Idiots

Whoever runs this site believes in slavery, apparently. Subjugation at the very least:

http://www.governmentisgood.com/index.php

Let's Talk to Iran

I stole this from James Taranto, and it's worth stealing. Gives you some idea of how fucked up so many American's minds are, especially the "Educators":

Next week Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's Holocaust-denying president, who has said that "Israel must be wiped off the map," will be in New York for the U.N. General Assembly session. As the titular leader of a U.N. member state, Ahmadinejad is entitled to visit the city for this reason. But he is not entitled to something else he received, namely an appearance to speak at Columbia University, where he will be introduced by none other than Lee Bollinger, Columbia's president.

Yesterday Bollinger put out a statement defending his decision to authorize the event, and it was filled with high-minded rhetoric:

"Columbia, as a community dedicated to learning and scholarship, is committed to confronting ideas--to understand the world as it is and as it might be. To fulfill this mission we must respect and defend the rights of our schools, our deans and our faculty to create programming for academic purposes. Necessarily, on occasion this will bring us into contact with beliefs many, most or even all of us will find offensive and even odious. We trust our community, including our students, to be fully capable of dealing with these occasions, through the powers of dialogue and reason."

But there is one little problem here. As Bill Kristol points out:

"As Columbia welcomes Ahmadinejad to campus, Columbia students who want to serve their country cannot enroll in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Columbia. Columbia students who want to enroll in ROTC must travel to other universities to fulfill their obligations. ROTC has been banned from the Columbia campus since 1969. In 2003, a majority of polled Columbia students supported reinstating ROTC on campus. But in 2005, when the Columbia faculty senate debated the issue, President Bollinger joined the opponents in defeating the effort to invite ROTC back on campus."

The original decision to kick ROTC off campus was the product of 1960s anti-Americanism, but the ostensible reason the policy continues is objection to the law, signed by President Clinton, that prohibits open homosexuals from serving in the military. Apparently some ideas are so odious that they are unworthy of answering "through the powers of dialogue and reason."
So, what is Ahmadinejad's regime's policy on homosexuals in the military? We don't know, but according to Human Rights Watch, Iran is not a terribly friendly place for gay civilians:
On Sunday, November 13, the semi-official Tehran daily Kayhan reported that the Iranian government publicly hung [sic] two men, Mokhtar N. (24 years old) and Ali A. (25 years old), in the Shahid Bahonar Square of the northern town of Gorgan.

The government reportedly executed the two men for the crime of "lavat." Iran's shari'a-based penal code defines lavat as penetrative and non-penetrative sexual acts between men. Iranian law punishes all penetrative sexual acts between adult men with the death penalty. Non-penetrative sexual acts between men are punished with lashes until the fourth offense, when they are punished with death. Sexual acts between women, which are defined differently, are punished with lashes until the fourth offense, when they are also punished with death.
If the U.S. military executed homosexuals instead of merely discharging them, perhaps Bollinger would welcome ROTC back to Columbia.

Hillaryous

Black dude Walter E. Williams points out the absurdity (and racism, frankly) of the way Hillary Clinton attempts to connect with blacks by taking on a "black" manner of speaking:

“’I don’t feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don’t believe He brought me this far,’ drawled presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton, mimicking black voice to a black audience, at the First Baptist Church of Selma, Alabama. I’m wondering if Mrs. Clinton visits an Indian reservation she might cozy up to them saying, ‘How! Me not tired. Me come heap long way. Road mighty rough. Sky Spirit no bring me this far.’ Or, seeking the Asian vote she might say, ‘I no wray tired. Come too far I started flum. Road berry clooked. Number one Dragon King take me far’.” —Walter Williams


Brilliant man, Mr. Williams is. Of course, she wasn't really being a racist and looking down her nose at black people. She thinks everyone is inferior to her.

I Wonder...

First, a great quote that I just read, then I ramble:

“At the birth of our nation our uniquely American society had a very clear grasp of the concept of good and evil, of bad and good, of what was right and what was wrong. Individuals and organizations who transgressed the boundaries of the evil, the bad or the wrong were expected to pay a price for their misdeeds. Today, through the employment of the perverted and contorted logic of moral relativism anything can be rationalized and anyone—even if they are the purveyors of evil—can be a victim. All that our ‘enlightened’ society expects from those who commit even the most monstrous of societal transgressions is ‘an apology.’ The sad part about this reality is that because our society has become morally relativistic there is no threshold for how sincere that apology has to be.” —Frank Salvato

Now, ain't that the truth? If the Michael Vick imbroglio has reinforced anything in my mind, it's that a whole hell of a lot of people have fucked up belief systems. Vick being a prime example. I will refrain from condemning (note - I couldn't help it, I do so later) him or going on about what I think of his actions. You can read that anywhere and frankly I was a bit sick of hearing about it on day two or so. Yeah, it was a huge sports as well as a news story. But I quickly grew tired of the whole thing on sports radio. I do sports for entertainment, not hard news.

Don't take this wrong. What the Vick deal showed me yet again is that there are a lot of people that care more about animals than people. How many times in the last ten years have you seen sympathetic news coverage of some convicted murderer? You can literally brutally slaughter innocent people, spend time in prison, say the right things, and after the passage of time people will line up to defend you. Tookie Wilson, anyone? Karla Faye Tucker comes to mind. Here is her story. As her date with the needle approached, there were dozens and dozens of syrupy news stories making her out to be a victim. You know the template: She had a rough childhood, was abused, did drugs, hung out with a rough crowd, and later repented and became a born-again Christian. Hey, all of the above applies to me as well. I never took a pick axe to anyone. So many people wanted her spared for a variety of reasons. Have you seen a similar onslaught in defense of Michael Vick? I mean, a couple of athletes stuck their feet in their mouths, but there has not been this big outcry for forgiveness for him.



Hey, let's have some perspective here. He killed dogs, not people. The same type of person that was calling for KFT's pardon is probably the person that is calling for Vick's execution.



Oh, and spare the hate mail. I have a point and it is not that Vick should be forgiven. Personally, I am really hoping that the Judge drops the hammer. I hope the bastard loses his wealth and has to get a job. I'd like to see his sorry ass in the Arena League and maybe even Arena 2 where they make a few hundred a week. I want to see him brought down as much as anyone, I know his type, he's a despicable human being. Clear?



I wonder if, as time passes, Michael Vick will have a similar response from the public? You know, the coddling from the press, the leniency advocacy groups. He already did the apology and religion thing. Whoopi Goldberg (side note - Is that the best piece Ted Danson could score? Good Lord. He was a star! She must have some killer pussy or something.) showed her ass on national TV when she basically threw the entire South under the bus, saying something about dog fighting being "cultural" to the South. So, basically you have to understand where he came from, these backwards assed people down there... but that's a different subject.



Synopsis to this point: A lot of people have fucked up belief systems and rationalize their contradictions in a lot of ways. They make excuses for people that have done evil things to other people and freak out when someone does evil things to animals. (We will see if the same happens to Vick over time.)



So now we are at the reason I started this post to begin with.



A lot of political types have used the strategy of attacking the war in Iraq by saying it distracted us from getting Bin Laden. These people, Democrats, have been saying this for years. Fair enough question, whether it is true or not.



I cannot tell you haow many times I have read things from some rank and file type person where they are parroting, almost word for word, what some "leader" has said. Left or right politically. Internet posts, letters to the editor, whatever. Sheeple.



So many people have a visceral, irrational hatred of George W. Bush that they will use any argument to try and defeat him in some way. One of the things that has come up is the death penalty, especially in Texas. Savage, we are. And that just points to how inhuman Bush is! SEE!!!



I wonder.



What would those people suggest we do with Osama Bin Laden should we capture him?

Bad Ass Marine

Freestylin' is not my bag, but this is pretty fucking cool:

Bad Ass Marine

Also...

I forgot a couple of things in that last post. Re-read this part from the article:

"During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts."

Hmm. sounds like something John Kerry once said, doesn't it? That would be Senator Kerry from 1971:

American soldiers "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, cut off limbs, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan...."

I'm willing to grant the possibility that the writer of the previous article, Lt. General Pacepa, tailored his statements to bolster his argument. But to say that is to say that he is lying about what he witnessed at the time. I'm not willing to go that far. For one thing, he never mentions John Kerry by name. He only states the content of the propaganda that they were spreading.

So, either Mr. Pacepa tailored his article to enable us to draw our own conclusions about John Kerry or John Kerry bought into the propaganda Pacepa spread. I'm going with the latter conclusion. That's one Useful Idiot that damn near got elected President.

Speaking of Useful Idiots, how about that Marxist, Hillary Clinton? You know, the presumptive Democrat nominee. You know what she did recently? She followed a nurse around to learn what nurses do.

Let that sink in a moment. She followed a nurse around to learn what nurses do.

That whole thing was staged of course. Staging events for political advantage is as old as, well, politics. I can't fault her or her campaign for that. What drives me nuts, especially with the Clintons, is the way their staged events have always seemed to talk down to us all, the great unwashed. The unsophisticated hayseeds that need to be taken care of and whose behaviors need to be directed by the Smart People. I mean, everyting they have ever done is so fake, and they think we buy it. Sadly, I suppose their supporters do. Examples: Bill visits the beaches of Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day. It wasn't enough for him to say a few things and look Presidential. He had to set up phony photo ops. Team Clinton had someone throw some rocks down ahead of time so he could solemnly form them into a cross. Only rocks on the whole fucking beach just happened to be right there. Later, he encountered a grave with an American flag in front of it. Sadly, the flag was toppled. He solemnly righted it and planted it anew. Thing is, an aide pulled the fucking flag up beforehand so he would have the photo op. The press ate it up. Just like they did every other bit of his phony bullshit.

That type of thing gives you an insight into their mindset. They think most Americans are malleable fools. Just show us some pretty pictures and OOH! Unfortunately they may be right.

If you think I despise the Clintons, you are correct. The only reason is that they despised me first. I actually considered voting for the son of a bitch. Then I figured out what a con man Bill is. I also figured out what kind of person Hillary is, and it's not a pretty picture. The both of them are Marxists philosophically. They share common goals and hold most people in contempt. They lust for power in a very unhealthy way. They would love to be dictators - they know better than you how to run your life. They really believe that.

So Hillary follows a nurse around and gets glowing press coverage. Some reporter marveled that she actually washed dishes. Woop te fucking do. All Hillary was doing was the same thing she and Bill have always done: attempt to be something they are not to hide their true natures. Hillary washing dishes, ohh, she's so in touch!

Well, if she is so in fucking touch with us hayseeds, why the hell did she feel the need to follow a nurse around to learn what nurses do? What. The. Hell.

I think I might head over to the Jokeaday forums and start a poll: Who doesn't know what nurses do? Probably piss some people off. Oh well.

Any of you hayseeds out there reading this that don't know what nurses do? Well, if you don't, congratulations. According to Hillary you are qualified to nationalize one seventh of the U.S. economy. Hey, she tried it. For those of you that are unlearned like me, nationalize means that the government siezes private assets and property and takes control of the businesses of citizens. Legalized theft, at the point of a gun.

Speaking of stealing, the whole health care thing wasn't even where I was going with this. Watch this scary video and tell me if I'm wrong. Hillary hints at what she believes, what she is all about when she says one thing: "I would take those profits".

Think about it. "I would take those profits". Just exactly who the fuck does she think she is? Take those profits?!? What is she running for, President or Commandante?

Hey, I know who she thinks she is. I'm just trying to get you to see the same things I do.

The Soviet Playbook

The political leftists in this country love, absolutely LOVE to demonize President Bush. When called on their bullshit, they make the pretzel logic leap that "It's patriotic to criticize the government". Well, sure it is. But for elected officials to compare our President to Hitler and our soldiers to SS troops is flatly insane. Yet, they have in fact done such a ridiculous thing. And then someone like Shrillary Clinton goes out and screams, SCREAMS, "How dare you question my patriotism!" We'll, ma'am, we question your patriotism because you, by your words and deeds, undercut the interests of the United States.

Sadly, the Democrat Party leadership will literally sacrifice the good of our country for their own political ends. And lots of useful idiots with too much time on their hands eat it up and believe the insane drivel that is passed around nowadays. Example: A whole lot of people believe that the World Trade Center was a demo job. That evil Shrub planned the entire thing. Yeah, he can't tie his own shoes but he can somehow pull that off. Hell, major news networks go along with this flaky bullshit. No, you say? Why in the hell was Rosie O'Dumbshit not immediately fired for her lunatic rantings (Do a search. The stupid bitch actually said that never in history has fire melted steel as she attempted to pin 9/11 to the Bush administration.) on the subject? One of the "Big Three" networks, ABC, obviously condoned her remarks by their inaction. Yes, I realize her rantings were probably good for ratings. Just like a disaster is for the news.

That doesn't make it right. I mean, Don Imus gets fired for making "Insensitive" comments (I hear those poor girls were sooo traumatized, how insignificant they all are in history) and yet you can go on network TV and call the President a mass murderer without consequence? It's a sorry world fer sure.

People need to wake the fuck up and quit watching Survivor or American Idull and pay attention to what these idiots are doing. Put down the Ipud, the Iphony, or whatever, and fucking pay attention. Your future is at stake. And to borrow a page from people who love to raise your taxes, your CHILDREN'S future is at stake!

Personally, I am thankful when voter turnout is low. Morons don't need to be voting.

Who was it, Nikita Kruschev I believe, that pounded his shoe on the podium at the U.N. and said "We will take America without firing a shot!" His point was that they would infiltrate our society and turn people to Communism. Seems to me, given the current state of politics, that he was fairly successful. For example, how many people are dependent on government today? How many people advocate Communist ideals such as government control of industry? Healthcare, for example. Why, we have just got to let the FEDS take over!

That's what is wrong with this country and the world in general today. Every single fucking problem we have, well, why doesn't the government do something?

I guess I'm just Old School American. Leave me alone, get out of my way, and I'll take care of me and mine. Oh, and I'll help my neighbor out, too. That's just what good people do. No lines to wait in or forms to fill out that way, and there is accountability that no government agency can match.

But back to the commies. I read a very interesting article today. Seems the political left in this country is still carrying out ole' Niki's wishes:

Propaganda Redux

Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush.

BY ION MIHAI PACEPA Tuesday, August 7, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

During last week's two-day summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown thanked President Bush for leading the global war on terror. Mr. Brown acknowledged "the debt the world owes to the U.S. for its leadership in this fight against international terrorism" and vowed to follow Winston Churchill's lead and make Britain's ties with America even stronger.

Mr. Brown's statements elicited anger from many of Mr. Bush's domestic detractors, who claim the president concocted the war on terror for personal gain. But as someone who escaped from communist Romania--with two death sentences on his head--in order to become a citizen of this great country, I have a hard time understanding why some of our top political leaders can dare in a time of war to call our commander in chief a "liar," a "deceiver" and a "fraud."

I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America's own respect for its president.

My father spent most of his life working for General Motors in Romania and had a picture of President Truman in our house in Bucharest. While "America" was a vague place somewhere thousands of miles away, he was her tangible symbol. For us, it was he who had helped save civilization from the Nazi barbarians, and it was he who helped restore our freedom after the war--if only for a brief while. We learned that America loved Truman, and we loved America. It was as simple as that.

Later, when I headed Romania's intelligence station in West Germany, everyone there admired America too. People would often tell me that the "Amis" meant the difference between night and day in their lives. By "night" they meant East Germany, where their former compatriots were scraping along under economic privation and Stasi brutality. That was then.

But in September 2002, a German cabinet minister, Herta Dauebler-Gmelin, had the nerve to compare Mr. Bush to Hitler. In one post-Iraq-war poll 40% of Canada's teenagers called the U.S. "evil," and even before the fall of Saddam 57% of Greeks answered "neither" when asked which country was more democratic, the U.S. or Iraq.

Sowing the seeds of anti-Americanism by discrediting the American president was one of the main tasks of the Soviet-bloc intelligence community during the years I worked at its top levels. This same strategy is at work today, but it is regarded as bad manners to point out the Soviet parallels. For communists, only the leader counted, no matter the country, friend or foe. At home, they deified their own ruler--as to a certain extent still holds true in Russia. Abroad, they asserted that a fish starts smelling from the head, and they did everything in their power to make the head of the Free World stink.

The communist effort to generate hatred for the American president began soon after President Truman set up NATO and propelled the three Western occupation forces to unite their zones to form a new West German nation. We were tasked to take advantage of the reawakened patriotic feelings stirring in the European countries that had been subjugated by the Nazis, in order to shift their hatred for Hitler over into hatred for Truman--the leader of the new "occupation power." Western Europe was still grateful to the U.S. for having restored its freedom, but it had strong leftist movements that we secretly financed. They were like putty in our hands.

The European leftists, like any totalitarians, needed a tangible enemy, and we gave them one. In no time they began beating their drums decrying President Truman as the "butcher of Hiroshima." We went on to spend many years and many billions of dollars disparaging subsequent presidents: Eisenhower as a war-mongering "shark" run by the military-industrial complex, Johnson as a mafia boss who had bumped off his predecessor, Nixon as a petty tyrant, Ford as a dimwitted football player and Jimmy Carter as a bumbling peanut farmer. In 1978, when I left Romania for good, the bloc intelligence community had already collected 700 million signatures on a "Yankees-Go-Home" petition, at the same time launching the slogan "Europe for the Europeans."

During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.

The final goal of our anti-American offensive was to discourage the U.S. from protecting the world against communist terrorism and expansion. Sadly, we succeeded. After U.S. forces precipitously pulled out of Vietnam, the victorious communists massacred some two million people in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Another million tried to escape, but many died in the attempt. This tragedy also created a credibility gap between America and the rest of the world, damaged the cohesion of American foreign policy, and poisoned domestic debate in the U.S.

Unfortunately, partisans today have taken a page from the old Soviet playbook. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, for example, Bush critics continued our mud-slinging at America's commander in chief. One speaker, Martin O'Malley, now governor of Maryland, had earlier in the summer stated he was more worried about the actions of the Bush administration than about al Qaeda. On another occasion, retired four-star general Wesley Clark gave Michael Moore a platform to denounce the American commander in chief as a "deserter." And visitors to the national chairman of the Democratic Party had to step across a doormat depicting the American president surrounded by the words, "Give Bush the Boot."

Competition is indeed the engine that has driven the American dream forward, but unity in time of war has made America the leader of the world. During World War II, 405,399 Americans died to defeat Nazism, but their country of immigrants remained sturdily united. The U.S. held national elections during the war, but those running for office entertained no thought of damaging America's international prestige in their quest for personal victory. Republican challenger Thomas Dewey declined to criticize President Roosevelt's war policy. At the end of that war, a united America rebuilt its vanquished enemies. It took seven years to turn Nazi Germany and imperial Japan into democracies, but that effort generated an unprecedented technological explosion and 50 years of unmatched prosperity for us all.

Now we are again at war. It is not the president's war. It is America's war, authorized by 296 House members and 76 senators. I do not intend to join the armchair experts on the Iraq war. I do not know how we should handle this war, and they don't know either. But I do know that if America's political leaders, Democrat and Republican, join together as they did during World War II, America will win. Otherwise, terrorism will win. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi predicted just before being killed: "We fight today in Iraq, tomorrow in the land of the Holy Places, and after there in the West."

On July 28, I celebrated 29 years since President Carter signed off on my request for political asylum, and I am still tremendously proud that the leader of the Free World granted me my freedom. During these years I have lived here under five presidents--some better than others--but I have always felt that I was living in paradise. My American citizenship has given me a feeling of pride, hope and security that is surpassed only by the joy of simply being alive. There are millions of other immigrants who are equally proud that they restarted their lives from scratch in order to be in this magnanimous country. I appeal to them to help keep our beloved America united and honorable. We may not be able to change the habits of our current political representatives, but we may be able to introduce healthy new blood into the U.S. Congress.

For once, the communists got it right. It is America's leader that counts. Let's return to the traditions of presidents who accepted nothing short of unconditional surrender from our deadly enemies. Let's vote next year for people who believe in America's future, not for the ones who live in the Cold War past.

Lt. Gen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc. His new book, "Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination" (Ivan R. Dee) will be published in November.

Well, Well, Well...

I found out something interesting today. At least, it was interesting to me.

See, I know this rich lady. I worked on her house. A lot. Busted my ass on numerous occasions, in fact. Just like a lot of other guys. She is a widow. Nice as she can be. At least, she's always been very pleasant to me and the other guys, and the stereotypical rich woman isn't always nice to the workers in the movies and TV shows. But she really is a sweet lady.

We had a warranty issue at her house that I had to go and start to take care of today. I knew she had married some rich dude, but I really had no clue as to who it might have been. I think she was rich already when she met him anyway because of either her first husband and the company he owned or she was born into that family, but I had no clue as to the source of wealth for her late husband.

I have no idea if she married into the Williamson family or is a Williamson by birth. That would be the Williamsons of Williamson Dickie Manufacturing. The legendary work clothes people of Ft. Worth. As you can tell, most of my information about the people who own the properties where I work is rumor at best and it's gathered at the breaktime campfire circle. (Now, after doing a bit of searching, yeah, she was in fact a Williamson.)

Anyway, as I learned today, her late husband went by the name of Lawrence Rawl. He was CEO of Exxon Mobil for a few years. I know this for a fact.

I found this very intriguing. I think my jaw dropped, actually. Man, would I have liked to have had the opportunity to talk to that man. But he's gone.

I feel sorry for Mrs. Rawl in a way. She obviously loved him very much and they had a lot of good times together and now he's gone. (I walk through the house, I see photos) That just sucks, but death is a part of life.

I keep telling people things like "I work on rich people's houses" but it doesn't seem to sink in with them. I told a friend about how I spent some time at the long deceased Amon Carter's poolside having a smoke. She had no clue who Amon Carter was.

You may not have a clue either, but I can almost guarantee he had an impact on your life, especially if you live in Texas:

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/fca69.html

I like this link even better:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_G._Carter

That's another sonofabitch I'd like to spend some time with.

Anyway, I'm a nobody. A poor nobody. I just find it interesting to see how the rich folks live.