2007 Archives

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‘Warmers’ bask in Bali while ‘Eskimo Summer’ hits U.S.

   DECEMBER 28 – Used to be our northern and western states would be blessed with what they called “Indian Summer” in the late fall. After several weeks of chilly fall air, I can remember a return to the 60s and low 70s in New England in late November and early December.
            When this occurred, we knew the autumnal equinox on December 21 was about to usher in the winter months. We’re still getting the Indian Summer, only since global warming supposedly began, these Indians are now Eskimos from above the Arctic Circle.
            Since early December, blizzards, ice storms, freezing temperatures and hurricane force winds have blown across the plains, the Midwest and the Northeast, leaving a trail of havoc in blackouts, road fatalities and suffering for hundreds of thousands without power and heat. And, it wasn’t even winter yet.
            On Thursday, December 20, (still fall) my daughter in Salem, Mass., told me that they already had more snow accumulation than all of last winter.
            Meanwhile, over in the South Pacificat the same time, basking in the sun and living it up at five-star luxury hotels in Bali, 10,000 global warmers, led by their hottie guru al-Gore, spend the week blasting the millions of frozen ones in the U.S. for creating misery for the world, especially the polar bears.
            Typical of their brilliant thinking was the choice of Bali as a meeting spot for this large mob. Virtually isolated from the world, and with an airport that can only store 15 aircraft, the hundreds of private jets had to deposit their loonies, then fly off to another island or Australia to park.
            Between that insanity, the accumulation of waste and rubbish, and conference hot air, it was estimated that the carbon footprint the conference created was larger than most of the smaller African nations create in a year.
            The high light of the “hate America” demonstration was al-Gore’s phony accusations of our selfishness and uncaring attitude toward the rest of the world’s people.
            This from a guy who flunked out of ministerial school, couldn’t cut it at law school, and whose wealth came from a deceased U.S. Senator father who got rich from fronting oil deals for J. Paul Getty and the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. It’s obvious that al-Gore learned at his father’s knee, that supporting our enemies could be highly profitable.
            He took it a step or two beyond support into actual accusations of U.S. diabolical greed and indifference to the poor and suffering. Then, it was back to his beach chair on the Bali beach. These accusations, of course, were what got him more riches from Hollywood and the socialists in charge of Nobel Prize monies
While half of our country was freezing to death in the “Eskimo Summer”  al and pals were basking in Bali and planning their next conference in – take one guess! Hawaii, where else? .
             Knowing their love of remote places, I thought it might possibly be in Outer Mongolia among the poor and downtrodden. Well, at least this time, they’ll be plenty of room to park all those hundreds of private and charter jets.
            What al-Gore never got over was , after attending the meeting in 1994 as vice president and signing the Kyoto Accords, it was rejected by the U.S. Senate (he and his father’s former domain) by a vote of 98-0.
Couple that smackdown with his fund-raising scandals in California Buddhist temples and an electoral college defeat of his 2000 presidential bid, and you’ve got a pretty angry, sore loser ready to lead a socialist attack on this nation at the drop of a Hollywood hoax (An Inconvenient Truth).
           As you probably are aware, I like to use the 1880-2997 historical weather record of Central Florida to follow global warming and the global cooling that the loonies were warning about in the 1970s. Central Florida, with its mix of temperate and tropical climates, has always been a prime model of climate stability over the long haul.
            Indian Summer-wise, Nov. 21, 1948, was a winner with 87F, duplicated by Nov. 23 1957, but both beaten by Nov. 28, 1948 with an 89F. While this year’s pre-winter preview has been an Eskimo Summer for our northern and western states, on December 7,8 and 9 of 1978 (16 years before Kyoto) temperatures ran 90 (WOW), 88 and 87 respectively. This was in the decade of scientific (?) prediction of global cooling.
Interestingly, while this year’s wintry blasts of Eskimo Summer were taking their toll, it got scant coverage locally compared to the two-page spread in The Orlando Sentinel’s Dec. 9 edition, with five major AP articles on global warming and the Bali Bamboozle.
           As the wintry blasts of late fall intensified, The Sentinel ran a front page article headlined, “Accelerated Ice Melt Stuns, Scares Experts.”
           The article featured the quote. “’The Arctic is screaming,’ said mark Sereze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo.”
           What sleaze Sereze should have noted that, in Colorado and dozens of other states, people were losing their lives and “screaming”  for power, heat, food and normal lives, while this guy is getting grants and other goodies for propaganda pay.
           On the “accelerated ice melt”, I checked with the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the Sunshine State and the water hasn’t risen one iota.
           I hope Hawaii hasn’t submerged before al-Gore and his global gang  get there.

And God said to Noah, “ And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”  Genesis 9:11.  

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Interview of Bethlehem shepherds has ring of truth

DECEMBER 21 – Columnist note: this a repeat of a column from the Christmas season of last year. I hope it is a blessing to our new readers and longtime readers as well.
            Some years ago, my wife and I obtained a book titled The Archko Volume or The Archeological Writings of the Sanhedrin and Talmud of the Jews.  
            In essence, these are represented to be the official documents made in these courts in the days of Jesus Christ. It is claimed that these accounts were discovered in Constant- inople (Istanbul) and the Records of the Senatorial Docket taken from the Vatican at Rome, as translated by Drs. McIntosh and Twyman of the Antiquarian Lodge. Genoa, Italy.
            Frankly, I don’t know whether these documents covering the birth, life and death of Jesus tell the entire truth or not, but in this season of celebration, the Archko chapter on his birth is quite beautiful and, like most of these accounts, is in close agreement with Scripture.
           Published by Keats Publishing of New Canaan, Conn., the documents include a detailed account of how they were discovered and their origins. In celebration of the Christmas season, I am reproducing here a portion of Chapter IV, which is titled Jonathan’s Interview with the Bethlehem Shepherds. 
           “Jonathan, son of Helziel, to the Masters of Israel, Servants of the True God. In obedience to your order, I met with two men, who said they were shepherds, and were watching their flocks near Bethlehem. They told me that while attending to their sheep, the night being cold and chilly, some had made fires to warm themselves, and some of them had laid down and were asleep; that they were awakened by those who were keeping watch with the question, “What does it all mean? Behold how light it is;’ that when they were aroused, it was light as day.
            But they knew it was not daylight, for it was only the third watch. All at once the air seemed to be filled with human voices, saying, ‘Glory! Glory! Glory to the most high God! And ‘Happy art thou, Bethlehem, for God hath fulfilled his promises to the fathers; for in thy chambers is born the King that shall rule in righteousness.’
Their shoutings would rise up to the heavens and then would sink down in mellow strains, and roll along at the foot of the mountains, and die away in the most soft and musical manner they had ever heard. Then, it would begin again high up in the heavens, in the very vaults of the sky, and descend in sweet and melodious strains, so that they could not refrain from shouting and weeping at the same time.
           The light would seem to burst forth high up in the heavens, and then descend in softer rays and light up the hills and valleys, making everything more visible than the light of the sun, though it was not so brilliant, but clearer, like the brightest moon.
           I asked them how they felt – if they were not afraid. They said at first they were, but after awhile it seemed to calm their spirits and so fill their hearts with love and tranquility that they felt more like giving thanks than anything else.
           They said it was around the whole city, and some of the people were almost scared to death. Some said the world was on fire, some that the gods were coming down to destroy them; others said a star had fallen; until Melker the priest came out shouting and clapping his hands, seeming to be frantic with joy.
The people all came crowding around him, and he told them that it the sign that God was coming to fulfill His promise made to their father Abraham. He told us that God had appeared to Abraham and told him to put all Israel under bonds – sacred bonds of obedience, and if they would be faithful, he would give them a Saviour to redeem them from sin, and that he would give them eternal life, and they should hunger no more, that the time of their suffering should cease forever.
            And that the sign of his coming would be that light would shine from on high, and the angels would announce his coming, and their voices should be heard in the city, and the people should rejoice, and a virgin that was pure should travail in pain and bring forth her firstborn, and he should rule all flesh by sanctifying it and making it obedient.
              After Melker had addressed the people in a loud voice, he and all the old Jews went into the synagogue and remained there praising God and giving thanks.
            ‘I went to see Melker, who related to me much the same as the shepherds reported,’ wrote Jonathan.”
            From a strict journalistic point of view, this account of the shepherds of this most Holy Night is an inspiring description of the most important night in world history. Adding to or subtracting from it would only detract from its simplicity and uplifting power.
            From that standpoint alone, its authenticity, at least for me, is firmly established. Each of you will have to decide this for yourselves.   

“And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone about them: and they were sore afraid.”  Luke 2: 8-9.  

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It’s only a matter of time before Jehovah steps in

“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Revelation 21: 2

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Good cowboys always lose to bad guys until final scenes

NOVEMBER 30 – Back in 1999, things surely looked grim for the immediate
future. The aftermath of eight years of a finagling, sex-crazed, money-mad bungler from
Arkansas as president, had resulted in a series of terrorist attacks on the United States
here and abroad, such as the U.S.S. Cole, the World Trade Center, TWA 800, and our
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. I won’t even mention bungling in the Balkans.

Observing the impeached “Slick Willie” allowing Saddam Hussein to rebuild his
power while stiff-arming U.N. weapons inspectors, you knew it was going to hit the fan
for the next president.

God must have heard the prayers of aware Americans when he raised just the man
we needed: a Texas cowboy with a Harvard Master of Business Administration, a highly
successful businessman, a good father and husband, a man of Faith, a trained jet fighter
pilot, and one of the best two-term governors of our second-most-populated state with a
land area and economy bigger than most countries. The Dems’ definition of a moron.
When “Slinkin’ Willie” turned down the Sudan’s offer to turn over Osama bin
Laden, the 9/11 scale of tragedy was a virtual guaranteed inheritance to George W., and
our troop actions in the Mid-east were a given from that point, as the war on terror began
in earnest.

Thanks to a Democrat opposition and desire for a defeat that would return them to
congressional power, the war overseas was hampered and assailed in constant negative
light by them, their lunatic fringe and their leftist media cohorts.

In spite of all this vitriolic smoke screen , “W” brilliantly prevented any further
homeland attacks while keeping our overseas battle deaths in a five year span, to slightly
more than the 3000 number killed on 9/11 and about the same as perished in a half-day
on D-Day at Omaha Beach.

Simultaneously, he guided the economy to its greatest success in modern history,
led by tax cuts that have produced record government revenues and reduced the national
debt from $200 billion a year to $160 billion; all while funding the war on terror and a
flawless domestic security. If this isn’t a case study for the Harvard “B” School, it
certainly ought to be.

Incidentally, that $160 billion only represents one percent of our annual Gross
Domestic Product (GNP).

My favorite economist, Larry Kudlow, recently extolled the American economy,
stating that the third quarter growth came in at a “breathtaking” 3.9 percent annual rate,
which, following a 3.8 percent second quarter growth rate, gave the U.S. economy its
strongest six month growth rate in four years.

Kudlow also noted that the inflation rate is slowing down, with a 2.1 percent
deflator over the past year, compared to over three percent six quarters ago.
Most important for the average citizen is the terrific job situation. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported 110,000 new jobs created in September. But, the real story is
that since August 2003, the Bush economy plan has created more than 8.1 million new
jobs in 49 consecutive months of job growth. Can anyone say, “Great Balls of Fire”?
According to syndicated columnist Larry Elder, since Bush II took office, “real
after tax per capita income has increased more than 12.5 percent – an average of $3,750
per person.” This is much higher than the average income growth rate during the Clinton
years. Hillary fans take note.

“Exports have increased over 14.8 percent during the 12 months ending July
2007,” Elder continued, “and the Federal deficit declined by $250 billion in the last three
years.”

If we’re headed for a recession, I wonder if anyone except Harry Reid, Nancy
Pelosi and The New York Times will notice it.

Worst of all for this tricky trio, we’re winning in the Mid-east war on terror and
the public is becoming aware of it. According to the Department of Defense, the U.S
military turned over the province of Karbala to Iraq security forces in late October. This
leaves 10 out of 18 provinces under U.S. control, but Iraqi forces are either in control or
taking leadership roles in 16 of 18 provinces.

As our battle casualties drop dramatically and bomb attacks on civilians plummet,
the proof of the surge success is making the American public aware of the Democrat’s
surrender strategy and its main purpose of blackening the Bush administration and the
Republican party, strictly as an electioneering ploy.

Best of all, security is improving rapidly as the Department of Defense states that
over 65,000 Iraqi citizens are volunteering to help U.S. and Iraqi forces secure neighbor
hoods by setting up checkpoints and patrolling roads. Purple thumbs up, anyone? You
won’t find this in The Times or the local metropolitan daily.

This week, President Bush secured another victory over the leftist, lapdog media
on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday. Against press predictions (hope?) of poor
sales due to gas prices and the real estate situation, the American people went out and
spent 8.3 percent more than last year for a new Black Friday record.

The “Bad News Bearers’” reaction was to attribute this strictly to bargain hunters.
Duh! It has always been thus. Can anyone remember a Black Friday strictly of list price
lovers?

Uppermost in most citizens’ presidential pick rationale are domestic security and
a healthy, job-creating, low inflation economy. By Tuesday, November 4, 2008, I don’t
think there will be any doubt as to what party’s presidential nominee can be trusted in
that job. I think it’s been proven many times over.

“Envy not the oppressor, and choose not his ways.
For the froward (false,crooked) is abomination to the LORD:
but his secret is with the righteous.”

Proverbs 3:31 and 32 

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Simple answer to Chavez, Castro and Co. – do the math

NOVEMBER 23 – Finally, someone of stature and impeccable credentials stood
firm in a highly public setting and told the idiot communist dictator of Venezuela, Hugo
Chavez, “to shut up.”

It took place in Santiago, Chile at the Iberio-American summit of Spain, Portugal
and their former colonies in the Americas.

After throwing insults at the host country and overstaying his allotted five minutes
of microphone time by 22 minutes, keeping up his blather even after his mike was
disconnected, Spain’s King Juan Carlos finally told Chavez “to shut up”.
What could have been more perfect than the man who was offered absolute power
as Spain’s dictator Franco faded away, but turned it to a constitutional monarchy similar
to Great Britain.

As Fidel Castro neared his 40-year-rule mark in 1998, the free world was grateful
that his attempt to spread communism in South America and Africa had died with his
worshipper Che Guevera and finally been entombed with the fall of the Soviet Union.
Even in 1998 Venezuela, the newly elected Chavez promised to pursue a “third
way” ; a way between socialism and unbridled capitalism. What we were actually seeing
was the birth of another Castro, but this one had control over 70 billion barrels of crude
oil reserves.

Fortunately, Fidel had to depend on sugar for his communist path to the people’s
poverty. In Chavez, we have Castro’s return, but this time not a dependent of the Soviets.
Fidel’s brother, Raul, who is inheriting the Cuban poorhouse, may be able to
follow the Chavez path and shake the sugar dependency, as Cuba has the Chinese drilling
for Texas Tea in the Straits of Florida for them, just 50 miles off Key West.

Our looney, liberal “Greenies” won’t allow our drilling for proven oil reserves
100 miles off Florida’s Gulf coast, but the Cuban/Chinese drilling project is 50 miles
closer. Just as non-sensical is the Greenies prevention of drilling in the “Lost World” of
Alaska’s ANWAR reserve, in a few hundred acres out of millions. Don’t blame President
Bush for gasoline prices.

If someone in the U.S. admits to being a liberal or progressive, you know they’re
socialists from the get-go. Hillary, call your office. When Chavez or his Bolivian stooge,
Evo Morales, claim to be socialists, you can bet the farm they are Castro-Communists
and their people are headed for the same poorhouse that Fidel designed for his beloved
people.

One only has to study the recent history of these “leaders” and their effect on the
nation’s Gross National Product (GNP) to know exactly what these promises to the poor
and downtrodden actually result in. “BS” walks, but money talks!

Beginning with Cuba, no GNP is recorded for 1989, but it is estimated in 1995 at
$14.7 billion and $33.9 billion in 2004. What that meant per capita was $1,300 (’95) and
$3,000 (’04).

Hugo’s nation had a GNP of $195 billion in 1995, three years before his taking
control, with a per capita of $9,300. Six year after his “third way” began, it was down
$50 billion to $145 billion in 2004 and the per capita had plunged to $5,800.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos was the perfect one to pose the question, “why don’t
you shut up?” By contrast to Venezuela’s GNP dive, Spain’s GNP, under Juan Carlos,
has gone from $358 billion in 1989 to $937 billion in 2004; per capita from $9,150 to
$23,300. And, all without any huge oil reserves.

Population in Spain is only 15 million more than Venezuela’s 26 million, but
Chavez has twice the land area plus obvious dominance over his stooge Evo’s Bolivia.
So, where’s someone like Chile’s late General Augusto Pinochet when you need
him in Venezuela. As much as the leftist, including our media, tried to crucify Pinochet,
in my estimation, he ranks with Simon Bolivar as a true emancipator in Latin American
history.

After communist dictator Salvador Allende took over Chile in 1970, posing as a
socialist, it only took him three years to ruin the country before Pinochet kicked him out
and concentrated Chile on capitalism.

He willingly left office in 1988 after 15 years of tremendous progress, and spent
the rest of his life being castigated because a purported 3,100 communists had been killed
during the return to freedom and prosperity. The communists slaughtered over 100
million people worldwide during the 20th century by comparison to Pinochet’s alleged
crime. As Stalin said and acted out, “One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is just a
statistic.”

Chile, with only some 11 million people. had a GNP of $169 billion (per capita $10,700) in 2004, with no oil reserves of economic consequences.

Contrast that to Hugo Heaven’s $145 billion (per capita $5,800 and falling) with
26 million people and huge oil reserves. Additionally, Reuters reported last week that
Venezuelan workers were having to miss work or take time off to search for food in
stores that are starting to run on empty.

So, where is all the money going? Can anyone say, Swiss bank accounts? , a la
third world leader standard practice.

Whenever Chavez and his ilk shoot off their mouths, just look at the GNP and
per capita records of these murderous robbers.

Then, think of Chile, Spain and the United States. Sure, the U.S. has eleven times
Venezuela’s population, but our 2004 GNP of $11.75 trillion (per capita $40,100)
certainly justifies , even demands, our own, “Why don’t you shut up, Hugo? You might
get beyond your ABCs.”

“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the
substance of the wicked.” Proverbs 10: 2 and 3 

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Joseph Goebbels alive and well, working at ABC News

NOVEMBER 9 – A recent ABC radio news flash, a la Joseph Goebbels motif, stated that according to a recent ABC poll, President Bush’s approval ratings were the lowest of his presidency at 33 percent and that 75 percent of the “people”  wanted a change in government direction. The statement was brief and in that order.

This flash is, of course, the perfect model of contrived propaganda, which tells one absolutely nothing while inferring that Democrats are a virtual shoo-in for 2008.

What should have been included to give any iota of legitimacy was the fact that Bush’s 33 percent approval rating (if this is true) is still almost 200 percent higher than the Do Nothing Democrat-controlled Congress’ 13 percent as led by Pelosi and Reid – the lowest in our history.

But, beyond that, no poll results reach any level of truth, unless they are accompanied by (1) the number of people polled (2); the number of each political party or independents polled; and (3) most importantly, the exact phrasing of the questions asked. The last can be crucial to determine whether or not push-polling for pre-desired results was employed.

Additionally, in the recent history of polling, especially by historically, liberal biased TV networks such as ABC and print media, the day and hours of the poll can be meaningful. It has been found, for instance, that Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings are not good times to reach Christian conservatives, as they will be at church services in large numbers.

All that aside, however, that recent ABC blurb over the radio airwaves relative to 75 percent of the”people wanting change”, not only lacked the three foundational elements of poll viability, it was completely void of what change was supposedly desired. And, being linked with the Bush approval numbers, it strongly suggested that the direction change desired by this huge segment of the population was every policy of this administration.

Examining this premise closely, of course, number one would be a retreat from the war on terror front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, and allowing Muslim terrorists to use Iraq oil money and lowered pressure to mount attacks on our homeland with suitcase nukes, biological weapons, etc.

Another “change of direction” would be the elimination of tax cuts, which have produced record high government revenue and the greatest economic and stock boom in our history, including near full employment as illustrated by the 160,000 new jobs added in September.
Perhaps, this 75 percent of the population wants to grant outright amnesty to the 12 million plus illegal aliens and abandon building a security barrier on the U.S./Mexico border, producing a destructive finale to our education, Medicaid and entitlement funds, and driving our taxes even higher than Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D.-N.Y.) proposed $trillion tax hike for more freebies.

Many of you probably don’t remember Fidel Castro’s last visit to the U.N. some 30 plus years ago, when he stayed in Harlem --  part of Rangel’s district. Charlie was there constantly, hugging the Cuban communist-killer for the cameras. Obviously, Charlie, now in his 19th term, admires leaders of countries where people earn 50 bucks a month – except him of course.
Another change of direction would be Charlie’s proposal that we reinstate the draft for the military. It’s plain that 19 terms in Congress produces acute dementia.

Then, there’s the Hillary, Obama  Edwards plans to morph the best medical care on the planet into a replica of the socialized medicine frauds of most of the rest of the world,, where millions grow sicker or die waiting for appointments for tests, treatment or surgery.

In a recent X-ray of the Canadian nightmare by Branch College economists David and June O’Neill, “Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S., its summary states:
“When no one is faced with any charge for services, demand is unrestrained and costs surge. It is not surprising that shortages developed and explicit rationing (of services) became widespread.”

I find it hard, if not impossible to believe that 75 percent of voters would want to sail in this direction with or without Hillary at the helm or her fellow attorneys Barack Hussein Obama and John “Breck Girl” Edwards.

A strong stance of the G.O.P. and the Bush administration is, of course, against homosexual marriage. The most recent polls with any validity, show that 75 percent of Americans are opposed as well.

This is substantiated by the expanding schisms in denominations which have approved the appointment of practicing homosexuals as pastors and the sanctioning of homosexual unions by those churches. A change of direction here would require a complete flip of present stances, resulting in absolute destructive turmoil in U.S. churches, as well as the ranks of unaffiliated conservatives.

So, where are we, ABC?  How about approval of the Fairness Doctrine that would destroy conservative talk radio led by Rush Limbaugh? Forget it!

Diplomatic talks as the only action against a nuclear bomb-equipped Iran? I don’t think so!

Finally, complete acceptance of the leftist global warming hoax by way of steering our industrial and economic growth i8nto the depression path that the Kyoto Treaty demands? That dog will never hunt!

The major thing to be learned from polls, is that you’re way ahead if you just ignore them.

“A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.”
Ecclesiastes 10: 2. 

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Louisiana’s latest hurricane sure to overcome media blackout

NOVEMBER 2 - I just got a preview glimpse of who could be our first president of color in the not so distant future. And, no, I am not referring to Barack Hussein Obama or any other liberal masquerading as a “progressive” while promoting socialism or worse.

The almost complete blackout by the leftist media of the recent landslide election of a staunch conservative Republican as governor of the “blue” house that Huey Long built over 75 years ago in Louisiana, attests to the shock waves this will send across the country.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, who is the son of immigrants from India to Baton Rouge, developed such a reputation for brilliance and a resume of accomplishments, that he won the recent election with 54 percent of the vote in a race with twelve candidates for the office. The two leading Democrat contenders had 18 and 13 percent each.

This, on top of the fact that half of the 2.8 million registered voters in the state are Dems, and they outnumber GOP voters by almost two-to-one. Huey “The Kingfish” Long was assassinated at age 42 in 1935 after only three years as governor and four as U.S. Senator. The New American Encyclopedia describes his reign as follows:

“He put through economic and social reforms, but virtually suspended the democratic process and ruthlessly used his powers of patronage to create what some saw as a semi-fascist system of state government. As U.S. Senator from 1931, he attacked president Roosevelt’s “New Deal” policies, advocating his own “share the wealth” programs and openly proclaiming his own presidential ambitions.”

Unfortunately, until Jindal’s election, the gubernatorial aspects of Louisiana have been colored with varying aspects of Long’s legacy of corruption, including contempt for the law and the common good. This was most recently reflected in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, lighting up the selfish stupidity of Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Hagins.

While they were ducking decisions and people were dying, Congressman Jindal and his staff were getting food for distribution, vehicles from Ford, medical supplies for hospitals, even ammunition for law officers and a plane and helicopter from a friend in Michigan for rescue work.

When I saw the hundreds of potential evacuation vehicles (school buses) underwater in New Orleans and the resultant death of thousands, I couldn’t help but think of Long’s legacy of segregation and the use of the poor for power and personal gain.

Jindal was narrowly defeated for the governorship by Blanco four tears ago, but with her besmirched Katrina legacy, she did not run for re-election. So, who is this guy, described by many as a “wunderkind”, who, at age 25, served as the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, a huge operation, and single-handedly rescued the state’s Medicaid plan from bankrupting the state budget, saving the state a billion dollars A graduate of Brown University, Jindal was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He was accepted to both the law schools and medical schools at Harvard and Yale., but decided on public service.

Between Brown and Oxford, he served congressional internships for both U.S. reps. Jim McCrery and Bob Livingston, Louisiana Republicans, dazzling both with his brilliance..

In a recent pre-election interview with Quin Hillyer, a senior editor for The American Spectator magazine, Rep, Jindal said he was convinced by his early medical studies that bureaucrats shouldn’t run healthcare – Hillary, take note!

He also stated that in “the Louisiana of flamboyantly corrupt Democrat Gov. Edwin Edwards, it was the Republican party that represented reform and transparency of government.”

Bobby Jindal is only 36 years old, and rebounded from his pre-Katrina loss to Blanco four years ago, to win the vacated congressional seat of Rep. Livingston a year later.

According to T.A.S., he had a perfect rating of 100 percent from the American Conservative Union in 2005, when the liberal Americans for Democratic Action gave him a 10.

Another 100 came from National Right to Life, 96 from the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, 92 from Family Research Council and 100 from the National Federation of Independent Business.

The Dems all over the country must be looking at the Louisiana governor’s race results with absolute terror. Consider that a first generation son of immigrants from India, and a Republican, aced more than half the votes in a field of 12 to become the first Indian-American governor in our nation’s history – in a dark blue state!

“The Kingfish” must have spun in his grave and I could swear I heard Democrat National Chairman Howard Dean in one of his ear-piercing screams. Only this time, not in a rallying cry, but in sheer terror of Dems everywhere not voting in lockstep out of blind allegiance or for promised handouts, but voting for a competent, corruption-free government.

What a place to start the turnaround for intelligent, patriotic, people-first government. And, with a guy whose immigrant father, day after day, “was drilling into my head how lucky we were to have the opportunities around us. Not everyone in the world had the freedom that we did.”

As the T.A.S. headline read, “Hope Floats on the Bayou”.

“Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is
written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and he that thresheth in hope
should be partaker of his hope.” 1 Corinthians 9: 10.

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“Silver Tsunami” minimizes all other campaign issues

OCTOBER 26 – Earlier this month, the first baby boomer, Kathleen Casey
Kirschling of New Jersey, born in Philadelphia, Pa. shortly after midnight on January 1,
1946, signed up for her Social Security and Medicare benefits. She is the first of the army
of hundreds of millions to come in the next 20 years at the rate of 10,000 per day. This
flood, known as the “Silver Tsunami”, is expected to bankrupt our country unless some
changes are made in the immediate future.

The SS program initiated by President Roosevelt, back in the mid-1930s, to help
widows and orphans has, of course, morphed into an array of entitlements and freebies
for everyone, and is claiming some 40 percent of the federal budget.

Three factors, added to the benefits explosion, are assuring the coming doomsday
appointment – the multiple decades of life expectancy added since the 1930s, the decline
of the ratio of active worker to SS recipient from over 20-to-1, to two-to-one and falling -
- and the government’s free spending of all SS trust fund (?) monies, replacing them with
paper IOUs, called bonds.

To me, this is the most critical domestic issue for voters under 55 who think their
SS contributions will be there for them when they retire. And yet, no candidate from
either party is addressing this critical issue with a simple solution.

On the contrary, Hillary is leading her Dem competitors with more pile-ons in the
health care and welfare areas, and the GOP runners are not bringing any dramatic,
convincing attention to the looming disaster. Coupled with the war on terror costs over
the next ten years, the existing, growing national debt,, and the “Silver Tsunami”, the
main issue of this campaign should be a source of new revenue.

In May 2000, I put forth the answer to these problems and the rest of our “phony
money crises”. It was headlined, “Social Security, national debt, taxes are phony issues,
easily solved”. Candidates, take note!

MAY 5, 2000 – “The tragic part of this national debt, taxation and federal
tyranny over the economy through posturing pols is that it’s all completely unnecessary.
Consider the proposition of a median income family who owes $100,000 to banks
and creditors because of decades of reckless overspending beyond their means. The same
family owns 100 acres of land worth $$20,000 an acre and it’s tax free.

Obviously, rather than pay $7,000 or $8,000 a year in interest plus principal out of
a limited income, they should sell off five acres and pay off the debt. Incidentally, the
land didn’t cost them anything in the first place.

In reality, that is the case with the people of the United States (the real
government}, who have been placed needlessly in over $8 trillion of debt by their elected
representatives, and who not only are being bled white by the interest on it, but can’t
seem to stop the runaway spending and irresponsibility.

According to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, the federal government is to
“exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such Districts (not
exceeding ten Miles square) as may by Cession of particular States and the acceptance of
Congress, become the seat of government of the United States (the District of Columbia
didn’t exist at this time), and to exercise like authority over all Places purchased by the
Consent of the Legislature of the State which the same shall be, for the erection of Forts,
Magazines, Arsenals, dock Yards and other needful buildings.”

That, my fellow Americans, is a far cry from more than one-third of all land in 50
states now held by the federal government and grabbing more every year. Of our
3,675,031 (that’s millions) square miles, the federal leviathan has unconstitutionally
gobbled up more than 1,225,500 square miles of it, and growing.

Consider that they have usurped an area equal to four states of Texas, or two
Alaskas, or more than all the land east of the Mississippi River; much of it supremely rich
in minerals, timber, oil, coal, uranium and other natural resources, as well as having high
potential for development.

Even placing a ridiculously low estimate of $1,000,000 per square mile, the
market value of the land would be in the “$gazillions”. Selling off just 10 to 20 percent of
“our land” to private interests would not only retire the debt and fund Social Security
forever, but also eliminate income tax for decades, producing the greatest economics
boom and wave of freedom in history.

It is more than clear from the Constitution that its framers would have abhorred a
central government which grabbed a third of the original 13 states. Their disdain for
individuals who looted us of one third of land in 50 states would be beyond calculation.
What type of persons would sit on a mountain of gold gouging money from their
hardworking neighbors? … all while using those looted funds to enrich and empower
themselves to enlarge the mountain of gold.”

That’s the only question that needs to be asked in the presidential debates or of
current representatives. Forget the fictitious, future rising waters of Global Warming
twits, the Silver Tsunami is here!

“It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust
in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.”
Psalm 118: 8 and 9.

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Queen of Sheba reaches New Guinea after 2,900-mile journey

OCTOBER 19 – Now, it’s approximately 9,000 air-miles from Papua, New
Guinea, directly north of eastern Australia, to Jerusalem, Israel. And, the air-miles from
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Jerusalem are about 1,800. But, by camel over land, it’s a lot
further and longer in time.

The latter trip from Ethiopia was that of the Queen of Sheba some 2,900 years
ago, described in the Bible in I Kings 10:1 and 2 as follows.

“And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the
name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

“And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices,
and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she
communed with him of all that was in her heart.”

I was quite overcome on Monday, October 15, when my wife and I received an
email from Israel that mirrored the caravan from the past with a modern aerial one from
New Guinea.

For the past two years, we have been helping to support a young Jewish woman
from Russia living in Israel. Vaya Plashkow is in Christian ministry work through
Campus Crusade for Christ, helping to spread the good news throughout the Holy Land.
Her email was a transmission of Ynet news dated October 7.

“ A delegation of 34 people from Papua, New Guinea visited the Western Wall
last week and donated a kilo of gold (2.2046 pounds) and several thousand dollars to the
Temple Mount Institute, an organization dedicated to rebuilding the Temple in Israel.
“The delegation’s participants, who define themselves as members of ‘The Bible
Circle’, told the institute’s workers that they study the Bible on a regular basis.
“Recently, they read the prophesy of Zechariah, where it says: ‘And they that are
far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the
LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you,’ and decided to follow the verse and come to
Israel.

“The Papuans explained that since their country was rich in gold mines, their
donation was ‘nothing out of the ordinary’, but added that in the future, they hoped they
would be able to send valuable wood for the new temple’s construction.
“ ‘They pulled gold bullion out of their bags, and even started to take off their
jewelry, apologizing it was too little,’ head of the institute, Yahuda Glick told Y net.
“there was even a married couple who gave me their wedding rings and said they wanted
to marry God.’

“The scene reminded me of the legends of King Solomon I read when I was
young, and pictures of the Queen of Sheba bringing gold and precious gems to the
Temple. The vision is literally coming to life before our eyes.’ “

It is interesting to note that the Book of Revelation prophesies the rebuilding of
the Temple (chapter 11) on the Temple Mount, now in hot dispute (as to control thereof)
between Israel and Muslims. This rebuilding is scheduled to take place during the great
tribulation and precede the return of Jesus Christ.

Ever since the retaking of Jerusalem by Israel in the1967 War, certain
organizations have planned the rebuilding of the Temple. One of them, The Temple
Mount Faithful, headed up by a former Israeli Defense Force officer Gershon Salomon,
has even prepared and transported the huge corner stone to the foot of the Mount, and
attempt to move it to the top once a year; so far, unsuccessfully.

The amount of air-miles between Jerusalem and Annapolis, Maryland, are close
to those of the Papua distance, but unfortunately, no blessing will come from the site of
next month’s latest “peace conference” farce between Israel and Palestinian gang leaders.
This U.S. sponsored “peace conference” will again call for Israel to give up the
West Bank and the old section of Jerusalem to be the Palestinian capital and to include
complete control of the Temple Mount by Muslims.

As usual, in return, the Fatah, Hamas and other terrorist gangs will only be
required to stop murdering Israelis and recognize their “right to exist” —the ultimate
oxymoron! Yeah, that will work – just like the dozens of times before.
If this madness comes to pass, the Israelis’ present, minimally defensible nation
will become completely indefensible.

It has been postulated that former leader Ariel Sharon , an IDF general, gave up
Gaza only to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that nothing would satisfy Israel’s
enemies and that the hatred and assaults would only escalate.

He was right,, of course, but, unfortunately, he fell into a coma (still under) before
he could follow up on this indisputable proof.

Fortunately, the real leader of Israel, JEHOVAH, has plans of His own for the
Holy Land and the Temple Mount, and I’ll put my faith in a small band of messengers
from Papua, and not a band of fools in Annapolis.

“And there was given me (John) a reed like unto a rod: and an angel stood saying,
Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But
the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not: for it is given unto
the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.”
Revelation 11: 1 and 2.

Columnist note: If you would like to be a messenger like the Papuans (gold ingots not required), send your donations to Gershon Salomon, Temple Mount Faithful, 4 Yochanan Horkanos, P.O. Box 18325, 91182 Jerusalem, Israel.

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False accusation exposed – you’re not reponsible for global warming

OCTOBER 5 – So, since weather records-keeping began in 1880, when did the 10
hottest years occur?

Well, up to two months ago, the propaganda supported by NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies claimed that the top ten have occurred since 1995 – the
warmest of all being 1998.

Because of the discovery of an error by a Canadian statistician, Stephen McIntyre,
and his report on Climate Audit blog, Goddard and NASA have re-issued their list of 10
warmest years, showing that four years are from the 1930s, with the warmest of all being
1934, not 1998.

In the final analysis, only three years in the past decade were in the warmest
category. The 1930s still wins the “warmest”, 4 to 3. NASA also had to take back 2000,
2002, 2003 and 2004, as four years previous to the year 1900 were warmer. That was in
the 19th century. For those of you from Rio Linda, that’s over 100 years ago.
Now, some global warming may well be occurring , as there have been cycles of
warming and cooling periodically throughout history from changes in solar activity.
Recently, as I documented earlier this year, there have been scientific reports that
planets in our solar system, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are warming from solar activity.
They have one thing in common – no human, animal, plant life or water.

The recasting of record hottest years to the 1930s and pre-1900, however, prove
beyond the shadow of a doubt, that MAN’S ACTIVITIES HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH GLOBAL WARMING!

For Gov. Crist, Orange County Mayor Crotty. Gov. “Terminator” Scharzenegger
and any other seemingly sane Republican to have joined this madness can only be
attributed to the relentless pounding of the liberal, leftist media and their 24/7 coverage of
loonies a la al-Gore and “Warming Willie.”

To refresh your memories, all this nonsense started with the Kyoto Treaty of
1994, which blamed man’s activities, i.e., breathing, autos, manufacturing industry, food
animal flatulence, power production, jet aircraft, building, etc., for creating a coming,
calamitous warming of the Earth.

The treaty was a direct attempt by envious, socialist nations to cripple the U.S.
economy and, thereby, military strength by requiring a reduction of carbon dioxide
emissions produced by all of the aforementioned activities; to five percent below 1990
levels by 2010.

Beside the U.S., some 30 other primarily advanced Western powers were
targeted, but the Kyoto Kaper left giant populations like India and China off the hit list.
Just consider what attempting to do this over a 20-year period of record growth
would have done to our economy and the lives of our people. Can anyone say
“communism wins?”

Please note how soon Kyoto followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. Also,
please note that Kyoto was in 1994 and the Goddard claim was that the warmest 10 years
occurred since 1995.

Naturally, “Warming Willie” was 100 percent in favor of this attack on us by the
Greenies (formerly the Reds), but 90 members of the Senate quashed the treaty in 1995,
and we continue to prosper as trees, plants, and crops eagerly suck up to their true love—
carbon dioxide (the primary greenhouse gas).

Consider that The New York Times recently reported that fighting global warming
would take enormous amounts of money. Obviously, the “newspaper of record” missed
the news of the warmest four yeas on “record” being in the 1930s.

What was also missing in the 1930s was about half of today’s population, 95
percent of our trucks and cars, 90 percent of our industrial plants, 90 percent of our power
plants, 100 percent of our jet aircraft and only God knows how fewer cattle, sheep, hogschickens, wild animals, etc., etc.

So, what caused those warmest years on record in the 1930a, since it was
obviously not human activity? That leaves only the sun’s activities, just as it has always
been and will be to the end of time.

Contrary to media and self-interest by certain pols, the scientific community is
completely at odds on warming, as reported on August 18 by syndicated columnist Jeff
Jacoby of The Boston Globe.

He writes: “In 2003, environmental scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch
surveyed 536 of their peers in 27 countries on topics related to global warming. One
question asked: ‘To what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly
the result of anthropogenic (human activity) causes?’ On a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 7
(strongly disagree), the average score was 3.62, reflecting no clear consensus.

“Another question asked was: ‘To what degree might global warming prove
beneficial for some societies?’ A striking 34 percent of the scientists answered 1 or 2 (a
great degree of benefit); just 8.3 percent answered 6 or 7 (very little or no benefit).”
On that last point, those who believe in the constant oversight of a loving Creator
can see clearly that an exponentially exploding world population means a crucial need for
more crops to feed them.

If we can see it now, it’s obvious that He saw it coming from the beginning. The
answer – turn up the sun for global warming and longer growing seasons.

“And of Joseph he (Moses) said, Blessed of the LORD be his land,
for theprecious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath. And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious
things brought forth by the moon.”

Deuteronomy 33: 13 and 14.

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False Accusation Exposed – You’re Not Responsible for Global Warming          

OCTOBER 5 – So, since weather records-keeping began in 1880, when did the 10
hottest years occur?
            Well, up to two months ago, the propaganda supported by NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies claimed that the top ten have occurred since 1995 – the
warmest of all being 1998.
            Because of the discovery of an error by a Canadian statistician, Stephen McIntyre,
and his report on Climate Audit blog, Goddard and NASA have re-issued their list of 10
warmest years, showing that four years are from the 1930s, with the warmest of all being
1934, not 1998.
            In the final analysis, only three years in the past decade were in the warmest
category. The 1930s still wins the “warmest,” 4 to 3. NASA also had to take back 2000,
2002, 2003 and 2004, as four years previous to the year 1900 were warmer. That was in
the 19th century. For those of you from Rio Linda, that’s over 100 years ago.
            Now, some global warming may well be occurring, as there have been cycles of
warming and cooling periodically throughout history from changes in solar activity.
            Recently, as I documented earlier this year, there have been scientific reports that
planets in our solar system--Jupiter, Mars and Saturn--are warming from solar activity.
They have one thing in common – no human, animal, plant life or water.
            The recasting of record hottest years to the 1930s and pre-1900, however, prove
beyond the shadow of a doubt, that MAN’S ACTIVITIES HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH GLOBAL WARMING!
            For Gov. Crist, Orange County Mayor Crotty,  Gov. “Terminator” Scharzenegger
and any other seemingly sane Republican to have joined this madness can only be
attributed to the relentless pounding of the liberal, leftist media and their 24/7 coverage of
loonies a la al-Gore and “Warming Willie.”
            To refresh your memories, all this nonsense started with the Kyoto Treaty of
1994, which blamed man’s activities, i.e., breathing, autos, manufacturing industry,
food-animal flatulence, power production, jet aircraft, building, etc., for creating a coming,
calamitous warming of the Earth.
            The treaty was a direct attempt by envious, socialist nations to cripple the U.S.
economy and, thereby, military strength by requiring a reduction of carbon dioxide
emissions produced by all of the aforementioned activities--to five percent below 1990
levels by 2010.
            Beside the U.S., some 30 other primarily advanced Western powers were
targeted, but the Kyoto Kaper left giant populations like India and China off the hit list.
            Just consider what attempting to do this over a 20-year period of record growth
would have done to our economy and the lives of our people. Can anyone say
“communism wins?”
            Please note how soon Kyoto followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. Also,
please note that Kyoto was in 1994 and the Goddard claim was that the warmest 10 years
occurred since 1995.
            Naturally, “Warming Willie” was 100 percent in favor of this attack on us by the
Greenies (formerly the Reds), but 90 members of the Senate quashed the treaty in 1995,
and we continue to prosper as trees, plants, and crops eagerly suck up to their true love—
carbon dioxide (the primary greenhouse gas).
            Consider that The New York Times recently reported that fighting global warming
would take enormous amounts of money. Obviously, the “newspaper of record” missed
the news of the warmest four yeas on “record” being in the 1930s.
            What was also missing in the 1930s was about half of today’s population, 95
percent of our trucks and cars, 90 percent of our industrial plants, 90 percent of our power
plants, 100 percent of our jet aircraft and only God knows how fewer cattle, sheep, hogs
chickens, wild animals, etc., etc.
            So, what caused those warmest years on record in the 1930a, since it was
obviously not human activity? That leaves only the sun’s activities, just as it has always
been and will be to the end of time.
            Contrary to media and self-interest by certain pols, the scientific community is
completely at odds on warming, as reported on August 18 by syndicated columnist Jeff
Jacoby of The Boston Globe.
            He writes: “In 2003, environmental scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch
surveyed 536 of their peers in 27 countries on topics related to global warming. One
question asked: ‘To what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly
the result of anthropogenic (human activity) causes?’ On a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 7
(strongly disagree), the average score was 3.62, reflecting no clear consensus.
            “Another question asked was: ‘To what degree might global warming prove
beneficial for some societies?’ A striking 34 percent of the scientists answered 1 or 2 (a
great degree of benefit); just 8.3 percent answered 6 or 7 (very little or no benefit).”
            On that last point, those who believe in the constant oversight of a loving Creator
can see clearly that an exponentially exploding world population means a crucial need for
more crops to feed them.
            If we can see it now, it’s obvious that He saw it coming from the beginning. The
answer – turn up the sun for global warming and longer growing seasons.

“And of Joseph he (Moses) said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the
precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath.
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things
brought forth by the moon.”
Deuteronomy 33: 13 and 14. .

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And, You Thought That Only “Slick Willie” Hated the Military

           SEPTEMBER 28 – Two weeks ago, General David Petraeus delivered his report
on the U.S. troop surge results to date in the war on terror in Iraq. In a very true sense, he
had to fight his way to the hearing table through months of liberal barrages on his honesty, ability and the independence of his assessment. Once at the table, he still remained the target of character assassination and sniping by treasonous Democrat politicians.
            When he was finally allowed to “report,” it was too obvious what had frightened
the left and their media hacks into their wild behavior and cheap shots.
            Last year, The Washington Post reported that, essentially, we had lost the major
western province of Anbar to al-Qaeda. Gen. Petraeus stated at the Senate hearing that in
the provincial capital of Ramadi, 30-35 attacks a day at the beginning of this year had been reduced to zero in 102 of the days since April 1.
            In June of 2006 in Anbar, U.S. forces came under attack 450 times. June 2007
saw under 25 attacks – a reduction of 94 percent!
            The report notes that the surge of three additional battalions to Anbar encouraged
the tribal revolts against al-Qaeda, and it has spread to five other provinces and sections of the Iraq capital, Baghdad.
            According to the September 14 edition of National Review, the surge “has created
the equivalent of neighborhood watch groups at the local level, but we are not creating
Sunni militias.
            “We are logging everyone we newly integrate into the security forces with
fingerprints and retinal scans, and we are taking down the serial numbers of their
weapons. That means we know whom we are working with.”
            Additionally, the Petraeus report reveals that sectarian killings in Baghdad this
past August were one quarter of their peak period before the surge. Also, the general
reported that the number of discovered weapons caches more than doubled from 1,977 in
January to 4,141 in August.
            It is not surprising that Gen. Petraeus’ major detractor is the Dems’ leading
candidate for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the junior senator from New York. She
has a sizeable poll lead over another Democrat Patraeus detractor, Barack Hussein
Obama.
            At 60, she’s six years older than the general, but in terms of wisdom,
accomplishments, patriotism and contributions toward our freedom, he’s Methuselah to
her Jezebel.
            It’s no surprise that he attended West Point, having been born and raised at nearby
Cornwall, New York. His father was the captain of a “Liberty” supply ship during World
War II. Loyalty and courage are in the genes.
            After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy, he served with NATO in
Europe, then returned to earn a master’s and a doctorate’s degree from Princeton’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, becoming a true
soldier/scholar.
            During this time, Hillary was cavorting with Bill at Yale, then defending Black
Panthers in California with leading leftist lawyers.
            Tours of duty for him in Bosnia and Haiti with the 101st Airborne followed Bill’s
and Hillary’s desecration of Arkansas and the White House with Whitewatergate,
Paulagate, Travelgate, Troopergate, Filegate, Flowersgate, Interngate, and dozens of
other “gates.”  This after leaving Dogpatch with some of the nation’s lowest ratings in
education, healthcare and incomes.
            Of course, before her assault on the White House, her nibs, the Patraeus detractor,
was too busy using the paper shredder at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm to tend to anything
else, unless it was cattle futures and crooked land deals.
            During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Petraeus commanded the 18,000 soldiers of the
101st, supporting the Third Infantry Division, finally securing the city of Mosul, Iraq’s
third largest. Once in control, his division completed some 5,000 rebuilding projects in
Mosul, even establishing a television network.
            From May of 2004 to September of 2006, Gen Petraeus was in charge of rebuilding Iraq’s army and police forces throughout the country. Some 197,000 soldiers
have gone through basic training and been equipped with weapons, body armor and
vehicles.
            Watching the Licentious Left assail this outstanding, brilliant military leader
directly and indirectly, even months before the surge report was due, was a disgrace to
this country. Challenging the independence of the general and his report were Dems’
leaders Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin and Dianne Feinstein among many
others.
            One of the worst name callings came from Rep. Tom Lantos (D.-Calif.), who
accused him of being a “political shill” for the administration. This biggest of political
shills ranted, “No amount of charts or statistics will improve the administration’s
credibility.”
            As the leading Democrat candidate for commander-in-chief, however, it’s
Hillary’s comments in the hearings of having “to suspend our disbelief” in order to
accept Petraeus’ report that was an insult to all our military forces past, present and
future.
            And, her refusal to condemn Moveon.org’s ad in The New York Times (worded “Is it Gen. Petraeus or Gen Betray us?”) firmly establishes her as being in full agreement with Bill’s written statement of “I hate the military” in their pre-political office past.
            If the public can’t recognize traitorous behavior in the façade of these hearings
and treatment of a dedicated, brilliant general, for strictly political gain, we can expect
the last line of our National Anthem to become, “O’er the land of the enslaved and the
home of the cowardly.”

“A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth
worketh ruin.” Proverbs 26: 28.

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Your Grandparents’ Schools May Soon Belong To Al-Qaeda

            SEPTEMBER 14 – Now, get ready for the biggest idiotic thinking since Karl
Marx conceived Communism as the answer to all the world’s problems and the way to
peace and love on earth.
            There is now a group of overseers who think their charges work too hard and
don’t have enough recreation and hang-around time because of homework. The overseers
are parents and the charges are their school children.
            According to a recent major article in the local metropolitan daily, there is a
growing pack of parents, psychologists and teachers who, like Marx’s deliriums, are
promoting a path to destruction out of self-interest, laziness and sheer ignorance of what
children need.
            Consider that the group for which they want more recreation and playtime and
little or no homework, have 104 days of each year as weekends. In addition, they have 27
days off during the school year for fall breaks, spring breaks and Christmas vacations.
            Then there are about another 10 days for holidays, teachers’ work-days, etc., and
finally about two-and-a-half months, some 50 days, for summer vacation, deducting
weekends. That’s about 187 days out of 365 each year (more than half) for playing and
recreation, and the “growing” ranks of homework foes think (?) this is insufficient.
            One anti-homework mother stated, ”I think (?) we’re pushing them so hard to do
so much. I don’t have a problem with homework if they need extra help with something
or they need to study for a test. But, homework just for homework – it leaves them no
time to be kids.”
            No time to be kids!!? They’ve got187 days out of 365 each year, off from school,
and they have no time to be kids?!
            I’ve seen telecast of Muslim elementary-age children in Mid-East countries being
schooled in hate speech against Jews and the Great Satan America, and parading about
with small arms while wearing suicide bomber mockup belts And, the generation of
Americans who will have to face this deadly threat is, according to their parents, headed
for a breakdown from the stress of homework.
            The major complaint from some of these parents seems to be the fact that they
have to use some of their time to lend a little homework help or make sure the work is
done--known as supervision. Apparently, in today’s Ipod, lap-top, plasma screen world,
this group feels that once the kids are out of disposable diapers and can use a knife and
fork, parental duties and responsibilities fall mainly on the backs of teachers, and
television shows take priority in the adult evening hours.
            One parent postulated, “I think it’s tough to get to concentrate on the homework
at night when they haven’t had a break all day.”
            With all their 187 plus days of “break time” yearly, kids who are living normal
lives, i.e. not being sexually abused, not working in third-world sweatshops, not living in
homes that are marital battlefields, and not expected to win full scholarships to Harvard,
don’t need a mental break on school nights until bedtime.
            I’m sure many of us can remember elementary school as a place of learning, study
and discipline. Homework was a natural after-supper effort following a couple hours of
after-school pick-up baseball, touch football, or, in winter, ice hockey at a nearby frozen
pond.
            Other after-school, pre-supper activities would entail listening to radio serials like
“Jack Armstrong” and ” Captain Midnight,” or reading books like Treasure Island,
Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Kidnapped, etc..
            In the 5th grade, as today, we had primarily a single teacher, so homework was
controlled to about 90 minutes a night.
            I got a shock in the sixth grade when my folks sent me and two older brothers to a
prep. school (St. John’s Prep.) run by Xaverian brothers. This is the order that ran the
orphanage in Baltimore that raised Babe Ruth.0-p
            The school, founded in 1907, celebrated its 100th Anniversary last week. When I
attended, it had a 6th through 12th grade and each course had a different brother-teacher,
and they didn’t consult with each other about homework. Additionally, your English,
math, Latin teachers etc., would leave your 6th grade class and, in the next few hours, be
teaching at 10th, 11th and 12th grade levels or vice-versa.
            Suddenly, it was 3-4 hours of homework a night and a sound sleep from 11 p.m.
to 6 a.m. Did I mention there was a full athletic program for all grade levels; or that my
brothers and I had to put in janitorial and soda jerk time in my Dad’s corner drug store?
            Most of my buddies were going to public schools at that time and I know, though
they had it a little easier, they were still heavily challenged.
            The juniors and seniors were our heroes and would soon prove it on the bulletswept
beaches of the South Pacific, North Africa, Anzio and Normandy. Their homework
preparation guaranteed that my high school homework wasn’t in German or Japanese.
            And, unless these liberal parents pick up the pace on their “overburdened” kids in
today’s schools, their grandchildren will be doing their homework in Arabic.

           
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22: 6

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Who’s the greatest hitter in the game – I say “Teddy Ballgame”

AUGUST 24 – Ever since Barry Bonds claimed the major league home run
record over Hank Aaron’s 755 base cleaners, the controversy has raged about Bonds
alleged use of steroids for performance enhancement. When the smoke clears, it will all
come down to whether or not to place an asterisk after Bonds’ feat.
And, of course, the asterisk’s use may depend on the outcome of the investigation
led by former U.S. Senate Leader George Mitchell, who obviously is not breaking any
records himself for getting this thing done.

As far as I’m concerned, based on revelations and evidence to date, Aaron’s
record still stands with me, as it does, I’m sure, with the vast majority of baseball fans.
He certainly is one of the great hitters in baseball history. The question I have is; Who is
the greatest hitter of them all?

Now, when I say Ted Williams is my choice, it’s not because I was born and grew
up 15 miles from Fenway Park as the crow flies, and saw him play in the days before
television and many times on television through most of his career, except for the pre-
World War II years.

“The Kid”, or “Teddy Ballgame”, or “The Splendid Splinter”, or whatever, started
with the Red Sox at the age of 21 in 1939 and retired in 1960 at 42. He was the American
League batting champ six times, beginning in 1941 with a .406 average – the last time
that a major leaguer hit .400 or more. After 66 years, that record still stands.
He followed that up with another batting championship in 1942 with .356 and
garnering the first of two triple crowns with 36 homers and 137 runs batted in. Then, it
was off to war as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in the Pacific for three years.

He got his second triple crown, two years after returning from his WWII service
in 1947, batting .343, with 114 runs batted in and 32 home runs. With Asia heating up
again under communist aggression, he got another batting crown in 1948 with a .369
average, and then the home run crown in 1949 with 43 four-baggers.
In 1951, “The Kid’s” baseball career was again put on hold when he was recalled
to the Corps for service in the Korean War. This time, to fly fighter jets and lose another
three years in the prime years of his hitting abilities.

When news came of his being shot down, we all prayed and held our breath until
his rescue was announced. After losing three more seasons, returned to face another
obstacle in Cleveland Indians’ player-manager Lou Boudreau’s Ted Williams shift,
which put three infielders between second and first bases and the 3rd baseman in the
shortstop slot. Additionally, the outfield moved to the right to put the left fielder in
centerfield.

As most other Sox opponents adopted the Williams defensive shift, “Teddy
Ballgame” developed a quick forward step in the batter’s box to meet the ball early and
send it to left for doubles and triples galore off the Green Monster. Only his fantastic
vision and quickness allowed this prowess against major league pitching.
Boudreau was to regret inventing this Williams defense when he got the job as
Red Sox manager. There’s no doubt it robbed “The Splendid Splinter” of an untold
amount of hits in his final years in Boston, several under Boudreau.

Despite the lost war years and the “shift”, Ted captured batting championships
again in 1957 with an amazing .388 at 39 tears of age and 1958 with .328 when he was
40. Other tremendous accomplishments by him despite his military-shortened career,
include being in the top ten (6th place) in overall lifetime batting average at .344, with a
minimum of 4,000 at bats. Ty Cobb was first with .367 and The Babe” was 8th at .342.
In career slugging percentage (total bases divided by a minimum of 400 at bats),
Ruth is first at .690 and Williams is second at .634.

Ted’s 516 home runs with six prime years “missing in action”, is really an
amazing accomplishment from any viewpoint. For the 15 years he put in, his average
yearly total was 31. Those missing prime years would certainly have produced a much
higher average and total.

Whether it would have equaled Aaron’s total doesn’t matter when you consider
the rest of Ted’s hitting records versus anyone.

Today’s multi-millionaire players should thank Williams for being the first to
break the six-figure barrier in an era when virtually every player was selling cars or
insurance in the off-season.

When Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey raised Ted’s salary to $100,000, the Boston
papers headlined it with the type size used in announcing the end of World War II: “Ted
gets $100,000”. A season later, Williams was not satisfied with his performance and
offered to give $30,000 back.

Can you imagine that kind of integrity in Barry Bonds or some of those other
“free agent” fence jumpers! He was also one of the original founders of the Jimmy Fund
for seriously ill children.

Hot War Warrior; Cold War Warrior; Baseball Warrior – The Kid was truly the
greatest. He died five years ago last month at 84. R.I.P.

“”Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck;
write them upon the table of thine heart. So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.”

Proverbs 3: 3 and 4.

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Present Day Threats Have Familiar Ring From the Past

AUGUST 17 – “Islam has gone on the offensive worldwide. They believe that if they can take England, they can take the world. England will never be the same. Churches are closing everywhere, and mosques are popping up like mushrooms … The U.S. is also a major target and this force must be stopped.”
     A quote from the latest issue of National Review?  An excerpt from the speech of former Prime Minister Tony Blair following the Muslims’ deadly attack on the London subway in July 2005?
     Actually, the statement was written, prophetically, in the spring of 1994 by the publisher of a bi-monthly publication called Battle Cry. The writer, Jack T. Chick of Chick Publications was warning his readers of the building wave of terrorism that was being observed by Christian missionaries under attack throughout Europe, the Mid-East and the Far East.
     Chick is one of the leading producers and distributors of tracts that introduce Christianity to recipients by utilizing a wide assortment of cartoon scenarios in small booklet format.
     My wife was looking for another document in an old file when this March-April 1994, issue of Battle Cry “popped up like a mushroom.”  Before noticing Chick’s letter to readers, an article on Muslim states’ persecution of other faiths, especially Christians, caught my eye.
     The article stated: “Reports from Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia all speak of severe hardship or death to those who dare speak against Islam with the gospel.
     “In Iran, the head of the Assemblies of God churches there disappeared January 19 (1994). Eleven days later, government officials summoned family members to identify his body from a photograph. His body had already been buried in a Muslim cemetery.
     “Prior to his death, Haik Hovspian-Mehr had been an increasingly outspoken critic of religious repression in Iran.”
     The article goes on to predict the massacres of Christians in Darfur by the Sudanese-Islamic government and to describe persecutions in Egypt, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.
     Consider that this was written in the early days of the Clinton administration’s blind eye toward the coming storm warnings and seven plus years before 9/11. The terms “terrorists” and “Islamic”  had yet to be wed and eventually to be banned by leftist wire services and the liberal media – replaced with “insurgents,”  “militants,” and other such insipid camouflage terms.
     So, 13 years after the Chick warnings, we have a Democrat Congress that is still ignoring the unmitigated threats of Islamic religious and political leaders (actually, there’s no difference), who vow to conquer and convert the world to an Islamic caliphate under sharia law.
     Meanwhile following the blueprint for England, the U.S. Muslim population is growing fast and “mosques are popping up like mushroom clouds,” to paraphrase Chick.
     During the last two weeks, the world has seen the reality of Chick’s 1994 prophetic writing; Taliban killers in Afghanistan have held 23 South Korean Christian missionary workers in cruel and abusive captivity, murdering two and holding 21 (17 women) for ransom and troop withdrawal demands.
     The missionaries were primarily nurses or providers of other humanitarian services, but for the most part, the U.S. liberal media and leftist human rights crowd have taken the attitude of blaming the captive victims for getting themselves in trouble.
     Yea, sure; I’ve met a lot of Christian missionaries and none used the Muslim “missionary” method of “convert, infidel, or die!”
     Most Christian missionaries bring medical, material or bodily sustenance initially to the poor, sick or needy before ministering to their spiritual needs. Typical of this are my good friends and fellow Apopkans, Jim and Barbara Neff, with the ministry they founded as Operation Provision.
     Beginning simply by delivering boxes of food to the needy in South Apopka, it has now spread through Africa, Central and South America and areas of the U.S. When it comes to the war on terror, these unarmed combatants, are truly on the front lines.
     The war on Western civilization as prophesied by Chick in 1994, is now entering phase 2 with the beginning of huge demonstrations calling for creation of the caliphate worldwide. The Associated Press reported this week on 90,000 followers of a hard-line  Muslim group, Hizb-ur-Tahrir, who packed out a stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia – a country of 250 million that’s 88 percent Muslim.
     Said the AP: “Speeches called for the return of the caliphate, or Islamic statehood, across the Muslim world. The crowd, divided into sections for women and men, roared in support.”
     I am reminded of similar, huge,  “peaceful”  stadium-like demonstrations with the crowds roaring support. They took place in Munich, Germany during the mid-1930s, and in Moscow and Peking during the second half of the 20th century.
     They also sought world domination with “roaring support,”  and it cost 200 million lives before they were stopped.

“He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and
he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.” 

Proverbs 17:19.

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Red Sox Nation’s model no inspiration to Boston pols’ thinking

AUGUST 10 – After a very active nine days in the Boston area, I can say without equivocation, Orlando commuters don’t know what rush hour traffic is, and thank the Lord that our politicians are rank amateurs when it comes to conjuring up projects the costs of which exceed the gross domestic product of most countries.

After a few days golfing and gorging on seafood in the Salem-North Shore area, my son-in-law Jack Driscoll (five-time qualifier for the Massachusetts Open) arranged a round of golf on Cape Cod at Cranberry Meadows Golf Club in Harwich. This required a rush hour departure from Salem to get to a 10:16 a.m. tee time.

I had never driven through the Ted Williams Tunnel and the “Big Dig” (Tip O’Neill Tunnel), so between the commuter traffic and the Big Dig’s notoriety for falling debris and being the world’s biggest carwash, it held all the possibilities of a thrill ride at Universal’s Islands of Adventure.

Setting me up were two articles from The Boston Herald four days earlier, dealing with the Big Dig fiasco. The first I read detailed a concrete supplier for the tunnel who has agreed to pay a $50 million settlement to end a civil and criminal action for the delivery to the gigantic project of more than 5,700 truck loads of substandard concrete.

Aggregate Industries NE Inc. is the largest asphalt and concrete supply company in the New England states., and six employees are still awaiting trial on charges of falsifying records to hide the substandard quality of the concrete.

A column in the same issue of the Herald by J. Douglas Hunter refreshed my memory in two paragraphs.

“The Big Dig is years late and what began as a $2.5 billion project (putting Boston’s north-south skyway underground) may well reach $15 billion. Even before Milena Del Valle was killed last year by a falling ceiling panel, shoddy work plagued the project. (Can anyone say, “Interstate 35 W bridge, Minneapolis?)

“In 2004, water burst through the Tip O’Neill Tunnel, temporarily shutting down the highway. The tunnel is riddled with leaks, requiring almost 2 million gallons of water to be pumped out each month.”

These thoughts were in my mind as we drove toward Boston to get to the South Shore and Cape Cod. Fortunately, commuters from the northern suburbs have three or four major arteries to pick from, and although, the traffic is very heavy and occasionally “crawley”, it is nowhere near the three lane parking lot of the southern suburbs commuters coming in on a single artery.

Leaving Salem at 7:15 a.m., we did clear the Big Dig without incident by 8:15, and by 8:30 we were 10 miles south of “Beantown” looking with disbelief at the northbound side still packed with virtually standstill traffic. At fifteen miles out, it was still almost the same, and didn’t change to regular heavy moving traffic until 20 miles out.

For you who think commuter rail is the answer, there is commuter rail from the southern suburbs, but I don’t know who uses it. There is also a fourth center lane for car- poolers. Coming back from the Cape that night, circa 6:30 p.m., we saw the same nightmare in reverse.

The following day, the golf clubs and car got stowed as the Red Sox played a rare afternoon game at Fenway Park against the Baltimore Orioles, and topping it off was the 60th anniversary of legendary 2nd baseman Bobby Doerr’s retirement, with him traveling from Oregon for the ceremony. At 89, he still looked fit and spoke with a surprisingly strong voice. Joining him were the late “Joltin’” Joe’s brother, Dom DiMaggio, 40’s pitcher Dave “Boo” Ferris, and Fenway’s oldest tenant, Johnny Pesky.

That day, we made it to downtown Boston in 35 minutes. Actually, we took the ferry from Salem, which departs from the docks near Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famed House of Seven Gables and lands you at the pier near the Boston Aquarium and the Fanueil Hall Market.

From there, it was the underground rail to Kenmore Square and Fenway. After a great game (Sox won,7-4), it was back to the underground to North Station and the 20-minute train ride to Salem. That’s what I call a Grande Prix tour – all sans auto.

Of course, the best miracle was getting seven tickets in the shade on the first base line for the 368th sold-out home game in a row for the Red Sox Nation. How we do it? I’ll never tell.

The last time at Fenway, two years ago, it was eight of us 12 rows up behind home plate, as former Lake Brantley Patriots star Jason Varitek, now Red Sox catcher and captain, hit his first and, up to now, only major league grand slam home run against Kansas City.

I have one suggestion for the citizens of my former native state. The next time you start a project of Big Dig dimensions, let the Red Sox management group oversee it.

“Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.”
Proverbs 10:14.

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When Parents, Press and Police Abandon 14-Year Olds, the End Is Near

AUGUST 3 – Columnist note: I am on vacation this week, and in view of the rise in juvenile violence and crime both locally and nationally, I have selected a column from almost exactly seven years ago, July 21, 2000, that speaks directly, if not prophetically, to the problem. The headline above is the original one.

Quite regularly, I will scan some of the “advice” columns just to keep up with the Licentious Left’s concept of “conventional wisdom.” Most importantly, it reveals the depth of accommodation and surrender to evil that is washing this nation back to third world status by the use of a simple device: incrementalism.

As accustomed as I am to the almost complete abandonment of morality by the liberal media and those who have filled its pages over the last 40 years, I must state that a letter to and reply from Ann Landers in the local metropolitan daily on Friday, July 14, ratcheted the bar of incremental soul destruction several notches in one fell swoop.

To quote Nancy in Portland, Ore., “Our 14-year-old son received from his girl friend a collage of pictures of naked women. These include cutout photos of girlie magazines with front, side and rear views. I was shocked that his girl friend would have the nerve to do this and even more stunned that my son would hang this thing up on his bedroom wall.

“He does not like me to criticize anything his girl friend does. He thinks she is wonderful. Should I approach the girl and ask her where her head was? Has the world changed that much? Please tell me how to deal with this.”

Obviously, Numb and Number Nancy has no husband (no mention of him), or his name is Cowardly Cal. But, hold those thoughts until you read America’s Counselor, Amoral Ann’s reply.

“It’s your son’s room, and he should be permitted to hang whatever ‘art’ he chooses to display, although, cutouts of naked women is a bit over the top for a 14-year-old boy to be receiving from his girl friend.

“Say nothing to the girl, but suggest to your son that he should consider replacing some of the ‘art’ with a picture of Tiger Woods (nude?) or a team photo of the Portland Trail Blazers (tail blazers?). You should not force him to do so, but the suggestion will at least let him know you aren’t giving him 100 percent approval of his girl friend’s decorating (arousal?) concepts.”

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT?! HOW ABOUT ZERO, NADA, NOTHING?!

It is evident that these two 14-year-olds have moved from playing doctors and nurses to being lover and mistress; and Numb, Amoral and maybe Cowardly are afraid of disciplining and instructing two kids who are headed for destroyed lives and early deaths.

Oregon may be a little spacey, but I’m sure that “contributing to the delinquency of minors” by custodians is still a crime there as it is here.

I don’t know who is the worst perpetrator is here – Numb Nancy who won’t take responsibility for her child, Amoral Ann for not reporting this to Portland’s Child Welfare Agency or the police, Creators Syndicate for circulating this sick incident and even sicker advice, or the metropolitan daily for exposing youngsters and young parents to this corrupt trash without condemnation.

Numb and Number Nancy is obviously not qualified to raise a dog, never mind a son. Should she “ask the girl where her head was ?” … and “has the world changed that much?” The answer to both questions is, “foster homes for the boy and girl friend.”

Amoral Ann’s statement that “it’s your son’s room and he should be permitted to hang whatever ‘art’ he chooses” has got to be the epitome of stupid, slavish servility to children who need direction and not deviant diddling.

Try and imagine any portion of this discussion and exposure of it 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago.

Incrementalism!

Dear Ann Landers: My 14-year-old daughter was given a collage of naked men from her boyfriend.

Should I speak to him and her about it? Duh!

Dear Ann Landers: My 14-year-old son has hung pictures of Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Richard Speck on his bedroom walls.

Do you think I should talk to him about this or respect the fact that it’s his room?

Duh!

Dear Duh!: Although pictures of Bundy et al may be a bit over the top for a 14-year-old boy, it is his room and he should be permitted to corrupt himself in whatever manner he sees fit. Amoral Ann.

Dear Amoral: My 17-year-old son has hung pictures of Hitler, Himmler and Goering on his bedroom walls and he and his friend attend school (Columbine High) in long black trench coats.

Should I try and screw up my courage and talk to his friend and see if I can find out what they are thinking or planning? Duh!

Dear World: “And I will give the children to be their princes, and babes shall
rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another,
and every one by his neighbor; the child shall behave himself proudly against
the ancient, and the base against the honourable.”

Isaiah 3:4 and 5.

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Letting Leaders Redefine “War” Is Our Greatest Danger

JULY 27 – The liberal politicians and their stooges in the media keep attributing the president’s low approval numbers primarily to the “unpopular” war in Iraq.

Of course, while he is in the high 20s to low 30s, the Democrat-controlled Congress is in the teens, with Senate Leader Harry Reid’s (Dem.- Nev.) approval rating at a record low of 14 percent, according to Gallup and Zogby poll.

No congressional leader has ever polled so low.

In terms of popularity, I have lived through World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and over four decades of the Cold War, and I can’t recall any of these conflicts ever being cited as popular or unpopular.

The bloodiest of these, World War II, with over 100 million killed across the world, was certainly not “popular” with any sane person. The difference between the present war on terror and the previous wars mentioned above, is the motivation spurring the oppressors then and today’s Islamic terrorists.

WW II was a battle against fascism’s attempt to control (not own) the assets of the world via government dominion over the people. Korea and Vietnam were pressure relief valve blowouts and feelers for a stymied communist expansion in Europe and Asia, as NATO, a then non-global oriented United Nations of some 50 members, and a new independent India restricted the Soviet Union to guerrilla warfare in Africa and South America..

Except for Fidel Castro’s turnabout in Cuba, after posing as a liberator, the eight-year administration of President Dwight Eisenhower contained most communist forays, confining them primarily to the poorest of third world countries.

After a frustrating nine-year war with Iran, Saddam Hussein went after Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia and Israel, and got smacked in Desert Storm. Anyone who believes that Hussein was not involved in 9/11, after that bloody nose, needs a lesson in history.

In the present global war on terror, our strategy is being severely hampered by the lack of a physical location as a primary target objective and a visible enemy population to demoralize with destruction – the real description of war since time began.

In our greatest victory in modern history, we had Berlin and Tokyo as the ultimate objectives with the nations containing them as visible targets. The firebombing of Tokyo and other cities in Japan killed tens of thousands of civilians, as did the leveling of Berlin and other cities of the Third Reich. The atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki actually saved millions of Japanese civilians’ lives.

When front line troops know their families are under the same pounding as they are, the aggressive will begins to dwindle.

This is not the situation in this war against an unseen enemy and no visible nation, with supposed non-combatants becoming human bombs and car-bomb chauffeurs. Their leader, rather than occupying a headquarters or presidential palace within the enemy country, is hiding in a cave out in a virtually trackless, mountain wilderness.

Essentially, we have no targets with which to formulate a strategic offensive as in every other war we have fought. Even the Cold War Soviets then, as does President Putin today, knew that in a change from a Cold War to a Hot War, Moscow and other major cities would be vaporized.

As a result of this absence of a war front and an identifiable, uniformed enemy, we are constantly under the verbal threats of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda homicidal maniacs of a dirty nuclear bomb attack on one of our cities. Under these circumstances, our leaders say, “We have to be right 100 percent of the time, and they only have to get it right once.”

These are unacceptable conditions in any war, and it’s time to change them. To claim justification of mass murder in the name of religion and classification of all non-Muslims as infidels, provides the perfect shield for any evil action one desires to perform.

The claims of the Koran that justify conquest and forced conversion or death to infidels for some 14 centuries is beyond the pale of modern civilization and these tenets of the Dark Ages must end.

To Americans and most citizens of free countries, each city and town within their nation is as sacred to them as Mecca is to Muslims. This comes from the spirit of equality, freedom of worship and recognition of God’s gift of precious life.

It has become imperative in this war that a savage, unrestricted enemy feel the same level of threat and danger to their sacred, revered places, as we are feeling.

It is time for our leaders to rise to the courage level of our Cold War warriors and, as in the case of Moscow, place Mecca as ransom for Minneapolis, Miami or Manhattan.

Osama’s cave just won’t cut it!

“Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the LORD GOD, As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.”

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Latest Take On Global Warming – Great Big Snow Job

JULY 20 – Recent events around the world should lessen the fears of those who feel threatened by al-Gore’s ominous global warning predictions. With seas rising by 20 feet, will there be any of today’s coastal areas left, or will we all have to live in Kansas with Dorothy and Toto?

Well, it now seems we will have some choices as good news comes out of the Mediterranean from the city of Athens, Greece. At first, I wondered why the story was buried in the gutter of an inside page of the local metropolitan daily, since it is a big supporter of warmers and since the release dealt with nine heat stroke deaths as Athens’ temperatures hit 115 degrees on Tuesday, June 26.

But, then, I read the last line and all was revealed: “The temperature hit 115 degrees, the highest for a day in June since 1889 (emphasis mine), according to government records.”

Let’s see now—Eastern Mediterranean area circa 1889: automobiles 0; trucks 0; airplanes 0; oil refineries 0; shopping centers 0; manufacturing plants compared to today 0; carbon dioxide production 0; greenhouse gases production 0; and the population of Greece equal to about 10 percent of today’s paltry 11 million occupying a peninsula of 51,000 square miles, which is about the size of Alabama.

And yet, it was hotter, or as hot, 118 years ago as it was June 26, 2007. O.K., so Greek cuisine and Zorba-type dancing isn’t your thing, hang on. Actually, I grew up in Peabody, Mass., which has a large Greek-American population, and I am partial to the cooking. Can anyone say, “lamb shishkabob or feta cheese dressing?”

Another back-pages gutter squiblet details a snowfall on the other side of the world from Athens and on the opposite side of the equator. So, if you like the rumba, samba, tango, cha-cha-cha, and a good steak, you’ll probably pick the global warming refuge on the coast of a south Atlantic nation. Yup, it snowed in Buenos Aires on July 9, for the first time since 1918.

For you al-Gore warmer devotees, that’s 89 years ago, when Argentina’s entire population was 9 million, occupying 1,068,298 s