and emit light that many regard as inferior to incandescent bulbs, they pose a nightmare if they break and require special disposal procedures. Yet governments (egged on by environmentalists and the Wal-Marts of the world) are imposing on us such higher costs, denial of lighting choice, disposal hassles and breakage risks in the name of saving a few dollars every year on the electric bill? - Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and CSRWatch.com. He is a junk-science expert and advocate of free enterprise, and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
© National Post 2007

Freedom Of VS From Religion

In California grade school students have been required, without notice to or permission from their parents, to recite Islamic prayers and practice Muslim forms of worship. However, "California Values" (A watered down version of "San Francisco Values") do not appear (Please see the column below) to allow a teacher to post, non-denominational, materials referring to God and the Creator, even when such are based on the most patriotic statements in our nation's traditions, which traditions are approved by most Americans.

Some might consider the actions of the noted school district an actual attack on the USA and, therefore, treason. For myself, I see those actions as the ongoing attempts of members of the
Secular Humanist (Atheist) religion to suppress the religious beliefs of others.
Respectfully submitted,
James Pawlak
Tue, May 1, 2007





San Diego School District Removes "God" from the Classroom: Thomas More Law Center Files Suit on Behalf of Teacher
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Poway Unified School District, located in San Diego, California. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Brad Johnson, a respected teacher who has been teaching in the school district for 30 years. The lawsuit claims that school officials violated Johnson’s constitutional rights by ordering him to remove several educational banners from his classroom walls because, according to these officials, the banners promote a “Judeo-Christian” viewpoint.

The banners, which Johnson had displayed in his classroom without complaint for nearly 25 years, contained the following phrases: “In God We Trust,” the official motto of the United States; “One Nation Under God,” the 1954 amendment to the Pledge of Allegiance; “God Bless America,” a patriotic song considered to be the unofficial national anthem of the United States; “God Shed His Grace On Thee,” a line from “America the Beautiful,” a popular patriotic song; and “All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator,” an excerpt from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. School officials objected to the banners because they included the words “God” and “Creator.”

Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel for the Law Center, commented, “Cleansing our Nation’s classrooms of our religious heritage and history and imposing viewpoint restrictions on speech to silence such expressions advance no legitimate educational purpose. In fact, such actions undermine the primary purpose of public education: to prepare students for citizenship in our Republic.”

The lawsuit alleges that the school district violated Johnson’s constitutional rights by imposing a viewpoint-based restriction on his speech. It further alleges that this restriction “serves no valid educational purpose, is not reasonably related to any legitimate pedagogical concern, and conveys a government-sponsored message of disapproval of and hostility toward religion” in violation of the United States and California Constitutions.

Robert Muise, the Law Center attorney handling the case, commented, “It is without question that religious people founded this Nation. As a result, references to God are common in our songs, mottoes, and slogans. And it is the responsibility of our Nation’s public schools to educate students to be informed citizens. Consequently, it is the responsibility of all public school teachers, including Mr. Johnson, to educate students regarding our Nation’s history and its founding. Mr. Johnson’s educational banners serve that purpose.”

The lawsuit seeks to have the speech restriction overturned so that Johnson can continue to display his banners, as he had been for 25 years

Children Of Illegal Immigrants

If Ivan Boris Doe and Juan Batista Roe embezzle money from their employers, fail to pay lawful taxes, rob banks and on-the-street citizens and put all of their illegal gains in a trust fund for their children, are those children entitled to those funds? I think not.

If Ivan Boris Doe and Juan Batista Roe illegally come to the USA and engender children here, are those children entitled to the benefits of US citizenship? That is a debatable legal issue!

Section-1 of the 14th Amendment to our Constitution gives the rights of citizenship only to those persons under the jurisdiction of this nation. Illegal immigrants have, by their unlawful entry into the USA, avoided that jurisdiction. Therefore, they have no more rights to give the highly valued fact of citizenship to their children born here than would the above noted Ivan Doe or Juan Roe have to pass on their ill gotten gains to their children.

This concept has not been tested in the Courts; But, it should be. After all, the 14th Amendment was designed to deal with slaves who had just been given freedom and NOT immigrants.




AMENDMENT XIV
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Note: Article I, section 2, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th amendment.
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Day Without Immigrants/Latinos

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"Culturalist" Not "Racist"

Recently a local shopping mall restricted the evening hours' entry of “young people” into its facility to those accompanied by adults. There is very little doubt that this policy was directed against Black youths who are blamed (Rightly or wrongly) for disorders there or for making adult (Usually White) shoppers and staff “uncomfortable”. Some have claimed this is a “racist” action.

I ask you to pause and think along a different road. Think of the ban and attitudes behind it as “cultureist”. That is, it is a conflict between the cultures of: Order VS. disorder; Reason VS. impulse; Order's law VS. random illegality; Peace VS. conflict; Reason VS. irrationality; And, like paired-opposites. This is NOT a new understanding of these opposites as I was instructed, in a long ago Anthropology class, of the essential classification of cultures into “Apollonian” VS. “Dionysian” variations.


Yes, there is a racial component to this classification system—To the extent that in today's USA and West Africa there are a larger number of Blacks whose sub-cultures fall within the wild, Dionysian, classification. However, other races have clearly demonstrated that same capacity for disorder. Remove a Japanese male from his homeland's strict social controls and, armed or unarmed, he is likely to “go wild” in various excesses of sexual behavior either inflicting harm as in the many rapes and other atrocities by Japanese troops during World War II OR in receiving harm (ie STDs). The group hysteria of Nazi assemblies, pogroms of Russian and Polish peasants, the long ago Witch hunts of Europe and, more recently, the public demonstrations of Islamic fundamentalists all support my contention that such Dionysian behaviors is NOT limited to one race or nation.

On the other hand, the reasoned-and-controlled campaign let by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Sufi conversion of Islam into a much more (Although not totally) peaceful exhibit of Faith, the Japanese Zen commitment to self-control (Although, sometimes demonstrated in deadly combat skills) and too many others are evidence of a strong Apollonian theme across differences in race and nation.

These differences can also be clearly heard in the differences in music as between the controlled dignity of Sufi and Plain Chant (Or, Winton Marceles' jazz) VS. the too common (In all senses of the word “common”) “ganstra rap” noise inflicted by and upon too many. In the visual arts this difference is most publicly seen between the paint splashing of some “modern” artists or “taggers” and the disciplined renditions of those who paint the story telling murals on public walls or show other, ordered, forms of drawing and painting (Or, as in my jewelry making). In literature, this is seen by the differences between the structured forms of poetry and the essentially random noises engendered by the lazy descendants of the “beat generation”.

The Dionysian lack of order and law can also be seen in too many of our high schools where some students lack any understanding of ordered thought (And behavior) to the extreme extent of calling in equally lawless friends or relatives to participate in mini-riots when confronted with their unacceptable behaviors. [To some extent this is a matter of not receiving what was once called “education”, which involved parental training in good manners and politeness---Especially to adults. However, the noted and horrid behaviors, along with poor academic performance, appear to be as much a matter of age beyond about 11-years, hormones and shifting from a family-based culture to the “pack” references of same aged youths. Literary examples of this “pack” culture include "A Clockwork Orange" and "Lord Of The Flies"---Both of which used White children or youths as “horrible examples”.]

That lack of commitment to ordered thought is also all too evident in the academic world where the immediate gratification of the approval of like-thinking (If “thinking” is the correct word) peers overcomes the need for critical and real thinking---As, I am sorry to write, is now becoming evident even in the physical sciences (eg Climatology and medical research) almost to the same extent it exists in schools of education, the social “sciences” and the liberal arts.

The same applies to the worlds of journalism and politics to such an extent as make it unnecessary to provide examples here.

Although I usually attempt to provide possible solutions to problems, here I am very unsure as to what to put forth. Perhaps, there is a need to insist on the following sequence in all institutions of our society: FIRST, provide order by such means as is necessary---Including the immediate suppression of all who would physically harm others; Then establish AND enforce such laws as will tend to secure order; Then, and only then, attempt to achieve justice, love and charity for all.

"Gun Free Zone" Defined

"GUN FREE ZONE": A "Free Fire Zone" or "Killing Field" established by "politically correct" politicians, educational administrators or others for the benefit of armed, evil or insane, criminals to be free of effective resistance to their murderous efforts.

Equitable Immigration Laws

It is well past the time when we should "adopt" (In the fullest sense of that word) the following laws as to immigrants into the USA.
There will be NO bi-lingual education programs in our public schools.
There will be NO ballots written in languages other than English.
All government business will be conducted only in English.
Foreigners will NOT be allowed to vote in our elections no matter how long they have lived in the USA NOR will they ever be able to hold public office.
Foreigners will not be allowed public welfare or health care services or any other like drains on public monies or services.
Foreigners will be allowed to invest in US companies if, and only if, that investment is 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
Foreigners will not be allowed to own water front property even if they become naturalized citizens.
Foreigners will NOT be allowed to publicly protest the actions and officials of our government and violations of this rule will result in their instant deportation without hearings.
Illegal immigrants will be hunted down by both police agencies and the military and sent to jail when captured. Attempts to flee such officers or soldiers may legally result in their being shot to death under a "law of flight" provision.

HARSH RULES? Yes! But, they are the rules Mexico applies to foreigners within its jurisdiction. Why should we not borrow those laws from our sister republic and apply it to its citizens (And those of other nations) within our borders? In an era when our own Supreme Court is relying upon foreign court decisions and laws, that seems fair and equitable.

Fair Notice On Gun Bearing In Buildings

In those states with laws sane enough to trust the People to keep and bear arms, anyone who opposes the exercise of that right in such places as university campuses, should be required to post the notice below on the doors of all buildings and internal rooms. At the least, such notice would give the lawful occupants of those places some fair notice of their status as inferior to the below-names persons.

The same notice should be required, for the same reasons, on the doors of all businesses which so restrict the rights of their customers and on the doors of the residences of all who wish guns kept out of their homes.


WELCOME TERRORISTS

ALL COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL OR VIRGINIA TECH STYLE SHOOTERS, MOHAMMEDEN JIHADISTS, “GANG BANGERS”, RAPISTS, ARMED ROBBERS AND OTHER LIKE VICIOUS CRIMINALS SHOULD TAKE NOTE THAT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS, LICENCED TO CARRY CONCEALED WEAPONS, HAVE BEEN FORBIDDEN TO BRING THEM INTO THIS OFFICE OR BUILDING. THE POLICE WILL NOT ARRIVE UNTIL SOME TIME AFTER THE SURVIVORS, IF ANY, SUMMON THEM.

Causing Death By Brain Removal: Babies, et. al.

I am not a pacifist. I believe that citizens' deadly force can and must be used to prevent the murder of innocents when the civil authorities fail to do so. Therefore, rather than have some "doctor" kill almost born infants by removal of their brains, I would much rather that the brains of such criminals be removed by the inter-cranial passage of high velocity rifle bullets.

The same use of force should and must apply to on-campus or at-work or on-the-streets shooters AND the insanely enthusiastic followers of Islam at any place-and-time where the police or military are not both immediately present and willing to immediately use all force necessary to protect the innocent

Real Education

I am old enough to remember when (Especially in the American South and for both Blacks and Whites) anyone who was discourteous (Especially towards their elders) was described as “uneducated”. Telling some parent that his/her child was, in that sense, “uneducated” then brought forth shame and severe corrective measures---Towards the child in question.

Alas, now such a comment would not even be understood by most and, if comprehended, yield anger (If not physical attacks) against the critical speaker---And no civilization building reeducation of the child or adult truly at fault.

Alas, our hyper-sensitive, victim-based, no-fault and politically correct schools, parents, media-persons and politicians refuse to really “educate” our children—And themselves.

Some Questions On The Morality Of Killing

Below you will find some “situations-and-questions” which go to the heart of the morality of killing under a variety of conditions. Your reasoned responses to the questions raised below will be very much welcomed.

ASSUMPTIONS
To avoid “legalistic” problems or objections, please assume the following.
1.That I live in a State which allows certain citizens to have permits to carry concealed
firearms;
2.That I have such a valid permit'
3.That I am a “very good shot” with the weapon(s) I carry; And,
4.That I have my concealed firearms loaded with ammunition which will NOT go through a target and endanger other persons.
5.That attempting to wound or disable by gun shot is likely to result in injury to others as such shots too often miss their target.
6.That law enforcement officials are NOT on the scene and might not arrive for 15-plus minutes (As to Items A-C below; OR, Refuse to take action to prevent the noted events as to those or the other situations even though notified of such).
7.For those of a Jewish or Christian point-of-view, the Commandment reads: “Thou shall not murder”.
8.“Morally” = “Ethically”.

SITUATIONS & QUESTIONS
A. I am passing a school play ground and notice a large dog, foaming at its mouth, snapping and threatening the children there. Am I morally justified in firing at that creature even though there might be a minute risk of injury to some child or other person?
B. I am in a shopping mall and there is a person slashing at others with a machete or shooting randomly at other persons. Am I morally justified in shooting that person down, without warning, so as to prevent death or great bodily injury to others?
C. I am walking down a street and notice a mob actually attacking a building with torches. Am I morally justified in firing into that mob to protect any occupants of that building OR fire fighters who would be summoned from the danger of death or great bodily injury?
D. Dr. John Doe is known, as a matter of fact, to perform very late term abortions where the brains of the unborn child are sucked out of a head already in the birth canal. He is entering his office building were such actions are performed. The civil authorities will do nothing to stop him from such killings. He has been formally warned to not perform any more such “procedures” but has refused to stop doing so. Am I morally justified in shooting him down to stop his performing any more such abortions?
E. Mohammed Roe is known, as a matter of fact, to be a supporter of and considerable financial contributer to an organization which sends money and other material support to terrorist organizations which use such funds and resources to kill and injure innocent persons. He has been formally warned to stop doing so but continues in such activities. The civil authorities have been informed of his activities but will not stop him from supporting such terrorists. Am I morally justified in shooting him down to stop his support of terrorism and, thereby, the deaths of or injuries to innocent persons?

Global Warming, Mars, True Believers & Al Gore

Recent, usually buried in back pages, stories have presented the evidence that there is "global warming" on the planet Mars. That information has generated much thought, debate and attacks by the Faithful.

However, what is most interesting is the reaction of the True Believers in the religion of Global Warming to that story, which was to come up with every anti-heresy invention possible and impossible to the human imagination. The primary such fatwa appears to be that the global warming on Mars, unlike the claimed massive effects of human behaviors here, is wind driven dust storms---Without noting that such a change in wind is likely to be driven by increased solar heat.

To resolve this debate, I suggest that we send Mr. Al Gore and a party of his famous followers to Mars to investigate this on the base of their great scientific knowledge.

UK Outlaws Religious Teaching

It has been reported that the United Kingdom has passed into law a prohibition against any school teacher presenting the position that homosexual behavior is immoral. This certain applies to private as well as government operated schools and may very well be directed at Catholics, Evangelicals and other traditional Christians. It appears to be binding on Muslims (Though I doubt that any UK authority would bring actions against them) and traditional Jews.

I assume that the next step in the UK will be to prohibit newspapers and magazines from publishing such positions or teachings, to be followed by forbidding ministers-of-religion from proclaiming such from their pulpits. After that, the usual step in such a Nazi progression is to forbid any teaching, at any level of instructions, or publication or speech which goes against the Government's positions on any matter.

It should be remembered (Especially by editors, publishers, elected officials and, most specially, our Federal Judges) that the only thing that stops this tyranny from being imposed in the USA is the Bill Of Rights which specially protects freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the right, too often ignored, to "freely exercise" religion.
[The Second Amendment is the club which keeps judges and other public officials from going too far from the protections of the other parts of the Bill Of Rights.]

The Sacremental Road To Civilization

Those who forget that the whole system of universities and the entire progress of Western Civilization are based on Catholic-Christianity should attend to the column below---Even if those schools have become, in large part, degenerate cesspools of wrong teachings (Including too many operated by the Society of Jesus) and Western Civilization has become too lacking in moral strength to effectively resist even the foolish evil of Islam and Secular Humanism

COMMENTARY
April 4, 2007
The roadmap
It seems I accidentally wrote an interesting column on Sunday; at least, judging from mail. (It’s like the monkeys with the typewriters: you never know which monkey is going to write Hamlet.) My piece was a recollection of the moment in my late-1960s adolescence when -- as it struck me then, and still strikes me -- all the principles and assumptions and certainties upon which I’d been raised, turned upside down around me.

My correspondents have fallen into two broad generational classes.

In the first class are my contemporaries, or older people, many of them indulging nostalgia. They recalled the same “inversion experience,” from around the same time (the late 1960s). I compared it to being aboard a ship that didn’t sink, but capsized. They compared it to many other things. But in common, from all accounts, was this sense that our world had indeed rotated, that the submerged “hippie culture” below us had somehow come out on top. And those in schools, at least those who were reasonably intelligent, further noticed that academic standards, as well as mere dress codes, suddenly collapsed, almost everywhere. Social discipline evaporated. Foul became fair, and fair became foul.

The second class are much younger, often around the age of my children. They are, mostly, discontented students of today, trying to explain to themselves why their parents’ generation was such a dead loss -- spineless, empty, hopeless, directionless. They are vaguely aware that something awful happened around the 1960s, but do not know what.

Their instincts, and often their book-reading tells them there once was a robust and self-confident “Western Civilization”; that it ruled the world; and that at its heart, for all its flaws (which their teachers keep stressing) it exalted the good, the true, and the beautiful. That it produced the greatest literature, art, and music; the greatest science, philosophy, and theology the world had known. That this civilization was unambiguously Christian. But now they sense only jackals, circling while it dies; and the fatalism of their elders.

I shouldn’t think these two groups -- let me call them “the oldies” and “the youffs” respectively -- are representative of the general population. They are representative of my readers. And even from those, I am excluding hecklers: the many correspondents who are eager to insult me, but have nothing themselves to say.

The youffs are wiser than the oldies. They are often rather naïve, or poorly educated, but the breath of defeat is not on them.

Almost invariably, the oldies write in complete misunderstanding of what I was saying, even though they think they are agreeing with me. They mention some pet event that happened in the world as if, “That was the end.” But my whole point was, no single event could be named; that outward events were merely symptomatic of a larger inversion of values, that had been coming about for a long time -- the dusk of decadence, gathering for decades.

Let me now quote an articulate young reader -- from Ottawa, born in 1984 -- to speak for the youffs:

“I for one, although young and idealistic, and much desiring to be a gentleman, have less idea than I would like as to how to go about such. And, even if I can do so (which is the main thing, I suppose) is it possible to set our civilization back upright? ... We did not, of course, get into this state suddenly. What comes first if we wish to reverse some of this? Is there any sort of roadmap?”

Now that is worth answering. And I think it can be answered in less than a column.

Especially in this Holy Week, we must realize that we are speaking of difficulties beyond our making, and of resolutions beyond our imagining. For those who were the builders of our civilization, as for those who may be the rebuilders, the task was and remains beyond the work of human hands. At the centre of the whole project was redemption in Christ.

The biggest single thing any individual can do, is to re-embrace that centre. He must endeavour less to change the world, than to change himself. And necessarily, to ask for the grace of God in doing so. For the project is no less than to rebuild Christendom: the foundation of the West. And this can only be done in human souls. The buildings and the clothing, the art and the music, that mysteriously hopeful view of the universe -- these things are outward reflections of what is wrought in human souls.

I believe the answer begins in personal conversion; in reading and thinking as deeply as we can about reality, and about our history. This requires courage: for you will be mocked. I would hold that the “roadmap” exists, in the Bible and the teachings of the Church and her saints. And that, while reason is our guide, the road is essentially sacramental.

David Warren
© Ottawa Citizen

Those Who Do Not Study History----Again

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it" (Attributed to George Santayana). Those generals who do not learn that the usual is to fight today's battles with the tactics weapons of yesterday--And, that does not result in victories form one group of such failed students as are the doctors who fail to understand that the antibiotics of yesterday do not work on the bacteria of today.

However, the bigger examples are in geo-political matters. Except when forced tot he wall Westerners fail to understand that compromises with evil men, or half-measures rather than destroying them, is a blue print for failure. This was true as to Neville Chamberlain's compromises with Adolf Hitler and the UN's (Useless Nations') failure to fully destroy the power of Saddam Hussein in the first Iraq War.

The failure of the West to learn from the 1400-year history of Islamic aggression and deceit is the classic example of being forced to repeat history by a failure to learn from it. Any rational person studying the history of Islam will easily come to the full understanding that the goal of Islam is to make all humanity submit to it AND that the approved-Islamic techniques to do so include murder, revenge, rape, genocide, terrorism, robbery, lying, deceit and, more recently, assuming the false role of "victim-hood".

The core of the Islamic danger is in the "true believers" (Please see Eric Hoffer's The True Believer) of the Saudi family/government (They are the same), a government which produces and distributes most of the hate literature in the world and allows its citizens to support international terrorism under the guise of "Islamic Charity".

Of course, for ediors to be able to integrate the above in their policies and editorials requires them to study honest history. To publish editorials based on that study requires courage. THE SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR THE POLICIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT AND ITS LEADERS.

The Economics Of Stem-Cell Research

If, and only if, embryonic stem-cell research were truly a "hot" investment opportunity, our domestic drug cartels (Excuse me, pharmaceutical companies) would be falling over their corporate feet in efforts to buy new "lines" of such cells and to conduct private research, protected under our trade secret laws, in efforts to develop very profitable cures for the various diseases which some claim to be achieved through such efforts.

However, the scientific and economic facts are that there is NO proof that embryonic stem-cell research offers any such opportunities. Therefore, most and responsible businesses are leaving such wastes of money to governments (So well known for waste) and to those universities which worship at the altar of the false gods of academic (Unproven but politically correct) theories.

If, and only if, embryonic stem-cell research were relatively safe and essentially immune from law suits for causing cancers and other horrid side effects, such private companies would feel much freer to involve themselves in such studies.

However, the legal and liability risks are such that responsible to stockholders executives are avoiding the John Edwards' type of civil suits and prefer to "allow" the government or usually public universities (We tax payers) to take the liability risks of such efforts.
[Since many attorneys are willing to risk much to collect more in law suits, it might be of interest to some of them to see if those who fund universities are really immune for damages caused by applications of embryonic stem-cell misadventures through the actions of their agents, such schools.]

Once A Marine, Always A Marine

There is a well known saying: "Once a marine, always a marine!".

However, Congress-Critter John Murtha has raised, by his white flag waiving, some real doubts as to the validity of that maxim--As applicable to him. Perhaps, to be charitable, his age and contagion from the DNC have caused him to forget what really is a marine.

On the other hand, it is hard to determine just what kind of services he performed in the USMC as he refuses to unconditionally open his service records leaving us in the dark as much as Senator John Kerry and for the same reason.

So, before you place too much value on the words of the various "surrender monkeys" on the left, you should have the full facts about their military services--If any and if true

Another Downside To Abortion & "Gay" Marriage

It has been brought to my attention that there is yet another "downside" to unrestricted "gay" marriage and abortion.

If we allow men to marry men, women to marry women and anyone to kill unborn babies at their pleasure, after two or three generations there will be no more Democrats or other progressive-secularists.

What we will have left is very traditional Christians, Jews, Muslims and Mormons. Now, wouldn't that be too bad?

Whites As Racists ?

Someone finally said it.
How many are actually paying attention to this?

There are African Americans, Mexican Americans,
Asian Americans, Arab Americans, Native Americans, etc.
And then there are just Americans.

You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.
You Call me "White boy," "Cracker," "Honkey,"
"Whitey," "Caveman" .. And that's OK.

But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger,
Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink ... You call me a racist.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you,
So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King
Day. You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. You
Have Yom Hashoah You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi You have the NAACP.
You have BET.

If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) .. We'd be racists.

If we had a White Pride Day .. You would call us racists.

If we had White History Month . We'd be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to "advance" OUR lives ..
We'd be racists.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of
Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships
... You know we'd be racists. There are over 60 openly proclaimed
Black Colleges in the US , yet if there were "White colleges" .
THAT would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching
For your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights,
You would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're
Not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride ..
You call us racists.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer
Shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug-dealer running
From the law and posing a threat to society .. You call him a racist.

I am proud.
But, you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists?

Military Commissions & Justice

The military commission established to try the assassins of President Abraham Lincoln had them executed. The secret military commission established by President F. D. Roosevelt did the same to the German saboteurs who came to the USA by U-Boat.

The tribunals established to try Nazi war criminals had no problems having them hung or shot.

Will the military commissions established to try such persons have the same courage and commitment to justice when it comes to trying such terrorists (Unprotected by the Geneva Conventions) as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?

We should all hope so!

Apologies For US Black Slavery---NOT

There appears to be some mindless legislative lurching towards formal apologies for slavery in the USA. This plays into the dirty hands of such professional Blacks as Jessie (The extortionist) Jackson, Al (The Liar) Sharpton and Michael (The Threat) McGee, Jr., who would keep other Blacks in mental slavery by directing them backwards in time rather than to their critical present and doubtful future.

As an American of Polish decent and if I chose such a backwards mental slavery, I would be asking the governments and peoples of Germany, Austria and Russia apologies and reparations for their partitioning of Poland for too long a time. As a Christian I really should ask all Islamic nations, most specially Saudi Arabia, for apologies for the armed takeover of so much of once Catholic Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the 300-years following Mohammed---And, for all of the atrocities enabled by the hate-filled teachings of the Koran since that time and to today.

If the Blacks of the USA seek for apologies, they should ask them of the above-noted professional Blacks (NOT Black professionals), "Gangstr Rap" producers and singers, gang-bangers found on every Inner-City street corner and "politically correct" professors---Who all contribute nothing positive to either Black culture, Black life or the place of Blacks in this democracy. They might ask apologies of those current government officials (I will NOT call them leaders) who refuse to seal our border with Mexico and thus add more drugs, crime, untreatable diseases and job-stealing to the too great burden of Black Americans.

In fact too many Blacks in the USA should apologize to the Non-Blacks here for their disproportional committing of crimes, use of limited social service, overcrowding of jails and prisons, waste of our limited school resources by anti-learning attitudes, demands for unearned places in colleges and like offenses against the common good of themselves and all others.

Yes, study history to help avoid repetition of prior errors; But, look to the present and future as the best way of improving our world and personal lives.

The Term "Phobia"

The term or suffix "phobia" is used too widely and much too incorrectly in such words as "homophobia" or "Islamophobia".

As far as "Islamophobia" is concerned, the following quote should and must be noted.
"A phobia is defined in Webster''s dictionary as an "inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of subjects, or situation". Fear of Islamic extremism and its potentially catastrophic consequences is not inexplicable or illogical. It is a rational reaction to dangerous, irrational people who would use weapons of mass destruction to bring about their apocalyptic vision." (From Joseph Klien's "Playing The Islamophobia Card"; FrontPageMagazine; March 5, 2007)

I suggest that we all now substitute (In our daily use and in newspapers' "style books") the term "Islamoforia where the "foria" derives from the Greek and denotes a state of being-on-guard---Which is the proper response to Islam and Muslims---Who appear to have a "religious duty" to destroy our culture and civilization.

Most persons have no "fear" of (Male) homosexuals. Their usual, natural and reasonable response is the same variety of disgust that is usual to "biting into an apple and finding half of a worm" or being served rotten meat in a restaurant or any like reaction. Therefore, I suggest the same sort of substitution, for "homophobia", of the term "homoaidia" where the "aidia" derives from the Greek for disgust or revulsion.

The Future Of A Democracy

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of count ies won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percen t of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Black Reparations ?

BLACK REPARATIONS: FROM WHOM? TO WHOM?
By the United American Committee | March 5th 2007

Researchers have reportedly found evidence that the ancestors of Al Sharpton may have been owned by the ancestors of Democrat-turned Dixiecrat-turned Republican Strom Thurmond. This is an interesting, albeit ironic, possibility.

We are now hearing demands from descendants of West African Americanized slaves claiming reparations. Who should be responsible for paying those reparations? And who should receive them? First, what about an American Black U.S. citizen who is not a descendant from American slaves, such as Barak Obama, or others who immigrated to the U.S. from other countries? Clearly, they have no stake in this matter. Now, for those who truly are descendants of West Africans who became slaves in America, just where should their demands for reparations be directed?

Let it be said that no living black Americans have been slaves in America. It is also safe to say that no living white Americans owned slaves. In fact there are probably far more living Americans whose ancestors fought and died to end slavery because they found it ugly and absolutely abhorrent. Approximately 700,000 Americans died in the Civil War to bring an end to slavery.

So who is responsible for slavery? Some ill-informed people tend to blame it all on American southern plantation owners and ignore the role of British, Spanish, and Portuguese merchants who bought slaves and transported them to the Americas for resale. Some want to blame it on those middle-men slave merchants and slave ship owners and ignore the role of those who first seized free Africans, dragging them from their homes to be sold to the middle-men.

And just who were those at the bottom of this ugly supply chain? Who seized free men and women and forced them into slavery in the first place? History tells us in almost all cases they were Arab Muslim slavers whose religion, Islam, decreed that the taking of slaves of those they conquered is approved by Allah; A lawful reward for striving to carry out Allah's edict to his believers to force all people and all nations into Islam (submission); a doctrine which still prompts conquest, subjugation, terrorism and slave-taking today.

Some political leaders of former slave states have taken steps to apologize and to try to make some amends for this horrid but now long-abolished-in-America practice. True, without plantation owners there may have been no slave ships sailing to our shores, but as we take a closer look at the history of slavery, we see this interesting truth: it was mostly Arab Muslims who had been actively engaged in the practice of seizing and selling human beings into slavery for centuries. So, the real....the original slavers (and still in the business today) are Muslim slavers who seized and enslaved not only black Africans but also white Europeans, brown Indonesians, and olive-skinned people of India, Persia and the Mid-east.

Al Sharpton's ancestors were in all probability captured and first made slaves by Arab or Black MUSLIMS. Yes, they were eventually bought by plantation owners who needed strong healthy males and females capable of sustained hard work under onerous conditions. Those slaves at least found conditions and the courage within themselves to survive, and even raise children, their descendants now living as free people, some in America.

The same was not so for many millions of slaves of various nationalities who were captured. Often Arab Muslim slavers didn't want to deal with whole men. Eunuchs were more valuable. Many unfortunate victims were often mutilated in a most barbaric and savage manner in castration stations established along the slaver's routes. This practice continues in sub-Sahara Africa to this day. These acts were not clean and surgical. They were performed with dirty knives, and more of the victims died than lived, and still die horribly today, in Mauritania, in the Sudan (Darfur today, and who knows where next) and everywhere in between.

In lieu of reparations, our political, religious, educational, and business leaders need to not only demand, but take real steps to end the vicious ugliness of slavery and human subjugation today and for all times wherever this ugliness takes place.

And our black descendants of American slaves might more appropriately direct their demands for reparations to states of the Muslim world which first seized and enslaved their fore bearers. They might also consider that, had that not happened, they might today be living in an impoverished African nation, and themselves at risk of being enslaved tomorrow.

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This article was authored by the following writers with the United American Committee: Jim Horne, Al Rawley (Commander, USN Ret.), Jesse Petrilla, & Ted Hayes.

The United American Committee is a leading educational group dedicated primarily to awakening the nation to the threats of radical Islam, and works to educate Americans on the nature of Islamic extremism. Its mission is to protect America by fighting the ideological aspects of the War on Terror.
More information on the UAC can be found at www.UnitedAmericanCommittee.org

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Reformation OR Revolution ?

At the time of Martin Luther the Catholic Church had become very, very, corrupt. Notwithstanding the many fine people in that very international organization who led moral lives, some of whom recognized the corruption problem and made efforts to correct it, there were too many who preferred to be "cozy" with the "powers that be", the sources of wealth-and-power or misused the law of that time to oppress others and to increase corruption.

A great part of the contributions of the Faithful were diverted into the pockets of those evil persons.

This, as our history books, tell us, lead to the "Reformation" and "Counter-Reformation", along with bloody wars and the destruction of the Faith of the People in what had been the core values and organization of their ancestors and own lives.

The People of the USA are well towards losing Faith in their governments and in those in power in or about them. They see open corruption in state capitols, city halls and Washington, DC. They know there is much more corruption just or well out of sight. Open "contributions" will buy approval for gambling casinos, open border practices-and-policies (To the harm of the poorest in this nation), highway building and military contracts, immunity from the need to bid on government contracts for the purchase of pharmaceuticals and too many other example to list here.

Much of our tax moneys are diverted into the pockets of evil persons.

The Faith of the People in democracy as a core value in their lives and world is fading.

The choices for those in power are clear: They can either reform themselves and our governments or have reformation imposed and inflicted upon them---Perhaps by "fire and sword". Perhaps that is why so many "liberals" oppose the rights of the People to keep and bear arms. On the other hand "conservatives" appear to be of the opinion that the People are "harmless": So did those ultimate conservatives King George III and Lord North. (We know better!)

Sudden Jihad Syndrome

There is a new disease popping up in the USA and other lands. It is (Or, should be) called "SUDDEN JIHAD SYNDROME". The carriers of that too often fatal-to-victims disorder are such as Mohamed Hassan Hadeyet who, on 7-4-02 left a note reading "Read The Koran" on the door of his apartment, went to the Los Angeles Airport and murdered randomly selected persons. Other carriers of this horrid disease are the highly educated Muslim man who attempted to use his 4X4 to kill students at a US college and the Muslim youth who very recently killed several persons at a Utah mall.

These are the carriers; The real victims are, of course, those they killed, the friends and relatives of those real victims and the entire People of the USA and the other civilized lands where this disorder is progressing from isolated outbreaks to endemic occurrences. (It must be stopped before it becomes epidemic!)

At this time, it appears that SJS occurs, in the USA, only in Muslim males who meet the following pre-conditions: They study the and Koran the other works of Islam; They compare the success of a largely Christian culture with the non-accomplishments of Islamic nations; And, they compare Mohammed (A bandit, murderer, liar and sexual abuser of a nine year young girl-child) with the examples of Jesus, Washington, Lincoln and so many others who made the USA great---And, express their dissatisfaction by going on a personal and sudden jihad with the intent to kill as many non-Muslims as possible.

In the year 1492 Spain has a similar disease rampant in its Southern areas which was "cured" by expelling all Muslims from the Iberian peninsula. Since our relevant public health officials (The police) seem unable to prevent outbreaks of this disorder in the USA the only responses to this fatal disease appears to be to either follow the Spanish example of 1492 OR allow all law-abiding US citizens to carry concealed weapons so that they may apply the necessary public health measures (Well placed shots with frangible bullets) upon local outbreaks and carriers of this disease.

Loving Atheists, Muslims, SPs & The Like

Could you believe it? There are some "folks" who actually maintain that I do not love Atheists, Muslims, Secular (Anti-Christian) Humanists and others of that ilk.

I so love even the worst of them (Jihadists, abortionists, those who warp the minds of our children by Anti-Christian/Anti-Religion educational programs) that I wish them only well when I wish to send them out of this world and before the Judgment of God asap and before they commit any more sins to the harm of their own souls and the well being of others---Especially both born and unborn children AND other innocents as the victims of Islamic terrorism.

I wonder what that Doctor of the Church, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, would have thought of my position as he proclaimed the need to use the sword against the pagans (Who worship the false gods of murder, rape, revenge, genocide, robber, perpetual war, etc.) of Islam. In fact, I wonder what the Christ, who strongly suggested tying a mill stone around the neck of those who harm children and throwing them into the sea) would have thought about my positions.

Ultimate Defense Of "Academic Freedom"

When attacks on "academic freedom" become physical and mob actions (As at San Francisco State University and Columbia U.), then would the Natural Law and Statutory provisions for the use of such force as is necessary (Including deadly force) be to resist and supress such attacks when speakers (Or those who are with them) believe that they are in danger of death or great bodily harm?

Do such speakers (Or, their on-site supporters) have a duty to accept physical violence against them in the hopes of some eventual police or judicial or university action (Which has proven a false hope in the past)?

As for myself and my walking stick, my reaction to such mob attacks would be measured in "dead and wounded" among the attackers.

Bike Helmets & Body Parts

I have no objection to (Motorized or otherwise) bike riders going about without wearing helmets---If, and only if, laws are passed to make such action an automatic (And not revocable by rider or family) offer of body parts for transplants and other medical uses when such persons are declared brain dead after an accident. (As opposed to their being brain dead for not wearing a helmet)./Jim Pawlak


Decider Rider
By Reid Collins
Published 2/20/2007 12:06:08 AM
"I make the decision, this is America for God's sakes."

Thus spake a retired fire chief in Montana as motorcyclists lined up in the state capitol to oppose a legislative proposal to mandate the use of safety helmets for cyclists in the Treasure State. Fire chief Ralph Elrod needn't have worried. The proposition was tabled in committee, 15 to 2, the latest failed attempt to bring Montana in line with 20 states that have mandatory helmet laws. Twenty-seven states, Montana among them, do have laws requiring such head gear for minors under 18. And three states have no such laws. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lists them as Colorado, Iowa, and Illinois.

A state senator declared the Montana matter to be "an issue of freedom," not surprising perhaps for a state that only recently acceded to installing a speed limit on its highways. Not even an amendment allowing those with at least a hundred thousand dollars in medical insurance to ride helmet-free could clear passage, but it holds a clue to the motivation of those who want to curtail the fire chief's freedom to decide. The traffic safety folk say helmetless cycle riding costs money-- and frequently it is public money. And hospital groups were among those leading the pleading for a helmet law.

NHTSA estimates helmets saved $1.3 billion in 2002 alone and that another $853 million would have been saved if all involved in fatal crashes had been wearing helmets. Figures show fatalities rising faster than motorcycle registration: 2,116 deaths in 1997, 4,553 in 2005. The NHTSA folk say helmets saved 1,316 cyclists in 2004 and if all wore them, another 671 could have lived. In short, helmet use, they claim, reduces likely crash fatality by 37 percent.

All the compelling statistics from the government files, and those adjacent in the nursing association notebooks, fail to take into account the psychology of "bike" riding. It is not done for reasons of safety. That tinnitus-inducing roar speaks of something else; that cervical-snapping acceleration treats of another time. The appeal is to adventure beyond reach of many, and alien to most.


Reid Collins is a former CBS and CNN news correspondent.

T. Roosevelt, Tokyo Rose * Peaceniks"

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In 1915 the USA was in the midst of a debate as to its role in opposing the aggressive warfare of the Empires of Germany, Turkey and Austria-Hungary. On August 25, 1915 ex-President Theodore Roosevelt appeared (In full "Rough Rider" dress) before a group of college students after their military exercises with US Army troops and complemented those students for "fulfilling the prime duty of free men" who were, as he continued, "...unlike those professional pacifists, poltroons and college sissies who organize peace-at-any-price societies."

There appears to be a great difference between Teddy Roosevelt and Teddy Kennedy---That difference is in the personal courage of Mr. Roosevelt on military duty in Cuba and giving a Milwaukee speech after being shot AND as opposed to "Fat Boy" who, unlike his older brothers, avoided military duty, left a young woman to drown and is in the process of stabbing our present troops in the back (With the support of too many of his Party) while they fight terrorism.

It appears that Mr. Roosevelt also had to contend with the white flag waivers of his day as Mr. Bush and our troops do today.

"TOKYO ROSE"

She had the best music on her station and most people just laughed.

Tokyo Rose During World War II -- the Japanese developed a way to
demoralize the American forces. Psychological warfare experts developed a
message they felt would work.

They gave the script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and every
day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways,
hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale.

What was that demoralizing message? It had three main points:

1. Your President is lying to you.
2. This war is illegal.
3. You cannot win the war.

Does this sound familiar?

Is it because Tokyo Hillary, Tokyo Harry, Tokyo John, Tokyo Teddy, Tokyo
Nancy, etc. have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on
Tokyo CNN, Tokyo ABC, Tokyo CBS, Tokyo NBC, etc., to our troops?

The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they
demoralize them.

Come to think of it, Tokyo Rose told the troops she was on their side,
too!

Come to think of it, "Tokyo Rose" was later found guilty of TREASON!
Some of the above-named imitators might consider that fate AND the great anger felt by our troops in the field and those of us who support them.

NO Separation Of Church & State !

The Constitution of the United States does NOT contain the expression "separation of church and state". It does contain Prohibitions against any federal law restricting the "free exercise" of religion and, likewise, of free speech. The provision against the "establishment" of a (State or official Federal) religion was to prevent the type of established churches (Church of England or the Scots Kirk) as had taxing and the ability to use the civil law of Great Britain at that time to enforce its own theologies and practices on others---And, for no other restrictive reasons.

The use of Christian symbols, prayers and speech in the public schools (When they were established much later) and in all public forums was expected, legal and not challenged until very recent and degenerate times.

If Thomas Jefferson's use of the term "wall of separation", in a private letter, means so much, then the many expressions of many founders of this Nation as to (At worst) "Nature and nature's God" and (More usual) "Almighty God" in their public statements and documents should carry much more weight in forming up our reaction and personal-and-judicial positions as to the place of religion in the public square or court houses or the public schools or any other public forum.

This is all our elected officials, judges, editors and other citizens need to know about the Constitution and religion.

Recruiting Young Republicans

I do not know the source-author of the little story below;
But, it may be the same person who defined a liberal as
"Someone who hasn't been mugged yet".

RECRUITING YOUNG REPUBLICANS

A young woman was about to finish her first year
of college. Like so many others her age, she
considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat,
and was very much in favor of the redistribution of
wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a
rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly
expressed. Based on the lectures that she had
participated in, and the occasional chat with a
professor, she felt that her father had for years
harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he
thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his
opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the
addition of more government welfare programs. The
self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her
professors had to be the truth and she indicated so
to her father. He responded by asking how she was
doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that
she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was
tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a
very difficult course load and was constantly
studying, which left her no time to go out and party
like other people she knew. She didn't even have
time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many
college friends
because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, "How is your
friend Audrey doing?"

She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she
takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she
barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus;
college for her is a blast. She's always invited to
all the parties, and lots of times she doesn't even
show up for classes because she's too hung over."

Her wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you
go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0
off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has
a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and
certainly that would be a fair and equal
distribution of GPA."

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's
suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be
fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I've
invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work!
Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree.
She played while I worked my tail off!"

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently,
"Welcome to the Republican party

MItt Romney & The Mormon Elders

There has been too much written or spoken to the effect that the Elders of the Mormon Church will have an undue influence on a Presidient Mitt Romney. Those Elders are likely to have as much influence over Mitt Romney as the Bishops of the Catholic Church had over the Kennedys---None.

As a Catholic, I can reasonably hope that Mr. Romney's personal standards of morality are better than the Joseph (Best friend of gangsters), John F. (Back staircase) and Ted (Drown Them And Leave Them) Kennedys.

The Rule Of Law OR Of Lawyers???

RULE OF LAW OR OF LAWYERS

One of the pride-filled statements of those who live within our
Anglo-American systems of government is that we live “not under the rule of men, but that of laws”. More-and-more I wonder if that is true. Each year it appears that we live under the “rule-of-lawyers” and not within any other structure or constraints.

Our laws (Including “rules” and “regulations”) have become so many, so complex and so convoluted that it is all but impossible to carry out even daily tasks without paying (Or paying off) some lawyer. This is most specially true in the production of real goods and services so basic to the economy. (Perhaps, the real economic advantage of such nations as Japan and China is their relative lack of attorneys.)

It is hard to think of any class of persons, in the USA who produce less for and drain more from the real economy than do lawyers. (Even stock brokers, as a smaller group of persons, do less harm that those, too often self-serving, agents and abusers of the law.) Lawyers, in fact, craft our laws, rules and regulations and, as far as I can determine, make an effort to do so t in such a manner as to ensure the full employment of other attorneys.

[One of the worst abuses inflicted on the People of the USA is that trial attorneys, especially in “class actions”, all too often suck up most of the judgments awarded.]

After all, attorneys already control one of our three branches of government (The judiciary) and should not have a lock on controlling the legislative or, even, the administrative branches of government.

There are some possible solutions, among which are:
1.Pass a Constitution amendment making, after ten years from approval, the prior possession of a law degree a disqualification to hold any legislative position in the Congress or the legislatures of the Several States;
2.Pass another amendment limiting the total number of words in
the laws, regulations and rules of the Federal government to ten million (At ten characters/numbers for each word; With like restrictions (With a smaller limit) for the governments each of the Several States);
3.Require, by whatever means, that all such laws, rules and regulations be “passed” by the majority of a jury of randomly chosen citizens, none with a law degree, as understandable to persons of average intelligence and education;
4.Require that, in all lawsuits, the attorneys on the “winning side” are not to receive more than 40% of the moneys awarded as fees or for costs of legal actions;
5.Require that all settlements made in our civil courts be made public even if such are made before a verdict is given;
6.Shut down all Law Schools for not less than five-years (To eliminate the current excess of lawyers and to adjust for the solutions above), And,
7.Require that the “loser” in suits-at-law pay the costs and attorneys and other fees of the “winner”; And, that any person who fails to do so would be barred from further suits for 20-years (However, awards made by arbitrators or referees would not be so regulated as the cost in such case are generally far less than in court cases, require the agreement of all parties and are not a burden on our courts and, therefore, our tax payers).

Of course, there is the alternative represented by a theme in one of Robert E. Heinlein's novels, referred to as “The Year We Killed All The Attorneys”.

Standing Orders To Protect The USA

In order to fulfill his oath-of-office as to defending the USA, the President should (Must?) issue the following standing orders to all Border Patrol members and military (Regulars, National Guard and, if ever used, the "General Militia") within one mile of our border with Mexico.
1. Unarmed persons illegally entering the USA are to be
immediately returned across that border using such
force as is necessary to to so.
2. Armed persons crossing our border are to be fired upon
without warning as invaders.
3. Any attacks from across that border are to be resisted and
the attackers destroyed.

I do not believe, based on the evidence before us, that any lesser directions will protect the USA from drug smugglers, members of
very dangerous Latino gangs (Many of whom previously deported), potential terrorists, bearers of untreatable and contagious diseases (eg Drug resistant TB), identity thieves, Pancho Villa style raiders and the other criminals now flooding across that border.

Jesus, Swords & Humanity

Jesus the Christ was a lover of humanity. That is clearly shown by His healing, casting out of demons (Real of psychological—Take your pick), feeding the multitudes, making glad the hearts of the wedding guests by turning water into fine wine and the other like acts of His public ministry on this earth.

Most of all, He offered Himself to a horrid and most painful death to be the
Salvation of humanity!

In doing so He forbade his followers from interfering, by use of a sword, from having others place Him under arrest. This special case of stopping the use of a sword was necessary for the promises of God to come into being.

However, Jesus also demonstrated His love of His followers by insisting
(Please see Luke 22: 35-38) that they arm themselves with swords (The
AK-47s or AR-15s of that time and place) before going out on the unpoliced and dangerous roads in that land.

Defining A Good Liberal/Secular Humanist

Martin Selznick wrote:

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iran , China and North Korea .
4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUVs.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but PETA activists do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
12. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
13. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln.
14. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
15. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
16. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
17. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.

GOD BLESS AMERICA
Oops, can't do that either

Tattoos & Smoke

About 55-years ago I visited my mother at her place-of-employment and noted a rough tattoo of numbers on the arm of one of her co-workers. I later found out that that lady was one of the too few survivors of Nazi death camps who lost all of her immediate and extended family in such places; THOSE LOST SOULS BECOMING SMOKE IN THE SKY—Out of the chimneys of crematoria.

She, as a few others, were rescued by the Allied Armed Forces of that earlier and superior generation who defeated Nazi, Imperial Japanese and foolish Italian forces and liberated a good part of the earth from the horrors and slavery imposed by the Axis nations.

For the last 1400-plus years Islam has imposed its own horrors and slavery on all non-Muslims (And, some Muslims who interpret Islam differently from others). The so-called “War” in Iraq and Afghanistan is only the most recent battle against those who use the ideology of Islam to enslave and terrify (In the fullest sense of that word) others.

Now that at least one Islamic nation (Pakistan; Which always teeters on the edge of an internal take over by those basic Muslims who favor Jihad over reason) has the A-Bomb and the Mullah driven government of Iran is on the verge of having such weapons (With the declared intent of destroying the State of Israel), we must consider what should be done to prevent our becoming SMOKE IN THE SKY—In mushroom clouds.

The days of waiting for a “Pearl Harbor” as moral cause for reaction as self-protection are over! It is necessary to consider and plan for a preventative military action to keep Iran from starting an atomic war. My suggestion is to send them, via ICBM some inert warheads to their uranium processing centers---With the message that the next warheads will be “live rounds”.

Other supporters of basic Islam, as is the Saudi government/family, can be then reminded that the cities of Mecca and Medina can become glass lined and radioactive craters.

Better that they should go up in smoke than us.

Economics 202--Tax Cuts Explained

Tax Cuts Explained

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner and the bill for all ten comes to $100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20."

Dinner for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to eat their meal.

So, the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too.
It's unfair that he got ten times more than me!"

"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for dinner, so the nine had to pay the bill. They discovered something important. They didn't have enough money among all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.

In fact, they might start eating overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, PhD Professor of Economics
University of Georgia

Candidates, Gun "Controls" & Repeating History

Let us be very, very, honest with such "leading lights" as New York's Mayor Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani, those who blindly support the corrupt UN (Unneeded Nations), Hilary Clinton and the Democrat Party leadership (As well as some RINOs) that our American Revolution began with THE GOVERNMENT attempting to seize arms held by citizens. It happened then and can happen again!

Those anti-Constitution banner carriers should recall that many of the individuals who supported such tyrannical acts were coated with tar and feathers and provided other encouragements to leave this nation. It happened then and can happen again.

Dispatches From Londonistan

Society
Undercover Mosque

Broadcast: Monday 15 January

A Dispatches reporter attends mosques run by organisations whose public faces are presented as moderate and finds preachers condemning integration into British society, condemning democracy and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers.

Prime Minister Tony Blair recently described tolerance as 'what makes Britain Britain' but in this extensive investigation Dispatches reveals how a message of hatred and segregation is being spread throughout the UK and examines how it is influenced by the religious establishment of Saudi Arabia.

Dispatches has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But an undercover reporter joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached.

He captures chilling sermons in which Saudi-trained preachers proclaim the supremacy of Islam, preach hatred for non-Muslims and for Muslims who do not follow their extreme beliefs - and predict a coming jihad. "An army of Muslims will arise," announces one preacher. Another preacher said British Muslims must "dismantle" British democracy - they must "live like a state within a state" until they are "strong enough to take over."

The investigation reveals Saudi Arabian universities are recruiting young Western Muslims to train them in their extreme theology, then sending them back to the West to spread the word. And the Dispatches reporter discovers that British Muslims can ask for fatwas, religious rulings, direct from the top religious leader in Saudi Arabia, the Grand Mufti.

Saudi-trained preachers are also promoted in DVDs and books on sale at religious centres and sermons broadcast on websites. These publications and webcasts disseminate beliefs about women such as: "Allah has created the woman deficient, her intellect is incomplete", and girls: "By the age of 10 if she doesn't wear hijab, we hit her," and there's an extreme hostility towards homosexuals.

The investigation reveals that the influence of Saudi Arabian Islam, Wahabism, extends beyond the walls of some mosques to influential organisations that advise the British government on inter-community relations and prevention of terrorism.

The Dispatches reporter attends talks at mosques run by key organisations whose public faces are presented as moderate and mainstream - and finds preachers condemning the idea of integration into British society, condemning British democracy as un-Islamic and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers.

Undercover Mosque features interviews with moderate British Muslim figures who are speaking out against the influence of Saudi Arabia's extreme brand of Islam, which is seeking to overturn Islamic traditions of diversity and peaceful co-existence: "We are losing our children to extremists," says Haras Rafiq of the Sufi Muslim Council. Dr Al Alawi of the Islamic Heritage Foundation also warns: "If this continues, you will have extremist mosques in every corner of the UK. You will not have moderate Muslims walking on our streets anymore."

MECCA DELANDA EST-----------------------DEUS VULT

New Telephone Tree Greeting

Subject: NEW TELEPHONE GREETING


New Telephone Greeting.

Wouldn't it be pretty amazing, if this caught on, all over the country...?

"GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES"

"Press "1" if you speak English." "Press '2' to disconnect until you can.

History-PoliSci-Economics 101

BY MAKING THE BELOW BETTER KNOWN YOU CAN SAVE MANY THE COSTS OF EXPENSIVE, UNIVERSITY, COURSES IN HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS.

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals; and
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. *_That's how villages were formed._*

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is *_known as the Conservative movement_*.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. *_This was the beginning of the Liberal movement._*

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. *_The rest became known as girliemen_*.

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.

Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history: It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it. A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to piss them off.

Poli-Sci/History Lesson RE: Weapons

Columnists / News Columnists / J.D. Mullane
Even blue states love guns

Bucks County Courier Times
It didn't take the gun guys long to spot me wandering among the tables at the Gun and Knife Show in Bristol Township.
Once confronted, I was certain I would be bounced from the place. To them, I am “the media.”
Gun-rights defenders feel toward media the same way a blue-stater feels toward George Bush.
Yet, they let me stay.
“Write whatever you want,” said Bob Sarb, a show organizer. “But we never feel we get a fair shake from you people.”
I spent a half-hour among 200 tables of guns and ammo, as well as knives and long blades that appeared capable of cleanly lopping off the head of your common infidel.
I made my way back to Sarb, who was selling raffle tickets for a Harley motorcycle and a .50-caliber gun signed by Ted Nugent.
We chatted about law, order and gun rights. I told him I had been to Washington, D.C., last week to see the swearing in of the Congress and was in the company of many happy Democrats. Two were engaged in a lively discussion of gun rights.
The pair concluded that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee any Joe Six-pack the right to keep or bear arms. They agreed the Second Amendment is really about arming militias, that is, the government armed forces.
Sarb chuckled.
“They should look at Pennsylvania's Constitution and what it says about guns, because it is clear what we are guaranteed,” he said.
He quoted from article 21 of the Commonwealth's Constitution, which was drafted in 1790 when most of the Founding Fathers were still living: “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defence of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.”
“Shall ... not ... be ... questioned,” Sarb repeated to me.

I was unaware that the right to gun ownership in this state was so unambiguous. What, are we gun nuts? Or just plain-spoken on the matter?
It made me wonder what other state constitutions ring as clear. I checked. Here's the red state of Texas:
“Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defense of himself or the State; but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.”
Texas aims to “regulate” arms? I thought they were all shoot-em-up cowboys down there.
What of the constitutions of the blue New England states? Certainly they would be as regulatory as Texas.
Maine, Art. 1, sec. 16: “Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned.”
Vermont, Ch. I, Art. 16: “That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State. ... ”
New Hampshire, Part I, Article 2a: “All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.”
Connecticut, Art. I, sec. 15: “Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.”
Rhode Island, Art. I, sec. 22: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Massachusetts, Pt. I, article 17: “The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence.”
What, are they all gun nuts up there? Or are they just —well, you get it.

Walking With Tyrants

In Truth---All it takes to correct the misbehaviors of tyrants is a short walk
with them---13-steps up and one step down.

Perhaps, we should apply the same corrective walk with those who are tyrants
in our inner-cities.

Worshiping Embryonic Stem Cell "Research"

It most strongly appears that the support of human embryonic stem cell research is a form of religious worship based on faith and not on science. All of the “main stream” journalistic and scientific writers push forward that such research will, most certainly, provide cures for MS, MD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease and, for all I can tell, dandruff and many persons' (Including myself) inability to dance.

Yet, such research (When applied) appears to have produced nothing but cancers and such other horrid neoplasms as masses of hair and teeth growing in inappropriate parts of the body.

Basing some projection of useful medical uses, from human embryonic stem cell research, in the face of such facts is truly a matter of religious conviction and not of a scientific statement of probability.

Yet, research based on adult and placental stem cell sources have produced positive, medical, results---Which are too often ignored by the same persons who continue to push their religion of embryonic stem cell research. Of course, it is common for priesthoods to ignore or suppress competing schools of thought---Which appears to be the mechanism at work here.

For those of a religious orientation, there appears to be little difference between the support of destroying human embryos for such irrational purposes and the self-declared “worship of death” claimed by some of the more radical Islamic teachers as basic to their religion.

For those who claim reason, logic and science as their guides in this world (And still push human embryonic stem cell “research”—If that is the correct term), I say shame-on-you for supporting a religion in the guise of science. That shame extends to too many journalists, politicians, general academics and, most specially, self-described “scientists”.