Ramblings from the Aisch

Fall Coming On

2008-09-18T19:10:00.002+02:00

Fall is coming, the garden is winding down, the Presidential election is coming to the wire.

It's getting colder, won't be long now before frost covers the ground again. It'll soon be time to till the soil for next years garden and cover stuff up for the winter. The walnuts will be ready soon, the apples are almost there.

The election is scary this time around. Two fascist dictators running against each other, the one claiming to be a conservative American, the other acting like a Marxist "man of the people". There is nothing to choose between them. Ron Paul was my choice, but unfortunately not the choice of the American people this time around. I half way like Mike Huckabee, though he is a bit of a big government conservative, a sort of Christian Democrat. Baldwin looks good, as does Barr and Alan Keyes, but their followings are too small and divided between them.

People are too heavily reliant on their government. None seem able to take care of themselves anymore, at least not the majority of us. There are, of course, a few rugged individualists among us, those who are not afraid to kill an animal when meat should be on the table, not afraid to get their hands dirty to grow some food or fix the car. But we are in a minority in today's society, a new world seeking order, a world of children answering to the nanny government.

We need a return to individualism, God, and family. Away from our centers of government and down to the farm and homesteads. Until we find ourselves again, buy ourselves back from the crediters and free ourselves from the Government teat, America will not be the country she was.

Piracy

2007-10-08T08:29:00.000+02:00

Music piracy is in the news again:

At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference, Zucker was also rallying the troops around the notion that more enforcement will fix the problem. As Anne Broache at News.com reports, Zucker said that intellectual property theft should be the center of attention at all levels of government, all the way up to the White House. The government should create a central intellectual property task force to coordinate enforcement, and also manage a grant and subsidy program aimed at getting state and local governments involved in the effort.

Center of attention at all levels of government? Is he kidding? With the threat of islamic terror, the fall of the dollar against the Euro, the looming energy crisis, we should be concentrating on music piracy? What?
I really do not see this as one of the major problems in our society. They claim to be loosing millions of dollars, but were this true, they would be forced to close their operations and seek another method of earning their daily bread. By "loosing money", they really mean their profits are a couple million less than projected. The entire music and film industry of today is the biggest con game ever peretrated against the people of the world. Until the advent of recorded music and the growth of popular music, the average musician was little more than a minstrel, happy to get a bite to eat and a pile of straw upon which to spend the night in exchange for a song or two. Now, they are not happy unless they are making several million dollars and influencing culture and policy at all levels.

Ban Guns to stop violence?

2007-04-18T10:56:00.000+02:00

From World Net Daily, The grave danger of 'gun-free zones':

In Israel, however, teachers and parents serving as school aids are armed at all times on school grounds with semi-automatic weapons. Since this policy was adopted in the 1970s, attacks by gunmen at schools in Israel have ceased.

Government officials must be aware that if they create a gun-free zone, they are liable for any harm it causes. Why would those in authority rather see law-abiding, disarmed citizens die than risk armed citizens harming a criminal?

How the west will be lost

2007-04-04T11:23:00.000+02:00

Christians are being constantly and ruthlessly persecuted the world over today. It is, I believe, the minority that are against Christianity, but they use scare tactics and shame tactics to win over a bare majority to their cause. The most ridiculous claim, I believe, is the theory that Christianity is the cause of more wars and killing than anything else. A short study of the reign of Mao Tse Tsung or Josef Stalin should put that idea to rest.

I believe that the adversary has a hand in the happenings in the world today; there is no other explanation for what is going on. Anyone, except Jews and Christians, can proclaim their beliefs where ever they want, in the schools, in the halls of congress, anywhere; places that a Christian proclaiming his beliefs would be accused of intolerance or abusing the separation of Church and State.

We are becoming weak, in the western world. We bow to all who oppose us, refusing to fight. We are advised to give criminals what they want, so that they do not harm us. We are to rely on the justice system to give us justice after the fact; the justice consisting of the criminal being given a so called fair trial, with all the fairness being given to the criminal, rather than the victim.

It is the same on the international arena. Irani criminals, lead by the head thief Ahmedinejad, have captured some British sailors. Following the modern creed of giving the criminals what they want, the British are negotiating with the Iranians. If it goes like the German angler, those sailors will be in Irani jails for a long time.

In the old days, just a short 100 years ago, this would not have been a problem. It is very unlikely that the Iranians would have dared to attack Britain is such a way. If they did, it would have gone very badly for the Iranians. The British would not have threatened to go to the United Nations, they would have demanded the return of the sailors over the barrels of naval cannon. They would probably have destroyed a good portion of Iranian infrastructure, just to make a point.

The way I see it, it is left wing refusal to fight that has been the cause of more death and misery in the world than any other cause.

How Much Longer

2006-12-12T19:29:00.000+01:00

How much longer will the free world remain in denial over Islam. Islam represents the greatest threat the freeworld has faced since Hitler, and the Axis was just the three countries, basically. Islam is over 1 billion believers, who all, in varying degrees, hate anyone who is not Islam. I sounds like something from a Douglas Adams novel, but it is the reality.
Their beliefs, if taken as written in their scriptures, require them to convert, enslave, or kill all unbelievers. What is so hard to understand about that? Or is it simply too hard to believe? We are all headed for bad times if we do not wake up, and soon. It is the end of the world as we know, and I do not feel fine.

Real People

2006-12-08T10:45:00.000+01:00

Listen to the mainsteam media and the leftist elites, you'd think all America is ready to surrender the middle east to radical Islam, but just listen to what real Americans have to say:
To the question: "Do We Have the Stomach?"

The general population of the US *does* have the stomach.

We just have to get the rest over the notion that we are "Evil" for doing what needs to be done.

Hmmm, you raise an interesting point here. The troops know first hand, and the public just knows the bullshit the press feeds them. Wonder if that skews the perception? lol

I'm standing fast, I think if we pull out now, terrorism will get way bad. Plus we need to build the trust again with iraq.

I think we have the stomach for it, i mean if we didnt it would ACTUALLY be like vietnam , that is what i see being the most important difference here

well first off, I HATE the media!!! they are SOOO negative. Take the opportunity to talk to soldiers who have been to Iraq and they will tell you, yes it's bad- but we're doing good things! HELLO!! MEDIA- why not tell us what we're doing, not just what the death count is. OK, media rant over. I think we should stead fast because I personally don't want the dang terrorists in my back yard, I prefer to keep them over there and if we leave they will follow. AND I am afraid that if the american people don't realize this that it's going to be vietnam all over again- we lost because the war was not supported, come on all- lets support our troops!

Here's the situation: Prior to going over to Iraq, American citizens felt as if we were the most powerful and militarily (if this is a word) dominant nation on the planet.

This was the same feeling during Desert Storm.

Most Americans perception of people in other countries is that they are naturally weaker than us.

If this is so, then what is staving off our country's total victory in all areas of this war?

Doubt.

Doubt raised by the media and politicians over the reasons we're fighting this war.

Doubt reiterated by family members to their children already committed to fighting this war.

Heck, even doubt being broadcast by soldiers and former soldiers themselves.

How are the other countries able to stave off the US complete dominance in these engagements? Simple: by denying the media and public from talking or going against their nation's efforts and having their soldiers believe in a concept other than that of themselves.

Call it wrong or whatever, but for the most part, this elimination of "doubt" is allowing countries that shouldn't even lift a finger against us to cause our military force some major setbacks.

And, no. It is not all Rumsfeld's fault. He had Generals under him.

I saw how we were treated after Vietnam. The American people since then cannot stomach a protracted war. Take todays' attitude to WW2, we've would have pulled out troops out of the war in 1942, after the American Army suffered a disaster at Kasserine Pass in Africa. The American people for the most part have the mentality that if we can't win the video version of defeating an enemy, then shut the game off and go have a beer! My take on things after a 22 year military career is this...remember folks: for those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know!!

These days the political parties fight each other tooth and nail....why is that? I am pretty sure that other countries see this as dissension of the USA? Or I could be wrong? This is what I would think if I was a foreigner living in another country and the first thing I see is Democrats and Republicans fighting over a few crumbs...the crumbs being political offices.

The problem is the bullshit liberal ass crap being shoved down people's throats by the media, and so many swallowing it. Our troops deserve better than that. God help us-the democrats are the majority now, let's just hope we don't get f**kin' Hillary Clinton in office.

I Just wonder..The people who sacrifice the least...Tend to Bitch the most...They Give nothing.but expect everything,,,,They DEMAND rights but REFUSE to place themselves in harms way,,,

I think there are a lot more conservs out there than we think... I was SHOCKED that bush won Colorado (where I was living at the last election) because everywhere there were anti bush signs and vote for Kerry signs EVERYWHERE I saw a total of 1 pro bush sign during the entire campaign, but yet - he took Colorado. My personal opinion is that liberals are A LOT more outspoken than conservs - hints why they're called that LOL! and if I have my way I will NEVER allow another clinton in office EVER! Plus I don't think the US is ready for a female president yet, I think it would be great, but I don't think as a whole we're ready.

These people give me renewed hope for our great land, if only our representative would listen to the real America, we'd have a chance of defeating the Islamic menace. These quotes are NOT from a conservative website, they are from a myspace type site called Cherry Tap. These are the thoughts and feelings of the real America.

American Values

2006-11-29T11:25:00.000+01:00

Those six Imams who acted suspiciously on the US Air flight are still in the news. There are all kinds of theories about what they were trying to. Some thought that observers were only being paranoid, or racist. Others thought they were doing a test run, others thought they were actually going to attempt to take the plane. I read one commentator on Townhall who postulated that perhaps they were looking to be insulted in order to initiate a lawsuit, on the grounds that running a Jihad is expensive.

It's all horse manure, when you get down to it. It's time to stop this Political Correct behaviour before it gets us all killed . Profiling is an effective way to stop crime and terrorism. While it may be true that most blacks are law abiding, most muslims are not terrorists, and most politicians are honest, the statistics suggest that we pay more attention to blacks when looking to prevent crime, to muslims to prevent terrorism, and to politicians when we want to expose liars.

I would love to see America become what she was always meant to be: One Nation Under God, Indivisable. One nation, not the many nations she is becoming. Multiculturalism is killing this great land, the greatest the world has ever known. Hyphenated Americans will be the death of her. We should all strive to be Americans, sharing a common culture and common dreams, and a common faith. There are those of the minorities in America that do try to escape the multi-culti hell that has been keeping them down, but they face derision from their peers, subject to hateful "white on the inside" insults: apples, twinkies, oreos. But they are not white on the inside, but American through and through. They are not selling out their race, but taking their place in the great American dream, accepting the opportunities that exist in America for all men, regardless of race or creed. America has opportunities for everyone, limited only by one's ambition and willingness to work.

Christianity is still under attack in political correct land. Trailers of the new nativity movie have been banned in Chicago.

The so-called war on Christmas has been reignited with an ironic decision by the city of Chicago to ban advertisements for "The Nativity Story" movie from a local Christmas festival, fearing they might offend non-Christians.
World Net Daily

Most Americans are Christians, worry about offending them! These officials are elected, aren't they? No Christian should vote for these people again, who needs elected officials who are being paid to be insulting? We need people in elected positions who represent us, who acknowledge our beliefs and represent our needs and desires. We do not need representatives who represent the minority.

Liberal Political Correctness inundates the social arena, with the motto: "Do SOMETHING, even if it doesn't work, or even if it makes things worse!!" You have to show that you care. It is a well known example, so often ignored by do-gooders, that to steal from peter to feed paul is still stealing and wrong. Walter E. Williams, on Townhall.com wrote in today's column:

In other words, once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so. You say, "Williams, don't you believe in helping your fellow man?" Yes, I do. I believe that reaching into one's own pockets to help his fellow man is both laudable and praiseworthy. Reaching into another's pockets to help his fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
The bottom line: We love government because it enables us to accomplish things that if done privately would lead to arrest and imprisonment. For example, if I saw a person in need, and I took your money to help him, I'd be arrested and convicted of theft. If I get Congress to do the same thing, I am seen as compassionate.

This do good attitude of Liberals does good only for their own conscience. They hurt people in order to assuage their feelings of guilt. Africa is a continent of problems assacerbated by Liberal do-gooders, who throw money and grain at the problem, which is stolen by the corrupt governments instituted by these same Liberals, who used these people as experimental guinea pigs to test their social theories, then refused to accept the results as showing the failure of their theories. Michal Medved broaches this topic as well:
Why Some Liberals Admire a "Suicide for Peace"

In the same way, liberals judge national policies based on idealistic motivations rather than practical impact. They revere the “War on Poverty”; despite the fact that it almost certainly harmed the long-term interests of poor people, at least it reflected governmental concern for the less fortunate. In the same way, leftists supported Clinton’s interventions in Bosnia, Haiti, or Kosovo because the President meant to advance the cause of peace, not to serve any parochial U.S. interests. On the most elemental and intimate level, liberals love feeding programs or other handouts for the homeless – even though they help to extend the cycle of hopelessness. Motives count more than consequences.

It bears repeating: "Motive count more than consequences". He goes on to contrast the liberal methodology with conservative theory:

Conservatives, on the other hand, focus on results, on real world outcomes, and appreciate those who benefit humanity even if they’re driven by selfish motives. Drug companies, for instance, save millions of lives, regardless of their concern for the profit motive, and those who build new homes or develop beautiful new neighborhoods deserve credit for their contributions, even if they hope to make a killing in the process. Yes, conservatives may express admiration for those who sacrifice themselves, but only if that sacrifice serves some worthy cause – saving people from disease, or turning the tide of battle in one of this nation’s necessary wars.

It is time for all Americans to embrace Conservative ideology, to fight liberal idiocy, to champion the honest business man, and to stand up for Christian values. It is time we all stood together, to find real solutions to poverty world wide, to fight tyranny, and to end discrimination. It will take all people working together, in freedom. We need to learn about how the economy really works, and teach real values and free market standards to all. End subsidies, let industries that can not sustain themselves die off, and make room for new industries. It will cause hardships here and there, but not as much as the current state of affairs.

psiii

2006-11-28T11:21:00.000+01:00

The world is going insane. $3500, I heard, for a Play Station 3 on E-bay. What is so important, so fascinating on this bit of electronic that so many people have to have one? I'm just not into video games like that. I play once in a while, but I prefer freeware games for the computer. They are usually interesting to play, and cost only the time to download. There are those, sure, that have an advertisement bit with them, but between my antivirus software and spy-bot, I can avoid those easy enough. The nicest thing about freeware is, if the game turns out to be boring, I've lost nothing! I only have to delete it and look for another.
Something has gone really wrong with our society. It's the same in Europe as well. No one wants to perform the simple jobs anymore. America relies on illegal mexicans for manual labor, Western Europe on Eastern Europeans. Germany tried, last summer, to do something against the high unemployment by requiring farmers to hire unemployed Germans for most farm labour positions last year. It failed miserably. The Germans could not do the work! They were simply too spoiled by the riches of modern, western civilization to be capable anymore of the work that was normal just a couple of decades ago.
I read in James Herriots books the reminiscences of an old farm hand that the vet met in the 30s, talking about the "old days", before the tractor. He told of how the men went out with the rising of the sun to work the fields, worked all day with only a short break for lunch, then came home. Upon arriving at the farm house, they fed the horses, ate their supper, then went back out to the barns to take care of the horses. That was every day except Sundays. I've read stories of lumberjacks in turn of the century Maine, who marched into the woods with their axes and saws on their shoulders each morning, and spent the whole day cutting trees. They had only a short break for lunch, and only quit working when it was too dark to continue.
Who today could work like that? We've become soft, weak. We've become too conditioned to the soft life, no more capable of real work than the aristocrats we fought in the revolutionary war. Unless something can change, somehow, we are in the end phase of the American dream, America has become to politically correct, to squeamish, to continue to exist. Our enemies are still comparatively strong; we hold them off only with our technology. But, like the minutemen in 1776, our enemies are finding ways to defeat us despite our advantages. They are hungrier then we are, driven by desire to escape poverty or by religious fire, another virtue lost today in America.
Where is the religious fire that our ancestors felt? No longer is it natural to believe in God, rather the norm is to question everything, including the basic faith that sustained America through 2 centuries.
America needs a revival in Faith in the One God, the great I AM. She needs a revival in the willingness of her citizens to work hard, long hours, with more vision for getting the job done rather than for the financial rewards.

Fight Discrimination with Discrimination

2006-11-25T08:24:00.000+01:00

Canadian University Set to Prohibit Club Status For Any Group Opposed to Abortion

By John-Henry Westen

OTTAWA, November 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A motion debated at the November 21 session of the Carleton University Students' Association (CUSA) council meeting would prohibit any group opposed to abortion from attaining club status at the University. While aimed at a pro-life group of students seeking club status on campus, the proposed policy may ban Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish and Muslim clubs as well.

On November 21, Katy McIntyre Vice President of CUSA Student Services, proposed a "Motion to Amend Discrimination on Campus Policy" which would bar from club status all groups opposed to abortion. The motion stated:

1) CUSA and CUSA Inc. respect and affirm a woman's right to choose.
2) No CUSA resources, space, recognition or funding be allocated for anti-choice purposes.

Women should exercise their right to choose whether or not to engage in sexual activity. Their unborn child should not be made to suffer for a illconsidered moment. A woman has a responsibility to that tiny life growing inside of her that takes precedence over her own plans. This so called "right to choose" is pure selfishness, symptomatic of a self-centered societal mindset.

The summary of the motion argues that pro-life groups are "anti-choice", and "seek to remove choice by making abortion illegal and it would be impossible to make abortion illegal without violating the Canadian Constitution, by removing a woman's right to life, liberty, and security of the person".

What? And what about the "life, liberty, and security of the person" of the unborn child? That poor, defenseless, tiny bit of human life, to be thrown away for the conveniance of a selfish brat who chose to conceive.

Thanksgiving

2006-11-24T12:39:00.000+01:00

Well, it's the day after Thanksgiving, the day we take the time to thank the good Lord for all he has done for us over the past year. Time to take some time to remember all the blessings we've been blessed with.
I haven't had the best year ever, but there was still things to be thankful for.
My daughter was accepted into the Gymnasium.
My colitis has gotten a lot better.
We're all healthy, except for my little problems.
America hasn't experienced another major terrorist attack.
We are still free to worship as we will.
I can still state my opinion on Islam without being threatened with death.
My computer still works.
My chickens continue to lay eggs.
My dog is healthy and relatively well behaved.
We have enough to eat and drink. The air we breath is relatively clean, the water out of our tap is plentiful and safe to drink.
We have so much more to be thankful for than the pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, who had only the fact that they were still alive and had a harvest to be thankful for. They still faced another hard winter. Their number was growing with the arrival of more immigrants, none of whom brought supplies. The Indians in the area were for the most part peaceful, and helpful. Nothing was easy for them, but they considered it to be worth it, just for the chance to worship God as they saw fit.
That ability to worship God in our own way is under attack in the United States today. The ACLU works actively against all public display of Christian worship, acting as though any mention of God or Jesus in American public life carried as much weight as a Congressional fiat declaring one Christian denomination as the only one allowed in the world!
The ten commandments in a county courthouse, a nativity display in a town square, or a student thanking God at her commencement speech is the free exercise of religion, the very thing that sent those first pilgrims to the wild Massachusetts shore.

Juan Pablo in a Stock Car

2006-11-16T10:12:00.000+01:00

AP: Montoya to Make Nextel Cup Debut
By JENNA FRYER, The Associated Press
Nov 15, 2006 6:27 PM (9 hrs ago)
Current rank: # 362 of 9,099 articles
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Juan Pablo Montoya will attempt to make his Nextel Cup debut at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the No. 30 Dodge, The Associated Press has learned.

Car owner Chip Ganassi had briefly considered putting Montoya in the No. 42 Dodge, which is driven by Casey Mears and is guaranteed a spot in the field. The No. 30 is not, and Montoya will have to qualify the car to get into Sunday's race.

"He'll earn more respect if he qualifies the car then he will if he takes the freebie," Ganassi told the AP on Wednesday. "And isn't that what this has all been about? Gaining respect? At the end of the day, Juan didn't want a free pass into the race."

I watched Montoya compete in Formula 1 for the few years he raced in the series, always with the opinion he'd be much better suited to NASCAR. He's a good driver, but much too aggressive for Formula 1.

Iraqi Artist Honors US Troops

2006-11-16T08:40:00.000+01:00

It's about time.

2006-11-14T11:40:00.000+01:00

8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.

9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Corinthians 7:8-10 (King James Version)

AP reports:

Pope to Hold Summit on Married Priests
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has called a meeting Thursday with top Vatican officials to discuss lifting the celibacy requirement for priests seeking to marry or who have already married.

I am protestant in my faith, but was raised Catholic. I've felt for a long time that it is foolish to require Priests to be celibate.

Supreme Court and the Ten Commandments Amendments

2006-11-14T09:31:00.000+01:00

This from World Net Daily

FAITH UNDER FIRE
Ten Commandments stunner:
Feds lying at Supreme Court
Government tells modern visitors
it's Bill of Rights being honored

He was most disturbed by what appears to be revisionism in the presentations given to visitors at the Supreme Court. There, he said, his tour guide was describing the marble frieze directly above the justices' bench.

"Between the images of the people depicting the Majesty of the Law and Power of Government, there is a tablet with ten Roman numerals, the first five down the left side and the last five down the right. This tablet represents the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights," she said.

The ten what? was DuBord's thought.

Read more here
This is a shameful, secular humanist revision of American history, a shameless denial of our Judeo-Christian heritage! DuBord also mentions in his piece that this anti-Christian propaganda is going on even at Jamestown, where tour guides claim that the settlers came to America for money, and fail to mention religious freedom or missionary work with the natives. I am so afraid for America, I fear God's wrath, if there is not soon a major revival of faith.
America's moral standards are dropping daily, and they'll drop faster with the likes of Pelosi as speaker of the house. The democrats have already decided to choose a black man for majority whip, over a better qualified white man, just to have a minority represented, as racist an act as any Jim Crow law. I hate seeing anyone, of any race, creed, or color, discriminated against, in any way, shape, or form.
In today's America, it is considered acceptable among the liberal elite to discriminate against the majority of Americans, the white, Christian Americans, in the name of "justice", to make up for past injuries. I say we should just let bygones be bygones, and give all Americans the same chances at success and happiness. I don't care who a man is, where he comes from, who his ancestors were. If he wants to live in America, and be successful, he needs to fulfill the same requirements of education and will to work and persevere as anyone else. And, he should be given an equal chance. Equal, not weighted because of his race or upbringing. People of all races had to struggle to be accepted in American society, had to adapt and become part of the wonderful American culture we know today, but which is being ripped to shreds by politically correct fools.

Focus on the Family Values

2006-11-10T10:40:00.000+01:00

They just don't get it'
is why Republicans lost
Dobson, Bauer, Minnery, Perkins
say GOP ignored voters' values

The so-called "values voters" who handed both houses of Congress and the White House to Republicans in 2000 and 2004 were at this year's election, they just didn't see anybody promising to represent them, according to several leaders influential to that group of Americans.

The shame of it is, is that the "values voters" handed both houses to those who are even less likely to represent them.

"The unfortunate thing is that Republican leaders still don't appear to get it. Sen. Arlen Spector, R-Pa., said on Wednesday that the election results represented a 'seismic earthquake' and that his party must become 'a lot more progressive and a lot less ideological,'" said James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and director of its dozens of publications and broadcast service that reaches about five million Americans daily.

The Republican leaders get the message that they were sent. The voters chose the more liberal party, so logically they want a more progressive and ideological government.

"Dick Armey emerged from four years in the wilderness to blame conservative Christians for Tuesday's defeat. They were, he said, 'too involved' with the party. He can't be serious! Someone should tell him that without the support of that specific constituency, John Kerry would be president and the Republicans would have fallen into a black hole in '04," he said.

BOVINE EXCREMENT!!!!!! They were not "too involved", they were not involved enough! Without the conservative Christians, of course Kerry would have won, the Democrats would have taken the congress in '04, the troops would have been pulled out of Iraq, and there would have been further attacks on American soil. The Republican party lost in '06 because they failed their constituents, they spent like drunken sailors, they ignored the illegal immigrant problem, they did nothing about abortion rights, they did nothing to protect marriage. And the dems in rep clothing didn't help matters, voting democrat got at least someone in whose more honest about who he is, rather than pseudo-republicans like Snowe, Collins, and McCain.
'Agent of Change' trounced by pro-war Republican Anti-war Democrat blames drubbing on her plain looks

A Democratic candidate considered one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq war was clobbered by one of its biggest supporters in a Minnesota race that's received little media coverage.

She blames her loss on her "plain looks".

Incumbent Republican John Kline trounced anti-war activist Coleen Rowley by double digits in their bid for the state's 2nd congressional district. The blowout bucks conventional wisdom that anti-war sentiment worked in Democrats' favor across the board.

"Anti-war sentiments" had nothing to do with it. These moonbats can not comprehend that Islam presents a real danger for the free world, and they can not accept that anyone else believes that, unless they are brainwashed by the "rightist-elite". They really need to read through the koran, and learn about how it interprets to fundamental Islam.
Basically, a good, Koran believing, fundamentaly muslim wants to subjagate the whole world by force if necessary, into one large caliphate, submissive (Islam) to Allah. A good, Bible believing, fundamental Christian, loves his neighbor, desperately wants him to be saved and believe in Christ, but accepts if his neighbor chooses not to. He may approach his neighbor, he will pray for his neighbor, but he will not subject his neighbor to a dhimmi like status, nor will he chop his neighbor's head off, as the Koran commands the Muslim to do.
R.I. Senator May Leave Republican Party

Two days after losing a bid for a second term, Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he would remain a Republican.

Chafee lost to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in a race seen as a referendum on President Bush and the GOP. On Thursday, he was asked whether he would stick with the Republican Party or become an independent or Democrat.

A rat leaving the ship?

He is the most liberal Republican in the Senate and was the sole Senate Republican to vote against the war in Iraq. But that was not enough to prevail against Whitehouse, who shared many of Chafee's views but was a Democrat in a heavily Democratic state.

Good riddance!

"There were times walking into my caucus room where it wasn't fun," he said, adding that he stayed with the GOP largely because it helped him bring federal dollars home to Rhode Island.

Just the kind of politician we don't need.
Is it any wonder Republicans lost? They abandoned the principles of the core voters, they gave the democrats lesson on spending, while at the same time cutting taxes. They failed to adequately inform the general public of the state of the union: despite the overall rosy economic outlook, low unemployment, booming stockmarket, people like my own mother believed that the economy was in real trouble, and the proof of thet the found at every gas pump, with the perceived high prices of fuel.
That's all it took, gas prices catching up with general inflation, plus doom and gloom MSM reporters, equals voter discontent and a democrat victory.

Takes

2006-11-09T10:58:00.000+01:00

The results of the election are, I find, disturbing. Ann Coulter writes:

Democrats support surrender in Iraq, higher taxes and the impeachment of President Bush. They just won an election by pretending to be against all three.

Get A Grip! says Flopping Aces

So because the base was upset we will NOT see another good conservative judge on SCOTUS for a looooong time. Because the base was upset we will not see ANY kind of illegal immigration enforcement. Because the base is upset will we see drawn out silly investigations of Bush while gridlock becomes commonplace in both houses. Because the base is upset we may very well see us abandoning the Iraqi’s to their fate as we did to the Vietnamese.

At least somebody's happy (Cindy Sheehan on Hot Air video
ACLU Cheers Election Results

Yesterday voters nationwide rejected candidates who failed to uphold civil liberties and rejected ballot initiatives that undermine fundamental freedoms of all Americans.

“American voters have reinvigorated our system of checks and balances essential to stopping the abuse of power,” said Anthony D. Romero, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director. “Voters finally had enough of the 109th Congress that repeatedly rubber-stamped legislation that violates our basic rights. Voters also rejected many state ballot initiatives designed to restrict civil liberties and meddle in our personal lives. The 110th Congress should take note - voters rejected political scare tactics and government power grabs in favor of civil liberties and policies that keep us safe and free.”

So, a good day for cut and run Democrats, a good day for communists, a bad day for liberty, freedom, and American family values.

Gee, I think they like us now!!

2006-11-08T20:11:00.000+01:00

Dems Wins in US Are Embraced Overseas

From Paris to Pakistan, politicians, analysts and ordinary citizens said they hoped the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives would force President Bush to adopt a more conciliatory approach to global crises, and teach a president many see as a "cowboy" a lesson in humility.

Arabs React to U.S. Election Results

"I was really thrilled when I learned that the Democrats won in Congress," said Mohammed Ali, a Cairo auto parts salesman. "They are far better than the Republicans led by Bush, who destroyed everything everywhere. Look at Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon."

"President Bush is no longer acceptable worldwide," said Suleiman Hadad, a lawmaker in Syria, whose autocratic government has been shunned by the U.S.

Even in pro-Western Jordan, newspaper editor Nabil al-Sharif said many Arabs believe U.S. policies under Bush are "dangerous to the region and to the world."

"We are delighted that the American voters have at least disassociated themselves from these dangerous policies," he said.

Hamas Leader Says Israel Truce Is Over

"There must be a roaring reaction so that we avenge all those victims," he said. Two Palestinian militant groups promised to step up suicide attacks in response. Hamas' military wing in Gaza urged Muslims worldwide to attack U.S. targets, a call disavowed by the Hamas-led Palestinian government.

The European and Arab leaders like us now, we voted Democrats who support their view, The Arab on the street is embracing the Democrat win, even Hamas is shooting off fireworks to celebrate.
On the other hand:

In Israel, on the other hand, some analysts worried that political infighting between Democrats and Republicans in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election might distract the Americans from looming crises in the Middle East, chief among them the prospect of a nuclear Iran.

"Israelis perceive the Iranian threat as imminent," said Prof. Menahem Blondheim of Hebrew University. "Without political support at home and in his party and among American public, a decisive military or diplomatic move against Iran seems less and less likely."

Well, you can't please everyone.
Other's get it:

But some analysts - even some who opposed the war from the start - saw dangers for the region in a quick American departure from Iraq.

"The problem for Arabs now is, an American withdrawal could be a security disaster for the entire region," said Mustafa Alani, an Iraqi analyst for the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.

And others don't:

For many Arabs, the war in Iraq stands out as the defining event of the Bush administration.

Kuwaiti political analyst Abdul-Ridha Aseeri described Democrats' gains as a "normal reaction" to the president's "failed" policies in Iraq. Kuwait was among the few Arab countries where support for the war was strong when the conflict began in 2003.

Aseeri predicted the resurgent Democrats may succeed in pressuring Bush into a face-saving formula for withdrawing from Iraq.

I still believe it would be a great mistake to withdraw from the middle east. And a greater mistake to withdraw our support for Israel.
I really don't care if they like us, I care that America remains secure in her borders, and her people remain free. We do that by fighting tyranny and supporting democracy.
I favor supporting Israel by my faith: the Jews are God's chosen people, "3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed, Genesis 12:3", and also politically, they are a free democracy worthy of our support.

Dems Take House

2006-11-08T09:20:00.000+01:00

By a good percentage. The American people have spoken, I just hope they realize they have spoken for:
Higher costs of goods: increased minimum wages, and increased union wages tied to minimum.
Higher Taxes: dems opposed tax cuts, and are in favor of increased social programs.
Increased risk of attack my muslim terrorist: the dems want to give the t's in Iraq the victory.
Decreased moral standards: The dems are known for advancing, for example, abortion and gay rights.
Cut and Run in Iraq, weaker military, more persecution of Christians.
Flood of Mexican immigrants, though if their social programs kill the economy sufficiently, that could stem the tide.

Many conservatives see the dem victory as a chance to regroup and get back to core beliefs, but how many consider that the liberals may have been doing that as well, lo these many years of Republican control?

Election Day

2006-11-07T13:59:00.000+01:00

I am hoping and praying that the Republicans maintain control. As a conservative, I see a Republican that may or may not represent my views, a Democrat as one who represents views opposite of mine.
There's so much useless talk going on in the political arena, in the campaign ads and in the blogosphere. The country is at war right now, I think that, being as Americans are generally a peace loving people, winning this thing and returning to a state of peace should be the top priority right now. And it should be a peace like the end of WWII, an unconditional surrender on the part of our enemies, a total victory.
The cease fire in Korea, the fiasco in Vietnam, the 12 year long no fly zone war in Iraq, that's no way to run a peace. I believe a total victory saves lives: how many died as a result of the cold war and the aforementioned "peace" situations?
If we'd fought for a real peace with the USSR after WWII, if we'd fought N. Korea until they surrendered, if we'd supported the troops in Vietnam and achieved victory there, untold lives would have been saved, millions would have been spared living in brutal, totalitarian regimes.

Saddam Verdict

2006-11-05T17:50:00.000+01:00

The verdict is in and Saddam was found guilty, as expected. He is to be hanged, and, as expected, the protests have begun.
The Shiites, who lost people and were persecuted by Saddam, cheered, Saddam's buddies the Sunnis protested. Iran, England, and Australia cheered the decision. Never thought that Iran would be on our side in anything, but this is a special case, I suppose.
The evil, I find, is the protests in Europe against the judgement.

Underscoring the fault lines that split the international community and widened the divide between Muslims and Christians, Islamic leaders warned that Sunday's verdict could inflame those who revile the United States - undermining U.S. policy in the volatile Middle East and inspiring terrorists.

Saddam is a criminal, was tried by an Iraqi court, found guilty by an Iraqi court for crimes against the Iraqi people, and sentenced by an Iraqi court, so of course America is evil, George Bush planned it out to the last second to help his Republican hegemony keep control of America in their fascist plan to rule the world and crush the poor blah blah blah (for more see the moonbat robot on the sidebar)

"The hanging of Saddam Hussein will turn to hell for the Americans," said Vitaya Wisethrat, a respected Muslim cleric in Thailand, where a bloody Islamic insurgency is raging in the country's south.

"The Saddam case is not a Muslim problem but the problem of America and its domestic politics," he said. "The Americans are about to vote in a midterm election, so maybe Bush will use this case to tell the voters that Saddam is dead and that the Americans are safe. But actually the American people will be in more danger with the death of Saddam."

Yes, of course, we've heard it all before. The great Satan, although making life better and safer for Iraqis, is the bad guy again. It's all America's fault, don't you forget it.

Many European nations voiced their opposition to the death penalty, including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, and a leading Italian opposition figure called on the continent to press for Saddam's sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment.

Where was the bleeding protest from European nations every time an adulterer or a homosexual was stoned to death in Iran or Saudi Arabia? Where was the protest when that sixteen year old girl was sentenced to death for chastity violations? I'm tired of America being held to higher standards than these barbarians, these fanatics that threaten the very foundations of freedom that America was built on, that we helped bring to Europe after WWII. They are throwing it all away, kowtowing to these Islamic b**t**ds! It makes me want to pull my hair out and scream! What is wrong with the world? If the people we have in charge today were around in 1945, Hitler would have been given a severe talking to.
The whole of civilization is going down the tubes at this rate. The fear of islam is chipping away at our freedoms bit by bit. The free world has no concept of evil anymore, moral relativism is causing us to care more about the rights and problems of criminals than the rights of free people to live in peace. They take away our guns, so that a poor, disadvantaged burglar won't risk getting shot. They take care not to offend the muslims for fear of more violence: "Don't accuse them of being violent, somebody might get hurt!!!"
These jealous nincompoops spend all their time looking for something to use against America, instead of building their own countries up to American standards. The accuse America of having to little safety nets for the poor, and fail to see their own safety nets are driving their countries into financial ruin.
I read in the paper today, that sport fans wearing bomber jackets will be turned away at the stadium gates, because neo-nazis wear bomber jackets, and it's possible that the jacket wearer is also a neo-nazi. This from the same people who would never profile an arab. So much for innocent until proven guilty, with this action are the Germans worse than they accuse the Americans of being!
Yes: the neo nazis are a danger, they do cause violence, but: how about a little fairness? If you're going to ban the neo-nazis, ban the muslims as well; both groups are violent, both groups are fascist dipsticks that want their own view of culture to prevail. When it comes down to it, the Neo-nazis aren't as bad as the muslims: The NNs only want to control Germany, and throw out anyone who isn't German. The muslims want to rule the whole world! Religion of peace, my left ......

In a war zone, imagine that

2006-11-03T11:25:00.000+01:00

Associated press reports "November Off to Bloody Start in Iraq"

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blood-drenched October has passed into a violent early November as a motorcycle rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded Shiite market in Sadr City on Thursday and suspected Sunni insurgent gunmen killed a Shiite dean of Baghdad University.

Who'd of thought, that there'd be violence in a war zone.

Also Friday, U.S. troops killed 13 suspected insurgents in a raid south of Baghdad, the military said.

Troops were acting on intelligence reports saying a suspect with links to al-Qaida in Iraq was in the building in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, the military said.

But of course, there are no al-Qaeda in Iraq, there were al-Qaida.
This violence is not reason to bring the troops home, but rather to step up our commitment and bring an end to the violence, by rooting out every last one of these "insurgents".

Sad note

2006-11-03T08:58:00.000+01:00

A teenager poured out her heart on yellow-lined paper in the curlicue pencil handwriting of a schoolgirl, begging God to forgive her and asking for a second chance.

"Lord, I know that I have had an abortion and I killed one of your angels," she wrote. "There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about the mistake I made."

From an article in the Examiner, about "letters to God" found on a New Jersey beach.

Kerry, Kerry, get a clue!

2006-11-02T10:11:00.000+01:00

"This is the classic GOP playbook," Kerry said. "I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium."

John Kerry, quoted in World Net Daily
Here is a despicable Republican attack on the troops:

'What you're doing is noble and important and you're going to win and history will look back and thank you for your sacrifices.'

The President, in the same article.
Kerry's problem appears to be that he doesn't know who the enemy is, which shows he hasn't changed since he helped the Viet Cong win in Vietnam.

Gays, Muslims, Immigrants

2006-11-01T16:52:00.000+01:00

World Net Daily was plastered today with gay news. Had that line been written 100 years ago, it would have been reason to suspect that good news was in the air. Alas, it is 2006 and "gay news" means more stories of perceived discrimination, and today, murder.
A Wal*Mart worker quit over Wal*Mart's support of the gay agenda, claiming that she can no longer support the low moral standards that have become the norm for the company. When Sam Walton ran the company, she said, he maintained a high moral standard, ran the company by Christian values. Today, girly magazines are found in the magazine rack next to the Field & Stream. I think that Wal*Mart is making a big mistake in their support of the GLBT agenda, making a move that will alienate them from their core consumers. Oh, I suppose that most customers will not be willing to give up the lower prices because of it, but I do believe that they will lose more than they gain.
A gay man who killed a catholic woman in 2002 goes on trial, four years after the fact. What happened to a speedy trial? The story reports:

She was stabbed, strangled, raped and beaten, and then her body was stuffed in a crawl space under the floor of an apartment, he reported.

It goes on:

"It happened because she could not leave him alone in his (homosexual) lifestyle," she said, describing the apparent confrontation between the two at the Sikorsky Funeral Home where Stochowicz worked and where Gutierrez lived in an apartment with his partner, Ray.

The attorney for the killer claims that Stachowicz'words were an assault on his client.

"The Gutierrez defense team's Politically Correct courtroom ploy ought to be called the 'Anti-homophobe Panic Defense,'" said Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, a pro-family organization. "Marchigiani's is an ugly attempt to exploit the liberal caricature of Christians who oppose homosexuality as crazed haters with a penchant for aggression."

Christian haters posted comments:

"I really don't feel sorry for her. She paid a very steep price for being an arrogant religious fascist. Too bad for her," said "Iris" in a posting on the ACLU Online Forum.

"Maybe this will give pause to other people who similarly try to 'help' homosexuals," said "Silence Dogood" on the same forum.

"The mainstream media and homosexual advocacy organizations have reacted to Mary Stachowicz's murder the same way they did to 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising's torture-murder at the hands of two homosexual men in 1999: by avoiding it," said Allyson Smith of the CFI (Culture and Family Institute).

Allyson Smith also reported that:

there was no condemnation of the murder from Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance or the Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Reports from the middle east say that many muslims have protested against Christian missionaries, saying that Christian teaching are destroying the fighting spirit of the muslim young people. duh! That's the whole point of Christian teaching, at least in this case. Christians only fight when there is no other choice, but in Jerusalem, where these reports originate, there is another choice, at least for anyone who isn't a crazed, radical, jew hating, Mohammed worshipping, towel-headed muslim wannabe suicide bomber! That is, to live together in peace! The jews do not necessarily want the muslims to go away, only the ones that want to kill jews. The Christians are open as well to others living there, after Jesus' teaching to love your enemy.

Immigrants are still in the news, especially Mexicans. One side of the argument gives good reasons why the immigrants are taking jobs away, and the other side says that not only does America need the manpower, those above and beyond what America needs do not take jobs, but free Americans to take higher paying jobs, jobs that are created due to the higher demand for goods and services created by the money earning immigrants.
I think that, like most things, the truth lies somewhere between the extremes. There are other factors that niether side takes into account, such as tariffs, taxes, subsidies (so called corporate welfare), etc. In a free market economy, when the market is free to regulate itself, immigration is good for the economy. The extra manpower is absorbed as the demand for goods and services creates a need for an increased supply. The problems come when the market is not free, when production is skewed by subsidies, when demand and investment are strangled by higher taxes, or when the money earned by the immigrant workers is sent back to the mother country, instead of being spent in the new land.
Immigration needs to be strictly regulated especially in wartime, as it is now. We are involved in a conflict with a dangerous foe, made more dangerous by the apathy and outright hostility on the part of the American people towards the war. The war is being fought in too limited a fashion, life goes on in America as though no war were being fought and the people are exposed to it only on the news, or in those (relatively) rare cases when personally touched by a casualy or death of a soldier they are related to or know personally.
The death toll does sound bad on the news, any death of a soldier in combat is a tragedy, but we are at war, there is an enemy that wants to destroy everything that America stands for. If we were not so afraid of the negative publicity over collateral damage (dead civilians), we could hit the terrorists a lot harder. We've all seen what happened when Israel did that, though. The scorn of the whole world was directed towards them, for defending themselves the only way they could. The most ridiculous phrase I heard out of that whole thing was "proportional response". War is not about proportional response, or punishing the enemy for attacking. It is about winning by destroying the enemy, killing him or destroying his will to fight.
People die in war, war is evil, the most evil thing most of us will ever see. The only way to deal with those that would make war against us to to destroy them utterly, that they no longer want to make war. Cease fires are only life support systems for war, the war festers and grows under the protection of the cease fire. This is happening in Korea, in the North hatred for America is taught in the schools, children are taught lies about how evil America and the rest of the free world is. North Korea has developed an atom bomb, who knows when or if they'll use it. If Iran gets their hands on it, I have no doubt that they'll use it. MAD doesn't work against he who believes that 72 virgins are waiting for him.

You mean like democrats

2006-10-31T14:47:00.001+01:00

I may be a little late with this, but it's just great: "the Greatest Movie Line Ever", posted back in August by Brutally Honest. It's terrific!

Random Ramblings

2006-10-30T16:32:00.000+01:00

What ought I write about today? Gay marriage is a hot topic, with the bruhaha in New Jersey. Somewhat closer to home for me is the disrespectful handling of some old skulls by some German soldiers. A German blogger asks if the world really expects German soldiers to behave any better than German soldiers.
There was an awful wreck near hear over the weekend. One car stopped when the driver decided he wanted to turn left, but had to wait for the oncoming bus. The second car stopped behind him. The BMW sports that came up as the third car in that lane had a driver who made one too many bad decisioins: he decided to pass the two cars waiting for the bus, crashed head on into the bus, and was dragged 25 meters to the next tree, where the car was transformed instantly into a pile of scrap metal wrapped around human remains. Some people should never have received a driver's license.
Our village's soccer team won their game this weekend, 3:1.
Looking through the classifieds yesterday I saw an ad from someone trying to give away a 25 year old horse. Probably trying to save the disposal costs of the carcass.
I spent years trying to figure out the German politics, as there did not appear to be much difference between the two major parties, the CDU/CSU and the SPD. I finally figured out it was because there isn't a whole lot of difference. It's getting that way in America as well though, with the tax and spend Republicans we have representing us now not being very much different than the tax and spend Demeocrats they were sent there to replace.
Looks like Schumachers going to stay with Ferrari, as Jean Todt's assistant. The scuderia's not going to be what it was, though: Jean Todt's moving to another job away from the racing team, Schumacher's going with him, Ross Brawn is retiring, and the chassis designer is dropping back to a consulting roll. Kimi isn't going to find the team he thought he was joining waiting for him. They're going to need to rebuild the whole team again, with the backbone gone as it is.

Wake Up! The Muslims are coming!

2006-10-27T09:24:00.000+02:00

It's time to wake up America! The enemy is awake and actively working against us. The have penetrated our very government and entertainment industry with their evil propaganda, influencing even our president with their lies.
The enemy is Islam! Allah is Satan and Mohammed is he chief stooge.
Their lies have lead most of us to believe that Islam is a religion of tolerance and peace. Nothing could be further from the truth. Islam, since its inception, has been a warrior cult. What they did on 9/11 was a look at the truth of Islam. It was part of a string of terror comitted by the forces of evil since Mohammed first had his deranged visions.
Wake up, free world, if you want to stay free. Islam dreams of a world caliphat, the whole world under sharia law, locked forever in a constant war between Shia and Sunni.
Wake up and prepare to fight, or learn arabic and read the koran. Buy burkas for your women folk.
They hate us all, all the infidels. They hate us for believing Jesus is God, and that he died on the cross for our sins. They hate us for killing our babies in the womb. They hate us for every bottle of beer we drink, for every oz. of pork we eat. They hate us for allowing our women to drive and to work and to be educated and to vote. They hate us for not killing our homosexuals, for not hating our homosexuals. They hate us for not denouncing sin where we see it. They hate us for not believing the Koran, and they hate us more for not following the teachings of our own religion.
They hate Europe as well, their hatred grows with each schweine schnitzel eaten in the ruhr gebiet, for each glass Apfelwoi drunk in Frankfurt, for each Bratwurst eaten in Nürnberg, for each glass of wine drunk in Würzburg, for each glass of beer in Munich.
They hate the English, the hate the French. They hate the Italiens for harbouring the vaticans within their border. The really hate the Danish, need I say why?
They attack the US first, because that is their strongest enemy. They think they can get the rest later. The French ought to be easy. They've been fighting the Jew since the time of Mohammed, they idolize Adolph Hitler (Mein Kampf is a bestseller), while at the same time hating him for being an infidel. They like to deny that the holocaust happened, while at the same time threatening to finish the job.
I do not hate them, but I want them stopped before they destroy all that I love. Do as Ann Coulter suggested: Bomb their cities, Kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.
Stop Ahmed di Nijad before he gets the bomb. Destroy his nuclear facilities; we know where they are. Stop North Korea: They are not Islam, but the muslims treat them as freinds, as they are, in the words of Stalin, useful idiots, allies for the time being in the fight against stronger enemies, weakling that can then be defeated in due time.
Send all muslims in the freeworld back to the desert, unless they are will to renounce Islam (make them eat a pork chop as proof of their conversion). Tear down the mosques, or convert them to pig farms. Burn all copies of the Koran in the free world, it is the bible of the prince of lies, it is written in the pages of the unholy book that Allah is the master of cunning, which is synonomous with being the prince of lies, the lord of flies, the adversary.
Islam divides the world into the house of Islam and the house of War. That is not condusive to tolerance! Muslim tolerance is tolerating Christians and Jews to live as second class citizens, as Dhimmi, under Sharia law. The testimony of Dhimmi is worth half that of a muslim woman, which is half that of a muslim man. Dhimmi are required to pay exhorbitant taxes, are not allowed to build or repair churches, are not allowed to openly worship. All those who value freedom of religion take heed!
Islam hate adultery as Christianity and Judaism do, but where Judeo-Christian belief seeks penance and forgiveness for the adulterer, Islam seeks horrible death by stoning, a cruel, ghastly method of execution. All member of the community are required to attend. There are strict rules as to how big the rocks can be, big enough to do damage, but not so big as to cause death too soon. Thieves have their hands chopped off, women who have been raped are hung for crimes against chastity. If we do not stop Islam, and soon, This will be happening here.
Adulterers will be buried to their waists and stoned in Times Square. Theives will have their hands chopped off in front of the Eiffel tower. Girls will be hung from in Berlin. Murderers will have their heads chopped off with a sword in Tokyo.
None are safe from this threat! Not the Europeans, not the Chinese, not the "friends" of Islam, such as Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong Il. When the more powerful enemies are destroyed, they too will be offered the choice of conversion, dhimmitude, or death.
Their friend in America must be stopped: dismantle the ACLU, end Islamic symptathy in Hollywood and the mainstream media. Shake the liberals politicians until they wake up, open their eyes, and see that which is threatening everything they hold dear. For it is the Liberals, to whom they kow tow, that they secretly hate the most. They coddle and patronize the left, to keep them complacent and assist in their destruction.

In sewer ants

2006-10-25T10:09:00.000+02:00

John Stossel writes about health insurance as a employee benefit, saying that it is a bad idea and giving his reasons. The same arguments can be used against a national health care system, such as we have here in the Bundesrepulik. National health care is, in my experiences with it, expensive and inefficient. The average worker pays between 13% and 15% of his gross income for health insurance, plus any private "zusatz" insurance he may choose to have to get better care is he or a member of his family should be hospitalized. Then comes the hidden costs, the government portion of the health care.
Hidden taxes are a way of life in Germany, probably in all of Europe. The high gas prices add to the cost of all comodities. The high labor costs add to the cost of all commodities. The labour cost are not only wages, but federally forced benefits, such as the aforementioned health care (the employer must match the employee contribution), unemployment insurance (equally paid by employee and employer), care insurance to assist during recuperation (also equally paid by employee and employer), accident insurance (paid by employer), and retirement insurance (similar to social security, again paid equally by employee and employer).
Add to these costs the union inspired high wages, and you end up with the most expensive labour in the world, and an unemployment rate of over 10%. This is what the democrat party is working for in America.

Not Good!

2006-10-24T10:55:00.000+02:00

Title: Minimum wage, war top Democrats' plans
Source: Yahoo!

WASHINGTON - Democrats say they will burst out of a 12-year exile with a bang if they win control of Congress in two weeks. They promise to quickly pass a minimum wage increase at home and to reduce the U.S. war role in Iraq.

Minimum wage is the biggest economic farce ever, especially since union wages are tied to the minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage has never been good for the economy. Rising wages drive up prices by increasing production costs. The increase in wages, however, puts the consumer in a higher tax bracket, effectively reducing his buy power. It is better to increase wages by increasing competition. Competition is increased by improving the business climate, for example through tax cuts. But tax cuts are bad for the national debt, if not accompanied by spending cuts. A high national debt, I believe, devalues the money supply by making government bonds less attractive.
I have to keep saying it: The federal government needs to get out of the welfare and pension business. It costs to much for help for the poor to be centally managed in Washington. I need to check, also, sometime on the amount of pork included in each welfare bill. I can imagine it must be pretty high, I'll be surprised if it's not.
Pork is another area that costs the taxpayer billions of dollars every year. We need a man in the white house who would, without exception, automatically veto any bill containing pork that has nothing to do with the bill itself.
Example: USA Today, 11/22/2004. Budget bill has $15.8B in extras

A look at the fine print in the legislation, however, reveals more than 11,000 "earmarks" that add up to about $15.8 billion, or about 4% of the overall spending. Earmarks are money set aside for special projects. These include $300,000 for a parking garage in Auburn, Maine, $8 million to rehabilitate a "historic cafeteria building" in Oregon's Crater Lake National Park and $1.1 million for research into the development of baby food and other products made from salmon.

What business has the federal government building a parking garage in Auburn, Maine, or anywhere else for that matter. $8 million to rehab a cafe in Oregon? Isn't that the responsibility of the owner of the cafeteria, or at least the Oregon park servcie? And the 1.1 mill for research into salmon ought to be paid by the people raising the fish, the one's, in fact, making profit from it. Research made on government grants has been shown to be mostly frivolous projects that no sensible business man will finance.

That was 2004! What's going on now?

House Votes To Disclose Earmarks
Rule Change Defers Broad Lobby Reform
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 15, 2006; Page A01

The House voted yesterday to shed more light on narrow-interest tax and spending legislation called earmarks, an incremental step toward openness that ended the prospect for a more sweeping overhaul of federal lobbying laws this year.

Disclose earmarks. Tell us, in obscure congessional journals most likely, where the pork is going. Oh Goody! Now, if we're willing to dig for it, we'll know how our money is being wasted! These earmarks, this pork barrel legislation, needs to be stopped cold, not disclosed.
From Citizens Against Government Waste's "pig book":

The guilty pleas of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham illustrate how pork-barrel projects, whether used as currency for re-election or as political favors to well-connected individuals or businesses, can corrupt the political process. The historic lack of restraint in the appropriations process has helped create a projected $371 billion budget deficit in fiscal 2006 and a national debt of $8.5 trillion. Whether the lobbying scandal and the outrage of taxpayers over “bridges to nowhere” will force Congress to cut the pork remains to be seen.

and:

This year, there was good news and bad news. For fiscal 2006, appropriators stuffed 9,963 projects into the 11 appropriations bills, a 29 percent decrease over last year’s total of 13,997. Despite the reduction in the number of earmarks, Congress porked out at record dollar levels with $29 billion in pork for 2006, or 6.2 percent more than last year’s total of $27.3 billion. In fact, the total cost of pork has increased by 29 percent since fiscal 2003. Total pork identified by CAGW since 1991 adds up to $241 billion.

Eliminating pork completely would be a step in the right direction in settling the national debt and cutting the deficit.

Those are my views right now, but I am researching this further, so there could be some changes coming.

This and That rants, it all comes down to Morals

2006-10-23T10:16:00.000+02:00

Shocking news yesterday. A 22 year old, having contractions, shot her baby in the womb, and was aquitted of any wrong doing. Amazing. Horrible. How can a mother shoot her own baby in the womb? I can not comprehend what is going on, when something like this happens. A mother shoots her own child. And the courts let her get away with it. She really needs to be put away for psychological evaluation and therapy, for as long as it takes.
Question: Who pays for it?
It all goes back to morals. If she'd had the moral good sense to stay away from the kind of man that got her in the situation in the first place. Who knows.
Libs slam DeVos in MI for relationship with the Nuge. Libs claim that Uncle Ted claims that women deserve to be rape. They take his quotes out of context, though, even though their web site contained enough of the context that any reasonably intelligent human being, whose judgement was not clouded by liberal propaganda, could see where Ted Nugent was coming from. His point was that women who were not willing to defend themselves have basically dug their own grave. The police can not be everywhere, and the liberals themselves have created and fostered the moral environment that leads to the rapes occuring in the first place.
What the free world needs is a higher moral standard in the areas of personal rights, sexual behaviour, personal responsibility, and respect for property.
As far as enforcement of moral behaviour: I believe strongly in the maxim that the Government which governs least governs best. So government enforcement of moral standards is unacceptable. I do not believe that you can legislate morality: morality needs to be taught. A democracy like the United States of America (I know, it's not really a democracy, but a republic. The representatives are, however, democratically elected.) can not operate without a high standard of morality among its citizens. The welfare state and the large amount of pork in every bill passing through congress are indications of the low moral state of the union.
The federal government's only reason for existance is to protect the rights of the people. They are not their to grant rights, nor are they there to protect imagined rights, like the right to quality health care. Health care, at this level of civilization, is still a commodity for those that can afford it. It could be that the day is coming when health care becomes a right, but right now it is still too expensive. It is not right that the government takes money without permission to pay for health care for those that can not afford it. The right way to provide health is through voluntary donations, on a case by case basis. A good example of this is here.
I use health care only as an example. There are many more ways in which the federal government is overstepping their bounds: welfare, gun control legislation, Roe v Wade, "the bridge to nowhere", NAFTA, farm subsidies, protective tariffs, the proposed legislation/amendment to protect marriage, etc. The list goes on and on. The US federal government is grown out of proportion, into a giant, sucking entity, drawing off the wealth of the country and its people.
The proper job of the government is the protection of the God given rights which all men have. A strong military is necessary, to protect our national interests and to prevent foreign interests from infringing on our rights.
Foreign interests infringing on our rights: case in point, the proposed UN gun control legislation, in direct opposition to the second amendment, which exists to protect the basic right of self defense. There are people living in the United States whose abode is 10 miles or more from the nearest representative of the local law enforcement agency. These people cannot rely on the government to defend them! And you do not need to be 10 miles out for this to apply to you. The cops can not be everywhere all the time. The first line of defense is the individual, and with the supercrooks the prison system is turning out, a gun is the only way most of us can defend ourselves.
The prison system is, in my opinion, a total failure. It is more of a college and training ground for criminals than a real form of punishment. Liberal legislation has emasculated the prison system, in the name of protecting the poor, disadvantaged souls from anything that could even remotely considered cruel and unusual punishment. The only phrase in the constitution with which I disagree. What exactly is "cruel and unusual?" Something unusual could be the answer, instead of incarceration, for first time juvenile offenders. And prison time should be at least a little bit cruel, if it is to be something that potential criminals will want to avoid (deterance).
Homosexuality is a mental disease, regardless of what those brainwashed, so-called experts want to say about it. To want to engage in any sort of unnatural act with a member of your own sex is not a normal mode of behaviour. And don't tell me Jesus never said anything about it: He did say that the Father created them Man and Woman, and the Man is leave his mother and father and join to his wife, that the two shall be one. And what God has joined together, let no man sunder. I paraphrased a bit, I think, as I did type from memory. Check your Bible for the exact quote, or use one of the excellant online Bibles at the Blue Letter Bible or Bible Gateway. (See links in Sidebar).

Too much

2006-10-20T10:51:00.000+02:00

I am getting overloaded, trying to keep up with all that's going on today. I've got no time any more to get anything done, for a lot of reading. Lynne Stewart getting 28 months for treason, a crime punishable by death. NO wonder no one is afradi to break laws. A killer was put to death, after 20 years of appeals and wasting court time and money. Congress had to pass a law allowing the military to question prisoners of war. The POWs in questions are enemy combatants who were captured while fighting out of uniform, not as part of a country's armed forces. That makes them, I think, spies, without any rights at all! Aiding and abetting enemy's of the United States. Get all the information we can out of them, line 'em up and shoot 'em. If the United States were to be invaded, and private citizens were to take up their hunting arms and fight the invasion, they would be treated no differently. They would be rounded up and publicly executed as an example to any others who may entertain thoughts of defying the conquerers. Afghanistan and it's Taliban leadership were harbouring enemies of the United States, which made them a legal target for US armed forces. Ditto Iraq. Iran should be next, then Syria and our so called friends, Saudi Arabia. Though, I think, the Saudis would be likely to surrender without a fight, as they love their money more than they love their religion.
North Korea also needs a good old fashioned spanking. Invade, execute Kim Jong Il for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and retrain the people of North Korea to appreciate the advantages of a democratic, free market life. Convert them to Christianity while we're at it.
Put the child abusers away. Lock 'em up in mental institutions if need be. A lot of them will be easy to find, just check the membership rolls at NAMBLA. Outlaw NAMBLA at the same time, as an illegal organization.
Institute new definitions of free speech. Return free speech to that which the founding fathers meant it to be, the freedom to express dissenting opinion without fear of arrest. Pornography is not free speech. Hate speech is not free speech. Free speech is the Minutemen being allowed to present their views without being interrupted by a mad mob. Free speech is those that disagree with the viewpoint of the Minutemen being allowed to present their side in a fair, peaceful, and above all intelligent and intelligible manner. A sreaming mob is not exercising its right to free speech, it is denying the other the right to free speech. Pornography is not free speech, or is it. What view point is the publisher of Playboy or Hustler trying to present with a picture of a naked woman in a provocative pose? The only view point I could ever see there is that women are nothing but sexual playthings, to be used and thrown away.
The European Union is trying to regulate video blogging now. They need to have their grubby little paws in everything that the people of Europe do. Another symptom of the same problem is the loss of jobs at the BenQ plant in Germany. The EU needs to be reduced severely in size, along with the governments of the various countries in Europe. The labor unions need to be dissolved, or severely limited in their powers. The European Social states and the unions constant demands for higher wages and shorted working hours are bankrupting every major corporation and small business on the continent. At this rate, it is only a matter of time before the whole continent is in a massive depression. The unemployment rate is over 10% already. The only companies left are those that depend on technology available only in Europe. I think they'd all go to America, if there were enough potential employees there, but with unemployment figures under 5%, they'd never find enough qualified people. As it is, a lot of work is outsourced to countries with lower wages.
It would be better if a freeer market existed in Europe, one which would allow companies to pay their employees market wages. I believe this would lead to higher employment and reduce demands on the social state, allowing them to reduce taxes (as if they would), and make a better business environment. The idea that everyone has a right to medical care needs to be abandoned. No country in the world can afford, and trying to, as they are doing in Europe, leads only to reduces quality of care, low wages and long working hours for physicians, and long waits for care. It has already gone so far in some countries, that elderly are refused some types of care, or are euthanized, because it is no longer "worth it" to continue to take care of them.
European gun laws make me sick. To deny me the right to go and buy a gun for my personal protection and pleasure (I love target shooting) is unreasonable. I do not believe that allowing everyone to own guns would cause a blood bath. It is a matter of education and of moral values.

Child porn ring broken up

2006-10-19T09:18:00.000+02:00

Reported in the Examiner:
Feds Net 125 Nationwide in Kid-Porn Case
Among those arrested were a Bible camp counselor from Vancouver, Wash.; a Boy Scout leader from Mission, Texas; and a pharmaceutical researcher in New Jersey.

Several of those arrested nationwide have prior records for molesting or sexually assaulting children, officials said.

Another disgusting case of the abuse of our children by trusted adults. Cases like this break down the trust in one another that is so vital to the continuation of free society. The safety of our children has to come first. We need to have people we can trust with the safety of our kids, that they may spread their wings away from the shelter of the family and grow, but who can you trust?
A Bible camp counselor and a Boy Scout leader: Just what we need, more ammunition for the left to use against Christian Conservatives in the campaign to paint us as hypocrites! Who can you trust anymore? I want to live in a world where at least Bible camp counselors and Boy Scout leaders can be trusted with my children.
Several of those arressted...have prior records: A case for death, or at least lifelong imprisonment for child molestors. I've heard that threat of death penalty would lead many child molestors to kill their victims. I don't know if that is true or not, the article gave only the conjecture of the author, and conjecture is unreliable. I only know that child molestors need to be taken off the streets.

President in 2008: who fills the bill?

2006-10-18T08:36:00.000+02:00

Who do we need in the white house in 2008?
I would, naturally, like to see someone who supports my views on life, the universe, and everything. That means:
Pro-life / Anti-abortion, as you want to see it. Pro-choice, for me, means the freedom to choose to have a child or not, but I believe the choice needs to be made before the pants come off, not after the cannon goes off.
Second Amendment: The rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. I take that to mean that the government of the United States, nor the government of the fifty states, nor any county or municipal government, can tell me how many or what types of arms I am allowed to own. The only restriction on my right to keep and bear arms should lie in my wallet. Rather than a ban on "assault" weapons, I'd prefer, in keeping with the well regulated militia clause, a requirement for all able bodied men to keep, maintain, and demonstrate proficiency in, a full automatic rifle of standard caliber, which at this time means the .223 Remington caliber, aka 5.56 NATO.
Immigration: I am in favor of immigration, but legal immigration. You want to come to the United States of America to work, then obey our laws. You apply for work permits and visas, you come to the country through the official entry points, you apply for a job like anyone else, pay taxes, social security, etc. I saw a picture of an illegal immigrant carrying a Mexican Flag! There were a comment or two about how fresh they're getting, but they all missed the relevant point: This man came across our border without permission and raised his countries flag over our soil, in effect claiming it for his country, which is an act of WAR! He was not in uniform, which makes him a spy. Spies are shot. End of story.
note: I am not in favor of wholesale shooting of illegal immigrants. I feel, however, that they should be bodily thrown back across the border, at the point closest to where they were discovered.
War in "terror": I want a president who is not afraid to call this war by name: the war against Islam. Not radical Islam, not Islamofascists, not "terror", but Islam itself. Sure, I know the figures, about the so-called 10% (still over 1 million individuals!) of muslims being radicals, but I am also very concerned about the rest of them that support, aprove, or fail to condemn the 10%. Hit 'em hard enough, and the 90% will start to come around and put the 10% in their place. I don't think we need to completely wipeout Islam, but it needs to be hit, and hit hard, to put them in their place, and make them more agreeable to realizing that they are at best equal to the rest of us, and not superior as they believe.
North Korea needs to be hit hard as well. I saw a report on the schools there. The reporters asked the kids about the United States. The answers were shocking, those kids had been brainwashed to believe that the United States was second cousin to Satan himself! They are raising generation after generation of freedom hating, communist robots. Kim Jong Il is as bad as Saddam, and needs to be removed from power as soon as possible. The winning of the peace in North Korea, however, will take even longer than Iraq, as the people will have to be totally reprogrammed to appreciate what liberty means to a free people. Cuba is also a thorn in the side of the free world. Unfortunately for the people of Cuba, Cuba represents no threat to the freedom of the world, so nothing will be done there in the foreseeable future.
Freedom of Religion, and other first amendment rights: First thing to do is to repeal the fourteenth amendment. that is an insult to the state rights that the founding fathers fought so hard for. Religious freedom needs to be more strongly defended, and the establishment clause needs to be understood exactly as written: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That means, to me, that all restrictions of religious freedom are placed on congress restricting the freedom of! A high school valedictorian thanking God at a commencement ceremony is not Congress establishing religion. The posting of the ten commandments at a county courthouse is not congress establishing a religion. A parish priest recommending a certain candidate is not congress establishing religion. According to the first amendment, individual states are perfectly free to establish religion, if the citizen of the state so desire. The efforts of the ACLU to restrict religious freedom in the name of the establishment clause are just plain evil, ill considered, and un-American.
Welfare: Federal welfare needs to be stopped! Immediately if possible. Welfare is the responsibility of the individual in a free society. If the individual can not support himself due to ill-health, natural disaster, fire, job loss due to failure of a company, or anything else not due to his own bad decisions, then it is the responsibility of his community to help him first, then neighboring communities, finally the Church. No tax monies should ever be used for relief in this way. Any charity to people in need of it should be voluntary.
Same with social security for old-age. If one chooses to participate in the federal program, they should be free to do so, but it should be voluntary, and only what is paid in should be available for retirement, minus administrative fees, which tend to be rather high by government programs. Better would be to teach people starting in the early years the importance of saving for their own retirement. Responsibility to those whose plans failed, or those who planned inadequately, falls first on the family of the retiree, then on his community, but only if the community is willing to take on the burden, their willingness to be shown by the amount of charitable contributions voluntarily given to the fund.
My ideal President would initiate programs to round up and detain all traitors to the United States of America, including the staff of the New York Times, in light of their revealing intelligence gathering programs. Also, Michael Moore would be high on the most wanted traitor list, for his subversive video representation of life in Iraq before and after the removal of Saddam Hussein.
Support for Israel would increase, all attacks against the sovereign state of Israel would be met with merciless rebuttal. If they will not respect Israel as it is, then they must be taught respect. Fighting until unconditional surrender worked agains Italy, Germany, and Japan, and it will work against Islam.
Schools: the present system leaves much to be desired. A privatization would most likely be the answer here. Make families responsible for the education of their children, with private, non-profit charities accepting the responsibility for the disadvantaged. Nonprofit organizations have generally proved to be better husbands of funds than the government, and should be able to better provide an education. Priority should be to promoting the desire to learn, teaching morality as well as the basics. The basics (reading, writing, arithmetic) should be emphasized heavily, and the children should receive a good grounding in basic science, geography, and history, both American history and world history. Methods used should be those that have proven themselves over the years, and not experimental methods that all too often fail, leaving the country with a generation of under-educated workers and administrators, who go on to use further experimental methods to further degrade the situation.

Tuesday Rants

2006-10-17T12:35:00.000+02:00

Homosexual man/Lesbian woman have child in San Francisco. Talk show host reprimanded for expressing a dissenting opinion. Personally, I agree with the talk show host. Homosexuals of either sex have no business raising children. Raising children is building the future of our country and should be done in accordance with tried and tested moral values. An experiment such as what these people are doing, or maybe they are having the child out of a desire for "fulfillment" in their lives, a fulfillment they would be better advised to seek in a personal relationship with the Lord. What they are doing to that child is unforgivable. As Jesus said, those that would lead the little ones astray would be better to have a millstone around their necks and tossed into the sea. I paraphrase a bit, I think. The actual quote is: # Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Or: # Mark 9:42
And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. Matthew 18:5-7 (in Context)
Mark 9:41-43 (in Context)
And finally: # Luke 17:2
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Luke 17:1-3 (in Context)
I do believe it is to offend these little ones when one leads the little ones away from the straight and narrow path.

Muslim taxi drivers refuse to take passengers with dogs in America, England, and Norway. And they expect us to tolerate their beliefs. They claim to be the most tolerant of beliefs and this is the way that they show it. I suppose it would be alright if the blind man had a guide goat, or a guide camel instead, those being "clean" animals. I like to bury them under a pile of swine innards! In researching this point, I ran across a referance to the Danish cartoonists, claiming that they have even viler cartoons that were not released, including one of a pig snouted muslim and of a dog mounting a muslim bent over in prayer.

IRS penalizes those who invest IRAs in property when investor improves the property through "sweat equity" or covers expenses with his own money. The IRS is getting too big for its britches and needs to be taken down a few pegs. The IRS is a government agency, part of a government meant to be by the people and for the people, which makes the IRS a servant of the people. They are acting more like our masters than our slaves. I believe that property rights are part of the basic rights mentioned in the declaration of Independence, a right granted by our Creator. The Declaration mentions life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but include the words "among these" in referring to the rights, indicating that we are endowed by our Creator with other rights as well as these. The actions of the IRS in this situation is a clear violation of property rights, regardless of what they want to claim about IRA rules. If the rules governing IRAs does not allow a man to do all that he is legally and morally allowed to do to increase the funds he will have available from the IRA in his retirement, then the rules need to be changed.

Liberals refuse those who do not agree with them the right to free speech, some conservatives do too. Paradebeispiel: The Columbia University protests against Minutemen. A protest against somebody who wants to protect the sovereignity of his country by protecting the borders against illegal immigrants. They are not against immigration, as far as I know. But anyone who enters the country illegally has to be sent home by the most expedient method available. If the Governmetn is n ot willing to do it, then it is up to the people to defend themselves. That is, in effect, one of the reasons for the existance of the second amendment to the constitution. What really upsets me are those illegals from Mexico that sneak into the United States of America and raise the Mexican flag over American soil. that is an act of WAR! And, since these invaders are not in uniform, they are, in effect, spies. Spies are generally shot, in the time honored tradition of western civilization as I learned it.

Jew haters and immigration opposers in Germany referred to as Rightists. Neo Nazis (nazi = Nationalsocialist), although socialists, also referred to as being on the right. German politics impossible to understand. With those on the left and those on the right being both socialists, how is a libertarian such as myself to understand this system. I don't even know for sure what the left here stands for. Peace, I guess, and understanding. Animal rights. Environmental issues and tolerance for others seem to be high on their lst of values. anything to repent for the horrors of their Nazi past. the Right in Germnay seems to have opretty much the same view as the left as far as government intervention in private life goes, but is against all forms of immigration and diversity. Pure German blood seems to be their creed. Foolishness, in my view. A melting pot society, as America supposedly is, and would be if the American left would recognize their multi-culti liberal tolerating celebrating difference attitude for the insanity that it is.

Saddam Hussein calls for his people to end intersectarian violence, which he claims is caused by "American and Iranian influence" That criminal should have had twenty minutes to make his case before he was found guilty, led away, and shot.

China and South Korea appalled at Norkor's nuke test, but it shouldn't affect their relation with the country. Norkor's China's puppet anyway, and the puppet will not attack the puppeteer. S.Kor's too greedy to agree to sanctions and too stupid to see the danger on their north border. They're going the way of Vietnam if they don't wake up. I'll miss the Hyundais and Daewoos.

17 000 minks released in Spain. Authorities believe either a competitor or an animal rights groups released the animals. An environmental catastrophe, in the opinion of this blogger.

Slow day, fatigue. Want to go FISHING!

2006-10-16T22:20:00.000+02:00

What a day. I've been bone tired all day long, as if I hadn't slept in days. But, not sleepy tired, just fatigued, worn out, burnt out. It was all I could do to get lunch on the table today. I did get out and fed the chickens, rabbits, and dog, but that needs to be done regardless of how I feel, I do have a responsibility to my "critters".
I went fishing a bit in the afternoon, to see if that would help. I caught 1 (undersized) pike, a large perch, and a couple of roach. I was happy about the pike and the perch. The perch was one of the biggest I've ever caught, and will make a good lunch tomorrow. I miss the fishing back home, though. I could usually catch a lot more fish, and the places I fished were more relaxing, prettier, in a way. My fishing holes here are in the middle of the city, on a river called the Aisch. It's been straitened and graded so as to interfere with the city as little as possible. The part above the city not quite as bad, but it's shallow, muddy, slow moving, and closely resembles a drainage canal. Not at all like the more natural streams and rivers I fished in Maine.
I wish I could get back and fish Parson's Beach again, where the Mousam river flows into the sea. That's a beautiful spot, still pretty wild. From the beach at the mouth, the only sign of civilization you can see is a house a bit up the beach. The high dunes block the view of the road and the other houses in the area. It has the feel of a wild and natural seashore. And, it's full of fish. Striped bass run in the river all summer long, and are easy to catch if you know the secret. There are also sea run brown trout in the river. I've heard tell of blue fish and coho salmon there as well.

First openly gay Senator Dies.

2006-10-15T23:11:00.000+02:00

First of all, what is so gay about being homosexual?
Apparently, he was "married" to his partner. what a load of crock. This whole "gay" marriage thing has totally turned me off to the idea that the government has any business in the arena of matrimony. We should just drop the whole idea of being legally married and get the government that much further from our day to day lives. Marriage belongs to the church, to people of faith. It is an agreement between a man, a woman, and their creator, to love, honor, obey, and cherish one another for life. There is nothing there about legal contracts. You want a legal contract, form a business partnership. Why not, really. A partnership for the purpose of running a household, or to raise children. It'll serve the purpose, and be a lot easier to dissolve than the current system. If you want something permanent, then you don't need the government involving itself in your affairs. Just go to the church with your intended, pledge your commitment before your family and the congregation, and your good to go!
If you're homosexual, and not accepted by mainstream Christian churches, don't sue them (and thereby deny them their first amendment right to freedom of religion and free speech), form your own church! Then you can let in anyone you want, you can take whatever vows you want according to your own rules and in the presence of your very own Deity! You need to be ordained? No problem: Ordination Online: Become a Minister , Officiate Weddings and More ...
more reasons to get the state out of the marriage game.
I am becoming more and more libertarian, the more I learn about life and freedom. People are born with inalienable rights, as Thomas Jefferson wrote. Governments exist to guarantee these rights, not to grant them, as many liberals seem to think. The right to keep and bear arms, for example, is an expression of the basic right to defend oneself and one's loved ones and property.
Why shouldn't people have the right to do things which are harmful to themselves, as long as they are willing to accept responsibility for their actions. You want to take drugs? Go ahead, just don't expect society to shoulder the burden of your addiction. You want to eat fatty foods, smoke cigarettes, drink excessively? Think about saving for the medical bills.
I am a hypocrite, though, in this area. I never saved my money, I was careless about exercising and what I ate. I smoked, and drank excessively. I drove my car under the influence of alcohol. Now, I suffer from depression, anxiety, and ulcerative colitis. I am reliant on my wife, and on the socialized medicine provided for me by the state. It's an evil situation, but I'm stuck with it. I would much prefer to be independant, free from government interferance in my life, and if I ever find a way to, I will. I write this in the hope that those who read will choose a differant path than I did, to live truly free.
There is only one country in the world today that has the potential to be a truly free country, and that is the United States of America. The liberals in America are doing their best to change this, and must be stopped before it is too late.
Stand up for your freedom. Stand up for your rights. Vote out the socialists who are threatening the last, best hope all freedom loving people of this planet have.

Bad Quote?

2006-10-14T13:58:00.000+02:00

“We have staked the future of all of our political institutions … upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
James Madison: 1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia

Apparently, an Urban legend. I got wind yesterday after I posted that this citation was never made by James Madison. I'll only say at this point that there is no evidence I've been able to find to support it. This paragraph has been quoted throughout the internet, mostly on Christian and Conservative websites, but none have quoted anymore from this speech. The speech itself, I can find no transscript of. Most of those that claim it is not from James Madison say so because it is not in the Federal Papers, which is no argument, as the quote allegedly comes from an address on the assembly of the state of Virginia.

Legislating Morality

2006-10-13T16:34:00.000+02:00

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

“We have staked the future of all of our political institutions … upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
James Madison: 1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia

James Madison also said: “ We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.”

George Washington said: “ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]

In the Torcaso case, the Supreme Court declared that Secular Humanism was a religion. In Edwards, the Court established one religion (Secular Humanism) above all others. If Jefferson were alive today - and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court – how do you think he would have voted in those two cases?

Torcaso: The first amendment prohibits the US congress from making a law establishing a state religion, but says nothing of the states. The fourteenth, however, makes the first applicable at the state level. The Torcaso case was right. Secular Humanism, as religion: Austin Cline, at atheism.about.com, has a good essay about this case. He states, however, that the declaration of secular humanism is in a dicta, which has no legal force. However, a review of the case: HIIBEL v. SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF NEVADA, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, et al. at caselaw.lp.findlaw.com remarks on the existance of dicta that the legal community typically takes as a statement of the law.

from atheism.about.com on the Torcaso case. "In a dictum footnote attached to this opinion, Justice Black wrote:"

"Among the religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others."

Edwards: Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v._Aguillard The Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution was taught was unconstitutional, because the law was specifically intended to advance a particular religion. At the same time, however, it held that "teaching a variety of scientific theories about the origins of humankind to school children might be validly done with the clear secular intent of enhancing the effectiveness of science instruction."
How does "advancing a particular religion" establish a state religion? All Christian denominations believe in creation, Judaism believes in the Creation, Islam (as far as I know) supports Creation. Which of these religions is established as the state religion of the United States of America by the teaching of Creationism in Puble Schools of Louisiana? First amendment does not apply in this case.
Does this (unconstitutional, in my opinion) decision establish Secular Humanism as the state religion? No. It does not establish Secular Humanism as a state religion, but does force teachers and student to check their first amendment rights at the classroom door.

If the Constitution is a "living, breathing document", are we free to ignore original intent all together?
Liberals are fond of ignoring or interpreting original intent to suit their agendas. Liberals ignore citations from the founding fathers advancing Christianity, but jump all over an obscure quote, taken out of context, to support the separation of Church and state. They also believe that the meaning of the Constitution can change to meet societal and cultural changes. This can and will lead to judges being able to interpret the Document any way they want, if they feel that their interpretation would be best for society. In researching this question, I ran across a comparison of liberal interpretation of the Constitution to the liberal interpretation of the Bible, which formed in me the opinion that all talk of "Living, breathing documents" is treachery against the United States as the founding fathers envisioned it.

Would it be fair to say that the religion of Secular Humanism has the public school lectern as its pulpit?
Would it be fair to say that public schoolteachers are the missionaries of the religion of Secular Humanism?
Would it be fair to say that our children are the potential converts of the religion of Secular Humanism?
Would it be fair to say that the missionary budget of the religion of Secular Humanism is the U.S. tax code?

I'd say it's more a case of every ideology except Judeo-Christianity has its pulpit in the public schools today. Under the guise of teaching tolerance and understanding of other cultures, our own American cultures, based upon Judeo-Christian ideals, is made to look evil and intolerant.

Why do we pay only ten percent of our income to our churches, but over a fourth of our income to a government that advances Secular Humanism over all other religions?

The Governmental social programs are taking over functions and responsibilities that belong to the Church, in an attempt to play a Robin Hood like role in stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. How accurate is that 25% figure? Does it include hidden taxes, such as taxes levied on businesses that are passed on to the consumer?

Many people believe that Christianity is a bad religion responsible for many atrocities over the last few centuries. Why was the 20th Century the bloodiest in world history?
What part did atheism play in the increased bloodshed during the last century?
What part did communism play in the increased bloodshed during the last century?

Christianity is not responsible for the many atrocitties committed in its name over the last few centuries. Responsible are the individuals within the Church who abused their power. The 20th century was so bloody because of the loss of morals due to the secularisation of culture combined with the developement of improved weapons technology and more efficient methods of killing. There were periods of secular and pagan beliefs all through recorded history involving bloodshed in the name of genocide, power grabbing, or sacrificial ceremony. It wasn't until the 20th century that the technology existed for the massive bloodletting that occurred under Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and others.

In the Casey decision (1992), the Supreme Court stated that “…At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, and of the mystery of human life.” Is the Court implying that morality is individually chosen, rather than objective, while simultaneously defending its right to deprive an entire nation of voting on the issue of abortion?

In principle, yes. In making this decision, the Supreme Court has opened up the opportunity in the future to question all laws, based on the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaing, and of the mystery of human life. Theoretically, when one's concept of existance precludes private ownership of goods or property, is it not a violation of his liberty to deny him anything he feels he needs at one time or another? All of our basic rights are on the line with this decision.

stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

time for a new party

2006-10-13T10:03:00.000+02:00

It's time we got two new parties into the government in Washington. The current politicians are too much politicians first and representatives of the people second.
It's time for Liberals to vote Green and Conservatives to vote Libertarian, to send their parties a message that we do not want the same old. No one does though, because their all afraid that the other side won't and one of the major parties will win.

A poster on Townhall complained that a single wage earner can not support a family any more and wants to know why. It's because the government takes too big a chunk of his pay. Then, the lifestyle of Americans today. Big, new cars, eating out regularly, big tv, the best home cinema system, DVD, VCR, PS II, etc. Live simply, raise as much of your own food as you can, Keep one TV in the house, and make that a small one. Buy everything cash, within a budget. Buy clothing at discount, Walmart's Faded Glory jeans for example, instead of Levi's or Lee. Buy a good used car cash instead of financing a new SUV. It's not that hard. I do it here in Germany, where it is more difficult than in the USA.

There is no such thing as a middle class tax cut. The middle class pays the taxes of the rich everytime they buy something. The taxes the rich pay are paid with the profits they earn when the companies they own or have an interest in turn a profit. When the taxes are raised on the big earners, they simply pass it on down in higher prices for the products that the poor and middle classes need. A tax cut for the rich is also reflected in lower prices, making it a tax cut for all.

Endless occupation of Iraq. Occupation of Iraq has to continue until we win in the Middle East. If we can hold Iraq and Afghanistan, we are in a good position to take on Iran from two sides. But, we can't do it alone. The free countries of the world have to wake up to the Islamic menace that threatens peace in the entire world. They don't only hate the USA and Israel. They are attacking Israel because it is closest, and America because it is the strongest of their enemies and a supporter of Israel. As long as they can convince the rest of the world that it is only the USA and and Israel that are the enemies of Islam, the longer they can keep the rest of the world either on their side, or at least from opposing them. Their motto is: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"(at least until the enemy is defeated. Then watch out!) The enemy of Islam is all that is not Islam! They particularly hate everything that the left and socialists stand for, such as Atheism, homosexuality, free sex, adultery, tolerance of other religions and beliefs. The tolerance claims of Islam are the purest hypocricy. If you don't believe that, smuggle a case of Bibles into Iran or Saudi Arabia and start preaching the Word of God and passing out Bibles on a street corner in Rhyad or Tehran.
Pelosi preventing Boy scouts from using federal land. That is a violation of the Boy Scouts first amendment rights of free speach, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion!
Alaskan oil belongs to the Federal Government. What a load! In the freeest land that the world has ever seen, if I buy a piece of land in Alaska, the Government can take it away from me and lease it to a multi-national oil company, if oil is discovered on my land. Jed Clampett was lucky he wasn't from Alaska. The Beverly Hillbillies wouldn't have been nearly as funny if the poor mountaineer was simply relocated by the government, force to build himself a new shack, and continue to barely keep his family fed in a new location, away from family and friends.
Voe for a change! DO NOT, I repeat, please DO NOT vote Republican or Democrat for the next several years. Vote for a change. Do not vote for an incumbant. Get them out in the primaries, at any price. Don't let them in!

Korea again

2006-10-11T12:24:00.000+02:00

North Korea is threatening eith their new found power. Scary

I feel we've entered a new era now. A crazy dictator has nukes. Who's next? Pakistan? They have nukes already and the Taliban is increasing influence there. That could be problematisch before too long. India has nukes as well, and they have their differences with Pakistan. Who knows how that will develop. Iran is still working towards a bomb.
It is time for the peace loving countries to do something to head this thing off at the pass. If they wait too long, if they keep wasting time in talks and sanctions, it dcould be too late. When our cities start dissolving in a mushroom cloud of radioactive chain ractions gone out of control in response to the refusal to meet unreasonable demands it is too late. The whole thing is out of control and no one will be able to see where i will end. NorKor will enxtend their atheistic, communistic power, and the muslims will respond against these infidels, with whom they are hypocritically working now, with equla or greater violence, destroying in the end civilization as we know it, leaving the entire planet an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland.

Norkornuke

2006-10-10T12:01:00.000+02:00

North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon, according to sources as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima.
That's scary. It was, I suppose, only a matter of time before one of the world's mad men got the bomb. It's very disquieting. How much longer before it's in the hands of ahmadinahad? Or Al Qaeda? What's Kim going to do now, that he's got it? Will he use it? Only time will tell. The next question: What will the response of the civilized world be? Condemnation? or a real response?
I am really afraid that Kim is crazy enough to use the thing, or to give it someone who will.
The Response: Korea, the western world should immediately initiate military action to topple the kim regime and put North Korea under martial law until the population can be reprogrammed to appreciate the advantages of a free society. If it is an islamic entity to use the thing, then the first step should be to flatten mecca: hit 'em where it hurts. Then declare the entire cult a menace to civilized society and set about reforming, or when that fails, eliminating it.
I heard a radio show the other day, I think it was Dennis Prager. The title was: "War is never a good Idea." It was about a childrens book being released, to expouse the evils of war. Prager disagreed with the premise that war is never a good idea. I don't. I feel that war is never a good idea. Noone ever said, when bored for example: I've got a good idea: let's start a war!" It don't happen. Wars are a necessary evil. War is not a good idea, but sometimes it is necessary, sometimes it is the only way to stop a greater evil. WWII was not a good idea, but it was the only way to stop Japanese imperialism and Nazi evil. The war against terror is not a good idea, but it is the best idea we have to stop the fascistic muslims who are threatening world peace. The Cold War was not a good idea, but the alternative would have been to give in to the communist threat, which would have left the entire planet in the disastrous economic state that the USSR was in when it finally collapsed. Not even the revolutionary war or the civil war were good ideas, but they were necessary first to create this great land of ours, then to keep it together and make it free for all men.

End of a dream?

2006-10-09T15:27:00.000+02:00

Schumacher loses in Japan. Who'da thunk? So much for the championship in his last year in the Fornula 1. Alonso only needs to finish in the points in Brazil to take it again this year. If he's smart, he just take it easy and finish in the points, save his car and finish. The only way for Schumacher to take the championship is to win, and Alonso to either not finish or finish out of the points.
Michael Schumacher will be missed in Germany. I hope that the begeisterung for the Grand Prix continues without him. There's still a few German drivers in the race: Brother Ralf, Quick Nick, and Nico Rosberg. German teams: Mercedes and BMW. Toyota is also based in Cologne, so they're almost a German team as well, more German really than Mercedes and BMW, since they use English and Swiss chassis, respectively.

Jihad Watch

2006-10-02T23:23:00.000+02:00

September 28 Hot Air TV. "Muslim clerics and scholars have demanded that Pope Benedict XVI be removed from his position immediately for encouraging war and fanning hostility between various faiths and for making insulting remarks against Islam. If the west does not change it's stance against Islam it will face severe consequences.
Meanwhile, a new Palestinian Jihad group announced that every place relevent to Christians will be a target until the Vatican apologizes." They are also demanding the the UN prohibit the defamation of Islam. Not until the prohibit the defamation of Christianity!
I say that we let the Islam world know, in no uncertain terms, that we will not tolerate any more Islamic violence. Give them two days to apologize for all terrorism and insults to Judaism and Christianity in the last 30 years, and to pay for the damage caused by all attacks on Israeli, European, and American targets. If they fail to do so, then Mecca and Medina will be leveled and Islam declared an outlaw belief, comparable with Nazi. All mosques in the USA and Europe should be turned into slaughterhouses for the production of pork products. All muslims banned from holy sites in Israel.
We have no need to put up with these insults any longer. We must put an end to this pestilence known as Islam. Allah is the adversary, the father of lies, the lord of flies! Jesus is Lord, Saviour, Son of God. To continue to coddle these people in their false belief is to condemn them to eternity in the fiery pits of Hell. I am not in favor of mass murder, but these people need to be woken up to the truth. They are, in end effect, our neighbors, whom Christ has commanded us to love.
Some say that to critisize them for their belief is to go against the principles of neighborly love the Jesus taught. I think, however, that to allow them to continue as they are is the worst hypocrisy of all.
Islam is the anti-Christ. Islam denies the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Can we allow it to continue to exist without an attempt to end it?
We are fighting a war in Iraq and in Afghanistan against the Jihad, against Islam, a war we can not win until we are clear on what the enemy is. The enemy we face is Islam! Not terror, not fundamental Islam, or radical Islam, or Islamo-Fascism, but Islam itself. We're being constantly told that it's only the radical 10% who've highjacked Islam that is the problem. That's still 100 - 120 million enemies to the Western way of life. But, what about the other 90% who are not speaking out against the so called radicals? Why haven't we heard from them? Because they are also under the influence of the adversaries lies! They believe in what the radicals are doing. They support them with donations. They pray for them in their temples and secretly wish that they were there. They need to be shown the error of their ways, their eyes opened as Paul's were.
Paul, when he was called Saul, persecuted the early Christians as the muslims are today. He had Christians stoned for blasphemy. But, our Lord had need of him, and called him to Himself, and made of him a force for the early Church.
The muslims are also not yet beyond Salvation, if only they can be made to listen and understand the Gospel.
I don't know how much violence would be necessary to accomplish the task, if any, or even if it is at all possible. The adversary has a tight hold on the muslims. We need to do something, I think. Whatever is done, needs to be done consequently, and thoroughly, leaving no room for doubt in the minds of the muslim people. We must stop showing them signs of weakness, and cowardice. The first thing we in the west can do is to stop pandering to their every whim. If they protest and riot over a few cartoons, draw and publish more! If the protest and riot over a remark cited by the Pope made 1000 years ago, have every religious leader in the west cite every remark of the sort we can find! Show them that we are not afraid of them, that we will no longer bow to their evil demands and temper tantrums.

Fair Trade v Free Trade

2006-09-29T20:24:00.000+02:00

The new cafeteria was dedicated today at my daughter's school. The students presented skits and choir songs to celebrate and several important people gave long talks about how the dedication ceremony was to be by the students, for the students.
The students were collecting money for poor children in Bolivia and promoting "Fair Trade", a line of overpriced products imported from third world countries, supposedly priced to give the farmers in those countries a fairer price for their products.
I can't help but wonder how much of the money will actually get to the intended recipients.
The best thing that could be done for the farmers and workers in the third world would be not to promote fair trade but to allow free trade. The European farmers are so heavily subsidized that European sugar and milk is cheaper in Africa than the local products. Remove these subsidies, eliminate tariffs, and allow all producers to compete on a level playing field. That would be the way to help.
Something would also need to be done about corruption as well. Corruption is a major problem in many third world countries today. Aid often ends up lining the pockets of dictators, grain is sold on the open market instead of be delivered to the needy. The leaders live in luxury while the people starve.
After the markets are open, the people need to be encouraged to revolt and install a democratic republic in their countries, based upon the principles of liberty that America was built on, so that they can take advantage of the free markets.
European farmers and consumers may be hurt in the short run, with lower profits for the farmers and higher prices for the consumers (the higher prices for the consumers would only be at the cash register. The real prices would be lower, because less tax revenue would be going to pay for the products).
Eventully the situation would balance out, in favor of the third world and Europe. and America as well, I should think! Increased profit for the third world would increase the funds the people have available for consumer good, creating a demand for American and European industrial products. Greater technology would increase productivity on the third world farms, lowering prices for the European and American markets.
As a bonus, I believe that the increased prosperity would encourage peace in the world, as then the people would have more to lose, and would then be too dependent on the other countries for their prosperity. The people would be less likely to tolerate dictators, as a threat to the new-found prosperity as well.
The preceding is my opinion based on an incomplete knowledge of free market theory and supply side economics, as promoted by Adam Smith and Jean Baptiste Says.
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Chicken

2006-09-27T18:41:00.000+02:00

I killed a chicken for the first time yesterday. I bought 4 meat chickens last spring and we've been feeding them all summer long. I've kind of dreaded killing them though. Up to now, any animal I've killed has been with a gun while hunting. It's a little more up close and personal when you chop the head off an animal you've been raising. But I got through, and I think the others will be a bit easier.
I personally feel that one must be able to kill an animal if one wants to eat meat. Anyone who eats meat is responsible for the death of the animal, and actually killing the animal one's self is to come closer to the reality of meat.
We ate the bird today for lunch. It was a bit tough, but good. I think I let it live too long before butchering it. It was much bigger than the chickens I buy already killed and cleaned here in Germany, where the normal sized bird is 1000 to 1200 grams, about 20 to 28 oz.

2006-09-20T19:04:00.000+02:00

You Are a German Shepherd Puppy

Intelligent, quick witted, and a bit aggressive.

You've got the jaw power to take a bite out of anyone you choose.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

Tuesday

2006-09-19T14:46:00.000+02:00

The sun is shining today. We got off light last night. I don't think it rained at all here. On the other side of the Spessarts, though, they had flash flooding, especially bad on the River Dill, in Hessen.
I got me a libary card today, and checked out a couple of films. The library in Bad Windsheim has a good, if small, collection of DVD and VHS videos. I checked out the Lord of the Rings for tonight. I've seen the first one, but I'll watch it again. The second one was out, or they don't have it, so I got the first one (Fellowship of the Rings/dt:Die Gefährten) and the third ( Return of the King /dt:Die Rückkehr des Königs)
I usually end up seeing films years after they are released in the theaters, because I'm too cheap to pay the ticket price in the cinema.

Benedikt XVI = Hitler?????

2006-09-17T22:37:00.000+02:00

How can anyone compare the Pope, who quoted a few words against the prophet, who had more in common with Hitler than many a man alive today, with a man that plunged the world into war and murdered over 6 million innocents?
How can the Pope then apologize for his words?? Is he not the head of the Catholic Church, a christian denomination, Christian, as in people who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and the only way to the Father is through the Son.

John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

1 John 2:18:Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.

1 John 2:22: Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son.

2 John 1:7: Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

The Koran, Mohammed's book, denies that Jesus is God's Son. Ergo, is Islam, the prophet, and allah antichrist.
Why should the head of the Christian church, then, apologize for any percieved insult to the enemy of all he stands for?
Read the Bible verses again, notice the word "deceiver":
Qur’an 8:30 “Remember how the unbelievers plotted against you (Muhammad). They plotted, and Allah too had arranged a plot; but Allah is the best schemer.” (implies deceit on the part of Allah to combat the deceit of the unbelievers)
Ishaq:323 “I am the best of plotters. I deceived them with My guile so that I delivered you from them.”
Ishaq:365
Tabari VII:94 “Muhammad bin Maslamah said, ‘O Messenger, we shall have to tell lies.’ ‘Say what you like,’ Muhammad replied. ‘You are absolved, free to say whatever you must.’”

Ishaq:397	“Then Allah said, ‘It is not for any prophet to deceive.”
Ishaq:442	“By Muhammad’s order we beguiled them.”

More quotes from muslim holy books here.

And this all from the Turks, of all people, who are still denying that the killing of all those Armenians back at the beginning of the 20th century was genocide.
And what do muslims mean, anyway, when the compare anyone to Hitler. I thought Hitler was one of their heros. "Mein Kampf" is a bestseller in that part of the world, so I've heard.

Agendas

2006-09-05T18:17:00.000+02:00

A lot of talk lately on Townhall about the glbt agenda. It doesn't sound, to me, a whole lot different to the muslim agenda, or the communist agenda, or the liberal agenda, or the socialist agenda, or the .........
They all want the rest of us to conform to their vision of the world, with little or no tolerance for those who believe differantly.
Then you have these Christians saying that they believe what they believe and they do not care what others choose to do. The way I understand Jesus' commandments, loving your neighbor requires a Christian to point out the errors of his neighbor's ways, to inform him that if he does not change, repent and accept the Lord, he will not be saved. We do have to approach our neighbors in a way which will not drive them away from the faith, of course. A lot of lost souls are that way from over zealous witnesses driving them away rather than leading them into the fold.
The GLBT community wants to be accepted. I can understand that. But they want the rest of to change our beliefs and our moral code to match theirs, and that I cannot accept. I have enough trouble living up to the moral codes I have set for myself. I do believe in live and let live, so long as those who choose to follow an, as I see it, immoral lifestyle, know that it is in defiance of the Lord's commandment and they will have to pay the price. If they are clear on that point, then I see no reason why they should not continue down the path of damnation that they have chosen for themselves.
I expect the same in return. I do not want to know what my neighbor does in the privacy of his own bedroom. If he chooses, with full knowledge of the consequences, such a lifestyle, then that's his business, and he should leave me out of it. I do not want to see gay pride parades on my tv screen. I do not want to see love parades on my streets. Keep your private life to yourself.
The same goes for Islam. You can tell me about Mohammed and Allah, as long as your willing to hear about Jesus. But after you've told me about it and I've said that I'm not interested, than leave me alone. And after I've told you about Jesus' love and sacrifice for our salvation, if you are not interested, say so and I'll not say another word.
The leftist communist socialists: Go to Europe. There are plenty of countries there to choose from where you can live your dream of father government taking care of your every need. Have fun with the restrictions and taxes and high unemployment, and leave America to the true Americans. There ought to be at least one country on this, God's green earth, where man is free to live and worship as he chooses, where one is free to run his business and handle his affairs as he chooses.
I find my self agreeing with the libertarians in most areas, the ecceptions being mostly those areas that have to do with drug use and prostitution. The concept of everything being allowed that does not hurt someone else, the so called "victimless crimes", really shouldn't be crimes at all. The problem comes in the definition of a victimless crime.
Granted, when one takes an illegal drug, only he suffers, at least at first. But when he needs another fix, is unable to work to get it, then turns to crime to get what he needs (wants so badly it seems a need). The cost to families and society are in my opinion too high. It's the same with alcohol, tobacco, and seatbelt/helmet laws. I read a libertarian article on the subject, where the author claimed that when one chooses to drive without a seatbelt/ride without a helmet, and is injured, he cannot expect society to cover his medical bills resulting from the injuries made worse due to his foolishness. Sound good, if a bit cold, in theory, but the reality is, is that the victim of his own stupidity will be brought to hospital, treated, and billed. If he can then no longer work, the bill won't get paid. If he dies, the bill won't get paid. To expect an unconcious man to pay in advance would be negligence. And finally, the unpaid bills become a burden on the rest of society.
Banning does not work, I realize. That's been tried. You can't legislate sanity, but to allow insanity to go unpunished, to the detriment of society as a whole, is irresponsible.

Lousy Weather

2006-09-01T18:24:00.000+02:00

I can not believe this summer. End of June and all through July it was beautiful, though a bit hot, and too dry for the garden. Then, in August, right when the kids left school for their summer vacation, the weather turned. Cold, cloudy, almost everyday rain. I think we had two sunny days in the entire month. Today, the first of September, it's not too bad. The sky is at least blue and the sun is shining. It's cold, though. The kids are gone overnight, spending the night at a friend's house, for a birthday party.
We got DSL last week. Nice. Unbelievably fast downloads.

New Car!

2006-08-26T17:24:00.000+02:00

We got ourselves a new car this week. We traded the Suzuki for an American Ford, the Windstar. Ours is a 1996 model year, but it doesn't look 10 years old. It's looks in better shape than the old car, which was only 7 years old.
So far, I like the car. My parents never liked Ford much, but I think that if they were that bad, they'd have gone out of business years ago.
The vehicle is a six cylinder, seven seat van. It has 150 Hp (weighs 1800 kg, though), air conditioning, cruise control, self-leveling, separate controls for the vent in the back of the car, reading lights here and there, cassette radio ( that's going as soon as I can afford it. I want CD!). I just finished installing the bars for the dog. I had to cut them to fit on the back of the seat, since there was no way to install them from the floor to the ceiling as they were meant to be installed.

EV1

2006-08-04T14:34:00.000+02:00

Today, in my random travels through cyberspace, I ran into the GM EV1 electric car, and then learned about other electric cars, such as the Ford Ranger EV. I was shocked to learn that a lot of these vehicles have been crushed and scrapped, although consumers were willing to buy them. They were, apparently, destroyed to avoid possible liability suits. The sites I saw have a lot of indications of alleged conspiracy between the oil companies and the auto companies, but, being as they are in a land where an individual can sue a restaurant because said individual did not have the good sense to realize that coffee is hot.
The materials did get me thinking about the Citroen BX sitting in my garage and the possibility of converting it to electric. After an hour searching, though, I could find nothing in the German websites about doing such a conversion. An article by 3sat indicated that electric vehicles do not make sense in Germany, because the environmental impacts of the electricity, mostly from coal and nuclear. So what? I ask. Besides, he who owns his own home can very easily install a solar or wind system to provide energy for the car. The relatively short range is not a real consideration, either, as most people don't drive that far everyday.
I google the US sites for a conversion, and found a site right away.

Rainy Threatening Tuesday

2006-08-01T15:10:00.000+02:00

It's been threatening rain all day. the kids are on vacation, away on a field trip to the church. They are going up in the clock tower today, to see what that looks like.
I spent the afternoon fixing holes in the swimming pool liner.

2006-07-27T09:08:00.000+02:00

It's been a week since I've posted anything. I've been too busy reading other people's blogs, taking care of the swimming pool, feeding chickens, making lunch, etc,.

The pools been giving me problems lately. The water keeps turning green and getting cloudy. I've tried this and that, but anything that works only works for a day or so, then it turns green again!

Where are the patriots of yesteryear?

2006-07-19T13:22:00.000+02:00

e conflict of idealogies continues in the middle east and around the world. Leftists see the struggle of the muslims as a class struggle, a people fighting for rights and justice against the oppressor Israel. Right leaning people see the fight as a religious war, the Islamic Jihad, struggle to bring submission to Allah to the world.The evidence I see leads me to believe the answer lies somewhere in the middle, though tending towards the rightist opinion. The elite in the muslim world are seeking the jihad, and using islamic retoric to sway the masses. That the movers and shakers of the "jihad" are poor is hard to believe. How many poor people can afford explosives, timers, detonators, rockets, and the ability to deploy them against the "oppressor"?How can anyone today, with all the evidence that there is, still believe in the leftist agenda? How can anyone believe that the fighting in the middle east is about the haves and have nots? How can anyone continue to support the welfare state?The government dreamed up by Jefferson and his boys has nothing to do with the welfare state that exists in the USA of the 21st century. It is not the business of the government to provide for the people. It is the business of the people to provide for themselves. Who cannot provide for himself, due to sickness for example, should be able to rely on the charity of his neighbors. Would it not be better for the neighbor to provide of his own free will for his neighbor, instead of wasteful, government beauracracies?People need to learn a sense of responsibility that is missing in today's society. One need only look at the numbers of fatherless children, aborted babies, divorces, etc. And not only a responsibility for self, but also for the neighbor, a responsibility that has been stolen by the welfare state. We care little for our neighbor today, after all, big daddy welfare state will watch out for us, why should we?That is not the spirit that founded the great nation of the United States of America. Where are the individualists that explored and settled the continent? Where are the brave souls that fought for freedom in the wars America found herself in, from the revolution up until WWII. What would have happened in Vietnam if Americans had fought there with the same strength and determination with which their fathers had fought in Europe and on the islands of the Pacific? What would happen if we were to fight Terrorist Islam with the same will and determination, with the same all out, no holds barred, never say die, it ain't over until I win attitude that defeated the Nazis?It seems that people today have lost the will to fight for their beliefs. They'll march alright with signs denouncing violence and the killing of baby seals, but when comes down to brass tacks, appeasement is the only route they know.

Israel started it!

2006-07-17T09:02:00.000+02:00

This mornng I read in the paper from the G8 summit, that although Bush and Blair see the problem in the Middle to be Hezbollah, Chirac and Putin are pinning the blame on Israel's actions. My first thought is to agree with Bush and Blair, but after thinking about it a bit more, it could be that Chirac and Putin are right, although not quite as they mean it.
I tend to think the escalation is Israel's fault, for pulling out of the occupied territories and giving Hamas and Hezbollah a taste of success. I think we all know that the reason for the violence is the meer existance of Israel in the middle east.
Of course, if they succeed in eliminating Israel, I would be very surprised if the violence ends. The Shiites still hate the sunnis, and they both still hate anyone who is not muslim.

Be nice to one another, or there'll be no cookies with your milk.

2006-07-16T16:31:00.000+02:00

Was soll den das?!? Proportional response to an attack?
Isreal's response is supposed to lead to an escalation of violence? It's about time for an escalation of violence, if Israel is to continue to exist as a sovereign nation. This constant responding to terrorist attacks is a waste of time, manpower, and lives. They need to commit to all out war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and anyone else who threatens their existance.
The world community needs to open their collective eyes to what is going on here. Especially Spain needs to see that when the muslims want to end the occupying of muslim land by the infidel, that the occupation of Spain by the infidel has been going on since 1492, and Islam is going to want that as well.What is a proportional response supposed to achieve? You shoot a rocket at me, I shoot one back? If the enemy is technologically inferior, but has a larger population, then they will win, when country A is only allowed to kill one enemy for every country A'er the enemy kills. The way to win a war is to arrange to take the enemy's will to fight, to make warring against your country too disasterous in the loss of life and property for the citizens to continue to support the war. That's how Vietnam beat us, remember, and that is how we'll lose in Iraq. Right now, we value the lives of our soldiers too highly to allow us to commit to the kind of warfare we need to commit too to end the Islam threat. Iran need to be next on the list, and the deed needs to be done quickly, with of course minimum loss of life on our side. We need, really, to attack in such a way as to show our enemies what it means to raise the wrath of the USA. I'm just glad that we didn't have the same breed of liberal pacifists and enablers that we have today in 1941. Just imagine the response from the Kerry crowd if the kinds of casualties that occured June 6, 1944, were to occur in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan would probably keel over dead from the "outrage" she'd feel over such a tragic loss of life. And the civilians casualaties: 30,000 dead Frenchmen, collateral damage. How about we do something similar in Iraq: When the terrorist use civilians as human shields, shoot through them. How long would the civilians there continue to allow themselves to be used then, as shields? We won WWII because we made the costs of continueing for the Japanese and the Germans too high for them to continue. We won the cold war because the costs of continueing were too high for the Soviet Union. Now, we need to make the costs of supporting Isalmic terror too high for the average muslim, lead them to consider that maybe Mohammed meant for the members of Islam to fight their Jihad with words instead of bombs.I believe that the proper response to an attack on a sovereign nation is for that nation, and it's allies, to make the attacker very sorry and promise (and mean it) never to do it again.
And we need to have a long, serious talk with our "friends" in Saudi Arabia.

2006-07-14T08:14:00.000+02:00

How should I feel, as a christian, about al qaeda and the terrorist factions of Islam? Love your enemy, said the Lord, but are we not allowed to defend our selves? To turn the other cheek, they took the World Trade Center, shall we offer them the Sears Tower as well?He said: "Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake will gain it" Does that mean we should let the terrorist kill us all, for Jesus' sake, that we will gain life with Him?Thinking as a man who wants to live and wants there to be a free world for his children to live in, I feel that we should see Islam as a threat to our security and start killing muslims until they reject their Jihad against us. But is this attitude compatible with christian belief? I'm pretty sure we should not get into a religious war with Islam, but rather see them as a threat to our civil authority and freedom/liberty. Sharia law is incompatible with the American sense of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.They take to the streets here in Germany to protest the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, what are they thinking? Has not a country at war the right to hold enemy soldiers captive, until the end of hostilities?The people of the world need to understand that we are at war, all of us, not only the USA. Islam sees us all as enemies. They see the enemy of my enemy as a friend, but only until the common enemy is defeated, then they will turn. I see no other course, if freedom on Earth is to be saved, other than all out war with Islam, to treat Islam as we treated the Nazis, communists, or other enemies of freedom. We must never forget that the believers of Islam are fellow human beings, and we must be ready to accept them as equals, when they admit defeat and abandon the evil aspects of their religion.

Posting # 2

2006-07-13T09:38:00.000+02:00

I started the day as usual today, on the toilet. I've had diarhea now for five years running.
After that, I started the coffee, played with the satellite reciever, and went out to feed the chickens. The dog wanted to go out, too, so I put him on his rope. I am planning to build a fence, so the dog can run where he will, but I haven't gotten to it yet. I need materials, and more strength. My health is not the best, so I can't always work like I'd like to.
I'll need to build fences around the small animal cages, as well, otherwise the dog will break into them

First Post

2006-07-12T20:15:00.000+02:00

I somehow came upon the idea to blog. I don't really know why, except that it's always been a dream of mine to write, and this is as good a way as any to start. I'm planning on letting this blog develop as time goes by, to be a mirror of myself, my thoughts, and opinions.