Something’s Fishy in Chicago

The crooked Democrats we all know (Clintons and their hundreds of Clintonistas), Kennedy and his tribe, the gang of three (Pelosi, Reid, and Murtha), Jefferson and his freezer, Gov. Bill Richardson and his withdrawal from consideration in Obama’s Cabinet because of pending indictments, and Obama’s illegal aunt, terrorist friend Ayres, GD America preacher Wright, Acorn allies, PLO allies, Kenyan allies, etc. … are all acting strange these days.

Usually when a Democrat crook is caught, the Democrats close ranks, say that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and call in their press allies to spike the story or bury it so deep no one ever hears of it again. And it’s over. The guilty get rescued by their fellow Democrats and the left wing press. Judges drop charges, prosecutors don’t file charges, and hoards of lawyers cover the ground with foul smelling excreta tauroum. Democrats get a pass from other Democrats, the left wing press, the judges and prosecutors they control, and if all else fails, they call it old news and insist we move on to more important things.

But something is very fishy in Chicago. The stench can be smelled from coast to coast.

Gov. Blagojevich did something and all hell breaks loose. The DEMS’ pet prosecutor (of Scooter Libby fame) calls a press conference and says Gov. Blag is guilty. The press jumps all over the story and they indict, try, and pronounce him guilty in hundreds of newspapers and broadcasts. Impeachment proceedings roar to life and everyone knows he is guilty; so he is convicted.

Hold on a minute. Just hold it. Why was Blag persecuted and found guilty without a trial? He is not a Republican, how can he be treated that way? Why didn’t the Democrats rally around him as they have done for thousands of other Democrat crooks? Where is his left wing press support? Where is the ACLU?

Methinks he and Obama are at odds on something. Nothing else explains why a Democrat would be treated as if he were a conservative Republican and why this assumption of guilt before any trial would be universal across the land? It will be interesting to see what that is. Does Blag have something on Obama? Are they enemies over money or girls or something? And, is this the fate of those who cross Obama in the future?

Blag is making a lot of noise and drawing attention to the rotting core of Democrat politics. Dangerous ground for sure. If we could ask them, I bet Jimmy Hoffa, Robert Kennedy, Vince Foster and scores of others would have some serious warnings for Gov. Blagojevich.

The truth will out and let’s hope it is sooner rather than later.

Chicago Politics and the Democrat Economic Stimulus Project

This came through e-mail. It’s a nice little joke about Chicago politics.
But, if you multiply all the dollar amounts by about a billion (1,000,000,000), then it applies very well to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Democrat Stimulus Project.

Oops, I forgot that Robert Reich (ex Clintonista of course) says that the stimulus funds shouldn’t go to experienced or capable contractors and workers because too many of them are white. Oh well, a joke can only be stretched so far these days.

Enjoy.

Chicago Politics heads to Washington!

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in D.C.;
One from Chicago , one from Tennessee and a third from Kentucky. They all go with a White House official to examine the fence.

The Tennessee contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring,
then works some figures with a pencil. 'Well', he says, 'I figure the job will run about $900 : $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me.'

The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, 'I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me.'

The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, '$2,700. '

The official, incredulous, whispers back, 'You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?'

The Chicago contractor whispers back, '$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire that guy from Kentucky to fix the fence.'

'Done!' replies the government official.

And that my friends, is how it all works in Chicago !!!

Is there Hope for a Conservative Republican Party?

Background

We have had 8 years of “Compassionate Conservatives” under George W. Bush, one of the really big spenders, who in his first term did not veto a single Congressional appropriations bill. He also helped lose the 2006 and 2008 elections bringing us to Obama. Before that, we had 8 years of the Clintons. And before that, we had 4 years of George H. W. Bush (“Read my lips, no new taxes” followed by a huge tax increase). We have not had a conservative Republican Party or a conservative President since Ronald Reagan. Altogether that’s 20 years of shriveling and shrinking and leftward leaning Republicans.

Is there a Conservative Future for the Republican Party?

Who knows? The forces against it, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, and other RINO’s are trying hard to swing the Party even further left.

But there are some indicators we should watch for in the next year or so.

1) Watch how the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC goes.

This conference is being held Feb. 26-28 in Washington, DC. The conference should provide some early indicators of which direction the Republican Party will take.

• One big hint: Watch how they treat Sarah Palin and where she appears on the program. She is the only real conservative in the Party with national standing.
• Another big hint: Listen to who trots out the Democratic Party line of “reaching across the aisle” and avoid these idiots like you would Obamanites because that’s what they really are.

2) Watch who the MSM attacks the most.

These will be the individuals with the most to offer conservatives. So far, Gov. Palin is leading this race.

3) Listen carefully to what “would be” Republican leaders say about abortion, the bailout, the bloated budget, gun control, illegal immigration (called comprehensive immigration reform by those who seek to betray America), and higher taxes on the rich.

A politician who supports any of these is, deep down in his heart, a socialist.

4) Bipartisanship. Anyone who says this is either a Democrat in sheep’s clothing or doesn’t understand what the word means in today’s America. In today’s America this terms means a person who agrees to negotiate and cooperate with the Democrats under the rules “What belongs to the Democrats is theirs and what belongs to the Republicans is negotiable”.

I hope we all watch for and avoid RINO’s because 2010 is just around the corner.

More on Why Newspapers are Failing

In an earlier post I discussed the role of bias, dishonesty, and political favoritism and pandering in the decline of what we used to call the “Fourth Estate of Government”. The Fourth Estate was back when newspapers came in all kinds; some good, some bad, some conservative and some liberal, some reputable and some yellow press. Back when there was diversity of all kinds in newspapers, they were a basic institution in America. They were our source of news, political commentary, sports, weather, classified advertising, and funnies.

Here is a post showing how their fall from grace was led by bias and personal agendas instead of truth and public service. source

There is a simple, and free to the taxpayers, way for many of the newspapers to recover financial health and profitability. It involves listening to the customers and then giving them what they want. Not a new or novel concept but a basic rule of business survival.

Instead, most US newspapers, with a very few exceptions, print what they want to further the liberal agenda and the Democratic Party and then try to force it on their customers. Well, the customers are reacting and leaving the newspapers by the millions. For example, the New York Times recently had to mortgage its building to meet expenses.

More on Newspaper Failures

There are other basic reasons newspapers are failing. They too involve arrogance and ignoring the customers’ wishes. As the new media grew, newspapers failed to adjust and respond in an appropriate manner. No longer secure in their advertising income (competition from radio, television, the Internet, etc.), rather than seeking new business models in a changing business, the newspapers stuck to the old models and let quality in all aspects decline.

A watershed event in newspapers’ evolution was the Watergate Scandal. Careers were made, movies were made, and one could be a star overnight. What was lost was the triangle of trust between the public, the government, and our free press. Reporters and editors cast aside good judgment and went for the “big expose”. Fair play, objectivity, and professionalism were abandoned in favor of “getting the bad guys and getting them first”.

This was combined with a decline in the quality and intellectual capacity of most reporters and editors. One didn’t need a degree on journalism from a good school, one didn’t need the years of experience starting from the bottom, and working your way up, all one needed was a chance for that big, career-making story about getting the bad guys.

Funny thing though, this kind of appeal to “glamour, justice, and heroism” without qualifications and experience gained by long, hard work appealed to a particular type of people—shallow, inexperienced, amoral or immoral, and self focused.

And thus it was that liberals took over the ranks of reporters and editors across the nation. As the shift to liberalism took place, the nature of the “bad guys” shifted from the crooks of Watergate to anyone who disagreed with the liberal agenda of political correctness, left wing politics, and blame America first policies. Now the enemies, the bad guys, were those who disagreed. Arrogance, self interest, political bias, and personal agendas had replaced professionalism, experience, patriotism, and a sense of fair play. Reporters and editors no longer had knowledge and experience. As a result of changing newspapers, journalism schools responded and mirrored what modern reporters had become. The result was more and more new journalism graduates essentially uneducated and unprepared to provide newspaper services the customers’ wanted.

Concurrently with the growth of arrogance and incompetence in the ranks of newspaper employees, there grew increasing separation from the customer base and from the advertisers. Together the customers and the advertisers generated the revenue for newspapers. Arrogance led the newspapers to resist change or lower costs and to expect the customers to continue buying newspapers and the advertisers to continue paying for it all. As always happens, when you ignore the customer, sales of advertized articles and services declined. When this happened, advertizing revenues decreased. And the downward spiral had begun.

We don’t know how long it will be before a new business model of customer satisfaction, professionalism, unbiased reporting and editing, and educated, competent reporters and editors returns. When it does, newspapers focused on the customer, sensitive to advertisers’ needs, and with perspectives across the political spectrum will prosper.

No amount of government bailouts, corporate welfare, suppression of the competition, or liberal laws and regulations will accomplish the rebirth of newspaper journalism. This rebirth has to come from within the industry and it has to come as outlined above.

Some of the Greatest Lessons from Our Forefathers, Again

From the Declaration of Independence:

“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

And the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States:

“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

To See the Present and Future We Must Return to the Lessons of our Forefathers

That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that governments derive their powers from the consent of the people are just as relevant and equally inviolable today as they were in 1776.

We start out equal when we are created and we have liberty and the right to pursue happiness. Liberty gives us the right to follow our own vision, to succeed or fail depending upon our efforts and abilities. Liberty gives us the right to choose what we believe, how we want to live our lives, and how we want to pursue happiness. Our Founding Fathers did not say we all had the right to have equal outcomes in life, but that we had the right to pursue happiness. Our Founding Fathers knew that governments derived their just powers from the consent of the governed, they were very fearful of governments granting or denying rights and governing in opposition to the will of the people.

The Preamble mentions union, justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty. Our Founding Fathers were intent on limiting the powers of government and preventing tyranny. This is the reason we have the Bill of Rights in our Constitution – to limit government. Nowhere are citizens guaranteed the right to riches, or the riches of others, or to be free from hardship, or offense, or failure.

Comments on Red States, Blue States, and Activist Judges

The term Red States has come to mean states where the people are conservative (in the context of the Republican Party) and Blue States where they are liberal (in the context of the Democratic Party). These definitions are huge oversimplifications in many ways, but they do contain a certain amount of truth, as many generalizations do. The West Coast and the Northeast tend to have the Blue States and the South and Midwest the Red States.

If the counties within each state are classified as Red or Blue, one gets a very different picture. The Red-Blue differences are seen to be more related to urban vs. suburban and rural with most of the major cities Blue and most everywhere else Red.

Blue areas are almost always more densely populated; more polluted, have more minorities and illegal aliens, and suffer more crime than the Red areas. There appear to be some basic, fundamental differences in the way people think and behave when crowded than they do when they have more space. Or, conversely, fundamentally different types of people choose crowding over more open spaces. Whatever the cause and effect relationship, the differences are real and measurable. People from “red” areas tend to be more in line with our Forefathers’ thoughts and actions than are those from the “blue” areas. With noted qualifiers, from here on “Red” will refer to conservative and “Blue” to liberal; and I use the modern definitions of those terms.

Enter the Activist Judges

Starting with President Franklin Roosevelt, when he tried to pack the Supreme Court to get a liberal majority, and increasing drastically in the radicalization of the 1960’s, liberals have sought judicial avenues for their policies and goals when denied them by the people. Time and again voters have denied a policy or law, only to have the liberals rush to activist judges to obtain their goals through judicial activism. This is a serious erosion of the principle of governments deriving their powers from the consent of the governed.

The Corruption of Conservatives

There is a common, and derisive, term for conservatives who lose their core values derived from the beliefs of our Founding Fathers, and drift left toward a condition of less morality, less discipline, less accountability, less freedom, and more and bigger government. These conservatives without a moral compass are called Republicans in name only (RINO). This drifting to the left process has gone on since the beginning of our country, but I think it really took off in the 1960’s when so called moderate Republicans such as Rockefeller and Scranton fought the ascendancy of conservative Barry Goldwater.

Why and how the RINOs came to dominate the Republican Party are two fundamental questions of our time. There are probably as many explanations as there are RINOs and probably as few answers as there are conservative Republican leaders at the national level. Our colleges and universities, mainstream media, artists and entertainers, and much of our clergy have become very liberal. One hypothesis on why so many Republicans are RINOs, or start out conservative and become RINOs, is that they seek the approval and adulation of these liberal elites. Principles are sacrificed for acceptance and approval by the liberal elites. Why RINOs seek the approval of the intolerant, racist, politically correct, dogmatic, and anti-American liberal elites is another fundamental question of our time.

What Can We Glean from These Things?

First, liberals long ago left the guidance and wisdom of our Founding Fathers behind, and in doing so, lost the concepts of constitutional rule, government of, by, and for the people, and democratic processes. They have a moral compass that points towards the Me not the we. But, there are powerful desires and temptations in their beliefs: power, lust, riches, fame, and all without personal accountability. Liberals have also captured important segments of our societies, are thus very powerful, and their siren songs are seductive. There must be something in all this that seduces Republicans and lures them to the dark side. The result? More RINOs.

America needs conservatives with a moral compass based on real faith and a belief in the principles and guiding documents of our Founding Fathers. Without conservatives we are losing our checks and balances a two party system brings. RINOs are an abomination to all, they talk one way and act another; conservative talk but copy-cat liberal policies and actions.

I firmly believe that America cannot maintain its freedom and justice for all under a one party system. Without the checks and balances of a two party system tyranny is inevitable.

Repeated from Jan. 18, 2008

Words and Speech We Need to Know

It would be helpful if the victims of our government were reminded of some key words to describe our current situation. Here are a few examples I offer.

The dictionary definitions of parasite. source

Parasite
-noun
1) an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
2) a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.

These are examples of generalized definitions; we need to sharpen them, and others, to fit life in America after 20 years of the Bushes, Clintons, and now who knows how long under Barack Hussein Obama and the radical socialists in Congress.

Parasite – a person who lives off the work of others, specifically one who lives from the income taxes that working citizens pay and/or the savings that taxpayers have accrued.

Parasitism – the form of governance that forces the decent, hard working taxpayers to pay for those who do not work or those that are too limited in personal responsibility, the work ethic and/or intelligence to fully support themselves. It is a hideous form of government and a transitional state to full socialism. We are rushing headlong into parasitism.

Socialism – a now out of the closet form of government that extinguishes individual liberty, seizes all forms of property, wealth, goods, and power for itself and its privileged few, and enforces its tyranny with brutal violence and suppression of freedom. No socialist form of government has ever worked but many have survived through tyranny and oppression.

Redistribution of Wealth - is PC speech for parasitism.

Community Organizer - it has always been clear to some and is now clear to all that a “community organizer” is a parasite teaching, promoting, and organizing parasitism.

Illegal Alien – a foreign national who illegally invades the US, illegally lives and sometimes works here, and who uses illegal means such as identity theft, under the table cash payments to avoid taxes, and similar felonies to remain here. An illegal alien is a parasite in our system of parasitism.

RINO – is a politician claiming to be a Republican but who is in fact a Republican in name only. In actual fact RINO’s are disingenuous politicians who often campaign as conservatives but act like liberals. They are worse than the radical leftists because they are sneaky, lying traitors filling elected positions that should be filled by conservatives and would be if the RINO’s weren’t highly skilled Democrats posing as Republicans. These are the cross dressers of our political world. They are the Benedict Arnolds of the GOP.

California Falling Deeper into Liberal Sinkhole

The AP is distributing a story about people leaving California. Although the numbers are small compared with the huge population of California ~ 38 million and the skyrocketing millions of illegal invaders and their anchor babies, it is still a disturbing trend for many. source.

This trend has been going on for a few years. The number of American Citizens leaving California exceeds the number of American Citizens moving there. That lousy California Governor Arnie, and his predecessors, opened the flood gates and they are now suffering the consequence of illegal invaders from Mexico. Of course, California wants a bailout, cites their many problems, but never mentions the 10's of $billions per year they spend on illegal invaders.

California could solve its budget problems overnight if they would just enforce the law and deny public services to illegal invaders (all criminals): welfare, free healthcare, free food, free education, etc. to the millions of illegal immigrants. Overnight, their budget would be balanced. And, the illegal invaders would leave by the millions if they didn’t get a free ride and couldn’t work illegally. But, the Politically Correct leaders of California believe it is better to live of the blood of America’s taxpayers, the 20-25% of working Americans who pay almost all of the income taxes, than to inconvenience foreign invaders ruining California and much of America.

But guess what, 75 to 80% of the people in America cannot live off the other 20-25% who work and pay income taxes for 100% of the people in America. This system is unstable and it cannot last. Are we seeing what happens when that wonderful minority, the working taxpayers, gets pushed beyond their ability to support everyone? Are we seeing the first evidence of a collapse?

Finally, the far left, loony liberals, phony environmentalists who believe in every scam that comes along, RINO’s such as Arnie, illegal alien invaders, and the other greedy politicians are ruining California. I hope they are stopped before California slips completely into our first third world state within America.

Mexico: A Failed State May Experience “Sudden Collapse”

This report, and the other ones mentioned below, is one of the most positive things to come out of the Bush Administration in the last 8 years. For years the US and Mexico have been in denial and involved in a massive propaganda campaign and cover-up. With the Bush Administration over, the threat of reprisals and revenge from President Bush is at an end, and some officials and agencies in the government are sounding the long overdue warnings.

Actually, these warnings were heard during the Reagan Administration but were subsequently suppressed under the Bushes and Clintons for the last 20 years. The following excerpts are from the El Paso Times via Drudge. source

U.S. military report warns 'sudden collapse' of Mexico is possible
By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times
Posted: 01/13/2009 03:49:34 PM MST

EL PASO - Mexico is one of two countries that "bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse," according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats.

The command's "Joint Operating Environment (JOE 2008)" report, which contains projections of global threats and potential next wars, puts Pakistan on the same level as Mexico. "In terms of worse-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico.

SNIP

Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone."

SNIP

The report is one in a serious focusing on Mexico's internal security problems, mostly stemming from drug violence and drug corruption. In recent weeks, the Department of Homeland Security and former U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey issued similar alerts about Mexico.

What a “Sudden Collapse” Might Mean

First of all, the violence and murders would be appalling and match or exceed, in scope the brutality, and barbarity we have seen in the Middle East. Second, it would rapidly spill over the border and pose the biggest national security threat to the US since Pearl Harbor. Third, mass refugee flight of tens of millions north might bring about social and economic collapse and open civilian warfare in the Southwest as the murders and corrupt military joined the flight. Fourth, the US military would be drawn in and forced to restore order in the Southwest and in Mexico.

Given the pro-Mexican, anti-American policy of the US government since 1989, it is not clear how the civil unrest and military operations would proceed. A worst case scenario is that US citizens would be caught between: 1) marauding criminal invaders, 2) millions of looting and hostile refugees, and 3) the US Military forces. With the Bush-Clinton legacy and the socialist, open borders, one-world philosophy of the Obama Administration, it is quite likely that US citizens would suffer attack from these three sides.

After untold deaths and violence and suffering, the Mexican dreams of conquering most of the western US might happen through overwhelming occupation by Mexican criminals and refugees and politically correct bargaining by the US to reach a “peaceful solution” through surrender of territory and appeasement of violent invaders/occupiers. As we saw in Yugoslavia, this initial breakup of the United States would only be the first step.

It is sad to think of what might have been. But, if we had an Israeli type fence along the entire border, it could be easily patrolled and protected. Sigh. If we only had a strong, conservative, pro-American President and a responsible Congress, we might make it. Sigh.

The Unfortunate Position of the Mexican People

The grip of the corrupt Mexican elite, government, and drug cartels is so strong that nothing short of a complete revolution and overthrow of the existing system will bring relief and the hope of freedom to Mexicans. But the timing is such a tragedy. How unfortunate that the US is in the grip of Socialists and forces aligned against freedom at this time of great peril. We are more likely to offer help in a restoration of socialist tyranny than in bringing freedom to our neighbor.

Something to Think About

This came through the email recently. You may enjoy it and wish to think about some of the implications. I like it better without sound, but it is good with sound on also.



Enjoy!

A Fishing Story

Some fishing stories have to be true; they can’t all be made up. So I say that the following tale is mostly true. I did use different names in case either of the other two guys happens to stumble on this story. Other than that, it is pretty much true.

Many years ago when I was plenty old to buy beer but still not smart enough not to drink it, an old friend, a young friend, and I went fishing. While out in the boat, the old guy (John) liked to sip on a little CC whisky, I downed beers, and the young guy (Joe) sipped a beer or two.

Anyway, one bright sunny day (common) it was warm and calm (rare) on Eagle’s Nest Lake in the high northern mountains of New Mexico and we went out fishing. John drove the boat and sat back by the old Johnson outboard, Joe grabbed the front of the boat, and I was left with the middle. Away we went in a cloud of blue smoke with three trolling rigs in the water. The darn board seat was hard and I was turning and fidgeting, and banging around enough to get some glares and a crude admonition or two to “sit the hell still”.

After a couple of beers I got bored with the whole thing, tired of being sworn at, and sleepy all at the same time. I laid back with my head on one side of the boat, my legs crossed with feet sticking up in the air, and my pole held by my feet. Warm, sunny, full of beer, and bored I soon fell asleep. I awoke to hear the Lord’s name being taken in vain by both of them and hollering that I had one. Sure enough my pole was bent all the way down to the water and nearly jerked out of my hands as I struggled to sit upright.

I cackled, played him like a whale, and slowly reeled in a trout about 12 inches long. Not much by local standards, but the first one of the day and a nice really nice fish to me. Full of myself, I popped another beer, and let them have a good berating about catching more fish asleep than some people could by trying all day long.

Not to be outdone, they kept at it and we fished until nearly dark with the final tally being 3 or 4 good fish for John, two for me, and none for young Joe. The same Joe who had told us all the way up to the lake about what a good fisherman he was.

We finally got the boat on the trailer, out of the water, everything squared away and ready to go. I was cold and wet and the fun of all those beers had left me hours before. I now had two fish, a fond memory of fishing while asleep, and one eye squinting, head pounding Budweiser headache. Of course, my fishing buddies kept offering me a beer as we drove down that long, curvy road back to town. Damn I was sick.

As they said goodbye to go their ways and me straight to bed, old John said he reckoned it was the rice in the beer gave a man a splitting headache and that I would be better off sticking with whisky.

Redistribution of Wealth, Theft, and Robbery

Theft is stealing another person’s property. The usual connotation is that it is done without the victim’s immediate knowledge as in sneak thief. Thefts are discovered after the fact.

Robbery is taking another person’s property in their presence or with their knowledge, against their will, and by violence or intimidation.

Obama's Redistribution of wealth includes taking one person’s earned income or saved wealth, with their knowledge and by intimidation, i.e. you must submit or you will be fined, your property confiscated, and/or you will be arrested and imprisoned.

Thus, redistribution of wealth is the government robbing one unprotected individual or group to give the money to another favored individual or group. By saying one individual or group is unprotected, and thus available for robbery, and another individual or group is favored, and thus deserving and entitled to live off the work and savings of the unprotected is immoral, discriminatory, and sinful.

The unprotected are the host humans and the favored are the parasites. And the government is violating even the pretense of equal justice under law, equality of opportunity, and social justice.

In essence the government is playing God by judging the good as bad, denying them constitutional and government protection, and then robbing them. It is also playing God by judging those unwilling or unable to work and create their own wealth as superior humans entitled to live off their unfortunate and unprotected neighbors.

Make no mistake about it. Redistribution of wealth is a form of slavery, just as evil and unjust as any other. To make one group work and accumulate wealth so another group, without working for their own support, can live off the sweat, toil, and thrift of others is the essence of slavery. Also, make no mistake about this. The designation of the unprotected groups and the favored groups will be race-based.

Race-based slavery becoming government policy in America again. Call it redistribution of wealth or whatever you please. We all know it is slavery and it is one of man’s greatest evils.

May God forgive us for how far we are falling into the depths of evil.

The Evil of Smuggling and Drug Cartels

Over the years I have seen this attitude, “drugs and drug dealers are not my problem” wreck havoc on families, neighborhoods, states, and entire countries. Following are some typical examples I have seen.

At the family level
Denial, “My son/daughter is a good kid, and would not be involved in drugs.” As time goes by and the son/daughter deteriorates and sinks deeper into crime and deprivation denial may still trump knowledge of the problem. Finally it is prison, murder, an overdose, or some catastrophic event that brings recognition of the problem. Lives, families, and innocent people who are victims of the criminal through robbery, burglary, assault, and even murder—suffer human tragedy far beyond the individual drug addict/dealer. Then, regardless of all the lies and cover ups and individual and family responsibilities, the problem lands in the lap of the taxpayers.

At the neighborhood level
Neighbors know who the drug addicts, dealers, and criminals are. But because of fear, not wanting to “rat” on relatives or friends, or simply looking the other way and hoping the problems will go away; whole neighborhoods are drawn into a cesspool of drugs, crime, and wasted human lives. Again, the costs of welfare, crime, courts, police, prison, rehabilitation, loss of property values, etc. land in the lap of the taxpayers, not the individuals, gangs, and neighborhoods that caused the problems.

At the city/state level
This is much like the neighborhood problem. Whole sections of cities become warrens of crime, addiction, drug dealing, and burdens on the taxpayers. But citizens in “safer” parts of the city try to look the other way and say that it only concerns the criminals and low lifers. Then, kids in the suburbs begin having drug problems in greater numbers. These criminals and the criminals swarming out of the warrens to prey on those living in the suburbs bring the problem home in a way that cannot be ignored. Tax bases plummet, working people flee farther from the slums, and thousands of lives are ruined in an overflowing of drug dealing, crimes to support the criminals, and skyrocketing murder rates. Again, these people in these nearly unlivable inner city areas live off of crimes against their neighbors and the taxpayer through welfare, crime, police, courts, prison, rehabilitation, loss of taxable incomes and property, and massive public housing, urban renewal, and other projects costing billions. Again, the taxpayers are stuck with paying for it all.

At the national level
At the national, or independent country level, the drug manufacturing and smuggling business has (at first) distinctly different characteristics. These countries start out smuggling drugs north to the biggest market (the US as described above). The people and governments of these countries also start out in denial. Typically they would say something similar to this. “We can make millions of dollars selling to the damn Yanquis, it’s their fault for buying the drugs, and it won’t hurt us at all.” The drug producers and smugglers organize into cartels, grow in power, and begin to corrupt the entire country. Who can ever forget the narcos invading the supreme court of Columbia and federal tanks being used to fight them? Finally, they got a government that recognized that the drug cartels and their drugs did more damage to Columbia than they did to the US. The result was joint Columbia-US wars against the drug cartels. Some progress is being made; at least they are sincerely trying.

A dirty little secret of the cocaine business is that solvents such as gasoline are used in the refining process. The more pure, higher quality drugs are sold at enormous profits. The sludge, or waste, containing some cocaine and much of the processing chemicals had little market value. The drug cartels discovered the millions of abandoned children and orphans living on the streets in the cities of Latin America (especially the drug producing countries such as Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia) were a ready market for this cocaine waste by-product. Now there are millions of child addicts in Latin America living on the streets, making their living by crime, selling their bodies; in any way they can to get more and more of the cocaine waste product. The problem is that this cocaine waste product is harmful (much like glue or paint sniffing) and causes severe brain, nervous system, and other development problems. These are lost and destroyed children in the drug producing countries, not victims in the US.

Mexico is still in denial. They have no compunction about smuggling their people and drugs into America. But over the years the drugs and drug cartels have destroyed the fabric of Mexico. Crime is nearly universal and completely out of control, the rich Mexican elite who formerly controlled the government and the drug dealers have lost control and they are becoming more and more victims of the vicious cartels and their drug wars. Mexico asked the US for help, but without any strings attached, and we foolishly agreed (the Merida Initiative) to the tune of about a billion dollars. They will continue to ask for more money from us because much of it goes directly to the drug cartels and their crooked politicians. Now the US taxpayers are paying on both ends; in Mexico where the drugs are produced and smuggled and in the US as described above.

Mexico is a failed state because of their cultural heritage of bribes and corruption and the warring drug cartels that now control the country. It is hard to predict what will happen. Their country is unbelievably corrupt and their people have yet to see that smuggling people and drugs into America hurts Mexico more than it hurts the US. Illegal invaders from Mexico and the drugs smuggled into the US (both human and drug smuggling are controlled by the drug cartels—it is really one problem, not two) are costing the US hundreds of billions of dollars and wrecking millions of lives in the US. But the drugs and people smuggling and the horrible corruption and violence they bring to Mexico far outweigh their impacts in America.

The Mexican war on the drug cartels is phony. A majority of the police and a large portion of the military are corrupt and fight for the drug cartels. The government is a tool of the rich elite and the drug cartels and appears to have little if any responsibility to the people of Mexico.

If we spend taxpayer money, it should help not make the problem worse
It is beyond foolish; it is criminally negligent for the US to give money, technology, and equipment to Mexico for their drug wars without strict restrictions and accountability. In so doing, we are in fact aiding and abetting the drug cartels in their efforts to smuggle illegal aliens and illegal drugs into America. The Bush Administration through their Merida Initiative with Mexico will give the drug cartels billions at the expense of the US taxpayers.

Which Countries are Civilized?

Why is it important and are we being judgmental in asking such a question?

1) Why even ask such a question?
2) Isn’t being civilized, like beauty, in the eyes of the beholder?

We need to ask the question as individuals for a variety of reasons. Is it safe to travel there? Are goods and products from there safe? Can we believe what a government of a country says? Can we trust someone from that country?

As a nation we ask essentially the same questions but in a plural sense. We also ask, are they a trustworthy ally? Are they a reliable trading partner? Can they be trusted?

1) So yes, we need to ask the question.

2) Civilization, unlike some beauty, is not so much in the eye of the beholder as it is the individual and collective beliefs and actions of a country’s people.

Thus, it is essential that we ask the question, as individuals and as a nation.

A dictionary definition of civilized is as follows, source.

Civilized
adj.
1. Having a highly developed society and culture.
2. Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, ethical,
and reasonable: terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world.
3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners; cultured; polished.

This is a pretty good definition, but I have heard a lot of simpler ones.

A country is not civilized unless they enjoy classical music.

It’s not a civilized country unless you can drink the water safely.

If it’s not a free country, it is not civilized.

Personally, I would add actions pertaining to the unborn and future generations.

It’s not a civilized society unless it guards and protects the unborn (i.e. fetuses) and strives to make a better society for future generations. This includes guarding their heritage (their land, history, culture, property, etc.) and keeping them unburdened by contemporary actions such as unreasonable debts (i.e. massive deficit spending).

Therefore, in my opinion, a civilized country or society is one which is characterized by:
1. Having a highly developed society and culture.
2. Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, ethical, and reasonable: terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world.
3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners; cultured; polished.
4. Caring for and protecting the unborn.
5. Guarding the heritage and well being of future generations.

America is slipping, but it is not too late

We must protect the unborn by outlawing abortion, starting with the ghastly, murderous partial birth abortions.

We must protect future generations’ heritage, culture, and inheritance by eliminating illegal immigration and amnesty. Every place taken in America by an illegal immigrant is a place unavailable for one of our descendants. Every illegal immigrant who brings their uncivilized culture with them and fails to assimilate is robbing our descendants of their rightful culture, and the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend each year supporting illegal immigrants are stolen from our descendents.

We must factor our descendants into spending and legislative decisions. Passing huge debt burdens to our descendants robs them of their freedom to make their own way, their own decisions, and live their lives free of our sins and excesses. It is unconscionable to mortgage future generations so that we may live a life of excess and irresponsibility.

What Do You Expect from Your Newspaper?

The monetary value, circulation, profits, and influence of newspapers in the US has been plummeting. Look for them to ask for bailout funds and laws to restrict their competition such as the Internet and Talk Radio.

There is a simple, and free to the taxpayers, way for many of the newspapers to recover financial health and profitability. It involves listening to the customers and then giving them what they want. Not a new or novel concept but a basic rule of business survival.

Instead, most US newspapers, with a very few exceptions, print what they want to further the liberal agenda and the Democratic Party and then try to force it on their customers. Well, the customers are reacting and leaving the newspapers by the millions. For example, the New York Times recently had to mortgage its building to meet expenses.

What Would You like from Your Newspaper?

I would like unbiased information in their news, weather, and sports sections, editorials clearly labeled as such, a good funnies page, and helpful advertising when I am trying to find something. I would also appreciate speedier (less than 24 hours late) reporting of the news. Finally, I would appreciate it if the newspapers tried to take a patriotic, pro-American stance on major issues of the day.

What I don’t want is what we have now. Newspapers that are so far left as to be out of touch with the majority of Americans, newspapers that are almost exclusively a tool of the leftist Democrats, newspapers that reach to find ways to blame America for many of the world’s problems when in fact we have made most of them better. And most importantly, newspapers that censor the news by spinning everything positively for the leftists, spinning it negatively for the majority of Americans, and refusing to report news that does not either help the leftist radicals or harm the conservative patriots.

In short, “we don’t need no stinking propaganda rags”, we need fair and honest and decent newspapers reporting in the broad public interest.

How The Newspapers Can Survive and Prosper

First meet the customers needs as outlined above. Get rid of the liars, leftist radicals on a mission for their personal agendas, and make journalism a profession again. Staff the paper with professional editors dedicated to the news.

Second, provide content. Talk Radio and the Internet will always be faster and more current. To make up for this disadvantage the newspapers can provide unbiased, in-depth reporting based on reporters at the scene and digging deep into the facts--content.

Television went from black and white to color and USA Today has proven that newspapers can too. They need to add more color graphics and photographs with readable, state-of-the art printing.

The Newspapers really are in Trouble

As an example, Lee Enterprises of Davenport, IA publishes 49 daily newspapers across the country. In the last year their stock has gone from a high of $14.91 per share to a low of $0.30 per share. Revenues keep falling as advertisers leave the newspapers and now Lee Enterprises may lose its NYSE listing if they don’t improve substantially within 6 months. Being kicked of the stock exchange because it does not meet revenue and capitalization standards may signal the end of Lee Enterprises and many of its newspapers. But you know liberals, it is very hard for them to give up their biases and dogma and almost impossible for them to learn. Many follow the radical leftist agenda right into bankruptcy.

No Bailouts are Needed!

But, this is natural and good. It is not a disaster or a tragedy and newspapers do not need a bailout. Companies that do not put their customers first should perish and they should be replaced by companies that will put the customers’ needs first. This must happen if newspapers are to survive and serve their rightful place in informing the public of the unbiased news and facts and providing honest in-depth content.