I'm certain now...

...that the Democratic Party has fully embraced and endorsed the idea that we cannot win in Iraq. In order to kow-tow to the lunatic fringe of their party, the leaders of the party MUST get us out of Iraq as quickly as they can.

Thus, be warned: No matter how successful our redesigned and reconfigured efforts in Iraq prove to be, the Democrats and their shills at NBC/CBS/CNN, et al. will not permit any positive news to make it to the public. They HAVE to have failure and they will now do anything - and I mean ANYTHING - necessary to leave Iraq by the election in November of '08.

Ladies and gentlemen, I greatly fear that we have already lost in Iraq because half of our body politic wants us to lose.

I am at a loss for words to describe my rage at this treachery. But, at the least, I will not be silent about this treasonous behavior.

I am most outraged that John Murtha, the traitor-in-chief, is from Pennsylvania. I can only pray that he dies before he gets any more of us killed by terrorists. May God damn him to eternal torment.

What if...

What if it takes ten years, 1.5 Trillion dollars and 7,000 American lives to establish a stable, democratic Iraq?

What would we get for our expenditures?

An example that every democratic reformer in the middle-east could point to and say "there is our future". A working Iraq would pose a mortal threat to Iran's 'Mullah-cracy'. It would also prove that the Islamic middle-east is capable of and ready for a democratic form of government. This would serve as a catalyst for change throughout the region. Peace with Israel would finally have a chance and the area currently most likely to see the start of the Third World War would be remade into a stable, prosperous region.

THAT would be worth every penny and life - because down the line, the number of lives saved which otherwise would have been lost to terrorism or outright warfare will dwarf the numbers we see today.

A stable Iraq IS worth the cost and I can only hope that we do not repeat the mistakes of 1968-1974 by giving up when we could have won and repudiating our former ally.

The costs to us if we give up in Iraq will be enormous. We will be back there within ten years - losing a lot more people.

Let's do the right thing, now.

What did I tell you?

Nanna Philly, not content with banning smoking and keeping trans fats out of your life is now considering mandating hand sanitizers at government and school buildings.

If anyone still has any doubts that people in government - at all levels - believe that they can run your life better than you can and are going to run it better FOR YOU, think hard about this.

How long before someone introduces a bill to outlaw McDonalds? Think I'm kidding?
I give it one year.

dijya ever notice...

The very same people who wail, gnash their teeth and stridently declare that the U.S. has no business trying to improve the world - to rid it of Islamic fundamentalism and to make it safe for us are the very same people who sit around and demand that the U.S. gummint make the playing field level for some, guarantee an income for others, tell us what to eat (no trans fats), ban smoking (without actually "banning" it) and make sure that nobody makes more money than THEY feel is appropriate?

These people cannot even spell, let alone define hypocrisy - but they're bound and determined to run this country. God save the republic.

Remember today

Today, the City Council of Philadelphia is likely to vote to ban the use of Trans Fats within the City of Philadelphia.

Let us remember:

In 2006 City Council banned smoking in interior public spaces.

In 2007 (probably) City Council will ban the use of Trans Fats in the preparation of foods sold in the City of Philadelphia.

Everyone knows that had they been able to, they would have banned the sale and possession of handguns in Philadelphia.

I want everyone reading this to ask themselves what is going to be the next tiny little bit of your freedom to be taken away from you - for your own good.

If you think that smoking and Trans fats are 'unusual' and that the council will stop banning things, think again.

This is but a taste of what the people inside City Hall have planned to make you healthier, thinner and generally more like their idea of a perfect citizen. If you don't like it...tough. This is for your own good - and since you obviously don't know what is good for you, we are going to make you do what's good for you - because, of course, we know better.

Between this and the militarization of the police force, I am going to stock WAY up on ammo.

You won't read this in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Affirmative Action is the name given to the social program of preferential treatment for Americans of African-Slave descent.

In the minds of those who created and enacted it, it was a method for both restitution and accelerated rehabilitation for the entire "Black" community. In theory and in practice it was a good idea. I say "was" because it is no longer so. It is, today, a terrible weight around the collective neck of the entire United States of America. The problem is with a phenomenon known as "The Law of Unintended Consequences".

After decades of being helped and praised and promoted ahead of everyone else, the "Black Community" AND the political class in Washington came to expect that they would not be criticized, that they had only to shout "Racism!" and stick their hand out and they'd get whatever they wanted.

The improvement in the political and economic situation of the descendants of African slaves in the United States since the second world war is nothing short of miraculous.

But human nature is unchanged. No intellectually honest person would dispute that, at its root, “Affirmative Action” is reverse discrimination. And when a group gets power over another group, it will do most anything to maintain that power. The rationale in 1964 was, "We are going to use discrimination for you rather than against you. We’re going to set you up with superior rights in order that the ‘playing field’ will be level." That still teaches discrimination. Just as the time-honored “peculiar institution” of the ante-bellum South taught people that slavery was part of the natural order of things, so today do we have a sizeable group of people who believe that the wrongs of slavery can never be erased and thus the peculiar institution of never criticizing the black community can never be ended. With economic freedom and opportunity better than anywhere else on this planet, sizeable portions of the black community are stuck in a holding pattern of relative poverty. When someone like myself starts to ask questions about why this is so, he is shouted down and told that he does not have the right to talk about it. This a right only the “black community” possesses. They have been given that superior right and they are using it just as Bull Connor used the superior rights of the white community fifty years ago. White people who dare to question the orthodoxy are labeled racist – the 21st century equivalent of being “uppity”.

The rapidity of achievement of descendants of African slaves in America has vindicated the use of “Affirmative Action”, but, I believe that the point of diminishing returns was reached twenty years ago.

African Americans use the word “nigger” with abandon. But let a white person use it and that person will be viewed as little better than a pedophile. “Racism” is the most dreaded term in America today – but whites aren’t allowed to define it. They can only beg forgiveness when they are accused of it. Think about that: while it may be materially different than having to step off the sidewalk when a white person passes, the mindset behind it is exactly the same. Are we trying to overcome racism or just give everybody a shot at it? That’s a fair question.

The damage done is not inconsequential. O.J. Simpson was let off by a predominantly black jury NOT because he was innocent, but because the members of that jury felt that his acquittal would somehow make up for past injustices. The three members of the Duke Lacrosse team who were wrongfully charged with rape were tried and convicted in the press and in academia because it was seen as poetic justice, making up for past misdeeds by whites. In both cases (and many others) Justice was never the issue, revenge was. Ironically, the very people willing to prejudge these kids would tell you unhesitatingly that revenge is not the way to redress wrongs.

One of the gravest dangers is in the idea that some are not entitled to question the actions of others. What we see today in the “Speech Codes” on many college campuses is the codified superiority of certain classes. Woe betide the student or faculty member who makes another feel “uncomfortable” or in any way demeaned. This is quite simply the cancellation of the First Amendment and the establishment of an untouchable political class. Worst of all, unlike the suppression of civil rights in the U.S. after the Civil War, this is happening with the enthusiastic support of the vast majority of Americans. Recent polls have indicated that many (most?) black people believe that whites are racist. What is the difference between that belief and the belief that blacks are lazy? Both prejudices spring from irrational beliefs. And both spring from an unchallenged orthodoxy.

And lest we think that it does no harm to those who benefit from this new superiority, consider this: The black communities in many American inner cities have suffered a complete cultural and moral collapse. The result is a river of blood that sweeps away thousands of young black men every year. Yet we dare not question the true origins of the problem. The “black community” can’t because that would be to admit that there exists a problem not caused by white racism, but in fact caused by the unchallengeable nature of the current dogma. Ask yourself what happens to white commentators who ask out loud if "gansta rap" and hip-hop "culture" are dangerous? Are they not dismissed as racists? The white community dare not say anything for fear of being labeled racist. The end result is that band-aid approaches are tried. Foremost among these is “Gun Control”. The right to keep and bear arms is rightly considered my many to be the bedrock upon which our liberties rest. Nevertheless, in the name of political correctness - born of “Affirmative Action” - we are going to smilingly surrender our own liberties and not even gain the goal we profess to seek.

The pendulum has gone from one extreme to the other – and now it is time for it to find the middle.
It is time to admit that discrimination based on race is wrong, period. Even when it is reverse discrimination designed to help those previously injured by its mirror image. It is time to say to descendants of African slaves, "you are our equals. What racism remains can never be used to oppress you again and will be overcome through the education of our future generations. Now it is time for you to step up and embrace the responsibilities that go along with your hard won rights." To not do so will only engender a new form of racism born of the perceived unwillingness to carry your share of the load.

Some who read this will call me a racist and write me (and my ideas) off out of hand. Some who read this will enthusiastically agree with me out of their own racist attitudes. The people I want to reach are the ones who will ask themselves, "Is he right?" and then go on asking questions.

My Hero

It has been said by others, so I do not wish to claim originality or credit for it, I merely wish to reiterate that George W. Bush is my hero.

I cannot think of another President since Lincoln who was so vilified, so condemned, so HATED as this man.

In a time when political chameleons like Bill Clinton are praised as great statesmen, someone with a back-bone of steel is surely going to be viewed as an ideologically driven madman.

When strength of conviction is seen as proof of idiocy, we are in perilous times, indeed.

He has, by no means, been perfect...BUT...as Jay Nordlinger of National Review has put it, we shall not see his like again for a long time. Love him or hate him, we will look back and wish for someone with whom you know where you stand.

I firmly believe that historians will look back at the year 2007 as a watershed: the year that human civilization moved decisively forward - or retreated headlong. At this writing, my money is on retreat.

May God bless and keep you Mr. President.

What could happen

It is generally acknowledged that the majority of those who constitute the armed forces of this country are Caucasian, Christian, Capitalist people from middle America - what the liberal elites call "flyover country".

What is happening right now is that the socialist elites from the fringes of America and their propagandists in the main stream media are doing everything in their power to see to it that we lose the battle in Iraq. What will happen if we lose in Iraq is that we will also lose in Afghanistan and we will be forced onto the defensive in the war against religious fundamentalism.

What I foresee as not only possible, but in fact likely is this:

If we surrender in Iraq, it will be a repeat of our craven actions in Vietnam, where we were close to victory, but decided to lose instead. As with Vietnam, the loss will originate from – and be carried out by - the Socialist/Democrat Party. This will infuriate the armed forces because this time, our enemies will follow us home - and to every corner of the world. They will force us to withdraw from world affairs and to withdraw from the world economy. This will result in a cataclysmic economic collapse here in America – and throughout the world.

The Socialist/Democrat party will demand further socialism and power to alleviate the economic hardships that they caused. This will be met by opposition from “flyover country”. When these new policies fail – and are resisted by the people, our ruling political class will order the military to impose its policies on the populace. The military – comprised of those who were forced to capitulate against their will and those who still revere the Constitution and the capitalist system, will repudiate its solemn pledge to remain a-political and will enter politics in an unmistakable fashion in order to re-establish the rule of the Constitution.

We will have the second American Civil War. This time it won’t be North and South, but rather Left and Right.
Think: Spanish Civil War.

The Right will win and we will have a period of Military rule until the Constitution and its attendant institutions can be restored to their rightful role and primacy.

Dullards like Ted Kennedy will be packed off to a harmless house arrest for the rest of their lives – or perhaps banished from the U.S., while authoritarian fifth-columnists like Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton will be tried for their crimes.

I estimate casualties close to the number suffered 1861-1865.

Ayn Rand’s got nothin’ on me.

The real reason behind it

When the New York Times recently opined that Florida's relatively liberal (in the original sense of the word) concealed carry laws were allowing "criminals" to obtain permits and that the lunatic legislators (along with, of course, their Stygian masters at NRA headquarters in Virginia) who allowed this law to come into being should be ashamed of their willful abetting of not-yet-committed murder, I was again puzzled about why a thoroughly discredited and hugely unpopular policy like "Gun Control" was again featuring on the To-Do list of the American Socialist Left.

After much cogitation and evaluation of recent political events I am convinced that "Gun Control" is the "Great Obstacle" to the success of Socialism in this country. The New York Times editorial staff knows that "Gun Control" has never and will never positively impact crime. What it will do, however, is remove the power to resist from those over whom the Editors and their political masters would rule.

"Gun Control" swept through Europe in the aftermath of the First World War and the economic upheavals of the nineteen-twenties and thirties. It is generally acknowledged that the laws were passed not to combat crime, but to prevent the arming of political factions opposed to the status quo.

With all the anecdotal evidence we have today, it snaps the back of credulity to argue that “Gun Control” is to protect the people. Combined with the recent assaults on free-speech (embodied in the McCain/Feingold Act) and property rights (a la the Kelo decision), it is beyond chilling to consider what a gift a disarmed populace would be to the ascendant Political Class in this country.

The Constitution of The United States is dead. It has been for over seventy-years. The only thing standing in the way of authoritarian Socialist rule in this country are 30,000,000 gun owners who will not go quietly into that good night.

If the government succeeds in its incrementalist approach to undermining the idea of self-defense against all enemies foreign and domestic, the United States will be over. As it is, our liberty hangs by a slender thread.

I will not meekly submit to the rule of people like Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer - or for that matter Jerry Falwell.

Don’t Tread on Me.

And now, as a famous blogger likes to say, “I’m off to the range”, just to piss off Diane Feinstein and Hillary Clinton.